Lectures are a barrier to the listener's thinking.
The constant one-way transfer of information is like a dripping faucet. The information keeps coming and coming and coming.
And that constant drip of new data, facts, figures and info keeps the brain overwhelmed with new information. The listener is faced with a choice: listen to the new information or think about what they just heard. You can't listen to the lecture and think about that information at the same time. You either do one or the other.
Small group and peer discussions foster learning and retention in ways the lecture never could. Adding peer discussion to a lecture is the winning formula that increases learning and thinking.
Professor Donald Bligh talks about using horseshoe groups in his book What's The Use Of Lectures, first published in 1971. The horseshoe group is a useful method to alternate formal instruction with audience discussion.
A horseshoe group is a merging of two buzz groups. It usually has between four and twelve participants. The optimum size for a horseshoe group is six people. Groups larger than six should divide into two smaller groups for discussions.
Remember, the larger the group, the shorter the time each person will have to talk or discuss. You want to give each person adequate time to contribute to the group as well as articulate their thoughts.
According to education researcher Jane Abercrombie, discussion groups are arranged so that each member may interact face-to-face with every other member. With horseshoe groups, people sit in a horseshoe arrangement around a table. Chairs are arranged in a C or U shape with the opening facing either the center or the front of the room.
Alternating a formal lecture or presentation with horseshoe groups gives the audience time to digest, think, reflect and process the information they just heard. It also gives individuals an opportunity for feedback from their peers regarding their thinking.
Horseshoe groups promote analytical thinking, creativity, evaluation, assessment and application of the information to specific challenges or situations. Presenters should intentionally and carefully consider what questions to ask to cultivate thinking in a specific direction. The more the participants can talk about the practical application of the information, the more likely they are to consider using it in their work.
How can you use horseshoe groups for your next conference? What are some ways to encourage people to participate in small group discussions?
Why show a picture of tables with nine participants if six is optimum?
Many conference organizers are forced with maximizing the space for attendees. So showing pod seating that allows for nine people will be common for those with larger conferences.
As stated in the post, when you have a group that's larger than six, such as nine shown in the illustration, divide them into two groups. In the case of nine, have four at one end talk with each other and five at the other end talk with each other.
Then you have efficient use of space to accommodate as many people as possible and can still benefit from the horseshoe group model.
McDonald's corporate training center actually has a few rooms with this exact configuration. as well as flipchart/monitors at the end of each table (way from the presenter) and sliding walls between horseshoes to give them a bit of sound barrier when the groups are really going at it. It's one of my favorites rooms to present in.
I also remember seeing a variation in Metropolis Magazine that I think was a suggestion for the classroom of the future. It was 4 horseshow groups but in the shape of an X with the open ends of the table all aimed to the center. The idea here was to really move the teacher/presenter into a roaming facilitator role by the very architecture of the room.
Thanks for adding those examples to the discussion. Great ideas to think about!
Hi, Jeff! Thanks for bringing up this conversation. Room sets can add or detract significantly to the success of learning opportunities and its importance isn't often considered. I've seen the value of the horseshoe many times in facilitating workshops in which the set-up is used…and can also attest to the need to keep groups to 4-6 people. The smaller groups enable conversation among everyone at the table. While I understand the need to max "butts in seats," using a 9-person set means the people at one end won't be talking to the people at the other end – the same thing that happens during banquets with people sitting at 8-, 10- or 12-person rounds. You talk only to the people on either side of you, not to those across the table.
One point you made in this great post almost gets lost: that presenters should "intentionally and carefully consider what questions to ask." I wouldn't want your readers to overlook the importance of using these small groups purposefully. This room set isn't magic on its own…the facilitator definitely must be intentional with how it is used. It's suited to a wide variety of activity designs and learning methods beyond asking questions.
For example, after a short bit of content (8-10 minutes), have groups do an activity that reinforces what they heard as they consider its application. Hearing the content, then doing something with it, then debriefing what happened, is right in line with John Medina's Brain Rules #5, Repeat to Remember, and #6, Remember to Repeat. In that scenario, the content is repeated three times, helping transfer it from short-term to long-term memory, thus increasing the chances it will be retained.
Yes,yes,yes! Thanks for bringing additional attention to the importance of smaller groups and asking the right questions. Your comments should help conference organizers continue to improve the experience. Thank you for continuing the conversations.


A journalist who unusually started out in PR before switching to the regional press has died aged 85.
Tributes have been paid to Myrtle Page, left, who worked on newspapers in Wales and East Anglia during her career.
Myrtle, who had lived in Felsted since 1975, had suffered from lung and heart problems and died suddenly on holiday in Yorkshire.
She had initially worked for London public relations company Pritchard Wood, where she trained as a secretary in the 1950s and became a press officer, before changing careers and joining the Abergavenny Chronicle as a sub-editor.
After moving to Essex with her family, she then became a reporter for various titles including the Dunmow Broadcast, the East Anglian Daily Times, the Essex Chronicle and the Braintree and Witham Times.
Myrtle also leaves sons Stuart and Keith, daughters-in-law Carol and Julia and grandsons Rowan, Jake and Ethan.
A service to celebrate her life was held at the Three Counties Crematorium, Braintree on 20 November.


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Q: Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [], debugDescription: "Expected to decode Array but found a dictionary instead.", underlyingError: nil)) I am trying to decode this api TFL API
But i keep getitng this error typeMismatch(Swift.Array<Any>, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [], debugDescription: "Expected to decode Array<Any> but found a dictionary instead.", underlyingError: nil))
Here is my structs that i try to decode the json into
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struct Route:Codable, Hashable {
    let type, input: String
    let searchMatches: [SearchMatch]
}

struct SearchMatch:Codable, Hashable{
    let type, lineID, mode, lineName: String
    let lineRouteSection: [LineRouteSection]
    let matchedRouteSections, matchedStops: [String]
}

struct LineRouteSection:Codable, Hashable{
    let type: String
    let routeID: Int
    let direction, destination, fromStation, toStation: String
    let serviceType, vehicleDestinationText: String
}

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and here is where i try to decode the json
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    func LoadRoutes(route:String, completion:@escaping ([Route]) -> ()) {
        guard let url = URL(string: "https://api.tfl.gov.uk/Line/Search/"+route+"?serviceTypes=Regular") else {
            print("Invalid url...")
            return
        }
        URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, _, _) in
            do {
                let routes = try JSONDecoder().decode([Route].self, from: data!)

                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    completion(routes)
                }

            } catch {
                print("ERROR")
                print(error)
                print("ERROR END")
            }
        }.resume()

    }

Is it a simple fix and if so how do i?

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The insurer is offloading the Vermont resort, built by its founder because he hated waiting in line. For Vail Resorts, the $50 mln deal nearly completes its American ski roll-up. Investors should welcome anything that helps focus management at AIG, which lost $3 bln last quarter.
Feb 8, 2015; Vail, CO, USA; Steven Nyman of the United States during the downhill run of the men's alpine combined in the FIS alpine skiing world championships at Birds of Prey Racecourse.
Vail Resorts said on Feb. 21 it agreed to acquire Stowe Mountain Resort from American International Group for $50 million. Vail, which owns and operates 10 major mountain resorts and three urban ski areas, is buying all of the assets related to the mountain operations of the Stowe resort, including base-area skier services (food and beverage, retail and rental, lift ticket offices and ski and snowboard school facilities) at Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak.
The New York-based insurer will retain other facilities such as the Stowe Mountain Lodge, Stowe Mountain Club, Stowe Country Club and certain real estate owned and held for potential future development.


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Developing user-centered measures to increase the share of multimodal freight transport
Sarah Pfoser
Center of Excellence Logistics
LOGISTIKUM
The European Commission has dedicated itself steadily to multimodal freight transport to reduce problems such as air pollution or congestion and to reach the goals set by the Paris Agreement. Despite the political efforts to promote multimodality, the majority of freight transport is still carried out by truck. The aim of this paper is to capture the reasons for the small share of multimodal transport and suggest measures to promote multimodal transport. To collect data, a multiple-case study was conducted involving ten logistics service providers. The barriers to multimodal freight transport are analyzed in a holistic manner using interpretive structural modeling. Overall, fifteen barriers are presented which are classified as demand-related barriers, shipment characteristics, infrastructural/supply-related barriers, organizational barriers and legal / political barriers. Based on that, a bottom-up approach involving the ten logistics service providers (LSPs) is used to develop user-centered policy measures for multimodal transport. The direct involvement of LSPs facilitates acceptance of the proposed measures. The internalization of external costs, efficient information provision and education/training/awareness raising are rated as high impact measures to promote multimodal transport.
Research in Transportation Business and Management
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100729
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Modal shift
Policy measure
10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100729
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Q: EINTEGRITY error when using Nexus proxy npm repo So far we could build our node projects with default registry in .npmrc (registry = https://registry.npmjs.org/). We want to start publishing our internal libraries in local npm repository - we use Nexus 3. I created proxy repo directing to https://registry.npmjs.org/ (https://nexus.local/repository/npm-registry/). When we change registry in .npmrc for that proxy repo, building the same projects ends with errors like:
npm WARN tarball tarball data for wildcard@https://nexus.local/repository/npm-registry/wildcard/-/wildcard-2.0.0.tgz (sha512-JcKqAHLPxcdb9KM49dufGXn2x3ssnfjbcaQdLlfZsL9rH9wgDQjUtDxbo8NE0F6SFvydeu1VhZe7hZuHsB2/pw==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for minimist@https://nexus.local/repository/npm-registry/minimist/-/minimist-1.2.6.tgz (sha512-Jsjnk4bw3YJqYzbdyBiNsPWHPfO++UGG749Cxs6peCu5Xg4nrena6OVxOYxrQTqww0Jmwt+Ref8rggumkTLz9Q==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
npm ERR! sha512-JcKqAHLPxcdb9KM49dufGXn2x3ssnfjbcaQdLlfZsL9rH9wgDQjUtDxbo8NE0F6SFvydeu1VhZe7hZuHsB2/pw== integrity checksum failed when using sha512: wanted sha512-JcKqAHLPxcdb9KM49dufGXn2x3ssnfjbcaQdLlfZsL9rH9wgDQjUtDxbo8NE0F6SFvydeu1VhZe7hZuHsB2/pw== but got sha512-l5E0KJ9dH5bNZ9CxPNtF5KiMPlhF4eQZv7S2+Ko1HbeKTgRr9sMd8oe88VGS14dLESGihS27fqbDXq9d919xcw==. (33280 bytes)

Checking details about wildcard@2.0.0 package using both .npmrc configurations return the same result (especially the same sha512 value):
[jenkins@jenkins-agent-02 tmp.build]$ ~/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJS_18.6.0/bin/node ~/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJS_18.6.0/bin/npm view wildcard@2.0.0

wildcard@2.0.0 | MIT | deps: none | versions: 10
Wildcard matching tools
https://github.com/DamonOehlman/wildcard#readme

keywords: string, wildcard

dist
.tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/wildcard/-/wildcard-2.0.0.tgz
.shasum: a77d20e5200c6faaac979e4b3aadc7b3dd7f8fec
.integrity: sha512-JcKqAHLPxcdb9KM49dufGXn2x3ssnfjbcaQdLlfZsL9rH9wgDQjUtDxbo8NE0F6SFvydeu1VhZe7hZuHsB2/pw==
.unpackedSize: 21.7 kB

maintainers:
- damonoehlman <damon.oehlman@sidelab.com>

dist-tags:
latest: 2.0.0

published over a year ago by damonoehlman <damon.oehlman@gmail.com>

I checked sha512 after downloading that package through our Nexus (https://nexus.local/repository/npm-registry/wildcard/-/wildcard-2.0.0.tgz) using command shasum -b -a 512 wildcard-2.0.0.tgz | awk '{ print $1 }' | xxd -r -p | base64 and it returns l5E0KJ9dH5bNZ9CxPNtF5KiMPlhF4eQZv7S2+Ko1HbeKTgRr9sMd8oe88VGS14dLESGihS27fqbDXq9d919xcw==. I have no idea why that sha512 was changed during downloading package through local Nexus.
I tried to invalidate cache in Nexus proxy repo configuration. Also checked some options in configuration view.

A: Problem was caused by Apache proxy configuration. Option AddEncoding must not include .tgz value.


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Q: If there is significant temperature difference between indoor air and outdoor air, will that significantly increase the rate of air exchange? There would be heat diffusion, of course, but heat diffusion occurs even without the exchange of fluid parcels between each environment.
We do know that cold air tends to be denser than warm air, and that pressure differences drive the exchange of fluid parcels. But let's assume that there is no pressure difference for the sake of this question.

A: I would like you to precise some point : you want to know the rate of air exchange without any air displacement due to pressure difference?
If you want to know what happens during a cold winter and the diffusion of heat through walls (which block any air flow), the heat flux will be proportional to the temperature gradient (temperature difference divided by wall thickness).
An interesting phenomena occurs when you suddenly open your door to the cold outdoor air : as you said, cold air is denser than warm air, so two layers of warm and cold air separated by a vertical boundary is not a stable configuration. The two layers will mix dynamically through a Rayleigh-Taylor instability.


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Prince and the Revolution 'Purple Rain (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)' LP
First vinyl release of 2015 remastered edition packaged in metallic finish sleeve!
The DNA of Purple Rain can be felt throughout pop culture at large. It is a timeless body of work with an immortal resonance exemplified by smashes such as "Let's Go Crazy," "When Doves Cry," "Darling Nikki," the title track "Purple Rain" and more. Minted Diamond by the RIAA for sales exceeding 13 million, the record stands out as the sixth best-selling soundtrack album in history, moving more than 22 million copies. Hailed by Vanity Fair as "the best soundtrack of all time," Time Magazine placed it as the 15th greatest album ever.
The album won two 1985 GRAMMY Awards® in the categories of "Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" and "Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special." Posthumously, it was honored as "Favorite Soundtrack" at the 2016 American Music Awards. It was also recently nominated for a 2017 Billboard Music Award in the category of "Top Soundtrack/Cast Album."
2015 Paisley Park Remaster of the original tapes from the soundtrack, presenting an unheard vision of the album overseen by Prince himself before his untimely 2016 passing.
1. Let's Go Crazy
2. Take Me With U
3. The Beautiful Ones
4. Computer Blue
5. Darling Nikki
6. When Doves Cry
7. I Would Die 4 U
8. Baby I'm A Star
Catalogue number: 093624930242
Label: Warner Bros


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Q: twitter oauth with single-use access token Is it possible to authenticate from a web page without any server-side
program?  I would like to use javascript (and jsonp with query-string
oauth, I am guessing) and hard code my access_token in a javascript
variable.
I know this would be a major security no-no.  I have no intention of
putting the webpage on the internet.
I simply would like to know if my intention is even possible.  It
would be greatly appreciated if someone could put aside the security
issue for a moment and answer my question.  Thanks!

A: That's pretty easy to do. You just need an OAuth 1.0 JS library to make authenticated request from JS. Note that you need to include both the access token and client credentials in the application - so it's double insecure.