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(December 15, 2010) From Connecticut to California, Shannon Hogan has lived in towns big and small across the United States. But joining Fox Sports Detroit – and returning to Northville – means coming home for Hogan, the newest member of the cable sports channel's reporting team.
"Wherever I've been, I think of Northville, of my home," Hogan said. "That's where my family is."
By that, she means her mother, Donna, father, Joe, and younger brother, Joey.
"They're my best friends, my biggest fans."
Northville is also the place where she earned All-American and state championship honors as a high school swimmer specializing in the 50- and 100- meter freestyle.
"She was a really fierce competitor and a good leader," Northville High Athletic Director Bryan Masi said. "Her era here was a real high point for girls swimming."
For Hogan, the memories are still fresh.
"The thing I remember most is that we built a program at Northville High," Hogan said. "In the beginning, it was just a few girls up against (Ann Arbor) Pioneer and (Farmington Hills) Mercy," she said in reference to the two longtime swim powerhouses. "But we showed them what we could do."
Now, she'll have the chance to show a big city audience what she can do.
The chance to come home, especially this early in her broadcasting career, thrills the 25-year-old to no end.
"To work for a great network, to work in one of the best sports cities in America and to come home, it's really the best of all possible worlds," Hogan said.
Donna Hogan said the family is "over the moon" about Shannon's return.
"When your daughter is a collegiate swimmer like Shannon was, you don't get to see her much so this is really a big thrill, not just for us but for all her friends," Donna Hogan said.
Due to her father's career demands, Hogan's family moved several times when she was young. She was born in Syracuse, NY, and lived in suburban Connecticut, Atlanta and Tulsa, OK, before settling in Northville.
Hogan began her Fox Sports duties on Dec. 1 and has already been a rink-side reporter during college hockey broadcasts. That included Saturday's "Big Chill at the Big House," the record-setting outdoor hockey match between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University at Michigan Stadium.
She'll also be seen on Tigers Weekly and Wingspan, FSD's magazine shows about the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings.
"I think Shannon will be a wonderful storyteller for us," FSD Executive Producer John Tuohey said. "She has a terrific reporting sense and a very good camera presence."
Being familiar with the state's sporting scene doesn't hurt, either.
"We're a sports cable channel for people in Michigan presented by people from Michigan and she certainly fits in with that," he said.
Despite her swimming background, Hogan said she's always been a closet hockey fan – literally.
Her replica jersey of Red Wings great Brendan Shanahan remained in the closet during her recent stint with television stations in Salinas, CA."It's not the kind of thing you could wear out there," she admitted.
If her stint in northern California left her a little homesick, it also provided for some memorable encounters, especially for a one-woman broadcast team. There was the time she "stalked" Super Bowl champion Tom Brady during his round at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which traditionally kicks off the professional golf season.
"I wanted to get an interview with him so badly," Hogan said of the former U-M star.
Sensing an opportunity, she spotted Brady's father in the crowd. She introduced herself and accompanied Papa Brady as he offered hole-by-hole help to his famous son.
Finally, the big moment arrived.
"He was surrounded by media but he wanted to talk to me," Hogan recalled. "He said, 'She's been stalking me for nine holes, it's the least I can do.' "
An academic All-American and broadcast journalism major at the University of Missouri and captain and MVP of the university women's swim team, Hogan isn't usually star struck by fellow athletes.
With Hollywood types, it can be a little different.
Leading man Josh Duhamel – husband of pop star Fergie – also holds a place in Hogan's memory bank.
"Though we'd just met, and there were other reporters around, I remember him asking 'Where's my girl Shannon?' Flattered but undaunted, she got the interview – and an unexpected hug.
Engaging yet determined, Hogan said she caught the broadcasting bug early on. When I was just little, I told my parents that I'd be Katie Couric," she said.
Her first big break came when the Fox Sports affiliate in Dallas was looking for someone to cover women's swimming for a show spotlighting the Big 12 Conference.
"I got the job and I'd swim, dry off, do my reporting then hop back in the pool again," Hogan said.
After graduation, Hogan covered sports and hard news for CBS and Fox affiliates in Salinas, CA, a city of roughly 145,000.
With 14 murders and one violent crime for roughly every 800 people in 2007 alone, according to U.S. Department of Justice figures, there was plenty of hard news to cover.
The wildest story, she said, came this fall while covering the San Francisco Giants first World Series victory.
"It was crazy, electric," Hogan said of the scene outside the AT&T Park. "We didn't have (World Series) credentials. So we had to be creative. I called some kayakers over for interviews and even had a guy offer to take me around McCovey Cove (a part of San Francisco Bay abutting the ballpark) by boat."
Back home in Northville, she's looking forward to quieter times.
She said old friends will probably be able to spot her at Joseph's Coney Island, especially after Sunday Mass.
"That's the place where my family always hangs out," she said. "I feel really blessed to be able to do that once again."
A Christmastime reunion is in the works, as her brother will be returning from his new job in China.
"It's going to be great having both of our children together for the holidays," Donna Hogan said.
If a World Series repeat is in the cards, so much the better.
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Peer Gynt Incidental Music
For listeners who know or think they know, here is some background information regarding Edvard Grieg's famous and immensely popular composition, Peer Gynt :
Henrick Ibsen, the author of the dramatic stage work, Peer Gynt decided after introduction, that it would be significantly improved by the addition of incidental, or accompanying music. Within two years, Grieg's outstanding composition, Peer Gynt (Complete Incidental Music) was introduced and was an instant success; extremely popular not only with the general public but also with nearly all critics. Eventually a few well known critics spoke out negatively simply because the music bore little resemblance to the dramatic story written by Ibsen. The music written for and attached to Peer Gynt took on a life of its own. It has long been one of my all-time top ten favorite classical music compositions. Please forgive me if over time those counting reach a total a few more than ten. My initial attraction for Peer Gynt was created by the still regarded as an outstanding release with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. I had heard other recordings previous to that though all had been of the suite from Peer Gynt. The suite contains only four selections starting with the seemingly logical "Morning Mood" and ending appropriately I thought, with the rhythmically powerful "In the Hall of the Mountain King". Relatively modern sounding it just might be a miniature forerunner of more extensive similar projects such as "Bolero," In the theater productions, it begins with closed curtains and builds to an unexpected climax by using the voices of the trolls (you did not know about them, did you?) to add a great conclusion. In the theater productions, remember it is a dramatic play with incidental music added, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is performed long before the end. The play's climax or ending is the subtly beautiful "Solveig's Lullaby", sometimes referred to as "Solveig's Cradle Song". As many have realized from my short comments, the action on stage and what and when musical actions or selections occur, coincide seldom or perhaps incidentally.
Logically, my first recordings of Peer Gynt were of his immensely popular first Suite, with four selections. A few years later Grieg put together a second Suite, again with four selections. Grieg's popularity continued to grow and many conductors added their own favorite selections to the Suites. Back in the LP's golden age, Grieg's Peer Gynt was typically available as half of one side (Suite No. 1), all of one side (Suite No. 2 added to No. 1) or both sides of an LP with a conductor's added choices as well as both Suites. A couple of rare instances found two LPs with music from Peer Gynt filling four sides. I also remember a release with the hugely popular Eileen Farrell's rich soprano voice added on some of the songs from Peer Gynt. Topping it all off, at least for me, was the sometimes legendary conductor Sir Thomas Beecham's unique addition on a only a few selections of a solo voice, a male chorus or mixed chorus as he deemed appropriate—and I agreed fully with his choices.
Grieg, Peer Gynt Suites. Six Orchestral songs. Orchestra: Malmo Symphony. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset. Naxos CD 8.570236
Here is the typical Grieg release featuring his famous two suites from Peer Gynt and with no vocals included. The two suites were composed quite a few years apart. The performance by the fine Malmo Symphony Orchestra and conductor Engeset are simply quite good with no obvious failings. The sound quality is very good as is becoming more and more common (finally) with many new releases by many recording labels including Naxos. I could easily use the term "surprising for Naxos" simply because of the extremely large number of recording venues, orchestras and obviously audio/recording engineers involved. The audio quality is detailed without any exaggerations. The track for "Morning (or Morning Mood)" is beautifully atmospheric and the absolutely gorgeous melodic passages in Anitra's Dance are fully satisfying with the repeated pizzicato accents from the strings. In the nit-picking department (of the very small nit variety) in the climactic higher frequency massed passages in "the Hall of the Mountain King" there appears to be a small amount of metallic-sounding compression or smear and probably due to inherent limitations of the recording microphones. Careful listening is necessary to spot it and some CD players or loudspeaker tweeters may exaggerate it; so beware.
In addition to the two Suites this bargain release offers more than a half hour of poems and songs sung by soprano Inger Dam-Jensen and baritone Palle Knudsen. Nothing amiss here to my vocal tastes though comparisons could be easily made with the two songs from Peer Gynt done here, versus the same two from the other following review.
Grieg, Peer Gynt (Complete Incidental Music ). Soloists and Malmo Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Malmo Symphony. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 2 CDS 8.570871-72
For listeners who want more, here it is and them some! It will take a great deal of getting used to. Most listeners are used to hearing "Morning or Morning Mood" to begin Peer Gynt. Not here; it follows much later and is part of the dramatic play. In addition to the songs being sung either by a vocalist or chorus, there is also the spoken word or words. Right there in the ending or climax of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" you will hear spoken voices and you will really be shocked if you are even just vaguely familiar with this music.
The recommended thing you interested listeners can do is to buy both of these value priced Naxos releases. Actually you may then become utterly fascinated. It will not cost you much with Naxos' low prices. It may allow you to solve or partially solve a bit of a musical performance mystery. If you obtain both these Naxos releases and just skim over the recording locations, dates and so on, you just might conclude that there may be some sharing of recorded tracks between the Suites' selections and some of the Complete recordings—or is there? I am not going to mention my thoughts and I have not, at least not yet, requested answers from Naxos. Those of you that are intellectually stimulated by seeming mysteries or unexplained coincidences are encouraged to email me or Editor Dave Clark with your thoughts.
This fine and very interesting release, for the most part seems to offer a very slight overall relaxed feeling and atmosphere; almost as if there was some microphone changes or very slight positioning changes, as being a bit more distant than with the Suites. It also applies to the pair of female solos shared by both releases. Audio quality is solidly very good as are the performances. That leaves unique and rarity with more than two hours of fine music, as low cost extra reasons to buy this, if not these, releases. Admittedly as time passes, different and unique appeal to me more readily they did some years ago while I am still being true to old proven favorites.

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Cet Group, University of Georgia, United States ; Jose Aires Castro Filho, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil ; Tel Amiel, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil ; Rich West, Utah State University, United States ; Sergio Amaral, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
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Mount Jefferson Climber's Log
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|SW ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2016
|I came in from the forest road just north of Pamelia to avoid the permit nonsense -- it may even be faster, and there is almost no bushwhacking. The climbers' trail is easy to miss, but pretty decent. The snow traverse is legit. Trip report.
|Posted Aug 2, 2016 6:01 pm
|Jeff Park Glacier
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2016
|A surprisingly aesthetic, challenging and varied route on a volcano. No others on the route, a difficult looking but surprisingly easy bergschrund, a no kidding knife edge ridge, and steep snice to finish. Early season critical for conditions.
|Posted Jul 6, 2016 11:38 am
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2016
|This was my second attempt on Mt. Jefferson this year and it was very memorable. We were treated to hurricane force winds on the first night at our 7800 ft. camp along with 6 inches of snow. The next day we moved up to 8900 ft. and waited out the weather. Joel did a great job leading the technical sections and the traverse turned out to be the easiest section. The slope steepened as we made our way around to the North Ridge then encountered a short section of nearly vertical ice and a 5th class move to gain the summit ridge. This pushed both of us right up to our technical and physical limits. On our way down, we encountered three rope teams from the Colorado Mountaineering School. We were on the summit at 9:30 am and I was fortunate to make it back to see Flight of the Conchords live in Portland at 8 pm. Truly a magical day!
|Posted Jun 27, 2016 1:45 am
|Josh Lewis
|From the South
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2015
|After crossing the snowfield beyond the red saddle, traverse as far as you reasonably can onto the north side. From there traverse westward as you go up towards the summit. Eventually you will end up on the right side of the summit. Go through the gully which will take you to the top.
This method will help bypass any class 4 stuff. My route is class 3 and is the easiest way to the summit. And I mean easy class 3. :-) Mostly solid rock too which was a pleasant surprise.
|Posted May 24, 2016 2:51 pm
|Mount Jefferson
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2015
|Awesome climb with Jobe Wymore. Very straight forward hike up to the Red Saddle and then not so much. By far the sketchiest part of the entire hike is getting across the snowfield to reach the other side of the summit pinnacle. The scramble up to the top wasn't too bad although there were a couple sections of class 4 climbing.
|Posted Sep 16, 2015 12:17 am
|SW ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2015
|The snow traverse was short, but still sketchy. At 11:30 on a reasonable warm day (in August!) the snow was just softening a little. I was very grateful I was on belay when I fell there. The team descending as we ascended hadn't gone far enough north to find the class 4 route. Go almost all the way to the north side before turning up or you'll be stuck. Descending the ridge that ends at Pamelia was almost as bad as I remembered. Next time I'd go the extra distance by going by Shale Lake hoping for a better route.
|Posted Sep 1, 2015 3:26 pm
|Mike Lewis
|S Ridge not much water
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2015
|Very dry trip. We had to ration water carefully. Pamelia Lake looked nearly gone as did Shale Lake. Like Craig said, the traverse was serious business but the scramble turned out easy. Neat climb and glad I went.
|Posted Jul 20, 2015 9:13 am
|Great climb!
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2015
|With Josh & Michael. Don't be fooled... there *is* an easy Class 3 climb of the summit block. It is not immediately obvious but it is there. The sketchiest part of the whole journey was the traverse after the Red Saddle. We were able to make some use of the moat, with two pitches using a 60m rope. Fantastic weather and views. I dedicated this climb to my recently deceased peakbagging buddy, Edward Earl.
|Posted Jul 20, 2015 8:57 am
|JPG solo
Date Climbed: May 14, 2015
|white out and thick cloud the entire time past 8200. Took me bloody 13.5 hrs from Whitewater trail head. Did climb from car to car.
|Posted May 16, 2015 1:18 pm
|Southwest attempt
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2014
|Traverse melted out for Fruitstripe. Sketchy
|Posted Feb 11, 2015 5:26 pm
|Turn around at Red Saddle
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2014
|We left camp at 4:30am from the east end of Jefferson Park. We headed up a gully that was used by one in the party on a previous attempt. However, the snow petered out leaving us in a dangerous position on steep, loose dirt from a terminal moraine deposited long ago. By the time we made the traverse of Whitewater and worked up ugly scree to Red Saddle, we had reached our turn-around time of 12:00pm. Although it was a slightly below average snowfall year and a warmer than usual summer, a large section of the traverse was still in snow this late in the season. The first half of the snow field could be bypassed by a mote, but not the second half. Although the weather was perfect, we reluctantly turned back. Next time, we'll set a higher camp and get an earlier start.
|Posted Nov 2, 2014 10:30 pm
|Nick Turtura
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2014
|This was my fourth try on my nemesis, Mount Jefferson. We left the Pamelia Lake TH at midnight on the nose. Approached through Shale lake and went up the South Ridge. We made the Red Saddle at 6:30 just after the sun rose. The traverse was short, 200', and solid. In fact I probably could have placed screws in a couple of spots. However I only brought pickets. Placed 3 pickets and traversed with ease. After some confusing route finding we scrambled an easy class 4 summit block to the top. Had a rope so we rapped down. No need to protect the climb. back across the traverse and at the saddle by 10:00am. Returned the way we came.
23.5 Miles
7100' Elevation gain
16 Hours
Perfect day
|Posted Sep 9, 2014 11:25 pm
|Brian Kalet
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2014
|Led the snow traverse in trail runners
|Posted Aug 25, 2014 1:48 pm
|Nick Turtura
|Bummer X2
Date Climbed: May 25, 2014
|Went Jeff Park this time. Saw a bunch of rime on the razor ridge so we traversed White Water then up to the Red Saddle. The traverse under the pinnacle wasn't bad, then headed over to the summit block to find some nasty rime so we turned around 150' from the top. Now I'm just getting pissed, I'll be back in a couple of weeks for try 3! Who knew Jeff takes 21000' of climbing to summit!
|Posted May 28, 2014 12:14 am
|winter solo
Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2014
|via Jeff Park Glacier, 5.5 hours camp-camp at base of glacier, descended North Milk Crk gully and traversed mod snow to top of Russell Glacier... excellent route, highly recommended
|Posted May 22, 2014 2:55 pm
|Mt Jefferson , South Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2013
|We climbed Mt. Jefferson from Coyote Lake, first time up this mountain but not my first try. We got rained out last year. The weather was perfect this time. We carried 2 ropes and a bit of gear. Protecting on the traverse was our main concern and my 70 Meter rope was long enough to cover it. One snow patch left to cross but it was very short. Main problem was loose and damp ground. Only one catch your breath when a large rock came loose on one of us and banged his shin pretty good.
|Posted Sep 15, 2013 11:34 pm
|Nick Turtura
Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2013
|Left the Pamelia Lake TH at 1:00am and arrived at the red saddle around 10:00am. It looked terrible, steep and melted out. We geared up anyways and headed down to the edge of the snow field. We lead out, on a horrific anchor, about half way. Then looking across the way all I could see was my three kids saying, "don't be a dork dad!" So we turned around 200 feet short. I hate posting failed attempts but it might help the next climber, so in short, it was a bad snow year and what little snow that was there was rotten. Thus, I'll be back in spring. BTW 15hrs, 7500 feet, a bear at 2:00am, and no summit, kinda sucks.
|Posted Aug 25, 2013 12:29 am
|Whitewater Glacier
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2013
|Sure was a long route going around the mountain. http://www.willhiteweb.com/oregon_climbing/mount_jefferson/whitewater_glacier_266.htm
|Posted Jul 9, 2013 4:25 am
|Jeff Park
Date Climbed: May 25, 2013
|With Sierra Mountaineering Group, we climbed the Jefferson Park glacier route with its famous knife-edge ridge crusted with rime ice and snow - it was an exhilirating and fun climb, well worth the effort. We opted not to ascend the final summit pinnacle owing to time, and descended the Russell Glacier which turned out to be a solid plan.
|Posted Jul 7, 2013 7:10 pm
|Dan Winter
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2012
|Fun climb with The MVP and Montana. The snow traverse was melted out and the we were able to skirt below this steep exposed area on the worst rock and scree imaginable. I was happy to have a rope and a few pieces of gear for the last bit. Familiarity with the route from a previous attempt and an early start from Shale lake were instrumental in our success.
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WHEN their children move out most people find themselves in houses with several empty bedrooms. But new research shows they enjoy the extra space and have little interest in moving to more compact homes.
Michael Pascoe: Housing bubble trouble for the middle class
The study of people aged 55 and over finds the ''vast majority'' live as singles or couples in owner-occupied houses and want to stay there as long as they can with professional care services coming into their homes to deal with medical and other issues.
According to the Canadian Occupancy Standard - the government-preferred measure of the appropriateness of housing related to household size and composition - 88 per cent of these three or more bedroom houses are ''grossly under-occupied and hence under-utilised''.
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Moving into their children's homes was distinctly unappealing - fewer than one in five said they would even consider it.
Ian Winter, the chief executive of the Australia Housing and Urban Research Institute, which has published the study, said clearly the baby boomer generation ''do not want to live with kids''.
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If they lived according to the Canadian standard, single adults would be content with a one-bedroom home while a childless couple would have a two-bedroom home.
But Australians believe their three- and four-bedroom houses are the right size as they can have rooms for hobbies, for exercise and for study and space for grandchildren and other visitors to stay a week or two.
They like their garages, too, and enjoy gardens and outdoor spaces they can use for entertaining and where grandchildren can play. Only a few worried about maintenance.
Moving into their children's homes was distinctly unappealing - fewer than one in five said they would even consider it ... the baby boomer generation do not want to live with kids.
Some told the researchers who surveyed 1604 older home owners that retirement was a time for a bigger house, not a smaller one.
Mr Winter said the findings had many implications for policy makers who are trying to encourage construction of more one- and two-bedroom homes but may not find older people rushing to move in.
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According to an autopsy, she was shot twice in the head and her body was cut apart after she was dead.
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Paris, France (ESA) May 04, 2007
COROT has provided its first image of a giant planet orbiting another star and the first bit of 'seismic' information on a far away, Sun-like star- with unexpected accuracy. The unanticipated level of accuracy of this raw data shows that COROT will be able to see rocky planets - perhaps even as small as Earth - and possibly provide an indication of their chemical composition.
COROT, a CNES project with ESA participation, is a mission with a dual goal. It is the first space mission dedicated entirely to the search of extra-solar planets. It provides a wide-field survey of planets like our own at an unprecedented level of accuracy. It is also making the most comprehensive study ever of the interior of stars other than our Sun. Both objectives are achieved by analysing the behaviour of light emitted by a target star.
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The first planet detected by COROT, now named 'COROT-Exo-1b', is a very hot gas giant, with a radius equal to 1.78 times that of Jupiter. It orbits a yellow dwarf star similar to our Sun with a period of about 1.5 days. 'COROT-Exo-1b' is situated roughly 1500 light years from us, in the direction of the constellation Unicorn (Monoceros). Coordinated spectroscopic observations from the ground have also allowed the determination of the mass of the planet, equivalent to about 1.3 Jupiter masses.
The scientific evaluation of the results that are streaming in will take some time. "The data we are presenting today is still raw but exceptional," says Malcolm Fridlund, COROT Project Scientist for ESA. "It shows that the on-board systems are working better than expected in some cases - up to ten times the expectation before launch. This will have an enormous impact on the results of the mission."
All the sources of noise and disturbance have not yet been taken into account in the data. This first exoplanet was detected with an error of only five parts out of 100 000 during one hour of observation. When all the corrections are applied to the light curves, the error will be reduced to only one part out of 100 000.
As a consequence, small planets down to the size of our Earth - three times smaller than initially thought possible - will be in the grasp of COROT. The satellite may also be able, in specific circumstances, to detect subtle variations in the stellar light reflected by the planet itself. This would give an indication of its chemical composition.
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Curious Automatons
WHEN Descartes resided in Holland, with great labour and industry he made a female Automaton—which occasioned some wicked wits to publish that he had an illegitimate daughter, named Franchine—to prove demonstratively that beasts have no souls, and that they are but machines nicely composed, and move whenever another body strikes them, and communicates to them a portion of their motions. Having put this singular machine into a case on board a vessel, the Dutch captain, who sometimes heard it move, had the curiosity to open the box. Astonished to see a little human form extremely animated, yet, when touched, appearing to be nothing but wood; little versed in science, but greatly addicted to superstition, he took the ingenious labour of the philosopher for a little devil, and terminated the experiment of Descartes by throwing his Wooden Daughter into the sea.
To this account of a curious Automaton, composed by a philosopher, I shall add another, of one which was made by the mere ingenuity of a natural genius, and which seems to have displayed even more striking effects. The one was the idol of philosophy, the other of religion. The following description is in Lambard's Perambulations. Kent, p. 227. For an account of Lambard, see Mr. Gough's British Topography.
"A carpenter of our country being a prisoner in France, got together fit matter for his purpose, and compacted of wood, wire, paste, and paper, a Rood of such exquisite art and excellence, that it not only matched in comeliness and due proportion of parts the best of the common sort; but, in strange motion, variety of gesture, and nimbleness of joints, passed all others that before had been seen; the same being able to bow down and lift up itself; to shake and stir the hands and feet; to nod the head, and roll the eyes; to wag the chaps; to bend the brows: and, finally, to represent to the eye both the proper motion of each member of the body, and also a lively and significant shew of a well-contented, or displeased, mind; biting the lip, and gathering a frowning, froward, and disdainful face, when it would pretend offence; and shewing a most mild, amiable, and smiling cheer and countenance, when it would seem to be well pleased.
"This was the Rood of Grace at Boxley, which was by Bishop Fisher exposed at Paul's Cross for a cheat, and broke to pieces."
By similar works, and which have been less happily executed, how many religious frauds have been successfully practised. Mr. Gough notices this piece of religious mummery in his Camden, vol. I. p. 232, in a summary way. These particulars may gratify the curious, who are not antiquarians. Mr. Twiss, in his CHESS, has favoured us with an accurate account of AN AUTOMATON CHESS-PLAYER, vol. I. p. 12.
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Descartes had a daughter named Francine who was no more than five years old when she died of scarlet fever in 1640. The tale of his 'wooden daughter' of the same name is widespread, and generally prefixed by 'legend has it;' but nowhere have I found where this legend is supposed to have originated.


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CitizenGlobal Powers Crowdsourced Video Platform For Law Enforcement
Los Angeles-based crowdsourced video startup CitizenGlobal has launched a new platform for law enforcement, allowing users to submit photos and videos to different police departments. According to the firm, it has been working with LA's Sheriff's Department to allow citizens to submit photos and videos of crimes. The new site, LEEDIR, is aimed at collecting eyewitness photos to help solve crimes and for disaster response, and was first imagined by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The site, however, is aimed at all law enforcement agencies in the US.
Currently, the site features an appeal to eyewitnesses of the recent rioting at Santa Barbara's Deltopia, letting people submit their photos and videos from their phone, Instagram, Facebook, or other social feeds to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. The site says it is aimed at such large scale incidents as the Boston Marathon bombings, or other events where there may have been a huge amount of eyewitness videos and photos that need to be processed.


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Katy Perry talks about losing her virginity, praying for big boobs, Russell Brand, John Mayer, aliens, smoking weed and President Obama in a new GQ cover interview.
The singer says her ample breasts are heaven-sent.
"I lay on my back one night and looked down at my feet, and I prayed to God. I said, 'God, will you please let me have boobs so big that I can't see my feet when I'm lying down?'" recalls Perry.
When she was 11, "God answered my prayers," she tells the magazine, looking down. "I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually."
And Perry's body is completely natural.
"I've never had any plastic surgery," she informs GQ. "Not a nose, not a chin, not a cheek, not a t**. So my messages of self-empowerment are truly coming from an au naturel product."
One natural product Perry has no use for is marijuana.
She says, "The weed — I'm not friends with it. I can't do that stuff. I'd be like in the corner: 'Are you trying to kill me?!'"
Perry believes in extraterrestrials and explains to GQ, "I see everything through a spiritual lens… I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?"
She jokes, "I mean, if my relationship with Obama gets any better, I'm going to ask him that question. It just hasn't been appropriate yet."
How close are she and the President?
"I might have won Wisconsin for him," she says. "Actually, I didn't do too much, but he called on me a couple of times. Which was very nice."
Someone else she had limited contact with was then-husband Russell Brand, who Perry says never once visited her during her massive Teenage Dream tour in 2010.
Things with current boyfriend John Mayer are better.
"I think that I needed to grow up," she tells GQ. "I'm just having a wonderful experience with a wonderful guy. There's no rush."
Perry says that she lost her virginity at 16 in a Volvo while listening to the Jeff Buckley album Grace.
"Love that record so much," she says.
Of course, sex plays a role in many of Perry's performances, including her controversial geisha-inspired "Unconditionally" routine at last November's American Music Awards.
The pop star says that the performance was inspired by her love of Japan, which she calls "the capital of adorableness," and that it fit her theme of "unconditional love."
"Geishas are basically, like, the masters of loving unconditionally," explains Perry, although, as the GQ writer notes, the courtesan-patron relationship is actually fairly conditional.
Following the fury over her performance, including charges that it was racist, Perry claims she was misunderstood.
She says, "All I was trying to do is just give a very beautiful performance about a place that I have so much love for and find so much beauty in, and that was exactly where I was coming from, with no other thought besides it."
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The Brownies finished most of their Brownie Quest this past Sunday. The girls had made posters for the town library's book give away tables. Four of the six girls were there, and they each brought books to donate to the cause. The girls had made posters to display on the tables. The first two girls helped the librarian bring out the table and the first books. When the second two girls arrived they brought out a second table and tablecloth. The girls managed to fit of the library's books on the tables. They were exceedingly cute in their sashes/vests and uniform pieces. Apparently they discussed some of the books with the customers.
The farmer who was running the vegetable stall allowed some of the girls to try some raw corn. That was my youngest dd's favorite part of the whole day!
After they had staffed the table for two hours, they cleaned up the tables, boxes, and signs and put them away for the librarian. The librarian spoke with me after and said that if any other troops need service opportunities, have them contact her, and there would plenty of times she could use their help.