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This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope with perceived risks of HIV infection in rural southern Mozambique. Using data from a 2006 survey of 1,680 women and their dyadic interactions, we compare the composition of personal networks, HIV/AIDS communication, and preventive behavior of women married to migrants and those married to non-migrants. Results show that migrants' wives were more likely than non-migrants' wives to have other migrants' wives as personal network members, to engage in HIV/AIDS communication, and to discuss HIV prevention. However, they were no more likely to talk about HIV/AIDS with migrants' wives than with non-migrants' wives. They were also no more likely to talk about AIDS and its prevention than non-migrants' wives who express worry about HIV infection from their spouses. Finally, we detect that network members' prevention behavior was similar to respondents', although this did not depend on migration. We contextualize these findings within the literature and discuss their policy implications.
In the last two decades, the public health literature has devoted considerable attention to the impact of social capital on health behavior and outcomes. Although social capital has been conceptualized, measured and applied differently, the sociological literature tends to see social capital primarily as valued resources (such as social support, information,
The second body of knowledge that our study engages comes from the epidemiological and sociological literature that has identified migration as an important factor fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the specific pathways through which migration impacts HIV/AIDS remain disputed, studies typically suggest that people who are more mobile or frequently change residence and their partners are at a higher risk of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) than people in more stable living conditions [
However, these two bodies of literature have remained largely separate. The literature on migration and HIV risks, for example, has paid relatively little heed to research that has documented how interactions within personal networks may offer guidance and support for individual assessment of risks and exposure to HIV infection [
Our study aims to bridge these two bodies of literature by using the network approach to social capital to investigate how left-behind women in rural Mozambique engage their personal networks to cope with risks of HIV infection. Specifically, we focus on the content of communication on HIV/AIDS and prevention behavior and the role of homophily, selection and social influence in the personal networks of wives of migrants and wives of non-migrants.
Less public health research has integrated a network approach to social capital and health. Much of the work on social capital and health has been focused on social cohesion and influence, trust within a community, norms of reciprocity and social support [
Although research on social capital and health in Sub-Saharan Africa is scarce, the few studies that have applied social capital to health outcomes such as HIV risks have done so at the community level and not as resources embedded within personal networks as originally proposed by Pierre Bourdieu [
Consistent with Bourdieu's definition of social capital (see [
Overall, when network-based approaches are applied to health outcomes, they often measure social capital by using two main techniques: (a) egocentric networks obtained through a name generator technique which uses survey questions to ask respondents (egos) to nominate others in their personal network (alters) who are important to them and who provide access to resources such as advice, prestige, social status and social and political connections; and (b) Whole networks obtained through saturation survey techniques which maps everyone within a defined social structure or social network [
Although men's labor migration has been associated with risks of HIV infection for non-migrating rural partners, research on HIV serodiscordance among couples also point to migrant men who return to partners already infected [
To conceptualize the association between men's labor migration and migrants' wives use of resources embedded within personal networks to cope with the risk of HIV infection; we draw on the embedded resources conceptualization of social capital proposed by [
We specify how labor migration of men affects their wives' opportunities to construct and mobilize network-based resources and how the composition of their personal network may facilitate or constrain access to resources to reduce the risk of HIV infection. For example, previous literature on network theory has shown that personal network members are not chosen at random but systematically through homophily,
Applying insights from network approaches on social capital to migration and health, we argue that network characteristics and resources will not only enable migrants' wives to express worries and cope with heightened fears of HIV infection associated with labor migration but the structure of personal networks particularly homophily, selectivity and social influence that may be generated within these networks will be important for HIV/AIDS-related communication and for HIV testing and prevention. Based on this broad prediction, we conceptualize and test specific hypotheses on how migrants' wives engage network resources as a way of coping with worries associated with HIV infection.
First, while men's labor migration entails benefits for left-behind women's socio-economic status and autonomy [
Second, due to perceived vulnerability of migrants' wives to HIV infection, and general stigmatization of women as vectors of the disease [
Third, because close kin and friends often form confidant networks which may be supportive and encouraging of health related behaviors, conversations on HIV/AIDS may be selective on spouse's migration status. Lastly, given perceptions of an increased risk of HIV infection associated with labor migration, we expect the content of migrants' wives HIV/AIDS-related conversations to emphasize prevention of HIV infection rather than other HIV/AIDS-related topics.
In the second part of our conceptual framework, we focus on HIV prevention and testing behavior among migrants' and non-migrants' wives. Broadly, we draw from the social interaction and family planning and HIV communication literature which, helps explain how individual risk behavior is influenced by social norms and prevention beliefs shared among network members [
Overall, our conceptual framework yields the following specific hypotheses:
Data for this study come from a survey conducted in Mozambique, a country in southeast Africa with a population of some 23.7 million [
In Mozambique, the national prevalence rate among adults aged 15–49 increased from 8.2 per cent in 1998 to 16.2 per cent in 2004 [
Reflecting the described labor migration regime and high HIV prevalence has been the heightened notion in southern Mozambique that HIV/AIDS is a disease brought from South Africa by labor migrants [
The data used in this study were collected in 2006 as part of a collaborative project by research teams from Arizona State University and Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. A probability sample was drawn among women aged 18–40 residing in 56 villages of four districts of Gaza province in southern Mozambique (with approximately a population of 625,000). In each district, 14 villages were selected with probability proportional to size. In each selected village, all households with at least one married woman were canvassed and recorded into two lists: those with at least one woman married to a migrant (a migrant was defined based on husbands who spent all nights outside the community in the last month for the purpose of supporting their family and thus includes internal and external migrants) and those without such women. These two lists were used as sampling frames; from each list, 15 households were randomly selected. In each selected household a woman was interviewed (in households classified as migrant, a woman married to a migrant was interviewed). This procedure yielded a total sample of 1,680 women (420 per district, 30 per village) of these women 41% were wives of migrants and 59% were wives of non-migrants.
The survey instrument included questions on a variety of respondents' sociodemographic characteristics as well as on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. A separate module of the survey questionnaire was devoted to respondent's' relationship and interaction with personal network members. Due to concerns of how long interviews could last without undue fatigue, each respondent was asked to name at most three people with whom she had most interaction and greatest trust (apart from her spouse and children). Detailed socioeconomic characteristics were then gathered on each personal network member named. In addition to socio-economic data, respondents were asked about HIV/AIDS-related and other health conversations they might have had with their network members and the network members' HIV prevention and testing behavior in the recent past. Due to the sensitive nature of the data, the survey questionnaire was conducted by an interviewer of corresponding gender in Portuguese, the official language of Mozambique. In a few instances when respondents had limited Portuguese proficiency, interviews were conducted by interviewers with relevant local language skills. Ethical approval for the survey was obtained from Arizona State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the collaborating institution obtained the necessary ethical clearances in Mozambique. Fifty-two sampled respondents were not available to interview and only three refused (or were prohibited by their husbands to be interviewed).
The analysis in this study is limited to those with at least one personal network member (less than 1% of the total sample was excluded because respondents did not name any network members). Nearly all network members (98%) were women and on average 2.2 (s.d. 0.80) network members were reported. A bivariate analysis of sociodemographic differences between women who reported 1, 2, or 3 network members did not reveal any biases. However, limiting to three the number of alters on whom detailed information was gathered and obtaining that information from reports by ego limited our analysis and influenced the constructions of our measures in a few ways. First, no meaningful measures of network locations (such as density, size
We constructed the dependent variable for the test of our first hypothesis as whether or not a (any) network member is a spouse of a current labor migrant. This variable was derived from responses to the question asking ego if the spouse or partner of their personal network members worked in the community, outside the community or did not work at all. This variable is coded as a dichotomous indicator of whether or not network member's spouse worked outside the community (
The dependent variable for the test of our second hypothesis was constructed from responses to the question "Was AIDS ever mentioned in your conversations with 'network member', even if briefly?" Even though the question did not specify a time period for conversations, we assume that such conversations, if reported, occurred in the recent past. This outcome is also operationalized as a dichotomy. The test of the third hypothesis also uses this outcome.
The dependent outcome for the test of our fourth hypothesis is limited to women who mentioned AIDS in their conversations with their network members. These women were asked to describe the content of their most recent conversation about AIDS. Responses to this question included: known AIDS cases, prevention of HIV, testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS, and other themes. Each response category was coded dichotomously and tested separately.
The outcome for the test of the fifth hypothesis was constructed by asking respondents what they were doing in order to protect themselves from contracting HIV and the number of times they had been tested for the disease. Reponses included: doing nothing, using condoms, fidelity to husband, abstinence from sex, avoiding contact with blood or injections and practicing some other forms of prevention. Due to fewer respondents in some categories (e.g., using condoms) we coded this outcome into a dichotomous measure where 1 represented any form or combination of forms of HIV prevention and 0 if otherwise. Similarly, testing for HIV was dichotomously coded with 1 representing respondents who have tested for HIV at least once and 0 if otherwise.
The main independent variable is husband's labor migration status. This was a dichotomous indicator and was coded 1 if the respondent's spouse was a labor migrant at the time of the survey and 0 if otherwise. Given that our conceptual framework highlights the effects of heightened fears of HIV infection of migrants' wives, a second dichotomous independent variable was included to measure whether or not the respondent was very worried or a little worried about the possibility of contracting the AIDS virus from her spouse. The third independent variable of interest was also a dichotomous variable of whether a (any) personal network member was married to a migrant or not (also used as a dependent variable to test hypothesis one as described above).
Two sets of other predictors for the association between network members' HIV prevention and testing behavior and that of egos were constructed. Egos were asked whether they knew what methods of prevention their network members used to protect themselves from HIV. The response options for this question were identical to those for the question asked of egos themselves (uses condoms, faithful to husband, abstain from sex, other and does nothing) and the variable was coded dichotomously—1 if network member used a (any) form or combination of forms of prevention and 0 if otherwise. Lastly, egos were asked if they knew their network members had done an HIV test. This was also coded dichotomously with 1 indicating that the network member had done a test at least once and 0 if otherwise.
To measure network resources within personal networks that can be accessed and mobilized for health promotion and maintenance, we used information gathered from ego on network members to construct five dichotomous measures of network characteristics and resources: (i) whether or not a (any) network member is kin or non-kin relation of ego; (ii) age of network member defined relative to ego (older than ego, younger than ego or about the same age as ego); (iii) religion of network member also defined relative to ego (same religion as ego or of a different religion); (iv) whether or not network member works outside the household and (v) whether or not network member is willing to loan money to ego in case of urgent need. We argue that these network characteristics can serve as proxies for vital resources available within a personal network and create trust within the network. For example, being of a similar age as one's network members may enable the sharing of similar interests and resources. Being of the same religion may facilitate communication relevant to health outcomes.
Lastly, we include as statistical controls standard socioeconomic characteristics of ego that may influence the relationship between migration and HIV/AIDS outcomes. These variables include: ego's age and number of living children (both defined continuously); education (coded in three categories; 0–4 years of school, 5–7 years of school and 8 or more years of school); employment (works for income or not); type of marriage (monogamous or polygynous union); religious affiliation (coded in three groups, reflecting the religious composition of the predominantly Christian study area: mainline churches, Evangelical and Pentecostal- churches, and none); household material possessions (defined on a 4-level scale: 1. no radio, bicycle, motorcycle, or car; 2. radio, but no bicycle, motorcycle, or car; 3. bicycle but no motorcycle or car; 4. motorcycle or car); type of roof of respondent's primary dwelling place (thatched
As indicated earlier, the dyad ego-network member was chosen as our unit of analysis. For all statistical text, we employed a random intercept logistic model that allows the intercept to vary randomly by respondent to account for the possible correlation within the set of network members of the same respondent.
Similarly, the sampling is clustered by village which may result in biased estimates due to the non-independence of women in the same village. To tackle this other source of potential bias, we introduce a second random intercept to account for clustering of respondents within villages. We fit the resulting multi-level random intercept models using the Glimmix procedure in SAS 9.2.
Although the use of pseudo-likelihood estimation under Glimmix (rather than maximum likelihood estimation) may present additional bias and prevent the use of accurate standard goodness-of-fit measures, it is generally considered a good alternative to, for example, the MIXED procedure in SAS as it allows for several random effects with categorical outcomes [
We begin with the presentation of network characteristics and resources and AIDS- related outcomes by migration status.
Network members and ego's characteristics by husband's labor migration status.
|Husband's Labor Migration Status
|Not a migrant
|Network member is married to migrant
|Network member is Kin or in-law
|Network member's age relative to ego
|Older than ego
|Same as ego
|Younger than ego
|Same as ego's
|Other/No religion or don't know
|Network member will loan ego money if in need
|Network member works outside the household
|Ever talked about AIDS with network member
|Network member uses at least one method of HIV prevention
|Network member had an AIDS test
|Ego's uses at least one method of HIV prevention
|Ego had AIDS test
Themes of HIV/AIDS related conversations in social networks.
|Husband's Migration Status
|Not a migrant
|Need for Prevention
|Known or Suspected AIDS Cases
|Testing and Treatment of AIDS
|Other themes
Notes: More than one theme per partner is possible, percentages do not add up to 100.
Odds ratios from multilevel random effect models are presented on
Women's personal network composition and content of communication about HIV/AIDS, odds ratios, multilevel random effect models.
|1. Network member is married to migrant
|2. Talked about AIDS with network members
|3. Talked about HIV prevention in conversation on AIDS
|Labor migration
|Migrant's wife
|Worried of AIDS infection from spouse
|Network member is married to migrant
|1.33 †
|Network Resources
|Older than ego
|Younger than ego
|Same religion as ego's
|Network member would loan money
|Network member works
|Ego's characteristics
|Age (in years)
|Number of living children
|1–4 years of school
|5 or more years of school
|1.26 †
|Currently working
|0.83 †
|In polygynous union
|Resides with parents in-law
|Household material possession index
|1.09 †
|Thatched roof
|0.86 †
|Household own cattle
|Mainline church
|Had talked to husband about AIDS
|Migrant's wife
|Migrant's wife
|Generalized Chi-square
|Generalized Chi-square/DF
Reference categories: Non-migrant's wife; Does not worry of AIDS infection from husband; Network member is not married to migrant; Non-kin; Same age as ego; Different religion from ego's; Network member would not loan money; Network member does not work; No education; Not working; In monogamous union; Does not reside with parents in-law; Zinc, polyurethane or block roof; Does not own cattle; No religion; Has not talked to husband about AIDS; Significance level:
The odds ratios from the model testing the second hypothesis are presented in Model 2a. In this model, we compare the likelihood of HIV/AIDS communication in personal networks of wives of migrants and non-migrants given network characteristics and resources. We observe that migrants' wives were significantly more likely to have talked about HIV/AIDS with their network members than did non-migrants' wives, net of network resources and the socio-economic characteristics of ego. The odds of HIV/AIDS-related conversations in personal networks of migrants' wives are 1.8 times those in personal networks of non-migrants' wives. In that model, respondents who express worry about the possibility of contracting the AIDS virus from their spouses were significantly more likely to communicate about HIV/AIDS with their network members. The odds of HIV/AIDS communication for women who express worry are 3.3 times that of those who did not. Our third key predictor, whether network members were married to labor migrants, was also significantly associated with HIV/AIDS conversations (OR = 1.41). This effect reinforces not only our first hypotheses but offers partial support for our second hypothesis that migrants' wives are more likely to converse about HIV/AIDS than non-migrants' wives. However, although pointing in the expected direction, none of the variables representing network resources was significantly associated with HIV/AIDS communication.
For the test of the third hypothesis (Model 2B), we include an interaction term to ascertain whether migrants' wives are more likely than non-migrants' wives to converse about HIV/AIDS with their fellow migrants' wives. In that model, we also include an interaction term between spouse migration status and women's expression of worry about contracting the AIDS virus from their spouses. Results from Model 2B show that the variable for spouse labor migration status which was significantly associated with HIV/AIDS communication in Model 2A is no longer statistically significant, while that of women who express worry about infection from husbands remains highly significant net of network resources and other characteristics (OR = 2.98). Similarly, both interaction terms were found not statistically significant. First, this implies that even though migrants' wives and their personal network members who were also married to migrants are more likely to converse about HIV/AIDS, they are no more likely to seek out other migrants' wives for such conversations than non-migrants' wives. Hypothesis three is therefore not supported. Second, migrants' wives who express worry about getting AIDS from their husbands are no more likely to talk about AIDS than non-migrants' wives who express the same worry. Thus AIDS communication seems to be predicated on worry of getting infected by spouse irrespective of whether that spouse is a migrant or a non-migrant.
We then consider themes of AIDS-related conversations. Although at the bivariate level we saw a statistically significant difference by husband's migration status in reporting conversations about known AIDS cases, this difference became non-significant in the multivariate test (not shown). Similarly, the multivariate tests did not detect any significant differences in discussions on HIV testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS (not shown). The only statistically significant variations by migration status were in conversations that revolved around HIV prevention. Thus in Model 3A, we observe that migrants' wives were significantly more likely to have talked about HIV prevention in their AIDS-related communication than were non-migrants' wives: the odds of migrants' wives mentioning prevention in AIDS conversations were more than twice those of non-migrants' wives net of network resources and other characteristics. These results lend partial support to our fourth hypothesis for although migrants' wives were more likely to discuss prevention of AIDS than non-migrants' wives, none of the network characteristics and resources were significantly associated with such discussions. Similarly, respondents who expressed worry of contracting HIV infection from husbands were significantly more likely to discuss HIV prevention in their AIDS conversations than those who did not (OR = 2.3). Notably, the effect of network member being married to a migrant was not significant.
In Model 3B we include the two interaction terms included in Model 2B. Both interaction terms were not statistically significant. Migrants' wives were no more likely than non-migrants' wives to discuss HIV prevention with network members who were also married to migrants nor were migrants' wives who express worry of infection more likely to discuss HIV prevention in their conversations than non-migrants' wives who express the same worry. However, consistent with Model 2B, the variable for spouse labor migration status which was significantly associated with discussion of AIDS prevention in Model 3A is no longer statistically significant, while that of women who express worry of AIDS infection from husbands remains statistically significant, net of network resources and ego's characteristics.
To more easily grasp our main findings as presented on
Predicted probabilities of having network members who are married to migrants, AIDS conversations and conversation about HIV prevention.
Ego's use of HIV prevention and testing. odds ratios, multilevel random effects models.
|Ego's Uses HIV Prevention
|Ego has Tested for HIV
|Labor migration status
|Migrant's wife
|Worried of AIDS infection from spouse
|Network member is married to migrant
|0.76 †
|Network member uses HIV prevention
|Network member has tested for HIV
|Network Resources
|Older than ego
|Younger than ego
|Same religion as ego's
|Network member would loan money
|Network member works
|Ego's characteristics
|Age (in years)
|Number of living children
|1–4 years of school
|5 or more years of school
|Currently working
|In polygynous union
|Resides with parents in-law
|Household's material possession index
|Thatched roof
|Household owns cattle
|0.68 †
|Mainline church
|[No religion]
|Had talked to husband about AIDS
|Migrant's wife
|Migrant's wife
|Generalized Chi-square
|Generalized Chi-square/DF
Reference categories: Non-migrant's wife; Does not worry of AIDS infection from husband; Network member is not married to migrant; Network member does not use prevention; Network member has not tested for HIV; Non-kin; Same age as ego; Different religion from ego's; Network member would not loan money; Network member does not work; No education; Not working; In monogamous union; Does not reside with parents in-law; Zinc, polyurethane or block roof; Does not own cattle; No religion; Has not talked to husband about AIDS; Significance level:
However, we observe in
Incorporating network approaches in research on social capital and health is essential in understanding the pathways through which social capital impact health outcomes. However, the literature on social capital and health has been predominantly conceptualized in the context of community resources such as social cohesion, trust and exercise of sanctions
Our findings should be interpreted in light of the literatures on social capital and health on one hand, and research on personal networks and reproductive and sexual behavior, on the other. First, our finding that migrants' wives were more likely to have fellow migrants' wives as personal network members indicates that the choice of network members among stay-behind women in southern Mozambique may be homophily-driven. This aligns with studies on social capital and health outcomes (such as psychological distress, smoking, and alcohol use) that have demonstrated that homophily based on demographic characteristics (such as age, race/ethnicity, sex, and education) and genetic-related traits (such as appearance, intelligence and personality) are crucial in the formation of friendship ties [
Furthermore, our conceptual framework and hypotheses hinged on how variations due to worry about HIV infection surrounding labor migration may affect access to network resources which can be mobilized to maintain physical health. However, our results failed to fully support that conceptualization given that, although pointing in the expected direction, the associations of network characteristics and resources with AIDS outcomes were not significant once migration status and worry about infection from spouse were controlled. Thus, distribution of resources embedded in personal networks did not vary by labor migration and had no significant effect on AIDS outcomes. Rather, AIDS communication seems to be organized mainly around worry of contracting HIV infection from spouses in general and not just limited to migrants. This might further support our suggestion that the generalized nature of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa makes the mobilization of such resources not necessarily contingent on labor migration status. Furthermore, although Bourdieu's conceptualization cautions against exclusionary principles of social capital, such effects were not detected by labor migration status.
Second, by finding statistically significant associations between labor migration on one hand and worry about getting HIV infection from spouses on the other, and conversations about HIV/AIDS and specifically the discussion of HIV prevention in these conversations, we offer further evidence in support of the growing literature on personal networks and reproductive and sexual behavior that highlights the importance of social ties and interconnectedness in dealing with risk perceptions and worries about contracting HIV/AIDS [
Third, although not directly related to migration, our finding that network members' HIV prevention and testing behavior is similar to that of ego's may provide some further evidence of the role of homophily in health behavior in general. This finding is also well aligned with the literature on social capital and health [
In closing, our findings have some important policy implications and recommendations. First, considering evidence from previous research demonstrating that interpersonal health communication is predictive of preventive behavior such as condom use [
Second as local and international agencies and governments devote resources to improving testing and treatment facilities and to producing and disseminating anti-retroviral drugs in rural communities, stigma and misunderstanding that still surround the disease must be addressed in order to more effectively respond to the African AIDS crisis. Indeed stigma is often cited as a formidable barrier to accessing prevention, care and treatment services. Yet efforts to combat stigma have been relegated to the bottom of AIDS program priorities [
Lastly, addressing deeply ingrained gender norms about sexual behavior and attitudes in migrant communities will contribute to a compressive strategy to combat AIDS. Sexual attitudes and behavior associated with male condom use both within and outside of marriage should not be limited to places of migration destination but should extend to places of migration origin. Married men and women should be targets of such efforts. Using personal networks as avenues for communicating, deliberating and understanding gender norms that put people at risks of HIV may facilitate the long process of changing HIV risks behavior and help meet public health's most pressing challenges in rural Mozambique and similar sub-Saharan settings.
The data used in this study were collected with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grants # R21HD048257. Research Support to the first author from the Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant (PFIG) of Illinois State University is also gratefully acknowledged.


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Bear, Henry, Hickman, and Delnov score in 5-4 loss
KENT, April 8, 2014 - The Kelowna Rockets defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-4 Tuesday night at ShoWare Center in Game 3 of their best-of-seven second round playoff series. The win stretched Kelowna's series lead to 3-0, with Game 4 Wednesday night at the ShoWare Center at 7:05 pm.
Taran Kozun and Jordon Cooke both faced 32 shots in the game. Kozun stopped 27 for Seattle, getting the loss to make his playoff record 4-4. Cooke is now 7-1 in the playoffs this season after stopping 28 shots.
Tempers flared early and often between the two teams. The opening faceoff was delayed after a few minor disagreements, which sprang up once again after Cooke gloved Seattle's first shot of the game. Kelowna nearly took the lead on the rush at 2:25. A 2-on-1 break ended with a shot off the post by the Rockets.
Even with that opportunity, it was the T-Birds who had the pressure in the first five minutes. Seattle pinned the Rockets in their own zone for a full shift and didn't allow a shot on goal for three minutes straight. Kozun's cover of Kelowna's next shot preceded another dust up between the teams that only served to increase the physicality.
The first penalty went against the visitors, coming during another post-save disagreement. Things went from bad to worse for the visitors with a second penalty, making it 1:19 of 5-on-3 for the T-Birds. Seattle appeared to score on their first shot of the advantage, but the puck was ruled to not have crossed the goal line and play continued. The home team kept attacking and nearly scored just a few seconds later, though Cooke was able to cover the puck as he leapt across the crease.
As soon as Kelowna's first penalty expired, they were hit with another, making it 5-on-3 for another 28 seconds. Seattle couldn't score during this time or the 1:30 of 5-on-4 that followed, keeping the game tied at zero.
Even-strength hockey brought back up-and-down physical play. Both Seattle and Kelowna had their chances, but strong goaltending and team defense kept the game scoreless.
The Rockets took the lead late in the first, scoring on the power play at 19:39. Ryan Olsen tipped home a shot by Damon Severson as Olsen rushed to the net, making it 1-0. Nick Merkley had the secondary assist.
Kelowna extended their lead at 19:03. Tyrell Goulbourne skated untouched down the wing after a Seattle defender lost his footing. Goulbourne let loose a shot from the left faceoff circle that made it past Kozun to make it 2-0. The assists went to Colten Martin and Severson.
Shots in the first were 13-12 Seattle.
Seattle scored on its first shot of the second period, coming at 4:12. Ethan Bear ripped a slap shot as he attempted to keep the puck in the zone. The puck trickled through Cooke's pads for the T-Birds' first goal of the night.
Another post-whistle scrum followed a minute later after a Kozun cover. The puck ended up in the back of the net, but the whistle had blown before Kelowna dislodged the puck from within Kozun's pads.
The Rockets made it 3-1 just after a second power play expired. Marek Tvrdon came down the left wing and crossed the puck through the crease to Tyson Baillie, who tapped the puck into an empty net. Jesse Lees had the second assist on the goal coming at 7:23.
A 4-on-4 goal for the Rockets made it 4-1. Madison Bowey put home a rebound as Kozun kicked toward the puck to score his third of the playoffs. The goal came at 9:54 and came off assists by Tvrdon and Mitchell Wheaton.
Seattle got another 5-on-3 opportunity at 13:38, though this time for only six seconds. The T-Birds managed to get three shots on goal in that short span thanks to a drive by Shea Theodore from the point and Branden Troock's repeated attempts to bang the puck through Cooke's pads. The next 1:54 of 5-on-4 had a dangerous opportunity when Alexander Delnov dropped the puck to Russell Maxwell in the slot, but Cooke got his glove up and caught the shot
Cooke made an exceptional save just after that power play as well. Justin Hickman threw the puck in front, but Maxwell was unable to get a shot off from a foot outside the crease and had the puck trickle to the side. Hickman gathered it there and took a shot that got under Cooke's pad as the goalie leap to the post. The puck bounced off the bottom of Cooke's shin and went out of the crease.
The Rockets took a penalty with 17 seconds left in the period. Seattle would have begun the third on the power play, but took a penalty with four seconds left to make it 4-on-4.
The shots in the second period favored Kelowna 16-7.
Four-on-four play ceded itself to a 4-on-3 Seattle power play after a boarding call against the Rockets. Adam Henry scored Seattle's second goal just as Kelowna's first penalty expired. Henry's shot from the point beat Cooke through a bit of traffic, making it 4-2 at 1:44. Mathew Barzal and Theodore had the assists on what was an even-strength goal.
Back on the power play 25 seconds later, the T-Birds remained on the offensive. Theodore skated through three Kelowna defenders but couldn't get his stick down to get a shot off, followed by Seattle getting a point-blank shot off that Cooke caught in his pads. No third goal came for the home team, however.
Justin Kirkland scored on the power play for Kelowna, extending the lead back to three goals. Bowey's stretch pass from near his own goal mouth found Kirkland behind the Seattle defense. Kirkland deked once and slid the puck through Kozun's pads for the Rockets' fifth goal at 6:07.
Two penalties against the visitors put the T-Birds on the power play for four minutes straight at 6:15, representing their ninth and 10th power plays of the game. Hickman scored 1:55 into this advantage, giving Seattle their third goal and once again cutting the deficit to two. Maxwell made a pass across the zone to Hickman, who ripped the shot into the net before Cooke could get across. The goal came at 7:21.
Cooke made an amazing save from on his back as the penalty expired to keep the score where it was. A shot from the point rebounded heavily off of Cooke to a Seattle stick. The T-Bird skater attempted to throw the puck into the net before Cooke could recover, but the goalie kicked his legs out from on his side to knock it away.
The T-Birds pulled their goalie with 3:27 left in the game. Kelowna iced the puck twice in a minute as they attempted to score to seal the game. Other than these two attempts, Seattle controlled the puck and held it in the offensive zone, sending multiple shots wide.
Delnov scored with 1:17 left in the game to make it 5-4. Barzal won a battle on the boards and laced a pass all the way to Delnov, who was standing alone in front of the net and scored to close the gap to one.
The T-Birds pulled Kozun again and forced the Rockets to ice the puck several times, but in the end Kelowna was able to gain possession of the puck and hold it against the boards to secure the win. Shots in the third periods were 12-4 Seattle.
Second Round Schedule vs. Kelowna
- Game 1 - At Kelowna 6, Seattle 2
- Game 2 - At Kelowna 6, Seattle 3
- Game 3 - Kelowna 5, at Seattle 4
- Game 4 - Kelowna @ Seattle Wednesday, April 9, 7:05 pm
- Game 5 - Seattle @ Kelowna Friday, April 11, 7:05 pm*
- Game 6 - Kelowna @ Seattle Sunday, April 13, 5:05 pm*
- Game 7 - Seattle @ Kelowna Tuesday, April 15, 7:05 pm*
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T-Birds single game playoff tickets are available online at the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.
First period - 1, Kelowna, Olsen 3 (Severson, Merkley), 18:39 (pp). 2, Kelowna, Goulbourne 2 (Martin, Severson), 19:03. Penalties - Heffley, Kelowna (slashing), 7:26. Martin, Kelowna (slashing), 8:07. Wheaton, Kelowna (tripping), 9:39. Eansor, Seattle (cross-checking), 18:07.
Second period - 3, Seattle, Bear 1 (unassisted), 4:12. 4, Kelowna, Baillie 2 (Tvrdon, Lees), 7:23. 5, Kelowna, Bowey 3 (Tvrdon, Wheaton), 9:54. Penalties - Wardley, Seattle (interference), 5:14. Olsen, Kelowna (tripping), 8:22. Troock, Seattle (tripping), 9:40. Kirkland, Kelowna (high-sticking), 11:43. Severson, Kelowna (tripping), 13:38. Tvrdon, Kelowna (high-sticking), 19:42. Delnov, Seattle (hooking), 19:56.
Third period - 6, Seattle, Henry 1 (Barzal, Theodore), 1:44. 7, Kelowna, Kirkland 3 (Bowey), 6:07 (pp). 8, Seattle, Hickman 2 (Maxwell, Lipsbergs), 7:21 (pp). 9, Seattle, Delnov 4 (Barzal), 18:43. Penalties - Bowey, Kelowna (boarding), 1:22. Eansor, Seattle (high-sticking), 5:48. Tvrdon, Kelowna (unsportsmanlike conduct), 6:15. Tvrdon, Kelowna (interference), 6:15. Delnov, Seattle (roughing), 16:23. Kirkland, Kelowna (slashing), 16:23.
Shots on goal - Seattle 13-7-12 32, Kelowna 12-16-4 32. Goalies - Seattle, Kozun 32 shots-27 saves (4-4-0); Kelowna, Cooke 32-28 (7-1-0). Power plays - Seattle 1-10; Kelowna 2-5. A - 5,029. Referees - Ian Croft, Sean Raphael. Linesmen - Zach Brooks, Nathan Van Oosten.


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THE National Singles Area Final proved to be a titanic struggle between two of the top Dorset bowlers.
Moonfleet stalwart Barry Patterson, with nearly 30 years of experience to draw on, went head-to-head with Dorchester's 24-year-old England junior international Nick Voss.
It was Patterson who was first to shine with a series of deliveries of the highest quality, which gave the impression that he was about to completely blow Voss away.
Patterson stormed to a 10-1 lead and Voss was struggling to find a way to break his opponent's superb consistency.
Sheer grit kept Voss in the game as he inched his way back into contention.
And he finally managed to gain some reward for his telling bowls by taking five of the next six ends to reduce the deficit to a single shot – but he still trailed 11-10.
It was then the turn of Patterson to go back on the offensive as he extended his lead to 16-10 thanks to three consecutive singles and a brace.
The match continued to ebb and flow with bowls of near perfection as the struggle for supremacy switched from one player to the other.
It took Voss 25 ends before he took the lead for the first time at 18-17, only for Patterson to level, leaving the game evenly poised at 18-18 .
With the outcome uncertain it was Voss who secured a vital count of two shots, leaving him requiring a single for victory.
Play paused on neighbouring rinks as Patterson faced a game down situation and, when his firing shots failed to dislodge, it was a relieved Voss who took the spoils and the reward of a place in the last 32.
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Iluka said in its March quarterly yesterday that the average weighted price for zircon – a key ingredient in the manufacture of ceramics – for the period was slightly above $US1300 a tonne, up from $US1050 a tonne in the previous quarter.
The price secured compared favourably with market expectations. UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock said this reflected the company's ability to sell small volumes into the spot market, where prices have reached $US2200 a tonne.
Based on contracts finalised for this quarter, Iluka has forecast it will achieve another 20 per cent price increase for zircon, implying an average of $US1560 a tonne. This would represent a doubling in the zircon price since the start of last year.
"Iluka has been able to put through further price rises as demand from customers has remained in excess of [the company's] ability to supply, leading to rationing of volumes," Mr Lawcock said.
Iluka is the world's largest producer of zircon and second-largest producer of titanium dioxide minerals, such as rutile and synthetic rutile, which are primarily used as paint pigments.
Over the past 12 months, its share price has risen almost 200 per cent as an explosion in low-cost housing and major infrastructure developments in China has driven demand for its products and pushed prices higher.
The stock reached a record high of $14.42 during trading yesterday but pulled back sharply to close 53¢ down at $13.57.
Iluka's recent share price performance ensured that managing director
To be eligible for the shares, Mr Robb was required to deliver a minimum total shareholder return of 45 per cent over a three-year period starting January 1, 2008. He exceeded the target in share price terms by more than 100 per cent. Iluka's annual report, also released yesterday, showed Mr Robb was paid a total of $14,524,520 including the retention bonus, in 2010.
His base salary was $1,451,941, rising from $1,431,078 for 2009.
Iluka said zircon and rutile production met or exceeded internal expectations in the March quarter due to the strong performance of its Jacinth-Ambrosia operation in South Australia and Murray Basin operation in Victoria.
The company produced 135,500 tonnes of zircon, 63,000 tonnes of rutile and 78,500 tonnes of synthetic rutile for the period.
While not providing specific information on pricing for titanium dioxide feed stocks, Iluka indicated it had secured a 30 to 40 per cent price increase in the March quarter.
"The high-grade titanium feed stock market remains tight, with customers indicating that they would take more material if it were available," the company said.
Sales revenue for the March quarter was $226.3 million, compared to $149.4 million in the corresponding period last year.
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Tiger Moms, you're going to hate the Timothy Geithner book.
"I was a good student, never a great student," Mr. Geithner, who led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was Barack Obama's first treasury secretary, writes early in his memoirs. "I was a decent athlete, nothing special. I wasn't particularly ambitious or hard working."
This blasé kid from New York, who spent parts of his youth in New Delhi and Bangkok, and his college years at Dartmouth, an Ivy League school in New Hampshire that accepted him because family members were alumni, would grow up to be a key figure in one of his country's most traumatic periods. A childhood of enforced piano lessons, extracurricular language classes, charitable endeavour, and sporting stardom wasn't required. (Neither was an economics degree, as Mr. Geithner became one of his country's most important central bankers without one.)
The sense of detachment never went away, however. Mr. Geithner's career path ran through the offices of Henry Kissinger's consultancy and the Robert Rubin's Treasury Department, at which he worked closely with Lawrence Summers and Alan Greenspan. All were giants of Washington. Yet Mr. Geithner says more than once in his book, Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, that he never shared their "strength of conviction" that there was a right way to do things and a wrong one. Mr. Geithner, who voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and Bill Clinton in the 1990s, distrusts bias, experience, ideology and politics. He was guided by evidence, and was relentless in his analysis of it.
"I lived for this stuff even when it was the scariest and the hardest," Mr. Geithner said in a telephone interview this week. "I loved coming to work. It's just like the most interesting, consequential thing you could do even when it was hard."
America's accidental treasury secretary now is seeking his place among the men and women who calmed a global financial panic like few living people had ever experienced. Mr. Geithner's book is a sincere, dispassionate telling of what he saw, what he did and what he wishes he could do over again. At a minimum, Mr. Geithner was one of a small group of people that figured out a way to keep a calamity from turning into something much worse. His reflections amount to a training manual for the next generation of crisis fighters that Mr. Geithner himself had to do without.
Mr. Geithner has his share of critics, but few have been harder on him than he is on himself as he reflects on an extraordinary period during which there were few obviously correct answers. He makes no excuses for an abysmal debut performance at which he was supposed to unveil a plan to calm Wall Street, and instead caused stocks markets to plunge 5 per cent. "My speech … sucked," Mr. Geithner writes.
Stress Test suffers from lack of suspense. Thousands of pages have been written about those years, including other memoirs and an exhaustive report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee. Mr. Geithner's book does little to change the accepted narrative.
While his crisis contemporaries were writing, Mr. Geithner was working. He left the New York Fed at the end of 2008 to become Mr. Obama's treasury secretary, a position he held until early 2013. The only American veteran of the financial crisis who served longer was former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who retired earlier this year. (W.W. Norton & Co. said last week that it will publish Mr. Bernanke's memoir in 2015.)
That commitment is what separates Mr. Geithner from so many others. Missing from the daily news stories and cable television commentary during the crisis was the immense personal toll those years took on subjects of those reports. Mr. Geithner's memoir gets dark; he acknowledges that he spent years absent from his family's life, yet there was nothing he could do to correct it. There was no escape from the stress of duty and the fear of what could go wrong if he screwed up.
"I don't miss public life," Mr. Geithner said in the interview. "I felt like I had my share of hard, consequential things."
Mr. Geithner's memories are dark, but his outlook is brighter. He clashed continuously with Washington's hyper-partisan political system, and had little good to say about Congress at the time. Now, he says he recognizes that the system worked when it really needed to, and that the partisan fever that currently grips the U.S. will pass.
And he is highly skeptical of those who argue that the U.S. economy has changed so dramatically that it never again will be as strong as it was before the crisis. He's come to that conclusion that way he always has: through a hard analysis of the evidence.
"Most of the darkness you hear today about the economy is really about the aftershocks of the trauma caused by the crisis," he said. "Once those transitory factors fade, you should be able to see an economy that is getting strong and then people can reassess over time what was temporary and what was more durable."
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Deadline gave you video of the opening musical number for the Writers Guild East Awards show from NYC. Now here's video of the 2011 WGA West Awards show's opening musical number from Los Angeles, "Write It Gay," featuring Modern Family co-stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet:
WGAW Awards Show Video: 'Write It Gay'
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Wow, that was tacky. i hope they got permission from Mel before they butchered this.
So sad, but so true.
Sounds like Keep it Gay from the Producers…
It IS Keep It Gay, right?
It's Make 'Em Laugh from Singin' In the Rain.
Didn't GLAAD get angery at Vince Vaughn for less?
I love these guys and their show but, hey, don't give up your day job. Very forced bit.
I agree. That bit was rather cringeworthy.
Look, I'm a gay writer and even I'm getting sick of the push for gay storylines, with the subtext being straight, bad. . .gay, good. I once talked to one of the creative heads of a certain gay channel and asked them what they were looking for, and they said not to send them anything that would put gay characters in a bad light. The serial killer in a movie couldn't be gay. The villains couldn't be gay. Gay protagonists or nothing.
I love Glee but the show was sinking under the weight of its preachiness during the first half of the second season.
Its almost a crime to be a straight character now, let alone make the character patriotic.
Its almost a crime to be a straight character now,
Yeah. Because there are NO straight characters on prime-time TV at all…
Why do I find it hard to believe that you're a gay writer?
Sorry you couldn't sell that surely insightful and fresh script with the gay serial killer.
While there is an unprecedented push for gay characters on TV/film, its pretty ignorant to write "its almost a crime to be a straight character now." Plus, with the whole patriotism thing, you clearly have an ax to grind. Why is it shocking that a gay focused cable channel wants to show gay characters in a positive light? It might even be in their mission statement. Nothing in Modern Family or Glee or Black Swan or The Kids are All Right suggests being straight is bad. Please think rationally (which I might not be by feeding your trolling).
The WGA skit was a clever, but awkward and not always funny, low budget award show opening number poking fun at a so-called trend. That's it.
That was effing fricken' FUNNY ! Well done, fellas. Thanks for the laughs.
Um… These guys are AWESOME on the show. Because both are tremendously talented ACTORS.
But…uh… Takes a different toolbox to do that whole "emcee/impressario" thang, don'tchaknow.
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The Adventurous Developer's Guide to JVM languages – Xtend
Yesterday, Anton published a really interesting overview of Ceylon, the JVM language from RedHat. This blog post will focus on Xtend, the language which self-proclaims itself as 'Modernized Java'. The language seems to place itself as 'faster than Groovy, simpler than Scala and incorporates all the benefits of Java'.
The language is built on top of the Xtext language development tool, which gives it great integration with the eclipse IDE. Yes, this time I chose wisely! I have picked a language which has tooling on my IDE of choice, eclipse! Well it's not hard to see why, as both Xtend and Xtext are eclipse projects! Other IDE fanboys (Anton) will not get tight integration with their IDE of choice, similar to Kotlin preferring IntelliJ IDEA. That's a real shame as it really limits your audience. Would you say you're more likely to try out a new language if support exists in your favoured IDE? Let us know in the comments below.
As with previous posts, I have constructed an HTTP Server sample in the JVM language we're talking about, and you can view my source on github. Again, please feel free to comment, suggest/submit pull requests – We're always happy to learn and see improvements.
On your marks, Get set, Code!
Go go go! Straight into Eclipse and get some code down… hey, this is actually quite familiar coding (as a Java developer). The Xtend language syntax has remained fairly true to Java, which could be considered a good or a bad thing, depending on your impressions of the Java syntax :) Yes it is simpler as the the usual Java baggage has been removed (as with most new langs) leaving the code more readable and only using structure and keywords where needed, leaving us with a readable, cleaner, implementation. Lets take a look as some code:
package com.zt
class Oppa {
def static void main(String[] args)
println('Gangnam, Style')
Note I promised in a previous post we wouldn't look at "Hello, World" examples, so here is my "Gangnam, Style" example :) So far we see very little has changed from Java, but one thing I do notice in my IDE is an xtend-gen source folder which has interpreted my Xtend code into Java code:
package com.zt;
import org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.lib.InputOutput;
public class Oppa {
public static void main(final String[] args) {
InputOutput.<String>println("Gangnam, Style");
Interestingly it pulls in it's own println implementation via the InputOutput Xtend class.
Overall in my Xtend HTTP Server sample, I wrote 137 lines of code, which was translated into 309 lines of Java. The Java created isn't particularly readable and I wouldn't particularly want to edit it, so I'm not really sure why it's shown. Amusingly at one stage I got into a state where my Xtend code compiled yet my Java code did not :) This was all down to 'fun with arrays' and deserves it's own section!
Fun with Arrays!
Arrays can be used, but you cannot directly instantiate them like you would in Java –
byte[] bytes = new byte[]{0,1,2}. Instead you use
ArrayLists and create them using
val items = newArrayList(0,1,2). You can access them using
items.get(1), instead of the more familiar Java –
bytes[0]. Some people I would imagine love this, I actually prefer the way Java does this, and really got in trouble when I was trying to create a byte array of a certain size to fit the bytes of the requested file into. Xtend coverts from one to the other under the covers. I tried an implicit cast in Xtend which the Xtend compiler loved, but once this was translated into Java, I got my Java compile time warning so needed to perform my explicit cast,
as byte[]", for this to work. So what did I do to fix it? What everybody should do in this instance, use FileUtils from the Apache Commons IO library! I added a new topic to the Xtend forum to understand how to do this though.
What can I do with Xtend that I can't do with Java?
This is where it gets interesting, as Xtend provides many of the features which Java lacks. For instance, it provides extension methods, import extensions, lambdas, @Data set objects, implicit typing and more. This is great! But I could have listed almost all of these off in my Kotlin post as could Anton in his Ceylon post. What makes this language any different? Well it's not trying to be different, it's trying to bridge a gap between where Java is now and where IMO it should be. It's Java on steroids.
Code snippets
Enough talk already! Need more pictures and code! Lets dive into some of the neat parts of the language, starting with extension methods.
Here we're creating a new method called sendHtmlResponse which takes 4 parameters, however there is a neat syntactical trick here which allows the first parameter to also be the object we're trying to extend.
def sendHtmlResponse(Socket socket, String status, String title, String body){
val html =
socket.sendHttpResponse(status, "text/html", html.toString.getBytes("UTF-8"))
This means we could actually call
sendHtmlResponse on the
Socket object.
"HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found",
"File Not Found",
"
404 File Not Found: " file.getPath() "
")
Of course in our xtend-gen directory, we're actually generating Java code which looks like this:
this.sendHtmlResponse(socket, "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found", "File Not Found", _plus_3);
While this spoils the illusion, it is really nice to be able to extend classes and this is in fact where Xtend gets it's name from.
In our first code snippet we used the following construct:
This is called a template expression and is used in many other languages, such as Kotlin. It allows us to easily create HTML without tripping over
out.println() statements, allowing us to better see what kind of doc we're creating. You'll notice we can escape the statement to drop in variables, and you're also able to use conditionals in the templates.
I did miss named parameters and defaults from Kotlin among others, which I still think just should be a part of all languages! It does make use of implicit typing though which was nice. The language is still statically typed but the type of a variable is determined at compile time by the value of the expression it will be assigned. For example:
val WEB_ROOT = "."
val DEFAULT_FILE = "index.html"
var Socket socket
In this example the first two variables are clearly
Strings, whereas the third cannot be determined at this point, so we need to declare its type is
Socket. This makes the code a lot clearer compared to the following in Java:
private final String WEB_ROOT = ".";
private final String DEFAULT_FILE = "index.html";
private final Socket socket;
Some of the more syntactical differences took more than a second or two to work out, like 'Where have my class methods gone!!' :o) Oh, you have to use a different notation to get that –
File::separator. I'm not really sure why this has been imposed but it's not a big issue so didn't bother me too much.
Interestingly the issues I had with fixing Kotlin compile issues, whereby the IDE would complain about a million things when there was only one problem, also occurred in Xtend. This is quite frustrating as you have to fix things in the order the Xtend compiler wants you to, rather than the order you want to. Java tooling support still wins on this topic.
Java Interoperability
While many languages struggle to achieve Java interoperability, Xtend really doesn't share their problems as they share a near identical type system proving an easy mapping to and from the languages. You're able to directly call from Xtend to Java and vice-versa without issues. Enough said.
I enjoyed learning and using the Xtend language a lot, due to the concise neatness it provides with the functionality which Java promises for the future but currently lacks. The question is, would I recommend others to use it over and above Java or other JVM languages? Well, for Java users it's all going to depend on how long these benefits last for, as once some of the nice feature additions in Xtend make it into the Java language, just as lambdas and method extensions, I'm not sure there's enough to justify the move. I imagine developers using other JVM languages such as Scala see Xtend more as Java n+1 or Java with a plugin rather than a language which breaks any boundaries, so I don't see why Scala users might break away to use Xtend. Don't forget to check out my source on github and feel free to suggest/submit pull requests!
This is the third blog post on JVM languages and already we're noticing there are many features that are similar across the set, with some structural differences while others are more cosmetic. History has given us a graveyard of languages that weren't good enough or applicable enough to for developers of the time. There's even an acronym, YAJL, that stands for Yet Another JVM Language! With so many languages already around, will the graveyard become overpopulated? A danger exists that with so much choice in the market, many languages will fall quickly with others not getting enough attention or contribution as the resource is spread thinner across languages.
My opinion is two fold; I'm a great believer in creating and innovating and this can very often come from a project starting from scratch as you drop existing concepts and designs, so that thought can begin on a blank canvas. As an industry, we don't want to cap new projects or initiatives as that's often how we find new directions, but I do think where we can make a difference to existing languages we should help existing languages. What do you think? Would you prefer a language more suited to your individual preference with fewer people behind it or a larger backing with them into more general user experience?
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Good going Trident! There's 130 Herbert megafans who won't be so quick to enjoy, proselytize and spread your client's work next time. Keep it up and you'll soon have the whole world turned off Dune!
Among the smaller of these is a group dedicated to Dune, the classic Frank Herbert sci-fi franchise of novels, movies, and other IP. Their leader, Vooper Werribee, counts 130 members who enjoy roleplay in the sands of an Arrakis based in Second Life, taking on the personae of sandworm-riding Fremen, Harkonnen-hating Atreides, and so on. (He believes only 20% of these are currently active.)
Notwithstanding those paltry numbers, last weekend Werribee and other members received legal notices from Linden Lab via Trident Media Group, a New York literary agency which maintains the Herbert Estate. "In particular," the notice reads, "Trident Media Group has complained about your use of characters, concepts and other material associated with 'Dune' in the Second Life environment." Those include roleplay locations entitled "Sardaukar Mask", "Fremen Domain", and "Bene Gesserit Retreat". The Lindens' notice ordered Werribee and his group to remove such titles and objects from Second Life within two days, or the company would do so itself.
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The Crap We Missed – Friday 2.24.12
Apparently, the surname Simmons gives girls a predisposition to an oral fixation.
She forgot her people can't swim. That was close.
Does anybody in that fuckin family ever work????
Why aren't there ever any pictures of the hot one ?
Seriously her sister is one of the hottest women in the world and all we ever get is this one. WTF?
Little tits, fat thighs…that is a sign you were Hitler in a previous life.
Yeah, everything about this girl screams "Aryan Supremacy".
I'd like to run that dmc.
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The battle for legalizing gay marriage in the U.S. took another step forward on Thursday when two more states legalized same-sex marriage at 12:01 a.m.
Minnesota and Rhode Island just passed the law that allows gay couples to get tie the knot and have the same rights as other married couples according to Boston.com[1]. Following the ongoing movement for gay rights that's gained some momentum over the last few years, these states became the 12th and 13th states [2]to pass the same-sex marriage law.
Rhode Island became the last state in New England to pass this law so it's no surprise that the number of same-sex marriage supporters outnumbered the protesters outside several city halls.
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Pretending to be a hurricane, Williams said he was heading for Kennebunkport - home of President Bush's family estate - to "see if they respond any quicker".
"The people who got into office forgot about the people," added Bill Cosby.
Elsewhere in the US, performers at the Farm Aid benefit on Sunday pledged to assist Katrina's rural victims.
Saturday's Higher Ground concert, held at New York's Lincoln Center, saw Meryl Streep, Laurence Fishburne, Robert De Niro and others implore viewers to give money to relief charities.
But emotionally-charged performances from Bette Midler, Paul Simon and Diana Krall went hand-in-hand with angry speeches that assigned blame for the tragedy.
"When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country - it revealed one," said actor Danny Glover.
"Katrina was not unforeseeable," added Harry Belafonte. "It was the result of a political structure that abdicates its responsibility."
The evening ended with event organiser Wynton Marsalis leading members of the jazz orchestra through a Duke Ellington tune that played out like a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral.
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Meanwhile more than 28,000 people attended Farm Aid's 20th annual concert on Sunday, held at Tinley Park, near Chicago.
Organisation founder Willie Nelson took the stage alongside John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews.
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