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I worked at a college from "85 to '98. In '86 I had a computer lab and found one of those suitcase computers.. think I finally threw it out in 1990... worth a few bucks now ! Slow as could be with 5 1/4 disks.
Yea.. keep installing it.. Anyone remember when you could get software that allowed two modems to connect to your service provider and split the downloads. I think one modem did text and the other images ? I would believe this was way before 56K connections and when service providers could limit your connections. I think I tried it but you needed two telephone lines. I had a separate modem line as well as a phone line. I was on, some times, for 10 hours straight back in the late '90s. I had a good company then. I still have the E-Mail address from them, 15 years.
When I went to grad school, we were presented with a VERY BIG "portable" Compaq computer, the size of a small suitcase. The software included Lotus 1,2,3. We were tol to bring the thing home and install Lotus 1,2,3. I could not understand the directions, and asked a self proclaimed computer expert. "Well, he said, first yo put each disc in and FORMAT it" Are you sure I asked? Oh yes, he said, that gets it ready to install. He then provided me with complete directions for formatting each disc, and I did as directed. I then tried again and again to install the program, with no luck. Finally, I brought the whole thing back to class, and announced that there was "something wrong" with MY program. The instructor, could not stop laughing when I told him what I had done, and I learned it is better to NEVER accept everything from a self proclaimed expert without proof of his expertise!
Back in the 70's my company sold systems with floppy drives to tire stores. The computer with floppy drives were installed on a shelf under the counter. At night (do to the energy crisis) the store thermostats were set to 80 degrees or more. Also I think the shelf doors were closed but the computers left on. The heat continued to recirculate within the cabinets. Saw one of the drives brought in with the floppy actually melted in the drive. Wow. We had to reengineer the fan cages so they stayed further away from the back of the cabinet and I think have grills put in the cabinet doors. Fixed the problem but an unhappy customer.
Oh the memories. Back when life was simple. But, no dead mice? The four legged ones.
...didn't look so funny to me, as it brought back painful memories. the screen of my Toshiba Satellite laptop got a big crack just from opening and closing, no big shocks. the cheap plastic encasing of the 17" widescreen may have helped adding to the daily stress on the screen. the starting point of the crack was located somewhere near the bottom left corner of the screen and was already two-branched (1-2 in each branch) right after it happened. it quickly grew to a full screen coverage before the new screen I ordered came. at least mine was done after 6 months of use. when i started reading reviews I found about a similar case happening after 1 month of just regular use. try to explain this for warranty refund...
I actually got a service call on this one, back in the day. It was 5.25" diskettes as well. As I recall, she said the machine was eating her floppies. I opened it up and there were five or six of them inside.
For example the multiple US Robotics Modems. I saw Windows do that sort of trick many times. No technically clueless involved at all. That stuff kept me and my peers in a job. And still does. The Multiple Folders - I have also seen Windows do that type of thing. I should point out that I am talking Windows in it's original incarnation not the fluffed up over engineered monster that is currently sold as Windows. The Autoexec.bat file with a Deltree command.? If it worked would also have deleted the autoexec.bat file so there would be no record. Suspect this is a recreation of actual events. However I used to support some one who periodically used to issue the following command to free up disk space. del C:\*.* This person kept forgetting to put in the path to the temp directory. We are talking DOS 3.0 days.
Isn't that how dual-layer discs came to be?
The "CD in the wrong slot" blooper happened to me once with a 5.25" diskette (remember those?). I was working on an IBM RT server that was standing on the floor under the table where I was sitting. I had been feeding it diskettes for a while, and had the whole "unlatch drive, remove diskette, insert diskette, latch drive, press Enter" down pat. I was doing all this without ever looking down at the machine. Well, one time I inserted a diskette in the drive, but the drive wouldn't latch. When I looked down at the machine, there was no diskette in the drive. It had disappeared! I had managed to insert it through an opening between the top of the drive and the blank faceplate above it. Retrieving the diskette wasn't a big deal -- I just popped out the blank faceplate. But the diskette had been slid over the top of a very dusty diskette drive, and had to be discarded.
I got the job of cleaning a bunch of PC's that had not been covered with plastic before a remodeling project. DRY WALL DUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was told a couple cans of air should do it. HA! Used my small air compressor and a vacuum. 5 HOURS.
The ide cable from CD to HDD was the best!
The more cd's the better. I have a slot feed player that holds four disca. THis person must have seen me load up.
That's where I was hiding my cards............... Forgot to remove them.
A lot of these odd happenings (not counting grandpa's beard, of course) happen either at the hands (literally) of children or because no one ever 'splained the basics to the end user. Sometimes that could be the end user's fault. People hate to start out looking dumb so they don't ask for help, and what happens? They get to pay good money to look dumb. As the generation that teethed on computer chips hits its stride this sort of thing probably doesn't happen as often -- except, of course for grandpa's beard, and as the PC's get off the floor or replaced by laptops and tablets even that probably doesn't happen so much any more. :-)
I was sent to look at a printer that would not communicate with the PC. On arrival I found an old style printer with a font card slot and a parallel port. a test showed that it powered up OK but could not communicate, so I tried another cable. No luck there so I pulled the covers off and peered inside. The card slot in the case lined up with the back of the main board and I could see something shiny lodged down the back. I loosened the board and tilted the machine. A total of ??1.86 in various denominations of loose change spilled out and rolled across the table. There was a 50p coin wedged on the back of the parallel connector, effectively shorting it out. Having halved the value of the printer I replaced the covers and it worked fine. The owner was delighted to be re-united with her fortune and explained that her two year old son had recently been given a money box and was getting into the habit of 'finding' coins and putting them into any slot he could find.
In the old days of floppy disks I gave a teaching colleague some learning materials I'd saved to disk. She rang to say the disk was empty, useless, or so faulty the computer wouldn't even read it. I was puzzled until I discovered she was putting it into the disk drive SIDEWAYS. And this woman was teaching word-processing at the time!
RE: Insert into drive D and a half - perhaps they thought it was like the Harry Potter Hogwart's railway station at #9 3/4? Otherwise I would wonder if they can see that well, or couldn't find the Open button? Lots of ummmm good? explanations for this one. Maybe they thought it was like the CD player in their car.
Back in the day of local UG's (User Groups) and caddy-loading CD-ROM players, we had a user bring her computer to our UG meeting. She complained that her CD-ROM player had quit working and wondered if we would look at it. My pal Jim said sure and peeked inside. He audibly groaned and said "Ray, grab my needle noses out of my tool bag." I handed him the pliers and Jim proceeded to extract a 3.5" floppy disk a la picture 1 from the drive. He then proceeded to extract TWO more diskettes. In over 16 years, I've seen nearly every example of what these pictures depiect.
thats some amazing work....
'make a copy of the disk before you install the software'.. In the early 80's I ran a small computer company that made hardware for PC's. We sent the software out on 5.25" floppy disks, and an instruction manual I had written. (I said small company). I also did some of the tech support. One customer called a few times, and seemed to be having a lot of trouble with the software installation. I went through the steps, and he confirmed that he had done each correctly. 1) Make a copy of the software disk 2) Insert the copy of the disk into the computer 3) Run the setup.bat file (Opps no files on the disk Hmmm) After 3 retries and recalls of making the copy, I had him tell me the steps he took in detail (figuring he was making a backup with the wrong commands or the like). He replied: 1) I make a copy if the disk 2) I trim off the excess so it will fit in the drive (Opps why is there excess? because the photo copier only makes 8.5 by 11 copies... Here's your sign! (for both of us, I rewrote the manual that afternoon) Tom
While smirkingly laughing at the picture, I instinctively tried to drag the window of the device manager down! Argggh! (Bet the radio buttons don't work either. Better ring help desk) There for the grace of god etc. Shame shame. Tch tch.
..(about the time of Dennis' divorce), one of the other techs had a husband who did field service for a vendor (a reseller, i think). She relayed his stories about floppies magneted to the sides file cabinets and the woman who filled in the labels on 5.25" floppies with her typewriter - after the labels were on the disks, and so on. But my favourite was the office that had a recurring problem with outright system crashes and occasional random reboots - a problem that neither he nor the other techs who worked for the company could duplicate, much less figure out how to fix. So, one day (another in the long string of calls), he arrives at the customer site, and the receptionist tells him that the person he needs to work with is in a part of the offices he hasn't been to yet, and she'll guide him back there. And she stands up, and picks up a pair of scissors from her desk, and starts out. "Why," he said, still all unsuspecting, "Why do you have those scissors in your hand?" "Oh," says she, reaching out toward the door with the scissors, "so it doesn't hurt when I do *this*..." And a static spark he could see and hear from several feet away popped from the tip of the scissors to the doorknob... A little anti-static spray on the polyester carpets, and...
Really enjoyed this. I work at a university where students need to use a money loader to top up their printing account. Someone folded a 10 pound note and stuck it inside the coin slot, ignoring the note feeder!
That is nothing... I do a lot of home computer repairs virus removals. I had a customer complain about some whining noises from the computer and random shutdowns/BSODs. I open the tower and there is about 3 inches high worth of dust in the bottom of the machine, spider webs, and other dead bugs. The dust was so thick I could actually pick it out in huge clumps. Most of the fans were dead, the whining was the CPU fan hitting the dust that had built up in the CPU Cooler fins. Amazing after I cleaned it out replaced some bad fans ran some tests the computer still worked and stopped overheating causing it to crash. I have to wonder what people like that do to create that much dust in a room.
OMG im ROFL! I attended a server once and inside i found this marvelous trick of the trade... and IDE HDD (the main server HDD were SCSI). It was "taped" upside down, under the FDD cage (since no visible HDD cage was available)...
A friend and i both worked phone support for NEC desktop machines - my first day on live phones was the day Win95 went live, Bill started a few weeks later. Remember Microsoft BOB? Bill took a call from a French-Canadian customer. he asked what the main symptoms were. "The little dog - his tail don't wag no more!"
I laughed my Ass Off; just when you think that you've seen it all. LOL;LMAO
The picture of the dust does not impress me. In Las Vegas that would be a normal amount of dust.
I worked with a guy at a computer store back when the P4s came out. Bright guy, actually. Except once. He decides to upgrade his Pentium III to a P4, so he buys a motherboard and a CPU, then walks over the memory bins. As some of you will remember, RAMBUS memory had to be installed in pairs, so he picks out a 128MB stick and a 256MB stick. "Whatcha doing?" "Picking up some memory." "One of each?" "Yeah, it has to be installed in pairs." "Yeeaahh... I'll admit I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure they have to match..." "No, I don't think so. I've never heard that. You just can't leave a slot empty." "Hm. Well, why not just get 2x 256MB anyway?" "I don't need 512MB, and 256MB isn't enough. 384MB would be about perfect." Fast forward 12 hours, when I added a 128MB stick back into inventory and sold a 256MB stick to my red-faced coworker. We had made a hockey jersey with "RAMBUS #384" printed on it.
I was called in to "clean" some 'puters. Seems that the drywallers did not cover any of the equipment prior to working. One person said all I'd need was a can of air. Used an air compressor and a vacuum! One case I opened revealed the poor thing completely filled with drywall dust. A one hour job turned into a five hour one and a lot more pay!
Here is one.. Had a customer that had a remote access server for their customers to log into and download software and patches. They moved into an older building downtown without dedicated server rooms. Their customers were complaining that the server wasn't available. After many calls and remote logins, I couldn't find the problem. When I went out to physically inspect the server, the customer took me to a closet and flipped on the light switch. Yes, they turned off the light at night when they left and yes the switch controlled the wall plug. Nobody realized the "beep" they were hearing was the server booting up every morning when they turned the light on.
I've only read half the comments & need to go home! My boss's computer was running fine one day & wouldn't boot up the next. (It has taken at least 3 years for everyone to stop suspecting that I screw around with their computers) & he says Were you working on my computer last night? Me: Nope, I'll take a look at it when you go to lunch. I found a sheaf of papers attached to the side of the case at about hard drive height - with a big fat magnet. I really had to be diplomatic when I told him why his machine crashed. But I sure got a good laugh out of it.
This doesn't really require technical cluelessness, just a brain fart. Back in the day, we had Acers with two 5.25" drives--you wouldn't believe how often a floppy ended up between them when someone was trying to change disks in a hurry. And nowadays, if you're used to a slot-loading CD drive, and you end up working with a tray loader...
I once worked in a rural PC repair shop. We had a new customer come in with a PC that "just stopped working". I opened the case and cockroaches started crawling out from under the motherboard. One of the roaches was dead, stuck to the motherboard. It had apparently short-circuited part of the motherboard. The PC was dead, and I spent the rest of the day with a can of roach spray and the "heebie-jeebies". Yuck!
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-198663-26.html#comments How about the missing Ram?... This baby wont even pass POST without that to come up with OS Not Found!!!
The worst are computers from people that smoke, the insides of their computers were horrifying to work on, the dust is all yellow, stinks, and 5 times as much as a normal computer. gah!
We Todd did.
I had a client wake me out of a deep sleep asking for guidance on creating a layout in a graphics app. After politely leading him to the help menu. When he asked "why won't you just walk me through this?" I reminded him of the late hour he called ( I had been asleep for hours), then I fired him. -yes I have been known to "fire" my headache/no profit clients. I would really rather that they spread that kind "joy" out to the competition.
User holds up an unplugged keyboard and asks me, "Why doesn't this keyboard work?" I answer "Because it's unplugged." She says, "I know but why doesn't it work?" She then mentioned that it needed cleaning so she'll take it home and put it in the dishwasher as another tech recommended to her. I gave up after that. Despite recommending against that she was persistent that this is the way to clean a keyboard. Since she had a current working keyboard already on her PC there's nothing to lose so I told her to go for it.
Oh that's easy a stuffed Hinge caused the Substandard Monitor to break. ;) Col
That's Cute, and Yes I still have a legitmate copy of BOB. The Interesting thing is Tandy came out with their own version DeskMate Home Organizer Program (MS-DOS Based) for their Tandy PC's. Both do many of the same or similar functions. I found a great use for my BOB program; I installed it onto my Car's Carputer. As for the Deskmate program, my Wife still uses it in the Kitchen. I just wish "Bill" had made the Dog "Bark", it would have made a great "Car Burglar Alarm".
I had a customer (a Grocery Store), who's ATM/Credit Cards would go down at roughly the same time every night. It was also the same time the owner of the store would go home. Apparently, no one checked to see that the Credit Card Processor was plugged into an outlet that was controlled by the same light switch as the owners office lights.
The case of a hard drive is specifically designed to provide a magnetic shield that excludes external magnetic fields from the interior and the disc surfaces. When I was in the Air Force, I helped in a demonstration of this. We used a magnet taken from a klystron (a high power microwave amplifier tube) to pick up a 20kg weight. We then brought a hard drive into contact with it. After we pried the drive from the magnet, we reinstalled it in the PC and booted from it with no problems. Floppies, on the other hand, didn't survive. That your boss's hard drive chose that night to crash was most likely a coincidence; the magnet only gave you a convenient excuse. edit: clarify
Yeah, I never understood why people put things with magnets in them next to electronic items. "My TV was fine, now it has this weird rainbow spot in the top of the picture."
An ex-boss of mine sent me a photo of a computer opened up with a dead snake found inside. If that isn't creepy, I don't know what is! ]:-)
This is why I exiled my roomate outside the house to smoke. I got tired of rebuilding and cleaning her computer.
I have read that putting a keyboard in a dishwasher will work if the proper setup is followed. No soap, gentle cycle, and air dry until completely dry. I have never been brave enough to try it though. Bill
Even if they are pointless Service Calls to fix things like this. Many years ago I had Fridge Magnets made up for the business but I've since stopped using them ever since I found then stuck to the side Covers of the Computers with some explanation that they needed them there so that they would know who to call for Service when things went wrong. :^0 Col
My wife came across that same picture. Someone had put it into a Presentation File with all the pictures the tech had taken of the incident. The snake had somehow made it's way into the power supply. He/She was WELL DONE. The Power supply must have been Toast too. One interesting note, I noticed on the pictures the Power Supply was set for 220-240. Must have occurred in Europe some place.
We used to do this back before keyboards became expendables, with about a 50% success rate. We would wait until we had 15-20 to do, then one guy would take them home. Tie the cables in a small loop (4-6"). Set the keyboards upright on the front edge, don't add soap and set the dishwasher for warm water, gentle cycle, and air dry. After the wash, air dry for a week. You could also oven-dry you were in a hurry: lay 2 keyboards side-by-side on each of the two racks, set the oven to warm (
To clean them out ASAP after the water goes down. If you can not get to them fast you should keep them submerged till you can get to them. Then clean them out and good old Tap Water is still one of the best and cheapest things possible to clean things out with after they have been submerged and then dry them out completely. If you do that properly most things will work quite well for a long time. The only problem is that you are unable to guarantee just how long or reliable the unit will be, Col
A little off topic !! I have seen TVs recovered from the roadside after being fully submersed in flood waters, hosed out with a garden hose, left in the sun for a week, then had critical components totally dried with a hair dryer. 1 in 10 failed to be fully operational !!
May be off topic, and obviously a little late, but I used to oven dry the distributor cap in my '66 VW. Worked every time ;)


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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
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I really wish I'd listened (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:21AM (#41576205)
to what my mother told me when I was young.
Missing option. (Score:5, Interesting)by gallondr00nk (868673) on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:00PM (#41576919)
Being eaten by a grue.
Just wondering... (Score:5, Interesting)by Nationless (2123580) on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:22PM (#41577035)
Now, I picked my option because of a very specific reason and I'm wondering if everyone else did as well...
Because it sounded the least painful.
Re: I really wish I'd listened (Score:4, Interesting)by Cali Thalen (627449) on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:26PM (#41577049) Homepage
[obligatory] Why, what did she tell you?
Some other fate... (Score:5, Interesting)by AliasMarlowe (1042386) on Sunday October 07, 2012 @03:03PM (#41578039) JournalGet slowly and luxuriantly fucked to death by a skilled female (OK, a properly-built fembot would probably be an acceptable substitute).
It might take decades...
Re:ejected into space (Score:5, Interesting)by MyFirstNameIsPaul (1552283) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Sunday October 07, 2012 @04:23PM (#41578501) Homepage JournalYes, but you will only be conscious for up to 15 seconds, during which time I doubt anybody would be farting just yet. This article [geoffreylandis.com] is the best I've seen on explaining what happens when exposed to a vacuum. Probably not that unpleasant of a way to go.
Re:Some other fate... (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:59AM (#41584553)
That's fine assuming your wife is in agreement and you're both at the same sexual level. As much as I enjoy sex and would be happy to experience it at least weekly, if your wife isn't interested then it won't matter.
When I attempted to romance my wife, I got laughter. She was just not that into romance. It made it difficult to get her in the mood. At the end, it was impossible and we spent the last two years of our marriage without sex (the prior three years, sex was down to about twice a year).
Yea, she's gone now. Decided she'd rather be by herself than try to fix it.
Re:Just wondering... (Score:4, Interesting)
I chose mine because going into space is on my bucket list.


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Suad Sehovic's late three-pointer and Sava Lesic's free throw with one second left secured Khimik a 77-76 victory at home over Tartu Rock in their Group D opener of the EuroChallenge.
Devoe Joseph and Lesic both led the way for the Ukrainian hosts with 13 points while Justin Ingram's 25 points was not enough for the guests from Estonia.
Khimik used an early 10-2 run for a 12-9 lead before Ingram and Kristo Saage nailed back-to-back triples to give the Estonian guests a 20-17 advantage. The game was knotted at 20-20 after 10 minutes.
A 7-0 Khimik run turned a four-point Tartu Rock lead into a 29-26 cushion for the hosts. But the guests used a 7-2 surge to close the first half and headed to the locker rooms ahead 44-38.
Khimik scored the first six points of the second half to even the game at 44-44. But Silver Leppik hit three times from downtown in the third quarter to give Tartu a 63-58 lead going into the final 10 minutes.
Joseph knocked down two triples to give Khimik a 69-67 advantage with Ingram answering with two layups for a 73-70 lead with a minute left to play. Joseph evened the contest with a layup and then assisted on Sehovic's three-pointer which gave Khimik a 76-73 lead with 13 seconds remaining. Saage turned over the ball for the guests with six seconds to play, allowing for Lesic to make one of two foul shots with one second left. After the miss of the second, Ingram threw in a long three-pointer at the buzzer.
BC Khimik Head Coach Zoran Martic"Tartu is a good team. This season they have won ten games and lost only once. I knew that they have a very good three-point shot - we saw it today. The key to victory was our good defense in the second half. This season, each of our victories is the result of our good defence. This game is no exception. Not the last three-point shot by Sehovic, not by offence - only due to defence."BC Khimik Player Olexander Sizov"In the first half we did not play very good defence. After the first half, we gathered in defense, played well against Ingram. Well, luck was on our side in the end of the game."
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To promote the wisdom of owning a tiny car in a big city, the global ad agency BBDO took a literal approach to advertising the Smart Fortwo in downtown Toronto with enormous bike locks, showing the ease of traveling within the city. In another nearby campaign, the company wedged a giant shoehorn behind the car, which was parked in a tiny space between two sedans. The slogan? "Fits into tight places."
A bad spill can ruin your day, but the idea behind this outdoor campaign was to just say 'Bring it!" says Rob Feakins, chief creative officer of ad agency Publicis. The 8-foot, 550-lb. Popsicle was actually frozen when it was placed on the Santa Monica promenade. While it melted under the sun, paper towels and real Popsicles were handed out to pedestrians. Meanwhile, in New York City, an eight-foot by three-foot cup of coffee "spilled out" onto the sidewalk on Seventh Avenue near Madison Square Garden. Feakins noted people are becoming immune to TV advertising, so ambient advertising especially outdoors can have a powerful impact; in just two days, this campaign generated 3.4 million impressions, he says.
Hauling and towing are two most important features when it comes to pickup trucks, says Brad Hensen of Team Detroit, a Michigan agency. So his team came up with this award-winning idea to leverage the open space in Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions. Though the bricks are not all real, few can tell the difference. Suspended 10 feet above the promenade floor, the ad has been in place for two years.
A campaign for the Plastic Pollution Coalition led Rethink, an ad agency in Vancouver, to place plastic fabrications on sculptures around the city. Then, by using social media to alert followers and reporters to where they could view the giant plastic displays, the campaign was seen by thousands of people and covered in the press.
To put a spotlight on how relaxing a visit to the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Mississippi can be, Masterminds, a New Jersey-based ad agency placed an ad on a baggage belt at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. Images of the resort's pool rotate around the track, and create the illusion of a couple swimming by. Production and installation costs were just a few thousands of dollars, says Masterminds' Joe McDonough, and the ad won an OBIE award in 2010.
Denver Water embraced a conservation ethic for this ambient campaign, says Stacey Chesney, a representative for the company. The initiative targeted the 1.3 million people in Colorado who are serviced by the privately-funded utility. Barrels representing the water wasted by leaky toilets were placed in high-traffic retail parking lots, while ads depicting skeletal taxis reinforced the overall message that less is more.
To find a way to generate revenue for a charity book sale in Greenville, South Carolina, that had a shoestring budget, Bounce, a local agency, obtained the right to place ads on stairs in a city building for free. The plastic wrap cost a few thousand dollars to design and make, but the payoff was huge. In the first year of the campaign, which began in 2007, more than 100,000 books were donated and $120,000 was generated in revenue. Stephen Childress, who worked on the campaign for Bounce, claims that the campaign helped turn this into the country's leading book drive.
Texas-based TM Advertising created this campaign for the Nationwide Insurance, placing a fictitious paint company in a building opposite the insurer's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. "It talked to all audience segments with one concise message, reminding them that with Nationwide, you can be ready for whatever life has in store," says a spokesperson. The ad can be seen from the street, and has been known to stop traffic just as the imaginary paint spill stopped this one unfortunate van.
To showcase models wearing the latest fashion, the American Eagle flagship store in New York City is outfitted with high-definition stackable display "building blocks," created by Prysm, a California company. Each block is 25 inches in diameter (see left), and uses Laser Phosphor Display technology. Though the displays are large format and free-form, they use much less electrical power than traditional back-lit or projection products. And they can be customized easily and in much more compelling ways than traditional cardboard displays and plastic mannequins.
Yoga One in Charlette, North Carolina, wasn't generating enough sales leads, says Phil Jones, the creative director of the "Get Stretchy" campaign, so he came up with this concept for a card that customers carry in their wallets. It's designed to be fun and functional, to get people to show it to their friends. Plus, it was cheap. The first run cost less than $100 to produce. "I love to offer the low-budget solution, Jones says. "I told them give me what you'd pay for the print ad and I'll give you more bang for your buck." —Eric Markowtiz


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A man looks at the display showing possible damage if a 1 megaton class nuclear weapon is detonated in Seoul, at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
South Korean marine's K-55 self-propelled howitzer fires during a military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet, center, lands on the runway during their military exercise at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. (AP Photo/Bae Jung-hyun, Yonhap) KOREA OUT
A spokesman for the North's General Department of Atomic Energy said scientists will quickly begin "readjusting and restarting" the facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex, including the plutonium reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. Both could produce fuel for nuclear weapons.
The reactor began operations in 1986 but was shut down as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled. North Korea said work to restart the facilities would begin "without delay." Experts estimate it could take anywhere from three months to a year to reactivate the reactor.
The nuclear vows and a rising tide of threats in recent weeks are seen as efforts by the North to force disarmament-for-aid talks with Washington and to increase domestic loyalty to young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by portraying him as a powerful military commander.
Tuesday's announcement underscores concerns about North Korea's timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, although it is still believed to be years away from developing that technology.
The U.S. called for North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, saying it would be "extremely alarming" if Pyongyang follows through on a vow to restart its plutonium reactor.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is taking steps to ensure it has the capacity to defend itself and its allies, and that President Barack Obama is being updated regularly. "The entire national security team is focused on it," Carney said.
But Carney noted that a string of threats from North Korea toward the U.S. and South Korea so far have not been backed up by action, calling the threats part of a counterproductive pattern. He called on Russia and China, two countries he said have influence on North Korea, to use that influence to persuade the North to change course.
China, North Korea's only major economic and diplomatic supporter, expressed unusual disappointment with its ally. "We noticed North Korea's statement, which we think is regrettable," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said. South Korea also called it "highly regrettable."
Yukiya Amano, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the North's decision "is another step which is deeply troubling for us and the world."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that North Korea appears to be "on a collision course with the international community." Speaking in Andorra, the former South Korean foreign minister said the crisis has gone too far and that international negotiations are urgently needed.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called North Korea's recent rhetoric "provocative, dangerous and reckless." He also vowed that the United States would defend itself and its allies South Korea and Japan from North Korean threats.
"We have heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the last few days," Kerry told reporters at a joint news conference with visiting South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.
North Korea is under a U.N. arms embargo over its nuclear program. On Tuesday, it was one of three nations voting against a U.N. treaty regulating international arms trade. Also voting "no" were Iran and Syria.
Hwang Jihwan, a North Korea expert at the University of Seoul, said the North "is keeping tension and crisis alive to raise stakes ahead of possible future talks with the United States."
"North Korea is asking the world, 'What are you going to do about this?"' he said.
The unidentified North Korean atomic spokesman said the measure is meant to resolve the country's acute electricity shortage but is also for "bolstering up the nuclear armed force both in quality and quantity," according to a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The statement suggests the North will do more to produce highly enriched uranium. The technology needed to make highly enriched uranium bombs is much easier to hide than huge plutonium facilities. North Korea previously insisted that its uranium enrichment was for producing electricity -- meaning low enriched uranium.
Kim Jin Moo, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in South Korea, said that by announcing it is "readjusting" all nuclear facilities, including the uranium enrichment plant, North Korea "is blackmailing the international community by suggesting that it will now produce weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium."
The North's plutonium reactor produces spent fuel rods laced with plutonium and is the core of Nyongbyon. It was disabled under a 2007 deal made at now-dormant aid-for-disarmament negotiations involving the North, the U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia.
In 2008, North Korea destroyed the cooling tower at Nyongbyon in a show of commitment, but the deal later stalled after the North balked at allowing intensive international fact-checking of its past nuclear activities. North Korea pulled out of the talks after international condemnation of its long-range rocket launch in April 2009.
North Korea "is making it clear that its nuclear arms program is the essence of its national security and that it's not negotiable," said Sohn Yong-woo, a professor at the Graduate School of National Defense Strategy of Hannam University in South Korea.
North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February, prompting a new round of U.N. sanctions that have infuriated its leaders. It has since declared that the armistice ending the Korean War in 1953 is void, shut down key military phone and fax hotlines with Seoul, threatened to launch nuclear and rocket strikes on the U.S. mainland and its allies and, most recently, declared at a high-level government assembly that making nuclear arms and developing a stronger economy are the nation's top priorities.
The Korean Peninsula technically remains in a state of war because a truce, not a peace treaty, ended the Korean War. The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent to North Korea.
Washington has said it takes the threats seriously, though Carney said Monday the U.S. has not detected any military mobilization or repositioning of forces in North Korea.
The North's rising rhetoric has been met by a display of U.S. military strength, including flights of nuclear-capable bombers and stealth jets at annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that the allies call routine but that North Korea claims are invasion preparations.
South Koreans are familiar with provocations from the North, but its rhetoric over the last few weeks has raised worries.
"This is a serious concern for me," said Heo Jeong-ja, 70, a cleaning lady in Seoul. "The country has to stay calm, but North Korea threatens us every day."
North Korea added its 5-megawatt plutonium reactor to its nuclear complex at Nyongbyon in 1986, and the country is believed to have exploded plutonium devices in its first two nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009.
There had long been claims by the U.S. and others that North Korea was also pursuing a secret uranium program. In 2010, the North unveiled to visiting Americans a uranium enrichment program at Nyongbyon.
Analysts say they don't believe North Korea currently has mastered the miniaturization technology needed to build a warhead that can be mounted on a missile, and the extent of its uranium enrichment efforts is also unclear.
Scientist and nuclear expert Siegfried Hecker, one of the Americans on the 2010 visit to Nyongbyon, has estimated that North Korea has 24 to 42 kilograms of plutonium -- enough for perhaps four to eight rudimentary bombs similar to the plutonium weapon used on Nagasaki in World War II.
It's not known whether the North's latest atomic test, in February, used highly enriched uranium or plutonium stockpiles. South Korea and other countries have so far failed to detect radioactive elements that may have leaked from the test and which could determine what kind of device was used.
Associated Press Sam Kim and Jean H. Lee in Seoul, John Heilprin in Geneva, George Jahn in Vienna, and researcher Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report.
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We've received quite a few e-mails from readers who are been worried that Parenthood has been cancelled by NBC. Well, it hasn't been canned and will actually be returning on January 4th. That's the good news but fans shouldn't get too complacent. The drama hasn't been performing all that well and certainly isn't assured of a third season.
Last May, Parenthood was one of those shows that was "on the bubble" but still ended up being renewed. Though season one premiered with a 3.1 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic and 8.1 million viewers, it soon after dropped to a 2.3 rating and 5.83 million viewers. The 13 episodes of season one ended up averaging a 2.6 in the demo and 6.38 million total viewers.
For season two, Parenthood debuted at about the same demo rating it had at the end of season one. Unfortunately, that didn't last. In mid-November, shortly before it went on hiatus, Parenthood hit a series low of a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demo and 4.8 million viewers.
The first half of the season has averaged a 2.1 in the demo and 5.22 million. Parenthood is currently the seventh-highest rated scripted program on the network, falling in the middle of the list, just below The Event. While it's not in immediate danger of being cancelled, the show's certainly not safe either. Its fate will ultimately be decided by how well it performs when it returns from the six week hiatus. Most shows don't typically fare very well and ratings drop after a hiatus. Will Parenthood be the exception?
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The capital island of Maldives, Male' experienced political turbulence since January this year. This has led to the resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed and Formation of a new government led by the former Vice president Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik on the 7th of this Month.
At this moment, we assure that Maldives and its hospitality remain perfectly safe to visitors to enjoy their holiday.
The Maldives is geographically formed by islands separated by sea. Visitors to Maldives land at the international airport in Hulhule Island, which is separate from Male'. Visitors are greeted at the airport and transported by speedboats or seaplanes to the private resort islands where they spend their holiday. Hence, visitors are assured a quiet and comfortable holiday in the country.
Male is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. A third of the population of the country lives in Male'. There exists no threat to the safety of ordinary residents in Male'.
Maldives welcomes tourists and assures the tourists intending to travel to Maldives on vacation, that their holiday will not be affected in any way since the resorts are geographically located separately from the Airport and the capital; Male' City.
Unlike any other country in the world, the most unique selling proposition for the Maldives remains its one island; one resort concept, where each resort island is geographically located separate from each other and accommodating only its staff and the guests.
For more information please contact:
Mohamed Adam, Deputy Director
Maldives Marketing & Public Relation Corporation
Telephone: +960 332 3228; Facsimile: +960 332 3229
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This is the second part of the series of choosing suitable lenses for the APS-C format EOS 700D / REBEL T5i / Kiss X7i, where we'll discuss 'standard' lenses (zooms and primes) as well as short telephotos. The 18.1-Mpix 'Hybrid CMOS' sensor used is similar to those in Canon's other current APS-C models, including the new EOS 100D (REBEL SL1) and semi-pro EOS 7D, so our findings may be valuable even if you don't use a EOS 700D / REBEL T5i / Kiss X7i.
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
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The Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i is the company's latest addition to its novice-oriented 'Rebel' series. With more than two decades of continuous success in its film and digital incarnations, these little SLRs have been improved and refined to the point that Canon's biggest challenge seems to be finding new ways to distinguish its updated models. Place the new EOS 700D / Rebel T5i alongside its predecessor the EOS 650D and the differences are so minimal to be of little real importance.
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The Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i replaces the very short-lived Canon EOS 650D / T4i but is almost indistinguishable from it in terms of design, operation and specification. Our tests have found the image quality and performance of both cameras to be identical and they use the same batteries and accessories as well. Accordingly, this review is a very slightly modified version of the EOS 650 review we posted in the summer of 2012. We've retained product images of the EOS 650D where there's no meaningful change in design, and except where indicated, any comments in the body of this review which reference the Canon EOS 650D / T4i are equally relevant to the Canon EOS 700D / T5i and vis-versa.
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Lenses tested on D7100
Is DXoMark going to test some lenses on Nikon D7100 and publish articles regarding the test and comparison results? Really hope that there will be similar tests conducted on Nikon DX bodies.
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Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Hello everybody. First of all thanks to the DXOMARK team for their outstanding work. It would indeed be nice to have the newer Nikon 24MP DX bodies tested. I think that many people are intested in buying some new lenses but are waiting to see how they perform on the 24MP sensors (d3200, d5200, d7100). It will be very interesting to see the real impact of those extra pixels in terms of actual image resolution ? Greetings everybody.
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Still a great phone
There might be no major upgrade but the T5i still has the latest and best features today. But if you are looking for "beginners" or entry-level dslr, you should consider the Rebel SL1. Read the review at http://www.squidoo.com/canon-eos-rebel-sl1-review


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Note: The tartan displayed above has been reproduced electronically and the colours are approximate. This is a sample of just one of the tartans that may be available for this Clan, when possible we have shown the most popular Sett however many clans can have over a dozen variations of design and style (hunting - dress - ancient etc), The tartan displayed here may not always be the same variaion as the one used by product manufacturers.
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Sunday's Match with IUP Halted with 1:11 Remaining in First Half due to Dangerous and Wet Field Conditions
March 24, 2013
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Sunday afternoon's women's lacrosse match between visiting Indiana (PA) and sixth-ranked Pfeiffer University was called off with 1:11 remaining in the first half due to dangerous and wet field conditions at N.E. Lefko Field. Pfeiffer held a 7-6 lead when play was halted. Heavy rains made the field worse throughout the first half with standing water already on the field at the game's beginning.
The Lady Falcons will be back in action on Wednesday afternoon hosting Belmont Abbey in Conference Carolinas action at 4:00 p.m. Live stats will be available courtesy of http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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Conn. group starts anti-violence effort
Tuesday - 1/15/2013, 2:56am EST
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre called for a national dialogue to help prevent similar tragedies as New York moved to become the first to state to pass stricter gun control laws and politicians worked to confront gun violence.
Members of the newly formed group Sandy Hook Promise spoke out Monday, saying they want to have open-minded discussions about a range of issues, including guns, mental health and safety in schools and other public places.
"I do not want to be someone sharing my experience and consoling another parent next time. I do not want there to be a next time," said Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed by a gunman Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The parents held photos of their sons and daughters as they cried, hugged and spoke in quavering voices. Some speakers said they did not believe there was a single solution.
"We want the Sandy Hook school shootings to be recalled as the turning point where we brought our community and communities across the nation together and set a real course for change," said group co-founder Tom Bittman.
While the Sandy Hook group did not offer specific remedies, mayors and governors in favor of tighter gun restrictions lobbied for a series of them on Monday, one month since the shooting.
In New York, lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the proposal called for a tougher assault weapons ban and restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns, as well as a mandatory police registry of assault weapons, grandfathering in assault weapons already in private hands.
The measure passed the Senate on Monday and is expected to pass in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Earlier, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed a summit on gun violence at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and argued for greater federal gun control, including background checks for all purchases and a federal crackdown on trafficking.
"Every state in the union has citizens killed by guns coming from another state and every state is powerless to stop the mayhem," Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg is co-chairman of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, whose members spoke out Monday in cities including Portland, Maine; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Santa Fe, N.M.
In Cranford, N.J., a group of mayors backing new restrictions were joined by a man whose 23-year-old son was shot to death in the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech.
"I'm just one member of a Virginia Tech family, Newtown has theirs, Aurora has theirs, Tucson has theirs, and now we're starting to come together," Michael Pohle said. "This coalition is growing, and it's going to become more powerful, and we're going to have the ability to influence elections as well."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he has ordered an analysis of city employee pension funds to see if they hold companies that make or sell assault weapons.
The gun control debate heated up after 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 and killed 26 people before committing suicide as police arrived. He also killed his mother at their Newtown home before driving to the school and carrying out the massacre.
President Barack Obama is reviewing proposals from Vice President Joe Biden, who is leading a task force on ways to reduce gun violence. Obama told reporters Monday he is looking at actions he can take on his own to confront gun violence amid resistance from the National Rifle Association and wariness among lawmakers from both parties.
The NRA has fiercely opposed new gun control laws and has called for "a meaningful conversation" about school safety, mental health issues and marketing violence to children.
A number of governors were already moving ahead with proposals to toughen state laws.
In Delaware, Gov. Jack Markell on Monday proposed background checks for private gun sales and a ban on military-style weapons. A package of gun control proposals also included a ban on magazines holding more than five rounds for rifles and 10 rounds for handguns, and a ban on guns within 1,000 feet of schools.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, speaking at the same Baltimore summit as Bloomberg, said he will be advocating a broad array of proposals this legislative session, including a ban on combat-style weapons, stricter licensing requirements, school safety and mental health concerns.
"This will be a comprehensive legislative package to prevent gun violence, and it addresses not only the guns but also mental health and school safety," O'Malley said.


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CBS' Golden Boy was originally supposed to run on Friday nights but its first few episodes did well enough for CBS to leave the series on Tuesdays. Has it been a success? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Golden Boy follows the story of Walter William Clark Jr. (Theo James), a young and ambitious New York cop who quickly rises through the ranks to become the youngest Police Commissioner in the Big Apple's history. The cast also includes Chi McBride, Kevin Alejandro, Bonnie Somerville, Holt McCallany, and Stella Maeve.
The police drama debuted to a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 10.56 million viewers. While the total viewership was healthy, CBS really needs their new shows to attract younger viewers. Still, a 1.8 rating was better than what Vegas had been raking in.
Golden Boy's numbers fell in the next two weeks and it looked like the show was doomed to be cancelled. But then, the demo started to perk up and rose to a 1.7 rating. Perhaps there was hope after all?
Unfortunately, that hope was short lived and Golden Boy's ratings quickly fell again. Last night's episode hit new lows and attracted just a 1.2 demo rating with 6.99 million viewers.
Based on the ratings, it looks almost certain that Golden Boy won't be back for another season and we won't get to see the rest of Clark's journey to greatness.
But, what do you think? Are you hoping that CBS still renews Golden Boy or should the timeslot be filled by something else? Is it worth watching?
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A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back.
These events are actual events from history..
They really happened!!!
Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists.
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists.
8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists.
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by—you guessed it—Muslim male extremists.
No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people… Absolutely No Profiling!
They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of profiling.


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For the past 10 years, the Scioto County Board of Developmental Disabilities (SCBDD) has held a golf scramble to raise funds to set aside for future levy campaigns. The organization began the event as a way to connect with the community and raise money
"Our levy dollars are an important part of funding for the services we provide," said Chad Phipps, Team Lead for Adult Services at SCBDD. "Should we ever need to pass a levy, we want to make sure we have money already in place that will help us share our needs with the public."
In November 2011, SCBDD successfully passed a renewal levy. This levy did not add taxes, but continued the support needed to continue services for those with developmental disabilities. With the continual increase in costs and the many changes that take place at the national and state level, the need for funding is always on the horizon.
"Although we do receive some funding to help with providing services, without the support of the levy, a number of programs would not be possible," said Matt Purcell, Director of Finance at SCBDD. "We are thankful to our community for their continued support."
Currently, the SCBDD provides various services to more than 500 individuals with developmental disabilities, ranging from newborns to the elderly. The SCBDD is able to provide a number of these services to the community with the financial support of levy dollars.
The SCBDD Golf Scramble will be held on Saturday, June 29 at the Elks Country Club. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m. and shotgun start is at 2 p.m. Organizations and individuals can help support the event through various means: hole sponsorship; $100; skill prize sponsorship (such as longest drive, lonest putt, etc.) $150, or by donating door prizes. Monetary donations are also welcome. Entry to play in the scramble is $240 for a team and $60 for an individual and sponsorship of a Special Olympian to participate is $60.
For more information about the tournament, contact Chad Phipps at 740.464.2236.


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Set Designer:
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Costume Designer:
Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
Lighting Designer:
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Director François Girard's timeless new vision for Wagner's final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape. Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Asher Fisch conducts.
"François Girard successfully transforms the opera into a timeless story… Arresting, consistently absorbing…a moving, modern vision." (Wall Street Journal)
"A magnificent new production...an exquisite pleasure for the eye and ear, it's also food for the soul. "(New York Post)
"An unforgettable evening…I don't think better singers exist anywhere in the world "(Bloomberg).
"Entrancing and Enigmatic" (WQXR)
"A Parsifal to treasure, elevated to the highest musical level by...the dedication of a dream cast of singing actors... Breathtaking. Jonas Kaufmann looks and acts the part to perfection... Thrilling tone...Pape pours out unstintingly rich, velvety sound... a deeply felt interpretation... The revelation of the night is baritone Peter Mattei, tackling the role of Amfortas for the first time. When has any singer so powerfully expressed the suffering of this tormented character while producing burnished sounds of such breathtaking beauty? Katarina Dalayman rises to the challenge of the seduction scene with a fearless performance." (AP)
"The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today... Kaufmann is in his glory... Handsome and limber, he is a natural onstage. The baritonal colorings of his sound, his clarion top notes, the blend of virility and tenderness in his singing, his refined musicianship — all these strengths come together in his distinctive Parsifal... Katarina Dalayman brings a gleaming voice and sultry phrasing to her performance..." (New York Times)
"Both the production and the performance caught fire, and the Parsifal of Wagner's imagination came vividly to life." (Musical America)
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Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa
Major funding from Rolex
Additional funding from Marina Kellen French, and the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra National de Lyon, and the Canadian Opera Company
All performances for this production have passed, and tickets are no longer available.
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Club competitions
National team competitions
The EuroLeague Women regular season concluded on Wednesday night after 14 weeks of action.
With all games played, the ranking which will determine the Eighth-Final Play-Offs pairings was also finalised.
Fenerbahce topped all teams with an unbeaten record in their Group B and will take on Basket Lattes Montpellier Agglomeration.
The Play-Offs will take place on February 21 and 24 and, if needed, a decisive third game will be played on February 29.
The ranking will later also be used to determine the groups of the Final Eight which will be played in Istanbul, Turkey between March 28 and April 1.
Final Eight hosts Galatasaray Medical Park will not participate in the Play-Offs as their spot in the tournament is already guaranteed.
The complete ranking of all advancing teams:
The Eighth-Finals Play-Offs pairings:
Fenrbahce vs. Basket Lattes Montpellier Agglomeration
Ros Casares Valencia vs. CCC Polkowice
WislaCan-Pack Krakow vs. ZVVZ USK Prague
Rivas Ecopolis vs. Bourges Basket
Sparta&K Moscow Region - Vidnoje vs. Nadezhda Orenburg
Perumerias Avenida Salamanca vs. Beretta-Famila Schio
UMMC Ekaterinburg vs. Good Angels Kosice
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June 6, 2012
OXFORD, Ohio--Miami University Athletics and the Miami University Alumni Association wrap up the 2012 Miami Athletics' Coaches Caravan with the final stop in Oxford on Thursday, June 7 this week.
In addition to numerous coaches and Swoop, several student-athletes and members of the Miami Athletics staff will be on hand at the event.
Headlining the event are Head Football Coach Iñako Puzo , Head Men's Track & Field and Cross Country Coach Warren Mandrell and Head Women's Track & Field and Cross Country Coach Kelly Phillips.
The caravan stops on Thursday, June 7 at 6 p.m. in the Uptown Park in Oxford. The program, emceed by the "Voice of the RedHawks" Steve Baker, begins at 6 p.m. on the East Park Main Stage. Fans can mix and mingle with the coaches, staff and student-athletes at 6:30 p.m. in the Athletic Department Tent located in the West Park. The Uptown Summer Music Festival Concert Series featuring Robin Lacy & DeZydeco starts at 7:30 p.m.
The seven-city Coaches Caravan tour has also included stops in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Cleveland and Chicago. It provides Miami alumni, fans, and supporters the opportunity to get an up-close snapshot of select Miami student-athletes, coaches and personnel.


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Earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree Online!
Bellevue College, Edmonds Community College, and Washington State University now offer an online Associates of Arts (AA/AAS) Degree and Bachelor's (BA) Degree in:
These three accredited institutions combine to give you the opportunity to earn a high demand degree completely online. You can fulfill the WSU BA prerequisites while earning an AA/AAS transfer degree online at Edmonds CC or Bellevue College and complete the upper-division requirements for the WSU BA through WSU's distance courses.
This innovative approach is ideal for busy professionals, those with family commitments, or those who seek to enhance their credentials with a valuable degree. If you have a busy work or home schedule that prevents you from attending a college on a regular basis, this degree option may be just what you have been looking for!


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The gathering of five generations was held at El Pond in Wells, Maine this past summer. Back Row from left: Great-great granparents Christine and Raymond Bilodeau of Eliot, Maine; great-grandmother Diane Ertz of Columbia, Md. Front Row from left: Grandfather Jerome Ertz of York, Pa., holding his grandson Quentin Michael Moser, and next to Quentin, his mother Danni Moser of Red Lion, Pa.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- Prior to Tuesday, the Lady Indians of Montrose - ranked seventh in the state - were having their way with the SWL.
Montrose was the only undefeated team in the league rankings before a 42-27 loss to Fruita Monument on Tuesday night.
Lauren Labonde led the Lady Wildcats with 19 points in the victory.
The Montrose boys, however, completed the season sweep of the Wildcats with 48-44 victory on Tuesday.
Ross Barney carried the Indians with 17 points.
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Swedish cancer center set to open
Mark Mulligan / The Herald Workers put finishing touches on the exterior of the Swedish Cancer Institute Edmonds Wednesday morning. The new $10.9 million facility plans to open to patients on Tuesday, April 2. Photo taken 20130327
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April Winters tests a monitor inside the infusion center of the new Swedish Cancer Institute Edmonds on Wednesday morning. The $10.9 million facility plans to open to patients on April 2.
The 17,102-square-foot building also will be home to nutrition and social services for cancer patients, a laboratory, offices where patients can meet with their physicians, and a pharmacy where the specific mix of chemotherapy drugs are prepared for each patient.
The new building opens Tuesday. It's close to the current Swedish Cancer Institute on the hospital's campus, where radiation services will continue to be provided.
In addition to providing chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients, some studies, or trials, of new therapies will be conducted in the new building, said Dr. Eileen Johnston, a Swedish medical oncologist.
A clinical nurse researcher will be based in the building full time, she said.
Chemotherapy treatments can be delivered in as little as 15 minutes or over up to eight hours, Johnston said. Treatments typically span 12 weeks to six months.
The 19 chemotherapy treatment areas, most of which have window views, are located on the building's second floor.
Some of the chairs are grouped so that patients who want to talk with each other can do so. "Some patients enjoy social interaction," Johnston said. One treatment area is set aside for patients who want to have privacy.
Until now, chemotherapy services were provided at the Swedish Cancer Institute, which has 14 treatment stations.
Swedish's electronic medical records system will allow patients' cancer treatment records to be shared with Swedish primary care doctors and other specialists as needed.
"This is part of the continuing integration of medical care that we've been talking about in medicine for 20 years. Now we will see it taking place," said Dr. Richard McGee, a Swedish oncologist.
The new building is part of the $60 million in building improvements and expansion promised by Swedish when it took over management of the former Stevens Hospital in September 2010.
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Cancer center
The new cancer center at Swedish/Edmonds will open for community tours from 4 to 7 p.m. April 17. The building is at 21632 Highway 99 in Edmonds.
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