I can tell you're passionate about this idea, but I have to agree with Matneee here. It'll be a hard sell. You're right, you could offer more detailed help in areas like group dynamics and leadership, but if people are going to pay for that, they're going to want to get it from someone with a proven background. Unless you're a retired Army colonel,

Here's the thing. Some states in the US have very public laws about a person's right to protect himself and his family with a firearm if he feels threatened. These laws are very public because some politician publicised them to gain some popularity. The fact is, you can kill to protect yourself or an innocent third party in any state in the US, or ...

This is a brilliant idea for a thread. I might just discover a hidden word-count limit for these forums. Let's see ... Taxi drivers who deliberately take the long way or the route that will have them bogged down in traffic for half an hour because it'll rack up a few more dollars on the meter, and then pretend they didn't realise when you call ...

Ginger's right. Religion is not the cause here, it's just often used as an excuse or otherwise misinterpreted by demented people who want to do demented things. Take, for example, the occassional fundamentalist Christian you hear about every now and then, after he's killed his wife, daughter or some other family member in an exorcism

I made some of my own versions of Christmas music for one of my classes last year. If you don't have any luck with those sites, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send them to you.

Sorry for the double post. I forgot to mention above one really important technique for this kind of photography, which always produces results. It's illustrated in this photo of mine and the dockside seagulls photo in Maggot's post above. Patterns. Look for and photograph patterns - they always come up brilliantly in a picture. The angle you ...

Looks like it's just you and I, Maggot. I normally don't do much photography of static objects, because I find people more interesting, but I have a few examples here to go along with Maggot's work above, with some explainations of the techniques (if, in fact, anyone other than we two is actually reading this thread ). The angle you choose is ...

That top image looks especially cool, Maggot. How'd you get the moving fish to show up clearly in such a dark environment? Here's a couple of photos I took the other night to celebrate GF's new hat. I'm trying to learn more about studio photography in terms of use of lighting, since most of my previous photography work has been ...

Looks great, Sharper. I've often thought that creating an animal with human-like facial features, as the animated-film makers often do, must be one of the hardest arts to master, but you've really cracked it here.

I have nothing against people who follow one religion or another, but the way many churches operate definitely bugs me. It seems as though many churches like to discourage their followers from being informed believers, and instead want people to blindly follow the pro-christian media and ignore everything else. It's kind of like suggesting ...