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Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1946–
German director, playwright, and actor.
Fassbinder is considered by many to be the leading director of the German New Wave, a movement marked by a radical break with Germany's past. He advocates rebellion against moral and social complacency; however, he also acknowledges that the rebel is doomed to failure. Instead of psychological character studies, Fassbinder creates fables that state their messages in bold, short strokes. His nihilistic view of Marxist society, along with his precarious balance between the very stylized and sharply realistic, have caused him critical difficulties.
Fassbinder's acting career started in Munich's "Action Theater," an avant-garde theatrical troupe. A year later, Fassbinder founded the Anti-Theater, intended as an alternative to the German theatrical standards he found boring and narrow. Sparse decor and uninflected performance characterize his first film, Love Is Colder than Death. This film also reflects his fascination with love's power. Fassbinder says, "Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression."
The theme of isolation also figures prominently in Fassbinder's work. Fassbinder admits he creates compulsively to avoid his own loneliness. His most autobiographical film, Fox and His Friends, tells the story of a homosexual befriended only for his momentary wealth and soon abandoned. Significantly, Fassbinder plays the lead character.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant also intertwines love and politics. Like most of Fassbinder's characters, Petra is an outsider, a victim, and, ultimately, a loser. Other characters are not so much victims of love as of a complacent and monotonous society.
The Marriage of Maria Braun is Fassbinder's first international success. Maria is a victim of both love and society. As one of Fassbinder's strongest heroines, she battles oppression only to meet an ironic and violent death. Unexpected violence, such as Maria's death, appears frequently in Fassbinder's films as both a stylistic and thematic pivot.
Fassbinder acknowledges Hollywood director Douglas Sirk as his strongest influence. He shares Sirk's fondness for the melodramatic, using exaggerated camera angles and mirror techniques. But although Fassbinder creates extended melodramatic situations, his treatment is distant and deadpan. While some critics question the speed with which he makes films, most accept his use of a skeletal frame for his work. Some resent his films, labeling him overrated and undertalented. After over thirty films, Fassbinder remains a paradox: a pessimistic artist who enjoys Hollywood's most sentimental films, and a politically curious intellectual involved in changing the status quo while admitting the futility of his efforts. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 93-96.)
Bruce Berman
[The Merchant of the Four Seasons] is a complex, depressingly moving tale that, when it is not steeped in the deliberateness of its development and representation of emotional and environmental vacuity, sheds much-needed light on the ill-effects of the petit-bourgeois mentality, in this case "mentality" as manifested by Hans Epp and his severely entrenched family. (p. 39)
In terms of method, The Merchant of the Four Seasons, which was made initially for German television, retains a washedout colour and a starkness of imagery (omnipresent crosses, gilt-edged picture-frames on barren walls, etc.), that despite their obvious thematic contributions render the visual terrain not very screen-worthy on one level, although revealing and certainly relevant to the depiction of Fassbinder's vision of a perverted lower-middle class. Stylistically, Fassbinder's work here can be likened to Godard's favourable middle period…. The scene staged at the film's end where, almost predictably, Hans' funeral takes place on a brilliant spring morning with birds singing and sun glowing, struck me as particularly Godardian in its irony. We are reminded that Hans (as we are all to varying degrees), the victim of (political) circumstance and perhaps life itself, can only cease to be a failure when he ceases to be. (pp. 39-40)
Bruce Berman, "Reviews: 'The Merchant of the Four Seasons'," in Take One (copyright © 1972 by Unicorn Publishing Corp.), Vol. 4, No. 4, November-December, 1972, pp. 39-40.
Christian Braad Thomsen
Fassbinder's debut-film, Love is Colder than Death, has often been compared with Jean-Luc Godard's first film, Breathless, because both films introduced an unusually explosive period of production, and because both reveal a very personal reaction to the influence of the American gangster-film. (p. 12)
[Fassbinder's] debut-film was redolent of [a] pictorial emptiness, a feeling that we are starting afresh from the absolute null-point, in an attempt to build something upon the smoking ruins at which Godard arrived and has bequeathed to his contemporaries. Fassbinder tells a gangster-story, but already in the first scene in his first film he demonstrates that his gangster-world is in reality a reflection of the bourgeois world, with which his gangsters only apparently break by their way of living, but from which they never ultimately can free themselves…. Fassbinder repeats this same, absolutely static image-conception in his second film, Katzelmacher, about a Greek immigrant worker whose arrival in a little German provincial town triggers the latent fascist tendencies of the inhabitants. The world of this little provincial town could be interchangeable with that of his gangster-film: it is nearly void of maturity and sentiment, and is wholly static. (pp. 12-13)
Fassbinder's subsequent films deepen and vary the central themes of his first two films: the boredom and emptiness which grope their way to violent expression. Throughout Fassbinder's films, frustrations are resolved by violent action….
Fassbinder's first films will be remembered especially for their pictorial emptiness, for those endless static-camera sequences which purify situations of their "dramatic" content. Taking as his point of departure this emptiness, which is of an aesthetic and contextual nature, Fassbinder gradually discovers a succession of human feelings and social contexts which are more constructive. He additionally discovers a filmic language which slowly allows itself to be built up on the ruins left by Hollywood. (p. 13)
Warning lies mid-way in Fassbinder's work, and it is a turning-point. It is Fassbinder's most obviously autobiographical film, since it deals with the making of a film and gives a nonidealized portrait of Fassbinder and of his permanent crew of actors and co-workers…. Warning deals with the price they have to pay for functioning as a group, and with the tensions which, time and again, threaten to scatter them…. (pp. 13-14)
The director's dream of delegating the film's creation to all is just an excuse for his self-pitying plain, that it is always he who has to do it all. In reality, none of the...
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Tony Rayns
Like Rainer Werner Fassbinder's other recent imitations of life, Fear Eats the Soul [Angst essen Seele auf] achieves a remarkable balance between stylisation and realism….
The movie is an expansion/revision of a story told by a minor character in Fassbinder's own Der amerikanische Soldat [The American Soldier] (1970), and also a remake/revision of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955). Its plot is an extraordinary mesh of low-key melodrama and social criticism….
Angst essen Seele auf begins like a fairy-tale: as in a dream, Emmi is lured into the Moroccan bar by the Arab music on its juke-box, and invited to dance for what is evidently the first time in many years. Stage by stage, everything that follows is hilariously—and agonisingly—predictable, Fassbinder plays on audience expectations so thoroughly that his exposition astonishes by its very exhaustiveness. The types of racial fear and prejudice are catalogued succinctly….
Fassbinder circumscribes the movie's area of interest by fading out on anything irrelevant to his direct concerns (the first night that the couple share; their turning-point holiday). He films his active characters in neutral mid-shots, never lending disproportionate weight to one or another in the compositions, and the legions of anonymous onlookers who provide the movie's moral 'context' in static, posed tableaux…. The overall approach invites comparison with other European critiques of American genres …; but Fassbinder is clearly as interested in vindicating Sirk as he is in using a rhetorical style to make his unequivocal statements on film. This 'politicised weepie' realises both aims with an assurance of a kind almost vanished from narrative cinema.
Tony Rayns, "Film Reviews: 'Fear Eats the Soul'," in Sight and Sound (copyright © 1974 by The British Film Institute), Vol. 43, No. 4, Autumn, 1974, p. 245.
Richard Combs
On the face of it, the world of Petra von Kant—a supremely stylised region where the rules of play, in decor as in passion, are dictated by the high-fashion, high-camp predilections of its decadent queen—shares very little with the wry social comedy of Fear Eats the Soul…. But there is an odd complementary quality about the two films, the suggestion of a mirror reflection in the way the areas of stylisation are inverted, and a clearly continuing line in the way the form and mannerisms of Hollywood melodrama are worked into the texts. Where Fear Eats the Soul tells, broadly, a mundane tale of love crushed by social prejudice and repression, and lends to the affair between the ageing char and...
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George Lellis
[The Merchant of Four Seasons's] biggest coup is that our feelings for the man are never really for him personally—he is ugly and unsympathetic throughout. The film remains outside of him, something that gives us, in the final analysis, more of a portrait of the world that made him than one of the man himself. And it is a cold, unfeeling world. That Hans Epp is fundamentally unloved is established from the picture's first frame, when he comes home from the Foreign Legion and his mother tells him it's too bad all the good ones die in wars and those like him remain; but the rest of the work portrays a society in which all potentially meaningful things are ritualized into mechanism…. As an attack...
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Tony Rayns
The most striking difference between [The Merchant of Four Seasons] and earlier Fassbinder movies is the immense gain in simplicity and clarity, qualities about which there is nothing deceptive. As the chronicle of a man whose dreams and aspirations are systematically denied him by his petit bourgeois environment, Merchant could hardly be more straightforward: its linear narrative … is a step-by-loaded-step catalogue of the betrayals and humiliations that Hans suffers, while occasional fragmentary, dream-like flashbacks serve to expose the roots of his oppression. The other main change is the nature of the mise en scène; the Godardian unpredictability and genre permutations of the earlier films...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
[Fassbinder] has been devoted to social reform and the perpetuation (through updating) of the dominant codes of narrative cinema. Far from being "radical" or "subversive", as has often been claimed, his cinema is liberal in the best and most hallowed sense of the word…. In Faustrecht der Freiheit [Fox]—working with narrative elements traceable back to [Erich von] Stroheim and von Sternberg as well as Sirk—he is relating a fable of class exploitation within a homosexual milieu that is rather obvious and predictable in overall design, but clever and nuanced in many of its individual details. The cultural snobbery of Eugen, his parents and his friends is underlined far past the point of necessity or...
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Penelope Gilliatt
["The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"] is a lucid, beautiful work of innovation which hides its fondness for its characters under a cloak of august formalism. One remembers at the end that the dedication reads, "A case history of one who here became Marlene." Marlene is an apparently minor character who never speaks—of the six women in the film, she is the mute—but the story, in recall, is about the effect of its events on her sensibility. It is typical of the ricochet movement of Fassbinder's films that at the time we should regard her only as a witness. (p. 264)
There are fibre-glass figures and costume drawings everywhere in the working part of the room. We are watching a woman who is almost...
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Stanley Kauffmann
[The] trouble with [The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant] is that it equates methods with powers. One pitfall in latterday filmmaking is the gross overestimate of certain filmic procedures as symbology. Fassbinder thinks he can make a film of his stage play by thickly impasting some of those procedures. The confinement to one room, the slow-moving camera are assumed to create depth—partly on the ground that they contravene conventional commercial procedures. To this, Fassbinder adds some obviously arty Franco-German apparatus: the arbitrarily silent "slave," a lot of unclothed female dressmaker's dummies, a frontally naked male in a huge painting (the only male in the film). All this is facile, and it's...
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Paul Thomas
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a man who knows how to hate. More to the point—but very much connected with it—Fassbinder's films may have extended the language and method of film more than those of any young film-maker of his generation. (p. 2)
Melodramatic elements abound in Fassbinder's films. Why should Ali be stricken with the "immigrant's disease" at the end of Fear Eats the Soul just as Emmy so movingly forgives and accepts him? Why does Wildwechsel … need the coup de grâce of Hanni's being told by the gynecologist … that her baby was born dead and deformed? It's arguable that the remarkable thing is the extent to which. Fassbinder gets away with hitting home in this...
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Thomas Elsaesser
At no point during his career has Fassbinder renounced the autobiographical element in his films. His self-criticism does not affect the material but rather the manner of its presentation. The central experience—one might go so far as to call it the trauma that motivates his productivity—is emotional exploitation. His films are fictionalised, dramatised, occasionally didactic versions of what it means to live within power structures and dependencies that are all but completely internalised, and as such apparently removed from any possibility of change or development.
Repetition, reiteration therefore has a particularly important function in his work, on the thematic as well as the formal level....
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Vincent Kling
[Fassbinder's characters] start at a point of freedom from external constraints far beyond any [Sirk's] characters could have imagined, but they are every bit as miserable. They almost always have more than enough money to do whatever they want or to travel wherever they please; they often have jobs that they quite enjoy; they live in a society that does not care about their political convictions, religious beliefs or sexual orientations. Even so, they are no more free than the title character of Effi Briest, who is driven to her death by the strict codes of militaristic, imperialistic, censorious Prussian upper-class society at the end of the nineteenth century. Thinking about the implications of Fassbinder's...
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John Simon
[Fassbinder] turns out movies the way other people shed dandruff, and is generally considered the new Godard or, at the very least, the Wunderkind of the German cinema. The main influences on him would seem to be Brecht and Warhol, the unendurably static Jean-Marie Straub and the souped-up second-rate American action directors, which shows that, if nothing else, he is catholic to the point of self-contradiction….
An aura of arrogance is everywhere, as if Fassbinder were saying, "I can slap movies together as fast and loose as I wish because I am a Wunderkind." The procedure, I am afraid, makes him into a bit of Blunderkind. He turns out, as I see it, two kinds of movies: bad...
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Penelope Gilliatt
["Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven"] is like Brecht's plays and poems in declining open sensibility, but all the same its coinage is care for people, with a guttersnipe wit about the self-deceptions that slaughter intent…. The film has a melodramatic plot, but it is no melodrama. Any work of fiction is beyond melodrama when its logic is clear and large enough. The picture tells us that rhetoric is no escape; that a guru-disciple relationship between sexes or classes is damned; that primitivism of expression—losing one's mind, having a tantrum, using emotional bribery—makes savages of us all; that, since no film artist would hand you the keys to character, the only thing to watch is outward conduct. Mother Küsters...
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Vincent Canby
[The characters in "Katzelmacher" are lower middle-class layabouts who] sit on—or lean against—the railing outside a Munich apartment house in various positions of boredom. They bicker. They brood. Mostly they just stare into space, lined up all in a row like the crows in Hitchcock's "The Birds."…
[The] characters, with the possible exception of Jorgos …, who never says much, are either slobs or dimwitted, and though they are totally self-absorbed and given to parroting clichés, they are sometimes capable of the unexpected gesture as when Marie decides to leave Erich for Jorgos….
The static camera, the exaggerated mannerisms of the actors, the jump-cuts, the repeated...
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Vincent Canby
Although "Gods of the Plague" is described as a sequel to "Love Is Colder Than Death,"… it makes an appropriate companion piece to "The American Soldier," a comically dead-panned contemplation of American gangster films of the 30's and 40's. Where "The American Soldier" comes close to parody, though, "Gods of the Plague" is absolutely straight, which is not to say that it's realistic or that its narrative is important for itself….
"Gods of the Plague" is the quintessential American gangster film if the quintessential American gangster film had been adapted and updated to accommodate a bunch of small-time Munich hoods for whom the holdup of a rather ordinary suburban supermarket is "the big job."...
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Stanley Kauffmann
[Effi Briest] is beautiful. It renders [Theodor Fontane's] book as fully and texturally as could be possible in 140 minutes, and it's a work in and of itself, intrinsically cinematic. What's more, it shows that Fassbinder is probably going to keep astonishing us….
Effi Briest doesn't have the tragic dimensions of Madame Bovary or of Kate Chopin's The Awakening because Effi is much more a victim than a rebel, but her extramarital affair is fated from the start and so is her sorry finish….
The fadeouts all through the picture constitute a visual theme. Every fade is to white, not black—a "burn to white," as the trade more properly puts it. These...
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Penelope Gilliatt
As with most of Fassbinder's films, [in "Effi Briest" the concern] is in the sophistry of the powerful; it is kin to his "Chinese Roulette," a mysterious comedy of calculated mannerisms. (p. 278)
Fassbinder thinks a great deal about oppressed groups, including women. "Effi Briest" is his masterpiece…. [His Effi] is the victim of an education that makes girls beguiling and frivolous objects, and so leads inevitably to a whim on the part of society to inhibit them with taboos. Effi is not only intimidated by the ghost but also fearful of committing crimes against bourgeois society, and terrorized by the possibility of appearing to the respectable to be a tart…. Life is lived by a system of fear and...
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Barbara Leaming
In the past Fassbinder's films have often been concerned with isolated people—with the outsider. In Fear of Fear, once again the central figure is set apart—she is a woman whose world is largely a world of family, a family that perceives her not only as an outsider, an intruder, but more importantly as someone "abnormal." For them, there is no question of what it is which constitutes the norm, for her sister-in-law explicitly and flatly states, "We are normal." They are the ones certainly who hold power; they are then the ones who determine the norm. Yet it is not even this outsider status within her husband's family which seems to mark the critical point in Margot's passage towards madness. There is a far...
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Janet Maslin
If you have any doubt that there's such a thing as being too prolific, by all means go see Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Satan's Brew." Mr. Fassbinder attempting physical, almost slapstick comedy, is Mr. Fassbinder at his least funny or enlightening; and the film, a kind of "Father Knows Best" on acid, showcases most of the director's worst qualities without leaving room for his best. Made in Germany early last year, this is an ice-cold work, and a stubborn and difficult one. The meager rewards it delivers are no match for the enormous energy it demands. (pp. 90-1)
Mr. Fassbinder can be both ironic and provocative when, as in "Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven," his only successful comedy, he gently...
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Penelope Gilliatt
["Satan's Brew"] is a deliberate slap in the face…. [Walter Kranz] operates from the same feckless, uninhibited, unscrupulous, and unpredictable position that Fassbinder does in hurling this movie at us. The film creates an irritable weather all its own. People behave like cross morons, pretend to less intelligence than they actually have, move with the gestures of wooden puppets on tangled strings. (p. 62)
Fassbinder has made this shock-the-middlebrow picture go at a rattling pace, piling on evil comic details to see how much we will take…. Fassbinder forever pits words against physical expressiveness in this film, and throws sense out of joint…. Fassbinder has given himself the license to go...
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áNdrew Sarris
[Satan's Brew] strikes me as a minor setback in [Fassbinder's] career. While it does not make me reconsider my previous appraisals, it does suggest certain limitations to his talent. What he has attempted on this occasion is a form of savage screwball comedy, which descends irrationally and intentionally into depravity and disgust….
Fassbinder quotes Artaud as his guide, but one is reminded instead of the Cocteau of Les Enfants Terribles and the Chabrol-Gegauff of Les Cousins. Unfortunately, Fassbinder is unable to furnish any behavioral conviction to his players, and, as if to admit this deficiency, he allows his plot to fizzle out in a fit...
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Tom Allen
[Although Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?] was made for German television, it is not on a par even with the Visions series on American Public Broadcasting, which gives young playwrights and filmmakers a forum. Fassbinder's exercise is more the equivalent of a loft production or an unpublished novel in the trunk. As I see Fassbinder's career in a spotty perspective, the film predates even his first tentative sparring with the aesthetic options of cinema, his so-called Sirkian conversion….
[The film is] a case history of banality with each entry contributing to the construct of a seemingly complacent architectural draftsman. The everyday abrasions from his wife, son, boss, and neighbors are...
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Robert Hatch
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? is a clinical exercise designed to test how long a man can be expected to endure an existence that is, without relief, stale, flat and unprofitable. Herr R. is boring; worse than that, he suffers the capacity to be bored….
On occasion, Herr R. thrusts feebly against the bladder of narcotic misery within which he is suspended…. But there is no heat to sustain these sparks of animation; they expire in sighs and silences. And so one day, when a neighbor is running on about her discovery of the techniques and apparel of skiing, the almost repellently soft and undemanding Herr R. picks up a lethally heavy candlestick. The feeling one gets from this denouement can...
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Jill Forbes
Effi Briest is a film of velleity and distance because it is a portrait of the artist much more than the portrayal of a society. Whatever the apparent moral differences between them, all characters share a simultaneous acceptance of a perfectly coherent system of values, and a knowledge that this system cannot account for all their desires and emotions—even von Instetten who fights a duel because he must, not because he needs to, while openly avowing his love for his wife…. What Fassbinder has filmed is the author at work rather than the work itself: using a rigid pattern of sequences introduced by titles which are quotations from [the book's author, Theodor] Fontane and ending on fades to white whose...
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Jan Dawson
[Although the ingredients of Fassbinder's Sixties gangster films are still much in evidence,] The American Soldier comes closer than any of Fassbinder's previous films to articulate the method behind its own coherent madness and to spelling out the moral, or at any rate the moral philosophy, behind its characters' seemingly amoral actions…. Although on the surface a long way from the Romantic tradition, Fassbinder's American Soldier in fact harks back to that tradition by depicting an inescapable link between love and death. Its moments of greatest tenderness and compassion all involve corpses…. It's as if the characters can only express the tenderness they feel when 'the other' has lost his...
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Jan Dawson
More than any other of Fassbinder's early films noirs, Gods of the Plague is primarily a mood piece, its narrative impressionistically sketched and expressionistically recorded. Each scene achieves a near-absolute existential immediacy, and the causal connections between them, only thinly suggested (expository dialogue, even more than the film's other conversations, is minimal and monosyllabic), remain the subject of speculative reconstruction rather than of any self-evident logic. The relationships between the characters themselves similarly elude definition, projection, retrospection and permanence…. Though the country-outing sequence, with its freewheeling aerial shots of the car moving down empty...
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Richard Combs
Since Fassbinder's message about oppression, and its social and emotional forms, was intended for a mass audience and not a coterie of cinephiles, his self-ordained task was to 'create' that audience by recreating the communal style of the greatest popular cinema in history. Although Chinese Roulette (1976) still relates to that tradition—it is a melodramatic chamber piece, in which the romantic triangles of four haut bourgeois characters tensely overlap—it pointedly introduces 'foreign' elements into Fassbinder's usual stock company of players, and its political references (the Nazi past, contemporary political terrorism) supply not so much a message as teasing clues to the games its people play....
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John L. Fell
Despair invents an act of demented disassociation with which the audience cannot itself become complicitly engaged because the narrative mode is not expressionistic. Instead, it is overlaid by self-reflexive irony upon irony. The book is written as a memoir-diary: "the lowest form of literature," its author says. Rereading, the writer discovers his fatal mistake in commission of the perfect crime.
Nabokov's plot intact, [Tom] Stoppard and Fassbinder have enlarged the döppelgänger motif (including plays on old movie scenes), politicized time and place, and exteriorized Hermann's aberrations by means of fantasized, conjectural intrusions.
Doubling, of course, here advances...
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Jan Dawson
[The Third Generation is Fassbinder's] most violently outspoken film yet, and incidentally the first from Germany … to represent fictional terrorists on the screen. Expanding into a high-camp melodrama the idea of collective responsibility underlying his Germany in Autumn episode, Fassbinder disregards the politically rigidified idea of terrorists as either demons or martyrs; and instead locates the colourful members of his terrorist cell … at the centre of a complex, wheels-within-wheels social machine governed only by the laws of greed, profit, cross and double-cross….
[In] Fassbinder's angry, and only superficially cynical, apocalyptic vision, there are no right or left, no...
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Tom Noonan
[Only] someone like Fassbinder, a man who solemnly proclaimed a film with an all-woman cast "strictly autobiographical" could make The Marriage of Maria Braun.
Maria builds her life around her love for Hermann, in spite of their separation. Regardless of whether or not her love is "real," it is the passion that sustains her. It is also the carrot that Fassbinder dangles before Maria as he enmeshes her in a web of complications. As the reality of a reunion with her husband is repeatedly denied, Maria's love becomes an abstraction that retreats further and further into fantasy. (pp. 40-1)
Control is the key to Maria. She is always completely in command. But she can't have the...
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Dan Isaac
The Marriage of Maria Braun must be recognized … as a powerful and mordant study of post-war Germany, a portrayal very much in the mood and style of Bertolt Brecht. Concerned with the "economic miracle," as the Germans themselves like to call it, Fassbinder treats a subject that other German filmmakers have studiously avoided.
"Eine schlechte Zeit für Gefuhle"—"a bad time for feelings"—says one character early on, which pretty much sums up the pervasive mood of Fassbinder's icy approach to the miracle of German recovery…. But in The Marriage of Maria Braun Fassbinder has finally found the right subject; the result is a near masterpiece. The marriage referred to in the...
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Robert Hatch
The atmosphere of In a Year of Thirteen Moons is dark, claustrophobic, filmed in hot colors, often at bizarre, cubist angles and heavy with Weltschmerz. Time and again it pauses for long, philosophical contemplation of the distastefulness of being and the seduction of ending—maunderings of the sort I thought even the Germans had renounced in our time….
Fassbinder mistrusts the social system as profoundly as he despairs of human relationships. He expresses this most explicitly through the history of Saitz, who had risen from black-market trickster to whoremaster to real estate millionaire and whom Elvira runs to earth in one of his vast but empty high-rises, locked in with a few...
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Raymond Durgnat
We're tempted to say that Fassbinder is a better playwright than film director. But we can't quite convince ourselves that he began with some acute sense of how human beings oppress and twist one another and themselves, and that he lost it on film through believing that Douglas Sirk … was a Marxist pioneer of alienation effect by exaggeration. We see these movies as soft-edge, soft-core, bourgeois self-criticism….
On all his actors Fassbinder's carefully formalized visuals impose a strange style which certainly hits the jackpot of a fashionable aesthetic. Following an almost mechanical alternation of passion and blankness (limp deadpan, tears, limp deadpan), Fassbinder succeeds only too well in...
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Vincent Canby
There no longer can be any doubt about it: Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the most dazzling, talented, provocative, original, puzzling, prolific and exhilarating film maker of his generation….
Mr. Fassbinder has demonstrated that he is quite capable of adapting his cinematic vision to fit the works of others …, but it's his original screenplays that give the true measure of this great, unpredictable talent. He makes movies the way other, lesser directors talk about them—easily, quickly and precisely. When he shoots a film, he is speculating about the subject as well as about the craft of film making, examining both as he goes along, freely, without being bound to arrive at some preset destination....
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Richard Combs
The mood of The Third Generation, one might assume, is rampaging cynicism. The film looks in two directions, at the modern capitalist state of West Germany and at the terrorist radicals who bedevil it, and seems to pronounce a curse on both their houses. Such a feat is possible, however, not because the film is two-faced but because the situation it describes is so complex….
In cut and dried terms, this is the message of Fassbinder's latest film. But it does not account for some of its most curious features, not least of which is that it is more emotionally than politically painful. Although some historical long view of the German experience is implied, the film actually works as a...
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Investing in women and girls has long been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. As Secretary of State John Kerry said in an op-ed earlier this year, "No country can get ahead if it leaves half of its people behind. That's why the United States believes gender equality is critical to our shared goals of prosperity, stability, and peace."
A growing body of evidence consistently tells us that when women are empowered to participate fully in their communities, countries as a whole are more likely to thrive. Unlocking women's potential in the places where they are still marginalized and undervalued is one of the best strategies we have to address the world's most urgent challenges.
One important way the United States supports gender equality is through Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative. With a focus on smallholder farmers (those farming the smallest plots of land, the majority of whom are women), Feed the Future supports partner countries in developing their own agriculture sectors to significantly reduce poverty, hunger, and under nutrition. Studies show that if women farmers had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20 to 30 percent and reduce the number of hungry people by 100-150 million.
In Tajikistan, a Feed the Future focus country where I serve as U.S. Ambassador, I've seen firsthand the serious obstacles to food security, but also the great potential for women to lead in the fight against hunger. In a country still recovering from civil conflict and rebuilding its economy after decades under the Soviet Union, many people struggle to access even the basic land and water needed for a healthy agriculture sector that can feed families and drive economic growth. But these problems are solvable, which is why Feed the Future is supporting policy reform, promoting innovative technologies and good nutrition, and improving the capacity of Tajikistan's private sector and civil society to sustain long-term progress.
As we work with the Government of Tajikistan and other partners to take on these challenges, we recognize that women need an equal place at the table if we're going to succeed. So when Feed the Future works to improve land rights for women, we rely on local leaders like Nodira Sidykova, director of a legal aid center that has helped countless Tajik women fight for their rights to farm their land. We hope women will follow the example of Uguloy Abdullaeva, who chairs a water users association that manages a local irrigation system for farming, and that they will seek positions of leadership in their own communities. And we know our efforts to combat undernutrition need the expertise and commitment of people like Khursheda Isaeva, who coordinates nutrition education through a Feed the Future program that trained 1,000 women in 50 villages in Tajikistan in the last two years alone.
Even though Tajikistan is a small country, when I hear the stories of inspiring women who are creating positive changes for future generations, it reminds me that the United States' work in Tajikistan is part of something bigger: the vision of a world where people no longer face extreme poverty or hunger, and where every woman and girl can reach her full potential.
About the Author: Susan Elliott serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan.


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Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, yet up to a million Americans begin smoking every year. Studies show that a majority of tobacco users begin smoking before age 18, and nearly all lifelong smokers are hooked before age 21, so prevention efforts traditionally focus on youth.
You probably know that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, leading to more than 440,000 deaths per year, including about 50,000 smoking-related deaths as a result of secondhand smoke. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smokers die on average 10 years earlier than non-smokers, from heart disease, cancer, lung disease and other chronic conditions.
This kind of information is important to share with children, at home and at school, but to reduce the numbers of new tobacco users, we can do more, like being vigilant in enforcement of youth tobacco laws, raising the price of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and creating tobacco-free environments in the places where young people go, including parks, beaches, playgrounds, ball fields, and of course, schools.
We know that adolescence can be a time of experimentation and risk taking, but research supports the theory of the powerful influence of social norms that people generally conform to the unspoken cues and expectations in the environments around them. So it makes sense to enact, and enforce, comprehensive no-tobacco policies at schools and universities. Smoking is prohibited in public buildings statewide, but comprehensive school tobacco prevention policies go much further. They prohibit all tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and new-generation tobacco products the so-called "e-cigarettes" – on campus and even at off-campus school events
Many K-12 schools across the Western U.P. have been strengthening their tobacco policies in the past year. Western U.P. Health Department health educator Arnie Kinnunen helps school districts develop comprehensive policies that reinforce the social norm that tobacco use has no place on school campuses, even after hours and on weekends.
Returning college students will notice this week that two local universities have also gone tobacco-free. Both Michigan Tech University and Finlandia University begin the semesters sporting "tobacco-free campus' signs.
I talked to Michigan Tech Health and Wellness Coordinator Whitney Boroski about the new policy. She told me Michigan Tech values community health, and believes a tobacco-free campus will help students, faculty and staff live healthier lives.
Boroski directed me to Michigan Tech's new website, mtu.edu/tobaccofree, where I found information about the policy change, smoking cessation programs, quit tips and links to resources. Boroski said the university has sponsored cessation groups (facilitated by the health department's Arnie Kinnunen), and provides students and employees with information about health insurance benefits that cover nicotine reduction therapies. University counseling services can also help students who are trying to kick the habit.
About 23 percent of the region's adults are current smokers, somewhat higher than state and national rates, according to a survey conducted in 2012 by the health department, and about one-quarter of high school juniors say they smoked at least once in the last 30 days. Tobacco-free schools and universities send a strong public health message that youth and tobacco should be mutually exclusive. As this becomes the social norm, we envision a future when local tobacco use will decline further.
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Matt Rooney serves as Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Policy and Summit Coordination in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
It was a perfect Southern California day -- perfect to give something back. About 50 of the senior-most officials working in Washington and at U.S. Embassies in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America to promote U.S. economic interests in the Western Hemisphere met last week in San Diego to study the latest trends in the region and coordinate the U.S. approach to our partner governments and the public. We had all watched the news of the recent wildfires in the San Diego area with concern, and we were delighted when the City of Escondido invited us to help with the recovery effort by filling sandbags for low-income homeowners threatened by mudslides.
Our conference was designed to focus on the rising importance of Asia and its impact on the Western Hemisphere, as well as the policy challenges of creating a financial and regulatory framework that helps ensure that the benefits of trade and growth are broadly shared in society. We were honored by leading speakers from academia, think tanks, the private sector and the U.S. and foreign governments. We studied the powerful impact that Asia's vigorous growth is having on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the prospects for trans-Pacific ties to drive innovation and growth for the coming century. We learned the latest scholarship on how successful economies like Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru have translated economic growth into sustainable poverty reduction. Leading entrepreneurs explained how the "triple bottom line" approach -- combining profitability with environmental stewardship and social equity -- adds shareholder value while improving the long-term environment for business. We all went back to our posts of assignment with a much sharper focus on how the interests of the United States are bound up in the economic success of our neighbors.
Our work completed, a group of the conference attendees took Saturday morning to go to Escondido and take a direct hand in making America safer. Foreign Service Officers spend most of their careers abroad making America more prosperous and more secure, so it was satisfying to literally get our hands dirty helping out at home. And thinking that we helped save two homes -- two families whose homes survived the fires, only to find themselves exposed to the danger of mudslide after two weeks of heavy rain soaking in to the deforested hillsides -- gave us all a renewed sense of commitment to America.
SNP in Syria writes:
More lame P.R. from the State Dept. Well, there is some change going on, ooohhh nooo, not in U.S. Foreign Policy or the effectiveness of it and neither in the State of Affairs of the Middle East, those been the same for 40 years, they are the hallmark of the State Dept obsolescence, incompetence of the low achievers that runs it and most likely will remain unchanged, one Burn out another Burn in is the rule at State.
But Cheers... A change is made the sloppy paint jobs seen in all those Iraqi photos, evidence of the great progress the surge made were replaced with the shovel and sand buckets in Escondido, California.
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From the photo, 63.6% of the FSO corps is obese, so a few hours with shovel and sandbag is a good idea. Commitment to one's own physical conditioning is a prerequisite to a commitment to America. It pays to be physically fit for when the time arrives to climb onto the embassy roof for evacuation by helicopter.
David in U.S. writes:
During five decades of work in 42 developing nations, I observed that individual FSOs do achieve some positive results that benefit most of those they serve. When and where failures occur, it is almost always due to decisions made by U.S. policy makers who fail to fully understand the customs, culture, traditions, desires/ goals, language, and history of those we seek to help in the developed and developing worlds. All too often, U.S. policy makers have an "aura" of ignorance, arrogance, greed, and corruption. In recent years, these policy makers failed to consider lessons learned and they often make the same mistakes over-and-over. When individual FSOs fail, it is generally a result of "failed" leadership. Even with all these problems considered, some FSOs have made significant contributions benefiting all. With the advent of qualified and dedicated leaders, they could do even more to help achieve peace and well-being, worldwide.
David in U.S. writes:
In the past, as may occur again today, FSOs are asked to directly/indirectly support development or redevelopment efforts in high-risk areas. All too often, performance in such roles has been poor due to insufficient training as regards language(s), customs, cultures, and religion(s). In addition, instruction in indigenous social, economic, and political factors may be poor. Technical skills required are often lacking --as is safety or survival training needed to avoid harm, and sustain the effort(s). When any or all of this happens, it is usually due to a failure at the policy and personnel levels where assignments are made without due consideration of qualifications of those being assigned. It is simply not enough to want to do good, you must have the qualifications to do so.
NB in Pakistan writes:
Yes, they definitely help. I closely observed Ma'am Nancy Powell & Mr. Crocker and they not only did a good job but also showed a lot of courage. Mr. Nicholas Burns is leaving due to personal reasons and he too contributed. Ma'am Karen Hughes continues to do a good job in creating harmony, and Mr. Richard Boucher, just as his predecessor Ma'am Christina Rocca, leaves no stone unturned in pushing the governments of different nations to respect human rights, Dr, Richard Armitage used to win the respect of the masses with his mighty handshake and now Ma'am Condoleezza Rice charms the world with her charming smile. The masses do take note of these things and turn America-friendly. No, everybody doesn't hate America and it's a result of these hardworking people in the State Department within and without America.
NB in Pakistan writes:
I shouldn't have forgotten to mention the current officials connected with the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Pakistan but it's not easy to type online and remember everything one wishes to say.
Ma'am Anne Peterson, the U.S. Ambassador, Ma'am Kay Anske, the U.S. Consul General in Karachi and Mr.Bryndt, the U.S. Consul General in Lahore (I'm not so sure if I got the last name right because I have translated it from Urdu language). These officials have shown great courage and have been very active in visiting places and organization, untouched previously, showing the good side of America. These three officials definitely deserve praises for doing a very good job for their country.
Andy in China writes:
Looks like the group had a good time and was able to promote the Foreign Service as well as give back to a community in need. Manual labor at a domestic location, I wonder what the FSO's in WHA will do next?
NB in Pakistan writes:
I finally got the names of the U.S. Officials in Pakistan. Ma'am Anne Patterson (not Peterson as I had written)the Ambassador, and Mr. Bryan Hunt (not Bryndt as I had written) the Principal Officer in Lahore. I had Ma'am Kay Anske's name right. My apologies to these officials. Yes, I repeat once again these three officials are really going a backbreaking job and deserve praises. Just wanted to correct myself.


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by Anton Shilov
Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) is reportedly interested in acquiring Chartered Semiconductor, the world's third largest contract semiconductor manufacturer. The potential move may be considered quite strange as Chartered Semiconductor competes with Globalfoundries, a joint-venture by Advanced Micro Devices and ATIC.
According to The Business Times, Chartered has received a bid from ATIC to buy Temasek Holdings' approximately 60% stake at between $2.40 and $2.60 a share. The $2.45 billion price tag represents a 19% premium to Chartered's market cap of about $2.05 billion, reports The Business Times.
For Chartered it is crucial to have a new investor willing to help the company. According to sources with knowledge of the matter, the semiconductor company has not started to invest into next-generation fabs, which means that in about a year or two from now Chartered will not be able to compete for designs that require 32nm or 28nm process technologies.
ATIC cannot make Chartered a part of Globalfoundries since in that case AMD's stake in the company will erode and it can have legal issues with Intel regarding the license for x86 technology.
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10 new polling places open today
But motor vehicle department is closing for election
Attention Pueblo vehicle owners — don't try to register a car or get new license plates until Wednesday.
The motor vehicle department at the Pueblo County Courthouse will be closed until next week because it is being converted into a polling center for the Sept. 10 recall election. It will be one of 10 new polling centers open for voting today.
State Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, is up for recall and voting has been underway since Friday at the county's election office, 720 N. Main St.
"Any vehicle owner who is fined during that period for not having an up-to-date registration can have the fine waived because the motor vehicle department will be closed until Wednesday," Gilbert "Bo" Ortiz said.
Beginning today, voters in Senate District 3 can cast their ballots at any of the following:
County Election Office, 720 N. Main St.
Southwest Motors Events Center, State Fairgrounds
Pueblo West Library, 298 S. Joe Martinez Blvd.
Southern Colorado Gaming Center (the old dog track), 3215 Lake Ave.
La Quinta Inn, 4801 N. Elizabeth St.
City Park Pavilion, 800 Goodnight Ave.
Pueblo County Housing and Human Services Building, 2631 E. Fourth St.
Pueblo West Fire Station No. 3, 729 E. Gold Drive.
Belmont Church of the Nazarene, 1702 Bonforte Blvd.
El Pueblo History Museum, 301 N. Union Ave.
Motor Vehicle Department, Pueblo County Courthouse.
All of the polling places will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Tuesday, including Saturday and Sunday.
On Tuesday, those locations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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It looks like L&B has been in the news lately:
Starting to be the go to simple pie around here. Cheapo teflon pans seem to work o.k. also.
I thought L&B used black standard half sheet pans?You can get the same 10x14 pans as at Bucket Outlet pre-seasoned here for about the same price: http://detroitstylepizza.co/?s=pans&searchsubmit=Search
cool source craig, I didn't know about this place. In my neck of the woods its all about a pizza style that is also pan cooked, and has that awesome charred cheese on the edge like a detroit style pizza. Most of the pre seasoned pans sold around here have a coating sprayed on them by the manufacturer. Its not like most teflon non stick coatings, and they call it "pre seasoned" not "non stick" which they also sell. Its a semi permanent coating that sort of freaks me out. Im not sure what it is, but its almost seems like a harder than typical neoprene coating. Its not ceramic. Whatever it is, I would obviously prefer a baked on coating of oil or shortening. Do you know how these pans are pre seasoned?
I think it's baked on oil, but I don't know for sure. I have some inbound. I'll post after I hold them in my hands.CL
Seriously, just sauce to the edge right up onto the pan then bake. The flavor of burnt sauce is silly! -Marc
Scott, maybe I can teach you something for once hahaha, the burnt edges thing is most def SAUCE! last time I was at town spa the locals told me and no doubt they were right! Seriously, just sauce to the edge right up onto the pan then bake. The flavor of burnt sauce is silly! -Marc
That would make L&B's pies better, IMO. I didn't particularly care for the relatively large rim with no cheese or sauce.
@sum1else: What do you think accounts for the diff in the crumb vs your other try? I mostly don't use a mixer for dough (make a lot of bread Tartine style and have such a small kitchen it is cumbersome to break out applicances) so I am likely to take a similar approach to you, but in consideration of what @dellavecchia is doing as well. Between the two of you things are getting pretty close. Pretty darn cool guys !@all: I usually go to L&B 2-3 times a year in the summer (it is close to me but not that close). Is anyone close enough that they could take a peak in the dumpster there (for tomato cans etc.)?I wonder if the twice baked thing is stemming from confusion about them putting the pie directly on the deck for a bit, which I have def seen them do.


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The Alpena girls basketball team lined up a game with Saginaw Nouvel on Friday for the first time since 2006.
In spite of some solid play in the fourth quarter, the Wildcats came up empty ended in a tough 57-23 loss.
Nouvel struck quickly and the Panthers took firm control of the game early, going on an eight-point scoring run that left the Wildcats struggling to catch up.
Alpena did a good job of snatching rebounds but its offense often seemed rushed with too many missed passes.
"This will be a good run up for us against Traverse City West and Petoskey in the upcoming weeks. It's a great way to test our abilities," Alpena coach Jenny Poli said.
Kollien was able to hit two quick field goals to take the game to 12-6 with three minutes left, but McInerney's strong play quickly pushed the game to 18-6. Caten Teff ended the quarter with two free throws to narrow the lead to 18-8.
The Wildcats (4-9, 3-5 Big North) then ran into huge troubles in the second quarter as their offense struggled to mount successful runs. They pushed into their territory frequently but the ball just wouldn't drop.
They did a solid job on defense but lost many rebounds under the Panthers' hoop as they pushed further and further into the lead.
Alpena saw some strong defensive play from Ami Milligan and Lizzy Trelfa especially with rebounding. They also did a good job at forcing jump balls, which often worked out in their favor.
In the end, the Wildcats weren't able to score a basket all period, scoring their only points of the quarter off two Teff free throws to end the half down 34-10.
The third quarter saw increased offensive effectiveness from Alpena.Nouvel's Taylor Hengensbach scored first but Kollien answered 20 seconds later. Trelfa then hit a free throw to pull Alpena to 36-13.
Strong defense by the 'Cats helped them hold the Panthers scoreless for over two minutes, thanks to strong defense from players like Megan Barkley and Lexi Smith.
The Panthers punched out a few field goals from McInerney and Laurel Jacqmain but were then held scoreless for another three minutes.
The Panthers led 47-18 after three quarters.
The solid offensive pressure Alpena built up began to fade a little in the fourth but they did a better job at shutting down the Panthers offensively, holding them to 10 points.
The Wildcats moved the ball well, but still had a hard time getting shots to drop. Barkley hit a trey late in the quarter while Smith and Teff hit a free throw a piece.
"I think we did pretty well offensively and defensively, especially looking inside for the post. But Alpena is always a really aggressive and scrappy team. That's something you can always count on from them," Panthers coach Kris Hengesbach said.
Alpena hosts Traverse City West on Monday.
The Alpena JV team lost 56-31. Top scorers were Morgan Allen with nine points and Rachel Zolnierek with six.
Alpena's freshman team beat Saginaw in a tight 38-34 game that saw Rachael Barkley score eight points while Chloe Ferguson and Mary Schimmel each scored six points. The freshman now have a 10-1 record.
Saginaw (57): P. Albito 2-0-0-4: A. Joynt 3-0-0-6: C. Nisula 1-0-0-2: L. Jacqmain 4-3-3-11: L. Stroebel 1-0-0-2: R. McInerney 7-1-3-15: M. Fulgencio 1-0-2-2: N. Buckingham 1-1-2-3: T. Hengesbach 3-0-0-6: S. Sawyer 1-4-4-6.
Alpena (23): M. Barkley 1-0-0-3: L. Smith 0-1-2-1: K. Lay 1-0-0-2: A. Milligan 1-0-0-2: C. Teff 0-5-7-5: A. hatch 0-1-2-1: L. Trelfa 0-1-2-1: C. Kollien 4-0-1-8.


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Jets Waive S Celestin
The New York Jets announced today that safety Oliver Celestin was waived. The announcement was made by General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.
Celestin, 25, concluded his second season with the Jets in 2005. The product of Texas Southern University was signed by the Jets on November 9, 2004 off of the Minnesota Vikings' practice squad. The former undrafted rookie free agent signee of the Cleveland Browns in 2003 gained a foothold in professional football by playing in NFL Europe for the Berlin Thunder in 2004 and then signed as a free agent with the Vikings before being waived and signing to their practice squad in 2004.
With the Jets (2004-2005), Celestin played in 20 regular season games and recorded 31 tackles and one pass defensed on defense, including a career-high 26 tackles in 2005. On special teams, the New Orleans native added 16 special teams tackles, as well as one forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. Celestin also appeared in both of the Jets' postseason games, playing primarily on special teams, in their 2004 postseason run.
he seemed like a servisable player, provided some decent depth, i hope all these cuts r worth it
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The bake turned out to be absolutely phenomenal. I was able to let the bread rise on a screen which made it easy to insertthe bread into the oven. The hearth temperature was 550, so I'mguessing the air to be around 700. I was able to mist the breadwith a spray bottle at regular intervals during the 18 min bake.
Thanks Mark, Amazing oven spring in that dough.Have you had a chance to try out the charcoal / gas yet?
Hey Mark,How many loaves do you bake at a time when youdo bread? and out of curiosity what is your standard temperatureand how long does it take to bake your bread.


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julian had his choice made, as a child, by john.
a vicious price that yoko continues to this day.
Once again another double standard involving Yoko.
Julian is not the first child to come from a split home. Sure he is bitter and he has reason to be, but so it is for all kids of divorced parents.
imho, paul has acted with honor and respect for his former bandmates in a way john and yoko do not even come close to.
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Topic: Breadcrumbs with REST
I would like to create breadcrumbs for an app built on REST. I think it should be pretty easy (in theory) to build the breadcrumbs directly from the requested URI because of the way the URI structure is nested already (i.e. http://myapp.com/artists/1/releases/2/tracks/1 == Artists >> Releases >> Tracks)
I just need a vigorous prodding in the right direction to get started. Regular Expressions? Hmmm.... could get messy. Maybe some nifty built-in methods I don't already know about?
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Nothing effects me more than terrible grammer and spelling. T_____T
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They irk me not.
I agree that it could be annoying, but don't stress over it. If you go to the other extreme and nitpick every little thing, you may end up being worse than the people who don't care about language.
Do you actually spend time loving language. Do you enjoy it at all? Do you write for the joy of it?
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Very much so. Especially in Spanish.
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i couldnt care less, i only use the appropriate periods and commas at most to make my sentances legable. however my spelling still sucks and i really dont care, you know what i am typing and dont harass me because i spell something wrong, most of the time i miss it and most of the time i really really dont care. but if your in a professional position or applying for a job or emailing a company like sony or microsoft on a broken system then appropriet whatever its called should be profesional.
i love anime and video games
Sometimes it does, most of the time it doesn't.
it doesn't matter online, i couldnt care less, everyone has his slang...but when you talk to me, especially in french, it irks me a lot :p use proper verbs and tense please
When you really want something, the whole universe conspires to make it happen.
It depends.
I do like lolcat language though.
Winter Is Coming.
On occasion.
But for the most part I've found it easier not to bother.
It's far too easy to make a typographical error. I usually edit my post when I see one.
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My first forum was run by grammar nazis, and I still can't remember most of my grammar lessons. So yes, atrocious, unreadable sentences, typing solely in L33T speak, and typing like you're texting on your phone or in chat in forums tend to make me want to take out the whip and leather for a bit. Metaphorically speaking of course.
Yes it annoys me. Honestly, I pretty much home-schooled myself from year 8 onwards, my friends graduated from high school and can't spell the words that you learn in the second grade, yet I am MUCH more intelligent than them all.
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. ~Itachi Uchiha
Grammar Nazi = Sarcasm.
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Grammar Nazi
A captious individual who cannot resist the urge to correct a spelling and/or grammar mistake even in informal settings. After pointing out the linguistic shortcomings in others, a Grammar Nazi feels a strange sense of twisted and unconstructive intelligentsia delight.
In reality, they are making someone else feel bad for no reason and unintentionally implying that their "superior" grammar skills are all they have to show for a wasted liberal arts education.
lol are you a grammar nazi u are if u spell correctly in text messages chat rooms forums and even in video games
lol i still dont hate u 4 being one i just dont like it when you u point out how others spell a word wrong or if they use the word wrong
iam very bored {freedom of speech}
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I don't mind slang, lolspeak and abbreviations but sometimes there are words that are spelled right but used wrong. For example, I see verbs that people avoid conjugating to the proper tense simply because they forget how:
You forgot an Oxford comma there, friend.
It does irk me, but more in real life then online. It really annoys me when people try to write how they would if they were online or texting someone in English, then wonder why they failed the class.


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Selling two items here, as I've moved away from matcha and more into other teas.
I have references here as well as 100% feedback on eBay (user name dodgerfn82). I can be contacted here via PM, however communication via email is much better for me (using email@example.com).
First is a porcelain chawan. This piece truly is stunning and yet very functional. Dimensions are 3.5"h x 4.2"w. It holds about 17 oz. of water when it is filled all the way up to the brim.
It was created by an extremely skilled artisan in the U.S. by the name of Ron Mello. According to the description: "this piece was high fired with multiple glazes. The photos don't really do justice to the wonderful soft, iridescent surface of this piece. It's truly a one-of-a-kind."
I'm asking $50 OBO for the chawan--the price includes shipping in the USA via USPS First Class Mail with tracking and full insurance. I will eat the Paypal fees.
Next up for sale is two unopened (with air tight seal) 50g bags of "Organic Uji Matcha Yuuki Konjo" from the well-known vendor Yuuki-Cha.
I paid $29 shipped for both, and I'm asking $12 OBO for each 50g bag (if you'd like both bags then I can do $22 combined)--the price includes shipping,in the USA via USPS First Class Mail with tracking and full insurance. I will eat the Paypal fees.
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On some other forum sites, they have everyone who registers for an account complete a 2-3 minute "Survey" of questions that basically determine if they are a bot or a real human. They could also have a basic 15 word limit.
Just a suggestion
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I still think re-captcha is the answer, those things are hard for ME to answer sometimes, I cant imagine they have a limitless supply of bilingual Russians who wouldn't kill themselves after solving those things for 5 mins straight.
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Warren's waterfront has gone from featuring a mill race and island that was a bustling shipping and receiving area with keel boats, dockworkers, and the occasional steamboat to the current placid and picturesque scene.
A mural created in 1952 to commemorate the day 100 years earlier when two sternwheelers arrived on the same day shows those steamboats alongside that island.
Now the island is part of the rest of the land on the north side of the river. There are no ships – steam or otherwise – making deliveries of potatoes, pork, flour, or other necessities. Keel boats pushed upstream by men with poles are long gone.
According to the granddaughter of the man who commissioned the painting, none of the buildings pictured remain today. Even the remains of a covered bridge are difficult to see.
Ellen Paquette, whose grandfather, Harold Putman, had artist Elton Davis create the mural, said the scene is as accurate as possible.
"My dad remembers my grandpa sitting down at a card table with Elton Davis looking at old pictures," Paquette said.
They took whatever images were available of the Warren riverfront and pieced together an image that includes everything from the mouth of the Conewango Creek to the covered bridge that extended off of Hazel Street.
The bridge was built in 1839 and fell apart in pieces in 1954, Paquette said. When the sun shines on the river from the right direction, what is left of the piers can still be seen, she said.
The Carver House, which stood where the Kwik Fill gas station is now at the intersection of Hickory Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, may have been the last building left from the 1850s.
Paquette identified the Carver House on the mural as the leftmost of two three-story reddish buildings west of the island. The building was originally built in the 1830s and was a hotel at the time of the 1956 fire which destroyed it.
The painting seems to feature a vantage point across the river from what is now Liberty Street. The Hickory Street bridge now cuts into the view from that location.
The rights to the mural now lie in the hands of the Warren County Historical Society.
"They've donated the copyright to the Historical Society as a fundraiser," Director Michelle Gray said. "We're extremely appreciative."


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I think I'm experiencing forum-weariness. I'm finding it hard to contribute to the threads on stuff that've been discussed over and over on my time here. I think I'm mainly going to stick to the NPC threads and new Beatle/Paul stuff that springs up. So apologies if people think I'm not getting involved as much as I used to, it's just I've said everything i have to say on the RRS medley, or my dream Macca setlist, or whether the Beatles would ever have got back together!
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Global studies of economic freedom, such as the Heritage Foundation's 2012 Index of Economic Freedom and the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World 2012, rank the United States and Canada as two of the most economically free countries in the world. But, as data from the North America report shows, not all sections of the countries are experiencing an equal level of economic freedom and it is important to look at areas in which this falters.
States and provinces were evaluated and ranked within three categories: 1) Size of Government; 2) Takings and Discriminatory Taxation; and 3) Labor Market Freedom. The Canadian province, Alberta, claimed the top spot as most economically free, followed closely by Delaware. New Mexico placed 59th, making it the least economically free state, followed by Prince Edward Island of Canada, notching the rank of least economically free area in North America (between the United States and Canada).
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Tuesday morning at the [Oracle OpenWorld 2011] conference started with another keynote session. This time, Michael Dell, founder, chairman and CEO of Dell, Inc., presented. Over the past nine years, he feels "the line between business and IT is going away." Michael claims that "Dell is no longer a PC company", and instead is focusing on data center solutions and services to be more like IBM.
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Ganesh Ramamurthy, Oracle VP of Hardware Engineering, presented the SPARC Supercluster. This combines the storage cells from Exadata, the compute nodes from Exalogic, shared NAS storage using ZFS file system, and Solaris 11 with OracleVM. Taking a cue from IBM's zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, Oracle is offering centralized management for all the layers in their SPARC Supercluster stack. The SPARC Supercluster is intended as general purpose machine, and can be used to run non-Oracle applications like SAP. From a storage perspective, he claims that the storage in the SPARC Supercluster is 2.5x better than EMC VMAX, which basically puts it comparable to IBM XIV pricing.
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10/05/11, 9:30 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m., Solution Spotlight, Booth #1111 Moscone South
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In this session, gain valuable insight into high-availability systems leveraging Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Hear best practices and lessons learned with these Oracle technologies as well as how IBM utilizes cloud infrastructure with Oracle Clusterware and server pools.
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10/05/11, 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m., OpenWorld session #9423
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June 20, 2011 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Shop N Save Cereal Name Change
SUBJECT 2: New Nutrition Reports
SUBJECT 3: Plastic Sleeve Order for July – October 2011
SUBJECT 4: Public Comment Invited on 2012 WIC State Plan
Shop N Save Cereal Name Change: Shop N Save brand cereal will be changing its name to "Essential Everyday". Attached is the list of old and new images of cereal boxes. Prior to October 1, 2011, WIC participants may purchase either the Shop N Save brand cereals or the Essential Everyday brand cereals whichever is available at the Shop N Save vendors.
Effective October 1, 2011, the participants must use the new Missouri WIC Approved Food List, which has the Essential Everyday brand. Please share this information with your staff and participants. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
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- Nutrition Education Coded by Peer Counselor
- Nutrition Education Follow-Up – Summary
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- Risk Factor 142 – Premature Infants – Detail
- Secondary NE Coded to Each Participant
- Smoking Status: Prenatals – Detail
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