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The government of Zambia requested the Peace Corps' assistance soon after the election of President Chiluba in 1991. Volunteer projects focus on health, agriculture, the environment, and education. All Volunteers, regardless of sector, are trained in methods to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.
Peace Corps History
Main article: History of the Peace Corps in Zambia
In April 2004, the Peace Corps celebrated its 10th anniversary of service in Zambia. Following the formalization of a country agreement in 1993, Peace Corps/Zambia opened its program in 1994 with a first group of water and sanitation/hygiene education Volunteers. In 1996, the program expanded to include projects in community action for health and rural aquaculture. The project expanded again in 2001 to encompass an income, food, and environmental project. In 2003, a new education project was launched and a fifth program is underway. Using emergency HIV/AIDS funding, a separate HIV/AIDS project will begin in the summer of 2005.
Since the first Peace Corps Volunteers arrived 1994, approximately 1,100 Volunteers have served in Zambia, which is now one of the larger Peace Corps programs in Africa. Volunteers live and work in eight of Zambia's nine provinces.
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyle
Main article: Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Zambia
Most Volunteers live in earthen houses lighted by kerosene lamps. Meals are cooked over wood or charcoal. Typically, Volunteer sites are in villages where there is neither plumbing nor electricity. You will have your own mud brick/thatch roof house, pit latrine, outdoor cooking area and shower area. Drinking/washing water may need to be carried from as far as 30 minutes away on foot. Some sites will be very isolated and the closest Volunteer may be 100 kilometers or more away.
Within the first week of arriving in Zambia Peace Corps will place you into a language group. The associate Peace Corps director (APCD) of your program may offer advice based on the various skills and interest of individuals in your group. Your placements are made in cooperation with the training staff and are based on their assessments and recommendations regarding your skill levels in the technical, cross-cultural, and language areas. Your APCD can discuss particular preferences concerning a site. You will not be able to choose your site. Site placements are made using the following criteria (in priority order):
- Medical considerations;
- Community needs;
- Site requirements matched with demonstrated technical, cross cultural, and language skills;
- Personal preference of the Volunteer.
Main article: Training in Zambia
Pre-service training is probably the most intensive period during your Peace Corps service. During your 8 to 10 weeks of training time (depending on your project), you will need to accumulate the knowledge and experience necessary for the first several months of service. Before beings sworn-in as a Volunteer, you will also need to demonstrate that you meet the criteria to qualify for Volunteer service.
Your first two nights in Zambia will be spent at a simple lodge/camp near Lusaka. Following a brief orientation program, most trainees will proceed to their first site visits. Health Volunteers will proceed to the training center for two days of orientation and then move into their villages with their host families. The training center is situated in Chongwe, a small town to the east of the capital city of Zambia, Lusaka. Regardless of sector, your home stay families will be your hosts throughout training.
Health Care and Safety
Main article: Health care and safety in Zambia
The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the good health and safety of every Volunteer. Peace Corps medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative approach to disease. The Peace Corps in Zambia maintains a clinic with two full-time medical officers who take care of Volunteers' primary health-care needs. Additional medical services, such as testing and basic treatment, are also available in Zambia at local hospitals. If a Volunteer becomes seriously ill, that person will be transported to either South Africa, the designated regional medical evacuation center, or to the United States.
The Peace Corps medical officers and health unit support your health needs in-country. The Volunteer health program emphasizes prevention and self-responsibility. Although medical care overseas differs significantly from the health care you may be familiar with in the U.S., your medical care during Peace Corps service is designed to meet your basic needs. It is important that you share your health concerns with a medical officer, including any discomfort you might have about your diagnosis and treatment.
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues
Main article: Diversity and cross-cultural issues in Zambia
In Zambia, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyles, background, and beliefs will be judged in a cultural context very different from our own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics considered familiar and commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed in certain host countries.
Outside of Zambia's capital, residents of rural communities have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What is advertised as "typical" cultural behavior or norms may also be a narrow and selective interpretation, such as the perception in some countries that all Americans are rich and have blond hair and blue eyes. The people of Zambia are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to differences that you present. We ask that you be supportive of one another.
- Possible Issues for Female Volunteers in Zambia
- Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color in Zambia
- Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers in Zambia
- Possible Issues for Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Volunteers in Zambia
- Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Volunteers with Disabilities
- Possible Issues for Married Volunteers
Frequently Asked Questions
Main article: FAQs about Peace Corps in Zambia
- How much luggage will I be allowed to bring to Zambia?
- What is the electric current in Zambia?
- How much money should I bring?
- When can I take vacation and have people visit me?
- Will my belongings be covered by insurance?
- Do I need an international driver's license?
- What should I bring as gifts for Zambian friends and my host family?
- Where will my site assignment be when I finish training and how isolated will I be?
- How can my family contact me in an emergency?
- Can I call home from Zambia?
- Should I bring a cellular phone with me?
- Will there be e-mail and Internet access? Should I bring my computer?
Packing List
Main article: Packing list for Zambia
This list has been compiled by Volunteers serving in Zambia and is based on their experience. Use it as an informal guide in making your own list, bearing in mind that experience is individual. There is no perfect list! You can always have things sent to you later. You obviously cannot bring everything we mention, so consider those items that make the most sense to you personally and professionally. As you decide what to bring, keep in mind that you have an 80pound weight restriction on baggage. Pack things that will help you to be content at your post. Used clothes markets or salualas (places to "rummage through piles") are plentiful here and most Volunteers shop for clothing here or have items made. All projects require a great deal of field work, so bring clothes that can get dirty - don't buy new clothes as you prepare for your service, if you feel you must, visit your local thrift store for the items you need, you'll thank yourself later. You occasionally attend office meetings with counterparts, so a pair or two of easy-care slacks and appropriate shirts are necessary. For men, it is okay to pack a few pair of shorts, khaki cargos are safe for casual meetings - especially during hot season. For women, skirts & dresses shouldn't shorter than the knee - leggings are a great solution to the short skirt problem & make it easy to bike w/out flashing everyone. Blouses and dresses should be modest - it's wise to layer a tank top underneath if you're not sure & you'll want those tanks for hot days you are at home & not on official business. You can get almost everything you need in Zambia.
- General Clothing
- A good raincoat & rain pants - better if you go a size up so you can put them over what you're wearing
- Double fitted sheets - you can buy sheets in country, but they are usually a set of flat sheets - double fits all mattress sizes
- Durable Sandals (Chacos, Tevas, Keens, or something you like of that nature)
- Kitchen: Favorite spices & recipes
- French Press if you like ground coffee (BB&B has an unbreakable one that is great)
- Highly Recommended: Headlamp! (or two - an invaluable item that is expensive to buy in Zambia & stock up on AAA batteries too)
- Ipod (or mp3 player of your choice) & portable Speakers
- Solar charger for Ipods & phones (Solio is what most people choose)
- Silica gel to salvage your electronics from water & humidity damage - hopefully only in an emergency
- International wall outlet adapter (w/ usb port if possible - charge ipods & solios)
- Shortwave radio if you want to keep up on World News via BBC, VOA, etc.
- Tent, Sleeping Bag, Sleeping Pad - for visiting other volunteers & vacationing for cheap.
- Photos from home & OF home, to show country nationals where you lived, what you drove, and your family
- Gifts for country nationals: World & US Maps or flags make great gifts, are cheap & dont take up much space to pack
Volunteer Blogs
Main article: Blogs of Peace Corps in Zambia
Since 2000 Peace Corps Volunteers in Zambia have been posting blogs on their experiences in Zambia. These blogs are personal and reflect a wide range of opinions about Peace Corps and the country of Zambia. The opinions are those of the blog authors and we have posted feeds on one page as central repository of these blogs.
Volunteer Projects
Main article: Volunteer projects of Peace Corps in Zambia
Peace Corps Volunteers in Zambia have initiated many projects in Peace Corps and some have started websites to promote these projects in Zambia and abroad. Some RPCVs have started American nonprofits to provide continued support to the projects they initiated during their Peace Corps service.
Peace Corps News
Current events relating to Peace Corps are also available by country of service or your home state
The following is automatic RSS feed of Peace Corps news for this country.
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Country Fund
Contributions to the Zambia Country Fund will support Volunteer and community projects that will take place in Zambia. These projects include water and sanitation, agricultural development, youth, health and HIV/AIDS programs.


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The Wild West, aka the Old West, was an astoundingly awesome period in American history that every person who has ever played Red Dead Redemption wants to emulate. Now, clearly pop culture has turned much of the true West into bullshit legend -- there were never quick-draw artists who could shoot a six gun out of your hand with another six gun. But the basics were true, right? The lawlessness, the guns, the constant Indian attacks?
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5Settlers Were Constantly Clashing With Indians
The Myth:
Old Westerns treat Native Americans kind of like The Walking Dead treats zombies -- sudden, murderous ambushes could come from anywhere, at any time. Any expedition into "injun" territory came with the warning that you'd better go well-armed. When wagon trains saw a raid of Cherokee or Sioux coming, they would "circle the wagons" to form a defense perimeter -- and to this day, "circle the wagons" is shorthand for "hunker down and fight back."
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"With only a 10-foot gap between wagons, we're basically invincible."
And all of this has to be true; we know that horrific numbers of people died when settlers expanded West. Those frontiersmen must have been firing bullets and dodging arrows on a daily basis, right?
The Reality:
Well, not really. Granted, between the United States cavalry and, uh, pretty much every tribe you can name, things certainly got good and massacre-y. But skirmishes between Native Americans and the typical American settler trundling along in his covered wagon hardly ever happened. Of the hundreds of thousands of pioneers who willingly trudged all the way through Nebraska, only a few hundred died in clashes with Native Americans.
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More settlers died from totem pole collapses.
We repeat: not tens of thousands, not even thousands. About 300 to 400. To put that number in perspective, the total number of pioneer deaths on the Oregon Trail from all causes (including disease) numbered 10,000 to 30,000, which means only 1 to 4 percent of all trail fatalities can be attributed to Native Americans. Hell, we bet more settlers were accidentally trampled by their own cows.
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"Not an accident."
During this same period, settlers killed over 400 Native Americans. Again, that's not zero, but it does mean that the vast majority of settlers never got into a murderous conflict with hostile tribes. It was far more likely that the average settler would trade with Native Americans or hire members of various tribes as guides, rather than fight them. It wasn't necessarily because they were open-minded and peace loving that they abstained from violence, but rather that it's never good business to kill your customers, or vice versa. Especially when you're talking about someone providing a potentially life-saving service (a guide kept you from getting lost, when getting lost meant getting dead).
Native American deaths caused by the U.S. government and the military likely number in the millions. No one's disputing that one. But deaths due to wagon train clashes were few and far between. As for the "circling the wagons" thing, that ring formation was done each night not to keep hostile Indians out, but to keep their absurdly expensive cattle from wandering off. Hell, it wouldn't even be possible to "circle the wagons" in an emergency -- these wagon trains typically traveled spread out in a line several miles wide, rather than in the column that the term "train" suggests, in an effort to avoid each other's dust, wheel ruts, and debris. It would have taken hours to get everybody together and hooked up in circle formation.
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"We just have to hold them off until Thursday!"
4Bank-Robbing Outlaws Ruled the West
The Myth:
Black Bart, the Dalton Gang, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid all were famous for their daring robberies. They could take entire fortunes from banks that had slightly less security than a modern hot dog stand.
And why not? Lawlessness ruled, vaults didn't exist, and criminals didn't give a shit. The banks might as well have left their big white bags of gold sitting out on the porch.
The Reality:
Research can find evidence of only about eight true bank heists, and that's across 15 states in 40 freaking years. Eight. As a point of comparison, bank robberies in 2010 amounted to 5,600. Hell, even if we'd never seen a Western in our lives, that would seem like a low number.
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"This is a lot of work. I can't wait 'til someone invents drug dealing."
But there are several things to consider. First, towns back in those days were much smaller, with the sheriff's office, saloon, general store, and bank usually clustered together for convenience. This one-stop social-needs block usually made up the dead center of town. Being that the sheriff's office was usually no more than a few doors down, you were probably pulling your big heist within earshot of the law.
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"Earshot's the last kinda shot you oughta worry about."
Second, the banks actually weren't that easy to get in and out of. Old West buildings were usually built pretty close together, meaning the bank would be flanked by other buildings, while a reinforced back wall would keep anyone from intruding from behind (you can sort through the Freudian implications of that). When you walk out the front door with the loot, there's the sheriff waiting for you. Now, the most famous robberies -- the jobs pulled by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- were actually true. But that's the point -- they got famous for a reason. They were doing what nobody else was crazy enough to do.
But for everyday criminals, common targets were often trains and stagecoaches because they were more isolated, easier to get into, and easier to escape. So why bother with a bank, which would be a suicide mission in comparison?
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November 20, 2013 —
NEWBURGH, NY — The end of a sports season invariably evokes a surfeit of superlatives when it comes to describing the noteworthy accomplishment of individual athletes and/or teams. But even words like outstanding, excellent and superior can lose some of their resonance with overuse, though they are often warranted when it comes to extolling the achievements evinced. But the word "exceptional" has a place all its own in the lexicon. Simply put, to be exceptional is to exist in a realm apart. So it is fitting Section IX's senior All-Star football game should contain that adjective. On November 16, 87 exceptional senior grid stars who were nominated by their coaches based on their talent, contributions to their team efforts and their sportsmanship gathered at the Newburgh Academy Field to engage in the Section IX Exceptional Seniors All-Star Game.
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The gravesite memorial of Colonel James Walker Fannin and his men. During the 1836 Texas campaign, Colonel James Walker Fannin's force surrendered in defeat at the Battle of Coleto Creek. The Texian soldiers were imprisoned in the presidio for a week. On Palm Sunday, March 27, Col. Fannin and his 341 men were marched outside the walls and shot, making Goliad the site of the largest single loss of life in the cause of Texas independence. The Goliad Massacre, which accounted for twice the loss of life as that at the Alamo, was, in part, the inspiration of Gail Borden's headline, "Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo!", which become the rousing battle cry of the victorious Texians at the Battle of San Jacinto.
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An obelisk commemorates the site of the Battle of Coleto Creek where Colonel James Fannin and his men fought against Mexican troops on March 19-20, 1836, during the Texas Revolution.


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"If It Feels Good Do It" : Using Neuromarketing to Go Beyond Click-Through
"If It Feels Good Do It" : Using Neuromarketing to Go Beyond Click-Through: the Emerging Understanding of the Links Between Biometric Measures and Consumer Response to Media,
Advances in neuromarketing over the past decade have moved the industry to a point where it is finally a practical addition to the marketer and product designer's toolbox. Mr. Marquis will demonstrate how tracking the second-by-second engagement of consumers interacting with a variety of media using biometric measurements including eye tracking, heart rate, breathing,
GSR and movement allows companies to better understand how they cognitively process and emotionally react to visual information. He will present examples showing how advertisers, TV and Web companies have optimized their media to avoid confusion, break through the clutter and resonate with consumers to maximize retention and avoid undesirable behaviors including fast forwarding and navigating away.
André Marquis is currently the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Innerscope Research which is dedicated to solving difficult market research questions by measuring and analyzing subconscious emotional responses to media. Andre has a long record of starting successful technology-based ventures with a particular focus on winning in markets where evidence-based decision making is critical, e.g. advertising, healthcare and pharmaceuticals.
Prior to Innerscope, Mr. Marquis was the founder CEO of Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, an early stage drug development company that creates improved small molecule drugs. He was also the CMO of Log Savvy which developed the first massively parallel system able to analyze the huge amount of data required to understand "Web 2.0" emergent social activity. He was the COO of Chorus, a group inside Eli Lilly that has dramatically increased the efficiency of the Pre-Clinical through Phase II drug development through outsourcing as well as the CTO and Senior Vice President of Marketing at iPIX. iPIX was the world's largest manager of Internet visual content and created the technology and infrastructure for eBay's Picture Service. Mr. Marquis was a founder and Vice President of Marketing at Emptor which became Accept.com, a Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital backed ecommerce company that was acquired by amazon.com
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What a great supportice husband you must be! I'm happy for your wife that she has someone like you and your mother to help.
I don't have any personal experience with the NICU, but I did want to second what epbrown said - the hospital is working for you, not the other way around. I know it's different in other countries, but in America, health care is a business. I think it helps to think of yourself as the client or customer who has a right to demand what he wants for his child. That's the American way!
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The Future Diary
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Yuki and Yuno go after the Eighth and victory, while Akise gambles against Deus himself! Can Yuki really win and remake the world? Does he trust Yuno or does he trust Akise - when he doesn't know who either of them really are?
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October 30, 2013 —
UPPER DELAWARE VALLEY — With the gales of November straining at the region from the north, there is change in the air. The memory of August tomatoes dims and thoughts of winter coats and snow shovels push their way into consciousness.
The end of the harvest season is marked by Halloween, which many believe sprouted from a mix of Christianity and Celtic pagan rituals. The initial goal, at least in part, was to placate the spirits in hopes of insuring that the livestock and family survived the coming winter.
Halloween scenes have sprouted throughout the region, and for more about one celebration, turn to Jonathan Fox's column on page 24.
Another sign of the season is the change of color in the American larch trees, also known as tamarack. The needles of this pine tree turn orange or yellow at this time of year before they fall from the branches.
The tree is one of the few deciduous (meaning they lose their leaves in winter) conifers (meaning they bear cones) in North America, and is native to New York and Pennsylvania. A very hardy tree, its range includes Northern Canada and Alaska.
The tree is also reportedly very adaptable, and as such is a favorite species for those who raise bonsai plants. According to the website bonsaibark.com, "They are easy to grow, flexible, take to pruning and root pruning, have small bright green needles and excellent fall color, the wood is easy to carve and the resulting deadwood is attractive; they develop real character with age."
A third sign of the season is the coming end of Daylight Saving Time for 2013. It will end for most Americans in the Northeast when clocks "fall back" to Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, November 3, at 2 a.m.
That begins the stretch of time when many workers in the Upper Delaware Valley leave work well after sunset, braving the dark country roads, dodging dear and wild turkey on the way home.
For some, the shortening days bring a sense of gloom, or a sense of resignation. But those souls may take heart that the winter solstice, which occurs on December 21, is only about 51 days away, and after that the days start getting longer again.


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CHARLES TOWN – Some of the best poker players in the region will join novices looking to get some help from Lady Luck as Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races hosts a Hollywood Poker Open regional tournament, beginning Thursday.
The 12-day event will include 15 separate tournaments, all leading up to the Main Event, March 28 to April 1. Randy Keifer, poker room manager for the casino, said that the poker room often is host to players from as far away as Philadelphia and Atlantic City for its weekly tournaments, but this tournament is expected to draw players from all over the mid-Atlantic and as far away as the Midwest.
"We've been talking about this – the whole Hollywood Poker Open has been talking about this on the East Coast," Keifer said. "This will definitely be the biggest one we've ever had."
Hollywood Casinos across the nation are hosting local Hollywood Poker Opens throughout the year. The regional tournament kicking off this week in Charles Town is the only one scheduled on the East Coast. The next regional tournament will be in St. Louis in April.
The Hollywood Poker Open's national championship tournament will be held in Las Vegas at the end of June, with the winner of each regional tournament getting a seat at the table as part of his or her prize.
The tournament at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will actually consist of 15 different events over the course of the 12 days, including the Main Event. Highlights will include a $100,000 guaranteed Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em Event, seniors' and ladies' events, a variety of Omaha events, and daily single-table satellites, according to a media release from the casino.
Keifer said that while many of poker's best from the East Coast will be participating throughout the 12 days, anybody can enter – and he said he believes the tournament to be a good opportunity for beginning players to gain valuable experience with the game.
They might even win something too, he said.
"Jumping into a tournament is a great value, even for a new player," he said. "Anybody who's followed the major events around the country, and you look at the winners' list at the end, most of the names aren't your big-name players who you hear about in the poker magazines. I'd say there's a great opportunity for a novice, a non-professional, to come in and make some money."
Buy-ins for tournament events range from $150 for nightly cash tournaments to $1,620 for the Main Event. Participants can also win seats in the Main Event during the week through qualifier events.
Keifer said the poker room at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races opened in 2010 and, while it hosts regular weekly tournaments, just hosted its first weekend tournament over Presidents Day Weekend. He said the room is being prepared for the mega event that will kick off Thursday.
"There will be a lot of eyes on us," Keifer said. "With tournaments of this size, it's all about registration: getting them in, getting them seated so they can play and do what they came here to do – have an opportunity to win a bunch of money."
A prize total of $100,000 is guaranteed to be given away in the Deep Stack No Limit Texas Hold'em event, and up to $50,000 in guaranteed prize money is offered in other events.
Registration began March 15 and Keifer said many players are already entered. Registration will continue throughout the tournament, he said.
For more information, including a complete list of events and details about each day's activities, visit www.hollywoodpokeropen.com.
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"Take Back the Night" Program
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 6:00 PM
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The evening is dedicated to raising awareness of violence and sexual assault committed against men and women while creating a supportive environment for expression and empowerment. The event includes musical performances and speakers who bring personal insights about violence, a candlelight ceremony and a march.
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I am new here and so glad I found you! I had a 32 week premie in February and I have been exclusively pumping for her. I tried for 6 weeks after she came home to BF, but was unsuccessful. She would try for a while, and then give up and we would have to suppliment 1-3 oz. It was taking me up to 2 hours to BF, bottle feed the breastmilk, and then pump and clean up. I finally gave up on the breast feeding due to frustration, and just pump now. I really mourned not being able to BF, and was told by my MD and several LC's that is was VERY difficult to get a baby back on the breast...but it sounds as if several of you were successful. I go back to work in 3 weeks, but would like to BF if at all possible when I am home. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make it work?
She receives only breastmilk, and I have a large supply, so that is not an issue. I do think I have a slow let down though as it can take 30 minutes to pump 6-8 oz. I pump every 4-6 hours, and she is thriving now! Thanks in advance!


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Jumping on the Angelina leg Internet meme trend, Jennifer Lopez did a little Jolieing and flashed her gorgeous right leg backstage at an "American Idol" party in L.A. on Thursday.
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Red Sparowes -- San Francisco, CA -- March 23rd, 2007
Well yesterday marked the first time in my life I went to two shows in one night as well as making it the first time I've seen a band more than three times, and as awesome as that might sound, the next day is rendered practically useless Thankfully though the night lived up to its potential awesomeness, delivering at least one of the sickest shows I've ever been to.
At about 7 PM I rolled down to the local show to catch easily the best band of our local scene, De La Fuente (DLF). This was my fourth time seeing them, but unfortunately also probably the worst I've seen them. On the plus side the vocals were finally audible in the mix, and the vocalist is sounding better than ever, so that was a positive. On the negative side however, they had some major technical difficulties especially with the drums and bass, plus it was still light out when they played which was kind of awkward (they usually are one of the last bands on the bill). The crowd wasn't too reactionary either, very little pit action, nothing compared to the insanity of their last two shows in particular. Kind of a letdown, but the night was still young.....
Anyways, afterwards I drove to my friends house (Fallen Shadow as he is known here) and we headed up to downtown San Francisco to see the Red Sparowes. For those who don't know, they are easily the best instrumental post-rock/progressive band out there right now, stylistically similar to their contemporaries such as Explosions In The Sky, Pelican, Mogwai, and a plethora of others, but with enough originality to set them apart. Conceptually they are also unique in that all of their songs are basically sentences that as an album fit into paragraphs outlining the concept story. Last year's Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun, an album themed around Mao's Great Leap Forward in China, nearly broke my top 10 for the year (I think it was like #12 or something), and their debut album At The Soundless Dawn is another masterpiece. They are a completely different animal live than on record though, and I certainly found that out firsthand.
Unfortunately our evening seemed doomed from almost the moment we arrived at the Bottom Of The Hill nightclub in SF. After waiting in for a short while in line talking to some dudes who had driven 6 hours for the show, it was our turn to buy tickets at the door. And wouldn't ya know it, the stereotypical fat bald club bouncer guy comes out declaring that the show is SOLD OUT. I almost puked. There was no way I wasn't getting into this show, so we waited outside for close to another half hour until we found some guys selling extra tickets. We paid $20 for each (normally they were $12) and finally got inside. That was a major relief because otherwise our whole night would have been screwed. That aside, we strolled into the packed 250-person club and waited.......
And waited........and waited........and........WHAT THE FUCK. The show was supposed to start at 9, and its 10 and not even a sign of life. Finally at about 10:30 the first act goes on, a man with a banjo by the name of William Elliot Whitmore. For you country fans out there, this guy is probably your cup of tea (or whiskey, more appropriately). In fact people were passing him up shots of whiskey from the bar throughout his set, pretty sweet He had some fantastic commentary as well, very funny and gracious person overall. Musically, ehh, not really my sort of deal. This the kind of music you play outdoors in the middle of Iowa during summer getting drunk and shit like that. It seemed out of place in this setting, but it did add to the extreme diversity of the bill. I liked when he brought out this guy on drums and they jammed a few tunes, more interesting than just him alone on his acoustic guitar or banjo. The highlight was definitely Josh Graham from Red Sparowes coming out with this weird magnet sort of thing (I think it might be called an E-bow) on one of the songs and doing that cool controlled feedback thing that you hear a lot in bands like Red Sparowes, Isis, Neurosis, etc. Gave the song a nice added texture. I think this kind of deal would be a better fit for a Clutch show or something, but the guy could play and had a great voice, I am sure many of you would dig his groove.
Finally the band that actually put me over the fence to come to this show in the first place, the fuckin Saviours. These guys are the epitome of metal basically, long greasy-haired dudes, torn black jeans and shirts, thick ass beards, the kind of guys you see on the street and think "Wow, that is the scum of society." Anyways, they looked the part, and they certainly played the part. Saviours play that brand of heavy metal that's part NWOBHM-worship and part 90's stoner doom worship. Basically some of the most kickass style of music known to mankind. After moving up from the middle of the floor to right up against the stage on the right side (which was nice cuz the monitors made a nice support to lean on), Saviours came out and basically destroyed my hearing. Between them and Red Sparowes it was probably the loudest gig I've been to (go figure, but I am not exaggerating), or at least the only time when my eardrums felt like they were physically rattling inside of me, like someone took a Q-tip and shoved it inside my ear and began twisting it around. Totally massive skullfucking destruction. Saviours just flat-out owned. The drummer hits the hardest of any motherfucker I've ever seen, it was total shit-faced metal bliss grin inducing seeing him and the whole band really just rocking out and going insane, all while playing some fairly complicated and balls-smashing metal mind you. Sometimes when the drummer would smash the cymbals he'd stand up as if thrust upwards by the sheer force of the pound, just totally incredibly watching him. I also had a perfect view of one of the guitarists directly in front of me, he was generally more reserved than the other guys but his fingers man, watching that literally like a foot away was incredible. Those riffs, gah, those riffs!!!! And the solos, lead melodies, fucking everything was just completely unmistakably metal, pure headbanging fist-pumping brutality. The vocals were hard to hear at times unfortunately, but the singing style is very good and the dude ripped it up shredding on the axe and wailing away at the same time. They just finished their first international tour supporting Mastodon in the UK, and I really hope it went badly so that they can only hang around and play shows here in the Bay Area where they're from Nah, I wish them the best of luck because they really deserve it, there's no masking that passion and honesty in a live setting. Such a killer set, damn.
Finally, the band all the hipsters and normal-looking people were waiting for, Red Sparowes. On the subject of the crowd, it was clearly divided about 75%-25%, with the majority being people who wouldn't look out of place at a Radiohead concert (and who I'd bet my money on probably heard about Red Sparowes after getting into Isis from the notoriety they've gotten since doing that Tool tour), and the disdainful hardcore/"elitist" people who at times even voiced their strong opinions on the Starbucks employee crowd That 25% were the only ones really into Saviours too unfortunately, so it was easy to tell who the posers were. After watching them set up their dizzying array of effects pedals on other weird maze of cable things on stage, the lights went down and at just about midnight they began their mesmerizing set.
In such a small venue setting it was remarkable how they were able to set up a projector that shone images behind the band onto a screen that were all direct source videos from Communist China under Mao. Conceived by master visualist and guitarist Josh Graham, this was really a good idea to help give the audience something else to focus on if watching the guys on stage got boring, which sometimes can happen when they don't move around a lot as is the case with Red Sparowes. They definitely get into it, but it was just nice not only as an artistic piece but also as an entertainment piece to have that in there. It was neat how the band members' shadows went across the screen backdrop as well, although it generally obstructed the viewing of the actual video (especially since I was standing directly in front of the bassist and one of the guitarists the whole time).
In contrast with the more relaxing, subdued albums, live the Sparowes' sound is magnified ten-fold, with even the quieter parts holding more of an urgent and engaging tone, not to mention a beautiful tone. Where Red Sparowes excel is in their melodies, which are some of the best you can find from anyone. The textures and layers of having three guitars is wonderful as well, providing such a lush and rich sound. The drumming on the albums seemed underwhelming again compared to live the way that he changes things up with some expert cymbal work and use of different types of drums. I also liked how when everyone else was drinking beers during the set, he'd take a sip of his Frapuchino when he wasn't playing The sound again was impeccable, and it was especially cool to see how all those strange effects they have on the albums are done. I figured it was done by computer, but in fact these guys are doing it all themselves, sliding their palms across the strings, messing with knobs, and all sorts of other things that only expert musicians could really pull off and make them sound as cohesive and awesome as the Sparowes do. My favorite performance of the night was during "A Message of Avarice Rained Down Upon Us and Carried Us Away Into False Dreams of Endless Riches", with the bassist playing the steel guitar. Just an awe-inspiring sound, as the whole tune came alive with that same beautiful resonance as it does on the album. Sadly I did not get the setlist, but I am not posting the one from that other show I had up a couple weeks ago because this set was clearly different. I know the second to last song was definitely 'Alone and Unaware.....' and the last one I'm almost positive was 'The Sixth Extinction...', both off their debut album, otherwise I don't have any order but the rest of the songs were from Every Red Hearts Shines Toward The Red Sun. The change in sound was readily identifiable from the last two songs compared to the rest of the set, truly a mark that despite being an instrumental band these guys never can be dismissed simply as "background music" or whatever crap that people with short attention spans like to call it. I was curious as to how they would come off live, and I was afraid it might not be engaging or even be a bit boring, but it was just an enormous swell of amazing music all throughout their one hour set. Watching their bassist was especially powerful, that sound he emanates is just so unique and wonderful. Unfortunately the guys from Isis were not able to make it since they are currently on tour, but the fill-ins were perfect. The band chemistry was clearly present because the entire set flowed without really even a clear-cut pause or break, even when the songs changed there'd be some kind of feedback thing or light cymbal playing that would be the segue way into the next tune. Seeing the technical side of the show was also great, the mastery of the knobs and effects and pedals, all the little things that have to be just right for it to sound the way it does. These are guys who really know their craft inside and out and make the most of it.
Despite getting home at 2 AM dead tired, it was such a different and memorable experience for me that I will cherish it as one of my favorites shows I've been to. Definitely some of the most fun I've had at one, and really getting to see one of the best bands in the prog rock business matched with two totally opposite openers was quite a unique experience. Their popularity is only growing, so I am really glad I was able to see them at this stage in their careers. Excellent show all the way around.
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Kirsten Flower joined the Yale women's tennis staff in the fall of 2012, helping the Bulldogs win a share of the 2013 Ivy League championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
Flower played her collegiate tennis at Georgia Tech her freshman and sophomore years before transferring to Ohio State for her final two years of collegiate play. In college, her singles ranking peaked at No. 18 while playing at the No. 1 spot. She was a member of Georgia Tech teams that won the National Championship and the ITA National Indoor Championship. Among numerous other awards, Flower was the captain of the Ohio State team her senior year, was named to the All-Big Ten team twice and was also on the Academic All-Big Ten team.
After college, Flowers joined the WTA Tour, which she played on for almost two years. Participating in both international and domestic tournaments, Flower earned a high ranking of 505 in doubles and 996 in singles, and finished 2011 at 506 and 1068, respectively.
In terms of coaching, Flower first taught tennis at Georgia Tech summer tennis camps in 2007. She began work for Elysium Tennis, an Ohio tennis club, as a teaching professional in 2009, where she continued working up until being hired by Yale.
Head Coach Danielle McNamara said that she is "so thrilled to have Kirsten join our coaching staff. She brings a tremendous amount of experience as one of the best collegiate players in the country, as well as being a member of some incredibly successful teams. Kirsten shares our program's values and will be an excellent role model and teacher for our players. I look forward to continuing to build our program as one of the nation's best with the help of Kirsten."
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On this day (Jan. 13) in 1733, English philanthropist, Tory parliamentarian and military leader James Edward Oglethorpe reached America to found what became the 13th English mainland colony (named Georgia in honor of King George II).
Parliament, on June 20, 1732, had granted a charter (which would expire in 21 years, at which time Georgia would become a Royal Colony) to a group of London philanthropists, social reformers, and Anglican clergymen (known as the Georgia Trustees) to establish a new American colony south and west of the Savannah River.
As one of the two leaders of the Georgia Trustees (the other being John Viscount Perceval), Oglethorpe accompanied the first Georgia colonists across the Atlantic to America. He and the 116 carefully selected "first Georgia colonists" left England aboard the Ann on Nov. 17, 1732, arriving in America some eight weeks later (Jan. 13, 1733).
Parliament's rationale in granting the charter was mainly militarily and politically motived (to found Georgia as a buffer against Native American, French and Spanish encroachments on South Carolina). The Georgia trustees' motive, on the other hand, was primarily philanthropic. They wanted to establish in America a sanctuary for the English debt-ridden, urban poor (referred to in the charter as "miserable wretches" and "drones"), establish a haven for persecuted European Protestants (especially German Lutherans and Scotch Highland Presbyterians) and Jews, and, most importantly, establish a slave-free colony where hardworking, sober settlers would be able to enjoy economic sufficiency and relative political and religious freedom.
The trustees were, perhaps, overly idealistic in their regulations, rules, and laws for the new colony. Designed to be a colony of self-sufficient, sober, God-fearing yeoman farmers, the trustees limited the size of individual landholdings to 500 acres, banned the brewing and consumption of alcoholic beverages, and banned the importation and possession of slaves.
Under these "unenforceable" laws, Georgia grew slowly. By 1751, there were only about 3,000 Georgia settlers, of which about 1,000 were slaves. Under pressure from the colonists, the trustees were forced to modify several increasingly unpopular laws. In 1742, the law against large estates was modified, and in 1750 the ban on slavery, which obviously had not been rigorously enforced, was repealed. Growing popular discontent and non-profitability prompted the trustees to surrender the charter in 1752 – one year before it was due to expire.
Georgia then became a Royal Colony (13 original mainland American colonies – 10 Royal: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; three Proprietary: Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.) Georgia was not only the last mainland English colony to be founded, but it was the only colony whose founding was largely funded by the English government; one suspects because of its perceived "strategic" importance.
Altogether, Parliament had, by 1752, appropriated over 136,000 pounds sterling for the "Georgia Experiment" that it hoped would serve humanitarian and imperialist purposes. As founders of Georgia, Oglethorpe and his fellow Georgia trustees had been primarily motivated by a humanitarian benevolence not shared by many other early American founders and settlers.
Thus Oglethorpe and his altruistic trustees colleagues join Quaker William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) and Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island) as founders who were not primarily motivated by economic concerns, as most others seemed to be.
Lamentably, the Georgia humanitarian experiment, failed because the altruism these benevolent founders of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island displayed was not universally shared.
• Crystal Lake resident Joseph C. Morton is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University. Email him at email@example.com.


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That theater was, by the way, a 3-D IMAX venue, and that is the way I propose you should see the film; if not in IMAX, then at least, and beyond a shadow of a doubt, in 3-D. This is unquestionably the best use of that sometimes-gimmicky, sometimes-revelatory, sometimes-both technology since Hugo; and hey, look, I was just able to make another definitive statement, a positive one this time! But back to my point, which was: Prometheus is often good and sometimes bad and occasionally horrendous as a narrative, but it is never, ever, less than a stone-cold masterpiece of design and world-building; production designer Arthur Max and set decorator Sonja Klaus and a whole platoon of credited art directors have very nearly equaled the genre-defining achievement of Alien, in creating a futuristic world that is wildly detailed and extraordinarily plausible, not just as a natural development of our own current level of technology and design mentality (the film is set, rather optimistically, in the latter half of the 21st Century), but also because it has been fully worked-out as a world to itself in which everything makes some kind of intuitive sense and there are no buttons for the sake of buttons, no high-tech idiocy that nobody would actually want, though it "looks cool". It is really quite great, and that's before the film ends up inside an extra-terrestrial spacecraft, where our human protagonists accidentally unlock a video log that re-creates the three-dimensional events of 2000 years ago using floating incandescent particles that take the shape of creatures running, shooting, dying; in 3-D, this single effect is everything that spectacular Hollywood movies are meant to be the best at, a transporting moment in which a cluster of very imaginative creative types all bend their skills together to create something that is, for one sublime moment, like absolutely nothing else.
So, yeah, the film looks astounding, and on those grounds alone I cannot help but suggest that every last person reading this should see it. And not even feel guilty about it, either. Because it's not like Prometheus has a really bad script, nor that Scott does a poor job of directing it. To tell the truth, I still haven't quite made up my mind on how the film functions as a drama, though I will confess that my suspicions have been tending consistently towards, "not very well".
The short version of the plot: a pair of archaeologists, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, fighting the English language to a draw) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), have discovered fairly ironclad evidence that at some point, thousands of years in Earth's past, the planet was visited by a race of space travelers who very well might have had something to do with the creation of humanity, though what "something" that is is a mystery. This discovery triggers the Weyland Corporation to send a science vessel, the Prometheus, on a mission to the planet apparently described in Shaw and Holloway's artifacts, in the hope of meeting the creatures that made us. The usual assortment of unstrustworthy types are assembled onboard, the most important being Captain Janek (Idris Elba), extraordinarily shady Weyland representative Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), and other Weyland represenative David (Michael Fassbender), a state-of-the-art android specially appointed to the crew as an agent of no less a figure than industrial giant Peter Weyland himself (Guy Pearce, giving an indescribably distracting cameo in some of the worst old-age makeup this side of Armie Hammer). And once we get this far, the plot is basically Alien in the broad strokes and even down to some very fine points of specificity.
The Alien relationship is by far the most puzzling and difficult aspect of Prometheus - much more so than its ballyhooed thematic ambition about the origin of life and mankind's relationship to its creator, a notion that the filmmakers undoubtedly regard as more profound than it proves to be in the execution, in part because it is a truly ancient idea in science fiction, and in part because Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof rely on overt Christian imagery as far too much of a crutch. What is clear enough is that the film takes place earlier in the chronology of the same universe as Alien, though not necessarily any of its sequels or spin-offs; that, in fact, the events of its closing act can be scene as a direct precursor to the events of Alien, with a sufficient number of leaps of faith; that the plot is largely a repeat of the original film, with a slow-moving first half given largely to establishing the world though not the characters (who are largely ciphers), following as the ensemble does some exploring, and then it gives way to a second half in which something is awakened that was best left alone and a great many people end up dying before... well, I guess it's technically spoilery to say more, though anyone who has seen Alien has absolutely no excuse not to predict in fairly good detail what happens at the end of the movie.
It is not only tempting, but practically obligatory, to understand Prometheus as being Scott's commentary on Alien, how cinema has changed since then, and how his own career has evolved; it is virtually impossible to regard Prometheus as being just its own thing, though I think it would be a good deal easier to enjoy it if one could manage to do so (though, if it truly were its own thing & not meant to be thought of as an explication of Alien, it would thereupon become necessary to regard it as one of the most unabashed and shameless Alien rip-offs that has ever been made). Simply trying to parse out how the two films are related - something the last scene of Prometheus makes both unavoidable and insoluble - is to engage in a kind of laboratory experiment Scott is conducting, in which Prometheus is a litmus test for fanboys. And by recycling most of the ingredients of the 1979 film in a completely new emotional register, Prometheus demands that we re-evaluate our perspective on that film while also calling attention to how we respond to the new film; it's also something of an experiment in how meaning is even generated in film, because what amounts to an identical plot is given completely different emphasis because of what strikes me as being the most important difference between the two films, which is that Alien is first and above all a horror film, and Prometheus, despite a profoundly grueling scene of body horror that is its very best sequence in a walk, simply isn't.
All of this is theoretical and fascinating and dense, and not really at all what watching Prometheus is like; it's the post-film debate that tries to make sense of the weird hodge-podge that the movie itself ends up being. Really, there's quite a lot that's terrible about Prometheus: it is a film of ideas in which the ideas are allowed to starve from inattention, and it is a film about finding the answers to great questions that doesn't itself ask the questions nor muse about the answers. The nice way to describe it is as a genre riff that marries the sobriety of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the thrills and action of a sci-fi monster movie, but that's being awfully generous to the screenwriters. The cast is uniformly lost in characters that don't do much of anything besides stand around and brood until the third act causes them to act in utterly inexplicable ways, with the single, marvelous exception of Fassbender, whose Peter O'Toole flavored performance of a android with just the slightest inkling of self-awareness is the only point where all of the philosophisin' and thematic grinding actually meets a human dimension that makes it feel like anything other than a blind.
But then... it's gorgeous, and until the editing starts to implode, it's so very easy to get caught up in the moment-to-moment energy, and the way that all of the inexplicable and esoteric gestures at the edges of the film, that make no sense if you don't spend three days mucking about in viral videos and extra-cinematic folderol, can wash over you in a sort of blanket of sensory overload even if none of it makes any sense, and even if it certainly feels like doing the work of figuring out how it does make sense would just lead to disappointment... it's engaging in every other regard than on an intelletual level, and this is absolutely terrible for a movie that makes such a big fuss about thinking, but it's far more than most big studio movies with their crabbed, factory-produced visual sensibility can claim, and if there's nothing here remotely satisfying on the level of Scott's earlier experiments in science fiction and visual style, at least it's not because the film assumes we are idiots. That alone is refreshing in this day and age.
23 comments:
- Rob Niven said...
I've been wanting to see this film all weekend. Unfortunately, thanks to work I have to wait until Thursday. That leaves me trying to reconcile all the conflicting opinions I hear about it.
I've been wondering how both sides of the argument on this film could be true. Your review did an excellent job of pointing out where the film succeeds and fails, I really appreciate being able to get a full picture of the film now.
Hopefully I'll still be able to enjoy it come Thursday. Thanks for the great review!
- The.Watcher said...
Tell me something, Tim: I haven't seen the movie, but would it be fair to say that the last hour sucks because not enough time is given to the story? I mean, could you see a Special Edition come out which fixes a lot of narrative/character problems, much in the way of Alien 3? Or is the movie fundamentally broken, again, much like Alien 3?
- KingKubrick said...
@ watcher,
I said the same thing after watching Prometheus in theatre last night. I said to my buddy that I have no doubt that there will be a Director's cut that's at least 30 minutes longer. The last act, like Tim said, abruptly jumps from plot point to plot point with little in the way of build up or explanation (think of the finale of Sunshine).
Then lo and behold, I read an interview with Scott on Collider today where he says there will be a director's cut that's substancially longer. I don't think we'll end up with a masterpiece once the footage is added in but maybe a film that's less chaotic. Still, see it in the theatre. The visuals alone are worth the price of admission.
- RickR said...
It sounds like you enjoyed it more than I did (or at least thought marginally more of the end result than I).
I perceived it as a big, gorgeous art direction orgasm without a clue about what ideas it wants to explore, what truths any of its ambiguity might be concealing, and without any idea about how humans actually behave, or how actual scientists actually do actual science.
It was pretty, but it pissed me off.
- Hallvarður Jón Guðmundsson said...
There's one thing I've been wondering about, has there ever before been a thing like 'Prometheus'? Isn't this a movie a little unprecedented?
I mean, it undeniably takes place in the Alien-universe, yet it can't really be called an Alien-film as such, I'm fairly certain that the backstory in this film doesn't at all jive with the backstory established in the Alien comics, not that the Alien-universe ever really had a very strict continuity. I don't think it really fits the profile of a reboot, it's only a sort-of-a-prequel, what is it exactly?! I don't even....
That said I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and will most definitely go see it a second time on the big screen. I do agree that the end scene felt tacked on, but I'm just such a big Alien-fan that it was the kind of fan service that was pretty much exactly tailored to me.
- Christopher Bowne said...
Saw it twice (neither time in 3D, that'll be next time) but it was better the second time after I'd kicked it around in my head for a while.
I agree it feels like they were forced to cut to keep running time down. It will be nice to see some scenes fleshed out. **SPOILERS**
I agree with Scott in an interview where he cut out Shaw trying to defend herself with the axe, though. Better to leave the Titan-thing as something you can't even defend yourself against.
I believe this is a film that gets better with a second viewing. I thought the chain of inseminations was cool. David has his chance at creation by inseminating Halloway, then on to Shaw, and finally a Titan via her 'child'
It's funny, if you look back at the original reviews of ALIEN at the time of release (I used to do this obsessively at the library on the microfiche readers) you had about the same proportion of likes and dislikes. Most Rotten Tomato reviews are new or reevaluations by original critics. Some reviews sum it up as basically: cynical derivative money-grab rehash of Star Wars, Jaws, Exorcist and countless 50s B-movies, but with mostly forgettable characters (except Ripley) and at a (mostly) boring pace. You'd think they were expecting an Altman or Woody Allen film.
I was reminded of the dream logic of 'Susperia' and 'Halloween' and many HP Lovecraft stories. It seems the best movies and books work at the brainstem level. That's where this one, as well as Alien, worked for me.
@RickR agree it was an art direction orgasm and I need to see it a few more times to really take it all in. There is definite chaos in the plot. I imagine you've seen Alien 3 several times and have been repeatedly frustrated by it. I think I agree with you that it is basically a failure in the end. It would have been interesting for the Company to have got a hold of Ripley and turned her into a lab rat or something.
@ Hallvarður Jón Guðmundsson I agree it is hard to place it. I wouldn't be surprised if Ridley honestly doesn't care whether it adheres to the universe or not and I don't mean that as a bad thing.
- Tim said...
There's already way too much going on for me to respond to everybody, point by point, but as far as a director's cut goes: I am 100% certain that there's a 140 minute version of this film that I like a hell of a lot more. There is not a version of any length that I expect to regard as a masterpiece. But who can say? It only took about 90 extra seconds to make The Descent one of the best horror films of the 21st Century, who knows what kick-ass footage is lying in wait for the director's cut of Prometheus?
- Mike said...
I've seen it twice now. I liked it the first time but thought a second viewing would help me understand it more. It was better the second time, but there are still some glaring problems that I have with it:
-That thing was not beautiful or cuddly! That reaction bugged the hell out of me both times.
-When you extract a thing from your body, you don't just leave it hanging around for someone to stumble upon. That's worse than not flushing!
-All they have to do is mention that the surgery machine has the ability to heal muscles after laser incision and I would be happy to believe it!
-No one seeing this movie would have complained if it ran 2:20. Who is forcing the obvious cuts?
Ah well. I wish I could love it. They came close to something great here and it's disappointing that they couldn't follow through.
Lastly, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about The Descent. The U.S. was seriously cheated by that edit.
- Zev Valancy said...
On an only tangentially related note (from someone who hasn't seen the film): Why is old-age makeup always shit? Is it that difficult to create? To film? It seems like every instance of old-age makeup in a film these days is a trainwreck, and I can't imagine why it's that difficult. Has anyone got the technical knowledge to enlighten me?
- Chris said...
Tim, I know it doesn't really matter, but I must say that that did not feel like a 7/10 review. I was expecting a 5/10 when I got to the bottom.
- Caleb Wimble said...
Oh my, you were infinitely more forgiving than I, though I suppose that could in part be due to unrealistic expectations. I'm surprised you take so little issue with the pacing of the first few acts, though, which had to have featured some of the most unnecessary, mindless, and repetitive dialogue of any scifi "epic" in years.
The full catalogue of my complaints being contained hereabouts: http://waxineloquent.blogspot.com/2012/06/did-iqs-just-drop-sharply-while-i-was.html
- Tim said...
Zev- And yet The Iron Lady is, I would dare say, next to perfect on that front. Who knows?
Caleb- I will not disagree with you at all on that front, except to say that I think I was so taken by the visuals that I either did not notice or did not care. Which is shabby of me, but I take comfort in this being a film that seems to have given a great many people a great deal of similar trouble.
- jjjonatron said...
I can admit there were some flaws in the script, but overall I agree with people here in saying that I think a lot of it would improve with a director's cut and another 20-30 minutes added to flesh some things out. I saw it twice, and like everyone else who's commented and seen it twice, I liked it more the second time (though I was more hyped through the first viewing). A lot of things become clearer and even some of what the characters do seemed a little less explicable; I think with so much going on in the movie it was frankly hard for anyone seeing it to take it all in.
So there are two, maybe three problems I had with the movie, and that's these: Charlize Theron's line reading of "FATHER", Noomi Rapace's wonderful "I can't have children, what does that make me?", and the way the biologist reacts to the Xenosnake. But that last thing, which is kind of ridiculous, was something I was willing to overlook. Really, really stupid, sure, but it's the first time he's seeing alien life. I'm willing to concede that someone would be that excited/dumb.
Honestly beyond that I've been seeing a lot of hate and bile spewn towards the movie for its dumb characters and don't understand it. Yes, the biologist is an idiot, but beyond that at what moment does anyone do anything really moronic? Shaw leaving that monster behind in the machine is something I probably would have done; it seemed to have died/passed out and she was trying to run the fuck away from it... and I dunno who else does anything inexplicable. Shaw keeps going out of love for her husband.
Oh one other problem I had--redhead Fifield comes back randomly as a zombie after the last time we saw him he had plastic melting onto his face and suffocating him? Feel like that transition is probably a deleted scene somewhere.
GOD TOO MANY THOUGHTS. Really I loved it. It's the best Alien movie since Aliens, so even with its flaws I'm nothing but happy about what we did get.
Also, for anyone wondering about possible plot inconsistencies between Prometheus and Alien, Scott's said that there's at least two more movies between the events of Alien and the events of Prometheus. So the xenomorph busting out of the promethean in the safety pod is not the scene we stumbled on to in Alien, but that's because we're not on the same planet as Alien. LV-223 vs. LV-426. :P
- RickR said...
"but beyond that at what moment does anyone do anything really moronic?"
Holloway removes his helmet when it is discovered the alien structure contains a breathable atmo.
A scientist does this. And he is cautioned not to.
There can be any number or any kind of alien microbes in the air. He removes his helmet anyway.
The humans are covered with microbes from earth, and will contaminate the site they came umpteen bazillion miles to explore. They all remove their helmets anyway.
"Scientists" do this.
It was at this exact moment when I began rooting for all the characters to die.
- KingKubrick said...
@ RickR
Or (spoilers), we found a 2000 year old alien head, let's electrocute it to bring it back to life. Why? Why would you risk such an important discovery? How would Shaw know to stimulate the brainstem with electricity? She's a archaelogist not a biologist. The wholes in the screenplay become more glaring the more you think about it.
- RickR said...
"On an only tangentially related note (from someone who hasn't seen the film): Why is old-age makeup always shit? Is it that difficult to create? To film? It seems like every instance of old-age makeup in a film these days is a trainwreck, and I can't imagine why it's that difficult. Has anyone got the technical knowledge to enlighten me?"
I'm not a makeup artist myself, but I'm close enough to the field to offer some insights.
Generally speaking, aging is (among other things) a process of subtraction. As we age, our skin loses collagen and becomes thin and sags. Our cheeks become hollow, we develop a "neck wattle" etc, we lose muscle mass, etc. Aging "takes away".
Makeup, OTOH, can only add, it can't subtract. Any makeup artist will tell you that old age makeup is the most demanding test of their skills, and a lot of their success depends on the underlying physical/ facial structure of the actor they're working on, the lighting skills of the cinematographer etc. It's very very hard to do well.
Which is why we can point to a scant number of brilliant examples of the technique, and many many mediocre to poor ones.
- Sssonic said...
Yeah, no, I'm sorry but no amount of beautiful visuals, and I freely admit they ARE beautiful, can account for how fundamentally brain-dead this script is. Never mind all the ridiculous plot-holes or muddled Themes, these characters just do not add up at ALL for me. I think this is the rare instance where I liked a movie considerably less than you, Tim, but at the very least I'm glad I went to see it...even if the movie itself really isn't terribly good, IMO.
- Unknown said...
Pretty funny that the author dings the film for editing. Try proofreading your review if you want to pull that arrow from the quiver.
- Daniel Silberberg said...
@Unknown: editing means something different in filmmaking than it does in copywriting. Also, Tim's review isn't a portentous narrative that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and collaboration between thousands of people to make.
- nd said...
Re: the old age makeup... the real question is casting. Why hire a too-young actor in the first place?
- RickR said...
Bumping 5 1/2 months later- nd, you are correct about casting (Gloria Stuart in "Titanic" is a good example, and even then she was wearing old age makeup to add another 20 years to her real age when the film was made). In the specific case of "Prometheus", there were scenes showing a youthful Weyland that were shot, then later deleted. So...Guy Pearce in the role. But all we get in the finished film is Pearce in distractingly bad makeup.
My favorite bit of casting to pull off an age trick is in the current season of "American Horror Story" where flashbacks involving a youthful James Cromwell are played by the actor's son, and boy does the family resemblance work!
- David Greenwood said...
Just saw this flick, and I only have one thing to add: Guy Pierce's make up didn't bother me at all. The guy looked like what he was: someone who has used technology and whatever else he can get his hands on to prolong his life at any cost whatsoever. In the future you too can be a 200 year old freak of nature if you are that afraid of death. So yeah, it looked awful. Well done.
- Mike Gibson said...
Two years later and that 140 minute director's cut never appeared.
However, I watched a fan edit that significantly improved things. A few insertions of deleted scenes, a few cuts of unnecessary crap, and things make a lot more sense.
A few things still can never be fixed, but I would give the fan edit an 8/10.
There's another one out there that actually went as far as to complete unfinished CGI but, alas, I don't know how to get ahold of it. Here's the trailer:


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