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Deloitte Insolvency Statistics - A year in review 2018
Lowest levels of corporate insolvencies recorded since 2012
Uncertainty about international trade agreements, Brexit and shifting consumer behavioural trends will continue to influence future figures.
Service industry records 107 fewer insolvencies when compared to 2017, while construction sector insolvencies are up by 50.
The latest insolvency statistics published by Deloitte show that the total number of Corporate insolvencies recorded in 2018 stands at 767. This represents a decrease of 12% from the 2017 figures, when the total number recorded was 874.
The 2018 figures recorded reflect the lowest level of insolvency appointments since 2012, when a total of 1,684 insolvencies were documented.
Creditors' voluntary Liquidations (CVLs)
A closer look at the statistics indicates that of the total 767 Corporate insolvencies, Creditors' voluntary Liquidations (CVLs) accounted for the majority, with a total of 539 recorded in 2018 (70%). Although, this is a marginal 1% increase on the number of CVLs recorded in 2017 (535), against the backdrop of the overall decrease in corporate insolvencies in 2018, CVLs as a percentage of overall insolvencies have increased by 9% year on year indicating a growing prevalence of the process as a means of addressing corporate insolvencies.
Corporate Receivership
By contrast, the Corporate Receivership process, the second most prevalent Corporate Insolvency tool after the CVL (with 125 appointments recorded in 2018) has seen a sharp decline in incidence year on year relative to the total number of Corporate insolvencies recorded. Appointments have decreased from 247 in 2017 which represented 28% of total insolvencies recorded in that year to 125 in 2018 (16% of total insolvencies recorded).
The Corporate Receivership process is triggered when a creditor (usually a bank or finance provider) holding security over specific assets of a Company or over a Company generally enforces over that security and appoints a Receiver generally as a result of a default on a liability owing by the Company.
The sharp decline in incidence of the Corporate Receivership process year on year is reflective of a dip in enforcement activity as private equity acquirers of non-performing loan (NPL) books have now worked through the majority of the distressed corporate assets in the portfolios which were acquired in 2014 and 2015. In addition to this, it is possible that in the context of the improving Irish economy and property market, banks and private equity companies holding security are engaging with Companies in relation to their debt exposure with a view to bringing about successful, consensual resolutions and settlements without having to resort to formal enforcement.
Furthermore, it may also be the case that with the ever increasing availability of risk capital, Companies with significant debt exposure to banks and private equity creditors are availing of options to refinance their existing loans with alternative financiers to avoid enforcement.
As an additional point in relation to the Corporate Receivership process, it should also be noted that a number of large NPL transactions completed during 2018. On foot of these transactions, enforcement of security and Receivership appointments are expected to rise in 2019 as the acquirers of these loan books commence the work through of the distressed assets. We would therefore expect this increase in activity to be reflected in the Corporate Receivership figures for 2019.
Court Liquidations
The third most prevalent corporate insolvency process, Court Liquidations have increased year on year from 63 to 64 (1%). The increase of Court Liquidations as a percentage of overall Corporate insolvencies in 2018 (8%) is only marginally higher than that recorded in 2017 (7%).
Examinership
The fourth and final Irish Corporate insolvency process is the Examinership process, Irelands formal corporate rescue mechanism. A broad look at the figures for 2018 would suggest that incidence of Examinership appointments has increased from 29 in 2017 to 39 in 2018. However, 17 out of the 39 appointments in 2018 refer to the Bradley Pharmacy group examinership which has had the effect of distorting the overall figures. On a normalised basis, Examinership appointment figures trail at 23 in 2018, which represents 3% of the overall Corporate Insolvency figures. This is in line with 2017 when the level of Examinerships recorded was also 3% of total insolvencies. Examinerships have therefore decreased in line with overall insolvencies.
Given the overall improvement in the economy and the increased availability of risk capital, the level of Examinership appointments continues to remain unexpectedly low. This is particularly noteworthy when one considers that the mechanism has in recent years been more accessible to Company directors through a less costly and more efficient circuit court application process than had previously been the case. Directors of struggling Companies are encouraged to consider the examinership process and to seek professional advice and assistance at the earliest opportunity to enhance their Company's prospects of survival.
Geographically, the highest number of Corporate insolvencies in the period was recorded in Leinster, with 66% of total appointments. This is consistent with the same period last year when Leinster had the same percentage of all Corporate insolvency appointments. In 2018, Munster had 20% of appointments, Connaught 11% and Ulster 2%. Compared to 2017, the number of appointments has dropped considerably in all regions. In Leinster, the total number of Corporate insolvencies dropped by 15.5% from 583 in 2017 to 510 in 2018, in Munster the number decreased from 166 in 2017 to 153 in 2018 (9%), Connaught recorded a significant decline from 106 in 2017 to 85 in 2018 (19%), while Ulster remained relatively constant with 19 insolvencies recorded both in 2017 and 2018.
Looking at the 'Top Four' industry sectors, the service industry recorded for the third year in a row the highest number of insolvencies in 2018 with 174 appointments (22.69% of total insolvencies.) This represents a decrease of 108 from 2017 figures when the Service industry sector recorded 282 (32.27% of total insolvencies recorded in that year).
Financial Services Companies accounted for the largest number of insolvencies within the services sector with 49 Insolvencies. Within the financial services sector, insolvencies most commonly affected investment holding Companies with 20 such companies going insolvent during 2018. Other financial services affected by insolvency during 2018 included investment advisory and brokerage services. Following the financial services sector, within the services sector, Professional Services Companies were the second most affected by insolvency during 2018 with 23 incidences recorded. This was followed by Trade businesses with 17 insolvencies, Property Related Services with 16 Insolvencies, Advertising and Publishing services with 10 Insolvencies and IT and Communications services with 8 Insolvencies. Other services which recorded insolvencies during 2018 include medical services, Energy related services, Health and Fitness, Forestry, Business Support Services, Security Services, Dry Cleaning Services and Educational and training services.
Following the services sector, the construction industry recorded the second highest level of insolvencies with 158 (20% of total), which represents an increase from 108 (12.36% of total) in 2017.
Commenting on this, David Van Dessel, Partner at Deloitte said: "The increase in construction related insolvencies reflects that there are still legacy issues at play in the sector but also that profitability is being impacted due to cost inflation where a combination of fixed price contracts in an inflationary environment along with the reduced margin available in private homes as sales price increases flatten is impacting. "
The third slot is taken by the retail sector which recorded 117 insolvencies, 15% of the total and an increase of 15 from 102 (11.67% of total) from 2017. Increased costs associated with physical stores such as rates, insurance and customer service coupled with the shifting consumer preference for online shopping are likely contributory factors to the increase in insolvencies in the retail space as is intense downward pressure on prices from large retailers, particularly in the fashion and grocery retail sectors.
The hospitality sector is fourth with 94 insolvencies (12.11% of total). This is an increase of 5 appointments year on year. 2019 Insolvency numbers in this sector may be affected by the saturation of the market, staff shortages and a constricted labour market.
Other shifts have been noted in the manufacturing sector, which recorded an increase of 28% from 43 insolvencies documented in 2017 to 55 in 2018, and in the wholesale sector, which recorded a significant decrease of 31%, from 42 insolvencies in 2017 to 29 in 2018.
Looking ahead, Mr Van Dessel said, "A further material decline in insolvency numbers is not anticipated for 2019. Against the backdrop of an improving economy, there is likely to be an increase in new start up activity and not all such new companies formed are likely to be successful."
"Other factors such as a potential "Hard Brexit" scenario and concerns over Global trade may also have a material impact on the statistics. Ireland's economy is exposed to the effects of these factors and is particularly exposed to international markets by the significant presence of global brands, which in turn has a direct impact on our domestic economy. Should the concerns materialise in 2019, it is likely that many sectors will be adversely impacted."
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Q: What is the relationship of bias and consistency of an estimator? Let $(\mathfrak{X}_n, (P_\vartheta)_{\vartheta \in \Theta})$ be a statistical model with $n$ samples. Then $\hat{\vartheta}_n: \mathfrak{X}_n \rightarrow \tilde{\Theta}$ is called an estimator for $\vartheta$.

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*$\hat{\vartheta}_n$ is called unbiased, if $\mathbb{E}(\hat{\vartheta}_n) = \vartheta$.

*$\hat{\vartheta}_n$ is called concistent, if $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} P(|\hat{\vartheta}_n - \vartheta| > \varepsilon) = 0$ for $\varepsilon > 0$.

There are estimators which are both unbiased and consistent:
Let $X_1, \dots, X_n \stackrel{iid}{\sim} Bin(1, \vartheta)$ with $\vartheta \in (0, 1)$. Then $\hat{\vartheta}_n = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^n x_i$ is unbiased and consistent.
There are estimators which are neither unbiased nor consistent. The estimator $\hat{\vartheta} = 0.5$ for the setting from before (if $\vartheta \neq 0.5$).
But are there unbiased estimators which are not consistent? Are there consistent estimators which are not unbiased?

A: Yes to both. For the sequence of random variables you give:
$\hat{\vartheta}^\prime_n =x_n$ is unbiased but clearly not consistent.
 $\hat{\vartheta}^{\prime\prime}_n =\frac1n\sum_{i=1}^n x_i + \frac1n$ is biased but consistent.

A: Just to generalize a little the answer above:

*

*Any estimator that does not depend on the whole sample size $n$ is inconsistent. By "depend" I mean that the used number of "observations" to construct the estimator do not increase proportionally with the increase of $n$.  In your case of $Bin(n, \theta)$, any estimator of a a kind
$$
\hat{\theta}_k = \frac 1k \sum_{i=1}^kx_i,  \quad k<n,
$$
is unbiased and inconsistent (its variance $\theta(1-\theta)/k > 0$, even when $n\to \infty$).

*Unibiasdness for finite $n$ is not that important. A necessarily (though not sufficient) condition for consistent estimator is asymptotic unbiasdness, i.e.,
$$
\lim_{n\to \infty}\mathbb{E}\hat{\theta}_n=\theta.
$$
And (when the estimator has second finite moment) it comes with
$$
\lim_{n\to \infty}\mathbb{E}(\hat{\theta}_n - \mathbb{E}\theta)^2 = 0,
$$
then $\hat{\theta}_n \xrightarrow{p} \theta$ as $n\to \infty$.
For instance, in the class of maximum likelihood estimators, it is pretty common to encounter biased estimators. This property is mostly neglectable as the bias converges to $0$ for $n \to \infty$.

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Virgo is the detail-oriented, perfectionist of my Pisces Ascendant dreams. I want what you have Virgo, and I want it bad. So, in true Virgo fashion, I didn't stop at the Virgo video, I dedicated an entire series to nitpicking each sign's lack of perfection. This "What I Hate About Your Sign" series lead to my new life path as an Astrologer. I know, it's not the greatest thing to put on a resume—I hated on people in a mass YouTube troll, and now I get to do Astrology as a career—But it's my life and I have to thank the Virgo's for putting up with this video, and allowing me to carry on. Without you, I would still be waiting tables.
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The Second Lake Dam is situated underneath the travelled surface of Millstream Lake Road on Section 20, where the road crosses the outlet from Second Lake. The presence of the dam from above is largely imperceptible, but it can be observed from below on the downstream side. The dam, situated between two rock outcrops, consists of a concrete wall and a single buttress perpendicular to the wall.
Heritage Value
The Second Lake Dam is valued as the oldest recorded dam site in the District of Highlands. Other smaller dams were constructed at various places in the Millstream watershed (i.e., First Lake, Matson Lake, and Mary Lake) mostly during the 1940s and 1950s. The original Second Lake Dam, however, was constructed much earlier and is noted in a pre-emption land survey document from 1889. The dam was described in an 1890 land transfer document for section 18 that included Second and Third Lakes. It specified the vendors, who also owned Section 20, must maintain the Second Lake dam "as will ensure the water at and along the division line of the lands known as section 18 and 20 being of not less than 3 feet."
The dam structure is valued for providing a tangible link to a past recreational culture and the aesthetic values brought by some early Highlands land owners. Water licenses associated with these dams often indicate they were constructed for "land improvement" purposes. This is in contrast to engineering efforts like the Fork Lake ditch, which had strictly agrarian purposes. However, it is also valued for a tangible link to agricultural use as well. It is suspected that later improvements to the structure were made to increase storage above the dam, to allow agricultural use of a wetland below Second Lake on Section 20. This may have also involved the construction of a diversion, still in evidence today, to carry water in a more direct route toward First Lake.
Originally a wooden bridge spanned Millstream Lake Road above the dam, allowing overflow from Second Lake underneath. At some point in the late 1960s or early 1970s the wooden bridge was replaced by a concrete culvert that now sits on top of the old dam flanked by stone walls. The existing concrete dam structure was probably constructed in a slightly later period to simplify maintenance, but likely incorporated parts of the earlier dam.
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How humans use objects in novel ways to solve problems
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Human beings are naturally creative tool users. When we need to drive in a nail but don't have a hammer, we easily realize that we can use a heavy, flat object like a rock in its place. When our table is shaky, we quickly find that we can put a stack of paper under the table leg to stabilize it. But while these actions seem so natural to us, they are believed to be a hallmark of great intelligence—only a few other species use objects in novel ways to solve their problems, and none can do so as flexibly as people. What provides us with these powerful capabilities for using objects in this way?
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describing work conducted at MIT's Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, researchers Kelsey Allen, Kevin Smith, and Joshua Tenenbaum study the cognitive components that underlie this sort of improvised tool use. They designed a novel task, the Virtual Tools game, that taps into tool-use abilities: People must select one object from a set of "tools" that they can place in a two-dimensional, computerized scene to accomplish a goal, such as getting a ball into a certain container. Solving the puzzles in this game requires reasoning about a number of physical principles, including launching, blocking, or supporting objects.
The team hypothesized that there are three capabilities that people rely on to solve these puzzles: a prior belief that guides people's actions toward those that will make a difference in the scene, the ability to imagine the effect of their actions, and a mechanism to quickly update their beliefs about what actions are likely to provide a solution. They built a model that instantiated these principles, called the "Sample, Simulate, Update," or "SSUP," model, and had it play the same game as people. They found that SSUP solved each puzzle at similar rates and in similar ways as people did. On the other hand, a popular deep learning model that could play Atari games well but did not have the same object and physical structures was unable to generalize its knowledge to puzzles it was not directly trained on.
Rapid trial-and-error learning with simulation supports flexible tool use and physical reasoning. Credit: Kris Brewer.
This research provides a new framework for studying and formalizing the cognition that supports human tool use. The team hopes to extend this framework to not just study tool use, but also how people can create innovative new tools for new problems, and how humans transmit this information to build from simple physical tools to complex objects like computers or airplanes that are now part of our daily lives.
Kelsey Allen, a Ph.D. student in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at MIT, is excited about how the Virtual Tools game might support other cognitive scientists interested in tool use: "There is just so much more to explore in this domain. We have already started collaborating with researchers across multiple different institutions on projects ranging from studying what it means for games to be fun, to studying how embodiment affects disembodied physical reasoning. I hope that others in the cognitive science community will use the game as a tool to better understand how physical models interact with decision-making and planning."
Joshua Tenenbaum, professor of computational cognitive science at MIT, sees this work as a step toward understanding not only an important aspect of human cognition and culture, but also how to build more human-like forms of intelligence in machines. "Artificial Intelligence researchers have been very excited about the potential for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to learn from trial-and-error experience, as humans do, but the real trial-and-error learning that humans benefit from unfolds over just a handful of trials—not millions or billions of experiences, as in today's RL systems," Tenenbaum says. "The Virtual Tools game allows us to study this very rapid and much more natural form of trial-and-error learning in humans, and the fact that the SSUP model is able to capture the fast learning dynamics we see in humans suggests it may also point the way towards new AI approaches to RL that can learn from their successes, their failures, and their near misses as quickly and as flexibly as people do."
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More information: Kelsey R. Allen et al. Rapid trial-and-error learning with simulation supports flexible tool use and physical reasoning, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1912341117
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I have 10 customer to and i want to bill it 5 as monthly and 5 as weekly .
Prices i am getting from contract.
1.In the sales order please change the billing date of the item manuall in each item billing date filed.
so with this we can split the invoices.
2. In the customer master , sales area data, billing tab we have a field called invoicing data.
3.in VF04 we have a option called sold to party, this option is related to the first option.
Identifies the calendar that determines the schedule of billing dates for the customer.
If, for example, a customer wants to consolidate the invoices you send out, you can predefine the billing schedule in a calendar in the system. During billing, the system automatically proposes the appropriate billing date from the calendar.
The system proposes the billing schedule from the customer master record of the payer. You can change the value manually in the sales document.
Have you find the soulution for your requirement becoz I have also same requirement and trying to configure.
Our requirement is we need to bill the customer weekly and month wise in resource related billing.
The time sheet data will come from CATSDB table and update into the KB21 table.
Basing on the KB21 we do the Resource Related Billing.
From SD Point of view where we can control weekly and monthly billing.
I would appreciate for your prompt response.
Setting up weekly and monthly billing calenders and assigning to the customer master would work but can be inflexible and a problem to maintain if you then have more customers with same or different billing requirements.
If you are creating the Sales Orders from a contract then you could set up an item category with billing relevance of "periodic billing plan". The billing rules for monthly for billing either at start or end of month are available as SAP std. I think weekly is too but they are easy to configure.
With periodic billing plans you dont have to worry about calendars and extending them into the future. It will alaways work within the validity start and end dates of the Contract or SO billing plan start and end dates.
Again the recognition rules can be set for the item category.
I would check with you FI/CO colleagues to find out whether the calendar method would comply and work for you or whether you need to consider a periodic billing plan with revenue recognition.
Even i was looking for billing PLan reason I am creating the SO with reference to contract.
Can you please how this will get configured.So we can have one periodic billing like 02 (standard) but different date determination rule (monthly ,weekly billing) on Billing plan Tab.
And when i enter the dates it always give info regading the baseline warning messages how to avois this.
How the revenue is recognised can you please explain in steps how this scenerio it can be configured but if we have billing plan in contrcat .it creates SO and we can do billing ,Is revenue recog mandatory .
If I dont RR then it will work as we only to want to know that our customer are billed weekly and monthly.


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How Akilah Townsend Photographed Square's Powerful Campaign Amplifying Black-Owned Businesses
The Luupe speaks with Chicago photographer Akilah Townsend on the process behind her billboard campaign for Square.
"Black-owned businesses are the heart and soul of this city—and of America. These Black‑owned businesses are making Chicago's future bolder, brighter, and more beautiful for all." In June, 2021 Square launched "The Future is Built…" a global campaign to support and amplify Black owned businesses in key cities starting in Chicago and Atlanta. The premise was simple: show these businesses and the people behind them as the backbone for commerce. Show how they are shaping the future of business and a thriving culture.
Square commissioned Luupe photographer Akilah Townsend to photograph the campaign in Chicago, highlighting three Black-owned beauty, apparel and book businesses in the city. Townsend's portraits channel her signature style warmth and energy, not only to show these brands as a compelling force, but the power and humanity behind them.
We caught up with Townsend to learn what went into the shoot, from working with models and stylists to designing custom backdrops that added a personal flare and connection to the business owners.
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The Luupe: How did you come to shoot The Future Is Built in Chicago campaign? Was this your first project for Square?
Akilah Townsend: This was my first time shooting for Square. Square was looking for a photographer based in Chicago and my name was suggested to them and that's how it began.
The Luupe: Chicago being your home, did you have relationships with the business owners before working on the project?
Townsend: I had been a fan of one of the business owners since I was a kid. It was a full circle moment because I shopped there when I was in high school. It's always been a very cool staple of Chicago fashion. I remember being one of the business owners waitresses while I was in college. And the next time that I saw him I was capturing them for a billboard. So it was such a full circle moment, it felt very right. Like all of my hard work over the years (with its twists and turns) had paid off.
The Luupe: What was it like working with Square on such an important campaign?
Townsend: It was extremely important to me to be able to capture the beauty and regal-ness of the Black women that were featured. I wanted to show the glow that you encounter when you encounter them.
So I took great care in thinking about my art decisions. It was important to me to represent them well. As I knew that their faces would be showcased all over our city, for other Black girls to view, see themselves in, and be inspired by. I thought a lot about being a young Black girl on the Southside, and not having resources. Not knowing how the heck I was going to get out of poverty. The routes that we are told to go, I knew I did not have the resources for.
But I always had a glimmer of hope and I really wanted those billboards to serve as a glimmer of hope for other young girls like little me. Life has a funny way of working out. Even when you can't see how it'll work out, things work out.
The Luupe: Let's get into the creative direction. These were obviously shot for a client, but really bear your mark. They are warmly, identifiably "Akilah Townsend photos." They feel so connected to your personal work and signature style.
Townsend: The creative direction really aligned perfectly and I think that that is why Square chose me. It was important for me to have beautiful colors and glow. Square came to me with the idea of capturing the business owners in front of a city skyline. They also showed some images in the mood board for that were colorful. I merged those two ideas and shot backdrops for the campaign and I also created color schemes to go with each business owner then I lit the custom backdrops with the colors on the color schemes.
This was my first time creating a custom backdrop, but something that I have played with since. I had pitched to them that I would capture the backdrop, just in order for me to control the tones and composition. The vibrancy of Black people and our effervescent glow, our resilience and strength, was translated into the art direction. It was very important to me that I do these business owners justice in how I captured them.
The Luupe: You collaborated with a large team on lighting, styling, etc. What does your collaborative process look like?
Townsend: I had a team of photo assistants that I was able to tell them my vision of lighting and colors and it took a lot of tweaking but with their help I was able to get things just as I wanted them. Our styling collaboration also involved thinking about the colors schemes that I created and the skin tones of our women and what would best compliment them.
We also had a curvy business owner and it was important to myself and the Square team to make sure that she was able to show her curves and not be hidden by garments as we sometimes see.
The Luupe: It's great to hear that this was celebrated, not hidden. Did you have complete creative freedom?
Townsend: A lot of times I have a very specific way that I see my images before the photoshoot even happens, down to styling and props, so it's a collaboration. It's important for me to communicate as best I can.
The Luupe: Were there any areas of compromise on the shoot?
Townsend: I did have to compromise a bit with styling. The details are always important. And I will take as much time and struggle as I need to get things to be as perfect as they can. Pushing for the sometimes-difficult option that was originally imagined, I have seen, pays off, time and time again.
The Luupe: Another thing that stands out about this campaign is how it hovers between an editorial and commercial feel. While it's a brand campaign, there's a documentary sense of storytelling to it. Almost a blurring of genres that makes it feel very "real" and accessible.
Townsend: I think that it definitely blurs the lines a bit. We wanted the images to be authentic so I went in asking the business owners "where do you normally hang out in your space?" For Danielle, the owner of Semicolon bookstore, she has a chair that she always sits in and no one else is allowed to because it's hers and so I said okay and that is where we are capturing you.
The campaign says "Here are three Black business owners that you should support." But it also says these are real, hard working people, you can also find such people in your neighborhoods, so shop local. I think the campaign felt very grounded and authentic because it was held down by a mirror of who we were capturing. Square hired me, a Black woman from the South side of Chicago and I also hired a Black woman stylist.
The Luupe: Authentic, empathetic representation is present throughout your work, whether it's personal or clients like Square. Can you tell us a bit about your process for developing trust with the people in front of your lens? What do those interactions/ photoshoots look like?
Townsend: Bringing the guard down when it comes to capturing a person that I had not known prior to the shoot, has definitely been something that I think a lot about and have had to develop over time. I just try to show who I am and be my most authentic self.
The Luupe: How do you make that work?
Townsend: Allowing them to know it is safe to show your authentic self, and I will handle your image with care. My demeanor has a lot of empathy, I'm a pretty empathetic person. Especially now, with photographers being exposed for predatory activities, it affirms my manner when I'm working with the subject. I care about how they feel and I do not conduct the photoshoots in a very heavy-handed manner.
The Luupe: It's amazing to see these images on larger-than-life billboards. You have a lot of experience shooting for other big brands, like Nike, etc. This was your first billboard campaign, right?
Townsend: This is my first billboard campaign. Seeing my work at this scale, only affirmed what I knew, which is go hard and bring your best self to everything that you do regardless of the outcome or usage. Bringing my 70-year-old dad to the billboards was a very special moment for me. I was able to explain the process as he looked at the images. I think he finally was able to understand what I do and the care that I take in what I do.
The Luupe. That must be an amazing feeling. Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us. In closing, beyond this campaign, what are you most excited about now and moving forward?
Townsend: I'm excited about taking the things that I care about; representation, colorism; and expressing these issues through motion.
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Michael M. Wolf, zitiert als M. M. Wolf, (* 1974 in Bayern) ist ein deutscher mathematischer Physiker und Professor an der TU München. Er befasst sich mit  Quanteninformationstheorie und Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.

Wolf studierte ab 1993 Physik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. 1999 schloss er mit dem Diplom ab, wobei die Diplomarbeit bei Alois Putzer im Rahmen der ALEPH-Kollaboration am CERN entstand (Messung der Kopplungen elektroschwacher Eichbosonen mit optimalen Observablen). 2003 wurde er bei Reinhard F. Werner an der TU Braunschweig promoviert (The partial transposition in quantum information theory). Als Post-Doktorand leitete er 2003 bis 2008 als Assistent die Theoriegruppe Quanteninformation unter Ignacio Cirac am Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching. Ab 2008 war er Ole Roemer Professor am Niels-Bohr-Institut in Kopenhagen und gleichzeitig Adjoint Professor an der Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Seit 2011 ist er Professor an der TU München, wo er die Abteilung Mathematische Physik leitet.

2006 zeigte er, dass der Zusammenhang von Quantenverschränkungs-Entropie und Oberflächeninhalt von unendlich ausgedehnten translationsinvarianten Fermionensystemen durch logarithmische Zusatzterme verletzt ist, im Gegensatz zum Fall von Vielteilchensystemen aus Bosonen. Er zeigte das für Systeme mit Wechselwirkungen endlicher Reichweite (endliche Fermifläche).

2015 zeigte er mit Toby Cubitt und David Pérez García, dass das Problem, ob ein quantenmechanisches Vielteilchensystem eine Lücke im Spektrum hat, im Allgemeinen unentscheidbar ist. Beispiele dafür wurden sogar für unter starken Einschränkungen wie die von zweidimensionalen translationsinvarianten Systemen mit Nächste-Nachbar-Wechselwirkung konstruiert.

2008 bettete er die Bell-Ungleichungen in den Formalismus der Theorie der Räume von Operatoren auf Hilberträumen (Operator Space Theory) ein und erzielte neue Resultate wie den Beweis einer Vermutung von Boris Tsirelson, dass bei Dreizustands-Korrelationen die Bell-Ungleichungen unbeschränkt verletzt werden können. In diesem Zusammenhang verallgemeinerte er auch ein klassisches Resultat der Funktionalanalysis (das Fundamentaltheorem der metrischen Theorie der Tensorprodukte von Alexander Grothendieck), dessen Zusammenhang mit Bellungleichungen zuvor Tsirelson erkannt hatte. Diese Ergebnisse gelten als wichtige Fortschritte auf dem Weg zu einer quantitativen Behandlung der Verletzung von Bell-Ungleichungen und damit der Grenzen lokaler klassischer Theorien verborgener Variablen (die Bell-Ungleichungen werden durch die Quantenmechanik verletzt, gelten aber für lokale klassische Theorien).

Schriften
 mit Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia: The Unsolvable Problem, Scientific American, November 2018
 mit Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia: Undecidability of the spectral gap, Arxiv:1502.04573 (dazu auch  Nature, Band 528, 2015, S. 207–211, Arxiv:1502.04135).
 mit T. Heinosaari, L. Mazzarella: Quantum Tomography under prior information. In: Communication in Mathematical Physics. Band 318, 2013, S. 355–374.
 mit D. Perez-Garcia, C. Palazuelos, I. Villanueva, M. Junge: Unbounded violation of tripartite Bell inequalities. In: Communication in Mathematical Physics, Band 279, 2008, S. 455–486. Arxiv:quant-ph/0702189.
 mit M. Junge, Palazuelos, Perez-Garcia, Villanueva: Operator space theory: a natural framework for Bell inequalities, In: Phys. Rev. Lett. Band 104, 2010, S. 170405. Arxiv:0912.1941.
 mit M. Junge u. a.: Unbounded violations of bipartite Bell Inequalities via Operator Space theory, In: Communications in Mathematical Physics Band 300, 2010, S. 715–739. Arxiv:0910.4228.
 mit J. I. Cirac: Dividing quantum cannels. In: Communication in Mathematical Physics, Band 279, 2008, S. 147–168. Arxiv:math-ph/0611057.
 Violation of the entropic area law for fermions. In: Physical Review Letters, Band 96, 2006, S. 010404, ArXiv:quant-ph/0503219.
 mit David Perez-Garcia: Assessing dimensions from evolution. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 102, 2009, S. 190504, Arxiv:0901.2542.
 mit R. F. Werner: Bound entangled Gaussian states. In: Physical Review Letters, Band 86, 2001, S. 3658–3661, ArXiv:quant-ph/0009118.

Weblinks
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Hochschullehrer (Technische Universität München)
Physiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Wissenschaftler der Quanteninformatik
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Pilots urge passengers to be mindful of alcohol consumption during peak air travel day
The British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) warns passengers to not get carried away with their pre-flight drinks ahead of the busiest day of the year for UK air travel.
Friday 27th July is set to be the busiest day in history for UK departures, with almost 9,000 flights taking off.
The warning comes after a rise in disruptive passenger incidents in recent years, many as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
The Civil Aviation Authority has previously reported that disruptive passenger incidents increased 600% between 2012 and 2016.
BALPA warns that disruptive passengers are not only a nuisance but are a safety concern and those who cause problems should face the full force of the law.
BALPA Head of Flight Safety, Dr Rob Hunter, said:
"BALPA doesn't want to ruin people's fun, but the growing trend amongst some passengers in drunken disruptive behaviour is concerning.
"Consuming excessive amounts of alcohol is dangerous: should there be an incident, someone who is severely inebriated might not be able to follow the instructions given to them, or hold up an evacuation.
"If a flight has to be diverted as a result of an incident, this can cause misery for other passengers and costs the airlines an awful lot of money.
"We also see examples of passengers becoming violent. Crew should not be expected to deal with any sort of verbal or physical aggression.
"Passengers should take note – if you cause disruption to a flight through violent or drunken behaviour, you could be facing a whopping fine, or even prison time."
BALPA is one of many organisations that has signed up to the UK Aviation Industry Code of Practice on Disruptive Passengers.


I've been going to the Nugget Rib Cookoff for years. The first time was way back in the early 90's, when I was a teenager. I missed a few years, but the past 8-9 years or so, my husband has made sure that we go.
Dear readers, you know we love meat. We would starve as vegans. This cookoff was no different than past ones. We went a couple different times, ate both from the Rib Village and stood in lines. We feel that gives us a fair representation. Sometimes, ribs hot off the grill are just so different from the Rib Village pans of ribs. You still get the flavor, but the fresh hot smokiness can get lost from getting wrapped and piled in a pan.
A few of the entry booths have local restaurants so we already knew what to expect from them. Kinder's, Famous Dave's, BJ's Nevada BBQ. We know you guys very well, very well indeed.
We went Friday night to the Rib Village. We were at the table right next to John Ascuaga himself. You know you're doing something right when you're near the owner.
I think Victorian Square was not as crowded as I have seen in past years. We ate, meandered through the merchant booths and let the kids play in the fountain in front of the theater.
I was quite pleased to see both kids eating ribs. Eric has been a bit picky when it comes to eating meat, so it was awesome to know he's branching away from steak, hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets. Haley, on the other hand, was crazy for ribs. I took her through the Rib Village line with me, thinking we'd share the plate. No, that didn't work for her. I had to give her my loaded up plate and go back to get another plate for myself.
I did my usual bite here, bite there on the ribs. If I didn't like it, I didn't eat it. If I liked it, I ate the whole thing and went back for more.
One nice thing about the Rib Village is that the sauce is separate from the ribs. You get a really clear idea how the ribs taste without the extra sauce. You can taste the smoke, the rub, the saltiness, and really determine if they're tender or tough. I like to take one test bite to check all that out before adding sauce.
My favorite naked ribs were Chicago and Carson City BBQ. Hubby Justin loved Texas Outlaw while his mom loved Carson City BBQ and Texas Outlaw. I thought Texas Outlaw's ribs were very tender, but the meat tasted too salty. We all liked Famous Dave's, but we go to the restaurant so we already knew what to expect.
As for sauces, I didn't like Chicago's regular chipotle sauce, but their sweet sauce was good. We all liked Kinder's sauce, Awesom Aussie's sauces. In the past, we have bought the gallon jug of Awesom Aussie's raspberry chipotle BBQ sauce, so I'm still a fan. Justin also loved Bone Daddy's sauce.
Sunday night, we went again. We only got a few things from the cookers, a funnel cake, and caught part of the Blue Oyster Cult concert. Again, it was not as busy as I have seen in the past. The music was good, the weather wasn't too hot and the food was great.
Monday, the winners were announced.
Now that the event is over, both hubby and I are craving more ribs and wishing it was still going on. That means we'll be back to one of the local BBQ restaurants pretty soon to get our fill. See you again real soon!


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Tesla Company Moving To Texas.
By Hit Wheels Nepal Last updated Oct 11, 2021
Here are the CyberTruck three major highlights of the NEWS:
On October 07, 2021, the CEO of Tesla Company, Elon Musk, officially announced their company's relocation to another part of the state at the annual shareholder meeting this Thursday.
Tesla is the latest Silicon Valley enterprise to relocate to Texas.
Musk justified the move by citing the Bay Area's high cost of living, claiming that many employees could not purchase homes and faced long commutes.
Musk did not say when the transfer would occur, but he did say that Tesla would not depart California, with Fremont's manufacturing production slated to expand by 50%.
Tesla has announced new launch dates for its forthcoming models.
However, the Cybertruck was expected to go into production this year, but it has been delayed until 2022, with mass production beginning in 2023.
On the other hand, the Semi, which was supposed to debut in 2020, has been pushed back to 2023.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed at the company's 2021 shareholder meeting that the company's headquarters would be relocated to Austin, Texas.
Tesla joins a growing list of Silicon Valley tech companies, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Oracle, relocating their headquarters to Texas because of the state's low tax rates and pro-business laws.
Musk did not say when the transfer would take place or where the new headquarters would be located in Austin, but it's safe to presume it'll be near the Gigafactory, the main factory for the future Cybertruck and Tesla Semi.
This was not the first time Elon Musk had mentioned relocating to Texas in public.
Last year, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CEO threatened to depart California since the state's severe pandemic rules made restarting manufacturing difficult.
Tesla then began construction on the Austin Gigafactory, and Musk himself relocated to Texas shortly after.
Tesla's headquarters will now follow suit, but Musk explained that the company would not depart California entirely.
Musk stated during the shareholder meeting that Tesla would grow in California to increase output at the Fremont plant by 50%.
Musk did not mention any political or pandemic-related disagreements with California while announcing his departure to Texas, unlike when he threatened to leave last year.
Instead, he blamed the Bay Area's high cost of living, saying, "It's difficult for people to buy houses, and a lot of people have to come from far away."
Musk feels that the state of Texas' business and living circumstances will allow his company to become more productive.
The Gigafactory will be built alongside the Colorado River. In addition, Musk plans to build a hiking trail & boardwalk that will be open to the public, making the new headquarters an "ecological paradise."
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Q: How do I prove using strong form induction a statement regarding winning strategies in this coin game? Consider a game in which, initially, there is a pile of n coins placed on a table.
There are two players who alternate turns. Each player, on her or his turn, removes either one, two, or three coins from the pile. The player who takes the last coin wins.
Use the strong form of induction to prove the following statement:
If the number of coins currently in the pile is congruent to 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4, then the next player to play has a winning strategy, and if the number of coins currently in the pile is a multiple of 4 then the player who is not next to play has a winning strategy.
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David Torn – ever-exploratory guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape artist – returns with only sky, a solo recording of almost orchestral atmosphere. It is Torn's first ECM release since 2007's acclaimed prezens, a full-band project (with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn & Tom Rainey) that Jazzwise described as "a vibrating collage full of shimmering sonic shapes, a dark, urban electronic soundscape – a potent mix of jazz, free-form rock and technology that is both demanding and rewarding." Many of those same descriptors apply to only sky, with its hovering ambient shadows and vaulting flashes of light, its channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North Africa. Recorded in the acoustically rich hall of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in upstate New York – as well as in Torn's more intimate studio lair – only sky is an album to get lost in, over and again.
Across his career, Torn has worked with jazz improvisers (Jan Garbarek, the Bad Plus), film composers (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carter Burwell) and art-pop singers (David Bowie, David Sylvian). For prezens, Torn interacted with Berne (saxophone), Taborn (keyboards) and Rainey (drums) for hours of high-impact collective improvisation. Yet prezens was no documentary record, with Torn characteristically having "magicked" the tapes – remixing, reshaping and recomposing the music after its performance to create discrete collages of power and beauty, from unsettled ambience to unsettling violence.
The mood swings of only sky are also intense, though they are introspective rather than extrovert. Torn weaves spontaneous melody from his ruminations, with earthy guitar tones emanating from the looping mist, echoing in the mind like a kind of aural dream. The character of the music was partly inspired by the space where much of it was created, explains Torn: "EMPAC in Troy is physically impressive and sonically inspiring – it's an amazing, really high-ceilinged space, with acoustics that are pillowy but pithy at the same time. It gave us a dream guitar sound, and we incorporated a lot of room tone. I was alone there with just my engineer, Daniel Goodwin, and we recorded hours and hours of music that I then edited down – but with the aim of respecting the original free-flow.
The opening track of only sky, "at least there was nothing," finds Torn incorporating the electric oud into his toolkit; the piece suggests an abstract evocation of Tangier, or rather the hallucinatory Interzone of Naked Lunch. For "spoke with folks," he reflects upon the old New World, his current fascination with country guitar pickers made manifest in an original tune that sounds like an American folk song viewed through a sonic kaleidoscope – like a digital refraction of "Shenandoah." And one can hear a kind of blues in the metallic riff of album highlight "reaching barely, sparely fraught," which features some of Torn's most beautifully earthy guitar lines.
In its glowing review of prezens, Torn's 2007 ECM album, All About Jazz called it "the record that Torn fans have been waiting for, the most fully realized of his career… boldly adventurous." Twenty years before the release of prezens came his vintage ECM album Cloud About Mercury, which saw Torn interacting with trumpeter Mark Isham and the latter-day King Crimson rhythm section of Tony Levin and Bill Bruford. Torn's initial tenure with the label also included Best Laid Plans, his 1984 release with drummer Geoffrey Gordon; and the guitarist featured on Jan Garbarek's album It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice. More recently, Torn produced and mixed Tim Berne's ECM albums Shadow Man (2013) and You've Been Watching Me (April 2015).
Torn's film scores include those for Friday Night Lights, Lars and the Real Girl, Everything Must Go and The Order. He has also contributed tones and textures to scores by Sakamoto, Burwell and Howard Shore, and his sounds can be heard in the Academy Award-winners Traffic and The Departed.


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Olson Remcho Litigation Team Ends 2020 on a High Note
Appeals Court Rules That Initiatives Proposing Special Taxes Need Only a Simple Majority for Passage
January 8, 2021 (January 8, 2021) by Carl Whitaker
The attorneys at Olson Remcho are known for their California trial and appellate work on complex cases raising novel issues of political, governmental and constitutional importance. Clients have included political candidates, city and county governments, state government agencies, ballot measure committees, nonprofit organizations and associations, the California Legislature, the Governor and other constitutional officers.
"2020 was another busy and interesting year for our litigation practice, which ended the year with a high impact appellate win," said Margaret Prinzing, a litigation partner in the firm's Oakland office. "Our litigators were in the middle of the fight over ballot measures, county and state tax issues, and California's compliance with 2020 U.S. Census requirements, among a number of other important cases."
Our litigators were in the middle of the fight over ballot measures, county and state tax issues, and compliance with U.S. Census requirements.
On December 17, 2020, a California Court of Appeal panel ruled unanimously for a Fresno community organization represented by Olson Remcho, reversing a lower court decision and finding that voter initiative measures proposing special taxes need only simple majorities for passage. Tom Willis argued the case before the appellate panel, appearing with Karen Getman and Ben Gevercer. Deborah Caplan and Lance Olson were the trial court team on the case.
Earlier in the year Willis and Robin Johansen successfully represented the California State Legislature in seeking relief from census certification deadlines from the California Supreme Court, which the Court granted on July 17. As noted in the Court's opinion, "As a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic . . . the federal Census Bureau has announced that census data collection and processing will be delayed. Under the Census Bureau's modified timeline, the data required to draw new district maps will not be released to the states in time for the Commission to meet the redistricting deadlines set forth in California law. In view of the anticipated delay and to ensure that the Commission will be able to perform its redistricting function in time for the 2022 elections, the Legislature has filed an emergency petition for a peremptory writ of mandate seeking relief from the deadlines set by California law."
The firm was also involved in a number of high-profile tax cases. Johansen, Willis and Prinzing successfully defended the validity of a San Francisco Bay Area bridge toll increase imposed by the Legislature, with voter approval, against charges that the toll increase was an invalid tax under article XIII A, section 3 of the California Constitution. Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Bay Area Toll Authority, 51 Cal. App. 5th 435 (2020). The case is currently on hold in the California Supreme Court while the Court reviews a decision in a different related case.
Prinzing and Johansen are representing several California counties in two challenges to the unitary tax rate under state and federal law. In AT&T Mobility v. County of Riverside, the firm is defending the constitutionality of tax rates required under the California Revenue & Taxation Code in Riverside County Superior Court. In November, the court denied plaintiffs' motion for judgment on the pleadings. In BNSF Railway Company v. County of Alameda et al., a group of counties are appealing a lower court ruling to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that California's unitary tax rate does not violate a federal statute prohibiting tax discrimination against railroads.
As usual in an election year, firm attorneys played a leading role in drafting of a number of ballot measures and then addressing legal issues relating to those initiatives in court. Olson, Caplan and Gevercer successfully challenged several ballot pamphlet statements by opponents of Proposition 15 (Split Roll Measure) in one action in Sacramento Superior Court and defended Proposition 15 proponents' statements in another. Harrison, Getman and Kristen Rogers represented proponents of Proposition 14 (Stem Cell Funding) in an action challenging statements made by opponents in ballot pamphlet arguments and obtained a favorable settlement for proponents of Proposition 14.
Finally, Harrison and Rogers successfully defended the California Coastal Commission in Spotlight on Coastal Corruption v. California Coastal Commission, which alleged claims based on conflicts of interest, California's Public Records Act, and open meetings laws.
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Check out the brand-new trailer for Lucasfilm's "Star Wars The Bad Batch," an original animated series launching exclusively on Disney+. "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" makes its debut on Tuesday, May 4, with a special 70-minute premiere, followed by new episodes every Friday starting on May 7.
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in "The Clone Wars") as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch—a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army—each possess a singular exceptional skill that makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew.
"Star Wars The Bad Batch" is executive produced by Dave Filoni ("The Mandalorian," "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"), Athena Portillo ("Star Wars: The Clone Wars," "Star Wars Rebels"), Brad Rau ("Star Wars Rebels," "Star Wars Resistance") and Jennifer Corbett ("Star Wars Resistance," "NCIS") with Carrie Beck ("The Mandalorian," "Star Wars Rebels") as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes as producer ("Star Wars Resistance"). Rau is also serving as supervising director with Corbett as head writer.
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The assault charge was filed by school board member Edward Burroughs III, who alleged that Eubanks shoved him against a bookcase — in a room outside of public view — and yelled, "I will f--- you up" several times while pointing a finger in his face.
performing system. Burroughs is an elected member, in his 10th year of service, and part of a vocal board minority bloc.


Taser International introduces a powerful stun gun flashlight that can shine up to 55 yards away and provides a self-defense product stun gun for your personal protection. This high intensity flashlight has integrated stun technology that can deter and repel attackers.
It operates on a rechargeable and replaceable lithium battery. It has a convenient and integrated one-handed operation for the stun button.
Many stun gun flashlights look and feel cheap because they are sold in stores where profit is the biggest motive. Our stun gun flashlights are some of the most powerful and strongest in the marketplace today. They are a little bit more expensive, however most of them have lifetime warranties and they are much more durable.
Women in particular love these self-defense stun gun flashlights especially for roadside emergencies where a flashlight could come in handy and a self-defense product stun gun could be a necessity in an assault.
Stun guns are not legal in all states. Those laws are constantly changing so check with your local law enforcement office or online for the legality in your area.


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Q: How to get particular json key value from Response Object I got the response from REST API into Response object after called through RestAssured API.
Response body is json, i want to get the particular key value from that?
Following is the code
Response res = given()
             .relaxedHTTPSValidation()
             .with()
             .contentType(ConfigReader.get("application.json"))
             .then()
             .get(url);

String rbody = res.body().asString();

How to get particular key value in rbody string?

A: Response class has method path() using that, user can give the json path to get the particular value.
Eg:-
Response res = given()
             .relaxedHTTPSValidation()
             .with()
             .contentType(ConfigReader.get("application.json"))
             .then()
             .get(url);
String value = res.path("root.childKey").toString();

root.childKey is the path of the json element

A: The JasonPath class that is a part of Restassured is the one that I used for my project. First you need to import the JsonPath class using:
import com.jayway.restassured.path.json.JsonPath;

Then you need to pass the JSON string and use it to create the JsonPath object. From the JsonPath object you can use the key to get the corresponding value. The following code will work for you.
Response res = given()
         .relaxedHTTPSValidation()
         .with()
         .contentType(ConfigReader.get("application.json"))
         .then()
         .get(url);

String rbody = res.asString();
JsonPath jp = new JsonPath( rbody );
String value = jp.getString( "your.key" );

A: JSON is formated like this {someProprty:"someValue"} so instead of getting it as a String, you'll want to access that specific property. ie: b.body.someProperty
Note: I strongly encourage you to name your response something more like res or response. You aren't going to enjoy having b as your response.
How to access JSON Object name/value?
JSON can also be formatted like {somePropertyThatIsNumerical:1} or can contain arrays.

A: baseURI="url";
        Map<String,String> reqParam=new HashMap<String,String>();
        reqParam.put("loginID","abc");
        reqParam.put("password","123");

        JSONObject reqObjects=new JSONObject(reqParam);
        Response response =
        given()
          .header("Content-Type", "application/json").accept(ContentType.JSON)
          .when()
          .body(reqObjects.toJSONString()).post("/v1/getDetails")
          .then().log().body().extract().response();

         String responseBody= response.asString();
         JsonPath path=new JsonPath(responseBody);
         String key=path.getString("path.key");


I recently baked this cake for my son Galen's 27th birthday and it was such a big hit that I needed to share it with you!
It's very easy, really delicious, high in protein, gluten-free, dairy-free and nut-free.
If you have any other paleo recipes you'd like to share or want us to share more paleo recipes let us know in the comments below!
Combine gluten-free flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in food processor.
Pulse in eggs, coconut oil, and honey.
Remove blade from food processor and switch to the grater. Grate 10-12 medium-size carrots; this should give you about 3 cups of grated carrot.
Stir grated carrots and currants into flour, egg mixture by hand.
Grease two 7-inch springform pans liberally with coconut oil and dust with gluten-free flour.
Transfer 1/2 of batter into each of the prepared pans.
Bake at 350° F (176 degrees Celsius) for 45-60 minutes.
Remove from oven, place on cooling rack, and cool for 1 hour before removing from springform pans.
Place ½ cup sliced fruit, maple syrup and vegan butter in glass 1 cup measuring cup.
Microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well to combine fruit, which will dissolve to make a sauce.
Pour over top of bottom cake layer.
Put the top cake layer on over sauce.
Repeat sauce instructions to make second batch for the top of cake. Pour over top of cake, then top with remaining, uncooked sliced fruit.
12 large eggs free-range, organic.
1 cup coconut oil melted, organic.
3 cups carrots grated, organic.
If not serving immediately, place the cake on serving plate, cover with a large glass serving bowl, and refrigerate.
Looking for more dairy-free, nut-free and bone healthy recipes? Download our FREE Recipes for Stronger Bones Ebook below.
Just to check, I don't think you mean 12 eggs. Thats a lot of eggs in a cake! You probably mean 1 or 2 don't you. This is in the recipe for the Paleo Carrot Cake.


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Israel wants Australia to use its influence in UN Security Council to amend nuclear deal with Iran
December 11, 2013 — 3.00am
Israel has urged Australia to use its new found influence to force a much tougher deal on Iran over its nuclear program.
Israel's Minister for the Economy, Naftali Bennett, told Prime Minister Tony Abbott that Israel ''badly wants a deal'' to halt Iran's nuclear progress, Mr Bennett said.
"Our frustration is that we feel Iran is on the verge of having to give up its nuclear production because of the economic sanctions, but it's like a boxing match": Naftali Bennett.
Israel is deeply unhappy with the terms of the interim deal negotiated by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - the so-called P5 - plus Germany on November 24. ''Our frustration is that we feel Iran is on the verge of having to give up its nuclear production because of the economic sanctions, but it's like a boxing match - the referee is counting the guy down six, seven, eight, nine, then just when he's about to give up the program, we are giving him a cup of water,'' Mr Bennett said in an interview.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the deal a ''historic mistake'' that allows Iran to keep working towards a nuclear bomb while easing the sanctions pressure.
Deal is a "historic mistake": Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit:Reuters
Australia can be an important factor in shaping the final deal, due in six months, Mr Bennett said, because it is a member of the UN Security Council next year and also the chairman of the council's sanctions committee on Iran.
Iran has agreed to freeze parts of its nuclear program and dilute its most highly concentrated uranium in return for a partial easing of the international sanctions that have forced it into recession.
Israel's essential demand is that Iran be forced to surrender its nuclear fuel-making machinery. Where the P5+1 deal has allowed Iran to keep its centrifuges for concentrating uranium into nuclear fuel, Israel wants them removed.
''Our objective is to dismantle effectively all their centrifuges so the time they need for a nuclear break-out [to produce a nuclear weapon] is not six weeks but three years,'' Mr Bennett said.
Iran has always insisted that its nuclear fuel is for peaceful purposes but the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency disagree.
Asked if he expected Australia to oppose the US over the Iran deal, Mr Bennett replied: ''I'm suggesting Australia be vocal about influencing this for the next six months - it's your responsibility now that you're on the UN Security Council. But I'm not suggesting Australia go against anyone. I'm suggesting you help steer the wheel.''


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Preparing for student life
Whether you're moving away from home for the first time or returning to study after working, coming to university is a new experience, and a big change. You'll find there's so much going on at NTU to make the transition easy and fun.
One of the most rewarding aspects of being at university is the opportunity to live independently – taking charge of your own money, paying bills and doing your own cooking and washing up are important (if not always enjoyable!) lessons that will set you up for life.
With so much going on at NTU it's easy to find something that you're interested in – and this is also a great way to meet people who share your interests.
Students not living in Halls
If you're from the local area you may already be familiar with Nottingham, but coming to university will still be a new experience for you. If you're living at home while you study, try and get involved in activities, clubs and societies so that you feel part of university life.
There are events for local students during Welcome 2019 and we have a specific Facebook group for students who are not living in Halls of Residence for you to meet other local students studying at NTU.
There's plenty more information on getting involved at NTU on our website.
Start making friends
If you're looking to find your flatmates, or chat with likeminded people before you arrive, our social media groups are the place to start.
It's also worth visiting The Student Room where our official Rep can answer any questions you might have before starting at NTU.
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Official Nottingham Trent Students' Union (NTSU) accounts
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Student parents and carers
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Staying healthy at NTU
We encourage all new students going to university for the first time to protect themselves against meningitis.
Get the MenACWY vaccine from your GP before you arrive at NTU. Visit the NHS website to find out more about the vaccination.
Identifying meningitis is not always easy. Early symptoms can be missed or mistaken for something else, including flu or hangovers. Visit the Meningitis Now website for a full list of signs and symptoms, and more information about meningitis.
Health, happiness and academic success are all linked. It's a fact that if you're feeling well, then you're more likely to perform better as a student. Our Healthy NTU guide provides information and links on important health and wellbeing topics – and the services and support available to help you make the most of life at NTU.
Check out Student Minds' helpful guides on university life.
NTU Faith
We recognise that faith can form an integral part of the student identity and journey. That's why we're committed to supporting faith at NTU in order to enhance student experience and wellbeing.
Take part in a huge range of faith-based festivals on campus, learn about the value of interfaith dialogue and build lasting friendships at university.
Visit the NTU Faith page or email NTUFaith@ntu.ac.uk for more information.
Your Student Support Services
Our Student Support Services team are here to help you to study effectively and make the most of student life. If you have a diagnosed disability, require specialist support or need practical adjustments, we can provide advice and guidance with your transition to NTU.
The team can provide specialist support for the following:
Dyslexia or other specific learning difficulty – visit our dyslexia support page or call +44 (0)115 848 4120 for more information.
A disability (physical or sensory impairment, or long-term health condition) – visit our disability services page or call +44 (0)115 848 2085 for more information.
An autistic spectrum condition – visit our disability services page or call +44 (0)115 848 2085 for more information.
A mental health difficulty, such as depression or anxiety – visit our health and wellbeing page or call +44 (0)115 848 2085 for more information.
International students can visit our International Student Support team in the Newton building (City Campus) for visa guidance, help with settling in to life in the UK and for advice on working part-time.
If you're studying at Confetti, you can access specialist support by emailing studentservices@confetti.ac.uk or by calling +44 (0)115 952 2075 for more information.
For general enquiries about the support we can provide, visit our Student Services page or contact the team on student.support@ntu.ac.uk or by calling +44 (0)115 848 6060 with your query.
Arranging additional funding
Visit the gov.uk website for more information about the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA). The DSA provides extra funding on top of your student finance allocation to support you during your studies (subject to eligibility).
Advice for student parents
If you'll need to manage your studies around family life, take a look at our information for students with caring responsibilities to find out what financial support you may be entitled to.
Information and support for care-experienced students
Our Student Support Services team can provide information to students who have spent time in Local Authority care, to help ensure that the transition to university runs smoothly.
Visit our information pages for care leavers for more information about the advice and support available, as well as details of our NTU Care Leaver Bursary.