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He, however, said a current shortage of labour was a serious phenomenon affecting production; the need to address this problem was imperative if the industry was to progress. |
The Rubber Master Plan was not the sole responsibility of the ministry but should in large part be a collective effort of the private sector as well. Additionally, rubber research would be re-structured to ensure continuous progress. |
MediaWise is a groundbreaking digital literacy project that aims to teach 1 million teenagers — half from underserved communities — how to sort fact from fiction online by 2020. |
Have you ever shared something online that wound up being fake? You are not alone! It’s hard for everyone to discern fact from fiction online, even for teenagers who grew up with the internet. The good news is that there are actual skills you can learn to become more critical consumers of information online. |
While teens are generally regarded as digitally savvy, research from our partners at Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) shows that the vast majority of teenagers have trouble navigating digital information — whether it’s viral hoaxes on Instagram, misinformation campaigns on Facebook, or sponsored content on news ... |
Will you help us spread facts, not fakes? Support MediaWise today. |
The primary way MediaWise will teach one million teens is through a curriculum designed by SHEG. The new curriculum, which is called Civic Online Reasoning, will be available for middle school and high school teachers across the country to download this fall — for free. Some lessons are available now on Stanford’s webs... |
While the full curriculum is being piloted and tested, the MediaWise team at Poynter is working with Local Media Association and National Association for Media Literacy Education to visit schools and host events to teach the fact-checking skills the curriculum is built on. |
Feb. 13, 2019: “NBC News” and “Dateline NBC” anchor Lester Holt and MediaWise hold a joint event at Washington D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High School to teach students about digital literacy. |
That event with Holt added to the momentum that began at the start of 2019 when MediaWise taught 5,000 students at three schools in Houston. More than 50 schools in 12+ states from West Virginia to Hawaii have already invited the MediaWise team to teach their students. |
>>Contact mwtips@poynter.org to bring MediaWise to your school. |
The MediaWise project uses social media to teach and engage with teens across America. Follow us @MediaWise on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook for original fact-checking content created by our team, our partners and our own teen fact-checking network. |
Also check out the 10-part Navigating Digital Information series on the CrashCourse YouTube channel, which has 9M subscribers. The best-selling author of A Fault in Our Stars John Green hosts the series, which goes through MediaWise tips and tricks. It also gives a sneak peek into the curriculum being developed by Medi... |
Stay tuned for more YouTube videos teaching MediaWise principles. In addition to John Green, we are working with Destin Sandlin, Mark Watson of Soldier Knows Best and other social media influencers to get our message out. |
Join the MediaWise teen fact-checking network! You’ll learn how to create original fact-checking videos for Instagram — check out examples here — and help us teach the MediaWise tips along the way. |
If you’re in middle school or high school in the U.S. and interested, contact the team at mwtips@poynter.org. |
Oct 25, 2018: The Poynter Institute hosted the first MediaWise workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida, teaching 50 students and parents about fact-checking skills like lateral reading. |
The MediaWise team presented at the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit and was featured at SXSW EDU. Invite MediaWise to present at your event. |
Write about MediaWise! We were recently featured in USA Today. |
Email us at mwtips@poynter.org to learn more. |
The MediaWise project is part of the Google News Initiative and funded by Google.org. The Poynter-led project includes contributions from partners SHEG, Local Media Association (LMA) and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). |
Samsung has, to some surprise, won a patent battle against Apple that could see the iPhone 4 and 3G iPad 2 banned from sale in the US. |
The legal fight was centered on a patent relating to 3G standards, which Samsung has pledged to license freely, reports the Guardian. But according to the International Trade Commission, the patent—US patent 7,706,348—was infringed by the iPhone 4 and 3G iPad 2. You can read the order below. |
"Sometimes a Great Notion," the first episode of Battlestar Galactica‘s final half-season, answered some questions but raised many more when it aired Friday night on Sci Fi Channel. If you haven’t seen the episode, and don’t want it spoiled in any way, stop reading and watch it now on Hulu (embedded above) or your DVR ... |
The increasingly bleak sci-fi show moved its gritty story lines forward with Cylon flashbacks, Starbuck’s creepy quest, a new archaeological mystery, a shocking death and more mean-drunk macho raving from Adm. William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos). |
And then there’s the big question of the fifth "skinjob" Cylon, which has spawned some pretty far-flung theories during the show’s mid-season hiatus. Show creator Ronald D. Moore discusses the big reveal and much more on The Watcher blog. |
"There’s a certain logic to it," Moore says, before laughing and asking blogger Maureen Ryan: "Did it work for you?" |
Good question. I thought "Sometimes a Great Notion" delivered the usual goods with strong acting, compelling revelations and continuing intrigue. But did it work for you? Weigh in below in the comments section. |
Portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are illuminated on a building side as the sun rises over Pyongyang, June 14, 2014. |
North Korea’s Internet connectivity went dark Monday, just days after President Obama warned the U.S. would launch a “proportional response” to the attack against Sony. |
The hermit country’s Internet access first became unstable late Friday and worsened over the weekend. By Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline. The country’s Internet connection appeared to show signs of life later by around 5:00 pm ET, according to the Internet company CloudFlare, but traffic had not y... |
President Obama said Friday the United States will respond to North Korea over its cyberattack on Sony Pictures, but did not say whether his administration would order an attack on the hermit nation’s networks. |
DDoS attacks are traditionally associated with so-called “hacktivist” groups who are often ideologically allied with nation-states but lack extensive cyber capabilities. The civil war in Ukraine has sparked a surge in DDoS attacks by outside groups against both separatists and Ukraine’s government, as did the recent wa... |
North Korea has an extremely limited connection to the worldwide web, and even a primitive DDoS attack could knock the country off the Internet, security researchers said. The country has just 1,024 Internet protocol addresses, compared with the United States’ billions of addresses. |
Last week, a London teenager pleaded guilty to successfully launching a DDoS attack against the anti-spam service Spamhaus, whose Internet connectivity is much greater than North Korea’s likely is. |
North Korea’s Internet connection is routed through a Chinese telecommunication company called Unicom. Prince said that the collapse of Internet connectivity could also be due to China’s Unicom “kinking the hose” with North Korea, or North Korean shutting the Internet off itself. |
The White House declined to comment to the Associated Press on Monday. In the past, most U.S. cyber operations have reportedly been aimed at collecting defense operations or obtaining communications between terrorism suspects. |
Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop on November 8, 2017 entitled, “Understanding Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: Entry and Supply Chain Dynamics.” Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen and U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb will give the keynote addresses. |
The Hatch-Waxman Act, passed by Congress more than 30 years ago, provides a regulatory and judicial framework to expedite generic entry into U.S. prescription drug markets. For many drugs, the Act has succeeded in lowering patent-related barriers to generic drug entry, thereby spurring additional competition that has l... |
The first session of the workshop will explore generic drug markets, including considerations that may preclude entry after relevant patents have expired. Panelists will discuss price and non-price factors that may influence entry in these markets. The second session will evaluate intermediaries in the pharmaceutical s... |
The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will be at the FTC’s Constitution Center Auditorium, 400 7th St., SW, Washington, DC. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. and will be webcast live on the FTC’s website. Registration information, an agenda, directions to the FTC Conference Center, and a list of speakers will... |
UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) has not given up trying to find a customer willing to install its dual-band DB-110 airborne reconnaissance sensor – or its newer multispectral version, the MS-110 – on the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper. |
The long-range, stand-off sensor can peer across national borders. It has been sold to at least 12 countries so far and is already integrated with the Boeing F-15 and F/A-18, Lockheed Martin F-16 and P-3 and Panavia Tornado. |
UTAS officials say the MQ-9 is the logical next step for the high-end reconnaissance sensor because of the aircraft’s endurance and suitability for the mission. The company has gone as far as developing and successfully flight-testing a lightweight pod capable of accommodating the DB-110. That pod is also suitable for ... |
The DB-110, an exportable product derived from the Lockheed U-2’s senior year electro-optical reconnaissance system (SYERS), is “the only long-range electro-optical/infrared sensor integrated on the Reaper that is field-ready”, according to UTAS. |
Speaking to Flightglobal at the AUVSI Xponential conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on 4 May, Paul Toumayan, strategic business development executive for UTAS’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and space systems division, says the 24h endurance afforded by Reaper-class aircraft makes them the perfe... |
UTAS MS-177 "family of systems sensor" |
The US Air Force already has plans to install its latest-generation multispectral sensor, the UTAS MS-177, on the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. UTAS declines to discuss that sensor, which was also recently flown on the General Atomics Predator C Avenger. |
The MS-177 will feed “long-range, multi-band, day/night” imaging products to the intelligence community within the US government. |
According to a specification chart at UTAS’s booth, the sensor has a wider field of view than its SYERS-2 predecessor, with a 90° roll and 25° pitch, covering 37,000km² (14,300 miles²) per hour of flight. |
It gathers information across seven spectral bands and its collection modes include "spot, wide-area search, persistent surveillance, and full-motion video". It weighs 264kg (538lb) and is compatible with the Global Hawk, P-3, Boeing P-8A Poseidon and at least one business jet. |
WWE RAW Match Changed, Becky Lynch Responds To Storyline Suspension, Ric Flair Returning To RAW - Wrestling Inc. |
- WWE announced that there will be a birthday celebration for Ric Flair in three weeks on RAW in Atlanta. The WWE Hall of Famer turns 70 years old that day. |
- The Bobby Lashley vs. Finn Balor match that was announced for tonight's RAW never took place. Lashley attacked Balor before the match started and it was changed to Balor vs. Lio Rush. Lashley was ejected from ringside after interfering, and Balor ended up picking up the victory with the coup de grace. |
Full WWE RAW results for tonight are here. |
- As we previously reported, Becky Lynch was suspended indefinitely in storyline by Stephanie McMahon on tonight's RAW for refusing to see a doctor to get cleared to return to action. Lynch responded to the suspension, writing on Twitter, "You see what's happening here, right?" |
You see what's happening here, right? |
A Look At How Long Roman Reigns Was Out Of Action During His First Battle With Leukemia - Wrestling Inc. |
Roman Reigns announcing on RAW this past Monday night that he was vacating the WWE Universal Championship due to his battle with leukemia continues to be the talk of the wrestling world. Reigns revealed that he's been living with leukemia for the past 11 years and it has returned. |
Leukemia is a serious form of cancer with an average five-year survival rate (the percentage of patients alive five years after the disease is diagnosed) of 57% in the United States. Reigns has not specified the type of leukemia that he has. There are many types of leukemia, however acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and... |
According to Cancer.org, the total treatment time for ALL is 2 years. Treatment for AML varies depending on if chemotherapy is required, but in total it can be several months to a year. |
While Reigns had never publicly revealed his previous battle with leukemia until this week, an article at MLive.com in June of 2015 stated that Reigns was forced to leave the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL because of "a serious illness" before signing with the Canadian Football League. Reigns was released from the Jag... |
Assuming MLive.com's report is accurate, that would mean that Reigns was out of action for about 10 months, since his last game with the Jaguars was in August of 2007 and he played for the Eskimos in the 2008 CFL season, which started that June. |
Reigns was released from Eskimos and retired from professional football in November 2008. He signed his developmental deal with WWE in 2010. |
Reigns noted that he has been living with leukemia for 11 years, which would be since 2007, in line with MLive.com's report of when he left the Jaguars due to the illness. According to WWE, his leukemia had been in remission since late 2008. |
In some places, unemployment is so low that employers can't find workers to fill the jobs. There are now a record 6.5 million job openings in the United States. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, 39 percent of small businesses say they have a job opening they can't fill, and 9 percent of busi... |
The trouble is, the United States is not producing enough native-born workers. According to the Economic Innovation Group, 80 percent of U.S. counties lost prime working-age adults from 2007 through 2017. And the situation is not improving. According to Census Bureau data, our population growth rate for fiscal year 201... |
So, we need more immigrants. Americans understand this. Eighty-four percent say legal immigration is good for the country, and only 29 percent believe it should be decreased - the lowest level since 1965. Unfortunately, Sens. Tom Cotton, R.-Ark., David Perdue, R.-Ga., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have introduced legislation... |
Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in spending this week after facing a barrage of criticism back home for swelling the federal deficit with a massive government funding package. |
Republican lawmakers who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility say they are feeling the heat from constituents outraged over government spending. |
The House is slated to vote Thursday on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, while GOP leaders are in talks with the Trump administration about clawing back some of the funding hikes that were recently adopted in the 2018 omnibus spending bill. |
Neither idea is likely to go very far in Congress, however, which has some skeptics calling the moves nothing more than a gimmick designed to boost the party’s fiscal bona fides ahead of the midterm elections. |
“That will be a symbolic measure that won’t get enacted. ... It’s a messaging vote,” retiring Rep. Charlie Dent Charles (Charlie) Wieder DentThe Hill's Morning Report - Government is funded, but for how long? Ex-GOP lawmaker says his party is having a 'Monty Python' moment on shutdown Former GOP lawmaker: Republicans k... |
The decision to bring balanced budget legislation to the House floor comes just weeks after Congress passed a $1.3 trillion government funding package, which conservative members balked at and President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to ... |
Lawmakers also passed a massive tax-cut bill in December, which is projected to add more than $1 trillion to the deficit before accounting for economic growth. Few Republicans have offered any reservations about approving that measure, in contrast to the spending package. |
The balanced budget amendment, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Robert (Bob) William GoodlatteTop Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It’s time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute DOJ opinion will help protect kids from dangers of online gambling MORE (R-Va.)... |
The decision to take up the measure stems from an agreement struck between Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanFEC filing: No individuals donated to indicted GOP rep this cycle The Hill's Morning Report - Waiting on Mueller: Answers come on Thursday Paul Ryan joins University of Notre Dame faculty MORE (R-Wis.) and Republ... |
The move could help shield Republicans from attacks in both the primaries and the general elections this November, where the GOP is scrambling to hang on to their majorities in the House and Senate. |
Democrats will certainly try to use the deficit as a club over Republicans’ heads in the midterms. Already, Democratic leaders have seized on the news that GOP leaders will put a balanced budget amendment on the floor. |
“Republicans’ decision to bring forward a radical GOP balanced budget constitutional amendment next week is an act of breathtaking hypocrisy and an open assault on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiDOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version... |
The House passed similar legislation in the 112th Congress. But the amendment has virtually no chance of passing the Senate, as it would need Democratic support as well as ratification from the majority of states. |
While conservative hard-liners largely support the proposal, critics argue adding a constitutional amendment could weaken economic activity and exacerbate recessions by limiting the government’s ability to spend money. |
Still, conservatives like Brat argue that even if it doesn’t pass the Senate, it would be helpful to put Republicans and Democrats on the record. |
Another idea being floated by GOP leaders is deploying an arcane budget maneuver to cancel out some of the funding increases that were adopted in the omnibus. |
Trump has made no secret about his unhappiness with the massive spending bill, even threatening to veto the legislation just hours before he ended up signing it. |
With the president reportedly feeling buyer’s remorse over the omnibus, GOP leaders, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Kevin Owen McCarthyWatchdog: Custodial staff alleged sexual harassment in lawmakers' offices John Legend, Chrissy Teigen lash out at Trump at Dem retreat Republicans call for ex-Trump lawy... |
“It’s a bit unclear how this would play out since it hasn’t happened in a long time. That said, this is an idea congressional leaders are taking seriously,” said one GOP source. |
The maneuver is popular with House conservatives because if the claw-back bill passes the House, it could pass the Senate with just a simple majority because it is a privileged resolution. The Budget Act of 1974 allows for the process. |
But the proposal faces a number of potential hurdles in the Senate. |
For one, the rules would allow Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer slams Justice Dept over 'pre-damage control' on Mueller report Overnight Health Care — Presented by PCMA — Sanders welcomes fight with Trump over 'Medicare for all' | DOJ attorney in ObamaCare case leaving | NYC... |
There is also concern that the rescission package would poison the well on all future spending talks, since Republicans negotiated with Democrats to draft the omnibus. |
Finally, it’s unclear whether there would even be enough Republican support for the plan in the Senate, especially if the proposal calls for slashing funding from popular spending programs. |
The spending cut proposals are undoubtedly being considered with the midterm elections in mind, but there could also be other factors at play. |
Dent suggested that McCarthy, who is a top contender to replace Ryan if he retires after the midterms, is only entertaining the idea of a rescission package to appease Trump and conservative House members — two constituencies whose support may be crucial in a bid for the Speaker’s gavel. |
“So why are we doing a rescission package? Out of fear that this could affect climbing up the leadership ladder,” Dent said. |
Juliegrace Brufke and Scott Wong contributed. |
It is common knowledge in the book trade that the graphic-novel section is the most nicked-from in bookshops. I'm not sure the decision by some publishers to shrink the format of their graphic novels to pocket(able) size will help matters. But we have to ask whether these thefts indicate that graphic-novel fans are rea... |
You'd have to have pretty big pockets for Popeye: I Yam What I Yam! (Fantagraphics £17.99) by EC Segar, an oversize (15in x 11in) reprint of classic strips from the late Twenties to early Thirties. In this format, you get a sense of how they would have appeared in their original state on the back pages of American news... |
Only in the cartoons did he eat spinach; here, he needs no excuse to take on all-comers: Pow! Sock! Biff! Academics might say there are problems with this sort of masculinity: at one point, Olive Oyl tells him: 'It's a sin to fight' and he's 'nothing but a street brawler!' But this is to overlook the moral tone of the ... |
It's dire stuff even for a boys' yarn, which this is meant to be, albeit couched in the style of DC's 'Mature Readers' line. Yes, there's been an effort to update the comic for a post-Private Ryan audience - the Holocaust couldn't have been talked about this openly in the Sixties and the gritty artwork is superb; all m... |
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