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Campaign launched to boost North East tourism businesses after devastating summer
Save Your Summer initiative has won financial backing from the Government
Graeme WhitfieldRegional business editor
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Tourism organisations in the North East have launched a campaign to get people to visit local attractions after a devastating summer that has seen huge declines in incomes.
The Save Your Summer initiative has won financial backing from the Government with the aim of getting people to explore local destinations and have a mini-break closer to home.
Estimates suggest that the region's £4bn tourism industry has effectively lost around half of its income over the key summer period, with as many as 10,000 tourism-related jobs lost in Newcastle and Gateshead alone.
A new advertising campaign will encourage people to consider tourist destinations within a two-hour drive from the North East.
Visuals for the campaign have been devised by Newcastle agency Drummond Central, highlighting experiences on offer in the region, including sports, heritage attractions, walking tours, restaurants and accommodation.
Coun Ged Bell, cabinet member for employment and culture at Newcastle City Council, said: "The campaign is a welcome boost to our collective efforts towards reviving the tourism sector here in the North East – it has been so badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
"While consumer confidence in travel abroad is at an all-time low, it makes sense that people will want to explore places closer to home more than ever. A recent survey suggested that around a third of people would feel confident in taking a UK break in September, and we hope that by inviting these visitors to 'save their summer' with a safe and sustainable trip to North East England, we can salvage the summer holiday experience for so many."
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Northumberland County Council leader Peter Jackson, said: "I think sometimes we take for granted what we have here on our doorstep, when in fact we should be incredibly proud.
"We're renowned for our history, culture, industry, ingenuity and innovation, also for our beautiful countryside and coast. This is a unique and special place.
"We can save our summer by holidaying closer to home. Support in the coming month for our local businesses, towns, villages, and city will help us bounce back strongly from COVID-19, which is our top priority."
A number of campaigns have been launched over the summer in a bid to support struggling tourism businesses.
Northumberland County Council has begun a national search for a director of visitor economy and is launching a new Visit Northumberland website, while Visit County Durham has launched a marketing campaign that promotes Durham as being 'Worth the Wait'.
Meanwhile, a separate campaign has been launched today to support the recovery of the business events industry.
Organised by NewcastleGateshead Convention Bureau, #ItsTyneToMeetAgain has won support from Newcastle and Northumbria universities, Newcastle United football club, LNER and Newcastle Castle. Paul Szomoru, director of business events at NewcastleGateshead Convention Bureau, said: "Like much of the tourism economy, business events have been completely decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. Now that the industry has been given the green light for October, it's imperative we work together to build confidence with event organisers, to show them that venues and support service providers in NewcastleGateshead and North East England are ready to welcome them back and to host brilliant events in a safe environment."
VisitEngland director Andrew Stokes said: "Millions of jobs and local economies depend on tourism right across the country and the industry needs all of us to make sure it gets back on its feet.
"This funding will encourage more of us to get out and discover the outstanding destinations and quality attractions close to home, right here on our doorstep. It will also support local businesses who have been working so hard to welcome visitors back safely, adapting and innovating to meet new ways of working and still providing a great visitor experience."
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Næstved Museum is located in Helligåndshuset (House of the Holy Spirit) in Næstved, central Zealand, Denmark. Its collections trace the development of the area from the last ice age to the present. Highlights include an extensive collection of textiles and exhibitions of artefacts from the Kähler Ceramics Factory and from the Holmegaard Glass Factory.

History and overview
Næstved Museum was established in 1917 and was officially recognized by the national authorities in 1930. Geographically it covers the area of Næstved Municipality as extended by the communal reform of 2007. It is divided into two main centres, Helligåndshuset on Ringstedgade to the north of the town centre, and Boderne, on Sct Peders Kirkeplads to the southwest.

Helligåndshuset

The building which dates from the 15th century first consisted of a series of stone stalls which served as accommodation. In the early 16th century, Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady) was added to the west end. In 1804, the church was abandoned and its spires were removed. It then served both as a hospital and a workhouse where textiles were manufactured. The building was comprehensively restored in  1926-27 and has since housed collections belonging to the museum. There is a section devoted to the Middle Ages centred on artefacts found during archaeological excavations and another dealing with woodcarving in the town in the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a display covering the military presence in Næstved and a historical collection of clothing and textiles for men, women and children from both town and country.

Boderne
Originally used for accommodation, the Boderne complex was restored from 1969 to 1984. It now houses exhibitions related to Herman A. Kähler's ceramics factory and the Holmegård Glass Works. The development of the Kähler enterprise over four generations is shown in considerable detail in several rooms. Two rooms are devoted to Holmegård glass from the mid-19th century to the present day. Other displays cover silverware produced in the neighbourhood and ceramics from the whole of Denmark.

Opening hours
The museum is open to the public, free of charge.

Helligåndshuset: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 10 am to 2 pm; Thursday: 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday: 1 pm to 4 pm

Boderne: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 10 am to 2 om

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CPR stands for 'cardiopulmonary resuscitation' and is a life-saving procedure used to help dogs and cats that stopped breathing and/or have no heartbeat. CPR preserves brain function until proper blood circulation and breathing can be restored. The CPR process is similar to that of a human, but you want to make sure they are on laying on the their side.
Step 1: Check to see if the animal is breathing – look at its chest, listen for breathing, feel for breaths with the back of your hand.
Step 2: If the animal is not breathing, open their airway by tilting its head back a little bit and pulling on the tongue. Then give it 4-5 breaths by covering its nose with your mouth and forcefully blowing until you see the chest rise, and removing your mouth when the chest has fully expanded. After several breaths, stop and check for breathing and a pulse.
Step 3: Check for a pulse. On larger animals, place your fingers on the inside of the rear leg, towards the top of the thigh. On small dogs and cats, place your fingers on the chest just behind the shoulder. If there is a pulse but the animal is still not breathing, continue breathing for it, mouth-to-snout. Give 1 breath every 3 seconds, or for cats and small dogs give 1 breath every 2 seconds. Push down on the stomach area every few seconds to help expel the air that may have accumulated there. Continue rescue breathing until you can get the animal to the nearest veterinary facility.
Step 4: If there is no pulse, begin chest compressions. In small dogs and cats, place the animal on the ground, and then sandwich the chest with your hands on either side, right behind the shoulder blades. Squeeze the chest, compressing it about ½ to 1 inch deep. Do this 100-150 times per minute. In a larger dog, place it on its right side and put your hands on the widest part of the chest. Depress the rib cage 1 ½ to 4 inches, depending on the dog's size. Do this 80 to 120 times per minute. After one minute check for a pulse. If no response, then repeat chest compressions. If possible, give breaths during the compressions. If this is not possible, give 2 breaths after every 12 compressions. If two people are working together, then have the second person give a breath during every second or third compression. Continue CPR until you can get the animal to a veterinary facility.
Below is another helpful video on performing CPR on dogs. Note: This instructional video recommends a compression to ventilation ratio of 15 compressions followed by 1 breath.
The above protocol can also be found at VeterinaryPartner.com. You can print the article by going to www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=Print&A=294.
Taking a pet first aid course is highly recommended. The American Red Cross offers such courses – see their website at www.redcross.org/services/hss/courses/pets.html.


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Allison, Dorothy. Two or Three Things I Know . Dutton, 1995. The author of Bastard Out of Carolina talks about her experience growing up in poverty.
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Dujon, Diane, and Withhorn , Ann. For Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States . Boston, Mass.: South End Press, 1996
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Moss, Kirby. The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege. University of Pensylvania Press, 2003. Payne, Ruby K. A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty . Cheryl A. Evans, illustrator. Rev. ed. Baytown, TX: RFT Pub., 1995.
Rank, Mark Robert. One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. Oxford University Press, 2004. A powerful indictment of persistent poverty and its real impact on people -and costs to our society.
Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Top rate journalist explores the experiences of America's working poor, letting people tell their stories.
Wilson, William Julius. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Vintage, 1996.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . New York: Metropolitan Books, Holt & Co, 2001. The best-selling book about the invisible working class.
Lauter, Paul and Ann Fitzgerald. Literature, Class, and Culture . Addison Wesley, 2001.
Register, Cheri. Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir . New York: Perennial, HarperCollins, 2001. A memoir of growing up in working-class Albert Lea, Minnesota, a meatpacking town.
Tea, Michelle, editor. The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class , Seal Press, 2004.
Terkel, Studs. Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do . New York: Pantheon Books, 1972. Great interviews by the master interviewer himself with people about their jobs. Labor, Work and Working-Class Culture:
Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly. Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty . Boston: South End Press, 1997.
Amott, Theresa and Matthaei, Julie. Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States . Boston: South End Press, 1991.
Adler, William. Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line . New York: Scribner, 2000.
Bronfenbrenner, Kate, Friedman, Sheldon, Hurd, Richard W., Oswald, Rudolph A. and Seeber, Ronald L., eds. Organizing To Win: New Research on Union Strategies . Ithaca, New York: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1998.
Cavendish, Ruth. Women on the Line . Boston, MA: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
De Santis, Solange. Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival . New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Freeman, Richard, ed. Working Under Different Rules. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. Freeman shows that other countries have rules much more favorable to workers than the U.S.
Geoghegan, Thomas . Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat on Its Back . New York, Penguin, Plum, 1991. First-person account of working as a labor lawyer during the 1980s attacks on organized labor.
Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto, America's Scapegoats: How we got that way and why we're not going to take it anymore . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Moody. Kim. Workers In a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy. New York: Verso, 1997.
Murray. R. Emmett. The Lexicon of Labor. New York: The New Press, 1998. Boost your labor movement knowledge and history with this annotated glossary.
Pollin, Robert and Luce, Stephanie. The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy . New York: The New Press. 1998. The first full-length book that examines the emerging "living wage" movement.
Queenan, Joe. Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America. Hyperion, 1998.
Rubin, Lillian B. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. New York: Basic Books, 1976. One the first searing contemporary insights into the hidden injuries of class oppression.
Rubin, Lillian B. Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Sklar, Holly; Mykyta, Laryssa; and Wefald, Susan. Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies That Work . New York: Ms. Foundation, 2001. A compelling case for a living wage.
Tea, Michelle. Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class . Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2003.
Zandy, Janet, editor. Liberating Memory: Our Work and our Working Class Consciousness . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
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Conley, Dalton. Honky . New York: Vintage Books, 2000. Dalton Conley is a sociologist who grew up in the projects on the Lower East Side of New York, one of the few white kids in his neighborhood.
Lubrano, Alfred. Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams . Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. One of the most important books about the "Straddler" experience.
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Prometheus: Things I Liked, Things I Didn't
3 July 9, 2012 July 9, 2012 Film Things I Liked
It's been a few weeks now since Prometheus hit screens, but the vociferous dialogue about the film has barely died down – it has its fair share of lovers and haters, and it seems the only thing no one thinks is that it was just all right. I don't fall into that category either, as I really enjoyed it and can't quite believe the amount of vitriol I've seen hurled at it. In any case, here are the things I liked and disliked about it. I am NOT holding back spoilers, so if you haven't seen the film yet, hold off on reading this until you have. There are plenty of other spoiler-free takes on the film around, both positive and negative.
Things I Liked
Nobody denies that Ridley Scott's strength is visual; even the people who hate Prometheus acknowledge that it looks ridiculously gorgeous. That goes an awfully long way with me, and giving me something pretty to look at is perhaps all-too-effective at getting me to overlook flaws in other areas. I think the flaws people have pointed out in Prometheus are largely overblown, but even if I didn't, I'm not sure I wouldn't still have enjoyed the hell out of watching it. From the opening fly-over to the intricate interior of the mounds, not to mention the dazzling effects in the map room and even the static-filled holograms, my eyes were happy every second of this film.
The story it chose to tell
There are lots of stories that could be told within the Alien universe, but when I rewatched Alien a few days before going to see Prometheus, I realized that the story I wanted to see was about the giant pilot in the crashed spaceship. At one point in Alien, that seems to be a big mystery, but then they get attacked, horror takes over, and it becomes about survival rather than discovery, and I wanted to get back to the discovery. Prometheus is all about the discovery, and tells the story that had piqued my curiosity in the first place. Even though the mystery isn't fully solved, I felt more at home, inspired and fulfilled by seeing this story addressed.
The scope
This is an ambitious film, there's no doubt. Whether it totally reaches the heights it aims for is debatable (even I won't hold that the film is quite as much 2001 as it seems, at times, to want to be), but I really appreciated that it went for the kind of scale and immensity that it did. It goes claustrophobic when it needs to, but there's always a sense of the immense, of the beyond, of the sheer magnitude of the universe and of the mission these characters are on. I mean, what we're dealing with is creation itself, the origin of the human race – and by extension, probably other races on other worlds as well. And it goes even beyond that. It opens with a mysterious figure sacrificing himself to merge his DNA with an as-yet-lifeless world. It doesn't get more epic than that, and while it narrows down to focus on a single crew and its survival, that epic scope is always in the background.
Asking the big questions
There very few questions as big as "why are we here", and that's what Prometheus asks. It's a staple of cerebral sci-fi cinema, and though Prometheus dabbles in the horror sandbox as well, it never totally loses sight of the ontological questions that drive hard sci-fi. The conversation between Holloway and David is probably the clearest example of this, as Holloway despairs of being able to ask the Engineers why they created us but easily answers David's similar query that humans made robots "because they could." David's response, that perhaps the Engineers had no more reason to create us than that, leaves Holloway speechless. He wanted more. We want more. Holloway's kind of an arrogant asshole and he treats David like crap, but the film doesn't totally denounce or endorse the desire to know more about who we are, where we came from, and what our purpose in the universe is. It allows the question to exist, to simmer…
Not answering them
…and remain unanswered. There is no answer (at least not one that can be gotten through purely scientific means). The scientists in Prometheus cannot find out the answer on their voyage, but at least one of them continues to ask it, and the asking of it is what sci-fi is about. When it's pointed out to Elizabeth that they've found their creators, she immediately follows up with "but who created them?" The question is everything, the journey. And though Prometheus gets sidetracked by horror, like Alien did, it returns to the journey (as Alien did not), futile or no.
David and Elizabeth as rationality vs. belief
Going along with that, I actually appreciated the interplay of science and religion in the film, as half-cocked as some of it is. I'm glad Scott didn't end up going explicitly with the "Space Jesus" idea, as that might've been a bit much for me to handle (suspending disbelief to allow for alien race creators is about as far as I can probably go; tying it directly to Christian history wouldn't have worked for me), but the suggestion of some relationship between these aliens and the search for God intrigued me greatly. Elizabeth continues to wear the cross of her father, not seeing a disconnect between becoming a scientist searching for the origin of her species, and her religious beliefs in a creator – and note that she doesn't even think the Engineers are the end of that search, as Holloway does (and despairs), but when it's pretty much proven that the Engineers are behind our DNA, she wants to know the next step. Meanwhile, David is the emotionless rational side of science, who, quite understandably, thinks there is no greater secret to human existence but that the Engineers made them just because they could – yet he is also inquisitive about them, and pushes as many boundaries as Elizabeth. I liked the push and pull the two had with each other, and that the film let them have it and didn't paint either one as right or wrong.
Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender
Relatedly, Elizabeth and David are really the main characters of the story – Elizabeth more so, but David is more a lead than anybody else besides Elizabeth. And I thought both Rapace and Fassbender did outstanding jobs with them. I haven't seen any of Rapace's other American films yet, but she definitely makes good on her Girl with the Dragon Tattoo role and proves she's got as bright a future in international filmmaking as she wants. Elizabeth certainly has some of Ripley in her, with just as strong a determination to survive, yet she's also got a bit more softness to her, a bit more idealism. I liked that even though the character calls back to Ripley in a lot of ways (even in the plotting and staging of a lot of scenes), Elizabeth is very much her own character. Similarly, David could've been just like any of the other androids that Weyland has used in the other films, but he's not. It's up in the air for most of the film whether he's going to be like Ash or like Bishop, and in the end, he's both and neither. And Fassbender plays him with just the right amount of robotic indifference mixed with a bit of almost-human curiosity.
The caesarean section
Certainly the highlight virtuoso scene of the movie, as almost everyone agrees, is Elizabeth's self-induced caesarean section to get rid of the alien she's been impregnated with. It's the scene that most proves Elizabeth's legacy from Ripley, and doesn't hold back at all in terms of gore, visceral effect, or intensity. This is where Prometheus comes closest to Alien in tone and feel, and I appreciated that even though out and out horror is less my thing than the cerebral sci-fi Prometheus more often goes after. As a single scene, I thought it was fantastic. I'm glad the whole film wasn't full of this sort of thing, though.
The call-backs to Alien
I'm not the hugest fan of Alien (which may be one reason that I tend to see Prometheus as a more-intelligent-than-average summer blockbuster instead of a disappointing entry in a beloved franchise), but I am a sucker for continuity, and though not everything totally fits together as nicely as one might like between Alien and Prometheus, I still really enjoyed seeing those connections, even down the very structure, which seemed more like homage than self-plagiarism to me. I liked that the goo containers presaged the egg field. I liked seeing the flight deck pre-crash, and I liked expanding the mythology of the alien life-cycle. I liked the tag, seeing the fully-formed alien finally born, and I liked the echos of earlier characters in Elizabeth and David. You could consider it derivative, and many do. But while watching, I loved catching those references and echos (and I know I missed a bunch too, not having seen Alien3 or Alien: Resurrection). On the other hand, this continuity thing also led to one of my dislikes…read on for that.
Things I Was Indifferent About
The scientist comedy duo and stupidity in general
A lot of reviews I've read end up hating the film largely because they can't get past how stupid some of the people are in it, especially the two scientists who take off on their own to head back to the ship and end up getting lost and encountering the larval alien. I can see why it's bothersome to people, but it didn't really bother me at all. It's not their story, and I didn't find them any more distracting or offputting than the alien-fodder engineers in Alien. Maybe my rationalizing is particularly strong here, but I figured the geologist could be good at geology and making machines that read rocks without necessarily having good navigation skills. I figured the biologist could be put off by dead bodies killed in unknown and violent ways and still be intrigued by the appearance of a new life form. I figured that Holloway's excitement about finding the Engineers would be enough to overcome any good sense he may or may not have had in taking off his helmet – he wanted to experience it NOW rather than waiting for the next day, why wouldn't he have wanted to experience it DIRECTLY, especially after David said it was safe? And as far as them being scientists (and supposedly smart) as opposed to tugboat crew members (and supposedly dumb – thanks, stereotypes) like in Alien, I figured that Vickers had a hand in choosing them, and she has no desire for the mission to succeed. Why wouldn't she pick people she thought might fail? Like I said, rationalizing to some degree, but I'm fine with that. None of these things even bothered me while watching the film; I was too caught up in it.
Things I Didn't Like
One leap of logic in particular
Generally, I was fine going along with the team as they expanded their knowledge and refined their hypotheses, but the one major one that bugged me was how quickly Elizabeth jumped to the conclusion that a) the engineers now wanted to kill humanity and b) humanity had done something wrong to deserve this. I don't think it's necessarily the most obvious explanation, though I do think it's an acceptable one. I just wish someone had been like "hold up," what if the engineer they woke up was just disoriented after cryosleep and lashed out in self-defense against what it probably assumed were attackers? What if they were coming to make more cave paintings with earthlings, rather than destroy them? Given that we only ever see the black goo destroy, they're probably right that the engineers mean us harm, but even in that case, why assume that we're to blame for that? Couldn't it just be like David suggested, that engineers made humans because they could, and now they're tired of the experiment and want to use Earth for a new one? Or consider our shutdown simply a matter of course, as we would shut down a robot we no longer had need or or wanted? I'm not saying I think that Elizabeth et al were wrong in their conclusions, just that I wished there had been a little more development of that thought process and exploration of other possibilities and/or proof that this hypothesis was correct before acting on the assumption that it was.
The sex scene lead up between Theron and Elba
This was one of the few things that felt like an utter manipulative set-up to me. "We need the bridge to be empty for the next scene, so we've got to get the captain out of there….I know, we'll have him off having sex with Vickers!" Uh, what? This just didn't make much sense to me at all. I can see on some level that the captain would be attracted to Vickers – Charlize Theron is hot even when she's acting like a stone-cold bitch, plus there was probably some element of conquest, getting under the skin of someone so icy cold. From her point of view, the only explanation I can think of is that his suggestion that she might be a robot rankled her THAT MUCH because she felt her father's favoritism of David so strongly – but yeah, however I rationalize this one, it still played weird for me at the time. As opposed to the other things I rationalized above, which played fine for me at the time.
The fact that it isn't the same planet as in Alien
I assumed the entire movie that the place they landed on was the same as the place in Alien. It only makes sense. At the end of Prometheus, an Engineer ship crash lands, an alien queen is born, who could then go lay all the eggs that the crew in Alien find in the crashed ship, and Elizabeth leaves a transmission, which the Nostromo hears and follows. In fact, Weyland Corp's secret agenda was to seek out that transmission and that planet to find out what had happened to Prometheus and its mission. But it's not the same planet. It has a different name (I'm not familiar enough with Alien to have realized that while watching), and anyway, there are other reasons it can't be the same – the space jockey isn't in his seat at the end of Prometheus, for one thing, and for another, Weyland Corp presumably knew where Prometheus was heading and could've just gone back there instead of waiting to hear an emergency transmission. BUT. But but but. It would've been so much cleaner if it had been the same planet. It being a different one is soooo messy. Now some other Engineer ship has got to crash land on the other (very similar) planet, another (very similar) alien queen somehow has to be born (how, without a couple of human hosts in between, given the reproductive process we see in Prometheus?), and a very similar transmission has to be left for Nostromo to hear. Prometheus asks for a lot of leaps of logic, but for me, this was the only one that I couldn't easily justify.
Charlize Theron Michael Fassbender Noomi Rapace Prometheus Ridley Scott
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Some 32,000 volunteers and 2.1 million hours of their time annually go into making the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo a well-oiled machine.
"They've put pencil to paper, and if they paid everyone, it would be several hundred million dollars," said Robert Becker, who is in his first year as chairman of the World's Championship Bar-B-Que Committee, but who has volunteered for more than 20 years. "Volunteers know that the end result is supporting the youth of Texas." That support totals more than $400 million since the first scholarship award in 1957.
First-year volunteer Brian Hertz is anxious to pay it forward - he received a rodeo scholarship in 2007 and graduated from the University of Texas. "I'm originally from Houston, but when I won, I had never been to the rodeo, and I had not a clue how big it was," he laughed. "That's one of the reasons I wanted to give back, and I'm mad at myself for not doing it sooner."
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"Now that I'm a chair, there's not a day that I don't touch Bar-B-Que Committee," said Becker, who works full time in Constable Alan Rosen's office and spends about two hours a day doing something for the committee. A chairman post is a three-year appointment.
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"This year, 32 scholarships will be awarded in the name of the Go Tejano Committee for $18,000 each. It's such a good feeling to see the students with their proud parents realizing their dream of attending a university and hearing their stories of how the scholarship will help them," she said.


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Tölgyes Péter (Budapest, 1950. december 31. –) magyar sportújságíró

Élete és pályafutása
Tanulmányait az ELTE Radnóti Miklós Gyakorlóiskolában kezdte, ahol 1969-ben érettségizett, majd a Budapesti Műszaki Egyetemen folytatta, 1975-ig.
Három idegen nyelven beszél, oroszul, angolul és németül.

1971-től 1987-ig a Népsport munkatársa volt, ezen belül 1980-tól 1987-ig olvasó-, majd vezető olvasószerkesztői feladatokat látott el. A labdajáték rovatban elsősorban a röplabda és a tenisz sportágfelelőseként, szakírójaként publikált. Több jelentős magyar sportsikerről tudósíthatott a helyszínről, így a női röplabda-válogatott EB-ezüst- (Jugoszlávia, 1975) és bronzérmeiről (Finnország, 1977, Bulgária, 1981), a férfi kézilabda-válogatott világbajnoki ezüstérméről (Svájc, 1986), Taróczy Balázs wimbledoni bajnoki címéről (férfi páros, Heinz Günthardttal, 1985) és Európa-bajnoki aranyérméről (Lengyelország, 1974). Több sporttárgyú könyvet szerkesztett, lektorált.

Művei
  Varga Béla – Pilhál György – Tölgyes Péter: Harmincöt év piros-fehérben; Zrínyi, Bp., 1984

Források

Magyar újságírók
1950-ben született személyek
Élő személyek


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text: Q: Ubuntu loads then black screen of death So originally i was trying to enable usb3 on my workstation. How I got to where I am is a story. I screwed up some bios setting and My computer wouldnt boot. Then I replaced the CMOS battery on the mother board, And now it is close to working. but not quite. (its actually way far off ). So now that I reset the BIOS settings, I hear the intel server board's 2 beeps (which means recovery mode), Still no hdmi signal. Then i wait 2 minutes, The screen shows an ubuntu loading image. It skips from dot one, to dot two , then to 5 (this didnt happen before). And then, my monitor tells me that 'there is no hdmi signal'. Right there I notice 2 fishy things. When the board beeped twice, bios should have popped up on the screen (which it did not). Also, ubuntu fails to show itself (the login). i dont know how to procede. It may help to tell you, that I had to remove the graphics card to access the CMOS Battery slot. Maybe I screwed it up and the hdmi fails to travel to the monitor. Is it possible to boot without a graphics card? Anyway, my question is How do I get from here to BIOS or some interface that actually interacts with me so that I can try to fix this? Thanks

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Q: Force usage of the private property even if there is the private field? I am using a set private property to do an extra job.
The problem is that, sometimes, I am setting the variable instead of the property.
I'd like to know if there is a way to avoid this.
private int _directionX = -1;

private int DirectionX
{
  get
  {
    return _directionX;
  }

  set
  {
    _directionX = value;

    ExtraWork();
  }
}

private void Start()
{
  // the problem is that I can do :
  _directionX = 0;
  // and so, property is bypassed :/
}

Thanks for reading!
Theo
PS: I am using Unity 2019 and I set API compatibility level to .NET 4.x Equivalent

A: You could use [System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsable(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
 to hide it from IntellisSense. You will still be able to use it regardless, if you type it out, but you won't get autocomplete for it.
Ultimately there only way to really forbid yourself from using it, would probably to define your own Attribute and configure something like Resharper to mark the usage of fields with this attribute as an error, but I'm not sure if Resharper can be configured like this.

A: The only way I know how to do this is to define a separate (possibly abstract) class and inherit from it. When you do that, you can make the property protected and the field private, like so:
abstract class PrivateFoo
{
    private int _directionX = -1;

    protected int DirectionX
    {
      get
      {
        return _directionX;
      }

      set
      {
        _directionX = value;

        ExtraWork();
      }
    }

    protected abstract void ExtraWork();

    protected abstract void Start();
}

class Foo : PrivateFoo
{

    protected override void ExtraWork()
    {
    }

    protected override void Start()
    {
        this.DirectionX = 0;     //Compiles
        _directionX = 0;         //Does not compile
    }
}

See a working example on DotNetFiddle

A: You can't declare a variable and somehow prevent using it. If you want an int that invokes another method when it's modified, you could declare it as another class. Here's an example. The names are atrocious, as I don't know how to name this to describe what you're trying to accomplish.
Note that this is not a replacement for your class. This is a replacement for your int. It encapsulates an int (or any other type) with a method that is invoked when the value is updated.
public abstract class ValueThatInvokesMethodWhenItsUpdated<T>
{
    private T _value;

    public T Value => _value;

    public void SetValue(T value)
    {
        _value = value;
        ExtraWork();
    }

    protected abstract void ExtraWork();
}

Or
public class ValueThatInvokesMethodWhenItsUpdated<T>
{
    private T _value;
    private readonly Action _extraWork;

    public ValueThatInvokesMethodWhenItsUpdated
        (Action extraWork)
    {
        _extraWork = extraWork;
    }
    public T Value => _value;

    public void SetValue(T value)
    {
        _value = value;
        _extraWork?.Invoke();
    }
}

This doesn't prevent setting _value, because you can't. But now in the class where you were using an int field you would use ValueThatInvokesMethodWhenItsUpdated<int>.
So all this does is add another level of encapsulation.
But this is likely an over-complication. Since you're the one defining your class, the far simpler approach is simply to not set the field that you don't want set.


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Sonam Kapoor (Age 35 Years) is an Indian film actress and model by profession: Read her biography covering her age, height, movies, affairs, controversies, family, and more.
by Yogita December 12, 2020, 10:38 pm
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja (Age 35 Years) is an Indian film actress and model by profession. She was born on 9 June 1985 in Mumbai and grew up in the entertainment business as Anil Kapoor's daughter.
At first, she worked as an assistant director in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's (Filmmaker) film 'Black'. Later, she made her acting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film 'Saawariya' alongside Ranbir Kapoor in the year 2007, which was a box office flop.
In the year 2013, she had a career breakthrough with the film 'Raanjhanaa' alongside Dhanush and Abhay Deol. Since then, she has appeared in numerous super hit films, like 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag', 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo', 'Neerja', 'Padman', 'Veere Di Wedding', etc.
She was the first Indian actress to be seen on The Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation: Asia Class" in 2009. Sonam Kapoor is also known for her outspoken personality in the media. Apart from this, she is a great philanthropist and donates some of her work benefits to charity.
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja Intro
Full Name Sonam Kapoor Ahuja
Nick Name Sana, Senior, Giraffe
Name Meaning Sonam means "Gifted, Fortunate one" in English.
Birth Date 9 June 1985
Birthplace Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Hobbies /Personal Interests Reading, Shopping, Playing Video Games, Writing, Collecting Paintings
School Arya Vidya Mandir, Juhu, Mumbai
College/University University of Mumbai, Mumbai University of East London, London
Highest Qualification Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science
Weight 55 Kgs (121.3 Pounds)
Hair Color Natural Black
Body Type Hourglass Slim
Measurement 32-28-30
Father Anil Kapoor (Profession: Actor and Producer)
Mother Sunita Kapoor (Profession: Costume Designer)
Harshvardhan Kapoor (Younger Brother)
Rhea Kapoor (Younger Sister)
Husband Anand Ahuja (Profession: Entrepreneur)
Affairs & Boyfriends
Ranbir Singh (Actor)
Sahir Berry (Entrepreneur, Model)
Punit Malhotra (Director)
Sonam Kapoor HD Photos
Sonam Kapoor Family Photo
Debut Saawariya (Hindi Movie, 2007)
Profession Film Actress (2007-present)
Saawariya (2007) as Sakina
Delhi-6 (2009) as Bittu Sharma
I Hate Luv Storys (2010) as Simran
Aisha (2010) as Aisha Kapoor
Thank You (2011) as Sanjana
Mausam (2011) as Aayat Harinder Singh
Players (2012) as Naina Braganza
Raanjhanaa (2013) as Zoya Haider
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) as Biro
Bewakoofiyaan (2014) as Mayera Sehgal
Khoobsurat (2014) as Dr. Mrinalini "Milli" Chakravarty
Dolly Ki Doli (2015) as Dolly
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015) as Rajkumari Maithili Devi
Neerja (2016) as Neerja Bhanot
Pad Man (2018) as Pari Walia
Veere Di Wedding (2018) as Avni Sharma
Sanju (2018) as Ruby
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019) as Sweety Chaudhary
The Zoya Factor (2019) as Zoya Singh Solanki
Dheere Dheere (2015)
Hymn for the Weekend (2016)
Ad Shoots (Brands Endorsed) Multiple
Magazine Covers Multiple
Stardust Awards for Superstar of Tomorrow- Female (2008) for film Saawariya
Stardust Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy or Romance (2014) for film Raanjhanaa
BIG Star Entertainment Awards for Most Entertaining Actor in a Romantic Role- Female (2015) for film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards for Best Actress (2016) for film Dolly Ki Doli
Asiavision Awards for Best Actress (2016) for film Neerja
Asiavision Awards for Icon Of The Year (2016) for film Neerja
Stardust Awards for Editor's Choice Best Actress of the Year (2016) for film Neerja
Filmfare Awards for Best Actress- Critics (2017) for film Neerja
Lokmat Maharashtra Awards for Best Actress (2017) for film Neerja
National Film Awards for Special Mention (2017) for film Neerja
Net Worth $13 Million (estimated as of 2020)
Cars Owned Not Known
Facebook @officialsonamkapoor
Twitter @sonamkapoor
Instagram @sonamkapoor
1 Sonam Kapoor Controversies
2 Sonam Kapoor's Lesser Known Facts
Sonam Kapoor Controversies
Sonam Kapoor's statements have often made the hot actress fall into multiple controversies. Some of them are:
When Asked About Dating Rumors In A Chat Show (2010)
During a popular chat show in 2010, when she asked about the dating rumors with Ranbir Kapoor. In 2009, Sonam addressed Aishwarya Rai as 'aunty' and took everyone by surprise.
Players (2012) Film Promotion
At the promotional event of the film, the actress flashed her middle finger at a conference. Initially, the Censor Board objected to her middle finger act, but later on, the act conveniently passed through Censor Board's eyes.
Referred Katrina Kaif as Shameless (2012)
In the year 2012, Sonam Kapoor referred to Katrina Kaif as "Shameless". In an interview with Anupama Chopra, she made a controversial statement against her.
Used Slang Language Against Movie Reviewer (2010)
In the year 2010, after the release of 'I Hate Luv Storys', the celebrated writer Shobhaa De wrote in a newspaper labeling it as I Hate Dumb Storys…She also posted the article on her blog page. Later on, Shobhaa wrote in her blog that Sonam is "a lassie who lacks oomph." Sonam had instantly responded on Twitter saying, "Guys, please don't take Shobhaa De seriously. She's getting no action and going through menopause. So just for her."
Sonam Kapoor's Lesser Known Facts
She is very much addicted to perfumes. Some of her favorite brands are Chanel, Jean-Paul, Gaultier, and Dior.
She loves to read books and her favorite authors are Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton.
In an interview, Sonam revealed that she hates reality shows.
She worked as a waitress in her college times to live independently.
Before making her acting debut, she worked as an assistant director in the film 'Black'.
She is an absolute foodie and loves too.
She is a trained classical dancer.
Sonam is a dog lover and has two pets named Bacardi and Coke.
She lost around 35 Kilograms of weight before acting in "Saawariya" movie.
She is the cousin sister of Ranveer Singh (from her mother's side).
What is the Net Worth of Sonam Kapoor's husband Anand Ahuja?
Anand Ahuja is a highly successful businessman. His annual income is around $450 million.
Did Sonam Kapoor ever work as a waitress?
Yes, Sonam Kapoor worked as a waitress in Singapore at the age of 15, in order to live independently and manage her own expenses.
In which film Sonam Kapoor worked as an assistant director?
Sonam Kapoor worked behind the cameras with Sanjay Leela Bhansali in the film 'Black'.
Did Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor were in a relationship?
They both debuted together in the Saawariya movie (2007). There were strong rumors of them dating, but there was no official confirmation of it.
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When your relationship with a companion or pet becomes "soul mate" or better, you can get married. Once married, you and your spouse can create a gene.
Love is, apparently, really, really blind in Tyris. A relationship is possible (just to name a few) between a man and a woman, a man and a man, a little girl and an android, a hermaphrodite and a dog, an undead monstrosity and a godless killing machine, and a living rock and a cosmic horror.
You can increase your friendship with a companion by having it do battle alongside you, having it eat food mixed with a love potion that you made, as well as giving it engagement rings and necklaces. Trying to take away a companion's engagement jewelry will probably result in them destroying the item by eating it, and their relationship level with you will drop a lot. It should be noted that marriage with more than one pet at a time is possible and will not cause any negative effects.
In order to marry a companion, they must be at Soul Mate impress level and full attract level. Getting them to Fellow at roughly 150 impress is not high enough. Marriage also results in receiving a set of gifts. These include a potion of cure corruption, 2-4 platinum coins, equipment, and sometimes usable items (leash, fishing pole, etc).
You create a gene by selecting the "let's make a gene" dialogue option after you reach the sleepy state.
Much like relationships themselves, there are no limits, besides needing to be married, to what you can have a gene with. Feel free to breed with your bell/android/golem/whatever. Who you do the deed with, their gender, or if they are even organic life forms with genetics to pass along in these so-called "genes" to begin with doesn't matter in Elona.
You should probably temporarily loot your pets for their godly and miracle equipment and be sure to pick up any such items out of any static dungeons or properties you are storing them in when you are ready to make a gene - only your inventory matters.
Presumably because it would be far too difficult to work out the mechanics of what a golem-android hybrid would be like, you go through exactly the same character creation process as a completely new character would. Apparently, the golem and android can make a Yerles or a fairy as offspring. Who knew?


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Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series Princess Diaries, which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films. Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, and many others. She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world.

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Meggin Patricia Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. After she graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University.

Personal life
Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet, Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date,April Fool's Day, was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was an elopement in Italy. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her elopement.

She has cats, Henrietta (a one-eyed cat) (1993-Jan 2013), and Gem, about whom she often blogs.

After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now lives in Key West, FL with her husband.

Publications

Children's novels

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series is about 9-year-old Allie Finkle, who has to contend with moving from her suburban home to an old Victorian house, starting a new school, and making new friends.

Olivia Grace series

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess is a series for "tween" readers featuring Princess Mia's half-sister, Olivia Grace. The books are illustrated by Meg Cabot.

Young Adult

The Princess Diaries series

The Princess Diaries series is the most critically acclaimed series written by Meg Cabot and has been published in more than 40 countries. The first book in the series was published in October 2000; the series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List and was sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries. In 2021 Time Magazine named The Princess Diaries one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time.

In 2001 and 2004, respectively, the series was brought to the big screen by Walt Disney Pictures as The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.

In the UK and Australia, the books are published under titles based on the volume number (e.g.: Mia Goes Fourth).

Illustrated by Chelsey McLaren:

 Princess Lessons (March 2003)
 Perfect Princess (March 2004)
 Holiday Princess (November 2005)

On January 6, 2009, a companion book to Volume X: Forever Princess entitled Ransom My Heart was published under the name Princess of Genovia, Mia Thermopolis by Avon Books, the adult division of HarperCollins, the Princess Diaries series publisher. All author proceeds from the novel, which was printed on 100% recycled paper, go to Greenpeace.

Cabot has published a spin-off middle grade series titles "From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess", taken from the point of view of Mia's long-lost sister, Olivia Grace. As listed above, there are 4 books in the series.

The Mediator series

The Mediator Series is about a 16-year-old girl named Susannah "Suze" Simon. Suze is a mediator, whose role is to help ghosts finish their business on earth so they can pass on to the afterlife. To this end, she can see, touch, communicate with, hit, punch, and 'kick ghost butt' when she must. The series begins just after Suze's widowed mother marries Andy Ackerman, so Suze has moved to Carmel, California, to live in an old house complete with three stepbrothers. To make matters worse, her bedroom is haunted by an attractive male ghost named Jesse de Silva, who died 150 years earlier. Suze remembers that back in New York, a fortune teller had told her that she was a mediator (which proved correct) and that she would only fall in love once, but it would last for an eternity.

The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll (this was when Cabot was working with different publishing houses). Haunted was the first title to have Meg Cabot's name on it. The first four books were later reprinted under Cabot's real name in 2005 with new cover art when Twilight was released in hardcover. The UK titles for the series were: Shadowland- Love You to Death, Ninth Key- High Stakes, Reunion- Mean Spirits, Darkest Hour- Young Blood, Haunted- Grave Doubts, and Twilight- Heaven Sent.

In December 2010, HarperTeen reprinted an omnibus edition titled The Mediator: Shadowland and Ninth Key.

1-800-WHERE-R-U series

This series revolves around Jessica Mastriani, an ordinary 16-year-old girl given extraordinary psychic powers after being struck by lightning. Her powers allow her to know the exact location of missing children; after seeing a picture of a person, they appear in her dreams. The first four books take place over less than a year and chronicle her attempts to help missing children while trying to avoid the scrutiny of the federal government. The fifth book, published four years after the fourth book, picks up the storyline after Jess has turned 19. Over the course of the book, Jess is romantically involved with Rob Wilkins, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

The first four books were originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll.  The books were re-released in 2004 under Cabot's real name. Cabot was unhappy with the discontinuation; she stated that she wanted to take the series up to eight books. Her current publishing house agreed to publish one more installment. Missing You was released in December 2006 and that was the end of the series.

The 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series was the basis for the television show Missing, which aired on the Lifetime cable network for three seasons from 2003 to 2006.

The series has been reprinted in the US in an omnibus edition and retitled Vanished.

All-American Girl series

The series revolves around Samantha Madison, a Washington, D.C. native, who, while skipping her after-school art class, saves the life of the president, and becomes a national hero. The two books are about her rise to fame and her love life with the president's son, David, who appears to want to take their relationship to the next level in the second book. There is also a short story called Another All-American Girl in the anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, about Samantha's experience in the White House.

Avalon High series

Avalon High is a contemporary retelling of the King Arthur tale set in a modern high school. Avalon High: Coronation is sequel to the first Avalon High novel, instead of a regular novel, is part of a new partnership HarperCollins brokered with Tokyopop. It has been released as a three-book manga series, called Avalon High: Coronation. The first manga, titled The Merlin Prophecy, was released on July 3, 2007, and was drawn by manga artist Jinky Coronado, creator of the Banzai Girl manga. She also illustrated the other two manga.

The Avalon High film was shown on Disney Channel on November 12, 2010. Britt Robertson played Ally (Elaine), while Gregg Sulkin played Will.

The Airhead trilogy

This three-book series is about Emerson Watts, an overachieving high-school student. She wakes up after an accident and discovers that her brain has been transplanted into the body of teen supermodel Nikki Howard. Now, she is no longer judged by her grades, but by her looks, and she has to fight the worldwide corporation, Stark Enterprises if she wants to find out what happened to her old life and protect her friends and family.

The Abandon trilogy

The Abandon trilogy follows a reimagining of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades set in modern times.

Stand-Alone Young-Adult Novels

Adult novels

Boy series

These books are loosely connected romantic comedies told in emails, IMs, and brief journal entries. The Boy Next Door was a Kelly Ripa Book Club Pick on LIVE! with Regis and Kelly.

Heather Wells series

The Heather Wells series is an adult mystery series that features former pop star, Heather Wells. Heather was once a teen star but was fired by her recording company when she asked to sing songs she had written instead of the ones they composed for her. The book opens just after Heather has gotten a job as a residential house coordinator at New York College and quickly discovers that young girls in the dorm are being murdered.

The second book was originally titled Phat Chick, but this was changed by the publishers to It's Not Over Until The Size 12 Chick Sings, and finally, Size 14 is Not Fat Either, which continued Heather's amateur sleuthing adventures.

The third book in the series is published under the title Size Doesn't Matter in Australia and Great Britain. (In other countries, such as the U.S. and Canada, it was entitled Big Boned.)  In Size Doesn't Matter, Heather solves another mystery and is involved in a love triangle with Tad, her boyfriend, and Cooper, whom she secretly loves, but who rejected her.

In March 2008 the series was contracted for two additional books, which were released in 2012 and 2013.

Queen of Babble series

The main character of this romantic comedy, Lizzie Nichols, is a recent college grad who isn't sure what she wants out of life. All she knows is that she can't keep a secret, even her own. This causes her many romantic, friendship, and work-related problems, especially after moving to New York City after graduating from college.

Insatiable series

The first book, Insatiable, was released on June 8, 2010, and became an instant New York Times bestseller. This series is a modern retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but the main character, Meena Harper, can foretell people's death. She's being forced by the television show for which she works to write vampires into the plot due to their popularity. Meena, however, hates vampires (she doesn't believe in them, and doesn't like how they always go after and kill girls). This complicates things when she finds out from Alaric Wulf, a demon-hunter with a secret unit of the Vatican called the Palatine Guard, that vampires are attacking girls all over her native New York City, and that her new boyfriend might be one of them: Lucien Antonescu, Dracula's son, the Prince of Darkness. A sequel to Insatiable called Overbite was released on July 5, 2011.

The Little Bridge Series

Little Bridge Island is a series of romance books written for adults which all take place on a fictional island located in the Florida Keys. Each book in the series explored the lives of different characters who live on the island.

Historical Romance novels

Other Works

 She Went All the Way, December 2002 (as Meg Cabot)

She Went All the Way is a romantic comedy novel with elements of a (mild) thriller. The plot focuses on a recently dumped screenwriter, Lou (a woman) whose actor-ex elopes two-weeks post-breakup—with someone else. The recently married bride also unceremoniously dumped her boyfriend, Jack, an A-list actor. When Lou is assigned the fourth installment in Jack's major movie franchise, they not only meet but share a wacky adventure, with moments of genuine danger.

Graphic Novels
 Black Canary: Ignite (October 2019; illustrated by Cara McGee)

Screenplays
 Early versions of the screenplay for Disney's Ice Princess, released in 2005, were written by Meg Cabot.

Short stories

"The Christmas Captive" (as Patricia Cabot), included in the adult romance anthology A Season in the Highlands, which was published in December 2000.
"Girl's Guide to New York through the Movies" included in Metropolis Found: New York Is Book Country 25th Anniversary Collection, published in August 2003.
"Kate the Great" included in Thirteen: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, published October 2003.
"You Rock, Jen Greenley" included in the short story collection Short Stories published in January 2004.
"Party Planner" included in the adult short story collection Girls' Night In, published September 2004.
"Connie "Hunter" Williams, Psychic Teacher" included in the teen short story collection Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, and Unexpectedly True Friends, published August 2005.
"Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls" included in the CosmoGIRL! short story collection Shining On, published April 2006.
"Reunion" included in the adult short story collection Girls' Night Out, published June 2006.
"Cry, Linda, Cry: Judy Blume's Blubber and The Cruelest Thing in the World" included in Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, published Spring 2007.
"Ask Annie" included in Midnight Feast, published July 2007.
"The Exterminator's Daughter" included in Prom Nights From Hell, published May 2007.
"Another All-American Girl" included in Our White House, Looking In, Looking Out, published September 2008.
"Where's My Belt?" included in My Little Red Book, published February 2009.
"Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" included in Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, published July 2009.
"Legacy" included in Queen of Teen, published May 2010.

"Every Girl's Dream" A short story written by Cabot out of the Mediator Series.
"Princess Prettypants" A short story in the anthology Zombie vs. Unicorns published in September 2010.
The Night Hunter A short story in the anthology Fear: 13 Stories of Horror and Suspense published in September 2010.
"Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore" included in Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever: Three Naughty Tales, published August 2011
"The Protectionist" included in the young adult short story collection What You Wish For, published September 2011.
"Out of the Blue" included in the anthology Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction, published August 2012
"The Model and The Monster" (a rereading of "The Beauty and The Beast" tale) included in "O Livro das Princesas" (Book of Princesses), published June 2013 (only in Brazil)
"Beru Whitesun Lars" in the collection From A Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars, published October 2017

Adaptations

 In 2001, the film version of the Princess Diaries was released. The film starred Anne Hathaway as Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis and Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi. A sequel to the Princess Diaries film was released in 2004 and titled, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
 A Canadian television series based on the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series titled, Missing was broadcast on the A and W Network in Canada from 2003 to 2006. The series was broadcast on Lifetime in the United States.
 The Disney Channel original movie version of Avalon High premiered late fall 2010. the film starred Gregg Sulkin as A. William Wagner and Britt Robertson as Allie Pennington (Ellie Harrison)

Awards
 The Princess Diaries was voted one of Time Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
 Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Award (2008)
 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers selection, Best Book selection, American Library Association, and New York Public Library Teen Book for the New Millennium citation, all 2001, all for The Princess Diaries
 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, best young adult category, Mystery Writers of America, 2003, for Safe House
 The Princess Diaries was voted "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the Big Read, British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003.
 Airhead nominated for Teen Choice Book of the Year, 2009

Charity

Meg has teamed with the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Starlight Children's Foundation to mentor seriously and terminally ill children.

Events

 In March 2012, Meg helped raise money for Authors for Henryville to benefit tornado victims in Indiana.
 In 2010, Meg donated proceeds from books purchased at the Kappa Book Fair and Dinner to the Craig Hospital in Denver. The hospital specializes in spinal cord and brain injuries.
 In 2009, Meg held a Tiara Auction to benefit the New York Public Library. Tiaras decorated by celebrities, authors, and designers such as Julie Andrews, Vera Wang, Tommy Hilfiger, Lauren Conrad, Mo Rocca, and Julianne Moore were auctioned and raised over $15,000 for teen programs at the library.

Short stories and books benefitting charities

10% of the author's US proceeds from Quarantine Princess Diaries, published in 2023 will go to Vow for Girls, a global charity that aims to end child marriage.

In 2012, Meg's short story Wooden Animal appeared in Significant Objects, an anthology that benefitted Girls Write Now.

And in 2011, Meg contributed the story The Protectionist to the anthology What You Wish For. One hundred percent of proceeds benefited the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, which builds libraries in Darfuri refugee camps in Chad.

All of Meg's proceeds from her story The Exterminator's Daughter, in the anthology Prom Nights From Hell, benefit First Book, a nonprofit organization connecting book publishers and community organizations to provide access to new books for children in need.

All of Meg's proceeds from The Princess Diaries, Volume 4 1/2, Project Princess, go to benefit The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York City. Editions sold to publishers in 10 countries outside the US benefited local charities in those countries.

All of Meg's proceeds from the novel Ransom My Heart by Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia (with help from Meg Cabot) go to benefit Greenpeace (Ransom My Heart is also printed on recycled paper). The proceeds from sales of Ransom My Heart to publishers in 8 countries have also gone to Mia's favorite charity.

Meg's story The Night Hunter was included in the anthology Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense. All author proceeds from this book benefit the Reading Is Fundamental literacy program for children.

In 2008, Meg contributed a story (Another All-American Girl) to the anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. All proceeds benefit the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance].

Meg's also written short stories for anthologies that have benefited the Teenage Cancer Trust, War Child, No Strings, Lisa Libraries, Kids Company, and the New York Public Libraries, among other organizations

References

Sources
 "Meg Cabot." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 50. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.

External links

 Meg Cabot's Official Wattpad Profile

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Home News Regulation Make care.data opt in or we will opt patients out, say GPs
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Exclusive Almost a third of GPs say they intend to opt their patients out of the care.data scheme if NHS England doesn't accept calls for the scheme to be run on an opt-in basis.
Pulse's survey of more than 400 GPs reveals that 31% of respondents said they would opt patients out – despite this being unlawful – while only 32% said they would not be opting patients out.
GPs who answered the survey expressed concern that patients were not fully aware of the scheme – after a botched national leaflet campaign about the scheme only reached a third of households – and may confuse it with other schemes which directly benefit patient care, like the summary care record.
Many GPs also said that inadequate safeguards and a lack clarity of where data can be shared and what it can be used for were behind their decision to opt patients out.
As part of GPs' contractual requirements, they must inform patients about the scheme – which was delayed in February to address the lack of public understanding – and are not allowed to opt them out of the scheme en masse.
Pulse has already revealed how Oxford GP Dr Gordon Gancz received a letter from his area team threatening his contract after notifying patients that he intended to opt them out of the scheme – with the option to opt back in.
The area team later rowed back on the correspondence, saying it was a 'misunderstanding', and that practices wouldn't be liable until after data have left the practice.
The ICO has said GPs could be found liable if patients complain they were not informed, and NHS England has been unwilling to commit to funding a second awareness campaign to replace the national leaflet.
Tim Kelsey: We are working to make care.data safe for patients
Politicians must stop producing gimmicky health policies
The GPC is lobbying for the scheme to be operated on an opt out basis, after GP leaders at the annual LMCs Conference in York voted for an overhaul of the existing model, including a push to have data pseudo-anonymised before it left the practice.
Dr Jeremy Luke, a GP in Crawley said that he supports the project's aims but argues it has sought to shift blame and responsibility for the scheme to GPs.
Dr Luke added: 'Care.data is a fantastic research tool and used properly could help drive change that will benefit us all. The problem is that the central bureaucracy of the NHS has ignored the rights of individuals.'
'It has failed to consider the real concerns over the leakage of identifiable personal data. It has, as usual, tried to blame GPs for their own failure to engage with and listen to the views of patients.'
Dr Kamlesh Garg, a GP in Ecclestone, Lancashire, said: 'Initially most patients are willing to join the scheme as they feel it is a good idea if the emergency doctors knew about their medical conditions.'
'But once [we have] explained that their records could be seen by non-medical people and could be used for pharmaceutical research purposes, they seek to withdraw consent.'
However, Dr Rosie MacRae, a GP in Rainford, St Helens, told Pulse opt outs in her surgery currently stood at 20% and that she would not opt the rest out, she said: 'Despite all [the awareness activities at the surgery] plus the national leaflet drop (missed by most of the patients, I have asked), I doubt if all patients are aware of the scheme and its implications.'
'Furthermore, it has also taken away clinical time as we have had to explain the scheme and the choices to so many patients during consultations.'
GPC Chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul told Pulse that they were campaigning for care.data to be made opt in, but that the issues with the scheme extend beyond this, and the GPC was also trying clarify how data would be used in future.
Dr Nagpaul said: 'What this survey does show is, it demonstrates the degree of concern amongst GPs about the whole programme and from our end, and we're concerned on a range of issues beyond the opt in- opt-out.'
Eve Roodhouse, programme director for care.data, told Pulse: "Care.data aims to support entire communities, in line with the NHS's founding principle to serve everybody in our society.'
'Data that underpins and reflects the needs of all of our communities is therefore needed to plan services most effectively and reduce health care inequalities, which is why the opt-out model is proposed by NHS England. However while it is important that people are properly informed about the aim of care.data, it is equally important that people know that they have the choice to opt out if they wish.'
Yes -130 GPs (31%)
No – 136 GPs (32%)
Don't know – 157 GPs (37%)
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As part of the survey, respondents were asked to specify their job title. A small number of non-GPs were screened out to analyse the results for this question. These questions were answered by 423 GPs.
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The Etowah County Commission authorized a construction agreement last week that literally could pave the way to the Koch feed mill being constructed off Burgess Road.
The agreement is for full depth reclamation, widening, resurfacing and traffic striping of Burgess Road from Pleasant Valley Road to the feed mill.
It's a 0.75-mile stretch of road, leading to a $55 million investment Koch foods is making in Attalla-Etowah County.
At the time of the groundbreaking for the facility, Attalla Mayor Larry Means said it was the biggest-ever industrial investment in the City of Attalla and one of the largest in the state.
The project was announced in November, and ground work began on the 130-acre site.
Koch Foods, one of the nation's largest suppliers of poultry, will construct a feed mill and distribution facility as part of an $80 million expansion of its Etowah County operation, according to to a press release from the governor's office and the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
The mill will supply poultry growers throughout north Alabama and it will support the Koch Foods processing plant in Gadsden.
Last month, Gov. Kay Ivey announced a grant for $200,000 to help supply water to the mill. The Attalla Water Works Board is providing $122,700 for the project.


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A style of painting and sculpture in the mid 20th century in which the art elements are rendered with a minimum of lines, shapes, and sometimes colors. The goal was to reduce geometric abstract painting and sculpture to the barest essentials. For sculptors, it was "to transcend the production of mere art objects by producing three-dimensional works that straddled the boundary between art and the everyday world." Minimalist works, sometimes called ABC art, characteristically look and feel sparse, spare, restricted or empty. Art historian, Barbara Rose is credited with first using the term when she wrote an article titled 'ABC Art' in the October 1965 issue of "Art in America". She described "art pared down to a minimum". By the late 1960s, the term was commonly used for painting and sculpture that had one central image, clarified and severe, with no elements of representation. Minimalism includes the grid paintings of Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman and more aggressively geometric paintings of Robert Mangold and Brice Marden. The style was more associated with sculpture than painting, and often eliminated the artists involvement, substituting industrial made products such as the rolled steel structures of Donald Judd and Richard Serra or the flat, geometrically arranged tiles of Carl Andre. Dan Flavin created pieces from flourescent light tubes; Frank Stella worked with pliable metals and canvas; and Robert Morris did box-like cubes. Although the general public seems never to have warmed to Minimalism, corporate collection managers did because the artworks accented the many International Style office buildings that were built in the mid 20th Century. Source: Robert Atkins, "Art Speak"

 A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions.


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