Obama daughters find him 'just the right amount of embarrassing'

President Obama nearly aced a pop-culture quiz on ABC's "The View" this morning and talked about how the first daughters find him "embarrassing, but not too embarrassing."

"Malia and Sasha and a bunch of my friends and Michelle had sort of like a roast, a little private roast, each one of them read something and Malia and Sasha had written out why I am such a wonderful dad," he said, recalling a private roast for his 50th birthday party last year. "And they had this list, it was so sweet, and one of the items on Malia's list was, 'You are just the right amount of embarrassing.'"

Obama also blushed when a now-famous clip of his singing an Al Green song was played but declined when asked to sing a few bars.

"Michelle gets jealous when I sing too much," he said, adding that she thinks it's a "private thing."

The hosts asked Obama what kinds of rules he has for his daughters in terms of technology and "e-tegrity."

He said oldest daughter Malia didn't get a phone until last year. She will turn 14 July 4. Sasha does not have a phone. She'll be 11 next month. The girls don't have Facebook pages and can only use their computers for schoolwork during the week. Cellphones and TV are reserved for the weekend, too.

Obama has a Twitter account, but is usually not the one doing the actual tweeting, he said.

"I'm not much of a tweeter," he said. "I do it once in a while, but, as Michelle said, I'm too long-winded for 140 characters."

The president also talked about how the first lady keeps him grounded by teasing him "mercilessly" on everything from his ears to the way he shakes a handful of peanuts in his hand before popping them into his mouth one at a time.

"She is just relentless, but it is good for you, especially in the White House" he said in the wide-ranging interview that was taped in New York Monday. "You know, you got a bunch of people around who are always laughing at your jokes and thinking you're funny and all that stuff, and Michelle's like, 'Really? This guy?'"

The talk also turned to sports, one of the president's favorite pastimes. He has been volunteering to coach his daughter's basketball team, the Vipers, which he said was the most fun he has had in a long time.

When asked who he predicted would win the NBA finals, the diehard Chicago fan said, "Now that the Bulls are out, I've just been pouting."

The show's hosts put the president's pop-culture knowledge to the test when they asked him a series of entertainment questions.

His first question was about which Kardashian was married for 72 days.

"That would be Kim," he said. "Because it was a ball player. That's how I know, from watching basketball," he said referring to Kardashian's ex-husband, NBA player Kris Humphries.

When asked whether he knew the name of a "controversial sex book" on millions of women's shelves, he said after pausing to think, "I don't know that."

"I'll ask Michelle when I get home," he added to laughter from the audience. The book is "Fifty Shades of Grey."

Obama didn't know that Jessica Simpson had had a baby, but knew that co-host Sherri Shepherd was on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and could name three characters from "The Avengers" because he had recently watched the movie.

He also knew that "Modern Family" is the sitcom that has a gay couple at the center of the show, saying, "Malia and Sasha love that show."

In terms of his own viewing habits, he said that sports shows are his favorite guilty pleasure.

"Michelle will say that I will watch any sport," he said. "It doesn't matter; curling, pool, the luge."

He said he likes to DVR "Mad Men" and "Homeland" for long flights and that his preferred snacks are guacamole and salsa with chips and French fries.

This marked Obama's fourth appearance on "The View," his second as president. He made history as the first sitting president to make an appearance on daytime television when he visited the women of "The View" July 2010.

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Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber ...

Manny Farber (1917-2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called ?termite art? (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to ?white elephant? monumentality), master of a one-of-a- kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him ?the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced?; for Peter Bogdanovich, he was ?razor-sharp in his perceptions? and ?never less than brilliant as a writer.?

Farber was an early discoverer of many filmmakers later acclaimed as American masters: Val Lewton, Preston Sturges, Samuel Fuller, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann. A prodigiously gifted painter himself, he brought to his writing an artist?s eye for what was on the screen. Alert to any filmmaker, no matter how marginal or unsung, who was ?doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it,? he was uncompromising in his contempt for pretension and trendiness-for, as he put it, directors who ?pin the viewer to the wall and slug him with wet towels of artiness and significance.?

The excitement of his criticism, however, has less to do with his particular likes and dislikes than with the quality of attention he paid to each film as it unfolds, to the ?chains of rapport and intimate knowledge? in its moment-to- moment reality. To transcribe that knowledge he created a prose that, in Robert Polito?s words, allows for ?oddities, muddles, crises, contradictions, dead ends, multiple alternatives, and divergent vistas.? The result is critical essays that are themselves works of art.

Farber on Film contains this extraordinary body of work in its entirety for the first time, from his early and previously uncollected weekly reviews for The New Republic and The Nation to his brilliant later essays (some written in collaboration with his wife Patricia Patterson) on Godard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Scorsese, Altman, and others. Featuring an introduction by editor Robert Polito that examines in detail the stages of Farber?s career and his enduring significance as writer and thinker, Farber on Film is a landmark volume that will be a classic in American criticism.

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Canon firmware update for XF camcorders incoming, brings broadcast friendly format along

Canon firmware update for XF Camcorders incoming, brings broadcast friendly format along
Still loving your XF video shooter from Canon, but lamenting the lack of 1440 x 1080, 35 mbps HD? Better sit down on your director's chair then, as it looks like a forthcoming firmware update for the series adds exactly this (at both 50i and 60i.) The format is popular with broadcast and news, and no doubt Canon is hoping to broaden the appeal of the XF line by bundling it in -- or smoothing the workflow of existing owners. The update will be available to all four cameras in the range (XF100, XF105, XF300, and XF305,) and you'll be able to start shooting with it from end of May.

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HTC launches trio of Dragons in China, Ice Cream Sandwich on all

HTC launches trio of Dragons in China, Ice Cream Sandwich on all
HTC's been far from quiet since unveiling its One series to the masses, and today the company's continuing the trend by launching three new devices in China. This trio makes up HTC's Dragon lineup, which our partners at Engadget China first met at MWC. Leading the way is the 4-inch HTC VT T328t for China Mobile, featuring Sense 4, an S-LCD, WVGA screen, a 1GHz CPU alongside 512MB of RAM, the famed Beats Audio and of course, it's running a flavor of Android ICS. As for the VC T328d (Telecom) and V T328w (Unicom), they're both rocking similar specs as the VT model, with the exception of dual-SIM card slots on each. All three Dragons are expected to be available by month's end, but save for the T328w costing 1999 yuan (around $320), pricing remains a mystery.

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3 Stocks Near 52-Week Lows Worth Buying

While many investors would rather have nothing to do with companies tipping the scales at 52-week lows, I think it makes a lot of sense to determine whether the market has overreacted to the downside, just as we often do to the upside.
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ALMA reveals workings of nearby planetary system

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Dust ring around star shows signs of 'shepherding' planets

A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. The scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be much smaller than originally thought.

The discovery, which helped resolve a controversy among earlier observers of the system, was made possible by high-resolution images of a disk, or ring, of dust orbiting the star, about 25 light-years from Earth. The ALMA images show that both the inner and outer edges of the thin, dusty disk have very sharp edges. That fact, combined with computer simulations, led the scientists to conclude that the dust particles in the disk are kept within the disk by the gravitational effect of two planets -- one closer to the star than the disk and one more distant.

Their calculations also indicated the probable size of the planets -- larger than Mars but no larger than a few times the size of the Earth. This is much smaller than astronomers had previously thought. In 2008, a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image had revealed the inner planet, then thought to be larger than Saturn, the second-largest planet in our Solar System. However, later observations with infrared telescopes failed to detect the planet.

That failure led some astronomers to doubt the existence of the planet in the HST image. Also, the HST visible-light image detected very small dust grains that are pushed outward by the star's radiation, thus blurring the structure of the dusty disk. The ALMA observations, at wavelengths longer than those of visible light, traced larger dust grains -- about 1 millimeter in diameter -- that are not moved by the star's radiation. This clearly revealed the disk's sharp edges, which indicate the gravitational effect of the two planets.

"Combining ALMA observations of the ring's shape with computer models, we can place very tight limits on the mass and orbit of any planet near the ring," said Aaron Boley, a Sagan Fellow at the University of Florida, leader of the study. "The masses of these planets must be small; otherwise the planets would destroy the ring," he added. The small sizes of the planets explain why the earlier infrared observations failed to detect them, the scientists said.

The ALMA research shows that the ring's width is about 16 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth, and is only one-seventh as thick as it is wide. "The ring is even more narrow and thinner than previously thought," said Matthew Payne, also of the University of Florida.

The ring is about 140 times the Sun-Earth distance from the star. In our own Solar System, Pluto is about 40 times more distant from the Sun than the Earth. "Because of the small size of the planets near this ring and their large distance from their host star, they are among the coldest planets yet found orbiting a normal star," Boley said.

The scientists observed the Fomalhaut system in September and October of 2011, when only about a quarter of ALMA's planned 66 antennas were available. When construction is completed next year, the full system will be much more capable. ALMA's new capabilities, however, revealed the telltale structure that had eluded earlier millimeter-wave observers.

"ALMA may still be under construction, but it already has proven to be the world's most powerful telescope for observing the Universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths," said Stuartt Corder, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a member of the observing team. The scientists will report their findings in an upcoming edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The effect of planets or moons in keeping a dust ring's edges sharp was first seen when the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Saturn in 1980 and made detailed images of that planet's ring system. One ring of the planet Uranus is confined sharply by the moons Cordelia and Ophelia, in exactly the manner the ALMA observers propose for the ring around Fomalhaut. The moons confining those planets' rings are dubbed "shepherding moons."

The moons or planets confining such dust rings do so through gravitational effects. A planet on the inside of the ring is orbiting the star more rapidly than the dust particles in the ring. Its gravity adds energy to the particles, pushing them outward. A planet on the ring's outside is moving more slowly than the dust particles, and its gravity decreases the energy of the particles, making them fall slightly inward.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.

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Dust ring around star shows signs of 'shepherding' planets

A new observatory still under construction has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system that can provide valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. The scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be much smaller than originally thought.

The discovery, which helped resolve a controversy among earlier observers of the system, was made possible by high-resolution images of a disk, or ring, of dust orbiting the star, about 25 light-years from Earth. The ALMA images show that both the inner and outer edges of the thin, dusty disk have very sharp edges. That fact, combined with computer simulations, led the scientists to conclude that the dust particles in the disk are kept within the disk by the gravitational effect of two planets -- one closer to the star than the disk and one more distant.

Their calculations also indicated the probable size of the planets -- larger than Mars but no larger than a few times the size of the Earth. This is much smaller than astronomers had previously thought. In 2008, a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image had revealed the inner planet, then thought to be larger than Saturn, the second-largest planet in our Solar System. However, later observations with infrared telescopes failed to detect the planet.

That failure led some astronomers to doubt the existence of the planet in the HST image. Also, the HST visible-light image detected very small dust grains that are pushed outward by the star's radiation, thus blurring the structure of the dusty disk. The ALMA observations, at wavelengths longer than those of visible light, traced larger dust grains -- about 1 millimeter in diameter -- that are not moved by the star's radiation. This clearly revealed the disk's sharp edges, which indicate the gravitational effect of the two planets.

"Combining ALMA observations of the ring's shape with computer models, we can place very tight limits on the mass and orbit of any planet near the ring," said Aaron Boley, a Sagan Fellow at the University of Florida, leader of the study. "The masses of these planets must be small; otherwise the planets would destroy the ring," he added. The small sizes of the planets explain why the earlier infrared observations failed to detect them, the scientists said.

The ALMA research shows that the ring's width is about 16 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth, and is only one-seventh as thick as it is wide. "The ring is even more narrow and thinner than previously thought," said Matthew Payne, also of the University of Florida.

The ring is about 140 times the Sun-Earth distance from the star. In our own Solar System, Pluto is about 40 times more distant from the Sun than the Earth. "Because of the small size of the planets near this ring and their large distance from their host star, they are among the coldest planets yet found orbiting a normal star," Boley said.

The scientists observed the Fomalhaut system in September and October of 2011, when only about a quarter of ALMA's planned 66 antennas were available. When construction is completed next year, the full system will be much more capable. ALMA's new capabilities, however, revealed the telltale structure that had eluded earlier millimeter-wave observers.

"ALMA may still be under construction, but it already has proven to be the world's most powerful telescope for observing the Universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths," said Stuartt Corder, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a member of the observing team. The scientists will report their findings in an upcoming edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The effect of planets or moons in keeping a dust ring's edges sharp was first seen when the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Saturn in 1980 and made detailed images of that planet's ring system. One ring of the planet Uranus is confined sharply by the moons Cordelia and Ophelia, in exactly the manner the ALMA observers propose for the ring around Fomalhaut. The moons confining those planets' rings are dubbed "shepherding moons."

The moons or planets confining such dust rings do so through gravitational effects. A planet on the inside of the ring is orbiting the star more rapidly than the dust particles in the ring. Its gravity adds energy to the particles, pushing them outward. A planet on the ring's outside is moving more slowly than the dust particles, and its gravity decreases the energy of the particles, making them fall slightly inward.

###

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.



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Health Care Network | Health & Fitness File, April 11

Health Care Network Inc.

Free Flu Shots for Uninsured: Health Care Network Inc., 904 State St., will pick out uninsured Racine County residents and give them with a giveaway influenza shot document that will be great until April 15. These vouchers will be redeemable at any Walgreens place that offers influenza shots. For more information, call HealthCare Network Inc. at(262) 632-2400.

Taoist Tai Chi Societyof the United States

Tai Chi Beginner Classes: Beginner classes final 4 months, during that students pick up the Taoist Tai Chi set, that incorporates stretching and branch inside of a coming after of movements that upgrade the illness of body, thoughts and spirit. Diligent use can lower tension, upgrade flow around and change and enlarge strength and flexibility. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Prospective students can attend their initial category at no obligation. Monthly fees: $40 adults, $25 seniors. DeKoven Center, public hall, 600 21st St. (enter on Wisconsin Avenue side of property). Call (262) 902-0725.

Wilson Funeral Home

Grief Work ?Helping Hands for Healing Hearts: Maria Malin, bereaved mother, writer and motivational speaker, will present ?Seeking Life-Signs from Our Loved Ones.? Malin?s son, Steven, died in an collision in 2003. She discusses strong ways to feel desired ones? one after another mystic presence. 2-3 p.m. April 21. Free, fears are required, email info@wilsonfuneralhomeracine.com or call (262) 634-3361. Wilson Funeral Home, 1212 Lathrop Ave.

American Red Cross

Classes are hold at the Red Cross Office, 4521 Taylor Ave. Register online at www.redcross.org or call (888) 733-2767.

Babysitter Training: This march gives girl ages 11-15 the expertise and certainty to care for infants and school-age young kids by mixing video, activities, hands-on skills training and discussion. 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. April 21. Fee: $85.

Adult CPR/AED with First Aid: Participants will pick up to agree to and reply fittingly to cardiac, respirating and initial assist emergencies. 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. April 24. Fee: $90.

Fitness File is published every Wednesday and includes notices of nonprofit aptness and health-related programs. The deadline to contention an statement is 7 days before the desired publication date. Mail data to Fitness File, c/o Diane Collins, 212 Fourth St., Racine, WI 53403; fax to (262) 631-1780; or contention it to the online monthly calendar at www.journaltimes.com/calendar and use the ?Health-and-fitness? category.

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