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Contrary call on yen from Morgan Stanley [View news story]
A Useless And Dangerous Mountain Of Money [View article]
1) The US has a much lower debt-to-GDP ratio than Japan (100% vs. 250%).
2) The US does not have the world's oldest population, unlike Japan, and thus does not have the enormous pension and medical burden the Japanese government faces.
3) The US allows immigration to bring in a fresh supply of skilled labor (I'm not talking about illegal aliens), thus no terminally declining population like Japan.
4) Japan's level of QE is MUCH higher than the US (by about 3X)
5) The US can produce its own energy (especially shale natural gas), whereas Japan must import most of theirs.
6) US is home to many innovative companies that drive the world economy, where as most major Japanese companies and industries are in terminal decline.
7) The US has no military enemies, but Japan is faced with their enemy China, who in a short time will surpass the Japanese military in both size and capabilities. Currently the US protects Japan, but US military budgets are declining every year, so the US will be increasingly less able to do so in the future, leaving Japan ever more vulnerable to strategic attack by China. So the Chinese know all they have to do is bid their time. The Chinese hate the Japanese and are waiting for the chance to attack.
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Japan: Printing Up Miracles And Mirages [View article]
Auto parts makers to plead guilty to U.S. price-fixing [View news story]
Auto parts makers to plead guilty to U.S. price-fixing [View news story]
Applied Materials to merge with Tokyo Electron [View news story]
More tension between Japan and China worries Japanese automakers [View news story]
Kerry: International support growing for action against Syria [View news story]
"AIPAC to deploy hundreds of lobbyists to push for Syria action.
Pro-Israel lobby says 250 activists will meet with their senators and representatives in Washington in a bid to win support Congressional support for military action in Syria." -
Kerry: International support growing for action against Syria [View news story]
In fact, who exactly who is behind this maniacal drive to attack a small, weak country which has never attacked or threatened us?? -
Nikkei: NTT DoCoMo to offer iPhone as soon as this fall [View news story]
If DoCoMo gets the iPhone, it will cement the death of Japanese smartphone makers, who not only cannot compete at home against Apple and Samsung, but have almost no overseas presence (except for the Sony Xperia, which is largely outsold by Apple and Samsung anyway). -
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Japan's debt load as a percentage of GDP is twice as high as the US, and their demographic situation is a nightmare. Japan is already in the zone of insolvency, whereas the US is not. -
Obama to seek Congressional approval on Syria strikes: Clarity or more uncertainty? [View news story]
I blame neither Obama nor Bush for the problems in the middle east. The place always has been and always will be a mess. The job of American leaders is to simply make sure we do not get entangled in it, something which Bush and Obama failed us at. But at least Obama is redeeming himself by refraining from a Syria strike (he also probably has pressure from the US military who, unlike Democratic and Republican politicians, actually put the interests of the US first, and are therefore standing against a Syria attack). -
Obama to seek Congressional approval on Syria strikes: Clarity or more uncertainty? [View news story]
2) This war is being imposed on the US by Neocons, whose goal is to get America into endless war in the middle east.
3) Obama is against a Syria strike, smartly, but can't say so publicly for fear of appearing weak to war-mongering Americans. So he wisely will let Congress vote NO.
4) I can't believe this is coming out of my mouth, but Putin is right. There is absolutely no evidence that Assad ordered this attack. My personal opinion is that the rebels did it deliberately in a bid to blame Assad. They may have had the help of the Israelis. -
Japan consumer prices rise faster than expected [View news story]
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Ubisoft's latest trailer for Far Cry 3, which last week went gold, puts the focus on all the gameplay features we can look forward to as we blast our way over, under and through multiple islands. There's pretty dynamic fire, big explosions, savage wildlife, jerk bag enemies, lush environments, tons of weapons, and plenty of surprises. Producer Dan Hay narrates the video. Ubisoft is super excited about Far Cry 3 because it's "achieved among the best playtest scores in Ubisoft's history," revealed CEO Yves Guillemot last month. Far Cry 3 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC November 29th in EU, 20th in UK, December 4th in US. |
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Colgate's Peter Baum wins the Tewaaraton Trophy as college lacrosse's best player
May 31, 2012, 9:55PM
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Foxborough, Mass. -- The Cortland men's lacrosse team vowed to brush aside the awesome statistics and accolades that accompanied Salisbury to Sunday's Division III national title game and slug it out with the Sea Gulls. The Red Dragons were true to their word but simply ran out of punches with the game hanging in the balance, falling 14-10 before... Full story »
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May 27, 2012, 2:00AM
Foxborough, Mass. -- Call them unheralded. They understand. Call them the underdog. They understand that, too. But most of all call them undaunted. They are the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons (21-0), who will step into the national lacrosse stage today for the fifth time in seven years at 4 p.m. today when they face Salisbury (22-0) at Gillette Stadium... Full story »
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Le Moyne College Dolphins lacrosse junior goalkeeper Jeff White has been named the recipient of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the most outstanding goalkeeper in Division II, as announced by the association on InsideLacrosse.com. White, who became the fourth Dolphin to be named the Northeast-10 Conference Goalkeeper of the Year, is... Full story »
Colgate Raiders lacrosse attackman Peter Baum tabbed Division I's top player by USILA
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Cortland Red Dragons coach Steve Beville drives a luxury model to even higher performance
May 25, 2012, 2:00AM
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Central New York duo puts Florida women's lacrosse team ahead of the learning curve
May 24, 2012, 6:00AM
Goalie Mikey Meagher, from Liverpool, and midfielder Nora Barry, from Marcellus, have helped spark the No. 1 Gators to an NCAA Tournament semifinal against Syracuse on Friday Full story »
Duke routs Colgate to advance to NCAA men's lacrosse Final Four
May 20, 2012, 5:47PM
The Raiders held a 4-2 lead in the first quarter, before the Blue Devils replied with 13 straight goals to take control of the game. Full story »
Cortland rallies to defeat Tufts, advances to NCAA Division III lacrosse title game
May 20, 2012, 2:54PM
Cortland goalie Mike Kaminski made a career-high 16 saves as the Red Dragons advance to the NCAA championship game next Sunday. Full story »
Cortland women's lacrosse team falls in semifinals of NCAA D-III Tournament
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Le Moyne College lacrosse team falls behind early and never catches Limestone in D-II semifinals
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Tumolo's late score lifts Syracuse University to 17-16 win over North Carolina in NCAA women's lax quarterfinal
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The shot was a blur when it left Syracuse University attacker Michelle Tumolo's stick and remained that way several minutes later. The only clarity that mattered at the end is this: the Orange women's lacrosse team is heading back to the final four. That was assured when Tumolo's goal with five seconds left capped a stunning rally and lifted... Full story »
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The idea of German decoupling is bunkum
24 April, 2012, 17:50. Posted by Walter KurtzTags: Decoupling, German
By Walter Kurtz, Sober Look
The concept of German decoupling from the Eurozone recession may have been wishful thinking. The latest German Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) has converged with that of the Eurozone as a whole. Manufacturing PMI is a closely watched index and tends to be a leading indicator for the GDP.
German (white) vs. Eurozone (orange) Manufacturing PMI ( Source: Bloomberg)
In response, Spain's 5yr sovereign CDS hit a new record high of 511bp (previous high was 510 on 4/16). The Eurozone is headed for a double dip.
Spain 5yr sovereign CDS (Source: Bloomberg)
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting in Charlotte on Monday on whether nuclear power plants can safely store spent fuel after the plants stop operating.
A U.S. Court of Appeals last year vacated the NRC's "waste confidence" rule, in which the agency said used fuel could be safely stored for at least 60 years after plants retire. The court said analyses underpinning the rule were flawed.
The NRC is now taking public comment on a new, proposed rule. Details are at www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/wcd.html.
Anti-nuclear and industry groups are expected to attend the Charlotte meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Hilton Charlotte University Place, 8629 J.M. Keynes Drive.
Spent nuclear fuel, which is hot and highly radioactive when removed from reactors, is immersed in large pools of cooling water that also shield radiation. The fuel is sometimes then transferred to dry-storage systems of concrete and steel.
Duke Energy operates six nuclear plants in the Carolinas – McGuire and Catawba near Charlotte; Harris near Raleigh; Brunswick on the North Carolina coast; and Oconee and Robinson in South Carolina.
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The Flower Anthem by Karina Eibatova
Juxtapoz // Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Something hypnotic, something mesmerizing to start your morning. Nine plus minutes, three quiet, ethereal songs, one artist by the name of Karina Eibatova taking black and white flowers out of her mouth, continually, and placing them on her face, all done to the music of the very talented Washed Out.
Gorillaz in CGI for "DoYaThing" Video
Music // Thursday, March 01, 2012
Coinciding with the Gorillaz x Converse Collection, the successful music/animation project Gorillaz is back with a new video featuring the animated characters with CGI effects. The track also features former LCD Soundsystem-er James Murphy and Andre 3000 from Outkast.
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Photography and Album Covers by Neil Krug
Music // Tuesday, February 28, 2012
We have always been huge fans of photographer Neil Krug's photography and filmmaking, which we have always thought of as a neo-psychedelic sexual revolution, apocalyptic, Fear and Loathing in the Desert, lost roll of film and now developed 40 years kind of an experience. Maybe that is what it is.
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LEGOS as Album Cover Art by Aaron Savage
Music // Thursday, January 19, 2012
You know we love a good LEGO art project, and we are really enjoying Aaron Savage's collection of famous album covers reimagined in LEGOS. We never thought Bowie, Pink Floyd, Saturday Night Fever or the Smiths would looks so good in LEGOS. Can you guess most of the covers? Plenty after the jump . . .
JR x Massive Attack: "Encrages" Video
Juxtapoz // Thursday, January 05, 2012
French artist and social activist JR opened a new exhibition, Encrages, at Galerie Perrotin in Paris this past November, and the gallery just released a video featuring British mainstays Massive Attack playing surrounded my massive (hey-o) projections of JR's work. A well done video by Guillaume Cagniard. The show officially ends on January 7, 2012.
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Album and Music Art by Leif Podhajsky
Juxtapoz // Tuesday, December 20, 2011
When we look back on some of the better albums we have listened to in the Jux offices this year, Lykke Li's Wounded Rhymes and Shabazz Palaces' Black Up were tops on our list. We just learned that artist and creative director Leif Podhajsky designed artwork for both artists this year, as well as a group of great underground musicians and projects.
Music Video: Fleet Foxes "The Shrine/An Argument" Animation
Music // Monday, November 21, 2011
You have to love a band like Fleet Foxes, who release a critically acclaimed debut only to be just as solid on their sophomore effort. FF frontman Robin Pecknold's brother, Sean, just created this fantastic animation video for the epic track "The Shine/An Argument" off Fleet Foxes 2011 LP, Helplessness Blues. Great work. Stacey Rozich, whom we have profiled in the magazine before, did the character illustrations.
"Big Bad Wolf" Directed by Keith Schofield
Juxtapoz // Friday, October 28, 2011
Whether you've heard Duck Sauce's new single Big Bad Wolf or not, we recommend you watch this video. It is strange, creepy, and completely insane, and those are exactly all the reasons that we love it.
Video Exclusive: Portugal. The Man Claymation Music Video
Music // Thursday, October 27, 2011
Today, we have an exclusive premiere of the new Portugual. The Man claymation video for their new song, "All Your Light." Friends of the band put the video together, based on the art of The Fantastic The (lead singer John Gourley's art collaboration with Austin Sellers). Watch after the jump . . .
Feature: A conversation with William Keihn
Juxtapoz // Thursday, October 20, 2011
Depending on who you ask, chewing mushrooms and holing up in your room isn't exactly an A+ idea. But among all of the posters that could possibly melt off your wall, William Keihn's psychedelic foray into low-culture is the kind of simulacra you want in your peripheral. Tyler Curtis interviews...


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If you sell hamburger under the name filet mignon and hope people buy it -- well, good luck, because it's still hamburger.
Which is what Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco will be doing as he peddles his conference's football product to the networks.
The news Tuesday that Tulane and East Carolina will be joining the Big East in 2014 -- the Pirates for football, only -- brings to six the number of current members of Conference USA who'll soon be Big East members.
Memphis, Houston, Southern Methodist and Central Florida will be leaving Conference USA to play in the Big East in 2013, to be joined by the Green Wave and East Carolina in 2014.
Current Big East schools Louisville, Cincinnati, and South Florida are former Conference USA members -- although the Cardinals soon are expected to leave for, if not the ACC, then the Big 12, because, after all, they've already been in Conference USA.
As were, for basketball, current Big East members DePaul and Marquette.
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Title: | Performance trade-offs in manufacturing plants |
Author(s): | John Mapes, (Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, UK), Colin New, (Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, UK), Marek Szwejczewski, (Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, UK) |
Citation: | John Mapes, Colin New, Marek Szwejczewski, (1997) "Performance trade-offs in manufacturing plants", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 17 Iss: 10, pp.1020 - 1033 |
Keywords: | Awards, Manufacturing strategy, Operations management, Trade-offs |
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Abstract: | A sample of 782 manufacturing plants drawn from the UK Best Factor Awards database was used to investigate the nature of trade-offs between different measures of manufacturing performance. Each plant was ranked within its industry on each performance measure, a high ranking indicating good performance on that measure and a low ranking indicating poor performance. By comparing the ranking of each plant within its industry on each performance measure it was possible to determine the extent to which good performance on one measure was correlated with good performance on other measures. Rankings on added value per employee £, quality consistency, delivery reliability, speed of delivery and the rate of new product introduction were positively correlated, suggesting that good performance on each of these factors is associated with good performance on the rest. Only the extent to which a plant exhibited product variety showed conventional trade-off characteristics, being negatively correlated with rankings on added value per employee £ and the rate of new product introduction. This implies that, provided that individual operating units can be organized so that each is focused on a relatively narrow product range, trade-offs can be avoided. |


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Why one nation takes a higher ground or falls back leaving room for another doesn't arise solely from the nations themselves. In such a case superpowers mean that they have come to their position of power by means that they cannot justify themselves. In such a case if they throw their weight around what do they mean? Is it not that they justify rule of the might? The mighty keeps their position unchallenged by the way they can silence opposition. Their governance is a show of their superiority and laws are one-sided to protect their lawlessness and punish those who are client states and the governed. One need only look at England's role in the opium wars in China during the Manchu dynasty. In the present post let me show how England responded to the great famine in India (1876–78) when Lord Lytton was the viceroy.
His uncompromising implementation of Britain's trading policy is blamed for the severity of the famine, which killed up to 10 million people. (The relief workers were paid a reduced wage on the curious belief that any excessive payment might create dependency among the famine-afflicted population! The mindset of superpower creates its own rationale and the minions who run the colony see to that no protest against their lawlessness is heard outside.)
The Great Famine was to have a lasting political impact on events in India.
The British administrators in India who were unsettled by the official reactions to the famine and, in particular by the stifling of the official debate about the best form of famine relief, were William Wedderburn and A. O. Hume. Less than a decade later, they would found the Indian National Congress and, in turn, influence a generation of nationalists such as Dadabhai Naoroji and Romesh Chunder Dutt.
A superpower in short shortchanges principles of equity and justice at so many levels.
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Posted in history, tagged Add new tag, client states, Great Britain, lawlessness, moral quotient, The British Raj, trading policies on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Balzac Writes a Play
Posted in anecdotes, tagged actor, Add new tag, Balzac, Frederick Lemaitre, Gallic spirit, genius, Human Comedy, writer on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Théophile Gautier himself no mean writer has left this account of Balzac's attempt to write a play. Hard pressed for cash the celebrated author Honoré de Balzac got the advance for a play, which was to be on Vautrin, a character from Père Goriot. Hartel, the manager of Porte-St.Martin Theatre, as luck would have it was in need of a play. Père Goriot was already a success and M. Hartel agreed. Frédérick Lemaitre(who figures in the film Les Enfants du Paradis-1945) was to play the title role. Gautier and a few others were roped in to hear the reading of the play.
At last they assembled on the premises of the tailor Buisson, in the rue de Richelieu where a room was furnished for the purpose.
'So here is Théo at last!' Balzac cried,'Lazy and late as ever. You should have been here an hour ago…I've got to read Hartel a five act play tomorrow.'
'And you want our opinion?' we asked setting ourselves in our armchairs with the air of men preparing for a long session.
Perceiving from our attitude Balzac said with perfect simplicity: 'It isn't written.'
'For Heaven's sake!'I exclaimed, 'In that case you'll have to postpone the reading for six weeks.'
'Not a bit of it. We're going to knock off this dramorama and raise the wind. Just now my arrears are pretty heavy.'
'But we can't do it between now and tomorrow. There won't be time to copy it.'
'This is how I arranged it. You'll do one act, Ourliac another, Laurent- Jan the third, de Belloy the fourth and I'll do the fifth-and I'll read it by midday tomorrow as agreed. One act of play is only four or five hundred lines and anyone can write five hundred lines of dialogue in a day and night.'
'Well, if you'll tell me the subject and give me the scenario and let me know something about the characters, I'll get to work,' I said not a little alarmed.
'Oh Lord,' he cried, with a look of superb astonishment and magnificent scorn, 'if I've got to tell you what it is all about we shall never get it done!'
Needless to say it was not done in time.
Compiler: benny( Prometheus: the life of Balzac by André Maurois)
Salieri-amadeus film
Posted in life, tagged Add new tag, Amadeus, archive, film, Mozart, Salieri on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Leopold Mozart, father of the composer called him 'a scheming egotist,' which perhaps was right. The kapellemister of Joseph II and the younger composer became quite friendly towards the end of Mozart's life.
Salieri was highly regarded as a teacher and his pupils include Hummel,Beethoven,Schubert and Liszt.
selected from Mozart,the man,the musician
by Arthur Hutchings
Disraeli Anecdotes-1
Posted in anecdotes, tagged Add new tag, Benjamin Disraeli, British politics, Tories on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even when Disraeli was young he lived by the maxim:'To govern men you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them."Dizzy hated every bodily exertion and everything his contemporaries were passionate about. While at Malta he happened to remain in the galley watching English officer at a game of tennis. Ever at pains to play a dandy he picked the ball which flew and stopped by his side. While the player waited for the ball to be thrown back he gingerly picked it up. With exaggerated affectation he asked the one near to him for the ball to be forwarded to the court. His excuse was that he had never thrown a ball in his life.
Disraeli Contests
In 1832 Disraeli stood for High Wycombe as a radical. From the portico of the Red Lion he spoke with flourishes and verve for one and a half hours. Winding up his speech to the electorate he declaimed pointing the head of the lion above," When the poll is declared I shall be there," and pointing to the tail he continued,"my opponent will be there." The mob applauded him warmly but the Corporation and burgesses who controlled the election consigned him to the tail.
After many futile attempts to enter the House of Commons Disraeli managed with the active support to enter the House on 1837. On Dec.7 he rose to make his maiden speech, following Daniel O'Connel whose Irish Party gave the Whigs their majority. His elaborate sentences and stylish manner were to the radicals, like red flag waving before a bull. They had not forgotten his attacks on O'connel a few years ago. They laughed uproariously as he began and despite his persistent appeals to gain a hearing he was booed at. Nevertheless he persisted and he was barely audible. He said,"I am not at all surprised at the reception I have experienced. I have begun several things many times, and I have often succeeded at last as they had done before me."More hubbub. Upto this point he had appeared unruffled and good humored. But now in a voice almost a scream he shot out,"I sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me."
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Candid Comments
Posted in anecdotes, tagged Add new tag, boxer, Charlie Chaplin, concert pianist, George Orwell, Oscar Levant, Rocky Marciano on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In 1975 Charlie Chaplin summed up his astonishing career in films as follows,"I went into this business for money and art grew out of it,"
George Orwell author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984′ once told an interviewer that the prime reason he wrote books was his old fifth grade teacher might see his work and be remorseful that she had misjudged him.
Asked what was needed to make a successful piano vituoso, concert pianist Oscar Levant replied,"Talent,imagination,energy,determination,-and a very rich wife."
When world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano was asked who had hit him the hardest during his career,he shrugged,"That is easy-the tax collecter."
Biological Imperative
Posted in nature, philosophy, tagged Add new tag, cooperative effort, Cosmic Mind, food chain, power, survival strategy, wisdom on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Green algae form the basis of Arctic food chain. The March sun that filters through the Arctic Sea helps their growth and they form the staple diet for the Arctic carp; ring seals survive the extreme Arctic cold by feeding on these carps. Polar bears survive in turn by preying upon the seals. It is possible only because of an order that drives each life form to run on predictable lines. Such a certainty is the basis for the food chain.
This order is created because of material nature: each species express it and in that process have also acquired an ability to anticipate events.
How these species connect to one another in terms of survival is drawn from wisdom and power, a finite aspect of Cosmic Mind.
Oneness is in all and through all: so much so every life form is of same weight with reference to it.
How we limit purpose or usefulness of other species speaks more of our ignorance than truth.
Knife In The Water-1962
Posted in Polish cinema, tagged 100 Best Films, Add new tag, Polanski, Post War Poland, Soviet bloc on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Knife in the Water (Polish: Nóż w wodzie) was one of the surprising discoveries of the 1963 season when it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1963 Academy Awards. The filmmaker Roman Polanski with his debut became bracketed with Orson Welles who had similarly made a name with Citizen Kane. Both were mavericks, who flouted norms and later got on the wrong side of the Establishment for different reasons. Knife in the water brought Polanski fame and respect in the film community (and also got him on the cover of Time).
This 1962 film directed by Roman Polański features only three characters out of which two of the actors (Jolanta Umecka, who plays Krystyna and Zygmunt Malanowicz, who plays the young man) had virtually no previous professional experience. Roman Polanski had intended to take on the role of the young hitchhiker himself, but Jerzy Bossak, head of the Polish film unit KAMERA (who held the control over the production), vetoed the idea. Bossak didn't consider the director attractive enough. ( Curiously he let Polansky dub the voice of Malanowicz over. He had a strong, well developed bass voice, which was quite inappropriate for the character.)
This film in essentials forms part of trilogy of films based around a psychological ménage-à-trois with _Cul-de-Sac (1966)_ and Death and the Maiden (1994). All three films feature a couple whose lives are turned upside down by an outside character.
In a nutshell the film deals with rivalry and sexual tension between a couple who pick up an young student, a hitchhiker.
Andrzej and Krystyna are driving to a lake to go sailing when they come upon a young man hitchhiking in the middle of the road. After nearly hitting him, Andrzej sarcastically invites the young man to sit behind and to take a nap while they continue driving. When they arrive at the docks, instead of leaving the young man behind, the man invites him over.
Andrzej , the husband is a brute and unpleasant to boot while Kataryna his wife who, as typical of the female species knows when to assert her power over him. We are let in from their brief verbal exchanges that he married beneath his station and he intends to have his way whether right or wrong. Having picked up the younger man he could have let him go on his way. No instead he wants to continue the psychological cat-and mouse game: he knows he is in a dominant position.( At the beginning of the film we see him take over the wheel from his wife.) He has next set his sailboat as the stage for the game. The hitchhiker, as he had rightly calculated is wet behind his ears in the areas he thinks he is an expert, like the sailboat he commandeers. He as the captain is in control over his crew, his wife and the hitchhiker.
Tension gradually builds between Andrzej and the unnamed hitchhiker as they vie for the attentions of the young wife. As the threesome head out to open water, the husband and the student start a kind of jealous sparring which keeps Kataryna mildly amused. She knows the reason and she lets it develop as if she is not involved. What began as a mild battle of wills ends up in a fight that has the student falling overboard and the husband swimming to shore for help.
But things are not what they seem: the wife who is ever browbeaten into submission by her husband merely seems to have acquiesced but not left the contest completely; as the hitchhiker who has not surfaced from water may seem to have met some disastrous end. Yes, appearances are deceptive, as the husband will soon discover.
The title refers to the climatic point in the film when Andrzej taunts the young man and drops his pocket knife and it falls in the water.
Krzysztof Komeda's music is used in the film.
Directed by Roman Polanski
Produced by Stanislaw Zylewicz
Written by Jerzy Skolimowski
Roman Polański
Jakub Goldberg
Starring Leon Niemczyk
Jolanta Umecka
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Roman Polanski (voice)
Running time 94 min
Language Polish
'Knife in the Water is a symbolic film;…directly related to the communistic controversy. Poland's hard-line leader Wlandislaw Gomulka condemned the film at the 13th Plenary Session of the Communist Party (http://www.cafeinternet.co.uk/).The power struggle between Andrjez and the young hitchhiker demonstrates the rebellion against dictatorship after WWII.
Furthermore demonstrating competition relating to communism, the hiker has a specific skill with the knife he brings aboard… and Andrzej become curious, trying to perform the same tricks as the boy…is symbolic of the people and their skills, talents and beliefs'.
( Quoted from: Knife in the Water: Displaying Cultural Symbolism? By Kristin Fuller and Robin Seaton-May 1, 2000)
* Co-screenwriter Jerzy Skolimowski also was interested in playing the young hitchhiker's part.
* Initially, Polanski wanted to make a criminal story about a couple which takes a young hitchhiker to a boat trip, and at the end the boy dies in mysterious circumstances. In his version the trip was about a week long a involved some other characters. It was Jerzy Skolimowski who proposed to shorten it to one day and limit the number of characters. The final script was created in only three, four days by Polanski, Skolimowski and Jakub Goldberg in Polanski's apartment. While writing the script they were playing the dialogue, changing the roles all the time.
* The boat used in the movie is rumored to be a former property of Hermann Goering, the Nazi party member and a friend of Adolf Hitler, who used to spend summer holidays in the palace in Sztynort neighboring the filming locations. Sunk during World War II in the Mazurian Lakes, it was restored and is — up to present date — owned by Almatur Travel Agency located in Gizycko, Poland, very popular in Polish showbiz-related circles. The real name of the boat is "Rekin" ("The Shark").
# During one of top mast shots, the cameramen Jerzy Lipman was tied to the mast and hold a camera. Although the wind was not strong, the mast swung and the camera was heavy, so it was very difficult to take a good shot. All the time the director Roman Polanski was very excited about the shot and kept asking how it was going. Lipman got very angry and said "Fuck! It is fucking beautiful!" and… dropped the camera to the water. He had forgotten to attach it with the safety cable. The Arriflex camera couldn't be found by the divers and still lies somewhere in the lake.
# The first scene in the film shows Andrzej and Krystyna driving a car. As shooting from the platform in front of the car was not yet available, the crew was tied to the car, standing on its mask. To get the proper light effects, they held a blanket with a small hole for the camera. Leon Niemczyk (Andrzej) was really driving this car quite fast (this was crucial to this scene), but he couldn't see anything. He drove the car using the tops of the trees to imagine where the road is.
# After the movie became known in US, Polanski was given a proposal to remake the film in English with some known Hollywood actors (rumors talk about Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor), but he turned it down as he didn't want to "repeat himself".
# The couple's car, seen in the opening and closing sequences, was initially supposed to be a Mercedes, but this was replaced with a Peugeot during filming to avoid political controversy.
# The first Polish film to be nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar.
# This was Roman Polanski's directorial debut, and the only film he ever made in his native Poland. Shortly after the film was released, Polanski emigrated to France (then to England, and then to the US), where he established his international fame.
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Bitter Moon (1992, Roman Polanski)
Dark Harbor (1998, Adam Coleman Howard)
Dead In the Water (2001, Gustavo Lipsztein)
Open Water (2003, Chris Kentis)
Red Lights (2004, Cédric Kahn)
The Lightship (1985, Jerzy Skolimowski)
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Bergman's 'Smultronstället is a masterpiece. Out of a simple story of a crotchety man who makes a journey from Stockholm to Lund to receive an honorary degree for his fifty years stint as a doctor, the Swedish master has woven a universal saga of you and me. The life of a common man is etched in heroic proportions. Dr. Isaak Borg is somewhat like Arthur Miller's Willy Loman who had all his useful life glossed over his insubstantial self in a cleverly orchestrated ritual of living. Beneath his urbane exterior there beats a cold heart that has wrought enough havoc with all who are closest to him. Like Miller's salesman, his advanced years all of a sudden rip apart the carefully erected façade and also his defenses. The film is an interior 'odyssey' where his fears, frustrations and self-pity take shapes as any character from the Homer's saga.
The world lost one of its greatest film directors last year. In his "celluloid poems" (as Woody Allen calls them), film genius Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) examined the human condition in all of its bleakness, despair, humor, and hope, expanding our sense of what it means to be human. He favored intuition over intellect, and his films typically pondered the deepest concerns of humanity: mortality, loneliness, faith, and love. Considered one of his greatest films (and one of my personal favorites), Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) brilliantly examines the life of an aging, 78-year-old medical doctor, Professor Isaak Borg (Victor Sjöström). This film weaves several strands of lives blighted unconsciously by this protagonist. While traveling with his lovely daughter-in-law, Marianne (Ingrid Thulin), from Stockholm to Lund they pass time in exchanges and he is rather surprised that she doesn't particularly care for him or for Evald, his son. As the film progresses we see on what precipitous point their marriage stands and part of the blame lies with him. His inner journey is a journey of self-discovery; his daydreams, nightmares, and fellow travelers force him to face his past, examine his faults, and accept the inevitability of his impending death. Bergman's film explores the difficulties of marriage and human relationships as shown in that of his own and on a rebound that of Evald and Marianne. His own inability to communicate is juxtaposed with the couple (whom he gives a ride). Their verbal thrusts and innuendos remind one of Albee' Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf. Savor life's wild strawberries while you can. Success is fleeting, but regrets and disappointments will follow us for the rest of our lives. The point is brought home in the dream sequence where he is judged as incompetent and the interlocutor informs loneliness as the punishment for his callousness. Because Borg's inner journey is universal, Bergman's film will always remain relevant and emotionally powerful.
The film won 11 awards including the Golden Globe.
Criterion's edition includes a pristine digital transfer of Bergman's bittersweet masterpiece, a 90-minute documentary by filmmaker and author Jörn Donner, improved English subtitle translation, and a commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie.
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'Bergman, …uses flashbacks and bright, lyrical storytelling to capture the full arc of one man's life: the successes that seem fleeting, the disappointments that linger in the memory, the regrets that never seem to let go. In some ways, it can be seen as a forerunner of Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, except that Bergman's sense of irony is always more profound'.( Marshall Fine)
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Scientific Name: | Peropteryx trinitatis | |||
Species Authority: | Miller, 1899 | |||
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Taxonomic Notes: | This species has been previously confused with Peropteryx macrotis (Simmons and Voss, 1998). |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Data Deficient ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Date Assessed: | 2008-06-30 |
Assessor/s: | Sampaio, E., Lim, B. & Peters, S. |
Reviewer/s: | Medellín, R. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) |
Justification: This species is listed as Data Deficient in view of a lack of information on biology, ecology and population status of this species, there are also continuing uncertainties about its distribution. |
Range Description: | Trinidad and Tobago; Aruba Isl. (Netherlands Antilles); Grenada; Venezuela; Margarita Isl. (Venezuela); French Guiana (Simmons 2005). |
Countries: | Native: Aruba; French Guiana; Grenada; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of |
Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | This species is poorly known and considered by Emmons and Feer (1997) to be rare everywhere in its geographic range. However, this species may be confused with P. macrotis and so may be less rare than previously thought. It can be common, for example in caves in Venezuela. (Lim pers. comm.) As na aerial insectivore, it may be underrepresented in mistnet sampling, but can be more easily captured at roost sites. |
Population Trend: | Unknown |
Habitat and Ecology: | Very little is known on the natural history of this species. Roosts are in hollow trees and in hollow rotten logs on the ground (Eisenberg 1989) or under overhanging banks (Emmons and Feer 1997). Also found in caves in the Llanos in Venezuela (Lim pers. comm.). This is an aerial insectivore of background cluttered space. Distributional limits are still poorly known (Lim pers. comm.). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | Not known. |
Conservation Actions: | Need surveys to confirm distribution of the species. Need to review museum specimens of P. macrotis to confirm whether or not actually correspond to this species. |
Eisenberg, J. F. 1989. Mammals of the Neotropics. The Northern Neotropics. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA and London, UK. Emmons, L. H. and Feer, F. 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, Second edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA. Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA. Simmons, N. B. and Voss, R. S. 1998. The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1. Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237: 1-219. |
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Seattle Seahawks: Pete Carroll's Teams Aren't Typically Better After Losses
By Keith Myers ,
The Seattle Seahawks lost their first game of the season this past Sunday, getting knocked off by the Indianapolis Colts by the score of 34-28. The Seahawks now must focus on this week's game against the Tennessee Titans.
After the loss, the talk coming from the team predictably turned to preparing for the next game at hand. The players and coaches didn't seem particularly interested in dwelling on the loss, though a few members of the team indicated that the loss would motivate them to get better.
Pete Carroll called the big plays given up by the defense a "wake up shot," according to John Boyle of the Everett Herald.
Pete Carroll said the big plays his defense gave up vs. Indy, "Might have been a little wake-up shot there."
— John Boyle (@johnpboyle) October 9, 2013
Free safety Earl Thomas joined in and oddly used nearly identical words, according to Tacoma News Tribune Columnist Dave Boling.
Earl Thomas on loss: It's a wake-up call ... glad it happened early in the year
— Dave Boling (@DaveBoling) October 9, 2013
The problem is that teams coached by Pete Carroll haven't traditionally played better immediately following a loss. They haven't exactly played significantly worse either, but the idea that the loss to the Colts is going to motivate the Seahawks this week against the Titans does seem to run counter to the historical data.
Games After Losses
Here is how the Seahawks teams have fared over the last three seasons in the games immediately following a loss. The team's averages are given for each year for comparison.
W | L | Pct. | PF | PA | |
2010 Season | 7 | 9 | .438 | 19.4 | 25.4 |
After Losses | 5 | 4 | .555 | 20.6 | 27 |
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W | L | Pct. | PF | PA | |
2011 Season | 7 | 9 | .438 | 20.1 | 19.7 |
After Losses | 4 | 4 | .500 | 18.75 | 20.9 |
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W | L | Pct. | PF | PA | |
2012 Season | 11 | 5 | .688 | 25.8 | 15.3 |
After Losses | 4 | 1 | .800 | 24 | 18.8 |
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The winning percentage after losses is higher in each year than it is over the course of the season. This is to be expected though, since examining only the games after losses removes some losses from the data set. That difference in winning percentage turns out not to be statistically significant.
More importantly, the Seahawks saw their average point differential shift downward in the weeks following losses in each of the three seasons under Carroll. This suggests that the team played slightly worse in games following losses than did on average over the season.
Keep in mind that selecting the subset of data in this way removes losses from data. The downward shift in point differential, despite examining a subset of games with less losses, is quite significant.
This problem isn't unique to just Pete Carroll's Seahawks teams. The data from his time at the University of Southern California reveals the same trend.
W | L | Pct. | PF | PA | |
Overall | 97 | 19 | .836 | 35.2 | 16.7 |
After Losses | 16 | 3 | .842 | 29.9 | 14.6 |
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Carroll's USC teams also tended to play tighter games in the weeks following losses.
Perhaps the most important thing to be learned from the data is that the decrease in point differential didn't affect the team's ability to win games. Even though both Carroll's Seahawks teams and USC teams didn't play as well in these games, they were still able to win at the same rate that they did over the rest of the season.
Losing Streaks
The ability of Pete Carroll's team's to get back into the win column after losses has helped the Seahawks avoid long losing streaks. For instance, the Seahawks only lost back-to-back games once during the 2012 season.
In Pete Carroll's three-plus year tenure as the head coach of the Seahawks, Seattle has only had seven multi-game losing streaks. That is impressive when compared to most of his NFL peers.
It is also important to note that the lack of losing streaks under Pete Carroll isn't just a factor of the Seahawks being a winning team. Bill Belichick's New England Patriots teams have had few losing steaks, but that's mostly because stringing together multiple losses in a row is improbable when the team only loses an average of four games per season.
The Seahawks under Carroll's leadership have had just one winning season thus far. Both the 2010 and 2011 seasons ended with the Seahawks having 7-9 records. The lack of numerous losing streaks given the overall mediocre records in these seasons is a significant trend.
At USC, Carroll's success in this area is even more pronounced. During his entire tenure at Southern California, Carroll's teams only had one multi-game losing streak. That happened way back in 2001, which was Carroll's first year at the school.
What We Can Learn
The data here is incredibly consistent and suggests that we won't be witnessing a suddenly more dominant Seattle team on Sunday. The idea that last week's loss is going to motivate the Seahawks to dominate this week's game against the Titans defies Pete Carroll's history.
If anything, it should be expected that the Seahawks will almost certainly win this weekend, but that the game will be closer that the team's statistical averages this year. According to NFL.com, the Seahawks score 27.4 points per game and give up 16.2 points per game, for a differential of just over 11 points.
Putting everything together, the data suggests that the Seahawks should win by somewhere around nine points this week against the Titans.*
*Given the author's history of making predictions, it's probably safe to bet on anything happening except Seattle winning by nine on Sunday.


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We arrived in the fishing village of Cassis mid afternoon, to find that every French person for miles around was there too. It was Sunday after all. After driving around the Mardi parking lot a couple of times, a spot freed up and we had enough cash to park for a couple of hours. Every restaurant and bar on the quay was packed and after a few enquiries managed to find a room at the Laurent - from the front balcony we had a view of the port and from the bathroom window, a great view of the "the Castle". Our car was parked 10 mins away and as there was no parking at the hotel, we put our essentials into a day pack and left the rest of our stuff in the car.
Dinner was a treat - a baguette filled with deep fried chicken and French fries - not the healthiest of foods but really delicious.
A big attraction of Cassis are the Calanques or limestone fjords that are short distance around the coast. We had planned to rent kayaks and paddle to them but it was still rather windy when we got
up so we decided to hike to them. Took us a while to find the closest parking lot and then we just followed a group of serious looking European hikers with their hiking poles and hiking boots. Must admit, their footwear was probably a better choice that sport sandals as parts of the limestone trails were rocky and/or slippery. The trail gave great views of Calanque d'en Vau, Calenque de Port-Vin and Calanque de Port Miou - the latter had very many small boats tied stern to shore.
Moving on, we next headed for the seaside town of Bandol, thinking it would be another small village where we could stay the night - wrong again. The long bay was lined with restaurants and small shops, but not a hotel to be seen. So we reprogrammed Fifi to get us to St Tropez and set off a long the coast road.
Renting a car in France has good points and bad points. Bad would include exorbitant parking costs and pricey toll charges on the big highways. But the good means you get to have car adventures.
1. Driving through ridiculously narrow streets
and having the car proximity sensor screeching whenever any part of the car came within 8 inches of a solid object - which was most of the time.
2. Not having enough cash to pay the toll on the highway and having to go to all the drivers lined up behind you and hope that one of them could change a 5 euro bill into coins
3. Getting stuck in an underground parking garage in deepest darkest Toulon. Now Fifi didn't seem to be completely updated as she kept trying to send us down one way streets (the wrong way) but we had got used to her. The difference between "turn left" and "bear left" never made a lot of sense though . So there we were driving through rush hour in Toulon and her directions were to " bear left at the fork". One lane went straight ahead, one veered to the right and one to the left - straight into an parking garage. It was easy enough to find the exit, but when Kelly put the ticket in and tried to pay by credit card ( the only method of payment) his card wasn't accepted an
the parking ticket stayed in the machine. The "help" button wasn't any help either as the human at the other end didn't speak English. Reversing, we tried another exit but without our entrance ticket we were trapped. Luckily, after we parked and walked back to our original attempted point of exit, there was our ticket lying on the ground. Then we noticed a "Pre pay" ticket machine which accepted the credit card - phew we were saved.
Arriving in Saint Tropez, I was surprised that it was a nice little fishing village - with lots of expensive stores on the back streets and mega yachts tied up in the harbour.
After having a beer, we couldn't afford to eat - seriously- so started the hunt for somewhere relatively affordable to stay. Another thing about having a car is that it allows you to get out of the centre of town and we got a great room at the Bella Vista about 1 km out in the countryside. After settling in we headed back into town for an evening promenade and to drool over the mega yachts. - try googling "Casino Royale" , "Slipstream" or
"Diamonds are Forever".
Next day - Tuesday - was market day in the Place de Lices - lots and lots of stall selling produce, cheese, sausages, olives, prepared foods like paella ( lunch for us that day) as well as clothing and tourist stuff.
Finally it was time to say goodbye to this very pleasant town and head to Nice. Fifi took us right where we needed to be - at the Nice Train station but we could"t figure out where to return the car so we found a spot in the nearest parking garage and walked back to the station. We still had a couple of hours before we actually had to return the car so used the time to find a hotel. We figured it would make more sense to get somewhere close to the train station so we wouldn't have far to walk when we left in for days time. Two star hotels were somewhat questionable and three stars were way out of our price range - until we found the Hotel Durante and got a room in the garden area.
Returning the car was a breeze ( car adventure #4 - driving up 6 levels of a spiral car ramp with the proximity sensors screaming once again)
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