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Early History
In Neighborhood
Of Hammer Cemetery
From the
Lincoln Sentinel-Republican
, 1 July 1954
Early History Of Lincoln County
Recounted by Former Resident
At the Memorial day services held at the Eckelman grove near the Hammer cemetery on Sunday, May 30, the following history depicting some of the early history of that part of Lincoln county, written by Arthur J. Stanley, former resident, but who now lives in Kansas City, was read by John McCurdy as a part of the program:
The Hammer cemetery is located in the northeast corner of the NW 1/4 of Section 3, Township 13 S, Range 7. This quarter section was railroad land, meaning within the limits of the government grant to the Kansas Pacific railroad. This quarter section was purchased by Hiram Hammer in the 1870s. He had homestead the NE 1/4 of Section 4-13-7. An emigrant lost a child and Hiram Hammer permitted its parents to bury it in the corner of his farm, there being no established cemetery here then. Then later on, about 1874, a nephew of Hiram Hammer, named Spencer Hammer, who lived with his uncle, died and it was intended to have the interment at Lincoln, but the Saline river was in flood, and not being able to get to Lincoln, Spencer Hammer, a soldier in the Civil War, was buried in the northeast corner of what is now the cemetery.
Other internments were made there in the 1870s and in 1879 the Hammer Cemetery Association (corporation) was chartered by the state for 20 years. In 1899, the residents interested in this cemetery renewed the charter for 99 years, thus making its expiration in 1998. Jehu Stanley was the first president of the corporation and remained as such until his death in 1894 and Jonathan Pitcher was the secretary. The cemetery was surveyed and platted and the plat is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds at Lincoln.
The earliest settler in the immediate vicinity was John Blount, who was born in Virginia, April 14, 1797, at a time when George Washington was president of the United States, and who died Jan. 1, 1880, on his homestead, which was the NE 1/4 of Section 2-13-7, just south of the grove where these exercises are held. He settled there in 1869. He was the father-in-law of Joshua Kindlesparger who homesteaded soon after at the place, afterward called the Colbert Store and post office . Blount's arrival was soon followed by Hiram Hammer, Samuel Donley, Richard Keating, his brother, Michael, his sister Nora, afterwards Mrs. Reuben Sparks, and their mother, Wm. Gourley, G.G. Lang, his brother Luther Lang, Charles Anderson, Peter A. Nelson, Jehu Stanley, Daniel L. Hawk, D.P. Webb, G.W. Joslin, grandfather of our present county clerk and many others, who came in the very early 1870s. All of the above stuck to the task and endured the prairie and met the vicissitudes incident to homesteading, notwithstanding the lack of roads, schools, churches, post offices, all of which they helped to establish in due times. Most of those named above and a few others built dugouts, with dirt roofs, and in some instances, dirt floors with fireplaces for heating and cooking.
There were very few springs and each settler dug and walled a well and it is more than remarkable that few failed to find adequate water at a moderate depth, usually from 15 to 40 feet. There were very few deep wells.
The first school in this vicinity was held in a dugout on the Peter A. Nelson homestead, which was the west 1/ 2 of SW 1/4 of Section 2-13-7 and was a subscription school taught by Elvira Lang, a daughter of G.G. and Matilda Lang. The next school was held in a store, dirt roofed building constructed by the people at the very southeast corner of the Peter A. Nelson homestead and about 150 feet from the first school. Nelson afterward used the first one for a chicken coop and the second one for a granary.
E.A. Moody, an Englishman who homesteaded the west 80 acres of the farm where Mrs. Milt Webb now lives, was one of the teachers and Ami Boyer was another who taught in that second school house. Boyer boarded or batched with Wm. Gourley, who was then a bachelor.
A little anecdote will not be amiss. Moody had "speaking days" in his school and all had to sing or recite -- that is "speak his piece." Lee Lang had for his "piece" this:
"E.A. Moody, the son of an Earl --
His hair stands straight and his whiskers curl," etc.
Tradition has it that E.A. Moody, who had kinky hair and beard, did not like Lee's "piece" any too well.
The floor of that school house was rough boards, and the seats or desks were split logs with the split side up, and tree limbs for legs stuck into auger holes bored into the rounded sides for legs.
John, Annie and Spence Donley, Al and Mack Hemminger, Lloyd and Lee Lang, Ellsworth Lang, Johnnie, Dolph, Nora, Sadie and Dick Stanley, Sara, Jacob, Wm., Tom, Roe Ann and Maggie Kindlesparger, Tabetha and Charles Jarrett, grandchildren of Aunt Basheba Blount, the wife of John Blount, who was the widow Jarrett when John Blount married her and the mother of Joe Blount, well known stockman in his day, Charity Funnemore and Henry Pitcher, all attended that school. The Jarretts lived on the place where Marsh Webb now lives. It is believe that Joe Blount, who was born in 1857 in Indiana and was 12 years old when his parents first came to this neighborhood, was also a pupil in this school, as he was about 20 years old at that date (1877). Joe Blount died at Peru, Kan., in 1949, having attained the age of 92.
In 1878, homesteads were being entered and many had children and an urgent demand for better schools presented itself. John Lyden, on the organization of the county, was appointed provisional county superintendent. He was murdered on his ranch on the west Elkhorn, afterwards known as the Hazel place I believe. Washington Smith followed Lyden, and then came the tenure of the premier of all county superintendents, A.T. Biggs. I regarded Biggs as superior to all his predecessors or successors, and in saying that, I do not in any way degrade or belittle any of them. To A.T. Biggs fell the duty of laying out and organizing practically every school district in the county and lay the foundation of its school system. These things he did so well that in my opinion, the results obtained in the schools went more toward establishing sound, sturdy, self-reliant characters in the boys and girls of that day, than is done now in the consolidated schools with all their folderol.
Out of this first improved school A.T. Biggs organized School District No. 8, the Donley school, No. 18, the Topsy school, No. 69, the Pleasant Dale school, No. 47, the Twin Mound school, No 39, the Freedom school. Topsy and Twin Mound are the only schoolhouses standing, neither used for school. Topsy is used and owned by Franklin township.
Consider this situation. Ellsworth from 18 to 25 miles distant, and Brookville a little closer, but a range of rugged hills intervened between our neighborhood and Brookville.
These places were the marketing points for grain and livestock, sold off the farms. The road to either point was a mere trail and followed the easier grades and most direct route. Section lines, though established, had no relation to road location. There were many little streams like Brush Creek, Owl Creek, Spring Creek, the Elkhorn, and, near Ellsworth, Oak Creek, not one of which had a bridge of any kind. If the stream was dry, as most of them were, it was a case of crossing at the point where the banks presented the easiest grade to both get down into the creek and up out of it. If there was water in the creek it was a case of throwing a rock to get a more solid floor for crossing, and cutting down the banks to fit the crossing.
The early settlers lived largely from the garden, field, domestic stock, and the range. The antelope and buffalo had almost entirely disappeared by 1879, but the grass, called buffalo grass, was so succulent that domestic cattle fattened on it at all seasons, and only necessary to feed them. It was when covered by snow better pasture and more nourishing to cattle than the famed blue stem of the Flint Hills in south central Kansas. It has now largely disappeared as it will not stand heavy pasturing.
It has now been 50 years since I gave any real concentrated thought to the study of botany, but my recollection is that each tuft of buffalo grass has a stem or runner extending to the next tuft and if this stem is broken, the tuft will not bear seeds and cattle tramping over the grass break the stems, and bunch or blue stem grass comes on and grows out the buffalo grass, so little of it is left. There is quite a patch of it in Ed Wiley's pasture on the east bluff which is about on the line between Section 29 in Madison township and Section 36 in Franklin township.
The means of transportation was limited to going on foot, riding horseback, or in a common wagon, which was drawn by horses, mules or oxen. There was not a single spring wagon or buggy in the entire neighborhood. James Blout, who was the owner of the half section where this grove is, also owned the first spring wagon in the neighborhood, and he always loaned it freely.
There was, to my knowledge, only one stone boat. It was built much like a flat bottomed scow, with one end square and the other raised in a slant, which would be the front end and there was an iron ring secured in the center of the front end, to which could be attached a log chain. A yoke of oxen could pull that scow along nicely, and the bottom of it became quite slick as it slipped over the grass which was everywhere. My father had a stone boat, and used it to haul stone about the place. There was three yoke of oxen. G.W. Joslin had a yoke that brought him and his family to the county from Iowa, as I recall, but the obituary of his oldest son, Grant Joslin, said the family came from Indiana. I do not know which is correct.
Roswell P. Jackson had a yoke and Jehu Stanley had a yoke. Joslin called his Buck and Bright, Jackson called his Duke and Buck. Both these yokes were ordinary domestic cattle. Stanley's were long horn Texas steers that had been driven with a herd over the Chisholm Trail from Texas, as their brands showed. They were called Tom and Jerry. I worked them a few times in the field. I was not large enough to yoke them, but me and my older brother Dick both together could do it.
The means of lighting homes was primitive. The coal oil lamp had not been in use very long prior to 1870, but it had reached wide use. Distance to market and inadequate means of storing supplies often left a family out of coal oil and borrowing back and forth was prevalent. This was true of flour, salt, coffee and other foods. To bridge the gap between exhausted oil supply and the next time of going to town, there was an improved lamp called the grease lamp. It was made by pouring an ordinary pie pan almost full of melted lard, and then twisting a strip of cotton into a sort of wick 12 to 15 inches long and then coiling that wick into the grease in the pan, leaving one end of the wick stuck up a half inch or so about the edge of the pan. Light this end of the wick and from time to time "pull up the wick" and such a light would furnish fair illumination for some time. Housewives had to put up with the oily soot that such a light caused.
As time went on, the more opulent farmer had a lantern to use about the stable when doing chores in early morning and late at night. The simple matter of matches might be mentioned. The grocer commonly gave to his customers a block of what was then called sulphur matches. The name was very apt for the following reasons: They were made in a solid block about two inches square and the other dimension was the length of a match. On one end of each match was free and could easily be separated from the others. On the other end they were all held together with the stuff called brimestone. To use a match one pulled it loose from the block and then rubbed, or struck, the brimestone end on some rough surface like rust from a stone or the like. Adepts at "striking" matches could ignite them by pulling them rapidly across the seat of their pants. It was when the friction ignited the brimestone and it fizzed for a moment or two, and then burst into flame, that a yellowish green color appeared and the sulphur gave off a gas that was quite offensive, especially to one with weak lungs. I expect from this came the common name of "sulphur match." It was 10 or 15 years later that the "parlor match" came on the market, and the practice of free matches ceased.
Next followed the self-owned light plants like the Delco and then the R.E.A. Some difference in both service and convenience. There were a few who had flints from which a spark could be struck, but seldom used.
In the matter of domestic water I recall but one well "sweep" and that was on the Holt farm just where the trail to Ellsworth left the Elkhorn and took off over the rolling hills and prairie to the southwest. Wells were generally equipped with burbs, a well wheel and rope with a bucket at each end. The common hand pump followed this method, then the windmill and now the electric motor is next in order.
All was virgin prairie. This was broken usually in the spring. By August or September the grass roots would be rotted sufficiently so that the sod could be "backset" as it was called, that is, turned over and when well harrowed presented a fine field or rich soil for wheat, which most always, in wheat years, produced 40 bushels or more to the acre.
The first harvesting machine in our neighborhood was owned by Charles Bolte. He died in 1886, I believe, and George Bolte, who now lives in Lincoln, and John Bolte, who lived in the south part of Madison township and died within the past two years, were two of his sons. It was drawn by two horses and was a reel, sickle and platform, on which the wheat was laid by the reel, and then at regular intervals a mechanical arm came over and raked the wheat off at the back end and onto the ground in bunches, each equal to a fair sized sheaf. Two men followed and picked up and bound each bundle in a sheaf, using the wheat as a band. The machine was called a "self rake." This was followed by the harvester where the wheat was caught by a canvas and carried up and over to two men who stood on a platform on the side of the machine and each man in turn selected enough wheat for a sheaf and bound it with wheat straw and threw it on the ground. This was really work. This machine was known as the "March Harvester" and was soon followed by a wire binder which gave place to the twine binder and the header, and now the combine does it all. Threshing was first done by horse power, then by steam power and both laborious tasks.
Nearly all had a few head of domestic cattle, for milking purposes and raised a few steers for market. Charley Jones, John Donley and Joe Blount in the 1880s were the principal ones who full fed cattle for market.
It was the thought at first that hedge or osage orange fending would be the thing. Barbed wire came along in the 1870s and superseded the hedge. Earlier, since the range was free and plentiful, some herded their stock and occasionally combined together for that purpose, others picketed their stock, which was done in this manner. From 50 to 75 feet of rope was used per head. One end was fastened to the animals' horns or neck, the other to a stake driven in the ground and this was called picketing. Picketed stock had to be taken at least once during the day to the well or creek for water.
Postal service was after this fashion: A stage line ran from Salina to Cedron. The driver for years was a Mr. Crawford, father of the Crawford Bros., and grandfather of Max Crawford, a prominent Lincoln citizen now. There were post offices here and there on this stage line which went one way one day and back the next. Monroe, whose postmaster was Mr. Cullum, as I recall, to Rocky Hill and Lincoln and thence north went to Cedron. Most of the people around here got their mail at Rocky Hill at first, which then consisted of the mill run by a Mr. Graham, powered by water. It was a dispute about ownership of logs intended for the dam for this mill that resulted in a Mr. Hubbard killing John Healy and in turn that same day being killed by a mob at Abram, the then county seat of Lincoln county in 1872. Hubbard was in the jail, a small frame building which was afterwards moved to Lincoln and used by John Kyle as a tin shop for many years, located very close to the present City Hall.
In addition to the mill at Rocky Hill there was a store by some one, I do not recall, a blacksmith shop by Hi Williams, and a few residences, including the Jim Dobson family, one of whom is Mrs. Tont Lyon of Lincoln.
After a time my father, Jehu Stanley, either by himself or one of his children, for 11 months went on a certain day each week to Monroe, 6 1/2 miles distant, and got the mail for all our neighbors who came to our house at their convenience and got their mail. This resulted in a branch Star route being established, running from Monroe to our house, Topsy post office, and from there on to Lone Walnut on Spring Creek in Valley township where either the father or mother of Howard Lyne was postmaster, as my father was at Topsy. A little later on J.W. McReynolds got a post office established as Tower Springs and I believe he was postmaster there.
The mail came once a week and for a long time a Mr. Pickett, who was half blood Indian, carried the mail on a flea bitten gray horse. He carried a sun dial by which on sunny days he could tell time. The mail was carried in a heavy leather bag similar to saddle bags.
John Lyden was provisional county superintendent at the organization of the county and a resident of what was afterward Franklin township. J.W. McReynolds was county treasurer for two terms about 1894 to 1898 (this is a guess as to time). Jehu Stanley was county commissioner from about 1888 to 1890. One of the sons of John Meier was county commissioner for several years recently. I was a member of the legislature 56 years ago for one term and county superintendent from 1905 to 1911. John Joslin, a son of the late Grant Joslin, has been such a successful county clerk that his name is almost synonymous with the office.
This cemetery serves Franklin township, the greater part of the west half of Madison township and at least one fifth of Elkhorn township. There is a cemetery in the southeast corner of Section 3-13-7, established in recent years and maintained by the German Lutheran church.
There were no Indian raids in Lincoln county after May 30, 1869, and John Blount was the only settler here then and the Indians only went as far as Bullfoot, up which they traveled on their departure, having come down the Spillman.
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Gossips can be the worst. But one man found a way to deal with a particularly nosy busybody. Check it out.
How To Handle A Gossip
Irene, the church gossip, and self appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new church member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told George, and several others, that everyone seeing it there would know exactly what he was doing.
George, a man of few words, stared at her for a few moments and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny! He said nothing!
Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Irene's house …. walked home …. and left it there all night.
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Demyx Colors 'SV' by Lord-EvellWatch
©2007-2017 Lord-Evell
The one with sound: [link] .
So, this is a music video with Demyx singing. Not much else to say than, enjoy! (There is easter eggs, you will get hints at the credits).
If you wonder about the songs in the flash with sound IT'S IN THE CREDITS PEOPLE!!!!
Organization XIII is copyright square enix.
The one with sound: [link] .
So, this is a music video with Demyx singing. Not much else to say than, enjoy! (There is easter eggs, you will get hints at the credits).
If you wonder about the songs in the flash with sound IT'S IN THE CREDITS PEOPLE!!!!
Organization XIII is copyright square enix.
Why is the one with sound not working I used to watch this many years ago, I only recently just rediscovered it.
i like the way you designed axel,luxord ,marluxia, and demyx
I love thi
he keeps talking and talking and talking
eh that was awsome
this is awesome
that was AMAZING!!
Me and my friend died. XD LAWL!
Watched the one in sound! EPIC!
XD Wow. Nice one.
AWESOME! The little wind-paintings are so cute!
SO Good! XD
wtf this is sooooo awesome
I saw the non-silent version a month ago....i had to sing the same song in chorus and in the middle of the actual preformance of singing the song I almost broke down laughing. In otherwords this was REALLY FUNNY....
i love the 2nd easter egg XD
Made my day.
I think this video is so-o-o-o-o awsomely funny
I don't have a sheezy art so. People you GOTTA GO to that link! It is funny as hell! I almost pee'd myself laughing!
lolz Xemnas rolling down a hill, er, s'cuse me, the 'riches all around him'
That made me happy -^^-
lmao! love it! X3
I've got Flash 10, and I can't see the non-silent version: why?
Help please!
Help please!
The Sheezyart Server (site the non-silent version is on) can go down from time to time. Just try again later.
how bored were you when you made this
i love it its so cool!!!
i wish i was in there
i wish i was in there
Rolls of spinnie chair laghing Omg that is so cool you are BRILLIANT love the easter eggs my favoret part is when xiggy steals saixs pants and when demyx decides to not lip sync to one part Then axel comes up behind him all creepy looking HAHA BRILLIANT
Yea! Random explosions!
*Falls off the back of the seat laughing* I love the sound version.
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Marly's hair truly is magical!
I love this video!! I've watched it with sound, and I looked at the others you've made. Iknow you said you had no intention of finishing those short clips, but can you finish the one with the chain in the picture? Or at least tell me what you were gonna do.
Thanks you much. I hope you enjoyed those. And regarding the chain-clip, I don't remember at all sadly. As I were working on that about 3-4 years ago, I got stuck, and I can't recall what I was thinking at all anymore. Sorry.
I see... That's okay though. By the way, why did you call yourself Lord Evell? Is it supposed to be like Evil? I thinks it's a cool name!
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The first secret song is hilarious! Me and my friends watched it a million times and laughed every time!
Good job!
Good job!
You oughta make another video like this except Roxas and Demyx sing a song together.Lol.
AHHAHAHAHAHA!Now that was funny!I luv the part where Xemnas gets rolled off the cliff.LMFAOH!
Is there one that has sound?Or is there just silence version?


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June 28, 2015 Fourth Sunday After Trinity
Love Story
St. John 3:16-21
Some of you will remember Rockin' Rollen. The name his mama and daddy gave him was Rollen Stewart. For the rest of you – those who are not keen students of pop culture – in the 1970s and '80s he turned up endlessly at major sports events in full bloom.
A skinny white dude, he wore a rainbow afro wig. And he carried a sign reading simply, and writ large, "John 3:16."
He dropped out of sight precipitously and I – one among many, I imagine – never stopped to wonder what happened to him. I looked him up the other day and discovered he had discarded his constitutional right to play the fool in public and landed in prison.
In 1992 he declared the Rapture would occur six days hence. It didn't. Rockin' Rollen papered the windows of a hotel room with John 3:16 signs and threatened to shoot at planes landing at nearby Los Angeles International Airport.
He escorted two men he was attempting to kidnap into a vacant hotel room, startling a maid who wisely locked herself in the bathroom. He is currently serving three life sentences for kidnapping.
At the risk of making sport of a clearly disturbed individual, I'd like to suggest that if he should ever be released on parole he be re-arrested immediately . . . on charges of as egregious a case of proof-testing as this world has ever seen. Let's read John 3:16 in context: (John 3:16-21)
Here begins the love motif in the Fourth Gospel. We have seen that God the Son has come so that all who believe in Him might have eternal life (v 15). Verse 16 restates the one that precedes it but adds information.
Bear with me for a moment as I mention that a prominent scholar has written a brilliant commentary on the Fourth Gospel and he has included a note to preachers. He counsels us on how to avoid making the Johanine message of eternal life through faith in Christ boring.
The problem, he tells us, is that St. John has written such a tightly constructed gospel that he never ventures far from his theme: Believe and be saved. The preacher may find it difficult to present that message, week after week, in fresh and exciting ways.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Can eternal life be boring? Can everlasting glory be . . . tedious? Steel yourselves, brethren! You're in for another dose.
The force behind the mission of the Son is the love of the Father. So deep and vast is the Father's love for the world that He would sacrifice His one and only Son for the salvation of all who will live by faith.
You've all heard that the word for "love" -- meaning "loyal love" or "sacrificial love" -- in the original New Testament is agape. The verb form is agapao. The love theme surfaces in this chapter – v 35 reads "The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand" – and comes to a boil in chapters 13-17, where those words – agape and agapao -- turn up repeatedly.
The Father loves the Son, we hear over and over (10:17, 15;9-10, 17:23-24, 26); the Son loves the Father (14:31); Jesus loves His true disciples (11:5; 13:1, 33, 34; 14:21; 15:9-10, 12; 21:7, 20) and they are to love Him (14:15, 21, 23f, 28; 21:15-26); they are also to love one another (13:35-35; 15:12-13, 17; 17:26)."
At times John mentions the Father's love for the disciples (14:21-23; 17:23). More often, the Son expresses the Father's love for true believers. The world, in which Satan is active . . . the world, which is in a state of rebellion . . . has no capacity for loving God in return.
I have no trouble at all conceiving a God who flies into a rage and declares of His ungrateful creatures, "I'll scourge them mercilessly until they repent and return to Me." But such is not the way of our God.
How, then, is His love for His fallen creatures and creation possible? Not because they are lovely but because, as John informs us in his first epistle, "God is love" (4:16). Here is the tension, a loving Creator and an unlovable creation.
Here is the expansion of God's love, from an unrepentant and defiant Israel to an unrepentant and defiant world. Also in his first epistle, the apostle declares the world so fallen that Christ's followers must not love it or anything it enfolds (2:15-17).
And here is the resolution of the tension: God's love is so magnificent that He would send His only Son to die to redeem the world . . . to make it lovable . . . to make us lovable. Sin cannot put away sin, evil cannot overcome evil; only love can prevail in a fallen creation and this is the sacrificial love of God, grander and more powerful than all of the hatred and wickedness of men.
Beloved in the Lord, we have had the privilege of beholding in recent days an almost unimaginable outpouring of agape in the human realm. In the days immediately following the Charleston church massacre one relative after another stepped up and forgave the shooter who had, without pity or remorse, extinguished the life in their loved ones.
The Rev. Anthony Thompson serves as vicar of one of our Reformed Episcopal churches in the Diocese of the Southeast. His wife, Myra, was teaching the Bible study at the African Methodist Episcopal Church that night. She was one of the nine who died.
The next day, her husband said to the killer, "I forgive you; my family forgives you. We would like you to take this opportunity to repent. Do that and you'll be better off than you are right now."
Alana Simmons lost her grandfather, the Rev. Daniel Simmons. "Although my grandfather and the other victims died at the hands of hate," she said, "this is proof – everyone's plea for your soul is proof – they lived in love and their legacies will live in love, so hate won't win."
If forgiveness on this scale seems superhuman, it is. Only by the power of God could people turn away from reciprocated hatred and revenge and pray for the salvation of the perpetrator of such a monstrous act.
This is the way to defeat evil . . . not by retaliation but by overwhelming sacrificial love. This is the way to win the war, by emulating the merciful acts of God so far as we are able. This is the way to hasten the return of our Lord, by showing the world what His sacrifice means to us.
The admiration I have for these relatives of the victims is beyond my ability to express it. I would like to believe that in their situation I would respond with such grace . . . but in fact I do not know. I pray I never know.
Only those who know they are forgiven can forgive on this scale. Only those who know they are loved can love so selflessly. Only those who know God's peace, which surpasses our understanding, can drink from the well of peace.
The divine love that forgives on such an immense scale has a purpose, plainly stated in 3:16: The Father sent the Son so that men might have an opportunity to believe in Him. For the result of each person's decision to believe in Him two outcomes are stated, death or everlasting life.
A contrast sharp as a razor's edge, death or life. What's behind door No. 3? There is no door No. 3. Death or life.
But make no mistake, the Father's desire is that all would place their trust in the Son and enter everlasting life. I think of the opening clauses of the declaration of absolution in our Order for Morning Prayer:
"Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live . . ."
We have been introduced to this Son, you'll recall, in part through the signs He performs. At the wedding in Cana He gave His first sign, turning water into wine. John will show us six more signs, given to authenticate this Jesus as the Christ, the promised Messiah.
By the way, word has reached me that the wedding at Cana was not the only occasion on which He performed such a miracle.
Father O'Leary was driving home one night in Dublin when he heard a siren and, looking into his rear-view mirror saw the flashing light right behind him. Groaning, he pulled over.
"What have you been drinking?" the officer asked.
"Nothing. Only water."
"Then why," asked the officer, "do I smell wine on your breath."
"Faith and begorrah, He's done it again."
The first time the Lord did it, He turned water not only into wine but wine of superior quality. In the miracles that follow He will again go above and beyond, performing not "ordinary" miracles but spectacular ones.
To what end? That those to whom He reveals Himself as God the Son, the perfect manifestation of the Father in the world, and do not believe are without excuse. The signs all involve providing and healing and even raising the dead and they point to the wondrous God who wants no more than to give away life more abundantly.
The Christ did not enter into a neutral atmosphere to find some guilty and others innocent. He arrived in a world of sin where all are condemned because all are sinners.
He holds out the hope of eternal life to those . . . who believe. And the others? There's a story about a man who took a tour of the Louvre and, standing before the Mona Lisa, informed the guide, "I don't think much of your old pictures."
"Sir," said the guide equably, "these pictures are no longer on trial; it's those who behold them who are." He who looks at the Person and work of Christ, who peers up at the cross of Christ, and does not admire the beauty of the Lord . . . condemns himself. He has embraced the darkness and not the light.
Wherever we find ourselves in the Fourth Gospel, we are never far from the theme of light and darkness. It appears here to sharpen the contrast even more between those who believe in Christ and those who reject Him.
Those who refuse God's offer of eternal life in Christ pull the blackness in which they live ever tighter to them like a shroud. I suspect I am not the only one present who, while I was aware of the light, elected to remain in darkness because I had no interest in abandoning my evil ways.
When the light appears, will we welcome it for revealing our sins and affording us the opportunity of repentance or will we follow our first parents, who sinned and, when God came calling, ran away and hid?
Sin brings pleasure. Let's let our hair down here for a moment. Sin brings pleasure and the antidote for fleshly pleasure is eternal hope. But that hope comes at a high price. To profess Christ is not enough. Even the demons know Him. From Luke 4 (41):
"And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, 'You are the Christ, the Son of God!' And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ."
Those who truly believe in Him want to follow Him, and so doing entails forsaking the delights of sin. Light cleanses, but it also accuses. I once feared the light because the darkness had drugged me, and I wanted to remain drugged.
I was like St. Augustine, who knew better but would not turn away from his sin, who said to God, "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."
If I might offer a lukewarm defense of St. Augustine and myself in our early years, I believe honest sinners may do less harm to the cause of Christ than cultural Christians. Some of these don't bother with church at all and others participate in a perfunctory way.
In either case, unbelievers see people called Christians who behave as though they were not, corrupting the witness. They walk like the natural man, talk like the natural man, think like the natural man. They do great damage to the cause.
Do not miss how painstakingly the author avoids a perfect parallel between those in darkness and those in light. Some choose darkness, "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
The purpose of the light is to reveal the God by whose power we flee the darkness. In the words of the Psalmist, "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of your mercy, because of Your truth" (115:1).
When Abraham proved himself prepared to sacrifice his son, Isaac, God intervened and spared him. But God did not spare Himself. He offered His only Son in love for the redemption of the fallen creation. So it is that He deserves all the glory, for we were without hope, utterly unable to save ourselves.
Perhaps now that he has time on his hands, Rockin' Rollen has gotten past v. 16 and come to understand that God's love is indeed as vast as His world . . . but the story doesn't end there. Any who spurn the One sent in love bring judgment upon themselves. Pray for them. Amen.


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The 2012 Teen Choice Awards held Sunday, July 22, gave love to "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" in movie categories. Hosted by Demi Lovato and "Glee" star Kevin McHale, "Pretty Little Liars" (ABC Family) and "The Vampire Diaries" (CW) dominated the TV categories. In the music world, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift were the big winners. No Doubt, Bieber, and Carly Rae Jepsen ("Call Me Maybe") performed.
Here's the complete list of the winners of 2012 Teen Choice Awards:
Choice TV Show: Drama
Pretty Little Liars
Choice TV Actor: Drama
Ian Harding, Pretty Little Liars
Choice TV Actress: Drama
Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars
Choice TV Show: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
The Vampire Diaries
Choice TV Actor: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Ian Somerhalder, The Vampire Diaries
Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries
Choice TV Show: Action
CSI: Miami
Choice TV Actor: Action
Adam Rodriguez, CSI: Miami
Choice TV Actress: Action
Linda Hunt, NCIS: Los Angeles
Choice TV Show: Comedy
Choice TV Actor: Comedy
Chris Colfer, "Glee"
Choice TV Actress: Comedy
Lea Michele, "Glee"
Choice TV: Animated Show
"The Simpsons"
Choice TV: Male Personality
Simon Cowell, "The X Factor"
Choice TV: Female Personality
Jennifer Lopez, "American Idol"
Choice TV: Reality Competition Show
"The X Factor"
Choice TV: Reality Show
Choice TV: Male Reality Star
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, "Jersey Shore" and "The Pauly D Project"
Choice TV: Female Reality Star
The Kardashians, "Keeping Up With The Kardashians"
Choice Summer TV Show
"Teen Wolf"
Choice Summer TV Star: Female
Troian Bellisario, "Pretty Little Liars"
Choice Summer TV Star: Male
Tyler Posey, "Teen Wolf"
Choice TV Villain
Janel Parrish, "Pretty Little Liars"
Choice TV Female Scene Stealer
Candice Accola, "The Vampire Diaries"
Choice TV Male Scene Stealer
Michael Trevino, "The Vampire Diaries"
Choice TV Breakout Show
"The X Factor"
Choice TV Breakout Star: Female
Hannah Simone, "New Girl"
Choice TV Breakout Star: Male
Beau Mirchoff, "Awkward"
Choice Movie: Action
Choice Movie Actor: Action
Taylor Lautner, Abduction
Choice Movie Actress: Action
Zoe Saldana, Colombiana
Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Hunger Games
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Choice Movie Actress: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Choice Movie: Drama
The Lucky One
Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Zac Efron, The Lucky One
Choice Movie Actress: Drama
Emma Stone, The Help
Choice Movie: Comedy
21 Jump Street
Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Channing Tatum, 21 Jump Street
Choice Movie Actress: Comedy
Emma Stone, Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Choice Movie: Romance
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Choice Movie Actor: Romance
Zac Efron, The Lucky One
Choice Movie Actress: Romance
Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Choice Movie Voice
Taylor Swift as Audrey, Dr. Seuss The Lorax
Choice Movie Chemistry
Jennifer Lawrence and Amandla Stenberg, The Hunger Games
Choice Movie Liplock
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games
Choice Movie Hissy Fit
Charlize Theron, Snow White & The Huntsman
Choice Movie Villain
Alexander Ludwig, The Hunger Games
Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Male
Liam Hemsworth, The Hunger Games
Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Female
Ashley Greene, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Choice Movie Breakout
Rihanna, Battleship
Choice Summer Movie: Action
The Avengers
Choice Summer Movie: Comedy/Music
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Choice Summer Movie Star: Male
Chris Hemsworth, Snow White & The Huntsman and The Avengers
Choice Summer Movie Star: Female
Kristen Stewart, Snow White & The Huntsman
Choice Male Artist
Justin Bieber
Choice Female Artist
Taylor Swift
Choice Music Group
Selena Gomez & The Scene
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist
Nicki Minaj
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song
Starships, Nicki Minaj
Choice Rock Group
Choice Rock Song
Paradise, Coldplay
Choice Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Artist
David Guetta
Choice Single by a Group
We Are Young, fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
Choice Single by a Female Artist
Eyes Open, Taylor Swift
Choice Single by a Male Artist
Boyfriend, Justin Bieber
Choice Male Country Artist
Hunter Hayes
Choice Female Country Artist
Taylor Swift
Choice Country Song
Sparks Fly, Taylor Swift
Choice Country Group
Lady Antebellum
Choice Summer Song
Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen
Choice Love Song
What Makes You Beautiful, One Direction
Choice Break-Up Song
Payphone, Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa
Choice Summer Music Star: Female
Demi Lovato
Choice Summer Music Star: Male
Justin Bieber
Choice Summer Music Star: Group
One Direction
Choice Music: Breakout Artist
Carly Rae Jepsen
Choice Music: Breakout Group
One Direction
Choice Fashion Icon: Female
Katy Perry
Choice Fashion Icon: Male
Justin Bieber
Choice Female Hottie
Miley Cyrus
Choice Male Hottie
Ian Somerhalder
Choice Female Athlete
Serena Williams (Tennis)
Choice Male Athlete
David Beckham (Soccer)
Choice Book
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
Choice Comedian
Ellen DeGeneres
Choice Twit
Demi Lovato
Choice Web Star
Sophia Grace and Rosie
Choice Video Game
Just Dance 3
Choice Social Network
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It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.
But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane.
In Theaters July 20, 2012
MPAA Rating PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language)
Genres Adaptation, , Crime, Sequel
Run Time 2 hours 44 minutes
Distributors Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Also Known As Batman 3
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience
The Dark Knight Sequel
Untitled (Warner Bros./Batman Sequel)
Production Status In Production / Awaiting Release
Filming Locations Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Jodhphur, Rajasthan, India
London, England, United Kingdom
Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced In United States
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Warner Bros., home of Batman, did not release box-office totals this weekend out of respect for the victims and families of the Colorado shooting tragedy. But estimates have been pouring in, and it's safe to say, that moviegoers still patronized the final film of the Dark Knight trilogy from director Christopher Nolan. Here's the latest estimates from Deadline:
1. Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/Warner Bros) NEW [4,404 Theaters]
Friday $76.1M, Saturday $45.2M, Sunday $40.5M, Weekend $161.8M
2. Ice Age 4 (Blue Sky/Fox) Week 2 [3,886 Theaters]
Friday $6.6M, Saturday $7.6M, Sunday $3.3M, Weekend $20.3M (-57%)
Domestic Cume $88.8M, Foreign Cume $442.7M, Global Cume $531.5M
3. Amazing Spider-Man (Columbia/Sony) Week 3 [3,753 Theaters]
Friday $3.4M, Saturday $4.2M, Sunday $3.3M, Weekend $10.9M, Cume $228.7M
4. Ted (MRC/Universal) Week 4 [3,214 Theaters]
Friday $3.2M, Saturday $3.8M, Sunday $3.1M, Weekend $10.1M, Cume $180.4M
5. Brave (Pixar/Disney) Week 5 [2,899 Theaters]
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.2M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $6.0M, Cume $208.8M
6. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) Week 4 [2,606 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $1.5M, Weekend $4.3M, Cume $102.0M
7. Savages (Universal) Week 3 [2,336 Theaters]
Friday $990K, Saturday $1.2M, Weekend $3.3M, Cume $40.0M
8. Madeas Witness Protection (TPerry/Lionsgate) Week 4 [1,540 Theaters]
Friday $744K, Saturday $984K, Weekend $2.3M, Cume $60.4M
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Focus Features) Week 9 [895 Theaters]
Friday $551K, Saturday $741K, Weekend $1.8M, Cume $36.1M
10. To Room With Love (Sony Classics) Week 5 [552 Theaters]
Friday $401K, Saturday $602K, Weekend $1.5M, Cume $11.2M
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Christian Bale aka Batman/Bruce Wayne of "The Dark Knight" trilogy has issued a statement regarding the Colorado theater shooting last Thursday. (Here's what trilogy director, Christopher Nolan, has to say about the tragedy)
Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.
Our heart goes out to them as well.
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Well, they're both the same visually, but the teaser trailers that premiered before the screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" have two versions, one is narrated by Jonathan Kent aka Pa Kent (Kevin Costner), and the other features words spoken by Jor-El (Russell Crowe). Both imparts the wisdom of being a hero to Clark Kent/Superman (Henry Cavill). Much like producer Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy," this Zack Snyder-directed ("Watchmen," "300," "Sucker Punch") version of Superman seems to explore the true meaning of being a superhero to mankind.
Both versions of the teaser trailer use the same visuals -- Clark working on a fishing boat, and then we see him as a little boy wearing a red cape...fade to black...and then, here comes Superman skyrocketing towards the sky! Fantastic!
Here's the Russell Crowe as Jor-El version (via MSN):
"You will give the people an ideal to strive towards...They'll rise behind you. They will stumble. They will fall. In time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."
And here's the Kevin Costner as Pa Kent version (via Yahoo):
"You're not just anyone...One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You'll have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, is going to change the world."
I can't wait for June 14 of next year, when "Man of Steel" opens! Joining Cavill is Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, and Laurence Fishburne.
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Top 5 Bodybuilding Stories of 2016
1. Maryland Muscle Miscalculation
In 2016 we saw one of the best bodybuilders of the '90s and 2000s (and arguably ever) make a comeback to the big dance—the Olympia. Kevin Levrone inspired aging bodybuilders to new heights when he claimed he would walk onto that famed Las Vegas stage and do battle with the best of the best. By all accounts a hero in the bodybuilding world, Levrone actually was much more candid and open with his progress leading up to the show than he was in his prime years.
Dave Palumbo's official prediction list had Levrone winning The Olympia, something he hadn't been able to do previously in his career. Palumbo said he had an inside track on exclusive pictures Levrone was sending and because of this he believed he would take home the Sandow trophy. Hype was definitely built as a consequence of the bold forecast.
However, at the athlete's press conference it was a much more reserved Levrone than had been played up. An impromptu posedown with Cedric "Big Mac" McMillan and Josh Lenartowicz allowed the audience to come back down to Earth, even if they chose not to. The reality was that Levrone clearly would not challenge these two and thus probably not be a factor as a winner, or even a top callout guy.
At the end of the day, Levrone graced the stage and gave the audience a nostalgic show. His physique was good for someone in his situation, but not quite Olympia-calibre. In fact, his physique may have been the least impressive thing about the entire feat. He showed dedication, perseverance, and discipline to get back up on the stage. He posed to "Who's Got My Back?" by Creed, the same song he used when he gave Ronnie Coleman a run for his money at the 2002 Mr. Olympia contest.
Looking forward, Levrone has overcome injuries that limited his progress in 2016 and is back to squatting 405+ for reps. Can the Maryland Muscle Machine get those quads, hams, and glutes back and be a legitimate contender?
2. Frony Business
As with any industry, the supplement industry isn't all lollipops and rainbows. It's not uncommon to hear athletes disagree with certain business strategies and subsequently there being a falling-out of sorts. The biggest story of this sort came from Blackstone Labs—and boy, was it entertaining.
In straight mud-slinging fashion, P.J. Braun called out former sponsored athlete John Meadows in a live Facebook video for a disagreement that involved their monetary exchange and the ingredients in their product Intra-MD that Meadows had helped formulate.
A clearly bewildered Braun tossed insults at Meadows, accidentally leading to the slip-of-the-tongue where he called Meadows "a frony." This lead to an outpouring of Braun and Meadows supporters bickering across all social media platforms. Memes started surfacing where a photoshopped image of Blackstone Labs product "Fast Food" was altered to read "Frony Food."
All in all, both participants in the situation made it out without losing everything. Meadows of course is known foremost for his Mountain Dog training and being one of the most conditioned athletes in the IFBB 212 division, and Braun has a plethora of high-profile athletes still under contract for BSL. For now, it seems you'll have to wait to get the popcorn ready as these two seem to have extinguished the intensity of the feud.
3. Father Time Held at Arm's Length
The seemingly ageless Dexter Jackson proved in 2016, as he has for multiple years now, that if you count him out, you're wrong! Dexter finally added a win from the New York Pro to his list of victories, doing so in emphatic fashion. The ever-classy Jackson left all the action behind him as soon as he hit mandatories for prejudging. In trademark "Blade" trend, Jackson was conditioned better than arguably anyone else in the show, with nearly perfect proportions and utterly professional effortless posing.
Dexter brought an even better package to Las Vegas, where he pushed Shawn Rhoden and Phil Heath for the Olympia title. I had Dexter in at least second place, but the judges awarded him a third. As it would go by accepted standards, that would make "Dex" the world's third-best bodybuilder. Well into his late 40s, Dexter shows zero signs of slowing down. It's well documented that Dexter has actually put on mass in the past three years!
The Blade is freshly back into the gym now, after a seven-week layoff. I've been mistaken before by writing his name off the "elite players" list, but I've learned from my mistakes! I look forward to another year where Jackson makes more bodybuilding history.
4. Lone Wolf
Perennial Olympia contender Dennis Wolf was removed from action through the entirety of 2016. "The Big Bad Wolf" had major surgery in May last year and as a result was sidelined from even training at all until late June. Wolf stayed active through social media during this time and was quite revealing about the amount of size he had lost, which almost didn't seem possible.
Post-surgery checkups continued into August and it thereafter became apparent that the totality of 2016 would be Dennis Wolf-less. However, as expected, Wolf did make an appearance on Olympia Weekend. He attended the press conference, prejudging, and finals. He made it known through interviews that he, of course, was disappointed not to be on the stage.
Luckily, Amix Nutrition has been with Dennis to help support him every step of the way during the tough time. According to his updates via Facebook and InstaGram, Wolf plans to make a comeback in 2017. In recent photos, you can certainly see that he is doing well to add mass to be able to battle it out with the best of the best once again.
5. Camel Crew Cruising Along!
In 2016 the biggest name that didn't already call Kuwait home base visited the Camel Crew to try to find the missing link in his performance. Victor "The Dominican Dominator" Martinez went to Kuwait to train at the famed Oxygen Gym in search of the formula to find his old form. What we were given was a markedly improved Martinez at the 2016 IFBB Baltimore Pro. Victor was finally reminiscent of old "Vic"—crazy wide flaring lats, sweeping quads, and sinew-splitting chest fullness.
Of course, Big Ramy brought his best ever form to 2016 and I would argue that Roelly Winklaar did too—but that's old news! In 2016, Nathan De Asha went off to Kuwait to prepare for the New York Pro and his Olympia debut, and many people thought he was the most overlooked athlete of the weekend. Another name that popped out of the Kuwait desert who served notice in 2016 was Ahmad Ashkanani. Ashkanani was runner-up in the 212 division behind James "Flex" Lewis, but originally qualified by winning the 2016 IFBB Tampa Pro in stunning fashion.
Right now, Brandon Curry is overseas training with the best in Kuwait to bring a special package to the Arnold Classic stage in Ohio. Akim Williams has also enlisted the Camel Crew's services after a somewhat disappointing year's end in 2016. Akim showed the IFBB glimpses of fulfilled potential, but failed to make conditioning a consistent strongpoint in his outings. The real test of the Camel Crew will be judged by these two who routinely come in "soft" to the stage.


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Warning: The following article may contain spoilers for Iron Man 3. I've tried not to give away any plot twists, but you should proceed with caution
Iron Man 3 comes crashing, banging and walloping into theaters next week in what will be the first installment of the shell-head franchise to be directed by Lethal Weapon scribe . I managed to catch a press screening of the movie this week and while it's by no means faultless, it's a worthy addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a solid platform for the studio to launch Phase 2. is back cracking wise, but is now also suffering from the after-effects of the events in Manhattan and is prone to the occasional panic attack. In order to try and get his head straight, Stark has development an unhealthy obsession of building Iron Man suits, which has put strain on his relationship with Pepper Potts. Something has to give. Stark needs a purpose, he needs to be the hero again.
Enter the Mandarin.
A series of explosions have rocked America. The Mandarin appears on a low-quality video, his fingers adorned with rings, wearing a Oriental-style overcoat and Aviator sunglasses promising more carnage to come. He ominously tells a stunned nation that he's not a terrorist. Instead, he argues that he's a teacher, and class is about to begin. And so we are introduced to what I think is arguably the best cinematic comic book villain since the Joker.
First up, the Mandarin is very much a 21st-century villain. He claims to be the leader of the international organization The Ten Rings, yet never makes clear what he's fighting for. He calls himself a teacher and like a teacher has a fervent belief in his own rhetoric, which he broadcasts through badly lit, low quality video sent to news organizations throughout the world. He films himself firing his AK47 with military precision at targets. He burns flags and is surrounded by loyal foot soldiers and adoring children. He immediately invokes memories of bin Laden and every other terrorist who's threatened war by way of ideology. It's disconcerting because the Mandarin is so familiar. The propaganda, the miss-placed idealism, the cold-hearted antipathy for another way of life are all things we've been seeing on our televisions for the past decade.
And then everything gets flipped on its head. I'm not going to give it away, but the Mandarin's big reveal almost knocked me off my seat. It might anger fans of the Marvel character, but I thought it was a brave decision that means the Mandarin will go down in the pantheon of great comic book villains. In Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne said to Alfred:
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy... A man is just flesh and blood, and can be ignored or destroyed. But a symbol....as a symbol I can be incorruptible, everlasting.....
This is the Mandarin. He's the flamboyant figurehead, the face in front of the camera for people to fear and despise, while the real danger -- the money men and the corrupt government -- wreak havoc in the shadows. We live in an epoch of global financial crises, wars over natural resources, and governments in the pockets of lobbyists. The Mandarin is a true soldier of fortune, with the emphasis very much on fortune. If the Joker was chaos theory made manifest, someone who simply wanted to watch the world burn, then the Mandarin is a wholly more cynical villain. A Colonel Kurtz with a paycheck. A stooge in an iconic costume. If Batman was the hero that Gotham City needed, then the Mandarin is the villain our corrupt, celebrity-obsessed and greedy society deserves.
I want to hear your thoughts on the Mandarin. Have you managed to see Iron Man 3 yet? If so, what did you think about his portrayal in the movie? Fill the comment section below with your opinions.


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Coordinates: 36°36′07″N 82°11′57″W / 36.601968°N 82.199251°W DeVault Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Bristol, Virginia. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Bristol Pirates minor league baseball team. Also, home to the Virginia High School baseball team. Virginia High won the 1993 and 1996 Virginia state baseball championships at this location. It was built in 1969. It holds 2,000 people.
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Doing things afraid was my way of been courageous.
Fears really do come in different shapes,patterns,forms. It could range from starting up a project to even opening up to either give or receive love. (Oh Yeah!I said that!!)
One thing I actually came to learn is that fear cripples.It cripples even your creativity. It cripples your ability to explore and discover whether or not something is really is really possible.
I discovered I had a little more confidence in myself for every moment I did what I had the instinct to do even if I was afraid. And for every step that I took,I was freer in my spirit to have taken the step
Actually,facing your fears brings you to a state of consciousness not to flop or let me say a determination to make things work regardless.It kind of brings you to this point of paying rapt attention to how you can #get away with murder. lol
It grows your response ability and cognition.
Your fear could be your past.Yeah! Face it.Make whatever wrong you can right accept the responsibility for them so you can move on.