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Joyce J. Norden
GLADSTONE – Joyce J. Norden, 84, of Gladstone, passed away Sunday afternoon, Dec. 30, 2012, at St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba.
Joyce was born June 4, 1928, in Gladstone, the daughter of Carl and Lillie (Holmberg) Johnson. Joyce was raised in Gladstone and was a 1946 graduate of the Gladstone High School. Following graduation, Joyce went on to attend Northern Michigan University where she received her Elementary Teaching Certificate in 1949. Joyce accepted her first teaching position for the Rock Public Schools where she taught elementary education.
On May 30, 1951, Joyce was united in marriage to Richard "Dick" Norden at the First Lutheran Church in Gladstone.
Joyce continued teaching at Rock Schools from 1949 to 1954. In 1955, Joyce and Dick moved to Waukegan, Ill. where they resided until Dick's retirement in 1976. Throughout the years of their residency in Waukegan, Joyce was a charter member of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. In addition, she taught elementary education for the Waukegan Schools from 1967 to 1976. Joyce and Dick returned to Gladstone in 1976 where Joyce was an active member of the First Lutheran Church. She was also involved as a Stephen Ministry leader, a participant in the Prison Ministry program at Marquette Branch Prison and a long time member of the First Lutheran Church Quilting Group, as well as a member of the Grace Circle. Joyce was a remarkable seamstress her entire life and was blessed with the gift of generosity and care for others. She will be deeply missed.
Survivors include her sons, Dean (Bernadette) Norden of Marquette, Keith (Heidi) Norden of Hollandale, Wis.; daughter, Marcia (Kenneth) Wikoff of Waukegan, Ill.; brother, James (Nancy) Johnson of Gladstone; sister, Lillian Strom of Gladstone; grandchildren, Andrew, Christopher, Heather, Samuel, Lisa, Amanda and James. Also listed among the surviving family are many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
In addition to her parents, Carl and Lillie; and her husband, Dick; Joyce was preceded in death by her brother, Carl "Bummy" Johnson.
Joyce's family will receive friends on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Gladstone. Funeral services to celebrate the life of Joyce J. Norden will follow visiting hours at 6 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church, with Pastor Paul Strom officiating. Luncheon will follow in the First Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall.
Joyce will be laid to rest in the Perkins Cemetery in the spring time.
Memorial contributions in Joyce's name may be directed to the Parkinson's Foundation. Envelopes will be available throughout visitation and at the Skradski Family Funeral Homes of Delta County. Messages of condolence to Joyce's family can be offered online at www.skradskifuneralhomes.com.


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Where are the Washington Post sports columnists on the NHL lockout?
The NHL is now one month into a lockout that has delayed the start of the 2012-13 season. Games have been canceled and the league and the players association are engaged in back and forth that fans and local business owners hope will soon lead to some hockey.
Here in D.C., the Caps would have opened their season at home last Friday night against the Stanley Cup runner-up New Jersey Devils and, while Washington Post Caps beat reporter Katie Carrera continues to cover the sport, there's been almost no mention of the NHL work stoppage by any of the paper's sports columnists. Save for one piece which featured the fake diary of league commissioner Gary Bettman, I've yet to see a Post Sports opinion item on a topic that seems worth at least a column or two by now.
I realize that the Nats' playoff run and the excitement around RG3 and the Redskins have been the main focus for sports pundits in this town lately, as they should be. But a major team in Washington is currently season-less and that deserves some ink from the columnists with the city's largest newspaper.
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Posted on October 17, 2012, in NHL, Washington Capitals and tagged Caps, Gary Bettman, journalism, media, National Hockey League, NHL, NHL Lockout, sports, Washington Capitals, Washington Post. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
I totally agree with you that a Post columnist should write about the lockout, but I'm surprised that you're surprised that they aren't.They barely show any interest in the Caps when they're actually on the ice, and the team was pretty much ignored when it made some important personnel moves over the summer (other than the Oates hire, which produced a really awful Tracee Hamilton column that just made fun of hockey nicknames for the most part). I actually wrote a letter to the editor to the Post about this issue: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-no-hot-stove-league-for-hockey/2012/06/22/gJQA6PisvV_story.html

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Quote of the day – stupid voters edition
You have to wonder about the arrogance of liberals when you read some of the stuff they're writing these days. The arrogance found in their apparent belief that anyone who doesn't agree with their ideology is, well, "stupid". It's a bit whiny as well.
Here, Michael J. W. Stickings takes on the obvious shift of independents away from the "progressive" extremism of the past 2 years with the usual claim:
This, of course, would not be the first time that voters turned stupid. But while we can expect Republicans to embrace the most partisan and most ideologically extreme of their kind, independents are supposed to know better, are they not? Well, no. Some may suppose that they do, but they don't.
I actually have a little bit of sympathy for the premise. After all, look whose in the Oval Office and the majority in Congress. I just choose to believe that independents have finally realized their mistake and are rectifying it.
More power to 'em.


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Muggeridge, Malcolm
Malcolm Muggeridge 1903-1990
(Born Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge) English journalist, literary critic and novelist.
Muggeridge spent several decades as a journalist writing for English and Indian newspapers. His biting, satiric wit propelled him onto television and radio in the aftermath of World War II and, from 1953 to 1957, he served as editor of the British humor magazine Punch. During the 1960s Muggeridge, a socialist who had condemned the Soviet system early in his career, began modifying his views on politics, economics and religion, joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1982. From this time forward his writings centered increasingly on religious experience, emphasizing the development of Muggeridge's own faith. But Muggeridge never eased up on his caustic analysis of British and American culture, maintaining until his death an energy and style that make many of his essays classics in the satiric genre.
Biographical Information
Muggeridge was born on March 24, 1903 in Croydon, England. His father was an ardent socialist who was active in local politics and eventually served as a Member of Parliament. Graduating from Cambridge University in 1924, Muggeridge went to India to work as a teacher. He returned to England in 1927, married Katherine Dobbs, niece of Fabian Socialist leaders Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and worked for six months as a substitute teacher. He then traveled to Egypt where he took up journalism as a vocation. Muggeridge spent the winter of 1932-33 in the Soviet Union working as a correspondent for the Manchester Daily Guardian. Muggeridge was the first Western reporter to write truthfully regarding the Soviet government's role in causing the death and destruction of the Ukrainian famine. Because of his dispatches and two books based on his experiences, Muggeridge became somewhat of an outcast among English intellectuals and journalists, and so accepted an editorial position in India soon after his return to England. During World War II Muggeridge served in England's intelligence service. After the war he returned to journalism and enjoyed great success as a radio and television commentator, mercilessly criticizing the media and popular culture. His tenure as editor of Punch was marked by controversy as he refused to spare even the English Royal Family from satiric barbs. Beginning in the 1960s, Muggeridge began moving away from his youthful socialism toward a more conservative political vision and toward an acceptance of religious faith. He came to reject his former lifestyle, which had included serial extramarital affairs and alcoholism, but continued scourging English and American moral lapses even as he penned works of religious devotion. Muggeridge died on November 14, 1990.
Major Works
Early in his career Muggeridge published a play, Three Flats (1931), but it was his experience in the Soviet Union that brought his writing to wide public notice. Soon after returning to England he published two books based on his experiences. The satirical novel Picture Palace (1934) was withdrawn in response to a libel suit filed by Muggeridge's newspaper. The journalistic observations published as Winter in Moscow (1934) quickly solidified Muggeridge's reputation as an iconoclast who would question opinions generally accepted by those on both the right and the left wings of the political spectrum. Next Muggeridge penned a biography of Samuel Butler, The Earnest Atheist (1936), then, two years later, another novel, In a Valley of This Restless Mind (1938). Both works emphasize skepticism concerning human nature and the existence of any higher meaning to life. In 1940 Muggeridge's The Thirties appeared. In this, his first book to receive significant notice since Winter in Moscow, he used satiric sketches of personalities and customs to portray a decadent, world-weary England. After World War II, Muggeridge continued his extensive writing even as he took on the persona and duties of a public personality, but most of these writings consisted of shorter pieces for magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected in Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes (1966). A number of Muggeridge's media performances were collected as Muggeridge Through the Microphone (1967). Soon thereafter Muggeridge began writing overtly Christian works, beginning with Jesus Rediscovered (1969) and his treatment of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Something Beautiful for God (1971). Muggeridge quickly became a prominent figure among Christian apologists, co-authoring a biography of Saint Paul, Paul (1972) and commencing a series of autobiographical works emphasizing his spiritual journey from hedonism and socialism to ascetic Christianity. He published two of three proposed volumes of his autobiography, Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Green Stick (1973) and Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Infernal Grove (1974), later completing the autobiography through publication of his diaries, Like It Was (1981) and the contemplative Conversion (1988). During this period Muggeridge also published another volume of Christian apologetics, Jesus (1975) and a highly critical commentary on the media's treatment of religion, Christ and the Media (1976).
Critical Reception
Muggeridge's provocative style, his vigorous criticism of established persons and pieties, and his ideological and religious shift late in life combine to make the status and importance of his work a subject of significant debate. His works of fiction were not critically successful at any time during his career, at least on their own merits. Muggeridge's notoriety as a Christian apologist in later life led to republication of several of his earlier novels. But these efforts are of interest more for their author than their contents, with the single exception of Winter in Moscow, a collection of journalism reputed for its subject matter and satiric skill. Critical interest in Muggeridge rests on three bases: his personal story as a self-indulgent intellectual who slowly develops a passionate religious faith; his iconoclastic scourging of the famous and powerful, which has taken the form of many short pieces of powerful satiric prose; and his Christian apologetics. In perhaps none of these areas did his work excel to such an extent as to gain him a place among the first rank of literary talents. But the contradictions of his personality and career, combined with the place accorded Winter in Moscow, renders his career as a whole a subject of enduring critical interest.
Principal Works
Three Flats (play) 1931
Picture Palace (novel) 1934
Winter in Moscow (journalism) 1934
The Earnest Atheist: A Study of Samuel Butler (biography) 1936
In a Valley of This Restless Mind (novel) 1938
The Thirties: 1930-1940 in Great Britain (history) 1940; published in the United States as The Sun Never Sets: The Story of England in the 1930s, 1940
Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes (essays) 1966; published in the United States as The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966
Muggeridge Through the Microphone (essays) 1967; revised and expanded edition published as Muggeridge: Ancient and Modern, 1981
Jesus Rediscovered (philosophy) 1969
Something Beautiful for God (biography) 1971
Paul: Envoy Extraordinary [with Alec Vidler] (biography) 1972
Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume I: The Green Stick (autobiography) 1973
Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume II: The Infernal Grove (autobiography) 1974
Jesus: The Man Who Lives (philosophy) 1975
Christ and the Media (lectures) 1976
Like it Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge (diaries) 1981
Conversion: A Spiritual Journey (meditations) 1988; published in the United States as Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim, 1988
John Cournos (review date 1934)
SOURCE: Cournos, John. Winter in Moscow. The Criterion: 1922-1939 (1967): 670-73.
[In the following review of Winter in Moscow, originally pubished in 1934, Cournos praises Muggeridge for his blunt honesty and his humor in describing the actions of the Soviet government.]
There is something refreshing in Mr. Muggeridge's approach to the problem of Russian Communism which, during his eight months' tenure as Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, he has had ample opportunity to observe in practice, on and behind the scene. Whereas other writers who visited Russia for brief terms under the personal guidance of the Intourist or for long stays...
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Paul Beard (review date 1938)
SOURCE: Beard, Paul. In a Valley of This Restless Mind. The Criterion: 1922-1939 (1967): 375-78.
[In the following review of In a Valley of This Restless Mind, originally published in 1938, Beard criticizes Muggeridge's combination of philosophical and moral skepticism as leading to a degrading acceptance of contemporary society's more base and decayed habits and practices.]
Mr. Muggeridge has added another to those perplexed enquiries into the state of the modern world, and like one or two of his predecessors he has followed the Pilgrim's Progress as a model. In a series of loosely-linked fantasies, In a Valley of this Restless Mind...
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George Orwell (review date 1940)
SOURCE: Orwell, George. "The Limit to Pessimism." In The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Vol I: An Age Like This, 1920-1940, edited by Sonia Orwell, pp. 533-35. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1940.
[In the following review of The Thirties, Orwell finds Muggeridge's skepticism useful for analyzing a corrupt era, without precluding patriotism.]
Mr Malcolm Muggeridge's "message"1—for it is a message, though a negative one—has not altered since he wrote Winter in Moscow. It boils down to a simple disbelief in the power of human beings to construct a perfect or even a tolerable society here on...
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R. H. S. Crossman (review date 1958)
SOURCE: Crossman, R. H. S. "Vanity of Vanities: Malcom Muggeridge." In The Charm of Politics, and Other Essays in Political Criticism, pp. 110-13. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958.
[In the following review of The Thirties, Crossman argues that Muggeridge's acserbic observations do not rise to the level of great satire because they fail to contrast society's evils with any vision of a higher good.]
'Men aim at projecting their own inward unease on as large a screen as possible. When they tremble, the universe must.' Thus Muggeridge on his first page; and his judgment upon the human race applies with peculiar appropriateness to his own mordant sketch of this...
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Joseph Epstein (review date December 1966)
SOURCE: Epstein, Joseph. "Enfant Terrible." Commentary 42, no. 6 (December 1966): 94-6.
[In the following review of The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, Epstein pronounces Muggeridge's biting criticism self-indulgent and unseemly, but at times an amusing and useful corrective to mass-media fed hero worship.]
Malcolm Muggeridge revels in undocumented revelation. A piquant example is to be found in the essay on Max Beerbohm in this volume. "Beerbohm, it seems to me to emerge," he writes, "was in panic flight through most of his life from two things—his Jewishness and his homosexuality." Nor is Muggeridge skimpy with hyperbole; in a piece about his...
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Time (review date 6 January 1967)
SOURCE: "Dance of the Iconoclast." Time 89, no. 1 (6 January 1967): 36.
[In the following review of The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, the editors of Time characterize Muggeridge's career as a reaction to a series of ideological disappointments, culminating in mellowed religious reverence.]
In his five years as Punch's editor in the 1950s, Malcolm Muggeridge quickened the dowdy humor magazine with pungent political satire. Circulation shot up. But when Muggeridge proposed lampooning Prince Charles's boarding school, he went too far even for Punch and was forced to quit. Nothing daunted, hardly loath and all that, he went on to ridicule the...
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Gerald Weales (review date 24 March 1967)
SOURCE: Weales, Gerald. "The Most of Malcom Muggeridge." Commonweal LXXXVI, no. 1 (24 March 1967): 21-2.
[In the following review of The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, Weales attacks Muggeridge's literary and social criticism as self-indulgently cynical.]
Malcolm Muggeridge is presumably a selling name, an advertisable presence for any magazine which prints him. Yet, his name on a cover elicits in me an inevitable response, a mixture of distaste and boredom. When TV Guide proclaimed that Muggeridge, "a British wit," was going to hold forth in its pages on "Is Anyone Really Listening?", I muttered, "Not Muggeridge again," and "Who...
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Jeffrey Hart (review date 2 December 1969)
SOURCE: Hart, Jeffrey. "The Conversion of Malcom Muggeridge." National Revew 21, no. 47 (2 December 1969): 1228-29.
[In the following review of Jesus Rediscovered, Hart praises Muggeridge for his lively portrayal of Jesus and his harsh criticisms of contemporary liberalism, but criticizes him for failing to treat important theological issues seriously.]
In Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis tells us in some detail about his conversion, and, since he was a complicated person, the process of his conversion was far from simple. Yet at a pivotal moment he had to answer a simple, if overwhelming, question: Was Jesus actually God? He returned to the gospel...
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Anthony Lejeune (review date 21 December 1973)
SOURCE: Lejeune, Anthony. "No Regrets." National Review 25, no. 51 (21 December 1973): 1418-19.
[In the following review of Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume I: The Green Stick, Lejeune praises Muggeridge for skillfully showing the failings of the persons and institutions he studied during his long career in journalism and for pointing to faith as the sole answer to life's disappointments.]
Some years ago, seeking to prove the obvious, I listed all the participants in a season of television talk-shows, dividing them into left wingers, right wingers, and nonpolitical. The overwhelming majority, of course, were left wingers. But one name didn't fit into any...
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Jonathan Dimbleby (essay date March-April 1974)
SOURCE: Dimbleby, Jonathan. "Intellectual in Search of Salvation: Malcom Muggeridge, A Profile of the Maverick at 70." The Critic 32, no. 4 (March-April 1974): 38-44.
[In the following essay, Dimbleby emphasizes the influence of Muggeridge's jocular yet cynical personality on his written work.]
No man is easier to caricature than Malcolm Muggeridge. Walking through the steep narrow streets of the mountain village of Aspremont, bestowing beneficent smiles on old brown Provencal faces or stopping to pat the head or kiss the cheek of a pretty child, St. Mug has the benign air of a visiting emissary from the Kingdom above. In the village shop, speaking in immaculate...
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Haven Bradford Gow (review date fall 1974)
SOURCE: Bradford Gow, Haven. "A Retreat from Utopia." Modern Age 18, no. 4 (fall 1974): 426-29.
[In the following review of Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume I: The Green Stick, Gow praises Muggeridge for pointing out the hypocrisy of Soviet communism's claim to value humanity, and the hypocrisy of liberal intellectuals who defended the Soviet system.]
I used to believe that there was a green stick buried on the edge of a ravine in the old Zakaz forest at Yasnaya Polyana, on which words were carved that would destroy all the evil in the hearts of men and bring them everything good.
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Don Cupitt (review date 25 September 1975)
SOURCE: Cupitt, Don. "Scrap of Paper." The Listener 94, no. 2425 (25 September 1975): 405.
[In the following review of Jesus, Cupitt criticizes Muggeridge for failing to present a sustained argument and for indulging in harsh criticism of contemporary moral and religious practices.]
'It is one thing to be crucified: it is quite another thing to be a Professor of the fact that someone else was crucified,' wrote Kierkegaard, showing that it is possible for a great religious writer to be waspish. But great religious writers are excessively rare. Their mark is a certain perfectly sustained purity and intensity, such as would be destroyed at once by the...
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John B. Breslin (essay date 11 October 1975)
SOURCE: Breslin, John B. "Jesus and St. Mug." America 133, no. 10 (11 October 1975): 207-10.
[In the following essay, Breslin contrasts Muggeridge's iconoclastic reputation with his increasingly Christian outlook on life.]
In a review of the second volume of his autobiography, I referred to Malcolm Muggeridge as a "formidable commentator" on the follies of the recent past and present. As I traveled down from London to spend an afternoon with him at his cottage in Sussex several weeks ago, that phrase came back to haunt me.
I took some comfort from the assurances of people I knew who had met Mr. Muggeridge that he was both gracious and genial...
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Malcolm Muggeridge with William Murchison (interview date 16 September 1977)
SOURCE: Murchison, William. "The Cheery Doomsayer: William Murchinson." National Review 29, no. 35 (16 September 1977): 1050-51.
[In the following interview, Muggeridge presents contemporary society as beyond hope, and sees this as reason to hope for religious salvation.]
The face is familiar. The snow-white fringe of hair, the broad-tipped nose, the inimitable smile, with the corners of the mouth stretched wide as though fleeing panic-stricken from each other. The Malcolm Muggeridge who lounges comfortably in desert boots and work shirt has the outward look of that mass of electronic impulses the television talk-show hosts call "Muggeridge." But the fleshly...
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J. W. Gregg Meister (review date April 1979)
SOURCE: Meister, J. W. Gregg. "Christ and the Media." Theology Today 36, no. 4 (April 1979): 137-38.
[In the following review of Christ and the Media, Meister criticizes Muggeridge for failing to put his criticism of television in academic or historical context.]
When the Berlin Wall was first constructed, two East German policemen dramatically leaped off the wall to freedom. According to eyewitness accounts, the soldiers had to jump three times before their leap was deemed visually acceptable for the television news team.
Lacing his book, Christ and the Media, with such anecdotes, Malcolm Muggeridge underscores his thesis that not...
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Anthony Powell (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Powell, Anthony. "The London Charivari." In To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Vol. IV, pp. 47-65. London: Heinemann, 1982.
[In the following excerpt, Powell describes Muggeridge's contentious tenure as editor of the English humor magazine Punch.]
Not long after moving to the country I lunched at the Authors' Club with Malcolm Muggeridge …, then Deputy Editor of The Daily Telegraph. The job seemed to suit him pretty well, his heart being in 'news' journalism, while the particular gradation of rank—so to speak third in command—represented a reasonably powerful sphere of influence not oppressively incommoded by too much...
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Robert Inchausti (essay date 16 October 1985)
SOURCE: Inchausti, Robert. "Interpreting Mother Teresa." The Christian Century 102 (16 October 1985): 919-20.
[In the following essay, Inchausti praises Muggeridge's Something Beautiful for God for capturing the power of Mother Teresa's simple faith.]
Goodness, like beauty, leaves us mute, unable to speak. And when we finally do produce halting words to express what goodness invokes in us, they always seem weak and inappropriate. So we look to skilled writers to capture for us the words over which saints bound on their way to God.
Many books about Mother Teresa have been written in the past ten years, each attempting to interpret her life....
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Richard Ingrams (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Ingrams, Richard. "Introduction." In Picture Palace, pp. vii-xiii. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
[In the following introduction to Muggeridge's Picture Palace, Ingrams reviews events behind the novel's genesis and suppression and finds it valuable more as historical record than novel.]
A first edition of [Picture Palace], which came out in 1934, must be one of the rarest books in existence. For although it was published and review copies sent out they were almost immediately withdrawn following legal action by Malcolm Muggeridge's former employees the Manchester Guardian (now the Guardian). [It] has waited for over fifty...
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William F. Buckley, Jr. (review date 19 February 1988)
SOURCE: Buckley, William F. Jr. "Uncovering Stalinism." National Review 40, no. 3 (19 February 1988): 56.
[In the following review of Winter in Moscow, Buckley praises Muggeridge's command of detail and his ability to write convincing vignettes.]
Before there was Solzhenitsyn, or Pasternak, or Djilas, or Orwell, or Koestler, there was Muggeridge. He covered, or uncovered, the Soviet Union for the Manchester Guardian in 1932-33, laying bare its stupendous horrors even as Walter Duranty and Claud Cockburn were dutifully retailing their obsequious lies about Stalin for American and English readers. He told the West about the Ukrainian famine, a feature...
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Russell Kirk (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Kirk, Russell. "Malcom Muggeridge's Scourging of Liberalism." In The Politics of Prudence, pp. 125-41. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1993.
[In the following excerpt, Kirk praises Muggeridge's ability to recognize liberalism's key weaknesses and powerfully point them out to his audience.]
In the preceding three chapters, and in this one, I discuss eminent conservative men of letters whom I have known. They have all crossed the bar and put out to sea now. My proclivity for quoting such vanished friends provoked a certain auditor at a large gathering, a few years past, into observing aloud, "Dr. Kirk, you're an anomaly: all of...
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Richard Ingrams (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Ingrams, Richard. "Epilogue." In Muggeridge: The Biography, pp. 247-52. London: Harper San Francisco, 1995.
[In the following excerpt, Ingrams reports on the varied assessments of Muggeridge's career that appeared upon news of the writer's death.]
Malcolm's death was reported throughout the world and there were lengthy obituaries in all the British and most of the major American newspapers. They ranged from the affectionate memoirs of his many journalistic friends to the pious platitudes of the Catholic Press. The word 'irreverent' was in constant use. The New York Times paid tribute to his 'impeccable prose style', a writer in the...
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Gregory Wolfe (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Wolfe, Gregory. "Muggeridge One, Two or Three?." In Malcom Muggeridge: A Biography, pp. vi-vxiii. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
[In the following excerpt, Wolfe points out the seeming contradictions between perceptions of Muggeridge as journalistic iconoclast and Christian apologist.]
I give you the end of a Golden String, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's Gate Built in Jerusalem's Wall.
William Blake
As a media figure for more than half a century, Malcolm Muggeridge understood the strange metamorphosis that turns an individual into an image. His face, his voice and his...
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Henry M. W. Russell (essay date 5-12 June 1996)
SOURCE: Russell, Henry M. W. "Late to the Vineyard: Explaining Malcom Muggeridge." The Christian Century 113, no. 19 (5-12 June 1996): 624-29.
[In the following essay, Russell argues that Muggeridge did not give up his skeptical objectivity in converting to Catholicism.]
Malcolm Muggeridge was aware that to account for his conversion to Christianity, many people might look for a "sinister explanation, expatiating upon how old lechers when they become impotent are notoriously liable to denounce lechery, seeking to deprive others of pleasures no longer within their reach; how a clown whose act has staled will look around for some gimmick, however grotesque and...
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Mark Falcoff (essay date September-October 1996)
SOURCE: Falcoff, Mark "Muggeridged by Reality." The American Enterprise 7, no. 5 (September-October 1996): 22-23.
[In the following essay, Falcoff praises Muggeridge's insight into the weaknesses of public figures, particularly those on the political left.]
For Americans born after 1960, the name Malcolm Muggeridge, if it means anything at all, refers to an eccentric English writer best known for his defense of orthodox Christianity. A handful of graduate students or lettered conservatives may know him as well from two volumes of memoirs published in 1972-3 under the provocative title, Chronicles of Wasted Time. The truth is, there have been several...
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Further Reading
Ingrams, Robert. Muggeridge: The Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1995, 288 p.
Lists books written, co-written, and edited by Muggeridge.
Hunter, Ian. Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1980, 270 p.
Outlines and evaluates Muggeridge's life and writings.
Hart, Jeffrey. "Stop the Milieu, I've Got to Get Off." National Review 18, no. 40 (October 4, 1966): 999-1001.
Praises Muggeridge's ability to see through ideological rhetoric to concrete actions and...
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Lasch, Christopher
Christopher Lasch 1932–1994
American social critic, historian, essayist, and professor.
The following entry presents an overview of Lasch's career through 1995.
A historian and social critic, Lasch was a controversial and often misunderstood theorist of contemporary American culture. Speaking from a position generally sympathetic to the intellectual left, he united political radicalism and social conservatism in his disturbing but thought-provoking analyses of American society, which he viewed as increasingly bureaucratic, consumption-oriented, and politically driven by a "new," elite economic class. His works—including The New Radicalism in America (1965), The Culture of Narcissism (1977), and The True and Only Heaven (1991)—examine how late nineteenth-century capitalism, progressivism, and the consequent social problems of that era evolved during the twentieth century, and demonstrate how traditional institutions and values have been dismantled and replaced by confusion and despair. Although his thought generated strong disagreement as often as high approbation from both rightist and leftist critics, most agree that Lasch brought a fresh perspective to the debate about the American cultural crisis at the end of the twentieth century. Jean Bethke Elshtain has observed: "Christopher Lasch was a man of grace who found much of late modernity graceless; a man of wit who found much of our politics witless; a man of purpose who lamented our culture's frenetic purposelessness; a man of hope who saw in boundless optimism a deep despair."
Biographical Information
Lasch was born June 1, 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Robert and Zora Lasch, a journalist and philosophy professor, respectively. Little is known about his childhood and adolescence until his entrance into Harvard University in 1950, where he was novelist John Updike's roommate. Lasch received a B.A. degree in history in 1954, after which he enrolled at Columbia University for postgraduate studies, earning his master's degree in 1955 and a Ph.D. degree in 1961. While he pursued his doctoral studies, he taught history at Williams College, Columbia, and Roosevelt University and published a number of essays on historical trends in American culture and politics. As a history professor during the 1960s, first at the University of Iowa and later at Northwestern University, Lasch wrote The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution (1962), The New Radicalism in America, and The Agony of the American Left (1969). In 1970 Lasch accepted an appointment as professor of history at the University of Rochester, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. Following the publication of The World of Nations (1973) and Haven in a Heartless World (1977), Lasch gained national attention with the best-selling The Culture of Narcissism, which received an American Book Award in current interest in 1980. That year, he delivered the Freud Lectures at University College in London. Lasch wrote three more books—The Minimal Self (1984), The True and Only Heaven, and the posthumously published Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (1995)—before he died of cancer on February 14, 1994.
Major Works
The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution, based in part on Lasch's doctoral dissertation, argues that a blind faith in progress obscured the distressing effects of the communist revolution in Russia in 1917 and suggests that similar consequences await the unrestrained optimism found in modern American liberalism. The New Radicalism in America identifies in a series of biographical sketches the early twentieth-century foundations of a socially aware radicalism, tracing its development through mid-century as a force for social and political reform that ultimately produced the American welfare state. These themes emerge again in Haven in a Heartless World, which suggests that the industrial revolution produced ideological justifications for state interference in private, family life. The Agony of the American Left, comprising five essays on populism, socialism, black power, and students' rights, describes how post-World War I radicalism had co-opted progressive ideology, which has diluted radicalism's political influence. The World of Nations, divided into "The Limits of Liberal Reform," "Alternatives to Liberalism," and "The So-Called Post-Industrial Society," contains eighteen essays and book reviews published between 1958 and 1972. Lasch turned from considered aspects of modern society to focus on the modern individual in his next book. The Culture of Narcissism examines contemporary narcissism, a personality structure characterized by self-absorption and a stern superego, and analyzes historical and cultural patterns to account for its widespread emergence during the latter half of the twentieth century. The Minimal Self, a sequel to The Culture of Narcissism, clarifies argumentative points made in the previous book by analyzing the ethic of "survivalism" and radical feminism. Returning to criticism of liberalism, The True and Only Heaven rejects the modern ideology of progress in favor of petty-bourgeois values and an acceptance of limits without despair, or "hope." The Revolt of the Elites discusses the differences between populism and contemporary "communitarianism" in terms of changes in late twentieth-century capitalism.
Critical Reception
Elshtain has remarked that Lasch "was better at putting the questions than at providing the answers," and most critical commentary on his works has made similar conclusions. As a radical historian in his early career, "his trenchant analysis of modern liberal and radical ideology made Lasch a darling of the New Left," observed Steven Watts. The critical reception of Lasch's social criticism since 1975, however, has been marked by contention and controversy, mainly since his "commentary has defied confident ideological categorization," according to Watts. Watts also has noted that Lasch's "social criticism has raised as many angry rebuttals from ostensible allies on the Left as from evident targets on the Right…. Misunderstood more than any other contemporary critic, he has been praised and condemned for all the wrong reasons." Rightist critics generally have endorsed Lasch's writing for upholding traditional values, while leftist critics have accused him of betraying the liberal cause. Some commentators have faulted Lasch's books for lacking humor and assuming a tone of self-righteousness; others have responded to his treatment of gender issues and the cultural meaning of feminine with cries of "authoritarian" and "hallucinatory." Economists also have noticed the vagueness of Lasch's agenda for a return to small-scale production in the face of global competition, questioning its practicality. But Watts has concluded: "The fact that [Lasch] has mystified and infuriated so many only supports the suspicion that he must be on to something."
Principal Works
The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution (history) 1962
The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type (history) 1965
The Agony of the American Left (essays) 1969
The World of Nations (essays) 1973
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (social criticism) 1977
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (social criticism) 1977
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times (social criticism) 1984
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (social criticism) 1991
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (social criticism) 1995
Joseph Voelker (review date Spring 1986)
SOURCE: A review of The Minimal Self, in Southwestern Humanities Review, Spring, 1986, pp. 181-83.
[In the following review, Voelker compares the themes of The Minimal Self to those of The Culture of Narcissism, concluding that, while The Minimal Self "seems guilty of the same cultural shallowness it sees around it," the book has "occasional sharp observations."]
There is something meretricious in the title to Christopher Lasch's sequel to his often precise and powerful The Culture of Narcissism. A reader unacquainted with Lasch's work who comes across a book sub-titled "Psychic Survival in Troubled Times" is likely to mistake it for...
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Godfrey Hodgson (review date 27 January 1991)
SOURCE: "Liberalism Takes a Licking," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 27, 1991, pp. 2, 11.
[In the highly positive review of The True and Only Heaven below, Hodgson discusses the book's critique of the ideology of progress and some strategies used by Lasch.]
From the New Deal until the 1970s, liberalism in all its variants was the public philosophy of the United States. And what brought together a whole coalition of interests, classes and temperaments under the banners of liberalism was a shared belief in the idea, indeed the ideology of progress.
Since the 1970s, with bewildering speed, liberalism has been rudely unseated from that...
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Louis Menand (review date 11 April 1991)
SOURCE: "Man of the People," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXVIII, April, 11, 1991, pp. 39-44.
[In the following review, Menand surveys Lasch's critique of liberalism throughout his works, including The True and Only Heaven, and concludes that Lasch's insightful but sometimes limited cultural criticism neglects the influence of both literature and "the political doctrine of rights" on twentieth-century society.]
Christopher Lasch began his career as a historian and critic of American liberalism. His analysis of liberalism led him to an analysis of some of the alternatives to liberalism in American political thought and, eventually, to a long excursion...
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Steven Watts (review date Fall 1992)
SOURCE: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Critic: Christopher Lasch's Struggle with Progressive America," in American Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 113-20.
[In the review below, Watts summarizes the themes of and the critical responses to Lasch's works from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, offering a general assessment of the weaknesses and strengths of his arguments.]
In the volatile cultural politics of late twentieth-century America, the only thing worse than an opponent is a traitor. In many ways, Christopher Lasch has acquired precisely that image. He began his career as a radical historian in the 1960s—one of his essays, for instance, appeared...
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Jeffrey Isaac and Christopher Lasch (essay date Winter 1992)
SOURCE: "Modernity and Progress: An Exchange," in Salmagundi, Vol. 9, No. 3, Winter, 1992, pp. 82-116.
[Below, each writer separately explains the themes of The True and Only Heaven. In the first essay Isaac offers a point-by-point analysis of Lasch's social criticism in his book, concentrating on what he perceives as omissions and dismissals in Lasch's otherwise astute observations. In the second essay Lasch responds to specific criticisms of his book made by several reviewers, focusing especially on those by Isaac about Lasch's treatment of "the problem of democracy."]
I. On Christopher Lasch
Both the facts...
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Robert B. Westbrook (essay date March 1995)
SOURCE: "Christopher Lasch, The New Radicalism, and the Vocation of Intellectuals," in Reviews in American History, Vol. 23, No. 1, March, 1995, pp. 176-91.
[In the essay below, Westbrook examines the influence of The New Radicalism in America on the American intellectual community.]
The New Radicalism is really a brilliant book, a book of such importance that people will be talking about it as long as they are talking about 20th Century history. It is an unconventional book, because it is based not on massing evidence but on thinking about history, an endeavor that has largely gone out of fashion.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain (essay date Spring-Summer 1995)
SOURCE: "The Life and Work of Christopher Lasch: An American Story," in Salmagundi, Nos. 106-107, Spring-Summer, 1995, pp. 146-61.
[Below, Elshtain, a personal friend of Lasch, relates Lasch's thought to his character, reminiscing about and illuminating Lasch's observations of contemporary American life.]
Christopher Lasch was my friend. That means I called him "Kit." When he died on Valentine's Day, 1994, the loss was a personal one enveloped by a patina of public concern. Who, I fretted sadly, will take his place? I found it hard to imagine a world without Kit's voice, a very particular voice, quintessentially American, rooted in the soil of this strange and...
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Further Reading
Beatty, Jack. "Beyond Narcissism." Washington Post Book World (16 December 1984); 6.
Finds The Minimal Self "a book stronger in ad hoc criticism than in sustained argument."
Bentley, James. "Looking after Number One." New Statesman (5 July 1985): 28.
Focuses on Lasch's attitudes about victimization and survival in The Minimal Self.
Brinkley, Alan. "Putting the Community First." Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1991): 24.
Concludes that "The True and Only...
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The Brooklyn Museum is showing a retrospective of artist Fred Tomaselli now through January 2nd. Tomaselli's work involves a collage of mixed media: painting, photographs, and a variety of images that have become Tomaselli signatures. Birds. Bugs. Leaves. Beads. Even actual pills that he sticks onto the pieces. One of his most amusing works shows a colossal baby trampling a cityscape like Godzilla. It's Tomaselli's son, and as you look closer you see that the cityscape is actually a jumble of toys. One of his most spectacular pieces shows Adam and Eve driven out from a burst of eyes and teeth and creatures, a Big Bang of life's miscellany. He's also done works that look like intimate close-ups of chemical elements or human cells. Microcosms. Macrocosms. And sometimes both all at once. I talked with Fred Tomaselli at his Brooklyn studio for the 11/12/10 WBGO Journal. You can hear the entire interview as a web extra, and you can see here a slideshow of Tomaselli's works in the show at the Brooklyn Museum.
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On March 6, 1965, police attacked a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. Sixty African Americans were hospitalized. On March 15 President Johnson called for a new Federal law protecting voters in the South.These African Americans petitioned the Congress to further guarantee their right to vote in the South.
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A book signing will take place in the Palace of the Fans Theater for "Stealing First: The Teddy Kremer Story" by Teddy Kremer, with Diane Lang, and Michael Buchanan. Signing is free with paid price of admission or if you are a member of the Reds Hall of Fame.
A book signing will take place in the Palace of the Fans Theater for "Kammie on First, baseball's first Dottie Kamenshek" by Michelle Houts. Signing is free with paid price of admission or if you are a member of the Reds Hall of Fame.
Tom Browning and Todd Benzinger will host the next "Signature Series" event on Saturday, July 23rd at the Hall of Fame. The evening will begin with a Q&A with the wire-to-wire champs, followed by a priceless photo opportunity with the 1990 World Series trophy. Photo opportunity and presentation are free with museum admission or membership. The first autograph is free for members, $5 for non-members. Any additional autographs are $5 each for all attendees. Printed photos available for $10.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles historic performance at Crosley Field, the Reds Hall of Fame is pleased to welcome author and Beatles historian Scott "Belmo" Belmer for a presentation and book signing. The author of seven books on the Beatles and for fifteen years the editor and publisher of "Beatles Beatleg News," Mr. Belmer has been a guest on CNN and numerous radio and television talk shows over the course of his career documenting the incomparable "Fab Four." There was no rock music act in the Sixties bigger than The Beatles. Press coverage for their American tours were unprecedented for its time. In "The Beatles Invade Cincinnati," fans will relive The Beatles invasion of America as seen through the eyes of reporters, photographers, fans and many of those lucky few intimately involved in The Beatles' tour of America. The Beatles performed in Cincinnati in 1964 and 1966 and both momentous events are thoroughly covered in this book. Whether you attended one of the concerts in Cincinnati or are a fan of The Beatles, this book will enlighten and entertain you. Over 150 pages filled with rare photos, newspaper articles, interviews, and reproductions of rarely seen collectables.
Copies of "The Beatles Invade Cincinnati 1964 & 1966" will be available for sale along with historic Beatles images and t-shirts. The presentation is free with Hall of Fame admission.
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The Hall of Fame is also pleased to welcome former Red Bret Boone (1994-1998) for a presentation and book signing. After a major league career spanning 13 seasons, four Gold Gloves and three All-Star appearances, as well as trades and a bout with alcoholism, third-generation MLB player Bret Boone currently coaches minor leaguers. With a fifteen-year-old son who has potential to become baseball's first fourth-generation Major Leaguer, Bret has new perspective on his remarkable family and is ready to share his story as part of baseball's First Family. It is a one-of-a-kind look at the national pastime "from the colorful, quotable scion of a family whose business is baseball."
Copies of "Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family" will be available for sale and are the only item that will be signed. The presentation is free with Hall of Fame admission.
Author Mark Figley has been following the Reds since Sparky Anderson's inaugural season with the club in 1970. His new book, "Queen City Dynasty: Cincinnati's Big Red Machine," is dedicated to the 1975-1976 World Champion Cincinnati Reds. Unlike most books written on this subject, Figley tells the stories of not just the "Great Eight" starters, but every coach, pitcher, and role player who helped comprise these two squads. Read about the men who each played a vital role in the success of baseball's last true dynasty, and arguably the greatest team in the history of the game.
Book signing is free with Hall of Fame admission. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the Reds Hall of Fame.
Attend the next Hall of Fame book signing with author of "The William Hoy Story" Nancy Churnin on Saturday, September 17 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Hear the true story of William Hoy, a deaf baseball player who changes the game forever. Attendace is free with museum admission or membership. Books are for sale at the Hall of Fame for $16.99.
The Reds Hall of Fame is excited to announce an exclusive appearance by "Cactus Jack" Billingham! Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet one of the key starting pitchers of the Big Red Machine - a member of the 1975 and 1976 World Champion Cincinnati Reds, and a 1984 Reds Hall of Fame inductee.
Don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity on Sunday, September 18 in the Palace of the Fans Theater beginning at 11:00 am.
This event is available to Hall of Fame members for $35 and non-members for $40. Space for this event is extremely limited - only 80 tickets are available. Please call Erin Chamberlain at 513.765.7921 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to make sure you don't miss out on this once in a lifetime event.
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The Reds Hall of Fame is excited to announce an exclusive appearance by none other than Rob Dibble, Randy Myers, and Norm Charlton - the Nasty Boys! Be warned - this is not your typical meet and greet. Not only will you have the chance to hear Rob, Randy, and Norm share stories and memories from their playing days (and beyond), you will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet them, as well as take photos with all three and the 1990 World Series trophy. This event brings a whole new meaning to "bullpen session!"
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Fans 12 and under will be admitted free of charge to the Reds Hall of Fame & Museum on the following dates this summer, courtesy of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center:2016 Free Kids Admission Dates
The Hall of Fame & Museum features many interactive displays, including the Children's Hospital Kids Clubhouse. This locker room allows for young visitors to gear up and feel like true Hall of Famers. Healthy kid-friendly recipes are also available in the lobby of the Hall of Fame, provided by Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Visitors can experience the 2016 exhibits Bobbleheads, 4192 and Stars of the Queen City in addition to interactive exhibits and displays that highlight the storied traditions of baseball in Cincinnati.
Located at Great American Ball Park, the Reds Hall of Fame & Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. year-round with extended hours on game days. For questions, please call 513-765-7923.
Join Reds Hall of Famer Leo Cardenas and author Geo. Buzz Guckenberger as they sign Cuba's Campo Corto in the Palace of the Fans Theater on Saturday, October 1. Leo will also sign autographed items for $5 per item. Leo will be inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in a pregame ceremony later that day, don't miss your opportunity to meet him and read his story on this special occasion.
Event is free with Museum membership or daily admission. Books are available for sale in the Museum Store for $30. Additional autographs from Leo Cardenas are available for $5 each.
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Step back in time to the days of Garry Herrmann and the 1919 World Series on this exclusive walking tour.
The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum in conjunction with American Legacy Tours is pleased to offer 1919: The Year That Changed Baseball, a walking tour of downtown Cincinnati, that looks back on the infamous 1919 World Series scandal and the central role Reds owner August "Garry" Herrmann played in helping create the annual clash between league champions that, in 1919, was at the focal point of the scandal that rocked the game to its very core.
The 1919 tour is conducted on Saturdays of Reds home games, excluding September 17 due to Oktobefest. See list of dates below. The tour starts promptly at 10:30 am and departs from the Cincinnati USA Visitor Center located at Fountain Square. Tickets for the approximately 90-minute-long tour are $20 per person. Guests are strongly encouraged to arrive 15 minutes early to check in for the tour.2016 Tour Dates
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Don't miss Kids Day 2016 at the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, presented by MarketVision Research! All kids 12 and under receive free admission. Lots of kid-friendly activities, including $5 spins for kids on the Wheel of Fame, Reds Hall of Fame Batting Cages presented by Beacon Orthopaedics from noon - 2 pm, scavenger hunts, and chances to win prizes! ALL visitors will receive a Stars of the Queen City poster, thanks to MarketVision Research.
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In honor of Veterans Day, the Reds Hall of Fame & Museum is pleased to offer all veterans and active military members complimentary general admission (with valid I.D.) Friday, Nov. 11 through Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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The 10 EssentialsThe 10 essentials packing list was designed to ensure that hikers could a) respond positively to an accident or emergency, and b) remain safe if forced to spend one or more nights out. Here they are, along with some specific suggestions.
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April 11, 2011 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Medela Safety Notification
SUBJECT 2: WIC Help Desk Coverage – April 20
SUBJECT 3: REMINDER: WIC Help Desk Meeting – April 22
SUBJECT 4: REMINDER: Crystal Reports Survey
SUBJECT 5: Breast Pump Order
SUBJECT 6: Food Instruments - Void - Redeemed
SUBJECT 7: Fact Sheet: Obesity Among Low-Income Preschool Children
Medela Safety Notification: Medela, Inc. has initiated a safety notification on the power adaptor used with the single-user personal double electric breast pumps that we provide in WIC. When not handled properly, a small percentage of these power adaptors can develop damage in the form of twists, kinks, bends, bulges, or exposed wires in the cord. Medela has had reports of power adaptors being used after the cord has been damaged.
The power adaptor is UL-approved for use with the breast pump and is safe for use if not damaged. There have been no reported injuries related to the power adaptor. Should a power adaptor (or power adaptor cord) show signs of damage, the participant should discontinue use and contact Medela Customer Service for a replacement. If you have additional questions, please contact Medela Customer Service at 888-633-3528 or by email at email@example.com.
WIC Help Desk Coverage-April 20: There will be no WIC Help Desk Coverage on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. We are having a meeting that requires all help desk staff to attend. Although staff will not be available during these hours, feel free to leave a message and all calls will be returned as soon as possible. If you have questions, please contact Melissa Seaver at 800-554-2544 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
REMINDER: WIC Help Desk Meeting-April 22: This is a reminder that there will be no WIC Help Desk coverage on Friday, April 22, 2011, from 8:15 am to 10:15 am. Although staff will not be available during these hours, feel free to leave a message and all calls will be returned as soon as possible. The purpose of the help desk meetings is to review processes and procedures in order to provide the highest quality customer service to local agencies and WIC participants. If you have questions, please contact the Melissa Seaver at 800-554-2544 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
REMINDER: Crystal Reports Survey: The state office is gathering information about problems staff may have encountered when attempting to access Crystal Reports. We are requesting LWP assistance in completing the nine question survey. When answering this survey please be as specific as possible with your responses. The survey will be closed at the end of the business day on April 15, 2011. If there are any questions about completing the survey, please contact Michelle Nienhuis by phone at 800-392-8209 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you for your assistance.
Breast Pump Order: Medela will begin shipping the requested breast pumps the week of May 2nd, 2011. Please remember that the following procedure must be followed in order to verify receipt of shipment for payment and to send the required WIC tags.
- Immediately upon receipt of shipment, please locate the packing slip and verify that your agency received the products and quantities stated.
- Sign the packing slip to verify the order is correct.
- Fax the signed packing slip to Laura Weiler at the state WIC office at 573-526-1470. WIC tags will be mailed upon receipt of your packing slip.
- If your agency did not receive what was stated on the packing slip, please contact the state WIC office immediately.
If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Mertzlufft at firstname.lastname@example.com or by telephone at 573-526-4792.
Food Instruments - Void – Redeemed: Missouri WIC received a finding from the State Auditor for WIC checks that are voided in MOWINS and later redeemed. Why are checks voided and later cashed? These reports will assist us in identifying the reasons for voided checks being cashed and preventing future occurrences.
Food Instruments (FI) that have been keyed as void in MOWINS should never be given to the participant.
New reports have been written and posted to Crystal Reports to assist agencies in identifying FI's that have been keyed as void and later redeemed (refer to "Changes to Crystal" below). LWP's must research each FI on the new report and document as much detailed information as possible about why the FI was keyed as void and why it was given to the participant. Documentation must be done in two ways: (1) As a general note in each participant folder in MOWINS. (2) Submit documentation to your Technical Assistance (TA) staff. In the documentation to your TA staff, you must also state how your agency will assure that this does not happen in the future. Refer to the WIC Operations Manual (WOM) Administration Volume: Food Instrument Accountability section.
Changes to Crystal:
- A new folder has been created under WIC Reports – Local Agency. The folder is called Food Instrument (FI) Reconciliation.
- Under the new folder mentioned in 1 above, are two new folders:
- Void/Lost/Stolen FI's – Redeemed. This folder contains a new report that shows all FI's for the last three full months that were keyed as void, lost, or stolen and later redeemed. There is a version that can be viewed in Crystal format and there is a version that can be exported to Excel.
- Void/Lost/Stolen FI's – Redeemed and Not Redeemed. This folder contains four reports that were previously posted under the Clinic Management folder. The reports in this folder show all FI's for the last three full months that were keyed as void, lost, or stolen – and shows if they were redeemed or not.
Instructions on using Crystal Reports can be found on the WICLWP website. These instructions also explain how to export to Excel.
If you have trouble running any report in Crystal, please contact the WIC Help Desk at 800-554-2544.
For assistance in using and interpreting the reports on Crystal, please contact your TA team.
Fact Sheet: Obesity Among Low-Income Preschool Children: The State WIC office received correspondence from the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, with a fact sheet about obesity among low income preschool children. We know you all work with combating obesity and thought you might find this fact sheet of interest. If you have any questions, please contact your District Nutritionist. (TWO ATTACHMENTS)
PedNSS Fact Sheet
CDC Obesity Fact Sheet Correspondence


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The Office of Performance Improvement (OPI) strives to ensure effective execution and delivery of the 10 Essential Public Health Services within and across the Maricopa County Department of Public Health.
Adopted: Fall 1994, Source: Public Health Functions Steering Committee, Members (July 1995)
An optimally efficient and effective Maricopa County public health system.
To develop a more efficient and effective public health department through quality improvement, evidence-based practices, partnership development, and accreditation resulting in sustainable performance improvement.
Office of Performance Improvement
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Student Media
Potter on Japan tragedy
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Cracks in the ground caused by the 2011 Sendai earthquake.
The 8.9-magnitude earthquake March 11 off the coast of Japan, and resulting 33-foot tsunami, has implications for the St. Cloud State University community.
"As we witness the devastation left in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the Pacific we are once again reminded of how interconnected our world has become," said President Earl H. Potter III.
"We began the day seeking information about students, faculty and staff who may be studying, interning, volunteering or traveling in Japan or any other affected part of the world. We confirmed the safety of our four students currently studying in Japan," Potter said.
"Some of our 16 international students from various regions of Japan have had some difficulties reaching loved ones, and we continue to stand with those who have not learned about their families' well being."
"Thank you to the many faculty and staff who have conveyed their care and concern for those in our campus community who have friends or family in Japan and other hard-hit regions."
"We join in offering sympathy and support for all who are affected by these tragic circumstances," said Potter.
University Communications
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Become One with the Cold
Trail running just gets good with the plummeting temps and slippery slush
Photo by Michael DeYoung
When the mercury shrinks and snow piles up, you don't have to exchange your beloved trail shoes for clunky skis or snowshoes. Look at winter as an opportunity to experience our sport in a completely fresh way. And be comfortable and have fun doing it.
Fresh Tracks
If you live in snow country, winter may shut down your favorite backcountry trails to running, but opens a reason to rethink your definition of a quality "trail." Those closer-to-town, heavily trafficked summer trails, for example, take on an altogether new personality, when fair-weather trail users flock to the coffee shops. Look for hiker-packed trails, which can offer a dreamy, cushioned running surface, one that may even seem easier to run than in the summer as the rocks and rough spots get filled in.
"I find running in winter a great time to rediscover why we do what we do—it's all about play," says Barry Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a long-time East Coast trail runner and racer. "The trails might be icy, muddy or covered in snow—sometimes it's all of the above in a single run—and thoughts of speed and mileage give way to the joy of exploring whatever's ahead."


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If you're going to The Bamboozle this weekend, stop by the Fueled By Ramen tent to pick up a copy of our 15th Anniversary Book & DVD along with an FBR t-shirt for only $32!
We'll have a very limited quantity of books available so stop by Friday through Sunday to get a great deal on our amazing 100-page hardcover book featuring Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Cobra Starship, Panic! At The Disco, Fun., Gym Class Heroes, Cute Is What We Aim For and many more!


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If you are unable to find employment after using our core services, you may be eligible for other intensive services including job training. See Job Seeker Services and Career Resources to learn more.
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Gown: Hibiscus
Date of wedding: December 30, 2011
Photographer: Darren Yeow (Valerie's brother)
Hot tip: Be organized with every detail in advance, this will take away the stress the week of the wedding (and on the day) because you know you have done all you can. Remember that no matter how organized you are there will always be something that doesn't go to plan (big or small) but just take it in your stride because there is no point letting it ruin your day. If you and your soul mate are married at the end of the night then your wedding day was perfect.
What they loved: How many people complimented me on how original and stunning the dress was. I also liked how forgiving the material was so I didn't need someone with me when I used the toilet! Haha.
Husband: Aaron


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Crimes and Misdemeanors opens
When Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors opened in the fall of 1989, it was not exactly the film he'd originally intended to make. Allen would often reshuffle a movie in the editing room to find the story, thus requiring him to go back for reshoots. But with Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen went much further than usual. Allen had joked that the impulse for this drama of moral ambiguity sprang from "being too nice" to the characters in his 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters. In his review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby picked up on the connection between the two films when he wrote that "Crimes and Misdemeanors… recalls Hannah in that it has the richness and breadth of a novel, told with the concision of a densely packed short story. Like Hannah, it's about families, though about brothers rather than sisters." Indeed, at one time the film had the title Brothers, as the double-layered tale (one involving a murder, the other the meaning of life) was plotted around two pairs of brothers. In the first story, Dr. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a dentist, who gets his brother Jack (Jerry Orbach) to help find a contact killer to murder an ex-mistress (Anjelica Huston) who has threatened to go public with their affair.. The other story revolves around Cliff Stern (Woody Allen), a documentary filmmaker in need of work, who is employed by his brother-in-law Lester (Alan Alda), a TV producer whose work Stern abhors. (Lester is reportedly based on Larry Gelbart, with whom both Allen and Alda had worked.) In Allen's fashion, the rambling plots and subplots once in the editing room had to be reworked, and the cast and crew were called back for 10 days of reshoots. Sean Young, who'd already been replaced in Batman that year, found her role completely cut out. Alda, on the other hand, found his part expanded. In the end, the tinkering worked. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and became Allen's highest grossing film (after Hannah) of the 1980s. For Allen, however, such success is never easy. He later claimed, "When I put out a film that enjoys any acceptance that isn't the most mild or grudging, I immediately become suspicious of it. A certain amount of positive response makes me feel comfortable and proud. Then beyond that, I start to feel convinced that a work of any real finesse and subtlety and depth couldn't be as popular as it is."


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Withdrawing Help Will Only Cause Chaos
To the Readers' Forum:
The government should not cut programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security for there would be disastrous results, worse poverty, worse crime and worse unhappiness.
The baby boomers are numerous, but they have contributed to the building of the economy. they have worked hard and have raised families. In their old age, they need help. They don't deserve to be shoved under the bus. The younger people should be grateful to those who brought them up.
The rich should not horde their assets to the point that they become niggardly and selfish. Someday, they too will be old and reaching out for help.
If we help the poor, they can often rise and become consumers of services and products. This will aid the economy. Nothing but chaos will occur if we deny services and products to them, the elderly and disabled. Certain Christian morals apply, whether the politicians are Christian by denomination. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, etc. are principles that warm the hearts of the givers.
Society will change again when the old folks pass away and the smaller population moves ahead. Many things will happen to the economy. But withdrawing help from those who need it will never do anything but create chaos.
Patricia E. Moniot


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Yak Horn on Black Stand
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Polished by hand and set on a wood block base, a natural horn shows the beauty of its tapered, curving form and lustrous, layered shading.
- Natural yak horn, polished by hand.
- Set on a museum stand of black-painted wood.
- Like all products of nature, each is unique.
- Approx. 2 1/3" diam., 27" high.
- Made in China.
- Shipping
Shipping Information
UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 4-5 business days.
Shipping Rates
The shipping rate varies depending on your order total and shipping destination. View Shipping Options and Charges.
Next Day Delivery
For an additional charge of $17.50 per address, we can expedite delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Orders received by 9:00 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
Return Policy
At Williams-Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners, and knife storage) please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
We cannot accept returns on monogrammed, personalized, special-order items, custom upholstery, food, items shipped direct from the vendor, or on items damaged through normal wear and tear. Final sale items ending in .97 or .99 cannot be returned.
Made to Order and Final Sale Furniture items are non-returnable, and cannot be cancelled once the order is placed.
For returns of items purchased from your Williams-Sonoma Gift Registry, we will gladly provide a refund or exchange for the merchandise within 90 days of your event or within 90 days of purchase, whichever date is later. View Full Return Policy.


text: Donald J Pliner brings you the Dacio2, an exquisite update to the original eye-catching loafer. ; Leather, suede or patent upper. ; Slip-on construction. ; Contrast stitching. ; Polished metal bit enhances the vamp. ; Leather lining and insole. ; Brand-stamped leather sole. ; Made in Italy. Measurements: ; Weight: 12 oz ; Product measurements were taken using size 11, width M. measurements may vary by size.


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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: $15.00 (50% off)
very excellent product with good price
Posted by Reviewer1896974 on Apr 16, 2010
my parents said they have felt better energy, and less fatigue, also, their grey hair have turned into black again.
delicate potency - maybe too delicate..
Posted by PracticalReviews on Oct 26, 2013
although i admire this company and uses literally dozens of its products this product is too weak for my body and i can't really feel its effect,there are other cordyceps products that i do feel them working on my body in the same dosages i take this product so i tend to prefer them in this case,but it may be beneficial to other people with lower tolerance to Cordyceps because its clean from addities like most companies do add.in the positive side may i add that every time i take cordyceps i have an after taste of it half an hour after,this one didn't give me this taste and thats nice ...you are welcome to rate & read my other reviews
Quality may vary
Posted by Reviewer1608328 on Feb 04, 2011
I love this mushroom. I am a competitive athlete and it does wonders for workouts. My breathing is much easier and endurance is much improved. I have bought this product twice a number of bottles at a time , and have to say have not experienced the benefits I did last batch. My workouts have not changed so although difficult to monitor I wonder about consistency. have to add though I have not had a cold or flu in 14 months which is unusual for me
energy booster
Posted by marianF on Jul 20, 2014
I was looking for a pre-workout supplement, sth against physical fatigue and read that adaptogenic herbs can be very helpful.Among the many in this category, I opted for the cordyceps mushrooms, based on the positive feedback from others and, as for most of my supplements, I went for this brand due to the lack of filers.I have been taking it for a month, just one cap a day and although it took me about a week to notice any effect, I now feel a slight improvement in energy stamina, especially when I take it 30 to 40 min. before working out.What I also noticed is that when I come back from a tough workout, I no longer feel the need to lie down for a while, but instead, I can keep going.Will certainly oder some more.
Posted by 5185642671562923377 on Dec 15, 2013
Good products & good price too.
Tiny capsules, great!
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Don't yet know if it works as intended, time will tell.
Tibetan cordyceps
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Just started to take them.
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Christina Aguilera's Costume Change
So we just heard from Christina Aguilera that she has replaced the fox-fur stole she wears on stage with a faux-fur version after receiving a letter from PETA. Apparently, she had specifically asked her tour's costume designer, Roberto Cavalli, to only use fake fur, but in a press release to Women's Wear Daily, Cavalli bragged that he had sent her a stole made from real, dead white foxes.
It may be that Roberto Cavalli was still sulking after PETA members disrupted his Milan fashion show this fall and decided to take it out on some foxes, but we're very grateful to Christina for doing the right thing from the start: After PETA VP Dan Mathews emailed Aguilera the Cavalli item and a link to Stella McCartney's video exposé showing how foxes are anally electrocuted for their fur, he got an immediate response saying that Christina is "very upset" because she "only ever wears fake fur." The fox stole has already been replaced with a faux-fur version, and the tour is continuing in Europe 100 percent fox-free. Thank you, Christina!
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Ahazzooou com a roupaa Chriiis! The Best!
I'm glad she did that! i just wish Beyonce and JLO could do the same thing..
i think its great that christina isnt using real fur and mabey that onther dude will learn one day what he is doing to those poor foxes
this move is important celebs should continue encouraging the antifur movement. hands up to mariah carey christina aguilera and stella mcartney for being real and losing their heads in hollywoods messed up influentially corrupt retarded world.oh and i hope britneymaddonajennifer beyonce the olsen twinsnaomi campbell get skinned just like those poor animals
did christina actually wear real foz fur? i am like her best fan shes gorgeous and i love animals if that is real fur i h8 her!! plz be fake


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Request for a gig slot for THE IRRISISTIBLE URGES at a benefit for Forest in December
Hello Chris
I saw Nix tonight at the Forest and he said to email you. He said he thought there was
a benefit Sat 11 Dec or (maybe Fri 10th Dec) and that there was a slot for a band still available.
Is it possible for the iUrges to play that night? If so that would be great.
Let me know and I would confirm with the others asap and then reconfirm with you or anyone else at Forest as need be.
We did a cool gig during August and my other projects over the years have played there as well and it would
fine to return to the roots of the forest.
Peace and love
Miguel of THE IRRESISTIBLE URGES


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The WishList Cometh (with good possibility of WishList contest as well!!!)
Look for it sometime near the end of next week.
Start thinking of your favorites
For you, we suggest other ways for you to tell others about the teas you would like:
Serving tea to pal to open up dialogue
Notes slipped into purses
Droping the phrase "saet oigada" into daily conversation
Tattoo on forehead (less subtle, but people will remember it)


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Try these healthy dessert ideas when you need a treat!
Yes, you can eat sweets on a diet�just check out these amazing healthy dessert ideas! They come from the more than 200 top dietitians and healthy bloggers we surveyed who contribute to the website HealthyAperture.com.�Whether you just need a quick fix for your sweet tooth or a new recipe to impress at parties, we�ve got you covered with these healthy dessert ideas. RELATED: Healthy Food Face-Off, Dessert Edition 1. �Stewed apples with Greek yogurt. (It tastes like apple pie with cream!)� � Nina Mills, What�s For Eats 2. �Ice cream made from frozen bananas. It has the texture of ice cream, but without all the other stuff. Throw in carob chips and it's perfect!� � Abby Thompson, The Frosted Vegan 3. �Mixed berries with candied ginger, and a little scoop of ice cream made from coconut milk.� � Alison McCarthy, Pure Provender 4. �Greek yogurt mixed with fruit, nuts and chocolate chips frozen in ice cube trays.� �Lindsay Livingston, The Lean Green Bean 5. �My favorite Vegan Thumbprint Cookies.� � Kelly Egan, Running Blonde� 6. �Chocolate and peanut butter soft-serve �ice cream� made from frozen bananas, cocoa powder and peanut butter.� � Alyssa Rimmer, Queen of Quinoa 7. �Grapefruit sprinkled with a little brown sugar and broiled.� � Meme Inge, Living Well Kitchen 8. �Angel food cake with lots of berries.� � Lindsay Seal, Life and Kitchen RELATED:�A Month of Healthy Dessert Recipes 9. �Key lime pie � I make it using limes, sugar-free jello, 0% Greek yogurt and light Cool Whip.� � Andrea Syswerda, Delicious By Dre 10. �Oatmeal Banana Coconut Cookies.� �� Anne Mauney, MPH, RD, fANNEtastic food 11. �Medjool dates...they are like candy to me.� � Rachel Begun, MS, RD, The Gluten-Free RD 12. �Baked Crepes with Fruit and Cream.� � Shelby Kinnaird, Diabetic Foodie 13. �Baked apple with cinnamon.� � Alysa Bajenaru, RD, Inspired RD 14. "Protein pudding made with Greek yogurt, peanut flour, cocoa flour and topped with some nut butter.� � Theresa Flanagan, A Spoonful of Sunshine 15. �Chocolate-dipped frozen banana bites sprinkled with toasted almonds or dried fruit.� � Anjo Angela Lim, Munchcraft 16. �Skinny Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Cups, made with Greek yogurt.��� Kristen Smith, RD, 360 Family Nutrition 17. �Grilled fruit with coconut whipped cream.� � Alyssa Brantley, Everyday Maven 18. �Steamed almond milk, Dandy Blend [coffee substitute], raw cacao powder and a few drops of vanilla stevia.� � Amanda Maguire, Pickles & Honey 19. �Greek yogurt mixed with peaches and topped with crumbled graham crackers and a touch of honey.� � Elizabeth Patton, MS, RD, LD, CDE, Good Food Tastes Good 20. �Chocolate Pumpkin Mug Cakes.� � Emma Frandsen, Barefoot Baker 21. �A couple of squares of dark chocolate and a dried fig.� � Leah, Voracious Vander Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Nota: The first four subsections are extracted from the book [25]: 3D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach, by Z. Zhang & O. Faugeras (Springer Berlin 1992).
Kalman filtering, as pointed out by Lowe [12], is likely to have applications throughout Computer Vision as a general method for integrating noisy measurements.
The behavior of a dynamic system can be described by the evolution of a set of variables, called state variables. In practice, the individual state variables of a dynamic system cannot be determined exactly by direct measurements; instead, we usually find that the measurements that we make are functions of the state variables and that these measurements are corrupted by random noise. The system itself may also be subjected to random disturbances. It is then required to estimate the state variables from the noisy observations.
If we denote the state vector by and denote the measurement vector by , a dynamic system (in discrete-time form) can be described by
where is the vector of random disturbance of the dynamic system and is usually modeled as white noise:
In practice, the system noise covariance is usually determined on the basis of experience and intuition (i.e., it is guessed). In (18), the vector is called the measurement vector. In practice, the measurements that can be made contain random errors. We assume the measurement system is disturbed by additive white noise, i.e., the real observed measurement is expressed as
The measurement noise covariance is either provided by some signal processing algorithm or guessed in the same manner as the system noise. In general, these noise levels are determined independently. We assume then there is no correlation between the noise process of the system and that of the observation, that is