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"literate" Definitions
  1. able to read and write
  2. (in compounds) having skills or knowledge in a specific area

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Of course, to raise financially literate children, you need to endeavor to be financially literate yourself.
It shouldn't be a surprise that a post-literate conservative world should have been so quick to embrace a semi-literate presidential candidate.
People who are more scientifically literate, for instance, are even more divided about the risks of climate change than those who are less scientifically literate.
But the historically literate voter, like a historically literate decision maker, need not be captive to previously held opinions at all times and at any cost.
Per HRW: Only 37% of female youths are literate compared to 66% of their male counterparts, and 19% of adult women are literate compared to 49% of adult men.
Of course, a data-literate citizenry implies a literate citizenry, and the ethics of all this stuff won't be learned in CS class, so we can't neglect the humanities, either.
But I also wonder, looking at those emojis, if perhaps a grief that withdraws into something pre-literate or even post-literate—primal screams, pixelated faces—has simply found its perfect expression.
Phil Hill is a partner at MindWires Consulting, co-publisher of the e-Literate blog and co-producer of e-Literate TV. The world of edtech is strange and full of apparent contradictions.
So these are the women that were probably not literate, and if they were literate, they didn't have enough time to sit down and write down what was going on in their day.
" Earlier on Real Time, Yiannopoulos attacked Jones as "barely literate.
Floyd Mayweather wants Conor McGregor to know ... I'M LITERATE, BITCH!
To do so effectively, they must be sufficiently data literate.
I'm not even sure if Ponce de León was literate.
From that, I gathered Booker delivered packages and was literate.
Whether they were smart (or even literate) wasn't a factor.
It is time for white people to become racially literate.
The languages of large, literate societies usually have larger vocabularies.
The country became one of the most literate in Latin America.
So you say post-literate — you think that's a good thing?
This is key to grow the number of tech-literate women.
They just churn out whatever barely literate platitude occurs to them.
Workers must be literate, numerate and able to handle complex instructions.
For the marginally computer literate user it can be dauntingly complicated.
Both these plays qualify as farces, albeit of a literate ilk.
But pain was never the subject of his effervescent, literate work.
Less than twenty per cent of Niger's adult population is literate.
What does it mean for a kid to be media literate?
"We know that most Americans are not medically literate," she says.
She was taught to read by her nanny, a literate peasant.
But Cave has long been one of rock'n'roll's most religiously literate songwriters.
He owns his home, is more "investment literate" and enjoys his work.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Curalate makes brands literate.
With the invention of text, we might have gotten a literate culture.
It seems cyber criminals haven't become any more literate down the years.
Here are WalletHub's states that are the most — and least — financially literate.
Millions enter the workforce every year who are barely literate or numerate.
The new arrivals tend to be highly literate, legally savvy and assertive.
The Gutenberg press democratized information, and provided the incentive to be literate.
Ms. Keane writes literate story songs in a traditional musical-comedy style.
Trump is most likely not literate enough to have composed those words.
For the more politically literate, the "fake" stuff is easier to identify.
In 2017, it is much more crucial that they be digitally literate.
" Attend also to the ragga "Bubblegum" and the area-code-literate "Ho.
How important is it to become financially literate from a young age?
"Dear White People" loves to riff; it's arch, playful and pop literate.
"Lagos is the most energy literate market in the world," says Lenihan.
It even sounded like a good TV show, with rich, literate scripts.
Wheatley became "a household name among literate colonists," according to the Poetry Foundation.
Perhaps surprisingly, having a college degree does not make a person health literate.
"We have a very large population of app-literate grannies," says Mr Roque.
At first Protestants became more literate than Catholics; ultimately all Germans became bookish.
Data University is Airbnb's attempt to make its entire workforce more data literate.
Today is Read Across America Day, and not only the literate are celebrating.
Financially literate, technologically savvy and affluent, Alvin is a member of the overbanked.
The new arrivals were hardworking, disciplined and more literate than other immigrant groups.
They are financially literate and know the immediate status of their financial situation.
It is sort of really prioritized for a generation that's super visually literate.
Kids became computer literate and improved their English skills using the SOLEs approach.
Now 85 percent of adults worldwide are literate and the share is rising.
She was literate and smart, and alive to what makes a story click.
My son is 10 years old, and he has grown up computer literate.
I'll give them credit for being very smart, well informed, educated and literate.
"Literate people use one region of their cortex in recognizing letters," she said.
Noisey: The album seems quite literate with quite a few witty one liners.
Nancy was in her early 40s when a literate uncle left her $30,000.
The use of icons instead of words is perfect for pre-literate youngsters.
My great-grandfather, a highly literate South Carolinian, tried to register to vote.
Former President Barack Obama is making his hip, literate pop culture bona fides known.
She sought a Lyme literate doctor after hearing about chronic Lyme on the radio.
I'm willing to gamble that there's an intelligent, literate audience for thoughtful, nontribal conservatism.
Throughout the Dark Ages, the few literate Europeans continued to write in classical Latin.
Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.
They're not technologically literate people for many of the people that go into it.
Educating children and adults to be financially literate might help in the long term.
In other words, people who probably aren't literate in the language of video games.
He is the least literate president to take office since the rudely schooled Zachary
The quality of access would depend on how "sophisticated" or financially literate customers were.
"I know how disempowering it can feel to not feel financially literate," Washington says.
Only about half of Pakistanis who complete five years of primary school are literate.
And it sends the message that we don't care if you're literate or not.
So, Ariel is completely flipping literate and, in point of fact, has excellent penmanship!
Shapiro is already a master of creating Shakespeare treats for the literate common reader.
US News calls it "one of the world's most literate and technically advanced nations."
Our country continues to be a laughingstock to the literate people of the world.
Cubans are literate, but the regime severely constricts how they can use their literacy.
He never intended to hurt my feelings; he just wasn't intuitively literate in them.
Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce are all trying to make students more tech literate.
Despite the number of characters, ninety-six per cent of Chinese adults are literate.
"Focusing on the family is the best place to start to make this country more literate, and I still feel that being more literate will help us solve so many of the other problems facing our society," she wrote in her 1994 memoir.
Not bad, if you have some literate humans on hand to dutifully process your sentences.
And maybe Brooklyn was never the rabid, hand-holding Brooklyn of our literate Dodger elegists.
Among literate elites, China does not seem to have shared the strong bias evident elsewhere.
That's what drove him in making Cuba among the most literate countries in the world.
They were just thrilled to learn that our nation's commander-in-chief was borderline literate.
By the time they are 18, girls are more likely to be married than literate.
He tweeted that Jones was "barely literate" and also referred to her as a man.
Only 37 percent of adolescent girls are literate compared with 66 percent of adolescent boys.
"We are past being a literate culture and are now a visual culture," said @Ricky_Vaughn99.
Systematically destroy 200+ indigenous languages, then insist newcomers speak yours (which you're barely literate in).
Less than half are literate and even fewer have traditional jobs, according to the census.
The most literate and well-educated and well-informed family, they can't do it either.
Putting climate change aside, do you think your colleagues in Congress are generally scientifically literate?
Facebook's "free speech" policy may work in a literate society, but it's dangerous in ours.
Take the time to become financially literate; there is no mystery in checking account balances.
Knowledge being essential to a literate nation, it's time to put knowledge on the test.
Financially literate people know how to achieve long-term goals and make healthy financial decisions.
Though he disagrees with Gorsuch politically, he praises his written opinions as "careful" and "literate."
Financially literate entrepreneurs make more informed financial decisions overall and assess their creditworthiness more objectively.
And adapt it for younger kids, perhaps adding emoji-like icons for the pre-literate.
A scientifically literate populace is a populace that understands the basic features of the world.
Teachers routinely don't show up — and are paid anyway — or are only barely literate themselves.
It is for adults that are media literate viewers, people that are looking for entertainment.
Bret: Both of us know that you are much more technologically literate than I am.
Residents of the "most literate city" in America, we do not shout, we read silently.
Trump's staff believed him to be semi-literate Context and details on each: http://bit.
Leadership that are really fluent and literate in the language of racial and social justice.
"A friend once said, 'This show is just too hyper-literate,'" says show creator John Logan.
It matters that we all become more literate when it comes to cybersecurity and the media.
Any of those would be right at home on the ofrenda for a particularly literate ancestor.
That well-off and literate young men were responsible for Mr Khan's murder troubles many Pakistanis.
So being digitally literate now is sort of a basic thing, a skill that you need.
A style evolved—a sort of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe for teenagers hyper-literate on internet culture.
Only 123% of women are literate, according to UNESCO, compared with 212% of men (see chart).
Although I'm rewardingly self-employed, married and highly literate, I still struggle in hearing-centric environments.
States made it illegal for slaves to learn to read and write because Turner was literate.
Logic dictates that financially literate people should be less susceptible to any type of investment fraud.
Manson was barely literate, so he probably didn't delve too deeply into either of these texts.
As with children, a literate adult can read individual words and can connect them into sentences.
"The study is small ... and not everyone plays Tetris or is computer literate," he told CNN.
Above all, they're good fun: half-dumb beach reads for smart (or at least literate) people.
Most haven't finished high school, some are barely literate and few have any experience managing money.
You don't have to be musically literate to know the bumpy feel of a cross-rhythm.
Becoming financially literate will prepare you for unexpected emergencies and help you make the correct decisions.
Another recent report, by Champlain College, surveyed states' effectiveness at producing financially literate high school graduates.
The simple reason is that the educational composition today tells us something about the education of tomorrow — a literate young woman today will be a literate old woman in 103, and a student with secondary education now will be a graduate with secondary education in the future.
Students were required only to turn in a paper that did not even have to be literate.
Tereza Ruiz, a teacher, says her father regarded Lula, who never attended university, as a "semi-literate".
A more media-literate and critical citizenry ought to be less easy for the powerful to manipulate.
The 'Brexit' 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma, and should be boycotted by all literate people.
State-level efforts to make students financially literate remain incomplete, notably, in the nation's most-populous state.
It won't be easy: how to determine whether a person is digitally literate remains an open question.
The reality is rich kids tend to be a lot more financially literate than working class kids.
Mr Diamond is the doyen of a class of scientifically literate, anthropologically aware and culturally astute thinkers.
"Most people are not literate and don't understand what the documents they have even mean," he said.
On the condition that he was literate, he was offered vocational training as part of his rehousing.
Trump is barely computer literate (and that's being charitable) and he explodes when presented with negative coverage.
But literate adults also have the background knowledge necessary to make sense of the words they encounter.
In last year's election, nearly 63 million Americans supported a presidential candidate who was proudly post-literate.
What if we taught more boys to be emotionally literate instead of keeping a stiff upper lip?
This is such a remarkably emotionally literate and bare for even now in a culture of oversharing.
Given Iceland's small size, geothermal energy, and technologically literate population, the chances of AUR's success seem high.
Luke's bad boy nephew with the literate soul was Rory's most elusive and short-lived young love.
"We are focused on broadening the definition of what it means to be literate," Ms. Johnson said.
It suggests that in 2114, there will still be literate human beings around to read her work.
Science and technology are advancing exponentially, yet fewer than 7 percent of American adults are scientifically literate.
It's about a librarian and her love for a very tall, very literate boy who is dying.
Do you have any suggestions for platform users who aren't tech-literate and don't work in tech?
But my audience must be literate, must know what prose fiction is and understand how one accesses it.
"Black PR"-literate Russians would have also been able to point out the false morality within the reports.
Talking about money is one of the most important skills to being a fiscally responsible and literate person.
Today, urban legends can spread faster and farther than ever before, especially in a young, tech-literate population.
Rick and Morty has proven to be one of the most gaming-literate shows on TV right now.
Anyone who wants a strong U.S. economy should push for a financially literate population — especially girls and women.
The earlier they can get the students to be more news literate and savvy information consumers, the better.
To be in the presence once more of literate, patriotic, emotionally mature professionals was a badly needed balm.
BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING Four artsy-literate guys look for sex, love and identity in Philadelphia in this romantic drama.
"If you want to come across as a literate writer, you should adhere to those standards," he said.
The chart below shows the share of the world population that is literate over the past two centuries.
That goes double for communities where people aren't the most tech-literate, either because of access or age.
If workers would only take the time to become more financially literate, we would see higher saving rates.
I want them to be financially literate so they can make their own informed decisions in the future.
Until the 1960s, a majority of humans had always been illiterate; now, 85 percent of adults are literate.
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is the perfect spot to appear culturally literate on a first date.
In the process, newcomers are given an opportunity to become financially literate and build up their credit history.
" Asked for his reaction to Trump's comments, Inslee said, "Woefully inadequate to the most scientifically literate nation on earth.
Most significantly, she taught American men and women to be sexually literate, offering encyclopedic knowledge with her trademark frankness.
Muslims were in general poorer, more prone to sex discrimination and less literate than the general population (see chart).
In part, that's because the financially literate are much more likely to plan for retirement and stay on course.
The radio show didn't have a studio audience, and the pair's style was conversational, pitched to a literate frequency.
While this project doesn't solve the global literacy crisis, it will allow low-literate adults engage with text independently.
In America, almost nobody cares about cricket unless they're from a cricket-literate county or knows someone who is.
"Without scientifically literate citizens, the United States — and country in fact — cannot compete on the world stage," he said.
Only 27% of its members were literate, even though they had spent an average of six years at school.
Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable.
And while two-thirds of adolescent boys are literate, the figure for girls is little more than half that.
But all of them, and particularly the Grimms', have been extensively shaped and codified by successive literate tale-tellers.
But at least one hyper-literate spa in Wausau, Wisconsin, hasn't given up on the restorative powers of reading.
"We have trained her son, who is literate, to keep a log and check the owner's log," said Jangale.
The question is whether he's an outlier in this regard, or a harbinger of a post-literate American politics.
Hundreds of millions of post-literate citizens are drowning in the ubiquitous uncritical flood of information called the internet.
Symbolism always spoke to me as I became more symbol literate the more the subject matter began to flower.
Admirably cine-literate and auteur-driven, qualities rare in blockbuster moviemaking today, Twelve is still limited as popcorn fun.
The Surface brings all the things a hard-core, technologically literate PC user needs in an ultraportable form factor.
You can do everything a tech literate can, and push the boundaries with computing tasks that those users want.
That time Bret Stephens defended Tucker Carlson's comments that Iraqi's were "semi-literate primitive monkeys" among other things pic.twitter.
The "Sunny" gang is confused when the quasi-literate Charlie announces he has written a musical in Season 4.
That's not to say a largely digitally literate user base means a company shouldn't work on initiatives like this.
He is liberal and progressive, but also technologically and economically literate in a way that should appeal to business.
Hsu found that, by the time their husbands die, 80 percent of women are as financially literate as men.
In Wolff's telling, President Trump is a barely literate chief executive who heads up a chaotic, aberrant White House.
Kids are more literate in irony, which is sad for them, but they are also more information literate, more aware of where they are in space at any given point in time online, and more educated than any previous generation about the way ideas spread and how and where they can be trusted.
Kelly's Lyme literate doctor was so solidly booked, it took Kelly four months to get an appointment, which cost $700.
Although he still sees his Lyme literate doctor, he's begun to see Auwaerter at Johns Hopkins, who takes his insurance.
Tommy was the shyest, most literate, and most aware of what was happening in art, movies, and the avant-garde.
It is, he says proudly, the most "technologically literate" building in Europe, and is already giving rise to new partnerships.
Most people don't have time to dig into Tesla's financials, even if they are financially literate enough to understand them.
As young people become literate, one of the first things they do is start reading in their own regional languages.
"You have a country with 25 million people — young, highly disciplined, literate — and a strong military-industrial complex," he said.
Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka: Have the more basketball-literate of the pair explain the finer points of the game.
To become proficient in critical thinking – at least in a literate society – students need to be able to handle text.
Women's insecurity may lead to financial illiteracy, and people who aren't financially literate are less likely to plan for retirement.
According to the United Nations, a literate community is ideal, capable of effectively exchanging ideas and engaging in meaningful debates.
The women, who are only partially literate, later found out they had given up any claim to their father's land.
And an essential step to educating a literate citizenry is changing the reading tests in public schools across our country.
"Sex workers have to be hyper, hyper social-media-literate," says PJ Sage, a cam model and sex work researcher.
Worse, there are dishonest "Lyme literate" doctors who prey on the ill and charge people exorbitant sums for ineffective treatments.
Is it the title track, whose blandly suburban mall keyboards accompany a rant against information overload and the media-literate?
Matching strong, undistinguished voice to literate, undistinguished verse, Colvin is like a young Joni Mitchell without swoops or self-invention.
As a society, we are more visually literate than ever before with the omnipresence of cellphone cameras and social media.
One of the most important functions of our nation's education system is to equip the next generation of literate citizens.
Four weeks before the day set for publication, huge crates went out to a thousand points of the literate compass.
" Wolff writes in his book that some close to the president said that he "was no more than semi-literate.
Along the way, we became a literate and creative nation with the world's most innovative, influential and lucrative creative industries.
But they still show that there's a long way to go when it comes to getting younger Americans more financially literate.
Now, those who are social media-savvy and the less computer literate alike can enjoy the infectious joy of these photos.
According to UNESCO, only 39 percent of women aged 15 years and over are literate, compared to 62 percent of men.
About 65 percent of women were found to be literate, compared with 82 percent of men, according to the 2011 report.
Loans and crop insurance have tended to flow to better-off, more literate farmers, leaving others at the mercy of moneylenders.
In fact, having recognized that youngsters become computer literate at an early age, Unit 8200 will begin recruiting 13-year-olds.
Half of all literate women were sent to them, as many families could afford a dowry only for the eldest daughter.
"I was one of the few literate people in my village, so I started to teach the other kids," he said.
Most of where I turn is bookstores, not because I'm supremely literate but because I love rows of repeating, colorful things.
Barely literate and living in a shanty in Lyari, one of Karachi's most fetid slums, he was not expected to win.
Thinking more broadly about fake news, do you think there's a technological solution or do people have to become more literate?
"Every sentient, literate being on earth has heard of Twitter," says Peter Stabler, an analyst with Wells Fargo Securities, a bank.
While 79 percent of India's rural men are literate, the rate for women is only 59 percent, according to official data.
Fans of these shows -- even those who consider themselves media literate -- don't much seem to care, accepting them on their terms.
Judge Jackson managed to write a smooth, literate opinion in the Zzyym case but I bet it cost him considerable effort.
While this social revolution enabled Tunisia to become one of Africa's most literate and advanced countries, it also became less democratic.
For literate audiences, such stories reinforced a sense of national confidence, and connected urban dwellers with the frontier as America expanded.
On the other hand, those who are not financially literate have difficulty applying financial decision-making skills to real-life situations.
But this is almost ten years after Anchor—now a household name among the liquor-literate—released Genevieve to fleeting fanfare.
Some research suggests that there's a link between those who are poorer off financially and those who are less financially literate.
Wolff is unsparing in his portrayal of Trump as an aberrant chief executive, not only detached from governance but barely literate.
Although some of these images are disturbing, they may reach this visually literate generation in ways other historical sources just can't.
People who are not financially literate have been shown to overestimate inflation and are less likely to plan adequately for retirement.
On paper, Pinegrove — a hyper-literate six-piece New Jersey band with a country twang and emo essence — probably shouldn't work.
"They wrote a letter that was so literate," Ronstadt said during a phone interview from her home in the Bay Area.
"It doesn't have to be your life but just being digitally literate opens up so many doors for you," she says.
We aspire to a literate society because it allows for public engagement, and I think this is also true for quantitative literacy.
It only seems like magic to those of us who are barely literate in our native tongues, much less two or more.
A friend who had been given a Lyme diagnosis referred her to a Lyme Literate doctor (LLMD) who specializes in the disease.
Another possibility is that those details about literate people were anachronisms inserted by later writers based on their own cultures, Finkelstein said.
According to the United Nations, 87 percent of Afghan women experience physical abuse in their lifetime and only 17 percent are literate.
Semi-literate police at Egypt's airports let passengers through only if they present a valid ticket—or something that looks like one.
"A lot of the technology that we're building is meant to simplify smartphones for people who are not tech-literate," Moss says.
For all his wit and rhymes, his schoolmates thought him as "dumb as a box of rocks", and he was barely literate.
A canny, financially literate figure, he also oversaw a compensation scheme for public workers, doling out $290m a year with little oversight.
The unfortunate thing about my kids is both their parents are highly technically literate, and so they can't fool us or anything.
Tech-literate youngsters are also well suited to the "gig" economy, in which short-term employment is arranged online or through apps.
Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious—always literate but never showy.
Indeed, the model that seems to best conform to his vision is China, with its dynamic economy, literate population, and authoritarian rule.
Women are basically as financially literate as men: 35 percent of U.S. women and 39 percent of men passed a literacy assessment.
The result, directed by Jacques Tourneur, was smart, literate and economical, establishing the gold standard for a particular kind of B-movie.
It's time for New Year's resolutions, and what better one could Americans choose than to become financially literate in the coming year.
Van Boheeman hopes that people who get a hands-on experience with biology can be more literate when having the difficult conversations.
For thousands of years in the global north this has been literate white and middle-class (or equivalent) males of European ancestry.
In recent decades she has embraced singing in a parlando style that is witty, literate, discreetly sexy and at times heartbreakingly honest.
It had never occurred to me that a person could become literate in a language that was written in a different alphabet.
Even if these children do not go back to school — international evidence suggests they won't — they will, at least, become literate adults.
Within Calov's scripture verses, there are many small printing errors that would doubtless go undetected by even the most biblically literate reader.
In 1820, only every 10th person was literate, in 1930 it was every third, and now we are at 85 percent globally.
The period saw a fruitful connection between the literate bourgeoisie (then a minority but growing in social power) and their reading matter.
One of a relatively small number of literate slaves, Keckly was also among the first African-American women to publish a book.
We possess the understandable prejudice that literacy and democracy somehow go together, that a literate society is best able to resist oppression.
In an attempt to make students racially literate, how can educators begin to undo racism and future oppression through the classroom experience?
That is impressive, because he's a highly literate and fluent writer, but it also means that his authorial discipline can abandon him.
In other words, education was seen as key to the revolution taking hold and creating a literate population loyal to the government.
"They're used to mark ownership in what is not totally a preliterate society, but not a fully literate society," Davis tells CNN.
For those in the continent from oral-based, spoken language (non-literate) communities with little formal education, these platforms can be inaccessible.
Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious — always literate but never showy.
"Not everyone needs to be a data scientist but everyone needs to be data literate," he said in a phone interview with CNBC.
After experiencing continued "burning" pain and itchiness, he sought a Lyme literate doctor at the suggestion of people who went to his church.
The desirability of literate women who could educate the young princes is evident even in seductive images that include an open book nearby.
The population is blighted by illiteracy; according to the last census, only half the state's women are literate, well below the national average.
The distribution of their votes across all of England belies the insulting image being peddled that Brexiteers are angry, semi-literate, racist northerners.
"You have a country with 25 million people — young, highly disciplined, literate — and a strong military-industrial complex," he said in an interview.
If recent crises have a silver lining, it may be that they made Italians more financially literate, according to Deloitte, a consulting firm.
The next generation of highly fashion-literate celebrity offspring, still in their toddler years, is already playing favorites when it comes to designers.
And men are more likely to say that they understand financial concepts, which might seem to suggest that they are more financially literate.
The key facts to note are that 94 percent of the population is literate and 50 percent are under 30 years of age.
The president's lack of scientific advisors is even more troubling considering: Donald Trump may be the least scientifically literate president in modern times.
Not all farmers are as scientifically literate as Lester or Sayer; many shrug off climate change as just another shift in the weather.
Kids must learn that being financially literate is about taking some money and using it to empower charities, non-profits, or community initiatives.
"Any technical solution must take into account that a significant percentage of the electorate is not technology-literate," says cybersecurity expert Jeffrey Carr.
"You have a country with 21980 million people — young, highly disciplined, literate — and a strong military-industrial complex," he said in an interview.
Your average European peasant wasn't literate (plus, Bibles translated into vernacular languages like French, German, or English were rare until the 16th century).
The distribution of their votes across all of England belies the insulting image being peddled that Brexiters are angry, semi-literate, racist northerners.
The founder of a phone company in Nicaragua before he got into government, he's positioned himself as a tech-literate, Bitcoin-friendly candidate.
The lack of transparency in current commercial messaging, targeting and promotion of content runs counter to the creation of a media-literate society.
The United States, its institutions, its businesses, its military, its universities and its allies all benefit from a more literate and educated world.
Having added QPR to their portfolio via Jim Gregory – a "pugnacious, semi-literate, self-made wheelerdealer" (The Evening Standard) – Bulstrode hatched a plan.
From that perspective, Anaal Nathrakh are carrying the torch of literate heavy metal out of its classic era and into the new millennium.
And I'd like to be known as someone who really cared about people and worked very, very hard to make America more literate.
"What the grading shows is that we have a long way to go before we are a financially literate nation," the report found.
It was a dreamy childhood, in a religiously diverse and literate region of India where young people prefer American rock to Bollywood soundtracks.
The new pope is, superficially, novel: He's hooked on Cherry Coke Zero, he's pop-culture literate, he — well, he looks like Jude Law.
Invented by the British author Michael Bond, Paddington appears far more gentlemanly and literate than Pooh, and he certainly has a superior wardrobe.
We are living in a time when two meme-literate teenage boys are directing the campaign of an 89-year-old former senator.
K: Well, I also knew enough about the economy and was sufficiently financially literate, to understand what was beginning to unfold in markets.
In a nation where only 31% of the population is literate, such efforts can help ensure as many people as possible turn out.
It's no surprise, then, that Saudi Arabia, whose highly literate population has money to spend, is one of Jamalon's top markets, Alsallal said.
From the conversations I've been having here in Japan, the vast majority of people — even ones who are relatively wealthy — aren't particularly investment-literate.
Rather he relied largely on a stable of literate, urbane and diligent authors — people he knew could turn a phrase and tell a story.
In the kids mode, shows are organized by character, because that's the way children (many of whom are pre-literate) relate to the medium.
A peaceful transition to a democratic, economically literate government could restore normality to what was once one of the region's richest countries (see article).
She feels strongly about the importance of being financially literate and highly recommends others educate themselves for the purpose of bettering their financial futures.
Check it out ... Larry jumps at the chance to unleash on Milo ... clearly furious Milo said earlier on the show Leslie is "barely literate."
Millions of Zimbabweans, from highly skilled bankers to semi-literate farmers, emigrated, mostly to neighboring South Africa, where an estimated 3 million still live.
It's not that everybody has to be a scientist, but we want them to be scientifically literate—just to have an appreciation for it.
It's a goal of mine to help people to be more literate about the history of games, so that was also something I wanted.
K: I think the biggest frustration is that a lot of people, both clients as well as colleagues and architects, are not ecology-literate.
In the early eighteenth century, pugilists took advantage of England's increasingly literate population and the proliferation of newspapers to promote themselves in the press.
"Athletes are really frustrated because... the coaches are not literate and they have been teaching what they were taught 30 years back," he said.
But in 2013, northeastern Tripura claimed it had surpassed Kerala as the most literate state in India, with a literacy rate of 94.7 percent.
Being literate in the language of your immigrant ancestors (whether that language is Spanish, Korean, Mandarin or Armenian) makes you wiser and more powerful.
Granted, Rick and Morty's success at this point isn't surprising, considering the show's reputation for being a gaming and technology-literate piece of entertainment.
Ms. Abo Rebieh, a member of the educated middle class, found herself imprisoned with women who were barely literate, and mostly arrested at random.
In his surprisingly literate screed, the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik called his country the "most suicidal" in Europe for accommodating nonwhite minorities.
Only 74 percent of its citizens are literate, and the country needs an extra 90,000 teachers just to keep up with the population growth.
They reveal that even the most financially literate among us struggle with feelings of shame and confusion when it comes to planning and budgeting.
She was very literate even though she didn't have a formal education, and she gave that to my mom, who was an avid reader.
The studies cannot, however, prove that Stubblefield was misled in this way, and independent evidence suggests that D.J. is literate and able to communicate.
Before the rise of radio and television, the poster offered a way to reach a range of people, literate or not, all at once.
Cohen, from a poor Jewish family in London's East End, was lively, clever, literate and hauntingly beautiful, with brown eyes and long dark hair.
The FCA said firms should define their target market precisely and not rely on broad investor descriptions such as 'experienced', 'sophisticated' and 'financially literate'.
Her biography is not the first we have of Kahn, but it is notable for its warm, engaged, literate tone and its psychological acuity.
Is that somebody telling their sister to watch ... KS: Her sister is not smart, technically literate and what she should do about her kids.
Teach kids how to be news- and media-literate Tips for parents of preschool kids Keep your children away from advertising as much as possible.
"We wrote on that Kickstarter page in summer of 2013: 99 percent of the world is controlled by a tech-literate 1 percent," Klein said.
What I find most surprising, looking back at photos from 2006, is how I had yet to become literate in the language of the selfie.
The university went through a rough period between 28 and 2200, when it felt compelled to make Idi Amin, a barely literate despot, its chancellor.
That may help explain why productivity growth has stalled, and why British youngsters are less literate and numerate than their peers in other rich countries.
"I feel like learning how to read and being a literate person is what opened the world to me," Moore told Refinery29 in early September.
One thing is that New England was the most literate part of the Western world, because you had to teach your children how to read.
By investing heavily in public education, the nation transformed both natives and newcomers into literate, numerate Americans ready to contribute to an advanced industrial economy.
I was already financially literate when I became a mother, but I had to learn a new financial lexicon when my disabled child was diagnosed.
"Writing preserves only the thought of literate peoples," Trubek points out, quoting the scholar Barry Powell, attentively exposing the politics of access in her subject.
As much as anyone, he is the voice of the Arab millennial: bright, well-educated, technologically literate, and deeply hostile to both autocrat and theocrat.
So Trump could also be the last TV president, but at the same time may be merely a precursor to a post-literate political age.
"It required professional philosophers to actually learn some of the neuroscience, and scientists like me to become literate with philosophy," he said of the process.
While one interpretation of this data is that people are poorer off because they're less financially literate, the inverse can be true just as often.
The 1820s saw myriad start-up periodicals, hoping to woo an expanding base of literate, culturally aspirational consumers, and boosted by technological advances in printing.
The funniest things in an environment like Twitter tend to toy with that, imitating either casual speech or post-literate weirdos who don't understand punctuation.
Women in this country are much less likely to be literate or educated than men, and there has never been a female head of state.
Christian takes this opportunity to explain to Ana how nipple clamps work, as if the name were not enough of a giveaway to a literate person.
Such people made money but did not spend it, creating a thrifty, hard-working, literate, self-denying citizenry who drove forward the economies of their countries.
It's very gothy, literate, and was very progressive when it came out in its having gay and trans characters decades before any other mainstream comic did.
Australia, for instance, scoffs 13 litres of gelato per year—more than any other country—and its children are among the most literate in the world.
"We need to learn how to be data literate and we're not," said Pamela Rutledge, a media psychologist at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, Calif.
As the country's first president in 2628, he enacted sweeping social and economic reforms that catapulted Tunisia into one of Africa's most literate and advanced countries.
The walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for classrooms, but it was a baptism by fire for a movement of politically literate and engaged Okies.
But few people run these numbers themselves or, really, are equipped to do so: A recent study suggests that most Americans are not really financially literate.
Sensible news consumers are, instead, going to have fix the problem for themselves by becoming more media literate, checking more news sources, and sniffing out nonsense.
Trump is perhaps the most emotionally unbalanced national politician in living memory, tweeting semi-literate all-caps outbursts and frothing up his followers with incoherent tirades.
Maria Cantwell -- the most digitally literate person in the room -- asked Zuckerberg if he knew what Total Information Awareness was, he said he did not. Huh?
Where people sitting at desktop IBM computers in dank rumpus rooms divulge their deepest regrets and woes to a barely-listening, barely-literate room of strangers.
I'm also fairly technologically literate and have a small amount of experience with things like Linux, which will undoubtedly make the transition to alternative platforms easier.
And finally, it's incredibly dense, with sight gags in the background of almost every scene and literate scripts that talk at length about theories of ethics.
At 213D, you have to mentally finish the beer brand name "Miller" with LITE and equate "price" with RATE to get "Able to read," or LITERATE.
Clerical work attracted young, literate, mostly white women who would work as typists until they were married, only to be replaced by another young unmarried woman.
This is also an unusually literate movie, one that cites Heisenberg's own famous uncertainty principle the better to bring it to bear on the scenario itself.
Many Cubans living in cities like the capital Havana were literate, while those from the countryside often lived in abject poverty with no access to education.
But I am regularly surprised at the otherwise literate people of my acquaintance who not only have not read it but have not heard of it.
Tired depictions of naive old woman have masked an unnerving fact: It's computer-literate millennials and Gen Z who have the real problem with online scams.
Younger adults (defined as 18 to 29) answered more questions correctly than those in the 65-plus group, suggesting that they might be more internet literate.
As more books and articles have been written about the mighty war (1861-1865), most literate Americans know who was involved and what the issues were.
Nonetheless, the Astros are among the most statistically literate teams in MLB, and knew that Mr Morton had already made his way through New York's lineup twice.
On leaving, he kept his security clearance, making him eligible for a good job in the private sector, where computer-literate ex-spooks are at a premium.
Once, I spoke about it with a few women who seemed to me to be bright and literate, but they attacked me and did not support me.
But finding qualified applicants can be a challenge, as pilots, crew chiefs, and maintenance workers have to be literate and usually must be able to speak English.
The design included removing the numbers and adding two additional colors so that low-literate community health workers can visually monitor progress of treatment and weight gain.
The analysis shows that although education policies have led to a rise in literate children, inadequate family earnings still compel them to work and supplement household incomes.
Their diversity and the increase in their numbers give us hope that our nation is moving toward becoming more competitive, secure, literate, innovative, healthy, peaceful and just.
After all, Trump is a post-literate president whose worldview is shaped by a feedback loop with Fox News and who communicates with the world via Twitter.
Trump is truly "post-literate," and his ascension to the White House speaks to the lingering power of television even in an era when viewership is falling.
To apply Postman's analysis to the present: Television was a powerful motor for creating post-literate culture, but is now being supplanted by digital culture at large.
Time magazine decided to troll economically literate Americans this week with an alarmist cover story about the national debt: New TIME cover addresses the national debt. pic.twitter.
Likewise, the report spotlights the waxing spectre of cyber espionage, which demands a technologically literate public to meet it, if American intellectual property is to be protected.
I am functionally literate when it comes to bread and have made hundreds of crusty, open-crumbed loaves since a sourdough obsession took hold a year ago.
Its songs are dense, literate, hand-played and largely acoustic (though a collaboration with Vernon, a forlorn lover's plaint titled "Cast-Off," does slip in some electronics).
It is an ambitious attempt by one of the most literate and digitally savvy nations in the world to reinvent the library for its population's future needs.
Some of the influencers' more media-literate followers were troubled by their unbridled positivity, particularly given the Saudi role in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A posh, literate costume drama, "Olivia" exemplifies the post-World War II "cinema of quality" that would be anathema to the firebrands of the French New Wave.
A posh, literate costume drama, "Olivia" exemplifies the post-World War II "cinema of quality" that would be anathema to the firebrands of the French New Wave.
Wilmot could not accept the idea that the profoundly literate plays of William Shakespeare were written by a man who left no literary paper trail behind him.
Every biblically literate Jew would know that if there are two sons, go with the younger: Abel over Cain, Isaac over Ishmael, Jacob over Esau, Ephraim over Manasseh.
It was exciting, inventive and highly cine-literate and he soon went on to contribute music to films, real ones, by Danny Boyle, David Lynch and Oliver Stone.
It's a big problem, because if you do not have a scientifically literate public, you cannot have a true conversation about how to progress forward in the world.
To realize the potential of these new resources, Congress will need to hire tech literate staff and incorporate real data and evidence into its oversight and legislative functions.
Burke, a case named for Raymond Abbott, a student in Camden who received no services for a learning disability and was barely literate at the age of 15.
But it's definitely crucial to be able to get someone interested in reading early, to get them to want to learn more, to read more, to be literate.
The Stanford professor, above, is known for introducing the notion of "literate programming," emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers.
But "Jane the Virgin" is among the most emotionally literate series of all time, and I trust it to be a careful steward of my weak, fallible heart.
Even people who become literate in adulthood, as a team led by the French neurobiologist Stanislas Dehaene has shown, acquire differences that are visible in a brain scan.
But the police in Kerala, a highly literate state run by a coalition of communist parties, have encouraged women to visit the Sabarimala Temple, despite the security risks.
Fortunately, we live in a literate society: The compiled judgments and experiences of the past are still available to us, and we have really seen this all before.
Three-quarters of the population are below age 28503 (22019 percent of the population is between ages 15-30), and only 54 percent of young Afghans are literate.
It's the same principle as literacy: the more literate a person is, the more difficult books they can digest, from The Cat in the Hat right up to Ulysses.
Her mother, the former Lorencita Ramírez de Arellano, was a well-educated, highly literate woman who taught high school for a time and was not fond of public life.
You may have been watching July 4 approach in anticipation of a well-earned break, but a special category of math-literate Americans views the impending holiday very differently.
The New York Times looks for "intelligent, literate, entertaining and well-crafted crosswords that appeal to the broad range of Times solvers," according to its crossword puzzle submission guidelines.
Spelling, formatting, and grammatical errors have been retained because I had to read through dozens of these semi-literate complaints so now you're going to have to as well.
In Belambo people complain that there is no drinking water, that the school building is dilapidated, the teachers barely literate and that there is no clinic or doctor nearby.
"My advice for my 20-year-old self is to be more financially literate at a younger age," says Barry, who's a member of CNBC's Financial Wellness Advisory Council.
While Indians in 70 years will undoubtedly be more literate, richer, healthier, and have more access to global technologies, India will also inherit some of the West's biggest headaches.
After all, it was the 16th-century proliferation of the printing press that made Martin Luther so able to disseminate his writings (often among a bourgeois and literate class).
They are literate, witty people (played by Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti) who might rather be smart than nice but are generally pretty nice anyway, even to each other.
So, even with a president who is ahistoric, borderline literate and would fail a sixth-grade reading comprehension test, something wonderful and unexpected is happening in the language arts.
In the book, a literate thriller, the hero is an epidemiologist for the World Health Organization racing to find a cure for a deadly virus before it ends civilization.
According to Cuban government statistics, nearly 100% of the communist-run island is now literate and access to free education is one of the cornerstones of the Cuban revolution.
According to Cuban government statistics nearly 100% of the communist-run island is now literate and access to free education is one of the cornerstones of the Cuban revolution.
It can do things any map-literate human can manage, like get you from your hotel to the airport — though it can do so much more quickly and reliably.
The movie won Ephron a screenwriting Oscar nomination and landed an entry of honor in modern cinema history as an unconventionally literate variation on the conventions of romantic comedy.
In theory, the Google form will speed up the reporting process, but it's unclear whether it will, given that precinct chairs need to be tech-literate to use it.
It's a decent piece of alliteration for a marginally literate president, I guess, but there's one tiny little caveat the president forgot: The people of Pittsburgh didn't vote for him.
Prior to Kamalabai Educational and Charitable Trust, Agrawal was the CEO of Mumbai Dabbawallas, an organization that employs semi-literate individuals to deliver homemade food across the city of Mumbai.
But I still get a lot of questions, so a lot of research has to be done, and a lot of talking, in order for everyone to be sexually literate.
Rather, it is used as a gateway to literacy, giving young children a systematic way to learn the sounds of the thousands of characters required to be literate in Chinese.
" The piece ends up going to a worrying place: "journalists should be alarmed that educated, literate Americans don't understand how our jobs work, even if they don't run tech companies.
As a smart editor pointed out to me recently, journalists should be alarmed that educated, literate Americans don't understand how our jobs work, even if they don't run tech companies.
Though Kalanithi lacks Coutts's Shakespearean nuance, he is a literate, first-rate reporter in the vanguard of a modern battle, and he writes with the urgency of his looming incorporeity.
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According to local media, the newly appointed minister made the admission at a parliamentary committee meeting when an opposition politician asked Sakurada a fairly routine are-you-computer-literate question.
His surge was fuelled by a remarkable life story—brought up by a semi-literate single mother, he was a medical pioneer—and his reputation as a high-achieving outsider.
The survey suggests we've got a long way to go before we can consider ourselves science literate, because according to this survey, 183 percent of Canadians—nearly one in five!
In the summer of 1929, more than twenty-five thousand "politically literate" young Bolsheviks fanned out from Moscow to the nation's rural areas, charged with setting up the new collectives.
She had been amazed by how many poor, semi-literate people she met who had informed and intelligent views on politics; other club members kept them abreast of the news.
As a society, we need more training programs that increase the number of financially literate citizens who are able to make better and wiser financial decisions in their own lives.
Youssef Rakha, a talented young novelist, told me that there's a special connection when a literate person can read ancient texts in a language that's so close to contemporary writing.
There, for the last 15 years of his life, listened to, respected and revered, Johnson could count on Thrale, who was, like him, a passionate moral being and literate companion.
When we underinvest in our own human capital, when so many Americans are only marginally literate or numerate or suffer from ill health or dependencies, then our entire country suffers.
He could hire someone who is computer literate, he said, but he was not sure he could squeeze another person into his office, in which broadsheet paper was stacked high.
Joseph Fiennes portrays Shakespeare as a struggling playwright, and Gwyneth Paltrow is Viola, the literate, headstrong muse who inspires him to write "Romeo and Juliet" in John Madden's Oscar winner.
Despite the fact my GP was patient, it also often felt like I was talking to a brick wall due to the lack of Lyme-literate doctors available to me.
Seeded throughout the text are brief testimonials by established writers, often from a humble and not especially literate background, for whom an early access to books made all the difference.
But we'll see if the Europeans are more technologically literate and whether they're ready to hold Zuckerberg's feet to the fire over the outsized role that Facebook has in modern life.
By the time biologists, less computer-literate as a clan than physicists, caught up with the idea, the online-offline distinction had blurred, and the journals saw online repositories as rivals.
BlackBuck has developed a simplified app for truck drivers in India, who are typically not very literate, to help them accept work and easily navigate to their destination using Google Maps.
It stood out, even in a scene of musically-literate producers and selectors, as if there was an understanding and artistry that surpasses just spinning whatever's hot on SoundCloud right now.
Having proven to Hallam that he was the real deal, Russ taught him that becoming financially literate makes it possible to achieve financial freedom early — a principle Hallam took to heart.
Even if you are not applying for a role that is technical in nature, it is incredibly valuable to demonstrate that you are digitally literate and are comfortable learning new technologies.
Since Roman times, he argued, humanism's latent message had been that "reading the right books calms the inner beast" and its function was to select a "secret élite" of the literate.
The handsome figure in the fedora and the funeral suits, the lugubrious voice that got darker with age — how wondrous to have known a singer so literate, a writer so musical.
I work hard to write literate English, but I began to wonder if the turns of phrase I labor over are turgid or if they obscure the action in my novels.
To be true to the subject, to aspire to the goal of living in a quantitatively literate society, the language we use to transmit mathematical ideas needs to preserve this precision.
They also looked to a very small subset of women: highly literate, very elite white women who had the time to sit down and jot down their thoughts about the day.
As we become more technologically literate, we will overcome our fears and start viewing technology for what it is: A set of useful tools serving as extensions of our physical world.
To cut funds now could reverse gains that have been made and damage the U.S. leadership role in education, contributing to a less literate world, and leading to greater social instability.
Here's an antacid: a literate, perpetually curious, good-humored and prolific chronicler of scientific wonders, astonishing optical illusions, space-exploration tidbits and just about anything else that tickles one's intellectual fancy.
Literate people—and, thanks to the printing press, there were more of these than ever before—were eager to hear from philosophers who could give new answers to the ancient questions.
A case series published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year included three patients who were prescribed long term antibiotics by "Lyme literate" doctors and actually had cancer, instead.
The most Brit-literate commentators even threw in the example of lowly Leicester City winning the kick-ball series as additional proof that history was no longer a guide to the future.
It is remembered as a time when all Greeks, from gun-toting bishops to sophisticated diplomats to barely literate peasants, were on the same side, courageously advancing the interests of the nation.
He's a literate guy with a great backing band and a musical thing that references both new rock but also harkens back to classic rock and older rock, which is something also.
Examples are proficiency in a specific software (hard skill) vs being computer literate (soft skill), having built and managed teams while creating new performance appraisal and compensation structure (multiple hard skills) vs.
By the time the dust had settled, Zendaya had become the kind of celebrity that you're supposed to have a general idea of and opinion about if you're vaguely pop culture literate.
Those who are literate, and the few who have access to TV, Radio or the Internet, will have the satisfaction of reading, listening to or watching the court's proceedings as they unfold.
North Korea is the outlier in the heart of an economically vibrant region, with a young, literate and inexpensive workforce as well as untapped reserves of coal, iron ore, limestone and minerals.
Where I assumed, because Tom was so emotionally literate, that it was an analog in his face-to-face life with people, that he could talk about his feelings in real life.
Chalk this up to another case where two competitive center-left parties enable conservative governments after a majority win, and that a substantial chunk of the Ontario electorate is firmly post-literate.
Discrimination starts young in Ivory Coast, where only 33 percent of women are literate compared to 53 percent of men - a gap that has widened since the early 1980s, the bank says.
Barely literate and just 17 years old, he crossed the southwest border alone and joined thousands of lechugeros — lettuce people, in Spanish — who migrate through Arizona and California to harvest leafy greens.
He is known for introducing the notion of "literate programming," emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee.
But this fascination with Callas must lie partly in a longing for a return to a more literate society for those of us who wished we had been alive during her prime.
While it's somewhat surprising that Brown — who is known for his adrenaline-fueled and occasionally bloody suspense novels — is writing for the pre-literate crowd, "Wild Symphony" has some of his hallmarks.
If this succeeds, we'll bring education to parts of the world where you can't get print books, where companies don't deliver things overnight, where it's not even guaranteed that people are literate.
But mostly they tend to be much more heavily regulated and subsidized than the system that conservative health policy wonks and policy-literate Republicans would like to see take over from Obamacare.
The NYPL, which serves more than 17 million patrons across Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, launched the service with Kanopy collection last Friday to offer "quality, literate" movies to its patrons.
Illiterate men and women were 2.65 times as likely as the literate to have dementia at the start of the study, and twice as likely to have developed it by the end.
Set in the early 20th century, it follows five literate juvenile delinquents (all boys, but played by women), who rape and kill their English teacher and are sent to sea as punishment.
"In other words, it's a meme that will never be co-opted by internet-literate corporate Twitter accounts or deployed by some hapless news anchor hoping for a viral moment," Feldman writes.
The popularity of the app would be astounding to someone like Martin Luther, who famously translated the text in the 16 century so common (literate) people outside of the clergy could read it.
"Being more literate, and understanding that [your] data is being altered without your consent and there are ways you can take control of it," said Kira Simon-Kennedy, an arts administrator in attendance.
The finds there suggest that the people of the Dark Age, despite being non-literate, never lost their taste for fancy textiles, precious metals and jewels, or the ability to trade far afield.
Even where his software does get it right, like with its accurate reading of emojis, Jon's atypical relationship with the little symbols has kept him from being fully literate in this cultural phenomenon.
They're not super literate or well-connected enough to get their stories out, and their stories are embarrassing to the officials who used them and survived and did well after the Cultural Revolution.
Each SDG's direct connection to family planning may not be obvious to everyone, but the connections to population are obvious — so how can we help people be more demographically literate, in a way?
Mr. Meyers, the literate, quip-firing comedian and host of NBC's "Late Night," had spent the preceding days mapping out his conversation with Ms. Conway, a steadfast and unflappable spokeswoman for Mr. Trump.
Never before has such a large portion of humanity been literate, enjoyed a middle-class cushion, lived such long lives, had access to family planning or been confident that their children would survive.
The report said a robust economy, a literate and relatively young population and a well-developed information and communication technology (ICT) cluster could propel ASEAN into the world's top-five digital economies by 2025.
So, if you're wont to use these terms ironically, it might be worth waiting until they know you are, in fact, literate before you start trying to charm them with the latest yoof lingo.
Many journalists, including Taing, were barely literate: When they worked as stringers for larger entities like Radio Free Asia or the Cambodia Democracy Foundation, they'd submit their stories as SMS tips or cameraphone pictures.
Four in 10 children of primary school age in Ivory Coast are out of school, while less than half of young people aged 15-24 are literate, according to the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF).
What distinguished this case from most others was what happened in the aftermath: Almost every single one of Forsyth's 1,098 African-Americans — prosperous and poor, literate and unlettered — was driven out of the county.
Those require an army of technically literate workers and managers to effectively exploit, but American secondary school students simply do not do as well as peers abroad in math and science on standardized tests.
I was in the history of science department, where all the talk was of Einstein and Darwin and Newton, with the occasional glance at the "reception" of such ideas in the larger literate populace.
I wish I was more financially literate in my 20s than I am now in my 30s … there are some jobs you won't be able to take because they're below your cost of living.
Karloff and Lugosi made their last joint appearance for RKO in "The Body Snatcher" (1945), a typically literate Val Lewton production, adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson short story and directed by Robert Wise.
If you look at a country like Syria, which was a secular nation before the civil war with a very highly literate population, education becomes critically important for the refugees who have lost everything.
The Business Roundtable and Change the Equation estimate that major American companies — already begging for skilled STEM workers— will need nearly 1.6 million STEM--literate employees for the workforce in the next five years.
The issue means that some of Facebook&aposs least technically literate and most vulnerable users risk being revictimized by scammers all over again while looking for help after being hacked or suffering other issues.
ISLE OF THE DEAD, Tasmania — Maybe the hardened convicts who carved the 19th-century gravestones dotting this tiny island were barely literate, or perhaps one of them just had a wicked sense of humor.
These grievances unite all of those who have come to the street: the young people, the workers, the poor, the educated and the barely literate, the tribal leaders as well as urban street sweepers.
" A racially literate model for this lesson would render the role of white people and white institutions visible, claiming instead "Jackie Robinson was the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.
The issue means that some of Facebook&aposs least technically literate and most vulnerable users risk being victimized by scammers all over again while looking for help after being hacked or suffering other issues.
Not only will that help clients discover what's in it for them; it should create a quantum-literate community of programmers who will devise resources and solve problems beyond what any individual company could muster.
Most of the recipes aren't original — many of them were taken whole cloth from contemporary sources — but Glasse's clean, crisp instructions rendered them usable to any literate person of her time, not just trained chefs.
"This showed that non-literate populations, when provided with the right information and right conditions for discussing an issue... (can) make well-grounded and informed decisions," said Dennis Chirawurah, director of the West Africa lab.
It in his distinctly coarse timbre that he follows in the tradition of Mellencamp, Tweedy and Oberst, in portraying a literate and working class Midwest, and the album is full of autobiographical tales and characters.
But I will tell you that if you're worried about malware, especially if you're giving a laptop to a family member who's not super computer literate, I think Chromebook is probably the way to go.
He's also a highly literate Ivy League graduate who reads the modernists and wants only enough money to keep his "brokedown" Bronx apartment so he can write the Great American Novel (always a dubious aspiration).
The idea that the Oxford comma is as advisable as storm windows has been a standard meme among literate Americans since, especially, the publication of William Strunk and E.B. White's Elements of Style in 1959.
But there are a ton of good books coming out and I feel really confident that you could put most literate people into a comic shop and they would come out with books they'd enjoy.
"If Charles Manson were alive and literate, he would be writing for Breitbart," said Jeff Guinn, author of one of the more definitive biographies of the killer, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson.
But that happened partly because, for all his idiosyncrasy, he had real intellectual and political strengths: He was intelligent, literate, well-versed in history, had long experience in government, and knew what he stood for.
As I said when I covered part two, Inslee is building a credible, policy-literate Green New Deal, piece by piece — a blueprint the next president, whoever it is, can use to hit the ground running.
No, the contestants, particularly the youngest among them, are simply so literate in both reality television and the portrayal of a public persona on social media that they can navigate real life and the "reality" one.
My intention all along has been to simply share that same enthusiasm for the written word because as you can tell from my life, I know full well the benefits of being a literate human being.
His longest work, "Fredy Neptune", a novel in verse that spanned the 20th century, was written in the language of a young migrant stockman; the words his own semi-literate father used when he told stories.
"This book may well be the guide of a trained Maya ritualist, literate in both complex imagery and calendrics," the research team of Michael Coe, Stephen Houston, Mary Miller, and Karl Taube write in the paper.
It's quite extraordinary the degree to which people in Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America are dropping out of poverty, becoming literate, and acquiring the ability to be individual citizens in potential liberal democracies.
But in an era when your Catholic worshippers are presumed to be largely literate, and capable of accessing theological ideas verbally as well as visually, that focus is no longer as imperative as it once was.
That population so seldom noticed by historians, the literate who did not read Latin but were eager for access to theology, scripture, and history, and current affairs as well, were highly receptive to what he wrote.
Touch-based operating systems, built from the mobile/smartphone experience, eliminate the complexity that exists with Windows and MacOS and make computing more accessible to the masses who are, admittedly, not the most technology-literate people.
A literate slave and preacher, Turner led a short-lived revolt in 1831 that resulted in the deaths of more than 50 slaveholders and, afterward, his execution, as well as that of more than 50 slaves.
The growing complexity and interdependence of society and economies changed the way government was viewed, and the development of a literate bourgeoisie created people who thought about such things, focusing attention on the need for constitutions.
And it seems like this kind of digital hovering would rob him of opportunities to become technologically literate, to earn our trust and to develop a sense of personal responsibility for his behavior online (and off).
The 16 sophisticated, literate songs (by eight composers as diverse as Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers) that Kapilow has chosen for his text pose a further complication precisely because they are songs.
Even though the material is available, though, many people are not as financially literate as they could be — either because they don&apost know where to look, or because financial health isn&apost their biggest priority.
SUNDAY PUZZLE — Jacob Stulberg is hyper-literate (another of his Sunday grids had a William Carlos Williams theme, and not just plums in the icebox), and very graceful and consistent in his choice of theme entries.
Assuming that you're literate in both human words and beverages, however, you already know that cold brew—the less-acidic, high-octane cousin of drip coffee—has seen a surge of popularity over the last few years.
The album's harsh production and sharp, crude, hyper-referential lyrics have painted the rapper as a soothsayer for the Trump era, able to navigate the minefield of being Online while being literate in its most hateful language.
A background paper done by the New York-based International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity revealed in October of last year that only 48 percent of India girls studying up to the fifth grade are literate.
Using face-to-face interviews from June, Brazilian researchers asked a nationally representative sample of 2,002 urban, literate Brazilian women ages 18 to 39 about their reproductive plans during the Zika epidemic that has ravaged the nation.
With wryly literate writing, complicated characters and timely explorations of issues like abortion, gun rights, gay marriage and government surveillance, the hourlong drama was an outlier among the procedurals and nighttime soap operas of the broadcast networks.
It can be a forbidding landscape for families trying to enroll their children, particularly in a city where, historically, federal statistics show that nearly half the adults are not literate enough to function effectively in everyday life.
And that expansion has required the paper to market itself as various things it is not: chiefly as a true national newspaper, meant to be read by every literate American, or as a voice of the Resistance.
In Asher, he gets the biographer any writer dreams of: thorough, smart, literate, and unabashedly on his subject's side—a disciple, a role that puts him, as the book itself lays out, in excellent, even august company.
But there is also an invisible clock telling us we need to get just as serious about developing a financial literate populace if we want to avoid more recessions, prosper as a democracy and grow our economy.
"Fiore took an intensely active role in making McLuhan's fundamental ideas accessible to an increasingly visually literate audience," the designer Steven Heller, a former art director for The New York Times Book Review, said in an email.
Eighner spent three years on the streets (mostly in Austin, Tex.) and on the road in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the book he wrote about that time is a literate and exceedingly humane document.
Approving new education standards while simultaneously denying access to relevant supporting content simply pays lip service to the importance of STEM education without giving science teachers the tools they need to transform students into scientifically literate adults.
One day, I hope, we will look back on these months and see that they marked the end of a long state of confusion around the French adolescent girl, the "jeune fille," this liberated, daring, literate creature.
Instead, it seemed to be "targeting a literate audience with telephone and Internet access" when many locals "cannot write, many do not have phones, and many live in locations where there are no telephone networks," he wrote.
To film industry peers and moviegoers who paid attention to the credits, the wife-and-husband team of Ms. Frank and Mr. Ravetch, who died in 19729, stood out among Hollywood's most successful and literate script writers.
In the world of fintech, Rebecca Liebman is on a mission: to democratize access to financial planning for all Americans, including millennials, who often struggle with personal finance (less than a quarter of millennials are financially literate).
As the country continues to come online to become one of the largest internet markets in the world, literate users capable of using Google's products like Search, Ads, Gmail and others are of increased importance to Google's business.
But at the end of the day, most of us can learn any of these systems pretty quickly; they're designed to be intuitive and straightforward, and any computer-literate person can navigate the basics in a few hours.
But, why didn't the clever sea princess – who's already proven herself literate, or at least familiar with the concept of the written word, by signing a contract with Ursula – explain the precarious situation to her hunk via writing?
In the meantime, even the most web-literate celebrities are lagging behind in their presidential endorsement game — Kim Kardashian could only offer her support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a rushed, blurry, and badly framed Instagram selfie.
People who are non-literate or illiterate are often perceived to be unintelligent, but it's essential to debunk this myth and realize that those with first-hand knowledge of a problem often know how best to address it.
But what we soon discovered is that a lot of the older sound guys didn't take photographs back in the day, or that they're not computer literate, or they might not be around any more—scenarios like that.
With its gimlet-eyed view of romance, Sahara-dry humor and love of whimsical instrumentation, "69 Love Songs" established Mr. Merritt as one of the most arch, and literate, songwriters of his generation — a Noël Coward for now.
That, in turn, suggests there were enough literate people at that time to compile some portions of the Old Testament, such as the Book of Deuteronomy, parts of Genesis, and the books of Joshua to 2 Kings, Finkelstein said.
By spending time picking on the fact that today's bright kids are becoming literate in technology (one kid even likens it to learning a new language), she misses the opportunity to skewer the more troublesome aspects of Valley culture.
While the web has largely moved in a direction where many people are HTML-literate, WYSIWYG tools are still going strong, but they tend to look more like developer prototype tools like Framer, or service-drive tools like Wix.
But the task could not be more important, for individual children and for society — as Dr. Seuss noted many decades ago, they're the front lines of the effort to create eager readers and a literate culture of critical thinkers.
In an era when many general interest magazines have abandoned publishing short fiction, CNET is entering the literary arena with a new monthly series, Technically Literate, which will feature short stories about technology and how it shapes our lives.
"BoJack Horseman" may be the saddest animated comedy in TV history, and with each new batch of episodes it delves deeper into its unique brand of anthropomorphic misery: dark, witty, culturally literate — but for its loyal fans, thoroughly enjoyable.
SOUTHAMPTON, England — When you spend three days on a Jane Austen-themed tour of England with a group of highly literate ladies (and one gentleman), conversation naturally turns to such questions as, Which of Austen's novels is your favorite?
While higher tax rates for services and non-food items are expected to fuel price pressures, compliance is feared to be a major challenge in a country where many entrepreneurs are not computer literate and rely on handwritten ledgers.
"We may not be literate, but we visual than a motherfucker," Pryor jokes in Sunset Strip, and he was, often, quite visual; blessed with the gift of not just vocal but physical mimicry, he could become nearly anything onstage.
Leveraging post-literate tools like YouTube and emojis to create a website and mobile app that allows people to review the books they're reading while they're reading them, Beek is a startup that embraces the amazing contradictions of the internet age.
But their score still establishes itself as one of the most accomplished (and probably the most literate) to be heard on Broadway in the past dozen years or so, since the less rigorous requirements of pop songwriting have taken over.
They had also gotten into some credit card debt during the period of unemployment and were still recovering, but she described herself and her husband as similarly well-aligned on their financial priorities, even if they weren't especially financially literate.
I'm not the most well-versed in noise (you'd want to check out my very noise-literate colleague Colin Joyce's column for that) but to me, this sounds like Skullflower left to decay in a pool of softly flowing seawater.
There must be a way to fashion K-through-12 educational systems to produce students who are sufficiently literate and numerate when they arrive at college to be able to take advantage of all that higher education has to offer.
Ms. Lewis, 36, soft-spoken and quick to smile, came to The Times earlier this month to discuss the power and influence of imagery, especially as it relates to race, and why we all need to become more visually literate.
This is a safe and cynical bet from the social network, which can then shield itself from future Cambridge Analytica-like scandals by claiming that it had provided users with the tools to become more literate about their data-sharing.
To cast a valid vote, a person was required to match the ballot to the correct slot, but the manner in which the ballot and the box were labeled made it virtually impossible for someone not fully literate to do so.
She added that an uptick in cases doesn't mean Legionella bacteria is more pervasive, but that people are likely becoming more health-literate and going to doctors as soon as they notice symptoms, causing more cases to be reported overall.
McLuhan and his followers argue that television is no mere entertainment appliance, but helped initiate a central shift from the age of typographic culture (when print shaped and structured how we saw to world) to our contemporary post-literate world.
For example, the intent to acquire land for the Kusmunda mine in Chhattisgarh was announced in the official government gazette and in a newspaper, yet more than a third of the residents near the mine were not literate, Amnesty said.
A fact-check article published by the Guardian on Wednesday noted that a 2011 report by Australia's Department of Social Services found more than three quarters of refugees in Australia were literate and educated to high school level before arrival.
The ultra-flat surfaces of the seven canvases, or what Ms. Coleman calls this "mirror room/ no one dares enter," are a dizzying investigation of gender, painting, perception and what it means to inhabit a post-literate society all at once.
In 1986 the Pet Shop Boys, his partnership with Chris Lowe, hit No. 1 in the United States with their debut single, "West End Girls," and the group went on to release 13 studio albums of literate, melancholy dance music.
What Wilson would like is for these fields to become more scientifically literate and attend especially to developments in paleontology, anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and neurobiology — what he calls the "friendly ground of science," where the humanities can seek alliances.
Fans of smart, literate, light-footed television with a sense of place, loosely housed in the crime genre, will know that Pappy was one of the motifs of the late, lamented "Justified," which ended its run on FX in 2015.
Distressing as it may be to those of us whose life's work includes helping to nurture a literate population, it is wholly unsurprising that a society that places a low priority on reading in fact produces so few proficient readers.
Which brings us to... Joe's already bored and back to his old ways, crushing on a neighbor about whom we know nothing other than that she is literate (Joe also mentions her "sunshine" because she was sitting outside in the sun).
It's eight million people, it has a young population, they're literate, they should be orientated towards free markets, towards our way of doing things, and yet they're the captives and prisoners of this approach of the (Iranian) government that they have.
Ms. Manfra, who joined Homeland Security in 2007, witnessed and participated in many of the department's efforts to carve out a space for itself alongside the Defense Department as a center of cybersecurity-focused, technically literate activity in the federal government.
Abstract Expressionism changed the terms of painting, and in doing so, created its own kind of intellectual capital, in which Pollock's splotches of color became a new language that was necessary to understand in order to be considered visually literate.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Digitally literate artists have been acutely aware of how state power has been shifting from the actual to the virtual, at least since Ars Electronica's prescient art and technology show InfoWar in 1998.
In their five decade-long war against the Colombian government, FARC rebels created a support network that managed to keep an army of almost 11,000 people almost completely literate and relatively healthy—even as they remained isolated in the Colombian jungle.

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