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A brilliant military mind and strategist, Bane was denied any hope for a normal life when he was forced to rot away within a foreign prison as a child for a crime that his father committed. Since his father passed away before his sentence could be completed, Bane was forced to take his place in the prison, where he toned his body and mind to perfection and was eventually subjected to military experiments.
Among those experiments came Bane's dependence on the chemical agent, Venom, which granted him incredible strength and adrenaline. After he broke out of prison, Bane sought to conquer worthy adversaries and make a criminal empire for himself. It wasn't long until Bane heard legends of Gotham City's Batman and fought him numerous times in an effort to prove himself, and was defeated and arrested time and time again.
Years later, Bane became a victim of a sinister plot hatched by The Joker and his pawn, Dr. Penelope Young, who drained the Venom from his blood and created an even stronger variation known as Titan. In the end, Dr. Young was murdered and Joker's plans were foiled, but shipments of Titan remained within Gotham. Within Arkham City, Bane hoped to obtain the last remnants of the amazing compound for his own use to finally defeat Batman and become the most worthy opponent throughout the world.
Early LifeEdit
Bane grew up in the horrendous and violent confines of the Santa Prisca prison, Peña Duro, and was imprisoned since childhood for his father's crimes. His father was a revolutionary mercenary who opposed the Santa Priscan Government but was eventually caught and sentenced to life in prison. The man died before his sentence was complete, however, and left his next of kin to be imprisoned: Bane. After he was brutalized repeatedly by his fellow inmates, Bane, at the age of eight, committed his first murder with the use of a knife that he kept in his teddy bear, Osito, whom he viewed as his one true friend when a fellow inmate tried to use him to find out information on the prison.
Despite his violent surroundings, Bane trained his body and mind to perfection, read any book that he could get his hands on, toned his body in the prison's gym, and even received a classical education from some of the prison inmates, including a Jesuit Priest. Due to the cultural and geographical location of the prison, Bane learned a variety of languages, including English, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish. Before long, Bane was able to have complete control over the prison population and became its self-proclaimed ruler. However, Bane was plagued by intense nightmares that were centralized on a dark and shadowy creature who resembled a bat. After he sought to achieve his own sense of peace and conquer other territories and their population, Bane lusted to escape from the confines of Peno Dura.
Specifically, Bane was told stories of Gotham from the same Jesuit Priest who served as his mentor, who informed the young man of the hopes that were tied to such a place by many Santa Prisca refugees. The priest revealed that those refugees had escaped to the city through the tunnel networks that they had constructed underneath it and helped to build Gotham into the metropolis that it was, in the hopes of living there in peace once it was completed.
The tale went that they were lied to and betrayed by that same city and were forced back to Santa Prisca, where those who survived, were forced to continue living under their corrupt government. Ending the tale by stating that Bane's father had the same ambition of escaping to Gotham, Bane, unaware that the priest was conditioning him to attack the city because of his own personal beliefs, believed that it was his destiny to escape, conquer the city, rebuild it into his own paradise out of revenge for his country, and to satisfy his own greedy desires.
Bane's ambitions were set in motion when the prison owners and doctors sought to use him, recognized his position as the prison's leader among the inmate population, and to test out military experiments, that primarily dealt with the chemical compound known as 'Venom', which could increase an individual's muscle mass, stamina, invulnerability, and adrenaline a great deal.
Bane was then strapped to a storage unit that pumped the drug throughout his system and, much to the success of the experiment, the Venom was perfectly assimilated into his body. However, Bane used that to his advantage, violently slaughtered his captors, built up an army of mercenaries from within the prison, and escaped with his army in tow, which included Angel Vallelunga, Sergio Ortiz, and Diego Ortiz, who adopted the names of Bird, Trogg, and Zombie, respectively.
While he achieved his freedom at last, Bane was soon addicted to Venom and constantly created more batches of the drug in order to feed his appetite and addiction for it. Before long, Bane began to despise his addiction, saw it as weakness, and began to track down and slaughtered its manufacturers; despite that, Bane never broke completely free of his addiction. After he sought more challenges in order to prove his own strength and skill, Bane began to look for worthy adversaries and territories to conquer.
After his escape, Bane's actions led to him to be listed as a suspected terrorist, as well as a suspected subversive, suspected mass murderer, and suspected drug dealer, as well as placed on The Persons of Interest Watch List (both government watch lists as well as those from Interpol) alongside presumably other high-ranking warrants, and was also speculated to have suffered from medical psychosis. Bane also decided to try to kick his addiction to Venom by creating TN-1, although his tests all indicated that it would cause gradual memory loss, and planned to get willing volunteers as he perfected the formula in order to eliminate the side effect.
After he heard from his right-hand man, Bird, who had previously worked with the Gotham Criminal Underworld, that there were rumors of a Bat-like creature who protected the city, Bane believed that to be the same creature who plagued his nightmares and cemented his belief that it was fate to attack Gotham and him and this 'Bat' creature would meet. Gotham itself additionally intrigued Bane because, like his previous environment in the prison, it was ruled by fear: fear of Batman. Bane then made it his mission to not only conquer Batman, but Gotham itself, and build up his own criminal empire in order to achieve the peace that he had longed for.
Batman: Arkham OriginsEdit
Bane was one of the eight assassins who was hired by the Joker, under the guise of the city's biggest mob boss, Black Mask, to kill Batman on Christmas Eve for fifty million dollars. After he was smuggled into Gotham along with several of his fellow mercenaries courtesy of the crime lord, including his right-hand man Bird, Bane was greeted by several of Black Mask's Henchmen, with two Enforcers who were charged with ensuring that Bane was as tough as he claimed to be and engaged him in a brutal fight. After he soundly defeated both men and broke their necks in the process, Bane was presented with a contract for $50 million for Batman's head, though the mercenary was more concerned with killing Batman for his own grand plans and designs, and that the bounty was simply a nice consolation. Batman, when he learned of Bane's involvement as one of the eight assassins, was shocked that Bane was present in Gotham, and also expressed confusion as to why he would take money as a hired killer.
To that end, Bane and his forces seized complete control over sections of Old Gotham easily with a decreased amount of GCPD activity in light of the destructive events that occurred all throughout Gotham, and set up their headquarters within an old sewer network.
After he set up multiple monitors and even a makeshift gym, Bane next struck a deal with The Penguin to obtain immense weaponry, military grade equipment, and firearms as his forces stole several choppers in order to expand. Bane also took full advantage of Bird's connections to the Gotham Criminal Underworld and smuggled in massive amounts of Venom.
Bane then sold Venom as a drug on the streets in order to find suitable followers and increase his numbers, but also experimented with the compound in order to create an even more potent variation of Venom known as TN-1, which would have eliminated the need of a storage tank. After he tested it out on numerous followers, many of which horrifically mutated and perished, Bane learned that one of the side effects was severe memory loss.
Despite making great progress with his research, and allowing his followers to assimilate the drug into their body without harmful physical effects, Bane had yet to find a solution to overcome the severe memory loss of TN-1. Bane also poured much of his resources into uncovering Batman's true identity, studied the hero extensively within his research facility at his hideout, and eventually came extremely close to deducing who Batman was.
While he remained in hiding for the first part of the brutal night, and made his plans while Bird and his men seized control of various areas within the Gotham Criminal Underworld, Bane was called to a meeting with Firefly, the Electrocutioner, and the Joker, the true mastermind behind the hiring of the assassins, who impersonated Black Mask for several days for his own agenda of chaos. Following the meeting, Bane waited at the Royal Hotel Penthouse, and knew that Batman would come for the Joker. When Batman was about to enter the Penthouse, Bane tore him from an elevator, brought him to the Joker, and reluctantly gave them one minute to talk (due to the Joker's threat of detonating the Royal Hotel first while Batman, Bane, and himself were still inside when Bane attempted to kill Batman first).
- "With your death I will find peace."
- ―Bane[src]
When their minute was up, Bane knocked Batman about the room and flung him through the window and down into the Library before their fight progressed to the balcony. Moments before a conclusion could be reached, Batman told Bane that the latter had "just ran out of time," which referred to the two GCPD Helicopters that arrived under the anonymous contact of Alfred, which were then blown apart by Bane's Militia by use of their own stolen helicopters. Bane and his men then left, after he believed that the tides had changed too much after a stray bullet grazed him and promised to return for Batman's blood.
However, Batman placed a tracer on Bane, that seemingly went unnoticed by him, initially. Joker then fired on Bane's Chopper after he boarded out of irritation that Bane called a retreat, which Bane then retaliated by shooting at the Joker with a rocket launcher, and nearly caused him to be killed from being knocked off by the explosion. Bane eventually ordered for Bird to keep an eye out for Batman and fight him while he delivered his Venom supplies and anticipated that Batman would attempt to interfere with the Venom shipments.
After he heard reports of an individual with a description who was similar to Bane had been shot, Batman broke into the GCPD Morgue, where he discovered that it was just one of Bane's Henchmen who used TN-1. After he attempted to block any angle that Bane may have had, Batman apprehended many of his mercenaries throughout the city, including Bird, who previously attempted to seize control of "My Alibi", a well known nightclub that was rifled with corruption and the Gotham Criminal Underworld.
After he followed the tracer, Batman arrived at Bane's Headquarters, where he found the abandoned tracer beside some computers that contained evidence that Batman and Bruce Wayne were one and the same (it was implied that the primary irrefutable evidence to discovering Wayne's connection to Batman was from tracking the Batwing via radar). Batman then destroyed the computers and all other evidence and warned Alfred that Bane knew who he was and to remain hidden in the Batcave.
While Batman was busy trying to stop Firefly from destroying the Gotham Pioneers Bridge, Bane targeted and attacked Wayne Manor, left a trail of destruction in his wake, and located the Batcave. After he destroyed the Batcave, Bane then violently attacked Alfred and left enough life in him to say his final goodbyes to Batman. Bane then planned to mold Batman into the perfect warrior in battle through the anger and hatred that he would feel towards his fallen ally.
As further insurance that Batman had only a few moments left with Alfred prior to the latter's death, Bane also, after he communicated with Batman, wrecked the Batcomputer and with it, Batman's Detective Vision, which then forced Batman to do enough hasty repairs on the Batcomputer that restored Detective Vision and Batman then located Alfred. However, Batman was able to save Alfred by jumpstarting his heart with the Electrocutioner's Shock Gloves, which were taken from him earlier that night after Joker had murdered him.
Bane next appeared to aid the Joker's siege at Blackgate Prison, and brought with him several of his own Venom Henchmen. After he made his way to the Panopticon, Batman found Joker holding Warden Martin Joseph hostage with Bane at his side. Joker then revealed that he understood Batman and his code of ethics and made it his new mission in life to make him give up his one rule by forcing him to take a life. After he revealed that Bane held a heart monitor that would charge up an electric chair, Joker sat in the chair and told Batman that either he would kill Bane to stop his heart from charging up the monitor and the chair or Joker would be electrified to death/Batman would end up killed: either way, Batman would be responsible for someone's death.
- "But you will. You will fight me with all your resolve. Or you will die. Someone is going to die: You, me or the clown. The question of which one of us it is - is in your hands."
- ―Bane to Batman[src]
Bane then put on the monitor, and told Batman to use all his hatred and anger from the loss of his ally in battle, as Joker's Henchmen strapped Joker to the electric chair. Bane also noted that Batman's presence indicated that he may not have had much compassion, as he figured if he did, he'd be mourning for his lifelong companion by then (Bane did not realize that Batman had already revived Alfred). To ensure that Batman and Bane did indeed battle, Joker then placed a bomb within Blackgate that would detonate and slaughter everyone if the heart monitor was removed from Bane. As Batman and Bane battled, Captain James Gordon arrived and shot Joker's Henchmen who held Warden Joseph hostage. As Joseph and Gordon attempted to get Joker out of the electric chair, Joker elbowed both men, knocked out Joseph, held Gordon at gunpoint with his own gun, and put the headpiece of the electric chair on Gordon, which then raised the stakes even higher for Batman.
After he came up with the plan to send Bane's heart into cardiac arrest, Batman then used the Shock Gloves to defeat Bane and stopped his heart, which made the Joker gleefully laugh. Joker then attempted to shoot Joseph dead when he awoke and stood up to the clown, but Gordon jumped in front of him and took the bullet instead. Joker continued to laugh and left the room in order to escape from Blackgate, continue his reign of terror, and detonate the bombs that were placed across Gotham with his forces and the escaping convicts.
Batman then revealed to Gordon, who was not severely injured due to his bulletproof vest, that Bane could still be revived and told him and Joseph to arrest the Joker before he escaped. As they left, Batman revived Bane, who was more infuriated than ever and, realizing just how much of a genuine threat Batman was to him, resorted to drastic measures: he then used a sample of TN-1 on himself and became even more powerful. As Bane did so, he became a hulking mass of muscle with an uncontrollable urge to kill Batman.
Batman then sprayed Explosive Gel in a circle around Bane and detonated it, which destroyed the floor beneath them and and dropped them into one of the prison's corridors. Batman then learned from Alfred that he needed to defeat Bane before the TN-1 reached its full potency (which was estimated to be within ten minutes). Batman then ambushed Bane and rammed him into several electrodes, as well as beat him into submission. However, despite doing it enough to temporarily stun him, Bane managed to recover quickly, and then punched Batman through a wall.
After the final and grueling battle, Batman was able to finally subdue Bane after he strapped him to a pair of electrified pacification devices with the Remote Claw. Bane then barely declared that he must find the Bat Man, which caused Batman to sarcastically tell him good luck with his goal. Batman also realized that Bane's memory was left damaged by the extensive use of TN-1, which secured his identity once again. After he defeated Bane, Batman then left him unconscious and hung upside-down. Bane was later apprehended following Joker's own defeat.
One of Bane's Henchmen, alongside 19 other escaped Blackgate Prisoners, also escaped Blackgate shortly thereafter (thanks to the Joker's earlier riot), and made plans with Bane's other henchmen to rescue him (he failed to bust Bane out in his earlier escape largely because he was unable to save both himself and Bane). However, the plans ended before they could begin due to Batman tracking the prisoner down and beat him and his allies into submission before he left them to be picked up by the GCPD as part of a favor to Gordon.
Cold, Cold, HeartEdit
Bane did not appear in the DLC, although he was indirectly referenced at the beginning, where Alfred told Bruce to be careful while he tried to access the Batcave, as it was still extensively damaged from Bane's earlier attack from a week earlier.
Batman: Arkham Origins BlackgateEdit
Bane was then placed into the Arkham Ward at Blackgate, a secure facility for the most dangerous criminals. Bane was also kept in a coma and most of his body withered away due to being deprived of Venom. A few months afterwards, a prison riot was instigated at Blackgate by Catwoman, and Bane was smuggled out by her, and her cooperation with three of the ringleaders for Blackgate's riot: Black Mask, Penguin, and Joker, under the command of an anonymous employer (it was heavily implied that the employer was the Suicide Squad which was led by Amanda Waller). However, Batman interfered, and Bane was sent back into custody by the Suicide Squad in order to save face.
Batman: Assault on ArkhamEdit
At some point, Bane was transferred to Arkham Asylum and underwent temporary treatment and evaluation, as with the case of many villains who were not permanent residents of the asylum. It was implied that this was the period in which Dr. Young treated Bane, who became specifically intrigued to his addiction to Venom, and believed that the drug could prove instrumental to her Titan Project.
Bane then was released by the Joker as part of a riot at the asylum in an attempt to ensure that Batman was slowed down enough to prevent him from disarming the dirty bomb that he had activated. Bane then threw a GCPD car into the mountains that contained Suicide Squad member, Killer Frost, although he himself ended up sent into the Gotham River by Batman.
Pre-Arkham AsylumEdit
At some point, Bane successfully managed to break Batman's back, and thus forced Batman to be off-duty until his back recovered. Batman then managed to subdue Bane after his back healed. Since that, Bane wanted another chance to break Batman.
Road to ArkhamEdit
At some point prior to the events of Arkham Asylum, Bane was captured and quietly brought back to Arkham Asylum so that Dr. Young could study him and the effects of Venom on the human body so that she could design a more powerful variant of the formula known as Titan. When Dr. Young discussed the Titan Project in public, Bane's involvement was kept secret, and he was referred to only as "Patient X". Officially, Bane was listed as an escapee from Blackgate.
Just before Joker's takeover of Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn made her way to Bane's room and sedated him in order to keep him quiet when the "visitors" arrived.
Batman: Arkham AsylumEdit
The Joker had Commissioner Gordon kidnapped and taken to the Medical Center where Bane was held, drained of Venom, and left withered and helpless. After he rescued Gordon, Batman then entered Bane's holding room. Bane then begged Batman to cut him down, in the hopes of getting revenge on Dr. Young, but before he could do so, Joker activated Bane's chemical storage tank, which infused him with Titan in order to defeat Batman, and also returned his immense strength to him. Bane then attacked Batman and threw him through a wall into the Boiler Room. Bane and Batman then battled it out with the interference of the Joker's Henchmen.
- "Bane: I will break you, Batman! Then the bruja! Batman: No, Bane! This time, I break you!"
- ―Batman defeating Bane[src]
Eventually, Batman cut Bane's Titan supply as the room collapsed upon itself. Batman then escaped through a manhole to the surface where he was reunited with Gordon. Bane managed to reattach his main valve, smashed his way to the surface, grabbed hold of Batman, and claimed that after he "broke" Batman, the "bruja" (Dr. Young) would be next. Batman then summoned the Batmobile by remote control to their position and kicked Bane in its path. The Batmobile crashed into Bane, and hurled him into the Gotham River. In one of the three post-credits scenes, Bane emerged from the water by the docks and grabbed onto a floating case of Titan.
After Arkham AsylumEdit
After he was knocked off Arkham Island by the Batmobile, Bane washed ashore, was quickly recaptured, and brought back to Arkham Asylum by the GCPD after the Joker's riot. As he recovered from his injuries, Bane sat in solitude and plotted his move in Arkham City, as it was publicly announced that Blackgate would be closed and that all criminals were relocated to the new prison. Having no love for his inmates, Bane started an undercover fight club and challenged anyone brave enough to take him on in hand-to-hand combat, and all failed to beat his incredible strength.
However, Joker soon heard of the club and sent a member of his crew a surprise in Bane's arena: the Titan Formula, that was abundant in supply at the Joker's base of operations. Nearly defeated, Bane vowed to eradicate all traces of the deadly drug from the streets of Arkham City in order to prevent himself from ever being bested. While Robin investigated Arkham City and posed as a street crook, Bane invaded the Museum, confronted Penguin about his supply of Titan, and demanded it to be handed over to him.
However, Bane was met with Solomon Grundy, whose brute strength and near immortal power forced him to retreat to the Krank Co. Toy Factory in order to plan his capture of all the Titan within Arkham City. Bane later attended Two-Face's Trial as a juror to commend Joker's death, and voted against the Clown Prince of Crime for his possession of Titan and vowed to collect it for his own.
Batman: Arkham CityEdit
While he investigated Arkham City, Batman discovered Bane hiding in an abandoned toy factory. Bane came to Gotham in search of the twelve remaining containers of Titan. Rather than fight, Bane suggested that the two team up in order to collect all of the drug samples so that they could be properly disposed of. After they divided the containers equally, Batman and Bane both set out to find the Titan Containers. Later, after he had disposed of his 6 containers of Titan with Explosive Gel, Batman returned to the toy factory to check on Bane's progress. The two were quickly attacked by the TYGER Guards (they were replaced by Joker's Henchmen if the main storyline was already completed) and easily defeated them.
- "Titan is too powerful to be used against me. I needed it all for myself. Now do me a favor, and die!"
- ―Bane to Batman[src]
After the battle, Batman confronted Bane about the Titan and Bane revealed that he had never intended to destroy it, rather keep it. Bane had already acquired his six containers and was outraged that Batman had destroyed the ones that he was sent for. Bane then tried to attack Batman, but was quickly trapped behind a metal security fence.
Batman then revealed that he actually played Bane, knew full well that he would double cross him, and used that to his advantage so that he could destroy the last six Titan Containers in one place rather than look for them all over Arkham City. Bane was then left helpless as Batman destroyed the last of the Titan. Bane then asked if he could be let out, but Batman refused, and cited that aside from Bane's attempt at double-crossing him, there's still several things for him to take care of in Arkham City.
After he somehow escaped his predicament, Bane later appeared at the Gotham Cathedral, after he was convinced by some of the inmates that there was Titan in the building. After he broke through the blast door, Bane was confronted by guards who tried to stop him, but were unable to get past his bulletproof skin. Bane was then about to kill the officers, but Azrael quickly came to their rescue. After a brief fight, Azrael was able to stop Bane thanks to some assistance from Aaron Cash and cut off his Titan supply. Bane was then once again imprisoned, that time alongside The Riddler who was rather upset with his new cell mate.
After Arkham CityEdit
After his recent battles with Batman and subsequent defeats, Bane's body went into massive drug withdrawal from the lack of both Venom and Titan, which served as Bane's breaking point to finally redeem himself. After he realized that his whole purpose was to free himself of his own torment and not to simply kill, destroy, and conquer, Bane decided to finally lay his vendetta with Batman to rest once and for all and went on a long journey back to Santa Prisca to destroy what truly haunted him as a young child and man: not Batman, but the corruption of his country's government and criminals, who had violated his body and mind for years.
After he left his mask, storage tank, and devices within a crate that was situated at Port Adams on Founders' Island, Bane spent hundreds of days traveling back to Santa Prisca and used his sheer force of will to overcome his addiction to drugs. After he realized that he had never truly lost all of his cravings for Venom, Bane decided to take his addiction and lusted and transferred them into motivation in order to help the people of Santa Prisca and prevent others from being corrupted like he was decades ago. After he saw a young child bleed out from a gunshot wound upon his arrival, Bane knew that, beneath the spas and luxury resorts, Santa Prisca was just as corrupt as ever.
Bane's first targets were the drug lords of the country, all of whom continued to sell dangerous chemicals to children and engaged in mindless gang wars that took the lives of countless innocents each and every day. Bane's new mission was just as bloody as it was with Batman and Gotham, but was for a much more noble cause as the redeemed man looked upon the severed heads of the 12 most infamous drug lords in the country. Only one more target remained: Peña Duro, the corrupt prison that had poisoned his mind and continued to operate. Bane soon demolished its walls, destroyed the corruption at its source, and freed all of the innocents in the process.
While Bane was a man who allowed his addiction to define himself for countless years, his actions had proven that the small amount of humanity that was within him, and the innocent wish of a child to find peace, was never lost for good. With countless defeats at Batman's hands, Bane was able to focus his efforts on the true evils that created him and not on a fleeting image of a self-defined perception of fate from a nightmare. Bane finally found the peace that he so desperately craved and allowed himself to finally bring similar peace back to his own country and prevented other children and innocents from being turned into a monster like his former self.
Personality Edit
As he was raised in the literal Hell on Earth, Bane was emptied out by Pena Dura, from any form of conscience or empathy, but was not completely devoid of humanity. Brutal and cold, Bane sought challenge throughout the world and his need to fight was greatly driven by how Pena Dura had affected him. His cunning and confidence was such, that Bane was willing to use trickery in order to fulfill his goals such as killing Joker's Henchmen just after he formed an alliance with him. The prison that he was raised in killed even grown men, but Bane survived by his will of mind and body. Greatly disturbed, however, by his time in Pena Dura, Bane longed for peace and believed that his nightmares of a Bat-Creature signified what he had to do by killing Batman and gain peace, finally.
Although Bane was merciless and relied on brute force, he was shown to be a tactical and strategic genius, who was not completely without weakness. One of those was Bane's confidence in his own abilities as he only wished to fight Batman in peak condition and did so by aggravating him further by attacking Alfred in his own mansion so that he would use that anger to fight him, which began his own defeat at the hands of the Dark Knight. Bane's greatest weakness was his crippling addiction to Venom, a super-soldier drug. Without it, Bane was in a state of almost catatonia, but he tried to ail himself of that addiction, once by hunting down the manufacturers of Venom and eradicated them, but he dedicated himself to building a replacement drug, TN-1. Unfortunately the TN-1 destroyed Bane's mind, and turned him savage into an almost primitive mental state where he had to rely solely on his strength as his intelligence was greatly hampered by the drug, but despite that, he still had enough common sense to check vents and grates during his fight with Batman. He implies that he was aware of the TN-1's side effect of permanent memory loss and find a way to improve the formula to get rid of that side-effect, although he ultimately was forced to inject it into himself before he could make any headway in that research.
Despite his brutality, Bane had a notable soft side for his teddy bear, Osito, which he had with him when he was sentenced to Pena Dura and kept him by his side during when he was imprisoned in both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. The humanity that lived within Bane was finally shown however, albeit after countless defeats at Batman's hands, when he finally gave up his addiction, and realized that his ambitions had caused more harm than good. When he finally gave up his addiction, Bane returned to his homeland, Santa Prisca, and attempted to live a normal life, but after he saw how the Venom drug lords had destroyed his home and murdered everyone, Bane once again raged war on Venom and all its manufacturers with his new objective and destroyed Pena Dura.
Extortion DataEdit
File OneEdit
- Bane: It is said 'that which does not kill you makes you stronger.' But that which makes you stronger, can often kill you. Addiction is a weakness. One that must be overcome. Venom has become my addiction - my weakness. To free myself, I have tried many things. For a time, I sought to eradicate venom and wipe those who manufacture, it from the face of the Earth, but lately I've gravitated towards project TN-1... a replacement drug which would eliminate venom's addictive properties, and holds the promise of a permanent effect. If it works, I would no longer have need of the delivery system - another weakness. While early tests had to be terminated immediately, the latest subjects seem at least physically stable - but side effects are severe: immediate and permanent long-term memory loss followed by a general degradation of brain function that leaves the subject... primitive. Testing continues - the latest formula shows promise. Once I have eliminated the Bat, I will dedicate myself to finding a suitable 'volunteer' for my tests. End of recording.
Psychological Profile (Dr. Young)Edit
Real name: Unknown
Psychological Profile: The worst substance abuse case I have ever personally encountered, Bane is all but defined both physically and mentally by his use of the Venom compound. His body is ravaged and withered when he is in withdrawal, but upon being administered a dose of Venom, he becomes a physical monstrosity. A highly intelligent and strategic man, his sense of self has become totally dependent on his Venom addiction. When partaking, he displays intense narcissism, manifesting as megalomania and a competitive preoccupation with the Batman. Deprived of the compound, he is almost totally unresponsive in every way, approaching catatonia.
Additional Notes:
A childhood of intense deprivation resulted in a histrionic streak that has fixated him on destroying Batman in order to seek worldwide approval.
His antisocial upbringing has given him an intensely focused mind.
His addiction to Venom seems unbreakable, and the compound's effects on him are very impressive; I can't help but be intrigued by the possibilities locked within this incredible substance....
Game Over LinesEdit
Arkham Origins Edit
- "And I had such big plans for you."
- "I'd hoped for more of a fight."
- "That was...unsatisfying."
- "After all these years of claiming to be the best, you are beaten by my worst."
- "Defeated by my underlings. Not impressed."
Venom BaneEdit
- "I'm disappointed. I expected better from you."
- "So this is how the bat finally falls."
- "You've been... broken.
TN-1 BaneEdit
- "First, I broke your spirit. Now, I break your back."
- "He is gone, Batman, because of you."
Arkham AsylumEdit
- "Once again, I have defeated you, Batman."
- "The Bat is Broken! Hahaha." (Breaks Batman's spine)
Arkham Origins Edit
- If the player went back into Penguin's Office on the Final Offer shortly after Batman defeated Deathstroke, they found an assortment of weapons that were addressed to Bane, including the rocket launcher that he used in an attempt to kill Joker later on in the story, as well as in the game's Multiplayer feature.
- In that game, Bane resembled elements of Tom Hardy's Bane, such as wearing a flak vest and cargo pants with numerous devices under his coat, a bald head, an infamously known terrorist even prior to his arrival in Gotham, and leading an army of mercenaries from a hideout in the sewers.
- In addition, one of Bane's game over screens while he fought in his TN-1 form paraphrased his statement immediately prior to breaking Batman's back in The Dark Knight Rises: "I was wondering what I should break first, the spirit or the body?"
- In Shiva's first Extortion Tape audio file, it was revealed that Bane had some knowledge of Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins, as heard when he talked to Shiva.
- Bane was shown to have two metal tubes that were implanted in his neck in that version; however, his later Arkham models didn't show them.
- In the scene where Batman discovered that Bane had managed to deduce his connection to Bruce Wayne, the video that's shown was a loop of Bruce brushing off Vicki Vale's comment about staying a bachelor on Christmas Eve by claiming that she "just ran out of time," and implied that Bane, in part, had managed to deduce Batman's true identity due to Batman saying a similar phrase to him late in their earlier battle at the Royal Hotel.
- There was a slight discrepancy regarding Bane's height and weight between his in-game wanted list in Arkham Origins and the viral marketing GCPD bulletin. The former lists him as having a height of 6'6 and weighing 250 lbs, while the latter instead claims he was 7'5" and weighed an excess of 500 lbs.
Arkham Asylum Edit
- Bane referred to Dr. Young as bruja, which is Spanish for "witch".
- Bane referred to the Joker as payaso, which is Spanish for "clown".
- Despite having a major role in the game, Bane was the only villain who didn't have any Interview Tapes due to him not being a patient at the asylum and was only there due to the machinations of Joker while he manipulated Dr. Young.
- Bane's Game Over Line in which he broke Batman's back was reminiscent of his first appearance where he did exactly the same thing. The line that he said also matched that appearance, after which he became known as "The Man Who Broke The Bat".
- That was also the only Game Over Line in which Batman was seen.
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- When you visited him as Catwoman, Bane told her that if she didn't release him, he'd kill her too, and made her the target of two assassins; and the other was Deadshot.
- If Batman talked to Bane after he destroyed the Titan before or during Protocol 10, he and Batman were attacked by the TYGER Guards. If after, they were attacked by Joker's Henchmen.
- When he defended the Titan, Bane could be heard shouting: "THE TITAN IS MINE!!!" That hinted at his betrayal.
- If you found the Titan before you talked to Bane, Batman corrected Bane on how many that he believed were out there with how many that he already had taken out. However, to make sure that you did not destroy them all before you talked to Bane, the Titan Container in the Industrial District did not appear until after you talked with him.
- Bane and Killer Croc were the only villains in Arkham City who didn't have Game Over Screens, as you didn't fight them both directly.
- In the TYGER Confiscated Goods Vault, a teddy that was commonly mistaken as Osito could be seen. The Osito that appeared in Arkham Asylum could be seen in the Collapsed Streets in Wonder City.


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There are schools offering criminology degrees in Oklahoma!
Schools Offering Criminology Programs in Oklahoma
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Around 0.1% of Oklahoma's graduates graduate from criminology degree programs every year. Thus, Oklahoma's 2 criminology schools put out approximately 58 criminologists each year.
Top Schools
Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which is located in Bartlesville, is the top-ranked school in Oklahoma that has a criminology program. It received a ranking of 82nd in the country in 2010. no students graduated with a degree in criminology from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2010. The tuition rate at Oklahoma Wesleyan University was $19,200 per year.
Cameron University, which is located in Lawton, is the second-ranked school in Oklahoma that has a criminology program. It received a ranking of 86th in the country in 2010. In 2010, 58 students graduated from Cameron University criminology program. The tuition rate at Cameron University was $4,336 per year.
If you choose to attend a Oklahoma criminology school, average tuition will be $11,768 per year. However, tuition at your particular institution may range from $4,336 per year to $19,200 per year. The Oklahoma criminology schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University - located in Bartlesville, students are charged $19,200 per year
- Cameron University - located in Lawton, students are charged $4,336 per year
The lowest tuition rates at Oklahoma criminology schools were charged at the following schools:
- Cameron University - located in Lawton, students are charged $4,336 per year
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University - located in Bartlesville, students are charged $19,200 per year
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Hi, I'm Christi Gillentine with the 918 Home Team, here at Keller Williams Realty in Tulsa, Oklahoma. What is the difference between a general and special real estate agent? Essentially, a special agent is really what's called a limited agent, meaning that they're not able to act for you in a contractual basis and legally commit you to something in a contract. A general agent is somebody who actually has more of a power of attorney, and can lock you in legally to a contract. A lot of time you will find that your title people will act as general agents for you, especially if you can't attend your own closing, maybe because you're out of state or out of the area. And, that is the difference between a general and special real estate agent.


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Subj:Desert Storm War III is Now Imminent—Fidel Castro and Cuba are Linked to Dumitru Duduman—Castro warns Iran Attack will Start Nuclear War (Article #6)
Please understand that the extremely imminent Pre-Tribulation WW III will include more than just the Ezekiel 38, 39 Gog/Magog War.
It will include the sudden destruction of Damascus, Syria in one night as described in Isaiah Chapter 17. It will include Desert Stroms War III in Isaiah Chapter 21, which I have called the "Lynchpin" to WW III, and this segment of this great war will include the sudden total destruction of End-time Babylon (America) as described in Isaiah Chapters 13, 18, 19, 21, 47; Jeremiah Chapters 50 and 51; Revelation Chapter 18, etc. (See my America The Babylon Mini Prophecy Bible, color-coded in NIV text, and companion booklet World War III and the Destiny of America.)
It will also include the Psalm Chapter 83 War which Bill Salus has been emphasizing (the destruction of the inner circle of Israel's enemies, i.e., those sharing a common border with Israel). It will include the Jeremiah 25:15-38 War; and, it will include the Zechariah Chapters 11, 12 and 13 War, which is the same war essentially as the Psalm 83 War and much more. And of course it will include and end with the Ezekiel 38, 39 Gog/Magog War.
Due to America's long-standing and current deceitful dealings with Israel concerning the forced dividing of Israel's land and capitol city Jerusalem, which God has strictly forbidden and warned against doing in His holy Bible, I believe that America has betrayed Israel and greatly provoked Almighty God. Of this you can be sure because God has prophesied it so in advance in His holy word. I see the Desert Storm War III as the "trigger" to America's judgment and demise (Isaiah 21:9-10). Sudden judgment by fire will truly come as a "Whirlwind". It will be an all out thermonuclear war. Fire and sulfur will rain down on many, and America (the real End-time Babylon) will be ground zero marked by God for total destruction!
God will save the righteous in a lighting speed Rapture at the very last minute as the fire is coming in, just as he saved the three young Hebrew men Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the "intense Fiery Furnace" in the first Babylon. (Remember, the angel of the Lord told Dumitru Dudaman to tell the Church of the Lord that He will save them from the fire of America's nuclear destruction the same way that He saved the three young ones from the furnace of fire and how He saved Daniel in the Lion's den).
If you want proof that America is the real End-time Babylon go to page 271, Chap 19 of David Flynn's new book, Temple at the Center of Time. It is available on Amazon.Com
David found that "America" can be found in the Bible spaced at 17 letters ELS (Equal Letter Sequence) in Daniel 3:3 the very story of the Fiery Furnace as mentioned above. Wow! LOOK IT UP! David Flynn further points out that the mathematical relationship of the 17 ELS sequence within 33 Hebrew words convert navigationally to the exact latitude (38.50) of Washington DC in minutes and seconds! Also, America's Federal Capitol building sets exactly on the 77th longitudinal meridian, at 00 minutes and 33 seconds. According to the Gnostic occult traditions, the number 77 was chosen as a direct defiance of Jehovah God based on the ancient patriarch Lamech's threatend curse to avenge himself 77 times if anyone harmed him. Wow! This is a must-read book!
Click on the PDF File link below to read Article #6 titled: How are Fidel Castro and (Cuba) Linked to Dumitru Dudaman?
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Stomach pain is very problem, which can be caused by various reasons. Some main reasons are gases in stomach, constipation and digestion. Some of us have stomach pain like a disease.
There are many home remedies to cure stomach pain. We have been looking for a different way to treat stomach pain and have found some Yuga asanas which are very helpful to releave the stomach pain. The asna is called setukasan which is not only helpful to relive the stomach pain it has many more benefits.
- Lay down on back.
- Put both palm of hand beside both legs. Make sure palms are touching the ground and both legs are straight.
- Bend both legs at the knee and feet of leg touch with any finger of hand can touch keep that position. Both legs between feet keep distance up to arm.
- During the fill breath give weight in both hands without jerk very slowly waist and thigh lift up ward hills as per capacity pull hip side. From shoulder to elbow to waist both hand keep in right angle 90 degree both hand put straight give support under the waist with the help of hand.
- Upward this asan in complete, hold your breath, as long as you can hold.
- After that leave the breathing slowly-slowly without jerk descending number bring waist down come original position.
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- In this asan during the lift waist mouth, neck, arm, elbow and hills it should be in touch with ground.
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Good fashion is beautiful. But good fashion is also practical. And that is, in a nutshell, what UNIQLO stands for.
For starters, this post is by no mean sponsored by UNIQLO nor by any representative of the Japanese brand. If we really had to point fingers they would be towards my natural attraction for it. And that of my friends.
I've got acquainted with UNIQLO when I lived in Japan as there was no French flagship yet at the time (they opened their first Parisian boutique when I was still there, actually). And I gotta admit that: it wasn't love at first glance. For the teenager that I was, UNIQLO seemed very blah. Ok it was quality products, but it was all so simple. And in Japan, literally everyone wears it – and that's not my lifestyle. BUT as we got to know each other better, we got closer and I ended up giving them a bit of my allowance. With no regret of any kind.
Today, having worked at the Paris flagship mentioned above (see how fate does the job) even for only a couple of months, I learned to love the brand even more, and to appreciate the long-lasting quality of its products. These jeans, I swear, are some of the best I've ever tried. And this love multiplied and grew, grew, grew, when Lemaire creative director Christophe Lemaire announced that he was not only going to do special jobs for the brand but also take seat as the creative director for the European collections !! Ok it's old story, and I'm getting all excited but hey, that's portraying how happy I was in that morning train when the news first hit me last year.
Dress: Uniqlo U by Lemaire
But I guess only fashion enthusiasts were excited. Uniqlo U – Lemaire's exclusive collection – seems not to be popular amongst the regular Uniqlo clientele – at least in France. Judging by the speed at which prices go down both off and online, there appears to be a generational gap between the oversized, sometimes avant-garde cuts and shapes, and fabrics, of the U gear and the women and men who do their shopping there. As stated above, Uniqlo is known for being really classic, and that despite the efforts of the brand to attract a younger clientele (mostly through special collections inspired by popular culture headlines such as Beauty and the Beast and Star Wars). The uniform of the working woman and man, or of your friend's mother. And wool track pants, judo dresses (like the one I'm wearing here) and other #coolkids apparel don't appeal to them. They just won't wear it.
Is marketing to blame here? The name of Lemaire does add prestige to the collection and, just like Raf Simons at Calvin Klein, it is a super excited news for fashion lovers (read: we can wear Lemaire's creation at a relatively affordable price). But to others, it probably doesn't ring a bell. Thus promoting the collection under his name is not even the right solution of this particular problem. What Uniqlo must do is to establish a dialogue with its regular, strongly implemented clientele to talk about the changes of the fashion environment of not only the street, but also the brand. When you browse the #uniqloU hashtag on Instagram, most contributors are from Japan, and you would assume that the popularity is tremendous there. But even on the Japanese site of Uniqlo, many of the items are offered at a relatively cheap price – discount festival. Is what could have been the stairway to success turning into a handicap?
Read: Reasons Why Raf Simons At Calvin Klein Is A Good Thing
This is certainly not stopping me. Each of my last visits to Paris meant for a Uniqlo (U) spree. I just love the brand, just love the collection, and this relationship is starting to get real loyal. And the afore mentioned friends, they just feel the same. How funny was it, on that shooting day, that I was wearing Uniqlo intentionally to capture that dress I had just acquired and that Jade came in the picture at the last minute also wearing Uniqlo? And that Loïc, the photographer behind these photos, was also wearing Uniqlo – the bomber jacket is his, by the way.
You don't hear Zara or H&M shoppers feeling like they belong to something just because they wear the same brand. You hear that from Supreme shoppers, or from other streetwear brand lovers. And that only should stand as a proof that UNIQLO is redefining retail and fast-fashion into a movement based on individuality and collectivity at the same time : you feel different from the rest but similar to your peers. And that, my friend, is quite a tour de force.
Do you wear UNIQLO? Do you like the U collection? Or maybe you are totally unfamiliar with the brand and you'd like to know more? (or you're also allowed to dislike it by the way).
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Topic: Joy (05/18/06)
- TITLE: A Waving Flag
By Beth Muehlhausen
Abby believed she was an accident who appeared unexpectedly to parents unable to nurture their own hearts, let alone hers. The family legacy seemed to be one of empty longing. As a little girl, she denied this legacy with childish optimism borne of an unencumbered heart.
She learned faithfulness and abundance from daisies and day lilies growing in profusion across the road; hope from wild kittens hiding in the woodpile; beauty from diamonds of sunlight dancing on the lake. She welcomed such lessons and learned them well.
Young Abby did not realize these God-messages shaped her personality to mirror that of a high-spirited flag, waving freely in the wind at His instigation. Her heart overflowed with an identity rooted in expectancy.
Abby was a little child. She intuitively understood and experienced joy.
This would not always to be so.
Abby celebrated her tenth birthday with waning confidence. Family relationships threatened to deteriorate and die. She fell prey to disappointment and despair, and her flag-waving heart retreated behind a protective inner blockade.
Private mantras replayed over and over, defining her soul. Don't have an opinion; expect pain; be polite but guarded; joy is for other people.
The years marched on and Abby forgot her perceptions of childhood to practice duty and responsibility – and survival. She remembered her parents' instability as she faced her own overwhelming role in raising four children and running a small business. Then cancer struck an almost-lethal blow, leaving her demoralized and dizzy with fear.
One wintry Saturday Abby invited a friend to her house for coffee. "Hope? Is that what you need? Or is it…joy?" Julie asked from across the kitchen table.
Abby's shoulders drooped. She tried to smile weakly, and yet felt foolish. Her life was blessed in many ways, and yet each hectic day threatened her adequacy. The calendar hanging on the wall - a maze of scribbled squares with no clear beginning or end - haunted her.
"I just wish I could be a kid again," Abby replied with a sigh.
Julie hugged her warm coffee mug with both hands and stared into space with soft, thoughtful eyes. "Why do you say that?"
"I don't want this to be a pity-party…but I'm lonely, Julie. I don't connect with anyone…not really. I hear people talk about transparency, and being real….and yet I feel like I'm walking an uphill path – alone. When I was little, I found ways around the loneliness."
Julie sniffed the fragrant steam wafting from her mug of Hazlenut Crème coffee while her eyes searched Abby's. "You have the Lord, right?"
"Always…and yet even He seems distant. Like I don't really communicate with Him." Abby couldn't look her friend in the eye. Instead, she stared at the rainbow painted on her coffee mug.
Julie's careful words separated the moment like a sharp sword. "Do you want to live, or just survive…?" Julie paused and she carefully took a sip of coffee before continuing. "I've had to learn contentment when I'm in God's presence Abby, no matter what else is going on. Be satisfied with Him! Just BE, and let Him BE. You don't have to DO, just BE! He's everything you need. Everything."
Julie's example of adult childlikeness always seemed a curiosity to Abby. Today, as always, Julie's words were punctuated by her characteristic impish grin framed by frizzles of graying hair.
"Remember how you once told me you loved flags when you were a little girl?" Julie asked. She pushed her coffee mug aside and leaned across the table as if sharing a secret, while speaking in an almost-whisper. "Maybe, just maybe, you can imagine yourself as a bright red flag full of stars flying bolding above the Eternal King's castle…." Julie's eyes shone brightly.
"Yes." Abby croaked in reply, and her eyes grew misty, "I wasn't an accident after all, was I, Julie? Jesus knows who I really am…and what my life is all about…and maybe I CAN find joy in His presence…."
Julie scooted her chair across the wood floor toward Abby's. "You belong to the King," she stated with confidence. The chair legs squawked out loud and then came to a halt beside Abby. "You are His priceless treasure…and He desperately wants you to be filled with joy. The more you hang out with Him the more you will experience it…"
Abby's head dropped and her tears splashed on Julie's grotesquely misshapen, arthritic fingers just before they embraced her.
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Army Sergeant Jude Recendez lost both of his legs while deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in October 2006. While on a routine patrol, an improvised explosive device (IED) struck the vehicle he was riding in, killing the driver instantly and spinning SGT Recendez 180 degrees. Three additional soldiers were also severely injured but were able to remove themselves from the vehicle.
SGT Recendez, who had sustained immediate amputations of both of his legs, was pulled from the vehicle and treated on the side of the road as he waited to be evacuated to the Green Zone. Treated first in the local hospital, he was later airlifted to Landstuhl, Germany and later to Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he remained for almost a year.
SGT Recendez is an active outdoorsman who enjoys mountain biking, road cycling, and kayaking. During his recovery, Jude studied pottery and the fine arts. He now has his own pottery studio out of his Homes For Our Troops home in Fredericksburg, Va. His work was featured on the PBS series Crafting in America in 2014.
SGT Recendez is grateful to be living in a home adapted to his injuries. "Rather than compromising my ability to adapt to my living environment, my environment adapts to me. Thank you to Homes For Our Troops and their donors for empowering injured Service Members and showing support to individuals like me. Your support is profoundly appreciated."
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A friend called this "fanservice with a plot" and I can see his point, but the truth is if you peel away the layers of ridiculous fanservice there is actually a rock solid, well written plot which is surprisingly enjoyable. I actually enjoyed the plot's drama far more than the fanservice, although that's really not my thing (I've rejected quite a few anime because of their obsession with pausing the plot to show me semi-topless women).
With regards to the plot, it is deeper and more engaging than most zombie apocalypse stories and much deeper than I thought a zombie apocalypse could be, largely due to the characters and their interactions. Zombie shows are usually action orientated, but High School Of The Dead, relies more on drama derived from the relationships between characters. That's not to say that there isn't action, on the contrary there is quite a lot of it, and on a side note, the gun play is shown very well and is by far some of the most realistic I have seen in any show.
As a show it has quite a few crowning moments of awesome and some Ship Tease (Which is fine as long as it doesn't degenerate into fanservice which it usually does) but the show undermines this by shoving boobs in your face every five seconds or so.
To recommend this is a difficult thing. I know I've harped on about it a quite a bit but there is a lot of fanservice, so much so that I think it's fair to say that at least a quarter of every episode is dedicated to it, but that doesn't sully the fact that it is a highly engaging dramatic and action packed story. If you can get past the gratuitous fanservice then you should definitely watch it. If you can't well... you're missing out, but I don't blame you.
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Last weekend was pretty fun.....really fun. Friday and Saturday were spent at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival and Sunday was spent riding with a visitor from Brighton, England who was just starting his 2-week MTB adventure across the southwest. For starters, the music festival was lots of fun....two stand outs and one disappointment to talk about.
The first stand out band was Indigenous. If you have not heard these guys live....make it a point to go see them...they will blow your mind with their sheer talent. I often find my self saying things like, "I wish I were around when Jimi Hendrix was alive", or "folks just don't make good music like they used to". This band makes me glad I'm here right now.
Mato Nanji
John Fairchild
Aaron Wright, Jeremiah Weir and Kris Lager
The second notable was, The Flaming Lips. Regardless of what you think of their music (which I feel is effing brilliant), the visual show is amazing. The last time I saw them was DEC 1994 at the Sooner Theater in Norman, OK with my brother and a friend, Chris....I think at the time, there were only 200 folks there....I actually found some footage from that show, albeit; crappy footage with crappy sound.
Needless to say, there were more than 200 folks at this show this time around...but their stagecraft, while much more expensive and grandiose this time around, has always been an amalgamation of Dr. Seuss meets Brian Wilson. They also covered, "Borderline" by Madonna and did a heavy tease of "Purple Rain" by Prince...how cool is that! Here is a video I shot of their intro in which Wayne puts himself into a giant Hamster Ball and rolls out onto the crowd.
And here are some better stills:
Bubble Boy
I see rainbows
Cool visuals
Teletubby Parade
Touchdown Teletubby
Blowing Taps
Playing the horn with my head
Cool Smoke
Dr. Seuss and his smoke megaphone
Dr. Seuss and his loud megaphone
The disappointment of the weekend was Matisyahu. What can I say....the music off the album is cool, but I've always thought his band sucks. Well....I've seen em live, and they don't get better from the studio to a live stage. Compounding this disappointment, he only played for an hour....I guess all the better...that just means I got 2 hours of Railroad Earth who kicked ass. Typical PHX people were also a bummer...most of the folks showed up, not for the festivals many talented acts leading up to the final billing...but to hear Matisyahu....I think there were more folks present for Matisyah than for the Lips! Like I said...typical PHX. They probably all left after the Matisyahu performance to go wait in line for a table at The Olive Garden.
As for the riding part, a gent from Brighton, England posted up a month or two ago on the MTBR forum about taking a 2 week MTB vacation in the Southwest and was wanting to find some folks to ride with for his first day out at Hawes. Since I live 6/10 a mile from Hawes, I was game to show him around. Joining us were liteandfast and NMPhi767. We rolled 25 miles on the day with 3625 ft in elevation gained. Afterwords, we rode to Joe's for some Arrogant Bastard and some pub grub.
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It can't be said enough, but one of the best ways of keeping dogs cool and avoiding dehydration is to provide constant hydration for them. This can be done in a multitude of ways. One way to ensure constant access to water is to bring a collapsible water dish and water canteen with you on your walks. An even more creative way to hydrate your pup is by making frozen treats for dogs, also known as "pupsicles," that are water-based. Chicken-bacon pupsicles are a hit with K-9s. Combine one cup of low-sodium chicken broth, one cup of water, chopped chicken meat and bacon bits together and freeze into ice pop molds. This is a nutrient-packed, frozen treat that will cool down your dog.
If your furry friend has been running around all day in the sun, you should focus on how to cool a dog down quickly. Place some ice cubes in their water bowl to bring down their internal body temperature. You can also fill up a kiddie pool in the yard so your dog can take a dip and cool down, while indirectly drinking water and getting a quick rinse.
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I am posting this video, because I want you to see this story. You can hear Amanda's call for help, the pure terror in her voice. But then you can see the photograph of her with her sister, the joy on her face. You can see, also, Amanda's daughter. Her face is actually blurred in this video, but I've seen it in other places, and she has a big grin. I would be surprised if you didn't have children of your own, Michaela, and I know that their welfare would be uppermost in your mind. Please know that everything possible would be done to assure their safety and well being. Please know that they would be loved and welcomed with open arms by your family, by the world.
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(Review) The Unseen World
The Unseen World by Liz More
Publication Date: July 26, 2016
Pages: 416 (kindle)
Genre: Adult Fiction
My Goodreads Rating: 3.5 Stars
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A heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her father's hidden past.
Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father— brilliant, eccentric, socially inept—to work every day. By twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David's colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually, Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World's heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion.
Praised for her ability to create quirky and unforgettable characters, Liz Moore has written a piercing story of a daughter's quest to restore the legacy of the father she desperately loves.
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I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into when I requested this book. It sounded intriguing so I thought why not?
Ada is a young girl living with her father David. David is smart and eccentric and probably strange to those people who don't know him well. We learn that Ada was born via a surrogate and she has been "homeschooled" by her father Clearly, Ada is a brilliant child, but when David's mind starts to fail everything in her life starts to fall apart.
David is suffering from Alzheimer's and is moved into a home, while Ada moves in with Liston and her family. This story is really, to me, about Ada's life and how it changes after David is put into a home. She goes to school for the first time, makes friends (and enemies), and learns a lot of about herself and others.
While Ada is learning how to be a normal teenager, she's also finding out that her father was not who he said he was.
It took a while for me to get into this book and there were some parts that completely when over my heard. There is a lot of computer science talk and a lot of decryption and encryption speak that I just didn't understand. I felt like this book was long, even though it took a me a day or so to read. I liked reading about Ada and seeing her growth, and even seeing her as an adult. She was an interesting character in both aspects and her love for her father was touching.
I loved reading her interactions with Liston's family and seeing as she realized all the new feelings she could feel. Ada's relationships with Liston (Diana) and her sons were interesting, each with their own dynamic. There were definitely some cringe-worthy times during Ada's adolescence, but it was all done very well. The emotions and characters were developed beautifully.
This was definitely a good read, but I feel like it could have been slimmed down a little.
Thanks to NetGalley and W.W. Norton and Company for the ARC.


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I've been so proud of myself for keeping all my indoor plants alive over the last 2 years. As you may recall, I used to be an OUTDOOR gardener (Master Gardener in CT and NH), but since moving to a small apartment (across the country, to an entirely different climate, in Seattle, WA) I've decided to turn my gardening efforts to indoor plants. Up to now, I've been pretty successful. With the exception of a Bonsai, that I had to toss because of aphids, everything is looking healthy…
Until NOW! I have a Croton (Codiaeum) that is going NOWHERE fast! I understand that to judge your success with one of these, it should have lots of leaves on the lower stem… Mine does NOT fill that requirement. It is also so very SLOW in adding either height or leaves. It had what looked like little blooms developing…but they hardened up and died off. Now I'm discouraged. Hence, the need for my Teddy Bear!
What I have found from my research is that, in nature, these plants tend to grow tall. The way to stop that is similar to pruning outdoor plants. Prune the top, and leaves will (hopefully) sprout from the lower regions of the plant.
My searching has also indicated that it reproduces readily from cuttings! That means that what I cut off the top, I can stick in the soil and it will soon yield another plant. Perhaps I'll try that and soon have a pot full of Crotons? Maybe I'll try that! If you'll notice my plant however, it isn't exactly a "redwood" from Muir Forest! It isn't big enough to prune ANYTHING off the top!
This is one of my weaknesses. I tend to buy my plants small and grow them big. This one never got there! I've had it about 6 months now, and it sure is puny!
Another thing to remember is that these pretty (should you be so lucky) plants like full sun. Mine grows in a north-easterly exposure. Probably not the very best, but it will just have to do! Even more noteworthy, it is POISONOUS if ingested! Do NOT add this to your salad!
If you would like to read a bit more about the care and enjoyment of this lovely foliage plant, try this link: Croton-Codiaeum
If there are those of you that are expert with caring for these plants, please comment and let us all know how you are successful. I know I'd appreciate a few words of advice. Reading about it from a text, is often not nearly as good as hearing about it from those "in the know".
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America Runs on Dunkin' – And Now, So Does a Tiny Home.
Enjoying a morning cup of Dunkin' at Home Coffee gets you going so you can power through your day. So why not power where you drink the coffee - at home? The Home that Runs on Dunkin' is a custom, transportable tiny home that runs on biofuel created by spent Dunkin' coffee grounds.
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We partnered with Blue Marble Biomaterials, a sustainable biochemical company to create eco-friendly biofuel from about 65,000 pounds of spent Dunkin' coffee grounds. Here's how we did it:
- Step 1: Extract excess oils in the spent coffee grounds. There can be natural oils left in spent coffee grounds, all depending on the coffee bean type and original processing methods.
- Step 2: Mix and react. These oils are then mixed with an alcohol to undergo a chemical reaction known as transesterification. This produces biodiesel and glycerin as a byproduct.
- Step 3: Refine. The biodiesel is washed and refined to create the final product.
Every 170 pounds of spent coffee grounds yields about one gallon of fuel and is used in a standard biofuel generator.
It's a destination - not a science experiment.
The Home That Runs on Dunkin' was built in partnership with New Frontier Tiny Homes. In a little more than three months, Dunkin' at Home and New Frontier started to build a custom, premium 275 square foot, transportable home with looks as modern as it runs with multifunctional furniture and reclaimed materials. The exterior of the home was designed specifically for Dunkin' at Home – with dark, black stained cedar wood reminiscent of a morning cup of coffee, and corten steel panels that have a coarse and dusty finish similar to the coffee grounds that power the home.
Design Elements
The chic aesthetic of the home includes key features such as:
- Chef's kitchen with high end appliances and a farmhouse sink
- Full-size, designer bathroom with spa tub and washer/dryer
- King-size bed
- Living room for two and cozy coffee nook with beautiful picture frame windows
- Full-size cedar porch
- Modern finishes like subway tile, slate countertops, solid walnut floors, reclaimed wood siding and shiplap
Tiny Home is powered by a biofuel blend of 80% coffee oil that is extracted from coffee grounds.