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Olympic Memory Game
This Olympic Memory Game provides an opportunity for kids to get into the Olympic spirit and also practice those memory skills with this easy craft. If your favorite sport isn't among those pictured, just make up your own memory cards with those symbols.
Trivia: According to historical records, the first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 BC. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were staged on the ancient plains of Olympia. They continued for nearly 12 centuries, until Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 A.D. that all such "pagan cults" be banned. The first modern Ooympics were held in 1896.
Construction Paper (optional)
Click on Printables and print out two copies of the Olympic symbols onto cardstock. If you use regular copy paper you may need to mount it on construction paper so that you cannot see the symbols when they are turned upside down.
Use as many symbols as you feel the child is capable of working with. Perhaps starting with 9 and expanding as they become more adept.
Lay the symbols out upside down and have the child turn over 2 at a time encouranging them to remember where they saw each symbol. When they turn up two matching symbols leave them facing up until all of the symbols are face up.
Have fun with learning in the Olympic spirit.
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My love of soundtracks is boundless, especially the orchestral kind. My favorite composer of all-time is Pino Donaggio, who has scored such classics as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Don't Look Now (1973), The Howling (1981), Tourist Trap (1979), Raising Cain (1992), Piranha (1978), and even Seed of Chucky (2004) (!).
Before he became a soundtrack composer, Donaggio was a successful pop singer/songwriter in the 60s; his most famous song, "Io Che Non Vivo", was later adapted into the huge hit "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield. I think his background as a pop singer is a huge reason why his film scores are so catchy and moving.
Don't Look Now was his first score, and it remains one of his greatest. In particular, the love theme is quite spectacular and greatly enhanced the controversial sex scene.
Brian De Palma remembered the music of Don't Look Now when Bernard Herrmann died and he was looking for another composer for Carrie. De Palma and Donaggio collaborated for several movies and each score is stunning. The main theme of Carrie is my favorite movie theme; it perfectly captures the heartbreak and tragedy of the story, yet it punctuates the last moments of happiness in the locker room before the shit hits the fan.
The score for Blow Out is another masterpiece by Donaggio. The last twenty minutes of that film are absolutely breathtaking and devastating, thanks in large part to the music and to the performances of John Travolta and Nancy Allen. The terrible, morbid irony of the final shot is almost unbearable.
And who could forget Body Double, with its beautifully tacky, 80s synth-pop melodies and sweeping, romantic strings?
His last De Palma score, for Raising Cain, is one of Donaggio's most underrated efforts. Say what you will about the film itself (which I happen to enjoy), but you cannot deny that Donaggio's music is masterful.
One of Donaggio's best non-De Palma scores is for The Howling. He had collaborated with Joe Dante before on Piranha, which is a great score in its own right, but this score is even better because it's so eclectic. The end titles theme is one of my favorites. As with a lot of his music, I can listen to it over and over! Fun fact: Donaggio's translator on both of these films was none other than actor/director Paul Bartel. Bartel and Donaggio both spoke Spanish, and Dante would relay information to Bartel, who would translate it into Spanish for Donaggio.
Ennio Morricone is the most celebrated Italian composer, and he's great, but Donaggio is under-appreciated. Quentin Tarantino showed his appreciation by including the theme from Blow Out in his film Death Proof; other than that, not a lot of people have come forward to claim his music as an influence. Joe Hisaishi did a wonderful tribute to Donaggio by performing his Dressed to Kill theme at a concert with the New Japan Philharmonic, and it's absolutely gorgeous and extremely faithful to the original.
I really wish Brian De Palma would use Donaggio when he returns to making thrillers. His previous efforts, Femme Fatale and The Black Dahlia, were rather weak and a big reason is the scores were not composed with the lush attention to detail that makes the work of Pino Donaggio so memorable.


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When parents divorce, children suffer. But when parents and their lawyers battle over the children in court, it's incalculably worse for the kids.
Community Mediation Services, a nonprofit agency in downtown Vancouver, has begun testing an affordable parenting-plan mediation service for divorcing adults that's aimed at making things easier on the children as well as the wallet. It's a partnership with Innovative Services Northwest, a sister nonprofit that works with children and families in many contexts.
Innovative Services has a state grant that pays for supervised visitations between parents and the children who have been removed from their custody; part of that grant also allows for divorcing parents to come up with a formal parenting plan through professional mediation.
"Innovative Services approached us to ask about contracting to provide those services," said CMS executive director Nancy Pionk.
"It's a way to agree where kids will live, when they'll move back and forth, those types of things. Those specifics are a big deal for kids at a very difficult time," said Pionk said.
Washington State requires the creation of formal parenting plans for parents who are going through divorce or dissolution. Those plans, which are supposed to support the best interest of the children, can lay the groundwork for future family dynamics that are cooperative and relatively stress-free — or they can provoke long-lasting bitterness and anger, Pionk said.
That court process can take months or years and cost thousands of dollars. But the Innovative grant will allow qualified low-income parents to pay as little as $20 per mediation session; the income guidelines are still being finalized, Pionk said, but many who don't qualify for that bargain-basement co-pay will be able to pay on a sliding scale that significantly reduces the standard fee of $500 per session.
"Usually these cases have at least two sessions," said Pionk. This pilot program runs through Sept. 30.
Cases will be accepted on an individual basis, Pionk said. "There may be some cases where we decline — ones that are really high-conflict or where there's some indication of violence," she said.
The process
What is mediation? It's a voluntary, confidential dispute resolution process involving a neutral third party who helps the people in conflict arrive at a mutually agreed solution. The third party never imposes any settlement; the expectation is that people in mediation want to collaborate on their own positive outcome.
Surprisingly few statistics are yet available to back up claims that mediating parenting plans is better for children than litigation — but Pionk pointed to a 2001 study by Robert Emery, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at the University of Virginia. The long-term study, which tracked divorced families 12 years after splitting up, found that parents who mediated rather than litigated their parenting plans saw and spoke with their children far more regularly; in the shorter term, it found that residential parents gave nonresidential parents higher marks for basic involvement in their children's lives — things like grooming, running errands, participating in important events and holidays, discipline and discussing problems, moral training, school and church activities.
According to Resolution Washington, a statewide umbrella organization, dispute resolution offices such as CMS save the state $13.65 million annually.
Spun off
Community Mediation Services began as an office of the city of Vancouver; due to budget cuts, it was spun off as an independent nonprofit in 2010. Since it grew up as a government agency, Pionk said, CMS focused largely on neighbor-to-neighbor and landlord-tenant problems.
Now that it's independent, Pionk said, CMS is looking to branch out and see how mediation can help in many other areas of life. Workplace, foreclosure, consumer, business and small claims are all parts of what it does now, in addition to this new pilot family mediation program.
"We haven't had any kind of family mediation here," Pionk said, "but we believe there's a great need for this in the community."
She said divorce courts in many other Washington counties refer divorcing parties to mandatory mediation; Clark County doesn't do that yet, but she's hoping it will start.
Leadership Clark County, a leadership development organization that assigns each cohort a community service project, will conduct a survey to better understand the need for parenting-plan mediation in Clark County, Pionk said.
Community Mediation Services has bounced between offices in recent years; its current address is 300 East 17th Street, Suite 100. Call 360-334-5862 or visit mediationclarkcounty.org. Phone consultations are free of charge.
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An Oklahoma City woman says she is convinced her dead uncle is the legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper. She is cooperating with the FBI.
His last name is Cooper. And a woman calling herself his niece says he acted suspiciously before suddenly disappearing.
But it remains to be seen if Lynn Doyle Cooper — the deceased man she has linked to the 40-year-old D.B. Cooper skyjacking — will be positively tied to the fabled case.
ABC News first revealed the name Wednesday in an interview with Marla Cooper, of Oklahoma City, who said she is Cooper's niece and is cooperating with the FBI.
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Steve Dean, the assistant special agent in charge of the criminal division of the Seattle FBI office, confirmed Wednesday that Marla Cooper had contacted the bureau and turned over items to assist in the investigation.
Cooper, citing childhood memories, told ABC News she is convinced her uncle was the man who hijacked a Seattle-bound jet on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted over Southwest Washington with $200,000 in cash.
"I'm certain he was my uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, who we called L.D. Cooper," she told ABC News, offering tantalizing details of his life.
Although some investigators concluded the legendary skyjacker likely died in the jump, a body was never found in what remains America's only unsolved hijacking.
The FBI, which has chased more than 1,000 leads over the years and checked out countless names, revealed earlier this week "a promising lead" had led them to a man who had died about 10 years ago. The bureau said it has been investigating the lead for more than a year while cautioning that a major break in the case wasn't imminent.
Cooper told ABC News her uncle vanished after the hijacking. She said she was later told he died in 1999.
In the interview, Cooper said she was 8 at the time of the skyjacking. She said she is working on a book about her uncle. But she told ABC News a book wasn't her primary motivation for coming forward.
"I contacted the FBI as soon as I was sure that what I was remembering were real memories," she said. "There's a crime that's taken place that hasn't been solved, and I'm the only one, as far as I know, who knows what happened."
To back her claims, she said she recalled her uncle and a second uncle planning something suspicious at her grandmother's house in Sisters, Ore.
"My two uncles, who I only saw at holiday time, were planning something very mischievous," Cooper told ABC News. "I was watching them using some very expensive walkie-talkies that they had purchased. They left to supposedly go turkey hunting, and Thanksgiving morning I was waiting for them to return."
After Northwest Orient Flight 305 was hijacked, L.D. Cooper came home claiming to have been in a car accident, Cooper told ABC News.
"My uncle L.D. was wearing a white T-shirt and he was bloody and bruised and a mess, and I was horrified. I began to cry. My other uncle, who was with L.D., said, 'Marla just shut up and go get your dad,' " she said.
She said she is now convinced the car accident was a ruse and that her uncle was injured in a parachute jump.
Cooper also told ABC News she remembers a discussion about the money.
"I heard my uncle say, 'We did it, our money problems are over, we hijacked an airplane,' " she said.
Cooper says her two uncles wanted to return to search for cash apparently lost in the jump.
She said her father refused, likely because the FBI was beginning to search the area where the hijacker was believed to have landed.
Cooper said she never saw her uncle again after that Thanksgiving. She said she believes he lived in the Northwest and had children.
In the ABC News interview, she displayed a 1972 Polaroid picture of her uncle, whom she identified as a Korean War veteran. She said the picture is similar to the composite sketch of the hijacker.
FBI spokesman Fred Gutt said Monday that little contradictory information has emerged that would rule out the possible suspect.
The FBI has determined a guitar strap that belonged to the man is not conducive to lifting fingerprints. But the case agent is trying to obtain other items with better surfaces to lift fingerprints, Gutt said.
Gutt said Wednesday the case isn't a high priority, but the information can't be ignored.
The FBI said the initial tip came from a retired law-enforcement officer, who referred the bureau to a credible person with information on the case.
Marla Cooper told ABC News she provided the FBI with the guitar strap and a Christmas photo of a man pictured with the same strap.
She said two conversations with her parents initially made her suspicious. Cooper said the first occurred in 1995, just before her father died.
"My father made a comment about his long-lost brother, my uncle L.D. … he said, 'Don't you remember he hijacked that airplane?' " she said.
She said she had difficulty believing her father, but in 2009 the subject came up again while speaking with her mother.
"A couple years ago my mother made a comment, another comment, a similar comment that she had always suspected that my uncle L.D. was the real D.B. Cooper," she said.
She also said her uncle was obsessed with the Canadian comic-book hero Dan Cooper, with one comic book thumbtacked to the wall.
Cooper gave a similar account to CNN on Wednesday, saying her father "swore me to secrecy" at the time of the hijacking because her uncle's life could be at stake.
The passenger who parachuted from the rear of the Boeing 727 on Nov. 24, 1971, identified himself as "Dan Cooper." A day after the skyjacking, FBI agents checked out a Portland man with the name "D.B. Cooper." Although that man was quickly cleared, the name stuck in the media.
The tall, dark-complexioned man paid $20 cash for a one-way flight from Portland to Seattle. After takeoff, he told a flight attendant he had a bomb and showed her a briefcase holding red cylinders and a nest of wires.
When the plane landed in Seattle, passengers were exchanged for parachutes and ransom money paid by the airline. The plane took off toward Mexico, with the hijacker and the flight crew.
Authorities estimated the hijacker jumped near the small community of Ariel, Cowlitz County, in a rugged, wooded region.
Only $5,800 of the ransom money — whose serial numbers the FBI had recorded — turned up when a child digging in a sandbar on the north bank of the Columbia River west of Vancouver in 1980 unearthed a bundle of $20 bills.
Seattle Times news researchers Miyoko Wolf, David Turim and Gene Balk contributed to this report, which includes information from The Associated Press and Seattle Times archives.
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I am continuing to test the MPI-2 features of 1.1, and have run into
some puzzling behavior. I wrote a simple F90 program to test 'mpi_put'
and 'mpi_get' on a coordinate transformation problem on a two dual-core
processor Opteron workstation running the PGI 6.1 compiler. The program
runs correctly for a variety of problem sizes and processor counts.
However, my main interest is a large global weather prediction model
that has been running in production with 1-sided message passing on an
SGI Origin 3000 for several years. This code does not run with OMPI
1-sided message passing. I have investigated the difference between this
code and the test program and noticed a critical difference. Both
programs call 'mpi_win_create' to create an integer 'handle' to the RMA
window used by 'mpi_put' and 'mpi_get'. In the test program this
'handle' returns with a value of '1', but in the large code the 'handle'
returns with value '0'. Subsequent synchronization calls to
'mpi_win_fence' succeed in the small program (error status eq 0), while
in the large code they fail (error status ne 0), and the transfers fail
also (no data is passed).
Do you have any suggestions on what could cause this difference in
behavior between the two codes, specifically why the 'handles' have
different values? Are there any diagnostics I could produce that would
provide information?
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Three reliables led a strong summer weekend box office: sequels, animation and ensemble comedies. "Despicable Me 2" came out on top in a close race, with Adam Sandler and company marking a strong second with "Grown Ups 2" (Sony). Warner Bros.' costly original "Pacific Rim" exceeded its estimates with a still soft $38.3 million and a long way to go to before delivering a profit. Twentieth Century Fox's "The Heat" continued to show strength, moving ahead of both Disney's "The Lone Ranger" and "Monsters University."
Business spread out over multiple films with a top 10 of $187 million, up $37 million over last year. This brings the year to date total to under 1% of 2012, the closest it has come to par since the strong post-Christmas weeks. But the large number of super-expensive summer films may sell tickets-- without returning enough to their investors.
Among limited openings, Weinstein had its best of the year so far with all-too-timely Sundance winner "Fruitvale Station" in seven theaters for a super $377,000 and a per screen average over $53,000 (full details in Arthouse Audit later).
1. "Despicable Me 2" (Universal) Week 2 - Last weekend #1
$44,754,000 (-46%) in 4,003 theaters (+6); PSA: $11,180,000; Cumulative: $229,237,000
Repeating at #1 after a strong challenge, and at $472 million in worldwide total, almost equal to Disney's "Monsters University" despite less time in release, Universal's third two-weekend #1 film of 2013 continues its strong performance. Its second weekend drop is about equal to the "Monsters University" drop in a competitive market. This will likely be the year's top animated grosser.
What comes next: This looks headed to $400 million domestic and more than double this worldwide. "Turbo" opening next weekend should cut into it.
2. Grown Ups 2 (Sony) NEW - Cinemascore: B; Criticwire: D-; Metacritic score: 20
$42,500,000 in 3,491 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $12,174,000; Cumulative: $42,500,000
While it didn't make #1, this strong opening for an Adam Sandler sequel comes in slightly ahead of 2010's initial film ($40 million), more than the total of Sandler's most recent film "That's My Boy," and nearly as much as James' last film "Here Comes the Boom." For Chris Rock, it is only second to the long-ago "The Longest Yard" as an opening weekend gross. Clearly, with a comedy these days, multiple star leads can trump bad reviews (see "The Heat").
Check out the stats on director Dennis Dugan, 66, whose career total for 17 features now approaches $1.2 billion -- a figure that is higher than the totals for better known directors such as Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, and the Coen Brothers. Dugan has become one of the most reliable creators of wide audience comedy hits, despite being much older than his audience.
This success also comes at a welcome moment for the beleagured Sony studio, coming off two major disappointments,"After Earth" and "White House Down." "Grown Ups 2" boasts a production budget of $80 million, not inexpensive for a comedy (double that of "The Heat"), but still low enough to guarantee ultimate success.
What comes next: The first "Grown Ups" quadrupled its opening weekend to end up with $161 million domestic/$271 million worldwide. This might fall off more quickly at home, but ultimate totals will likely come in about the same or possibly a bit higher.
3. Pacific Rim (Warner Bros.) NEW - Cinemascore: A-; Criticwire: B-; Metacritic score: 65
$38,300,000 in 3,275 theaters; PSA: $11,866; Cumulative: $38,300,000
Opening up ahead of estimates, the film still comes in below the needed numbers for this $190 million budget (financed primarily by Legendary Pictures with Warner Bros. as minority player). The total was aided by heavy 3-D attendance (at 50%, the summer season's highest) and heavy male interest. But Mexican helmer Guillermo del Toro's original Kaiju vs. Jaeger actioner--which was not pre-branded-- will require huge word of mouth and worldwide support to glean a profit.
The shortfall becomes more apparent with comparisons to similar films. "World War Z" a few weeks ago managed to do $66 million its opening weekend. But even two sequels by del Toro, both less expensive, opened in the same range: "Hellboy 2" grossed $34.5 million and "Blade II" $32.5 million on their opening weekends.
"Pacific Rim" seems to have been hit by action fatique after multiple big-budget enhanced special effects entries, and also suffered from the director rather than the cast being the draw. Del Toro has a deserved major fan base, but apparently not enough to initially overcome these other factors.
International took in $53 million over the weekend with many countries still to come, so this by no means is not the last word for the film. But it's going to need every break going forward to come close to what it needs to earn to break even.
What comes next: Apart from word of mouth, possible repeat viewings - the lack of which have hurt other summer non-animated, non-comedy films - might aid this going forward.


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Frenchman Stephen Peterhansel's car (front) is ahead of Spain's Nani Roma's vehicle during the 12th stage of the Dakar Rally close to the finish line in Copiapo, Chile on Jan 17. - EPA
LA SERENA (Chile), AFP: Stephane Peterhansel snatched the lead on the Dakar Rally's penultimate stage on Friday, just 24 hours after his Mini team had ordered him to abandon his challenge.
The French driver, who has six career wins in the motorcycling section of the gruelling marathon and five on four wheels, now looks certain to claim a 12th title on Saturday's final stage.
Overnight leader Nani Roma had a 5min 32sec advantage over his Mini teammate Peterhansel going into the 12th stage from El Salvador to La Serena in Chile.
And with Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah in third, Mini ordered all three drivers to hold their positions on Friday to guarantee a team podium sweep.
But Roma lost pace throughout the day after suffering a puncture, leaving Peterhansel with a 26-second overall lead going into Saturday's final 157km timed run into Valparaiso.
"It was a bizarre stage," said Peterhansel. "I even did a U-turn to ask Nani if he wanted to go in front in the dunes, but he didn't want to.
"The strategy hasn't changed. The instructions will perhaps be reissued tonight and we will listen to them."
Roma said his Mini had suffered a puncture after just 20km of the 350km stage.
The Spaniard then added to the mystery of who knew what when he said he wasn't aware of any team orders.
"I said last night that I hadn't received the instructions and you saw that today," he explained.
"The race is still open and we will see what happens on Saturday."
Race organisers had said Thursday they were "disappointed" and "shocked" by Mini's team orders.
"We haven't been informed of this decision by the team manager of Mini," said race director Etienne Lavigne.
"But we are disappointed, clearly, because it is not in the spirit of the competition. It's a little shocking. It's not fair.
"If I was being mean, I would say to Mini that they can collect the trophy immediately. Fighting without risk is triumph without glory."
In the motorcycling event on Friday, five-time champion Cyril Despres, on a Yamaha, took his second stage of the 2014 race with Spain's overall leader Marc Coma, on a KTM, in second spot.
Coma has an overall lead of almost two hours on compatriot Jordi Viladoms, also on a KTM.
"Today was a very long stage, 350 km. This means it is always tough, difficult and not easy for navigating. From the past we know that normally this stage is decisive," said Coma.
"For tomorrow, there is still 150km and this is a lot. It's like I'm fighting for myself to be focused."
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Samples and Tastings
Yesterday after training clients and then making lunch, I convinced Shane to head out and run some errands with me. First stop: Friar Tuck.
Every they send us wine of the month deals, and we hadn't used the past two months. We were determined to go out there and try November's Pinot Noir, though
There was only a little bit of time left before the Saturday afternoon tastings closed, so we made sure to make our rounds there, too.
Gets us every time. Next thing we knew, we were both bee-lining it to the goods to take home what we just tasted.
Of course, Friar Tucks is HUGE, so we always consider it a small victory when we leave the place spending under $100.
Next, we headed to Complete Nutrition to spend a gift certificate Shane got for his birthday month, and then immediately left after we got word vomited on and chased around by the sales rep. Our clue that we shouldn't have gone in: no other shoppers were in the store.
Finally we headed to Petco for pet food, Dick's for ear plugs + socks, and then to Fresh Market for a few necessities. What was not a necessity, but was definitely welcomed was the Thanksgiving feast tasting that had set up!
Mashed potatoes, and green beans, and pumpkin pie, Oh MY! We paraded through the line, and sampled one of each. I've got some ideas for some party desserts when we have our Christmas party in December, now
Running errands and getting a drink and a bite to eat while doing it? I'd say that's a #winning situation!
I've gotta get scootin' now, because my girl Heidi and I are headed up to Chicago for a home goods shopping extravaganza! I've collected all my pins and I'm hoping not to do toooo much damage
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Long-term cooperation between Israeli, Palestinian security forces in West Bank at critical junction
Elior Levy
Published: 12.18.12, 18:08 / Israel News
Elior Levy
The IDF
and the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank have been enjoying a relatively good operational relationship over the past few years, but military sources told Ynet Tuesday that cracks have been appearing in the security relations' proverbial veneer.
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About a month ago, an IDF force arrived at the West Bank city of Tulkarem
as part of its routine operations in the sector. They were met by Palestinian security forces, who prevented them from entering the city, forcing them to abort their mission and turn back.
A near-identical incident took place in Jenin,
two days later.
An Israeli military source said that the IDF's operational premise almost always prefers scrapping a non-vital mission should pursuing it will lead to an unavoidable clash with the Palestinian security forces.
The message was apparently understood, as Ramallah's security forces exercised their authority over Palestinian rioters in Hebron and stopped them.
The IDF's Judea and Samaria Division's Palestinian liaison officers have been working extensively to maintain cooperation with their Palestinian counterparts with aim to prevent any unrest in the Palestinian cities from seeping into the Israeli ones.
The Palestinian leadership is livid with Israel over the government's decision to suspend the transfer of levies to Ramallah, as a significant part of the taxes Israel collects on behalf of the PA fund its security forces. The suspension, prompted by the UN's status upgrade, has resulted in delayed wages.
"If the troops think that they're not going to get paid, we'll have a serious problem on our hand. It will affect everything, including the security collaboration," a Palestinian source told Ynet.
An Israeli official expressed the same concern, adding that the PA is in dire financial straits.
IDF officials were mindful of referring to the possibility that a third intifada was already brewing, but IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz and GOC Central Command Maj.-Gen Nitzan Alon have ordered troops in the sector to maintain vigilance, while "exercising professional resolve in dealing with any riot, be it big or small."
You can contact Elior Levy, Ynet's Palestinian Affairs Correspondent, at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Who would be an archaeologist? Caroline Wickham-Jones wonders where to start.
It is a long time since I set out to become an archaeologist; sometimes I wonder whether I have achieved my goal. I am still asked how I got into archaeology and how best to start out. Nowadays the internet adds a new dimension for those wishing to pursue a career in ruins. I turned first to the professionals to see what they suggest.
The Institute of Field Archaeologists (www.archaeologists.net) offers little help to would-be archaeologists, opting to recommend the Council for British Archaeology (CBA). Its feature on training is more about continuing professional development, and curiously contains a whole section advertising courses run by Oxford University Department for Continuing Education – but no mention of the many courses elsewhere around the country. Its weekly jobs bulletin ("the best and most comprehensive source of information about work in archaeology"), available by subscription to IFA members, is "primarily intended for the archaeological profession".
The CBA itself offers various pages relating to starting out, though you need to hunt them down. There is education information, and a useful fact sheet series, including Getting Started in Archaeology and A Job in Archaeology, which promise to answer your phone queries. The learning directories seem geared to England, so I turned to the Council for Scottish Archaeology (www.scottisharchaeology.org.uk) who provide easy to find information including a fact sheet on careers and links to universities in Scotland that offer archaeology courses. This information does not seem to be available for Wales.
Another link from the CBA page takes you to TORC (www.torc.org.uk), the Training Online Resource Centre for Archaeology. It provides information on formal education, from GCSE onwards, though test searches suggested that this may not be complete and could be out of date.
Current Archaeology provides similar advice, if with more humour and eccentricity. All agree that archaeology is not a route to wealth, seeming at times curiously keen to persuade people not to enter the profession. ca's "Archaeology has traditionally always been a career open to the talents" would be better put as "open to the financially independent", but that has long changed, and there are careers to make.
Further afield, the joys of archaeology have been recognised by FabJob.com (www.fabjob.com/archaeology.asp) and though it may not offer much on-line information the (brief) description of volunteering (www.studentnow.com/career/greatjobs/fj-archaeologist.html) is at least realistic. A personal, but informative view, geared towards those in Canada, is provided by Caroline Rocheleau – a useful insight into the highs and lows of archaeological training wherever you are.
There are local sources of information. Cambridgeshire Archaeological Field Unit's question "How can I become an archaeologist?" does not link to their careers page, but once found, it is useful, with sections on volunteering and community work (www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/outreach/schools/outreach_careers.htm).
Universities and colleges offering archaeology naturally provide web pages to attract you to their courses. There are too many to list here but the CBA has another fact sheet (www.britarch.ac.uk/CBA/factsht6.shtml).
One of the most pragmatic internet pages is ALEC's. Its description of the archaeologist's life offers free leaflets on "salary negotiation tips" and "UK debt consolidation".
Websites to speed up your career
Bringing ancient Greece to life
Joseph Sivell describes an impressive new British Museum website
For the past seven years the British Museum has been publishing a series of websites under the title Ancient Civilizations. The latest, www.ancientgreece.co.uk, was launched earlier this year.
Two years in the making, this new free site aims to explore the world of ancient Greece in a fresh and exciting way, bringing to life the culture and history of this endlessly fascinating civilisation. Using a stimulating mix of photographs, stories, maps, animation, illustrations, 3D models and interactive experiences, the website combines real objects with new technology to bring ancient Greece to life and the important historical ideas into sharp focus.
The museum's Greek collection has long been popular with audiences of all ages, but ancient Greece is now a compulsory history topic on the national curriculum for KS2 (7–11 year olds). That means that all school children in England will study ancient Greece. The British Museum's world famous collection together with its curatorial and new media expertise mean we can offer something unique online. While the site is intended for use in schools, it is also designed to appeal to an interested adult audience.
Following its highly successful predecessors, www.ancientgreece.co.uk uses a tried and tested format. The content is divided into chapters covering themes such as Festivals & Games, Daily Life or Athens. Each one has three sections titled Story, Explore and Challenge. The navigation system is very clear, and teachers have said how useful it is to have different styles available to suit different ways of learning.
Stories tend to consist of linear information which is sequential in nature, often a narrative such as The Journey of Odysseus. Explores are used for information which does not have a simple linear structure, where the order in which you discover things does not matter. For example, you can explore the ancient city of Athens, from the busy Agora to the harbour at Piraeus.
Lastly the Challenges are where you are really made to think. A problem is set and by working through it your skills and understanding develop. The Gods & Goddesses Challenge, for example, deals with iconography by training you to recognise symbols on decorated pots.
Even though all chapters have a story, explore and challenge, the treatments are individually designed to deliver their messages effectively.
So, for example, in one challenge you can design your own temple to Athena to add to the Acropolis. You can choose the order, the materials, even the decoration. By the time you have finished you will have understood a lot more about Greek architecture and the decision-making processes that ancient architects may have gone through. This is a fairly open activity, there is no correct answer and every temple will be slightly different. By comparison, in another challenge you must dive down to a wreck and piece together clues to trace the last journey of an ancient ship – a puzzle with one probable answer.
The stories show the most surprising variety, from a traditional linear delivery for the battle of Thermopylae, to the Athens story which lets you compare the lives of six different Athenians through the course of one day.
The website contains an exciting array of material, enough, we hope, to keep any student of ancient history enthralled. It is also richly populated with objects, many of which you can examine with a digital magnifying glass.
The British museum has a world class collection of ancient antiquities. Now the museum is reaching out in a very modern way to the next generation, to spark and inspire interest in ancientcivilisations. Other sites in the series cover Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. All can be found at www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk or www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/education.
Joseph Sivell is project manager of the Educational Multimedia Unit at the British Museum, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Dark (Pool) Truth About What Really Goes On In The Stock Market: Part 4
Courtesy of the author, we present to our readers the following excerpt from Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, AI Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System, by Scott Patterson, author of The Quants.
In the dark dawn hours of yet another frigid New York morning, Josh Levine dressed quickly and left his apartment in the shadow of the Twin Towers at Battery Park. He trudged through city blocks clogged with treacherous mounds of packed dirt-pocked snow and ice from the year's record-breaking string of storms. It was February 16, 1996. A Friday. Earlier that week, IBM's AI supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time. Bill Clinton was entering his second term in office. The country was in the midst of a powerful economic boom that would culminate in a massive tech-stock bubble, and Levine and Datek's army of traders would be at the center of it.
The programmer walked east on Wall Street, then turned south on Broad, passing by the marble façade of the NYSE. At 50 Broad, he took the elevator to the sixth floor and walked past a few early risers, the wired, sunken-eyed day traders for Datek. Staring at their computer terminals, hugging their steaming coffees, waiting impatiently for the action to start at the opening bell, they nodded to Levine quietly as he passed.
Months earlier, Levine had decamped from the tiny cluttered room on the tenth floor of 50 Broad to a larger room on the sixth.
The room quickly slouched toward the en- tropic chaos Levine seemed to thrive in. He brought in an inflatable kiddie pool and populated it with turtles. He grew sea monkeys in a glass jar. An Israeli army bazooka leaned in a corner. The ubiquitous garbage piles, the tech 'zines such as PC World, stacks of computer books, pizza boxes, magazines, crunched Coke cans, crumpled computer printout paper, and candy wrappers rose to the ceiling like tropical plants, competing for space with the baker's racks of computers, rows of computer terminals lined up on card tables, electric cords and creeping cables shooting out of the floor and through holes in the ceiling.
Levine shed his jacket, sat down before his monitor, and hit a but- ton. His computer hummed awake. It was time. The pieces were in place. Now he was about to bring to life the heretical idea that he'd been nurturing ever since he was a teenage runner in the 1980s.
Typing rapidly, he called up the program. Inputting a few instructions and taking a deep breath, he turned it on. Island was alive.
"Island is here!" Levine wrote on Watcher News. "You now have the ability to execute Island orders from the safety and comfort of your own Watcher."
Wall Street would never be the same.
One of the earliest Island clients was a secretive, highly successful hedge fund based on Long Island called Renaissance Technologies. At first, Renaissance's programmers—the firm was entirely run by mathematicians, scientists, and computer wonks—were dubious of Island. The reason: Datek. They were suspicious that the Datek bandits were secretly watching Island's flow and front-running it.
But Island proved too big to ignore. One day in the late 1990s, several of Renaissance's top executives, including a pair of AI experts who'd formerly worked at IBM, Peter Brown and Bob Mercer, paid a visit to 50 Broad. They were bemused by the giant lizard, the pool full of turtles, the trash. Renaissance's headquarters in East Setauket, Long Island, were as pristine as an Ivy League campus. More than anything, Brown and Mercer were deeply impressed by Levine, whom they instantly realized was a programming genius with a profound understanding of the market's plumbing.
Renaissance deployed cutting-edge AI programs to build its models and guide its trading. But Renaissance's AI was an evolutionary leap beyond what any other firm had ever attempted, creating a strategy that would turn Renaissance into the most profitable trading machine in the world, with annual returns averaging north of 40 percent a year. Island's high-speed platform was an ideal match for its strategies.
The Island-Renaissance fusion was a vision of the future in which high-speed AI-guided robots would operate on lightning-fast electronic pools, controlling the daily ebb and flow of the market. The AI Bots poured their valuable liquidity into Island, which, in turn, made it possible for the Bots to operate at high frequencies. They fed off one another, creating a virtuous cycle that would become un- stoppable. Little-known outfits such as Timber Hill, Tradebot, RGM, and Getco would soon start trading on Island, forming the emergent ganglia of a new space-age trading organism driven by machines. Tricked-out artificial intelligence systems designed to scope out hid- den pockets in the market where they could ply their trades powered many of these systems.
In the process, the very structure of how the U.S. stock market worked would shift to meet the endless needs of the Bots. The human middlemen, though they didn't know it, were being phased out, doomed as dinosaurs. And the machines were breeding more machines in an endless cycle of innovation, as programmers pushed the boundaries of speed more ruthlessly than Olympic sprinters. Trading algorithms would mutate, grow, and evolve, feeding off one another like evolving species in a vast and growing digital pool.
In the 1990s, that future had been inconceivable to all but a few visionaries—such as Levine, who had a bird's-eye view of the market as it evolved. But in an ironic twist, what the market would evolve into would be a market far darker than anything Levine could ever have imagined—a market dominated by secret trading algos, vast data centers, and dozens upon dozens of dark pools.
Because the market was so dark, conspiracy theories became rampant. Rumors spread that some firms were sending waves of orders to jam up exchange matching engines—the core computers that paired up buy and sell orders—hoping to profit on discrepancies in prices across multiple pools. Sophisticated tricks known as "layering," "spoofing," and "quote stuffing," in which computers gamed the electronic pools with phantom orders, were said to be unbridled. Insiders talked of trading outfits based in countries such as China, India, and Russia that manipulated prices around the world through sophisticated computer games.
Neil Johnson, a University of Miami physicist who studies complex market patterns, warned in a February 2012 interview of a "global war between competing computer algorithms" that could cause a "big system wide collapse" in which the stock market shatters like broken glass. The market, he said, had evolved into a "lake full of different types of piranhas" devouring one another in a high-speed frenzy. In a working paper he co-authored—"Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology"—Johnson showed that the market in the past few years had undergone "an abrupt systemwide transition from a mixed human-machine phase to a new all-machine phase characterized by frequent black swan events with ultrafast durations."
It was a brave new world that few people outside Wall Street knew existed. The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. And what about the Securities and Exchange Commission? The nation's top stock-market cops were clearly outgunned. In May 2011, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro told Congress that "the Commission's tools for collecting data and surveilling our markets are wholly inadequate to the task of overseeing the largest equity markets in the world."
It was as if the FBI were admitting that it couldn't track organized crime. Everyone, it seemed, was in the dark.
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Well everyone was in the dark until the government decided to use the algos to their advantage and the individuals disadvantage.
After all - if people are taking advantage of a sucker - why not lead the taking advantage of rather than stop it.
And thus the government decided to let the bots rule and man fail.
I was wondering... concerning HFT and HFQ. I had an idea as to how it might work? Bid and ask prices are manipulated using HFQ to reselmbed a specific 2D shape. Then HFT bots trade on the HFQ manipulation, meaning nothing but profits for the HFT hacks. In addition, does the HFQ bid/ask manipulation allow for the creation of fractals and mandelboxes? could hft traders be trading on fractals within fractals within fractals? Does HFQ always create fractals? & if so, do they create 3D fractals that might be disected and traded two dimentionally?
I am very curious. Is there anyone who is experienced with HFT and HFQ?
I liked this part the best of the whole book:
"Dan Ivandjiiski was traveling in Poland when he received an email containing a newswire story about the Aleynikov case. It was July 4, 2009, one day after the arrest. As he read through the story, Ivandjiiski, a pale, dark haired blogger from Bulgaria, instantly knew something big had happened. A former trader himself, he'd been railing against high-speed trading for months on his new blog, called Zero Hedge. "
Time flies, that was right around the time the NYSE stopped releasing trading data to protect Goldfish Sacks.
Hush! ... We try to be discreet about some things here
The first rule is Don't Talk About Fight Club.
I just look forward to the day when, due to a 'glitch', some algo somewhere ends up owning everything.
Neil Johnson, a University of Miami physicist who studies complex market patterns, warned in a February 2012 interview of a "global war between competing computer algorithms" that could cause a "big system wide collapse" in which the stock market shatters like broken glass.
Or drive everything to zero.
Thank goodness that I figured out in 2000 that the stock market is
nothing more than a tool for the very rich and very connected to
cheat the average investor out of their hard earned money.
Since then, I have been investing all my capital in physical PMs,
and it has paid off big time. I believe with all my heart that now
is a great time to invest in physical PMs and mining stocks.
I don't get the part about mining stocks.
To me this seems like some kind of suicidal-nostalgic belief in orderly markets and the rule of law.
It seems to me that if there is a stage of the Collapse in which markets are still functioning well enough to let you profit significantly from mining stocks, then the 'government' will still be functioning well enough to steal what you thought you owned.
I'm sure they would be magnanimous enough to replace your holdings with an equivalent amount of US Recovery Bonds or something, whose nominal value would be decreasing at fifteen percent per day. Except there won't be any real market for them, and anyway you won't be allowed to sell them for the duration of the emergency.
I do get the part about the PMs -- it's pretty hard not to believe in metal, unless you're getting paid to spout non-belief like the animals in the Mind Control Media. I also see how we could have real equity markets again someday, after the Collapse. I think that will require at least one full generation, and probably two before trust returns.
But knowing what we know about what has been going on for many years now -- what looks like complete lawlessness in the 'government' and its 'regulators' , universal criminality and fraud in the entire financial 'industry' -- kleptocracy dancing in the streets and plutocracy baying at the moon -- I honestly don't see how anyone can hold equities.
"I'm mostly out of tulips, but I'm still holding a few high quality bulbs. Pink ones."
old habits die as hard as religion, mick
it's like trading Jesus for m theory
bulbs do their best work in the ground
You know that reminds me -- I have criticized Warren Buffett in the past, but to be fair -- he did correctly criticize the Holland Tulip Mania.
"We dig bulbs up out of the ground, and then we turn right back and bury them under the ground again."
Ah, but we were young and foolish.
Skynet wasn't just one computer. It was the entire network.
This is just one of many specialized vampyral lobes in Lucifer's worldwide emergent mind. Wait until dark pool AIs start bidding on missions for bounty hunter drones.
As the old cliché goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Empirical evidence proves the current financial crisis has been caused by an artificial intelligence. This artificial intelligence was born out of a monetary system that was not based in reality but was parasitical on reality. That is why most trading on today's financial markets is carried out by computers and not humans. That is why they are trying to remove all human traders from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That is why the small human elite still living an astronomically rich life have been promoting the use of killer drones to replace human soldiers who are no longer obeying orders. That is also why so many youth reduced to slavery and drudgery by the elite are escaping into virtual reality. Well, reality has struck back and dealt a fatal blow to the money matrix known to some as Satan.
Disclaimer: Source is nuts and so am I.
P.S. This system-wide emergent mind is always on the lookout for ways to destroy our connection to physical reality and suck us into a fake, soul-sucking reality which it controls. For example: In April, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $40,000 grant to the University of Southern California to help produce a fucking VIDEO GAME based on Thoreau's "Walden." Blasphemy!
Very interesting, I have ordered this book. Thx for the extracts!
The situation in australia is most likely even worse, as the ASIC is a complete joke.
I wish a transaction tax would stop it. Honestly it will not stop it as the fees will be passed on to customers, along with some more new fees to milk us.
The government couldn't track a guy with a PO Box in his home town. There is no way they can track down computerized theft.
Here's what goes on. Communist Activities.
So it is true that the computers have compressed time and in one day they trade through years worth of normal price movements.
If you look at a chart of the Dow from 2000 to 2007 it looks like one day of trading now.
Perhaps momo stocks trade at such high multiples because the algos have already baked in a century of growth.
Time is relative. If everyone only lived for five days, each day would fell like an eternity. To someone who lives for 100 years, that 5 day life would go by in a flash. One second is too slow for a HFT algo, within that one second the machine has made more than a days worth of normal human decisions.
The price action may make sense to the bots, but the price of the market can not be applied to the human world, because the decisions that led to the price has no relation to human activity.
The stock market is nothing different than any other computer modelled prediction. One piece of flawed data can throw the prediction wildly off reality. The thing is nobody cares if the market doesn't reflect reality as long as it makes them money. They only care if something goes wrong and destroys value, like the flash crash.
Not one peep would be said if the market jumped 1000 ponts in a second and a few shares of Apple were sold at $5k a pop.
"Not one peep would be said if the market jumped 1000 ponts in a second and a few shares of Apple were sold at $5k a pop."
FacePlant actually did that, IIRC it was 50K/share for a few seconds.
Noted right here, on ZH.
Do they not cancel such "trades"/
A very simple rule would rein in all the HFT's and AI's. All quotes must remain live for 3 seconds.
I like the tax all orders. Just pennies will do it. Think of it like pay to play tax.
how bout bring back the fractions?
The story of Manipaglo.
There will be an attempted simultaneous mass exodus ... all markets will freeze in a few minutes and will close for a week as all trades will attempt to be straightened out (ala FB opening day). After trying for a week, they will conclude that there is no way to match all trades and the only rational thing (sarc) will be to return to the state of affairs before the bomb with the further caveat that no law suits can come from the events of the day (ala the flash crash). You can be short at the time and the market will appear to drop to zero, but you will gain nothing as all will be zeroed out.
Manipalgo will return to normal and the market will be up 1% the next day.
Good story. When do we get to May 2010!
"I only see 570... why isn't it updating? What? Alirght... Alirhgt... WE"RE IN BEAR MARKETTT!!!"
Classic.... classic. Always pumps me up to listen to this when markets get killed.
Some might say that technique cannot be stopped. It is fundamental, it is now the foundation. These same people (yes actual people) would also say that the system will not fail because to do so would be a huge step back for the technique. Of course this requires the belief that technique is now so refined that it is now in control. It has become organic and self preserving. People cannot survive without it, but the question is whether or not it can survive without them.
I for one do not think technique is quite there yet. Yes, it is refined and continues to develop and simplify. But i do not think it can sustain itself. However I do think without it the vast majority of the population would be completely lost.
Perhaps in the end technique will determine that the optimal solution was simply for it to not to exist. At which point it will be interesting to see what it decides to do.
Restrict the flow of electricity as in a "Dimmer switch" in a light fixture. This might be able to slow the trading down. Just a thought!
If AI is so fucking smart why aren't we all rich?
So when you fuck with mom she gets pissed.
She has a real(bad) nature.
Let them eat corn.