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Spoken wordsmith Kevin Barrington writes:
"Wriot" – a night featuring some of the best figures on the city's growing spoken scene along with music from all round Renaissance man Phelim Drew and the sweet sounds of Davina and the Messengers. As always there will a couple of surprise guests in store. And occasional randomers too.
What's more, it's free in. Just throw a donation in the hat. So come along for a wild night of riotous entertainment.
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Holly Tree Surgery, 42 Boundstone Road, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 4TGTel: 01252 793183
Welcome Dr Victoria Collins
The practice is delighted to announce that Dr Collins, who has been associated with the practice over the past 3 years, has been appointed as permanent new member of the practice team from 3rd April 2017.
Drs Adams, Elliott and Price are reducing their hours. There will be significant timetable changes as outlined below but the "on the day" walk-in surgeries will continue unchanged (8:30am to 10:00am and 3:30pm to 5:15pm Monday to Friday).
There will be a lot of variation until 8th May when the new timetable shown under "Opening Times" will be the norm. Dr Adams and Dr Price will work different days, alternating each week: week 1 and week 2 below. Drs Elliott, Colyer and Collins will work the same days each week.
It will take us 24 hours from registration before we are able to see you.
Please rate and review our surgery by visiting www.iwantgreatcare.org. Thank you.
Please note that on the following dates out medical staff will be attending important training events arranged by the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The surgery will be open as normal in the mornings and the Reception and Dispensary will be open during the afternoons until 18:30. There will be no medical staff on site on these afternoons. If you require medical assistance in the afternoon on one of these dates please telephone 111.
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The Friends and Family Test is a short survey asking patients whether they would recommend the NHS service they have received to friends and family who need similar treatment or care. This valuable feedback will be used to improve services and help patients make informed choice about the NHS provider they use. Results will be submitted to NHS England on a monthly basis and will be published at a national and local level.
Holly Tree Surgery would be very grateful if you could take the time to click on this link and fill in our Friends and Family test at iwantgreatcare.org. Alternatively a paper copy can be filled in at the surgery.
Thank you very much.
The Government requires all patients to have a named accountable GP.
Every patient at this surgery has always had a named accountable GP, and this will be one of our three partners (Drs Adams, Elliott or Price).
Having a named, accountable GP does not stop you seeing any of the doctors working at the practice.
Having a named, accountable GP helps hospitals and other health care providers send information through to us quickly and efficiently.
If you are already registered with us, our reception staff will be happy to confirm who your named accountable GP is if you do not already know. If you are registering or re-registering with us we will inform you who your named, accountable GP is at the point of registration.
If you have a preference as to your allocated named accountable GP, then please speak to us and we will try our best to assist.
Please remember this doesn't stop you from seeing whichever GP is on duty or you may choose to see.
The following appointment types can now be booked online:
Please click the link below to register for online access. You will need to bring ID with you when you attend your appointment to complete the registration. Alternatively bring ID to the surgery and ask for a registration letter. This will also allow you to order repeat prescriptions online.
If you are already registered to order repeat prescriptions online then you will automatically have access to the online appointment system.
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We are extremely pleased and excited to announce that the Éras Chronicles' first event will be held as a one-day feast on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at Camp Furnace Hills in Denver, PA. The details of the event are enclosed in our Feast invitation.
Registration for the event is now open, and will remain so until 11:59pm on February 15, 2013, which is also the deadline for any and all BGS submissions.
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The Joint Venture (uTE) consisting of Eptisa and Elimco has announced that it expects to complete the works for the construction of the new Alestis Aerospace factory in the Bay of Cádiz in the first quarter of 2010. In the coming years this factory will assemble various sections of the belly fairing and tail cone of the new year Airbus passenger jet, the A350XWB.
Once finished, says the joint venture, it will be the "most advanced aeronautical manufacturing plant in Andalusia". The new factory located in the Tecnobahía Technology Park will involve an investment of 83 million euros, including construction, fitting out and provision of technological facilities. Of this amount, 21.34 million euros will be provided by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Andalusian Regional Government. The plant consists of a "key in hand" project on a site measuring 49,670 square metres next to the premises of the former Delphi factory in the El Trocadero Industrial Estate in Puerto Real (Cádiz).
The built surface area of 19,530 square metres will be divided into two zones. The first of these will house the new production plants, the warehouses and the loading and unloading area, while the second zone consisting of three floors will include a painting section, a services section and the offices.


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Join us every first Sunday of the month to enjoy a worship service and lunch for free! Meet people you don't know and make new friends. Its a great time to Experience God, Experience Change. Worship and lunch will begin at 9:45am.
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It is good to know the different ways you are reaching out to the community. May the Lord bless your efforts to help others who need to know the Lord. Will look forward to read the results. May God bless and encourage your hearts.
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- First off, get yourself Dropbox account. After that install Dropbox on your Desktop. You can find install packages on Dropbox site.
- Download a small Linux distribution called Levinux. Zip-package is about 20 MB in size.
- Extract Levinux and place it in Dropbox.
- Now, depending on which operating system you are using you can start your Levinux. How?
- If using Linux like me, open terminal, change to the directory where Levinux is and type in the following command: ./LinuxLevinux.sh. After that Levinux fires up.
- In case you have Windows all you nned to do is double-click a file WindowsLevinux.vbs. (I haven't tested that though!)
- OS X? I suggest you look at the video on YouTube. Running Levinux on OS X should be pretty straight forward. I have no access to that operating system at the moment.
Let Levinux boot. Choose number two (look at the screen capture below).
- Login: tc
- Password: foo
From now on you can start to study Linux commands. There are plenty of them. Find your favourite Linux guide on the Internet. It's never too late to migrate to Linux!
But wait! There is more! Levinux is also a small web server. You can place your HTML-pages inside a folder called htdocs and use your favourite web browser to preview them. How? SSH Levinux and transfer desired files to folder htdocs. Yes, i can understand that. But how do I do it? I'll tell you later. Stay tuned for more!


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Match report - photo gallery
After a tense 1 wicket victory for Investec in the corresponding fixture in 2015, LCP returned to a sunny Shepherd's Bush on 6th July to try to claim the bragging rights for 2016.
Investec elected to bat first and first wicket of Dave Hearn fell to an athletic catch from Lewis Gascoigne off Mistry's bowling. Opener Stephen Small was joined by debutant Varun Laijawalla and the scoring rate climbed despite tidy bowling by Andrew Tainton and Manoj Patel. Small retired after some lusty blows only to bring another debutant Nigel Jacobs to the crease for what was the most elegant of Investec's partnerships. Jacobs soon retired after a swift 27 which brought Procter in. With forearms like Popeye (in size and decoration) Procter hit some quick boundaries before being bowled off his legs by the pick of LCP's bowlers Harry Green. Following in Procter's footsteps, housewives favourite Thys Louw didn't hang around with 6 boundaries and retired on 28. The last few overs saw the scoring rate continue with the last wicket partnership of Huntingdon and Doyle taking the 20 over total to an impressive 166 for 3.
LCP's reply was solid and steady but the opening batsmen struggled to keep up with the 8-an-over asking rate. Procter couldn't believe his luck when Jacob Stevens was given out lbw but some fine batting from Andrew Tainton and William Blair kept LCP in touch before some accurate bowling by Small was rewarded with impressive statistics of 3 for 15. Wickets were falling regularly with Huntingdon and Jacobs rearranging the timbers and it looked like the game was all but over. But Captain Farrell had other ideas and an impressive batting display supported by Eoin Morgan look-alike Thomas Donahoe kept the match alive. Harry Green returned to the fray having earlier retired and started finding the boundaries with consummate ease. Needing 11 off two balls to win and 10 to draw Green smote Jacobs to the mid-wicket boundary falling just a few feet short of a maximum six runs which was needed to keep the tie alive. Getting a single off the last ball meant Investec were winners by just 5 runs.
So like last year the contest went to the wire with the relieved Investec team narrow winners again.
Man of the match: Harry Green for LCP
Team sheets
David Hearn
Stephen Small
Varun Laijawalla
Nigel Jacobs
Mike Procter
Thys Louw
Matthew Huntingdon
Frank Doyle
Stephen Lee
Oli Osterwind
David Aird
Jacob Stevens
Hishendhra Ravindra
Andrew Tainton
Marcus de kock
Harry Green
Lewis Gascoigne
Manoj Patel
Tom Farrell
Sailesh Mistry
James Fermont
Nick Cooney
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"Dream", a glorious 24"x30" satin finish masterpiece of a painting. Done on a heavy duty style thicker depth of canvas, its deep sides are dripping and puddled with rainbow colors that bring the artwork off the surface and onto the surrounding wall. The colors in this piece are rich, deep, and magical. It is a very active dreamscape, full of movements of all sorts, mesmerizing, captivating, giddy. While I was painting this one the thinned out paint was often dripping off my gloves and I let it drip, so there are lots of tiny skies hidden here are there filled with rainbow planets, moons, satisfied black holes and soapbubbles filled to brim with children's summer giggles. She's balancing a bowl in her left palm, herbal tea I think, contents imaginable.


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Politics, Civility and Social Change
A friend of mine recently announced that she would not log onto Facebook until after the presidential election is over in November, tired of the political rhetoric from her many Facebook friends across the political spectrum. It got me thinking of the old cliché about religion and politics—two things not to be discussed in polite company once upon a time—and how much has changed, particularly since the introduction of new communication technologies. It is a good example of how norms surrounding interactions can shift along with structural changes.
Both religious and political beliefs may be deeply and passionately held, and thus could stir up ill will between people whose beliefs differ. So in many cases people will avoid these topics so as not to offend or alienate others. I remember as a small child hearing a relative at a holiday dinner bringing up politics. Even though I didn't know who they were talking about, and had no opinion about the subject at the time, I could sense the discomfort in the room and wished it would stop. Only occasionally would I hear my parents discussing political topics with each other, but these discussions were private and kept to the confines of our home, so it wasn't an uncomfortable experience.
The advent of the Internet and email made it much easier to engage in political discussions with a wide range of people, often anonymously. Social networking platforms make it even easier, much to the delight of some and the dismay of others.
Social media is at once a public space with the appearance of a private, even intimate space. Public and private easily overlap: we might be part of multiple conversations without thinking about it. When someone "likes" a public post, seemingly part of a more anonymous public discussion, their "friends" (which might include anyone from family, friends, co-workers, classmates we knew decades ago to acquaintances we barely know) might be updated on their "newsfeed" of the endorsement.
This can lead to embarrassing missteps—and not just about political beliefs. Do you really want your grandmother to see you wearing a suggestive outfit or pounding shots at a bar? Should your boss know your beliefs about legalizing drugs? Social media can put us in the middle of many overlapping Venn diagrams that might not otherwise overlap.
But sometimes we might consciously want them to overlap, particularly if we have very passionate beliefs about an issue. Social media is a powerful tool for activism, a way for people to organize and to advocate for and identify with a cause. It is so powerful that totalitarian regimes sometimes interfere with or ban their use outright. Social movements today rely on sharing information about their cause, informing people of events, and creating pressure for change through social media. Tweets can travel around the world in seconds.
Not everyone who likes or retweets a link or image is part of a social movement. Sometimes (paraphrasing another cliché) a like is just a like. The "liker" might not have even intended for anyone else to know what he or she liked, but it is built into the social media platform. A Facebook forum discussion includes many users who would prefer that their friends not see what they like at all.
As new communication technologies change the way we share information with one another, new norms for interaction emerge, but not without disagreement about what these new norms should be. Is discussing topics that might produce strong disagreements becoming more acceptable? If so, under what circumstances? How do people navigate these arenas and create new modes of acceptable behavior?
These are just a few questions sociologists might investigate as political discussions become more accessible and at times more polarizing. What else might sociologists study about these interactions?


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Do you ever have those moments where you realize that the universe is conspiring to teach you something?
Over the weekend I got to spend time with Brandy and Hilary, two of my favorite people. Visiting with them is always so uplifting and insightful. (And the time is always too short!) One of the things I came away with from our discussion was the idea that if we know where we want to end up then we can weigh our intended actions against whether they will get us closer to that desired result. In order to do that, we need to be aware of our ultimate goal(s), and mindful of each action that we're taking – either toward or away from it.
Yesterday I was reading in The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy by Pamela Dodd and Doug Sundheim and I read this:
When you're clear about your values, life flows. You're pulled toward what makes you happy and productive. You feel satisfied and fulfilled.
When you're unclear about your values — or espouse values that other people think are important — life is a struggle. Circumstances push you, often in directions you wouldn't necessarily choose. You feel frustrated, anxious, and ineffective.
Life shifts from push to pull when you identify, own, and begin living from your own values.
They then provided a list of about 100 values from which to choose, with the instruction to mark any that are important to you. After marking them, the instruction was to narrow the list down to 10, combining any that seemed to you to go together, and then further narrow it to the six that most encapsulate what it is you value.
This process was really interesting to me. I found that values like competition, efficiency, and productivity didn't get checked. Instead, I found myself with the following six values at the end of the whole process:
Those are the values that are most important to me, the state of living I want to reach, the person I want to be. Yet, before we started Modern Day Martha, most of my time was focused on values like competition, efficiency, and productivity. And what a surprise, I wasn't ending up where I wanted to be. But it's tricky, isn't it? Because efficiency and productivity and competition (the positive kind) are such good things. They're just not the road to where I want to be.
Without having put it into words, when I started focusing on the values I actually… value, things started going SO much better; and now that I actually have a list at which I can look repeatedly throughout the day, I have the feeling I will be able to center myself all the more. Now I can solidify the vision of where I want to be, and make goals toward that end. I can push instead of be pulled. And that sounds far more comfortable to me.
What are your 6 values? (Keep in mind, each of my 6 encapsulates many others in my mind, what's listed is just the overriding value; for example, to me, wisdom includes knowledge, reflection, inspiration, order, balance, discipline, development and integrity. So if it gets tricky, just squish ideas together.)
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Acceptance Accountability Achievement Adventure Affection Authenticity
Balance Beauty Belonging
Camaraderie Care Challenge Collaboration Commitment Compassion Competence Competition Confidence Contribution Cooperation Courage Creativity Curiosity
Decisiveness Development Devotion Discipline
Effectiveness Efficiency Empathy Empowerment Excellence Enthusiasm Excitement
Fairness Faith Flexibility Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Fun
Generosity Genuineness Gratitude Growth
Happiness Harmony Health Honesty Honor Humility Humor
Independence Influence Inspiration Integrity Intuition Involvement
Kindness Knowledge
Leadership Love Loyalty
Moderation Money
Openess Order
Partnership Passion Patience Peace of Mind Perseverance Play Pleasure Prestige
Recognition Reflection Respect Responsibility
Security Serenity Service Sincerity Spirituality Stability Status Success
Teamwork Tolerance Tradition Trust
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CLEMMONS, N.C. – The Huntingdon softball team took control early and knocked off Salem 6-2 in the first round of the Great South Athletic Conference tournament on Friday.
The top-seeded Lady Hawks (24-9) pushed their conference winning streak to 21 straight games and will play Finlandia (23-6) in the second round on Saturday. Game time was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. Due to weather concerns, the game times were being evaluated late Friday night.
Friday's win was Huntingdon's fifth of the season over Salem. Senior Melissa McClure (14-3) picked up the win, striking out eight, walking two, allowing five hits and two runs in seven innings. Lauren Welch drove in two runs and Jenna Rimensnyder scored twice to lead Huntingdon at the plate.
The Lady Hawks built a 5-0 lead in the first three innings to set the tone. Halleigh DiNicholas singled to score Brittany Richardson and then scored on a Holly Ostrander single for a 2-0 lead in the first inning.
A Welch triple in the second inning scored Jade Reynolds and Alicia Gauker to make it 4-0. Rimensnyder scored on a McClure double to make it 5-0 in the third. Rimensnyder scored Huntingdon's final run on a single by Ashley Hawkins in the fifth inning.


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Vanessa Redgrave, Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, and Boyd Gaines were among the theatrical stars who turned out to honor Patti LuPone last night at The Drama League's annual benefit.
"As a kid who grew up listening to her and is now getting to perform for her, it's really neat," said Christopher Sieber, who starred in Spamalot and Shrek the Musical and served as the MC. "First of all, I'm here to support The Drama League, which does a lot of great stuff for a lot of great people, like young artists and directors and writers. But it's also Patti LuPone, who's a Broadway legend."
The gala, held at The Pierre Hotel, featured an auction, a dinner and a performance, in which LuPone's friends and co-stars sang songs, told stories and gently roasted the Tony-winning diva.
"Patti LuPone is the last great musical theater star," said Benanti, who co-starred with LuPone in both Gypsy and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. "She embodies the type of performer that I want to be. She has so much energy, and love, and passion and creativity.
"And I feel like everyone here tonight probably feels that way. She's an icon."
James Monroe Iglehart, who appears in Memphis, said he was honored to be included in the evening.
"This is only my second Broadway show, so the fact that they even asked me to perform -- I just jumped at the chance," he said. "It's not often that you actually get to sing for a Broadway legend, and Patti has done everything on Broadway."
Justin Guarini, best known for being the runner-up in the first season of American Idol, starred with LuPone, Benanti, and several other big stars in last year's production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- an experience he described as "insane" and "daunting."
"I'm out here to support Patti tonight because she supported me so much throughout that process," he said. "So many people have benefitted from being in her presence and watching her work, and I'm definitely one of those people."
LuPone, for her part, said that she viewed the evening more as a way to benefit The Drama League, rather than as a celebration of her own career. But she did say that she was humbled and flattered by everyone's support.
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Welcome to Doyle Chiropractic & Acupuncture located in Huntersville, NC. If you are in search of a chiropractor in Huntersville, it makes sense to choose an experienced doctor you can trust. All of us at Doyle Chiropractic are here to serve you in the best way that we can to help you live a healthy and pain free life. Our techniques are gentle and safe for every member of the family. We see a wide range of patients from infants to high performance athletes. Our staff members are very well trained and help make your experience here stress free!
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Our office provides specific treatment for your individual needs and gives focus on the root cause of your pain. We combine Chiropractic care with Acupuncture to maximize your healing. We also value your time. We take walk-in patients, so no waiting weeks to be seen by your doctor!
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A huge part of managing cancer is learning how to look after yourself. By making sure you're taking care of yourself physically and emotionally, you're not only better prepared to take on challenges, but also ready to enjoy good things that come your way.
One of the first things to know about self-care is when to say no. You are the only person who knows your limits, so it's good to practice setting boundaries and choosing where to put your energy. That said, it can be a good thing to use your energy on some of the activities you've always enjoyed, or even try learning something new.
We've put together some tried and tested suggestions for self-care below.
looking after your body
looking after your mind
having fun and taking risks
It might sound strange, but it's okay to have fun if you have cancer. Cancer doesn't define you, so it shouldn't stop you from being the person you want to be. This may mean stepping out of your comfort zone or taking a few risks.
A good sense of humour, even a black one at times, can be a great asset in dealing with cancer. There are some very funny young adult cancer blogs. Check out websites like Stupid Cancer as starting points.
Last updated September 2015.


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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Community Benefit
With a mission-driven commitment to providing quality medical care, regardless of the ability to pay, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (NMHC) maintains its dedication to improve the health of the communities we serve. In Fiscal Year 2016, NMHC provided more than $747.3 million in community benefit including charity care, unreimbursed cost of Medicaid and Medicare, research, education, and other community benefit to the residents of Chicago, its North and West suburbs and Northern Illinois.
FY16 Community Benefits Report Overview
For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2015, NMHC sought to improve the health of the communities we serve by:
- Providing more than $747.3 million in community benefit in fiscal year 2016 including charity care, other unreimbursed care, research, education and other community activities;
- Supporting those recently insured under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid Expansion by continuing to provide medically necessary healthcare and assisting patients in determining eligibility and understanding coverage and provider networks in the changing face of healthcare;
- Providing $115.6 million in funding for research and medical education in fiscal year 2016, including participating in more than 5,200 clinical research studies and training more than 1,500 medical students, residents and fellows;
- Expanding access to healthcare services through establishment of primary care in the community, partnering with community-based organizations determined to increase access to care, connecting patients with medical homes, underwriting medically necessary diagnostic specialty care, developing targeted programs to help individuals better manage prevalent chronic conditions and supporting volunteer efforts;
- Participating in community-based health initiatives aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles to reduce risk factors for heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases, promoting maternal child health, addressing mental health and substance abuse, promoting independence in individuals with disabilities and reducing violence.
The Annual Hospital Community Benefits Plan Report is public information, has been filed with the Illinois Attorney General and is available to the public on request from the Illinois Attorney General.
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (NMHC) is the not-for-profit corporate parent of Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital (LFH), CDH-Delnor Health System (CDHS), Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH), Medicine Delnor Hospital (DCH), Northwestern Medical Group (NMG), Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group (RMG), Northwestern Memorial Foundation (NMF), and other subsidiaries; as of December 1, 2015, KishHealth System (KHS), Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital (KCH), Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital (VWH), KishHealth Physician Group (KPG), and other subsidiaries; and as of March 1, 2016, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital (MJRH), Marianjoy Medical Group (MMG), and other subsidiaries.
NMHC has submitted the FY16 Community Benefits Plan Report on behalf of its subsidiaries for FY16 (September 1, 2015-August 31, 2016.) KHS, VWH and KPG are included in this report from December 1, 2015-August 31, 2016. MJRH and MMG are included in this report from March 1, 2016-August 31, 2016.
Click here to download the NMHC FY16 Community Benefit Report Summary.


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Spotting a family of ducks with a number of very young ducklings in Waikerie, South Australia, we stopped the car on the opposite side of the road to take some photographs. The adult ducks were immediately alert watching my every move.
I crossed the road, they called out and their young immediately moved closer to the adults. I climbed over the fence, the adults called out again and the ducklings moved in between the two adults - the little family group rapidly started moving towards the road and the safety of the river.
Reaching the road the ducklings stayed close together with both adults alert, 'escorting' their young as fast as their little legs could take. They remained calm but with a sense of urgency.
The little family crossed the road, down the embankment where the ducklings were sent ahead while the adults moved between myself and their young until everybody had reached the safety of the river and they all swam off calmly....possible danger (me and my camera?) averted.
As young as these ducklings were they immediately responded to the adult's warning cries - instant obedience which is necessary to protect these vulnerable young.
I have seen similar protective behaviour in the bird world before. Baby birds in a nest will remain absolutely silent until the parent arrives with food which it will only do once the adult feels there is no danger. Some birds on the ground will noisily fly up to distract the intruders while their young instantly hide silently until the parent bird declares it safe to move on again. These young instantly react to the adults warnings, no arguments....their lives may depend on their obedience. This is part of their instinct for survival.
Many of our young children do not appear to have the same instinct for survival. Adults are constantly warning children to be careful - most children do not react at all and may in fact see this as a challenge and increase the behaviour! A child running away from a parent towards a busy road may run faster as the parents shouts louder, thinking it is a game!
We use this phrase when we want:
- children to be aware of others in the environment: " BE CAREFUL!" (not to bump the baby)
- them to be aware of their actions "BE CAREFUL!" (not to spill when pouring milk)
- children to undertake risky tasks "BE CAREFUL!" (of the cars when crossing the road),
- children to be aware during play "BE CAREFUL!" ( of slipping when climbing the tree)"
- and many other opportunities!
In a risk averse society children are overly protected, not allowed to experience or evaluate possibly risky opportunities for themselves. Adults use terms such as 'be careful' which are meaningless as they are heard too often and children no longer react with caution. The risk is that children are not able to judge and therefore react to REAL danger in an appropriate way.


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Board Off Megaloop – Whaaaat?
Many years back when kites were still 4 line monsters with zero depower, there was a joke thread in the Hangloose.nl kitesurf forum which had a Photoshopped image of a kiter doing a board off while kitelooping. It was just a joke, nobody could pull that off and most definitely not with those old kites but fast forward many years and not only have the kites improved but the balls on some riders have become very large!
For the Red Bull King of the Air 2017, we can expect to see Graham Howes who is not only a really skilled rider but also quite insane. Right at the end of the video he attempts this mad trick and although he does not stick the landing I think we will see him try it at the competition.


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This website is proud to be the first Cincinnati-area blog to become a member of the Streetsblog Network. This national blog network is focused on sustainable transport, smart growth, and livable streets issues.
The network serves as a "one-stop shop for transportation policy goodness" with over 170 blogs contributing their best work from a local perspective all over the nation. If you feel that another blog, or your own, is qualified to be a part of this network then please fill out the nomination form and start contributing today.
UrbanCincy hopes to contribute its local perspective on transportation and smart growth issues here in Cincinnati. This will extend beyond the normal coverage of Cincinnati's modern streetcar proposal and also cover topics such as complete streets, development patterns, and livability issues. Help UrbanCincy accomplish this goal by offering specific topics to cover. As always, share your thoughts on the issues through the comment section provided with each article.
NOTE: UrbanCincy's good friend, CincyStreetcar Blog, has also become a member of this national network within the past day. View its Streetsblog Network profile here.
Please take the 2010 UrbanCincy Survey to weigh in on some big changes coming soon!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
UrbanCincy and the Streetsblog Network
Posted by Randy Simes at 10:15 AM
Labels: maintenance, planning, transportation
5 comments:
- Charlie Green said...
Congrats on getting your street cred, um, dawg.
- January 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM
you say you're a young professional but you manage to post during the day at the most random times when the rest of us are at work... how do you manage that?
- January 22, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Randy Simes said...
You draft up articles then copy/paste them into publishing form. It takes a good 30 seconds.
Thanks for reading while you're at work...if it weren't for people like you the site's traffic would be much lower as daytime workers make up the majority of visits.
- January 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- Chris Lamping said...
Congrats! I remember stumbling on streetsblog a few months ago and being really impressed.
- January 27, 2009 at 7:52 PM
...simes is a student not a professional...
- January 31, 2009 at 10:37 PM


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Designed by Fréderic Sofia for France-based Fermob, this weather-friendly aluminum table is from a collection inspired by the iconic slatted-metal outdoor pieces originally created for the legendary Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Lightweight yet supremely durable, the table is perfectly sized for outdoor entertaining. Fermob's signature powder-coat matte finish resists scratches and corrosion and matches our coordinating Luxembourg dining chairs.
- 65"L x 39.5"W x 29"H overall; seats: 6–8
- Durable aluminum frame finished with UV- and corrosion-resistant matte powder coating.
- Patented foot pads with shock absorbers allow chair to slide effortlessly across floors without scratching.
- Part of our signature collection of premium furnishings specially designed to meet the performance standards of commercial environments.
- Three-year guarantee.
- Made in France by Fermob.
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- Overall: 65"L x 39.5"W x 29"H
- Seats: 6–8
- Top: 65"L x 39.5"W x 1" thick
- Base: 63"L x 32"W x 29"H
- Distance between legs (at sides): 51.25"
- Clearance under table: 28"
- Product weight: 41 lb.
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By Frederick Brown, deputy executive director, Learning Forward
Someone asked that question a few years ago during a meeting of The Wallace Foundation Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) professional learning community in New York. I felt it was an incredibly appropriate question considering the many demands being placed on today's school leaders. To provide a bit of context, let me remind you that the principal pipeline initiative involves helping six large urban districts create a large corps of "instructional leaders" – principals whose main task is to improve teaching and learning. The districts include Hillsborough County, FL, New York City, Gwinnett County (GA), Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Prince George's County (MD), and Denver.
This particular question about the viability of the principalship was directed to a panel that included the superintendents of these six districts. Keep in mind that these districts survived a vetting process by Wallace before receiving their funding. As a result, they are among the top districts in the country when it comes to focusing their attention and resources on the principalship. Several of the superintendents were quick to acknowledge their beliefs that the job of school principal is incredibly demanding and perhaps not for everyone. However, each superintendent who answered highlighted that principals absolutely need the appropriate supports in order to do their jobs effectively, but they all felt the job is definitely doable.
I will come back to that word "supports" in just a bit, but first I want to take a moment to contrast that moment in New York with another moment when that same question was posed during a State Consortium on Educator Effectiveness (SCEE) meeting several years ago in Baltimore. At this particular meeting were principals from across the country, and they were the ones to respond to the question about how "doable" their jobs are. Their answers were both passionate and poignant. Although no principal said it wasn't possible to do their jobs, many of them described a set of circumstances that left the audience wondering how long they would be able to sustain their pace. They described being required to complete formal evaluations of dozens of teachers each year. They emphasized their districts' responses to their state student assessments and their roles in supporting the testing processes. They described work weeks that typically lasted 80+ hours and weekends that were all but nonexistent. It was a sobering moment and left many people in the audience wondering if we are simply asking our principals to do too much.
As I reflect on both the SCEE meeting and the superintendents' panel, I'm drawn back to that word "supports." What is it that districts (and perhaps provinces and states) can do to help support our school leaders? Built into Wallace's Principal Pipeline Initiative itself are the foundation's beliefs about some of those supports including:
The six PPI districts had to prove these supports were either partially or completely in place before they were awarded the grant. After hearing from some of the overwhelmed principals from the SCEE meeting and other districts I've visited, my guess is their districts may have lacked some of those basic supports. So what other supports do principals need? Here are a few I would offer:
Is the principals' job doable? In many places, unfortunately, I would say the answer might be NO. However, we know what it takes to change that reality, and it's my hope that those principals who find themselves in "undoable" positions will find a way to advocate for a new reality.
By Jackie O. Wilson, Ed.D, director, Delaware Academy for School Leadership, University of Delaware
As an educator, professional developer and policy advocate for all matters related to education leadership, I am constantly surprised when state policy leaders, district decision-makers and local school boards do not understand the value of investing in principals and assistant principals.
In 2004 Leithwood, Lewis, Anderson and Wahlstrom conducted a review of the research titled How leadership influences student learning. The important finding in the report was that "school leadership is second only to classroom teaching as an influence on learning." This finding prompted some districts to rethink the role of principals and their role in recruiting, developing and retaining teachers.
Districts began offering new opportunities for principals and assistant principals to participate in professional development. With Race to the Top additional funding was provided to some states to support coaching and mentoring programs and specialized training for turnaround principals. Although some states had success stories about their investment in school leadership, there are mixed reviews about the impact on student learning.
In 2015 the Professional Standards for Educational Leadership were approved by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration. The revised standards were different from the ISLLC (2008) standards and signaled the change in what principals and assistant principals were being asked to do in schools. The standards were based on 600 empirical research studies and input from thousands of practitioners. The consensus of the planning committee was that the work of education leaders is more challenging than in 2008 and the standards should reflect the change in those responsibilities.
For those of us who work in schools every day, this came as no surprise. Principals are spending more time on the social and emotional needs of their students and teaching staff while balancing the work they are doing to lead instruction, develop teachers, and engage communities.
We know that schools need strong leadership. We know that teachers want to work for principals they trust and respect. Teachers leave if they are not supported, challenged, and respected. We also know that principals create the environment where teaching and learning can take place. If we know this—why do we fail to invest in school leadership?
We need to create conditions where our school leaders can grow and develop. It is imperative that we invest in what matters most to our students—great teachers and principals. If we want to retain and grow teachers, then we must grow and retain effective principals. Here are some ways we can do that:
Isn't it time that we provide principals and assistant principals with the support they need to provide academic success and well-being to all our students?
In March 2018, The Wallace Foundation released a report on the effects of social and emotional learning programs in 25 elementary schools across the country. The Wallace-funded research brief, Preparing for Effective SEL Implementation, was completed by Stephanie Jones, Rebecca Bailey, Katharine Brush and Jennifer Kahn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and published by Harvard.
Today, more than ever, we need to be attentive to students' needs in the public-school environment because they are bringing more and more issues into the classroom. We worry now about nutrition and if students eat well. We try to help with dysfunctional families, and violence at home and in the neighborhood. We also try to educate these young minds so they can be college and career ready in the future. What are we finding out about social and emotional learning programs in elementary schools?
This is what the researchers have to say:
Research indicates that the most effective SEL programs incorporate four elements represented by the acronym SAFE: (1) sequenced activities that lead in a coordinated and connected way to skill development; (2) active forms of learning that enable children to practice and master new skills; (3) focused time spent developing one or more social and emotional skills; and (4) explicit defining and targeting of specific skills. But SEL is about more than just targeting and building skills. Our own research builds upon the SAFE elements to add that SEL efforts are most successful when they also:
1. Occur within supportive contexts. School and classroom contexts that are supportive of children's social and emotional development include (a) adult and child practices and activities that build skills and establish prosocial norms, and (b) a climate that actively promotes healthy relationships, instructional support and positive classroom management. For this reason, efforts to build social and emotional skills and to improve school culture and climate are mutually reinforcing and may enhance benefits when the two are pursued in a simultaneous and coordinated fashion.
2. Build adult competencies. This includes promoting teachers' own social and emotional competence and supporting the ongoing integration of SEL-informed pedagogical skills into everyday practice.
3. Partner with family and community. This includes taking into consideration the environments and contexts in which children learn, live and grow by building family-school-community partnerships that can support children at home and in other out-of-school settings, fostering culturally competent and responsive practices, and considering how specific educational policies may influence children.
4. Target key behaviors and skills. This includes pursuing, in a developmentally appropriate way, skills across multiple domains of development, including: (a) emotional processes; (b) social/interpersonal skills; and (c) cognitive regulation or executive function skills.
5. Set reasonable goals. This includes articulating a series of short- and long-term outcomes that are reasonable goals or expectations for the specific SEL effort. These include (a) short-term indicators of children's growth and progress in areas proximal to the specific SEL activities and (b) longer-term indicators of more distal, future impacts.
(excerpt from Preparing for Effective SEL Implementation.: http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/Preparing-for-Effective-SEL-Implementation.pdf )
As a leader in your school district, what are you doing to provide a school culture that embraces the uniqueness of every child? Have you developed an SEL program? If so, have you looked at the data? Is it making a difference?
(This blog is made possible through the generous support of The Wallace Foundation)
MaryAnn P. Jobe, Ed.D. is the director of education and leadership development at AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
AASA is proud to produce the Ed Leadership Blog that will provide relevant school district leadership information and research, as well as commentaries. This blog is supported by The Wallace Foundation.
Struggling schools need effective principals to turn them around, but little is known about how districts can develop such principals. Supported by The Wallace Foundation, the Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) helped six urban school districts improve how they train, place and support principals.
According to one key research finding, most of the districts were interested in boosting the number of strong principal candidates in part because they had seen a decrease in the size and quality of the applicant pool. (PSA Report, 2013)
The six urban school districts that looked at how they could increase their bench of leaders to find qualified principals for their schools are: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools, N.C.; Denver Public Schools, Colo.; Gwinnett County Public Schools, Ga.; Hillsborough County Public Schools, Fla.; New York City Public Schools, N.Y.; and Prince George's County Public Schools, Md.
I have been to Gwinnett County Schools and what it is doing is amazing. The staff involved in the PPI work have built a technology dashboard and data system where Alvin Wilbanks, superintendent and CEO of the district, can search district candidates for openings that occur in leadership positions. This did not come easily. Gwinnett had to look at the internal practices and the leader standards it used for developing, nurturing and keeping great leaders. It worked on developing leader standards that tie into the Georgia state requirements and built an observation and evaluation system around the new standards.
Today, Gwinnett is among one of the leading districts across the country that is using state-of-the-art technology and data decision-making to ensure that the right person can do the job. Does your district look at your talent and is your 'principal bench' deep enough?
This work is being emulated in another Wallace initiative, The University Principal Preparation Initiative (UPPI).MaryAnn Jobe is the director of leadership development with AASA and serves as project lead of AASA's Principal Pipeline Initiative.


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Do you enjoy watching videos on YouTube? Even if you have never visited YouTube before, you are urged to do so, as you will likely find it fun, exciting, and entertaining. YouTube is a video sharing website which allows internet users, just like you, to upload and share videos that they have made. Perhaps, the greatest thing about YouTube is that it is free.
When visiting the YouTube website to watch videos, you can do so without having to create a YouTube account. Despite not being required to create a YouTube account, you may want to look into doing so, as there are a number of benefits to being a YouTube member. One of the many benefits to registering for a free YouTube account is that it is relatively easy to do.
Of course, when making a YouTube video you will want to use your best judgment. Although YouTube accepts videos on a wide variety of different subjects, you will want to proceed with caution. You should always be cautious of online predators; therefore, you will want to be cautious about divulging too much information about yourself. You might not necessarily think about it, but you also want to make sure that you don't record and post anything illegal on YouTube. It has been said that YouTube regularly works with law enforcement to help solve crimes. That just goes to show that you never really who is watching your videos or what the consequences for posting them might be.
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HELSINKI — Scott Moir's near-tumble to the ice in the free dance on Saturday elicited a loud gasp from the crowd at Hartwell Arena — and a spur-of-the-moment joke from partner Tessa Virtue.
Their gorgeous program could have gone south in a hurry, their run at gold could have looked more like silver. But the Canadians recovered as if nothing had happened.
Moir said Virtue was to thank for her swift wit.
"Thank God my partner is awesome," Moir said. "She had a really funny joke as soon as I got back up that snapped me back into character. She said, 'That was a very dramatic movement.' I kind of smiled out of the corner of my mouth. I thought that that was super-cute. She gave me a couple more of these (arm squeezes) during the program.
"She really lifted me up today. It's a lot of fun to be able to do that after 20 years."
Canada's ice dance darlings captured their third world figure skating title Saturday, and remain unbeaten in what's been a remarkable comeback after a two-year hiatus.
"We've never had a quote-unquote perfect season, never had that kind of run of golds, and at this point it's fun to have on our resume," Virtue said. "But more than that, what we've been able to accomplish personally as athletes has been the most satisfying."
The two were otherwise virtually flawless, scoring 116.19 for their lyrical program to "Pilgrims on a Long Journey" by French Canadian artist Coeur de pirate, and Sam Smith's "Latch." They scored 198.62 points overall.
France's two-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, who train with Virtue and Moir in Montreal, claimed silver with 196.04, while American siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani claimed bronze, the only medal the U.S. team is taking home from Helsinki.
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., finished fourth with a score of 184.81, missing the medal podium by just 0.37 points.
"Story of my life," Weaver said. "We've had many years of close calls, between not making the Olympic team (in 2010) by .3, missing a world gold by .02, it's by fractions of a point. But this field I think is the strongest that it's been in years.
"So to be where we are is incredible and I respect the other skaters so much, what everyone is putting out is so different and unique and creative. And we're very happy to be part of this group that's leading the way in ice dance."
Toronto's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., were eighth with 178.99 points.
Virtue, a 27-year-old from London, Ont., and 29-year-old Moir, from Ilderton, Ont., survived their mishap thanks largely to their world-record score in the short dance that sent them in Saturday with a huge 5.5-point cushion — ice dancing's version of giving Usain Bolt a head start in the 100 metres.
The couple of self-proclaimed perfectionists were subdued in the "kiss and cry" after, Moir repeatedly running a hand through his hair.
"It's not the way we thought we would win. Maybe that was part of the reaction (after the skate), but we're so excited and it means a lot to us," Virtue said.
A fall — or even a near-fall — is so rare for the Canadians, Virtue said they'll "go home and do their homework and make sure that doesn't happen at the Olympics."
"These lessons is what it's all about, to be honest. That's why we came back to the sport," Moir added. "It's not always a fairytale. We're very, very proud of this, very proud to be representing Canada, and just to be on the ice together at a world championship. In a couple of weeks I'm going to look back and think about how much fun it was to feel that much pressure again."
The fierce competition set the stage for what could be a dog-fight of an Olympic season. Virtue and Moir haven't been shy in stating their goal is to reclaim Olympic gold after losing to longtime American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White in 2014 in Sochi.
"I wouldn't expect anything else," Virtue said. "And I think we didn't want to walk into any other situation. And I think this does set us up really nicely. I think it's good for the sport. It's great that Gabrielle and Guillaume are rewarded for the brilliant program that they did.
"It doesn't really change our plan, though. I think this was all about simulating the feelings that we'll have next year, learning to compete again, using our team that's around us and practising how to be our best. This season for all of those purposes has been invaluable."
Earlier Saturday, Toronto's Patrick Chan missed the medal podium in the men's competition. The three-time world champion finished fifth, falling two spots after Saturday's free program.
Chan, who was fifth last year in Boston, scored 193.04 points for his program to "A Journey," a piece of music written by Canadian pairs skater Eric Radford, finishing with 295.16 points overall.
Japan's Olympic gold medallist Yuzuru Hanyu landed four quads for a world-record free skate score of 223.30 points and a total of 321.59 points to take gold after entering the day fifth.
Japan's Shoma Uno (319.31) won silver, while China's Jin Boyang (303.58.) took bronze.
Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., was ninth with a score of 253.84.


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Sept 1998 - M.A. (Distinction) Language Studies: Stylistics. Lancaster University.
Jun 1997 - B.A. Hons. (First Class) History and English Language. Lancaster University.
With the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) from Jan 2005 to July 2015.
Sept 2011 - Awarded Professorship in Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics.
Oct 2007 - Awarded Readership in Corpus Linguistics. Became Research Lead (Linguistics).
2006-2009 - Head of English Language and Linguistics.
Jan 2005 - Employed as Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics.
Nov 2004+ Consultancy work for UCLAN.
With Lancaster University from 1998 to 2004.
2002-2004 - Research Associate for EU-funded BENEDICT project (with Nokia and HarperCollins). Part of a team responsible for developing the semantic tagset, and the accompanying syntactic/semantic-based corpus search tools for an 'intelligent' dictionary.
2000-2002 - Research Assistant (p/t). National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS)-funded project. Responsible for designing/part-developing interactive web-based stylistics course for 1st year undergraduates, and promoting interest in an experiment to determine 'the effectiveness of WWW-based stylistic teaching'.
1999-2000 - Research Assistant for AHRB-funded project. Responsible for developing and implementing a sociopragmatic annotation scheme to a sub-section of the Corpus of English Dialogues (e.g. 1640-1760).
1998-1999 - Research Assistant for AHRB-funded project. Responsible for constructing the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 (CED), an electronic corpus of historical data of 1,000,000+ words, drawn from six text types (comedy drama, courtroom proceedings, prose fiction, witness depositions, language texts and handbooks in dialogue form).
Corpus and Lexcal Studies (unit leader)
Interpersonal Communication CPD (unit leader)
Technology CPD (unit leader)
Research Project leader, for MSc in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis
Pragmatics (unit leader)
I'm currently a consultant supervisor for four UCLan students, investigating: representations of female serial killers; English spelling variation over time; cancer awareness messages; and anxiety/stress discourses in palliative care.
I supervise PhD topics, at MMU, relating to, e.g., communication and dementia, detecting fraud, emotional intelligence, influence and negotiation, language and psychosis. I also supervise a number of influence or deception-related MA topics at MMU.
I am happy to supervise MA by Research students and PhD students undertaking projects that use pragmatics and/or corpus approaches to investigate forensic or professional contexts. I especially welcome projects that wish to explore (1) perceptions of credibility, (2) the use of face aggression or face enhancement, (3) deception, and/or (4) influence tactics in these contexts.
External Examiner for
- Liverpool University, September 2012-August 2016
- Sheffield Hallam University (Work-based/independent studies) April 2008-2012.
My research specialisms include corpus linguistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis.
My previous research has:
More recently, I've been investigating the linguistic performance of emotion, credibility and deception in a range of contexts (public sector, commercial and professional). This includes work with the Emotional Intelligence Academy (EIA).
I'm especially interested in the minutiae of human behaviour; how that behaviour might "pattern" within and across different activity types and cultures, in respect to linguistic and paralinguistic features; and its potential consequence(s) for effective communication.
Visiting Researcher, Lancaster University (Oct 2016+)
Visiting lecturer for:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland: giving master classes in 'Exploring data with wmatrix3: focusing on existing studies', 'Using wmatrix3 for yourselves' and 'Capturing Pragmatic Phenomena: What and when to annotate?', 19 & 20 May 2014.
Northwestern University, Chicago. Responsible for teaching a one week course, "Semantically tagging Shakespeare", for a team of Classics students, and then supervising their tagging of Shakespeare, using a distance learning format, June 2004.
D. Archer (2016). What's in a Word-list? Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Routledge.
DE. Archer, K. Aijmer, A. Wichmann (2012). Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book. Routldedge.
D. Archer, P. Grundy (2011). The Pragmatics Reader.
D. Archer (2009). What's in a Word-list? Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
A. Wilson, D. Archer, P. Rayson (2006). Corpus Linguistics Around the World. Rodopi.
DE. Archer (2005). Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640-1760): A Sociopragmatic Analysis. John Benjamins.
P. Jagodziński, D. Archer (2018). Co-creating customer experience through call centre interaction: Interactional achievement and professional face. Journal of Politeness Research. 14(2), pp.257-277.
D. Archer, P. Willcox (2018). The faces at play in performance appraisals: With a focus upon a UK retail organization. Journal of Politeness Research. 14(2), pp.167-192.
D. Archer, P. Jagodziński (2018). Applying (im)politeness and facework research to professional settings: An introduction. Journal of Politeness Research. 14(2), pp.245-256.
J. Culpeper, D. Archer, A. Findlay, M. Thelwall (2018). John Webster, the dark and violent playwright?. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 31(3), pp.201-210.
D. Archer (2018). Negotiating difference in political contexts: An exploration of Hansard. Language Sciences. 68, pp.22-41.
D. Archer (2018). Impression management in the Early Modern English courtroom. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 19(2), pp.205-222.
D. Archer (2017). Context and historical (socio)pragmatics twenty years on. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 18(2), pp.315-336.
D. Archer (2017). Mapping Hansard Impression Management Strategies through Time and Space. Studia Neophilologica. 89(sup1), pp.5-20.
DE. Archer, B. Malory (2017). Tracing facework over time using semi-automated methods. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 22(1), pp.27-56.
D. Archer (2015). Slurs, insults, (backhanded) compliments and other strategic facework moves. Language Sciences. 52, pp.82-97.
DE. Archer, C. Lansley (2015). Public appeals, news interviews and crocodile tears: An argument for a multi-channel annotation scheme. Corpora. 10(2), pp.231-258.
D. Archer, M. Kytö, A. Baron, P. Rayson (2015). Guidelines for normalising Early Modern English corpora: Decisions and justifications. ICAME Journal. 39(1), pp.5-24.
D. Archer, P. Jagodziński (2015). Call centre interaction: A case of sanctioned face attack?. Journal of Pragmatics. 76, pp.46-66.
D. Archer (2014). Historical Pragmatics: Evidence From The Old Bailey. Transactions of the Philological Society. 112(2), pp.259-277.
D. Archer, C. Williams, P. Fryer (2013). Introduction: A linguistic/discursive space for all?: Perspectives on minority languages and identity across Europe. Pragmatics and Society. 4(2), pp.127-136.
D. Archer, C. Williams (2013). Constructing a shared history, space and destiny: The children's readerUdmurtia Forever with Russia. Pragmatics and Society. 4(2), pp.200-220.
DE. Archer (2013). Constructing the "ethnic other" in two history school books: re- colonialisation (Udmurtia) Versus de-colonialisation (Tatarstan). East-West.
D. Archer (2011). Cross-examining lawyers, facework and the adversarial courtroom. Journal of Pragmatics. 43(13), pp.3216-3230.
D. Archer (2011). Facework and im/politeness across legal contexts: An introduction. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture. 7(1), pp.1-19.
D. Archer (2011). Libelling Oscar Wilde: The case of Regina vs. John Sholto Douglas. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture. 7(1), pp.73-99.
D. McIntyre, D. Archer (2010). A corpus-based approach to mind style. Journal of Literary Semantics. 39(2), pp.167-182.
D. Archer, J. Culpeper (2009). Identifyingkeysociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640–1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 10(2), pp.286-309.
A. Baron, P. Rayson, D. Archer (2009). Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics. International Journal of English Studies. 29(1), pp.41-68.
D. Archer (2008). Digital Humanities 2006: When Two Became Many. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23(1), pp.103-108.
T. Pilz, A. Ernst-Gerlach, S. Kempken, P. Rayson, D. Archer (2008). The Identification of Spelling Variants in English and German Historical Texts: Manual or Automatic?. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23(1), pp.65-72.
(2006). (Re)initiating strategies: Judges and defendants in Early Modern English courtrooms. Historical Courtroom Discourse. 7(2), pp.181-211.
SS. Piao, P. Rayson, D. Archer, T. McEnery (2005). Comparing and combining a semantic tagger and a statistical tool for MWE extraction. Computer Speech & Language. 19(4), pp.378-397.
M. Deegan, H. Short, DE. Archer, P. Baker, T. McEnery, et al. (2004). Computational Linguistics Meets Metadata, or the Automatic Extraction of Key Words from Full Text Content. RLG Diginews. 8(2),
M. Short, D. Archer (2003). Designing a worldwide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness. STYLE. 37(1), pp.27-+.
D. Archer (2002). "Can innocent people be guilty?": A sociopragmatic analysis of examination transcripts from the salem witchcraft trials. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 3(1), pp.1-30.
D. Archer, C. Lansley, A. Garner (2019). The value of linguistics in assessing potential threats in an airport setting. In: The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. Routledge, pp.454-471.
DE. Archer, R. Smthson, I. Kennedy (2018). Achieving influence through negotiation: An argument for developing pragmatic awareness. D. Kurzon, B. Krykastovsky. In: Legal Pragmatics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp.181-202.
DE. Archer, J. Culpeper (2018). Corpus Annotation. AH. Jucker, KP. Schneider, W. Bublitz. In: Methods in Pragmatics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp.493-522.
J. Culpeper, DE. Archer (2018). The History of Spelling. J. Culpeper, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak, T. McEnery, F. Katamba. In: English language: description, variation and context, Second Edition. Palgrave, pp.186-199.
D. Archer, R. Smithson, I. Kennedy (2018). Chapter 9. Achieving influence through negotiation. In: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.181-201.
D. Archer (2017). (Im)politeness in Legal Settings. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp.713-737.
DE. Archer (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, D. Kadar. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. Palgrave Macmillan UK,
D. Archer (2017). The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. A. Barron, G. Yueguo, G. Steen. In: The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. Routledge, pp.384-398.
D. Archer (2016). Data mining and word frequency analysis. G. Griffin. In: Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh University Press, pp.72-92.
D. Archer (2014). Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS: The possibilities, the problems and potential solutions. I. Taavitsainen, AH. Jucker, J. Tuominen. In: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.277-302.
D. Archer (2013). Tracing Crime Narratives in the Palmer Trial (1856). C. Heffer, F. Rock, J. Conley. In: Legal-Lay Communication. Oxford University Press, pp.168-186.
DE. Archer (2013). Tracing (and tagging!) language features in the historical English courtroom (1649-1856). F. Poppi, W. Cheng. In: The three waves of globalization: Winds of change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.2-22.
D. Archer (2012). Data retrieval in a diachronic context: The case of the historical English courtroom. T. Nevalainen, EC. Traugott. In: The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press,
DE. Archer (2012). Pragmatics and Discourse in the Early Modern English Period. A. Bergs, L. Brinton. In: English Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp.652-667.
DE. Archer (2012). Corpus annotation: a welcome addition or an interpretation too far?. J. Tyrkkö, M. Kipiö, T. Nevalainen, M. Rissanen. In: Outposts of Historical Corpus Linguistics: From the Helsinki Corpus to a Proliferation of Resources. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English eSeries,
DE. Archer (2012). Assessing Garrow's aggressive questioning style. G. Mazzon. In: English Historical Dialogue Studies. FrancoAngeli, pp.301-320.
DE. Archer (2011). Theory and Practice in Pragmatics. In: Pragmatics Reader. Routledge,
D. Archer (2010). Speech Acts. In: Historical Pragmatics. pp.379-418.
D. Archer (2010). The historical courtroom: A diachronic investigation of English courtroom practice. In: The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. pp.185-198.
DE. Archer (2010). The History of Speech Acts. In: Handbook of Historical Pragmatics. John Benjamins,
D. Archer (2010). The historical courtroom. M. Coulthard, A. Johnson. In: The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. Routledge, pp.185-198.
DE. Archer, D. Bousfield (2010). "See better, Lear"? See Lear better! A corpus-based pragma-stylistic investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear. D. McIntyre, B. Busse. In: Language and Style. Palgrave, pp.183-203.
D. Archer, J. Culpeper, P. Rayson (2009). Love - 'A familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. In: What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate, pp.137-157.
D. Archer (2009). Does frequency really matter?. D. Archer. In: What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate, pp.1-15.
D. Archer (2009). Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques. D. Archer. In: What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate, pp.159-161.
J. Culpeper, D. Archer (2009). Is English spelling a problem? Can it easily be fixed?. J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak. In: English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave, pp.244-258.
P. Rayson, D. Archer, A. Baron, N. Smith (2008). Travelling Through Time with Corpus Annotation Software. In: Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications - State of the Art. PALC 2007. Peter Lang, pp.29-46.
DE. Archer (2008). Pragmatic annotation. A. Lüdeling, M. Kytö. In: Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter, pp.613-641.
J. Culpeper, D. Archer (2008). Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play-texts, 1640-1760. AH. Jucker, I. Taavitsainen. In: Speech Acts in the History of English. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.45-84.
DE. Archer (2008). Verbal aggression and impoliteness: related or synonymous?. D. Bousfield, M. Locher. In: Impoliteness in language. Mouton de Gruyter, pp.181-207.
DE. Archer (2007). Computer-Assisted Literary Stylistics: The State of the Field. P. Sockwell. In: Contemporary Stylistics. Continuum, pp.244-256.
DE. Archer (2007). Developing a more detailed picture of the Early Modern English courtroom: Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics. S. Fitzmaurice, I. Taavitsainen. In: Methods in Historical Pragmatics. Recovering speaker meaning and reader inference. Mouton de Gruyter, pp.185-218.
DE. Archer (2006). Tracing the development of "advocacy" in two nineteenth century English trials. M. Dossena, I. Taavitsainen. In: Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-Specific English. Peter Lang, pp.41-68.
DE. Archer, J. Culpeper (2003). Sociopragmatic annotation: New directions and possibilities in historical corpus linguistics. A. Wilson, P. Rayson, T. McEnery. In: Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: Studies in honour of Geoffrey Leech. Peter Lang, pp.37-58.
S. Piao, P. Rayson, D. Archer, F. Bianchi, C. Dayrell, et al. (2016). Lexical coverage evaluation of large-scale multilingual semantic lexicons for twelve languages. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016. Slovenia, pp.2614-2619.
A. Baron, P. Rayson, DE. Archer (2009). Automatic Standardization of Spelling for Historical Text Mining. In: Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2009. University of Maryland, USA, 22/6/2009.
DE. Archer, A. Kilpatrick, H. Day (2008). English Language Studies Initiative for Employability (ELSIE): The benefits of embedding employability into a subject curriculum. In: Proceedings of European First Year Experience (EFYE) Conference. University of Wolverhampton, 8/5/2008. pp.7-13.
P. Rayson, DE. Archer, A. Baron, J. Culpeper, N. Smith (2007). Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the accuracy of a modern POS tagger on Early Modern English corpora. In: Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference: CL2007. University of Birmingham, UK, 27/7/2007.
DE. Archer, P. Rayson, S. Piao, AM. McEnery (2004). Comparing the UCREL Semantic Annotation Scheme with Lexicographical Taxonomies. In: Proceedings of the EURALEX-2004 conference. Lorient (France), Université de Bretagne Sud, 6/7/2004. pp.817-827.
P. Rayson, DE. Archer, SL. Piao, T. McEnery (2004). The UCREL Semantic Analysis System. In: Proceedings of the workshop on Beyond Named Entity Recognition Semantic labelling for NLP tasks, in association with LREC-04. Lisbon, Portugal, 26/5/2004. pp.7-12.
SSL. Piao, P. Rayson, D. Archer, T. McEnery (2004). Evaluating lexical resources for a semantic tagger. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004. Lisbon, Portugal, 26/5/2004. pp.499-502.
S. Piao, P. Rayson, DE. Archer, A. Wilson, T. McEnery (2003). Extracting multiword expressions with a semantic tagger. In: ACL-2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment Workshop Proceedings. Sapporo, Japan, 7/7/2003. pp.49-56.
C. Lansley, A. Garner, DE. Archer, S. Losni (2016). The impact of SCAnR training for Air Marshals to increase accuracy of real-time lie/truth decisions. EIA Group/SRI, ARMLETT.
C. Lansley, A. Garner, DE. Archer, R. Dimu, C. Blanariu, et al. Observe, Target, Engage, Respond (OTER): High-stake behaviour analysis using an integrated, scientific approach within an airport context. White Paper Series: EIA/SRI/OTP, SRI/OTP.
Invited speaker. 'Impression Management in the Early Modern English Courtroom'. A Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760. Mid-Sweden University. Sundsvall, Sweden, 21 & 22 April 2016.
Invited keynote speaker. 1st Poznań Historical Sociopragmatic Symposium (Context and Historical Pragmatics 20 years on), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, May 15 2014.
Invited keynote speaker. I'WoDA'13 – Second International Workshop on Discourse Analysis: 'Introducing Wmatrix3' and 'Discourse Analysis: Exploring Data with Wmatrix'.Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 19-21 June 2013.
Invited keynote speaker. CLAVIER 2011: ''Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres', 'The diachronic development of English courtroom practice'. Modena, Spain, 24-26 November 2011.
Invited keynote speaker. Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki University, 28 September - 2 October 2011 ('Corpus annotation: a welcome addition or an interpretation too far?'; see http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/festival/programme.html).
Invited speaker. York St John University Colloquium Series. York St. John University, 14 February 2017 ('What pragmatics can offer beyond the classroom: with a specific focus on crisis negotiation').
Invited keynote speaker. (10th) International Symposium on Politeness:SymPol10. York St John
University, 12–14 July 2017 ('The (im)politeness, impression management and deception nexus').
Invited speaker. 1-day Symposium in Honour of Professor Christian Kay. Glasgow University, 30 June 2017 ('Exploring the language of Hansard: With a focus on impression management strategies').
Invited participant. History of English (pragmatics) panel at the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) Triennial Conference. University of London. 25-29 July 2016 ('Mapping Hansard strategies through time and space').
Presenter, Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language AHRC-funded Project: Panel Meeting, Lancaster University, 27July 2016 (x3 - 'Love tragedies vs. love comedies; Spelling variation and regularization'; 'social tagging').
Participant. Linguistic, Impoliteness and Rudeness (LIAR) Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University 12-14 July 2016 ('An argument for the co-construction of "customer service" experience', co-presented with P. Jagodzinski).
Invited keynote speaker. Literature, Language and Linguistics Student Dissertation Conference 2016. UCLan. 2 March 2016 ('Public appeals and crocodile tears').
Invited speaker. Research Seminar Series. Herriot-Watt University – 14th October 2015. (Investigating pragmatic phenomena across cultures using corpus linguistic techniques: with a specific focus on facework').
Invited speaker. Changing Attitudes to Cancer, UCLan Conference 10 September 2013 ('The Linguistics of framing cancer: with a focus on some recent campaigns').
Invited speaker. Lancaster University Pragmatics Summer School – 13th and 14th July 2013. ('Capturing pragmatic phenomena; what and when to annotate').
Invited plenary speaker. i-mean 'Language and Identity' conference at UWE, Bristol, 18-20 April 2013.
Invited speaker. Philological Society, St John's, Cambridge, 9 June 2012 ('Historical Pragmatics – Evidence from the Old Bailey').
Invited expert panel member. 'Social Media in Influence - Niteworks Academathon'. Park Centre, Farnborough Aerospace Centre. 19 July 2016.
Invited speaker, Cardiff Roundtable in Sociolinguistics on Legal-Lay interaction: Legal-lay interaction in an historical context. Gregynog. Cardiff University. 23-25 July 2008.
Invited speaker, Text Mining for Historians: AHRC ICT Methods Network Workshop: "Corpus annotation and retrieval: an introduction" and "Introducing basic Corpus Linguistics techniques" (x3 sessions). University of Glasgow: 17-18 July 2007 (with Dr. P. Rayson).
Invited speaker, Oxford English Dictionary Forum: Teaching a computer to read Shakespeare: the problem of spelling variation. 21 June 2006, Oxford.
Invited participant. 'Diachronic Speech Acts'. ESSE, London, 29 August – 2 September 2006.
Co-organiser, Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language AHRC-funded Project: Panel Meeting, Lancaster University, 27July 2016
Co-organiser, Linguistic, Impoliteness and Rudeness (LIAR) Conference, 12-14 July 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Co-organizer. ICAME-30 conference, 27-31 May 2009, Lancaster University.
Co-organizer. Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) 2005 conference. September 2005, Lancaster University.
Reviewer for Sage, Journal of Politeness Research, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Corpora, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Literary and Linguistic Computing, English Profile.
£59,978.29 - May 2016-April 2019 - AHRC funding to create Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's
Language. Grant Ref: AH/N002415/1. I am Co-I on this million-pound bid, and will be responsible for Volume II (Professor J. Culpeper, Lancaster University, is P-I).
£59,306.00 - Jan 2014-April 2015 - AHRC/ESRC funding to study Semantic Annotation & Mark-up for Enhancing Lexical Searches (SAMUELS), focusing on tracing "aggression" over time/across genres. Part of larger bid - £502,636.50 - with Universities of Glasgow, Huddersfield, Lancaster and Strathclyde (grant reference AH/L010062/1).
£2,382 - Jan 2012 - Uppsala University (Sweden) grant funding to VARD the Corpus of (= 25,300 kr) English Dialogues (for Prof. Kyto).
99,938 euros - 2006-2008 - INTAS funding to study Linguistic and Ethnic Revival in Russia: From Policy to Cultural Diversity. Co-bidder with C. Williams (History, UCLAN)
£4,996 - July 2006 - AHRC ICT Methods Network funding to hold Workshop on Historical Text Mining. Co-organiser (with Dr Rayson, Lancaster) [see http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/htm06/]
£7,369 - May 2005-Aug 2005 - Small Research Grant, British Academy: 'Scragg revisited: A quantitative investigation of spelling across the centuries'.
£200 - Aug 2005 - Overseas Conference Grant, British Academy.
£16,885 - 2004-2005 - Unlocking the Word Hoard, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-applicant (with Prof. Mueller, Northwestern University, USA).
Influence-related talks/training
Customer experience-related talks/training/interview
'We don't always pick up on emotional messages'. Interview for People Management Magazine. Publ. 31 May'16. See: http://www.cipd.co.uk/pm/peoplemanagement/ b/weblog/archive/
'Dealing with difficult conversations'. Peninsula Summer Conference, 13 June'15. Manchester. Invited speaker (with P. Jagodziński).
Invited Board Member, Historical Thesaurus of English (Nov 2017+)
Consultancy work with EIA Group, Manchester (responsible for research devel) (Jan 2014+)
Expert consultant, 'Faking it: Tears of a Crime'. Documentaries developed for Investigation Discovery (Series 1 aired Jan & Feb 2017; Series 2 aired Aug & Sept 2017).
Reviewer for HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area - Joint Research Programme (JRP) "Cultural Encounters", November 2012.
Reviewer for the Digging into Data Challenge, July-Sept 2011 (http://www.diggingintodata.org/).
Reviewer for Sage, Journal of Politeness Research, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Corpora, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Literary and Linguistic Computing, English Profile.
Member of ESRC Peer Review College, 2010+
Co-editor, Journal of Historical Pragmatics