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\section{Introduction}
On the e-commerce stores, the product information is presented to the customer primarily in the 3 modes: \emph{text, video and image}. An accurate and wholesome presentation of the product details is critical to influence purchase decision of the customer. With more and more sellers offering an even wider selection of products, it becomes unscalable to maintain the catalogue quality by checking for missing information.

Depending on the domain of the business the 3 modes of presenting product details may have different impact. For example, a customer purchasing an electrical component may be more interested in detailed specifications in text format, whereas the one, a winter jacket, may be interested in visual image of the product. Even for image friendly categories, given the variety and nuances of products, a one-size-fits-all solution for absent images is ineffective. So we focus on fast moving Apparel product type and outline a solution to suggest missing images in the following steps:
\begin{enumerate}
   \item Determine ideal imageset in an unsupervised manner.
   \item Scan all products of the category for missing images against this set.
   \item Propose the image candidates ordered by potential impact.
\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Catalogues in clothing}
\label{sec:intro1}
Clothing product pages tend to show images of human models / mannequins exhibiting the clothing / accessories from different poses / directions. However, many products on the webstores may suffer from poor cataloguing practices like duplicated images, bad image lighting, poor background, insufficient number of angles of clothing, etc. leading to poor customer experience. A few A/B experiments
done at Amazon have confirmed this and have shown a non-trivial positive impact of having larger number and varied type of images.

The problem of inadequately imaged product, thus has a user experience improvement incentive. Any automation that can meaningfully nudge the selling partners with right suggestions for improving their catalogue images will help them better their listing. This in turn can improve the end user experience, there by driving the virtuous cycle.

\begin{figure*}[h
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{IntroductionMissingImage1_masked.jpg}
   \caption{Reference vs Subject product image set comparison $\mid$  $\S$\ref{sec:intro1}}
   \label{fig:compare}
\end{figure*}

The missing images can be indicated to the sellers in text hints, or they can be provided reference image set of popular products in the Category/ Subcategory corresponding to their underrepresented product in the clothing category. For example, Figure \ref{fig:compare} shows the \emph{reference} imageset with 6 images, covering \emph{front, farview, neckview, back, fabric pattern, side view} etc. whereas, the subject product image are missing a few from the reference set. In this work, we discuss ways to detect, and indicate the missing images to improve the product listing by detecting missing poses in the image set.

\section{Related Work}
This section discusses prior work done for catalogue quality improvement as well as gives a brief refresher on the problem of human pose detection.

\subsection{Catalogue Image quality}
The product listing image selection is largely done manually by professionals specializing in product listing adhering to Standard Operating Procdeures based on listing guidelines. Some prior published work \cite{smartimageselection} suggests solutions to build systems to solve image listing problems like de-duplication, image cropping etc.

In our scheme we suggest what images can be added to the Product imageset to enhance the user experience, and no prior work in our knowledge discusses pose detection (discussed next $\S$\ref{sec:PosedDetection}) as a method to generate candidates for image addition.

\subsection{Pose Detection}
\label{sec:PosedDetection}
Human pose detection has been a widely studied computer vision application. The core problem of human pose detection is to identify the body landmarks or regions/points of interests (PoI) like \emph{nose, shoulder, knee} etc. and predict coordinates of these landmarks \emph{w.r.t.} the given image. A few prominent models use HourGlass\cite{Hourglass} and U-NET\cite{unet} type of Encoder-Decoder NN architecture to identify Points of Interest.

Then there are multistage approaches where in the Bottoms-Up approach the model first detects body joints location on the image and then links them to guess complete human instance. In Top-down approach models \cite{MSEHPN}, in the first stage the model identifies the human body in the image, and in subsequent stages identifies landmarks. The current state-of-the-art model is based on Fully Convolutional Networks\cite{SGFCN}, with PCKh (87\%) on the MPII dataset \cite{MPII}. We use pretrained \emph{MMPose} \cite{mmpose2020} toolbox library which implements HRNet full body keypoints detection model \cite{HRNet_2019_CVPR} and \emph{Blazepose}\cite{BlazePose}, which is a lightweight implementation of HourGlass style network architecture to generate position embeddings in our pipeline.

\section{Unpose}
The Unpose system presents an unsupervised method for classifying, and ranking most popular poses, and further extends the framework to detect the missing images from target products. The system attempts to:
\begin{enumerate}
   \item Define the ideal set of images in a reference set.
   \item Detect the missing images from the subject imageset \emph{w.r.t.} to the reference set.
   \item Rank the identified images in decreasing order of importance.
\end{enumerate}
The test product \emph{subject} imageset mentioned here has less than p-threshold($p$=5) number of images in the listing and is our target for improvement. We discuss this scheme's components in following sections starting by building the reference imageset.

\subsection{Building reference imageset}
We built the reference imageset by selecting top-K product listings by popularity belonging to \emph{Clothing} sorted by number of customer average review ratings and number of reviews. This sorting criteria is easily configurable based on available signals.
\subsection{Reference set processing flow}
\label{sec:trainflow}
The reference set images selected like described in the previous section are then passed through a data pipeline (Figure \ref{fig:short}) which
\begin{enumerate}
   \item Reads the image.
   \item Estimates the coordinates of various human body landmarks like \emph{nose, shoulders, knees, wrists, elbows} etc. w.r.t. the image.
   \item Normalizes each of these coordinates w.r.t. to image size.
   \item Creates a vector representing one image from the imageset using the normalized coordinates.
   \item Creates clusters of the vector representation of all the images using K-Means algorithm to detect K centroids, where each centroid corresponds to cluster of similar poses detected in all the images in the train imageset.
   \item Ranks all the centroids for each cohort grouped by attributes like category, subcategory, product type based on occurrence in most popular / best rated products to determine importance of each centroid within the cohort.
\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Detecting the missing images in Test Set}
\label{sec:testflow}
For a given product, all the images are collected as a subject product imageset. To detect the missing images from this subject imageset w.r.t. reference
imageset:
\begin{enumerate}
   \item The model first generates the landmarks / pose embeddings coordinates for all images using the same estimation method as reference dataset.
   \item Then after normalizing these coordinates w.r.t. to image size, the vector embeddings are created.
   \item For each image, the model then finds the nearest centroid corresponding to approximate closest pose w.r.t. reference poses detected in the previous section.
   \item Further each centroid for which there were no images in the subject imageset, is ranked as per popularity criteria defined while training the reference set. Then these missing poses are flagged in the decreasing order of popularity or usefulness as illustrated in Figure \ref{fig:sample}.
\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Proposed image candidates}
After finding the indices / labels corresponding to missing centroid in the inference flow mentioned in previous section, the user can refer the reference imageset to find out the reference images corresponding to these centroids for a given Product.

\begin{figure*}
   \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{Training-Pipeline-autoenc-masked1.jpg}
   \end{center}
      \caption{Training pipeline for missing image detection $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:trainflow}}
   \label{fig:short}
   \end{figure*}

\subsection{Formulation}
Given a set $\mathbf{Q_D} = \{q_1^D, q_2^D..., q_n^D\}$ of $n$ images for a subject product $\mathbf{D}$ in imageset and a universal set $\mathbf{U} = \{u_1, u_2,..u_m\}$ of all the $m$ images of Top-K products in the training product imagesets, the problem is to determine a set $\mathbf{T}$ of tags, $1 \leq i \leq o$, corresponding to $\mathbf{o}$ optimal clusters $C_1, C_2, ..., C_o$ for images from $\mathbf{U}$ and further find a set $t_j \subseteq  \mathbf{T}$, $1 \leq j \leq o$ of tags, corresponding to images in subject imageset $q_{t_j}^D\mid q_{t_j}^D:q_{t_j}^D \not\in \mathbf{Q_D}, 1 \leq j \leq o$.

To calculate these we first determine the ideal $\mathbf{o}$-clusters from the images in $\mathbf{U}$ representing all images of all Product in reference training sets.
Let \{$x_1, x_2,..., x_G\} \in \mathbf{X_v}$ be the vector representation of any image in $\mathbf{U}$, then we determine $\mu_o$ vectors representations of these $\mathbf{o}$-clusters such that we minimize:

$$ \sum_{k=0}^{m}\sum_{i=0}^{G}{\min_{j \in \{0,o\}}(\parallel x_i - \mu_j\parallel^2_m)}$$
Here the vector $\mathbf{X_v}$ is created by using normalized position coordinates of Point of Interests (PoI) from Pose Detection.

Later we determine all the tags $l_j$ so as to maximize the probability $p(q_i\mid \mathbf{X_v})$ of image $I$ to belong to the cluster given by tag
   $l_j \in \mathbf{T}$ such that $$j = argmin{(\parallel x_i^I - \mu_j\parallel^2_I)}\ \forall\ x_i^I \in \mathbf{X_v^I}$$

Further we determine all tags $t_j$'s such that, all tags that are in T but not are detected in the previous step.
$$ t_j = \{t_i : t_i \in \mathbf{T},\ t_i \not \in {l_i} \forall\ 1 \leq i \leq o\}$$
These $t_j$'s will be the missing poses / centroid in the subject imageset w.r.t. $\mathbf{o}$ centroids defined from reference imageset.

\section{Pipeline}
The training pipeline that consists of Pose landmark detection, Embedding generation, the K-means clustering for ideal centroid detection, followed by ranking mechanism is described in the text below. We focus on the dataset creation used in the pipeline, then proceed to individual stages of processing.

\subsection{Dataset}
We aggregated public data from popular e-commerce website's clothing products metadata and listing images, and selected top 3000 most popular products with available image count per product > 9 based on customer ratings, etc. This collection provided us with an imageset of \textasciitilde20K for training. For evaluation purpose, we selected unseen products from the similar selection criteria collection of top products, but such that images per product imageset were < 5.

\subsection{Pose Landmarks}
For experimentation, the Pose Landmark coordinates are estimated using \emph{Blazepose} pretrained implementation of HourGlass style Region detection NN library as well as \emph{MMPose} toolkit pretrained implementation of HRNet. The implementation Blazepose \cite{BlazePose} (MMPose \cite{mmpose2020}) generates 3D coordinates for 33 (HRNet 2D: 17) landmarks points as depicted in Figure~\ref{fig:blazepose}. These coordinates are normalized w.r.t. images dimensions. The pose landmarks are cartesian pixel coordinates w.r.t. to image top left.

   \begin{figure}[H]
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{landmarkpositions_transparent.png}
      \caption{BlazePose landmarks\cite{BlazePose}}
      \label{fig:blazepose}
   \end{figure}

\begin{figure*}
   \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{inferencePipeline_autoenc_masked.jpeg}
   \end{center}
   \caption{Inference pipeline for missing image detection $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:inference}}
   \label{fig:inference}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Embeddings}
The embedding vectors are compiled using landmark coordinates w.r.t. to image size. To add more pose related information, the embeddings are extended by taking various ratios of \emph{x}, \emph{y} coordinates of landmarks to detect the front, side, backview, e.g. $\tfrac{\mathbf{x}_{left\ shoulder}} {\mathbf{x}_{right\ shoulder}}$. Further the \emph{z} components (available only for 3D-model) help identify if the image is close-up, distant pose etc. We generate a 77 (MMpose2D: 61) dimensional vector to store the features thus engineered. These embeddings are calculated for all training as well as test set images.

\subsubsection{Autoencoder Embeddings}
Further to develop efficient representations, the training imageset pose embeddings are fit and transformed through an \emph{Autoencoder} to reduce the dimensionality of the embeddings, and thus learn a compressed representation of raw data to observe an improvement in clustering performance. The autoencoder optimizes for embeddings by minimizing for batchwise contrastive loss.

The Autoencoder we used is a encoder-decoder network which optimizes contrastive loss of 2048 batch size. The encoder is 4 layer fully connected feed forward network (FCFFN) with input dimensionality of embeddings from previous layer and bottleneck size of 8 nodes. The decoder is a 2 layer FCFFN.  It is trained using AdamW optimizer with decay of 0.001 and starting learning rate of 0.1.

\subsection{Clustering}
After generating the embeddings, the pipeline further uses clustering using K-Means implementation of faiss \cite{faiss} library to identify K-centroids which represents mean value of K vectors over the training image set embeddings. The centroid and clusters thus generated signify the embeddings corresponding to the most similar and recurring poses in reference image dataset. The clustering algorithm is fit over flattened representations of all images in the training imageset.

\subsection{Ranking the poses}
After calculating the centroids for the clusters, we determine the suitability order of each of the centroids, which in turn correspond to the poses. To quantify this suitability, for each image in the reference dataset, we estimate the closest pose (represented by the index value of cluster centroid, a value $[0, Num_{poses})$), and then rank these centroids against the target variable which is weighted mean of image's Product's customer average review rating, number of ratings etc. To account for the effect of category, subcategory, and other categorical attributes, we train a GBDT based regressor with these features along with centroids to predict the target variable. This gives us a relative order of a centroid for a given category, subcategory, etc. The Algorithm \ref{alg:training} summarizes the scheme.

\subsection{Inference}
\label{sec:inference}
The inference pipeline (Figure \ref{fig:inference}) follows the same process of PoI detection, embedding generation. However, inference is calculated at per Product listing - imageset. The pipeline calculates the index of nearest centroid corresponding to each image in the imageset. The inference flow is outlined in the
 Algorithm \ref{alg:inference}.

\begin{algorithm}
   \begin{algorithmic}[]
      \State AllCentroids $\gets \{\}$
      \State AllImageVector $\gets [\ ]$
      \State RankVector $\gets$ None
      \For{$i$ = 0 to len(AllTrainingImages)}

      \State landmarks $\gets$ \Call{GetLandmark}{AllTrainingImages[$i$]}

      \State embedding $\gets$ \Call{GetEmbedding}{landmarks}
      \State embedding, AutoencVector $\gets$ \Call{Autoenc}{embedding}

      \State {AllImageVector[$i$] $\gets$ embedding}
      \EndFor
      \State AllImageVector, AutoencVector $\gets$ \Call{Autoenc}{AllImageVector}
      \State AllCentroids $\gets$ \Call{CalcAllCentroids}{AllImageVector}
      \State RankVector $\gets$ \Call{LearnRank}{AllCentroids, AllTrainingImagesData}

      \Return AllCentroids, RankVector, AutoencVector

   \end{algorithmic}
   \caption{Training flow $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:inference}}
   \label{alg:training}
   \end{algorithm}

\begin{algorithm}
\begin{algorithmic}[]
   \State haveCentroids $\gets$ \{\}

   \For{$i$ = 0 to len(ImageSet)}

   \State landmarks $\gets$ \Call{GetLandmark}{ImageSet[$i$]}

   \State embedding $\gets$ \Call{GetEmbedding}{landmarks}
   \State embedding $\gets$ \Call{Autoenc}{AutoencVector, embedding}
   \State centroid $\gets$ \Call{GetNearestCentroid}{embedding}
   \State {haveCentroids $\gets$ haveCentroids\, ||\, centroid}
   \EndFor

   \State MissingCentroids $\gets$ \{\}

   \For{$i$ = 0 to len(AllCentroids) }
   \If{$i$ is not in haveCentroids}
       \State {MissingCentroids $\gets$ MissingCentroids\, ||\, $i$}
   \EndIf
   \EndFor
   \State MissingCentroids $\gets$ \Call{SortCentroidsByRank}{RankVector, MissingCentroids, ProductMetatData}

   \Return MissingCentroids

\end{algorithmic}
\caption{Inference flow $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:inference}}
\label{alg:inference}
\end{algorithm}

The MissingCentroids thus obtained gives the indices of the Centroids corresponding to the pose w.r.t. AllCentroids representing the reference set centroids and are determined during the training phase. In Figure \ref{fig:sample} we observe that $\{D,E,F\}$ are the detected as the missing Centroids in decreasing order of importance, and user can refer the corresponding images from the reference set.

\setcounter{figure}{5}
\begin{figure*
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Results_masked.jpg}
      \caption{Sample imagesets $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:testflow},  $\S$\ref{sec:inference}\\
 The figure shows how the ideal \emph{Reference} imageset has centroids \textbf{A-F} and in the \emph{Predict} imageset only centroids \textbf{A-C} are present, with MissingCentroids indicating $\{D, E, F\}$ to be the missing images in decreasing order of importance. Please refer Appendix appendix \ref{sec:appendix} for more examples.}
   \label{fig:sample}
\end{figure*}

\section{Performance and Evaluation}
\label{sec:perf}
The performance of the model should be evaluated on at least 2 parameters:
\begin{enumerate}
   \item \label{itm:first} \textbf{Quality of clusters generated} - Are the clusters generated for true images cover all variations of images as per cataloguing guidelines.
   \item \label{itm:second} \textbf{Accuracy of clustering of the validation set} - As compared to human labelled images, is clustering enumerating the missing images correctly or not. This in turn depends on the definition of embedding quality.
\end{enumerate}

Item \ref{itm:first} is not quantitatively assessed in the text, however few examples of cluster labels are presented for subjective evaluation in  Table \ref{table:centroiddescription}. This can be addressed quantitatively in future work based on aesthetic evaluations.
Item \ref{itm:second} is assessed based on manual labelling the validation set images. This is achieved by comparing imageset cluster labels predicted by the model vs. manually labelling an image w.r.t. cluster label of most similar image with similar pose from training set images.
\begin{table}[h]
   \centering
   \caption{Variant label model accuracy on different subcategory under Clothing category $\mid$ $\S$\ref{sec:perf}}
   \label{table:accuracy}
   \begin{tabular}{rlp{0.2\linewidth}p{0.2\linewidth}}
      \toprule
       & \multicolumn{2}{c}{BlazePose}&MMPose\\
   \textbf{Subcategory} & \textbf{Accuracy} & \textbf{Accuracy [Autoenc]}& \textbf{Accuracy [Autoenc]}\\
   \midrule
   Polo shirts          & 0.6967 & 0.8264          & \textbf{0.8536}    \\
   T-shirts             & 0.9186 & \textbf{0.9652} & 0.9565             \\
   Men casual shirts    & 0.8442 & 0.8823          & \textbf{0.91089}   \\
   \bottomrule
   \end{tabular}

\end{table}

where the Accuracy is defined as:

$$Accuracy = \frac{Total\ num.\ of\ Labels\ detected\ missing\ by\ model}{True\ num.\ of\ Labels\ missing\ as\ per\ human\ label}$$

The Table \ref{table:accuracy} shows accuracy numbers for PoI coordinates based embedding \emph{Accuracy} and PoI coordinates along with Autoencoder reduced embeddings \emph{[Accuracy[Autoenc]]} for BlazePose implementation of the flow. The column MMPose highlights the Accuracy numbers when embeddings were generated using MMPose2D pose estimation PoI coordinate values. The high accuracy numbers may be misleading because validation set imagesets are having very few images / repeated images, hence large num of centroids are recommended as missing, however this imageset-wise accuracy does count for correct label assignment to each individual image and is certainly indicative of effectiveness of the approach. Each subcategory set in the Table \ref{table:accuracy} had 20 product image sets with 4 or fewer images.

\section{Model implementation notes}
\label{sec:notes}
We observed a few limitations in the current work with the implementation which may or may not be influence business use case, they are as follows:
\begin{itemize}
   \item Blazepose model is not able to output non-trivial coordinates when either of limbs or head is not visible, but MMPose is able to determine coordinates if some boundary structure is available. E.g. in a t-shirt image if neck and above region cropped MMpose is able to identify it as pose. Refer  Figure \ref{fig:tshirte2} in Appendix.
   \item Both Blazepose and MMPose models are not able to distinguish between male and female posers. This is generally not a con as it is seldom required to have both male/females poses in the image set.
   \item Behavior of model is unpredictable when there are more than one posers/apparels in the image.
   \item These models classify all non-human image under 1 centroid. E.g. size-chart, fabric view etc. will be grouped as same pose.
\end{itemize}

\section{Conclusion}
The text discusses a novel and promising approach to recommend images to populate image in listings for a high volume and popular category. This model can be one of the many approaches required to address different aspects like catalogue images with \emph{pose, lighting, color, crop} etc. issue in the image listings. To improve the coverage and accuracy of the model, the processing and data set generation can be improved by adequate data exploratory analysis. The mechanism suggested is free of human bias in the dataset if any, and recommendations thus generated are based on statistics of end user preferences, and product offering by the seller and is easily customizeable for any e-commerce website, given available levels of telemetry data.

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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, als prince de l'Empire 1e hertog van Parma, 1e hertog van Cambacérès (Montpellier, 18 oktober 1753 – Parijs, 8 maart 1824), was een Frans advocaat en staatsman. Hij was een revolutionair die verschillende machtswissels overleefde en die ook onder Napoleon Bonaparte als tweede consul en vervolgens aartskanselier grote invloed had. Hij was medeauteur van de Code Napoléon, die nog steeds de basis vormt van het Franse privaatrecht.

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Cambacérès studeerde rechten aan de universiteit van Montpellier. Zijn vader, Jean-Antoine Cambacérès, was in de jaren 1765 burgemeester van Montpellier, tijdens het ancien régime. In deze ambtsperiode liet hij waterleidingen en fonteinen aanleggen in de stad; hij legde bovendien een waterreservoir aan, met een park er rond, de promenade au Peyrou. Hij was lid van de vrijmetselaarsloge l'Ancienne et la Réunion des Elus.

Van 1789 tot 1797 was Cambacérès parlementslid: eerst voor de Staten-Generaal van het koninkrijk Frankrijk, nadien voor de Convention Nationale en de Raad van Vijfhonderd. Binnen de Conventie behoorde hij tot de Plaine. Hij werd voorzitter van het Comité de législation en stelde uitzonderingswetten op, zoals het decreet van 19 maart 1793 op het buiten de wet stellen van contrarevolutionairen. Na de Thermidoriaanse Reactie zetelde hij herhaaldelijk in het Comité de salut public.

Onder het Directoire verrichte Cambacérès veel wetgevend werk in de Raad van Vijfhonderd. Bij de verkiezingen van 1797 verloor hij zijn zetel. Bij de volgende verkiezingen leek hij zijn terugkeer te maken, maar hij behoorde tot de 106 verkozenen die werden geweerd door de staatsgreep van 22 floréal. In 1799 werkte hij zelf mee aan de staatsgreep van 30 prairial en bekwam hij de portefeuille van Justitie.

Ook de staatsgreep van 18 brumaire kort daarop was hij discreet genegen. Ze leidde tot de heerschappij van eerste consul Napoleon Bonaparte. Deze koos Cambacérès als tweede consul om de revolutionairen tevreden te stellen, terwijl derde consul Charles-François Lebrun de royalistische flank afdekte. Hij was verheugd over het Concordaat van 1801 en zorgde ervoor dat zijn broer Étienne-Hubert de Cambacérès (1756-1818) kardinaal en aartsbisschop werd. In 1803 werd Cambacérès verkozen tot lid van de Académie française. De afkondiging van het Burgerlijk Wetboek in 1804 was voor hem de bekroning van meer dan een decennium codificatiewerk. Datzelfde jaar nam het Consulaat een einde en werd hij aartskanselier van het Eerste Franse Keizerrijk.

Toen in 1814 in Frankrijk de monarchie hersteld werd, trok hij zich terug uit het politieke leven. Tijdens de honderd dagen werd hij in al zijn functies hersteld. Op 2 juni 1815 werd hij benoemd tot Pair de France, voorzitter van de Kamer, en par interim, minister van Justitie, een ministerie geleid door Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe. Na de val van het keizerrijk ging de titel hertog van Parma over naar de vrouw van Napoleon, Marie Louise, die na het Congres van Wenen in 1815 hertogin van Parma werd. Hij gebruikte vanaf dan de titel hertog van Cambacérès.

Als voormalig steunpilaar van het napoleontische regime én "koningsmoordenaar" werd Cambacérès begin 1816 gedwongen in ballingschap te gaan. Dit was de periode van de Restauratie van de monarchie onder Lodewijk XVIII. Zoals velen vestigde hij zich in Brussel. In mei 1818 werd Cambacérès bij koninklijk besluit van de proscriptielijst gehaald en eind dat jaar keerde hij terug naar Frankrijk. Hij kreeg zijn titel van hertog en al zijn bezittingen terug, alsook een rente van de staat als oud-minister.

Hij stierf in 1824 door een beroerte. Zijn begrafenis werd bijgewoond door talrijke hoogwaardigheidsbekleders: 150 koetsen begeleidden de kist naar het kerkhof Père Lachaise in Parijs. Op hetzelfde moment vond in Brussel een kerkdienst plaats voor zijn nagedachtenis, georganiseerd door de daar verblijvende ballingen.

Literatuur
Pierre François Pinaud, Jean-Jacques de Cambacérès, jurisconsulte et homme d'État (1753-1824), onuitgegeven proefschrift, Université de Lille, 1958
Louis Faivre d'Arcier, Cambacérès. L'art de servir tous les régimes, 2015. ISBN 2701164427

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Arriving in Madrid today for the official start of the NATO summit, prime minister António Costa has admitted that Portugal is still not in a position to commit to the Alliance's defence spending target for member countries of 2% of GDP. But Portugal is focused on defence spending of 1.66% of GDP by 2024, he said, and there are "new discussions within the framework of the European Union about the possibility of having community resources to allocate to Defence". Mr Costa described the summit as 'starting in the best way' due to Turkey 'unblocking' its opposition to adherance to the Alliance of Finland and Sweden.


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UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
by Heather Burns
UK policy
Last year I penned a few tech predictions on Hogmanay. They all came true by late May, even the darker ones. It's in that dubious vein of success that I share my thoughts on what might lie ahead for UK internet regulation in 2022.
Policy by whataboutery
The first prediction is a thumpingly obvious one. Throughout the year, we will continue to see quite daft ideas for internet regulation being enthusiastically embraced, on the grounds that any old mince of a plan is worth endorsing if it sticks two fingers up to Big Tech.
As always, policy by whataboutery will be the way that ideas which aren't technically feasible, violate international standards of human rights, or are just plain laughable will be allowed to pass as viable policy proposals, feted on the front pages of the broadsheets. Allowing safety tech lobbyists to gut the Computer Misuse Act in the interests of their surveillance technology? Yeah, but Facebook! Mandatory ID registration required for internet use – no ID, no internet use? Yeah, but Instagram! Up to 26 mandatory online safety compliance processes required for open source projects? Yeah, but OnlyFans! And so on, and so forth.
And as always, policy by yeah but will also take the form of accusing anyone who retorts those daft ideas as being apologists/enablers/shills in the pockets of Big Tech.
That's not to say – and it never is – that Big Tech are the innocent parties or the good guys. What it is to say that it's hard for anyone – politicians, civil society, or the tech companies themselves – to work together to find the right solutions when you're dealing with the policy equivalent of a jealous alcoholic sneering "yeah, but you" in your face every time you point out that he's got shit leaking out of his trouser leg.
The real work, as always, will continue quietly in the background.
At last, a regulatory race to the top
UK tech policy is a cloud cuckoo land where you have a very good regulator – the Competitions and Markets Authority – doing stellar work on content regulation and online safety, despite it not technically being their remit. You also have one mediocre and one unprepared regulator – the ICO and Ofcom – who are actually tasked with platform regulation and online safety as their remit. Throw in the Online Safety Bill's implications for journalism and press regulation, and we have four regulators all working on the same issues in different silos which aren't always theirs to occupy.
(I love Ellen Judson's depiction of the ensuing UK internet regulatory framework as a Jenga tower, where everyone is counting on someone else, in another regulator, to supply their foundation.)
So I'm strangely heartened to see a very good regulator triggering a race to the top, in the context of a pending law which has the potential to be a race to the bottom. Look for the CMA to continue leading on issues such as interoperability, adtech, and media diversity, while the other regulators create a lot of jobs which will involve covering walls with post-it-notes.
I have another prediction, inspired by the CMA's success, about these regulators. All of these bodies are on a hiring spree right now, looking to get the right people in to handle internet regulation. It's no secret that not all of these regulators operate under the healthy distance from government which independent regulators are supposed to have. That fact has not been helped by various Ministers for Digital (who tend to have the lifespan of Spinal Tap drummers, or hamsters) openly stating their intentions to use the online safety framework to censor content in their political interests.
So at some point this year, these regulators – and who knows, maybe even the Minister for Digital /s – will finally suss that you can't get the right people in for internet regulation jobs if they perceive that they're being hired to act as government mouthpieces, or as cudgels to troll the libs. The penny will finally drop that the hiring problem isn't about salaries or remote working – the problem is at the top.
In other words, to get the online strategy it's grasping for, government is going to have to let it go.
This is the BBC in London. Please stand by for an important announcement.
There's only one reason you would ever hear that phrase.
I don't like writing about this, at all. But as uncomfortable as it feels, we are all going to have to engage in that conversation, very soon, about the 95-year-old woman with the broken heart who is quite visibly wasting away.
Prince Philip's passing in April gave companies across the UK a beta test run for handling the death of a senior royal for the first time since 2002. Online service providers weren't exempt from getting into the act; even my train timetabling app deployed a black-and-white colour scheme and a memorial splash screen. For his part, you know that the DoE would have loved being the subject of a grand nationwide technical experiment. But Philip was Philip. The Queen is another matter.
We've never experienced what happens when a royal death, with the global emotional impact of August 1997, meets the social media era. We also haven't had a royal death take place in the context of a national pivot towards nostalgia, imperial revival, and Blitz fanaticism. Very soon, we will.
When that sad day comes, the UK will more or less shut down for a ten days of national mourning. We'll all be at home, not at work, at a very loose end, with not much to do but scroll on our phones. And as with 1997, the national tone and mood will be dictated by Conservative/right-leaning tabloids. What could possibly go wrong.
So I worry – I really do worry – about what will transpire, in the major release after the beta test, for freedom of expression and content moderation. The affectionate nod offered to Prince Philip will give way to the worst of what post-Brexit Britain has to offer. It might well look like this:
Politicians will put pressure on platforms to limit speech, and its reach, which speaks of the Queen and the monarchy with anything other than the most breathless grief and deference.
The Minister for Digital may introduce a negative statutory instrument to impose a temporary lèse majesté law, for legal-but-harmful content about the monarchy, which somehow becomes a permanent Ofcom Code of Practice under the Online Safety Bill.
Repurposed hard-right troll armies will coordinate pile-ons, takedown requests, and doxxes against anyone – be it a journalist or a social media poster – who takes a different tone or fails to exhibit a Daily Express-approved standard of patriotic grief.
It will be one of the ugliest months the internet has ever known. But it will be one that will demonstrate what those of us working on the Online Safety Bill have known for years: the ugliest trolls who pose the greatest threat to the open internet aren't paid provocateurs in call centres in hostile countries. They have titles, suffixes, second and third homes, and good PRs.
And just when we've recovered from all of that, we'll have to go through it all again, a few months later, for the coronation of King Charles III.
An update to this post, added 30 December, inspired by a Twitter comment (my followers rock).
As we brace for the impact of the Queen's passing on our public discourse, it's also worth reflecting on what it will mean for government's online communications. Politico reports that
"in a sign of the times, many of the immediate plans relate to social media….[t]he U.K. government website — GOV.UK — will display a black banner at the top. All government departmental social media pages will also show a black banner and change their profile pictures to their departmental crest. Non-urgent content must not be published. Retweets are explicitly banned unless cleared by the central government head of communications."
In other words, the period of official mourning will be used as leverage for government to go virtually silent for ten days, under a black banner. I'll call this time the Blackout, because that's what it will be, in every sense.
We have no idea what this is going to feel like, because the last time this happened was 1952, when society was hierarchical, information came from one source, authority was never questioned, transparency in government wasn't a concept, and you could generally trust the state to not want to kill you.
(With one notable exception.)
But this isn't 1952. This is 2022, when none of those things are true anymore. And this is 2022, in the midst of the pandemic, economic and social chaos, and leadership a la Boris. We need a Blackout on government intrigues and transparency like we need a hole in the head. But it's coming.
So when it happens, there will be a need for citizens, civil society, and the media to be hypervigilant, both online and off, about what's happening behind the Blackout. Decisions might get pushed through, agreements might be signed, scrutiny might fall by the wayside, backs might be scratched, due diligence might be skipped, and transgressions might be forgiven without due process, all under the cloak of official mourning. Raising the alarm about these things during the period of official mourning will be attacked as unpatriotic, why, an insult to the late Queen.
I think you'll find that patriotism means the exact opposite.
So set up your automatic alerts, load up your RSS feeds, subscribe to newsletters, and more importantly, learn how the machine works. Learn how the gears turn, and learn who turns them. When the Blackout comes, we're going to need a lot of torches.
And now, the joke predictions
(Keeping in mind that when I joke about something it tends to actually happen, leaving me shaking my head at some eejit who wasn't supposed to take me seriously.)
The Minister for Digital will tweet before she thinks, and will trigger a pile-on against a fundamentally good person which finally goes too far, resulting in them having to leave their home and seek physical safety. In response, the Minister for Digital will make it all about herself and will resign, saying she can't take the ensuing abuse directed against her. She will return to her cultural calling of writing nostalgia porn novels for women in care homes. The new Minister for Digital will be an actual hamster.
The Online Safety Bill will be delayed for months after a celebrity Tory donor demands that the Bill cover the misuse of their image in NFTs, while a pressure group will also demand that the Bill cover the money they lost in an NFT scam. They truly believed, in their heart of hearts, that they had purchased the original Macarena Macaroni from 1996.
Two MPs from opposing parties – I'm not naming names, but give me a beer and I will – will overcook their "unregulated Wild West internet" rhetoric, resulting in a public spat over who's going to be the Sheriff and wear the shiny star. ("I'm the sheriff of this here town!" "No, I'M the sheriff of this here town!") Pippa Crerar will scoop a drunken dick fight in a bar in St James.
Tech companies, civil society organisations, and even privacy shamers will finally start to chill out, get over their insecure credentialism, and start to hire people who have actual lived experience in over 25 years of building, making, and evolving the open internet, regardless of the lack of a Ph.D (gasp), law degree (shock), or roster of peer-reviewed papers that like seven people read. Gatekeeping gives way to empathy. Qualifications give way to quality.
..I mean, an unemployed woman with over 25 years of lived experience can live in hope, right?
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Manat azer este unitatea monetară oficială a Azerbaidjanului, (Cod ISO 4217: AZN). (1 manat azer = 100 qəpik).

Etimologie
Cuvântul manat este un împrumut azer din limba rusă: монета, pronunțat: [man'eta], care semnifică "monedă metalică", "mărunțiș". La rândul său, cuvântul rusesc монета a fost împrumutat din limba latină: moneta "monedă", eventual, prin intermediar italian: moneta.

"Manat" era, în epoca sovietică, și denumirea rublei sovietice în limbile azeră și în turkmenă.

Istorie

Primul manat azer (1919 - 1923)
Între 1919 - 1923, în Republica Democratică Azerbaidjan și apoi în Republica Sovietică Socialistă Azerbaidjană, a fost lansat și a circulat propria valută, bancnotele purtau denumirea în două limbi: azeră (în alfabetul arab) și rusă: manat (منات) și rublă (рубль), iar pe bancnotele cu valoarea nominală de 500 manat, denumirea este exprimată și în limba franceză (roubles).

Primul manat azer a înlocuit la valoarea nominală prima versiune a rublei transcaucaziene, la desprinderea Republicii Democratice Azerbaidjan de Republica Federativă Transcaucazia, în 1919.

Primul manat azer nu a avut subdiviziuni și a circulat doar sub formă de bancnote.

Cupiuri
 25, 50, 100, 250 și 500 manat (Republica Democratică Azerbaidjan)
 50, 100, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 25.000, 50.000, 100.000, 250.000, 1.000.000 și 5.000.000 de manat (din Republica Sovietică Socialistă Azerbaidjană).

Acest prim manat azer a fost înlocuit de cea de-a doua versiune a rublei transcaucaziene atunci când, în 1923, RSS Azerbaidjană a fost inclusă în Republica Sovietică Federală Socialistă Transcaucaziană.

Al doilea manat azer (1992 - 2005)
Al doilea manat azer a fost introdus la 15 august 1992. Avea codul ISO 4217 AZM și a înlocuit rubla sovietică cu rata de 10 ruble la 1 manat azer.

Cupiuri
Înainte de reforma din 2006, bancnotele în circulație erau următoarele:
 1, 5, 10, 250 manat (punere în circulație în 1992)
 50, 100, 500, 1000 manat (punere în circulație în 1993)
 10.000 manat (punere în circulație în 1994)
 50.000 manat (punere în circulație în 1996)

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Al treilea manat azer (din 2006)
La 1 ianuarie 2006, vechiul manat azer (Cod ISO: AZM) a fost înlocuit cu noul manat azer (Code ISO : AZN). 1 manat azer nou = 5000 manat vechi. Noile bancnote și monede metalice au fost realizate de către Robert Kalina, unul dintre desenatorii euro.

Prima cotare a acestei monede a fost 1 manat nou = 0,918 US$.

Cupiuri
După 1 ianuarie 2006, în circulație sunt:

Monedele metalice ale noului manat (2006)
 Monede metalice cu valori nominale de 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 și 50 de qəpik (ultima dintre ele este bimetalică, la fel ca și moneda de 2 €).

Bancnotele noului manat (2006)
 Bancnote cu valori nominale de 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 și de 100 de manat.

În urma unui referendum, la 18 martie 2009, Azərbaycan Milli Bankı (în română: "Banca Națională a Azerbaidjanului") a fost redenumită Azərbaycan Mərkəzi Bankı (în română: "Banca Centrală a Azerbaidjanului").

Bibliografie
 Academia Republicii Populare Romîne. Institutul de Lingvistică, Dicționar rus - romîn, Redactor responsabil Gh. Bolocan, Editura Științifică, București, 1964.
 G. Guțu, Dicționar latin-român, Editura Științifică și Enciclopeică, București, 1983.
 Krause, Chester L., and Clifford Mishler (1991). Standard Catalog of World Coins: 1801–1991 (18th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-150-1.
 Pick, Albert (1994). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: General Issues. Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (7th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-207-9.
 Pick, Albert (1990). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: Specialized Issues. Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (6th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-149-8.

Note

Vezi și
 Manat turkmen

Legături externe
   Banca Centrală a Azerbaidjanului
    Bancnote din Azerbaidjan

Manat azer
Monede asiatice


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Huu ist der Name folgender Personen:
 Đặng Hữu Phúc (* 1953), vietnamesischer Pianist und Komponist
 Hữu Mai (1926–2007), vietnamesischer Schriftsteller
 Nguyen Huu Bai, vietnamesischer Politiker
 Phan Hữu Dong (* 1938), vietnamesischer Schwimmer
 Too Huu, vietnamesischer Dichter
 Tran Huu Dung, US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
 Tran Van Huu, vietnamesischer Politiker

Huu steht für folgende Orte:
 Huu Bang, Ort im Distrikt Thach That, Provinz Son Tay, Vietnam

HUU steht für:
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This is a fun deal! You can find select Dr. Seuss books on sale for anywhere from $3.50 to just $5.00 each! While this deal is available in store, you can also find them online as well! That allows you to shop (without having to put on shoes and drive anywhere).
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Tim Murphy talked about how he got started in racing and what he plans on doing next season.
Eddie White told me why he is semi-retired from racing and wonders what he should race next.
It was another cold and dreary day as we saw our first snow fall of the year. It did not stay on any of the roadways but it was on the cars, the grass and left us all with a sinking feeling knowing what is coming down the road. Ugh!
I'll be on the road today as we'll be at the Syracuse Microd Club banquet in Auburn. It will be fun to see everyone again including our car owners, the Kuleszos, as we have not seen them in forever. I can't wait to see you all and can't wait to have some run re-living the season tonight.
Now let's chat more about what we have for you on the Audio Page for today starting with a shat I had while getting my snow tires mounted on the Mercury on Friday. Tim Murphy talked about how he got started in racing, what he plans on doing next season and what he will be selling at next weekend's Northeast Racer's Auction & Trade Show in Syracuse.
Eddie White told me why he is semi-retired from racing, remembers the one time he did race this past season and wonders what he should race next now that Open Sportsman options are so limited.
Tommy Sears remembers his early days in racing and the sacrifices they all made along the way.
Lyle DeVore previews the swap meet at Albany Saratoga Speedway on Sunday and looks ahead.
We had another really good day here at the house as thigs went well on a day that was all about the family. We had a lot going on and so far so good here as we chug along like a lot of you guys.
I'll be doing some work today after the family day on Thursday and I can't wait to get back in the studio chatting again and seeing what is going on with all of you. I'm missing seeing you all but know that the next two weekends will be lots of fun.
Now let's chat more about what is new for today on the Audio Page starting with the second of a series of interviews I hope to do more of this offseason and thanks to Tommy for doing this very personal interview. Tommy Sears remembers his early days in racing and the sacrifices they all made along the way in the latest Racer's Climb interview and talks about when things turned around for him.
Lyle DeVore previews the first ever swap meet at Albany Saratoga Speedway this Sunday, remembers last weekend's event at Lebanon Valley and describes some upgrades they have made.
Jimmy Phelps previews Saturday's Swap Meet at Weedsport Speedway and remembers Charlotte.
Mike Maresca talks about how he did at the World Finals running both a Modified and Late Model.
I had a nice day although it was a busy one with activities for the kids and running around being the number one thing that had to get done. I had to recruit dad too as they had many places to be.
Allie is still in basketball try-outs after making it through the first two days. There was no guarantee that she would make it to day three but here she is. Keep your fingers crossed as she hopes to make the JV team at a very, very big high school.
I'll be in Auburn on Saturday helping out the with Syracuse Microd Club banquet and boy will I miss these dedicated people. The last two years racing with the Kuleszos has been amazing and we've learned so much. We now look ahead to the future and hope we can get back in the 75 car a few more times.
Now let's chat more about what is new on the Audio Page for today starting with news on an event happening this weekend. Jimmy Phelps previews Saturday's Swap Meet at Weedsport Speedway, remembers his races in Charlotte last weekend and reminds folks to see them at the Northeast Racer's Auction & Trade Show.
Mike Maresca talks about how he did at the World Finals running both a Modified and Late Model, explained why they switched to a back up car and looked ahead to some indoor racing.


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Miranda Lambert Talks About Her Divorce
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Miranda Lambert Opens Up About Her Divorce From Blake Shelton
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Miranda Lambert split up from fellow country singer Blake Shelton a little over a year ago, and she's no longer hiding her feelings about it. Her new single "Vice" describes the coping mechanisms someone might turn to while dealing with heartbreak, and she confirmed to Billboard that it's inspired by her own life. "Everybody has a vice. Everybody goes through a time in their life when they run to it a little bit more than when they don't," she explained. "When I'm journaling my life and putting it on paper to a melody and then allowing people to hear it, I can't worry about what somebody might twist it into, because it's not like I'm hiding anything." While she didn't mention the divorce specifically, she did allude to it. "With what I happened to be going through in my life, being honest was never really a choice. Everybody knew anyway. So I just said, I'm gonna journal it, and — good days and bad days — use it for my art," she said. Even if she resorted to her vices, she also got out her feelings about the divorce in a healthy way by letting it fuel her art. "A really positive thing that came out of the hard time in my life was that I grew as a songwriter," she said. "I just hope that ['Vice'] is something that makes people feel, because that's the most important thing."
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Violence against lesbian women highlighted by Sinn Féin MEP
8 August, 2012 - by Martina Anderson MEP
Sinn Féin MEP, Martina Anderson who was a panel member at the recent Pride Talks Back event in Belfast has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution on violence against lesbian women and LGBT rights in Africa.
Ms. Anderson who will be taking up a place on the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights after the summer recess said:
"This recently adopted resolution expresses its acute concern over the arrests, violence, rape and murder of lesbian women in African countries.
"The Parliament noted the situation worsening in many African countries with lesbian women being regularly arrested and being the victims of 'corrective rape' and murders . It was also reported that in other African countries that legal and social conditions are worsening and mention was made of a potentially improving situation in Malawi, where newly appointed president, Joyce Banda aims to decriminalise homosexuality, and in Swaziland where HIV/AIDS prevention efforts are ongoing despite legal threats.
The Sinn Féin MEP continued:
"While the debate in the European Parliament was overwhelmingly supportive of the rights of LGBT people, and especially lesbian women with very strong speeches by MEPs and European Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard it was most disappinting to see the ugly opposition of right wing MEPS to this resolution.
"But despite such opposition based on the spurious argument of not being able to mix criticism of violence against LGBT people with arguments for non-discrimination, I am glad that the European Parliament has adopted this resolution expressing acute concern. While progressive MEPs must keep pushing for equality in Europe, we must also stand in solidarity with oppressed minorities facing grave danger around the world.
"I am most pleased to be joining the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights - a group whose members take a positive stance on LGBT equality issues when they draft reports and amendments, when they vote in the European Parliament, or when they deal with constituency affairs."


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Book review: Beware of tomes bearing Greeks
by Anonymous 01 June 2003
No doubt Attila was also a caring, sensitive soul who believed in 360 degree appraisals.
The list of historical figures about whom management books have not yet been written is becoming alarmingly short. Partha Bose, a former partner in McKinsey, the management consultancy, has just written one about Alexander the Great, which charts the latter's dramatic conquest of the Persian empire in the fourth century BC.
Alexander was a paragon of many noble virtues to which modern investment bank and other managers should aspire. He was open-minded - the result of being tutored by Aristotle - took huge risks and was a charismatic speaker who could win over mutinous troops.
He led from the front by spearheading a Macedonian cavalry charge at the battle of Issus that scattered his Persian foe, for example. He was also an early champion of diversity, adopting foreign dress and giving senior positions in his army to Persian generals whom he had defeated.
While his biggest enemy, the Persian emperor Darius III, never travelled with fewer than 350 concubines, Alexander spent his time with geologists and botanists gathering information about the terrain in front of him. No wonder poor old Darius lost battle after battle.
Some of this seems fair enough. Alexander clearly had exceptional personal qualities, but quite how lessons from his career can be applied to managing a company is less obvious and Bose's attempts to draw parallels are often contrived.
He praises Jamie Dimon, chief executive of Bank One, for showing Alexander-like determination in a speech aimed at inspiring his staff. "What do I think of our competition?" asked Dimon. "I hate them! I want them to bleed."
There is nothing wrong with this kind of speech, Bose tells us. Except that there is. What is wrong with it, as anyone except a management consultant knows, is it is ridiculous. It is the language of an hysteric, not a leader.
Bose then finds a similarity between Alexander towards the end of his career and the management style at Salomon Brothers before its bond trading scandal in 1991.
Like Alexander, Salomon fell prey to over-aggression and vanity. Maybe, but the analogy overlooks the fact that Salomon almost collapsed while Alexander kept on winning battles.
A book examining the career of John Gutfreund, chief executive of Salomon, who resigned after the bank used clients' names to buy US Treasuries without their permission, would surely be more relevant to modern managers than one about Alexander the Great.
The book contains an interesting aside on succession planning. Asked on his deathbed who should inherit his empire, Alexander is thought to have replied: "The strongest." Some companies do not seem to have progressed very much beyond that.
Another similarity with banking is Alexander's precocity. He was at his peak in his 20s and died aged 32.
Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy is highly entertaining. It draws parallels between his career and those of a host of figures ranging from the cricketer Don Bradman to Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York. Almost everyone, in fact, except Attila the Hun.
Unfortunately, most of the parallels are specious and unlikely to help anyone learn how to manage a company.
Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy by Partha Bose is available from Profile Books, priced 14.99
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Is one superior to another in terms of eg. less space needed, faster solving, less backtracking?

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The Bookshop Band.
The Bookshop Band is a musical duo, formed ten years ago as a creative collaboration with an award-winning independent bookshop called Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights. They write songs inspired by books and have toured extensively across bookshops in the UK, Europe and North America, and have released thirteen studio albums. Ben and Beth moved to Dumfries and Galloway in 2017.
Their project is to write and record an album of songs inspired by children's literature in Scotland, both classic and contemporary, including the famous story of Peter Pan, which has direct links to Dumfries and Moat Brae. The album will be produced in a way that may be adapted for performance and also as a self-run educational and fun activity for children's groups.
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New legislation would create a working group to assess the technology's potential applications and possibly recommend policies and state investments to help make Florida a leader in blockchain technology.
Florida may soon join the growing ranks of state governments that are assessing the potential benefits of blockchain technologies.
A newly introduced Senate bill would create a working group to study the technology, with an eye toward understanding how it might "improve processes, increase efficiency, and promote transparency in government" and businesses, according to the text.
The group, which would be established in the state's Department of Management Services, would ultimately compile a report and share their findings with the Governor's office and the state Legislature.
The bill was introduced earlier this month by David Santiago, a state representative and chair of the Gaming Control Subcommittee. It has since been referred to a number of committees for further review. A companion bill has also been introduced.
If passed, Florida would join a growing list of states — including New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Wyoming — that have formed task forces to study the potential benefits of blockchain.
A relatively new phenomenon, blockchain broke onto the national scene in 2008 when a man or group of people named Satoshi Nakamoto wrote a white paper for a cryptocurrency deployed through blockchain technology that came to be known as bitcoin. Blockchain utilizes a system of cryptography to verify and store records of digital transactions, essentially ensuring trust in exchange without the use of third-party enforcement.
As the new Florida bill notes, blockchain has ballooned in market value ever since its inception, going from millions to billions of dollars in just a few short years.
Consequently, the technology has become an intense area of interest for state and federal officials, who see potential in its ability to modernize methods of record keeping, cost savings, and security. President Trump even recently ordered a Pentagon study of its potential benefits for U.S. cybersecurity operations.
Still, some question remains as to blockchain's actual utility. Is it a truly revolutionary technology, or is it simply overhyped and not really that practical? In states where tasks forces have already set about to study the technology, outcomes from those studies have tended to be hopeful.
In Illinois, for instance, where officials have made a comprehensive effort to study blockchain, the state task force's final report predicted it could help create "more responsive, trusted and integrated public services." In Florida, the benefits of the adoption of blockchain technology could be similarly diverse.
It also has the power to centralize operations, reducing reliance on "disparate government computer systems," while also bolstering system security against potential cyberattacks, according to the bill.
The legislation asks that the working group not merely explore potential benefits of the technology, but develop a "master plan" for how the blockchain industry could be fostered and grown throughout the state. The goal, according to the bill, should be for the group to "recommend policies and state investments to help make this state a leader in blockchain technology."


Toronto, Ontario – November 5, 2018. Tidal Royalty Corp. (CSE: RLTY.U) ("Tidal Royalty"), a leading provider of royalty financing to licensed U.S. cannabis operators, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter of intent with Lighthouse Strategies, LLC ("Lighthouse") to make a strategic subscription, by way of private placement, for US $5,000,000 of Lighthouse's Series A membership units (the "Subscription").
Cannabiniers: a "Beverage & Technology" company servicing the regulated cannabis markets, offering equipment, financial, distribution and marketing, and brand management services.
Two Roots Brewing Co.: a microdosed non-alcoholic cannabis-infused craft beer, developed to emulate the rapid onset of alcohol, as well as its rapid dissipation from the body.
Just Society Coffee & Tea Co.: a combination of responsibly-sourced whole tea leaves and single origin coffee and high-quality cannabis flower to create exhilarating blends that delight the senses. These responsibly-formulated microdosed coffees and teas utilize Lighthouse's rapid onset and dissipation technology.
Brewbudz (TM): the world's first 100% compostable and patented line of cannabis-infused single-serve coffee pods that are compatible with all K-Cup® and K-Cup® 2.0 style brewers.
Creative Waters Beverage Company: a line of non-alcoholic adult beverages crafted to emulate the rapid onset and dissipation of alcohol, and provide an alcohol-like bite in the finish.
Concurrently with the Subscription, the parties have entered into a financing arrangement with respect to certain Lighthouse beverage lines. The parties will negotiate in good faith to draft and execute definitive agreements in respect of the transaction, and will release additional particulars upon closing. The closing of the transaction is subject to, among other things, the satisfactory completion of due diligence, which is currently underway, the receipt of all corporate and regulatory approvals, and the closing of a financing transaction by Lighthouse.
The cannabis-infused beverage sector has experienced significant momentum this year. Fortune 500 alcohol company Constellation Brand purchased a controlling interest in Canadian licensed producer Canopy Growth Corporation. Molson Coors Canada entered into a joint venture with licensed producer Hexo Corp. to develop cannabis-infused beverages. In addition, Heineken-owned Lagunitas launched a THC-infused sparkling water in California.
Founded in 2016, Lighthouse has launched or acquired 11 operating businesses. The company employees 160 full and part-time employees and is led by a seasoned management team with executive experience from different industries, including financial services, pharma, manufacturing and advertising. Lighthouse's beverages are currently distributed in Nevada and are scheduled to be released in California in November, with agreements to distribute in an additional 5 states.
This transaction continues to grow Tidal Royalty's portfolio of licensed cannabis operators. Tidal Royalty previously announced an agreement to finance Diem's expansion into Massachusetts, and a binding letter of intent to purchase equity in, and assume a royalty agreement with, AltMed (a vertically-integrated license holder with operations in Arizona and Florida). Tidal Royalty is currently in the process of evaluating multiple additional opportunities across the U.S., including in California, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Michigan. Tidal Royalty intends to provide further information on those opportunities when the respective parties reach an agreement and execute letters of intent.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities law. Forward-looking information is frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or information that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking information contained in this new release is not based on historical facts but instead is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management. Forward-looking information contained in this news release includes, but is not limited to: the ability to enter into definitive documentation in respect of letters of intent currently entered into by Tidal Royalty; the closing of the transaction and satisfaction of the closing conditions; Tidal Royalty's entitlements under the financing arrangement; Tidal Royalty's entitlements as a holder of units in Lighthouse; the ability of Tidal Royalty to enter into additional letters of intent and associated definitive documentation with current or further proposed investee companies, the operating and financial performance of any investee company to be funded by Tidal Royalty from time to time and the ability of Tidal Royalty to generate revenue or realize profit through royalty agreements or equity investments with any future investee companies. Further, this news release contains information provided by third-party sources, including information regarding the properties, characteristics and relative timing of the development of Lighthouse's beverages and topical products, that have not been independently-verified by Tidal Royalty. Forward-looking information contained herein is based on the opinions and reasonable assumptions and estimates of management as at the date hereof and is subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of Tidal Royalty, that could cause actual events or results of Tidal Royalty to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Such factors include: the conclusions of Tidal Royalty's due diligence investigations, the U.S. regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis, including political risks and risks relating to regulatory change, risks relating to anti-money laundering laws and regulation, other governmental and environmental regulation, public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry, risks related to the enforceability of contracts, the requirement by Tidal Royalty to obtain additional financing, the limited operating history of Tidal Royalty, timeliness of government approvals for granting of permits and licences needed by any future investee companies, including licenses to cultivate cannabis, the actual operating and financial performance of any future investee company, competition and other risks affecting Tidal Royalty in particular and the U.S. cannabis industry generally, and the risk factors effecting Tidal Royalty disclosed in the listing statement of Tidal Royalty available at www.sedar.com. Because of such risks, uncertainties and other factors, investors should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking information contained herein. Tidal Royalty is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law. The foregoing statements expressly qualify the forward-looking information contained herein. This release does not constitute an offer for sale of, nor a solicitation for offers to buy, any securities in the United States.


The Resources Legacy Fund's Western Energy Project seeks to protect ecologically important public lands in the Rocky Mountain West that are threatened by fossil energy leasing and development. This renewal grant will support the Project's efforts to secure oil and gas leasing plans in four Western states and defend already adopted plans from being weakened. The project will also defend gains made on 30 million acres of land critical to sage grouse survival that were set off-limits to energy development, as well as regulations that limit the amount of methane that can be released into the atmosphere.


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Watch the 2018 Genovation GXE Electric Corvette do 210 MPH
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It's without a doubt that electric cars can be insanely quick. However, that hasn't really been a part of the Corvette story much at all. Now that may change a bit. The Genovation GXE is just that, an electric Corvette. But make no mistake, this car isn't built to be a boring green machine. It's built for high speed runs as demonstrated in the video below.
The car features an internal permanent magnet dual-stack motor. Don't know what that means? Don't worry about it. All you really need to know is that it puts out a whopping 800 hp and 718 lb-ft of torque. Yep, this thing has a lot of power. More than any production Vette with an internal combustion engine right now.
The car is built on the 2018 Corvette Grand Sport chassis. As you can imagine, not all Vette fans are enthralled with the unique use of the car. The electronics add about 1,000 pounds to the overall weight of the car. However, that doesn't keep this thing from being extremely quick. In the video below, it hits a face-altering 210 mph. You can watch the full run below.
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Wade Thiel divides his time between motorcycles, cars, and the outdoors. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and can be found tinkering in his shed when he isn't writing.
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January 15, 2023 Jon Astbury Architecture, Architecture Article, Architecture News, Home design ideas, Interior Design 0
Architecture studio Bureau has used a rough concrete finish to disguise this small wooden cabin in France as a boulder, distinguishable only by a porthole-style window.
Named Thérèse, the structure is located in the rural grounds of contemporary art space Bermuda outside the town of Sergy and provides space for one person to live comfortably.
Bureau has created a boulder-like cabin in France
Bureau, formerly known as Bureau A, conceived the project as a companion piece to its 2014 project Antoine – a cabin in the Swiss Alps that was also disguised as a boulder.
Both projects pay tribute to the work of Swiss writer Chales-Ferdinand Ramuz, whose novel Derborence tells the story of a shepherd named Antoine who becomes trapped under rocks following a landslide, shortly after his marriage to Thérèse.
It has a rough concrete finish to disguise it in woodland
"Thérèse was thought and built along the same lines as Antoine, creating interconnected dependencies of art and other travelling communities," said Bureau.
"Habitation is political here, as the two shelters are nowhere near commercial or speculative routes or agendas," it continued. "They offer a place to many outside any financial or economic considerations."
All that distinguishes it is a porthole-style window
Nestled in a wooded area close to France's border with Switzerland, all that gives away the presence of the cabin is a single, large porthole-style window.
Underneath Thérèse's rough concrete exterior is a pyramidal timber structure, sitting atop light foundations that give it the potential to be relocated in future.
Textured concrete gives rocky appearance to office in a nature reserve by Rink Tilanus
Inside, the cabin provides enough space for a single person to live comfortably, with room for a portable wood-burning stove, a table with benches and niches for storage.
Beneath the openable porthole window is a bench for viewing the surrounding landscape, alongside a ladder that leads up to a small mezzanine sleeping area.
Underneath the concrete is a wooden structure
Exposed timber panels line the entirety of Thérèse's interior and have also been used to construct the furniture, chosen to provide a warm contrast to the rocky exterior.
A mezzanine is accessed by a ladder
Bureau is an architecture, design and research studio led by architects Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta and Galliane Zamarbide, with offices in Geneva and Lisbon.
As well as the previously completed cabin Antoine, the studio's other projects include an inflatable PVC nightclub in Geneva that was designed to host the annual party of the Federation of Swiss Architects.
The photography is by Dylan Perrenoud.
The post Bureau conceals Thérèse cabin in France with boulder-like concrete finish appeared first on Dezeen.
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Papa John's CEO John Schnatter is stepping down after his remarkably dumb comments about the NFL protests drew backlash.
Geraldo Rivera has some explaining to do.
Johnny Bobbitt Jr.'s selflessness is paying off big time.