There are three audience levels you need to concern yourself with here: The interviewer: Usually, a specific journalist will be assigned to your interview. Make sure you know who will be conducting the interview and read his or her past pieces to find out what that interviewer's slant or focus generally is. The media outlet: The tone of an interview usually varies depending on the medium used to deliver it. A blog is one of the most casual, followed by phone interviews, newspaper interviews, and radio interviews. Professional journal interviews and broadcast television interviews tend to be the most formal. The primary audience: The company the reporter works for will have a specific audience. A local news or radio station will ask questions that will concern local viewers, while a national station will ask questions that pertain to a wider audience. A specialized source, like a blog or journal, will focus on issues that affect their readership. If the interview is scheduled in advance, gather all possible information about it as you set up the time and date. Find out what material the interviewer plans on asking about as well as the expected length of the interview. Depending on the content of the interview, the journalist may even be willing to provide you with a list of questions he or she plans to ask. The list may not be comprehensive, but it could at least give you a place to start. If there is information you cannot disclose about a given topic, make sure the reporter knows this ahead of time. He or she may still try to ask about it anyway, but if you firmly explain that you will not answer those questions before the interview, the reporter is less likely to push you for an answer. Since press interviews can be about nearly any topic, it is impossible to generalize about the questions you will be asked during the interview. If the reporter does not provide you with a list in advance, prepare yourself by noting the most important aspects of whatever the subject matter is. Anticipate what others might be curious about and prepare your answers based on that. Conducting a mock interview is often a good way to calm your anxieties about the real interview. Set aside time in advance for a test run. Ask a trusted associate to practice interviewing with you. Have the associate ask questions you have been informed about or ones that you anticipate and deliver your answers as though you were conducting the actual interview. You can wear anything you want during a phone or email interview, of course, but if you are meeting with the reporter in person, you should wear clean clothes that are suited to your position. This is true regardless of whether you will appear in photographs or video.
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One-sentence summary -- Know who you are dealing with. Ask for details about the interview before it happens. Set boundaries. Prepare a list of possible answers and key talking points. Do a mock interview. Dress to impress for in-person interviews.

After you've hung out with the popular girl and her friends a few times at school, invite them to meet you somewhere public like the mall, the beach, or a coffee shop. A public meeting takes the pressure off everybody--you don't have to worry about how your house looks, and she doesn't have to feel awkward about going to a new person's house. Make the invitation as casual as possible. Try saying something like "I was going to go shopping for a homecoming dress Friday, do you guys want to meet up at the food court or something?" When you hang out with her outside school, pay attention to the cues she's giving. If she seems enthusiastic about hanging out with you, looks you in the eye, laughs, and talks about making future plans, you're well on your way to becoming good friends! If she spends all her time looking at her phone, shows up late, and barely talks to you, reconsider being her friend. If she doesn't seem like she had a good time, wait a little while before inviting her somewhere again. If she does mention future plans, don't be afraid to bring them up later! Say something like "Remember when we were at the boardwalk and you said we should all go to one of the outdoor concerts? There's a really cool one this weekend." If she invites you to do something with her, show up if you can! If you really can't go (for example, if you're grounded), be honest about why you can't. If you make up an excuse, she might think you don't actually want to hang out with her. After you've hung out for a few times, invite her to something a little more personal, like a party or a sleepover at your house. You can invite her group, your group, or a little of both. Try planning fun activities like manicures, watching funny movies, baking cookies, and makeovers. Keep the invitation casual. Don't beg her or guilt her into going. Just say something like "Hey, we're having a sleepover at my house this weekend, want to come? We're doing karaoke and makeovers."
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One-sentence summary -- Invite her to hang out in public. Listen to her cues. Show up when she invites you somewhere. Invite her to a party or sleepover.

Visit pandora.com and click "log in" to sign in with your Pandora account. If you don't have a Pandora account, you can create one for free from the Pandora homepage. See Make a Pandora Account for more detailed instructions. You'll need to be playing a song in order to like it. You can enter a song, artist, or genre into the "Create Station" field in the upper-left corner to begin playing music. When you're using the website version of Pandora, you can only Like or Dislike songs. There is no "Bookmark" feature like there is on mobile devices. When you like a song, it will appear in the Likes list on your mobile device instead of the Bookmarks list. Even though they have different names and are found in different places, Likes and Bookmarks generally act the same way. You'll find this underneath the album art or band picture. Even though this has a picture of a Thumbs Up, and it adds the item to your Likes list, this is not the same as giving the song a Thumbs Up while it is playing. It will not affect how your stations are created like giving a Thumbs Up does. This will open your profile page. This will display the songs, artists, and albums that you have given a thumbs up for. You'll be able to see lyrics, features, similar tracks, comments, and links to buy. This will remove the song, artist, or album from your Likes list. These are the bookmarks you created on the mobile app or on the old version of the website; it is not possible to add bookmarks from the current version of the Pandora website. Click the button next to the "Play a Sample" button and select "Delete" to remove the bookmark from your list.
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Log into the Pandora website. Start playing some music. Click the song or artist name to open the details page. Click the "Like this track/artist/album" button. Click your account name and select "My Profile." Click the "Likes" category in your profile. Click and item in your Likes list to view more details. Click the "Undo Like" button to remove the Like for that item. Click the "Bookmarks" category in your profile screen to see your Bookmarks. Delete a bookmark from the list.