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Why use Blue Professional Services?
Blue Professional Services has built an exemplary reputation on our consultative approach to our clients. Our understanding of different markets and the businesses and individuals within these markets enables us to facilitate the perfect match between all parties. Clients ranging from global multi-nationals to SMEs trust us to source permanent, contract and interim talent
At Blue Professional Services, we work in partnership with our clients to deliver recruitment solutions that are tailored to the unique needs of every organisation and every individual within that organisation.
We'll work with you to understand your business requirements and ensure that you find the most appropriate candidate for the job. At times this can involve helping refine the job spec or conducting an international search. Exceeding expectations and delivering success to our clients is something we enjoy
We work as a trusted advisor - leveraging our unrivalled expertise and industry knowledge to ensure the right individuals fill the right roles within a client's business.
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As a global recruitment consultancy we can provide truly scalable solutions - whether you are a multi-national or a smaller regional or local organisation, we have the global coverage and local knowledge to meet any recruitment need. For further information on our global recruitment capabilities please click here
Staffing - Permanent
Blue Professional Services take pride in providing individual, well considered solutions to suit our client's long-term needs. We can help you hire professionals at all levels and we have a host of value-added recruitment services to help you find a suitably qualified candidate. Our consultants will always recommend intelligent recruitment and training solutions, based specifically on your requirements.
In today's market, making the right hiring decision is no longer a case of just harmonizing someone with a skill specification and job role. Our specialists advise across a wide range of industries and techno-functional areas and truly understand the environments in which our partners and clients operate.
According to research from the Harvard Business School, the impact to your business of making a wrong hiring decision can cost up to ten times an employee's annual salary. Given these figures, we feel it imperative that you place your trust in a proven recruitment partner with a strong track record of delivery and expertise that ensures the highest possible success rates for your business.
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Blue Professional Services prides itself on being specialists in contract and interim recruitment. We are specialists in providing contractors who add value from day one, saving you time and allowing you to focus on your own role.
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Working in conjunction with our partners and clients, Blue Professional Services will design and implement our proven best management practice, recruitment processes and methodologies that will not only complement, but also greatly enhance your existing infrastructure.
From the design of a Talent Attraction strategy to the finalisation of a start date, we work with clients in all aspects of their permanent, contract and interim hiring needs. We have the ability to attract, screen, interview and test candidates to the most rigorous standards.
Our solutions won't just save your business time. They will drive down the costs of recruitment and raise the quality of people you hire. They will maximise the power of your employer brand and rebalance your supply chain. They will also ensure that every candidate, whether successful or not, has a positive experience of your organisation.
Our recruiters can work on-site alongside your team or deliver their services remotely. Either way, they will work seamlessly with the rest of your organisation and act as a powerful extension of your existing hiring team. A fully-integrated solution is provided – although clients may tailor this selection according to their needs.
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Our team of local and international experts understand the linguistic and culture needs of our global markets and we have delivered recruitment solutions in over 50 countries across the globe to clients.
Blue Professional Services Asia was established in 2009 and is part of the Claremont Consulting group of companies and was set up to deliver to an ever expanding client base in the Asia Pacific region following our successful launch of Blue Professional Services in Europe in 2005. We also have partnership agreements in place in Australia, U.S.A and South America and these teams have a wealth of experience and expertise both nationally and internationally.
It is an exciting time within the international candidate market and with a decreasing number of skilled candidates in a growing market many clients are evaluating their recruitment processes and procedures to gain a competitive edge over other companies. These clients understand the importance of attracting the best staff available in the market on a global scale and with our international coverage we are ideally placed to provide our services on a local and global basis.
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As Chris Giles explains, the fiscal importance of the policies is dwarfed by the shortfall in tax receipts – at the macro level, today's announcements changed very little. However, there were several new schemes, which begs the question: how will they be paid for? The answer: with help from HMRC. When it comes to filling holes in the budget, cutting down on tax avoidance is the new efficiency savings. Read more
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I'm not sore at all.
I feel better after this marathon than I ever have after a marathon.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
ohh no I'm soo sorry to hear this!!!!! I hope the pain goes away fast!!
I'll live, as long as my husband stops trying to push me over when I walk by him, he's a jackass.
Same here! Had a great run this morning
Hey bdub--nice chatting with ya yesterday. Good work, brother.
Well you sandbagged too.
Im jealous you ran. I'm trying to heal my toe...Im gonna stay off it until the weekend I think and then run easy the rest of the year before Boston training. Bleh.
The Logic of Long Distance
TT Man
I'm sore. I think I strained my left quad. But just got a massage, so. A couple more days of 8 minute miles and I'll be back kickin it.
Thunder smash!
Oh Mighty Wing
I see you aren't letting that break "The Streak". Nice.
It's not too bad, and it feels better after I run. But my run with Jamie yesterday, he was dragging me around.


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Brian Levy
- Jazz Studies
- Music History & Musicology (College)
Jazz saxophonist Brian Levy received his Ph.D. in musicology from Brandeis University in 2012 with a dissertation that examines harmonic and rhythmic interaction in John Coltrane's Classic Quartet. Previously, he earned a D.M.A. and M.M. in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music, respectively.
Levy has taught undergraduate and graduate history, theory, and performance courses in such institutions as Brandeis University, Harvard University, and NEC. In addition to a performance and research focus on jazz, he has studied music theory and analysis, 18th and 19th century philosophy, and aesthetics. He has also been a co-leader of jazz groups in Munich and San Diego. Levy is featured on and helped advise the production of four new instructional jazz DVDs by Jerry Bergonzi.
M.M. in jazz performance, Manhattan School of Music; D.M.A. in jazz performance, NEC; Ph.D. in musicology, Brandeis University.Expand to view more


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Mission. Vision. Values.
The Center for Adult and Continuing Studies provides exceptional educational programs and services that link the needs of lifelong learners with the resources of the university.
We are recognized as a valuable contributor to and resource for the university and communities. We are dedicated to providing access to educational opportunities that will shape individual lives, professions, and societies.
Our Values
Partnerships and Collaboration
We are receptive to all, specifically academic units, businesses, community organizations, and individuals. We are dedicated to honest and open dialogue, the development of solid relationships, and meaningful educational programming efforts and projects.
We are conscientious in our efforts to include differing perspectives and individuals in dialogue. Differences in social, economic, and academic backgrounds enrich our own views and broaden our opportunity to meet the programming needs of our constituents. We encourage participation from those who are often absent from discussions.
Meeting specific needs
We are committed and conscientious in our efforts to define and meet the educational needs and expectations of our constituents through dialogue, research, assessment, and evaluation.
Linking real world with academics
We recognize the world is in constant change and individuals and organizations seek educational opportunities to expand their understanding of themselves, their world, and their professions. We seek to connect the larger community with the academic environment to engage in the creation of a shared and mutual understanding through various programming efforts.
Fiscal Responsibility
We understand the importance of fiscal responsibility and understand our role in contributing to the financial health of the university. We are conscientious in our efforts to provide quality programming in a manner that is fiscally effective and efficient.


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Claudio Moderini, Domus Academy, Italy
Claudio Moderini is an interaction design director and researcher, with a background in architecture and industrial design, founder of the Master Program in I-Design and head of Online Programs at Domus Academy, the international institute focused on innovation in design, based in Milan, Italy. His main competences range from creative direction to envisioning and strategic design, to the development of design concepts for future scenarios and interaction design solutions. His main design and research interests range from the introduction of Digital Technology in the everyday life environment, to the potentiality of interactive solutions in supporting the social relations, to the impact of interaction design in the innovation/transformation of the product and service design processes.


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Sony ST26i leaks out, green globe logo nowhere to be seen
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1. FoneAddict (Posts: 259; Member since: 05 Jul 2011)
Competitors need to take Sony seriously now! Sony are back! More competition the better for all of us!
5. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
What? Sony is back with over priced and under performing devices?
3. FoneAddict (Posts: 259; Member since: 05 Jul 2011)
Better looking than SGS3. That phone was dealt a deadly blow with the ugly stick!
4. hunted (Posts: 403; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
i really love sony is back in the game to blow their competitors. Welcome back Sony :)
6. wendygarett (unregistered)
Sony, Im waiting you to beat oneX!!
9. paul5an (Posts: 12; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
Xperia S already does beat One X in real-world usage.
7. yt6nin (Posts: 100; Member since: 16 Nov 2011)
If this is indeed not the GX, then the GX is better specs-wise, but I like the physical design of this phone as well. Only let downs are the specs... May be my next smartphone's a Sony... Unless the One X or SGSIII really attracts me more. I really hate the physical design of the SGSIII, and the One X supports a "meh" list of specs, imho... HTC could've at least done a little more to push it as the beast smartphone of their One Series... The SGSIII is intriguing w/their features (software-, hard-, and accerssory-wise), but the physical design is kind of keeping me away from it. The back is just outrageous from look at the photos, at least the One X looks a lot better, but can't really say for sure until I lay my hands on all the phones I want to have and try them out... Hopefully the iPhone 5 isn't a major upgrade from the 4S, otherwise mostly sticking with Android for a while. The variety results in competition and a difficult consumer choice, one of the good problems of Android =)
8. paul5an (Posts: 12; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
13. kastor (Posts: 43; Member since: 15 Jan 2012)
why wtf,phone is perfect,just if price will be lower,wh all phones must be top,we need some mid range and low range phones
10. paul5an (Posts: 12; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
Just release the GX globally.
11. Jyakotu (Posts: 854; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)
I always wondered why Sony needed Ericsson in the first place. Without them, they seem to be doing WAY better. I really think Sony can become a serious competitor once again with these new devices. I'm a HUGE Sony fan, so I'm crossing my fingers. :)


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Chris Christie Is Concerned About Atlantic City's Murder Rate
Governor Christie is expressing concern about the escalating murder rate in Atlantic City.
A total of 15 homicides have taken place in AC this year, which is close to the all-time record of 18.
He says, "Any loss of life in that way is a real concern – 15 murders are 15 too many, but we are making progress in Atlantic City. If you look at the Tourism District in Atlantic City, I think you're seeing a real improvement in terms of the way it looks and it feels…But there are other parts of the city that have always been difficult – and problematic – and the Tourism District police force is still working and coordinating with the Atlantic City PD to try to get greater progress in the outer parts of the city."
"This is not reflective of the experience that tourists are having when they come to Atlantic City, but it still doesn't make it acceptable. So we have to look at ways to try to make it better…I have grave concerns about the leadership in that city, and I've made that very clear over and over again. The Mayor there has failed – and he's impossible to work with in any kind of significant way."
Nevertheless, Christie says he is not considering expanding casino gambling beyond Atlantic City – to other parts of the Garden State.
"The Senate President and I have made a 5 year commitment to Atlantic City – we're 2 years into our 5 year commitment to Atlantic City. What I have said all along is at the conclusion of that 5-year period I would be willing to take a reexamination of the entire gaming industry in the state. Does it make sense to expand gaming someplace else? How has Atlantic City done with this 5 years of new attention, new finances and new commitment to it?…We're 2 years into a 5-year period, so I'm certainly not going to pre-judge it now. I think we've made some progress, but we're going to have to see."


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Texas Wetlands Project Receives National Award
GALVESTON, Texas — A Texas effort to restore hundreds of acres of ecologically important wetlands in the Delehide Cove area of West Galveston Bay will receive one of two National Wetland Conservation Awards to be bestowed this year at a June 30 ceremony in Washington, D.C.
The Delehide Cove team received a $939,862 grant from the National Wetlands Conservation Grants Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in December 2000. The grant, along with an additional federal contribution of $50,000 from the USFWS Coastal Program, was matched with funds and in-kind contributions from state and local sources that included the Texas General Land Office's Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Program, Galveston Bay Foundation, Galveston Bay Estuary Program, Pirates Homeowners Association, Fish America Foundation, Restore Americas Estuaries, NOAA Fisheries, Blackard Development, Reliant Energy and Texas GenCo. A total of more than $2 million was provide from these federal and state contributors to protect and restore the area's coastal wetland habitat.
Approximately 8,100 linear feet of sand-filled geotextile tube breakwaters were constructed to protect existing intertidal marsh, tidal bayou, and subtidal flats from erosion. One year after construction, 200 acres of habitat have been protected from erosion, 2.4 acres of sand flat have been restored, 3.2 acres of seagrass habitat have been enhanced and 48 acres of salt marsh and open water complex have been restored or enhanced. A total of 250 acres of estuarine marsh complex in the West Bay area of Galveston Bay were protected, and another 55 acres were restored or enhanced.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas - Texas EquuSearch called off its search for two adults and a 5-year-old girl who have not been seen since Christmas Day.
Investigators with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Office said they found financial transactions that took place in Louisiana. Officials said those transactions involved the missing persons, and they've developed strong evidence to suggest those reported missing haven't met with any foul play.
Investigators said they haven't closed the case and are continuing to follow up on any leads.
Montgomery County sheriff's deputies said Atorian Buckner-Brown, 20, Amanda Jindra, 35, and Haley Vilven, 5, were last seen in south Montgomery County about 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday.
Investigators said Buckner-Brown and Jindra are dating. Jindra has two children, 5-year-old Haley and a 9-year-old son.
Jindra, her children and Buckner-Brown had dinner with some of Jindra's family on Christmas Day. Afterward, the couple had plans to take the children to the park, possibly near Lake Conroe, but they dropped the 9-year-old off with a family friend.
The three were reported missing after Jindra and Buckner-Brown did not show up for work on Wednesday.
Jindra's parents said it's not like their daughter to take off without telling anyone, and she would never leave her son behind.
"Right now we're hoping for the best," said Steven Jindra. "We're doing everything we can to try and locate her in case it's the worst."
Steven Jindra said he talked to Texas EquuSearch volunteers on Friday and suggested some areas to search.
The three were last seen in a gray 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander with Texas license plate No. DM2 B066.
"We're getting area mapped out, getting people actually driving," Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller said. "The most important thing is to see if we can get this vehicle located."
Amanda Jindra's family said there has been no activity to her bank account since Christmas Day and she hasn't responded to text messages or answered any phone calls.
"Right now we're still looking for some kind of hit on where they are," Steven Jindra said.
Buckner-Brown's brother said he is terrified about what may have happened.
"Wherever he's at, I know he's lifted up in prayer," Isaac Buckner said.
Buckner said his brother's car and wallet were found at Jindra's home.
"It's just strange that he would leave without his wallet," Buckner said. "Something had to happen beyond his will because he would leave his wallet -- no ID, no money."
Buckner said he was shocked about the age difference between his brother and Jindra.
"It was alarming," he said.
Buckner-Brown was last seen wearing a blue checkered sweater, gray jeans, gray tennis shoes and a baseball cap. Officials have not said what Amanda Jindra and Haley were last seen wearing.
Deputies said they don't have specific indications of foul play.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at 936-760-5876.
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If you are working with LiveCycle ES2 in a cluster you may notice the following message in the server log:
org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport findFailedInstances "This scheduler instance (<SchedulerName>) is still active but was recovered by another instance in the cluster. This may cause inconsistent behavior".
This exception often occurs when the clock times on the cluster nodes are not synchronized. If the clock times on cluster nodes are more than 1.7 seconds out of synch you will start to see these Quartz messages in the log.
Synchronize the time on all cluster nodes and then restart the cluster. The messages should no longer appear in the log.
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only 25 %, on daily motion but it doesnt have some parts ( like the 4th one where im currently stuck ) it looks pretty good
im dieing to see bokura no ai no kanade but again, no subbs :(( at least its full on youtube O: if u know japanese, you should watch it, i saw a cut and it was... *__*~
too stupid...
i never seen 1 but im kinda looking for some lesbian movies if u seen 1 tell me pls
Yesss ! Love of Siam 2 comes!!! Yay
I have seen:
Antique < Spectacular! Super funny. I have watched it about 4 times now. Hahaha. One of my favorites >
Boys Love < Very nice moive. I adore Takumi and Kotani! I just hate the ending. =( >
Boys Love (THEATRICAL) < Not nearly as good as the first Boys Love, but it was still OK. >
Itsuka no kimi e < Wonderful. This is another one of my favorites. >
Takumi-kun < IT was OK. I kinda liked it, but the plot was a little...different. >
Formula 17 < Ha, this one always makes me laugh. Pretty good. Worth watching >
Eternal Summer < I love this movie. It's so sad though. Another great one. Another favorite. >
Bishonen < This one is good, but you have to really pay attention or you might get lost. I got lost the first time watching it.>
No Regret < I LOVE THIS ONE! ALL TIME FAVORITE! I just love pretty much everything about it. >
Ai no Kotodama < Really cute.>
Sukitomo < This movie was alright. I just thought the sister was annoying as hell. Plus, it's all implied. Nothing really happens. >
Go Go G-Boys < Really funny!! >
Boy Meets Boy < I really liked this. It was a silent film and it was only about 20 minutes in length, but it was nice.>
Silom Soi 2 < This was really good. It made me think a lot. It also made me cry. Has a lot of modern issues that relate to today. >
Like a Virgin (even though it's more of a sex change movie. No romance is involved.) < Highly enetertaining!! >
But! No Regret, Antique, Eternal Summer, and Itsuka no kimi e are my all time favorites!
sweetmanju wrote:
Yesss ! Love of Siam 2 comes!!! Yay
There's a love of siam 2? for real? I want to watc it:D. do you know where I can watch it:D?
Antque Bakery hands down!
school has started, exams coming and ouhh my aching head!
Antique Bakery?
hmm....was that Manay po?
I LMAOed all the way.
bought the SHINee and DBSK album~ [Y.O.U & Mirotic]
i did not watch any gay movies yet.. but i know some from philippines..
~te amo
~manay po [comedy]
~ang pagdadalaga ni maximo oliveros [great story]
try to watch it.. i heard that it received lots of awards.
kya~! i'm back??! but busy.. . -_-" well.. HOW ARE YAH PIPS~!??
I'm not interested
the only one that i have watched is Antique bakery and IT WAS REALLY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
from the west side L-O-V-E
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i never seen 1 but im kinda looking for some lesbian movies if u seen 1 tell me pls
umm...lesbo movie??
maybe I can help u
The Botanist's Chinese Daughter
Lost and delirious
Saving Face
Once and again
Spider lilies
I can't think straight
Imagine me and u
south of nowhere
Welcome to Paradise
The world unseen
Loving Annabelle
love sick
Truth about Jane
Show me love
Clara's summer
Be with me
A sister's kiss
April's shower
Sugar Rush
Tipping the Velvet
The L Word
oh my...am i too much...
hope these will be help..
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saychee wrote:
i never seen 1 but im kinda looking for some lesbian movies if u seen 1 tell me pls
umm...lesbo movie??
maybe I can help u
The Botanist's Chinese Daughter
Lost and delirious
Saving Face
Once and again
Spider lilies
I can't think straight
Imagine me and u
south of nowhere
Welcome to Paradise
The world unseen
Loving Annabelle
love sick
Truth about Jane
Show me love
Clara's summer
Be with me
A sister's kiss
April's shower
Sugar Rush
Tipping the Velvet
The L Word
oh my...am i too much...
hope these will be help..
o god lord!!!did u watch ol of this movies are this movies asian and romantic
by the way thank u very much you are officially my idol ehe...
mlpyae wrote:
I want to list out all asian gay movies i have watched so far. All of those movies were downloaded online. So, everyone is welcome to ask me links for those movies i have watched so far. But, there are so many more gay love movies i want to watch but can't find or no english sub. So, i hope you all will help me too.
Asian Gay movies I have watched so far
1) Ai no Kotodama
2) Antique Bakery
3) Bangkok Love Story
4) Beautiful Boxer
5) Bishonen
6) Boys Love
7) Boys Love 2
8) Eternal Summer
9) Formula 17
10) Go Go G-Boys
11) Itsuka no Kimi e
12) Lan Yu
13) No Regret
14) Rainbow Boys
15) Sukitomo
16) Taiikukan Baby
17) Takumi-kun Soshite, Harukaze ni Sasayaite
18) The Iron Lady
19) The King and The Clown
20) The Love of Siam (My Favourite)
21) 4.6 Billion Years of Love
22) Rainbow Eyes
23) Gohatto Taboo
24) Manay Po
25) Silom Soi 2
26) Boy meets boy
The Following are the movies i want to watch full movie with english subtitles online for free. Pls help me-
1) Kindan no Koi
2) Fragile in Love
3) Innocent
4) Ren ai Shindan
5) Enter The Phoenix
6) Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
7) Frozen Flower
8) Bokura no Ai no Kanade
9) Happy Together
10) Slight Fever of A 20 Year-old
11) Hatsu-Koi
12) I am not what you want
13) Like Grains of Sand
14) Crystal Boys
Sry, i exclude most of gay dramas from philippine.
This may be the best list of gay dramas in this forum but there may be some of the very good gay love movies will left out. sorry for that.
pls, help me complete my collection of all of those movies above.
do u kno anywhere else i can watch manay po coz i cnt find it on youtube
Bokura no Ai no Kanade has yet to be subtitled -my non-existent Japanese won't help. Also, I can't watch Lan Yu online, so I might have to download it.
Heres my list:
1. 4.6 Billion Years of Love (Big Bang Love, Juvenile A)
2. Formula 17
3. No Regret
4. Eternal Summer
5. Boys Love 1+2
6. Antique Bakery
7. Taboo (Gohatto)
8. Ai to Kotodama
9. Itsuka no Kimi e
10. Boy meets Boy
11. Taiikakun Baby
12. Sukitomo
13. Takumi-Series
14. Go Go G-Boys
15. Bishounen
16. Miao Miao (the story keeper and the lead vocalist; LB movie)
17. Bangkok Love Story
18. Ang Lalake sa Parola (Man in the Lighthouse)
My Wantlist:
- Permanent Residence (Taiwan movie)
- Kindan no Koi
- Bokura no Ai no Kanade
- Lan Yu
- Renai Shindan (needs to be translated)
- Crystal Boys [Taiwan Drama w/ Tony Yang (Formual 17) and Joseph Chang (Enternal Summer)]
is listening to Shinee toooo much.


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I am trying to have a better understanding of fluid layouts.
I read this article, which was really interesting: A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids
Here are a few quetsions:
1) What I don't understand about font sizes, is how you know in the first place the default numbers with which you're going to work. Do you have to assume all fonts will be 16px, and then work based on that fact?
2) Is there a way to impose a default font size to user agents?
3) When you set a #wrapper that is, say, 98% wide. 98% of what? Is there a number you set in the first place?
4) Is it possible to say that a #wrapper is 960px wide and still have a fluid layout?
Yes, when I switched from an old 1024x768 monitor to a 1680x1050 wide-screen, I discovered that "readability" problem on a lot of sites, some of my own included. :eek:
These forums stretch the full width, and that's OK, but on some sites, it really does look awful.
I'll attempt to answer, though admitting partial ignorance:
It won't always be 16px, but that's a fairly safe bet in general, so far as I know. If you set the font size on the <body> to 100% as a starting point, it's common to make calculations on the basis of 1em being 16px. Even if that's not the case for a particular user, everything will still be in proportion.
You can't govern how people use their computers, nor should you try. Just accept that people will use their browsers as they choose, and try to make content as accessible as possible. If people want larger font sizes, there's not much you can do to stop them. (If they know how to create their own style sheets, those will override yours. But they can also bump up their default font sizes.)
3) When you set a #wrapper that is, say, 98% wide. 98% of what? Is there a number you set in the first place?
98% of the viewport; that is, the browser window. (That's assuming that the #wrapper is the first child of the <body>.)
I don't think so, but set it to something like 60ems and give the inner elements % widths and the wrapper will be 'elestic'—growing wider if font size is increased, and narrowing if the browser window is narrowed to less than 60ems.
You can find more discussion on font sizes n a previous [thread here and [URL="http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=565469"]more here](http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/css-53/default-font-sizes-what-they-746728.html).
Don't assume anything about font sizes. For many people, they will have a base font of 16px. But some will have bigger, and some will have smaller. Different operating systems, different browsers and different user defaults mean that it is impossible to predict the resulting font size for all users ... so best not to try. Make your design flexible so that it accommodates a range of text sizes, and then everyone will be happy.
Only by doing the whole page as one giant .GIF file, which renders the whole point of a web page somewhat pointless. No, you can't. And even if you could, you shouldn't. Some people have changed their default settings to meet their needs, eg a larger size because their eyesight isn't so good and they can't read small text. It's far more important that they can read your text comfortably than that you get an easy ride coming up with a pixel precision layout
98% of whatever the width of its parent element is.
Technically, you could have a site where the wrapper is a fixed width, but the columns within it adjust their size depending on the text size - eg, the left and right columns are always 10em wide and the middle space just fills in the gap - but that rather defeats the point of a flexible fluid layout, which is to accommodate people with a range of screen and window sizes, some of which will be narrower than 960px.
Many thanks for your replies.
I'm currently studying styesheets of famous designers. I was wondering, why would the SimpleBits layout have a max-width of 960px? Is it a fluid layout or not?
It is common for sites that are fluid to have max- and/or min- widths. If you don't have that, if you just let your site expand to fill the available space, and someone with a huge monitor and massive screen resolution comes to your site, they're going to have lines that are 60 or maybe even 100 words long, and that starts to get really tricky to read. An ideal line length for reading is typically about 15-20 words, so you don't want to allow your page to stretch off to infinity unchecked.
Shouldn't ems fix that issue?
So your advice would be to have both min and max width?
If you size the page width in ems at a suitable measurement then its similar to a fixed layout except that the whole page is dependent on the size of the text and will grow proportionately depending on the users default font size or whether fonts are scaled via browser controls.
Yes for desktops you really want a min and max width to keep the page usable at sensible sizes. On my 27" imac 100% wide sites are totally unusable and I don't want to have to close the window to find a suitable width when switching between various sites.
I prefer to use a min and max-width approach using pixels. In that way the most common screen widths can be accommodated with a little care.
Or you could make a site with min and max width in pixels combined with an em width which will provide an elastic site. The ems can make the layout grow proportionately but the min and max-width stops it from getting too wide if text is resized. This is similar to a fixed width site in that it doesn't really cater for all window sizes but is better than a fixed width in pixels.


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Has anyone else read this book? It's about a boy (told in the 1st person narrative) who is psychologically disturbed and has a gift to detect lies. I believe most fan of CP would enjoy it.
If anyone has read it please let me know, I'm writing an essay on it and would love to steal your opinions.


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Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
The terms grief, bereavement, and mourning are often used in place of each other, but they have different meanings.
Grief is the normal process of reacting to the loss. Grief reactions may be felt in response to physical losses (for example, a death) or in response to symbolic or social losses (for example, divorce or loss of a job). Each type of loss means the person has had something taken away. As a family goes through a cancer illness, many losses are experienced, and each triggers its own grief reaction. Grief may be experienced as a mental, physical, social, or emotional reaction. Mental reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair. Physical reactions can include sleeping problems, changes in appetite, physical problems, or illness. Social reactions can include feelings about taking care of others in the family, seeing family or friends, or returning to work. As with bereavement, grief processes depend on the relationship with the person who died, the situation surrounding the death, and the person's attachment to the person who died. Grief may be described as the presence of physical problems, constant thoughts of the person who died, guilt, hostility, and a change in the way one normally acts.
Bereavement is the period after a loss during which grief is experienced and mourning occurs. The time spent in a period of bereavement depends on how attached the person was to the person who died, and how much time was spent anticipating the loss.
Mourning is the process by which people adapt to a loss. Mourning is also influenced by cultural customs, rituals, and society's rules for coping with loss.
Grief work includes the processes that a mourner needs to complete before resuming daily life. These processes include separating from the person who died, readjusting to a world without him or her, and forming new relationships. To separate from the person who died, a person must find another way to redirect the emotional energy that was given to the loved one. This does not mean the person was not loved or should be forgotten, but that the mourner needs to turn to others for emotional satisfaction. The mourner's roles, identity, and skills may need to change to readjust to living in a world without the person who died. The mourner must give other people or activities the emotional energy that was once given to the person who died in order to redirect emotional energy.
People who are grieving often feel extremely tired because the process of grieving usually requires physical and emotional energy. The grief they are feeling is not just for the person who died, but also for the unfulfilled wishes and plans for the relationship with the person. Death often reminds people of past losses or separations. Mourning may be described as having the following 3 phases:


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ORANGE PARK, Fla. - Clay County detectives have arrested Candice Mullis and Justin Stone on charges they provided fraudulent registration and shot records for at least seven dogs for a total of $1,900.
Some of the dogs became ill shortly after being purchased through ads on Craigslist. The Sheriff's Office says some dogs died and others required expensive life-saving medical treatment.
One Ponte Vedra couple paid $6,000 in veterinary bills on a dog named Bella (pictured, below) they bought from Mullis and Stone. In the end, the dog still had to be put down.
Hopes were high as Nyrya Bresnihan and her family bought Bella days before Christmas.
"I've never used Craigslist, so I didn't think anything of it. I just thought it was fine," Bresnihan said. "Everything seemed fine. I didn't think there was anything out of the ordinary until I got home that night."
Bresnihan said the pit bull puppy didn't look like the one in the ad and was sick.
"She wouldn't eat anything, she wouldn't drink anything," Bresnihan said. "So I brought her to the vet the next day and they said she just didn't seem right."
For ten days, veterinarians tried to help the dog, but it was too sick, and $6,000 later, her owners said they had to put Bella to sleep.
"It was miserable," Bresnihan said.
She said the suspects sold her the dog for $250, complete with shot records, a checkup history and purebred paperwork. But she noticed things weren't right. The vet on the papers was nowhere to be found, and they appeared to be fake. That's when she alerted deputies.
Roberts worked the case and said Mullis and Stone made fake papers and sold the dogs to several different people as part of a scam. Roberts said he found out they had done the same thing they did to the Bresnihan family seven different times. And each of those dogs was so sick it either died or had to be put to sleep.
"They were going through great lengths of hiding their identity," Roberts said. "They were being secretive. They were using aliases."
It is unclear where exactly the sick puppies were raised or if a "puppy mill" type operation was involved.
Anyone else who purchased a dog from the couple is encouraged to contact the Sheriff's Office.
Stone, 23, and Mullis, 24, of Middleburg, were arrested Monday and charged with organized schemes to defraud.
Neither responded to phone calls Tuesday seeking comment.
The Bresnihan family is still upset about what they went through -- the result of a scam they say was downright mean.
"I have nothing nice to say to them," Bresnihan said.
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Back in August, I was tapped to be a pickle judge at the Eat Real Fest in Oakland, CA. The festival was a bacchanalia of all things foodie: Squadrons of street carts, tremendous walls of spigots spewing microbrews, live demos of everything from butter to butchery. The judging came as part of a series of contests for urban homesteaders. Homemade goods were judged in several categories: Home brewing, kombucha, jam making and pickles.
Among the highlights of the things we tasted were some peppery nasturtium capers and a pickled fig that made our eyes roll. But the one that haunted me most was a bright, complex tomato-lemon chutney. The flavors were simple and clean, yet somehow more than the sum of their parts. It came in second to the nasturtium capers, but it was a close race for sure.
I was able to reach the contributor, Bay Area resident Rany Prambs, who shared the recipe with me. It's easy and straightforward, and a real testament to the fact that using good, fresh ingredients and treating them with respect will always net you stellar results.
Like all good chutneys, this has a beautiful balance of tart, sweet and hot, so it plays well with a wide variety of foods. It can stand alone as a cracker topper, or sidle up to your holiday main meat; if you're making a Christmas goose, so much the better.
I've been all about the chutneys this season; I think they make interesting and appealing holiday gifts. This one, however, might not make it out of my house. I can barely keep from eating it by the spoonful.
Rany's Tomato-Meyer Lemon Chutney
Rany's original recipe used fresh, ripe roma tomatoes. If you can still get some, then by all means use them. Otherwise, you can use canned crushed tomatoes, but be sure to use the finest quality. Make sure they contain nothing other than tomatoes. Or, crack open a jar of the ones you canned earlier this year. You did can some, right? Right?
2 Tbsp safflower oil
2 oz garlic, finely minced
1-1/4 lb fresh, ripe roma tomatoes, or 2 c. crushed tomatoes
1 tsp kosher salt
3 fresh cayenne peppers, minced, or 1/2 tsp chili pepper flake
1 bay leaf
1 c. freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 c. sugar
1 small meyer lemon, chopped finely, skin on but seeds and pith removed
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Gently saute the garlic until fragrant; do not brown. Add the salt, peppers, bay leaf and tomatoes and give a good stir. Turn up the heat and simmer for 12-15 minutes, until the skins start to separate from the tomatoes. Add the lemon juice and the sugar, and reduce the heat. Keep the mixture at a low, murmuring simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 40 minutes. When the liquid is reduced and thickened, add the lemons and remove from heat. Remove bay leaf. If canning, ladle into hot jars and process by normal water bath methods.
Yields 3 half-pint jars
More from Sean and Punk Domestics:
Cranberryless Sauce
Apple Habanero Jelly
Pear Butter
Zucchine Sott'Olio
Fig Jam with Fennel Pollen
Canning Tomatoes
Sean Timberlake is a professional writer, amateur foodie, avid traveler and all-around bon vivant. He is the founder of Punk Domestics, a content and community site for DIY food enthusiasts, and has penned the blog Hedonia since 2006. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, DPaul Brown, and their hyperactive terrier, Reese.


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Breakdown of EEOC Guidance on Criminal Background Checks
April 25, 2012
Please note that this post was written by Angela Bosworth
It's here! The much anticipated EEOC guidance on the use of criminal records in employment was issued today, setting off a flurry of interpretations, complete with webinar invitations and blog posts. Not to be outdone, here's our take on the matter.
By way of introduction, the road to new guidance was paved with protest, controversy and political horse-trading. The EEOC has long maintained that the use of credit and criminal history in hiring can lead to "disparate impact" discrimination. Disparate impact claims rely on statistical information to prove that use of criminal history and credit information has an unintended discriminatory effect on minorities. Studies that show a higher rate of arrests for blacks and Hispanics are often cited in disparate impact cases based on criminal history. While an increasing number of employers are seeking background checks out of security concerns, at the same time, more and more people are released every year from US prisons and jails. The growing ex-offender population, coupled with the economic climate and high unemployment, creates the perfect storm for disparate impact claims.
New criminal history guidance supports the Commission's commitment to put an end to systemic discrimination and the push to help ex-cons get back to work. In the past year, the EEOC has filed a record number of class action lawsuits alleging that employer's use of credit and criminal history amounts to discrimination against blacks and Hispanics. Pepsi recently paid a very well publicized 3.13 million dollars to settle a class action suit brought by the EEOC.
The push for new guidance is rumored to have been initiated by Obama-appointee and Chair Jackie Barrien, and was pushed to a vote this month due to the unexpected announcement from Democratic Commissioner Stuart J. Ishimaru that he would not finish his term. When he leaves at the end of April, Democrats lose their majority on the panel, and the chance of issuing this kind of guidance is slim. And because of the backlash the Obama administration has already encountered for recess appointments, the seat will likely remain vacant for the remainder of the year.
So without public comment or review, employers have been handed a new guidance to address using criminal history. So what exactly is guidance, anyhow, and is it really just guidance?
Yes and no. Technically speaking, the EEOC guidance is not binding on courts and carries no "official" legal weight. In practice, however, courts rely heavily on agency policy statements and the EEOC guidance in particular. Employers understand and treat it like de facto legislation—Failure to heed the guidance may land you on the losing end of a class action suit in Federal Court.
The old guidance was issued in 1987 and recommended that before using criminal history information, employers had to take into consideration the following to demonstrate business necessity:
• the nature and gravity of the offense or offenses;
• the time that has passed since the conviction and/or completion of the sentence; and
• the nature of the job held or sought.
1987 EEOC Policy Statement on the Issue of Conviction Records under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/convict1.html
The EEOC also issued a 1990 policy statement on employers' use of arrest records. Under that policy statement, employers have to consider the following before using arrest records to make an employment decision:
(i) the likelihood that the individual engaged in the conduct arrested for; and
(ii) job relatedness.
1990 EEOC Policy Statement on the Consideration of Arrest Records in Employment Decisions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §2000e et seq.
Blanket exclusions of individuals with criminal records have always been suspect, and the use of arrest records has historically been strongly discouraged.
The new guidance supersedes the old policy statements, but incorporates the guidelines. It is heavy on background information, case studies and examples. It is sprinkled with "best practices" with a healthy dose of footnotes. The major game changer is a new requirement for an employer's defense: Individualized Assessment.
In summary:
- Job relatedness and business necessity remain the legal standard for an employer's defense. Two times when this standard is met are defined:
- "The employer validates the criminal conduct exclusion for the position in question in light of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (if there is data or analysis about criminal conduct as related to subsequent work performance or behaviors); OR"
- "The employer develops a targeted screen considering at least the nature of the crime, the time elapsed, the nature of the job (the Greene factors). The employer's policy then provides an opportunity for an individualized assessment for those people identified by the screen, to determine if the policy as applied is job related and consistent with business necessity."
- "Although Title VII does not require individualized assessment in all circumstances, the use of a screen that does not include individualized assessment is more likely to violate Title VII."
- Compliance with Federal law/mandate that conflicts with Title VII is a defense.
- State and local laws are pre-empted by Title VII if they "purport to require or permit the doing of any act which would be an unlawful employment practice" under Title VII
Other notables:
- It's looong. 52 pages long, to be exact. 26 are guidance, the remainder is endnotes.
- The difference between arrest and conviction records is discussed at length.
- No more enforcement language. It is geared solely to employers.
- No prohibition on open/pending cases. While arrest records are inherently suspect in terms of disparate impact discrimination, on an individual basis consideration of an open/pending arrest is still allowed.
- Individualized assessment is loosely defined as follows: an employer informs an individual that he may be excluded from a job because of past criminal conduct, provides an opportunity for the individual to demonstrate that the exclusion does not properly apply to him; and considers the individual's additional information should change the decision (looking to job relatedness and business necessity.
The Individualized Assessment section of the document lists "relevant" evidence that an employer should consider. This is a MUCH more extensive list than in prior statements. The list includes facts or circumstances surrounding the offense, the number of convictions, the age at the time of the conviction/release from prison, evidence of no related incidents, rehabilitation, employment or character references, fitness for the position, and bonding.
If the individual does not respond to an employer's request for additional information, the employer can make the decision without the additional information. How long or under what circumstances an employer must wait is not clear.
The guidance gives many examples in an attempt to clarify when and what an employer can consider. We will be providing a more detailed overview of the ways to establish job relatedness and business necessity as we review the Guidance in more detail.
The last portion of the Guidance is Titled "Best Practices", and it digests the EEOC's recommendations to employers who plan to use criminal records. Besides the expected recommendations to train personnel on Title VII, develop policies and procedures, conduct individualized assessments, keep good records and notes, and maintain confidentiality, the Commission recommends that employers limit inquiries to records for which exclusion would be job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity. While this is not as specific as a "ban the box" limitation, it does suggest that employers need to review their background screening program to make sure they are asking for defensible information.
The Commission approved the guidance by a vote of 4-1, with Republican Constance Barker providing the lone no vote.
Click here to read EEOC press release
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Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed, or as is will henceforth be known, The Day Jennifer Lawrence Finally Turned Around In Those Goddamned Yoga Pants. We've also got Dax Shepard making this face, which I would easily trade staring at for several hours over ever having to hear him speak again, the marketing department at Foster Grant should really get their vision checked *rimshot, puts gun in mouth*, and The Superficial officially welcomes Rep. Paul Ryan.
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Stephen D Reicher (Steve Reicher) is Professor of Social Psychology and former Head of the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews.
Reicher completed his undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Bristol. At Bristol, Reicher worked closely with Henri Tajfel and John Turner (authors of social identity theory). He held positions at the University of Dundee and University of Exeter before moving to St Andrews in 1998. His research is in the area of social psychology, focusing on group processes such as crowd behaviour, tyranny and leadership. He is broadly interested in the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship. His research interests can be grouped into three areas:
- The first is an attempt to develop a model of crowd action that accounts for both social determination and social change.
- The second concerns the construction of social categories through language and action.
- The third concerns political rhetoric and mass mobilisation - especially around the issue of national identity.
Reicher's work on crowd psychology has been path-breaking. He challenged the dominant notion of crowd as site of Irrationality and deindividuation. His social identity model (SIM,1982, 1984, 1987) of crowd behaviour suggests that people are able to act as one in crowd events not because of 'contagion' or Social facilitation but because they share a common social identity. This common identity specifies what counts as normative conduct. Unlike the 'classic' theories, which tended to presume that collectivity was associated with uncontrolled violence (due to a regression to instinctive drives or a pre-existing 'racial unconscious'), the social identity model explicitly acknowledges variety by suggesting that different identities have different norms – some peaceful, some conflictual – and that, even where crowds are conflictual, the targets will be only those specified by the social identity of the crowd.
Reicher's (1984) St Pauls' study was a powerful riposte to the whole 'irrationalist' tradition, from Gustav Le Bon to deindividuation. But the study and the social identity model left a number of unanswered questions and hence possible explanatory problems. The emphasis on social identity as the determinant of collective behaviour potentially led to a rather unidimensional reading of the nature of crowd conflict: conflict was 'read off' from the St Pauls' social identity, as if the participants were already 'violent'; yet this left unexplained how such conflict emerged and escalated over time during the riot. An unanswered question was therefore how an otherwise peaceful crowd might become conflictual. Without further specification, the model risked being read, like Allport's account, as seeing conflict as a product of fixed and pre-given identities that were simply acted out. How could behavioural change in the crowd be grasped without falling back into something like the LeBonian account in which the peaceful, rational individual is simply subsumed by the (malign) influence of the crowd?
The analysis of the St Pauls' riot was like a snap-shot, examining the nature of the crowd targets, without examining in detail how conflict actually emerged from relations with the police, and without including the perspective of the police as a possible contribution to the events. Subsequent studies of crowd events by Reicher and John Drury therefore began to address these absences. In each of a number of different type of crowd events, a similar pattern of interaction between crowd and police was identified. The observation of this pattern of interaction led to the Elaborated Social Identity Model (ESIM) of crowd conflict, which focuses on the emergence and development of crowd conflict.
Moreover, the ESIM provides the conceptual resources for understanding the possible articulation between social and psychological change. Thus the ESIM suggests that identity change is a function of changed context, brought about through the (often unintended) consequences of one's own actions. The consequences are often unintended and unanticipated because crowd members' actions may be interpreted in contrasting ways by outgroups such as the police. The wider significance of such change is in terms of future action. A limited 'local' protest becomes understood as part of a wider struggle against national or even global 'injustice' where participants are cast as part of a wider oppositional group, where such opposition becomes legitimized by illegitimate outgroup (police, state) action and where there is a perception of wider support and that the collective is indeed capable of translating its ideas into reality. Particular experiences in collective action can therefore be significant in their role of encouraging people to get involved in further actions, which might themselves be forces for social change. Put simply, crowd conflict is argued to be meaningful, but can be a locus of social and psychological change because that meaning may be contested.
Reicher collaborated with Professor Alex Haslam of the University of Exeter on the BBC television programme The Experiment, which examined conflict, order, rebellion and tyranny in the behaviour of a group of individuals held in a simulated prison environment. The experiment (which became known as the BBC Prison Study) re-examined issues raised by the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and led to a number of publications in leading psychology journals. Amongst other things, these challenged the role account of tyranny associated with the SPE as well as broader ideas surrounding the Banality of evil, and advanced a social identity-based understanding of the dynamics of resistance.
He is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology and Chief Editor (with Margaret Wetherell) of the British Journal of Social Psychology. Reicher is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and consultant editor for a number of journals including Scientific American Mind.
Most influential publicationsEdit
Turner, J. C., Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D., & Wetherell, M. S. (1987). Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Reicher, S. D. & Hopkins, N. (2001). Self and nation: Categorization, contestation and mobilisation. London: Sage.
Haslam, S.A; Reicher, S.D. & Platow, M.J. (2010) "The New Psychology Of Leadership: Identity, Influence And Power" New York: Psychology Press
Journal articles
Reicher, S. D. (1984). The St. Pauls riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model. European Journal of Social Psychology", "14, 1–21.
Reicher, S. & Potter, J. (1985). Psychological theory as intergroup perspective: A comparative analysis of 'scientific' and 'lay' accounts of crowd events. Human Relations, 38, 167-189.
Reicher S. D., & Hopkins, N. (1996). Seeking influence through characterizing self-categories: An analysis of anti-abortionist rhetoric. British Journal of Social Psychology", "35, 297-311.
Reicher, S. (1996). The Crowd century: Reconciling practical success with theoretical failure. British Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 535-53.
Reicher S. D., & Hopkins, N. (1996). Self-category constructions in political rhetoric; An analysis of Thatcher's and Kinnock's speeches concerning the British miners' strike (1984-5) European Journal of Social Psychology", "26 353-371.
Reicher, S. D., & Haslam, S. A. (2006). Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC Prison Experiment. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 1–40. [1]
Reicher, S. D., Haslam, S. A., & Hopkins, N. (2005). Social identity and the dynamics of leadership: Leaders and followers as collaborative agents in the transformation of social reality. Leadership Quarterly. 16, 547–568.
Reicher, S.D. (1982). The determination of collective behaviour (pp. 41-83). In H. Tajfel (ed.), Social identity and intergroup relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reicher, S.D. (1984b). The St Pauls' riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 14, 1-21. Also in: Murphy, J., John, M. & Brown, H. (1984), (eds.). Dialogues and debates in social psychology (pp. 187–205). London: Lawrence Erlbaum/Open University
Reicher, S.D. (1987). Crowd behaviour as social action. In J.C. Turner, M.A. Hogg, P.J. Oakes, S.D. Reicher & M.S. Wetherell, Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory (pp. 171–202). Oxford: Blackwell.[2]
Reicher, S., Spears, R. & Postmes, T. (1995). A social identity model of deindividuation phenomena. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (eds.), European Review of Social Psychology, 6, 161-98.
Reicher, S. (1996) Social identity and social change: Rethinking the context of social psychology. In W.P. Robinson (Ed.) Social groups and identities: Developing the legacy of Henri Tajfel (pp. 317–336). London: Butterworth.
Reicher, S. (1996). 'The Battle of Westminster': Developing the social identity model of crowd behaviour in order to explain the initiation and development of collective conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 115-34. [3]
Reicher, S. (2001). The psychology of crowd dynamics. In M.A. Hogg and R.S. Tindale (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Group processes (pp. 182–208). Oxford: Blackwell. [4]
Stott, C., Hutchison, P. & Drury, J. (2001). 'Hooligans' abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective 'disorder' at the 1998 World Cup Finals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 359-384.
Stott, C. & Reicher, S. (1998a). Crowd action as inter-group process: Introducing the police perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 509-529.
Stott, C. & Reicher, S. (1998b). How conflict escalates: The inter-group dynamics of collective football crowd 'violence'. Sociology, 32, 353-77.[5]
Drury, J., Cocking, C., Beale, J., Hanson, C. & Rapley, F. (2005). The phenomenology of empowerment in collective action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 309-328.
Reicher, S. (2001). Studying psychology, studying racism. In M. Augoustinos & K. J. Reynolds. (Eds.), Understanding prejudice, Racism, and Social conflict. London: Sage.
Drury, J. & Reicher, S. (1999). The intergroup dynamics of collective empowerment: Substantiating the social identity model of crowd behaviour. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2, 381-402.
Drury J. & Reicher S. (2000) Collective action and psychological change: The emergence of new social identities. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 579 -604. [6]
Drury, J. & Reicher, S. (2005). Explaining enduring empowerment: A comparative study of collective action and psychological outcomes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 35-58.[7]
Drury, J., Reicher, S. & Stott, C. (2003) Transforming the boundaries of collective identity: From the 'local' anti-road campaign to 'global' resistance? Social Movement Studies, 2, 191-212.
Reicher, S. Haslam, S.A. & Rath, R. (2008) "Making a virtue of evil: A five step social identity model of development of collective hate" Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2/3 (2008): 1313–1344, 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00113.x [8]
External linksEdit
The official website of the BBC Prison Study: http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org
Profile: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sp/people/lect/sdr.shtml
Publications: http://portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/research-expertise/researcher/sdr/publications
Talks: Beyond the Banality of Evil, London School of Economics, February, 2008. This lecture critically addresses Hannah Arendt's hypothesis on the banality of evil arguing that those who commit extreme acts are not aware of the consequences of their actions: rather, they celebrate these consequences as moral.
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I am really mad! I'm married to a handsome, charming man with a beautiful accent who doesn't have a work ethic. Yesterday I overheard him on the phone tell his brother in South America: "Canadian women love to work. It makes them feel important." Not that he'd know about work! He has training in a medical field that transferred to this country, but he quit soon after we were married. Now he sits on his beautiful butt until I get home from work to make him supper. When I see him sitting there, I feel so angry and so turned off. "Come on, I want to make love to you," he whines, but I don't want to. I see him as a blood-sucking leech. I told him, and he said, "You make enough money for two of us. What is the problem? When you have babies and don't want to work, I will go back and you stay home." I screamed back "No! I have a career I love. I will take maternity leave but I will NEVER stop working." Now what? -- Married a Good-Looking Leech, Winnipeg
Dear Married: In some cases, people don't know what they are getting into at the altar, especially when cultures are different. The kind of money your man sees you pulling in, may make him think resentfully, "What's the use?" or he may simply be lazy and see an opportunity to coast. There's fault on your side, too. In your marriage he waits for you to make him dinner, and you do it -- no confrontation! That's martyrdom. Something's got to give. If he's going to remain the stay-at-home mate, and there are no kids yet, then he should be doing most of the cooking and cleaning. So much for the little paper you signed at the altar. It's time to draw up a real deal, with a list of everything that has to be done weekly, the hours attached and who does what. Start with your 40 hours a week in one column. If nothing changes, there's no lovemaking and you don't have children on the way, it might be time to get out. No one should stay with someone they feel is sucking the life, and love, out of them.
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AN ISLAMIC tutor admitted to his alleged victim's father he had sexually touched his daughter during lessons, a jury has been told.
Preston Crown Court heard that when the girl's father confronted Suleman Maknojioa, of Audley Range, Blackburn, about the allegations he said: "In the name of God, please forgive me."
It is alleged that the defendant, 40, sexually touched the girl during Koran lessons.
Summing up after a five day trial, Judge Michael Byrne said the youngster eventually told her parents that Maknojioa had stroked her leg, squeezed her chest and put his hand under her headscarf after being urged to by her brothers, who told the court they had witnessed the touching, and a relative.
The judge said the girl was asked what happened and she said "when I used to pray, he used to touch me. I thought he was being nice. But then he started touching my feet, he started touching my leg and if I had a headscarf on, he would put his hand up."
Suleman, who has previously taught at a mosque in Darwen, denies all five counts of sexual activity with a child. He also rejected the claim that he had made any admissions to the girl's father.
Summing up Maknojioa's evidence, Judge Byrne said the defendant had told the jury: "I said 'my children are crying, my wife is here, she is crying are you are destroying my life'.
"I said 'for the sake of God, think of my children, please listen'. I wanted to explain to him and know from him the type of touching. He never explained anything. I never admitted to him I touched his daughter in a sexual way."
Judge Byrne added that Maknojioa said he had never had any malicious intentions.
Again summing up what the defendant had told the jury, he said: "The girl is a very emotional, a very little girl. If somebody speaks hard to her, she starts crying and also if she got a low mark.
"I never touched her on her body with sexual intention.
"I never squeezed her chest area. Why would I do that?
"I did demonstrate some of the actions that were necessary for praying. The only reason I ever touched her back was because she was a good student."
The jury, which retired yesterday to consider its verdicts, heard how 13 statements supporting Maknojioa's character had been submitted to the court.


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CANTON, Mich. - Service men and women will be honored in Canton on Veterans Day.
The Salute to Service ceremony will be held at The Village Theater located on 50400 Cherry Hill Road on Sunday, Nov. 11th.
The celebration will honor active duty military personnel and veterans.
The event is free to the public and doors open at 2 p.m. An exhibit of military memorabilia can be viewed prior to the main presentation at 3 p.m.
Author Robert H. Miller who wrote "Hidden Hell: Discovering My Father's POW Diary" will discuss his latest book, "Portraits of Service" which honors veterans from five different wars.
"The book is more than a keepsake," said Miller. "It is an enduring account of the men and women in uniform who serve and protect our ideal of freedom. Their stories must be told and revered for generations to come."
The Patton Foundation will donate a portion of the net profits from the sale of Miller's book to veterans and their families through organizations such as Final Salute Inc., Wounded Warrior Project and the American Military Family Association.
In addition to the presentation, items will be collected for the Michigan Military Moms, including: hand and foot warmers, beef jerky; Q-tips; packs of candy or gum that doesn't melt; candy canes; Santa hats; holiday stockings; tree garland; and Detroit sports team items.
Visit Cantonfun.org. for more information on the event.
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Prospect Pitch: Joseph perfects two
Royals left-handed reliever talks mechanics, pair of offerings
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | September 12, 2012 6:00 AM ET
When the Royals' 10th-ranked prospect toes the rubber (as is visible in the video below) he points his right cleat at a near-45-degree angle in the direction of his second baseman. Then, after picking up his knee quickly, he drags that cleat ever so slowly an inch above dirt. Each movement builds his momentum plate-ward, and it starts at ground-level.
"It's a new mechanical thing I've used this year. I used to come set regular, straight arm," said Joseph, who first worked on the change during the 2011 Arizona Fall League. "One thing that's my downfall is always pulling off and flying open, which caused me to be inconsistent. This closes myself off. It helps me command my pitches and makes it harder for left-handers to see -- any advantage I can get."
Joseph, who unlike many pro hurlers never had a personal pitching coach (or a single pitching lesson) growing up, was lights-out at Pensacola (0.89 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 30 1/3 innings) and anything but a loser at Louisville (2.86 ERA, 22 K's in 22 innings). Then Cincinnati, which drafted him in the third round in 2009, traded him and another legit pitching prospect in J.C. Sulbaran to Kansas City for veteran reliever Jonathan Broxton this past non-waiver Trade Deadline. He pitched in 11 games at Omaha (4.15 ERA, 19 K's in 17 1/3) before helping the Storm Chasers in the ongoing Pacific Coast League playoffs.
And Joseph, 24, has done it all with two pitches.
"We have talked about throwing a changeup, but my mentality is that, if I can just perfect these two," he said, "that will help me get to where I want to be, which is in the big leagues."
MiLB.com asked Joseph to describe and grade each of the two pitches he makes. (His grade is based on a scout's traditional 20-80 scale, 50 being the Major League average.) Here is Joseph, in his own words.
Pitch one: Four-seam and two-seam fastballs
Origin: The four-seam is the first pitch I threw growing up. It wasn't until college started that I was messing around with grips. My pitching coach in college suggested the two-seamer, and we worked on it. I had an idea of how to do it the first or second grip I tried. I put my fingers right on the laces and threw it. Being left-handed and the way I throw, I naturally pronate the ball anyway, making it sink automatically.
Purpose: I mainly use my four-seamer. I use it to get a quick out or get ahead. I like to get ahead, go strike one to set up my slider. Every now and again, I'll throw a two-seamer to the outer half of the plate and get them to swing it into the ground and get a quick groundout. I don't really throw it to lefties. Mainly, the purpose is to move it away from righties.
Grip: Traditional -- All my grips are pretty normal. Nothing extreme.
Speed: 92-95 mph -- The four-seamer is a little harder, but I don't see the difference.
Grade: 55 -- Velocity-wise, it's up there. Command is where I have something to work on.
Pitch two: Slider
Origin: I learned it my junor year in college when we got a new pitching coach, Russell Stockton, at the University of Houston. Back then, I threw a changeup and didn't have a breaking pitch. I was down in the bullpen one day when we worked on it. The first time I threw it, it moved way too much. I learn to position my hand differently. I learned to throw it out in front. I was starting then. Once I got that slider, I was closing. In one- or two-inning roles, I felt like I could harness it and perfect it -- and I gained confidence in my fastball as a result. As the season went on, I learned how to to use it and command it. And that's why I got drafted. It has propelled my career until now.
Purpose: I like to go to my slider with two strikes. That's my put-away pitch. Everything I throw is set up to get back to the slider.
Grip: If you look at the horseshoe, my middle finger is on the laces of the ball, and I throw it out front and let it move.
Speed: 83-85 mph -- If I am throwing it 87-88 its not moving too much, and I don't want it 79-80.
Grade: 45 -- Some days I have it, some days I don't. When I don't, I calm down and collect myself. I'll still try to throw it -- I don't want to have just one pitch -- to get it into the hitter's mind.
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Already stretched council tax payers look set to be hit with a further 2.5% rise in their bills this year.
The proposed budget, which was seen by cabinet members on Monday, suggested the council tax for Pembrokeshire for 2013/14 to be set at £741.17 for Band D properties - an increase of £21.24 or 2.95%.
The report by the director of leisure and finance also detailed proposed spending cuts of £8.6m over the next three years and called for a review of current services "to establish a framework whereby key services continue to be delivered and other service areas are prioritised within available resources."
The council intends to save £1.6m in 2013/14, £3.5m in 2014/15 and £3.5m in 2015/16, which is required to deal with a number of service pressures.
The pressures identified included: the protection of school budgets, adult social services, social worker retention and recruitment costs, pay and grading implementation costs, pay and price pressures, real terms reduction in Welsh Government grants, reduction of capital capacity through supported borrowing my ten per cent per annum, investment required for the 21st Century Schools Programme, the continued impact of the recession and the introduction of a new Council Tax Support Scheme.
The report highlighted the biggest risk as being "the service and demographic pressure within Adult Social Services.
"Failure to slow down the rate of increase in this budget will create ongoing cost reduction pressures over and above the aforementioned cost reduction target of £8.6m," the report added.
The proposed net social care adult service budget for 2013/14 is estimated at £43m - an increase of £4.6m on the original estimate and more than the one per cent planning assumptions used by the Welsh Government.
The council has estimated a £2.8m overspend on adult services by the end of the current financial year.
At Monday's meeting, Pembrokeshire County Council leader Jamie Adams said: "We will have to ask ours what's desirable and what's necessary."
He added: "There will have to be some difficult decisions going forward."
The proposed total council budget requirement is £211.2m and included £88.6m for education. The budget will be set by full council at the end of February.