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NEW LIFE SKILLS	LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPH	VIRGINIA TRAVEL IDEAS	FREE ARTICLES FOR BLOGS	ABOUT THIS SITE
Help some children in Iraq have a better life. Join the Kiwanis in sending backpacks filled with school and writing supplies
"Driving Mss Daisy" - Take a ride for good humor and a new look at human relationships. Now at the Williamsburg Players . Don't miss it

Feel better about yourself!

Reinvent your family and yourself with new ideas, right here on this highly eclectic and surprising site.

And try to do something good for another human being each day.

ust for fun, have your kids click on Peter the Rabbit's ears

Surprise Number One. Have you kids click on Peter Rabbit's ears to meet Peter at home.

Surprise Number Two.

NEW IDEAS IN LIFE SKILLS FROM SOME OF AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

WE RECOMMEND: "More conversations with Remarkable Women"

Entertaining guests royally: Julia Child, Craig Clairborn

Writing well: Robert Ludlum, Frances Mayes

Making new friends: Jimmy and Rosalind Carter

Getting a new job in 30 days: Hal Gieseking

Starting a good conversation: Dick Cavett

Becoming a mentor to your child: Bill Moyers

Surprise Number Three.

NEW IDEAS IN TRAVEL IN OUR HOME STATE - VIRGINIA

Click here for more information about Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown

READER'S ALERT: The May, 2007 issue of National Geographic has the best feature article about Historic Jamestowne that we have ever seen, uncovering dozens of rarely discussed facts of how the original settlers survived and why the Indian tribes that outnumbered them by the thousands failed to drive out the new intruders on their land. Some fascinating clues: the role of tobacco in ruining the soil, malaria and other imported diseases, and the humble bee that came from Europe. Fascinating stuff. Suggestion: Too late to buy at newsstands but available at most libraries.

VIRGINIA INFORMATION

Jamestown 2007 300 one-day Virginia vacations New Williamsburg Hospitality Suite Nascar in Virginia Summer Arts & Crafts Festivals Virginia Indian Heritage Trail 93 Places to find Virginia wildlife What's New in Virginia Hampton Roads links to libraries, public services Civil War Monitor fights again at the Mariner's Museum

Virginia traffic reports via live cameras

ART & LITERATURE

Pictures that tell a story Ideas from America's most successful people New books about YOU "Poetry of Life" Photographers Den Digital camera course Freedom Art Gallery Introducing new book and brochure design program Free lessons in Life Free articles for your emails and your blogs Learning to Listen with Mortimer Adler Writing tips from Robert Ludlum

GENERAL STUFF

"Almost" all about us "55 and over" Useful websites

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Lake Country, England. Shot Oct. 10, 2007. Modified in Adobe Lightroom 1.2

NEW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

When you have a great picture, make a copy and save the original in a separate file. Use the copy to make your jpeg files for emails and the internet. Remember that every jpeg you make of that copy is like adding a cloud of termites that devour color and pixels. The first several copies you make may look acceptable to the eye - but the image gets weaker with every subsequent jpeg.
Don't try to delete pictures when you see a message your memory card is "full." You risk harming many other images on the card. It is safe to delete pictures as you go but not at the full mark.
There is always a slight vibration in the camera with most hand-held shots. Set your camera to take a burst of three pictures with your finger keeping the button depressed. Two and three shots should be sharper.

Visit Photographer's Den

How to photograph spectacular events:

Example - "Grand Illumination" at Colonial Williamsburg

Click here to watch fireworks paint pictures

FREE ARTICLES FOR YOUR BLOGS OR EMAILS

by author Hal Gieseking, former Consumer Editor of Travel Holiday magazine and past Travel Correspondent for CBS Morning News

Click here to download any or all of these articles:

1. The morning I met Vincent Van Gogh

2. Mastering Change in a constantly changing world

3. The "perfect Christmas Letter" using Christian good humor

4.Tips from Robert Ludlum on writing a compelling thriller

5. Jamestown 2007 Events are already making history

6. Are too many politicians campaigning in "Plato's Cave"?

7. Civil War's USS Monitor returns to "Active Duty: at Mariner's Museum in Virginia

8. 400 year old woman looking for husband (at new archeology museum)

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