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'This plugin provides an "export filter" (but in the official Lightroom vernacular, it's a "post-process action"). The point is that unlike a full export plugin (such as my "Export to Flickr" plugin), this filter (post-process action) can be used with any export from Lightroom. It can be used in conjunction with the standard "Files on Disk" export, in conjunction with one of my other plugins (e.g. "Export to Zenfolio", "Export to PicasaWeb"), and/or in parallel with other third-party export filters (such as my "Metadata Wrangler" Metadata Wrangler or Tim Armes' "LR2/Mogrify" for watermarking).'
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DUBOIS – Penn State DuBois Associate Professor of Mathematics and Geosciences Rick Brazier had the unique opportunity to teach geology in Africa this year. Penn State DuBois student Mike Yamrick also had the exceptional opportunity to be one of the students in Brazier's field school.
The eight week long AfricaArray field school was based out of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Africa. There were 25 students in all, including Yamrick from Penn State DuBois, and four students from other universities in the United States. The rest of the students were from different locations on the African continent.
Brazier and the students spent a week at the university designing their field project before heading out to a remote bush camp where they collected and interpreted geophysical data for the project. The goal of this undertaking was to collect geophysical data to benefit Africa's economy and society, as well as to understand the geology of the continent.
The students from the U.S. made formal project presentations on their work at University Park. Brazier is scheduled to present a portion of his work during the Natural Resources Colloquium at Penn State DuBois on April 30.
"This experience for the students was not only academically beneficial but life changing," Brazier said, adding that bringing different cultures together within the school had a lasting impact as well. "The cultural diversity aspect of this program is truly eye opening."
Yamrick said the experience helped him to decide that seismology is what he will concentrate on in his career. "The field school in Africa was awesome. I found what I am truly interested in, and what I would love to make a career out of," he said. Yamrick also noted that the diverse group in the school made an impression on him as well. "The field school was a very interesting experience. I got to meet people from a totally different culture, and work with some of the most qualified professors in the world."
AfricaArray is a partnership between Penn State University, Witwatersrand University, and the Council of Geosciences in Pretoria, South Africa.
Steve Harmic, Penn State DuBois

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Many SAP Customers Can't Make a Business Case for HANA
SAP SE is betting its future on cloud computing and its in-memory HANA platform, but many customers still can't find the business case to validate the purchase, according to a survey from the Americas' SAP Users' Group. It's a reminder that while there's lots of talk about the possibilities of Big Data, the technological transition – especially for large companies – won't happen overnight.
Of 377 respondents asked whether they had purchased a HANA product, just 40% said they had, while 55% hadn't and 5% didn't know. Three quarters of the customers who hadn't purchased a HANA product said they couldn't identify a business case that justifies the cost. Other reasons for not buying: skillset, roadmap and upgrade issues.
HANA is SAP's flagship product, a database that allows customers to store information in live memory rather than on disc-based storage devices, and to analyze it without having to perform time-consuming intermediate operations.
The results underscore the challenge companies face as they figure out what role, if any, HANA and other new technologies will play in their IT strategies. CIOs are developing or refining those strategies at a time when IT spending power is fanning out across business units, and technology assets aren't solely a back-office responsibility. Making a business case for big upgrades and finding the right solution "is not a linear equation anymore," said Geoff Scott, CEO of the Americas SAP user group that conducted the survey.
Lower adoption may be due, at least in part, to the fact that some firms aren't ready or able to accommodate the capabilities of the new platform, he said. "They may have the speed, but may not be in a position where business processes have caught up." For large ERP projects especially, "adoption's a little bit slower, and requires more finesse on the business side." CIO Journal has noted that bringing ERP into the cloud won't be a particularly quick transition, especially for large customers.
Respondents who had implemented HANA said it was used to save money or optimize some processes. Almost 35% said it helped optimize costs, while 25% said it enabled innovation for the CFO or finance division. Among respondents who bought a HANA product, 65% said they started with Business Warehouse, a data warehouse tool.
The results suggest that the shift to cloud and in-memory computing will be a gradual one for most customers, which could hamper growth prospects for companies like SAP and competitor Oracle Corp. The larger companies are also working to fend off more nimble startups, many of which offer best-of-breed solutions for a specific part of a business, instead of a full end-to-end solution.
What could be holding HANA adoption back, the survey suggests, is that SAP won't make customers move to it, at least not in the near term. SAP has said in the past that it will continue to support customers on their existing environments, whether on-premise or in the cloud.
Steve Lucas, president of SAP Platform Solutions, said, in a written statement from an SAP spokesperson, that the company has programs in place to address customer needs, and that it will continue to work with them to help unlock HANA's benefits. "SAP has always been customer-centric in our approach to formulating our product and customer adoption strategies, and the SAP HANA product and solution line is no different."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story attributed a statement from SAP to an SAP spokesperson, instead of SAP president of Platform Solutions Steve Lucas. The written statement was received by a spokesperson, but attributed to Mr. Lucas.


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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its winter weather outlook. NBC's Danielle Leigh reports.
The western half of the U.S. can expect a warmer-than-average winter, but the eastern half is a big question mark, government forecasters said Thursday. They blamed the murky crystal ball on an "indecisive El Nino" -- the fact that it has not formed even though their models said it would.
"We really haven't seen that before," Mike Halpert, deputy director of the U.S. Climate Prediction Center, told reporters. "Development abruptly halted last month."
El Ninos have been tracked for 60 years, during which 20 have formed, according to the center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Experts rely on monitoring El Nino, and its counterpart La Nina, because of their influence on the jet stream and storms across the U.S. An El Nino is a periodic weather cycle that warms part of the Pacific Ocean, thus shifting rainfall and influencing the strength and course of the jet stream.
Why it did not form is a mystery, Halpert said, adding that while an El Nino "could still develop," for now the chances are slim.
If an El Nino does develop, it could mean below-average temperatures across the South, Halpert said.
Data also suggest that this winter will push 2012 over the top as the warmest year in the U.S. since recordkeeping began in 1895.
The first nine months of 2012 were the warmest of any year on record in the contiguous United States, and this has been the third-hottest summer on record.
"It is likely that 2012 will be the warmest of the 118-year record for the contiguous United States," Deke Arndt of NOAA's Climatic Data Center told reporters.
In the winter outlook, the East Coast falls under the "equal chance" category -- it has an equal chance for above-, near-, or below-normal temperatures and precipitation, NOAA said in a statement announcing the outlook.
An exception is Florida, where chances are that all but the Panhandle will be colder than normal.
As for the ongoing drought, most of those areas "are unlikely to see much relief," NOAA stated.
El Nino and La Nina are not the only factors at play, but they are the easiest to forecast several months out since the others are much shorter term.
"El Nino and La Nina can play a key role in winter weather patterns in North America," Weather Channel meteorologist Stu Ostro noted, "but their importance can also be overstated, and in each of the past three winters other factors have overwhelmed their influence."
Minnesota's Wild Mountain resort made snow and laid claim to being the first ski area to open this season in the U.S. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The biggest influence in those years has been the so-called North Atlantic Oscillation. A change in the pattern caused it to push the jet stream farther south, bringing more cold air than normal into the northern U.S. from the Arctic.
Skiiers and snowboarders will be among those hoping for more help from the oscillation this year. The ski season did start this month in two places -- a rope tow at Minnesota's Wild Mountain on Oct. 7 and a lift at Colorado's Arapahoe Basin on Wednesday -- but both areas relied on manmade snow.
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Dr. Joe Catanello, executive director of Catholic Youth Organization in the Diocese of Brooklyn, has brought about great progress in the last several years. His mission is aptly defined by a statement in the CYO literature: "A successful athletic program is evaluated not in terms of victory or defeat, but in the light of the degree that each athlete has become a human being."
Catholic Youth Organization is a church and community-based organization under the umbrella of Catholic Charities. CYO oversees and establishes parish-based sports teams such as basketball, swimming, soccer, track, volleyball, baseball, and softball that cater to 12,000 kids.
Fondly called "Dr. Joe" by those who know him personally, Catanello is determined to revolutionize CYO. Friendly, personable, and engaging, Dr. Joe is the man who changed the mission statement and consequently propelled the organization towards enormous growth. He also revised the prayer that teams recite before each game.
Catanello attributes his fresh new vision to the fact that he had an outsider's view of the organization. He said, "I was able to look at the program from a spectator's point of view, an angle from someone who had never been involved in anything like it before. I had a fresh new vision."
Catanello sees CYO as a venue where a great amount of people can be influenced. His vision includes promoting "fairness, compassion, and truth" by putting prayer back into the program and making sure all coaches, referees, and parents involved are constantly setting a good example for young people on their teams.
He firmly believes that all adults involved must lead by example. Originally from Williamsburg, Dr. Joe - always a sports lover - wished there were programs like CYO when he was growing up.
"As grown ups, we should step up to the plate," he said in a recent interview. "To grab our children back, we should step up and show them something positive. It's a crazy world out there, and kids need to be catered to, talked to. We shouldn't wonder why our kids are confused. They don't always know who to look to, who to trust"
After relocating to Maspeth, Dr. Joe was in the Army for three years working as a combat medic. Over the course of those three years, which he calls "fascinating", he traveled to Japan, Korea, and all around the United States.
Catanello began teaching in 1996 at Cathedral Prep High School, then 6th, 7th, and 8th grade at Mount Carmel in Brooklyn, followed by Christ the King. He was eventually ordained as a Deacon at Holy Family Church and is proud to say that he can "marry people, baptize children, and preach on the Gospel."
Catanello knew that he wanted to restructure the CYO as soon as he began. He remembers his first day at CYO - January 7, 2007 - and calls it a "madhouse." He says it was confusing because he started from the ground up; however, he was clearly ready to work and full of ideas.
He knew he wanted to avoid the ever-popular "win at all costs attitude" in sports. "Sports serve as a vehicle in touching kids' lives because so many kids want to get involved," he said. "Kids are naturally attuned to sports, especially basketball. There is too much negativity in the world, with such high importance placed on power, money, position, and fame. Things like this paint a negative picture of the world to kids. Providing them with good role models is a way to bring them back to the church and give them a sense of normalcy."
CYO is all about teaching kids to interact with each other, practicing sportsmanship, and teaching kids that there are many different meanings of "winning" and "success." Dr. Joe encourages coaches, parents, parish athletic representatives, and referees to act as positive influences so that children can grow not only as Christians but as people.
Eager to expand the organization's outreach, Dr. Joe has several goals for the future of the CYO. He wants to begin to develop the role of PER's (parish event representatives), who will work to get kids involved in other activities outside of sports. if people see something that could be positive for children they will like it
He also wants to develop a CYO Youth Board, where kids of all walks of life within CYO can talk about what they want.
"No one ever listens to them," he said. "When I would ask my students what they want to see or do, there was a great response. A lot of kids just need an outlet."
The future looks positive for CYO under Dr. Joe. A man who is relentlessly modest yet extremely confident, he continues to work to fulfill his vision.
"I'd rather try something and fail then know that I had an opportunity and didn't try," he said. "Everyone out there is looking for something to hold on to. There are no hopeless people. God puts everyone in a position - everyone in your life is there for a reason. When I'm at the helm, in a position to influence so many people on a large level, I can always look back and say I tried."


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Michigan State finished one game over .500 after winning its final game by one point.
It was an appropriate ending to a season full of close victories and excruciating defeats.
The Spartans played nine games decided by four points or fewer, including their first seven in Big Ten play. They ended on a high note Saturday night with a 17-16 win over TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, but the offseason will bring plenty of questions for a team that just a few months ago was hoping to make a run at a conference title.
``We stayed composed all the way through to the end,'' coach Mark Dantonio said. ``We won against Wisconsin very close. We won against Boise (State) very close. So our guys have won. It's just that sometimes when you lose, it sort of gets magnified for all of us.''
After coming within an eyelash of the Rose Bowl the previous two seasons, Michigan State needed to replace quarterback Kirk Cousins in 2012. Andrew Maxwell became the starter, but in the bowl he ended up splitting time with Connor Cook.
So that may be the first talking point after a 7-6 season. Maxwell has another year of eligibility, but it was Cook, a redshirt freshman, who directed the drive that led to the winning field goal Saturday.
``I don't want to slight anybody, say, `This guy is the new quarterback.' There's a lot of colleges across the country that play two quarterbacks or play guys situationally,'' Dantonio said. ``We just felt like we wanted to play a redshirt freshman and get him some reps in a bowl game. He had enough time to prepare and we wanted to see what he could do. He did well so we used him the second half, too.''
With the passing game in flux, the Spartans relied heavily on running back Le'Veon Bell. He ended up with 1,793 yards on a whopping 382 carries.
Now, Michigan State waits for Bell to announce whether he'll turn pro or come back for his senior year.
``I want to make sure I do things the right way, talk to my family about it, the players and coaches about it,'' Bell said. ``Make sure I get output from everybody and see what everybody thinks.''
The Spartans were hoping they could grind their way to a league championship behind Bell and a stout defense. The result was an unusual number of games that came down to the final minutes.
A 17-13 victory over Boise State in the opener was a nice start, but Michigan State lost 17-16 at home to Ohio State in its first Big Ten game.
After a four-point victory over Indiana, the Spartans lost to Iowa 19-16 in double-overtime. The following week, Michigan State's four-game winning streak over rival Michigan was snapped on a last-second field goal.
In November, Nebraska dealt Michigan State a crushing loss on a touchdown with 6 seconds remaining.
But the bowl at least enabled the Spartans to finish on a high note. Michigan State trailed 13-0 after a listless first half, but Cook threw a touchdown pass in the third quarter and Bell ran for a score in the fourth.
A long field goal put the Horned Frogs up 16-14, but there was enough time for Cook and the Spartans to win their final close game of the year.
``We're a team that we can lose to Iowa in the fourth quarter and bounce back the next week and play the whole four quarters. ... That's a testament to the guys we've got here, the leadership inside the locker room, all the way on up,'' linebacker Max Bullough said. ``There's no doubt in my mind, even with how many losses we've had this year, we're going to come out on top. That's the kind of confidence we have in each other and the kind of confidence I have in my teammates.''


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(recipe from Taste of Home magazine)
* 1 pound baby portobello mushrooms, chopped (I only used 1/2 this because by accident, that's all I bought, but they were still fine!)
* 1 small onion, finely chopped
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 3 garlic cloves, minced
* 1/4 cup white wine or chicken broth (I used white cooking wine)
* 12 ounces chopped fresh spinach, coarsely chopped
* 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt, divided
* 3/4 cup water
* 1/4 cup lime juice
* 1 tablespoon chicken bouillon granules
* 1 tablespoon garlic powder
* 1-1/2 cups (12 ounces) sour cream (I used light)
* 1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro
* 12 corn tortillas (6 inches), warmed
* 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese (I used 2% mexi-blend)
* Crushed red pepper flakes, optional
* In a large skillet, saute mushrooms and onion in butter until tender; add garlic, cook 1 minute longer. Set aside half of the mushroom mixture for sauce.
* Add wine to remaining vegetables; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add spinach and 1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt; cook until spinach is wilted and liquid is evaporated.
* In a large saucepan, bring the water, lime juice, chicken bouillon, garlic powder and remaining seasoned salt to a boil, stirring to dissolve bouillon. Stir in the sour cream, cilantro and reserved mushroom mixture; heat through.
* Place a scant 3 tablespoons spinach mixture down the center of each tortilla; roll up and place seam side down in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Spoon sauce over top; sprinkle with cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 14-18 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with pepper flakes, if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts (of original recipe): 2 enchiladas equals 427 calories, 24 g fat, 75 mg cholesterol, 879 mg sodium, 36 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 16 g protein.
Spinach Mushroom Enchiladas
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The members of Voltage, a new group in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, want to interest more freshmen and Course 6 students in the field of Electrical Engineering (EE). Sponsored by MIT IEEE/ACM, the group is working to build a cohesive network for students in both the EE degree program (6-1) as well as for students leaning to EE in the EECS degree program (6-2) — offering support and resources in academics, research and careers. Read more.
Members of the Quantum Photonics Lab including its director Professor Dirk Englund and EECS graduate student Hannah Clevenson have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. This work, which could lead to miniaturized, battery-powered devices for medical and materials imaging, contraband detection, and geological exploration, is reported in the latest issue of Nature Physics. Read more.
In a broad new assessment of the status and prospects of solar photovoltaic technology, MIT researchers including Vladimir Bulović, Associate Dean for Innovation and the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and Joel Jean, EECS graduate student and lead author in the journal Energy & Environmental Science say that it is "one of the few renewable, low-carbon resources with both the scalability and the technological maturity to meet ever-growing global demand for electricity." Read more.
The Optical Society (OSA) announced on March 1, 2015, the selection of Professor James G. Fujimoto as the recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize. He is recognized for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and for his research group's and collaborator's contributions leading to its widespread medical application and major commercial impact. Read more.
Qing Hu, the MIT Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Principal Investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has been selected by the Board of Directors of the Optical Society (OSA) as the 2015 recipient of the Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award. He is recognized for his pioneering contributions to high-performance THz quantum-cascade lasers and their applications in imaging and sensing. Read more.
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan and Associate Department Heads Bill Freeman, Silvio Micali, and David Perreault announced in February 2015, the promotions of eight faculty members in the department. Professors Adalsteinsson, Daniel, Golland, and Torralba are promoted to full professor. Professors Chilpala, Polyanskiy and Vaikuntanathan are promoted to associate professor. The promotions are effective July 1, 2015. Read more.
Professor Vladimir Bulovic holds the Fariborz Maseeh Chair in Emerging Technology at MIT, heads the MIT.nano project, and co-leads the MIT Innovation Initiative. His ONE Lab has been a hotbed of scientific discovery... Read more.MTL, RLE, ApplPhysDev, Energy, Nanotech
Radio chip for Internet of things. Chandrakasan group extends battery life by reducing idle transmitter power leaksThis week, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE's) International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the group of Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head and the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, will present a new transmitter design that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle — greatly extending battery life and ultimately enabling the potential for the transmission of data needed for the "Internet of things". Read more.
On February 19th, the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, Professor James G. Fujimoto was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. Professor Fujimoto was awarded the University's highest academic distinction, Doctor Honoris Causa. Read more.
Yoel Fink, Director of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and professor of materials science and electrical engineering and computer sicence has teamed to develop multifunctional fibers made from abundant, low cost aluminum metal and silica glass. Read more.
Kateeva, a company co-founded by EECS graduate Conor Madigan SM '02 PhD '06, now CEO and Vladimir Bulovic, the Fariborz Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology in EECS and co-founder and now scientific advisor is featured by the MIT News for its promising technologies to mass produce large-screen, flexible OLED. Read more.MTL, RLE, Circuits, ApplPhysDev, Energy
Five members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of a total of eight MIT faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering including Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Anantha Chandrakasan, L. Rafael Reif and Daniela Rus. Read more.
Dirk Englund and his team in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory have collaborated with colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an outside company to create a new technique to extend quantum-secured communication. Using nitrogen atoms embedded in synthetic diamond the researchers have trapped qubits that can transfer photons extending the superposition time of these qubits a hundredfold — ultimately leading toward practical quantum computing. Read more.
Two EECS Department faculty Jesus del Alamo and Rajeev Ram are recipients of Bose Grants — out of five MIT professors selected for research projects that are high-risk yet potentially having significant impact. The grants are given in memory of Amar Bose, electrical engineering professor, who taught in EECS and founded the Bose Corporation. Read more.
Madrid-MIT M+Visión Team wins 2015 Singapore Challenge. Luca Giancardo, PhD and the neuroQWERTY team awarded $100,000 for the best proposal to help elderly to "Age in Place" with their technology. Read more.
Photonic integrated circuits are coming closer to implementing the basic components needed for quantum information processing based on the recent work by EECS graduate student Nicholas Harris, a member of the Quantum Photonics Laboratory headed by Dirk Englund, Jamieson Career Development Professor and principal investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Read more.
Professor Emeritus Shaoul "Ziggy" Ezekiel, an MIT alumnus who spent 46 years at the Institute as a professor in the departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, died on Jan. 7. He was 79.
Englund, Berggren groups collaborate to build effective optical chips, crucial for quantum computational-circuitsA large group of researchers including EECS faculty Dirk Englund, Karl Berggren and their respective labs, the Quantum Photonics Group and the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group have collaborated with colleagues at IBM and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to edge closer to building effective quantum-computational circuits. Read more.
Members of Prof. Karl Berggren's Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group, including principal author and postdoc in the group Yachin Ivry have not only discovered a common relationship between thickness, temperature and electrical resistance in all superconducting materials, but have demonstrated the new knowledge in larger-area devices. Read more.
Institute professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus is the recipient of the IEEE 2015 Medal of Honor — IEEE's highest honor, given since 1917. She is cited "For leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering." Read more.
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Church of St. Catherine (Beirut, Lebanon)
The Saint Catherine's parish is located in Ashrafieh, an eastern district of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. A broad Lebanese Greek Orthodox community resides in this district. The Saint Catherine's parish is one of eleven parishes falling under the jurisdiction of the Greek orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut and its dependencies.
Saint Catherine's church is located in the Saint Catherine's Monastery and is the worship place of both the parish and the monastery that includes also the Zahret El Ihsan school.
The address of the Monastery is the following: Zahret el Ihsan street, Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon
In 1976 and with the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon, the saint Catherine's church became parochial when the metropolitan of Beirut H.E. Elia (born Saliby) designated father Elia (born Issa; 1916 – 2003) as pastor of the church and the new parish, and Mr Elias Geahchan (1910 – 2006) as church's mandatary. Later on in 1994, Fr Elia Issa was promoted by H.E. the present metropolitan Elias (born Audi) to the Archimandrite title, and served the parish until his death. Archimandrite Seraphim (born Bardawil) is the present pastor of the parish, assisted by fr Stephanos (born Abdelnour)
The parish includes 550 households and covers a part of Ashrafieh, an eastern district of Beirut. It neighbors four other parishes: annunciation of Our Lady to the west, Saint Nicholas to the north, Saint Dimitri and Presentation of Our Lady to the east.
Religious services
The Divine Liturgy is celebrated on: Sunday morning at 9:30 AM, preceded by the Matins at 8:30 AM Saturday morning at 8:30 AM, preceded by the Matins at 7:30 AM Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM
Sunday vespers are celebrated on Saturday evening at 5:00 PM
Patron Saint's day
The Parish celebrates the Saint Catherine's of Alexandria feast on the 25th of November. The Vespers, Matins and Divine Liturgy are then headed by H.E. the motropolitan of Beirut and its dependency.


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The Baltimore Fire Department has released the name of the man killed in the University of Maryland Medical Center fire last week as William Turner, born in 1950.
Turner, a patient at the hospital, was killed in a fire in his room late Friday night. The cause of the fire and cause of death are still under investigation, spokespeople for the fire department and the hospital said.
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Many years ago, I taught Michelle in Sunday School. A few years later, when she was a teenager, she went to a party and drank until she was drunk. Friends took her to a house and left her alone for several hours. When they returned at 3:30 in the morning, they found her unconscious and not breathing.
When firemen were unable to revive her, she was immediately taken to a hospital. At the hospital she was found to have alcohol poisoning and wasn't expected to live.
When Jill, Michelle's mom, arrived at the hospital, Michelle was comatose and on a number of life support machines. A doctor told Jill that Michelle had an alcohol content of .5 in her system. "At .1 you're drunk," he said, ".4 is usually fatal." He also said he did not think they could save her. He stated that even if she did survive, she would suffer brain damage because of being deprived of oxygen for so long. He also stated that damage to her lungs was irreparable.
After hearing these dire predictions, Jill began to pray and called on me to do so too. I began praying immediately and continued as I drove to the hospital. When I arrived, Jill was overjoyed. Michelle had awakened from the coma, and all life support systems had been removed. I was able to speak with both Michelle and her mom. As you can imagine, Michelle's friends were also relieved. They had been feeling guilty for leaving her alone.
A doctor confirmed that Michelle was out of danger from the alcohol poisoning and that there were no signs of brain damage, but he was still extremely concerned. He expected pneumonia to set in. We all continued praying. A day later, her lungs were examined and found to be fine — no indication of pneumonia was present. Then the doctor released her with the staff calling her "the miracle girl."
Did Michelle experience a miracle or something natural?
If her healing was accomplished by an isolated moment of exalted inspiration or blind faith then, perhaps, Michelle's experience could be considered a miracle. However, spiritual healing, as I know it, rests on understanding and demonstration. It includes scientific discovery and divine revelation.
It seems more and more people are becoming aware that spiritual healing is not only natural; it is reasonable and responsible care. For example: a survey of American family physicians found that 99 percent of these physicians are convinced that spiritual beliefs can heal. Further, 75 percent believe that the prayers of others can help a patient recover more quickly. Also, a Pew Research survey revealed that 36 percent of Americans say they've experienced or seen healing through prayer.
Explaining how a spiritually mental activity can produce changes in physical bodies is not an easy task due to the strong conviction that our thought is servant to our body. Yet, more than ever, it is being discovered that existence is more consciousness-based than believed.
As we ponder health as being more mental in nature, spiritual healing may be considered as coinciding with certain elements found in quantum mechanics. For instance, in the introduction of his book, Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, former professor of physics at San Diego State University, states "…quantum mechanics indicates that there is an order to the universe. It simply isn't the order we expected. Even describing the true order of the universe is difficult because it involves something more than the physical world. It involves us, our minds, and our thoughts."
Wolf continues, "Just how physics and our minds are to be brought together is a controversial subject. The gradual recognition that what we think may physically influence what we observe has led to a revolution in thought and philosophy, not to mention physics."
So how does Wolf's statement possibly agree with a Bible or spiritually-based treatment?
My experience has shown me that prayer improves physical conditions because the essential nature of existence is thought. Although it seems otherwise, thought, or consciousness, is the master of the body. In fact, thought constitutes the body rather than it being a machine.
Unlike a machine, the structure of human thought is able to change. However, the highest consciousness, the Mind that is God, doesn't change. It's our concept of existence that is altered by prayer. Prayer brings our thought, and the body along with it, into the harmony that characterizes a God-governed consciousness.
Look at it this way: Imagine a football game where instead of the scoreboard changing because of actions taking place on a field, the play on the field adjusts according to merely revising the score.
Ross Rhodes, science writer and lecturer specializing in the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics, writes, "…the mathematical formulas that were initially developed to describe the behavior of the universe turn out to govern the behavior of the universe.
"It is as though you could create a good offense in a football game — send the tight end racing down the sidelines and across the goal line — by changing the numbers on the scoreboard. We are accustomed to thinking that the scoreboard describes and tallies the action on the field; in this analogy, we find that the action on the field is produced by the changing numbers on the scoreboard."
Spiritual healing should be considered natural instead of miraculous, if what we believe shapes our experience. Changes of thought (like changing the scoreboard) lead to adjustments in bodies and lives (like the action on the field).
Most importantly, though, a more spiritual consciousness will discern that we've always been in the hands of a loving and wise God.
After the doctor released Michelle, and as she was walking out, the firemen who'd rushed her to the hospital were walking in. They'd returned to find out when she had passed away. They were overjoyed to see Michelle alive.
And if I think about what Michelle's condition looked like to her friends or the firemen who rushed her to the hospital, perhaps darkness might describe it. Yet, our prayers for Michelle didn't ask the darkness how long it had been there, or how solid it seemed to be, or even how much momentum it'd built up. Our prayers glimpsed and acknowledged the light (God's presence). This action apparently removed the darkness.
Perhaps the solid substance and structure of existence is thought, God's thought, — God seeing the goodness of His own creation. If this is so, then, possibly, each of our humble prayers enables us to view life from God's own perspective, to some degree. As we pray, we can witness God bringing love, health, and care to human conditions needing tender treatment.
– Keith Wommack is a Syndicated Columnist, Christian Science practitioner and teacher, husband, and step-dad. He has been described as a spiritual spur (since every horse needs a little nudge now and then). Keith's columns originate at: KeithWommack.com
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The Tiger Woods case might be closed in the opinion of the Florida Highway Patrol, but not according to some of the women who reportedly have had relationships with the pro golfer.
A Los Angeles-based cocktail waitress, Jaimee Grubbs, told Us Weekly that she had a 31-month fling with the married Woods. Grubbs said she's got hundreds of text messages that prove this, and provided Us with a voicemail Woods reportedly left Grubbs on Nov. 24 in which Woods suggests that his wife suspects he is having an affair.
But she's not the last of the rumored mistresses. Another woman is expected to be named shortly. This one, an employee of the Bank nightclub in Las Vegas, has been in a relationship with Woods only "a couple months," according to a source who knew of the alleged relationship.
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If Woods has strayed beyond the bounds of his five-year marriage, not just once, but with several women, then why hasn't it come out before now?
According to a source who is a fixture on the Vegas nightlife scene, and has seen Woods on multiple occasions, "It's one of those hush-hush things — no one talks about Tiger's s— in Vegas. He goes there a bunch of times a year, and he loves his life there. But he's got some s— in Vegas."
Why speak out now?
In the case of Grubbs, all signs point to a payday as a motivating factor. Some rumors put her Us magazine compensation in the ballpark of $100,000 (Us Weekly's comment: "As a policy, we do not comment on obtaining stories or photo transactions.")
But some sources at media outlets who are reportedly negotiating with other women involved in this story say those numbers aren't enough to get them to talk.
"A lot of these women make a really, really good living," said one reporter at a weekly magazine. "They're going to lose their jobs if they talk, so it better be a lot of money at stake. They know if they say what went on, they'll have to sit this one out, so to speak, until they find a new job. So the stakes are high."
What's next for Woods?
Woods still has yet to make any additional statement, and some other athletes have some opinions on that.
On Tuesday, golfer John Daly said, "the thing that Tiger needs to look at is, whatever happened, just tell the truth."
Daly also thinks Woods will be able to survive this controversy. "He'll get over this. The family will get over it. They'll move on. Golf needs him," he said.
Woods' good friend Charles Barkley also weighed in, telling WIP radio in Philadelphia, "I think all the secrecy, his statement apologizing — I am not perfect and stuff like that. I think they are making it worse. I mean I would love for him to come out and say: "Hey we had a disagreement. I am sorry for the uproar. Please give me my privacy."
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Augustus Toplady's hymn "Rock of Ages" includes this line: "Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling." These lyrics wonderfully encapsulate Jesus' teaching in Mark 10:13–16. We come into the kingdom only by admitting that we ...Read More
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Hotz, Hans (16th century)
Hans Hotz, an Anabaptist martyr, was a native of the Grüningen district of the canton of Zürich. He was probably baptized by Georg Blaurock. It is possible that Hotz was converted in 1525, during Blaurock's successful missionary activity in Grüningen. From that time on Hotz was an inspired defender of Anabaptism. Through the work of such men as him and Jakob Falk and Heini Reimann, the movement continued to gain ground in Grüningen so that great numbers of people flocked to hear them preach.
Meanwhile the Zwinglian church had established itself as a state institution and attacked "corner preaching and rabble-rousing," which had grown to considerable proportions in Grüningen. The council of Zürich also decided to put an end to the "Anabaptist mischief" in the Zürich Oberland. The leaders of the movement were arrested, tried, and sentenced. It is not definitely known that Hans Hotz was one of those sentenced by the council of Zürich on 7 March 1526. It is nevertheless safe to assume that in 1526 he was still in prison with Georg Blaurock; for in the court records of a later trial is found the following statement: "Hans Hotz in the Ketzerturm says: 'Blaurock first taught him and also strengthened him, likewise Felix Manz. Thus they all encouraged one another in the tower. He holds infant baptism to be an error, and rebaptism right.'"
As soon as the prisoners were released from the Ketzerturm they renewed their missionary work. It cannot be definitely determined when Hotz was again arrested. In August 1528 he was cross-examined with several other brethren, after an imprisonment of nearly one and one-half years. Hans Hotz confessed that infant baptism was the false baptism and was not right; he had once called infant baptism right, but was now very rueful; nor did he want to hear the preachers. All the others likewise repented having called infant baptism right; it is an abomination before God, and baptism on faith is a command of God.
All the prisoners confessed that in prison they had strengthened and encouraged each other, well or sick, to be steadfast. They were therefore isolated in the various towers and monasteries in the city. For two weeks they were kept on bread and water. The leaders Falk and Reimann were then sentenced to death by drowning and were executed on 5 September 1528. At a further trial the others were urged to be converted and return to the pastor in the church, to hear the Word of God and to recognize infant baptism. Probably the following undated notice in the records refers to this trial: "Hans Hotz said he considers the baptism with which he was baptized in his youth, as wrong and useless; but the other baptism that he received was right, and he does not suppose that he has done wrong. Nor did he want to go to church to hear words of idolatry." Those who refused to be converted and like Hotz persisted in Anabaptism should be kept in the tower on bread and water another month to think it over, and should then be tried again and sentenced. The final verdict concerning Hotz is not known. But it is certain that in spite of long incarceration he held fast to his faith.
But Hans Hotz did not share the severe struggles of the Anabaptist brotherhood only in his own community, his activity extended far beyond the borders of this canton. In the disputation at Zofingen, 1-9 July 1532, as well as that in Bern, 11-17 March 1538, Hotz was the spokesman of the Swiss Brethren. The adamant character of this warrior was so developed by experience and suffering that he became a quick-witted opponent of the church party. Unfortunately the records of these debates rarely name the speaker. One of the most important points the Brethren had to answer in Zofingen was "the divine call to the office of preaching." The preachers had charged the Brethren that their commission to preach the Gospel was not of God. No wonder that they answered their opponents that because they were not sent according to apostolic custom, their mission was not of God! Hans Hotz placed special emphasis on his belief that before a preacher could proclaim the Word he must experience a conversion or renewal of heart and he must then also be found blameless in his life. Those who were divinely called were called by a believing brotherhood and not by a government.
Hans Hotz adroitly discussed the question of baptism. He admitted that baptism is the sign of a Christian people, with which we are received into the church of God. But this does not belong to little children, but only to those who experience salvation through faith. Hotz said, "It has not yet been proved that those shall also be received who do not have the faith; for baptism is always the sign of the renewed man, buried in the death of Jesus Christ, and always a certain announcement or testimony of resurrection through the death of Jesus Christ."
In the same tone Hotz defended baptism on faith in the disputation in Bern in 1538. The court record says, "This confession of Hotz was read to them, and then the presidents questioned the Anabaptists one by one. They all were satisfied and confirmed it; no one rejected it." After further debate Hotz said, "Therefore we hold baptism in the Christian brotherhood ... as taught by Christ and practiced by the apostles. If anyone can prove otherwise by Scripture, we will wait for it."
Apparently the authorities were not pleased with the outcome of this disputation. The council decided that the nonresidents (of whom Hotz was one) should be escorted over the border, subject to death by beheading if they crossed it again, because they were "leading people astray." Nothing is known of Hotz's life after this disputation.
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Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1972.
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the greatest cause of celebration during an intense game of nazi zombies. screaming and shouting and occasionally even battle cries often follow a player stumbling across the rare but life-changing weapon in the mystery box. prolongs zombie pwning time but nazi zombies is still and will always remain an un-winnable game mode.
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It is a one shot kill, however obtaining it can be tricky.
It is a one shot kill, however obtaining it can be tricky.
Dude we were playing Nazi Zombies yesterday and we all got the Ray Gun and we got to level 20!!
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That guy is almost thirty years old and he's completely wasted his life. He should just kill himself now. Way to pull a Raygun.
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Basically a laser gun, but it's more like a flash-light, and has a cool "Beeooorrrww" or "Wollawollawolla" sound effect. They're pretty sweet.
Space Jay pulled out his ray gun and shot the alien.
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the raygun, aka the shocker, is the act of digitally penetrating a woman (your pump) using two fingers in the vagine, one in the anoose. also known as two in pink, one in the stink, or two in the pink, one in the brown. a great party trick and an even greater name for a hockey team or a band of roving biologists addicted to cholera and sodomy. it is rumored to be possible to perform the reverse raygun (one in the pink, two in the brown) on virgins, the vaginally constricted and hos with much junk in da trunk, but this has yet to be confirmed and may indeed have a name of its own.
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White trash with a sugar mommy and superiority complex. Combining all three in a word4um kiddie/word arena yields mock authority.
I decided to Raygun the 4um kiddie by cutting him short without hearing him out.
Don't Raygun the argument, hear me out.
I wish Raygun would ban me so I can go be productive.
Don't Raygun the argument, hear me out.
I wish Raygun would ban me so I can go be productive.
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What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It's about being able to do something - hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog - better than most anyone else. That's a fine answer, but it immediately invites another question: What is talent? How did that person get so good at hitting a baseball or trading stocks? For a long time, talent seemed to be about inheritance, about the blessed set of genes that gave rise to some particular skill. Einstein had the physics gene, Beethoven had the symphony gene, and Tiger Woods (at least until his car crash) had the golf swing gene. The corollary, of course, is that you and I can't become chess grandmasters, or composers, or golf pros, simply because we don't have the necessary anatomy. Endless hours of hard work won't compensate for our biological limitations. When fate was handing out skill, we got screwed.
In recent years, however, the pendulum has shifted. It turns out that the intrinsic nature of talent is overrated - our genes don't confer specific gifts. (There is, for instance, no PGA gene.) This has led many researchers, such as K. Anders Ericsson, to argue that talent is really about deliberate practice, about putting in those 10,000 hours of intense training (plus or minus a few thousand hours). Beethoven wasn't born Beethoven - he had to work damn hard to become Beethoven. As Ericsson wrote in his influential review article "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance": "The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance."
That's interesting, right? Talent is about practice. Talent takes effort. Talent requires a good coach. But these answers only raise more questions. What, for instance, allows someone to practice for so long? Why are some people so much better at deliberate practice? If talent is about hard work, then what factors influence how hard we can work?
The ability to ask these questions, to peel away layers of explanation, is one of the reasons I'm drawn to the psychological sciences. And this leads me to one of my favorite recent papers, "Deliberate Practice Spells Success: Why Grittier Competitors Triumph at the National Spelling Bee." The research, published this month in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science, was led by Angela Duckworth, a psychologist at Penn. (Anders-Ericsson is senior author.) The psychologists were interested in the set of traits that allowed kids to practice deliberately. Their data set consisted of 190 participants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a competition that requires thousands of hours of practice. After all, there are no natural born spellers.
The first thing Duckworth, et. al. discovered is that deliberate practice works. Those kids who spent more time in deliberate practice mode - this involved studying and memorizing words while alone, often on note cards - performed much better at the competition than those children who were quizzed by others or engaged in leisure reading. The bad news is that deliberate practice isn't fun and was consistently rated as the least enjoyable form of self-improvement. Nevertheless, as spellers gain experience, they devote increasing amounts of time to deliberate practice. This suggests that even twelve year olds realize that this is what makes them better, that success isn't easy.
But that still begs the question: Why were some kids better at drilling themselves with note cards? What explained this variation in hours devoted to deliberate practice? After analyzing the data, Duckworth discovered the importance of a psychological trait known as grit. In previous papers, Duckworth has demonstrated that grit can be reliably measured with a short survey that measures consistency of passions (e.g., ''I have been obsessed with a certain idea or project for a short time but later lost interest'') and consistency of effort (e.g., ''Setbacks don't discourage me'') over time using a 5-point scale. Not surprisingly, those with grit are more single-minded about their goals - they tend to get obsessed with certain activities - and also more likely to persist in the face of struggle and failure. Woody Allen famously declared that "Eighty percent of success is showing up". Grit is what allows you show up again and again. Here are the scientists:
Our major findings in this investigation are as follows: Deliberate practice—operationally defined in the current investigation as the solitary study of word spellings and origins—was a better predictor of National Spelling Bee performance than either being quizzed by others or engaging in leisure reading. With each year of additional preparation, spellers devoted an increasing proportion of their preparation time to deliberate practice, despite rating the experience of such activities as more effortful and less enjoyable than the alternative preparation activities. Grittier spellers engaged in deliberate practice more so than their less gritty counterparts, and hours of deliberate practice fully mediated the prospective association between grit and spelling performance.
There are two interesting takeaways from this study. The first is that there's a major contradiction between how we measure talent and the causes of talent. In general, we measure talent using tests of maximal performance. Think, for instance, of the NFL Combine: Players perform in short bursts (40 yard dash, short IQ test, catching drills, etc.) under conditions of high motivation. The purpose of the event is to see what players are capable of, to determine the scope of their potential. The problem with these tests, however, is that the real world doesn't resemble the NFL Combine. Instead, success in the real world depends on sustained performance, on being able to work hard at practice, and spend the weekend studying the playbook, and reviewing hours of game tape. Those are all versions of deliberate practice, and our ability to engage in such useful exercises largely depends on levels of grit. The problem, of course, is that grit can't be measured in a single afternoon on a single field. (By definition, it's a metric of personality that involves long periods of time.) The end result is that our flawed beliefs about talent have led to flawed tests of talent. Perhaps that explains why there is no "consistent statistical relationship between combine tests and professional football performance." We need to a test that measures how likely people are to show up, not just how they perform once there.
The second takeaway involves the growing recognition of "non-cognitive" skills like grit and self-control. While such traits have little or nothing to do with intelligence (as measured by IQ scores), they often explain a larger share of individual variation when it comes to life success. It doesn't matter if one is looking at retention rates at West Point or teacher performance within the Teach for America program or success in the spelling bee: Factors like grit are often the most predictive variables of real world performance. Thomas Edison was right: even genius is mostly just perspiration.
Taken together, these studies suggest that our most important talent is having a talent for working hard, for practicing even when practice isn't fun. It's about putting in the hours when we'd rather be watching TV, or drilling ourselves with notecards filled with obscure words instead of getting quizzed by a friend. Success is never easy. That's why talent requires grit.


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Despite the dark chocolate snobbery that often rules the chocolate world, Ghirardelli is looking out for the shunned, stepped-on milk chocolate lovers. Understanding that the less sexy option still accounts for 80 percent of total chocolate sales in the U.S., the company recently launched a luxe milk chocolate line, and it's on another level than cheap Easter candy.
When Serious Eaters acquired a medley of the new flavors--regular milk, hazelnut, almond, crisped rice, and a milk/dark duet--the inner milk chocolate sympathizers in us came out. We all seemed to get so excited rooting for milk chocolate. "I like the way chocolate tastes when mixed with sugar and milk: sweet and creamy. This doesn't mean I like all milk chocolate, just that I would prefer a really good milk chocolate over a good dark chocolate. This falls in line with my general distaste for almost all things bitter though, including coffee and alcohol," said Robyn.
"Dark chocolate often tastes powerfully acidic to me, and is positively awful straight out of the fridge. Milk chocolate, on the other hand, melts so quickly on your tongue," added Michele. To me, milk chocolate was always the little kid choice and dark was for grown-ups. Only with age could you appreciate something will less sugar or milk, as with coffee or tea. But it's interesting to now see cacao percentages, nuanced ingredients, and classy packaging in a milk chocolate context.
Talk about a victory dance for the pro-milk chocolate community, and what better time to celebrate than Valentine's Day weekend.
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Editor's Choice, September 2008: Fujifilm FinePix S100FS
We didn't want to like the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS. To be honest, from the beginning I expected it to be another bloated, overpriced, underperforming all-in-one that reminds everyone what a much better deal an entry-level DSLR is.
When a camera completely turns our initial perceptions on their heads, we sit up and take notice. When a fixed-lens camera wins over our crew of diehard DSLR shooters, doubly so. And that's exactly what happened with the Fuji S100FS.
The heart of the S100FS award-worthy performance is its 11 megapixel, almost DSLR-sized Super CCD sensor. In exchange for the cost it undoubtedly adds to the S100FS's final sales price, this imager offers a lot of trade-offs we can live with: better noise performance than your typical point-and-shoot, exceptional expanded dynamic range options that yield images that are "SLR smooth," and a large volume of usable resolution. If it doesn't quite touch the noise performance of even smaller DSLR sensors, it's certainly knocking at the door: you simply won't get better ISO 1600 shots out of another point-and-shoot with this much resolution.
Of course, the Fuji's imager also drives its point-and-shoot style full-time live view experience. DSLR converts will question the appeal of on-screen composition, but for the sizeable and growing chunk of repeat camera buyers who can't remember a president before Ronald Reagan, the on-screen shooting approach afforded by digital technology is a way of life – and an area where SLRs have been slow to take full advantage of what digital has to offer. At least until the likes of Panasonic/Olympus's Micro Four Thirds system really comes into its own, the S100FS offers the live view shooting experience that many casual photographers favor in one of its more high-performance guises.
In tackling optical design for a single lens covering the equivalent of 28-400mm, there will be compromises. In spite of a well-documented purple fringe issue, the Fuji's 14.3x zoom keeps it together fairly well in other respects. There's no doubt that the lens's average overall performance will be yet another turn-off for those advocating the purchase of a DSLR instead, but we'd argue that the S100FS's optical performance is in keeping with expectations for any other wide-angle to telephoto optic, interchangeable or not. To this end, our full review has loads of sample images. Check them out yourself, even print a few, and draw your own conclusions about how much the S100FS's lens concerns will be an issue for you and the way you use your images.
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... with a grandfather clock.
No pressure.
I've just heard that Parliament have passed the second reading of the Daylight Saving Bill with a majority of 82 votes. *sigh*
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I am a little confused. Don't chikdren finish school in the afternoon before it gets dark anyway?
These people should now be regarded as accessories to murder.
Fully a third of scots are now in fuel poverty. - A fucking third!!
Weird. Katabasis here ^ my OpenID doesn't seem to be working for some reason on here.
The powers that be are trying to censor Wikileaks, perhaps they think you are a bit "dodgy"???
Remember Lockerbie.
Give the porridge wogs their independence, and remove their funding from England. They can keep their oil, once they have paid off the costs of English exploration and with it they can heat up the homes of their wife-beating, Buckfast-drinking, feckless, benefit-scrounging, scotch, lazy whingeing bastards.
If this global warming carries on at its present rate we will e able to watch polar bears from Blackpool pier.
So as a new member of Parliament, changing clocks is the best fucking thing that silly bint in the video can think of putting forward for discussion! Still with all other things being discussed and passed in Brussels I suppose they haven't got much else to do, other than fiddling their expenses of course.
Just so, they now have reduced responsibilities with so much being decided in Brussels. That being the situation a good argument could be made for A) less of them B) reduced renumeration.
If they want Berlin time .. they can fuck off & live in Berlin ..
This is Britain & we use GMT .. simple .. OK ?
Aparently it's worse than we thought. The idea is to use Summer Time in the winter and double summer time in the summer.
Can anyone explain to me why we are allowing the EU to dictate what time zone we decide to belong in? Why the fucking Christ don't we tell these arseholes to just fuck the fucking fuck off, the cunts???????
(Sorry - but I just burst a fucking blood vessel! Where's the fucking Metaxa?.......)
"I could be the catalyst that spawned a revolution" - Ian Dury (What a Waste)
"If this global warming carries on at its present rate we will e able to watch polar bears from Blackpool pier" ...
Which would indeed make a pleasant change from Fat, pissed, lobster-red, chav slappers wearing "Kiss-Me-Quick" cowboy hats ...
Or one of those large, "extended" families from Blackburn or Rochdale .. traipsing across the sands, like one of the fucking lost tribes of Israel .. looking for somewhere to pitch camp ..
Bring on the Bears .. Multi-problem solving at a stroke ...
Where I live .. the little buggers seem to finish by 1430 ..
And even in the depths of Winter its nowhere near dark at that time ..
Gotty - It's Friday, we need something to cheer us the fuck up. I know many of you will have seen this before, but for those happy ones who haven't: read this and think of the delights that await us when Turkey joins the Intergalactic EUSSR ....
Easy "Dio" ...
I'm told that ruptured "Chalfonts" are both messy & painful ... Lol
Porridge wogs?
Ah, an arse.
I recall the tale of an American Indian who upon being told of "Daylight Saving Time" commented
"Only a White Man could think that by cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it to the top you would have a bigger blanket"
Ignorance of the scale we saw today is rarely encountered in the real world as Evolution tends to self prune the Tree of life. A cursory view at a globe shows just how epicly moronic this idea is. The Midnight Sun in Scotland in summer, dark in Northern England and Scotland the rest of the time. The experiment in Portugal proved that the idea plumbed new depths of stupidity and led to increased death rates, more problems at school (something to do with people being evolved to sleep in the dark...)
Not only is Rebecca Harris an extremely stupid bitch ..
But she's a dead-cert winner should someone ever enter her at "Cruffts" ..
Ooooh .. just spotted my unintentional puns .. Ahh, fuck it .. Lol
I seem to be in a minority on this one. I want Double British Summer Time all year round. As the indian says there are only so many hours in one day. So why not have the light at a time we can make best use of it, which for me and most people I know would be in the evening. I get up to go to work at 05:00; in the summer its been light for a couple of hours almost, total waste of good light, lets have it in the evening. Same for winter I would rather it got dark later at 18:00 rather than at 16:00; simples.
Just a thought why not call it Svarlbard Time if Berlin time upsets you.
You just be careful in that sunshine mate ..
Remember what happened last time ? .... Lol
Fucking 10/10 has passed so why havent these cunts been wound up ffs.
Ok don't tell me, there's shitloads of money to be made yet.
Have these cunts no shame after their last fuck up.
Wife just corrected me its October 3010 that they meant when they set up the fucking 'charity'.
Cos last time I looked .. I didn't live in either Berlin or Svarlbad ..
I live in England .. so we use Greenwich Mean Time (the clue is in the name) ..
Why the fuck can't these cunts just leave things alone? If it aint broke, don't fix it! It just takes a bit of simple geography to understand that we in Britain are just too far west to be in the Berlin Time Zone, but no, our utterly useless Europhile traitor politicians are just too fucking thick to understand this! And with the continuing Muzzie colonisation of OUR country, how long before we are forced to switch to fucking Mecca time?? Cunts the fucking lot of 'em!!!
"why not call it Svarlbard Time if Berlin time upsets you" < Fuck off!
Sunrise in London is about 8:00. You want double summer time in winter which means sunrise at 10:00.
Are you mad or what?
May I add 'right' in between the two words of your comment Gotty?
Ahh .. I think the technical term for this situation is a "Self-adjusting Cock-up" ..
We have to ask Brussels permission to change time zones so they can discuss all they want but it won't be their decision to make.
The mohamedans are alreading demanding that the world stops basing time zones on +/- GMT and instead (obviously) using +/- Mecca time so that is no joke BotR.
They can fuck right off ..
Why should I base my time on the opening/closing times of the local Bingo Hall ????
They'll be demanding that the "N" for North on compasses be changed to "M" next ..
Tossers ...
@ BOTR - You forget that people in positions of importance (well THEY think they are important) can never leave well alone. They're always trying to justify their existence. I saw it time and time again in the large company I used to work for. Politics is no different...
If it is darker in the mornings, perhaps it will mean more lamp-posts around Westminster, which might come in handy!
rapid reaction facebook page? what a cunt!
I've been running on GMT for the last two years now. For half the year, the rest of the country is running an hour late than me, but it doesn't stop me getting up and going to sleep as I choose, the same time, all year round.
Stop complying with this shit and live your own life.
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