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For many high school students, the time between taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) for the first time during sophomore year and getting a university letter of acceptance during the spring of their senior year can be harrowing.  This goes for their parents as well.

The journey from high school student to prospective college student is one that parents and their child undertake together.  There are many, many resources available for folks needing college admissions assistance and all of those resources fall into two categories: free assistance and paid assistance.

Obviously free assistance is help without a fee.  Your child’s high school academic counselor should be able to provide assistance, particularly with academic test deadlines and other hoops students planning to attend college must jump through.

Other valuable resources are the websites for the university/universities your child is hoping to attend.  They can offer the most specific information regarding the kinds of students the university accepts for admission and the parts of the college application that must be filled out along with the deadlines.  Ideally, your child will be self-motivated to apply for college admission, write college admissions essays, etc, but it always helps if you, the parent, know what is expected in the application process as well.  If you have questions about the application process for a university or if you’d like to set up a campus visit, usually you can contact the admissions office and they are very happy to help you.

Of course, another valuable resource in the research you will do about college admissions will beGoing to CollegeCredit: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2280 the Internet—not just university websites but the sites dedicated to college preparation and admissions in general.  There are thousands of websites devoted to providing information about universities, scholarships, school rankings and lots of other aspects of the application process and the collegiate experience.  Unfortunately, some of them will offer general information about the process for free and then charge a fee for specialized information and/or consulting services.  To avoid spending money on college counseling and/or consulting, try to do the following:

Patronize websites that offer services that universities or other organizations must pay for so that they can be listed.  An example of this kind of site is Fastweb which has the largest scholarship database available online and it earns money by charging to list scholarship opportunities and by showing ads on most of their pages.

Visit websites that offer information about college admissions but that don't offer another tier of service for a fee.  For example, the most helpful article I found on the first two pages of a Google search was on the TLC website, HowStuffWorks.  This site which has no ulterior motive other than to show you how the college applications process works, has a comprehensive admissions guide with plenty of links where you can find more free information as well as paid assistance.  Another great site is U.S. News and World Reports annual Best Colleges Guide that comes out every fall.  In it, you’ll find the most up-to-date information about the strengths of all kinds of American universities as well as comprehensive guides about paying for college, college applications and a wonderful database of schools.

Perhaps the only kind of information I endorse paying for in terms of college admissions assistance are the annual college guides published by a few well-respected organizations that dedicate themselves to collecting university data all year long for students and their families applying to schools.  Since they  include up to date information about college admissions, it is important to buy the most current edition you can.  All of them are available at Amazon and some of the most reputable college guides include The Best 376 Colleges from The Princeton Review and The College Handbook from The College Board.

Basically, there are two kinds of college admissions assistance: free and paid.  Both free and paid college information is available online.  I certainly don’t mean to knock college admissions consultants that you can hire but the sources I have listed here are on reputable sites and published by reputable organizations.  Best of luck on your college admissions journey!


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Contrary to the pundits on CNN, the Internet is not dead. Proof? You're here, aren't you? Internet technologies are still growing despite the dot.com crash on Wall Street. Intranets, new technologies, and more affordable bandwidth are helping the Internet improve, reinvent, and restructure. Are you keeping up or giving up?

The Certified Internet Webmaster is a program from Prosoft that is geared for Internet professionals looking to prove their expertise in four areas of master certification: Administrator, Enterprise Developer, Designer, and Web Site Manager. Each of the Master CIW titles begins with the CIW Associate exam. Let's take a look at this initial exam and what you'll need to pass it.

For starters, the CIW exam is an entry-level exam that will test your knowledge of e-commerce, security, HTML, and basic networking. According to Prosoft, as of this writing, there are 25,000 CIW certifications earned so far. An exam candidate should have three to six months of experience of Internet technology experience prior to taking the exam. The exam costs $125 per attempt—but brags an 80% passing rate. Of course, Prosoft recommends that candidates take a five-day foundations class to adequately prep.

So, what is on this exam? You can expect questions stemming from three primary categories: Internet Fundamentals, Web Page Authoring Fundamentals, and Networking Fundamentals. Let's break these down a bit more.

Internet Fundamentals

You'll need a bird's-eye view of the Internet and how it works, for starters. This includes the evolution of the Internet. You'll need to know how the Internet works for both clients and servers. The exam will challenge your understanding of DNS resolution, registering domain names, and the difference between intranets and extranets.

On the client side, you will need to know how browsers request and send information to Web servers. This means you'll need to know details of both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. A CIW will be able to customize either browser, deal with fonts, set home pages, add favorites, and purge the history of Web sites visited (not that there's anything naughty in the history). On a more technical note, you'll also need to know about the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and its influence on today's portable devices (think phones and PDAs).

You'll also need to able to configure and connect to FTP servers through traditional command-line applications and fancier GUI interfaces. This exam will require you to configure a newsreader for newsgroups and multiple servers. Of course, you'll still need experience with Telnet and need to know why it's hanging around.

What would the Internet be like without email? Pretty boring. This exam will attack many issues on email configuration, usage, and applications. You'll need to know how to configure email messages, how to send and receive email, and how to configure mail applications such as Netscape Messenger and Microsoft Outlook Express. I'm personally glad to see that this exam will cover netiquette (etiquette for email and more). Candidates will need to be able to configure email signatures, attachments, and mailing lists.

This exam will test your knowledge and understanding of objects, plug-ins, and viewers for a multimedia-enhanced Web site. You will need to know what objects and active content are and how they can impact Web traffic, server load, and a user's experience. This exam will expect you to have a cursory knowledge of C, C++, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, and VBScript. You don't have to dream in code, just know what each is capable of.

How the heck do we ever find anything on the Web? Search engines! This exam will test your knowledge of how to use a search engine, how to add a Web site to search engine directory, and how to use search indexes. You'll need to be able to use some tricks and Boolean operators to filter the search results of any search engine to pass this exam. The objective on search engines also includes the ability to search for people, mailing lists, and newsgroups.

Did you lock the back door? Yeah, I'm talking about security. We've all heard about all the trashing and thrashing Web sites have gone through, so you can expect this exam to test your ability to secure Internet usage for clients, servers, and networks. That means you'll need to be able to work with cookies, send secure date, configure user authentication, and enable digital certificates. You can also count on questions dealing with viruses, proxy servers, and firewalls.

This third of the exam wraps up with a section on e-commerce. You need to know what it is, how it works, and why it's so great for business and users. Expect questions on Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

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Abuse, lack of parental warmth in childhood linked to multiple health risks in adulthood

The effects of childhood abuse and lack of parental affection can last a lifetime, taking a toll both emotionally and physically.

There are many reports assessing the psychological damage resulting from childhood abuse, and the effects on physical health have also been well documented. For instance, this "toxic" stress has been linked to elevated cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and other physical conditions posing a significant health risk. The research into the physical effects of abuse, however, has focused on separate, individual systems.

A new UCLA-led study for the first time examines the effects of abuse and lack of parental affection across the body's entire regulatory system, and finds a strong biological link for how negative early life experiences affect physical health. The study is published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Our findings suggest that there may be a way to reduce the impact abuse has, at least in terms of physical health," said Judith E. Carroll, a research scientist at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA, and the study's lead author. "If the child has love from parental figures they may be more protected from the impact of abuse on adult biological risk for health problems than those who don't have that loving adult in their life."

The researchers studied 756 adults who had participated in a study called Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA). They measured 18 biological markers of health risk, such as blood pressure, heart rate, stress hormone, cholesterol, waist circumference, inflammation, and blood sugar regulation, and added up their risks across these markers to create a summary index called "allostatic load." Values at the upper range across these markers indicated they were at higher biological risk for disease. Previous research has shown that higher levels of allostatic load are associated with increased likelihood of a negative health event such as a heart attack or stroke, or show declines in physical or cognitive functioning.

To determine the study subjects' childhood stress the researchers used a well-validated self-report scale called the Risky Families Questionnaire.

They found a significant link between reports of childhood abuse and multisystem health risks But those who reported higher amounts of parental warmth and affection in their childhood had lower multisystem health risks The researchers also found a significant interaction of abuse and warmth, so that individuals reporting low levels of love and affection and high levels of abuse in childhood had the highest multisystem risk in adulthood.

The researchers suggest that toxic childhood stress alters neural responses to stress, boosting the emotional and physical arousal to threat and making it more difficult for that reaction to be shut off.

"Our findings highlight the extent to which these early childhood experiences are associated with evidence of increased biological risks across nearly all of the body's major regulatory systems" said Teresa Seeman, professor of medicine in the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, and the paper's senior author. "If we only look at individual biological parameters such as blood pressure or cholesterol, we would miss the fact that the early childhood experiences are related to a much broader set of biological risk indicators – suggesting the range of health risks that may result from such adverse childhood exposures".

The authors note that the findings are based on a cross-sectional analysis and do not prove causation. It used information provided by the participants, so there may be some recall bias. Also, the analysis may not have captured other factors affecting regulatory systems, such as poor nutrition or environmental pollution.

But the findings suggest that parental warmth and affection protect one against the harmful effects of toxic childhood stress. Also, the lingering effects of childhood abuse can be linked to age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Among other things, this could have an effect on long-term health care costs.

"It is our hope that this will encourage public policy support for early interventions," Carroll said. "If we intervene early in risky families and at places that provide care for children by educating and training parents, teachers, and other caregivers in how to provide a loving and nurturing environment, we may also improve the long term health trajectories of those kids."

Additional study co-authors are Shelley E. Taylor of UCLA, Tara L. Gruenewald of the University of Southern California, Denise Janicki-Deverts of Carnegie Mellon University, and Karen A. Matthews of the University of Pittsburgh.

The CARDIA study is conducted and supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Grants N01-HC95095 and N01-HC48047); University of Minnesota (Grant N01-HC48048); Northwestern University (Grant N01-HC48049); Kaiser Foundation Research Institute (Grant N01-HC48050); University of California, Irvine; Echocardiography Reading Center (Grant N01-HC-45134); Harbor–University of California (Los Angeles, CA) Research Education Institute and Computed Tomography Reading Center (Grant N01-HC-05187). This study was also supported by MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health through grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and by Grant T32-MH19925 and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA.

The Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology encompasses an interdisciplinary network of scientists working to advance the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology by linking basic and clinical research programs and by translating findings into clinical practice. The center is affiliated with the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The UCLA Division of Geriatrics, within the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, offers comprehensive outpatient and inpatient services at several convenient locations, and works closely with other UCLA programs that strive to improve or maintain the quality of life of seniors. UCLA geriatricians are specialists in the managing of the overall health of people age 65 and older and treating the medical disorders that frequently affect the elderly, including falls and immobility, urinary incontinence (lack of bladder control), memory loss and dementia, arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis and diabetes. As a result of their specialized training, geriatricians can knowledgably consider and address a broad spectrum of health-related factors – including medical, psychological and social – when treating their patients.

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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. Their findings offer hope of being able to treat schizophrenia with drugs that affect the immune system.

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now been able to analyse inflammatory substances in the spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia, instead of, as in previous studies, in the blood. The results show that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have raised levels of a signal substance called interleukin-1beta, which can be released in the presence of inflammation. In the healthy control patients, this substance was barely measurable.

"This suggests that the brain's immune defence system is activated in schizophrenia," says Professor Göran Engberg, who led the study. "It now remains to be seen whether there is an underlying infection or whether the immune system is triggered by some other means."

According to the dominant hypothesis, schizophrenia is related to an overactive dopamine system. Previous studies have shown that interleukin-1beta can upset the dopamine system in rats in a similar way to schizophrenia in humans.

"We would have made terrific progress if we were one day able to treat schizophrenia patients with immunotherapy, as it might then be possible to interrupt the course of the disease at an early stage of its development," says Professor Engberg.

The group is now studying if the inflammatory process is only activated in connection with the development of schizophrenia, or whether chronic patients exhibit the same phenomenon.

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ApexGen is a utility to generate Oracle Application Express (Apex) pages and page components based on a PL/SQL API, in a fraction of the time it takes to manually create report and form pages.

I have downloaded the files and had a quick look at the documentation. Actually it’s a much nicer documentation than mine for the ApexLib Framework. Clean and very nice layout! To my rescue I can say that I already redid the layout for my Oracle APEX Builder Plugin project a few weeks ago, because I thought it needs better marketing. Just haven’t announced the new web-site yet. But back to the topic. 🙂

The tool and the scope of the project looks really interesting and can really speed up your development! As soon I have more time I have to take a more detail look at the source code and how I can use it. From my quick look at the documentation, I noticed that Morten is using the same $KEYWORD$ hint syntax than I’m using for the ApexLib Framework. Now I’m sure, it can only be a good piece of software 🙂

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Whether you’re there to ski, snowboard, shop, bike, hike, fish, or just do nothing at all, the best part of a mountain resort is always the mountain. Although that was put there by the world’s most beloved Engineer — Mother Nature — virtually everything else that’s on and around it was created by someone else: a Mountain Resort Designer.

As a Mountain Resort Designer, you plan and design mountain resorts, as well as mountain resort villages, mountain lodges, and mountain vacation retreats, be they time-share communities, campgrounds, ski resorts, or hotels.

An alpine-themed Architect who’s often known as a “Mountain Resort Architect” or “Mountain Resort Planner,” you offer services ranging from architecture, engineering, and master planning to project management, landscape architecture, and interior design. In other words: As a Mountain Resort Designer, you do it all.

When a Real Estate Developer decides to create a tourism destination in a mountain location, they hire you to envision the resort, then design and build it from scratch. From start to finish, that includes such tasks as conducting site feasibility studies, designing interior and exterior structures, choosing building materials, and managing vendors and workers. It also includes choosing the size, scale, orientation, and location of resort facilities, and — since mountain communities are all about nature — addressing issues of sustainability and environmental impact.

Put in the simplest terms possible: You decide what the resort will look like, where it will go, and how it will function. And because it’s a mountain resort, you do it with constant consideration for mountain environments, ecosystems, infrastructure, challenges, and opportunities — always remembering that you can’t move mountains, but you can certainly make them over!

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I remember reading an article over a decade ago that discussed the transition of anti-virus software from a perpetual license for updates to a subscription-based system. Nowadays, that model has shifted to be completely free anti-virus software for private, non-commercial users in order to safeguard the Internet as a whole.

Even subscription-based online games have moved to a free-to-play model with micro-transactions. So it is not just anti-virus that went from subscription to free. The subscription model does work for certain kinds of businesses, such as Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE), which recently reported earnings that validated the shift to the subscription model.

Subscription model sees early success

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) is actually pretty late to the game considering the type of software it creates. Photoshop and other creative programs are so expensive and so feature-filled that it just makes sense to have a recurring license that can have incremental updates. That way, users will never have to make a decision about keeping their old product, making Adobe no money, or buying the newest one with features they may or may not need.

Adobe Systems IncorporatedAdobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE)’s subscription goal for 2013 is very steep, and it is not certain that the company will be able to meet this goal. Considering the company is making money, buying back stock, and generally chugging along nicely, missing on subscription numbers might not do much to the stock. It really comes down to whether analyst predictions incorporate its target 100% or not. I think it is far too difficult to ascertain whether Adobe will be able to achieve 1.25 million subscribers by the end of 2013, but the goal is ambitious enough to warrant caution.

One of the more interesting things I witnessed on the earnings conference call was that most of the sign-ups have been individuals. The company wants to expand efforts to sign over teams. It makes sense for professional teams versus private hobbyists to go with a subscription as it gives them access to all the newest features and smooths out their expenses instead of spiking whenever a new version comes out. It should not be hard to convert group license holders to shift to the subscription model, but my concern is why they have not already done so.

I liked Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) at $30, but at $44 it strikes me as expensive, especially since I remain hesitant on whether it can meet its own goal. The company is not a bad one, but all the recent price action has made the stock far worse than the company. I cannot say it is going down, but it seems expensive.

Subscription model makes an exit

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) is a stock I have written a lot about and have been extremely bullish on up until a few weeks ago, when I recommended reducing position sizes. The stock has fallen since then, which I do not attribute to the company specifically.

The company does not have a major game release until the fall with Call of Duty Ghosts, which might break sales records but will not be something we haven’t seen before. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) does not have a lot of titles and it needs Call of Duty to always break records to justify its top spot among video game stocks, and lack of innovation can chip away at gamers looking for something that feels fresher.

Skylanders faces pressure from The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) Infinity. I think having another competitor is a good thing, because it can draw more children to that style of gaming. However, there is a risk that it will at least stymie growth.

All of this is against the backdrop of falling subscription rates for World of Warcraft. Most of the drop came in Asia where it has far more volatility and lower revenue per subscriber, but total subscribers are still less than the game’s heyday. The game has no pending expansions, and I am sure plenty of players are losing interest. World of Warcraft will be killed by sheer age. There is just too much other stuff to play over the years to keep something going on permanently, especially as free-to-play becomes the new standard.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) is coming out with World of Warcraft Hearthstone, which is a free-to-play online trading card game. The potential for micro-transactions is huge, but the revenue from this will trickle in over time. The longevity of games like this is impressive, but the quarter-to-quarter revenue will probably not mitigate more World of Warcraft subscription losses.

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Magical McBride scores MLS 80th on retirement day

Chivas USA 1 Chicago Fire 4

Reporter Phil Collin had the game story.

If, like me, you skipped this meaningless last Chivas USA game, you missed history and Brian McBride’s last-ever MLS goal. And an inventive final contribution it was, too.

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Quotable: “The transition has been difficult,” said Chivas USA Coach Martin Vasquez, as he summed up the season. “Tonight, our team has been hit, like other teams in MLS. This season, our fans, our ownership, our players have been tested and challenged, but we also think that we have to continue to work. Other franchises, other teams, other coaches, other players have responded in our league, that’s what we have to do. We have to regroup. This last game comes at the best time because we need to take a deep breath and regroup. The emotions are difficult right now but the only way we turn this around is by making sure that we learn from the mistakes that we made this season.”

Jonny B also said he’s been reflecting on his MLS career – and packing for Mexico:

“More than anything I have those discussions with my family, when we’re at dinner, at family parties or barbecues. We talk about the good moments of the year, the not-so-good ones and generally what lies ahead because I won’t be with them to have those conversations any more all the time like I have been.

It’s been a good year and been a good run at Chivas USA. They basically gave me my chance as a professional player and I’m very thankful for that. I tried to do as best I could for the club.

I want to get a little bit of time to kind of just get away from everything. I’ve got to figure out a lot of stuff in terms of what’s going with me to Mexico. That’s kind of going to be the
immediate future.”

Chivas USA honored its 2010 team award winners before the game:

*Michael Umaa was Defender of the Year.
*Justin Braun took the Golden Boot and Most Valuable Player.
*Jonathan Bornstein received the Claudio Surez Award, given to the player who best represents the spirit of Chivas USA.

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Whittier Christian senior libero Emily Atwood committed to Fordham University last Thursday, as was confirmed by her mother Annette Atwood.

Emily Atwood was a part of the Heralds’ big turnaround the last two years, which has resulted in two Alpha League titles, two CIF-Southern Section Division 4AA title-match appearances and last season’s championship.

Atwood was a Daily News’ two-time first-team selection and is expected to sign soon.

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Okiishi was one of the area’s few CIF-Southern Section Divisional Finals qualifiers.

Lastly, although it is a bit of old news, California girls soccer coach Brian Bordier called to remind us that senior midfielder Jasmine Martinez also committed to the University of Houston.

Martinez was a co-Del Rio League MVP last season and finished this year as the league’s top scorer with 19 goals and 11 assists.

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    Hello All,
    I have yet to fly my new Inspire 1, but the first thing I noticed is that the simulator is very buggy. A few things to add before I continue:

    1. RC firmware current
    2. Inspire firmware current
    3. IOS DJI app current
    4. IPhone 6s Plus

    What do I mean by buggy?

    1. Occasionally, I get repeated "your aircraft has disconnected, please reconnect and restart simulator". This is a white notification box and yet my RC signal is full bars. It seems to resolve if I reseat usb cable or just restart DJI App.

    2. On some occasions, the inspire will come out of travel mode on its own. I really hope it doesn't start on it's own.

    3. When flying, the app will stutter/jerk/jitter during flight and sometimes pause. This clears up by itself.

    4. If you raise and lower landing gear enough, it will say the landing gear is up or down but it doesn't happen on the screen. Restarting the DJI App fixes the issue.

    What have I done to fix?

    1. Reinstalled DJI Go App
    2. Tried alternate and official lightning cables
    3. Restored IPhone 6s Plus

    Anyone experience this other than me? It's a little nerve racking to see such bugginess in the software.


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Greetings everyone! The whirlwind spring tour of 2012 continues with our most recent taping in Houston, Texas. We taped at the Wortham Center, the gigantic home of the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera, and our show included plenty of outstanding Houston talent. The audience was packed, and, as a result of the Houston Public Radio’s fundraising drive’s From the Top Day, almost 200 Project GRAD students were able to attend our taping for free!

Kicking off the festivities was the Houston Youth Symphony, 82 members strong, performing Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3. After they played, a few of the orchestra members were interviewed about inter-orchestra romance. One of the teenage members shared that he was a student ambassador for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which works to ensure that gay students are not bullied, and it was heartening to see his orchestra colleagues and the audience applaud in support.

Later in the show, a fantastic 18-year-old baritone, Aaron Bigeleisen, sang Schubert and spoke about founding a Glee Club – although in this case, “GLEE” is a clever acronym for “Gun Lovers and Environmental Enthusiasts!” The audience got a kick out of that, and it struck me that here on From the Top we meet kids of all ages and backgrounds with all sorts of different viewpoints, who bond through their shared love of music and also tend to find a lot of common ground with each other. Now if only the rest of the world could work like that!

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My car stereo has only one 'Aux' input, but I have several gadgets that I like to hear on a trip without swapping cables: MP3 Player, talking GPS, Blackberry, XM player, Kindle, etc.

I couldn't find a commercial solution, so I came up with this little passive audio mixer that takes 1/8" headphone outputs from up to four devices and safely mixes the signals into one line that can feed a car stereo Aux input, powered speaker or any other amplifier that can take 1/8" stereo output.

No batteries are required, it's sonically transparent and most audio gadgets have their own volume control so the mixer can be done very simply and cheaply.

This little mixer also works great for connecting multiple computers to one set of amplified speakers and has many other possible uses. Note that this device is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HEADPHONES!!!! Whatever you plug into the output needs to have its own amplification, or the volume will probably be too low.

Note: Soldering is required. If you don't know how, please search for Instructables on how to solder, as that's beyond the scope of this project.

Step 1: Materials

Qty 1    ---       Altoids Tin. See Note 1.
Qty 5    ---     1/8" (3.5mm) Stereo input Jacks, Radio Shack part 274-249 or equiv.
Qty 8    ---      1k ohm Resistors, Radio Shack part 271-004 (5-pack) or equiv. see Note 2.
1 foot   ---      22-30 gauge solid hookup wire, stripped bare

Note 1: A normal Altoids Tin can take 4 or more inputs, this example assumes 4 inputs. The Altoids Gum tins can fit 3 inputs comfortably. Adjust the number of jacks according to:

       # of Jacks = 1+ # of inputs

and number of resistors by:

       # of Resistors = 2 * # of inputs

Note 2: All resistors (2 per input channel) should have the same value, which can be anything between 1k  and 10k ohms. Higher values result in a higher volume drop. Also, the resistor power rating can be 1/8 or higher. This circuit runs no power through it, so there's no need for bigger than 1/8 w, but use whatever you have handy. Bigger power rating = bigger size.

Made one!!
It was my first time soldering something.
I kinda screwed up half way and now the wires are crossing each other... but it works!!
If you have any constructive criticism, please shot it at me!!

Hey, it looks great! I like they way you mixed 1/4" and 1/8" connectors. No real constructive criticisms, if it works, that's the real test. I'm not sure Jimi Hendrix' head was that square but otherwise looks great (jk ;^) -- Rich
Made one and it works great. Thanks.
Wow, really nice job! Good idea to use resistor networks!

 Would you care to share the artwork?

Jacks are Mouser 161-3508-E. Resistor networks are Mouser 652-4608X-1LF-1K 1k ohm. Other resistor values are available. Board was fabricated by ExpressPCB.com.
Can this image be used to have a board made or do we need the ExpressPCB file?
This is a 2 sided board and I don't know if the image is scaled correctly once you download it. I do have the ExpressPCB file if you want it. Email me at steve"at"PowerSwitchTail"dot"com.

I noticed the connection to ground on both resistor arrays (last but one pin). The "rats' nest" desing seems to omit that. Could you explain why it matters?

The circuit board layout is chipmonger's and while I see what you mean, I don't know why he choose to tie those 2 resistors to ground -- I can't see that it serves any necessary function (also doesn't hurt anything). The resistor network he's using contains 8 resistors with a value of 1k Ohm each, all tied together on one side and connected to pin 1 (output signal in this case). Pins 2-9 are the other side of each resistor, which chipmonger is using as mixer inputs. He could've done 8 inputs, but only did 4, and needed one network for each stereo channel (L + R). So again, no idea why he choose to do that, but maybe he'll reply. Guaranteed it's not necessary though.

Thanks a lot for the answer, I could not figure out its role either. Current would flow that way (i think) when an input is present, but there's nothing plugged into the output? I guess I'll build it as is and then make some measurments with a multimeter.

Looks like a 2-sided board with the silkscreen mask drawn in so you would either need the file or just reproduce it on your own. It isn't mine and I don't have it. Maybe chipmonger would nice enough to provide if you asked.
Thanks for the artwork and again, really nice job!

why did you put the resistors , can we do it with out them ?

Please read FAQ on step 15. You can do anything you like, but unless you want to use this as a signal splitter, leaving out the resistors is a bad idea.

It works!!!

Hah! that's a crazy-looking tin, I like it! Good job, glad it worked.

Rich
I made a new passive mixer based on your ible. Thank you so much for the awesome instructions !

that I can use my PC headphone output as input 1 & a low level source as input 2? I know PC output is amplified, but thought you may have any suggestion. I know I can use car audio HI-Low adapter, but like to use your idea for a compact box, Thanks

I would suggest just trying it first, if there is too big a difference in the input levels, you may need to lower the resistor values for the low level signal. You can do this either by replacing the resistors or by soldering resistors in parallel. The formula for the resulting resistance is (r1 x r2)/(r1 + r2)

 Good luck
Great box! Thanks for sharing the pictures!

 Rich

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for making the instructions clear and actually including a circuit diagram that wasn't made in MS Paint. It works perfectly for what I need, and every input comes out the other end crystal clear, even when multiple sources are playing at once.

I ended up using a Radioshack project box instead of an Altoids tin, mostly because I just didn't have one sitting around and the box was actually cheaper than a tin of Altoids. This also makes the drilling significantly easier and prevents any unintentional shorts.

Thank you again for taking the time to make this useful, clear and concise guide.

Hey, nice job! Glad you were successful and thanks for posting the pictures!

works pretty nice! great idea!!!

Nice job! I like the jacks you used, where did you get them?

Rich

hi from Germany. I found the Jacks at www.conrad.de but I will make an other one with 6,2mm jacks :-)

thanks for the great idea! I did a mixer/splitter for an experimental music project

Hey Vanderaalle, great job!! Looks like you're using 1/4" jacks and I *love* the tin (although not a smoker myself). Hope this works well for you.

-Rich

I made mine. Not as pretty as yours but sure gets the job done! Stuck with the 1k resistors. Thanks for the great 'structable!
Thanks for posting. Here is my version, it works perfectly.

 C3-PO is an old ball mouse. After removing the guts there was plenty of room for the wiring. For the triple input audio jack I used parts from an old motherboard's sound card. They have five leads on each; 1) ground, 2) closed tip, 3) open tip, 4) closed ring, 5) open ring. When a plug is inserted, the part that touches the tip moves from the open tip lead to the closed tip lead. This must be how a computer knows when a plug is inserted. I used the closed tip/ring leads, leaving the open/tip leads alone. I wonder if the the open leads could be used for anything.
Nice! Good recycling!
Thank you. I used pulled parts from trashed sound card and a "Smalls" tin.... I love Old school point-to-point wiring...and Hot glue.
Here's my version of the mixer, using a Lucky Stars Candy tin. I plan to add a "floor" above the wiring so that I can store a short 1/8" patch cord inside as well.
Nice! I particularly like the 'Hello Kitty' motif ;^) Thanks for sharing the picture.

Rich
Made one in less than an two hours, including trip to radio shack for parts, and safeway for MINI altoids tin. Used 1k resistors. Very Small, works fine.
Nice job!

 Good idea to run the connectors out of the bottom of the mini altoids tin.

 Looks like you used heat-shrink tubing for insulation as well. Heat-shrink is one of the best things ever for building things and professional wiring repairs.

 I'm glad it worked for you and thanks for sharing the picture.

 - Rich

I made this, tested each input individually and they all work great, but when I plug my four Volca synths into this, I can only hear two of them. Any thoughts?

Hi Marc, if everything is built correctly, the cables are all good and the outputs of all 4 synths are good then you should hear all 4. I would suggest the troubleshooting method of changing 1 variable at a time, for example: for each cable in turn, test each one with Synth #1 and input #1. If all 4 cables are good run through the inputs in turn, then the synths. If all of those single combinations are good, start working on pairs, etc, until you can reproduce the problem. Not much fun, but that's how I troubleshoot.. if you're patient and methodical, you'll eventually find the issue. Rich

I made it! Great thanks! It works just perfectly! Inside it's kinda sloppy and I haven't cut the wires yet but was my first time soldering something : ) I really really appreciate this instructable!

I need basically a stereo Channel and a MONO Channel to go in and everything to play out both L&R side I have a XLR to 3.5mm cable for Mic(MONO) and output on laptop (stereo) to be able to go into amp 3.5mm

What's best way to do this? Would I need half the rating(resistor) on MONO or Double?

Hi, just a question, if I wanted to add a second output? maybe with a selector switch, do you think it could work? (basically I need to connect at least 3 PCs to speakers and/or headphone, yes I've read the part about amplify the headphone signal, that will come later)

As long as the total impedance of the outputs is high, practically you can have as many outputs as you want. No need for a switch. Remember, the output loads are seen in parallel, meaning that 1 low impedance output load (like headphones) will kill the sound for all of them. But you could drive many pre-amp inputs without a problem.
Made one. Works a treat. I used two inputs only and a basic board.

Looks like you have 4.7K resistors in the pictures and 1K resistors in the parts list. Which works better?

Honestly, it's not that critical as long as they're all the same value. Lower resistor values will result in less signal loss, but at some point there will start to be some degree of distortion (when you start to get down below 10x the output impedance of the devices, for example), but that depends on a lot of factors. I think 1K ohm is plenty high enough and you could probably get away with half that -- say 470 ohms or higher, and be fine.
Made one in 5 min today. Looked online and I only found one that would have run me $75. I had most of the parts (missing another audio jack). Works great and i can add the jack later.

Thank you Rich!

 This solved sooo many issues I was trying to maneuver around.

 My '07 E90 BMW (3 series) came without Bluetooth and USB features but thank goodness for the Aux input! This solution allows me to use my external navigation(which doubles as a USB input for music) and a separate external Bluetooth hands-free unit simultaneously through the audio system!

 I chose a smaller tin which fits perfectly into the arm rest compartment, where the Aux input is. I placed the stereo jacks on the lid facing upwards for easy access and compact setup.

 The internal wiring is conceptually the same as you've advised, just arranged differently. I also used 1mm heat shrink tubes to cover up the resistor leads. High quality 1% 1/8W metal film resistors with flame retardant coating were used.

 An upgrade to an OEM
Bluetooth/USB upgrade head unit is not only costly, it would force me to
choose one among Bluetooth, USB and Aux inputs, whereas I want to use all sources/options as I choose, independently. For example, an OEM Bluetooth/USB upgrade head unit
would shut off all other audio when taking a call, whereas I want to be
able to hear the navigation (as well as music if I choose) while taking a call.

 Again, thank you! Cheers!

Hell yeah! I made it for my volcas, and it works. Very simple and great solution, thanks!

made one this eve. FUN! thank you for the clear instructions .

Made it with this cute tin - difficult to drill the holes. Thanks for the instructions. I don't find there's any need to connect the grounds other than through the tin.

Made one! and works :)

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Scriptural Reasoning Overview

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Shaping all of CIP’s work is a practice that has become known as ‘Scriptural Reasoning’, in which Jews, Christians and Muslims meet to read passages from their respective Scriptures together.

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Contributed by Scott Sammons, May 06, 2002 [ulster61@aol.com]. Total records = 35.

The cemetery is located on Old Trail Road just off Route 30 about 2 miles south of Johnstown, in the town of Mohawk.

This is a private cemetery owned by the Sammons Family.

I first found a typed transcript in the Old Court House in Fonda, NY. I have since taken the transcript and went stone by stone and checked it as well as shot video tape. I transcribed from the headstones about 1999.

- Scott Sammons

Fonda, Mary Sammons, b. 4/5/1876, d. 5/26/1876, d/o I. H. & Lydia S.
Mann, Barbara Grose, b. 4/23/1815, d. 12/7/1895, s/w and wife of Col. Simeon Sammons
Mann, John B., d. 2/25/1817 ae 4y 9m 11d, (Son of John & Julia Ann)
Pratt, Mary Charlotte Dockstader, b. 6/19/1918, d. 12/6/1990, (great granddaughter of Simeon Sammons)
Sammons, Almira, d. 4/11/1863 ae 1 mo. 25 da (dau. of J. & E.)
Sammons, Barbara Grose, b. 4/23/1815, d. 12/8/1895 (wife of Simeon Sammons)
Sammons, Catharine A. Dorn, d. 7/15/1912 ae 80, wife of Henry
Sammons, Col. Simeon, b. 5/23/1811, d. 3/19/1881, (son of Thomas)
Sammons, Delos, d. 10/14/1858 ae 4wks, (son of J. & E.)
Sammons, Elizabeth, d. 3/31/1871 in 30 yr, (dau. of John)
Sammons, Frederick, b. 7/4/1766, d. 5/22/1838, (son of Sampson)
Sammons, Frederick., b. 12/16/1817, d. 2/11/1838 (son of Fred'k & Ruth)
Sammons, Henry F., b. 12/28/1815, d. 4/4/1887
Sammons, Jacob T., b. 5/29/1802, d. no date
Sammons, Jacob, d. 11/4/1816 (son of Sampson)
Sammons, Jane Emma, b. 7/24/1844, d. 4/8/1864, (third dau. of Simeon & Barbara)
Sammons, Julie Ann, d. 1/16/1834 ae 29 yr, (wife of William T.)
Sammons, Magdalene, d. 10/30/1844 (age broken), (dau. of Simeon & Barbara)
Sammons, Major Stephen, b. 11/5/1814, d. 8/27/1879, (son of Thomas)
Sammons, Major Thomas, b. 10/28/1762, d. 11/20/1838, (son of Sampson)
Sammons, Margaret, b. 11/11/1808, d. 5/11/1828, (dau. of Fred'k & Ruth)
Sammons, Margaret, d. 2/21/1841 ae 36 yr. 13 da, (wife of Jacob T.)
Sammons, Maria, d. 6/27/1838 in 20 yr, (dau. of Sampson & Nelly)
Sammons, Martha, b. 8/9/1883, d. 12/14/1883, (dau. of H.G. & Lillian )
Sammons, Mary E., b. 1836, d. 1918
Sammons, Mary Jane Noyes, b. 8/21/1815, d. 9/22/1875, wife of H.G. Sammons
Sammons, Mary Wood, b. 2/23/1773, d. 12/15/1850 (wife of Thomas Sammon)
Sammons, Rachel Schoonmaker, d. 12/5/1822, ae 96 yrs, (wife of Sampson Sammons)
Sammons, Rebecca C., d. 7/4/1843 in 38th yr, (wife of William T.)
Sammons, Richard, d. 6/9/1812 ae 31 yr, (son of Benjamin & Hannah)
Sammons, Ruth Shottenkirk, b. 12/24/1771, d. 3/25/1838, wife of Fredrick Sammons
Sammons, Sampson, b. 12/14/1722, d. 10/17/1796
Sammons, Simeon Starin, b. 12/31/1886, d. 2/19/1887, (son of H.G. & Lillian)
Sammons. Simeon, b. 11/22/1860, d. 4/25/1861, son of H. G. & Mary Jane
Shaw, Rachel, d. 4/9/18?? ae 42 yr. (wife of Strphen)

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As intlawyers well know, a foundation of contemporary rules regarding the use of force is the Caroline affair.
As posted, U.S.-Britain negotiations more than 170 years ago articulated a concept of "anticipatory self-defense," subject to conditions of necessity and proportionality.
Perhaps less well known is the underlying incident.
Spurring the diplomatic exchange of notes was 1837 unrest in Canada, then a British colony. Anti-British rebels encamped at Navy Island in the middle of the Niagara River, which marks the U.S.-Canada border. Rebel night-raids of Britain's Canadian forts prompted Britain to seize the Caroline, a rebel vessel. They torched it and set it loose; it broke up in the rock-strewn rapids. Eventually, what was left of the Caroline went over the Niagara Falls.
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Crews searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet launched a targeted underwater hunt on Friday for the plane's black boxes along a stretch of remote ocean, with just days left before the devices' batteries are expected to run out.

The Australian navy ship Ocean Shield, which is dragging a towed pinger locator from the US Navy, and the British navy's HMS Echo, which has underwater search gear on board, will converge along a 240km track in a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search.

The plane's data recorders emit a ping that can be detected by the equipment on board the ships. But the battery-powered devices stop transmitting the pings for about 30 days after a crash - meaning searchers have little time left before the batteries on Flight MH370's black boxes die out. Locating the data recorders and wreckage after that is possible, but incredibly difficult.

The area the ships are searching was chosen based on hourly satellite pings the aircraft gave off after it vanished from radar March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. That information, combined with data on the estimated speed and performance of the aircraft, led them to that particular stretch of ocean, Houston said.

“The area of highest probability as to where the aircraft might have entered the water is the area where the underwater search will commence,” Houston said. “It's on the basis of data that only arrived very recently and it's the best data that is available.”

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Paris - Some tourists walk Paris, some sit at cafes, others zip around the metro to Eiffel-esque destinations. But I dreamed of seeing Paris from a bicycle.

Besides, my wife, our teenage daughter and I had spent five full days together, and there comes a time in every family vacation when one needs – how do I say this? – an intermission.

The ladies went shopping. I investigated the Web site Bike About Tours. An e-mail exchange later, and voila, I have a spot on the 10am tour the next morning, which begins in an underground garage below the Hotel de Ville, Paris’ city hall.

A pleasure of any tour is handing over the planning, but before we begin, I must make a big decision: to wear a helmet, or not to wear a helmet?

“It’s not required by law,” says Fox McInerney, our Australian guide, noting that helmets are “not considered very fashionable here”. All the other adults in the group ride sans helmets, but I strap mine on, feeling like The Anxious American in a flock of soon-to-be-flying liberated tourists, including two American families, an Australian couple and an Argentine woman.

“Allons-y!” Fox finally says, and even I know that he means, “Let’s go!”

We rise from the subterranean garage into a crisp summer morning, and over the next four hours, we’ll cover more terrain than most walkers can manage in a long day, wheeling through the Marais and Left Bank neighbourhoods and past such famous sites as the Louvre, the Palais de Justice and Notre Dame.

This is no strolling tour; it’s a rolling tour.

I had worried that biking through downtown Paris would be a death-defying pleasure, but it’s quickly apparent that this is one of the friendliest bicycling cities I’ve ever pedalled. First, no hills. And instead of feeling like an intruder on car-dominated streets, I feel like an equal to pedestrians, cars, taxis, buses, mopeds and motorcycles, all respectfully negotiating the slowed-down etiquette of the shared road. Fifteen minutes into the tour, I remove my helmet. I feel like a kid again.

There are bike paths everywhere – on bridges, on grand boulevards and on one-way streets, laid down on a variety of bikable surfaces built over the last half-millennium: crushed stone, macadam, cobblestone and cement. They’re even painted on sidewalks, and once we’re riding along the Seine, I’m startled when a bicyclist comes rolling right at me; two bike lanes, heading in opposite directions, run side by side.

“Since they introduced the city bikes, they’ve added a lot of bike lanes,” Fox says. He’s referring to Velib, a public bike rental system, and a word created by combining velo, or bike, and liberte, which together means “bike freedom”.

Introduced in Paris in 2007, Velib now includes 20 000 rental bikes available at 1 800 stations. The city plans to have 690km of bike lanes to accommodate bicyclists like us ready this year.

On a bridge to the Latin Quarter, we stop to spot some famous buildings, including the Montparnasse Tower, Paris’s second-tallest building (after the renovated Tour First).

Parisians found the massive gravestone-like skyscraper built in the early 1970s so ugly that they quickly passed a ban on buildings more than seven storeys high in much of the city, and I’m glad that they have. I’m convinced that Paris’s “City of Light” sobriquet doesn’t refer to the role Paris played in the Enlightenment, but to all the sunlight that can reach almost any Parisian street. In the same direction, we see the Pantheon, built by Louis XV, honouring St Genevieve, and the resting place of such French VIPs as Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes, Marie Curie, etc.

Yes, it’s all interesting, but after five days in France, I’m already up to my globes oculaires in French history, and I’m hallelujah happy that we don’t enter any historic buildings, graveyards or churches.

Absent, too, are stops inside art museums or galleries. Instead, we’re asked to spot the small mosaic works by the anonymous street artist Space Invader, who took his name from the video game that inspired about a thousand pieces that he’s plastered on Paris buildings over the past 20 years.

“It’s illegal, but nobody takes them down because they add value,” Fox notes. “He said he’s created a new form of cubism.” We locate a handful of them, but I’m far more impressed by all the anonymous craftsmen – metalworkers, stonecarvers and architects – who have made so many Parisian buildings such artistic treats.

At noon, we get off our bikes for the first time, walking down the alleyway that is Cour du Commerce Saint Andre to see the restaurant Le Procope, which opened in 1686, making it one of the first to introduce coffee from the Muslim world to Europe. Robespierre, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin drank their java here, and I’d like to raise a cup of coffee to these revolutionaries. But this tour doesn’t stop for coffee, even if it’s to go. Instead, we stop for lunch on Rue de Buci. Without my wife, who speaks French, and my daughter, who is learning it, I must attempt a few words from my phrasebook.

“Je voudrais le sandwich,” I say, as I’ve learned that whatever the French stuff into a baguette is good. I dutifully eat my sandwich, and then I utter what must be the most beautiful rhyme in the French language: “Creme brulee, s’il vous plait.” It’s the first time that I crack a crust of this culinary gold on a sunny Parisian street leaning against a bicycle, and I hope that it won’t be the last. To paraphrase another Frenchman, I eat French dessert, therefore I am… happy.

Soon, we’re at the Louvre, and instead of yapping about art or architecture, Fox suggests that we take a few loop-de-loops around IM Pei’s glass pyramid in the courtyard. I so lose myself in this aimless diversion that I also lose the group.

Fox fetches me, and next we ride through the elegant Marais neighbourhood, past the Pompidou Center and Victor Hugo’s house. By now, I’m convinced that bikes are the perfect sightseeing transport: They move fast enough to go far, slow enough to allow you to see the scenery, and they’re always easy to stop and park.

We stop next at the Place des Vosges, a square surrounded by expensive homes built for the nobility, and apparently their descendants still reside here: Fox told us that one five-storey home recently sold for n32 million.

Less expensive is the water that bubbles for free nearby, at a beautiful cast-iron fountain financed by Richard Wallace, a 19th century English philanthropist who wanted to provide water to Paris’s poor after the aqueducts were destroyed during the Paris Commune in 1875. Tin cups were once chained to the statues; now bicyclists use these fountains to fill their water bottles.

“It’s a great place to get your drinking water,” deadpans Fox. “It comes directly from the Seine.”

One of our last tour stops is on the banks of that river, at La Tour d’Argent, one of the most prestigious eateries in Europe, which Pixar used as inspiration for its animated film Ratatouille. Fox estimates that a full dinner for two can cost $1 000 (R11 000), although ordering its signature canard a la presse (pressed boneless duck) gets your name on a list of others who have eaten it, including Winston Churchill and John F Kennedy. The restaurant also has floor-to-ceiling windows that provide a gorgeous view of Notre Dame.

For next to nothing, I have the same view – from a bike, my Parisian version of liberte. – Dennis Gaffney, The Washington Post

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Hotel du Pantheon

19 Place du Pantheon

A nice hotel with an exceptional location in the Latin Quarter. Rooms from $230 (R2 530) a night.

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54 rue de Seine

The perfect place for a sandwich or salad to go. Sandwiches start at $7.50, salads at $5.50.

Le Procope

13 Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie

One of the world’s oldest continuously operating restaurants. Benjamin Franklin, Marat, Robespierre and Danton sat and had coffee here. Entrees start at $29.

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Lucy the Beagle Steals Chicken Nuggets

When an entire roast suddenly goes missing from his toaster oven, Rodd Scheinerman of Phoenix, Arizona, is understandably shocked. He suspects the culprit may be his beagle, Lucy, but he just can’t figure out how the plucky little dog might have done it. Beagles are short, after all, and his toaster oven sits high above her on the kitchen counter. So Rodd does what any one of us would do: He sets up a sting operation to catch her in the act, using some irresistibly tasty chicken nuggets as bait.

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Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner has a favorite group, and even though he’s only 19, he’s got taste in music that goes well beyond the current crop of “artists” out there.  U2 is “my favorite band. Definitely,” he told The Irish Times last week.  Wonder what Team Edward thinks of that? . . .

Another hot star, Glee’s Cory Monteith, was impressed with Ireland during the Glee tour there earlier this year. "It was amazing. It's beautiful there. We stayed at a nice place and we played at this great arena, it was lovely. My only regret was that we weren't there for longer,” he said, according to the Sunday World.

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Here's a quick, cheap way to create a ghost effect, in-camera, without any VFX! Also known as "Pepper's Ghost", this effect has been around for ages, and is still used today. Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion" and the Hogwarts Express at Universal Studios both use this effect, and a modified version is still used in modern tele-prompters.

Materials Needed:

  1. A dark, low-light scene
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In front of the camera, angle your sheet of glass so that your ghost behind the camera is reflected in the glass directly into the frame. (The black sheet behind your ghost-actor keeps anything else except the ghost from reflecting!)

Experiment with the glass placement and angle, but usually having the glass equally distant between your two subjects helps with the size of the effect, as well as the focus. It will take some adjustments until it's just right!

Make sure to light your ghost to get the effect you want. Top-down lighting can create dark shadows under the eyes, but under-lighting them could also make them look creepy and hellish!

Light your "live" subject separately. Make sure there aren't too many white/bright backgrounds in your frame, because they will cause your ghost to not show up as clearly.

Experiment with timing and interactions, dimming your ghost's light up and down (which can cause them to appear and disappear) and have fun!

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