Census Project presents the viewpoints about the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) from various stakeholders. A diverse group of stakeholders are involved including academic associations, public policy interest groups, retail and business organizations, and organizations representing ethnic and minority groups.
Recently the House voted not to fund the American Community Survey for 2013. The Census Project notes, "Currently, because of economic, fiscal and political challenges, the ongoing budgets to adequately fund planning for Census 2020 and the ACS’ ongoing work will be under a microscope in Congress."
The site includes fact sheets, issue briefs, letters, and other information. A recent report, Eliminating America's Playbook, is a compilation of "scores of case studies and comments on why the ACS is one of the most useful tools the nation has to measure how its communities are doing each year."
To contact us Click HERE First Lady tweets congratulations to Oscar-winning film... Just after hostingthe 2013 National Governors' Dinner on Sunday night at the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama filmed a live spot for the 2013 Academy Awards, announcing the Best Picture category from the White House. Clad in the glittering Naeem Khan gown she wore for the dinner, Mrs. Obama was introduced for her surprise appearance on the global broadcast by the legendary Jack Nicholson,who was onstage in Hollywood. Mrs. Obama stood in the Diplomatic Reception Room, where she held the envelope with the name of the winning film, Argo, directed by Ben Affleck. Nine films were in the running.(Above, a White House photo) "I am so honored to help introduce this year's nominees for best picture and to help celebrate the movies that lift our spirits, broaden our minds and transport us to places we have never imagined," Mrs. Obama said onscreen. "These nine movies took us back in time and all around the world they made us laugh, they made us weep and they made us grip our armrests just a little tighter. They taught us that love can endure against all odds and transform our lives in the most surprising ways, and they reminded us that we can overcome any obstacle if we dig deep enough and fight hard enough and find the courage to believe in ourselves," Mrs. Obama said.
"These lessons apply to all of us no matter who we are or what we look like or where we come from or who we love, but they are especially important for our young people, every day through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imaginations to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams." The First Lady's Communications Director, Kristina Schake, said in a statement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited Mrs. Obama to be a presenter. "The Academy Awards approached the First Lady about being a part of the ceremony," Schake said.
"As a movie lover, she was honored to present the award and celebrate the artists who inspire us all--especially our young people--with their passion, skill and imagination," Schake said.
Above, Mrs. Obama as she appeared on the jumbo screen at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with Nicholson at bottom left. After her star-turn, the First Lady tweeted about how "thrilled" she was to participate in Hollywood's biggest night, and congratulated Argo. "It was a thrill to announce the #Oscars2013 best picture winner from the @WhiteHouse! Congratulations Argo! -mo," Mrs. Obama wrote on her @FLOTUS account.
UPDATE:Deadline Hollywoodreports on the backstory of how Mrs. Obama made her cameo. It was the brainchild of Lily Weinstein, daughter of film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was a top-tier bundler for President Obama's re-election campaign, raising millions for the 2012 race. Deadline noted:
"The idea of getting the First Lady on the show first came from Lily Weinstein, who mentioned it to her big Obama contributor dad Harvey, who suggested it to the Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and Academy president Hawk Koch. The group flew to DC a week and a half ago to put the logistics together with the White House. The Oscar producers told Deadline’s Pete Hammond earlier this week that they “were being like the CIA” about a couple of surprises on the show, keeping things top secret. In towns like Hollywood and DC where people love to talk, they pulled it off. There was no indication on the show’s rundown and most of the people on the Oscars had no idea who the secret guest would be. “I knew we could do it and we did it,” Koch told Deadline tonight about keeping Obama’s name under wraps.
The First Lady was actually handed the envelope with the winner’s name in it by the head of PricewaterhouseCoopers at the White House."
To contact us Click HERE Chef Marcus Samulesson joins First Lady for a cooking demonstration... It won't have as many eyeballs as her outingat the Oscars, but First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday, Feb. 26 as part of the third anniversary of the Let's Move! campaign. Mrs. Obama and c0-anchor Robin Roberts will discuss healthy cooking for families, and acclaimed New York chef Marcus Samuelsson will join the First Lady for a cooking demonstration, said the network.(Above, Mrs. Obama and Roberts) Mrs. Obama will announce a new Let's Move! partnership "that makes finding healthy, reliable recipes easy for busy parents," the White House said. A cookbook author and TV personality, Samuelsson owns Harlem's Red Rooster restaurant, and in 2009 was a guest chef at the White Housefor President Obama'sState Dinner for India. He also joined Mrs. Obama in the Kids' Kitchen at the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll, to demonstrate a healthy, kid-friendly recipe.(Above, cooking with Mrs. Obama) On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama begins a three-state tour to celebrate the anniversary. Her first stop isClinton, Mississippi, where she will host a culinary competition between school chefs, joined by celebrity chef Rachael Ray. It will be broadcast on Ray's ABC show on March 11. The GMA interview is Mrs. Obama's first morning show interview, according to ABC, and was filmed when Mrs. Obama was in New York last Friday, where she appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Dr. Oz Show. That show will air on Thursday, Feb. 28. Mrs. Obama's anniversary tour takes her to events in Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri to spotlight achievements for her childhood obesity initiative. CLICK HERE for links to all third anniversary posts. *ABC photo at top; cooking photo by Eddie Gehman Kohan/Obama Foodorama
To contact us Click HERE Mrs. Obama is more popular than Fallon's other video costars, including Justin Bieber and Tom Cruise... First Lady Michelle Obama is helping Jimmy Fallon make history with their "Evolution of Mom Dancing" video, which debuted Friday night on his talk show to celebrate the third anniversary of the Let's Move! campaign. As of Monday, the comic dance extravaganza has gotten 4,439,569 views on Fallon's Late Night YouTube channel. That's millions more views than for other videos Fallon has released co-starring celebrities, including megawatt stars Justin Bieber, Tom Cruise, and Channing Tatum. And those view counts came over the course of weeks and months, not days. Fallon tweeted his thanks to fans on Sunday when the two-plus-minute video with Mrs. Obama had gotten 2 million views. That means that overnight to Monday, perhaps thanks in part to Mrs. Obama's surprise appearance at the Oscars on Sunday night, the video has gotten 2 million more views. "2 million in 2 days!! Wow. Thanks! "Evolution of Mom Dancing" with Michelle Obama (@FLOTUS)," Fallon tweeted with a link to the video.
In contrast, the video clip of Mrs. Obama actually discussing the nuts and bolts of her childhood obesity campaign with Fallon on Friday night has gotten just 61,831 views.
Fallon's video Jimmy Fallon vs. Justin Bieber, released in June of 2012, has since gotten 2,705,384 views on the Late Night YouTube channel. Fallon's videoSticky balls With Channing Tatum, released on Jan. 31, has since gotten 122,686 views. Fallon's videoWater War With Tom Cruise, released in December 2012, has since gotten 286,223 views. The only other Fallon video that's gotten close to the numbers of views for the dance video with Mrs. Obama is Fallon's video for "Slow Jamming the News" with President Obama. That debuted in April 2012, and has since gotten 6,884,606 views on the Late Night channel.
The video Mrs. Obama and Fallon made for last year's Let's Move! anniversary, filmed at the White House and re-posted by Fallon on his YouTube channel on Feb. 18, has now had 195,966 views. NBC had disabled the video for a number of months before Fallon reposted it ahead of Mrs. Obama's visit to his New York studio last Friday. Fallon's "Evolution of Dad Dancing" video--the preamble to his sketch with Mrs. Obama--debuted on Father's Day last year, and has since had 1,050,568 views on his channel.
Mrs. Obama on Wednesday begins a three-state tour for the third anniversary of Let's Move!, with visits to Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri. CLICK HERE for all posts about the third anniversary. CLICK HERE for all posts about the Obamas and Fallon.
2 million in 2 days!! Wow. Thanks! "Evolution of Mom Dancing" with Michelle Obama (@flotus) youtu.be/Hq-URl9F17Y #momdancing #letsmove — jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) February 24, 2013
*Photo by Lloyd Bishop/NBC; video courtesy of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
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On Sunday this week, NASA posted details of a new mission involving the craft currently orbiting the planet Mercury called MESSENGER or "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging."
The mission, PIA 15542, or "Mooning Mercury" to the layearthling, centers on a newly discovered natural satellite (moon) measuring 230 ft. across at a distance of about 8,890 miles above the planet. The proposed name for this moon is Caduceus.
The very, very, very small moon, Caduceus.
The mission description goes on to say that rather than study this moon, as they might normally do, NASA had another plan. It goes like this...
...The new plan is to use the remaining propellant to crash MESSENGER into Caduceus. "Our detailed analysis tells us that if we act now, and with the right trajectory, MESSENGER will impart just enough momentum to the moon to break it free of Mercury's gravity well and set it on an Earth-crossing trajectory suitable for recovery as a Mercury meteorite," said Panini.
...If Caduceus is successfully released from the pull of Mercury and placed on a course to reach Earth, we can expect the moon to arrive at Earth by 2014. "The risk to the public is reassuringly small", offers MESSENGER mission design lead Adam McJames. "We have designed a trajectory that will bring the moon to Earth at a remote location on the Wilkes Land ice sheet in Antarctica. This trajectory will avoid all population centers and will put the moon's impact site within reach for retrieval by the scientific staff at the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station."
In other words, something a little like the plot of the 1979 movie, "Meteor."
If you don't think about the odds of being able to map that trajectory so specifically across the minimum 48,000,000 miles between Earth and Mercury, this all sounds well and good, but NASA gives its joke away with in love of acronyms.
If successful, MESSENGER's extended extended MIN-C mission will mark the first instance of the documented arrival to Earth of material from the Mercury system. Moreover, it will serve as the basis for a new Discovery-class mission proposal currently in development by the Applied Psychics Laboratory for a Mercury lander mission for in situ X-ray analysis of surface composition. That mission is to be named the Hermean On-surface Analysis with X-rays.
That's right. The mission's name is H.O.A.X. At least when NASA makes a joke, they do it big. Happy April Fool's Day.
* * * * In related news that is not so enjoyable, NASA has begun the process of decommissioning the Space Shuttles and their overall program. President George W. Bush first called for the retirement of the shuttle program in January of 2004, in the aftermath of the shuttle Columbia accident and its disintegration over Texas during atmospheric re-entry. In speaking about a new focus for NASA on the International Space Station, Bush said:
Excerpt of President Bush's 2004 remarks to NASA, announcing the retirement of the shuttle program.
The photoblog In Focus, from The Atlantic Monthly, has compiled a series of images from the dismantling and preparation for display of shuttles Discovery and Endeavor as well as of the launching pads, cargo bays, and propulsion systems. It is good-bye, for now, to American manned spaceflight.
Census Project presents the viewpoints about the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) from various stakeholders. A diverse group of stakeholders are involved including academic associations, public policy interest groups, retail and business organizations, and organizations representing ethnic and minority groups.
Recently the House voted not to fund the American Community Survey for 2013. The Census Project notes, "Currently, because of economic, fiscal and political challenges, the ongoing budgets to adequately fund planning for Census 2020 and the ACS’ ongoing work will be under a microscope in Congress."
The site includes fact sheets, issue briefs, letters, and other information. A recent report, Eliminating America's Playbook, is a compilation of "scores of case studies and comments on why the ACS is one of the most useful tools the nation has to measure how its communities are doing each year."
Census Project presents the viewpoints about the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) from various stakeholders. A diverse group of stakeholders are involved including academic associations, public policy interest groups, retail and business organizations, and organizations representing ethnic and minority groups.
Click on these images to visit the In Focus set.
