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Q: Choose numbers that add up to a specific number (with a twist) I wanted to solve a riddle in the adventure game 'Book of Unwritten Tales 2' with the help of Prolog to further my knowledge of this specific language.
Find 3 out of 9 numbers that will add to 41.
You have to choose a number three times. Each time the choice is from a fixed different grouping of 3 out of the 9 numbers. The order of the Groups is fixed. The choices are combined with either a minus or plus operand which is not the sign of the number itself but tells how it will be algebraically linked with the next number (the twist).
Example Groups to pick from:

*

*(65 +)
(17 -)
(37 +)

*(50 -)
(23 -)
(27 +)

*(33)
(47)
(45)
The correct solution would be
(65+) (23-) (47) = 41
i.e. 65 + 23 - 47 = 41

My program below only finds the following incorrect solution
(17 -) (23 +) (47) = 41
(17 -) (23 -) (47) = -53
which is incorrect since in grouping #2 only (23 -) is available, not (23 +) .
addX(X,Y,S) :- X is S - Y.

e(X,S,R) :- ( (addX( X,65,      S),R='65 +') ; (addX( X,17, -1 * S),R = '17 -') ; (addX( X,37,S),R = '37 +') ),X=0.
d(X,S,R) :-   (addX( X,50, -1 * S),R='50 -') ; (addX( X,23, -1 * S),R = '23 -') ; (addX( X,27,S),R = '27 +').
c(X,S,R) :-   (addX( X,33,      S),R='33  ') ; (addX( X,47,      S),R = '47  ') ; (addX( X,45,S),R = '45  ').

solve(Sum,Res5,Res4,Res3) :- c(Xc,Sum,Res3),d(Xd,Xc,Res4),e(Xe,Xd,Res5).

?- solve(41,X1,X2,X3).
X1 = '17 -',
X2 = '23 -',
X3 = 47 ;
false.

The problem is that the operators are not applied correctly.
So i tried fixing it by having the sign returned by the nested call.
addX(X,Y,S) :- X is S - Y.

e(X,S,R,SI,SO) :- ( (addX( X,65,S),R=65,SO= 1) ; (addX( X,17,S),R = 17,SO= -1) ; (addX( X,37,S),R = 37,SO= 1) ),X=0.
d(X,S,R,SI,SO) :-   (addX( X,SI*50,S),R=50,SO= -1) ; (addX( X,SI*23,S),R = 23,SO= -1) ; (addX( X,SI*27,S),R = 27,SO= 1).
c(X,S,R,SI,SO) :-   (addX( X,SI*33,S),R=33,SO= 1) ; (addX( X,SI*47,S),R = 47,SO= 1) ; (addX( X,SI*45,S),R = 45,SO= 1).

solve(Sum,Res3,Res4,Res5) :- e(Xe,Xd,Res5,1,SO5),d(Xd,Xc,Res4,SO5,SO4),c(Xc,Sum,Res3,SO4,SO3).

Unfortunately this results in the following Runtime Error:
?- solve(41,X1,X2,X3).
ERROR: is/2: Arguments are not sufficiently instantiated

Any help appreciated!

A: a 'declarative' solution  (or is an ugly hack ?) to this nice puzzle
:- op(100, xf, +).
:- op(100, xf, -).

test(X,Y,Z) :-
    member(X, [65 +, 17 -, 37 +]),
    member(Y, [50 -, 23 -, 27 +]),
    member(Z, [33  , 47  , 45  ]),
    combine(X, Y, Z, E), 41 is E.

combine(X -, Y -, Z, X - Y - Z).
combine(X -, Y +, Z, X - Y + Z).
combine(X +, Y -, Z, X + Y - Z).
combine(X +, Y +, Z, X + Y + Z).

a more generic solution is surprisingly difficult, albeit shorter...
test(X,Y,Z) :-
    member(X, [65 +, 17 -, 37 +]),
    member(Y, [50 -, 23 -, 27 +]),
    member(Z, [33  , 47  , 45  ]),
    eval([X, Y, Z], E), 41 is E.
    %combine(X, Y, Z, E), 41 is E.

eval([H|T], E) :- H =.. [Op,N], eval(Op,N,T,E).
eval(Op,X,[H|T], E) :-
   H =.. [Op1,M], Q =.. [Op,X,M], eval(Op1,Q,T,E)
 ; E =.. [Op,X,H].

A: Since @CapelliC's solution didn't turn out to be an ugly hack, and his and @lurker's are both sufficiently elegant and useful, I thought I'd take the liberty of answering with a truly ugly hack.
This is surely not a good way of solving the problem. But it does work!
puzzle(P) :-
    P = [
            ['65 +', '17 -', '37 +'],
            ['50 -', '23 -', '27 +'],
            ['33', '47', '45']
        ].

puzzle_solution(Puzzle, Sum, Expr) :-
    maplist(member, Ps, Puzzle),
    atomic_list_concat(Ps, ' ', ExprAtom),
    term_to_atom(Expr, ExprAtom),
    Sum is Expr.

A: I would take a different approach. First, I would choose a more manipulable representation of the data. Each pairing of number with operation:

*

*[(65,(+)), (17,(-)), (37, (+))]

*[(50, (-)), (23, (-)), (27, (+))]

*[33, 47, 45]
Here, the number/operation pairs are, (N, (op)). This term will let us pick out the number and the operator very easily. The extra parentheses are required around the operator for syntactical reasons in Prolog. You might also choose a form such as, [[65,+], [17,-], [37,+]] or [t(65,+), t(17,-), t(37,+)].
Then, to query the problem, I choose to pass this set of information as a list of the above lists. The query would look like:
solve(41, [[(65,(+)),(17,(-)),(37,(+))],[(50,(-)),(23,(-)),(27,(+))],[(33),(47),(45)]], Result).

I could choose to pass the above 3 lists as separate arguments, but the list of lists is more scalable if you wanted to change the number of lists. What I expect to see for Result is the list, in order, of one item chosen from each of the above 3 lists such that the evaluation of that list is 41.
Then a solution would go through each element of the list of lists, select a member from each element, evaluate the results of that selection, and compare that result with the sum argument (in this case, 41).
%  Solve the summation problem

solve(Sum, [C|Choices], [A|Results]) :-
    member(A, C),
    solve(Sum, A, Choices, Results).
solve(Sum, (N1,Op1), [C|Choices], [(N2,Op2)|Results]) :-
    member((N2,Op2), C),
    Term =.. [Op1, N1, N2],
    S is Term,
    solve(Sum, (S,Op2), Choices, Results).
solve(Sum, (N1,Op1), [C], [N2]) :-
    member(N2, C),
    Term =.. [Op1, N1, N2],
    Sum is Term.

Running this query:
| ?-  solve(41, [[(65,(+)),(17,(-)),(37,(+))],[(50,(-)),(23,(-)),(27,(+))],[(33),(47),(45)]], R).

R = [(65,(+)),(23,(-)),47] ? ;

no

By using a variable for the first argument, you can see the possible combinations of results:
| ?-  solve(S, [[(65,(+)),(17,(-)),(37,(+))],[(50,(-)),(23,(-)),(27,(+))],[(33),(47),(45)]], R).

R = [(65,(+)),(50,(-)),33]
S = 82 ? ;

R = [(65,(+)),(50,(-)),47]
S = 68 ? ;

R = [(65,(+)),(50,(-)),45]
S = 70 ? ;
...

This solution is easily scalable just by varying the lists in 1, 2, and 3 above. You can have two or more lists, or different length lists.

And if I may steal aBathologists maplist idea, a variation on this solution would be:

solve(Sum, Choices, Results) :-
    maplist(member, Results, Choices),
    evaluate(Results, Sum).

evaluate([(N1,Op1), (N2,Op2)|Ops], Sum) :-
    Term =.. [Op1, N1, N2],              % form a term with first two
    S is Term,                           % Evaluate the Term
    evaluate([(S,Op2)|Ops], Sum).        % Evaluate the remaining terms
evaluate([(N1,Op),N2], Sum) :-           % Evaluate last term
    Term =.. [Op, N1, N2],               % Form a term
    Sum is Term.                         % Check final sum

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Penang Street Art... the way I see it...
Being born a Penangite.. I have not been back to Penang in ages and so this trip, I left my little daughter behind and decided to go back to Penang as a tourist would and see Penang in a different way. And so I did.. It was fun. I am not sure if I walked so much in my life... I probably did but this was under a blazing sun and I got half sunburnt from just going around on foot.... Anyway, these are the street arts from various artists I came across.... There are actually so many beautiful street arts in Penang now and hard to see them all in just a matter of hours.
The Awaiting Trishaw Paddler is a giant mural that graces the wall of a building on Penang Road (towards Bayview City Hotel , E&O), Penang.
The Awaiting Trishaw Paddler mural was one of those painted by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic, as part of the Mirrors George Town project. It measures 15.2 m by 15.2 m, and is probably the largest of the murals painted by Zacharevic in George Town.
Little Girl in Blue is a giant mural on the wall on Muntri Street, facing the compound of the Penang Goldsmith Association. The mural is the work of Lithuania-born artist Ernest Zacharevic. It was painting as part of the street art for the 2012 George Town Festival.
"The Girl in Blue" shows a little girl lifting herself up on both hands perched over the two windows.
Ting Ting Thong is a steel-rod sculpture located along Seck Chuan Lane, in George Town Penang. It is created by Sculpture at Work for the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP), based on caricature of local cartoonist Baba Chuah.
The "Ting Ting Thong" sculpture celebrates a local delicacy from time past, when itinerant hawkers would go street by street to peddle rock candy. These candies appealed to children who will often congregate whenever they hear the rock candyman coming. He is often called the "ting ting thong", an onomatopoeia for the sound made by his chisel breaking the hard-as-rock candy.
The "Kandar" Sculpture is the second steel-rod sculpture to be installed on Ah Quee Street in George Town, Penang. It celebrates nasi kandar, a Tamil Muslim rice meal that was originally sold in itinerant manner on the street. The name kandar refers to the pole used to carry the food items about. (pic above and below)
The hungry dog mural can be found , opposite the real Bruce Lee would never do this mural... behind a building at Ah Quee Street, George Town (or more specifically, behind the 'motorcyclist boy mural' and 'dying art' building).
The Bruce Lee Cat Mural, officially called The Real Bruce Lee Would Never Do This, is the third of twelve cat murals painted by ASA, Artists for Stray Animals, for the 101 Lost Kittens project. It shows two stray cats being delivered a kick from the kungfu legend, one of which was sent flying.
The mural was not intended for people to emulate, but rather to remind the public to treat the stray cats well. A notice is placed under it stating its title in three languages, Malay, English and Chinese, saying that the real Bruce Lee never did this to cats.
"Boy on a Bike" is painted on the sidedoor of a shophouse along Ah Quee Street. It shows a boy hanging out on his motorcycle as he watches the pedestrian traffic passing by along the street. The mural is immediately to the right of another Zacharevic piece, "Little Boy with Pet Dinosaur" which is however sadly fading away...
The "Double Role" Sculpture is a steel-rod sculpture installed on a wall on Chulia Street Ghaut, in George Town, Penang. This is one of the steel-rod sculptures installed in February, 2013. Located near the junction with Beach Street, it depicts a Punjabi man morphing between a role as policeman and another as firefighter. A red fire hose barrel completes the sculpture.
Yeoh Only is a steel-rod sculpture installed on the wall of Yeoh Kongsi, along Chulia Street Ghaut, George Town. It celebrates the Yeoh clan association which was founded in 1836 to look into the welfare of the newly arrived Yeoh clansmen.
The "Yeoh Only" Sculpture depicts a band of newly arrived immigrants identifying themselves to the host receiving them.
The "Property" sculpture celebrates the extension of the shoreline from Beach Street to Weld Quay, creating additional space the construction of warehouses, stores and other commercial properties. It also serves as a reminder that land reclamation has been ongoing in Penang since the late 19th century.
One of the reason for the land reclamation was that sailing ships (as represented by the junk in the picture) was being phased out at that time with the introduction of steam ships that require deeper harbour. On the left side of the picture is an Indian coolie posting a signage which alas, misspelled "reclamation".
Fortune Cat is the second of twelve cat murals under the 101 Lost Kittens project. Officially called "Love Me Like Your Fortune Cat", it was painted by the team of artists calling themselves ASA, or Artists for Stray Animals.
The Fortune Cat Mural depicts a cat gazing at a group of "fortune cats", perhaps pondering why they have better luck than him. Fortune cats are cat dolls that are often found in Japanese and Taiwanese restaurants, particularly near the cash register, beckoning patrons into the shop. Such dolls, called maneki-neko in Japanese, are believed by shopkeepers to bring good business. In this mural, the Fortune Cats are depicted in stencil while the cat as a painted artwork.
The 102nd Cat Mural is an additional cat mural that was added to the streets of George Town, Penang. Completed on 5 July, 2013, it graces a wall along Armenian Street Ghaut, across the road from the Skippy mural and a short distance from the Fortune Cat mural.
The 102nd Cat Mural mural is painted on the wall in front of a bicycle-rental shop. The only blue cat mural, it serves as a postscript to the 101 Lost Kittens project.
"Skippy", or in full, "Skippy Comes to Penang", and often called simply as the Giant Cat Mural, is part a project called 101 Lost Kittens, the work of a group of artists which calls themselves ASA, or Artists for Stray Animals. It comprises Tang Yeok Khang of Bukit Mertajam, Natthaton Muangkliang of Thailand and Louise Low of Kuala Lumpur.
The Giant Cat mural is one of the murals being painted to create awareness of the need to protect animals and get people to foster a love for pets.
The Giant Rat Mural is an accompanying artwork to the Giant Cat Mural along Armenian Street Ghaut, in George Town, Penang. The rat mural was in fact created by an anonymous artist.
The Giant Rat Mural depicts a giant rat, not unlike Remy from Ratatoille. He appears to be hiding around the corner, away from the pussy cat on the adjoining wall. Both can be viewed together as one, showing that the two are almost eyeing each other.
Please Care & Bathe Me (working title: "Two Kittens in a Tub") is the fourth mural painted by the ASA (Artists for Stray Animals) team for the 101 Lost Kittens project. It depicts two rather bushy kittens, looking pensive, as they started out of a line-design tube. The mural is painted on a yellow wall.
Little Children on a Bicycle is a mural on the wall of a shophouse on Armenian Street, George Town. It is one of the two murals along that street painted by London-trained artist Ernest Zacharevic, in conjunction with the 2012 George Town Festival. It depicts a little girl taking her younger brother on a bicycle ride. The joy in their faces echoes down the street, providing a ray of cheer and adding character to Armenian Street.
I Can Help Catch Rats is the 10th of eleven pieces of art created for the 101 Lost Kittens project. The mural is painted on the wall of an alleyway, which is one of the branches of Soo Hong Lane, by a group of artists calling themselves ASA (Artists for Stray Animals).
"I Can Help Catch Rats" mural depicts a cat prancing after a rat, or perhaps mouse. It is painted against three primary colours, yellow, red and blue, with the cat and rat occupying the red circle. The mural is intended to generate a desire among the locals to keep cats as pets, as they bring along the benefit of keeping down household rodents.
Wo Ai Nee Chinese Malay Indian is a wall mural in George Town, Penang. It graces the side wall of the I-Box Museum of Glass along Armenian Street. The mural was done in stages and was completed around September, 2013. It depicts three girls, a Chinese, a Malay and an Indian, dressed in exquisite finery. The title of the mural means "I love you, Chinese, Malay and Indian".
Too Narrow is a Sculpture at Work sculpture erected at Soo Hong Lane, George Town, Penang. It is on the wall near the junction with Armenian Street. The sculpture depicts a boisterous ricksaw man breaking away from his rickshaw, which is too wide to enter the lane, and the ricksaw man continued down the lane, leaving his passengers behind.
Too Narrow is a caricature by cartoonist Tang Mun Kian to provide an amusing insight into the characteristic of Soo Hong Lane.
The Head of the Lion , Armenien Street just in front of the i-Box Museum of Glass's entrance.
Cartoon magic on the panels of a metal shop-front door in the old town along Armenian Street too...
Procession is a steel-rod sculpture on Armenian Street, George Town. If you are coming from the junction with Cannon and Pitt Streets, it is on the wall to your left, after the big "Old Man" mural by Ernest Zacharevic. The sculpture depicts the Grand Float Procession held in 1926 to celebrate the birthday of Tua Pek Kong. As it was the Year of the Tiger, effigies of the tiger was carried through the streets (accompanied by the second Chingay procession in George Town). Observing the procession is a British tourist who remembers the last tiger shot in 1930 (an impossibility as the Tua Pek Kong Grand Procession actually took place in 1926).
The caricature was drawn by local cartoonist Tang Mun Kian and depicted as a steel-rod sculpture by Sculpture at Work.
The "Then & Now" Sculpture is a steel-rod sculpture on a wall in Armenian Street.
Reaching Up is a mural painted on a wall along Cannon Street, George Town.
"Reaching Up" depicts a little boy reaching for a hole in the wall. He appears to be standing on a chair and inching himself as high as he could reach like he is reading to peek in somewhere. The locals call him the "budak mengendap" or peekaboo kid.
The painting was created by Ernest Zacharevic in conjunction with the 2012 George Town Festival. Since its completion, it has grown increasing number of visitors coming to take photos with it.
For a map of these street art (and more) please click HERE
For more street art of Penang, please see here too :https://www.facebook.com/groups/penangstreetart/
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We're officially out of the ice age.
Hockey analytics took another step forward in the 2015-2016 season as the revolution continues to sweep across the sport. Teams continued to expand or start their own analytics departments, and the Arizona Coyotes named stat whiz John Chayka their general manager at just 26 years old – giving a sign as to where the future of the game is headed.
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Did Corsi do a good job in showing which players were the most productive?
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Two of the top three skaters in CF% for 2015-2016 were frequent linemates Milan Lucic and Tyler Toffoli, who combined for an impressive 51 goals, 62 assists, and 113 points. Brayden McNabb and Drew Doughty were also amongst the league's best defensemen combinations, helping produce 38 goals and only 30 goals allowed while on the ice together.
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For the 2015-2016 season, this looked to be the case as shown by this plot. There are plenty of reasons to explain this relationship, with the best example being at the top of the offensive zone start % leader board.
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The preferred advanced metric in the hockey analytics community is the PDO. PDO is not an acronym – it is instead simply a team's shooting percentage plus their save percentage.
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All of these advanced metrics help us gain more insight into players and teams, but are merely pieces of the evaluation process. These metrics are important but don't always outweigh the simple assessment techniques of a player's goal and assist totals – or the good old-fashioned eye test.
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Q: Evaluating the integral $\int \frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}dx$
Evaluate $$\int \frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}dx$$

I tried converting in the form of Quotient rule(seeing the square in the denominator), neither am I able to make the denominators' derivative in the numerator. Some hints would be great. Thanks.

A: Let $\displaystyle u=\frac{x^2+x}{xe^x}=(x+1)e^{-x}$ and $\displaystyle dv=\frac{xe^x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}dx,\;$ so $\displaystyle du=-xe^{-x}dx$ and $\displaystyle v=\frac{e^x}{e^x+x+1}$.
Then $\displaystyle\int\frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}dx=(x+1)e^{-x}\cdot\frac{e^x}{e^x+x+1}-\int-\frac{x}{e^x+x+1}dx=\frac{x+1}{e^x+x+1}+\int\frac{x}{e^x+x+1}dx$
$\displaystyle\hspace{.2 in}=\frac{x+1}{e^x+x+1}+\int\frac{e^x+x+1}{e^x+x+1}dx-\int\frac{e^x+1}{e^x+x+1}dx=\frac{x+1}{e^x+x+1}+x-\ln\big|e^x+x+1\big|+C$

A: One may observe that
$$
\begin{align}
\left(\frac{x+1}{e^x+x+1}\right)'&=\frac{1 \times(e^x+x+1)-(x+1)(e^x+1)}{(e^x+x+1)^2}
\\\\&=\frac{(e^x+x+1)-(x+1)(e^x+x+1)+x(x+1)}{(e^x+x+1)^2}
\\\\&=\frac{-x(e^x+x+1)}{(e^x+x+1)^2}+\frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}
\\\\&=\frac{\left((e^x+x+1)'-(e^x+x+1)\right)(e^x+x+1)}{(e^x+x+1)^2}+\frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}
\\\\&=\frac{(e^x+x+1)'}{(e^x+x+1)}-1+\frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}
\end{align}
$$ giving

$$
\int \frac{x^2+x}{(e^x+x+1)^2}dx=x-\ln\left|e^x+x+1\right|+\frac{x+1}{e^x+x+1}+C
$$

for any constant $C$.


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Foreign Policy Politicians
by LanoitYarco March 23, 2009 February 13, 2019 021
There can be no doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is playing the Muslim card to the detriment of Israel. His appeasement of Iran, the epicenter of global terrorism, is especially troubling, to Americans as well as Israelis. Obama's Middle East advisers have consorted not only with Hamas, an Iranian proxy, but also with Syria, a terrorist state. The Obama government is helping the Palestinian (terrorist) Authority to establish a military training base in Jericho. All this substantiates a March 19 report in Israel Today. I quote:
A former top US intelligence official warns that the Obama Administration is about to break America's long ties of friendship with Israel, and maybe even take steps toward the dissolution of the Jewish state. Speaking on condition of anonymity to Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network, the source said: "The Obama Administration … is preparing to provide more support to Arab countries [with] financial and military aid, undercutting Israel's defense efforts while pushing Israel to succumb to the pressure of unreasonable demands designed to end with their political annihilation as a nation."
In Sleeping with the Devil, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer reveals that former high officials in Washington luxuriate on the Saudi payroll. The Saudis energize US support for a Palestinian state. Saudi petro-dollars build mosques and buy influence in American universities. They are driving a wedge between America and Israel—and Obama is accelerating the process….
Infected by multiculturalism, Obama is inclined to subordinate American foreign policy to the United Nations, an organization largely dominated by Arab-Islamic regimes. His radical left-wing supporters want to undermine the sovereignty of the United States, the only nation that can save Western civilization from Islamic totalitarianism.
Obama's political ideas and economic program will concentrate more and more power in the Federal Government at the expense of the States, contrary to the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. "Regime change" is brewing in Washington. That's what Obama's campaign slogan of "Change!" really means. This bodes ill for America and more immediately for Israel.
Despite Israel's friendship with Americans in general, and Christian Zionists in particular, Israel cannot afford to continue its servile relation to the United States. This would not be in the best interests of either country given Obama's mentality, which, by virtue of his pro-UN and pro-Muslim leanings, is anti-American and anti-Israel. One way to render Israel more independent of the US is for Israel to play the Russian card.
Although I believe that what is truly good for America is good for Israel and vice-versa, let's talk realpolitik. Nations are governed by interests, not friendship. While France helped Saddam construct the Osirak reactor, the US facilitated its construction by economic aid to Iraq despite the existential threat to Israel. But can Israel change Moscow's priorities in the Middle East?
… Russia is in bad shape. Its economy is concentrated on oil, whose price is falling; its population is sickly; its ethnicity is evaporating; and it's worried about Islam and Jihadism from within.
Now juxtapose a snippet on Israeli accomplishments: mini-medical submarines that deliver drugs to individual cancer cells in your body; bionic noses used as bomb sniffers; tiny chemical laboratories on a chip to monitor water pollution; self-cleaning materials that mimic a bird's feathers. Russia is aware of the superiority of Israeli nanotech scientists and engineers. Russia can profit more from Israel than from Iran or Islamdom.
Russia certainly does not want Iran to control the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf—inevitable if Iran has nuclear weapons. Nor does it want Iran to export Jihadism to Russia's own Muslim population. Since Israel provided America with the world's most extensive experience in homeland defense against terrorism, Russia would welcome the same services.
Israel has over a million Russian citizens, the electoral base of Avigdor Lieberman. In a poll published by Yedioth Ahronoth in September 2006, Lieberman had more support than any politician except Netanyahu to be the next Prime Minister of Israel. If Lieberman becomes Israel's Foreign Minister, this could be of tremendous strategic significance. Since Lieberman has no sterling reputation in the United States, he will be more disposed to playing the Russian card and thus make Israel less dependent on Washington….
To be sure, Lieberman, a secularist, supports a Palestinian state. But the same may be said of Netanyahu, who is hardly religious. Lieberman's insistence on strategic autonomy in certain areas of foreign affairs, especially Iran, calls to mind doubts that Netanyahu has the guts to order a strike on Iran or to pursue a more independent foreign policy vis-à-vis the United States.
Netanyahu voters are not very confident in his political fortitude. The same cannot easily be said of Lieberman's voters…. Of course, there are enormous obstacles and hazards shifting Israel from its unqualified alliance with the USA to a qualified alliance with Russia. But given a hostile Obama Administration, Israel needs to think in radical terms. Here is what I have in mind:
First, given Lieberman's prime ministerial ambitions, he may be induced to flip-flop again on the Palestinian state issue if only because Israel's Russian voters have a low opinion of Muslims.
Second, Lieberman reportedly plans to harness Foreign Ministry resources to promote aliya and place Israel at the head of the Jewish world. 260,000 Jews live in Russia, and 900,000 additional Russians are eligible for aliya under the "grandfather clause" of the Law of Return.
Third, Russian and other immigrants should be given favored treatment if they settle in Judea and Samaria. They should receive a one-acre freehold provided they remain thereon for six years. Of course, this would antagonize the Obama administration. But with Lieberman playing the Russian card (with his eye on the premiership), Israel may be positioned to pursue a more independent foreign policy.
Of course, Russia has strategic ambitions in the Middle East, and Lieberman's political career is not cause for great trust—although ambiguity about Lieberman can be a plus in realpolitik. Better to have a man with cunning and guts to shape Israel's foreign policy than a wimp.
Postscript July 9, 2009.
Since the Obama-led government of the United States is allied with Israel's mortal enemy, the Muslim world, Israel must regard the Obama government as its mortal enemy, any pronouncements to the contrary notwithstanding. And since the Obama-led government is committed to undermining the basic principles of America's Founding Fathers—principles rooted in the Judeo-Christian heritage—Israel should be all the more profoundly committed to thwarting the perfidious designed of the Obama government.
To this end, Israel's first priority is to maximize its military-industrial power. Israel should abandon timidity and make known, in subtle and non-provocative terms, its enormous power. Israel should seriously consider resigning from the United Nations. After all, it has no substantial influence in that den of iniquity, and it can no longer count on the United States to veto anti-Israel UN Resolutions. Israel's resignation from the UN would be applauded by middle America. Israel may even want to propose the establishment of a United Nations of constitutional democracies.
But Israel's basic goal should be to distance itself from the United States and forge new strategic alliances.
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Iranian, American, and Israeli Grievances: A Question of Revolution


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Hudson Valley 2020 Fireworks: 4th of July Celebrations Guide
Jackie Corley
Jackie Corley Published: July 1, 2020
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The global coronavirus pandemic has upended many of the ordinary pleasures we've taken for granted. Unfortunately, it looks like you can add fireworks to that list.
Many Hudson Valley towns have canceled their fireworks shows this year. Why? Many fireworks activities take place around town festivals or gatherings. Local leaders were understandably concerned that such group gatherings could increase risk for exposure. Others didn't believe it was logistically possible for them to set up preventative measures to mitigate the risk: a town's live events take an army of recreation department staff and other town employees to put on in the best of circumstances; changes needed to comply with current social distancing guidelines might not have been possible for all town events. Financial considerations also play a role. Fireworks displays can be costly and local municipalities and counties have seen coffers depleted by increased expenses associated with responding locally to the coronavirus and decreased revenue from taxes.
Some of the bigger fireworks displays that have been canceled for 2020 include those in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Saugerties, Cornwall, Maybrook, Germantown, Liberty, Plattekill, Monroe and Highlands Falls, among others.
Other fireworks events such as those in Brewster and Wallkill are still tentatively slated to go on but awaiting a confirmed date this year.
With fewer fireworks planned this year, maybe the events that do go on as planned will give us a greater appreciation for festivities we've taken for granted over the years.
Several municipalities are still coordinating their 4th of July celebrations, and we'll be sure to add them as soon as they appear. Did we miss a fireworks show near you? Contact jackie.corley@townsquaremedia.com with details and we'll get your town's event on the map.
*An asterisk indicates a 4th of July event or festival that does not include fireworks.
***Three asterisks indicate a change in schedule due to weather.
Before July 4
Time: 5 p.m.
Address: 299 Whitfield Road, Accord, NY 12404
Admission Price: Special event pricing has not yet been announced.
Details: Accord Speedway's fireworks have a rain date of July 10.
Village of Catskill
Time: Dusk
Address: Dutchman's Landing Park, Main Street, Village of Catskill, NY
Admission Price: Free
Details: A band will perform and fireworks will take place at dusk.
East Fishkill
Address: 392 Route 376, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
Details: A concert will take place at Hopewell Recreation Park Pavilion featuring Andy & the Newhearts at 7PM and fireworks 9:15PM.
Address: Silo Ridge Field Club, 217 Depot Hill Road, Amenia, NY
Details: Dutchess County will host fireworks displays at three locations for 4th of July. Gates will open to vehicles at 7:30PM but parking is limited.
Time: Fireworks at dusk
Address: Angelo Canna Park, Mountain Avenue, Cairo, NY
Details: The Town of Cairo will hold 4th of July fireworks at dusk at the town park.
Cornwall*
Address: Cornwall4th.org
Details: Cornwall's historic 4th of July festivities will be presented virtually through its website this year. A drive-by parade of emergency vehicles will take place in the evening.
Address: Old V.A.W. building near Joseph Y. Resnick Airport
Details: The Ellenville 4th of July parade and fireworks will take place this year, though the parade is being reworked to follow state guidelines. Fireworks will be held at dusk behind the Old V.A.W. building near Joseph Y. Resnick Airport.
New Windsor*
Time: 1PM & 4PM
Address: Knox's Headquarters 289, Old Forge Hill Rd, New Windsor, NY 12553
Details: Knox's Headquarters will hold a small cannon firing on the 4th of July at 1PM and 4PM to celebrate independence day.
Address: Dutchess County Fairgrounds, 6636 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY
Town of Ulster
Address: TechCity Parking Lot, 300 Enterprise Drive, Kingston, NY
Details: Ulster County will host a fireworks display at the TechCity Parking Lot. The lot will open to cars at 7:30PM and the fireworks will take place at dusk.
Town of Wappinger
Address: Dutchess Stadium, 1500 Route 9D, Wappinger, NY
After July 4
Time: 7-10 p.m.
Address: 111 Independent Way, Brewster, NY
Details: The Town of Southeast Fireworks Extravagance planning committee is hoping for an Aug. 22 fireworks event. Check the Facebook event page for updates.
Kingtson*
Address: Dietz Stadium, 170 N Front St., Kingston, NY
Details: Ulster County will recognize essential workers during Independence Day weekend with a motorcade starting at Dietz Stadium.
Address: Thomas Bull Memorial Park, 211 State Route 416, Montgomery, NY 10916
Details: Gates for Freedom Fest will open at 6PM and fireworks will take place at dusk. Public health guidelines will be adhered to and residents are encouraged to bring their own food and drinks.
Saugerties*
Time: TBD
Address: Cantine Memorial Field, Saugerties, NY 12477
Details: There will be a modified 4th of July parade in the form of a motorcade with no marchers. There will not be fireworks this year.
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How would you like to get your hands on a signed Wanderers match worn shirt and raise money for charity at the same time?
After auctioning off a number of shirts from this season's Remembrance Day fixture at Macron Stadium against Norwich City in aid of the the Royal British Legion, Bolton Wanderers now have a number of shirts from last season's game against Peterborough United up for grabs!
Featuring the Whites' unique poppy with "Bolton Wanderers Remember" and the date of the match on the front, each shirt will be signed by the individual player with all auctions starting at 8pm tonight (Thursday 8 February) on the club's eBay page.
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Lewis Buxton, Dean Moxey, Josh Vela, Chris Taylor, Jamie Proctor, Keshi Anderson, Ben Alnwick, Derik Osede, Liam Trotter, Max Clayton, Andrew Taylor, Lawrie Wilson, James Henry and David Wheater
*** CLICK HERE TO PLACE YOUR BID! ***
Bolton Wanderers Football Club would like to thank all supporters who donated at The Poppy Appeal Remembrance match against Norwich City on Saturday 4 November, with a total of £1,023 being raised!
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The Royal British Legion are looking for members to join their Horwich branch. Please use the link http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/membership/become-a-member/ to become a member and select Horwich branch when prompted.
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Victoria Beckham: 'You have to be quite controlling'
Victoria Beckham: 'I wear my clothes, I travel in my clothes, so I really care about what something looks like when you pull it out of a suitcase.' Photograph: Nadav Kander/The Guardian
She juggles a global fashion brand, four children and one of the world's most scrutinised marriages: how does the former Posh Spice keep the show on the road?
by Jess Cartner-Morley
Main image: Victoria Beckham: 'I wear my clothes, I travel in my clothes, so I really care about what something looks like when you pull it out of a suitcase.' Photograph: Nadav Kander/The Guardian
Sat 19 Jan 2019 03.00 EST
Along an Edward Hopper-esque cobblestone street two blocks from the Hudson river, outside a Brooklyn warehouse that is now a photographic studio the size of a baseball field, black SUVs are parked bumper to bumper. Inside, Mario Sorrenti, fashion royalty since he photographed a nude Kate Moss face down on a sofa for Calvin Klein's Obsession in 1993, is perched on a wooden crate shooting the first Victoria Beckham X Reebok collection. Cara Taylor, the industry's latest 17-year-old modelling sensation, a high school volleyball champ from Alabama whose fine curtain of wheat-gold hair falls across her cheekbones in the manner of a young Leonardo DiCaprio, wraps her arms around two other models, a boy and a girl, as Nonstop by Drake fades into All The Stars by Kendrick Lamar. Every couple of minutes, stylist Alastair McKimm, a Northern Ireland-born, New York-based godfather of luxe streetwear, darts on to set, minutely adjusting the hood of a sweatshirt with the beady eye of a society hostess plumping her drawing room cushions.
The designer of the Lucozade-orange trainers, sleek cropped tanks and oversized bomber jackets is perched on a director's chair with a bird's-eye view of it all. Victoria Beckham is wearing, as she always does, clothes from her catwalk label. Today, it is a military green sharp-collared shirt in stiff wool twill with shiny horn buttons tucked into matching high-waisted pleated trousers, accessorised with spike-heeled Balenciaga sock boots, a shiny red manicure and a bottle of San Pellegrino, which she sips through a straw so as not to smudge her lipstick. She hops down from the chair to pore over the monitors with Sorrenti or huddle with McKimm by the clothing rail. Beckham never raises her voice, but then she doesn't need to, because everyone else stops talking as soon as she starts; she gives suggestions, rather than orders, but they are not queried.
You might think you've already heard a lot about Victoria Beckham, but if she has her way, you'll be hearing a lot more. "I'm ready to put my foot on the gas," she told me at her first-ever London catwalk show last September, and used the same line when she launched her YouTube channel last month. A decade after she moved into fashion, she has built a household-name brand, but the label has yet to turn a profit; there was a £10.2m deficit in 2017. "At the moment the brand is significantly bigger than the business," she admits. "I want them to be the same size. That is 100% the plan, to reach as many women as I can." Who's her role model – does she want to be the female Ralph Lauren? She puts her head on one side. "You know who I was thinking about the other day? Donna Karan, and what she achieved." Karan received a payoff in the region of $400m when she sold her companies in 2001.
'I am behind the camera, then on the other side of it. Having to wear both hats can be stressful.' Photograph: Nadav Kander/The Guardian
The potential of the Victoria Beckham brand made it an attractive enough prospect for David Belhassen (the investor behind the UK expansion of French bakery Paul) to put £30m into the business in 2017, a deal that valued the brand at £100m. While Beckham's catwalk shows have been consistently well-reviewed – an initial tone of astonishment has faded – successful luxury businesses are not built on the market for silk day dresses at £1,500 a pop, which is tiny, but on the halo effect that catwalk glamour has on sales of underwear (see Calvin Klein) or lipsticks (Chanel), wallets (Paul Smith) and stationery (Kate Spade). Beckham's Reebok collection will be joined by an "affordable luxury" beauty range later this year, which will be significantly cheaper than 2016's Estée Lauder collaboration.
Of course what everyone wants to know about Victoria Beckham is what she's really like. Her pop cultural character is equal parts Insta-perfection and tabloid gossip. When magazine coverlines about domestic meltdowns and diva tantrums run alongside glamorous images of Beckham and her photogenic family, it can be hard to make sense of the overall picture. But over the past few months I've hung around long enough to become part of the furniture; while our interview proper is scheduled for a couple of weeks after the Reebok shoot, I am here on set in New York, have travelled here previously to sit in on strategy meetings with Reebok, and accompanied Beckham to a Forbes women's summit, where she announced the collaboration.
Designs from Beckham's new collaboration with Reebok. Photograph: Mario Sorrenti
In person, the most striking thing about Beckham is how down-to-earth she is – a natural conversationalist with a knack for striking up an instant, low-level intimacy. Today, when I compliment her on her outfit, she pulls a face and whispers that she's wearing a pre-production sample that doesn't have the lining and is really itchy. She does this a lot, that thing that women do: deflecting compliments by saying something slightly self-deprecating. On the day of the Forbes summit, she arrived in the green room looking preternaturally polished in a gauzy powder-pink sleeveless dress; but when someone said how nice she looked, she was immediately off on a riff, talking us through the layers of unsexy nude underwear she'd had to put on underneath to avoid her nipples being the focus on stage.
She is skilful at dispelling the weirdness that celebrity brings into a room, which sounds easy but isn't. Fame is a potent commodity that requires a smooth bedside manner to put others at ease, and a lack of this is why many famous people end up seeming odd or eccentric. Beckham may not have been gifted as a singer, but she has pitch-perfect chat, asking questions, finding familiar ground. When I ask if this is something she's worked on, she says, "There's always so much to do that there's really no time for bullshit – so that cuts through it." When we meet again at Guardian Weekend's cover shoot in London, two days after the British Fashion awards, she arrives at the studio and asks if I had fun (we had caught up briefly), says how charming Meghan Markle was on stage, and commiserates about the pain of a late finish on a Monday night ("At 1am I was thinking, I'd love to stay but I've got to be up with the kids at 6.45").
People are interested in my personal life, and sometimes it's things I don't like. I'm not going to let it get me down
She pays compliments, cracks jokes and is not above sharing juicy celebrity gossip, albeit followed up swiftly with a "that's off the record, obviously". The assistants and outriders who accompany her everywhere are a tight-knit, mostly female, fiercely loyal team, but she does not use them as a human shield in the way that many celebrities do. A recurring theme in the media narrative about Beckham is that she doesn't smile. There is perhaps a touch of misogyny in this tabloid obsession; you don't see famous men vilified for not grinning in the Heathrow arrivals hall. In real life she smiles a perfectly normal amount.
Being Victoria Beckham is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job, one that is both pampered beyond your wildest dreams and brutal. Take, for example, two days we spent together last May. Having flown from London to New York on an evening flight, posting hotel lobby selfies at late-night check-in, Beckham arrived for morning meetings with Reebok serene and elegant in a pale silk striped shirt dress – the glamour a necessity not for the meeting, but because the paparazzi wait for her outside every hotel and images of Beckham wearing her own designs are a key sales driver.
Victoria Beckham does not design the detail of every dress herself, but rather is a hands-on creative director to the design teams, a modus operandi that is not unusual in fashion. The cynical view of her as a mere frontwoman does not stack up. In that meeting she skippered the ship: offering ideas, making judgment calls, staying focused in the boring bits. I started to forget she was famous, until her phone buzzed and a message bubble from "David" popped up on the screen. She reached out a manicured hand and discreetly turned the phone face down. This was barely a week after rumours of a Beckham divorce announcement brought the internet to virtual meltdown – more of which later – yet the image she presented was of bulletproof serenity.
With all the family at new year. Photograph: Digital/eroteme.co.uk
That evening, after meetings had finished, we had a drink in the bar of her hotel with her assistant, two of her PR team and her CEO, Paolo Riva. She decided her favourite order of tequila and soda wouldn't mix well with jet lag, and had sparkling water while we discussed talking points for the Forbes event the next morning. But the jet lag still hit her with a vengeance, and she was up at 4am posting Instagram photos of herself in Korean sheet masks, before appearing fresh and smiley for her on-stage turn. She fired a deft tranquilliser dart into the elephant in the room with several warm references to the supportive husband currently "at home in London doing the school run, cooking dinner, helping with homework so that I can be here". Within minutes of walking off stage she was fine-tuning the schedule for the following day with her team, juggling appointments to be able to pick up her seven-year-old daughter Harper from school and take 16-year-old Romeo to tennis on her one day in London, before leaving to take her new collection on selling appointments to buyers in Paris. We travelled home overnight, on different flights. The next morning I was on my way to the Guardian office in jeans with hair still wet from the shower when I saw a chirpy Instagram post of her – hair perfect, makeup done – trying on dresses for her meetings. Daft as it sounds, with me jostling my way on to the tube and her about to step into her chauffeur-driven car, for a minute I almost felt sorry for her.
Being Victoria Beckham requires her to be both front of house and behind the scenes. On the Sorrenti shoot, after 15 images of various combinations of three models have been taken to everyone's satisfaction, interspersed with outfit changes and snack breaks, it was time to shoot publicity images of Beckham. That's quite intense, I say to her afterwards. "Yeah, it is. I am behind the camera with Mario and Alastair all day, then at the end I am the one who has to be on the other side of the camera. Having to wear both hats can be stressful," she admits. Immediately, though, the lessons learned after 25 years in the public eye kick in, and she autotunes herself. "But I'm not complaining. I have an incredible life. I know how lucky I am."
From the Reebok collaboration. Photograph: Mario Sorrenti
She looks quite ridiculously good for 44 years old. Not just groomed and polished, but with luminous skin and sparkly eyes. She is extremely slender – not starved-looking, but very delicate, as if built from wishbones. At home she works out for two hours a day. She gets up between 5.30am and 6am, so that she can get some of her workout in before the school run, starting with 7k on the treadmill, "a mix of uphill fast walking, jogging, running. That's the only time I watch TV – boxsets, documentaries – so I look forward to that. It takes 45 minutes. Then I work out with a trainer – 30 minutes legs, 30 minutes arms, toning and conditioning, then loads of planks and that kind of thing for my core. At the weekend I will do the whole thing straight through, but in the week I often jump in the car halfway through to take the kids to school, then carry on when I get home. I work out every day when I'm at home, and then when I travel I really focus on work so I can get as much done as possible in a short trip and get home." Working out is, she says, "a really positive thing for me. It's part of who I am now, and I really enjoy it. That was a big part of why I wanted to work with Reebok – I had very specific ideas about the workout clothes that I wanted to wear and couldn't find."
She doesn't pretend to be eating as many cheeseburgers as she likes. From the lavish catering table at the New York shoot, she chooses some smoked salmon and salad. She carries flavoured sweeteners, which she pulls out of her handbag and squeezes into black coffee. "I never cook. I used to – when we lived in Spain, I used to cook a lot. But these days I don't tend to get home till late, so dinner wouldn't be ready till quite late. David's a really good cook." You don't get the sense that food is exactly a passion. "I am very, very disciplined in the way that I work out, in what I eat. That's how I'm happiest. I expect a lot from my body – I'm 44, I've got four kids, I work a lot, I travel. For me to do all that, I have to eat healthily and work out."
Beckham talks about her famous husband and now-almost-equally-famous children all the time. The Reebok launch event was initially slated to happen in Tokyo, and during a meeting discussing possible venues, she suggested restaurants that David and Brooklyn, aficionados of Japanese cuisine, had loved. When we look at the collection in New York, she proudly shows me the pieces that 13-year-old Cruz, a streetwear obsessive, has earmarked as his favourites. Lunch break time in New York is teatime in London, and when Beckham takes her phone into a corner to FaceTime with home, the voice of Harper booms out, excited to tell her about going to Winter Wonderland with Daddy.
The Victoria Beckham brand and the Beckham brand share an ecosystem, and she is matter-of-fact about this. "People are interested in my personal life. And sometimes that works in my favour and sometimes it's things that I don't like. I'm not going to let it get me down." When the children were little, she used to tell them that the photographers were there because their grandparents missed them and wanted to see pictures of them. "It was a way of explaining it to them when they were too young to understand. They are used to it now. They've all grown up with it. They understand that they have to act in a responsible way because of it. But they will make mistakes – we all do. And theirs will be in the public eye."
'People do believe what they read, and when it's completely fabricated, that's really annoying.' Photograph: Nadav Kander/The Guardian
Beckham learned about clothes through wearing them and being photographed in them – a background that was sniffed at when she launched her first collection in 2008, but that has come to feel increasingly relevant in a world in which individual experience is paramount and piety toward expertise a quaint concept. Her catwalk brand has evolved from elegant but somewhat overwrought dresses – the sort of thing you need if you go on a lot of dinner dates in Mayfair – into fluid, confident day-to-night tailoring. A voguish narrative of female empowerment in her clothes mirrors her own journey from manufactured pop star and trophy wife to respected industry leader. Chart-topping bands know how to connect with a mass audience, and Beckham is skilled at breaking down the fourth wall, talking about style in a way that feels authentic and relevant. "I wear my clothes, I travel in my clothes, so I really care about what something looks like when you get off a plane or pull it out of a suitcase," she says to me one day in New York when we are discussing the challenge of a business trip wardrobe that needs only carry-on luggage. Of the beige shade that features in her Reebok collection, she says, "I love the biscuit colour because I wanted workout clothes in a palette that would work with the coat I'd be putting on over the top." She pulls a sweatshirt off the rail and enthuses about the size of the hood, and the extra length of the drawstring. "A hood has to be the right size, otherwise it looks awful, and the drawstring needs to be long enough so it doesn't come out, because that's so annoying when it disappears."
On the catwalk at London fashion week in September, talking to son Brooklyn (in cap). Photograph: WWD/Rex/Shutterstock
Family life in Holland Park sounds nonstop. The Beckhams' second eldest son, Romeo, appeared in a couple of Burberry campaigns in 2013/2014, but now spends most of his free time playing tennis. Cruz is "in and out of the music studio, loves to play guitar and piano, write and record songs", while Harper is "absolutely obsessed" with ice-skating. ("It's very I, Tonya," Beckham deadpans.) Brooklyn, 19, "wants to be an art photographer, and also enjoys fashion, so we chat a lot about that". David Beckham's ownership role at Florida's newly launched Major League Soccer team, Inter Miami CF, has prompted speculation of a move to Miami, but Victoria says this won't happen. "It's a fantastic city, and David and I are partners in every business venture that we have. We have made some great friends there and socialise with their families, so we will go regularly. But the kids are happy at school, we are close to our families and we love being in London." Next month, for the second season running, her catwalk show will take place in London fashion week rather than New York, which means less travelling. "A project like Reebok is international, so there is travelling involved. But it's workable. I mean, the emails from the kids' schools come on my phone wherever I am, I can still deal with stuff. And, don't get me wrong, I have help. I have a cleaner, so I don't have to wash or iron. And I have someone who helps me with the children, who is wonderful and who I trust implicitly. David does a huge amount of travelling, and that's so hard on him."
For years, the Beckham marriage has been a national obsession. When she appeared on the cover of British Vogue with their four children last autumn, shortly after the divorce rumours, the noise was all about the absence of her husband from the newsstand cover, rather than about her 10-year anniversary in fashion. How does she cope when the parallel narrative about her marriage takes over? She fixes me with an unblinking stare, and the temperature in the room seems to drop a degree. "It can get quite frustrating," she says coolly. "But I leave it to my PR team. I don't get involved." Then she tells me a story about a magazine interview that had reported her demanding food from the Ivy when "I had a plate of fruit from M&S, which my assistant went out to get". It is a firm steer away from David. All she will say is that "you do have to be quite controlling because people do believe what they read, and when it's completely fabricated, that's really annoying".
I'm sure when they are on stage, a part of me will feel a bit left out. Because a part of me will always be a Spice Girl
For the record, I have no idea of the state of the Beckham marriage. I think most of us know, really, that the private reality of a 20-year marriage cannot be gauged through internet gossip or a stage-managed photograph. But it seems to me that much of the conjecture about the marriage is really about Victoria's public evolution from being the lesser talented Beckham into a successful woman in her own right.
With the Spice Girls in 1998. Photograph: Mike Prior/Redferns
The new Reebok collection will make Beckham's audience more unisex, more diverse, more youthful. She is looking for ways to move the focus away from her. Being her own shop window has been an effective and economical marketing strategy, but she can't be in every global market at once. At the recent British Fashion awards, she hosted a table of women including Brooke Shields and Gia Coppola, who wore her clothes for the event. "Having them flying the flag with me means that it's not all on me, you know? I get quite obsessive about work. I don't stop, I have a lot of trouble sleeping. I am a real insomniac."
One thing Beckham won't be adding to her schedule is a Spice Girls comeback. When the band return to stadiums in May, it will be as a foursome. No cameo appearance, I ask? No hologram? "No. Definitely not." Was that a difficult decision? "Not at all. What I do now is my passion and a full-time job. I'm excited to see it, though. And I'm sure when I'm there and they are on stage, there will be a part of me that feels a bit left out. Because even after all this, a part of me will always be a Spice Girl."
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Bactria-Margiana Marble Column Idol - FF.105
Origin: Central Asia
Circa: 3000 BC to 2000 BC
Dimensions: 11" (27.9cm) high
Collection: Near Eastern
Medium: Marble
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This piece pertains to an ancient culture referred to both as the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BCAM) or as the Oxus Civilisation. The Bactria-Margiana culture spread across an area encompassing the modern nations of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Northern Afghanistan. Flourishing between about 2100 and 1700 BC, it was contemporary with the European Bronze Age, and was characterised by monumental architecture, social complexity and extremely distinctive cultural artefacts that vanish from the record a few centuries after they first appear. Pictographs on seals have been argued to indicate an independently-developed writing system.
It was one of many economic and social entities in the vicinity, and was a powerful country due to the exceptional fertility and wealth of its agricultural lands. This in turn gave rise to a complex and multifaceted set of societies with specialist craftsmen who produced luxury materials such as this for the ruling and aristocratic elites. Trade appears to have been important, as Bactrian artefacts appear all over the Persian Gulf as well as in the Iranian Plateau and the Indus Valley. For this reason, the area was fought over from deep prehistory until the Mediaeval period, by the armies of Asia Minor, Greece (Macedonia), India and the Arab States, amongst others.
The meaning of these objects in ancient Bactria still mystifies scholars. Many are convinced that they must have had a ritual function and were perhaps worshipped as idols. Others argue that they had a more practical purpose and were used as a counterweight for pounding grain or pumping water. Bactria is the ancient Greek name for an area that encompassed parts of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan. It was a mountainous and extremely fertile region that had a highly developed civilisation in the late third and early second millennium BC. Excavations have uncovered other intriguing artifacts such as the composite stone goddesses which attest to the presence of a vibrant religious culture. Today these marble 'pillar-like' sculptures impress us with their simplicity of form and mysterious past. - (FF.105)


Okay, so last lecture on constraint programming.
on squares, magic squares, perfect squares.
It's a really interesting thing. we are in search again.
Okay, so trying to see various techniques for doing search.
more to this area, it's a very active research area.
But I'm touching upon a number of topics that are interesting, okay.
So we're going to try with value variable you know, labeling.
very different, which is called value/variable labeling.
at the problem in a completely different fashion, right?
variables to which we want to assign that value, okay?
Now you're going to say, this is crazy, right?
to start at a particular point in time, okay?
So it's very useful in many applications, okay?
So what I want to illustrate is that we've a really nice example.
different size. Hello, okay, so I'm on the other side.
Okay, and so the goal here is to look at all these squares, okay?
And make them into one big square. Okay?
Now, I assume that you are completely bored at this point.
square. It is very interesting, okay?
able to solve this puzzle so you can sleep right.
to decide what the decision variables are going to be, okay?
want, but you have to choose one and that's where you going to basically.
That's what, the convention that you're going to use.
y-coordinate of that corner, you know where the square is.
Okay, what are there going to be the constraints?
There are two type of constraints. This first one is easy.
and then obviously the square can't overlap.
constraints that I mentioned. These are the redundant constraints.
the sense and making sure that the size is the side of the big square.
of the various cases. Okay.
So, but this is just a statement of the problem.
What is interesting here is the value variable labeling.
the various squares dis, different position?
And the basic idea here is that we know that we have to fill this big square.
And it's going to be completely filled, okay?
So there is no empty space in that particular big square at the end.
labeling here. Okay, value variable labeling.
choose one particular square to be put there.
be placed there. Okay, visually, okay.
So look at this, I placed one square, I placed another square.
You know I know, I know for sure that one square will have to be placed there.
behind the value labeling procedure that I'm going to show you.
complicated well the most complicated ones.
But it's actually very simple to state. So, so that's what I want to show you.
Okay. So what we are going to do?
take this vertical slice. Let's say p, okay.
And then we are going to decide, for all the square, do I place p there or not?
Okay? So it's very, very simple, okay?
do the same, and the same, and the same, and the same.
And then I do the same for the y, and the y, and the y.
And that's what I do, okay? So this is the search procedure, okay?
Very simple I told you. We could do a more complicated one.
But it doesn't bring very much, you know, benefit in practice.
place the particular square in that position, or not?
Okay, and most of the time, it's going to be no's.
But essentially that's all I have to do. Okay?
So, these are for the x coordinate, and the bottom here is for the y coordinate.
That's all I have to do in this particular case.
Okay? So, it's a value variable labeling.
now is variable/value labeling and value/variable labeling, okay?
another square example which is called the magic square example, okay?
So essentially, you have the number, okay?
You have a num an, a set of numbers to be placed in a particular square.
these lines, okay? So this is one of these rows, okay?
other diagnaol is going to sum to 15. That's what you have to do.
okay. And this can be done, okay.
This can be actually can be done efficiently.
Like you know for today, let us think of 11 by 11, okay?
you going to assign? So do you want really to assign?
think about what the statement of the problem here, okay?
So what you see there basically the decision variable s, okay?
and then what you see here are the various constraints, okay?
that can easily be pre-computed at the beginning, okay?
part is how do you actually, how do you actually do the search?
these squares. Okay, this one looks nice, okay?
assign a value to that possible variable there.
square, right, you are going to take this variable and assign it a value, okay?
But this is essentially completely random at this point, right?
So you have absolutely no clue what you're doing, right?
guess, it's going to be a very strong commitment.
weaker commitment, okay. And that's what we're going to do.
of assigning a particular value, you're going to say ooh, wait a minute, right?
So, I don't want to make a big decision here, right?
or the lower domain of, of, of its actual domain.
going to loop until you assign all the variables, okay?
is not assigning a popular value to that variable.
What you do is you take the midpoint in the domain.
That's the mid value that you see there, okay?
variable is inside a subtle value. But you haven't specified which one.
effective strategy in this particular example, okay?
So you're going to say oh yeah, but this is a puzzle.
couple of lectures ago. So you cars on an assembly line.
the car is moving in front of the production unit, okay?
So we add the first time I've shown you that.
Essentially a simple, variable value strategy, okay?
Which for a lot of instances is actually working pretty nicely.
actually invisible, it's not the best strategy that you could use.
really tight. There is essentially no slack.
It is very difficult to insert a new car. With that popular option.
And when you look at the some of the, the other options that you see there, okay?
there are plenty of areas where you see essentially no cars being placed.
options that are really really difficult, okay.
But once again, you don't really care about the various types of cars.
particular slot, requiring that options or not, okay?
option but I don't want to commit to which car at this point.
search procedure which iterates over the options.
We are not iterating over the various types of count.
the first choice that you can make there or it's not taking the option.
to decide do I think that option is enough, okay?
Not assigning the car, but then you take the next option, you do the same thing.
which they are basically forcing the type of car you have to produce.
options, or the one not requiring the options, okay?
a domain splitting. You have a mutual commitment.
different things, okay? Variable/value symmetry.
constraints, but during the search, okay? You will see why this is important, okay?
And we going to go back to this scene allocation problem, right?
So these beautiful people, you know, Georges, and Julia, and Clyde.
You know, I like Clive a lot, so you do it, it was almost James Bond.
Or maybe that was just a marketing, you know, ploy that he had.
But he would have been really great James Bond.
Anyway, Dan Craig is a great James Bond too.
But anyway, so I'm getting ahead of myself here.
So what we are trying to do is shoot these beautiful movies, okay.
scenes that you can...that you can shoot every day.
spend a day on the cast are basically shooting as many scenes as possible.
Note there were a lot of symmetries on this particular product.
because at that point, all the days were the same.
can be assigned to day one, that's where scene one has been allocated.
were doing, what basically putting all these constraints Inside the model, okay?
So there are symmetry breaking constraints.
were basically taken care of by putting these additional constraints, okay?
Now, when you think about this and you think about search.
These constraints have the dramatic effect on search, right?
So if you use the first [INAUDIBLE] principle, what's going to happen, okay?
is in the positive order in which we stated the problem, right?
So, that 2nd scene is the domain of 2. The 3rd scene, as the most domain of 3.
you are basically choosing the order in which you have to assign the variable.
Is that good? Well sometimes yes, sometimes no.
domain of the variable. So can we avoid it?
save the [UNKNOWN] most expensive ones first, you are not doing that.
introduce them dynamically during the search.
So we're going to impose essentially the same, same symmetry breaking constraints.
first fail principle and in case of time we'll take the most expensive scene.
the directly the value of the objective function.
new day for them or no, this is not a new day for them.
That will have a dramatic effect on the objective function.
what we are going to do, so we have to break the symmetries during the search.
days we will consider for that particular scene.
days that we have used before, plus one, okay?
And the advantages here is that you essentially break the same symmetries.
change the euristic. Okay, so this is what you can do here.
This is essentially the search procedure expressing that.
take the exitsing data to compute it above there.
Okay, that's the days you have already used.
is basically selecting the, the minimum value.
domain, and then in case of [UNKNOWN] the most expansive, okay?
the smallest domain and this is not actually influenced or impacted.
very simple, but it can be very powerful for some example, okay?
ordering, but the structure of the problem is such that there is one.
problems where there is a good ordering but it's very difficult to find it.
So, what do you do when you are in a situation like that?
You know that there is a good ordering, but you don't know which one.
What we are going to do, is we going to randomize, okay?
We going to randomly generate it some ordering.
Hopefully we'll, we'll try to find it good ones.
try, and try to see if we can find solution with that ordering, okay?
certain time limit or a number limits on the number of failures.
you have good orderings that aren't going to make a big difference, okay?
bit, we don't commit to the variable which has the smallest domain.
shown you before. And we are making very, very few changes.
One of the changes that you see there is that you are randomizing.
of the three variables, which have the smallest domain you know?
solution, when we restart, we increase the time limit.
That's all we have to do for actually implementing this, okay?
going to pick up the variable ordering in a random fashion.
restart. We increase the time limit.
find another random ordering for this particular variable, okay?
techniques that we've seen before. We can put anything in there.
randomization, which can be very powerful for some classes of application.
different technology. Thank you very much.