How Barack & Michelle Obama keep daughters’ lives normal

How Barack & Michelle Obama keep daughters’ lives normal

 

New York, January 22 (ANI): As President Barack Obama gets ready for another four years in the White House, he & wife Michelle are trying their best to keep their children’s lives private & as normal as possible.

Sasha & Malia Obama, just 7 & 10 when they moved from Chicago to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. four years ago, are the youngest children to live in the White House since Caroline & John-John romped in the Oval Office a half-century ago.
As they grow up before the nation’s eyes, their parents have tried their best to keep their children’s feet on the ground.
They eat dinner together at 6:30 most nights & they do their chores.
The First Daugters, now 11 & 14, are still not allowed to use Facebook, the New York Daily News reported.
During an appearance on “The View,” the President said that they don’t let their children watch TV or use their computer except to do homework during the week.
He moreover revealed that Malia, who received a cell phone in 2011, could use it only “on weekends.”
When her husband was elected in 2008, Michelle pledged that she would try to keep her children’s feet on the ground as much as possible as she was worried that living in the fishbowl & being waited on 24/7 by White House staff & drivers might spoil them.
Sally Bedell Smith, a Washington insider & political historian who has written approximately the Clintons, said that the President & First Lady have done a very satisfactory job in shielding their daughters.
The friends of Sasha & Malia, & the parents of those friends, moreover guard the privacy of the First Daughters, much like Chelsea Clinton’s friends did for her, Bedell Smith said. (ANI)

Source – yahoo.com

Kickstart This! – Watch the Teaser Trailer & Help Fund 8-Bit Animated Comedy, The Hit Squad

Kickstart This! – Watch the Teaser Trailer & Help Fund 8-Bit Animated Comedy, The Hit Squad

More and more movies are finding alternative avenues to get funding in recent years, and Kickstarter has been a brilliant way for many filmmakers to assist build a paying audience. The Hit Squad is one of the latest projects to do so, recently beginning its Kickstarter campaign to assist fund the final stages of the film.

Writer-director Chris Blundell and co-writer Jordan Fuller were able to previously raise $10,000 through crowdfunding to get the movie to the stage it’s at now, in a completely independent environment.
The teaser trailer below boasts some pretty impressive artwork, featuring 8-bit pixel art within a 3D environment. And the results looks to be rather awesome.

“The Hit Squad is an animated comedy movie approximately a washed up 80s synthpop band trying to get one last hit record to save their studio. The movie is a tale of sex, skullduggery and synthesised music following sex-addict Roddy Stones, East-End thug Frankie Miller and brain-damaged Charles Whitecastle as they get one last shot to win back their fame, fortune and recording studio.”

The campaign is seeking to raise a further £5,000 (approx. $7.5k) to assist see the film through to completion. As usual, there are various levels at which you can pledge, and various benefits for doing so.
Pledges start for £1, which will see you get a thank you credit at the end of the movie. Then we move up to £9, which moreover results in an HD download of the movie and soundtrack, estimated in October 2013.
£29 will buy you all of the above, plus a signed special edition copy of the film on DVD. And from there, we go upwards with benefits including T-shirts, Blu-rays, special VHS editions (this is an ’80s homage, after all), scripts, becoming an extra in the movie, and executive producer credits / sponsorships.
The film has lined up some cameos from as-yet-unannounced celebrities from the decade, and we should be hearing more on that soon.
The aim is to have the film released in cinemas, on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download, all on the same day. New models have recently been built and developed, and consequently proven to be successful, with Netflix’s House of Cards serving as an superior example.
Whilst we’re naturally not expecting studios to do the same with their movies any time soon, I’d love to see the window close even further between theatrical and home entertainment release dates.
A release date naturally remains to be announced, yet the aim is to have production completed by September 2013. And if all goes well, the Kickstarter campaign is set to be delivered the following month.
For now, I shall leave you with the teaser trailer for the film, to assist get you in the mood. And if this is something you’d love to contribute to, in any of the aforementioned pledge levels, then you can head to the film’s Kickstarter campaign here.

Kickstart This! – Watch the Teaser Trailer & Help Fund 8-Bit Animated Comedy, The Hit Squad Source – HeyUGuys.