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Houston Street (in Fort Worth, there is also a Houston street in downtown Dallas) borders Sundance Square on one side. For great Mexican food and kick-ass margaritas DO NOT miss Mi Cocina. It is on Main Street, half a block south of Sundance Square. Also, if you are bringing your wallet with you and in the mood for some red meat, you must go to Texas de Brasil. It is an all you can eat churrascaria and you will never forget your experience. Believe me...you will need to loosen your belt a notch or two before leaving. I am not familiar with breakfast places in the area that you will be staying other than in the hotels. The Worthington, though expensive, has a decent brunch. Also check out the Flying Saucer, which is right inside Sundance Square. They have like over 400 beers...many on tap.
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The Trust rescues and re-homes between 600 and 700 Labradors every year in the South West of England. Unfortunately, quite a few of these dogs require extensive veterinary treatment and/or behavioural training in order for them to be socialised so that we can successfully re-home them. Veterinary bills and fees for animal behaviourists are ever increasing and this is why we need your support in sponsoring a Labrador.
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Three was seven personalities and at least two centuries ago. It's no surprise Eleven might pronounce a word differently.
Much more than two centuries. More like at least four to seven centuries ago. The Third Doctor never gave a straight up age, while The Second Doctor said he was 450 in
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A terrified young mum drove through Carlisle in the dead of night being chased by the man who had been stalking her for years, the city's Crown Court heard.
Danielle Heggie, 30, had been pestered by 40-year-old Stephen James Owen after he was introduced to her by a friend eight years ago.
Things came to a head when he inexplicably turned up outside the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle on the night she had to take her boyfriend for treatment there.
Owen, whose father is a retired senior policeman, claimed it was just by chance that he was parked in the road outside the hospital when she left the hospital at 1.30am on the night of June 10.
Judge Peter Hughes QC said: "I find this case very very troubling. The only conclusion I can come to is that he has an unhealthy obsession with this lady."
The court heard that Owen, of Main Street, Shap, became obsessed with Ms Heggie, who lives in Penrith, after he was introduced to her by a friend.
Even though he never had any sort of relationship with her, and she "gave him no encouragement", he started pestering her in 2004, when he was first in court for harassing her.
Since then he had been in court several times both for harassing Ms Heggie and for ignoring court orders to keep away from her, prosecutor Dick Binstead said.
He had also been sent to prison, put under curfews and given restraining orders – all intended to prevent him contacting her.
For six years Ms Heggie heard nothing from him until February this year when he unexpectedly made contact with her again, through the Facebook social networking website.
In April he followed her in his car after she found him "lurking" in his car as she, her partner and young son left a party at her mother's house.
A week later Ms Heggie's mother saw him driving past her house "glaring" at her, and on the same day he turned up outside an Indian takeaway, parking close in front of Ms Heggie's car and shouted threats, following as she drove away.
Mr Binstead told the court the "most sinister incident" came on June 10 when Ms Heggie had to take her partner to hospital in Carlisle.
As she left the hospital alone in the small hours she became aware of Owen following. She took "a convoluted route" to shake him off, but failed. Ms Heggie was so frightened she phoned the police as she was driving and was given directions to the police station at Durranhill.
Ms Heggie stopped and ran for help when she saw a police car. Owen was arrested soon afterwards.
He pleaded guilty to a further offence of harassment and, according to his barrister Keith Thomas, now appreciated that he could have no contact with Ms Heggie.
Owen was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
He was also banned for life from having any sort of contact with Ms Heggie, her mother or her partner.
He was ordered to live only at addresses approved by the court, initially at his parents' home in Kendal and put under a night-time curfew.
First published at 11:36, Wednesday, 14 November 2012
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Lawmakers seek to reduce pay gap between gendersVermont Press Bureau | February 11,2013More than a decade has passed since lawmakers created the Vermont Equal Pay Act. But women in the workplace continue to earn less than their male counterparts, and the Legislature this year will again look for ways to bridge the wage gap between genders.
Only one female plaintiff has ever filed suit under the states Equal Pay Act. But Vermont Law School professor Cheryl Hanna told lawmakers last week that the dearth of civil cases doesnt necessarily signal gender equity in the workplace.
In an effort to strengthen the equal pay statute, a bill now under review in the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs would add new provisions to the law passed in 2002. Hanna, an expert on gender-equity issues, said many women either arent aware of their rights in the workplace or fear reprisal from employers if they try to assert them.
If they do find out theyre being paid less (than similarly situated men), they often just internalize that or assume nothing can be done about it, Hanna said.
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And this legislation lays out a process so that when women do decide to go down that path, their employers cant in any way retaliate against them for having done so, Krowinski said.
The bill also attempts to address the unique challenges faced by working mothers, a group for whom the wage gap is even more stark. Hanna said many employers exhibit bias toward women who request non-traditional hours to accommodate their child care schedules.
Research tells us one reason women leave the workplace is because of the unavailability of flexible work schedules and parental leave policies, Hanna said. While theres this myth women are not committed to their job after childbirth ... in fact we know from data most women would stay fully employed in the workforce but for the fact there is no flexible time for them.
The legislation would not only prevent businesses from retaliating against requests for flex time, but require employers to give serious consideration to those requests.
The bill also would create a committee to study the feasibility of a paid parental leave system that would be funded by a payroll tax on employees.
This issue comes up almost every legislative session, Krowinski said. I think its important for us to take the time to see what the impact (of paid parental leave) would be on the state, and how it might benefit families.
The Paycheck Fairness Act pending in Congress seeks to strengthen federal prohibitions against wage discrimination. But Krowinski said Vermont ought not wait for Washington, D.C., to take the lead.
Due to gridlock in Congress Im not sure were going to see movement on that, she said. This bill covers a lot of what is in (the federal legislation), and builds on it. And we have an opportunity here to take action and move forward.
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The fiction of Carson McCullers has variously been described as gothic, grotesque, and bizarre. Many critics prefer to dwell on her ostensible preoccupation with morbidity and in so doing overlook her immense capacity for humor. But the fact is that humor plays as vital a role in Mrs. McCullers work as it does in the fiction of Twain and Faulkner. Moreover, its recognition is essential to a proper understanding and appreciation of her fiction and to the mixed vision of reality that colors it.
Although the gothic elements frequently cited in her fiction are considered vestiges of her Southern literary heritage, it is equally true that the particular type of humor which emerges from a reading of her works similarly evolves from peculiarly Southern conditions. Within her fiction she is able to reconcile successfully horror with humor, so that what is repeatedly asserted is the writers tragicomic vision of life. Interestingly enough, Mrs. McCullers was acutely aware that this mixed vision of reality pervades Southern writing. In a discerning essay entitled "The Russian Realists and Southern Literature," she finds affinities between Russian and Southern writing, both of which manifest this tragicomic view, and attempts to account for this outlook as inherent within these two remarkably similar cultures.
She deplores the labeling of Southern writing of Faulkners and later her own generation as gothic in the sense that it is supernatural or escapist literature generally removed from everyday reality. Instead she dwells on the realism of Southern writing and finds it more indebted to 19th century Russian realism than to the gothic tale. As prime movers in the Russian school, she cites Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, two of her personal favorites whose influence on her own work is apparent in many ways, most notably in the tragicomic vision she shares with them. She notes that both Russian and Southern literature had their earliest origins in similar social and economic conditions, a controlling aristocracy and an oppressed peasant or slave class. In each case the dominant attitude which emerged as a result of this cultural phenomenon was, in her words, "the cheapness of human life."2
According to Mrs. McCullers, the cruelty and suffering which pervade Southern writing are the results of this attitude. She is quick to point out, however, that it is not so much the use of these themes that proves so provocative and shocking to readers as it is the method of presentation which Russian and Southern writers share in common, a technique that essentially reflects their approach to life itself: "The technique briefly is
this: a bold and outwardly callous juxtaposition of the tragic with the humorous, the immense with the trivial, the sacred with the bawdy, the whole soul of a man with a materialistic detail."3
To demonstrate the technique, she cites a comparison between Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment and Faulkners As I Lay Dying in which the awesomeness and horror of death is juxtaposed to mundane, selfish concerns: "In both there is a fusion of anguish and farce that acts on the reader with an almost physical force. Marveladovs violent death, Katerina Ivanovnas agitation about the supper, the details of the food served, the clerk who had not a word to say for himself and smelt abominablyon the surface the whole situation would seem to be a hopeless emotional rag-bag. In the face of agony and starvation the reader suddenly finds himself laughing at the absurdities between Katerina Ivanovna and the landlady, or smiling at the antics of the little Pole."4
Similarly, in As I Lay Dying, the funeral journey of the Bundrens takes on absurdist proportions as it is marked by a series of unmitigated domestic disastersthe loss of their mule, one sons injured leg, the other sons madness, the daughters seduction, all accompanied by the stench of the decomposing body. Yet despite these calamities Anse manages to remain single-mindedly preoccupied with the anticipated purchase of his new false teeth, the daughter with the cake she plans to sell, and the injured son with the carpenters tools he fears will be lost en route.
In citing these two parallel treatments of death interspersed with comic relief, Mrs. McCullers acknowledges that the writers use of such a technique is often regarded as peculiar or even tasteless: "Farce and tragedy have always been used as foils for each other. But it is rare, except in the works of the Russians and the Southerners, that they are superimposed one upon the other so that their effects are experienced simultaneously. It is this emotional composite that has brought about the accusations of cruelty."5
Such criticism of this particular use of humor is not only unfortunate, but a trifle unrealistic. A comic treatment of death is not necessarily irreverent and may in fact be humane, for death itself need not be all gloom and morbidity, although our culture has conditioned us to think and respond in these terms. Perhaps a more realistic attitude is the conviction that death has its light and frivolous moments, an attitude readily apparent in the fiction of other contemporary Southern women.
Katherine Anne Porters treatment of death in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and more recently Eudora Weltys treatment in The Optimists Daughter are not only humane and compassionate but amusing as well.
Not surprisingly the attitude expressed by Mrs. McCullers in her essay is consistent with the tragicomic vision which surfaces in her novels. She
presents us with two of the most effective examples of this comic aspect of death in Clock without Hands, a novel which in many ways adheres more closely to the prototype of the Southern novel than any of her other works. As the novel opens, J. T. Malone, the town druggist, learns that he is dying from leukemia. Seeking to enlist the sympathy and moral support of his friend Judge Fox Clane, a Southern aristocrat verging on senility, he solemnly informs him that he is dying of a rare blood disease to which the Judge replies in utter disbelief, "A blood disease! Why, thats ridiculousyou have some of the best blood in this state. I well remember your father who had his wholesale pharmacy on the corner of Twelfth and Mulberry in Macon. And your mother I remember, tooshe was a Wheelwright. You have the best blood in this state in your veins, J. T., and never forget that."6 Oddly enough, the Judges outrageous diatribe on Malones superior bloodlines, rather than dismaying the dying man, fills him with pride and offers him the briefest respite.
In this type of "juxtaposition of the immense with the trivial," particularly in the face of impending death, Mrs. McCullers reaches her forte. A similar situation occurs at the conclusion of the novel when Jester, the Judges grandson, warns Sherman Pew, the orphaned mulatto "amanuensis" of the Judge, that his life is endangered as a consequence of his brazen move into a white neighborhood. Confronted with death, Sherman, like Faulkners Bundren family, exhibits a greater concern for the material than the spiritual. Even at the cost of his life, he refuses to forsake his newly acquired possessionshis "bought-on-time baby grand piano, bought-on-time genuine antique sofa and two chairs," the "bedroom suit, with the pink sheets and boudoir pillows," and the "four brand new Hart, Schaffner & Marx suits."7
Although Clock without Hands in its treatment of death presents us with these two superb examples of the technique described by Mrs. McCullers in her essay, it is by no means the only novel in which the tragicomic vision of the author is manifested. There are countless examples of scenes and situations throughout her work in which violence is mitigated by humor. The Ballad of the Sad Café, despite its forlorn theme of unrequited love, is strongly infused with backwoods folk humor superimposed on violence. The murderous wrath of Miss Amelia against her prodigal husband, Marvin Macy, is undercut by humorous blunderings as she bungles several attempts to murder him, the most humiliating of which occurs when she accidentally receives the poisoned plate of food intended for him. Humorous brutality sets the tone for much of the ensuing action. Miss Amelias reputation as an expert pugilist has made her a legendary figure in the backwoods and swamps, and the popular story goes that she
once pulverized a shyster lawyer who dared to cheat her in business dealings.
The culminating action of the novella is the scene in which she and Macy slug it out over the loyalty and affection of Cousin Lymon, the grotesque little hunchback. Despite the tragic implications of Miss Amelias defeat, the fight is in many respects a ridiculously comic affair described in as much deadly earnest and trivial detail as a Howard Cosell sports report (at one point, we are told, one of the spectators, his mouth open in amazement, swallows a fly). The classic example of this combination of violence and humor is pointed out by Leslie Fiedler in that sordid spectacle in Huckleberry Finn where Pap lies dead on an abandoned raft in a cabin scrawled with obscenities, and Fiedler notes that such a fusion of horror with humor is the hallmark of American fiction.8
Like Twain, Mrs. McCullers has a flare for creating memorable dramatic scenes designed to horrify and amuse readers simultaneously. One of the ways in which she accomplishes this is through the injection of child characters into roles and situations normally reserved for adults. The result is the diminution of the tragic effect by the heightening of the comic effect. Such a situation occurs in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in the near-tragic shooting of Baby Wilson, the talented toddler, by Bubber Kelly, a grade-school boy smitten by her infant charm and beautyin effect, a parody of the impassioned lover who tries to do away with the indifferent beloved. The tragedy is undercut by the proliferation of petty details and material concerns. As Baby lies sprawled and bloody on the sidewalk, she clutches in her fist her candy box prize, an apt reminder of her material aspirations for stardom. Her mothers overriding concerns are for adequate and just compensation for the cost of the toddlers ruined soiree costume and her new permanent wave, and she is quick to express her outrage over the irreparable damage done to Babys promising career as a second Shirley Temple. A special touch of comic horror is added to the scene by Mick Kellys admonition to her brother Bubber that in the state prison there are little electric chairs perfect for "frying" small-fry criminals like himself.
This childrens dramatization of impassioned love illustrates the writers heavy reliance on humorous parody in character creation and in the depiction of relationships between characters with the result that individual characters and character relationships are at once laughable and pathetic, comic and bizarre. The classic example of such a relationship occurs in The Ballad of the Sad Café in the uncommon romance that develops between the manly giantess Miss Amelia and the effeminate little hunchback Cousin Lymon. What we are presented with is a ludicrous parody of courtly love where the roles of male lover and female beloved
have been scrambled and in which all the social amenities are scrupulously observed. In her desperate but comic effort to woo Lymon, Miss Amelia feeds and clothes him in grand style, plies him with gifts, and caters to his every whim. But all is not laughter in this romantic affair, for in the end Lymon deserts his benefactor-lover, and Miss Amelia, in despairing resignation over her rejection in love, becomes a recluse.
This tragicomic depiction of the human pair is a distinctive mark of McCullers fiction, and we note its conspicuous appearance in her very first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in the friendship between the two mutes, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos. Like the Lymon-Amelia romance in The Ballad of the Sad Café, this peculiar intense relationship culminates in tragedy when the unexpected death of Antonapoulos prompts the bereaved Singer to suicide. The relationship of the two mutes is an interesting variation of the male pair that dominates American fiction and film, and it assumes the popular form of the "straight" man with his comic sidekick. In appearance and personality, Singer and Antonapoulos resemble Laurel and Hardy. Antonapoulos is an enormous roly-poly figure given to mischievous antics and public temper tantrums, and he is passionately fond of food and cartoons. In contrast with his beloved fat friend, Singer is a mere slip of a man, Spartan and reserved, and extremely anxious to avoid the kind of public commotion Antonapoulos is so fond of creating.
Still another interesting variation of the human pair that assumes comic proportions is found in Reflections in a Golden Eye in the relationship between Alison Langdon and her Filipino houseboy, Anacleto, a modern representation of the American archetypal pair of the mistress and the devoted but foolish dark servant. Anacleto is a vain little buffoon, monkeyish in appearance and manner, whose loyalty to his mistress borders on absurdity and is the subject of cocktail party jokes and gossip, which allege that he perfumes Alisons urine samples before sending them to the lab.
Lymon, Antonapoulos, and Anacleto are comic figures whose outlandish appearances and behavior delight as well as shock us. We cannot fail to be amused at the notion of Mr. Antonapoulos arrayed like a king holding court in the ward of the state asylum and jealously guarding his cartoon projector from his fellow patients, or Cousin Lymon prancing around Miss Amelias cafe in his bright green shawl and knee breeches telling tall tales and setting neighbors and relatives at odds with one another, or Anacleto slavishly imitating the ballet as he performs his household chores. Yet underneath this gay and frivolous exterior, there is the insistent threat of tragedy revolving around love and deaththe unrequited love of Miss Amelia for Cousin Lymon and the untimely deaths
of Antonapoulos and Alison which radically alter the lives of Singer and Anacleto.
Thus the presentation of Mrs. McCullers grotesque pairs of "lovers" is calculated to evoke horror and amusement, and it comes as no surprise that humor of this sort is often overlooked or else dismissed as perverse and unnatural by critics. Nevertheless, this mixed humor is decidedly more realistic since life itself is filled with incongruities, being neither all laughter nor all tears. As Mrs. McCullers argues in her essay, such a mixed vision of life is inherent within Southern culture itself; consequently, the Southern literary imagination seizes upon the juxtaposition of the idyllic aspect of life with the barbaricthe sentimental attachment for the black mammy with the inhumanity of racism itself. Witness the case of Judge Clane in Clock without Hands who foolishly dotes on his servants Verily and Sherman Pew one minute and is instrumental in planning Shermans murder in the next.
Although Mrs. McCullerss Southern heritage ostensibly explains the tragicomic vision which emerges in her fiction, it does so only in the abstract sense of accounting for it in all Southern writers as a homogeneous group whose writing is shaped by a common experience. But in the case of Carson McCullers this mixed vision is also highly individualized, the result of coping with personal adversity and tragedy most of her adult life. Her stormy marriage to Reeves McCullers and his subsequent suicide, the successive number of debilitating strokes which sapped the author of her emotional, physical, and even financial resourcesall of these undoubtedly contributed to the formulation of an attitude or philosophy which enabled her to accept the most painful experiences with dignity and courage. In short, the tragicomic vision of which we have been speaking enabled her in her personal life, as well as in her writing, to discern a saving humor in the grimmest situations.
1The Mortgaged Heart (New York: Bantam Books, 1972),
pp. 285293. "The Russian Realists and Southern Literature" first appeared
in Decision in 1941. The following discussion of affinities between Russian and
Southern writing is based upon this essay, and only direct quotations will be footnoted.


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"The PPA, so far, has helped more than 6 million people nationwide find out if they may qualify for free or discounted medicines and as we move forward into 2009, the assistance is still available," said PhRMA President and CEO Billy Tauzin. "That's good news for the citizens of South Carolina and Georgia, where so many people are out of work."
Patients who qualify for help from the PPA's participating patient assistance programs have access to more than 2,500 brand-name and generic prescription medicines. In addition, the PPA provides information on more than 10,000 free health care clinics in America and has connected more than 287,000 patients with clinics and health care providers in their communities.
Patients seeking help from PPA can call a toll-free number (1-888-4-PPA-NOW) to talk to a trained operator or access the PPA Web site (www.pparx.org). It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to find out if someone may qualify for free or discounted medications.
To help spread the word about the assistance available, the PPA's "Help Is Here Express" buses continue to visit communities all over the country with trained specialists on board to provide information on how to access patient assistance programs. All 50 states and more than 2,500 towns and cities have been visited so far, and more than 6 million patients have been helped nationwide since the PPA began in April 2005.
"At a time when national unemployment is the highest in almost two decades, the PPA has become an important lifeline for a growing number of patients," PhRMA's Tauzin said. "Millions of Amer
|SOURCE Partnership for Prescription Assistance
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