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ResourcesBy CIOinsight
Roundtable: Open Source Goes Mainstream
You need one more decision on your desk, right? One more of those CIO issues that go beyond technology into the messy realms of people and politics and philosophy. Well, it will be hard to escape this one: open source softwarein particular, the operating system known as Linux. Created by Helsinki University student Linus Torvalds in 1991, and developed and still maintained over the Internet by thousands of hackers worldwide, Linux is now said to have the fastest market growth rate of any operating system in the world. Moreover, chances are good that even if you've never officially signed off on Linux, someone in your shop is experimenting with it right under your nose.
To get a better idea of what this means for CIOs, CIO Insight Deputy Editor Terry A. Kirkpatrick recently convened a roundtable of nine experts to chat about itcorporate IT execs who have deployed Linux, analysts who have studied it, and vendors of both open and proprietary software.
If there was consensus in this diverse group, it was this: Open source software should be treated no differently than any other softwarethe migration, testing and support issues will look familiar. These are the "hidden" costs that could wipe out any cost-savings on price. At the same time, however, there may be unexpected savings on hardware.
Beyond the technical issues, though, there are other considerations. Linux is both an operating system and a development model, "a dessert topping and a floor wax," as one roundtable participant put it. Open source comes "shrinkwrapped" in a philosophy of software creation and ownership that is at sharp odds with the prevailing proprietary model, and this continues to stoke a shrill debate between the two camps. Should these "soft" issues matter to a CIO faced with hard business decisions? The discussion began with the issue of costthe price of open source software being its most notable feature and something that tends to catch the eye of CIOs in these lean times.
CIO Insight: Do CIOs really care that software is free, as long as they have a tool that solves some business problem?
QUANDT: The fact that Linux is available at a low cost is only one factor, obviously one that can help the company have a return on investment, but the capabilities and reliability and performance of Linux are really much more important.
CAREY: The cost of software plays a small role at Merrill Lynch. We look for other value propositions, whether it's open source or not. Linux is just a product to us with a cost that we look at over its total life cycle.
George, you've written for Gartner that in more complex deployments, the price advantage of open source can disappear. Can you elaborate?
WEISS: As we move up the curve of more and more complex applications, and face the issues of integrating legacy environments, larger performance and database scaling requirements, these will require more systems integration, performance tuning and validation of the software. And that's going to become much of the cost of the deployment of these systems. So the initial cost is really minor.
ROBBINS: IT budgets have been dramatically affected in the last 12 months. Some institutions are moving to Linux not because the software is cheaper, but because it runs gracefully on cheaper boxes. It's very compelling to those management teams who don't really care so much about the community-based principles or the intellectual property issues. So you're seeing certain doors open to Linux, driven purely by budget.
Steve, you have just made a major deployment of Linux at Credit Suisse First Boston that I understand to be mission-critical. To what extent was cost of software a factor?
YATKO: Actually, it's the crown jewel of our firm, a mission-critical, global order management architecture. This system deals with roughly 35 million transactions per day around the world. We were looking at a significant increase in volume, driven by the way the business was shifting its trading strategies. Our resources were giving us very little additional bandwidth to grow, so we almost had to go with Linux. But it had always been not so much Linux but the operating environment that it would be installed on. We needed stability and availability as much as we did performance. So it was our choice of hardware, actually. We had investigated Egenera Inc.'s solution and felt that it could stand up to any other. After running for a couple of months on the hardware platform, we recognized that this was an incredible performance increase, in some ways 20 times the performance over traditional RISC. So we went from a four-way RISC box to a two-way Intel-based system for the hardware package.
On the other hand, Mike, you looked at Linux for Royal Caribbean at one point, and you were hesitant.
SUTTEN: Yes, Royal Caribbean has a lot of older, peculiar systems, because it's very hard to go out and retrofit a ship. So the guideline we've been using on all open source, and not just Linux, is that if it's higher up in the architecture, at the logic layer or the presentation layer, and the life of the product is somewhat limited to three to five years, we were pretty happy using open source. We think it's sustainable; it'll last for that time. But as we move further down, to the data layer, the operating system layers, we've been pretty hesitant, because we expect 10 to 20 years out of that level in the application. And so we've been hesitant going in that direction.
Photographs by Thom O'Connor (Rick Carey, Paul Cormier, Jonathan Eunice, Jason Matusow, Stuart Robbins, George Weiss, Steve Yatko), Jeffrey Salter (Mike Sutten), and Chuck Nacke (Stacey Quandt).
Migration Costs
Migration Costs
That raises the question of migration costs. What's involved in migrating?
EUNICE: A lot of the costs are strategicmigration, training and risk. People from the Linux advocacy community don't often think about the amount of risk and difficulty. But if you have a staff of tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of people who know the solutions, and you already have experience with a system, whether it's Oracle or IBM or Sun or whatever, it really doesn't matter what the solution is. Choosing anything different brings up huge risk costs and migration costs that are not just migration of a particular application but also migration of who you are and what your strategy is. So you have to be pretty concerned with those. Often in the open source debate, we kind of walk around those risk and integration issues, but that's at the core of what a CIO or CTO really needs to be thinking about, these big strategic costs.
ROBBINS: I recently had a conversation with a number of CIOs around the Oracle/DB2 debate, and they have all said that they would have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do a database migration, regardless of the performance of the newcomer on the block, simply because migrations of anything at that level are always painful. It's like exploratory surgery. Until you get into the systemwhich you probably inherited from your predecessor or from a team of people who didn't document their code and have left your companyyou don't know what the real implications of that migration are going to be until you're already in it.
QUANDT: One migration issue is that Linux is moving beyond the entry-level infrastructure to the mid-range, and you're talking about databases, but there will be ways to scale Linux up to an eight-way SMP on Intel. So the characteristics of which application you can actually support with Linux are changing.
CORMIER: I agree 100 percentLinux is moving into the more complex and higher-end technologies daily. One of the things I wanted to comment onI didn't get a chance to jump inwas the question of whether Linux or open source in general is going to be around for 10 years. That's one of the beauties of Linux. You, as a customer, have the decision of how long it's going to be around for your application. You're not locked in, you're not hit with a vendor saying, "We're going to retire this next week."
YATKO: You have to ask that question with all your operating environments. Right?
CORMIER: Exactly.
YATKO: I think Linux is here to stay. I think there's enough movement going on in the industry, enough support now from major contributors such as IBM investing billions of dollars into this, and now you see Sun jumping in as well.
MATUSOW: As you talk about Linux moving into the higher end, from the CIO perspective, one of the things that you have to consider is how much test and development burden you are taking on versus what you were traditionally looking to vendors to do. There are so many different distributions of Linux out there, and they lack binary compatibility across them. If you are having multiple implementations, particularly if you have IT staff that is doing it without your knowledgewhich certainly we have found in our discussions with customers to be the casethen the modular nature of the system, in fact, is such that there is no full regression test pass being done. So that test burden is being moved onto the shoulders of the customer.
EUNICE: That's a burden that is, unfortunately, moved onto the shoulders of the user with any new coming-up technology. We've seen it with Unix in the late 1980s, we saw it with Windows in the 1990s, and we're seeing it again with Linux.
QUANDT: If you support your own application, yes, you probably have to do some of your own testing, unless you partner with a Linux distribution provider. But a lot of the leading Linux distribution providers have certified a distribution with key independent software vendors.
MATUSOW: If you talk to the customers who have joined us here today, large enterprise organizations, they all have custom applications with significant development staff. So there's a limit to how far they're going to be able to move from the traditional point of view where they're going to have to test those pieces. But if they are also adding them on top of all fixed testing and future compatibility and binary compatibility testing, it can be a very significant amount of work.
CORMIER: In terms of testing, the open source model actually lends itself to a great degree of testing just because of the nature of the model, the number of eyes that are on it. It opens itself to a great deal of generic testing, which any vendor also has to worry about. I contend that custom applications are no different from one operating system to another on where the testing burden lies. And in the case of commercial applications from independent software vendors, we are just now seeing them, as Stacey says, starting to certify to various Linux distributions. So I don't really see a problem here compared with other operating systems.
Dual Purpose
Dual Purpose
Open source is a movement as much as a softwaredoes that help or hinder it?
WEISS: There's a philosophy and a methodology that believes in the strength of community and spreading the collaborative effort, at least in terms of the number of people who might be available worldwide to look at the code and siphon out any problems, as opposed to total dependency on one vendor's organization and whether they're going to be able to uncover all the problems that a user might have.
On the other hand, there's a lot of software out there that has a great deal of intellectual content, has a lot of creative aspects to it. One would have to question whether the open source community has the creativity, the interest, the excitement or even the knowledge of where to target its efforts. So you would have to ask: Does the open source community know what the market needs and requires? When you get into the more creative aspects of delivering ROI to specific application environments and for IT organizations looking for the software developers to be able to come forth with their needs in mind, I would probably have less confidence in an open source model.
ROBBINS: In a knowledge-based economy, any approach that tends to aggregate value rather than deal with value in a cylindrical or hierarchical fashion will model the way the world is going. Over the course of time, we're moving to a decentralized, intellectual property-based economy. And any applications constructed to mirror that approach, at whatever level they operate, whether it's matrix organizations or operating systems that are decentralized, you're going to see adoption, because it's mirroring an economic trend.
How do you separate the philosophical issues surrounding open source from the hard business decisions?
CAREY: Merrill Lynch is an early adopter of Linux, and we're going to be fairly aggressive with it. I think we do it not so much because of a belief that open source is the right way. I don't believe there's any right way. We're moderates. We believe it's a good way to do some things, just like the proprietary model is a good way to do some things.
Merrill is obviously a huge user of Microsoft technology. We like the fact that Linux and Microsoft run on similar hardware. That helps us because it gives us choice, and when we have choices, we can make better business decisions. So it's not a religion, it's about business.
Will the IT shop of the future be a mixture of open source and proprietary?
CAREY: It will be at Merrill Lynch.
YATKO: It will be at CSFB.
ROBBINS: If that's true at Merrill Lynch and CSFB, it bodes well for higher adoption rates in smaller and mid-size companies, because your boards of directors won't see you as taking a risk, the way five years ago they would have. Five years ago, open source shareware was considered a radical, almost revolutionary approach to IT, and you had to do it in the background, you had to do it in private. And once it was all done, you might ask for forgiveness. Now you're seeing adoption. I have a number of clients who would feel relieved to know that Merrill Lynch and CSFB have done some due diligence here.
MATUSOW: You take an organization that is, let's say, half the size of Merrill Lynch. Do they have the capacity to do what you guys do with even Windows or with any other platform? The capability that you are making use of for an organization of your size, with the engineering capacity you have, is a luxury that I would say the vast majority of other customers do not have.
CAREY: I wouldn't call it a luxury; I would call it a necessity.
MATUSOW: A necessity is fine, but it's still a capacity that very few organizations have.
EUNICE: Every place I go has some requirement to do that kind of qualification and testing, even in a smaller or medium enterprise. It would be wonderful from a user point of view if you could order it up from a genie. That doesn't happen. The people who run IT at any company are the ones responsible for seeing that it is available, that it works right. And the onus is always on them.
MATUSOW: But there's a difference between configuration concerns for each customer, and each and every customer does have those concerns, and the process of doing their own build of an operating system.
EUNICE: I haven't seen in the Linux community everyone doing their own build.
YATKO: From CSFB's perspective, we're very similar to what Merrill is doing. We have a global build for every operating system we have. It gets scrutinized on every installation, every patch that gets installed. Linux is just another strategic operating system that fits into that model.
WEISS: Can I ask you, though, since Linux is really a set of operating systems and releases, I'm just wondering how you will be treating the various releases and versions, and whether you would standardize on one distribution's operating system, and whether you are repeating some past examples of lock-in?
CAREY: We are not going to standardize on any one distribution. In fact, we've said very aggressively LSB (Linux Standard Base) compliance is where we're going to be pushing people toward. And once we have LSB compliance, I think that's the baseline for us to pick and choose, and we may have three different distributionsone for the mainframe, one for the mid-range server and one for the desktop. And then we modify those to make them most effective in those three ranges.
Support Issues
Support Issues
I want to shift to support for a minute. Paul, if I make a bet on Linux, do I also have to make a bet on the long-term viability of Red Hat?
CORMIER: Is that a question?
CORMIER: If you make a bet on Red Hat Linux, you will obviously have to make a bet on the long-term viability of Red Hat, but not to the extent you would with proprietary software. In my opinion, Red Hat is in the best position to give the best support for our operating system. But down the road, if another vendor could do a better a job at supporting Red Hat Linux, they have the source code available to do that.
Jason, is Microsoft's shared source initiative an acknowledgement that in supporting software, the open path is better? That giving customers a peek at the code helps them fix bugs more quickly?
MATUSOW: First off, there are many different models that make up the software ecosystem. And so to say that any one model is dominant over another would be a mistake. I think we've learned from open source, particularly in the nature of community and how we can better work with customers, and so the shared source program we put forward is a way for any software vendor to be able to share source codes and still own its intellectual property. We're working on customer and partner benefits rather than dealing with the philosophical battle of whether or not you are "open." So we've been sharing source code with enterprise customers, systems integrators, governments and academic institutions, and that's just for the Windows code base. We're certainly taking lessons from the open source community as it relates to working with our customers, but we are most certainly not open-sourcing Windows.
ROBBINS: There are a couple of old CIO curmudgeons who are likely to resist anything new. Their notion of support is not so much vendor-oriented as it is in-house expert-oriented. With open source, there needs to be an individual or a team that's fluent with and dedicated 24x7 to the support of your open source platform and application. Up until maybe 12 months ago, that was not seen as a risk factor for most of these CIOs, because their staffs like new technology. And you want to keep your staff motivated. However, they've all lost a lot of head count, including expertise in this area. And so it's reminded them that when you have in-house dependencies and you hit a recessionary cycle, you could be forced to trim staff and lose the person providing the support for this platform that you have customized wildly out of necessity.
YATKO: In some ways I totally agree with you, but if this is a strategic operating system for your enterprise, a big mistake would be to put very few people on it. You have to have teams of people that understand the operating system. You have to treat it as you would any other operating system. The risks of this operating system over any other should be exactly the same, and you need to treat it as such.
MATUSOW: One of the interesting things we've heard from our customers as we've gone out sharing source code was a strong desire for us not to share the source directly with them but rather with system integrators, because they would prefer to work with those companies and allow those companies to have that intimate knowledge rather than bringing it in-house.
YATKO: When you start looking at staff being reduced, you start wondering about server consolidation. And, again, when you're getting those price performance benefits, you can start reducing any number of RISC boxes into these more commoditized hardware solutions that need only one person instead of 10. So when you're reducing staff, this is an even more important solution to look at.
Market Acceptance
Market Acceptance
If Linux is so great, why isn't everybody using it?
WEISS: It could be that we're seeing bottom-up creep in organizationsit's there, but we don't know the extent exactly. But what I think is happening is that Linux is on a curve, a growth curve. It started from a point like zero, and that was maybe 10 years ago. So the question of whether it should be pervasive is more an issue of maturity and acceptance and adoption. I don't look for massive changes in IT infrastructures. I see more in terms of trends in adoption and whether it is displacing other systems. So I would be more interested in knowing whether RISC is being displaced by Linux, for the reasons that Steve mentioned, about performance and dramatic changes in scalability. Is Windows being displaced and, if so, where would it be displaced most?
MATUSOW: George, would you categorize that displacement as a Unix displacement or a Windows displacement today?
WEISS: I would say that most of the interest I come across is being able to consolidate highly distributed and dispersed Unix boxes. However, I also believe that every placement of Linux represents a loss for Microsoft and Windows at the same time. Where Unix isn't able to really fulfill, on price performance in the mid-range and lower end, Microsoft with Windows was scaling up and intending to take a large part of that market. But the more market that Linux takes, the less Microsoft has.
CAREY: I'm going to disagree with that. If Linux is going to displace anything at Merrill Lynch, it will displace Unix. There's the real push, and I think if that actually pushes open a door, then both Linux and Microsoft have a much better opportunity. And for us at Merrill Lynch, it's a better risk profile because we like the competition. If Windows is better, then we'll run Windows. And if Linux is better, we'll run Linux. I don't have to go buy hardware again. I don't have to go and negotiate with yet another Unix provider.
So competition is good?
CAREY: I think it's great for Microsoft. I think Jason can't say it out loud, but I think he really loves Linux and he just doesn't want to say it.
WEISS: What I meant about Microsoft, and you may disagree with this, but from what I understand from users who have very highly integrated NT and Windows deployments in their corporate enterprise with lots of skills and support and Microsoft applications, is that it is exceedingly difficult for them to consider Linux in any more than maybe point solutions within that network. To try to uproot the entire Microsoft infrastructure that many users have makes it a bigger migration problem than I think they feel with Unix.
QUANDT: I'm also hearing a lot from companies about migration away from Microsoft to Linux. Companies that have already deployed Active Directories are asking about the return on investment of Linux and thinking, well, maybe they've made a mistake. Maybe they should really consider Linux now.
WEISS: Yes, Stacey, but it's in hindsight
QUANDT: I agree with you, it's hindsight, but they are actually actively doing requests for proposals.
Future Directions
Future Directions
Where do you see open source in three years, five years?
QUANDT: Open source is going to continue to move further into the enterprise, and Linux will become the dominant Unix operating system within the next three years. I think that it's going to change the way that companies think about technology.
CORMIER: Open source is proving itself to be very viable, and I think you'll see more projects in open source. You'll see Linux move higher up into the enterprise, as well as move into specialized operating systems where you may have seen RISC-based systems in the past.
SUTTEN: At the higher ends, we're going to be sharing source code over the Internet, and I think that's going to be pervasive. Until the support and sustainability issues can be solved, I don't think Linux is going to be a major enterprise player at the lower levels.
MATUSOW: Open source is going to continue to be an important part of the software ecosystem. I think that for all independent software vendors, of which I would include Microsoft in terms of being a commercial software vendor, a very healthy process is under way in which we're looking at source code access and what it means for customers and partners, and I think that trend will continue. I don't believe that by definition that means open source software will become the dominant factor in the industry. I just think it'll be a player.
WEISS: Open source development models will be increasingly accepted by software vendors and consumers, but will not replace proprietary licenses as the primary commercial software licensing model through 2006. And probably 80 percent to 90 percent of IT organizations of 100 or more employees will have some open source in their organization.
EUNICE: I like to make the distinction between open source as a development methodology and as a business model, and I think we've often thought of it as bothdessert topping and floor wax. And I think that open source is proving itself successful as a development methodology. It has had a lot of trouble as a business model.
ROBBINS: I agree. The interest lies in the fact that the software is a mirror of something larger. We have a real struggle with the notion of intellectual property. And we haven't wrestled with the whole notion of what is proprietary versus what is owned by the community. And so open source software will drive us closer as businesspeople to confronting that larger issue, and there will be some institutions that can embrace it, and there will be some that absolutely cannot.
YATKO: I agree with Stacey's points. We're seeing open source and Linux being adopted by the larger corporations such as IBM and Sun. As the ISVs are now beginning to adopt it, it will certainly start penetrating the enterprise at a much bigger level. And we'll probably see it start accelerating, since people cannot, in these economic times, ignore the cost benefits.
To CIOs considering open source, what would you suggest they think about?
CAREY: It gives choice, and when you have choice, you have more efficient markets, and consumers get the best value for their dollar.
WEISS: Users have to be cautious that they don't get too lulled into the fact that a vendor will raise the banner of open source and then, in a backhanded fashion, continue to promote its own proprietary software and try to lock the user in.
MATUSOW: CIOs need to keep in mind that there are both benefits and risks, and that clearly as a development model there are benefits. But in terms of the business model, there are risks. They need to be aware of the testing. If I'm in a regulated industry, what do I need to be aware of in terms of what my procurement processes are requiring, and whether or not my open source vendor is going to be able to tell me whether certain security standards have been met?
EUNICE: Our industry has been converging for 20 or 30 years, and trying to standardize and come to common platforms. So I see Linux as yet another one of the major pieces, certainly not the only piece. But it's a way of consolidating what we do across a lot of different hardware and processors. And it's an ugly process. I mean, Unix was, Windows wasthe whole process is ugly, but the place we want to get to is that kind of approved common platform.
ROBBINS: Another thing the CIO has to always consider is how this decision affects the company's core mission, and to make those cost/risk decisions based upon that. If you're not into sharing, and you don't believe in leveraging knowledge, and you don't believe in leveraging the benefit of others, don't do open source. There's no reason to. If, however, your business is cross-functional and non-hierarchical, you'd better think about this.
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Web Sites and Papers
M icrosoft's Shared Source Initiative
Red Hat Inc.
Jonathan Eunice's essay, "Linux Ready for Prime Time"
Articles by Stacey Quandt are on the Giga Information Group Inc. site
Articles by George Weiss are on the Gartner Inc. site

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This morning at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration (in Philadelphia) I did a reading from Maya Angelou's poem "The Human Family" and a talk on "Difference" — the theme of this week's service.
To see the reading and the reflection on YouTube, click here. (You can also view the YouTube video at the bottom of this post.
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." — Dalai Lama
I am different, of course. We all are. In my view that's what makes life interesting. I would say I gravitate to difference.
I'm a lesbian-feminist who came of age in the early 1980s and I had the good fortune to hear and meet many of the icons and writers of that era — including Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich.
It was at the celebration of Audre Lorde's life — the "I Am Your Sister" conference held in Boston in 1990 two years before she died of cancer at the age of 58 — when I went to one of the conference's "Eye-to-Eye" sessions. There, I really began to understand difference.
The idea behind the "Eye-to-Eye" sessions is that you break into a smallish group of people from a similar background and have a heart to heart discussion. It was based on Audre Lorde's philosophy that she writes about in Sister Outsider, a collection of her essays, that we cannot love each other until we love ourselves.
This is the same theory that RuPaul, the internationally known drag queen icon, says every week on his televised program Drag Race — if you don't love yourself, how the [heck] are you gonna love anyone else?"
(RuPaul is one of my sources of spiritual inspiration.)
At the conference, I chose the white working class women Eye-to-Eye session. The other Eye-to-Eye group that I could have chosen was white lesbians — but lesbians tended to be everywhere in my world back then and it seemed more important for me to focus on class.
I still remember being in that room with the tall windows and high ceilings — sitting on the floor in a circle of women. It was like being back in my high school bathroom. But this time we were honestly discussing our lives instead of masking our pain with drugs and alcohol.
As I recall, the discussion that we had in that room was liberating.
To make a long story short, I have absolutely no connection with anyone from my background — except that my partner and I are lucky enough to still have my 97 year old father.
But in this election year, I was reminded of my background, every time I turned on the television news.
I found the racism at the rallies — and I think you know which rallies — to be painful. I also find it painful — and appalling — that someone — some unnamed someone in power — is fanning the flames of fear and hatred. But I also do not think that all of the people in the white working class will be taken in to vote against their own interests. I also strongly suspect that the media is just showing us a slice of white blue collar voters who are racist — etc. — and that most people have neighbors and co-workers of all races including African Americans, Muslim-Americans, and Mexican Americans. And even if they don't, white working class voters can think for themselves and realize that racism and xenophobia are wrong.
This election is getting under my skin. The stakes are high, and it feels personal. When people tell me they are not planning to vote — educated people, who might feel more privileged than they are under the circumstances — it kind of makes me crazy. Of course, this is not a good feeling.
I meditate almost every morning — and it came to me during my meditation that I need to be more compassionate.
I was watching the Discovering Buddhism series number 11 on You Tube, when Richard Gere talked about a practice that was so helpful to me that I thought I'd share it with you. Years ago, Gere started wishing every being — insect, animal, or human — that he encountered with the greeting: "I wish you happiness."
"I wish you happiness."
Gere talks about the fact that there are times that this is difficult, and that these are the times when this thought turns a destructive emotion into love.
I have just started this practice and don't know where it will take me. I suspect, though, that it will make me even more aware of the fact that as Maya Angelou writes in "The Human Family" that we are more alike, than unalike.
"We are more alike, than unalike."
Oh, and remember to vote.
"I wish you happiness."


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BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping's delegation to next week's World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos is open to meeting with President-elect Donald Trump's team, an official said Wednesday.
Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong told reporters at a briefing that "there are open channels of communication" with Trump's team.
Bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the annual gathering of business leaders, politicians and cultural icons are still being finalized, but China would look into what sort of arrangements could be made "as long as the schedule permits and if there is the wish," he said.
Trump has accused China of unfair trade practices and threatened punishing tariffs and upended diplomatic protocol by speaking by phone with the president of Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory.
Xi, the first Chinese president to attend the Davos meetings, will champion multilateralism at a time of global economic uncertainty and worries that countries will turn inward to trade protectionism — an issue that has risen in prominence with Trump's pledges to restrict access to American markets to promote the U.S. manufacturing industry.
On Tuesday, Xi will give a speech urging leaders to "steer globalization in the direction of more inclusiveness and mutual benefit," Li said.
Western countries and companies accuse Beijing of maintaining its own protectionist practices, for example subsidies for its bloated steel industry that have led to trade tensions over Chinese exports of low-priced steel.
Li said accusations of trade protectionism against Beijing were "unjustified," and that China has always opposed such measures. "Trade protectionism will lead to self-isolationism and it is in the interests of no one," he said.
Xi's attendance at Davos is part of an official four-day visit to Switzerland that begins Sunday. He will also visit the U.N., World Health Organization and the International Olympic Committee, and discuss with Swiss officials how to deepen trade cooperation following the signing of the 2013 China-Switzerland free trade agreement, as well as how to encourage their business communities to collaborate on innovation.
In the past, Chinese delegations at Davos were led by Premier Li Keqiang.
China has sought to be more influential globally and present itself as a force for stability and champion of globalization while opposing rising protectionist sentiment in the West. The Davos forum takes place during a week when the United States, the world's largest economy, will be focused on Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration as president.


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Belgian international Marouane Fellaini tells Chelsea to make an offer
Everton star Marouane Fellaini has remarkably told Chelsea to come and make a bid for him, if they want him.
By Graeme Bailey - Tweet me: @graemebailey
Last Updated: 09/02/13 4:43pm
The Belgian international has been strongly linked with a move to Stamford Bridge for the past 12 months and the European champions were reported to be considering a bid in January - but that never materialised.
Now Fellaini appears to be growing frustrated - whilst maintaining he is happy at Everton, where he has three years remaining on his contract - he has told Chelsea to step up and make a bid if they indeed want him.
"If Chelsea want to sign me, then they need to come forward with a bid for me," he is quoted by the Sun.
"I have heard about Chelsea's interest but I've honestly not spoken to them.
"Every season I've been here, top clubs have been asking about me but, for now, I'm happy at Everton."
Fellaini insists that getting Everton into the top four would mean everything to him.
He added: "It might feel better to play Champions League football for Everton than Chelsea, as they gave me my debut in England."
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Making felt flowers and bows couldn't be easier - a little time, a little patience, and you've got yourself accessories as fit for a broach as a headband, or a flourishes for a jacket or purse.
Things you'll need:
Felt - you can use the thick kind, or the cheap (like twenty-five cents a sheets cheap kind). I'll show you projects using both (the bow is thicker, the flower thinner).
Felt balls - you can buy these pre-made at places like Hobby Lobby (in the US at least) or online (Ornamentea). OR, if you can't locate them you can cut a round of felt, stuff with dryer lint (no reason to buy batting when you've got stuffing in the trash bin!), and sew closed to form a ball.
Needle and thread. I prefer embroidery floss for previously mentioned reasons. Again, you can do these projects with hot glue, but I prefer to keep the bows/flowers as soft as possible for use on little heads.
Felt Bows
Cut a length of felt - in this case about 8 inches long by 1-ish inchs wide, but you can go longer/shorter, thicker or thinner depending on the bow you want. Cut a small section from the end and reserve. You'll also need two more pieces (not shown) (about 2 inches long for this example) - same width as your bow.
Fold the two ends toward each other to meet in the middle.
Pinch the middle where everything overlaps. Make sure to pinch the ends that you folded inward toward each other to give that nice dimpled effect. Tie off with thread and stitch once or twice to secure.
Using your reserved section (cut to the width you like), wrap around the pinched section and sew closed at the back.
Working with the two other reserved pieces decide how you want the "ribbon" ends to look. For this case I liked the "v" snip - fold the pieces in half length-wise, snip on an angle from the fold up to the end - unfold and you'll have a v-shaped sniped section.
I should note here - you can make your ribbon all in one piece but I prefer this method because it uses the least amount of felt and lies flat.
If you do not want "ends" simply omit this and the following steps.
Position to "ends" on your ribbon.
Sew the ends on - like in the headband tutorial make sure to not go all the way through so that the stitching can't be seen on the front side.
Your bow is complete!
To make into a headband use the directions found here - be sure to stitch the "ends" onto the headband as well if you want the bow and ends to wrap flat against the head.
Felt Bows
First, go ahead and download the template for the flowers and leaves here.
Determine the type of flower you want and go from there.
For this kind use the flower on the bottom right of the template. Finish by cutting a felt ball in half, then sewing onto the middle of the flower.
For these flowers use teardrops (4 total) and a full, small felt ball. Secure the center and two teardrops, then add the opposite, bottom teardrops. You can also use a small circle shape if that is easier for you.
For this flower do the same as above (5 teardrops) with bigger teardrops, or circles, pleat twice if possible. Use a half a felt ball to finish. (Note: this is made with thinner felt)
This flower is the same as above on top of the basic flower in the first example.
This is another layered flower. I'll show you how to make the center below - but I like the center all on it's own. Made in a few colors, then clustered it makes a beautiful decoration.
Folded Flowers - How-to:
Using either of the flower shapes on the left side of the template page cut out 4 flowers. Note: this is the "cheaper felt" in action - still looks great when done!
Fold the flower in half.
Fold in half again the opposite way.
Stitch to secure.
Repeat for 3 of the flowers/discs.
For the center and final flower/disc: fold in half, then roll from one end to the other (on a slight angle, if possible). Stitch to secure.
Lay completed folded petals/flowers next to the center.
Stitch on to secure.
Finish with a knot, trim thread ends and the folded flower is complete!
There's really no end to the types and styles of flowers you can make - cut out some shapes and have fun playing!


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J.Lo has reportedly taken the back-up plan.
Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez has locked up a deal to appear as judge on "American Idol's" 10th season, Deadline Hollywood and Us Magazine reported on Monday.
According to Deadline's Nikki Finke, Lopez had asked for a $15 million paycheck to appear on the Fox hit, plus a firm commitment from the network to further her career through films and TV projects.
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"The Back-Up Plan" star eventually "settled" for $12 million and won an "overall" deal with Fox but without a specific TV or film project commitment, sources told Finke.
The negotiations "ended up working out and they have a good agreement," an "Idol" insider told Us.
Lopez's rep has so far not commented on the reports.
News of the deal comes a month after returning "Idol" producer Nigel Lythgoe publicly defended Lopez, following a report that she'd been cut loose from negotiations for diva-ish behavior.
"Jennifer Lopez is a wonderful woman," Lythgoe said in August. "I've worked with her a lot. How anyone who could call that lady a diva, I have no idea."
With filming on "Idol" already underway, Lopez will likely join Randy Jackson and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler on the judges' panel, according to reports.
Fox has not yet announced its full slate of "Idol" judges in the wake of Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi's exits.
The network has agreed to delay its announcement to coincide with the mid-September release of Lopez's new single, according to Deadline.
Selected Reading: Deadline Hollywood, Us, IMDB


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Ali Zaoua
In Ali Zaoua, the story gets rough really quick. The movie is titled after a young lad who dies early on in the movie. Determined to give him a decent burial, a few of his friends move Heaven and Earth to do right by him. Most of the adults, including Ali's hooker mother, don't care much about the glue-sniffing losers they see the children to be. Among the dreams of a better life, and tidbits of animation, we get to see how they all prevail, within limitations. Here's what the box says: "Nabil Ayouch's Ali Zaoua is not only an extraordinary film, it is an accomplishment. The young people in the film are not professional actors, but real street kids ("chemkaras") recruited from the streets of modern-day Casablanca. Blending cinematic fiction and reality, Ayouch patiently evokes natural and beguiling performances from the first time actors, where just as in the film; the street has become their home and their family."
Picture: The picture was presented in 2.35:1 ratio Anamorphic Widescreen and looked very detailed with a multitude of textures. There was obviously a lot of thought that went into the composition of the movie on a technical basis and I noticed very few problems that weren't related to conscious decisions on the part of Director Ayouch.
Sound: The audio was in Arabic with English subtitles in a Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. For the most part, this aspect of the movie was also very clear and crisp.
Extras: A short film, The Architecture of Reassurance by Mike Mills, which explored the life of children in a much different setting than the feature. It was a bit less accessible than the feature to me but the underlying themes were interesting. Trailers to the feature and Marion Bridge, biographies of some of the cast and the Director of Ali Zaoua, and a paper insert of the movie closed out the extras here.
Final Thoughts: For all the diminished hopes of the children involved with this movie and the stark contrast between the background they suffered through and what I'm used to, I thought the movie was immensely enjoyable. There was little or no attempt to portray the leads as completely sympathetic and that only added to the reality of the message. The larger message, for me at least, concerned the disposable nature of lives in society and even in a rich country like ours, it's a problem. I highly recommend this one to fans of foreign cinema and I'll be looking for future efforts by this director (and company).
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It's thumbs up for Alex Burrows
Canucks notes: Winger says he's fine after taking shot to the head from Wild's Nino Niederreiter
Vancouver Canucks centre Shawn Matthias (27) and left wing David Booth (7) celebrate after Booth scored on Minnesota Wild goalie Darcy Kuemper (35) in NHL game in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alex Burrows insisted he was fine, had no signs of a concussion and was perfectly lucid a couple of hours after getting hit in the head by Nino Niederreiter. Then, as he sat by himself in the Vancouver Canucks' dressing room, Burrows started babbling to no one about Dennis Martinez and the Montreal Expos from 25 years ago.
Uh, you sure you're OK, Alex?
"Yeah, I'm fine," Burrows smiled. "I heard some guys talking about the Expos. Big baseball games in Montreal this weekend. The Blue Jays are playing."
Burrows' fondness for baseball is nearly as great as his love of hockey. The winger from Montreal attended a game at Fenway Park in Boston the summer after the Canucks lost the 2011 Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins. Burrows wore a disguise.
He wasn't sort of pretending to be healthy on Wednesday. After making a surprise return to the Canuck lineup two games after a unpenalized slash by Nashville Predator defenceman Shea Weber split the tip of Burrows' left thumb, the 33-year appeared to suffer his fifth injury of the National Hockey League season when he was shouldered in the head by Niederreiter in the second period of Vancouver's 5-2 win against the Minnesota Wild.
Burrows lay on the ice for several seconds, then went directly to the dressing room. But he returned before the end of the period. So did Niederreiter, who was assessed only a minor penalty for interference.
"As soon as I got up, I knew I was fine," Burrows said. "But I've had two concussions before and both times I got up and my legs went all Bambi on me. So I wanted to be sure. Nowadays, you don't take any chances and there's a protocol.
"The doctor came into the room and asked me a bunch of questions. It was kind of annoying because I wanted to get back out there and play, but you have to be careful."
Burrows, who had significant foot, jaw and hand injuries earlier this season, logged 14:09 of ice time with his thumb in a splint.
"My second shift I got slashed in exactly the same place and I felt it a little bit," the 32-year-old said. "But then the pain went away. You don't realize how much stickwork there is. This morning I felt so good, just feeling the puck and shooting. But there's so much stickwork, guys hitting your stick and battling, that's when I felt it sometimes."
MOULSON GOLDEN: Matt Moulson's emotional roller-coaster ride is over. At least until the end of this season.
The winger, traded twice this season, had six points in four games for the Wild before Wednesday after managing only a goal and assist in his first six games after the Buffalo Sabres traded him to Minnesota at the March 5 deadline for Torrey Mitchell and a pair of second-round draft picks.
Moulson spent the last four seasons with the New York Islanders and was as shocked as most people in hockey when he was dealt to Buffalo in October along with first- and second-round picks for the disappointing Thomas Vanek.
Moulson and his wife, Alicia, have a five-month-old son and 19-month-old daughter, and the player was frequently cut off from his family amid his professional upheaval. Their off-season home is in Connecticut.
"It feels like we've lived in a different spot every week," Moulson, 30, said. "But it's good to know I'm somewhere I can't be traded again until the end of the season. It's a comforting feeling.
"You always want to be around your kids and see them growing. Technology – Facetime and Skype – make it a little easier to see them and you couldn't do that in the past. But you wish you could be around more to help out. It's something you know you're getting into when you become a professional athlete. It's still just a blink in life."
Moulson is eligible for unrestricted free agency on July 1 and the Canucks should be one of the teams bidding on him if he actually makes it to market.
STILL IN BLUM: After spending most of this season in the American Hockey League, former Vancouver Giants' junior star Jon Blum is back in the NHL with the Wild due to a groin injury to ex-Canuck defenceman Keith Ballard.
Blum, 25, badly wanted to join the Canucks as a free agent last summer, but the team chose instead to sign Yannick Weber.
"It definitely would have been a fit for me because I played junior hockey there and know the city and know people," Blum said before going minus-one in 12:57 of ice time against Vancouver. "I feel comfortable there. But I think I made a great choice in Minnesota. They told me I was going to start in the minors. I didn't mind being down there and helping some of the younger guys. I just made sure I was ready when my name was called."
QUOTEBOOK: Canuck coach John Tortorella on injuries after captain Henrik Sedin missed his first game due to a sore knee: "I'll be honest with you – and I think people will probably jump on me – I don't think you can assess our team completely (due to injuries this season). I'm not complaining, I'm not making excuses; I think you need to try to find your way. We've had some major injuries. But we can't lose seven straight. We can't get into that type of funk. (But) we did, and that's why we're in the situation we are right now."


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SAN ANTONIO -- It is known as the "suicide disease" and is considered to be one of the most excruciating afflictions known to medical science.
Holley Pesina lives with the pain every day.
Trigeminal Neuralgia is a rare chronic pain condition affecting the trigeminal nerve in the face. Simply said, it is facial pain and there currently is no cure. October 7, 2016, is International Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day.
"Trigeminal Neuralgia, at its worst, puts you bed-bound," Holley said. "You cannot work. You're on... I was on multiple medications just to keep the pain at bay, and even then I still had pain."
Holley has struggled with facial pain since she was 16 years old, but she was not diagnosed with TN until she was 23.
It took more than six years for Holley to find a doctor who could diagnose her correctly. Once she found out what was causing her pain, Holley set out on the journey to be able to manage the pain so she could live a semi-normal life.
Trigeminal Neuralgia is a condition that affects every area of your life. Holley said that prior to finding effective pain management methods, she struggled to eat and was losing weight. Holley said her condition even affects her relationships with her husband and her children.
"My kids, my kids... that's all they know of me," Holley said.
KENS 5 producer Emily Porter first connected with Holley in 2015. Holley already had met with doctors in Dallas. Her pain was still too much to handle on a regular basis.
After failed attempts to contact Holley's doctor in Dallas, Emily was able to connect Holley with a leading specialist on her condition, Dr. Raymond Sekula in Pittsburgh.
"With Emily, when I met up with her, she tried to get a hold of my doctor in Dallas to interview him. He wouldn't call her," Holley said. "She got a hold of Dr. Sekula. He personally returned her call and he wanted to Skype with me."
After a consultation with Dr. Sekula via Skype, he determined that he could help Holley better manage her pain with a non-traditional surgery.
"He helped me... ended up helping me," Holley said. "For a while, I didn't think it worked. I was still having a lot of pain but it just took a while for it to heal, and now I'm doing... I'm doing a lot better."
Holley said the biggest change to her life is her ability to be with her family. Prior to the surgery, Holley would not even go out with her family for fear of having a major episode in public. Now, Holley said she is able to spend time out in public with her family.
Holley was once considering applying for long-term disability but has returned full-time to her position as a nurse in Kerrville. She said her condition has helped her to understand her patients and connect better with their struggles.
"I still get my bad days, but it's not near like it was," Holley said.
To support Holley and the Pesina family in their daily battle with Trigeminal Neuralgia, visit their GoFundMe page.
View more information on Trigeminal Neuralgia: TNA The Facial Pain Association website.


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Rolling Stones Release Videos from New '81 Archive Live Album [VIDEO]
The Rolling Stones' official YouTube page has unlocked four new videos from a 1981 show the band filmed for Pay-per-view at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia. It's the same show from which they recently released their second archival downloadable live album, a look a the rock band in their prime, and a highlight reel of at least one of the more talked about moments in Stones' history.
"I'm not sure how many people were able to actually watch it on Pay-per-view because Pay-per-view is (was?) notoriously impossible to get," Mick Jagger says in a separate video at the band's archive site. The sound and energy from the show are captured almost flawlessly, and the video is as clean as you could ask for. One can't help but chuckle at the styles of the day, including Jagger's tight football pants and Charlie Watts' bowl cut.
Performances of 'Black Limousine,' 'Little T&A,' 'She's So Cold' and 'Satisfaction' are included in the recently released video vault. During 'Satisfaction,' Keith Richards takes a swing at a fan he feels is heading for Mick Jagger. So he uses the only weapon he has.
"That Telecaster is a really handy swanker," Richards says. "I just took it off and saw that he was definitely going for Mick and nobody else was gonna get in the way so I just swung it and caught him right there (in the neck)." The guy was OK, but more importantly "the damn thing stayed in tune, and this is the greatest advert for Fender." That scene is at the 1:15 point in the fourth video.
Watch The Rolling Stones Perform 'Black Limousine' at the Hampton Coliseum
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Thomasville parents charged with child abuse due to drug activity
Two parents face child abuse charges after illegal drug use took place around their 2-year-old child, Davidson County deputies said.
Sarah Belle Burch, 23, and Davy Ray Kinley, 24, were taken into custody following an incident Friday at 260 Twin Lakes Dr.
Deputies had initially gone to the home to help on a probation check against Kinley, according to a sheriff's office news release.
Not only was illegal drug use found in the home but also unsecured Oxycodone and Hydrocodone that the child could easily access, deputies said.
Both were charged with misdemeanor child abuse, and Kinley also was charged with possession of Schedule II and Schedule III controlled substances, as well as drug paraphernalia.
Kinley was held in jail under a $7,000 secured bond, while Burch was held under a $1,000 secured bond.


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Following seven healthy behaviors to prevent heart disease can also help you ward off cancer.
For each American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 steps that you follow, your risk for cancer drops. In a new study, those adhering to one or two of the factors dropped risk by 21 percent; four decreased risk by 33 percent; six or seven of the factors cut cancer risk by 51 percent.
Life's Simple 7 is part of the association's My Life Check campaign that advises Americans to adhere to seven factors for a healthy heart:
- Being physically active
- Keeping a healthy weight
- Eating a healthy diet
- Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels
- Keeping blood pressure down
- Regulating blood sugar levels
- Not smoking
To find out where you stand with Life's Simple 7, take the My Life Check assessment.
Related Information:
- American Heart Association News Release
- Everyday Choices, a collaborative effort of the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and American Diabetes Association, has information and resources to help you make healthier choices to reduce your risk of these chronic diseases.


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Terrie Ciez was working in the Nuclear Medicine department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the late 1970s when a new Ultrasound machine was introduced.
"No one knew how to operate it, so I was asked if I wanted to learn this," she explained. "Since we were not experienced at performing these exams and real time did not exist – it was called B-Scan – I remember it taking me two to three hours to complete one exam, since we would go back and take more images to figure out what we were doing. Many nights, I did not leave the department until 7 or 8 p.m. after beginning the schedule at 7 a.m.
"I look back at those cases from the late '70s, and we were really good at correctly diagnosing the cases with the surgical findings! I use these cases in my classroom now to show the students how much easier it is today with real time imaging."
In 1980, Ciez was contacted to teach several introductory sonography courses at College of DuPage due to her background in teaching residents and physicians at Northwestern when they rotated through the Nuclear Medicine and Sonography departments.
But before coming to COD full-time, Ciez operated her own mobile ultrasound business in the Chicago area, serving an area that stretched from Gurnee to Laport, Ind. and as far west as Rockford.
"At the peak of my business, I had 18 employees with three full-time transcriptionist, three radiologists, two cardiologists, and 10 sonographers. We would travel with the equipment to clinics, physician offices and outpatient centers to provide the patient and referring physician with high-quality sonograms in the convenience of the physician's office," she said. "In peak months, we would perform 1,200 exams that ranged from abdominal, obstetrics, gynecology, cardiac and vascular procedures."
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At one point, it seemed as though streaming technologies would leave TV advertisers in the dust. If viewers can watch their shows through internet streaming, people thought, advertisers will be unable to reach them through TV commercials.
Luckily for advertisers, the development of ad technology has kept pace with developments in viewing technology. Here's a quick look at how people are consuming their content and insights that are useful for businesses looking to reach these "cord-cutters."
Cord cutting on the rise
In May of this year, a report from MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett noted that the pay cable industry lost 762,000 subscribers in Q1 2017 while during the same period in 2016, only 141,000 subscribers were lost.
That makes for an annual decline rate of (-2.4%) and since 2013, a total of 6.5 million cord-cutter and "cord-never" watchers – people who became homeowners or renters and never signed up for a cable service in the first place. With sports and international programming increasingly offering viewing options for cord-cutters too, there's no reason to think the trend will do anything but accelerate.
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Any video content delivered over the internet directly to a device without a cable or satellite company as an intermediary is considered Over the Top content – also called OTT. It can be watched via a Smart TV, a Roku, a tablet or any number of other devices.
Content publishers have created apps to deliver content on these devices, and it's through these apps that ads are served. Before the viewer can watch the TV show or film they've selected, they have to sit through an ad spot generally between 15 and 30-seconds in length.
Viewers might have escaped multi-minute commercial breaks, but an ad-free experience is still elusive.
What it means for advertisers
Right now, the primary method for targeting OTT ads is geography, which is great for smaller businesses with geographically specific target markets. Demographically speaking, according to a 2015 report by Pew Research Center, "65% of those ages 18 to 29 have cable or satellite service at home, compared with 73% of adults ages 30 to 49 and 83% of those 50 or older." So while the viewer demographic for OTT ads skews younger, rapid adoption of streaming services means you can reach consumers in other age brackets though OTT ads too.
In terms of income, the report found that "63% of homes with annual incomes under $20,000 have either cable or satellite service, compared with 86% of households whose annual income exceeds $75,000" and that "in homes whose annual incomes are $20,000 or below, 21% have cut the cord, while 14% of households above that income threshold have cut the cord."
That means that if your message is intended for price-conscious consumers, OTT ads could be a smart addition to your digital marketing mix.
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EXCLUSIVE: Beta Cinema sees strong demand for new titles including Enid Blyton update The Famous Five and big budget adventure The Physician.
Beta Cinema has closed a number of deals on its AFM slate including on Enid Blyton updates The Famous Five 1 and 2 to France (Metropolitan), Russia (Volga Films) and Turkey (Medyavizyon), adventure epic The Physician, starring Ben Kingsley, Olivier Martinez and Stellan Skarsgard to South Korea (Entermode Corp) and Turkey (Medyavizyon) and new drama The Devil's Violinist, starring musician David Garrett and Joely Richardson, to Japan (New Select/The Klockworx).
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Producer Joe Tells Jokes Written By The Sexist Joke Computer [FBHW]
A computer has been created by scientists at the University of Edinburgh that is designed to write one-liner jokes. The computer specializes in writing jokes that compare men or women to an object. Producer Joe loved these jokes so much that he decided to head out on the street to share these jokes with the public.
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I have an MRTG configuration file containing lines starting with the word "Target". Now in such lines there is a pattern starting with the character "#", and ending with character ":".
A sample line could look like these (note two types but start/end markers are still the same):
Target[192.168.0.1_Gi1_1]: #Gi1/1:email@example.com:::::2
Target[192.168.0.1_Gi1_31]: #Gi1/31:email@example.com:::::2
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Target[192.168.0.1_Gi1_31]: ifInErrors#Gi1/31&ifInErrors#Gi1/31:email@example.com:::::2


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Each moment President Barack Obama is in his private study in the White House, there is a reminder nearby of Grace McDonnell, a 7-year-old Newtown girl who hoped to one day grow up to be a painter.
Grace was killed on the morning of Friday, Dec. 14, along with 19 of her classmates and six staff members of Sandy Hook Elementary School, when a gunman went on a rampage through the school.
Two days after the shooting, President Obama traveled to Newtown to meet privately with the victims' families and attend an interfaith ceremony.
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"Grace was 7 years old when she was struck down — this gorgeous, caring, joyful little girl," Obama said on Wednesday during a news conference about gun control in the wake of the shooting.
"I'm told she loved pink, she loved the beach, she dreamed of becoming a painter," Obama said.
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While the president has a visual reminder of Grace, a fund has been set up in her memory.
If you would like to make a donation to the Grace McDonnell Memorial Fund at FCCF, you can mail it to Fairfield County Community Foundation, 383 Main Avenue, Norwalk CT 06851.


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Streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on August 25th through August 31st, 2014, then podcasting atradio4all.net. Also airing this week on KOWA-LPFMin Olympia, WA, KWTF in Bodega Bay, CA, KXCF in Marshall, CA, and WCRS-LP Columbus Community Radio 98.3 and 102.1 FM
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This episode features two conversations. The first is with Ben Turk, anarchist, playwrite and prison abolitionist. We chat briefly about the upcoming North American Anarchist Black Cross conference in Colorado, about what folks can expect if they go and how to support the event. https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/ek5vc/ab/f3E260
After that, a conversation with Alexander Abassi. Alex is a palestinian-american from Los Angeles, an activist in the BDS (That's boycott, divest and sanctions movement against the Israeli occupation of Palestine) and a student at Harvard's divinity school. We talk about decolonization, the uprisings in Ferguson, the struggle to liberate Palestine from the occupation by Israel and what solidarity and liberation might look like. (more…)


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