First Lady Michelle Obama and First Daughters Malia and Sasha Obama depart from Stansted Airport, England
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First Lady Michelle Obama arrives with her daughter Sasha and Malia at Malpensa airport in Milan, Italy.
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The First Lady is in Milan to meet with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife.
The First Lady and the Presidential Delegation will visit the Milan Expo 2015, tour the USA Pavilion at the Expo and participate in activities to promote efforts to support healthier families and communities.
With the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the Expo Milan is promoting a global dialogue about the future of our food system.
The USA pavilion is titled “American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet,” and it showcases American leadership on global food and development issues, science and technology, climate change, nutrition and health.
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First Lady Michelle Obama talks at James Beard American Restaurant in Milan, Italy
First Lady Michelle Obama with Mario Batali
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First Lady Michelle Obama, Former Miami Heat basketball player Alonzo Mourning, a member of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition; Chef, writer and restaurateur Mario Batali pose with Italian and American middle school students in Milan, Italy
First Lady Michelle Obama is welcomed by Prime Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini, as she arrives at the Santa Maria delle Grazie church to see Leonardo’s masterpiece “The Last Supper”
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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with Ester Renzi
First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama walk in Corso Como shopping street in Milan, Italy
The Obama Diary 
“The Navy’s new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a fully electric and railgun-like way of launching fighter jets and drones off an aircraft carrier and into the sky (distinct from the Navy’s literal railgun). A unit on the USS Gerald Ford started testing with a weighted sled earlier this month, but a recent video shows a new, impressive feat: Making a weighted sled that weighs as much as a car literally skip like a stone.
The sled in question here appears to be the same 7,900-pound sled launched in the system’s inaugural test, but the EMALS system has the capability to scale much higher. These dead-load tests will eventually see the electromag catapult flinging payloads of 80,000 pounds, more than the average fighter jet. The system isn’t perfect yet. The first shot of yesterday’s first public test didn’t work according to the Navy Times, though after media left there were some successful fires, including the one that sent four tons of steel skipping across the water. Once its perfected, the electric EMALS system will replace the steam-powered catapults that have traditionally launched fighters off aircraft carriers, catapults that require a ton of space as well as stores of fresh water because salty sea water is too caustic to be used straight from the ocean. Whats more, those catapults couldn’t handle drones whereas these can…continued”
Congrats LP on #1 🙂
I want a sled like this for my birthday…///NOT
TY, HF 🙂 Can you believe that thing..Had to be pretty cool to be on deck that day…being stationed on a ship can become monotonous!
Ah Nerdy, an absolutely gorgeous collection of photos/videos/tweets, my head is sore from thinking about the work you put in to this. A really lovely record of the First Lady’s visit to Milan, enormous thanks for putting it together.
Thank you so very much for those wonderful words, Chips.
You rock!
You deserve the ultimate thumbs up, you gem:
🙂 – you really know how to ruin an accolade. Nerdy going to be on the attack next football season.
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Dear god…
He must know where some bodies are buried.
LOL! A lot of slime-ness going on over there (NBC-Univ), it seems, allegedly.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast
Wow.
Compared to what the FoxNews lot do and say – this guy did nothing – always amazed that the RW hacks just lie and lie and lie with NO comeback from their employer.
furst,
OH!! How gorgeous are these women, all of them!! delightful, just delightful! The Europeans are capable of recognizing beauty, much to their credit. Unlike the pitiful American types who only look to criticize, rather than delight!! I adore these pics!! ❤ ❤ ❤ FLOTUS takes my breath away each and every time!!
Stunning …stunning pics….how beautiful everyone is…..as the caption says….FLOTUSSSSSSSSSSSS our ambassador to World!!!
Hi There!
Guess y’all already heard Trump had to astroturf his announcement speech with paid actors! LOL! More comedy gold! 😆 😀
of course, he did. once a con man, always a con man.
Con man, carnival barker, clown — all of the above
carnival barkers and clowns never hurt anyone.
$50 dollars, that’s it. He’s a cheap jackass, isn’t he?
😀
Cheap and stupid to think that story wouldn’t get out.
Take about 100 times $50 to get me cheering for the donald. Also too – wait for his withdrawal from the race – it’s what he does. All about publicity and the media fools give it to him.
Beautiful FLOTUS & girls; gorgeous pics! Thanks Nerdy for this amazing collection featuring our FLOTUS & First daughters’ day in Milan! 🙂
Our First Daughters have the fashion magazines/industry going wild these last couple of days… 🙂 🙂
The First Lady and First Daughters look so lovely. Simply beautiful.
So true. 🙂
Wanted: One woman, deeply representative of American democracy. Her image will appear on millions of U.S. currency notes beginning in 2020. U.S. law mandates that she must also rank among the dead. Late Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced that a long-planned redesign of the $10 bill will feature a number of security upgrades designed to complicate the work of counterfeiters. Oh, and it will also include another little change too: The image of a still-to-be named American woman, something that has not been featured on U.S. paper currency since the 19th century. (Right now, Sacagawea appears on the dollar coin.) When it comes to the new $10 bill, the Treasury Department envisions a shiny happy contest, online and off, in which millions of Americans will nominate the woman they believe belongs on the $10. But with only some of the criteria difficult to debate – she must be American and no longer alive – and the remainder about as subjective as they come – a figure representative of democracy and our nation’s values – get ready for all manner of ideological debates and rivalries to begin.
Officially, the woman who will be featured on the nation’s new $10 bill will be selected later this year after Americans get their chance to weigh in on which woman and images best represent the spirit of American democracy at town hall meetings, online via a special Treasury Department Web site and using the hashtag #thenew10 on social media. Yes, that does mean Twitter. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told reporters Wednesday night that he will likely discuss options suggested by the public with President Obama (who just may hear a few words on the new $10 from a certain woman named Michelle). But Lew will ultimately make the final decision. The content of most U.S. currency lies within the purview of the treasury secretary. The $1 bill is the only exception…continued”
I thought that this happened already…and Harriet Tubman won the straw vote….
That was for the $20, PF.
okkkk…so why the switch….
Sweet!!
I was just going to write “Sweet” when I noticed you had already. What the heck:
Sweet!
If I were a 21-year old man, I’ll give 10,000 cows for these young and beautiful women!
huh?
A few weeks ago some Kenyan who said that he had had his eye on Malia for years, said that when they visited the country this year that he would offer many cows (I forgot the number) as a bride price for her.
Just kidding, AMK.
LMAO – So Jeb Bush went on Jimmy Fallon to “slow jam the news.” It’s amazing how these GOPers claim to hate PBO so much, yet they try to imitate him at every opportunity. Sorry Jeb, but no amount of slow jamming on Jimmy Fallon will help your candidacy. #FAIL.
Watch to see if Jeb! wife isn’t doing the evolution of mom dance next.
I also saw him campaignng in someone’s yard. This also has PBO’s signature written on it.
David Axelrod has been all over the damn place blabbing out PBO’s campaign strategies and techniques…so of course, the Republicans have copied it all. They couldn’t wait to get their grubby & grimy little paws on PBO’s Campaign Manual!
They can copy the actions all they want, it won’t help. They don’t have the authentic candidate which is why the strategies worked. Thinking about lumpy Jeb trying to slow-jam the news is a joke. He can’t do anything that cool……he is uptight, boring and graceless. He can copy all he wants…….he and his group are too stupid to know it’s not the strategies, it’s the person.
EXACTLY carolyn!
Thankful for you and your brilliant work always, Nerdy Wonka. Spectacular roundup here — how do you do it?
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/06/17/3671064/five-badass-women-considered-new-10-bill/
didn’t they so this already…and Harriet Tubman won the vote….
so=do
Not sure if this has been posted yet:
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Hey amk…
see? #ma 😎
man bites cow….
Looking for twenty year old white male in Charleston S.C. who shoot about eight people in a black church. I got this info from Lawrence O’Donnell.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-shot-historic-south-carolina-church-n377436
In case it hasn’t been posted: Shooting at an AME church in SC. Suspect a white male, ~21 y/o, clean shaven.
And not a bruise on him.
the mass shooting in Charleston SC is taking hate to a new level – I feel a big load on my heart
some people are tweeting out a photo of a man being led away by police in handcuffs; claims are that he is the suspect in the shooting;
this is escalating
I read that it’s a false arrest; a photographer, not the suspect.
thanks for the clarification; I did not share any of the tweets that I saw with a photo because I remembered how the first reports are usually wrong when people are working hard to be the first to “break the news”
I just saw a butcher on TV slicing bacon at Thum in Vienna and I may have to make a pilgrimage.
http://www.live5news.com/category/219058/live-stream
Livestream on the SC shooting…
CNN is reporting multiple fatalities. This is still a developing story – so much or even all of that may not be accurate. I’m hoping it is NOT.
reports of 8 dead. Jesus.
This doesn’t sound good. At all. 😦 😦 I’m still hoping that this is just rumor…but I’m not very confident at this point.
Bomb threat has been called into the Embassy Suites downtown Charleston….per Channel 5 news in Charleston
http://www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2015/06/18/church-shooting-charleston-south-carolina-lemon-ctn.cnn
But, but, but Bernie sez..racism is over…
I am all messed up monitoring and thinking about the shooting in Charleston SC – what has the world come to??
Nerdy, can’t think you enough for this wonderful compilation! Been away from my computer and coming on to see all of these gorgeous photos and videos just made my day! Love the photos of the girls shopping, it’s fun to see them being teenagers. Hard to believe when I think back to 2007-2008. But they are growing up to be gorgeous young women. No surprise given their parentage:-) Again, thank you for this!
New post: http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/18/charleston-terrorism-open-thread/
The Pastor of the chucrh died and he was a state senator. This is very very bad.