Iceland diaries!

Vi Anand checking the light on the sets in Iceland. 'Although it is winter time, the weather is very unpredictable — suddenly it rains then suddenly there's a mist and complete snow,' he shares, adding, 'There was snowfall on the first day of the shoot, while it rained the next day. But we somehow managed to get used to the chilly temperatures and completed our shoot.' Anand explains that these glaciers hardly melt, and that the compacted snow helps the car tyres to get a grip. 'But unfortunately, one day, the ice started melting. And although we travelled in a special vehicle fitted with modified tyres, we skidded off and were stuck in the snow. It was with great difficulty that we managed to pull the car back on track,' he recounts. The director admits that shooting on the glacier is a risky proposition. 'But our story needed such a landscape and we wanted to provide a thrilling visual experience to the audience, thanks to producer Ram Talluri for his support,' he shares, adding, 'We are extremely happy with the kind of stunning visuals we got in Iceland. It was worth our time and effort.' As for the food, the director smiles as he reveals, 'We asked the chef to prepare butter chicken and rice for us during our short stay.' ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.tripntale.com/profile/180723

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Passengers tie up drunk man with plastic food wrap after he tries to open plane door

Chinese woman opens plane emergency door for fresh air, delays flight While the in-flight doctor was trying to calm the man, passengers and cabin crew attempted to restrain him using a plastic food wrap. However, when they were unable to do so, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan, where the man was arrested, the Metro reported. However, the drama didn't seem to end there. Despite being a no-alcohol flight, two more drunken passengers got into a tiff once the plane took off and again had to be restrained by the crew. A few minutes later, a third man was caught smoking in the toilet of the Nordwind Airline aircraft and was arrested by Thai police when the plane eventually landed in Phuket. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://actionangler.net/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/62/UserId/191793/Default.aspx

737 Max jet safety plans were rejected

t is unclear what, if any, assessment investigators have made of the complaint.The complaint, filed after the two crashes, builds on concerns about Boeing's corporate culture, as the company tries to repair its reputation and get the planes flying again.Many current and former Boeing employees have privately discussed problems with the design and decision-making process on the 737 Max, outlining episodes when managers dismissed engineers' recommendations or prioritised profits. The engineer who filed the ethics concerns this year, Curtis Ewbank, went a step further, lodging a formal complaint and calling out the chief executive for publicly misrepresenting the safety of the plane.During the development of the 737 Max, Ewbank worked on the cockpit systems that pilots use to monitor and control the airplane. In his complaint to Boeing, he said that managers were urged to study a backup system for calculating the plane's airspeed. The system, known as synthetic airspeed, draws on several data sources to measure how fast a plane is moving.Such equipment, Ewbank said, could detect when the angle-of-attack sensors, which measure the plane's position in the sky, were malfunctioning and prevent other systems from relying on that faulty information. A version of the system is used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a new model of plane.Ewbank did not respond to requests for comment.In both crashes of the Max, an angle-of-attack sensor is believed to have failed, sending bad data to automated software designed to help prevent stalls. That software, known as MCAS, then activated erroneously, sending the planes into irrecoverable nose dives.Ewbank noted in the complaint, "It is not possible to say for certain that any actual implementation of synthetic airspeed on the 737 Max would have prevented the accidents" in Ethiopia and Indonesia. But he said that Boeing's actions on the issue pointed to a culture that emphasised profit in some cases, at the expense of safety.Throughout the development of the Max, Boeing tried to avoid adding components that could force airlines to train pilots in flight simulators, costing tens of millions of dollars over the life of an aircraft. Changes to the Max could also have required the more onerous approval for a new plane, rather than the certification process for a derivative model. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://wiznotes.com/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/291339/Default.aspx

Ian Chappell rings heat alarm for Test cricket

For starters, drastic increases in temperature will add to the health dangers for players. There's nothing more frustrating than a game delayed by rain, but imagine if players are off the field because the sun burns too brightly."The former captain, who has battled skin cancer, said exposure to sun for too long could make players susceptible to the ailment he has been fighting. "That is the reality if temperatures keep rising; players will need to be protected from heat stroke or more lasting skin-cancer damage. It's no wonder day-night matches are considered critical to Test cricket's future," he wrote. Concerned about the rising sea levels, Chappell said: "Then there is the concern of rising sea levels and more ferocious weather events like devastating tornadoes and cyclones. There's also the damaging effect of reduced rainfall, which has already seen one Test-match city - Cape Town - come perilously close to running out of water in recent years. "These are firm reminders that cricketers and administrators need to take climate change seriously," he added. The 76-year-old also pointed out the varied effects of T20 cricket on the five-day format. "There's no doubt that the explosive nature of T20s has already had a profound effect on Test-match batting."The prevailing mindset in tricky Test match conditions is for batsmen to adopt the attitude 'I'll get them before they get me'," he wrote. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://ctendodontists.org/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/806748/Default.aspx

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Explained: Why Chile is in turmoil over Metro fare hikes

This will be the first state of emergency in Santiago since 1973 when military dictator Augusto Pinochet seized control of the country and ruled it for 17 years. Troops were deployed on the streets of Santiago for the first time since 1990 when democracy returned to the country after Pinochet's democracy ended. On Sunday night, during an unscheduled speech from the military headquarters, Piñera said, 'We are at war with a powerful, relentless enemy that respects nothing or anyone and is willing to use violence and crime without any limits.' Chilean consulting firm Cadem reported on Monday that according to an analysis carried out by them between October 16 and 18, Piñera's approval ratings have gone down by two points and were at 29 per cent while his disapproval ratings have gone up to 58 per cent. On Sunday night, Piñera declared a state of emergency in Chilean cities located in the north and south of the country. The fare hike was announced on October 6 under which the prices of bus and metro tickets were to increase by $0.04 and $0.1. According to a report in the Associated Press, after meetings with the heads of the legislature and the judiciary on Sunday, Piñera said that he aimed 'to reduce excessive inequalities, inequities abuses, that persist in our society'. 'I have listened with humility to the voice of my countrymen and I will not be afraid to continue listening to that voice. We are going to suspend the rise in Metro tickets, ' Piñera said on Saturday. Furthermore, over 10,000 soldiers and police officers have been patrolling the streets of the capital as a state of emergency has been imposed in over six Chilean cities as protests continue. While 1,500 people have been arrested over 60 police officers and 11 civilians have been injured. On Sunday, Chile's Chamber of Deputies approved the bill that will freeze the rise in the rates of public transport. The text of the bill says, 'The public passenger transport system is at the service of all and, especially, of the middle class and the most vulnerable, who are very unfairly suffering the consequences of unacceptable acts of vandalism.' Even so, public transport systems are only partially operational in the capital. La Tercera reported on Monday that only one metro line would be operational from 7 am to 8 pm in the capital. However, bus services will continue as usual, unless taking a detour becomes necessary. At Santiago's Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport thousands of travellers have been stranded since airlines have either cancelled or delayed flights since the unrest. On October 19, The Santiago Times reported that of the increase in transport fares, the increase in metro fares that are considered to be the most expensive in the region, especially by students who have spearheaded the protests. The ticket prices were increased due to an increase in the costs of maintenance. Since Chile does not produce its own oil and imports it, the prices for gasoline, electricity and elevated public transportation are high. The protests started on Monday, when 'hundreds of young people' mobbed stations in Santiago due to a 4 per cent increase in subway fares. The reaction to the hike was exacerbated after a video grab of Pinera celebrating his grandson's birthday at a pizza parlour in one of Santiago's residential areas circulated on the internet. An editorial in La Tercera pointed out the source of the unrest, 'The complex situation today is the most obvious consequence of the disconnection that exists between the political class and the real concerns of the population.' Furthermore, while Chile is one of the more stable South American countries, it faces problems in the areas of healthcare, low wages, cost and quality of education, welfare, and cost of living among others. A text posted on the website of The Century, representing the posture of the country's trade unions, students, teachers and civil society groups, said that the hike in metro prices was a trigger for the 'rage' and 'discontentment' over the government's other policies spanning services, wages and the 'commercialisation of social rights'. Ironically, just a few days ago the president had proclaimed that Chile was an 'oasis' of calm and tranquillity. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.coalindia.in/ActivityFeed/tabid/63/userId/557322/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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Harold Bloom, critic who championed Western canon, dies at 89

Chiefly he argued for the literary superiority of the Western giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka — all of them white and male, his own critics pointed out — over writers favored by what he called 'the School of Resentment,' by which he meant multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, neoconservatives and others whom he saw as often betraying literature's essential purpose. 'He is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century — and the most protean,' Sam Tanenhaus wrote in 2011 in The New York Times Book Review, of which he was the editor at the time, 'a singular breed of scholar-teacher-critic-prose-poet-pamphleteer.' At the heart of Bloom's writing was a passionate love of literature and a relish for its heroic figures. 'Shakespeare is God,' he declared, and Shakespeare's characters, he said, are as real as people and have shaped Western perceptions of what it is to be human — a view he propounded in the acclaimed 'Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human' (1998). The analogy to divinity worked both ways: In 'The Book of J' (1990), Bloom challenged most existing biblical scholarship by suggesting that even the Judeo-Christian God was a literary character — invented by a woman, no less, who may have lived in the court of King Solomon and who wrote sections of the first five books of the Old Testament. 'The Book of J' became a bestseller. Bloom was widely regarded as the most popular literary critic in America (an encomium he might have considered faint praise). Among his other bestsellers were his magnum opus 'The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages,' published in 1994, and 'How to Read and Why' (2000). That record of commercial success led many in the academy to dismiss him as a populist. 'Mention the name of Harold Bloom to academics in literature departments these days and they will roll their eyes,' the British scholar and author Jonathan Bate wrote in The New Republic in 2011. The Bronx-born son of a garment worker, Bloom might have been a character out of literature himself. With his untidy gray hair and melancholy eyes encircled by shadows, he was known to hold forth from what his students called The Chair, which he, of ample girth, amply filled, surrounded by stacks of books. He was fond of endearments, like 'little child.' He addressed both male and female students as 'dear' and would kiss them on the top of the head. Gorging on Words Bloom called himself 'a monster' of reading; he said he could read, and absorb, a 400-page book in an hour. His friend Richard Bernstein, a professor of philosophy at the New School, told a reporter that watching Bloom read was 'scary.' Armed with a photographic memory, Bloom could recite acres of poetry by heart — by his account, the whole of Shakespeare, Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' all of William Blake, the Hebraic Bible and Edmund Spenser's monumental 'The Fairie Queen.' He relished epigraphs, gnomic remarks and unusual words: kenosis (emptying), tessera (completing), askesis (diminishing) and clinamen (swerving). He quite enjoyed being likened to Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century critic, essayist, lexicographer and man about London, who, like Bloom ('a Yiddisher Dr Johnson' was one appellation), was rotund, erudite and often caustic in his opinions. ( Bloom even had a vaguely English accent, his Bronx roots notwithstanding.) Or if not Johnson, then the actor Zero Mostel, whom he resembled. 'I am Zero Mostel!' Bloom once said. Like Johnson's, his output was vast: more than 40 books of his own authorship and hundreds of volumes he edited. And he remained prolific to the end, publishing two books in 2017, two in 2018 and two this year: 'Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind' and 'Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism.' His final book is to be released on an unspecified date by Yale University Press, his wife said. Perhaps Bloom's most influential work was one that discussed literary influence itself. The book, 'The Anxiety of Influence,' published in 1973 and eventually in some 45 languages, borrows from Freudian theory in envisioning literary creation as an epochal, and Oedipal, struggle in which the young artist rebels against preceding traditions, seeking that burst of originality that distinguishes greatness. Bloom argued that a poem was both a response to another poem and a defense against it. Poetry, he wrote, was a dark battleground where poets deliberately 'misread' those who came before them and repress their debt to them. This was a view that ran counter to the New Criticism, the dominant literary theory in midcentury America that put aside matters like historical context and author's intentions and rather saw literature as a series of texts to be closely analyzed, their meaning to be found in language and structure. Bloom crossed swords with other critical perspectives in 'The Western Canon.' The eminent critic Frank Kermode, identifying those whom Bloom saw as his antagonists, wrote in The London Review of Books, 'He has in mind all who profess to regard the canon as an instrument of cultural, hence political, hegemony — as a subtle fraud devised by dead white males to reinforce ethnic and sexist oppression.' Bloom insisted that a literary work is not a social document — is not to be read for its political or historical content — but is to be enjoyed above all for the aesthetic pleasure it brings. 'Bloom isn't asking us to worship the great books,' the writer Adam Begley wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 1994. 'He asks instead that we prize the astonishing mystery of creative genius.' Bloom himself said that 'the canonical quality comes out of strangeness, comes out of the idiosyncratic, comes out of originality.' Begley noted further, 'The canon, Bloom believes, answers an unavoidable question: What, in the little time we have, shall we read?' 'You must choose,' Bloom himself wrote in 'The Western Canon.' 'Either there were aesthetic values or there are only the overdetermination of race, class and gender.' His Writing Hall of Fame Attached to 'The Western Canon' is an appendix listing the works of some 850 writers that Bloom thought would endure in posterity. Plato and Shakespeare and Proust are there, of course, but so are lesser-known figures, like Ivo Andric, a Yugoslav who won the 1961 Nobel Prize in literature, and Taha Hussein, an important Egyptian writer and intellectual. Many in the literary world delighted in trying to decipher the meanings behind Bloom's sometimes idiosyncratic choices. Some puzzled over his judgment, for example, that of all John Updike's considerable body of work, only the novel 'The Witches of Eastwick' would last. Bloom's critics noted that Updike had once referred to Bloom's writings as 'torturous.' Philip Roth, a friend of Bloom's, garnered six mentions. Alice Walker was ignored altogether, but poet J.D. McClatchy and critics David Bromwich and Barbara Packer, all students of Bloom's, made the cut. Later, in 'The Anatomy of Influence' — a 2011 book he called, prematurely, his 'virtual swan song' — Bloom seemed to soften his canonical stance, conceding that a critic of any heritage is obliged to take seriously other traditions, including non-Western. The spotlight he commanded as a powerful cultural figure did not always flatter him. In 1990, GQ magazine, in an article titled 'Bloom in Love,' portrayed him as having had intimate entanglements with female graduate students. ('A disgusting piece of character assassination,' he was quoted as telling Begley in The Times Magazine.) And in a 2004 article in New York magazine, writer Naomi Wolf wrote that he had once put his hand on her inner thigh when she was an undergraduate student. 'Beautiful, brilliant students surrounded him,' she wrote. 'He was a vortex of power and intellectual charisma.' Bloom vigorously denied her accusation. The clarity of his prose was also questioned. 'Harold is not a particularly good explainer,' his friend poet John Hollander once told The Times, adding, 'He'll get hold of a word and allow this to generate a concept for him, but he's not in a position to say very clearly what he means and what he's doing.' Still, Bloom won huge book advances — $1.2 million in the case of 'Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds' (2002), a popular but erudite work on which great books a person ought to read. Harold Bloom was born July 11, 1930, in the East Bronx, into an Orthodox Jewish household. He was the youngest of five children of William and Paula (Lev) Bloom, struggling immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father was a garment worker. The first book Harold read was an anthology of Yiddish poetry. He soon discovered the New York Public Library's branch in the Melrose section of the Bronx and worked his way through Hart Crane, W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot. He graduated from the exclusive Bronx High School of Science — 'that ghastly place,' he called it — and went to Cornell on a scholarship, where he dazzled his professors. When he graduated from Cornell in 1951, his teachers insisted that he go to another institution for graduate school. 'We couldn't teach him anything more,' said M.H. Abrams, the eminent critic and scholar of Romanticism who was Bloom's adviser. A Passion for the Romantics Bloom was accepted at Yale, a stronghold of the New Criticism in the 1950s. The New Critics, among them T.S. Eliot, favoured 17th-century metaphysical and religious poets like John Donne and George Herbert, both clergymen. Bloom found that school of thought arid. It was 'no accident,' the young Bloom wrote, 'that the poets brought into favour by the New Criticism were Catholics or High Church Anglicans.' He added that the 'academic criticism of literature in our time became almost an affair of churchwardens.' 'And I am very Jewish,' he told a reporter, 'and lower-class Jewish at that.' His heroes were Emerson and the English Romantics, but Romanticism was in ill repute at Yale. Nevertheless, he wrote his doctoral thesis on Romanticism and adapted and published it as his first book, 'Shelley's Mythmaking' (1959). He published a more comprehensive study of the Romantics, 'The Visionary Company,'' in 1961. In championing the Romantics he was credited with helping to persuade English departments to teach them again in the 1960s. At Yale, however, he cast himself in direct opposition to the prevailing ethos, particularly with 'The Anxiety of Influence,' positing that great literature is an act of rebellion against the writers who came before. Though he briefly aligned himself with the Yale deconstructionists Paul De Man, J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Hartman, Bloom broke with the Yale English department completely in 1977. He was appointed De Vane professor of humanities and eventually Sterling professor of the humanities, the highest academic rank at Yale, in effect becoming a department unto himself. In 1984 Bloom took on a vast project: editing some 600 volumes of criticism for Chelsea House, a publisher of scholarly works. One motive for doing so was to provide for a disabled adult son. The next year he received a so-called genius award grant from the Catherine and John D. MacArthur Foundation. In 1988, Bloom took on a greater teaching load in 1988, spending part of each week as the Berg professor of English at New York University. At his death he lived in the same rambling 19th-century brown-shingled house in New Haven that he and his wife, Jeanne, a retired psychologist in the Branford, Connecticut, school system, had occupied for more than 50 years and filled with thousands of books, paintings and sculptures. He had married Jeanne Gould in 1958. In addition to his wife, Bloom is survived by two sons, Daniel and David. Bloom was ultimately both optimistic, in a narrow sense, and pessimistic, in a much broader one, about the durability of great literature. The books he loved would no doubt always find readers, he wrote, though their numbers might dwindle. But his great concern was that the books would no longer be taught, and thus become irrelevant. 'What are now called 'Departments of English' will be renamed departments of 'Cultural Studies,'' he wrote in 'The Western Canon,' 'where Batman comics, Mormon theme parks, television, movies and rock will replace Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens.' 'Major, once-elitist universities and colleges,' he continued, 'will still offer a few courses in Shakespeare, Milton and their peers, but these will be taught by departments of three or four scholars, equivalent to teachers of ancient Greek and Latin.' 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Amritsar train tragedy: CM says action initiated against 13 police, MC personnel

Taking cognizance of recent reports, the CM clarified that due action, as per the law, was being taken against those found guilty, and there was no question of brushing aside the matter or burying the inquiry report, as alleged in a section of the media. 'My government is also taking all possible steps to prevent the recurrence of such incidents, said Captain, pointing out that detailed guidelines were issued to police and local government officers suggesting corrective measures, including creation of a single window/authority to accept applications and grant permissions for such events. The commissionerates of police in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar, besides the SDMs in other areas, had already been appointed single authority for this purpose, he added. 'It was also stipulated that the application would contain all relevant information along with detailed checklist and organisers would be asked to apply at least 15 days before the event,' said the CM explaining the steps taken by his government. Organisers would also be charged for security fire tenders water tenders and cleaning etc. In addition to making video-graphing of these functions mandatory, the state government had also stipulated that permission of the concerned department would be a prerequisite if the event was proposed to be held on Government land, the CM said. 'It may be recalled that immediately after the accident, the CM had ordered a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to dependents of each of the deceased, with Rs 50,000 compensation for those injured. Of the Rs 2.9 crore placed at the disposal of deputy commissioner Amritsar for disbursal to the kin of the deceased, Rs. 2.6 crore had already been disbursed. In one case, all four members of a family had died and their legal heirs could not be verified,' reads the press note. Further, the identification of the legal heir of one deceased remained disputed and identity of one victim could not be established, it reads further. Of the 71 injured, compensation for three victims was under process due to non-availability of their known residential addresses, said the spokesperson in the press release, adding that efforts were underway to find their alternative locations. With a warning that no procedural irregularity would be tolerated in the organization, regulation and supervision of such events, the CM has, meanwhile, urged the public to exercise restraint and observe all due precautions during the ongoing festive season, to complement the administration's efforts to ensure safety and security at such events. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://theseasonedcook.com/UserProfile/tabid/42/userId/1095111/Default.aspx

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