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  Digital Photography for...

  Stefan Johnston

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  Learning the tricks professionals use to craft a great image design and discovering how they incorporate these into compositions will lay the foundation for you to create amazing photographs. In fact, once you master the art of composition, you’ll know exactly what elements it takes to compose a great shot before you even touch the shutter button! As a result, it will free you up to concentrate on the other ingredients that go into making a beautiful photograph. 
  What you will learnCompositionDSLR MaintenancePlaying with the tones of your skin and imageTouching in Unwanted LinesThe Dial modesRules for Visually Stunning ImagesExtended Exposure for FireworksHaving Fun with LandscapesLightingand More

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  Anthony Locascio: Confirmation

  Anthony Locascio

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  At 12 years old, every good Catholic boy has his Confirmation; the ceremony in which he receives the Holy Spirit and becomes a Catholic man. Evidently, Anthony Locascio was not a "good" Catholic boy, because he never had one.

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  Ear Training Course for Guitar:...

  Julia Whitlock

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  Hi, fellow music lover! Congratulations on starting your music-making journey. I won't waste your time with a long introduction, but let me say a few words just to get us off on the right foot. 
  Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too: when you dream up a great riff or chord progression, you naturally want to sit down and play it right away. Ear training helps you do just that. 
  This lesson is broken into several chapters, each of them focusing on two to four related intervals or chords. There are plenty of examples for each interval and chord, so you can work straight through the lesson or hop around as much as you like. 
  The last chapter is a sort of final exam. It brings together all the intervals or chords we’ve covered and mixes them up for an extra challenge. But you don't have to fear that chapter. Just give it a go every once in a while to measure your progress. 
  Best of all, this lesson doesn’t limit itself to dry theory: every concept we discuss here is played on a real guitar by a real guitarist. 
  Have fun! 
  What's inside:real guitar recordings throughoutall intervals from prime to octave coveredwell chosen interval comparisons, e.g., fifth vs. fourth, minor second vs. major seventh.all triads, i.e., major, minor, suspended, augmented, diminished, coveredall commonly used seventh and ninth chords, e.g., major 7, minor 7, major add 9, dominant 7, minor major 7, minor 9, minor 7 b5, coveredwell chosen chord comparisons, e.g., major vs. minor, major vs. Sus.10+ hours of interval recognition8+ hours of chord recognitionnice & encouraging female narrator

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  I AM not amused - A Christian...

  Thomas Murosky

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  Media Entertainment has taken over the western world and with every passing year it overtakes us with increasing voracity. As Christians, we have a duty to be salt and light in a waning world and that is where I AM Not Amused enters the picture. Two errors have arisen in the Christian world with regards to entertainment:Non-critical InvolvementTotal Separation 
  I AM Not Amused is about learning to balance being in the world, but not of the world. Throughout this book, we will learn how to weigh our involvement in pop culture against our call to be holy, using the popular arts as a springboard to reach lost people in the world. We also gain an understanding of what is at stake if we continue consuming Hollywood productions without thinking about the consequences. This book is a journey through the early days of media including the history of ratings, propaganda, and some of the legal matters impacting the entertainment industry as a whole. Finally we learn about the steps we should take to evaluate our own entertainment. 
  In brief summary, I first explain my purpose and motivation for writing this book as I journey through my adolescence in a media-saturated home. I talk about how music, movies, and video games shaped my life both for the better and the worse as I was raised in a home without boundaries. 
  The next two chapters examine whether or not media entertainment can actually impact us as we consume music, movies, and video games. Rather than take a usual Christian approach, we see what the artists and producers themselves say including quotes from Michael Greene, George Lucus, Marilyn Manson, and more. After examining how we can be impacted we see specifically what artists themselves say about the message behind the content they produce. This section does a deep dive into the messages behind Manson, George Harrison, and Insane Clown Posse among others. 
  After seeing what the entertainment industry produces, we tour through the Bible looking for what God’s Word has to say about media, our involvement, and our purpose. We start with a call to letting our minds dwell on holy things, then living out our life as a believer rather than a member of the world. Finally we address the two critical errors highlighting the benefits and pitfalls of each as we develop a plan to live better before God in our media-saturated times. 
  After a brief detour through the struggles of addiction including steps to overcome besetting sins, we provide steps for believers to incorporate into their lives to determine if certain forms of amusement are profitable for us to consume. 
  All together, this book is a guide to interacting with Media Entertainment for our amusement, and for our engagement with the world as we seek to fulfill the Great Commission. 
  You can find more information about Thomas Murosky and his other books at www.ourwalkinchrist.com.

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  A Subversive Gospel - Flannery...

  Michael Mears Bruner

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  Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) Book of the Year - Literary Criticism
  The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act.
  These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor, whose writing was deeply informed by both her Southern context and her Christian faith. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, theologian Michael Bruner explores O'Connor's theological aesthetic and argues that she reveals what discipleship to Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness through her fiction. In addition, Bruner challenges recent scholarship by exploring the little-known influence of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, a twentieth-century Roman Catholic theologian, on her work.
  Bruner's study thus serves as a guide for those who enjoy reading O'Connor and—even more so—those who, like O'Connor herself, follow the subversive path of the crucified and risen one.
  The Studies in Theology and the Arts  series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

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  Big Show The - Episode 12

  Goodman Ace

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  As the 1950s dawned America was a colossus militarily, economically and culturally.  It bestrode a globe it was doing so much to shape in its own image.  But it had concerns; the threat of communism.  And for the Movies and Radio there was another concern: the emerging rise of Television. 
   
  For Radio, still in its golden age of mass audiences and star filled programmes, they had a handy solution with ‘The Big Show’.  Its premise was simple but effective.  Take 90 minutes of air-time and fill it with the stars of stage, screen and radio doing comedy sketches, drama extracts and musical numbers. 
   
  It sounds simple enough and aided by a huge budget from NBC it was a success, staffed by the best writers and technical team in the business. 
   
  Hosted by Tallulah Bankhead, with her sharp and acidic wit and her brilliance at ad-libbing ‘The Big Show’ was big entertainment with big stars for a big audience.

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