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When I decided to go to the International Quilt Market last month, I had the best of intentions. My initial plan was to blog from the show floor. Doesn't that sound cool? Cool, yes ... but realistic? Not so much.
So when that didn't really work out for me, I decided I would blog each evening about the day's events. Yeah, that didn't happen either.
Then, when my flight home from the MSP airport was delayed and I had a few hours to spare, I thought it was the perfect time to pony up the $6.95 for unlimited wifi and blog, blog, blog. But I uploaded my market photos to Flickr and caught up on LOST instead.
And when I stepped off the plane at RDU, I was almost immediately gobbled up by real life again. Work, family, kids, the sale of my house completely falling apart before my eyes (grumble, grumble) ... well, you get the idea.
So here I sit, almost 3 weeks later, writing my Quilt Market blog post. Bad, bad blogger. By now I am sure you've seen everyone else's pictures and read everyone else's recaps. To be frank, I am not sure I'll be able to bring very much to the table that you haven't seen before. But I have several other blog posts queued up in my drafts folder, so this post is the only thing standing in the way of "getting on with it".
Oh, but I do have prizes. So that's a good thing!
Let me start by sharing one of the highlights of my whole quilt market experience: meeting Amy Butler. You can go all the way back to my first post and see that Amy Butler (and, of course, her beautiful fabrics) played a big role in getting me into quilting in the first place.
Very early on the first day of market I walked right by Amy's booth. She was speaking with someone and I didn't want to seem like a geeky uber-fan, so I kept on walking. As soon as I got past I stopped myself and thought, "this is exactly why I came -- to take advantage of opportunities like this." So I turned myself around and walked back to Amy's booth. At this point Amy was all alone in the booth, straightening up some displays, so I stepped right up and introduced myself.
Amy was as warm and kind and gracious and friendly as everyone has always described her to be. I told her all about how she inspired me to start sewing and quilting (probably babbling on and on incoherently). Amy's new fabrics (Soul Blossoms) and patterns and books and wallpaper and yarn were all on display, and were just as amazing as you would expect them to be.
I was thrilled to get this picture of us and only wish the lighting was better:
I snapped the following picture for Amanda (aka mrsmcporkchop). It's the mini quilt that she made from Circa 50 fabrics that was on display in the beautiful Birch Fabrics booth. Unfortunately, she was unable to make it to Minneapolis to see it in person. I was, however, able to meet the lovely Cynthia from both fabricworm and Birch Fabrics at market as well. The Birch fabrics are gorgeous and I see nothing but great things in store for Cynthia & her new fabric venture.
On a separate note, I received my bundle of Circa 50 that I won in Cynthia's giveaway last fall ... so stay tuned, because I probably won't be able to resist cutting into it for long!
Let me introduce you to one of my bestest market buddies and bloggy / Twitter pal Jennifer. Here she is in front of the quilt she designed that was on display in the Lecien booth. It's made from the sticky sweet Caramel Town line of fabrics.
More about Jennifer later.
I had to take a photo of this stunning quilt that was on display in the Robert Kaufman / Kona solids booth. It was made by Cherri House, another one of my quilting idols whose blog I've been reading practically since day 1 of my quilting adventure. I've always admired Cherri's simple yet bold & innovative designs, and her inspiring use of solids.
I was lucky enough to meet Cherri at market as well, where she was celebrating the release of her new book, City Quilts. I've had a chance to see the book and, let me tell you, it's one of the best quilting books I've seen in a LONG time. I'd put it up there with the Kerr/Ringle books, which I hold in the highest regard. This quilt is one of the patterns included in the book.
One of the most fun people at market? Sandy Klop of American Jane, for sure. Not even 5 minutes after being introduced to Sandy (thanks, Julie!), we were sharing picture of our kids (me) and grandkids (her). Sandy's just that type of person: real, genuine, sweet, and full of laughs and smiles. She was showing off her new line for Moda, Punctuation, which I can't wait to get my hands on.
Even if you haven't read all of my posts, you don't have to look much further than my blog header to know that I am a HUGE fan of Joel Dewberry. Along with Amy Butler, his fabrics really kick-started my interest in designer fabrics ... and, well, it's been downhill ever since.
I was extremely fortunate to meet Joel and chat not once, but a few times with him. Joel was a really warm, soft-spoken guy, and it was fascinating to learn that, apart from sharing a passion for creating and handmade items, we actually work in very similar fields. Besides being an amazing designer, Joel is -- quite simply -- a super nice guy. I am a fan for life.
Here is a picture of Joel giving a short talk and demonstrating a project from his new book, Sewn Spaces:
In case it hasn't come through loud & clear thus far, I had a BLAST in Minneapolis. The parties, of course, played a big role in increasing the "fun factor" of the event. The biggest bash was the Moda Fabrics party, where I got to mingle with many of my favorite designers, bloggers, and other industry folks. Here's a picture of me with
(Sorry again for the dark pic ... Vanessa has a much better one in her market recap. Oh, and Vanessa? Rest assured, I will surely shake my stuff on the dance floor next time! : )
Speaking of cool girls, they just don't come much cooler than Melissa Averinos and her PIC (partner-in-crime) Beth Dunn. I've been a big fan of them for a while now and have been semi-stalking both on Twitter since I joined a few months back. I am fairly certain they didn't know I existed before market, but I am so happy that we were introduced. I love Melissa's new book, Small Stash Sewing, and can't wait to see what she has in store for us with her upcoming new fabric line. Heck, she even convinced me to pick up the BBC version of Jane Eyre. Haven't watched it yet, but I was an English major, y'know!
Here's me & Melissa (& her ever-present unicorn, a project from her book) at her book signing:
Here's Kaye again (on the right) with two more of my bestest market pals. There on the left is the omnipresent Julie (aka jaybirdquilts). I cannot thank Julie enough for being my trusty guide through my first quilt market. It was Julie & Rachel that originally convinced me to book my ticket to Minneapolis,and Julie really took care of me as I learned my way around and introduced me to so many people. Thanks, Julie!
One of the people Julie introduced me to was Kari Ramsay of Fresh Cut Quilts (in the center). Kari is one of those people that makes you feel like an old friend as soon as you meet her. I also have to thank Kari for helping me get in to the infamous sample spree -- you see, tickets were all sold out by the time I arrived in Minneapolis, so for a small fee (namely some brute physical labor and using all 6'4" of my height to help set up her table), Kari let me accompany her in to the sample room. I can't thank you enough, Kari! (My wallet, however, might feel otherwise.)
This picture is of the three of us at Lizzy House's CAKE PARTY (!) in honor of the release of her mom Cherri's book:
The night before I left Minneapolis, I had dinner with Jennifer & Kaye at an awesome burger place called Ike's (highly recommended if you're visiting the area. Thanks for the recommendation, Angela!) By this point, Jennifer, Kaye and I had gotten pretty tight -- tight enough, anyway, that I allowed Jennifer to call me "Q Daddy". They were awesome market floor friends -- we walked much of the show together each day. Jennifer has even indicated that she is designing some "Quilt Dad is my Homeboy" t-shirts -- let her know if you want to place a pre-order -- and I had come to calling them my "Fly Girls". Too funny.
After dinner, the three of us trekked to the Mall of America. I just couldn't leave Minneapolis without experiencing it.
Finally, I wanted to show some of the books I was able to get at market. Each of these is actually autographed by the authors themselves! Pretty rad, huh?
In closing, quilt market was an AMAZING experience and exceeded all of my expectations. I am just so, so happy that I took Rachel & Julie's advice, took the plunge, and jumped right in.
Everyone I met in Minneapolis was, quite simply, wonderful: Lissa and Scott and Violet and Valori and Kim and Lizzie and Joanna and Susanne and Pam and Monica and Anna Maria and Doe and Cyndi and Erin and Cara and Vickie and Stefanie and the whole gang from the Fat Quarter Shop. And I'm sure I'm missing many others. Thanks to all of you for helping to make my visit a memorable one. I really felt at home among all of these people.
(I have a ton of photos to share that simply wouldn't fit in this post -- take a look at my Flickr album for more.)
I am not sure if circumstances (job, family, finances, etc. etc.) will allow me to go to Houston in the fall, but I am sure going to try my hardest to be there.
OK, and now for the giveaways. Have you guys heard about the newest addition to Moda's line of pre-cut fabrics? These little guys are called "candy bars", and measure 2.5" x 5". Kind of like if a charm pack and a jelly roll had a baby.
My first winner will receive two candy bars of the new "Lollipop" line by Sandy Gervais:
And my second winner will receive three candy bars of "Happy", by Me & My Sister Designs (who I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting!):
Both winners will also be getting one of these cool little notepads with fabric designs on the cover. The one on the left is from Anna Maria Horner, and the one on the right is from Melissa Averinos. Melissa signed the one in the front, but I'll be keeping that one!
Sound good? If you want some candy bars, just leave me a comment below. Ask me a question -- anything you want to know about me. (Keep it clean, folks!) I'll try to answer some of the better questions in a future post. I'll leave the contest open until next Friday, June 18th, when I will randomly pick two winners.
Onward to Houston!


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She called herself ugly, and backed that up with a closet full of fright wigs, garish makeup and shapeless dresses. But the truth was that she was so good-looking that Playboy canceled her 1960s gag centerfold when the photos came back. She said the editors found her too sexy for the feature to work. And when Diller died earlier this year at age 95, Joan Rivers tweeted that "The only tragedy is that Phyllis Diller was the last from an era that insisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny."
Diller went to work as a comic at her first husband's urging, hoping that comedy would relieve the strain on their household finances. She started by performing at PTA meetings, local civic clubs, veterans hospitals and local radio programs. She sang a little, played the piano and told a few jokes. She said later that she mined the Dear Abby column for material. Her trademark laugh arose during her early comedy club gigs, as a sign of nerves that she couldn't suppress.
In 1992, she spoke about her life in comedy at New York City's 92nd St. Y, in a rollicking "lecture" (listen to it here or below) that interspersed joke sets with her own views on death, religion, aging and happiness. Not exactly the topics that you think might trigger 12 laughs a minute (as was her serious goal on stage), but these weighty themes always found a place in Diller's act. "My definition of comedy," she told her audience, "is tragedy revisited."
What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Learn from a comic, and vary your timing. Comics use timing in such a way that the tempo and pauses in a monologue work just as hard as the words themselves to get a laugh. In this lecture, Diller delivers rapid-fire clusters of jokes, where the laughs are simple but the humor comes from how many riffs there are in a row. She tells other, more subtle jokes with a long pause at the end, to let the funny sink in. And she deploys that laugh almost as a transition, signaling the end of a topic before moving on. Pauses and variations in your speech can help your audience follow your train of thought, even if you're not moving toward a punchline.
- Stay flexible within your format. Diller admits at the end of this speech that she really isn't any good at giving lectures, and therefore she didn't deliver one. She can get away with making a stand-up routine out of the event because of who she is and what her audience expects. But it's a good reminder that there's no right or wrong way to give a speech. If you listen to lots of public speakers, you'll realize that not all successful lectures sound the same, and there's not one ideal model to imitate. Together with experience and practice, these observations can help you develop your own successful speaking style.
- Watch (and take notes) and learn. From the start, Diller was almost scientific about her stand-up. She used a cigarette holder in her act even though she didn't smoke, because she and a drama coach she had hired decided that it gave her a funny posture on stage. Twelve laughs a minute was a metric that she derived after years of watching audiences respond to her act and others. Her observations also told her that jokes end best when the last word has an explosive consonant, like "pop" or "shot." Listen to how often she applies these rules in this lecture, and remember that these are the details she said she practiced every day while working.
And here's the speech, audio-only:
(Freelance writer Becky Ham contributed this Famous Speech Friday post.)
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American hostages thank Kenyan police rescuers
Undercover police officers armed only with pistols and walkie-talkies helped save countless lives in the initial minutes of the attac
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — As al-Qaida-linked terrorists threw grenades and fired automatic weapons, the three plainclothes Kenyan police officers, lightly armed and wearing no bulletproof vests, helmets or other protective gear, worked their way to the roof of Nairobi's Westgate Mall and led a group of frightened shoppers to safety.
"I will be forever grateful for those three brave and selfless Kenyans," said Lyndsay Handler, an American who was among those rescued from the roof in the first hours of the siege that began Saturday. "Words cannot fully capture the depth of this gratitude, but anyone who has come close to losing a child or spouse can understand."
Undercover police officers armed only with pistols and walkie-talkies like those who rescued Handler and her husband and 2-year-old daughter helped save countless lives in the initial minutes of the attack — heroics the New York native and others they brought to safety say have gotten too little attention.
Handler was in the shopping complex with her husband, Nick, and their 2-year-old, Julia. Father and daughter were at the popular eatery, Artcaffe, when about a dozen al-Shabab militants descended on the upscale mall popular with foreigners and wealthy Kenyans and began firing indiscriminately.
Lyndsay, upstairs at a bookstore, headed to the roof, while Nick took shelter with Julia in a ground-floor storeroom of the mall's flagship department store, Nakumatt.
Father and daughter huddled fearfully for three hours until plainclothes police came to their rescue.
"It's hard to describe the relief I felt when I saw the doors to the storeroom open, and several incredibly brave plainclothes police, weapons drawn, motioned for us to leave as quickly as possible," said Nick Handler, of the Philadelphia suburb of Merion, Pa.
"Perhaps it was not rational, but I instantly trusted these guys with our lives. I felt a surge of hope that we were going to be fine."
The 31-year-old Handler, who works on agricultural issues in western Kenya, said the officers rushed into the attack zone "knowing that they were up against heavily armed gunmen and were putting their own lives on the line."
Video from inside the mall shows how security personnel worked to save lives. In one, a man thought to be a plainclothes police officer was seen scooting on his belly across the shopping center's ground floor to coax a mother and her two children lying next to a cafe counter to stand up and rush out.
The regular mall security guards were unarmed and powerless to stop attackers armed with semi-automatic weapons.
The al-Shabab gunmen appeared to specifically target the unarmed guards as they began their attack, said Ben Mulwa, a community organizer who was shot in the leg near one of the mall entrances. One of the guards was shot through the head just feet from where Mulwa was hiding.
He said the first responders — particularly the lightly armed officers who were among the first on the scene — displayed immense courage in a chaotic and uncertain situation.
"They're only holding pistols. ... The other guys are walking with machine guns," he said. "They could have easily shot them. I found that extremely brave."
Individual acts of courage aside, however, Mulwa and other Kenyans questioned how prepared the country is to confront a large-scale attack. Kenya has been hit by terrorists in the past, and Western officials have warned that malls and other public spaces could be targeted.
"The fact that kind of gunfire can go on in a prime location like that ... I think the response probably wasn't as good as it could be," Mulwa said. "There's some lapses that need to be addressed."
Kenyan army troops took the lead in securing the mall following the initial chaos of Saturday's attack, and it wasn't until late Tuesday that President Uhuru Kenyatta declared the terrorists had been defeated. Mopping-up operations continued into Wednesday, and occasional gunfire could still be heard from the mall.
The official civilian death toll stood at 61 late Tuesday, but officials said more bodies could still be inside the mall, and 71 people remain missing, according to the Red Cross. Six Kenyan security forces, as well as five al-Shabab militants, also were killed.
Among the six Kenyan troops killed, three were first-responder police officers accidentally gunned down by Kenyan army officers in the chaos after the attack, police officials said.
Kenyan officials have been eager to declare the situation under control for days. But the challenge they face could be read on the faces of the soldiers tasked with clearing the mall in the aftermath of the attack. Trudging from the gutted complex to the Oshwal Center, a nearby Indian community center that had been turned into a makeshift command center and triage location, the troops looked like they were returning from battle.
Some put on a brave face, like the soldier hauling an anti-tank rocket launcher who wore aviator sunglasses as he ate his lunch inside. But many others looked clearly shaken and worn out.
Ashok Halai, the Nairobi commissioner for St. John Ambulance, which has been providing volunteer emergency medical services since the attack began, said his crews have been coordinating with Kenyan security forces in treating casualties. The operation to clear the sprawling complex has taken a toll on the mood of the Kenyan forces charged with securing it, he said.
"Obviously they are stressed," he said Tuesday. "They would like to have peace. We would like to see this ending."
He said he wasn't surprised that it took so long to bring the operation to a close.
"They've tried their best," he said of the security forces. "Hostages were there. ... Because of the hostages, they might have taken this long."
Two soldiers involved in the operation described the challenges of securing the mall this week even as senior officials were declaring it all but over.
The first floor was soaked with water from overhead sprinklers that went off after fire broke out Monday, and there was no power on the third and fourth floors, they said. That meant troops had to carry out door-to-door searches and hunt for what authorities feared were booby-trapped rooms in near darkness.
"It's really not easy. You don't know where you are and where the terrorists might be," said one of the soldiers. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were under orders not to speak to the media.
Solomon Ichahuria, a 24-year-old sales clerk who works at a clothing shop on the ground floor, barricaded himself and more than 20 others inside the store when the shooting began.
He said no one found them for about three hours, when an armed man in jeans and a checked shirt — apparently an undercover police officer — knocked on the door. Those hiding inside didn't answer because they were unsure if he was friend or foe. He returned two hours later with a soldier who guided them out, he said.
Ichahuria said the first responders were heroes who "should be celebrated because they did save a lot of lives."
He felt lucky to get out alive after only five hours, though he acknowledged the response could have been better.
"If I was in a G-20 country and it took five hours, in my opinion that would have been a job terribly done. But then now, this is Kenya, and disaster management is not one of our strengths."
Copyright 2013 Associated Press


text: One of the first things you need to do when prepping for a test is learn the lingo. SAT Math is prone to using vocabulary that you've probably not seen in a while – words like integer, factor, and multiple probably haven't come up since you were in 7th grade. And even when you saw them in 7th grade, it probably wasn't in the same context as how they are used on the SAT. So one of the best starting points for the SAT is to learn vocab, both the words common to Sentence Completion questions but also the words common to Math questions. The College Board QOTD on President's day stumped 60% of the people who tried it and the only things tested are the understanding of a few math terms. Hopefully by the end of this post you'll head over to the College Board site and be one of the 40%.


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Guide to the Kate Felton Elkins Collection, 1775-1927
Guide to the Kate Felton Elkins Collection, 1775-1927
Collection number: M0125Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1965
Container List
DRAMATIC - bound leather book containing autograph and signed letters by 19th and early 20th century theater personalities and others. Also contains old playbills, printed articles, prints and photographs.
1. Elkins, Felton Broomhall, 1889-
to Mrs. K. F. Neilson, Sept. 30, 1925with cover.
2. Garrick, David, 1716-1779
A.L., fragment, n.d.
3. Corri, Domenico
to Mr. Peake, Nov. 28, 1807.
4. Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854 Goodwin, William N.
Signatures on articles of agreement, Sept. 3, 1822.
5. Ravel, Gabriel
to Mr. Sefton, Oct. 9, 1847.
6. Smith, Solomon Franklin, 1801-1869
to Carey and Hart, Sept. 17 1845.
7. Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 Autograph.
8. Bishop, Charles B.
Signature on articles of agreement with H.C. Jarrett and H.D. Palmer, March 26, 1875.
9. Barrett, Lawrence, 1837- Autograph.
10. Bishop, Charles B.
Signature on articles of agreement with Rich and Stetson, Dec. 10, 1874.
11. McCullough, John E., 1832- Autograph.
12. Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872
to H.H. Clements, Feb. 14, 1855.
13. Keene, [Laura?] Autograph.
14. Covent, Byron
Telegram to E.A. Sothern
15. Jefferson, Joseph Autograph. on a card
16. Irving, (John) Henry (B.), 1838-1905
to unknown [Aug.] 30, 1893.
17. Modjeska, Helena, ca. 1843- Autograph.
18. Drew, John Autograph.
19. Rehan, Ada Autograph
20. Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, 1850-1880 Autograph theater pass
21. Cressy, John D.
to Directors of the American Theater
22. Patti, Carlotta and Joseph Hermanns Autographs.
23. P[atti], A[delina], 1843-1919
to Dear friend, Aug. 31.
24. Jefferson, Joseph Autograph.
25. Booth, Edwin Autograph.
26. Sothern, E.A. Autograph.
27. Kendal, W. H. Autograph.
28. Kendal, Madge Autograph
29. Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm
to R.W. Welch, Nov. 26, 1903.
30. Langtry, Lillie Autograph.
31. Walsh, Blanche Autograph.
32. Irving, Isabel Autograph
33. Allen, Viola Autograph
34. Burgess, Neil, 1846-1910
to Friend Francis
35. Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, 1853-1937
to Thomas D. Osborne, March 5, 1916.
36. Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude
to Dear Sir, Nov. 22, 1909.
37. Adams, Maude, 1872-
to [Edward] Freiberger, May 15, 1897.
38. Barrie, Sir James Mathew, 1860-1937
to?, Dec. 11.
39. James, Louis and? Warde Autographs.
40. Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-
to Miss Welch, July 1907.
41. Irwin, May, 1862-
to George Leon Varney, Sept. 16, 1900.
42. Elliott, Maxine Autographed photo.
43. Marlowe, Julia, 1870-
to Mr. Carr, May 10, 1910and cvr.
44. Mantell, R.B. Autograph.
45. Trevelyan, Hilda, 1880
to Mrs. Caley, Oct. 10, 1906.
46. [Kelcey], Herbert Autograph.
47. Erskine, James Autograph.
48. Salvini, Thomas Autograph.
49. Wright, Haidee, 1868-
to Dr. Waddell.
50. Thompson, Lydia Autograph.
51. Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-
to [John] Howell, June 29, 1923with cvr.
52. Housman, Lawrence, 1867-
to Dear Carr, Sept. 23, 1902.
53. MacKaye, Percy, 1875-
to [Lewis] Lesley, Jan. 15, 1915.
54. Winter, William, 1886.
55. Matthews, James Brander, 1852-1929
to Mr. Palmer, Sept. 20, 1890.
June 1914.
56. Hamburg, Mark
to Mrs. Bishop, Sept. 13
57. Harvey, Sir John Martin, 1863-1944
to H. C. Hilgate, Sept. 25, 1908.
58. Alexander, Sir George, 1858-1918
to Miss Waddell, [Feb. 6, 1906]and cvr.
59. Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-
to [Richard] Bennett, Apr. 9
60. Belasco, David, 1859-1931
to Felton Elkins, May 22, 1925.
61. Brieux, [Eugéne], 1858-1932
in French to [Richard Bennett], May 6, 1917
62. Bates, Blanche (Mrs. George Creel), 1873-1941
to Felton Elkins, 1921 & n.d.,one cvr.
63. [Bennett, Richard?], 1872-1944
to Felton Elkins, [Mar., 23 1920],signed Dick, with cover.
64. Bennett, Richard, 1872-1944
to Felton Elkins, Nov. 18, 1919
65. Cobb, Irvin S., 1876-1944
to Felton Elkins, May 22
66. Copeland, C. T.
fragment, n.d.
67. Chambers, Charles Hadden, 1860-1921
to Felton Elkins, [Nov., 1919-n.d.]
68. du Maurier, Sir Gerald, 1873-1934
to F. Elkins, Jun. 15,with cover.
69. Drew, John, 1853-1927
to F. Elkins, Oct. 28, 1913.
70. Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
to F. Elkins, Mar. 24, [1912], Jun. 29, 1912with cover, Apr. 13, 1912.
71. Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928
to F. Elkins, n.d.
72. Marbury, Elizabeth
to F. Elkins, [Apr. 11, 1925]
73. Miller, Henry
Telegram to F. Elkins, Mar. 17, 1923
[to F. Elkins, n.d.
74. Maude, Cyril, 1862-
T.N.S. and 4 to F. Elkins, n.d.
75. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-
to F. Elkins, 1919, 1924 and n.d.
76. Roosevelt, Theodore Autograph
77. Sheldon, Edward Brewster, 1886-1946
2 and 5 tels (1 holograph) to F. Elkins. n.d., 1918, 1923 and [1915],2 signed Ned
78. Tempest, [Marie]
Tel. to F. Elkins, Sept. 27, 1921
79. Titherade, Madge
to F. Elkins, Apr. 19
80. Alcazar Theatre Program, 1903with signatures of players
81. Panteleieff, Max
82. Panteleieff, Consuelo Closs
83. Panteleieff, Mary
to F. Elkins, [1926],not mounted.
1. First Editions signed by Elsie B. Stone.
2. Ray Lyman Wilbur to Mrs. Kate Felton Nielson.
3. Nathan Van Patten to Mrs. Kate Felton Nielson.
4. O. W. Holmes to Mr. Sanborn.
5. Henry W. Longfellow to unknown.
Scope and Content Note
Scope and Content Note
Scope and Content Note
Fe 125 Kate Felton Elkins Collection
Scope and Content Note
ML 410 F 757 1. Dramatics - bound leather book containing autograph letters or signed letters by many persons in the theater in the 19th and early 20th century Also old playbills, prints, printed articles, and photographs.
Scope and Content Note
PN 2226 S43 4. Scrapbook of Theater Programs 1919-1924for both stage and film productions
ML 40 A 1 S 43 3. Scrapbook of Concert and Opera Programs 1919-1927,art gallery program clips on performers, ballet programs copies of symphony Society Bulletin, N.Y. etc.
P N 771 E 44 2. Collection of Clippings concerning People and Things Literary (and miscellany signed)
1. First Editions by Elsie B. Stene
2. Ray Lyman Wilbur to Mrs. Kate Felton Neilson
3. Natuan Van Patten to Kate Felton Nielson
4. O.W. Holmes to Mr. Sanborn
5. Henry W. Long Fellow to?
PN2226 T37 f 5. Theatre Programme Book
Elizabeth - print from a painting by Isaac Oliver
Elizabeth portrait proof print before letters by W. T. Walker 1791
Francis Bacon French print. Several Paris chez E. Desrochers
The Room in Which Shakspeare Was Born. print. T. G. Flowers. Edinburgh. pub by E. Adams
Ben jonson. print & biographical sketch [Hontueret?] [pint.].; Audinet, sculp; pub by Harrison & [?] May 1, 1794
Ben Jonson. Engraved by E. Scriven from a picture in the possession of Mr. Knight. pub. by Charles Knight
Abraham Cowley. Mary Beale pint. ; R. Godfrey s. pub Nov. 1, 1776by F. Blyth.
Colley Cibber. [1767]Vanloo pinx J. S. Miller Sc.
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden broadside Feb 13, 1790.The Dramatist etc
Margaret Woffington as Sir Harry Wildair. Wm. Hogarth, pinxt, N.Y. Photogravure Co.
Mr. Garrick as Periauder. Roberts del., Wilsosculp.
Page from Stars of the Stage (pp.21 & 22) re: Garrick
Theatre Royal. broadside July 30, 1807,Tobin's The Curfew etc.
Charles Kemble page from a book with portrait and biographical sketch
Fanny Kemble painted by T. Sally, engraved by J. Cheney
Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, broadside June 28, 1831 As You Like It etc.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. broadside May 15, 1837,Mme. Schroeder Devrient Fidelio etc.
Theatre Royal, Liverpool broadside Mar. 23, 1841,Wallach in Pizarro etc.
Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Sir T. Lawrence piuxt., J. Horsburgh sculpt., pub. Gebbie & Barrie.
Theatre-Royal Liverpool broadside Mar. 31, 1841Wallask in Rent Day etc.
Gabriel Ravel
Edwin Booth as Hamlet p. from a book w/portrait
Edwin Thomas Booth page from book w/biographical sketch & 3 illustrations
Edwin Books portrait with facsimile signature John Wilson & Co. Publrs. N.Y.
Lawrence Barrett
Lawrence Barrett as Count Lauciotto page from book
John E. McCullough
John E. McCullough
Mrs Keane
Charles Keane
Fords Theatre copy of broadside for Apr 14, 1865 Our American Cousin Lincoln
E. A. Southern as Lord Dundreary in Our America Cousin illustrated article.
[E. A. Southern]
Fanny Davenport
Mrs. Bishop
Mrs. Bowers
Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winckle
Joseph Jefferson as Newman Noggs, engraved by R.G. Tietze from photo formerly owned by John Broughan, lent by Peter [Gilecy?]
Henry Irving as Hamlet
Henry Irving big sketch for Stars of the Stage
Mrs. G. H. Gilbert big sketch for Stars of the Stage
Ellen Terry big. clip co/photo as Letitia Hardy
Miss Ellen Terry as Partia
Madam Modjeslca as Queen Mary
[John Drew? & Ada Rehan?]
Ada Rehan as Katharina
John Drew as Patrucio
Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia.
Wheatley's Arch St. Theatre broadside July 2 `56 Gold etc.
Miss Neilson as Juliet
Lilean Adelaide Neilson photo on sheet music cover
Dramatic Affairs clip from The Californian Sept. 21, 1867
The Californian clips Dramatic Mention 3/18/63 Amusements Musical 6/9 1866
Private Dispatches song words pub. by Bell & Company, S.F.
Kole Oil Tommy Song Words pub. by T.C. Boyd. S.F.
Ben Bolt Song words pub. by Bell & Company
Lotta M. Crabtree
Annie Pixley as M'liss
Adelena Patti
Interieur du Théâtre de la Scala à Milan Sidole dess, gravé par L. Cherbuin ed. - Ferd. Astoria et File, Milan
Mlle. Georges. colored reproductions of drawing by J. Champagne
The Great Excitement Galup by Piette Laroche. ad poster or cover of sheet music
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Maude Adams
Maude Adams
Maude Adams, signed photo ; Maude Adams. ribbon of the Legion of Honor which she wore in a play
Maxime Elliott
Theodore Roosevelt
Empire Theatre, N. Y. June 9-14, 1924program She Steeps to Conquer
Alcazar Theatre, S.F. May 18-31, 1903signed program of Heartsease
[Ruta Chatterton?] - announcement of performance
Columbia Theatre, S.F. program Sept. 27, 30, 1927Ruta Chatterton presents Into the Sunlight w/ Henry Miller, Blanche Bates, etc.
Columbia Theatre, clips re: above from Bulletin & Journal
Greenwich Village Theatre program A.W.O.L.
Mariarden, Peterborough, N.H. program The Imperfect 36
California Theatre 1863Free Public Library. Bush St. above Kearney. Photo enlargement


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Chicken and Tomatillo Soup
James Peterson
Splendid Soups: Recipes and Master Techniques for Making the World's Best Soups
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
One thing I miss about living in California is going out for inexpensive and wonderful Mexican food. I suppose a lot of it wasn't totally authentic, but I'll never forget the chicken enchiladas with green tomatillo sauce and sour cream. I think I've managed to capture the same tart flavor in this soup.
NotesWhen a chicken is "quartered," it is actually cut up into more than four pieces. In addition to the two half-breasts and two thighs with the drumsticks attached, there is also the back and the two wings. Thus the chicken is really cut into seven pieces instead of four. The back contains so little meat that it's best used for making broth or cut in half or thirds and added to the sauté pan with the rest of the chicken to keep the bottom of the pan covered (to prevent it from burning in those areas left uncovered) or to augment the flavor of an eventual soup. The wings, while meatier, can be used in the same way. In most soup recipes calling for quartered chicken, I recommend removing the meat from the bone after the chicken has cooked to make the soup easier to eat. However, in some cases, you may want to leave the chicken on the bone and cut the quartered chicken into smaller pieces to make sure every serving of soup has a piece of chicken in it. You can convert four pieces into six simply by cutting the drumsticks away from the rest of the thighs and you can cut the half-breasts in half again so that you end up with eight pieces in addition to the wings and back. To quarter a chicken, pull any large chunks of fat out of the inside of the chicken (I discard them but they can be rendered and used as cooking fat). Turn the chicken breastside down and pull away a wing. Cut the wing oft where it joins the body. Repeat with the second wing. Fold the wing tips under the thickest part of the wing, forming a kind of triangle, so the wings hold their shape during cooking. Turn the chicken over and pull one of the thighs forward. Cut into the loose skin between the thigh and breast, cutting toward the thigh (so enough skin is left to cover the breast) and then slide the knife down to the joint where the thigh joins the back. Fold the thigh back away from the chicken and snap the ball out of the joint, dislocating the thigh. Slide the knife—I use a medium chef's knife—along the back, following its contours so you leave any meat attached to the thigh instead of the back, and detach the thigh from the back. Repeat with the second thigh. Cut the back away from the double breast by holding the chicken on end so the larger opening is facing upward. With a large chef's knife, cut through the rib cage all the way down to the bottom and open up the chicken, separating the back from the breast. Cut the back away from the double breast. Cut the double breast in half by resting it, skin side down, on a cutting board and forcing a knife into the bone in the middle of the two halves. Pull the knife toward you while pressing down. Turn the breast around and repeat in the other direction to separate the two halves. You should now have two thighs (with drumsticks), the back, two wings, and two half-breasts.
Makes6 servings
Total Timeunder 1 hour
OccasionCasual Dinner Party, game day
Recipe Courseappetizer, main course
Dietary Considerationegg-free, gluten-free, low carb, peanut free, soy free, tree nut free
Equipmentfood mill
Mealdinner, lunch
Taste and Texturecheesy, creamy, garlicky, herby, meaty, savory, spiced, tart
Type of Dishchicken soup
- 1 4-pound chicken, quartered
- Salt
- Pepper
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter or olive oil
- 1 medium-size onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 pound fresh tomatillos, papery husk removed, coarsely chopped, or 2 cups drained canned tomatillos, coarsely chopped
- 2 jalapeño chilies, seeded and finely chopped
- 3 cups chicken broth or water
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro leaves
- Cayenne pepper
- Sour cream
- Grated Monterey Jack or Cheddar cheese
SEASON the chicken with salt and pepper, then brown it on both sides in the butter or olive oil over high heat in a sauté pan just large enough to hold it in a single layer. When the chicken is well browned, after about 8 minutes on the skin side and 10 minutes on the flesh side, take it out of the pan and lightly sauté the onion and garlic in the fat left in the pan. (If the fat has burned, pour it out and add 2 tablespoons fresh oil or butter.)
RETURN the chicken to the pan along with the tomatillos, jalapeños, and broth. Cover the pan and simmer gently until the chicken is done—it will be firm to the touch—about 15 minutes.
TAKE the pan off the heat, remove the chicken, and let it cool for 10 minutes. Remove and discard the skin, pull off the chicken meat, cut it into bite-size pieces, and discard the bones. Skim off any fat or froth that has floated to the top of the soup.
WORK the ingredients in the pan through a food mill with a medium disk or puree them in a blender and strain through a medium-mesh strainer.
COMBINE the pureed tomatillos with the cilantro and chicken. Thin the soup with a little broth or water if it's too thick. Season with salt and pepper, or cayenne if it needs more heat. Serve sour cream, grated cheese, or both.
SUGGESTIONS AND VARIATIONS I sometimes add a cup of corn kernels to Mexican soups because they go well with almost any Mexican ingredient. Just add the corn kernels along with the tomatillos and puree the mixture together.
Shelled and toasted pumpkin seeds (½ cup pureed in a blender with a little of the soup, added before straining) are also a typically Mexican touch; they'll give the soup a distinctive flavor and also make it considerably thicker.
You may also want to experiment with adding dried chilies (see Ingredients chapter) to the soup shortly before serving.
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Basil Cha Cha Vegetarian Bistro, Foster City's first vegetarian restaurant, opened in early March. It's entirely vegetarian, and the menu clearly distinguishes between what is vegan and vegetarian. Nearly everything on the menu can be made vegan.
It is a spin-off of an earlier restaurant in this same space, which was a mixed Thai restaurant with the same owner. The owner moved her original mixed Thai restaurant to another location in the same mall, and opened up this all vegetarian bistro.
There's a nice bayside trail across the street, so bring your appetite and your walking shoes.
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With the recent opening of Basil Cha Cha and Garden Fresh in Palo Alto, the Peninsula is now home to a record 5 vegetarian restaurants.
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One of the best-received films at this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Surrogate. The movie stars John Hawkes as writer and poet Mark O'Brien, whose body was ravaged by polio when he was a child and stuck him in an iron lung for the rest of his life. However, he still wanted to have sex and intimacy, and so he found a sexual surrogate (Helen Hunt) to help him learn how maintain an erection, have prolonged sexual intercourse, etc. Click here to read my positive review.
Fox Searchlight has announced that they will release the film on October 26th, but it will now be called Six Sessions, which refers to the number of sessions the surrogate has with O'Brien. I can understand the change since the word "surrogate" is usually associated with pregnancy. The movie will serve as a nice bit of limited-release counter-programming against the wide release films Alex Cross, Fun Size, Of Men and Mavericks, and Silent Hill: Revelations 3D [Box Office Mojo].


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FreeBSD does not come with a pre-installed web browser. Instead, the www category of the Ports Collection contains many browsers which can be installed as a package or compiled from the Ports Collection.
The KDE and GNOME desktop environments include their own HTML browser. Refer to Section 6.7, "Desktop Environments" for more information on how to set up these complete desktops.
Some light-weight browsers include www/dillo2, www/links, and www/w3m.
This section demonstrates how to install the following popular web browsers and indicates if the application is resource-heavy, takes time to compile from ports, or has any major dependencies.
|Application Name
|Resources Needed
|Installation from Ports
|FreeBSD, Linux®, and localized versions are available
|FreeBSD and Linux® versions are available
|Requires KDE libraries
|Requires Gtk+
Firefox is an open source browser that is fully ported to FreeBSD. It features a standards-compliant HTML display engine, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, extensions, improved security, and more. Firefox is based on the Mozilla codebase.
To install the package of the latest release version of Firefox, type:
pkg_add -r firefox
To instead install Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) version, use:
pkg_add -r firefox-esr
Localized versions are available in www/firefox-i18n and www/firefox-esr-i18n.
The Ports Collection can instead be used to compile the
desired version of Firefox from
source code. This example builds www/firefox, where
firefox can be replaced with the ESR or
localized version to install.
cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
make install clean
The installation of Firefox does not include Java™ support. However, java/icedtea-web provides a free software web browser plugin for running Java applets. It can be installed as a package. To alternately compile the port:
cd /usr/ports/java/icedtea-web
make install clean
Keep the default configuration options when compiling the port.
Once installed, start firefox,
about:plugins in the location bar and
press Enter. A page listing the installed
plugins will be displayed. The
Java™ plugin should be
If the browser is unable to find the plugin, each user will have to run the following command and relaunch the browser:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so \ $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/
A native Adobe® Flash® plugin is not available for FreeBSD. However, a software wrapper for running the Linux® version of the plugin is available. This wrapper also provides support for other browser plugins such as RealPlayer®.
To install and enable this plugin, perform these steps:
Install the www/nspluginwrapper port. Due to licensing restrictions, a package is not available. This port requires emulators/linux_base-f10 which is a large port.
Install the www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 port. Due to licensing restrictions, a package is not available.
ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \ /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/
Create the
directory if it is not already present.
Before the plugin is first used, each user must run:
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
When the plugin port has been updated and reinstalled, each user must run:
nspluginwrapper -v -a -u
Start the browser, enter
about:plugins in the location bar and
press Enter. A list of all the currently
available plugins will be shown.
Swfdec is a decoder and renderer for Flash® animations. Swfdec-Mozilla is a plugin for Firefox browsers that uses the Swfdec library for playing SWF files.
To install the package:
pkg_add -r swfdec-plugin
If the package is not available, compile and install it from the Ports Collection:
cd /usr/ports/www/swfdec-plugin
make install clean
Restart the browser to activate this plugin.
Opera is a full-featured and standards-compliant browser which is still lightweight and fast. It comes with a built-in mail and news reader, an IRC client, an RSS/Atom feeds reader, and more. It is available as a native FreeBSD version and as a version that runs under Linux® emulation.
This command installs the package of the FreeBSD version of
Opera. Replace
opera with
to instead install the Linux® version.
pkg_add -r opera
Alternately, install either version through the Ports Collection. This example compiles the native version:
cd /usr/ports/www/opera
make install clean
To install the Linux® version, substitute
linux-opera in place of
To install Adobe® Flash® plugin support, first compile the www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 port, as a package is not available due to licensing restrictions. Then install either the www/opera-linuxplugins port or package. This example compiles both applications from ports:
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin11
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/opera-linuxplugins
make install clean
Once installed, check the presence of the plugin by
starting the browser, entering
opera:plugins in the location bar and
pressing Enter. A list should appear with
all the currently available plugins.
To add the Java™ plugin, follow the instructions in Section 18.104.22.168, "Firefox and Java™ Plugin".
Konqueror is more than a web browser as it is also a file manager and a multimedia viewer. It is included in the x11/kde4-baseapps package or port.
Konqueror supports WebKit as well as its own KHTML. WebKit is a rendering engine used by many modern browsers including Chromium. To use WebKit with Konqueror on FreeBSD, install the www/kwebkitpart package or port. This example compiles the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/kwebkitpart
make install clean
To enable WebKit within Konqueror, click "Settings", "Configure Konqueror". In the "General" settings page, click the drop-down menu next to "Default web browser engine" and change "KHTML" to "WebKit".
Konqueror also supports
Flash®. A "How To"
guide for getting Flash® support
on Konqueror is available at
Chromium is an open source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable web browsing experience. Chromium features tabbed browsing, popup blocking, extensions, and much more. Chromium is the open source project upon which the Google Chrome web browser is based.
Chromium can be installed as a package by typing:
pkg_add -r chromium
Alternatively, Chromium can be compiled from source using the Ports Collection:
cd /usr/ports/www/chromium
make install clean
The executable for Chromium
/usr/local/bin/chrome, not
The installation of Chromium does not include Java™ support. To install Java™ plugin support, follow the instructions in Section 184.108.40.206, "Firefox and Java™ Plugin".
Once Java™ support is installed, start
Chromium and enter
about:plugins in the address bar.
IcedTea-Web should be listed as one of the installed
If Chromium does not display the IcedTea-Web plugin, run the following commands and restart the web browser:
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins
#ln -s /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so \ /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins/
Configuring Chromium and Adobe® Flash® is similar to the the instructions in Section 188.8.131.52, "Firefox and Java™ Plugin". No additional configuration should be necessary, since Chromium is able to use some plugins from other browsers.
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the
documentation may be
sent to <email@example.com>.
Send questions about this document to <firstname.lastname@example.com>.


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We've got some shuffling of release dates for two Warner Bros. distributions and a new release date for one of our favorite films from this year's Sundance. Here's a glance:
- Warner Bros. pushes back The Seventh Son from February 15th, 2013 to October 18th, 2013.
- Another Warner Bros. film, Beautiful Creatures, has taken Seventh Son's place by moving back two weeks to open on February 15th, 2013.
- Starring Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon and a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard), Robot and Frank will open on August 24th of this year.
Hit the jump for more on each film.
All release dates come courtesy of Box Office Mojo. Seventh Son, directed by Sergey Bodrov (Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan) stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, and Ben Barnes. Here's the synopsis:
In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory.
In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. Now he has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man's only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son.
Beautiful Creatures, directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You), stars Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum and Jeremy Irons. Here's the synopsis:
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Directed by Jake Schreier, here's the synopsis for Robot and Frank:
Set in the near future, Frank (Frank Langella) a retired jewel thief gets a new lease on life when he is introduced to a surprising new companion. With the help of his new friend, he attempts to woo a local librarian (Susan Sarandon) and resume his criminal escapades. ROBOT & FRANK is directed by first time filmmaker Jake Schreier, written by Christopher Ford (TVs "Atom TV"), and produced by Galt Niederhoffer, Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Acord.


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The Mazda3 'Dare' commercial celebrates the concepts of creativity, conviction and courage, using historical figures who dared to change the world (and the game) to advance those notions. It's set to an upbeat, familiar pop song from last year. What is it?
It's 'Safe and Sound,' Capital Cities' smash hit. The "feels good" pop song offsets the overall seriousness of the spot's subjects.
Actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee, the first black baseball player, Jackie Robinson, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright all did their part to change our thinking and perception, which wasn't always easy given the circumstances of the periods in which they lived. It made sense for the commercial to employ a lighter pop track to accompany material of such weight.
The song appears on the band's 2013 release 'In a Tidal Wave of Mystery.'
While at the end of the day it's just a car commercial, the powers-that-be at Mazda are attempting to change our perspective on cars, thanks to the SkyActiv Technology, the ConnectTM system which helps you maintain connectivity, and advanced safety features which help you avoid accidents. That's a big change in vehicular thinking, but like Lee, Robinson and Wright before 'em, you have to try.
Next: What's the Song in the Papa John's Commercial With Peyton Manning?


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I am thrilled to participate in a Earth Day blog hop, by the Preschool Blogger Network. We are sharing an activity and a favorite book for Earth Day.
Earth Day is April 22nd and the perfect time to talk about protecting our environment. My favorite Earth Day Book is "The Earth and I" by Frank Asch. I love the watercolor illustrations and the simple text helps children understand the importance of caring for our Earth.
One of the favorite activities in my classroom around Earth Day is to make these coffee filter earths. Throughout the year, we try a variety of techniques, from watercolor painting, to coloring with markers and either spraying with a water bottle or using an eyedropper to help blend the colors.
Our recycled earth collage was a wonderful way to use up scraps and magazine remnants from our scrap box. I drew an outline of the world and a couple of continents and the kids glued shades of blue and green to the background.
We have a fabulous group of bloggers participating, all sharing their favorite Earth Day books and activities. Be sure to bookmark or pin them all! If you have a post about a favorite Earth Day book or activity, you are invited to link up your post here!
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ADG3247: Hotswapping
ADG3248: number of logic gates transistors used
ADG3300: Can I work with VCCA = VCCY?
ADG3304: Is this device compatible with I2C?
ADG3304: used as I2C level shifter
ADG3304_power up sequence
ADG3304_protection method
ADG3308 and indeterminate i/p o/p state's interface query
ADG3308 bidirectional, setting the direction
ADG3308: Design queries
ADG330x unused inputs
ADG330x: devices is heating up - what is the reason
ADG333A switching frequency / bandwidth information?
ADG406: Unpowered usage
ADG409: Minimum power supply
ADG411: is ist possible to worf with a 3V Logic Level?
ADG411: logic threshold voltage over digital supply.
ADG412: Lower voltage supplies than specified
ADG419: supply voltage
ADG426_leakage data at 60C
ADG428: Descrepancy between maximum operating temperature in selection tool and web page order guide
ADG438F: Bidirectional or unidirectional
ADG442: low logic level clamped to about -1V.
ADG451: Latch up
ADG451BR: Spectral Noise Density
ADG452: GND connections
ADG452: VL = 15V possible not not recommendable
ADG453: Perfomance from +/- 15 V power supply
ADG453: Power Up Sequence
ADG467: Fault free input range
ADG506: Overvoltage on the input
ADG506: Pin connection
ADG508 ADG509_digital control voltage range
ADG508A: Enquiry for product specification
ADG508AKN: Robustness
ADG508_thetaJC and maximumTJ
ADG5208: THD specifications missing at the ADG520x family
ADG5404, ADG1406, ADG442: case temperature:
ADG5436_unbalance power supply
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ADG601: Digital input from a FET
ADG621_spec for 3.3v supply
ADG623: ESD Lavel for the AGD623
ADG659: Supply voltage
ADG701: Noise
ADG706: +/- 5V supplies
ADG706: Grounding
ADG706: Working as a demultiplexer
ADG708: Multiplexing 3V3 logic signals
ADG709: Life time
ADG712: overvoltage protection
ADG715 Operation with VDD=VSS=0V
ADG728: Input and output current for safe operation
ADG732 LFCSP exposed Pad
ADG733: Noise specification
ADG734 in audio application
ADG734: Usage without supplies
ADG788: ESD rating
ADG788: How much ESD can the ADG788 take?
ADG801_parallel multiple switch to reduce Ron
ADG804: Maximum voltage
ADG819BRM's branding is "SBC" although in the datasheet states "SNB".
ADG819_switching current
ADG884 Overvoltage
ADG884: Bandwidth simulation
ADG901: Max current
ADG936_About the insertion loss between DC to 50MHz
ADN4600 Design Support Files
ADN4604 Design Support Files
ADN4605 Design Support Files
ADN4612 Design Support Files
ADV3200_3201 Design Support Files
ADV3202_3203 Design Support Files
ADV3224_3225 Design Support Files
ADV3226_ADV3227 Design Support Files
ADV3228_3229 Design Support Files
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Charge Injection
confusing redundant temperature spec info in datasheet
Cross talk when using ADG490 to mux thermocoules
Datasheet for SW01,SW02,SW03,SW04
Do you specify switch Off Resistance?
EVAL-ADG2128EBZ: What type of cable can I use to connect the board to my signal generator?
FAQ: ADG52xxF
FAQ: ADG54xx
FAQ: ADG54xxF
FAQ: Digital Crosspoint Switch Frequently Asked Questions
FIT reliablity data
General Switch/Mux FAQ
How do CMOS switch logic control voltage levels affect Idd?
How do the fault diagnostics work?
How should I manage unused or Not Connected pins?
I like the robustness of these parts to PSS issues and the good ESD performance but my application needs lower capacitance and good leakage performance.
Is it okay to connect the ADG1611BRUZ's and ADG1436YCPZ's Exposed Pad to Gnd?
Latch-up and how are these parts immune to it?
MAX14763ETA+ alternative
Maximum Pass Voltage on the ADG324x bus switches
MEMS Switch Technology FAQ's
Multiplexer Settling Time
Multiplexor and switch noise specifications
Power Supply sequencing requirements for ADG451, ADG452, ADG453
Radiation hardened/Space qualified parts
Replacement for ADG201ATQ
SPICE model not working with Altium Designer
Stencil opening for AD8158ACPZ
SW06: State of the switch when unpowered
Switch & Multiplexer Leakage Measurement Reduction Tutorial
Switches and Multiplexers Break-Before-Make Timing Considerations
Switches and Multiplexes Support Community
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These parts are good, but I need lower on resistance at �15V. Do you have any compatible parts?
Theta JA(Junction to Ambient Temperature) and Theta JC (Junction to case Temperature)
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What are the system benefits of fault diagnostics?
What are the system benefits of overvoltage fault protection with secondary supplies?
What happens to the output during an over-voltage event?
What if I need to protect my device or downstream circuits against over-voltages?
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What is the minimum voltage that can be used with these parts?
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What is the role of the Control Echo Enable bit?
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What do you do when you catch a criminal? Conventional wisdom says you lock them up and hope prison scares them straight. But what if that doesn't work, and what if that criminal is only 13 years old?
That's what Illinois lawmakers thought they were providing four years ago when they established the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. It was to be a place, separate from the prison system, where kids gone wrong could be steered right. But, like Eve from Adam, IDJJ was created from the proverbial rib of the Illinois Department of Corrections, and though the two are now separate agencies, they are still entwined by their shared resources and attitudes toward corrections.
Legislators who pushed for a separate juvenile system hoped to move juvenile justice away from punishment toward a rehabilitative system that has shown promise in other states. The theory is that delinquent kids commit crimes because of exposure to violence, a lack of positive role models or a variety of other factors. Providing a safe, instructive and remedial environment is supposed to change their thinking and turn them into productive members of society, rather than hardening them into career criminals. So far, that dream hasn't been realized, says Betsy Clarke, president of the Juvenile Justice Initiative, based in Springfield at 413 West Monroe St.
"Nearly four years following its creation, the Department of Juvenile Justice remains disturbingly far from embracing the treatment mission envisioned by the legislature," Clarke told the Illinois House Appropriations Committee in an April 14 hearing.
She says many of the problems present in the juvenile justice system – understaffing, high recidivism, lack of training, inadequate mental health treatment, poor education and disproportionate minority incarceration – stem from the fact that the system is set up like a miniature version of IDOC, largely focused on punishment instead of rehabilitation. What was supposed to be a therapeutic environment has become a microcosm of the system it was meant to avoid.
IDJJ holds approximately 1,500 youth offenders between ages 13 and 20 in eight "youth centers" – essentially junior prisons – across the state. Young people can land in these prisons for practically any crime from theft to murder, and a disproportionate number of them are minorities, just like in the adult system. Once they are released, they often are sent back for violating parole, just like in the adult system. In fact, about half of the kids who leave IDJJ will return within three years, 40 percent of them for violating the conditions of their release – numbers strikingly similar to the adult system. Their post-release "aftercare" is not handled by parole officers trained in dealing with youth offenders, but by already overburdened officers from the adult correctional system. They are more accustomed to dealing with hardened criminals than with kids who might have made some bad choices.
Understaffing and lack of training
The John Howard Association of Illinois released a study of the juvenile justice system in January 2010 saying staffing levels in IDJJ are too low; counselors, administrators, teachers, clerics and even maintenance staff have dwindled due to retirements and transfers, hindering the effectiveness of youth prisons. Staff-to-youth ratios are 1/24 in some facilities and can reach 1/60 at night, the study says.
"It is difficult to imagine effecting change in a youth's thinking and behavior with such high ratios," the study says. "In order to impact youth behavior, one must be aware of the youth's ongoing behaviors and respond appropriately. … This requires staff-to-resident ratios that are much smaller than in current practice."
How much smaller? The study says a ratio of one adult to eight youth is most effective, "although 1 to 10 is do-able with well-trained staff."
But training for IDJJ staff is sparse. Many of the staff in the juvenile justice department are transplants from the Department of Corrections, lacking training in youth rehabilitation and bringing with them the attitudes prevalent in the adult system.
"While the agency has recently utilized outside resources to train a few staff, the majority of staff members remain untrained in juvenile treatment policies and practices," Betsy Clarke says. "The failure to train all staff in treatment-oriented approaches to youth corrections renders it impossible to fulfill the treatment mission of the new department."
Education and programming
While youth are incarcerated in Illinois, they are supposed to receive education so they don't reenter the outside world lagging behind their peers in learning. Sometimes they receive that education, but often they don't.
Clarke says at least one youth prison offers only half-day education, and the John Howard study says the department's schools – District 428 – are funded at only one-third the minimum level of normal public schools. IDJJ is working on educational improvements to better train teachers, keep in contact with parents and create a uniform calendar for the whole district, the study says. But still nearly two-thirds of the department's youth have educational disabilities, and 65 percent don't even finish the eighth grade. Meanwhile, a lack of consistent educational programming keeps kids from developing real-world skills.
"Vocational programs are a key weakness of the system. They are not consistent through the facilities, often utilize outdated equipment and may not be training youth for jobs which exist within their home communities," the study says.
Clarke says the lack of adequate programming undermines the reason for the department's very existence.
"Without a comprehensive range of programming, youth are simply warehoused, and leave without adequate skills to reenter school or enter the job market," she says.
Mental health treatment
Nearly two-thirds of youth in IDJJ have both a mental health diagnosis and a substance abuse diagnosis, according to the John Howard study. Advocates say available mental health treatment simply isn't enough.
Illinois does have programs like the Mental Health Juvenile Justice Initiative, which links youth in detention facilities to mental health services. Also, the department has begun to develop a new mental health classification system. But those reforms haven't been completely implemented, and identifying which youth need treatment is still a challenge.
"There is a disturbing dearth of quality evaluation and validation of the tools used as mental health screening and assessment instruments," says a March 2010 report by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. The methods used to identify mental illness in youth are unproven, the agency says, meaning some kids who need help may slip through the cracks, and those who are treated may not get enough attention.
"Most respondents indicated a need for more standardized practices of screening and assessment, more comprehensive services that continue after a youth is no longer involved with the juvenile justice system, and better quality services," the ICJIA report says.
Betsy Clarke says the lack of adequate mental health treatment is sometimes replaced by the use of solitary confinement, causing more harm than good. That may have contributed to two suicides at the Kewanee and St. Charles youth prisons in 2009. Kewanee, in fact, has an entire wing devoted to solitary isolation, Clarke notes.
"This discipline technique is directly contrary to a treatment modality for youth with mental health issues," she says.
Juvenile justice systems nationwide share a problem known as "disproportionate minority contact." It's a bureaucratic name that essentially means a minority youth has a greater chance of winding up in prison than a white youth for the same crime. Since the late 1980s, the federal government has required states to report DMC numbers and make efforts to reduce them, but Illinois has made little progress in this area. Although DMC seems to begin before youth offenders end up in prison, IDJJ becomes the de facto face of the problem because of how many minorities tend to be stuck in its facilities.
According to a December 2009 report by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, 765 of the 1,362 youth committed to IDJJ in 2007 were black, a rate of 56 percent. That means black youths were incarcerated at a rate almost triple their representation in the general Illinois youth population. The same data show 459 committed youth were white and 136 were Hispanic. More recent data are not yet available from ICJIA.
From Sangamon County, 22 of the 30 youths committed to IDJJ in 2007 were black, compared with only eight white youths, a rate of 73 percent. That means black youths in Sangamon County were incarcerated at a rate 12 times their representation in the general county youth population, according to ICJIA.
"It's a horribly, horribly complex problem," says Pat Connell, juvenile justice consultant with the John Howard Association.
To understand the problem, Connell says, one must look at how youth end up in prison in the first place. Their initial arrest can be problematic because the attitudes of police and youth can negatively affect their interactions, escalating confrontations that might otherwise have seen more reasonable resolutions.
"If you're not inclined to see the police as helpful or friendly, you're more likely to lip off, be less forthcoming, or even run when you see them," Connell says, and that interaction will change how police charge the original crime.
Another factor is the evaluation system used by IDJJ to determine whether a youth will be sent to prison or receive a lesser sentence. Connell says IDJJ uses a supposedly race-neutral point system to assess a youth offender's options, but certain aspects of that system tend to be biased against minorities. She says points are given for youth from single-parent homes and for having relatives in the custody of the justice system, factors which tend to affect youth of color more often. Black and Latino youth tend to get more points, so they are more regularly sent to youth prisons, she explains.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act is partially to blame as well, Connell says, because the funding structure based on test scores inadvertently encourages schools to kick out youth who underperform and cause trouble at school.
"Once kids are pushed out of school, many never go back," she says. "When they're not in school, they are more likely to commit crimes. It's a downward spiral."
Combine that with zero-tolerance school discipline policies and lack of resources among low-income families to deal with delinquency or treat mental health conditions, and a recipe for gross racial disparity in youth prisons emerges.
"In many cases, it's not a conscious bias that causes these problems," Connell says. "But we all bring culture to the table, and when we have different cultures, we inevitably have clashes and trouble. Solving these problems is going to require every community to look deep inside itself."
To deal with the problems facing the juvenile justice system, Gov. Pat Quinn penned an executive order April 15 asking legislators to combine IDJJ with the Department of Children and Family Services.
"…Integrating the Department of Juvenile Justice into the Department of Children and Family Services would best advance a culture change from a punitive approach toward a rehabilitative, treatment-focused model of care that engages families, promotes public safety, and holds youth accountable for their actions while providing better services for young people in facilities and after release," Quinn wrote.
The change would also likely mean IDJJ and IDOC would no longer share resources such as parole officers.
Dr. Toni Irving, deputy chief of staff for Quinn, says the merger makes sense because DCFS has a better sense of the environment youth offenders need in order to thrive.
"We have a group of youth who we want to put in a very youth-centered department," Irving says. "The understanding is that youth can be rehabilitated, so we need to think about the services and treatments that are connected to that."
The merger would improve aftercare services for IDJJ youth, Irving notes, and DCFS could even help IDJJ obtain more federal funding.
"This really gives us an opportunity to examine (IDJJ) from top to bottom and
see where improvements could be made," Irving says, "For example, we could tap into federal funds through Medicaid, so they could get better mental health and substance abuse treatment. …
Because DCFS so much understands the emotional, psychological needs of youth, they are aware of so many other funding sources that weren't really tapped into or focused on."
Pat Connell from the John Howard Association has reservations about the possible merger. Although DCFS is set up to handle children and will likely be more receptive to the rehabilitation model of corrections, it lacks the infrastructure and skills of a correctional system, according to Connell.
"DCFS has not been dealing with this population," she says. "I don't know if they have any significant number of staff within the department who necessarily have the experience or skills to deal with this population."
Additionally, there are some functions that IDOC performs for IDJJ, for which there is no corollary in DCFS, Connell notes.
"The whole intelligence function, figuring out who is in which gang and which gang is in which community, does not exist in DCFS," she offers as an example. "Identification of people in a justice system is a big issue. Do we have the right person? Is it the same person who's wanted somewhere else? It requires links to state and local police. All of that stuff is provided by IDOC, and there's nothing in DCFS that is similar."
The changes that would need to be made to DCFS to accommodate IDJJ would cost more money, she says, discounting the idea of a revenue-neutral transition.
"I don't think the director of DCFS would say he has an excess of resources," Connell says. "A couple of things could happen: child welfare kids could get shortchanged, or DJJ kids could continue to be shortchanged."
The possible merger would mark a shift for the attitudes and procedures of juvenile justice in Illinois, Irving notes, but there would still be plenty of work to do afterward.
"It gives us an opportunity to fully evaluate the department, open it up, scout it out and see how it's working," Irving says. "It's an indication of the heightened level of attention that delinquent youth are going to receive. It's going to be an ongoing, constant incorporation of best practices, to constantly be about making the department as strong as it possibly can be."
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The other problem with War for Cybertron was the bots were on their home turf, and on a planet built for them you lose the awesome sense of scale of seeing giant robots battling around Earth-based locations. Dark of the Moon fixes that as well.
Sure it stars the hideous Michael Baybots, but underneath that ugly exterior lies the same development team that finally made a good generation one-ish Transformers game. Knowing that, I can overlook the Bay for a little while to see how well the multiplayer holds up when we humans have home field advantage come June 14.


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This short classroom film about pioneer life in eighteenth-century Kentucky was produced in 1941, and it makes for an interesting historical artifact in its own right. The frontiersmen are optimistic and hardy, the community in the fort is pleasant and sociable, the food is plentiful, the family slave is faithful, all the Indians are offscreen, and there will "always be freedom out there." Oh, and the candles are ready in plenty of time for the big hoedown.
How would today's frontier historians tell this story differently? For that matter, how would the pioneers themselves tell it?


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45 of 66 restaurants fail
While the majority of Portland restaurants inspected in the past year have failed inspection, city officials say those numbers don't tell the whole story.
Doug Gardner, director of Portland's Department of Health and Human Services, tells News 8 that the city is working to improve the inspection process.
Last year, the job on inspecting city restaurants moved from the realm of code enforcement to the city's health department.
There is one full-time inspector now.
Gardner says that inspector has only been able to inspect new restaurants and respond to complaints.
The city says it inspected 66 restaurants in he last year and 45 of them failed.
A restaurant fails an inspection when it hits a threshold of problems that need to be addressed.
City officials say many problems can often be fixed on the spot.
The city has only had to shut down two restaurants.
About 800 restaurants are in the City of Portland.
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With The Dark Knight Rises (TDKR) arriving in theaters nationwide , thousands of fans are eager to see how the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy ends. Some of us at Screen Rant have already seen the film - read our official Dark Knight Rises review - and are eager to hear your opinions on it.
In the meantime, we wanted to offer you a list of 10 things you should know about the film before you see it. There are a few plot details mentioned here, but the list offers nothing that will likely SPOIL your enjoyment of the film.
These facts will simply serve to prepare you for TDKR before you experience it yourself....
Long Runtime
TDKR clocks in at two hours and forty-five minutes. In other words, it's a long film. Both of its predecessors clocked in at over two hours, but this one nearly clocks in at three.
Of course, the film has multiple objectives that prolong its running time. The film seeks to wrap up the trilogy in a satisfying fashion and introduce several new characters that play vital roles in the story. Aside from the villain Bane (Tom Hardy), the film introduces us to several major characters like Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) and John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).
With all of that in mind, viewers should be aware that when they take their seats, they will likely be sitting in the theater for over three hours, so people should take their bathroom break before it begins (no pun)...
Of course, expectations are extraordinary for this third film. Not only is it the end of a series, it serves as the sequel to The Dark Knight (TDK), which is considered one of the best superhero movies ever made.
Without reviewing the new movie, it's important to recognize that TDK was one of a kind. Everything - the script, the cast, and especially the highly-anticipated performance of Heath Ledger - seemed to work together to make that film the classic that it became in 2008. There have been great superhero movies before - including Spider-Man 2 and Superman 2 - but those movies were followed by sequels that fell far short of their predecessors.
With that in mind, viewers should - if possible - attempt to manage their expectations before walking into TDKR.
Background Research
As we can see in the image on the left, some of the characters from Batman Begins and TDK will be mentioned - and some may even appear - in this third story. Therefore, screening both of those earlier films prior to seeing the latest installment could prove invaluable to understanding the new story and the characters.
TDKR attempts to wrap up the trilogy and does address many of the story beats and ideas presented in its predecessors. It also develops many of the characters that were previously introduced.
Since the series is set up as a trilogy, knowing where it started is pivotal in appreciating how it ends.
Proper Viewing
Accordingly to early reports, TDKR features 100 minutes of action sequences and much of the movie was shot using IMAX cameras. With that in mind, the best way to view the film is most likely on a 70 mm IMAX screen.
As Screen Rant's Kofi Outlaw previously explained, "you aren't really getting 'the full' IMAX experience – especially the one Chris Nolan intended – without that 70mm IMAX theater. 70mm is the only way you will be able to see everything that Nolan shot on IMAX cams."
So even if it's out of your way, driving to see the movie the way that it was intended to be screened would be preferable to seeing it on a digital IMAX screen (or a regular one).
This year, we have been treated to several big-budget superhero films like The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man. Both of those movies sought to honor their source material in a fun and entertaining fashion.
The Batman films are a completely different type of film. They are dramatic, high-minded affairs. From the A-list cast (including Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman) to the emphasis on Bruce Wayne's complex personality, to the depth of each villain's monstrosity, these movies have sought (and often succeeded) in becoming serious Oscar-caliber films.
That doesn't mean that these films are any less entertaining than the other superhero films we've seen this year, but they are a different breed of superhero movie, so viewers should remember that before going in.
Emotional Impact
In TDKR, Batman faces off against his most serious threat yet. Bane is a psychopath who can physically take on and overwhelm the Caped Crusader. And since this is the last part of the trilogy, some speculation about the film has focused on whether or not Batman will make it out alive.
Without spoiling the film, it should be noted that even the actors recognize that the movie has an emotional depth that its fans should be prepared for. Gary Oldman has even publicly said that the movie "packs an emotional punch."
This film is easily the most emotional one in the trilogy, and if you are so inclined, you might want to bring tissues to the theater in preparation for how this final chapter ends.
Bane's Voice
Several months ago, much of the talk about the new movie revolved around Bane's muffled and nearly-inaudible voice. After the trailer came out, many viewers complained that they couldn't understand what he was saying at all - a fact that likely put the filmmakers in a tail spin.
After seeing the film, I can attest to the fact that most of Bane's dialogue is understandable. There are a few quick lines that were hard to decipher, but for the most part, the voice has been cleared up enough to allow viewers the opportunity to actually hear what the villain is saying...
As TDK ended, Batman became a fugitive from the law. Commissioner Gordon and Batman had just witnessed the transformation of statesmen and public hero District Attorney Harvey Dent into the evil and demented Two-Face. Two-Face died at the end of the movie, but in a bid to create a hero for the people of Gotham to look up to, Gordon and Batman decided to create a martyr out of the corrupted lawnman.
TDKR picks up eight years after the conclusion of its predecessor, with the truth about Dent still unknown and Batman still hiding from the law. Much has happened in the ensuing eight years, but the legend of Dent and Batman's bad reputation remain.
This is THE END
Despite insistent speculation that the franchise could continue, director Christopher Nolan has been equally insistent in his statement that this will be his final Batman film. Although many fans would love the Inception director to continue with the story, Nolan seems eager to move on after spending years focused on the Batman mythology and bringing the story to life.
Even Nolan's brother, Jonathan - who wrote the screenplays with him - has affirmed that this is the last movie in the series. He stated in an interview that TDKR is "the right way to end it..."
Of course, there will always be hope that Nolan will sign on to do a new film, but the filmmaker has said repeatedly that this is the end of the saga for him.
No Post-Credit Scenes
The Avengers was a long movie and many fans left the theater when the credits began to roll. Much to their dismay, however, it was later reported that there were two additional scenes at the end of the film. There was one scene mid-credits revealing a new threat to the superhero alliance, and there was another comical scene after the credits.
TDKR, however, offers no additional scenes after the film has ended, so once the credits start to roll, the complete story has been told.
Feel free to leave the theater and then go back to see the movie once again. There may be nothing after the credits, but there's always something to be gained from seeing a Christopher Nolan film more than once. Enjoy!John Hanlon blogs at Screen Rant.


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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) Mason Plumlee had 21 points and 15 rebounds, and No. 1 Duke beat Elon 76-54 on Thursday night for its 100th straight nonconference win at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Ryan Kelly added 14 points, freshman Rasheed Sulaimon had 13 and Tyler Thornton hit a pair of key 3-pointers 30 seconds apart that helped the Blue Devils (11-0) pull away.
Playing on back-to-back nights, Duke counted on its defense to pick up an offense that was off on more open shots than usual. Duke shot 43 percent but forced 17 turnovers and turned them into 19 points while holding the Phoenix to just five offensive rebounds.
Sebastian Koch scored 14 points but Elon (6-5) was denied its first win over an Atlantic Coast Conference team since 2005.
Quinn Cook added 10 points for Duke, which hasn't lost to a non-ACC team at Cameron since falling to St. John's on Feb. 26, 2000.
No. 2 MICHIGAN 93, EASTERN MICHIGAN 54
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Tim Hardaway Jr. had 17 points and a career-high seven assists to help Michigan rout Eastern Michigan.
The Wolverines (12-0) are off to their best start since winning the first 16 games of the 1985-86 season.
The Eagles (6-4) have lost two straight since beating Purdue.
Michigan trailed 6-2 in the opening minutes, then took control with a 20-0 run. The Wolverines led 40-24 at halftime and enjoyed an even bigger cushion for much of the second half.
Eastern Michigan's Daylen Harrison scored 13 points and Glen Bryant had 10.
Michigan's Trey Burke had 11 points and eight assists. Nik Stauskas made three 3-pointers in the first half and finished with 16 points, while fellow freshmen Mitch McGary had 10 points and 11 rebounds for his first double-double and Glenn Robinson III added 13 points for the Wolverines.