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JERUSALEM, 4 September 2011 - Over one million Palestinian students returned to school today in occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). |
In partnership with the Palestinian National Authority’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE), eight United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations UNICEF, UNRWA, OCHA, UNESCO, WFP, WHO, Save the Children UK, Vento di Terra called attention to the particular challenges and threat... |
Years of conflict and poverty have dealt a harsh blow to education in oPt. In Area “C”, which is under full Israeli control and covers 60% of the West Bank, children have to overcome daily obstacles on their way to school such as crossing check points, passing through the Barrier, facing settler and military harassment... |
‘’Creating an environment that helps children lead as normal a life as possible and focus on their studies is something we must all strive for‘’ said UNICEF-oPt Special Representative Jean Gough in Kaabneh, a Bedouin village in Area “C” near Jericho, where children told her they have to walk long distances in the heat ... |
“Together with the international community, we call on the Israeli Government to ensure that all Palestinian children have safe and unrestricted access to education”, said Lamis Alami, Minister of Education and Higher Education. “We ask the Israeli Authorities to immediately refrain from demolishing schools and issuing... |
Saeb Erekat, Chief Negotiator and member of the Palestinian Legislative council, explained that "Students in Area "C" suffer from the demolition of their homes and schools, and from settler violence. Their right to education is not respected." He called on the international community to support Palestinian statehood. |
UNICEF and partners also visited the nearby Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar, where children have to cross a busy highway on foot to attend classes in a school which is also fighting for survival. Even though it was built out of recycled rubber tires and dried mud, children have no guarantee they will be able to atte... |
“Children’s right to protection and education must be protected, especially in vulnerable communities where education is key to the future”, said Gough. |
SANAA, Yemen – Yemen's Shiite rebels have called for a massive rally in the capital, Sanaa, to mark the end of the month-long Saudi-led airstrikes campaign. |
The rebel-held Al-Masirah TV network urged supporters to take to the streets Wednesday, a day after Saudi Arabia announced an end to its coalition's campaign. |
The U.S.-backed airstrikes were launched on March 26 to target the rebels known as Houthis and their allies, and halt their power grab. The Iran-backed rebels have taken Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. |
The campaign has claimed hundreds of lives and pushed impoverished Yemen deeper into chaos. |
On Tuesday, the kingdom declared an end to the coalition's "Decisive Storm" air campaign against the Houthis and announced the start of a more limited military campaign aimed at preventing the rebels from operating. |
If you’ve ever watched Steve Jobs deliver a keynote address, you’ve seen a master presenter in action. However, even a sparkling delivery won’t salvage your presentation if the audience can’t read your slides or decipher your charts. Read on, and find out how to avoid common blunders, using Apple’s Keynote 3 and Micros... |
Your audience has only a few seconds to read each slide, so save the wordy details for handouts. One way to limit the amount of text is to use bullet points featuring short phrases instead of sentences. There’s no hard-and-fast rule on how many bullet points to use, although I limit myself to five per slide. |
To create bullets in Keynote, select the text to be modified, choose Text Inspector: Bullets, and then click on Text Bullets from the Bullets & Numbering pop-up menu. In PowerPoint, select the text to be modified, select Format: Bullets And Numbering, and then choose the bullet you want to use. |
An even better method is to use a single, provocative sentence, an eye-catching image, or a combination of the two that you can talk about during your presentation. That way, your audience will spend less time reading and more time listening to you. |
To dress up their slides, presenters sometimes choose fancy fonts and brightly colored backgrounds. But this can make slides less readable. |
So save the unusual fonts for the family newsletter. Your slides should be as legible from the back of the room as they are from the front row. Use sans serif fonts such as Helvetica, Arial, or Gill Sans, since they’re easier to read, and make sure that the characters are at least 24-point type. Keynote splits up its t... |
Text should also stand out from the background. Bright backgrounds in dimly lit lecture halls can be hard on the eyes, so in those situations use light text on a dark backdrop (yellow on blue, for example). If given a choice, I prefer to keep the lights in the room on to maintain eye contact with my audience (and hopef... |
To change backgrounds in Keynote, go to the Slide Inspector palette, click on the Appearance tab, and choose a background type (color fill, image fill, and so on) from the Background pop-up menu. In PowerPoint, select Format: Slide Background and choose a color from the Background Fill pop-up menu. |
Whether you use one of Keynote’s or PowerPoint’s built-in templates or create a design from scratch, avoid intricate backgrounds, as they tend to draw the audience’s attention away from your main message. If you use a picture or drawing, choose one that doesn’t overwhelm what’s in the foreground. |
If you’re representing an organization, you may have to include a company logo on every slide. To keep it from becoming a distraction, consider stashing it in the bottom right corner of each slide and making it slightly transparent. First, drag the logo to where you want it. In Keynote, select the logo and move the Opa... |
To change attributes such as the background in a jiffy, use master slides. Any alteration that you make to a master automatically applies to every slide that you created from that master. In Keynote, go to View: Show Master Slides, click on a master to make it appear in the slide window, and edit it. In PowerPoint, edi... |
Presenters sometimes regard white space as an invitation to add tacky artwork. (PowerPoint’s clip-art library makes this especially easy to do.) Instead of using clip art, include only high-quality drawings and photographs in your presentations by creating them yourself or getting them from other sources. Try graphics ... |
Two places to get good, cheap art are iStockphoto, which lets you purchase high-quality stock photos for as little as US$1, and Stock.xchng, where you’ll find some free stock photos in a searchable database. |
Both Keynote and PowerPoint let you add sound and motion files, as well as elaborate text and transition effects. Use these sparingly, though, as they can detract from your message. |
Add sound clips and animations only when necessary — for example, when you want to demonstrate the timbre of a musical instrument or illustrate a physics experiment for a class. Likewise, letters that fly onto the screen and other glitzy text animations are fun to play with, but they become annoying after a slide or tw... |
Try to keep transition animations simple, too. Although effects such as Keynote’s revolving door or PowerPoint’s cube transition can enhance picture-laden slide shows, they’re out of place in text-heavy presentations. Instead, stick to subtle transitions such as Dissolve and Wipe. In Keynote, set transition effects in ... |
Three-dimensional charts look attractive, but they can make it challenging for the audience to grasp your point, especially if you’re presenting statistics. For simple data, tables sometimes work better than charts. |
Both Keynote and PowerPoint include tools that let you create and edit tables, but that isn’t much help if the audience can’t read them. When creating tables, follow the same rules as for text: make the characters large enough to read from the back of the room, and avoid low-contrast color combinations. |
In Keynote, create a table by going to Insert: Table, and then open the Graphic Inspector to specify fill, grid lines, shadow, and opacity. In PowerPoint, create and edit a table by selecting View: Toolbars: Tables And Borders. If the table contains too much information, delete some data or split it across two or more ... |
Sometimes you spend so much time building the slide show that you ignore the little things. For one thing, remember to check spelling. Turn on automatic spell-checking (in Keynote, go to Edit: Spelling: Check Spelling As You Type; in PowerPoint, go to PowerPoint: Preferences: Spelling), and proofread for errors that sp... |
Also, make sure that you’ve properly linked pictures and movies to your presentation. In Keynote’s Save dialog box, click on the triangle next to Advanced Options and select the Copy Audio And Movies Into Document option. In PowerPoint, save your work as a PowerPoint Package (File: Save As, and choose PowerPoint Packag... |
You’ve now done everything in your power to ensure a successful presentation. Although following this advice won’t turn you into Steve Jobs, at least you’ll have a good start. |
Whether you’re a seasoned presenter or a slide-show newbie, you can find a wealth of helpful resources online. |
Get answers to your Keynote questions. |
Tufte is a leading expert on data presentation, and his Web site offers a wide-ranging discussion on design. |
This is the place to find answers to your questions about PowerPoint. |
This blog is devoted to presentations by Garr Reynolds, former Apple manager of worldwide user group relations. |
Here you’ll find tips and articles from Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points (Microsoft Press, 2005). |
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As Uber filed its long-awaited IPO with the SEC on Tuesday, April 11, more than a thousand San Francisco city workers and gig workers protested outside the company's headquarters. The protest called out Uber's business practices of paying drivers poverty wages and minimizin... |
Theresa Rutherford, a San Francisco city workers and SEIU 1021 Vice President, speaks before a rally in front of Uber headquarters in a 'Distrupt Inequality' action. Citing Uber's use of foreign tax havens and calling on the company to pay its fair share towards public services, city workers, housing rights activists, ... |
City workers who provide vital programs to the San Francisco's most vulnerable residents—from nurses at public hospitals and clinics to social workers and case managers at the city's Human Services Agency—say that critical city departments and services are already understaffed and overwhelmed. And with the rising rates... |
Mostafa Maklad who drives for Uber, is part of Gig Workers Rising, a coalition of Lyft and Uber drivers. Maklad explained how these companies are shorting drivers: "We bear all the costs and Uber makes all the money. We just keep making less and less and are having to work longer hours just to barely break even. Uber a... |
"Yesterday Uber announced the beginning of their initial public offering. We know what that means as executives stand to make tens, if not hundreds of millions, on the backs of drivers. We can expect to see rates cut and poverty wages worse than ever before while the rich get richer and Uber makes a killing. We cannot ... |
Uber is not only being a key driver in the unaffordability crisis in San Francisco, but it is also actively minimizing its tax payments into federal coffers that help subsidize homeless and housing programs in the city. |
By using an intricate network of foreign tax havens and subsidiaries, Uber shields its earnings from being taxed at the U.S. rate. Uber has used a scheme of Dutch subsidiaries to pay a tax on less than 2% of its foreign earnings, avoiding paying on billions in revenue that could have gone towards local communities to f... |
"In a city as absurdly rich as San Francisco, there is no reason for thousands of families to be left behind. The City is experiencing unprecedented wealth, but more and more families can't afford to live here, including the families of workers who keep the city running," said Joseph Bryant, SEIU 1021 President and SF ... |
Bryant continued, "Our city leaders also must take action on holding gig economy businesses like Uber accountable so that they: pay their fair share towards community services, operate with greater transparency, and stop flouting labor standards and start providing living wages and benefits to the drivers." |
SEIU Local 1021 represents nearly 60,000 employees in local governments, non-profit agencies, health care programs and schools throughout Northern California, including nearly 20,000 workers in San Francisco's public agencies, schools, and non-profits. |
The show, titled B-Sides 2, will be the first concert held at Webster Hall following an extensive renovation. |
The official Instagram account for Webster Hall made the announcement on Monday alongside a black and white video that features the outside of the venue with Jay-Z's name on the marquee sign. |
Tickets for the general public will be available for purchase on April 19 at 11 a.m. through Ticketmaster. A limited number of tickets will be available for American Express card holders to purchase on April 18 at 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. |
Jay-Z performed his first B-Sides concert at New York's Terminal 5 in 2015. |
Webster Hall started operating as a venue in 1886 with the location undergoing several renovations since. MGMT, Patti Smith, Dillon Francis, Empire of the Sun, Chromeo, Sharon Van Etten and other acts are also set to perform at Webster Hall as part of its first run of new shows. |
Jay-Z will be headlining the Woodstock 50 Music and Arts Fair which takes place from Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Glen, N.Y. The event is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival that took place in 1969. |
Kimball Hill has opened a sales office at Talbot`s Mill, an Elk Grove Village development that will offer four types of housing. |
Presales have begun for the two multifamily housing lines, the Country Homes and the Loft Homes. Plans call for 204 Country Homes, priced from $91,500 to $125,000, and 188 Loft Homes, priced from $117,900 to $141,900. |
Five Country Home floor plans are available: the Darby, a two-bedroom ranch with one bath, priced from $91,500; the Devon, a two-bedroom ranch with one bath, priced from $98,000; the Adams, a two-story with two bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, from $111,500; the Middlebury, a two-bedroom home with 2 1/2 baths, from $116,900; the... |
Loft Home floor plans are the Ashton, 1,376 square feet, with 1 1/2 baths and a loft that can be a third bedroom, priced from $117,900; the Canfield, a two-bedroom, two-bath ranch priced from $121,900; the Brentwood, a two-story house with two bedrooms, loft and 2 1/2 baths, from $123,900; and the Greenich, a ranch wit... |
Optional features include skylights, extra baths, fireplaces and whirlpool tubs. |
Talbot`s Mill is adjacent to Hamilton Lakes, a large office park being developed in Itasca by Trammell Crow Co. |
Children attend school in Elk Grove Village`s District 59. High school students attend Elk Grove High School. |
Talbot`s Mill is at the intersection of Devon Avenue and Park Place. |
The Notre Dame swimming and diving program has hit a lull in its schedule, but one athlete is not letting this break distract him from his work. |
Yeadon, a sophomore from San Antonio, Texas, currently holds the third-best time nationally in the 1,000-yard freestyle event. His success extends to the 1,650-yard freestyle, an event in which he also holds the third-fastest time in the nation. Those results are the product of a strong year of training, Litzinger said... |
“I think Zach came off a really great summer where he made the World University Games Team for the United States, and he’s carried that training from last year’s season and the summer into the fall,” Litzinger said. |
Last season, Yeadon came to Notre Dame as a freshman and experienced his first taste of college athletics. He set program records in the 500-yard, 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events as a freshman, and he earned the Notre Dame men’s swimming Most Valuable Swimmer award at the end of his campaign. |
Yeadon has avoided all signs of a sophomore slump this season, and he has been especially effective in long-distance freestyle events. While Yeadon’s specialty is in the 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard distances, he has also posted wins in the 500-yard and 200-yard events this season. |
Yeadon’s determination to carry the team, while admirable, is also unsustainable, Litzinger said. The Irish head coach wants to continue to develop Yeadon to handle daunting expectations. |
Litzinger said Yeadon’s determination and work ethic have helped his teammates to perform at a higher level. Yeadon works with a training group that features freshman Marton Barta, sophomore Sadler McKeen and junior Aaron Schultz. |
The Irish last competed in a meet Nov. 17, and they will not line up against another competitor until Jan. 7. Despite this gap at the midway point of the season, Litzinger expects his team to be fully prepared for the second half of the season. Notre Dame will compete in five more meets before the postseason championsh... |
The Irish athletes will use each of those meets as an opportunity to prepare, and Yeadon will be leading the way. |
Adolfo Calero, the former leader of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua has died aged 81, the BBC reports. He had been suffering from pneumonia and kidney failure. |
Calero was the man responsible for managing finances and buying weapons for the Contras and as such was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal that threatened Ronald Reagan’s administration. |
He visited the White House where he handed Reagan an “I’m a Contra Too” pin and met his aide Col. Oliver North, the mastermind of the scheme to funnel money from the illegal sale of arms to Iran to the Contras. |
Calero was manager of a Coca Cola plant in Managua but took up arms against the leftist Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega after it overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somosa in 1979. |
He later became president of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua. |
(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) visited Program Executive Office Soldier Nov. 29, and learned how the organization is improving integration, reducing Soldier load, and increasing Soldier protection and capability. |
(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), talks with Col. Brian Stehle, Project Manager Soldier Weapons (left). Lowman visited Program Executive Office Soldier Nov. 29. |
During his visit, Lowman visited the Warrior Integration Site. Maj. Sheila L. Howell, WinSite Assistant Product Manager, explained how the WinSite allows PEO Soldier to have a more focused and deliberate approach to studying lightening Soldier Load and Systems Integration. |
The WinSite gives the ability to examine how Soldier equipment will fit on Soldiers, interact with their movements, and affect energy usage. She added how Project Managers use the WinSite to see how their products integrate with what Soldiers already use and carry. |
Howell also mentioned how they are working with cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and engineers at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Massachusetts, to study how additional kit affects Soldiers. |
Lightening Soldier Load examples also caught Lowman’s interest. Maj. Ronald D. Schow, APM for Soldier Power at Project Manager Soldier Warrior, explained how the Conformal Battery and Power Distribution Hubs lessen the number of batteries Soldiers need to carry. Additionally, PM SWAR is studying how knee harvester and ... |
Mr. Christopher J. Lowman learns about the Soldier baseline and PEO Soldier’s efforts to lighten Soldier load during a stop to the Warrior Integration Site at Project Manager Soldier Warrior. In the photo, from left to right, are Brig. Gen. Brian P. Cummings, Program Executive Officer Soldier; Col. Wayne E. Barker, PM ... |
Capt. Paul Janker, APM for Soft Armor, explained the Soldier Protection System. He said its scalability lightens Soldier Load. Instead of wearing the large and bulky Improved Outer Tactical Vest and its plates, commanders can scale the SPS protection level to mission requirements, the captain said. The lesser the threa... |
The project manager for Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment equated this scalability to something Soldiers are very familiar with today. |
“We have levels of MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture),” said Col. Dean M. Hoffman IV, PM SPIE. MOPP is levels of protective gear Soldiers wear in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear environments. Soldiers only wear the level of MOPP gear they need for the current CBRN situation. “Let’s have levels o... |
The mission scalability of the SPS piqued Lowman’s attention. “That’s pretty impressive,” he said. |
The SPS also has a Load Distribution System that will place the weight on Soldiers’ hips and not on the shoulders, Janker added. This will reduce the fatigue Soldiers experience from overburdened shoulders. |
Concerning Soldier Protection, Maj. Nicole M. Clark, APM for Soldier Protective Equipment, talked with Lowman about hard armor plates. She showed him examples of body armor plates that have stopped enemy rounds and saved Soldiers’ lives. The Army returns helmets and plates that saved a Soldier’s life to PEO Soldier for... |
In 250 impact evaluations, there has never been a complete penetration, according to Clark. Because the plate worked none of these Soldiers were seriously injured, and they returned to duty. |
Mr. Christopher J. Lowman learns about Conformal Batteries from Maj. Ronald D. Schow, APM for Soldier Power. |
Hoffman told Lowman about the PPE Return Program PEO Soldier operates. It returns life-saving body armor and helmets to Soldiers. A typical ceremony takes place before a Soldier’s unit formation and family where they see first-hand how well the equipment works. This is a good opportunity for Soldiers to hear the messag... |
Additionally, Lowman learned of new capabilities PEO Soldier is working on for Soldiers. Maj. Andrew Miller, Nett Warrior APM, said the system gives Soldiers situational awareness. They can see themselves, their left and right elements, and see their adversary. It gives leaders confidence in knowing where their Soldier... |
Mr. Ronald Johnson, Soldier Enhancement Program Lead Integrator, briefed how SEP allows the Army to move at “the speed of industry” to evaluate and type classify existing prototypes or commercially available items that will enhance Soldiers’ ability to carry out their combat missions. One SEP item Lowman learned about ... |
Col. Christopher Schneider, Project Manager Soldier Sensors and Lasers talked about the Family of Weapon Sights–Individual and –Crew Served Weapons, and the Joints Effects Targeting System. |
Col. Christopher D. Schneider, Project Manager Soldier Sensors and Lasers explains Family of Weapon Sights–Individual to Mr. Christopher J. Lowman. |
FWS-I links wirelessly with the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III to transmit a video signal of the reticle into the ENVG III display. This enables the Soldier to see what the weapon sight “sees” and to aim without having to raise the scope to eye level. FWS-CSW has a laser rangefinder and will lase a target and raise t... |
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