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''The problem is you forget what you learned at the beginning of your studies. You have to go back and start all over again,'' she said.
Israeli authorities maintain that they had little choice but to close the Palestinian universities because they had become hotbeds of anti-Israel incitement.
But Samir Rentisi, a 27-year-old business student at Bir Zeit, said while the universities may have helped shape Palestinian nationalist sentiments, they did not spark the intifada nor did they provide its leaders.
Indeed, several studies, including a new one by Israel`s Tel Aviv University, have found that closing the universities seemed to have no impact on the intifada`s intensity.
life in the territories as much as possible.
Others interpret the decision as proof that the intifada is already over. ''Whether the intifada is over or has cooled off is an open question, but we are interested in exploring whatever steps can be taken to bring the population back to a normal life,'' Shazar said.
Human rights activists, who have condemned the university closures as an unduly harsh form of collective punishment, attribute Israel`s softening posture to growing international pressure.
They cite, as an example, the European Economic Community, which last year ordered a freeze on all scientific and research contacts with Israeli universities to protest the closure of the Palestinian institutions. The freeze was lifted during the Persian Gulf war.
But for Bir Zeit`s students and faculty, the debate is strictly academic. Earlier this month, Israeli authorities toured the deserted campus. Aghazarian said he hoped this was a sign that the civil administration was thinking about reopening the university.
Shazar said no decision had been taken.
This blog will be eclectic and will traverse a wide range of topics. To use a cricketing metaphor it will cover deep fine leg as well as silly point. But it will especially focus on politics, society, sport and books, and not necessarily in that order. The aim will be to analyse contemporary issues and trends and to tease out their less obvious facets.
The irrationality of Indian Premier League cricket auctions: Will the winner’s curse strike again?
Ronojoy Sen is a Senior Research Fellow at ISAS & ARI, National University of Singapore. He has worked for several years at The Times of India, last serving as a senior assistant editor on the editorial page. He has wide-ranging interests from politics to books to sport. He is the author of the forthcoming Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Penguin) and Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism and the Indian Supreme Court (OUP), a revised version of his PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of several books, including the forthcoming Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting (Sage).
Ronojoy Sen is a Senior Research Fellow at ISAS & ARI, National University of Singapore. He has worked for several years at The Times of India, last ser. . .
With the hiring of a coordinator for Land, Water and Wildlife Levy projects being imminent, landowners looking to benefit from the $3.25 million made available by the fund can start submitting pre-applications, the levy advisory board stated this week.
The only catch is that landowners cannot apply directly for funding for conservation projects, but must partner with a nonprofit organization or Blaine County.
The reason for this, board spokeswoman Mary Austin Crofts said, is that a private landowner cannot hold a conservation easement on his or her own property. Such easements are a requirement to get funding, as a guarantee that the land will be protected long-term.
Crofts said the third parties can also help put together the application, which is extensive and requires a certain level of technical expertise.
"It goes into great detail, and it requires additional research," she said. "It's just so important to be comprehensive."
Third parties will submit the pre-application to county Land Use and Building Services. Eligible nonprofits include the Wood River Land Trust, the Pioneer Alliance and The Nature Conservancy. Landowners who don't wish to work with a nonprofit may contact the Land Use and Building Services Department, which can help them develop applications for funding.
The Land, Water and Wildlife Levy was a two-year assessment on county property taxes to raise money to protect wildlife habitat and open space in Blaine County. No specific projects were proposed when the levy was approved by voters in November 2008.
Advisory board Chair Alan Reynolds said that while restoration projects such as rebuilding stream banks have their place and the board will consider such applications, the focus of successful applications will be on conservation.
Both Crofts and Reynolds said they weren't sure what sort of projects would gain approval, and they had no set number of projects or amount of funding they plan to approve for this round of applications.
"It's going to be interesting to see what shows up," Reynolds said.
Reynolds said the county has already received at least one pre-application, despite earlier statements that it would not accept them before hiring a project coordinator to oversee the process. Crofts said the project coordinator would need to have experience in managing conservation easements and working with similar applications.
"It takes expertise to get one of these projects to the finish line," Reynolds said. "It's a very technical deal."
He said the current county staff does not have expertise on that level, and Crofts said staff members do not have time to deal with the applications.
"They already have full-time jobs," Crofts said. "There are always going to be lots of questions, and we really need a point person to answer those questions."
The project coordinator position is estimated to involve 10 to 20 hours per week, depending on the time of year. More hours would be spent in January and June, when applications for funding will be due. The position will be funded out of the county's land-use budget rather than with levy funding.
Though no contract has been signed, Reynolds said the frontrunner for the position is a local person with extensive experience in land conservation, public policy and public outreach. He said that candidate has experience with several nonprofit land conservation groups, though none are from this area.
The county Land Use and Building Services department was not available for comment as to when the hiring would be confirmed. Reynolds said he hoped the new project coordinator could start as early as next week.
In the meantime, interested landowners can visit the levy advisory board's website, http://blainecountylab.wordpress.com, where all documents required for funding applications can be found.
The complaint was made to Special Agent Mark Irwin, member of the East Tennessee Joint Terrorist Task Force, on the afternoon of 5 April 2018. The ETJTTF is vested with joint federal and state jurisdiction, populated by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents.
Mueller's perjured affidavit was hand delivered to Special Agent Irwin along with additional, credible and damaging proof going Mueller's manufactured terrorism and allied, expansive criminal activity continuing to this day.
The catalog of Mueller's criminal expedition, in complete cooperation with Mueller's "law enforcement partners" was clearly stated. The same long list of outrageous outlawry is already made available, publicly, and separately.
Click to view the result of numerous attempts to obtain a status since 5 April 2018.
Construction and engineering firm Carillion has agreed to buy its smaller rival Mowlem for about £290m ($503.1m).
Carillion said the deal would create one of the UK's largest support services and construction firms with a combined turnover of more than £4.1bn.
The deal is expected to boost Carillion's presence in Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects.
Carillion was behind the rebuilding of the GCHQ intelligence centre in Cheltenham back in 2000.
The company was spun out of the Tarmac demerger in 1999, and has been selling off its traditional contracting businesses to focus on PFI projects.
Mowlem is also involved in a number of PFI contracts and was also behind the landmark Spinnaker Tower project at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth.
It has recently embarked on a business shake-up which has included the restructuring of its construction services operations, splitting the division into three units - Mowlem Building, Mowlem Infrastructure and Mowlem Engineering.
Carillion described the deal as an "excellent strategic fit between the two companies".
"The combined group will be one of the UK's most significant support services and construction companies," said Philip Rogerson, chairman of Carillion.
"This is a good deal for Mowlem shareholders," said Joe Darby, chairman of Mowlem.
The tie-up is expected to result in cost-savings of £15m by the end of 2007. Areas such as head and regional offices, as well as management and back office services will be trimmed back.
Carillion said it was "inevitable" that some jobs would be lost following the takeover.
"Clearly, there will be redundancies and it could well run into hundreds of jobs," said Carillion's chief executive John McDonough.
AROUND 650 acres of woodland is up for sale in Northamptonshire as part of a massive sell-off of the country’s forests.
The six forests previously managed by the Forestry Commission have been added to the 2010/2011 sales list following Government moves to dispose of land in a bid to cut costs.
Two of the forests on the list –Priesthay Wood (16.0 acres), near Towcester, and Whitfield Wood (93.2 acres), near Brackley – are owned by the Forestry Commission.
Four others – Wicken Wood (195.21 acres), Coldoak Copse near (103.78 acres), Horn Wood, near(59.3 acres) and Long Furlong near (180.3 acres) – were all leased to the commission from private owners but are now also on the sales list.
Other Northamptonshire forests, such as Salcey Forest, remain under the ownership of the Forestry Commission for now.
Priesthay Wood, which went on the market for £45,000 is already under offer, as is Whitfield Wood, which went on the market for £250,000.
John Clegg, from John Clegg & Co Chartered Surveyors, which has been handling the sales, stressed sales will not necessarily mean the end of public access. He said: “Often the land is subject to a right of way act, so if the land is sold it is still subject to an act, as, say, Priesthay is to the Crow Act 2000. It will still be accessible for quiet enjoyment to walk around that wood.
A spokesman for the Forestry Commission said: “We have bought and sold land for many years to improve the public benefit from woodlands we manage. The Public Bodies Bill was published on October 29 and paves the way for change to enable Ministers to achieve their new agenda for forestry in England.
“Government has reiterated its firm commitment to biodiversity and other public benefits which forests and woodland provide, and will consult on proposals to reform management of the Public Forest Estate in England later this year.
Roy Effendi found the body of his 21-year-old son in a hospital today, his tousled hair, crooked front tooth and surprised expression making him look almost lifelike despite the bullet wound in the back of his head.
Mr. Effendi was one of the lucky ones; he had a body to bury.
All around him on the dirty tile floor -- in the reception area, the examining rooms, the corridors -- lay charred black lumps of cinder and bone, at least 170 of them, the featureless remains of looters who burned to death in four shopping malls that were set on fire by rioters in the capital city of Jakarta on Thursday.
The hospital was filled with the smell of charcoal and decomposition, and men and women pressed pieces of cloth to their noses as they crept among the dead, looking for missing relatives. Hospital staff members picked over the bodies, removing any buttons, buckles, jewelry or scraps of clothing that could be used to identify them.
But as of this afternoon, according to Dr. Agus Purwadianto, only 10 bodies had been identified.
More bodies were collected at other hospitals, and the confirmed death toll rose to well over 200. Because many bodies remained in the rubble of the burned buildings, or were carried away by relatives, hospital officials estimated that many more had died.
The deaths in the department stores were the most horrific casualties in three days of rioting, rock-throwing, arson and looting that saw much of the city turned into a battle zone. Two dozen other people are known to have died in fires and shootings on earlier days. These included six students shot and killed on Monday as they demonstrated at an elite university campus.
The deaths by burning came as mobs ransacking department stores were trapped when other rioters set fire to the buildings.
One of the dead was a 42-year-old fruit seller named Muriadi who, his wife said, had hoped to gather supplies for her and their two small daughters. Mr. Muriadi's wife spoke in a barely audible whisper as she sat slumped beside a blackened torso on the floor. She said she was convinced that this was her husband because of the underwear he was wearing.
Dr. Agus smiled wearily when he heard this, remarking that underwear was a poor method of identification.
He said his hospital alone had received 175 bodies as of this afternoon, almost all of them burned to death. In addition, he said, three of the bodies had been stabbed to death and three, including Mr. Effendi's son, had been shot.
The anger that has boiled up into student demonstrations and citywide rioting is a dangerous mix of economic concerns caused by spreading inflation, joblessness and bankruptcies, and of political outrage against President Suharto and his three decades of strongman rule.
Outside the hospital, students with black armbands handed out packets of food and water to the relatives who continued to arrive this afternoon, even as small vans delivered more bodies.
He said the students who have held campus demonstrations for three months had hoped to avoid bloodshed and had not started the riots. But he said they shared common cause with the poor people who had died trying to loot the city's shops.
The black armbands, he said, were intended to mourn the six students who were shot dead at a college campus on Monday. But now they had taken on additional meaning.
''From now on, we mourn for this country,'' he said.
Congratulations to Mr Paul Siddall for his intelligent observations in his letter Spend money on front line officers” in (Your Say, November 13).
May I go one step further in saying that if the British government had any genuine concern about the lack of funding for the police, they wouldn’t have dreamed up the role of police crime commissioners in the first place.
PCCs aren’t necessary, the positions should be scrapped throughout the whole of the country and all of the funding allocated to frontline policing.
I urge everyone not to vote the next time these money wasters are up for election.
The Pentagon on Tuesday unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy aimed at keeping pace and competing with Russian and Chinese technological advancements.
“Other nations, particularly China and Russia, are making significant investments in AI for military purposes,” according to the strategy, titled “Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity.
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) will lead and coordinate AI pilot projects within DoD, including for operations, training, sustainment, force protection, recruitment, healthcare and defense against cyberattacks.
The document and an adjoining Pentagon statement did not include a dollar amount associated with the strategy.
JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, told reporters Tuesday that the AI budget for the Pentagon for the current fiscal year is $90 million. He said there will be a request for more AI dollars in the administration’s upcoming fiscal year 2020 budget request.
“We know that China is ahead of us, but I'd like to look at other areas where China and where Russia are ahead of us. And it would be in artillery, for example,” Inhofe told the Defense Writers Group on Tuesday morning.
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order laying out a national plan to increase the use of AI technology, directing all federal agencies to look into launching and expanding AI initiatives that promote their missions.
The order directs federal agencies to prioritize and set aside funding for AI programs, while opening up the way for researchers and developers to access more government data.
It follows the Pentagon’s promise last year to spend up to $2 billion over the next five years in AI-based systems and software.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) the Defense Department’s research arm, pledged in September that it would make the investment – the Pentagon’s largest to date in AI.
Shanahan said that the new Pentagon strategy will use commercial industry to more quickly harness AI for the military.
“We know that the department has to build a lot more expertise over the next decade of people that have the ... skills that we are looking for. Absent that sort of foundational level of expertise, commercial solutions are available for most of the problems that we’ve discovered in the past and we know we’ll discover in the future,” Shanahan said.
Among the upcoming areas, one focus is using drones to help fight wildfires. The Pentagon would use images or video captured by drones to better predict where flames might spread.
But don’t expect any AI weapons systems to come out of the effort.
“We’re not looking at autonomous weapons systems right now,” Shanahan said.
National Public Radio says its arts and performance programming are threatened by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's refusal to provide an increase in its funds for next year.
Edward Pfister, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes federal money for non-commercial radio and television, said Friday that the corporation was not reducing the funds and that the issue was how the National Public Radio network used its money.
Douglas Bennet, network president, said National Public Radio was asking $13.9 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for next year to maintain programming at present levels.
Under the corporation's plans, it would give $11.3 million to the radio network next year, about the same amount it is providing now. The network also gets about $2.5 million a year from corporations and $500,000 from local public radio stations. The issue has been raised now as part of the budget planning by the corporation for the 1986 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
The corporation can require certain programming from National Public Radio as a condition for receiving funds. Pfister said the corporation wanted the network to continue emphasis on its news programs and to encourage programming by independent producers and minority groups.
According to Dean Boal, head of arts and performance at National Public Radio, the network provides 300 hours of arts programming a week. Asked to estimate the size of the network's audience, Boal said that 8.5 million people listened to its programs each week and that 83 percent of them listened to a music program.
Classical programs include performances by the Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Baltimore and Cincinnati symphonies, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the San Francisco and Minnesota operas.