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Summer is approaching and Super Cool Bras filled with ice will keep them cool. It does save on an AC bill, and what the heck, maybe you can also wear this on your head. It worked in the movie, Weird Science. Yes, Robert Downey Jr wore one too.
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Yeah he flashed the Shaka. Perhaps the only President to do it and mean it. [youtube]kuECVACmJhs[/youtube]
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This is from a design studio, it’s not real, it’s a concept. It may just end up as a Kickstarter. It looks great, fits the concept of Instagram and perhaps one day, may be real. That said, I can draw a time travel device that fits into my pocket. Anti-nuclear waste capsules that’ll clean the Earth in a moment. Happy gas for sad people. Name it, it’s a concept. Concepts are cool, but this is already being posted as something that’s coming. It may take a while. (adr - Social Cam)
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 8, 2012 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE 18TH ANNUAL GALA OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONGRESSIONAL STUDIES Ritz Carlton Washington, D.C. 5:46 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you. AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, please, please, have a seat. Have a seat. You’re making me blush. (Laughter.) Mahalo! AUDIENCE: Mahalo! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you, Norm, for that kind introduction. More importantly, thank you for your lifetime of distinguished service to our country. I want to thank all the members of Congress who are with us — including two people who are fighting hard every day on behalf of every member of this community — Judy Chu and Mike Honda. Give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) Now, I am thrilled to be here tonight because all of you hold a special place in my heart. When I think about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, I think about my family — my sister, Maya; my brother-in-law, Konrad who’s in the house somewhere — (applause.) I don’t know where Konrad is. My nieces Suhaila and Savita. I think about all the folks I grew up with in Honolulu, as part of the — (applause) – AUDIENCE MEMBER: Aloha! (Laughter.) THE PRESIDENT: As part of the Hawaiian ohana. I think about the years I spent in Indonesia. So for me, coming here feels a little bit like home. This is a community that helped to make me who I am today. It’s a community that helped make America the country that it is today. So your heritage spans the world. But what unites everyone is that in all of your families you have stories of perseverance that are uniquely American. Some of you — those from Hawaii or the Pacific Islands — (applause) — live where your family has lived for generations and your story is, in part, about keeping alive treasured native traditions. But for others, your story starts with ancestors who, at some point, left behind everything they knew to seek the promise of a new land. Maybe the story traces back a century and a half, to the laborers who risked their lives to connect our coasts by rail. Maybe it begins with one of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who, decades ago, made the tough journey to Angel Island. Maybe the story starts with your parents. Or maybe it starts with you. But here’s the thing. No matter when it began, no matter where it began, your stories are about someone who came here looking for new opportunities not merely for themselves, but for their children, and for their children’s children, and for all generations to come. Few of them had money. A lot of them didn’t have belongings. But what they did have was...
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Princeton students pay the high tuition, staged a sit in for 36 hours (yes, it’s like burning cash for the greater good) and now they have a class relating to Asian America. Taught by Anne Cheng who once invited me to speak at an event called Too Cute! along with Yoshitomo Nara – this is just a tiny start. (Dailyprincetonian – Asian American) Also… (Too Cute! Link, Travelin’ with Yoshitomo Nara)
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