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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Leah Rush can emerge from Courtney Paris' shadow when she has to - especially in tournament time.
The versatile senior forward matched her season-high with 18 points and No. 11 Oklahoma used a series of big runs to surge past a resilient Iowa State team for a 67-60 victory in the Big 12 championship Saturday night.
``That's the way Leah Rush plays in the postseason,'' Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said. ``We've become accustomed to that.''
When All-America center Paris and her twin sister stepped on Oklahoma's campus, it meant that Rush had to move over and make room. But when the Sooners needed a boost to win their second straight conference championship, Rush showed she can still come through.
The 6-foot-1 Rush, the team's leading scorer as a sophomore, kept the second-seeded Sooners (26-4) going while Paris fought through poor shooting, then put them in position to pull away late.
``I can do that,'' Rush said. ``I think especially with some of our younger guys, if Courtney's not scoring, what are we going to do?
``I think it's just good for the confidence of the team if we can get a bucket. I think everybody on this team is so capable and we know what we're capable of, and so people have to do what they can do.''
Paris ended up with 23 points and 21 rebounds for her 58th straight double-double, but she missed 11 of her first 15 shots - most of them from right under the basket - as Oklahoma fell behind after an 11-0 start.
Rush had a jumper and a 3-pointer to finish Oklahoma's second 11-point run of the game and put the Sooners on top 38-35, and backup point guard Kendra Moore added a pair of 3-pointers in a 15-0 surge that allowed them to pull away for a 57-42 lead.
Iowa State (25-8), the Big 12's most prolific team from long distance, got to 57-51 with three straight 3-pointers before Paris answered with back-to-back layups for the Sooners.
Oklahoma was 6-for-8 from the free-throw line in the final minute to seal its eighth straight win. The Sooners exchanged hugs and high-fives at midcourt to celebrate their fourth Big 12 title - and the third with Rush on the team.
``I love cutting down those nets,'' said Rush, who emerged with the twine draped around her neck for the team's postgame picture.
Alison Lacey and Lyndsey Medders each scored 17 points to lead fifth-seeded Iowa State, which was trying to match Oklahoma's 2004 run and become the second team to win the title without the benefit of a first-round bye. The Cyclones had an eight-game winning streak snapped.
``We couldn't stop them from scoring,'' Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. ``There were too many options.''
Oklahoma started with 11 straight points and appeared poised to run away with its second straight Big 12 title. Paris scored from the right block and then found Erin Higgins cutting to the basket for a layup to make it 6-0, and the Sooners' sensational sophomore pointed toward the roof and high-stepped for a moment before heading to the bench for a timeout.
After Paris' basket made it 11-0, crimson-clad Oklahoma fans - who occupied all but three sections in the Cox Convention Center - had a chance to sing along as the pep band played ``Boomer Sooner.''
``No one freaked out at that point,'' Medders said. ``Everyone knew it was about trying to get some scores and getting stops. And that's how this team has played all year long is not giving up.''
Medders' driving layup from the left wing cut the deficit to 19-18 as the Sooners missed 12 straight shots in a 6 1/2-minute drought.
After Paris finally broke through with a layup, Megan Ronhovde nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing to tie it at 21.
The Cyclones led 26-23 at the half after a pair of driving layups by Lacey, including one that led to a three-point play, and then got out quickly in the second half for a 33-25 lead on Toccara Ross' 3-pointer from the left wing.
Rush followed that with a turnaround jumper in the lane, and soon Oklahoma was off on its first of two second-half spurts. Paris, who made her final four shots, credited Rush and Moore with keeping the Sooners in the game until that point.
``That's what this team needs from me,'' Rush said. ``Sometimes I need to score more and sometimes I need to pass more. My role has changed throughout my time here. Every year it's been completely different.''
One thing that doesn't change: Rush's favorite time of year is tournament time. And the NCAAs are up next.


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It's not really a Navy unless it's got guns, or a least archers or spear-throwers or something.
Well, if either of them bring their laptops on board I'm sure they have some electronic warfare capabilities.
It's not really a Navy unless it's got guns, or a least archers or spear-throwers or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Navy [wikipedia.org]
Hello, this is the news at 10. In headlines tonight: an enormously large object squashes a rich person.
Just saying.
Yes. But... But But... But.... These are Google Execs! You see, when a rich executive does something that is frowned upon, they bring shame to their company. But when a company does something that is frowned upon, no one blames the exec. It's a completely unilateral relationship where there is absolutely no personal responsibility when an organization does something wrong, but it is ENTIRELY the organization to blame if the executive officers decide to do something like this.
Are you getting it yet? The entire corporation that is Google isn't living up to its standards because 2 individuals don't!
But when a company does something that is frowned upon, no one blames the exec
Are you joking? The hate that much of Slashdot had (and continues to has) on for Bill Gates verges on irrational lunacy....
If only I had mod points...
FWIW, supposedly Mark Zuckerberg commutes in a relatively humble Acura TSX. http://time.com/poy [time.com]
FWIW, supposedly Mark Zuckerberg commutes in a relatively humble Acura TSX. http://time.com/poy [time.com]
That's because he's trying to retain some privacy and anonymity.
There's a little secret to the economy. Even though rich people make huge profits and take large salaries if most of it goes into investments it doesn't matter much. When the money is invested somewhere it's adding value to the world. It isn't going to feed the hungry, but it is going to increase efficiency, build businesses or enable people to live a decent life. After it is done doing that it can be reinvested to do it again and again pretty much forever.
When that money is taken out and blown it on somet
Enormously rich person buys large object, news at 10?
Better pictures and video here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055689/ [imdb.com]
and here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ [imdb.com]
I have two words for Larry Page: luxury submarine.
I have two words for Larry Page: luxury submarine.
How about "hollowed-out volcano"?
As far as I know, he can't buy a hollowed out volcano; I certainly haven't heard of one for sale. A luxury submarine, on the other hand, can be purchased on the open market (albeit for a price that mere mortals like you and I can't afford), and I think it would be obscenely cool to own one.
In the Google navy
Yes, you can yacht the seven seas
In the Google navy
Yes, you can put your search at ease
In the Google navy
Come on now, people, they're going green
In the Google navy, in the Google navy
I predict they will cruise around the world taking photos of every harbour, ship and shoreline.
I also predict they will get into trouble for doing that.
All of the world's marine traffic [marinetraffic.com] in real-time is already on Google... (ok, its basically just overlayed AIS data, but still its effing cool ! just try to find an application that is cooler! or is it wetter?)
All of the world's marine traffic [marinetraffic.com] in real-time is already on Google... (ok, its basically just overlayed AIS data, but still its effing cool ! just try to find an application that is cooler! or is it wetter?)
Doesn't that make it a bit easy for pirates?
Carbon footprint of racing sailboat is pretty much 0, at least while it's actually racing. I'll grant you that construction and the diesel auxiliary contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, and especially if they're having it moved around on a container ship so it's ready to go in exotic locations, and then flying in to sail on it, they're pretty much at the head of the line in terms of their individual contribution to future generations' climate-related misery. But overall, I think sailboats should be way down your list if you're making a catalog of climate-hostile consumption.
Still, I realize this is slashdot. Let the poorly-informed outrage fly!
Generally speaking, the only kinds of racing that have anything approaching a 'green' fotprint are the kinds of racing that leave footprints.
Auto racing can't claim a green footprint. Even solar racing has a manufacturing footprint that is noticeable.
Boats? Powerboats of course just crave fuels. Sail? Except perhaps for some small classes, they rely on exotic materials. Smaller classes are starting to give in to this a little bit.
Planes? hehe... Gliders? Carbon-fiber.
Even bicycles use such exotics that
I think sailboats should be way down your list if you're making a catalog of climate-hostile consumption.
I was going to make the same exact point.
As these are proper ocean cruiser boats you are not going to move them by container ship. 24m worth off composite hull is something you move by water with a hired crew, not by ship. Sailing such boats from A to B so that the person with excess pocket money can use it where they want it is a pretty good job if you can have it by the way. I would not mind being a sailing crew on one of those
So the only greenhouse emissions are from the leerjet flying you to the sail
you can easily move very large ships from ocean to ocean via a piggyback ship.
in fact, there are ships designed for this very purpose, and moving a large sailing yacht is one of their main customers.
these specialized ships take on ballast and essentially purposefully flood their own decks and then the large sailing/motor yachts are driven over the deck, pilings are set to support them, and the ship pumps out the ballast to raise itself above the waterline.
because its a lot cheaper to pay for one large t
That explains the recent push at google to recruit "linux sysadmins who look good in a bikini"...
Lowest. Job-applicants. Ever.
do Google execs eat their own carbon footprint calculator dogfood?
All those words... but together they.... the letters, the letters...
So it's come to this. After all those centuries, English, this is what you've become. Face down in the left gutter wearing Comic Sans with an empty carton of Strunk and White. Googling your own blogfeed indeed.
I just hope you're happy.
You gotta problem with four nouns jammed together in a sentence, huh? You must not be German. They cram 'em into one WORD.
It does and I guess that is Taco's problem. Even after all these years he still has some of the reactions from the days when Slashdot was being run on an Alpha salvaged from a skip and put under the desk in his dorm room.
Time to let go dude.
It does if you like Jack Lemmon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/ [imdb.com]
Does owning a $45 million yacht significantly increase your probability of getting laid?
Well it doesn't have much practical point, does it?
How's that "Don't be evil" working out?
Carbon-neutral? Nope.
Excessively reckless and wasteful? Yep.
The top AOL execs were never this ostentatious.
Well, we did buy Time Warner. They were bigger than your yacht and stable of Cigarette boats.
THIS is a boat. [apolloduck.us]
If I had Larry Page's stupid amount of money, I'd get a real ship. Plus, you can make money with it if the GOOG stock tanks.
Or just load it up with 1400 hot chicks and sail around the world.
And of course, there's always THIS boat [maritimesales.com]
... we'll get Google Davie Jones' Locker View, real soon
But what about Good Google? How much carbon is saved each year, for example, by their handy maps? (Now if I could only get my wife to stop printing them out and just write the directions on a piece of waste paper) How much does Google reduce carbon by efficiently locating points of interest -- and someday -- helping you get your car to the nearest electrical outlet. Sniping at rich people's yachts is I guess a family tradition but the real problem with carbon hypocracy stories is they really don't take in t
Someone with money bought a boat. News at 11.
I mean come on
I seem to remember an old? 60-minutes piece on the culture of Google where execs drove normal cars to work and shopping sprees to shave off excess millions were universally frowned upon.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/30/60minutes/main664063.shtml [cbsnews.com]
Any idiot can buy yachts and planes. You're not a truly awesome geek millionaire until you have a self-sufficient private island.
No one will ever buy that. But it is interesting.
Why, because $45m for a surface ship is like buying a car but $78m for a submarine is just crazy?
...then you should get a badass boat like this one [smugmug.com], a 190 tons displacement, 37 meter costal patrol boat purchased by an early Internet pioneer from the Royal Navy.
It only leaked once, the engine usually starts right up, and while there's no helipad, I'd love to watch someone try.
Sounds like an adventure boat to me.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Calgary Flames will try to bring their longest home losing streak in franchise history to a close on Wednesday night as they take on the Phoenix Coyotes.
The Flames have not won a game at Scotiabank Saddledome since Dec. 23, getting outscored 22-4 and shut out four times in seven straight defeats as the hosting club.
Calgary has lost four in a row overall, following up a home setback to Winnipeg on Jan. 16 with back-to-back road defeats in Vancouver and San Jose. The Flames were undone on Monday by Joe Pavelski's two goals in a 3-2 loss to the Sharks.
Karri Ramo allowed three goals on 27 shots, while Kevin Westgarth and Jiri Hudler scored goals as the Flames fell to 3-12-3 in their last 18 games.
"We ended up getting down with a couple of weird bounces. That's one of the best teams in the NHL and we stuck with them the whole game, and I think outplayed them over the final 20 minutes. It's tough when we're not putting pucks in the net, so I'm happy to pitch in," Westgarth said.
Westgarth scored in his first game since being involved in the game-opening line brawl with Vancouver on Saturday. The forward touched off the melee by engaging with unwillingly Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa at center ice and then found a different partner as five fights eventually broke out.
Westgarth was part of Calgary's fourth line that started the game and the NHL fined Flames coach Bob Hartley $25,000 for the actions.
"All incidents that happen, the league will look into it. They are in a tough spot and make a decision that is best for the league. I will respect their decision," Hartley said.
Tonight's contest kicks off a five-game homestand for the Flames, who were shut out 6-0 the last time they faced the Coyotes on Jan. 7 in Phoenix. Coyotes backup netminder Thomas Greiss notched 27 saves in the whitewash.
The Flames have lost two of three to the Coyotes this season, but both defeats came in the desert and Calgary notched a 4-1 decision in the lone home meeting on Dec. 4. That pushed the Flames' series home winning streak over the Coyotes to four straight.
Phoenix was aiming for a perfect three-game homestand on Monday after defeating Vancouver and New Jersey, but dropped a 4-2 decision to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Mike Smith yielded all four goals on 29 shots, while Mike Ribeiro scored on the power play and Antoine Vermette netted a goal shorthanded.
"When you give the opposition those opportunities on turnovers and they capitalize, you're going to be chasing the game, and that's exactly what happened," Phoenix coach Dave Tippett said. "There are little things that come back to haunt us off and on all year, and those continue to be areas of concern and areas we have to improve in."
Though the Coyotes have lost five of their last seven games, they have a power-play goal in eight straight to match the longest such streak since moving to Phoenix that was set from Feb. 7-22.
The longest streak of consecutive games with a power-play goal in franchise history is 14, done by the Winnipeg Jets from Nov. 6-Dec. 3, 1987.
The Coyotes are set to play their next three on the road, where they are 9-9-6 this season. They are just 3-7-0 in January despite having played eight of those 10 games at home.


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The Autopsy of Christopher Seider
This week Boston 1775 will take the theme of CSI: Colonial Boston. I could probably come up with a few clever allusions to the CSI television shows if I'd watched more than a snippet of them, but you'll have to provide those parallels yourselves. I'll just quote documents about investigating dead bodies in Revolutionary Massachusetts.
First up, little Christopher Seider, died on 22 Feb 1770 in the North End, as reported in the newspapers:
soon after the child's decease his body was opened by Dr. [Joseph] Warren and others and in it were found eleven shot or plugs, about the bigness of large peas; one of which pierced his breast about an inch and one-half above the midriff and passing clear through the lobe of the lungs, lodged in his back.Good news: young Gore did not lose the use of his hand—at least not enough to prevent him from participating in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and stealing two cannon from a gunhouse under redcoat guard in 1774. He had a long career as a decorative painter, paint importer, and glass factory owner in the early republic. Throughout his life Gore enjoyed showing off the scars on his fingers from where Richardson had shot him.
This, three of the surgeons deposed before the Jury of Inquest, was the cause of his death; on which they brought in their verdict, wilful murder by [Ebenezer] Richardson. The right hand of the boy was cruelly torn, whence it seems to have been across his breast and to have deadened the force of the shot, which might otherwise have pierced the stomach.
Dr. Warren likewise cut two slugs out of young Mr. [Samuel] Gore's thighs, but pronounced him in no danger of death, though in all probability he will lose the use of the right forefinger, by the wound received there, much important to a youth of his dexterity in drawing and painting.


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Good article but I stopped at Rich Kotite.
Thought this was a good article if you're not familiar with the system compared to some others. The Jets used this in 2012 and it's been the Patriots staple system during their run...
(yes, Patriots-centric but interesting for the fan )
Good article but I stopped at Rich Kotite.
The Jets need to get with the program and emulate the Pats offense but with Jets design. I'd like to see the Jets Offense run it with efficiency, no huddle etc instead of clutzing around making a lot of mistakes.
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Yeah I remember we were going to run an up tempo hurry up offense.
Problem was by the time the play call got to Sanchez, the play clock was running out.
the problems on offense seem to be a lack of knowledge about how the play is actually supposed to work. it took way too much time to get the play called and then executed. is sanchez the biggest issue here? right now, probably. how many times was there absolutely no concern for the clock running down or the slowness of plays in two minute drills etc. it seems like sanchez doesn't know how to process plays in a timely fashion. this is troubling because it's almost impossible to teach people to think faster.
Great article.
We are so far away from this it isnt even funny.
That being said, the key is continuity....in addition to finding our QB and OC we need to be grooming assistants to fill roles in case coaches leave here. That is what he Pats have been abele to do and why they have been able to keep the same system/terminology for so long.
Maybe Sparano tried to install this system with the Jets this year but he was obviously a very poor teacher. Also with a different group of receivers almost every game all learning this for the first time I can see why it wasn't successful.
If Sanchez got to the line quicker he might be able to read the defense better and determine who might be the best receiver to throw it too. If Sanchez was also learning this for the first time - which I think he was - then there was almost no way this system was gonna work.
I like the system because the QB needs brains and repetition rather than athletic ability. Sanchez might not have the brains for this system or he simply might need more time in it. But the right QB in this system can last 15 years. RG3 will never last 7 years the way he plays. Most of these new read option QBs won't be in the league long because of the punishment they will take. Greg McElroy might be a better option for the Jets if they continue to try and run this system.
Loved the article, thanks for posting. Problem is now I'm more depressed about our team. With no QB and no OC how are we ever going to get up to speed?
I'm hoping for Khan for GM, somone from an elite organization who can built from the draft out rather than the FA do it now approach. I didn't think so before but after reading this article I'm comming to believe we might have to go into rebuild mode.
As good a coach as BB is, he seems to owe almost all of his success to his predecessors in New England and, of course, Tom Brady.
While Perkins and Earhardt can take credit for the offensive schemes, the 3-4 two gap D the Pats run (don't say it's a 4-3, Ninkovich is labeled DE but has the assignments of an OLB), is essentially the same D Chuck Fairbanks brought to New England (and the NFL) from the Oklahoma Sooners.
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College Bedding:Think Beyond Jersey Knits and Comforters
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I was walking through the college dorm aisles in Tar-jay the other day when I realized what sort of trends I was suckered into so many years ago with regards to college bedding: 1.) I bought the jersey knit sheets. Although soft, they did pill very quickly and didn't last more than a few months before looking shabby. 2.) I had the reversible comforter that about 23892783 other girls in my dorm also had in their rooms. This one item that was to be a major focal point in my room was the same main feature in so many other rooms. Blah. Plus, I had never cleaned a comforter before in my life which in turn led to a very dirty sleeping space for a long time.
So, I thought I would take the opportunity to try and prevent such catastrophic events for student going through the college dorm preparation process by passing on the three big college bedding lessons I learned:
1.) Don't give in to the super cheap. Super cheap sheets will either be extremely scratchy or will fall apart quickly. You don't need the most elaborate sheet sets while in college, but you do want something that you will not have to replace quickly or will keep you up at night with discomfort.
3.) Think duvet. Although most college students may not know the meaning of the word, they will appreciate the function. I have to admit to thinking a duvet was a pillowcase or a diving board or a special type of loo for many Read the rest of this entry »


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Performance and Data Access Part 2: APIs, Benchmarks, Cloud Computing
Distributed computing divides work among multiple computers and can provide scalability, but it's not a silver bullet. Compute-intensive jobs and those operating on large data sets or databases can exhibit unacceptable execution times. System architects can respond with parallel processing and throwing lots of hardware at the performance problem; this class of application is a prime candidate for grid and cloud computing.
The good news about the cloud is it provides a virtual computing resource, with the possibility of using massive data storage and arrays of servers. Cloud computing is well-suited to processing massive data sets, particularly using a grid engine and job scheduler such as Hadoop Map/Reduce. The bad news is the public or private cloud can contain data sets and computing resources that are thousands of miles apart. For software hosted in the cloud, bandwidth and network latency issues can increase response time and user dissatisfaction. Cloud computing does not provide immunity from performance inhibitors, such as network latency and poorly-optimized queries.
Experience with distributed data and distributed objects taught us marshaling data across network connections is a first-class performance bottleneck. Jeff Dean of Google reported data about network latency in a recent keynote address. For a network packet to make a round trip between California and the Netherlands required 150,000,000 nanoseconds, whereas round-trip time in a data center is about 500,000 nanoseconds and a main memory reference is 100 nanoseconds. The axiom about putting code close to data to reduce network latency is especially important with today's distributed computing platforms, including grids and clouds.
Because servers and data can be widely distributed in the cloud, monitoring of data services can provide important insights about data set and database placement. Profiling software that records data access patterns provides a tool for partitioning data, sharding and establishing zones, such as Amazon EC2's availability zones. It's an enabling technology for intelligent schedulers that are aware of data access patterns in virtualized environments, grids and especially clouds. In an era of terabyte-sized (and larger) data sets, the goal is to reduce network latency by localizing data access as much as possible. The Google File System, for example, maintains metadata about the storage location of data; this enables Google Map/Reduce scheduling of batch jobs on nodes based on data locality.
SQL processing
Performance of SQL applications depends on multiple factors, including the design of the database and execution plan for queries. System architects and developers looking to improve performance inevitably focus on tuning the database and optimizing queries. Often overlooked is how much time is spent in middleware and network communications when an application executes database queries.
There are numerous books about tuning databases but precious few about data access and tuning middleware. That's why system architects and developers will benefit from reading The Data Access Handbook by John Goodson and Robert Steward. It's a book that's packed with pearls of wisdom for those working with databases. The Data Access Handbook uncovers valuable information for people creating applications and services for Linux, Windows, .NET and Java environments. It explains, for example, how to improve database query execution time by optimizing performance of middleware, a critical component of client-server database architectures.
Goodson and Steward describe the performance impact of database driver architectures, protocol handling, virtual machines (Java and .NET), garbage collection, connection pooling, statement pooling, client and server endianness, and network communication tuning. There is a particularly informative discussion of result set size, network packet size and database protocol packet size, private data networks, VPNs, subnets and packet fragmentation. The authors also discuss data services and data access for a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The book includes chapters that provide performance-oriented coding and query practices for applications using today's predominant data access APIs, ADO.NET, JDBC and ODBC. The JDBC and ODBC APIs make metadata available that describes SQL and database capabilities using methods and functions that support run-time introspection. The authors note that .NET programming differs because it requires a developer to have more understanding of the database to which an application or service connects. This comparison illustrates a difference between this book and most other texts about SQL database programming. Many books cover programming with a single API for a single database, such as Oracle. By contrast, The Data Access Handbook is platform- and database-neutral and it provides an in-depth treatment of performance techniques for the major data access APIs. This is particularly beneficial for programming shops with SQL databases that are accessed by programs and scripts written in a variety of languages.
Because SQL databases can present a performance challenge, benchmarks can be an important tool. The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) provides a variety of benchmarks that provide a basis for comparing DBMS products with specific hardware configurations. Benchmarks can provide a basis for comparing different middleware and data access solutions. "Performing Testing ODBC and Native SQL APIs" (Dr. Dobbs', February 1996) explains this class of benchmark.
Benchmarking can be a helpful solution for tuning an application or service. In The Data Access Handbook, Goodson and Steward provide benchmarking guidelines and tips for this type of benchmark. They recommend running benchmarks before putting applications into production and experiencing unexpected performance problems. The benchmarks should be as realistic as possible, matching the data, queries and network configuration of the application or service to be put into production.


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Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Sentinel
The dive site Sentinel is a shoreline rocky reef in the Hout Bay area on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
This is the place on the Atlantic seaboard where the 30m contour is closest to the shore
Get in
This site can be dived from a boat or from the shore.
The site is about 2.5km from Hout Bay harbour slipway.
Shore dive: There is a parking area at S34°03.553' E018°20.690' just beyond Hout Bay Sewage Works building.
South and east of the Sentinel (mountain peak)
This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2009). A permit is required.
The name "Sentinel" is the name of the steep rocky peak on the mountainside above the site.
The maximum depth of 30m requires a 500m swim out and is over sand. Most of the site is shallower than 10m.
Gradually sloping fine sand bottom at 30m, with occasional rock outcrops as it gets shallower, sloping up to shoreline reef and boulders at about 15m. Coarser sand in shallower parts. Reef is mostly moderately low profile, but with the occasional big rock. Surf zone is rounded boulders of about 1m size range. There are a number of sub-sites in this area. The Sentinel is considered by some to be in front of the vertical cliffs, and is an area of flat reef with lots of kelp and often box jellyfish, and some big boulders. The Pinnacles are a group of rocks just past the end of Hout Bay harbour, near the sewage works. (the outfall pipe opens much further to the south)
Geology: Late Pre-Cambrian granite corestones of the Peninsula pluton. with occasional shoreline boulders of the overlying Table Mountain sandstones.
Best after south easterly winds (summer). Exposed to south westerly swells and to wind chop from south easterly winds.
Adequate parking at the end of the gravel road. See Hazards.
Marine life
Box jellyfish are common near the bottom over sand. The deep rock outcrops are covered with common feather stars. There is fairly thick kelp forest inshore. Hottentot, occasional anemones, small swimming shrimps over the rocks, West Coast rock lobster, small red and brown algae, small sponges, sea fans, starfish, hydroids, and black mussels have been seen.
Suggested Routes
30m shore dive: Entry about 50m beyond parking place, surface swim to where the depth should be sufficient. This will be easiest if you have a submersible echo sounder, or a GPS on the surface marker, otherwise use compass bearings from the chart. Dive and swim out until depth is 30m. To return swim a compass course of north magnetic, ascending gradually until about 6m. and swimming in mid water to the surge zone near the shore. Entry and exit may be a bit rough in the surf and boulders. If the return is done along the bottom and the dive is on air, decompression will be required.
Stay safe
This area is reported to be a high risk for assault and theft from vehicles. There is also some risk from boats as there is considerable traffic in the area of fishing boats, tourist charter boats and dive charter boats. Cold water. Strong onshore winds may develop over a short period, making exit shore tricky. Access to entry/exit points is over a boulder beach.
No special skills required. The site is suitable for snorkeling. Some fitness and agility is needed for shore access, and there is a long swim to do a 30m dive.
A large surface marker or an escort boat with Flag Alpha is recommended if you plan to go far from the shore, as this area is frequented by tour charter boats and fishing boats. If you plan to do a shore dive to 30m, a compass is essential and Nitrox will allow a no-decompression dive.
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Environmental groups yesterday hailed as an important victory a decision by the Taipei High Administrative Court rejecting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed Tamsui-Taipei expressway construction project in New Taipei City (新北市).
Although the ruling can still be appealed, environmental activists were happy with the court's decision and called on the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to withdraw the EIA and not appeal.
The New Taipei City Government had proposed building a "Tambei Expressway" (淡北道路 Tamsui-Taipei Expressway) along the eastern shore of the Tamsui River.
At present, Highway No. 2 is the only major artery linking Taipei to New Taipei City's Tamsui District (淡水) and the northeast coastal area. It is clogged with heavy traffic on weekday rush hours, as well as on weekends and holidays.
The road runs along the narrow Zhuwei Corridor (竹圍走廊), which is geographically confined by the Tamsui River to the west and the Tatun Mountains to the east. The Taipei MRT Tamsui Line runs in this corridor, from Zhuwei MRT Station northward to Tamsui MRT Station.
Local residents and environmentalists vigorously opposed the expressway project, as it would encroach on the nearby Mangrove Forest Preservation Area.
After the EPA convened meetings to evaluate the project's environmental impact, the EIA committee announced its conditional approval for the expressway in July 2011.
However, local residents Wang Chung-ming (王鐘銘) and Chen Fu-chi (陳福齊) organized a petition in August of that year seeking to nullify the EIA report on the grounds the project would negatively impact an important and sensitive natural environment and therefore it required a second-stage EIA.
However, the Executive Yuan's Petitions and Appeals Committee rejected their petition in February last year.
Wang and members of the Green Party Taiwan filed a lawsuit with the Taipei High Administrative Court in April last year.
Local residents called yesterday's decision a major victory.
"We hope every EIA case in the future can be evaluated and scrutinized in a thorough and prudent manner. It must be done with participation and input by local residents to protect their natural environment," Wang said.
Other residents were delighted with the decision, saying justice had been served, but New Taipei City Councilor Tsai Chin-hsien (蔡錦賢) was disappointed.
"We have wasted three or four years already. With the construction set to start, the court decision has negated years of effort by many people," Tsai said.
"The court did not respect the wishes of local residents. It is an unreasonable ruling, as the court does not understand the suffering of local residents due to frequent traffic jams," the independent councilor added.
EPA Department of Comprehensive Planning head Yeh Chun-hung (葉俊宏) said his office would study the court judgement and would appeal if there is a possibility of overturning the decision.
He said the EPA could return to a first-stage EIA or go into second-stage EIA, pending its appraisal of the judgement.
Meanwhile, Taipei City Government spokesman Chang Chi-chiang (張其強) said the city government respected the court ruling and would not begin construction unless the project passes an EIA.
The New Taipei City Government, on the other hand, said it would continue construction and would provide the EPA with more information as a basis for a second-stage EIA.


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PBS's long-running and award-winning science series, NOVA, aired an hour-long documentary last week on the rapid increase in the development and use of unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly called drones. It was titled, appropriately, "Rise of the Drones."
Most of this program focuses, as NOVA usually does, on the science, technology and inventiveness that have propelled these new air vehicles to a point where, we are told, "because they have been so effective, the Air Force predicts nearly a third of its attack and fighter planes will be drones within a decade."
It also takes us to future domestic, non-military possibilities with smaller versions, the very thought of which is already stirring controversy.
But in the middle of the program, NOVA does not shy away from reporting, although with less depth, on the darker side of the increasing military usage. (...)
I was surprised to be bombarded by roughly 700 critical emails and phone calls beginning on Jan. 28, five days after the program aired, mostly from those responding to an "Action Alert" from the media-watch organization FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) urging their subscribers to write to me. The lead of FAIR's analysis said: "The PBS Nova broadcast 'Rise of the Drones' was sponsored by Lockheed-Martin — a clear violation of PBS's underwriting guidelines."
FAIR acknowledged that it wasn't their eagle-eyes that spotted Lockheed's funding involvement. That came from Kevin Gosztola who reported in a posting on Firedoglake.com on Jan. 24 that, "before the documentary began, PBS noted the program had received funding from the David H. Koch Foundation for Science. It also received 'additional funding' from Lockheed Martin." He pointed out that Lockheed is "one of the nation's biggest military defense contractors and is developing drones."
Gosztola also reported that although the actual broadcast included an underwriting announcement including Lockheed at the beginning, "that credit was removed from the webcast, and the company is not credited on the Nova website for the episode."
Michael Getler
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
Michigan-Iowa Post Game Thread
P.S. If you're reading this before the game, we put up a couple new posts below.
19 comments:
I've been meaning to stop by and mention that you guys do good work. I visit quite often, though if any of my Buckeye buddies ask me, I'll lie. Keep it up. Go Buckeyes!
- October 21, 2006 10:02 AM
If hart scores, look out for whatever hand signal he gives. i'm not sure what they mean, but he's been seen showing "deuce four" (on face book) and "C 1" (after the penn state score). anyone have an explaination for this?
- October 21, 2006 10:24 AM
I'm at my little brother's dorm room at Hayden in East Quad. Looking forward to the game even if the weather is going to kind of suck. All I can say is, GO BLUE and beat the fake maize up.
- October 21, 2006 1:06 PM
Final Score Prediction: Michigan - 42 Iowa - 10
- October 21, 2006 1:21 PM
Watching State game while waiting. Spartans are such a joke.
- October 21, 2006 1:55 PM
What's up with the pass defense? I'm in China, so I can't watch the game, but I'm following it on ESPN's Gamecast. It seems like Tate's finding too many WR open for 1st Down. We're up 3-0, but it doesn't feel good right now. How does everyone else feel?
- October 21, 2006 4:55 PM
I don't like it.
- October 21, 2006 5:16 PM
- Andy said...
Too close for comfort.
Mike Hart is a stud.
- October 21, 2006 7:08 PM
we were worried about this team?
if this team shows up 11/18 it won't be pretty, manningham or not
- October 21, 2006 7:16 PM
Hart is a stud indeed. Tough win, but I like how our defense got a look at a mobile QB. This will be a good wakeup call for D to fire back up. Drew Taint looked far better than I would have liked. D stepped up in 3rd Quarter. GO BLUE!
- October 21, 2006 7:20 PM
- UpTheHawks said...
I think the game ball should go to the stone-hands corps, er, the wide-recieving corps of the Hawkeyes. We had atleast 3 drives killed by dropped passes...AGAIN! But you guys were the better team in the all and all. Your game with tosu is going to be a war. Good luck on the season.
- October 21, 2006 7:23 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
offense was pretty unimpressive. trouble run blocking early (anyone notice run game picked up w/ Riley out?). play calling predictable. but 126 for Hart & two TDs not all bad.
D? D was huge. and when the game was close, when the O couldn't take advantage of the field position? the D played even bigger.
we may not win all the games, but w/ that defense, we'll have a chance every time.
BTW- listened to the Iowa feed on XM- their broadcasters seemed to think the crowd was pretty loud and effected their play calling.
- October 21, 2006 11:31 PM
- Yost said...
I was at game and will have much to say later. They were NOT loud except for a handful of plays.
- October 21, 2006 11:41 PM
- Yost said...
PS Thanks Penalty Kill. Really appreciate you reading. Dare we both start to look ahead to the 18th? Dare we dream?
- October 22, 2006 12:06 AM
Yost, usually I think you're off base when you complain about the noise level and the fans and all that. But today you're right on. On a handful of plays the crowd was LOUD. At all other times I felt the crowd was very "meh". Actually, right after I met up with my roomate at our seats I told him "uh-oh, this place has no energy. Everybody's flat, the team's probably gonna be flat. I don't like this at all."
All that said, I felt all along like this was going to be our biggest trap game this season. I didn't think we'd have much of a problem getting up for the Penn State game. But coming home, after a huge road win in a hostile stadium, I felt like we might have a hard time. And we did. I'm not going to complain though. I don't think Iowa is all that bad, and to dominate like that on D when you're fairly flat is impressive. I'll take it.
- October 22, 2006 12:25 AM
Even though the first half was tough, the last two games will help the team out when they go south until they smell it and east until they smell it.
The crowd was unbelievable at PSU last weekend. The Hawkeye defense will pretty stout in the first half. These games are good expereinces going into tOSU
- October 22, 2006 12:43 AM
- Zach Landres-Schnur said...
yeah, so michigan's pretty good. that defense could shut out the Oakland Raiders.
U-Dub Dish
- October 22, 2006 12:49 AM
- Sports on a Schtick said...
There was an awesome crowd shot of UM fans jangling their car keys. I think it was on an Iowa fourth-down. No doubt Yost was leading the charge.
That image was almost as disconcerting as Bob Griese's Technicolor sweater.
- October 22, 2006 1:03 AM
Yost, you again are off your rocker. The fans were great as usual. Even the notoriously harsh Michigan Daily rated the crowd "hype" a 3 out of 4. Also, with the keys, that is just what people at the stadium do. It get's people into the fourth down who wouldn't care otherwise. You say they should be clapping their hands, but most of those fans woudln't be doing anything if not for the rememberable "key" cheer. With all this complaining, you are turning into the Drew Sharp "Assclown" of the blogosphere. Congratulations.
- October 23, 2006 11:52 AM


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By Deepa Babington 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP - news), the No. 3 U.S. oil company, on Wednesday reported quarterly profit surged 89 percent, surpassing Wall Street forecasts, driven by record oil prices and sharply higher refining margins.
ConocoPhillips, like other major oil companies, has reaped a windfall from soaring crude oil prices -- which touched a record $70 a barrel in the quarter -- and better refining margins, as powerful hurricanes blew through the Gulf of Mexico, severely disrupting energy operations.
The Houston company's net profit in the third quarter rose to $3.8 billion, or $2.68 a share, compared with $2.01 billion, or $1.43 a share, a year earlier.
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"A decent set of numbers from ConocoPhillips, but without the U.S. refining blowout which the market may have by now been anticipating," Credit Suisse First Boston analysts said in a research note.
Profit at its refining and marketing operations rose to $1.39 billion from $708 million a year earlier, but were hit by outages at three Gulf Coast refineries.
Marketing earnings also fell sharply, largely because domestic wholesale and retail prices did not increase as rapidly as gasoline and diesel spot prices.
That was above the average profit forecast of $2.46 a share, according to analysts polled by Reuters Estimates. Total revenue also jumped to $49.7 billion in the quarter from $34.7 billion a year earlier.
Oil and gas production averaged 1.79 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the quarter, including the impact of its investment in Russian oil company LUKOIL.
Excluding LUKOIL, production rose to 1.52 million barrels a day, boosted by fewer maintenance-related disruptions in Alaska and Norway, and greater output from Australia, Venezuela and Indonesia.
The company said it expects production in the fourth quarter to increase and daily production for the year to average about the same as last year, excluding LUKOIL.
The company said its Lake Charles refinery in Louisiana was expected to return to normal operations by next week, while its Alliance refinery will begin partial operation in December and return to full operation early next year.
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UC Davis Medical Center has received the Zero Hero Award from Patient Safety First for having no early elective baby deliveries for 15 consecutive months.
Mitchell Creinin, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was presented with the award at a recent meeting of the Quality and Safety Committee. The department has not had an early elective delivery for 30 consecutive months.
"Accomplishing this feat is a tribute to the combined efforts of physicians and nurses who provide obstetric care at the medical center," said Creinin.
The trophy plaque will be displayed soon in the University Birthing Suites. The award originally was presented at the Annual Patient Safety First meeting last November in San Francisco.
Patient Safety First was launched in 2010 to improve quality of care, reduce health-care costs and save lives by improving patient safety and perinatal care in California. The project is a partnership among the National Health Foundation, California's Regional Hospital Associations, Anthem Blue Cross and more than 180 hospitals across the state.
In phase one of the project, member hospitals have made significant improvements in four important, hospital-based avoidable harm initiatives: sepsis mortality, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central-line bloodstream infections and perinatal gestational age deliveries under 39 weeks. Based on this success, Patient Safety First has been extended to a fourth year.
Phase 2 of the initiative will build upon the work of the first phase, and focus on new aspects of patient safety in these areas:
- C. diff
- Sepsis mortality
- Early elective deliveries
- Surgical safety: retained surgical sponges and towels


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MrSeb writes: "Invensas, a subsidiary of chip microelectronics company Tessera, has discovered a way of stacking multiple DRAM chips on top of each other. This process, called multi-die face-down packaging, or xFD for short, massively increases memory density, reduces power consumption, and should pave the way for faster and more efficient memory chips. Multi-die face-down packaging is exactly what it sounds like, with memory dies stacked on top of each other like roofing tiles. Much like a normal desktop DIMMs and laptop SO-DIMMs, each of the stacked dies is wired to each other in series — but in this case, the connections are much shorter, as they only have to run a few micrometers to the chip below it. This is where all of the power and speed enhancements come from: shorter interconnects mean less power is needed (and thus less heat is dissipated) and signals propagate faster."


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ANCHORAGE — The executive committee of the Alaska Republican Party has removed Kasilof resident Debbie Brown as chairwoman, the second leadership change in the last three months.
Brown, formerly the vice chairwoman, became the head of the party when the executive committee removed Russ Millet in January, KTUU reported.
Peter Goldberg was elevated to party chairman during Monday night's meeting. He was elected vice chairman after Brown was made chairwoman in January.
Both Brown and Millette were swept to power by Ron Paul supporters who overwhelmed last year's state meeting when elections were held to replace longtime party leader Randy Ruedrich.
"The actions that took place tonight had absolutely nothing to do with Ms. Brown's political views," Goldberg said.
Goldberg said most members of the committee agreed they all probably share the same core values.
"It's not about old guard. It's not about Ron Paul. It's about the future of getting rid of Mark Begich," Goldberg told the Anchorage television station. Begich, a Democrat and the state's freshman U.S. senator, faces re-election next year.
The GOP's executive committee claimed Brown ignored her duties as vice chairwoman from April 2012 through January and didn't raise enough cash for the party as reasons for her removal.
Brown, who said she was attending a national Republican event in California on Monday, countered the allegations against her weren't true.
"I have done nothing wrong," she told KTUU by phone.
"The complaint and charges are unfounded and harassing in nature," she said. "I believe it's time that the grass roots and Alaskan Republicans push back to these unreasonable actions by this smaller group of Republicans."
Goldberg acknowledged the party has "a lot of healing" to do.
"I have a big job in front of me to try and bring back together the people who think we are a factual divided state," he said. "We have a common goal. It's going to take some time but there's far more Republicans in this state than Democrats, and I think we can do it."


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Writer, actor and director Gilles Maheu, one of the leaders of theatrical creation in Canada, is renowned for the originality of his works, which combine text, dance, music and film.
Over the last 30 years, Gilles Maheu has led the theatre company Carbone 14, whose works have been presented in more than 30 countries and won some 40 awards at home and abroad.
His staging of Notre-Dame de Paris won the 1998 Victoire award for best production of the year in Paris and the Félix for best musical and best director in Montreal. This work been seen around the world, attracting an audience of more than seven million in 12 countries, including China, South Korea and Taiwan. In 2004, his staging of Don Juan, which was also a resounding success in Montreal, Paris and Seoul, earned him Félix awards for best show and best direction.
Gilles Maheu is the cofounder of the Montreal theatre companies Espace Libre and Usine C. He earned many accolades for his work in these research and creation spaces, including the Governor General of Canada's Award for the Performing Arts in 1992 and the Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montréal in 1995.
The international success of Gilles Maheu was reconfirmed when the Songlei Media Communications company of Beijing hired him in 2006 to direct the first private Chinese opera, entitled Butterflies.
Gilles Maheu played the lead in the Jean-Claude Lauzon film Un Zoo La Nuit in 1988. This memorable performance led to his being a finalist for the Genie award for best actor (Toronto).
Although this is the first time Gilles has worked for Cirque du Soleil, he has known Cirque founder Guy Laliberté for more than 30 years. "We did street theatre together before Cirque existed," he says.
"This is an interesting period to work with Cirque du Soleil," he adds. "The company is diversifying and exploring new forms of artistic expression. We share many characteristics and speak the same language – not a language focused on text, but physical and acrobatic body language. ZAIA is the result of the meeting between my poetic and visual writing and the acrobatic magic of Cirque du Soleil."
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4.4 Choosing whether students work individually, in small groups or as a whole group
It is helpful to organise seminars so that some time is spent with students working individually, some of the time working in pairs or small groups and some of the time as a whole group. Varying between these options within the seminar helps to reduce the weariness that sets in when students are asked to participate in the same way throughout a session.
Working individually
One reason for asking students to work individually on a task is so that they can prepare their personal ideas, views or arguments in response to a problem or a piece of stimulus material. It makes sense for this kind of preparation to be undertaken before the session, but there may also be times within a seminar when it is helpful to give students an opportunity to work alone. If students are given time to prepare an answer rather than being obliged to provide immediate responses, they are more likely to produce a considered response and likely to benefit from the time spent working out an appropriate answer. A second reason for asking students to work on their own is to provide an opportunity for the seminar leader to talk with individuals to gauge and respond to students' understanding.
Individual work may take the form of silent reading activities, problems or case studies. For example, you might ask students to read through an article and identify the application of economic theory, or to consider the answers to a series of related questions that can be used for a small-group discussion in the latter part of the seminar. Alternatively, you might have students complete a worksheet that covers a number of concepts from the previous lectures. This enables you to discuss progress with students on an individual basis, and, if the students are required to submit the worksheets at the end of the seminar period, it will provide you with more information about overall student understanding of the different topics studied. As a rule, individual work creates lower levels of interaction between the seminar leader and students (because attention is focused on one individual at a time) than other formats. For this reason it makes sense to use individual work sparingly.
Working in pairs and small groups
When students work together in pairs or small groups, the quantity of interaction is increased, and evidence from research reviewed by Springer et al. (1999) suggests that achievement is promoted, attitude towards learning is improved and willingness to work hard is increased. Students can be asked to work together in pairs or small groups to consider the answers to specific problems, discuss ideas, prepare for whole-class discussions, compare their answers or mark each other's work.
If you include an in-class test as part of your unit assessment, you can incorporate this into a subsequent seminar activity. When you mark each test paper, identify the one or two questions that caused the student most difficulty. Identify these questions on the test paper. Pair each student in the seminar group with a student who had difficulty with different questions and ask them to work through, with their partner, those questions that you have identified at the top of each of their papers. This exercise requires students to revisit material that they did not understand and pairs them with a student who demonstrated a stronger understanding of that same material. Working through these questions again with a partner, and discussing the areas that created the most difficulty, helps both students to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.
Encouraging students to learn from each other is a prime objective in organising students in small groups. It is therefore important to consider the way in which students are grouped. Less confident students can learn from the understanding of more confident students, and students with a higher level of understanding can consolidate their thinking through explaining ideas to others. Pairing quiet or less confident students with more outgoing students can often be beneficial to both parties, whereas putting all the outgoing, confident students into one group may lead to conflict and a less than successful outcome to the whole activity.
Top Tip: It is important that all seminar activities are treated as evolving processes – adopting a very rigid approach does not allow for the flexibility often necessary to make an activity a success. If the dynamics of a group are detrimental to the success of an activity, change either the size of the groups or the particular pairings that were originally chosen. This can often revive a flailing activity and might be the only change necessary to turn the activity into a valuable learning experience for the students.
It is important to monitor small-group activity to make sure that groups are not diverted from the task or taken over by one individual. Monitoring is quite demanding, as the seminar leader needs to be aware of how other groups are progressing at the same time as interacting with one group. There is also a danger that the seminar leader will get drawn into 'taking over' groups, stifling their discussion. Students need space to initiate and develop their ideas before they are ready to engage with the seminar leader.
During the first part of small-group work, the seminar leader's time is best spent listening to the ideas being put forward by students as they discuss with each other. This creates opportunities to identify misconceptions, emphases and omissions. Some misconceptions may be shared by several groups, and it is more efficient to interrupt the group work and address these on a whole-class basis. In other cases there will be questions that the seminar leader will want to pose to a particular group, along the lines of 'Why do you think that?', so that the onus is put on the students to articulate and expose their reasoning.
Box 1 outlines different types of activity that may be used with small groups in seminars. Different styles of small-group teaching in seminars are discussed in great depth by Brown and Atkins (1990). Chapter 4 provides an excellent review of the possible pitfalls that a seminar leader may encounter and discusses student expectations, group sizes, group dynamics, types of small group activity, and tactics for questioning. Further suggestions may be found in Tiberius (1999), and Light and Cox (2001). The LTSN website also offers valuable examples and a discussion of important issues in small-group work.
Box 1 Activities for individual or small-group work
The following list provides some ideas for tasks to set individuals or pairs of students in a seminar. These exercises could be followed in the second half of the session with a larger group activity.
- Ask the students to construct a model or create a diagram relating to a technique or topic covered in the lecture.
- Provide students with a case study to read and discuss; they can identify the main issues, jot down some key questions, write a proposal, take some notes, make decisions/proposals about a case, read and note some ideas for discussion.
- Ask students to make choices between various questions/scenarios, e.g. true/false, possible/impossible, discuss whether different scenarios are realistic/unrealistic etc.
- Provide some text for students to read and analyse.
- Suggest a thesis/proposition and ask students to prepare a case for or against it.
- Ask students to choose between alternative solutions to solve a problem.
- Ask students to work through written mathematical proofs/calculations/problems and spot deliberate mistakes in the problems given.
- Ask students to develop a presentation together and then present to the whole class.
- Give students a scenario, ask them to discuss the arguments for and against a proposal and then ask them to present their views to the whole class.
- Ask students to work through old test questions – or essay questions – and discuss the answers.
Ask students to solve problems in small groups (each group working through a different problem) and then rearrange the groups so that each student can explain their particular problem (with solution) to the other students in their new group.
- Ask students to devise a map or solve a puzzle: for example, in a seminar about coordinates and finding the equation of a line, create a map on some graph paper and ask students to find the location of a specific object by plotting a series of intersecting lines.
- Ask students to match key concepts introduced in the lecture to sentences in a newspaper article.
- Give each pair of students an answer and ask them to devise an appropriate question drawing on the content of the most recent lecture.
- Use quick-fire questions, quizzes or team games to test knowledge and understanding.
- Select a series of quotes about a topic (preferably some that express conflicting views on an issue, e.g. the health service, trade relations, foreign direct investment, economic development programmes) and ask students to discuss their quote with reference to material presented in the associated lecture.
- Show 5–10 minutes of a video, ask students to prepare answers to a variety of questions and then have them present their work to the class.
- Show 5–10 minutes of a video and then give students a short quiz that relates some of the video material to the lecture material. This could be followed by a group discussion about the answers, which will enable students to see the relationship between the lecture material and the video material.
- Ask students to prepare presentations in small groups, taking opposite views on a specified topic.
- Ask students to work through exercises and compare answers with a partner or group.
- Ask students to compare essay plans that are clearly different in quality.
- Provide students with two pieces of text (each about 150–200 words long) which present different views of a topic or situation. Ask students to produce a new piece of text, no more than 100 words in total, which combines the two sources.
Working with the whole group
The start and end of each seminar will typically involve the seminar leader in working with the whole group. At the beginning of the seminar, it makes sense to work with the whole group in introducing the purpose and structure of the seminar. At the end of the session, the seminar leader can consolidate the learning of the students and highlight key points. However, it may be best to work with the whole group during the main part of the session as well.
Whole-group work is well suited to formal debate, review discussions, role-play, having members of each group circulate to inject new ideas into other groups, having students from one group teach other groups how to solve different problems, and organising a formal debate. You can also use a fishbowl approach, whereby a small group of students are given a topic to discuss while other students observe. This gives students a chance to listen to a discussion about a specific economic issue and to hear how other students present differing views and opinions on a topic. Larger groups (4+) can be productive, but these activities tend to be useful only to very specialist seminar activities. More often than not, the group is too large to focus on individual learning. The quieter and weaker students become sidelined and the larger group sub-divides into unproductive cliques.
Top Tips: Get students actively involved. Get them to debate, deliver and present individual or group arguments and ideas. This type of activity gets students away from their 'comfort zones' and encourages them to stay actively involved in the activity for the duration of the session.
Keep activities to a maximum of 20 minutes then move on to another topic/method. Continually introducing additional elements to the exercise/activity will keep students interested.
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