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Scottsdale Web Design – How to Build the Ideal Location Page? (Part 1)
There are many elements in the map pack ranking, but one of the most significant is getting a perfect landing page.
As SEO experts, we teach that good SEO execution is intended to fulfill the purpose for our clients and shareholders. Then, why don't we apply the same reasoning in our location page?
Below, I've written a checklist answers regarding some feasible queries that people might be interested while reading about the company:
This means name, address, and phone number/s. It should be the same as your location page, Google My Business profile and other documentation. Others say this is not important, but adding these things will not take much of your time, right?
- Pictures
The smart thing to have are interior pictures because it will aid your guests on what to anticipate especially if it pertains to the healthcare sector. It surely will be a very important element for the would-be client's decision.
Exterior Pictures is equally vital for a location page optimization. This should have:
- Logo of the company and related signs.
- Parking space.
- Neighboring businesses especially if your location near prominent landmarks.
This is so helpful because new clients can easily spot you soon as they arrive in the area. This is great for a new company.
Editing the Meta Data of your Images
Your image should have that professional quality. The setback is, if you use a contemporary camera, you would naturally get huge file sizes.
A lot of this is due to the needless exaggerated meta data which are in the images. This could also have needless data like the kind of camera that was used to take the photo/s, date, location, and so on.
For times like this, ImageOptim can come in handy! It is free and open source software that can take out the meta data without losing quality. This means that the image quality NOT be affected when compressing the photos.
To add meta data to images like description, title, and location, you can use a web based exif editor, which is the exifer.net.
- Location
Most businesses does not know how to describe its location. On all location sites, a few places utilize the same definition and simply change the location's name.
On Twitter, JR Oakes reminded everyone to make their location pages unique. He cited an example how to avoid screwing up the location pages. Below are some ideas on ways to do your descriptions as pertinent and as different from the others.
- Services: Are there any facilities that are incomparable to other locations?
- Products: If your place is a shop, what are a few important brands that people are looking for?
- Neighboring places: Do you have any other close location? If so, where is the next closest location?
- USP: So, what makes your shop different from your rivals in the same place?
- Menu: An essential item especially if you own a restaurant.
Guess, this is where part 1 ends. I will be with you again on How to Build the Ideal Location Page? (Part 2)


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Application Deadline: July 8, 2022
Together with the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa, the DAAD awards funding for Master and PhD degrees at South African Universities to South Africans citizens or permanent South African residents as part of its In-Country/In-Region Scholarship Programme.
The NRF-DAAD In-Country Scholarship is jointly awarded by the DAAD and the NRF to full-time Master and PhD students in South Africa in all fields of study at any South African university. A South African citizenship or a permanent South African residency is a requirement for the scholarship. Applicants must be 32 years of age or younger in the year of application.
NRF-DAAD In-Country Scholarship holders are eligible for exciting funding and networking opportunities in addition to the scholarship they have received for their full-time Master or PhD degree in South Africa:
- Scholarship holders are eligible to apply for a short term research stay to Germany. More Information here: NRF-DAAD Short-term Stay Germany Leaflet
- Scholarship holders are eligible to apply for one of five interdisciplinary summer schools offered in Germany during their funding period:
- University of Frankfurt – Environmental and Remote Sensing Data Analysis via Geospatial Technologies in Research and Teaching (29th August – 7th October 2022)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) – Education and Research orientated Training in Health Sciences (1st August – 23rd September 2022 – part-time)
- Heidelberg University – Enhancing Academic Qualifications in Teaching and Research in Global Health (15.07.-14.09.2022 – part time)
- University of Applied Sciences Cologne (TH Köln) – Climate Change Adaptation: Risk Assessment and Design of Interventions (CC-Adapt) (15th August – 15th September 2022)
- University of Leipzig – Innovators, Doers and Entrepreneurs [at] summer school (IDEAS) (Part 1: 27th – 1st July 2022; Part 2: 25th – 29th July 2022; Part 3: 17th – 28th October 2022; Virtual Conference: 9th – 11th November 2022)
- The DAAD Information Centre Johannesburg invites 50 – 70 scholarship holders to take part in a networking conference in South Africa each year
The NRF-DAAD In-Country Scholarship is thus especially interesting to applicants who would like to gain research experience in South Africa and Germany.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the NRF-DAAD In-Country Scholarship Postgraduate (Masters and PhD) Scholarships 2022/2023

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Gilda Radner was sketch-comedy gold.
Leave it to Roseanne Roseannadanna to lift the spirits of everyone in a room on a late Saturday night. The character's triangular-shaped helmet of black hair and vaguely ethnic voice — satirizing the moment in the 1970s when diversity came to TV news — made the first-ever member of "Saturday Night Live" stand out in a cast of legends.
On the "Weekend Update" segment, Radner's chatty alter ego would rattle off a litany of complaints. But the comedian's pluck and wit made her seem the epitome of good health. Even — maybe especially — when she croaked the catch phrase: "What are ya tryin' to do, make me sick?!"
Tragically, she would repeat that line one day off set — in a bleak hospital room while battling a terminal cancer diagnosis. The question — delivered in the voice of Roseanne Roseannadanna, of course — was both a way to lighten the mood and a comment on how badly invasive treatments were making her feel.
Historically, cancer of varying types had plagued Radner's family. Radner's father died of it when it attacked his brain, her mother survived it when it attacked her breast, but it was ovarian cancer that took her grandmother, aunt and a cousin, then claimed her life in 1989, at the age of 42.
Physically, the toll it took on Radner was devastating. But it was the loneliness of sickness that affected her most. Not until she found The Wellness Community in Santa Monica did she gain a foothold. It was that sense of community that made all the difference.
Following Radner's death, her husband, comedy great Gene Wilder, felt compelled to create a place in her name where, as promised, no one would fight cancer alone. So, in 1995, he co-founded Gilda's Club, a nonprofit cancer support community, with psychotherapist Joanna Bull and help from film critic Joel Siegel, actor Mandy Patinkin and several of Radner's friends. Wilder understood too well how much the right mental outlook matters and wanted to create a place to provide good humor and hope in the face of trauma.
Gilda's Club is a community organization for those battling cancer as well as for their loved ones. It is a place where those in need are given free emotional and social support and free supplemental medical care in a home-like setting.
At the Westchester chapter, life abounds. "It's hopping," Marjorie Weintraub, director of major gifts for Gilda's Club Westchester, says of the chapter in White Plains. "The place is always busy."
"It's a very upbeat place," she adds. "Gilda Radner wanted a clubhouse feel. (She) never wanted anyone to be called patients. They're members." That ethos came from Radner's comment that her illness was like a "membership to an elite club I'd rather not belong to."
In 2009, Gilda's Club merged with the original organization where Radner found solace, The Wellness Community. Together they became the Cancer Support Community. Once the two organizations joined, some branches across the nation changed their name from Gilda's Club, but not in New York.
"It was her legacy," Weintraub says. "We felt very strongly we needed to keep the name. She lived right here in Stamford with Gene Wilder."
She emphasized that Gilda's Club is not just for women and not just for ovarian cancer.
"It's so much more," she says. "It's an all-encompassing type of service."
Men, women, children and teens are served. Indeed, the organization has launched a new effort focusing on teens. "We're in over 80 different schools," Weintraub says.
Members can participate in networking groups, workshops, lectures and social events all with an emphasis on coping strategy. The current organization reaches more than 20,000 people annually across the country — 4,000 at its White Plains location alone, which also serves Fairfield and Rockland counties.
Meanwhile, a new documentary by filmmaker Lisa D'Apolito, "Love, Gilda," gives us a window into Radner's all-to-brief life. The feature-length film, which opened the Tribeca Film Festival this year, is a touching portrait of a comedic genius and her reckoning with fate. Audiences get to watch rare footage of Radner, hear newly found audiotapes and listen to comics such as Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy read her diary entries. There are interviews with Martin Short, Chevy Chase, musician Paul Shaffer and writer Alan Zweibel among others.
D'Apolito's interest in Radner was sparked eight years ago when she directed several videos for Gilda's Club. In September, Gilda's Club Westchester joined forces with the Bedford Playhouse's Clive Davis Arts Center to present a special screening of the film to a packed crowd.
"It's a beautiful playhouse," Weintraub says. "The whole community in Bedford came together."
Before the premiere, village restaurants and other vendors donated to a cocktail reception that included drinks named after Radner's famous characters.
Writer Zweibel (an executive producer of the film) and his wife, Robyn Blankman Zweibel, held a Q&A after the screening. "They were actually best friends," Weintraub said of Radner and Alan Zweibel's relationship. Their closeness in both work and life lent more insight to the crowd.
The event was one of four premiere screenings in partnership with Gilda's Club. Others were held at the Greenwich Bowtie Cinemas, Pleasantville's Jacob Burns Film Center and Avon Theater in Stamford.
"(The event at the Playhouse) was a way to really showcase and say 'Look, her legacy is right here — right in your own backyard,'" Weintraub says.
"We did a 90-second promo video," she says, on behalf of Gilda's Club. "It was a love letter to Gilda. People thought it was part of the documentary. It was heartwarming, it was uplifting and a perfect tee-off for the show."
And it ended with the message the club wants everyone to hear: That no one should face cancer alone.
For more visit gildasclubwestchester.org and bedfordplayhouse.org.


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Myleene Klass has already done a version of Dancing On Ice's headbanger move – after bashing her nut in training and blacking out.
The presenter has been in the wars on the rink even before her first solo competitive skate this coming Sunday, needing physio for a torn cartilage in her knee.
But Myleene, 42, when asked if she might go for the headbanger move later in the show, where she would be thrown around by her legs by pro partner Lukasz Rozycki, joked: "I have done it already."
And she explained: "I banged my head on the ice, I really did."
She is one of six remaining celebs – the others being Olympic athlete Colin Jackson, skier Graham Bell, ex-Coronation Street star Faye Brookes, Radio DJ Sonny Jay and TV's Billie Shepherd.
Faye, 33, is the bookies' favourite at 9-4 but said: "It does put more pressure on. I'm overwhelmed."
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Cholesterol crystal embolisation is a frequently underdiagnosed condition. While coronary catheterisation is safe and commonly performed, the reported patient developed very painful trash feet after undergoing this routine procedure. Ulceration and gangrene occurred after catheter manipulation during cardiac angiography, which caused occlusion of the small arteries in his feet. The triad of pain, livedo reticularis, and intact peripheral pulses is pathognomonic for cholesterol embolisation. The prognosis depends on the extent of the systemic disease and a high rate of mortality (75–80%) is observed. Prognosis is poor and the treatment is only supportive. It is suggested that while cardiac catheterisation is largely safe and a very commonly performed procedure, it can still lead to complications with serious side effects and can even prove fatal.
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Cholesterol crystal embolisation (CCE) is a clinical disorder that is still frequently underdiagnosed. The incidence of this disorder is approximately 0.08%. Though Flory described it as early as 1945, its diagnosis is still a dilemma for clinicians. Moreover, there is no cure for the disease and the treatment is mainly supportive. The prognosis of the condition is very poor with a mortality rate of 72–80%.
Coronary catheterisation is a safe and commonly performed procedure. We present a case report of a patient who underwent a routine coronary catheterisation, which resulted in very painful trash feet.
A 65 year old man presented to our accident and emergency department with patchy mottling of both his feet. The following day this progressed to painful blisters and then to ulcers and gangrene (fig 1).
Three weeks before this event, he had presented to the accident and emergency department with bilateral painful thighs following a routine uneventful cardiac angiography. He was admitted on that occasion and treated with anticoagulant. He was discharged home on the 10th day with warfarin.
His other medical history included unstable angina, chronic obstructive arterial disease, aortic aneurysm, and borderline hypercholesterolaemia, and he was a known former smoker. He was not known to be diabetic and his family history was not notable.
Physical examination found tender distal toes with intact distal pulses. Both his feet were warm and well perfused other than the gangrenous patches. Further neurovascular examination of the lower limb found no abnormalities.
Laboratory investigation showed an eosinophilic count of 1.03 × 109/l, erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 34 mm in the first hour, urea concentration of 8.4 mmol/l, and creatinine concentration of 138 μmol/l. His creatine kinase was 1363 IU/l. His dorsalis pedis resting pressure indices were 0.99 and 0.97 for the left and right foot, respectively.
He was further managed conservatively with analgesics and anticoagulation. His ulcers did not worsen and he is settling with the current treatment.
The condition is CCE. The ulceration and gangrene in his feet resulted after catheter manipulation during cardiac angiography and caused occlusion of the small arteries in the feet. The triad of thigh and foot pain, livedo reticularis, and intact peripheral pulses is considered to be pathognomonic for cholesterol embolisation.
An eosinophilia, raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and decreased complement concentration may support the diagnosis; however, a final diagnosis can be established only with tissue biopsy evidence of cholesterol crystals in the involved skin, muscle, and kidney.
This condition predominantly affects the elderly (mean 66 years), frequently those with a history of hypertension (61%), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (44%), renal failure (34%), and aortic aneurysm (25%) at presentation.1
Clinical presentation varies and depends on the origin of the atheroma. Microembolism of the cholesterol crystals and atherosclerotic debris results from manipulation by cardiac catheters. If the proximal aorta has been disturbed then symptoms may occur in the central nervous system, abdominal organs, and extremities. The lower extremities are involved if the site is below the renal arteries.
Skin is involved in 35% of patients with CCE. Livedo reticularis is the most common skin disorder (49%), followed by gangrene (35%), cyanosis (28%), and ulceration (17%).2 Other manifestations are transient ischaemic attacks, amaurosis fugax, acute and chronic renal failure,3 and rarer manifestations such as hypertension, bowel ischaemia and infarction, pancreatitis, and adrenal insufficiency. However, painful limbs and cutaneous manifestation along with intact peripheral pulses are clinically pathognomonic for CCE.4
Laboratory tests that may aid in the diagnosis of CCE include eosinophilia, eosinophiluria, increased sedimentation rate, and decreased complement concentrations. Final diagnosis is established with biopsy and the aforementioned clinical findings.5
Multiple treatment regimens have been generally unsuccessful in altering the course of the disease process. The most significant impact on the disease can be made by its prevention. Thrombolytic and anticoagulant treatments are not indicated and only supportive care for such symptoms as hypertension, ulceration, and gangrene is advocated. The prognosis depends on the extent of the systemic disease and a high rate of mortality (75–80%) is recorded due to multifactorial, cardiac, and renal aetiologies.1–6
Prognosis is poor with high mortality and the treatment is only supportive.


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Home » Blog » Recipes » Bahay Kubo Cooking Series » Kalamay Recipe with Black Sesame (Linga)
Kalamay is a Filipino sticky rice delicacy made with just coconut milk, sugar and ground glutinous rice. In this version black sesame is added for additional flavor and crunch.
This is it, the last recipe in the Bahay Kubo Cooking Series! We did it! The very last vegetable is Linga or sesame seed.
I have to say it was quite hard to find or think of a recipe for this one. It's in the song, but truthfully, I don't remember any of my Lola's cooking with it. May-be just as a topping in palitaw, but that's it. I wanted to make a final recipe celebrating the song and using as much sesame as possible. It's really the perfect time to make time consuming Kalamay but with a black sesame twist. So let's do it!
What is it you ask? As with other Filipino dishes Kalamay differs in consistency, toppings and how it is served. Traditionally it is made with coconut milk, palm sugar and ground glutinous. So super simple. It's then cooked until the right consistency is achieved. Depending on where it was made it's more on the runny side that can also be used as a sweetener in coffee and other desserts.
The one that I grew up with was cooked until it was super makunat. How do I translate that…. until it has that super dense chewy texture where it can hold it's shape when cooled. Now let's make it!
We are making a small portion that can serve 3-4 people. All you need are these 5 ingredients to make it.
Coconut Milk – There is something magical that happens when you cook with coconut milk. It gets thicker and starts releasing oils. Which trust me helps in this recipe.
Coconut Sugar – In this recipe we are replacing the palm sugar with coconut sugar. I think it tastes the same and also just a little bit better for you.
Sesame Paste – The key flavor in this kalamay. As it cooks the flavor gets even more intense. This is my favorite brand to use. It's creamy and not oily like others I have used.
Ground Glutinous Rice – The binder and the maker of all things gooey.
Sesame Seeds – We will use this for presentation purposes and crunch.
First pour in the coconut milk in a non stick pan. Really don't use anything else. A non stick pan will be so helpful.
Then add in the coconut sugar and leave to dissolve for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes add in the black sesame paste and stir well.
Next add in the ground glutinous rice and mix until there are no lumps.
Now is the hard part. You need to keep stirring the mixture until it starts to get thick. As this is just a small portion, it's not as time consuming as a big batch. It's a good time to get a high chair and sit there with a book while you are stirring constantly for about 30-45 minutes.
If you like your Kalamay on the runny side it will be done in about 30 minutes. If you want it more on the chewy side. Keep stirring until you see it start pulling together and holding it's shape when you mold it. You can see below that the coconut milk has started to release it's oils and the mixture is a bit firm. Stop at this point and take it off the heat.
The inspiration for how I plated this is from Toyo Eatery. They are a high end Filipino restaurant in Manila and are famous for a dish called Bahay Kubo. Chef Navarra created this magical dish that has all 18 vegetables in it and also managed to make it taste so good. It's simply plated looking like a bowl of dirt. That is the same vibe I am going for here.
Of course you can plate the Kalamay the traditional way by putting a banana leaf on a plate and brushing it with coconut oil and placing the cooked dish on the leaf then sprinkling whole seseme seeds on the top and be done.
However if you want to go and make a faux mound of edible dirt ala Toyo Eatery follow on.
First brush 3 small wooden bowls (about 1/2 cup capacity each) with coconut oil. Then divide the mixture evenly between the bowls.
Now top it with black sesame seeds.
Spread the seeds all over until the Kalamay is fully covered.
See! A magic bowl of edible dirt! I took the extra step of finding these mini sugar vegetables to make a little garden. Oh so adorable!
All that is left to do is to go a head and blow away your household with this super simple, yet stunning delicacy.
I hope you all enjoyed the Bahay Kubo Series as much as I did! It helped me become more creative with the recipes that you see on here. If you have an idea for what series I should do next let me know! Write me an email! firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Patani (Lima Beans) On Toast Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
Tortang Ginisang Upo at Giniling Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
Kalabasa Bread Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
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Sinigang sa Miso at Mustasa (Miso Soup with Tamarind and Mustard Greens)
Ginisang Kamatis at Itlog (Sauteed Tomatoes with Egg)
Crispy Garlic (Bawang) – Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
Otap with Luya (Ginger) – Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
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Alaia Pendant - White Sapphire - 9k
To compliment the Alaia bracelet we've also added a pendant built around the same concept; Three, beautiful, clear, white sapphires of graduating sizes set in a a bezel setting. This creates a classic, yet very contemporary pendant that will work amazingly on its own for a clean and minimal look.
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Twenty percent of hospitalized adults given antibiotics develop adverse drug events, including GI, nephrotoxic, hematologic, cardiac, and neurotoxic effects, according to a report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
This high frequency of adverse reactions "may not be recognized by clinicians because [these events] have varied manifestations, clinicians may be unaware of the risks associated with specific antibiotic agents, or because they occur after patients are discharged from the hospital," said Pranita D. Tamma, MD, of the division of pediatric infectious diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and her associates.
They assessed antibiotic-associated adverse drug events in all 1,488 adults admitted to four general medicine services at a single medical center during a 9-month period and given at least 24 hours of any antibiotic therapy. The most common indications for antibiotics were urinary tract infections (12%), skin and soft-tissue infections (8%), and community-acquired pneumonia (7%).
Perhaps as important, the researchers noted, 19% of these adverse drug events were attributed to unnecessary antibiotics – drugs given for conditions for which they were not clinically indicated according to the hospital's own antibiotic guidelines. These included asymptomatic bacteriuria, aspiration pneumonitis, and heart failure (JAMA Intern. Med. 2017 June 12. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1938).
The most common adverse reactions that developed within 30 days were GI, renal, and hematologic abnormalities. Neurotoxic effects included encephalopathy and seizures; cardiotoxic effects included QTc prolongation. Less frequent adverse events included anaphylaxis, daptomycin-associated myositis, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole-associated pancreatitis, linezolid-associated neuropathy, and ciprofloxacin-related tendinitis. The most common adverse reactions that developed within 90 days were C. difficile infections and infections involving multidrug-resistant organisms.
"Our findings underscore the importance of avoiding unnecessary antibiotic prescribing to reduce the harm that can result from antibiotic-associated adverse drug events," Dr. Tamma and her associates said.


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A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles
New mobility for LA.
An Open idea competition sponsored by SCIFI at SCI-Arc and The Architect's Newspaper
Entries Due Friday March 13, 2009; Winners Announced March 21,2009.
Los Angeles, CA (January 15, 2009) – The passage in November 2008 of Measure R, a half cent sales tax in Los Angeles County, will provide as much as $40 billion for transit-related projects across the City of Los Angeles over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to make the largest investment since the 1950s to rebuild our nation's crumbling infrastructure.
In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI (Southern California Institute of Future Initiatives) program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The Architect's Newspaper are sponsoring an open ideas competition for architects, engineers, urban planners and students to propose new ideas for LA County's transit infrastructure.
The competition will encourage entrants to develop solutions that dramatically rethink the relationship between transit systems, public space and urban redevelopment. Competitors will be encouraged to work within the parameters of LA County Ballot Measure R. Their entries will focus on specific rail extension projects and also take a look at larger-scale, inter-related transit planning challenges.
The competition jury will include Thom Mayne, Principal and Founder of Morphosis Architects;Professor, UCLA, Aspet Davidian, Director, Project Engineering Facilities, LA Metro, Neil Denari, Professor, UCLA; Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects, Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles, Roland Genick, Urban Designer, Exposition Line, Cecilia V. Estolano, CEO CRA/LA- Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, and Eric Owen Moss, Director, SCI-Arc; Principal and Founder of Eric Owen Moss Architects as well as transit engineers from Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), developers, and local civic leaders.
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About SCIFI (Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives) at SCI-Arc Led by Peter Zellner and David Bergman, SCIFI is a post-graduate program under the direction of Hsin Ming Fung and focused on promoting innovation within design, policy, and planning responses to the economic, social and environmental futures of global cities and regions. SCIFI is dedicated to supporting investigations into the impacts of urban and planning policy, transnational financial markets, real estate speculation, and socio-economic globalization on the evolution of local urban fabrics.
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Everyone involved with the Flight 93 Memorial knows that the Crescent of Embrace points to Mecca

In 2007, Flight 93 Advisory Commission member Tim Baird told Alec Rawls (the author of these blogburst posts) that everyone at the meetings he attended is fully aware that the giant crescent, originally named the Crescent of Embrace, really does point almost exactly at Mecca. Professor Baird says they all just assume (himself included) that the Mecca orientation must be an innocent coincidence.
Pretty crazy, when they have also been told the meaning of a crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca. Every mosque is built around a Mecca-direction indicator called a mihrab, and the classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace is the world's largest mihrab.
However honestly Project Partners believe that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence, this is not what they tell the public. When reporters asked Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley about the Mecca orientation, she denied it:
"The only thing that orients the memorial is the crash site," she said.
Thinking that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence in no way justifies lying to the public about this explosive information. If Baird's account is accurate—that the dozens of Memorial Project Partners all know that the giant crescent actually does point to Mecca—then the Memorial Project has a lot of explaining to do. Now an overlooked article from 2007 corroborates Professor Baird's information.
Dr. Glenn Kashurba
It turns out that a Pennsylvania psychiatrist who has been intimately involved with the memorialization of Flight 93 (writing two books on the subject) argued to a reporter before the July 2007 Memorial Project meeting that the Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent (which he took as a given) should be seen as coincidental:
 "When you calculate angles to Mecca - I'm going to be in Washington, D.C., this week, and I'm sure if I calculate angles of the monuments, at least one points to Mecca," Kashurba said. "I don't know if it will be the White House or the Lincoln Memorial, but at least one will. People looking for a way to support their way of looking at things will look at this in this way for ever and ever."
If Dr. Kashurba was getting his information from the Memorial Project's public statements, he would have denied that the crescent points to Mecca. Here is what Memorial Project Partner Patrick White told the press 9 days before the Kashurba story:
Rawls, of Palo Alto, Calif., contends that the centerpiece of the design points toward Mecca.
Rawls' claims are untrue and "preposterous," according to Patrick White, Families of Flight 93 vice president. "We went through in detail all his original claims and came away with nothing."
Kashurba knew better, as did Patrick White himself. The week after his public denial, a local woman asked White how he could be okay with the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. This time White did not deny the Mecca orientation, but argued that it cannot be seen as honoring Islam because the inexactness of the Mecca orientation would be "disrespectful" to Islam.
Mecca orientation takes literally 2 minutes to verify, starting from source documents
It is not surprising that these Memorial Project insiders would know that the giant crescent does in fact point almost exactly at Mecca (1.8° north of Mecca to be precise, ± 0.1°). After all, they had by the summer of 2007 been examining Rawls' report, and answering questions from the press about it, for over a year, and the near Mecca orientation of the Crescent of Embrace is trivially easy to verify.
Just use any of the online Islamic prayer-direction calculators to print out the direction to Mecca from Somerset PA. Place this graphic over the Crescent site-plan on your computer screen, and you will see that the Mecca-direction line (which Muslims call "qibla") almost exactly bisects the crescent:

The green circle in this image is from the qibla calculator at Islam.com (down at the moment, but you can use the one at Qibla.com, or QiblaLocator.com). A person standing between the tips of the giant crescent and facing into the center of the crescent will be facing almost exactly at Mecca.
Patrick White knows this and deceives the press and the public about it. Dr. Kashurba knows it and stands by as White and others deceive the press and the public about it. These deceptions have been blatant.
Everything points to Mecca?
The Project even went to far as to dig up an academic fraud from Texas, willing to deny that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca:
Daniel Griffith, a geospatial information sciences professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, said anything can point toward Mecca, because the earth is round.
Was the reporter embarrassed to ask Muslims if they can really face any direction to face Mecca? Hard to blame her. Just to ask such a stupid question is to answer it, but the obviousness of the fraud is no excuse for letting it stand.
According to Professor Baird, every Memorial Project member who saw these denials knew that they were fraudulent, yet not one of them has tried to tell the public about the Project's dishonest cover-up. When the truth does get out to the broader public, Project members are going to have a lot to answer for, which is presumably why they are keeping their mouths shut now. They have done a very bad thing and they don't want it exposed.
What proves Islamic intent is the architect's elaborate repetition of the Mecca orientation
No one ever claimed that the almost exact Mecca orientation of the Crescent of Embrace proves Islamic intent. Architect Paul Murdoch proves intent in a different way: by elaborate repetition of his Mecca orientations. His first confirmation of intent is to include an exact Mecca orientation.
In Murdoch's explanation, the flight path breaks the circle, turning it into the giant crescent. To find this thematically defined crescent, remove those parts of the full Crescent of Embrace that extend out past the point where the flight path breaks the circle. The resulting true or thematic crescent points EXACTLY at Mecca:

At the upper tip of the crescent, the flight path comes down from the NNE and symbolically breaks the circle. What symbolically remains standing is the true or thematic Crescent of Embrace, pointing exactly at Mecca.
Murdoch's next confirmation of intent is to exactly repeat this entire multi-Mecca oriented geometry in the vast array of crescents of trees that surround the Tower of Voices part of the memorial. Setting aside the chance that an architect could in the first place design a memorial to Flight 93 out of nothing but crescents just by innocent coincidence (which must be close to zero), the odds that these crescents would by random chance manifest Murdoch's repeated Mecca orientations are 1 in 131 billion:
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The only change was to include an explicitly broken off part of the circle
The original Crescent of Embrace design included the symbolically broken off parts at the upper crescent tip. When the bare naked Islamic-crescent shape caused a public uproar, the Memorial Project added another broken off part of the circle, floating out in front of the mouth of the original crescent.
They call it a broken circle now, but the unbroken part of the circle, the symbolic result of 9/11, is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing EXACTLY at Mecca. That makes it a mihrab, the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built. The planned memorial is actually a terrorist memorial mosque.
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Everything You Need to Know About a Smart Solar Box?
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Creating My Day
As I was lying in bed this morning, considering the possibilities for the day, I recalled something from the film, "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" It's where Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about creating your day, actually imagining and forming your day, how you want to see and experience it. I was thinking about how much I have appreciated seeing all the wildlife that's passed through my yard this summer. Besides bunnies and birds, there were bears. Although I never actually laid eyes on the bear, or bears, which I've written about, there was evidence of their presence for a few weeks.
The deer which fed off the tender shoots of my fruit trees earlier in the summer have been through. I've often seen their hoof prints crossing my driveway. Many evenings there's been a small group, anywhere from four to seven adults, along with three fawns, in a nearby field. These little ones had spots until about three weeks ago, when I saw two of them nursing from their mother, quite near the road, as I drove by in the evening. She just kept an eye on me as they fed. They must have been late spring babies.
There was a red fox I startled when walking in my yard late one evening. It ran from near the old chicken coop, jumped over the corner of my perennial garden in back and bounded off into the trees beyond. I suppose he'd been keeping an eye on it and thought, "New landlord, maybe chickens." Not yet, maybe next year. It did give me something to mull over. I had chickens in Ansel and something eventually did find it's way inside the coop, killing the hens. I was heartsick. I know the possible dangers and want to be very sure that, if I do get chickens, I'm more than adequately prepared for predators. Learning to live with nature isn't always easy and takes preparation, in some cases.
Yesterday, as I was leaving the vegetable garden, I heard a familiar noise, but couldn't quite place it. "Gobble, gobble," should have been a clue. As I turned towards the house, a small flock of wild turkeys was making its way across my lawn. I was torn between pausing to watch and getting closer for a better look. Neither option suited them. They were off and running. As I got closer, a straggler came around the house. Back came a rather imposing member of the flock, the kingpin of the group I suppose, and tried to hurry the straggler along. He sort of ran/flew, as much as a turkey can fly with so little runway, and set himself down next to it, bobbing his head as if to say, "Will you get your ass in gear. She's back and we don't know what to expect."
I got my camera and walked to the road to see if they were crossing it, but nothing. They must have hunkered down in the little spot of woods between my yard and the road. I decided not to stir them up, but let them take cover and feel safe.
Back to creating my day. As I was lying in bed, I thought how nice it would be to see deer actually in the yard again. It was a misty morning, barely dawn, when I decided to get up and get the coffee going. While it brewed, I sat down at the kitchen table, next to a window, and quietly watched the morning emerge. Within a few minutes, one by one, seven deer walked by the perennial garden, past the clothesline and down into the hollow. I got my camera and tried to quietly, from inside the house, see if I could take a photo worth sharing with you. It's not great, but it's what I could do in the circumstances:
Before I go about creating the rest of my day, I want to share a quote with you that has recently spoken to me. It's by Ayn Rand, from her novel, Atlas Shrugged.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
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That deer was posing for you! So cute! It must be fun to be out with all the critters....although bears...maybe not so much!ReplyDelete
Love the Rand poem. I find for me...gratitude for the "all" that surrounds me seems to bring even more into my life's creation.
Hope you'll be joining in on the 10 Billion Beats tonight at 7pm
Peace To Earth...Goodwill To Humankind will be my intention.
Thank you for stopping by the garden today and for your awesome comment. You get it. I love when that happens!
Have a lovely weekend.
Hmm, I like the idea of being more intentional about my days. The tasks are pretty much in place, but the spirit is just kind of meandering.ReplyDelete
MG: Thanks for the reminder of 10billionbeats. I have passed the link on to several friends, who might also want to participate. I Hope your weekend is lovely, too.ReplyDelete
Nancy: I feel, no matter what the tasks are, we can shape them into harmonious action with lots of room for additional "bliss." :) Thanks for reading and commenting. Have a great weekend!
Some good words to remember by Ayn Rand.ReplyDelete
It's fantastic to hear about the place where you live, all the animals you see nearby. The turkey-sound is funny, I had a computer-game I played some years ago. One of the settings was in Mexico where Turkeys were running around in the landscape, and I had to shoot them to get food for the settlers. The turkey-gobble-gobble was so funny! Am I very childish???
But I liked very much to hear about your day. I understand your feelings about the fox if you'll have some chickens next year - the polecat is also dangerous.
Grethe ´)
Hi Grethe! It's good to be "childish." Why should they have all the fun! :) I haven't done much online gaming. I'm afraid I'd get caught up and it would, "gobble up" all my time ! Sorry, I couldn't resist! :)ReplyDelete
Yes, the polecat. I will have to be certain I'm ready for that enterprise. We shall see...
A nice post with an autumn feel to it. Twin fauns were born in my rock garden a few weeks ago. I saw them wobbling on their spindly little legs and the next day they were already jumping hedges. It's quite a thrill to watch the wildlife, isn't it?
Enjoy your Sunday.....
Hello Teresa! It was worse, I was not on-line. I don't like the competition in groups. I competed with myself!ReplyDelete
Have a nice Sunday!
Grethe ´)
Hello Manzanita! I love watching them find their spindly little legs. How nice that you had them so near to see their progressReplyDelete
I see the Minnesota Twins are having a good season. I would imagine you attended the games with Cal and that this time of year always had some hoopla involved, especially if they were having a good year.
Have a nice Sunday, as well,
Grethe, The good part about competing with oneself is that it's sort of a win-win situation. :)ReplyDelete
Second attempt since voodoo spirits have attacked my computer this morning. I love the reminder to "make my own day." I'll have to tell my grandkids this little gem when they arrive for our birthday dinner today (mine and my son's). It seems like a very good thing to teach them and hope that it inspires them somewhere along the way. Re. your comment on my High Bridge post today, if and when you come to the Cities, let me know and we can meet for coffee somewhere. I'd love to meet you.ReplyDelete
Hi Kate, I will let you know, next time I'm down that way!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing the beauty of your day with us.ReplyDelete
LOL!! But I like tennis!ReplyDelete
Grethe `)
Thank you, SkitzoLeezra! I hope you're having a good Sunday.ReplyDelete
Grethe, I used to play tennis, but I fear I would collapse on the court now. :)
as we ponder, as we think; we make possible, we make real. and isn't that true? i am inspired right now.ReplyDelete
and yes, yes, yes--amen and thanks for the quote. as you know, teresa, i am taking the leap to play my inner song to the world/ to live from my deepest dream. i am grateful for your comments on my blog and your insights here. yourSouLfriend, michelle
Michelle! Your deepest dream - Yes! My best thoughts are with you, as it unfolds. I am so very grateful for your own expression of Good.ReplyDelete
I do that, too...lie in be and contemplate the day. It's like stretching my mind first thing in the morning.ReplyDelete
I love reading about all of your wildlife. We don't have bears here (I don't think...I hope) or foxes (I'd love to see a fox!) but just last night as I was driving into our lane a deer bounded into the road just ahead of me. They are such pretty creatures.
The wildlife is a huge part of what I love about my place. It feels so good to be sharing the land with them.ReplyDelete


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Claim: Petition seeks to ensure justice is done in the case of a mother who killed her baby in a microwave.
Status: Multiple:
- A woman is on trial for killing her baby by placing it into a microwave oven:
Was true (trial has concluded).
- Signing an
e-petitionwill ensure that justice is done in this case: False.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2007]
Just recently a women placed her 3 week old baby in a microwave and baked it, and yes, of course it died. Police say that the mother did it to get back at the baby's father. This baby died in a microwave because of its heartless mother, she appears in court today, if you think she should be severly punished for killing her child,,please put your name below and repost this as "Baby Died In The Microwave" if you dont repost this no ur not gonna have relationship problems, no ur not gonna die, but it will show everyone that you have absolutely NO HEART or SENSE!!!!!
Origins: This appeal to force the administration of justice in the case of a mother who'd microwaved her baby to death began appearing in inboxes in July 2007. Sadly, the gist of the
China Arnold of Dayton, Ohio, has been charged with aggravated murder for the
The mother claims she has no knowledge of what befell her daughter, saying that she had been drunk that night (having gone out drinking with the baby's father earlier in the evening), gave the child a bottle, then fell asleep on the couch with the infant on her chest. The first attempt to prosecute China Arnold for her daughter's death ended in February 2008 with the judge's declaring a mistrial just as the case was on the verge of going to the jury.
While the death being reported on is accurate, a petition meant to ensure the person responsible is appropriately punished isn't a good idea. First, despite the missive's "WE NEED
includes no address where the signatures should be sent to be collated into one long signed document. In its present form, the petition would simply be forwarded one person to the next, gathering signatures as it traveled, but never ultimately going anywhere. Second, there's no mention, not even the vaguest idea given, of who the document's ultimate intended recipient might be. Lacking that information, even if the signatures were gathered at one central location and formed into a coherent petition, there'd be no one to deliver them to.
Yet the strongest argument against the petition has to do with its premise (i.e., that whoever killed the infant should be "severly punished")
Another "microwaved baby" case was reported in the news in May 2007 involving Joshua Mauldin of Warren, Arkansas, who microwaved his two-month-old daughter Ana (after first punching her, then placing her in a hotel safe, then a refrigerator). The child suffered burns to her face (for which she received skin grafts) and eventually had to have part of one ear amputated, but was otherwise relatively unharmed. She now lives with relatives. In March 2008, Joshua Mauldin was found guilty of felony injury to a child and sentenced to
There had been a previous murder of a child by this method: In December 2000, Elizabeth Renee Otte was sentenced to five years in prison for microwaving her one-month-old baby to death in September 1999.
While each of these horrific incidents bears resemblance to the well-traveled legend about a babysitter who while in a drugged state mistook the baby for a turkey and put the wrong item in the oven, lore and reality differ in one key regard: motive. In the legend, the babysitter's act was unintentional, the result being so out of touch with reality that she perceived the infant as something else. The real-life microwavings of babies have been the deliberate acts of parents (some of whom afterwards attempted to mount "I didn't know what I was doing" defenses to the criminal charges laid against them).
Barbara "deadly imaginings" Mikkelson
Update: In a retrial concluded on
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10 March 2020
Residential property - March 2020 – 3 of 4 Insights
Can you maintain your privacy when selling or buying a property?
The right to privacy embodied in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights states "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence" (emphasis added) and, for a long time now, it has been clear as a matter of English law that information about a person's home can be private.
The same information is also likely to be personal data, engaging rights under the GDPR. Obligations of confidentiality can also be asserted or created to protect the spread of information and the law of copyright can be used to control and protect the publication of the underlying marketing materials. Therefore, in principle, privacy can be maintained and this is becoming more of a priority for clients.
However, in practice, privacy can be very difficult to protect because of the large amount of information that is generated and freely disseminated during a sale and the lack of control a seller or purchaser has over that information and the people who use it during the process. Once the information is in the public domain, it is hard to control who else has access to it or how they might use it, which can affect personal security. Media coverage can also follow if the property, or the sellers or purchasers, are of interest to the public.
Today, unless the sources of the information are contained and controlled, it is often easy to obtain a large amount of information about where a person lives, which naturally becomes more valuable to the media depending on who it is. To protect privacy, proactive steps need to be taken well in advance of (rather than during) the process to contain a range of potential sources.
To market the sale, the following intellectual property is usually created around a property:
Each of these works contain personal details of the home, including:
This information is considerably more detailed than that available via the Land Registry.
Much of this information will not only be available via the marketing materials themselves and the estate agent's website(s), but via other third party websites such as Zoopla or Rightmove. Further, photographs may also often appear via Google Search or Google Images and are, therefore, accessible via a search engine. All of this information is often still available long after a sale or purchase, unless removed.
By using the address details, others can access details on the Land Registry, including the legal owners of the property, charges and mortgages on the property, boundary information and other plans.
If the house is newly built by a developer, they may have published further photos or videos of the inside and outside of the property as part of their online portfolio to attract more work. Similarly, photographers or videographers will have done the same by publishing their work on their own sites to demonstrate the quality of their work to future customers.
Further intrusive information can be obtained using other online resources such as the previous purchase price details and previous photographs of the property – for example, via Zoopla or previous agent's sites where the property was put on, but then taken off, the market, only to be put back onto the market via a different agent.
As well as the information itself, there are then the actual people involved in the sale process, such as estate agents or representatives, to family office staff. Potential sellers can take photos when looking round and post them on social media. There are also those who created the underlying marketing materials, such as the photographer, videographer and brochure designers. Previous developers may still be proudly displaying their video tour of the property years after selling the property. All of these are potential sources of information for the media and some would argue that publicity generally helps a sale.
The details of your home, including its layout, location and contents can become a security concern. If such information is not freely available, it will be harder to compromise the property. It may be very important that the public do not know where you live.
Ultimately, if the media obtain details about a sale or purchase, they may run a story about it accompanied by photographs and videos. This happens quite often and is easy for them to do if the information is freely available without precautionary protections. Some articles, particularly in the USA, can even include location data. They may argue that their article is only helping to sell the property or that details of your property are not private because of the entries on the Land Registry. No doubt, you will have seen and read many of these types of articles, which can often be very intrusive and even voyeuristic.
Time is always of the essence when dealing with online publications. Taking legal action to have such an article removed without having already obtained, for example, copyright in the photographs, can be much harder and take much longer, especially as the media tend to avoid publishing address details. However, the longer it takes to remove online news content, the more likely it is that the article and photographs will be shared by readers on social media, which adds another layer of online publications to remove.
While it will not be a concern for everyone, for certain high value properties being sold or purchased by certain high net worth individuals who value their privacy, it is worth taking advice on doing so before embarking on the sale or purchase process. This is because controlling the information generated about your house and the people involved in that process is much more effective if measures are put in place at the very start. If not, information could leak before such measures are put in place rendering any later steps taken as useless.
Sellers will want to protect their information as much as possible during the sale process, up to the point of sale. Purchasers will want to take ownership of the marketing materials and have as much online information removed as possible so as to prevent people accessing it once they have bought the property.
If sellers wish to effectively protect their privacy, they need to take legal advice before the underlying marketing materials are created and used and estate agents are appointed. This is because they will want to control the copyright in the material and impose express confidentiality requirements on agents.
It will be important to establish who owns the copyright (it is unlikely to be your estate agent) so that it can be assigned and to prepare NDAs to cover representatives and potential purchasers. If you are a purchaser, you will need advice on how to obtain control of the relevant information and the underlying marketing materials to minimise access post purchase.
Please reach out to a member of our Reputation Management & Privacy Protection team if you'd like to learn more about how to protect your privacy when selling or purchasing a property.
10 March 2020
10 March 2020
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10 March 2020
by Lisa Bevan


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Dearest Friends,
During this past week we have spent many hours studying God's Word and what He has to say about healing. It has been refreshing and energizing.. More and more, we see the importance of filling our eyes and ears with God's Word.
This Placard is on the back of the entrance door to our apartment. It is the last thing that we see before we go out into the world where we will be a part of many and diversified relationships.
The Bible records these words of Jesus, "...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10
The life we live might have many facets, but they are not about places or things. The life we live is about relationships. First and foremost life is about our relationship and service to God, and then our relationship and service to His people. God's Word instructs us and directs our steps toward healthy relationships in all facets of our life including family, church, work, and our relationship with our Heavenly Father. When we allow alienation in any form to creep into our godly relationships, that alienation can effect those facets of our lives. Allowing bitterness, unforgiveness, or anything contrary to God's plan for our relationships, will harden our hearts, even to the point of separation from our brothers and sisters in Christ.
At the time we began to let the Word of God filter into our lives, our primary relationships were with men and women with whom we had attended college, with whom we also were in "boot camp" in the military service, continued our relationship in the same assignments overseas, and furthered it after discharge with a "round-robin" letter and a yearly reunion. Everything seemed very good.
As we endeavored to insert things we were learning about God as a Father and what His Son's life made available -- as our relationship with God was developing -- the relationships with our friends started to erode. This was first noticed in the dwindling of communication , especially with the "round-robin" letter.
Then, one year when driving to the reunion in a snow storm, it churned in our hearts that this relationship was over. As we entered the parking lot entrance to the hotel, we were assured. After doing "figure 8s" in the snow for a couple of minutes, we headed home with light hearts.
While reviewing what had happened, we saw that there was no relationship with God's Word between us and them. Not one of them inquired where we were. Communication ceased to exist.
The life that Jesus made available to enjoy abundantly is what makes a true relationship of friends. Man really lives by every Word of God. When we are not sharing His Word with each other, what kind of relationship is that? We lost all our friends when we shared the joy of the fellowship of God with them. But God filled our relationship in with new brothers and sisters who were friends the Word's way. Praise God for His love and provision.
See you next week.
We love you all very much and pray for you each day.
Your friends, Ray and Shirley
PS. It would be a blessing to hear from you also --As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25


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Toni Morrison's novel Beloved analyzes the effects of slavery on the lives of the African Americans in a very original and profound way. Instead of telling a story about the violence of the white slave masters and about the sufferings of the black people, Morrison reviews the way in which slavery affects the sense of selfhood and identity in the African Americans. The enslaved self cannot relate to the world in the same way as the free self. The master and slave bond is reenacted in the family relationships of the former slaves.
Thus, the text investigates the perpetuation of violence and possessiveness after the liberation of the African Americans has taken place. The climax of the novel is indeed an extremely violent moment- Sethe, a runaway slave from the Sweet Home plantation attempts to murder her own children in order to protect them from future slavery. She only has time to kill her baby daughter, Beloved, before the white men stop her. The black slave thus turns the violence that was done to her against her own children in two ways: first of all, Sethe kills her daughter because she thinks death would be better her than a life of slavery.
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However, this violent reaction of the mother has another meaning as well: she acts as if her children were her own possession, as if she were a white master herself. However, motherhood is not the only relationship that is affected by the dark past.
Morrison's novel exemplifies, through a number of relationships, the way in which slavery affects the unity of the traditional African family. In this respect, Beloved traces the reconstruction of African American identity and of the African family as a central structure of society, after the freedom has been obtained.
Thus, Toni Morrison's novel is a different type of slave narrative, told from the point of view of the African Americans, and focusing on the psychological effects of the slavery on selfhood, identity and love. First of all, the bond that is most investigated in the novel is that between the mothers and their children.
Through this however, the author points at the destructive force that slavery has on the entire African American community, and especially on the family. Motherhood symbolizes creation and as such, it is the center of any human society.
Morrison reveals the violence of white people indirectly, through the murder performed by the mother against her own child, which is obviously a remnant of master and slave relationship. The relationship between Sethe and her daughter Beloved, who haunts her first as a ghost and then as a nineteen old girl, is certainly the central one in the novel and the one that best represents the extent to which slavery can affect the human nature. The master/slave bond is essentially based on dependence, violence, transgression of boundaries.
Selfhood for the black people was reduced to the definition of the white men, who took possession of them as if they were objects and not human beings. The motive that the whites used to justify the slavery of the blacks was always the fact that the latter were savages.
Morrison deftly inverses this statement, and points to the fact that the jungle was actually created by the white people, who annihilated the sense of selfhood and humanity in the slaves: "Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle.
Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. . . . But it wasn't the jungle blacks brought with them to this place from the other place. It was the jungle whitefolks planted in them. And it grew.
It spread…. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own. (Morrison, 198-199) The strong bond between Sethe and her children reflects this ownership of the slaves by their masters.
The jungle that was planted by the white people in the blacks through slavery is mirrored in the Sethe's violence. The murdering act of Sethe can thus be explained: she does not know herself and mistakes her own identity with the fate of her children.
Unable to see herself as an independent person, Sethe clings to her role as a mother and becomes extremely possessive. She mistakes her own identity with her motherhood, and thus, in a way, reenacts the violence of the white masters against her.
Sethe feels she has no power over her own self because the white people had crossed all the boundaries and not only taken everything she possessed physically, but everything she had dreamed as well: '"Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed,' she said, 'and broke my heartstrings too.
There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks. '"(Morrison, 89) It is obvious that the "whitefolks" are "bad luck", that is, for the black slaves they were the instruments of destiny itself, trough the power have over their lives.
Thus, when Sethe kills her infant daughter, she obviously acts, although out of love, as a white master would. As Malmgren remarks, Sethe's violent act against her own child is actually a perpetuation of the logic of slavery: "Sethe so identifies her Self with the well-being of her children that she denies their existence as autonomous Others, in so doing unconsciously perpetuating the logic of slavery. "(Malmgren, 103) Morrison's novel thus reflects the violence of the white race against the black one indirectly, showing how weak the theory that the African American are less than human has proven over time.
The white people are actually the ones who took their humanity by treating them as objects or animals. Beloved therefore reviews the manner in which the master/slave bond affects the selfhood of the former slaves, to the point that it is replicated in Sethe's murder o her own daughter.
Motherhood is exemplified in the novel not only in the relationship between Sethe and Beloved, but also in the relationships between Ma'ma and Sethe, or Baby Suggs and her own children. Infanticide seems to have been rather common among the former slaves, as a means of protecting their children.
Although Sethe had barely known her mother, she is told that the latter also killed her children, all but herself since she was the only one begotten in love with a black man and not through the rape of a white master: "She told Sethe that her mother and Nan were together from the sea.
Both were taken up many times by the crew. 'She threw them all away but you. The one from the crew she threw away on the island. The others from more whites she also threw away. Without name she threw them. You she gave the name of the black man. She put her arms around him.
The others she did not put her arms around. Never. Never. Telling you. I am telling you, small girl Sethe. '"(Morrison, 98) As Demetrakopoulos points out, the slavery affected motherhood in such a way that it permitted the excessive and protective love to endeavor guard the child from the cruelty of life itself: "In this act, Morrison gives us the most searching portrait I know of the paradoxical polarities in motherhood. For Sethe the children are better off dead, their fantasy futures protected from the heinous reality of slavery.
It is better, Sethe's act argues, to die in the cradle than to live out one's full life p soul-dead, a zombie/ puppet daily treading the process requirements of someone else's life and needs. The child as the adult's fantasy of the future is obviously central to Sethe's murder of Beloved. "( Demetrakopoulos, 53)
In this way, motherhood crosses the normal limits of human love and seems to be reminiscent of the instinctual bonds between the animals and their babies: "Even her escape from slavery was not really for herself.
Her swollen breasts and the baby kicking within pressed her onward to the baby waiting for her milk. Biological necessity made her create a life that would allow her children to grow up. Sethe carries Beloved on her conscience and in her heart. For the mother, the dead child is maternity in potentia, the mother truncated.( Demetrakopoulos, 54)
The white domineering culture that enslaved the black is the main cause of this displacement of identity in all the characters in the novel.
Although in the text the ghost and then the embodiment of Beloved appear as the main motives for the destabilization and deterioration of all the other family relationships, it is clear that the murdered child represents not only motherhood but also love itself. The possessive and narcissistic love that is exemplified in the relation between Sethe and Beloved replaces the normal emotions for the troubled self. This kind of love that ignores the boundaries of selfhood is obviously the result of the years of slavery and dependence.
The liberated self does not know its own substance and limits: "Beloved/ You are my sister/ You are my daughter/ You are my face; you are me/ I have found you again; you have come back to me/ You are my Beloved/ You are mine/ You are mine/ You are mine. " (Morrison, 216)
Paul D fears Sethe's love precisely because he realizes it is extremely powerful and fierce : "This here new Sethe didn't know where the world stopped and she began . . . more important than what Sethe had done was what she claimed.
It scared him"(Morrison, 90) As Barbara Schapiro emphasizes in her study called The Bonds of Love and the Boundaries of Self in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Morrison constructs in her novel precisely the kind of love that is based on possession, dependence and entrapment to show that the consequences of slavery affect the sense of self in the individuals: "Toni Morrison Beloved penetrates, perhaps more deeply than any historical or psychological study could, the unconscious emotional and psychic consequences of slavery.
The novel reveals how the condition of enslavement in the external world, particularly the denial of one's status as a human subject, has deep repercussions in the individual's internal world. These internal resonances are so profound that even if one is eventually freed from external bondage, the self will still be trapped in an inner world that prevents a genuine experience of freedom. "(Iyasere, 155) Paul D calls this type of love that Sethe manifests for himself and for her children "too thick", as if it were undiluted by the sense of identity.
This type of love, that Sethe has shown in killing he baby daughter is afterwards perpetuated by her in her relationship with the ghost, with Beloved and with Paul D. Thus, the very opening of the novel plunges into Sethe's world and briefly exposes the nature of the relationships in her family. The house itself is called "spiteful", that is haunted by the dark past in the form of Beloved's ghost. The two sons of Sethe have left and Baby Suggs is dead, all because of Beloved's ghost.
Slavery thus still haunts the lives of the liberated people, and not only in the form of guilt. The fact that the murdered daughter is named "Beloved" hints to the way in which emotions have been affected and altered: "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years, each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims.
The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old -- as soon as merely looking in the mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny handprints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard).
Neither boy waited to see more, another kettleful of chick peas smoking in a heap on the floor: soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Nor did they wait for one of the relief periods: the weeks, months even, when nothing was disturbed.
No. Each one fled at once -- the moment the house committed what was for him the one insult not to be borne or witnessed a second time. " (Morrison, 3) Heller showed that Morrison's novel is an attempt at reconstructing of the family relationships, which had been so much influenced and deteriorated by the slavery system: "As a study of the connection between the historical and the familial, Beloved is concerned with the healing of the black American family and the "reconstruction" of kinship structures.
These structures had been violated by the cruel fact of family life under the slavery system: as enslaved Africans, women and men had no right to themselves, to one another, or to their children. "(Heller, 108) Love and family relationships are clearly affected by the question of identity.
For the former slave identity is still undefined since he had been so long treated as an object which has a certain price but no value as a human being. In some of the plantations, the slaves were not allowed to have their own families, and the black women were often raped by their masters.
In these conditions, it is obvious that the people had no sense of self and therefore could not relate to someone else. As Carl Malmgren comments in his study Mixed Genres and the Logic of Slavery, the novel points to the way in which love is affected by the loss of identity: "The novel thus meditates upon and mediates between the various forms that love takes. In this regard, its dominant theme is the problematic of love, particularly as regards the question of identity. "(Malmgren, 105)
Denver, Sethe's second daughter is also affected by Sethe's love for her dead child. She intuitively feels that the relationship between Beloved and Sethe is wrong, and she lives with the anxiety that the mother could at any time repeat the murderous act and maybe kill her too: "All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again.
I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too. " (Morrison, 205)
Denver is actually the one that saves Sethe by deciding to go out of the house in search of food, and to break thus the mother's total isolation. She makes therefore the first step to establish a relationship between herself and the outside world.
She also evinces a much stronger sense of identity in her desire to listen to stories that only talked about her: "Denver hated the stories her mother told that did not concern herself, which is why Amy was all she ever asked about. The rest was a gleaming, powerful world made more so by Denver's absence from it.
Not being in it, she hated it and wanted Beloved to hate it too, although there was no chance of that at all. "(Morrison, 62) Teresa N. Washington in The Mother- Daughter Aje Relationship in Toni Morrison's' Beloved' shows that Beloved actually is a symbolic incarnation of the African American consciousness coming back to life:
"But in having equated her best self with her children, making the decision to save that precious self, and summoning the self for a discussion, Sethe comes face to face with her spirit, her embodied conscience, and her own (and all her people's past. )" (Washington, 184) Thus, it is the white culture that first took possession of the black people's selves and identities, thus destabilizing the entire African American community: "Anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you.
Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore…The best things she was, was her children.. "(Morrison, 251) The novel concludes with the hope of Sethe's regaining of her lost self: "You your best thing, Sethe. You are. " "Me? Me? " (Morrison, 273).
The master and slave relationship is also based on dependence, and this is why Sethe has no sense of her real, independent self. She does not even dare to "go ahead and feel" for example: "Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something? " (Morrison, 38).
This re-appropriation of the self is a symbol for the reconstruction of the African American identity and culture, and an example of the way in which the past can be accepted. The sense selfhood and the consolidation of the family bonds represent the consolidation of the African American community.
Works Cited:
Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A. "Maternal bonds as devourers of women's individuation in Toni Morrison's Beloved. " African American Review. 1992. Vol. 26(1): 51-60.
Heller, Dana. "Reconstructing kin: Family, history, and narrative in Toni Morrison's Beloved. " College Literature. Vol. 21(2). 1994.
Horvitz, Deborah. "Nameless Ghosts: Possession and Dispossession in Beloved," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1989, pp. 157-67.
Iyasere, Marla and Solomon Iyasere. Understanding Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula: Selected Essays and Criticisms of the Works by the Nobel Prize-Winning Author. Troy: Whitston Publishing, 2000.
Malmgren, Carl. "Mixed Genres and the Logic of Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved. " Critique. 1995. Vol. 36(2).
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987. Washington, Teresa. The Mother- Daughter Aje Relationship in Toni Morrison's' Beloved'.
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