USNews.com: Inside Washington: Ten Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama Annotated
Ten Things You Didn't Know About Barack Obama
Compiled by the U.S. News library staff.
1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.
2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.
3. His childhood nickname was Barry.
4. Obama is the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.
5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.
7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.
8. He loves playing Scrabble.
9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.
10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Movie - Review - New York Times Annotated
In Ken Loach���s movies ��� he has made more than 20 in the last 40 years ��� characters frequently argue about politics, which is only fitting, since the films themselves are political arguments. There is no point in combing through Mr. Loach���s work for hints of ideological significance. Ideology ��� Marxist, anti-imperialist, aligned with the perceived interests of the powerless and the marginal ��� is the engine that drives his stories. The clarity and force of those stories is considerable, but their bluntness sometimes sticks in the craw of critics, who often scold Mr. Loach for lacking subtlety.
Damien carries out execution orders from the Irish Republican Army.
But in watching ���The Wind That Shakes the Barley,��� his new film (which won the top prize at Cannes last year), it is possible to appreciate both Mr. Loach���s passion and his sense of nuance. Set in Ireland in the 1920s, the film paints history in stark colors and observes as they blur and bleed. Mr. Loach and Paul Laverty, the gifted screenwriter with whom he regularly collaborates, leave no doubt as to who the villains are in this tale.
From the start, when they raid an Irish farm, the British irregulars known as the Black and Tans are as brutal and sadistic as Hollywood Nazis. The atrocities they commit have an immediate radicalizing effect on the film���s hero, Damien (Cillian Murphy), who abandons his plans to study medicine in London to join the armed uprising against the British.
Injustice, in Mr. Loach���s world, ten
Intelligent Agent Blog: Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management Annotated
2. For readers of my subscription-based journal, The Information Advisor, it serves as an online supplement to the March 2007 Knowledge Management Supplement article ���Social Bookmarking as a Knowledge Management Strategy���
3. On April 15th, one month from today, as an experiment on this blog, I will share that full article, which also contains a detailed feature comparison chart of both fee-based and free social bookmarking vendors and sites here on Intelligent Agent
So���here we go.
In the March 2007 Information Advisor "Knowledge Management" supplement I discussed how social book-marking can be used as a means to share knowledge and find internal expertise���in other words to facilitate knowledge management in an organization. I also examined and profiled two leading fee based vendors that have launched a product specifically designed for enterprise use: ConnectBeam and Cogenz
In that article, though I also discussed how certain free, public social bookmarking sites could also be suitable for enterprise use���IF���they offered a ���groups��� function. In other words: the ability to create your own customized group where you could share your bookmarks within a own defined group���such as a workforce team, department, project team, or any other defined group. That article provided a list of social bookmarking firms that fit that criteria, and included a detailed feature comparison chart (to be published here next month). Those free social bookmarking sites that fit my criteria for potential enterprise use are:
- BlinkList
- i'm not sure what's going on
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Improved font sizes on each resolution in ThoughtPad. There were some comments regarding the font size on higher resolutions and yes the fonts were bigger than what we initially intended. This problem is resolved now.
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