Michelle Obama’s annual Q&A session with the children of Executive Office employees took an unusual turn when a young girl told America’s First Lady that her father had been out of work for three years – and then popped up to hand over his CV.
The President’s wife seemed taken aback and then explained to the other children, who might not have heard the girl’s comment, that it was a private matter but the girl was “doing something for her dad”.
She promised to deal with the issue later.
When the event at the White House ended, the First Lady gave the girl a hug and then reached back to grab the CV off a table as she left the East Room.
Old Hollywood photos unearthed
Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet are to be exhibited for the first time.
Thousands of images, including pictures of Audrey Hepburn and Dirk Bogarde, taken by photographer George Douglas were discovered at his Brighton home by neighbour and fellow photographer Roger Bamber, who inherited the property following his friend’s death.
The negatives, which had not seen the light of day for years, include images from the 1940s to the 1960s of Gary Cooper, former US President Harry Truman, Roger Moore and Peter Sellers and 30 pictures from the archive will go on display at Douglas’s former home in Sillwood Road as part of the Artists Open Houses festival in May.
Eating at 24 restaurants in one day
The mayor of a small town in the Philadelphia suburbs offered a guarantee to his constituents: he would not be going to bed hungry.
Jenkintown mayor Ed Foley set about eating at every one of the town’s 24 restaurants in one day to draw attention to its burgeoning restaurant scene. He said before his 16th stop of the day that he had had to battle “mom guilt” from restaurant staff as he was eating his way around the borough.
The second-term Democrat said he was not counting calories, but he did weigh himself before starting with a single pancake from IHOP at 6am. The marketing manager for a Philadelphia insurance company was using the meal marathon to promote Jenkintown’s first restaurant week, which starts tomorrow.
Ukelele is not officially Hawaiian
Bids to name the ukulele as Hawaii’s official instrument have failed.
Two bills easily passed the Senate and House earlier this year but with differences that meant more debate, prompting a campaign for the steel guitar to get the accolade instead.
Alan Akaka, a music teacher who is the son of a former US senator, argued the distinctly Hawaiian instrument – featured in Santo & Johnny’s Sleepwalk – has influenced other genres.
New device to monitor lazy dogs
In bad news for lazy dogs, a new device lets pet owners track how much exercise their four-legged friends are getting.
Whistle is similar to popular activity trackers designed for humans. It wraps around a dog’s collar and syncs with a smartphone app, collecting data on how much activity and rest the pet has.
Whistle syncs data to its app through wifi and Bluetooth, letting dog owners check up on how much exercise a pet is getting when left with dog walkers, a doggy day care or family and friends.