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Fuji's new cameras: 18x zoom, blog-mode, Panorama

The advanced FinePix S100FS (Film Simulation) digital camera provides an all-in-one solution with manual controls and functionality of a Digital-SLR, including both digital and manual stabilization through a mechanically stabilized "floating" lens element to reduce blur from the photographer's hand-shake, with Fujifilm's Picture Stabilization Technology, to reduce blur caused by subject movement.

The S100FS also features a 14.3x Fujinon manual zoom lens, an 8th generation Super CCD sensor with 11MP of resolution, a 2.5" tiltable LCD and ISO speeds up to ISO 6400 at 6MP and up to ISO 10,000 at 3MP. Bolstered by Fuji's Face Detection 2.0 Technology with Automatic Red Eye Removal, the camera's lens design can achieve maximum resolution at all focal lengths of 28mm-400mm equivalent and all aperture stop settings, according to the company.

'Reginald Filbert' at Garage Theatre: Call it a night

The play, which was the grand prize winner in the Festival of New Works at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre in 2006, does offer some surprises. Reginald talks a good deal about existentialism, and Stephanie speaks fluent French. Angel is a fan of Kafka. Knowles seems to be making the point that no matter how educated people become, they may be ill-prepared for what life throws their way, stymied by what they cannot learn in school. The play also makes time for Reginald to drink from Moby's fishbowl no fewer than four times, while Ben dips in twice. Most of the 26 people at Sunday's matinee shuddered and groaned each time a character took a swig from the cloudy water. One also must shudder that director Frank Licato and actor Vincent Sagona (Reginald), both of whom have done exemplary work around the state, must be so starved for cash that they took these jobs.

Kristi O'Harran

It culminated this summer in a three-month trial featuring more than 100 witnesses, some of whom have since assumed new identities out of fear of retribution for testifying against four members of the Washington Nomads Chapter of the Hells Angels.

Last month former Hells Angel Rodney Rollness of Snohomish was sentenced to life in prison for Walsh's murder. Joshua Binder of North Bend, also a former Hells Angel, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges for his involvement in the shooting. He is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

Rollness, 46, denied gunning down Walsh. At sentencing, he denounced his trial as a sham choreographed by crooked cops who have been gunning for him for years. He vowed to clear his name on appeal.

A jury found Rollness guilty of a dozen crimes, including a murder in support of racketeering.

Ben Lyons' Lookback at 2007

As 2007 draws to a close we are looking back over a very successful year at the cinema with blockbusters, independent and foreign movies all making their mark at the box office.

Slain Navy Diver's Family Still Hoping for Justice

The West German government denied U.S. requests to extradite him, putting him on trial there instead. Found guilty of hijacking, hostage-taking and the murder of Stethem, he was sentenced in 1989 to life imprisonment.

But in December 2005, despite U.S. objections, Germany freed Hamadi and allowed him to return to Beirut, where some reports said he had rejoined Hizballah.

Since Hamadi walked free, Stethem's family has been campaigning for Lebanon to hand him over. They met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in February 2006.

A year ago, Hamadi was added to the FBI's list of "most-wanted terrorists," established after 9/11, with a reward of up to $5 million on his head.

(Two other Hizballah members indicted in the U.S. along with Mughniyah in connection with the TWA hijacking, Hassan Izz-al-Din and Ali Atwa, remain at large and are also believed to be in Lebanon.

Romero revitalizes ‘Dead’ with youth-savvy intellect

The film-industry press tends increasingly to hail Pittsburghs George A. Romero as the godfather of gore, in a smirking nod to his new picture, Diary of the Dead, and to the persistent influence of Romeros breakthrough film of 1968, Night of the Living Dead. The tacit, too-easy assumption here is that Romeros films rely more upon visceral shock value than upon narrative ferocity or scathing social criticism qualities that constitute his larger impact as a filmmaking artist.

The medium is horror, of course a popular genre that had embraced gratuitous gore as a ticket-selling commodity several years before Romero had seasoned Night of the Living Dead with such incidental excesses. The message, however, is Romeros continuing usage of the genre as a vehicle for bigger and more troubling ideas about the fragile state of civilization.