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Tony Murray
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London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity
10.5949/UPO9781846317897
Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This book is about the literature of the Irish in London. By examining over 30 novels, short stories, and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, it investigates the complex ... More
This book is about the literature of the Irish in London. By examining over 30 novels, short stories, and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, it investigates the complex psychological landscapes of belonging and cultural allegiance found in these unique and personal perspectives on the Irish experience of migration. As well as bringing new research to bear on the work of established Irish writers such as Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Emma Donoghue, and Joseph O'Connor, this study reveals an unexplored literature, diverse in form and content. By synthesizing theories of narrative and diaspora into a new methodological approach to the study of migration, the author sheds light on the ways in which migrant identities are negotiated, mediated, and represented through literature. The book also examines the specific role that the metropolis plays in literary portrayals of migrant experience as an arena for the performance of Irishness, as a catalyst in transformations of Irishness, and as an intrinsic component of second-generation Irish identities. Furthermore, by analysing the central role of narrative in configuring migrant cultures and identities, it reassesses notions of exile, escape, and return in Irish culture more generally. The book has relevance to current debates on migration and multiculturalism in both Britain and Ireland, especially in the wake of an emerging new phase of Irish migration in the post-'Celtic Tiger' era.Less
London Irish Fictions : Narrative, Diaspora and Identity
Published in print: 2012-10-04
This book is about the literature of the Irish in London. By examining over 30 novels, short stories, and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, it investigates the complex psychological landscapes of belonging and cultural allegiance found in these unique and personal perspectives on the Irish experience of migration. As well as bringing new research to bear on the work of established Irish writers such as Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Emma Donoghue, and Joseph O'Connor, this study reveals an unexplored literature, diverse in form and content. By synthesizing theories of narrative and diaspora into a new methodological approach to the study of migration, the author sheds light on the ways in which migrant identities are negotiated, mediated, and represented through literature. The book also examines the specific role that the metropolis plays in literary portrayals of migrant experience as an arena for the performance of Irishness, as a catalyst in transformations of Irishness, and as an intrinsic component of second-generation Irish identities. Furthermore, by analysing the central role of narrative in configuring migrant cultures and identities, it reassesses notions of exile, escape, and return in Irish culture more generally. The book has relevance to current debates on migration and multiculturalism in both Britain and Ireland, especially in the wake of an emerging new phase of Irish migration in the post-'Celtic Tiger' era.
Keywords: novels, short stories, autobiographies, psychological landscapes, cultural allegiance, personal perspectives, migration, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Emma Donoghue
Hugh Adlington
10.3828/liverpool/9780746312957.001.0001
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest novelists of the late-twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. One of them, Offshore ... More
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest novelists of the late-twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. One of them, Offshore (1979), won. Her final work of historical fiction, The Blue Flower (1995), won the US National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fitzgerald's works are distinguished by their acute wit, deft handling of emotional tone and an unsentimental yet deeply felt commitment to portraying the lives of those men, women and children 'who seem to have been born defeated'. Admirers have long recognized the brilliance of Fitzgerald's writing, yet the deceptive simplicity of her style invariably leads readers to ask, 'How is it done?' This book seeks to answer that question, providing the first sustained exposition of Penelope Fitzgerald's compositional method, working both inwards from the surface of her writing and outwards from the archival evidence of Fitzgerald's own drafts and working papers. The book's six main chapter cover the full range of Fitzgerald's writing, including her extensive critical writing, her three biographies, nine novels, numerous short stories, poems and letters. It also considers Fitzgerald's literary reputation and influence, and contains a biographical outline, an appendix of uncollected and unattributed poems, and an annotated bibliography.Less
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest novelists of the late-twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. One of them, Offshore (1979), won. Her final work of historical fiction, The Blue Flower (1995), won the US National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fitzgerald's works are distinguished by their acute wit, deft handling of emotional tone and an unsentimental yet deeply felt commitment to portraying the lives of those men, women and children 'who seem to have been born defeated'. Admirers have long recognized the brilliance of Fitzgerald's writing, yet the deceptive simplicity of her style invariably leads readers to ask, 'How is it done?' This book seeks to answer that question, providing the first sustained exposition of Penelope Fitzgerald's compositional method, working both inwards from the surface of her writing and outwards from the archival evidence of Fitzgerald's own drafts and working papers. The book's six main chapter cover the full range of Fitzgerald's writing, including her extensive critical writing, her three biographies, nine novels, numerous short stories, poems and letters. It also considers Fitzgerald's literary reputation and influence, and contains a biographical outline, an appendix of uncollected and unattributed poems, and an annotated bibliography.
Keywords: Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower, Offshore, style, compositional method
This book offers an extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain by focusing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian ... More
This book offers an extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain by focusing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. It argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination which manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D'Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities.Less
This book offers an extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain by focusing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. It argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination which manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D'Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities.
Keywords: Britain, politics of race, antiracism, novels, Africa, ethnicity, political culture, ethnic communities, racial identities
Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the 21st Century
In a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress – the technological – remains ... More
In a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress – the technological – remains vibrantly intact, surging into the future at ramming speed. Amid the seemingly exponential proliferation of machine intelligence and network connectivity, and the increasingly portentous implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists look to an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed. The Singularity, it is supposed, can be no more than a few years off; indeed, some believe it has already begun. Technological Singularity – a trope conceived in science fiction and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse and beyond – is the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, a territory where longstanding binary oppositions between science and fiction, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. In this groundbreaking volume, the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, Raulerson draws SF texts into a complex dialogue with contemporary digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related vectors of high-tech postmodernity. In theorizing Singularity as a metaphorical construct lending shape to a range of millennial anxieties and aspirations, Singularities also makes the case for a recent and little-understood subgeneric formation – postcyberpunk SF – as a cohesive body of work, engaged in a shared literary project that is simultaneously shaping, and shaped by, purportedly nonfictional technoscientific discourses. Less
Singularities : Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the 21st Century
In a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress – the technological – remains vibrantly intact, surging into the future at ramming speed. Amid the seemingly exponential proliferation of machine intelligence and network connectivity, and the increasingly portentous implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists look to an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed. The Singularity, it is supposed, can be no more than a few years off; indeed, some believe it has already begun. Technological Singularity – a trope conceived in science fiction and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse and beyond – is the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, a territory where longstanding binary oppositions between science and fiction, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. In this groundbreaking volume, the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, Raulerson draws SF texts into a complex dialogue with contemporary digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related vectors of high-tech postmodernity. In theorizing Singularity as a metaphorical construct lending shape to a range of millennial anxieties and aspirations, Singularities also makes the case for a recent and little-understood subgeneric formation – postcyberpunk SF – as a cohesive body of work, engaged in a shared literary project that is simultaneously shaping, and shaped by, purportedly nonfictional technoscientific discourses.
Keywords: singularity, science fiction, transhumanism, posthumanism, nanotechnology, futurism, apocalypse, free culture
Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel
Neil Roberts
Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he finally broke with Jessie Chambers, ... More
Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he finally broke with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley and lived abroad with her in Germany and Italy. When he began Sons and Lovers he was a schoolteacher in south London writing after work in the evenings; when he completed it he was a full-time professional writer living with Frieda in Italy. The writing of the novel and the life on which it was based were closely intertwined. Moreover, Frieda and Jessie crucially influenced the writing of the book. Jessie wrote sections of it herself and encouraged Lawrence to make it more directly autobiographical. Frieda introduced Lawrence to the concept of the Oedipus Complex. In many ways the book is the result of dialogues with Jessie and Frieda. Jessie was devastated with the outcome, which she considered a slander and a betrayal. But Lawrence incorporated her answering voice, as well as Frieda's, in the text. This book combines biography and textual scholarship to bring to life the dramatic story of the writing of Sons and Lovers.Less
Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he finally broke with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley and lived abroad with her in Germany and Italy. When he began Sons and Lovers he was a schoolteacher in south London writing after work in the evenings; when he completed it he was a full-time professional writer living with Frieda in Italy. The writing of the novel and the life on which it was based were closely intertwined. Moreover, Frieda and Jessie crucially influenced the writing of the book. Jessie wrote sections of it herself and encouraged Lawrence to make it more directly autobiographical. Frieda introduced Lawrence to the concept of the Oedipus Complex. In many ways the book is the result of dialogues with Jessie and Frieda. Jessie was devastated with the outcome, which she considered a slander and a betrayal. But Lawrence incorporated her answering voice, as well as Frieda's, in the text. This book combines biography and textual scholarship to bring to life the dramatic story of the writing of Sons and Lovers.
Keywords: D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, autobiographical, drafts, Jessie Chambers, dialogue, textual scholarship
Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics
Gavin Parkinson (ed.)
As well as examining the points of contact and the differences and antagonisms that lie between Surrealism and SF, this collection is concerned with the related literature of comics, which were ... More
As well as examining the points of contact and the differences and antagonisms that lie between Surrealism and SF, this collection is concerned with the related literature of comics, which were admired and exploited by Surrealists from the 1940s, and influenced in turn by the imagery, themes and styles of Surrealism and its art. It is about Surrealism specifically, and how the movement in France, the US, and Britain used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF and comics. Among the aims of the book are an assessment of Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' literature arriving in France, which received, in fact, a mixed reception from the later Surrealists of that decade even though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directly responsible for its success. It looks in two further essays at the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists JG Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF in the 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. The chapters on Surrealism and comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist ciné-roman 'M. Wzz…' of 1929 (never discussed in any detail before) to the 1948 Vache paintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés. As in the chapters on SF, it goes on to show how Surrealism did not just receive and adapt the genre but impacted it in its later manifestations.Less
As well as examining the points of contact and the differences and antagonisms that lie between Surrealism and SF, this collection is concerned with the related literature of comics, which were admired and exploited by Surrealists from the 1940s, and influenced in turn by the imagery, themes and styles of Surrealism and its art. It is about Surrealism specifically, and how the movement in France, the US, and Britain used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF and comics. Among the aims of the book are an assessment of Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' literature arriving in France, which received, in fact, a mixed reception from the later Surrealists of that decade even though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directly responsible for its success. It looks in two further essays at the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists JG Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF in the 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. The chapters on Surrealism and comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist ciné-roman 'M. Wzz…' of 1929 (never discussed in any detail before) to the 1948 Vache paintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés. As in the chapters on SF, it goes on to show how Surrealism did not just receive and adapt the genre but impacted it in its later manifestations.
Keywords: Surrealism science fiction comics history art literature
Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries
Julie Vandivere and Megan Hicks (eds)
Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf's writing alongside the work of other women writers during the first decades of the twentieth-century. This volume ... More
Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf's writing alongside the work of other women writers during the first decades of the twentieth-century. This volume not only expands our understanding of an unprecedented number of female writers but also helps us comprehend the ways that these writers contributed to and complicated modernist literature. It explores how burgeoning communities and enclaves of women writers intersected with and coexisted alongside Virginia Woolf and emphasizes both the development of enclaves and specific female subcultures or individual writers who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf. The essays in the first section, "Who Are Virginia Woolf's Female Contemporaries," explore the boundaries of contemporaneity by considering women across nation, time, and class. The second section, "Cultural Contexts," explores Woolf's connections to early twentieth-century culture such as film and book societies. The two final sections, "Recovery and Recuperation," and "Connections Between Canonical Writers," illuminate the interlocking network of women writers and artists, the former through women who have been bereft of scholarly attention and the latter through women who have received more scholarly attention. One of the most enticing sections of the volume is the collection of essays presented during the conference's Jane Marcus's memorial. Three of Marcus's students celebrate the life, work, and influence of this unparalleled Woolf scholar.Less
Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf's writing alongside the work of other women writers during the first decades of the twentieth-century. This volume not only expands our understanding of an unprecedented number of female writers but also helps us comprehend the ways that these writers contributed to and complicated modernist literature. It explores how burgeoning communities and enclaves of women writers intersected with and coexisted alongside Virginia Woolf and emphasizes both the development of enclaves and specific female subcultures or individual writers who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf. The essays in the first section, "Who Are Virginia Woolf's Female Contemporaries," explore the boundaries of contemporaneity by considering women across nation, time, and class. The second section, "Cultural Contexts," explores Woolf's connections to early twentieth-century culture such as film and book societies. The two final sections, "Recovery and Recuperation," and "Connections Between Canonical Writers," illuminate the interlocking network of women writers and artists, the former through women who have been bereft of scholarly attention and the latter through women who have received more scholarly attention. One of the most enticing sections of the volume is the collection of essays presented during the conference's Jane Marcus's memorial. Three of Marcus's students celebrate the life, work, and influence of this unparalleled Woolf scholar.
Keywords: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Feminism, Contemporaneity, Women writers, Community, Literature, Visual Arts, Female modernists
The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination
G. Peter Winnington
The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. This book ... More
The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. This book sets Peake's fiction in context with the poetry, plays, and book illustrations that are less well known. The author traces recurrent motifs through Peake's works (islands, animals, and loneliness, for example) and explores in detail Peake's long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo.Less
The Voice of the Heart : The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination
The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. This book sets Peake's fiction in context with the poetry, plays, and book illustrations that are less well known. The author traces recurrent motifs through Peake's works (islands, animals, and loneliness, for example) and explores in detail Peake's long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo.
Keywords: Gormenghast, poetry, plays, book illustrations, islands, animals, loneliness
Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole': Novel, Play, Film
Chris Hopkins
Love on the Dole (1933) is the best-remembered novel about the unemployed during the Depression, and has never been out of print. Its working-class author, Walter Greenwood, went overnight from being ... More
Love on the Dole (1933) is the best-remembered novel about the unemployed during the Depression, and has never been out of print. Its working-class author, Walter Greenwood, went overnight from being unemployed in Salford to being a best-selling writer. The novel's impact was increased by a play adaptation in 1935, and Greenwood proposed a film adaption in 1936, but the British Board of Film Censors pronounced the story too 'sordid' and depressing' to be fit for British cinema audiences. The film had to wait until 1940 when the Ministry of Information allowed this story of pre-war economic and social failure to be filmed. Reviewers of all political persuasions regarded the film as one of the best British wartime productions – and all three versions of Love on the Dole were referred to frequently during wartime debate about how a reconstructed post-war society should make a repetition of the nineteen thirties impossible. This is the first book-length study of this important work. It explores in detail what made the novel so influential among thirties and forties readers, analyses the considerable differences between the novel, play and film versions and puts the public response to Love on the Dole back into its full historical context. The book also discusses for the first time Greenwood's whole literary career and his continuing success until the nineteen sixties: he wrote a further ten novels as well as plays and non-fiction works, few of which have received recent critical attention.Less
Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' : Novel, Play, Film
Love on the Dole (1933) is the best-remembered novel about the unemployed during the Depression, and has never been out of print. Its working-class author, Walter Greenwood, went overnight from being unemployed in Salford to being a best-selling writer. The novel's impact was increased by a play adaptation in 1935, and Greenwood proposed a film adaption in 1936, but the British Board of Film Censors pronounced the story too 'sordid' and depressing' to be fit for British cinema audiences. The film had to wait until 1940 when the Ministry of Information allowed this story of pre-war economic and social failure to be filmed. Reviewers of all political persuasions regarded the film as one of the best British wartime productions – and all three versions of Love on the Dole were referred to frequently during wartime debate about how a reconstructed post-war society should make a repetition of the nineteen thirties impossible. This is the first book-length study of this important work. It explores in detail what made the novel so influential among thirties and forties readers, analyses the considerable differences between the novel, play and film versions and puts the public response to Love on the Dole back into its full historical context. The book also discusses for the first time Greenwood's whole literary career and his continuing success until the nineteen sixties: he wrote a further ten novels as well as plays and non-fiction works, few of which have received recent critical attention.
Keywords: Walter Greenwood, Salford, working-class writers, censorship, the Depression, unemployment, the dole, the nineteen-thirties, the nineteen-forties, world war 2
Writing Life: Early Twentieth-Century Autobiographies of the Artist-Hero
Mhairi Pooler
Writing Life offers a revisionary exploration of the relationship between an author's life and art. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and ... More
Writing Life offers a revisionary exploration of the relationship between an author's life and art. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and Modernism via the First World War, this study offers a new way of evaluating biographical context and experience in the individual creative process at a critical point in world and literary history. Writing Life is also the story of four literarily and personally interconnected writers – Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Siegfried Sassoon and Dorothy Richardson – and how and why they variously adapted the model of the German Romantic Künstlerroman, or artist narrative, for their autobiographical writing, reimagining themselves as artist-heroes. By appropriating key features of the genre to underpin their autobiographical narratives, Writing Life examines how these writers achieve a form of life-writing that is equally a life story, artist's manifesto, aesthetic treatise and modern autobiographical Künstlerroman. Pooler argues that by casting their autobiographical selves in this role, Gosse, James, Sassoon and Richardson shift the focus of their life-stories towards art and its production and interpretation, each one conducting a Romantic-style conversation about literature through literature as a means of reconfirming the role of the artist in the face of shifting values and the cataclysm of the Great War.Less
Writing Life offers a revisionary exploration of the relationship between an author's life and art. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and Modernism via the First World War, this study offers a new way of evaluating biographical context and experience in the individual creative process at a critical point in world and literary history. Writing Life is also the story of four literarily and personally interconnected writers – Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Siegfried Sassoon and Dorothy Richardson – and how and why they variously adapted the model of the German Romantic Künstlerroman, or artist narrative, for their autobiographical writing, reimagining themselves as artist-heroes. By appropriating key features of the genre to underpin their autobiographical narratives, Writing Life examines how these writers achieve a form of life-writing that is equally a life story, artist's manifesto, aesthetic treatise and modern autobiographical Künstlerroman. Pooler argues that by casting their autobiographical selves in this role, Gosse, James, Sassoon and Richardson shift the focus of their life-stories towards art and its production and interpretation, each one conducting a Romantic-style conversation about literature through literature as a means of reconfirming the role of the artist in the face of shifting values and the cataclysm of the Great War.
Keywords: Autobiography, Life-writing, First World War, Modernism, Künstlerroman, Artist-hero, Henry James, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy Richardson, Edmund Gosse
Writing Liverpool: Essays and Interviews
Deryn Rees-Jones and Michael Murphy (eds)
Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive ... More
Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive Liverpool literary voice, and if so, how it can be identified. It locates Liverpool as a city with a complex literary and cultural heritage, charting its ongoing connections and affiliations with Ireland, Wales, and the United States as well as the importance of its working-class culture, particularly arising from its seafaring history. The introduction considers the ways in which Liverpool, though central because of its status as second port of Empire, was, by the middle of the twentieth century, very much at the margins of British culture. The chapters explore poetry, novels, drama, TV drama, and film from writers as diverse as James Hanley, Malcolm Lowry, J. G. Farrell, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Linda la Plante, and Ramsey Campbell, and demonstrate the remarkable strength and depth of creative talent in the city.Less
Writing Liverpool : Essays and Interviews
Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive Liverpool literary voice, and if so, how it can be identified. It locates Liverpool as a city with a complex literary and cultural heritage, charting its ongoing connections and affiliations with Ireland, Wales, and the United States as well as the importance of its working-class culture, particularly arising from its seafaring history. The introduction considers the ways in which Liverpool, though central because of its status as second port of Empire, was, by the middle of the twentieth century, very much at the margins of British culture. The chapters explore poetry, novels, drama, TV drama, and film from writers as diverse as James Hanley, Malcolm Lowry, J. G. Farrell, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Linda la Plante, and Ramsey Campbell, and demonstrate the remarkable strength and depth of creative talent in the city.
Keywords: Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, Du Noyer, literary heritage, cultural heritage, Ireland
Writing Modern Ireland
Catherine E Paul (ed.)
Bringing together leading scholars of modern and contemporary literature, this book considers the ways in which modernization has shaped Irish identity over the course of the past century. It ... More
Bringing together leading scholars of modern and contemporary literature, this book considers the ways in which modernization has shaped Irish identity over the course of the past century. It examines the complex literary manifestations of Ireland and Irishness from the turn of the twentieth century to very recently. Together with analyses of the nation, the book explores Irish identities that may be sexual, racial, regional, gendered, disabled and able-bodied, traumatized and in the process of healing. The book takes up the question of what it means to write modern Ireland, evoking the many resonances that name will carry: a mythic place, a land controlled from elsewhere, a nation hoped for and achieved, a nation denied and resisted, an island divided, an idea soaked in fantasies and dreams, a homeland abandoned in searches for brighter futures, a land of opportunity, a people who are many people, and a place defined by writers who both empower and challenge it. W. B. Yeats looms large, as he does in modern Irish literature, and in commemoration of his sesquicentennial year.Less
Bringing together leading scholars of modern and contemporary literature, this book considers the ways in which modernization has shaped Irish identity over the course of the past century. It examines the complex literary manifestations of Ireland and Irishness from the turn of the twentieth century to very recently. Together with analyses of the nation, the book explores Irish identities that may be sexual, racial, regional, gendered, disabled and able-bodied, traumatized and in the process of healing. The book takes up the question of what it means to write modern Ireland, evoking the many resonances that name will carry: a mythic place, a land controlled from elsewhere, a nation hoped for and achieved, a nation denied and resisted, an island divided, an idea soaked in fantasies and dreams, a homeland abandoned in searches for brighter futures, a land of opportunity, a people who are many people, and a place defined by writers who both empower and challenge it. W. B. Yeats looms large, as he does in modern Irish literature, and in commemoration of his sesquicentennial year.
Keywords: modernization, Irish identity, Ireland, Irishness, modern Ireland, W. B. Yeats, Irish literature
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Yet somehow, we missed a pretty bizarre and goofy trend in Brad Pitt's romantic life, which started way back with his earliest relationships 40 years ago. And once you see these photos, you won't believe you missed it, too!
The public eye had not yet honed in on Brad Pitt's partners when he started dating Kickapoo High School sweetheart Sarah Hart a few decades ago. In a few years, though, that would change.
In fact, it wouldn't be until years later, when fans looked in retrospect at photos of Brad and his partners over 40 years, that they would start to notice something…interesting.
The first photos to give away Brad's strange relationship tendencies were those taken with Shalane McCall. He played her boyfriend on four episodes of Dallas between '87 and '88.
Brad briefly romanced the 17-year-old off camera, and as he did, photos showed a gradual change in his appearance. Look at his hair. Now, look at her hair. Notice something…similar?
It was in these images that Brad's secret was exposed. Whoever he dated — no matter their look — Brad had a tendency to adapt their form and fashion style just like a human chameleon. Don't believe it?
But sure enough, Brad Pitt-shifted once more, seemingly altering his jawline and eyebrows to match his date for the evening. Maybe this was why she infamously stood him up. And then?
Brad was busy in 1989. He proposed to Jill Schoelen after meeting on the set of Cutting Class. He must've also proposed the two of them wear the same hat (they were engaged for just 3 months).
Brad escaped 1989 a single man, and in 1992, attended the Oscars with Too Young To Die? co-star Juliette Lewis. Along with a similar haircut and style, he adopted her Bigfoot-esque please-don't-photograph-me walk.
Come 1994, Brad attended a Legends Fall premiere with Czech model Jitka Pohlodek. Surely, this would be the look that stumped him. There was no way he could assume her form…right?
Wrong! He grew his hair long and the Bradamorphosis was once again complete! Perhaps he missed the shorter hair, though, because while with Jitka, he told Vanity Fair he still loved Juliette Lewis.
When the mid-'90s rolled around, Brad started making stronger relationship commitments, marrying Gwenyth Paltrow in 1996. That, of course, just meant more intensive Pitt-shifting.
Sure enough, Brad adopted her hair — from the blonde highlights right down to the oh-so-stylish swoop. And one look in her closet must've shown him what he needed to do next.
Over their six-year- marriage, Brad constantly changed his style. Long hair, short hair. Messy, clean. All of these looks fell in lockstep with the former Friends star's. Don't they look strangely similar?
Eventually, though, Brad met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004. The co-stars, both playing spies, dressed similarly on set. But as Brad fell in love, he wanted to try his hand at looking like her off of the set, too.
The couple became known as Brangelina, but Brad merged more than just his name with his wife's — he went ahead merged his appearance with hers, too. Just look at that greying, slicked-back hair!
Who would Brad Pitt look like next? Whoever it is, don't bet against Brad Pitt-shifting once more — the man can even look like a wax sculpture if he needs to!
Brad Pitt's relationships have always been a matter of public scrutiny, but people will be paying extra close attention to who he ends up with next!


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Posted: 10:03 AM, May 05, 2016
By: Dan Monk
CINCINNATI - An upscale tavern concept from Columbus is the the latest to join the tenant mix at The Kenwood Collection, an office and retail development on I-71 near Montgomery Road.
Matt the Miller's offers local and seasonal fare along with a rotating mix of craft, draft and local beers. The concept was developed by CLB Restaurants of Dublin, which operates four locations in central Ohio and Carmel, Indiana. It joins retail tenants L.L. Bean, 365 by Whole Foods and Old Navy as new tenants signed since last fall by Kenwood Collection developer PECO Real Estate Partners.
"This location could put the MTM brand on the regional map," said Craig Barnum, President of CLB Restaurants, in a press release. "We are excited to be part of such an exceptional development and vibrant community, and feel that our potential here is tremendous."
The restaurant is targeting a November opening date with about 175 seats inside and an outdoor patio that seats about 60 people. Its press release describes Matt the Miller's as a "tweener concept" that offers an upscale feel without an upscale price. Menu offerings include flatbreads, sandwiches and "a steak program that rivals many steakhouses."
The second-floor restaurant will overlook a retail plaza that's now under construction.
It's the third new-to-market retail tenant signed by Kenwood Collection since developers rebranded the building formerly known as Kenwood Towne Place. Once a notorious local symbol of the real estate crash that triggered the Great Recession in 2008, the building has been reborn as an upscale office and retail center.

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Doctors, nurses call for 'rapid action' to prevent homeless deaths amid coronavirus pandemic
By Caryn Lieberman	Global News
Updated April 14, 2020 11:57 am
2:06 Coronavirus: Growing concern for Toronto's homeless amid COVID-19 crisis
WATCH ABOVE: Hundreds of physicians and nurses are calling for immediate action to help the city's homeless who are at an increased risk for COVID-19. As Caryn Lieberman reports, one doctor is pointing out the pandemic is exposing long-standing inequalities in society. – Apr 13, 2020
In an open letter addressed to municipal and provincial officials, including Toronto Mayor John Tory and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, 313 physicians and nurse practitioners are calling for immediate action to help people experiencing homelessness and precarious housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We are seeing first hand the extreme toll that COVID-19 is taking on people who are the most marginalized … Conditions in Toronto's shelters, boarding homes, 24-hour drop-ins and respite centres do not allow for physical distancing, putting both clients and staff at high risk for COVID-19," the letter said.
"Unless there is ongoing rapid action, we will see preventable deaths and outbreaks with broad public health implications during this pandemic."
The letter called for COVID-19 outreach testing and sentinel surveillance for all shelters, respites, drop-ins and boarding homes.
READ MORE: Toronto's homeless COVID-19 patients sent to hospital due to lack of recovery site
It also urged local public health to issue an order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act requiring that all shelters, 24-hour drop-ins and respites to ensure there is physical distancing of at least six feet between clients, including no bunk beds.
Finally, it called for the rapid opening of 7,000 hotel rooms, housing units and student residences.
According to Toronto Public Health, there were 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across seven homeless service settings, such as shelters, in the city as of Monday.
"These are individuals who have been neglected, that have had shorter life outcomes and now with COVID-19 … this is life and death," said Dr. Andrew Boozary, executive director of health and social policy at University Health Network.
The order given by health experts on a daily basis to practice physical distancing is exposing long-standing inequalities, he added.
READ MORE: Advocates for Toronto's homeless plead for major increase in accommodations, testing
"There are thousands of people that do not have those privileges and do not have what I would argue are those rights to self-isolate, to physically distance," said Boozary.
The most damning part, he added, is that this should come as no surprise because the disease burden in society has never been equal.
"Individuals who are experiencing and living in poverty, precarious housing, have more chronic diseases, have shorter life expectancy to begin with before COVID-19 and you can imagine when these individuals get infected their chance of survival is so much less," he said.
Street nurse Cathy Crowe, an advocate for those who are homeless in Toronto, urged immediate action and mobile testing.
She said the number of cases of COVID-19 is likely much higher in shelters but there is insufficient testing.
READ MORE: Toronto's homeless face dire situation as support collapses, advocates say
"It's like pulling teeth to get action — three weeks to get toilets up, over two weeks to get 300 people in hotels, and they should be operating this as a military-style operation with urgency, with emergency, or we're going to see who knows how many deaths," she said.
Boozary said he has been working with municipal governments, public health and community agencies to find solutions to what he called "chronic neglect … something that's been happening for decades."
"There is harm happening every single minute that we are not allowing people to physically isolate, we're not allowing people to be tested, we're not allowing shelter staff and workers to have [personal protective equipment]," he said.
"And we're not having testing in sites of vulnerability or vulnerable spots or hot spots for COVID-19."
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Classic Frank Zappa albums "Freak Out!" and "Over-Nite Sensation" getting the deluxe vinyl reissue treatment
On May 4, 2013 May 4, 2013 By weirdestbandIn Weird NewsLeave a comment
Since regaining the rights to Frank Zappa's vast catalog, his heirs over at Zappa Records and Zappa Family Trust have wasted no time in finding new and creative ways to get his music out into the marketplace. Some moves, like selling CDs with a distribution license for $1,000 a pop, have struck us as a bit ill-conceived. But they've also put out some cool unreleased material and finally made his stuff available on iTunes, a long overdue boon to those of us who still quaintly insist of paying to download music instead of just listening to Pandora all day.
Even more quaintly, some of us still listen to music on big black pieces of vinyl—and now Zappa Records has those folks covered, too. Next month, they'll be reissuing two classic Zappa albums on collector's quality 180-gram vinyl: Freak Out!, the groundbreaking debut from Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention, and another Mothers mind-bender, 1973's Over-Nite Sensation, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Damn, I feel old just typing that.
No word yet on the exact release date of these suckers, but keep an eye on the somewhat bewildering Zappa.com site for (hopefully) more info soon. Meantime, let's play out this post with a golden Frank oldie from Freak Out!, shall we?
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This week marks the third anniversary of the launch of TWBITW. The traditional third anniversary gift, in case you're wondering, is leather. Thanks in advance.
Actually, we like to celebrate anniversaries around here with two things: The consumption of booze (although let's face it, we celebrate everything with the consumption of booze) and the addition to The Weird List of a classic artist. Last year, it was Primus; the year before that, it was Parliament-Funkadelic. This year, we'd like to finally make a whole shit-ton of you readers happy by belatedly inducting one Frank Vincent Zappa into our hallowed halls of weirdness. Welcome, Frank! Your arrival is long overdue, we know.
Full disclosure: Although I've come to appreciate him in small doses, I never was much of a Frank Zappa fan. Way back in high school, I knew a kid who owned a copy of Joe's Garage, and he would occasionally play it for us with all the usual Zappa-head exhortations: "The guitar on this track will blow your mind," "The rhythm changes on this part are nuts," "Check it out—this whole song is about sausage!" I wish I could say he eventually won the rest of us over, but honestly, we all just shrugged and went back to our U2 records.
So despite being the keeper of a weird band blog, I'm not really the best person to expound on the weirdness of Zappa's colossal ouevre, which encompasses more than 60 albums and a mind-bending mishmash of rock, jazz, funk, doo-wop, classical and avant-garde tape loop and sound collage experiments, sometimes all of the same album and always shot through with a surreal sense of humor that made it hard to tell when he was trying to make a point and when he was just fucking around.
Still, I will endeavor to enumerate just a few of the many, many reasons why Frank Zappa not only deserves to be on The Weird List—he should probably be the patron saint of this whole damn blog:
At the age of 22, he played a bicycle as a musical instrument on the Steve Allen Show. Yes, video of this exists.
In 1968, at the height of the Flower Power era, he and his band the Mothers of Invention released an album called We're Only in It for the Money that was basically a giant fuck-you to hippie culture.
He is the inventor of a recording technique called "xenochrony," in which two different studio takes done in entirely different tempos, keys and/or time signatures are merged together to jarring effect. You can hear a good example of it in this track. (Reader Waffenspiel referred us to this later track, which is actually a better example.)
He ran a pair of independent record labels called Bizarre and Straight. Among the artists signed to them was this guy. Also this guy. Oh, and Alice Cooper.
At a time when most people were too chickenshit to openly criticize Scientology, he openly mocked it with his made-up religion, Appliantology, led by a con artist named L. Ron Hoover, on Joe's Garage. Had I known all this back in high school, I might have been more inclined to dig Joe's Garage.
This was his only Top 40 hit in America.
He helped give the world Steve Vai.
His most controversial work was a 1984 rock musical called Thing-Fish, which has been variously condemned as being racist, sexist, homophobic and just in general bad taste. Here, judge for yourself. When he couldn't get the musical produced on Broadway as he originally intended, Zappa instead partially staged the whole thing for a photo shoot for Hustler magazine. (All of this helped set the stage for Zappa's anti-censorship campaign against the Parents Music Resource Center, Tipper Gore's lobbying group that prompted the advent of parental advisory stickers. Zappa's Senate testimony against the PMRC ranks among the most entertaining performances of his career.)
For much of the last decade of his life, he composed and recorded almost entirely on the Synclavier.
The same year he released Joe's Garage (1979), he also released albums called Orchestral Favorites and Sheik Yerbouti. Yes, Orchestral Favorites featured a full orchestra. No, Sheik Yerbouti was not a disco record.
I could go on, but you get the idea. No one colored outside the lines like Frank Zappa.
"I never set out to be weird," Zappa told his hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun, in 1986. "It was always other people who called me weird." Don't all the best weirdos say that? (And in case we haven't made this clear by now: Around these parts, we consider "weird" to be a high form of praise. "Weird" means you're doing something original and exciting that changes people's perceptions of what music or art can be. "Weird" should be a badge of fucking honor, not something used to belittle or trivialize an artist's work. Can someone place explain that to this guy? Thanks.)
I'll leave you, selfishly, with a song that's not Zappa's weirdest by a longshot. It just happens to be my favorite. After all, it's our anniversary! Crank it up, and don't forget to air out those python-skin boots.
P.S. As of Aug. 14th, Frank Zappa's entire catalog is now available on iTunes. Frank would've been totally down with it.
zappa.com – the Official Frank Zappa Website
Zappa Plays Zappa official site (Dweezil Zappa's tribute band to his dad)
Kill Ugly Radio (Zappa fan site)


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Effects of radiofrequency radiation in the presence of gold nanoparticles for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma
Safoora Nikzad 1, Golshan Mahmoudi 2 * , Payam Amini 3, Milad Baradaran-Ghahfarokhi 4,5, Akbar Vahdat-Moaddab 6, Seyedeh Maryam Sharafi 7, Leila Hojaji-Najafabadi 8, Ali Hosseinzadeh 9
1 Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
2 Medical Physics Department, School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran
3 Department of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Epidemiology Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering & Students Research Committee, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
5 Department of Medical Radiation Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Sciences & Technologies, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
6 Department of Radiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
7 Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
8 Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
9 Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Future Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, and, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Health, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran
*Corresponding author: Golshan Mahmoudi, golshan.mahmoudi@yahoo.com
Introduction: The most common type of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which accounts for more than 80% of all kidney cancers.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of radiofrequency (RF) radiation in the presence of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for the treatment of RCC.
Materials and Methods: Human embryonic kidney (HEK) cancer cells were divided into 6 groups. Various tests were performed on HEK cells in the presence of RF and GNPs. In order to investigate the radiation effects on the cells' survival, MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol–2-yl)-2,5-iphenyltetrazolium bromide] assay was performed at different days during and post-irradiation period. The repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) method was used for statistical analysis of the cells' survival using SPSS version 16.0. A significant level of 0.05 was considered to the tests.
Results: Using the ANOVA test, a significant decrease in cell's survival was seen in the RF exposed group 3 compared to the control group (P=0.035). While, differences were not significant between RF exposed group 2 and the control group (P>0.05). A significant decrease in cell's survival in the RF exposed groups 5 (P=0.025) and 6 (P=0.018) at the presence of GNP compared to the control group was seen.
Conclusion: Results of this study showed that, this method can be efficiently used for RCC treatment as an alternative to nephrectomy. More follow up in vivo studies on mammalians are needed to investigate the potential of the presented method for clinical applications.
Keywords: Synergic effects, Radiofrequency radiation, Gold nanoparticles, Renal cell carcinoma, Cancer
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
One of the most common types of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which accounts for more than 80% of all kidney cancers. Considering the difficulties associated with RCC treatment, new approaches are needed to enhance the radiotherapeutic efficiency. In this study the effect of radiofrequency (RF) radiation in the presence of gold nanoparticles (GNPs), as a novel treatment method for RCC treatment was evaluated. Results showed that, this method can be efficiently used for RCC treatment as an alternative of nephrectomy.
Please cite this paper as: Nikzad S, Mahmoudi G, Amini P, Baradaran-Ghahfarokhi M, Vahdat-Moaddab A, Sharafi SM, et al. Effects of radiofrequency radiation in the presence of gold nanoparticles for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. J Renal Inj Prev. 2017;6(2):103-108. DOI: 10.15171/jrip.2017.20.
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Q: Read Articles in PyOTRS I am wondering if anyone is able to read the articles within Tickets of an OTRS system via pyOTRS?  I am able to connect and get tickets fine, I just cannot find out how to get the content of the tickets.  I have been up and down the PyOTRS documentation but I am stuck.  Does anyone have anything they can share with regards to reading articles?

A: The pre-requisites for PyOTRS are mentioned here: https://pypi.org/project/PyOTRS/.
Once these are complete, following steps can be taken for retrieving OTRS ticket data:

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*A connection is initiated by creating a client.

*OTRS ticket search is conducted.

*OTRS Ticket data is retrieved including dynamic fields and articles using get_ticket.to_dct() response.

from pyotrs import Article, Client, Ticket, DynamicField, Attachment

# Initializing
URL = config["url"]
USERNAME = config["username"]
PASSWORD = config["password"]
TICKET_LINK = config["ticketLink"]

# Create session
def createSession():
    client = Client(URL, USERNAME, PASSWORD, https_verify=False)
    client.session_create()
    return client

# Retrieve tickets based on condition
def ticketData(client):
    # Specify ticket search condition
    data = client.ticket_search(Queues=['queue1Name', 'queue2Name'], States=['open'])
    print("Number of tickets retrieved:" + str(len(data)))

    # Iterating over all search results
    if data[0] is not u'':
        for ticket_id in data:
            # Get ticket details
            get_ticket = client.ticket_get_by_id(ticket_id, articles=1, attachments=1)
            print(get_ticket)
            q1 = "Ticket id: " + str(get_ticket.field_get("TicketID")) + "\nTicket number: " + str(get_ticket.field_get("TicketNumber")) + "\nTicket Creation Time: " + str(get_ticket.field_get("Created")) + "\n\nTicket title: " + get_ticket.field_get("Title")
            print(q1)

            # Based on to_dct() response we can access dynamic field (list) and article values
            print(get_ticket.to_dct())

            # Accessing dynamic field values
            dynamicField3 = get_ticket.to_dct()["Ticket"]["DynamicField"][3]["Value"]
            dynamicField12 = get_ticket.to_dct()["Ticket"]["DynamicField"][12]["Value"]

            # Accessing articles
            article = get_ticket.to_dct()["Ticket"]["Article"]
            print(len(article))

            # Iterating through all articles of the ticket (in cases where tickets have multiple articles)
            for a1 in range(0, len(article)):
                # Article subject
                q2 = "Article " + str(a1+1) + ": " + get_ticket.to_dct()["Ticket"]["Article"][a1]["Subject"] + "\n"
                print(q2)
                # Article body
                x = get_ticket.to_dct()["Ticket"]["Article"][a1]["Body"]
                x = x.encode('utf-8') #encoded
                q3 = "Body " + str(a1+1) + ": " + x + "\n"
                print(q3)

            # Ticket link for reference
            q4 = "Ticket link: " + TICKET_LINK + ticket_id + "\n"
            print(q4, end="\n\n")

def main():
    client = createSession()
    ticketData(client)
    print("done")

main()

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Ram Charan's Apology for VVR Failure
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Mega Power Star Ram Charan apologized for his fans and wellwishers who were disappointed with the failure of the movie Vinaya Vidheya Rama Charan sent an open letter to the media thanking everyone for their support and he apologized to the fans for not delivering an entertaining movie
Mega Power Star Ram Charan apologized for his fans and well-wishers who were disappointed with the failure of the movie Vinaya Vidheya Rama. Charan sent an open letter to the media thanking everyone for their support and he apologized to the fans for not delivering an entertaining movie.
In his open letter, Ram Charan said, "There are a lot of people who worked for Vinaya Vidheya Rama. I respect their work and we all worked day and night for entertaining the audiences. DVV Danayya, our producer, has given enough support to all of us throughout the making and release of the film. I thank him for that and also extend my gratitude to all the distributors of the film. Unfortunately, we couldn't deliver a good film. I apologize for that and will try to come up with an entertaining film next."
Directed by Boyapati Srinu, the film is produced by DVV Danayya. Ram Charan will next be seen in the film RRR, directed by SS Rajamouli.
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AMCOR intends to conduct exploration for on gold, silver and base metal deposits and mineral targets in; 1) the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho; 2) in the Quartz Creek Mining District of western Montana; 3) in the Seven Devils Mining District of eastern Oregon; 4) in the Kootenai ARC district in Idaho; 5) the Judith-Moccasin Mining District in central Montana; and 6) the Torado Creek, Bodie and Republic Mining Districts in northern Washington. Our strategy is to explore for gold, silver and base metal deposits primarily in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, a world class mining district and other known districts, by forming joint ventures with other companies who will potentially earn their interest in the property by contributing cash. Revival of operations in old districts can be easily justified on the basis of increases in prices of metals in the last decade.
About AMCOR
We are a mining and exploration company and the primary focus of our exploration activities will be for gold and silver. Our territorial focus is on the U.S. states of Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon and more specifically, the North Moccasin Property in central Montana, Fergus county in the Judith Mountain mining district, and the Bodie-Wauconda Mining District of Okanogan County, Washington. We are considered an exploration or exploratory stage company because we are involved in the examination, investigation and acquisition of land that we believe may contain valuable minerals, for the purpose of discovering the presence of possible commercial minerals and their extent.
AMCOR intends to conduct exploration for gold, silver and base metal deposits and mineral targets in; 1) the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho; 2) in the Quartz Creek Mining District of western Montana; 3) in the Seven Devils Mining District of eastern Oregon; 4) in the Kootenai ARC district in Idaho; 5) the Judith-Moccasin Mining District in central Montana; and 6) the Torado Creek, Bodie and Republic Mining Districts in northern Washington. Our strategy is to explore for gold, silver and base metal deposits primarily in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, a world class mining district and other known districts, by forming joint ventures with other companies who will potentially earn their interest in the property by contributing cash. Revival of operations in old districts can be easily justified on the basis of increases in prices of metals in the last decade.
Several important corporate priorities set by AMCOR management are expressed by the choice of these abandon mines, exploration projects, and prospects. There are certain priorities that may contribute to the strategic advantages to AMCOR's operations, as well as advantages in efficiencies, economy, and cost savings. These priorities are: (1) the properties be valuable for gold or silver for the purpose of leveraging future returns from the current prices of these metals; additional metal values also known to be present in several of these properties would represent added value; (2) emphasize work in select mining districts in order to leverage operational experiences, similar geology and knowledge bases peculiar within a district; (3) assemble operations within hauling distance to operating custom mills in view of establishing future toll milling agreements; and (4) operate in areas within reasonable commute distance to AMCOR's base of operations.


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Hip-hop dance class celebrates Black History Month
Mona Adem
GROOV3, an old school hip-hop dance class taught by Benjamin Allen in Redwood hall, was hosted by Pan African studies and the kinesiology department to commemorate Black History Month.
The class brought in men and women of all ages and backgrounds. Allen said his dance workout represents three elements: dance, sweat and life.
"It's about self-expression, freedom, and being able to let it go," Allen said.
The class was an hour and 45 minutes and dancers encouraged each other when faced off in dance battle.
Allen said that his class Wednesday focused on old school hip-hop because of its cultural significance to the black community.
Dr. Aime Glocke, Pan African studies associate professor, helped organize the event. She believes dance is often a better way to educate people about the culture than simply using a presentation.
"They get hands on learning in context to hip-hop," said Glocke.
Glocke said that hip-hop has changed throughout the years as it became a commodity and part of the mainstream media.
"We chose old school hip-hop because the lineage shows that there is much more to the music than what we see today," said Glocke.
Natalie Askren, 27, kinesiology major who focuses on dance, said the event was enjoyable.
Askren said she grew up in Vermont, and very few African-Americans lived in her neighborhood. Her parents never taught her about racial boundaries and she believes that everyone should respect each other no matter their race.
"These kind of events truly bring people together and when we dance next to each other, we don't see each others skin color," Askren said.
Tyana Haskins, 19, dance major, said she appreciates these kind of events that are brought to the forefront.
"Everyone is so focused on Valentine's day and forgets that this is also a month that celebrates Black history," Haskins said.
Haskins said that although the country has come far in terms of racial equality, we still have a long way to go until we actually become a colorblind society.
"We need more advancement to happen so we can have social acceptance for everyone," Haskins said.
"If everyone had a dance mindset, then the world would be a better place to live," she said.
Mona Adem, Author


We're all busy people, and sometimes we want two things for the price of one. Like chocolate, and a nip of gin.
The great minds over at KitKat are waaaaayy ahead of us, having dropped a world-first gin-infused KitKat on November 15.
Available exclusively at KitKat Chocolatory in Melbourne, the individually handcrafted GinKats ... er, we mean gin KitKats come in two festive flavours: Candied Citrus and Rosemary, and Caramelised Macadamia with Juniper.
You may now pause to wipe the drool off your keyboard/smartphone screen.
The limited edition creations were brewed up in partnership with the Melbourne Gin Company, and feature the iconic KitKat wafers smothered in luscious, gin-infused premium milk chocolate.
Keep your eye -- or tongue -- out for refreshing botanical notes reminiscent of London Dry Gin such as citrus, coriander seeds and rosemary, intermingled with Australian natives for a unique Melbourne twist.
"It's the ultimate taste sensation this Christmas," KitKat Chocolatory head chocolatier Connie Yuen said.
The boozy bars are around for a good time not a long time, so if you're in Melbs we advise popping down to the KitKat Chocolatory on La Trobe street pronto.


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Ikea leaks details of its next Sonos Symfonisk Table Lamp
By Simon Cohen September 10, 2021
A Portuguese-language product flyer for the next version of Ikea's Symfonisk Table Lamp has been spotted by a Reddit user, and it reveals a refreshed design and the ability to swap lampshades.
Spotted first by The Verge, the new Symfonisk Table Lamp appears to have a similar base to the current model, although the images show that Ikea has removed the dish-like bottom panel in favor of a more conventional look. The large knob that controls power to the light bulb has also been replaced by a single power button. It looks like Ikea has also decided to swap out the candelabra E12 light socket for an E26 base, which is the standard for most floor-standing and tabletop lamps.
Two different lampshades are illustrated in the flyer: One that uses two layers of fabric, and one made of glass that resembles the current lamp's mushroom-like glass shade option. The flyer also lists the lamp base and the shades separately, which suggests that you will be able to mix and match the bases and the shades when you buy. Right now, the Table Lamp comes with a glass shade.
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The flyer sets the price of the new Table Lamp base at 129 euros (approximately $152), while the fabric and glass shades cost 20 or 30 euros respectively (approximately $23 and $35). Those prices add up to be very close to the $189 that Ikea charges for the current model, though going with the fabric shade will obviously be cheaper than going with glass.
When the Table Lamp launched in 2019 along with the Bookshelf Speaker, Ikea recommended that buyers also invest in the company's smart ligh tbulbs in order to have wireless control over the lamp's light output. A conventional bulb could be turned off and on with the built-in switch, but for dimming, you'd need a smart bulb. The flyer encourages the same thing: "The light intensity can be regulated and has different color temperatures. To change the intensity and color temperature of the light in the column table lamp Wi-Fi Symfonisk, add a Tradfri lamp and a Styrbar command to your purchase," (translated from Portuguese by Google Translate).
The flyer doesn't offer any new information regarding the Table Lamp's audio capabilities. The current model is based on the Sonos Play:1 wireless speaker, but with the addition of Apple's AirPlay technology.
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What's The Best Way To Relieve Period Cramps?
Cory Stieg
Photographed by Megan Madden.
For some people, just imagining the pinching, aching, piercing abdominal pangs that come with their period is enough to make them want to assume the fetal position and sleep until it's over. If this is you, sure, you could pop a couple of Advil or Motrin, but is that actually going to do anything? Actually, it might, but the type of over-the-counter painkiller that you choose matters when you're treating period cramps.
If you want to make an informed decision, it's helpful to understand what causes period cramps in the first place: Chemicals called prostaglandins, which are created in a person's uterine lining, cause the muscles of the uterine wall to contract, and you feel a cramp, says Margaret Polaneczky, MD, FACOG, an Ob/Gyn at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Luckily, your first line of defense against period cramps is an over-the-counter medication, Dr. Polaneczky says. But not all OTC meds are created equal.
"Medications that interfere with prostaglandins-production or activity are the best treatments," Dr. Polaneczky says. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), for example, target and reduce the amount of prostaglandins that your body makes, which will make your cramps less severe, according to the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG). According to Dr. Polaneczky, Motrin, Advil, or Aleve will probably be effective for most people, but you might have to try a few different types of NSAIDs to find one that works for you. "You can switch to a different class and you might have more efficacy, because they all act on different spots in the prostaglandin-production pathways," she says.
And if you can't take NSAIDs (because they upset your stomach, for example), then acetaminophen can also help to decrease the pain, according to the Mayo Clinic. There are some OTC medications, such as Midol, that contain a combination of acetaminophen, caffeine, and antihistamines, Dr. Polaneczky says. "The idea is that caffeine is augmenting the pain relief activity of acetaminophen," she says. "And the antihistamines might somehow be acting on the calcium channels in the uterine muscles, which would prevent the cramps." So, the cocktail of substances might be more effective at treating some people's menstrual cramps than just a plain NSAID would.
So, when should you take a painkiller? Most people experience cramps right before their period starts, because that's when prostaglandins levels are highest, according to ACOG. It's best to start taking medication right when you experience symptoms, and you can continue taking it for up to three days, according to the Mayo Clinic. As you get your period, and the lining of your uterus sheds, the prostaglandins levels — and cramps — typically go away.
There are also a few ways that you can manage the pain without using medication, according to Dr. Polaneczky. "Exercise can certainly help, unless you're totally debilitated by your cramps," she says. Using a hot water bottle or getting a lower back massage certainly doesn't hurt, either.
If none of these treatments work, then the next step for you would be to figure out if you want to prevent your period, which is typically done using birth control pills. "Anything that suppresses ovulation will also help with cramps," Dr. Polaneczky says. Birth control pills (both combination pills and progesterone-only ones), IUDs, or injections tend to work well at preventing cramps, according to ACOG. And if you're already on the pill, you might want to consider skipping your inactive pills to prevent getting your period each month, she says.
Period cramps are no joke, and if you feel like yours are interfering with your daily life, then talk to your doctor. In the meantime, you may want to take an OTC painkiller and remember that this too shall pass.
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Offered here is an another nice CRUSHER JOE ANIMATION CEL with a PAINTED BACKGROUND from the Crusher Joe Movie done in 1983. The classic anime cel is in excellent condition with only some very minor wear at the corners of the background. This piece will look sweet in a frame. The production code# is: C2003C A-3. The cel measures 10 1/2" x 9" and is stapled to a background that measures approx. 10 3/4" x 9 1/4". This original animation cel is from the collection of Toren Smith, creator of STUDIO PROTEUS and one of the key figures involved with bringing Japanese Anime to America. Your chance to snag a stunning piece of history from a classic anime series!
Crusher Joe is a series of science fiction novels by Haruka Takachiho and released by Asahi Sonorama from 1979 to 2013. During the late 1970s one of the founding fathers of Studio Nue, Takachiho decided he would try his hand at penning novels. The result was Crusher Joe, a group of anti-heroes who were not the typical self-sacrificing types but noble in their own rights nonetheless. Crusher Joe was made into an animated film in 1983, and a pair of 'for-video' animated episodes in 1989. The film version won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1983.
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Over the last 2 weeks I had my reading/writing midterm, and then next Friday is the last of my 3 comprehensive midterms, and this one will cover the whole book we have been studying, rather than just one of the 3 units. My reading/writing midterm went great, apart from one really stupid mistake on my part. I misread the question and thought we just had to give the pinyin for the characters listed below, but we were also meant to make words. Unfortunately that mistake cost me 10 easy marks, but I still managed to get an 88% so it's not the end of the world. A couple of other students made the same mistake as we just assumed the question was the same as we cover each week in our book. Well, we all know what they say about assumption!
One of our teachers frequently encourages us to get to know each other better, which makes sense, and so this weekend I invited pretty much all the students from my year over. We had a blast, there were 14 not including us, all crammed into my our apartment, and each made food from their own nation. Thai, Korean, English and Russian food! I felt like it opened the way for more relationships, because we were basically forced to use our Chinese to communicate, rather than in class where each nation uses their own language. If nothing else it was at least good speaking practice!
In class at the moment we are basically just continuing to slog through our books. Listening is pretty mind-numbing, comprehensive class is the most fun. We have covered a selection of grammar, including where to put nouns when you are dealing with the number of times something has happened, how to use 从来,the use of 地,要是...就, and a couple of other points that have slipped my mind! I do have a test to photo and upload, but I've gone and left it in the classroom, so it will have to wait until next time!
Sounds like you really are enjoying yourself... Not jealous at all..


Austin Redfearn of Martinez correctly guessed that it is Libby's Canned Vegetables. Dollar General has them on sale 3/$1 through Wednesday (11/23), which makes them $.33 each. There is a coupon in Sunday's newspaper for $1 off four, so with that you could buy six for a total of $1.


Tracy Gallup is an artist, illustrator, and the author of nine books. Her latest titles, "Paint the Night" and "My First Book of Haiku Poems" are being released in Spring 2019. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband, cat and dog.