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Mixers and Icebreakers:
What is a mixer? A mixer is an ice breaking activity done at the beginning of an event to give people a chance to get to know and become comfortable with each other. They are often ridiculous games that are not intimidating for new people. Below is a list of entertaining mixers and explanations of how to do each one. To put these mixers into the NFTY Program Format, plug them into the Mixer Template, also found on this page.
"Name Games"
Have people sit in a circle. Each person should say their name and which cartoon character they would date if they were, in fact, cartoon characters. You can also have people say their favorite kind of cheese, favorite kitchen utensil, songs that would be the theme songs to the movies of their lives, what superpower they would want, first thing they would do if they were Harry Potter for a day, most embarrassing moment, favorite out-of-style fashion, the fake definition of what their name is backwards, etc. This is a basic way to release much of the group's tension, and is meant as an introductory activity. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5 minutes)
Ask participants to stand up in a circle, and give pillows to two volunteers. Explain the game: the leader will call out the name of someone in the circle and the people in the middle run to hit this person with pillows. The person who was called must say the name of someone else in the circle, and the people in the middle will then run to hit them instead. The people with pillows can hit their target as many times as they wish until that person calls someone else's name. If the person whose name was called can call out someone else's name before getting hit with a pillow, they may remain in the circle. If they get hit with a pillow legitimately, they must step out of the circle and are out until the next round. People in the circle can only call the same name once in a row, or they are out. The last two people remaining become the people with pillows in the following round. (Materials: two pillows per group. Estimated Running Time: 10-20 minutes.)
"Groupie Rock Paper Scissors"
Partners are to play one round of Rock Paper Scissor. The winner moves on to compete further, while the loser follows him/her and cheers her on (becoming a groupie). Every time that someone wins a round, their opponent and their opponent's groupies become their groupies. This process continues until there are only two people left. The final round is two out of three. PP's are now back in one large group and can start a new program or play again. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time 5-10 minutes.)
"Apple Game"
Each group has between 7-12 people. One person stands in the middle with everyone else standing shoulder to shoulder in a circle around him or her. The people on the outside must pass an apple around the circle without the person in the middle catching them. Each person must also try to take a bite of the carrot and swallow without being caught. The person in the center is continually guessing who has the apple. If someone is caught holding the apple, he or she switches with the person in the center. The person in the middle when the apple is completely gone loses. This game can also be played with carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers, etc. (Materials: Several apples. Estimated Running Time: 10-15 minutes.)
"The Interrupting Game"
The group sits in a circle with one person standing in the center. That person says something about his or her name and something about his or her self. If someone has something in common with that person they stand up, interrupt them and say their name and what they have in common with that person. They continue about themselves until someone else interrupts them and so on and so forth. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5-15 minutes.)
"Middle School Dance Tag"
Tells participants to face their partner and put their hands on their partner's shoulders (kind of like middle-schoolers do at their dances). The object of the game is to step on their partner's feet as many times as possible. First person to step on the other person's feet 10 times wins. Once game is complete, participants start over. Have participants rotate after a few games. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5-10 minutes.)
"Chinese Knee Tag"
Participants start back to back. On the count of three participantss turn around (to face their partner) and grab a hold of their wrist, not their hand but their wrist (they should be holding the same hand i.e. their right). After a minute or two, PPs try to tag the back of their partner's opposite knee. (Demonstrate first). Once a participant has tagged his or her partner, they keep trying until the GLL stops them to move onto the next mixer. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time 5-10 minutes.)
"Flamingo Knock Down"
Participants start back to back. On the count of three, they turn around, cross their arms over their chests, lift one foot off the ground, and try to knock their partner off balance so they have to put their foot down. The goal is not to knock their partner down, and they may not use their free leg to kick the other person. Once they have succeeded in knocking their partner off balance, they keep trying to do it again until told to switch partners. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time 5-10 minutes.)
"NFTY Cotillion"
Have participants choose a partner, introduce themselves, and discuss and demonstrate their favorite dance move (or make up a dance move together, time permitting). Plays music and tells PP to dance in that style with their partner briefly. When music stops, have participants start over with a new partner, each rotation should take no more than a minute. Sample styles: salsa, cha-cha, freestyle, swing, slow, disco, rap, ballroom, line, etc. (Materials: music and some way to play it loudly such as iPod with sound system or boombox with cd. Estimated Running Time: 10-20 minutes).
"Balloon Games"
Before the participants arrive, blow up balloons for them and place a random word inside of it. When they get there, instruct them to form groups of 2 and hand each group one balloon. Partners must work together to pop the balloon using their bodies, not merely stomping on it. After they pop the balloon, they must come up with a funny story about the word and at the end, everyone must share their stories. (Materials: Strips of paper with random words, balloons. Estimated Running Time: 10-20 minutes.)
"Subway Tag"
Have everyone find a partner and move the group into a close, confined area and designate invisible boundaries calling it the "subway car." Everyone must stay inside the subway car. Have one of the partners raise their hands and they are "It." That person is to chase their partner without going out of the bounds. When the runner is tagged, they must spin in a circle shouting "I'm it, I'm it" so that their partner can run away. (Materials: small space. Estimated Running Time: 5-10 minutes.)
"Hug Tag"
This is a cooperative version of "regular" tag. You should designate a few people to be "freezers". Then tell everyone else to scatter in all directions. The freezers count to ten, and then take off after the runners. Once they tag a runner that person becomes one of the freezers. A player is safe from being tagged only when he or she is hugging another player. Players can only maintain a hug for 5 seconds. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5-10 minutes.)
"Walking Tag"
Have participants find a partner. Explain that throughout the entire game they can only walk. Each partner pair will designate someone to be "it." The "it" partner will count to ten while their partner walks away. If a person gets tagged by their partner, they are now "it" and must count to ten while their partner walks away. Feel free to have participants switch partners halfway through. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5-10 minutes.)
"Three Little Pigs"
Each group must plan their own re-enactment of the Three Little Pigs to present to the group. But each group must act it out in a different style (examples-Opera, rap, western, Shakespearean, Film Noir, Jack Bauer, slo-mo, etc.) Feel free to use any other children's story. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 15-20 minutes.)
"Zen Counting"
Have everyone close their eyes. The goal is to count to 30 with only one person speaking at a time. You start over if two people say the number at the same time. (Materials: None. Estimated Running Time: 5-10 minutes).
"No Means No"
Leader explains the significance of the necklaces to the group –participants can enjoy themselves and act normally, but the word "no" is banned for the rest of the night (except during programs). If a participant says the word "no," they forfeit all the necklaces they have to the participant whom they said "no" to. At the end of the event (or night), whoever has the most necklaces wins a prize. Encourage participants to approach those with more necklaces to make them say "no", and even if an participant has lost all of their necklaces, they can still play to steal necklaces from those who have more. (Materials: necklace per participant. Estimated Running Time: full evening/night.)
Each participant will take one strip and will look to "assassinate" the person on the strip. To assassinate a target, a person must say the catchphrase ("Bang Bang, You're Dead) to their target quiet enough that only their target can hear (if anyone else hears, the assassin "misses"). The target then gives their most recent target to the assassin, and this becomes the assassin's new target. Here's the twist: the person who was assassinated becomes the bodyguard for the person who killed them. If the person whom they are "protecting" is assassinated as well, they become the bodyguard of the person who assassinated them and so on (picture Groupie Rock-Paper-Scissors, such that by the end there will be a few assassins walking around each with their own entourage of bodyguards). The person to successfully "outlast" and "assassinate" all of their peers is the winner, and receives the prize at the end of the event. Explain that this game is not to be played during programs, meetings, or services.
More official version: To guarantee that the game moves forward and that there is only one winner, the creator should only include those who would like to play, and make a circle with everyone's names (A-B-C-D-…-Y-Z-A). All other rules stay the same. (Materials: strips with participants' names OR master list. Estimated Running Time: until the end of an event.)


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Completely Dead Xbox
Posted 15 March 2005 - 01:48 PM
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Posted 15 March 2005 - 04:13 PM
Also: while rechecking/wiggling connections and retrying to power on, I noticed something a bit strange: it makes a high pitched whining noise when I unplug the power cord... I hope that helps, and doesn't confuse the issue any.
And, with the new psu, there's an additional plug branching off (which I assume is the adapter for the later models) that simply will not fit in the case anywhere.... Any suggestions on that? Just in case I can get it fixed and close it back up, that is.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 03:21 PM
Posted 16 March 2005 - 03:38 PM
Bump for great justice!
Ahh the whineing noise...
Ive had 2 xboxs do that during the modchipping process and both are now dead.
Anyone care to help us both out?
Posted 17 March 2005 - 01:54 PM
If the voltage readings at the infamous T2 transistor (aka Q7C2)
are collector 0.35, pin nearest Q7C1 is reading 0.35 (base)
and 4.0 for the emittor, then your transistor is bad. You can also check wether there is a short between collector and base. Mine was reading 23 Ohms, it should be about 1000 Ohms (while still on the board)
You can power the xbox up by removing the bad transistor and bridging the emittor to the collector with a piece of 30 AWG wire.
If everything works fine, then replace the bad transistor with PNP transistor number 2N4403 or MMBT4403 avaliable just about anywhere.
That should fix it.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 06:51 PM
I don't think its a 1.6 so that does not apply
He said
Posted 18 March 2005 - 06:36 AM
Thanks for responding: its great to see that someone's trying to help!
Also, one more small thing to consider: I tried the manual eject spot to get my game out, but it doesn't work. There's no release switch, no button, nothing inside. I took a bobby pin, clipped the point off to blunt it, and poked around in the hole, but it seems to be a simple, empty hole... Any ideas on getting the disc out? Does this help with the problem?
Posted 18 March 2005 - 06:44 AM
Also, you can manually turn the xbox on by bridging the 3.3v SB and the power_on wires on the big power plug.
Posted 18 March 2005 - 01:10 PM
Also, you can manually turn the xbox on by bridging the 3.3v SB and the power_on wires on the big power plug.
I've got that bobby pin straightened, and at just over 2 inches in, it stops, and won't go any further.... But nothing. Will try with a paperclip later.
Also: any diagrams, walkthroughs, more newbie-fied explanations of this bridging action? Photos? Anything?
Posted 19 March 2005 - 05:23 PM
Just want to also point out that the previous suggestions, about the eject assembly, and bridging the power_on wires appear to be helpful, but I can't find anything about them on the main page, in the forums, or on the web.... So, if you have any suggestions on different wording/search parameters to use, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks again!
Posted 19 March 2005 - 05:24 PM
Sorry: 'puter burped, and out came two replies. Ignore this one.
Edited by amightydino, 19 March 2005 - 05:25 PM.
Posted 25 March 2005 - 03:23 AM
So, my guess is that my problem had nothing to do with the PSU originally, as its been replaced and no go, and that leaves.... What exactly? Any more ideas?
Posted 25 March 2005 - 03:30 AM
trying a different motherboard would probably work cos its pretty much a whole new thing but its pretty pointless as we know its probably something wrong with urs.
also check in the pinned faq (case modding) and check the power eject assembly. try and short the 2 connections on the mobo (power and ground). u should just be able to put a screw driver in there (flat head) and it'll turn on, so that way u can see if its the power eject assembly
Posted 25 March 2005 - 07:06 AM
I have an xbox 1.6 which only used for 2 hours before in went totally OFF. LIke the original Poster I also bought a Xenium Ice chip (not solderless version though) and boot up to the 2.0.1 xenium OS. After adding launch items for evox m8 plus and tsop to boot ms dash i went ahead and play some games. Also ftped a game to the xbox retail drive and play it for almost an hour. Had to eat and turn the xbox off (big mistake : ( ...) , well guess what Same thing happened to me... after I came back and try to TURN ON the xbox nothing worked at all. I even went online and try to buy a new 1.6 psu but gladly found some gift cards to buy a new xbox...now I try the old psu with the new xbox and it works so the xbox motherboard fromt he old xbox is the damaged and not the psu or fuse on the psu. In what way the motherboard got damaged i dunno I dunno.
I was about to post a topic in the Xenium forum and in their web, but thought my case was due to something i could fix, but then after reading this topic I believe the motherboard must have something else ... I know how to install chips...done that since the 29 wires and never had something like this happening before.
If anyone knows what to fix or check in this situation please let us know...any advice is highly appreciated!
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The the area broadly defined as the Middle East boasts some spectacular locations and, in some countries, experienced local crews. However, the incentives and subsidies vary wildly.
Morocco has the most well-developed film infrastructure, with two film studios and a government body, the CCM, that oversees development of the film biz. Foreign productions are exempt from Morocco's 20% VAT charge. A new treaty with Blighty should also enable U.K. and Moroccan filmmakers to work together to co-produce pics eligible for national status in both countries.
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Dubai-based production company Filmworks, led by Tim Smythe, continues to work with international producers, while the delayed Dubai Studio City may open one of its soundstages this year. Abu Dhabi's media production hub Twofour54 launched last October and offers soundstages today.
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Algebra Expressions
Evaluating Expressions and Solving Equations
Fraction rules
Factoring Quadratic Trinomials
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers
Adding and Subtracting Radicals
Subtracting Fractions
Factoring Polynomials by Grouping
Slopes of Perpendicular Lines
Linear Equations
Roots - Radicals 1
Graph of a Line
Sum of the Roots of a Quadratic
Writing Linear Equations Using Slope and Point
Factoring Trinomials with Leading Coefficient 1
Writing Linear Equations Using Slope and Point
Simplifying Expressions with Negative Exponents
Solving Equations 3
Solving Quadratic Equations
Parent and Family Graphs
Collecting Like Terms
nth Roots
Power of a Quotient Property of Exponents
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Solving Linear Systems of Equations by Elimination
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Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Solving Rational Equations
Multiplying Special Binomials
Rounding Numbers
Factoring by Grouping
Polar Form of a Complex Number
Solving Quadratic Equations
Simplifying Complex Fractions
Common Logs
Operations on Signed Numbers
Multiplying Fractions in General
Dividing Polynomials
Higher Degrees and Variable Exponents
Solving Quadratic Inequalities with a Sign Graph
Writing a Rational Expression in Lowest Terms
Solving Quadratic Inequalities with a Sign Graph
Solving Linear Equations
The Square of a Binomial
Properties of Negative Exponents
Inverse Functions
Rotating an Ellipse
Multiplying Numbers
Linear Equations
Solving Equations with One Log Term
Combining Operations
The Ellipse
Straight Lines
Graphing Inequalities in Two Variables
Solving Trigonometric Equations
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Simple Trinomials as Products of Binomials
Ratios and Proportions
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Difference of Two Squares
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Solving Quadratic Equations
Dividing and Subtracting Rational Expressions
Square Roots and Real Numbers
Order of Operations
Solving Nonlinear Equations by Substitution
The Distance and Midpoint Formulas
Linear Equations
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Properties of Exponents
Solving Quadratic Equations
Solving One-Step Equations Using Algebra
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Posted: Thursday 28th of Dec 11:37
Hi Fellows ! I have a serious problem about math and I was hoping that someone might have the ability to help me out somehow. I have a algebra test pretty soon and even though I have been studying math seriously, there are still a some items that cause a lot of headache , such as completing the square x^2 coefficient greater than 1 and quadratic formula especially. Last week I had a session with a math teacher, but many things still remain vague to me. Can you recommend a good way of studying or a good private teacher that you know already?
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Posted: Saturday 30th of Dec 07:16
You might want to check out Algebrator. I bought it some time back to help me with my College Algebra course and I can say that it was a good choice . There are so many demos provided which you can browse through. You can also try out the questions related to point-slope and unlike denominators by just typing them in. Algebrator provides complete description to the problems which helps to make difficult concepts understandable . I would say that this program is absolutely the best that money can buy.
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I can confirm that. Algebrator is the ultimate technology for solving algebra assignments. Been using it for a while now and it keeps on amazing me. Every assignment that I type in, Algebrator gives me a perfect answer to it. I have never enjoyed learning math assignment on perfect square trinomial, slope and greatest common factor so much before. I would recommend it for sure.
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You mean it's that straight forward ? Superb . Looks like just the one to end my search for a solution to my troubles. Where can I locate this program? Please do let me know.
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Natural Approach
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Audio-lingual Method (ALM)
Proposer/ advocator
Crashen & Terrell/ 1977
Charles Fries /1939
Students can acquire the target languages in a natural and communicative situation.
Be able to communicate with others in the target language in different situations
Be able to listen, speak, read, and write in the target language, with emphasis on listening and speaking
Mother Tongue
No mother tongue
Both mother tongue and target language
Less mother tongue
1. Students acquire the target language in a natural and easy way.
2. Teaching materials are designed very well. Students ca acquire language from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, and from concrete to abstract.
1. Students have the opportunities to express their own thoughts and opinions.
2. Students have the opportunities to communicate with each other in the classroom.
3. Students can learn the culture of the target language because the teaching materials are related to the social environments.
4. The communicative situation makes students reconstruct their knowledge and thoughts, so students can learn to fluently speak the target language more easily.
1. Students can learn target language in natural order: listening—speaking—reading—writing.
2. Students can speak the correct answers without thinking by overlearning.
1. Students may use the target language fluently, but they cannot use it accurately.
2. Teachers should collect various teaching aids and use them appropriately.
3. Special teaching designs is necessary for the students with better abilities.
1. It's difficult for a nonnative speaking teacher who is not very proficient in the target language to teach effectively. Teacher training and certification are needed.
2. Students' pronunciation and grammatical knowledge is poor.
3. It is difficult for teachers to evaluate students' expression in the learning process.
1. It fails to teach the long-term communicative proficiency.
2. Structural linguistics didn't tell us everything about language that we needed to know.
3. It's impossible and unnecessary to teach students without using native languages.
4. It's boring for students to overlearn the drills and it's tiring for teachers to teach.
Teaching Aids
Visual aids, such as pictures, maps, advertisement; games
(a)Interesting and meaningful materials, such as linguistic games, role plays, and problem solving materials.
(b) Technology—films, videos, TV, computers, can be used as teaching aids.
Textbooks, drills, tapes, language labs
1. 5 important hypothesis
A. the Acquisition-Learning H
Students acquire language subconsciously in the natural and communicative situations.
B. the Monitor H
Students may call upon learned knowledge to correct themselves when they communicate, but that conscious learning has only this function.
C. the Natural Order H
The acquisition of grammatical structures proceeds in a predictable order.
D. the Input (i+1) H
Students acquire language best by understanding input that is slightly beyond their current level of competence.
E. the Affective Filter H
Student work should center on meaningful communication rather than on form; input should be interesting and so contribute to a relaxed classroom atmosphere.
2. The teacher was the source of the learner's input and the creator of an interesting and stimulating variety of classroom activities.
3. Learners don't need to say anything during the "silent period" until they feel ready to do so.
4. Start with TPR commands.
5. Use visuals, typically magazine pictures, to introduce new vocabulary.
6. The focus in the classroom is on listening and reading abilities.
7. No sentence patterns practice and no error correction during the process of acquisition.
1. Language learning is learning to communicate. The primary function of language is for interaction and communication.
2. Classroom goals are focused on all of the components of communicative competence and not restricted to grammatical or linguistic competence
3. Students learn to use the appropriate language forms in the different places.
4. Communicative activities include functional communicative activities and social interaction activities.
5. Teachers are assistants, guides, counselors and group process managers.
6. Students are expected to interact with each other rather than with the teacher.
7. Learners should take the responsibility of the failed communication.
8. Language is created by the individual through trial and error. Correction of errors may be absent or infrequent.
9. Students can speak fluently but not accurately.
10. Four language skills are practiced. Reading and Writing can start from the first day, if desired.
1. New material is presented in dialogue forms
2. There's dependence on mimicry, memorization of set phrases, and overlearning.
3. Structural patterns are taught using repetitive drills.
4. There's little or no grammatical explanation. Grammar is taught by inductive analogy explanation.
5. There is much use of tapes, language labs, and visual aids.
6. It is based on Behaviorist psychology. Students' successful responses are immediately reinforced and their errors are corrected immediately.
7. The teaching sequences are aural training, pronunciation training, speaking, reading, and writing.
8. Structures are sequenced by means of contrastive analysis and taught one at a time.
the Acquisition-Learning H
"Acquisition" is a unconscious and intuitive process of constructing the system of a language. "Learning" refers to a process in which conscious rules about a language are developed. Learning cannot lead to acquisition.
the Monitor H
Conscious learning can function only as a monitor or editor that checks and repairs the output of the acquired system.
the Natural Order H
The acquisition of grammatical structures proceeds in a predictable order. Errors are signs of naturalistic developmental processes and during acquisition, similar developmental errors occur in learners, no matter what their mother tongue is.
the Input (i+1) H
People acquire language best by understanding input that is slightly beyond their current level of competence. If an acquirer is at stage or level "i", the input (s)he understands should contain "i+1." Input should neither be so far beyond their reach nor so close to their current stage.
The ability to speak fluently cannot be taught directly; it emerges independently in time.
the Affective Filter H
The learner's emotional state or attitudes as an adjustable filter that freely passes, impedes, or blocks input necessary to acquisition. Three kinds of affective or attitudinal variables are: (1) motivation, (2) self-confidence (3) anxiety. The best acquisition will occur in environments where anxiety is low and defensiveness absent.
Direct Method
Natural Approach
1. It emphasized that the principles underlying the method were believed to conform to the principles of naturalistic language learning in young children.
1. It is believed to conform to the naturalistic principles found in successful second acquisition.
DM focuses on:
1. Teacher monologues
2. Direct repetition
3. Formal questions and answers
4. Accurate production of target language sentences
NA focuses on:
1. Exposure input
2. Optimizing emotional preparedness for learning
3. Listening & Reading
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Community Language Learning (CLL)
Counseling Learning Method
Proposer/ advocator
Asher/ 1964
Be able to respond physically to the sentences made in the target language.
To get the language competence and performance by asking questions.
Mother Tongue
No mother tongue
Both mother tongue and the target language
1. It provides rapid and rather permanent language gains on early levels, so students can remember the learned vocabulary for a long time.
2. Students respond actively and feel interested in the learning processes.
3. It's easy for teachers to teach students verbs.
1. Each student lowers the defenses that prevent open interpersonal communication.
2. The anxiety caused by the educational context is lessened by means of the supportive community.
3. The teacher's presence is not perceived as a threat, but as a counselor.
1. It's difficult to teach the abstract content with TPR
2. Students' pronunciation is poor.
3. Teachers have to do obvious actions carefully or students would be confused and be misled by the unnecessary hints.
4. TPR has been an experimental model with volunteer students; its, not useful for the inactive students.
5. TPR is especially effective in the beginning levels of language proficiency, but then loses its distinctiveness as learners advance in their competence.
1. The counselor-teacher can be too nondirective. Some intensive inductive struggle is a necessary component of second language learning. Learning " by being told" is much better.
2. Translation is an intricate and complex process that is often "easier said then done." If subtle aspects of language are mistranslated, there could be a less than effective understanding.
3. The training is required for an ideal knower. (s)he would have a perfect command of the foreign language and would have to be professionally competent in both psychology and linguistics.
4. It has limitations in a large-group situation with one teacher.
5. There's a need for clients who speak a common language.
Teaching Aids
No text. Body language and practical materials.
Various materials for different purposes; colored coded signals; tapes; recorders
1. Based on 3 important hypothesis:
(A) the Bio-program H
Children, in learning their first language, appear to do a lot of listening before they speak, and their listening is accomplished by physical responses.
(B) the Brain Lateralization H
Motor activity is a right-brain function that should precede left-brain language processing—speaking.
(C) Reduction of Stress H
An important condition for successful language learning is the absence of stress.
2. Imperativedrills are the major classroom activity in TPR.
3. Commands are easy first, and then become more and more complex.
4. Students are listeners and performers. They do a lot of listening and acting until they master the commands. They are required to respond both individually and collectively.
5. Students respond to the commands physically. No verbal response is necessary.
1. The sense of belonging needed by both students and teachers.
2. Both teachers and students have the responsibility for the learning activity.
3. In a good knower-client relationship, there quickly develops a warm, sympathetic attitude of mutual trust and respect. The client emulates the language and person of the knower; the knower is fulfilled and enriched through the counseling-teaching experience.
4. More important to learners is the freedom and initiative they are permitted.
5. The most basic ingredient in CLL is a mutual interest, respect and concern of teachers for students and students for students.
6. A group of ideas concerning the psychological requirements for successful learning are collected under the acronym—SARD. (S-security, A-attention and aggression, R-retention and reflection, D-discrimination)
7. The teaching procedure:
(a) The students sit in a circle, and the teacher(s) is(are) outside the circle.
(b) During the first stage, a tape recorder is normally used. The only voices taped are those of the student-clients when they are speaking in the target language.
(c) The students initiate the conversation in their native language and the knower Translates it into the target language. They then repeat in the target language what they have heard the knower said.
(d) Students assist each other and they use the teacher when there is a need. The knower provides translation only when someone signals by raising his/her hand.
(e) Color coded signals are used. If red is flashed, an error has been made. If amber, there is a more suitable idiom and a better way. If green, the utterance is acceptable. Blue indicates native expertise.
8. Students' developmental stages:
(a)The "Embryonic Stage"
Students are totally dependent on the teacher.
(b) The "Self-assertion Stage"
The student-clients begin to show some independence and tries out the language.
(c) IThe "birth Stage"
The students speak independently. They are most likely to resent what they feel unnecessary assistance from the knower.
(d) The "Reversal Stage"
They are secure to take correction.
(e) The "Independent Stage"
Interruptions are infrequent. They occur for enrichment and improvement of style.
The Silent Way
Suggestopedia / Suggestology
Proposer/ advocator
Gattegno/ 1972
Lozanov/ 1978
Let students use the target language to express their own thoughts and feeling independently and develop the ability to correct their errors by themselves
Conduct the many negative "suggestions" or fears which inhibit learning feelings of incompetence and fear of making mistakes, and make students learn the target language in a relaxing atmosphere.
Mother Tongue
Both mother tongue and the target language
Both mother tongue and the target language
1. Learning is facilitated if the learner discovers or creates rather than remembers and repeats what is to be learned. The learners should develop independence, autonomy and responsibility.
2. Learners in a classroom must cooperate with each other in the process of solving language problems.
3. Teachers provide single-word stimuli, or short phrases and sentences once or twice, and then students must refine their understanding and pronunciation themselves.
4. Teachers utilize a set of Cuisinere rods—small colored wooden rods of varying lengths to introduce vocabulary, verbs and syntax, especially about the spatial relationships and related prepositions as well as every aspect of language ranging from comparisons to tense, the conditional and the subjunctive.
5. Teachers use a series of colorful wall charts to introduce pronunciation models, grammatical paradigms.
6. The teacher is silent as much as possible, and make students work out solutions themselves.
7. Four language skills are emphasized and students are encouraged to read and write the sentences they have heard and spoken.
8. Students correct the errors themselves and teachers view these errors as the responses to the teaching and give students some hints and help.
1. In a relaxing atmosphere with carpeted floor, easy chairs and classic music –Baroque, integrated the use of music, the element of lecture and theater, through the reputation of the method and the instructor, students' language competence, confidence and wills to communicate are reinforced.
2. Students are encouraged to be as "childlike" as possible, yielding all authority to the teacher.
3. Every student is provided a new name and a new role within the target language on the first day of class. They live with a new identity rather than struggle with a foreign language. The new names also contain phonemes from the target language culture that learners find difficult to pronounce.
4. The dialogues are presented to the students in three phases:
(a) explicative reading
(b) intonational reading
(c) concert
5. Students engage in interaction activities to review the material and involve new utterances as much as possible.
6. The teacher maintains a solemn attitude towards the session and shows absolute confidence in the method.
1. Students interact not only with teachers but also with each other.
1. Students are willing and able to communicate in the target language and students learn the target language in a relaxing atmosphere.
2. Easy grammatical explanation helps students learn the target language more easily.
1. Teachers must know their teaching objectives clearly and make use of the teaching aids effectively.
2. Students may be confused with the symbols of the colored wooden rods.
3. Students waste too much time struggling with a concept that would be easily clarified by the teachers' direct guide.
4. It is difficult for teachers to evaluate students' progress in their learning process.
1. Students don't concentrate on the language learning because eof the music.
2. Students' speech is somewhat inaccurate grammatically and phonologically.
3. All students need to share a common native language.
4. Teachers must be proficient not only in the target language but also I students' native language.
5. Not all teachers are skilled in acting, singing and choosing the appropriate music and not all students can appreciate the music.
Teaching Aids
Cuisinere rods, phonic charts, transparencies
A carpet, sofas, classic music tapes, flowers and pictures
Grammar-Translation Method (G-T)
Direct Method
(Natural Method)
Proposer/ advocator
To learn a language in order to read its literature or in order to benefit from the mental discipline and intellectual development that result from foreign language study.
Students can understand the target language without translation
Mother Tongue
Both mother tongue and the target language
No mother tongue
1 Students learn the target language indirectly.
2 Students just learn the knowledge of books not the common language, so they may have trouble applying their knowledge to the real social situations.
3 Students have poor listening and speaking ability because they seldom practice listening and speaking.
1. It overemphasizes and distorts the similarities between naturalistic first language learning and classroom foreign language learning and it fails to consider the practical realities of the classroom.
2. It lacks a rigorous basis in applied linguistic theory.
3. It requires teachers who are native speakers or who have native like fluency in the foreign language. It is largely dependent on the teachers' skill, rather than on a textbook, and not all teachers are proficient enough in the foreign language to adhere to the principles of the method.
4. Sometimes a simple brief explanation in the students' native tongue would have been a more efficient route to comprehension.
1 With translation of the native language, students can read and write the target language I an easy and meaningful way.
2 Students can learn the grammars of the target language with a systematic and correct way.
1 Students can learn the target language directly and systematically.
2 Students can pronounce correctly.
3 Students can learn to use both the written form and oral form of the target language.
4 Students can have interest in learning.
Teaching Aids
Textbooks and grammar books
Pictures and articles related to the textbooks
1. Reading and writing are the major focus; little or no systematic attention is paid to speaking or listening.
2. Vocabulary is based on the reading text used, and words are taught through bilingual word lists, dictionary study and memorization.
3. The sentence is the basic unit of teaching and language practice.
4. Accuracy is emphasized.
5. Grammar is taught deductively.
6. The student's native language is the medium of instruction.
1. Classroom instruction is conducted exclusively in the target language.
2. Only everyday vocabulary and sentences are taught.
3. Oral communication skills are built up in a carefully graded progression organized around question and answer exchanges between teachers and students in small-intense classes.
4. New teaching points are introduced orally before students see the written form.
5. Concrete vocabulary is taught through demonstration objects and pictures; abstract vocabulary is taught by association of ideas.
6. Both speech and listening comprehension are taught.
7. Correct pronunciation and grammar are emphasized; grammar is taught inductively.
8. Students have to offer the interesting materials to draw students' curiosity to learn the target language.
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As the Colombian and Peruvian economies expand rapidly, lending is growing at double-digit rates. Authorities in both countries must proceed carefully to avoid a bubble forming
In Peru, borrowing is easy. The country's expanding middle
class often finds itself the target of eager telesales agents
proffering yet more credit cards. Mortgages, meanwhile, are
also in ready supply in a country where home lending has been
growing by 20% a year. The statistics for Colombia also show
sharp increases in lending.
Rapid economic growth is fuelling easy borrowing. As a
proportion of Peru's ballooning GDP, credit today stands at
around 32%. In 2005, it was 17% of a much smaller national
output. In neighboring Colombia, total credit stands at 34.9%
of GDP today, up from 25.2% in 2005.
But the surge in credit growth has led to concerns that a
bubble could be in the making in the Andes. High household debt
and soaring real estate prices in a highly dollarized lending
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8 July 2013: At its 21st meeting, the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) requested the Secretariat to develop a readiness programme to assist national and regional implementing entities, in an effort to strengthen the quality of design and implementation of projects.
At the meeting, which was held in Bonn, Germany, from 3-4 July 2013, the Board also codified a set of environmental and social safeguards already inherent in the project it funds. Entities receiving Adaptation Fund financing will identify and manage the environmental and social risks of their activities, including considerations for access and equity, marginalized and vulnerable groups, human rights, gender equality and women's empowerment, indigenous people, labor rights, involuntary resettlement, protection of natural habitats, and biological diversity conservation.
The Board accredited a new Regional Implementing Entity, the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), based in Tunisia. The AFB endorsed a project concept for Building the Resilience in the Greater Mungeni Catchment South Africa, and a Small Grants Facility for Enabling Local Level Responses to Climate Change, both from the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Concept proposals from Costa Rica and Indonesia were not endorsed at the meeting.
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All About Eve, Evie, Evan and Evangeline: 15 Most Versatile Names for GirlsMonica Bielanko
Who doesn't love options?
So why not give your baby what may be considered the most important option of all. A name. We can't choose our own names, which can be kind of a bummer when our parents pick out something that we just don't like. Stuck for life! Unless your parents had the foresight to bestow upon you a versatile name.
What do I mean when I say versatile? A name that has several different built-in nicknames that don't necessarily feel like nicknames. Don't like your full name, go for a nickname. Don't like that nickname, go for another one.
Fitpregnancy.com listed some really versatile girl names and I've added a few to the mix. Each name comes with several built-in options to suit different personalities. Your daughter might start off as Ellie, opt for Elle in college and end up as Eleanor. Below are my top 15 favorite versatile names:
What about you? What are your favorite versatile girl names?
Evangeline 1 of 15I love Lili. Pronounced like the actress Leelee Sobieski.
Annabelle 2 of 15Annabelle is a beautiful name with adorable nickname options. Anna is classic, Ella is gorgous, Ellie is cute. Can't go wrong.
Savannah 3 of 15Savannah is another beautiful name with fantastic nickname options. Ava is classic, Savi is unique and sassy. A name for all personalities.
Eleanor 4 of 15Love the name Eleanor but might like the name Nora even more.
Alexandra 5 of 15Alexandra is a strong name with excellent options. Lexi is cute, Alexa too. I just realized you could go with Leandra too.
Scarlett 6 of 15I absolutely adore the idea of using Scout as a nickname for Scarlett. Lettie is adorable too.
Amelia 7 of 15Millie or Mia are my favorite options here.
Charlotte 8 of 15Classically beautiful name. Charlie is fantastic and Lottie is just cuteness all around.
Elizabeth 9 of 15Can you think of a name with more nickname options than Elizabeth? I can't.
Gabrielle 10 of 15I love all the Elle, Ellie, Ella names.
Isabella 11 of 15Even though I love the Ella names, Izzie is my favorite here.
Katherine 12 of 15Another strong, classic name with tons of options.
Margaret 13 of 15Cannot go wrong with Maggie.
Penelope 14 of 15Penny is sweet and I thought Lola was unique.
Matilda 15 of 15I never thought about using Mila with Matilda before but I really like it.
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We never knew the reality momager and the talk show goddess we such good chums
Linsanity may be taking over America, but there are stories and drama aplenty elsewhere in the NBA, writes MirrorSport blogger Jamie Cutteridge
Chicago Bulls and Team GB ace picked as a reserve for the Western Conference team
Basketball superstars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have been included in the provisional Team USA squad for the London Olympics.
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic were unanimous selections to the 2009-10 All-NBA First Team.
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No Chance to Prove Themselves: The Rights of Mentally Disabled Parents under the Americans with Disabilities Act and State Law
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Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007
St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-0088
This article explores the relationship between state child welfare laws that terminate parental rights and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The article begins by analyzing the application of the ADA to termination of parental rights proceedings against parents with mental disabilities. It then surveys state child welfare laws, focusing on the treatment of parents under New York State law. The article concludes by advocating for a change to reflect the principles of the Americans with Disabilities Act in state laws and in practice.
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12:00 P.M. 12:00 A.M. is midnight. 'Noon', unlike 'midnight', is a palindrome.
I'm usually in school at noon.
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A great time for lunch.
It's noon, let's go eat!
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(n) meaning someone who is too gay to function. Abnormal in everyway apart from penis size.
That kid is a noons
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basically the same as 4:20. originated in Richwoods, MO to mean a time to smoke some dank. a good code to use for calling up your order on the phone
di almostaskater 21 giugno 2009
when a socially acceptable time for a person to drink alcohol
"Should you be drinking at 10 am?"
"Its noon somewhere"
"Its noon somewhere"
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Best time for a gun fight in Philly
Must be a gangsta to understand
Must be a gangsta to understand
They gonna fight at noon.
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A combination of Novice and goon
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As of this afternoon, Brad Richards has not been contacted by the Rangers regarding a possible buyout. Larry Brooks at the New York Post says one of the reasons could be that the Blueshirts are waiting to see the pool of players that are being bought out by other teams…
"There is a sense that the Rangers would prefer not to exercise the buyout but want to retain the option in case a player becomes unexpectedly available to them leading up to July 4 and the club would thus need to free up Richards' cap space in order to add him."
Some of the players whose team have announced they will be bought out are Vinny Lecavalier, Danny Briere and Rostislav Olesz.
…this is actually a very smart strategy by Sather. If he can't find a suitable replacement for Richards, I think they end up keeping him. However, with names like Lecavalier and Briere already out there it's probably more likely he could be on his way out.
…again, while I'm leaning towards wanting Richards bought out this season, it has everything to with his contract and the risk of injury not allowing the Rangers to amnesty him next season. It has nothing to do with his performance last season as I am confident he will come back this year motivated to prove his detractors wrong.
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For Liv Tyler, portraying the radiant elf princess Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers fell far short of being an ethereal experience. "My ears were itching, my robes weighed too much, and they were hot," says Tyler, 25. "I would start a take acting all graceful, and then I would trip on my robes." Worse, the actress couldn't escape Middle Earth on the set of her next film, Jersey Girl, the upcoming romantic comedy with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. "I love [director] Kevin Smith, but he was obsessed with me speaking Elvish," says Tyler of the language created by Rings writer J.R.R. Tolkien. "Every day he asked me to talk like my character. I tried, but the truth is I can't speak it. I could just say my lines from Rings, which was enough for Kevin. He would turn bright red and get weak in the knees."
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16 January 2013
Pigouvian taxes do NOT produce deadweight losses
The first was to claim that an advantage was their propensity to reduce consumption (an excellent example of rewriting the question as the answer :).
The other was simultaneously frustrating and enlightening to me. Many students claimed that Pigouvian taxes created a deadweight loss, i.e., the tax would reduce surplus-generating activity.* That statement is true, in general, of fiscal taxes designed to generate revenue (e.g., income, property or expenditure taxes) that the government would spend elsewhere,** but it's NOT true of Pigouvian taxes that are designed to reduce behavior that generates harm that is not reflected in the price of the good being taxed, e.g., taxes on cigarettes to pay for additional health costs or taxes on fuels to reduce and/or ameliorate the costs of pollution.***
The trouble that my students encountered -- and many teachers of economics fail to clarify -- is that fiscal taxes distort prices to generate revenue while Pigouvian taxes correct prices to affect behavior. (We explore the tension between these two goals in this paper on groundwater taxes.)
Bottom Line: We use the same word ("tax") to refer to two different policy instruments. Fiscal taxes generate revenue with some reduction in efficiency; Pigouvian taxes generate revenue as they improve efficiency. (That's why they are called win-win, but don't tell that to the people creating the pollution!)
* Miscalibrated taxes of all types create deadweight losses from being set at the wrong level, but those losses are not present in theory.
** Deadweight losses will be lowest when behavior changes by the smallest amount, i.e., it's best to tax the most inelastic behavior.
*** For more on why politicians prefer command and control over Pigouvian taxes, read this paper [pdf] by Buchanan and Tullock. Buchanan just died; he and Tullock are responsible for much of Public Choice theory, i.e., the idea that politicians and bureaucrats may serve themselves, not the public interest. Here's my review of their brilliant book on constitutions and laws.
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- Anonymous16 January, 2013 15:58
Maybe they are way ahead of their level and are talking about the tax interaction effect!ReplyDelete
- Lonesome Cowboy20 January, 2013 19:31
David: What about general sales taxes or vats? If you tax all retail products x percent (as part of raising money to finance publicly provided goods and services), does that create the usual distortion and welfare loss suggested by the typical partial equilibrium analysis?ReplyDelete
@LC -- a VAT *does* create deadweight losses, but there's an argument (valid) that it's better to tax expense than income, given the "benefits"of being productive to society. That may be hard to hold up when one man's expense is another man's income. The VAT is also favored b/c it's harder to dodge, but a tax on property (real estate) is even harder to dodge.ReplyDelete
It is preferable to not have an externality altogether, right? The reason is that tax must create a deadweight loss. Just because the benefit is greater than the cost, does not mean that the little triangle disappears. This is what I don't get.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, no externality is better. If it's "removed" via technology, etc., then there's no tax. If you're trying to reduce it (via tax), then you're REDUCING the loss/waste from "too much" activity by increasing the price to the efficient level (in theory), so that DWL will be zero when the tax is set correctly...Delete
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■ The Game: West Texas A&M Buffaloes (14-6, 8-5) at Angelo State Rams (10-13, 3-10), 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Junell Center, San Angelo.
■ Radio: KGNC (710-AM).
■ Last meeting: WT defeated Angelo State, 77-44, on Dec. 17, 2011 in Canyon.
■ WT leaders: PPG — Junior post Donald Sims (14.3); junior forward Kennon Washington (14.2); RPG — Sims (9.9); senior post Courtney Carr (5.4).
■ ASU leaders: PPG — Junior guard Keenen Coleman (15.7); junior guard Javae King-Gilchrist (11.6). RPG — Junior forward Reggie Brice (5.7); junior guard Coleman (5.3).
■ Notes: Angelo State is coached by Fred Rike, a former Tulia High and West Texas A&M basketball player. ... WT has held its last two opponents under 50 points in wins against Texas A&M-Kingsville (69-40) and Abilene Christian (57-49). ... Angelo State has won two of its last four conference games. ... WT junior Donald Sims leads the LSC in rebounding (9.7 per game) and field-goal percentage (64.1, 109-of-70). ... Buffs point guard Lionel Foster leads the LSC in assists at 7.2 per game. ... The 44 points Angelo State scored against WT in the first conference meeting in December represent the fewest the Rams scored all year.
■ Quotable: WT point guard Lionel Foster: "Angelo State is always tough. They might not have the best record, but that doesn't mean a thing. They have played a lot of close games and will be at home. That first game we did beat them by 30. But I know if a team beat us by 30, we'd try to come back and beat them by 30."
■ Next up: at Texas A&M-Commerce, 8 p.m. Wednesday.
— Lance Lahnert
Probable starting lineups
West Texas A&M
Head coach: Rick Cooper (19th year)
Name Pos. Yr. Ht. PPG
Donald Sims F Jr. 6-5 14.3
Kennon Washington F Jr. 6-4 14.2
Courtney Carr P Sr. 6-7 10.1
Lionel Foster G 6-1 Sr. 9.3
Chubby Henderson G 6-0 Sr. 4.6
Angelo State
Head coach: Fred Rike (6th year)
Name Pos. Yr. Ht. PPG
Keenan Coleman G Jr. 6-3 15.7
J. King-Gilchrist G Jr. 6-2 11.6
LaDonn Huckaby F Sr. 6-8 9.4
Joey Lenox G Sr. 6-4 7.2
Zach Jones F So. 6-8 1.6
Lone Star Conference Men
Team Conf. All
x-Midwestern State 12-2 19-2
x-Tarleton State 12-1 21-2
x-West Texas A&M 8-5 14-6
x-Cameron 9-6 13-8
x-Incarnate Word 9-6 13-9
Eastern New Mexico 6-7 13-9
Texas A&M-Kingsville 6-9 11-13
Angelo State 3-10 10-13
Abilene Christian 2-11 10-13
Texas A&M-Commerce 2-12 7-15
x-clinched LSC Tournament berth.
Saturday's games: Midwestern State at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 3 p.m.; Eastern New Mexico at Abilene Christian, 4 p.m.; Cameron at Incarnate, 4:30 p.m.; West Texas A&M at Angelo State, 7:30 p.m.


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The Amarillo Police Department warns residents of a scam that has surfaced in the area.
Police said a person who claims to be a representative of an organization called the Municipal Police Officers Association will call a business or an individual to solicit funds. When a victim agrees to make a donation, the caller tells the donor that another person will collect the money. After the cash or check is collected, the money is never given to any legitimate civic organization, police said.
The APD said its budget is generated by taxes and it does not solicit funds.
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Here's some news that may console Trail Blazers fans grumbling about the team's second straight first-round playoff elimination.
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy says it's nearly impossible for a small-market franchise like Portland to make the finals. Donaghy says the NBA and its referees are wired to benefit large-market teams such as Boston and Los Angeles, and marquee players like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
Admitting he traded on knowledge of colleagues' biases—as well as knowing the grudges refs carry toward certain players and coaches—to bet on NBA games that included contests he reffed, Donaghy pleaded guilty in 2007 to federal gambling charges.
Released from prison in late 2009 after serving nearly a year, Donaghy is far from the $275,000 a year he made as a ref with 13 years' experience. He's working for a gambling treatment center in New Jersey called Firststep and in a consulting business—Donaghy & Osborne—he hopes will enable him to speak on college campuses.
But it's his book, Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA, that grabbed the attention of the league and its fans. With the playoffs—minus the Blazers—now in the second round, WW spoke with Donaghy about his allegations that the impartiality of his profession is B.S.
Willamette Week: Portland fans have long believed referee Steve Javie has had it in for the Blazers. True?
Tim Donaghy: When Portland had Bonzi Wells and Rasheed Wallace and some of those other players who were extremely difficult to deal with, the stronger referees like Steve Javie or Joe Crawford took pride in the fact they wanted to stick it to those guys and give them technical fouls to see what they can do to piss them off. That's done in the NBA on a nightly basis.
Wallace was pretty pissed off when he got suspended for seven games in 2003 after you gave him a technical; he threatened you after the game.
He and other guys like Mark Cuban and Gary Payton picked up on what goes on with special treatment for special players, and it bothered them. My book supports things they've been saying all along. They just couldn't hold in their emotions and they got fed up. And they were right.
You write about refs gambling on anything, even animated scoreboard contests during timeouts. Given that, how can you believe you were the only ref betting on NBA games?
Deep down in my heart, I don't think I was the only one passing along information. But because I don't have firsthand knowledge, it's not right for me to point out somebody who I think did.
You say you never fixed a game. But if you were a compulsive gambler and you bet on a game you reffed, how could you resist the temptation not to fix that game?
I was winning at 70, 80 percent and that rate is unheard of. When I would lose, that actually relieved me. A loss would take the heat off me.
NBA Commissioner David Stern has said you're a "rogue ref" and there's no reason to believe anything you'd say.
I've passed a lie detector test. FBI agents did a full investigation and everything in my book checked out 100 percent.
Do you cringe when you see Stern on TV?
I hate him. He tried to squash me. He could have asked me what I did and how I did it. It would have helped the NBA. But instead he tried to throw me under the bus as one rogue referee.
Are players fixing games?
It's always a possibility. You look at some of these athletes like Antoine Walker, who lost millions of dollars gambling. And if he was still in the game today, he would be a target.
Anybody on the Blazers organization who raises any red flags for you?
Not that I'm aware of.
So who does the NBA want in the finals this year?
I don't think there's any doubt they're hoping for an L.A.-Cleveland matchup, a LeBron and Kobe matchup.
But wouldn't those teams get there anyway?
Not necessarily. People will argue that Portland was a better team than Phoenix and that Dallas was a better team than San Antonio. But those teams haven't advanced. When you talk about a Steve Nash and [Amar'e] Stoudemire moving on versus the guys from small-city Portland, what's better for the NBA? The referees are aware of what's good for the league.
So are we fools here for believing the Blazers can ever win another championship?
It would be very, very difficult. They would have to be in a position to get a guy with a big name, like a Shaquille or a LeBron, in the draft.
Brandon Roy doesn't fit that description of a marquee guy the league wants to promote?
No (laughs). Unfortunately not.


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Official, Pacquiao was going to KO Marquez
Just rewatched the fight. Aside from Pacquiao landing nearly 50% of his punches to only like 20% from Marquez, Marquez was looking like a smashed up pumpkin. I honestly don't think he would have lasted 6 more rounds had that punch not landed. But that's boxing for you and I'm not hating, I'm just stating the clear facts.
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I didn't catch the fight, what happened before what you said was about to happen?
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doesn't matter he lost, its over,let it go,deal with it.
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Oh really, I'm sure that's what Pac was dreaming about on the canvas.
Pac had 4 fights to KO Marquez instead he got KTFO.
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GET THE F*CK OVER IT. JMM was always going to be Pac's worst nightmare. They both are great fighters and nothing to be worked over about that one in a lifetime punch. It unfortunately landed for the other fighters favor. Pac has knocked out and put others to shame that we can now ask PAC to give it everything or nothing.
I doubt it matters and I think he will just keep moving on to get paid.
We will be able to witness him in useless fights as floyd fight is out the door and JMM - Pac 5 will only end in either others now saying JMM is washed up, JMM wins by another KO, or possibly a very scary possibility of another controversial win for either fighter.
Bradley should be next. Clear up that mess and then finish with JMM or finally take a Floyd fight for less money as this obviously hurts him in negotiations.
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Upon viewing this a second time I have to agree. Manny looked great and was kicking Marquez' ass. He was on his way to stopping Juan but unfortunately he walked into a lucky shot.
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Pac was ****in marquez up sh1t happens...i would love to see the 5th fight
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Citadel quarterback Ben Dupree caught hundreds of punts over the summer as he got ready to add punt returner to his list of duties with the Bulldogs. At 5-9 and 185 pounds, showing kick-return skills would be his best path to pro football.
But when third-team quarterback Trey White left the team for personal reasons last week, that threw a wrench into The Citadel's plans. With only two experienced quarterbacks left on the roster — the senior Dupree and junior Aaron Miller — suddenly the starting QB was too valuable to risk on punt returns.
That had disastrous consequences for the Bulldogs on Saturday night in a 32-29 loss to crosstown rival Charleston Southern. Slotback Vinny Miller returned punts instead, and his two muffs led directly to CSU touchdowns.
Citadel football coach Kevin Higgnis said after the game that if White were still on the team, Dupree would have returned punts against the Bucs.
"Ben got a lot of work in camp, and Vinny was the backup," Higgins said. "Charleston Southern has a rugby-style punter, so there was a different spin on the ball."
CSU punter Truett Burns, a freshman from Clinton, used a side-winding rugby style that imparted an end-over-end spin that led to short kicks and long bounces. In an effort to run up and catch two punts before they could bounce, Miller mishandled both.
"On the first one, he lifted his eyes and just didn't look it in," Higgins said. "The second one, he never should have touched. It's the end of the half, just let it go. Bad mistake."
Miller, a sophomore from North Augusta, acknowledged as much.
"I've just got to keep my head up," he said. "Yeah, those were bad plays, but I've got to put that behind me."
• Citadel starting tight end Alex Glover, a sophomore from Wando High School, did not play as he sat out a one-game suspension for a violation of team rules, Higgins said.
• Backup fullback Tyler Renew, a freshman from Columbia, also did not play. His high school transcripts have not yet been approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse, but Higgins said he should be able to play next week against Wofford.
• Linebacker Calvin Byrant led CSU's defense with 12 tackles, while defensive end Will Hunt made two tackles for loss. Malcolm Jackson and Kirby Broome recovered the Bulldogs' muffed punts.
• Linebacker Carl Robinson led The Citadel with 14 tackles. Defensive tackle Cam Mobley had two tackles for loss, including a sack, and defensive end Justin Oxendine also had two tackles for loss.
• CSU receiver Colton Korn, a freshman and brother of Bucs assistant Willy Korn, had two big catches for 38 yards. Willy Korn played QB at Clemson and at North Greenville under CSU coach Jamey Chadwell.
• Citadel fullback Darien Robinson ran for 55 yards on seven carries and went over the 2,000-yard mark for his career. He's now got 2,024 yards and can become just the fourth Bulldog to gain more than 3,000 career yards. Stump Mitchell (4,062), Everette Sands (3,926) and Jack Douglas (3,908) are the only three.


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A Cotati man will spend almost 15 years in prison for a series of roadside sexual assaults on women drivers in 2008 and 2009.
Thomas Darin Boccaleoni, 47, was sentenced on Dec. 20 to 14 years and six months behind bars after he pleaded no contest to driving up behind three women on darkened roads in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, flashing his high-beam lights and molesting them when they pulled over.
Sonoma County prosecutors originally had charged the former Marin County chef with 10 felonies. Prosecutors, however, agreed to drop seven counts in a pre-trial settlement. Had those additional charges been pursued, Boccaleoni was staring at 28 years behind bars
The attacks in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol were not het first time he had been convicted for attacks on women, according to a probation report.
He was sentenced to a year in jail in 2006 for assaulting four women on San Francisco streets. In those assaults, he pretended to ask for directions to get close to them. In one of the attacks, he tried to pull a woman into his SUV as she was entering her parent's home.
Probation officials at that time said Boccaleoni was in the high-risk category for being charged or convicted of another sexual offense after his release. He could be committed for a longer period under the state's sexually violent predator law. According to Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch, he'll be required to serve 85 percent of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
Law enforcement officials began investigating after there were multiple reports of roadside attacks on women from November 2008 to April 2009. Each time, women reported being tailgated by a vehicle and flashed by high-beam lights. Then, Boccaleoni would pull alongside in the oncoming lane and attempted to make them pull over.
The prime areas for these assaults were Calistoga and Bennett Valley roads near Santa Rosa.
The victims described their attacker as male with with a turtleneck sweater pulled over his nose or wearing a ski mask.
In an attack on Bennett Valley Road in 2008, according to a probation report, Boccaleoni walked up to the driver's window, told her a motorcycle had crashed and asked her to call 911. When she dialed her mother instead, Boccaleoni told her to hang up or he would slit her throat. He then reached into the car and groped her breasts and genitals. DNA taken from the zipper of her pants matched Boccaleoni's DNA, according to the probation report. Boccaleoni was arrested after the Sebastopol assault in which he also was accused of threatening to kill his victim.
Police learned of his past convictions and found vehicles at his home matching the victims' descriptions.


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