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2. We review: With a panel of the region's top foundation and corporate-giving leaders, we score every nomination.
3. We debate: Using the top-scoring nominations as a starting point, panel members weigh the information submitted, their own knowledge of the individuals and organizations, and their convergences and differences of opinion.
4. We select: There's always more good work than can be awarded—but there's always next year.
Lifetime Achievement | Mary Vinton Folberg
"MY FAMILY says that I am the Great White," says Mary Vinton Folberg, 73, waving her hand like a shark gliding through water, nearly upsetting one of the many piles of papers crowding the desk of her cluttered office at Portland's Northwest Academy. "I have to keep moving...I have that energy because I feel so strongly about what I do."
When Folberg moves, the city of Portland is often changed in her wake—for good. Over four decades the McMinnville native has enthusiastically championed the marriage of arts and education, building theaters and cultivating future dancers, writers, and scientists as she goes.
After teaching English and dance in California high schools in the late 1960s, the lifelong performer returned to Oregon to find Portland schools didn't even have a dance program. She pushed administrators and lawmakers, and, in 1969, she launched the Jefferson High School dance department and then, in 1976, the lauded Jefferson Dancers performance group, whose alums now pepper professional dance companies across the nation. In the early '80s, as the chair of the mayor-appointed Arts Needs and Use Committee, she helped propose the Newmark and Winningstad Theatres, despite the public's skepticism that there would be the audience to fill them.
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By 1997, the tenacious educator was on the move again. Wanting to develop an art program that was just as rigorous as it was academic, she founded Northwest Academy, her own independent, arts-focused middle and high school housed in an ad hoc quartet of buildings downtown. The private school integrates a very tough academic course load with wildly creative art projects—a place where science students construct comic books about chemical bonding, sixth graders read Kafka, and tap class is mandatory. (It teaches focus and concentration, she says.) Colleges court its savvy grads, and a surprising number of alums end up in the sciences.
"Mary's impact is immense," says McKenzie Kerman, an animator based in Los Angeles who graduated in 2006 from NWA. When a lack of funds barred the then-14-year-old Kerman from attending the school in 2002, Folberg wrangled a four-year, full-ride scholarship for the dyslexic cartoon buff from civic patron Arlene Schnitzer. Some 25 to 30 percent of the academy's 182 students receive a variety of financial aid.
"She lives and breathes this school," says John Thomas, the chairman of NWA's board of trustees. "She has no ego—it's all about the kids."
Next up, Folberg is moving toward a permanent building for the school, which would also house affordable after-school arts classes for any kid who wants them. "It's just so important to give young people an education that helps them adapt, to enjoy all kinds of people, literature, and art," she says, practically dancing out of her seat. "That gives them the confidence to follow their dreams."
Cultivating Creativity | Oregon Children's Theatre
If you were seeking a poster child for Oregon Children's Theatre, few could fit the showbill like Madeleine Rogers. She got involved in the 25-year-old theater company at age 6, playing Zuzu in It's a Wonderful Life. She took acting classes at OCT's school throughout her childhood. Today, the 19-year-old is studying theater at Juilliard, with dreams of a career in acting. And she gives the credit to OCT.
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"When I took my first acting class with Stan," she says of OCT Artistic Director Stan Foote, "what had once been just a show on a stage was transformed into a world of imagination, connection, expression, and endless possibility."
Foote started out at OCT as a production gofer 23 years ago. He swells with pride when he talks about Rogers. But in the same breath, he says the big stage is not the ultimate goal. Instead, acting skills are merely a byproduct of what OCT really creates: "out-loud kids." "The training is really about raising good human beings with voices in their communities," he says.
OCT's drama classes annually prepare 1,200 students, ages 3 to 18, for a vocal life, and the company's well-regarded productions, such as last season's A Year with Frog and Toad, expose thousands of kids to the art of theater. But the nonprofit is still working to expand its reach. Last year, it moved from downtown to the more residential, school-filled Kerns neighborhood to improve its accessibility. "Theater helped create the person I am—it was a place where I could be me," Foote says. "I want that place for every kid who wants it."
The young, an old adage claims, are the leaders of tomorrow. Alex Horsey, for one, isn't waiting.
The 2013 Wilson High graduate has held board and leadership positions with groups ranging from Friends of Outdoor School to the Oregon Lutheran Youth Organization. As a high-school junior, he founded Project Believe in Me, an initiative that fights bullying and bullying-related suicide by, among other things, publishing open letters from former victims on its website.
Horsey came out of the closet at age 12 and is no stranger to the prejudice of children and the consequent feelings of isolation and hopelessness. But it was the media storm around a string of suicides several years ago that incited him to step up. "What scared me was that the only things that were in the media were people committing suicide due to bullying," Horsey, now 18, says. "I was worried that would create this false assumption that that's the only way out."
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So Horsey created a website, printed fliers, and reached out to community groups and national partners. The letters he received from other bullied youth offer glimpses beyond the darkness. "Some days are going to be horrible, but ... there are people, near and far, who are waiting to love you," one promises. "I was you. I am you," says another.
As he moves on to Portland State University to study community development, Horsey is working to keep high school students involved in Project Believe in Me leadership. "There's so much change we can create right now," he says.
BEST NEW NONPROFIT | App Camp for Girls
The future of computer science may be wearing a pair of dangly motherboard earrings and talking a mile a minute about what it takes to build your own app. "We spent a lot of time on it, and I pulled out a lot of hairs over it," 15-year-old Aysa Klocke says, ear-ware flapping as she shows off an iPod Touch loaded with a quiz app that she helped brainstorm, program, design, and debug during Portland's first-ever App Camp for Girls this past summer. "But the harder you work, the more gratifying it is."
That's music to Jean MacDonald's ears. Disturbed by the lack of women in her industry, the partner at local Mac and iPhone development firm Smile decided to mash up summer camp fun with tech lessons to get middle school girls hooked on app-making. Her idea struck a nerve. App Camp reached its original $50,000 fundraising goal on IndieGoGo in three days. The all-volunteer nonprofit has since raised more than $106,000 and kicked off its first camp in June.
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Camp was set up at the SE Belmont café TaborSpace, where the girls slurped Italian sodas as they scribbled out their ideas and learned the nuts and bolts of app development from an all-lady cadre of tech pros. At the end of the five-day camp, the girls presented their creations to a panel of local women investors and entrepreneurs and scored a copy of the Big Nerd Ranch programming book.
With two camps under their belt this summer alone, MacDonald and AC4G's lone developer, Natalie Osten, have already been inundated with pleas for camps in cities from Denver to New York. The goal for 2014 is three PDX camp sessions and to launch a new camp in at least one other city—they just need more "nerdy women" to volunteer their time. But for now, they're still high-fiving campers over what they did last summer.
"I got to design a program and then do yoga and hula-hoop—it was legit," says Klocke. "The technology and engineering fields really are limited for women. App Camp gives you that confidence to believe that, yeah, I can do this."
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EMERGING LEADER | Pamela Butler
For much of her youth, Pamela Butler had little control over her world. Her mentally ill mother and stepfather carted her around the country until the Oregon Department of Human Services removed her from their custody and put her into Oregon's foster-care system at age 7. Over the next 11 years, she lived in eight different homes, enduring not only abuse but the feeling, endemic to the system, of utter powerlessness.
"You're just kind of floating," she says, "like you're no one's child."
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The anxiety Butler felt growing up helps explain the potency the 29-year-old brings to her work today. As the director of Oregon Foster Youth Connection, a program of the child-advocacy nonprofit Children First for Oregon, Butler leads foster youth in lobbying for child-welfare reforms at the state legislature. Since founding the program in 2008, Butler and her crusaders-in-training have scored a perfect record: four out of four bills. These have not been small asks: in 2011, for instance, OFYC pushed through legislation allowing foster-care alumni to attend state colleges for free.
"Getting legislation passed in Salem is an arduous process," says Chip Shields, a state senator who sponsored an OFYC-backed bill this year to create a foster youth "bill of rights." "Pamela brought together Oregon's most vulnerable population and empowered them with the tools they need to advocate for themselves."
Butler is also pushing child-welfare reform beyond Salem, collaborating with Oregon's senators on federal issues and working on national committees. The erstwhile ward of the state hasn't, however, forgotten where she came from—and wouldn't want to.
"If I'm in a room with a bunch of administrators, no one can say, 'No, that's not how things happen,'" she says. "I've been there: I've got my stories; I've got the youth's stories; I've got the research. It's a powerful combination."
When it comes to finding long-term care as a senior with failing health, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are only half as likely as their straight peers to have a relative support them. But it's no easier to turn to assisted-living facilities. In a 2011 survey, 43 percent of LGBT residents, relatives, and staff reported mistreatment in such places, including harassment and being refused admission or discharged abruptly.
"Getting old is hard enough," says Vaune Albanese, executive director of the social service agency Friendly House and herself an out-and-proud 56-year-old. "If you're also a member of a cutting-edge minority group, it's a double whammy."
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Friendly House's SAGE Metro Portland program aims to soften the blow. The 12-year-old program (called Gay & Grey until it affiliated in 2011 with the national organization Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) trains eldercare providers in LGBT-specific issues, advocates for fair housing, and hosts social events so sexual-minority seniors can get together for support.
"We hear stories of people who have been activists their whole life, then have to go back in the closet when they move into an assisted-living facility," says Lauren Fontanarosa, SAGE Metro Portland's coordinator. "They're afraid of the service providers; they're afraid of their straight peers."
While Fontanarosa oversees a crack team of volunteers working to obviate that fear, she says the country's estimated 1.75 to 4 million LGBT seniors need—and deserve—more attention, especially from the gay community. Younger gays are "benefiting from the road elders have paved," she points out. "The least we can do is bind ourselves together as a community to support them as they're facing these challenges we will all face."
Inspiring Our Next Generation | Playworks
Portland Playworks lives and breathes recess. Inside its headquarters on SE Madison Street, shelves overflow with bright orange cones, multicolored dodgeballs, and plastic goalposts. Impromptu foursquare games are a daily occurrence for the staff, but they're merely practice for the four-year-old nonprofit's real goal: teaching thousands of kids the social tools they need to play safe and healthy in the 14 metro schools it works with daily (in addition to 80-plus regional schools it services indirectly).
"Group play isn't what it used to be," says Jonathan Blasher, executive director of Playworks' Pacific Northwest branch. Instead of being that carefree respite for games and sports that most adults remember nostalgically, he says, recess is now a time when almost 90 percent of negative issues in schools erupt, from schoolyard bullying to gender exclusion.
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To confront that change, a think tank of teachers, summer camp directors, and sports instructors created Playworks in Oakland, California, in 1996; Portland's division started in 2009. The goal: to create positive, respectful, and inclusive play environments for often-stressful low-income communities. And Playworks' 20 staff members do it by taking all that equipment off the shelves and into schoolyards.
"We don't do win or lose, boys versus girls, or team captains," Blasher explains. "There is a common language that everyone understands, and we solve conflicts with simple games like rock-paper-scissors." To this end, one of Playworks' most effective projects, the Junior Coach Program, pairs older elementary students with younger students to learn games and solve their own conflicts as they arise, giving the older kids responsibility and the younger ones role models.
"Playworks has been about creating a kind and cooperative atmosphere around the school," says Susan McElroy, principal of Daniel A. Grout Elementary, which has spent four years in the program. "All my kids follow the same rules, procedures, and conflict resolution processes, which translates to less fighting at recess and more instructional time in the classroom."


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PANAMA CITY BEACH — Panama City Beach has a new land development code, and with it have come a new set of transitional issues to address.
At a meeting Thursday, the Panama City Beach Council examined ways to make the move to the new code a bit smoother for about a dozen properties caught in the middle.
"We knew all along that at some point we would have this discussion, we just thought we would have it a few years from now because the economy was so slow," said Mel Leonard, director of the city building department. "I'm happy we're having this discussion now, because it means things have sped up a bit."
Following a request for a five-year extension on a development agreement for a property at 17851 Front Beach Road, the council is now considering options to allow extensions under the old code that also would require conditions from the new one.
Virginia developer Paul Larner addressed the council at its last meeting in the hopes of completing a 234-unit condominium project under the old code, which allows high rise condos up to 220 feet. The new LDC sets height restrictions at just 35 feet.
Larner and his partners were met with objections from area residents who objected to construction of another high-rise condo in the area, stating the developers should have to follow the new height restrictions laid out.
Former developers obtained a development order in 2005 and laid a concrete foundation at the site, but construction halted when the economy slowed. The current agreement is set to expire next year.
"I think we have to be fair," said Mayor Gayle Oberst. "We can't just swoop in and tell people you have to build right now or you can't build."
The council moved to direct staff to outline a plan that would allow two, three and four year extensions on development orders, with more conditions required for longer extensions.
While a two-year extension would require developers to adhere to mostly building material restrictions, a three-year extension would require developers to also reduce the number of units and height by 10 percent. Likewise, a four-year extension would require a 20 percent reduction in units and height.
Councilman Keith Curry voted in favor of having staff develop a transition process, but urged the board to go back and examine the numbers before making any decisions.
"We've still got time," Curry said. "A lot of these contracts are still open… let's take some time and look at this."
Larner's legal council also addressed the board, requesting an extension on the public hearing for consideration of their development order extension so they could work with the potential transition process.
Councilwoman Josie Strange cast the sole dissenting vote, disagreeing with the need to provide any sort of grace period for developers.
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Each Memorial Day weekend, I look forward to kicking summer off with a big family BBQ at the house. I couldn't resist sharing Redbook Magazine's fun hosting tips from celebrity chef and food critic, Katie Lee. No champagne and white tablecloths needed; just a few original touches that keep this holiday weekend fête low-key.
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1. Frozen Fruit: For a refreshingly sweet twist, use frozen fruit in lieu of ice in soda and seltzer. Up your game with adorable ice cubes: Place a berry in each cube of your ice tray before freezing.
2. Corn on the Cob: Throw some corn on the grill and then jazz up the classic BBQ side dish with Parmesan cheese and chili powder.
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Comments about Only Natural Pet Tripe Spring Dog Chew:
My gang of three eskies like variety. They are big chewers (2-3 times a day) and they get tired with the same old bully sticks / rawhide. So, I was happy to see this and add this to the line up. They don't last as long as, say, a bully stick, but it does the job.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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To date, this is one of the BEST items I have ordered! I have very small Chihuahuas and it is hard to find something that is good for them to chew on and also csn be cut to a size to fit their tiny mouths. These were easy to cut, with just a kitchen knife, into small enough pieces for my doggies to handle.
Really Wished My Dog Would've Liked Them
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Although these are a natural product and sounded like a good chew, my dog would not eat them. Also, the smell was particularly strong and unpleasant.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Final Score: (25) Stanford 50, Duke 13
Stanford, CA (Sports Network) - Josh Nunes tossed a trio of touchdowns to lead No. 25 Stanford to a 50-13 rout of Duke on Saturday at Stanford Stadium.
Nunes, making his second start in the post-Andrew Luck era, went 16-of-30 for 275 yards and an interception for Stanford (2-0), which snuck past San Jose State, 20-17, to open the season.
Stepfan Taylor carried the ball 14 times for 69 yards and a score, while Levine Toilolo, Drew Terrell and Jamal-Rashad Patterson each added a receiving score.
Sean Renfree started for Duke (1-1) and passed for 200 yards and a pair of interceptions on 28-of-40 passing. Backup Anthony Boone added 147 yards and an interception on 13-of-21 passing for the Blue Devils, who defeated FIU last weekend.
Jamison Crowder hauled in 10 passes for 112 yards and Desmond Scott added 11 grabs for 83 yards in the setback.
After a quick three-and-out from Duke on the opening possession of the game, Terrell took the punt and scampered 76 yards into the end zone.
Stanford's defense forced another three-and-out before taking the ball 55 yards on seven plays to set up a 35-yard field goal from Jordan Williamson to press the lead to 10-0.
Williamson added a 32-yarder later in the first to extend the margin to 13-0.
Stanford's first possession of the second quarter produced its first touchdown, as Taylor capped a 7-play, 56-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown surge.
Another Duke three-and-out resulted in another Williamson field goal, this one from 22 yards to press the lead to 23-0.
Ross Martin nailed a 29-yard field goal just before halftime to get Duke on the board as they trailed 23-3 heading into the locker room.
The Blue Devils tried on onside kick to start the second half, but Stanford recovered the ball at Duke's 43-yard line.
Nunes then completed four consecutive passes, the final one coming on a 19- yard touchdown strike to Terrell to make it a 30-3 contest.
After Jordan Richards intercepted Renfree's pass and took it down to the Duke 8, Nunes hit Toilolo two plays later for a 3-yard touchdown pass.
Following a 29-yard field goal from Martin later in the third, the Blue Devils drove into Stanford territory, but Ed Reynolds picked off Renfree and Kyle Olugbode took it 70 yards for a touchdown to extend the margin to 43-6 after the extra point was blocked.
Duke responded with its first touchdown drive of the game, as Boone led the Blue Devils on an 8-play, 82-yard march, capped by Brandon Connette's 4-yard touchdown plunge late in the third.
Stanford answered early in the fourth when Nunes found Patterson for a 27-yard touchdown strike to make it 50-13 and finish off the rout.
Game Notes
Terrell finished with three catches for 39 yards and also returned four punts for 99 yards ... Williamson went 3-for-4 on field goal attempts ... Duke punted seven times compared to three for Stanford ... Duke turned the ball over four times.
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Corvette lovers, mark your calendars for mid-January 2013. Thats when SPEED will wish you a happy new year with its latest car-guy (and -gal) show, called Vetted, A Corvette Series. The 13-episode, half-hour series celebrates the Corvette culture from its inception more than 60 years ago, through its classic muscle-car years, into its current incarnation as a world-class sports car, and beyond.
I came up with the idea for the show after listening to my partner, Ken Rouse, tell me about all the Corvette clubs in the country and all their activities, Stan Kmet, the president of Alpha & Omega Entertainment Group, tells VETTE in an exclusive interview. I have loved the design of the Corvette over the years and thought it would make a great TV show. I wrote it up and submitted it to a producer friend in Hollywood who liked the concept and encouraged me to go for it. A dear friend, Peter Simone, introduced me to Drew Waters. I thought he would make a great host for the show.
Waters, a self-described car nut with a passion for muscle cars and the Corvette, is a seasoned Hollywood actor. He has enjoyed on-camera roles in eight television shows, including the part of Coach Wade Aikman in the hit series Friday Night Lights. He has also appeared in 14 motion pictures, including Blonde Ambition, Mad Money, and Inspector Mom, and hell be seen in the soon-to-be released films Cowgirls n Angels and Charlie and the Toy Store.
Hes joined by co-host Jeff Hammond, who is Fox Sports NASCAR weekly prerace show host.
VETTE had the opportunity to sit down with Waters after the taping of Vetteds pilot episode. Lets see what he had to say about the fastest-moving weekly half-hour Corvette show to ever hit the airwaves.
VETTE magazine: Drew, thanks for taking time from your busy Hollywood schedule to talk about your new TV show. Please tell us about it.
Drew Waters: I know your readers will be really excited about Vetted. Its filled with fast Corvettes, as well as celebrities and everyday people alike whose lives revolve around the brand.
VM: Is Vetted a reality show or an episodic documentary?
DW: I think it is right in the middle. Reality is such a harsh word in todays society, because viewers think its all about big personalities. In contrast, Vetted is what the Corvette brand has done to a generation. But its not a true documentary, either. In 13 episodes, well bring viewers the drama of victory and failure from the people who build, own, restore, race, and compete [in] Corvettes. Instead of pigeonholing it, Id rather say the shows format is a great storytelling platform, with the Corvette, of course, as its central theme.
VM: Did the idea for the show come from Corvettes 60th anniversary, or from the news of the upcoming C7?
DW: Actually, it was neither. The shows development team sat down and talked about why we really wanted to put this show out. It didnt necessarily have anything to do with either of the events you mention. We wanted to do it because of what the Corvette stands for.
VM: And that is?
DW: In one word, camaraderie. It stands for a 100,000-plus-strong group of individuals who come together because they love their Corvettes. You get Corvettes together, whether its a 53 or a 13 or any model year in between, and its like a brotherhood. Thats what we really call out on Vetted.
VM: With that said, does the show emphasize any one Corvette generation over another?
DW: I think we treat them all with equal stature. Its been a long run for the brand, and you really havent seen any of the generations die off. Each generation, without exception, has a true loyal following.
01 Vetted creator Stan Kmet (on left) and host Waters instruct a crowd of Corvette fans before filming scenes for a first-season episode.02 Vette fans, get ready for Vetted. Produced and hosted by actor Waters (shown) and NASCAR's Jeff Hammond, the show promises a non-stop thrill ride through 60 years of Corvette culture. The Velocity Yellow '12 ZR1 seen here is but one example of the many Vettes that appear on the show.03 Kirk Bennion, the C6's exterior designer, provides an insider's description of the '11 Z06X show car.


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Friday, August 16, 2013
LISA ROBIN KELLY . . . who played TOPHER GRACE'S older sister on "That '70s Show" . . . died in her sleep Wednesday night at a rehab clinic. She was only 43. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Lisa had been arrested several times over the past few years, for DUI, spousal abuse and other offenses. She'd checked into rehab on Monday.
Ladies, just so you know, JESSICA ALBA told "Women's Health UK", quote, "I have cellulite and stretch marks . . . and I have a muffin top."
As you've heard by now, a male model named Michael Girgenti has been claiming to be the TRUE father of KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN'S son Mason. Well, Kourtney finally put those rumors to rest by getting a PATERNITY TEST. And as it turns out, Kourtney's boyfriend SCOTT DISICK IS the father. She issued a statement yesterday saying, quote, "After three-and-a-half years of rumors and lies being spread by an individual I met briefly at a photo shoot, I am setting the record straight that Scott is Mason's father. While it saddens me to have to address these ridiculous lies . . . especially when the truth was never in doubt . . . this story must be put to rest."
The tabloids have been saying KIM KARDASHIAN won't show up in public until she's lost all her baby weight. But she, KANYE WEST and their daughter NORTH were spotted on Wednesday, going to a medical clinic. No shots of North's face, though. Her baby carrier was covered.
8/15/13 Former Bachelor Contestant Commits Suicide
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
GIA ALLEMAND . . . a Top 3 finisher on Season 14 of "The Bachelor" . . . is dead of an apparent suicide. She was only 29 years old. TMZ says her boyfriend RYAN ANDERSON of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans found her hanging and unconscious in her New Orleans home on Monday. She'd been on life support, but she was too far gone, so it was shut off yesterday.
DAVID ARQUETTE was reportedly fired from a movie called "Something About Her" . . . because he's DRINKING again. The official reason given for his departure was "creative differences", but sources say he showed up one day not fit to work and, quote, "The director had no choice but to fire him on the spot. Everyone on the set was pissed and disappointed."
CHAKA KHAN may not be the only person LINDSAY LOHAN drove out of the Cliffside rehab facility. So-called "sources" say five more women and one man also cut out because they couldn't deal with her. One source says, quote, "Lindsay mostly clashed with the girls in the rehab because she always needed so much attention and acted like a spoiled brat . . . They just couldn't take her [crap]."
8/14/13 Celebrity Pre-Fame Jobs
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JENNIFER GARNER says she purposely goes to events without BEN AFFLECK so she doesn't lose her own identity. She tells "Allure" magazine, quote, "It's a very conscious decision . . . I think especially for women, they can really lose their identity and just become 'wife of'." She also says she's afraid of Botox because she has a big forehead.
A new list of celebrities and their pre-fame jobs tells us that Sean Connery was a milkman, Kanye West worked at the Gap, Whoopi Goldberg was a phone sex operator, Ellen DeGeneres was an oyster shucker, Sylvester Stallone was Lion cage cleaner at the Central Park Zoo and Jon Hamm was Porn movie set designer.
Reportedly, Lindsay Lohan developed an online shopping addiction in rehab and spent $5,000 a day. A former patient who attended rehab with Lindsay, said she would shop online all day and it was like an addiction. The source says she would drop $5,000 a day, mostly on clothes. And the constant stream of boxers and packages to the gates of the rehab center annoyed the staff, and residents.
With baby North West here, Kim and Kanye are busy planning their next media event -- a wedding. Us Weekly says, quote, "They've been discussing marriage for a while. A wedding is in the works." And in keeping with their lavish lifestyle, it's going to be big.
8/13/13 Affleck's Visit to Lohan
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Pictures surfaced yesterday of JUSTIN BIEBER serenading his grandmother . . . while he was NAKED with nothing but a guitar covering his naughty bits. This went down last October at granny's house over Canadian Thanksgiving. Justin came out of his room like that to mess with everybody.
The "National Enquirer" has released the full audio of the tape MONICA LEWINSKY made for BILL CLINTON during their affair. It's basically just Monica laying out a plan for how they're going to see each other. Although at one point she suggests, quote, "I could take all my clothes off and start . . . well, I won't. Because I know you wouldn't enjoy that."
This is what you call a complete lack of self-awareness. VICTORIA BECKHAM was doing a photo shoot and interview for "Vogue" magazine in London. And during the course of the conversation, she said that her family is, quote, "much more normal than people think." As soon as she was done with "Vogue", she left for parent-teacher night for one of her kids. In a HELICOPTER.
The website Jalopnik.com says KANYE WEST just bought two SUVs that are fully-armored and cost A MILLION BUCKS EACH. The vehicle is called the Prombron, and it's made by a Latvian company called Dartz.
BEN AFFLECK met secretly with LINDSAY LOHAN while she was in rehab, but it wasn't to offer her a movie role, as some sites are reporting. Ben went to rehab himself back in 2001, so he was basically just there to offer her support and advice. Meanwhile, sources say Lindsay came out of rehab TOTALLY clean, which means she's not even taking Adderall anymore.
8/12/13 LiLo Partying Again
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JUSTIN THEROUX turned 41 on Saturday, and JENNIFER ANISTON threw him a party at their Bel Air mansion. The guest list was INSANE. Check out who showed up: Ben Stiller, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Bateman, Laura Dern, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Tobey Maguire, Lake Bell, Will Arnett, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi, and Jimmy Kimmel.
We've had so few legitimate opportunities to talk about KEVIN FEDERLINE lately that it is an honor and a privilege to announce the following to you: On Saturday, August 10th, your man K-Fed married his Baby Mama #3, Victoria Prince, in Las Vegas. Kevin is 35 . . . Victoria is 30. She's a former pro volleyball player who now teaches special ed.
A judge has extended AMANDA BYNES' psychiatric hold for another 30 days. In order to keep Amanda for another month, doctors had to convince the judge that she's, quote, "gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder." Obviously, they did. But on a positive note, Amanda was reunited with her dog Thursday night. The same dog she accidentally doused with gasoline while lighting that driveway fire last month.
"Us Weekly" claims LINDSAY LOHAN spent all night partying with the boy band THE WANTED last Wednesday, and left the next morning looking "worse for wear." But her rep says that while Lindsay DID visit the guys, the rest of the story is, quote, "completely false."
MILEY CYRUS has a condition that results in an elevated heart rate. And according to the "National Enquirer", her doctors have told her to stop smoking pot and drinking caffeine, because both can make it worse. But she won't. A source says, quote, "Miley knows she probably shouldn't be smoking, but she loves getting high. Besides that, most of her friends smoke too."


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Ah, the camshaft: that magic stick that offers the promise of so much extra horsepower, while at the same time creating the fear of transforming a tractable and smooth powerplant into a snorting, lumping, and bumping beast. For some, the mechanical melody of a stout stick is sweet music, with the menacing rat-tat-tat of a long-duration lope being just the prescription for boulevard presence. Others prefer a subtler scheme, stepping up the specification for a gain in mechanical muscle, but not at the expense of down-the-road practicality. The choices in camshafts are virtually endless. With so many possible permutations, where does one begin in selecting a camshaft--be it for a cruiser or bruiser? It helps to know the specifications, and how they play in the engine's operation.
It's no secret that the camshaft profile has a key effect on engine output. An engine produces power largely by virtue of airflow, and flow into and out of the cylinders is via the valves. The camshaft's duty is to provide for the opening and closing of the valves, a function critical to power production. Stripped to its basics, the camshaft's specifications relate to valve action in terms of duration and lift. "Lift" is simple enough to understand, referring to how far the valve is opened off the seat, with the specification provided as a fraction of an inch.
Duration, the measure of how long the valves are held open, needs a reference in order to be quantified. To express this value of "how long," camshaft duration is given in degrees of crankshaft rotation, essentially measuring how far around the crank turns in degrees during the period a cam lobe is lifting the lifter. Duration is checked at a given specification, with "advertised" duration numbers recording the open time from a nominal lift value, such as .008 inch, while another standard is the commonly used duration at .050 inch.Why is it so important to know about duration when selecting a cam? Duration has a dramatic effect on the idle quality and rpm range of the engine. In general, longer-duration cams will raise the rpm at which peak torque will occur, and raise peak horsepower. The drawbacks are losses in low-rpm cylinder pressure, torque, and idle quality. Therein lies the tradeoff in cam selection: go bigger for more bite up top, but too big and the engine will become increasingly hard to live with.
Revisiting lift: As with duration, stepping it up will generally increase output, and, to a lesser extent rpm capabilities, provided the cylinder heads, intake, and exhaust system are up to the task. However, higher peak lift doesn't come with as pronounced a penalty in low-engine speed operation. Here lies an opportunity to gain a performance advantage.
If the camshaft is designed to open the valves at a more aggressive rate, the lobe can provide more lift at a given duration level. Competition Cams sought to exploit these possibilities with its aggressive Xtreme Energy line of camshafts. These faster than traditional lobe profiles accelerate more quickly and at a higher velocity. The result is the power-enhancing benefit of higher lift while mitigating the effects of excessive duration. Bottom line: It means more power and low-end torque for a given cam-duration "size."


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A business plan for entrepreneurs should engage the heart as well as the head, writes the author, who advises two plans-the formal document for bankers and investors, and then, the business plan that comes from your heart.
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Netpreneurs--entrepreneurs who are building Internet-related businesses--are a breed apart, argues the writer. In building a new economy with vastly different attributes, these business owners must react quickly, adapt deftly, and zero in on specialties, or "niches," conducive to online commerce, says the author, who founded a software company in the 1970s and, more recently, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities take advantage of the Internet.
Make e-mail your ally to enhance the way you market and sell products and services over the Internet, writes this technological entrepreneur. As you turn to e-commerce, turn first to e-mail to develop a list of potential customers who also want to hear from you, get the word out about your offerings, and eventually customize your pitches for individual buyers, the author advises. Just avoid the big e-mail no-no: spamming.
Age is an issue for today's entrepreneurs, especially those in technology-based businesses, writes the author, who founded an Internet company right out of college. Younger entrepreneurs, he argues, are more likely than their elders to be technologically astute and to be creative and flexible, attributes that are integral to their companies and enable those enterprises to succeed. The author includes tips for using youth as an advantage in business.
Entrepreneurs of a certain age need to accommodate the changes in attitude on the part of the younger generation or risk becoming dinosaurs, writes the author, who turned to entrepreneurship after a career in the U.S. Army and at a major corporation. Today's young people are technologically savvy, casual about dress and deportment, and forward about expecting to advance at a younger age, he says. He includes tips for adjusting one's management style to help -- rather than change -- the new generation.
Entrepreneurs, in particular, are having troubles with today's widespread age-disconnect between managers and employees. The many twentysomethings who are launching companies these days hire workers who are both younger and older than they are, writes the author, a frequent EntreWorld contributor. She maintains that to manage this so-called "generation gap," you'll need to build a common understanding based on your company's values.
Accepting a loan from the most respectable source of business financing--namely a commercial bank--is a mistake for some entrepreneurs, argues the author, who recounts the tale of her company's demise subsequent to her signing a bank loan with overly stringent terms. She includes four pointers that can help you flag loans likely to go bad.
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National Parkinson Foundation Awards Grants to Support Services in Seven Local Communities Across the Country
National Parkinson Foundation Awards Grants to Support Services in Seven Local Communities Across the Country
MIAMI, FL — The National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) announced today that it awarded seven grants to NPF Chapters through its new Chapter Grant Fund. The Chapter Grant Fund is an annual fund that supports NPF Chapters to enhance their ability to reach additional people with Parkinson's in their local community and to build capacity for sustainable programs.
NPF Chapters are community organizations that provide local services, such as health and wellness programs for people with Parkinson's disease and their families. NPF Chapters also conduct support groups, produce newsletters and raise awareness and funds through local fundraising events.
"With the help of NPF's network of Chapters, we are able to fulfill our mission to improve the quality of Parkinson's care through research, education and outreach," said Joyce Oberdorf, NPF's President and CEO. "Each NPF Chapter is a lifeline for those living with Parkinson's and their families. These grants help our chapters empower those living with the disease to live their best life with it."
Grants were awarded to the following NPF Chapters: Arizona, Heartland, Minnesota, North Florida, South Dakota, Western New York and Western Pennsylvania. The grant projects range from training nurses and community health workers about Parkinson's in minority populations to facilitating Parkinson's educational conferences and launching sustainable dance and choir programs.
The NPF Chapter Grant Fund is made possible by NPF National Partners for Moving Day, a walk for Parkinson's launched in 2011, including Medtronic, Dick's Sporting Goods and Right at Home. NPF will also be making community grants for services in Chicago and Miami next year from the proceeds of the 2012 Moving Days. The majority of the funds raised for Moving Day are dedicated to improving the local services for people living with Parkinson's. The grant funding pool will increase exponentially as the Moving Day program continues to grow.
About Parkinson's Disease
Affecting an estimated 1 million Americans and from 4 million to 6 million worldwide, Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's and is the 14th leading cause of death in the United States. It is associated with a progressive loss of motor control (e.g., shaking or tremor at rest and lack of facial expression) as well as non-motor symptoms (e.g., depression and anxiety). There is no cure for Parkinson's, and 50,000 to 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year in the United States alone.
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Founded in 1957, the National Parkinson Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of care for people with Parkinson's disease through research, education and outreach. NPF has funded more than $164 million in care, research and support services. For more information about NPF, visit www.parkinson.org or call 1-800-4PD-INFO (473-4636).
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C#: XNA has a working open-source and multi-platform implementation, MonoGame. It has already been used in several commercial titles. This makes XNA an excellent choice not only for the awesome language, tooling, documentation and API, but also to develop your game for all existing mobile and desktop platforms. At a much higher level, you also have Unity, which is widely used in the game industry and is also as multi-platform as engines go. If you want to learn C#, the best book I know of is a free one: The Yellow Book. Recently updated for C# 5 as well!
What language should I look into learning? I've heard conflicting opinions on each option.
C# - Most will tell me to jump straight into C# and work with XNA, but that leaves mutli-platform out of the question. I'm not too concerned about multi-platform, but I think it's a good option to leave open.
Java - So, that would lead me towards Java. I'm not a fan of Java, as a user. VM always seemed bulky and slow, with tons of vulnerabilities.
C++ - C++ might be a little bit too much of an undertaking, but I can see the benefit of learning proper memory management out of the gate. However, it might add too much time to development where, say, C# has XNA that handles a lot of the work out of the box.
Python - I see Python as an alternative, but I'm not sure I want to venture too far off the beaten path. Python is a very elegant language that I could pick up rather quickly, but the games I have seen developed in Python leave me wondering how capable it -really- is.
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Has there been any announcement to that effect? Microsoft hasn't announced any new version of XNA, but they still support the platform. My optimist theory is they will announce something around the same time as Xbox Next. Worst case scenario, they never update it again and we all switch to MonoGame, which anyway is more-crossplatform, Xbox excepted.
XNA is no longer maintained, though there are open source alternatives.


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Final Score: New Orleans 38, New England 17
New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Drew Brees threw for five touchdowns, and the Saints continued their unbeaten march by dominating the New England Patriots, 38-17, at the Superdome.
Monday's matchup featured two of the league's most prolific offenses over the past three seasons, but the Saints showed why they are in an elite class this year. Brees connected on 18-of-23 throws for 371 yards, as the Saints thrived with big offensive plays and also picked off Tom Brady twice.
"Let's just say he's playing real well," Saints coach Sean Payton said of Brees. "I thought his locations, confidence and what we were seeing was something else. It was a great job by him, magnificent."
New Orleans (11-0) rolled against the Patriots despite being without running back Reggie Bush, who missed his second straight game due to a bruised right knee.
The Saints continued their best start in franchise history and remained one of two unbeaten teams, with Indianapolis also 11-0. The Colts clinched the AFC South title Sunday, and the Saints are on the verge of securing the NFC South championship going into Sunday's game at Washington. This is the first time in league history that there are two 11-0 teams in the same season.
Marques Colston had four catches for 121 yards and a TD, while Devery Henderson caught three balls for 116 yards and a score.
Brady, who had thrown for at least 300 yards in his previous five contests, connected on 21-of-36 passes for 237 yards and no TDs for the Patriots (7-4), whose lead in the AFC East is at two games over the Dolphins and Jets. New England plays at Miami on Sunday.
"There's obviously a big gap between us," said Brady. "It wasn't as competitive as we all were expecting, but that's what happens when you don't play very well against a pretty good team on the road."
Down by 21 points, Brady was lifted late in the fourth quarter and replaced by rookie Brian Hoyer. The loss dropped the Pats to 1-4 on the road this season.
"When you make mistakes they capitalize on them. You can't make many against them and you can't make big ones. We made some big ones," said Patriots coach Bill Belichick. "They hit us on it."
The Patriots had their 17-game regular season winning streak against NFC opponents broken. That was the longest winning streak against the opposite conference since the 1970 merger.
Brady became New England's all-time leading passer, as he eclipsed the mark of 29,657 yards set by Drew Bledsoe. Brady has 29,732.
Just two years ago the Patriots became the first NFL team to compile a 16-0 regular season mark, which made Monday's game more enticing.
"People are going to talk about this game and maybe blow it out of proportion a little bit," said Brees. "Certainly, this game doesn't entitle us to anything. It's just another win in the win column."
The Patriots caught a break at the start of the third quarter when Laurence Maroney fumbled after making a catch. Wes Welker recovered for the Patriots and the play was upheld after a review. New England then drove 81 yards in eight plays, capped by Maroney's two-yard TD run off left tackle to get the visitors within 24-17 with 10:24 left in the period.
The big-play Saints widened their lead just 82 seconds later. Colston outraced the defense for a 68-yard catch and run, and two plays later, Brees found Darnell Dinkins in the end zone for a two-yard score.
Brady then drove the Patriots to the New Orleans 10, but, faced with a 4th- and-4, he threw incomplete to Moss on the left side as the pass was broken up by cornerback Mike McKenzie, whom the team signed on November 23 to help aid an injured secondary that was without Tracy Porter and Jabari Greer. McKenzie was playing in his first game since fracturing his right kneecap a year ago.
Brees' 20-yard TD strike to Colston midway through the fourth provided the final margin. Brady was picked off by Darren Sharper on the ensuing possession.
John Carney missed a 37-yard field goal try for the Saints, but with 5:26 left and the Patriots seemingly out of reach, Belichick yanked Brady and put in Hoyer.
"It hurts, they put it to us tonight," said Moss. "I didn't think we had any rhythm. I think we had little spurts where we tried to gain that rhythm, but we just couldn't put things together."
Carney's 30-yard field goal try struck the left upright and bounced through to cap the game's opening drive, but Maroney scored on a four-yard run later on New England's first time with the ball.
McKenzie's interception with just over a minute left in the opening quarter led to the Saints going ahead for good. Brees' 18-yard strike to Pierre Thomas, who spun at the goal line for the score, gave New Orleans a 10-7 lead 2:05 into the second quarter.
Following a New England punt, it took the Saints just one play to widen their lead thanks a busted coverage. Henderson ran a pattern over the middle and caught the ball in stride at the 50 behind the defense and raced to the end zone for a 75-yard score with 9:53 on the clock.
Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 36-yard field goal 5 1/2 minutes later, but New Orleans expanded the lead to 24-10 with 1:50 to go in the half on Brees' 38- yard throw to Robert Meachem in the end zone.
Gostkowski was wide left on a 50-yard field goal try in the waning seconds of the half.
Game Notes
New England had won the last three meetings... Brees has a league-leading 27 TD passes this season...This is New Orleans' first 11-win season since 1992 when the Saints went 12-4 before losing in the playoffs to Philadelphia...Sam Aiken had seven catches for 90 yards for the Patriots..Moss had 67 yards receiving but just three catches...Maroney had 15 rushes for 64 yards, while Thomas ended with 11 carries for 64 yards...The Saints have outscored their opponents 112-24 in the fourth quarter this season...Two weeks ago, the Patriots lost on the road to the Colts.


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poohcarrot wrote:stripy_tie wrote:I think I've got something for you Pooh, it's going to need a fair bit of tinkering though. I just can't get it to flow properly. In any case it'll be a nice guilt free distraction from a problematic chapter I'm working on.
I might even get into the habit of doing these drabbles, they're like sudoku for writers.
I love killer sudoku especially designing my own, somewhere on this forum there's a 12 sudoku's of Xmas I posted for Batty.
As for tinkering and being a writer, I'm not the latter, so don't have problems with the former.
BTW in your avi it says "Land of Sea and Granite." How can a land be a sea?
To go nerdy the Dothraki Sea in A Song Of Ice and Fire is land