Confused by Digital Cameras? Don't Be Like many in the Baby Boom, I grew up in a house full of cameras. The post-war prosperity meant that most families could afford to chronicle their own lives. The cameras ranged from antique Kodak Brownies to SLR box cameras and gradually to Instamatics and Polaroids. When I started art school in 1971, Photo 101 included darkroom developing and printing. My "photo editing software" was a dodging stick - a thin rod with variously sized and shaped cardboard forms on the end, held manually between the projector and photo paper to deny light to chosen areas of the print as I counted off seconds. Since I was too broke to afford am upscale SLR, I compensated for my cheap camera's shortcomings with creative darkroom technique. Today, we'd say most of my work was "Photoshopped." However, I soon learned that if I planned the shot properly, I needed less darkroom trickery to get the finished piece I wanted. That planning paid off years later, when I finally did have better hardware. From 2004 to 2007, I taught a series of photography courses at the Ed Tech Training Center in Marion, Kentucky, and shared my approaches to planning each shot, and developing the artistic vision. I was still using the anachronism "film speed," and would be told each time by the students with digital cameras that they did not have film What they couldn't grasp is that they still had film speed settings (ISO) on their cameras. The manuals I had created for those courses formed a solid instructional core, and were expanded into a full book. Professionals in several states told me they've learned from my lessons. I hope you find this work of value to you as well

With renewed interest in the ancient Cherokee Calendar and other Native American timekeeping systems, the need for a simple way to learn the major factors affecting each days has now been filled. While there are traditionally 22 factors affecting each day, and calculation can be a time-consuming process, this ephemeris provides the five most important factors. For each day from 2012 to 2054, the Day Sign, Wind Sign, Week Sign, Year Sign and Year Wind are provided in an easy-to-use text-based almanac format

How would you like to be able to get more exposure to any product, service or band without having to spend a lot of money? What if you can get that massive exposure without having to spend ANY money at all? How about giving your online and offline reputation a boost? This book can not only teach you how to do that but so much more by leveraging the media. This is the guide to becoming newsworthy and getting FREE publicity you couldn't buy. Brian Wilkes goes shares many powerful strategies to give you an advantage over the competition. The key is becoming genuinely newsworthy so that the media regards you as a reliable source of information in your field, the "go-to guy" when they need a comment or analysis.

The Asian martial arts rely on thousands of years of experience when it comes to fighting skills. Injuries happen in the martial arts, and fortunately, the arts also rely on thousands of years of healing skills. Fatigue is also a frequent companion, and there are traditional strategies to deal with that as well. This book contains in-depth analysis of three topical preparations, and well as five energy teas - all of which you can learn to make yourself

The Savior spoke to His audience at their level of sophistication. To the religious leadership of His day, he quoted Holy Scripture. To Pilate, He spoke of law and the underlying nature of truth. To the common people, He spoke in common terms, and quoted popular folk sayings. In a similar way, the apostles realized that there were different levels of understanding in the first Christians as well. St Paul tells the Corinthians that as babies they must have milk to survive, but will receive solid food, deeper teachings, later as adults. They would not be able to grasp the deeper, theoretical aspects of the Gospel message until they had a firm grasp of more fundamental teachings. We each have our own learning styles, and varying ability to grasps the messages. Great dramatists layer their works so there's something for each level of understanding, from those who understand symbolic language and allegory to those who only perceive an action story. How much better, then, does The Lord knows that not all have the same spiritual capacity or insight. We would do well to pray for increased understanding of the milk of the Christian life so that we will find the joy in the solid food of the Kingdom that awaits us. In that spirit, we offer the children the warm, sweet mother's milk of these simply-told Bible stories, in the earnest hope that the listener and reader are built up and strengthened for the New Life.

The complete 27 books of the New Testament, translated into Cherokee in the early and middle 1800s, offered now in a larger print version. Rev. Samuel Worcester created the first mass printed version of the New Testament in the writing system then recently devised by Sequoyah. This edition also includes blank pages you can use as a spiritual diary or to record genealogical information for your descendants. Proceeds from this edition benefit the Cherokee Bible Project and the Four Rivers Native American Church.

In this new collection of more than 50 poems and essays, Robert Yehling "(Shades of Green, The River-Fed Stone, The Champion's Way)" returns to a prime source of inspiration and fulfillment - the back roads. Blending challenge with adventure, and natural observation with awakening, he uncovers the textures, rhythms, loves, tears, laughs, and ever-renewing cycle of life off the beaten path - visiting a few cultural icons along the way. "Backroad Melodies" reminds us of those treasure-laden roads deep inside ourselves that we all too rarely explore. "With clarity of thought and mastery of word order, Robert Yehling alarms the conscience, stimulates the brain, tugs at the heart, and tickles the funny bone-all to excess." -Charles Redner, poet, author, publisher of "The Hummingbird Review" "You're talkin' my language. And drivin' my landscape. The colors. The sky..." -Luis Alberto Urrea, American Book Award-winning author of "The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "The Devil's Highway," finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

As with our humble efforts to bring these Hymns in the Cherokee language back to our scattered people worldwide, we are grateful to be able to assist in this effort to bring the songs and prayers themselves back to into the homes of all people who desire to see, read, and to hear them. Transliterated songs to the familiar melodies of Amazing Grace; One Drop of Blood; Wayfaring Stranger; Guide Us, Great Jehovah; What a Friend We Have In Jesus; I Will Arise; Just As I Am; Jesus Loves Me; Rock of Ages; Come, Thou Fount; At The Cross; How Great Thou Art.

When Dr. Taylor Warren appears in Doe Run searching for the secret of his ancestry, he is surprised to meet the beautiful entrepreneur Katie McGee and her loving, strong-willed grandmother. Katie and her grandmother help him search for the secret that his mother kept hidden for so many years. Katie also helps him find that true love is worth all the pain. The Secret of Doe Run is a journey home for the heart. It creates a rich sensory perception of an area of Appalachia, its people, their customs and a look into an age old question "Why are we here?" With the resurgence of family values, this story will touch the hearts of those who value the importance of family, and tradition.