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26th August 2013, 07:53 PM | #81 |
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I wonder... could you even admit that the way that things are marketed to men vastly differs from the way that things are marketed to women... perhaps even loosely related to the lines in which I describe, without resorting to this sort of ridiculous behavior?
Admittedly, there may be less reason to do things this way than advertisers presume, but I would tend to assume that it is done because it at least seems to work. I have no desire to sift through several pages of irrelevant google results (my only reference available) to find something that I see as quite obvious. I have actually tried a few key words, but what I came up with was a lot of unrelated crap. Unfortunately, the next thing is... after I actually do that, people will next resort to calling me down for cherry picking things that fit my conclusions. You see the problem is: Once challenged in this way, there is absolutely no "win" in the situation, and you damn well know it. Why don't you just tell me I'm wrong and explain why you think this is the case... rather than intentionally placing me in a no-win situation that pretty much ruins all reasonable dialogue? I've seen this multiple times before... I'm not new to this at all. I know exactly how this sort of behavior functions on this forum. Fair enough. I'd heard it in an actual psych class, but a quick search shows that it first showed up in 1954, years after his death. |
27th August 2013, 07:19 AM | #82 |
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Yes, many products are marketed differently to women than to men. That, however, does not prove your assertion that women are more interested in "unquantifiable social relationships" than "observable facts and material challenges".
In fact, I'd argue that I could find quite a few female members of this board who are far more interested in the latter, and quite a few male members who are more interested in the former.
Or, alternatively -- and always one of my favorite arguments from those who can't support their claims -- is the whole "I made the claim first, but I have no need to prove it, if you disagree, then you have to prove it's false." I know that you've spent quite a bit of time on these boards, so you should be aware of just how lame that particular argument is. Now, to illustrate my point about the complete irrelevance of your argument above, let's say that I were to claim that women are more likely to be attracted to the number 12, while men are more likely to be attracted to the number 14. And I then made the argument, as you have above, that obviously marketers take different approaches to men than they do to women, and that supports my assertion that they prefer different numbers. The problem here is that there is a huge, gaping, logical fallacy involved. Yes, women are marketed to differently than men. But that doesn't in any manner, shape, or form mean that the specific difference that you claim between the two groups is true. No moreso than my claim about preferences for different numbers. Quite the opposite, I can easily cite examples from specific marketing strategies for men and women that would demonstrate the exact opposite. Consider marketing cars. When marketing to women, it is concrete facts and figures that they tend to be more interested in -- specifically, the car's safety, it's fuel consumption, etc. Women, especially those with children, tend to place a very high priority on concrete, objective factors such as how safe the car is, how much fuel it consumes, etc. Men, on the other hand, respond much more to an emotional appeal. How powerful the car will make them feel. Or how attractive women will find them. Or how fast they can go. Or how cool they'll look. And all those scantily clad hot women they have standing around the cars at car shows...I assure you, they're not there to cause an emotional/hormonal reaction from the women. So, again -- no. Your argument about differences in marketing to men and women doesn't even take the first, tiniest step towards substantiating your claim. And, like the poster before me, I'll challenge you to give actual proof of your assertion, rather than personal anecdotes and unrelated claims. And if you're afraid of people jumping all over you, or being in a no-win situation, may I suggest that the strategy you've employed thus far in this "debate" (and I use that term rather loosely) is probably not the optimal one. |
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27th August 2013, 04:47 PM | #83 |
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Has it occurred to you yet that making proclamations alleging some vaguely-defined mental infirmity on the part of an entire gender is the sort of thing that one ought not to do unless one actually has at one's disposal solid research with which to support one's point? I'd venture to guess that your lousy discursive conduct does little to draw either women or empiricists towards any movement you profess to represent. Perhaps you should consider switching sides.
27th August 2013, 07:29 PM | #84 |
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28th August 2013, 06:35 AM | #85 |
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Come on people, it's not like Manopolus has pulled this out of his behind. There've been numerous threads on here (long before all the elevatorgate stuff) that acknowledged there was a definite difference in the propensity for particular genders to be interested in different things even if we didn't determine why that was.
There also seems to be a difference in the types of woo that different genders find attractive - mediums etc attracting more women (just look at the make-up of the average audience - it's hugely skewed) with conspiracy theories, cryptozoology, UFOs etc attracting more men. It's not a huge leap (though by no means the right answer or the only answer - I suspect it's down to a combination of things) to think that may be related to the established differences between male and female brains eg language skills better in women, processing equally split across both hemispheres, greater development in areas concerned with emotions, feeling, social cohesion, co-operation etc with men on the other hand, better spatial awareness, earlier development of the parts of the brain used in maths and other logic processing*, tendency to competition etc. Reinforce that with society's gender stereotyping and surely we all acknowledge there is a tendency (obviously with lots of exceptions) for women to tend towards different things and not a huge stretch (backed by all our real life experience if we admit it) to Manopolus' pov. And I speak as the father of 2 girls who are both atheist scientists (my other two kids are too young to categorise) but even I see this general gender split across society as a whole. Now we can argue / debate the reasons why but are we really demanding proof that this tendency split exists? *The theory is that this creates an early impression that boys are better at maths than girls as they are taught at the same rate and then that impression itself reinforces the behaviour later even when that part of the female brain has caught up and there are no longer any biological differences. Interestingly tests showed that boys outperformed girls when each were told the maths test was better suited to boys and then boys subsequently underperformed in similar tests when they thought they were being pitted against Asian students (the perception being that Asian students are better at maths). Interesting stuff from 1 minutes Googling... |
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On the contrary, that appears to be exactly what he's done. But at least now he won't be lonely, as you have newly joined him in the "Citations are hard; and anyway, can't you just feel how right I am?" club. Do you actually have evidence to support the specific claim that Manopolus has made? That claim was, if you recall, that women are relative to men more concerned with feelings than with facts.
I feel compelled to remind you that his "marketing" blort was merely a stream-of-consciousness meandatory sidestep away from the original context in which his claim was made; namely, as a basis for presuming the validity of his co-claims that 1) womens' "thinking differences" are the primary reason that they are currently under-represented in the prominent skeptical movements in both membership and leadership, 2) increasing the number of female speakers invited to present lectures on the skeptical conference circuit will be of no particular help in rectifying the gender imbalance in the membership, and 3) (this one is my personal favorite) surely there is no need at all to speculate on the possible existence of any other factors in play re: behavior on the part of movement adherents and leaders which might put women ill at ease. Is this a viewpoint you wish to add your voice in support of, good Ethan? |
28th August 2013, 09:29 AM | #87 |
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I am not sure where you're from, but in the society in which I spend most of my time, somebody who concludes a pre-noon discussion with "... of course, that's because women care less about facts than men do. Everyone knows that! Now who wants to go grab lunch?" will be eating their meal from the vending machine that day. Alone.
28th August 2013, 03:01 PM | #89 |
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...more rigorously, the simple fact that there exists a gender imbalance in an organization will in and of itself have a deleterious effect on the ability of women to successfully integrate themselves within that system. This effect has been amply documented in many social settings. Here's a particularly instructive example from an HR journal, whose abstract I provide below (my bolding):
28th August 2013, 04:46 PM | #90 |
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TAM, the JREF, and the skeptical community are not managers Colander. There was a gender imbalance at TAM and many other skeptical events. The JREF made an effort to put more female speakers on the schedule as they needed to. And way back when the Skepchicks were normal, they also brought a lot of women into the community. (I should note that one means of doing that was to break down the barrier between geek and attractive, like promoting that it is sexy to be in science, but that's another issue.)
So the problem was easily identifiable, more men than women at TAM. But you need more than to know what is wrong, you need to know why it's that way if you want to correct it. Adding women speakers was one easy fix. JREF chose the speakers. That provided the solution. But as for the attendees, it was claimed with very little evidence and most of that was anecdotal that sexism and rude male behavior objectifying women at TAM was the reason there were so few women there. Never mind men and women both sometimes want to meet members they might be attracted to at conferences. Never mind the proportion of women was growing not shrinking. Never mind it was Vegas and people drink and sometimes act stupid. Never mind the Skepchicks themselves promoted drunken parties. And never mind some of the anecdotes turned out to be false rumors, and the claim the admin did nothing about complaints was false. The real reason there were more men than women at TAM was a multi-causal problem. There was never any evidence a substantial reason was the objectification of women that Watson and her camp made it out to be. They had an opportunity to call attention to the incidents that did occur like commenting on a certain speaker's breasts being disrespectful. They had an opportunity to explain why they were changing their past behavior and would no longer be doing the nude calendars or the brothel themed parties. Instead they became extremists with a cause, everything skepticism is against. They exaggerated the claims stamping their feet saying, "See, see". They split the community apart and conflated people who did not agree with the radical feminist view with the anonymous bloggers sending rape/hate mail to Watson. Sorry, your HR manual doesn't apply to this situation, or at least that section doesn't. |
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28th August 2013, 04:53 PM | #91 |
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Though its not *exactly* what manopolus claimed, there is plenty of research showing that women are more skilled at empathizing, and men more skilled at systemizing. The different skill levels are probably reflected in preferences too, so that on average, women will be more interested in feelings and empathy with regard to a particular topic, whereas men (on average) will be more interested in analysing, classifying and inferring rules etc. I suppose thats not too far from the claim that women are more interested in how they feel about things, and men are more interested in facts (I think that was the original claim, but I'm too lazy to go back and look).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathi...emizing_theory The empathizing/systemizing dimensions are fundamental to Baron-Cohen's "extreme male brain" theory about autism. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/310/5749/819.short |
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28th August 2013, 05:03 PM | #92 |
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28th August 2013, 06:58 PM | #93 |
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Oh, sure! Be the voice of sanity in this soap-box-derby of a discussion!
Imagine if Manopolus had said the opposite. That it was clear that women are just as incapable of empathy as men, and were as prone to insisting on facts and evidence and would discount any anecdotal or emotional input in a serious discussion... it's a known fact. What would the reaction have been from the "ilks"? As Ginger kinda/sorta said, most feminists I know acknowledge these little differences on a general level and do actually celebrate them to an extent. Maybe it's a "special bunny" pleading, but it's something you'll see throughout discussions. |
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29th August 2013, 02:40 AM | #94 |
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I'll ignore the thinly veiled insults as I'm trying to have a serious debate (in which I am happy to be proven wrong) rather than falling into the 'Don't dare suggest any differences between the genders 'cos that means you hate women' nonsense that seems increasingly prevalent on this forum...
Here are a couple of the links I referred to in my post. I didn't post them initially because I assumed these differences were generally well known: http://science.howstuffworks.com/lif...nt-brains1.htm http://www.webmd.com/balance/feature...-brains-differ I also still maintain that there are self-evident (happy to be shown my perceptions are wrong but am currently surprised that people don't share them) general societal trends of difference between the likes and dislikes of the genders - Manopolus' point on advertising is a case in point (though it may well represent a circular cause and effect, advertisers are not dummies and rely on the efficacy of their work). These are gradually breaking down (women at football matches in the UK etc - though I venture to suggest that the majority of the audience for Match of the Day will still be men), suggesting a large element is simply societal rather than actually gender defined and obviously there have always been significant exceptions. Do I really need citations to prove that the audience at a medium show is predominantly women (and women of a certain age at that)? If so, then when I find the time, I will look into that as perceptions can be really misleading and I accept that, but do you honestly think that is not the case - or have you simply never viewed the audience at any of the various psychic tv shows (Van Pragh or Edwards or whoever)? Do I really need evidence to back my assertion that men are more likely to watch Match of the Day than women or that women are more likely to watch Dancing on Ice or soap operas than men? I am genuinely surprised, I thought these general trends we well recognised even if the exact reasons for them may be disputed / complex. |
29th August 2013, 02:52 AM | #95 |
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As an addenda, I am going to a comic convention on the weekend. I can guarantee that the men there will far out-number the women (even though my particular group will be 2 male, 3 female).
I listen to heavy metal music - I assert that the average audience will contain far more men (especially teenage boys) than women. Yet I also recognise that Morrigan (who I believe is female) is more expert and active in the genre than I am. The general trends remain self-evident to me though, hence my surprise at the dispute over what seemed obvious differences in taste / interest between the genders and certainly predates 'elevatorgate' etc so may well be a more likely explanation of the differences in representation at TAM etc. Now the exact reasons for this difference in areas of interest, now there's an area for discussion, but the fact there are differences? Sorry, I am genuinely surprised that you dispute that - though, as I say, I am happy to be proven wrong (and my perceptions have been in the past). |
29th August 2013, 09:05 AM | #96 |
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I don't think you can directly conflate cultural norms with biological norms.
Women may want to talk to dead loved ones but a lot of the men at the sporting events are following silly superstitious rituals to assure their team wins. I think being fooled by a cold reading (if one is not aware of how it works) is more rational than being fooled by a coincidence that the presence of a goat affects a ball game. I don't deny there are biological differences, clearly there are. But one should be a tad more cautious before declaring what those differences mean. |
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29th August 2013, 10:11 AM | #97 |
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I agree that there are gender differences. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily if a particular movement skews to one gender. I just think we should be really careful about any generalizations that fall into the category of "it's totally obvious, no evidence needed". |
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29th August 2013, 11:17 AM | #99 |
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What basis have you for declaring its irrelevancy? What the article details is that skewed gender ratios in organizations, particularly at higher levels but also at lower levels, create environments where the minority gender is made to feel less comfortable. That this effect exists is not in question. It has been observed in academia, medicine, law, accounting, and pretty much every other setting in which large numbers of people interact with each other, and there is no reason to suppose that the skeptical community is somehow immune to this effect.
And since the general-interest skeptical community has lost by attrition to various splinter factions a large number of people who consider themselves feminist sympathizers, it follows that the membership left behind will be proportionally enriched in those who have no particular care for women's concerns. Likewise, the splinter factions will house the majority of those who feel their complaints regarding the general movement have been ignored, and with each defection, venturers from each side will be met with a greater fraction of unthinking jeers on the other. If there is a way to repair this rift, I dare say it will not be found until those on both sides are willing to admit that in the mass of the complaints leveled against them by their counterparts, there may be some whose validity is worth considering. |
29th August 2013, 12:37 PM | #100 |
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Any chance you could reply to why I said it didn't apply instead of just declaring I said nothing to support what I said? It would help to move the discourse forward.
Well I'm female and I never felt the least bit uncomfortable at TAM. I was not discriminated against when my talk was chosen for the short Sunday presentations. A fair number of women that are very involved in the JREF and TAM also begged to differ with the Watson crowd, even going so far as to protest the issue. Of course, a certain tee shirt statement was seen as t-shirt bullying. You are claiming women feel uncomfortable being outnumbered "in the work place"! This was not a workplace. You have no data, nor did the Skepchick crowd making the accusation, that accusations of sexism was anything more than a manufactured insult. This is very faulty logic. Because A exists in some Bs you are assuming A exists in all Bs. I, for one, looked for the data specific to TAM. There were a couple incidents, nothing widespread, and tame for a large conference with alcohol consumption by some accounts. You are operating on an untested assumption as far as the skeptical community is concerned. The rift was created by an extremist view. The extremists weren't satisfied even though the JREF Admin tried. Nothing short of adopting a radical feminist POV was satisfactory to the group. As an example of misplaced extremism, they wanted Dawkins banned because he dared disagree with Watson. A lot of us disagreed with Watson and we weren't all PWMs. Look at the response in that article because Dr Hall dared to disagree with the unsupported allegations that sexism was rampant at TAM.
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29th August 2013, 12:51 PM | #101 |
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Seems reasonable.
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Apologies - I thought I'd been clear that I accepted a large societal / cultural aspect eg ' suggesting a large element is simply societal rather than actually gender defined' in my post above. As I also mentioned in my first post on this thread, men seem to be equally prone to woo, just seem* to be attracted more to different forms eg UFOs, bigfoot, conspiracy theories etc.
Indeed, I was trying to focus the discussion on why the differences were there, how much (if any, though I think there is some evidence for it) may be an increased tendency due to biological differences and how much was simply cultural, rather than, as some posters seemed to be doing, trying to deny the differences were even there. Again, apologies if I wasn't clear. *I won't push this as it is an impression only and I didn't fully follow through the thread that discussed these perceived differences. |
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Your reply was a long polemic diatribe containing your personal evaluation of some events that may or may not have happened the way you perceive them to have occurred. As I have not in the past observed your evaluations of such events to be either insightful or accurate, and as the aforementioned text segment contained little evidence for the validity of your interpretations but very many pejorative allusions to specific figures you view to be representative of your opposition, I feel little inclined to expend effort addressing it.
The question is not merely whether there are more of these types of events in skeptical conferences than can normally be expected in a conference of this size. It is that the events that were reported do not appear to have been treated with proper gravity. This has been made abundantly clear by both PR releases and personal communications issued by top skeptical brass. Anybody wishing to estimate the true prevalence of these events must realize that it is impossible to accurately estimate the frequency of these events from official reports alone. This is because report rates depend very heavily on how reporters expect their complaints to be received. In populations where this problem is particularly severe, this effect totally dominates---the per capita number of sexual assault reports officially registered in Israel, for example, is several orders of magnitude greater than the number reported in Egypt, and many particularly awful countries keep no such records at all. There is a point at which low sexual assault report numbers constitute a sign of pervasive and systematic problems rather than an indication that problems do not exist.
Indeed, your repeated appeals to the inherent offensiveness of what you perceive to be the ideology of your opponents make it very difficult for me to believe that your stance on this matter has been informed by a fair consideration of the arguments from each side. |
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10th January 2014, 10:35 PM | #106 |
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A bit childish I think.
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12th January 2014, 01:26 PM | #107 |
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12th January 2014, 02:05 PM | #108 |
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Does it mean
1. She just does not like the term? She prefers to be called something else? Maybe someone who questions unsupported statements. 2. She is a woo? 3. None of the above. She is a human being and does not like labels. The context is missing. |
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12th January 2014, 02:14 PM | #109 |
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Just found the conversation on twitter. Here is another one of her twitts.
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12th January 2014, 08:00 PM | #110 |
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"Skeptics" seem to allow the inclusion of, gasp!, conservatives and theists and deists. PZ initially objected to that and claimed to no longer be a skeptic. The echo chamber has been chiming in since then. Over on Atheism+ the "Skepticism" sub-forum is mostly "Bad stuff said by members of the skeptical community".
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18th January 2014, 08:44 AM | #111 |
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My understanding was, she felt bad that JREF had folks money, but was not able to "put out of business" frauds like Sylvia Brown and John Edwards, as the suckers that pay them don't care about Randi's de-bunkings.
Also the hucksters are smart enough not to engage with a professional skeptic anymore. They never get to take the JREF-challenge because the response is always. "you've got be kidding, get outta here" (whereas you'd think they'd let folks take it and fail THEN condescend) BUT I don't think there's any psychics. |
18th January 2014, 10:21 AM | #112 |
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Where did you get that understanding? If this were the case, how would that not have been obvious to her long before she took the job?
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18th January 2014, 03:07 PM | #113 |
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True----I think she felt that what the JREF does is just not that IMPORTANT
(and for her PETA is) Not like JREF is curing cancer. There's always gonna be folks paying "fortune tellers' and TV-preachers and I got no sympathy for them. |
19th January 2014, 06:49 PM | #114 |
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No, I think you should read the rest of the thread. The phrase "mission creep" was used.
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17th March 2014, 02:34 PM | #115 |
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Just curious if they ever filled this position as I don't see it listed any longer. Perhaps that is the reason the last press release listed on the Press Center tabs is over two years old.
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If psychic powers really do exist, the JREF challenge is entirely winnable.
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If your widget generates events, you have to stay within the bounds of Java's event model. In the "early days", Java used a cumbersome inheritance-based event model. With the introduction of Java 1.1, the AWT sports a completely modern, delegation-based event model. The concept is simple. When a user interacts with a widget, it generates events. Objects can register an interest in all or some of these events. These interested objects, known as listeners, receive the events and take appropriate action. This process is known as delegation. Listeners are delegated by the widget to handle the events they generate.
When you create event classes, make sure they contain appropriate information and are generated in response to appropriate user actions. It can get confusing when you start to generate your own events. First, you create the event classes. Next, you create a listener interface. This interface defines methods of the listeners that will be called when an event occurs. Finally, you create an event multicaster. Event multicasters have the job of broadcasting events to many listeners. Sounds complicated, but hopefully it will become clear after an example or two. Figure 2 is a diagram of the multicasting process.
The appearance of your widget will not strictly affect its ability to be reused. However, a widget's appearance should be in visual harmony with the rest of your GUI. Here are some things to think about, which, while not hard and fast rules, are important.
Modern widgets produce a 3D appearance by shading. Shading is created by an imaginary light source that is positioned, by convention, at the upper left of the widget. When a button is in the raised state, its upper and left borders are brighter than the face of the button (see Figure 3). Its lower and right borders are darker. This shading makes it appear to be raised. Swap the light and dark areas, and the button will appear depressed (see Figure 4).
If your widget is drawn or has drawn areas on it, keep in mind the 3D effects are what make it as attractive as possible. And remember, drawing occurs in the paint method of your class. The AWT calls the paint method any time your widget needs to be drawn.
There are generally two methods you can use to create reusable widgets: composition and specialization. Before continuing, let's take a moment to discuss each method.
Composition Widgets that are created by composition are sometimes called super-widgets or composite widgets. This type of widget is simply a collection of other widgets that work together to accomplish a specialized task. You should create a composite widget whenever you have a recurring task which requires a number of sub-components working together. Some examples include an order form, file dialog or a color chooser. When you create a composite widget, it is important to hide the events of all its sub-components and generate events at a higher level appropriate to the semantics of the composite widget itself. You will see how this works in the e-mail entry widget and the window-bar widget.
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Yemen: Tariq Alamoodi, arbitrarily detained since 21 months
Alkarama referred to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the case of Tariq Saeed Abdullah Saleh Alamoodi, arrested on September 2012 and arbitrarily detained since then in Sanaa without ever being brought before any judicial authority.
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On 26 September 2012, Tariq Alamoodi, 23 years at that time, soldier at Aden Intelligence Headquarters, was arrested in his unit and questioned about alleged links with terrorist suspects. For having refuted these accusations, he was transferred to a secret detention center where he was held during eight months, completely isolated from the outside world.
His family, which had not heard from him since that day, tried to obtain information about his situation from the military authorities which, however, refused to acknowledge his detention. It was only after the intervention of the General Prosecutor, who was contacted about the case by Alkarama office in Sanaa, that the intelligence army services finally recognized his detention and allowed his family to visit him.
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To date, no regular criminal proceeding has been initiated against Tariq Alamoodi, despite his family efforts and Alkarama calls to release him or, at the very least, to place him under the protection of the law and to guarantee his fundamental rights to a fair trial.
Tariq Alamoodi has in particular not been officially notified of the charges against him, nor has been brought before an independent and impartial tribunal to hear his case, and challenge, where appropriate, the legality of his detention.
Alkarama therefore considers that its ongoing deprivation of liberty constitutes an arbitrary detention and referred the case to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The suspended Indian Olympic Association (IOA) defied the IOC and went ahead with its controversial election to pick Lalit Bhanot as its new secretary-general on Wednesday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the IOA on Tuesday for allowing government interference in the election and said the body was no longer entitled to conduct the poll.
Defiant Indian officials went ahead with the election and named Lalit Bhanot as the new secretary-general of the national governing body after his rivals had pulled out.
Bhanot spent 11 months in custody last year following corruption charges that plagued the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and is out on bail.
The IOA had been directed by a Delhi court to hold the election under a controversial government sports code, while the IOC wanted it to follow its own constitution and the Olympic charter.
Boxing federation chief Abhay Singh Chautala, who was elected unopposed as IOA president, said the court order left them with no other option but to conduct the poll.
"I want to reiterate that we have done nothing wrong by going ahead with the polls. We have to obey the law of the land," Chautala told reporters.
Bhanot said he would quit his post if found guilty in the corruption case.
The IOC has dismissed the election outcome.
"Those elections are null and void, they won't count," IOC spokesman Mark Adams had told reporters. "They can go ahead with them but they won't have any validity.
"We have to regain our confidence that the Indian Olympic Association is acting independently of government and that the government is not interfering. At the moment, the IOC is not satisfied that this is the case."
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For those who believe that the New York Knicks are illegitimate NBA championship contenders, stop yourself short. The Knicks are an elite three-point shooting team that has rediscovered their elite defense since the signing of Kenyon Martin. With that being said, the Knicks drew the worst first-round draw possible when they landed a seven-game series against the Boston Celtics. The Knicks and Celtics are longtime rivals who always seem to bring the best out of one another. While New York won three of four during the regular season, the postseason is an entirely different animal. For what it's worth, the Celtics reached the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals while the Knicks haven't made it out of the first round since 2000. The Celtics may be without Rajon Rondo, but they are still led by former NBA champions Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry. With Jeff Green's rise to stardom and the pairing of Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee playing elite defense, the Celtics have the depth and star power to pull off the upset. Even if the Knicks are rationally favored, don't sleep on Boston. No. 3 Denver Nuggets vs. No. 6 Golden State Warriors Most teams are fortunate enough to get healthy at the perfect time of the season. In the case of the Denver Nuggets, they've seen Danilo Gallinari go down with a torn ACL and Kenneth Faried suffer a sprained ankle during the final month of the season. That's bad news considering the Nuggets are in line to play another elite offensive team in the Golden State Warriors. Gallinari's ability to shoot the three-ball will be missed, although it shouldn't be too devastating for the Nuggets. They can compensate for his absence by plugging in spot shooters who are capable in spot-up situations. Against a Warriors team that's eighth in three-point field goals and first in three-point field goal percentage, however, that may not be enough. The true absence to be missed, however, is Faried's. Not only is Faried an elite rebounder, but he's preparing to go up against David Lee in this series. For those unfamiliar, Lee is fourth in rebounding and leads the league with 55 double-doubles. If Faried is not at 100 percent, Lee will exploit that advantage on both ends of the floor. This will enable the Warriors to create second-chance scoring opportunities and capitalize with the three-ball. That's more than enough for the Warriors to take down a defensively-inept Nuggets team in four out of seven games. No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs. No. 8 Los Angeles Lakers Before we get into the blind hatred of the Los Angeles Lakers, it's important that we remember who we're talking about. Even without Kobe Bryant, the Lakers are an elite team that thrive in the areas the Oklahoma City Thunder have trouble. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure a core of Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash is elite for any other franchise. Assuming Howard and Gasol work it inside, they can slow it down and create easy baskets for their shooters. With Steve Blake catching fire, Nash one of the all-time great shooters and Jodie Meeks finding his stroke, L.A. could keep the pace. Don't put your money on it, but this is possible. Howard led the Orlando Magic to the 2009 NBA Finals with a significantly weaker supporting cast than he currently possesses. As long as Nash is able to get healthy, there's no reason he can't do the same in 2013. Kobe will be missed, but this is not an impossibility—no matter how badly we want to tell ourselves it is. |
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Warriors over Nuggets isn't even an upset. If they're missing Faried than I think we sweep.
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Rockets have a bigger chance at upsetting Spurs the Lakers have against OKC...I still think both OKC and Spurs make it out of the first round.
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Knicks better not lose to Celtics, that better not happen
Lakers without Kobe ain't beating Spurs, we can push it to 6-7 but if Kobe was there but i'm intrigued by that Nugs/GSW series | |
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The Nets making it to the second round would be an upset according to some of these BX retards
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Nuggets will be tough despite injuries IMO.
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Steph shoots 45. Steph > | ||
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So the Lakers already locked up the playoff spot???
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Don't catch feelings b. It's says POTENTIAL UPSET not GUARANTEED UPSET. It's cool though bump away. | ||
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Lakers losing Kobe and the Spurs gaining Tmac make me think that the Spurs would get upset if they meet up with the Lakers
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Hold up.. is there even a chance the Lakers play OKC? I think that can only be the case if both the Lakers and Jazz lose their last game. If the Lakers beat Houston, the Rockets will be the 8th seed, same record but Houston has a worse divisional record. Can't see both the Lakers and the Jazz losing tonight.
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The District Crime Branch on Saturday arrested a woman in connection with the kidney racket, taking the total number of arrested in the case to nine.
A nephrologist from Salem, six touts and a man who offered to sell one of his kidneys were arrested earlier.
On the latest arrest, police sources said V. Velumani (34) of Pallipalayam in Erode district had sold her kidney to Aiyar, whose kidneys had failed. But, the kidney did not match and he died.
Aiyar's son A. Kathavarayan of Pennagaram lodged a complaint recently with the crime branch that N.S. Ayyavu, a tout arrested in the racket, had not returned the money given for a kidney for his father. The probe into the complaint led the police to Velumani.
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TELL CITY - Deborah Ludwig, author of "Rebirth: A Leukemia Survivor's Journal of Healing during Chemotherapy, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Recovery," will hold a book signing, reading and discussion at the Tell City-Perry County Public Library at 1 p.m. Dec. 19.
The library staff invites the community to this event. "Rebirth" is Ludwig's year-long journal written during her leukemia treatments that chronicles a story of love, sacrifice, heartache and discovery that culminated in her physical, emotional and spiritual rebirth.
PERRY COUNTY - The Perry County Chamber of Commerce announces a sale on the "Perry County: Then and Now" book by Michael Rutherford. The sale will continue through the end of the year with the book costing $50, tax included.
The Perry County History Book is a standard library-size, hardbound, 288-page book with a full-color cover. The book was reprinted last year by request.
Copies can be picked up by calling the chamber office or by visiting area retailers.
For more information, contact the chamber at 547-2385.
TELL CITY - American Legion Post 213 in Tell City will hold a New Year's Eve party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Doors will open at 8 p.m.
The band Crosswinds will play 50s and 60s rock 'n roll and country music all night.
Sandwiches, chips, pretzels and party favors will be furnished. Beer and well drinks are $1.75 each and draft is $1.
Tickets are on sale now at the Legion. Advance ticket costs are $10 for a single ticket or $15 for couples. Price at the door is $15 for singles and $20 for couples.
TELL CITY - Visiting Nurse Association will offer free blood screenings at Wal-Mart and Twilight Towers in Tell City.
Screenings are 8:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 and 19 at Wal-Mart and from 9 to 10 a.m. Dec. 22 and Jan. 26 at Twilight Towers.
For more information call VNA at 547-7967.
SANTA CLAUS - The neighborhoods of Christmas Lake Village in Santa Claus will host the 25th annual Festival of Lights from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Over eight tour miles will be decorated with thousands of lights, Christmas decorations and animated displays.
A live nativity scene will also be set up. A gingerbread recreation center will be available with free refreshments.
Special awards for the best neighborhood theme, individual home and kids' selection will be given.
PERRY COUNTY - Chances for a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro are now being sold by the Perry County Fraternal Order of Police ahead of a Dec. 23 drawing.
Tickets are $10 each or six for $50 and can be purchased from any FOP member or by calling Brian Greulich at 547-8741. Proceeds will benefit FOP programs, including Shop with a Cop, a project that pairs local children and officers for pre-Christmas shopping trips for clothing and toys.
TELL CITY - Catholic Charities has a wide assortment of new and used coats available for anyone needing one.
Sizes range from infant (boys and girls) through adult (men and women). There is no charge for these coats.
Call 547-0903 to make arrangements or stop by the office at 802 Ninth St. in Tell City.
TELL CITY - The Perry County Junior Women will host a Sweets, Treats and Santa event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Schergens Center in Tell City.
A lunch will be served, including pizza, cookies and drink. The cost is $3 per child and adults may eat with their children for $2.
Craft activities with Santa will be available and goodie bags will be given to the first 100 children. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the event.
Photos with Santa provided by CVS Photography Department will also be available.
TELL CITY – A vehicle driven by Angela Blum, 36, left the roadway and traveled approximately 50 yards before hitting a power pole on Indiana 66 at about 4:50 p.m. Friday, according to Tell City Police Patrolman Roger Smith. He said a medical condition may have contributed to the accident, because when responders reached her, she didn't know what had happened.
CANNELTON - City officials continue to receive good news for Cannelton, the latest explained at a public hearing Monday.
The News reported Nov. 30 that improvements planned for Indiana 66 within the city limits had been rescheduled for 2011 after being postponed to 2016. We reported Dec. 7 that a request for Safe Routes to Schools funding was approved, with nearly $250,000 to improve sidewalks to the city's three schools. The latest positive note came at the hearing, which followed a regular common-council meeting.


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After four exciting days of college basketball, the 68-team field of the 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament has been reduced to just 16 schools. Here are five things we learned from the tournament's first weekend:
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The U.S. moved up to a second-place tie in the overall medal count, and a Russian Olympic veteran withdrew from the Winter Games. Here's a recap of Thursday's action in Sochi:
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Grandma Jack and Pop came to visit and so did Brian's sister and brother-in-law and their kids. We had SO much fun spending time with family. I honestly forgot how much my kids adored their grandma and pop and having them and their cousins here was straight up good for the soul. We played sardines for hours in our house and I couldn't believe how good my kids were at hiding! I didn't take many pictures after they got here, I wanted to spend time with them and not behind a camera, but I did get a few shots I thought I'd share to commemorate their birthdays!
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(152 Posts)I saw this morning from various sources (FB, a thread in money) that tax credits have been reduced for a lot of people with no notice. I checked my tax credits which went in today and lo and behold, £94 every 4 weeks reduction. There is no more I can cut. I can't afford to live now. I thought I would put this here for traffic because I fear millions of people will affected
Do you know why it's been reduced?
Yes, we've just lost £65 per week with no notice but its because of changes to our circumstances that weren't taken into account last year. We knew our tax credits would be reduced but had no idea by how much so it was a bit of a shock when dh went to the bank to check yesterday and nothing had been paid in.
There will be stuff you can cut, people here are amazing at budgeting - post your budget and people will have a look
Is there a way you can increase your income - again folks here are brilliant at suggestions.
Forgive me if i'm wrong as I know zilch about tax credits, but I just had a thought. Could this be because the personal tax allowance has increased this month?
It can't be with no notice. They must have sent a revised award notice, surely?
Ours dropped by 63.00 per week as from today and like ohmental it was due to change in circumstance from last year. We had no idea how much until this morning and its a massive shock considering the increase in wage last year was relatively small.
I agree lougle - I don't claim tax credits but I thought everyone knew about the changes. I mentioned it to my mate the other week and she looked shocked. I've seen it mentioned on the new and read it in the papers.
To lose £63 per week in tax credits simply due to income increase, your income must have increased by £154 per week, because the withdrawl rate is 41%.
We usually get £41 tax credits per week, usually paid into our acc on a friday. I hope I don't wake up to a big change tomorrow. I'll die on the spot!
I wish it had! I'm going to do battle on the phone line later and get a woolly answer about waiting until my annual renewal form before they will do anything
It seems to be the standard response.
Mine was decreased by £60 yesterday and I was not informed that this was going to happen until I checked my account yesterday.
Like you, that money was what I relied on for weekly expenses such as food shopping and travel costs etc.
Like you, I am extremely worried about how I am going to feed my family.
But, I started a thread yesterday and some kind mumsnetters gave me some wonderful tips!
Ours have been cut from today with no warning too. It came as a particular shock because I stopped work a few weeks ago and although I informed the tax credits office straight away about the change in circs, our child tax credits weren't changed at all (I'd expected them to go back to what they were before I was working as I'd only been in my job since after the last renewal).
Apparently my phoning to tell them about the change in circumstances after leaving work made no difference as they needed income figures for DH too in order to recalculate our award but they never told me this at the time
60 per week that should have said.
Surely people knew about this anyway as it's been all over the news for some time. I knew and I don't get them.
noisytoys double check the (I think) last page of your most recent notice of award. it usually says what you get the week they issue it, what you'll get every week after that and what you will get every week from the start of the next year - all 3 amounts are often different. If what has gone into your account is different to the "next tax year amount" on the award notice get in touch with them for a reason why.
Mine went up as from yesterday. It always changes in April doesn't it? I think? According to your circumstances from previous tax year.
By choice, my family do not claim any tax credits even though we easily qualify for them. We do not take any benefits of any kind in any sphere. We do this because we believe a government in debt is in no position to be subsidizing people's lifestyles; this is a moral stand based on simple, objective mathematics rather than the subjective political arguments that I think are arguable when and if there actually is money to help people.
Whether you agree with me on this or not, either way, I agree with LaurieFairyCake. There will be ways to budget and be okay. There are people in less privileged areas of the world who live off a few pounds a month and smile and stay in good spirits. I've never spoken with someone who was stressed about money and not found they had expenses which they have said are critically necessary, but yet I would consider such things a wishful luxury. My family is happy and healthy and we feel privileged even though our financial means are very limited. We have avoided money stress almost entirely simply by following the rule that you spend less than what you take in. When we all learn to follow this rule everyone will be in a position of greater security.
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Koya thanks for that tale of morality but lots of people will be hit hard especially if they're not expecting it in advance.
I don't claim tax credits Koyang - Through choice too - but I wouldn't be preaching that to people worried about money. You know nothing of the OP's circumstances. Your post isn't helpful is it?
koyanwuti I'm sure that explains precisely why these families have had cuts You make your choices, they claim what they are entitled to.
Nobody should find that their tax credits have gone down without warning. When you do your renewal, you state your income for the current year. The following year's tax credit award is based on that year's income.
So, if your circumstances are the same (ie. number of hours worked, family constitution) then the only change will be due to income.
This year there has been a £30 rise in allowance per child and a freeze on all other allowances.
To lose £94 every 4 weeks, your income must have risen £229 every 4 weeks, or £57 per week.
We have cut everything we can. We already have a budget of £30 a week to feed 4. We already live in a 1 bed flat. We already have 2 changes of clothes and 1 pair of shoes each. There is nothing more to cut
The posts that I do not think are helpful are the ones that complain and encourage a person to feel like a victim. There is another way. What I said was to encourage personal empowerment. I know nothing of the OP's circumstances? I know what the OP said. The OP is getting less money in tax credits and is stressed. To that I responded. Nor do I think it is out of place to do so.
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