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A great idea for a great journlist!!!

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43. Yahoo! Music User - 56 minutes ago
Or please please please LP, do a story on AI alumni and their charity work. I know this topic is close to your heart and you probaby already plan to do so.

Our Mission
Soul Patrol Relief is made up of Taylor Hicks's Soul Patrol fans who have networked throughout the Internet and resolved to establish a permanent, positive impact on our world.

In appreciation of the life-giving joy that has been brought into our lives, we strive to extend our knowledge, skills and finances to support charitable endeavors globally and locally, with particular emphasis on those charities supported by Taylor Hicks.

FROM: http://www.soulpatrolrelief.org/MissionStatement.html

Wow, LP you really can elicit goodness in people. I just finished reading the thread that followed your story and the Brooke eliminatin thread. Thank you.

Wow ! !

Quae non valeant singula, juncta juvant. -- Things that might not be powerful separately thrive when united.

Thanks Soul Patrol !

Blake Lewis (one of LP's faves):

Philanthropy
Lewis has been supporting cancer research at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle by donating 50% of the proceeds from the merchandise of The Blaker Girls. He chose to put his support behind this organization after one of his best friends and his friend's girlfriend were diagnosed with lymphoma.

Sources for Blake Lewis information above in No54:

Chansanchai, Athima (April 5, 2007). "Fans of Other Idol Sing His Praises; Blake Lewis Is More Than a One-Note Wonder". FoxReality.com.

Corneau, Allison. "Idol's Blake Turns Fan Craze Into Charitable Contributions". US Magazine.

Watson, Billy (March 7, 2007). "Blake Lewis Merchandise Benefits Children's Hospital". About.com.

Read about Melinda Doolittle's charity work at
http://www.melindasbackups.com/static/UnionEndicott.htm.

Yeah, what a great blog this is and what a great blog the charity idea would make, and very much in keeping with LP's past work.

My fave of all time is Melinda Doolittle.

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Charity and Humanitarian Efforts

Melinda’s music touches people’s hearts and Melinda’s heart touches people’s lives…
Melinda Doolittle doesn’t just inspire a multitude of people with her beautiful singing voice, but also with her genuine heart, her kind spirit, and her very real desire to make this world a better place. Since appearing on American Idol in 2007, Melinda has used her fame to bring about change and to bring attention to charities and endeavors that will help a countless number of people. Her hard work and efforts have inspired her Backups to do just as she has, to devote their time and efforts to working with the charities that Melinda herself supports in order to bring about change and to positively impact the lives of thousands of people. Melinda’s Backups™ support a myriad of charities, a list of which can be found at the bottom of this page. As a group, however, we have focused our attention on two specific and very worthwhile causes: Malaria No More and the Melinda Doolittle Music Scholarship.

For more, go to:
http://www.melindasbackups.com/static/Charity.htm

Great thread LP, thus far.

Charities that Melinda’s Backups support:

Malaria No More
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
ASPCA - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The Humane Society of the United States
Orlando Rescue Mission
One.org - The Campaign to make Poverty History
Petfinder.com
American Humane Society
And many others …

Since American Idol, Phil Stacey has performed as a special guest at Carnegie Hall with the New York Young People's Chorus, was a featured soloist (along with Melinda Doolittle) at Scott Hamilton's annual iceskating benefit, raised nearly $100,000 in a benefit concert for Greensburg and Kansas tornado victims.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Stacey

***This one's especially for the beautiful and kind Lady Jane***

It's clear from reading this fab fan board that the Idols, including Clay Aiken, have remodeled their hearts too.

Another example:

Kimberley Locke supports Camp Heartland.

Making life better for children impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Hope my fellow readers who bring such fun and lighheartedness and insights to all that is Idol/Idle, enjoy these {For LP too - wonder if you're reading this or went back to see the Brooke elimination thread since this past Sunday? Love you LP!}

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)

[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
Doug Ferrari

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi"

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
Gallagher

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

All television is children's television.
Richard P. Adler

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)

I am continually amazed by threads like this one. I have been reading the whole thread and noticed that there are many Yahoo! Music Users like me. I read all LP's fans' boards and though there are all types of people who go by the name Yahoo! Music Users and other userID's, I think the Yahoo! Music Users on here, and in other places, prove the following.

This is for them:

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do." ~ John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93

hIs face looks like clay.... maybe wax.

The best CD ever On My way here. Best work of Clay and I think he is hot

I've always though Clay was attractive, although I tend to be drawn to the nerds...but I'm not so sure about the blonde. He looks like a pretty boy...sorta. I dunno...but I still luv him!

NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES TO THE OUTSIDE HE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE CLAY. AND WITH ALL THE MAKE UP HE'S LOOKING A LITTLE SCARY LIKE CARROT TOP. PLASTIC FACE AND TOO FAKE HAIR COLOR!

As #67 said:

"Clay can look however he wants and I will always be there listening and watching."

ps from 70. Yahoo! Music User - 4 minutes ago. i love you lp. ;)