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Ray Lewis and his Ravens travel to Denver to face off with the Broncos in a divisional-round matchup Baltimore hopes is far more successful than its 34-17 loss to Peyton Manning and Co. back in Week 15.
Baltimore, the reigning AFC North champions, punched its ticket to the second round of the postseason with a 24-9 win over Indianapolis last Sunday behind Lewis and quarterback Joe Flacco, who threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns en route to becoming the only signal-caller in NFL history to win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons.
"We're looking forward to this," said Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin, who had all of his 145 receiving yards against the Colts in the second half, the most after intermission in a postseason game since Jerry Rice collected 157 in Super Bowl XXIII. "I was hoping we'd get Denver again. This time we'll make it different."
To do that Lewis will have to extend his final season yet again, this time against one of his few peers in the legacy department, Manning.
As the Ravens' win over the Colts was winding down last weekend Lewis raced to the center of M&T Bank Stadium and the Baltimore crowd erupted. The seven-time All-Pro, who had announced his retirement at season's end in the week before the game, was part of the Ravens' victory formation and did his trademarked "Squirrel Dance" one last time for the hometown faithful after Baltimore wrapped up the emphatic win.
"There's no great reward than for me to take this last victory lap for me to see my team," Lewis told CBS after the game. "Because we have a vision. We're not trying to end here. This is just my last game at Ravens stadium, and it's the most awesome thing you could ever ask for in any professional career."
It's been a long and often surreal ride for Lewis -- once indicted for murder and now regarded as one of the faces of the NFL.
During the pregame festivities, Lewis was almost a one-man receiving line, accepting well-wishes from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, along with his teammates and children.
If you thought Lewis, who is bound for Canton as the heart and soul of the Ravens franchise as well as a leader of one of most consistent and ferocious defensive units of this generation, might be distracted, however, think again. In his first game since suffering a torn triceps in mid-October, the 17-year veteran was credited with 13 tackles in spearheading Baltimore's win.
"My only focus was to come in and get my team a win. Nothing else was planned," Lewis said. "It's one of those things, when you recap it all and try to say what is one of your greatest moments. I knew how it started, but I never knew how it would end here in Baltimore. I wouldn't change nothing."
Perhaps inspired by the return of Lewis, the Ravens defense, which has been pedestrian for most of the season, held the upstart Colts to three Adam Vinatieri field goals, and spoiled the playoff debut of potential NFL Rookie of the Year Andrew Luck and the return of Chuck Pagano to Baltimore. Pagano, of course, spent four years as an assistant under John Harbaugh before taking over the Colts last January.
"We definitely wanted to come out and put on a great performance for (Lewis') last time at M&T Bank Stadium," Boldin said.
Outside linebacker Paul Kruger proved to be a Philip Seymour-Hoffman-like co- star to Lewis, registering 2 1/2 of the Ravens' three sacks during the game and causing one of three takeaways with a forced fumble.
"I saw him get to the quarterback a whole bunch," Harbaugh said of Kruger. "He played tremendously well."
The Broncos, the AFC West kingpins who enjoyed a bye last week after winning their final 11 regular season games, are the AFC's No. 1 seed and have home- field advantage throughout the conference bracket.
Manning, who was sidelined for the entire 2011 season following four neck surgeries, comes in after a spectacular first season in the Rockies and with 5,389 career postseason passing yards, the third-most in NFL history behind Brett Favre (5,855) and Joe Montana (5,772).
The Ravens, who are 7-5 all-time on road in postseason, lead their all-time series with the Broncos by a slim 5-4 margin, and Baltimore also won the lone postseason matchup, a 21-3 wild card win back on Dec. 31, 2000.
The Denver offense, which is fourth in the NFL averaging 397.9 yards per game, tends to wear opponents down, leading the NFL with a plus-161 scoring differential in the second half, a number which represented the third-highest such figure since the 1970 NFL merger and the best since Green Bay in 1996.
The reason for that is generally the tempo Manning forces an opposing defense to play at. One of the smartest quarterbacks to ever play the game, Manning is one of the few signal-callers in the NFL who can survey things at the line of scrimmage and get his team into the proper play on a consistent basis. By limiting substitutions, the Broncos put an incredible strain on defensive players used to limited snaps counts in the era of specialization.
Manning could be on the verge of his record fifth MVP award after leading the NFL in completion percentage (68.6), finishing second in passer rating (105.8), third in touchdowns (37) and sixth in yards (4,659) for a team that averaged 30.1 points per game, the second-highest output in the league.
"It's been quite a year for me," Manning said. "I remember one year ago I was in a hospital bed watching opening day, so there's a little reminder there of how far I've come."
Manning has wide receivers Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas on the outside, the youngest receiving tandem in NFL history to each post 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns in the same season.
The Ravens were missing three defensive starters the last time they played Denver: Lewis, linebacker Dannell Ellerbe and safety Bernard Pollard. Meanwhile star pass rusher Terrell Suggs has just returned from his latest injury, a biceps problem..
"It's the right time to be healthy, and I'm hoping those guys will have a big impact," Harbaugh said.
"They've got three pretty formidable guys back on defense that they did not have in our last contest," Broncos coach John Fox added. "So this will be a completely different game, a completely different test. A lot of new faces."
Lewis, who missed 10 games this season, belongs on the Mount Rushmore of linebackers and although he's not the player he once was, the leadership he brings to the field has been sorely lacking from a Ravens' defense, which finished 17th in total defense at 350.9 yards allowed per game, the franchise's worst showing on that side of the ball since 2002.
"Ball is ball. It doesn't matter what level," Fox said when talking about Lewis. "There's people, leaders on teams, players in particular, that raise all boats, raise all levels, and they can inspire, no doubt, and he does that."
Offensively Baltimore hopes a more-entrenched Jim Caldwell will help. Caldwell, who helped coach Manning for years while in Indianapolis, was in his first game as an offensive coordinator for the Ravens after replacing the fired Cam Cameron in Week 15 against the Broncos.
The Ravens struggled mightily in that game, especially early with five straight three-and-outs. Since then, Caldwell and the Ravens offense have turned it on, putting up 533 yards of offense against the New York Giants in Week 16. The team then rested players in the regular season finale before ringing up a franchise postseason record 441 yards last Sunday against Indianapolis.
Caldwell has brought some of the Manning-like, up-tempo process to the Baltimore offense and has been more willing to let Flacco generate things from outside the pocket. That's a key since the University of Delaware product was sacked three times and hit nine times by the Broncos in the first meeting.
"(Caldwell's) probably a little bit more comfortable throughout the week now and kind of a little bit more settled in," Flacco said.
An offensive line shift and am improved running game have also made things easier on Flacco. When left guard Jah Reid went down with a toe injury, the Ravens reinserted veteran Bryant McKinnie at left tackle, moved Michael Oher back to right tackle and shifted rookie Kelechi Osemele to left guard. Meanwhile, rookie Bernard Pierce has been teaming with Pro-Bowler Ray Rice for a nice 1-2 combination in the backfield.
Pierce has actually been hotter player recently, rushing 14 times for 123 yards versus the Giants and 13 times for 103 yards against the Colts, while Rice put it on the ground twice against Indy.
"They've got a good run game and they have all season long," Fox said. "Both guys can come at you as a good one-two punch. We saw both of them in our first contest. Both very, very capable."
Jack Del Rio spearheads a Denver defensive unit which held opponents to 25-of- 126 (19.8 percent) on third downs over the last nine games, by far the best mark in the NFL over that span.
It's not surprising that the Broncos put a lot of heat on Flacco during the regular season. Star rush linebacker Von Miller is the straw that stirs the drink on the Denver defense, finishing his second NFL season ranked in the top five in sacks, quarterback knockdowns, quarterback hurries, tackles for a loss, run stuffs and forced fumbles. The Defensive Player of the Year candidate posted a franchise-record 18 1/2 sacks overall in addition to ranking second in the league in tackles for a loss (28) and tying for third in the NFL with six forced fumbles.
Undersized defensive end Elvis Dumervil added 11 sacks and combines with Miller to give Denver a ferocious pass rush off the edge.
Baltimore looked like a different team last weekend with Lewis, Suggs and Pollard back on defense, swarming and confusing a rookie quarterback. This game isn't in the Charm City, however, and Manning is the farthest thing from a freshman.
The Ravens will be playing a mile above sea level this time with Peyton playing hurry-up and making conditioning an issue for the visitors.
"You just have to be ready to go into a hostile environment and play your best football," Flacco said.
Manning has won nine straight overall versus the Ravens, including two playoff matchups despite throwing three interceptions and posting a mediocre 68.3 rating in the two postseason contests.
"It's just one of those chess matches," Lewis said. "(Manning) knows me very well. I know him very well ... But at the end of the day, it's not about me and me and Peyton. It's about their team against our team.
"I love our team right now."
Since Denver is 13-3 at home in the postseason, Lewis probably should love the Broncos a little bit more.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Broncos 24, Ravens 17


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At this point, bringing home a Super Bowl ring is a certainty.
Whose room it will live in is what millions of people will tune in on Sunday to find out.
Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner and Denver Broncos safety Omar Bolden can add another definition to their longstanding relationship. The middle school classmates, high school teammates and offseason roommates are now Super Bowl opponents.
"As soon as we made it, we congratulated each other," Wagner said. "And then we started talking trash."
Bragging rights don't get much bigger than this.
But both players insist there will be no awkward conversations at the breakfast table in the offseason home they share in Woodland Hills.
"I'm sure there will be a little bitterness, but I know we'll be happy for each other no matter who wins," Bolden said. "Our relationship is way bigger than football."
The Ontario natives have shared highs and lows, ranging from a 2006 CIF championship at Colony High School to the unexpected death of Wagner's mother four years ago.
They were there for each other when Wagner didn't have a single scholarship offer a week before national signing day in 2008, or when Bolden's NFL draft status was brought into question by an ill-timed torn ACL his senior year at Arizona State.
No matter the result of Super Bowl XLVIII, it's safe to say their relationship can handle it.
Not that they're expecting this to be an annual occurrence, but at 23 and 25 years old, respectively, this may not be the only Super Bowl for Wagner or Bolden.
It has been a particularly precipitous rise to stardom for Wagner, the starting middle linebacker for a Seahawks defense ranked No. 1 in the NFL.
Bolden seems to be emerging, having started two games for the Broncos this season since making a switch from cornerback to safety.
The two talk every week during the season, but were noticeably distant during the playoffs. That is, until each of their teams secured a spot in the Super Bowl.
Though Bolden and Wagner have lightheartedly discussed it before, playing each other in the Super Bowl became a very real possibility when the Broncos and Seahawks both earned No. 1 playoff seeds.
On conference championship Sunday, it actually became real — and surreal.
"I'm so glad we played first," Bolden said. "I was freaking out on the couch watching Bobby play."
Said Wagner, "Once Omar got in, I knew we had to win too. I can't believe I'm playing this game against somebody I grew up with."
Since landing in the NFL two seasons ago, Bolden and Wagner have been fortuitous enough to play with the likes of Peyton Manning and a cast talented enough to form the NFL's top-ranked defense.
Before Wagner was drafted ahead of Russell Wilson, it wasn't exactly smooth sailing.
The same undersized tag used to explain why Utah State was his only scholarship offer was dragged out of the closet when the Seahawks were accused of reaching for the 6-foot, 240-pound Wagner with the 47th overall pick of the 2012 draft.
All he did was become a rookie starter whose 140 tackles last season ranked seventh in the league.
This year, he was the signal-caller for a defense that allowed the fewest yards and fewest points in the NFL.
"To be politically correct, I'm rolling with anybody on the Denver Broncos, but Bobby Wagner is one of the best middle linebackers in the game," Bolden said. "I don't know if he knows this, but he inspires me daily. With where he came from to where he is now, it's amazing."
Bolden was historically the more heralded athlete of the two, starring as Colony's running back before he was showered with scholarship offers from USC, Michigan and Nebraska, among others. He became a freshman All-American in the Arizona State secondary, but a torn MCL forced Bolden to redshirt his junior season before a torn ACL the spring prior to his senior year shelved him for his final collegiate season.
The cornerback slipped to the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft, but is climbing the depth chart since changing positions this season.
"To know I'm here two and a half years later, it's mind blowing," Bolden said. "It was tough for me because when I first came back from the ACL I wasn't the same. But I'm a positive guy and it's tough to break me."
It wasn't long after they were drafted that the duo decided to live together along with fellow Colony High graduate Tony Osunsanmi.
The longtime friends are giving new meaning to "a house divided."

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CLEVELAND—Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo has been charged with using his official position to funnel nearly $450,000 in county work to a printing company at inflated rates in exchange for contributions to Russo's political campaign, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
Russo allegedly ticketed work to the unnamed printer between 2005 and 2007, despite the fact that the county has its own printing operation, the newspaper reported. An unnamed employee in the auditor's office, believed to be Damir Blecic, reportedly has an interest in the printing company, and the Plain Dealer wrote that Russo hired a number of Blecic's relatives.
Russo resigned from his position on Thursday, before federal prosecutors charged him with 21 corruption-based crimes, according to the Plain Dealer. He is at the center of Cuyahoga County's largest corruption investigation ever, which has led to more than three dozen public officials and private contractors pleading guilty to crimes.


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- Sit at Kynance Cove and simply enjoy the view of the spectacular beach. Billed as having white sand (although it's a tad beige, in fact), the reflected sunlight turns the water turquoise
- Walk along the thick harbour walls at Mullion Cove dramatically surrounded by tall stacks of black volcanic rock. Climb up to the hotel on the hill and take in the view
- Visit St Winwaloe Church located right on the beach at Gunwalloe Church Cove. Dating from the 13th century and also, due to its location, known as the Church of Storms, there is a separate bell tower behind the church and inside you'll find a 16th century rood screen made of wood from a Portuguese wreck
- Visit the Lizard Lighthouse and find out more about maritime history in the visitor centre and enjoy the views from the top of the lighthouse
- Visit Roskilly's farm and watch ice cream and fudge being made, enjoy local food and in the Croust House and walk it off while exploring the nature trails around the farm
- Enjoy one of Anne's famous pasties whilst looking out over mainland Britain's most southerly point
- Visit the camels at Rosuick Organic Farm
- Visit the Marconi Centre at Poldhu Cove and discover the fascinating historical advances made in transatlantic radio communication
- Take a diving trip and discover dozens of shipwrecks off the notorious Manacles rocks
- Enjoy a sea fishing trip and catch your supper
- Explore picturesque villages, coves and harbours such as Coverack, Cadgwith, Portholland and St Keverne
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Today's Employment Situation Report continued to reflect a severely contracting recessionary economy with the unemployment rate jumping to 9.4% while the Establishment survey showed another notable decline of 345,000 non-farm jobs over the same period.
Further, there were considerable revisions to past months resulting in a stunning 6,260,000 private non-farm jobs shed so since the peak in December 2007.
As I had noted in a prior post, we are quickly approaching the second seasonal unemployment spike for the year (mid-January and mid-July are the typical unemployment spikes) that, in all likeliness, will bring a notable degree of re-acceleration to unemployment.
With the latest news just littered with poor earnings reports and announcements of job cuts and layoffs cutting across all regions and most industries, the recessionary job loss trend now appears to be following a far more severe trend than seen during our prior two recessions.
The following chart combines both the "residential building" and "residential specialty trade contractors" into one payroll series and then plotting the data since 2002.
Notice that, in aggregate, these payrolls, having peaked in February 2006 and declined 29.71% or 1,026,700 jobs since then, appear to be headed lower.
Also note that independently, "residential building" has lost 31.44% of its payrolls or 321,500 jobs since it peaked during September 2006 and that "residential specialty trade contractors" have lost 29.18% of its payrolls or 712,000 jobs since it peaked during February 2006.
Next, let's take a look a slightly broader set of industry sectors that have been directly impacted both by the housing boom and now the bust (click for larger chart).
Note that I carefully selected sectors that showed either an obvious expansion-to-contraction trend OR a flattening-to-contraction trend and that ALL sectors have both a historical and logical relationship to residential housing as well as recent industry press releases disclosing declining profits as a result of the housing bust.
As you can see, sectors that are now being directly impacted by the current housing decline are numerous and cut across many levels of the job market from construction and materials to manufacturing and finally to retail.
Combining these series into an aggregate of payrolls "directly impacted" by the housing boom and bust cycle and plotting it, along with the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite Home Price Index (click on chart below for larger version) since 1997 provides some pretty solid evidence that a relationship exists.
To expand the analysis a bit look at the following chart that shows percent change on year-over-year basis to BOTH the "directly impacted" payrolls sectors and ALL private non-farm payroll overlaid with the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite Home Price Index.
To get a sense of the relative intensity of the pullback to the "directly impacted" payrolls by plotting both the percentage of overall private non-farm payrolls that the "directly impacted" aggregate represents as well as the contributions it is making to the rate of change of the underlying total private non-farm payrolls.
Notice that at its peak the "directly impacted" payrolls represented over 6.7% (now 6.13%) of Total Private Non-Farm Payrolls and now contracted to a far more significant degree than that seen during the entire course of the 2001-2003 contraction.
Plotting the ratio of overall and private non-farm payroll as well as the payroll of various business sectors to overall non-institutional population (above 16 years old and not in jail or "juvee"), the last eight years seem to pose more questions than answers.
The payroll-population ratio concept simply provides a mechanism for better isolating the changes to payroll rosters by calculating the percentage of population that is employed in a given sector at any given time.
In the following chart (click for larger version) you can see the ratio of overall non-farm payroll and private non-farm payroll to non-institutional population from 1948 overlaid with all U.S. recessions in that period.
As you can see, there is a fairly strong correlation to declining percent of population employed in non-farm and private non-farm endeavors and recession with particularly good peak-trough alignment for all recessions prior to 1990.
During the 2001 recession (and to a far lesser extent in 1990), although there where large declines to the ratio during the official recession period, the economy seemed to be able resume growth while the ratio continued to slide or stayed well below the peak of the prior expansion.
This is an interesting situation in that, although increases in population have been steady and could have replenished the literal number of jobs lost during the downdraft of 2000-2003, the 2000s expansion of payrolls was not strong (jobless recovery).
The following chart (click for larger version), on the other hand, the payroll ratio related to construction has remained above even the peak set in the 90s expansion but has dropped significantly below trend.


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Sammy Yatim killing: Report on lethal force by police out today
A former Supreme Court of Canada justice reports today on his investigation into the use of lethal force by Toronto police sparked by the killing of a disturbed teenager on an empty streetcar last summer.
Frank Iacobucci's report comes amid a lawsuit by the family of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim against the officer who shot him and another who tasered him as he lay dying.
- Sammy Yatim's family files lawsuit against Toronto police
- Related: Officer to stand trial in Sammy Yatim death
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair asked the former justice last August to take a broad look at how officers interact with people in crisis and to come up with recommendations.
Among other things, the report analyzes ways of reducing the use of lethal force by police — especially when it comes to responding to calls involving people with emotional or mental difficulties that may require urgent care or put themselves or others at risk of harm.
In all, the report has 84 recommendations covering a wide area ranging from training and policies to equipment, supervision and oversight.
The provincial Police Services Act required Blair to do a review after police gunned down Yatim on a streetcar. In a rare such prosecution, Const. James Forcillo was also charged with second-degree murder.
However, Blair opted for "extraordinary" review beyond Yatim's case to include several other fatal police shootings in recent years along with a look at international best practices.
"There's an overwhelming recognition this is important," Blair said of the review.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Toronto in two marches after Yatim's death, which was captured on surveillance and cellphone videos.
Nine shots could be heard on the videos following police shouts for Yatim to drop a small fold-up knife he was carrying. The final six shots appeared to come after Yatim had already fallen backwards to the floor of the streetcar.
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In a lawsuit filed with Ontario Superior Court last October, Yatim's mother and sister are seeking more than $7 million from Forcillo, the police services board and two other officers.
According to the lawsuit — which is not proven and to which no defence has been filed — Forcillo fired at Yatim in the early hours of July 27, 2013. At the time, Yatim was alone on the streetcar, which was surrounded by about 20 officers.
In all, Forcillo fired nine shots, hitting Yatim eight times, the suit states.
"After Sammy had been mortally wounded and lay defenceless on the floor of the streetcar, Officer John Doe fired his Taser into Sammy," the suit alleges.
What should have been obvious to the responding officers was that Yatim was suffering from "an emotional disturbance," the suit states.
The plaintiffs allege Yatim never approached the officers or tried to leave the streetcar, and Forcillo shot and killed him either "without justification or excuse" or was reckless and negligent in doing so.
Police spokesman Mark Pugash would not comment on the suit and said no statement of defence had been filed.
Forcillo is expected to stand trial next year. He was released on $510,000 bail and is currently working with Crime Stoppers.


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Hazard, Paul pôl äzär´ [key], 1878–1944, French scholar. He began his teaching at the Univ. of Lyons in 1910. After World War I he taught at the Sorbonne and in 1925 was appointed to the chair of comparative literature in the Collège de France. In alternate years between 1932 and 1940 he was a visiting lecturer at Columbia Univ. Recognized as an authority on comparative literature, Hazard was elected to the French Academy in 1939. Among his important writings are Histoire illustrée de la littérature française (comp. with Joseph Bédier, 2 vol., 1923–24); Books, Children and Men (1932, tr. 1944); The European Mind, the Critical Years, 1680–1715 (3 vol., 1935, tr. 1953); and European Thought in the Eighteenth Century (3 vol., 1946, tr. 1954).
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With the opening event of the WSL Championship tour on the Gold Coast only days away, we're getting ready for another exciting #ROXYpro!
With the spotlight firmly on current 6x World Title holder, defending #ROXYpro champion and hometown favourite - Stephanie Gilmore, we're looking forward to celebrate a Snapper Rocks milestone for Steph. It will be 10 years since the then 17 year old took a day off school to compete (and win!) as a wild card in her first #ROXYpro. 10 years on Steph has notched up countless WCT career victories, become a hall of fame inductee and is now getting ready to chase down another World Title, aiming to equal legendary surfer Layne Beachley's record of 7.
After a strong 2014 season, with six finals appearances, Bianca Buitendag will be back on the Gold Coast, hoping to better her second place finish at the #ROXYpro last year. Her laid-back South African charm will no doubt make her a favourite with the fans again too!
The beginning out a new year and new WCT tour also means our favourite commentator and ROXY's own Rosy Hodge will be back on our screens as part of the WSL commentary team. We can't wait to catch some more of Rosy's post-heat interviews, heat breakdowns and daily highlights in and out of the water during the event.
Until our girls hit the water, here's a few of our favourite moments from last years #ROXYpro.
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I don't know about you, but I find myself taking a lot of the gifts and talents we have received for granted. I will be passing my latest privileges onto three non-profit organisations that friends of mine have started in South Africa a few years ago. They are my biggest inspirations. I hope it helps in giving back the opportunities that certain circumstances have taken away. I challenge you to see how far your 'little' can go. Their websites are in my bio. @Roxy @cisurfboards @ASP #RoxyPro
No accomplishment will ever come close. Today is a celebration of the absolute mind blowing love of God. It changed my life and continues to do so. Embrace and celebrate, because it never ends, never lets down, never lets go. @Roxy @ASP @cisurfboards #roxypro Congrats Steph ! And thanks to my brotha @mathiasmaallem


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It's mid-May, and rancor fills the halls of Congress. Partisan debates rage over the debt ceiling and tax cuts. The presidential campaign grows more contentious every week with Obama accusing Romney of being too rich to be in touch with the middle class and Romney blaming the president for a stagnant economy. But on a warm, sunlit morning in Anacostia Park, two miles south of Capitol Hill, there isn't a whisper of dissent. As some of the most influential Republicans and Democrats assemble for the 31st annual ACLI Capital Challenge, all one can hear is the hum of laughter and banter.
Adding to this relaxed vibe are nine U.S. senators and 14 representatives who have shed their power suits and congressional pins for Lycra and nylon. With names like Thune, Ayotte, and Grassley, they are an elite group of hypercompetitive lawmakers, yet not one of them is dashing out strides, sucking down gel, or otherwise prepping for their imminent three-mile contest. Instead, they're hanging out in small groups in the northeast corner of the 1,200-acre park. The area is a non–descript grassy expanse spotted with cherry trees in postbloom and bordered by the murky Anacostia River and a bustling freeway. It's an unlikely gathering spot for political notables, yet here they are, calling out to each other by last names like a bunch of jocks. When it's time to line up, they walk to the start and sandwich themselves into the crowd. Race director Jeff Darman reminds the runners–"especially you Tea Partiers"–to stay to the left of the park road course. Then he hands three-time Olympic marathoner Meb Keflezighi a silver Thunderer whistle that has heralded every Challenge since 1981. As the official "whistle-blower," Keflezighi issues a sharp chirp and the pack steps out at a civilized pace that belies nothing of the plugged-in, on-message, frenzied existence of people who argue for a living.
As presidential election years go, 2012 has been one for the haters. The attacks, venomous language, and petulant name-calling ("Romney Hood," "Obama-loney") hurled between candidates and among their party faithful have called to mind kids fighting over a Happy Meal toy–not distinguished leaders vying for America's most prestigious elected office. When the negative, divisive campaigning ends on Tuesday, November 6, most observers will be hard-pressed to recall a time this year when Republicans and Democrats were in harmony. But at 8 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, just six months earlier, a couple hundred spectators witnessed just that–the dissolution of party lines as politicians came together as runners.
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Though the public is not invited to run it, the Capital Challenge began as a way to get voters excited about running. Race director Darman figured if he could get politicians to run, their constituents might take note and take up the sport. A former councilman in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Darman launched the race in 1981, opening it up to members of the government–legislative, judicial, executive–and the media. It's been a hit ever since, with the field growing from 208 that first year to 539 in 2012 (the race was canceled in 2002 after the attacks of September 11). And it has drawn plenty of big names: Al Gore ran as a representative, senator, and vice president, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ran in the mid '80s as then-associate counsel to President Reagan.
Despite the prominent names, Darman and his staff have no problem poking fun at their "elite" racers. This year, they taped white signs indicating a branch of government onto each of the blue portable toilets. (They labeled the behemoth at the end of the row for the "1%.") When the porta-labeling spoof first started, it went right over politicos' heads. "You would see one person in front of the Senate line and eight at the House line," says Darman. Ubiquitous yard signs make demands like: "If you pass a member of the opposing party during the race say, 'Looking good!,' not, 'Having a problem, lead foot?'"
The event's offbeat humor continues with postrace awards for best and worst team names–easily as big a deal as winning the race, says Darman. Each politician runs as part of a team, with members of his or her office wearing matching T-shirts sporting monikers like "Kay thru '12" (Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas) and "Live Run or Die" (Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire). "I have had years," says Darman, "where staffers submit a name, and then I get a call saying, 'We have to change it. The boss felt it was too edgy.'"
There are no distant views of the National Mall's famous monuments or interesting landmarks to break up the scenery of clipped grass and towering trees as the Challenge runners head to the turnaround of the out-and-back course.
Among the fastest runners to round the orange cones is Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota. He's tall and lean with knotted biceps, and the effort of holding a 6:15 pace is etched on his face–his jaw is locked in a grimace and his eyes are fixed on the ground just ahead of him. The 51-year-old longtime runner and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference has been the fastest man in Congress since 2009 (his race PR is 18:54 set in 2011). Thune grew up in the tiny town of Murdo, South Dakota, where spring floods buried his high school's track, forcing his team to do intervals on the local airstrip where "a half mile never looked so far."
Thune's closest rival from the senate is Ayotte. Running an 8:30 pace, she maintains a steady, fluid stride. Ayotte, 44, began running during her tenure as New Hampshire's state attorney general. "When I ran, I realized how energized I felt," she says. With her five-day training schedule, she holds the course record for women in the senate (26:40 set in 2011), but doesn't brag about it. "I don't want to diminish the accomplishment," she says. "But there are only 17 women in the senate, so I'm humble about it."
Nearly eight minutes behind Ayotte, Republican senator Richard Lugar, accompanied by Keflezighi, inches toward the one-mile mark. They are an unlikely pair, the 80-year-old Indiana lawmaker with the white hair, round belly, and thick legs and the 37-year-old, 125-pound running machine. They both seem to struggle with the 16-minute-per-mile shuffle. Lugar isn't talking. But when Darman zips by on the back of the lead motorcycle heading in the opposite direction, Lugar looks over at him, smiles, and waves.
According to Beltway insiders, the Challenge is a Washington anomaly, bringing politicians together in a way that is rarely seen. "You'd be surprised how little socializing the typical lawmaker does," says Amy Argetsinger, the Washington Post's political lifestyle columnist (and 27:52 finisher). "We're living in partisan times, but also incredibly busy times. If they're not on the Hill, lawmakers are often in their districts chasing votes or on the road raising money."
Indeed, the race has long embodied a partisan-free vibe. "When we're all out there, pushing toward the finish line, there aren't any Republicans or Democrats, just runners," says Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. (Baucus, 70, set the record for senators of 18:15 in the event's inaugural year. "I don't talk about it much," he says, "because Senator Thune would train too hard and beat it." Former Democratic Congressman Bart Gordon of Tennessee ran 16:50 in 1995–the record for fastest house member.) Thune echoes Baucus's sentiments. "The race is a great bridge across the divide of the competing parties," he says. "You develop relationships that transcend the day-to-day acrimony." For Lugar, admiration trumps all. "On race day, senators look at each other and say, 'By golly, we all made it.' You're delighted to see your comrades doing something that you enjoy."
Any rivalries that do unfold are between people–not parties. Like the duel between Republican Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Cornyn of Texas: "I beat him the first time he ran [the Challenge]," says Grassley. "I made a big deal out of it because he's 18 years younger than I am. The next year he stayed behind me until a quarter mile to go, then passed me. I haven't beaten him since." Grassley, 79, started running in 1999 after visiting nursing homes around Iowa as then Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. He didn't see anyone exercising, and remembers thinking, Egads, do I want to be in that shape? "I made running my New Year's resolution, and it's the only resolution I've ever kept," he says. The 13-time Challenge finisher rises daily at 4 a.m. to run the same three-mile loop around his D.C. home that he's run for the past 13 years. "Every day I run is a better day for me," he says.
To those who make a living parsing the nuances of a lawmaker's life, such dedication can be revelatory. "Making time to run is about keeping your priorities straight and maintaining a proper balance of work, family, friends, and self time," says CNN correspondent Tom Foreman. "Politicians who are dedicated runners, I find, often have a better sense of what really matters than those who don't run." Norah O'Donnell, cohost of CBS This Morning and two-time race finisher, agrees, adding that running together could have a spillover effect on a politician's day job. "Republicans and Democrats are gridlocked in their ability to find solutions to the toughest issues facing this country," she says. "Any bipartisan activity, like running, that brings both parties together is a good thing."
In fact, running may be the perfect compliment to a life in politics. Pursuing elected office is a lot of getting up early and pushing yourself mentally and physically day after day. "You have to enjoy the challenge because, on a certain level, there are plenty of good reasons not to do it," says Argetsinger. "The same can be said for running, which is why you probably see a common personality type gravitate to both pursuits."
Along the sun-exposed stretch to the finish, spectators line a makeshift blue barrier and cheer the incoming racers. The winner, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's "We FERC Hard for the Runnin'" team, sprints hard and finishes in 14:48 (the course record is 14:06). Minutes later, Thune summons a pained finishing kick and finishes 56th overall. His time of 18:56 is two seconds off his 2011 PR, yet quick enough to retain his title of Fastest Senator (male). Almost 300 runners finish before Ayotte appears, her arm swing now stiff with fatigue. She crosses the line in 24:52–a PR by nearly two minutes–the Fastest Senator (female) for the second year in a row. For their efforts, Thune and Ayotte get a duffel and a medal engraved with a running George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Weary and wincing in pain, Thune looks like he just wrestled a bull to the ground, and he downplays his accomplishment. "It's only a matter of time until someone new is going to smoke me," he says.
Indeed, the fastest senator title, like an elected position, is fleeting. Thirty years ago, Lugar was a popular politician with quick legs and a fast Challenge PR (20:54 set in 1984). He ran on his office treadmill while watching the senate on TV ("To make sure I wasn't taken by a sudden vote," he says), and once held group runs with his staff and interns around the Mall. He has run every one of the Capital Challenge races. Today marks his final event; after losing a tough primary earlier in the month, he will retire in January after six terms. And so the finish line represents more than the end of his race–it is the end of a streak, of a career, and some would argue, the end of a more bipartisan era.
With just seven walkers behind him, Lugar is near dead last as he shuffles with Keflezighi toward the white banner volunteers have stretched across the finish for him. "Making his way to the finish line...a big warm Washington round of applause for Senator Richard G. Lugar!" booms race announcer Phil Stewart. To rousing and sustained applause, Lugar clasps Keflezighi's left hand, raises his arms, and smiling broadly, breaks the tape.
It is well past 9 a.m. The awards ceremony is over: The U.S. Navy's "Navy's Global Force for Speed" captured the fastest overall team distinction, while Thune's "Mount Runmore" was fastest senate team. Best Team Name went to the D.C. Court of Appeals' "Let Just-Us Win," while Cornyn's team won–to hoots and hollers–the coveted Worst Team Name for, "Where's the Finish? I'm Having a Cornynary." A few racers are picking at the croissants and fruit of TARP, the Tired Athletes Refreshment Program. Others flank Keflezighi for photos, and several senators embrace Lugar with well wishes.
No one, it seems, is in a hurry to leave. To slip back into character and rejoin debates over gun control, same-sex marriage, and immigration. To split the issues and take sides. Instead, our hard-charging lawmakers seem to be savoring a few more minutes hanging out in their short shorts, talking to people who love to run.
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NEW: As many as 8,000 women and girls were included in the case
Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in 2013 after 25 years at Johns Hopkins
Police found computers full of naked patient pictures, videos
Levy committed suicide soon after his confession
Johns Hopkins Health System has agreed to pay $190 million to settle the case of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and recorded his patients.
The doctor committed suicide after confessing to the clandestine photos and recordings.
"We have come to an agreement that the plaintiffs' attorneys and Johns Hopkins Health System believe is fair and properly balances the concerns of thousands of plaintiffs with obligations the Health System has to provide ongoing and superior care to the community.
"It is our hope that this settlement – and findings by law enforcement that images were not shared – helps those affected achieve a measure of closure," Johns Hopkins said in a statement Monday.
The dollar figure of the settlement was provided by hospital spokeswoman Kim Hoppe.
Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in 2013 after 25 years at Johns Hopkins. He was found out after a colleague reported her suspicion that Levy was secretly recording his patients using a pen-like camera, which he wore around his neck.
Levy confessed and police searched his house. They found multiple computer servers and computers full of naked patient pictures and videos.
As many as 8,000 women and girls were included in the case, according to plaintiffs' attorney Jonathan Schochor.
"We are hoping this is a major step in putting this all behind us," he said.
Hopkins said insurance would cover the cost of the settlement.
"We assure you that one individual does not define Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins is defined by the tens of thousands of employees who come to work determined to provide world-class care for our patients and their families," the hospital said in its statement.
Doctor accused of molesting his patients
Doctor sued for 'branding' patient's uterus
CNN's Marisa Marcellino and Donovan Long contributed to this report.


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Sony has revealed an impressive new XEL-1 11-inch OLED TV panel which has a stunning contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1 (yes, that's one million to one) and measures just 3mm thick. The XEL-1 uses just 45W of power - the same as an average light bulb.
Less impressive is its ¥200,000 (£850) price tag, but on its 11-inch screen, the 960 x 540 resolution should look very crisp. Most of the heavy parts - the digital TV tuner and two 1W speakers are stored in its chunky base unit which acts as a stand.
OLED future?
Many people think that OLED (organic light emitting diode) television technology could one day replace LCD and plasma TVs in our living rooms. But at the moment, OLED technology is stuck with many of the problems which blighted LCD in its early days.
It's very hard to build OLED panels of any real size, and even small panels are very expensive to produce; hence the XEL-1's £77 per-inch price tag.
Crisp picture
With its HDMI and USB inputs and an ability to accept any picture resolution between 480i and 1080p, it might be ideal for those with money to burn who are after a stunning-yet-small TV.
The XEL-1 is out in Japan in December and presumably Sony will be bringing OLED technology to Europe at some point in the future.


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When inspiration strikes, Shanthi, an elephant living at Washington, DC's National Zoo, moseys over to a harmonica and plays a jaunty tune. See if you could dance to elephant-composed music in the video above.
It's particularly interesting that Shanthi reportedly prefers music that ends with a crescendo. I wonder if she connects it to the natural trumpeting sounds that elephants make.
Zoo Elephant Rocks Harmonica [Discovery Blogs via Buzzfeed]


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I find it ironic that I recently wrote about what I called "the cultural war on white people" and that with the piece I used a graphic from "Game of Thrones" (specifically, the Night King, a blue-eyed devil who leads the "white walkers.")
Because this past week's tempest in a teapot was the fact that the creators of "Thrones" plan to create next an HBO television series called "Confederate," which examines an alternate universe in which the South successfully seceded from the Union.
This would be no big fucking deal if we didn't live in an era of smug, pearl-clutching outrage addicts, but we do, so it is.
So addicted to their self-righteous outrage are the snowflakes supposedly on the left that now they don't hesitate to engage in attempted prior censorship — the dooming of a creation, of an expression, before it even has been substantially started by its creator or creators.
These aren't true leftists, because true leftists value the freedom of expression.
"Confederate," if and when completed, might suck ass. It might be corny. It might turn out to be tone-deaf, although I rather doubt that it will. I mean, "Game of Thrones" over the past several years has matured. Sex scenes apparently meant to appeal mostly to young heterosexual males have diminished with each passing year as the show has grown more serious, which includes the development of its female characters from sex objects to the show's true leaders (heroines and villainesses and somewhere in between).
And despite criticisms apparently from those who haven't seen the series, "Game of Thrones" is diverse. True, it's set in a Medieval-like place and time and so you see a lot of white characters, but it has important black characters (but, if we're keeping count, not any Asian characters that I can think of, and while the series has featured at least one Latino actor, it hasn't had any explicitly Latino characters, since there is no Spain or Latin America in Westeros, the mythical land in which most of the series takes place).
But if "Game of Thrones" isn't racially diverse enough for you, snowflake, well, go yell at George R.R. Martin, on whose series of books the television series is based.
But that said, no creator of a poem or a short story or a novel or a song or a television show or a film or of anything has to practice affirmative action in his or her creation.
We can and should argue for a diverse workplace and for the equality of opportunity in our society and in our daily lives, but artistic creations are something else. They exist in a special realm that needs to be protected, even from "harmless" snowflakes.
If you want to create something that features predominantly or only black people or Asian people or Latino people (or gay people or women or men or transgender people or…), knock yourself out; maybe your story or your movie or your song lyrics are focused on that group of people and you don't want to drag a lot of other people into the mix just to make some snowflakes happy.
If you want to create something that features predominantly or even only white people — gasp! — you can do that, too, especially if the time and the place depicted in your creation warrant it.
And the "Thrones" co-creators seem to be well aware of what they're getting into with "Confederate." "Thrones" co-creator D.B. Weiss recently told Vulture:
… [I]t goes without saying slavery is the worst thing that ever happened in American history. It's our original sin as a nation. And history doesn't disappear. That sin is still with us in many ways.
"Confederate," in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
It's an ugly and a painful history, but we all think this is a reason to talk about it, not a reason to run from it. And this feels like a potentially valuable way to talk about it. …
Many black Americans say that they're beyond sick and tired of the slavery theme. I can understand that; as a gay man, my entire life I've seen that in most movies gay male characters are acceptable only as flamboyant, easily identified, non-threatening nelly queens, as the deserved victims of violence (up to, of course, murder), and/or as the mentally ill perpetrators of violence (up to, of course, murder) and/or of other depraved crimes, and usually the only acceptable ending for them is to commit suicide, to be murdered or to die of AIDS.
You want a happy ending from time to time.
But the Civil War never ended. Look at "President" Pussygrabber, his Nazi elf of an attorney general from Alabama, his oily secretary of state from Texas and the rest of his Cabinet members who hail mostly from the South, and the map of the 2016 presidential election results:
This is a valid, still very relevant topic, and "Confederate" would, I think, only further the discussion. And on board "Confederate" are the husband-and-wife television-writing team of Malcolm Spellman and Nichelle Tramble Spellman.
As Malcolm Spellman told Vulture:
… For me and Nichelle, it's deeply personal because we are the offspring of this history. We deal with it directly and have for our entire lives. We deal with it in Hollywood, we deal with it in the real world when we're dealing with friends and family members.
And I think Nichelle and I both felt a sense of urgency in trying to find a way to support a discussion that is percolating but isn't happening enough. As people of color and minorities in general are starting to get a voice, I think there's a duty to force this discussion. …
Nichelle Tramble Spellman said:
… I think what was interesting to all of us was that we were going to handle this show, and handle the content of the show, without using typical antebellum imagery. There is not going to be, you know, the big Gone With the Wind mansion. This is present day, or close to present day, and how the world would have evolved if the South had been successful seceding from the Union. And what was also exciting to me was the idea that in order to build this, we would have to rebuild world history …
Malcolm Spellman adds:
This is not a world in which the entire country is enslaved. Slavery is in one half of the country. And the North is the North. As Nichelle was saying, the imagery should be no whips and no plantations.
Read the entire Vulture interview with the four creators of "Confederate"; I think that it's clear that, as "Thrones" co-creator David Benioff put it, "anyone who thinks that Malcolm and Nichelle are props have never met Malcolm and Nichelle," and that, as the interviewer worded it, "Confederate" is not going to be "almost pornography or wish-fulfillment for white supremacists and the alt-right."
If "Confederate" sucks for whatever reasons — if it's artistically lame and/or it's tone-deaf or even offensive to the reasonable members of its audience — then let it die deservedly in the marketplace of ideas, but let's not kill it in the crib.
As Benioff said:
… [W]e haven't written any scripts yet. We don't have an outline yet. We don't even have character names. So, everything is brand-new and nothing's been written. I guess that's what was a little bit surprising about some of the outrage. It's just a little premature. You know, we might fuck it up. But we haven't yet. …
Coming from the creative minds behind "Game of Thrones" and the Spellmans, I expect "Confederate" to be more like "Game of Thrones" in quality than like "The Man in the High Castle," Amazon.com's series that imagines that the Germans and the Japanese had won World War II and that I have tried twice to get into but just haven't been able to, as it's just not that good.
I hope that these what-if-history-had-turned-out-differently television series don't proliferate too profusely, but I don't recall Amazon.com being called anti-Semitic for having resurrected Hitler, so I think it's incredibly bullshit for the creators of "Game of Thrones" to be called racist for planning to resurrect the South.
Pick your battles and save your ammo for the battles that matter, snowflakes. You're only turning off far more potential allies than you are doing yourself any good by attacking popular culture that is enjoyed by millions of Americans — and that is not actually "racist" — such as Bill Maher's show and the not-even-born-yet "Confederate."
It's pretty clear that you're making it all about yourself and your supposedly easily hurt pwecious widdle feewings, and that's not a winning strategy. Nor is prior censorship in a nation that has valued the freedom of expression since its inception.
Keep trying this bullshit; you'll see.


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The Mrs. Evan Noyes Collection of Children's
Dr. John E. Jesseph Collection of Civil War Books
The Leo and Mary Solt English History Collection
The Robert A. Woods Masonic Collection
The George Santayana Collection
Other Books in the Rare Book Collection of Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives
(Gift of Marley Jesseph 1991)
Professor John E. Jesseph, M.D. (1925-1982), taught surgery and was chairman of the IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery from 1971-1981. A man of wide-ranging interests, Dr. Jesseph was also an active member of the Indiana Historical Society and an accomplished Civil War historian.
Dr. Jesseph's primary interest in collecting Civil War history was biography, specifically of Union commanders, and most especially General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Journal, 1839
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JS, "Minute Book. 1839 J. Smiths Journal Escape from Prison," Journal, Apr.–Oct. 1839; handwriting of ; fifteen pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes redactions and archival marking.Makeshift notebook measuring 10 × 4 inches (25 × 10 cm). The journal was fashioned by folding eight 10 × 8 inch (25 × 20 cm) sheets of paper in half lengthwise to form the notebook of sixteen leaves (thirty-two pages). Inscriptions that reach the end of a line and cross the gutter onto another leaf indicate that the folded pages were not sewn during their original use. Wear on the first and last pages indicates that the pages were not bound for some time. The text of the journal is inscribed on the first fifteen pages in black ink that later turned brown. The remaining seventeen pages are blank. At some point, a sheet of blue stock measuring 10 × 16 inches (25 × 41 cm) was folded in half twice to create a cover that measures 10 × 4 inches; the notebook was then pamphlet bound with hand stitching. On the front cover, wrote "Minute Book. | 1839 | J. Smiths Journal | Escape from Prison", below which are seven decorative underlines in black ink. Near the top of the back cover, the lines "Joseph Smith's Journal | Escape from Prison 1839" are written sideways in black ink. This notation, in unidentified handwriting, appears to be early archival marking. Textual redactions and use marks made in graphite pencil were added by later scribes who used the journal to produce the multivolume manuscript history of the church.This thin journal was probably among the miscellaneous documents collectively listed in Nauvoo and early Utah inventories of church records. The use of the journal in connection with the manuscript history, early inventories, and recent archival records indicate that this journal—like the other JS journals—has remained in continuous church custody.
"Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846," [1]; "Inventory," [2]; "Historian's Office Inventory," [3], Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian's Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
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Historical Introduction
Following their success in forcing the Mormons to evacuate the village of in Carroll County, Missouri, in October 1838, anti-Mormon vigilantes applied similar pressure in , beginning with raids on isolated Mormon homes. State militia commander acknowledged that his troops could not be relied upon to maintain order or to protect the Latter-day Saints' property rights. The Mormons mounted a preemptive strike in Daviess County beginning in mid-October, targeting the property of vigilantes.Burning and plundering by both sides and the evacuation of most of 's non-Mormon residents led to outright warfare. After a company of volunteers captured three Latter-day Saints in an area lying between and Ray counties, JS helped mobilize a company of Mormons from Caldwell County as a rescue party. The ensuing battle at on 25 October, at which two Mormons, their guide, and one Missourian were killed, gave rise to exaggerated reports that the Mormons had killed or captured the entire Ray County contingent and were about to attack , the seat of Ray County. In the wake of this news and word of Mormon depredations in Daviess County, in late October 1838 governor decried Mormon "outrages" and ordered a large militia force to "exterminate" the Mormons or drive them from the state. JS and other leaders were arrested and incarcerated, and most Mormons left Missouri in early 1839, trudging eastward for more than 150 miles and crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois.After a grueling confinement through the winter in the , Missouri, JS and his fellow Mormon prisoners were transported to for a grand jury investigation. There they were indicted for treason, riot, arson, burglary, and receiving stolen goods but were granted a change of venue to Columbia, Missouri, for their contemplated trial. During the journey to the new location, the guards allowed their prisoners to escape.On 22 April 1839, six days after their escape, JS and his companions crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois. There they reunited with thousands of other Latter-day Saint refugees from , many of whom had received a sympathetic, hospitable reception from the citizens of , Illinois. That same day, JS rehired , who had performed clerical work for him the previous autumn. Mulholland began his record in this small journal by noting JS's escape in Missouri and then, beginning with JS's arrival in Quincy, kept a contemporaneous record for six months.During the period covered by this journal, worked closely with JS, recording JS's history and occasionally accompanying him in his travels. Unlike the September–October 1838 journal, which Mulholland kept for JS in , the present journal benefits from JS reporting to his scribe some of the activities that took place in Mulholland's absence. A few of the entries in these instances may have been dictated by JS, although most entries were based on Mulholland's observation.While keeping this journal for JS, was also keeping his own journal, which he wrote in the back of the record he had kept for JS during autumn 1838. Mulholland's personal journal entries, where illuminating, are used to annotate the parallel entries he wrote for JS in the present journal. When he was separated from JS, Mulholland also focused entries in JS's journal on Mulholland's own activities. Mulholland's use of first-person narration to refer sometimes to himself and sometimes to JS requires careful reading to determine whose activities are being described.The Illinois resumption of JS's record keeping reflected the reestablishment of characteristically Mormon procedures that were suspended during the upheaval in . Record keeping lapsed during the Mormon War, the imprisonment of JS, and the expulsion of the Latter-day Saints from the state. The principle of gathering—at least in an official sense—also lapsed during the aftermath of that expulsion. Latter-day Saints realized that their practice of gathering to create religious communities, though mandated by revelation, aroused antagonism of nearby citizenry wherever they settled. In the interest of survival, should they now intersperse with others, coming together for worship but not living in tight-knit, exclusive communities? Writing from in January 1839, JS acknowledged that for the present "the gathering of necessity [is] stopt."Yet the gathering did not stop. Even without JS's direction, many of the Mormons fleeing sought collective refuge in western Illinois and thereby kept the question of gathering alive. In March, before JS's escape, a church conference at conducted by confronted the question of whether to "gather" or "scatter." Young advised settling "in companies," or at least in sufficiently close proximity to establish congregations.Within days of his arrival in , JS decisively arranged for a new gathering place. In the months to come, he taught that a gathered community of believers was essential for building a house of the Lord. As was true for , Ohio, and as JS had intended for , Missouri, this new gathering place was to become a city with a temple.After purchasing some land about fifty miles upriver, at in Hancock County, Illinois, JS moved his family and his people there. The riverfront site had poor harbors and swampy lowlands plagued with malaria-bearing mosquitoes. This journal offers glimpses of JS's involvement in land purchases and community planning that provided a basis for a cluster of Mormon settlements on both sides of the Mississippi. The journal also records JS's trips to , , and , Illinois, and other nearby places to visit family, groups of Latter-day Saints, and regional political and commercial centers.Meanwhile, JS and members of the Quorum of the Twelve clung tenaciously to another facet of the Mormon mission: widespread proselytizing. An 1838 revelation commanded the Twelve to depart from , Missouri, on 26 April 1839 for a mission to Europe. From , JS reminded the apostles of that obligation. Enemies declared it in advance a false revelation, as they now had the power to prevent it from being fulfilled. Nonetheless, as diary entries began in mid-April 1839, members of the Quorum of the Twelve under acting president had just left to return to to fulfill the injunction. Their predawn meeting on 26 April 1839 at Far West marked the symbolic beginning of their mission abroad. But with much preparation remaining, they returned to Illinois and did not actually depart for the East until late summer. In the intervening months, JS met frequently with the eight or nine available apostles to teach them and help them prepare. JS also attempted to strengthen and unify the quorum by helping to resolve the status of two apostles— and —who had abandoned the Latter-day Saints during the Missouri crisis. The departure of the Twelve was marked by lengthier-than-usual journal entries reporting sermons and admonitions, indicative of the significance attached to the mission.The resettlement of the Mormons in and vicinity and the resumption of church affairs—including the departure of the Twelve to Britain—were hampered by a malaria epidemic that ravaged the area from late June to November. When JS was preoccupied with aiding the victims of the scourge for eleven weeks in July, August, and September, journal entries were scaled back to weekly summaries. While the entries suggest the duration and centrality of JS's focus on relieving the sick, they characteristically only skim the surface. For months, the Smith home and environs served as a hospital of sorts, with JS and nursing malaria victims. The couple moved their own family into a tent to provide better care in their house for the sick. JS himself contracted the disease but soon recovered and continued to minister to the afflicted. spent three weeks in late August and early September caring for his own wife, who was ill.Despite the epidemic, the Latter-day Saints remained at their new headquarters. When the disease abated somewhat, JS became increasingly involved in arrangements for a new, larger town that would soon eclipse and absorb . At a general conference of the church convened at Commerce in early October 1839, JS advocated—and the membership of the church affirmed—that this was a suitable location to be designated a stake of Zion and a gathering place for the Saints.Even while JS built a new stake, still occupied much of his attention. In the months and years following the expulsion of his people from that state, JS sought persistently to call attention to the losses and injustices the Latter-day Saints had suffered and, if possible, to obtain government compensation. He left on 29 October 1839, two weeks after the conclusion of this journal, to visit to seek relief and redress from the federal government. The next day, a gravely ill was taken to 's makeshift hospital, where he died on 3 November, possibly a victim of the malaria epidemic. It is not clear to what extent the cessation of journal entries after 15 October resulted from Mulholland's illness or from a lack of access to JS. Daily entries did not resume until December 1841, more than two years later, when took up the pen a few months after his return from missionary service in England.
LeSueur, 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, chaps. 7–14; Baugh, "Call to Arms," chaps. 7–12; Hartley, "Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen," 9–10, 36–37.
LeSueur, Stephen C. The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
Baugh, Alexander L. "A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri." PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).
Hartley, William G. "'Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen': The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838–39." Journal of Mormon History 18 (Fall 1992): 6–40.
Hyrum Smith, Testimony, 1 July 1843, Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 78; Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843, Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 131–132; Promissory Note, JS to John Brassfield, 16 Apr. 1839, JS Collection, CHL.
Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book / Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court. "Docket of the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo," ca. 1843–1845. In Historian's Office, Historical Record Book, 1843–1874, pp. 51–150 and pp. 1–19 (second numbering). CHL. MS 3434.
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
JS et al., Liberty, MO, to Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young, Far West, MO, 16 Jan. 1839, JS Collection, CHL.
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
"Extracts of the Minutes of Conferences," Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:15.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Leonard, Nauvoo, 235–237.
Leonard, Glen M. Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.
See Revelation, 8 July 1838–A, in JS, Journal, 8 July 1838 [D&C 118].
JS et al., Liberty, MO, to Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young, Far West, MO, 16 Jan. 1839, JS Collection, CHL.
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 213–214; Historian's Office, "History of Brigham Young," 34–35; Woodruff, Journal, 12, 19, 22, and 25 July 1839; Mulholland, Journal, 19 Aug.–8 Sept. 1839.
Tullidge, Edward W. The Women of Mormondom. New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877.
Historian's Office. "History of Brigham Young." In Manuscript History of Brigham Young, ca. 1856–1860, vol. 1, pp. 1–104. CHL. CR 100 150, box 1, fd. 1.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Mulholland, James. Journal, Apr.–Oct. 1839. In Joseph Smith, Journal, Sept.–Oct. 1838. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 1, fd. 4.
Emma Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to JS, Washington DC, 6 Dec. 1839, Charles Aldrich Autograph Collection, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
Aldrich, Charles. Autograph Collection. State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
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Like both the Mistry and Selvadurai novels that I have cited, Dahanu Road is an exploration of dislocation and class/racial tension. Given my recent reading, specifically Andrea Levy's The Long Song (set in Jamaica), it is another timely reminder that dislocation and class tension are themes that are played out in many places in the world.
Dahanu Road explores the story of three generations of Persians, a family who are now landowners in Dahanu, a farm and market town just outside Bombay. Grandfather Shapur, oppressed as a Zoroastrian in Persia, moved the family to India when his son, Aspi, was just a youngster. He prospered as a merchant who branched into liquor sales, which in turn led to seizing land from his debtor customers. The oppressed Irani family in its turn became an oppressor — in the present time of the novel, Shapur is on his last legs, his son Aspi is haunted by images of past repression of the Warlis who now work the family estate in slave-like conditions, and Aspi's son Zairos is the young adult who will soon inherit the land (and all its tainted history and the conflict that has left as its product).
In the opening sections of the novel, author Irani (sorry, we have three very different types of Iranis in this review) is particularly good at describing aspects of the multi-cultural cocktail that this dislocation has produced:
As soon as Zairos was downstairs, Aspi Irani started singing. His songs were a strange concoction indeed, a blend of three languages, Hindi, English, and Gujarti. Zairos always compared his father's songs to country liquor: Use anything you can find — orange peels, battery acid, even leather slippers. Then squeeze hard and let its juice make your head spin. This morning, Aspi Irani's song included two main ingredients — tennis and his old Morris. The two rhymed, and as he sang, the cigarette fell out of his mouth. Then he stopped abruptly and said to Zairos, "I think your mother is having an affair." He said this every day, whenever Mithoo went to the bazaar.
Just as Levy pays some sympathetic attention to the internal conflicts that the British slaveowners face in Jamaica, author Irani develops an awareness of the guilty side of the males who are his central characters:
Aspi Irani loved the idea of sabotage. He yearned for a situation to ruin, as long as there was no permanent damage. No matter where he went, be it marketplace or wedding hall, he was an imp straight from the underworld, full of guile and mischief. Of course, with his thick forearms and massive calves, he was too large to be an imp, but he had an imp's demeanour, from the sleazy to the sublime. When he was in action, his eyebrows arched like a piece of Mughal architecture; it was the arch of knowing that came upon the countenance of only those who knew secrets, of men who found beauty in the orchestration of disaster.
Those two quotes supply an indication of Anosh Irani's prose style that any potential reader of this book should be prepared for: he has a fondness for simile, metaphor and symbolism that grows as the book progresses. While it is used primarily for illustration and narrative depth in the early parts of the book, the symbolism in particular becomes even more of a factor (for this reader, often an intrusive one) as the novel progresses. Of course, in a book concerning the impact of oppression, oppressive language could well be considered a useful device.
While the novel is told from the point of view of those with power (unlike Levy's book which is told from the other side), it does require a counterpoint for the author to establish and explore the tension part of the story. That comes in the form of a Warli family that parallels the three generations of Iranis. The first present day incident in the book is the sudden suicide of Ganpat, a tribal worker on the estate, whose body is discovered by Zairos. It is claimed by Ganpat's daughter, Kusum; as the story proceeds, we discover that the three generations of both families have interacted with each other, usually in classic oppressor-oppressed form. It is hardly a surprise that the new generation will be experiencing it in a way that is much different from their grandfather or father.
Dahanu is a backward, isolated agricultural community and the author does not interject any global aspect to his tale — the tensions of his protaganists are those of a tightly-contained community. That does not make them any less serious for the individuals involved; indeed, in many ways, that containment makes them even worse. While Zairos has to live with a situation he has inherited, he does not know what has produced it. His elders have not only not prepared him, they have consciously buried some of the black acts of their past, so the young landowner not only needs to figure out his present circumstances, he needs to discover his past.
That rather slender story line, coupled with the author's penchant for literary devices that sometimes verge on the florid, become the biggest challenge for the book. While I very much appreciated the way that the premise of the novel was established, I am afraid that it became heavy sledding as it wore on. I am sure that for some readers that will become a significant positive of the book; unfortunately I was not engaged enough to find it worthwhile and it became even more of a distraction as the ending of the book approached.
Dahanu Road has back cover blurbs from Rawi Hage, Wayson Choy and Yann Martel — three more Canadian authors who have looked at the notion of dislocation, albeit in a different way than Irani (or Mistry or Selvadurai for that matter). Anosh Irani deserves to be compared to any of those five authors. This novel is not up to their best work, but it does have some strengths of its own. In a country like Canada where we are experiencing a new notion of diversity, paying attention to the work of authors like these six is important — they are major contributors to what Canada is today.