Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

A late Ming gazetteer for Hsiao-kan county in Hupeh province observed, after listing abuses in the assessment and exaction of various levies, that 'people living in the villages have to provide twice as much as those who live in towns, and those in economically distressed circumstances provide twice as much again as the [ordinary] countryfolk'.

This procedure is termed transnormalization. Using variables that are transnormalized is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the joint distribution to be multi-normal. However, tests to date have shown that joint normality is a good assumption whenever the variables have been selected by nature, as opposed to having been selected artificially by man. Predictors selected by man, such as time of day, are included in the TRP equation as marginal variables.

Give the tenniswomen their own grandslams: the first 2 days for the women with a 16 players draw and playing two matches a day which is easy because they play best of three matches only.