有趣的失眠症博客

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在幸福感的調查，普遍稱為主要憂鬱量表，是眾所周知的整個國際社會的精神。

這 5道題，巴什說，是植根於抑鬱症的定義中規定的診斷和統計手冊精神障礙，這需要一個人，在過去的兩個星期，若非經歷了沮喪的情緒或快感缺乏，一個詞描述“一個明顯減少興趣或樂趣在所有或幾乎所有的活動，大部分時間都幾乎每一天。”

從技術上講，巴什說，一個抑鬱的人都可以表現出症狀。 但是，為了他被診斷為抑鬱症也必須表現出一種額外的五症狀從一個長長的清單，其中包括：體重減輕，體重增加，食慾的變化，一個無法入睡（失眠症狀），過度睡眠（睡眠過多），疲勞，無價值的感情，等等。

“抑鬱症也是如此廣泛。 有輕度中度主場迎戰主場迎戰重度憂鬱症，“巴什說。 “你會看到疲勞和能量損失的人誰是走向中度抑鬱症，而你看到一個身體運動放緩嚴重抑鬱症。”

在大多數情況下，抑鬱的人的心靈就不會覺得為積極，重擊說，他們的行動將放緩，活動減少。

在日常記錄的福祉調查，百分之六的調查的考生說感覺積極和有力的所有的時間，百分之十四大部分時間，百分之十八一半以上的時間，百分之二十不到半年的時間，百分之二十四的一些時間，百分之18的時間沒有。

混合元素 - 睡眠，活動，冷靜和興趣在生活中 - 都列在調查的問題。

比徹教授的主要抑鬱量表用於兩種方式在一些醫生的做法，按擊 - 由於檢查設備看看一個新的病人的感覺，後來作為一個標記，看看病人正在改善。

“它可以是一個很好的工具，為醫生和病人溝通，說：”重擊，誰的測試或調查的補充，不能取代地方面試或臨床診斷治療會議。 “他們可以看得過於簡單的疾病。”

但是，他補充說，學習關於抑鬱症，無論是閱讀或其他方式，並採取了調查能夠鼓勵積極的變化。

咖啡可能是消費最多的飲料在這個星球上，有許多原因。 它既是一針興奮劑，一瀉藥。 因此，喚醒你，讓你走...在很多方面比一。 對於市場營銷的目的，咖啡經常被當作一個高抗氧化劑的飲料，這可以解釋最近的洪水媒體報導，咖啡是一種健康飲料！

但是，讓我們面對它，如果你分析任何植物，因其內容，你就一定能找到抗氧化劑。 這就是植物豐富。 這是他們的工作，使抗氧化劑。 非食用的植物如柳樹皮，雲杉針，松樹和樺樹樹皮木材也很高的抗氧化劑。 這並不意味著我們就食言了！

無論咖啡是好還是壞是相對的，基於個人。 讓我來幫助你決定你是否成癮怎麼辦了。

如果你的血液變薄了一點和流通更好，因為你的心是刺激了咖啡，你是不是喝酒時便秘爪哇 - 是的，你是幸運的器官接受者的利益。 但如果你已經強調到了極致，腎上腺素及抽水馬不停蹄其他興奮劑一樣沉迷於酒精和糖，這不是你的朋友。 對你來說，咖啡只是增加你的壓力負荷，將有害的負荷。

一個積累的興奮劑可以讓你的心臟跳動，並設置你的神經邊緣。 在某組強調淘汰和有毒鄉親，甚至一杯咖啡就足以引發心跳加速，甚至心悸。 咖啡是一種天然的利尿劑，不禁消除鎂，鉀，鈉，從你的身體！ 而你毫無收穫。

你甚至可能會讓你的醫生或前往急診室與你的心狂野地跳動著，沒人問你，如果你是一個咖啡上癮。 我已經有客戶在六大杯咖啡，每天喝咖啡服藥引起的心律失常！ 現在，這是可怕的，當你服用鈣離子阻斷藥物治療效果的鎂不足引起的咖啡。

你怎麼知道你上癮？

簡單，當您嘗試停止，你會得到一陣陣劇烈的頭痛 - 不能健康。

唯一的出路就是停止這一切！ 好消息是，你不必去戒掉。 這裡是我的藥方。 開始服用鎂補充劑。 你已經失去鎂只要你一直在喝咖啡，所以它的時候了回報。 檸檬酸鎂粉末是一種很好的形式開始。 您還可以找到甘氨酸鎂及鎂 dimalate丸的保健食品商店或在線購買。 除非你非常有便秘，遠離氧化鎂，因為它只有4個百分點吸收了其他96百分之可以像一個強大的瀉藥。

鎂是人體的天然焦。 它的肌肉和神經緊張平衡引起的鈣。 它也放鬆腸，所以它有自己的溫和通便的作用。 鎂是平靜的，因為它中和腎上腺素激增，從而防止和治療失眠焦慮症狀。 所有這一切都是相反的咖啡的影響。 鎂是負責超過 325人體內酶系統與全身性的有利影響

計劃一時間兩到三週後開始鎂戒掉咖啡，你會驚奇地發現它可以多麼容易。 隨著鎂你的腰帶，切換到紅茶僅一個星期。 然後停止紅茶，並切換到草藥茶或咖啡替代品的糧食，可以在健康食品商店。

如果你需要一些額外的幫助，那就是：

1。 對於戒斷症狀的煩躁，敏感和頭痛採取順勢甘菊12倍（一劑量，每天3-4次）。 鎂是一種有效治療頭痛。

2。 如果您遇到失眠的症狀，採取順勢咖啡屬 12倍，一劑 3-4次。 您也可以增加你的鎂攝入量多的劑量。

同時採取補救措施，為期一周後，您停止所有咖啡因。 請記住，閱讀標籤，因為有些草藥茶，尤其是綠茶，可含咖啡因的。

桑拿，蒸汽浴室，溫泉浴室和瀉鹽和較多的鎂元素，將有助排毒咖啡和它的代謝產物，通過你的皮膚。 你會驚奇地發現，當你開始在你的汗水氣味咖啡！ 信不信由你，粘土是一個偉大的方式排毒。 得到一些天然黏土混合粉，簡單的1 / 2杯果汁在與大量的水，倒到腳的浴缸或浴盆。 在熱水中浸泡30分鐘，沖洗或淋浴關閉。

放棄咖啡的第一步通常是在你的途徑，以更好的健康。 當你有更多的精力和白天夜間睡眠，你只是想藉此下一步 - 削減糖！ 敬請關注。

按照卡羅琳學院院長，醫學博士，Nd對Twitter的：

www.twitter.com / DrCarolynDean

汗，夜不能寐。 令人費解 grouchiness。 體重增加，頭痛，無性慾。 許多婦女接近更年期能與 -等都可以邁克科爾曼。

去年，一個字符串不安的夜晚發出的46歲的保險代理人從萊恩維爾，阿拉巴馬州，他的醫生。 經過血液workup，科爾曼被告知，他的睾丸激素水平低於正常水平，並有可能這些症狀歸咎於他一直在經歷。 “這是有道理的，”他說。 “我的能量水平並沒有什麼，他們曾經是。 但是你種想，'這怎麼可能發生在我身上？'

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科爾曼的情況是不是所有的罕見。 不少男性，高達百分之25，也低於睾酮水平正常的中年，在某些情況下，這種過渡導致的症狀，已經收集到了被稱為“男性更年期”（或“manopause”）。

“睾丸激素水平逐漸下降與老齡化，通常是40歲左右，說：”阿爾文松本醫師，一位老年醫學教授在華盛頓大學醫學院，在西雅圖。 雖然下降是自然的，松本博士補充說，“這並不意味著它沒有任何生理或臨床後果或不應該對待。”

越來越多的醫生似乎都同意。 1999年至2008年，這一數字處方填補了美國對睾酮凝膠，槍聲和補丁，第一線治療，對於大多數男性，增長超過 4倍，至3.3億美元。

睾酮治療男性中年和老年人大多未經證實，但是，他們帶來的風險的嚴重的副作用。 的急劇增加，導致其使用一些專家懷疑是否正在通過睾丸激素的處方，以及是否所謂的男性更年期需要治療的。

常見的是如何呢？

男性更年期或遲發性性腺功能低下，作為條件的正式名稱掙來的暱稱是有原因的。 它類似的變化 fortysomething婦女進行的，最常見的症狀包括性慾萎靡不振，潮熱，疲勞，乏力，失眠症狀，情緒低落，以及體重增加，所有這些也是眾所周知的症狀（女）更年期。

但比較只去這麼遠。 不同的是相對迅速發生變化，在更年期，睾酮在男性趨於緩慢下降了多年，但不是很明顯。 只有一小部分男性低睾酮與發展問題的症狀，而多數更年期婦女至少經歷幾個潮熱。

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雖然多達百分之25的男性30歲以上的睾丸激素水平較低，只有百分之五的經驗，症狀嚴重程度足以令睾丸激素治療。 儘管症狀是罕見的，許多醫生已經開始測試更加中年男性低睾酮。 這種趨勢導致廣泛和可能誇大，估計是多麼常見的男性更年期，說大衛 Zahaluk醫師，家庭醫學醫生在貝勒醫學中心卡羅爾頓，得克薩斯州。

而且這並不總是很清楚，低睾酮是難辭其咎的症狀困擾的百分之五男子正在接受治療，因為他們可以很容易產生混淆的其他健康問題，如壓力，抑鬱症，或心臟疾病。 “當你進來說，'我累了，'有這麼多[潛力]的原因，博士說：”Zahaluk，誰推薦一個睾丸激素測試的一部分，每年體檢一次。 “這很可能不是睾丸激素水平低，但它不會檢查，除非有認識它。”

今年早些時候，第一次在英國的研究人員試圖查明的症狀是最密切相關的睾丸激素水平低。 只要三個半勃起功能障礙 ，減少早晨勃起，並減少性思考，可靠地連接到了睾丸激素的水平，研究人員發現。 六人，包括低能量，疲勞和困難從事體力活動，有聯繫不太密切或根本不低睾酮。 研究的結論是，男性比以前少得多深思熟慮的只有約百分之二的男性40歲之間和80實際上是遇到一些可以稱為男性更年期。

這和其它研究顯示，治療要求只有在低睾酮和更年期症狀發生一起博士說，松本。 “很長一段時間，人們對待個人只有一個睾丸激素水平低的水平，”他說。 “只有最近有沒有被推薦，治療只能被視為男性的症狀和體徵以及低睾酮水平一直很低。”

為了治療或不治療

美國 FDA首次批准治療男性睾丸激素與睾丸激素水平很低造成的具體的醫療問題，如睾丸癌。 多年來研究得出的結論是睾丸激素治療是有效的，這些，通常年輕，男性，但男性的價值治療與年齡相關的睾酮的損失仍然不明朗。 為數不多的研究已進行的中老年男子產生了不同的結果的好處和風險這種待遇。

這並沒有阻止老年男子是想要被對待，他們或醫生的治療。 一名男子非常低睾酮和無數症狀，他失去了他的性慾，不能有性別，累了所有的時間，而且有沒有實力，適合處理條例草案，不論年齡，松本博士說。 “沒有任何證據來治療老年男性喜歡這個，但是從我們所知道的年輕個人誰已經治療的組合，這些症狀和體徵和非常低的睾酮水平，我們所期望的一些好處，”他說。

松本博士協助起草一套新的指引睾酮治療方法，在六月被釋放內分泌學會，專業機構集中對激素的研究。 他和他的同事們勸阻一般使用睾酮治療老年男性睾酮水平低，除非他們的水平一直很低，他們抱怨有意義的物理和性症狀。

重要的是為患者討論治療的風險和收益與他們的醫生在作出決定之前，松本博士說。 每月睾酮治療的範圍可以從 50美元到200美元，這取決於所採用的方法和頻率治療是必需的，所以男性相對溫和的性虐待和身體症狀可能會更好節省自己的錢。

副作用，大，小

費用並沒有阻止科爾曼，誰第一次嘗試每天睾酮貼片（其中他發現惱人），然後每月張（其中他發現不舒服）。 不適外，科爾曼也開始覺得更好的鏡頭。 他睡得好，較少不高興，也注意到了他的性慾增加，至少在第一。 但經過大約四到六個月，他開始變得溫和的頭痛，發現一穗在每次拍攝後，他的體重。

“我是節食，所以我會得到下降到約 190。 再以後我有我的鏡頭，我可以把4至6磅，一兩個星期，沒有明顯的原因，“他說。

這些反應並不少見，可造成滋擾，但也有更嚴重的潛在副作用。 睾酮治療可以引起人體的增產行動紅血球的生產，流通和擺脫增加罹患心髒病和中風。 儘管一個環節都沒有被證明，它甚至可能高達前列腺癌的風險。 “即使在沒有任何證據，你必須告知病人，這是一個潛在的風險，因為女性的經驗與雌激素替代與乳癌，”松本博士說。

由於這些潛在的風險，醫生密切監察病人接受治療。 如果他們的身體不吸收或保持睾丸激素治療的效果，有的甚至應停止替代療法。 “這不是大多數的案件，但它確實發生，博士說：”Zahaluk。

這是更為常見的男性睾丸激素治療停止，因為它只是不為他們工作。 這是真正的科爾曼的案件。 他最終放棄了治療失敗時，他的睾丸激素水平提高到平均範圍。 “我沒有看到我能獲得這麼多益處，反對什麼，我在忍受的，”他說。

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當我畢業時，我知道我必須有另一次機會在教育。 這樣做在聖馬丁的碩士，是最好的事情。 它打開了我的腦海裡這麼多的東西。 該課程完全來自不同學科的人誰是所有感興趣的表現，所以我曾與演員，建築師，導演和設計師從世界各地，這是大量令人振奮。 它打開了世界的書籍，戲劇和電影，我得花全年考慮到對人權的狀況，出來的感覺，我有話要說。

回首，我不知道我是否應該轉從舞蹈與否。 如果你不快樂你當然還有許多其他令人驚奇的事情你可以做的。 但在另一方面，我不相信放棄，我覺得我的舞蹈學位教我的事作為一個演員。 我感到很自信的舞台上，我知道我的身體是什麼形狀的決策 - 以及所有來自舞蹈訓練。

熱門提示：您需要提供的東西的時間。 我媽媽常常說，你需要去和別人的五次約會，因為你不能告訴他們，如果你喜歡後一個，那就是真正的關於大學。

帕洛馬信仰的新專輯，“你想知道真相或東西漂亮嗎？”是出來了。 她遊覽英國在十月和十一月。

克里斯蒂安傑森博士
醫生和主持人的尷尬機構

倫敦大學學院 96年至01年

醫藥，及格

我相當害怕我的第一天。 我們曾介紹講座，這是有關我們如何將不得不非常努力-沒有壓力就-然後舊的醫療生起大量的技巧，包括告訴我們，我們將要有喝尿。

我住在大廳右邊根據英國電信塔（倫敦）在我的第一年，這意味著我從來沒有丟失。 我是在同一個塊為一組的球員誰是在一個樂隊。 過去，我們得到真正的苦惱，因為他們總是在走廊裡玩的吉他。 要是我早知道他們要繼續為酷玩！

我真的很喜歡我，但是我很頑皮 - 我沒有真的去講課。 事實上，我曾經去天沒有去聽課，一方面是因為我得到了更多的讀書。 我也沒有大量的非醫學生的事情 - 我在倫敦大學學院樂團，並在大量的劇本。

我覺得學醫是額外的嚇人。 它的這樣一個大的承諾，你知道它會在內心深處難以離開，如果不是你想做的事。 而實際上，你正在學習往往是很悲慘的 - 只要你到達時，您將得到你的第一個機構，削減了，你開始學習如何告訴病人，他們正在死去。

熱門提示：這將聲音稍微書呆子-但後來我是一個醫生。 有一個可怕的很多壓力，有很多喝負荷和性別，而是學會說“不'”是一個非常重要的一部分新生週。

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傑西卡恩尼斯
女子七項全能選手

謝菲爾德，2004 - 2007

心理學，2.2

我去上大學，我的家鄉，這樣我可以繼續我的教育不影響我的訓練。 田徑是我的主要任務，但我覺得我的教練是著急，知道自己的學生能夠像！ 但我的父母很高興我找到了一個方法結合起來。

雖然我當時住在謝菲爾德，我還是想離家出走。 我決定住在大廳將太多的分心，所以我家的房子從體育與兩個朋友。 我想我可能有一個非常不同的新生週大多數人 - 我沒有花了整整一個星期走出去，醉酒，因為我仍然要起床去訓練。 但我有不少喜歡自己在六年級，所以在某種程度上，我覺得我已經做到了。 雖然我不是每天晚上出去是很容易滿足人民群眾對我的課程，這是偉大的。

我可能是一個有組織有紀律的很多關於我的時間表，比一般的學生，但對我來說是最糟糕的位做演講。 我緊張時，我競爭，但站在前面的一個房間裡的人發表講話，是更艱鉅。

我真的很喜歡心理學，在一個理想世界中本來很高興有更多的時間專注於學業，我肯定要作出犧牲，失踪的講座和期限進行競爭。 但它是非常好的做不同的事情，而不是著眼於體育運動的全部時間。 當我考試，我可能會破壞它的持續的培訓。

熱門提示： 讓您的手在地圖上。 謝菲爾德是我的家鄉，我還是迷路了！

傑西卡恩尼斯是世界和歐洲冠軍和世界女子七項全能室內五項全能冠軍

凱蒂德厄姆
廣播員

劍橋 1988 - 1991

經濟學，2.2

最重要的事關於新生週抹大拉學院在1988年的第一年考上婦女抹大拉學院 - 這是最後的院校去混合。 我已經提前一周就做一個試鏡，但這就意味著，在最初的五天，我是唯一的女孩那裡。 我有一個經常人流敲門宣布，他們已經“來見抹大拉的姑娘！”

我不知道經濟會如此數學為基礎的 - 我很震驚講師講了多少，而不是圖中的句子。 但我確實很喜歡我的學位。 我找到了自律挑戰（你不要去講課 ...然後實現在考試時間，他們可能已經非常有用）和廣闊的閱讀書目，但我很快就學會了閱讀的東西我需要的。

我沒有見到我的最親密的朋友立即。 我把自己成為可能太多，因此2.2。 我被捲入了委員會和輕娛樂協會，並沒有書院歌唱和負荷的運動。 我沒有照在什麼，但我有一個去一切。

熱門提示： 請確保您的餅乾罐滿-當你滿足yvour新夢想的人最要好的朋友或你可以說：“回來我的房間喝咖啡-我有餅乾！”

凱蒂德厄姆將展示從逍遙生活為BBC2和Radio3

鬧不懂Huw威廉姆斯
主唱，口風琴，旋律，我

利茲，2006 - 2009

哲學與科學哲學史，2.1

我來到我的大廳比較晚的第一天，所以這是非常狂躁，大家顯然非常緊張，很多人已經彼此合得來的。 你有相同的談話一遍又一遍，說你是從哪裡來的，什麼題目，你在做什麼。

我哥哥的建議是“到什麼正在發生，你會遇到其他的人誰不喜歡它。” 因此，在我的第一個晚上，我去了一家夜總會叫我愛的性。 當我到達那裡時，我發現我是唯一一個站在角落裡不喜歡它。 我花了好幾個月的時間找人，我很喜歡。 事後看來，如果我加入社團，我已經找到志趣相投的人快得多。

音樂是一個很大的部分我的時間。 我們一開始，樂隊在學校，但都到不同的大學，所以我們必須執行大量的不同的城市。

位是最好的事情你不能計劃。 在我的第二年，我住在一個大房子，一切利德樂隊 - 我們將開放麥克風，我學到了很多關於傳統民間音樂和愛爾蘭夾具。 我開始越來越多參與運動，並配發了一篇我和一個朋友的一部分，利茲大學生綠色行動。

Top tip: The advice my brother gave me was good – keep with it, and you will meet people you like.

Melodica, Melody and Me's debut single, 'Piece Me Back Together', is out now

Mark Watson
喜劇演員

Cambridge, 1998-2001, English, First

Virtually every impression I had in freshers' week was negative. I had no confidence whatsoever that I was going to be all right. I thought I would meet people like me at university, but the people I met weren't anything like me. It was only later that I realised the people like me were in their rooms brooding – no wonder I couldn't find them.

At the freshers' fair I signed up for loads of things (as I was writing my name I'd catch myself thinking “I won't want to do that”). I turned up to the German Society hoping to practise my German. It was awkward explaining in German that I wasn't actually German. After two pints and an hour of being spoken to by kind Germans, I left. Though I never had the courage to unsubscribe from the emails.

The other thing about freshers' week is the way it exposes your lack of personal competence. I turned up to my first supervision covered in blood, as if I had come direct from the battlefield. In fact, I had had a nosebleed on the way, I didn't have any tissues and had no idea where the nearest shop was. At the time I thought I was going to have to leave the city, but in fact it was something we ended up laughing about.

Eventually I made friends, got up the courage to audition for Footlights and started to enjoy my degree. But freshers' week was really pretty odd album – my advice is to disregard nearly everything that happens.

Top tip: A note on toasted sandwich-makers: leave that sandwich to cool before you eat it. And do clean the toaster or you'll have to buy a new one at the end of the year.

Mark will be on tour throughout the UK from October; www.markwatsonthecomedian.com

Jimmy Doherty
農民

University of East Anglia 1995 – 98

Zoology, 2.1

I was obsessed with insects, so the degree was a real passion. The one incident that sticks in my mind was a really strict professor who hated anyone eating in his lectures. I was munching a pork pie when he came in. I panicked and stuffed the pie into the top of the projector. Two minutes later, the projector went on and there was this huge pork pie on the screen.

My family lived in Essex and I wanted to continue working in the wildlife park I had worked for since I was 13, so I lived half at home and half at UEA.

Top tip: Make a budget. When I did my PhD I lived with a French guy and we would always go to the market and cook from scratch. We baked our own bread and it saved us a fortune.

Jimmy will be hosting the festival Jimmy's Harvest at his farm on 11-12 September; www.harvestatjimmys.com

Bridget Phillipson
MP for Houghton and Sunderland South

Oxford 2002-2005

History, 2.1

One of the first things I learned at Oxford was that if you missed dinner in Hall you were pretty much snookered – though you could always use the toaster in the common room. In the first month, I came back late one night and burnt my toast, setting off the smoke alarm and getting everyone out of bed.

I joined the Oxford Labour Club in the first week.I really enjoyed meeting people from a broad range of backgrounds – including from the Conservative Association. That really helped me to hone my arguments. There are definitely similarities between freshers' week and your first week as an MP – not least that everyone asks your name, your constituency and your majority. I should probably ask what A-levels everyone got!

Top tip: Get on and join things. I played women's rugby for two years – it wasn'ta massive commitment, but it was good fun and I met people from other colleges.

女孩的秘密生活

2010年8月20日

法比奧拉Carletti

本報記者

他們喜歡有一個觀眾。 他們跟踪每個採購，服裝和小狗的戀情。 他們的皮膚很厚。 歡迎來到生活所看到的年輕女孩博客

你不必是一個數學奇才知道，13是一個非常奇怪的專輯數量。 有些人甚至稱之為一個不幸的人。 但是，與迷信的大廈業主，進入十幾歲的女孩不能跳過 13樓。

Enter blog: the potent platform that can be a diary or scrapbook or photo album or … anything, it seems. A girl can now document her trials and triumphs in reverse chronology, making growing up a very public process.

Tavi Gevinson, 13, knows all about blogging. The self-proclaimed Style Rookie is perhaps the highest-profile example of a child who is not afraid to be raised, or razed, by the global village.

She started her blog in March of 2008, when her wiry frame was still very much that of an 11-year-old child and her fashion photo shoots looked more like dress-up games. Tavi's first blog post seemed to promise a sort of self-indulgent sticker album, but later entries would include her budding feminist ideals and critical letters to magazines with narrow definitions of beauty.

“At some point during the second half of 8th grade, I became sadder and angrier,” wrote Tavi in July 2010. “To this I do not credit teenagerdom, or angst or any hormonal whatever, just learning, and not the kind that I was supposed to be getting from school.”

It has been decades since Shakespeare entrusted 13-year-old Juliet with such dramatic dialogue. Now, many of the youngest female bloggers, barely able to affix a -teen to their age, are thinking out loud and creating diary-scrapbook hybrids read by people all over the world.

The Chicago native, now 14, has filled her blog with testimonials that range from the glum to the sublime. The precocious writer makes bold statements and cultural references that are older than she is. In fact, some cynics find it hard to believe that she does it on her own.

But other 13-year-old bloggers sound like the babbling adolescents that rip through silences on the bus.

In the halfway space between the child and the young adult, girls become more aware of themselves. Suddenly, they no longer qualify for child discounts, but can see movies deemed inappropriate for 12-year-olds. The fascination with their changing minds and bodies has fuelled everything from wholesome books series, such as The Babysitter's Club , to controversial films like the racy drama Thirteen .

In one erratic blog post , Lourdes “Lola” Leon writes, “A lot of you asked me what color I was dying my hair and it's actually going to be like a kind of cherry blackish thingy bobbie. OH MY DAIZ.” From there, Lola touches on the donkey in Shrek (“just soooo friggin legendary haaaaaaa”), British slang (“var var LOL”) and Spanish soccer players who are “PFH (pretty freakin hot).”

Many readers note that Lola, who happens to be Madonna's daughter, seems like an ordinary girl. And although her voice differs drastically from Tavi's, both have been dealt the same variables: high school, puberty, style consciousness. The mini material girl just started blogging in June.

Whether you find it endearing or annoying, you may not have expected to find such unselfconscious writing outside of high school yearbooks.

Alyson Lewis, an English teacher in Toronto's Pleasant View junior high, has become accustomed to the way many 13-year-olds write.

“It took me a while to embrace that chaos and realize that what they put on the page exactly reflected what was going on in their heads at the time,” she said, “I think there's a real rawness to writing at this age, and I'm not just talking about the obligatory spelling and grammatical errors, nor the huge gaps in logic.”

Lewis adds, “that kind of honesty — before they've learned to couch their words in metaphor, formality and emotional distance — is really special.”

But, unsurprisingly, some older readers would rather parent than praise these young writers.

London-based Camilla Ackley received anonymous feedback on her fashion blog “ Into the Fold .” The now 14-year-old started her blog in July of 2009.

“God, I don't want to come up with the stupid when-I-was-your-age argument, but really, when I was thirteen, my mum would've killed me for such dressing up,” wrote the reader. “Of course, you're all very stylish, very pretty and everything, but this is not what childhood (yes, you're still children) is all about.”

The commenter would more likely relate with New York Magazine ’s Emily Nussbaum, who used to seal her diary with a literal lock and admits to being uneasy with others' self-exposure. Still, in a feature titled “ Say Everything ,” Nussbaum comes to three conclusions about her uninhibited successors: they think of themselves as having an audience; they have archived their adolescence; and, most interestingly, their skin is thicker than yours.

“Different kids choose to have different childhoods. Some choose sports, some choose music, some choose fashion,” Camilla explained. “A childhood doesn't have to be about running about 24/7; it's about finding out who you are.”

Camilla told the Star that teen bloggers may be more prone to disparaging comments, but she takes it in stride.

“If bloggers took every insult to heart, there wouldn't be any of us,” she noted, “It's easy to tell the difference between constructive criticism and bullying.”

We often forget how resilient young people can be — just name your time and place.

Maya Angelou began to speak at 13, following six years of silence spurred by a traumatic childhood event. Joan of Arc was 13 when she started hearing celestial voices. Anne Frank, who received her iconic diary at the age of 13, penned one of the most famous personal accounts of the Holocaust.

More recent examples include Lady Gaga, who wrote her first piano ballad at 13, and David Suzuki's daughter Severn who shamed UN delegates on behalf of an environmental children's group.

Despite their different voices, all girls have something to say to the world in their own words.

Girl bloggers from around the world

• The Style Rookie by Tavi

• Material Girl Collection blog featuring Lourdes “Lola”

• Into the Fold by Camilla Ackley

• The Writing Pages by Meghna

• Fallie's Scrapbook by Fallie

• Maja Ravn by Maja

• PaulinaBelle by Paulina

• The Stylish Wanderer by anonymous

• Plastic Brain by Eleonara

sFabiola Carletti

Editor's Picks

Two suits of medieval armour dominate the entrance hall of the hilltop castle that Rachelle Spector calls home. One stands opposite an oil painting of the Beatles, whose final album, Let it Be, was produced by her absent husband, Phil, in 1969. The other, a few yards to its right, leans on a large sword. Since Phil's fascination with dangerous weapons recently landed him in prison, you might wonder if they make for entirely appropriate ornaments. But in the few hours I spend with Rachelle, together with a couple of occasions when we speak via telephone, I come to realise that suits of armour actually sum her up pretty well: she's a tough cookie, and thick-skinned, too.

Rachelle greets me on the doorstep, where I've been admiring the personalised
number plate of her Lexus SUV (it reads: “I Í Phil”). 在
first glance, she looks astonishingly blonde-haired, blue-eyed and bubbly;
at second glance, the blonde comes from a bottle, and she's wearing bright
turquoise contact lenses. But the bubbly bit is genuine. While she nips to
the kitchen to fetch a drink, I look around her enormous dining room. 它的
decorated in the style of a Berni Inn: all dark wood and moody lighting. 在
the corner sits a huge piece of paper on which Rachelle, perhaps at the
behest of a psychiatrist, has drawn a flow chart mapping her “life goals”.
They revolve squarely around two inter-related entities. One is Phil; the
other, her pop career.

These are, as it happens, the exact subjects I'm hoping to talk about. 對於
years, this famous 30-room house, which is called the Pyrenees Castle, and
situated in Alhambra, a charmless suburb of east Los Angeles, has stood as a
neo-Gothic monument to the eccentricities of the great Phil Spector. It was,
according to rock'n'roll folklore, a Xanadu-like mansion, where the
extraordinarily wealthy record producer, who had made a slew of the most
uplifting pop songs in history (from “Da Doo Ron Ron” by the
Crystals, to “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes) but suffered from the
depression which afflicts many a genius, had retired from the record
business to wallow in a twilight world of darkness and paranoia.

That was the Castle's reputation, at least. But lately, Spector's old friends
(and even his enemies) have been describing him as a man transformed. 該
reason: Rachelle. Bright, amenable, and one-third his age, she burst on to
the scene some time in 2003, and turned him from an obsessive recluse, whose
controlling nature once sparked ugly lawsuit after ugly lawsuit, into a
gentle old man with a renewed appetite for life, love, and the pop game. 我
want to find out how Rachelle managed this. And to get to the bottom of
whether she arrived on the scene too late to prevent the tragedy that may
now overshadow the rest of his natural life.

雷切爾的回報。 We adjourn to the wood-panelled dining room, and sit at a
long antique table, in front of some framed photos of their wedding, which
took place in the foyer of the Castle in September 2006. She was 24, and
wore a traditional white gown. Phil, who was then 66, and marrying for the
third time, opted for a straw-coloured wig, teamed with a black silk shirt,
dark suit, and an impish smile. “Philip and I are many generations
apart, but we do have an incredible amount in common,” says Rachelle. “We
both wanted exactly the same thing: a small ceremony, at home, with a
minister and just a couple of guests. That's how it ended up. Perfect.”

Today, the Spectors profess to remain as deeply in love as they were that day,
and though they make an pretty odd album-looking couple, I have no reason to doubt them.
But life is no longer quite so perfect. Since April 2009, Phil has been an
inmate at California State Prison in Corcoran, three hours' drive north of
Los Angeles. According to Rachelle, it's “disgusting”. He spends
23 hours a day in a shared cell measuring five feet by nine feet, and has
little to do with his time except read, and sweat. “Recently,” she
says, “the prison has been cutting off its power supply, and air, for
one day a week, to save money. Temperatures up there can reach 120F. He's 70
歲。 It's gross.”

Phil became a jailbird because of a now-notorious event which took place just
a few yards from where we are sitting. On 3 February 2003, a month before he
first met Rachelle, Lana Clarkson, a B-movie actress whom he'd apparently
met in a Hollywood nightclub and taken home for drinks, was shot in the face
in the Castle's hallway. She died immediately. Phil, who may or may not have
witnessed the event, and who is certainly the only living person who may
know what actually occurred, denied pulling the trigger. But a jury at Los
Angeles Superior Court saw things differently. In April 2009, he was
unanimously convicted of second degree murder and given 19 years to life.

The sentence has left Rachelle in charge of Phil Spector's life, and legacy.
She runs his home, his back catalogue, and his multi-million-dollar business
interests. She is currently masterminding an appeal against his murder
conviction, and also provides about his only regular familial link to the
outside world: of the three children he adopted in the 1970s, two are
estranged (a son, Donte, keeps in touch). His only surviving daughter,
Nicole, who is roughly the same age as Rachelle, visits occasionally. 但
she lives in New York, a day's travel and three time-zones away.

For Rachelle, this makes for a sometimes sad existence, punctuated by small
highlights. One comes just after 2pm on weekdays, when Phil is allowed to
make a 15-minute phone call (when he dials, Rachelle's BlackBerry bellows: “Philip
calling!”). The other happens each Saturday, when she rises at 1am and
drives to Corcoran to be first in the queue to gain access to the visitors'
area. She is strip-searched, and taken into a spartan canteen. There, Phil
is usually allowed to kiss her once and give her a single hug; after that,
they talk for hours.

Rachelle's other highlight, and the one which helped me bag an invitation to
the Castle, revolves around music. Describing herself as a singer,
songwriter and trombone player, she has just released a debut CD. Its title
is Out of My 'Chelle, and it already occupies an intriguing place in pop
history: it was produced by Phil, before he went into chokey, and is
therefore the first album that he's been entirely responsible for in no less
than 30 years. His last one prior had been End of the Century, by the
Ramones, which came out in 1980.

Despite the fact that it marks the return of one of pop's greatest
impresarios, critics have not been altogether kind about the record. 新
York Post dubbed it “a pop drivel vanity project that has no relation
to anything the legendary producer has ever helped craft” and said that
Phil's music is now as criminal as he is. It has none the less made a small
impression on the US charts. “The highest we have got so far is 46,”
says Rachelle. “I'd say that's doing pretty well, especially for
something from a new artist, which doesn't have a big label pushing it.”

Touchingly, the album's first track, “Here in my Heart”, is a love
song about Phil and Rachelle's long-distance relationship. It's set to a
1980s-style synthesiser-pop beat, and contains some gloriously-extravagant
lyrics which would not be out of place in the Eurovision Song Contest. “You're
here with me night and day, even when you're far away”, goes a typical
line. “The song's about somebody you love, who is always in your heart,
even if they're not in your arms,” adds Rachelle. “For me, that
person will always be Philip. He is my shining light, and part of him has
become a part of me, so he's constantly here with me.”

Phil has meanwhile been equally soppy discussing the project. “I'm as
excited about this album as when I met Elvis or the Stones,” he said,
in a prison interview coinciding with its release. “Making that record
with Rachelle was one of the greatest experiences of my life.”
Regarding his wife, he told the Associated Press: “Prison is very
difficult. I'm in here with sociopaths and misfits… [but] she comes every
week to see me, and I see sky rockets each time I see her.” Then he
added, without a hint of irony: “She's the fairy princess in my world”.
And to understand that world, you perhaps need to hear Rachelle's story.

There was, as it happens, plenty of fairytale about the journey that turned
Rachelle into the sole occupant of the 30-room Pyrenees Castle, which was
built in the 1920s as a one-third-sized scale replica of a French chateau.
Brought up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, by a single mother, she learnt
trombone at school and played in the marching band. After leaving, and
discovering that she could make a living from singing and modelling jobs,
she set off down a road trpretty odd albumen by many pretty girls from small-town
America, and drove to LA. Aged 20, she arrived in 2002, with just $150 in
her pocket.

A year later, Rachelle Short, to use her maiden name, was performing live gigs
(she had won a gong for Best Indy Pop Performer at the LA Music Awards). 一
night, she found herself dining at Dan Tana's, an old-school Hollywood
restaurant. Phil Spector, who was also there, asked her to sit at his table.
And Cupid's dart struck. “I learnt more that night about religion and
politics than I knew in my entire life,” she recalls. “We ended up
talking until six in the morning. When it was time to go, he looked at me
and said, 'May I kiss you?' I said, 'No!'. But he got my phone number.”
The old devil called the next day. “I've always been attracted to older
guys,” she says.

The romance blossomed during visits to the local Starbucks, dinner outings,
and trips to LA Lakers basketball games. But it wasn't all plain sailing. 一
few weeks in, Rachelle heard about Lana Clarkson, who had died a few weeks
before their meeting. But Rachelle didn't for one moment doubt Phil's
innocence. Never has, never will. “When you meet him, you get no sense
of danger whatsoever. He's tiny. I'm bigger than him now, and he wouldn't
hurt a fly. He couldn't murder someone. He's too kind, and caring and giving
and genuine.” They duly became engaged in 2005.

Their relationship was first dragged into the public arena when Phil's first
murder trial was televised, in late 2006. The sight of Rachelle in court
initially sparked intrigue and ridicule. She looked suspiciously like
Clarkson, and snarky commentators wondered what had attracted her to the
famous multi-millionaire. But over time, opinion turned. “Even those
who loathe Spector, and there are plenty in Hollywood, surprise themselves
by feeling protective of this instantly likeable woman,” noted the Los
Angeles Times, in a profile of Phil. “They praise her unswerving
loyalty to Spector. Men in particular fall under her spell.”

By the time Phil's first trial had been abandoned in 2007 (the jury was unable
to reach the required unanimous verdict), Rachelle had become Mrs Spector.
Then, during downtime from the retrial, Out of My 'Chelle was conceived. “One
day I was going through old home movies of me singing. Phil walked in, and
said 'That's you?'. He didn't know what my vocal capabilities were, up until
that point, since I had put my career on hold to help him with the court
case.”

To release the record, Rachelle recently founded her own label, Genius Forever
(named after Phil, of course) and cut a distribution deal with Sony. She is
also about to go back into the studio to make a Rachelle Unplugged version
of the record, which her husband will be unavailable to produce. “People
say that Phil Spector can make anyone sound good, and I want to prove that I
can actually sing,” she says. Allegations that Phil used auto-tune and
other dark arts of his trade to paper over holes in her musical ability are “totally
untrue”.

The other thing that often angers Rachelle, and we can't beat around the bush
here, are allegations that she's a gold-digger. The reality of her
existence, she says, is quite the opposite: she says her favourite shop is
Target, a sort of American Argos. She doesn't loaf around. When we tour the
downstairs bar area and pool room, I notice that a layer of dust has
gathered on Phil's collection of Grammy trophies.

It must, I suppose, be a lonely existence. She shares the vast home with six
dogs, some cats, and two iguanas. A maid comes twice a week. Her other
regular visitor is Esmerelda, her gardener's six-year-old daughter. 該
lawns of the Castle are brown and parched (she recently turned off the
sprinklers, to save money and the environment), and even Phil's collection
of garden gnomes could use a lick of paint. This is hardly the high life,
she says.

“My life is hard. It's a lot of work. It's so emotionally, physically and
mentally draining. I work seven days a week. I've started the record label,
I'm trying to promote the album, manage Phil's estate and also look after
the appeal to get him out. If I were a gold-digger, I wouldn't be here,
doing all that. I'd be by some pool, on an exotic island, counting my money.”

Rachelle's priority, these days, is to free Phil. Having sat through the two
trials, which together lasted more than a year, and reviewed 40,000 pages of
evidence, she has applied for (and got) a licence to practice as a private
investigator in California. This allowed her to be closely involved in
drafting the lengthy appeal against his murder conviction which was filed
earlier this year.

The case against Spector was by no means cut-and-dried. It revolved around
inconclusive forensic evidence, with conflicting interpretations of blood
spatter patterns and gunpowder residue, which left experts divided as to
whether the famous defendant was anywhere near Ms Clarkson when she died.
The supposed murder weapon did not carry any of his fingerprints, and no one
is sure of the identity of its owner. Officially, it was registered to a
pawnshop in Texas.

In attempting to prove Spector guilty, prosecutors therefore relied on
testimony from his driver, who told the court his boss had confessed to
Clarkson's killing. They also persuaded the judge to allow evidence from
five former female acquaintances of Spector, who claimed that at various
times in the past 30 years, he had threatened them with guns. This, the jury
said in its explanation of the sentence, tipped the balance in favour of
conviction.

It certainly worked into a well-established narrative. Spector, who had
produced his first number one hit, “To Know Him is To Love Him”,
in 1958, at the age of 18, had never enjoyed what you might call a normal
生活。 A millionaire by the age of 22 (during the early 1960s, his hits
included “You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling”, the most extensively
played record in history), he was always volatile. When creating his famous “Wall
of Sound”, which involved vast armies of backing musicians and singers,
he lorded over recording studios like a mad dictator.

Stories also abound of Spector's fascination with firearms. He once fired a
pistol into the roof when losing his temper while working with John Lennon.
Some years later, when apparently drunk, he wandered up to Leonard Cohen,
and stuck a loaded pistol in his neck, saying, “Leonard, I love you!”
(Cohen is said to have casually replied, “I hope you do, Phil”).
In the 1980s, his mental state deteriorated further when his only son,
Philip Junior, contracted leukaemia. Phil retired from music to nurse him,
only for the child to die, in 1992. Soon afterwards, he began taking vast
quantities of anti-depressants, and for most of the next decade, made only
occasional forays into the recording studio. He had also become paranoid
about being left alone at the Castle; visitors spoke of him locking doors
and gates to prevent them from leaving.

After talking the jury through this biography, the prosecution was able to
construct a compelling narrative: Lana Clarkson, a down-on-her-luck actress
who also suffered from depression, had met him at the House of Blues
nightclub in Hollywood. She returned to his house, and shared some drinks.
But when Ms Clarkson got up to leave, Spector lost his cool. By accident or
design, he fired the gun. Given Spector's personality, they argued – it was
in any case an accident waiting to happen.

There is, however, a problem with this theory: it relies on circumstantial
evidence. In his defence, Spector's “dream team” of highly-paid
lawyers have advanced an alternative: that Clarkson, who'd had roles in
Scarface and the cult fantasy flick Barbarian Queen during the 1980s, but
whose career had since tanked, actually committed suicide. “She had
consumed a bottle of tequila, she had Vicodin [a pain-relief drug] in her
system, and was broke and about to be evicted from her apartment,” is
how Rachelle puts it.

The appeal will highlight the lack of forensic evidence, and also argue that
the judge shouldn't have allowed the five women to give character statements
against Phil, since they were prejudicial. “This whole hatred towards
women thing … I don't understand where it came from. Because if you know
anything about Phil's career you'll know that he helped women, especially
women of colour, achieve success, people like Tina Turner and Ronnie Spector
[his second wife]. There is no greater misconception than that Phil hates
women.”

Clarkson's sister, Fawn, and her family's lawyer, Roderick Lindblom, did not
respond to requests for a comment about the appeal for this article.
Rachelle, with half an eye on their feelings, says the case “was a
tragedy for everybody involved. But it was not a murder”. Clarkson was
six feet tall, and weighed 160 pounds, which is far more than Spector. “They're
trying to tell me she let him walk up and put a gun in her mouth? It was two
inches behind her teeth when it went off. How could he possibly do that?”

Time, of course, will tell whether Rachelle secures their day in court. 但
the wheels of justice move incredibly slowly. Even if the appeal is granted,
it could be years before Phil Spector is free to once more build a wall of
sound. “I've lost my husband and my best friend,” she says,
returning once more to the subject of her album. “The whole point of it
was to turn the negative of the case into a positive and put the focus back
on Phil Spector's music, where it belongs. Whatever happens, I hope to
remind people that he's still that genius producer who is way beyond his
time, and who no one will ever be able to imitate.”

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1。 King Me

D*mn, doggies, this year's Forbes' Cash Kings list is ridiculously funny. Not so much because we see Jay-Z and Diddy in the list but that Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and DRAKE made more $$$ than 5-0 Cent? LMFAO！ This has to be a clerical error, right? LMFAO！ Before we see who made the cut, let's just analyze a few things. In 2008 , when those numbers came out, 5-0 held his ground at No. 1 with Jay and Puffy looking in the rearview, right? Then this clown caught feelings when he got booted to No. 4 last year, getting edged out by Kanye West . 確定。 But now, to get tossed all the way to No. 15? SMFH. There's no excuse doggies, especially with as much as this clown says he's WORKING . Those tours? Those straight-to-DVD movies that he claims are where the REAL $$$ is at? Or how about all those iTunes sales G-Unit is raking in? SMH. It's over, doggies, admit it :

＃1。 Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter – $63m

＃2。 Sean “Diddy” Combs – $30M
＃3。 Aliuane “Akon” Thiam – $21M [that Lady Gaga money is no joke...]
＃4。 Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter – $20M
＃5。 Andre “Dr. Dre” Young – $17M
#6. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges – $16M
#7. Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus – $15M
#8. Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley – $14M
#9. Pharrell Williams – $13M
#10 Kanye West – $12M
＃11。 Aubrey “Drake” Graham – $10M
#12. Clifford “TI” Harris – $9M (tie)
#12. Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean – $9M (tie)
#14. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers – $8M (tie)
#14 Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson – $8M (tie)

^ LOL. Good looks @ NahRight for that list. Some things ain't adding up, doggies. We can understand how Jay got $63 million from Roc Nation ( J. Cole, Wale , Blueprint III Tour, etc.) and Diddy's a** was all over those informercials and let's not forget that Lady Gaga money ain'ta joke for Akon along with Dr. Dre 's dope BEATS. But Ludacris? F*cking Drake!?!? TI ??? Wait……how the h*ll did TI make more $$$ than 5-0 when he was LOCKED UP for 6-8 months!?!?! SMH…… Look at those numbers doggies, this post is short but the comments should be long. Feeling sad about 5-0′s numbers? Maybe it's just me, but something tells me he had this coming……………

“I'm on deck,” 50 said in an interview in JULY 2009 . “I'm loaded. Call me 'four' this year, and then you call me 'one' next year , because I'm really preparing for my cycle . They're fine…What kind of person would be upset at what position they fall when they're on the Forbes list . That person would be a complete idiot. Ask me to show you a person who's happy, and I'll show you someone who's content. And if you ask me to show you a guy who's piss-poor with really nice things around him, I'll show you the guy that's on that list that's worried about being number one. And [the person] won't stay there , trust me.”

^ …..”call me 'one' next year….” Really 5-0? REALLLLY? And yeah, I hear your issue about the accomplishment to be on the FORBES list, but that's like saying what doggy would be mad to get SIGNED to Interscope? Call Wale, Charles Hamilton and the rest of those other doggies. And I pulled that quote, doggies, to say this. If you really believe everything coming out of this Gorilla-Doggy's mouth, then why when you have the PROOF right in front of your eyes that he's speaking bullsh*t, do you continue to DEFEND and VOUCH for this clown? SMH………

2。 The New Def Jam Records

Go ahead doggies, consider my words “STFU” Honors material, but at least hear me out first. Baby is the NEW Russell Simmons. Whether y'all want to admit it or just skip over this to peep this week's Mrs. Butterworth (she's juicy, too!), you cannot deny how powerful Cash Money Records is becoming. And let's stop lying, we all KNOW Young Money is the same company, don't get sh*t twisted thinking Nicki Minaj is not technically a Cash Money Records artist. Everybody, and I do mean everybody, wants to be Cash Money affiliated more than ever right now. But first up, Shyne ?

“I might do that. I'm not sure,” Shyne said about possibly releasing an album on Cash Money. “We're still finishing the fine points and negotiating that . Maybe I'll come with something six months later, [maybe] every six months. I've got so much to say, you dig? I don't think I can answer all the questions on one album. So I definitely think we can put out two different albums on the same day at the end of the year, then come back with a third one or another double set six months later. Get all this sh*it off my chest.”

^ So this doggy wants to drop an album on Def Jam AND Cash Money Records. SMFH…even though we think he has turned into straight a** since getting out of prison, especially after 5-0 pranked the h*ll out of him last week, you can't lie, having Shyne drop something on Cash Money would be a GOOD LOOK. Let's be honest, doggies, Bow Wow and Jay Sean are cool but haven't even an ounce of street credibility to their names. Shyne on CM would be like when 5-0 recruited Game to G-Unit. Just to add another element. But even bigger than that? Recruiting Bizzy Bone ? 跆拳道？

“ Cash Money , Young Money and such labels as this know how to treat a artist ,” Bizzy said in a statement. “Whether the artist has been in the industry for a decade or brand new to the system. They (Cash Money, Young Money, G Unit etc.) respect the artist position and know how to market and promote a top caliber artist(s) .”

^ Whether Bizzy Bone is just kissing a** to get Baby's attention or really feels like Cash Money is a hot label, this is f*cking amazing that he's upping a company that has been publicly sh*tted on by producers like Jim Jonsin and Bangladesh .

Need an explanation for all this, doggies? Well, even though I planned on featuring this in the “STFU” Honors section, Baby pretty much lays out the formula for why CMB is out-doing the industry:

“I look at that sh*t as we went through war and we sustained the weather and we stood in the fog ,” Baby said in an interview. “Even when muthaf*ckas counted us out, we stood up and we manned up. We did everything we had to , to get where we're at today. I think God gives it to ya when he feels you're ready for it. It took us a long time ; we had to go through a lot of changes. A lot of obstacles, losses, gains . I just think right now we're so great at this sh*t. We got so many young n*ggas who look at me andWayne and what we've accomplished. You see the hunger [that] Drake and all the rest of those little n*ggas [have] because they're reaching for those stories . We work like n*ggas who never made a dollar and I think that's impressive to them. That makes them go harder. Those little n*ggas got promising futures.”

^ D*mn, hate it or love it, Baby has a point. No other label has hotter artists, mainstream artists and, most importantly, SELLING artists. Not familiar with the Def Jam/Russell Simmons' 1990′s days? Just think DMX , Jay-Z, EPMD, Ja Rule, Redman, Method Man and all those other motherf*ckers from Def Jam Vendetta . 哈哈。 The list runs long, doggies, for CM going with Lil Wayne, Cool & Dre, Bow Wow, possibly Shyne/Bizzy Bone/ Sean Garrett / Freeway / DJ Khaled, Jay Sean, Kevin Rudolph and the Young Money roster…so don't sleep on this squad.

3。 The Day The Earth Stood Still

Doggies and b*tches (female dogs, doggies) alike, it is true. Nicki Minaj is the hottest artist out. When Kanye West said it, I kinda shrugged but when the f*cking Associated Press interviews rap doggies about what THEY think about her? SMFH. It's bigger than her just being a “good” female rapper. She is THE rapper out right now. Doggies might shrug too but her buzz is bigger than Drake. Her following is bigger than Drake. (Do the math doggies, she hit that million follower mark weeks before Frogger). Even though I hate her album title, Pink Friday , she has even given herself months to do whatever changes she feels necessary. Anyway, getting to the point at hand, here's why your favorite artists are f*cking with this Barbie :

Pharrell

“I think since Nicki came out there's going to be a lot of new girls coming out. There's always one that paves the way and opens the door [and] I think she reopened the door to hip-hop for females.”

盧達克里斯

“Now that you have somebody that has pretty much her own style and does her own thing, people are gravitating toward it, so I think that makes her stick out 'cause she's so different.”

5-0 Cent

“There's not as many female rappers because there's not as many emerging crews. When those new crews come up, there's a potential for a female artist when the head of that crew sees the idea of bringing someone to speak from a female perspective.”

前夕

“Even though Nicki is representing for females period, she's not representing for every female. She's a specific type of entertainer. There are a lot of different kind of men out there representing for the males, and you need a lot of different females that represent for the different kinds of females. … Honestly, between [Lauryn Hill] and me and Nicki being out there, hopefully a lot of other females will be coming up.”

皇后拉蒂法

“Part of the reason hip-hop was dead is because there weren't any female emcees out, really like in the forefront of hip-hop, playing on the radio, in the daytime, every day.”

SMFH. F*ck it doggies, “It's Butters Barbie, b*ttttttttch!!!!” CO-SIGNED.

4。 Mrs. Butterworth: Dela Monet

Doggies, I have yet to fail y'all at this point and once again Bulldog Butters has come through with the most juicy Mrs. Butterworth we have seen thus far, Dela Monet. Now she is on the come-up, so there isn'ta rack of pics out there for us, but we got a solid stack to peep this week. Even though some complain that a** and t*ts don't get more exposure here, I would hope that y'all could at least find some dark corner of your parent's basement and find something worthy of posting in here. F*ck it, why do I bother to type, here's what y'all have been waiting for:

Bonus Video, Doggies:

5。 “STFU” Honors

LMFAO！ D*mn, sometimes it's even hard for me to begin this section doggies b/c I know what is going to be said. Easily the most hilarious “Shut The F*ck Up” Honors material of the week but even better is when you take away my bolded font and really look at what these doggies are saying. SMFH. Comparing a Little Weasel to the best pop singer of all-time? Or what about saying rappers need second chances after their careers are completely destroyed, and actually comparing your horrible a** sales today to someone out-selling you. SMFH. Not impressed? Well, then imagine some fat rapper not including the TWO BEST MC'S OF ALL-TIME in their top five list or a lying a** wannabe groupie thinking a rap magazine feature is the equivalent of getting tossed up in a TIME piece. SMFH. Doggies, it's that time. Feast your eyes:

1。 嬰兒

“When Wayne comes home he lifts everybody's spirits, he lifts everybody's value, he lifts the brand, he lifts everything. Wayne is gonna be the biggest artist in music, not just in hip-hop; in music. It's some Michael Jackson sh*t right here goin' on right before our eyes…He's a beast; he went back to that raw rappin'. That n*gga still be impressin' me with his music.”

2。 Ja Rule

“Yeah, I'm starting to now see people that may have hated on me in the beginning are not rooting for me and want to see me win,” Rule explained in an interview. “That to me is big. The best part about it is I'm humbled by it all. I feel like everybody deserves a second chance to do whatever. Really, I feel that my situation was an unfair situation. A very unique, very pretty odd album situation. Nobody ever seen anything like that in hip-hop, you know? I laugh when I see people say sh*t like, ' Yo, [50 Cent] kilt Rule , but he didn't kill [Rick] Ross.' No disrespect to Ross, but he did 180-something [first week sales of Teflon Don]. I went platinum with [2004's] RULE after I made [2003's] Blood In My Eye. I look at sh*t like that and… I don't know, take it how you want to take it. I was a much bigger selling artist than just platinum so I guess that's why people felt I took a hit. But the music industry was taking a hit at that time, too. You can't really judge it or try to make an issue out of it, or an excuse. It just is what it is.”

3。 Fat Joe

“That's a hard question to answer,” Joe told DJ Vlad when asked who his top five favorite artists were. “I would say Big Pun , I would say KRS-One , umm, I would say Kanye West. Yeah, I would say Kanye West, umm, it changes every day. I can't really answer that question you told me. I would go with Lil Wayne . That's four. Then I like this combination, Dr. Dre and Snoop [Dogg] combination. If I could put them as one, that would be like, my top five and half. Big and Pac are up there too, a million percent but when you ask somebody who's their top five, they gotta tell you who 'their' top five is. You can't always say Big and Pac. We know they're the greatest, we know they're the best, we know all that. And listen, it changes every day, my favorite rappers of all-time and my favorite rappers now.”

4。 德州儀器

“I pushed the album back so I can completely focus my attention to the rollout and release of this film Takers ,” he said. “I feel it wouldn't be fair to the film or the album if I was splitting my attention span amongst the two, so I hit pause on the album to completely focus my attention to rolling out this here film. And once we prayerfully debut No. 1–25-plus, 20-plus million–then after those bottles have been popped and that celebration [is] underway, I will completely resubmerge myself back into the music, fully on album mode.”

5。 Kat Stacks

“When I first made the Internet blog, I regretted it, because everybody stopped talking to me ,” Stacks revealed in the interview. “But as I got bigger in time , bigger names and muthaf*ckas in the game, they all started getting at me . It just upgraded my career . Now I don't gotta go work . I don't gotta do sh*t. All I gotta do is show up at a [club] and get paid [for appearances] I don't regret it anymore . The first time I did it, I was like, 'D*mn, why the f*ck I did this sh*t? Because I was drunk? Just to embarrass muthaf*ckas?' I didn't expect to get money out of it. Now these muthaf*ckas keep f*ckin' with me, so I'm gonna continue to do Kat Stacks. “

^ Just for you Kat:

***D*mn doggies, final weeks of summer, can y'all believe it? F*ck it though, I like that NY cold weather and the hoody's out. Turns out all that rap beef sh*t just died out, with Waka Flocka/Gucci Mane, Rick Ross/Young Jeezy and Nelly/The Mask. LOL. No hot albums out, no blockbuster movies out…nah doggies, “The Lottery” doesn't count, and no more rap b*tches going after Nicki Minaj anymore. Any excuses/reasons? Well, it's dark and h*'ll's hot, so I'm hopping in the pool bathtub doggies. See y'all on Tuesday with that Waka Flocka Flame/LeBron James sh*t! LOL!!!!!!!! -BB***

Kenny Chesney 's new album “Hemingway's Whiskey” isn't out until Sept. 28, but the Country chart-topper gave Billboard an in-depth preview, discussing the record's 11 songs track by track, and in the process revealing how he sees himself in his fans, his thoughts on being like a “modern day pirate,” finding inspiration in the dentist's chair, and why duet partner Grace Potter is “a hell of a singer.”

The Kenny Chesney Billboard Cover Story

1。 “Boys Of Fall”
(Casey Beathard/Dave Turnbull)

Kenny Chesney: “Boys Of Fall” is a perfect description of how I grew up and where I grew up. That song meant so much to me and I thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of kids out there and a lot of people that have that feeling in their lives.' There's a line in the song that says, “In little towns like mine, that's all we got.” And that's the way it was in East Tennessee, and still is. I've got a lot of guys from East Tennessee out on the road [with me] that grew up the same way, and I played them that song when [writer] Casey Beathard gave me the CD of just him on a guitar playing it. I made everybody come on the bus and said “listen to this.” I knew we had something that was very common.  A lot of people that listen to my music and that are passionate about what we do out on the road… I've been pretty perceptive over the years, and I think that we kind of grew up the same way. I see myself a lot in my fans, and I think vice versa. I hope so anyway.”

2。 “Live A Little (Love A Lot)”
(Shane Minor/David Lee Murphy)

Chesney: “That song is what I try to live by. When I heard 'Live A Little (Love A Lot),' that's pretty much the definitive sound we create out on the road. If there's a predictable song on the record, for me, this might be it. And I don't think that's a negative, either. I think this song is going to be awesome in concert. I think it defines me — anybody out there that gives to anything — a lot. I work really hard, I give everything to this, I've given my life to this. But so does the guy that's a CEO for some company. I'm addicted to 'Deadliest Catch.' Those guys, they don't have a life; that's what they do. They can relate to that, 'I've got to get off this boat and live a little.' That's why I think that song matters.”

3。 “Coastal”
(Michael Mobley/Wendell Mobley/Neil Thrasher)

Chesney: “When I was a kid we were very lower-middle class. We weren't poor, but we didn't have a lot of extra money to go places. So when we went on vacation, we packed the car up and we drove to Myrtle Beach. Or we drove to Daytona. Or we went to the Redneck Riviera: Panama City, Gulf Shores or Destin. And I still love that. That song is for everybody that grew up like I did. It's a beach song, but it's a Redneck Kenny song. These people work for a living. Like he says in the song, 'No more building transmissions, he's going deep sea fishin'.' I love that line. That's my family, that's my friends. That's my cousins. That's my audience.”

4。 “You And Tequila” (featuring Grace Potter)
(Matraca Berg/Deana Carter)

Chesney: “This song makes me believe in music even more. I'd never met Grace Potter until she came into the studio. She grew up in the woods in Vermont. I grew up in the woods in East Tennessee. We come from completely worlds, different backgrounds, probably religious beliefs, we haven't talked about it. I don't know what her political beliefs are, I don't know nothing about any of that. I know she's a great person and I know that she is a hell of a singer. I heard her voice and I knew I would love to sing with her one day. I didn't know it would be on this, or this soon.

“At the end of 2007, I rented a house North of Malibu, Calif., for about two months. I was exhausted, I didn't want to talk to anybody, I didn't want to listen to music, I just wanted to be still for a minute. Every day I would drive close in to Santa Monica, meet some friends, eat dinner, and I'd drive back up the PCH with the windows down. That time of year is really chilly, I'd watch the sun set. It's beautiful, I loved it. I would turn on the radio every now and then and I would hear these songs. I heard an Eagles song, I don't even remember what the song was. But I remember thinking, 'Wow, I think I like music again.'

“When I heard 'You and Tequila,' it put me in that spot. That's when I thought of Grace, because I listened to her music a lot on the boat, a lot on the bus, her live record especially. She has a song called 'Apology' that still kills me. I got in touch with her and sent her the song, I had already recorded it. She called back the next day and said “I want to make this happen.” When she came in and we put our voices together, wow.  I love the song, Matraca and Deana wrote it, but, boy, it's relatable, so universal. To have Grace on it, that will be with me forever.”

5。 “Seven Days A Thousand Times”
(Lee Brice/Billy Montana/Jon Stone)

Chesney: “To me, when I heard that song it was like 'Anything But Mine,' chapter two. It was like the next phase of that guy's life. I know I have that person in my life, and I think everybody's got that person in their life, that they were with a short time and had no idea the impact that short time would have on them. No matter how you live, no matter where you go in your life, no matter who you're with later on, those seven days or that little time frame that you're with them made more of an impact than you even knew at the time. I think that's very powerful and that's what this song's about.”

6。 “Small Ya'll” (duet with George Jones )
(Bobby Braddock)

Chesney: “Here's what happened on 'Small Ya'll': George Jones cut that song a long time ago. I had his version in my truck for about three years and it never came out of my six-CD changer. I got into a little routine where I'd fly home after shows and fly back out the next day because I thought it was giving me more rest, until I realized it was only exhausting me more. But, I would land about 1:30-2 o'clock in the morning, depending on where I was playing, and I had about a 30-minute drive home. It would be the middle of summer and I'd roll down the windows to keep me awake and I'd crank up 'Small Ya'll' as loud as I could. No matter how tired I was or if I was in a bad mood or whatever, that song always brought me to center, mentally. It made me smile.

“And as fun-sounding as that song is, it's got an incredible message to it. What Bobby wrote about makes you think, it really does. It's a very well-written, deep lyric. I love that song, and the fact George is on it with me. I really do believe that there's a generation out there now that doesn't realize the genius of George Jones. And I felt like I had the opportunity to educate them just a little bit. It's as country of a song as I've cut in a while, too. It felt good, to be honest with you. It felt natural.”

7。 “Where I Grew Up”
(Ashley Gorley/Kelley Lovelace/Neil Thrasher)

Chesney: “I haven't had one of these songs in a while. 'Where I Grew Up' is a song that you really look for, you hope you get three or four of them in a career. And I've been lucky to have three or four of them. This is me. I've been in every scenario in this song. I remember as a kid writing in one of my buddy's yearbook, “I hope we never grow up.” And I try in lots of ways to make that philosophy come true, but then again you realize in some ways I already had. My grandfather died when I was a kid, and I grew  up a little bit. I think this song teaches us that there are things in our lives that force us to grow up.

8。 “Reality”
(Kenny Chesney/Brett James)

Chesney: “I got the idea to write 'Reality' in the dentist's chair. I'm sitting there with a gas mask on. There were a couple of years that I was so busy on the road I was kinda numb. I wasn't really tired, I wasn't really not tired, I wasn't really happy, I was just kind of numb. So I'd go to the dentist to have something done and they'd put that gas mask on me and I'd be like, 'Wow, that's as relaxed as I've been in years!' I thought to myself, 'This is why people smoke pot right here! This is it!' I don't smoke pot, but this is why people do it, I guarantee you. Because it gets them away from reality. I even asked my dentist, 'I just want to come over here and sit some time, can you guys do that?' He said, 'We can't do that, we'd get in trouble.' I swear, I started writing that song on the way home. But then I related it to everybody that comes to see us. That's what live music is. It's an escape from reality. That's why as a kid I loved it. I still love going to shows, I love live music. That's where I got the idea to write the song, it's my message to the fans that it's OK to break free and escape reality, with us.”

9。 “Round And Round”
(Scotty Emerick/Paul Overstreet/Even Stevens)

Chesney: “'Round and Round' is very different for me, melodically and production-wise. I think everybody, whether it's your job or your love life, whatever it is, there's a certain complacency that we get, the internal voice saying it might be better somewhere else, or I'm kinda sick of what I'm doing now I might want to try this or that. This song is telling us we should enjoy the right now, enjoy the moment. I think everybody searches for that certain balance and tries to quiet those thoughts in their head that they've got to be constantly moving, need to go somewhere, do this, be with somebody else. It's like all those characters in the song. The guy that lives in the mountains wants to go to the beach and the guy on the beach wants to live in the mountains. The message of the song is you've got to enjoy the moment as much as you possible can.”

10。 “Somewhere With You”
(JT Harding/Shane McAnally)

Chesney: “This song killed me when I heard it. This is a tortured soul song. If you get going with somebody, you've been in a relationship and for whatever reason she's gone or you're gone. And you're not necessarily in another relationship, but you're with somebody else, just starting something with somebody else. Trying to balance both those worlds is tough. I've done it a lot, where you're with somebody and you're thinking this isn't necessarily bad, but wow, man it would be really great to be with you. That can be a lot of mental baggage.”

11。 “Hemingway's Whiskey”
(Guy Clark/Ray Stephenson/Joe Leathers)

Chesney: “My favorite book ever is “The Old Man and the Sea.” Those two characters in that book remind me of the relationship I had with my grandfather. It was an important one. I've been asked many times, on many different occasions, if there was one person you'd want to sit and have a beer with, living or dead, who would it be? And it would probably be Ernest Hemingway. He's traveled, he's met all these wonderful characters, he's written about them, he's loved, he's lost love, he's lived with regret, he's lived with depression, he's lived with so much stuff. Why wouldn't you want to have a beer and pick his brain… on a good day? And he loved life.

“When I saw the title on a Guy Clark record, I was curious. I wonder what that means, wonder what he's talking about? And I listened to it, and it's a celebration of how he kind of walked between the raindrops. I do that a lot. I've spent a lot of time on my boat down in the Keys and over in Bimini and the Bahamas, and those are all places where he hung out. I haven't been to Cuba yet. But when I heard this song, it just took me to those places. It took me to a state of mind. I love that part of the song where it says, “Sail away, sail away, three sheets to the wind/live hard, die hard, this one's for him.” Because I do, I live a pretty fast life. Even though I'm very healthy and regimented in my diet and everything, we live hard. We don't live as hard as the guys on “Deadliest Catch,” now they live hard. But we're in a different place every day, we're a lot like modern day pirates. So I get what that line is. It's not about being drunk at all. It's about being pedal to the metal. When I heard that line, it about killed me. I felt this pretty odd album kinship to that song.

“I don't know what I'd ask Hemingway if I had a beer with him. We'd have to have whiskey, I guess.”