How to Make People Like You: Secrets of Instant Rapport

How to Make People Like You: 


Secrets of Instant Rapport

Nicholas Boothman

Special from Bottom Line/Retirement
March 1, 2001

MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION

It takes very little time for people to form an impression of someone they have just met, and that impression tends to stick. A recent study by Harvard University psychologists found that the attitude students formed toward new teachers in just two seconds was essentially the same as the one they held after sitting through the whole course.

Of course, you cannot expect to become everyone’s best friend in two seconds, but if you make the right first impression, demonstrating that you are sincere, safe and trustworthy, you can initiate the building of a lasting rapport within 90 seconds.

PROJECT A “REALLY USEFUL ATTITUDE”

Your attitude sets the quality and mood of your thoughts, which in turn influence your voice tone, the words you use, your facial expressions and your body language. Your attitude determines the quality of your relationships. When you project a “really useful attitude,” one that is cheery, interested and helpful, other people will want to be around you.

It’s up to you to choose your attitude. When you project the opposite attitude, they will have the opposite reaction.

Very important: Make sure your words, tone of voice and gestures are all consistent. When faced with inconsistency among these three ways of delivering a message, people pay most attention to body language, and then to tone of voice -- and surprisingly little to the actual words.

ESTABLISH RAPPORT BY DESIGN

We like people who are like us, so the key to establishing rapport with strangers is to learn how to be like them. This requires you to deliberately control your behavior to become sufficiently like the other person to form a connection -- at least for a short time.

Look around a restaurant or any other public place where people meet and socialize and compare those couples who are in rapport with those who are not. The ones who are in rapport lean toward one another... adopt similar arm and leg positions... talk in similar tones of voice. In short, they seem to be synchronized.

The quickest way to establish rapport with people you meet is tosynchronize with them.

Synchronizing does not mean you are being phony or insincere. Its purpose is to help you put the other person at ease and speed up the rapport that would otherwise take longer to develop. You are not expected to make your movements, tone and voice mimic the other person’s, but just to act with him/her the same way you would if you were already friends.

HOW TO SYNCHRONIZE

Try to start synchronizing within seconds of making a new acquaintance.Five stages of a successful first encounter...

Use open body language. Uncover your heart by leaving your jacket or coat unbuttoned and facing the other person.

Be first with eye contact. Look the other person straight in the eye.

Beam a smile.

Be the first to identify yourself with a pleasant, “Hi! I’m Nick.”

Lean subtly toward the other person to show your interest and openness, and begin to synchronize.

Pick up on the other person’s feelings and identify with him by synchronizing your movements, breathing patterns and expressions. Use your voice to reflect back the mood conveyed by his voice. Don’t copy him clumsily, but notice his posture, gestures, head and body movements and facial expressions and mirror them.

Particularly important: Mirror his voice tone, volume, speed and pitch.

SECRETS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Get the other person to start talking openly so you can find out what matters to him and synchronize yourself accordingly.

Begin by asking open questions -- those that cannot be answered with a simple “yes” or “no” but encourage the other person to open up and reveal himself.

Key words: Who? When? What? Why? Where? How?

Keep the conversation going by answering a question with another question.

Sensory preferences: If you really want to communicate with other people on their own wavelengths, learn to rapidly figure out their sensory preferences. People view the world in one of three basic ways...

Visuals are motivated primarily by what they see.

Auditories by what they hear.

Kinesthetics by physical sensations.

You can quickly recognize which group people belong to by listening to the vocabulary they use. Examples...

Visuals tend to talk fast, wave their hands, look up with their eyes, dress well and say things like, “I’d like to see proof of that.”

Auditories tend to talk at a medium speed, have melodic and expressive voices, gesture and move their eyes from side to side and will say, “I hear that.”

Kinesthetics tend to speak very slowly and with great detail, look down as they speak, wear textured clothing, and talk about how they feel.

Detecting sensory preferences requires you to pay close attention to others, which in itself makes you a more people-oriented, likeable person. And when you learn how to synchronize with people using the vocabulary they feel comfortable with, your ability to develop rapport with almost anyone will grow.

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Bottom Line/Tomorrow interviewed Nicholas Boothman, a licensed master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming who lectures throughout North America and Europe,www.nicholasboothman.com. Mr. Boothman was a fashion and advertising photographer for 25 years. He is author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less (Workman).

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WWDC 2011 App for iPhone and iPad Now Available For Download

WWDC 2011 is going to be an amazing event, that can be judged by the fact that tickets were sold out within 24 hours. Just two days short of the event, Apple has released the WWDC 2011 app for iPhone and iPad which can be downloaded for free via the iTunes App Store.

The WWDC 2011 is your mobile guide to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Access a range of conference information on-the-go from your iPhone or iPad. You can quickly search the conference schedule, make a reservation at the User Interface, App Review, iTunes Connect, Program Support, or Developer Publications lab, view florr diagrams of Moscone West, and create a custom schedule of the sessions, labs, and events you plan on attending

Everyone can download WWDC 2011 app, but in order for this to work, you need to sign in with the Apple ID that you use to activate the WWDC 2011 ticket. You can download the free WWDC 2011 app for your iPhone and iPad from here.

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Some more speech tricks

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Some more speech tricks

Fellow speakers,

Use some of these tips to "tip up" the audience's interest in your speech:

• Antimetabole - saying words in a phrase, then reversing the order of those words, to show the contrast (e.g., "We can follow the leaders while making sure the leaders lead the followers.")
• Chiasmus - change the natural word order (e.g., "You are in my prayers always." instead of the more "natural" word order "You are always in my prayers.")
• Induction - drawing general conclusions from a few specific examples (e.g., "We know he was seen around the scene of the crime. We know his gun was used to do the killing. We know he was angry at the other man. So most likely he shot the other man.")
• Asyndeton - list words without using conjunctions (e.g., "My opponent is a gun-toting, people-hating, evil-mongering man.")

Trickily,

Tim

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Brief History of the Olympic Games

Brief History of the Olympic Games

Ancient Olympic Games

Chronology of athletic events added to the Olympic Games

Myths and  the Olympic Games

Pelops myth Hercules myth

The Importance of the Olympic Games

The Importance of Ancient Greek Athletics  The Religious Aspects of the Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games and the Greek Calendar The Sacred Truce The internationalization of the Olympic Games

Modern Olympic Games

Highlights of Modern Olympic Games

International Olympic CommitteeOfficial Olympic Anthem (Greek & English)

Host Cities of Olympic Games

Sydney for Olympic Games of 2000

Athens for Olympic Games of 2004

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Ancient Olympic Games  The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made.
According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC, at first the only Olympic event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium. This was the only event until 724 BC, when a two-stadia race was added. Two years later the 24-stadia event began, and in 708 the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the games. This pentathlon, a five-event match consisted of running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin. In time boxing, a chariot race, and other events were included.
The victors of these early games were crowned with wreaths from a sacred olive tree that grew behind the temple of Zeus. According to tradition this tree was planted by Hercules (Heracles), founder of the games. The winners marched around the grove to the accompaniment of a flute while admirers chanted songs written by a prominent poet.
The Olympic Games were held without interruptions in ancient Greece. The games were even held in 480 BC during the Persian Wars, and coincided with the Battle of Thermopylae. Although the Olympic games were never suspended, the games of 364 BC were not considered Olympic since the Arkadians had captured the sanctuary and reorganized the games.
After the Battle of Chaironeia in 338 BC, Philip of Makedon and his son Alexander gained control over the Greek city-states. They erected the Philippeion (a family memorial) in the sanctuary, and held political meetings at Olympia during each Olympiad. In 146 BC, the Romans gained control of Greece and, therefore, of the Olympic games. In 85 BC, the Roman general Sulla plundered the sanctuary to finance his campaign against Mithridates. Sulla also moved the 175th Olympiad (80 BC) to Rome.
The games were held every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD, when they were abolished by the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. The ancient Olympic Games lasted for 1170 years.
The successful campaign to revive the Olympics was started in France by Baron Pierre de Coubertin late in the 19th century. The first of the modern Summer Games opened on Sunday, March 24, 1896, in Athens, Greece. The first race was won by an American college student named James Connolly.

Chronology of athletic events added to the Olympic Games 

According to the tradition of Hippias of Elis ca. 400 BC, the events of the Olympic Games were added to the program in the following order.

Year	Olympiad	Event
776 BC	1st Olympiad	Stadium race
724 BC	14th Olympiad	double-stadium race
720 BC	15th Olympiad	long-distance race
708 BC	18th Olympiad	Pentathlon
708 BC	18th Olympiad	Wrestling
688 BC	23rd Olympiad	Boxing
680 BC	25th Olympiad	4-horse chariot race
648 BC	33rd Olympiad	horse race
648 BC	33rd Olympiad	Pankration
520 BC	65th Olympiad	race in armor
408 BC	93rd Olympiad	2-horse chariot race

Myths and the Olympic Games 

Pelops myth

There are several Greek myths about how the games were started. The most common myth was the story of the hero Pelops, after whom the Peloponnese is named ("Pelops’ isle"). The story of Pelops was displayed prominently on the east pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Zeus. Pelops was a prince from Lydia in Asia Minor who sought the hand of Hippodamia, the daughter of King Oinomaos of Pisa. Oinomaos challenged his daughter's suitors to a chariot race under the guarantee that any young man who won the chariot race could have Hippodamia as a wife. Any young man who lost the race would be beheaded, and the heads would be used as decoration for the palace of Oinomaos. With the help of his charioteer Myrtilos, Pelops devised a plan to beat Oinomaos in the chariot race. Pelops and Myrtilos secretly replaced the bronze linchpins of the King's chariot with linchpins made of wax. When Oinomaos was about to pass Pelops in the chariot race, the wax melted and Oinomaos was thrown to his death. Pelops married Hippodamia and instituted the Olympic games to celebrate his victory. A different version of the myth refers to the Olympic games as funeral games in the memory of Oinomaos.

Hercules (Herakles) myth 

Another myth about the origin of the Olympic Games comes from the Tenth Olympian Ode of the poet Pindar. He tells the story of how Herakles, on his fifth labor, had to clean the stables of King Augeas of Elis. Herakles approached Augeas and promised to clean the stables for the price of one-tenth of the king's cattle. Augeas agreed, and Herakles rerouted the Kladeos and Alpheos rivers to flow through the stables. Augeas did not fulfill his promise, however, and after Herakles had finished his labors he returned to Elis and waged war on Augeas. Herakles sacked the city of Elis and instituted the Olympic Games in honor of his father, Zeus. It is said that Herakles taught men how to wrestle and measured out the stadium, or the length of the footrace.

The Importance of the Olympic Games 

The Importance of Ancient Greek Athletics

The ancient Greeks were highly competitive and believed strongly in the concept of "agon", or "competition" or "contest". The ultimate Greek goal was to be the best. All aspects of life, especially athletics, were centered around this concept. It was therefore considered one of the greatest honors to win a victory at Olympia. The fact that the only prize given at Olympia was an olive wreath illustrates this point. The athletes competed for honor, not for material goods.
Athletics were of prime importance to the Greeks. The education of boys concentrated on athletics and music as well as academic subjects such as philosophy. Education took place in the gymnasion and the palaistra as well as the academy.

The Religious Aspects of the Ancient Olympic Games 

In ancient Greece, games were closely connected to the worship of the gods and heroes. Games were held as part of religious ceremonies in honor of deceased heroes, a concept displayed in the funeral games for Patroklos in Book 23 of Homer's epic poem, The Iliad. Games were also held in the context of many ancient fertility festivals. The games at Olympia were connected with both the funeral games of Oinomaos, established by Pelops, and a fertility cult involving any number of gods and goddesses who were worshipped at the site. The Olympic games began to be usurped by the prominent cult of Zeus, and eventually lost much of their religious character.

The Olympic Games and the Greek Calendar  

The Greek calendar was based on the conception of the four-year Olympiad. When Greek historians referred to dates, they most often referred to a year (i.e., first, second, third, fourth) within the Olympiad that the event occurred. The winner of the stadium race in a given year had the Olympiad named in honor of him. The first Olympiad is therefore known as that of Koroibos of Elis, the winner of the stadium race in 776 BC.

The Sacred Truce  

The sacred truce was instituted during the month of the Olympiad. Messengers known as "spondorophoroi" carried the word of the truce and announced the date of the games all over the Greek world. The truce called for a cessation of all hostilities for a period of one month (later three months) to allow for the safe travel of athletes to and from Olympia. Armies and armed individuals were barred from entering the sanctuary. In addition, no death penalties could be carried out during the period of the truce.

The Internationalization of the Olympic Games  

From the beginning, the games at Olympia served as a bond between Greeks and strengthened the Greek sense of national unity. During the Hellenistic period, Greeks who came to live in foreign surroundings such as Syria, Asia, and Egypt, strove to hold on to their culture. One of the ways to achieve this was to build athletic facilities and continue their athletic traditions. They organized competitions, and sent competitors from their towns to compete in the Panhellenic games.
In the 2nd century A.D., Roman citizenship was extended to everyone within the Roman empire. From then on, the participation of many competitors from outside of Greece in the Olympic games, gave them to a degree, international nature.
When the Greek government reinstated the games in 1896, this international character of the competitions was preserved by Baron de Coubertin. Now, 16 centuries later, the Olympic games attract competitors from countries all over the world.Modern Olympic Games  
The best amateur athletes in the world match skill and endurance in a series of contests called the Olympic Games. Almost every nation sends teams of selected athletes to take part. The purposes of the Olympic Games are to foster the ideal of a "sound mind in a sound body" and to promote friendship among nations.
The modern Olympic Games are named for athletic contests held in ancient Greece for almost 12 centuries. They were banned in AD 394 but were revived and made international in 1896. The Winter Games were added in 1924. World War I and World War II forced cancellation of the Olympics in 1916, 1940, and 1944, but they resumed in 1948 and are held every four years. After 1992 the Winter and Summer Games were no longer held within the same calendar year. Winter Games were scheduled for 1994, after only a two-year interval, and every four years thereafter. The Summer Games were scheduled for 1996, and every four years thereafter.Summer and Winter Sports  
Summer sports include archery, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian events (horseback riding), fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weight lifting, wrestling, and yachting. Winter events include skating, skiing, bobsledding, luge, tobogganing, ice hockey, and the biathlon (skiing-shooting).
The most exacting track and field event is the decathlon (from the Greek words deka,meaning "ten," and athlon, "contest"). Contestants compete in ten different running, jumping, and throwing events. The athlete scoring the greatest total number of points is the winner. The pentathlon, consisting of five such events, was discontinued after 1924. It was restored in the 1948 games as the modern pentathlon, based upon five military skills--fencing, riding, running, shooting, and swimming. The marathon race, covering 26 miles 385 yards, honors the ancient Greek runner Pheidippides, who ran from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory against the Persians.
Women take part in separate summer and winter events. Ten new women's summer competitions added in 1984 included the marathon and a 49-mile cycling event. The pentathlon, introduced in 1964, was replaced by the heptathlon, which consists of 100-meter hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-meter races. Additional events for women in the 1992 Winter and Summer Games included the biathlon, 10-kilometer walk, baseball, and judo.Highlights of the Modern Games  
One of the most dramatic feats of the Olympics was the triumph of the United States track and field team in 1896. Competing as unofficial representatives, the ten-man squad reached Athens barely in time to participate. They won nine out of 12 events.
In 1912 Jim Thorpe, a Native American, became the only man to win both the decathlon and pentathlon in one year. Officials canceled his record and took back his medals when they learned that he had played professional baseball. His medals were restored posthumously in 1982. In track and field, Jesse Owens, a black American, won four gold medals including a team medal in 1936. The first woman to win three individual gold medals was Fanny Blankers-Koen of The Netherlands. The first athletes to win the decathlon twice were Bob Mathias of the United States, in 1948 and 1952, and Daley Thompson of Great Britain, in 1980 and 1984. The first perfect 10.0 in Olympic gymnastics was scored by Nadia Comaneci of Romania, who received seven perfect scores and three gold medals in 1976.
In the 1964 Winter Games the Soviet speed skater Lidya Skoblikova was the first athlete to win four individual gold medals. Her feat was duplicated in the 1968 Summer Games by the Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska.
In 1972 the United States swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seven gold medals at a single Olympics. Swimmers John Naber of the United States and Kornelia Ender of East Germany each won four gold medals in the Summer Games in 1976.
The all-time individual medal winner was the American track athlete Ray C. Ewry, who won eight events in the 1900, 1904, and 1908 Games.
The 1972 Summer Games in Munich, West Germany, became a tragedy when Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Olympic team members from Israel. In a protest against a New Zealand rugby tour of South Africa about 30 African nations boycotted the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal, Que. To protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan more than 60 countries, led by the United States, withdrew from the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. The Soviet Union, which first participated in 1952, withdrew from the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Scandals rocked the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. Ten athletes were disqualified after drug tests revealed steroid abuse. Charges of bias and incompetence in the officiating at the boxing events led to two-year suspensions for five Korean boxers and officials and several other judges and referees.
The 1992 games were unusual in that there were no more Soviet teams; the Soviet Union had split up in December 1991. The teams that participated from its former republics, sometimes still wearing the old Soviet uniforms, represented either now-independent Baltic states or the Commonwealth of Independent States, which had been formed from 11 of the former Soviet republics. Nevertheless, at the Winter Games in Albertville the Commonwealth's United Team came in second, after Germany, in number of medals won.
In the 1896 Olympic Games there were fewer than 500 athletes representing 13 nations. In 1988 the Seoul games drew entries from a record total of 160 countries. While the number of athletes who competed in Los Angeles did not surpass the high of 10,000 set at Munich in 1972, the 1984 games set records for the largest total attendance--almost 5.8 million people--and the most gold medals for one country--83 for the United States.
The centennial Olympic Games opened in Atlanta, Ga., with more than 10,000 athletes from a record 197 nations in attendance. The opening ceremonies, which began 16 days of athletic competition, featured a tribute to the ancient Greek games and slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Former world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic torch, which completed a 84-day, 15,000-mile (24,000-kilometer) trek across the United States. The games featured 28 delegations that were participating for the first time, including athletes from the Czech Republic, FYROM, and Burundi, and Palestinians competing under the name Palestine. Tight security and Atlanta's hot and humid August weather were major concerns for Olympic organizers and those attending the games. In spite of security precautions, a homemade pipe bomb loaded with nails and screws exploded at a late-night concert in Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and wounding more than 100 others. In addition, a Turkish television cameraman died of a heart attack while running to film the blast. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.International Olympic Committee  
The development and governance of the modern games are vested in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), founded in Paris in 1894. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. The original committee had 14 members; today there are about 70. These individuals are considered ambassadors from the committee to their national sports organizations and are dedicated to promoting amateur athletics. Normally there is only one member from each country. Presidents of the IOC are elected for an eight-year term and eligible for succeeding four-year terms.
Each country sending teams to the games must have its own National Olympic Committee. By 1988 there were 167 such committees. One responsibility of a national committee is arranging for its team's participation in the games, providing equipment, and getting the team to the game site and into specially arranged housing.Official Olympic Anthem (Greek & English) 
The Olympic Hymn (given below in Greek and English) was written by Costis Palamas, one of Greece's most famous poets, in 1893 and was set to music by Spiros Samaras in 1896. The Hymn was adopted as the Official Olympic Hymn by the International Olympic Committee in 1957.

Greek Αρχαίο Πνεύμ' αθάνατον, αγνέ πατέρα του ωραίου, του μεγάλου και τ' αληθινού, κατέβα, φανερώσου κι άστραψ' εδώ πέρα στη δόξα της δικής σου γης και τ' ουρανού. Στο δρόμο και στο πάλεμα και στο λιθάρι, στων ευγενών Αγώνων λάμψε την ορμή, και με τ' αμάραντο στεφάνωσε κλωνάρι και σιδερένιο πλάσε κι άξιο το κορμί. Κάμποι, βουνά και πέλαγα φέγγουν μαζί σου σαν ένας λευκοπόρφυρος μέγας ναός, και τρέχει στο ναό εδώ προσκυνητής σου. Αρχαίο Πνεύμ' αθάνατο, κάθε λαός. Κωστής Παλαμάς (1859-1942)

English Translation Ancient immortal spirit, pure father Of the beautiful, the great and the true, Descend, appear, and emblaze this place With the glory of your own earth and sky.In the race, the grappling, and the toss, Kindle the impulse in all noble contests, Crown with the perennial wreath, And fashion the steely and worthy body. Plains, mountains, and seas glow in your presence Like some great clear porphyrous shrine, And every nation hurries here to your temple In supplication, ancient immortal spirit. Costis Palamas (1859-1942) Translation by: Sotiris Sotiropoulos, Canada ©2001

Host cities of Olympic Games Since their resumption in their modern form in 1896 in Athens, the Olympic Games took place in the following cities:

1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948	Athens Paris Saint Louis London Stockholm Cancelled (was due in Berlin) Antwerp (Belgium) Paris Amsterdam Los Angeles Berlin Cancelled (was due in Tokyo) Cancelled (was due in Helsinki) London	1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000	Helsinki Melbourne Rome Tokyo Mexico City Munich Montreal Moscow Los Angeles Seoul Barcelona Atlanta Sydney

Sydney for Olympic Games of 2000 
The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Monaco, on September 23, 1993, announced that Sydney, Australia, would be the host city for the Summer Olympic Games in the year 2000. The closest contender for the site was Beijing, China. There had been much opposition to choosing Beijing, however, because of the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators and China's current policies on human rights. Australia had previously hosted the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne.
The opening of the 27th Olympiad took place on Friday, 15 December 2000 in the magnificent Olympic stadium of Sydney, build specially for this historic event. The stadium is some 9 miles from the centre of the city and 1 million people where on the streets of Sydney the night before.
The ceremony, which lasted nearly four hours, started  with horsemen entering the stadium bearing the Olympic flags, symbolizing the arrival of horsemen in Australia in 1778. Following the national Australian National anthem, the story of Australia was portrait through scenes of sea and fish, forest fires and dances by the Aborigines, the indigenous population of Australia for 40000 years. Thy Olympic Anthem was sang in Greek by the Australian Greek Orthodox Church choir. 

The climax of the ceremony was the Olympic Torch entering the stadium, relayed by veteran Australian Olympic athletes of the 20th century and handed over to the Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, who was ringed by fire after lighting the Olympic flame. The flames rose above Ms Freeman, the 400m world champion, and moved up the stand to a final resting place over the stadium.

There was temporary anxiety when the cauldron carrying the Olympic flame, after being lit, briefly stuck in front of a worldwide television audience of nearly 4 billion. The Olympic flame went on a 16,740 - mile route of Australia involving 11,000 torch bearers and passing near 80% of the population. 
Facts: 
1) Built at cost of more than £250m, the new stadium has a capacity of 110,000 and four Boeing 747s would fit side by side under the span of the main arches of the grandstands.
2) A translucent saddle-shaped roof floods the stadium with natural light during the day.
3) Inside the stadium there are 99 tons of lighting and power equipment connected by 2 miles of wiring. A ring road and wide entrances to move sets. Production crew of 4,600 planned the ceremony.Athens for Olympic Games of 2004  
Following the International Olympic Committee’s decision, Athens, after 108 years, will host again the Olympic Games.>>>>

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How to Score High on the SAT or PSAT

edits by:Lauren, Jack Herrick, Ben Rubenstein, GameMaster (see all)

The SAT is a test that you take at the end of primary school that is used as part of your application to colleges and universities. The PSAT has a similar format to the SAT, and is taken before the SAT. In addition to preparing you for the SAT, the PSAT also gives you a chance to enter National Merit Scholarship Programs.

You can also go to SATS booster class.

Universities vary in whether or not they require the SAT. Some require only the SAT; others require a test called the ACT; others will accept either test; and still others do not require any sort of standardized test scores.

There is no way to ensure a top score on the SAT, but with preparation and hard work, you can certainly improve your score, and with it, your chances of getting into your first choice school.

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   Take an SAT test. See how far you are from your target score.
   
   
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   Choose an SAT prep strategy based on how much work you have to do to reach your target score. Be sure to do your research, and ask friends and families for advice. Do they recommend studying on your own from a book? Hiring a tutor (if you can afford it)? Enrolling in a classroom or online course? Think about how much time you have to prepare before the test; how much money you want to spend; and how many hours a day you are prepared to devote for SAT Prep.
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   Implement the tips you learn from your books, course, or tutor as you continue to prep. (Note:If you are going to use SAT Practice books to study, a recommended place to get them in downloadable pdf-file format for free at no charge is here:http://www.freesatbooks.com)
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   Give yourself a good block of time each day to prepare. Do practice problems, and familiarize yourself with the format of all the test sections. If possible, do full-length practice tests, preferably in a quiet, timed, test-like environment.
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   Read constantly. It will help build your vocabulary and increase your critical reading skills.
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   Read the paper or a news magazine; stay informed. In fact, it's a good idea to read articles that DON'T interest you. These are often the kind of articles you'll find on the SAT, and it's good to practice reading and annotating them. Try to identify main ideas and to pinpoint the author's point of view.
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   A few days before the test, slow down your review process, but don't slow down the quality of your work. Get a good night's rest in the nights leading up to the test; the last thing you want is to fall asleep on the test day!
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   A few days before the test, gather all the things you will need for the next day and work out how you are going to get to the testing center. Make sure to have directions--getting lost on the way to the testing center will just stress you out.
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   Get a full night's sleep (8 hours) before the test.
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    Get up in the morning with a good attitude, eat a hearty, healthy breakfast, and get ready to rock the SAT.
    
    

EditTips

• Studying Greek and Latin root words might help a bit. However, there are a ton of them, so don't drive yourself crazy. If you have the option of taking Greek or Latin as foreign language in high school or middle school, consider doing so. Be sure to weigh it against the importance of knowing a "living" foreign language, though!
• If you are going to use SAT Practice books to study, a recommended place to get them in downloadable pdf-file format for free at no charge is here: http://www.freesatbooks.com
• You can take the SAT more than once if you need to. If you're satisfied with your score the first time, you don't need to worry about taking it again. However, if you don't do well the first time, rest easy. You can take the test again, but colleges will see all the times you have taken it, but they will not see the scores you scored on previous attempts.
• Take the PSAT for the first time in 10th or 11th grade so that you are familiar with the format of the SAT when the time comes.
• Consider taking the ACT as well as the SAT. Many students find that they score much better on one test as opposed to the other.
• When you do the Critical Reading sections, annotate the text for each question. Always read the italicized background information on the top of the text. Read the entire first paragraph closely, and identify the main idea.
• To increase your vocabulary, you can either read and/or look at the lyrics to your favorite songs. I'm pretty sure you have heard your favorite artists/bands articulate a few unfamiliar words here and there.
• Familiarize yourself with the type of grammatical errors the SAT wants you to be aware of (eg. parallelism, subject-verb agreement, etc.)and familiarize yourself with the test. Memorize the instructions and time limits for each section.
• Practice writing the 25-minute essay and have it graded by a teacher if possible.
• Here's a tip for the sentence completion area on the critical reading section: Whenever you see a word's definition in a sentence and that word is a answer choice, chose it. It is always correct. For example, if you see the words, dexterous or deft in a sentence, choose the word,adroit if its an answer choice because adroit means dexterous or deft. Easy point there, so just read carefully.
• If you do not have much time and feel that your vocabulary is not good enough, consider memorizing SAT vocabulary using flash cards.
• Don't stress yourself out. Do your best--both during preparation time and on the actual test day.
• Eat a breakfast with a high level of protein and nutrients.
• Bring lots of water with you.
• Think positively.
• Try to get at least 8 hours of full, undisturbed rest.
• Don't forget your calculator and some snacks to give you energy and focus during the test.
  
  

  
• For the critical reading section, for the long passages read the questions before you read the passage. This will help you understand what you are looking for in the passage

EditWarnings

• Do not wait/cram/procrastinate until the last month or so to start preparing for the SAT, PSAT, or ACT.
• Do not party the night before the test, save that until afterward. Be sure to get at least 8 hours of sleep.
  
  

  

EditThings You'll Need

• Practice books
• A calculator and back-up calculators
• Extra pencils
• A time piece
• Snacks
  
  

  

EditRelated wikiHows

• How to Get Free Preparation Material for the Sat or Psat
• How to Get Into an Ivy League School

EditSources and Citations

• http://www.freesatbooks.com
• http://www.collegeboard.com

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