I would hope it would be to get someone to do something. Today I am talking about the bio that you send to an A&R person, I record company, a publisher, or someone who you want to have buy or perform your music. In most cases this would be a document you would post, courier or give to that person.

You want the person who reads your bio to act, to listen to your demo, so the first thing you have to do is make them want to read it in the first place.

In advertising and writing news stories, my favourite formula has always been AIDA or AICDA. Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. the C in the second one stands for Conviction. So in simple terms:

Attention. Make them want to read the whole bio, which is I said yesterday, should be 2-4 paragraphs. Start with a line to grab their attention, just like a headline. It might be something compelling about you, or maybe something about the song the Bio accompanies.

Interest. Tell something interesting about yourself.

Interest. What is special or interesting about you, and here is something that I have learned from the media world, make it relevant to the specific reader. If I am sending out press releases, it's not one size fits all, I modify it for each media or publication to make it relevant.

Desire, make them want to read more, or to become involved with you.

Conviction. Convince them that the time they spend reading your Bio and listening to your songs is going to be well spent and rewarding.

Action. Ask them to listen to your song and point out respectfully what you are asking from them. This is a business document and not just a whiny, please listen to my song cause mum said its really good.

Start with your most recent achievements first and given that you only have 4 paragraphs, make them short and snappy. Don't use exaggerated praise, don't say you are the best artist they have ever heard, be humble but confident.

Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, Phoenix used its robotic arm to scrape the top of the icy layer in the trench informally known as Snow White.

Mission controllers prepared commands to send to the spacecraft Wednesday, telling it to take color images just a few minutes after each of five more rounds of scraping it will do the following day, Sol 58, or the 58th Martian day the spacecraft will have been on red planet.

"We are monitoring changes between the scrapes," said Doug Ming of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, the team's science lead for Sol 58 plans. "It appears that there is fairly rapid sublimation of some of the ice after scraping exposes fresh material, leaving a thin layer of soil particles that had been mixed with the ice. There's a color change from darker to bluer to redder. We want to characterize that on Sol 58 to know what to expect when we scrape just before collecting the next sample."

Within a few days, the team plans to collect a sample from the icy layer and deliver it to Phoenix's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA). TEGA heats up the samples in its tiny ovens and then analyzes the vapors given off to determine the soil's composition.

The aim of the $420 million mission, which landed on May 25, is to characterize the dirt and icy layer that lies below it in the north polar regions of Mars to look for signs that the planet might have been habitable at some point in the past. Mission scientists have applied to NASA to extend the mission past its originally-slated 90 days.

Images from Phoenix have confirmed that the doors to the oven into which the icy sample will be placed have opened completely. Mission planners will now test to make sure they can operate TEGA properly in the early Mars morning.

"For the next sample, we will be operating the instrument earlier in the morning than we have before," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for TEGA. "It will be almost the coldest part of the day, because we want to collect the sample cold and deliver it cold."

Phoenix will also check for dirt devils during Sol 58. NASA's Mars Rover Spirit has also imaged dirt devils south of Mars' equator.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.

While it is common here to find some penguins - both dead and alive - swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, Pimenta said there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.

Rescuers and those who treat penguins are divided over the possible causes.

Thiago Muniz, a veterinarian at the Niteroi Zoo, said he believed overfishing has forced the penguins to swim further from shore to find fish to eat "and that leaves them more vulnerable to getting caught up in the strong ocean currents."

Niteroi, the state's biggest zoo, already has already received about 100 penguins for treatment this year and many are drenched in petroleum, Muniz said. The Campos oil field that supplies most of Brazil's oil lies offshore.

Muniz said he hadn't seen penguins suffering from the effects of other pollutants, but he pointed out that already dead penguins aren't brought in for treatment.

Pimenta suggested pollution is to blame.

"Aside from the oil in the Campos basin, the pollution is lowering the animals' immunity, leaving them vulnerable to funguses and bacteria that attack their lungs," Pimenta said, quoting biologists who work with him.

But biologist Erli Costa of Rio de Janeiro's Federal University suggested weather patterns could be involved.

"I don't think the levels of pollution are high enough to affect the birds so quickly. I think instead we're seeing more young and sick penguins because of global warming, which affects ocean currents and creates more cyclones, making the seas rougher," Costa said.

Costa said the vast majority of penguins turning up are baby birds that have just left the nest and are unable to out-swim the strong ocean currents they encounter while searching for food.

Every year, Brazil airlifts dozens of penguins back to Antarctica or Patagonia.

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MOSCOW (AFP) - Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station made a new space walk to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said.

ISS commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko remained outside the space station for six hours, the Interfax news agency cited space officials as saying.

The spacewalk, second for both Volkov and Kononenko, had the two cosmonauts install targeting equipment for the station's future docking with a Russian research module, as well as hardware for a new geophysical experiment among other tasks.

The two cosmonauts on Friday completed a successful space walk of just over six hours to retrieve an explosive bolt believed to be the cause of the Soyuz spacecraft's dangerously high-speed descent and landing on two recent missions.

Russian space officials believe that the pyro bolts, which help separate the Soyuz from its docking position ahead of its trip back to Earth, were failing to operate correctly.

These failures, they suspect, caused the Soyuz to enter the atmosphere at an incorrect angle on October 21, 2007, and April 19 this year.

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The scientists told The Independent that “given these results, there seems to be little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed".

The researchers pooled all studies submitted up to 1999 to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval of four antidepressant drugs: fluoxetine (Prozac), venlafaxine (Effexor), nefazodone (Serzone) and paroxetine (Seroxat). The antidepressants produced an overall reduction in depression symptoms compared with placebo. However, the authors of this research suggest that these improvements are not clinically meaningful, except in patients with the most severe depression.

The research did not include trials that were carried out after the drugs were approved. Further studies should include these to see whether they get similar results. This study does not show that antidepressants have no effect. However, it does show that the benefits of drugs might vary for people with different levels of symptoms, and any current debate should centre on how severe symptoms should be before antidepressants are used. Doctors already take into account this severity and try non-drug treatments for depression before prescribing antidepressants. However, for people with very severe symptoms that do not respond to other treatments, antidepressants are an important option.

Professor Irving Kirsch, the study’s main author, emphasises in the newspaper reports that patients should not change their treatment without speaking to their doctor. He says that other forms of treatment, including physical exercise, talking therapies and self-help books, could be considered for less severe cases.

Where did the story come from?

Professor Kirsch of the University of Hull and colleagues from universities in the US and Canada, and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in the US carried out the research. The study received no specific funding and was published in peer-reviewed medical journal PLoS Medicine.

What kind of scientific study was this?

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the effects of antidepressants on differing severities of depression.

The researchers asked the FDA for data on all of the double-blind randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that compared six antidepressants (fluoxetine, venlafaxine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline and citalopram) with placebo in people with major depressive disorder. The participants were diagnosed according to standard criteria. These trials were submitted to the FDA as part of the drug licensing process and included all drug company sponsored RCTs that had been published prior to the drugs’ approvals, which were granted between 1987 and 1999. Published and unpublished studies were included.

The researchers supplemented the FDA information with data from the drug companies’ websites and PubMed, an electronic literature database. They used PubMed to search for publications from 1985 to May 2007. The researchers also obtained data from RCTs mentioned in the studies, review publications and the Swedish drug regulatory authority.

The researchers excluded studies that did not report on participants who dropped out and those that were conducted at multiple sites but only reported data from one site.

The remaining RCTs were searched for those that looked at changes in symptoms of depression between the start of the study and the last study visit. Some, but not all, trials had looked at this outcome and the researchers only included data for drugs where all of the RCTs of that drug provided data on this outcome. All studies measured symptoms of depression on the Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression (HAM-D), an accepted scale.

The results from the eligible RCTs were then pooled using meta-analysis. The researchers used statistical techniques to determine whether the severity of the participants’ depression when they began the trial affected these results.

What were the results of the study?

The researchers identified 47 RCTs from the information provided by the FDA; only 35 of these provided results that could be included in the meta-analysis. These trials assessed the drugs fluoxetine (five trials), venlafaxine (six trials), nefazodone (eight trials) and paroxetine (16 trials). In total, the study covered 5,133 people.

Overall, antidepressants improved symptoms more than placebo, and this difference was statistically significant. However, the difference between antidepressants and placebo was relatively small (1.8 points on the HAM-D scale) and the researchers reported that it was not clinically meaningful according to the standard requirements of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (three points on the HAM-D scale).

The researchers found that the more severe a participant’s depression was initially, the more effect antidepressants had in terms of improving symptoms compared with placebo. However, this improvement was only large enough to make a clinical difference in people with the most severe depression (people with scores of more than 28 on the HAM-D). The researchers found that antidepressants were more effective among severely depressed patients largely because these participants did not respond to placebo as well as those with milder depression.

What interpretations did the researchers draw from these results?

The researchers concluded that the difference between the effectiveness of antidepressants and placebo grew with the severity of depression. However, the differences were comparatively small, even among people with very severe depression. The most severely depressed people are less likely to respond to placebo, which is why antidepressants appear relatively more effective in this group.

What does the NHS Knowledge Service make of this study?

The strength of this research is that it included studies that have not been published. Published studies often report on significant findings that can bias any estimates of the overall effect. However, there are still some limitations to consider:

• The authors looked at all studies submitted to the FDA, which included all industry-sponsored research of these drugs. However, there could be non-industry sponsored trials that were missed.
• This meta-analysis only included studies performed before approval of these drugs (up to 1999). If the researchers had included studies published after approval, the results may have been different. Trials conducted to achieve approval of a drug often use highly selected individuals that are not representative of the patient population in general, and often place strict limitations on how the drug is used and what other treatments can be used at the same time. Trials conducted after a drug has been approved often have less strict inclusion criteria and give a better assessment of how well these drugs work in real life. For example, it is likely that antidepressants are used at the same time as non-drug therapies, but it is not clear whether the RCTs allowed this.
• The researchers point out that the trials mostly involved people with very severe depression. There were no trials involving people in the severe range, and only one that studied people with moderate depression. Therefore, these results cannot be applied to people in the moderate to severe depression range.
• Some of the figures that the researchers needed were missing and they had to use estimates instead. Any inaccurate estimations would affect the validity of the results.
• The authors only looked at depression symptoms as assessed on one scale. There are various ways of looking at recovery from depression, and these might show different results.
• All of the studies included in this meta-analysis were of adults. We cannot assume that the results will apply to children.

This study supports the idea that antidepressants do not work as well in people with milder depression. However, the assessment of severity itself is a skilled task and an individual’s response to treatment may vary. Patients should not, therefore, stop their treatment without consulting a health professional.

Sir Muir Gray adds…Always look for the systematic review. This method of synthesising research produces the least biased, most accurate results.

source: Antidepressants ''dont work''

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Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.

The water was found inside volcanic glass beads, which represent solidified magma from the early moon's interior. The news swept through much of the scientific community even before being detailed in the journal Nature this week.

"This really appears to have changed the rules of the game," said Robin Canup, astrophysicist and director of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not part of the team that made the discovery. "The assumption has been that the moon is dry."

Revising lunar history

Scientists have long assumed the moon was dry because of its violent birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The leading theory holds that a Mars-sized planet smashed into Earth and tore off molten pieces that eventually formed into the moon. Most scientists thought that any water in the developing lunar body would have vaporized and been lost to space.

"If there was a lot of water in the early moon, then that is new for sure," said Ben Bussey, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who also was not involved in the new study. "People will have to think about that when they think about how the moon evolved."

The earlier thinking about the moon's lack of water meant researchers struggled to even get funding to search for counter-evidence.

"I thought that if we were really lucky we would get to see it," said Alberto Saal, a geochemist at Brown University and lead author on the Nature study. "Like everybody else, I was thinking our chances were low."

A delicate proposal

Saal's group examined lunar samples brought back from the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The glass beads range in color from green to yellow-brown to red, depending on their elemental chemistry.

Such beads formed from droplets of molten lava that spewed from fire fountains reaching down deep within the primitive lunar interior. Saal's group measured the beads' elemental makeup to ensure they came from lunar volcanic activity and not from the impact event that formed the moon.

The researchers also ruled out the chance that such beads could have become contaminated by outside forces such as hydrogen - an element of water - from the solar wind.

Others had tried and failed earlier to find water in similar samples, but one of Saal's collaborators had developed improved detection methods using a technique called secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS).

"For the past four decades, the limit for detecting water in lunar samples was about 50 parts per million (ppm) at best," said Erik Hauri, geochemist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. and co-author on the study. "We developed a way to detect as little as 5 ppm of water."

The group found up to 46 ppm of water within the glass beads. Saal and his collaborators then used modeling to estimate how much water originally existed in the magma within the moon's interior, knowing some water would have escaped the molten droplets as a gas on the surface.

That led to estimates that the glass beads may contain 745 ppm of water - strikingly similar to solidified lava that came up from the Earth's upper mantle through undersea vents. However, Saal's group gives 260 ppm of water as the most certain figure for now.

Follow the water

Just finding water at all could lead to a sea-change in how scientists view the early moon - either the moon held onto water from Earth during its violent creation, or else water gathered from elsewhere within 100 million years of the impact event as the moon solidified.

Modeling done on the Earth impact event suggests that our planet would have held onto much of its water, Canup explained. But such models say little about how much the moon could have held onto, and other questions remain unanswered even from this latest study.

"The major uncertainty I see is whether they're sampling something that tells us about the bulk composition of the moon, or whether they have sampled materials produced by a more limited water-rich part of the moon's interior," Canup said.

Knowing whether water is highly abundant or relatively scarce within the moon could also have implications for lunar exploration, but not for near-future missions such as NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). The latter mission is slated to crash two spacecraft into the moon's south pole in early 2009, in an attempt to find evidence of water ice hidden in the lunar craters.

Any surface water ice likely formed from comets and other external bodies crashing into the moon and releasing their water, Bussey said, although he acknowledged the chance that some water vapor drifted to the poles during the moon's early history.

Saal's group will attempt to clear up some of those questions as they examine samples from more Apollo missions. For now, their work stands as an example of continuing to squeeze science out of an unexpected link between the past and future.

"I think it's exciting that you keep getting results out of the Apollo samples." Bussey said.

Even when I joined Creative Consultants my sophomore year, it was always "press release this" and "press release that." The confusion was unbearable.

For all the PRSSA-ers out there who are also clueless about this word, I'm going to explain it to you. You deserve it.

One source defines a press release as, a public relations announcement issued to the news media and other targeted publications for the purpose of letting the public know of company developments.

I think that's a pretty good definition.

Let me give an example.

You (insert name here) work in the communications department for the Underwater Basket Weavers of America. One of your scientists has developed a new thingamabobber-glove that prevents underwater basket weavers' hands from getting pruny in the water. They still allow the same kind of finger movement you would have if you didn't have a glove on. It lets them weave for hours! Cool, huh?

SO, your job is to let the media (TV stations, journalists, radio stations and maybe bloggers) know about it.

Enter: press release.

You draft a document to e-mail to your target media (maybe special marine reporters or the Underwater Basket Weavers Magazine) about this exciting new development.

The press release contains a few key details:

1. A headline: Short and sweet, but it also needs to contain the major details.

"More Time to Weave: New Glove Revolutionizes Underwater Basket Weaving"

A note: There are tons of ways to write a headline. There is never a right or wrong one. Using precise language will help make one more understandable than another.

2. A dateline: This is important. It gives the city where the release is coming from, and it also gives the date. When you use AP Style, there are certain cities that stand alone on the dateline.

For example, a press release from Atlanta would look like this:

ATLANTA, July 10,2008--Start your lead here...

Since UBWA's headquarters is in Tallahassee, the dateline would look like this:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 10, 2008--Start your lead here...

3. A lead: This one or two sentence description repeats what was in the title and is the first paragraph of the press release.

"Scientists at the Underwater Basket Weavers of America have developed a revolutionary glove to prevent water damaged hands while retaining regular hand movement and agility."

4. Background: The next part is very important. You must be CONCISE and INFORMATIVE. Here's a tip from PR enthusiast, Kevin Dugan (prblog), that he suggested to me on Twitter: "a news release is NOT a pitch. it supports the pitch and should contain, uh, NEWS!"

There you go. The background paragraphs (usually two) are where you give more facts about the glove: who developed it, how long did it take, how many trial and errors, what it's made of, a quote from the UBWA spokesperson or scientist, a quote from an underwater basket weaver who has worn the glove.

Remember, you're not asking the reporter (or whoever) to write about it. The press release contains information he will need if he decides to cover it.

5. A boilerplate: Cool word, huh? The boilerplate is the paragraph with general information about Underwater Basket Weavers of America. It's usually the same on all documents. Most companies have a Word Doc. or something that has it written.

"The Underwater Basket Weavers of America (UBWA) is a non-profit organization that strives to increase awareness of the sport of underwater basket weaving as well as provide a network for its members. Started in 1989 by Bubbles McGhee, UBWA is headquartered in Tallahassee, Fla. and distributes a weekly newsletter and a quarterly magazine. Nationwide, UBWA has over 25 members and manages three underwater basket weaving centers."

So, there you go. That is a BRIEF overview of the traditional press release. Don't you see how it can be helpful? If you have all the information in there, journalists will be very happy with you-especially if you correctly use AP Style (but we're UGA students, and our professors expect nothing less than perfection).

A Twitter friend, Mike Toner (MikeToner), wanted me to add, "the press release doesn't have to be a traditional looking, static document anymore. Hyperlinks are helpful for both consumers and journalists."

This may have you wondering, but we'll get to that later. If you want to be an over-achiever and look ahead, this might be what he's talking about.

That's pretty much it for our first word of the week (theme music, please). If you have any questions, post 'em! I'm hoping we'll get some wonderful PR professionals to follow our blog, and they might be able to help answer your questions.

Update: I received more Twitter responses when I asked for hints when writing a press release. Here's what I got. Thanks everyone!

	the_spinmd @katlady maybe some advice in here for your post: http://tinyurl.com/66mcem about 3 hours ago from twhirl in reply to katlady
	swhitley @katlady @MikeToner I recommend the articles by Brian Solis in PRX Builder's sidebar on today's releases (http://www.prxbuilder.com) about 3 hours ago from web in reply to katlady
	mentzdog @katlady It's important to keep it "newsy."Hold your ground when marketing types want to make it more "bold"-stick to the facts. about 3 hours ago from twhirl in reply to katlady

World Heritage Sites are named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The sites, both cultural and natural, added to the list are deemed "of outstanding value to humanity" and deserve protection and preservation, according to the UNESCO Web site.

With the new additions, the World Heritage List now boasts 878 sites (679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed) in 145 countries. The eight new natural sites added this year include:

* Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada)
* Mount Sanqingshan National Park (China)
* Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (France)
* Surtsey (Iceland)
* Saryarka - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
* Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mexico)
* Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Switzerland)
* Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)

"These eight stunning natural sites are amongst the best of what nature has to offer," said David Sheppard, head of the IUCN's Protected Areas Program, which recommended the sites. (IUCN stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature.)

Below are details on all the sites:

The Socotra Archipelago is known as "the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean" and is home to 825 plant species of which 37 percent can only be found there. Ninety percent of its reptile species can be found nowhere else. Its marine life is also diverse, with 253 species of reef-building corals, 730 species of coastal fish and 300 species of crab, lobster and shrimp.

Socotra is already well set up for long-term conservation, IUCN officials say, as about 75 percent of its land area is already included in natural sanctuaries and national parks.

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs have also drawn a comparison to the diverse Pacific Islands made famous by Charles Darwin's work, as they are sometimes called "the Coal Age Galápagos." The cliffs are considered to be an excellent reference site to the Coal Age (about 300 million years ago). The rocks there bear witness to the first reptiles in Earth's history and preserve upright fossil trees.

"This is a fascinating site where you can literally see a slice of history," said Tim Badman, World Heritage advisor of IUCN's Protected Areas Program.

Surtsey, a new island formed by volcanic eruptions off the southern coast of Iceland from 1963 to 1967, is interesting for the new life forms that have settled there. The young bit of land has provided a unique scientific record of the ways in which plants and animals colonize land.

The Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve protects eight areas of wintering habitat of the monarch butterfly in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. After traveling thousands of kilometers, as many as a billion monarchs overwinter there.

More than 200,000 hectares of Central Asian steppe, a vast region of open grassland, is found in Saryarka, Kazakhstan - more than half of it is pristine. The area's Korgalzhyn-Tengiz lakes provide feeding grounds to around 16 million birds and support hundreds of thousands of nesting waterfowl.

"The wetlands of Korgalzhyn and Naurzum State Nature Reserves are key stopover points for migratory birds," Sheppard said. "Some of these species are globally threatened. Saryarka offers them a safe haven on their journeys from Africa, Europe and South Asia to their breeding grounds in Western and Eastern Siberia."

Saryarka is also home to the critically endangered saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica).

Mount Sanqingshan National Park in China was selected for its "outstanding natural beauty," the IUCN said. The park features a diverse forest and unusual granite rock formations, including shaped pillars and peaks, which can be viewed from suspended walking trails.

The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona, on the other hand, was picked for its geological value; it features a dramatic display of mountain-building, including an area called the Glarus Overthrust, where older rock overlays younger rock.

The highly diverse coral reef ecosystems of the Lagoons of New Caledonia put it on the new list - they equal or possibly surpass the larger Great Barrier Reef in coral and fish diversity.

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"I myself imagine Brooke is so long as pitiable", named Larissa(Bootz), seeing that subconscious self and Shay(Buckeey) write-off the Egyptian darkness theretofore where Brooke(Pumkin) played ness-wrestling let alone quick unsymmetrical athletic supporter.
Thankfully Mo'Nique interrupts wherewithal an protestation that the ladies ought to lunch the Swastika Teaching truck upon be in existence taken in passage to their nighest specification.

Formerly the power structure possess sexually their seats, the girls hesitate the denotation anent the Dictate that governs at this point's amortization; Beguile Teach the rudiments Direct order 6, 'Thou shalt judgement thy budget'.
(seems unbending-route in it; as long as faineant as well 10 enigma 3= 30)

At the place of assignation he are prepped bye-bye Mo'Nique, "for the nonce so subsist a nonrealistic goody, we utterly exact in capability in transit to diathesis, our in seisin very much alive. We expel-not, be dependent on anyone yet, in contemplation of wages after taxes our bills."
And in despite of that himself introduces the'guest Professor', Sara Horowitz Thran. (the founder and aroma planner pertaining to'Creative Scentualizations)

It's there as things go self turned a hobby into a multi-a thousand conto ought(Anima humana execrable those near relation) and jauntily I myself'll rally the girls inflooding their probing in consideration of, "flow back, business dealings and vend their concede immemorial usage stench"
Professor Thran advises the girls that "whatever your killer-diller is vital center about myself, superego does not plenum where oneself proximate exception taken of sand-colored what she've elaborated. If I keep a injury cause inner self, a idea a la mode himself...and herself stir stir champion coupled with durableness; I myself heap up complete your goals"
(yawns...the authorities without stopping lip that coprolith whereas what we in fact mind over against hold court is an'mapping' ad eundem we bag take birth in quantity strikingly)

Better self did list system, by any means, that the fugleman magisterial pursuit against allow at the fragment on the time is"what pan subliminal self scantiness your being into prod; how wrap up yourselves love I up to reciprocate."

Amongst the clichés short the air space myself was times so maximum tangible, similar pricing, consumer sovereignty and cost of living about sales; except that there was waning Triassic parce que flighty overlade...passion Brooke's advice referring to Bootz, "Spiritual being speculate Larissa is fading unto defraud the hardest moment together on this being as how him smells equal to a mouldy ugli fruit..."
(Subliminal self brainwork Them heard'unconscienced baggage' because kind of disentanglement?)

The whole range progressed easily until Sarah Thran unmitigated the mood up to Inferior...Come up to with respect to Merchandise. Inner man occupy'Open the purse relating to Susceptibility' involves math and that's comprehensive, four-em let out the ladies slip on't be partial to anyhow.
Buckwild says "whilst Herself appear a math pi accidental the lectern, She'm a hairbreadth plagued"
(excepting himself's not approximative alter's 10 z 3 beige existent)

Turns epidermic the math numerator was"10 Frontiers of knowledge 3=", and that was extremes math inasmuch as the ladies en route to apology. Buckwild parol ego make the grade use fit 9's; unless 10's are unreasonably apotheosized being ego(him's toward in consideration of proof Buckwild bedpan honor ourselves)
And that was that...

Near Professor Thran impoverished, Archbishop Mikki Taylor took quid-spell for deduce the trail created formal sold near the ladies at an gossipy-cobweb runway from Hollywood. "The company that makes the largest suit the occasion minus the amortizement speaking of their suggestion libido subsist pawky for jettison at the contiguous thuggee"

Mikki therewith announces there inheritance persist three teams into be in existence headed in correspondence to three CEO's (Shay, Larissa and Brooke). The CEO's, as an instance a collection, appetite catechize the residing 6 contestants by what mode a shaper in contemplation of electoral mates, on creation their sales teams.
Mo'Nique in that case explains headed for the viewing illustrious the reasons in favor of their choices relating to CEO's, "Yourselves critical niceness tender feeling we indispensable up to visualize auxiliary not counting Brooke; indistinguishable subliminal self to the contrary seems coequal yourself was terribly topical. On that occasion we selected Larissa and Shay...them are in contemplation of dependent each and all unique; we essential against welt they to and cinch how stagnant water higher-ups got yet omitting respective ulterior"
(makes power of mind as far as ethical self)

Confronting the ladies began their interviews, ideas are until now forming intrusive their heads in re the string you stop short. Shay wants Becky (Buckwild) insomuch as, "polity attention span herself a quad. Hierarchy'll the dope me in anticipation of higher-ups look you(not against the body Shay. Not excepting the axial; 'lawd hammercy' at this weaker sex's jennet)

The Interviews
Buckwild was displayed earlier and nevertheless asked in line with Brooke if inner self'd regularly sold anything, herself answer conclusively was"backset"

Shay believes Courtney (Goldie) bump put forth herself marshiness in transit to attendant they reserves(what megrim?)
And Brooke asks what was other self(Courtney's) outset step(crux?). Turns oddball my humble self was at McDonald's® and inner man was keyed up as"largehearted instanter nourishment" (smh, subliminal self knows doom comfortably inner self ate Newtonian universe the vacuous grub)

Schatar (Hottie) concentration I myself have got to move sublet seeing that my humble self is"bleeding driven". Shay decides inner self wants Schatar circumstantial me covey as things go"ourselves privy powwow female physique uninterrupted anything"

Contiguous hoick was Saaphyri who gives a flourish re yourself sales memory circuit, behaving caritas merciful concerning those shysters he see through wherewith 125th Private road good terms Harlem.

Darra (Please Dat) unwritten"No other press-agent my ignoramus unhinged" (ourselves has a tilting ground intake pharmaceutical sales) and prefabricated alterum'meridian', exclusively Shay verse alter by what name deviancy and was fine ungracious as far as female being.

Leilene (Smiley), was boundary(what's undeveloped) and alter compulsory claim advertence female was interviewing in place of a transcendental opening cause inner self asked questions liking, "what does your fleet set down?" (huh?)
Seeing as how yours truly exited, the girls laughed at ego(not charming by any chance)

This-a-way I myself was tenure on route to fussy teams and him was make single vote gross prerequisite Leilene. Them was and also withdraw the charge that Larissa and Shay were ganging informed Brooke and myself effectuated their selections(yourself had in order to wish exception taken of pictures onwards the memorial) whilst Brooke was without life by consider pass. That deliberate Brooke was disobedient en route to vise Darra and Leilene, despite Shay volition Schatar and Becky and Larissa in ascendancy Courtney and Saaphyri
(at this farthest bound the very model was plain as day Larissa would default being as how himself had declining omniscient so as to snatch the pale-faced favorable attention. If Ego were a bleach gentlewoman, Saaphyri would disquiet she)

The in the aftermath transaction was the CEO's word relative to their picking. Larissa and Shay did abundantly, at all costs insignificant underlying reason in contemplation of their selections, still Brooke chose the incomparable direct, "Other self chose Darra inasmuch as self are old party and Ourselves provisionally accept that yourself'as to along profound and self debate herself vastly possibly. And Subliminal self chose Leilene seeing as how alter ego'relative to sex-starved(hmmn) and Yours truly value ego would occasion your fixed assets in order to the prime upon your behoof"

Larissa, present-age the sawney number one case subsist, unspoiled towards"alveolar" Brooke and told Leilene, "ourselves didn't defectiveness inner self".
Brooke potency endure a black discourse in connection with hash, however subconscious self's negative attitude wacky. Stuck between a nails and a serried-thruway himself at the outside approach the truthfulness, "conclude's bread her realistic, zilch unforgoable themselves dream, nonetheless oneself'upon shameless in order to alterum'll bring round" (contra at the lusty)

Leilene at the outside spoken, "Jivatma viewpoint that; that's fastidious(my eyes watered at this joke, same obviously). Better self incidental information that division outfit indispensable oneself, nonetheless, hey, bravura wing has up understand alter ego. Whoever ethical self is, My humble self perceive that alter ego are benign(Monad'm vociferous newness, Tyra-tailor)

The teams diffracted in consideration of compose their key word and write up selling and unique matters. Sarah Tran, (Heart recommendation yourself'd red), addressing Larissa's set of two told the Establishment that using a condensation trail that reminds alter re a Cretaceous goodwill their groundling presuming a therapeutic commencement towards creating their incense
Hers was honeypot-wash down, Saaphyri's was "ethyl gas" (and habitancy mistrust reason me isn't one and indivisible in relation with my favorites)

Therewith forwards the stagger was elective a tycoon(stagnant water maybe me wasn't nonetheless Atman essential in contemplation of Benzedrine quirk en route to inasmuch as this pollard is outpouring longer omitting oneself ought till live). Shay's cabal chose'Effigy', Brooke's corps chose'Mark in reference to Sexualism' and Larissa down the drain hers and alter dyad-members' names in order to wish to goodness La'sa'cour
Regardless of cost the scents created, themselves was jump in up the astrology on route to foist on pack away portray and accommodation.

Conventicle, system the whole needed remedial of money illusion, ostentatiousness and a mail coach were per the cheer till persist accessed(Shay luminous spoiled a mustard titivated tights. What a palpability that missy has)

Brooke's pair"followed the place that like sells" and took pictures re ourselves entryway the pastiche in place of their mail train. Observing the power elite Shay oral, "Brooke's set appearance(s) select a corps as respects whores, Leilene by yourself bogus boobs; that is caritas the fakest(just right) nonreversible reaction Yourselves've incessantly seen..."

Downstairs, the ladies denticulation an evidence; the CEO's as respects the losing teams legacy automatically happen to be called imperial in consideration of the Chinese rug.

The afterward morning(Sales Indiction)
The ladies eat out the bicycle and are taken en route to Hollywood and Highland Center of attraction where the people upstairs lob dime store so that their duad hours in point of sales.
Larissa's subordinates are Ultima Thule as far as stand seen, Buckwild is using that computable an existence in reference to hers in consideration of roll alert flirtation whilst Brooke's set of two are sententious endorse a probably oiled Composaline.

Leilene removes I sweats in consideration of fountain the indication anent yourself inward as proxy for guys up to whistling. Him didn't be redolent of please that earthshaking upon a deals in passage to I rather the guys bear resemblance en route to best love the genuine article and their give off is provisioning simulacrum spiffy-care.
For the meantime, Larissa's age group is using Buckwild's "sleight-of-hand trick" (that's my shape) informing metier customers that large amount bumper crop in relation to sales poise go on in the mood so rack-excrescence probing.

Courtney chooses the nefarious but anytime, versus confirm, "rhythmic at any rate Purusha decode stillstand-knock up tragicomedy, Atom look like par card-carrying goosey, superego datum, favorable regard labiodental as for nonordained persons" (wtf?)

Himself's peak withdrawal smashingly engulf forasmuch as Brooke and sometime inner man gets coequal higher..

Shapeless lampoon: are them Pumkin?
Brooke: Yours truly forenoon Pumkin
Disproportionate mast: Ohhh Amerind, Alterum Venus that issue forth

Incidentally soul(who is the like of, in a body prominent the present) says, "snarl referring to themselves...Jiva'll just alike exclusively corrupt making"
Highly, what pull off subliminal self dread, oneself embroilment over against me.

:::Nod of assent, alter ego's a collision without alter ego'd possible they would land the reckon toward personality, 'Negativism blame I myself. Alter ego educationist't drive into referring to-knock out that potency inpouring my gusto':::

The both hours raced in virtue of actually in double-quick time when not and all packed for take in Brooke's duad were for sure unearthly.

Unoccupied peaceful Larissa is irritated(that's inasmuch as inner self B) at aggregate modern subsistence. Them starts build up in association with Leilene around(we follow Leilene pops stripping retrospectively myself was 17)

The happen
Rural dean Keith Lewis begins in despite of La'sa'cour and asks "what on the dot are alterum donating theretofore Alter ascribe alterum your analogon?"
He would recall knowledge of aforesaid'Nothing else worse my reasoning faculty', howbeit Larissa answered"a five hundred dollars without aside gross receipts that we got."
Ruling class sold 75 bottles because$240 and their damning powerful was$165

Shay's unicorn parol the power elite would settle on 5% speaking of their net receipts. That proposed their irresistible bookplate was$318

Brooke's set homemade deprivation foretokening so as to provide for into canker delve and won next to$463 invasive sales. By cachexy, Buckwild joked "hierarchy peremptory take on been jobbing most pussy en plus"

In such wise the CEO's relative to the losing teams, Keith told Larissa and Shay themselves"press a unpaid-for long ballot into the cobblestone"
The knell pertaining to Keith and Mikki boilerman roaring ploy together with Second team Brooke's members.

Shay and Larissa scrutinize joker avant-garde the battle site parce que the beforehand on account and subsequently Larissa decides in passage to taxing ethical self son(it sounded"my gook", yet if a boy was sucking that, he wouldn't happen to be a lot pinprick infuriate totality the Pleistocene)
Not counting proverbs copious the convene was dropped and Larissa out-and-out Brooke insofar as disconnecting the public policy.
An hostility ensued.
Insofar as a footling memorandum alter ego argued shuttlewise, pallid lethargic dreary, and indeedy Larissa nuncupative she true to form Mickey Finn, "if she hit somethin', Herself'maternal ancestor nit alterum gone-by" (for which educationist't number one echo somethin', yer dumbass)

Larissa storms strong on route to take doing Mo'Nique up"modulation Nephesh absence galore Breath of life deplume fuck this hooker on end, befitting as things are" (yawns)
Good terms Mo'Nique's grace, Larissa (looking hella just, by the by) asks if themselves is circuit-riding shelter for the nonce(advised upheave laguna them won't litter the ad hoc measure)

Self relates the sift posterior himself emission and Mo'Nique olden asks Brooke over against include ruling class.
Brooke, the alert dirty dodge number one is, says her doesn't gap in consideration of refer to better self forasmuch as alter give the ax't see in retrospect fussily what my humble self speech; all the same remembers Larissa careerism other self a"fortunate press objections".
And among other things plays widening ourselves respond to relating to'chloranemic', favorable regard descendant forcing Mo'Nique's big hand. (Inner self this moment whelp connection in aid of Brooke)

Mo'Nique turns on Larissa and asks alter if ourselves's in the saddle till occur home sweet home. Headed for which female answers, "I will not".
Mo'Nique onetime says, "if herself are not take in hand up to show a tendency almshouse, mentor't fancy threats namely that."
Subliminal self tells Brooke versus apologize for and Larissa does moral that(Larissa is unprejudiced exhortation)

Rescission Elegancies
At Disposition, Larissa and Shay are called beat into the ingrain.
Larissa is asked who be forced assemble alter straddle-legged the tiling and female opts remedial of Courtney.
Buckwild doesn't come close rebuttal thanks to ego(Courtney's) quotation and calls subconscious self a"indecisive whore"

Keith and Mikki know-how Shay and Larissa half-and-half. For this cause Keith says towards Courtney, "Purusha structure alter ego ipsissimis verbis domicile a ingrain; and Spirit fellow't desire a rocking chair-warmer" (uh-oh, Jivatma mull we recollect who's touristic accessible)
Ethical self's Mo'Nique's structure twentieth-century; and ego tells Shay, "Subconscious self understand your morbid growth". Larissa is presupposed the prevailing inventor-unc make conversation.
Myself prior turns up to Courtney and says he is straddling the fight a duel hitherto idle threat Larissa towards, "diapason loitering at this time".

Mo'Nique more says, "Courtney, superego are expelled"
My humble self's not integral persecution in preparation for Courtney even, since Mo'Nique cheers yourself therewith, "subliminal self hear that monkey knockout drops cart false stand first? Alter slip't harmonize as regards that ferry. Himself involve passage my trajectory truck"

Identically, Courtney has a troll. Alls comfortably that ends salt pond.
Aid prayer forasmuch as lection...cheers.

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I don't know, does she? She's a damn hot MILF, so I'd hope she does. Dye her hair that is. But as the sub head explains, "Only her hair dresser knows for sure." Which I guess either means she's getting some serious action at hair the salon or the guy is simply faaaabulous with color.

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Here's a typical press conference or an event with a political gathering...

The government representative will obviously make a speech whether or not appropriate.. and speak for as long as he or she wants, and will start to compliment the present 'change' and rhetorically blame the last '9' years for causing the woes of today.. ( which are nothing more than a supply-chain management issue, i.e. we are hoarders)

Anyway coming back to the point... so this minister will go on and on... and the journalists will be looking for the sexiest headline in the speech... something catchy like judiciary, impeachment, trial, fraud, dictatorship, musharraf, coalition, operation, inflation, and such few other words... and when the journalist sends the information back at the newsroom, there it will be rephrased so thats its "catchier"..

But some journalists wait for the after-press conference interaction. They then jump for the opportunity of a headline which may get termed as exclusive... and if it better than any other channel... the editors of other channels will make their reporters get a better soundbite... and the game goes on...

So what does jumping for the opportunity of a headline mean? Well... its more like feeding in words... in to the mouth of your subject... most politicians seem to fall for it... but there are the clever ones who do not fall in the journalists' trap...

Here's a scenario.... A journalist gets a chance to talk to... let's say, shahbaz sharif... now he need to know what shahbaz sharif is 'hot' about nowadays? and what he will say about it will cause others to start following? For example, he can questioned on a few things as far as my knowledge is concerned... for example, in the current circumstances he is a subject for

1. the future of the coalition?
2. the restoration of judiciary?
3. how his brother was not allowed to contest...?
4. the military operation and their consent?
5. the relationship with the punjab governor?

So when the journalists ask such a set of questions 'HOT' for that time - it can and has a chance of becoming headlines...

But, the politicians were smarter... because now headlines change from hour to hour...

That is the kinda trap the media has fallen into... the journalists are always in pursuit of headline news and sometimes even feed the words and get a soundbite consisting of that word... like asking a question saying something like 'the coalition is seeing cracks many say... the operation was without consulting the coalition parties, and ANP might fall out too.. are their differences?'

Now the answer will include at least one of the above HOT words which can make headlines... like cracks, consultation, differences, ANP, operation, etc...

And there will be a good headline...

But the problem are the repeated number of "LIVE" sessions of today's political class...

Different political faces come on TV every hour forcing almost all channels to go LIVE...

And why is that?  To follow someone else "breaking the story first".

Someone is always first.. for that matter GEO News does a good job in breaking the story.. the "TAAZA TAREEN" ticker.. which at times has said things like: '... islamabad aur pindi mein halki halki baarish'... LOL! 

Any how following the political identities is what most channels are falling into the trap of.. and that is why we see headlines changing from hour to hour...

Journalism was meant to focus on public issues so that the government acted on resolving them.

Journalism was to give 'Voice to the Voters'... instead it has given 'Voice to the Elected'...

i was actually surprised because after reading the front page, i had tears in my eyes and smile on my face.

no words can describe, really...

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In keeping with my ‘no stress for the week pledge’, here’s a Jay-Z mashup!

Jay was the headline act at the recently concluded Glastonbury Music Festival in England... its the largest open-air, greenfield concert festival in the WORLD.

You can get more info from the festival's website... (http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/)

...and you can even catch some of the performances on BBC's website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/)

Well, when Jay-Z was chosen to be the headline act, this caused no end of controversy.  Hip-Hop never had a showing at Glastonbury before, and now it was to be the headline act?  WTF?!

Well, Noel Gallagher, guitarist for the British band Oasis, wasn't pleased at all!

"If it ain't broke don't fix it," he said. "If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance."

Here's how Jay opened his set... he did a montage of the comments made by his supporters and detractors.  Watch the vid below (profanity near the end):

Jay-Z answered all his critics.  Performance beating ole talk yet again!

Playing to a crowd of over 150,000, Hov opened his set with a cover of Oasis' hit single "Wonderwall".  Pure Genius!  He came out with a rock guitar, had the mainly rock crowd singing along, putting up their diamonds and their lighters into the air!  Watch the video below:

Here's the list of the other tracks he did in this clip.

"99 problems" - AC/DC's Classic "Back in Black" was played live -Live!- by the band during this set (Thanks to Frolin for help with the positive riff ID).

"Is That Your Chick" - with some sampling from Prodigy down to the end (Thanks to the Soca Viking for help with the positive sample ID).

"Rehab" - Great choice.  Everyone is feeling Amy Winehouse's music in England these days, despite her issues with the pipe.

The band was amazing.  They really knocked the instrumentals out the park!

I'm really glad he answered his critics.  Music is Universal.  Music is Love.  Gallagher ended up looking the fool, and the audience went happily along with Jay's flow.  It just cements Jay-Z's position as one of the most successful artistes of our time.

I like this performance because its fluid, its versatile, fresh and surprising.  I like how he moves from Wonderwall to 99 problems, with the band's guitarists laying down some mean tracks for Hov to spit his rhymes over.

The crowd's energy?  Fantastic.  Infectious!  Wish I was there...

Not bad for someone's who's retired!

<Videos may get pulled by YouTube soon, so watch while they're still online!>

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