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Expands Coverage
Globalstar USA Expands Coverage
Globalstar USA announced extended service coverage in both Alaska and the North Atlantic. As a result of agreements among Globalstar service providers in North America and Europe, calls can be made along the main shipping route between the two continents. Globalstar's expanded coverage also includes Alaska, regions of the north Pacific to the International Date Line, portions of Greenland, and all of Iceland.
Saab Transpondertech Wins Contract
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TracPhone FleetBroadband Global Service
Mariners relying on the TracPhone FB500 and FB250 satellite communications systems from KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) can enjoy the activation of Inmarsat's newest I-4 satellite serving the Pacific Ocean. With this expanded coverage, Inmarsat FleetBroadband's high-speed Internet and voice services are available via all existing and new TracPhone FB250 and FB500 systems operating worldwide. The TracPhone FB250 and FB500 offer KVH's trademark commercial-grade
Broadpoint Expands Coverage into GOM
Broadpoint announced the signing of a multi-year roaming agreement with T-Mobile USA, Inc. For the first time, T-Mobile's customers will have access to wireless voice, data and SMS service while in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Under the contract, Broadpoint will provide T-Mobile customers access to its GSM/GPRS/EDGE network, which extends over 100,000 square miles into the Gulf of Mexico. The news comes on the heels of an announcement earlier this year of expanded coverage in
Intelsat and SpeedCast Join Forces
New Agreement Brings Market Leading Broadband and Mobility Solutions to the Maritime, Oil & Gas and Enterprise Sectors. Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) has established strategic agreement to provide access to its global C- and Ku-band broadband mobility network to SpeedCast, the leading global satellite communications and maritime service provider. Under the multi-year agreement, Intelsat will provide SpeedCast access to Intelsat's global C-band and Ku-band satellite
Thailand: Yang Ming, Regional Container Lines Pact On
Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. (YM) inked a partnership agreement with Thailand's Regional Container Lines (RCL) Group aimed at pooling the companies' resources to weather a persisting downturn in the sector, according to a report in Taipei Times. The agreement is expected to improve vessel utilization, reduce operating costs and expand coverage. The companies announced plans to expand bilateral cooperation on terminal operations in Taiwan and
Rickmers-Linie Expands its China Coverage
Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg-based operator of heavy lift and project liner services, is expanding its market coverage in China and is enhancing its sales and marketing activities into central China and in Southern China. According to Wolfgang Harms, Rickmers-Linie's Chief Representative for Greater China, moving closer to the major industrial production facilities and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies will enhance the company's ability to offer
Caterpillar Marine Launch Product Support Campaign at Show
At the 2013 International Workboat Show, Caterpillar is launching an unprecedented product support campaign, unveiling not only a new Cat® 3406 Marine Bundled Repair Solution but also Extended Service Coverage (ESC) for all available Bundled Repair Solutions. The new Cat 3406 bundled repair solution, which builds off of the Cat 3412 bundled repair solution launched earlier this year, is a customizable, comprehensive solution for customers looking to keep their vessels on the water longer
US Obamacare Impacts the Global Marine Industry
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, the recent healthcare plan in the United States, is affecting the international superyacht industry, according to yacht insurance expert Eva Maria Karlsson of Superyacht Insurance Group (SYIG). Maria, who is president/broker at SYIG, said, "The biggest challenge presently is Obamacare. Interestingly enough, it's actually affecting the international marine industry
ZIM Expands Asia-ECSA Services
Israeli container carrier ZIM is expanding its Asia – South America East Coast (SAEC) via the Suez Canal at the end of May. The new service, Asia – East Coast Brazil (AEC), a collaboration with the SSA group, will allow ZIM to offer a second weekly service on this trade, in addition to our established Asia - South America service (ASE). The new service provides direct connection to Korea
UKHO to Release Digital Charts for Expanded Panama Canal
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is to release five new Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) for the expanded Panama Canal. The new ENCS are produced by the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) and provide end-to-end coverage of the Canal at a scale of 1:10 000.
Panama Canal Conducts Trial Through Expanded Cocoli Locks
Today, the Panama Canal conducted another successful trial transit in the Expanded Canal. The transiting vessel, a U.S.-built crane ship named the Oceanus, was maneuvered through the Pacific-facing Cocoli Locks by Panama Canal Pilots Fernando Jaén and Ricardo Varela.
Wan Hai Orders Eight New Containerships
Taiwan's shipping company Wan Hai Lines has placed an order for eight 1,900 teu box ships worth a total of $212 million - $236 million. Wan Hai said that the vessels will be built by shipbuilder Naikai Zosen Corp.
Maersk Takes Coffee Very Seriously
Maersk acknowledges that coffee is very special, mainly in regards to the processes and requirements involved for it's shipping. "So we have adapted the way we work so we can meet your needs," says a statement from Maersk.
MARAD: $5 Mln Available for Marine Highway Projects
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced the availability of $5 million in Federal funding to expand marine highway service by creating new or expanding existing services along designated Marine Highway Routes. A Marine Highway Project is a planned service
THOR 7 Ka Band Mobility Service Ready for Launch
THOR 7 Ka Band Mobility Service Ready for Launch Telenor Satellite announced the commercial readiness of its THOR 7 Ka-band mobility service. The Ka-band payload offers regional coverage with a favorable look angle over the main European shipping lanes and utilizes high-powered spot
Carriers Joining Forces in New Alliance?
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, "K" Line, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming to create a new partnership "THE Alliance" Tokyo, May 13, 2016 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL, President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda), Nippon Yusen Kaisha, "K" Line, Hanjin
Iranian Tankers Free to Enter International Ports
Restrictions on Iranian tankers' insurance have been removed and the country's crude carriers are now allowed to enter any oil terminal in the world, National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC)'s CEO Ali Akbar Safaee said.
Zhonggu Shipping to Add Boxships
Shanghai's Zhonggu Shipping may buy 3,398-TEU Stadt Aachen, that was up for sale for US$7.1 million, say local media reports. Zhonggu Shipping earlier stated that it plans to acquire a handful of vessels this year, all of which will start operations between June and August.
Maersk Line Launches Latin America, Asia Service
Maersk Line announced changes to its AC network with the launch of its AC1 service, connecting the West Coast of Latin America with Asia, beginning at the end of June. According to Maerks Line, the AC1 service, connecting the West Coast of Latin America to Asia
New Call at Port Kelang on CMA CGM's REX 2
CMA CGM has introduced a new westbound call at Port Kelang on its REX 2 service connecting Asia with Red Sea. CMA CGM has decided to replace its REX2 westbound Singapore call with Port Kelang. This new routing grants the full coverage and transit time improvements through the
EMC Unveils New Suite of Global Marine VSAT Services
EMC today announced a new global Ku-band VSAT package of connectivity and content for ships at sea, optimized for the next-generation high-throughput satellite (HTS) networks that are now being deployed. "Designed with crew welfare as a top priority
CORTEC Expands Manufacturing Capacity
CORTEC, a manufacturer of API compact ball valves and manifolds, has expanded its CORTEC Manifold Systems (CMS) Lafayette, La. manufacturing facility and relocated to new premises in Port Allen, La. According to Stephen Corte, vice president of CORTEC
Hapag-Lloyd Extends Intra Mediterranean Service
Enhanced Intra Mediterranean Service – New Black Sea Mediterranean Express (BMX) Service Rotation Hapag-Lloyd informs about the new rotation effective July 5, 2016. We would like to inform you that as from July 5, 2016 Hapag-Lloyd will enhance its intra Mediterranean Service between
KTsat, SpeedCast to Provide Comms to 150 vessels
SpeedCast International Limited, a global satellite communications and network service provider, and KTsat, the satellite service provider in Korea, have announced the two companies have been awarded a new contract to provide global Ku-band maritime communications services to up to 150 vessels


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Other reasons USC's defensive line has excelled
Leading sacker Morgan Breslin is a big reason USC's defensive line has been the most pleasant surprise on the team. But he isn't the only one.
Several other factors have contributed to the line compiling 15 of the Trojans' 16 sacks, tied for third most in the nation:
** Position coach Ed Orgeron's ability to identify talent (see next item), tutor young players and motivate them to get better.
** The rapid ascent of freshman Leonard Williams (four sacks), who somehow was only a four-star prospect coming out of Daytona Beach, Fla.
** The return to health of senior Wes Horton, who had one sack vs. Cal last week and set up several others with steady pressure.
** The development of redshirt sophomore George Uko into a consistent force.
** The improved conditioning and stamina of redshirt freshman Antwaun Woods.
Coach Lane Kiffin obviously likes what he has seen so far out of a unit that was supposed to be USC's weak link after losing three 2011 starters and would-be 2012 starter Devon Kennard. But Kiffin isn't ready to anoint the line just yet.
"We've still got a ways to go," he said. "We have not played four great games. We played really well last week. The great defensive lines did it for a whole year."
Kiffin referenced the 2003 defensive line, featuring Kenechi Udezi, Shaun Cody and Mike Patterson. That group helped the defense record 55 sacks and limit the opposition to 1.8 yards per carry.
It's a pretty safe bet Kiffin has brought it up to his current charges as well.
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Today I am pleased to announce the availability of the AppDynamics Summer '14 Release. With this release, AppDynamics brings the first event store to capture and process big data streams in real-time to the APM industry. Large and complex applications generate data at an extremely high velocity, requiring a monitoring platform to scale along with them. Many business critical applications and operational insights are hidden in the data generated by these applications. This unified platform delivers a central, massively scalable platform to manage all tiers of the application infrastructure.
This release has major enhancements for each of the three layers of the Application Intelligence platform:
Clear, meaningful data visualization
AppDynamics was the first to market with transaction-based topology views of applications that make managing and scaling service oriented architectures easier than ever. In our latest release, we've raised the bar again by offering clear, meaningful data visualization powered by self-learning algorithms for today's leading enterprise companies.
Advanced flow map visualizations
Self-aggregating flow maps
AppDynamics introduces advanced flow maps that are powered by sophisticated algorithms to make complex architectures more manageable by condensing and de-condensing information to enable intelligent zooming in and out of the topology. These visualization techniques also deliver the right level of granularity of application health indicators and traffic reports to match the zoom level.
Self-organizing layouts
In the Summer '14 release, the dashboards self-organize complex graphs of service and tier dependencies by using auto-grouping heuristics to dynamically determine tier and node weightages. These auto-grouping heuristics rely on dynamic patterns detected across static data such as application tier profiles and dynamic KPIs such as transaction response times, business data complexity, etc. These algorithms then surface up the business-critical nodes and tiers to application owners and administrators for appropriate attention.
Self-learning transaction engine
Application owners can benefit greatly if they are armed with smart engines that automatically identify and group these transactions taking away the guesswork out of the exercise. This is based on a combination of historical as well as statistical analysis of large volumes of live execution data. AppDynamics uniquely does live traffic introspection and creates groupings of business transactions from millions of requests of live traffic to improve business manageability.
Smart dashboards
Managing and monitoring large deployments with thousands of nodes and tiers can be overwhelming for the APM professional. Creating a separate dashboard for each of the thousand nodes and tiers individually is a near impossible task. In this release, AppDynamics introduces powerful dashboarding templates that auto-generate dashboards based on configurable parameterized characteristics of the nodes or tiers. This new feature enhances monitoring productivity by making the dashboards reusable for all nodes without having to replicate efforts.
Platform to capture and process Big Data streams in real-time
A new infinitely scalable event service that captures real-time events generated by an application. With this event service, organizations can flexibly define structured and unstructured events, and start capturing them with a public API. This infinitely scalable service has been certified for up to 10 trillion events. Archives of these events can be captured forever, and can be used for historical analyses as well.
A new Hadoop-powered metrics service that crunches massive volumes of time-series data to deliver key application and business metrics in real-time. With its new enhancements, organizations can easily roll-up metrics at the tier levels, application levels, or time-series levels with no loss in granularity of the information. Leveraging the new complex algorithms that can crunch billions of metrics, this metrics service generates self-learning baselines that are refreshed reflecting the up to the minute application and business performance.
We've also improved our real-time percentile metrics capabilities that put application and business performance in context. Metrics without a statistical context often don't reveal the real picture. SLA metrics are more meaningful when presented with the context of percentiles, and when the outliers are automatically identified and surfaced up with alerts for immediate attention or automated remediation. The percentile functionality in AppDynamics is now configurable, allowing teams to define what percentiles they want to be collected.
This unified platform delivers a central, linearly scalable platform to manage all tiers of their application infrastructure. Through a single pane of glass, IT organizations can break down application tier silos and monitor their business with comprehensive end-to-end visibility. This unified platform lowers the total cost of ownership of their application infrastructure while lowering their time to issue resolution.
Industry's most comprehensive monitoring and data collection offering
The AppDynamics Summer '14 Release includes several new and enhanced features related to data collection and monitoring, including distributed transaction correlation among all of the languages we support.
With the industry's first Node.js distributed transaction monitoring users can now monitor distributed Node.js transactions across all application tiers including Java, .NET and PHP. Node.js can automatically correlate downstream calls to quickly and efficiently isolate and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
AppDynamics adds support for instrumenting native C++ applications with the beta release of the AppDynamics C++ SDK, which provides visibility into C++ applications and tiers. We've also added support for Java 8, which makes it easier for businesses to deploy and integrate AppDynamics into the latest generation of Java and Scala applications.
Finally, we've announced support for monitoring .NET asynchronous transactions. AppDynamics gives customers the ability to automatically identify asynchronous transactions in dashboards, troubleshoot asynchronous calls in transaction snapshots and analyze async activity in the metric browser.
If you'd like to try these new capabilities out for yourself, start your free trial of AppDynamics today.
The post AppDynamics Brings Big Data Science to APM in Summer '14 Release written by Bhaskar Sunkara appeared first on Application Performance Monitoring Blog from AppDynamics.
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I enjoyed the Bridge on the River Kwai a lot more than I initially
remembered doing. Not having seen it for a considerable time a lot of
the plot points and story where lost to me. In a lot of ways it is very
similar to most other war films. A lot of the characters are certainly
the same and are almost interchangeable.
My favourite part of the film is probably the first hour. I really enjoy the coming to terms scenes of the two Conoels. It is well acted and portrayed in a believable and enjoyable way. The interplay between the two characters is well done. Alec Guiness portrays the stuffy Conoel Nicholson perfectly, he is once again superb. I especially enjoy the scene where he and the other officers stare down a machine gun, reflecting the courage and tenacity which was common place in the military of that time.
The two story threads, one attempting to complete the bridge, one to destroy it, are an obvious contrast to each other, yet they work well and it gives the viewer a sense of knowing dread for both sides as the climax approaches. The bridge building part of the story is the superior to the two, I simply prefer the characters and enjoy watching Alec Guinness slowly descend into obsession with completing the bridge.
The character I really dislike is the American. He embodies all the irritating and stereotypical characteristics which are so common amongst cinematic versions of American characters. It is perhaps a redeeming feature of his character that he is killed rather than saving the day, which is what many would expect such a self righteous character to do.
The ending is fun. The obvious question it leaves is, did Nicholson mean to destroy the bridge or not?
Sam Spiegel and David Lean collaborated on the filming of The Bridge On
the River Kwai. Logistically it must have been very difficult to film
this movie and many kudos go the Producer, Director and stars William
Holden, and Alec Guiness. I like William Holden's easy natural
masculine acting and I laughed when on the beach with an enlisted nurse
(Officers and Enlisted are not suppose to fraternize together) the
Nurse asks Holden what she should call him and Holden says with great
Alec Guiness justly won the Oscar and many other acting awards worldwide for his legendary performance.
This is a great war movie about heroism and one has to remember the brave Men of the River Kwai project for the great ordeals they encountered. The ending is powerful.
Bravo to Columbia Pictures, and Messrs. Speigel, Lean, Guiness, and Holden
David Barra Los Angeles
David Lean masterfully crafts this Oscar-winning tale and it is hard to argue with this man's work. Lean's end action sequences are undeniably the best of their time and they still look just as good now. The acting is great especially Guinness in his Oscar-winning role. Everything from the bridge itself to the location filming looks and feels great. A spectacle of storytelling with blockbuster special effects and lots of smart symbolism for the film goers looking for deeper meaning. People might not like the off the wall ending, but there is no denying the talent of David Lean, Alec Guiness, William Holden, and everyone else that helped work on this magnificent production design that still looks amazing to this day.
"The Bridge On The River Kwai" is not your typical war movies. There
are no battle scenes and there's little carnage; hardly any of the
action you're conditioned to expect from a "war" movie. Even for a
movie set in a prison camp there are no mass escape attempts (the one
escape attempt I believe consisted of three prisoners.) This is instead
more of a psychological study of the effects of captivity on soldiers -
maybe even an early hint of what's come to be known as "the Stockholm
Syndrome" - as prisoners begin to identify with and in some ways
sympathize with their captives.
The movie is set in a Japanese prison camp where the prisoners are ordered to work on building a massive railway bridge over the River Kwai. Alec Guinness put on a strong performance as Col. Nicholson - the senior British officer among the prisoners who fights for the respect of the camp commander Col. Saito (Sessue Hayakawa in another strong performance). The movie for a while offered a pretty good depiction of the harshness of Japanese prison camps, and was interesting in portraying Nicholson as ultimately besting Saito as he first gains the right (guaranteed by the Geneva Convention) for the officers not to be used as manual labourers and then gets the British officers in charge of building the bridge, thus ensuring that his men would be essentially under British command. That was well portrayed, as was the fact that somewhere along the way the lines of loyalty got tested. Nicholson devotes himself to building the bridge, making an even better bridge for the Japanese than the Japanese themselves were going to build - all in the name of keeping up the morale of the British troops and building a monument to the abilities of the British army. But - as was questioned in the movie - at what point does the legitimate duty of POWs (the Geneva Convention allows for enlisted prisoners to be used by their captors for manual labour) become treasonous? The bridge and railway will be used to transport Japanese troops. Did Nicholson have to ensure that it would be so well built? And Saito suffers some of the same psychological challenges, depicted as being in torment after realizing that, while he's going to get his bridge built, he had to do it by giving up control to those who were supposed to be his prisoners. It all builds up to a powerful last scene as Allied commandos try to blow up the bridge and Nicholson tries to save it before realizing what he's doing.
The psychological study is interesting and the acting is good. I thought the movie itself was a bit too long at almost three hours. William Holden's role as an American officer who escapes from the camp and then becomes part of the commando team seeking to destroy the bridge was well played but struck me as rather unnecessary - at least I wasn't sure of the need for him to have been in the camp with Nicholson and then to have him return to blow up the bridge. Some of that seemed to me to add unnecessary filler to the movie, especially the scenes in which Shears is recruited to go back to the jungle as part of the commando team.
It's a good movie and interesting enough - just a little too much extraneous material and therefore a little bit too long. (6/10)
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I believe the purpose of a good war movie is less to preach or invite
to take sides, than to depict war through the devastating effects it
operates on sane conscious minds, by making or avoiding it. It's not a
hazard that the best movies depicted war as a complex state of mind,
exhilarating then alienating.
David Lean's extraordinary merit is to make a film of a war won by the Allies, with no victory at the end, except of cinematic intelligence. Like "Apocalypse Now", "All Quite on the Western Front" or "Das Boot", the best war movies deal more generally with defeats, "Saving Private Ryan" being a relevant counter-example. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" depicts another vision of victory through Colonel Nicholson, the perfect embodiment of the manic attachment to principles.
Colonel Nicholson, (Alec Guinness) leads the troop of British prisoners to the camp of Colonel Saito, (Sessue Hawakaya). The soldiers' entrance, whistling the "Colonel Bogey March" tune is one of the film's most defining moments but interestingly misleading since this is their only 'shining' moment. The rest of the film, we see them idly building the bridge, then more seriously under Nicholson's commandment. We also see them having fun the last night before they leave. This is not supposed to portray the real conditions of Japanese PoW camps, but cinematically, the soldiers are Colonel Nicholson's foil. He's the story's heart, through his psychological conflict with Colonel Saito.
War always reveals dualities, not dual disorders like in psychological thrillers but two visions incarnated by antagonistic characters: Willard vs. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now", Barnes vs. Elias in "Platoon" and here, Nicholson vs. Saito. Quite a practical conflict, it concerns Saito's decision to make the officers build the bridge for the railway that would link between Bangkok and Saigon. This bridge is Saito's mission, his honor and his life depend on it. As an adept of Bushido, Saito wouldn't let failure humiliate him. The officers shall build the bridge because it's their dishonor, which brought the soldiers to the POW camp. But while Nicholson accepts the defeat and the soldiers' obligation to build the bridge, he refuses to participate to the effort invoking Geneva's conventions. Saito whips Nicholson with the book, starting the psychological battle that would lead to one of the most iconic cinematic climaxes.
Nicholson is so attached to his principles he would rather die in the 'Oven', the 'punishment' box standing to the sun not to obey to Saito's personal vision. This is the point, Nicholson, a man of principles, surrendered because it was a military order. But his respectable posture progressively flirts with insanity when it puts his men's lives at stakes. In a particularly memorable scene after Major Clipton, the doctor, meets Nicholson in the oven, the colonel's stubbornness makes him wonder, under a hellish sun, which of Saito or Nicholson is madder and unconsciously, where this madness will lead to.
To a personal victory for Nicholson, first. Saito, realizing the incompetence of his engineers, accepts Nicholson's conditions and handles this defeat by crying, privately. This is a personal defeat and his childish reaction illustrates how some military decisions, right or wrong, can be driven by personal issues. Saito's defeat is personal; Nicholson's victory is of the British Army, of 'civilization'. And the way Nicholson handles the construction of the bridge illustrates an integrity almost too zealous for his men and for Major Clipton. For Nicholson, it's a matter of keeping his men in shape, and proving the value of his Army for the posterity. Nicholson's project became personal, and his inflexibility automatically pointless.
This rigidity is mocked by another major character of the film, no pun intended, Shears (William Holden) though I must admit, I wasn't too confident with his wisecracking cynicism in the first act, I preferred the wiser 'Shears' during the mission with the Major Warden, blowing up the titular bridge. Shears who pretended to be an officer, is blackmailed in order to accomplish this mission, he's technically a hero for having escaped Saito's PoW but his status of a fraud isn't the best ticket for the Navy Cross. He must come back to the camp; we understand that his odds to survive again will be pretty low.
But I didn't see that ending coming. I said iconic climax, I should have said ironic. More than a war movie, it's all about personal views, and how two opposite sides can co-work to create something. Saito and Nicholson built the bridge with an involvement so personal their complicity is almost romantic in the setting sun scene, where each one contemplates his accomplishment, Saito, who renounced to his dreams for the Army, Nicholson who dedicated his life for it. Ironically, their last collaboration would be to prevent the bridge from exploding.
And in one of the most suspenseful climactic sequences ever, Nicholson, moved by a paternal instinct, tries to save the bridge, causing the death of the allied soldiers. And while the train of Japanese VIP is coming, Nicholson realizes how blinded by his own pride he was in a last flash of realization incarnated by the unforgettable line "What have I done!" His last heroic deed would be to die and fall on the detonator, destroying the bridge, the train, and the last ounces of remaining sanity, provoking the immediate reaction of Clipton : "Madness! Madness!"
These last lines perfectly summarize the absurdity of war driven by alienation. The chaotic ending is like an implacable victory of fate which decided that each side is equally alienated in this waste. The whole film from the script to its superb climax that made the film for me, is quite cynical in its approach, and that's why I can forgive the music for the ending credits, where I had expected a big silence, like a 'No comment' reaction to an unbelievable madness But as Major Warden (Jack Hawkins) said: "There's always the unexpected, isn't there?"
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There are three kinds of David Lean fans. First, there are people who
think that Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is his greatest work. Second,
there are people who think that The Bridge on the River Kwai is his
greatest work. And of course, there is the third group of people who
believe that Lean's best works are made before Kwai, such as Brief
Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948).
Even though I am a firm admirer of the legendary British filmmaker, I find myself belonging to neither category. But that's because I have not seen enough of his works to make a reasonable claim. However, in the context of the claims by the first two aforementioned groups, I find myself aligning with the stars of the latter.
Could The Bridge on the River Kwai possibly be a more accomplished work than Lawrence of Arabia? In my opinion, I would think so, and from my experience having viewed both films twice, I suggest a strong case for it. In this review, I will stick to the discussion on Kwai, but when necessary, I would use Lawrence as a comparison.
The film that marked the first of five epics that Lean shot in the last three decades of his life, Kwai tells the fictional story of a company of British POWs led by Col. Nicholson (Alex Guinness) who is forced to succumb his power to Col. Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) who orders the completion of a bridge across the Kwai river so that trains carrying war supplies could cross it.
What makes Kwai such a fascinating war film is this: Nicholson, in a bid to boost the morale of his men and ease their suffering, decides to build a top-quality bridge for Saito that would become a symbol of British pride after the war. However, in a parallel story, the Allies' counteract by sending a few trained soldiers in explosives to blow up the bridge in a covert operation no one knows.
Set in WWII Burma, but filmed in picturesque Sri Lanka, Kwai's stunning cinematography captures the tropical landscape in both sweltering heat and pouring rain, highlighting the harsh conditions that plague the camp. Lean's wide, sweeping shots and steady close-ups allow the drama and action to unfold in its "totality", never disorientating the viewer.
Lawrence of Arabia admittedly features more stunning shots (set in a desert no less), but Kwai is the much tighter film. The latter is paced with more urgency and though both films have moments of "going through the motions", it is Kwai that remains to be the more watchable film, and with a more appealing screenplay to boot.
Much of Kwai's watchability also hinges on the Nicholson-Saito relationship. It is an awkward one, but it is interesting to see how it develops. In the film's most understated scene, both characters stroll along the completed bridge. Saito remarks, "Beautiful, isn't it?", referring to the sunset (and maybe, symbolistically, Japan's impending decline). Nicholson replies thinking that Saito is referring to the bridge, and starts expressing how it represents his life's greatest achievement as a soldier. Saito does not correct Nicholson and allows him his quiet moment of triumph.
In a way, this scene is the finest indicator of the growing "comradeship" between the two enemies in the film. Lean's depiction of WWII boils down to these two characters, as human as anyone else in terms of their fallibility, but are made to look invulnerable to that very perceived fallibility.
The final forty-five minutes is an exercise in suspense-building. And its ending is as climactic as it can get. The last line as uttered by one of Nicholson's men, "Madness! Madness! Madness!" chillingly echoes Col. Kurtz's "The horror! The horror! The horror!" in Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979).
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a rousing action-adventure spectacle that is not to be missed. It is also a towering achievement in Lean's career, proving his versatility in film directing. For better or worse, he would never return to directing small, intimate dramas again after catching the "epic film bug".
GRADE: A (www.filmnomenon.blogspot.com) All rights reserved.
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This movie is the extremely accurate rendition of the incredible heroics of the brave men in Japanese prison camps that were made to build railroads. Many of these men after surviving battle on ships, ship sinkings, environmental and weather elements, were then subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment of Japanese soldiers. This movie is an accurate portrayal of these conditions with a few exceptions: (1) They did not whistle when entering the camp(although they did march in military formation, even when captured). (2) In the movie, Cdr. Shears tells the story of how he was on the USS Houston at the time she was sunk ,and how he and a Commander was separated from everyone else and drifted to the other side of the island. The commander died and he took his rank in hope of getting better privaleges. In real life, there was a USS Houston that was sunk and there was a Commander Maer that did drift to the other side of the island with a Seaman Elam ,which is consistent with Cdr. Shears story of the Houston sinking. However, both Cdr. Maer and Seaman Elam survived and were captured.(3) Real conditions of the prison camps were far more deplorable than depicted ,as well as the work details.(Men that couldn't walk were put on stretchers and given a hammer to bust up rock etc). (4) There were more American POWS than depicted in the movie, (the British often referred to the Americans as "Rabble"). and (5) They did not blow up the Bridge in the end and Col Nicholson certainly didn't turn on his own people to attempt to keep the bridge from blowing up. Still an awesome movie that is a must see.
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This is in essence a work of art, even if a highly philosophical one at
that, and so it lacks realism. But Lean never intended it to be
realistic, as Leone never intended The Good..., to be realistic too.
Both films are operas in a sense, like Aida, Nabucco. That should be
clear the moment those POWs march into the camp, whistling. So, let's
forget historical accuracy, as BORK is really a play in which actors
are not human characters but historical forces; or historical
tendencies. And what we'll see here is not a battle of wills but a
developing historical process. At its core BORK is a chronicle of the
unfolding war, which even includes its outcome, the Japanese defeat and
the sunset of the British Empire. Everything here is shown as an
allegory--as Saito inviting his prisoner to British food for ex., or
using an American calendar to measure progress!
What Lean really did in BORK was to translate into images Boulle's fascination with the fall of civilizations, which was also at the core of his other novel, POTA. In both tales this idea takes a metaphorical form, but while in POTA the fall is brought about by decadence, in BORK is the product of war. Let's see how these metaphors work in it: When Nicholson appears "stubborn, single-minded" he's just embodying what the empire was doing then, licking the wounds of the initial defeats while standing its ground face to an enemy considered inferior and condemned to defeat anyway. And Saito knows that too, he knows it well; he never forgets that he--his empire--is the underdog in this struggle and that he'll most likely lose it at the end. That explain his meek attitude from the moment he yields to his enemy. He doesn't even question Nicholson's words when his prisoner tells him of the flaws in the initial project, as both know well what the outcome of this story will be--as Yamamoto knew too, even before Pearl Harbor. And why not? The pride of the RJN, its battleship fleet, was mostly British build or designed and so, too, much of the weaponry that allowed Japan to become a big military power. So, it was clear from the beginning which was the weakest side. The scene that resumes it all well is that of Nicholson proudly marching into the completed bridge--as Allied admirals would do into the deck of the USN Missouri, years later, to accept the Japanese surrenderwhile, pushed into a corner, a defeated Saito toys with the idea of suicide. The idea behind the plot is clear: the British were always the winners here.
But this is a doomed winner too, as decadence and death are waiting ahead on the road. As the result of this rotting process a split appears inside it, represented in two different attitudes. One is that of old norms and traditionsthat of Nicholson. The other is Warden's; that of an accommodating, decaying, colossus who needs of external forces to remain standing. No wonder those external forces are provided by the American outsider; one who, anyway, has to be extorted to get involved--I mean before Harbor. This is of course the lucid, realistic, attitude. (Nothing could be more symbolic of the fate that awaits this aspect of the decaying empire that the wound suffered by Warden, which forces him to yield power to the Yank). And see to what extreme Lean brings this dichotomy to detail, as all Nicholson can see in his situation is a model of the bridge, while Warden and Shears have a map of the whole continent at their disposal. (So, they are the ones capable of seeing the big picture, which is denied to Nicholson). So, the empire is damned too, as the Japanese are damned to defeat. But wait, what doesn't fit in this picture is Shears' death. Shouldn't he live and thrive? But let's remember, both Lean and Boulle saw events in their wide historical context and what they really wanted was to expound on the rise and fall of empires, not on events maybe important at their time but insignificant in the great scheme of things. What they are telling us is that the American empire is also meant to disappear and doing so they foretell Vietnam, Iraq. But there's still in this drama, opera, one character left, one different from the others: Clipton. the man ending the tale, uttering its last words; and doing that with good reason, as he represents the movie's conscience. This explains why he persuades so easily Saito of not shooting the Brit officers. Without knowing this, such scene would be ridiculous. Because he's not a man pleading for his peers there. He's the voice in Saito's head telling him he may have to explain himself to a higher power, one day, and that maybe that will be a British one. (Obviously he's also the voices in Nicholson's head.
And then there's the bridge, which can only represent one thing: victory. Note that at the beginning Saito wanted a Japanese one and that in the ensuing struggle Nicholson turns it into a British one. From that moment on Saito became obsessed with suicide. Later on, to destroy it, they come, the other Brit and the Yankee, finally leaving no winners as Victory goes up in smoke. Warden remains alive, but he'll most likely die that same night, choked by his carriers, in a fitting allegory to the end of British colonialism. (note: the women hate him for having killed the "beautiful" part of the empire).
Superb cinematographic work. But to me the most enduring images were the two similar shots that bracket the entire movie, perhaps because they represent the freedom to be found only in the space high above ground, above Man and his little miserable squabbles: the birds flying up the blue sky, hovering above the jungle. I say a 10.
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'The Bridge on the River Kwai' is an intelligent film about the war although I feel it may not be true to what actually happened. What it does do is make you realise how complex and ghastly war is. We have Colonel Nicholson and his men coming to the camp ruled by Saito played by Sessue Hayakaya. There the soldiers get settled and begin work the following day.They are to build a bridge as inefficiently as possible. Nicholson meets an American soldier called Shears played by William Holden who wants to tell him what it is really like in this camp though Nicholson doesn't really want to hear him. Nicholson refuses to allow his officers to work and Saito insists that they need all manpower- Nicholson refuses and is beaten and put in a box. A point of principal according to Nicholson. Nicholson sits it out and Saito relents. Shears escapes and is persuaded/blackmailed to come back and blow up the bridge which Nicholson and his soldiers have ably built.There is a touch of Dr.Strangelove black comedy underlying this film -- Nicholson becomes totally deluded in the action of building a sturdy and strong bridge and even his medical officer played by James Donald says he may be aiding the enemy brings the underlying insanity to the surface -- it being a morale booster for Nicholson's men. The climax of the film is thrilling and there is that feeling to yell along with William Holden to get Joyce to blow up the bridge before Nicholson sabotages their mission. The performances are very strong with William Holden giving strong cynicism and eventual heroics as Shears. Alec Guinness manages to make Nicholson a true soldier being overwhelmed by his surroundings and treatment at the hands of his captors -- The delusion of a job well done and then realising at the films pivotal moment what he has done is very moving and brilliantly acted -- especially his dazed walk towards the detonator with explosions going off around him -- it is subtle, powerful and totally memorable!
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The first of the epics from David Lean,this is a classic war movie.However I must point out it is not historically about the building of the Burma railway,but uses that situation to portray the madness of war.The opening scene of down trodden British troops marching into camp whistling Colonel Bogey is absolutely marvellous.The Japanese culture doesn't recognise the Geneva Convention,Alec Guiness plays an English officer who refuses to bend to the rules of the camp commandant,and ends up in the cooler.William Holden is excellent as the cynical American,who escapes only to have to return later on.Jack Hawkins is a dedicated officer who leads a raid to destroy the bridge.The film throws up dilemmas and irony through out,the ending is classic cinema.The film was not an easy shoot according to Kevin Brownlow's biography of David Lean,it was the director against everyone else.Well the in fighting was wort it,a film you can watch again and again.The three leads are excellent,as is Sessue as the Japanese commander.The ending stays with you.Sadly younger audiences will not stick with it,a shame,but rewarding to the discerning film fan.
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Life's a Peach
As Disney's Orphaned James, Paul Terry Finds Life's a Peach
"I knew it was going to be hard work," says Terry of the six-week shoot in San Francisco in 1994. Especially when, as James, he had to bond with Miss Spider, a fellow peach traveler who, in the live-action scenes, is played by a real dwarf tarantula. "I said to the spider, 'I'll be your friend,' " recalls Terry. "Then it bit me." Twice, on the finger. Though the nonpoisonous bites needed just a few dabs of antiseptic, "I didn't want to have any spiders on me after that," he says.
A different bug—acting—bit Terry when he was 5. He persuaded his mother, Gail, an environmental engineer (and now his manager), to let him enroll in a drama class in Hertfordshire, outside London, where Terry and his brother Matthew, 12, live with her and their father, Mark, 36, a London police inspector. At 6, Terry made his stage debut in a regional production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country. In 1994, Mark, hearing about the Peach auditions—at which Paul was picked by director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) from hundreds of candidates—thought his son would be perfect. "Like James," he says, "Paul can act like a little boy lost."
Paul's parents found him acting a bit full of himself, however, when they visited the set that fall. Though chaperoned by his grandmother, May Terry, 63, "he was bossing the adults all about," says Gail. Not these days. Back home, Paul, in his fifth year at school in Hertfordshire, has to empty the trash and feed the family mutt Tom. As for the next film he's offered, Paul has only one demand. "No spiders this time," he says. "Absolutelv not."
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Williams prospered from hard lessons
MOSCOW, Idaho – The most jarring memory of a turbulent upbringing came when Eddie Williams was 13. One day he returned from visiting his grandparents with his mother and sister to find their home ransacked.
Thieves had swiped almost everything, and what remained in the kitchen and elsewhere was scattered in a dizzying mess. Mayonnaise was on the ceiling. Flour could be seen everywhere.
They had been robbed before many times, but this was the worst.
"(There were) flour footprints leading to our neighbor's house," Williams said. "They were the ones that robbed us. (But) the police didn't do much. It was a bad neighborhood. They didn't care."
Yes, Williams had a rugged existence in Vallejo, Calif., one that's made a mountain of losses in his four years on the Idaho football team slightly more bearable.
Nothing, though, compared to what happened just before the start his freshman year of high school. After battling cervical cancer and watching it go into remission a few years before, his mother, Karyn Ramos, couldn't fend off the disease a second time.
Her death in 2001 left Williams and his sister, Alyssa, with few options. Their father had been in and out of the picture, and no other relatives seemed interested in housing them.
Eventually, they moved in with Sylvia Bayona, a woman they knew as their aunt. In reality, she wasn't related to them.
"Basically, their family didn't want anything to do with them," said Bayona, a longtime friend of Ramos and her mother. "… We're the only family (they've) ever had. It's really sad."
Bayona, 62, furnished much-needed structure for Williams in her San Mateo, Calif., home. He had bounced around between six or seven elementary and middle schools with his mom trying to find the right job, so the structure was refreshing. With clear ground rules set, he went from being a marginal student to a regular on the honor roll.
Williams also found a niche as a running back/linebacker at Aragon High. Despite being viewed as a tad short (6-foot-1, 249 pounds), he was recruited by BYU, UNLV, San Jose State and other smaller schools.
None of those campuses had the small-town charm of Moscow.
"Here it's like the school is the town," Williams said, "and I thought that was pretty cool. And, obviously, I liked the coaches, too."
Wooed by Nick Holt and his staff, Williams made an impact his freshman year. Then Holt bolted for USC, and soon Dennis Erickson came and went as well.
Finally in the second year of Robb Akey's system, the H-back/tight end has blossomed into the Vandals' most reliable pass-catching threat. Through five weeks of his senior season, he leads Idaho (1-4 entering Saturday's home contest with Nevada) with 26 receptions. His total of 358 receiving yards is tops in the WAC.
Soft hands, a nimble frame and precise routes make Williams perhaps the Vandals' most viable pro prospect.
"He plays full speed all the time," Akey said. "He doesn't like to come out for a single snap, and that includes practice. He practices that way. So, therefore, he earns his performance by the way he prepares himself."
The football field has always been a safe haven for the personable team captain. When life turned chaotic in Northern California, he tuned out the problems by plopping on his pads and cleats.
Once he was in college, he unleashed the frustration of going through three head coaches and changing from linebacker to H-back, a hybrid position, before he even played a game as a Vandal.
Moving between tight end, receiver and fullback seems to fit Williams. While he doesn't have great speed, he has enough power to shed defensive ends and drag defensive backs along in the open field.
"When we throw a ball out to him in the flat or on a hitch, you seldom see the first guy bring him down," Akey said. "He makes a move and that guys misses. And then all the sudden, he's 10 yards down the field and there's maybe three or four bodies on him. … He's got a strong, strong will."
Much of his intensity was melded during those volatile years in Vallejo. Before he moved in with Bayona, Williams started to hang around gangs, she said. Just before his mother died, one of his friends was killed.
Those sorts of memories don't easily fade over time.
"(With) my mom going through cancer and seeing what she went through has helped me kind of put life in perspective," he said. "Understanding life's real short and there's a lot more important things, so you might as well as be doing things … right because you never know what can happen. You can end up not being alive."
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Danish company hands over Oluvil commercial and fishing port in Sri Lanka
Tue, Jan 8, 2013, 11:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 08, Colombo: The Danish construction company MT HØjgaard has completed the construction of the commercial and fishing port at Oluvil in Eastern Sri Lanka and handed it over at the end of last year.
"We have established a commercial and fishing port at Oluvil, Sri Lanka. The project has now been handed over to a satisfied client," announced the leading construction and civil engineering company.
The company has established a port with two separate basins, one for commercial activities and one for the fishing industry at Oluvil on the east coast.
Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and the Danish construction company signed the Oluvil Port Project agreement to build the new harbor in Oluvil in March 2008 at a cost of Euro 46 million with the financial assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA).
The handover ceremony was held on November 30 with the client and representatives from DANIDA, MT HØjgaard said.
The commercial port comprises 330 meters of quay with a water depth of 8 meters, and the fishing port comprises 200 meters of quay with a water depth of 3 meters, according to the company.
"The project was executed in two phases. In the first phase, we constructed two breakwaters, and in the second we dredged the port to enable access for vessels of up to 16,000 tons," said MT HØjgaard.
The 1,500 meter breakwaters have been constructed from one million tons of stone, which was blasted in the stone quarry.
The company has also constructed everything needs for the port to operate including access roads to and from the port, residential buildings, warehouses, office facilities, refrigerated warehouses and service buildings on land.
"We also constructed roads and established a 4.2 kilometer sea wall around the harbor," the company said in a release.
MT HØjgaard said although the construction took four years, during which the company encountered a number of challenges, it was a very satisfied client who received the project, with only a very few remaining defects.
Oluvil harbour was a brainchild of late leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Mohammad Ashroff that comes in to fruition through the Mahinda Chintana program of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Ashley Judd Rushes to Husband Dario Franchitti's Side After Car Accident
As three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Dario Franchitti recovers from the frightening crash he suffered over the weekend during the last lap of the Houston Grand Prix, he has his wife Ashley Judd among those wishing for his speedy recovery. The actress rushed to his side at the Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center where he was operated on to repair his fractured right ankle.
"Thank you for the prayers for @dariofranchitti I have only clothes on my back & the dogs but that's all that we need & we are on our way," Judd tweeted on Sunday, October 6. The following morning, Franchitti also sent out a couple of his own tweets, saying, "Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes. They mean a lot to me," and, "I would also like to send my best to all the fans involved in the accident and hope that everyone is alright."
A total of thirteen spectators also got injured when Franchitti's car hit the fence as he tried to drive pass Takuma Sato on the race track, sending flying debris from the collision into the crowd causing minor injuries. Franchitti suffered a concussion along with his broken ankle and was taken to the hospital along with an IndyCar official and two of the injured spectators, while the eleven others were evaluated on site.
If anything, the accident proved that despite having announced their separation back in January, Judd was still concerned for Franchitti. There's no indication whether they have reconciled or simply remained friends after the split but definitely 11 years together could not be simply put aside especially during times like that.
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Five killed in Tobago crash
(Trinidad Express) Five people were killed instantly in Tobago in a head-on collision along the Claude Noel Highway early yesterday.
The victims were identified as Alloy Duke, 49, of Cocrico Inn, Buccoo, Fernando Stewart, 36, of Providence Road, Mt Grace, Christion Stewart, 50, of Patience Hill, Nesta Hamilton, of Patience Hill, and Stevenson Winchester, 50, of Piccadilly Trace, Signal Hill.
The collision took place at Spring Garden in the vicinity of the Orange Hill Gas Station around 4.25 a.m., according to police investigators.
The fatalities have taken the road death toll to 20, according to an Express tally.
According to Scarborough Police Traffic Branch, Duke was driving a maroon Mazda 3 station wagon east, along the Claude Noel Highway when he overtook a vehicle and collided head-on with a green Lancer driven by Stewart, a ward attendant at the Scarborough General Hospital.
Stewart was travelling west along the highway when the accident occurred. Occupants of both vehicles died on the spot, police said.
Fire Service officials were called to use the "jaws of life" to remove the bodies from both vehicles.
The incident has marred 2013 Carnival celebrations in Tobago.
District Medical Officer Dr Mentor Melville and Dr Steve Ogbu visited the scene and ordered the bodies removed to the Scarborough Mortuary.
Family members and relatives remain shocked over the incident.
Cynthia Stewart-Osmond, of Mason Hall, the sister of Christon Stewart and the aunt of Fernando Stewart, told the Express the situation was heartbreaking.
"Christon lived in Germany and was at the time visiting, as he was filing necessary documents for his passport. He is also the father of one and was due to return on the 18th (of February) to Germany, to celebrate his son's birthday," she said.
The mother of Fernando Stewart said she is remaining strong at this time for the rest of the family. Fernando and the other occupants of the car had only moments ago left a celebration at 12 tribes, Mason Hall.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Hugh Lovell, acting Senior Superintendent Garfield Moore, Sergeant Samuel Morrison and other officers visited the scene.
Sergeant Morrison is heading the investigations into the matter.
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