President Barack Obama shakes hands with German President Joachim Gauck during a meeting in the Oval Office. The two leaders participated in a bilateral meeting that marked the 25th anniversary of German reunification
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President Barack Obama is introduced by Terrance Wise, an organizer and fast food worker, at the White House Summit on Worker Voice
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President Barack Obama speaks during White House Summit on Worker Voice in the East Room of the White House. The summit is an effort to give unions, organizers and some businesses a platform to discuss wages and other issues
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President Barack Obama speaks during a event co-hosted by coworker.org during the White House Summit on Worker Voice. On stage with the president is Michelle Miller, co-founder of coworker.org
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The full conference with President Obama and Vice President Biden’s remarks
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President Barack Obama shakes a present that he received following a conversation co-hosted by coworker.org
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Hi NW!
Nice to see you in first place, GGail!
Hi there Judith - nice to see you 2 :-)
:)
Thanks NW for posting the President’s Day. I look forward to looking and listening when I get home, but, in the meantime - that’s a HAWT! picture of PBO taking off his…oh, it’s his jacket :D :D :D
LOL :D :D
:D - you’re disappointed too Betsy that it’s only his jacket :D :D
You betcha!!!! I just love my prezzzzz
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
😀😎
:)
Evening folks! Wonderful round-up, NW :)
‘Most of us know IBM’s Watson as a threat to humanity’s dominance of Jeopardy and the AI successor to a machine that similarly dethroned chessmaster Garry Kasparov. But now Watson wants to show us his more warm and chatty side, and he’s starting (oddly enough) by sitting down with the likes of Bob Dylan and Ken Jennings, the supercomputer’s trivia-spouting archenemy. In its new campaign, anchored by 30-second spots for IBM’s new cognitive computer consulting unit, Watson is shown talking with a guitar-wielding Dylan. The computer brags it can read 800 million pages per second, identifying key themes in Dylan’s work, like “time passes” and “love fades.”
In some ways, Watson has been for cognitive computing what Dylan was for folk: an icon of an emerging era. And like Dylan, Watson has also evolved (though Watson was always electric). The Dylan commercial is part of a new campaign created by Ogilvy & Mather to help explain how the 2,000-person division at IBM applies the supercomputer’s ability to ingest massive amounts of information such as medical data, media research or even song lyrics. In Dylan’s case, IBM data scientists applied five Watson services to 320 songs from the songwriter’s portfolio in order to understand trends within the music. The computer’s capabilities in distilling the information also include personality analysis, tone analyzer and key word extraction…continued’
Maybe Watson and I could write a song together; he sings about as well as do I.
Hi, LovelyP; it’s been a while!
Hello, VC! ….indeed it has been a fresh minute! I’ve been swamped with school and had a little break….figured I would check in and make sure everyone is still behaving :)
It’s LP!!!!!!!!
Howdy, Chips!!! Have you been relishing in Chelsea’s brilliance while I’ve been awal :???:
Well, I was LP - until United were obliterated by Arsenal :cry:
I missed that result…I’ve been drowning in my own pool of misery since football season started. Auburn is 3-2…esentially lost any chance of a National Championship after their 4rth game (best player was just kicked off the team Monday for punching 4 people at a bar for not letting his friend wear sunglasses in the club on Saturday) and my Colts are barely treading water with our QB with a partially dislocated shoulder and a 2-2 record :(
Oh crikey!! LP? Time for you and me to dump sport, it is RUINING our lives.
I tell you I have nothing to live for currently…well at least Thursday->Monday when games are played….at least NBA starts in a few weeks :???:
“I have nothing to live for currently”
:lol:
Humpff, so now you think you know how to identify good behaviour? Progress, I guess.
I took some IA cognitive science courses in college and loved them. Human language behavior is more complex than you think!
Interesting…I think the sky is the limit when it comes to this field. I kept getting flashbacks to that Scarlett Johansson movie “Her” when I saw this article :D
I need to see that!
Do see it. It’s very well done.
Congrats Gail :)
NW - you delight us every day with all that our President (and First Lady) accomplish for us. Thank you!!!
And, I just had to ….
One thing for sure, Hill’s hypocrisy and smarmy behavior is something we all must do everything we possibly can to not persist past the primaries.
Thus …. all hands on deck for #LetsRollJoe!!!!
bbl ….
:)
If I’m honest I’ll admit that I get confused by those countries that have both a president and a prime minister/chancellor - I mean, why do they need two leaders?
Hi Gx2, I see you up there!
One has little or no political power. The role of the President is the role that Monarchs were given when they lost their “right to rule” (well some lost their heads, but others were kept on to support tourism.) In the westminster system power rests with the head of Government who is the leader of the party with the most members in the lower house. This avoids the stalemate (and drama) that happens in the US when the President & the house majority belong to different parties. The President (or in the case of Oz, the Governor General) is the Head of State - does all the official ceremonies. In the US the head of State and Head of Government is one person.
In our system John Boehner would have been PM & he would have just been rolled - as was Tony Abbott. The difference - Boehner chose to resign - Abbott couldn’t believe he was going to lose - which in my book puts Boehner a step ahead of Abbott.
Hiya VC :-)
Neanderthals….she is awesome and knows her stuff BTW:
Hey Forus50 :cool:
Does this hideously deranged “doctor” still have a medical license?
I hope not!
This man if confronted by anyone with a gun would probably piss all over himself. Arming teachers or hiring teachers who are permitted to carry a weapon is just what schools need. A teacher getting pissed off by a mouthy kid and emptying her weapon into him. When will the GOP get the hint that these people go to college to become teachers not marksmen. Who is going to pay them to own a gun, get licensed, gun practice, etc. when we don’t pay them enough to own their own homes in some states. Police have to go to the gun range own their own time if they want to shot better. They are not required to spend time on the job to become good marksmen. I heard B.C. interviewed on NPR and this man is just nuts. The interviewer asked him many times what programs would he cut for the government to be balanced and he could not answer the question. Then he went on a military spending spree to show Putin who’s boss. Oh and he would not raise the debt ceiling until the government had a balanced budget. The interviewer had to explain to him the debt ceiling is based on money that was already spent not a budget, he had no clue…just that he would not raise the debt ceiling under no circumstances until we got our spending under control. Frightening that people want novices in the WH until their SS and Medicare ends.
Extremely frightening! We cannot allow the White House to be taken over by Republicans, again, for at least three decades.
Carson says he is a christian, where is his compassion for those people who loved ones were murder?
I think he sold it for a few months of political notoriety.
Bingo!
Unbelievable that this came out of his mouth. Is there no one in his family to correct him???!!!
He probably won’t allow it. Seems like that kinda guy. He’s “important,” dontcha know.
Or maybe they’ve all gone into witness protection 😀😀
True! :)
Agree. This was the point I was making about candidates from yesterday against TPP and Our President protecting tomorrow.
yellowbellysapsucker
LOLOLOLz!!
POTUS has beautiful hands.
#showoff
Long, slender, competent and comforting.
That’s hysterical about Trump’s hands. (Ugh.)
I WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE
I WILL REPEAL TPP
I WILL REPEAL IRAN AGREEMENT
I WILL REPEAL OBAMA
…
what? oh sorry, I just came back from a hillary campaign event.
You learned her lesson well. And did you hear she’ll “fix the economy”?
I WILL REPEAL THE ECONOMY
There ya go! To the head of the class with you.
ALSO. TOO. I WILL REPEAL SCHOOL.
Sure, why not? Repeal, Repeal, Repeal! Go RWNJ, all the way!
#ma
You’re killing me!!
And fix Syria!
I WILL REPEAL SYRIA …. IRAN…. ALSO. TOO. RUSSIA.
NEXT ? … WHAT? WALL STREET??? YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. … I QUIT.
Could you repeal Germany before Ireland have to play them in tomorrow’s Euro 2016 qualifier? Thanks.
TOO LATE. I ALREADY QUIT.
mutters to self …. typical effing ireesh.
the big J : love thy neighbor.
mutters … what does that hippie know.
If I can love Northern Ireland, you can love Pakistan. I said ‘if’.
#racist
Heh. You’re good.
This MUST be tweeted!
Good evening Nerdy, Chips & TOD! Congrats GGail on #1 :)
Happy Wednesday everyone :
Just now reading up on HRC’s latest pandering ploy?!?!?
:)
Thanks a traaaaaaaaazillion Nerdy!!
TraaaaaazilllionJILLION!!
Holy heck, that’s a HUUUUUUUUUGE number!!! :lol:
It’s Nerdy’s Number.
Is that how many points Chelsea have dropped this season? /runs
Oh noes…..
NW, I have no idea what she’s talking about…..
:lol:
Uuuuuuge! :-D
:)
90-DAY SUSPENSION !!!!
aren’t ya being a tad harsh on that poor fella, fifa?
While the clowns were being ridiculous, Our President was well, being the President .
Thanks NW :)
:)
I guess PBO has spoiled me and millions of others with his consistence and ability to stick to a hard but right decision (even when the majority of the country opposes him);
just a few things to recall where polls said the majority of American voters were opposed but PBO went ahead and did it any way because he believed it was the right thing to do for the future of the nation :
- economic stimulus,
- Detroit-car-bailout,
- Obamacare,
- fuel efficiency standards,
- reducing the number of military fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, ……..,
…….. just to mention part of a long list
but “some politicians” are really shameless in their lack of core convictions => they could even deny their parentage if the polls demanded that this was what was required for this moment in time;
Wise reflections, there, GCL!
so many people don’t get it - believing the beltway theme that has been pushed for long (namely that PBO does not have support)
This is the part of what folks don’t get…the President is Beloved…he is beloved because he has shown character…tenacity…courage…that he has shown love for God and country….that he has integrity….and i am sure we all can add to this list….
We Love Our President…and we do not take kindly to those who seek to trash him…NUff SAID
How in the world did we arrive at this hideous spot in space and time.
Make it stop.
I think we need to speed up our plans to build that TOD colony on a deserted island.
I’ve got the hammer if you’ll bring the nails.
Deal! Although, we better hurry up before you know who repeals hammers and nails.
ARGH!!
red tie. blue tie. what a flipflopper.
The current crop of announced Dem rivals …
… well, let’s just say they are not anything like the Prez and Vice Prez!
amen.
I have resigned myself to not being actively involved in politics except for voting (unless Joe jumps in). Will vote against GOP but no one comes close to our President.
It never ends.
Well as a black American, who have been black all my life, I don;t think anything of Ben Carson. And some rich old white bastard like Murdoch won’t change my mind.
A rich racist white billionaire whose fake news GOP nutwork promotes division everyday wants to tell REAL Americans whose a real black president.
oh, oh, I forgot.
I WILL ALSO REPEAL VACCINES.
leans back that smug smile that comes with knowing ‘I have triangulated all that shite well’.
What happens to a frog’s car when it breaks down?
It gets toad away.
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What did the duck say when he bought lipstick?
“Put it on my bill.”
What’s the difference between a cat and a complex sentence?
A cat has claws at the end of its paws and a complex sentence has a pause at the end of its clause.
#notmyfaultblameenglish
Jesus. No, no: double Jesus.
so, NOW you want my help?
If you can’t be saved - and you can’t - you can hardly save me.
Oy!
what? you don’t like ’em???
I got others if you want.
also. too. my desk is free.
***Alert: This is an excellent and, I think, heartfelt blog post. Don’t miss it. Roseburg, OR is my hometown. As you’ll see, comes with the hashtag of #DoSomething
View profile at Medium.com
What happened to the link I posted?!?
Try again: https://medium.com/@robinoula/roseburg-or-is-my-hometown-5c00d3df118b
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/07/chat-away-684/
Funny little addition but that´s actually quite a big thing for Gauck, since even though the German president is factually the head of state and highest ranked politician, he has very little power in any political process which means that many people outside of Germany dont even know we have a president. The most influencial and powerful German politician is the chancellos which means we usually send our presidents to events commemorating stuff (or former presidents to giving awards to my school, whoot!), but the last president was actually a bit sad about never having met PBO when he was in Berlin, because unlike the chancellor and the mayor of Berlin he wasn´t “considered important” for this event. :D