(AP Photo, Ole Jordal , Scanpix) :: Karin Jordal of California is, thanks to modern technology in the form of a webcam, and her two sons, alive and able to tell her story.
A Web camera made it possible for two men to get help for their mother after she collapsed at her home, even though she was thousands of miles away.
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OSLO, NORWAY -- A web camera in a Norwegian artist's living room in California let her sons in Norway and the Philippines see that she had collapsed and call for help, one of the sons said yesterday.
Karin Jordal, 69, collapsed Thursday in her living room in Pinon Hills, Calif., and was motionless on a couch when her son Tore checked via the Internet from the Philippines.
"He trie...
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OSLO, Norway -- A web camera in a Norwegian artist's living room in California allowed her sons in Norway and the Philippines to see that she had collapsed and call for help, one of the sons said yesterday.
Karin Jordal, 69, collapsed Thursday in her living room in Pinon Hills, California, and was motionless on a couch when her son Tore in the Philippines checked in through the Internet....
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A former chief executive officer of a now-defunct Westmoreland County brewery was arrested Wednesday in an undercover child sex sting operation in Blair County.
Leonard Stossel, 55, of 1115 22nd Ave., Altoona, was arrested by agents from state Attorney General Tom Corbett's office and Altoona police when they set up a meeting at an Altoona fast-food restaurant where Stossel believed he w...
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Karin Jordal, 69, collapsed Thursday in her living room in Pinon Hills, California, and was motionless on a couch when her son Tore in the Philippines checked in through the Internet.
"He tried to call her, and got no answer," Tore's brother, Ole Jordal, said by telephone from the western Norway city of Bergen. "He had also tried to call the police and ambulances (in California) but coul...
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Researching last week's column about adult webcam chat made me nostalgic for the online community I used to belong to. The conversations in the webAffairs book could have taken place in my chat room, and I examined the screenshots closely to see if I recognized any faces or other body parts.
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The bird conservation charity said more than 75,000 people watched the parents rear two chicks at a protected site near Porthmadog, Gwynedd.
A webcam trained on their man-made nest was so popular the birds will find two cameras and a microphone there when, it is hoped, they return next year.
RSPB officer, Emyr Evans, said: "We want to keep up with the soap story."
He said the ...
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Apple has dropped the price, bumped up the speed, and enhanced the features of its 20-inch iMac G5. The result is an all-in-one desktop computer that's more media friendly and affordable than its predecessor; but like that unit, it falls short of being a media PC because it lacks a built-in TV tuner.
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