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Final crazy horse ride into Norwich for The Osmonds
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For more than 50 years, The Osmond Brothers have been entertaining us. However, good things must come to an end. DEREK JAMES talks to Jimmy Osmond about their final goodbye tour which arrives in Norwich for two dates this week.
It had been a busy day for the assistant Scout master. His boys teenage Zack and Wyatt had made sure of that and they must have been very proud of their dad.
He's none other than Jimmy Osmond.
"It's been good fun working with the Scouts today but they all have so much energy – and it is very hot here," said the child star of the original boy band of the 1970s who has became a much-loved stage of stage and screen across the UK.
He was talking to me from his home in Utah where he was spending some time with his wife, Michele, and their children, they also have two girls Sophia and Bella, before heading to our shores for the winter.
For more than 50 years, The Osmond Brothers have been entertaining us and their 50th anniversary tour a couple of years ago was almost a complete sell out.
However, good things must eventually come to an end and to that end, they are undertaking their final UK tour – and it's their biggest ever.
Thanks to their appearances on The Andy Williams Show on TV, The Osmonds became world-wide stars.
When they started to release records and tour the reaction was so powerful that "Osmondmania" hit the world, with scenes reminiscent of "Beatlemania" from the previous decade as they amassed millions of - predominantly female - fans.
Their hit catalogue is pretty impressive, with smashes like One Bad Apple, Let Me In, Crazy Horses and Love Me for a Reason being the pick.
Not only that, it wasn't long before members of the family went solo and for a time the charts included hits by The Osmonds, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Donny and Marie Osmond and Little Jimmy Osmond. They have sold more than 100 million records and have garnered 59 gold and platinum discs as well.
Jimmy was never a part of the group back in the 1970s, he arrived on the scene in 1972 with Long Haired Lover From Liverpool — he remains the youngest performer to top the UK singles — but 20 years ago he decided to join them in touring.
Speaking from his home in Utah, Jimmy tells me Britain has a special place in his heart. Along with the rest of his extraordinary family, he has led a bizarre life in the spotlight. But talking to him is like hanging over the fence and chatting to your neighbour. He is easy-going, friendly extreme polite and genuinely looking forward to visiting Norwich for the first time.
You feel as if you have known him for years and in a way, many of us have.
"If it were possible I would love to live in the UK," said Jimmy. "The Osmonds originally came from Merthyr Tydfil and moved to America during the industrial revolution of 1869 and settled in Utah. Jimmy's great, great, grandfather Dr John Martin was chief surgeon at the Merthyr Steelworks.
"I've always been welcomed in whatever I do, whether it be singing or doing panto. Since the 1970s, the UK has been amazing, not just to me but to all my brothers too."
And, of course, they have many fans here; but here Jimmy contradicts. "They aren't fans – they are all friends and we don't deserve them."
Although Jimmy has no intention of retiring this will be the last time he tours with his brothers and it is their way of thanking the British fans for being so loyal to them over the years.
The tour brings them to Norwich Theatre Royal on March 22 and 23. "It's a part of the country I have never visited before so I am especially interested to taking a look round."
He asked how big the Theatre Royal was and when I told him it could seat around 1,300 he replied: "That's perfect. Just the kind of place we want to play and get close to the people."
The line-up for this final UK tour is Jimmy, Jay, Wayne and Merrill. "Yes," Jimmy says, "this line-up has been the core. It's my 'safe' place really.
"The brothers haven't really stopped performing in all this time, they are the longest running group in history with the same members and it's all down to the older brothers who made it happen."
There have been times when different combinations of the group have toured, sometimes with four members and sometimes only three, but Jimmy says these fluctuations don't affect the arrangements to any large degree.
"No, not really, however the barbershop quartet is sometimes affected when there's only three of us and Merrill and I switch lead singing duties."
After a trio of top 20 hits, Jimmy seemed to disappear from the scene and got involved with other things, as he explains.
"I never really stopped myself actually. I performed a lot in Japan and then I got involved in other people's careers from Bon Jovi to Michael Jackson.
"Then about 20 years ago I was thinking what I wanted to do and I wanted to get involved with my brothers again – after all, they had sacrificed a lot and pushed us younger ones forward."
Despite that he celebrates his 48th birthday on April 16 - a rare day off on the tour - he still has to sing the hit he had before he was ten, in fact he is still the youngest person to have a chart-topper in the UK.
"I learned a long time ago that you don't mess with people's memories. I left the song out of the set, but we were at the Wembley Arena and the place erupted and I had to sing it – so basically it was a case of 'just shut up and do your job'.
"Amazingly, it was the biggest selling UK hit for anything with The Osmonds' name."
He is comfortable with it though and even jokes about it. A few years ago, when on tour with his brothers, Jimmy came to the front of the stage and said "okay, let's get it over with" and sang the song.
"The good thing is that people have allowed me to grow up. But this tour is really about my brothers."
So what kind of a show can we expect? "All the favourites. Songs people have grown up listening to and enjoying. Music is so powerful, it means so much to people," said Jimmy.
He admits to not really having a favourite Osmonds' song. "I don't really listen to our songs as I'm not that narcissic, I tend to like classic rock and The Eagles."
But he does have a soft spot for one of his brothers' albums. "I love The Plan [their 1973 concept album about their Mormon religion]. Up to then, all the hits had been chosen by the record company, but the brothers rebelled and it paid off – I think people recognise what's sincere. I'm so glad that they stood up for what they believed in – it was like their White album."
And when I mentioned I loved Crazy Horses his voice lights up. "Isn't it great! We still love singing it. A real rock'n'roll song that we wrote ourselves, not the kind of manufactured pop we had written for us in the early days."
This tour is the biggest one they have undertaken in Britain – 46 concerts in 55 days - and Jimmy is well aware of it.
"There's no doubt that it's gonna be a gruelling tour, but we love what we do. We do about 200 shows a year and you can't fake it for that length of time."
Not only does he enjoy performing for their many fans, the brothers enjoy being together. "It's great we can celebrate 53 years and still be friends." Jimmy states.
"However, we don't always get along and we do have our rows.
"This last tour is important to us though. It's going to be a lotta fun."
■ The Osmonds play Norwich Theatre Royal on March 22/23, £29.50-£6.50, 01603 630000, www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk
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Chapter 27
Enforcing Justice by War
The laws of war do not allow for unprovoked attacks, nor do they allow war without first negotiating peace. Deut. 20:10, 11 says,
10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.
Keep in mind that God does not justify mere wars of conquest. There must be some injustice to be corrected in order to restore the lawful order. War is an act of law enforcement after the Judge has issued His ruling and the condemned party refuses to submit to the ruling of the Judge.
But first, the rebellious nation must be offered terms of peace. That is, the offending nation's leaders must be shown what they must pay as restitution in order to avoid the penalty of contempt of court.
11 And it shall come about, if it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor [mas, "tribute, enforced payment"] and shall serve you.
The specific application of this law depends on the nature of the offense that brought about the war. An offending nation must pay restitution to the nation that it has wronged. It may be that a tax is imposed upon a nation to pay such restitution. If they do not have sufficient funds to pay, then they must work off their debt.
This is no different from a criminal case where a thief steals from his neighbor. Exodus 22:3 says that if he cannot pay restitution, "he shall be sold for his theft."
Many earthly kings fight wars of conquest in order to gain more slave labor. Their primary interest is conquering weaker nations in order to gain slaves rather than to enforce equal justice. God's law was not meant to promote war as a means of gaining more slave labor.
Biblical Laws of Slavery
Biblical slavery is first designed to repay the victims in order to restore the lawful order. It is a court-ordered work program. Secondly, slavery is designed to teach the thief to work, rather than to steal. If such slavery is conducted by a man of faith who has the character of Jesus Christ, such slavery will produce genuine repentance and reformation. The thief will be changed by personal example.
God shows his displeasure toward carnal or cruel taskmasters, in that a mistreated slave must be given his freedom (Exodus 21:26, 27). Biblical slavery does not give slave masters the right to mistreat their slaves, nor does a master have the right of life and death over a slave. Men's laws allowing slavery in past centuries are very different from God's laws, even if carnal Christians have used God's law to justify their own version of slavery.
So when we apply this principle on an international level in settling disputes among the nations, the same principles hold true. If a nation robs the resources of another nation, and the offending nation is taken to the Divine Court of Justice, restitution must be paid accordingly. If the offending nation cannot pay double restitution as required, then it must pay tribute.
If it refuses to pay, then that nation is guilty of contempt of court, which carries the death penalty. Such a penalty is serious, and for this reason the enforcers of the law must be sure that the offending nation understands the consequences of refusing to pay restitution that is owed. We read in the next verses,
12 However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. 14 Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby [i.e., Canaan].
The men were the ones who are responsible for making the decisions either to submit to divine judgment or to refuse the court order. Hence, the death penalty is applied to them, but not to the women, children, and animals, who are presumed to be innocent victims. In such cases, the women and children are to be distributed among the victim-nation to pay the restitution owed. Essentially, they were to be absorbed and incorporated into the nation.
This manner of treatment was applicable to nations other than the Canaanites. Moses sees Canaan as "nations nearby," but all others are cities "very far from you." The reason is that Canaan presented a special case that did not necessarily apply to other nations.
Far-away Cities and Nations
Moses continues with his instructions in Deut. 20:16-18,
16 Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18 in order that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the Lord your God.
Israel was to treat the various nations (tribes) occupying Canaan more harshly than other nations. Why? We are given only a partial answer in verse 18. To answer this question more fully, we must go back and rehearse the reasons for Israel's conquest of Canaan, for this was where the laws of war were first implemented.
Canaan's Offence against God and Noah
It all started in Genesis 9:21 and 22, when Noah's son Ham, along with Ham's son, Canaan, stripped Noah of his garments while he lay drunk in his tent. Unfortunately, the Bible gives few details, other than that Ham "saw the nakedness of his father." The historical book of Jasher, however, says that Ham took Noah's garments. Presumably, Noah was too drunk to remove his own garments, so Ham and Canaan stripped him bare. These were the skins with which God had clothed Adam. These garments then became the symbol of the birthright authority that was passed from generation to generation.
At any rate, we are told in Jasher that Ham gave these garments to Cush, who later passed them to his son Nimrod, the founder of Babylon. Yet because Canaan had participated in the theft of Noah's garments, his line inherited Noah's curse. Canaan then occupied the land which was named for him. Even as Canaan had usurped the birthright, so also did the Canaanites usurp the Promised Land.
Canaan might have been judged by God just 414 years later, which is the prophetic time cycle known as "Cursed Time." This 414-year cycle ran out in the year that the Philistines were stealing the wells of Abraham (Gen. 21:22-34). The Philistine king apologized to Abraham and made a covenant with him, and this gave Canaan another grace period of 414 years.
But when that second grace period ended, the Canaanites of that generation did not repent. That was the year that Joshua brought judgment to Canaan. Joshua represented Jesus (Yeshua), and in order for the Canaanites to avoid divine judgment, they were required to submit to the judgment of God and give back the land and the birthright to the rightful owners.
But the Canaanites chose to fight, because they had no faith in the true God and His Divine Court of International Justice.
So we see that Israel's invasion of Canaan was not a conquest of territory based on self-interest and the carnal mind. It was a case of divine justice for an offense that began 828 years earlier when Canaan usurped the birthright and then passed it on to his son and grandson.
For this reason, the Canaanite cities were found to be in contempt of court, and God judged them according to His law. All were held equally accountable. However, later in Scripture it appears that God found ways to implement the mercy factor even toward the nations in Canaan.
The Mercy Factor Toward Canaan
Judges 3:1 and 2 says,
1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan; 2 only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).
The chapter continues with an account of how the Israelites violated the covenant by intermarrying with the Canaanites and by serving their false gods. The first truth that comes forth in this account is that God is given credit for leaving certain of those nations in the land of Canaan. Because God was the primary Victim in the theft of the birthright, He had the right to show mercy to whatever extent He saw fit. Genocide was never God's ultimate purpose, not even for the Canaanite nations.
Recall that if Israel had been able and willing to hear the voice of God at the Mount, they would have experienced Pentecost and would have received the Sword of the Spirit by which to conquer Canaan. The fact that Israel failed to hear God's voice was the underlying reason that they were not given the Great Commission that was to come later. Hence, Israel was somewhat liable for the bloody manner of conquest, and so God used their liability to grant a level of mercy toward the Canaanites.
In fact, God left Canaanites in the land "to test Israel." The stated reason in Judges 3:1 is that the Israelites "might be taught war." While many might assume this to mean the Israelites needed human targets for military training, I believe that God meant for them to learn the laws of war and how God's law might be implemented by the mind of Christ.
Secondly, the Lord left Canaanites in the land to see who would evangelize who. The Great Commission was still the underlying intent of God, as seen more clearly in the New Testament. God left Canaanites in their midst in order to allow the Israelites opportunity to convert them to the true God. However, as it turned out, the Canaanites were more successful at evangelizing the Israelites than the other way around.
Even so, we see examples such as Uriah the Hittite (2 Samuel 11), who was a good soldier under King David. David unjustly had him killed under the pretext of battle. But Scripture treats Uriah as a righteous and loyal soldier fighting for the cause of the Kingdom of God. When Nathan confronted David with his sin in 2 Samuel 12, he described Uriah as a poor man who had done nothing wrong. No doubt Uriah the Hittite was an honest believer in the God of Israel, and not merely a mercenary fighting for the love of money. So God judged David for killing Uriah and for stealing his wife.
When we understand the laws of war through the eyes of Jesus Christ, we no longer see with the carnal motive of self-interest, but walk according to the mind of Christ. We no longer view the nations with covetousness, as if we deserve to occupy their land. We do we see in them an opportunity to obtain the tribute of slaves, but with a view of establishing Kingdom rule and divine order in the earth.
The goal is to enthrone Jesus Christ as the King of the Creation, which is His rightful position as Heir of all things. His law establishes equal justice for all when administered by the overcomers who have put on the mind of Christ.


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Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. Evan S. Connell, who died in February of this year, began his literary career by publishing short stories but first made his name with a widely beloved novel, Mrs. Bridge (1955), an account of a country club matron's life in 1920s and '30s Kansas City. Told in very brief chapters of usually just two or three pages, Mrs. Bridge's story reminds us that the mass of middle-class women in that era truly did lead lives of quiet desperation.
What is especially striking about the book, however, is Connell's voice on the page — clinically precise, often ironically deadpan, but always slightly doleful, almost brokenhearted. Here is a writer who comes not to mock but to understand. Connell recreates Mrs. Bridge's mind and sensibility through realistic vignettes coupled with the most delicate, charming observations. How might you describe a new wife's reactions to the sexual eagerness of her young husband? Connell writes: "For a while after their marriage she was in such demand that it was not unpleasant when he fell asleep." But passion is seldom equitable. "Presently, however, he began sleeping all night, and it was then she awoke more frequently, and looked into the darkness, wondering about the nature of men."
Mr. Bridge, devoted to his wife and three children, determines to give them the best, and — true to the ethos of the time — redoubles his efforts at his law office, working late into the night, every night. He never realizes that he may have bought his family every luxury but shortchanged them of the one thing they most wanted — his presence in their lives.
Mrs. Bridge's own day-to-day existence is regulated by convention and public opinion. She lunches with friends, judges people by their shoes and their table manners, avoids unpleasantness of any kind. She naturally feels obliged to dress correctly at all times, and she always wears stockings: "In summer this could be uncomfortable, but it was the way things were, it was the way thing had always been, and so she complied." At Auxiliary meetings and cocktail parties Mrs.. Bridge's conversation instinctively revolves around "the by-laws of certain committees, antique silver, Royal Doulton, Wedgwood, the price of margarine, as compared to butter, or what the hemline was expected to do." When at Christmas she drives by a house with an elaborate holiday lights display and a gigantic cake that proclaims "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus," her reaction is: "My word, how extreme. Some Italians must live there."
At the same time, whenever her friend Grace starts to discuss art or politics, Mrs. Bridge grows uneasy. She recognizes her own hunger for something more from life yet cannot quite fathom Grace's existential despair. Neither does she suspect the lesbian nature of their friend Mabel, who "was a vigorous, muscular woman of about thirty five, with a sprinkling of moles on her forehead, and close-cropped hair, who generally wore a tweed coat and stood with her hands thrust into the pockets like a man."
Mrs. Bridge genuinely loves her children, yet they remain mysterious to her. Beautiful daughter Ruth flees to New York as soon as she graduates from high school. Carolyn marries a hardworking but poor young businessman and soon finds herself unhappy because there isn't a decent golf course in his provincial hometown. When we last see the Tom Sawyer–like Douglas, he has enlisted in the army shortly after the outbreak of World War II.
As the children gradually go off on their own, Mrs. Bridge succumbs to periodic panic: "She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had the foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed."
There are books of such consummate perfection that we need only read a page and we surrender to their enchantment. Pride and Prejudice is such a book, and so is Mrs. Bridge.
Twenty years after this modern classic, Connell would produce its obvious counterpart, Mr. Bridge, almost equally fine. But in those intervening two decades he also wrote short stories, narrative poems (Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel, Points for a Compass Rose) and a chilling, mesmerizing masterpiece, The Diary of a Rapist (1966).
Once again, Connell slowly builds up a portrait of his main character through a series of short vignettes, in this case, the narrator's daily scribblings in a secret notebook. His very first entry only hints at what is to come: "January 1 — Last night Bianca shook me awake and told me to stop grinding my teeth. Nothing gives her more satisfaction than to humiliate me."
Earl Summerfield is a low-level bureaucrat, working in San Francisco's Bureau of Unemployment. He is in his late twenties, married to Bianca, seven years his senior, and he feels frustrated. For some reason, his superior intelligence and obvious merits aren't being properly recognized and rewarded. "I know I'm exceptional, sure of it, just that so far nobody's given me the chance." Yet what follows isn't just a 1960s American version of one of those black-humored Russian novellas, like Gogol's Diary of a Madman, about an insulted and injured petty functionary. This is an account from within, brilliant in every detail, about the making of a monster.
Abnormally sensitive and constantly shocked at the world's wickedness, Earl keeps a scrapbook into which he pastes clippings about murder, rape, and torture — all signs, in his view, of universal depravity. Women, of course, are largely to blame. They "never experience the world as it truly is…. Their only urge is toward personal satisfaction, weakening a man & sucking away the power. Jellies, mold that grows on bread, rind of rotting fruit, infection, suppuration, evil odors that drift around during the night, colorless poisons, caverns full of dead little bodies. Unclean alchemies. Yes, that tells the story of them."
Earl's wife, Bianca, tutors a pair of teenage girls who, he can tell, are promiscuous sluts, salaciously flaunting their bodies at him. "There's not much decency left in the world, that's my opinion. But of course I'm too romantic, I expect too much." More and more, he realizes that nosey Bianca needs slapping; sometimes he fantasizes about slicing her open. At the same time, he sometimes imagines himself as a shy young girl. Home alone one night, he laces himself into one of Bianca's girdles, puts on her stockings and hat, parades before a mirror.
By this point, Earl has already begun to follow women on the street. Sometimes at night he actually enters people's houses, stealing unimportant objects, leaving his defecatory "Calling Card," or doing things he can't quite remember. During the day he complains of being constantly scrutinized. "Every time I turn around I find somebody staring at me." People at work, he writes, "take me for the mildest little fellow on earth. What would they say if I walked into that office tomorrow with a gun?" His diatribes grow visionary and biblical: "Moab shall be as Sodom and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even to the breeding of nettles. Salpits & perpetual desolation."
When Earl glimpses the young beauty queen Mara St. Johns during a beachside festival, he recognizes that this supposed honor student, engaged to a promising young man, is nothing but a whited sepulchre, a whore eager to do it with anyone. Has she no shame? How can the world be so blind to her filth? Shortly thereafter, he learns that Mara conducts a Bible study class at a local church. Earl looks up the address of the church.
If Mrs. Bridge is a novel about the banality of privileged women's lives, The Diary of a Rapist reflects the banality, and delusive logic, of evil. It's a book as perfectly controlled artistically as John Fowles's The Collector, as disturbing as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
In 1980 Connell, long known for trying his hand at different genres, produced a surprise bestseller: Son of the Morning Star, a study of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Still, this long book could be viewed as just the centerpiece to a series of much shorter essays that Connell had been writing about the curious and romantic byways of history. Collected in A Long Desire (1979) and The White Lantern (1981) — and both combined in The Aztec Treasure House (2001) — these essays explored the origins of sunken Atlantis and mysterious Mu, tracked the Norse discovery of America (including the possibility of a Viking-Indian battle in Minnesota), and outlined the medieval belief in Prester John, an all-powerful Christian emperor of the East. Connell took up the quest for El Dorado, chronicled the search for the Missing Link, summarized the career of the alchemist Paracelsus, and traced the astonishing wanderings around the known world of the fourteenth-century traveler Ibn Batuta, who covered at least 75,000 miles in all.
These marvel-filled armchair adventures are, as I once wrote, "a twenty-part testament to the joy of finding things out." No matter what the subject, though, Connell remains a consummate storyteller: "Present wisdom holds that the last unadulterated Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago. However, one April evening in 1907 some Russian explorers…" Who could stop reading at that point?
In his later years, Connell continued to write fiction, notably a massive historical romance about the Crusades, Deus Lo Volt, but he also gathered up his short fiction in several volumes. In "Mademoiselle from Kansas City," one of the stories included in Saint Augustine's Pigeon, we learn that Mrs. Bridge's daughter Ruth became a high-priced call girl in Manhattan. The title story focuses on still another character familiar to Connell readers: an insurance salesman named Muhlbach, who was the protagonist of The Connoisseur, a 1974 novel about the collecting instinct. In "Saint Augustine's Pigeon," Mulhbach — still hurting from the death of his wife from cancer — wanders through Manhattan, looking for love. In the course of one night the desperate forty-something is bedeviled by a female beatnik, startled by the brazen sexuality of a movie actress, and tantalized by exotic dancers: "How do you acquire a belly dancer for a mistress?" Seriously drunk, he seizes the hand of a cocktail waitress, who immediately calls for help. Mulhlbach is doomed to erotic disappointment and he knows it. But in him a good many aging males will recognize themselves. "He is a man, no matter what else; lecherous and unrepentant in the depths of exhaustion, desirous of much more than can be reckoned; muddied by concupiscence; made wild with shadowy loves; halted by the short links of mortality and deafened by conceit; seldom at peace; adulterous and bitter; stuck and bled by thorns on every side; rank with imagined sin; exiled forever and yet ever returning, such he is."
While some of Evan S. Connell's many titles remain in print, I was shocked that my local library no longer stocks any of his fiction. In bookstores you may occasionally turn up paperback copies of Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge; in 2004 The Diary of a Rapist was reissued by New York Review Books. Yet Connell remains one of those writers greater than any single work. His books are various in their themes, styles and genres, but nearly all of them are wonderful.


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B) Repetition - We use this method quite often when setting practice schedules for beginners. For a young child 20 to 30 minutes seems like an eternity. Instead of setting a time frame, we use repetition. For example, "practice these exercises 4 times every day, and this song 5 times a day". This helps the child focus on the playing rather than the clock.
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After suffering a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime loss against Northwest Catholic on Saturday, the New Canaan boys ice hockey team was in need of a little morale boost.
The Rams found it in the form of a 4-0 shutout win over the St. Joseph Cadets Monday night at the Darien Ice House.
New Canaan scored once in each of the first two periods, including a short-handed goal from senior forward Campbell Lewis, and added two goals in the last period.
"It was definitely great," Lewis said. "Our morale was definitely low after the last game, and we knew we had to come out and put up a few goals to win this game. Everyone's happy right now."
"We're focusing right now on the details or how we can generate more offense from our own zone," New Canaan head coach Clark Jones said. "We're getting clean outs and we're attacking the neutral zone with speed. There were times we saw that tonight. And our kids played hard."
The game was the first official FCIAC contest for both teams, as the league schedule is getting underway this week. New Canaan is now 4-4 overall, while St. Joe's dropped to 0-8.
"Our goaltending has been very solid and we're working on our morale," Cadets head coach Eddy LeMaire said. "We've got to work on situational play. Our passing is not good, so we've got to be better at that. We've got to keep the morale at a high level because we've got a tough schedule this year."
It was the second meeting of the season between the two teams, as the Rams won an 8-0 game against the Cadets two weeks ago.
As was the case in the first game, New Canaan generated a plethora of shots on Monday, but thanks to the solid play of St. Joseph's senior goalie Will Brady (38 saves), the scoring total was cut in half.
"Their goalie is very good," Lewis said. "He blocked a lot of shots and we had a lot of opportunities, but he put on a heck of a show. We had fewer goals (than the first game) but we worked hard and got the win."
The Rams had a big showing from senior co-captain Gunnar Granito, who bookended the game with the first and last goals. He also set up sophomore Griffin Deane for a third-period goal.
On defense, New Canaan's senior goalie Dylan Shane made 20 saves for the shutout, and the Rams skated six defensemen: Senior co-captains Shane Pickering, Walker Ker and Turner Ives, along with juniors Bennett Ong, Justin Wietfeldt and Eric Wills.
"From a defensive standpoint, we played well," Jones said. "We've been working on managing risk, which killed us in the last game (against Northwest Catholic) and has hurt us a few times this year. You have to make sure the risk-reward is in your favor if you're going to take a chance. They did a good job of that tonight."
The Cadets were dealing with a short roster, as three players — two captains and starting defenseman — were sidelined with injuries from Saturday's 5-1 loss against Watertown/Pomperaug.
St. Joe's had fine play from some younger players, including junior James McLaughlin, sophomore AJ Gerace and freshman Trevor Kellogg on defense.
"A lot of young kids stepped up, filled in holes and did a great job," LeMaire said. "That says a lot for our JV program and the young talent coming up."
New Canaan outshot St. Joseph 18-8 in the opening stanza, but the Rams came away with just one goal thanks to the play of Brady in the net.
Granito scored that goal unassisted when he won a faceoff in the right circle, stepped forward and wristed the puck just under the crossbar with 3:42 on the clock.
New Canaan then had penalty problems with two late in the first period and three in the second, but Shane and the defense kept the Cadets off the scoreboard.
The Rams actually doubled their advantage while on the penalty kill, as the persistent Lewis took advantage of a loose puck and a rare miscue by Brady to score a shorty 28 seconds into the second period.
"I was exhausted," Lewis said. "Our defense just fired it down the ice and I used every last bit of energy I had. The goalie just whiffed on it and it popped in front of the net, so I just banged it in."
"Our kids worked hard," Jones said. "Campbell Lewis stood out as far as his work ethic goes and he scored that short-handed goal. We need that consistently from everyone every game."
Brady, meanwhile, bounced back and shut out New Canaan for the remainder of the period.
"What I liked was his recovery," LeMaire said. "He had that one hiccup and then he stopped another 10 shots in a row."
The Rams made it 3-0 midway through the third period when Granito slipped a pass in front to Deane, who one-timed the puck into the net. Granito's empty-netter with 22 seconds remaining was the final goal.
"We haven't scored first a whole lot, so from a game management standpoint that's big." Jones said. "We did score the first goal against Northwest Catholic and them immediately gave up another. After we scored first tonight, we worked on managing the game and even though we didn't put the puck in the net and we had a ton of chances, they managed the game well."
Gunnar Granito, New Canaan. The Rams' senior co-captain had a hand in three of the team's four goals, starting the scoring with an unassisted tally in the first period. He also assisted on New Canaan's third goal before ending the game with an empty-net goal.
"Going into it, we knew we were the better team so we tried to stick to the basics. We've been working on speaking because on the ice, it's been very quiet. So we worked on speaking, cycling the puck, and doing the simple things, which is what helped us win. Communication was key." — New Canaan senior forward Campbell Lewis
New Canaan 4, St. Joseph 0
St. Joseph 0 0 0 – 0
New Canaan 1 1 2 4
First Period: NC – Gunnar Granito, 11:18
Second Period: NC – Campbell Lewis (Gavin Reid), short-handed, 0:28
Third Period: NC – Griffin Deane (Granito, Boden Gammill), 7:58; NC – Gunnar Granito, empty net, 14:38
Goalies: SJ – Will Brady 36 saves; NC – Dylan Shane 18 saves
Shots: SJ 18; NC 40


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You can collect any information you need (like meal preferences or T-shirt sizes) by creating custom questions for attendees to answer when they register. From your event's Manage page, go to Order Options and select "Order Form." All you have to do is select "Add custom question" to get started.
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After you eblink{log in=>https://www.eventbrite.com/login target=_blank} and eblink{create an event=>https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articleredirect?anum=5035}, find your event on the Manage Events page, then select Manage.
By default, "Collect information from" is set to "Buyer Only". Choose one of the following:
• Buyer Only: With this option, you'll collect information from just the person purchasing tickets.
• Each Attendee: Choose this option to collect information from each person attending the event.
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TIP: You can also eblink{activate group registration=>https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articleredirect?anum=3220} from your event's "Order Form" and allow attendees to register as a group or team (great for endurance events!)
Click or tap in the field under "Question prompt" to enter your custom question.
The "Checkboxes" option is chosen by default, but you can access the drop-down menu under "Question type" to choose a different answer format:
• Text - use a text field to collect short, free-form answers to questions like "What speaker would you like to see at a future event?"
• Paragraph Text - use a paragraph text field to collect longer free-form answers to questions like "What do you hope to learn?"
• Multiple choice - select one (radio buttons or dropdown): Use one of our multiple choice options to collect answers that you created, like "What T-shirt size would you like to select?"
• Multiple choice - select multiple (checkboxes): Use checkboxes to collect multiple answers that you created to questions like "What dietary restrictions do you have?"
• Additional Terms - use to collect agreement to the terms and conditions for your event.
EXAMPLE: Brian's event is 21 and over, and he needs all attendees to present a valid photo ID at the entrance. He's going to select the "Additional Terms" question type so that people can acknowledge and confirm that they're over 21 before completing their registration.
NOTE: If your eblink{event schedule has multiple dates and times=>https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articleredirect?anum=3467}, choice limits can't be set for custom questions options.
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EXAMPLE: Jenny's event offers vegetarian and vegan meal selections. She has 3 different vegan options, so she creates a sub-question to show the options if the attendee chooses "Vegan".
NOTE: Conditional sub-questions can only be asked of the original custom question (parent) and not another sub-question.
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NOTE: If you eblink{disabled paper tickets=>https://www.eventbrite.com/support/articleredirect?anum=3303} for your event, you can still show the attendee their answers to your custom question on their order confirmation page and email.
Select "Save" to save your custom question. You'll be taken back to the "Order Form," where you can choose whether you want this question to be "Included" or "Required."
TIP: You can edit the question at any time by selecting the setting icon, or delete it by selecting the trash can icon.
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As you continue with your Rituxan® (rituximab) treatment, it's important to monitor your progress and remain mindful of how you're feeling. Remember, Rituxan can cause side effects, so be sure to tell your doctor if you experience any discomfort during or after treatment. See below for important side effect information about Rituxan.
Rituxan is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with:
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): with another prescription medicine called methotrexate, to reduce the signs and symptoms of moderate to severe active RA, after treatment with at least one other medicine called a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist has been used and did not work well enough.
It is not known if Rituxan is safe and effective in children with RA.
What is the most important information I should know about Rituxan?
Rituxan can cause serious side effects that can lead to death, including:
- Infusion-Related Reactions: Infusion-related reactions are very common side effects of Rituxan treatment. Serious infusion-related reactions can happen during your infusion or within 24 hours after your infusion of Rituxan. Your healthcare provider should give you medicines before your infusion of Rituxan to decrease your chance of having a severe infusion-related reaction
- Severe Skin and Mouth Reactions: Tell your healthcare provider or get medical help right away if you get any of these symptoms at any time during your treatment with Rituxan: painful sores or ulcers on your skin, lips, or in your mouth; blisters; peeling skin; rash; or pustules
- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Reactivation: If you have had hepatitis B or are a carrier of hepatitis B virus, receiving Rituxan could cause the virus to become an active infection again. Hepatitis B reactivation may cause serious liver problems, including liver failure and death. You should not receive Rituxan if you have active hepatitis B liver disease. Your healthcare provider will monitor you for hepatitis B infection during and for several months after you stop receiving Rituxan
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML): PML is a rare, serious brain infection caused by a virus that can happen in people who receive Rituxan. People with weakened immune systems can get PML. PML can result in death or severe disability. There is no known treatment, prevention, or cure for PML
What should I tell my healthcare provider before receiving Rituxan?
Before receiving Rituxan, tell your healthcare provider if you:
- Have had a severe reaction to Rituxan or a rituximab product
- Have a history of other medical conditions including:
- Heart problems
- Irregular heartbeat
- Chest pain
- Lung or kidney problems
- Have had a severe infection, currently have an infection, or have a weakened immune system
- Have had a recent vaccination or are scheduled to receive vaccinations. You should not get certain vaccines before or during treatment with Rituxan
- Have any other medical conditions
- Are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Talk to your healthcare provider about the risks to your unborn baby if you receive Rituxan during pregnancy. Females who are able to become pregnant should use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment with Rituxan and for 12 months after the last dose of Rituxan. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you become pregnant or think that you are pregnant during treatment with Rituxan
- Are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if Rituxan passes into your breast milk. Do not breastfeed during treatment and for at least 6 months after your last dose of Rituxan
- Are taking any medications, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take or have taken:
- A tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor medicine
- A disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD)
What are the possible side effects of Rituxan?
Rituxan can cause serious side effects, including:
- Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS): TLS is caused by the fast breakdown of cancer cells. TLS can cause you to have kidney failure and the need for dialysis treatment or an abnormal heart rhythm. TLS can happen within 12-24 hours after an infusion of Rituxan. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following signs or symptoms of TLS: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or lack of energy
- Serious Infections: Serious infections can happen during and after treatment with Rituxan and can lead to death. Rituxan can increase your risk of getting infections and can lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections. People with serious infections should not receive Rituxan
- Heart Problems: Rituxan may cause chest pain, irregular heartbeats, and heart attack. Your healthcare provider may monitor your heart during and after treatment with Rituxan if you have symptoms of heart problems or have a history of heart problems. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have chest pain or irregular heartbeats during treatment with Rituxan
- Kidney Problems: especially if you are receiving Rituxan for non–Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Rituxan can cause severe kidney problems that lead to death. Your healthcare provider should do blood tests to check how well your kidneys are working
- Stomach and Serious Bowel Problems That Can Sometimes Lead to Death: Bowel problems, including blockage or tears in the bowel, can happen if you receive Rituxan with chemotherapy medicines. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any stomach-area pain during treatment with Rituxan
Your healthcare provider will stop treatment with Rituxan if you have severe, serious, or life-threatening side effects.
What are the most common side effects during treatment with Rituxan?
- Infusion-related reactions
- Infections (may include fever, chills)
- Body aches
- Tiredness
- Nausea
Other side effects include:
- Aching joints during or within hours of receiving an infusion
- More frequent upper respiratory tract infections
These are not all of the possible side effects with Rituxan.
Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at (800) FDA‐1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch. You may also report side effects to Genentech at (888) 835‐2555.
Please see the Rituxan Prescribing Information and Medication Guide including Most Serious Side Effects for additional Important Side Effect Information.
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Results may vary.
If you have any questions about this information, be sure to discuss them with your doctor.


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Happy new year! I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and that your 2014 closed out on a high. 2014 for me was a sustained period of hyper reality and magnetic good fortune that I sometimes was completely bowled over by.
I learnt that it always behoves you to operate in your area of strength. It is always right to find your groove and stick to it, regardless of whether it is a popular choice or not. It is wrong to try to bend over backwards to fit into a mould that is not meant for you – no matter how perfect that mould seems to be for other people. Each of us has a path and a journey, and no one else can live it out for us. No one else can fulfil the mission that you have been sent here to do.
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The GPI has been busily collaborating with various organizations in recent weeks as part of its continued effort at outreach initiatives.
In July as part of our Citizens of a Common Future programme and in collaboration with Speaking Volumes, the GPI hosted the writer Anthony Joseph in conversation with Nicole-Rachelle Moore our part-time Administrator (see our Events page). The 'London is the Place for Me' event was very well attended and warmly received with much interest in Joseph's fictional biography on the calypsonian Lord Kitchener.
The first week of August found us fundraising at Genesis Cinema in Stepney Green when the films Dream to Change the World and Something Said were both screened following a panel discussion on the 'Evolutions in Black British Activism' (see our Events page). This event was in collaboration with both Genesis Cinema and The People's Film Club and attracted a new audience to the existence and work of the GPI. Later that week the GPI was involved in the event 'Carnival Stories: The Road Make to Walk on Carnival Day' which was held at INIVA in Shoreditch (see our Events page). Archive material was provided by the GPI and INIVA which attendees were invited to explore. There were several people who 'discovered' the GPI through this interactive event.
Coming up on 17 August will be a joint initiative between the GPI and the organization KIN to be held at the Black Cultural Archives. This will involve bringing activists from across the country and from overseas together in discussions and workshops. The 8 principles of the Black Parents Movement will be applied to contemporary campaigns by way of learning more about organisation, strategy and tactics. Roxy Harris, a veteran activist and GPI trustee will be a lead paticipant at this event. On 25 August we are teaming up with the Advocacy Academy for a workshop also using materials from the Black Parents Movement.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Two people were seriously injured in a crash involving a car and a motorcycle Sunday afternoon.
The accident happened just before 3:00 p.m. at the intersection of Hubbell and Guthrie. Police say a motorcycle was traveling southbound on Hubbell when it collided with a northbound car trying to turn west onto Guthrie.
The two people on the motorcycle, Matthew and Stephanie Wruck, suffered serious injuries in the crash and were taken to local hospitals. Stephanie was upgraded from critical condition to serious condition at Mercy overnight. Matthew was transferred from Mercy to Methodist and his condition is unknown.
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Co-Written by: Heather Allsop, RNCP Could changing a child's diet really make such a difference?
Thousands of children have recovered from autism using the biomedical approach. "Biomedical" involves nutrition, supplements, emotional support and more. Based on science, this approach delivers results [4].
First – introduce more nutrients:
Many children with autism are picky eaters, and need more nutrients than what they are consuming. Also, with the stresses on their body associated with autism, they may have a greater need for nutrients than a non-autistic sibling or classmate.
Eliminate foods that create problems:
Many autistic children experience a significant reduction in symptoms when gluten (the protein in wheat and some other grains) and casein (a protein from dairy products) are removed from their diet. This relates to the fact that most children with autism have digestive issues, and cannot digest gluten and casein.
Partially digested gluten and casein (peptides) can wreak havoc in at least two ways [4]. First, the immune system is placed on "high alert" as if it senses an "invader". This is similar to a food intolerance reaction as the food they have eaten seems to disagree with them. Second, these peptides behave almost like "drugs" when they hit the blood stream. Testing can confirm the presence of these peptides in the child's blood and urine. The peptides can affect the central nervous system in terms of perception, cognition, behaviour, and emotions [5]. Parents of autistic children often tell me that their child seems to be "in their own world", as if they were medicated.
By removing gluten and casein peptides from the diet, we can eliminate the affects these things have on a child's brain and nervous system. For the child, this can mean better concentration, calmer behavior, and better communication.
What is happening in the gut?
When the intestine or gut is healthy, it acts as a barrier – preventing undigested food (like peptides) from passing into the blood. When peptides pass through the gut wall into the blood, we say that the gut is 'leaky'. Dr. Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, and others have found that children with autism have an above-average incidence of intestinal problems (like Celiac disease and chronic diarrhea) and that these conditions are more severe than in non-autistic children (2005). A 'leaky gut' will allow gluten and casein peptides (and possibly other food proteins or toxins) to pass into the blood.
Many children with autism try to soothe pains in their tummies by bending over the arm of a chair, the edge of a coffee table or even by rocking back and forth. Diarrhea or constipation may or may not be present, however, many parents report bad-smelling, forceful diarrhea, and thus have a hard time toilet training.
It's war! Good guys vs. Bad guys in the gut:
A healthy gut contains over 400 types of micro-organisms, most of which are "good" and belong there [1]. Some factors, such as antibiotics or infection can upset this balance, and the "not-so-good" organisms (like yeast) out number the good guys. Many autistic children recover this balance after treatment to decrease yeast [4]. To help fight yeast, dietary measures include avoiding sugar, refined carbohydrates (ex: white flour), and even yeast itself.
Be aware of the healthy vs. un-healthy micro-organisms:
- Are a key part of the immune system
- Digest food
- Detoxify
- Produce B vitamins
- Protect colon against fungi and parasites
- Keep walls of colon clean and healthy
UNHEALTHY MICRO-ORGANISMS (Yeast + other ):
- Release toxins
- Are toxic
- Can irritate intestine
- Can cause "leaky gut"
- Can spread throughout the body and lead to eczema, allergies, pain, depression, etc.
The effect of food additives:
Each body cell is like a little factory. What it makes depends on what type of tissue the cell is from. All cells make waste or toxins, which are detoxified mainly by the liver, kidneys, lungs and colon. Children with autism are often poor detoxifiers [5], meaning some toxins stay in their body – possibly affecting behaviour, learning ability, gut health, and more. To minimize their toxic load, eliminate food additives such as artificial flavours, artificial sweeteners, colours, and preservatives from the child's diet.
Nutritional supplementation:
Many nutritional supplements have been shown to help with the recovery from autism including:
- Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) – fats the body cannot make on it's own
- Probiotics – healthy micro-organisms – "good guys"
- Antioxidants – (ex. vitamins A, E, and C)
- Zinc – (a mineral which helps fight infections)
Getting help with the new diet:
Nutrition is a key factor when it comes to treating autism. It is not wise to immediately go Gluten-free and Casein-Free because many children (especially those over three) will resist drastic changes. Talk to an experienced Nutritionist or see your family doctor for advice on where to go from here.
To read part 2 of this article on Autism, click here.
1. Erasmus, U. Probiotic Blends, Flora Health, 2006.
2. Feingold, B.F., MD. Why Your Child is Hyperactive. Random House, New York, 1975.
3. McGuinnis, W., MD. Oxidative Stress in Autism. Treating the Biology of Autism, Pontiac, Michigan, April 2004.
4. Pangborn, J., PhD, and Baker, S.M., MD. Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments, Autism Research Institute, San Diego, 2005.
5. Shattock, P. Environmental Factors in Autism: implications for therapy and prevention, Treating the Biology of Autism, Pontiac, Michigan, April 2004.
6. Wakefield, A., MD. Integration of Pathology in the Gut Brain Axis, MiniDAN, Toronto, 2005.
7. Watson, B., ND, and Smith, L., MD. Gut Solutions. Renew Life Press, Clearwater, 2003.


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Partnering pastors identified an estimated 1,000 families in need of shelter. A plan to build 12 community centers to replace fallen churches and schools is formulated. This will help local pastors minister to the people in their communities in a very tangible way through word and deed. However, this type of aid requires resources. The ReachGlobal Crisis Response Partner Initiative is a proactive option for you and/or your church to invest in the ministry created in the wake of every crisis.
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The campus research community is invited to the monthly Coffee and Donuts forum from 9-11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Microforms area of the first floor of the library.
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- 9 – 11 a.m.
Open forum to mingle. Support staff will be available to answer questions on data management planning, research computing and proposal development. Special guest Richard Boone will attend part of the open forum before the seminar. Boone is acting deputy director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Graduate Education.
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Special guest seminar with Dr. Richard Boone, Deputy Director Division of Graduate Education, U.S. National Science Foundation in Room 201C
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Additional Coffee and Donuts forums will be presented from 9-11 a.m. on March 5, April 2, and May 7. Each forum will highlight a specific topic, research area, or expertise. Agenda with details will be posted prior to each event.