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Greg Barton ("West" Who likes about "East")

2009-11-08T18:12:00.000-08:00

BIOGRAPHY

Currently a professor at Monash University, Dr. Greg Barton joined APCSS in January 2006 as a full time faculty member and continues to remain part of the adjunct staff.

Before joining APCSS he was an Associate Professor in politics at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia, 1993 - 2005) where he taught courses on Political Leadership, Global Islamic Politics, and Society and Culture in Contemporary Asia. He has a long-running interest in Islamic thought, Muslim social movements – including both democratic reformist civil society movements and jihadi Islamist terrorist movements - Southeast Asian affairs, and religion and modernity in Asian society.

His 1995 PhD thesis at Monash University examined the development of liberal Islamic thought in Indonesia. In the decade since then he has continued to research and publish extensively on the influence of Islamic and Islamist thought in Indonesia, its contribution to the development of civil society and politics, and the emergence of Jihadi terrorism.

His research has been funded by three Australian Research Council Large Grants and a series of one-year grants. This work has involved more than thirty visits to Indonesia. He has developed internationally recognized expertise in Islam, civil society, politics and Islamist radicalism in Southeast Asia .

He has written or edited five books and published dozens of refereed articles and book chapters in this field, together with numerous essays in publications such as the The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Herald Sun, Asia Week, Dissent, Eureka Street, The Diplomat, The Jakarta Post, and Jawa Pos. He is frequently interviewed by the Australian and international electronic and print media on Islam and Islamism and on political developments in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia.

His biography of Abdurrahman Wahid (2002, Abdurrahman Wahid, Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: A View From The Inside, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press & UNSW Press) was published in 2002 and written from a privileged vantage point inside the presidential palace during an eventful period of democratic transition. His book Indonesia’s Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam, was published in 2004 by UNSW Press (and in 2005 by the University of Singapore Press).

He is currently working on two other book projects: Progressive Islamic Thought in Indonesia and Turkey; and: Islam’s Other Nation: A Fresh Look at Indonesia.

Rio Haryanto Rising Star From Indonesia in Formula BMW

2009-11-06T17:34:00.000-08:00

People maybe not really seeing him in television like the other Indonesian Formula Driver like Ananda Micola or Moreno Suprapto.But he is the only one Indonesian Rising star today that can bring Indonesia to the world of Formula Races.He is still young.only sixteen.Can you imagine sixteen years old teenager already travel around the world to race.And We must proud of him because he always win.

Check out his profile here :
Place, Date of Birth
* Solo, January 22nd 1993
Address
* Slamet Riyadi Street No. 358 Solo, Central Java, Indonesia
* #11-01 Parkway mansion 09 amber rd Singapore
School
* FTMS Global Singapore
Nationality
* Indonesia
Height / Weight
* 168 cm / 60 Kg
Blood Type
* O
Status
* Single
Language
* Indonesia, English
E-mail Address
* rioharyantoo@hot

I am personally hope that in the future he will be the first Indonesia who enter and win in Formula One.
Rio..we wait for that..Go Rio..Go Rio....
To know more about Rio Haryanto please log on to www.rioharyanto.com.

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Biography of J.R.R Tolkien (Writer of Lord of The Rings)

2009-11-04T19:58:00.000-08:00

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from 1945 to 1959.He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son, Christopher, published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the word legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when they were published in paperback in the United States led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or more precisely, high fantasy. Tolkien's writings have inspired many other works of fantasy and have had a lasting effect on the entire field. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Another great writer.You can download his books in ebook version that translated into Indonesian.Here.
Free download Lord of the Rings books 3 series.

Biography Of Ki Hajar Dewantara

2009-11-02T19:07:00.000-08:00

His real name is Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat. He was born on May 2nd, 1889, in Yogyakarta. His father was called Pangeran Soerjaningrat, from Pakualam Palace, Yogyakarta. As a part of an aristocratic family, Soewardi was quite free to enjoy his education. He had studied in Europeesche Lagere School (same level as Elementary School), Kweekschool, and School Tot Opleidong Van Indische Artsen or STOVIA. His recognition in the world of education was extraordinary.

He always thought that education was one of the most important factors in freeing the Indonesian people of their sufferings from colonization. He never considered that his aristocracy was important; instead he took off his aristocracy and changed his name to Ki Hajar Dewantara. He did that because he wanted to bring himself closer to the people.

On July 13th, 1913, when he was 24 years old, Ki Hajar was arrested by Netherlands’ soldiers because he made a publication about his article which was titled Als Ik Eens Nederlander Was (If I Am A Netherlander) in ‘De Express’ media. In this article, Ki Hajar Dewantara wrote that if he was a Netherlander, he would give his colonies freedom. He had to appear before a Netherlands’ court. He did that with calm and full of spirit. On July 3rd, 1922, Ki Hajar (as sparker of ideas) and with his friends in Sloso Kliwonan Association, established the Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut Tamansiswa, or “Taman Siswa”. This school was opened to Indonesian people who wanted to study. Ki Hajar Dewantara had three important principles, when he put into operation his schools, of which there were 129 branches in Indonesia. His principles were Ing Ngarso Sung Tulodo (in front gives examples), Ing Madyo Mangun Karso (in the middle builds up the spirit), and Tut Wuri Handayani (from behind supervises). To this day, these wise principles are still a guiding principle and an orientation in the world of Indonesian education.

When Japan colonized Indonesia, Ki Hajar Dewantara became a member of The Center of People’s Power (PUTERA). PUTERA was built by Japan to monitor dangerous people for Japan. Ki Hajar did that on purpose, in order not to be suspected and to be free to move. When PUTERA dispersed, Ki Hajar was chosen as a member of Naimuhu Bunkyonkyoku Sanyo. It is an educational organization which was made by Japan.

He got appreciation as “Bapak Pendidikan Indonesia” because of his ideas in the world of education. His opinions were modern although he lived in colonial times (difficult times). He always thought that everybody had the right to get an education. He was chosen also as Minister of Indonesian Education under President Soekarno’s administration. Ki Hajar Dewantara still tried to develop the educational system in Indonesia by his brilliant ideas. When President Soeharto commanded, Ki Hajar Dewantara was bestowed as “Bintang Mahaputera”. He was also called as a pioneer of the Indonesian Press. His birthday was celebrated as Education Day (Hari Pendidikan Nasional). He passed away on April 26th, 1959. His wife, Nyi Sutartinah, collected things which had been used by Ki Hajar and his family. There were about 3000 things, and then they were put at Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum, Yogyakarta.

Cicak VS Buaya

2009-11-01T18:44:00.000-08:00

Indonesia held a big fight of the century between CICAK v.s BUAYA.
The members of each group are state below.
CICAK :                                                                         BUAYA :
Bibit                Kapolri
Chandra                                                                          Kabareskrim
KPK                                                                               Wakabareskrim
Activist                                                                            Koruptor
ICW                                                                               Very Powerful people (?)
Student of Indonesia
People of Indonesia

So..which side you want to bet?

Biography of William Shakespeare

2009-10-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616)was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist^.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry" In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on erotic themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton. In Venus and Adonis, an innocent Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in The Rape of Lucrece, the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin^.Influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses^, the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust Both proved popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative poem, A Lover's Complaint, in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the Sonnets in 1609. Most scholars now accept that Shakespeare wrote A Lover's Complaint. Critics consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects.The Phoenix and the Turtle, printed in Robert Chester's 1601 Love's Martyr, mourns the deaths of the legendary phoenix and his lover, the faithful turtle dove. In 1599, two early drafts of sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim, published under Shakespeare's name but without his permission.

Shakespeare was never revered in his lifetime, but he received his share of praise. In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. And the authors of the Parnassus plays at St John's College, Cambridge, numbered him with Chaucer, Gower and Spenser. In the First Folio, Ben Jonson called Shakespeare the "Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage", though he had remarked elsewhere that "Shakespeare wanted art".Between the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and the end of the seventeenth century, classical ideas were in vogue. As a result, critics of the time mostly rated Shakespeare below John Fletcher and Ben Jonson. Thomas Rymer, for example, condemned Shakespeare for mixing the comic with the tragic. Nevertheless, poet and critic John Dryden rated Shakespeare highly, saying of Jonson, "I admire him, but I love Shakespeare". For several decades, Rymer's view held sway; but during the eighteenth century, critics began to respond to Shakespeare on his own terms and acclaim what they termed his natural genius. A series of scholarly editions of his work, notably those of Samuel Johnson in 1765 and Edmond Malone in 1790, added to his growing reputation. By 1800, he was firmly enshrined as the national poet In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, his reputation also spread abroad. Among those who championed him were the writers Voltaire, Goethe, Stendhal and Victor Hugo.
During the Romantic era, Shakespeare was praised by the poet and literary philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and the critic August Wilhelm Schlegel translated his plays in the spirit of German Romanticism.In the nineteenth century, critical admiration for Shakespeare's genius often bordered on adulation."That King Shakespeare," the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, "does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying signs; indestructible".The Victorians produced his plays as lavish spectacles on a grand scale.The playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw mocked the cult of Shakespeare worship as "bardolatry". He claimed that the new naturalism of Ibsen's plays had made Shakespeare obsolete^.
The modernist revolution in the arts during the early twentieth century, far from discarding Shakespeare, eagerly enlisted his work in the service of the avant garde. The Expressionists in Germany and the Futurists in Moscow mounted productions of his plays. Marxist playwright and director Bertolt Brecht devised an epic theatre under the influence of Shakespeare. The poet and critic T. S. Eliot argued against Shaw that Shakespeare's "primitiveness" in fact made him truly modern. Eliot, along with G. Wilson Knight and the school of New Criticism, led a movement towards a closer reading of Shakespeare's imagery. In the 1950s, a wave of new critical approaches replaced modernism and paved the way for "post-modern" studies of Shakespeare. By the eighties, Shakespeare studies were open to movements such as structuralism, feminism, New Historicism, African American studies, and queer studies.

Biography Of Sidney Sheldon (Thriller Novelist)

2009-10-28T19:19:00.000-07:00

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer.
Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois, to parents of Russian Jewish ancestry, Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894-1967), manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus. At 10, he made his first sale, $5 for a poem.During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs, attended Northwestern University and contributed short plays to drama groups^.
In 1937 he moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies. After serving in the military during World War II as a pilot in the War Training Service, a branch of the Army Air Corps,Sheldon returned to civilian life and moved to New York where he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage while continuing to write screenplays for both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. He earned a reputation as a prolific writer; for example, at one time he had three musicals on Broadway: a rewritten The Merry Widow, Jackpot, and Dream with Music.His success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood where his first assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1947.
When television became the new hot medium, he decided to try his hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met Patty Duke one day at lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series."He also wrote for the series Hart to Hart and Nancy. Most famously he wrote the series I Dream of Jeannie, which he also created and produced, which lasted for five seasons from 1965–1970. It was "During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in 1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning - or rather, dictated - and then I faced the TV business."
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best First Novel. His next novel, The Other Side of Midnight, went to #1 on The New York Times bestseller list as did several ensuing novels, a number of which were also made into motion pictures or TV miniseries.
His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile men. The novels contained a lot of suspense and devices to keep the reader turning the page:
"I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter."Most of his readers were women.Asked why this was the case he said: "I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it." Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing books," he commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is second-guessing you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom that doesn't exist in any other medium."
Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright Sheldon, a stage and film actress who later became an accomplished and well known interior designer. She died of a heart attack in 1985. He then remarried Alexandra Kostoff, a former child actress and advertising executive of Macedonian origin, in Las Vegas in 1989. His daughter, Mary Sheldon, became a novelist in her own right.
He struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father, who discovered him), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The Other Side of Me
Sheldon died from complications arising from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California.
He was cremated. His ashes were interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Biography Of RA KARTINI

2009-10-26T18:32:00.000-07:00

Kartini, (April 21, 1879–September 17, 1904), was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini is known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.

Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Kartini's father, Raden Mas Sosroningrat, became Regency Chief of Jepara, and her mother was Raden Mas' first wife, but not the most important one. At this time, polygamy was a common practice among the nobility.
Kartini's father, RMAA Sosroningrat, was originally the district chief of Mayong. Her mother was MA Ngasirah, the daughter of Kyai Haji Madirono, a teacher of religion in Teluwakur, Jepara, and Nyai Haji Siti Aminah. At that time, colonial regulations specified that a Regency Chief must marry a member of the nobility and because MA Ngasirah was not of sufficiently high nobility, her father married a second time to Raden Ajeng Woerjan (Moerjam), a direct descendant of the Raja of Madura. After this second marriage, Kartini's father was elevated to Regency Chief of Jepara, replacing his second wife's own father, RAA Tjitrowikromo.
Kartini was the fifth child and eldest daughter in a family of eleven, including half siblings. She was born into a family with a strong intellectual tradition. Her grandfather, Pangeran Ario Tjondronegoro IV, became a Regency Chief at the age of 25 while Kartini's older brother Sosrokartono was an accomplished linguist.
Kartini's family allowed her to attend school until she was 12 years old. Here, among other subjects, she learnt to speak fluent Dutch, an unusual accomplishment for Javanese women at the time. After she turned 12 she was 'secluded' at home, a common practice among Javanese nobility, to prepare young girls for their marriage. During seclusion girls were was not allowed to leave their parents' house until they were married, at which point authority over them was transferred to their husbands. Kartini's father was more lenient than some during his daughter's seclusion, giving her such privileges as embroidery lessons and occasional appearances in public for special events.
During her seclusion, Kartini continued to educate herself on her own. Because Kartini could speak Dutch, she acquired several Dutch pen friends. One of them, a girl by the name of Rosa Abendanon, became her very close friend. Books, newspapers and European magazines fed Kartini's interest in European feminist thinking, and fostered the desire to improve the conditions of indigenous women, who at that time had a very low social status.
Kartini's omnivorous reading included the Semarang newspaper De locomotief, edited by Pieter Brooshooft, as well as leestrommel, a set of magazines circulated by bookshops to subscribers. She also read cultural and scientific magazines as well as the Dutch women's magazine De Hollandsche Lelie, to which she began to send contributions which were published. From her letters, it was clear that Kartini read everything with a great deal of attention and thoughtfulness. The books she had read before she was 20 included Max Havelaar and Love Letters by Multatuli. She also read De Stille Kracht (The Hidden Force) by Louis Couperus, the works of Frederik van Eeden, Augusta de Witt, the Romantic-Feminist author Mrs Goekoop de-Jong Van Beek and an anti-war novel by Berta von Suttner, Die Waffen Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!). All were in Dutch.
Kartini's concerns were not just in the area of the emancipation of women, but also the problems of her society. Kartini saw that the struggle for women to obtain their freedom, autonomy and legal equality was just part of a wider movement.
Kartini's parents arranged her marriage to Raden Adipati Joyodiningrat, the Regency Chief of Rembang, who already had three wives. She was married on the 12 November 1903. This was against Kartini's wishes, but she acquiesced to appease her ailing father. Her husband understood Kartini's aims and allowed her to establish a school for women in the east porch of the Rembang Regency Office complex. Kartini's only son was born on September 13, 1904. A few days later on September 17, 1904, Kartini died at the age of 25. She was buried in Bulu Village, Rembang.
Inspired by Kartini's example, the Van Deventer family established the Kartini Foundation which built schools for women, 'Kartini's Schools' in Semarang in 1912, followed by other women's schools in Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Malang, Madiun, Cirebon and other areas.
In 1964, President Sukarno declared Kartini's birth date, 21 April, as 'Kartini Day' - an Indonesian National Holiday. This decision has been criticised. It has been proposed that Kartini's Day should be celebrated in conjunction with Indonesian Mothers Day, on 22 December so that the choice of Kartini as a national heroine would not overshadow other women who, unlike Kartini, took up arms to oppose the colonisers.
In contrast, those who recognise the significance of Kartini argue that not only was she a feminist who elevated the status of women in Indonesia, she was also a nationalist figure, with new ideas who struggled on behalf of her people, including her in the national struggle for independence.

After Kartini died, Mr JH Abendanon, the Minister for Culture, Religion and Industry in the East Indies, collected and published the letters that Kartini had sent to her friends in Europe. The book was titled Door Duisternis tot Licht (Out of Dark Comes Light) and was published in 1911. It went through five editions, with some additional letters included in the final edition, and was translated into English by Agnes L. Symmers and published under the title Letters of a Javanese Princess.
The publication of Kartini's letters, written by a native Javanese woman, attracted great interest in the Netherlands and Kartini's ideas began to change the way the Dutch viewed native women in Java. Her ideas also provided inspiration for prominent figures in the fight for Independence.
There are some grounds for doubting the veracity of Kartini's letters. There are allegations that Abendanon made up Kartini's letters. These suspicions arose because Kartini's book was published at a time when the Dutch Colonial Government were implementing 'Ethical Policies' in the Dutch East Indies, and Abendanon was one of the most prominent supporters of this policy. The current whereabouts of the vast majority of Kartini's letters is unknown. According to the late Sulastin Sutrisno, the Dutch Government has been unable to track down JH Abendanon's descendants.

Condition of Indonesian women
In her letters, Kartini wrote about her views of the social conditions prevailing at that time, particularly the condition of native Indonesian women. The majority of her letters protest the tendency of Javanese Culture to impose obstacles for the development of women. She wanted women to have the freedom to learn and study. Kartini wrote of her ideas and ambitions, including Zelf-ontwikkeling, Zelf-onderricht, Zelf-vertrouwen, Zelf-werkzaamheid and Solidariteit. These ideas were all based on Religieusiteit, Wijsheid en Schoonheid, that is, belief in God, wisdom, and beauty, along with Humanitarianisme (humanitarianism) and Nationalisme (nationalism).
Kartini's letters also expressed her hopes for support from overseas. In her correspondence with Estell "Stella" Zeehandelaar, Kartini expressed her desire to be like a European youth. She depicted the sufferings of Javanese women fettered by tradition, unable to study, secluded, and who must be prepared to participate in polygamous marriages with men they don't know.

Religion

Kartini also expressed criticisms about religion. She questioned why the Quran must be memorised and recited without an obligation to actually understand it. She also expressed the view that the world would be more peaceful if there was no religion to provide reasons for disagreements, discord and offence. She wrote "Religion must guard us against committing sins, but more often, sins are committed in the name of religion"
Kartini also raised questions with the way in which religion provided a justification for men to pursue polygamy. For Kartini, the suffering of Javanese women reached a pinnacle when the world was reduced to the walls of their houses and they were prepared for a polygamous marriage.

Further studies and teaching

Kartini loved her father deeply although it is clear that her deep affection for him became yet another obstacle to the realisation of her ambitions. He was sufficiently progressive to allow his daughters schooling until the age of 12 but at that point the door to further schooling was firmly closed. In his letters, her father also expressed his affection for Kartini. Eventually, he gave permission for Kartini to study to become a teacher in Batavia (now Jakarta), although previously he had prevented her from continuing her studies in the Netherlands or entering medical school in Batavia.
Kartini's desire to continue her studies in Europe was also expressed in her letters. Several of her pen friends worked on her behalf to support Kartini in this endeavour. And when finally Kartini's ambition was thwarted, many of her friends expressed their disappointment. In the end her plans to study in the Netherlands were transmuted into plans to journey to Batavia on the advice of Mrs Abendanon that this would be best for Kartini and her younger sister, Rukmini.
Nevertheless, in 1903 at the age of 24, her plans to study to become a teacher in Batavia came to nothing. In a letter to Mrs Abendanon, Kartini wrote that the plan had been abandoned because she was going to be married... "In short, I no longer desire to take advantage of this opportunity, because I am to be married..". This was despite the fact that for its part, the Dutch Education Department had finally given permission for Kartini and Rukmini to study in Batavia.
As the wedding approached, Kartini's attitude towards Javanese traditional customs began to change. She became more tolerant. She began to feel that her marriage would bring good fortune for her ambition to develop a school for native women. In her letters, Kartini mentioned that not only did her esteemed husband support her desire to develop the woodcarving industry in Jepara and the school for native women, but she also mentioned that she was going to write a book. Sadly, this ambition was unrealised as a result of her premature death in 1904 at the age of 25.(source wikipedia)

Without her maybe Indonesian women will not be like today,being a president,a minister,a blogger even working outside home.We must thank's to her.

Biography of Kahlil Gibran

2009-10-23T19:23:00.000-07:00

Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931 also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Syria), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture.

Gibran was born in the Christian Maronite town of Bsharri (in modern day northern Lebanon) to the daughter of a Maronite priest. His mother Kamila was thirty when he was born; his father, also named Khalil, was her third husband.As a result of his family's poverty, Gibran received no formal schooling during his youth. However, priests visited him regularly and taught him about the Bible, as well as the Arabic and Syriac languages.
Gibran's father initially worked in an apothecary but, with gambling debts he was unable to pay, he went to work for a local Ottoman-appointed administrator or local warlord.
Around 1891, extensive complaints by angry subjects led to the administrator being removed and his staff being investigated. Gibran's father was imprisoned for alleged embezzlement, and his family's property was confiscated by the authorities. With no home, Kamila Gibran decided to follow her brother to the United States. Although Gibran's father was released in 1894, Kamila remained resolved and left for New York on June 25, 1895, taking Khalil, his younger sisters Mariana and Sultana, and his elder half-brother Peter(/Bhutros/Butrus)

The Gibrans settled in Boston's South End, at the time the second largest Syrian/Lebanese-American community in the United States. Due to a mistake at school he was registered as Kahlil Gibran.
His mother began working as a seamstress peddler, selling lace and linens that she carried from door to door. Gibran started school on September 30, 1895. School officials placed him in a special class for immigrants to learn English. Gibran also enrolled in an art school at a nearby settlement house. Through his teachers there, he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors. A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers in 1898.
Gibran's mother, along with his elder brother Peter, wanted him to absorb more of his own heritage rather than just the Western aesthetic culture he was attracted to, so at the age of fifteen, Gibran returned to his homeland to study at a Maronite-run preparatory school and higher-education institute in Beirut. He started a student literary magazine with a classmate and was elected "college poet". He stayed there for several years before returning to Boston in 1902, coming through Ellis Island on May 10. Two weeks before he got back, his sister Sultana died of tuberculosis at the age of 14. The next year, Peter died of the same disease and his mother died of cancer. His sister Marianna supported Gibran and herself by working at a dressmaker’s shop.

Works
In Arabic:

Nubthah fi Fan Al-Musiqa (1905)
Ara'is al-Muruj (Nymphs of the Valley, also translated as Spirit Brides, 1906)
al-Arwah al-Mutamarrida (Spirits Rebellious, 1908)
al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Broken Wings, 1912)
Dam'a wa Ibtisama (A Tear and A Smile, 1914)
al-Mawakib (The Processions, 1919)
al-‘Awāsif (The Tempests, 1920)
al-Bada'i' waal-Tara'if (The New and the Marvellous,1923)

In English, prior to his death:

The Madman (1918)
Twenty Drawings (1919)
The Forerunner (1920)
The Prophet, (1923)
Sand and Foam (1926)
Kingdom Of The Imagination (1927)
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
The Earth Gods (1931)

Posthumous, in English:

The Wanderer (1932)
The Garden of the Prophet(1933)
Lazarus and his Beloved (1933)
Prose and Poems (1934)
A Self-Portrait (1959)
Thought and Meditations (1960)
Spiritual sayings (1962)
Voice of the master (1963)
Mirrors of the Soul (1965)
The Vision (1994)
Eye of the Prophet (1995)

Other:

Beloved Prophet, The love letters of Khalil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal (1972, edited by Virginia Hilu)

If You want to get free download Some of His Book,I have some of them in ebook version.Just come HERE

Biography of Orhan Pamuk

2009-10-22T21:47:00.000-07:00

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on 7 June 1952 in Istanbul) generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing.
One of Turkey's most prominent novelists his work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006—the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen.
Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family; an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. He was educated at Robert College secondary school in Istanbul and went on to study architecture at the Istanbul Technical University since it was related to his real dream career, painting.He left the architecture school after three years, however, to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul in 1976. From ages 22 to 30, Pamuk lived with his mother, writing his first novel and attempting to find a publisher.
He is a Muslim, and he describes himself as a cultural one who associates the historical and cultural identification with the religion.
On 1 March 1982, Pamuk married Aylin Türegün, a historian. From 1985 to 1988, while his wife was a graduate student at Columbia University, Pamuk assumed the position of visiting scholar there, using the time to conduct research and write his novel The Black Book in the university's Butler Library. This period also included a visiting fellowship at the University of Iowa.
Pamuk returned to Istanbul, a city to which he is strongly attached. He and his wife had a daughter named Rüya born in 1991, whose name means "dream" in Turkish. In 2001, he and Aylin were divorced.
In 2006, Pamuk returned to the US to take up a position as a visiting professor at Columbia. Pamuk is currently a Fellow with Columbia's Committee on Global Thought and holds an appointment in Columbia's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department and at its School of the Arts.
In May 2007 Pamuk was among the jury members at the Cannes Film Festival headed by British director Stephen Frears. In the 2007-2008 academic year Pamuk returned to Columbia once again to jointly teach comparative literature classes with Andreas Huyssen and David Damrosch.
Pamuk is also currently a writer in residence at Bard College. He completed his latest novel, Masumiyet Müzesi (The Museum of Innocence) in the summer of 2008 and the book was released in Turkey at 29th of August. The German translation will appear shortly before the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair where Pamuk was planning to hold an actual Museum of Innocence consisting of everyday odds and ends the writer has amassed (the exhibition will instead occur in an Istanbul house purchased by Pamuk). Plans for an English translation have not been made public, but Erdağ Göknar received a 2004 NEA grant for the project. His elder brother Şevket Pamuk - who sometimes appears as a fictional character in Orhan Pamuk's work - is a professor of economics, internationally recognized for his work in history of economics of the Ottoman Empire, working at Bogazici University in Istanbul. In autumn of 2009, Pamuk will be Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, delivering a series of lectures entitled "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist".

Pamuk's Famous Novel Kars in 2002 (English translation, Snow, 2004), which takes place in the border city of Kars and explores the conflict between Islamism and Westernism in modern Turkey. The New York Times listed Snow as one of its Ten Best Books of 2004. He also published a memoir/travelogue İstanbul—Hatıralar ve Şehir in 2003 (English version, Istanbul—Memories and the City, 2005). Pamuk's Other Colours - a collection of non-fiction and a story - was published in the UK in September 2007. His next novel is titled The Museum of Innocence.
Asked how personal his book Istanbul: Memories and the City was, Pamuk replied:

I thought I would write Memories and the City in six months, but it took me one year to complete. And I was working twelve hours a day, just reading and working. My life, because of so many things, was in a crisis; I don’t want to go into those details: divorce, father dying, professional problems, problems with this, problems with that, everything was bad. I thought if I were to be weak I would have a depression. But every day I would wake up and have a cold shower and sit down and remember and write, always paying attention to the beauty of the book. Honestly, I may have hurt my mother, my family. My father was dead, but my mother is still alive. But I can’t care about that; I must care about the beauty of the book.

In 2005 Orhan Pamuk received the €25,000 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his literary work, in which "Europe and Islamic Turkey find a place for one another." The award presentation was held at Paul's Church, Frankfurt.
Pamuk's books are characterized by a confusion or loss of identity brought on in part by the conflict between Western and Eastern values. They are often disturbing or unsettling, but include complex, intriguing plots and characters of great depth. His works are also redolent with discussion of and fascination with the creative arts, such as literature and painting. Pamuk's work often touches on the deep-rooted tensions between East and West and tradition and modernism/secularism.

On 12 October 2006, the Swedish Academy announced that Orhan Pamuk had been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature, confounding pundits and oddsmakers who had made Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said, known as Adonis, a favorite. In its citation, the Academy said: "In the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, [Pamuk] has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures." Orhan Pamuk held his Nobel Lecture 7 December 2006, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. The lecture was entitled "Babamın Bavulu" (My Father's Suitcase) and was given in Turkish. In the lecture he viewed the relations between Eastern and Western Civilizations in an allegorical upper text which covers his relationship with his father.(source wikipedia)
Snow also translate into Indonesian Language (DiBalik keheningan Salju).Later in my other website I will share the ebook version of his Novel SNOW.

Biography of Vice President Prof Dr Boediono

2009-10-20T22:07:00.000-07:00

Our New Vice President, Boediono ( born February 25, 1943) is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Education

Boediono received his bachelor's degree from the University of Western Australia in 1967, his master's degree from Monash University in 1972, and his doctorate degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979^.He also worked at the Australian National University in the 1970s as a research assistant^.

Boediono was listed as one of the Wharton School's 125 Influential People and Ideas in 2007 and was dubbed as "Indonesia's financial rudder"^.

Career

Boediono was a Bank Indonesia deputy governor in charge of fiscal monetary policy from 1997 to 1998 and served as State Minister of National Planning and Development from 1998 to October 1999.
Following the removal of Abdurrahman Wahid from the presidency in 2001, President Megawati Sukarnoputri appointed Boediono as Minister of Finance in her new administration. Under his leadership, the economy grew by 4% in 2002^.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed Boediono as Coordinating Minister for the Economy during his first cabinet reshuffle in 2005, replacing tycoon Aburizal Bakrie. Bakrie had come under suspicion for having conflicts of interest^.In 2008, a commission of the People's Representative Council elected him Governor of Bank Indonesia^.After he was selected by Yudhoyono as a running mate in the 2009 presidential election, Boediono submitted his resignation from the central bank post^.
Boediono is also a lecturer in economics at Gadjah Mada University.

No Wonder that SBY has choose him as Vice president because he has very great Educational background and also great "track record".
let's hope that he along together with SBY will make this country to be a better country.

Sayonara Noordin M Top Marhaban Ya Miyabi

2009-10-19T22:17:00.000-07:00

I found this picture when surf on the internet.I don't know what to say.

Many Words that I want to write about this picture.But nothing.I can say nothing.....

Where To Buy Cheap Seat For Concert Tickets

2009-10-19T19:43:00.000-07:00

What Kind of Music did you like to listen everyday?For me,personally,I like country music.One of my favorite country singer is Garth Brooks.I was so confuse and don't know where to get garth brooks tickets.And my friend told me a broker site that offers any kind of tickets.A Cheap Seat.I was so happy then.
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Maybe for some of you the two artists above is not suitable.I will show you one more choice.if you want to go to a show for the rest of your family,including your children,watch performance of Cirque Du Soleil is the best choice.You can enjoy the circus attraction along together with you family on weekend.Sounds perfect.
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Biography of Anis Baswedan

2009-10-16T01:55:00.000-07:00

Anies Baswedan, Ph.D., (born in Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia, May 7, 1969) is currently the President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is also the Research Director at The Indonesian Institute Center for Public Policy Analysis in Jakarta.
Prior to his current positions, he worked as Research Manager at IPC in Bannockburn, Illinois, USA (2004-2005). Beginning in April 2006, he served as National Advisor on Decentralization and Regional Autonomy at the Partnership for Governance Reform and later became Governance Assessment Coordinator.
Baswedan holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University, a masters degree in Public Policy from University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park, and a degree in Business Management from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has received several distinguished awards and scholarships, including the Fulbright Scholarship, the 2004 Gerald Maryanov Fellow from Northern Illinois University, Indonesian Cultural Foundation Scholarship in New York and William P. Cole III Fellowship from the University of Maryland. He was also awarded the JAL Scholarship to attend Summer Session of Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan when he was a student at Gadjah Mada University.
Baswedan’s publications include “Political Islam in Indonesia: Present and Future Trajectory,” Asian Survey, a Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs published by University of California, Berkeley, Indonesian Politics in 2007: The Presidency, Local Elections and The Future of Democracy published by BIES, Australian National University and numerous op-ed articles in leading newspapers and magazines in Indonesia.
He was actively involved in the student movements in Indonesia during Suharto's authoritarian regime. He is known as one of a few student leaders from the early 90's movements who won Fulbright scholarship and went abroad for graduate education. He is now a prominent political analyst in Indonesia and often referred to as one of Indonesia's youngest university presidents. His grandfather, AR Baswedan, was a minister of Information during the revolution and one of the founding fathers of Indonesia.
The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008and the World Economic Forum included him in the 2009 Young Global Leaders.(source wikipedia)

Anyway,there is a story behind this article.Why I post about him is because i admire him as an educated people.And one more thing.He's Hot ^_^.
(bang anis,,,kutunggu dudamu) hhheeheee...

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2009-10-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

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Moving Home Without Changing TV Provider

2009-10-14T23:00:00.000-07:00

I have a friend who just moved from California to New York.Because she has to follow her parent there.Last week she email me and told me how wonderful living there in New York.She loves the crowd,the road,the building and anything about New York.And the best thing that she said to me is that she don't have to change the TV provider.As I knew,before she was installed Direct TV in California .For many years her family was using Direct TV.Why they choose to using Directv is not just the services but also because their family always moving around the states.So that if move to New York,they can install Direct TV in New York.It so easy.Because sometime it will be a problem for some of us.Moving in to a new place without knowing anything there.You can select which state that you are staying and select the channel.Now,we do not need to worry with this.Don't choose the wrong TV provider,because with Direct TV,you will get so many advantages that other provider did not have.From now on you will not loosing your favorite channels even though you move to another states every week

Biography Of Herta Muller

2009-10-14T21:28:00.000-07:00

Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the history of the Germans in the Banat (and more broadly, Transylvania), and the persecution of Romanian ethnic Germans by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania and the Soviet-imposed communist regime of Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages She has received over 20 awards, including the 1994 Kleist Prize, the 1995 Aristeion Prize, the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2009 Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. On 8 October 2009 it was announced she would be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Müller was born in Niţchidor, a historically German-speaking village in the Romanian Banat in western Romania. The daughter of Banat Swabian farmers, her family was part of Romania's German minority; her father had served in the Waffen SS and her mother survived five years in a Gulag forced labour camp in the Ukraine in the Soviet Union after World War II.Her grandfather had been a wealthy farmer and merchant. Her native language is German; only at grammar school did she learn Romanian. She studied German studies and Romanian literature at the Timişoara University.
In 1976, Müller began working as a translator for an engineering factory, but was dismissed in 1979 for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate, the Communist regime's secret police. After her dismissal she initially earned a living by teaching kindergarten and giving private German lessons. Her first book was published in Romania (in German) in 1982, in a state censored version. The book was about a child's view of the German-cultural Banat. Müller was a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a group of German-speaking writers who supported freedom of speech over the censorship they faced under Ceauşescu's government, and her works, including The Land of Green Plums, deal with the issues faced by the writers and their relationship with the government censorship of their works.
After being refused permission to emigrate to West Germany in 1985, Müller was finally allowed to leave along with her husband, novelist Richard Wagner, in 1987, and they settled in West Berlin. Over the following years she accepted lectureships at universities in Germany and abroad. She still lives in Berlin. Müller received membership of the German Academy for Writing and Poetry in 1995, and other positions followed. In 1997 she withdrew from the PEN centre of Germany in protest of its merger with the former German Democratic Republic branch. In July 2008, Müller sent a critical open letter to Horia-Roman Patapievici, president of the Romanian Cultural Institute in reaction to the moral and financial support given by the institute to two former informants of the Securitate participating at the Romanian-German Summer School.
In 2009, her novel Everything I Possess I Carry With Me was nominated for the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) and is now among the six finalists. In this book Müller describes the journey of a young man to a Gulag concentration camp in the Soviet Union as an example for the fate of the German population in Transylvania after World War II. It was inspired by the experience of poet Oskar Pastior, whose oral memories she had made notes of, but also by what happened to her own mother.
Critic Denis Scheck described visiting Müller at her home in Berlin and seeing that in her working desk had a whole drawer full of single letters cut from a newspaper she had entirely destroyed. Realising that she used the letters "to recombine her own literary texts", he felt he had "entered the workshop of a true poet"^.
The Swedish Academy awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature to Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.". The Nobel award coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism. Michael Krüger, head of Müller's publisher, stated: "By giving the award to Herta Müller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, the committee has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten"^.However, the award has met with some criticism. Prior to the award, Müller was little-known outside Germany and even there was known only among a minority of intellectuals and literary critics.
^{With her become the Literature Nobel Prize winner of 2009, we can conclude that all the Literature Nobel winner always an European.}

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2009-10-14T20:53:00.000-07:00

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2009-10-13T18:25:00.001-07:00

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The Best Hotel at Myrtle Beach

2009-10-12T22:16:00.000-07:00

Today, Myrtle Beach,South Carolina is a well known destination for vacationers from around the country, Canada and abroad.Myrtle Beach was became a city in 1957. Its name comes from the wax myrtle, a shrub that grows abundantly in the area.The 25,000 permanent residents welcome millions of visitors to the full-service resort community.Here in the beach you will have a great holiday ever.You can enjoy the wide beaches,the Atlantic Ocean,and incredible range of activities like golfing,shopping and dining.
As part of the Grand Strand,Myrtle Beach is part of sixty miles of sandy white beaches along beautiful,blue Atlantic Ocean which is your playground for fun,excitement,and relaxation.With close to 14 Million people visiting Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand each year,Myrtle Beach has earned the title of No.1 Family Beach in America.I think you will not wasted your holiday time.Just come and enjoy the beach.
If you come from other states or even abroad,don't get confuse here.Here I will show you the best place to stay.There are many choices of Myrtle Beach Hotel that you can choose.But if you want to enjoy your vacation more than any other,I suggest you to stay at Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels.The best choice of Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotel is Sea Side.Why I should say this? because here you can enjoy the beach view from your luxury room.Candle light dinner in your room's balcony with the view of beach in the night and stars blinking up in the blue sky.After that you just need to go down and swim around the beach with your love one.So perfect.
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Is it Fair that Obama Won Nobel Peace Prize this year?

2009-10-11T18:30:00.000-07:00

The Norwegian Nobel Committe has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Hussein Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." Source (nobelprize)

Is a little bit late to post about this but I though i should write about this.For me personally this is a bit "un-appropriate".Why I should say like this?.I admire him so much especially his enthusiasm his desire and all about him.I am so happy when he elected as a US president.But To won a nobel peace prize,need more than that.Imagine people like Shirin Ebadi,Aung San Suu Kyi,and even Nelson mandela.Can we see something that similar between Obama and these people? And I think Obama will need more than he can do today to get Nobel Peace Prize.
For me It's a controversial story.I am sorry Mr. Obama , but you did not deserve this for now,but for another ten years ahead that would be possible for you.

The Google Guys

2009-10-09T20:47:00.000-07:00

Every decade seems to bring one or two truly innovative technology firms that bring lasting change to the computer landscape. Google is one such company, because of its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and their passion to change the way we relate to information. I considered working at Google after I left Sun

Microsystems, and I spent a lot of time with the pair. I learned of the depth of their commitment to make all the world's information available. And I found them to be curious and challenging, critical yet playful. They vigorously fought any proposition that something wasn't possible or practical. We saw this in their determination to take Google public in a nontraditional, "auction" format. They pioneered a new path, and those who bought and held the shares offered in this more democratic way did well.
But what is most impressive about Google is how Larry and Sergey have attracted a large number of smart, passionate people to drive their vision. Thirty years ago, Xerox Corp. brought together the best computer scientists to invent a new era for computing. The personal computer, laser printer, local area networking—all these came out of Xerox. Today Google has assembled Silicon Valley's most impressive brain trust. There are many colorful things about Google—lunches by the Grateful Dead's cook, Sergey's gymnastic abilities. But the big story is that Google is a mecca for bright people, and much is deservedly expected from them. Larry and Sergey, both still in their 30s, have built something that seems certain to last and prosper for a long time.
(source TIME)

They inspire people around the world become succed in such a young age.I am one of those people.

Biography of Dewi "DEE" Lestari

2009-10-07T23:39:00.000-07:00

Before the Supernova out, not many people know that Dee has often write. Dee writings published in several media. One of the short story titled "Brush Teeth" never appeared in the bulletin published art Bandung,Jendela Newsletter, a culture-based media independent and small-scale for internal use.
In 1993, he sent a paper entitled "The expression" to the magazine The girl who was a writing contest in which he managed to get the first prize winner. Three years later, he wrote a serial called "Rico the Coro" is published in the magazine Mode. Even while still a high school student 2 Bandung, he has written 15 articles for their own school newsletter.

A sensational first novel, Supernova One: Ksatria, Putri dan Bintang jatuh, released February 16, 2001. The novel is selling 12,000 copies within 35 days and sold to approximately 75,000 copies, many use the terms science and love stories. In March 2002, Dee launched 'Supernova One "edition of the British to penetrate international markets with hook Harry Aveling (60), an expert in the affairs of Indonesian literary works translated into English.

Supernova has been nominated Katulistiwa Literary Award (KLA) which was held QB World Books. Compete with famous writers such as Goenawan Muhammad, Danarto through the work of the Wing Budget Setangkai Gabriel, Dorothea Rosa Herliany's Kill The Radio, Sutardji Calzoum Bachri Hujan Menulis Ayam and Hamsad Writing Rangkuti December Sampah works.

Success with his first novel, Dee launched two novel, Supernova Two titled "Akar" on October 16, 2002. This novel could be considered controversial because of harassing Hindus. Hindus reject the inclusion of a symbol Trailer / AUM which is the sacred character of Brahman Almighty God in HINDU as cover in his book. Finally it was agreed that the symbol Omkara not be displayed again on the mold to 2 and so on.

In January 2005 Dee released his third novel, Supernova PETIR episode. The story in this novel is still associated with the two previous novels. Only, he put in 4 new characters PETIR. One of them is Elektra, a central figure in the novel.

Old does not produce the work, in August 2008, Dee released his latest novel is Rectoverso as a combination of fiction and music. The theme is carried Touching Hearts of Two Side. Verso recto-pengistilahan for two images as separate but in fact a single entity. Complementary. Rectoverso book consists of 11 fiction and 11 songs that are related. Tagline of this book is to Look His fiction, read music.

In August 2009, Dee published novel Perahu Kertas.

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Biography of Agatha Christie

2009-10-05T00:37:00.000-07:00

Dame Agatha Christie [pseudonym Mary Westmacott] (1890-1976), prolific English ‘Queen of Crime’ author of world-renown created such famous detectives as Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian who relied on his keen grasp of logic to nab crooks;
“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”—Poirot, in The ABC Murders Ch. 17.
and English spinster Miss Jane Marple (partly inspired by her maternal grandmother) who used her feminine intuition to solve crime. Her motto:
“The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people know the young people are fools.”
Some of Christie’s best-known works are The ABC Murders (1936), And Then There Were None [also known as Ten Little Indians] (1945), The Mousetrap (longest ever running stage play in London, first performed in 1952), Hickory Dickory Dock (1955), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). From her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) “This affair must all be unravelled from within.” He tapped his forehead. “These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’—as you say over here.” (Poirot, Ch. 10) to her last, Sleeping Murder (1976), Christie enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years and her works have now sold into the billions. They have been translated to dozens of languages, inspired numerous other authors’ works, and have been adapted to radio, the stage, and film. As well as a writer of crime mysteries, she also read stories for BBC Radio, wrote non-fiction, romances, plays, and poetry.
Born in the family home Ashfield in Torquay, Devon, England on 15 September 1890, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children born to Clarissa ‘Clara’ Margaret née Boehmer (1855-1926) and American Frederick Alvah Miller (1846-1901), who died when Agatha was just ten years old. The shy and sensitive Agatha, who was very close to her mother, had an older sister, Margaret ‘Madge’ (1879-1950) and brother Louis ‘Monty’ Montant (1880-1929). The family attended All Saint’s Church where Agatha was baptised. While she received no formal education, her mother and then governesses taught her at home to read before she entered finishing school in Paris, France in 1906. Having long been encouraged by her mother to write, Agatha continued to write there while also studying music (which became a life-long love), singing, and piano.
On 24 December 1914, at the age of twenty-four, Christie married Royal Flying Corps pilot Archie Christie, with whom she would have a daughter, Rosalind (1919-2004). During WWI Agatha worked as a nurse, tending to the ill and injured, many who were displaced Belgians. Their bewilderment and personal sorrows affected her deeply. She amassed a great deal of knowledge about sicknesses and poisons such as strychnine and ricin that she often featured in her novels. Around this time she also started writing her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, an immediate best-seller. In 1926, profoundly grieving the death of her mother, Christie created some mystery of her own, disappearing for a time; when she was found she claimed that she had had a bout of amnesia.
In 1928, Archie divorced Agatha. She then set off on her first of many trips to the Middle East, travelling on the famed Orient Express from Calais, France to Baghdad, Iraq, then on to the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia. It was on her second trip there she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, (1904-1978). They were married in Scotland on 11 September 1930. She often accompanied him on digs as a member of the team, photographing and cataloguing finds. In 1960 Max was honoured as Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1968 knighted for his archaeological work. Christie herself won many awards and honours in her life-time including; 1955, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award; 1961, awarded an honorary degree from Exeter University; 1967, became president of The British Detection Club; and in 1971 she received England’s highest honor, the Order of the British Empire, Dame Commander.
In 1974 Christie appeared for the last time in public on opening night for her play Murder on the Orient Express. When she was not travelling the world, her and Max’s home in England was in the town of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, where she died peacefully on 12 January 1976. Max survived her by two years. They now rest together in the Parish Church cemetery of St. Mary’s in Cholsey, Oxfordshire.
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly you find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”—An Autobiography (1977).

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