Kids (and parents!) will have the opportunity to showcase their
creativity, making foam collages inspired by the new Chicken Socks book: The
Foam Book.

Michaels associates will be on hand to assist with easy step-by-
step instructions and to answer any questions.

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itctestweek. Patel's talk will address, Test Research: Past,
Present and Future .
Closing out Test Week are three workshops, including the well-received
Electronic System Test and GHz/Gbps Test workshops.

About ITC
ITC is sponsored by the Test Technology Council of the IEEE Computer
Society and by the Philadelphia Section of the IEEE.
The Festival is FREE OF CHARGE TO ALL (with a suggested donation of $5 per
person, per day).- Michaels Partners With Klutz, Creator of Award-Winning Activity Products for
Kids, to Promote Summertime Crafting -

IRVING, Texas, Summer is the ideal season
to share crafting with family and friends!
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Test Week 2005 runs from November 6
through November 11 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. These workshops provide
in-depth and up-to-the-minute views of work in these important test areas. This
year's Cultural Focus, Generation to Generation: Passing on our Traditions,
will highlight folk artists who are exemplary bearers of tradition in special
concerts, exhibits and demonstrations. The vast majority of costs are covered by major donors and
benefactors, as well as the individual contributions of thousands of citizens.nwfolklife.

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Test Week runs November 6 - 11.com ).

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International Test Conference - The Cornerstone of Test Week(TM); 36th Conference Takes Place in Austin Texas November 8 - 10 2005

Offerings throughout the week incorporate a wide variety of technical
activities targeted at test and design theoreticians and practitioners,
including: formal paper sessions, tutorials, panel sessions, lecture and
application series, workshops, commercial exhibits and a host of professional
fringe meetings. ITC 2005's invited address will come
from long-time ITC contributor, Dr. Dr ., May 27, 28, 29
and 30, 2005.

The Company owns and operates 860 Michaels stores
in 48 states and Canada, 165 Aaron Brothers stores, located primarily on the
West Coast, nine ReCollections stores, and four wholesale operations. website
(http://www.

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A Dynamic Plenary Session Opens the Conference
The formal opening of the conference begins with the plenary session and a
keynote address by Dr. This year's 10
panels include a diverse cross-section of test topics including reliability,
diagnosis, wafer probe technology, and design for yield and manufacturability ,
and will feature a test compression "shootout," a timely discussion of DFT
outsourcing, and a 10-round "boxing-style" match requiring industry experts
(and the audience) to answer an unknown list of questions on a selection of
test topics.
More than 2,000 volunteers are helping to organize the Festival, which is
expected to attract more than 275,000 visitors during its four-day run.
Extensive information, including a full calendar of events and performers,
is available online at http://www. To support this annual Michaels event, Klutz has created an
exclusive "Hatching Party" activity kit.

The event has also been described as: 'a gathering of people doing weird stuff in the desert'.

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AUSTIN, Texas, International Test Conference, the
highlight of the annual Test Week(TM) activities and the leading forum for
electronics test technology, promises to engage and stimulate attendees from
the test and design community with its technical program and activities when
the doors open at the 36th annual ITC. Authors will present material on
research topics as well as new developments in mixed-signal and RF testing,
jitter testing, ATE hardware and software , delay-test, built-in self-test,
microprocessor test, system-on-chip test, and much more.

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The theme for this year's conference
is Test: Survival of the Fittest.

ITC 2005 Abounds with Technical Offerings and Educational Opportunities
ITC, the cornerstone of the Test Week event, is known worldwide for the
strength of its technical program, which attracts many top researchers, and
industry experts who choose ITC to present the results of their work. Taken together, these activities provide a week-long
educational experience that will benefit people new to testing and experts.

Companies Feature New Products at ITC
As always, the exhibition forms a major part of ITC.

org or from the ITC office by telephone at
+1 202.973. Participants are invited to create their own masterpieces with
free materials including foam shapes, wiggle eyes, glue sticks and a little
imagination .

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Our new-to-ITC workshop
this year is the Silicon Debug and Diagnosis workshop.
Celebrating its 36th conference year, ITC, the cornerstone of the Test
Week activities, will take place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin,
Texas, from November 8 - 10.275,000 Visitors, 6,000 Performers Expected at Largest Festival of its Kind in
North America

SEATTLE, The 2005 Northwest Folklife Festival --
the largest folk, ethnic and traditional arts festival west of the other
Washington -- will be held Memorial Day weekend, May 27th through 30th , at
Seattle Center. This kit marks the introduction of
Chicken Socks, a new activity line from Klutz, arriving in Michaels stores for
the first time during this Free Family Event.
Michaels Stores, Inc.

Burning Man is an annual festival held in the high desert wilderness of northern Nevada.

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This year's event, one of the largest in the Festival's
34-year history, will feature 6,000 musicians, dancers, tradition bearers and
visual artists, in more than 1,000 music and dance performances , visual arts
and folklore exhibits, symposia, workshops, craft and cooking demonstrations
and films. The
Festival is an interactive event -- while investigating the fundamental theme
of the mentor-apprentice relationship, every visitor will become an apprentice
to the folk traditions of the Pacific Northwest.

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Panels for All Interests
ITC continues its tradition of presenting thought-provoking panels
exploring current issues challenging the test practitioner.8665.

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This year the International Test Conference technical program together
with other Test Week 2005 events will support the theme of Test: Survival of
the Fittest, emphasizing the highly competitive and evolutionary as well as
revolutionary environment that exists in test technology. They are geared
for entry-level attendees as well as those wishing to expand their knowledge
in a particular area , and cover such topics as high-speed test interfaces,
silicon debug, memory test, test engineering , mixed-signal test, and board
test.
"The Northwest Folklife Festival is more important, and more needed today
than ever before," said Michael Herschensohn, Executive Director. Joining forces with Klutz, award
winning creator of activity products for kids, Michaels' come-and-go, family
fun activity will take place on Saturday, June 25, from 10:00am until 3:00pm
local time.

Each year around Labor Day, thousands of artists, performers and free spirits converge for a week-long celebration that culminates in the ritual burning of an enormous human effigy.

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A Strong Start and Finish for Test Week
ITC Test Week kicks off with 16 one-day tutorials presented by the IEEE
Computer Society's Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) on the two days
prior to the conference technical program, November 6 and 7.

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The popular dedicated track on board and system test continues as
well . Kibarian's discussion will focus on The Nature of Yield
Ramping: Keeping Ahead of Evolution.

ITC gratefully acknowledges its sponsors and Diamond- and Platinum-level
corporate supporters:

Sponsors:
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society

Diamond-level Supporter:
Optimal Test

Platinum-level Supporters:
Advantest
Mentor Graphics
Teradyne

Participants build a temporary community in the Black Rock Desert, and call it Black Rock City.

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ITC is known for a tradition of spirited debates over test issues that
continue during breaks and social gatherings. Inquire with local
stores for scheduled activities .

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The program will
focus on topics such as on-chip test data compression techniques, yield
improvement using test data collecting and analysis, and the gamut of
challenges related to very-high-speed I /Os. Many stores will also offer
additional activities in conjunction with the event.

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Owing to its ongoing success, the University Booth, offering an opportunity
for the university community to demonstrate device/board/system testing
research in areas including design verification, test, diagnosis , and failure
analysis will again be on the exhibits floor. The Advance
Program and registration information are available on-line at
http://www.m.

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John Kibarian, President, CEO and Director at PDF
Solutions, Inc.
Based in Palo Alto, California, Klutz is the creator of kids activity
products including books, kits and other kids stuff that stimulate their
growth through creativity .

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"While human conflict and cultural differences may draw the majority of
headlines, the Northwest Folklife Festival is both literal and symbolic proof
that human beings have far more similarities than differences, and that the
differences can be a uniting, positive force in our lives," Herschensohn
added. Klutz products combine clear instructions with
everything you need to give kids a hands -on learning experience that ranges
from the artistic to the scientific and beyond. In 2005, Klutz introduced a
new brand, Chicken Socks, an award-winning line of activity books for kids
4 to 6 years old.

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Concurrent with the
technical program, an exhibit floor will feature the newest equipment ,
software and services from all over the world for solving testing problems. From its beginnings as an
informal gathering of engineers in 1970 at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, ITC has
grown into the Test Week event, with more than a hundred papers, panels, an
exhibition, tutorials, workshops, lecture and application series sessions,
case studies, and important keynote speeches. (NYSE: MIK) announced today that they will offer a
Free Family Event at each of its approximately 860 Michaels Arts + Crafts
Stores across the United States and Canada.michaels.michaels.

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The technical program contains 46 sessions, and is supplemented with a
lecture and application series comprised of six sessions on a wide range of
topics including emerging test standards, jitter, and "no-trouble-found"
components . Janak Patel, Donald Biggar Willett
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.

2005 Northwest Folklife Festival Set for Memorial Day Weekend

To learn more about this event or any other in-store activities, or to
locate the Michaels store nearest you, please visit the Company's website at
http://www. is the world's largest retailer of arts, crafts,
framing, floral, wall decor, and seasonal merchandise for the hobbyist and do-
it -yourself home decorator. Klutz is a division of Scholastic, the world's largest
publisher and distributor of children's books.

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ITC's
Advance Program and on-line registration are available on its Web site at
http://www. A multitude of companies choose
ITC to demonstrate major new test products and services in the concurrent
exhibition.itctestweek. "In a world
dominated by opposites -- love and hate, wealth and poverty, hope and despair
-- the Festival is a celebration of the strength, hope and resolve that people
and communities derive from their cultural diversity.
The Festival will exhibit a wide array of ethnic, occupational, religious
and artistic traditions, deepening visitors ' understanding of and appreciation
for the breadth of cultures and artistic expressions in the region .
The event is held, rain or shine, from 11 a. to 11 p.
This press release is also available on the Michaels Stores, Inc.

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