Nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are nucleoside analogues that act as competitive inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. As shown in the animation, these drugs compete with nucleoside triphosphates for access to reverse transcriptase.
All NRTIs lack a 3-hydroxyl group; thus, their incorporation into a growing DNA chain results in its termination. They require intracytoplasmic activation via phosphorylation by cellular enzymes to the triphosphate form. Most have activity against HIV-2 as well as HIV-1.
Zidovudine or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV): first approved drug in its class.
Didanosine (ddI): second FDA-approved drug for the treatment of HIV infection.
Tenofovir (TDF): first nucleotide analog. It has significant drug interactions.
Lamivudine (3TC): also used in the treatment of HBV infection.
Emtricitabine (FTC): acts as an inhibitor of HBV and HIV transcriptase.
Abacavir (ABC): a guanosine analog.
.Dr. Gary Kaiser is a Professor of Microbiology at The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus located in Baltimore, Maryland. Make sure you visit his excellent microbiology website: The Grapes of Staph.
This post features two clinical guidelines on the management of community acquired pneumonia.
The British Thoracic Society updated this year many recommendations, including when to order a chest X-ray, and antibiotic management.
The following images created by the Dept. of Pharmacology at University of Utah are great for reviewing antifungals before a test like USMLE: This table contains the following agents: Trifluridine, Vidarabine, acyclovir, ganciclovir, foscarnet, azt, ddI, ribavirin, amantadine.


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Seven dead, 30 feared trapped after part of flyover collapses in India
Reuters, New Delhi
Published at 08:58 pm May 15th, 2018
Last updated at 05:13 pm May 21st, 2018
Seven people are dead and 30 others are feared trapped under the rubble after part of an under-construction flyover in the northern Indian city of Varanasi collapsed on Tuesday, a senior police official said.
Varanasi, the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh and is popular among pilgrims and tourists.
Modi said on Twitter he was "extremely saddened" by the loss of lives and had asked officials in the state to provide all possible support to those affected.
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Hehe, thanks! I did it with my new phone, actually! It records a few seconds of what you're shooting and then you can just choose which areas to 'play'. I imagine this took a little while to load because it's 2+mb in size? This is the original size of the image and the preview image on the front page should be stationary (if that's what you're referring to?) :).


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Assumptions Opinions on PDA
On November 13, 2015 By socialjournal301In Feature
By: Victoria Miranda
Public displays of affection are very common with couples at the college age, however some people find these displays of affection to be offense or obnoxious while others find it cute and romantic. There was a recent incident on a college campus in Shanghai, China having to do with PDA in their dinning hall. Two students at the Jilin University of Architecture were criticized for feeding one another food in the dining hall. Administrators at the university saw this as excessive public displays of affection, according to an NBC News report.
The incident led to a new code of conduct about PDA on campus. The list of what administrators considered to be unacceptable public displays affection included cuddling, kissing, hand holding and students feeding each other with spoons, chopsticks or other utensils. The new rules on PDA brought a lot of questions and controversy to the campus. According to NBC News, an administrator at the university confirmed that the new conduct code was passed out to students last Wednesday and quickly spread online. Responses from the new rules on PDA varied. Some students thought the conduct code was a hoax, others condemned administration for the new rules protecting the mental well-being of single students. The timing of the new rules had some people questioning if this conduct code was made because "Singles Day", November 11, was upon them.
Clearly there were mixed feelings about the new rules on PDA on the Jilin University of Architecture campus, so I thought it would be interesting to get the thoughts of students on the Assumption College campus about PDA in general and the new rules in place on the Jilin University campus.
A small survey we conducted showed about 70% respondents at Assumption College do not see much PDA around campus. When asked how they felt about when they do see people who display affection publicly many responded that it didn't bother them unless it was obnoxious, such as people making out with one another. The majority of the survey takers said that they think holding hands and a kiss is acceptable, but it becomes too much when people are aggressive about it.
Assumption College PDA Survey: Thoughts on Public Displays of Affection
When asked about her thoughts on the new conduct code at Jilin University about the ban on public displays of affection, senior Emily Santoro says, "I don't think there should be any laws or serious bans on PDA. I think it should just be more known as common courtesy. Anything you wouldn't do in front of your grandparents I don't think you should do in public. There is a difference from being cute and holding hands compared to making out in public. I think there is a fine line that couples need to be more aware of crossing but I think banning PDA is a little over the top."
The survey showed that 99% of the people do not think that there should be a rule banning or limiting public displays of affection. One response specifically said, "No we're in college and I think that people should know what is appropriate and not appropriate. If they don't know what's appropriate, they don't need to be punished for it, they're just making people uncomfortable."
PDA can make people feel uncomfortable but it is not something that is hurting people and not something that is causing problems for people in the world. Administrators at Jilin University feel strongly about banning PDA on their campus, but other places such as Assumption College feel differently about the topic. There are far worse things happening in the world than PDA and it is not something that people need to worry about causing problems in communities.
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Kylie's story on student involvement on Assumption's campus covers the Relay for Life run that occurred in March. Learn more about the decline in student involvement on Assumption's campus! (KR)
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How ultraviolet photography reveals an invisible world
He's made it his mission to demystify ultraviolet photography – and inspire others to experience this fascinating world of things unseen by the human eye. Wildlife and scientific photographer Adrian Davies explains why
By Adrian Davies for the RPS Journal
Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) in visible and UV light. Shot in daylight using a one second exposure
"I was a lecturer in photography at Nescot college in Surrey for 27 years and taught everything from shooting film through to degree level photography. I managed to get out six years ago and had an early retirement, so I'm now a freelance wildlife and scientific photographer.
"I studied scientific photography at college and one of the areas we looked at was UV photography, so I've always been interested. I'm also a passionate naturalist, I love animals and plants, and I saw there was a chance here to show the world how other animals see it.
Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) in visible light and reflected UV.
"There are two types of ultraviolet, but the kind I work with is reflected – in other words, the ultraviolet reflected from a subject like a flower. Various minerals glow, some insects glow, and of course if you go clubbing then you have UV lights there too. There's a huge potential for creative work along with the more scientific work I do.
"I'm trying to photograph things the human eye cannot see. They're either invisible to the naked eye because they're at the UV and infrared end of the spectrum, or they're too fast or too slow for the human eye to see. I do a lot of time-lapsed photography and high-speed photography as well as the infrared and UV kind.
Carnivorous plant (Nepenthes reinwardtiana) in visible light and UV. The function of the two 'eye spots' is unknown.
"One of my reasons for writing my two books – Digital Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography and Photographing the Unseen World – is that few people over the last 20 or 30 years have been doing ultraviolet photography. It's perceived to be very difficult, and while it's not easy it's not particularly difficult. One of my aims is to stimulate an interest in it and say to people 'have a go'.
Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus) in visible light, UV and 'bee vision'. A combination of filters was used to transmit UV, blue and green light to simulate the colour vision of a honey bee.
"When you take a UV photograph of a flower you have to block out all the visible light and use a filter that's visibly opaque so you can't see through it. The filter is only transmitting UV light, so when you put it in front of the filter you immediately can't see through the viewfinder. You can't work quickly, and you can't really use it for moving subjects because you can't keep the subject in the viewfinder.
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) in visible light, reflected UV and 'bee vision'.
"It can be a reasonable investment – the camera conversion itself costs £200-£300 and the filter costs a couple of hundred pounds. You can improvise and do things relatively cheaply to start doing this.
"There are new things being discovered all the time. A new rock form was found a couple of years ago by a guy who was just going along a beach with a UV torch when some of the pebbles fluoresced. A woodlouse from the island of St Helena that was thought to be extinct was found by someone with a UV lamp because these woodlouses glow a lot. There's a lot of scope for citizen science, where we photographers can contribute to the scientific world."
Beggarticks (Bidens) is a good plant to practice with when setting up the equipment. Visible light, UV and 'Bee vision'.
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Indra Jatra winds up with grand celebration
Gangtok, 23 Sept:
The three-day long Indra Jatra celebrations concluded here at Manan Kendra this evening with a grand showcasing of Newari traditions after a chariot rally held earlier in the morning offering prayers were offered to Lord Indra and Kumari.
Chujhachen MLA, Bikram Pradhan, who is also the patron of Indra Jatra celebration committee, delved on the challenges facing preservation of Newari culture and traditions which have been fading in the State. He stressed on the role and responsibilities of community elders in helping retain these aspects of the community and called on more people to shoulder the responsibilities.
He also urged support for the under construction Newari Bhawan which could be completed soon if the community could mobilize funds of Rs. 10 crore.
Sikkim Newar Guthi's Dilu Kumar Maskey presented a detailed report on the initiatives taken by the Guthi and expressed his gratitude towards the government for the overwhelming support received for promotion of culture, tradition, language.
He also urged the members of Newari community here for more contribution in terms of monetary support and active engagement for the promotion of the Sikkimese Newari way of life.
Mr. Maskey also stressed on the need for the establishment of a Regional Cultural Research Institute for research of Sikkimese communities, their traditions and cultures.
Sikkim Newar Guthi also felicitated Chief Minister Pawan Chamling for his constant endeavours towards preservation of culture and traditions and support for the Newari community its language and culture in Sikkim.
The citation was handed over in the morning session of the Indra Jatra prayers at Bhanu Udayan.
The Guthi has also honoured and felicitated the late KP Pradhan (Posthumously), footballer Sanju Pradhan, martial artist Savitri Pradhan, Ganesh Pradhan and Bhagdev Pradhan.
Pintso Chopel Lepcha, MLA Gangtok, and Shyam Pradhan, MLA Arithang, handed over the trophies and mementoes to winners of the various competitions organised by the Guthi as part of the Indra Jatra celebrations.


The third day of the Trinity Western University Men's Volleyball Goodwill Tour was a training day for the Spartans as they were hosted by the Tang Dynasty Developmental Team at the Shanghai Volleyball Training Center.
The Spartans and the Tang Dynasty Developmental team trained together at the men's volleyball center, which had two full size Teraflex volleyball courts and a multi-purpose volleyball/basketball court, as well as full size meeting rooms, weight training facility and changing rooms.
TWU head coach Ben Josephson and TDDT coach Mr. Xin exchanged coaching philosophies while putting the two teams through a variety of drills. Mr. Xin put the Spartans and TDDT through defensive drills and instruction, while Coach Josephson focused on showing what the Spartans offensive systems and drills looked like.
"I've heard a lot about the Asian style of training, which is based on repetition, repetition, repetition. And it was really cool to see it first hand and to see what repetition really looks like," commented Josephson about the value and educational experience of training with different cultures. "I learned the value of it and I want to apply it to our system of training. We saw the value of the training of repetition, but we also saw the practical element and how it affected the game and changes the course of a match. It was their ability at ball control verses ours, and the value of repetition was very evident.
After the morning training session the team had lunch at one of the Shanghai Training Center's dinning commons, which was followed by a tour of the many individual sport training buildings.
Some of the buildings that the team and delegation toured were: the Aquatics Centre, which included four full size Olympic pools, water polo and synchronize swimming pools. As well as special training current pool.
The multi-purpose building, which was surrounded by a full size 400 meter track and housed a 10,000 plus square foot weight training facility as well as badminton, table tennis, a full size indoor soccer pitch and two full size beach volleyball courts – with heated sand.
Following the tour the Spartans and the TDDT used two courts to scrimmage each other with a variety of different lineups.
The group also had the chance to observe some of the latest sports science training systems at the Sports Science Building.
After the day of training the TWU Goodwill Tour group traveled back to the Bund in Shanghai for dinner and an evening walk in the warm tropical rain before returning to the Crown Plaza in Shanghai.


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The MXV 450 affords beautifully easy access for maintenance (plugs, oil filter, air filter), and boasts extended maintenance intervals, far above the average.
Fuel system: Injection. Integrated engine management system controlling ignition and fuel injection. Throttle body: 38 mm. Hard and soft mappings selectable from the handlebars.
Lubrication system: Dry sump. Separate gearbox lubrication.
Clutch: Multi-plate in oil bath, cable operated.
Exhaust system: Conforming to FIM standards for 2009.
Frame type: Cr-Mo steel perimeter frame with aluminium alloy vertical members. Headstock rake angle 26.2�. Lightweight rear frame section.
Front suspension: 50 mm Marzocchi upside down fork with adjustments for compression and rebound.
Rear suspension: Pro-Link with Sachs monoshock, adjustable in compression and rebound.
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The Death Toll of Immigration Detention
Posted by Tory Johnson | Nov 1, 2016 | Abuses, Detention
Each year on November 1 and 2, people around the world celebrate the Day of the Dead—sometimes called All Souls Day or Día de los Muertos in Spanish—to remember and honor children and adults who have died.
To date, since 2003, 165 people have died in immigration detention, including ten in Fiscal Year 2016 (ending September 30) and one person since October 1. Several groups have organized events around the country to commemorate the many who have died in immigration detention, and to call attention to their tragic deaths.
On Tuesday in Washington, D.C., dozens of people marched to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters to demand investigations into the 11 in-custody deaths since October 1, 2015. Protesters also demanded to close the LaSalle Detention Facility in New Orleans, LA where three of the deaths occurred.
Research has shown that the medical care in detention facilities is woefully inadequate and has had a significant role in detainee deaths. The report Fatal Neglect: How ICE Ignores Death in Detention, released earlier this year examined "death reviews" released by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, finding that ICE's failure to comply with medical standards contributed to at least half of the in-custody deaths between 2010 and mid-2012 for which ICE produced documentation.
In a Human Rights Watch report released in July analyzing 18 "death reviews" conducted by the Office of Detention Oversight (ODO) for deaths that occurred May 2012 through June 2015, independent experts found that in nearly half of the cases substandard medical care and violations of detention standards contributed to the detainee's death. Across the board, these failures to provide adequate medical care and oversight put other detainees at risk.
For example, poor medical care had a significant role in the death of Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, age 44, who died in April 2015 after spending nearly a year at the privately-run Adelanto Detention Facility in GA. As the Human Rights Watch report described, "an RN [Registered Nurse] who saw Morales-Ramos on March 2, 2015 noted that his abdomen was distended but 'did not detect a mass or protrusion.' The doctor who saw Morales-Ramos four days later described his abdominal mass as 'the largest she has ever seen in her practice.'"
Violations of detention and medical standards, as well as the broader inadequacies in immigration detention, have been scrutinized repeatedly this year. In the spring, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began conducting surprise inspections of detention facilities around the country.
Privately owned or operated facilities in particular have been heavily criticized. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently reviewing its use of private detention centers, following the Department of Justice's (DOJ) announcement that it would begin scaling back and eventually end its use of private prisons after officials determined such facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
Following DOJ's announcement, the Cibola County facility, which is operated by the largest private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (now rebranded as CoreCivic), was slated to be closed. Yet just this week, ICE finalized a new contract with CoreCivic to keep the facility open as an immigration detention center. Given that Cibola was one of the worst medical care providers among the 13 private facilities contracted by DOJ, and that three deaths have been linked to such care, the government's decision to keep the facility open with a different contract raises serious questions.
Moreover, the government is holding a record number of people in immigration detention—over 40,000—and is still looking for more bed space. This is deeply concerning in the context of medical standards and care—a growing population in facilities that have already been failing to meet the agency's obligations.
The failure of ICE to adhere to its own medical standards, and the ineffective oversight mechanisms in place to enforce such standards, has dire consequences for detainees. Today's demonstrations remind us that lives are at stake in immigration detention, and that more and better oversight is needed to ensure those in ICE custody receive proper care and medical attention.
Above all, the government should reduce its reliance on unnecessary detention, instead utilizing alternatives to detention. Making such changes will go a long way in preventing needless deaths.
FILED UNDER: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, featured, FOIA, Human Rights Watch, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Detention Oversight
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Tory Johnson
Tory Johnson is the Research Projects Manager at the American Immigration Council, where she focuses on policy and research related to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrant detention. She previously worked on immigration and criminal justice policy as a Young Fellow at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and before that advocated for immigrants' rights in Arizona. Tory wrote her undergraduate thesis on the growth of private prisons in the immigrant detention industry and earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College.
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La terza stagione della serie televisiva The United States Steel Hour è andata in onda negli Stati Uniti dal 6 luglio 1955 al 29 agosto 1956 sulla ABC.

The Meanest Man in the World
Prima televisiva: 6 luglio 1955

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Interpreti: Wally Cox (George), Kenny Delmar (avvocato), Parker Fennelly (impiegato), Josephine Hull (Widow), Richard Hylton (Michael), Betsy Palmer (Naomi), Morley Soames (Man)

The Gambler
Prima televisiva: 20 luglio 1955

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Interpreti: Walter Burke (Shorty), Jack Carson (Maxie), Phillip Carter (barista), Shaun Dooley (Man in Bar), Robert Ellenstein (cameriere), Bert Freed (Sears), Lester Lonergan (Man in Hotel), John McQuade (Kid Graff), Kay Medford (Helen)

The Seventh Veil
Prima televisiva: 30 agosto 1955

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Interpreti: Richard Abbott (Parker), Ben Astar (dottor Larsen), Peter Brandon (Max), Cindy Cameron (Susan), Humphrey Davis (dottor Irving), Conrad Janis (Peter), Diana Lynn (Francesca), Dan O'Herlihy (Nicholas)

The Bride Cried
Prima televisiva: 17 agosto 1955

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Interpreti: Stephen Chase (Stephen), Ruth Ford (Gloria), Tammy Grimes (Hazel Corey), Allen Nourse (Ben Lindsey), Barbara O'Neil (Gertrude Lindsey), Lee Philips (Red Richardson), Janice Rule (Marianne Lindsey), Jayne Seymour (Henrietta Porter), Jamie Smith (Arnold Bannister)

Counterfeit
Prima televisiva: 31 agosto 1955

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Interpreti: Edna Best (Dorothy), Boris Karloff (George Redford), Lucie Lancaster (Lucy), Jessie Royce Landis, Sarah Marshall (Elsie), John McGiver, Terence Rattigan (Harold)

A Wind from the South
Prima televisiva: 14 settembre 1955

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Interpreti: Julie Harris (Shivawn), Alexander Clark (Bernard), James Congdon (Jack), Lawrence Fletcher (Ned Kelly), Michael Higgins (Liam), Mary Michael (Lou), Grania O'Malley (Biddy), Farrell Pelly (Pat), Haila Stoddard (Jean), Donald Woods (Robert), Roy Scheider (danzatrice)

Ashton Buys a Horse
Prima televisiva: 28 settembre 1955

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Interpreti: Bruce Gordon (Joe Strawberry), Billy M. Greene (Whitey), Conrad Janis (Tap-Out), Mort Marshall (Taxi), Guy Raymond (Sandy), Gena Rowlands (Lily), Menasha Skulnik (Ashton), Roland Wood (professore)

Obsession
Prima televisiva: 11 ottobre 1955

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Interpreti: Philip Abbott, Henry Bernard (Mr. Blum), Eileen Burns (Miss Sheppard), Kathleen Comegys (Mrs. Lawrence), William Lee (Mr. Garnet), Danny Ocha (Mr. Fred), Neva Patterson (Helen), Tom Flatley Reynolds (Mr. Lawrence), Charles Lee Saari (Martin), Phyllis Thaxter (Judith)

Shoot It Again
Prima televisiva: 26 ottobre 1955

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Interpreti: Philippa Bevans (Maggie), Teresa Brewer (Singer), Ralph Bunker (Mahoney), Jerome Courtland (Tex), Kenny Delmar (J.O.), Bert Freed (Farrell), Allan Hancock (Director), George Ives (Publicity Man), Anthony Kemble-Cooper (Talbot), Donald Marye (dottore), Geraldine Page (Marian), Sid Raymond (Bierbaum), Byron Russell (reporter), Vaughn Taylor (Pa)

Outcast
Prima televisiva: 9 novembre 1955

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Interpreti: Barbara Baxley, Doris Dalton (Iris Millay), Bert Freed (Christie), Beverly Lunsford (Alison), Joe Maross (Martin), Lillian Roth (Elaine), Bert Thorn (Emery)

Incident in an Alley
Prima televisiva: 23 novembre 1955

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Interpreti: Edward Binns (Peters), Larry Gates (Moon), Farley Granger (Joddy), Don Hanmer (Gussie), Alan Hewitt (procuratore distrettuale), Peg Hillias (Mrs. Joddy), Lori March (Jean), Vivian Mason (Mrs. Connels), Cameron Prud'Homme (Chambers)

Edward My Son
Prima televisiva: 7 dicembre 1955

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Interpreti: Alexander Clark (dottor Waxman), Sally Cooper (Eileen Perry), Cullen Desmond (Cunningham), Robert Morley (Arnold Holt), Ann Todd (Evelyn Holt), Geoffrey Toone (dottor Parker), Frederic Tozere (Harry Soames)

White Gloves
Prima televisiva: 21 dicembre 1955

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Interpreti: Joan Blondell (Ellen), Audrey Christie (Ina), Donald Harron (Billy), Joanne Woodward (Rocky)

Bring Me a Dream
Prima televisiva: 4 gennaio 1956

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Interpreti: John Cassavetes (Johnny), George Grizzard (Bill), John Lehne (Patsy), Steve McQueen (Bushy), Lois Smith (Jeannie)

The Great Adventure
Prima televisiva: 18 gennaio 1956

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Interpreti: Hume Cronyn (Priam Farll), Richard Long (Tramp), Jessica Tandy (Alice Wiggims)

A Fair Shake
Prima televisiva: 1º febbraio 1956

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Interpreti: John Kerr (Ray), Cliff Robertson (Frank)

Command
Prima televisiva: 15 febbraio 1956

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Interpreti: Biff McGuire (Jack Framer), Cameron Mitchell (capitano Dan Murrell), Marshall Thompson (William Costain)

Moment of Courage
Prima televisiva: 29 febbraio 1956

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Interpreti: Macdonald Carey (Jim), Kevin Coughlin (Johnny), Kim Hunter (Vivan), Don Murray (Don), Paul Stevens

The Candidate
Prima televisiva: 14 marzo 1956

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Interpreti: Ralph Bellamy

Thirty Year Man
Prima televisiva: 28 marzo 1956

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Interpreti: Jocelyn Brando (Ann), Heywood Hale Broun (barista), George Ives (capitano McGill), Frank Maxwell (Charlie), Pat O'Brien (Jim), William Redfield (Sam)

The Funny Heart
Prima televisiva: 1º aprile 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Imogene Coca (Jackie Connors), Wally Cox, Robert Culp (Hal), Bill Daniels (Roy), Jack Klugman (Vic)

Noon on Doomsday
Prima televisiva: 25 aprile 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Philip Abbott (Rodney Grinstead), Florence Anglin (Second Woman), Peggy Fay (First Woman), Frank Overton (Steve), Joan Potter (May Lewis), Albert Salmi (John Kattrell), Everett Sloane (Frank Grinstead), Lois Smith (Felicia Chinik), Truman Smith (giudice), Edgar Stehli (vecchio), Jack Warden (Lanier)

Honest in the Rain
Prima televisiva: 9 maggio 1956

Trama

Interpreti: James Bender (Charlie), Billy M. Greene (Ralph), Byron Halstead (ufficiale di polizia), Nan McFarland (Stella), Donald McKee (giudice), Ethel Merman (Libby Marks), Vaughn Taylor (Henry)

The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Prima televisiva: 23 aprile 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Jackie Cooper, Gracie Fields (Sarah Dowey), Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Donald Madden, Biff McGuire, Cathleen Nesbitt

The Boarding House
Prima televisiva: 6 giugno 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Lisa Daniels, Jerome Kilty, Evelyn Varden

Longboat
Prima televisiva: 6 giugno 1956

Trama

Interpreti:

Operation Three R's
Prima televisiva: 4 luglio 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Sally Brophy (Miss Maddox), Robert Culp (caporale Neville), Arch Johnson (soldato Kleff), Paul Mazursky (soldato Gonzales), Frank Milan (tenente Colonel Streeter), John Napier (soldato Sparks), Warren Oates (soldato Lear), Gerald Price (caporale Black)

The Partners
Prima televisiva: 18 luglio 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Luther Adler (Sidney West), Peter Mark Richman (John West), Virginia Vincent

Stopover at Sublimity
Prima televisiva: 1º agosto 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Lisa Daniels, John Napier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (Sean O'Neill)

Sideshow
Prima televisiva: 15 agosto 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Norman Bly (Customer), Raymond Bramley (sceriffo), Lisa Daniels (Nancy), Read Morgan (Joey), Cliff Norton (Talker), Nehemiah Persoff, Abe Simon (Hercules)

The Five Fathers of Pepi
Prima televisiva: 29 agosto 1956

Trama

Interpreti: Ben Astar, Phyllis Hill, Paul Newman (Giorgio)

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A Quick-Start Guide for Teaching English-Language Learners
Teaching Profession CTQ Collaboratory
By Wendi Pillars — September 06, 2017 5 min read
Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.
Wendi Pillars
Wendi Pillars, a National Board-certified teacher, has been teaching English-language learners in grades K-12 for over 20 years, both stateside and overseas. She is the author of "Visual Notetaking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity," a member of the Center for Teaching Quality Collaboratory, and a Global Classroom Fellow. She is focused on providing brain-changing and perspective-changing learning opportunities with language learners. Find her on Twitter @wendi322.
Imagine the following scenario: As a new teacher, you meet with your school's English-as-a-second-language teacher, who informs you that you have students on your class list who are English-language learners.
Your heart sinks. What will you do with "them"? How will you manage to get high scores when you have ELLs in your class? How will you be able to teach them?
Let's shift that narrative.
You have language learners in your classes? Congratulations! Imagine all the new angles and perspectives you can include in your teaching this year, the different ways you can tap into students' critical thinking abilities, and how you can design impactful learning experiences for all the children in your classroom.
For teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms for the first time, or for the first time in a while, I've created a quick guide to help jump-start your instruction.
Be Aware of These Facts
• ELLs—and their languages—are assets to your classroom community. Just because students may not be able to express themselves eloquently in English (yet!), it does not mean they don't understand concepts.
• More than 1 in 10 school-age students in the United States are ELLs. ELLs are the fastest-growing student population in the country, and the majority of these students are natural-born citizens of the United States, including American Indian students and students whose parents immigrated to the United States.
• The average length of time required for ELLs to attain native-speaker levels on norm-referenced tests is between seven and 10 years, depending on the level of formal education students received in their native language.
• Many students need help setting goals. Sharing and co-creating a visual template like this goal-setting poster with students and their parents is a great way to make action steps tangible and connect with your students personally.
Seek out ESL teachers within your school and ask some basic starter questions:
• Who are the ELLs in my class(es)? This includes both current ELLs and those who have exited the ESL program.
• What are their strengths? In which areas do they need more guidance?
• What are their language proficiency scores?
• Tell me what you know about their "story." Chances are ESL teachers have worked with these students previously; any connections they can share will make your job much easier.
• What kind of testing accommodations and/or classroom modifications do they receive?
If your school doesn't have an ESL teacher, reach out to ESL teachers in your district, at the state level, or on social media like Twitter—start with #ellchat or #Ellchat_BkClub to find experts who can help.
Remember that most ESL teachers have their own classes to teach, and teamwork is essential when time is at such a premium. It will be up to you to actually apply the lessons you learn from veteran ESL teachers.
Set Learning Goals
• Monitor the students in your classes. You will observe different strengths and challenges than other teachers because your content, approach, and relationship with the student(s) will differ.
• When considering how to modify an assignment for an ELL, the first question to answer is, "What is the most essential information I need my students to know by the time they leave class today?"
Research and Reflect on Student Learning
• Think of your classroom as a hub for action research. If an activity or lesson doesn't work out, don't give up—revamp and try something different. Brainstorming with colleagues is key to getting out of ruts. Don't be afraid to use your school's ESL teachers and other colleagues as a resource.
• Be humble and courageous enough to stop in the middle of class and say, "This isn't working, is it?" Don't push through when evidence indicates a lesson or teaching strategy isn't resonating with students—just make sure to have a backup plan.
• Reflect by asking questions like: What went well? What do I wish would have happened differently? How and what did my students learn today?
Revisit Learning Goals
• Determine clear criteria for gauging student success that are aligned with content and language needs, and then share the criteria with students.
• Ensure students are analyzing and evaluating their own progress. As the school year progresses, entrust students with more responsibility for tracking their learning.
• Consider new goals for you and your student to work toward, as well as new ways to measure progress.
Expect More
• Many make false assumptions that ELLs lack the context and experiences necessary to succeed in class. In reality, they are equipped with just as much relevant knowledge, experience, and language acumen as their peers who are native English speakers. Set reasonable, yet high, expectations for your students' success, and help them rise to the challenge.
• Place the onus of learning on students as much as possible. Teach them to self-assess by using grading policies and competency charts like the many listed here or this student-friendly chart. These tools highlight what learners in each proficiency level can do rather than what they can't, and specify what students need in order to achieve greater success.
• Set routines and protocols and stick to them; consistency is an important scaffold. Consider establishing routines for requesting help, participating in productive partner and group work, and building a supportive classroom community.
• Speaking, writing, reading, and listening should happen every day. The more frequently students generate and use the language rather than just hear it, the more proficient and adept they become in broader academic and social contexts.
Remember the Non-Academic Skills
• As a teacher, your body language, tone, facial expressions, reassurance, and efforts to monitor other students' actions and reactions to ELLs all play a tremendous role in helping students feel comfortable and safe in their learning environments.
Granted, there is a lot to think about and accomplish when you have ELLs in your classroom, but I can attest that taking these extra measures will be worthwhile. As a longtime ESL teacher, I remain inspired by and excited to witness my students' growth. Challenges are what help us grow beyond our perceived abilities as teachers, and when we grow, it's inevitable that our students will, too.
It can be daunting to consider all the elements that comprise best practices for ELLs. Still, try to be actively open to the possibilities of each student you see. Rest assured that since we work with human beings, there will never be one right way to teach an ELL student.
I like to encourage myself by remembering this quote from author Erin Hanson: "...What if they fall? Oh, but my darling, what if they fly?"
Infographic provided by the author, see the full version here.
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Two weeks ago, I mentioned I was going out to dinner – without blowing my budget – using gift certificates from Restaurant.com. I know it's a little early to bring that up again but the site is having a 70 percent off sale so I am. My husband and I went to lunch together yesterday for about $5. And we are taking both kids to dinner at our favorite Brazilian place for maybe $13. Just log onto the site, find a nearby restaurant you like, buy yourself a gift certificate, and take it with you when you go eat. Oh, you have to use this offer code at checkout from Restaurant.com: RECIPE.
Save 70% off Dinner of the Month Club purchase and receive $10 certificate when you use code RECIPE. Now thru 6/30/09 at Restaurant.com.
In other news, I have a fantastic giveaway coming up next week so stay tuned. (Sign up for my feed if you haven't already.) This is a great giveaway. Killer. Seriously, you want to win this. Heck, I want to win it. So don't miss it.
Thanks so much for the heads up. This sounds great!


Open M, W, Th 12 PM-3 PM; 5:30 PM-10 PM; F, Sa, Su 12 PM-3:30 PM, 5:30 PM-10:30 PM. Closed Tuesdays.
A great Indian meal is like Baroque music: each dish (voice) should be distinct. Polyphony and counterpoint are more important than harmony. Executing these subtle variations in spicing and preparation requires extra effort. Amaravati is one of the few restaurants in this area that takes this trouble and we strongly recommend it.
Frankly, it's been a tough couple of years for Indian restaurants in greater-Trenton as several good ones have gone out of business. Amaravati's location in a strip mall on Flock Road was originally developed by Mylai Masala, for years our favorite, which went out of business in 2017. We're pleased to discover that its replacement is a worthy successor.
Mughlai, the cuisine which originated among the Persian rulers of India starting in the 16th century (the foundation of most US Indian restaurants). The Persians were meat eaters (unlike the predominantly Hindu Indians who were vegetarian), and the cuisine fused middle-eastern preparations with uniquely Indian spices, ingredients, and cooking techniques.
Dosas (lentil crepes) and Utappams (lentil pancakes) which originated in southern India. These grilled specialties are combined with different vegetarian fillings, and sauces such as sambar (lentil and mixed vegetable soup) and rassam (lentils and tomato with a tamarind stock).
Tandoori cooking, which is based on a special clay oven and open fires (sometimes described as Indian BBQ). Best known for roast chicken, but seafood, lamb, lamb sausages, and even cauliflower kebabs are prepared in it.
Chaats, originally the "street food" of Bombay, purchased from open-air stalls. Chaats are served as "small plates" (like Indian tapas), and combine multiple vegetarian elements, typically with both crisp and soft textures, smothered in tangy sauces. Combine several plates for a light meal with a friend, or sample as an appetizer.
Unless you can go to an Indian restaurant with a group of friends (in order to sample a range of dishes), one of the best ways to enjoy Indian food is via a good buffet. Amaravati's weekday lunch buffet is outstanding, providing 4 or 5 vegetarian entrees and (from a separate table to the right) 4 or 5 meat entrees (emphasizing chicken). The header image shows my selections at a recent lunch. The food is strongly and individually spiced (remember, polyphony), not overly greasy, and provided a range of preparations. textures, and ingredients.
At $10.99, it's not cheap, but given the selection and quality, reasonably priced.
Impressed! We'd initially stayed away because of the garish lights and inability to see inside because of the window decals, but we took a chance. Food was excellent. Dosas, lentil "doughnuts", and lots more veg options. Kadai paneer was superb. Sometimes hard to get their attention, but incredibly gracious when they do visit. The "medium" heat level request was still pretty spicy, so be forewarned. We'll be back!


If you are brought up in a country of the West, chances are that the word emptiness invokes negative connotations. Lack of meaning, lack of emotions and affect, aimless activity, no vision, no desires or dreams.
Travel a bit eastward and, maybe, a few centuries back in time, and emptiness presents itself in all its buddhist glory. Emptiness, there, is the ceasing from all worldly and, therefore, according to buddhism, vain, preoccupations. Becoming void of desires, intentions, object directed thoughts, purposeful mental activity allows the inner truths to take shape. It's immersing oneself into the primordial vacuum, which is full of light and potentialities.
It was in a moment of afternoon relaxation, doing nothing, expecting nothing, wishing for nothing, staring at the gentle beams of the setting sun coming through the window, while my daughter was crisscrossing the room cheerfully, exercising her newly found walking ability, that I remembered good old Buddha. Probably a podcast I listened recently worked its subconscious way to bring up such an association. The podcast was about two books from Stephen Asma, the first about the origin of the imagination and the other about religion.
Daydreaming, letting the thoughts follow the obscure and, often, unexpected paths of free association, is an endangered species of mental activity. When at home, we watch TV or surf the web. In the car we listen to music or radio broadcasts. A bus or the metro have become synonymous of people hooked on their smartphones.
When awake, we rarely stop focusing our attention onto something. Our activities are the outcome of intention. Unlike children, we have stopped playing, exploring, being open to the unknown and the unexpected.
Imagination is the offspring of day dreaming and free association. And religion, Buddhism is particular is a means of emotional healing and rehabilitation. At least, that's what I remember Asma saying in the podcast.
The above may sound overly philosophical, without practical importance or significance, suitable for lazy, navel-gazing. Wrong! Practical people are interested at least in one aspect of doing nothing: creativity and innovation.
I can't recall how many times I have read the story of August Kekulé's discovery of the molecular structure of Benzene. Kekule was long trying to solve this problem in vain. One night, while he was sitting by the fireplace, weary from the day's labours, he started drowsing and in his reverie he saw a snake bitting its own tail. The image is an ancient symbol, a reference to ouboros (ουροβόρος), the tail eating snake. The image, by association, led Kekulé to imagine the shape of Benzene's molecule as a ring. And he soon confirmed experimentally that it is actually a hexagon.
In terms of neural correlates, daydreaming and free association are related to the creation of new synapses, the formation of new neural paths and networks, connecting, often remote, parts of the brain to each other. The new connection literally transform the brain giving rise to new functions and possibilities. The subject experiences this new synapse formation as spark, enlightenment, problem solving, innovation and creativity.
You might argue that we don't need to let daydreaming reign as there is the real, night time, dreaming that is a similar, if not superior, activity. "Sleep on it", we say when we advise someone to 'outsource' problem solving to sleep. And it works. But like daydreaming, real dreaming is also under siege. We are all sleep deprived, and, again screens are the most usual culprit.
Apart of the practical aspects of doing nothing, letting our brains reshape, recalibrate and reform brings into our consciousness aspects of ourselves unknown. Realisations, understanding, comprehending and emotional deepening. In short, it begets psychological growth and maturity.
The phrase of the title comes from the old times when the news, were heard, not read. The news, and about everything else.
Nowadays, hearing the news equates to radio, web-radio and podcast content consumption.
Is there any reason why bother with audio, when text and image are omnipresent? Yes, if you value the content and if you value your time.
Reading on the internet is almost a joke. No-one reads. People scan a page, savour the title and a bulleted list and that's it. Most of the time.
Which is astonishing, if you come to think of it. Compare the endless hours spent reading newspapers and magazines a few years back. These same people, now, cannot finish an article with more than 150 words.
With the internet and so many different devices, we are always connected. There is too much distraction. Too much craving for the next piece of "news", be it a tweet, a facebook status or an instagram photo.
"Interference" is now the signal, not the noise.
But, what if you want to delve deeper on certain topics? What if you want to protect your eyesight from the constant focus on tiny phone screen letters ? What if you want to avoid the ensuing fatigue from the light the screens emit?
To add insult to injury, what if you're over 45 and far-sightedness is already taking its toll on you. What if the casual reading of your smartphone has become tedious, without glasses? Next to impossible?
Finally, what if you were avid book reader and a life's turn has wiped out much of your time? The time you dedicated to your relaxing hobby or personal education and development?
Sometimes my eyes get so wary from work that the slightest glance to my phone makes them hurt. A lot.
During weekends, when the eye pain problem afflicted me, I realised how much my life depends on seeing. And how impoverished my world would be without it.
Drop reading (no books, no tv, no computer, no phone or tablet) and immediately you are confronted with the question: "How will I fill the empty time?".
Socialising with friends or an outdoor activity could make up for the loss. But, alas, the environment is not always amenable to our needs.
It was then that I started experimenting with the accessibility tools of my iPhone.
Turning on text-to-speech reading, allows one to listen to his favourite web pages .
Admittedly, this kind of synthetic voice is neither too appealing nor without mistakes. But it's better than nothing.
Let me note here, that some years back, I was a podcaster. It's odd to admit it, but it was not the love of audio that made me one. I was experimenting with all the new social media forms and podcasting was another one of the bunch. And I was also consuming podcast content, at times, quite a lot. So turning back to audio was no stranger to me.
After a little experimenting with the text-to-speech feature, I discovered something unexpected. Reading an article with the voice-over switched on required significantly less mental effort. Plus I enjoyed better comprehension.
This observation opened my appetite for more voice. But real voice this time, not synthetic.
Luckily, I knew of at least two websites where I could enjoy articles in audio and text form: Medium and Aeon.
Listening to articles read by professionals was a superior experience . It made me stick to this new habit.
The next step was audio books. I made a subscription to Audible and started listening. The first book went down easily. I am still struggling with the second though. Two reasons. It's too long. And it's rather complex, requiring extra attention from my still inexperienced ear.
I am not finished experimenting with audio books. But my feeling is that non-fiction books of the scientific kind are not well suited for the audio format. Literature, History and Politics seem better candidates.
But what about news? This is the title, remember?
Bloomberg's app has a text-to-speech feature which works better than the one provided by the phone. For a quick catch up of the latest headlines, it works fine.
there is something even better. Curio. This I discovered through the Aeon magazine, mentioned above, as the audio content of Aeon is provided by Curio.
A subscription to Curio, provides you with a selection of articles from 20 high profile publications, beautifully read. I am already looking for other similar apps as they are worth their money.
If you live in a big city, like me, chances are that you spent more than an hour commuting to work daily. Reading while driving is impossible. In buses and subways, it's feasible but not enjoyable. The vehicle vibrations make the hand holding the book or phone shake. And the letter dance along with the trembling hand.
Turning on the radio is a solution. Provided you are ok with the quality of the program of modern radio stations. As for me, I listen to radio only for the music.
Commuting is suitable for listening to curio and medium, or an audio book. It makes the trip enjoyable and the listener better informed.
My journey to sound is definitely not over. All the content I am consuming so far is in English. I would like to find some in my native language too. And I would like to have the text and the audio always coupled.
And I can't also count how many people hold it high up in their belief system, even if they have never heard of Coelio at all.
Motivational speakers and startup mentors routinely attribute success to relentless effort. And effort to strong will. To an unbending spirit. To a fighter's mentality. To an internal locus of control. To a growth mindset.
Unfortunately, like many common beliefs, it is not true¹. It is not true because there is this menacing element in life, called luck, that gets in the way. Or, to put it more scientifically, one is bound to encounter variability, randomness and unpredictability, regardless of his intentions or efforts.
When counting for whatever quality we have, we fall somewhere on a bell curve that measures this particular quality for the human population. We might be above or below average. So, if, say one is endowed by mother nature with qualities that fall in the lower quartiles of the distribution, he is destined to achieve less than one falling on the higher quartiles, given the same amount of effort and all other thing being equal. Doesn't sound fair, but not preposterous either.
But there is a more chilling statistic. Because chance gets in the way, those in the higher quartiles do not achieve what they were destined too. Counting for effort too, the disparity is greater. And there is a dynamic that helps those who start earlier and reap benefits earlier: they take a boost and leapfrog their equals and more. As a result, whenever we measure outcomes like success, riches, fame or power, we are confronted with an entirely "unjust" distribution, the Pareto distribution where the proverbial 10% has 90% of whatever is counted. Just look at all those articles complaining about how the 1% of the ultra-rich controls half of the worlds wealth.
As I was heading back home from work today, I was listening to an audio book: Robert Sapolsky's "Why Zebra's don't get ulcers".
I must admit is hard to grasp this kind of content in audio form, as the book has a lot of endocrinology and neurochemistry references that don't come down easily without visual aids. Nevertheless, somewhere around chapter 17, I heard a piece of information that elucidated the subject of this post.
Sapolksy's book is about stress and it's effects. And it has a wealth of information about what stress can do to our bodies and minds (mostly bad things). In Chapter 17 though, there were some good news about how to cope with stress, or, better, what can make our reaction to stressful situations less pronounced or even non existent, at all.
One prominent such factor is being, or, at least, feeling, in control. Surprisingly, it doesn't make a difference.
Life is stressful, modern life more so. Aiming higher than the average is even more stressful. And if you want to make it to the top, the stress is almost unbearable. So it is paramount to get any help you can on the way. And such a help is a deeply held belief that the outcome is depended only on your efforts. That you are in control of your life, of your happiness, of your destiny. Or, to put it more realistically, that you feel like you are in control. Down goes the stress.
With less stress, any effort has better chances of a more benevolent outcome. So if luck is blind to our efforts, we should get blind to its obstacles. We might not reach our destination, but we will get closer, and we will have a much more pleasant journey.
It is also a, so called, metaphysical claim, a term the epistemologists use for sentences that cannot be proved wrong. Why it can't be proved wrong? Simply, because if you try as hard as you can and come to no end, you do not disprove the proposition, as one can always tell you: "You didn't try enough".
It's not about us. We do not have sensitive data. It will not be implemented. People won't understand it or adopt it. We are too small to matter. Who will dig up our sh*t, anyway?
Those bastards in Brussels, what else they will come up with? F*ck them, we won't do anything. Let them come. We will deliver trouble.
If we change our contracts to look compliant, will we avoid detection? If we move outside Europe? If we delegate to third parties? If we delay a few months past the May 25 deadline?
We will never make it. We don't have the skills or the resources to comply. If we get sued, it's game over.
Roll up sleeves. Get a quotation from this consultant. Arrange a meeting with that lawyer. Dig up this diagram with your processes. Dig in your data files. Get insurance coverage. And, God help us.
We just changed to 2017 and writing about time looks fitting.
It is three years now that when I encounter an extraordinary event, I mentally play a game: I am trying to predict what its repercussions will be, both short and long term.
For example, after the Brexit vote, I tried to divine what will be the medium term reaction of the markets to the British pound.
I won't boast that I have made any spectacular predictions so far. If there is anything that has turned up from this habit, is that I am now alert of the possible outcomes and won't be but moderately surprised from what will eventually take place.
This mental game though, has led me gradually to longer term prediction attempts. Not really predictions of an outcome, but rather fathoming of the consequences of a possible outcome.
There are three things, that currently look remote, but which I deem not so, and which, regardless of the time span, I think will have unprecedented consequences. Not for my/our/current view/life/perspective, but for the humankind as a whole.
Here they are, ordered by their future proximity.
This is the first thing that I see coming. And it cannot come easily. If you skim the news these days, you can't miss either announcements of factory job replacements by robots or white collars turned obsolete by a certain AI.
The truth is that technology has reached a point where it can substitute any kind of human labor.
There is a line of thought that goes like this: a lot of jobs will be lost, but new ones will be created.
Numbers are always missing in such claims, because they are hard to come up with, in the first place, but, primarily, because they are very inconvenient. If there is going to be a shift in the type of labor on demand, it will be but an insignificant fraction of the type turned obsolete.
A more realistic approach is the discussion about a Universal Minimum Income for all. UMI, or basic income, the theory goes, will be given unconditionally and without exchange. And regardless if the recipient is employed or not. Actually, it is even presented as a job stimulant, in certain cases. And there are already a few countries (Canada, Finland, Scotland) experimenting with the concept while the EU MP's have started a discussion for a Pan-European roll out.
This makes more sense. There are huge unanswered questions about what a life without employment will be like, what will it mean to our psychology, curiosity, drive, creative powers, relationships etc. But at least, UMI will prevent us from one very violent thing: a massive revolt that will bring an unprecedented global bloodshed without solving the problem.
Why a revolt wouldn't solve the problem?
Time and again, we have seen that once a technology is introduced, it cannot be taken back. It can only become obsolete by another technology. Regardless of how many people will lose their lives in such a luddite but truly justifiable uprising, robots and AI are here to stay. And we better be prepared.
Leaving scepticism aside for a moment, let's try to imagine what UMI implies.
All the economies of the world today combine capital with labor to make products and services. This is what Adam Smith and Karl Marx have taught us.
Robots and AI are a sort of capital. They are owned by individuals or firms, and, if they become the sole production factor, the capital owners are entitled to all the gains from production. No salaries are due or required, no income for the average person is generated. Everything goes to the capitalist.
There are big question marks here. Those with an economic background will raise a flag: "Supply creates its own demand" they will say, echoing John Maynard Keynes and his reformulation of the Say's law. With one apparent difference: labor was the factor mediating between supply and demand. As supply increases, wages are paid that become income that becomes demand, it turn. But what happens if the need to pay wages does not exist anymore?
The life expectancy kept increasing in the previous century, going from ~40 to ~80. It has, effectively, doubled in a century. And this trend will continue. There is a biological limit which we have approached very closely. But it is questionable whether this limit is meaningful any more, since biotechnology and genetics are making inroads into reverse-engineering human biology something that can increase artificially the human lifespan (there are already companies founded with this sole purpose).
Who knows? Maybe indefinitely. If you can break down a mechanism to its parts and then can replace the faulty ones and reassemble it, you can make it work almost indefinitely.
But here is the double problem: All the more people will become jobless but will potentially be able to live longer because, to a certain extent, the breakthroughs in the human engineering will drip down to anyone. Restless ness will be on the rise.
But, say, a key part of bioengineering is very expensive. Like, rejuvenating a brain. What if this can give people a 50% increase in their life expectancy? And what if it is marketed so as to be affordable only by the very few? Historically, death was the great equalizer. It is what religions have always preached: we are all equal in front of death. This teaching has been some consolation for the poor, and, at times, a form of justice. The only one they were left with.
But if this final limit becomes a luxury product, then the poor will feel shattered, ultimately cheated, deprived of the last drop of worth and dignity. And they will revolt. Much more fiercely than they would because of wealth differences. And then what? Resolution or dystopia?
In a jobless world with longer lifespans and re-engineered bodies, space travel will not be that unthinkable anymore. Even with the current spacecraft speeds, going to the nearest star and back will be within the span of a lifetime.
But why go to space, in the first place?
If Elon Musk's argument (being an interplanetary species gives us more chances of survival) is not convincing you, then the quest for raw materials will make more sense. The asteroid belt is full of them and technology is always hungry for more.
I am not talking about fossil fuel, of course. There aren't any elsewhere in the solar system, and, with the progress in renewable technologies soon we won't be needing them anyway.
I am talking about metals, rare metals, too expensive to find on an earth already overexploited. Far fetched? Well, Luxemburg is already drafting laws about asteroid exploitation. And, at least two (Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries) companies have announced relevant plans.
But the economic aspect, while compelling, it is not the most thrilling one. The most thrilling aspect is the possibility of a first attempt to an interstellar manned travel.
Think of it: the Earth will be full, people will not worry about subsistence, lives will be longer and healthier. Certainly some people will think, even out of sheer boredom, to make the big leap and try to explore the Cosmos. The Martial colonisation already has attracted volunteers even without the conditions mentioned before. How many more will come then, when the prerequisites materialise?
Given the advances in medical technologies and AI, and for the needs of such a travel, we can imagine various enhancements of the human biology and cognition. Enhancements that might frighten us now but that will be fundamental for the survival in outer space.
And if we arrive to this, shall we be humans anymore? The nuances of what is human, transhuman and posthuman will be all too real and pretty much blurred.
One thing is certain: the future will not be boring.
Here I will list all things that corroborate the views expressed above.


Angela Shanahan, a devout Catholic and journalist for The Australian, has written a thought-provoking article on the plight of Palestinian Christians.
... in Australia and in most of the West, attention in the media is fixated on the Jewish-Palestinian Muslim conflict. Consequently we have almost forgotten that there are other people in Israel who have long been squeezed in the deep fissures of that conflict: the Christian Palestinians, whose culture goes back to the origins of the Christian church.
Palestinian Muslims, of course, owe much to their Christian countrymen and women for bringing the Palestinian cause to the attention of the international community. Prominent Palestinian Christian spokespersons include the late Professor Edward Said and Hanan Ashrawi. At the same time, Palestinian Muslims are benefitting from Christian institutions.
... Al-Ahliyya College in Ramallah ... is part of the Latin patriarchy's extensive system of schools in Israel and Jordan. These schools educate 20,000 children. Although the schools were founded to educate Christians, Al-Ahliyya has a little more than 40 per cent of its children coming from Muslim families as the Palestinian Christian population shrinks.
Palestinians have suffered 60 years of dispossession, 41 years of military occupation, land confiscation and illegal settlements, and thousands of violent deaths.
Israelis have suffered 60 years of armed hostilities and constant threats, scores of suicide bombings and rocket attacks, and thousands of violent deaths.
Insecurity and polarisation are the chief features of life in Palestine and Israel. For Palestinians, disputes over land, roads, farms, water and military checkpoints go on and on; poverty, unemployment and restrictions on economic development hold sway. For Israelis the ever-present fear of suicide bombers and the threats from other nations in the region create daily anxiety.
The suffering on both sides has been acknowledged.


Sally Harrison, call centre manager, at Herts Urgent Care and Dr Andrew Anderson, 111 clinical lead, at The City Care Centre, Peterborough.
A new medical telephone service for people who need urgent medical help or advice but who are not in a life-threatening situation has been launched in Cambridgeshire.
NHS 111 will make it easier for residents to access local health services, advice and information.
The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and calls from landlines and mobile phones are free. You should call 111 if it's not a 999 emergency, you think you need to go to A&E or another NHS urgent care service, you don't think you can wait for an appointment with your GP or you don't know who to call for medical help.
For immediate, life-threatening emergencies, people should continue to call 999, while you should call your GP for non-urgent medical advice.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group's clinical lead for NHS 111, Dr Andrew Anderson, said: "NHS 111 is a fast and easy way to get the right help – whatever your need, wherever you are and whatever the time.
"Anyone needing medical help fast, but who doesn't know where to go should call 111 as the service will give the caller peace of mind that they have contacted the right service.
Herts urgent care chief executive, David Archer, added: "111 will get the caller through to a team of fully trained call advisers, who will ask questions to assess the caller's symptoms, and give them the healthcare advice they need or direct them to the right local service depending on each person's illness or injury.
"The staff have undergone intensive training and rigorous testing and many have observed the live system in Hertfordshire.


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The basics: The latest animated film from Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") revolves around a boy named Sosuke and his goldfish friend, Ponyo, who wants to become human. The lowdown: It's not an exaggeration to call this a masterpiece, even though the last third goes a bit off t...
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The differences between dvd 5 and dvd 9 (2009-10-05 11:35:00)
For dvd, there are 3 kinds of dvd on market for sale now: dvd 5, dvd 9 and blu ray dvd. Everybody can easily tell the difference of blu ray from other 2 dvd kinds. But few people can tell the differences between dvd 5 and dvd 9. There are 2 ways to tell the differences: 1. tell from capacity: Whe...
Iron Man 2 Gets an IMAX Release (2010-01-15 08:35:09)
Iron Man is very popular all around the world.IMAX Corporation, Marvel Entertainment and Paramount Pictures today announced that the highly-anticipated action-adventure Iron Man 2, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Robert Downey, Jr., will be released to digital IMAX theaters simultaneously with ...
Is James Cameron Calling the Avatar Sequel Nav'i? (2010-03-02 10:31:35)
Every one know James Cameon direct Avatar.Director James Cameron received the Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award over the weekend and the filmmaker also discussed a sequel to his current box office phenomenon. Sci Fi Wire spoke with the Avatar director at the event, who said that the ...
Avatar comes again (2010-03-16 12:34:54)
In 2010,Avatar is the most popular dvd movie,it is not good at plot,but it attracts a lot of audiences all around the world.Avatar" may soon be booked for a second run at digital and Imax 3-D theaters this summer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Cameron is in discussions with Fox to work ...
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2010-03-17 09:12:42)
Here is a good news for Twilight fans.After an unbelievable box office run last fall, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" gets released this weekend on Blu-Ray and DVD, where it should do very well with its rabid fan base as they anticipate the release of third installment of the series this June. Dis...
"Charmed" TV series to continue In Comic Book Fom (2010-03-18 13:40:20)
Comic is always popular all around the world.Zenescope Entertainment revealed this week that they've obtained the comic book rights for "Charmed," a supernatural-themed TV series that aired on the WB Network for eight seasons. Created in 1998 by Constance M. Burge, the series followed three sisters ...
Madonna Hard Candy VS Michael Jackson (2010-03-19 06:15:55)
Michael Jackson had left us for a long time,but his dance and music still stay in our heart.Madonna is as popular as Michael Jackson.How about her life ? Vodafone customers will be able to do more than simply view the Madonna performance. They will be able to interact and share their emotions with o...
True Blood season 3 is coming (2010-03-23 06:00:11)
True Blood season 3 will release soon.Get your first look at a brief scene from the upcoming 3rd season of HBO's True Blood, which returns Sunday, June 13 at 9 PM ET. In the clip you'll see actor Alexander Skarsgård who plays "Eric" on the show yelling at another vampire after he's been attacked. T...
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