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When you launch Aweditorium – the superb new music discovery app for the iPad – the initial splash screen for it uses a tagline of 'Aural Happiness' underneath the app's name. They could easily drop 'aural', just use 'Happiness', and be well within the bounds of accurate descriptions of what the app delivers.
If you want the short version of my review on the app, it is: awesome – a must for all iPad owners who like to discover new music. For lots of lovely screencaps and reasons why this app is so superb, hit the jump …
Here's a slice of the App Store description of Aweditorium:
Aweditorium reimagines what a music experience feels like on iPad. It takes all of the disparate content surrounding an artist — beautiful photography, lyrics, high definition video, interviews — and ties it all together into an fun, intimate experience on a multi-touch display.
This is a music discovery – and just pure music enjoyment – app. When you launch it, it shows you a full-screen darkened board full of squares that each represent an artist / band, with a dots map at the top left corner that shows the percentage of content you've explored so far and the number of listens you've had. The squares are lit up as you tap on them and when you have listened to the song on them. There are no labels to tell you which artist / song is on any given square – you only see that after you tap one.
Once you tap to select a square you go to a full-screen view of the artist or band you selected and immediately start hearing the selected song – and you'll see a small prompt to tap, pinch, or swipe on the screen. If you pinch inwards you'll jump back out to the main board screen. If you tap once you'll see the song title and artist's name at the bottom left of the screen as well as some control buttons along the bottom right of the screen.
You'll also start seeing various popup colored caption blocks with background and history about the artist.
Another tap on the screen will show you just the full-screen artist image and the lyrics of the song in large text line by line.
You can simply swipe left, right, up, or down to move through to new songs and artists. Swiping right to get back to the previous song is especially handy if a song you like just ended before you could hear more of an artist or note their name.
From the controls bar at the bottom right you can:
– Pause and Play.
– Choose to share a song via Twitter or Facebook.
– Tap to see a 'More by this artist' popup – from which you can tap to go to another of their songs.
– See a YouTube clip of the artist in a small, thumbnail-style block at the bottom left of the screen. Some of these are interviews with the artist, some are music videos. From the small video block you can tap to toggle full-screen view of the video and there's also an AirPlay button if you're running it on iOS 4.2 – to stream the video to an Apple TV, though this will only do audio for now.
– Tap the HD button to go to a full-screen video of the current song.
– Or tap to get back to the main discovery screen.
– Excellent Photography – the app is just full of superb photos of the artists and bands, and they're all presented in full-screen.
– Popovers for Artist Information – I love the way the artist / band history and information is presented. The popovers provide bite-sized chunks of info that are fun to take in for artists you're interested in and easy to ignore for those you're not finding appealing. Some of them are just classic as well …
– Best New Music Discovery Tool. Ever. – If there's a better service or app for discovering great new music I haven't seen it. All the others I've seen feel limited or want to build off your existing favorites, which immediately narrows the field. Aweditorium just hits you with lots and lots of new artists and new songs. I've honestly found – and bought! – more new music via tis app in just a couple of weeks than I have in years through all other methods combined. And I'm enjoying the heck out of the music I've bought, and still diving in for more good stuff from Aweditorium just about every day.
Some of my favorites so far are: Allison Weiss, Lissie, Pretty Lights, Basia Bulat, and Fitz & The Tantrums.
– iOS 4.2 Support – this app already has it, so it plays just fine in the background. It also does AirPlay streaming to Apple TV, though for audio and album art only for now – I imagine video support may need another app update.
Very, very few.
The app loads just a little slowly, while it prepares the board full of artists and songs. Hopefully load time can be gradually reduced in future updates. It occasionally gets hung up on a single artist and doesn't let me swap back to the main screen – this is resolved by closing the app (via the Multitasking bar) and re-opening it. This is a rare occurrence though, and may be mostly when I have far too many apps running / in the background.
My one wish list item is that the developers add a 'If you liked this, then you might also enjoy' sort of feature.
The 'Awe' portion of the app's name is well chosen. Aweditorium really is an awesome app all the way around. It's great to look at, gets you 'involved' with great new music, and is just the best music discovery tool I've ever seen.
We're in late November now and this is my iPad App of the Year. I not only use the app every day, but I find that even when I'm not using it I'm enjoying some of the music it helped me discover just about every day as well. It's a brilliant idea, brilliantly executed.
Apple should give it a nod as App of the Year as well – if my iTunes spending due to this app is anything to go by they are making an enormous killing due to Aweditorium's awesomeness.
You can find Aweditorium in the App Store now, and it is a free app.
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Thanks for a great piece Patrick. When I get another iPad, this will be phenomenal. Btw have you discovered Slave called shiver on t61 yet?
There are many, many fine apps out there and they are constantly getting better. Picking one single app of the year (as opposed to the top 5 or 10 or the best app by category) is risky business and necessarily subjective, but I must say, your pick immediately resonated with me. Very good choice.
Loving this app. Listening to it right now in the background. For some reason though its not showing me the option to use airplay.
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Wow, what a great app. I'm already discovering new music on it and I've only been using it for a few minutes! Thanks for the suggestion. Another great use for my Ipad!
I am assuming you have never seen a shipoo jam on the iPod!
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Sorry Forlana, but you will hear more of the same from my people for as long as we are in the EU.
It is quite clear that the EU pays little or no consideration to what the people want - a typical example are the re-runs of referenda (FR NL IRE etc etc)
Right now, the German people would vote overwhelmingly not to bail-out Greece, yet bail-outs have happened. The British people would vote overwhelmingly not to contribute to the bail-outs, yet we contribute. What is happening in Brussels today and tomorrow regarding the eurocrisis will not be in the interests of electorates.
If the EU decides to do things that are directly contrary to what the people want - is that not dictatorship?
Plitplov has gone doggo. What will the Plitplovs do now for their subsidiarity? The fanatical attempts to rescue the unrescuable Euro will mean poverty all round.
Greece is now unofficially a colony of Brussels.
Its new colonial masters dictate Greece's budget and have ordered the colonials to implement deep austerity measures to protect the colonial master's banks.
After the Geek debacle no sugar coating by Eurobots will work.
"well pretty much like the UK constitution ;)"
The UK does not have a written constitution.
Weren't you bragging all the time about knowing the British so well and yet you didn't even know the most basic thing about their system of government. They have no written constitution.
@ sherryblack
"I doubt the ordinary man in the street can even recite one line from the EU constitution".
You're being too generous with your 'ordinary' man. I would say that no more than one person in 100 000 could quote anything from the EU Constitution.
The secret of the success of the US Constitution is its brevity, 11 pages and 4 000 words, which means that many Americans can recite extracts off by heart.
The EU Constitution is in the image of the EU itself. Bloated, opaque waffle. 156,447 words spread over 855 unreadable pages.
Google TE's article of Dec 19 2006, "Back to the Constitution" when the Czech Prime Minister called the EU Constitution "incredible shit".
@Cutters & Junior
Thanks for the explaining the reality of the EU as opposed to Josh Eurobot's sugar coating of the EU's control over member states.
As of now, a common currency and a constitution has been imposed over countries without popular consent.
No wonder at the first sign of trouble, huge majorities are in favor of quitting the EURO in certain countries.
As for the EU's constitution, it is so out of touch with the common man that I doubt the ordinary man in the street can even recite one line from the constitution.
An artificial constitution and an artificial currency imposed by EU elites without popular consent.
If it sounds like a duck, walks like a duck than it most probably is a duck.
The EU is USSR lite without the troops. However when they do their EU army that may change.
Josh_US your propaganda is based on lies.
The €U dictocrats decide how much they want, and then its for €U members to debate. As far how much Members have to pay the Dictocrats, the €U kangaroo court has the last say.
And no, a member cannot decide they are going to pay less, not without consent.
"European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet pushed for centralized control over the budget of euro area nations on Thursday. He cited the recent debt problems in the eurozone as basis for the proposed establishment of a finance ministry for the 17-nation bloc.
Trichet said he wants the EU to have powers to veto the budget measures of countries that would have public finance problems. However, the planned Euro Finance Ministry would need an amendment to EU Treaties.
The power over the eurozone members would include monitoring their economic reforms and providing a common approach to dealing with Europe's financial sector. But a regional tax-raising power is excluded in the proposal, although Trichet said such powers could be a logical next step."
The only way for a member to have control of their national budget is to leave the €mpire of €Uropean CONfederates. http://www.civitas.org.uk/eufacts/FSECON/EC3.htm
The €€C can force legislation on members, or take them to the €CJ if they refuse. http://europa.eu/documentation/legislation/index_en.htm
Josh you kraut, your propaganda is fail.
@ Sherryfake:
If you were interested in an answer and not just in picking fights, you' d ask for an explanation for something you don' t know or google it up yourself, instead of calling everything you don' t get a "lie".
Of course Frane and Germany are sovereign states just as the US, while California and Rhode Island (US) or Bavaria and Saxony (Germany) as membes of a federation are not.
The difference between a CONFEDERATION (such as the EU) and a FEDERATION (such as the US or Germany) is, that in the case of a confederation, any transfer of sovereignty from the member states to the level of the confederation is revocable, while in the case of a federation, it is not.
If e.g. France or Germany decided to leave either the eurozone or the EU, they could do so by their respective constitutional procedures: in France, a 3/5 majority in both houses of aprliament is needed (or a referendum), in Germany, a 2/3 majority - that' s all. One law changing the constitution, and either France or Germany are out of the eurozone/ EU. In both cases, neither the EU nor any EU member state would have the slightest means to keep either country from revoking the sovereignty it has thus transferred.
In the case of a FEDERATION, the exit of a member is neither provided for nor meant to happen. In most cases, the secession of a (or many) of the members of a federation leads to (internal) war, as the federal government usually tries to keep the seceeding members from leaving - just take the US Civil War as an example (other examples: Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Russian Federation since then). Seldom, a federation breaks apart peacefully (Czechoslovakia, 1993).
(To be ctd.)
Funny, how some (Sherryfake and birtnick/ nickbirt) are whining all the time about their posts getting deleted, accusing the rest of us of "censorship" and having a "totalitarian mindset" etc. - while e.g. my posts directed at Sherryfake go missing in large numbers, as well. (I' m not complaining, life' s tough sometimes. LOL)
Just like the one below, which doesn' t even ever so sligtly touch the rules of this fine board - which is why I' ll make an exception from my own rule to never repost deleted posts. We all do mistakes from time to time, even moderators;-).
sherryblack wrote:
Jul 15th 2011 2:52 GMT
'they [EU/ Schengen zone member states] are still sovereign states, albeit closely CONfederated, whereas the US States are not sovereign,'
Of course they are not sovereign just as Bavaria and Saxony are not sovereign either.
What an idiotic remark."
sherryblack wrote:
Jul 15th 2011 12:25 GMT
How extremely stupid to compare the USA to a collection of countries like the EU. The USA is a country like France, Germany Spain, etc."
Uh-oh, another massive contradiction!
You cannot have it both ways, Sherryfake.
It is the very trademark of a confederation that it is a union of still sovereign states, whereas in a federation, the member states are not sovereign.
The EU is a confederation, the US is a federation.
France and Germany are sovereign states, California and Texas are not.
@ Pedro:
I don' t think it' s ultimately gonna happen. Wall Street doesn' t want it - and via their campaign contributions, those Wall Street big shots have US legislators by their ba**s, so to speak.
But yes, I am certain that the largest chunk of the spending cuts due will come from social security and other welfare programs, while the tax break for the rich that Bush Jr. pushed through will stay in place.
@ Pedro:
In case you haven' t already guessed so - our buddies are desperately trying to pick whatever fight, hoping no one mentions that the US federal government is a mere 17 days from going bankrupt.
(No, that won' t happen - but that it takes until the very last minute to raise the debt ceiling despite the danger of igniting yet another financial fire storm tells you how gridlocked and dysfunctional the US political system has become.)
"so within a 20/30 km radius of the border you have flying squads of officials who stop traffic (particularly buses) for random checks"
Goodness, I thought these kind of things only happened in dictatorships.
I have seen scenes like this in movies about nazi-era Europe where buses and trains were routinely checked for ID, never thought this still happened in supposedly free and democratic countries.
Can't wait for the "tell lies about America to make it as bad as Europe" crowd to bleat "Arizonia".
To which I can only repeat what Le Monde said...
It is very revealing to see that the French media is not relaying any of the debate that is currently raging in the United States over immigration.
As is often the case, it is easier to criticize the United States with an implicit innuendo that the situation in Europe is clearly superior.
On the other hand, a debate like the one surrounding the law in Arizona remains strangely absent IN EUROPE. I cannot help but see this as one more example of the abundance of transatlantic prejudices.
Regarding this particular point, the Americans have an extremely healthy debate, illustrative of the democratic vitality of their country in refusing any abusive augmentation of police power.
At least this time, America seems to be in a position to teach us a lesson. It is rather saddening to see the French media putting aside information that, by putting the United States in a good light, casts France in a negative one."
Le Monde article (translated into English)
@ Vivazapata
It is true, as Josh says, that a member of the Schengen group has the right to re-introduce border controls if it decides to do so. However, what he did not tell you was that the agreement stipulates that this may only be done in the event of a threat to the country's security, which is certainly not the case of Denmark, so Denmark is in breach of the treaty. The EU is investigating the reason for the country's decision and will probably end up imposing a fine. Watch this space to see how pumpernickel's much vaunted "SUBSIDIARITY" ( LOL) is dealt yet another blow.
Another point about Schengen. Though there are no longer border controls between Schengen countries, the different authorities don't trust their neighbours to do the job of immigration checking, so within a 20/30 km radius of the border you have flying squads of officials who stop traffic (particularly buses) for random checks.
If a bus crosses the border between Spain and France, you can be sure it will be stopped further down the road. Why? because the French authorities want to make sure it doesn't contain illegal immigrants who have slipped through the Spanish net.
These checks single out 'non-European' looking people for verification for obvious reasons. If you are a black French citizen then you'll get checked too. OK, they'll let you through, but your white compatriot won't have had to show his passport.
I have witnessed this twice in the Perpignan area.
"ChrisFrance should have considered the Baltic States (now EU members) or the Ukraine during the Soviet era, all of which were all part of the USSR. Yet not one of these ever considered themselves as being part of a "country" called the USSR any more than the French think that they belong to a nation called the "EU"."
While of course citizens of Alabama, Maine and the Yukon consider themselves American.
Excellent point. The USSR was a collection of countries. The fact the the Baltic repulics, Ukraine, Georgia split as soon as the iron grip of the communist dictatorship was lifted tells the USSR was indeed a collection of countries.
There are other similarities between the EU & USSR.
1)Democracy deficit.
2)Relentless propaganda about high & mighty EU from the EU elites and their useful idiots
3) erosion of the nation state's democracy and sovereignity.
4) A creation of an "enemy" to scare people into supporting their Union. In the Soviets case it was the evil capitalist west, in the EU case it is the evil USA, China, India brigade which supposedly are going to turn Europeans into vassals if they don't unite and stand together.
The fact the USA and India are democracies which have a strong tradition of free trade and have never shown any bellocosity towards the Europeans is conveniently ignored. Or the fact that the USA had the power to make Europeans vassals after WW2 when it had 50% of the World's GDP and sole ownership of nukes but showed no inclination to make Europeans vassals is also conveniently over-looked.
Bottom line is the EU has more in common with the USSR . It has nothing in common with the USA.
ChrisFrance wrote:
Jul 14th 2011 9:25 GMT
"@ sherry
I find it funny that you will never compare the eu to the usa because the usa is a country but yet you find it so easy to comapre it to the ussr - also a country."
Yes, Sherryfake likes doing that.
You know, there are downsides to being "Mis Middle America" - for example, you cannot be counted on to have any historical knowledge about the world beyond your limited horizons.
When you graduate from a public US high school, all you know about European history sums up to more or less this: Cesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, and of course that England is a monarchy.
Anything about Asia? The pacific theater in WWII, Viet Nam, chop sticks, but otherwise - zip.
South America? Ehm, you lost me... .
Africa? According to Sarak Palin (the one who can see Russia from here house), it' s a "country". Another typical product of Middle America.
So what should Sherryfake possible compare the EU to? "Blame it on the system", as they used to say. LOL
(Can' t wait for that nation-building to begin at home).
@ Pedro
"Oh, no it's not that Triple Alliance version you love so much, where you put Portugal in the Mediterranean."
Three points.
I have never said anything about a Triple Alliance and I have never put Portugal in the Mediterranean. I don't know what you're talking about.
You are incapable of posting without mentioning Portugal. I was talking about an alternative to the EU. Just try and see the bigger picture, Pedro. This blog is not only about YOUR country.
Which just goes to prove that the serious debates I've had with you on this question have all been a waste of time.
So you just 'grab your coat', little Pedro.
SCHENGEN (ctd.)
The regime INSIDE the Schengen zone is more or less similar to the one among US States - with the exception that Schengen member states can decide to reinstate border controls at inner-Schengen borders, which US States vis à vis neighbouring US states cannot.
If the OUTER borders of the Schengen zone(or the EU, for that matter) are compared to that of the outer borders of the US, what is striking is that the EU manages to keep its borders safe in a much more challenging neighbourhood, while the US shields itself off from its Mexicans neighbours, many hundreds of whom perish year after year in an attempt to make it across the big divide.
For Americans, Europe really is a lesson in openess, at least in this regard. We should fight terrorists, not windmills/ Mexicans. The Mexicans are coming, anyhow. 25% of all US citizens are now Hispanics, up from 10% in 1990. And counting.
"I like to think of the eu as being the the reverse of the USA."
What an absurd comparison. The USA is a country. The EU is not a country.
Comparing the EU to USA is as absurd as comparing the EU to Germany.
"In the US the federal government has federal legislative power but the states only local power."
Thats because the USA is a country and its federal government has federal legislative powers just like Germany's federal government has federal legislative powers. Barvaria does not have federal legislative powers so why the hell should Calfornia have federal legislative powers.
The EU's political and media elites have brainwashed a considerable part of their public into believing the EU is like the USA. What an idiotic comparison and the fact that they can so easily brainwash their public is probably due to the lack of critical thinking skills taught in European schools.
The USA is a country just like France, Germany, Spain etc. It is most definitely not a collection of countries like the EU and no amount of Goebbels propaganda can make California or New York a country. They are not countries, they are provinces in a country called the USA.
It appears that I was also banned, which was possibly my fault for having been drawn in by the infantile slanging of "pooperwurm" and "pedrolx" - assuming it was the moderator and not the eurobots who were responsible. However I do not think that the level of my posting was anything like as disrespectful as theirs, and the little that was, was only the odd throwaway retort.
I do not know how this works - perhaps a poster needs to be reported a given amount of times for a moderator to have to intervene, in which case it is reasonable to assume that the 'bots were responsible. I do not know.
@ Sherryfake:
RE: your post of Jul 13th 2011 11:09 GMT
It' s highly amusing to be accused of being like Goebbels by someone who in her never-ending screaming and shouting sounds like the nazi minister of propaganda herself. Anything you got but insults? You must have picked up the lingo at that "Ivy League" institution you claimed to have attended. LOL
Remind me to assemble a complete list of people who' ve called you out for what you really are. It will be long, so much is for sure.
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This volume is the result of work carried out under the NATO SPS Study Pilot Project "Sustainable Use and Protection of Groundwater Resources - Transboundary Water Management." It contains basic information on hydrogeological conditions, groundwater management and monitoring in areas of the Belarus, Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian borders, simultaneously borders of the European Union with its eastern partners. In view of the importance of the rational utilization of groundwater reserves, which is essential for our future existence, the book presents recommendations for a united methodology of an integrated groundwater monitoring system in this transnational area. The contributions also cover environmental and surface water issues that have direct effects on groundwater resources. The financial dimension of resource mobilization for environmental projects in Eastern Europe also features as part of a complex project solution.
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On April 30, a daughter wrote of feeling awkward when visiting her mother who has dementia in a nursing home. She questioned whether the visits had any value. Here are the valuable responses you sent:
Reader 1: My mom passed recently. In the last few years she didn't speak but she could hear and visitors were encouraged. I'd take her for a walk down the hall and talk to her about pictures or go to a window and describe what I saw outside. I took her to the chapel and said a prayer with her because she was very religious. When you don't know what people remember, try different things.
Sometimes she'd grab my hand and bring it to her face or kiss me when I went to hug her. Most important was telling her about her kids and grandkids, even though it was a one-way conversation.
Reader 2: My mother was in a long-term care facility for over 10 years. A few tips: Become close and helpful to the staff. They have a tough job. I brought in treats for all, helped clear tables in the dining room if I was there at mealtimes and tidied mom's room. I read the paper to Mom. When she was no longer interested, I sat and talked. When it felt awkward, I'd knit. I felt more comfortable doing something. Don't expect your mom to respond, just be there.
When Mom became unable to feed herself, I went twice a day to feed her. I'd often bring in takeout and we'd eat in her room together.
Don't let anyone tell you that your visits don't matter and that she won't know you were there. You will know!
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1. Take along pictures. My husband takes his iPad with pictures from his parents' old photo albums on them and they scroll through them together.
2. Decorate her room for any reason (Christmas, a birthday) and change it often. I'd tell Mom about the changes and the staff said they enjoyed seeing them, too.
3. Ask staff what times are the best for them. They appreciate visitors, as it provides stimulation and supervision for the resident. Express appreciation for the care they provide. We also took in fruit trays for the staff break room (remember, there are three shifts).
4. Put a bulletin board and push pins in the room and encourage relatives to send bright cards. Look at the cards together when you visit.
5. Sometimes Mom and I just watched TV together, and I sat beside her so I could rub her back, hold her hand or hug her.
6. A manicure and hand massage pass the time and then staff don't have to worry about cutting nails."
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So before work today, i just finished seq10, and went through getting desmonds father back. Got back to present day area, went up those stairs on the right, went through the cut scenes w the 1st civ lady..hooked up the power source n the walkway moves towards where shaun usually is. At that point i turned the game off n went to work. Now i turn the game on and i get the cut scene w desmonds father saying 'you can hook up the power source before heading into the animus, but it's your call', and i'm like, i already did that. the stairs are gone, and i try to access it another way, i dont get the cut scenes w the first civ lady, and the area is impossible to cross now. i check the platform n it has reset back to it's original spot. i tried going back to the area where you hook up the previous power source to maybe re-unlock those stairs n nothing. has this happened to anyone else?? is this maybe a permenant glitch n i'll have to start over?
I just tried re doing the abstergo mission and it did not work. if anyone knows how to correct this, plz help
Same thing happened to me when I turned it off after putting the source in.
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Did you finish the game?
I think this happened to me too, it just vanished out of the blue and I searched everywhere for it.
I tried putting the new power source after fulfilling the Abstergo mission and I remembered the game saving. But when I loaded the game the next day, it replayed the scene day it showed Desmond's dad talking him after the mission was done. Tried looking for the stairway since I thought it didnt save it but I can't find it.
It's almost exactly the same situation as the TC is describing. I also just finished the game a few minutes ago but this incident happened like the last time I played it.
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Yea. Sonic, you were able to complete the game? so at the end of the game, it like registered that the 3rd source was placed and the bridge moved?
I don't know whether the power source is required to finish the game, but I tended to put them as soon as I get them. Not sure what happens if you put them off. Don't know whether it's registered or not (and whether that's going to have an effect or something), but I have finished the game.
If putting all the power sources in is a requirement for finishing the game, then I'm guessing that mine was registered.
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I just got a response from the support ticket I sent to Ubisoft, they said that they were unable to reproduce the error, so they don't know whats wrong. and that I should recheck my steps by looking up guides on here, or on youtube.
Not that it ended up mattering, was still able to finish the game because apparently the game still recognized that I put it where it was suppose to go.
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You can't finish the game without placing the power sources you need to place them to open the door to the depths of the temple. I thought this happened to me but I was just really daft at finding where to put the sources even with the guide. I straight up sucked at that temple. I just couldn't follow directions or find the power places on my own.
I'd say keep playing worry about the sources at the end and try to find a video that shows some one do all 3 in a row without a break so you can follow it easier from what your last step was by memory.
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You can't finish the game without placing the power sources you need to place them to open the door to the depths of the temple. I thought this happened to me but I was just really daft at finding where to put the sources even with the guide. I straight up sucked at that temple. I just couldn't follow directions or find the power places on my own.
We did find where to put the power source, the glitch is that if you turn it off afterwards, and then try to play it loops back to the cgi video of your dad talking, and then there's a giant wall where the stairs are and the walk way isn't there next to the giant door. However, it apparently seems that the game remembers that you infact did put the power source in so I guess in the long run it might just be a glitch with the cgi and not the power source after all.
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You know, it's funny, but 3711's attenuation ability is making me rethink my saison recipe. Since I went from 1.056 to 1.000, I now have a 7.5% ABV beer on my hands. Way more than I was expecting. I might have to reduce the grain bill in the future to come in under 1.050, just so I have a more sessionable brew!
You mean 7.5% ABV isn't sessionable? If your friends are like mine, I want the shortest "session" possible...haha.
i brewed the saison up today and ended up at exactly what i was shooting for: 1.042, given this yeast, that should end up around 5% ABV, which will be perfect. i mashed at 153, i'll be interested to see what it does. i loved the way the starter smelled and decided to add a late cascade addition to bump the citrus. will post back with results.
Brewed on Sunday with 3711 and cant wait to sample it. This will be my quickest beer ever, I am planning to keg it at 2 weeks.
got mine bottled up, i definitely pick up the orval/brett funk... it's not so much a funk, but it's nice to have in there. carbed up super quick in the bottles, it's a little young but is a very quenching beer during our heatwave right now. mine ended up at like 1.003, i mashed at 153. quick turnaround for a very nice beer. i'll try to get a picture of it up tonight.
yeah, not really a heavy funk but more like a subtle earthiness.
There is a definite benefit to waiting longer. I and a few other homebrewers on this board have noticed a strong sharpness from 3711 while still green. It took my 1.062 OG saison 2 months to really settle in and get great. Just my .02.


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How to remove the streaking censor
Find the file called "shaders_pc" in your main game folder.
Make a copy of it, then open it with notepad and find the line "data\shaders\standard\sr2-pixelate_c.fxo_pc".
Simply delete that line and save the document. Viola, no more censors.
Also note that females ARE anatomically correct, from the waste up at least, so obviously this trick is not for kids.
You dirty, dirty boy.
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where under programs is the saints row main game file located in? steam or somewhere else, cuz i cant find it
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.....until the tragedy
For anyone who needs to know, the file is in the Saints Row 2 folder under Steam/steamapps/common.
My character's been a topless female for quite some time so I gave it a try.
Oddly enough, I prefer the censoring. I've been so desensitized to nudity that seeing it in a video game really doesn't get a reaction from me anymore. However, keeping on the censorship maintains the sense of "taboo," which is why I made the character that way in the first place.
Haha lol, Nice trick, Pity i have it for the 360 rather then the PC xD.
I'd say if Violition found out about that they'd raise the age level xD.
It's already rated M. Toplessness and bare ass should not raise the games rating, there are already games out there with that thing. On older systems no less.
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Linux has a very fast file system called the Extended File System Version 2 (EXT2). The EXT2 file system was created by Remy Card (email@example.com).
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The Wendy House- a charming & cosy home from home
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Cottage | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 4
|Key Info
Perfect escape- see our positive ratings- very close to SHOPS & BEACH
Town Center property with parking (Parking for 1 car included in price- further places subject to availability by prior arrangement).
WHOLE HOUSE FOR RENTAL-Come and play in our Wendy House-
0.1k from shopping: 0.5k from the beach.
0.5k from BIC
Charming cottage in perfect location in Bournemouth Town center.
It's called the Wendy House for a reason. Think of the feeling when you played as a child, you'll get the same nostalgic feel when you stay in this small but perfectly proportioned and fun cottage. The perfect place to stay to find sun & play in Bournemouth. Walking distance from Beaches & parks, shopping, bars & restaurants.
Driving distance from spectacular walks including Hengistbury Head (nr Christchurch) and the famous New Forest.
Well equipped. Ideal for professionals, couples or families with slightly older children.
If you have any special occasions & want us to help make it more special, please contact us. We will do our best to assist.
Towels etc can be arranged for a small fee.
Parking for 1 car available on request (no extra charge).
Please note that property not suitable for anyone with reduced mobility due to style of staircase. Please contact the owner for advice/ review photographs.
Arrival & departure times can be varied by prior agreement.
Usually 14.30pm arrival- 10.30am departure.
|Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Bournemouth 500 m
|Will consider
|Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car not necessary
|Nearest Amenities
|100 m
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Bournemouth 8 km, Nearest railway: Bournemouth 1.5 km
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Double beds (2), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided
About this location
The Dorset region
Dorset location, on the south coast of England.
Famous for its coastal position & the New Forest.
Beautiful beaches. Spectacular walks & plenty of history.
Beautiful sunny Bournemouth. Something for everyone.
Shopping, bars, excellent restaurants, theaters and many more family activities.
Famous for 7 miles of beautifully clean beaches with plenty of fun for young & old.
Close to the famous New Forest.
About the owner
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31 Dec 2014
"As Good as You'll Get"
We rented this immaculately presented house over the Christmas period for three of us. Everything was in excellent order, the place was spotlessly clean, and the owner had very thoughtfully added a fe… More
Thankyou for your kind words. It's nice to know that you enjoyed the 'extras'. Apologies again for not being able to meet you, but you wouldn't have wanted me spluttering all over you!!
We are pleased you had a lovely Christmas & we wish you a very Happy New Year.
26 Dec 2014
"Charming, cosy, central and best night's sleep I've had in ages."
A great place to stay near to shops, bars, clubs and the pier. Very warm and cosy and very comfy beds. A quiet little street so a fantastic night's sleep. Highly recommended.… More
Pleased you enjoyed your stay. We look forward to welcoming you back soon.
3 Dec 2014
"Wonderful cosy cottage, tucked away but close to city centre"
What a lovely place to stay. We were welcomed by the glow of Christmas lights and a cosy, comfortable cottage for pre-Christmas shopping trip. A dear little cottage with two good sized double rooms a bathroom with electric shower and everything you could need. The cooker was excellent, there was even a pint of milk in the fridge tea, coffee and biscuits. Tea towels and oven glove plus cling film, salt, tin foil. Sweets and chalk and a great cuckoo clock! Plus a parking space, wonderful stay and will come again.
Steep stairs would not be suitable for the elderly or very young but add character and space.
24 Nov 2014
"What a lovely little gem. Beautiful house with lovely owners."
We booked to stay 1 night in this gorgeous accommodation, we felt we could have stayed much longer. A beautiful little home from home with everything we could possibly need. It could not have been mor… More
We are so pleased that you enjoyed the Wendy House.
It was a pleasure to meet you and to make your stay comfortable. We would be happy to welcome you back anytime. We look forward to seeing you again.
12 Nov 2014
"Bournemouth's most perfect little hideaway"
Such a cosy little cottage, hidden away in Bournemouth town centre! The house was lovely and clean when we arrived, fully equipped kitchen with tea, coffee, biscuits, sweets and milk in the fridge! Pa… More
Thanks ladies. It was lovely to meet you & I hope to see you again soon.
I am so pleased that you loved the cottage as much as we do and such positive comments make our efforts all worthwhile.
3 Oct 2014
"Perfect place to stay"
The Wendy house is the perfect place to stay if you are visiting Bournemouth. The house is beautiful and fitted out with everything you could possibly need for your stay. the location is perfect with a two minute walk into the town centre. Also the parking is an added bonus
26 Sep 2014
"A Fantastic Home Away From Home"
The Wendy House is a wonderful cottage with lots of homely extras. It has a great location near the shopping area and a short walk to the beach. There are also great restaurants nearby. We really enjoyed our stay and would thoroughly recommend it.
4 Sep 2014
"Nice and Clean"
We arranged the 'Wendy House' for my Brother and his wife who stayed in July with their 4 year old daughter for a week. The cottage is very cute and was immaculately clean. Surprisingly quie… More
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Phil Toberman holds one of his antler-handled knives.
Local man enjoys being on the cutting edge
By Ted Pennekamp
Since about 1990, a rural Prairie du Chien man has enjoyed the artful, yet practical hobby of knife making.
In memory of Virginia Eichman, a Prairie du Chien resident and patron/volunteer at Hoffman Hall, her family contributed over $6,400 to the Hoffman Hall Capital Campaign recently. Pictured (from left) are Parks and Recreation Director Mike Ulrich, staff member Janet Paulson, family members Jarod Bufe, Carol Eichmann-Bufe holding Jackson Bufe, Edgar Eichmann, Mary Byron, Laura Eichmann, staff member Megan Pedretti and staff member Suzette Cunningham. (Photo by Correne Martin)
By Correne Martin
The family of Virginia Eichmann, a longtime Hoffman Hall patron and volunteer who passed away in January, presented a donation in her memory recently to be used toward continued improvements at the recreation center. Eichmann, who was a Prairie du Chien resident, participated in many water aerobics classes as well as arts and crafts shows at the facility, while also volunteering her time as a staff member there.
Virginia's husband, Edgar, as well as three of her kids and a grandson, informally presented over $6,400 to Prairie du Chien Parks and Recreation Director Mike Ulrich Feb. 21 at Hoffman Hall. The money came from her memorial service, with a match from the investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, where one of the daughters is employed. A plaque on the donor wall memorializes Eichmann.
Virginia and Edgar, a retired librarian and heavy equipment mechanic, moved to Prairie du Chien from Postville, Iowa, in 2007.
DOT and Eastman officials discuss the preliminary design plans of the 2019 Highway 27 improvement project, which includes 9.94 miles from Cipra Road to Eastman, as well as the main street in the village of Eastman. (Photo by Correne Martin)
Over 40 community members attended an open house meeting Feb. 27 at Friendship Hall in Eastman, regarding the 2019 Highway 27 improvement project. Exhibits revealed plans to recondition the roadway and upgrade several deficient areas on 9.94 miles between Cipra Road in the Prairie du Chien township and Meadow Lane Street on the south limits of the village of Eastman. Significant work will be done in the village as well.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Eastman officials were present to explain to the public the preliminary plans, answer questions and obtain input.
"We're basically letting people know there is a project," said Jeremy Krachey, the project engineer from WisDOT's Southwest Region, noting that plans are very basic at this time. "There will be another meeting like this in one year, where we'll present more detailed proposals."
The Prairie du Chien Common Council is at a crossroads with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, which wants to reduce the proposed 2017 Marquette Road project, involving the section of highway from La Pointe Street to Mooney Street, from the previously intended five lanes to three (two traffic lanes and one center turn lane). The DOT cites significantly lower traffic counts as the reason behind the change and requested Tuesday night that the council approve an amended contract, including the three-lane design.
A public hearing on the proposed $10.6 million in improvements was the centerpiece of Tuesday's common council meeting, involving nearly an hour of discourse. Yet, no action was taken.
Other than Craig Fisher, who represented the DOT at the meeting, no one seemed to support having fewer lanes in that stretch of roadway.
A rural Eastman agricultural mechanics workshop and the majority of equipment and tools inside were completely destroyed by a fire that broke out early Wednesday morning, according to Eastman Fire Chief Adam Trautsch.
The workshop at 57348 Swatek Ridge Rd., owned by Charlie Linder, was fully engulfed in flames when the Eastman Fire Department arrived on scene shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday. The blaze was called in by a township plow driver who was clearing the roads after around six inches of snow fell on the area overnight.
"It was hard to maneuver around in the snow. Thankfully, the patrolman plowed us a path, but it was difficult (to fight the fire)," Trautsch said.
Janice R. Jacobs, 81, of Prairie du Chien and formerly of Bagley passed away Friday, Feb. 28, at the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse.
She was born April 26, 1932 in Bagley the daughter of Ray and Leila (Kipper) Trine. She married Dean Jacobs on December 30, 1953 in Prairie du Chien. Together they farmed near Bagley for many years and enjoyed flea markets in the region. Dean preceded her in death on October 16, 2008.
Dolores Ann Elliott Wilkinson, 86, of Vancouver, Wash., was surrounded by family in the days prior to her return to the loving arms of her Heavenly Father on Jan. 29.
Matt Antoine
The Prairie du Chien Area Chamber of Commerce and the city of Prairie du Chien are co-sponsoring an Open House Reception for 2014 Winter Olympic bronze medalist Matt Antoine. Antoine, 28, won the bronze in the men's skeleton in Sochi, Russia.
The reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 14 in the Dousman House on St. Feriole Island. Hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Chamber of Commerce Director Robert Moses said, "Everyone in Prairie du Chien and the surrounding area is invited to come to the reception and show your hometown spirit in congratulating Matt."
New auditorium, field house at PdC High School being considered
Meetings were held at City Hall and at Prairie du Chien High School Wednesday night to get public input regarding a possible expansion project at the high school.
Taylor Elliott of Prairie du Chien/Wauzeka-Steuben battles against Rice Lake's Luke Schroeder Friday morning. (Photo by Ted Pennekamp)
Elliott second at State
Taylor Elliott, the first four-time state qualifier in Prairie du Chien history, took second place at the State Wrestling Tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison this past weekend.
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As of Thursday, December 19, 2013
© Copyright 2015 Albany Herald
ALBANY — Attorneys representing The Albany Herald and its parent company, Southern Community Newspapers Inc., have filed notice asking the city of Albany to investigate a sidewalk project that caused damages of more than $100,000 to The Herald's office building at 126 N. Washington St.
Attorney Kenneth B. Hodges III of the Atlanta law firm of Rafuse, Hill & Hodges LLP sent a letter Thursday to Mayor Dorothy Hubbard, the Albany Board of City Commissioners and City Attorney Nathan Davis "providing early notice of this incident and of these claims so that the City of Albany can investigates these claims and avoid unnecessary litigation."
The losses, Hodges said, occurred on June 24 in the midst of a project called the Pine Avenue Streetscape, which included about a half-million dollars worth of changes to the Pine Avenue sidewalk between Front Street and Washington Street.
Zane Grace Construction Inc., which was hired by the city to make the improvements, excavated the Pine Avenue sidewalk adjacent to the Herald's offices.
During the construction, The Herald's building was exposed, which caused water to enter the newspaper's basement, covering the basement in sludge, dirt and other debris and compromising interior walls and structures, among other damages, Hodges said.
The flooding also damaged The Herald's telephone system and a number of the company's records stored in the basement.
In the ante litem notice filed by Hodges, he said actual loss to The Herald will meet or exceed $100,000.
"Not only did, and will, The Herald spend significant amounts of money cleaning up and repairing the damage, The Herald also incurred significant lost worker hours and wages cleaning up and dealing with the flooding, as well as attorneys' fees and costs," the letter said.
Hodges said The Herald is required to let the city know within six months of an event that it intends to file a lawsuit.
"We're going to send one to ADICA (Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority), too," Hodges said. The Herald cannot bring a lawsuit within 90 days to give the city time to investigate, he said.
"We've been in touch with the insurance adjuster (Tim Ford with Selective Insurance Co. of America) and he's being unreasonable," Hodges said. "It's clear The Herald did nothing to cause damage to their building. It was the negligence of the construction company. … We want to make sure The Albany Herald is put back in the same position it was the day before the damage occurred.
"The only thing we are asking the construction company and its insurance company to do is fix the problem they caused. The insurance company has denied responsibility and say they are not going to do it. … We'll take it to a courtroom and let the jurors of Dougherty County decide. We're not going to throw up our hands and move on."
Davis said he had received a courtesy call from Hodges notifying him of the action. Davis said he had no comment.
Hodges said The Herald contends acts or omissions of the city of Albany or its employees, agents and representatives, caused The Herald's losses.
Hodges said the actions included:
— Negligent plan and design of the project;
— Negligent construction and supervision;
— Negligent inspection;
— Negligent failure to protect adjacent property from rain and other water during the course of the project and to warn of such danger;
— Negligent maintenance of the sidewalk, curbs and streets in the vicinity of The Herald;
— Trespass of property owned by The Herald.
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The idealistic notion of an army of smart volunteers taking to the Internet to help solve crimes suffered a serious knock last year. That's when cocky amateur detectives at Reddit.com took it upon themselves to scrutinize photos snapped just before the Boston Marathon bombing in search of likely "suspects." Crowd shots were posted to the Web, complete with incriminating circles and arrows pointing to innocent spectators, many of whom just happened to have brown skin. When the FBI released closed-circuit camera images of the actual perpetrators (neither of whom had been fingered by the Redditors), some site members then went on to argue that one of the suspects was Sunil Tripathi, a missing college student later found drowned in Rhode Island. It was a clueless, hurtful and potentially dangerous performance that did not bode well for the future of crowdsourced law enforcement.
Let Deborah Halber's "The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases" stand as a partial corrective to the hubris of the Redditors. Halber, a science writer, recounts how a motley band of committed hobbyists have devoted countless unpaid hours to linking unidentified human remains with missing-person reports. The case that serves as her framing device — "Tent Girl," a young woman whose body was discovered wrapped in a striped tarpaulin off Route 25 in Scott County, Kentucky — was 30 years cold when a factory worker named Todd Matthews matched her to a listing posted by a woman in search of her long-lost sister.
Matthews solved that one all the way back in 1998, when the Web was young. As Halber reveals, listings of missing persons and unidentified bodies were among the first things average citizens wanted to put on the Internet. It turns out there are a lot of unidentified bodies out there. No one can say for sure how many because real-life law enforcement organizations are much less proficient at collecting and sharing information than the ones on TV.
Sometimes, a corpse (or portion of a corpse) is found in a jurisdiction where it will get "a thorough going-over: measured and weighed; gender, race and approximate age determined; hair and eye color, if hair or eyes remain, noted; scars, tattoos and old injuries inventoried." A few counties over, the remains might be incompletely assessed and stuffed in a corner or summarily cremated and buried to save space. When a national survey of anonymous remains was made in 2004, some agencies actually found human bones stashed in cardboard banker's boxes. Still other coroners — mostly the elected, small-town variety, mistrustful of federal authority — refused to respond to the survey at all. One reasonable estimate is that authorities have collected about 40,000 remains that have not been identified.
Some of these cases are famous, with their own Web pages and Wikipedia entries; among them is the Lady of the Dunes, a young woman found, murdered and missing her hands, in a secluded grove off a beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1974. (Halber describes her own efforts to solve that notoriously perplexing mystery with the help of a Boston police dispatcher who moonlights as a missing/unidentified researcher. She found it mind-numbing to sift through the missing-person reports and redoubled her admiration for his patience.) Other cases are less mediagenic: for example, the death of a middle-aged homeless person from natural causes. Yet the latter often leave behind parents, spouses, siblings and children who are still wondering where they are and what happened to them. "We don't like to think that public agencies would abandon cases that prove too challenging," Halber writes, "but — confronted with more immediate concerns than a quietly decomposing body — they often do."
The sleuths themselves are as fascinating as the mysteries. Matthews — whose track record of solving cases eventually led to a position as communications director for the Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, a clearing house established by the Department of Justice — was coping with a bad heart and living in a trailer when he became obsessed with Tent Girl. Another member of the Skeleton Crew is a scrappy North Carolina mom who cares for a 6-year-old son with Down syndrome by day and exercises an uncanny knack for coaxing useful information out of the Internet by night. Yet another woman has an extraordinary visual memory that enables her to retain and compare hundreds of photos and reconstructions of faces.
Halber interviewed most of her sources in diners, boarding houses, tidy working-class suburbs and homes along sleepy country roads with rusted appliances and broken furniture piled out front. What she found were people whose talents might otherwise have gone untapped. Ellen Leach, "one of the most effective sleuths out there, with at least five 'solves' under her belt," came from a family that could not pay for higher education. She worked at a supermarket steam table serving prepared foods for more than 20 years and, like most of her fellow amateurs, had to make do with outdated and unreliable computers. "She may have been robbed of a college education," Halber writes, "but her considerable brainpower — like that of many of the web sleuths I'd encountered — was completely wasted on her day job."
Leach used that brain power to help convict a murderer. An Iowa man named Doug "Moose" DeBruin had, with his girlfriend, murdered his roommate and best friend, Greg May, in order to leave town and sell off the victim's many valuable Civil War-era antiques. The killers dismembered and scattered the body, embedding May's head in a bucket of cement and dumping it at a Missouri truck stop. When the bucket was finally discovered, only the skull remained intact, and Missouri police, having no idea who it belonged to, hired a celebrated forensic sculptor to re-create May's face. It was Leach who, in 2004, spotted a photograph of May on the website of Iowa's Missing Person Information Clearing House and realized that he looked a lot like the forensic bust she'd seen on yet another missing/unidentified website, the Doe Network. This came in the nick of time; prosecutors in Iowa had evidence of DeBruin's guilt but were worried they wouldn't be able to convict without a body.
Making this sort of connection has proven remarkably difficult to fully computerize. "The Skeleton Crew" is full of tales of misbegotten federal crime databases that don't contain most of the information they should or that spew out coded reports that only the most practiced adept can decipher. But even when digital resources are properly stocked, networked and interfaced, reuniting an anonymous corpse with its proper name is often a matter of intuitive leaps. With Tent Girl, the size and build of the body convinced the investigators of 1968 that the victim was a teenager. Matthews realized that a towel found with the body was a diaper and that Tent Girl could be a young mother. Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor was in fact the mother of two, and most likely killed by her carny husband.
"The Skeleton Crew" is about online communities, and no long-lived online community is without its flame wars, with all the attendant feuds, banishments, spinoff groups and coups. For the missing/unidentified researchers — one of the Internet's more venerable affinity groups — the battles result from the usual personality clashes (otherwise known as "drama") but also from a methodological schism over how to interact with law enforcement and the families of the lost. Halber divides the two groups into the "mavericks," who prefer to proceed swiftly and as they deem fit, and the "trust builders," who insist on deliberating as a group before approaching officials or the bereaved. The mavericks complain that the trust builders are too bureaucratic and slow-moving while trust builders want to build credibility in the face of the common police perception that avid tipsters are either time-wasters or simply crazy.
And, of course, plenty of them are. Halber, for obvious reasons, just focuses on the amateur sleuths who are good at their chosen work, but if the advantage of the Skeleton Crew is that anyone can join, that's also it's disadvantage. To allow the nation's overlooked brainpower to flourish, we're going to have to tolerate some kooks. When, as in the days following the Boston Marathon bombing, the Internet seems to be fostering the worst — or at least the most foolish — aspects of human nature, it's a comfort to remember that sometimes it brings out the best in us as well.
Laura Miller is a senior writer for Salon. She is the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" and has a Web site, magiciansbook.com.More Laura Miller.
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