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X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse – Trivia FAQ
PlayStation 2
Trivia FAQ by BobDole1216
Version: 1.05 | Updated: 01/10/2006
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Chapters 4 and 5 will give you as much experience as multiple bosses! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version History: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 31, 2005 - Version 1.05: Added a submitted in-depth analysis to a question. October 17, 2005 - Version 1.04: Added a counter-inaccuracy. October 12, 2005 - Version 1.03: Added more inaccuracies. October 11, 2005 - Version 1.02: Added neoseeker and supercheats to the list of sites that have my permission to post my FAQ. October 5, 2005 - Version 1.01: Added in experience amounts for Acts 4 and 5. October 3, 2005 - Finished writing Version 1.00! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: The trivia question goes here. Answer: The answer that the game counts as correct goes here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Side Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have heard that some of the 'correct' answers are actually incorrect. However, I am not knowledgeable enough to find these inaccuracies on my own. If you e-mail me and explain why certain answers are actually incorrect, I will post your explanation with credit. All of the questions and answers are copied verbatim from the game, spelling and grammatical errors included. The only changes I made to the questions and answers were capitalization corrections (first letter/word of the answers and elements, among other things). I take pride in my writing, so please e-mail me if you find an error (either my spelling/grammar, or differences between how the game worded/spelled questions/answers and how I worded/spelled questions/answers). My e-mail is email@example.com I know the layout isn't all that pretty, but it's direct (and it's my first FAQ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Across from Professor X (near the Xtraction Point) Each correct answer gives all active characters 50 experience. Total experience: 2500 Question 1: Sabretooth's archenemy is: Answer: Wolverine Question 2: In the video game X-Men: Legends, Iceman had a crush on Answer: Alison Crestmere Question 3: Juggernaut first appeared in X-Men number: Answer: 12 Question 4: As a young man, Gambit wed an assassin named: Answer: Bella Donna Boudreaux Question 5: What is Victor Creed's mutant code name? Answer: Sabretooth Question 6: Forge has been romantically linked to: Answer: Storm Question 7: While growing up in an orphanage, Cyclops was bullied by a a boy named Nathan, who was really: Answer: Mr. Sinister Question 8: Which is true of Colossus in his armored form? Answer: Even his eyeballs become steel-like. Question 9: Beast was born a mutant because: Answer: His father was exposed to a massive amount of radiation Question 10: What is Apocalypse's real name? Answer: En Sabah Nur Question 11: Before joining the X-Men, Angel was a crime fighter who worked under the name: Answer: Avenging Angel Question 12: Abyss is able to: Answer: Pull enemies into an inter-dimensional cavity in his chest Question 13: Blink's real name is: Answer: Clarice Ferguson Question 14: What is Lorna Dane's X-Men code name? Answer: Polaris Question 15: Blob is originally from: Answer: Lubbock, Texas Question 16: Grizzly worked for which team? Answer: Six Pack Question 17: Why does Lady Deathstrike hate Wolverine? Answer: She thinks he stole her father's work in adamantium. Question 18: Quicksilver's mutant power is: Answer: Super speed Question 19: What is Polaris' mutant power? Answer: Magnetic Manipulation Question 20: Blink's protector is: Answer: Sabretooth Question 21: Which X-Man saved Polaris from Mesmero? Answer: Iceman Question 22: Before joining the Brotherhood, Blob worked at: Answer: A traveling circus Question 23: What color hair does Polaris have? Answer: Green Question 24: Quicksilver and his sister were raised by: Answer: Gypsies Question 25: What secret project did Wolverine and Sabretooth both belong to? Answer: Weapon X Question 26: Cable, Domino, Grizzly, George Washington Bridge, Hammer and Kane together form what group? Answer: Six Pack Question 27: Blink is albe to teleport: Answer: As far away as the moon. Question 28: Zealot is the bitter enemy of: Answer: Magneto Question 29: Quicksilver's real name is: Answer: Pietro Maximoff Question 30: Sabretooth made his debut in which Marvel comic book? Answer: Iron Fist Question 31: Jean's psychic powers awoke when: Answer: Her friend was hit by a car. Question 32: Juggernaut frequently partners up with which of the following mutants? Answer: Black Tom Cassidy Question 33: Who did Sabretooth have a son with? Answer: Mystique Question 34: What is Lady Deathstrike's real name? Answer: Yuriko Oyama Question 35: Who are the children of Magneto? Answer: Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver Question 36: Which Marvel hero's comic did Mystique first appear in 1978? Answer: Ms. Marvel Question 37: Lady Deathstrike's father developed a process for: Answer: Bonding Adamantium to bone Question 38: Abyss works for: Answer: Apocalypse Question 39: Where is Genosha located? Answer: The Indian Ocean Question 40: Professor Xavier attended which university? Answer: Oxford Question 41: On average, if Rogue touches a mutant for a minute, how long does she retain that mutant's powers? Answer: 60 minutes Question 42: Which of these mutants can't fly? Answer: Wolverine Question 43: What time traveling team of mutants does Blink belong to? Answer: Exiles Question 44: Who here is not a mutant? Answer: Juggernaut Question 45: What group of criminals did Lady Deathstrike join after her attempt to kill Wolverine failed? Answer: The Reavers Question 46: Blob is able to generate: Answer: A gravitational force that makes him immovable Question 47: What X-Man did Polaris have a relationship with? Answer: Havok Question 48: Forge was contracted by the U.S. government to develop a way to detect an alien race known as: Answer: Dire Wraiths Question 49: Who is Sabretooth's son? Answer: Graydon Creed Question 50: Beast was born in: Answer: Dunfee, Illinois ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Next to Forge and the Review Computer (again, near the Xtraction Point) Each correct answer gives all active characters 200 experience. Total experience: 10000 Question 1: Angel is: Answer: Extremely wealthy Question 2: Wolverine made his debut in 1974 in which comic book series? Answer: Incredible Hulk Question 3: In the video game X-Men Legends, what was the name of the base Magneto had in orbit of Earth? Answer: Asteroid M Question 4: Which of the following X-Men was at one time Apocalypse's horseman Death? Answer: Wolverine Question 5: Destiny belonged to which super villain team? Answer: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Question 6: Garokk was originally: Answer: A British sailor Question 7: In the video game X-Men Legends, who was the first playable character at the very beginning in New York City? Answer: Wolverine Question 8: How many fingers does Nightcrawler have on each hand? Answer: Three Question 9: Who is Ka-Zar's wife? Answer: Shanna O'Hara Question 10: Which person is Mystique not connected to? Answer: Mikhail Rasputin Question 11: Which X-Man was involved romantically with Magneto? Answer: Rogue Question 12: Joseph is a clone of which mutant? Answer: Magneto Question 13: Iceman's real name is Answer: Bobby Drake Question 14: Who is not a member of the Brotherhood? Answer: Lupa Question 15: As a boy, Nightcrawler's hero was: Answer: Errol Flynn Question 16: Who served alongside Cable in his mercenary group, Six Pack? Answer: Domino Question 17: What is Bishop's mutant power? Answer: Absorb energy and rechannel it Question 18: Ka-Zar's father came to the Savage Land in search of what? Answer: Anti-metal Question 19: What are Forge's powers? Answer: Inventing new technology and mystic powers Question 20: Ka-Zar was originally named: Answer: Kevin Plunder Question 21: Colossus' brother Mikhail first appeared in Uncanny X-Men number Answer: 285 Question 22: What evil villain is also known as Cain Marko? Answer: Juggernaut Question 23: Heather Cameron is known as which X-Man? Answer: Lifeguard Question 24: Magneto first appeared in 1963 X-Men number: Answer: 1 Question 25: What name does Magneto go by? Answer: Erik Lehnsherr Question 26: Mikhail is the brother of: Answer: Colossus Question 27: Colossus first learned he could turn into metal when he: Answer: Saved his sister from a runaway tractor. Question 28: In the video game, X-Men: Legends, what was the code name of the young woman the X-Men saved in New York City from Blob and Mystique? Answer: Magma Question 29: Bishop is a time traveler from which century? Answer: 21st Question 30: What is Omega Red's real name? Answer: Arkady Gregorovich Question 31: Nightcrawler was once the leader of which of the following groups? Answer: Excalibur Question 32: Pyro's real name is: Answer: St. John Allerdyce Question 33: Approximately how old is Apocalypse? Answer: 5000 yrs old Question 34: What is Sauron's real name? Answer: Karl Lykos Question 35: Shanna at one time: Answer: Worked at a zoo in New York City Question 36: Death, War, Pestilence, and Famine together form what group? Answer: The Four Horsemen Question 37: What is Pyro's mutant ability? Answer: He can control fire. Question 38: What is Sunfire's real name? Answer: Shiro Yoshida Question 39: Ororo Munroe's X-Men code name is: Answer: Storm Question 40: Omega Red's arm coils are made from what material? Answer: Carbonadium Question 41: Toad first appeared in: Answer: X-Men number 4 Question 42: Where is the Savage Land located? Answer: Antarctica Question 43: Who is Mystique's best friend? Answer: Destiny Question 44: The Savage Land is protected from freezing temperatures by: Answer: Alien Technology Question 45: Mikhail Rasputin has been: Answer: A Russian cosmonaut Question 46: Nightcrawler grew up working in a circus as: Answer: An acrobat Question 47: What animal protected Ka-Zar as he grew up in the Savage Land? Answer: A sabretooth tiger Question 48: What was Shanna known as in the Savage Land? Answer: Shanna the She-Devil Question 49: Garokk was ship wrecked in the Savage Land in what time period? Answer: 1400s Question 50: Bishop has a sister named: Answer: Shard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Second floor, on a table in the room after the one adjacent to Forge. Each correct answer gives all active characters 450 experience. Total experience: 22500 Question 1: Sunfire's sister's code name was: Answer: Sunpyre Question 2: Wolverine wound up killing the father of this woman he loved: Answer: Mariko Yashido Question 3: What Hellfire Club leader first appeared in X-Men number 129 in 1980? Answer: Sebastian Shaw Question 4: Storm was once the leader of which of the following groups? Answer: The Morlocks Question 5: What is Heather Hudson's Alpha Flight code name? Answer: Vindicator Question 6: Who oversaw the Weapon X program during Wolverine's transformation? Answer: The Professor Question 7: Who is not a member of Alpha Flight? Answer: Prism Question 8: Cyclops's father is the captain of a spaceship named: Answer: Starjammer Question 9: Which super team was Wolverine originally intended to lead? Answer: Alpha Flight Question 10: Who is the leader of the team known as the Hellions? Answer: Emma Frost Question 11: Who is Heather Hudson's husband? Answer: Guardian Question 12: There is speculation that Professor Xavier's father at one time: Answer: Was part of the Weapon X project that worked on Wolverine. Question 13: Havok's real name is: Answer: Alex Summers Question 14: What is James MacDonald Hudson's Alpha Flight code name? Answer: Guardian Question 15: Which of the following X-Mne has also been a member of The Avengers? Answer: Wolverine Question 16: Who saved Apocalypse as a child? Answer: Baal Question 17: The process of bonding Adamantium to Wolverine's bones would have killed him if not for: Answer: Wolverine's healing power Question 18: What super hero team does Heather Hudson belong to? Answer: Alpha Flight Question 19: What is Sebastian Shaw's title in the Hellfire Club? Answer: Black King Question 20: Toad is from: Answer: England Question 21: Ororo Monroe, better known as Storm, first appeared in 1975 on which comic book? Answer: X-Men Giant-Size number 1 Question 22: Where did Juggernaut find the Ruby of Cyttorak? Answer: Korea Question 23: Jean Grey's main powers are: Answer: Telekinesis, Telepathy Question 24: Which super team does James MacDonald Hudson belong to? Answer: Alpha Flight Question 25: Sebastian Shaw belongs to which New York Social Club? Answer: The Hellfire Club Question 26: Apocalypse first appeared in X-Factor number 5 in: Answer: 1986 Question 27: Who headed the facility failed Weapon X experiments, like Deadpool, were sent to? Answer: Dr. Killebrew Question 28: Cable founded which team comprised mostly from former Xavier school students? Answer: X-Force Question 29: The leader of the Brotherhood is: Answer: Magneto Question 30: What is Sebastian Shaw's mutant power? Answer: Absorb and rechannel energy Question 31: Who did Apocalypse kidnap and raise to be as cruel as he is? Answer: Stryfe Question 32: Who took control of Iceman's body and discovered his powers were greater than he realized? Answer: Emma Frost Question 33: Who is James MacDonald Hudson's wife? Answer: Vindicator Question 34: Sugar Man is originally from a timeline where: Answer: Xavier is dead and Apocalypse nearly rules the world Question 35: Magneto once raised a mysterious city from the ocean in what part of the world? Answer: The Bermuda Triangle Question 36: Who was not a subject of the Weapon X project? Answer: Shard Question 37: Betsy Braddock is known as which X-Man? Answer: Psylocke Question 38: Scarlet Witch's real name is: Answer: Wanda Maximoff Question 39: Rogue first appeared in which 1981 comic book? Answer: Avengers Annual number 10 Question 40: Before turning to crime, Pyro was a: Answer: Writer Question 41: Who were students of Emma Frost? Answer: The Stepford Cuckoos Question 42: The Weapon X facility is located in: Answer: Canada Question 43: Infinite Soldiers are clones created by: Answer: Mister Sinister Question 44: Sugar Man is a traveler from which alternate reality? Answer: The Age of Apocalypse Question 45: Sunfire is a member of Japanese super hero team known in English as: Answer: Big Hero 6 Question 46: After escaping from the Weapon X facility Wolverine was discovered and befriended by: Answer: James and Heather Hudson Question 47: What is untrue of Guardian? Answer: Is a mutant Question 48: What does Rogue absorb when she touches someone? Answer: All the above Question 49: While working for the government in Dallas, Texas, Forge had a penthouse known as: Answer: Eagle's Nest Question 50: What color is Beast's fur? Answer: Blue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Behind Professor X (room to the right after entering the mansion). Each correct answer gives 800 experience to all active characters. Total experience given: 40,000 Question 1: Nick Fury is the leader of: Answer: SHIELD Question 2: The mutant sewer dwellers of New York City are known as: Answer: The Morlocks Question 3: What is Wolverine's real name? Answer: James Howlet Question 4: Moira MacTaggert's Mutant Research Center is located: Answer: On Muir Island Question 5: In World War II, Nick Fury commanded: Answer: The Howling Commandos Question 6: Angel's secondary mutation allows him to: Answer: Accelerate his healing factor. Question 7: Banshee has the mutant power to: Answer: Generate a sonic scream. Question 8: Bastion assembled which organization? Answer: Operation: Zero Tolerance Question 9: What is the Black Queen's real name? Answer: Selene Question 10: What is the name of the machine Professor Charles Xavier uses to find mutants around the world? Answer: Cerebro Question 11: Deadpool wears a mask: Answer: To cover his scarred face Question 12: Banshee's daughter uses the code name: Answer: Syrin Question 13: Who is the evil clone of Cable? Answer: Stryfe Question 14: Colossus's sister's code name was: Answer: Magik Question 15: What is Professor Xavier's middle name? Answer: Francis Question 16: What is the Black Queen's mutant ability? Answer: Drain other's life force to maintain her beauty. Question 17: Who is the great-grandfather of Bishop? Answer: Gateway Question 18: Sean Cassiday, better known as Banshee, first appeared in 1975 in which comic book? Answer: Uncanny X-Men number 28 Question 19: Magneto once disguided himself as what mutant to infiltrate the Xavier Institute? Answer: Xorn Question 20: Sunfire's powers first manifested when: Answer: He touched radioactive soil Question 21: Deadpool is a victim of: Answer: Weapon X Question 22: Scarlet Witch's power is the ability to: Answer: Affect probability and make the improbably become possible Question 23: Who is Banshee's cousin? Answer: Black Tom Cassidy Question 24: What was the name of the boy Rogue kissed and almost killed just as her powers were beginning to emerge? Answer: Cody Robbins Question 25: Who is Kitty Pryde's loyal companion? Answer: Lockheed Question 26: Which of Apocalypse's four horsemen is Archangel? Answer: Death Question 27: As a child, Storm was a: Answer: Pickpocket in Cairo, Egypt Question 28: Toad is devoted to: Answer: Magneto Question 29: How many Adamantium claws does Wolverine have on each hand? Answer: Three Question 30: Deadpool joined the Weapon X program because: Answer: He had cancer Question 31: Who has not served in the Hellfire Club's inner circle? Answer: Lorna Dane Question 32: Which Hellfire Club member is really a non-mutant cyborg? Answer: Donald Pierce Question 33: What was Emma Frost's title in the Hellfire Club? Answer: White Queen Question 34: Who was Kitty Pryde's mentor? Answer: Wolverine Question 35: Moira MacTaggert had a son named Kevin who also went by the name of: Answer: Proteus Question 36: Which X-Man is romatically involved with Kitty Pryde? Answer: Colossus Question 37: Lockheed, Kitty Pryde's small dragon companion, first appeared on which Aliens' homeworld? Answer: The Brood Question 38: Where do Wolverine's claws appear? Answer: Between his knuckles Question 39: What is Marrow's real name? Answer: Sarah Question 40: In the video game X-Men Legends: The Rise of Apocalypse, what is the name of Magneto's secret hideaway near Genosha. Answer: Sanctuary Question 41: Bastion is really: Answer: A hybrid Sentinel in disguise Question 42: For a time, Bishop worked: Answer: As a detective Question 43: Forge was trained in magic by: Answer: The Cheyenne Shaman Naze Question 44: The Hellfire Club originally started in: Answer: London Question 45: In the video game X-Men: Legends, who is the leader of the Morlocks? Answer: Marrow Question 46: For a time, Banshee worked for: Answer: Interpol Question 47: What is the name of the room where the X-Men do their training exercises? Answer: The Danger Room Question 48: In the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw goes by the code name: Answer: Black King Question 49: Deadpool possesses the ability to: Answer: Heal quickly Question 50: Nick Fury is blind in which eye? Answer: Left ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Act 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Behind Professor X (up the stairs and to the right from the Xtraction Point). Each correct answer gives 1250 experience to all active characters. Total experience: 62,500 Question 1: Beast grew blue fur because of: Answer: A serum he took Question 2: Cable's hair is what color? Answer: White Question 3: Which of the following X-Men was at one time a host for Apocalypse? Answer: Cyclops Question 4: Ahmer Abdol is also known as: Answer: Living Monolith Question 5: In X-Men Legends 2 - Rise of Apocalypse, who was responsible for transforming the X-Man Angel into Archangel? Answer: Mr. Sinister Question 6: Bishop was a part of what security force in the future? Answer: Xavier Security Enforcers Question 7: Scott Summers works under the code name: Answer: Cyclops Question 8: Colossus has a brother named: Answer: Mikhail Question 9: Who is the one person Havok's power can't hurt? Answer: Scott Summers Question 10: Which two X-Men were at different times Death, one of Apocalypse's four horsemen? Answer: Wolverine and Angel Question 11: When Bobby Drake's powers first activated he: Answer: Was locked in jail for his own protection Question 12: When consumed by her powers, Jean Grey becomes: Answer: The Dark Phoenix Question 13: What is Mister Sinister's real name? Answer: Nathaniel Essex Question 14: Bishop's sister is named: Answer: Shard Question 15: What is the name of Apocalypse's 4 lieutenants? Answer: The Four Horsemen Question 16: What was Juggernaut's occupation when he found the Ruby of Cyttorak? Answer: Soldier Question 17: Madeline Pryor was: Answer: Created by Mister Sinister to be an exact copy of Jean Grey Question 18: Where was Apocalypse born? Answer: Egypt Question 19: Who was Bishop pursuing through time when he first encountered the X-Men? Answer: Trevor Fitzroy Question 20: Who is not related to Scott Summers? Answer: Mr. Sinister Question 21: Gambit is from: Answer: New Orleans Question 22: Apocalypse's Horsemen first appeared in 1987 in which comic book? Answer: X-Factor Question 23: Who did Magneto have twins with? Answer: Magda Question 24: What mutant team did Forge and Mystique belong to? Answer: X-Factor Question 25: What is the sound made when Nightcrawler teleports? Answer: Bamf Question 26: Who did Rogue permanently absorb the powers of? Answer: Ms. Marvel Question 27: What color hair does Ororo have? Answer: White Question 28: Which Alien race have the X-Men never encountered? Answer: Skrulls Question 29: Which of the following is not one of Wolverine's alias'? Answer: War Question 30: What is the other team that Nightcrawler and Shodowcat serve together on? Answer: Excalibur Question 31: Gambit's real name is: Answer: Remy LeBeau Question 32: Who is Kurt Wagner's adopted sister? Answer: Rogue Question 33: Professor Charles Xavier lost the use of his legs: Answer: While battling a tyrant named Lucifer in the Himalayas Question 34: Scarlet Witch first appearance was in X-Men number 4 in: Answer: 1964 Question 35: Who trained Storm in the ways of thievery as a child? Answer: Achmed El-Gibar Question 36: Who is considered by some to be the very first mutant? Answer: Apocalypse Question 37: Which member of the X-Men had previously worked for Mister Sinister? Answer: Gambit Question 38: What was Mr. Sinister's occupation when he met Apocalypse? Answer: Geneticist Question 39: Colossus is romantically involved with: Answer: Kitty Pryde Question 40: Which mutant is from the future? Answer: Bishop Question 41: Who formed the X-Men? Answer: Professor Charles Xavier Question 42: Before turning into the Living Monolith, Ahmet Abdol had been a: Answer: Professor of Archeology Question 43: Sunfire is from: Answer: Japan Question 44: What color are Nightcrawler's eyes? Answer: Yellow Question 45: What material is used in Cyclops's visor? Answer: Ruby Quartz Question 46: When Jean was manipulated into working for the Hellfire Club, she was known as: Answer: The Black Queen Question 47: Rogue is from: Answer: Mississippi Question 48: Scarlet Witch has a brother named: Answer: Pietro Question 49: Who proposed the Mutant Registration Act? Answer: Senator Robert Kelly Question 50: What are the first names of Iceman's parents? Answer: William and Madeline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trivia Inaccuracies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Note* - These are copied down [almost] exactly how they appeared in my e-mail. -Act 1, Question 31 (Not so much an inaccuracy, more like an explanation): What they don't tell you is that Jean's mind was inside her friend's mind when her friend died after being hit by the car. -Act 3, Question 3: This issue was Emma Frost's first appearance. I own it and was irritated that the game marked me wrong. http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/characters/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=1143 Act 3: Question 3: The Game is right, it is Shaw. [Havok3595] is right, it was Emma's first appearance, but it was also Shaw's. They asked for which leader, not which member of the HellFire Club. http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/b/blackking.htm -Act 4, Question 12: No biggie, Siryn (sic)'s name is just misspelled. In the game, that is...your FAQ has it as it appears there. -Act 4, Question 18: Uncanny X-Men number 28 was NOT in 1975, but in 1967. http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=20690 -Act 5, Question 28: The X-Men have encountered the Skrulls several times. In the trial of Phoenix (Uncanny X-Men #137), a supposedly impartial Skrull observer cheats to help the Imperial Guard defeat the X-Men. Some X-Men, including Xavier, were replaced by Skrulls circa Uncanny X-Men 275-277. Xavier later convinced a team of Skrulls to impersonate some of the X-Men in one of the Marvel mega-crossovers...I want to say Operation Galactic Storm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Joseph Lucko (firstname.lastname@example.com) for 'inaccuracy' 1-31. -JustMeYo for the experience given by questions from Acts 4 and 5, and for confirming that the Act 4 and 5 questions were in the correct order. -Havok3595 for the following inaccuracies: 3-3; 4-12; 4-18; 5-28. -Celtic Spawn for the inaccuracy misunderstanding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sites allowed to have this FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.GameFAQs.com www.neoseeker.com www.supercheats.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2005 to Josh Milburn. This is the work of Josh Milburn and International Copyright law protects this FAQ/Walkthrough. You can not sell, change, or post this FAQ on a website as your own. You can post it on your website as long as I receive full credit for it. If you do post it on a website, I want an e-mail from you first so I can give you the go ahead. Unless I give you permission, you are not allowed to post this FAQ on your website. I will only update the FAQ I have on http://www.GameFAQs.com
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The April 15 attacks by Taliban forces in Afghanistan raised new questions about NATO, U.S. exit strategies, and whether the Afghan government is ready to handle security responsibilities. CFR's Daniel Markey says the attacks indicate "that there are gaps in the NATO and Afghan ability to defend most anywhere in the country, but not huge gaps." Markey says the war will not be resolved without addressing the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, which was linked to the latest spate of attacks. He also says that rather than leaving as soon as possible, U.S. priorities should be focused on ensuring Afghanistan is not left "a mess," which could have deeply troubling consequences for Pakistan.
How do you read the coordinated attacks this weekend? What does it tell us about what the Afghan government is up against?
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They should probably be interpreted in a narrow sense. That is to say, what we see is that the Haqqanis or the broader Taliban network is capable of striking at a relatively low scale, but in a relatively sophisticated fashion, against places that we might have thought would be more completely defended. What this tells us is that there are gaps in the NATO and Afghan ability to defend most anywhere in the country, but not huge gaps. It's not like you're seeing mass forces challenge either Afghan or NATO forces out in the field in a way that you might if the Taliban was strong in that way. So it's a certain kind of strength for the Taliban, but you can also see why the NATO spokesperson and others are characterizing this as a sign of relative weakness on their part as well.
NATO and U.S. forces have been focused on training Afghan security forces. How do you think they did in this instance?
By most accounts, the Afghan security forces acquitted themselves well and managed to bring the threats under control; although it took in some cases up to eighteen hours, they did so with relatively low loss of life and without seeing things spiral out of control, and for that, they seem to get pretty high marks.
The problem is that you saw this set of seven coordinated attacks taking place across different cities at roughly the same time without being unmasked ahead of time. There was a clear intelligence gap here.
You can't resolve the Afghan war in a way that will be acceptable to any of the players unless you figure out what you're going to do about the Haqqanis, because they have the ability to play a spoiling role more than nearly anybody else in the equation.
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In a country like Afghanistan, where there are a lot of people who are armed, and which has suffered war for a very long time, and has a lot of people with mixed motivations--people who can be bought or coerced into joining forces with various Taliban groups--it's not surprising that you can pull off something like this. The question is if you can pull it off again and again, and at least so far, it seems like it takes a fair amount of work to do this kind of thing, and it doesn't happen every day or every week or even every month, which is good news from an American perspective.
How much effort has gone into creating a robust intelligence service inside Afghanistan?
My sense is that a great deal of effort has gone into vastly improving the U.S. and NATO collection ability over the past five years or so, and that some of that has translated into improving Afghanistan's own service, but not all. The two things still are separate and distinct and operate in somewhat different ways. My sense is that the U.S. side tends to rely more heavily on technology, on intercepting conversations and things like that, [and] on imagery, whereas the Afghans rely more heavily on human intelligence--on interrogations, on informants, and things like that.
You mentioned the Haqqani network earlier. What kind of concerns does this attack raise specifically about Pakistan's role in Afghan security?
Over the past several years, one of the central dramas has been the United States repeatedly criticizing Pakistan for either not doing enough to crack down on the Haqqani network inside its territory in North Waziristan, or more than that, possibly supporting them or facilitating their activities inside Afghanistan. And in response, the Pakistanis have either claimed they are doing all they can to stop the Haqqanis or that the Haqqanis really aren't the major problem in Afghanistan. Then increasingly, even if they are less willing to say it publicly, both side sides seem to recognize that the real question is whether the Pakistanis can bring the Haqqanis to the negotiating table, whether the Americans will accept them at the negotiating table if they were to bring them there. These types of attacks that get attributed to the Haqqanis (correctly, in my estimation) just give further reason for both sides to see that as a central part of the endgame in Afghanistan. You can't resolve the Afghan war in a way that will be acceptable to any of the players unless you figure out what you're going to do about the Haqqanis, because they have the ability to play a spoiling role more than nearly anybody else in the equation.
This is the latest in a series of escalations within Afghanistan--numerous attacks against NATO troops, riots over the Quran burnings, and the halting of talks with the Taliban. This all begs the question: Where do we go from here?
Each time you see one of these kinds of attacks, there is some sort of gut-wrenching, soul-searching anguish that maybe everything is falling apart and nothing will work, and we need to revisit all of the strategy. [But] as a practical matter, the people who are in NATO and the U.S. government and probably even within the Afghan government more or less tend to stick with the plans that they've got. Those plans are that they will continue some sort of a steady military drawdown to 2014, and then there will probably be some sort of residual force, probably as many as twenty thousand forces in Afghanistan after that, supporting Afghan security forces, and continuing to train them and back them up, with logistics and intelligence and so on, as well as political and economic support. And events like this one tend not to affect that broad outline for a strategy.
The real threat to that general strategy has more to do with the fact that the American public is less inclined to support this war than they ever have been, and that's how you get a potential for a changed strategy. When Americans hear about this kind of attack, that just [adds to] the steady drumbeat of other events in Afghanistan that you just mentioned.
What about talking to the Taliban specifically? Is there still opening for that, or is that moment passing?
There is still an opening for that, as much as there ever was. I've always been somewhat skeptical about the reconciliation and dialogue [because] I didn't see why the Taliban would really want to be a part of it if they felt like they were still able to wait out the Americans. Just because it's been publicly declared over doesn't mean somebody is not talking to someone somewhere, and so I'd be reluctant to guess what's actually happening. A very, very small number of people actually know, and unfortunately I'm not one of them.
Is there anything else you think is pertinent?
A lot of Americans are watching as this increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan draws down, and essentially just hoping that we can find some face-saving way out as fast as possible that doesn't threaten our security in the future, or threaten it to a degree that we can't manage. All of that is perfectly reasonable. The problem is that if we leave Afghanistan a mess, and by that, I mean that if we leave it in a position where groups like the Haqqani network can reassert themselves, the implications for Afghanistan could be very bad, but that would only probably be the tip of the iceberg in terms of our problems because our greater problem would then be with Pakistan.
We would see that they were continuing to facilitate [instability in Afghanistan], so our relationship with them would suffer more than it ever has. And Pakistan is a very large country by population and it's getting larger, and it's a nuclear armed country, and [we] would really be doing ourselves a disservice to end up in a relationship of conflict with them, looking into the decades into the future. So we have a real interest in trying to resolve the war in Afghanistan in a way that allows us to have a reasonably good working relationship with Pakistan as well. That should be our highest priority, not getting out as quickly as possible, although of course everybody wants that.


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Kanye West has been burgled.
Police were called to the 'Stronger' rapper's home in Los Angeles this morning by one of his entourage, who is staying there while he is on tour in the UK.
According to TMZ.com there was "evidence the thieves dropped some of Kanye's possessions on the way out."
It is not known what, if anything, has been taken from the house.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said: "I can confirm there was a burglary."
Officer Bruce Borihahn added to the Los Angeles times newspaper the attempted burglary took place at around 6:30am at the rapper's home on Fareholm Drive.
He added: "The owner wasn't home at the time, and it is unknown if any property was taken."
Kanye is currently in the UK in the middle of his Watch the Throne co-headlining tour with Jay-Z.
Kanye recently put the house, in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, up for sale, sparking rumours he was to move in with girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
Although the price wasn't listed, when he previously tried to sell the three-bedroom house in 2010, it was listed for $3,995,000.


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|FRANCES JANE BROWN -- April 15, 1819--April 16, 1914
At the age of twenty-two, Frances was married to
He was held in slavery by his own relatives. By industry he purchased his freedom, that of his only sister, Ann, his brother and his aged father. He was a man of remarkable character and intellect. The full account of his eventful life cannot now be given.
The young couple made their home in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six children were born to them; all save one reaching womanhood and manhood; Jere A.; Belle J.; Anne E.; Mary F.; Hallie Q. and John G. who was born in Salem, Ohio, the others in Pittsburgh in the homestead on Hazel Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown were industrious and accumulated considerable property. Their greatest ambition was to give their children useful education. The older ones attended private school at Avery College under such renowned instructors as Miss Amanda Wier, Prof. J. B. Vashon, Professors Freeman and Samuel Neal. Having seen the horrors of slavery together they espoused the cause of the slave and fought his battle.
Their home became a Station of the Underground Railroad . Many a hunted slave found food, shelter and encouragement while waiting to be sent to Canada. At one time a mother and her five children remained one cold winter hidden by Mrs. Brown even from the rest of the family and the knowledge of the neighobrs. At another time, a family, well-known today, escaped from Texas and were cared for in their home for weeks. A remarkable incident occurred when the slave-holder came demanding his property. The children of this family were so fair with blue eyes and golden hair, that none believed they were former slaves. Mr. and Mrs. Brown had their pictures taken, with the American flag wrapped about them, which were sold to help finance the family.


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I try to not do apocalyptic posts because I do not want to unduly alarm our readers. But I can't dodge this one because I believe the subject is genuinely disturbing.
I apologize for springing this on you all at Thanksgiving — a time when we should all be enjoying being with family and friends, instead of worrying about our finances and the condition of our country's economy.
On October 31, 2011, MF Global, a huge global financial derivatives broker, declared bankruptcy. In so doing, it became the largest Wall Street firm to collapse since the Lehman Brothers incident in September 2008, and the 8th largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
As a financial derivatives broker, MF Global provided exchange-traded derivatives, such as futures and options as well as over-the-counter products such as contracts for difference (CFDs), foreign exchange and spread betting. MF Global was also a primary dealer in United States Treasury securities.
The Wall Street Journal reported that MF Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after its misguided investment of more than $6 billion in sovereign bonds issued by some of Europe's most indebted countries. That is bad enough. But it gets worse.
MF Global broke its (and the U.S. government's) rules on keeping customer money separate from its own trading accounts, and used some of its clients' funds to invest in sovereign bonds issued by indebted European countries. When that investment went bust, leading to MF Global's bankruptcy, lost too are the clients' assets the brokerage wrongfully had used for its investment.
Here's a timeline of what happened:
- On August 31, 2011, MF Global had $7.3 billion in customer assets, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.
- On October 25, 2011 MF Global reported a $191.6 million quarterly loss as a result of trading on European government bonds.
- In response, Moody's and Fitch cut the company's credit rankings to junk.
- Through the weekend of October 29/30, the firm's board met in New York to consider options including a sale to avert failure, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. MF Global's CEO Jon Corzine, — a Democrat, former U.S. Senator, former New Jersey governor, and former Goldman Sachs chief executive — reportedly tried, unsuccessfully, to find a buyer.
- MF Global was stopped from doing new business with the New York Fed until it showed it was able to fulfill its responsibilities as a primary dealer, according to a statement on the regulator's website. Trading in MF Global's stock was halted.
- On October 30, 2011, MF Global filed for bankruptcy.
- That same day, Oct. 30, one of MF Global's units reported a "material shortfall" (translated: "missing cash") in customer funds — a shortfall estimated by James W. Giddens, the trustee overseeing the wind-down of the brokerage, to be $1.2 billion.
- That same day, the parent company froze customer accounts with $5.45 billion. It is feared that MF Global Holdings Ltd. may have moved hundreds of millions of dollars from its futures client accounts to other accounts before its Oct. 31 bankruptcy.
- On November 4, 2011, Corzine quit MF Global.
- One of MF Global's clients who lost money is Gerald Celente, the founder and publisher of The Trends Journal. Celente revealed that he has lost his gold futures funds (valuing more than six figures) that he had with Lind-Waldock, a commodities futures brokerage owned by MF Global.
- In papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, MF Global listed debt of $39.7 billion and assets of $41 billion. U.S. regulators have subpoenaed MF Global's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, for information on the segregation of assets belonging to clients trading on U.S. commodity exchanges. The company is being investigated by regulators for money missing from client accounts. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is also reviewing trades in MF Global Holdings Ltd. convertible bonds to determine whether some investors sold the debt based on confidential information before the firm's demise.
"Both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were charged with overseeing MF Global, their clearing member. If we are to believe them, they had no idea of any difficulties within the firm before customer accounts went missing just a few days before the collapse. But someone clearly knew of the cratering positions and imminent collapse of MF Global, as billions of dollars of accounts were "coincidentally" withdrawn, writes Huffington Post's Daniel Dicker, noting how funds in accounts owned by the billionaire Koch brothers were withdrawn just in time, clearly suggesting that big players got a "heads up" that MF Global was going down."
All of which led Gerald Celente, speaking to Eric King at King World News, to issue this warning to the public:
"What's the take away from this? It's to make sure you have every penny in your pocket. Because just like MF (Global) screwed everybody else, you're also gonna get the shaft, I don't care who it is. What's gonna happen when you get a message from your brokerage, from Fidelity or somebody… You have ETFs [Exchange-traded fund]? Oh, there's a little error over here, we don't have your money. We don't have your positions…. So the takeaway is to make sure you have every penny in your possession."
The MF Global bankruptcy also prompted Ann Barnhardt, the president of Barnhardt Capital Management (a cattle and grain hedge brokerage), to take the unprecedented and heroic step of shutting down her firm and liquidating all customer brokerage and options accounts, so as to prevent losses in what she says is a system that "is no longer functioning with integrity and is suicidally risk-laden. The rule of law is non-existent, instead replaced with godless, criminal political cronyism."
In a letter to her clients, Barnhardt calls the MF Global bankruptcy nothing other than theft of customer cash by Jon Corzine. She warns:
"No informed person can continue to engage these markets, and no moral person can continue to broker or facilitate customer engagement in what is now a massive game of Russian Roulette.
I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg. There is massive industry-wide exposure to European sovereign junk debt. While other firms may not be as heavily leveraged as Corzine had MFG leveraged, and it is now thought that MFG's leverage may have been in excess of 100:1, they are still suicidally leveraged and will likely stand massive, unmeetable collateral calls in the coming days and weeks as Europe inevitably collapses. I now suspect that the reason the Chicago Mercantile Exchange did not immediately step in to backstop the MFG implosion was because they knew and know that if they backstopped MFG, they would then be expected to backstop all of the other firms in the system when the failures began to cascade – and there simply isn't that much money in the entire system. In short, the problem is a SYSTEMIC problem, not merely isolated to one firm."
Karl Denninger was the CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers. He is a founding contributer to conservative blog, The Market Ticker, and was one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He now supports the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is the author of Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World, November 2011. In his Market Ticker of Nov. 22, 2011 (h/t FOTM's Joseph!), Denninger wrote:
"We're done folks.
CNBC is reporting that there are now clients running out of the markets entirely because they do not believe their customer funds are safe.
That's the end of it. The belief that there are more MF Globals has now taken hold. The thieves have pushed it too far and now we've got the start of a global liquidity run, and with good reason.
The authorities both in the regulatory side and on the prosecutorial side have refused to put a stop to the thievery and now the risk factors have turned into realized risk.
The market is done folks. You can be right but if you make your bet in the markets, are right, and then get screwed anyway when someone steals the money and nobody goes to jail there comes a time when people begin to understand that it can happen to them and will unless they depart the market.
We're there folks.
Oh sure, there will be rallies and there will be selloffs. But there is no longer a market, there is no longer a thing to trade, and there is no longer a reason to believe that superior analysis will lead to profit or even safety.
This isn't just about speculators – it is also about farmers, shippers, airlines, manufacturing concerns, everyone in business who has a need to hedge.
More than four years ago I said that the government had to step in and demand that both off-balance sheet games be ended permanently and in all forms and that all derivatives had to be put on an exchange, without exception, and that every dollar of underwater position had to be backed by an actual dollar of capital in real money, held and known to be safe.
The regulators refused and now it appears that what was put up on a regulated exchange was effectively stolen.
Well folks, then none of your investment accounts — not your IRA, 401k, not even your bank account — is safe.
Diversification is a strategy but the risk remains. It is up to you to decide how much you're willing to risk losing to a crook. If the answer is "none" or you cannot reduce the at-risk portion of your assets to what you're willing to lose to fraud then you can no longer participate in the market at all, in any form, nor even do business with a bank.
That sucks, but it is what it is and if this meme spreads — and it will until it's stopped — we run the risk of a "sudden stop" economic event.
I hope you're ready for it — I am to the best of my ability, and you ought to be."
What this all means is the following:
- The contract between financial corporations like MF Global and the people is broken.
- The "little people" entrust their hard-earned cash to the corporation to manage, for a handsome fee. But, instead of stewarding their clients' money, the corporation takes that money to invest in dubious vehicles, such as government bonds issued by heavily indebted countries — without their clients' knowledge, much less permission. Put bluntly, this is theft.
- Our government is supposed to regulate and supervise the financial corporations' activities. But the regulators, as in the case of Bernie Madoff, didn't and do not do what taxpayers are paying them to do.
- The corporation's investments go bust. It declares bankruptcy. Its clients' monies have disappeared or are "frozen" (which means the same thing: You can't withdraw your money from the institution).
- Bankruptcy means the corporation's total debts are more than its total assets, which means there is no money to pay the clients. And since the various financial instruments offered by brokerages such as MF Global are not government-insured, this means the clients cannot recover their money, unless Congress decides to step in with a bail-out, which only means even more debt for an already broke United States of America.
This is not the first time a large financial institution has robbed and lost the money of its clients. Think the S&L crisis of the 1980s, the Madoff investment scandal in 2008. and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy of 2008.
Nor is this the first time government regulators failed to do their job.
When institutions — financial and government — violate their compact with the people, basic trust erodes. But societies, especially highly complex societies like ours, cannot operate without a certain level of basic trust. In its place, we increasingly see short-sighted selfishness and rapacious greed. It's every man for himself….
I'm not a financial adviser and I'm not offering any financial advice here. But if you have any money invested with brokerages, get professional independent financial advice. Better yet, learn about the various investment vehicles by reading and listening to financial advisers on talk radio. It's not really that complicated. Then, THINK FOR YOURSELF.
On Nov. 23, 2011, a judge ruled that MF Global's clients won't be allowed to form a committee to represent their interests in bankruptcy court.
Gary Gensler, the head of CFTC — the federal government agency that's supposed to oversee MF Global — just so happens to have worked under Jon Corzine when both were at Goldman Sachs.
Jon Corzine, who has been publicly silent since his brokerage's spectacular collapse, has been asked to appear before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House financial Services Committee on 15 December. Read about his hearing, here.


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Rum Review: Newfoundlander's White Rum
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 6, 2011
It started well over one hundred years ago when fishing fleets from Newfoundland, with their cargo of Northern Cod and North Atlantic Tuna, traveled south and established a tradition of trade for the Caribbean Elixir, known as rum. This trade established Newfoundland as one of the major portals for the legal import (and of course a little illegal smuggling) of rum into Canada.
There have always been a good variety of rum brands on the shelves of my local liquor store which began their journey westward across Canada from the easternmost Province of Newfoundland. These rums are imported from the Caribbean in bulk, then bottled and branded in St. John's Newfoundland, and as a result can trace their ancestry to those original fishing fleets that bartered Cod for Rum.
One of these brands, Newfoundlander's Rum, made a splash about a year ago with a new style and presentation that rejected the pirated clichés of the rum marketing gurus and instead embraced the heritage of Newfoundland's rocky shores and its naval tradition. Stunning artwork from Canadian artist David Blackwood adorned the labels in narrative designs that told a story of the proud Newfoundland people who live their lives near and on the sea. It is a life bound by tragedy and hope as the residents of Newfoundland are blessed by the ocean's bounty; yet they are always at its mercy.
I was given a bottle of Newfoundlander's White Rum this Christmas as a gift from a good friend, and I decided that I should share my impressions of this rum here on my blog.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"…The light caramel flavour of the rum is firm, and I taste no bitter off-notes. There is a tinge of alcohol bite which tastes slightly sharp, but I also taste the light candy flavours I noticed in the nose and an every so soft progression of mint. Vanilla notes are present, as is a light almond flavour…"
You may read the full review here:
Rum Review: Newfoundlander's White Rum
As well I have included a few cocktails which work well with the Newfoundlander's White Rum including The Pink Rocket and The Gentle Hammock.
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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
Here's a challenge: Change how you sell, practice the new approach I outline here for 90 days, and if you aren't selling more cars and making more money, give me call.
This is what I want you to change: Stop waiting for and chasing ups!
Waiting for ups is a losing game. If your goal is to earn $100,000 a year selling cars, your selling habits have to change to make that possible.
What do you have to change? As the saying goes, just about everything. I guarantee you, however, if you do the payoff will be significant – for you and the dealership employing you!
The bad math of ups selling
Earning $100K or more a year selling cars these days is entirely possible. Didn't you become a car sales professional because you wanted to control your destiny and get well paid for the effort?
Well, let me ask you, how's that plan going for you?
How many units do most sales associates sell these days, six to eight a month? Considering today's mini commissions on new car sales and tighter margins on used units, only an unmarried person living rent-free with mom and dad can make it long term selling just six to eight units a month.
Here's the math. A typical new-car mini commission of $100 times eight new car sales a month equals $800. Even if half those sales were used units with commissions of $800 per vehicle plus four-new sales with $100 minis, the total monthly commission check would be $3,600 (minus any shared F&I). Better for sure, but you didn't get into car sales to earn just $43K a year did you?
A better formula
If you want to earn $100K a year and really enjoy selling cars for a living, here's how I suggest you change your selling process.
My final suggestion is valid whether you take me up on my challenge or chose to pursue your status quo, and it is this:
Maximize every minute of your day on the job. To earn $100,000 selling cars eight hours a day, five days a week, recognize that your time value is 92 cents or so a minute. How you go about maximizing the potential of those 2,400 minutes a week is up to you.
You can fiddle too much of those precious minutes away hoping you'll get the next up or you can prospect the sales opportunities residing in your database, working customer households and customer referrals, all potential new business for the sales associate who truly wants to earn $100,000 or more a year selling cars.
Do you have the drive, desire, discipline and motivation to make a good living selling cars?
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Thanks for the comments! Great addition Jim.
excellent list Patrick. All the good basics. May I add one more. BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU DO! The most successful salespeople..selling the most vehicles, making the most money CONSISTENTLY are the ones who are openly proud of what they do and tell everyone...everywhere...every time they get the chance. They tell friends, relatives, neighbors, fellow parishoners, meeting goers...even strangers they meet in an elevator! This is a great business for people who believe in themselves and what they do.
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A relationship with Jesus Christ begins with your admission that you need God. You must admit you need God to do three things:
1. You need God to forgive you of your sins, those attitudes or actions that don't meet God's standards.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
(1 John 1:8-9).
2. You need God to give you eternal life.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Romans 6:23).
3. You need God to show you His purpose for your life.
"The thief [Satan] does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I [Jesus] have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
(John 10:10).
B. Believe That Jesus Died For Your Sins
The penalty for your sin is death. God loves you so much, He provides a way for you to escape that penalty.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
(John 3:16).
Jesus can and will save anyone from an eternity without God. He died and rose again for your justification , to right your relationship with God.
Believe that Jesus Rose From The Dead
"He [Jesus] was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification."
(Romans 4:25).
Belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus for your sins is essential for salvation, but it is not enough.
"You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble."
(James 2:19).
C. Confessing Jesus as Lord means to commit total control of your life to Christ. You give him the ownership of your life. He becomes your new boss. If you confess Jesus as Lord of your life, the Bible says you will be saved.
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
(Romans 10:9-10).
Jesus said "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
If you don't already know Jesus as your Lord and Savior and are ready to Admit, Believe and Confess, you may want to say a prayer something like this...
Dear God, I admit I am a sinner in need of you. Please forgive me of my sins and give me abundant life here on earth and eternal life with you in heaven. I believe Jesus died and rose again for my sins. I confess Jesus as Lord and Savior of my life. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Space weather
Auroras are the weird dancing lights in the sub-polar skies that have fascinated us for centuries. They appear when eruptions on the Sun disturb Earth's space environment.
Solar storms can be troublesome to modern technology, they can endanger astronauts and satellites, and at ground level they can disrupt communications, computers, power supplies and navigation systems.
For these reasons, space weather is a hot topic for scientific research. It is also a matter of vigilance, with spacecraft watching for events on the Sun that may cause trouble in our part of the Solar System, minutes or days later.
Eruptions on the Sun can produce a sequence of events in space and in Earth's vicinity, although not all of the elements are apparent every time.
After being produced in the Sun, flashes of X-rays and ultraviolet rays arrive at Earth in 8 minutes. After hitting the atmosphere, they cause disturbances in the ionosphere, which reflects radio signals.
Changes in the ionosphere can interrupt short-wave radio transmissions and cause errors in navigation systems.
Also at high speed, but following curved paths, solar protons and other energetic particles from the Sun reach Earth in an hour or two. They can harm astronauts, damage spacecraft and if they reach the ground they can cause errors in computers.
Gusts and shocks in the solar wind due to an eruption take a few days to reach Earth. When they arrive, they buffet the Earth's magnetic shield, the magnetosphere, causing a magnetic storm, which makes compass needles wander.
The varying magnetic field can provoke damaging surges of current in long metallic structures such as power lines and pipelines. The magnetic disturbances can also dump particles from space into the upper air, where they cause auroras.
The various solar effects all tend to heat the outer atmosphere of Earth and make it swell. Low-orbiting satellites running into denser air than usual may lose energy and fall.
Telecommunications and weather satellites in higher geostationary orbits may suffer in a different way. If a gust in the solar wind squeezes the shield of the magnetosphere severely, the satellites may find themselves outside the shield, and more exposed to damaging particles.
However, in one respect the solar storms themselves shield Earth. They reduce the intensity of cosmic rays, the energetic emissions reaching Earth from outside our Solar System. Major storms can cause a big drop in the cosmic-ray count for a day or two. Over longer periods the average cosmic-ray count falls as solar activity increases during the 11-year sunspot cycle.
A multinational space fleet, the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Programme (ISTP), is busy making better sense of the Sun's behaviour and its effects on Earth. Six of the spacecraft have been built in Europe for joint ESA-NASA missions.
These projects are SOHO (1995), which is the multi-purpose flagship of the solar space fleet, Ulysses (1990), now retired which flew over the poles of the Sun, and Cluster (2000), with four identical satellites promising the first 3D views of the non-stop battle between solar storms and Earth's magnetic field.


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How About Us?
- Federal agents raided government offices in south suburban Crestwood on Wednesday, less than two weeks after a Tribune investigation revealed the village had secretly pumped drinking water from a polluted well for more than two decades.
Acting on a search warrant obtained by U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald's office, investigators from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spent most of the day collecting records from Crestwood Village Hall, the public works department and the Police Department. They carted away several boxes of documents and took computers for further review.
Last week, Shortshanks celebrated 20 years of looting not only the City of Chicago, but the County of Cook and the State of Illinois of billions in crooked contracts, shady land deals, land give-aways, questionable campaign contributions, pension grabs, rigged voting, the list is damn near endless, and for 20 years, the US Attorney's Office can't be bothered to protect 2.8 million city residents, 8 million county dwellers and 12+ million Illinoisans.
Maybe enforcement is based on percentage of tax paying individuals?
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Last January, trying to get some deals on leftovers, Mrs. Grumpy and I hit a Mikasa outlet store after the holidays.
Mrs. Grumpy: "Do you have any Hanukkah stuff?"
Clerk: "No, we only carry Mikasa."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
oops ... cultural (religious) sensitivity training required!
happy hanukkah to you and your family.
This morning at Starbucks (coffee:webhill::diet coke:Ibee Grumpy) a woman was loudly expostulating with her companion regarding the use of the word "menorah." "We need to take a stand. We shouldn't say 'menorah' anymore. We should call it a holiday candelabra. Because if we can't say Christmas Tree, they shouldn't be allowed to say menorah." I was quivering with restraint. Because menorah already just means "candelabra." Saying "holiday candelabra" is already more specific than just saying "menorah." If you want to forbid us from saying a word, don't let us say Chanukkiah, and make us say menorah (or candelabra) instead, I guess. Or, you yourself if you want to take a stand against the use of holiday-specific words, use the word menorah instead of the word Chanukkiah. To clarify - a menorah is a candelabra with seven or eight branches, as used for worship in the ancient temple, or used at other times for whatever purposes (in modern usage. Biblically it did refer to the one used in the Temple). The menorah used at Chanuka, aka the Chanukkia, has 9 braches - 8 for the holiday candles and 1 for the extra used to light the others.
So take that, annoying starbucks lady who calls Jewish people "them!"
Thanks for posting! Love the song, love Tom Lehrer. One of my favorites!
Love Tom Lehrer, hadn't heard this one before.
And it looks like there are some of your grumpy relatives here also! Lighten up Francis!
Love the Tom Lehrer song! I don't recall ever hearing it before. Earlier today I was listening to Adam Sandler's Chanukah song. But Geez Louise!! How on earth could someone live in the modern world and not know what Hanukkah is?? Good Grief!!
There are a plethora of holidays this month (hence my Appropriate Holidays cards & stuff. Over the years I've had friends who celebrated each and every one (as well as multiples thereof. Mikasa. ::rolls eyes::
Well one would think that coming off the good will following from Turkey Day that we could deal with
Hanukkah and Christmas , rather than the festival of lights and the holidays.
Big uproar out East cause the athiest hung a billboard over the Lincoln Tunnel, hmmm just in time for .........
It's Chanukah already?
Happy Hannukah!
Whenever I hear anyone complain about "political correctness" they are actually lamenting the loss of privilege of THEIR group. WATBs!
Some non-Jewish types are more clued in than others.
My son got a phone call yesterday almost exactly an hour before sunset, from an old friend wishing him a happy Hanukkah.
His response--it wasn't sunset yet.
But it was, you see, in North Carolina.
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Wyoming Insurance License Requirements
All Texas Insurance licenses have essentially the same requirements:
- Study for exam ($60 - $199)
- Pass an exam with a 70% or higher ($62)
- Complete a background check through fingerprinting ($42)
- Submit an complete application
- Pay the required fee to the state (usually $50)
Study For Exam:
Studying comprises of a two-day live classroom course and then online practice tests. You may also study completely online without a classroom, but it is recommended to attend a class for quicker licensing and the classroom courses include online studying as well. If you attend a classroom course, you will likely be ready to take the exam within a week, if you study online online, it may take upwards of a month.
Click here to enroll in your class
Select your exam from the list above, or scroll down to view the different requirements for each line of insurance, most tests will cost $62 and will require a 70% or higher to pass. Most people will only need one of these exams:
Life, Accident & Health (known as Group 1)
- Sells: Life, Health, Accident, Supplemental and Annuities
Property & Casualty (known as Group 2)
- Sells: Home, Auto, Business, Bonds, and Workers Comp
Your exam will be scheduled/paid for through www.pearsonvue.com/tx/insurance and will be completed at their location on their computer. All exams are timed and multiple choice of A, B, C, D questions ranging from easy to difficult questions. Questions use formats such as these: Which of the following is TRUE, NOT TRUE, EXCEPT, MOST LIKELY, BEST DESCRIBES. Typically leaving you with two answers that could be correct but you have to pick the best answer.
You will find out immediately after your exam that you have passed.
Finger printing may be scheduled either before your exam or after your exam and will cost roughly $42. There will be a background check performed through the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Here is how to complete the background check:
- Print out the Fast Pass Form and complete sections 2 & 3
- Schedule the fingerprints at http://www.identogo.com/
- Bring the Fast Pass Form with you to your fingerprinting.
- The results will be electronically submitted to the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI)
If you have something in your background, you may still obtain a license, but you may have a few hoops to jump through. Obtain a copy of the police report from your incident, write a brief summary of what happened and why it happened and obtain a letter of recommendation from 2 trusted people. You may submit all of that information to TDI with your license application and it will expedite the process. The only people that have licenses declined are typically people convicted of fraud, burglary, robbery etc. and their application is only declined for 5 years.
Submitting an Application to TDI:
After you have passed your exam and completed your fingerprints, you will need to submit your application to the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) along with a payment of $50. The easiest way to submit your application is by going online to: https://www.sircon.com/produceredge/texas/ . Sircon is the parent company of Pearson Vue and is the administrator of licenses and exams within the state of Texas. You may also submit a paper application, but it is strongly discouraged.


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Fulham St Andrew's
The Club was born when a school teacher and churchwarden formed a team for local boys at Fulham St Andrew's Church in 1879. Although cricket initially took the priority, seven years later, the team won their first silverware, the West London Amateur Cup, beating St Matthew's 2-1 in the Final.
New name, new home
In outgrowing its origins the Club's title was shortened to Fulham Football Club in January 1889, meaning the original nickname of the Saints had to be dropped.
As results improved and progress was made, we also found ourselves a new home – moving from park pitches, pub changing rooms and a groundshare with Wasps Rugby Club to a seven-acre site located on the north bank of the Thames.
Craven Cottage
In 1896, after two years of development, the Club finally took residence in their new home – one that would not only match our ambitions but also offer a more secure foundation to move forward.
Fulham won their first home game too, beating Minerva 4-0 in the Middlesex Senior Cup, and very quickly the symbolic relationship between Club and ground was forged. To this day, few clubs can claim to be more synonymous with its home.
Onwards and upwards
Having gained professional status on 12th December 1898, Fulham rose from the Southern League divisions to reach the national Football League in September 1907.
In our first season we would finish fourth and just short of promotion from Division Two, although we did reach the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup, as we would again in 1936.
It may have taken us a little while to reach the top division, but promotion to Division One was finally secured for the 1949/50 season as Fulham went up as Division Two champions.
The 50s and 60s
After struggling to adjust to the step up, Fulham finished bottom of the First Division at the end of the 1951/52 campaign. We had to wait seven seasons for a return, although the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup were reached for a third time in 1958.
With that momentum, the Club pushed on and made it back to the top for the 1959/60 season to usher in what is largely considered as one of the most exciting eras in Fulham's history.
The Club would spend nine seasons in the top flight (our longest spell outside of the Barclays Premier League years), thanks largely to a wonderfully talented group that included the great Johnny Haynes, Tony Macedo, George Cohen, Jim Langley, Alan Mullery, Bobby Robson, Graham Leggat, Fred Callaghan and Rodney Marsh.
Wembley heroes
Having slipped down to Division Three by the 1969/70 season, the FA Cup Final was the unprecedented highlight of the 1970s. Having reached the Semi-Final for a fourth time in 1962, Fulham finally made the Wembley showpiece in May 1975 after a staggering 11-game run (a never-to-be-beaten record of most games en-route to the final) that included six replays.
Then a Division Two club, Fulham would meet Division One West Ham United in the final – a match that would sadly end in a 2-0 defeat. However, against all the odds we had finally got to the Final and in going close the side, led by Captain Mullery, would be remembered for many years to come.
Darker days
While a number of high-profile players like Bobby Moore and George Best had joined during the mid to late 1970s, promotion back to the top division had still proved elusive.
As the Club bobbed up and down between the second and third tier, Malcolm Macdonald's young side of the early 1980s did offer a moment of hope only to be denied on the final day of the 1982/83 campaign.
Mounting financial pressures followed and as a result the majority of the Club's key players were sold as Fulham again dropped to Division Three. In 1987 the situation worsened and the Club came dangerously close to extinction. Only the intervention of a group led by ex-player Jimmy Hill just about kept Fulham in business.
Form continued to wane out on the pitch, and by the end of the 1995/96 season we recorded our worst ever league finish in ending the campaign 17th out of 24 in Division Three.
Rising from the ashes
Former player Micky Adams would help steer the Club out of danger when he took control of Team affairs in March 1996 with Fulham occupying 91st spot in the football pyramid. With confidence improved and the squad strengthened (albeit on a very small budget), the Team started the 1996/97 campaign in positive fashion and never really looked back achieving promotion with four games to spare. Fulham's ascent was under way.
The Al Fayed Era
Mohamed Al Fayed took control of the Club in the summer of 1997 and on his arrival promised top-flight football within five years. The revolution began with the appointment of Kevin Keegan and the funding of Club record signings Paul Peschisolido (£1.1m) and Chris Coleman (£2.1m).
Very quickly Al Fayed's Fulham blazed a trail through the lower divisions and even knocked Aston Villa and Southampton out of cup competitions. The Whites were crowned Division Two champions in May 1999 but Keegan's success came at a price as he was headhunted for the post of England manager. After a brief period of juggling both roles, he was replaced by Paul Bracewell at Craven Cottage.
Despite a bright start, the 1999/2000 campaign proved a frustrating one for Bracewell who was then replaced by Jean Tigana.
The Barclays Premier League years
The Chairman's five-year plan was achieved in four as Fulham returned to the top flight as Division One champions after a 33 year absence. The Whites were off the top spot for just two weeks throughout the 2000/01 campaign. In the process they also shattered Nationwide League records for the most wins (30), fewest defeats (5), highest points total (101), best goal difference (58) and highest individual scorer (Louis Saha 27).
We were to finish a respectable 13th in our debut Barclays Premier League season, a campaign that was made even more memorable when the Club was offered the chance to take part in the Intertoto Cup in the summer of 2002. As a result, Fulham would go on to lift the trophy when beating Bologna 5-3 in a two-legged Final, before reaching the UEFA Cup Third Round.
An indifferent 2002/03 domestic campaign saw former player Coleman appointed as Manager with five games remaining, and the Welshman would help steer Fulham to safety by taking 10 points from a possible 15. The following term, Fulham went on to achieve a new highest-league placing of ninth, despite the record sale of Saha to Manchester United for £12m.
With league guidelines dictating that Craven Cottage must be an all-seater stadium, Fulham would leave their temporary Loftus Road abode to make a triumphant return to a transformed home for the 2004/05 campaign – a year that also saw the Club celebrate its 125th anniversary.
A Clint Dempsey goal in a 1-0 defeat of Liverpool would save Fulham from the drop with one game of the 2006/07 season remaining, as Manager Lawrie Sanchez (who replaced Coleman in April 2007) helped guide the Team to safety. Despite considerable backing, Sanchez was unable to ignite his charges during the following campaign with Roy Hodgson installed as our fourth Premier League Manager in December 2007.
With that appointment, Fulham's 'Great Escape' began and a remarkable turnaround in results prompted a stunning end-of-season revival which saw the Club beat the drop with just 14 minutes of the season remaining.
In Hodgson's first full season in charge, Fulham would record their most successful season at the top, finishing seventh and guaranteeing European football for the following term.
Improbably improving on the fabulous 2008/09 season, Fulham became the toast of Europe as they disposed of UEFA Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk, Italian giants Juventus, German champions VfL Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV in a stunning journey to the inaugural UEFA Europa League Final – where only a heart-breaking late extra-time winner by Atletico Madrid denied the Club a fairytale win.
In August 2010, Mark Hughes succeeded Hodgson as Manager and the Club achieved another top 10 Premier League finish, ending the 2010/11 campaign in eighth place. An exemplary disciplinary record also earned a spot in the Europa League qualifying places.
Following the sudden departure of Hughes, Martin Jol was installed as Manager in July 2011. With a shift in philosophy, Fulham adopted a more attack-minded, free-flowing style – which yielded the very memorable 6-0 rout of West London rivals Queens Park Rangers.
Impressive defeats of Arsenal at the Cottage and Liverpool at Anfield followed as Fulham enjoyed a prosperous second half of the 2011/12 season and recorded a third top 10 finish in four years in claiming ninth spot.
The 2012/13 campaign began well enough as Fulham sat top of the table after an opening day thrashing of Norwich City 5-0, but the remainder of the season was plagued by inconsistency.
Following the Whites' thrilling 3-2 victory over QPR on 1st April, only four more points were gained (a draw at Aston Villa and win at Swansea City on the final day) as Fulham had to settle for a 12th-placed finish in the Premier League.
That form continued into the new season. Despite a narrow opening day triumph at Sunderland, Martin Jol's men found themselves in the relegation zone come November, with a 3-0 defeat at West Ham United proving to be the Dutchman's last game in charge.
He was replaced by René Meulensteen who had been brought in to assist his compatriot. Performances did improve but the team continued to struggle for consistency, as emphasised by the Christmas period which saw an impressive 2-1 win at Norwich followed up by a 6-0 hammering by Hull City.
Meulensteen won his following game against West Ham on New Year's Day, but was relieved of his duties on Valentine's Day with Fulham languishing in 20th position.
Highly rated German manager Felix Magath was the man brought in and tasked with pulling off another 'Great Escape' and he came close to making the perfect start only for a late goal to earn West Bromwich Albion a point in a 1-1 draw at The Hawthorns.
Three wins in five games towards the end of the campaign gave fans hope, but relegation was confirmed on the penultimate weekend of the season when our 4-1 defeat by Stoke City, coupled with relegation rivals Sunderland's shock win at Old Trafford, meant it was mathematically impossible to survive.


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Zac Posen
Known worldwide for his womenswear, American fashion designer Zac Posen launched his namesake collection at 21, quickly gaining critical respect. He has earned some of fashion's most prestigious honors, and become a mentor in design. Having built his signature style by combining couture techniques with striking innovation, his fashions have become staples on the red carpet.
Raised in New York and trained at both Parson's School of Design and London's renowned Central Saint Martins University, Zac's vision of modern American glamour and downtown sensibility enables women to be their most alluring, empowered selves. Having launched bridal and accessories specialty collections that elaborate on his distinctive artistic sensibilities, Zac now brings his unique aesthetic to a stunning, feminine collection of fine jewelry.


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The IMSc and Perimeter Institute share a memorandum of understanding to encourage scientific exchange and collaborations. Rafael Sorkin, a Senior Researcher at Perimeter, is currently on a scientific visit to the IMSc. He will take part in the celebration with a public talk on Geometry from Order and Number: Causal Sets. More information regarding all of the Golden Jubilee activities can found on the IMSc celebration webpage, including a listing of participants and online registration details.
Further Exploration
About the Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, founded in 1962 and based in Chennai, India, is a national institution which promotes fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences: Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, as well as in many interdisciplinary fields. More details here.


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Like one of the other movies I've Movie Night'ed before, Moon, Cabin in the Woods is one of those films that gets worse the more you really talk about it, so I'll try to keep things brief. The main point is that if you have any vaguely intellectual interest in horror as a genre, or in fiction as a carefully constructed wireframe of enforced and subverted tropes, you should really see this movie.
The one thing I feel like I can say about Cabin in the Woods without spoiling anything is that while you might have a general hunch as to what direction things might be going at any given time, the film never fails to twist your predictions ever so slightly, and you'll feel like anything can happen, because it can. I hope I haven't said too much. [Amazon Instant]


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Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline
Event Description
Adapted by Chris Coleman
Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's most fantastical plays, making it a perfect fit for our magical 40th! A brilliant princess, an evil queen, a misguided king and a thoroughly rotten clown are just some of the characters in this fairy tale romance, made even more whimsical and theatrical by Chris Coleman's six-person adaptation, in which five actors and a musician play all the parts!
Dates: Preview June 29, Opens July 1, Runs July 5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 21, 27, 29, August 2, 4, 10, 12
Location: Ewing Manor
Cost: $12-49
Time: 7:30 – 10 p.m.
Pre-Show activities begin at 6 p.m. on the green at Ewing. For more information, please visit our website: www.IllinoisShakes.com
If you will need special accommodations, please contact the event organizer.


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FOX's 'Gotham' TV Series: Bruce Wayne Casting Call Reveals New Details
Given how FOX's upcoming Batman prequel TV series 'Gotham' had been burning through casting announcements over the past week, we expected a young Bruce Wayne to emerge as the very last. And while we might meet our new Batman-in-training over the weekend, we at least have the casting call to determine what qualities 'Gotham''s Bruce Wayne will have.
Comic Book Therapy managed to obtain the official casting call for the series regular role of Bruce Wayne, confirming what we learned in January, that the character would have a strong presence in the series, even without donning the cape and cowl until its very end. It remains to be seen exactly how 'Gotham' could incorporate Bruce Wayne without the character hanging around Detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) at the police station all the time, but for now at least, here's what the tragedy-struck youth will embody:
11, son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Dark haired, handsome, soulful, wise, strong willed. A kid with tragic gravitas…..SERIES REGULAR
So, pretty much a height-challenged Batman. We're not entirely up on our child actors of late, but who can you think of that might fit the bill?
In any case, FOX's 'Gotham' will explore "the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains that made Gotham famous," with its pilot supposedly featuring Gordon's investigation of the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The pilot will also be written and executive produced by 'The Mentalist"s Bruno Heller, along with Warner Bros. Television, and directed by 'Judge Dredd' helmer Danny Cannon. It has been confirmed that 'Gotham' will not have any direct ties to Ben Affleck's take on the Dark Knight for 'Man of Steel' follow-up film 'Batman vs. Superman' or The CW's 'Arrow' series.
Cast in known roles thus far are Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Robin Lord Taylor ('The Walking Dead') as a young Oswald Cobblepot, Sean Pertwee ('Elementary') as Alfred Pennyworth, 'Burn Notice' star Zabryna Guevara as Gordon's GCPD boss Captain Essen, and Erin Richards as Gordon's fiancée Barbara Kean.
Well, what do you think? Will Bruce Wayne's presence somewhat make up for a lack of cape and cowl? How might FOX's 'Gotham' show the caped crusader in a light we've never seen explored before?