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Dr. Chenming Hu from University of California Berkeley
President Barack Obama speaks before awarding the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Established in 1959, the National Medal of Science recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation, created in 1980, recognizes those who have made contributions to America’s competitiveness, quality of life, and helped strengthen the country’s technological workforce
Dr. Nancy Ho from Green Tech America, Inc. and Purdue University
Dr. Armand Paul Alivisatos from the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Stanley Falkow from Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Mary-Claire King from University of Washington
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg from 4catalyzer Corporation and Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Michael Artin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Rakesh K. Jain from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Geraldine Richmond from University of Oregon
Dr. Simon Levin from Princeton University
Dr. Arthur Gossard from University of California
Dr. Robert Fischell from University of Maryland
Dr. Mark Humayun from University of Southern California
The Obama Diary 
Good evening, TOD! Missed today’s event; thanks for posting!
Congratulations, Alycee! This post makes my heart sing. SO great to have the diversity of brilliant people in the White House.
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Thanks, Nerdy, for always rounding out the day on a positive note.
You’re welcome, Jackie!
Thank you Nerdy, I missed out on all this goodness today, so very much appreciate you posting it up for us 🙂 🙂
You’re welcome, Sherijr!
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Had a crazy idea, googled it and guess what?
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/
Q: Are there term limits for the vice president like there are for the president? Can they only serve two terms, too?
A: No. In theory, someone could hold the office indefinitely, but no one has actually served more than two full terms.
Hmmm…
I like your thinking, but NO! Think Joe & Jill are ready to move on to family and other great things. Plus, I’m really hoping she’ll pick Sec Perez. That selection will set us up for a 12 – 16 year run!
Yeh, I know. Just wishful thinking. 😞
Perez would be a good pick tho.
Xavier Becerra, Eric Holder. Susan Rice or Loretta Lynch would be too.
We can’t afford to strip the house or senate. Need to def get a senate majority. I’d like to see Holder on the SC just to hasten the collective heart attacks of lots of the RWNJs!
LOL! I was thinking of Lynch for SCOTUS too. Either would be awesome and good for pissing off the RWers!
That’s also why I don’t see her picking Warren. GOP governor would appoint her Senate replacement.
Now that’s a thought, eh?
Yeh, but I think Alycee’s right. He & Jill are probably ready to move on.
Is he ready for perpetual golf ya think? 😆
Dunno about golf but surely he’s ready for some time away from the DC circus.
Joe will still be working on the Cancer Moon Shot, I think.
Yeah. I forgot about that.
MSNBC TRMS just broke some news that the DNC is in talk with the Bernie campaign to make some sort of concessions to his campaign so that he and he young, athletic Robespierre revolutionaries don’t derail the Democratic Convention.
I just don’t know anymore what to do with BS and his cult.
I was thinking about the tale where Brer Rabbit says please don’t throw me into the briar patch. Since the disappointeds think they and only they have the answers, they have subsequently ignored the accomplishments of our President and the liberal positions of Hillary Clinton. They have believed the rhetoric of their own infallibility and so have no idea that “concessions” would probably be the original policy positions anyway. No way the Clinton campaign will throw out the ACA, the Dodd-Frank Act, or anything that’s precious. They might however give these clueless whiners the feeling that they pushed policies further into the liberal sphere when they were there already. Please proceed revolutionaries. Some day maybe you’ll realize the revolution started in 2008 and you are missing it entirely.
This sounds like terriorism.
Blackmail style
I am sick at the thought that we would offer them anything.
It TOTALLY is. He’s such a punk.
I hope that the DNC does not think that giving into Sanders is the way to prevent issues at the convention. It would only give Sanders more power.
BTW, my ONE fear/phobia — OVERPASSES! Getting stuck under one in a traffic jam brings on anxiety! Taking about praying hard…
GE jazziz2.
Not alone there.
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake (where several [many?] freeway overpasses collapsed, most of my colleagues and myself were wary of sitting under them) — I worked a short block from the mall parking structure where a worked was crushed 😦 , which was just a couple of miles where several people were killed at the Northridge Meadows apartment building.
People who lived in the area said it felt like more than one earthquake, one from the earthquake itself, the other from collapsing freeway overpasses.
Hey NerdyW, I like how you featured yourself in the title! 😉 😉 Thanks. 🙂
The thanks are for the pics, btw. 😀
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If an old guy who looks like Grandpa offered me marijuana on top of free housing, free healthcare and free school, I would be just like one of those young ladies.
They could easily have gone online 3 weeks or more ahead of May 17th and changed their registration to Democrat (or Republican). Thousands did so, and we had a record turnout for a primary. I detest open primaries.
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LOGIC FROM AN UNCLUTTERED MIND
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: ‘Take only ONE. God is watching.’
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had added this note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples…’
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A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated at her persistence, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
There’s nothing like a child’s logic. 😆
I’ve run up against it a time or two. 😀
How are you?
Not too shabby….Kinda bummed-out with politics. How about you?
Good. I’m fine, and yes I’ve pretty much signed off on the politics thingy too. Figure I’ll tune back in after the summer.
I’d like to do that too but I’m addicted. 😦
😀 😀 That’s good, isn’t it? I can afford to step back as I’m a far-in-er. 🙂
No. I’d rather be fishing.
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I totally appreciate how our President respects science.
Me too! He’s wonderful!
Interesting article….
http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/
Yes, it is – puts a lot of (awful) current events into perspective!
Just finished reading it. She could have left off the last 4 paragraphs on Bernie other than that it was an excellent reminder of how we got where we are.
Three big days ahead:
Tomorrow 20 May 2016, Sun into Gemini, 10:37 am ET, 7:37 am PT.
Saturday: Full Moon 1.16 Sagittarius, 5:14 pm ET, 2:14 pm PT.
Sunday: (flippin’) Mercury finally goes SD (stationary direct) 14.20 Taurus, 9:20 am ET, 6:20 am PT. (not a moment too soon, for many of us!) ❤️🌹🙏🏻🌹❤️
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The Misty Effect: HUGE lines, and the youngest and most diverse crowd I’ve ever seen at ABT. Amazing.
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It is Firebird o’clock here and the theatre is practically vibrating with excitement. https://www.instagram.com/p/BFnD-DQsTGw/
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Man, that was just a theatre full of love. Just love and gratitude for Misty Copeland all the way up to the rafters. It was beautiful.
Chloe Angyal @ChloeAngyal
That said, I witnessed 3 cases of audience on audience behaviour policing: someone actually yelled at a Black woman to put her phone away.
Chloe Angyal @ChloeAngyal
In a row near me a woman imperiously instructed someone to stop unwrapping something. Which was way more disruptive than the crinkle itself.
Chloe Angyal @ChloeAngyal
White people, you’ll be shocked to learn, do not respond well when mostly white spaces suddenly become less white.
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Standard response to inappropriate audience behaviour is passive aggressive tsking. Not out-loud reprimands. I’ve never seen that, ever.
Chloe Angyal @ChloeAngyal
And certainly not 3 times in one night. Not in over 20 years of going to the ballet.
What Ellen meant…
Mind-boggling!!
Right?
Well folks, in case anyone is looking for me I’ve signed off to do a little reading before bedtime. G’Night.
psst, Amk: I didn’t see you today; wonder what you’re up to?
Ah, yes – karma. It’s a beautiful thing.
Woooooot!
Aww, there go my allergies.
Good Morning ☺, Everyone 😀
Good morning TOD 🙂
Much better than war ….
Hope all of you have a fine Friday … take care …. bbl ….
#TrustBarack