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Q: Laplace transform of a random vector explained I have the following definition:

Laplace transform of a random vector $X$ is the map $z \rightarrow
 E\exp(z^T X)$

I don't understand what is $z$ here. I guess it is some vector. However why does the LT map $z$ into something, rather than $X$ into something? Why isn't the definition like this : $X \rightarrow E\exp(z^T X)$ for some vector $z$? I guess I'm missing something here, maybe a concrete example would help

A: As you have written, $X$ is a random variable. This means that $X$ takes values distributed according to a certain probability law. A random variable cannot be used as an independent variable as you have proposed, because it takes unpredictable values.
Let us take an example with a vector of dimension 1. So $X$ is a one-dimensional random vector, it is a random number and let's say it can take the value $1$ with probability $1/2$ and the value $0$ with probability $1/2$. Let us compute the map $z\mapsto \mathbb{E}[\exp(zX)]$. For any complex number $z$, we have
$$ \mathbb{E}[\exp(zX)]=\frac12\exp\left(z\times1\right)+\frac12\exp\left(z\times0\right)=\frac{\mathrm e^{z}+1}2.$$
The Laplace transform of $X$ is the function $\phi:z\mapsto\frac{\mathrm e^{z}+1}2$.
Generally speaking, the Laplace transform of a random variable is a function that contains all possible informations concerning $X$. One always has $\phi(0)=1$. One can extract from it the mean value of $X$ as $$\overline{X}=\phi'(0)=\frac12$$
and many other properties. It is handier than manipulating probabilities and also more efficient.

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The number of housing of Jort was estimated at 133 in 2007. These accommodation of Jort consist of 114 main homes, 11 secondary residences and 8 vacant accommodation.
Area of Jort is 6,58 km² for a population density of 43,92 habs/km² and for a housing density of 20,21 housing/km².
Here are below a set of graphic, curves and statistics of the housing of the town of Jort.
Must see: the population data of Jort, the road map of Jort, the photos of Jort, the map of Jort.
The number of housing of Jort was 133 in 2007, 136 in 1999, 143 in 1990, 145 in 1982, 136 in 1975 and 135 in 1968.
In 2007 the accommodations of Jort consisted of 114 main homes, 11 second homes and 8 vacant accommodations.
The following graphs show the history of the number and the type of housing of Jort from 1968 to 2007. The second graph is drawn in cubic interpolation. This allows to obtain more exactly the number of accommodation of the town of Jort years where no inventory was made.
The population of Jort was 289 inhabitants in 2007, 306 inhabitants in 1999, 317 inhabitants in 1990, 354 inhabitants in 1982, 351 inhabitants in 1975 and 367 inhabitants in 1968. Meanwhile, the number of housing of Jort was 133 in 2007, 136 in 1999, 143 in 1990, 145 in 1982, 136 in 1975 and 135 in 1968.
The number of inhabitants of Jort per housing was 2,17 in 2007.
The accommodation of Jort in 2007 consisted of 132 houses and 1 flats.
Here are below the graphs presenting the statistics of housing of Jort.
In 2007, 93 main homes of Jort were occupied by owners. Meanwhile, 114 households lived in the town of Jort. The following graphs present the statistics of these households of Jort.


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I've been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised "3 Tier" system that is due to come into force in England on Wednesday 2nd December. I'm approaching this as objectively as I can, not in a "looking for loopholes" manner. If you're a UK lawyer I would really like to hear your opinion!
Some premises
For the sake of clarity, my thoughts below are based on the following premises:
That any new Act or Statutory Instrument for the proposed new Tier system and restrictions due to be brought in on December 2nd does not contradict or otherwise change the official guidance for the proposed Tier system or other government guidance (as it stands on Thursday 26 November 2020),
That I am referring to the 3 Tier system being proposed for England, not any similar system for Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, or anywhere outside the UK,
That the arguments below refer to my circumstances, specifically that I am registered with HMRC as being self-employed as an artist (as a secondary income, in addition to my PAYE day job), and therefore I am operating as a business, not pursuing a hobby (which might be classed as a social or recreational activity),
That, for any life-drawing session, I am paying the life-model (£20 per hour, typically for a 3 hour session, just FYI), and therefore it's definitely a business transaction and not a social gathering,
That the studio space where the life-drawing will take place is also part of my home residence,
That there will be a minimum distance between me and the life-model of 2 metres at any time,
That neither the life-model nor I have tested positive for Covid-19, and that neither of us have symptoms of Covid-19, are self-isolating, are awaiting Covid-19 test results, or are aware that we have recently been in contact with someone who is either displaying symptoms or has tested positive,
That both the life-model and I are living under the same Tier level and national legislation,
That the work taking place involves one individual artist (me) drawing one individual model, with no other person present, not a life-drawing class with multiple artists (or indeed multiple life-models) at any one time,
That I am neither delusional nor a 13th Century Baron, so Magna Carta does not apply in any way whatsoever.
I am not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice. I'm an artist with absolutely no legal training (as shall doubtless become apparent) trying to make sense of the UK government guidance for England for my own practice as a self-employed artist working with self-employed life-models.
The 3 Tier System in England
It's worth noting that the vast majority of clauses in England's 3 Tier system apply to social rather than business situations (and as mentioned above, the paid employment of a life-model on a freelance basis by a self-employed artist is definitely a work/business transaction, not a social one). So all the various rules on how many people you can socialise with, support bubbles, the "rule of six", household mixing, etc do not apply because they are all specifically about social interaction.
Nor is being an artist or a life-model part of the hospitality industry, so those regulations in the 3 Tier system related to pubs, restaurants, and hotels also do not apply (regardless of whether or not I were to offer the life-model a "substantial meal" as part of their 3 hours of modelling!)
So what's left? Not much really. Stripping about the regulations about social activities, the hospitality industry, sports, places of worship, and anything that doesn't possibly relate to life-drawing as work (rather than hobby/recreation) — or anything comparable — leaves us with this:
Tier 1 and Tier 2: Businesses and venues can remain open, in a COVID secure manner, other than those which remain closed by law, such as nightclubs.
Tier 3: The above line does not appear in the guidelines, but it does list a number of businesses that must close.
From this I presume that, so long as I am in an area covered by Tier 1 or Tier 2 (and Brighton & Hove was announced today as a Tier 2 area when we leave national lockdown on 2nd December 2020) then I can remain open as a business so long as I do so "in a COVID secure manner."
If Brighton & Hove was raised to a Tier 3 area then I think that would still apply - the Tier 3 restrictions list a number of other types of business that must close under Tier 3 (indoor attractions, indoor entertainment and tourist venues, hotels, etc), but — unsurprisingly — it does not specifically include specific guidance on an artist's studio being used for life-drawing, nor is there any comparable type of business noted in the list of businesses that must close. Additionally there is no restriction on the opening of non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers, etc (so long as they open in a COVID secure manner) under any of the tiers, so there seems to be no legal distinction between "essential" and "non-essential" businesses in the current/proposed legislation.
So my best interpretation is that England's 3 Tier system only states (for the purposes of life-drawing based on the premises at the top of this post) that I can remain open and do life-drawing so long as I do so "in a COVID secure manner" regardless of what Tier Brighton & Hove is in or moves to at a future date.
The only other relevant regulation from England's 3 Tier system is that, if Brighton & Hove were to move up to Tier 3 at some future date, then a life-model living in a neighbouring area that was under Tier 2 should not travel to a Tier 3 area to work as a life-model (but I've already accounted for in point 8 of my list of premises at the top of this post).
Working in a COVID secure manner as an artist (or life-model)
The government guidelines on working in a COVID secure manner are listed by the type of industry/workplace. Classifying my studio as an office environment seems to be the closest possible analogy, so let's go through Guidance for people who work in or run offices, contact centres and similar indoor environments.
The government guidance on completing a COVID-19 risk assessment is fairly short and the linked What to include in your COVID-19 risk assessment (PDF) has sections that apply to workers, customers, contractors, drivers, and visitors. A self-employed life-model is officially a contractor. Going through the list it would seem that the relevant requirements could be covered by:
Providing water, soap and drying facilities
Providing information on how to wash hands properly on a poster (either in bathroom or studio)
Providing hand sanitizer in the studio
Following government guidance on social distancing (2 metres)
Thoroughly cleaning all surfaces before and after the life-model's visit
There is one area that requires some further thought, though:
Leave non-fire doors open to reduce the amount of contact with doors and also potentially improve workplace ventilation
It's life-drawing, and the life-model is nude. Why is this important for the legal arguments? Well, for two reasons:
In the case of the first point regarding ventilation I should also add that it's currently autumn/winter and the average daytime temperature here in Brighton & Hove is 7-10°C. Throwing open all the windows would make it a very chilly workplace, especially for a nude life-model.
From what I can discover there's no law for minimum or maximum temperatures for work environments, but the government guidance on Workplace Temperatures states:
Employers must stick to health and safety at work law, including:
keeping the temperature at a comfortable level
providing clean and fresh air
Employees should talk to their employer if the workplace temperature isn't comfortable.
I think it's reasonable to suggest that a 7-10°C breeze blowing in through the window onto a nude life-model would contravene this (non-Covid-related) health and safety at work legislation even if the radiators were blasting out heat, so the windows must remain closed and the studio space should be heated to a comfortable level for the life-model.
In the case of privacy, a nude life-model has an expectation of privacy, so which doors are left open needs to be balanced with expectation of privacy. I don't see that as a problem - it just needs the application of common sense as to which doors can be left open.
I also want to cover the issue of masks (face coverings as opposed to medical PPE). The government guidelines on face coverings at work basically leave it up to employer and employee unless you're in a specific industry dealing with the public (which does not apply here). The relevant line (once you exclude all non-relevant enforcements and exclusions) seems to be:
…employers should assess the use of face coverings on a case by case basis depending on the workplace environment, other appropriate mitigations they have put in place, and whether reasonable exemptions apply.
I would encourage a life-model to wear a mask while entering and leaving the premises. I'd also be happy if an individual life-model wanted to wear their mask during the time I was drawing as well - basically it's up to the life-model.
The Ethical Stuff
Well, that's the legal perspective (as far as I can tell, and to repeat: I am not a lawyer, so none of the above should be taken as legal advice). But what about the ethical perspective?
If I had been in charge I'd have introduced Universal Basic Income and rent controls (and a whole load of other changes, but this is not a manifesto), and so made sure that everyone had enough money for accommodation and food and other requirements, but that's not the reality we need to deal with.
I've written in my art updates for Rituals & Declarations about the problems that life-models are facing. Some are professional self-employed life-models whose incomes have been completely lost due to lockdown, others often used life-modelling as a secondary income to shiftwork in pubs and restaurants, which has also been adversely affected by lockdown. Quite a few in this latter group that I have spoken to have lost their shiftwork jobs completely - laid off during the first 2020 lockdown.
And while pubs and restaurants can re-open under certain conditions in Tiers 1 and 2, many never survived the financial losses from the first lockdown and have closed forever. The big pub companies have made several thousand people redundant between them since March due to the pandemic and they're not ruling out further redundancies.
Why mention all this? Because many life-models were in a financially precarious situation in "normal" times, and the pandemic has made things far worse for them. Trying to find a safe and legal way to allow them to earn the money they need to eat and pay rent seems to me to be a good idea.
I'm not a supporter of keeping the economy going at any cost, not least because when the current government talks about supporting the economy they usually mean keeping the income flowing to the already-rich. But balancing the legal aspects, the safety of the artist and life-model (and anyone they might come into contact with following this work), and the human need for accommodation, food, etc would seem to be a difficult but necessary thing to do.
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The Garden of Eve by, K.L. Going ~~Review
The Garden of Eve by, K.L. Going
What a beautiful unsung hero in the YA genre it has everything a ghost story, coming of age, dealing with grief and some fairytale/fantasy/magical realism elements thrown in.
11 year-old Evie doesn't believe in magic anymore not since her mother died. After all if magic were real her mother would still be alive. But when Evie moves to Beaumont, NY where her father has bought a withered apple orchard that the townspeople whisper is cursed, she learns about a lost girl, receives a mysterious seed, and meets a boy who claims to be dead. Before long Evie finds herself in the middle of a fairy tale. And this one is real.
I really enjoyed this book it's beautifully written and is a very believable work of magical realism. I pretty much read this book straight through and can see why it won the Michael Printz Honor. This book is beautiful and haunting and I would say a must read!
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Midnight Fires:A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft by,Nancy Means Wright
Release Date 4/10/2010
Description from Publishers Weekly
At the start of this captivating historical set in 1786, Mary Wollstonecraft is on her way to Ireland to become a governess, "that most humiliating of occupations." At Mitchelstown Castle in County Cork, headstrong Mary, the future mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and future women's rights advocate, is determined to pen a novel and remain above the fray of castle politics while schooling Lord and Lady Kingsborough's daughters. Three suspicious deaths, however, compel Mary to seek justice for a poor young sailor, the family's troubled former governess, and even an aristocrat. It appears everyone from poet George Ogle, Lady K's new flirt, to a land tenant or two has a motive in one or more of these tangled deaths. As Mary snoops around in search of the culprit, she is bound not to lose herself to the mystery, her job, or the charms of any man. Wright (Mad Season and four other Ruth Wilmarth mysteries) deftly illuminates 18th-century class tensions.
What a great cast of characters!
Mary is very interesting I really enjoyed her take on life
From page 168-
"Men, men, men, men," she muttered aloud." Would that I could be in a society made up of women."
But How worrisome, her heart spoke back, how dull to live without them.
In this aristocratic society Mary saw people for what they were. Her ideas about women in society were far ahead of her time. That young women be taught to Think.How dare she?
This was a great historical mystery. It kept me reading I just had to find out what secret Mary would find out next. I will definitely be watching for more mysteries with Mary Wollenstonecraft!
Recommended to fans of historical fiction, historical mysteries and gothic fiction.
I recieved this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers program
Teaser Tuesday~~The Girl Who Chased The Moon by, Sarah Addison Allen
I just started this book so didn't want to go too far into it for a Teaser.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by, Sarah Addison Allen-
Page 7-"You can choose any room you want,but your mother's room was the last one on the right.Tell me what the wallpaper looks like when you walk in.I'd like to know."
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns ~*Review*~
They say you should never judge a book by it's cover, and whoever "they" are, I guess they were right this time. When I first picked up Cold Sassy Tree, it looked like a moldy old classic, and that's what I thought the story would be like. However, this book surprised me and turned out to be very good.
The story starts out in the town of Cold Sassy, Georgia in 1906, where young Will Tweedy's grandmother has just died. Before she's even cold in the grave, his grandfather marries Miss Love Simpson, a woman at least 30 years younger than he is. All the residents of Cold Sassy, Will's family included, are scandalized and think Miss Love is out to get his grandfather's money. When he gets to know Miss Love, Will's opinion of her begins to change and he starts to accept her in his life after he realizes that his grandfather only married Miss Love so that he could have a housekeeper, and not to replace his grandmother. But as it usually goes, Will's grandfather and Miss Love do fall in love. After several mildly predictable twists at the end of the story, Will's learned some important life lessons and grown up some since the beginning of the book.
Once you get past the Southern jargon every time a character opens his or her mouth and the strange way Will's grandfather makes toast, Cold Sassy Tree was a very enjoyable story.
I give this book 3 1/2 stars.
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation begins with Eloise, an American girl who has traveled to England to complete her dissertation on a trio of English spies in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The spy that intrigues her the most is the Pink Carnation, an elusive and shifty fellow whose name is spattered throughout English newspapers, yet to this day hasn't been unmasked. Although she has searched through every archive and news article she can get her hands on, no clue to the Pink Carnation's identity is to be had. Fortunatly, she catches a break when Mrs. Arabella Selwick-Alderly, a descendant of the famed Purple Gentian, Lord Richard Selwick, responds to her desperate letter and agrees to let her read through some old family documents. Eloise quickly finds herself engrossed in the life of an enthusiastic young noblewoman and the dashing Purple Gentian on her search for the hidden identity of the Pink Carnation.
This book had me caught within its grasp in the first few pages. Willig creates vivid images in her readers' minds with her strong word choices. The personality of each character is portrayed in a way that is so believable it makes me want to reach out and slap them at times, and cheer for their victories at others. The novel is a mixture of adventure, mystery, romance, historical fiction, and just the right amount of humor that create a delightful read.
I gave The Secret History of the Pink Carnation 5 of 5 stars.
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Teaser Tuesday~~ Mornings in Jenin by, Susan Abulhawa
Mornings In Jenin by, Susan Abulhawa-this is the first line of this book and it sets the tone-
Amal wanted a closer look at the soldier's eyes, but the muzzle of his automatic rifle,pressed against her forehead would not allow it.
The Poacher's Son by, Paul Diordon~Review
Release date:May 11,2010
Recieved from B&N First Look Program
Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive—-his own father.
Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before—-and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty.
Now, alienated from the woman he loves, shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand Jack's brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, Mike strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. There they meet a beautiful woman who claims to be Jack's mistress but who seems to be guarding a more dangerous secret. The only way for Mike to save his father now is to find the real killer—-which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
The Poacher's Son is a sterling debut of literary suspense. Taut and engrossing, it represents the first in a series featuring Mike Bowditch.
I just finished this book and all I can say is WOW! Every quote on the cover of this book (Gripping, Compelling, Haunting, Original etc…) are spot on. Paul does an amazing job of drawing into this story with characters that are so compelling that you can't put this book down. This is a story of a father and son estranged for years till Mike's father is accused of murder and Mike sets out to prove his dad's innocence.
I don't want to say too much because I don't want to spoil this story for anyone it is a Must Read for fans of thrillers, mysteries and character driven novels.
I think Paul Dioron has an amazing career ahead of him.
I got this book through B & N First Look and am so glad I did I have found an author I will definitely be following.
Mornings In Jenin by,Susan Abulhawa~Review
Mornings In Jenin by, Susan Abulhawa
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family.
The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal's own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.
This was the first book I've read about the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. I've read quite a few books about the Middle East but they have mostly been about the taliban, so this was new territory for me.
This story is about a Palestinian family spanning from 1941-2002. It is told from different viewpoints from people in the Abulheja family. It is a heartbreaking and powerful story from when they are forced from
their home and put into refugee camps in Jenin life gets worse and worse. They are terrorized and brutalized. This was a hard story to read, so many children, dead, beaten, shot, and orphaned.
The only thing I knew about this "Conflict"/War is what I've seen on the news and I have known for awhile that the news isn't the whole story so it was good to see the other side of this story.
This book reads like non-fiction although its fiction it as made me curious enough to investigate further and read some of the books the author suggests at the end.
All in all a powerful very heartbreaking read I would recommend to anyone who likes the books written by Khaled Hosseini.
Teaser Tuesday~~The Lightning Thief by, Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief by, Rick Riordan Page 45- "The less you knew, the fewer monsters you'd attract," Grover said,like that should be perfectly obvious.
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Bran Hambric The Farfierld Curse By:Kaleb Nation
So before i start I'm just gonna say this book is definitely for people with wild imaginations. I loved it but you kinda have to be in to magic stuff to like this book.
Bran has no memory of his life before he was six. He showed up in a locked vault in the town of Dunce. There is this rule in Dunce that says if you find an orphan you have to keep the child and raise it. When Bran is 14 his adoptive "family" gets a burglar. It doesn't steal anything, bit that's not saying it didn't try. Sewey (father) gets extremely paranoid by this and Bran ends up sitting on the roof watch for the burglar.
A few days later the family goes to a picnic. There is also a carnival going on at the time. Bran discovers he has magical powers. He also figures out he is part of The Farfield Curse.
I should tell you the rules of Dunce. They are as follows:
1)No Gnomes
2)No mages
3)No Etcetera
These rules put Bran in a bad position. He is a mage.There are great powers at work and he doesn't even know for sure how he is involved, but with the help of two other mages, a gnome and the dark dreams he may save the entire country and possibly the whole world from the unknown.
Join him to find out if he succeeds in The Farfield Curse.
Four stars: ****
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Martinque & Puerto Rico – Top Winners 2020 Caribbean Rum Awards
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By the Caribbean Journal Staff
There's a new epicenter in the world of Caribbean rum: the island of St Barth.
In a turbulent year around the world, the island played host to the ultimate rum experience of 2020: the Caribbean Rum Awards and St Barth Rum Festival. The event took place in mid-November and was a major success.
This year's third annual Caribbean Rum Awards drew a "who's who" of the rum world for an unmatched lineup of high-level, socially-distanced rum experiences, rum competitions, cocktail pairing dinners and master classes, all hosted at the Rhum Room, the world's leading Caribbean rum bar and the adjacent Quarter Kitchen and Cocktail Lab.
The week was punctuated by the Caribbean Rum Awards themselves, which put together a never-before-seen field of heavyweight expressions of both Molasses Rum and Rhum Agricole.
"We are so pleased with the 2020 edition of our Caribbean Rum Awards in St Barth, which truly celebrated the best of the world of rum," said Alexander Britell, editor and publisher of Caribbean Journal and co-founder of the Caribbean Rum Awards. "This year's competition set a new standard, with nearly 60 rums, including some sought-after expressions that have never before appeared in any rum competition."
Most importantly, the dates have already been set for next year's Caribbean Rum Awards and St Barth Rum Festival, which will run from Nov. 2-7, 2021.
"As we wind up a week filled with Master Distillers, Master Blenders and other Rum Industry experts, I find myself in awe of the knowledge and passion they have for this industry and their generosity in sharing with everyone who met them," said Christopher Davis, international rum expert, proprietor of the Rhum Room and Quarter Kitchen and Cocktail Lab and founder of the St Barth Rum Festival.
"This year's addition of Master Classes from these experts was very well received and the feedback I received from literally everyone is 'please next year bring them back and add more if you can.' The first annual Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum Cocktail Contest was great and the contestants had as much fun as the crowd cheering them on. Expanding the Rum Cocktail Pairing Dinner to two nights this year was clearly well received and sold out so we will add a third night next year. And when I look at all of what we accomplished in a year of COVID, I think just wait until next year when we have more freedom for the events."
So who were the winners?
More than 100 rums were entered for judging, narrowed down to a competition field of nearly 60 rums across 8 categories, including Premium Molasses Rum (rums up to $450 per bottle), Uber-Premium Molasses Rum (rums $450 and over); Rhum Blanc – Martinique; Rhum Blanc – Guadeloupe; Rhum Agricole VSOP; Rhum Agricole XO; Rhum Agricole Hors d'Age and Uber-Premium Rhum Agricole (rum over $500 per bottle).
In the Molasses field, it was a banner year for Puerto Rico's Ron del Barrilito, which took home Double Gold in both the Premium and Uber-Premium categories for its Ron del Barrilito 4-Star and Ron del Barrilito Five-Star, respectively.
Martinique's Rhum Neisson dominated the Agricole category, with three Double Gold medals, highlighted by a win for its Cuvee Sacha in the Uber-Premium category.
This year's Caribbean Rum Awards was judged by the CRA panel of international judges in a blind tasting. Judges included Alexander Britell, editor-in-chief of Caribbean Journal and founder of Rum Journal; Guy Britton, EVP and Managing Editor of Caribbean Journal; Christopher Davis, global rum expert and proprietor of the Rhum Room in St Barth; Steven Shaw, spirits importer and vintner; Simons Chase, editor-in-chief of Cuba Journal and leading Cuban rum expert; Peter Berntsen, COO of Empire Social in Miami and founder of Miami Rum Month.
In the CRA's People's Choice category, Mount Gay Port Cask Expression took home the top honors in the Molasses category, while Rhum Neisson Cuvee Sacha won in the Agricole category. (The People's Choice Jury included Steven Miller, Eddy Maddox; Benoit Lavigne and Ted Houseknect.)
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Even today, the iconic, Pulitzer-winning 1945 photograph of five US Marines and a Navy corpman raising the American flag on Iwo Jima retains an extraordinary power. Like a Norman Rockwell painting, Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph tells a story, creates a mood, evokes an ethos, and elicits a metaphorical or allegorical response, all at the same time.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Jamie Bell, Barry Pepper. DreamWorks.
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Horrifying graphic battlefield violence and extreme gore; recurring profane and obscene language; some drunkenness.
The image of a half dozen anonymous men in uniform straining together to raise Old Glory on the battlefield readily invites a number of interrelated morals. Unity, commitment and self-sacrifice for a cause are all embodied in the forms on those six young men, along with the heritage and values of the flag waving over their heads.
Adapted by Million Dollar Baby collaborators Clint Eastwood and Paul Haggis from the book by James Bradley and Michael Finch, Flags of Our Fathers reveals that although in many ways the world of the photograph was simpler and more innocent than our own, it was not as credulous or lacking in media savvy as we might suppose. From the start, there are questions about the photo's authenticity, rumors and reports that the seemingly perfect shot was staged.
It wasn't, but the story behind the photo isn't as simple as it might seem either. The flag in the photograph is the second flag raised that day on Iwo Jima, after 2nd Battalion Commander Chandler Johnson orders the original flag replaced. He does this, astonishingly, to thwart Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal's whim to make a personal souvenier of the original flag, which the indignant Johnston feels belonged by rights to the battalion.
As fascinating and ironic as such background trivia is, it hardly seems to blunt the essential power of the image itself. Even the controversy over the misidentification of one of the fallen soldiers in the picture seems a footnote, if a crucial one to the families of the soldiers in question.
Flags of Our Fathers raises these issues, but the real issue behind them is the exploitation of the famous image — along with the three surviving men in the picture — as a much-needed PR windfall by a cash-strapped government. After the photograph becomes a sensation, Marine Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), Marine runner Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), and Navy corpman John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) are brought back to the US for a publicity tour, billed as "the heroes of Iwo Jima," to promote the 7th War Bond Drive and regalvanize the war-weary American people for the final push in the Pacific. (Philippe's character is the father of the author of the book.)
The word "exploit" here is perilously double-edged. It can mean either "use to advantage" (in a shrewd sense) or "take advantage of" (in an abusive sense). To its credit, Flags of Our Fathers avoids suggesting that the whole enterprise was somehow fundamentally and inherently fraudulent or abusive. Despite the oversimplified promotion of the photo and its subjects, and the glossing over of the misidentified man, the photo legitimately bears witness to a state of affairs worth celebrating and supporting.
The battle for Iwo Jima was real, not staged. The raising of that flag, whether the first or the tenth such flag, legitimately represents the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought and died there, without whom there could have been no flag at all. The singling out of these three particular soldiers may be an accident of history, but they are truly heroes, and fairly represent their living and fallen comrades on Iwo Jima. They are heroes, not for raising a flag, but for what they and others did to be in the position to raise the flag.
The kitschiness of the PR campaign may invite more cynicism today than it did at the time, as the heroes reenact the flag-raising atop a papier-mâché "mountain" in stadiums across the country, and are "treated" to vanilla ice-cream sculptures representing the six figures in the photograph. (Surely, surely, even if there really were such ice-cream sculptures, no waiter would drench such a confection in blood-red cherry sauce. That just has to be a heavy-handed conceit of the film.) But kitsch isn't a moral category, merely a question of taste and culture.
Though there is an iconoclastic dimension to the film, Flags of Our Fathers is not as cynical as some critics seem to regard it. Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, though generally dismissive of the film, praises the "noble undertaking" of underscoring how the photo (in which Rosenbaum strangely seems to miscount four figures rather than six) was "mendaciously exploited to sell war bonds." From a different end of the political spectrum, New York Post critic Lou Lumenick's more positive review describes how the film "dissects how that heroism was cynically packaged for public consumption." Sometimes cynicism may be in the eye of the beholder, at least partly.
Less ambiguous or open to interpretation is the sad irony of the less-than-glorious futures that await the heroes of the hour after their hour has passed. Even in his moment of triumph, Hayes, a Pima Indian, is never exempt from racist harassment both in and out of the military, and already he has begun to battle the heavy drinking that will eventually destroy him. Gagnon does his duty on the tour circuit and cheerfully takes business cards that he hopes will pay off later in life, but it's a cruel truth that society has a treacherously short memory for gratitude.
Though Flags of Our Fathers regards the experiences of its subjects with sympathy, it ultimately goes too far in debunking the reality of their heroism, above all in opening and closing voiceover narration. "We like things nice and simple," muses the narrator at the start of the film. "Good and evil. Heroes and villains. Most of the time, they're not who we think they are." By the film's end, the narrator concludes, "Maybe there's no such thing as heroes. Heroes are something we create, something we need. It's a way for us to understand something so incomprehensible."
And what is that incomprehensible something? The sacrifices soldiers make for their comrades. "They may have fought for their country, but they died for their brothers."
That's as succinct an articulation of the reigning Hollywood orthodoxy of war movies (other examples include Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, and K‑19: The Widowmaker) as you're likely to find: that the truth about war is not ideas, politics, or patriotism, but loyalty to one's fellow soldiers on the battlefield. It's an ethic that allows no room for such wide-eyed ideals as "saving the world from barbarianism."
This sentiment, too, contrasts strikingly with the assessment of heroism expressed in an epigraph to the acknowledgments section in the original book, quoting historian Stephen Ambrose: "I was ten years old when the war ended. I thought the returning veterans were giants who had saved the world from barbarianism. I still think so. I remain a hero worshiper. Over the years I've interviewed thousands of the veterans. It is a privilege to hear their stories, then write them up." The book's very subtitle — "Heroes of Iwo Jima" — could not be claimed by the film, except as irony.
Tendentious voiceovers aside, Flags of Our Fathers remains a thoughtful exploration of the tensions and ironies of the cult of heroism. Hayes could be speaking for countless heroes when he protests that he is not a hero: "All I did was try not to get shot." Like many heroes, Hayes fails to appreciate that the very fact that he was in a position to be shot in the first place, and that he did his best under those circumstances, is more than enough to qualify him to be honored as a hero.
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a history of the source and rise of the earliest English settlements in America, with special reference to the life and character of the people.
Published 1970 by D. Appleton and Company in New York .
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 11428)
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Fully experience the beauty of the world and my own life within it. Make choices that serve my happiness and the happiness of those around me where I can, spreading positivity, love, and light wherever they take me. I hope you do, too.


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    module Style
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      # strings, that are not using the %w() syntax.
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          return unless array_of?(:str, node) &&
                        !complex_content?(array_elems) &&
                        array_elems.size > min_size && !comments_in_array?(node)

          add_offense(node, :expression) { self.max = array_elems.size }
        end

        private

        def parameter_name
          'MinSize'
        end

        def comments_in_array?(node)
          comments = processed_source.comments

          array_range = node.loc.expression.to_a

          comments.any? do |comment|
            !(comment.loc.expression.to_a & array_range).empty?
          end
        end

        def complex_content?(arr_sexp)
          arr_sexp.each do |s|
            source = s.loc.expression.source
            next if source.start_with?('?') # %W(\r \n) can replace [?\r, ?\n]

            str_content = Util.strip_quotes(source)
            return true unless str_content =~ /\A[\p{Word}]+\z/
          end

          false
        end

        def min_size
          cop_config['MinSize']
        end

        def autocorrect(node)
          sb = node.loc.expression.source_buffer
          interpolated = false

          contents = node.children.map do |n|
            if character_literal?(n)
              interpolated = true
              begin_pos = n.loc.expression.begin_pos + '?'.length
              end_pos = n.loc.expression.end_pos
            else
              begin_pos = n.loc.begin.end_pos
              end_pos = n.loc.end.begin_pos
            end
            Parser::Source::Range.new(sb, begin_pos, end_pos).source
          end.join(' ')

          char = interpolated ? 'W' : 'w'

          @corrections << lambda do |corrector|
            corrector.replace(node.loc.expression, "%#{char}(#{contents})")
          end
        end

        def character_literal?(node)
          node.loc.end.nil?
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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NIST Releases Draft Guidance On Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps In The Healthcare Industry
Posted on May 10th, 2017 By Peter Stockburger
Categories: Consumer Protection, Data Breach, Health Information Privacy, Privacy Rights, United States
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On May 8, 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), released a new draft NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide (SP 1800-8) entitled "Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations." The purpose of the new guidance is to address the security flaws in external infusion pumps in the healthcare industry, and provide engineers and IT professionals a roadmap for how they can securely configure and deploy wireless infusion pumps by using "standards-based commercially available technologies and industry best practices[.]" NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guides (Special Publication Series 1800) target specific cybersecurity challenges in the public and private sector, and are intended to serve as practical, user-friendly guides that facilitate the adoption of standards-based approaches to cybersecurity. They do not describe regulations or mandatory practices. Nor do they carry statutory authority. NIST is accepting public comment on the new draft guidance through July 7, 2017.
Overview Of Draft Guidance
Infusion pumps are defined by the FDA as a medical device that delivers fluid into a patient's body in a controlled manner. Once standalone instruments that interacted with the patient or medical provider only, infusion pumps are now connected to a variety of systems and networks, contributing to what NIST calls the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). This new connectivity brings with it benefits and challenges. Although connecting fusion pumps to point-of-care medication systems and electronic health records can improve the healthcare delivery process, it can also create significant cybersecurity risk that could lead to operational or safety risks. Specifically, tampering with the wireless infusion pump ecosystem can expose a healthcare provider to:
Access by malicious actors;
Loss or corruption of enterprise information and patient data and health records;
A breach of protected health information;
Loss or disruption of healthcare services; or
Damage to an organization's reputation, productivity, and bottom-line revenue.
Key Takeaways From New Draft Guidance
The new guidance is written from a how-to perspective, providing details on how to install, configure and integrate components. It is therefore primarily intended for professionals implementing security solutions within a healthcare organization, such as biomedical, networking and cybersecurity engineers and IT professionals who are responsible for securing and configuring wireless infusion pumps. The new guidance maps out the security characteristics of wireless infusion pump ecosystems to currently available cybersecurity standards and the HIPAA Security Rule, and applies "security controls to the pump's ecosystem to create a 'defense-in-depth' solution for protecting infusion pumps and their surrounding systems against various risk factors."
NIST claims organizations will, if they adopt the new guidance:
Reduce cybersecurity risk, and potentially reduce impact to safety and operational risk, such as the loss of patient information or interference with the standard operation of a medical device;
Develop and execute a defense-in-depth strategy that protects the enterprise with layers of security to avoid a single point of failure and provides strong support for availability; and
Implement current cybersecurity standards and best practices, while maintaining the performance and usability of wireless infusion pumps.
A copy of the draft guidance is here. If you or your business are interested in submitting public comments in response to the new draft guidance, the Dentons Privacy and Cybersecurity Group can help. We are also prepared to assist your organization in navigating the new draft guidance and securing your networked devices against the constantly evolving threat landscape.
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Imprisoning, Killing, Spying
Suppression of the innocent inside Ethiopia
by Graham Peebles / September 4th, 2014
Wrapped in dishonesty, arrogance and paranoia, Ethiopia's ruling regime (as all such brutal brigades), are following a nationwide policy of violent suppression and constitutional vandalism.
It was the 24th June – midsummer's day – in the adopted homeland of Andargachew Tsige, when he was detained by 'Yemeni officials' (State heavies in suits) whilst transiting through Sana'a to Eritrea. The British citizen and leading Ethiopian political activist was quickly and quietly extradited to Addis Ababa where he was imprisoned on spurious charges of treason or some such trumped up, paranoid twaddle. He had been unfairly tried in absentia in 2009, when Amnesty report he was "sentenced to death for an alleged coup attempt. He was prosecuted in absentia again in 2012 on terrorism charges, alongside other prisoners of conscience, and sentenced to life imprisonment."
Incarcerated he remains, hidden, abused and tortured by Ethiopian military thugs; his "detention in Ethiopia means that his life and physical integrity are in great danger…his incommunicado detention in an unknown location increases this risk." says MEP Anna Gomez in a letter to British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. In keeping with Britain's consistent abdication of donor duty in the face of the Ethiopian government's unbridled abuse of its people, the new Secretary of State at the FCO and his lieutenants have done nothing of substance to support Andargachew.
The false arrest, imprisonment and mis-treatment of Andargachew Tsige is but the most high profile recent example of a strategic policy of control and suppression enforced by the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). A range of weapons are employed by the regime to stifle dissent and create an atmosphere of fear, including extrajudicial executions, arrest, imprisonment and torture. HRW states the government "regularly use abuse to gather information…. Ethiopian authorities have subjected political detainees to torture and other ill treatment at the main detention center [Maekelawi Police Station] in Addis Ababa." Journalists who challenge the government are intimidated (so too their families) and silenced. Many have been arrested, and as the Committee to Protect Journalists reports, "are languishing in Ethiopia's prisons on trumped-up terrorism charges for doing their jobs." In their thorough report "They Want A Confession", Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents "serious rights abuses, unlawful interrogation tactics, and poor detention conditions in Maekelawi since 2010. Those detained …include scores of opposition politicians, journalists, protest organizers, and alleged supporters of ethnic insurgencies." Public assembly, whilst not being outwardly criminalized is effectively banned, despite the fact that it is a right enshrined like all such liberal freedoms in the legally binding constitution. A dusty document which has no influence over the ruling party, or indeed the judiciary, which functions as a docile enforcer of government criminality.
The guilty trust nobody
For a country beset with acute poverty, where it is conservatively estimated 30% of the population (World Bank figures) are living below the 'official poverty line' (that's income of $2 a day), the government somehow manages to administer and fund (to the tune of $340 millions) the largest standing army in Sub-Saharan Africa. They boast 560 tanks, over 80 warplanes, and out of a population numbering 92 million, Global Fire Power reveals, 25 million are armed and 'fit for service', with a further 10 million standing by. The men in uniform are kept busy by their political masters – there is a whole nation to suppress and control, including the people of Oromia (who are calling for self-determination) and Amhara. There is the Ogaden region to occupy and forcibly govern, innocent men and women – who seek nothing more threatening than autonomy, their constitutional right – to murder, terrorise and rape. There is Gambella in the far south west and the Lower Omo Valley where women are raped by soldiers, men beaten, indigenous people (who have lived on ancestral land for generations) herded into government camps (the notorious Villagisation project – part funded by Britain and the World Bank) as vast tracts of lands are sold for pennies to international corporations. There is torture to be administered, assassinations to plan and execute, rapes to be performed and surveillance of dissenting voices to be carried out. And spying from villages to cyberspace to keep the EPRDF military men active night and day; duplicitous, disingenuous and corrupt, they trust nobody.
In their detailed study of government surveillance in Ethiopia, "They Know Everything We Do", HRW found the ruling party "is using foreign technology to bolster its widespread telecom surveillance of opposition activists and journalists both in Ethiopia and abroad," and unsurprisingly there are no judicial or legislative mechanisms in place to protect privacy. The Chinese multinational ZTE is the primary supplier of telecommunication technology, but HRW discovered that Britain (a major donor, whose unfathomable support of the regime could be said to make Britain complicit in some of the regime's wide-ranging human rights violations) and Germany have also provided surveillance software and know-how.
The government owns the country's sole telecommunication company (Ethio Telecommunication); awash with paranoia they control and monitor mobile phone use and Internet access (coverage of which, at around 0.5%. is the second lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa) throughout the country. These "surveillance practices violate the rights to freedom of expression, association, and access to information," HRW state. Security personnel have unfettered access to call records of all telephone users – particular attention is given to foreign numbers. Calls are recorded without legal process or oversight, and replayed "during abusive interrogations in which people who have been arbitrarily detained are accused of belonging to banned organizations." A former Oromo opposition party member told HRW, that "one day they arrested me and they showed me everything. They showed me a list of all my phone calls and they played a conversation I had with my brother." He was arrested for the heinous act of discussing "politics on the phone," – a criminal activity in this supposedly democratic African nation.
Access to websites that offer independent critical analysis of political events, including opposition party sites, media and bloggers is denied by government controls. The Ethiopian people, both inside the country and within the diaspora, are extremely fearful; as a result a great deal of 'self-censorship' takes place. People are afraid to call or receive phone calls from abroad (where many have family working), they are reluctant to publicly criticize the government and refrain from discussing a variety of topics openly or during 'private' telephone calls. The "main mode of government control is through extensive networks of informants and a grassroots system of surveillance," HRW report. And in a society where secrecy and mistrust of one another is common, silent suppression and distrust of others is fostered. And where unity is needed – for if there is to be change within the country, the people must come together – community, ethnic and tribal divisions are strengthened. All, of course, by EPRDF design.
Legalizing suppression
The legislative weapon of choice used to gag and imprison is the universally condemned 2009 Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (ATP), which when introduced, was described by HRW as "a potent instrument to crack down on political dissent, including peaceful political demonstrations and public criticisms of government policy"; it allows for "long-term imprisonment and even the death penalty for "crimes" that bear no resemblance, under any credible definition, to terrorism." Since the ATP was written into law, "the independent media have been decimated by politically motivated prosecutions … The government has systematically thwarted attempts by journalists to establish new publications. Blogs and Internet pages critical of the government are regularly blocked, and in 2012 printing houses came under threat for printing publications that criticized the authorities."
The EPRDF has used this and other repressive laws to decimate civil society organizations and independent media and target individuals with politically motivated prosecutions. It is a paranoid, cruel and violent regime that ignores human rights law, violates its own constitution and is causing extreme suffering amongst its people. And donor countries — America, Britain and the European Union primarily — appear content to ignore wide ranging atrocities (some of which deep inside the Ogaden region, for example, constitute crimes against humanity), in exchange for what – for the illusion of stability in the centre of a region dominated by failed states and warring fanatics? There is not stability and harmony within Ethiopia, but cruel suppression, terror and simmering anger. Whilst the responsibility for bringing lasting change rests firmly with the people acting in unity, there is no excuse for allowing — indeed supporting — a regime that throws a dark dank shroud of fear over the country. Responsible allegiance entails holding regimes accountable and supporting the people of the nation state, not the state dictators, defending human rights, insisting on justice and the implementation of federal and international law.
The impunity and arrogance of the EPRDF was blatantly displayed in April this year when, just days before American Secretary of State John Kerry visited the country, "six bloggers for Zone 9, an Amharic-language website whose writers have criticized the government, and three freelance journalists were arrested," reported the New York Times.
In addition to donor indifference, the wide-ranging human rights violations taking place daily within Ethiopia go virtually unreported. The Ethiopian people repeatedly ask why their plight is not reported, why do donors not act, or use what is assumed to be their considerable influence on the EPRDF leadership. Why, for example, isn't British citizen Andergachew free? Is it because he is Black, poor, a migrant to Britain born in Ethiopia. They rightly ask why the state terrorism taking place within Oromia, Gambella, the beautiful Lower Omo Valley, and, perhaps worst of all, in the Ogaden region – where murder of the innocent is routine, where men and women are imprisoned without trial, tortured, the women violently mass raped – is allowed to go unchallenged. Legitimate questions passionately asked by a people violently suppressed, living in fear in a corner of Africa, suffering and desperate.
Graham Peebles is an independent writer and charity worker. He set up The Create Trust in 2005 and has run education projects in India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Ethiopia where he lived for two years working with street children, under 18 commercial sex workers, and conducting teacher training programmes. He lives and works in London. Read other articles by Graham, or visit Graham's website.
This article was posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2014 at 12:01am and is filed under Ethiopia, Incarceration, Militarism, Propaganda.