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Michelle Obama and Cameron Diaz Helps Sesame Street Mark the Big 4-0 Also stars show up to Jay Z LA show and Rihanna makes a surprise appearance

Sesame Street is turning 40! I remember watching this beloved children program as a child along with Mr. Rogers, and favorite show Reading Rainbow. Big Bird and Elmo are favorites of many but  I loved Bert and Ernie. Tuesday Michelle Obama will stop by Sesame Street.

Oscar the Grouch had better behave – and keep his political opinions to himself.

On Tuesday, to mark the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking children's program Sesame Street, some very special guests pay a visit, including First Lady Michelle Obama. According to previews circulating the Net, she meets Big Bird – who observes that the two of them are tall.

Mrs. Obama also delivers a message that may not entirely sit well with Cookie Monster. Appearing with three kids and the show's fuzzy, red resident Elmo, she encourages them to plant seeds in the ground, water them and then expect them to sprout tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and carrots. Also dropping by the 'hood on Tuesday's anniversary episode: Cameron Diaz, who introduces the word of the day, "habitat." Elmo helps the actress with the term – and visits a frog habitat – abetted by his goldfish, Daisy.

Now if only the first lady and Diaz could give Gonzo advice on his love life ...

Michelle Obama Helps Sesame Street Mark the Big 4-0 - Sesame Street, TV News, Big Bird, Cameron Diaz, Michelle Obama : People.com

Mentor and First Lady Michelle Obama in Glamour

Michelle Obama is feature in Glamour magazine Woman of the Year issue where she also gives a interview on why looks can only take you so far  what matters the most is your intelligence and your self esteem for yourself.  She is a inspiration to me and so many women of every race.

From the editors desk of Glamour:

Putting together this magazine’s annual Women of the Year issue generally involves lots of nail-bitingly tricky decisions (this politician or that? Which athlete? Which actress?). But this year, there was one very, very, very easy choice to make--see it for yourself after the jump.

This year, Glamour is honoring First Lady Michelle Obama with a Special Recognition award for her commitment to mentoring young women. (She also appears on our cover--the first time in Glamour’s 70-year history that a First Lady has ever done so.) You simply cannot talk about 2009 without talking about Mrs. Obama: and no, I don’t mean her status as a style icon (richly deserved though it may be). Just nine months into her job, our nation’s first African-American First Lady has thrown open the doors of the White House to local children and families, determined to show young people that, in her words, “there’s no magic to being here”--that with hard work, any one of us can rise to greatness. And at Glamour, we love that she’s particularly set on expanding young women’s horizons: The First Lady is establishing mentor relationships between top women in the administration and girls in need in DC, and is encouraging women leaders around the country to do the same where they live. Love that.

On the C.L.: Michelle Obama’s Inspiring Mission (Hail the Mentor in Chief!) Plus Her Answers to Your Questions: Smitten: Sex, Love & Life: glamour.com

But here’s another photo I’m especially fond of, of Mrs. Obama with seven interns from the East Wing (that’s the part of the White House where First Ladies keep their offices):

The Obama Family visit The Grand Canyon

 

I am happy they were able to visit a place that your average family has been too.

PHOENIX — Ever since their father became president, Malia and Sasha Obama have for the most part been seen but not heard. But during a family trip on Sunday to the Grand Canyon, the voice of Malia, 11, was crystal clear over the television microphones, as she demonstrated her acumen in geology to her very impressed mother and father.

The Obamas — President Obama, his wife, Michelle, their daughters and other relatives including the president’s niece Suhaila Ng — received a tour of parts of the South Rim of the canyon from two interpretive park rangers. The tour was private, or at least as private as it could be with a pack of reporters along at a safe distance.

The family followed the rail of the South Rim along Hopi Point, elevation 7,071 feet, where the rim overlooks a 5,000-foot drop. Looking over the vista, with its view of a red-rock butte and a big bend in the Colorado River down below, the president remarked that Malia wanted to know why the tops of the canyon were so perfectly straight.

President Makes His Pitch – to Home Plate - Barack Obama : People.com

That was indeed I’m sure a treat for all who was at the baseball game. It is so awesome that the legend Willie Mays give him some pointers and coach the President doing his practice. I thought that is so adorable that he said Michelle thinks he’s cute in his Chicago baseball jacket.

It had been four years since he last threw a pitch, but with a little bit of practice in the Rose Garden – and some last-minute advice from baseball legend Willie Mays – President Obama lofted the first pitch at Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis.

Throwing from the mound, Obama had the benefit of personal coaching by Mays, 76, who flew to St. Louis with Obama aboard Air Force One. "I am telling him, follow through," Mays said as they made their way from Obama's speech in Detroit to the game. "He's going to do fine, I guarantee you. ... I just want to make sure he follows through."

That he did, though the pitch wasn't a strike – in fact it didn't quite make it all the way to the plate. The catcher leaned forward to scoop it up.

The president, who last threw a pitch at the 2005 American League Championship Series, had also practiced throwing the night before, with personal aide Reggie Love in the White House Rose Garden outside the Oval Office. "I think it's fair to say that I wanted to loosen up my arm a little bit," Obama said. He also dressed the part, wearing a Chicago White Sox jacket. "I'm a White Sox fan, my wife thinks I look cute in this jacket. So, why not?" the former U.S. senator from Illinois says.

Mays was in a laughing, feisty mood wearing a tattered Giants ball cap with his suit and tie. He said it was his first time on the presidential 747. "I'm impressed," he told reporters in the press cabin.

And he got emotional when asked by PEOPLE what he and Obama had been talking about in the forward cabin.

"I reminded him that I dreamed about this day – not being on Air Force One, but dreamed about someone in my race being president, not knowing that anyone would be. But I reminded him that I cried for most of the night in Chicago" on election night, Mays said, his eyes tearing up. "Stayed up all night. I went to sleep about 7, maybe 8:00 in the morning I was so proud. So that tells me all the things I went through it was for good things. So I'm just proud of him, you know."

President Makes His Pitch – to Home Plate - Barack Obama : People.com

Speaking on Chi town I am now a fan of Deray Davis. Dude is so funny and very cute. I wish I was in into him when he was on Wild N Out.

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Michelle Obama and Oprah are honor at Time Magazine 100 most influential People Gala

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As no surprise two of the most powerful women were feature on Time magazine 100 most influential list.

 

Both women wore black dresses and Michelle show off her toned arms in a sleeveless dress . Oprah was dripping in diamonds and both women had there coiffure pull back , Michelle wore multiple strands of necklaces with simple diamond earrings.

 

 

By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer Jocelyn Noveck, Ap National Writer - Tue May 5, 11:43 pm ET

NEW YORK - She's already conquered Britain, France and Germany. On Tuesday, it was time for Michelle Obama to conquer New York.

After a visit to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and an appearance on "Sesame Street," Mrs. Obama capped her first visit to New York as first lady with an appearance before a glittery crowd at Time magazine's annual Time 100 gala, honoring its 100 "Most Influential People." There, she mixed sparkle with substance, introducing the administration's proposal to give $50 million to innovative nonprofit groups.

 

Yes, her husband was on that most-influential list, too, as well as 98 other movers and shakers in the worlds of politics, technology, business, fashion, science, television, film and music. But it was clearly Mrs. Obama, dressed in a long black gown with a corset bodice and jet beads draped around her neck, whom the crowd wanted to see.

And it was a powerful crowd that stood to applaud her entrance, including fellow honorees Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters and her cohorts from "The View," financial analyst Suze Orman, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and the guys who invented Twitter.

Not on the honoree list but also attending: Diane Sawyer and Charlie Rose. Actors Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler. Director Judd Apatow, "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels, conservative pundit Ann Coulter.

In her speech, Mrs. Obama spoke of the importance of public service in her own life, and then announced that the president's budget proposal for next year will include $50 million to help promote national service and advise nonprofit groups.

The money would be startup capital for the new Social Innovation Fund, she said, designed to help nonprofits think about service in new ways and approved by Congress as part of a national service law.

"The idea is simple: Find the most effective programs out there and then provide the capital needed to replicate their success in communities around the country," the first lady said.

"By focusing on high-impact, results-oriented nonprofits, we will ensure that government dollars are spent in a way that is effective, accountable and worthy of the public trust."

Earlier Tuesday, Mrs. Obama addressed diplomats and staff members at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, thanking them for promoting her husband's new foreign policy of global engagement.

As the swine flu outbreak demonstrates, she said, "we know now that we cannot wall ourselves off from issues that are challenging our neighbors."

"This new policy recognizes that America's future is intricately linked to the rest of the world, that the threats facing the global community know no borders, and no single country can tackle them alone," Mrs. Obama said.

It sounded, though, like the highlight of her day -- and to take her at her word, perhaps even her life as first lady so far -- was the appearance with Elmo and Big Bird.

"I never thought I'd be on 'Sesame Street' with Elmo and Big Bird and I was thrilled," she told the crowd at the mission. "I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high."

"I think it's probably the best thing I've done so far in the White House."

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Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Phil Elliott in Washington contributed to this report.

The Obama Family's White House Puppy Revealed and Fergie is performing for the Annual Easter Celebration

The first family dog finally arrived on Saturday and he is a very adorable puppy who is 6 months old  . He is a Portuguese water dog with a white hair chest and paws with black a black curly fur. His name is Bo named after a cousin of the Obama's and Michelle father who nickname was Bo.

News exclusively made by Washington Post

 

 

 

 

“First Family dog makes his debut and he well loved”

 

By Manuel Roig-Franzia

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 12, 2009; Page A01

Who let the dog out?

That's the Washington mystery du jour.

The identity of the first puppy -- the one that the Washington press corps has been yelping about for months, the one President Obama has seemed to delight in dropping hints about -- leaked out yesterday. This despite White House efforts to delay the news until the big debut planned for Tuesday afternoon.

The little guy is a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin' senator himself, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The girls named it Bo -- and let it be noted that you learned that here first. Malia and Sasha chose the name, because their cousins have a cat named Bo and because first lady Michelle Obama's father was nicknamed Diddley, a source said. (Get it? Bo . . . Diddley?)

Bo's a handsome little guy. Well suited for formal occasions at the White House, he's got tuxedo-black fur, with a white chest, white paws and a rakish white goatee.

Clearly, the identity of the dog was information too big to contain. A mysterious Web site called http://firstdogcharlie.com published a picture of a Portie yesterday morning, complete with a Q and A with the dog, which it said was originally named Charlie. The celebrity gossip Web site http://TMZ.comlinked to the picture. So much for the big White House unveiling.

For an Obama team that ran a famously tight-knit press operation during last year's presidential election campaign, it was a sign of how tough it can be to keep a leash on information in Washington.

It's not for lack of trying, though. Bo's story starts sometime around the Ides of March. Word on the street was that the White House was going to plant a vegetable garden. Health gurus had been pushing the Obamas to plant seedlings for months, hoping it would set a good example for children everywhere.

A Washington Post food reporter was making calls, probing, pushing. But the White House was mum. Word filtered out that the exclusive had been promised to the New York Times. But the White House offered The Post, the newspaper that cracked Watergate, a mollifier: A puppy exclusive.

News - VIDEO: Michelle Obama Plants First Seeds in White House Garden | Usmagazine.com

 

 

video from Usmagazine and Washington times.

First Lady Michelle Obama and a group of twenty-five young students from the local elementary school Bancroft Elementary school in Washington ,DC doing there visit at the White House with Obama they all became one with the soil of the earth as they planted in the white house garden  Fresh lettuce, herbs(dill,oregano,and rosemary) something that will be used a lot for making every meal  even more delicious they also help plant other vegetables like onions,shallots ,cucumbers,peppers and peas. While planting the garden she interacting with the children asking them as much it will be start a garden?

 

News - VIDEO: Michelle Obama Plants First Seeds in White House Garden | Usmagazine.com

One thing I want to let you know -- I don't know if you were paying attention, but the President and I, we went on this long trip. We were in many, many countries -- we were in Europe. And the number one question I got as the First Lady from world leaders -- they were all excited about this garden," she said.

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"Every single person, from Prince Charles on down, they were excited about the fact that we were planting a garden, because in many countries they really believe in the importance of planting and growing your own food. So they were fascinated and grateful to all of you for helping make this possible."

She then asked the students to guess the cost of the garden. After one guessed "over $100,000," she said President Barack Obama would "go crazy" if it cost that much.

Check out Michele Obama's recent fashion hits in Europe

The garden "hasn't cost us more than $200" and would yield "a ton of stuff," she finally told them.

Asked when the much anticipated White House dog would arrival, the first lady said, "Soon ... so soon."

 

Food grown out of your own garden is wonderful way to save on grocery and is even more healthier because you know who planted and how it was planted.

 

Peggy Drexler: There's Something About Michelle

In the article written by Peggy Drexler (Author ,Assistant Professor in psychology at Cornell Medical School) on the Huffington Post website she writes about how terrific Michelle as a mother and a first lady. She is a woman of distinction and highly intelligent.

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By the time Michelle Obama gave her husband the fist-bump heard around the world before his nomination speech, we already knew that this woman would be a different kind of First Lady - one that would bring new dimension to that curiously antiquated term.

Since she burst on to the national consciousness, her trajectory remains in full ascent. She lit up the capitols of Europe in ways unmatched by any First Lady before her - even Jackie Kennedy.

One on level, the reason for the reaction is obvious.

This is one tough, smart, attractive engaging woman who is more than up to meeting the high-stakes but loosely-defined demands of a position where the Goldilocks chorus will always find too much or too little - seldom just right.

But it's more than that.

In ways that may be hard to describe, a nation and the world are responding to her self-described role as "mother-in-chief" - a description that in less authentic hands might have all the resonance of Mitt Romney complimenting African American kids on their "bling bling."

As the world financial structure shudders and sways, we have responded to the comfort of her calm, clear and unapologetic certainty about who she is. Perhaps she reminds us that there is no such thing as monsters (Madoff being a discussion for another time) and there is nothing hiding under the bed.

She is showing that the very qualities that make a great mother - consistency, clarity, humor, wisdom, patience, connection, confidence and determination and the like - also populate the job description of a great leader.

To paraphrase Patrick Henry: If this be motherhood, make the most of it

Some of that, as I've argued here before, is packaging. A woman who can hold her own in any board room seems to have mastered the talking points about the joys of running a home and raising kids.

But there is real substance inside the package.

In ways that have become so rare in any sphere of leadership these days, she allows us to see the real person, and makes us believe that what we see is the truth. Part of that truth is her recognition that, with a white house staff at her disposal and her live-in mother providing domestic bench-strength, she has a support network unimaginable to most women.

Another woman in another time might have encountered the kind of blow back from the arbiters of expectation that Hillary Clinton encountered when she said she had no intention of staying home and baking cookies. The concern this time, from some feminist quarters: Obama is wasting her Princeton and Harvard Law degrees, well, baking cookies.

As Geraldine Brooks wrote in an the October 2008 edition of More magazine, Michelle Obama's story is a "a depressingly retrograde narrative of stifling gender roles and frustrating tradeoffs."

Watching move nimbly from the halls of state to the halls of grade schools as she charmed her way across Europe, I see nothing depressing, nothing stifling. Whatever tradeoffs she has made appear quite comfortable, as she is deftly balancing home and office - no small trick when your office is in the White House and the world is grading your every syllable.

While two little girls run the White House grounds, this force of intellect, looks and personality will very happily employ those sculpted arms to carry a cookie tray. But at the same time, it is clear that the country's "mom-in-chief" can handle the responsibilities of motherhood while standing square in the klieg lights of her position.

She is an object lesson in the importance and power of mothers, a reminder that their work is empowering, comforting, instructive and joyous. We like that. And more than any time in recent memory, we need it.

 

Peggy Drexler: There's Something About Michelle

Michelle Obama Wows London Schoolgirls - Good Deeds, Michelle Obama : People.com

 

With a high-five for a young singer and a hug for as many schoolgirls as she could reach, First Lady Michelle Obama proved an inspirational presence to a group of teens in a London high school Thursday.
At the all-girl Elizabeth Garret Anderson Language School, the First Lady delivered her first major address of the European tour, then turned to some of the performers who had entertained her and embraced all those onstage.
After hearing students tell of the school – as well as sing, dance and perform dramatic scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest – Mrs. Obama got up to speak to the girls, who responded with whoops and whistles. Of the stage acts that preceded her, the First Lady said, "Wow. I can't follow that."
Mrs. Obama, wearing a Jason Wu dress and Junya Watanabe cardigan, added, "I am just very touched and moved by all of you. My husband – you know him? – he is going to be very jealous of my afternoon. He's meeting with important people, but it's not as much fun as being here."
Of her surroundings, Mrs. Obama said, "These girls are terrific. The school is phenomenal, and you all should be very proud of what you have created … You are precious and you touch my heart."
Her voice cracking slightly, she repeated, "You touch my heart."
Brenda Mensah, 16, high-fives Mrs. Obama

Michelle Obama Wows London Schoolgirls - Good Deeds, Michelle Obama : People.com

Also pick O magazine with Michelle and Oprah on the cover. She said she has no plans to have a baby . Not with all the hard work she put into getting her body to where it is now especially her abs. She loves being able to meet other American mothers who have the same goals for themselves and there family.

 

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I had to take a break from blogging

I will be embarking on a new journey and that journey is me attending a University for the first time. I am looking forward to it. I will try my to fulfill this new quest for a start to a new beginning for me.

Even though I have been missing in action with blogging I have still been staying update to with all the latest news. One being President Obama being a guest on Jay Leno tonight. Luckily I am recording it because I nearly forgot he was on the show tonight. Yes I do plan to post a video of the show on my blog. Really with all the new video sites it almost putting TIVO and the DVR to extinction.

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Heeeeeeere's Barack Obama

By Pamela Warrick

Originally posted Thursday March 19, 2009 09:00 PM EDT

President Obama (left) and Jay Leno Photo by: Margaret Norton / NBC; Dave Bjerke / NBC

Loaded with one-liners, President Barack Obama visited the Tonight Show on Thursday night and likened his new job to competing on a reality show: "I do think in Washington, it's a little bit like American Idol. But everybody is Simon Cowell."
The appearance by the First Guest provided Jay Leno with what he called "the most exciting show of my life" – and fodder for jokes and banter. "A lot of people were surprised that the president came to NBC," said Leno. "You'd think by this time, he'd be tired of big companies on the brink of disaster."
Obama, dressed in a dark blue suit with a red tie flipped up the tails of jacket when he sat down, then crossed his legs and talked about the perks of the office, starting with his new mode of transportation.
"How cool is it to fly in Air Force One?" asked Leno.
"I personally think it's pretty cool, because they give you the jacket with your name there," he said.
But for his daughters, he said, what's cool is what's in a cabinet in the presidential helicopter. "Our first time on Marine One and the Marines are saluting us as we board and Sasha looks over and says, 'Are those Starbursts?' "
As for sports on Pennsylvania Avenue, Obama revealed that he recently bowled 129 – "I've been practicing" – and still enjoys the occasional game of pick-up basketball with aides.
"When they play, do they throw the game?" Leno asked.
After a long comic pause, Obama said, "I don't see why they would throw the game except for all those Secret Service guys with guns around them."

 

 

 

 

I also would like to say my heart and prayers goes out to Natasha Richardson Family. Very tragic incident I mean to be having fun with your son one minute and get up from a deathly experience and then to succumb to horrible head trauma. Cause of Natasha Richardson Death

 

You think Justin has enough on his repertoire he is adding maker of Tequila to it. The name of it will be 901

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Singer and native Memphian Justin Timberlake is launching his own brand of tequila called 901 in May.

The recipe was originated in Jalisco, Mexico, and the brand has been in development for two years. The name is a nod to the 901-area code of Memphis.

The new line is expected to hit stores in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and St. Louis this spring, but no release date in Memphis has been set. Preliminary pricing is reported at $40 for a 750 milliliter bottle.

Timberlake has also launched a record label called Tennman, a clothing line called William Rast and purchased the Big Creek Golf Course in Millington, which is reopening as Miramichi Lakes this October.

 

Justin Timberlake To Launch a New Tequila

By Michelle Tan

Originally posted Wednesday March 18, 2009 06:50 PM EDT

Justin Timberlake and his new tequila Photo by: Dimitrios Kambouris / WireImage

Justin Timberlake has something new to toast: The singer and budding businessman is launching a new brand of tequila named 901.
In development for more than two years, the liquor will hit store shelves in early May in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and St. Louis.
The reason behind the numeric name? “901 is that time of night when your evening is ending, but your night is just beginning. It is also a subtle nod to his hometown,” says the singer's spokesperson, referring to the area code for Memphis, where Timberlake grew up.
The new venture is the latest addition to Timberlake’s growing business portfolio, which includes the fashion line William Rast and the music label Tennman.

Justin launches New Tequila

 

 

I also received this in my email being as I am on the Justin Timberlake website mailing list.

As fans know Justin and Ciara did a song together called Love Sex Magic. I believe Justin produce it also.

 

"Love Sex Magic" Premiere Monday March 23rd on JustinTimberlake.Com
Ciara? Lovely.
Justin? Sexy.
The two of them together in one sizzling video? Magic!
The steamy video for "Love Sex Magic" will premiere on Monday, March 23rd at 11 AM EST on JustinTimberlake.com and CiaraWorld.com, presented by Virgin Mobile USA. The video, directed by Diane Martel, features Ciara like you've never seen her before and Justin - well, it's Justin. 
Can't wait for Monday? Download the track now at iTunes and get a sneak peek of Ciara's sexy moves now only on CiaraWorld.com. Come back on Monday when Ciara and Justin make some serious "Love Sex Magic."

 

 

First Lady Michelle Obama ,Alicia Keys ,Sheryl Crow and Others

Are visiting various Washington, DC high Schools to speak with young women on achieving success .

Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow are two ladies who've found fame because of real talent and business savvy, unlike, well, other things.  So the vocal pair were natural picks to join Michelle Obama in helping young women achieve big goals.
The Vogue First Lady is visiting high schools throughout Washington, D.C. today to tout the case for women and their careers.  Joining Keys and Crow on the speaking line-up are General Ann Dunwoody, Mae Jemison, Denyce Graves, Kerry Washington, Debbie Allen, Maggie Daley, Lisa Leslie, Bobbi Brown, Dominique Dawes, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard, and Penny Pritzker. 
The all-day celebration of Women's History Month will end with a White House dinner tonight, with guest invites extended to a few very lucky (and shocked) high school students.

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