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The Obama Diary 
Hello everybody.
Congrats Jer!
Congrats JER & pugeretto on #1 🙂
Congrats JER!
Way to go JER!!! Thank you for the pictures UT. You have been doing a great job. I hope that everyone that celebrates it, is having a very Happy Easter.
Great job UT & TODs – Happy Easter !
Congrats on the tie pugeretto!
Ut -you’re holding down the fort quite nicely on this lovely Easter eve.
Many thanks! 🙂
You are doing great work UT.
Lovely! More pics
Congratulations JER and Pugeretto! You both tied for first place. Hopefruit, you get an honorable mention because you were so close.
p.s. Thanks JER, Pugeretto, and Hopefruit for the kind words. 😀
Great day for family photos. Thanks ut. 😀
Thanks! Love all the photos all over the place. Full time job to follow all the photos, besides all other news. I really love seeing how the girls have grown – just takes a few years & what a difference. One special family.
My iPhone has someone’s tweet stuck in it, & I can’t use mobile twitter….have to get the phone checked out tomorrow. I think this is great everyone doing blog with Chips. Never skips a beat!
Sometimes it works if you completely turn it off and then turn it back on.
You might try popping the sim card out, then put it back in, of course.
Yes I do like the President and First Lady. I like their groove.
Thanks UT! Although I wouldn’t call that flirting going on as chatting. 🙂
Have been working my way through the Jon Favreau forum at the Kennedy School which Nerdy Wonka tweeted about. Definitely worth the time!! Happy beautiful Easter.
It’s wonderful seeing our president and FL still as much in love today as they were on the day they got married. They remind me of my dearly departed parents who were married for 52 years when my mom passed in 1999. When we were growing up, the one thing we kids could always look forward to was seeing my dad and mom kiss each other every day. PBO made an excellent choice when he met, dated, and married Michelle Robinson, and as he has said, he’s a lucky man.
I liked watching my parents dance. They were really good. They happened to meet at a dance hall after WWII.
Oops – Didn’t realize there was a new post, so will bring this over here.
This is cool. Y’all may have seen Richard Blanco, President Obama’s choice as his 2013 Inaugural Poet, on CBS Sunday Morning today. He sent this out, via e-mail tonight, with a poem from one of his books of poetry. He’s still very humble and very much in awe that he was chosen but isn’t quite sure why – he said he likes to think President Obama and Mrs. Obama “were talking” and chose him!
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2db7fb999d4eaa73c02e27ce9&id=293ee3407c&e=751d2b9ef7
This is lovely. The poem about Mary and his own mother is also very lovely. Thank you for linking it.
You are quite welcome. I enjoyed it, too.
I look forward to waking up with President Obama as my president!!
Or even sleeping well tonight with President Obama as my president!!
Depending on where you live, there’s only a few hours left to vote for my #2 kid Kelauni Cook to win her dream job as a travel correspondent. The contest closes at midnight tonight. She’s doing her best to prove her mom wrong, when I really, really, really, tried to do everything I could to convince her to go into medicine. After all, she’d already aced her way through college all four years with a major in Biology, minor Chemistry.
Imagine my disbelief when she announced, she just didn’t have any passion for science, only aptitude. There went my personal free healthcare. Which, for her, wasn’t enough to pursue it. Soo, she’s decided that becoming a videographer while documenting her various travel experiences. She does intend to continue her education and go for a PHD in Cultural Anthropology. That is, as soon as she settles down somewhere.
So thanks to all of you who helped her out. Thanks to Chips for allowing me to post such a personal requests on her site. Here’s my last time posting the link and once again, thanks for voting for my bag lady extraordinaire: http://www.mydestination.com/users/kelauni/bbb#tab
Wish I could have voted more than once 🙂 and do hope she wins!!!!
Thanks so much Bobfr. I really appreciate your support. I believe you may have been able to vote more than once, but there’s nowhere in the rules on the site that gives any info on that. Regardless, I’ve been voting at least daily. I figured the only thing I had to lose was a few pixels.
Oh, you were supposed to vote only once per day? I’ve been doing FB, Twitter & g+ daily…
I dont know Alycee, I’ve been voting at least daily from several computers. They were so vague about the voting requirements. I tweeted, fb’d, stumbled, pinned it, all along. Fingers crossed she gets top 10 and gets a chance to woo them during the week long interview process in the UK, where they’ll pick the winner.
Done. So hope she wins, I’m looking forward to traveling with her!
I wish that I could have done this for her, cookemom. As I told you earlier, I don’t do FB, Twitter, or any of the other means of voting. I feel bad 😦 She is an extraordinary woman, no matter what happens. You must be more than proud of all she’s already done with her life. I hope that she wins this and lives her passion. She has a great mama:)
awww, shucks……thanks df. I appreciate the kind words, which are always better than anything else you could have done. I don’t know why they restricted the contest to social media outlets. Yes, we’re very proud and I do secretly rather she pursue her passion, than to settle for trappings.
I’m a df type cookemom – wish they had other sort of voting – but wishing your daughter all and more for the comp.
thanks 99s, as I said to df, the kind words mean so much, and I thank you for yours.
Your cheery words and optimism always make the world look better cookemom – no doubt your daughter has the same ideas
Facebooked, stumbled, g+’ed, pinned, everything except tweeted because my account was hacked and shut down and I haven’t sorted it out yet.
thanks so much maryl1 much appreciated. be careful of the Tweetsneakpeeps. I hope you get that sorted soon.
It is a proud thing to see our children make decisions about their lives and then work hard to accomplish their goals, even though they may not be the ones we had thought of for them.
My vote’s in! 🙂 Best of luck to #2
Thank you so much Dudette!
Another beautiful, nicely well executed post. Thank you Ut.
Looking forward to the Easter Egg Roll tomorrow. Oh how I wish I could be there.
Yup. But thank goodness for TOD and whitehouse.gov! Otherwise we could only experience the event by being subject to the nasty,petty, snarky, juvenile reporting of the overpaid, underworked pundiots who call themselves journalists.
So thankful we don’t have to do that hopefruit2.
I just watched one of my favorite TV shows, The Good Wife and as the show ended, this song played in the background. Awesome sauce:
http://bluestreetjournal.com/2013/03/30/arizonas-love-affair-with-discrimination/#comments
http://www.wkrg.com/story/21840025/breaking-news-toddler-killed-in-shooting-in-prichard Another 4 year old. Lost to guns. Easily available and not locked away. How is this responsible ownership of a lethal weapon? More heartache. How many have to die, when is enough, enough?
Can someone keep this for safe keeping??
How to ruin a neighborhood & who knows what else when the oil is in the drains – in one easy lesson – no doubt they’ll have the lawyers working overtime – not to mention the sad “apology” – “sorry for the inconvenience”!!
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/news_ak.aspx
WOW!!! They will NEVER be able to sell those houses. I know I wouldn’t buy it. And dude thinks his house is okay because he lives across the street?? I don’t think so…. Wow…
Tragic—–what adult was irresponsible with this gun and ultimately responsible for this horrific death?
Don’t know about the adult – I would blame the gun – when will people admit that guns kill – so an adult will go to jail – doesn’t bring back the babe – doesn’t stop anyone owning a gun. There will always be irresponsible gun ownership – directly in proportion to the number of guns. Get rid of the guns – the number of “irresponsible” owners will fall.
Every time I hear more about it – I just can’t imagine having to live in an environment where owning guns is the normal course of events.
Heads and brick walls come into mind
How sad. How sad.
Four year old shot to death. How sad. Will it ever stop?.
Private newspapers are published in Burma for the first time in almost 50 years, as the latest in a series of democratic reforms comes into effect.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21991899
Here’s a guy who’s got the right idea!
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/04/01/happy-easter-egg-roll-day/
aloha chips and ohana!
i’ve become a lurker of late, and miss conversing with you all. thanks to all who make the time every day to contribute here!
i just have to pop in to say: please everyone, go outside and play! i want the president to play more golf, the first lady to dance around the garden, the first girls to do handstands and cartwheels, and everybody, everybody to just get out of town for a bit. spring is here (or on its way) and we human animals need to feel the earth beneath our feet, the sky above our heads, and the green things growin’ all around all around.
yes, i said ‘need’:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-nature-resets-our-minds-and-bodies/274455/
besides, mom told us it was good for us, and that should be enough 🙂
Excellent.
Indian supreme court denies novartis patent right.
ndia’s Supreme Court has rejected a plea by Novartis to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, Glivec.
The Swiss drugmaker had been denied a patent by Indian authorities on the grounds that the new version was only slightly different from the old.
There were concerns that a patent could threaten access to cheap generic versions of drugs in poorer countries.
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Glivec, which is used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia and other cancers, costs about $2,600 (£1,710) a month.
The generic equivalent is currently available in India for just $175.
Anand Grover, a lawyer representing Cancer Patients Aid Association, said he was “ecstatic with the ruling”.
“This will go a long way in providing affordable medicine for the poor,” he said.
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Novartis applied for a patent in 2006 for its new version of the drug, arguing that it was easier to absorb and therefore qualified for a fresh patent.
However, the Indian patent authority rejected the application based on a law aimed at preventing companies from getting fresh patents by making only minor changes to existing drugs, a practice known as “evergreening”.
Officials also turned down a subsequent appeal by the company three years later.
On Monday, India’s Supreme court rejected the firm’s appeal to get patent protection for the drug.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21991179