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Author Edwidge Danticat
5.2"W x 8"H x 0.73"D
On sale Jul 01, 2014 | 256 Pages | 978-0-307-47227-4
| Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Region > Caribbean & Latin America
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year; a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book; an NPR "Great Read"; a Library Journal Top Book
Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.
"For someone born in Port-au-Prince, the temptation to rage at the public's fickle concern [for Haiti] must be immense. But in her rich new novel, Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat continues to speak in a captivating whisper. Claire of the Sea Light [is] a collection of episodes that build on one another, enriching our understanding of a small Haitian town and the complicated community of poor and wealthy, young and old, who call it home. From the first page to the last covers only a single day, but Danticat dips into the past to illuminate the recurring coincidence of life and death among these people. . . . Danticat is no magical realist—the peculiarities of this gorgeous, gruesome place are magic enough—but she builds her novel around the uncanny tragedies that accumulate on the anniversary of Claire's birth. . . . Danticat is a writer you can trust. The apparently disparate parts of the story knit together in surprising ways that seem utterly right . . . One of Danticat's most entrancing talents is her ability to capture conflicted feelings with a kind of aching sympathy . . . Tightly wound threats of hunger and terror, delight and dread, vibrate through these pages. . . . Danticat has perfected a style of extraordinary restraint and dignity that can convey tremendous emotional impact. But in celebration of Claire, the life force of this novel, she delivers a kind of incantation that repels the rising tide of despair. Hearing the villagers searching for the little girl on the night of her birthday, the headmaster's distraught son can't help but feel inspired. 'The name was as buoyant as it sounded, the kind of name you said with love . . . the kind of name that had the power to make the sun rise.' That's a tall order for a name—or a novel. But it's not beyond Danticat's power." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World
"In Danticat's luminous new novel, the search for [a] missing 7 year-old girl serves as a way of re-examining what we overlook and undervalue in life. Set on a single day, Danticat tells the story through a kaleidoscope of perspectives that illuminate life in the island nation where the roles of ex-pats, gangs, radio journalists and shopkeepers crisscross the landscape. In a voice tuned to the frequency of sorrow, with a calmness that neither apologizes nor inflames, [Danticat] lays out the terrible choice that many in Haiti have faced: Keep a child in deepest poverty or offer the child to someone with better prospects. . . . Danticat is a beautiful storyteller who doesn't shy from the brutalities . . . but she also applies a finely tuned sensibility to the beauty that surrounds the pain. . . . The search [for Claire] provides the vehicle to examine the lives of the perpetually unseen, the less-than, the lost. In the final chapter, we see the story through [Claire's] eyes with an unexpected burst of clarity that wows the reader. The day comes to an end in much the same place where it started. But the village—and readers—are changed. Danticat's determination to face both light and dark brings the story to life. But her skill as a writer makes the balancing act a pure pleasure to read. . . . A remarkably well-plotted combination of mystery and social critique." —Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald
"Rising above the sea, Ville Rose is a place of immense beauty and overwhelming poverty, and where only the very few live comfortably. . . . The imperative to do right by the next generation is at the center of Danticat's tale, set in the fictional town she sketched in Krik? Krak!, [which] here gets a fuller portrait. . . . The book shifts backward and forward over a decade but is not set at a moment of particular peril; the danger Danticat shows us is plentiful in the everyday: the sea that drowns a fisherman, the gangs that rule by bloodshed, the droit du seigneur that results in a maid bearing the child of one of the town's wealthy young men. . . . Danticat's language is unadorned, but she uses it to forge intricate connections—the story stealthily gains in depth and cumulative power. The dexterity of Danticat's sympathy is an even match for her unflinching vision." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe
"Fiercely beautiful. . . . Ville Rose is a fictional place, but it's described here with the precision and detail of a work of literary nonfiction. . . . The landscape of Ville Rose is as rich and varied as the Macondo of Gabriel García Márquez. . . . Danticat is a prose stylist with great compassion and insight. And by shifting seamlessly in time and point of view, the sensational turns in her novel quickly lead us back to people who are struggling with concerns that are all too real. Danticat's characters are caught between the hurt a poor country can inflict on its citizens, and the love those citizens feel for their birthplace. . . . Claire of the Sea Light brims with enchantments and surprises. Danticat finds a way, in the book's final pages, to convincingly bring her diverse cast of back to the Ville Rose seaside on the same fateful night at which the novel opens. That final feat of writing brilliance brings Claire of the Sea Light to a place few novels reach: an ending that is at once satisfying and full of mystery. . . . Impressive." —Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
"The fablelike delicacy, lyricism, and hypnotic prose of Danticat's new novel [are] perfectly suited to its setting, the tragic and yet magical seaside town of Ville Rose. . . . The title character is a 7-year-old girl who goes missing in the first chapter and stays missing until the very last pages, as a portrait of Ville Rose's sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal reality is painted and a collision of fates inches closer. . . . There is humor here alongside grief. Danticat's work opens itself to a broader readership through her deft intertwining of the specific and the universal. . . . In and out of bedrooms, graveyards, restaurants and bars, even the local radio station, she creates rich and varied interior lives for her characters. . . . Over the years, Danticat has become the bard of the Haitian diaspora. [But] this book is firmly planted in her homeland, a fictional community whose comings and goings are less connected to any earthly destination as they are to the great beyond. . . . Fantastical, heartbreaking." —Deborah Sontag, The New York Times Book Review
"Danticat is as well known for her mastery of language as she is for tackling difficult subjects. With her latest novel, she takes a nuanced approach to Haiti's complex legacies. . . . She keeps the reader in suspense, introducing characters to reveal the ties that bind generations not only to each other but also to their vulnerable natural environment. . . . Claire [is a] spirited waif wise beyond her years—as children raised in dire conditions often are. Her disappearance set[s] the stage for revelations of the intertwined lives of the disadvantaged and the privileged. It's much too early to say whether Danticat has reached her prime as a writer, but with Claire of the Sea Light, she has written a mature love letter to her homeland." —Gina Athena Ulysse, Ms.
"On her seventh birthday, a girl wakes up in a shack by the sea. She has no mother; her father, a fisherman, is considering giving her away. As that setup suggests, this novel has some of the feel of a fairy tale. But its ethereal qualities are offset by its stark portrayal of life in small-town Haiti; the combination makes for a lovely book to read, by the sea or anywhere else." —Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine
"Haunted by ghosts and grief, lifted by magic and love . . . Danticat takes the reader deep into [Ville Rose's] past and the intricate, sometimes shocking connections among its people . . . She paints each of her characters and their town with vivid detail and lyrical language. The book's plot unfolds not in a straight line but like the petals of a rose, stories one within another, each connected. Claire of the Sea Light is at times heartbreaking, but like the child whose name it bears, it is lit with its own inextinguishable glow." —Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times
"Danticat is the literary voice of the Haitian diaspora who has won wide acclaim—a writer who can interpret both cultures and has a keen eye for the tensions between them. Claire of the Sea Light explores the interconnected lives of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in Haiti, yet even within this intensely local narrative, questions of exile and cultural identity are often hovering in the background . . . [It is] a complicated narrative of love, loss, murder and revenge, a web of relationships that transcend class and social divisions . . . Through Claire, the novel becomes a paean to whatever is sacred in the earth and water of this particular place. Claire of the Sea Light is written in the delicate, poetic style that Danticat is known for, which lends this story a fable-like quality. A rich story that provides a glimpse of modern Haiti, as well as a sense of its enduring spirit." —Maria Browning, Nashville Scene
"[An] extraordinary talent in full flower . . . . There's a Faulknerian quality to Claire of the Sea Light, in the way it examines and presents the lives, plural, and life, singular collective, of a specifically imagined local community from multiple points of view, showing how human stories and lives ramify through and across each other in ways both touching and tragic. . . . Astonishing. . . . True and beautiful." —Ethan Casey, The Huffington Post
"Not just a novel about a missing girl–a look at the intersections of loss, longing and place. . . . The novel bubbles over with secrets. The concluding image is one of resuscitation. . . . Claire of the Sea Light is a stylistic achievement; the beautiful prose, captivating story and intricate narrative structure are to be savored." —Julie Hakim Azzam, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"There is no such thing as Haiti. Or, as Danticat makes clear in Claire of the Sea Light, there is no such thing as one Haiti, no single truth. Danticat has been fixing and unfixing her native country since the appearance of her first book, Breath, Eyes, Memory. She is a writer inhabited, a writer dedicated to opening her reader's eyes to something she keeps trying to see for herself. The characters of this novel are vivid and intensely personal. If you hope for a glimmer of Haiti; if you understand that to care about Haiti is also to lose it, to mourn it; or, to care about Haiti is to breathe and taste it and to sigh and delight; if you can bear to face the deep uneasiness of the impossible, then you will know you are blessed by Edwidge Danticat." —Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle
"Claire of the Sea Light is Danticat's first novel since the 2010 earthquake, which destroyed so much of the country. . . . The stories are set in a near, undefined past, but there's a distinct sense that most of what Danticat is describing is now gone. There are no omens or soothsayers, and the richness of the place—the tropical vegetation, the precise placement of shops and homes, the Biblical presence and span of family trees—is often a source of joy. But it's difficult not to imagine a grieving Danticat cataloging these as the losses she and other Haitians have suffered. . . . Danticat has always portrayed Haiti with a careful lushness, but in Claire of the Sea Light she seems to have a new fervor." –Dwyer Murphy, Guernica
"Haunting. . . . the images in Claire of the Sea Light have the hard precision and richly saturated colors of a woodblock print or folk art painting: a great, Hokusai-like wave; a group of girls singing and dancing on the beach; a solitary woman standing alone by the cemetery gate. . . . Like Danticat's powerful novel The Dew Breaker, this book uses overlapping tales to create an elliptical but propulsive narrative. The title character is a 7-year-old girl, whose mother died giving birth to her. The perennial subjects in Danticat's fiction and nonfiction—the weight of Haiti's violent history, its extreme poverty and the diaspora that they have created–are addressed indirectly, through the stories of Claire and her family and neighbors in this small town where everyone knows everybody else. There is something fablelike about these tales; the reader is made acutely aware of the patterns of loss and redemption, cruelty and vengeance that thread their way through these characters' lives, and the roles that luck and choice play in shaping their fate. . . . Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Danticat recounts [their] stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives. One family after another is fractured by accidental death, by murder or by exile. Death and loss haunt characters in this novel, shadowing them like dogged ghosts. . . . In her memoir Brother, I'm Dying, Danticat wrote about her own sense of abandonment as a child, when first her father and then her mother left for New York, leaving her with relatives. In Danticat's own story, and this novel's story of Claire, love endures in the face of death and departure and disappointment." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Danticat is the literary voice of the Haitian diaspora who has won wide acclaim–a writer who can interpret both cultures and has a keen eye for the tensions between them. Claire of the Sea Light explores the interconnected lives of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in Haiti, yet even within this intensely local narrative, questions of exile and cultural identity are often hovering in the background. . . . [It is] a complicated narrative of love, loss, murder and revenge, a web of relationships that transcend class and social divisions. . . . Through Claire, the novel becomes a paean to whatever is sacred in the earth and water of this particular place. Claire of the Sea Light is written in the delicate, poetic style that Danticat is known for, which lends this story a fable-like quality. A rich story that provides a glimpse of modern Haiti, as well as a sense of its enduring spirit." —Maria Browning, Nashville Scene
"Claire of the Sea Light moves from character to character, sometimes skipping through time, to portray the lives of a small Haitian town. Danticat's approach rewards the reader with a series of revelations. The relationship at the heart of this book is affecting . . . Breathtaking." —Tobias Carroll, Time Out New York
"A gorgeous novel that, through death, explores what it means to be alive. . . . Danticat's sly humor in disarming asides leavens the portent without upsetting the book's sea-foam delicacy." —B. Caplan, Miami New Times
"Claire of the Sea Light reads like the work of a writer eager to create another world. . . . A sense of the possibilities is tangible, where Danticat delves into parenting, revenge, reconciliation and remorse. Claire Limyè Lanmè is the daughter of a widower who is mulling whether or not to let someone else raise his daughter. In this small town, other mothers and fathers are working through reconciling their feelings about parenthood while readers experience a day in her life. Simultaneously, Danticat masterfully weaves in necessary parts of the past." —Joshunda Sanders, Kirkus
"A haunting portrait of heartbreak and healing. . . . One of Danticat's finest novels. . . . [She is] a powerhouse writer . . . Like the best works of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez and novelist Maryse Condé, Claire of the Sea Light fearlessly bends time and space, reality and fantasy. Yet the storyteller never loses control of the narrative—or our attention. And she uses fiction for spot-on social commentary about the ways in which Black girls—those who go missing and those whose innocence is stolen–are often invisible even when in plain sight. In the end, this provocative fable, which plays out in a single night, delivers us back to our real worlds, safe enough but somehow touched in ways we may not fully know for days to come." —Patrik Henry Bass, Essence
"A fictionalized tale that will enthrall, of Claire, who goes missing on her seventh birthday . . . with descriptions so vivid, you'll imagine you're walking down a street in the Haitian village of Ville Rose. Danticat weaves her magic as we wrestle with what's happened to Claire, and why everybody in town [has] a secret that has to do with her." —Ebony
"The biggest questions in life flow from the pen of this brilliant novelist. In Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat folds the story into a package so preciously tight that we can tuck it in our hearts and keep it close and warm." —Nikki Giovanni
"Nuanced . . . intricate . . . intimate . . . evocative. Danticat's prose has the shimmering simplicity of a folk tale and the same matter-of-fact acceptance of life's cruelties and injustices. Yet despite the unsparing depiction of a corrupt society, there's tremendous warmth in Danticat's treatment of her characters, who are striving for human connection in a hard world. Both lyrical and clear-eyed—a rare and welcome combination." —Kirkus
"As an ardent admirer of Edwidge Danticat's writing, I opened Claire of the Sea Light as if it were a gift. My high expectations were met, and then surpassed. The story she has given us is at every turn surprising, shimmering, deft. It is a jewel—a remarkable book, as luminous as its title." —Ann Patchett
"Highly anticipated. . . . In interlocking stories moving back and forth in time, Danticat weaves a beautifully rendered portrait of longing in the small fishing town of Ville Rose in Haiti. . . . [Characters'] stories and lives flow beautifully one into another, all rendered in the luminous prose for which Danticat is known." —Vanessa Bush, Booklist
"Gorgeous, arresting, profoundly vivid. . . . Danticat once again tells a story that feels as mysterious and magical as a folk tale and as effective and devastating as a newsreel. Claire Limyè Lanmè ('Claire of the Sea Light') is turning seven, and yet her birthday has always been marked by both death and renewal. Claire's mother died in childbirth, and she has been raised by her fisherman father in a shack near the sea. The book begins on the morning of her birthday, before winding back to tell the story of every previous birthday, and who lived, and died, each year. For some time, Claire's father has considered giving her [away], and the heartbreaking question of Claire's fate adds to the novel's suspense, as both the past, and this single day, unfold. In the meantime, Danticat paints a stunning portrait of this small Haitian town, in which the equally impossible choices of life and death play out every day." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York TimesNotable Book; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist. A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere.
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The morning Claire Limyè Lanmè Faustin turned seven, a freak wave, measuring between ten and twelve feet high, was seen in the ocean outside of Ville Rose. Claire's father, Nozias, a fisherman, was one of many who saw it in the distance as he walked toward his sloop. He first heard a low rumbling, like that of distant thunder, then saw a wall of water rise from the depths of the ocean, a giant blue-green tongue, trying, it seemed, to lick a pink sky.
Just as quickly as it had swelled, the wave cracked. Its barrel collapsed, pummeling a cutter called Fifine, sinking it and Caleb, the sole fisherman onboard.
Nozias ran to the edge of the water, wading in to where the tide reached his knees. Lost now was a good friend, whom Nozias had greeted for years as they walked past each other, before dawn, on their way out to sea.
A dozen or so other fishermen were already standing next to Nozias. He looked down the beach at Caleb's shack, where Caleb's wife, Fifine—Josephine—had probably returned to bed after seeing him off. Nozias knew from his experience, and could sense it in his bones, that both Caleb and the boat were gone. They might wash up in a day or two, or more likely they never would.
It was a sweltering Saturday morning in the first week of May. Nozias had slept in longer than usual, contemplating the impossible decision he'd always known that he would one day have to make: to whom, finally, to give his daughter.
"Woke up earlier and I would have been there," he ran back home and tearfully told his little girl.
Claire was still lying on a cot in their single-room shack. The back of her thin nightdress was soaked with sweat. She wrapped her long, molasses-colored arms around Nozias's neck, just as she had when she was even littler, pressing her nose against his cheek. Some years before, Nozias had told her what had happened on her first day on earth, that giving birth to her, her mother had died. So her birthday was also a day of death, and the freak wave and the dead fisherman proved that it had never ceased to be.
The day Claire Limyè Lanmè turned six was also the day Ville Rose's undertaker, Albert Vincent, was inaugurated as the new mayor. He kept both positions, leading to all kinds of jokes about the town eventually becoming a cemetery so he could get more clients. Albert was a man of unmatched elegance, even though he had shaky hands. He wore a beige two-piece suit every day, just as he did on the day of his inauguration. His eyes, people said, had not always been the lavender color that they were now. Their clouding, sad but gorgeous, was owing to the sun and early-onset cataracts. On the day of his swearing-in, Albert, shaking hands and all, recited from memory a speech about the town's history. He did this from the top step of the town hall, a white nineteenth century gingerbread that overlooked a flamboyant-filled piazza, where hundreds of residents stood elbow to elbow in the afternoon sun.
Ville Rose was home to about eleven thousand people, five percent of them wealthy or comfortable. The rest were poor, some dirt-poor. Many were out of work, but some were farmers or fishermen (some both) or seasonal sugarcane workers. Twenty miles south of the capital and crammed between a stretch of the most unpredictable waters of the Caribbean Sea and an eroded Haitian mountain range, the town had a flower-shaped perimeter that, from the mountains, looked like the unfurling petals of a massive tropical rose, so the major road connecting the town to the sea became the stem and was called Avenue Pied Rose or Stem Rose Avenue, with its many alleys and capillaries being called épines, or thorns.
Albert Vincent's victory rally was held at the town's center—the ovule of the rose—across from Sainte Rose de Lima Cathedral, which had been repainted a deeper lilac for the inauguration. Albert offered his inaugural address while covering his hands with a black fedora that few had ever seen on his head. On the edge of the crowd, perched on Nozias's shoulder, Claire Limyè Lanmè was wearing her pink muslin birthday dress, her plaited hair covered with tiny bow shaped barrettes. At some point, Claire noticed that she and her father were standing next to a plump woman with a cherubic face framed with a long, straight hairpiece. The woman was wearing black pants and a black blouse and had a white hibiscus pinned behind her ear. She owned Ville Rose's only fabric shop.
"Thank you for putting your trust in me," Albert Vincent now boomed into the crowd. The speech was at last winding down nearly a half hour after he'd begun speaking.
Nozias cupped his hands over his mouth as he whispered something in the fabric vendor's ear. It was obvious to Claire that her father had not really come to hear the mayor, but to see the fabric vendor.
Later that same evening, the fabric vendor appeared at the shack near the end of Pied Rose Avenue. Claire was expecting to be sent to a neighbor while the fabric vendor stayed alone with her father, but Nozias had insisted that Claire pat her hair down with an old bristle brush and that she straighten out the creases on the ruffled dress that she'd kept on all day despite the heat and sun.
Standing between Nozias's and Claire's cots in the middle of the shack, the fabric vendor asked Claire to twirl by the light of the kerosene lamp, which was in its usual place on the small table where Claire and Nozias sometimes ate their meals. The walls of the shack were covered with flaking, yellowed copies of La Rosette, the town's newspaper, which had been glued to the wood long ago with manioc paste by Claire's mother. From where she was standing, Claire could see her own stretched-out shadow moving along with the others over the fading words. While twirling for the lady, Claire heard her father say, "I am for correcting children, but I am not for whipping." He looked down at Claire and paused. His voice cracked, and he jabbed his thumb into the middle of his palm as he continued. "I am for keeping her clean, as you can see. She should of course continue with her schooling, be brought as soon as possible to a doctor when she is sick." Still jabbing at his palm, after having now switched palms, he added, "In turn, she would help with some cleaning both at home and at the shop." Only then did Claire realize who this "her" was that they were talking about, and that her father was trying to give her away.
Her legs suddenly felt like lead, and she stopped twirling, and as soon as she stopped, the fabric vendor turned to her father, her fake hair blocking half of her face. Nozias's eyes dropped from the fabric vendor's fancy hairpiece to her pricey open-toed sandals and red toenails.
"Not tonight," the fabric vendor said, as she headed for the narrow doorway.
Nozias seemed stunned, drawing a long breath and letting it out slowly before following the fabric vendor to the door. They thought they were whispering, but Claire could hear them clearly from across the room.
"I'm going away," Nozias said. "Pou chèche lavi, to look for a better life."
"Ohmm." The fabric vendor groaned a warning, like an impossible word, a word she had no idea how to say. "Why would you want your child to be my servant, a restavèk?"
"I know she would never be that with you," Nozias said. "But this is what would happen anyway, with less kind people than you if I die. I don't have any more family here in town."
Nozias put an end to the fabric vendor's questioning by making a joke about the undertaker's mayoral victory and how many meaningless speeches he would be forced to endure if he remained in Ville Rose. This made the fabric vendor's jingly laugh sound as though it were coming out of her nose. The good news, Claire thought, was that her father did not try to give her away every day. Most of the time, he acted as though he would always keep her. During the week, Claire went to the École Ardin, where she received a charity scholarship from the schoolmaster himself, Msye Ardin. And at night, Claire would sit by the kerosene lamp at the small table in the middle of the shack and recite the new words she was learning. Nozias enjoyed the singsong and her hard work and missed it during her holidays from school. The rest of the time, he went out to sea at the crack of dawn and always came back with some cornmeal or eggs, which he'd bartered part of his early-morning catch for. He talked about going to work in construction or the fishing trade in the neighboring Dominican Republic, but he would always make it sound as though it were something he and Claire could do together, not something he'd have to abandon her to do. But as soon as her birthday came, he would begin talking about it again— chèche lavi: going away to make a better life.
Lapèch, fishing, was no longer as profitable as it had once been, she would hear him tell anyone who would listen. It was no longer like in the old days, when he and his friends would put a net in the water for an hour or so, then pull it out full of big, mature fish. Now they had to leave nets in for half a day or longer, and they would pull fish out of the sea that were so small that in the old days they would have been thrown back. But now you had to do with what you got; even if you knew deep in your gut that it was wrong, for example, to keep baby conch shells or lobsters full of eggs, you had no choice but to do it. You could no longer afford to fish in season, to let the sea replenish itself. You had to go out nearly every day, even on Fridays, and even as the seabed was disappearing, and the sea grass that used to nourish the fish was buried under silt and trash.
But he was not talking to the fabric vendor about fishing that night. They were talking about Claire. His relatives and his dead wife's relatives, who lived in the villages in the surrounding mountains where he was born, were even poorer than he was, he was saying. If he died, sure they would take Claire, but only because they had no choice, because that's what families do, because no matter what, fòk nou voye je youn sou lòt. We must all look after one another. But he was being careful, he said. He didn't want to leave something as crucial as his daughter's future to chance.
After the fabric vendor left, colorful sparks rose up from the hills and filled the night sky over the homes near the lighthouse, in the Anthère (anther) section of town. Beyond the lighthouse, the hills turned into a mountain, wild and green, and mostly unexplored because the ferns there bore no fruit. The wood was too wet for charcoal and too unsteady for construction. People called this mountain Mòn Initil, or Useless Mountain, because there was little there that they wanted. It was also believed to be haunted.
The fireworks illuminated the mushroom-shaped tops of the ferns of Mòn Initil as well as the gated two-story mansions of Anthère Hill. They also illuminated the clapboard shacks by the sea and their thatched and tin roofs.
Once the fabric vendor was gone, Claire and her father rushed out to see the lights exploding in the sky. The alleys between the shacks were jam-packed with their neighbors. With cannonlike explosions, Albert Vincent, the undertaker turned mayor, was celebrating his victory. But as her neighbors clapped in celebration, Claire couldn't help but feel like she was the one who'd won. The fabric vendor had said no and she would get to stay with her father another year.
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A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an NPR "Great Read," a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, and a Library Journal Top Book
"Fiercely beautiful. . . . Brims with enchantments and surprises." —Los Angeles Times
"Luminous. . . . Danticat's determination to face both light and dark brings the story to life. But her skill as a writer makes the balancing act a pure pleasure to read. . . . [She] is a beautiful storyteller." —The Miami Herald
"Danticat has created a pulsing world. . . . On these pages, the human heart is laid open and the secret contents of its chambers revealed in all their beauty and agony. . . . Haunting." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Hypnotic. . . . Danticat creates rich and varied interior lives for her characters. . . . Heartbreaking." —The New York Times Book Review
"A revealing portrait that mixes a touch of magic with the tough reality of life in Haiti." —NPR
"Haunting. . . . Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters' stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives." —The New York Times
"Vivid and intensely personal. . . . Danticat has been fixing and unfixing her native country since the appearance of her first book. . . . She is a writer . . . inhabited, a writer dedicated to opening her reader's eyes to something she keeps trying to see for herself." —San Francisco Chronicle
"The biggest questions of life flow from the pen of this brilliant novelist. In Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat folds the story into a package so preciously tight that we can tuck it in our hearts and keep it close and warm." —Nikki Giovanni
"[Has] the feel of a fairy tale. But its ethereal qualities are offset by its stark portrayal of life in small-town Haiti; the combination makes for a lovely book." — New York magazine
"Danticat's language is unadorned, but she uses it to forge intricate connections. . . . The dexterity of her sympathy is an even match for her unflinching vision." —The Boston Globe
"In a voice tuned to the frequency of sorrow, with a calmness that neither apologizes nor inflames, [Danticat] lays out the terrible choice that many in Haiti have faced: Keep a child in deepest poverty or offer the child to someone with better prospects. . . . A remarkably well-plotted combination of mystery and social critique." —The Miami Herald
"Danticat has a way of making small lives tell big stories. . . . The stories of the inhabitants of Ville Rose fold into one another in surprising ways; social barriers exist but are constantly transgressed—sometimes violently, sometimes with compassion and mutual understanding." —Public Books
"[An] extraordinary talent in full flower . . . . There's a Faulknerian quality to Claire of the Sea Light . . . showing how human stories and lives ramify through and across each other in ways both touching and tragic." —The Huffington Post
"Haunted by ghosts and grief, lifted by magic and love. . . . Danticat paints each of her characters and their town with vivid detail and lyrical language. . . . [Claire of the Sea Light] is lit with its own inextinguishable glow." —Tampa Bay Times
"It's the core human struggles that make it impossible to put the novel down. . . . [Danticat] brilliantly sheds light on an array of human issues with sexuality, identity, politics, class. . . . A heartfelt journey." —New York Daily News
"Beautiful. . . . As usual, Danticat's sentences are sedate, graceful and unpretentious." —The Dallas Morning News
"Masterful. . . . With Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat stuns us again." —Harvard Review
Mama's Nightingale
A Story of Immigration and Separation
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U.S. praises José Eduardo dos Santos: 'He played a consequential role in Angola's history'
The United States government on Monday finally reacted to the passing on Friday of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, praising the 'consequential' role he played in his country's history during the struggle for independence, the long civil war and the transition to unity and peace that followed.
"The United States offers condolences on the death of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. "He played a consequential role in Angola's history, during its struggle for independence, as Foreign Minister, and as President."
Price added that following Angola's long and painful civil war, dos Santos oversaw "the country's remarkable reintegration and transition to peace during the complex post-colonial era."
"The United States remains committed to strengthening its strategic partnership with Angola and deepening the relationship between the American and Angolan people," he wrote.
José Eduardo dos Santos passed away Friday at the age of 79, leaving behind a mixed and complex legacy in the minds of millions, Today News Africa noted on Saturday. The nation's second president, he was in power for nearly four decades from 1979 to 2017.
Dos Santos's political career was filled with both failures and successes. He was regarded highly by some Angolans for his role in the nation achieving independence from Portugal in 1975 fighting for the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
In Angola's nearly 47 years of independence, José Eduardo dos Santos was in power as president for roughly 38 of these years. The face of Angola for decades, the majority of the nation's highs and lows both occurred under his watch.
José Eduardo dos Santos was named the 2014 Man of the Year by Africa World magazine for his role in leading Angola toward recovery after bringing an end to its bloody 27-year-long civil war that left at least half a million dead.
However, there are also many Angolans that do not view the former president as an architect of peace but rather as the man who failed to find peace for years as war raged on for decades following Angola's independence.
During José Eduardo dos Santos's tenure as president of Angola, the nation grew dramatically and its economy came a long way. The man who was once a fairly strict marxit-lenninist adhering to communist economic principles learned to transition Angola toward a more market-based economy following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Angola's annual gross domestic product was just $5.93 billion in 1980 and grew to $122.1 billion by the time dos Santos left office. The longtime president is credited by many in part for the success of Angola's oil industry, upon which it has grown dependent. According to data from the World bank, Angola's oil sector accounts for one third of its gross domestic product and roughly 95 percent of its exports.
While Angola's economy and oil sector both grew dramatically under José Eduardo dos Santos's leadership, he is also widely criticized for failure to do more to combat Angola's pervasive poverty. The world bank reported that in 2018, 47.6 percent of Angolans were living below the international poverty line of less than $1.90 per day.
Despite Angola's economic gains over the decades, many have been left wondering the extent to which José Eduardo dos Santos's successes as president actually translated to better lives for everyday Angolans.
Regarded by his supporters as an "architect of peace", dos Santos's regime was hallmarked by repression and corruption rather than peace in the eyes of many Angolans. With dos Santos at the helm of the nation, democracy struggled to take hold in Angola as heavy restrictions were placed on speech and assembly. Simultaneously, corruption and human rights abuses have been rampant in Angola for decades since its independence.
José Eduardo dos Santos's successor and current Angolan president João Lourenço has made substantial advancements in many areas since coming to power in 2017. Under his guidance, Angola's corruption index score has increased from 19 in 2018 to 29 in 2022, according to Transparency International, which indicates that corruption has improved by over 50 percent. In doing so, he has shed light on some of the previous administration's shortcomings.
While former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos became known to many as a man of peace, the legacy he leaves behind is much more complicated and his time in office was filled with imperfections.

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Prison officials are currently investigating a death on Dec. 21 at Holman Prison in Atmore, and another on Jan. 2 at the St. Clair prison in Springville.
In Fiscal Year 2018, which the Alabama Department of Corrections uses to report its data, six inmates died by suicide. Nearly 40 inmates attempted suicide.
Ford was serving life without parole for a March 1995 murder in Talladega County.
Do you have tips, concerns or comments about Alabama prison issues? Call Montgomery Advertiser reporter Melissa Brown at 334-240-0132 or email her at mabrown@gannett.com.


Filter your CNC machine park's coolant in one central system.
Accustrip's Full Flow Central Plant is connected to a number of CNC machines. This unique system ensures that all the liquid used by the machines is filtered instantly. The polluted liquid will be carried over a magnet separator. It will go through our unique patented oil separation system, which separates minimum 99 % of all tramp oil. The coolant/emulsion will pass through stainless steel filter candles, which will filter the coolant/emulsion with a fineness of 15 to 30 µm.
The filter candles are self-cleaning by means of a timer controlled back-flush; a small amount of emulsion and compressed air is directed into the filter candles, which performs a non-contact cleaning of the stainless steel filter candles. The small amount of emulsion from the back-flushing process is directed back to the band filter.
Filtering the entire liquid continuously – full flow – unlimited volume.
For further information about the Full Flow Central Plant with Chips Handling, please contact us or your local dealer.
Imagine that you only need to purchase 12.000 to 15.000 liters of emulsion the first time the central facility is filled up, and again when the emulsion is changed after 2-3 years of production. The smaller volume means less cost for service and maintenance, as well as lower consumption of filter materials. At the same time, all risks for bacterial and fungal growth in the emulsion is minimized, and energy consumption for the transport and cooling of the emulsion is reduced.
Another beneficial side-effect of using an Accustrip Full Flow Central Plant is the reduced impact on the environment. An Accustrip Central Facility contains almost no moving parts and the intelligent control constantly monitors the operation of the plant. This makes service and maintenance almost superfluous and allows for a efficient and flexible production.
Whether your production is processing cast iron, steel, aluminum, titanium or other materials, then Accustrip develops and deliver a central filtration system that is tailor-made to suit your needs. Our plants are modular in nature and can therefore be supplied with a variety of options, such as a magnetic separator, a cooling unit and automatic liquid filling, as well as additional pumps (either as security or to increase the capacity of the plant). All central plants are made of stainless steel (AISI 304) and are composed of standard components, which allow for easy maintenance and expansion of the plant.


After a short pause for consultation, HMRC resumed its Business Records Checks programme in late October, 2012. The tax authorities are concerned that many small and medium sized businesses are failing to keep proper business records. Ultimately, the scheme is designed to ensure businesses keep records that allow them to accurately complete their tax returns.
How do the Checks Work?
HMRC targets businesses it suspects of being at risk of keeping inadequate records.
The business is contacted by letter to arrange a telephone interview / questionnaire. No further action will be taken if HMRC is satisfied with the outcome of the telephone interview. If it deems that there are minor issues with the business's record keeping, then they will offer 'self-help' education options. But if HMRC decides that major problems need to be addressed, then they will arrange for a full, in-person Business Record Check.
Take note that if HMRC is unable to speak to a business over the phone for whatever reason, it will automatically arrange for one of its officers to conduct a full record check.
Even if a business has nothing to hide, having a Business Record Check can be costly, annoying, and worrying. The HMRC has the power to fine businesses outright for keeping bad records, and it is likely that bad record keeping will lead to penalties for inaccurate tax returns. It is not uncommon for business record checks to lead to full-blown tax investigations.
It is vital, therefore, that you keep your records in order.
HMRC will be required to provide seven days' notice, either verbally or in writing, while obstructing visits may incur penalties of £300, with additional penalties of £60 per day until the obstruction has been removed and the documents made available.
The law does not specify exactly how you must keep your records. And precisely what needs to be recorded depends on the size, complexity and nature of the business in question.
Here's a useful web page which may help.
It is advisable to keep all of the original documents which you receive.
And you should also record of all purchases and expenses, including cash purchases.
You should keep accounting records (details of assets, liabilities, income & expenditure), and business records (bank statements and paying-in slips, accounts books, purchases and sales information).
Import and export documentation, for example, delivery notes.
Deductions from your employee wages of Income Tax, National Insurance contributions, and Student Loan payments.
All records of statutory payments (including sick pay and maternity pay).
We strongly recommend cloud-based accounting systems – an excellent way of automatically staying on top of your business records.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact with us for more advice on Business Records Checks, and how to keep good business records.


Philadelphia magazine (http://bit.ly/2v6XMqW ) reported Wednesday that Juan Piniero, a former fresh food manager at a Reading-area store, alleges that the company wrongly terminated him, fostered a racially hostile work environment and violated the state Human Relations Act.
Piniero says he was terminated early last year, about a month after being injured at work. He says a general manager blamed him for problems he couldn't control.
Wawa public relations manager Lori Bruce said there will be no comment on pending lawsuits or "employee-specific situations" but that the company supports and celebrates its diverse employees and customers.


It's sweet, it's spicy, and it tastes like squid. What else do you need to know? Well, we guess you need to know we offer Bento Squid Sweet & Spicy for sale online here in the U.S. with international shipping. You also need to know you should buy it right now.
Squid, Surimi, Wheat Flour, Tapioca Starch, Herb, Spice and Seasoning, Sugar, Salt. , Contain: Artificial Sweetener Aspartame, Artificial Flavor, Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'- Inosinate and Sisodium 5'- Guanylate. Also contain: Phenylalanine.


There are many hundreds of individual "feature" based advantages, however the overall benefit of 3D parametric solid modelling is the greatly increased productivity and versatility of the entire product development process. As a result of this single powerful tool, the user becomes more competitive by being able to respond quickly to clients demands which in turn speeds up the time to market. Quality is enhanced thus providing greater customer satisfaction and therefore increasing sales.


Christmas is coming soon, Christmas decorations is slowly popping up in every malls.
i love all the Christmas lightning,Christmas tree and decorations. My favorite season of the year!
Trying to show you all some video recording from my Samsung NX1000.
The Samsung NX1000 Movie mode is accessed by selecting the Movie option by pressing the shutter button to begin recording, or via the dedicated one-touch record button. Stereo sound is recorded during video capture via the small internal mics on top of of the camera.
You can shoot movies using any of the creative modes, giving you lots of control over exposure, and you can also change the aperture and shutter speed during recording, albeit at the expense of recording the mechanism on the soundtrack. The NX1000 offers the ability to set the white balance. metering and use any of the Picture Wizard settings during video recording as well as still images, which instantly lends an interesting art-house effect to your movies. You can set a video to be played back at various slower or faster speeds (x0.25, x0.5, x1, x5, x10 and x20), the self-timer and image stabilizer can be used, a fade-in or out can be set, and a voice clip can be added.
Wanna read more review about SAMSUNG NX1000?


Mama Bear, Papa Bear, and Baby Bear visit the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater from Nov. 12 through Dec. 30.
The "Three Bears Holiday Bash" is a variety show that celebrates the holiday season in song, dance, and puppetry. This production becomes a comedy of errors when Baby Bear invites Santa to star in Mama and Papa Bear's annual holiday show. The audience also gets to join in on the fun with a "12 days of Christmas" sing-a-long during the performance!
The "Three Bears Holiday Bash," Nov. 12 through Dec. 30; Mondays through Fridays at 10:30 am and noon; an additional 2:30 pm performance on Wednesdays; and 1 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $7 for children under 12 and $10 for all others.
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater [79th Street and West Drive in Central Park, (212) 988–9093; www.cityparksfoundation.org].


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Q: ansible unarchive using creates not working as expected Here is my task. It basically unarchives a file into the dest directory /usr/local/hadoop.
The hadoop folder is not there and I get this error -
Error:-
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "dest 'dest=/usr/local/ creates=/usr/local/hadoop copy=no' must be an existing dir"}

- name: Unarchive a file
  unarchive:
    src: /home/hduser/hadoop-2.7.1.tar.gz
    dest: dest=/usr/local/ creates=/usr/local/hadoop copy=no
    remote_src: yes

A: You have some syntax issues with your task.  You can't combine legacy key=value syntax with YAML syntax.  In particular, this line...
dest: dest=/usr/local/ creates=/usr/local/hadoop copy=no

...is just passing a really long string to the dest key.  You want:
- name: Unarchive a file
  unarchive:
    src: /home/hduser/hadoop-2.7.1.tar.gz
    dest: /usr/local/
    creates: /usr/local/hadoop
    copy: no
    remote_src: yes

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And maybe because they are "very refreshing" to quote a certain episode of Seinfeld, I never feel like an absolute glutton after eating them … just someone with really fresh breath.
On occasional winter afternoons when I was a kid, I used to buy a quarter pound of after dinner mints for about 50 cents, at the candy shop in the mall . They were the cheapest thing on offer. I would then sneak them into the Saturday movie matinee.
Filled with teenaged indignation at the ridiculous rule about no outside candy being allowed in to the cinema, I would shove the bag into the chest of my down jacket (puffy winter clothes being one of the advantages of growing up in Canada), zip it up and feeling like I was outwitting "the system", stride past the overpriced snack bar, and into the safety of the darkened theatre.
Those after dinner mints were virtually indestructible, but still melted satisfyingly in the mouth (being made almost entirely of confectioner's sugar), and a bag lasted the whole movie. I once made one last through a double feature.
Every Christmas in our family, we looked forward to wafer thin After Eight mints in their papery sleeves, consumed with hot tea while watching Alistair Sim in A Christmas Carol. One box would "do " the whole family.
In adulthood I still eschew the overpriced popcorn, favouring a small box of Junior Mints purchased at the grocery store en route to the show. They are often accompanied by a mug of peppermint tea – smuggled in to the movie in my stainless steel commuter mug, of course.
And if their delicious cool tastiness was not reason enough to appreciate both chocolate and peppermint, both contain ingredients which may help in lessening two of winter's most familiar miseries: cold and stomach flu.
Peppermint(Mentha × piperita, also known as M. balsamea Willd.) is a hybrid mint, a cross betweenwatermint>and spearmint. The plant, indigenous to Europe, is now widespread in cultivation throughout all regions of the world. It is found wild occasionally with its parent species.
Peppermint has a long tradition of medicinal use, with archaeological evidence placing its use at least as far back as ten thousand years ago.
Peppermint has a highmenthol content … Menthol activates cold-sensitive receptors in the skin and mucosal tissues, and is the primary source of the cooling sensation that follows the topical application of peppermint oil.
Peppermint is commonly used to soothe or treat symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, indigestion, irritable bowel, and bloating.
Peppermint and its main active agent, menthol, are effective decongestants. Because menthol thins mucus, it is also a good expectorant, meaning that it helps loosen phlegm and breaks up coughs. It is soothing and calming for sore throats (pharyngitis) and dry coughs as well.
And this really makes me happy: good dark chocolate may be a better cough suppressant than codeine.
Dark chocolate contains a considerable amount of theobromine (the ingestion of which, it should be noted, is fine for humans, but deadly for some animals) which appears to relax the Vagus nerve, the nerve responsible for triggering the cough reflex.
Since dark chocolate contains 450 mg of theobromine per ounce, you don't need much – an ounce or two should be enough to suppress coughs for several hours, without the drowsiness that often accompanies cough syrups (for more see this article).
So, because the chilly weather has returned, and cold and flu season is upon us, here is, I think, a near perfect little treat for these wintery days.
The original recipe is from Gordon Ramsey's Mint Chocolate Truffles, which produces a very soft ganache.
Heat chopped chocolate in a glass or stainless steel bowl over a bain marie of gently simmering water, until 50% melted.
Heat cream in a medium saucepan, gently, until small bubbles break the surface of the cream.
Add the hot cream to the chocolate in 5 additions, stirring well after each addition.
Add the butter, then honey to the cream/chocolate mixture. Continue to stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
Pour the mixture into a glass cake pan (2 litre), cover and chill in the fridge for an hour or until scoopable.
Pour the tempered chocolate into the mold (I have a very pretty "spiral point" one which is deep enough to accommodate a good amount of filling) filling each cavity all the way, letting the excess chocolate spill over the edge, back into the tempered chocolate.
Agitate the mold to ensure you have no air bubbles in your chocolate, and all the surfaces are covered.
Upend the mold over your bowl of chocolate and let the excess fall back into the bowl. Give the upended mold a small shake. Turn it back upright and give it a good rap on the edge of the counter to release any air bubbles.
Scrape a putty knife across the top surface of the mold, to rid it of excess chocolate and ensure a clean edge on each cavity. Scrape any excess chocolate from the rest of the mold. Inspect the cavities closely for air bubbles or missed coverage spots.
Put the mold in a cool room (we use our Younger Son's bedroom – it has very little insulation, and is known as the "walk in fridge".
Pour all of the remaining chocolate out onto a Silpat mat (or piece of parchment paper) to harden in a thin layer (which will make it easier to break up, to reheat for the bottom layer).
When the bottoms of the mold appear cloudy and grayish and you have heard small cracking sounds (indicating the chocolate pulling away from the sides of the mold), the cavities are ready to be filled with the ganache.
Scoop the ganache into a heavy duty freezer bag, squeeze out any air bubbles before sealing the top, and cut off a very small corner (better to start small and increase the size if you need to) of the bottom of the bag, to form a piping bag.
Pipe the ganache into the bottom of each cavity, leaving a small lip of chocolate at the top, to ensure a good seal when you put on the bottom coat of chocolate.
Leave the filled chocolate mold for a few minutes, tap it to steel the ingredients, then re-temper the leftover chocolate, and pour it onto the filled cavities.
Scrape the putty knife gently but firmly across the bottom of the mold, to encase the chocolate in the cavities and ensure a clean bottom edge.
Put the mold back in the cool room for a couple of hours.
To release the chocolates, carefully but quickly reverse the mold over a flat surface and tap it firmly on that surface. The chocolates should fall out. If they don't, let the mold cool for a little longer. If they appear really stuck, you can try putting them in the fridge or even freezer for a very short time (a few minutes).


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Q: Clarification on 'private' drawables in android.R.drawable I am making a menu for an app and was pointed to this useful resource which lists all the drawables that are part of the android 2.0 jar. the usage example given is
myMenuItem.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_save);

Unfortunately, the one I want (and most of the list) are not available by default. I get
android.R.drawable.ic_menu_login cannot be resolved

when I try to set the menu item images:
    @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Add two example menu buttons
    int groupId = 0;
    int menuItemOrder = Menu.NONE;

    int menuItemId = 1;
    String menuItemText = "Add Login Details";
    MenuItem menuItem = menu.add(groupId, menuItemId, menuItemOrder, menuItemText);
    menuItem.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_login )

Did something change in recent android releases? It seems that most of these are now 'private resources'... couldn't find much info on this but I found some advice:

It is used to access private
  resources. Do not use it because these
  private resources are often
  removed/renamed/etc. Using it would
  most likely break your app in the
  future.

Why would they change the resource names anyway? (The images behind them sure, but the names?) How do I access ic_menu_login then? Is there a better reason not to than the above?

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How do I access ic_menu_login then?

Copy it into your application. You can find all of them in your SDK installation, specifically in $ANDROID_HOME/platforms/$API/data/res/, where $ANDROID_HOME is wherever you installed the SDK and $API is some Android level (e.g., android-2.1).


Today is the first edition of Sripriya Chaturvedi.
The lead story is about a game created by Artificial Intelligence. The second story is how NASA plans to celebrate Earth Day.
Page 2 has a special feature on Chand Baori - a 1000 years old step well in India!
Page 3 has a new story - Bodhi and Bim. This is a story that will come every week now, so have fun with your new friends in The Childrens Post! There is also a Word of the Week.
Page 4 has a riddle and its answer - who is the strongest creature of them all? Read on to find out.
Today's cartoonist is Abir, and the cartoon is called Woody Woodpecker.


Fabindia links over 55,000 craft based rural producers to modern urban markets, thereby creating a base for skilled, sustainable rural employment, and preserving India's traditional handicrafts in the process.Fabindia's products are natural, craft based, contemporary, and affordable.
The product range includes ready-to-wear garments and accessories for men, women, teenagers and children; bed, bath, table and kitchen linen; floor coverings, upholstery fabric and curtains. Cotton, silk, wool, grass, linen and jute are the basic fibres used.


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James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba.
The fate of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County has been decided.
Entergy sent a letter Wednesday notifying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it plans to shut down the plant in late 2016 or early 2017.
Tammy Holden, a FitzPatrick spokesperson, said the correspondence is the next step in the process to close the plant.
"Entergy and state officials worked very hard over the past two months to reach a constructive and mutually beneficial agreement to avoid a shutdown, but were unsuccessful," Holden wrote in an email. "Discussions have concluded."
FitzPatrick's closure will be a major loss for Oswego County. The plant, which opened in 1975, has more than 600 employees.
There was speculation about FitzPatrick's future until Nov. 2, when Entergy Chairman and CEO Leo Denault announced plans to close the plant.
Denault blamed several financial factors for the closure, including high costs to operate the plant and low current and long-term wholesale energy prices.
Hours after Denault's announcement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would attempt to prevent Entergy from shutting down FitzPatrick.
U.S. Rep. John Katko, who urged Entergy and the state to work together to keep FitzPatrick open, said Wednesday he's disheartened that the two sides couldn't reach an agreement.
"As we move forward with this difficult transition for Oswego County, I stand ready to support the many hardworking FitzPatrick employees, their families and our entire community," Katko, R-Camillus, said. "This is a strong community, and I will have their back."


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Re: BELL FAMILY IF BEAVER COUNTY PA
By H Metheny February 22, 2010 at 08:20:10
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DARLI WALKER 2/22/10
James Torrence Bell* was the son of Robert Bell (1801-1870) & Jane Torrence.
Robert Bell** was one of 6 children of Joseph Bell*** b. 1767 in PA & Elizabeth Sharp b. 1770 in PA
Their other children were: John, Mary, James, Keziah and Joseph!!
Text below, which is where I got a lot of my info., was taken from page 910 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).
"JOSEPH BELL!! traces his ancestry to one George Bell, a native of eastern Pennsylvania, who was there married and reared a large family. In the latter part of the last century, George Bell, and a neighbor, Mr. McDonald, came with their families to Allegheny county, Penn. They had previously intended to locate on the present site of Pittsburgh, but being dissatisfied with the country in that vicinity came down the Monongahela river until they arrived at the first large branch, Chartiers creek, which they followed to Mansfield. The two families then separated, the McDonalds moving west and the Bells ascending the Chartiers. The latter pioneers finally located on a large tract in the vicinity of Canonsburg, this county, where George Bell passed his life in forming the foundation of a home for his descendants. He was one of the first members of the Seceder Church in Washington county.Joseph Bell, a son of this hardy pioneer, was born in 1767, in eastern Pennsylvania, and passed his youth on the home place. In early life he was united in matrimony with Elizabeth Sharp, and the young couple soon afterward moved to Beaver county, where they purchased a farm, and reared the following children: John, Mary, Robert, James, Keziah and Joseph. The father was a Whig in politics, and in religion was formerly an active member of the Seceder Church, afterward uniting with the Associate Reformed. He passed the last years of his life at the home of his son in Columbiana county, Ohio.Robert Bell, father of subject, was born May 5, 1801, in Beaver county, Penn., and remained on the home place during his boyhood. In early life he was united in marriage with Jane, daughter of James Tornes, and she bore him five children: James, Robert, Eliza, Jane and Joseph. Mr. Bell when a young man learned the cooper's trade, which he carried on in connection with farming. He was very well educated for those days, having had the advantage of an academic training, and was an energetic and progressive citizen. In politics he was originally a Whig, afterward uniting with the Republican party. He was a member and trustee of the U. P. Church. On September 26, 1870, Mr. Bell was accidentally killed.Joseph Bell, the subject proper of this memoir, was born January 2, 1835, in Beaver county, Penn., and received his elementary instruction in the common schools, afterward attending the academy at Murdocksville and Paris, Penn. He commenced teaching at the age of seventeen years, a profession he followed with eminent success until he was thirty-five years of age. In 1870 he began the practice of dentistry in Florence, this county, continuing in that profession there fifteen years; then opened an office in Pittsburgh, where he practices. After a time he moved to Burgettstown, this county, and here has his residence. On January 8, 1859, he was united in marriage with Agnes, daughter of Adam Reed, of Beaver county Penn., who bore him two children: Annie and William. Mrs. Bell died January 10, 1870, and on March 14, 1871 Mr. Bell married Mary, daughter of Martin Tucker. They have had two children: Martin F. (deceased) and Mary A. Our subject has attained eminence in his chosen calling, and enjoys a large and lucrative clientage, his success being due entirely to his ability as a dentist and courtesy as a gentleman. He is a member of the U. P. Church, and has been trustee of his church several years. Politically he is an active Republican."
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University of Iowa Hospital has history of Legionnaires' disease
The University of Iowa Hospitals had an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the early 1980s involving 24 patients, 11 of whom died as a result of their illnesses.
UI did a major overhaul on its water system as a result of this outbreak. Despite this, several more patients at UI contracted the same illness about 10 years ago, two patients died. According to UI officials, it was unclear if the patients had contracted the illness while at the hospital or outside the hospital. Nevertheless, records show that the state paid a $500,000.00 settlement to the survivors of one of the patients.
According to Dr. Loreen Herwaldt, an epidemiologist for the UI Hospitals, the staff is very aware about Legionella and works to keep close tabs on the issue. Multiple disinfection methods for the water system are in place to prevent future outbreaks.
"It's very, very rare that we get a positive" test result in the water, said Herwaldt.
Herwaldt further said that it's been several years since anyone has become ill with Legionnaires' disease at UI and that the medical staff routinely test for Legionella bacteria in people who have symptoms consistent with pneumonia.
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Johann Ivar von Kaas dänisch Johannes Iver Jørgensen Kaas (* 29. September 1644 in Maartensdijk; † April 1718 in Köln) war ein dänischer Adliger, kurkölnischer Oberstleutnant und Bezirkshauptmann.

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Er entstammte dem dänischen Uradelsgeschlecht der Mur-Kaas. Seine Eltern waren der Däne Jørgen Kaas (1617–1698) und die Niederländerin Anna Maria de Wetter. Er wurde in Maartensdijk bei Utrecht, der Heimat seiner Mutter, geboren. Die Familie kehrte später nach Dänemark zurück, dort diente er in der Armee als Offizier. 1671 tötete er in einer Taverne in Kopenhagen seinen Offizierskollegen Ove Rosenkrantz und floh darauf als Geächteter außer Landes. Vom deutschen Exil aus stellte er einen Antrag auf Rückkehr, der abgelehnt wurde. Er hielt sich eine Zeit lang am Hof Ludwigs XIV. in Paris auf, wo er zum Katholizismus konvertierte. Später fungierte er im Kurfürstentum Köln als Oberst und Bezirkshauptmann. 1682 heiratete er die Kölnerin Franziska Maria Catharina von Viermund. Aus der Ehe gingen drei Kinder hervor. Der deutsche Zweig der Freiherren von Kaas wurde von seinem Sohn Wilhelm Friedrich Wolfgang von Kaas (1690–1768), der Agnes Dorothea von Borchers heiratete, fortgeführt. Sein Urenkel war der Oberforstmeister und Hofmarschall Clemens August Freiherr von Kaas (1759–1832), Geliebter der Landgräfin Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal, Regentin von Schaumburg-Lippe. Sie waren die Eltern des Generals Clemens von Althaus.

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As I write this tribute to a colossus—who, in countries that value their human treasures, would be the focus of celebration—I envisage the puzzled looks on the faces of many readers, especially those younger than age 50: Joe Young… who he? Like Shah didn't take his pills this morning! With so much to write about—the budget, corruption, scandals—all he could come up with is the passing of another old geezer.
Listen, my children, as Ras Shorty intoned, read on, learn a thing or two about this patriot, about your history.
Joe enjoyed only a basic formal education, which, in the 1940s, probably meant the full primary school fare. I never asked him about his schooling; his intellect was such, his language so polished, his thoughts and arguments so structured that one could be excused for thinking he had attended university. Joe was self-taught. He was a voracious reader, and it helped that he worked for a while in the pressroom of a newspaper.
The 1950s and 1960s was a period on nationalistic awakening, which, for most Afro-Trinidadians, meant becoming acolytes or grassroots supporters of Dr Eric Williams and the People's National Movement. Joe Young, like Weekes, was different. He developed a social conscience and opted to be a trade unionist, fighting for better wages and working conditions for workers—in his case, those employed by the bus companies. There were four privately owned bus companies when this country gained Independence. The workers' terms of employment were horrible, and the service itself stank.
Young was an organiser for the Amalgamated Workers' Union (AWU) in south Trinidad, while Weekes, an oilfield worker, was a rising star in the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU). The two would meet and develop a lifelong friendship. Joe ran afoul of the AWU leadership, which, as was commonplace then, sold out its members for trinkets. By 1962, he had left the AWU, mobilised the majority of bus workers and founded the Transport and Industrial Workers' Union (TIWU).
But his bigger goal was to have government nationalise and upgrade public transport. It was a tough battle, but by late 1964, following several strikes, he forced government to acquiesce, and in early 1965 the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) was established. TIWU would still fight to become the sole recognised union for transport workers, which meant more strikes, great battles fought. When we look at the PTSC fleet of buses rolling across the country today, offering ordinary people a reasonably good service, we must say thanks to Joe Young.
But this stalwart's contributions to the development of his country went beyond the boundaries of trade unionism. In 1969, and its humble offices on Broadway, Port of Spain, TIWU summoned a meeting of many interest groups to win support for yet another strike the union had called against the PTSC. The list of attendees read like a Who's Who in the struggle for "true independence". It included Weekes and senior executives of the OWTU, Geddes Granger (now Daaga) and a team from the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC), Lloyd Best, James Millette, solicitor Lennox Pierre, lawyer Basdeo Panday, and Vernon Jamadar and Alloy Lequay of the opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
The morning after that fateful meeting, as they blockaded the buses the PTSC tried to get rolling, many of the above-named, as well as Young and Clive Nunez of TIWU, were beaten by the police and arrested and charged. That incident was seen as a precursor to the Black Power revolution of 1970 in which Joe Young featured prominently.
I would get to know Joe well in the aftermath of the revolution, more so after I joined the trade union movement leading the cane farmers (Islandwide Cane Farmers Trade Union). This union, while it won wide support after its activation in 1973, could not afford to rent office space. Joe and TIWU, in a display of fraternal solidarity, allowed us use of their San Fernando office that ICFTU occupied for many years.
During the formative period of the United Labour Front (ULF, 1974-1976) I saw another side of Joe. The original leadership of the ULF comprised Panday, Weekes, Joe and me. Also on the executive were prominent men like Pierre, Millette and attorney Allan Alexander. The ULF had come close to crashing several times before the general election of 1976, mostly because of Panday's dictatorial tendencies.
Not long before the elections, with people already pinning their hopes on the ULF, one such crisis erupted. Panday insisted on having his way in the face of near-unanimity opposing his stance. Over three meetings, all other members decided that in the interest of the party, they would defer to Panday. Two held our ground—Joe and I. Amidst adjournments and persuasion, I buckled. The issue was put to the vote and I sheepishly supported it. Joe didn't. He was the last man standing, on principle. I need add, he was later vindicated when Panday "mash up" the ULF anyway.
That was the mettle of the man. He served without seeking office or reward or award. He was a true servant of the people—let it be so recorded.
I certainly hope that these people who contributed to our history get the mention that they deserve in the history books and we don't stop at Columbus.
I know the name very well having heard my father talk about his pursuits during those turbulent days.It is good that his contribution is remembereda true patriot.
The West African peoples, according to A. Diop, have a saying that when an elder of the village dies, it is as if an entire library has burned to the ground.
Your elegaic essay on Joe Young should be required reading for all high school children, who have no idea of who fought, and the calinre of that fight, that they may thrive.
Once gain, I salute you for excellent writing- a dying at in the age of tweets ad the abbreviated words of the internet's social media.
He moved in differenct social circles from mine,but I salute him. I salute you.
Joe Young reminds me of the song Paul Robeson sang about a fighter for worker's rights called Joe Hill.
Now I scanned the TnT papers today to see how the papers covered the significant win Hugo Chavez got in our neighbour country yesterday. GUARDIAN, NOT A PEEP! NEWSDAY, NOT A PEEP, EXPRESS FOCUSSED ON THE EXPATS WHO VOTED.I AM SURE THEY VOTED AGAINST.
Now, am I the only one celebrating a third term for the half Indian, half African leader of Venezuela who gave poor people in the favelas transportation and water for the first time? Who gave them a sense of dignity for the first time? We n the Caribbean tend to laugh at people like him, imitatingthe governments of North America and Europe who dismiss him, and other indigenous Latin American leaders as buffoons.We asume tohe aura of the ruling classes of Europe, and identify with them more than with the suffering people exploited by the descendants of the Conquistadoes.
I am glad for this third session of the Second Bolivarian Revolution. Long live Chavez, friend of the poor, whose oil products sell in the greedy US, cheaper than American gas.
Thanks for an excellent eulogy. I was surprised that the surviving former trade unionist of his era like Panday, Als, and Aberdeen, to name a few, have not said or written anything to eulogize Comrade Joe. I salute you, Lt.Shah for remembering.
Thanks for enlightening those of us who, though we have more than a fleeting socially-minded thought, never heard of Joe Young. It's sad when such history folds and fades away and is not acknowledged in any meaninful and permanent way. So it is with many of our gems. But thank you Mr Shah for sharing Mr. Young and his achievements with us.
I want to inform the T&T public of another great article on the life of Comrade Joe Young. It is titled: Joe Young's Radical Legacy. This article is written by James Millet and is published in the Trinidad Express today.
This should be required reading for young students who are studing West Indian History and for "baby boomers" like me, it is a trip down memory lane.
Thank you Chong DSing . dr. Millette was one of my professors of history at UWI. Will certainly read this piece.


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Q: Match text after colon and before new line - Javascript I have a text in the following format:
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Concept number 2: my content here2

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I want a regext to get the text after Concept number 1:. So I want to get the following: my content here1.
I was using Concept number 1(.*?)
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A: You have to use regex.exec() instead of .match(). Then you can access the matching groups as an ordinary array:

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Concept number 1: my content here1

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One more die after consuming adulterated toddy in Telangana
Telangana | Written by : IANS Updated: Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:13 PM
Hyderabad, Jan 11 (IANS) One more person died due to consumption of adulterated toddy in Telangana's Vikarabad district on Monday, officials said.
Komaraiah, 90, succumbed at his house in Vattiminapalle village, taking the death toll in the incident to two.
Earlier, one person died and over 200 others took ill due to adulteration of toddy in about a dozen villages of Nawabpet and Vikarabad 'mandals' or blocks since Saturday evening.
Billapati Krishna Reddy, 55, died at Pendlimadugu village in Vikarabad mandal died on Saturday.
Officials said the number of those taken ill after consuming toddy is on the rise.
The Excise Department seized the toddy depot which supplied the drink and sent samples for investigation.
A toddy depot owned by one Narayana Goud near Chittigadda railway station was supplying toddy to 17 villages in the two mandals. Barring five villages, those who consumed the drink in 12 villages took ill.
As many as 80 people were admitted to the government hospital at Vikarabad while others were treated as out-patients for giddiness and frothing at the mouth.
Health workers conducted door-to-door survey after some of those who consumed the toddy started visiting the hospital. The victims were brought in ambulances from villages.
Initially, it was suspected that people were feeling sick because of some mysterious illness. The affected including men and women went into convulsions and fell unconscious.
Two persons, who were in critical condition, were shifted to Hyderabad for treatment.


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It's time for my annual "Hello all, I'm alive, I really am" check-in on this blog. It's a blistering 93 degrees here in Chicago…in late September. No, really. A week ago I may have been in deep up in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, wearing layers upon layers in near-wintry weather while traversing Alberta's beautiful lakes in Banff National Park, but now I've taken refuge at my parents' air-conditioned abode to escape this heck of a heat wave. I never thought I would ever say this—no really, I have never been one to say no to summer conditions—but damn, where the autumn at?
Not much to update on my end here…and yet there is. I moved to a new apartment, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Still don't have a car, but somehow I've managed with public transportation for the past year and a half. Still at the same place of employment, where I've now been for six whole years. (Seriously, WTF? I don't know how that happened.) Traveling just as much as ever, much to the dismay of my credit card accounts. As previously mentioned I just came back from a trip up to the Canadian Rockies, which by far had to have been the most exhilarating (nature-wise) experience of my life. And yes, even better than visiting the Grand Canyon for the first time last year (and let's face it, no matter how busy the Grand Canyon it legitimately is one of the coolest natural features in the world). As someone who grew up in the flat lands of Illinois, to be surrounded by the tallest mountains I'd ever seen for a four straight days was nothing short of amazing.