That's certainly an interesting way to do things.
Of all the unique business models that I have seen for games, this one is probably the one that intrigues me the most. Vogelsap's first-person asymmetrical multiplayer horror game will launch by October of this year, and when it launches, players will find that they have a limited time to buy and play it- you see, each time someone dies in the game, a life will correspondingly be taken from the total population counter of the eponymous 'Flock.' There will be a population countdown widget available in the in-game menus, the Steam store page, and other social channels.
And what happens once the timer hits zero? Well, that's where the interesting part comes in- you can't buy the game any more after that point. Only those that have the game can play it, and even then not forever. Existing players will be treated to a 'cinematic finale,' following which the game will go offline forever. And since it can only be played online, that means you simply won't be able to play the game after the cinematic ending… at all.
It's a unique way to do things, and I want to see if there will be backlash for this move, or if players will be more accepting, given that this is a business model that seems to add to gameplay, rather than detracting from it.


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Few areas of business today are changing faster than where and how analytics are being used. Turn your head for a second and—boom—you're falling to the back of the pack. From big data and visualization to predictive modeling and more, analytics represents a rapidly evolving world of technologies and tools that few have time to keep up with. This makes it challenging to think about which trends really matter and which will prove short-lived, which are hype and which will deliver tangible, timely business value.
But think about them we must, if only to understand where the market might be moving and how fast. Because for all the uncertainty in the field, business leaders still have to make decisions and choices about the future.
That's why we've taken a fresh approach to analytics trends this year, focusing on developments that appear to be important while also pointing out areas of disagreement, even within our own organization.
Whether a particular trend will affect you immediately is hard to say. Yet thinking about the trend—and what it might mean if it is true for your organization—may be time well spent.
Conventional wisdom says companies are facing a large supply gap of data analytics talent, with significant shortages at all levels. Professionals who can deliver data-backed insights that create business value—not just number crunchers—are especially hard to find.
Is the conventional wisdom correct, or are there other forces at play? Large companies in traditional industries may be much less concerned about hiring lots of data scientists than are online organizations and startups.
There are also classification issues. There's massive confusion about what a data scientist actually is. For some, a person who can manage spreadsheets and do basic reporting might qualify, at least in his or her own mind. For others, data scientists are expected to blend statistical sophistication, data management skills, and business acumen. It's quite possible that the job of the data scientist, as currently defined, requires more attributes than any individual should be expected to have. Some companies are resolving the gap by creating teams of diverse skill sets. They're mixing and matching professionals to deliver a balanced response to your business analytics questions.
When you're recruiting analytical people, be clear what your needs are. Just saying you need a data scientist is like advertising a slot for a smart person who's good with numbers.
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The talent crunch is real
Companies are struggling at almost every level of analytics recruiting today. The team approach makes sense, but it assumes there are enough people to hire in a wide range of analytics-related roles.
That's not the case. Even as universities create many more analysts, it will be years before they enter the labor force and become effective. Great data scientists also rely on their past experience, and getting these new graduates to that point will take some time.
Don't buy the hype
Some of the current talent crunch is a function of hoarding, not real demand. In response to predictions about impending shortages of qualified analysts, companies scrambled to recruit talent beyond what they actually needed. This led to experienced people being asked to carry out activities like straightforward reporting that could have been done with lower-level talent. It also led to lower-level talent doing busywork—e.g., cleaning data—that is better done by machines.
In addition, startups are hiring like crazy. Millions of dollars are being invested in identifying the high-value use cases, building the magical model to predict the future, and creating the subscription service to ingest data and extract insights they can monetize or sell.
This will likely all shake out over the next several years, with market forces and employees themselves driving the outcomes. Third-party solutions will cover many of the most valuable use cases—and internal teams will be relegated to more mundane work, if not cast adrift.
Today's data visualization tools make complex information accessible and understandable for almost any business user—and easily affirm the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Or, in this case, numbers.
Users who seek insights in big data have new tools that let them understand, explore, share, and apply data efficiently and collaboratively, often without analytics professionals. But that's where the risk comes in. Eager users may choose polished graphics over data preparation and normalization and rigorous analysis. That means they may gloss over important insights and produce erroneous results.
Sometimes glitzy visuals just create noise where plain old numbers would make sense. And overusing them can be patronizing. Visualization has a place in almost any data presentation, as long as it offers at least one of these benefits:
Faster observations of trends and patterns. Sometimes, the essence of a story lies in larger patterns that occur at an aggregate level.
Better retention. For some people, visualization makes it easier to understand and remember data. And visual tools can present concepts as stories.
Embedded feeds and user engagement. Advanced tools and live feeds let users tweak data and generate custom views to explore together in real time.
Management wants greater involvement with analytics-based decision-making. That's a positive trend. Just don't get caught up in all the sizzle. Visual analytics don't improve every decision, and some visuals don't add clarity to data.
Visualization is real, and it's valuable. Without it, analytics adoption would likely be going nowhere fast. But like any technology, there's a right way and a wrong way to use it. If your decision-makers want to use data—and you should increase their understanding of the data before they act—there may be no better tool. Of course, this doesn't imply you always have to visualize. Computers don't care about visual analytics, so if your decision is to be automated without human oversight or intervention, don't waste time with visuals.
Not so fast
The overuse of visualization can get in the way of clarity. Sometimes that's the result of making a complex story too simple, and sometimes it's the opposite—making simple facts seem too complex. We've all experienced that sense of dread when turning the pages in a document in which each page presents information in a different way than the page before. Ugh. Who has the time and patience to read this kind of cumbersome material?
More important is the risk of putting so much energy into a presentation that the actual analysis gets short shrift. If the underlying data and assumptions aren't valid, the analysis won't measure up no matter how visually interesting it may prove to be. With analytics talent in such short supply—particularly analysts who can creatively develop visual displays—this risk is clear and present.
Machine learning—the ability of computers to learn from data—has been around since the 1970s. In analytics, it typically involves the semi-automated development of predictive and prescriptive models that improve over time. The software learns how to better fit the data and separate signal from noise.
The challenge in analytics? Data scientists understand machine learning, but businesspeople don't. Managers hesitate to make decisions without hypotheses or human explanations behind them. Many organizations simply ignore machine-learning findings.
Today, big data projects move too quickly for hypothesis-driven analytics. For example, digital advertisers need to create thousands of new ad models a week, and each ad placement decision takes milliseconds. No human team is that prolific.
But that doesn't mean analysts and data scientists should just turn things over to machines. The leading machine-learning environments still need people to specify the variables that can enter models, adjust model parameters for better fits, and interpret content for decision-makers.
Machine learning can also make analysts more productive. For example, one IT vendor creates 5,000 models a year to fine-tune sales and marketing—using only four analysts. Before machine learning, twice as many analysts could manage only 150 models a year.
That industrialized approach, or model factory, is gaining adoption. Deep automation is still in the pre-Henry Ford stage, but the concept is likely to take off just as fast as conventional manufacturing did.
Automate this
This trend is spot on. It reflects a long-developing technology that has reached critical mass. What's more, we're seeing considerable demand from client companies for people who are familiar with the approach. They know that machine learning is not—and will likely never be—a completely automated way to develop models.
We're also beginning to detect interest in new business models in this domain, such as "machine learning as a service." Consulting organizations and cloud service providers are likely to be the early adopters.
Bring back the humans
This trend has its place, but its value and capabilities can be overblown. There is a sizable "garbage in, garbage out" potential here.
Just because someone knows how to operate the sausage maker doesn't mean tasty sausage will turn out. Companies still should rely on smart human analysts to hypothesize about relationships in the data and find models that support or overturn those hypotheses. It may be a slower process, but their companies may be much less likely to get into trouble.
The reality, of course, is that this isn't a black or white issue. There are shades of gray. Ongoing thought should go into deciding how humans can maintain control, because they are ultimately accountable for the outcomes.
Discovery is essential in science-based research, development, and product innovation. But it's no longer restricted to the lab. Increasingly, discovery focuses on data management and analytics. Leading organizations are adopting data discovery platforms—technology environments that make big data manipulation relatively easy and inexpensive.
Big data, once restricted to online and startup organizations, is now available to everyone. In a traditional analytics environment, data exploration was slow, and few companies relied on analytics for big decisions. Online organizations had discovery processes that relied on expensive and time-consuming work. Now, in an effective discovery environment, organizations can consider more types of data, use more variables and cases in models, synthesize them for new applications, and analyze fast-moving data at speed.
In the past, some organizations established analytical sandboxes, but discovery environments are different. First, discovery environments are now the domain of the masses, not just analytics experts. Analytics-aware users want to interact with data, look for patterns, or perform drill-downs that traditional approaches couldn't. Second, as these environments ingest more data, their architectures are becoming more complex. Hadoop/MapReduce datastores handle the volume and specialized processing appliances boost speed and performance. Today's data economy involves developing data-driven decisions and products at scale—and fast.
So far, few companies outside R&D have developed these stage-gate data-discovery processes. But that's changing quickly. As data grows in importance as a resource, determining how to exploit it becomes more vital as well.
Make way for discovery platforms
Production discovery environments are a central concern among many of our most sophisticated clients. It doesn't make sense to address an important domain for analytics without first exploring the data to unlock the real insights, assessing the distribution and quality of the data, testing possible relationships, and developing some trial models. This isn't the private domain of the data scientist, but an inclusive environment for both the amateurs and the experts to explore and discover.
Traditionally, these environments were called "sandboxes"—places with limited rules and limited oversight. As discovery becomes a mainstream way of answering ad hoc questions, these environments evolve from being nice-to-have playgrounds to a mission-critical setting. Availability, version control, and release management—all the dominion of the IT groups—become the order of the day, and the restrictions go up.
Few organizations need them
Discovery platforms are often a good idea for online organizations with a lot of unstructured data, but they may not be needed in many traditional industries. We've been able to develop analytics without these tools.
For some, the discovery movement may be a new way to sell big data appliances. Clients aren't necessarily asking for them, and this trend isn't taking off within the great majority of companies. Even the sandbox idea raised hackles among sceptical managers, and this sounds like the sandbox on steroids. With CEOs and CFOs demanding to see return on investment, organizations need to find the clear line of sight to show them that necessary value.
Analytics prospered first in well-structured domains like pricing and supply chain optimization. Next came marketing organizations, where data and statistics found a place alongside creative content. Now one of the last bastions of pure creativity—the entertainment industry—has begun to explore the ways analytics can help human judgment determine which movies, television programs, plays, and books customers want.
Predicting consumer interest in entertainment has been tricky. Many Hollywood films lose money. New television programs are canceled. And among the hundreds of thousands of books published each year, few sell more than 100 copies. An industry with such a low batting average is ready for help.
Both Netflix and Amazon are using consumer behavior data and direct testing to shape their original TV content, like House of Cards on Netflix and Alpha House on Amazon. In the film domain, some companies are using analytics to decide which movies to produce. Relativity Media, which has had a good track record backing or making profitable films, reportedly employs an analytics algorithm for that purpose.4 And yet another entertainment giant has an internal analytics group that works with its books and theater units to predict which books and plays will generate significant profits.
Entertainment still takes human creativity that analytics can't completely replace. However, entertainment executives want to back their creative judgment with well-chosen numbers. The entertainment of the future will likely be creative, inspired, delightful, and analytically sound.
More data could drive entertainment analytics
It seems inescapable that the entertainment industry may become much more analytical over time, primarily because almost every aspect of the industry can be monitored and predicted now. With the advent of streaming video and other content over the Internet—a trend that is changing virtually every entertainment business—we now have the ability to know what is appealing to many consumers. If we produce content that doesn't engage the audience, it's probably because we didn't do our research and analytics. The entertainment industry executive who doesn't understand and consume analytics may be a dinosaur in a very few years.
More data, but less creativity?
It is certainly true that there is more data now about the entertainment options that consumers enjoy. But analyzing that data more extensively is unlikely to lead to more creative and entertaining media content. In the film industry, the movies that are designed on the basis of audience reactions to early screenings are not noticeably more creative or successful than those created by an inspired director. Too much focus on entertainment analytics will likely lead to a lowest-common-denominator effect involving less creativity rather than more.
Let's not forget that many of the world's greatest artists died as paupers. It wasn't until decades or centuries after their deaths that the brilliance of their work became widely appreciated. While good might be an immediate best-seller, great might not.
A few years ago, there were no Chief Analytics Officers, no Chief Data Officers, no Chief Science Officers, and no heads of Big Data. Today, there are plenty. But do these C-level analytics and big data positions really help organizations? There isn't a lot of data…yet. But the signs are encouraging.
It's possible to fold data and analytics into existing C-level responsibilities— even the CEO's. On the other hand, a recent Deloitte Analytics survey found most analytics functions reported to a business unit or division head.5 And even if analytics lands on a senior executive's plate, will it win the battle for that person's attention?
The "fold it in" option has precedents, such as Caesars Entertainment. But many organizations—including Facebook, AIG, and the Obama 2012 reelection campaign—have created dedicated analytics roles. To achieve its potential, analytics needs advocacy and oversight.
Then there's the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role, which is increasingly common in large banks. The idea is to combine responsibility for managing data with its application through analytics. Yet many CDOs spend more time on management than on analytics—possibly because they lack strong analytics backgrounds.
An organization that creates a senior role for analytics, whatever the title, has likely done a productive thing. It's focusing on doing more with data, generating insights, and putting them to use. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good.
It's a natural, if temporary, role
When e-commerce began to rise around the turn of this century, many organizations created senior e-commerce roles to advocate for and guide the new capabilities they were building. It's probably a safe bet that their positions sped up their companies' initiatives in this important domain, even if the roles were eventually absorbed back into IT or marketing. The same can be said of Chief Analytics and Big Data Officers today. Eventually these capabilities may well become pervasive, but we should have someone to lead the use of them today and for the foreseeable future. Organizational structures always should be flexible, and when we see an important new capability arriving on the scene, we should create a role to manage it.
Another C-level role may be overkill
Analytics and big data may be important enough to deserve their own role, but creating it won't necessarily help organizations succeed. First, there are plenty of other CXO positions that care about analytics—CIOs, CFOs, and CMOs, to name three. If they have passion for the topic, why can't they lead its application across the business? A Chief Analytics Officer has to report somewhere anyway. Secondly, we've seen these arguments for new C-level roles such as Chief Security Officers. A few companies established them, but little evidence exists that the new role was any more successful than a CIO or CTO overseeing the area.
Adding a new C-level title almost indicates that the topic is faddish. Whatever happened, for example, to Chief Knowledge Officers? And why can't the Chief Strategy Officer spearhead analytics, given that strategy should be at the core of any analytics roadmap? The last thing analytics needs is the same fleeting popularity.
Big data has spawned a wave of new products and service offerings. Just as trends drove the development of new technologies like MapReduce and Hadoop, they are likely to usher in other new approaches as analytics and data management take root in more industries and businesses.
For Google, almost every offering is a data product. Another data-centric business, LinkedIn, helps boost customer recruitment and retention with tools like People You May Know, Groups You May Like, Jobs You May Be Interested In, and InMaps. Software companies are embracing data products too: Intuit recently acquired an organization of data scientists to help develop products from information its tax and business software accumulates.
Even in the industrial and manufacturing industries, data products and services are gathering momentum. GE, for example, places sensors in gas turbines, jet engines, and medical imaging devices, then services those products based on sensor data analysis. One technology company analyzes data from more than 300 million transactions its devices handle each day. By monitoring patterns, these companies can predict and head off maintenance problems before they occur.
Will data products and services ever out-earn or outperform traditional products and services? It's too early to say, but they have significant potential. More companies are now able to gather data from their operations, analyze it, and make it all available to customers. This can turbocharge your business—or your competitor's.
A straightforward extension of big data analytics
It makes perfect sense to examine and pursue the possibility of data products from online data, sensors, and other new sources. This trend was mentioned more than 20 years ago, when Stan Davis and Bill Davidson wrote the book 2020 Vision. They argued that information businesses could capture data and resell it to customers. In the big data era, virtually every business can become an information business. To make this happen, companies need to form Data Products teams that combine analytics, technology, and customer expertise. Many companies are already monetizing their data assets, and many more organizations will likely explore this more over the next several years.
Don't take your eye off the internal decision ball
There may be some opportunities for data products and services outside of the online industry, but it's not a significant growth opportunity. Instead, companies should maintain their focus on analytics for internal decisions. In other words, stick to your knitting. There are still many unexploited opportunities for that type of work, and the payoff is much more likely—and faster.
Before undertaking development of data products, perhaps companies should do a better job of using analytics to market and sell their existing products to existing customers.
Big data threatens the future of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). Many companies covet Hadoop clusters, whose per-unit costs to store and process data are a fraction of EDWs'. As a bonus, Hadoop platforms can also perform some processing and analytics tasks.
Still, EDWs probably won't vanish anytime soon. They're structurally versatile and offer a desirable way to store and process data for analytics. EDWs have the security, reliability, concurrent user support, and manageability large organizations need. And the rise of "in-database analytics" has made EDWs even more popular.
However, alternatives to EDWs are increasing. One major bank maintained a large EDW for production applications, but also supported multiple data marts on smaller appliances for less permanent or security-critical applications. And it stood up a Hadoop cluster for unstructured data applications. The same company may also add "graph" databases for social network analysis and columnar databases for high-speed analytics on numerical data.
Choice is a good thing, but it brings complexity, confusion, and cost. Organizations should define processes for deciding which data and applications go where, and what circumstances will trigger a platform move.
A simple, all-EDW world may come to feel like the good old days. But when organizations start paying less per terabyte for other options, their CIOs will warm to the change.
RIP, EDW?
The main issue with this trend is that it doesn't go far enough. Enterprise data warehouses are a vanishing breed, although companies may not turn over their installed bases quickly. You see the trend quite strongly in the online industry, where companies such as eBay still have large EDWs, but their data storage is now much larger in Hadoop clusters than in the EDW. And as Hadoop-like products improve in function and maturity, we'll likely see even more organizations adopting them. It's not surprising that you see EDW vendors putting their brands on Hadoop clusters and related technologies. They'll need to do that, and do it well, in order to stay in business.
Long live the EDW
The big data folks may be very excited about Hadoop, but the EDW has served thousands of organizations very well, and it's not likely going away. (In fact, we've had several clients recently purchase large EDW technology.) It tends to be more expensive than Hadoop, but it has a much better fit with the data management and analytics needs of large, established organizations that can't bet their futures on unproven open-source technologies. At some point, we may see hybrid Hadoop/EDW environments, and we won't even pay much attention to what's under the hood of our data warehouse technologies. But in the short run, the EDW is still king.
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Forrest Danson
US Leader, Deloitte Analytics
Deloitte Consulting LLP
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Deloitte Tax LLP
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Deloitte Analytics
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Deloitte & Touche LLP
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Greg Swinehart
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
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2. Big Data Executive Survey, NewVantage Partners, November 2012
3. What is a data scientist? The Guardian, March 2, 2012
4. Ryan Kavanaugh Uses Math to Make Movies, Relativity Media, November 2009; http://www.relativitymedia.com/News.aspx?pid=9507896c-078a-427b-8509-9d2c0127159f
5. Deloitte Analytics Advantage Survey, 2013; http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/deloitte-analytics/articles/the-analytics-advantage.htm
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Stress in the Earth's crust: the link between crustal fluids and extensive-dilatancy anisotropy
J. H. LOVELL, S. CRAMPIN and T. J. SHEPHERD
Journal of the Geological Society, 147, 971-978, 1 November 1990, https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.147.6.0971
J. H. LOVELL
1Global Seismology Research Group, British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH93LA, UK
S. CRAMPIN
T. J. SHEPHERD
2Geochemical Division, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG125GG, UK
Observations of seismic shear-wave splitting (birefringence) along almost all raypaths in the Earth's crust have led to the recognition that the fluid-filled cracks, microcracks and pores known to pervade most rocks in the crust have been preferentially aligned by the prevailing stress-field. This phenomenon is known as extensive-dilatancy anisotropy or EDA, and the fluid-filled microstructures as EDA-cracks because the seismic effects can be modelled by distributions of parallel cracks. The effects of these stress-aligned EDA-cracks have been observed in many different areas, and they appear ubiquitous in the upper 10 to 20 km of the crust. Many details of the crack geometry and the current stress-field can be readily determined from records of the shear-waves which have propagated through these aligned cracks. In separate studies, geochemists have confirmed the presence of microscopic fluid-filled cavities in almost all geological material. These are referred to as fluid inclusions, and provide unequivocal evidence of crustal fluid circulation, often along stress-controlled fractures. Different stress episodes can be recognized in many rock samples and studies of fluid inclusions can be used to interpret the palaeo-stress history of a rock, where the in situ morphology of these inclusions is related to the current regional stress-field. This paper discusses the relationship between the fluid inclusions of the geochemical literature and EDA-cracks, and concludes that the former may be regarded as one of the constituent inclusion types of extensive-dilatancy anisotropy.
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Founded in 1899, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the University of Oklahoma campus in the OKC suburb of Norman. The museum features a permanent collection of nearly seven million items across 12 collections.
Spanning nearly 50,000 square feet, the museum is thought to be one of the largest university-based natural history museums in the world. Plan your visit accordingly – the museum frequently rotates intriguing exhibits, as well as hosting special events like Sooner Saturday and Free First Monday for Kids.
Boasting a collection of over 10,000 pieces, the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The museum is part of the Fenster/Sanditen Cultural Center, which it shares with the National Council of Jewish Women Holocaust Education Center.
As the only Jewish museum in the Southwest, the Sherwin Miller Museum houses the most extensive collection of Judaica in the region.
The headquarters of the Jewish Historical Society of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Jewish Archives, the museum houses exhibits like the Herman & Kate Kaiser Holocaust Collection, which focus on survivors who settled in Oklahoma after World War II.
The Will Rogers Memorial Museum showcases a wonderful collection of artifacts and photographs of Will Rogers, as a celebration of his life.
Located in northern Oklahoma, near Owasso, the museum's memorabilia is featured in eight galleries in a 16,000 sq. ft. building. Visit the museum to view the family tomb in the garden on the site's twenty acres.
Rogers planned to retire on the site when he purchased the land in 1911. After his death, his widow and children donated the land and much of the collection.
Stroll through the library and archives to view the 18,000 piece collection of Will Rogers documents, photographs, manuscripts and letters.


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Mangaluru, Mar 19, 2015 : Hundreds of people paid their last respects to KN Tailor, the legendary Tulu theatrical personality who was also famous as the first superstar of Tulu film industry. The mortal remains of KN Tailor who passed away at a private hospital in the city on March 18 morning, were placed at his residence at Ujjodi for the people to pay their homage on March 19, Tuesday.
Many including his family members, relatives, fans, well wishers and elected representatives visited his residence to pay their last respects. Prominent among those who paid their respects to the departed Tulu film personality are Deputy Commissioner AB Ibrahim, Tulu theatre personalities Devadas Kapikad, Vijaykumar Kodialbail, Arvind Bolar, Tulu Academy President Janaki Brahmavar, writer Dr Vivek Rai, former academy chief Umanath Kotian and others.
The last rites of KN Tailor were held at the Nandigudde Crematorium in the city.


text:
package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"os"
	"sync"
	"time"

	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/codegangsta/cli"
	"github.com/docker/libcontainer"
	"github.com/gwoo/runc"
)

// event struct for encoding the event data to json.
type event struct {
	Type string      `json:"type"`
	ID   string      `json:"id"`
	Data interface{} `json:"data,omitempty"`
}

var eventsCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "events",
	Usage: "display container events such as OOM notifications and cpu, memeory, IO, and network stats",
	Flags: []cli.Flag{
		cli.DurationFlag{Name: "interval", Value: 5 * time.Second, Usage: "set the stats collection interval"},
		cli.BoolFlag{Name: "stats", Usage: "display the container's stats then exit"},
	},
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) {
		factory, err := runc.NewFactory(context.GlobalString("root"), context.GlobalString("criu"))
		if err != nil {
			logrus.Fatal(err)
		}
		container, err := runc.GetContainer(factory, context.GlobalString("id"))
		if err != nil {
			logrus.Fatal(err)
		}
		var (
			stats  = make(chan *libcontainer.Stats, 1)
			events = make(chan *event, 1024)
			group  = &sync.WaitGroup{}
		)
		group.Add(1)
		go func() {
			defer group.Done()
			enc := json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout)
			for e := range events {
				if err := enc.Encode(e); err != nil {
					logrus.Error(err)
				}
			}
		}()
		if context.Bool("stats") {
			s, err := container.Stats()
			if err != nil {
				fatal(err)
			}
			events <- &event{Type: "stats", ID: container.ID(), Data: s}
			close(events)
			group.Wait()
			return
		}
		go func() {
			for _ = range time.Tick(context.Duration("interval")) {
				s, err := container.Stats()
				if err != nil {
					logrus.Error(err)
					continue
				}
				stats <- s
			}
		}()
		n, err := container.NotifyOOM()
		if err != nil {
			logrus.Fatal(err)
		}
		for {
			select {
			case _, ok := <-n:
				if ok {
					// this means an oom event was received, if it is !ok then
					// the channel was closed because the container stopped and
					// the cgroups no longer exist.
					events <- &event{Type: "oom", ID: container.ID()}
				} else {
					n = nil
				}
			case s := <-stats:
				events <- &event{Type: "stats", ID: container.ID(), Data: s}
			}
			if n == nil {
				close(events)
				break
			}
		}
		group.Wait()
	},
}

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An autism diagnosis saved my life, but not before the Mental Health Act almost ended it
Hope Lightowler
Hope Lightowler describes her experiences before and after diagnosis, in an exclusive extract from Responsive Communication, a new book showcasing techniques for recognising and supporting people living with sensory issues. This article discusses themes including self-harm and suicide.
My name is Hope Lightowler and I am 19-years-old. I was diagnosed with autism privately in January 2017 and got an NHS diagnosis in September of that year. Around the same time, I was diagnosed with Irlen Syndrome, a perceptual processing disorder. Earlier in my teens I received diagnoses for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), generalised anxiety disorder and depression.
"I was made to feel it was my fault that cognitive behavioural therapy wasn't working."
At first I hated my autism diagnosis. But at the same time I was also relieved. I was embarrassed too, which is strange because I have never been embarrassed by my brother's autism. I think I was embarrassed because I was worried about how people would see me now – and that people would see me as fragile or as weak because I was disabled. I also didn't want people who said I was autistic previously to be right, especially my mum. My autism diagnosis has actually helped me to become better, as I now know what the problem is and so now can alter the support I receive.
What do I mean by "problem"?
Before my diagnosis, I had been with mental health services for a while. I first went to CAMHS in Year 9, when I was caught by a friend trying to get a blade. I explained my plans to kill myself. She told the members of staff who called my parents. I was diagnosed with OCD and was given a psychiatric nurse (CPN) and went through cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I was discharged after a period of time. Then after about a year, as my GCSEs were coming up, I started to get ill. I wasn't sleeping and my anxiety and OCD and depression were getting worse.
I was prescribed medication and given CBT and family therapy. I was eventually put on a second medication, then sent to hospital. I had been through CBT several times and couldn't understand why it wasn't working. I was also made to feel it was my fault and told it just wasn't the right time. I now hope to do CBT again but hopefully this time because of my diagnosis it can be specialised to autism.
Before my diagnosis I always wore earphones and was constantly listening to something, as if I didn't have this input every little noise would affect me and make me feel on edge. It would just build up like layers being added, until eventually it would boil over and I couldn't stand it. Since my diagnosis I have found sensory aids like noise cancelling headphones, which have helped so much.
I was and still am easily manipulated due to my inability to see the bad in people because in my mind it's very black and white; you are either all good or all bad. This also means that I either like or dislike people, there is no in between. This can cause problems, as once people are assorted into these categories it's hard for me to change my perception. This is the same for my opinions, although I have got better at learning to listen to other people's points of view and not always seeing issues one way. People used to think I was being stubborn and purposely rude but now most people know I just think in black and white because of my autism. This has led to less friction. I now myself understand why I'm so rigid with my thinking and don't get as frustrated with myself.
I have always found it difficult to talk to people, especially new people, as it is scary to not know what the other person is thinking about what you're saying. It makes conversation tiring as you're always second-guessing and trying to figure out the other person. Fighting the negative thoughts and feelings is really tiring and eventually you are too tired to fight them. It's this that leads to self-harm and suicidality.
See also: I need urgent help, I'm feeling suicidal
I used to have severe panic attacks that led to me collapsing and my body going into spasm. I would only sleep for two or three hours a night. I was constantly on edge, constantly overwhelmed and overloaded. Any little thing could tip me into self-harm and I was self-harming several times a day. My OCD was controlling me: I couldn't even blink without having to count to five. My everyday revolved around the number five and avoiding germs and making sure things were straight. I had a lot of intrusive thoughts and images and it scared me as they were always threatening to hurt, or showed my family members being harmed.
I had to drop out of sixth form after I collapsed in an exam. I was struggling to cope with getting through a single school day. After this I got even sicker. I was collapsing from panic attacks. I became a recluse. I wouldn't get out of bed as I didn't have enough energy but I also wasn't sleeping. I had constant brain fog. I couldn't hold a conversation as I didn't have the energy and I was so paranoid my brain would twist things. The constant internal commentary made it hard to concentrate. I would get confused between what people were actually saying and the thoughts I thought I could hear, which led to arguments and generally mistrusting people. I wasn't doing anything: I would just stare off. I was like a zombie, I was having a complete shutdown. I was no longer functioning. I was in a catatonic state. When I was speaking it was slow or I would stammer and I would forget about what I was saying half way through a sentence. This still happens when I'm overloaded, but mainly when I'm shutdown.
I had been seeing a community practice nurse and a psychiatrist for a long time before I got this ill. I always saw them at a clinic. We as a family had been seeing a family therapist as they felt that my problems were with my family and my relationship with my parents, which was inaccurate, although home was chaotic at the time. My psychiatrist wanted me to go into hospital in order to reduce my medication and to try me on something else as well, as he was concerned about all the plans I had, and how low my mood was and the fact I couldn't hold conversations. He was also concerned as my Dad was away and so my Mum was looking after four kids, two of which had additional needs, so Mum couldn't give me one-to-one observation 24/7, which is what he thought I needed. I refused to go into hospital as I just didn't want to go and I just wanted to be left to die at that point.
A male doctor and a female social worker came that day. I couldn't answer their questions and they felt I needed to be sectioned under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act.
I was told someone had to watch me all the time and was showed my room. I went straight to bed. As they were searching and logging my things, I couldn't get changed. I woke up confused and feeling all fuzzy. A member of staff made me some toast and passed it through a hatch. I then wanted to change my clothes. They were being held in what they called the cage. I picked the clothes I wanted and they put the rest back in the cage.
Whilst in hospital, I was constantly overloaded and overwhelmed. There were alarms blaring all the time. It was all bright white strip lighting and staff not following the rules, or constantly changing the rules, which was the hardest part for me.
See also: I have experienced or witnessed something traumatic
One incident stands out more than most and shows the lack of understanding and misunderstanding of my behaviour. It's the reason I was removed from this ward and banned from returning. I went out with a member of staff on leave and I went to the shops where I was looking for an art book, which happened to have a metal binder. I was getting an art book as I was doing an art project, so in my mind I needed a proper art book and there was no budging on this. Nobody had told me not to, that it was against the rules. Other patients on the ward had art books and just normal notebooks with metal binders in their rooms. I knew this wasn't going to happen for me, so I wanted to put it in my restricted cupboard or leave it "in education", as that is where I would be working on it.
When we got back, the ward manager came to tell me the book would be 'going in the bin, as it's a ward rule'. I start to wind myself up. I point out how some of the other patients have a metal binder art book in their rooms and that I just wanted to have it in my restricted cupboard. She says that it is judged on an individual basis and I'm a risk and that's why I can't have it. I point out how she said it wasn't allowed on the ward full stop and how I understand I'm a risk, which is why I want it in my restricted cupboard. We keep going back and forth. She says I'm not allowed to have it, slams her office door in my face and ignores me.
This experience was all just like a red rag to a bull. I started to go into a meltdown which led to a rage, so the ward manager got a torrent of abuse from me. I just couldn't understand and nobody was explaining; she just kept repeating herself. If only somebody had just explained to me why, properly. When the staff were telling my mum about it they couldn't understand why I had got so irrationally upset. My mum tried to explain that I think in black and white and think literally and so that's why I got so upset.
I was in hospital for five months in total. I found it stressful. It didn't make me any better, it gave me more ideas on how to kill myself and self-harm and made me more anxious to be in the outside world. It made me distrust professionals and I found the whole experience traumatic, although I did make some good friends who have helped me as they are a lot more understanding and we have a lot in common.
Pursuing an autism diagnosis
Before I was allowed to leave the hospital, and after two overdoses on the ward, I had to be seen by a doctor and nurse from CAMHS. When my mum talked to them, they asked if she thought I needed to be in hospital, which she said no to. She and my dad explained how Christmas is stressful for me and she felt the waiting for the autism assessment, which we were by now pursuing, was causing this anxiety as well. They agreed and said if we had the means, to pursue a private diagnosis.
In the end, we met Phoebe Caldwell, a practitioner in "intensive interaction" who works with people on the autistic spectrum. She gave us a lot of advice although she told us she was not able to give me a diagnosis, as she is a science doctor, not a medical one, but because of my severe sensory difficulties she said that we should go ahead with trying to get a diagnosis of autism. Her advice was invaluable and led to me getting my sensory equipment aids and Irlen lenses.
After seeing Phoebe, we received a private diagnosis having shared our evidence. After a further two years, I received an NHS diagnosis. I finally got a social worker, who then did an assessment, which has led to me getting the right support. I now get 40 hours per week of carer's hours. This allows my mum to go to work and me to study and get out. It gives my mum a needed break and me a needed break from her. Most importantly, it helps me be an independent young adult and do what I want to do.
I kept looking for educational placements as I love to learn. I also knew that learning would give me something to concentrate on and look forward to and structure my day with. There have been some setbacks but I now do two online A levels in sociology and history and am meant to be going into college, starting in September for an hour a week. I am also doing a BTEC in applied science. I already go into college for three hours once a week to do independent study in the study area, with help from a support assistant. Once I have finished my courses I hope to go to university and do a biology/biological sciences degree with a foundation year away from home. If I do go away to university I will be living with a family through a scheme called Shared Lives, as living on my own would be too much and I wouldn't be able to cope.
I have got my sense of humour back and my mood swings aren't as frequent. Professionals aren't always right. There were many times where we argued I was autistic, not experiencing a personality disorder. Most of the arguments with mental health staff come down a lack of autism training and awareness.
Responsive Communication, a new book showcasing techniques for recognising and supporting people living with sensory issues, is available to buy now.


A nursery school in North West London is looking to appoint an Unqualified nursery nurse to join the team ASAP.
This private nursery based in North West London they are dedicated to meeting the needs of the children in our care, as well as their families. To ensure they provide the very best service, strive to achieve the goals set by the national Early Years Foundation Stage; to provide a safe, warm, loving and caring environment where children can progress steadily through the various stages of development and be ready for their next stage in life school.
The nursery is looking for a nursery nurse to join their team immediately. The ideal candidate can either be level 3 qualified already or have not achieved this yet but has the qualifications to enable access to the relevant courses. The successful candidate will show a true passion for Early Years care. The role will require 40 hours a week and the nursery runs 51 weeks a year from 8am 6pm.


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Elizabethtown Vol. 1 – Original Soundtrack Album
The First Installment Of The Elizabethtown Soundtrack Was Issued In 2006. Two Different Covers Were Used, You Can See The Other One Below.
Cameron Crowe's 2005 film didn't turn out to be for Americana what "Almost Famous" was for rock and roll. But the comparison should not be drawn that quickly. Look at it like this: just everybody knows what rock and roll music is all about, no matter where he lives. However, many people outside of the States haven't got an idea what Americana actually is. I live in Uruguay, and few are acquainted with the concept. As a matter of fact, not even the people in charge of the two biggest import stores in the country knew that such a genre existed when I asked them. They had no idea My Morning Jacket was an Americana band, for example. They just associated the band with rock.
I think that such a fact showcases the main hurdle "Elizabethtown" faced, and I am talking about the music – the story was beautifully narrated and uplifting in every sense (look for the review of the movie in the next couple of days). But the music featured on the film lacked the general appeal that the songs on the soundtrack to "Almost Famous" and other films by Crowe like "Vanilla Sky" and "Jerry Maguire" had. The Elizabethtown soundtracks (there were two of them) were to be more specialized by definition. And that is always a barrier that repels a lot of people.
Anyway, those who are keen on the sounds hailing from the southern regions of the US couldn't ask for a more enlightening album. Both discs are true mini-encyclopedias that touch upon artists both old and new – from Tom Petty and Lindsey Buckingham to Ryan Adams and My Morning Jacket, the old and the new mingle and swap places in a very supple way. Besides, the presence of songs by Patty Griffin only makes the link between past and present stand stronger – her career might have started in earnest in 1992, but she has been around since the late '70s, and she has associations with emblematic figures like Emmylou Harris and Ellis Paul.
In any case, many classic rock and pop performers are featured. As far as the first volume goes, these include The Hollies' excellent "Jesus Was A Crossmaker" (the first song that is featured on the film, during the helicopter sequence) and Elton John. As you know, Elton stole the show on the "Almost Famous" soundtrack with the song "Tiny Dancer" (originally found on "Madman Across The Water", one of his first truly necessary records from 1971). Suitably enough, the song of his featured on "Elizabethtown" was "My Father's Gun", from "Tumbleweed Connection" (his 1970 record devoted to Country and Western themes). In my humble opinion, Elton provided a movie by Cameron Crowe with its most memorable composition once again, although it can't be negated that the song plays twice, and during key scenes at that (it is actually played during the journey at the end, in the most cathartic moment for Drew, the protagonist).
And Crowe also found room for some oddballs and left turns along the way. The most obvious example is "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)", a one-off hit for a '60s band named The Hombres that was never heard about again. The song is disorienting at first (it is lodged between Buckingham's unendurable "Shut Us Down" and Eastmountainsouth's "Hard Times"), but it all eventually gels together.
Eastmountainsouth. That is another obscure band with a song in. They do Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More". The song is engaging as long as you haven't listened to Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' live version. If you did, I am afraid you will forcefully throw a shoe at the "Next" button on your CD player.
The Other Cover Of The Elizabethtown Soundtrack, Vol. 1
Another song that is not really that effective is "Don't I Hold You" by Wheat. To be fair, Crowe chose to go for an alternate take – the sound is not as sharp as in the original recording. That's fine for collectors – everybody cherished having an alternate take of Dylan's "Shelter From The Storm" on the Jerry Maguire OST. But there is no use or sense comparing a song everybody loves from a seminal '70s album to a song by a band that still has to make a truly enduring artistic statement.
On the other hand, you have a true gem in the shape of Jeff Finlin's "Sugar Blue". I don't care if the paradoxes are too elemental, the lyrics taken on the whole brilliantly paint the ever-permanent set of contradictions that for worse and for better define any true, lasting relationship.
The final songs on the disc are Petty's conciliatory ballad "Square One" (which is also one of the last things you will listen to in the movie) and a song penned by Crowe himself, "Same In Any Language". The song was to give the movie one of the few (if not the only) accolade it was to reap. It is not something to go out of your way for under any criteria – the best thing about it is the viola and the boundless feeling of the lyrics.
My take is that the first volume of Elizabethtown's soundtrack has more than a significant number of enjoyable tunes (all the cuts that I did not pan above are cuts I find reasonably good). So does the second volume (issued in 2007, coinciding with the release of the DVD). But the absolute truth is that the two discs could (and should) have been merged into one. Check the review of the second volume when it is published later this week if you want to learn which songs I would choose, and which ones I would discard for the Elizabethtown OST.
Tagged as: cameron crowe, eastmountainsouth, elizabethtown, Elton John, my father's gun, my morning jacket, ost, patty griffin, ryan adams, same in any language, Soundtrack
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Güzle can refer to:

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A wall garden inspiration is one of the creative ways for make the backyard look awesome. Furthermore, it is not only beautiful, but awesome too. Therefore, many of the design needs creative idea to make it true.
A great wall garden shall start from a concept. Furthermore, the concept shall full of ideas on planting types of plant. Therefore, the garden will bring two function at one time. The first is for better view, the second is as natural fence.
If looking for several ideas on the design, see below pictures of examples. There are several wall garden inspiration that can apply for small or big backyard. As long as it suit and fit with the space, it can bring a beautiful final look.
It is a good idea to put on natural wall garden in the backyard. Therefore, not only look beautiful, it also simple things to do. Choose the proper plant that can ease the design. See below pictures for more samples on this idea.
Everybody loves modern style. Therefore, it is a good idea to put on modern wall garden design in the backyard. Make sure it is simple and minimalist too. Furthermore, it also needs a good concept too. See below pictures for more samples.
Those all the wall garden inspiration that can apply into any type of backyard. Furthermore, it is all simple and easy to do. Even more, it is bring a unique final view. Therefore, it can be a good alternative in creating unusual garden look.


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Q: Is a public constructor in an abstract class a codesmell? Is a public constructor in an abstract class a codesmell? Making the constructor protected provides all of the access of which you could make any use. The only additional access that making it public would provide would be to allow instances of the class to be declared as variables in scopes that cannot access its protected members, but instances of abstract classes cannot be declared at all.

A: My opinion would be that the public constructor might be seen to be confusing, and as you say making it protected would be correct.  I would say that a protected constructor correctly reinforces the impression that the only sensible use of an abstract class is to derive from it.
In fact, you only need to declare a constructor in an abstract class if it needs to do something, eg. initialise its own private members.  I would then expect there to be other protected member functions that are helpful to derived classes.
EDIT:
Since no-one has posted any code and @sbi asked for some in a comment to OP, I thought I would post some:
class Base:
{
public:           // The question is: should the ctor be public or protected?
// protected:
    Base():i(0){} // ctor is necessary to initialise private member variable
public:
    virtual ~Base(){} // dtor is virtual (but thats another story)
                  // pure virtual method renders the whole class abstract
    virtual void setValue(void)=0;
protected:
    int getValue(void){ return i;}
private:
    int i;
};

Base b1;  // Illegal since Base is abstract, even if ctor is public
Base& b2=makeBase();  //We can point to, or refer to a Base
b2.setValue();    // We're not sure what this does, but we can call it.
b2.getValue();    // Illegal since getValue is protected

A: As you say, there is no need to provide public constructor of abstract class, nor it can be misused, if you provide public constructor.
However, you may consider declaring constructor as public as recomendation for structuring classes derived from the abstract one.

A: Abstract class can never be directly instantiated because of the pure virtual methods it declares. So, declaring constructor as protected is just adds additional tips for programmers.
I saw recommendation to declare constructor as protected here, in Google style guide. And I've met similar recommendations in some other corporate coding standards. So this is looks like a good practice.

A: I'd say its a bad sign for a couple of reasons.
The first is that it might mislead somebody into thinking they can actually call that routine.
The second is that it implies the author thought you could call it. You now don't know if that was an important part of his design or not.

A: I know that allot of people obviously disagree, but I don't think an abstract classes ctor should be protected unless the interface you are designing has a specific reason for all derived classes to also have a protected ctor.
The reason is that when you design an abstract class you're designing an interface to be implemented by the deriving classes.  Derived classes should implement the interface exactly as it's designed in the base class.  The interface presented by an abstract base class is a contract; don't break that contract.
Or in other words, if you're changing the interface, why are you deriving from that class in the first place?
This is a bit of a religious answer, but what the heck. ;-)

A: Answer for Modern C++
I'm bumping an old thread here, however:

*

*this is the first question that came up for me when searching for the difference between public and protected constructors in abstract classes,

*the new C++ standards published after this question was asked and answered change the "correct" answer.

Summary
public constructors in abstract classes are not a code smell. Due to the way access modifiers of inherited constructors work, having a public vs protected constructor is not equivalent. public constructors in abstract classes add more access rights than protected ones.

Explanation
The standard draft N4659, 10.3.3/19 specifies that:

A synonym created by a using-declaration has the usual accessibility
  for a member-declaration. A using-declarator that names a
  constructor does not create a synonym; instead, the additional
  constructors are accessible if they would be accessible when used to
  construct an object of the corresponding base class, and the
  accessibility of the using-declaration is ignored.

This behavior was introduced together with using-declarators in C++11, see this question for more details.
Here is a minimal example [godbolt]:
class AbstractPublicCtor {
public:
    virtual void foo() = 0;
    AbstractPublicCtor(int) {}
};

class AbstractProtectedCtor {
public:
    virtual void foo() = 0;
protected:
    AbstractProtectedCtor(int) {}
};

class PublicCtor : public AbstractPublicCtor {
public:
    using AbstractPublicCtor::AbstractPublicCtor;
    void foo() override {}
};

class ProtectedCtor : public AbstractProtectedCtor {
public:
    using AbstractProtectedCtor::AbstractProtectedCtor;
    void foo() override {}
};

int main() {
    PublicCtor x(5);  // works
    ProtectedCtor y(6); // fails to compile
}

Rule of thumb

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*Use public constructors if the implementers of the abstract class should have public constructors, and the base class constructor is a suitable candidate for a public constructor of the implementer.

*Otherwise, use protected constructors (e.g. when the implementers are constructed using a factory).

Note: This is my personal opinion, I'm happy to discuss it in the comments.

A: I've read it in at least one coding guideline that constructors of abstract classes should not be public - I think that rule makes sense for the reason you gave.
However, i can't imagine a scenario where making it public would make things go wrong. So i wouldn't go so far as saying it's a code smell. I see the protected constructor as a "nice to have" property :)

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Mormons, ex-Mormons ran colorful presidential campaigns
Elections • A look at 10 candidates over 171 years who added LDS spice to national politics.
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By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune
· September 30, 2015 7:45 am
Mitt Romney may not be running for president now, but two people who consider themselves former Mormons are — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and minor Democratic candidate Cody Judy.
That continues an LDS presence, of sorts, in presidential campaigns that has spanned 171 years with 10 fairly well-known Mormons (or former members).
They generally led a parade of spectacular failures, with one tantalizingly close run by GOP nominee Romney in 2012 — when he captured 47.2 percent of the popular vote and 206 electoral votes to President Barack Obama's 332, and finally managed a top-tier race by a Mormon in which religion was not a major obstacle.
Here's a look at some current and past Mormon (or ex-Mormon) candidates:
Marco Rubio • The current Republican candidate was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 8 after his family had moved to Las Vegas. The Rubios moved next door to Mormons and were impressed by them and their help as neighbors.
"All in all, the Mormon church provided the sound moral structure my mother had wanted for us, and a circle of friends from stable, God-fearing families," Rubio wrote in his autobiography, "An American Son." "When we left the church a few years later, mostly at my instigation, we did so with gratitude for its considerable contribution to our happiness in those years."
While LDS values drew the Rubios to the faith, Rubio wrote that its ban on tobacco, alcohol and coffee made staying tough. He wrote that his father, who never joined the LDS Church, had smoked since age 13 and worked as a bartender — and the young Rubio chided him for such work. Neither parent gave up Cuban coffee.
Rubio later returned to Catholicism but also frequents Miami's Christ Fellowship, a Southern Baptist megachurch. He donated almost $50,000 to it and attended it almost exclusively from 2000 to 2004. Religion News Service says he now finds his spiritual home in Catholic churches in Washington and Florida.
The Washington Post noted last year that the LDS Church considers people who have been baptized still to be members, no matter how active they are, unless they formally ask for their names to be removed from Mormon records. Rubio apparently never did that.
So The Post notes that if Rubio wins, he would technically become the nation's first LDS president, the second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy and the first Republican Catholic president.
Cody Judy • The minor Democratic candidate is best known for a 1993 incident when then-apostle Howard W. Hunter (who later became president of the LDS Church) was speaking at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center. Judy rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience.
He carried a briefcase that he claimed contained a bomb and held what appeared to be a detonator. He demanded that Hunter read a document that supposedly detailed God's plan for Judy to lead the church. Hunter refused.
When the audience spontaneously sang, "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet," Judy reportedly became distracted and crowd members and security tackled him.
He was convicted of aggravated burglary and was sent to prison. Judy writes on his website that he "had to serve 3,018 days in prison as a religiously persecuted individual." He also writes that the LDS Church "kicked him out for apostasy."
He has made minor-candidate runs for Congress and the Senate in Utah, and also for U.S. president in 2008 and 2012.
Joseph Smith • Not only was he the first Mormon presidential candidate, he also was the first Mormon. He taught that Jesus Christ restored his church through him as a modern prophet.
He ran for president in 1844, largely to fight persecution that his followers suffered. Historian Richard Poll wrote that Smith likely developed the idea after LDS leaders wrote to other candidates asking how they might help the faith — and none supported the federal intervention that Mormons sought.
Missionaries traveled throughout the states and carried copies of Smith's platform. It called for ending slavery by compensating owners, financing the government through tariffs, creating a national bank and bringing Oregon and Texas into the union.
However, persecution in Illinois intensified. It led Smith's assassination by a mob in 1844. Mormons were forced out of Illinois in 1846 and migrated to remote Utah.
George Romney • The father of Mitt Romney was governor of Michigan and former head of American Motors Corp. when he became a leading Republican candidate for the White House in the early part of the 1968 race.
Some questions about religion arose, including whether being a Mormon made him racist because the LDS Church, at the time, did not ordain blacks to its all-male priesthood.
But Romney had a record of actively opposing segregation and prejudice in Detroit and was a promoter of civil rights. He told a ministerial association, "If my church prevented me as a public official from doing those things for social justice that I thought right, I would quit the church. But it does not."
What doomed his campaign, historians say, was his response to why he had changed his earlier strong support for the Vietnam War. He said military officials earlier had given him "the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." He was lambasted for what many said was an inept explanation.
He withdrew from the race Feb. 28, 1968. He finished sixth at the GOP convention with 50 votes (44 from Michigan and six from Utah). Eventual winner Richard Nixon later named Romney as secretary of housing and urban development.
Morris Udall • The witty, liberal Democrat from Arizona, who was a former pro basketball player, ran for president in 1976. He had not been an active Mormon since he was a teenager, but the question of blacks and the LDS priesthood hurt him anyway.
Udall (who lost an eye as a child) would joke about his chances during the campaign by saying: "I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona. You can't find a higher handicap than that."
When he appeared to be gaining ground on Jimmy Carter in a critical Michigan primary, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young famously told black ministers that while Carter had tried to open the front doors of the church to blacks, Udall's church "won't even let you in the back door." Ironically, Carter's church, at the time, didn't let in black members while Udall's LDS faith allowed blacks to attend worship services.
Udall lost the Michigan primary by three-tenths of a percentage point, and Carter went on to ultimate victory.
Bo Gritz • He was an outspoken former Green Beret colonel and a recent LDS convert when he became the nominee of the minor Populist Party in 1992.
He gained national attention by helping negotiate an end to an 11-day standoff in northern Idaho between federal agents and white separatist Randy Weaver.
He received about 100,000 votes nationally, about 1 percent of the vote (the most of any Mormon presidential candidate in a general election until Mitt Romney in 2012).
Two years later, Gritz announced that he had asked the LDS Church to remove his name from its membership rolls. He said that came after his stake president — a regional lay leader — refused to renew his temple recommend because Gritz did not plan to file an income-tax return.
Orrin Hatch • The longtime Utah senator made a short-lived run for president in 2000, but he entered the race late and never made it into the top GOP tier.
He finished last in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and dropped out.
He delayed the announcement for a day because a snowstorm closed the Capitol in Washington. He joked at the time, "I said to Elaine [his wife], 'Maybe I shouldn't resign because this snowstorm is a sign from God.' And Elaine responded, 'No, Orrin. The Iowa caucuses were a sign from God.' "
Rocky Anderson • The former Salt Lake City mayor ran as the nominee of the new Justice Party in 2012.
He was baptized LDS as a youth, but was not an active Mormon as an adult — and listed himself as Episcopalian when he was a mayoral candidate.
Anderson said his minor-party candidacy was "about taking on the two corporatist, militarist parties."
He received 43,018 votes, for 0.03 percent of the vote.
Jon Huntsman Jr. • The former Utah governor and ambassador to China and Singapore ran as a moderate Republican for president in 2012 against Mitt Romney and other conservatives.
He also ran as the sort of Mormon who he said is "tough to define." He told an interviewer, "I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides."
Huntsman — whose maternal grandfather, David B. Haight, was an LDS apostle — was reported to sip wine and church-hop among many denominations.
His moderate political messages did not play well in early GOP campaigning. He finished third in the New Hampshire primary, where he had targeted most of his resources, and dropped out Jan. 16.
Mitt Romney • The former Massachusetts governor and head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was by far the most successful of any Mormon presidential candidate — winning the party's 2012 nomination, but losing to Democrat Barack Obama.
That came after he had run unsuccessfully in 2008. Because of attacks then, he had to address concerns about Mormonism in a John F. Kennedy-style speech.
"Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or any other church, for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions," he said at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.
In 2008, Romney — a former LDS stake president and bishop — won 11 state primaries or caucuses, but dropped out two days after the Super Tuesday primaries showed John McCain would be the eventual nominee.
Romney ran as the GOP front-runner in 2012, and Mormonism figured little into that campaign.
What appeared to hurt him deeply against Obama was a video in which he told supporters, "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax … and so my job is not to worry about those people."
Romney flirted with the idea of running for president again this year. He decided against a third bid in January, even though he said he believed he could win the GOP nomination.
He said another candidate would "emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat nominee." 10 Mormon, or former Mormon, presidential candidates
Joseph Smith, 1844 • Sought to ease persecution of his church, but was murdered by a mob.
George Romney, 1968 • Once a GOP front-runner; quote about his "brainwashing" over Vietnam sank his campaign.
Morris Udall, 1976 • Liberal Democrat was hurt by attacks about LDS Church not allowing black males to hold the faith's priesthood.
Bo Gritz, 1992 • Former Green Beret colonel was colorful third-party candidate. Later left LDS Church.
Orrin Hatch, 2000 • GOP Utah senator was doomed by late campaign start and public mistrust of LDS religion.
Rocky Anderson, 2012 • Former Salt Lake City mayor, no longer considering himself a Mormon, ran third-party campaign.
Jon Huntsman Jr., 2012 • Former Utah governor and ambassador unsuccessfully ran as moderate in a conservative field.
Mitt Romney, 2008 and 2012 • Republican nominee in 2012, but lost close race to Democrat Barack Obama.
Cody Judy, 2008, 2012, 2016 • Ex-Mormon who once attacked a Mormon apostle at BYU is running as minor Democratic candidate.
Marco Rubio, 2016 • Florida senator who no longer considers himself a Mormon is seeking Republican nomination.


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Better Off Ted is een Amerikaanse satirische sitcom uit 2009 van ABC, die werd geproduceerd door 20th Century Fox Television. De hoofdrollen worden vervuld door Jay Harrington (Desperate Housewives), Portia de Rossi (Ally McBeal, Arrested Development) en Andrea Anders (Joey).

De serie wordt vanaf 21 februari 2010 op Comedy Central uitgezonden in Nederland. In België is de reeks te zien op de commerciële zender VTM. Van het tweede seizoen werden in de Verenigde Staten slechts elf van de dertien geproduceerde afleveringen uitgezonden. Daarna werd de serie geannuleerd.

Verhaal
Better Off Ted speelt zich af op de werkvloer van de Research & Development-afdeling van de multinational Veridian Dynamics: een bedrijf dat meer belang hecht aan winst dan aan ethiek. Het centrale personage is Ted Crisp (gespeeld door Jay Harrington). Hij is hoofd van de R&D-afdeling en houdt onder meer toezicht op het werk van onderzoekers Lem (Malcolm Barrett) en Phil (Jonathan Slavin) en producttester Linda Zwordling (Andrea Anders). Zelf moet hij verantwoording afleggen aan zijn baas Veronica Palmer (Portia de Rossi). Veridian Dynamics probeert haar nieuwe producten bij voorkeur uit op haar eigen medewerkers, en nadat een test met cryonisme op onderzoeker Phil mislukt, begint Ted vraagtekens te zetten bij de bedrijfsethiek. Hierin wordt hij gesteund door Linda, die haar onvrede over het bedrijf uit door kleine daden van verzet. Veronica handelt daarentegen zonder gewetensbezwaren in het belang van Veridian Dynamics, praat fouten van het bedrijf goed en probeert schadeclaims voor te zijn.

Karakteristieken
De comedy wordt gefilmd met één camera en zonder publiek. Typisch voor hedendaagse komedies die op deze wijze worden geproduceerd, wordt bij de montage geen gebruik gemaakt van een zogenaamde lachband. Better Off Ted vertoont in dit opzicht overeenkomsten met series als Arrested Development, 30 Rock en The Office.

Een standaard stijlfiguur is het doorbreken van de vierde wand: Ted richt zich rechtstreeks tot de camera en maakt het publiek deelgenoot van zijn ervaringen en overwegingen. Bovendien legt hij de gebeurtenissen op de werkvloer van Veridian Dynamics uit.

Behalve door echte reclamespots die door het televisiekanaal in de serie worden ingelast, wordt elke aflevering ook onderbroken door reclame voor Veridian Dynamics waarmee het thema wordt onderstreept en de draak wordt gestoken met de gangbare pr van commerciële bedrijven. De dubbele moraal als gevolg van winststreven en het belang van een gunstig bedrijfsimago wordt aan de kaak gesteld door tegenstrijdige beweringen, het positief voorstellen van schadelijke producten en het gebruik van non sequiturs.

Afleveringen

Trivia
 Uit één aflevering bleek dat er maar drie naties zijn die machtiger zijn dan Veridian Dynamics.

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