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City Point / COOKFOX
City Point is a proposed 1.8 million square foot, multi-phase, mixed-use development designed by New York-based practice COOKFOX for the center of the rapidly transforming Downtown Brooklyn. The project will create an iconic presence by acting as a cornerstone for the Brooklyn skyline and establishing a critical mass of new growth. The three distinct phases of City Point encompass retail space, affordable and market-rate housing, office space and a market hall, which together create a strong base for growth and integration in the core of Brooklyn. City Point will foster a multi-use urban environment, connect subway commuters with green spaces, and create a vibrant heart in the downtown area.
More about City Point after the break…
The Debate Over Making It Right in the Lower Ninth Ward
Ever since the New Republic published Lydia DePillis's piece entitled "If you Rebuild it, They Might Not Come" - a criticism of the progress of Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation – numerous blogs and journals have been in a uproar, defending Make It Right's efforts at rebuilding the vastly devastated Lower Ninth Ward and presenting a much more forgiving perspective on the progress of the neighborhood since the engineering disaster that exacerbated the effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To date, 86 LEED Platinum homes have been designed and constructed by world-renowned architects, including Frank Gehry and Morphosis, at a cost of approximately $24 million. Make It Right has promised to build up to 150 such homes, but DePillis's article points out that amenities in the neighborhood are low and the number of residents returning to the neighborhood is dwindling. Make It Right has made a commitment and the debate that ensues questions whether it is going far enough in delivering its promise to rebuilding community.
Read on for more on the Make It Right debate…
Celebrate National Architecture Week with the AIA
From April 7th through the 13th, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) will be hosting National Architecture Week in an effort to increase public awareness on the role architects play as a force for positive change in our communities and to elevate the public's appreciation of design.
Similar to previous years' observances, National Architecture Week will be virtual and composed of daily pinboards on the social networking site, Pinterest, and an Architecture Is Awesome contest on Instagram. The intent is to use the two social networking platforms to showcase architects' good designs and encourage architecture fans to share their thoughts and engage with like-minded professionals during the week.
Five Ways You can Take Part in National Architecture Week:
Dialogue House / Wendell Burnette Architects
Architects: Wendell Burnette Architects
Project Team: Wendell Burnette, Christopher Alt
Client: Thomas and Laura Hyland
Structural Engineer: Rudow + Berry, Inc.
Electrical Engineer: C.A. Energy Designs
Landscape Design: Debra Burnette Landscape Design
Contractor: The Construction Zone, Ltd.
Area: 2,700 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Bill Timmerman
Whole Foods Set to Build First Commercial-Scale Greenhouse on Brooklyn Rooftop
Whole Foods has teamed up with New York's local organic grower, Gotham Greens, to build the first commercial-scale greenhouse attached to a supermarket. The 20,000-square-foot greenhouse, expected to open in Brooklyn this Fall, will provide locally grown produce year-round to nine Whole Foods stores in New York City area.
Four Architects Enlisted to Reimagine Penn Station
In an effort to "unlock people's imaginations" about Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, the Municipal Art Society (MAS) of New York has challenged Santiago Calatrava, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SHoP Architects and SOM to propose four new visions that exemplify the potential of the highly disregarded area.
The challenge comes amidst a heated debate on whether or not the city should restrict Madison Square's recently expired special permit to 10 years, rather than in perpetuity as the arena's owners – the Dolan family – has requested. This would allow time for the city to "get it right" and come up with a viable solution for the arena and station that, as NYTimes critic Michael Kimmelman states, would not only "improve the safety and quality of life for millions of people but also benefit the economy". Think Kings Cross in London. With a thoughtful mix of public and private investments, the crime-ridden station was transformed into a thriving cultural destination that benefited all parties.
More after the break…
WEISS / MANFREDI to Design Kent State's New, $40 Million Architecture Building
WEISS / MANFREDI has been announced as winner of the international competition to design a new College of Architecture and Environmental Design for Kent State University in Ohio. The New York-based practice, in collaboration with the local architect of record Richard L. Bowen & Associates, was one of four national finalists selected from a competitive list of 37 applicants.
The winning proposal, dubbed the Kent State Design Loft, transforms the notion of a continuous studio loft into a three-tiered structure that opens to the city, connects to the public esplanade and surrounding landscape, and provides an abundance of creatively designed, flexible learning spaces that can be easily transformed to accommodate design crits, exhibitions and events.
"We are captivated by the potential for this project to become an innovative incubator for the arts and an internationally legible destination for the University," said Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi.
The architect's project description after the break…
Redesigning Detroit: A New Vision for an Iconic Site
In an effort to generate innovative ideas for the re-use of one of the most important building sites in Detroit's redeveloping downtown, Rock Ventures LLC has collaborated with Opportunity Detroit to launch the open ideas competition Redesigning Detroit: A New Vision for an Iconic Site. Entrants are challenged to create compelling visions for a new urban development on the famous 92,421 square foot Hudson's site that would play a significant role in the regeneration of downtown Detroit.
Submissions should consider the significant history of the site, its physical and cultural context, and its potential for the future. Successful proposals will demonstrate optimism about revitalizing Detroit, with great architecture providing a positive, catalytic impact on the community. The deadline for submissions is April 30. More information here.
Wyckoff House Museum / nARCHITECTS
nARCHITECTS is designing a cultural education complex for the Wyckoff House Museum in Brooklyn on the site of New York's oldest house. The Wyckoff House has an immense history as it was the first landmark designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1968. nARCHITECTS's educational complex will act as a portal between its present day environment and historical site. Due to its exceptional spatial and temporal intervention, the design was recently awarded an AIA New York Design Merit Award.
Five Firms Shortlisted to Rehabilitate U.S. Embassies Worldwide
The Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has selected five design teams in a worldwide Architecture/Engineering Design Services solicitation to rehabilitate/renovate facilities that "represent American values and the best in American architecture, engineering, technology, sustainability, maintainability, art, culture, and construction execution."
Each of the five selected firms, which include Weiss/Manfredi Architects, have "extensive renovation and restoration experience." See them all after the break…
Video: Skyhouse / David Hotson Architect
Skyhouse is a house in the sky, a residential penthouse located at the summit of one of the earliest surviving skyscrapers in New York City and situated within the incomparable vertical cityscape of Lower Manhattan. The project involved the construction of a set of unique living spaces inside a decorative penthouse structure which had never before been used as a residence… The spaces of this residence and the vistas channeled through it ascend and descend through all four levels of the penthouse structure and into the three-dimensional cityscape surrounding it in every direction.
ABI Continues to Steadily Climb for Seventh Straight Month
An increasing demand for design services in the United States continues to strengthen the Architecture Billings Index (ABI). As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has reported the February ABI score as 54.9, up slightly from a mark of 54.2 in January. This score reflects a strong increase in demand for design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). In addition, the new projects inquiry index was 64.8, higher than the reading of 63.2 the previous month and its highest mark since January 2007.
"Conditions have been strengthening in all regions and construction sectors for the last several months," said AIA Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. "Still, we also continue to hear a mix of business conditions in the marketplace as this hesitant recovery continues to unfold."
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House Bill Proposes to Eliminate Funding for Eisenhower Memorial
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial saga continues, as Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) proposed legislation that would forego Frank Gehry's controversial design and eliminate federal funding. Although Bishop's radical bill would save $100 million in future funding, it ignores any possibility of compromise.
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Postcard from Roosevelt Island, New York
This text was provided by San Francisco-based writer Kenneth Caldwell. Photos by Hassan Bagheri.
One friend said, "It looks a bit austere." At first glance, it probably is. But like so many great minimal environments, it asks for patience and generosity. You give, and in turn it gives back.
This is also what the artists Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, and, more recently, Olafur Eliasson ask. Trust them with your time and you may be rewarded with a small measure of serenity—perhaps even with the connection between art and the divine that Dominique de Menil was so focused on.
Designed by Louis Kahn, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is an outdoor sanctuary at the southern tip of what is now called Roosevelt Island, created as a memorial to FDR. The park opened last fall. Kahn's gift took 40 years to be realized, but it presents a path for human beings to treat each other to peace.
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Video: Bridge of Light
The NY Times published this amazing video of a spectacular art installation on the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. Thousands of computer controlled LED lights can be seen during the night with this fantastic display. Enjoy!
Domino Sugar Factory Master Plan Development / SHoP Architects
Last Summer, Two Trees bought the Domino Sugar Factory site in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn to be developed into a new mix-use master plan. The previously proposed scheme by Rafael Viñoly Architects (seen here) consisted of four large towers along the East River water front, but the design was largely disliked by the community, and as a result Two Trees hired SHoP Architects along with James Corner Field Operations to have a go at the design. The result is a wildly different scheme, consisting of five towers with 60% more open space along the water front, 631,000 square feet of new office space (versus the previous 98,000 square feet), and over two-thousand new apartments. This marks a huge change for what could be considered as the most important waterfront real estate in Brooklyn, and potentially become the new image of Brooklyn for the whole world.
Design Excellence of U.S. Embassies: Openness and Security
"The works of our artists, architects, and preservationists provide us with another language of diplomacy. A transcendent language that allows us to convey values that are at once uniquely American yet speak to all of humanity. Increasingly in this world, art and architecture help us maintain our sense of openness and liberation." — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, April 12, 2010
An embassy is much more than a building or a work of architecture; it functions as a symbolic representation of countries' relationships to one another. It represents the universal language of diplomacy – "communicating values and ideals, extending well beyond any moment in time". An embassy has the difficult task of representing two diametrically opposed concepts: security and openness. The former typically overpowers the latter in importance, which is most probably why when we think of foreign embassies, it conjures up images of stately monolithic buildings surrounded by tall fences and menacing guards or "bunkers, bland cubes, lifeless compounds", according to Tanya Ballard Brown of NPR's All Things Considered.
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Healthy people, who use aspirin as a precaution against heart attack, might do more harm than good, warns a review study.
"Taking the drug daily in the belief that it is a way to protect against heart attack or stroke can lead to serious abdominal problems, including internal bleedings," said the study published in medical journal Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
Asserting that stomach bleeding could be fatal, Ike Ikeanacho, editor of DTB said, "The risks should not be dismissed. In people who have never had a heart attack or stroke, the evidence does not support them being on this drug."
Pointing out that many healthy people take aspirin every day as a precaution, Ikeanacho said, though they don't have any precise figures but it is very common for people to start themselves on aspirin.
"While some people would continue to take the drug no matter what the risks, most were unaware of its potentially dangerous side-effects," he added.
Asking doctors to review use of aspirin with all patients they think are taking the drug, including diabetics and otherwise healthy people, the study said, those persons who have already had a heart attack can continue with the drug if prescribed by their doctor.
The drug is currently prescribed to those who have already had a heart attack and diabetics over 50 years of age and having blood pressure, The Telegraph reported.
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Posted on May 10, 2012
That looks cool!
Pretty! I wanna draw it!
@doctorcongo- by saying "most" you leave room for this iteration. The artist makes no claims of replicating eastern ideologies, but instead expresses her appreciation for this art in a way that she finds peaceful and comforting.
Well cool, but I'd rather look at it and copy it rather then follow directions lol
Draw a mandela
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These were my preferred form of doodling in school. Didn't know they had a name though.


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After Earth (2013)
* (out of 4)
M. Night Shyamalan's big-budget vanity project for father and son team Will and Jaden Smith turns out to be much worse than the trailer. In the film, the father and son crash land on the planet Earth a thousand years after the people were forced to leave it. With daddy's legs broke, the young kid must go out into the scary landscape to retrieve an item that will allow them to make contact with their own world. AFTER EARTH is without question one of the worst sci-fi summer blockbusters ever made. Part of the blame can go towards the director but his handful of haters can't put everything on him. The incredibly bad screenplay also deserves a lot of the blame but so do the Smith boys. I seem to say this after each of his films but it's clear young Jaden has yet to take an acting class and just keeps getting passes because of his dad. I'm sorry but he's just not got a talented bone in his body and he certainly can't show any type of emotion, which is something the story here called for. The fact that he can't act to save his life really kills every emotion that the film goes for and it turns these scenes into something rather laughable. Mr. Will Smith doesn't come in any better. Although I liked his more quiet, laid back style, it just doesn't work considering the screenplay has him sitting around simply talking to the kid. Where Will deserves a lot of blame is getting his son these type of roles, which he can't do and which will eventually make him one of the most laughable actors in Hollywood history. The first couple films he did were just embarrassing but no one has given him the word that he can't act and apparently no one has seen fit to get him into classes so it's really just getting worse. Still, Shyamalan didn't improve the film any as there's really no drama, no suspense and no tension. It also doesn't help that the screenplay is full of cliché moments as well as being 100% predictable. I will say that some of the visuals were good but certainly not good enough to sit through this thing.
I have been a Will Smith fan since Fresh Prince, but in the last several years his on-screen personae and talents have been severely lacking. It is with no small amount of regret that I must say this is the bottom of the barrel for Smith. The short version of it is this: Will has no personality in this movie whatsoever, his non-talented son Jaden is absolutely laughable as a lead figure, the plot drags along for seemingly unending hours with little or no excitement or humor or intrigue to keep our attention or interest, and the underlying themes and tone is nothing more that pure hype for the scientology church. I don't say this very often about most movies...but I seriously would like my $10 and 3 hours of wasted time and money back. This one is a serious stinker
First, I am a HUGE sci-fi fan and love most sci-fi movies but this was just wrong on so many levels. Bad acting.... No plot.... Story was all overthe place...you couldn't get a good understanding of what was going on in the movie. Graphics & visuals were so,so. I would wait for DVD/Blu Ray and even then I would avoid this movie. I feel like they made a movie just so Will Smith's son could star in it. Save your money. Trust me, you will thank me! I almost walked out of the theater at one point because it just wasn't worth sitting through anymore of its. ..... ..... ..... Nothing else to say. Just save your money! Why Will Smith? You had a pretty good rep on movies now you're starting the Tom Cruise slide into just making a movie cause you think you should.
I do not know what I want to say, but I want to say something so people
won't waste money on this piece of whatever one wants to call it.
I am a big SciFi fan, yet something like that I never experienced. Was it the effects that ruined it, was it the lame story, the extra-lame acting of the second Smith in the movie, the directing of someone who got after Signs too much credit and couldn't deliver since (with the exception of the low budget Devil). I really cant say. Its just very disappointing and I wished I would not have seen it, not spend the time nor the money. But I wanted to know it for myself if the critics are right, since they are so many times wrong (in my opinion).
Well, they are right, and yet they even gave the movie way too much credit. Probably because of Will Smith.
The year is not over, but I do not think that After earth will be topped in the category for "the worst movie of 2013"!
This film is not recommended. Father doesn't always know best, the latest result being After Earth, a vanity project that Will Smith has concocted for his son, Jaden. This wobbly sci-fi tale of survival will certainly test both Mr. and Mr. Smith's star power. Director M. Night Shyamalan, the man who continually keeps falling from grace, one film after the next, is still tumbling further from his talented beginnings, although here the director crashes and burns. This is not to say that After Earth is hopelessly clichéd, it's just hopeless. Shymalan's well- made film has some striking imagery, mostly of panoramic vistas, but his ill-conceived screenplay (co-written with Gary Whitta) keeps this exercise in filmmaking rather earthbound. Adding to that, his main star and one of the film's producers, Papa Smith, pushes nepotism to its limits with this unoriginal dreck. (He is also given story credit for this silliness.) It's not just that this film has no Will power, it just has too much of it, both on screen and off. Will Smith plays the fearless Cypher Raige, a no-nonsense military commando sent on a mission with his newt of a son, Kitai, played by Jaden Smith. Cypher is disappointed with his son's lack of achievement as a cadet and their relationship is a bit strained, just like the acting. The Smiths obviously look the part and act the part with the same stilted delivery. Like father, like son. Unfortunately (for us), they crash land on the apocalyptic Planet Earth. Cypher is injured with two broken legs, but pain is not an option. However a better script would have helped matters. Kitai must now go into rescue mode, wearing his amazing technicolor space suit, fighting beasts and creatures along the way to becoming a man. On his journey of self-awareness, Kitai contends with imminent peril: giant baboons, poisonous leeches, carnivorous tigers, and such. He needs to deal with the fluctuating below-freezing temperatures and an active volcano too. Life is hard. Kitai even battles a monster called the Ursa, a predator that hunts by sensing fear. (If the creature could instead sense the smorgasbord of bad acting on its plate, the Ursa would never go hungry again.) The elder Smith underacts and speaks in annoying solemn platitudes while the younger Smith overacts in a squeaky nasal voice that only a teenager can tolerate. The art direction is mind-numbing. The futuristic sets are bargain basement knockoffs of Disney World's Tomorrowland, circa 1960...very unimaginative with an overabundance of Rubbermaid-influenced interiors and enough flowing linen sheets to make one think that Bed, Bath, and Beyond had given the filmmakers a cut-rate deal for some product endorsements. All of the special effects are barely adequate and not the least bit compelling. After Earth has a strange lethargic listlessness throughout its short length. The film never builds any real tension or suspense. It's just so dull and unrelenting in its stupidity. After Earth is the type of film that gives the sci-fi genre a bad name. Shyamalan and the Smiths might want to use other aliases after creating this debacle. Let's hope they refine their own survival skills when making another film. After Earth is strictly Ursa Minor. So dear moviegoers, heed the film's tag-line: "Danger is real, Fear is a choice". You have been sufficiently warned about the real dangers in viewing After Earth...Fear not, it's still in your control. GRADE: C-
This film is about a space craft that crash-landed on a dangerous
planet called Earth, and the only two survivors have to struggle to
stay alive.
The first few minutes of "After Earth" already look not so promising, and it only goes downhill from there. Acting is consistently bad by Jaden Smith, he is so annoying as a teenager who constantly freaks out. Will Smith is supposed to be a fearless commander, but his supposed bravery makes him so wooden as if he was a wax statue.
The plot is simply ridiculous. There are so many plot holes that are so obvious, that they simply should not happen. For example, if Will Smith is such a great commander, how could he not command people to wear seat belts when they were about to hit a meteor shower. And the masks are not even connected to anything!? The whole story, from the macro level to the micro level is very poorly written and makes no sense. The supposed emotional climax is so weak, that I wonder if that scene is really supposed to make me feel proud of what is shown on the screen.
"After Earth" is a terrible mess. This time, believe the critics.
I watched this film with my girlfriend expecting to see another great film by Will Smith. After you have seen him in films like I am Legend, I robot and other great films. I thought this would be yet another. I was poorly mistaken, the acting was terrible. from both Will Smith and his son. I cant help but feel his son only gets parts in films due to his fathers fame. Maybe if the boy were to sell popcorn and soda to people, his contributions to the film industry would be more welcoming. As his acting is far below par. The film was so shockingly boring that my girlfriend and I left the cinema 20min before the film ended. As a few other people had done before us. Avoid this film like the plague. If I could have given it no stars I would have. Bad story line, bad acting, bad film.
After Earth should be retitled After Birth, because that is exactly how
sloppy and dirty this pathetic excuse for a film is. Gross analogy, I
know, but trust me, a delivery room after a woman has given birth is a
better produced show then this. I honestly don't even know where to
start. The film decided to market itself as a Will Smith film, which
was the only way to get people to go because of how silly its plot is.
Even the Will Smith fans were let down because all he does is sit in a
chair the whole time and speak to his son in an over-serious and
unintentionally hilarious monotonous voice. He easily gives his worst
performance to date, but it is not quite the worst acting in the film.
Jaden Smith gives a Razzie worthy performance as an underdeveloped
character with a useless upsetting past and an ear-cringing accent. He
whines and makes the most stupid mistakes a film character has ever
made in the history, provided by the horrendous Shamylan-Esq screenplay
where you can't tell if its supposed to be funny or not. "He let me
borrow the book Moby Dick, he even let me hold it.""Hold what?" "The
book...dad" Word for word. This comes off as a terrible joke some sixth
grader tries to make, and there are many nonsense lines like this
crammed into the ridiculous plot with gaping and obvious plot holes.
Why is he making a fire when he's right above a geothermic vent? Why in
the heck did the bird who just tried to eat him save his life? Why is
that oxygen mask working when its not even attached to anything? Why
did Jaden need to get higher on the volcano to send out the
transmission when he was just getting closer to the "radioactive
cloud"(dafuq)? A ton of these mistakes are so obviously scattered
throughout the terrible script. It really just makes it funny. If you
enjoy being entertained by stupid movies, I definitely recommend you
check this out because it is so bad its funny.
GRADE: D- (The only reason I'm not giving this piece of crap an F is because it's still not as bad as Last Airbender, so you need to give Shamylan some credit)
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Generally, Sci-Fi is supposed to fill us with awe with its visions of
other worlds and of the future. All After Earth managed to fill me with
is an overall sense of boredom. This is a lifeless adventure story
about a gruff military father and his son bonding when they are both
stranded on an abandoned planet Earth. The father and son dynamic,
which is supposed to be the main dramatic force which drives the story,
fails because we don't believe in the relationship, and the actors have
zero chemistry. This is odd, considering said actors are the real life
father and son, Will and Jaden Smith.
After Earth is the latest movie from director M. Night Shyamalan. Not that the studio would like you to know this. You might remember how just a few years ago, the studios heavily hyped each release from the director, plastering his name all over the poster and ad campaign. However, after a series of expensive flops, Shyamalan's name is no longer a selling point. And so, they literally have hidden his involvement with this stillborn movie that contains some of the shoddiest CG effects I've seen in a big budget summer movie. Just look at the CG baboons, lions and eagles that threaten our heroes during the course of the film. Compare it to the work done with the CG animals in Life of Pi, and the end result is almost comical.
The plot - We learn through endless, droning exposition that humans have been forced to flee Earth for another home planet. Considering the recent Tom Cruise Sci-Fi film, Oblivion, opened in a similar manner, it only made me wish I was watching that film instead. The humans have generally been living peacefully on their new world, except for some pesky encounters with some big, ugly aliens called Ursa who are blind, and can detect people only by smelling their fear. They're yet another hostile alien race who have mastered the art of the jump scare, but not intelligent conversation, since all they can do is roar, growl, and generally look and act like generic CG.
One of the main war heroes in the battle against the Ursa is General Cypher Kaige (Will Smith). Cypher is a tough, battle-hardened military man who seems to have a hard time differentiating his work life from his home life. His son is Kitai (Jaden Smith), a young boy who desperately wants his father's approval, and is trying for a position in the military, but fears he will never live up to dad's lofty expectations for him. Kitai is also haunted by the memory of seeing his older sister, Senshi (Zoe Kravitz), being killed by an Ursa right before his eyes. Cypher's wife suggests a father-son space voyage, so that they can bond. This doesn't go very well, as the ship is severely damaged in an asteroid belt, killing everyone on board except Cypher and Kitai, and sending the ship crashing on the abandoned planet Earth.
So, now they're trapped on Earth, and must rely on each other for survival. Cypher has broken both of his legs in the crash, so it is up to Kitai to get them home. The journey Kitai undertakes is supposed to make him into a man, while allowing his father to win respect for him. This could be effective, if it weren't portrayed in such a crashingly obvious way. Each adventure he undertakes is small in scope - He runs away from a pack of baboons, he fights off some lions, he is briefly poisoned by a parasitic creature...All of these encounters seem like annoyances, rather than grand adventures. There is no sense of scope here, no sense of awe or wonder.
But the real question here is, how could the performances by both Will and Jaden Smith be so wooden, unemotional, and unconvincing? I'm not exactly sure, but my best guess is that they took their character descriptions completely to heart. In the case of Will Smith, I imagine his character bio read something like this - "Cypher is an emotionally distant, gruff military man who has a hard time showing emotion, or being open with his son". And so, Will Smith interprets his character as if he is completely devoid of any emotion whatsoever. He reads all of his lines in a passive, monotone voice. It got to the point where I found myself wondering if I wasn't watching the wax statue figure of Will Smith from Madame Tussaud's museum instead.
The performance by young Jaden Smith is not much better. He often comes across as shrill and grating, his voice pitched at this high and whiny tone. It just made me want to peel him right off the screen and replace him with another actor every time he opened his mouth. Who is to blame for these awful turns by these actors who have been likable in the past? Was the director's heart just not in this project? That sounds reasonable. Say what you will about Shyamalan's recent body of work, but I've often found something to admire in the look of a lot of his films. Here, we get no interesting visuals. Even the fleeting glimpses we get of humanity's new planet home are disappointing, and look like they were shot on a studio soundstage.
After Earth is the kind of movie experience you want to forget as soon as possible. In a year that has already brought us Sci-Fi films like Oblivion and the flawed-but-enjoyable Star Trek Into Darkness, this movie feels all the more insignificant and lame.
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The outpouring of hatred over this movie makes no sense. This week I
had the opportunity to see four of the current big movies in the
theatre and this was by far the best of them. The same petty arguments
are being made by people that claim this is awful. Jaden Smith, M.
Night, and even Will Smith. So I went in with very low expectations...I
mean the film has a 4.7 rating right now which is atrocious. So thank
you all for the meagre expectations because I thought the film was
great. Not amazing, not life changing but great. Then again I have
disagreed with the masses on an M. Night film before. I thought Lady In
The Water was superbly brilliant. Then again this is also the guy that
made The Happening, easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. Still
I found this film to be entertaining, decently acted, very good special
effects and a generally well made, well produced film. M. Night really
is a brilliant story teller, we've seen it before with his successful
movies (and in my opinion his less than successful ones.) Whether he
hits or misses he tries very hard and I saw the fantastic imagination
that went into this movie.
Will Smith has always been THEE personified movie star. Nearly every film he made was a huge hit. The guy has an undeniable incredible charisma and yes he has a big ego but somehow it works for him. In this film he is almost a supporting actor. He spends nearly the entire film laid up and on a com headset. Still he brings a certain intensity to the role and is certainly believable as a man who has learnt to eliminate fear. I'm nearly as sick about hearing how much people hate Jaden Smith as I am about people hating Justin Bieber. I don't understand the hatred for the kid. Yes he has an ego, just like his Dad but I think he's reasonably talented, he is still pretty young to really know if he has the acting chops that his Dad has. I thought he actually did a great job in this film. He didn't show the ego that he tends to have in person and him and his Dad worked very well together. Both roles were solid and carried the film just right. Jaden was a full on action/sci-fi hero and it worked and was believable and bravo to him for that.
Somewhere along the line M. Night Shyamalan became a joke and that's unfortunate. I don't really fully understand why he became such a joke. I mean, he has made a few stinkers...one horrendous stinker (The Happening) but he has also made some amazing films. I wouldn't put this into his amazing movies but I wouldn't put it anywhere near his stinkers. This was a great, entertaining, emotionally charged sci-fi flick and I enjoyed every minute of it. I admit I was caught into the M. Night hoopla and expected a twist ending but this one is just a straight forward mainstream adventure flick. One of the final scenes between father and son was near brilliant and almost brought tears to my eyes. The special effects were very well done and some of the monsters and beasts they created were epic in stature and should be looked at as being fun and well done. I guess I just don't understand the expectations people had from this. It seems that people have a real grudge against young entertainers like Jaden Smith but I am not one of them and I encourage you if you love sci-fi to watch this and simply enjoy it. 8/10
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Hurricanes knocked out at state baseball tournamentPublished 5:31pm Sunday, August 29, 2010
The run towards a State championship came to an end for the Fergus Falls Hurricanes Friday night in an 11-1, seven inning loss to Big Lake in the Class C State Tournament in Bird Island.
Big Lake, who had knocked off Sartell, 6-3, in the first round, received a solid pitching performance from Wade Reichmann, who went all seven innings, scattering seven hits with no walks and nine strike outs.
The White Caps struck for three runs on four hits in the bottom of the first. They added a single run in the third before opening up the game with two runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings for a 8-0 lead.
The Hurricanes finally got on the board in the top of the sixth. Derek Hanson and Mic Johnson singled to put runners in first and third for Nate Meissner, a draftee from Brandon-Evansville, who singled in Hanson.
Fergus Falls had threats going in the second inning as well, but left two runners on base. For the game, the 'Canes left seven men on base.
Big Lake scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to win by 10-run rule.
Meissner was 3-for-3 for the 'Canes, driving in the lone run. Alex Conboy, Casey Bovkoon, Hanson and Johnson each had one hit a piece for Fergus Falls.
Big Lake now enters the double elimination portion of the tournament, where they will take on Moorhead today in Willmar.
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CULVER ŌĆö For all the impressive numbers BremenŌĆÖs offense has generated this season, it was the LionsŌĆÖ defense that made the difference Friday.
The Bremen defensive unit held on two key goal line stands in the first and second quarters, and a scoreless first half came back to haunt the Cavaliers as Lions quarterback Nate Leeper connected with receiver Ben Hueni for a 37-yard go-ahead touchdown strike with just over a minute on the game clock to give the Green Machine a 20-13 homecoming spoiler on the road at Culver.
ŌĆ£Our defense played great tonight, and we needed it to play great,ŌĆØ said Bremen Head Football Coach Bob Holmes. ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs the type of defense weŌĆÖve got to play if weŌĆÖre going to win big games. Our kids did a great job of buckling down, sticking with the game plan and executing all the way through, but the defense won the game for us tonight without a doubt.ŌĆØ
The Lions remain unbeaten with the hard-fought victory, moving to 5-0 on the season and 3-0 in the Northern State Conference.
ŌĆ£(Culver coach) Andy Thomas does an outstanding job out here at Culver,ŌĆØ Holmes said. ŌĆ£That was a dogfight, and it ended up being like I talked about in the preview: The team that made the least mistakes and executed at the end was going to win a close ball game.
ŌĆ£This is a tough conference and every week is championship week, thatŌĆÖs the way we look at it. We got out of here this week with a ŌĆśWŌĆÖ, and IŌĆÖm awful proud of these kids. ItŌĆÖs nice to see them reveal their character.ŌĆØ
Culver (3-2, 2-1 NSC) had a chance to go up early when Cole Flora returned the opening kick-off 81 yards to put the Cavs on the Bremen 12-yard line. Two plays later, however, Sean Knepper intercepted a Collin Stevens pass intended for star receiver Micah Budzinski just outside the end zone, the first of three picks by the Lions secondary at the game.
Bremen (5-0, 3-0 NSC) went up 7-0 on a Braxston Miller 2-yard scamper into the end zone and Lucas Schlarb point-after kick at the 10:18 mark of the second frame, and Culver had a chance to tie the game up on the last possession of the first half, but the Lions held on a first-and-goal situation at their own 8 to take a lead into the break.
ŌĆ£You canŌĆÖt leave 10 points on the field against a team like that,ŌĆØ said Thomas. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs going to come back and get you, and it did. ItŌĆÖs tough to take. IŌĆÖm proud of our guys; this is one of the top 2A teams in the state, and we were right there with them. They just fought and foughtŌĆ" and I wouldnŌĆÖt expect anything different from this group.ŌĆØ
Bremen seized the early momentum in the second half with a quick seven-play, 74-yard scoring drive set up by a 39-yard breakaway run from Tyler Johnston and a 21-yarder from Miller and touched off by a Leeper pitch and Eric Knepper 2-yard run into the EZ to give the visitors a 13-0 advantage when the kick sailed wide.
It looked like the Lions would run away with the game as they did in the third quarter of their game with Triton last week when they recovered the ensuing onside kick and steadily marched to the Culver 12, but Bradley Beaver came down with a big interception in the Culver end zone and returned it 55 yards to set up the CavsŌĆÖ first scoring drive of the night, a six-play, 45-yarder that ended with a 3-yard touchdown reception by Budzinski. Culver was called back five yards for a false start on the point-after attempt, though, and the kick was blocked to leave the home team facing a 13-6 deficit.
But the Cavaliers defense pilfered the second of three Bremen fumbles at the game, and 10 plays and 54 yards later, Stevens ran a 1-yard keeper into the Lions end zone to knot the game at 13-all with his own point-after kick at the 9:51 stop of the fourth quarter.
Culver forced another fumble for a turnover on BremenŌĆÖs next drive, but the Cavaliers went three and out and Bremen scored the game-winner on an eight-play, 65-yard drive culminating in LeeperŌĆÖs perfect TD spiral to Hueni in close coverage with 1:08 to go.
The Cavs were forced to pass with time running out, and Bremen linebacker Mitch Andrews intercepted a pass intended for Budzinski with just 8 seconds on the clock to seal the deal.
Bremen overcame some adversity in FridayŌĆÖs win as leading rusher Eric Knepper ŌĆö who racked up a game-high 116 yards on 11 carries at Culver ŌĆö was sidelined with an injury following his second-half-opening kick-off return. The CavsŌĆÖ sturdy defense held Miller to just 78 yards on 15 rushes, and Tyler Johnston chewed up 54 rushing yards in eight rushes filling in for Eric Knepper.
ŌĆ£(Knepper) got dinged on the kick-off return a little bit, so we just put in our number two fullback,ŌĆØ said Holmes. ŌĆ£HeŌĆÖs our second fullback, he came in and did a great job carrying the load in there. Teams are keying in on Braxston so we need to be a little bit versatile in there, and T.J. coming in in the fourth quarter did a great job with Knepper a little dinged up.ŌĆØ
Culver was led in rushing by senior running back Kevin Hogan, who finished with 79 yards on 19 touches following a break-out week at New Prairie last week in which he rushed for 212 yards and four touchdowns.
ŌĆ£He plays hard. I said it last week ŌĆö┬ĀheŌĆÖs a dynamic football player,ŌĆØ said Thomas. ŌĆ£He needs to take care of some things going the wrong way a couple times, but I never worry about him playing hard and making plays. HeŌĆÖs a dynamic football player, and I always expect big things from him.ŌĆØ
FridayŌĆÖs homecoming heartbreaker represented the second loss of the year for Culver following a season-opening defeat to West Central, and both defeats have come by seven points or less.
ŌĆ£This is two times weŌĆÖve lost this year, and both times weŌĆÖve just had our guts torn out,ŌĆØ said Thomas. ŌĆ£Our guys are just crushed, and thatŌĆÖs the way it should be after a loss.ŌĆØ
ŌĆó BREMEN 20, CULVER 13
At Culver
Score by quarters
Bremen: 0 7 6 7 ŌĆö 20
Culver: 0 0 6 7 ŌĆö 13
Scoring summary
Second quarter
Bremen ŌĆö Braxston Miller 2-yd run (Lucas Schlarb kick) 10:18
Third quarter
Bremen ŌĆö┬ĀEric Knepper 2-yd run (kick fail) 8:31
Culver ŌĆö Micah Budzinski 3-yd pass from Collin Stevens (kick blocked) 5:01
Fourth quarter
Culver ŌĆö Stevens 1-yd run (Stevens kick) 9:51
Bremen ŌĆö Ben Hueni 37-yd pass from Nate Leeper 1:08
Bremen stats
Rushing: 45-330; Knepper 11-116, Miller 15-78, Tyler Johnston 8-54
Passing: Leeper 3-14-1 for 96 yds, 1 TD
Receiving: Mitch Huppert 2-59, Hueni 1-37, 1 TD
First downs: 18
Fumbles-lost: 3-3
Penalties-yds lost: 2-10
Culver stats
Rushing: 36-140; Kevin Hogan 19-79
Passing: Stevens 9-19-2 for 88 yds, 1 TD; Sam Hissong 0-1-1 for 0 yds
Receiving: Micah Budzinski 5-55, Trent Elliott 3-18
First downs: 11
Fumbles-lost: 0-0
Penalties-yds lost: 3-30
Records: Bremen 5-0 (3-0 NSC), Culver 3-2 (2-1 NSC)


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By Nazia Khan Monday, 25 October 2010
Mugdha Godse admits she wouldn't mind doing an item number.
"I wouldn't mind doing an item song. It totally depends upon if I like it or not. If I like, I wouldn't mind doing it," Mugdha said.
Mugdha was at the Fiama Di Wills lounge at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) for a makeover from hairstylist Sapna Bhavnani.
Mugdha made her Bollywood debut with Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Fashion' and later went on to do films like 'All The Best', "Jail" and most recently the horror film 'Help'. Her upcoming release is the romantic comedy 'Will You Marry Me?'.
She has no plans to settle down anytime soon.
Asked when she plans to tie the knot, she said: "Right now I am married to my work. Whenever I decide to settle down, I'll let everybody know," she added.
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- Morphological word structure in English and Swedish : the evidence from prosody (2005)
- Trubetzkoy's recognition of a delimitative function of phonology, serving to signal boundaries between morphological units, is expressed in terms of alignment constraints in Optimality Theory, where the relevant constraints require specific morphological boundaries to coincide with phonological structure (Trubetzkoy 1936, 1939, McCarthy & Prince 1993). The approach pursued in the present article is to investigate the distribution of phonological boundary signals to gain insight into the criteria underlying morphological analysis. The evidence from English and Swedish suggests that necessary and sufficient conditions for word-internal morphological analysis concern the recognizability of head constituents, which include the rightmost members of compounds and head affixes. The claim is that the stability of word-internal boundary effects in historical perspective cannot in general be sufficiently explained in terms of memorization and imitation of phonological word form. Rather, these effects indicate a morphological parsing mechanism based on the recognition of word-internal head constituents. Head affixes can be shown to contrast systematically with modifying affixes with respect to syntactic function, semantic content, and prosodic properties. That is, head affixes, which cannot be omitted, often lack inherent meaning and have relatively unmarked boundaries, which can be obscured entirely under specific phonological conditions. By contrast, modifying affixes, which can be omitted, consistently have inherent meaning and have stronger boundaries, which resist prosodic fusion in all phonological contexts. While these correlations are hardly specific to English and Swedish it remains to be investigated to which extent they hold cross-linguistically. The observation that some of the constituents identified on the basis of prosodic evidence lack inherent meaning raises the issue of compositionality. I will argue that certain systematic aspects of word meaning cannot be captured with reference to the syntagmatic level, but require reference to the paradigmatic level instead. The assumption is then that there are two dimensions of morphological analysis: syntagmatic analysis, which centers on the criteria for decomposing words in terms of labelled constituents, and paradigmatic analysis, which centers on the criteria for establishing relations among (whole) words in the mental lexicon. While meaning is intrinsically connected with paradigmatic analysis (e.g. base relations, oppositeness) it is not essential to syntagmatic analysis.
- The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages (2005)
- The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments of retroflexes in Norwegian (North- Germanic), Nyawaygi (Australian) and Minto-Nenana (Athapaskan). The developments in these three languages are modelled in a perceptually oriented phonological theory, since traditional articulatorily-based features cannot deal with such processes.
- The violability of backness in retroflex consonants (2005)
- This paper addresses remarks made by Flemming (2003) to the effect that his analysis of the interaction between retroflexion and vowel backness is superior to that of Hamann (2003b). While Hamann maintained that retroflex articulations are always back, Flemming adduces phonological as well as phonetic evidence to prove that retroflex consonants can be non-back and even front (i.e. palatalised). The present paper, however, shows that the phonetic evidence fails under closer scrutiny. A closer consideration of the phonological evidence shows, by making a principled distinction between articulatory and perceptual drives, that a reanalysis of Flemming's data in terms of unviolated retroflex backness is not only possible but also simpler with respect to the number of language-specific stipulations.
- Acoustic differences between German and Dutch labiodentals (2005)
- The present article is a follow-up study of the investigation of labiodentals in German and Dutch by Hamann & Sennema (2005), where we looked at the perception of the Dutch labiodental three-way contrast by German listeners without any knowledge of Dutch and German learners of Dutch.
- Voiced labiodental fricatives or glides – all the same to Germans (2005)
- Dutch has a three-way contrast in labiodental sounds, which causes problems for native speakers of German in their acquisition of Dutch, since German contrasts only two labiodentals. The present study investigates the perception of the Dutch labiodental fricative system by German L2 learners of Dutch and shows that native Germans with no or little knowledge of the Dutch language categorize the Dutch labiodental voiced fricative and approximant as their native voiced fricative. Advanced learners, however, succeed in acquiring a category for the voiced fricative, illustrating that plasticity in the perception of a second language develops with the amount of exposure to the language.
- Airflow in stop-vowel sequences of German (2005)
- This study reports on the results of an airflow experiment that measured the duration of airflow and the amount of air from release of a stop to the beginning of a following vowel in stop vowel-sequences of German.
- The influence of the palate shape on articulatory token-to-token variability (2005)
- Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al. (2004)) , speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates exhibit more articulatory variability than speakers with coronally low "flat" palates. One explanation for that is based on perception oriented control by the speaker. The influence of articulatory variation on the cross sectional area and consequently on the acoustics should be greater for flat palates than for domeshaped ones. This should force speakers with flat palates to place their tongue very precisely whereas speakers with domeshaped palates might tolerate a greater variability. A second explanation could be a greater amount of lateral linguo-palatal contact for flat palates holding the tongue in position. In this study both hypotheses were tested.
- Supralaryngeal mechanisms of the voicing contrast in velars (2005)
- This study investigates supralaryngeal mechanisms of the two way voicing contrast among German velar stops and the three way contrast among Korean velar stops, both in intervocalic position. Articulatory data won via electromagnetic articulography of three Korean speakers and acoustic recordings of three Korean and three German speakers are analysed. It was found that in both languages the voicing contrast is created by more than one mechanism. However, one can say that for Korean velar stops in intervocalic position stop closure duration is the most important parameter. For German it is closure voicing. The results support the phonological description proposed by Kohler (1984).
- Von Kempelen et al. : remarks on the history of articulatory-acoustic modelling (2005)
- The contribution of von Kempelen's "Mechanism of Speech" to the 'phonetic sciences' will be analyzed with respect to his theoretical reasoning on speech and speech production on the one hand and on the other in connection with his practical insights during his struggle in constructing a speaking machine. Whereas in his theoretical considerations von Kempelen's view is focussed on the natural functioning of the speech organs – cf. his membraneous glottis model – in constructing his speaking machine he clearly orientates himself towards the auditory result – cf. the bag pipe model for the sound generator used for the speaking machine instead. Concerning vowel production his theoretical description remains questionable, but his practical insight that vowels and speech sounds in general are only perceived correctly in connection with their surrounding sounds – i.e. the discovery of coarticulation – is clearly a milestone in the development of the phonetic sciences: He therefore dispenses with the Kratzenstein tubes, although they might have been based on more thorough acoustic modelling. Finally, von Kempelen's model of speech production will be discussed in relation to the discussion of the acoustic nature of vowels afterwards [Willis and Wheatstone as well as von Helmholtz and Hermann in the 19th century and Stumpf, Chiba & Kajiyama as well as Fant and Ungeheuer in the 20th century].


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A biography of the city can be pieced together using archaeological finds, past and current photographs and threads of information. Alyssa's experience in archaeology has shaped her photography and vice versa. Old photos and lithographs help her document changing landscapes, priorities and approaches to social issues such as capital punishment and treatment of the poor.
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this was a difficult puzzle, even when the queen sac was done then another sac was needed. The brains of 1907
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When we landed everyone was smiling, everyone was kind. After so many hours and an uncomfortable sleep most of the passengers were home and I was so much closer.
I love small airports without jet bridges in tropical places. I was grateful for the jet walkway in Frankfurt where they said it was twenty below, but the immediate welcome of the African air with all its subtle scents, and a view of green stretching out for miles was wonderful. I was slightly disappointed when the immigration officer looked at my 36 month visa and gave me 60 days but my high held and I made my way through customs to the taxi, determined to get to Clement as soon as possible.
The driver loaded my bags in the back and I slid into the passenger seat. It was 4:40pm. I asked him to take me to whichever bus station would likely still have buses leaving for Kumasi. When I told him that I was going to meet my husband after almost eight months of separation he smiled and enthusiastically promised he would make sure I boarded a bus. I was beaming and he was kind. There was plenty of traffic in Accra and we chatted easily as we waded through it.
I asked him how he felt about the new president (Atta Mills) who was elected last December and he said he hadn't noticed any changes. He said "Just give us education, food and health care and we will be satisfied. But," he said, "the hospitals are terrible. People really suffer there." He said when his wife was eight months pregnant she started bleeding and he rushed her to the hospital. She was losing blood quickly, soaking through her clothes and becoming dizzy. He was told to fill out paperwork for her admission. He said he thought he was going to lose her and as he spoke I heard in his voice and saw in his face the raw place that remained. No matter how he begged for a doctor to examine her, he was firmly told to finish the admission process first. He gripped the steering wheel and said he was entirely powerless. The doctors told him, "We do not kill people. If someone is going to die then they will die it is not up to us." It was over an hour before the doctors saw his wife but fortunately they did an emergent c-section and after an extended hospitalization of each they both survived and recovered completely. He said you are not treated well unless you can show that you can pay for everything. He said that he knows doctors in Ghana are better than other parts of Africa but he said he just prays that he and his family stay healthy. Just before we turned into the bus terminal he told me that his wife had lost a full-term baby during labor prior to the pregnancy with the hemorrhage. This must end.
I did not start the conversation about health care. I did not tell him that I am a midwife until he finished his story. The fact that these stories are ubiquitous and seem to find me everywhere communicates a message I can hardly ignore. I understand. I must do my piece. Persist. Joan Chittister says, "Persistence is the antidote to powerlessness." Persist despite all rational fears of failure and notions of inadequacy. My friendly taxi driver delivered me to the OA bus station, stayed until I had my ticket in hand, and departed with a warm hand shake.
I boarded a mostly empty bus and took my seat next to a middle aged woman. For the three hours it took the bus to fill I dozed and waited and day dreamed. Finally, at 2am I stepped down and after circling the bus a few times to locate my bags also found Clement and Ernest. Clement looked new and familiar and different and so good. When we reached home Ethel was awake and had warmed bathwater for me. In my over exhausted but joyful state I hesitated to test the solidity of the beautiful vivid dream. I was back at long last to my husband in our room with our bed under the mosquito net and the sounds of the night wafting through the open windows along with the breeze.
The next morning I was assured of the reality of my surroundings by a sore throat and fever. At least Clement was just as real too. I slept a lot and ate the food that Ethel placed in front of me when she woke me to eat, and I got better.
A couple days later I received a call from Muntali's brother. Muntali was the young teen I befriended last spring in the orthopedic ward who had his right arm amputated due to cancer. His brother called to say he had died in July. He had kept my phone number, which I had given Muntali on a slip of paper so long ago, and had been calling it periodically since July until he finally got through on December 21st. He said simply, "We gave him to God." I said, "I'm sorry" and "thank you" and that was it. I imagined my sweet Muntali with his long thin legs crossed flipping the newspaper and smiling brightly. I thought of his vibrancy and imagined the suffering he must have endured after I left. I thought of his family grieving him; he was the baby by many years. I thought of his brother holding that paper with my number and how through all their sorrow he thought of me – a stranger – and wanted to make sure I knew what happened to his little brother. I was equally saddened by the death of Muntali and awed by his brother's profound kindness calling me for months to let me know.
After I recovered Clement, Ernest, Ethel and I decided to take a trip to the Coast. Though I had more than my fill of travel, Clement, Ernest, and Ethel were eager to get out of Kumasi for a few days before classes resumed so we settled on Ghana Spirit, a small quaint spot on the beach. It was worth the nine hour journey by trotro and taxi. We spent four lazy days in the water, sun, and shade. Clement played soccer on the beach with boys from the neighboring village. Ernest joined the fishermen pulling in their nets. Ethel and I read and slept and we all took walks on the beach.
The day we returned I was rocked again by horrible nausea, stomach pain, and fever. Despite the smell of raw fish and a toddler's dirty diaper in the trotro, and an abundance of potholes, I managed to keep the contents of my stomach in my stomach. But, when I didn't feel better by 11pm Clement, Ethel, Ernest all accompanied me to the hospital for a malaria test. It was malaria. Malaria comes on fast and hard, and easily convinces you that you will never be well again but thankfully the anti-malarials usually start acting just as quickly. Ernest and Ethel definitely did not need to accompany us. I knew we would just spend a few hours waiting but they insisted and simply waited with us, and then shared my relief at the diagnosis. Even here I am flooded by gratitude for the love which surrounds me. So here I am, back in this place where life's exposed edges and its naked fragility always exist in symmetry with its beauty and depth.


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