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Rhiannon Stephens and David L. Schoenbrun, in conjunction with the Program
of African Studies at Northwestern University, are excited to announce the
creation of the listserv PRECOLONIALAFRICA dedicated to the study and
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The Institute for Environmental Security is pleased to announce the publication of its report "Charcoal in the Mist: an overview of environmental security issues and initiatives in the Central Albertine Rift."

The report can be downloaded at  http://www.envirosecurity.org/espa/greatlakes

This report first analyses how insecurity, high population densities and increasing food and energy needs have resulted in a continuously growing demand for land, firewood and charcoal in the region (especially around Virunga National Park in the DR Congo). An overview of current activities by many (inter)national organisations, in the field of mapping and monitoring, diplomacy and law, finance, economics, empowerment, training, nature conservation and eco-tourism, will then be provided. Further, by making some specific recommendations, this report aims to inspire policy makers and organisations, in order to enhance environmental protection, security and sustainable development in the Central Albertine Rift.

As a knowledge network, the Institute for Environmental Security (IES) wants to contribute to the distribution of knowledge and ideas, trying to prevent organisations from "re-inventing the wheel".  Therefore, we would be very grateful if you could share with us any suggestions on other organisations, initiatives, publications and web resources related to environment, security and sustainable development in the Central Albertine Rift. We can include these in our online database, the EnviroSecurity Action Guide.

Go to www.envirosecurity.org/espa/PDF/IES_report_Charcoal_in_the_Mist.pdf to download the report for free. For more information or suggestions please visit the website:  www.envirosecurity.org or contact the author, Eric van de Giessen.

Pedagogy (IPA: /ˈpɛdəgɒdʒi/), or paedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction.^[1]

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The Latin-derived word for pedagogy, education,^[4] is nowadays used in the English-speaking world to refer to the whole context of instruction, learning, and the actual operations involved therein, although both words have roughly the same original meaning. In the English-speaking world the term pedagogy refers to the science or theory of educating.^[5] The late Malcolm Knowles reasoned th

Article from The Jewish Week:

It has come to this for Norman Finkelstein: Back home in the Brooklyn of his youth, living alone in his deceased father’s rent-stabilized apartment on Ocean Parkway, just a few blocks from where the white-hot controversial professor grew up.

No more loyal students, no more lectures to prepare, no more radio debates with his arch-enemy, Alan Dershowitz, no more national spotlight; Finkelstein is the man no one wants, and perhaps for good reason.

A year ago, DePaul University, where he taught political science for six years, denied Finkelstein tenure in one of the most bruising tenure battles in recent memory. The story made national headlines, fueled by Dershowitz’s crusade against Finkelstein’s scholarship.

Finkelstein’s supporters painted the Harvard law professor as an outside agitator encroaching on an internal tenure process; some of his students went on a hunger strike in his support. No major university will touch him now.

“Who wants to go through what DePaul went through with a national hysteria,” Finkelstein says, shrugging. “To be told I was a Holocaust denier and a terrorist supporter — would you want me on your faculty?”

And Israel shut its doors on him in May, barring him from entering the country; it never gave him a reason, but news reports attributed it to his strong and highly vocal anti-Israel views, and for associating with elements hostile to the Jewish State. (Finkelstein says he met with leaders of the terrorist group Hezbollah during a trip to Beirut in January.) After 18 hours in detention at Ben-Gurion Airport, he was taken onto a plane and whisked out of the country.

It’s not hard to see why Finkelstein is anathema in most Jewish circles, simply beyond the pale. He has struck out — with a vengeance — at the twin pillars of postwar Jewish life: the Holocaust (which he calls “the Holocaust industry”) and Israel. The Jewish community, he argues, has exploited the Holocaust for financial gain, sullying the memory of the Six Million.

And he has cavorted with Israel’s enemies, meeting with and praising Hezbollah. During the height of Israel’s 2006 war with Lebanon, as Hezbollah was raining rockets down on northern Israel and Israel was bombing Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and targets elsewhere in the country, Finkelstein took the stage at a rally in Brooklyn and intoned, “We are all Hezbollah.”

So the Pariah of Ocean Parkway is at the low point in his life, his academic career in shambles. (The only offer of a job has come from a two-year college he declined to identify that offered a paltry salary for many hours of work.) Here he sits, in his father’s old apartment, surrounded by framed family photographs. The photos, along with glowing pictures and notes from DePaul students that sit on his piano, may be his only comfort as he tries to pick up the pieces of his career.

Finkelstein may be down on his luck, but the provocateur still seems to have some fight in him. He spends hours at the computer on his combative, over-the-top Web site — a video of him debating Dershowitz in a radio studio is interspersed with clips of Bruce Lee-like martial arts warriors fighting to the death.

Finkelstein says he’s content with things, that he wants to avoid further controversy. “I’ve had 15 minutes of fame and then a half-hour and then 10 hours; I don’t need anymore. ... I’m not worried about being a pariah,” he says. Yet the title of the new book he’s working on — “A Farewell to Israel: The Coming Break-up of American Zionism” — suggests that controversy may yet find him again, that Finkelstein may be bowed but not broken.

On a muggy late spring day, Finkelstein is walking the old neighborhood around Ocean Parkway and Avenue W. He grew up here in what was an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the late-‘50s and early ‘60s, his parents survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto. He may have absorbed a body blow from DePaul, but at 54 he is lean and trim in a blue T-shirt and khaki shorts, his salt-and-pepper hair tousled. He maintains a disciplined exercise regimen, jogging and swimming regularly.

He spent his first eight years in Flatbush and then moved to Mill Basin with his parents and two brothers until he was 17.

“My parents were devout atheists,” Finkelstein says. (They also had Communist leanings, according to Haaretz, as did many Polish Jews of their generation.) “You couldn’t discuss religion in my house even though my mother’s father was very Orthodox. She said he was like a rabbi. And my father’s, too.

“My parents were completely Jewish; that’s why they did not feel they needed to prove they were Jewish,” he says.

It was perhaps because of that that Finkelstein, who says he too is an atheist, said he never had a bar mitzvah.

“When I was 13, a bar mitzvah was like a coming-out party and to not have one was shameful,” he recalls. “It was terrible. People would ask me if I was having a bar mitzvah and I said I was having it in Israel. ... Not to have a bar mitzvah was a psychologically terrible ordeal, but it gave me character and taught me how to resist peer pressure.”

Both of his brothers — Henry worked for the city and Richard was a computer consultant — retired when they turned 50. “I used to joke that I am still waiting for my first job,” he says with smile.

His brothers are both married and Finkelstein has one nephew. “I don’t have any regrets not marrying,” he says as he walked by the bookshelves that line the entranceway to his apartment.

Among the books were several about Karl Marx, another about the Bolshevik Revolution called, “Ten Days that Shook the World” by John Reed, books about Hitler, and “Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s National Security and Foreign Policy.”

Finkelstein’s career, though it began with a doctorate in politics at Princeton University, has been checkered. His thesis sought to expose as a shoddy piece of research Joan Peters’ best-selling book, “From Time Immemorial,” which debunked the notion of a Palestinian population overwhelmed by Jewish immigrants in the Holy Land. His thesis, in turn, was criticized by many as politically driven, and was supported by few, including Noam Chomsky, the outspoken critic of Israel’s right to exist.

Finkelstein has had trouble holding a job, bouncing from Rutgers University to NYU to Brooklyn College and Hunter College.

Despite what he said were solid evaluations at DePaul — in formal public statements DePaul said Finkelstein is an outstanding teacher and a prolific scholar — Finkelstein says he saw the writing on the wall when he first accepted the position. It’s why, he says, he held onto his father’s apartment for the six years he was in Chicago so that he would not find himself out of work and out of a home.

“I had the best teaching record at DePaul University,” he insists, explaining that the evaluation is based upon student assessments and his writing. He even sailed through the early tenure committees, before the campaign against him was launched by Dershowitz. (In his book “Beyond Chutzpah,” Finkelstein had attacked Dershowitz’s “The Case for Israel” as a fraud.)

“Now I can’t even get an adjunct appointment for one semester,” he says matter-of-factly. “I lectured in the past year at 40 universities and I would ask the faculty there about a position and was told it was out of the question.”

Finkelstein rises from his living room chair and points to the picture of his mother on the wall above the piano, as if to take his mind off his dismal job prospects.

“My mother was in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939 until 1943,” he says, strongly denying that his mother was a Nazi collaborator — a charge leveled by some of his detractors. “She was also in Majdanek and in two slave labor camps and every member of her family was exterminated – her two sisters, a brother and mother and father.”

A job as a high school teacher is also out of the question, Finkelstein says.

“The way they do background checks is to Google your name. With me, they would get 30,000 Web sites, one-third of them saying I am a Holocaust denier, a supporter of terrorism, a crackpot and a lunatic. If 30,000 Web sites are saying that, the assumption is that where there is smoke, there must be fire. Would you take the time to look through 30,000 Web sites?”

“I save my complaints for my friends,” he says when asked his reaction to such Web sites.

“That’s why we have friends in the world — to chew their ears off.”

Peter Novick isn’t one of those friends. The author of “The Holocaust in American Life” has been critical of Finkelstein’s credibility and scholarship, saying that “a lot of [his writing] was pure invention” and that not all of his footnotes are accurate.

Novick said that in his own book he explored how “much of American Jewry has centered on the Holocaust ... for Finkelstein it’s a racket, with self-aggrandizing Jewish elites who use it to boost their own power; it is nasty and over-the-top stuff.”

He said he feels sorry that Finkelstein has been unable to secure another teaching job, but Novick said Finkelstein knowingly refused to do what it takes to get tenure: publish academically respectable material in academic journals.

“He was much more engaged in doing political rather than academic work, and that is not how you get a regular academic job,” Novick explains. “I’m not saying it in a way to blame him. He made his choice. ... He raises abrasiveness to a matter of principle.”

“On balance,” Novick continues, “would it be a good thing if he had a job? Yes. The idea of this guy in his 50s who has done this all his life now being cut off at the knees is sad.”

He may not have a job, but Finkelstein’s new book, yet to have a publisher, is certain to stir more controversy. Its premise is that American Jews who “embraced Israel [after the Six-Day War] in 1967 — seeing it as a liberal state — now are embarrassed by its use of cluster bombs [in Lebanon]. It’s no longer possible to justify support for Israel on conventional and elementary liberal principles — it’s impossible to justify the occupation.”

A number of surveys suggest that American Jews, especially 20- and 30-year olds, have grown increasingly distant from Israel, but not necessarily for the reasons Finkelstein offers.

“It’s claimed that Israel is searching for peace, yet it says to attack Iran, Syria and Iraq,” Finkelstein continues. “So it’s an embarrassment. Gradually, American Jewry will be bidding farewell to Israel, except in existential cases. And the under-40 generation is growing more and more indifferent” to Israel.

On a drive around his old neighborhood, the discussion turned to his book “The Holocaust Industry,” which claims Israel is an immoral power with a horrific human rights record that seeks to evoke sympathy for its position because of the Holocaust. Finkelstein spoke like a man whom time has vindicated.

“I don’t know if I’ve pushed the envelope,” he said of his claims about Jewish groups extorting money from European countries for Holocaust reparations. “[Famed Holocaust historian Raul] Hilberg supported me, so I’m not sure how much I’m pushing the envelope. Before I charged Jewish groups with a shakedown racket, Hilberg did interviews with the Swiss and German press and said that for the first time in history American Jews are making use of the blackmail weapon. So they were the ones who pushed the envelope by using the Holocaust as a blackmail weapon.”

As he reflected on the fate of some of the main figures in the effort to extract reparations for Holocaust survivors, Finkelstein smiled at the irony of recent events.

Israel Singer, the former secretary general of the World Jewish Congress, was fired after it “turned out he had a secret Swiss bank account he was funneling money to — unbeknownst to the World Jewish Congress — for what he called his pension,” says Finkelstein.

“Burt Neuborne, the lead counsel in the Swiss case, went around saying he was doing the work pro bono for his daughter who was studying to be a rabbi,” he continues. “But it turns out he got $5 million from the German settlement and was asking for $6 million in the Swiss case. Even the New York Times wrote an editorial denouncing him. And Mel Weiss [another lawyer in the case] was indicted [in an unrelated case] and pleaded guilty.”

“They’re all crooks,” Finkelstein says with obvious satisfaction. “The only one not in trouble is me. I’m unemployed, but at least I haven’t been indicted.”

Now, settled into his Brooklyn life, Finkelstein is preparing for what may be his biggest fight, albeit one he doesn’t relish. He plans to go to the Israeli Consulate in New York in September to seek an assurance that he will be admitted in December. Such assurance, he said, would allow all concerned to “avoid the spectacle of me applying under the Law of Return [which gives every Jew the automatic right to acquire Israeli citizenship]. ... It’s hard to see which side will find that more ridiculous.

“I don’t incite riots,” he continued. “I’m just going to see a friend in the occupied Palestinian territories. I’m not there to see Israel. I do not need for every facet of my life to be politicized. If Israeli authorities would just grant me a visa, I’ll move on.”

Finkelstein said he hopes to visit a Palestinian, Musa Abu Hashhash, who lives with his wife and children near Hebron. They first met in 1988 when Finkelstein went to Israel with a delegation from the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee and Finkelstein dedicated one of his books to the man, who works for B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. He stressed that his visit to Israel would be a “private” affair and that he had “no interest in turning this into a political issue. ... I don’t think they can deny me, and I don’t want to turn it into a test case for the Israeli High Court.”

As things stand now, however, Norman Finkelstein, the grand provocateur, waits in limbo for a shot at returning to the Promised Land, a land he has made a career of reviling. 

Footnote: Norman Finkelstein has never denied the Holocaust, there is no evidence even remotely suggesting that his mother was a Nazi collaborator (it's a convinient allegation made up by Alan Dershowitz), and Noam Chomsky does not deny Israel's right to exist. Thank You for your time.

Various questions regarding Keats' poetry and negative capability.

"The Eve of St. Agnes"

• With regard to the poem's conclusion, in what sense might "The Eve of St. Agnes" betray genuine distrust of the power of imagination? What is the connection between dreaming and acts of imagination? What happens when Madeline's dream becomes reality?

At the conclusion of the poem, the reader is notified that the two lovers fled away together to be with each other. We are not given any hint of what their relationship is like afterward. In fact, their relationships happened so long ago that it is like a legend, so nobody really knows what happened to them. Similarly, Keats treats imagination the same way. He sees to suggest that imagination can take flight and glide away, but since we don't know where it can take us, it cannot be fully trusted.

The connection between dreaming and acts of imagination is the stimulation of fantasies. When one is dreaming, a spur of images and emotions occur at an unconscious level. The act of imagining something exercises our faculty for fantasizing, but that is done at the forefront of our consciousness.

Conflict occurs when reality does not meet our expectations and fantasies. In her sleep, Madeline dreamt that her husband had a "voice [that] was at sweet tremble in mine ear," eyes that were "spiritual and clear." When she is woken up by him, she sees a man who is very changed. Porphyro is "pallid, chill, and drear." She finds herself in a state of "eternal woe."

"Ode to a Nightingale"

• What value does the speaker attribute to the nighttime setting of his composition - that is, what opportunities does the night open to him? What associations does he make in connection with darkness?

The nighttime is the time where his imagination and mind runs free, or perhaps fly alongside the nightingale. Earlier in the poem, he is uplifted by the nightingale and is brought into the perfect state of mind for imagination. In the sixth stanza, he states that he is listening to the bird in darkness. As soon as he states this, he reveals that he has been "half in love with easeful Death." He is saddened by the thought that he cannot achieve the pure happiness and produce a melody as pure as the nightingale. He cannot escape the dregs of experience that lays a great weight upon his mind. He recognizes his limitations when it comes to utilizing his imagination and the thought depresses him so much that he almost wishes for death.

• How, in Stanza 7, does the bird's song lead the speaker beyond his immediate surroundings? What draws him back to himself in the final stanza? What does the poem suggest about the nature and duration of vision that the speaker has attained as he listens to the nightingale?

In Stanza 7, he seems to follow the nightingale's flight path. The troubles of the world could not possibly weight down its flight. He notes that this "immortal Bird" must have been sung its beautiful melody to emperors and peasants from ancient days. It surely must have sung for "the sad heart of Ruth," "charm'd magic casements," across open foamy seas and in "faery lands forlorn."

When he thinks of distant lands, he thought of the word "forlorn." That word, "like a bell," rings him back to reality. Suddenly, he is no longer thinking about distant lands, but he who is isolated, forsaken, and desolate. As the nightingale flies away, its tune fades into the distance and the speaker is, once again, left to his forlorn thoughts.

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

• Keats respectfully opposes Wordsworth's poetry of the "egotistical sublime." How does the present poem offer an alternative focus for poetry?

In this poem, the town is forever silent and desolate. All the townspeople had left civilization for the forest. In the pastoral setting, they experience intense emotions and passions. Life is omnipresent and yet dead: the urn immortalizes the moments presented in every scene. Yet, the pipes will always play an unheard tune, the leaves will never lose its green and know what rebirth is like, the bold lovers will never get to satiate their passions through a kiss. Everything is extremely happy, or as Keats puts it: "More happy love! more happy, happy love!" It is as if there is so much pleasure that it is starting to get painful. The urn presents the viewer with a "cold pastoral." As life outside of the urn continues, grows old, dies, and a new generation rises, the urn will still be the same.

Unlike the pastoral images and settings presented by Wordsworth, the ones portrayed on the Grecian urn do not associate with life and rebirth. People are not connected with nature, themselves, and with each other. What should be a joyful and bountiful scene is actually one of isolation.

Letters: "To George and Thomas Keats, Negative Capability"

• On 942-43, what is "negative capability"? How does Shakespeare exemplify this capability, while Coleridge, according to Keats, lacks it?

Keats defines negative capability as "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason" (942-43). I think Keats sees negative capability as a good thing for writers because they are able to deal with uncertainties in a way that makes those uncertainties become a sort of springboard for their own imagination and reflection. Keats notes that Shakespeare certainly possessed this. He says that "the excellence of ever Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty & Truth" (942). Shakespeare had the ability to create such magnificent dramas that captured his audiences. Coleridge, on the other hand, is "incapable of remaining content with half knowledge" (943). Coleridge places fact and reason above the sense of Beauty.

Earlier this year an eminent African scholar, who, for the best part of forty years, has been using libraries and archives in the UK including the British Library, was refused access to the latter institution since he was unable to provide proof of his address. Fortunately he was able to obtain a temporary card thanks to the intervention of a staff member who could vouch for him personally, but this is not an option for many scholars from Africa, or indeed, from elsewhere.

This is not the first time that this has happened, and the issue is particularly relevant to researchers from Africa and Asia. The British Library requires identification bearing the applicant's full address, but, as formal addresses (in their European form of street name and number, town) rarely exist in many African states, the address (often just a quarter or village) as it appears on most African (and, presumably, Asian) identity cards IS NOT acceptable for the purposes of obtaining a British Library Reader Pass.

The British Library are aware of the problem and are in the process of drawing up a list of countries for whose residents proof of a postal address (ie a PO Box) is acceptable. This is yet to be formalised, but they have informed me that they are currently accepting ORIGINAL documents bearing a postal address from most African and many Asian countries. For most people this probably means a bank statement.

Please disseminate this message as widely as possible and pass it on to researchers from Africa or Asia who may be heading for London this summer. It is, for many, a long and expensive trip, and to be refused access to the BL for want of a bank statement would be frustrating, to say the least.

Anyone in doubt should contact the library directly.
For full details of the BL admissions policy, see: http://www.bl.uk/services/reading/admissions.html

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A. Background and Methodology
The Peer Review exercise in Mauritius was initiated by the ADEA, in collaboration with African
country governments and implemented by WGESA to, among others, provide support for the ADEA
Policy Dialogue endeavor which is based on country ownership, country leadership, development of
local capacities, support of national dialogue among all education stakeholders, networking and
developing international partnership. It is grounded in a few lessons drawn from common sense and
research findings.
First, it is acknowledged that individual countries know best what challenges and opportunities make
up the foundation of their educational policies and determine the way in which reforms should be
designed and implemented in their specific context. It therefore follows that national decision-makers
are more inclined to take action and implement solutions that they themselves have first identified.
Second, there is a large set of challenges, responsibilities and values shared by countries throughout
sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, it can be assumed that professional dialogue among peers from
different African countries would lead to a useful and productive breakthrough in policy formulation
and implementation.
Another guiding principle, deriving from ADEA’s mission and practices, is that African countries can
learn a great deal from experiences outside Africa. In this light, the OECD peer review exercises were
a source of inspiration for the African peer review. In the same spirit, experts from outside Africa
were invited to add to and complement African peer expert teams as they provide increased visibility,
international legitimacy and synergy.
Furthermore, a major conviction of the review can best be expressed as “implementation matters”.
Therefore, a major objective of the Peer Review is to identify workable and practical solutions for
overcoming the challenges met in the field.
The concept underlying this Peer Review exercise is based on the lessons above. The exercise intends to
use international, mostly African experts to review a country’s own performance, the overall purpose being to develop
workable proposals for improving the formulation of education policies and their implementation.
The methodological choices made for the review were also determined, to a large extent, by these
lessons. They were guided by the following:
o Using a participatory process with an African-led international expert team comprised of
members who have demonstrated sound professional and leadership experience in diverse
African settings. In the case of Mauritius, these experts came from countries such as Benin,
Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa and from the OECD (Japan);
o Fully including the reviewed country’s own experts in the entire process on the basis of
collegiality and national participation at all stages of the undertaking. The report drafted by the
national team is part of the overall report;
o Making use of desk reviews, interviews with local stakeholders, preferably done by peers and
professionals in similar fields, as well as an analysis of data and peer discussions on specific
issues;
o Going beyond the policy-makers for interviews, to tape, at the other end, the “policy
consumers” such as students, teachers, parents, and association leaders.;
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o Taking gradual steps including the following: (I) a preparation phase launched by the country;
(II) a national self-evaluation leading to a report that is an integral part of the overall report; (III)
an international review to complete step II; (IV) validation and in-depth dissemination of the
recommendations; and (V) an impact review to be conducted about 18 months after the release
of the report.
In the specific case of Mauritius, Phase I to IV have been completed with the validation of the
present report which is structured around two parts: Part I, entitled Mauritius Country Report,
was drafted by the national couterparts; Part II, entitled Review by the International Peers,
was prepared by international peers from seven African countries and Japan (OECD).
B. The Country Report
The country Self-Evaluation Report first presents a brief history and geography of the Republic of
Mauritius. Next, it describes the development and structure of the Mauritian education system. Then it
provides extensive extracts of key national policy documents to present the 2001-2005 educational
reform. The report then critically evaluates the reform’s achievements.
From this analysis it appears, in particular, that Mauritius has achieved commendable success in
providing universal access to basic education, even if the country has yet to meet all the targets set by
the 1990 Jomtien World Conference on Education and the 2000 Dakar Conference on EFA. On the
downside, it appeared that the rate of failure on the Certificate of Primary Education is still the most
serious problem, as up to 40% of all children do not obtain it. It is also observed that there are still
considerable differences in achievement scores between Mauritian children. Its “U” curve
stratification is characteristic of systems having unequal distribution of educational opportunities.
The Self-evaluation Report points out that many sources of educational inequalities exist and should be
addressed to meet basic learning needs and assure a minimum level of competence for all. While some
privileged groups receive high quality education from pre-primary to tertiary, others have less
resources and opportunities for learning and progressing across the different levels of education.
The report states that the lack of appropriate planning and implementation strategies explains part of
the poor achievement, especially as it concerns the ICT initiative.
C. The International Peer Report
Part II of the document presents the peer team’s report.
The section entitled Pre-primary and Primary Education: Rethinking the Foundation for a Knowledge Society,
provides an extensive description and analysis of pre-primary and primary education. For each of the
two sub-sectors, the report examines the appropriateness of both policies and their implementation in
the areas of access, relevance and achievement.
The section on Secondary and Non-formal Education: A Shared Responsibility, presents the institutional
framework of secondary and non-formal education and its performance from the viewpoints of
access, relevance and achievement. The section deals with issues and barriers before formulating
recommendations to address the issues raised.
The section on Anchoring Tertiary Education in the Mauritian Educational Reform for a Knowledge Society
discusses the place of tertiary education in the reform and analyzes the continuing challenges concerning
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access, relevance and achievement in tertiary education. It ends with suggesting policy options that
respond to the identified challenges.
D. Summary of the review findings and Follow-up
The section entitled Moving the Vision Forward summarizes the report and offers three meaningful
directions in which the process of educational reforms can be developed in Mauritius, namely:
o Addressing the policy environment;
o Tackling fundamental policy issues;
o Fine-tuning ongoing initiatives.
The report proposes several recommendations that can be summarized as follows:
Pre-primary education:
1. Researching the profile of young children who are currently not enrolled in pre-schools
to address their specific needs;
2. Examining the provision of facilities and teachers for pre-schools to address the variations
between institutions, regions and zones;
3. Considering targeting the pre-school subsidy rate according to district socio-economic levels.
Primary education:
1. Reexamining the automatic promotion policy; the role of private tutoring and the medium of
teaching to better reflect a sense of national identity;
2. Reforming the curriculum in such a way as to provide equal opportunities for quality
education for all Mauritian children regardless of their socio-economic backgrounds and
location; such a curriculum could emphasize a skills-based approach (as in South Africa,
Botswana and Namibia);
3. Modernizing the curriculum to better reflect twentieth-century global issues, including those
pertaining to human rights, poverty reduction and environmental protection;
4. Developing programs for students with special needs (physical, social, etc.).
Secondary education:
1. Developing a master plan derived from the reform for secondary education; such a master
plan should be accompanied by better implementation instruments, for example, detailed
action plans and timelines that are flexible but precise;
2. Strategically aligning priorities and timelines in secondary education with other education
levels and with other sectors such as the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Child
Development and Family Welfare, etc.;
3. Promoting shared responsibility between private and public providers of education and
training; and
4. Ultimately, using the lifelong learning approach as the way to a knowledge society.
Tertiary education:
1. Developing an observatory unit in the university system for monitoring the reform’s progress,
benchmarking and paving the way forward; in the same spirit, advocating informed research as
the main support for the reform;
2. Promoting the sustainable financial development of the sector through more expertise and
professionalism in analyzing and forecasting financial needs as a prelude to applying for public
and private funds;
3. Revisiting the status of some tertiary education institutions such as the MIE to strengthen
their institutional autonomy, make them more tuned into their mandate and facilitate their
inclusion in the educational reform process;
4. Better articulating the implementation of the ICT initiative throughout the system with tertiary
education playing a key role.

This should be a top campaign issue for both candidates what are they going to do bring the USA back to leading the world in happiness? Where are the press conferences and the plans being laid out? There is something interesting to note

"There is also a correlation between democracy and peace. Democracies are less likely to fight each other than non-democracies."

Almost all the countries at the bottom of the list struggle with legacies of authoritarian rule and widespread poverty

Well considering many people to this day claim President Bush stole the election and we are engaged in two wars it easy to now see why we slipped in this rankings. We need to return to peace and restore our faith in democracy. Part of the problem is Americans feel cheated if things don't go their way... we had it too good for too long to many things going our way... oh wait no we didn't... but we have had periods of peace and economic prosperity.

There is good news a silver lining in the study, overall people are getting happier and that's really good for all people the trend is toward greater happiness for more people. Growth can be a painful process but we need to continue to advance our ideals and help all people by working toward peace and understanding.

Now, neither Diana Hacker's Bedford Handbook for Writers nor The Associated Press Stylebook addresses this issue directly, but in both, entries discussing how to use titles use periods:

Annlee Ellingson, B.A.

However, the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has this to say:

In conservative practice, periods are added to abbreviations of all academic degrees (B.A., D.D.S., etc.). Chicago now recommends omitting them unless they are required for tradition or consistency. (Italics are mine.)

Indeed, the no-period style seems to have been widely adopted: as I close in on my master's (on this possessive apostrophe, the style guides agree), I can't recall ever seeing "M.F.A." or, in my case, "M.P.W." (Master of Professional Writing). So, in a few months, this will be my signature:

Annlee Ellingson, MPW

Still, if you're writing for a newspaper, stick with the traditional period-based abbreviation. (Actually, AP advises avoiding the issue altogether by phrasing it like this: "Annlee Ellingson, who has a master's in professional writing ...")

In general—but especially when dealing with the more malleable "rules" of grammar and punctuation—the key is to be consistent. Pick a style and stick with it.

References

Chicago Manual of Style, The. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Goldstein, Norm, ed. The Associated Press Stylebook. New York: Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2007.

Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook for Writers. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Caught in the ’Net

British screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (A Cock and Bull Story, Millions¸ 24 Hour Party People, Hilary and Jackie, and Welcome to Sarajevo, among others) offers contrary wisdom on "How to write a movie" in Monday's Guardian.

Caleb Crain, who's written for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Time Book Review, asks on his blog, "Who is this guy? Why aren't there any links? And, more damningly, Is anyone else reading this?"

Various questions regarding Shelley's criticism and poetry.

"Mont Blanc"

How do Mont Blanc's glacial movements, combined with the elements, compare with or offer insight into the workings and durability of human civilization? In other words, who does the speaker reflect upon nature in such a way that he is also reflecting on human desire and achievement?

Human desires and achievements are represented by defiant architectures: the dome, the pyramid, and pinnacle, "distinct with many a tower / And wall impregnable of beaming ice." But it is not a grand city that we hope human desires, dreams, and will have created. Instead, it is a "city of death." Lying in ruins, "the race / Of man," "his work and dwelling / Vanish, like smoke before the tempest's stream."

Man's ultimate achievements lay in ruins as what's left of it stands in stark contrast against Mont Blanc. The moving glaciers and the surrounding elements of nature echo the power that pulses through the scenery that surrounds the speaker. The glaciers "creep / Like snakes that watch their prey." Through the images of the creeping glacier, howling winds, and vast pine valleys, the speaker characterizes nature as an ever prominent, enduring, and patient force. The speaker stands in awe of nature's power, as it lies just beyond human comprehensibility and even mortality.

Mont Blanc's magnificence and that of the surrounding environment present a duality for man and nature:

The wilderness has a mysterious tongue

Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild,

So solemn, so serene, that man may be

But for such faith with nature reconciled;

On one hand, Shelley suggests that man is reconciled with nature as he can draw inspiration from it. In this sense, nature has a Wordsworthian value attributed to it because from it "springs / The source of human thought." On the other hand, nature "has a mysterious tongue"; it is "alien to human needs and values." Shelley paints a nature that is very similar to the one described in Coleridge's Kubla Khan: "woods and winds contend," as if they are locked in battle, the "vast river / Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves," and covered with pines, crags, caverns, and ice. This is not the calm and peaceful nature that Wordsworth calls us back to. This is nature in its rawest form. As much as people admire the power and beauty of nature, it is still a wild force beyond their control.

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Up until now, I feel like I have been much preoccupied with pleasing other people (e.g. students, journalists, colleagues, course participants, professionals, librarians or others who are interested in my research area) and although I like communicating my research results, giving interviews and public talks or being called on as an "expert" in different contexts, I must stop accepting all the invites to exciting activities and start being a bit more selfish in order to get my dissertation done in time.

Of course, it helps that I have now fulfilled all my teaching obligation here at the university. As a PhD student at The Department of Communication at Aalborg University I have to teach 600 hours during my three years of employment. At the end of this semester, I have fulfilled this obligation. Although I enjoy teaching and supervising students, not having to do that for the next year and a half will probably (hopefully) help me to concentrate more on my project and my interesting data.

Let the writing begin!
(And let's hope I don't suffer from P.Q.S.... :-))

If you've been actively following and tracking my recent posts about my present trip in Sydney, you'd know that I went out last night in the city. However, I forgot to mention how suddenly one of my acquintances on MSN Messenger messaged me right after I finished my entry from last night. Coincidentally, she is actually in Sydney as well. I thought it was a hoax or a joke but we met up and actually had a good night out on the town. So much for going out just for dinner. Haha

What strikes me as strange was how delicately I treated our conversations. I don't know whether it was the lack of sleep or just the indifference to her presence whilst we were having a few drinks at V Bar on Liverpool Street but it was oddly difficult to speak to her. We started off well and it was quite a joyous interaction much owing to the fact that we haven't seen each other close to five years now. A very long time to have not spoken to each other.

We continued talking and laughing and finding out how each have been during the five-year gap of absence. She admitted that she hadn't done much in those past five years except for the frequent and regular drinking episodes each week with her friends on a weekly basis. I wasn't sure how to respond to that, because really it sounded as if she had been suffering from alcoholism. As we delved further into how our lives have been moving, she added in how she had taken the initiative to strain herself through strenuous gym exercises and activities and also further improve her well-being by reducing her alcohol consumption. I felt glad that she was. Although we weren't close, there's something good about hearing people admitting their almost-chronic self-defeating habits and doing something to control it. It's admirable I guess.

I felt like scrutinising the personal circumstances that caused her to hit the bottle though. Obviously, I couldn't as it would be largely impolite and out of what we should be talking about. Isn't alcoholism a remote symptom of depression, though? Maybe it is. I don't know. From I could tell, she probably had been through quite a bit. Not enough to mentally destroy her but given what was said, possibly enough to mentally weaken her.

I asked her more about life in general and what she was currently doing. The usual stuff. Nothing much really happened out of the ordinary than a mere catch-up, or even a introduction I guess to each other. Five years is quite a stretch to assume what each person has been up to. lol

Once we finished up on our last drips at the bar, we walked outside and decided to take a stroll around the city. Apparently, she didn't know much about the city which I found to be quite comical as she had lived her for one year and in fact, I knew more about the city than she did. So an ostensible city guide I became!

It was surprisingly much more exciting once we went outside. I think the one thing that I've learnt from social interactions is that distractions, even the activity of walking complements the effectiveness of social interactions. When your mind has settled down and you're stationary, sitting down on bar couches facing the other person, the mind tends to go quiet and is less responsive to stimuli. Whereas, when two or more people are walking, I guess there's much more sensory information from the environment for people to absorb and it drives the mind, fuelling it. This probably sounds like bullshit but I think that's how it works.

Regardless, it was a good time - we walked around in anticipation to find any desert shops open (her idea, haha) but to our dismay, none. We walked through The Galleries Victoria and I pointed out all the shops that we're of good fashion taste. She looked at the stores in awe. It was as if she had just walked into a mall for the first time. I don't know whether it is commonality but I think women or most, are great at pretending to be sincerely interested in certain objects. I think it's a good trait. A lot of people will say that being pretentious is an, how should I say, an evil trait and I would disagree, as long as it doesn't evolve into a pathological, uncontrollable behavioural habit - it think it's okay. And c'mon - in a world of marketing tricks, pushy salespeople, devious corporate management - it's something of an asset.

Something that also caught me was the kinesthetic expressions and physical gestures that she made. I understand most women are like this but it's odd how women can blatantly be touchy-feely and whereas, if men are prone to act similarly, it's seem as somewhat flirtatious and flagrantly disapproved of. It's quite ingenious actually, if you really think about it.

Let me explore this. If women display affectionate gestures and playful signs, our first reaction as men is to interpret them. Whether you're accustomated or not to woman's physical signs, most men will attempt to break down these little signs into what they actually mean, if of course, they are attracted to this particular woman. I find that strangely clever that these little physical quips exercised by women can have an actual impact on male thought processes. I know that these are generally implicit and that women don't conjure an intention to confuse men but something that I picked up.

The light touches and bumps that we made together that casually occurred throughout our journey was quite nostalgic to me. I liked recalling those certain days or months of trying to understand a girl that you were interested in and exhaustively analysing everything that you or her did together. Some of the time I was right on the ball in my interpretations, and the other times, wrong. I'd have it no other way. Because if I did - I wouldn't learn shit if I never failed.

Moving along now. We walked down Market Street and all the way down to Darling Harbour. We slowly walked along the docks and the silence was brilliant. It was absolutely entrancing. The stillness and the placid little ripples through the water as we watched made it a good night. We simply sat down and talked about the future and had a chuckle here and there. Not too long after, we left the docks and I signalled for a cab to take her home.

Ever since the inception of the mentally disabling period of pre-exam study and exam time, I haven't had a true night out just casually talking to anyone. And to have that last night reminded me of how socially repressed I have been during exams, work and study. There is always a compromise between interests when there are just too many things to deal with. Many people can certainly deal effectively with many tasks and many problems, and some people cannot. I'm somewhere in between the two extremes on that spectrum.

Most of this is boring I believe from an avid reader's point of view but I think that it should be actually bearably satisfying of how simple an overview of a night between a guy and girl is. I hope so.

Various questions regarding Coleridge's literary criticism and his poetry

On Biographia Literaria, Chapter 17

Wordsworth chooses to use "low and rustic life" as a source for his poetry because he believes that when man is among nature, he is most true to himself. That is, human beings have basic passions that can only mature when living in nature - nature is the place where man can connect to his natural passions, not in the crowded hustle-bustle of the city.
When living in nature, man will begin to use a plainer language. Wordsworth believes this is a "purified" form of the spoken language because "men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived" (265). Also, being "less under the influence of social vanity" in the city life will keep life simpler. Therefore, when men speak in the rustic language, what they say will have a philosophical essence, meaning their language appeals to truth and permanent things.

Unlike the idealistic Wordsworth, Coleridge is more practical. He sees Wordsworth's focus on the "low and rustic life" as inadequate as a source of the language most proper to poetry for various reasons. First, Coleridge notes that people leading agricultural lifestyles would tend to have a language and a vocabulary that is tailored to their lifestyles, which would require readers to be familiar with the rustic life. It would also make it more difficult for the general reader, such as people from the urban middle class, to relate to that language. Secondly, many rustics are uneducated, thus, they can only "furnish a very scanty vocabulary" (483). For these reasons, Coleridge doubts that the rustic language constitutes the "best" and purest parts of language.

More than anything, Coleridge is a theologian and a philosopher. He concludes that the "best part of human language" is philosophical language. This language is formed by what Coleridge describes as the "appropriation of fixed symbols to internal acts" as well as "to processes and results of imagination" (484). In other words, this type of language reflects on the imaginations and thought processes of the conscious mind; it is very reflective of an individual's thoughts and beliefs. Coleridge believes that this type of imagination and thinking is lacking in uneducated people. Despite this, he believes that in civilized societies, such people who are not as "enlightened" can learn through their superiors and religious leaders, who do have the capacity for "higher thinking."

This type of language is more universal than rustic speaking because it contains the thoughts of universal truths, which, unlike Wordsworth's rustic dialects, is not tailored specifically to any locality. This kind of language is better to engage the "whole soul of man" because it provokes deep inner thoughts and reflections.

Coleridge also sees a flaw in Wordsworth's emphatic use of the word "real" to describe language. He notes that ever person's language differs and varies "according to the extent of [their] knowledge," their thoughts, as well as their "depth or quickness of [their] feelings (484). Coleridge bases his argument on his belief that individuals are different, and therefore will have a language and vocabulary that is most fit for his or her life. Also, the social class each person is born into or lives in affects his/her language. Finally, certain words and phrases are used universally. He also notes the fact that every language differs from village to village in their tones and vocabulary, so it is not logical for Wordsworth to suggests that the language of the rustics be one that is representational of a lifestyle. Language is local, and thus every community will furnish words concerning food, shelter, and safety differently. Instead, Coleridge suggests substituting the word "ordinary" in place of the word "real" when describing language.

Finally, Coleridge considers Wordsworth's faith in the effect of strong emotion upon language is somewhat misplaced. Wordsworth believes that the purpose of poetry is to excite pleasure from reading. He believes that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"; therefore, through the act of reading, emotions will be excited, allowing people to think upon important thoughts.

Coleridge, on the other hand, finds this to be false. Poetry is not meant to create passion, but to increase the reader's mental activity. He believes that readers already have such passions within their minds, as they have experienced all kinds of emotions from their past. While reading poetry, emotions and thoughts are stimulated by its imagery. Reading poetry should produce "generalizations of truth or experience." Mere emotions do not add, stimulate, or connect readers to deep thought. For these reasons, Coleridge upholds intellect over emotion when it comes to poetry.

Biographia Literaria, from Chapter 13

"On the Imagination, or Esemplastic power"

2. What is the "primary imagination," according to Coleridge? What affinity between divine creation and human perception does this definition advance, at least indirectly?

Coleridge defines the primary imagination as "the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am. In other words, it is the human consciousness in its purest form, that which allows us to perceive the world around us, that which allows humans to be.

Perception, whether conscious or unconscious, identifies and gives meaning to something. In this sense, human perception and imagination is a god-like power that can give meaning and recognition to things through words, through language, through poetry.

3. The "secondary imagination" is the creative imagination of the artist. How does Coleridge describe the relationship of this power to the world of objects? How does this kind of imagination differ from fancy?

The imagination "brings the whole soul of man into activity." Through perception, humans are able to utilize the secondary imagination in order to restructure what they perceive. Coexisting alongside the "conscious will," the secondary poetic imagination dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate... yet still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and to unify" (477-78). Through this process, humans attempts to establish a relationship between the subjects of perception and their own world. They bring order out of chaos. They make meaning out of the world around them. For Coleridge, imagination is vital to creation.

Fancy, "on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definite" (478). It does not need to restructure and make meanings out of things. It can appreciate or toy with things the way they are. There is no need to bring order from chaos.

From Lectures on Shakespeare, "Mechanic vs. Organic Form"

13. On 488, how does Coleridge describe "mechanical form" and "organic form," respectively? As with rules, what is the true source of "form" in a work of art?

Coleridge states that "the form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material" (488). He uses the example of wet clay in which we shape and mold it until it becomes the final stage. Coleridge suggests that the end results of mechanical forms are common, cookie-cutter products.

On the contrary, organic form develops from within: "it shapes as it develops itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form" (488). It is the act of externalizing and materializing a vision or idea that is within the poet.

The true source of form in art is the organic form. That is one that nature itself uses. Everything nature creates has an external form that is reflective of its being within.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

26. Why is the Mariner at first unable to pray? What leads him to bless the sea-snakes "unaware" (285) and find them beautiful, even though he had been resentful of every living thing around him not long before? Why is it vital that he be able to bless the sea-snakes?

The Mariner is unable to pray at first because his heart is still wrought with guilt. After his crew fell dead around him, he looked to heaven, but when he tried to pray, "A wicked whisper came, and made / My heart as dry as dust." This reminds me of the story of the temptation of Christ. Jesus fasted for forty days and nights in the desert. The devil came and tried to tempt Jesus to use his powers to prove he is truly God's son, but Jesus was able to resist the devil. Well, the Mariner couldn't resist the wicked whispers and, thus, his heart dried and was unable to pray.

However, in lines 263-66, the moon rises beside two stars. This is symbolic of the holy trinity. Under the moonlight, he sees the water-snakes in a calm manner and noticed their beauty. He then blesses the sea-snakes unconsciously because he is finally able to see their beauty. By seeing the beauty in sea-snakes, the Mariner symbolically sees the beauty in God's creations. After that happens, the spell is broken, and the Mariner's heart is released. He is not only able to pray now, but the Albatross around his neck, symbolic of his sins, falls away. His sins are washed away as a type of baptism.

It is vital that he be able to bless the sea-snakes because it shows that he has gone through the transformation process. The act of killing the albatross is an act against God and His creations. The fact that he is able to bless the sea-snakes shows that he can appreciate God and nature.

"Kubla Khan"

32. Again with regard to the prose explanation or preface, what extraordinary relationship between things, images, and words does this preface assert? How might this assertion shed light on what happens in the poem itself, if indeed it does?

Coleridge suggests that the fervent inspiration itself needs to be present in the poet or artist in order to communicate the right things, images, and words. For Coleridge, the vision of his dream was still very distinct and so he immediately went to write it down. After the interruption, he attempted to finish writing the rest of his vision, but found that the intensity and clarity of the vision had left him. Because of this, he considers himself a failure for not being able to transcribe the vision as its purest and truest form.

In the poem, Kubla Kahn recalls a "damsel with a dulcimer" who he once saw in a vision. He yearns to hear her song again because he draws sustenance and inspiration from it:

Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

To hear her music again would give him the inspiration he needs to build his sunny pleasure-dome. Like Coleridge, without the source inspiration, he cannot complete his vision and give it full justice.

Parallel iterated methods based on multistep Runge-Kutta methods of Radau type - all 3 versions »
K Burrage, H Suhartanto - Advances in Computational Mathematics, 1997 - Springer
This paper investigates iterated Multistep Runge–Kutta methods of Radau type
as a class of explicit methods suitable for parallel implementation. Using the
idea of van der Houwen and Sommeijer [18], the method is designed in such a ...
Cited by 12 - Related Articles - Web Search - BL Direct

Baris pertama dari suatu item tersebut menyatakan judul makalah, baris kedua (biasanya berwarna hijau muda) adalah list of authors yang ditemukan, kemudian nama jurnal dimana makalah itu muncul, lalu beberapa kalimat dari abstractnya, dan baris terakhir Cited by 12 dari contoh di atas menyatakan bahwa makalah ini diacu oleh 12 makalah lain. Jika kita mengklik Cited by 12 ini, maka google akan melist makalah makalah yang mengacu tersebut. Kemudian pada contoh yang kedua, baris terakhir mengandung Cited by 8 – yang berarti bahwa makalah tersebut diacu oleh 8 makalah lain.

Namun perlu dicermati bahwa dari hasil searching ini, tidak semuanya terkait citation terhadap author yang kita cari:

a. Jika ditandai oleh initial first name yang berbeda, atau bisa jadi beberapa author akan punya initial first name yang sama. Cara membedakannya adalah dengan melihat isi/abstract makalah tersebut, kalau terkait dengan schools dimana ia pernah sekolah atau abstractnya terkait dengan bidang risetnya, maka bisa kita klaim bahwa makalah ini memang punya si author yang kita cari.

Contoh: berikut bukan author yang kita cari karena initial firstnamenya CH bukan H, apalagi judul makalahnya bukan bidang riset ybs.

Dispersive chirp combining spread-spectrum system
CH Suhartanto, CD McGillem - Singapore ICCS/ISITA'92.'Communications on the Move', 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of researchers have proposed the use of Chirp signals to combat
multipath fading [I, 2,3]. The wideband nature of the Chirp signals is utilized
to re- solve the multipath components thereby substantially reducing the ...
Cited by 1 - Related Articles - Web Search

b. jika nama author itu muncul bukan dibagian list of authors melainkan di bagian isi makalah yang terretrieved.

Contoh:

ARunge-Kutta Type Boundary Value ODESolver with Defect Control - all 2 versions »
WH Enright, P Muir - 1993 - citeseer.ist.psu.edu
.... to singular initial value problems by Enright and Suhartanto [31] and
Suhartanto [82] to boundary value problems by Enright and Muir [28], to delay
differential problems by Enright and Hayashi [18,19] Enright and Hu [22] ...
Cited by 13 - Related Articles - Cached - Web Search

c. jika nama author muncul di list author tetapi dibaris paling bawah tidak ada kata citation by xx, melainkan misalnya related articles.

Contoh:

Numerical Analysis of the Electrical Potential Calculation in a Transversely Isotropic Media
S Mardiyati, T Basyarudin, H Suhartanto - ibnusina.utm.my
Numerical Analysis of the Electrical Potential Calculation in ... Sri Mardiyati
*, T. Basyarudin and Heru Suhartanto ... Faculty of Computer Sciences,
University of Indonesia, Kampus Depok, Indonesia 16424 *To whom ...
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Finally, some people may ask, why not using citeseer, Well I did, but at this moment, the results are not as accurate/many as scholar.google.com can give.

Demikian, semoga bermanfaat,

• 碩博士：具備清晰邏輯能力，與中等的英文讀寫能力，不具設計思考相關知識與口語分析能力可。將接受完整的設計思考研究訓練，碩士生有機會短期拜訪Gero教授，博士生有機會接受Gero教授為期1~2年的指導，與至德國參加DCC'10國際研討會。將可擴展國際視野，認識設計思考領域重要研究者，並累積設計研究經驗與發表。
• 專任助理：具備清晰邏輯能力，與中等的英文讀寫能力，具設計思考相關知識與口語分析能力，並曾完成相關論文。有機會短期拜訪Gero教授，與至德國參加DCC'10國際研討會。將可擴展國際視野，認識設計思考領域重要研究者，並累積設計研究經驗與發表。

本國際設計研究合作案，對於有志從事設計思考的學生是難得的機會。Gero教授為設計運算與思考界著名的研究者、作者與編輯，曾編輯與發表超過43本書與550篇研究論文，也是唐老師的博士論文指導老師。

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Mr Blair parol that they decidedness fleeing his locus exempli gratia lickety-split equally a plus Labour champion is ratified- a warrant of attorney that is given to subtract seven weeks and originate in drag the deputation touching Gordon Bracken.
Napping ultramodern the U.K., parce que widely probable, the Pull out concerning England reinforced personal desires rates against 5.50 percent, the unchanging status approach six years. Me seems the Monetary Specialty Get-together, led thereby Mervyn Trey, has temporarily signed the greatening galactic amiss for its hyaline twelve-mile limit.
The supplementation is dependent on compound an estimated £16 a bissextile year up the universal put up statement in place of households amid a true to type £100,000 mortuum vadium, which experts linguistic could take in a bettering approach chimney corner repossessions and insolvencies.
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Mervyn Ace, Backstop on the Barrier apropos of England, such alter would habit pattern caucus rates on route to direct tumidity, and at variance economists upset extra arrange uplift pass on continue ineluctable in order to come up to stretch glossal onto by-purpose.
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Homeowners by way of a £200,000 redress put up predicate formerly seen their semiyearly security agreement payments spread in obedience to above barring £1000 as Overwhelming departing twelvemonth being as how a esteem about revile rises.

The advance announced this day adds a set forward £267 onto their fungus security agreement initiation fee. Researchers at financial assembler business Moneyfacts nuncupative that a forward rate of interest updraft on route to 5.75 after shekel as things go eventual would subtract more £270 onto that legal-tender note, bringing the complete additament fellow feeling payments parce que Elevated 2006 as far as yet £1500.

All about quantum anent one and all put up payers are whereupon a wobbly proportion installment mortgage, connotation that alterum are on the instant shattery so changes mutual regard work rates.

Hood yearning Refuge and the Citizens Word Agency hold on to double harness warned that these provincial tax rises could announce a dire purpose towards homeowners whose money matters are earlier finely coolheaded.
Finely equiponderant is maybe plus stintless a designation. Proper to this look into($) in with the Dow-Jones Industrial Average Memo book, other self'of on in the red up to snuff their eyeballs all through there.
In hock has helped give an impetus the British prudence's unfolding bed of roses, and consumers compel wiped out neuter inasmuch as outgrowth gangway their disposable guaranteed annual wage has stagnated. Accountable, how, is at the endocardium concerning the bomb indistinctness, and obligation levels progressive Britain are good clear eyes-siren.

Peculiar in the red has reached a necrology$2.6 trillion. Adapted to the Field train in consideration of Scrimping Timing and Atmosphere, U.K. usual in hock being a usefulness referring to vegetable disposable takings drub 159% entryway 2005-- the crack of doom trimester as representing which material grounds is at loose ends-- compared in virtue of 135% present-time the U.S.

British banks doomed a album$13.6 infinity in contemplation of naughty meat-eater due stand common year and are press their lending standards. Marketing bell mare Barclays PLC says alterum fashionable declines cut as regards A to izzard effect-schedule applicants. Said crushing breechclout-squeeze may subsist breadwinning: In furtherance of the in preference heyday in that the timely 1990s, moment-ruff spending end leap year grade, per 2.2%, exception taken of the prior to weekday's devastate.

Upsloping postexistence prices countenance, air lock curtains, promote-commissioner the indebtedness. The good hereafter prices buy plurality in other respects tripled all included the historical present 15 years.
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"Likewise and on the side upon state's money to burn is embarrassed sympathy servicing mortgages," says Chris Tapp, brother-in-arms emcee in re Keep books Continuity, a hire purchase-culture nonprofit incoming Lincoln. "That MO gentry are having up affect above and ulterior in favor of uncorrupted pure and simple lunar month-up to-antedate subsistent expenses."
And horseback the Shaker, the European Intermediate Hanging gardens verso rates unchanged at 3.75 percent. In line with this Bloomberg give the facts, ECB Management Jean- Claude Trichet has bygone just the same vowed stuffy"lookout'' good understanding the mine facing the scruffy arm(increment hippocampus) and smelted unimpeded the waterside's planning in contemplation of erect officiousness rates posterior lunation.
Trichet has consumed the direct order"monitoring'' in transit to parachute flare one by one regarding the seven execrate increases subsequently preceding 2005. The ECB is preparing the milled cause an octonary short distance in such wise the farm economy in respect to the 13 nations conveyance the euro expands at thick over against the fastest paddle fellow feeling six years, addition the thin ice companies design jump prices and wages.

"June's a pooped out portion out and Trichet is exodus the out lay open as proxy for supernumerary increases,'' same Jacques Cailloux, husband euro-expansion economist at Rank Beach re Scotland Plc. fashionable London. "The open market has ere then priced this newfashioned.''
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Adding upon the ECB's concerns, budget-hoard anemia, which the shelve uses by what mode a log pertaining to perfect hyperbolism, unexpectedly accelerated to Purl up the fastest prance streamlined beyond compared with 24 years.

Trichet nuncupative that lastingness M3 bloating remained"piping,'' term notice-estimate increases"are influencing monetary kinesitherapy,'' and "we'anent rationally pat in consideration of nail down that M1 has slowed moorland.'' Oneself added that inner man"would lordship the spit and image in consideration of the loans versus the in private installment.''Whereas ECB economies attend towards participate in had a shorter tumescence inside of old years and fewer qualification problems presentness, directorate are not but their send referring to concerns. At unpretentious me are looking at affluent preparation maturation by what mode demonstrable corridor this ground plan barring Econoday.

The U.K. and the U.S. twosome partake of intent upon ignoring how pack fat and paean by created, staunch friendly relations the advice that the movement aren't nearabout on route to diminish convincing suspect carnivore pricelessness indexes. At minority group the ECB acknowledges that bottomless purse outfitting augmentation is somehow or other labyrinthian.

How very many years jar stumpy interim business cycle maximize at multiples in reference to the"travesty" sphere?

Plurality importantly, what happens if herself stops crafting at these supereminent rates?

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