People often wonder whether they should attend college, advertising school or neither. Some very successful industry professionals would argue against college. On the other hand, browse the classifieds section of the newspaper and you’ll see Bachelor’s Degree Required in most Help Wanted ads.

And then there’s the old Catch-22. While you’ve spent four years in college, you don’t have any actual work experience. You know the story. Can’t get a job without experience and can’t get experience without a job.

So what can you do?

If you’re in college, take advantage of your internship. Approach your Internship Director (ID) and ask that you be placed in television, radio or an ad agency - whatever direction you want to opportunity after college.

Most commitment be helpful and try to accommodate your request. If you feel your ID may not work hard sufficiency for you, find the internship on your own.

Call your local television class (or other fields you’re interested in) and introduce yourself. Contact the News Director or Production Manager.

Most people will be receptive and require love the fait accompli you’re so enthusiastic about working for free!

Internships in the news department are not as common as those in the production department. Don’t be disappointed if you set out on the production side of bulletin. You’ll be able to see exactly how a newscast comes together behind the scenes - an experience that is invaluable.

Once you establish your internship with the station, you can take your offer back to your ID and say you have this opportunity you’d really like to explore. And your ID will probably be very happy because you’re one less student she has to find a place to intern.

Follow the advice below for non-college students as well if you can work a part-time or full-time job while accepted to school.

If you decide not to wait on college, another way owing you to gain valuable wisdom is through your local television and radio stations. Even if you have to run TelePrompTer, potential employers go ga-ga over the fact you’ve worked in TV.

While you’re there, force the most of your experience. Tell your boss you want to cross-train.

Most TV and disseminate stations produce commercials for native clients. This is an excellent disintegrate notwithstanding you to camouflage up your resume and also make advertising agency contacts.

Get your hands on anything you can and learn at hand it. And this is another one of those situations where your boss will probably be receptive. You want to learn extra responsibilities and she doesn’t have to pay you extra as far as something your accommodate wheedle.

Once you’ve given your resume some vigour, you’re ready to tackle bigger jobs. You’ll have to work your way up but you’ll be surprised how quickly you can do it.

Most door level positions in advertising start in the high teens or lower 20s. This all depends on the area you live in and the particular agency.

Honestly, television and radio stations just don’t pay that well-head unless you’re an anchor or an established radio host. Reason being, too many people are beating poor the doors just so they can say they work in TV or radio. Employees are a dime a dozen when it comes to TV, which is good in a way. It means you can usually find a job at your local station.

Don’t worry too much on every side accepting an entry rank position. You can literally double your salary in a team a few of years if you are obdurate and hard-working.

You can’t pummel fruit salad for a low-fat sweet treat. This tropical fruit salad makes the most of delicious summer fruit. It’s really perfect by itself, but you can add a little low-fat vanilla yogurt or fat-free whipped topping if you like.INGREDIENTS:2 cups fresh pineapple2 cups moderate cantaloupe2 large, sophisticated mangoes, cubed2 kiwifruit, sliced2 method navel oranges, peeled, pith and skin removed, cut into piecesJuice of 1 small lemonJuice of 1 small lime1 tsp sugarPREPARATION:Combine pineapple, cantaloupe, mangoes, kiwifruit and orange pieces in a large move. Combine lemon juice and lime juice with sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves. Drizzle over fruit. Toss and refrigerate until ready to serve.

6-8 servings

Per Serving: Calories 123, Calories from Fat 5, Total Fat 0.6g (sat 0g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 9mg, Carbohydrate 28.1g, Fiber 3.5g, Protein 1.5g

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NOTE: This review is a near-duplicate of my review of Case Logic’s UNP2. This is because the products are essentially identical except that the UNP1 is designed for the iPod nano, with the UNP2 design for the iPod video.

Works With
iPod nano

The Good
Affordable
Stylish

The Bad
No access to clickwheel
Screen is exposed in some configurations

The Price
US$9.99

Case Logic’s Pockets UNP1 iPod nano case is a stylish little affair with a number of drawbacks. Though it may not be a good suit for most users, it could be a hit with college students and other who take their iPods on short trips.

The Pockets line from Case Logic are a set of brightly colored neoprene sleeves designed to house an array of digital products, including iPods, digital cameras, and cell phones.

This one-size-fits-many proposition is the problem with the Pockets UNP1. Because it’s not an iPod nano case first and foremost, it doesn’t have the features needed to make the experience of using it with an iPod a unspoilt one.

When you slide the iPod nano into the sleeve, there’s no fall down to scroll on the clickwheel without removing the iPod (buttons can be clicked, though). This is a problem, since the point of a case is to keep the iPod nano in it and protect the player from scratches, dings, and other wear. Using the Pockets UNP1 for a discourteous trip – say walking across campus to class or on a discourteous bus or subway trip – makes sense, but trips longer than an album will be missing removing the iPod to change what you’re listening may become a bit cumbersome.

In some configurations, the nano’s screen is exposed, which leaves the iPod’s cover open to scratching.

Case Logic demonstrates the Pockets UNP1 as something that is clipped to belts, bags, or backpacks by the attached carabineer-type clip. It’s a cordial idea for the college campus, but I’d be a cheap distraught about wearing my iPod on the outside of my body in a city. Though the stitching of the pace to the sleeve looks solid, I’d wager a really incomprehensible tug from a thief could slash the iPod off my body.

The sleeves look nice and are offered in an array of colors: rust (orangish), chocolate (brown), cotton candy (pink), cranberry (red), sky blue, slate (grey).

The price is low and the styling good, so for college students on non-city campuses, the Case Logic Pockets UNP1 may be a propitious idea. For others, though, seeking another case that requires removing the iPod nano less often during use may be a better option.

German Pop Music > Tokio Hotel > German/English Song Lyrics

German Rock in 2007

I knew I had to update my dope on German rock bands when I read a newspaper article about a German band that was going to perform in Israel. Of course, a German band giving a concert in Tel Aviv is news in itself, but that wasn’t the existent point. The fact is that German rock, hip-hop, and metal are enjoying a swell of popularity that hasn’t been seen since the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) occasion in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rammstein and other German groups have extended their popularity beyond Germany’s borders, while still singing mostly or exclusively in German. It is now becoming "cool" (as they say in German) to chorus in German, even in Germany! (Until recently, with few exceptions, German bands have sung mostly in English.)

Of course, pop music is always in a constant state of flux. The bands come and go. The music changes. So here’s a tardy 2007 update on the German pop / rock music landscape - starting with Tokio Hotel.

German Rock in Israel
Tokio Hotel may not arm of the sea like the name of a German rock group, but that’s the moniker that four young musicians from Magdeburg chose as an upgrade from the former name "Devilish." They chose the German spelling of the Japanese city and combined it with "hotel" because they’re on the road so much. Although the band’s songs are as per usual in German, Tokio Hotel released an English version of "Schrei" ("Scream") and the song "Ready Set Go" in the UK, in an attempt to gain popularity in the British market. But "Ready Set Go" never rose higher than 77 on the UK charts and soon disappeared.

The ribbon has had more success in Germany, Austria, France, and Israel. In fact, they were so popular in Israel that fans there (mostly girls under the age of 18) campaigned, successfully, to advance Tokio Hotel to Israel recompense a live concert. On October 6, 2007, the four German teenagers in the band gave a concert in Tel Aviv before about 4,000 screaming teenie-bopper fans (who knew their German lyrics by heart!). About 20 of these crazy fans were hurt in the swarm melee in Israel.

The pile’s label (Universal Music Group, after Sony BMG dropped them) has plans to bring their music to America. I’m not assured the U.S. is quite ready for the androgynous look of Bill Kaulitz, the band’s lead vocalist (who claims he just likes to dress and do his hair in a way that has a definite feminine look, "expressing himself through his music as well as through his choice of clothing"). His more masculine looking twin brother, Tom, plays the guitar. Georg Listing is the (bass guitar). Gustav Schäfer is the drummer ().

But it’s the music that really counts, and Tokio Hotel was MTV Europe’s 5th nominee for Band of the Year. Bill Lamb, About’s Top 40 / Pop Music Guide, wrote in Introducing Tokio Hotel: "The band has sold nearly 3 million CDs at dwelling including 2 #1 albums and 4 #1 singles. In addition, they’ve sold another 3 million in the prop of Europe. Tokio Hotel has reached the top 10 of the pop singles chart in Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, and the Netherlands."

With their flop in Britain, it remains to be seen if Tokio Hotel can make a name for themselves in the U.S. and the English-language market. Rammstein has shown that German lyrics are not always a railing in America, so peradventure they should stick to German. Even during the Tel Aviv concert, some Israeli fans kept screaming "auf Deutsch" when the Tokio Hotel sang in English.

WEB > Tokio Hotel - Official Site (Deutsch)
WEB > Tokio Hotel - Official Site (English)
VIDEO > Tokio Hotel Tours Sightseeing in Israel (DailyMotion.com)

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Obama campaigned in Oregon while the latest first lady held a convention in Kentucky in the lead of the two states' Democratic primaries on Tuesday, when he looks certain to clinch a majority of elected delegates.

Obama was not planning to spend the election night in either state, heading instead to Iowa — the scene of his victory in the year's debut Democratic contest — before a topple to the retirement and tourist haven of Florida.

According to the Washington Post, fundraisers for Obama and Clinton are tentatively joining forces to adopt a non-specific election footing, in a sign that her own White House dream is drawing to a close.

In the Oregon city of Gresham, Obama pivoted from a simmering stir with President George W. Bush over foreign policy to lambasting McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, over retirement benefits.

In a speech to seniors that omitted all mention of Clinton, the Illinois senator said McCain would deprive retirees of financial peace of upbraid by privatizing Social Security.

"Let me be clear: privatizing Social Security was a unruly idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It's a bad idea today," Obama said.

"But in George Bush and John McCain's Washington, the message to the middle class is: 'you're on your own'," he said, proposing to raise taxes for higher earners to guarantee prospective pension payments.

The McCain campaign responded: "With his shortage of experience, it should be no surprise that Barack Obama's response to the problems facing Social Security is to raise Social Security taxes, while making misinformed partisan attacks."

Polls show Obama chief in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs. Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a voice with 51 delegates and a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won aside a landslide last week.

Obama's campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates — won through state contests — to reach a majority of 1,627. But that does not count "superdelegates," party leaders who can vote for the selectee of their choice.

Including superdelegates, the successful line to determine the Democratic nomination is 2,025. According to RealClearPolitics.com, Obama has 1,897 delegates in total to Clinton's 1,717.

Roy Romer, a ancient governor of Colorado and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee who is backing Obama, said the Illinois senator's delegate lead "can't be vanquish."

"So this race is over, and Obama is prevailing to be the candidate," he said on CBS television.

At a fundraiser in Portland Saturday night, Obama predicted victory in the liberal state of Oregon and said his delegates from the win would "put us over the top."

Clinton, however, is vowing to battle on until the end of the primary season. After Tuesday, there will be just three Democratic contests left — Puerto Rico on June 1, and Montana and South Dakota on June 3.

"There is no standard under which Senator Obama will have secured the nomination on Tuesday night," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said, pressing anew for disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan to be counted.

Meanwhile former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, having failed in his own bid for the Republicans' White House nomination, said he wanted to run as McCain's vice presidential pick.

"There's no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain," Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister dominant with the religious right, told NBC.

Among the Democrats, a "dream ticket" scenario is for Obama to pick Clinton as his VP nominee. That is still seen as a long shot by most pundits, and both the candidates have dismissed such talk as "premature."

Senator Jim Webb, a highly decorated Marine veteran, is one popularity touted to give national-security heft to the relatively inexperienced Obama. Webb's state of Virginia would also be a big prize fitting for the Democrats to seize in November.

But the Democrat, a navy secretary in Ronald Reagan's Republican administration of the 1980s, told NBC: "At this point, no one's asking; no one's talking; and I'm not that interested."

Born: October 20, 1901Birthplace: Rumford, MaineDied: May 14, 1942 in Newhall, CaliforniaAlso Known As: Oscar candidate to go to Best Music Score (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Academy Award nominee for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Dumbo) and Best Song (Baby Mine). He was also nominated for his work on "Bambi".Type of Compositions: He is well known for his musical scores for animated films.Influence: Churchill was inspired by the works of Franz SchubertMusical Work: Some of his famous works are: "Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"(Three Little Pigs), "Heigh-Ho", "Whistle While You Work", "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, worked alongside Leigh Harline), he also wrote music quest of the animated haziness Dumbo and Bambi.Interesting Fact: He was a pre-med student at the University of California, Los Angeles before he dropped out to pursue a career in music. He joined The Walt Disney Studios in December 1930 and scored more than 65 animated shorts. He went on to score feature-length animated motion pictures.Featured Song Lyrics: "Someday My Prince Will Come": Lyrics"Someday My Prince Will Come" Midi Sample and Sheet Music: Miles Davis Music Sample (Track 1)
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In this Crustless Artichoke Quiche recipe, Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer provide the unexcelled mingling of cheeses, vegetables and spices for a gourmet-tasting treat.INGREDIENTS:12 oz. marinated artichoke hearts3/4 to 1 cup chopped onion1 clove garlic, minced4 eggs1/2 cup bread crumbs1/2 tsp. saltfreshly ground pepper1/2 tsp. oreganodash of hot pepper sauce1/2 lb. sharp Cheddar cheese, grated1/2 lb. Parmesan cheese, freshly gratedhandful of minced parsleyPREPARATION:1. Drain marinade from one jar of artichoke hearts into skillet.
2. Drain other jar and discard marinade.
3. Saute onion and garlic in reserved marinade until it is limp. Remove from heat.
4. Chop the drained artichoke hearts.
5. In a bowl, strike the eggs. Add crumbs, salt, pepper, oregano, hot pepper sauce, cheeses, parsley, artichoke hearts, and sauteed onion and garlic. Combine well.
6. Turn mixture into a buttered 7x11 inch depression.
7. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until set.

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Do you find your mailbox stuffed with offers from merit card companies? "Pre-approved" offers for "No Hassle credit cards" are annoying, especially when you’re not on the furnish fitted new credit.

The offers bring about another concern: identity theft. You have to publish sure you properly dispose of the credit card applications. Otherwise, a thief could steal the application, mail it back, and intercept the card. It could be months, years even, before you discover the debasement, especially if you’re not monitoring your credit report.

How To Opt-Out of Credit Card Offers

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act requires recognition card companies to print opt-out instructions on their solicitations. However, if you’re like many other consumers, you simply toss the applications without even opening them. In that case, you’d never see the instructions for opting-out.

To stop receiving pre-screened credit calling-card offers, you can visit www.optoutprescreen.com or call 1-888-5OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688). You can also use these options if you have previous opted-out and would like to begin receiving pre-screened offers again.

Regardless of which method you use - visiting the website or calling - you when one pleases have to provide some personal information. Your star, discourse, communal security number, and date of birth are required to confirm your identity.

Some Mail May Fall Through the Cracks

While this approach will likely put an intent to most unsolicited acknowledge card mail, it doesn’t stop everything. You may continue to receive offers from companies with whom you already have business. Also, companies that do not embark on through the pre-screening process may still send offers to you.

Italian risotto is an elegant entree or side that is easier to prepare than you effect think. This vegetarian recipe is creamy, cheesy and will be a hit with the kids as well.INGREDIENTS:3 tbsp olive oil8 cups vegetable broth2 cups arborio ricesalt and pepper to taste2/3 cup freshly grated parmesanPREPARATION:In a large skillet, heat the olive oil and add the arborio rice. Stirring constantly, allow the rice to cook for 3 to 4 minutes.

Add about a half cup of the vegetable broth to the rice, stirring frequently. When most of the liquid has buried, add another half cup of broth. Continue adding stock, a bit at a many times, until the rice is done cooking, about 20 minutes.

Remove from heat and stir in the parmesan until it has thoroughly melted. Add salt and pepper to drop. Sprinkle with additional cheese if desired.

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