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September 30, 2007

Passion and Purity

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Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control, published in 1984 and written by Elisabeth Elliot, is an evangelical Protestant book, part manifesto and part autobiography, on the subject of romantic relationships. The book recounts Elliot’s friendship and romance with missionary Jim Elliot, beginning in the 1940s and ending with his death in 1956. Elliot uses anecdotes from her relationship with Jim to expound on her views concerning “pure, Christian relationships” and the practice of “waiting on God” for romantic timing and direction. The late Ruth Bell Graham, wife of popular evangelist Billy Graham, wrote the preface.

Since the time of its publication, Passion and Purity has gained notoriety in conservative evangelical circles, and was largely responsible for the very popular 1997 book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua Harris. In conservative evangelical social practice among singles, both books have been exalted to the status of de facto scriptures, and together have been responsible for the circulation of the word courtship, a term Harris and his followers prefer to dating, which to them is suggestive of a secular and immoral approach to romance. This linguistic preference seems almost purely semantic and arbitrary, though Harris has argued that courtship’s connotation is more in keeping with the kind of romantic programme espoused by both him and Elliot.

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September 29, 2007

Glacial Milk

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Glacial Milk is Innovative Technologies Corporation of America’s brand of liquid nutritional supplements.

This brand includes the following bottled products:

  • Complete Nutrition
  • NONI Complete
  • Coral Calcium Plus
  • JOINT FORMULA Plus
  • Hair of the Dog
  • CARB CRUSHER

The company participates in Sam’s Club roadshows, offering samples of these liquids to store customers and allowing customers to buy these products in the store during the roadshow.

These products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


External links

  • Product web site

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September 28, 2007

Dell On Call

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Dell On Call is a limited and fee based service that covers certain computer issues as an extension to Dell’s normal limited hardware warranties (Said warranties only cover pre-installed physical hardware, drivers and the Operating system, the most expensive components of the computer). Dell on Call started on November 15, 2005 by Dell as a replacement to Dell HelpDesk plans sold up until that date. Dell on Call is only for American Home and Small Business customers, as large businesses tend to spend hundred of thousands of dollars on in-house staff dedicated to taking care of the covered issues. Dell On Call representatives are trained to do their best to please customers by not only resolving issues that customers have, but also giving lessons about what went wrong, how to find a solution to the issue and how to prevent it from happening again. Dell on Call has several different levels of contracts and pricing schemes that suit people’s needs differently.


Plans supported by Dell On Call

  • Single PoN (Point of Need) Contract: Entitles the Customer to a single incident.
  • Yearly PoS (Point of Sale) Contract: Entitles the Customer to 5 incidents over the course of 1 year.
  • 1 Year Upgrade: Adds 3 incidents for those who purchased the PoN contract or simply purchases 4 incidents outright.
  • 30 Day Trial: Unlimited incident support for 30 days. Sold with new PCs only.
  • 1, 2 and 3 year HelpDesk plans: These were sold to businesses prior to Dell on Call’s establishment. Theoretically the 3 year contract may be supported until November 15, 2008, however, it is no longer possible to buy one of these plans.
  • It is now possible to purchase a 13-month combination upon point of sale. 30 days unlimited + a year of 5 incidents.

Dell On Call representatives are based within the United States, as well as Pasay City in the Philippines, Edmonton, Alberta, Ottawa, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Mumbai,India. These locations are Dell operated facilities in the Americas and are not Outsource partners with the exception of the Dell On Call teams based in Sault Ste. Marie, and Mumbai.

The Dell On Call service is a supplement to the core helpdesk.


In-scope for Dell On Call

Due to a major scope of support change, Windows XP and all pre-installed applications are now in the scope of support for the Core tech support line

The scope of support for DOC still includes:

  • Spyware and virus removal:

    • Getting rid of annoying pop ups
    • Improving the performance of the computer
    • Activating parental control features
    • Arranging Internet security to block pop ups
  • Instructions and use of various Dell products Dell DJ
  • Installation and setup of third party products such as digital cameras, mp3 players, printers, mice and keyboards
  • Support for most Windows XP issues
  • Windows XP and Windows Vista only
  • Troubleshooting and setup for home networking
  • Basic use of Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Basics of accessing the Internet and Email
  • Basics of media player software such as Windows Media Player and Roxio Easy CD Creator


Out-of-scope for Dell On Call

  • Hardware issues
  • Enterprise networking
  • Sales and business issues
  • Computers not from Dell
  • OS’s older than XP - Not supported


Sources

  • Expanded Dell On Call services team trained to help consumers… PRdomain.com
  • Dell offers new consumer support Statesman.com
  • Dell Introduces New Fee-Based Tech SupportTwice.com
  • Expanded Dell On Call Services Team Trained to Help Consumers Get Most Out of Technology Experience Yahoo.com
  • Dell on Call Contract Resource PDF
  • Dell on Call Supported Product Overview


External links

  • Dell On Call Product Page
  • Dell on Call Information Page
  • Dell, Inc Website.

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O’Dell

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O’Dell is the surname of several interesting people:

  • Cricket O’Dell, fictional character from Archie Comics
  • Dick O’Dell, UK record label owner
  • Hunter Pitts O’Dell, American civil rights activist
  • Kelly O’Dell, an adult film star
  • Nancy O’Dell, the co-host of Access Hollywood
  • Rick O’Dell, American racing driver
  • Scott O’Dell, children’s author.
  • Tom O’Dell, the host of Cutlery Corner
  • Walden “Wally” O’Dell, former CEO of Diebold
  • Jack O’Dell, Matchbox Toys
  • Dennis O’Dell, the only person to win 1st place twice in the “[International Haircutting Competition]” at the IBS 1974 and 1978


See also

  • Dell (disambiguation)

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  • lists.us.dell.com If you are experiencing any technical issues with your Dell system, please contact Dell's technical support staff by visiting our E-Mail Dell site.

September 27, 2007

The Funnies

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The is about the 1930s proto-comic book series The Funnies. For other uses see Funnies (disambiguation)

The Funnies is an American publication of the late 1920s that was a seminal precursor of comic books.

In 1929, George T. Delacorte Jr.’s Dell Publishing, founded eight years earlier, published The Funnies, described by the Library of Congress as “a short-lived newspaper tabloid insert”.<ref>U.S. Library of Congress, “American Treasures of the Library of Congress” exhibition</ref> (This is not to be confused with Dell’s later same-name comic book, which began publication in 1936.) Comics historian Ron Goulart describes the 16-page, four-color, newsprint periodical as “more a Sunday comic section without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book. But it did offer all original material and was sold on newsstands”.<ref name=”ron”>Goulart, Ron. Comic Book Encyclopedia (Harper Entertainment, New York, 2004) ISBN 0-06-053816-3</ref>

The magazine ran 36 issues, published Saturdays through Oct. 16, 1930. The cover price rose from 10¢ to 30¢ with issue #3. This was reduced to a nickel from issue #22 to the end.

The Funnies helped lay the groundwork for two subsequent publications in 1933: Eastern Color Printing’s similar proto-comic book, the eight-page newsprint tabloid Funnies on Parade, and the Eastern Color / Dell collaboration Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics,<ref>Grand Comics Database: Famous Famous - Carnival of Comics</ref> considered by historians the first true American comic book.<ref>Goulart, p.144, for example, calls it “the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing”.</ref>


Footnotes


References

  • All in Color for a Dime by Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson ISBN 0-87341-498-5
  • The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide by Robert Overstreet — Edition #35 ISBN 0-375-72107-X
  • The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1 & 2, by James Steranko — Vol. 1 ISBN 0-517-50188-0
  • CBW Comic History: The Early Years…1896 to 1937, Part II
  • The ComicBooks.com: The History of Comic Books
  • Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: Dell Comics
  • Grand Comics Database: The Funnies (1936 series)

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September 25, 2007

Annali dell’Islam

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Annali dell’ Islam is a ten volume collection about Islam authored by Leone Caetani between 1904 and 1926.

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September 24, 2007

1937 in comics

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See also:
1936 in comics,
other events of 1937,
1938 in comics,
1930s in comics and the
list of years in comics

Publications: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December


Publications


January

  • The Funnies #4 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #17 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (previously New Comics) (1936 series) #12 - National Periodical Publications


February

  • The Funnies #5 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #18 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #13 - National Periodical Publications


March

  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #1 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #6 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #19 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #14 - National Periodical Publications


April

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #1 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #2 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #7 - Dell Comics


May

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #2 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #3 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #8 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #20 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #15 - National Periodical Publications


June

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #3 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #4 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #9 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #21 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #16 - National Periodical Publications


July

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #4 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #5 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #10 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #22 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #17 - National Periodical Publications


August

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #5 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #6 - DC Comics
  • Feature Funnies (1937 series) #1 - Harry A. Chesler Comics
  • The Funnies #11 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #23 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #18 - National Periodical Publications


September

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #6 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #7 - DC Comics
  • The Funnies #12 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #24 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #19 - National Periodical Publications


October

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #7 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #8 - DC Comics
  • Feature Funnies (1937 series) #1 - Harry A. Chesler Comics
  • The Funnies #13 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #25 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics (1936 series) #20 - National Periodical Publications


November

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #8 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #9 - DC Comics
  • Feature Funnies (1937 series) #2 - Harry A. Chesler Comics
  • The Funnies #14 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #26 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics) (1936 series) #21 - National Periodical Publications


December

  • Ace Comics (1937 series) #9 - David McKay Publications
  • Detective Comics (1937 series) #10 - DC Comics
  • Feature Funnies (1937 series) #3 - Harry A. Chesler Comics
  • The Funnies #15 - Dell Comics
  • More Fun Comics (1936 series) #27 - National Periodical Publications
  • New Adventure Comics) (1936 series) #22 - National Periodical Publications


Specials

  • New Book Of Comics (1937 series) #1 - National Periodical Publications

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September 23, 2007

Baseboard management controller

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A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized microcontroller embedded on the motherboard of many computers, especially servers. The BMC is the intelligence in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) architecture. The BMC manages the interface between system management software and platform hardware.

Different types of sensors built into the computer system report to the BMC on parameters such as temperature, cooling fan speeds, power mode, operating system (OS) status, etc. The BMC monitors the sensors and can send alerts to a system administrator via the network if any of the parameters do not stay within preset limits, indicating a potential failure of the system. The administrator can also remotely communicate with the BMC to take some corrective action such as resetting or power cycling the system to get a hung OS running again. These abilities save on the total cost of ownership of a system.

Physical interfaces to the BMC include SMBus busses, an RS-232 serial console, address and data lines and an Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB), that enables the BMC to accept IPMI request messages from other management controllers in the system.

The BMC communicates with a BMC management utility (BMU) on a remote client using IPMI protocols. The BMU is usually a command line interface (CLI) application. The BMU usually requires a password to gain access to the BMC. A direct serial connection to the BMC is not encrypted as the connection itself is secure. Connection to the BMC over LAN may or may not use encryption depending on the security concerns of the user.


References

  • Zhuo, Haihong, Yin, Jianwen, & Rao, Anil V. “Remote Management with the Baseboard Management Controller in Eighth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers”. Dell. Retrieved Jun. 20, 2005.


See also

  • Out-of-band management
  • Intel Active Management Technology (iAMT)

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September 22, 2007

Dynamic Kernel Module Support

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Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is a framework used to generate Linux kernel modules whose sources do not generally reside in the Linux kernel source tree.

DKMS was written by the Linux Engineering Team at Dell.


Sources

Dell DKMS site

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Serafino dell’ Aquila

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Serafino dell’Aquila (1466-1500), Italian poet and improvisatore, was born in 1466 at the town of Aquila, from which he took his name, and died in the year 1500. He spent several years at the courts of Cardinal Sforza and Ferdinand, duke of Calabria; but his principal patrons were the Borgias at Rome, from whom he received many favors. Aquila seems to have aimed at an imitation of Dante and Petrarch; and his poems, which were extravagantly praised during the author’s lifetime, are occasionally of considerable merit. His reputation was in great measure due to his remarkable skill as an improvisatore and musician. His works were printed at Venice in 1502, and there have been several subsequent editions.


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September 20, 2007

Figueiredo’s Video and DVD

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Figueiredo’s Video and DVD is a local movie rental business located in Northern California. It was opened in 1983 and currently has seven locations within Humboldt and Mendocino County: Arcata, two locations in Eureka, Fort Bragg, Fortuna, McKinleyville, and Rio Dell.


External links

  • Figsvideo

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September 19, 2007

Alan Prince

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Alan Sanford Prince (born 1946) is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory. Optimality Theory was originally applied to phonology, but has been extended to other areas of linguistics such as syntax and semantics. He went to high school in Fairfax, Virginia, got his BA with “great distinction” from McGill University, and received his Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming to Rutgers, Prince was a professor of linguistics at Brandeis and at the University of Massachusetts.

  • Homepage

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September 18, 2007

British Rail Class 66/9

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The Class 66/9 subclass of the Class 66 Co-Co diesel locomotives consists of 2 locomotives, Nos. 66951 and 66952 introduced in 2004.

The 66/9 was developed by EMD to meet new EU regulations on emissions. There are a number of differences between the 66/9 and the previous standard 66/0, 66/4 66/5 66/6 66/7 subclasses. They have smaller fuel tanks, which restricts their range. There is an extra bodyside door on one side, and different grille layout. Both carry Freightliner livery and are in service with Freightliner Heavy Haul.

Subclasses of British Rail Class 66
66/0 66/4 66/5 66/6 66/7 66/9

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Sabrina Simoni

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Sabrina Simoni was born in Bologna, Italy in 1969 and has been interested in classical music since her childhood. She graduated from Music Conservatory in Ferrara. She joined the Institute of Antoniano di Bologna around 1991. At first she was working with the teenager/studentchoir Le Verdi Note. When Mariele Ventre, the conductor of the better known Antoniano children’s choir Piccolo Coro dell’ Antoniano had to have an urgent operation exactly during the preparations of the 1992 children’s songfestival Zecchino d´Oro, she asked Sabrina Simoni and her friend Antonella Tosti (ex-Piccolo Coro singer) to take charge of the children’s choir and the preparations for the festival. Afterwards, Mariele Ventre has been teaching and preparing Sabrina Simoni to one day take over the direction of the Piccolo Coro. After Mariele Ventre’s death in 1995, Sabrina became the new conductor of the Piccolo Coro dell’ Antoniano.
Her job as conductor and music teacher to very young children has led Sabrina Simoni to publish two children’s books: Favole inCanto (2003) and La tastiera incantata (2003). Both books have the goal of developing a young child’s musical ear in a playful manner.

External link :

  • Sabrina Simoni info at Official Homepage of Antoniano

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September 17, 2007

Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse

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Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse is a children’s book written by George Selden, author of the The Cricket in Times Square. It is the story of a mouse and cat who become friends and search New York for a home of their own. It was originally published in 1986 and is illustrated by Garth Williams, illustrator of Charlotte’s Web and the Little House on the Prairie books. It was published by Dell Publishing.

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Mark Gillespie

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Mark Gillespie may refer to

  • Mark Gillespie (English singer), an English musician living in Germany
  • Mark Gillespie (Scottish singer), a Scottish musician
  • Mark Gillespie (cricketer), a New Zealand cricketer
  • Mark Gillespie (Irish cricketer), an Irish cricketer
  • Mark Gillespie (Australian singer/songwriter),

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September 16, 2007

Mary-Dell Chilton

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Mary-Dell Chilton is a key founder of modern plant biotechnology. She was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for causing disease could be removed from the bacterium without adversely affecting its ability to insert its own DNA into plant cells and modify the plants genome. Dr. Chilton described what she had done as disarming the bacterial plasmid responsible for the DNA transfer. She and her collaborators produced the first genetically modified plants using Agrobacterium carrying the disarmed Ti plasmid (1983).

Dr. Chilton received her PhD from the University of Illinois. She has been recognized for her work with Agrobacterium tumefaciens by an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvaine, the John Scott Medal from the City of Philadelphia, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and the Franklin Medal in Life Sciences from the Franklin Institute.


See also

  • Marc Van Montagu
  • Jozef Schell


References

  • Eden FC, Farrand SK, Powell JS, Bendich AJ, Chilton MD, Nester EW, Gordon MP., Attempts to detect deoxyribonucleic acid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and bacteriophage PS8 in crown gall tumors by complementary ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid-filter hybridization, J Bacteriol. 1974 Aug;119(2):547-53.
  • Chilton MD., Agrobacterium Ti plasmids as a tool for genetic engineering in plants, Basic Life Sci. 1979;14:23-31.
  • Chilton MD, Drummond MH, Merio DJ, Sciaky D, Montoya AL, Gordon MP, Nester EW., Stable incorporation of plasmid DNA into higher plant cells: the molecular basis of crown gall tumorigenesis, Cell. 1977 Jun;11(2):263-71.

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September 15, 2007

Ethnopoetics

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Ethnopoetics is a poetic movement and subfield in linguistics, and anthropology. Coined as a term by Rothenberg in 1968. The idea of ethnopoetics is based on two interrelated concepts:

on one hand, it refers to non-Western poetry, often that of indigenous people (although it could apply to the study of all-kind/source folk poetry), and on the other hand, it is poetry showing such influence and written in manner to manifest the qualities of indigeneousity; ethnopoetics also refers to the study within the field of linguistics of poetic structures particular to specific culture.

These two base ideas and, further, two uses of the term were connected through the work of the poets Jerome Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock, who co-edited the journal Alcheringa. Tedlock himeself defines ethnopoetics as “a decentered poetics, an attempt to hear and read the poetries of distant others, outside the Western tradition as we know it now.” [1]


Ethnopoetics as an aesthetic movement

Jerome Rothenberg is known for his poetry, essays, and anthology Technicians of the Sacred (1968). Other writers and poets who made significant or representative contributions to the field include Henry Munn, Antonin Artaud, Tristan Tzara, Gary Snyder, and William Bright.


Ethnopoetics within linguistics and folkloristics

Within the fields of linguistics, folkloristics, and anthropology, ethnopoetics is a particular method of analyzing the linguistic use and structure in oral literature such as: poetry, myths, prose narrative, folk tales, ceremonial speech and other forms of extended utterances in stylized registers; it is description in a way that pays attention to poetic structures within speech. The development of ethnopoetics as a separate subfield of study was largely pioneered from the middle of the 20th century by anthropologists and linguists such as Dell Hymes and Dennis Tedlock.

Depending on viewpoint, ethnopoetics can be seen as a subfield either of ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, stylistics, linguistics, or literature. Because of its subject and methodology ethnopoetics is too an important field within translation studies.


Folk poetries by region


Folk poetries of the Americas

  • Poetry of the Inuit
  • Indigenous poetry of the American Southwest
  • Indigenous poetry of the Plains Indians
  • Indigenous poetries of Mesoamerica


Folk poetry of the Middle East and North Africa

  • Ghinnawa of the Bedouin


Bibliography

  • Hymes, Dell H. (1981). “In vain I tried to tell you”: Essays in Native American ethnopoetics. Studies in Native American literature (No. 1); University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-7806-2 (hbk); ISBN 0-8122-1117-0 (pbk); ISBN 0-585-17266-8 (electronic bk.).
  • Hymes, Dell H. (2003). Now I know only so far: Essays in ethnopoetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-2407-9 (hbk); ISBN 0-8032-7335-5 (pbk).
  • Tedlock, Dennis. (1972). Finding the center: Narrative poetry of the Zuñi Indians. New York, Dial Press.
  • Tedlock, Dennis. (1983). The spoken word and the work of interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-7880-1 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8122-1143-X (pbk.).
  • Tedlock, Dennis. (1999). Finding the center: The art of the Zuni storyteller (2nd. ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4439-8 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8032-9440-9 (pbk.)


External links

  • Ethnopoetics, Prof. Dennis Tedlock
  • Ethnopoetics at the millennium, Jerome Rothenberg, 5 May 1999
  • Selections from Alcheringa, pdf format
  • Ubuweb, a comprehensive, rather useful online anthology of poets, poems, manifestos, writings, materials, and enything related to Ethnopoetics.
  • Jerome Rothenberg class on ethnopoetics and performance, mp3u

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September 14, 2007

Lost in Translation (novel)

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Lost in Translation is the title of two books

The first, a novel, is written by Nicole Mones and was published by Bantam Dell in 1999, it is the story of an American woman trying to lose her past by living as a translator in China.

The second book is a memoir written by academic writer Eva Hoffman in 1989.


External links

  • Bantam Dell page on this book

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September 13, 2007

Mary-Dell Chilton

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Mary-Dell Chilton is a key founder of modern plant biotechnology. She was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for causing disease could be removed from the bacterium without adversely affecting its ability to insert its own DNA into plant cells and modify the plants genome. Dr. Chilton described what she had done as disarming the bacterial plasmid responsible for the DNA transfer. She and her collaborators produced the first genetically modified plants using Agrobacterium carrying the disarmed Ti plasmid (1983).

Dr. Chilton received her PhD from the University of Illinois. She has been recognized for her work with Agrobacterium tumefaciens by an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvaine, the John Scott Medal from the City of Philadelphia, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and the Franklin Medal in Life Sciences from the Franklin Institute.


See also

  • Marc Van Montagu
  • Jozef Schell


References

  • Eden FC, Farrand SK, Powell JS, Bendich AJ, Chilton MD, Nester EW, Gordon MP., Attempts to detect deoxyribonucleic acid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and bacteriophage PS8 in crown gall tumors by complementary ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid-filter hybridization, J Bacteriol. 1974 Aug;119(2):547-53.
  • Chilton MD., Agrobacterium Ti plasmids as a tool for genetic engineering in plants, Basic Life Sci. 1979;14:23-31.
  • Chilton MD, Drummond MH, Merio DJ, Sciaky D, Montoya AL, Gordon MP, Nester EW., Stable incorporation of plasmid DNA into higher plant cells: the molecular basis of crown gall tumorigenesis, Cell. 1977 Jun;11(2):263-71.

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September 11, 2007

Valley Center

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Valley Center may refer to:


Place

  • Valley Center, Kansas
  • Valley Center, California
  • Clinton Valley Center, psychiatric hospital located in Michigan


An organization

  • Great Valley Center, a nonprofit organization working to expand California’s development growth


See also

  • Center Valley, Pennsylvania
  • Valley River Center

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Sūduva stadium

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Sūduva stadium is a multi-use stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. The stadium holds 4,000 people.

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Chris Wilkinson

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Chris Wilkinson (born January 5, 1970 in Southampton) is a former tennis player from England, who turned professional in 1989. He represented Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the first round by Morocco’s Younes El Aynaoui. The righthander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 13, 1993, when he became the number 114 of the world.

He currently teaches tennis at Lee-on-Solent Tennis Club on the south coast of England.


External links

  • Profile at ATP-site

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September 10, 2007

Tiki Data

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Tiki Data was a manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded in 1983 by Lars Monrad Krohn, and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the Tiki 100 computer, which was designed by Tiki Data from the bottom up, the company started publishing software for the educational sector.
Following the impact of the IBM PC, the company switched to selling rebranded PC-compatible computers.

Tiki Data was bought by Merkantildata in 1996, and ceased to exist from that point on.

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Electoral district of Peats

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Peats was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1973 to 2007. It was replaced by Gosford for the 2007 state election.


Members for Peats

Member Party affiliation Period
Keith O’Connell Australian Labor Party 1973-1984
Paul Landa Australian Labor Party 1984
Tony Doyle Australian Labor Party 1985-1994
Marie Andrews Australian Labor Party 1995-2007

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September 9, 2007

Lobo (Dell Comics)

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For the comic book character Lobo from DC Comics, see Lobo (DC Comics)

Lobo is a fictional Western comic book hero who is the medium’s first African-American character to headline his own series.


Publication history

Lobo starred in Dell Comics’ little-known but groundbreaking, two-issue series Lobo (Dec. 1965 & Sept. 1966), also listed as Dell Comics #12-438-512 and #12-439-610 in the company’s quirky numbering system. Co-Created by writer D. J. Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico, it chronicled the Old West adventures of a wealthy, unnamed African-American gunslinger called “Lobo” by the first issue’s antagonists. On the foreheads of vanquished criminals, Lobo would leave the calling card of a gold coin imprinted with the images of a wolf and the letter “L”.

Tallarico in a 2006 interview said that he and Dell writer D.J. Arneson co-created the character based on an idea and a plot by Tallarico, with Arneson scripted it.


Awards

On May 19, 2006, Temple University College of Arts and Sciences presented Tallarico its Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Comics and Books Industries, in recognition of his creating the first comic book to star an African-American.


Black comic-book stars

While Marvel Comics’ 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics had published the African tribal-chief feature “Waku, Prince of the Bantu” — the first known mainstream comic-book feature with a Black star, albeit not African-American — it was one of four regular features in each issue of the omnibus title, Jungle Tales (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1955). Comic books’ first known African-American superhero, Marvel’s Falcon, was introduced in 1969<ref>Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)</ref>, but there would be no Black star of his or her own comic until 1972, with Marvel’s Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, followed in 1973 by Marvel’s Black Panther (introduced as a supporting character in a 1966 issue of Fantastic Four) in Jungle Action.


See also

  • List of African American firsts


Footnotes


References

  • The Grand Comics Database

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September 8, 2007

BAPCo consortium

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BAPCo, the Business Application Performance Corporation, is an industry consortium based in San Mateo, California. Its members include Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, Lenovo, and Apple, and is a group dedicated to developing benchmarks for Windows personal computers.

BAPCo has developed standard benchmarks such as SYSmark 2004SE, MobileMark 2005 and WebMark 2004 as well as standardized protocols for measuring application performance, for example 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.

The latest BAPCo benchmark, SYSmark 2007 Preview, was released in April 2007 and supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.


See also

  • Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
  • Benchmark (computing)
  • Futuremark


External links

  • BAPCo.com

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Pico BTX

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Pico BTX is a computer motherboard and system form factor. Pico BTX motherboards are relatively small, smaller than current small ‘micro’ sized motherboards hence the name ‘pico’. They share a common top-half with the other sizes in the BTX line, but sport only 1-2 expansion slots, designed for half-height or riser-card applications.


Availability

As of January 2007, there are very limited numbers of OEM motherboards and cases for Pico BTX. Complete systems are available from Dell, which embraced BTX quickly within its desktop product line, and appears to use Pico BTX boards in its smallest machines, though no claims are made by Dell in there marketing materials.

Intel as the mainstream mainboard manufacturer is making such boards


See also

  • BTX (Balanced Technology Extended) form factor.


External links

  • Intel BTX press releases: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/p4/btx/
  • Intel sponsored specification site: http://www.formfactors.org/FFDetail.asp?FFID=12&CatID=1
  • Production Intel Pico BTX Motherboard DQ965WC: http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DQ965WC/index.htm

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Dell (landform)

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This article is about the landform. For the computer company, see Dell.

In physical geography, a dell is a small wooded valley. Like “dale”, the word “dell” is derived from the Old English language dæl.


See also

  • Cirque
  • Combe (or coombe — a West Country word meaning a steep-sided valley)
  • Coulee
  • Dells of the Wisconsin River
  • Glen, glaciated valley, U-shaped
  • Gully, Gorge
  • Vale, Valley

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Dell Rapids High School

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Dell Rapids High School’ is a high school located in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. The athletics teams are known as the quarriers.


External links

  • Official website

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September 7, 2007

Virtual call capability

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In telecommunication, a virtual call capability, sometimes called a virtual call facility, is a service feature in which:

  • a call set-up procedure and a call disengagement procedure determine the period of communication between two data terminal equipments (DTEs) in which user data are transferred by the network in the packet mode of operation
  • end-to-end transfer control of packets within the network is required
  • data may be delivered to the network by the call originator before the call access phase is completed, but the data are not delivered to the call receiver if the call attempt is unsuccessful
  • the network delivers all the user data to the call receiver in the same sequence in which the data are received by the network
  • multi-access DTEs may have several virtual calls in progress at the same time.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C

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Hazel Dell North, Washington

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Hazel Dell North is a census-designated place and an unincorporated town in Clark County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,261 at the 2000 census.


Geography

Hazel Dell North is located at (45.687155, -122.658146).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.9 km² (2.7 mi²). 6.9 km² (2.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.37% is water.


Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 9,261 people, 3,535 households, and 2,403 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,339.2/km² (3,469.3/mi²). There were 3,744 housing units at an average density of 541.4/km² (1,402.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 84.29% White, 2.58% African American, 0.87% Native American, 2.24% Asian, 0.41% Pacific Islander, 6.04% from other races, and 3.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.20% of the population.

There were 3,535 households out of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.7% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.0% were non-families. 24.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 99.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.4 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $43,063, and the median income for a family was $48,610. Males had a median income of $40,087 versus $29,968 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $19,518. About 11.8% of families and 14.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.4% of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over.


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Mary-Dell Chilton

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Mary-Dell Chilton is a key founder of modern plant biotechnology. She was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for causing disease could be removed from the bacterium without adversely affecting its ability to insert its own DNA into plant cells and modify the plants genome. Dr. Chilton described what she had done as disarming the bacterial plasmid responsible for the DNA transfer. She and her collaborators produced the first genetically modified plants using Agrobacterium carrying the disarmed Ti plasmid (1983).

Dr. Chilton received her PhD from the University of Illinois. She has been recognized for her work with Agrobacterium tumefaciens by an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvaine, the John Scott Medal from the City of Philadelphia, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and the Franklin Medal in Life Sciences from the Franklin Institute.


See also

  • Marc Van Montagu
  • Jozef Schell


References

  • Eden FC, Farrand SK, Powell JS, Bendich AJ, Chilton MD, Nester EW, Gordon MP., Attempts to detect deoxyribonucleic acid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and bacteriophage PS8 in crown gall tumors by complementary ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid-filter hybridization, J Bacteriol. 1974 Aug;119(2):547-53.
  • Chilton MD., Agrobacterium Ti plasmids as a tool for genetic engineering in plants, Basic Life Sci. 1979;14:23-31.
  • Chilton MD, Drummond MH, Merio DJ, Sciaky D, Montoya AL, Gordon MP, Nester EW., Stable incorporation of plasmid DNA into higher plant cells: the molecular basis of crown gall tumorigenesis, Cell. 1977 Jun;11(2):263-71.

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Dell Magazines

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This article discusses the magazine company. For other uses, see Dell (disambiguation).

Dell Magazines was a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co. Dell is today known for its many puzzle magazines, as well as fiction magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It is now a division of Crosstown Publications, with headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, under the same ownership as Penny Publication, LLC, which publishes Penny Press puzzle magazines.

The first puzzle magazine Dell published was Dell Crossword Puzzles, in 1931, and since then it has printed magazines containing word searches, math and logic puzzles, and other diversions.

Some puzzles that first appeared in Dell magazines, such as Number Place and Cross Sums, gained new popularity when they were used by Nikoli in Japan as sudoku and kakuro and then spread back into the Western world.


External links

  • Dell website

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September 6, 2007

River Edge Elementary School District

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The River Edge Elementary School District is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade from River Edge, in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States.

River Edge shares secondary schooling with Oradell. Together, they make up the River Dell Regional School District. Students in grades 7 and 8 attend River Dell Regional Middle School in River Edge. Students in grades 9 - 12 attend River Dell Regional High School in Oradell.


Awards and recognition

During the 1998-99 school year, Cherry Hill School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.<ref>Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), accessed May 11, 2006.</ref>


Schools

River Edge has two primary schools as part of the district, both of which serve students in Kindergarten through 6th grade. Schools in the district (with 2004-05 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics<ref>data for the River Edge Elementary School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 6, 2007.</ref>) are:

  • Cherry Hill School (578 students) which is on the south side of town.

    • Denise Heitman - Principal of Cherry Hill Elementary School
  • Roosevelt School (526 students) which is located on the north side of town.
    • Anthony Vouvalides - Principal of Roosevelt Elementary School


Administration

  • Erika Steinbauer - Superintendent of Schools
  • Debbie Trainor - School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • Rosemary Kuruc - Supervisor of Special Services
  • John Lyons - Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds


References


External links

  • River Edge Elementary School District
  • National Center for Education Statistics data for the River Edge Elementary School District
  • River Dell Regional School District

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September 5, 2007

American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist

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The American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist has been awarded since 1974.

Years reflect the year in which the American Music Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out on November of the same year).

The all-time winner in this category is a tie between Whitney Houston and Olivia Newton-John with 4 wins each.


2000s

  • American Music Awards of 2006

    • Kelly Clarkson
  • American Music Awards of 2005
    • Gwen Stefani
  • American Music Awards of 2004
    • Sheryl Crow
  • American Music Awards of 2003 (November)
    • Jennifer Lopez
  • American Music Awards of 2003
    • Sheryl Crow
  • American Music Awards of 2002
    • Janet Jackson
  • American Music Awards of 2001
    • Faith Hill
  • American Music Awards of 2000
    • Shania Twain


1990s

  • American Music Awards 1999

  • American Music Awards of 1998
    • Celine Dion
  • American Music Awards of 1997
    • Alanis Morissette
  • American Music Awards of 1996
    • Mariah Carey
  • American Music Awards of 1995
    • Mariah Carey
  • American Music Awards of 1994
    • Whitney Houston
  • American Music Awards of 1993
    • Mariah Carey
  • American Music Awards of 1992
    • Paula Abdul
  • American Music Awards of 1991
    • Janet Jackson
  • American Music Awards of 1990
    • Paula Abdul


1980s

  • American Music Awards of 1989

    • Whitney Houston
  • American Music Awards of 1988
    • Whitney Houston
  • American Music Awards of 1987
  • American Music Awards of 1986
    • Tina Turner
  • American Music Awards of 1985
    • Cyndi Lauper
  • American Music Awards of 1984
    • Pat Benatar
  • American Music Awards of 1983
    • Olivia Newton-John
  • American Music Awards of 1982
    • Pat Benatar
  • American Music Awards of 1981
    • Barbra Streisand
  • American Music Awards of 1980
    • Donna Summer


1970s

  • American Music Awards of 1979

    • Linda Ronstadt
  • American Music Awards of 1978
    • Linda Ronstadt
  • American Music Awards of 1977
    • Olivia Newton-John
  • American Music Awards of 1976
    • Olivia Newton-John
  • American Music Awards of 1975
    • Olivia Newton-John
  • American Music Awards of 1974
    • Helen Reddy

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  • American Forests Nonprofit conservation organization aims to protect, restore and enhance the natural capital of trees and forests. Includes information on membership, news,
  • American Diabetes Association Home Page Their mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by this disease. Available in English and Spanish.

Dell International Services

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Dell International Services is the support and services division of Dell Inc., the large American computer hardware company.

Dell moved its major support divisions overseas to India, Philippines and other countries. The company is now present in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Bratislava, Dalian, Panama City, Morocco, San Salvador, Edmonton, Ottawa and Metro Manila (Pasay City & Quezon City).

Dell International Services in Bangalore, India also houses the IT Global Development Center.


External links

  • Dell Manila

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September 4, 2007

Michael Dell

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Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.


Biography


Early life and education

The son of an orthodontist, Dell was born in to an upper-class Jewish family and attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, Texas. Dell had his first encounter with a computer at the age of 15 when he broke down a brand new Apple II computer and rebuilt it, just to see if he could. Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston where he did not excel scholastically.
After graduating high school, he attended the University of Texas at Austin but abandoned that idea when he experienced early success in the area of computers and technology.


Career

While at the University of Texas at Austin, he started a computer company called PC’s Limited in his room in Dobie Center <ref>[1]</ref>. The company became successful enough that, with the help of an additional loan from his grandparents, Dell dropped out of college at the age of 19 to run PC’s Limited, which later became Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimately Dell Inc.

Over time, and despite a number of setbacks (including laptops that caught on fire in 1993, temporarily losing the consumer market to Gateway in the mid 1990s, and others), Dell survived the race to become the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $49 billion and profits of $3 billion in 2004. As Dell expanded its product line to more than computers, shareholders voted to rename the corporation Dell, Inc. in 2003.

On March 4, 2004, he stepped down as CEO of Dell but stayed as chairman of the board, while Kevin B. Rollins, then president and COO, became president and CEO.
On January 31, 2007, Michael Dell was reinstalled as CEO of Dell, replacing Kevin Rollins (who resigned earlier in the day).<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/technology/01dell.html?ex=1327986000&en=51d4bc242b1c6e8f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss]</ref>

Accolades for Dell include: “Entrepreneur of the Year” from Inc. magazine; “Man of the Year” from PC Magazine; “Top CEO in American Business” from Worth Magazine; “CEO of the Year” from Financial World and Industry Week magazines. At a speech before the Detroit Economic Club in November, 1999, Dell defined the “3 C’s” of e-commerce (content, commerce, and community) while articulating his strategy for offering a superior customer experience online.<ref></ref>

In 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate in Economic Science from the University of Limerick, in honor of his investment in Ireland and the local community along with his support for educational initiatives.<ref>http://www.ul.ie/main/news/dell.doc University of Limerick Press Release, 29 May 2002</ref>


Dell’s investment company

In 1998 Michael Dell founded MSD Capital LP, a private investment firm, to invest in various small companies on Dell’s behalf. According to reports, the firm tends to invest in “late stage” investments rather than early in a company’s startup.


“Shut Down Apple”

Dell had a public war of words with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making “un-innovative beige boxes”. On October 6, 1997, when Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”<ref>CNet</ref> Dell would regret these words after Jobs returned as Apple CEO in 1998. By early 2006 Apple was worth more (based on market valuation) than Dell. By October 2007 Apple was worth more than twice Dell’s value (AAPL:$160B - DELL:$62B). Dell resumed the CEO duties (replacing Kevin Rollins) at his troubled company in January 2007, and market value increased 11% in 9 months. During that same time Jobs’ Apple increased its market value 92%.


Philanthropy

On May 15, 2006, The University of Texas at Austin announced a $50 million grant from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation to “bring excellence in children’s health and education to Austin”. The grant will enable the construction of 3 new facilities at the university. The first is the Dell Pediatric Research Institute which is expected to complement the new Dell Children’s Medical Center nearby. The second is a new computer science building on the UT campus named Dell Computer Science Hall. The third is the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, which is intended to address issues that affect healthy childhood development.<ref name=”50Mil”></ref>


Wealth and Personal Life

As of 2007, Forbes estimates Michael Dell’s net worth at $15.8 billion, making him the 30th richest person in the world and the 9th richest American <ref>http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/03/09/9billionaires.html statesman.com</ref>.

Dell currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Susan, and their four children.<ref>Biographical details and interview</ref> He has three daughters: Kira (15), Alexa (13), Juliette (10) and a son, Zachary (10).<ref>http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v18/i12/12000901.htm</ref>


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Jonathan Philbin Bowman

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Jonathan Philbin Bowman (January 6, 1969-March 6, 2000) was an Irish journalist and radio broadcaster.

Born in Dublin in 1969, Jonathan Philbin Bowman, the son of the historian and broadcaster John Bowman, was educated at Sandford Park School and at Newpark Comprehensive School in Dublin. He chose to leave formal education at the age of 16, a decision he announced to the nation on RTÉ’s premier chat show The Late Late Show. Precocious, articulate and controversial, he was a nationally known figure while still in his teens. He co-presented an irreverent radio show The Rude Awakening on Dublin’s FM104 for two years from 1993 to 1994 before joining the Sunday Independent newspaper as a columnist. He also presented television programmes on RTÉ, such as the quiz show Dodge the Question.

Jonathan Philbin Bowman died in an accident at his home in Harolds Cross, Dublin on March 3, 2000. He is survived by his son Saul.

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  • Dell Recommended Systems PLEASE NOTE: All Dell computer purchases are made directly with Dell. Warranty:, 1 Year Parts and Labor, 3 Years Parts and Labor, 3 Years Parts and

September 3, 2007

Product support

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Product Support is a service provided by many retailers of various products, primarily electronics, that provides the end-user with a resource for information regarding the product, and help if the product should malfunction. Product Support can be found in most manuals for products in the form of a phone number, website address, or physical location.

The Internet has allowed for a new form of product support to develop. Some online communities have developed to give support where manufacturer support is lacking.

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BAPCo consortium

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BAPCo, the Business Application Performance Corporation, is an industry consortium based in San Mateo, California. Its members include Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, Lenovo, and Apple, and is a group dedicated to developing benchmarks for Windows personal computers.

BAPCo has developed standard benchmarks such as SYSmark 2004SE, MobileMark 2005 and WebMark 2004 as well as standardized protocols for measuring application performance, for example 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.

The latest BAPCo benchmark, SYSmark 2007 Preview, was released in April 2007 and supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.


See also

  • Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
  • Benchmark (computing)
  • Futuremark


External links

  • BAPCo.com

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September 2, 2007

Dell Magazines

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This article discusses the magazine company. For other uses, see Dell (disambiguation).

Dell Magazines was a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co. Dell is today known for its many puzzle magazines, as well as fiction magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It is now a division of Crosstown Publications, with headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, under the same ownership as Penny Publication, LLC, which publishes Penny Press puzzle magazines.

The first puzzle magazine Dell published was Dell Crossword Puzzles, in 1931, and since then it has printed magazines containing word searches, math and logic puzzles, and other diversions.

Some puzzles that first appeared in Dell magazines, such as Number Place and Cross Sums, gained new popularity when they were used by Nikoli in Japan as sudoku and kakuro and then spread back into the Western world.


External links

  • Dell website

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September 1, 2007

Lobo (Dell Comics)

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For the comic book character Lobo from DC Comics, see Lobo (DC Comics)

Lobo is a fictional Western comic book hero who is the medium’s first African-American character to headline his own series.


Publication history

Lobo starred in Dell Comics’ little-known but groundbreaking, two-issue series Lobo (Dec. 1965 & Sept. 1966), also listed as Dell Comics #12-438-512 and #12-439-610 in the company’s quirky numbering system. Co-Created by writer D. J. Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico, it chronicled the Old West adventures of a wealthy, unnamed African-American gunslinger called “Lobo” by the first issue’s antagonists. On the foreheads of vanquished criminals, Lobo would leave the calling card of a gold coin imprinted with the images of a wolf and the letter “L”.

Tallarico in a 2006 interview said that he and Dell writer D.J. Arneson co-created the character based on an idea and a plot by Tallarico, with Arneson scripted it.


Awards

On May 19, 2006, Temple University College of Arts and Sciences presented Tallarico its Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Comics and Books Industries, in recognition of his creating the first comic book to star an African-American.


Black comic-book stars

While Marvel Comics’ 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics had published the African tribal-chief feature “Waku, Prince of the Bantu” — the first known mainstream comic-book feature with a Black star, albeit not African-American — it was one of four regular features in each issue of the omnibus title, Jungle Tales (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1955). Comic books’ first known African-American superhero, Marvel’s Falcon, was introduced in 1969<ref>Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)</ref>, but there would be no Black star of his or her own comic until 1972, with Marvel’s Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, followed in 1973 by Marvel’s Black Panther (introduced as a supporting character in a 1966 issue of Fantastic Four) in Jungle Action.


See also

  • List of African American firsts


Footnotes


References

  • The Grand Comics Database

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