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27 June 2014: The 50th Anniversary of the Group of 77 and China (G-77/China) was commemorated during the first meeting of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 23-27 June 2014. The commemoration was one of over 40 UNEA side events, which also included discussions on air quality in African cities, sustainable consumption and production (SCP), sound management of chemicals and waste, illegal trade in wildlife, and green and decent jobs.
Oyun Sanjaasuren (Mongolia), UNEA President, urged the G-77/China to stand with one voice on key priorities at the UNEA, such as SCP. Judi Wakhungu (Kenya) called for "ambitious action" in the operationalization of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and adequate, sustainable and predictable funding.
Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said the G-77/China must highlight collective international responsibility while emphasizing the principle of common but differentiated responsibility (CBDR), noting that "the weakest among us cannot carry the same burden." He highlighted that the Group now has 133 members, making it the largest grouping in the UN system, and urged its members to maintain "the discipline of belonging."
Kituyi also said the world is facing threats to multilateralism, including "mega-regional" partnerships such as trans-Atlantic and Pacific partnerships. He said mega-regional negotiations will not resolve critical issues, such as EU fisheries subsidies, unless the G-77 makes its voice heard.
Referring to the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), he noted that SIDS will need the G-77 to promote an agenda of protection. [IISD RS Coverage of UNEA Side Events]


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Mushrooms Are Bunk
hey dude, seen that infrared chicken pass by?
Posted on Oh, I can't stop laughing! That is one of the fuensnit things I have seen in a looong time! It really IS kinda creepy except for the babies being so beautiful.I can't imagine either of my girls ever being content to lie under a giant roasted turkey. Wow.
Looks Mike had some weed before this. But isn't he always?
Sorry, didn't see your comment at first. Has a pile of weed in front of my monitor.
This is normal for him.
Just another normal day in Toonhole HQ
Kale and pot smoothie for breakfast followed by our ritual bong tokes and Black Sabbath alarm clocks to start the day.
That's how he normally sees.
Weak mushrooms? That's why I always buy mine fresh from the market! 😛
yeah, only $3,000/lb at the grocery store. Good deal. I put em in my garden salad all the time.
Mushrooms? Did someone say mushrooms? (Squiggy voice) MMMMMMUUUUUUSSSSHHHRRRRRRROOOOOOOMMMMMMSSSZZZ!
Good thing come to those who are baked.
what ever happened to me gusta bot?
Let's just say he didn't gusta what happened to him. *clap wipes hands*
Love the '13' fingers xD
Luigi just didn't give them time. 🙁
Heartbreaker turned out to be the best rtnmaoic comedy I have seen in a very long time. It's clever, charming, and warm-hearted. You want the leads to end up together and the supporting characters are great I loved the hero's sister. And the movie concludes in a most natural and delightful take on the greatest rom-com of them all, It Happened One Night.

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Sticking with a position that appears based more on pride than empirical reasoning, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair waded through six hours of questioning at an inquiry in London with a resilient defense of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
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Tony Blair has apparently set his sights across the English Channel, as he is a contender to become the first president of the European Union. While he has yet to officially announce his candidacy, the British government has already declared its support for Blair, and he is seen as a front-runner for the position.
David Miliband has written a sour review of the "war on terror," challenging the worldview pushed by George W. Bush and Miliband's former boss, Tony Blair. War is not the answer, Miliband warns. Instead, "We must respond to terrorism by championing the rule of law, not subordinating it. ... We must uphold our commitments to human rights and civil liberties at home and abroad."
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The president-elect has struggled to stay out of the Gaza fight, but based on everything he said during the campaign, he appears determined to stand up for Israel.
The president-elect has reportedly chosen Leon Panetta to head the CIA and retired Adm. Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence. Both men bring a mixed bag. Panetta is an experienced bureaucrat, but he's no James Bond. Blair has been praised for his terrorist-fighting skills, but he was criticized for a supposed conflict of interest that benefited defense contractors.
Tony Blair went to "The Daily Show" to talk about politics but found himself defending the Iraq war much more than he might have liked. The former politician, who still seems desperate to sell the nobility of invading and occupying Iraq, also managed to include some of the tired 9/11 rhetoric from Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.
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There was the Jason Blair scandal, the Judith Miller WMD fiasco, the John McCain (yawn) brouhaha and the appointment of neocon "never-get-it-right" William Kristol as an Op-Ed columnist, to mention a few New York Times blunders. All that and a shareholders' assault make the Sulzbergers' lock on ownership of The New York Times seem not entirely impregnable, explains Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals why he kept a lid on his "profound" religious faith while in office: "You talk about [faith] in our system and, frankly, people do think you're a nutter."
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Has the meaning of Guy Fawkes Day changed, for this particular moment, in England? A holiday that traditionally had more to do with celebrating the squelching of a plot to blast England's government to smithereens may take on a different significance these days, according to Harper's columnist Scott Harper.
In this thought-provoking opinion piece from the UK's Daily Mail newspaper, writer Correlli Barnett points out how, in waging his own brand of holy war, Bush (and, by extension, former British PM Tony Blair) failed to comprehend crucial lessons about war that historical examples have repeatedly borne out.
According to the Irish prime minister, Tony Blair has agreed to serve the quartet—the U.S., the U.N., the EU and Russia—as a special envoy to the Mideast. Earlier reports suggested that Blair bristled at the limited scope of the position, but an aide says the outgoing British prime minister was eager to take the job and continue to work on the world stage.
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Former President Jimmy Carter is not a fan of the Bush administration's approach to international relations, calling it "the worst in history" in a recent interview. While he was at it, Carter took aim at British Prime Minister Tony Blair (above, with Bush), calling his compliance with Bush's policies "a major tragedy for the world."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's announcement that he's stepping down won't quell the anger felt on so much of the antiwar left. But my own reaction is a deep sadness that he tarnished a formidable legacy.
British officials won't publicly question the results of a study that put the estimated Iraqi death toll at 655,000—that's more than 500 deaths per day—since the beginning of the war. The dispute over the study, published in The Lancet in October, centered on its methods and the large disparity between its estimates and Iraqi government figures.
Tony Blair is coming under intense domestic pressure to convince Bush to enter talks with Iran—and avoid a war with "unthinkable" consequences.
Adding to a growing chorus of disapproval emanating from Europe, Tony Blair's official spokesman has said Saddam Hussein's execution "shouldn't have happened in that way." Earlier, Gordon Brown, the man widely expected to be Britain's next prime minister, said the hanging was "completely unacceptable," calling it a "deplorable set of events."
As the UK's Tony Blair extols incipient Iraqi democracy from inside the sheltered Green Zone, the security situation outside—in the "Red Zone"—further deteriorates, making a mockery of Blair's optimistic prattle.
Sudan was unimpressed by threats from the U.S. and Britain to adopt alternative measures, including a proposed no-fly zone, to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Darfur, where the U.N. estimates around 200,000 people have died. Meanwhile, Khartoum continues to prevent U.N. peacekeepers from entering the country.
With Tony Blair by his side, the president was careful on Thursday to laud the Iraq Study Group's report, but maintain his stance on troop withdrawals and diplomacy. In particular, Bush said he would not compromise on preconditions for talks with Syria and Iran.
Tony Blair intends to modernize Britain's nuclear arsenal, including the U.S.-made missiles and nuclear-powered submarines that deliver them. But the prime minister will have to survive the misgivings of his own party, with critics questioning the utility of nuclear weapons against suicide bombers.
After Tony Blair agreed with an interviewer that the violence in Iraq since invasion has been a "disaster," his representatives on Downing Street insisted that the prime minister was simply being polite.
A new report from Human Rights Watch accuses the British government of softening protections against torture, abdicating its responsibility to pressure the U.S. against the practice and knowingly deporting terror suspects to countries where they are likely to suffer abuse.
Tony Blair has been busy, meeting with both Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert in recent days?all while fending off controversy at home over when he?ll step down. For their part, the Palestinian president and Israeli prime minister have agreed to meet with each other.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told aides that he will step down as the leader of his party on May 31, 2007, and resign as prime minister on July 26, according to the British tabloid The Sun. He had already announced he would not seek a fourth term in office, but this is the first news of a specific resignation date.
Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell challenged Tony Blair?s stance on Lebanon during the last ?Prime Minister?s Questions.? Blair defended his government?s position regarding the conflict, despite growing pressure in Europe to take a harder line toward Israel.
George Bush at the G8, Katherine Harris in Florida, Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, Ralph Reed in Georgia, and good old Tom DeLay in the grand state of Texas ... so bad they're almost funny.
In the midst of a Middle Eastern crisis that threatens to destabilize the entire region and perhaps beyond, it was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from western Russia.
Responding to Monday's "open mike" incident in Russia, The Guardian said Blair "all but offers to carry [Condoleezza Rice's] bags" to the Middle East (Bush denied him), revealing Blair's subservient role in the relationship. (article, British press reactions)
"The Daily Show" host was just being playful last night when he joked that President Bush could have been caught on the open mike talking about German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "camel toe" (a lewd sexual reference). But in light of the just-publicized unsolicited massage Bush gave to Merkel, Stewart is looking prophetic all of a sudden.
At the G8 summit for world leaders, President Bush was caught on a live microphone telling Tony Blair that he held Syria accountable for Hezbollah's actions against Israel.
"What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over," Bush told Blair while chewing on a buttered roll.
Important: This is not a hypocrisy alert. Bush's unguarded statements were for the most part consistent with his public ones. But it's still a fascinating glimpse into his manner of interaction with America's closest ally.
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ComicsAlliance Reviews 'Batman Forever' (1995), Part One
Each week, Chris Sims and David Uzumeri take a look back at one of the most successful and influential comic book movie franchises of all time, in ComicsAlliance's in-depth retrospective on the Batman films.
Chris: Welcome back to Remedial Batmanology! This week, we bid a not-so-fond farewell to Tim Burton to welcome new franchise director Joel Schumacher as we move to 1995's Batman Forever. We're also moving on from Michael Keaton to our new star, Val Kilmer, who sits at the center of what I consider to be the worst-acted Batman movie ever made.David: Well, Nicole Kidman is definitely an improvement over Kim Basinger, although she's given a completely ridiculous character to play, with an even more ridiculous name.
Chris: "Doctor Chase Meridian" seriously never fails to make me smile. It should've won an award for Most Ridiculous Name For a Leading Actress (Non-James Bond Division).
David: And it gets that terrible Riddler line, too. "What a grand pursuit you must be!"
Chris: You know, I'd still take that over pretty much anything Catwoman and Penguin said in Returns. That does not mean that it is not horrible, which I think is this movie in a nutshell.
David: It's just more fun than Returns. Instead of it being ridiculous because the characters have inscrutable motivations and awful dialogue, it's ridiculous because they set out to make a ridiculous movie.
Chris: It really is a big tone shift. Despite the overwhelming success of the first Batman movie, Warner Bros. felt that Returns underperformed at the box office. They blamed the more mature elements of the plot for turning off families, as though kids and adults could not both enjoy scenes of a kleptomaniac dominatrix and Danny DeVito in filthy long johns.
David: Yeah, I don't know if "mature" is the word I'd use to describe those elements.
Chris: Exactly. It really strikes me as weird that they thought the problem was that it didn't appeal to kids, when the real problem was that it was a complete mess of a film.
David: It really, really was. I think Forever hangs together better, but only barely. I don't see the seams between script drafts as much as I do with Returns. On the other hand, the Forever script aims far lower than Returns did.
Chris: Rather than compromise his vision by making a movie that made any sort of sense whatsoever, Burton stepped down and approved his successor, Joel Schumacher. Schumacher aimed for a much more straightforward story that was (literally) brighter and more colorful, and so of course he became nerd shorthand for RUINING EVERYTHING, despite everything he was criticized for in this and Batman & Robin being a pretty logical extension of what Burton did. Burton, of course, remained blame-free, despite staying on as producer.
David: And what a production it is. Val Kilmer as Batman is… well, he's clearly doing a Michael Keaton impression, but he definitely doesn't have any of his comedic timing. On the other hand, if Keaton were still involved, Batman would be shorter than Robin.
Chris: Kilmer was, at the time, coming off of the two best performances of his career: Doc Holliday in Tombstone and a small role as the imaginary ghost of Elvis in True Romance, but man. He is godawful in this one, and Schumacher also referred to him as being "childish and impossible" to work with.
David: Wow, really? I guess I can see that. Honestly, my biggest problem is his permanent pout.
Chris: Yeah, there's this weird thing he does with his mouth when he's in the mask. Keaton did it too, which makes me wonder if it was pinching their nose too tight to breathe or something, but Kilmer seems to have the expression on his face at all times.
David: That's really all there is to Kilmer's performance, he just stands there and pouts, and sometimes he kisses, and sometimes he walks off the stage and a stunt double does ballet with some guys in two-tone masks.
Chris: All the style and distinction he had as Doc Holliday — which I have to admit was around 90% Southern accent — is totally gone here.
Chris: He's just bland, and almost seems completely disinterested in everything. There's no emotion whatsoever, which makes me wonder if he was shooting for "Bruce Wayne is a guy who has repressed his emotions" and just ended up in "walking cardboard."
David: I could see Schumacher asking him to be more of a heroic, square-jawed type. This definitely isn't the crazy Batman of the first two movies; here he's way more self-confident and typically heroic. The story's main emotional arc is also about Bruce becoming more confident, but he just seems totally different from the guy in the first two movies at the very beginning.
Chris: By contrast, every other person in this movie is overacting like it's an Olympic sport.
David: Well, I don't think Chris O'Donnell is overacting. He's just given the completely ludicrous task of being a, like, seventeen-year-old Dick Grayson.
Chris: O'Donnell actually isn't bad, but man, between Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones… You watched the Blu-Ray, right?
David: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Could you see the bite marks in the backgrounds from where they were chewing scenery? Do they show up in HD?
David: You can actually hear the chewing in the rear channels of the 5.1 mix. But yeah, Jones and Carrey are unquestionably going for Batman '66 all the way. Carrey's doing a straight-up Gorshin impression on PCP. Nygma clearly wasn't written as a villain with any pathos. He's not even the standard Riddler; he doesn't really care about outsmarting Batman, he's just a boilerplate evil scientist who's also completely crazy.
Chris: Carrey, to his credit, showed up and did exactly what they hired him to do. But I mean, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out when I was 12, and I loved it, but even at 13, I still thought his Riddler was just awful. It's dumb catchphrase after dumb catchphrase, and while he actually puts some charm into the Edward Nygma scenes, it's pretty hard to watch.
David: I'd love to know if "JOYGASM!" was in the script or ad libbed. I would fully believe they just put "[Just be Jim Carrey here]" for his lines.
Chris: And Jones… It's like he didn't want to be upstaged by Carrey, so he felt like he had to go even more over the top, even though he is wearing a purple and yellow tiger print suit. We can see you, bro. We're not missing anything. You can take it down a notch.
David: Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face completely misses any of the character's tragic aspects that Eckhart fairly brilliantly hit on in The Dark Knight; this is what Two-Face would have been like in Batman '66 if he'd been included in the show. They also totally fumble the storytelling ball with regards to his famous coin; he barely makes any actual decisions with it.
Chris: Yeah, there are a couple of huge misunderstandings of it that we'll get to. But it really is the worst possible interpretation of Two-Face. We don't get to see his tragic fall — unless you count how we stepped down from Billy Dee Williams to Tommy Lee Jones — and we don't get to see any sort of redemption or anything. They just boil it down to the visual and hope that'll carry it through.
David: But yeah, we start off with a fairly standard ridiculous intro credit sequence, a hilariously fetishistic Batman-puts-on-the-suit scene complete with Anthony Weiner-style dickshot, and then telling Alfred he'll "get drive-thru" rather than eat one of his sandwiches.
Chris: Can we talk for a moment about that opening junkshot?
David: Absolutely.
Chris: One of the things that Schumacher gets a ton of hate for is the idea that he really plays up the homoerotic aspects of Batman. Now, there's a part of me that wants to say "oh, right, because that's the first time there's ever been a homoerotic aspect to Batman," but with the addition of nipples to the suit and the lingering close-up of Batman's codpiece that's literally the second shot of the movie, it's pretty hard to argue that he's not going way over the top with it. I mean, it's ostensibly a shot of the utility belt, which is definitely one of Batman's signature items, but there's a lot of bulge up in there.
David: Not to mention the prominent ass shot we get later on. Homoerotic maybe, but I can't believe the look doesn't appeal to women, either. At least, some women.
Chris: Catwomen. Also, that line about Drive-Thru? Oh, son. You best believe that one showed up in McDonald's commercials ad infinitum back in '95, only outdone by Domino's jumping on the line about pizzas in Batman & Robin.
David: Well, this entire movie was made to play well in advertisements, as far as I can tell. It was very commercially minded.
Chris: It's actually the most unbelievable thing in this entire movie: The idea that Batman would prefer a Quarter Pounder to one of Alfred's gourmet delicacies.
David: Well, he doesn't say which drive-thru it is. Maybe Gotham has really nice drive-thru take-out Thai.
Chris: I'm pretty surprised Michael Gough didn't straight up become a fast food commercial spokesman after this.
David: Dude, you and me both. I do remember him appearing in his fair share of commericals in the time period, though. Cut to Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face chewing the Hell out of scenery, as is his way, with a big speech to a security guard about the capriciousness of luck, so they can fit his gimmick in as soon as possible and then completely forget about it.
Chris: I think it's worth noting that by the time this movie picks up, Two-Face is already Two-Face. We get an origin story for the Riddler, but Two-Face's only comes in flashback, which I think is pretty interesting. They take a villian whose most interesting story is his origin, and they skip over it in favor of showing us how the Riddler came to be.
David: The themes dealt with by Two-Face's fall are just too dark for what they're trying to go for here, though. I'm not saying that as a compliment or a criticism, just a statement of fact — as much as this movie makes a big deal about spelling out everyone's psychology, their psychology is incredible simple.
Chris: I wonder if they figured the kids in the audience would already be familiar with it from Batman: The Animated Series. And you're right: The movie has psychology as one of its core themes (if this movie can even be said to even have core themes), to the point where Batman's love interest is a psychologist, and he's dealing with repressed memories and a Riddler who suddenly has mind reading powers. But it's this crazy false setup where they don't actually want to deal with any of the psychology involved, other than "Batman thinks Bats are scary" and "Two-Face refers to himself in the plural, because we forgot that he's not Venom."
David: They go for a multiple personality interpretation, except that he apparently has both personalities at once. It also totally ditches the luck angle, with the exception of this opening scene and two later bits where Harvey actually uses the coin. The majority of the time he just flips it compulsively and seemingly doing nothing with it.
Chris: Except that he doesn't really have multiple personalities. There's never any struggle between Harvey Dent and Two-Face in this movie, it's all just one dude in a goofy suit. Just like how the movie tells you there's a distinction between Bruce Wayne and Batman that's never actually shown through any of the events or performances.
David: It's funny that, in an attempt to reach a wider audience, they made the most insular Batman movie possible.
Chris: Second-highest grossing movie of 1995!
David: Look, let's be fair: how much of that was the soundtrack?
Chris: Ah yes. U2's first dalliance with super-heroes. If only they knew the tragedy that would result a mere 15 years later.
David: And Seal's! And the Offspring's! And the… Flaming… Lips.
Chris: You can graph the Batman movies' soundtracks as an increasingly dramatic downward slope: Prince and Danny Elfman (awesome), then just Danny Elfman (still pretty great), then U2, Seal and the Flaming Lips (uh, okay, at least the Flaming Lips are in there…) and then you finally nosedive right into the ground with "Kiss From a Rose" and R. Kelly's "Gotham City."
David: "Kiss From a Rose" is a fantastic song.
Chris: Sounds like someone has fond memories of copping a feel at the Junior Prom.
David: And Batman & Robin had that pretty okay Smashing Pumpkins song. But yeah, we'll get to that. Batman shows up at the scene and starts getting interviewed by Doctor Chase Meridian, who has been asked by Commissioner Gordon to come … help with the Two-Face case, for some reason. She proceeds to tell Batman he's pretty crazy just like Two-Face, which is a pretty awful opening flirtation gambit.
Chris: Maybe Doctor Chase Meridian knows that she's being played by super-hot Nicole Kidman, and feels that she has to handicap her game to make it fair.
David: Yeah, I kind of totally forgot how hot Nicole Kidman was in the late '90s.
Chris: Also, is it just me or is Val Kilmer's voice really high?
David: It sounds about right to me, but we also get the amazing scene where Chase says that Bruce dresses up a flying rodent, and Batman replies, "BATS AREN'T RODENTS, DOCTOR MERIDIAN" in a completely deadpan voice.
Chris: Clearly going for Adam West, forgetting that West actually had some charisma. Also, he refers to her work as "naive," which proves that his flirting is just as bad as hers.
David: Chase also calls Batman a "superhero," which is interesting since that term is basically the polar opposite of everything Burton was going for tonally.
Chris: Batman then pulls his classic "wait 'til someone turns around and then vanish" move, except that he just sort of lumbers out of frame, making it less mysterious and ninja-like and more hilarious.
David: Not as hilarious as him then attempting to rescue the tied-up guard in the apparently completely unconnected bank safe, which is being carried out with a crane, at which point the guard gives an Ackbaresque "IT'S A TRAP!" and Batman gets stuck in the safe. It reminded me a lot of his entrapment in Batman and Robin #16 in the interrogation room, except dumb.
Chris: I do love that the entire vault of the bank is just one big metal cylinder that isn't attached to anything.
David: Well, why not? You might have to transport it somewhere at some point, right? …Oh wait, that completely defeats the point of a vault. So then Two-Face fills the vault with "boiling acid."
Chris: This might be the dumbest thing about this movie. Not that Two-Face has a deathtrap full of boiling acid, but that he's pumping it into the vault.
David: The vault he's stealing. For the money in it.
Chris: Exactly. I mean, he even says that he wants the money AND to kill Batman. But his plan to kill Batman will also destroy the money. Conclusion: Two-Face is stupid.
David: Well, maybe he only put the acid in two of the compartments that opened, and theoretically he could later flush the vault out of the acid and retrieve the money from the unopened compartments? Except that's dumb. And insanely difficult to set up in the, like, five minutes he had with the vault before Batman showed up.
Chris: But the compartments in the vault are made of metal. Which the acid would eat through.
David: But then why didn't the acid eat through the doors of the compartments they're in? And how did Two-Face keep it at boiling temperature? Are there hot plates in there?
Chris: I mean, I get that we're not supposed to be trying to figure out this plan, but eight minutes into this thing and we've already seen that this is a movie that doesn't really understand the characters and now doesn't understand fifth-grade science. Though I will admit that I do like the guard's "OHHHH NOOOO, IT'S BOILING ACID!"
David: Yes, Batman then uses the dude's hearing aid to crack the vault door. Which, I mean — what kind of vault can you not open easily from the inside? Why would they even make a vault like this? It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Chris: The hearing aid, which the security guard has because it's necessary for the plot even though he looks like he's about 27. Maybe 30 at the most. Man, also, where is all this acid COMING from?! I mean, enough acid to fill up the vault would require a container about the same size as the vault itself, right? But there's nothing except the vault itself, being carried in mid-air by Two-Face's helicopter.
David: Batman magically deposits the safe exactly back where it came from with the dude riding it like Slim Pickens in Doctor Strangelove — this happens — before hitching a ride on the helicopter and causing Two-Face to straight up murder a dude.
Chris: I really do like that he puts the vault, which is now full of boiling acid, right back where it is, positioned so that it cannot possibly be opened without unleashing a torrent of acid onto the person standing in front of it. All in a day's work for Movie Batman! During the helicopter ride — only slightly less dangerous than the one at the Gathering of the Juggalos — we also get a bigger look at Schumacher's version of Gotham City, which I have to admit I like. It doesn't have quite the industrial gothic style of Furst's designs for Batman '89, but there are these massive statues everywhere and these huge old-style Dick-Sprang-esque advertisments on the buildings.
David: And the gigantic Ocu-Wash eye, which is clearly supposed to symbolize the ever-watching eye of God.
Chris: And everything — everything — is lit by spotlights and neon, right down to the villains' guns.
David: I really, really, really respect Schumacher's devotion to neon here.
Chris: Design-wise, I feel like it's actually a nice departure from the bland sound stages of Returns, and a not-so-nice departure from the red-skied Art Deco cityscape of the animated series. It's clearly meant to be an evolution of the look of '66 — Schumacher even uses the famous "Batman Angle" almost constantly — and the overall effect is this weird, multi-colored dreamscape that I kind of like.
David: "Weird, multi-colored dreamscape that I kind of like" pretty accurately describes my overall reaction to this movie. I mean, this flick is definitely one for the Black Casebook.
Chris: It really is.
David: It goes completely off the rails near the end, especially with Nygma's magic rising brainwave phallus tower. That place is seriously something out of a Final Fantasy game.
Chris: Also, Two-Face crashes his helicopter into the ersatz Statue of Liberty and messes up half of its face, which I guess was his actual plan? So that's, what, three separate plans in five minutes?
David: After jumping out of the helicopter with a parachute that has a bloody red and black yin/yang symbol on it!
Chris: Two-Face is all about branding.
David: Honestly, you could replace Two-Face in this movie with the Joker and it would make just as much sense. If not more. Wayne then goes on a tour of Waynetech, where he meets Edward Nygma, who has combined a blender and a chemistry kit to create a brainwave reader/writer. He also has a completely inexplicable fixation with being Bruce Wayne's best friend. Like, this guy's name might as well be Stan.
Chris: Nygma's device is a blender full of Aquarium rocks.
Chris: My favorite part of this scene is how Wayne refers to a bunch of dudes in cubicles as a "factory."
David: They're an idea factory!
Chris: My second-favorite part is how Wayne's assistant appears to be a Jedi.
David: Meanwhile, Bruce shuts down Nygma's brilliant plan to create a machine that reads and messes with brainwaves, at which point Carrey hams it up with "You were supposed to make you understand!… I'll make you understand." He then takes a supersonic iron maiden through a special tunnel from the Wayne Enterprises building all the way down to the Batcave below Wayne Manor. So he can answer the world's first Bat-Signal booty call.
Chris: So yes, as it turns out, there's no crime, just a horny Nicole Kidman. And all things considered, you'd think that would be the best possible outcome if you go in expecting that the Joker's about to blow up a school for the blind or something.
David: True! But yes, this entire scene is ridiculous, as Chase tries to go all "Oh hey, yeah, I need to talk about Two-Face" before saying the most stunningly obvious thing about his psychology ever: His coin is his weakness!
Chris: The real point, though, is that she wanted to make orgasmic sighs while gripping his rubber pecs.
David: Evidently, I need rubber pecs.
Chris: I don't think they'd have the same effect without the rest of the outfit.
David: You don't look like super-hot late '90s Nicole Kidman to me, Sims. But I'll have to take your word for it. Commissioner Gordon comes up and asks her not to misuse the Bat-Symbol again.
Chris: More like Commissioner C*ckblock, am I right?
David: Yeah, totally! He totally won't let her get "under his cape." Then, we cut to a scene where Nygma forces his boss to be a human trial subject for his brainwave hat, which for some reason just works like a crappy 3D TV. Truly, the 3D cinema boom is the Riddler's most fiendish, devious plan.
Chris: Every time you pay five bucks extra for a ticket to a movie that looks too dark, you are playing right into criminals' hands!
David: Carrey hams the HELL out of this entire sequence, much as he does the entire movie, including a scene where he claims that they're "losing resolution" by looking at an analog dial. Seriously, the key is to just totally forget that this movie takes place in a world with conventional physics.
Chris: This also for some reason makes him smarter — and more annoying — which leads to a truly horrible song and dance number. It lasts for like 30 seconds, but I swear to God that the pelvic thrust/softshoe bit is an eternity of suffering.
David: Luckily, Nygma's boss gets out of that eternity of suffering pretty quickly, as he gets pushed out of a window into a gigantic waterfall. In any other movie, that'd be a supervillain origin sequence.
Chris: Apparently there weren't enough cats around to lick him back to life.
David: Then we get to see a crappy TV recreation of the actual Two-Face origin sequence, where, as I've previously stated, Batman is hanging out in the courtroom in full uniform. It's basically a faithful version of the classic Two-Face origin, though, even more so than the Animated Series one.
Chris: I really wish they would've had Batman going "OHHHHH NOOOOO, BOILING ACID!"
David: He just jumps over random dudes in the courtroom. It's amazing.
Chris: So Nygma re-edits the security tape and uses his newfound super-genius skills to fake up a suicide note to cover up his first murder, then quits Wayne Enterprises and takes his technology with him to found his new company, which I don't think is quite how it works. But at this point, whatever.
David: I love how Gordon goes "yep, definitely a suicide." And Nygma is insanely obvious with the suicide note, too, even pointing out that it's DEFINITELY Dead Fred's handwriting. Bruce seems skeptical, since he decides to give Fred's family full benefits, even though Wayne insurance doesn't cover suicides.
Chris: Wayne Insurance only covers parents being murdered in an alley. It's alarmingly specific.
David: Nygma's also left a riddle for Bruce with a really obvious answer, which is interesting because the Riddler hasn't decided to use riddling as his gimmick yet. So he goes home to his apartment decorated with Riddler bobbleheads, which looks like the Unabomer's lodge if his lodge was an apartment in an acropolis with gigantic signs as crosswords pointing people to things like "LAUNDRY." Also, if the Unabomer listened to the Flaming Lips. There, he constructs another riddle, bicycles over to Wayne Manor, and tapes it to his gate. Because, apparently, Bruce Wayne doesn't have security cameras at his front gate.
Chris: It's also pretty insane that within this movie, there's a guy who looks exactly like the Riddler, but isn't the Riddler, and then the Riddler dresses like him so that he can look like the Riddler.
Chris: That's basically like if the Joker dressed up as Ronald McDonald when he went out to commit his crimes.
David: Maybe he's a really, really big Matthew Lesko fan.
Chris: Like, when the Riddler starts robbing jewelry stores with Two-Face, why don't the police just start looking for the guy who has the huge collection of Quincy Questions merchandise? (I'm keeping Quincy Questions for my own comics, by the way).
David: Well… maybe nobody knows who Quincy Questions is! I have no idea. So Bruce shows up at the GCPD headquarters to see Dr. Meridian, and while outside her office door, he hears her grunting a lot. Thinking she's getting beaten up or something, he kicks down the door, but she's just boxing! Predictably.
Chris: Bruce then tells Doctor Chase Meridian about the Riddler's "love letters" — which, really, is what they are, since Nygma is basically a stalker who sees himself as a spurned lover — and they come to the conclusion that whoever is sending them is crazy. Also, she mentions "potential homicidal tendencies," then they just sort of laugh it off.
David: Then he invites her to the circus by saying he has to get her "out of those clothes," and I'm pretty sure we all know where that's going.
Chris: There's also a bit where Bruce Wayne looks at a rorschach that she has and identifies it as a bat, and she says you see what you want to see.
David: Except it totally looks like a bat. Like, unquestionably.
Chris: I'm not sure that I'm qualified to judge that. I think the record will show that, as Doctor Chase Meridian says, "have a thing for bats."
David: But not as much as Nygma has a thing for Bruces. He watches this whole circus on TV, where Bruce Wayne is the "#1 sponsor," and what really strikes me about this is the fact that it inexplicably gives Dick Grayson an older brother that they kill off pretty much immediately. So the Graysons perform some tricks and Bruce asks Chase if she wants to go rock climbing, but she doesn't, because she already fell for another man, who is Batman. Oh no, guys! LOVE TRIANGLE!
Chris: It's pretty thrilling! Wait, did I say thrillling? I mean the opposite of that.
David: Then, Dick Grayson performs some big super trapeze thing without a net. Now, seriously, what, exactly, is the point of doing this? It's not like he's going to USE the net. It's just as impressive to pull it off with or without a net. The only difference is that doing it without a net is completely f***ing stupid.
Chris: And suddenly, this article has turned into an indictment of the entire circus industry!
David: I have no idea, do they still do this? Circuses without nets? I am not exactly a regular circusgoer.
Chris: Clearly, it's more exciting because we all want to see someone die, Uzi. Specifically Chris O'Donnell, I guess.
David: Case in point: NASCAR.
Chris: And MMA. And Russian Roulette, the South's third most popular spectator sport. Although down here, we still call it "Freedom Roulette."
David: Well, that makes sense, since if you win, you get freedom from the South. And existence, but let's go ahead and throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Chris: So anyway, back at the Circus, Two-Face shows up in an airbrushed top hat that's really just embarrassing to us all. As a species, I mean.
David: But yeah, of course this is the perfect time for Two-Face to show up alongside his goons, and essentially rip off … I don't even know how to describe this action set-piece. It seems to reference both Batman '66 and Batman Returns at once, since it's yet another supervillain causing a ruckus at a charity event, as well as, I think, a fairly direct callout to the "Batman tries to throw a bomb into the river" sequence from '66.
Chris: But only the end, really. The rest of it is this weird piece where Two-Face demands that Batman reveal his secret identity, so Bruce Wayne just stands up and starts shouting "I'M BATMAN!" but nobody else can hear him because they're all screaming in horror of Two-Face's hat. So he just starts beating dudes up, which apparently nobody notices.
David: Yeah, and the Graysons decide to help save the day, and his brother and parents fall to their deaths while he climbs up to the top of the "tent" (which is actually the "Gotham Hippodrome") and throws Two-Face's gigantic bomb into the water, where we get to see a pretty dope underwater explosion.
Chris: This is certainly a play on the idea of Two-Face as Dick Grayson's arch-enemy, which is something that we've seen in the comics — probably most notably in Robin: Year One — but I'm honestly not sure if it has its roots in this movie.
David: It certainly doesn't. That was a huge part of Robin #0, contrasting Tim Drake's going against Two-Face with Dick's, and that came out in '94. I'm fairly certain Stephanie and Damian are the only Robins to not have a big hate-on with Harvey Dent.
Chris: How fortunate we are to have the world's foremost Chuckdixonologist here at ComicsAlliance.
David: Dude, I am nowhere near a Chuckdixonologist. I just remember that issue!
Chris: Don't fight it, Uzi. Embrace it.
David: I will not abide that insult! Bruce totally takes Dick in off-camera, except Dick, being seventeen years old, immediately decides he's going to drive off on his cheap motorcycle and try to kick Two-Face. Because, you know, nobody else in the city is trying to kill Two-Face.
Chris: …Do you realize what you just said?
David: Ahahahaha oh… oh my God.
Chris: Hilarious phrasing aside, this is my all-time favorite part of this movie. Chris O'Donnell is 25 in this movie, and he's basically being adopted by Bruce Wayne.
David: The character he's supposed to be playing is, like, sixteen, at the absolute youngest.
Chris: No way, dude. Bruce refers to him as a college student. So basically, Batman is adopting a grown-ass man.
David: I assume he meant putting him on the path to college! Or else he wouldn't have to go through any social services crap at all.
Chris: This is like me adopting you. Or… like Batman adopting both of us!
David: And later on, the Riddler even talks about him like he's a recently-pubescent preteen, which makes me wonder if the script wasn't written with an actual child in mind. And later on, the Riddler even talks about him like he's a recently-pubescent preteen, which makes me wonder if the script wasn't written with an actual child in mind.
Chris: There are several places where the script goes out of its way to refer to him as a kid, and his voice is deeper than Val Kilmer's. Anyway, Dick wants to leave on his motorcycle and go track down and kill Two-Face, but Batman wants to have Dick in his house, so he bribes him with motorcycles.
David: Motorcycles and food! I actually really love the whole passive-aggressive act Alfred and Bruce play on Dick; it's great when Alfred takes the four-star meal and is going "oh, well, I guess I'll just have to throw this all out."
Chris: Total bribery to make this grown man agree to live in Batman's house.
David: But it's because he cares! About this other grown man! I think you might have a point when it comes to Schmuacher attempting to ramp up the homoeroticism. Anyway, this leads Bruce to take a look at some pictures on a nightstand, one of which is of his parents, so he starts thinking about his dead parents and their murder, complete with budget budget Jack Nicholson in a cloud of fog. He also has ominous waking dreams about his dad's big red diary, which is a memory he's suppressed. Now, in any normal story, you'd think something scandalous would be written in that diary, but no. The diary is basically a total red herring.
Chris: This is where it becomes a driving plot of this movie that Bruce blames himself for his parents' death, which you would've thought he'd dealt with two movies ago when he threw their murderer off a building.
David: Alfred talks to Dick about his motorcycle helmet, which has a robin on it, because his dad once said he "flew in like a robin." At this point, Alfred just starts creepily pushing Dick Grayson towards joining Batman in his fight, which seems completely insane until you remember Dick is, like, 17. Not that it isn't still insane.
Chris: You mentioned before we started writing the article that this movie is all about Alfred creepily pushing these guys towards a dangerous lifestyle so that he can live vicariously through them, and… yeah, there's definitely a case for that.
David: His approving glances every time Bruce is macking a chick really back that up. Alfred is weird, dude.
Chris: Movie Alfred is seriously always trying to mix up Bruce's game. He's always letting Vicki Vale into the Batcave or building a rubber nipple-suit for Chris O'Donnell… It's like being Batman's butler is boring for him, so he finds ways to make it crazier.
David: Exactly! Meanwhile, Two-Face enacts his brilliant plan to get Batman, which involves dressing up like a bag lady with a stroller, standing in front of the Batmobile to make it stop, and shooting it with a rocket launcher. Except the Batmobile moves its tires ninety degrees and side-drives. So Two-Face just sblows up his own henchmen.
Chris: I want to point out that this all happens while Batman's just out driving around. He doesn't realy seem like he's looking for Two-Face or fighting crime or anythying, he's just sort of cruising around, maybe listening to some jams.
David: He's practicing making out with Chase Meridian in the mirror while listening to "Kiss From a Rose."
Chris: Then, we get to a scene where Two-Face and his goons chase Batman down an alley with the cars from Twisted Metal, but Batman is able to escape — and also cause an explosion that totally kills them — by driving up a wall.
Chris: This is something that many people point out by fans of Batman and Batman Returns as being endemic of how silly and ridiculous Schumacher's movies are compared to the dark, serious Burton films, because it's clearly dumber than poison gas parade floats and rocket penguins.
David: I loved this scene. I love the Batmobile in this movie. It's so ridiculous, in an entertaining way. Of course Batman would have ridiculous gadgets like this!
Chris: Of course Batman would explode henchmen at every opportunity!
David: And the scene ends with Two-Face screaming to the heavens over a horn noise.
Chris: It is pretty dumb by any standards.
David: And also kind of awesome. I'm sorry. I legitimately love that action scene.
Chris: You don't need to apologize to me, Uzi. You're the one who has to live with yourself.
David: I'm feeling pretty good about myself, actually. Anyway, we cut to the Riddler trying to decide what his costume's going to be, and he comes up with a bunch of terrible ideas before Quincy Questions inspires him to dress up like Quincy Questions. You know, the bobblehead design he's obsessed with. This entire scene seems ridiculous, because I can't believe he'd go for any other outfit.
Chris: I like that after sending two different riddles to Bruce Wayne, he's still not sure what he wants his gimmick to be. And also that he uses the computing power of Windows '95 to create outfit designs just by typing.
David: I've long since given up even attempting to criticize the computer/scientific accuracy of everything in this movie, because the scriptwriters and director clearly gave up on even attempting authenticity.
Chris: So there we are! At long last, we have a Riddler, we have a Two-Face, we have a Batman and we have a Dick Grayson who is being blackmailed with hamburgers by Alfred to live in Wayne Manor.
David: They're probably pretty great hamburgers, to be fair.
Chris: Of course. Next week, we'll see how all of these increasingly stupid elements come together: The formation of the Riddler/Two-Face Team! Dick Grayson's Karate Laundry Workout! Doctor Chase Meridian's Sexy Psychology! Riddler's Phallic Tower!
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Well, My house got "egged" yesterday!
And the culprit was one of my best friends and 2 of her kiddos!
A while back I saw this print from Eighteen 25 on Pinterest and thought it was too cute and such a fun idea. (By the way, you can download the print FREE here) Then I was lucky enough to have someone egg us : )
My boys LOVED this spontaneous egg hunt! I had a heads up that this would be happening during nap time. So when my hubby got home from a meeting I let the boys run out to meet him. Since I knew the eggs were out there I was ready with their buckets and the camera!
It didn't take the boys long to realize there were treats inside the eggs! It's funny to see their different personalities come out at times like this. Big man picked up a couple of eggs and was ready to sit down and see what was inside. Little man went as fast as he could to collect as many eggs as would fit in his bucket before he was ready to call it quits.
Can you tell that right after this picture was taken we went inside to watch the Kentucky game?
Hope your Saturday was as fun as ours was! You still have time...go egg a friends house!!


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A 12-year-old boy with nonverbal autism
developed a 2-month history of petechiae and bruising followed by
worsening musculoskeletal pain and refusal to walk. There was no
preceding history of trauma, fever, or visible joint swelling. On
physical examination, he was pale and agitated. His lower limb
range of motion was limited, and he maintained 90° flexion of
both knees and external rotation of his left hip with refusal to
ambulate. Petechiae and bruising were noted on his lower
extremities, and gingival bleeding (
Figure) and alopecia were noted. Investigations
revealed microcytic anemia, a low serum iron level, and normal
white blood cell and platelet counts. The erythrocyte sedimentation
rate was elevated (46 mm/h; reference range, 1-10 mm/h).
Radiographs of the legs demonstrated only soft-tissue swelling and
osteopenia. Dietary history revealed longstanding restricted food
preferences limited to yogurt, pasta, oatmeal, and water.
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|Under Armour is no secret in the Lacrosse world, and Lax is no stranger to the Under Armour execs either. CEO, Kevin Plank played lacrosse at Georgetown Prep before attending the University of Maryland to play football. Kip Fulks, Plank's partner and the Vice President of Under Armour played lax at Maryland and is one of the fastest players in pro lacrosse, starring on the Washington, D.C. NLL team, The Power, along with a few of his employees, Matt Shearer, John Ciliberto and Casey Connor. Shearer, a Canadian who played his college lacrosse at Baltimore's Loyola College, is their top marketing guy and along with Connor, Ciliberto and others, gets into the nitty gritty with the coaches, players and general consumers at events like the recent Men's and Women's Coaches Convention in Philadelphia. This year Terps Women's star Torri Wellington was representing UA at the convention, as well.
|The Under Armour product has always been innovative and of a high quality. They really got a foothold in the lacrosse world, due to their great connections there, before they were nationally known. But they were noticed early on by the football community and before long the covers of major sports publications featured atheletes with that trademark UA under their chin for all the little gridiron kids to see. Pretty soon their gear was featured in football films Any Given Sunday and The Replacements. They suddenly have the wind behind their sails to possibly even dwarf the largest lacrosse companies in annual sales if they haven't already.
|One lacrosse manufacturer with the obvious "means to replicate", has done so again with a whole Under Armour knock-off line, as has a major shoe manufacturer, but Under Armour, ever edgy, entered the snowboarding and wintersports market with the Cold Gear line and still retains a large share of the football market while dominating lacrosse. Fulks and Shearer have most of the major lacrosse stars wearing Under Armour and have things brewing with Paul Gait on some apparel ideas for the deBeer line. But STX Star brother Gary Gait has always worn it too. Casey Powell was a devotee before he was contactrually obligated to sport another brand. Tom Ryan lives in the stuff. Under Armour products are the number one off season seller on E-Lacrosse and we have seen young kids in Baltimore and Washington suburbs just wearing the loose gear around lately. In any case, lacrosse will always be a great small market for the Baltimore based Under Armour, however they do in the battle for transcendency to major commercial "household name" brand status, because lacrosse consumers always tend to reward high quality. Look for the Cold Gear to get a big push from the Winter Olympics which start in just two weeks. Under Armour is an official sponsor of the U.S. Freestyle Skiing team and is worn by many of the competing Snowboarders, as well.
|A few years ago, Cindy Timchal sent the E-Lacrosse editor a Terps Under Armour Loose Wear sample, before the loosewear was available on the commercial market. You've seen Gary Gait wearing a similar shirt on the sidelines of Terps' games on E-Lacrosse. We knew from this product that Under Armour was doing what it needed to appropriately battle their new feaux brandishing foes. They looked forward. They moved on. They innovated again. And the loosegear is selling very well, especially with those of us who don't want to display our washboard stomach all the time. They followed with cold gear which is also a very high quality performance product that does what they say it does. The Cold gear is very comfortable and flexible, while keeping the wearer dry and warm. Its not as warm as the Zyflex gear you'll read about below but the UA Cold can be very form fitting without being restrictive at all. It is highly recommended, as is the new skull cap and the old standard heat gear.
|The Skull cap is being worn by NLL players under helmets as a great way to keep longer hair and sweat out of their eyes. We think it will be a huge hit in the early spring for those very cold games and practices. The material breathes well and kept us suprisingly warm while sitting outside for a while on a very cold night. Its super thin so when your helmet is on you don't even know it's there.
|The Heat Gear is the original "performance apparel" offered by Under Armour. It's their bread and butter and for good reason. Most top-level lacrosse players have worn it for 7 or 8 years now. The material expands to fit your body wicking away moisture and keeping you cool in even the most heated summer league games.
|We also really liked the mesh team shorts they sent us. The fabric falls loosely and feels substantive beyong its weight, the way a silk or suede shirt hangs on you. They are attractive and comfortable and breathe very well.
|We have not tried the Turf Gear, which is new for 2002, but it is generally the Heat Gear with a surface that protects the wearer against abrasions caused by contact with artificial turf surfaces. A great idea! We also have not tried the street gear but the shirt above looks pretty cool and we hope to get some soon. If you get some first, write us and tell us what you think. This line represents a foray into a very mainstream market that may or may not take the Under Armour name to heart, the way lacrosse and football have. We'll see, and we'd never bet against these guys who took a basement operation to great heights with just an idea and hard work in such a short time.
|Rebel Lacrosse can customize all of the Under Armour gear for your team. The examples below are only a few examples of the great work these two companies have done together. We have begged everyone from Rebel's Billy Curtis to Crease Monkeys' chief Harry Mazzaheri to slip us an extra Crease Monkeys UA shirt but they were VERY popular and went immediately. It is obvious that everyone involved still has only one left and nobody's giving 'em up. Rebel customizes alot more than just Under Armour too. Check out the insider's shoot below with Brian Carcaterra and photgrapher John Strohsacker as they stress test the new Rebel/STX team wear that "the Hop" will be sporting in 2002!
The much sought after Crease Monkeys custom UA from Rebel
The new Hopkins Under Armour from Rebel
Any Under Armour can be customized for your team!


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Tough groundcover for banks and areas of poor, dry soil. Divided leaves are fragrant when brushed against or crushed, foliage displays excellent red fall color. Deciduous.
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- DetailBotanical Pronunciation:roos a-roh-MAT-ik-aPlant type:ShrubDeciduous/evergreen:DeciduousSunset climate zones:1 - 3, 10Growth habit:SpreadingGrowth rate:FastAverage landscape size:Fast growing to 2 to 3 ft. tall, spreads 6 to 8 ft. wide.Special features:Dramatic Foliage Color, Easy Care, Fall Color, Fast Growing, WaterwiseFoliage color:GreenBlooms:InconspicuousFlower color:YellowFlower attributesFragrantDesign IdeasA beautiful spreading bank cover that can take poor, dry soil. Also a fine plant to include in the border with perennials and taller shrubs.Companion PlantsPine (Pinus); Forsythia (Forsythia); Rose (Rosa); Euonymus (Euonymus); Maiden Grass (Miscanthus)
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In my previous post I explained that I wanted to start sharing stories here about science, technology and innovations that are making improvements in the developing world. This week's focus is on a product that is literally shedding new light on the issue of lack of access to clean lighting sources in developing countries. Meet GravityLight.
An estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide do not have electricity in their homes. Throughout the developing world, hazardous kerosene lamps remain the primary lighting source in poor households. Use of these lamps is not only potentially detrimental to human health and the environment, but kerosene is also expensive. The World Bank estimates that poor households spend 10 percent or more of their income on kerosene, or as much as $36 billion a year worldwide. There has been no shortage of efforts to create alternative light and energy sources in developing nations, but there has yet to be a truly workable and cost effective solution. Perhaps until now.
A London-based product design firm called Therefore has developed a lamp powered by gravity. Gravity! The compact light, housed in a durable plastic casing, comes with a fabric bag that, when filled with rocks, sand or dirt generates enough power to run the light for 30 minutes. The lamp will cost end users $10, and because it's powered by gravity, it has no running costs. Its creators claim that users will recoup their initial investment after 3 months of no longer needing to purchase kerosene.
Earlier this year, an indiegogo campaign for GravityLight to support research and further development of the product exceeded its fundraising goal by over $340,000. A recent update from the design team states that the light's design has been finalized and it will soon be run through a global trial. To see it in action, check out the video below.


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Six months after they walked into the courthouse on a below-freezing January day, 12 jurors convicted reputed mobster Nicodemo Scarfo, associate Salvatore Pelullo, and two Texas mortgage company employees in a multimillion-dollar corporate scheme that will send the men to prison for decades.
The trial involved thousands of exhibits, hundreds of FBI wiretapped conversations, and testimony over the course of months.
The prosecution's aim was to prove that the men, along with three attorneys, looted First Plus Financial and defrauded shareholders of $12 million to benefit themselves and the Lucchese crime family.
After about two weeks of deliberation, the jury mostly agreed and convicted Scarfo, 49; Pelullo, 47; and brothers William and John Maxwell of all the counts against them, including racketeering conspiracy and related offenses, such as securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.


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A Millcreek Township man faces $1,113 in fines and court costs after he was found guilty this afternoon of three traffic citations in an August crash that killed a motorcyclist in Erie.
Richard B. Wolfram, 20, was found guilty of failing to yield while turning left, careless driving-unintentional death and failure to have insurance during his summary trial before Erie 6th Ward District Judge Dominick DiPaolo.
Erie police issued the citations following an Aug. 21 crash on West 21st Street that killed Elliott Tirpak, 22, of Erie. Police charge that Wolfram turned left in front of Tirpak's motorcycle as Wolfram was entering a driveway. Two men who were in the car that Wolfram was driving testified this afternoon that they did not see the motorcycle or any other vehicle as they traveled east on West 21st and were turning into the driveway.
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Steve Magoffin rounded off a sensational debut with second-innings figures of 7-34 as Sussex thumped reigning LV= County Champions Lancashire by 10 wickets at Aigburth.
The Australian seamer, signed as Sussex's overseas player for an initial two-month spell, was chiefly responsible for restricting the Red Rose to 176 all out in their second innings, leaving the visitors with a victory target of one.
Maintaining a disciplined line and extracting more life from the pitch than any other bowler in this match, Magoffin was hugely impressive throughout and claimed four wickets today after Lancashire had resumed 91 behind on 85 for four.
Ashwell Prince and Luke Procter frustrated Sussex for much of the morning as they extended their fifth-wicket stand, worth 36 overnight, to 88, but things soon went awry for the hosts once the latter had fallen for 46.
The last six wickets fell for just 39 runs, England spinner Monty Panesar finishing with 3-54 while Magoffin completed a stunning match return of 9-55 from 35.5 overs. Sussex took 22 points to Lancashire's three.
Beaten in their opening championship game for the first time in 14 years, Lancashire, dismissed for 124 after losing the toss on day one, will be aware that significant improvement is required if they are to mount a strong defence of their title.
Sussex, however, can reflect on a polished performance that earned a richly-deserved first win of the campaign following their defeat at the hands of Surrey last week.
Procter appeared a little uncertain outside off stump early on today, but soon grew in confidence and collected back-to-back fours, down the ground and through midwicket, following Panesar's introduction at the River End.
With the score on 119, Sussex spurned an excellent opportunity to oust Prince. The left-hander top-edged a pull off James Anyon, but Magoffin was unable to accept a steepling chance at fine-leg.
Anyon was then taken for consecutive cover-driven boundaries by Procter, who also chipped Panesar over mid-on for his eighth four before overtaking his senior partner.
The all-rounder was unable to reach a half-century, however, and departed when, in seeking to attack Panesar again, he spooned a thick outside edge to Luke Wells at point.
Magoffin had new batsman Gareth Cross dropped by Ed Joyce at second slip, but claimed the key wicket in his next set of six.
Prince, who had clubbed Panesar over long-on for a maximum in the previous over, was caught behind for 58, having failed to defend one that nipped away off the seam.
When Chapple edged another probing delivery to Michael Yardy at first slip, Magoffin was able to celebrate a five-wicket haul on debut.
Sajid Mahmood was also caught by Yardy six balls later, Panesar claiming his third scalp, and Lancashire took lunch on 165 for eight, still trailing by 11.
Light rain delayed the start of the afternoon session, but Sussex wasted little time thereafter, Magoffin bowling Kyle Hogg before having last man Simon Kerrigan caught behind.
All that remained was for Joyce to knock off the winning run from the third ball of Sussex's second innings, bowled by Kerrigan, with the returning showers proving immaterial.
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In the summer of 2004, TriKing Games introduced a new game called Anachronism. Billed as a "movable card game," Anachronism combined elements of miniatures games and collectible card games in a remarkably innovative way. Anachronism quickly gained popularity, but in some ways proved too ambitious, and the financial model wasn't able to sustain the pace established early on. Despite the award-winning gameplay, financial pressures caused TriKing to close its doors in 2007. A Players' Committee kept Anachronism going long enough to make two sets' worth of cards—designed by TriKing's team before the company folded, but never actually printed—available online to the game's fans. The Players' Committee did preliminary design work for one more set, but the project fizzled before the cards were playtested, and Anachronism faded from public view, still enjoyed here and there around the world but not officially supported.
I was heavily involved with Anachronism as a volunteer. In TriKing's volunteer corp, the Mercenaries, I was Mercenary number 2 (chronologically, not implying any type of hierarchy or authority). And fairly early in Anachronism's history, I started this website, Dystemporalia—one of the first (if not the first) fan site devoted to the game. One of the hallmarks of Dystemporalia was the Encyclopaedia Anachronistica, a reference work cataloging the game's growing library of cards and rules/rulings.
Dystemporalia continued largely unchanged until early 2013, when some unpleasant website troubles prompted me to "reboot" all of my websites with a new host. Due to some mistakes I made during the backup process, the contents of Dystemporalia and another of my websites got jumbled together. Disentangling them and hunting down missing content turned out to be a bigger job than I expected, and a number of my files are nowhere to be found (yet). Therefore, Dystemporalia disappeared from the web for several months.
But hope springs eternal, and Dystemporalia has re-emerged from its obscurity to once again provide Anachronism players with a central repository of card images, information, and ideas. Whether you're a long-time player or are just discovering Anachronism for the first time, I hope you find something useful here at Dystemporalia!


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LOCKPORT The Niagara Art Trail's Holiday Weekend will offer nine open houses at galleries, studios and shops Friday through Sunday in the Lockport area.
This year's Art Trail stops include: The Penney Gallery/Erie Canal Discovery Center, Dale Association, Donald E. Little Studio, Gallery DiMaggio, Kenan Center, Market Street Art Center, all in Lockport, as well as Kathleen Giles Studio in Gasport, Shoppe on Main in Newfane, and the Lamp Lighter Art Gallery in Middleport.
Admission to all stops is free with the exception of the Kenan Center, which charges $3.
Visitors will meet artists, be able to browse artwork, and maybe find a perfect gift for the art lover on their holiday shopping list. For hours and more, pick up a free Niagara Art Trail guide, available at many area businesses, including the Niagara History Center, Market Street Art Center, Erie Canal Discovery Center, Palace Theatre, Kenan Center and Newfane's Shoppe on Main – or visit NiagaraArtTrail.com.


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The Minnesota Vikings made quite a haul in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft.
The team started the night by drafting defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, a player considered to be the top defensive linemen by Mike Mayock of NFL.com and B/R's Matt Miller. Floyd was ranked No. 2 overall on Mayock's top 100 prospects list and No. 4 overall by Miller.
Not too bad for the 23rd overall selection by the Vikings.
Minnesota followed that up with cornerback Xavier Rhodes with the 25th overall pick, a player that meets a major need for a team that lost Antoine Winfield to the Seattle Seahawks.
And when Vikings fans thought the night was over, Spielman made a similar move at last year's draft by trading back into the first round. Coincidentally, the same pick the Vikings used to draft safety Harrison Smith—29th overall—was the same position held by Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots.
As much as Spielman likes to wheel and deal, Belichick loves to trade back and stockpile picks. The match was perfect for both teams and the Vikings traded its second-round pick (52nd overall) to move up 23 positions, also sending a third, fourth and seventh-round selection.
With that pick, Spielman pulled the trigger on wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson, the best prospect at wide receiver ranked by Miller and second by Mayock.
The Vikings addressed the three needs at defensive tackle, cornerback and wide receiver all in the first round, foregoing any selections on Day 2 in the second and third rounds of the draft.
Linebacker was the only major need not addressed by Minnesota, providing an easy position target for Day 3 and rounds four through seven.
But with a selection in each of those rounds and two in the seventh, the Vikings may still double up at either cornerback or wide receiver.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Legare Farms is offering a winter Community Supported Agriculture program for the first time. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the community to form a relationship with a local farm. This year will be the seventh year for Legare Farms to offer a CSA. By making a financial commitment to the farm, people pay for the season up-front. Members help pay for seeds, fertilizer, water, equipment maintenance, labor, etc. In return, the farm provides, to the best of its ability, a healthy supply of seasonal fresh produce throughout the growing season. Shareholders take a risk along with the farmer on the crop. Becoming a member creates a responsible relationship between people and the food they eat, the land on which it is grown and those who grow it.
The farm normally takes the winter months off but have some winter crops planted so they are doing a winter program. The season will last six weeks starting in Feb. 11 and running through March 20.
Helen Legare said "I have always been reluctant to do a winter season because most of what is available is greens. Greens get old really quick. I think we can mix it up enough so you won't get tired of greens."
Here is what the farm hopes to have: collards, kale, mustard, sweet potatoes, spinach, beets, turnips, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, butternut squash, and acorn squash. The Legares are talking to a friend in Florida about getting some citrus to add to the mix. They are also going to try some tomatoes in the green house as well as yellow squash. We can get green onions and lettuce ready if the weather cooperates. They are pouring through seed catalogs now to see if there's something else they can plant and have ready in time.
Legare Farms' CSA is unique because it is not a drop and go type CSA. A member of the Legare family or staff is at the pick up location to meet each member and share what is going on at the farm. A CSA is to form a relationship between the farmers and the members and the only way to do this is to get to know each other better each week. Legare Farms staff will share tips for preparing vegetables and members are encouraged to share tips as well as recipes. In order to form a community the farmers must know their members and the members must know their farmer.
Legare Farms is a ninth generation family farm on Johns Island. Legare Farms also raises free range eggs, hormone and antibiotic free beef, pork, and poultry. A CSA allows us to be a part of the community by making our healthy farm products available to directly to the public. Meat, Eggs, and canned goods are available to purchase at each drop site.
2014 will be the seventh year that Legare Farms has offered a CSA vegetable program. The farm offers five locations for vegetable pickups. They include the farm, Trident Tech on Rivers Ave., West Ashley, James Island, and Mount Pleasant. The cost for the winter season is $115 for half and $157 for a full share.
The farm is also taking new members for the regular 2014 season. The regular season last 15 weeks with nine weeks in the spring/summer and six weeks in the fall.
Legare Farms' CSA provides a half bushel of produce for a total of 15 weeks. A half share is also available. There is an assortment of vegetables every week. The basket of produce may include tomatoes, green beans, sweet corn, okra, squash, and radishes. Early spring and fall may include winter crops such as collards, turnips, beets, onions, arugala, and lettuce. The produce baskets are packed with whatever is ready to be picked that week. The cost for the CSA season is $355.00 for a full share and $245 for a half share. The cost of the Fall season is $157 for a full share and $115 for a half share.
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Having been somewhat bemused by the fact that the Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni didn't even consider him for Ireland's recent friendly with Poland Harte has gone on to show the Irish manager just what he is missing with some fantastic performances for Reading in recent weeks.
Having made the move to Reading from Carlisle in 2010 Harte was an integral part of the Royals side that gained promotion to the Premier League this season and although his game time has been limited it would seem that having started the last ten games his place is no long in doubt.
Going into this weekend's clash with fellow strugglers Aston Villa Brian McDermott's side are fully aware of the possible repercussions should they fail to win the game as are Aston Villa.
While Reading's recent defensive record does not inspire confidence in the clean sheet having conceded six goals in their last two games, Villa have been far from free scoring on the road this season and have only managed 15 goals away from home and when you put that in context to the 30 Manchester United have scored away from home, it becomes ever more apparent as to why they are in the position they are in.
Harte of course will be well remembered from his time at Leed's and it seems that he hasn't lost his touch when it comes to set pieces in fact the former Levante man has three assists in his last four games, proving that at 33 he still has the ability to play at the highest level.
With Manchester United and Arsenal to come in the following too games Harte's value may be short lived but with Reading knowing that three points here ahead of those two tough games could take a huge amount of pressure off them, their performance rate is sure to be high.
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Spike TV is building a new original non-scripted franchise with the first-ever furniture design competition series, "Framework," hosted by renowned hip-hop artist, actor, and author, Common.
Can you put raw egg in a cocktail? Should bar employees date? Jon Taffer took to Twitter last night to answer all of our questions, and it did not disappoint.
Spike TV launches its first ever app on September 30 where viewers can access their favorite Spike content, highlighted by a first look at the season premiere of the hit series, "Bar Rescue."
The life of "The Intimidator" told by those who knew him best.
Six more roles cast for Spike's epic event series 'Tut', about the boyking who ruled Eygpt during the 18th Dynasty.
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Avan Jogia will play the young renowned Egyptian ruler, King Tutankhamun, in Spike TV's event series "Tut," it was announced today by Sharon Levy, Executive Vice President, Original Series, Spike TV.
The girls at Comic-Con love to dress up and get their cosplay on!
Season five pits tattoo rivals against one another in their quest to win $100,000.
Comic-Con fans have spoken. Take a look at some Comic-Con 2014 highlights and interviews with the biggest celebrities at the show.
Jackie Tranchida talks to the stars of "Sex Tape" and we gear up for our Comic-Con coverage. Summer's in the Spotlight.


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Despite the woeful economy, the spirits, beer and wine categories continue to thrive
The economy is struggling, but that hasn't deterred shoppers from splurging on alcohol. Major trends that were driving sales before the downturn are still alive and well. Ultra-premium wine, beer and liquor continue to be highly popular. So do spirits with splashes of fruits like citrus, pomegranate and berry. Greg VanOverloop, category manager for Spartan Stores, Grand Rapids, Mich., has seen an uptick in sales of ready-to-drink cocktails, a category that boasts blends like Captain Morgan ...
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Blissful feelings may bubble up from the center of your soul today. You are likely in a romantic, sensual, or lighthearted mood and may feel driven to share your smiles and laughter with everyone you encounter. Your pleasant and upbeat attitude could put others at ease and make them feel quite comfortable. People may react to your happiness with kind words and gestures of friendliness. You may discover that your cheerful disposition seems to infect others until all those around you are as joyful as you. You can celebrate your mood and encourage others to be happier by gathering your loved ones and associates to your home for a party or feast. You'll likely feel an even greater sense of elation today when you take the opportunity to make others glad.
Joy is by its very nature contagious and when you feel truly blissful, everyone you meet will come away changed for the better. Laughter begets laughter just as smiles beget smiles, and a happy mood is readily passed from person to person through gestures, words, and expressions of mirth. Simply being in your presence can cheer people's spirits and remind them of all the blessings they ought to be thankful for. Sensing your happiness and satisfaction, they will be inspired to consider all that makes them feel bliss in their own lives. As you spread gladness throughout your social network, your loved ones will respond by passing it back to you. When you interact with others today, they will sense your good spirits and be inspired to feel joyful.
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