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Oz teachers lugging obsolete lappies
A change to government policy in Victoria will see teachers saddled with old and discontinued laptops under a four-year lease that they have to pay for out of their own pockets. According to Victorian assistant principal and blogger Richard Lambert, the policy change by that state's education department not only extends the …
Why do teachers complain so much
Australian teachers, they get paid well considering they get 12 weeks when they don't have to work plus 4 weeks annual leave all on full pay and they go home at 3:30 each day.
If they want to leave early and have the time off then fork out for a cheap PC, if they don't then stay back for a while and work like the rest of us and use the PC at the school.
Because ...
No amount of pay will compensate for having to spend the day with a collection of morons who don't know or care about the work that good teachers put into pushing water uphill.
The Education system is full of people trying to get OUT of the class room, who would rather take a pay cut (though often it's a pay rise) or work longer hours (though often it's shorter hours without the take-home work) so as not to face another day trying to squeeze a few nuggets of knowledge into the mush that occupies the space normally occupied by brains in a group of twerps who would make an excellent for contraception.
Why do people complain so much about teachers?
If they are doing the job properly (and many do and the rest need to be replaced), they really only get 8 weeks off a year (which is still quite good, but not 12) since it takes a minimum 1 week to prep the next term's work (no, doing it right doesn't mean dusting off the same stuff you taught last year). As for going home at 3pm, yes you are at home, but you are generally working well after 6pm marking, preparing, etc.
Possibly teachers should have to be on school grounds for one week each holiday and until 5pm each weekday - then drop everything and not take their work home: it would be a noticable workload reduction for many!
I left teaching for IT because I am not prepared to put that much effort in, quite simply. The money wasn't worth it, and dealing with what is for the most part the overly-self-entitled brats of overly-self-entitled quasi-adults was not at all personally rewarding to me. Full kudos to good teachers who can do it!
You really have no idea do you?
Yes, they LEAVE THE OFFICE at 3:30 but they stop working at about 6. And they start at around 8:15. And "lunchtime" doesn't actually mean "relax" it means "no time to eat, I have [detention supervision/ playground duty/ meeting]"
So... almost 10 hour days, 5 days a week is pretty average. 50 hours per week for 36 weeks a year is 1800 hours worked per year.
My job, around 38 hours per week, 48 weeks per year is 1824 hours per week for $102k.
My wife earns $62k. That's wonderful pay isn't it?
And dealing with 30 teenagers at a time for 7 hours a day is so much less taxing than being a sysadmin for 13 servers and 52 desktops isn't it?
I keep telling her to quit and become a translator instead of a language teacher but for some reason she loves her job.
Wonderful Pay?
Well 40K GBP doesn't seem that bad a wage to me...just take look in the jobs section of el-reg and theres jobs that require qualifications,training and experience that get paid less than that
Fuck off, you imbecile
Some things call for eloquence, this is not one of them.
There's a strong possibility you're joking, wathend, but in case you aren't, see above.
@AC - Wonderful Pay?
Well, in Australia (where this story comes from), school teaching requires a bachelor degree (4 years primary degree or - for high school - a 3-4 year specialised degree PLUS a 1 year teaching diploma - also issued via an accredited university). I know in less socially-developed countries there are still states where you can effectively just walk in off the street and apply to be a teacher, but here, teaching really is a profession.
Re: Wonderful Pay
$62k is around the maximum level "teacher" pay grade in most Australian states, above that are head teachers and senior coordinators. Takes a while to get there.
And while you're simplistically comparing salaries using foreign exchange rates, you might consider that not so long ago the rate exceeded $2.50/£1.00, rather than the $1.50 it's at now thanks to Australia's economy not following the rest of the developed world down the toilet. It hasn't made the cost of living here any lower.
almost like they have never heard of....
Assuming I've done the sums correctly, the Lenovo will cost the teachers AU$416 and is therefore subsidised by AU$383. the Mac however will cost the teachers AU$1196, a AU$297 premium on the retail price.
Volume discounts
I wouldn't be surprised if Lenovo give them a decent corporate discount while apple just demand their normal premium and say "take it or leave it".
From working IT in a different part of the ed. sector
I can say that that is their policy, in Australia at least.
Eh? Less than four years old is considered "obsolete" now?
This laptop[1], which takes care of all the Ranch business, my computer/network consulting business, and my teaching duties, is 7 years old. I see absolutely zero reason to update it until it dies.
Methinks the problem isn't the hardware, it's the wetware ... as usual. Throwing hardware at wetware problems is contraindicated.
[1] HP Pavillion zv5100 series running slackware-current since day one; only change from stock is that it has 2 gigs of RAM instead of 256Megs[2][3][4]
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If they require you to use a computer to do your job then they must provide it. End of. Especially when they define what one you must use. I see no reason why/how they cannot do work on their own machine at home and then bring it in on a USB stick that gets scanned on entry. Education authority sounds like they need to attend a few classes themselves.
So what if it is obsolete, so long as it does the job right
I guess that could apply equally to teachers and laptops.
Those Lenovos are pretty good. Stick Linux on them and for $4 a fortnight you've got a damn good machine. What's the problem?
Doesn't run the required software.
Problem is
I don't think the Vic Govt has heard of Linux. And I very much doubt their corporate sponsors would take kindly to the use of non-commercial software anyway.
it's not like they start with the best models anyway
Hmm popular misconception, which I'll pass onto my wife as she leaves at 6.30am to be at the school for 7.30 for a round of meetings. And she is normally home after 5 after some more meetings.
No teacher is allowed to leave the school (any school) at 3.30 thats just plain wrong. If they are they are breaking the terms of their contracts.
And the 12 weeks a year, well the kids may not be at school but my wife and her colleagues are doing the prep for the next term.
And to answer your question. They complain because the pc's which they are asked to rent are just the lowest of the low spec , are barely adequate to run windows 7. Then they stick on their own departmental crap, which eats memory. They chimps that have as IT techs are idiots, Their idea of fixing a problem is just to re-image the laptop. Inevitably they don't backup any of the bookmarks of other handy things that teachers will save on them.
I had to get my wife a whole separate laptop for her to use for work because her work one was so crap. but my should we have to pay for a work pc that is basically useless and another work pc for her to do work on? The PC's at work are just as shit as the laptops because they buy cheap underpsec rubbish and get them maintained by idiots.
Teachers are great!
Like nurses, pay 'em more I say!
(I'm not a chalky)
More pay
Agree with a caveat - pay the good ones more, the others can fuck off. I can't stand the fact that a great hard working teacher gets paid the same as a lazy arsed couldn't give a fuck one just because they have the some years service. Believe me there are plenty of both.
Can't be true!
Melbourne has just been voted the "Best City in the World" scoring 100% for education, health and infrastructure. So as Melbourne is part of Victoria and to score 100% for education means it has the best teachers with the best most up to date equipment.
Which means this article about obsolete laptops is COMPLETELY false!
I LOLed
I must be old
None of my teachers had laptops.
In fact, there were only 2 Apple ][+'s and a ][e in the entire school.
They still managed to teach me history, economics and (amazingly) computer science.
But then, they weren't using facebook...
Ok cheap shot - I have sympathy with the teachers, but I fail to find a particularly compelling reason to use a laptop in the classroom. In which case, use your own and a usb stick to plug into a school computer. BYO computers are probably not forbidden, just forbidden to be plugged into the network - which is a common corporate policy.
Better yet, don't use one at all. Handwritten material and a photocopier is all you need. You could go further, make the students hand-write everything. Perhaps they would then plan their work first. If anyone complains, point them to the school policy of not providing the required equipment and the superiority of a decent textbook over wikipedia as a teaching tool and cribbing source.
While there is undoubtably some truth burried somewhere in there, it is under an awrful lot of generalised nostalgic nonsense!
That's a pretty good deal for a government department!
This is fairly typical of government departments.
Where I worked IT purchasing managed to obtain Dell laptops that had lower specs than could be obtained on their websites, at prices about 40% higher.
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Definitions for leastlist
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word least
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
least*list(adj.)little; less; lesser
smallest in size, amount, degree, etc.; slightest:
to pay the least amount of attention.
lowest in consideration, position, or importance.
(n.)something that is least; the least amount, quantity, degree, etc.
(adv.)superl. oflittlewithlessas compar. to the smallest extent, amount, or degree:
That's the least important question of all.
Idioms for least:
at least, at the lowest estimate or figure. at any rate; in any case.
Category: Idiom
not in the least,not in the smallest degree; not at all.
Category: Idiom
* a superl. of as compar..
Origin of least:
bef. 950; ME leest(e), OE lǣst, superl. of lǣssaless
Princeton's WordNet
something that is of no importance
"it is the least I can do"; "that is the least of my concerns"
the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
"didn't care the least bit"; "he has the least talent of anyone"
least, to the lowest degree(adverb)
used to form the superlative
"The garter snake is the least dangerous snake"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
smallest in size, amount, or degree
a program to help people with the least money
indicates that an amount is at the lowest end of a range
He must've weighed 250 pounds at the very least.; Of all the candidates, he impressed me the least.; The color of the car is the least of my worries.
to the smallest degree
my least favorite singer; The money arrived when I least expected it.
He didn't fool anyone, least of all his wife.
indicates the smallest amount or number
It'll cost at least $200.
indicates the positive side of a bad situation
The car is a mess, but at least she wasn't hurt.
if nothing else happens or is true
You could at least pick up your dirty clothes
indicates you are not sure about what you are saying; = anyway
He's a lawyer - at least I think he is.
Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
It was the least surprising thing.
Webster Dictionary
smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space
in the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it
see Lest, conj
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'least' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2292
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'least' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3617
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'least' in Adverbs Frequency: #186
Translations for least
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
(somethimes with the ) to the smallest or lowest degree
I like her (the) least of all the girls; That is the least important of our problems.
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A defunct Russian satellite has collided in orbit with another from the Iridium satcomms fleet, according to reports. Both spacecraft were wrecked, creating two large clouds of hazardous high-speed debris. The International Space Station (ISS) is not thought to be in danger, however. The Guardian quotes US air force colonel Les …
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This is how the alien fleet begins it's attack, swallowing up most of our communications satellites, and embedding their own signal in the remainder. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !
Personally, I welcome our new satellite-munching overlords.
Orbiting house of cards
Judging from how widespread the debris from the Chinese sat-killer missile spread around the earth (http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/files/Fengyun1CDebris.kmz) having another cloud blanket us is worrysome.
Can't be long before the chain reactions start.
Ah - Ha !
"here's one: the Russians deliberately rammed the Iridium sat to prevent a particular satphone call/tracker-bug message/submarine data upload getting through"
Well you don't think Putin will let himself get caught commissioning another ABBA concert do you ?
a cure for crappy global warming?
"the Russians deliberately rammed the Iridium sat to prevent a particular satphone call/tracker-bug message/submarine data upload getting through" That's a fact, isn't it?!
With all those rubbish orbiting earth we shouldn't too much worry about global warming. Just crash another few satellites and the debris will darken the sun sufficiently for the next ice age to emerge. (And yes, I believe global warming is equally a problem as all-threatening terrorism isn't.)
anon, so the debris falling on earth won't find me and neither will warmth and terrorists.
Another one
This is part of the New World Order's clandestine attempt to create a Dyson sphere surrounding the Earth, one satellite at a time. A select few will be given new homes on the inside surface of this sphere, from where they can transmit orders to the hoi polloi down below, looking up at them.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing...
Surely this is the first sign that it's starting to get a little congested up there...
I like conspiracy theories... alas I have only a question, but give me time and I'm sure I could work it up
Since the US continuously tracks all satellites (and lots of debris) surely a collision would have been predicted before it happened and e.g. Iridium warned to take avoiding action - unless one satellite manoeuvred suddenly...
So - whodunnit? Was it -
a) a US anti-sat operation using an Iridium satellite (possibly specially hacked and redirected, possibly with connivance of Iridium.... ah! Got to a conspiracy at last!)
b) a Russian anti-sat operation... etc. etc.
c) a CHINESE anti-sat AND hacking operation
d) a 4Chan stunt
e) clumsy Reptilians
.....i) Arriving in time to pick up the pieces of the (crisis of your choice),
.....ii) Departing in time to avoid the (crisis of your choice)
f) a Banker
g) THEM
Oh look! The sky IS falling.
Full of Eastern Promise ... and Western Renaissance?
"Just for starters, here's one: the Russians deliberately rammed the Iridium sat to prevent a particular satphone call/tracker-bug message/submarine data upload getting through"
Wow, now that is what I would call Heavy MetAIdData. If we didn't know any better, you could nearly spin it as one of those Rock Chipsets Frying the Opposition and Testing IT Ranges for Roaming Renegades
I wonder if they got the insurance details !!!
Some while ago, I started to actually read comments by amanfromMars. But still, it doesn't make much sense and looks more like a semi-random word generator.
Must have been....
the same Alien (sorry UFO ;-) ) that smashed into that Wind turbine this ET is a clumsy bastard is he not! Dread to think how high this guys galatic insurance premiums will go, just hope it doesnt cost the eath.......
And humanity is prevented
And lo, humanity was prevented from reaching the stars before it had even begun. Due to the cloud of high speed shrapnel circling it's planet.
Inflatable space hotel, right? :P
Would it be so hard to put a few square (hundred) metres of Kevlar up there, little booster on it. Just move it around to soak up the shrapnel. By letting the shrapnel hit it I mean..
>> "We believe it's the first time that two satellites have collided in orbit," the colonel added.
you "believe" (read: not sure/can't say) that is the first time two freaking satellites have collided in the freaking orbit? this is odd, no matter how you look at it, this is really odd!
@ Julian I-Do-Stuff, nice conspiracy
mine is the one made of tin foil
Space = big, satellites = small
I find it amazing that this has happened - space is pretty big, yeah? And in comparison, satellites are quite small.
Yes, I know that they generally fly at a similar altitude (though not necessarily identical) and can often broadly follow similar paths, but we're still talking about a truly MAHOOSIVE area they can fly around in, especially given that a satellite in comparison is so diddy.
For it to happen by chance, it'd be like lobbing peanuts at eachother from opposite sides of a football pitch, and expecting them to collide in mid-air.
My foul-play tentacles are raised.
It actually proves someone other than me also listens to BBC7
The James Follett play Light of a Thousand Suns was repeated a few weeks ago, and starts with a very similar problem. Here's hoping someone in the MoD didnt think the positive restraint required was a good idea.
You're clearly all wrong. This was an intentional act brought about to generate public support for Star Wars Laser V2.0!
Watch out for 'scientists invent way to clear space debris' headlines on your favourite IT news site in the near future.
Laws of chance...
@Tim Spence
I think it's not only plausible, nut inevitable that this would happen sooner or later. While I agree that the volumes we're talking about here are ginormous, we do have thousands of satellites up there, many of them criss-crossing each other's orbits. Sooner or later, there will be a collision.
If you keep lobbing those peanuts, 100 times a day (figure dragged from a handy orifice), for 40 years (roughly how long we've had artificial satellites) they're going to connect eventually.
Now maybe...
Now maybe they'll start taking the space junk problem seriously....
I hope this hasn't put any of you folks off satellites. Statistically speaking, its still the safest way to communicate.
@Tim Spence
Not at all a bad analogy. However there's a few hundred people on that field all lobbing peanuts at eachother at different angles. If they keep it up long enough, peanuts will collide with eachother.
As to the kevlar debris catching device, it's not as easy as it looks.
If you come in on the opposing orbit (easiest to hit), you're looking at a few dozen kilometers per second of relative velocity. You won't stop even a tiny little bolt at that speed without sustaining severe damage.
Hitting at a shallow intersecting orbit from the same direction minimises the relative velocity. But it'll still be pretty large and now you'll need several passes to scoop all that debris up.
And what happens if you bump into debris and, instead of capturing it, send it off into a different orbit?
Worry not.
It's just John Connor popping back from the future to ensure that Skynet never becomes sentient.
>> "We believe it's the first time that two satellites have collided in orbit," the colonel added.
>you "believe" (read: not sure/can't say) that is the first time two freaking satellites have collided in the freaking orbit? this is odd, no matter how you look at it, this is really odd!
Odd? WTF are you talking about? Why should there be anything odd about him not knowing for 100% certain whether there might or might not have been a collision between satellites sometime in the past? Do you suppose if two russian or chinese military satellites had collided in orbit they'd have bothered to inform the colonel?
The attempt to make some kind of evidence of conspiracy out of this utterly trivial workaday disclaimer is pretty desparate, really.
So, whose satellite is it ...
... that will lose its No Claims Bonus ???
And which company has a long enough ladder to do panel beating up there?
Throwing Peanuts
I guess it would be like throwing peanuts at each other from opposite sides of a football pitch, but what you're missing is that you'd be throwing them several thousand times per hour for a few decades.
It's in space, and is weightless, therefore has no inertia. So how can two weightless objects colliding in space blow each other to smithereens? Sure, I guess they could damage each other - knock a booster out of alignment, tear a solar strip, but, surely, if they hit each other, they'll just, er, stop?
I apologise in advance if I'm being thick. No, really I do.
Mine's the one with Newton's Law for Dummies in the pocket.
Iridium still useful despite GSM roaming
Apart from shortwave, it's the only way to maintain comms with ships out in the oceans, polar stations and any other places with no cellphone infrastructure (or where you don't want to use the cellphone infrastructure).
So yes, the US military would be keen to maintain it for all those reasons, but so I imagine are the shipping companies. (Both the cruise-liner companies and the freight companies).
Also, it's useful for achieving any sort of comms with spacetime-warping islands. As long as you can cope with the revenge of the smoke monster, the occasional polar bear and a horde of 1960's hippies with machine guns....
But with all those people tracking satellites
surely someone must have noticed beforehand that those two were going to collide. So why wasn't the collision avoided?
Or were both satellites unmanoeuvrable?
Or did both satellites try to avoid the collision by increasing their altitude a bit so they collided anyway?
The report suggests that the Iridium satellite was manoeuvrable and the other one wasn't.
What are the odds?
Out of interest, how big are these satellites and how big is the surface area of the 'sphere' at this point hundreds of miles above the earth? Add in a couple of miles vertical variation and what are the odds two satellites will occupy the same space at the same time?
Accident my ar5e.
The real reason...
The Iridium satellite was used to prevent the Russian satellite from destroying another one of your windmill turbines in Lincolnshire...
satellite was deliberatly destroyed
if the US can track so many thousand `logged pieces of space debris` then why can they not track these satellites trajectory. other satellites can have precise trajectories plotted for hundreds of years ahead so why the problem here.
this was not an accidental collision
@Stuart Van Onselen
"If you keep lobbing those peanuts, 100 times a day (figure dragged from a handy orifice), for 40 years (roughly how long we've had artificial satellites) they're going to connect eventually."
Much like if you have 1000 monkeys typing on 1000 typewriters, shut them in a room for a 1000 years and you get.... 1000 dead monkeys
@Mark Wills
They might be "weightless", but not mass-less.
@Tim Spence
Instead of picturing it like two people throwing peanuts across a football field, imagine 15000 peanuts flying in circles tightly around an orb for 40 years straight.
Smaller collisions happen frequently. The Space Shuttle program has experienced many collisions.
The most recently flight got smacked on the window by a meteor. In fact there have been multiple strikes to the window. Here are some photos: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2008/11/endeavours-pilot-window-struck.html
Another time they found a hole punched in it. Inside this hole was a piece of a circuit board from a Russian launch vehicle that exploded decades years prior.
Of course, the only piece of space debris to actually bring down a shuttle came from it's own fuel tank. So it pretty much never makes the news.
@Mark Wills
Yes, they are weight-less, but they are not mass-less...
Inertia is based on mass, not weight (ie KG not N) - Newtons second law (F=ma) gives you the forces involved when two objects with great mass (m) collide (diminishing velocity a=(v-u)/t=dv/dt)... I think you'll find that that's enough force to destroy a couple of flimsy splattelites!
So yes, two objects colliding in space will do lots of damage to each other. How else would the Chinese have managed to destroy a satellite with a missile? According to your prior logic, they would have just stopped each other, had a cup of tea and carried on with their existences.
@Mark Wills
Maybe if they were very solid objects, however instead they're quite fragile. LEO orbits are in the region of 8km/s, and these satellites are quite massy.
Get two meringue nests and smack them together really hard (clap your hands together while holding one in each). Now how many pieces do you have?
@Mark Wills
>> "It's in space, and is weightless, therefore has no inertia. So how can two weightless objects colliding in space blow each other to smithereens [...] surely, if they hit each other, they'll just, er, stop?"
Weightless maybe. Mass-less? No. The two satellites still have mass, therefore inertia, therefore biiiiig crash.
No accident
@ iain newby I am sure your onto something. Presumably the impending impact was identified some time ago and the Iridium sacrificed to save the US black ops beweaponed death unit parked next to it.
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So what we need is a satellite with two-hundred foot arms to spread the World's largest piece of (re-inforced) flypaper. That can fly co-orbit and mop it all up in no time. Then we just aim the remains at the Sun, give it a boost and problem gone.
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@ Mark Wills
On the odd chance you are not a troll and actually just have an inquizative mind, inertia is based on mass not weight. All objects will have a mass. Also to be in orbit they still experience gravity from earth its just they are falling at the same rate they are going round, so it is like HHGTG flying, falling but failing to hit the ground.
@Mark Wills
> It's in space, and is weightless, therefore has no inertia.
You are totally wrong. It seems weightless because its in orbit & falling freely, but it has all of the mass and inertia it had on the ground. Remember that weight is not equal to mass.
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This is what the owners if the iridium sat could do.
actually thinking about it, I never thought 'cloud' computing involved satellites !
Its all in the cloud (sorry couldn't resist)
@Mark Willis - Newtonian mechanics
Weight is our interpretation of the gravitational attraction of masses towards the earth. Weight varies with distance from the planet, but mass is invariant (in Newtonian mechanics). Inertia is a property associated with mass, so the inertia, i.e. the tendency to continue in a straight line without change of velocity, is identical for a satellite in orbit and its twin at rest on the ground. Momentum is mass times velocity, and is a measure of energy, again independent of gravitational attractions.
@Mark Wills
The weightlessthing is a myth.. Evertything, conceptually, is simply falling at the same speed. (Don't forget that gravity is inverse-square related to distance from the mass * the mass). Weight is a function of Mass and relative gravity, the Mass remains constant even if lofted into space. It wouldn't take much to do serious damage to two solid bits of metal + hydrazine + secret russian military lasers.
This fun link might help explain it.
@conspiracy theorists: Maybe the Iridium satellite was doing the ramming?? Maybe the US DOD is interested in the satellites as Ramming weapons, not some space age laser thingummies.
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"It's in space, and is weightless, therefore has no inertia. So how can two weightless objects colliding in space blow each other to smithereens? .....I apologise in advance if I'm being thick. No, really I do...."
There are NO stupid questions..Only stupid answers.
My answer is that the satellites indeed have no 'weight', but that does not mean they have no mass. We only see weight and mass as identical because we all live in the same gravity well, but they are actually different.
Kinetic energy and inertia are dependent on mass, not weight. So each satellite will hit with 1/2 MV squared energy - which may be quite large....
For Mr Wills...
This is a common misconception due to people not understanding the true nature of "weightlessness" in space or the distinction between mass and weight. An object in orbit is actually falling through space, along with everything inside it. Because everything inside the vehicle is falling at the same rate compared to the vehicle it appears to float around. We see the same thing with skydivers falling together form an aircraft, they appear to float around with respect to each other. Because of this "freefall" it appears that the skydiver's weight has gone away and this is also the effect in orbit or space.
Mass, though does not go away in freefall and as Inertia is actually a function/property of mass, not weight, and this also does not disapear when an object is placed in orbit. As a result the energy involved in the collision of these two objects would be the same regardless where the collision takes place, in orbit or on the ground. In this case it is the velocities of the two objects that is the damaging component, the faster an object goes the more kinetic energy is involved in the collision and these objects had velocities in the miles per second category.
Therefore a big bang is in order!
Insurance job?
With the Iridium company having a bit of a cheqeured financial history and with spare Iridium satellites up there to replace the destroyed craft my spider sense suggests this could be an insurance job. The Iridium satellites are moveable and very expensive so you would think that the company would monitor anything in it's path, after all the satellite positions are known and predictable (www.heavens-above.com has most of them on file). Quick easy way to make millions if you ask me.
@Mark Will
Best you read that Newton for Dummies book....
They still has mass, and velocity, and therefor energy. This energy =1/2mv^2, which at orbital velocities is very very large, even for small objects. These satellites where about 500kg each, at, Oh, I dunno, lets say 18k kph (an underestimation) = 648000m/s , so that total energy of about, er, crikey, a really big number. 1/2 * 1000 * (648000^2). 209M M/Joules. Hmm. That seems a bit big.
Anyways, it's something like that.
Tim and Air Traffic Control...
Hi there, TIM SPENCE, I am guessing you are the one that I knew from school all those years back! Like the Peanut example.
There is loads of software out there for tracking satellites. I know that a Ham Radio program that I have on my Ubuntu box can track the iridium sats. Surely if Sats are in any obrit there paths can be predicted and alerts can be sent out, its a bit like air traffic control really.
re: But...
@Mark Wills
"It's in space, and is weightless " does not mean mass = 0. And you will find mass matters not the weight.
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Cavernous malformations, also called cavernous venous malformations or, when in the brain, cerebral cavernous malformations, occur when blood vessels don't form correctly.
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Cavernous malformations can form anywhere in the body, but are most likely to cause symptoms when they grow in the brain or spinal cord. Common symptoms include headaches or seizures. Experiencing symptoms depends on where the lesions grow and how many of the lesions are present.
Most of the time, these formations cause no problems. Many people never know that they have one. In some people, however, the lesions can burst and bleed into the brain, causing stroke and death.
About one in 100 to 200 people have cavernous malformations. The malformations probably form before or shortly after birth. Some may come and go.
About five-tenths of a percent of the world population is affected by cerebral cavernous malformations.
About 25 percent of people with cavernous malformations in the brain never have symptoms.
Some experts believe that cavernous malformations run in families. Researchers have found genes that seem to be linked to a risk of these unusual formations. Some cases of cavernous malformations may be genetic, but others appear without a family history.
Symptoms of cavernous malformations depend on the location and size of the malformation. Although children sometimes have symptoms, most people who have symptoms are between 20 and 50 years old.
These are physical symptoms:
Changes in hearing or vision
Difficulty thinking clearly or with remembering things
Complications of cavernous malformations include:
Hemorrhage (stroke)
Most people only find out about a cavernous malformation when it bleeds. This causes stroke in some people. If you notice symptoms, such as seizure, numbness, vomiting, or physical weakness, go immediately to the emergency room or call 911 to get help.
Doctors typically take a medical history and do a physical exam. The final diagnosis is usually made based on imaging tests that show areas of blood flow. These tests could include:
MRI scan
CT scan
Blood tests
Gene testing is available in some clinics
A treatment plan could include:
Medication for symptoms, such as antiepileptic drugs for seizures
Surgery to remove the blood vessels
Performing an MRI at regular intervals to keep an eye on a lesion
Currently, cavernous malformations can't be prevented. Researchers hope that by learning more about the genes linked to these growths, prevention could become possible. Prenatal genetic testing and counseling are options in some clinics.
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Or, must it be "Every man is mortal"? How about "Tree is mortal"?
In another sense, "A detailed description of a man", "A detailed description of man" or "A detailed description of Man"?
Or, must it be "Every man is mortal"? How about "Tree is mortal"?
In another sense, "A detailed description of a man", "A detailed description of man" or "A detailed description of Man"?
Man is a mass noun, therefore it cannot be preceded by an indefinite article. Both man and Man are correct.
Is correct.
Beware that if you say:
You are still targeting all humanity, but in that case, the word man has its usual meaning of a person, because you are targeting every man = every person. Therefore, you cannot write this:
Going on.
This sentence is grammatically correct, but it is a bit awkward. The indefinite article says that you are giving a description of a man in general, a person, a human being, but you are also trying to give a detailed description. Therefore, such a sentence would only work in biology, when giving a description about human body, for example.
On the other hand:
Sounds a lot better and implies that you are going to describe a concrete person in detail.
Last option you presented,
Both are correct and for the missing article, they imply that you are going to describe whole humanity, which again, in connection with detailed sounds a bit awkward, because it's very difficult to say what is a detailed description of all humans, but the sentences are grammatically correct.
Several people have said that Man in this context is used as a mass noun, but I disagree. Looking at the wikipedia page on mass nouns, the characteristics of mass nouns include:
So... if it's not a mass noun, then what is it? I have to confess I'm not 100% positive of this (and don't have easy access to CGEL to check), but I would say that this a usage similar to using a definite singular to refer to an entire class (The blue whale can grow to up to 30m in length), but turning the noun into a proper noun due to familiarity. This latter explains why, in contrast to that usage, there is no need for a definite article, and also the the common practice of capitalising the first letter. (I guess you could say it is an example of synecdoche.)
"Man" can be used as a mass noun, and so it is here.
Has anyone considered that 'Man' might refer to the species? " The Diplodocus died out; the mammoth [or mammoths] died out; even Man is mortal." Of course this wouldn't be what the reader first thought of, but it is a possibility, and I can't immediately see how to differentiate from the normal meaning, namely One of the characteristics of Man is bipedality; another is mortality.
Man here means mankind, an abstract noun.
It should not take any article.


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Police setup a perimeter using K9 and the Lee County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit but did not locate the suspects.
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You're invited to join our beginner level Saturday morning group ride, starting and ending at Performance Bicycle. The ride is for beginners, those getting back in the saddle, or riders who want to add some variety to their cycling. The ride will last approximately one hour, and will go at an average pace of between 12 and 15 miles per hour. We'll explore some of the local bike paths and some residential routes, as well. The ride will take place every Saturday morning at 9:00am and is a "No Rider Left Behind" ride. Come out and join us for this fun, non-competitive ride. We can't wait to see you there.
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A piece of the puzzle that could reveal more clearly the cruel mystery of SIDs was found recently thanks to researchers from Boston Children's hospital.
A study has shown that "some infants who died suddenly and unexpectedly, in both safe and unsafe sleep environments, have underlying brainstem abnormalities and are not all "normal" prior to death."
The findings are by no means a clear answer to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome that claims more than 4,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone, but they are a step toward detecting what could be the cause of something that has long remained elusive. According to the article researchers say there is a need to detect and treat the underlying vulnerability early.
The abnormalities found in these infants show that while a "normal" infant may wake under certain circumstances that lead to rebreathing too much carbon dioxide, these infants do not.
Turns out that old warning about the company we keep may be quite accurate. According to a new study from a professor at the University of Michigan there is a clear connection with student behavior based on that of their roommate.
"The bottom line was we found that when you're matched with a roommate who drinks alcohol, your grades are likely to go down ..." according to Dan Levy, a senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard and co-author of a 2008 study on college students and alcohol.
While most mental health issues have no "contagious" effect, researches found that risky behavior can spread. In fact, binge drinking spreads like mono at prom. Before parents panic, research showed other risky behaviors have no contagious effect — like smoking, gambling and sex with multiple partners.
Bullying has long been the buzz word du jour with a healthy dose of skeptics as to how greatly a bully impacts a child longterm. New studies prove the effect of bullying to be very real and lasting long after the last push (or nasty Instagram photo).
A February study published in Pediatrics is the first to follow students from elementary to junior high and show that the compounding effects of bullying are profound.
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Medical Genomics Program
Merritt College Opens New Genomics Lab and Offers Certificate Programs
With brand new lab facilities and classrooms, Merritt College is offering a Certificate of Achievement in Medical Genomics and a shorter-term Certificate of Proficiency in DNA Sequencing that will put students at the forefront of this exciting field. The new 5,000-square-foot laboratory located at 860 Atlantic Ave. in Alameda, CA is equipped with more than $2 million of state-of-the-art equipment. The new facility gives students access to relevant high-tech devices providing them with a means for practical experience. The Genomics certificate can be completed in as little as four semesters. The first class began Spring 2013 and new classes are scheduled for the following summer and fall semesters.
What is Medical Genomics?
Genomics is the most predominant aspect of biology concerned with the interaction of DNA in a cell with the processes that occur in a cell and your own body. This includes the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes and processes all at once.
Merritt College's novel Genomics Program is based upon Next-Generation and Third-Generation DNA sequencing and is designed to provide employees for the growing Genomics industry in the United States. At Merritt, students are offered a unique opportunity to study DNA from a medical perspective. Genetic variation known as SNP (single nucleotide ploymorphism) detection and genetic disease detection are emphasized. Mastery of sample preparation, operation of standard equipment and analysis of DNA will be emphasized. The program will:
• Provide access to modern equipment used by the Genomics industry as a means for practical experience and personal research.
• Provide needed skill sets to students to fulfill biotech, forensic, and medical jobs of the present and future.
• Provide on-the-job training to ensure that our students are the best-qualified people in a well-paying job market.
• Partner with industry and training according to industry needs, ensuring that the biotechnology component of the Bay Area economy continues to grow, providing jobs for the future.
Is Genomics a growing industry?
Several indications lead to Genomics and related bioinformatics being among the fastest job growth areas. Experts expect Genomics to increase at an astounding compound annual growth rate of 26.9% through 2015 and beyond, and the related Bioinformatics segment to increase at a rate of 19.3% (for comparison, general science and technology areas have been growing at about 7.9% during the recession, while many non-science and technology fields have been contracting).
New DNA sequencing technologies are continuing to emerge that are radically changing the structure of medicine and biotechnology and opening up exciting new applications. Contributing to the rise of these new sequencing technologies are advances in (1) Nanotechnology, (2) Microfluidics, (3) Imaging, (4) Enzymology, and (5) Bioinformatics. DNA sequencing is a strategic Genomics tool that allows us to study how the genome varies among individuals and how that variation correlates to disease. DNA sequencing technologies are a critical part of today's life-science industry, affecting a wide range of medical and other commercial activities from drug discovery to diagnostics, revolutionizing anything that has to do with biology from A to Z (Agriculture to Zoology). The sequencing industry is undergoing major shifts in technology, applications, and markets that will change how Genomics is done in the future. We have an Advisory Board from industry, government, and academia to ensure that our training remains relevant. (Go to: http://bit.ly/ZrIE01)
What background do I need to start the program?
Our Genomics Program is particularly relevant for those who have fulfilled or partially fulfilled requirements for Allied Health careers, since many of the pre-requisites are the same; some knowledge of Biology, which can be Intro to Bio (Bio 10), General Biology (Bio 1a and/or 1b), AP high school biology, Anatomy Bio 2, Physiology Bio 4, or Microbiology Bio 3. We are emphasizing Medical Genomics, because it is becoming clear that the field of Genomics is the new medicine. Hospitals are dramatically expanding their use of DNA sequencing not only for detection of genetic diseases, but also for identification of pathogens and targeted treatments.
What career opportunities are available?
Everything that is living has DNA and is therefore pertinent to this area. Technicians in the following fields as follows: (1) Pharmacology, (2) Forensics, (3) Agriculture, (4) Disease Detection, (5) Food Pathogen Detection, (6) Water Quality, (7) Biofuels, (8) Waste Management, (9) Toxic Waste Site Clean-up, (10) Cancer Research, (11) Progressive Genetic Disease Research (such as Alsheimers), (12) Genetic Counseling, (13) Tracking the History of Life, (14) Conservation, (15) Forestry, and (16) Computer Science.
What is the curriculum to earn each Certificate?
The curriculum for each Certificate is listed below (the number of units are next to each class). The classes are acceptable for credit at CSUs.
Curriculum for Illumina Certificate of Proficiency
Semester 1
BIOSC 30 Genomics Theory 4
BIOSC 32 Good Lab Practices in Genomics 1
Subtotal 5
Semester 2
BIOSC 40 DNA Shearimg Techiques 1
BIOSC 37 Principles of Long PCR 1
BIOSC 33 Research design in Genomics 1
Subtotal 6
Semester 3
BIOSC 72 DNA Sequencing with Illumina 3
BIOSC 34 Writing for the Scientific Journal 1
BIOSC 90 Internship in Genomics 1-3 units
Subtotal 5
TOTAL 16 units
Curriculum for Medical Genomics Certificate of Achievement
CHEM 30A Introductory General Chemistry 4
CHEM 30B Introductory Organic and Biochemistry 4
BIOL 4 Human Physiology 5
BIOSC 30 Genomics Theory 4
BIOSC 42 Mining GenBank 3
BIOSC 32 Good Laboratory Practices in Genomics 1
BIOSC 31 Practical Genomics 4
BIOSC 37 Principles of Long Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 1
BIOSC 40 DNA Shearing Techniques for Shotgun Sequencing in Genomics 3
BIOSC 35 Microrobotics 5
BIOSC 60 Personalized (Desk-Top) Sequencing 3
BIOSC 33 Research Design in Genomics 1
BIOSC50 Genetic Diseases 4
BIOSC51 Medical Genomics 3
BIOSC90 Internship in Genomics 3
BIOSC61 Sequence Analysis Using MacVector 1
BIOSC62 Methodologies in Phylogenetics Using PAUP 1
BIOSC63 Introduction to Character Tracing Using MacClade 1
Total 49 units
Who teaches the Genomics classes?
Our instructors are renowned experts and entrepreneurs in the Genomics field. See their bios and contact information listed below:
Dr. J. Robert Macey, Director and instructor of Merritt's Genomics Program, is an internationally renowned biologist with concentration on Evolutionary Biology at the integration of Genomics and Plate Tectonics. His research is largely Asian-based having been the first western biologist to work in western China and Soviet Central Asia, as well as the first western biologist to work in Iran following the Islamic Revolution. Research areas concentrate on phylogenetics, biogeography, evolution of the mitochondrial genome, and BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) library creation with the nuclear genome. He has published 45 scientific papers, two book chapters and three book reviews. Prior to joining Merritt College in 2006, he was a Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Contact: email@example.com, 510-232-1764
Dr. Hank Fabian considers himself a generalist in the biological sciences with 20 years of experience teaching a variety of biology and natural history classes. During the past 13 years at Merritt College, he's taught Human Anatomy and Physiology and Biology. With a master's degree in Agronomy and a doctorate in Biology, he earlier branched out in other areas to gather wider experiences in the field: He's been a crop geneticist, a scholar of Native American religion, and a commercial cut flower grower. But, he says, his most important role has been as a teacher. As part of Merritt's Genomics program, he has been instrumental in creating the pedagogy for the courses and developing the new curriculum. With new opportunities arising in Genomics every day, he feels fortunate to be part of this program that meets the needs of the Genomics industry while training Merritt's students to be top technicians and researchers. In what he calls "the golden age of Genomics," he says he is honored to be part of an amazing group of scientists and instructors that are rarely seen at a community college.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com, 510-436-2616 (best to use email).
Dr. Brian Rowning combines his unique expertise in molecular, cell, developmental and cancer biology with advanced imaging skills. He is active in Merritt College's Genomics, Microscopy and Histotechnology programs and is excited about the possibilities for transforming biomedical education, strengthening regional scientific and technological capabilities and expanding student employment opportunities. He has worked as a Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and UC Berkeley, and he did postdoctoral research at LBNL and at the University of Washington's Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Seattle. He has published in leading scientific journals on the roles of cytoskeletal mechanisms and critical signaling pathways in cellular dynamics, body pattern formation and cancer. His research interests include comparative signaling pathways in body plan formation and disease, organelle characterization and function, the neurobiology of behavior and evolutionary Genomics, and the interface between Genomics and imaging technologies for assays and engineering of cells and tissues.
Contact: Room D218 Merritt College.
What is Profile Genomics?
Profile Genomics is the advanced Production and Biotech Services arm of the Merritt College Genomics Program. It's a cutting edge service provider for the biotechnology industry and research institutions. We are an ideal research partner with an expert staff and the flexibility to customize any project. We feature industry leading technology and a rapid turnaround.
Profile Genomics currently offers Cryogenic Tissue Extraction, DNA Shearing, Pippin Prep DNA size selection, Microarray Slide Preparation and Scanning, and Robotic Colony Picking services. We are expanding rapidly and adding new services and technologies to our pipeline.
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Torn (2009). Holly Aird and Nicola Walker star in this nail-biting 3-part drama about one woman's obsessive hunt for her abducted child. Written by Chris Lang, Torn was directed by Sarah Harding.
"The most powerful ITV drama for a long, long time." The Times.
The Little House (2010). A chilling 2-part drama of obsessive maternal love starring Francesca Annis, Lucy Griffiths and Tim Piggott-Smith. Adapted from the novel by Philippa Gregory, the screenplay was written by Ed Whitmore. The Little House was directed by Jamie Payne.
"This thriller is a treat…gripping, well cast and a terrific story" The Mail on Sunday.
The Reckoning (2011). An invitation to murder. Breath-taking 2-part thriller, starring Ashley Jensen and Max Beasley. Written by Chris Lang, The Reckoning was directed by Jim O'Hanlon.
"Two terrific hours of compelling drama" The Mirror.