Video Editorial.

If we looked at this video editorial http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/01/24/opinion/1247466680941/op-ed-advanced-pressure.html

Which is nice to watch while it is an editorial video that include story with an opinion.

It is effective editorial story that it has been done by presenting everyone saying his opinion about AP classis; always the presentation is better than reading because it makes the audience more connected with the story as it give the story more accuracy.

Actually in this video I didn’t find any thing ineffective.

Hair everywhere , a fashion slideshow.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/04/07/style/04082010BIGHAIR_11.html

In this slideshow we will find it 11 slides about the big hair as it is titled. The slideshow shows that the big hair became familiar and everywhere.

The slideshow is not very clear and doesn’t need caption, and it can be in any newspaper under fashion.

Imagine! I'm on Twitter now!!!!

At last I joined Twitterand I followed my twitterfrom this blog, which is similar to Facebook, but it more practical than Facebook. I felt that there is another community is joining Twitter, it's different and better than facebook for who want to educate and improve his journalism skills, it has a lot of info and keeping you up to date all the time.
from now I'll try to find the time to write or at least publish what I write on it

A nice blog in seattlepi

I have chosesn a blog to write about it, which is World soccer ( http://blog.seattlepi.com/worldsoccer/ ) the blog is interested in writing about soccer around the world and analysing games champions , plans and polices soccer games,and champions; the most strong piont in this blog that it is focusing on the analysing more than writing about soccer which makes it different.

the blog is one of the seattlepi.com's blogs which is a way to make it under the eyes of a lot of readers.

Today's the deadline to mail your census form

By Ahmed Fawzi
Herald reporter

Everett, Herald __Today is the deadline for anyone who has yet to turn in their 2010 Census form, and then people with clipboards will start knocking on doors and helping people fill out the forms.

The U.S. Census Bureau reminds all households that don’t want to hear knocks on their doors to mail back their forms today. After that, the in-person follow-up phase will begin May 1.

Census Bureau plans to deploy more than 600,000 census takers door to door to count households that failed to mail their forms back.

Those households that have not received a Census form or have misplaced have until April 19th to visit 2010.census.gov/2010census/index.php to find out where to pick up a form, or have questions answered.

Households may also fill out a form over the phone by calling the Telephone Questionnaire Assistance Center hotline for assistance seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Phone assistance is available in several languages.

For English, call 1-866-872-6868; Spanish: 1-866-928-2010; Mandarin and Cantonese: 1-866-935-2010; Korean: 1-866-955-2010; Russian: 1-866-965-2010; Vietnamese: 1-866-945-2010; TDD (hearing impaired): 1-866-783-2010.

The U.S. Census Bureau also announced that 68 percent of households have mailed back their census form nationally; 69 percent in Washington, 69 percent in Snohomish County; and 64 percent in Everett. The county with the highest return rate is Jefferson County, with 76 percent.

The U.S. Census Bureau saves about $85 million in operational costs for every percentage point increase in the nation’s mail-participation rate.

It costs the government just the price of a postage stamp when a household mails back the form. It costs the Census Bureau $57 to follow up in person with a non-responsive household.

Census and Arabs in the area I live in

Census going well in county

Some non-English speakers experienced some confusion, but overall return rates for forms are high.

Herald__ Everett.

By Ahmed Fawzi and Noah Haglund
Herald Writers

Some Iraqi immigrants living in north Everett weren’t sure what the official-looking envelope was all about when it arrived in the mail a few weeks ago.

So they tossed it in the trash. Had they known more about the U.S. census, they said they wouldn’t have done that.

Now, they’re hoping for some help from Arabic speakers in order to fill out the questionnaire that goes out to U.S. households every decade.

“I received the form but I thought it one of the junk mail and advertisements,” said Ali Al-Abdallah, 41, in Arabic. “I get them everyday, so I threw it away.”

Despite the confusion among some recipients, Snohomish County was on pace to meet or beat its 2000 census participation rate of 73 percent, regional Census Bureau figures show. The county’s mail-in participation rate was 64 percent, the same as the national rate. Island County was at 68 percent. Everett was lagging behind other metropolitan areas in the state.

The Census Bureau’s goal is to beat the 72 percent national return rate from 2000.

Census information is important in deciding where to spend more than $400 billion each year for public hospitals and schools, job-training centers, bridges and other federally funded projects. It’s also used to determine each state’s number of representatives in Congress.

According to the U.S. Constitution, all residents are to be counted. For every person counted, $1,400 of federal tax funds are sent into the local community each year. That’s $14 million for the decade, for just 100 people.

Many immigrants do not know that they are to be counted. This hurts them — and their local communities.

“It doesn’t matter if they’re a citizen or not, we don’t even ask that question,” said Deni Luna, a media specialist for the census.

Nationwide, there are census workers who speak 100 different languages, Luna said. If someone locally cannot interpret, national resources are available. Information on the census Web site, www.2010census.gov, is offered in 59 languages.

“We are getting increasingly diverse,” Luna said. “The interesting thing about the Northwest area is that we have fairly even numbers. We don’t have any predominant racial minority.”

There are other reasons besides language or culture that people don’t fill out the forms.

They include people who are in trouble with law enforcement, haven’t paid taxes or have other reasons for not wanting the government to know where they are.

“What we want to assure them is that the census is absolutely safe, that the information is kept private, even from the president or any other government agency,” Luna said.

The information stays confidential for 72 years. After that, it’s available for research.

Abdallah Al-Badry, 35, another Iraqi living in Everett said he had no fears about filling out the form, but wasn’t quite sure how to do it.

“I don’t know how to write it,” Al-Badry said in Arabic. “We need a census worker who speaks Arabic to explain everything about that form and why we should fill it out.”

Census workers may soon be knocking on his door to help him answer the questions.

The Census Bureau will be will receive forms until April 22.

After that, workers are ready to head out to visit address where residents haven’t returned forms. They could stay on the job until July, depending on how much work they have to do. The government is still hiring for temporary census positions.

Egyptian in The USA.

After I spend more than 8 months here in the USA, I think I have the right to tell everyone about my experience with the American cultures.
I have the right to tell what I see, what I learned and what I teach, what I took and what I gave.