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Here are all the companies that have cut ties with Huawei, dealing the Chinese tech giant a crushing blow
Isobel Asher Hamilton
Major US companies like Google, Qualcomm, and Intel were quick to sever business ties with the company to comply with the order.
Note: All these public announcements are just words. China has the monopoly of 90% of the rare metals (earth dirt) that all these companies urgently need to continue their multinational adventure. China State media said it could cut exports of 17 metals used in everything from consumer electronics to military equipment, as a counter weapon in the escalating trade war. China produces more than 95% of the globe's rare earth metals. And Huawei has been working for years on an Android alternative.
Since the US government blacklisted the Chinese tech giant Huawei, a slew of companies have cut ties with the firm.
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency that allowed Huawei to be designated as a national security risk, leading the Department of Commerce to place the firm on an "entity list." This means US firms have to seek government permission before doing business with Huawei.
Big US firms were quick to respond to the order, though Huawei subsequently received a three-month license to get its house in order before the blacklisting fully kicks in. It isn't just American companies that are cutting ties, however.
Here is a rundown of the biggest firms that are severing business relations with Huawei.
Shortly after Huawei was blacklisted by the US government, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that it was revoking the company's access to its Android service. Bloomberg reported that Google had cut off supply to hardware as well as software.
The news was a huge blow to Huawei, as all of its phones a run on Google's Android operating system. It means millions of Huawei customers could lose access to security updates and suffer other disruption.
After the Department of Commerce granted Huawei a 90-day reprieve before the ban fully kicks in, Google said it had put its Android suspension on hold. But at the moment, this is simply delaying the inevitable.
Huawei has been working on building its own operating system as a "plan B" for years, and though little is known about it, an executive told CNBC it could be ready for China by this fall and for the rest of the world in the first or second quarter of 2020.
Key US chipmaking companies such as Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf were quick to act. Three days after Huawei was blacklisted, Bloomberg reported that Qualcomm had told its employees it wouldn't be supplying Huawei until further notice.
Intel CEO Bob Swan was another big name on the list of American chipmakers to cut Huawei off, though according to Bloomberg, Huawei has stockpiled at least three months' worth of chips and other components in anticipation of a ban.
Lumentum, the US maker of mobile-phone parts, also announced it had stopped shipping parts to Huawei, which it said made up 18% of its total revenue in its latest quarter.
The Japanese tech behemoth Panasonic president, Kazuhiro Tsuga on Thursday announced it had cut ties with Huawei. "We've stopped all business transactions with Huawei and its 68 group companies … that are subject to the US government ban," a spokesman told The Guardian.
The UK chip designer Arm (Simon Segars, CEO) issued a memo to employees telling them to stop "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei, the BBC reports. The memo said its designs contained "US-origin technology."
Arm licenses its technology rather than manufacturing chips itself. The Economist's Hal Hodson pointed out on Twitter that companies typically buy up licenses from Arm several years in advance, meaning it's possible that Huawei has two to three years' worth of licenses stored up.
The UK's largest mobile carrier, Vodafone, on Wednesday announced it was dropping Huawei handsets from its 5G launch, which is due July 3.
"We are pausing pre-orders for the Huawei Mate 20 X (5G) in the UK," a spokesman told The Guardian. "This is a temporary measure while uncertainty exists regarding new Huawei 5G devices. We will keep this situation under review."
The British mobile carrier EE joined Vodafone in excluding Huawei from its 5G plans, which are due to launch May 30.
EE told The Guardian it took the decision to can Huawei's 5G phones following Google's withdrawal of Android.
Microsoft has yet to make an official statement on its relationship with Huawei, but Huawei's MateBook laptops disappeared from Microsoft's online store the weekend after Trump's executive order.
Microsoft declined to comment when contacted by Business Insider.
Note 2: When China builds your nation's internet. Across Africa, countries are being connected to the digital economy with help from China. But Beijing believes every nation should be able to create its own version of the internet, and its projects help governments gain more control over the flow of information—to the possible detriment of democracy. In a Quartz video (membership), Nikhil Sonnad travels around Zambia to show how China is helping it become both more connected and more authoritarian.
Note 3: China accused US secretary of state Mike Pompeo of "fabricating rumors" about the company's alleged ties to government. Meanwhile, president Trump suggested the phonemaker could be part of a future trade deal with China, a week after blacklisting the company from US supply chains.
Note 4: The US temporarily eased restrictions on Huawei. The Chinese telecoms giant will be allowed to buy American-made goods in order to maintain its existing phone networks and handsets, but it is still barred from purchasing American wares to manufacture new products. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told Chinese state media that the US underestimates the company.
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Interviewee: John Bellinger, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State
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The Bush administration's rejection of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its use of Guantanamo Bay facilities to house "unlawful combatants" have damaged the country's reputation as a human rights standard bearer. Washington has recently softened its approach to the ICC and continues to gradually reduce the number of detainees at Guantanamo. John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to the U.S. secretary of state, says that while Washington is not necessarily "warming" to the ICC, it has sought to clarify that the U.S. government agrees with the objectives of the court. In the case of Guantanamo Bay, Bellinger says the State Department is "working very hard" to repatriate some of the Guantanamo detainees as well as exploring different options for holding others seen as posing a threat to the United States.
I'd like to start with Darfur and the International Criminal Court. The Bush administration has said it would consider assisting the ICC's work in Darfur. What does that mean in practice and does it include helping to track down the two Sudanese indictees?
We do see a role for the International Criminal Court in certain cases, including in particular the case of Darfur. For that reason we did not object to Security Council Resolution 1593, which referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC. So as a matter of principle, we have supported the ICC's investigation and prosecution of the cases in Darfur. At the same time we have the restrictions in U.S. law and the American Service Members Protection Act, which prohibit as a general matter any U.S. assistance to the International Criminal Court. There is an exception which has not been tested, and whose parameters are not clear, which permits assistance to the ICC to bring to justice certain named individuals as well as other foreign nationals who have committed war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity. So we think that within the bounds of U.S. law, there would be authority to provide assistance to the ICC.
We have not been asked by the prosecutors for any specific help, so therefore it's difficult to say in advance that we would say "yes" to any request, but we have said that because of our particular concern about the situation in Darfur and the need to ensure accountability for those responsible that we would seriously consider providing assistance in response to an appropriate request.
So in terms of the specific request, when the prosecutor recently came before the Security Council and asked for help, the U.S. couldn't respond to that in a specific way?
Correct. People have in the past and for some period of time asked us generally for assistance. We have responded generally by saying that we would be prepared to assist within the bounds of U.S. law and in response to a specific request, but it would depend whether the type of assistance was something that we had and could appropriately provide. I think the main point that we're conveying is that U.S. concerns about the ICC are well known, but that we acknowledge that in certain cases we would be prepared in principle to help the ICC in a situation like Darfur where there seems to be no other way to provide accountability for those who have committed crimes.
Given the strong U.S. opposition when the statute creating the ICC came into force five years ago, there is now this offer of cooperation. What has changed? Has there been a chance to assess how it's performing so far? Does it not necessarily seem as politically motivated?
No, I don't think that's it. I understand that this has been the view of many ICC supporters all along—that as long as the ICC as an institution continues to behave reasonably, the United States will warm to it. I don't think that's an accurate characterization. I think what's happened is we've made clear that not only this administration, but the Clinton administration had concerns about the ICC and the Rome Statute from the time that the statute was completed, and that we object to its purported coverage of the United States, even though we're not a party. Nonetheless, we certainly agree with its overall ends—there's no doubt about that.
What we've clarified over the last couple of years is that the controversy over the ICC had become really a tempest in a teapot where there should be no doubt that the United States shares the same goals of ICC supporters, which is to bring to justice and end impunity to those who have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and that what we have therefore been clarifying in the last couple of years is not just that the ICC and its prosecutors have behaved unobjectionably, but that there can be specific cases like Darfur where the United States sees a role for the ICC. So we continue to be concerned about its purported jurisdiction over us—that was a concern shared by the Clinton administration. That's why President Clinton did not submit the Rome Statute to the Senate, but we nonetheless see that the ICC has a role in a case like Sudan.
Clinton did at the last minute sign the Rome Statute. Officials like [former Clinton administration ambassador at large for war crimes] David Scheffer said that it would be a good idea to be inside trying to work for change. This is a similar—in a different context—approach of some towards the UN Human Rights Council. What do you make of that argument about working from the inside versus the outside?
Well, many of us at the State Department believe it is better to be inside a tent working for change rather than outside. That, as a general principal, is probably correct but it doesn't fit in every circumstance and in a circumstance like the Human Rights Council, which is so fundamentally flawed and which we were concerned at the outset was going to be so fundamentally flawed that we adopted a wait-and-see attitude. We sadly believe that we have been proven correct—that in fact the Human Rights Council has pursued an agenda of not going after human rights abusers, but instead protecting them. We think that it is not an organization we would be able to have an impact on by being on the inside, and we don't think that would have changed had we been part of it over the last year.
The U.S. has been generally a big backer of ad hoc tribunals. But some say these courts do little to deter rogue regimes from flagrant violations or committing genocide. What is your response to that?
Well, it's a good point that we have been supporters of these ad hoc tribunals—it's one of the things that Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice and I have tried to emphasize when people suggest that the United States is not committed to the cause of international criminal justice because of the controversy over the ICC. In fact, we have been the biggest political and financial supporter of these other ad hoc tribunals: the ICTY [for the former Yugoslavia], the ICTR [for Rwanda], the special court for Sierra Leone over the last decade. We've provided more than half a billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to continue to support them politically and we think [these tribunals] do have a significant impact. The fact that they may be ad hoc, we think, nonetheless continues to send a signal to perpetrators of human rights violators in the countries involved in these cases, but also to other human rights violators around the world, that they will be brought to justice.
Secretary Rice personally worked very hard with respect to bringing [former Liberian President] Charles Taylor to justice, a case that actually ties back together with the ICC to ensure that Charles Taylor did not live out his days in Nigeria but was ultimately brought to justice. We felt that having this special court for Sierra Leone to try him in Africa could be destabilizing to the region, and we therefore supported the use of the ICC facilities in The Hague for use of the special court for Sierra Leone to try him.
Turning to the situation in Guantamano Bay, there are reports that the Bush administration is stepping up discussions on closing the detention facility there but is facing difficulty over where to locate some of the remaining 375 detainees. Is that a correct characterization?
Well, the president has made clear for quite some time that he would like to move toward the day where Guantanamo can be closed. Both the president and other senior cabinet officials, including Secretary Rice, certainly understand the concerns in the international community about Guantanamo. At the same time, clearly while one can disagree as to who ought to be held, everybody will agree that there have been some very, very dangerous people who have committed serious crimes, offenses, planned acts of terrorism, who need to be held somewhere. The administration is working very hard both with the international community to ensure that we can send back those from Guantanamo who we think ought to go back to their home countries, but we're also looking at different options as to how we can hold the people who ought to be held because they pose a threat.
Because of U.S. law preventing return [of cleared detainees] to a torture situation, they cannot be returned back to their country, but it's also hard to find a place to send people who have been described as the "worst of the worst" in U.S. statements. So there's this limbo that a number of these people have been confined to. Is the United States continuing discussions about where some of these people might be able to go?
Absolutely. I think perhaps we have made a mistake in not explaining until the last eighteen months or so just how difficult it is to resettle the individuals who are there, and how hard we are working. I think there has been an impression that the United States was simply holding all of these people and was not working hard to resettle them. We have been, for a very lengthy period of time, working with almost all of the countries who have nationals in Guantanamo to determine whether they want them back and will hold them under what conditions. This is a very difficult situation. Clearly, we're not trying to send back everyone who's in Guantanamo—we think many of them have committed very serious crimes, and that even if we can't tie them to specific crimes, are senior members of al-Qaeda who would go back to planning different attacks. The premise of every critic who says Guantanamo must be closed immediately is that we could simply snap our figures and have everyone go back to the countries where they came from, and that's just not really possible. So we've been trying to emphasize publicly as well as privately to countries around the world the difficulties of resettling and asking other countries for assistance.
The Supreme Court has agreed to reassess whether Guantanamo detainees have a right to question their detention in U.S. courts. Some have suggested that the Supreme Court could end up ruling on the status of Guantanamo itself or any other such detention centers outside of the U.S. Is there concern about the judiciary undermining what the administration sees as its key weapon in its war on terror?
I think the larger point here is that all parts of the U.S. government have been involved in dealing with this area of the detention of terrorist suspects who don't fit into the traditional legal categories. They are not traditional criminals who were subject to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of our criminal courts, but nor do they fit within the Geneva Conventions generally because they are members of al-Qaeda and are not party to the Geneva Conventions. So we are in a new area that these al-Qaeda suspects don't fit neatly into either the criminal laws or the Geneva Conventions. So we've had to work with Congress and with the courts to develop new laws, new policies, and new procedures. So we will be providing our briefs to the Supreme Court in this latest case.
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A Villa Medicea di Lappeggi é um antiga villa da Família Médici localizada entre as localidades de Antella e Grassina, fracções de Bagno a Ripoli, a poucos quilómetros do extremo sudeste da Comuna de Florença.

História
A Villa di Lappeggi, também chamada de Appeggio ou La Peggio, toma o nome do alto da colina onde se ergue. Antigamente existia aqui uma residência da família Bardi, que depois de várias mudanças de proprietários, entre os quais os Bartolini Salimbeni e os Ricasoli, foi vendida por estes últimos ao Grão-duque da Toscana Francisco I de Médici em 1569. A posição da propriedade era particularmente agradável: vizinha à cidade, mas circundada por campo.

Francisco I
Francisco entregou-a ao seu arquitecto de confiança, Bernardo Buontalenti, que a reestruturou dando-lhe a forma que se pode admirar actualmente na luneta pintada a fresco por Giusto Utens para a Sala das Villas da Villa Medicea di Artimino, entre 1599 e 1602: um edifício com a planta em forma de ferradura, com um pátio central, fechado na parte anterior por um muro ameado, com acesso através dum portão principal. A fachada principal desdobrava-se no pátio com duas galerias sobrepostas. O mesmo Utens representa algumas das distracções que se conduziam na villa: batidas de caça e jogos com a bola.

O jardim era constituído por uma parte murada com canteiros geométricos, um prado e um "pomar" com árvores de fruto, tudo circundado por um amplo campo cultivado.

Fernando I de Médici concedeu-a ao emblemático Dom António de Médici, o filho de Francisco I desconhecido da família por ser fruto da controversa relação que este manteve com Bianca Cappello. Camilla Martelli também viveu aqui por um período depois da morte de Cosme I. A villa passou em seguida para Giovanni Antonio Orsini, para regressar mais tarde aos bens da Casa Médici em 1640, quando foi concedida a Dom Matias, irmão do Grão-duque Fernando II. Esta personalidade era governador em Siena, pelo que usou a villa só ocasionalmente, e à sua morte passou ao irmão do novo Grão-duque Cosme III, o Cardeal Francisco Maria de Médici.

O Cardeal Francisco Maria

O Cardeal, ao contrário do predecessor, prendeu o coração a Lappeggi e iniciou um processo de reestruturação completo. Chamou o arquitecto da Corte Antonio Maria Ferri, na intenção declarada de copiar a magnificência da Villa Medicea di Pratolino. O Cardeal escolheu o projecto mais ambicioso de Ferri, mas despendeu menos de metade do valor pedido para os trabalhos (trenta mil ducados em vez de oitenta mil), justificando que para ele era suficiente que a durasse até ao fim dos seus dias (já era sexagenário).

O jardim e o parque foram, assim, organizados cenograficamente em vários níveis, com caminhos delimitados por sebes de loureiro, plantas de citrinos, fontes, esculturas e ninfeus. A villa seria reorganizada com uma divisão em quadro pavilhões, chamados, de acordo com as cores da draparia que os revestem, de "Apartamento Amarelo"; "Turquesa"; "Encarnado" e "Verde".

O interior foi decorado pelos principais artistas do período rococó florentino: Alessandro Gherardini, Pier Dandini e o decorador Rinaldo Botti.

A villa era a sede da Corte do Cardeal, sede de banquetes, festas e divertimentos frequentemente excessivos, que bem se enquadravam num clima de decadência como o setecentista, com o Cardeal habituado a entretenimentos pouco consonantes com a púrpura cardinalícia. Este estilo de vida foi transmitido pelo poeta Giovan Battista Fagiuoli.

Com o passar do tempo, a villa foi enriquecida, também, por um teatro, um pavilhão como Kaffeehaus e uma sala de jogo para o jeu de paume (conhecido na Itália como pallacorda). Entre os hóspedes ilustres recorda-se, em 1709, o Rei Frederico IV da Dinamarca, protagonista na cidade de um episódio embaraçoso com uma monja de clausura.

A vida despreocupada da Corte de Lappeggi foi interrompida pela morte do Cardeal, em 1710, pouco tempo depois da sua renúncia à púrpura cardinalícia e do seu infeliz matrimónio com Eleonora Gonzaga, com o qual tentou dar um herdeiro à Casa Médici, ameaçada de extinção, o que aconteceria inexoravelmente cerca de trinta anos depois.

A descrever o aspecto da villa neste período áureo reastam algumas descrições e vistas, entre as quais uma famosa gravura do gravador Giuseppe Zocchi.

Outros proprietários
A Villa de Lappeggi regressou às mãos do Grão-duque Cosme III, que em 1713 perde o filho destinado a suceder-lhe, Fernando, e decise oferecê-la à viúva, Violante Beatriz de Baviera. Enquanto a Casa se preparava para a extinção (o único filho varão que restava a Cosme III era João Gastão de Médici, manifestatamente homossexual), Violante reuniu na villa por um breve período eruditos, enquanto coleccionava uma série de retratos, um suave "canto do cisne" duma época que se estava a afundar para sempre.

Com a chegada dos Lorena a Florença, as villas suburbanas foram descuradas e em parte alienadas. Esta má sorte tocou, também, a Lappeggi, que em 1816 foi vendida à família Capacci. Com a demolição do último andar e a transformação do jardim em campo, fizeram-se profundas transformações que alteraram para sempre a grandeza da propriedade. A partir de então, permaneceu sempre em mãos privadas (recorda-se, também, o célebre escultor Giovanni Dupré que ali habitou a partir de 1875) até à actualidade, pelo que não está aberta ao público. Hoje em dia, do peíodo do seu máximo esplendor resta apenas a escada que se abre frente à villa e a gruta subjacente com decoração de conchas.

Bibliografia
Isabella Lapi Bini, Le ville medicee. Guida Completa, Giunti, Florença, 2003.
Daniela Mignani, Le Ville Medicee di Giusto Utens, Arnaud, 1993.

Ligações externas
A Villa di Lappeggi
As villas de Bagno a Ripoli

Lappeggi
Lappeggi

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Published Apr 30, 2017 5:49 pm Last updated Apr 30, 2017 11:01 pm
Moving into the second floor of Teter Quad Wissler, the Luis Dávila Latinx Thematic Community will open its doors next fall to students interested in Latin American history and culture.
The floor is open to Latinx and non-Latinx students and is a community and support network for all residents, said Lillian Casillas, director of La Casa Latino Cultural Center. The floor also helps connect the residents to other Latino resources on campus.
"The more spaces they occupy, the more they feel like they belong here," Casillas said.
Casillas said many prospective IU Latinx families do not see a lot of diversity while walking around campus. The Latinx floor will be a testament to the resources and connections that the students will have on campus, Casillas said.
The floor is named after an IU Latin American and Latino literature professor, Dávila, who was involved with and advocated for the Latin American community on campus, according to an informational handout about the thematic community, which is simlar to a Learning Living Community, but there are no required classes. He was awarded the Distinguished Latino Faculty Award in 2008 by the Latino Alumni Association for his 30 years of achievements at the University.
Floor proposals take about 18 months to go through approval, said Denise Gowin, RPS associate director of residential life. Once a proposal is submitted, it goes through the Academic Programs Committee and Campus Housing Advisory Committee before going into the RPS system for marketing and publicity.
Though this seems like a long time, Casillas said it is appropriate for all the research and planning that goes into creating a floor. After Casilas asked a graduate student to write up the proposal they both led focus groups and researched similar communities at other universities, Casillas said.
The floor offers students a community and highlights the University's commitment to diversity, Casillas said.
"As the country diversifies themselves, I want to help create those spaces for everyone," she said.
The floor has direct connections with La Casa, Latino studies, Latino Faculty and Staff Council, Latino Alumni Association, and various other student organizations, Casillas said. This will provide the floor residents the opportunity to become some of the most informed students on campus about Latino resources.
Gowin stressed how a living-learning center or thematic community can bring students together and make them feel at home.
"As you make your transition to college, those kinds of communities really help you with that experience," Gowin said. "It gives you a support network. In a lot of instances it gives you academic connections you wouldn't have otherwise. It provides you with opportunities that would be unique and distinct."
Casillas said this floor is only a fraction of Latinx students, but she hopes the resources they have on campus will open them up to a more connected college experience.
"You feel like you have place where you can be at home where people understand your identity or want to learn more about it and share that with others," Gowin said.


Turns Mario into Wing Mario, letting him fly for a limited time.
The Wing Cap is an item found in Super Mario 64. It is Mario's signature power-up in Super Mario 64, being shown on the game's box art and a majority of its merchandise. When wearing a Wing Cap, Mario becomes Wing Mario and gains the ability to fly and slow his falls (by holding ), like with the Super Leaf and Cape Feather from previous games. Mario can begin flying by performing a Triple Jump (which can be done in place in that form) or by getting shot from a cannon. The item can only be obtained from a red ! Block, which will become solid upon hitting the red ! Switch in the Tower of the Wing Cap course. The wings last for 60 seconds, before wearing off.
The "Wings" item from Super Mario 64 DS.
While Wing Mario returns in Super Mario 64 DS, the Wing Cap does not, as it is replaced by a feather (referred to as Wings) that only Mario can use, which can drop from red ? Blocks. The form does not slow down descent as effectively in this version, as Mario can now take fall damage even when slowly descending. It is not possible for Yoshi, Wario, or Luigi to acquire wings in the single player mode of the game. However, the feathers are located in two of the game's multiplayer stages: Sunshine Isles and Battle Fort. They add wings to their cap regardless of who picks them up. In the case of Yoshi, he grows wings on his back.
There is also a red ! Block (? Block in the remake) on the roof of Princess Peach's Castle. When all 120 (N64) / 150 (DS) Power Stars are collected, the cannon on the castle grounds is unlocked, allowing players to easily access the roof.
The Wing Cap theme also plays when Mario rides on a Green Shell or becomes Vanish Mario. Also, in the Nintendo DS remake, a slower-paced version plays when Hoot is carrying Mario, and when Mario turns into Balloon Mario after obtaining a Power Flower.
This theme is a cover of the music heard when Baby Mario transforms into Superstar Mario, as well as the music heard in certain bonus rooms in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, which in turn is a cover of the music that plays when Mario acquires a Super Star in the original Super Mario Bros., but with an added melody. The theme was reused in New Super Mario Bros. as the invincibility theme, and was later remixed for Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the equivalent Rainbow Star power-up.
In the Wii U version of Rayman Legends, there is an exclusive Mario costume for Rayman. If Rayman flutters while wearing this outfit, wings appear on his cap, referencing the Wing Cap.
In both versions of Nintendo Monopoly, there is a Coin Block/Brick Block card that reads "Purchase a Wing Cap - Pay $50".
In a preview for Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, the gliding power-up was described as a winged cap rather than the Carrot, and the screenshot was blacked out. It is possible that the design was decided later in development, and it might have resembled the Wing Cap.
↑ Super Mario 64 DS instruction booklet, page 18.
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December 14, 2017 by Andrew Simpson
What is the most hyped InsurTech concept?
At the 2017 InsureTech Connect Conference, the favorite answer seemed to be blockchain, although Munich Re Digital Partners CEO Andy Rear was hesitant to join the crowd. "I'm tempted to say blockchain but then you might ask me what blockchain is and then I'm not going to have any idea," he said.
Matthew Churchill, head of Futures at Hiscox, added that if tech guru Rear can't understand blockchain, then it doesn't make sense.
"I wouldn't sign with my blood that it's not going to change things," said Carbonnier of Euler Hermes Digital Agency.
Conference co-founder Caribou Honig contended that there is not yet any case of blockchain really improving either the functionality or the structure of insurance. "I think we are going to have to see in the next 12 months whether it actually happens and is used and [whether] practical use cases start to happen or not," he said.
Louis Carbonnier, global head of Euler Hermes Digital Agency, questioned the impact of blockchain in the short term but at least he acknowledged blockchain might have impact down the road. "I wouldn't sign with my blood that it's not going to change things," he said.
Eric Boyum, a managing director of Aon Risk Solutions, was more generous, which makes sense given Aon is one of the members of the Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative B3. "We don't know what it's going to manifest into, but it's real," he said. While some may see it as a "long term industry infrastructure type of a play," Boyum contends that's not the complete story. He believes there will be solutions that may not be blockchain per se but that are distributed ledger technologies, or "DLT-inspired."
To be fair, blockchain has shown progress. A blockchain consortia now has several dozen insurance industry members who are developing a reinsurance product. Microsoft and ship operator Maersk are building a blockchain-based marine insurance platform. AIG and Standard Chartered Bank have piloted a multinational insurance policy using blockchain.
For conference co-founder Honig, the status of blockchain begs the classic early bird question: "Do you need to be a first mover regarding blockchain in order to get its benefits or is it OK to actually have a fast-follower strategy?" Honig leans toward being a fast follower when it comes to blockchain. "The early bird gets the worm but they never point out that the bird that slept in until 10 a.m. that morning is doing fine."
Honig said the next 12 months will determine if blockchain can be put to practical application or if it's just too difficult.
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Rear, the InsurTech pioneer and Munich Re Digital Partners CEO, chose peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance as the winner of the "most hyped technology" award, referring to it as "a misunderstanding of both peer-to-peer and insurance." He said that P2P lending platforms make some sense in theory at least because there is someone who needs money and someone who has money to lend on opposite sides of the table. "But with peer-to-peer insurance, we're both on the same side of the table. We both have cars that we want to get insured." And "I really don't care if I'm sharing my insurance with my friend, and I certainly don't want my insurance [company] to give money away to some charity that I know nothing about.
"I just want insurance at a good price, which covers me and gives me a good user experience. The rest of it seems hype to me."
The best-known InsurTech that adopted the P2P model, Lemonade, learned early into its operations that P2P was not perfect and it stopped making that pitch. Lemonade's co-founder Shai Wininger candidly wrote on the company's own blog back in January, reflecting on its first quarter of operations (Q4 2016): "If I had to choose one thing that didn't work as we had hoped, it's our use of P2P to describe what Lemonade is. We looked for a term that would encapsulate our ideas around affinity groups, giveback and the fact that we don't treat customers' premiums as 'our money.'
"In retrospect, it created a lot of confusion. People seem to read so many different things into this term, so we now describe ourselves using phrases like AI and Behavioral Economics. Call it what you may (and we get it, P2P wasn't a winner) but in a nutshell, Lemonade is a tech company doing insurance, and not an old insurance company with an app."
Live and learn; turn lemons into lemonade.
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Honig noted that artificial intelligence gets hyped a lot but believes that it actually lives up to its hype. AI is where there has been a legitimate breakthrough in last two or three years, he said.
"A lot of the menial work of white collar workers in the back office is work that a seven-year old can do," according to InsureTech Connect Conference Co-Founder Honig. AI has already matured to a seven-year old's capabilities, he said.
"Computers a few years ago could do what a two-year old could do, which isn't actually a lot. But now with the breakthroughs of AI and machine learning and the like, computers can do what a six or seven-year old can do. And that's actually a really big deal."
They can listen to the spoken word and understand it. They can read and sometimes write simple sentences. They can look at pictures and video and tell what they see. They can make simple interpretations. And that's a big deal because a lot of the menial work of white collar workers in the back office is work that a seven-year old can do, he said.
Often, back office workers find themselves in the position of having to do both menial tasks and much more sophisticated work. If a machine can do the menial work, then that can have a big impact on the nature of back office white collar environment, he asserted.
So is this year when AI makes a difference in how the back office operates? And what about AI in underwriting?
Honig thinks human underwriting is at least "pretty good." So, AI and machine learning might bring incremental, but not major, improvement in underwriting.
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Patti Hall became the Zoo Director in 1997. While striving to put the zoo on its successful path as a professionally-run, accredited zoological facility, it was thrust into the limelight in 2004. It became the first US zoo to evacuate its animals during a natural disaster when Hurricane Ivan struck the Alabama Gulf Coast. Patti and her staff's daring rescue mission garnered worldwide attention, but the zoo itself was destroyed by the storm.
Attempting a comeback, the zoo's story was turned into a hit documentary TV series called The Little Zoo That Could that aired on Animal Planet in 2006-2007. The resulting success from the series ultimately contributed to the zoo's new path today - the construction of The Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo 2.0.
As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo relies solely on admissions, memberships and contributions to remain in business. The local community and businesses have been generous in donating money, building supplies and services in years past. Substantial on-going fundraising through sponsorships, grants, and endowments from major corporations did not exist before 1998. These additional sources of revenue are actively pursued along with other philanthropic sources to ensure the zoo's longevity.
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The death of a Texas teenaged girl nearly seven years ago has led lawmakers there to introduce legislation requiring the use of an engine cut-off switch on any engine equipped with one.
'Kali's Law' is named for the 16-year-old daughter of James and Donna Gorzell, who died on a fishing trip with friends when their boat went out of control and Kali was thrown overboard and caught in the propeller.
The Gorzells, along with family and friends, testified before the legislature and pushed for the safety changes as they have been since Kali's death.
"The driver that day, our friend Robert, believes that if he had used his kill switch that day, it would have stopped the engine before it struck Kali, and she'd probably still be here," James Gorzell told WOAI-TV.
A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department official also testified, and gave an alarming estimate: Of the 29 fatal boating accidents reported in Texas last year, the agency believes 26 might have been prevented if a kill switch had been used. That would have reduced the total number of boating deaths to just three, according to the station.
At the end of last year, the US Congress and Coast Guard implemented a law requiring an engine kill switch be used on all boats under 26ft.
The most common kill switches link the driver and kill switch by a lanyard. If the driver loses control of the boat, or falls away from the console, the kill switch is engaged.
In recent years a host of wireless engine kill switch and man overboard devices have been introduced.
"We can't bring Kali back but our hope is no one else has to go through what we've gone through," James Gorzell added.


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Once again, La Manzanilla has survived another sample of Mother Nature's wrath.
Almost three years to the day that Hurricane Patricia devastated our town, Willa's tail passed through, dousing the area with almost 20 inches of rain from Monday to Wednesday. Even the newly deeper excavated river could not handle the rush of water down the mountain. Streets were soon flooded, and the bridge roadway by the crocodile lagoon is once again in the ocean. After two years of drought, the rainfall, although messy, was a blessing. Our water table had been dangerously low and shortages were felt last year. Thankfully there was very little damage to homes and businesses from this storm.
Perhaps the town was shown mercy this time around because of its dual statues of The Holy Mother. The first statue, sculpted by local master Pino, was sunk into the bay last August to protect the lives of the men who fish those waters. This year, the members of the parish raised the money to commission a second, identical statue from Pino to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the town's church. This sculpture, blessed by the Bishop, stands in the church's courtyard, where she will remain for all to admire.
Much has changed in La Manzanilla over the summer. Several businesses have changed locations, new ones have opened and favourites are renovating. I think I may need a map to find my way around when I first get back.
Let me tell you about them so that when you come to visit you will feel right at home. The Happy Cow Butcher Shop has moved to a downtown location, Calle Tenacatita 55. This larger site will mean the addition of more grocery items and fresh produce along with their delicious cuts of meat, poultry, sausage and cheeses.
Magnolia's Kitchen & Drinks opened at their new location, Playa Blanca 43, last Monday. Chef Alex explained that she will have a limited menu for a week or so to test the new kitchen and menu ideas. She plans to be in full operation, Monday to Thursday, with an exciting new menu and bar specialties beginning November 26. Reservations are always appreciated.
A new dining venue has opened its doors also on Playa Blanca 18. Proprietor Luara Lynch is no newcomer to La Manzanilla. She and her family members have been wintering here for ten years. Lynch says that La Manz has always been a magical place for her and she made the transition to full time resident last August. She spent the summer doing a major remodel, and presto, The Lab, Café y Bebidas will be serving year-round.
The Lab has a complete espresso menu and serves pour over coffee. It has a fully stocked bar with a strong focus on agave distillates with flights and samples available. Hours are Monday and Tuesday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Baked goods served in the morning and light appetizers grace the evening menu. Special on Fridays, The Buddah Dog
Café will be serving their vegetarian and vegan lunches. Lynch also mentioned that she is working hard to be a responsible member of the community by supporting Hermosa La Manzanilla. All cups used at The Lab are biodegradable and all coffee along with food waste is composted.
Next, the former Bambu Bar has new management, a new name and a new partnership. The Crocodile Bar, as it is now known and Café du Calcetin are in a joint venture to provide customers with great coffee, new menu items and buffet meals morning, noon and night.
Mi Casita has outgrown their site and will soon be serving their breakfasts and lunches just a few steps further up Playa Blanca at the more spacious corner patio of the former Café Arroz y Leche.
Last, but definitely not least, Pedro's by the Sea is now inland, at the entrance to La Manzanilla, just off Highway 200, still serving the best fish tacos and his famous margaritas.
Thrift Store Opening
Otra Vez is the new resale shop in La Manzanilla that will be opening on November 15. It is located right next door to The Helping Hands Bookstore on Playa Blanca. This is a nonprofit shop that will be manned by volunteers, and counting on donations of clothing, furniture, and estate items, etc. Hours will be Monday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All proceeds from sales will be channeled back into the community. Any donations before November 15 may be dropped off at the bookstore.
The Art Gallery has undergone some expansion this summer to enrich your visits. Opening on November 1, proprietor Aby Ramos invites you to view the latest additions of artwork, handcrafted jewelry and pottery. Stay awhile and relax in the recently completed Café in the courtyard. La Galeria de Arte is located at C.Perlua 83. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
December 5: Author Chat with Roberta Rich-sponsored by Helping Hands Bookstore.
December 7: Meet the Artist Reception featuring the works of Louise Leneveu,-Galeria de Arte.
December 14-12: Annual Holiday Fundraiser sponsored by Magnolia's Kitchen & Drink.
January 21: Bocci Ball Dinner Dance, sponsored by Figaro's Restaurant.
More information on these and other events will be published in the next few editions of La Manzanilla Memo as it becomes available. Stay tuned, I promise you won't be bored when you come to visit!
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Kathy Collins
By Kathy L. Collins
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Black History Month, the Bruton Memorial Library, located at 302 McLendon St. in downtown historic Plant City, is partnering with the Plant City Bing Rooming House Museum, located at 205 Allen St. in Plant City, for its January art exhibit. The exhibit will feature a collection of artifacts and memorabilia from the Bing Rooming House Museum.
According to William Thomas, Jr., volunteer president of the Improvement League of Plant City, "The exhibit consists of a photo gallery of events and individuals as well as artifacts from the Bing House Museum from a time when it operated as a hotel from 1922 through 1965."
Specifically, there will be photographs of E.L. Bing, Jr., a former principal and the first black to serve as assistant superintendent of Hillsborough County Schools. He also served as a county commissioner in the 1980s. Bing was the planner and developer of the desegregation plan for Hillsborough County. His parents built and operated the Bing Rooming House.
There will also be photographs from the Negro League Baseball which had roots in Plant City. Photographs will show surviving player, Terry Thomas, Sr., and photos from a baseball event known as Easter Monday which was played at Marie B. Ellis Park.
Photographs from Marshall High School will show the band marching in the Florida Strawberry Festival, Homecoming and more. In addition, there will be photographs from Midway Academy, which operated on the site of Lincoln IB Elementary School.
In addition to photographs, there will be an assortment of artifacts such as the original deed and tax documents on the Bing Rooming House.
Plant City has a wonderful legacy and has traditionally celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a festival. This year, it will be held from Friday, January 8 through Sunday, January 17. Thomas said, "As we begin the year 2016, the month of January presents an opportunity for the citizens of Plant City to showcase their diversity."
For more information, visit www.plantcitygov.com/library, www.plantcitybinghouse.com and www.plantcitymlkfestival.com.
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Gov. Matt Bevin's office began placing painted rocks around Kentucky Thursday to raise awareness for the state's opioid epidemic and the Don't Let Them Die campaign.Painted rock searches have recently become a popular trend across the country. Artists decorate rocks and hide them in public places for others to find. When the rocks are discovered, explorers can then photograph themselves with their findings and post it to their social media accounts. Finders are then encouraged to hide the rocks for others to discover.The decorative rocks will include positive messages of encouragement and a link to DontLetThemDie.com, which provides information about opioids, treatment and the overdose antidote naloxone."Though this promotion is intended to be encouraging and fun, it seeks to raise awareness across the Commonwealth about a tragically serious epidemic," Director of Communications Amanda Stamper said. "Last year, 1,404 Kentuckians died as a result of an opioid overdose. Gov. Bevin is committed to providing the policies and resources necessary to ensure we eradicate this scourge." The campaign will be promoted on the Governor's social media pages, including his new Instagram account. The first set of rocks will be hidden in the Frankfort and Louisville areas, but over the next two weeks, the campaign aims to have rocks hidden in all 120 Kentucky counties.The Don't Let Them Die campaign urges Kentuckians to take proactive steps to support friends, family and communities as they overcome addiction.Kentuckians are encouraged to paint and hide their own rocks with the URL DontLetThemDie.com and share on social media using the hashtag #DLTD.
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Kilkenny was a small hamlet south west of Ditcheat village consisting of two farms and two cottages.
Wraxall to the west on the cross roads was the Queen's Arms public house, Licensee Lot Golledge - my grandfather, adjoining it a carpenter's workshop, a cycle repair shop Cyril England's and a grocery shop. There were also seven cottages, three farms and another public house, The New Inn was a tiny house nearby the entrance to Hill Farm. I believe only cider was served there and the barrels were kept in the back kitchen. Customers were served in the living room at the same table as Bill and his wife had their meals. Mrs Webb was a hard working woman doing washing, ironing and mending for local farmers. On Friday's the butcher would deliver meat offal, Mrs Webb would clean the pigs entrails with a long stick in water to use as skins for sausages, then make the sausage meat and string it up. She also made faggots and cooked them in the boiler which earlier in the week had boiled the washing, she had no trouble in selling them, and they were all gone by Saturday night.
Next were two farms down a track named Lower Wraxall, travelling east into Ditcheat on the left hand side the hillside was covered with English Larch trees. There was also a part demolished brick building, it was two stories and all that was left of a hunting lodge and game keepers dwelling. Bricks were taken from here in 1900 across the fields to build two farm cottages at Ditcheat Hill Farm. I was born in one of these cottages, and Mr Tom White lived in the other, he had helped haul the bricks when he was a lad.
You can view the map in detail from Maps and Field Names page on this site which will link to an excellent mapping resource at The National Library of Scotland. The OS 1931 edition map shows Upper Wraxall Farm, which we know today as Hill Farm. The New Inn is annotated by the legend B.H. = Beer House.


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Q: EC2 instance loads my user-data script but doesn't run it Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import boto.ec2

conn_ec2 = boto.ec2.connect_to_region('us-east-1') # access keys are environment vars

my_code = """#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

sys.stdout = open('file', 'w')
print 'test'
"""
reservation = conn_ec2.run_instances(image_id = 'ami-a73264ce',
                                     key_name = 'backendkey',
                                     instance_type = 't1.micro',
                                     security_groups = ['backend'],
                                     instance_initiated_shutdown_behavior = 'terminate',
                                     user_data = my_code)

The instance is initiated with the proper settings (it's the public Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit, image) and I can SSH into it normally. The user-data script seems to be loaded correctly: I can see it in /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt (and also in /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001) and on the EC2 console.
But that's it, the script doesn't seem to be executed. Following this answer I checked the /var/log/cloud-init.log file but it doesn't seem to contain any error messages related to my script (well, maybe I'm missing something - here is a gist with the contents of cloud-init.log).
What am I missing?

A: This is probably not relevant anymore, but yet.
I've just used boto with ubuntu and user data, although the documenation says that the user data has to be base64 encoded, it only worked for me if I pass the 64 bit paramter as regular string.
I read the content of user data from file (using fh.read()) and then just pass this as the user_data paramter to run_instances.

A: I think it's not working for you because user data can't use any shebang like you used "#!/usr/bin/env python"
On the help page http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html there are two examples one is the standard "#!/bin/bash", and another one looks artificial "#cloud-config". Probably it's only 2 available shebangs. The bash one works for me.

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