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Team figure skating: USA jumps into medal contention
SOCHI, Russia -- From bubble to … bronze?
Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir scored a season's best 117.94 points for their free skate Saturday night, solidifying the U.S. hold on third place in the inaugural team competition. The Americans have 34 points heading into the remaining three free programs Sunday, well behind Russia (47 points) and Canada (41) but three points ahead of fourth-place Italy.
It was quite a turnaround from the beginning of the night, when the U.S. was squarely on the bubble for the finals. Only the top five in the 10-team event made the finals, and the Americans were seventh.
But Meryl Davis and Charlie White not only put the Americans on safe ground but also moved them into the medal mix. Ashley Wagner made sure they didn't lose any ground, redeeming herself with a solid performance that answered all those critics who said she didn't deserve to be on the U.S. team after her struggles at last month's national championships.
Simon Shnapir and Marissa Castelli said they were inspired by Ashley Wagner's performance before them.
"Oh yeah, definitely," said Castelli. "We were lucky to come in and be able to watch her before our event. She had that intensity and that fire in her, and we just took it we embraced it and used it in our performance as well."
There are few athletes more into the team event than Davis and White, who have been saying for months they not only would participate but also do both programs. Sure, it's a chance for a second medal for the two, who are the Americans' best – and, likely, only – shot for a gold medal.
But their passion and enthusiasm for the team is genuine, and everyone who watched them Saturday night could see it. Knowing the Americans needed a boost, Davis and White won the short dance and lifted their team into third place, with Wagner still to skate.
"I know that everything hasn't been 100 percent perfect, but that's part of what being a team is … being there for each other," White said.
The Americans won the silver medal in Vancouver largely on the strength of their athleticism. They knew that wouldn't be enough to get them gold in Sochi, so they spent thousands of hours over the last four years improving their artistry and expression.
It was well worth the time. Their short dance, to selections from "My Fair Lady," is both refined and whimsical, with the connection between them so effortless it's easy to forget they are skating on a sheet of ice and not dancing on a parquet floor. Everything they do is perfectly polished, from their deep edges to the way they use every inch of the rink.
But it's in their twizzles, rotating turns, where their brilliance really shines through. Try patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time, and see how difficult that is. Now imagine doing that in time with another person. That, essentially is a twizzle. Davis and White are so in sync, however, they look like mirror images.
Their footwork was quick and light, and not even Eliza Doolittle could have been cuter when Davis gave a little kick of her feet during their foxtrot section.
Their score of 75.98 was three points better than Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who had an error on their twizzles. It wasn't a huge mistake, but when the margin between the two teams is so small, any error is costly.
Davis and White's victory meant Wagner just had to stand up, and she did better than that.
It wasn't the greatest program Wagner has ever done. She two-footed and under-rotated the second jump in her triple flip-triple toe combination, and didn't have quite the fire and energy that has won her two national titles and a slew of medals on the international stage.
But she did exactly what the Americans needed -– and exactly why U.S. Figure Skating officials put her on the team despite her fourth-place finish at last month's national championships. Her triple loop was beautiful and her double axel was solid, and she played up her sultry footwork with a couple of come-hither gazes.
When she finished, Wagner gave a sigh of relief and then swung her ponytail as if to say, "I'm back."
She was pleased with her performance but not her score.
"I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up. … So yeah to score that low was very disappointing for me," she said. "But honestly this performance was more for myself and mentally getting beyond this past couple of weeks. And I wanted to do everything I could to help out the team, and I really feel that I delivered on that part.''
She admitted it bothered her when people questioned whether she should have been on the team after her performance in the nationals: "It was on my mind, especially with the media frenzy over the past couple of weeks, that I needed to prove to myself and everybody else that has even doubted my belonging here the slightest that I'm here, I'm here to compete, I'm here to be competitive. Get used to it."


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SANTA BARBARA >> It was no kamikaze move.
American Taylor Phinney blasted down San Marcos Pass, the descent into Santa Barbara, to win Thursday's Stage 5 race in the Amgen Tour of California.
Phinney, from Boulder, Colo., broke away at the top of the pass, going down the hill at speeds up to 75 mph to win the 107.4-mile stage, from the Pismo Beach pier to just east of the Santa Barbara pier.
"Sometimes you have a voice inside of you that says, 'Go' and I know I can go downhill a lot faster than most everybody else mainly because I weigh a lot more than everybody else," the 23-year-old said. "I was not planning the attack on top. The way the group was, I went on instinct and went for it.
"The only advantage I have in cycling is going downhill. I was able to pull away, tuck and pull away."
Phinney, who races for BMC and was fourth in two 2012 Olympic events, is the first American to win an Amgen stage race this year. He is well off the pace of leader Bradley Wiggins, who remained 28 seconds ahead of Rohan Dennis heading into the final three stages.
"It's a huge win," said Phinney, who has trained in Los Olivos and has frequently ridden the San Marcos Pass. "I had implanted this race stage that I could do well. But to do what I did to get to the finish and how did I do that, and why did I do that? Sometimes it works. When it does, it is really really special.
"It got more and more painful as it went on. But the best way to win is to win like that. It is almost painful."
He took a bow and then raised his hands before the finish line. He was 12 seconds ahead of sprint points leader Peter Sagan. Phinney, who has on other road stage victory, is well off the overall lead pace.
Today's Stage 6 starts in Santa Clarita and finishes at 8,000 feet, atop Mountain High in Wrightwood. Saturday's stage again starts in Santa Clarita, crosses the Angeles National Forest and finishes in Pasadena. The final stage is in Thousand Oaks and has Santa Monica Mountain climbs.
Phinney said it will be tough to catch Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner.
"I think the yellow (jersey) is pretty locked down," Phinney said. "(Team) Sky seems pretty strong and Wiggins seems like he can ride up front all day and still win. The days aren't hard enough to completely crack Wiggins. I think he has to stay safe and he'll be OK."
It was 106 degrees in the Santa Ynez Valley and 90 at the finish line along the Santa Barbara harbor.
"It was probably the hottest I have ever experienced on my bike," Wiggins said.
Will Routley remained in the lead in the King of Mountains.
"It was pretty brutal," Routley said of the heat. "It was hot all week, but this was crazy hot. The wind was like a hair dryer in your face."

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Model X Reservation Tally
Model X Reservation Tally
Why would you want to test drive a Tesla Model S? That doesn't sound right to me. You want to buy a Tesla Model X, so you should make a reservation for the Tesla Model X. When the time comes, it will be possible to make a test drive in a Tesla Model X. That's the way it is, and should be.
I made a Model X reservation and was allowed to test drive a Model S at the New Jersey event in June 2012. Make your X reservation so you can get your spot. Hopefully, there will be Model X's to test drive this summer.
Tesla Motors is working on it to make a test drive in a Tesla Model X possible. This summer, or shortly after that, I think.
Spoke with Corporate and they said if I switch from the Model S to the Model X they will slot me into a cancelation made around the time I put my original deposit down. No guarantees though. That was enough for me to move to the Model X today (and the showroom agreed to let me drive an S for now just to see how an EV drives).
USA X-P #2708 as of today
I picked up the model S a few days ago and LOVE it. I put a deposit on the X today:
Looking like about 12/day. Climbing!
Norway: 249
2750, on February 10th.
A friend of mine just signed up for an X today! 2/24/13. His reservation number is 2900.
Sounds about right, >11/day in the US.
2935 on March 1
Reserved 2/28/13 #2933
Reserved #2950 on 3/3/13
Reserved # 2954 on 03/03/13
About 322 (US production models only) since the end of January, = 322/31 = 10.4/day. In the slowest sales period of the year.
United States, Model X - P # 2973, 5 Mar 2013
US, Model X P #2990 8 Mar 2013
EU P269 confirmation received today.
Reservations, not confirmations, please.
Europe P217 January 25, 2013
Europe 264. March 2013
The exact date, otherwise not useful.
When did the guy who used to update the tally die?
Around here, you don't die. You just get your Model S delivered and go to heaven!
GoTesla +1 (figuratively)
Tesla has stopped issuing reservation sequence numbers, apparently. Michigan Model S has no data to crunch, possibly except for the quarterly reports.
Reserved today, April 3, 2013. Reservation Sequence No. 3215.
This article is showing a screen print of a Tesla Model X reservation.
Reservation Confirmation: RN704343
Reservation Sequence Number: 3,268
Have a look:
March 29, 2013 #3198
May 7, 2013 #3461
Looks like about 200 res/mo. Extrapolates to about 5K total by y/e.
May 12, 2013 #3565
5/7/2013: #3461. 5/12/13: #3565.
~100 in five days. Ramping up? Nice!!!!
As more Ses get delivered, more wives reserve Xes.
Brian, the MX will destroy any truck or SUV in snow, off road terrain, any terrain for that matter...
The AWD will flip the husbands too...
Just picked up res #3647 here in the US.
They can't wait until 2015 to start delivering these. They will have a backlog of over 10,000 units by then....
I reserved my standard production "X" late last night and I have res # 3698...really wondering if they get more efficient like they have done with producing the "S" sedan than maybe the X's will start delivering to people by the end of 2014 rather than in 2015.
Picked up Model S #13565 Sunset Red P85 April 30, 2013
Reserved Model X #3708 May 21, 2013 :)
Doubt it. There are both capital and organizational requirements, big time.
May 22: Canada Model X reservation sequence number 158.
5/17/13 reserved PX #3,660 USofA
Projects to about 8K reservations by the end of 2013. Assuming no increase in rate. I'd bet on double that, actually.
3784 (US) reserved 26 May.
US, East Coast, 5/24/13, #3,747
100 a day recently; a huge total by y/e of about 24K! TM must be happy.
Oops. Decimal point error, my bad. 10/day, a very low total. ;( Only about 5K by y/e.
The Supercharger announcement of today will also have a positive effect on the pace of the registrations for the Tesla Model X.


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Cupcake Cream Pie Recipe
Quirky, cute, sometimes controversial, always delicious recipes from Jessie Oleson.
As the custard sets, it absorbs some of the rich butteriness of the frosting, infusing the entire pie; as a result, the taste is kind of like cream pie meets birthday cake, in a decidedly delicious way. While some might argue that it's gilding the lily, it might interest you to know that this pie also tastes fantastic when paired with ice cream.
Read more: Cakespy: Cupcake Cream Pie
- Yield:makes 8 servings
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:4 hours, 20 minutes
- 1 (9-inch) pie crust, baked
- 2 regular-sized cupcakes, or 4 mini cupcakes
- 1 cup (about 7 ounces) sugar
- 1/2 cup (about 2 1/2 ounces) flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups milk
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Slice the cupcakes into thin slivers, lengthwise, so that each slice has a little cake and frosting.
Line the bottom of the baked pie crust with cake slivers. Try to cover the bottom of the pie evenly.
In a medium saucepan, combine the milk, eggs, sugar, flour and salt and mix well. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the vanilla extract.
Beat the eggs lightly. Gradually stir 1 cup of the hot mixture into the yolks, and beat vigorously with a whisk (to ensure that you don't end up with scrambled eggs!). Return the egg mixture to the saucepan and bring the entire mixture to a low boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes before removing from heat. The mixture will be rather thick, but still pourable.
Pour the filling into the prepared crust in a smooth, steady stream on top of the cupcakes. If they shift slightly, that is OK; however, if any pieces float to the top, push them back under the custard. Put the pie in the refrigerator and let set for 4 hours before serving. If desired, serve with whipped cream and / or ice cream.
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How I Remember Whitey
Irish mob boss James J. "Whitey" Bulger's scheduled arraignment in a Boston courtroom Friday after 16 years on the lam will open yet another chapter in the violent crime-and-politics family saga that has consumed Beantown reporters since the 1980s.
"I've spent half my career chasing Whitey Bulger around," says Gerard O'Neill, retired head of the Boston Globe investigative team, which in 1988 outed Bulger as an FBI informant since the mid-1970s.
Suspected of 19 murders, Bulger disappeared in December 1994 after being tipped off by an FBI pal that federal racketeering charges against him and his top associate, Stephen Flemmi, were about to be filed.
During his absence, his politically powerful brother, William "Billy" Bulger, who had served 17 years as state Senate president, stepped down from the presidency of the University of Massachusetts and into a quiet retirement.
His FBI pal, John Connolly, the agent and childhood friend of the Bulgers, is in prison, convicted of racketeering for tipping Whitey Bulger off about the impending indictment.
John Martorano, a Whitey Bulger associate who admitted to 20 murders before cutting a deal to turn evidence on Connolly, is a free man and has been featured on 60 Minutes.
Flemmi, sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2001 for extortion and money laundering, still faces 10 federal and state murder charges. Kevin Weeks, a close Whitey Bulger associate, was facing federal racketeering charges in 1999 when he decided to cut a deal with investigators, leading them to the bodies of some of Bulger's alleged victims. After five years in prison, he wrote a memoir.
And now, the final puzzle piece has fallen into place: the capture of Whitey Bulger, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, and a man many never thought would be brought to justice.
It was — and continues to be — the story of a lifetime for many journalists, some of whom shared their Whitey Bulger tales with us.
Gerard O'Neill
Retired head of the Boston Globe's investigative team, which first reported in 1988 suspicions that Whitey Bulger was an FBI informant, and co-author of Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.
Before he disappeared, the DEA was after him for a while. They put a bug in his car. It became clear that Bulger discovered it. It was a badge of honor to go back and reclaim the bug so you won't have someone taunting you. So the DEA guys roust Bulger, put him up against the side of the car and Bulger says: "Hey, hey, we're all good guys here. You're the 'good good' guys, we're the 'bad good' guys." They had a laugh. Give us the bug and we'll be on our way. Thank you very much. ...
There was a reporter for the Boston Herald American, Paul Corsetti, who had written some critical things about [Whitey's brother] Billy Bulger. Corsetti used to drink at this kind of high-end bar at Quincy Market. While he was there, he finds that someone had slid in beside him on a bar stool. "My name is James Bulger," the man said. "I kill people for a living. What you're saying about my brother has to stop."
[An account of this incident was included in a book by Howie Carr, a longtime Boston Herald columnist and Boston radio personality. It says that Bulger also made clear he had information on the cars Corsetti and his wife drove and the schedule of their young daughter's day-care routine.]
... When we did our first investigation series on the Bulgers in 1988, the FBI called up Kevin Cullen [then a Globe investigative reporter, now a columnist]. They had doped out that we were going to write a story that Bulger was an FBI informant. The agent said, "If you guys are thinking of doing that, he'll think nothing of clipping the bunch of you." I thought it was the FBI trying to intimidate us. Clearly, in retrospect, that was the case. We were very concerned about Kevin Cullen. He was living in South Boston. I thought he was in genuine danger. We moved him out for a couple weeks. They later tried to say it was a friendly warning to go slow, and be careful. I thought it was true colors all around. ...
When Bulger's mother died in 1980, and Billy was president of the state Senate, Whitey was concerned about leaving the church and being photographed with his brother. He feared the bad publicity for his brother. So he hid out in the belfry of the church. The family and the casket passed directly under him when they left the church. The price of infamy — you can't even lay your mother to rest. But whatever he gets coming to him, he more than deserves. He's a psychopath. Pure evil.
Jonathan Wells
Producer at CBS station WBZ in Boston and former Boston Herald investigative reporter and editor
For years, there were friends and apologists of Whitey in the media and in law enforcement. They tried to describe him as a Robin Hood — giving turkeys to widows, describing him as a crime boss who kept drugs out of the neighborhood, kept order. Even at the time, it rang hollow. He was not only letting drugs into the neighborhood but extorting big payments from the drug dealers to do business in the city, not just Southie. It came out later that under the guard of the FBI, he was murdering people serially. Even after he fled, he was being romanticized. Anyone who turned up to accuse him of something was set upon. When [John] Martorano became a government witness, Mike Barnicle had a column for Boston Globe, before he was booted for plagiarism, carrying water for the Bulger family. He said that Martorano used to shoot black people for fun, and how disgraceful that they'd use them as a government witness. Right to the end, people like Barnicle were doing their work for the Bulger family. His life was so toxic for the city: It reached into politics, the media and law enforcement. Martorano got a sweetheart deal, but he also delivered John Connolly to the government, which was a major breakthrough.
Phyllis Karas
Author, with Kevin Weeks, Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob and Where's Whitey?
It was 1990. A young woman came into the convenience store that Jimmy (Whitey) ran. Said her daughter couldn't play in the back of the triple-decker where they lived in Southie because there were all these needles in the yard. When they'd call the police, the family on the first floor, ex-boxers, brothers Al and Pat, would clean everything up before police got there and then be back in business dealing drugs the next day. Jimmy and Kevin went to the house, and when people started pulling up to get drugs, they told them to get out, and beat up a couple of them. But the dealing continued. One night, Jimmy and Kevin drove over to Curley's lumber yard, picked up some plywood, nailed it over all the dealers' windows, and spray painted "no drugs" on the wood. They told the brothers they had 24 hours to get out of the neighborhood. They were gone. There was a part of Whitey that was protecting his neighborhood.
Joe Bergantino
Former investigative reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston, now director of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University.
This goes back almost 30 years. In the early 1980s, we got a phone call from an informant who tipped us off that Whitey Bulger was running arms to Ireland — for the IRA, of course. We had a long phone conversation in which he explained that he was aboard the trawler that delivered the guns. The informant — John McIntyre — disappeared within a few days after the phone call. His body was unearthed several years later. If I remember correctly, Whitey and his gang tortured him — pulling out his teeth, one by one. We did several stories in the early '80s about the trawler and its connection to Whitey. [Note: McIntyre's family has claimed in court that the FBI was responsible for his death because Connolly allegedly tipped off Bulger that McIntyre was cooperating with authorities investigating Bulger and Flemmi.]
Andrew Gully
A former longtime reporter and editor at the Boston Herald
There are so many gruesome stories about Whitey. I look at this as not a story of a traditional mob boss, but more about the corruption of the entire city culture for over a quarter-century. The reach of Whitey Bulger went into the criminal justice system, and into the political system because of his brother, Billy. When Whitey had a no-show job in a courthouse in Suffolk County, the housing judge there was going to let him go. So the state froze the courthouse budget. You couldn't mess with Whitey without getting the repercussions of Billy. And the other way around. That was the early chilling effect. That story was known for years and years. And you had the horrifying story of how Whitey strangled Flemmi's girlfriends, cut off fingers, pulled out teeth. From stark brutality to political influence. You think of the fallout for people like the Wheeler family, the Donahue family. They lost their fathers because of Whitey. All the honest FBI agents will have to live with this legacy for a long time — suspicion, innuendo. The harm done is significant. [Jai Alai business owner Roger Wheeler was murdered after learning Bulger was skimming money from Wheeler's Florida operation. Michael Donahue was murdered when he gave a ride home to a neighbor who, unknown to Donahue, had offered information on Bulger to the FBI.]
Ralph Ranalli
Author of Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership with the Mob, and former Boston Herald and Boston Globe reporter
When I first started covering Whitey Bulger in federal courts in Boston back in the early 1990s, I began hearing about an informant program called "Top Echelon." I ran across documents that described the program and called the FBI's national press office. I said, "Hey, I want to talk about this Top Echelon program." They said, sorry we don't talk about informants. I told them I wasn't asking about a specific informant, I just wanted to know about a program. The press officer said never talk about informant programs, ever, and when I asked for his name to quote him, he said, "We're off the record." He said the conversation was over, and hung up on me. This wasn't Cold War with Russia intrigue; this was just how a domestic law enforcement agency was going after a bunch of bookmakers and wise guys, and they won't acknowledge the program exists? It just set off alarm bells, that there must be something really, really wrong here. And it turned out to be the case. They made deals with these high-ranking organized crime figures to bring down other high-ranking organized crime figures, with tons of collateral damage. People murdered, lives ruined because the FBI let these informants run amok and protected them. It's just this stain on Boston and on the FBI that this sociopath was allowed to run loose and terrorize people, commit or order a bunch of murders because he was helping a small group of very ambitious law enforcement people make cases. He was this looming, terrifying presence. It shook the faith of a lot of people in law enforcement and also damaged relations between the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in Boston for a whole generation.
Jay Atkinson
Author of Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective
There was a small-time drug dealer, Danny Jacie, a handsome, 21-year-old kid who was having a love affair with Flemmi's girlfriend, Debbie Davis. One night at dusk, police patrolling a road on the Milton-Quincy border see a car passing them at high speed going in the opposite direction. It was a flashy car, the kind Flemmi drove, so they did a U-turn to follow it. They lost him. But then they came upon a body in the clearing — it was Danny Jacie. I've seen the autopsy photos. He was killed, execution style, in the back of the head. The murder was never solved. There are many other Danny Jacies. Murders that have gone unremarked because the families had no juice or because they're low-level dealers like Danny Jacie. In addition to the bodies already discovered and the murder charges already made, there are more. They had some agreement with a crematorium in West Roxbury, where two bodies would be delivered in one coffin. The debriefing and — maybe — cooperation of Whitey Bulger may bring to light what really happened to the Danny Jacies of that time. [Debbie Davis disappeared in 1981; Flemmi claimed she had run off with a rich Mexican chicken farmer, Atkinson says. Flemmi in 2009 testified that he watched Bulger strangle Davis, they both pulled out her teeth, and they buried her along the Neponset River.]


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) Marcus Thornton scored 21 points as William & Mary pulled away late to beat Old Dominion 71-62 in the Colonial Athletic Association opener for both teams.
Tim Rusthoven and Brandon Britt scored 15 points apiece for William & Mary (4-3, 1-0).
Trailing at halftime 32-31, Old Dominion (1-6, 0-1) recaptured the lead 40-38 on Deshawn Painter's jumper with 16:08 remaining in the second half. Brandon Britt answered for William & Mary on the next possession with a layup to tie it at 40.
The Tribe went on a 23-8 run over the next 12 minutes to break open the game, capped by Britts' layup making it 63-48 with 4:52 left to play.
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MOSCNT: code for carbon nanotube transistor simulation
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Ballistic transport in carbon nanotube metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (CNT-MOSFETs) is simulated using the Non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. A cylindrical transistor geometry with wrapped-around gate and doped source/drain regions are assumed. It should be noted that this code does NOT treat Schottky-barrier CNTFETs. Additional information on the device geometry and the simulation procedure is described in [1]. The code can readily simulate band-to-band tunneling in CNT-MOSFETs, as well as p-i-n type device architectures, by appropriately modifying the source/drain doping conditions [2,3].
For the explanation of the simulation procedure, see the article "Towards Multiscale Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Transistors," by Guo, Datta, Lundstrom, and Anantram.
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Originally created by Jing Guo (Purdue University), 2003. Revised by Siyu Koswatta (Purdue University) and Dmitri Nikonov (Intel), 2004.
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- J. Guo, S. Datta, M.S. Lundstrom and M.P. Anantram, "Towards Multiscale Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Transistors," International J. on Multiscale Computational Engineering, special issue on multiscale methods for emerging technologies, ed. N. Aluru, 2, 257-276, 2004.
- S. O. Koswatta, M. S. Lundstrom, M. P. Anantram, and D. E. Nikonov, "Simulation of phonon-assisted band-to-band tunneling in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors," Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 253107, 2005.
- S. O. Koswatta, D. E. Nikonov, and M. S. Lundstrom, "Computational study of carbon nanotube p-i-n tunnel FETs," IEEE IEDM Tech. Digest, pp. 518, 2005.


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Watching a school of harbour porpoises feeding off the coast is an impressive sight. They roll along together, just breaking the surface with their curved, finned backs like so many Loch Ness monsters.
It is not necessary to take a boat to see them, for they usually stay close inshore, entering harbours as their name suggests, and frequenting the long stretch of coast between Strumble Head and St Davids Head in large numbers.
The viewing hide on Strumble Head, where naturalists congregate to watch migrating birds and to count passing marine mammals, is an ideal place to watch porpoises. Just offshore are deep depressions all along the coast which cause upwellings, bringing the porpoise's favourite food of small schooling fish such as herring, capelin, squid and sprat nearer to the surface. They usually submerge for about a minute but can stay down for five minutes when feeding in deeper waters up to 200 metres, where they forage on the seabed. They can be watched from boats at very close quarters, for they are not particularly shy so long as there is very little noise and movement. At close quarters their small eyes and blunt noses are visible and their intakes of breath, like loud sighs, are audible, making the watching experience more intimate and enchanting. They were traditionally hunted for food and for blubber for lighting fuel in Sweden and Denmark, thousands of porpoises being caught there until the end of the 19th century and, on a smaller scale, during the two World Wars. But they are not now subject to commercial hunting except in Greenland where they are a food source. Their arch enemies are killer whales and white sharks in those areas where these predators exist, and bottlenose dolphins have also been known to kill them without eating them, doubtless due to competition for scarce food supplies. Killer whales have been sighted off the Pembrokeshire coast, but there have been no reported instances of porpoises being killed by them. Porpoises are the smallest of the marine mammals, measuring about six feet long and weighing just under 12-stone. They are vulnerable to some fishing techniques such as gill and tangle nets and by-catch in seabed-set gill nets is considered the main mortality factor. It is a bit of a mystery why they become entangled in nets as they have keen echolocation faculties, and fishermen have developed porpoise scarers or pingers to keep them away from their nets. Porpoises are cetaceans, members of the whale and dolphin family, and there are six different species. Their Latin name derives from the word 'porcopiscus' or pigfish which has variants in Dutch and Danish of 'seaswine.' But these descriptions seem a little unkind, as they are nothing like pigs, more like small dolphins, and their intakes of breath are more like a sigh than a grunt. They are much smaller and less exuberantly agile than their cousins the bottlenose dolphins, which are a familiar sight in Cardigan Bay.


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In the Hunt Library, Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta and local architects Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee have created one of the most memorable library buildings in the world. It's a library that encourages reflection, creativity and even awe. With quiet places to study at traditional reading tables, high-tech areas that can be modified to meet users' needs and comfortable group study rooms that facilitate collaboration, the Hunt Library is a next-generation learning space that's open for business today.
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text: Baby Sign Language - Update at 2 years November 11, '07 Comments [13] Posted in Musings | Parenting | Z Sponsored By UPDATE: Check out http://www.babysignlanguage.com for more info on Babies and Sign Language!My son is nearly two years old. He's 23 months. I suspect we'll stop counting months after he's second birthday. It's always fun to be recognized at a conference and have folks ask about technology, but more and more people want to talk to me about Baby Sign Language. Most often they're folks from outside the U.S., which I think is great. I blogged about Baby Sign twice previously: Baby Sign Language Baby Sign Language - Update at 14 months Often parents concerns are that a baby who is taught sign language will speak later or will be developmentally slowed in some way due to "confusion." Are they supposed to talk or sign? I have found this with my own child, my brother's child and all my signing friend's children to be totally false. If anything the child begins speaking with more sophisticated phrases than one would expect. My belief is this (remembering that I'm neither a doctor, nor a parenting expert, just a Signing Enthusiast and current father of one): There is a window in a baby's development when they have needs, wants and feelings to express. This window might be from 6 months to 18 months or from 12 months to 2 years. It's usually at least a year long, and it's that time when your baby is "in there" but isn't able to express themselves verbally. Our goal with my son was to get involved in his head for that "missing year" and see what he had to say. For us, it prevented a lot of tantrums and early confusion about what he needed. Instead, he simply told us what was on his mind. However, they haven't got the tools. If you listened carefully to their cries, posture and other thing I'm sure you'd find that the child was trying to get their need out, but it was either too subtle or unclear for us to see. Using Baby Signing - which is simply American Sign Language or ASL - is a way of formalizing this easily communication with your baby and letting he or she know that we're here, and we're listening. When a child discovers that they are seen, that their opinion matters and that their parents understand them, I believe it enables and extends so many other interactions with our kids. How To Start A gentleman at the PNPSummit from Europe approached me to ask about Baby Signing for his 6 month old. This is the ideal time to start. The baby is just starting to get their bearings and realize that they are not alone and that there's a whole world to interact with. Pick some basic signs, no more than 4 or 5, since you're going to be learning Sign Language as the child does. Plus, the baby's ability to learn signs will surpass your own very quickly. To start with, we taught him: Milk, More, Eat, Dog, Mommy and Daddy. We did this from 6 months to about 9 months before we got anything. This is tip #1 - be patient. You'll do it for literally months before it'll POP one day. One day he or she will sign and they won't shut up until they move out of the house 20 years later. He signed More one day, and the others quickly followed. The key was that we always signed while we spoke. This is important Tip #2 - teaching your child sign language doesn't mean you don't talk to them. Always talk and sign at the same time. Eventually the child will learn that talking is easier and abandon most signs. At two, my son rarely signs as he's not go the words for everything he had previously learned the sign for. However, the signs are still in his head if we need them someday. You can buy an ASL Dictionary online, or get an inexpensive subscription to a site like HandSpeak.com that includes a video dictionary of over 2800 words. There are photo sites, but they don't quite capture the jist as the images are static. (There are also some free sites like the one at Michigan State University although it requires Quicktime and for you to click twice on the video to get it to play.) There's also a great FREE "Signing Success Guide" here as a PDF on the Baby Signing Time site. "Testimonials" Many of my friends and family have taught their kids sign. For many, including all the non-American's, they were teased by family and friends - especially concerned mother's-in-law. But they stuck with it. My friend Daniel "Kzu" Cazzulino had a great experience with Baby Sign Language in Argentina: "Just after a couple weeks signing 3 words to her (duck, drink and milk), she signed the duck! I was blown away by how fast she started with the first one, but it took another month for her to start picking up more and more signs. When she was exactly one year old (about a month after we started), I got a couple of books which tought me more techniques and approaches to signing to make it more effective. Three months later, she's able to sign: duck, drink, milk, cookie/cracker, eat, more, baby, take a bath, need heulp, hot, dog, cat, monkey, flower, shoes, hat, pain, water, sleep, silence (and clip, which Agustina uses at the kindergarten to also mean silence), dance (this one she made it up and we learned what she meant!). That's 22 words for a 15 months-old baby that can barely say Mom and Agus (her sister's nickname and the first thing she learnt to say :)). And there are many more that she understands but she's not signing yet. Just like Scott felt, it's not just a matter of teaching her something to make her "smarter" early on. There's a new kind of connection that you can make with your baby. Aylen's face shines when she sees that we can listen to her needs and help her. She no longer cries when she's hungry or thirsty, or when she wants to take a bath. That's huge. " Daniel as a native Spanish speaker also got an interesting sign benefit when we recommended Rachel's Baby Signing Time videos: We bought a couple DVDs from the Baby Signing Time collection (awesome stuff) which both Aylen and Agustina love. It's playing on my TV almost every day for at least a couple hours. It teaches new signs through songs and showing other babies doing them, and it does so while pronouncing the words in english. That may sound obvious to you, but we live in Argentina, so english is not our primary language. However, both girls are now learning the words in both english and spanish at the same time! So my baby signs "baby" when you say the word in english AND spanish too! It's simply amazing. Another good friend emailed last week when his daughter announced with sign that she needed to have her diaper changed: "perhaps it's too soon to tell -- but we think we've had good consistent responses on the hand sign for "change me" today. Great stuff!! [she's 9 months old now]" Craig Andera is also huge Baby Signing Fan. He had to have patience early on though: Just like Scott, it was initially like signing to a wall. She didn't seem to care, and she certainly didn't sign back. But I knew from my brother that it was just a matter of time, and sure enough, at about eight months, Ellen was able to mime the sign back to us. It's pretty amazing to get any communication whatsoever (other than smiling and crying) from an eight-month-old. And Craig also sees Sign to be a good complement to an already bilingual education. ASL is recognized here by colleges as a legitimate foreign language: It's funny for me to hear resistance to the idea. The one that really puzzles me is the "it'll slow down their speech" one. Not only is this contrary to clinical evidence (IIRC - we did the research but I no longer have the citation), but my personal experience has been the opposite. Ellen, like Z, is bilingual in verbal languages (Chinese and English), and despite that seems to have verbal capabilities comparable to her contemporaries. Does Ellen still sign? Yes she does, but not to communicate. She communicates exclusively (and nearly endlessly :) ) verbally, but there are about five signs she still makes even when speaking. For example, she still signs "sorry" even as she says it - in English or in Chinese. I'm really interested to hear in the comments from anyone else whose had success with teaching their infant Sign Language. It's worked great for us. We're going to teach Un-named Son #2 sign lanuage. He's due in less than two weeks! « Hanselminutes Podcast 88 - Writing FaceB... | Blog Home | The Weekly Source Code 11 - LOLCode DLR ... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. 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Greet the bride and groom with a wonderful paper craft explosion box from Craftwell. This beautiful box is easy to make with the eCraft machine and can be coordinated with the wedding colors.
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- Jen Allyson Celebrates SD Image Card
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- Black Glitter Paper
- Ribbons
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Inside Box
- Using a 12" x 12" sheet of white cardstock, score and fold 4" from each end.
- Using the fold lines as guides, cut the squares from the corners on 3 sides only.
- On the last side, draw a pencil line ½" and cut this line to the corresponding fold line.
- Attach to the outside panel of the box. Repeat with the other 3 panels.
- Fold over the ½" strip and glue it to the inside of the neighboring side panels.
- To make the lid, cut a piece of white cardstock 6" x 6". Score ½" in from each side, snip corners and secure with glue.
- Using the eCraft, cut a 4" glitter paper 'Image 9 Frame 3' as before and attach to the lid of the box.
- Decorate with hearts or flowers as desired.
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- Using the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Designs image card and the same frame image as before, cut a 4" frame from black glitter paper, two 3½" frames from black.
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- Glue the 4" glitter paper frame to the center square.
- Join the black and white cardstock frames together and glue them to the two front inside panels.
- Using the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Celebrates Image card, select the scalloped heart used previously. Cut two 1" red and two 2½" black scalloped hearts.
- To decorate the outside of the box, use the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Designs Image card, Category 2, Frames. Cut four 4" Image 9 'Frame 3' from black cardstock.
- Using the same design card and image, cut four 3½" frames from white cardstock.
- Using the same design card and image, cut four 3" frames from black glitter paper.
- Using the Jen Allyson Celebrates Image card, Category 2 'Weddings', cut four 2½" red cardstock and four 2½" white cardstock 'Scalloped Edge Heart Cut Outs'.
- Using the photo as a guide, adhere one 4", one 3½", and one 3" together with preferred adhesive. Add the center from the white heart and the scalloped edge from the red heart to the center of the panel. Retain the red heart centers for the inside of the box.
- Separate the hearts from the scalloped edges and glue the 1" red hearts onto the front inside panels.
- Glue one red heart center and one black scalloped edge onto the corners of the back panels.
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- Using the eCraft, Fundamentals 1 Image card and white cardstock, cut two 3½" circles, two 2 ½" circles, and two 2" circles.
- Attach ½" strips of white cardstock across the center of one circle and then bend over at the edges of the circles. Bend this strip again so that it measures 1" high and glue the other circle to the strips. This makes a platform to glue the cake sides on.
- Using a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock, punch a decorative edge along one side and then cut it so that the edge will sit up above the edge of your cake platform. Glue all the way around your cake. Repeat this step with the other two cake platforms.
- Glue the three cakes together and decorate as desired.
- Glue to the inside center of the box.
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I find direction #4 in the inside box hard to explain. If I cut out the corners on the other 3 sides as in #2, I don't have them to attach to the 1/2 inch to attach to the other sides. Could you please verify that I have to cut the three corners and only glue the 1/2 inch on the back/cake side. Thank you Candi
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After coming back from near death, in 1997 Stephen Kovacev became the first person with full-blown AIDS to complete the Boston Marathon.
"Back then my doctors advised me that training and running the marathon would be too much stress on my already weakened immune system. But I needed to transcend the disease that had claimed two lovers, Kevin and Michael, and many others. I had to reclaim my lost life. I had to run a marathon again to give me something more than doctor appointments, sickness, and funerals to focus on. Training and finishing that 1997 marathon had given me just that. But what happened last year shattered many lives and a historic annual event that fills the streets from Hopkinton to Boston with camaraderie and love was turned into a tragedy. I am running to be part of reclaiming the spirit of the Boston Marathon and honored to be running in support for those who lost their lives and limbs."


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Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate will be conducting tests of a new bioterror sensing system in Boston's Subway system soon. After the subways close at night, a team of researchers will release dead bacteria, of the species Bacillus subtilis, which is non-toxic and doesn't cause disease even when alive.
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The sensors should be able to identify and confirm the release of biological agents within minutes of release, a statement from the Directorate said.
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On October 14, for starters, her service was shut off. "I called in and was told that I had exceeded my daytime minutes by 450+ minutes. I was surprised, to say the least. I could understand if it was a minimal overage, but 450+ minutes meant that I had spent an additional seven hours on the phone, in addition to the first 200 minutes."
Brazille had to pay part of the bill to get her service restored, but waited to pay the full amount– $221– until she saw the itemized invoice. When it arrived she scanned the list of calls, and verified that she had indeed made them.
"Then I saw something strange. My invoice was clearly dated from September 23 to October 22. But the first call on the invoice was made on August 12. After carefully examining the invoice, this is what I found: Calls #1-198 [of 390] were made from the period August 12-September 22." Sprint had begun charging Brazille for extra minutes– at 40 cents a minute– on September 10.
When she called Customer Solutions again, the representative "was very nice." She stated that Sprint had had some "billing errors" in Brazille's service area, and put her on hold. A minute later she was back, stating that "she had removed the $190.40 in charges. She was very apologetic."
Brazille asked how other Sprint customers would know that their bills were incorrect if they didn't examine them closely. The employee replied that Customer Solutions reps "had been made aware of this error" two weeks earlier, and told to expect customers' calls.
Brazille pointed out that she had called two weeks earlier; why hadn't the error been explained then? The employee couldn't say– but, of course, there's no way to verify that her call was made before Sprint realized its mistake and alerted employees.
"My purpose," Brazille concluded, is "to let other Sprint customers know about this 'billing error.' I find it disgusting that Sprint is doing nothing on their own to correct this, but rather relying on the customer" to discover Sprint's mistake– which, as Brazille's case proves, could easily lead to service interruption and high bills.
I spoke with Jim Harlow, Sprint public affairs manager for Charlottesville, who said that Sprint PCS had had "a massive billing error" due to a network problem. He then referred me to Mary Elsass, who is the director of public relations for Horizon PCS, the Sprint affiliate that provides cellular service for 54 markets, including Charlottesville.
Elsass said that in most cases, the mistake was caught so quickly that customers weren't aware there'd been a problem. Some, however including Brazille "slipped through." One factor that worked against Brazille was her account spending limit, which means that her service plan puts a cap on minutes. Once that's exceeded by a certain number of minutes, service is automatically suspended.
Luckily, Brazille realized her phone had been turned off within a matter of hours and was able to get it turned back on. What's worrisome is that the Customer Solutions rep wasn't able– or, perhaps, neglected– to make sure the cutoff was legitimate before requiring Brazille to pay to have it restored.
I'm not a cell-phone user, but if I were, I'd make a point of checking call dates to make sure they fell within the billing cycle. Failure to do so, as Brazille's case makes clear, could be an expensive oversight.
There's another issue, however, that concerns me even more. Brazille's cell phone is her only phone; what if she'd had some kind of emergency during the time it was mistakenly shut off? Horizon and Sprint PCS would be wise to reconsider their guidelines for service interruption– and their procedures for responding when customers call to protest– with the goal of avoiding future debacles.
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The best soccer teams on earth. One solid month of fleet-footed action in South Africa. Who wouldn't want to be among the paint-smeared fans?
There are sports fans, and then there are soccer fans. Every four years, when the best soccer teams on the planet go cleat-to-cleat in the World Cup, legions of their frenzied followers, decked out in wigs, wacky costumes, and clown makeup, turn the stands into a rollicking carnival.
"The atmosphere is absolutely electric," says Jim Doykos, a snowboarding instructor who traveled to Massachusetts and New Jersey for games when the World Cup was held stateside in 1994. "Everyone's singing and waving flags."
Doykos is no newbie to major sports events—he's been to the Super Bowl, the World Series, and the NBA Finals. "None of them," he says, "match the unbridled enthusiasm, the craziness that I experienced watching soccer."
When the 2010 World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg, it will be blazing uncharted territory: Never before has the tournament been held in Africa. Not surprisingly, South Africans are beyond thrilled to be hosting an estimated half- million visitors, particularly given the isolation the country suffered during apartheid. (South Africa was banned from the World Cup and the Olympics until 1992, after the white-minority government ended apartheid.)
After the tournament opens on June 11, 2010, the 32 teams play 48 round-robin games in nine cities—the locations are on the map at left. Then the competition moves into high-stakes mode: The top 16 teams meet in single-elimination matches, followed by the quarterfinals and semifinals. The final will be held on July 11 in Johannesburg in front of an expected crowd of 90,000—and a worldwide television audience of nearly a billion.
Of course, you can't join the painted bodies in the stands without a ticket, and obtaining one is not quite as simple as going to Ticketmaster's website. Because of the tremendous demand, as well as concerns about counterfeiting, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the organization that runs the World Cup) is selling tickets in several phases on its website, fifa.com. The first session started February 20 and runs to the end of March; subsequent sale dates had yet to be announced at press time.
To order, submit your name, passport number, e-mail address, and the matches you hope to see. Some tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis; the rest will be doled out through a lottery, and FIFA will notify the winners by e-mail at the end of each sale. If you're lucky, you then pay online, and the various venues in South Africa will hold your tickets until the matches. If your name doesn't come up, you can keep trying in future lotteries—and hope that the soccer gods are on your side.
As in all stadium sports, tickets are priced according to desirability. Category 1 and 2 seats, the most expensive at $120 to $160 apiece for the round-robin games, are on the sidelines, where the views are best. Category 3 tickets are behind the goals, a slightly less advantageous place to sit, but close to the field. These are the cheapest passes available to foreigners, running from $80 for the opening round up to $400 for the final game. Only South Africans can buy Category 4 tickets, high in the rafters, starting at a bargain rate of $20.
Since most fans traveling all the way to South Africa will want to take in more than one game, FIFA also sells special follow-your-team packages, which include tickets to three opening-round matches and guaranteed admission to at least one elimination game. You don't save by buying the package; the incentive is the certainty of getting a ticket to a later-round match.
But the soccer is only part of the experience—the celebrations always carry on into the night. When South Korea upset Spain at home in the 2002 quarterfinals, American Andrew Ullman says he danced in drum circles in the streets and threw back shots of soju until the sun rose. "It felt like I had landed at the biggest party in the world," he says.
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The most celebrated squad in the world: Brazil has won five World Cups—the most of any country—and is home to legendary Pelé and current superstar Ronaldo.
Led by talented players like Andrea Pirlo, Gennaro Gattuso, and Daniele De Rossi, Italy surprised many by taking the 2006 World Cup championship, its first title in more than 20 years.
Hovering at the top of the soccer rankings for the past decade, France captured the World Cup in 1998, courtesy of its famous midfielder, Zinedine Zidane. The team finished second to Italy in 2006.
GETTING THERE Book airfare as early as possible; prices will rise as the tournament nears. Buses are the cheapest way to travel between cities—you can buy tickets online from Greyhound (greyhound.co.za). Watch your valuables on metropolitan buses and commuter trains; licensed taxis are inexpensive and a safer option.
WHAT TO PACK Much of South Africa is at a high altitude, so don't forget to bring sunblock, sunglasses, and a hat. Face paint, rainbow wigs, and noisemakers optional.
TOUR OPERATORS FIFA is allowing a few officially sanctioned travel companies to sell World Cup packages that include airfare, hotels, and tickets to games. It will announce a list of vendors at fifa.com in the coming months.
SOUVENIR A vuvuzela, a three-foot-long plastic horn that South African soccer fans like to toot ceaselessly during games. It sounds like a foghorn, or, when blown in concert with thousands of others, a stampede of elephants.
WHERE TO SAVE The next best thing to being at the games is joining the locals watching them for free at South Africa's public squares where giant screens will be set up. Or head to a pub for $1 Castle Lagers and a whole lot of hooting.


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Have you had the pleasure of watching the wonderful BBC series, Life? You probably have. Beautiful HD nature docs provide the perfect visual background for any living room activity. And as many have discovered, they play even better when muted and paired with a soundtrack of your choosing.
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Students are introduced to the term alliteration and asked to create their own examples of alliteration as well as find examples of alliteration in poems. When students understand the concept of alliteration, they are given a handout that explains the assignment of writing a headline poem. The assignment requires each student to create a headline poem using words that they have cut out from magazines and/or newspapers. The poem must contain at least 25 words, be written in complete sentences with correct punctuation, stick to one central theme, and contain at least three clear examples of alliteration.
Headline Poem Assignment: This handout provides students with simple steps to create an alliterative headline poem.
In Getting the Knack, Dunning and Stafford describe how creating found poems, such as headline poems, allows students to find the beauty in the plain language they hear and see every day: "This exercise gives us a chance to celebrate ordinary prose: its concreteness, its richness, and its surprises...poems hide in things you and others say and write. They lie buried in places where language isn't so self-conscious as 'real poetry' often is. This exercise is about keeping your ears and eyes alert to the possibilities in ordinary language" (3). In this lesson, writing a headline poem also allows students to apply new information on the technique of alliteration and to reinforce writing skills such as use of complete sentences, correct punctuation, focus on a central theme and so on. The book Getting the Knack also provides step-by-step instructions for creating a headline (found) poem and offers excellent examples of student work.
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Dunning, Stephen, and William Stafford. 1992. "Found and Headline Poems." Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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I went on a first date tonight. I was convinced he was a psycho killer. I went anyways.
I don't waste a lot of time online. If I write to someone and they write back using proper grammar, spellcheck, and capitalization, then I suggest we meet for coffee or a drink. I don't want to spend all my time writing back and forth just to realize that there is no chemistry when we meet.
At the bottom of his profile, in the "You should message me if" section, he'd added
Do not message me if:
You don't believe we ever landed on the moon.
You don't believe we are related to monkeys.
You vote Republican.
You watch Fox news.
You go to church more than twice a year.
You take yourself too seriously.
And as you all know, those are some of my exact same pet peeves. So I had to write him. I told him that my siblings could also recite all the lyrics to the score of Rent, so they would get along. I asked him where his favorite place to travel has been. I'd sent the email in November of 2010. He responded on Thursday. Then he closed that account and wrote again from a new account.
Today we decided to meet for wine this evening in downtown Palo Alto. He said he was having dinner with his parents there and we could meet after. I almost joked that I should meet them for dinner and get the awkward part over before we even began.
We arranged where and when to meet. And he asked me if I could meet him by his car and help him with his crutches. I said sure.
Then I made whoopie pies. Today is the Whoopie Pie Festival in my hometown in Maine. In honor of it, I made some at home. While I was baking, I was watching Brokedown Palace and I got to thinking. What if I'm being manipulated like the Australian guy in the movie. Here is a guy who responded to me four years later. He's forty-something and having dinner with his parents. And he wants me to meet him by his car to "help" him. What if he is lying about the spinal cord injury and is just trying to get me to his car before anyone sees us together so he can kidnap me? What if he deleted his old account because he'd killed the last girl and needed to cover his tracks?
I freaked. I'd stopped by The Bean Scene to get coffee earlier today and had been singing along to the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" while sipping my latte and unable to move off the couch after a 17-mile bike ride this morning. We'd climbed the hill to IBM's Almaden Research Center. I hadn't been there since Houda had been an intern there. That was a lifetime ago.
I told him I wouldn't be able to help and if he couldn't make it we could reschedule for something that would be easier for him. He said he could be "beaten to a pulp by an 80-year-old with one leg." What if he is just trying to guilt me into a trap! What if I was the nameless girl in the beginning of the horror flick. You know it is a horror flick as you are watching, so when you see all the signs, you yell at her and tell her how stupid she is for not seeing them herself. Then she dies.
Then he says, "Don't stand me up please…we'll have fun". Is that "we" will have fun or "he" will have fun dismembering me? O. M. G. He has a medical degree according to his profile—that I am now taking not just with a grain of salt but with a whole shaker. I can probably avoid going to his car, but what if he drugs me? Then he'll claim he is a doctor and that I have some crazy medical condition and he'll take me from the restaurant when he can't get me to come directly to his car.
I am reminded that I have a very active imagination.
I get to the restaurant and am freaked out. But I've convinced myself that there are two outcomes. Either he really is who his profile says he is and this will all be a romantic comedy, or he is a serial killer and I'll avoid being alone with him or taking my eyes off my wine. Then I can write a book about him after he is caught and talk about how charismatic and charming he was as we sipped wine and I narrowly avoided being one of his victims.
I walked inside. There was a guy sitting at the bar. I didn't see any crutches, but maybe they were on the other side. I asked if he was who I was looking for. He said, "No, but you are welcome to join me."
"Thanks, but I need to keep looking." What if he is the guy? Now he knows I am here and what I look like. He can follow me home and kill me there. And no one will ever connect us.
I walked through to the back where the live music was playing. A waitress asked if she could help me. I told her I was looking for a guy that I was supposed to be meeting. She said she didn't think there was anyone there, but we could walk through and look.
They were all couples. No single people. She asked what he looked like. I said it was a blind date, so I didn't know. She just kept apologizing. I told her it wasn't her fault. I could have cut the pity with a knife. A butter knife. I don't need to provide any weapons here.
I walked back out to the front and sat outside on the porch of the little restaurant house. I sent him a message that I didn't see him and he must have decided to stand me up instead.
Then he called. I tried to answer, but I heard nothing. Not even breathing on the other end of the line. I'd regretted giving him my phone number. What if he started sending harassing phone calls?
I tried hanging up the phone, but my phone was hung. I had to reboot. Comedy of errors is all this is, right? Romantic comedy, not horror.
When the phone finally rebooted, there was a text message saying he was in the white SUV across the street and that he was just grabbing his crutches. Another trick to lure me away and throw me in a creepy white van to take me away and tie me up and steal my kidneys!
But the text message showed me an email address. So I googled the name. And sure enough, there was a picture of him on a page for the website for his employer. And it looked like the photos that were on OKCupid. It was looking promising.
He waved to me. I tentatively walked across the street to the parking lot. It was still daylight out, but that might not be enough to stop him. I walked in a wide circle around his Mercedes SUV. Not a creepy white van. His face matched the photos I'd seen. And he really did have crutches and was having difficulty using them.
Romantic comedy. Not horror.
We sat in the backyard of the restaurant house in the glow of miniature lights, warmed by a fire pit, listening to live music, sipping wine (once the waitress realized we were there), and laughed about the ridiculous story I had invented in my head. We talked about traveling and languages and freak accidents. The evening ended with the sounds of fireworks in the distance. I walked him back to his car and helped put his crutches away.
Not a serial killer. At least not yet.