Obama lipstick on collar happened at a celebration for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The president referred to the smear in his remarks at the event Tuesday night.
By Peter Grier,?Staff Writer / May 29, 2013
President Obama points to lipstick marks on his collar in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday night. 'A sign of the warmth is the lipstick on my collar,' he said.
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Because an enthusiastic supporter had put it there accidentally, that?s why. He referred to that right up top as his way of softening up the crowd. Truth be told, he was already pretty happy to be there, as it was a celebration for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Having been raised in Hawaii, Mr. Obama is something of a Pacific Islander himself.
Anyway, the president began by thanking everybody for the warmth of his reception.
?A sign of the warmth is the lipstick on my collar,? he said.
Then he said he knew the culprit, and he asked to see a woman named Jessica Sanchez.
?It wasn?t Jessica. It was her aunt. Where is she?? he said as the room dissolved in laughter.
Obama then made the obvious point that he did not want to get in trouble with the first lady on this.
?That?s why I?m calling you out right in front of everybody,? he said to the aunt in question.
The president had to say something about the smear, right? It was a pretty obvious lip imprint, right up there near his necktie. It was going to show up in pictures and become the subject of a thousand gossip blogs.
If Obama?s reelection campaign showed anything, it is that he and his advisers understand the power of nontraditional media and their ability to shape the president?s image. All those appearances by him and Michelle on everything from ?The View? to ?Dr. Oz? were a big part of his campaign strategy. A lipstick smear? That?s good for a week of special reports on ?Ellen.? Reddit would probably have done another of its crowd-source analysis things, measuring the parameters of the smear and then comparing them to pictures of lips in the crowd, eventually proving beyond a doubt that it could only have come from Joe Biden, or something like that.
Of course we?ve got our own conspiracy theory: Political guru David Axelrod had somebody put it there on purpose. A speechwriter then scripted impromptu remarks on the stain for Obama, loosening up the crowd and distracting the news media from the IRS scandal, Justice-ordered seizure of reporters' phone records, and so forth.
Looks like we can add ?Hornswoggle? to the list of lucky charms: After the WWE star signed on to play the title role in a reboot of horror series ?Leprechaun,? the film has finally found its director.
The Wrap reports that visual effects specialist Zach Lipovsky will helm the long-awaited feature, based on the 1993 flick starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Anniston. Lipovsky, who got his big break when he won the short-lived Steven Spielberg-Mark Burnett reality series ?On the Lot,? has directed numerous short films and TV movies, but never a theatrical feature.
?Leprechaun,? which toed the line between horror and comedy and spawned several sequels, focused on an evil leprechaun searching for his pot of gold and dodging four-leaf clovers. Producers of the reboot have been mum about what screenwriter Harris Wilkinson?s script entails, preferring the franchise?s new direction remain a mystery ? though Hornswoggle?s WWE affiliation (and Irish in-the-ring persona) ensures that the new villain should be able to kick some gold-stealing butt.
The film is a joint venture between Lionsgate and WWE studios. No word yet on production or release dates, but here?s hoping Hornswoggle?s involvement keeps the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the original intact.
PARIS (AP) ? Roger Federer walked onto Court Suzanne Lenglen, smiled when greeted with applause and looked up into the stands, where three youngsters waved a banner that read, "Roger 4 Ever."
Forever? Probably not, but Federer easily outlasted qualifier Somdev Devvarman in the second round of the French Open, winning 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 Wednesday.
Top-ranked Serena Williams also showed staying power, extending her career-best winning streak to 26 matches by beating wild card Caroline Garcia of France, 6-1, 6-2.
While Williams looks unbeatable of late, Federer has yet to win a tournament this year, the first time he has arrived at Roland Garros without a title since 2000. But he's rested and healthy, and his vast repertoire of shots was on full display against the overmatched Devvarman, who is ranked 188th and now 0-9 against top-10 players.
"I tried to finish the match quite quickly, because I was afraid it would rain," Federer said. "So I was very focused, and I'm very happy for that."
The No. 2-seeded Federer glided across the clay, hitting winners from all over the court ? even beyond the alleys ? and looking at ease on a surface that once vexed him.
He moved ahead of Budge Patty into third place on the men's list for match victories at Roland Garros with 56. Guillermo Vilas and Nicola Pietrangeli share the record of 58.
When Federer finally took the Roland Garros title in 2009, Federer completed a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 major titles. He now seeks a record 18th major title, and his first since Wimbledon last year.
Through two rounds, both against qualifiers, Federer has lost only 11 games.
"I'm happy that I was playing offensive and aggressive tennis in the first two matches," he said. "I didn't back off and start to play passive tennis and wait for mistakes. I took it to my opponent."
Williams has dropped just four games so far. She played the day's final match and finished in a hurry, committing only nine unforced errors never facing a break point.
"It's important for me to win easily," she said. "It's also important for me to play well. If I play well, it will bode well for me at Roland Garros."
Speaking French to the crowd during a post-match interview, Williams was asked what she plans to work on in practice.
"I'd like to improve everything. My French, too," she said, laughing.
The No. 1-ranked Williams seeks her first French Open title since 2002. She last reached the semifinal in 2003.
Since losing in the first round a year ago at Roland Garros, Williams is 69-3, including titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the London Olympics and the season-ending WTA Championships.
While Williams and Federer savored their latest successes, Jamie Hampton earned her first career French Open victory, an upset of No. 25 Lucie Safarova 7-6 (5), 3-6, 9-7. With her win, American women finished the first round 10-5.
Also part of the resurgence in U.S. fortunes was No. 29 Varvara Lepchenko, who reached the third round by whacking 22 forehand winners to defeat Elina Svitolina 7-6 (5), 6-1.
"A couple years ago, we weren't even in the scene," Hampton said. "There wasn't even a group of us. We've progressed, and I think the whole group will continue to progress. We've all got really good games. We're just trying to find our way on the clay right now."
Three Americans did stumble in the second round ? Madison Keys, Mallory Burdette and Shelby Rogers. Keys was beaten in the twilight by Monica Puig 6-4, 7-6 (2), Burdette lost to No. 4-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3, 6-2, and Rogers squandered a lead against No. 20 Carla Suarez Navarro, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
American Sam Querrey, seeded 18th, reached the third round at Roland Garros for the first time by sweeping Jan Hajek 6-4, 7-5, 6-4.
The day began with No. 3 Victoria Azarenka filling a mostly empty stadium court with her familiar shrieks as she beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-4 in a first-round match postponed one day because of rain. That meant Azarenka reached the second round 72 hours after some players.
"I felt like I'm one of the last ones to start," she said. "It was a long wait, but I think performance-wise it was a good match."
Azarenka waited in vain to play for much of the day on a rainy Tuesday, but said she wasn't flustered by the delay.
"I just really was chilling the whole day, watching 'The Voice,'" she said. "It was incredible. I was so entertained. There's this girl, her name is Judith. She was a duet singer with Michael Jackson. She's absolutely incredible. I mean, I have no idea how sounds like that can come out of somebody's mouth. It's just, wow."
Fans might say the same thing about Azarenka, who wore down Vesnina with her noisy but steady baseline game, committing only 13 unforced errors.
Sara Errani, the 2012 runner-up to Maria Sharapova, beat Yulia Putintseva 6-1, 6-1. Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki lost to Bojana Jovanovski 7-6 (2), 6-3.
In other men's second-round play, No. 4 David Ferrer broke serve eight times and beat fellow Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-1, 6-3. No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France eliminated Jarkko Nieminen 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-3. No. 10 Marin Cilic defeated 18-year-old Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.
May 28, 2013 ? What may be the ultimate heat sink is only possible because of yet another astounding capability of graphene. The one-atom-thick form of carbon can act as a go-between that allows vertically aligned carbon nanotubes to grow on nearly anything.
That includes diamonds. A diamond film/graphene/nanotube structure was one result of new research carried out by scientists at Rice University and the Honda Research Institute USA, reported today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.
The heart of the research is the revelation that when graphene is used as a middleman, surfaces considered unusable as substrates for carbon nanotube growth now have the potential to do so. Diamond happens to be a good example, according to Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and Honda chief scientist Avetik Harutyunyan.
Diamond conducts heat very well, five times better than copper. But its available surface area is very low. By its very nature, one-atom-thick graphene is all surface area. The same could be said of carbon nanotubes, which are basically rolled-up tubes of graphene. A vertically aligned forest of carbon nanotubes grown on diamond would disperse heat like a traditional heat sink, but with millions of fins. Such an ultrathin array could save space in small microprocessor-based devices.
"Further work along these lines could produce such structures as patterned nanotube arrays on diamond that could be utilized in electronic devices," Ajayan said. Graphene and metallic nanotubes are also highly conductive; in combination with metallic substrates, they may also have uses in advanced electronics, he said.
To test their ideas, the Honda team grew various types of graphene on copper foil by standard chemical vapor deposition. They then transferred the tiny graphene sheets to diamond, quartz and other metals for further study by the Rice team.
They found that only single-layer graphene worked well, and sheets with ripples or wrinkles worked best. The defects appeared to capture and hold the airborne iron-based catalyst particles from which the nanotubes grow. The researchers think graphene facilitates nanotube growth by keeping the catalyst particles from clumping.
Ajayan thinks the extreme thinness of graphene does the trick. In a previous study, the Rice lab found graphene shows materials coated with graphene can get wet, but the graphene provides protection against oxidation. "That might be one of the big things about graphene, that you can have a noninvasive coating that keeps the property of the substrate but adds value," he said. "Here it allows the catalytic activity but stops the catalyst from aggregating."
Testing found that the graphene layer remains intact between the nanotube forest and the diamond or other substrate. On a metallic substrate like copper, the entire hybrid is highly conductive.
Such seamless integration through the graphene interface would provide low-contact resistance between current collectors and the active materials of electrochemical cells, a remarkable step toward building high-power energy devices, said Rice research scientist and co-author Leela Mohana Reddy Arava.
Co-authors of the study are Honda senior scientists Rahul Rao and Gugang Chen; Rice graduate student Kaushik Kalaga; Masahiro Ishigami, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Central Florida; and Tony Heinz, the D.M. Rickey Professor of Physics at Columbia University. Ajayan is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry at Rice.
The research was supported by the Honda Research Institute.
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I am new to C++ and I am stuck on an assignment and I can not figure out what I am doing wrong for nothing.
Here is what I need to do:
In most companies the amount of vacation you receive depends on the number of years you've been with the company. Create a c++ program that will allow the user to enter the number of years and you output the weeks of vacation according to the following:
0 years, 0 weeks vacation
1-5 years, 1 weeks vacation
6-10 years, 2 weeks vacation
11+ years, 3 weeks vacation
Prompt the user if they would like to enter another employee. Also personalize your program by naming your company!
Here is what I have:
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main( ) { int years; bool tryAgain = true; while ( tryAgain == true ) { cout << "How many years have you been with us?\n"; cin >> years; if (years = 0) { cout << Sorry, no vacation days yet available\n; } else if (years >= 5 ) { cout >> Congratulations, you have 1 week Vacation!\n"; } } else if (years <5 >10 ) { cout >> Congratulations, you have 2 week Vacation!\n"; } } else if (years <11 100 ) { cout >> Congratulations, you have 3 week Vacation!\n"; } char choice; cout << "Would another employee like to enter their data? <y/n> : "; cin >> choice; if ( choice == 'n' || choice == 'N' ) { tryAgain = false; } } return 0; }
Can someone PLEASE tell me what I am doing wrong so I can fix it correctly? Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!
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You don't say what the issue is, but I noticed that on line 16 you're using an assignment = where you want to use a comparison operator ==.
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Posted Yesterday, 07:08 PM
So what seems to be the problem with your program? Please ask specific questions.
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It is not working correctly. For instance, on line 18, it keeps giving me an error that says cout is undefined, and I do not know what that means.
Im basically wanting someone to help me figure out what is right, what is wrong, am i using the right comparison operators? Why am I getting error(s)? etc.
Thanks!
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On line 18 look at the direction of the >>
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Im basically wanting someone to help me figure out what is right, what is wrong,
This a job for your compiler, if you get compile errors post the complete error messages exactly as they appear in your development environment. These warnings and errors tell you the where and why of your errors. Although they can at times be cryptic you need to start learning how to read these messages.
Very often you might find yourself struggling to accomplish something, let go of something or someone or make some kind of change. You may want to be happier, wealthier, or more successful. You may want to have closer, more loving relationships. Or you may want to travel, take a wonderful vacation, or change your career, or have a more successful business. You work hard, you do all the things you think you should do or that people tell you to do and yet it doesn?t seem to happen for you. The answer may be very simple.
Most of the time, the only thing that?s stopping you is you. You may simply need to give yourself permission to do, be or have what you want. That sounds so simple doesn?t it? It is, and yet it?s not always so easy.
It seems silly to think that if you want something you may not have given yourself permission to have it. Yet it?s true. Very often that can be the thing that holds you back. Think of something you want, and ask yourself if you?ve given yourself permission to have it. If you ask and answer honestly ? and journaling can help you discover your answer ? you might find that there?s a part of you that does not what you to have it and doesn?t give permission.
So the question is are you willing to give yourself permission to have what you want? If the answer is yes, then you simply acknowledge that to yourself.
What do you want to give yourself permission for? Create an affirmation for yourself:
I give myself permission to:
Release all excess weight
Have a close and loving relationship
Love myself
Have a successful business
Be myself
Take a fabulous trip
Make new friends
Make the money I know I deserve
Be a successful business owner
Have a new career
Open myself up to new possibilities for my life
Let go of fear
etc?
Create your affirmation and repeat it to yourself daily. Write it down. Notice how your body feels when you say it and write it. How do you feel? What thoughts come up for you? Do you feel resistance as you say or write it?
If you feel any discomfort, if you feel excuses or arguments coming into your thoughts, or if you feel any resistance at all, you will know that there?s a part of you that is withholding permission. You?ll want to find out what part of you that is. Perhaps it?s the voice of a parent or someone else. Perhaps it?s a part of your personality that?s afraid of what will happen if/when you have what you want.
Sometimes this is the only thing that?s holding you back. You just don?t have your permission to go for what you want. So what are you going to give yourself permission to do, be or have?
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In a casual conversation in what was meant to welcome me to my new city, a white neighbor uncomfortably reminded of me the racial challenges that remain very much intact in the South between white folk and people of color, when he candidly referenced the degree of crime in the city as being the province of the ignorant, uneducated and low income ?blacks? in the neighborhood.?
No code words were necessary. He expressed concern regarding the racial ?other? moving into the white-dominated communities, causing a shifting of geography (white flight) within the city and surrounding areas of Memphis. (Amazingly, he openly discussed these issues with me, as he conveyed that I was an ?exception? to other blacks he encounters on a day-to-day basis.)
Dr. Darron Smith, writing over at the Grio, has a nice piece on race and crime as experienced in Memphis, Tennessee that is worth reading.
I appreciate the sincerity of his argument and concerns about black youth violence.
Inspired by Cornel West's essay some years ago, I have written about the problem of black nihilism and its toxic impact on young people several times. I am no closer to a solution or any particularly brilliant insight on the matter.
Perhaps, there is no easy answer to a problem that was centuries in the making. However, I have come to one qualifier in my thinking on these matters: the nihilism of the ghetto youthocracy and their Chief Keef heroes that kill dozens (if not hundreds) of other black people every week across the country are a symptom of a larger crisis in American cultural values.
The United States has one of the highest rates of inter-personal violence in the world. Americans worship the gun and donate their children to its cult of death. The United States is an imperialist power that kills abroad at will. The United States is a society typified by consumerism, media spectacle, Facebook narcissism, a reality TV show culture that promises that anyone can be famous for doing nothing, and gross wealth and wage inequality. Together those elements (and others) have created a national crisis of meaning wherein human life is equated with ability to buy things and hurt others without consequence.
The nihilism of many black ghetto underclass youth is a function of a debased type of biopolitics that reflects the values of the neo liberal national security corporate democratic surveillance State.
A question. How do we take the macro-level and institutional analysis of these dynamics as described by Darron below and apply it to actionable interventions on the day-to-day?
Memphis is ranked as the tenth deadliest city in the nation. Since I arrived here, not a week has gone by when a young black male under the age of 25 has not been injured or killed as a result of interpersonal conflict within predominately black spaces and, subsequently, reported on the nightly news. The face of crime is young, black and male, and those young men are typecast as angry, overly violent, aggressive and a general menace to society.?
That image pervades our thinking, informing our manufactured understanding that all black men are to be feared and are, thus, potential suspects in a police lineup. Inequality in society makes crime more likely as populations must find ways to cope with despair. Having few socially acceptable coping skills, black men often lash out, defending what little they may possess in the form of manhood and pride.
What my neighbor failed to realize, like most white Americans, is that these circumstances are realities that create the conditions that give rise to crime and deviance and can fuel society?s perceptions of crime that lead to unjust characterizations.
I am left confused and spent by these conversations about how institutions intersect with personal behavior and choices. My response is as follows: all of what Dr. Smith may have written here is true. But, so what?
By Linda Binns ?