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2012 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships

The 2012 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship was held in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 August 2012.

A Fazenda

The show is based on a group of celebrities living together twenty-four hours a day in a Farm (located in Itu, São Paulo), isolated from the outside world (primarily from mass media, such as newspapers, telephones, television and the internet) while having all their steps followed by cameras around-the-clock, with no privacy for three months.

Anglo-Aro War

On November 28, Lt. Col. A. F. Montanaro led 87 officers, 1,550 soldiers and 2,100 carriers in four axes of advance to Arochukwu from Oguta, Akwete, Unwuna and Itu on a counter-insurgency campaign.

Bárbara Riveros

Bárbara Catalina Riveros Díaz (born 3 August 1987 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean professional triathlete, 2008 Olympian, and currently (August 2011) she is the number two in the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series Rankings 2011, behind Helen Jenkins.

BeeSat-1

Five other secondary payloads were flown aboard the rocket; SwissCube-1, UWE-2, ITU-pSat1, Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2.

Boardman Bikes

Alistair Brownlee: Olympic Champion 2012, 2011 & 2009 ITU Triathlon World Champion, 2010 & 2011 ETU Triathlon Champion

Call-sign allocation plan

In telecommunication, call-sign allocation plan is the table of allocation of international call sign series contained in the current edition of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations.

Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance

The ITU-T G.hn standard, which provides a way to create a high-speed (up to 1 Gigabit/s) local area network using existing home wiring (power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables), uses CSMA/CA as a channel access method for flows that don't require guaranteed quality of service, specifically the CSMA/CARP variant.

Computer telephony integration

On the software level, the most adopted interface by vendors is the CSTA standard, which is approved by the standards body ITU.

Francis Muguet

He was a researcher at ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancées) from 1993 to 2009 and worked, during the last months of his life, as a consultant for International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the University of Geneva.

G.hn

On October 2008, the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) and HomeGrid Forum signed a liaison agreement to support HomeGrid Forum’s efforts in conjunction with ITU-T G.hn to make it easy for consumers to connect devices and enjoy innovative applications using existing home wiring.

Gerhard Steinke

standards (OIRT, ITU-R, and EBU) and documents (SSF, AES) on listening tests and test rooms.

Government of Ukraine

ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2: UA; ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3: UKR; ISO 3166-1 Numeric: 804; ITU: UP

Hamadoun Touré

The Memorandum of Agreement was officially signed by Dr. Hamadoun Touré and Datuk Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of IMPACT at the ITU’s head office in Geneva.

International Social Services

ISS UK contacted Susanna Malinski of the Industrial Social Services or Serviço Social da Indústria SESIRS, their correspondent in Brazil, who attempted to contact Rebeca's mother through local social services in Itu in the state of Sao Paulo.

International Typographical Union

The ITU had a unique system of factional opposition in its democratic elections, documented by Seymour Martin Lipset in his co-authored book Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union (1957).

Newspaper publishers called for aid from the authors of the law, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R - Ohio) and Congressman Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R - New Jersey) The ITU and Woodruff Randolph won in Chicago.

The ITU sought to merge with The Newspaper Guild but terminated negotiations in 1981 after nearly four years of talks.

Internet Governance Forum

In a video address, Mr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), stressed that from the beginning, ITU has been firmly committed to the IGF, which he said was a great example of multistakeholder action.

ITPCS

It may have been intended as a space for ENUM trials, as the ITU allocated the range +991 001 to Neustar for use in an ENUM trial in 2002.

ITU Radio Regulations

The drafting, revision and adoption of the Radio Regulations is the responsibility of the World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs) of the ITU, meetings of which are typically held every three or four years.

ITU-R 468 noise weighting

D.B.P. is Deutsche Bundespost, the German post office which provides telephone service in Germany as the GPO does in the UK.

Itu, Nigeria

Politics in Itu is dominated by the people from the central part of Ibiaku Itam, with the highly endorsed political party being PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)

Ituano Futebol Clube

Ituano Futebol Clube, also known as Ituano Sociedade Civil de Futebol Ltda, or Ituano as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Itu in São Paulo, founded on May 24, 1947.

Itubaína

The name is a tribute to the city of Itu, headquarters of the company's first manufacturing plant.

Jean Rénald Clérismé

Clérsimé was ambassador of Haiti to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Trade Center (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2001 to 2003.

Jill Savege

Savege is married to Jordan Rapp, the 2011 ITU Long Distance Triathlon world champion.

Lyot filter

Although their mechanisms are different, modelocking lasers and Lyot-filter lasers both produce a comb of multiple wavelengths which can be placed on the ITU grid for Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) or used to give each suburban home its own return-signal laser wavelength in a passive optical network (PON) used to provide FTTH (Fiber To The Home).

Magbo helmet mask for Oro society

This Magbo helmet mask for an Oro society member was created by Yoruba artist Onabanjo of Itu Meko.

Marcelo Chierighini

Marcelo Chierighini (born 15 January, 1991 in Itu) is a Brazilian swimmer.

Max S. Hayes

He was a frequent representative of the ITU to the annual conventions of the American Federation of Labor.

Mbaise

Sectional courts were subsequently opened in Obohia, Itu, Ife and Enyiogogu in response to the increasingly popular "Home Rule" movement of the 1930s.

Orca wetsuits and sports apparel

Orca sponsors a number of leading triathletes, including recently retired Olympic champion Hamish Carter, ITU athletes including Kris Gemmell, Courtenay Atkinson, Tim Don and Debbie Tanner, and Ironman competitors including Craig Alexander and Cameron Brown.

Penteo

Penteo claims that its technology results in a warmer, more natural and more precise sounding surround experience without generating any artificial & unwanted sounds, and only Penteo is 100% ITU down-mix compatible back to the original stereo track.

Peter Croes

According to the International Triathlon Union, he was ranked no. 52 on the list of Olympic qualifiers, which guaranteed him a place for the Olympics, because of his fifth-place finish at the ITU World Cup in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Scalable Video Coding

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC was developed jointly by ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC 1.

Sophie Coleman

At the age of 14, at her very first ITU triathlon in Alexandroupolis, Sophie Coleman won the gold medal in the Youth Team category together with Kirsty McWilliams and Jodie Stimpson.

SP-71

The highway is known as the Rodovia Convenção meaning convention in Portuguese in which it happened, an expressway linking Itu and Salto.

SwissCube-1

Five other secondary payloads were flown aboard the rocket; BeeSat, UWE-2, ITU-pSat1, Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2.

T30

T.30 (ITU-T recommendation) Procedures for document facsimile transmission in the general switched telephone network

Telephone numbers in South Sudan

South Sudan has been issued the +211 code by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the government said it would become active within 48 hours of recognition of the country by the United Nations.

Top Model O Reality

The models live with Ana Hickmann in her house in Itu, Sao Paulo.

Triathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Both men's and women's courses were conducted over the Olympic distance of 1500 m swim, 40 km ride and 10 km run, and were held according to the International Triathlon Union (ITU) rules.

UMTS Forum

UMTS Forum is very active in different standardization and regulation organizations like ITU, ETSI/3GPP, EC and CEPT (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations.

Universal Time

The International Astronomical Union also is involved in setting standards, but the final arbiter of broadcast standards is the International Telecommunication Union or ITU.

X32

X.32, an old ITU-T standard for connecting to an X.25 network by dial-up

YV

YV, the ITU prefix for Venezuela, used in amateur radio call signs and aircraft registration numbers

Zita Szabó

She claimed the bronze medal at the 1991 European Youth Triathlon Championships in Germany, and reached into the international junior level at the 1992 ITU Triathlon World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.

Before her triathlon career ended, Szabó had won the bronze medal at the 2009 ITU Triathlon European Cup in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and silver at the ITU Triathlon African Cup in Pretoria, South Africa.


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