Pitman may refer to Pitman, New Jersey Pitman, Pennsylvania Pitman, Saskatchewan Pitman Shorthand , a system of shorthand Pitman arm , a vehicle steering component A Connecting rod Steam engines connecting rod in an engine Pitman video game , a videogame for the Game Boy Pitman Press , a British publisher Pitman Publishing , a British publishing company with offices in London, New York and Toronto A term used in the North of England for a mining miner . as a surname Benjamin Pitman Hawaii Benjamin Pitman , New England and Hawaiian businessman Chris Pitman , synthist for the U.S. band Guns N Roses Andrew Pitman , Australian climate scientist Brett Pitman , a professional footballer currently playing for AFC Bournemouth E.J.G. Pitman , a statistician noted for the Pitman Koopman Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions Frederick Pitman , British Olympic rower Frederick I Pitman , British rower and Boat Race umpire father of Frederick Herbert Pitman , third officer on the RMS Titanic Isaac Pitman , inventor of Pitman Shorthand James Pitman , inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet Jenny Pitman , British racehorse trainer and author Kent Pitman , Lisp expert MC Pitman , an East Midlands English rapper Robert Carter Pitman , 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author Walter Pitman , an educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada Walter C. Pitman, III , a geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University disambig Category Occupational surnames Category Surnames de Pitman fr Pitman pl Pitman ... more details
John Pitman may refer to John Pitman judge , United States federal judge John Pitman journalist , English reporter and interviewer John Pitman tennis , player in the 1933 U.S. National Championships Men s Singles See also John A. Pittman , U.S. soldier hndis Pitman, John ... more details
Perrett first Neil url http www.bournemouthecho.co.uk sport 8338069.Cherries Blackpool bid for Pitman title Cherries Blackpool bid for Pitman date 18 August 2010 newspaper Bournemouth Daily Echo accessdate ...infobox football biography 2 playername Brett Pitman fullname Brett Douglas Pitman ref name Hugman2010 ... ntupdate Brett Douglas Pitman born 31 January 1988 is a Jersey born Association football footballer ... City . Pitman has represented Jersey national football team Jersey , having become an integral ... 07 season, which resulted in a 1 1 draw. Pitman scored seven goals during the 2007 08 season ... before scoring. Pitman scored his first ever senior hat trick in a 4 0 win over Rochdale on 5 April .... On 2 October 2009 Pitman was named the PFa Fans and Coca Cola Player of the Month in League Two ... for September. Pitman scored a 16 minute hat trick in the first home game of the season 2010 11 against ..., possibly rising to 600,000, to sign Pitman. The following day, it was reported that Bournemouth chairman ... with Pitman. ref name skysports6320255 cite web url http www.skysports.com story 0,19528,11728 6320255,00.html title Cherries block Pitman talks Seasiders fail in striker bid date 18 August 2010 publisher ... cite web url http www.afcb.co.uk page NewsDetail 0,,10324 2127012,00.html title BRETT PITMAN ..., Blackpool manager Ian Holloway confirmed that Pitman was having a medical with the club following talks ... Gazette accessdate 19 August 2010 ref A day later it was confirmed that Pitman had failed to agree terms ... blackpool football club Pitman failed to agree Pool.6486349.jp title Pitman failed ... City announced on their official site that they had agreed an undisclosed fee with Bournemouth and that Pitman ... Bristol City F.C. accessdate 21 August 2010 date 21 August 2010 ref Pitman scored his first goal for Bristol City in the 2 0 win over Leicester City . As of 16 January 2011, Pitman has gone on a run ... 9 2 0 0 229 73 21 1 References reflist 2 External links soccerbase 40540 Brett Pitman http www.bournemouth.vitalfootball.co.uk ... more details
for Benjamin Pitman, the American businessman, who lived in Hawaii Benjamin Pitman Hawaii Infobox Writer name Benjamin Pitman birthdate Birth date July 24, 1822 birthplace Trowbridge Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England deathdate death date and age December 28, 1910 July 24, 1822 deathplace Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, USA occupation Biographer nationality English period 1902 subject Biographies relatives Isaac Pitman brother Benjamin Pitman July 24, 1822 December 28, 1910 , also known as Benn Pitman, was an English people English author and popularizer in the United States of Pitman shorthand , a form of phonography shorthand . ref name collier cite encyclopedia last Davis first Caleb W. editor William D. Halsey encyclopedia Collier s Encyclopedia title Pitman, Benjamin year 1976 publisher Macmillan Educational Corporation volume 19 location New York page 85 ref He was born at Trowbridge Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England . ref name collier In 1853, Pitman founded the Phonographic Institute in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio . ref name collier In 1855, Pitman invented the electrochemical process of relief engraving. ref name collier He lectured at the Cincinnati Art School from 1873 until 1892 on art and wood engraving . ref name collier In 1902 he wrote a biography of his brother, Sir Isaac Pitman His Life and Labors . ref name collier He died in Cincinnati, Ohio. ref name collier References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Benjamin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1822 PLACE OF BIRTH Trowbridge Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1910 PLACE OF DEATH Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, USA DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Benjamin Category 1910 deaths Category 1822 births Category English biographers UK writer stub fi Benn Pitman ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Pitman arm is a steering component in an automobile or truck . The Pitman arm is a linkage mechanics linkage attached to the steering gear see recirculating ball sector shaft , that converts the angular Motion physics motion of the sector shaft into the linear motion needed to steer the wheel s. The Pitman arm is supported by the sector shaft and supports the drag link or center link with a ball joint . It transmits the motion it receives from the steering box into the drag or center link, causing it to move left or right to turn the wheels in the appropriate direction. The idler arm is attached between the opposite side of the center link from the Pitman arm and the vehicle s frame to hold the center or drag link at the proper height. A worn ball joint can cause Play engineering play in the steering , and may get worse over time. DEFAULTSORT Pitman Arm Category Automotive steering technologies Automotive part stub simple Pitman arm ... more details
This article was auto generated by User Polbot . Taxobox name Pitman s Shrew image status DD status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Mammalia ordo Soricomorpha familia Soricidae genus Crocidura species C. pitmani binomial Crocidura pitmani binomial authority Barclay, 1932 synonyms range map Pitman s Shrew area.png range map caption Pitman s Shrew range The Pitman s Shrew Crocidura pitmani is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family. It is Endemism endemic to Zambia . Source Hutterer, R. 2004. http www.iucnredlist.org search details.php 5637 all Crocidura pitmani . http www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007. Soricomorpha C1. Category Fauna of Zambia Category Crocidura whitetoothed shrew stub ca Musaranya de Pitman es Crocidura pitmani sr Crocidura pitmani ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Pitman Grove nrhp type hd image Pitman Grove Center.JPG caption location Bounded by Holly, East, Laurel, and West Avenues both sides , Pitman, New Jersey lat degrees 39 lat minutes 43 lat seconds 50 lat direction N long degrees 75 long minutes 7 long seconds 58 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin New Jersey architecture Second Empire, Italianate added August 19, 1977 area convert 20 acre governing body Local refnum 77000870 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref designated other1 name New Jersey Register of Historic Places designated other1 abbr NJRHP designated other1 link New Jersey Register of Historic Places designated other1 date July 10, 1976 designated other1 number 1412 ref name NJRHP cite web title New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places Gloucester County url http www.state.nj.us dep hpo 1identify lists gloucester.pdf publisher NJ DEP Historic Preservation Office page 12 date April 1, 2010 accessdate June 16, 2010 ref designated other1 num position bottom designated other1 color ffc94b File Pitman Grove Museum.JPG thumb left upright Pitman Grove Museum File Pitman Grove Street.JPG thumb left upright Houses in Pitman Grove Pitman Grove , is located in Pitman, New Jersey Pitman , New Jersey . The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1977. The Pitman Grove Area is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. It developed from a summer camp meeting at the turn of the century. In the center ... of the town. Today the avenues are actually narrow sidewalks. In 1905, Pitman Grove became the Borough of Pitman. Back then, Pitman was known as a place with no mosquitoes, no malaria and no saloons. To this day, Pitman is a dry town with no liquor stores and no liquor licenses issued. ref name The History of Pitman cite web title Borough of Pitman The History of Pitman url http www.pitman.org page.asp?prmName Pitman 20History publisher Borough of Pitman date December 21, 2010 accessdate ... more details
Infobox cricketer biography playername Raymond Pitman image country England fullname Raymond Walter Charles Pitman nickname dayofbirth 21 monthofbirth 2 yearofbirth 1933 placeofbirth Bartley, Hampshire Bartley , Hampshire countryofbirth England dayofdeath 5 monthofdeath 6 yearofdeath 1998 placeofdeath Rhos on Sea , Denbighshire countryofdeath England heightft heightinch batting Right handed bowling ... http www.cricinfo.com ci content player 18546.html Cricinfo Raymond Walter Charles Pitman 21 February 1933 &ndash 5 June 1998 was an English people English cricketer . Pitman was a right handed batsman cricket batsman who bowled right arm Fast bowling medium fast . Pitman first represented a Hampshire ... , with Pitman playing his last match for the Second XI against Surrey County Cricket Club Surrey Second XI in 1952. Pitman made his first class cricket first class debut for Hampshire County ... in the same season. Pitman played 50 first class matches for Hampshire, with his final match ... Ground Lord s . In Pitman s 50 first class matches he scored just 926 runs at a batting average of 13.61, with just a single half century score of 77. Pitman s medium fast bowling was used rarely, with Pitman taking just a single wicket for the cost of 68 runs. Pitman represented the Hampshire Second ... XI . Following his retirement from cricket, Pitman held a coaching and administrative post at Rydal Penrhos school in Wales . Shortly after Pitman s retirement at the age of 65, he was diagnosed with cancer ... www.cricinfo.com ci content player 18546.html Raymond Pitman at Cricinfo http www.cricketarchive.com Hampshire Players 6 6801 6801.html Raymond Pitman at CricketArchive http www.cricketarchive.com Hampshire Players 6 6801 statistics lists.html Matches and detailed statistics for Raymond Pitman Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Raymond ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE ... 05 PLACE OF DEATH Rhos on Sea , Denbighshire DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Raymond Category 1933 births Category ... more details
Infobox person name Herbert John Bert Pitman image Lightoller and Pitman.jpg caption Pitman, left, with Second ... , England Herbert John Bert Pitman MBE 20 November 1877 2 December 1961 was the Third Officer on board ... . Early life and career Pitman was born in the village of Sutton Montis near Castle Cary , Somerset , England . He was the son of farmer Henry Pitman and his wife, Sarah Marchant Pitman. After Henry s death in 1880, Sarah remarried to Charles Candy. In 1881, a census shows the young Pitman was living on convert 112 acre km2 abbr on farm on Sutton Road with his brother, sister, and widowed mother. Pitman ... . Titanic Like the other junior officers, Pitman received a telegram early in 1912 directing him ..., Pitman was assisting now First Officer Murdoch at the stern of the ship in supervising the casting off of mooring ropes and taking on of tug lines. While the Titanic was at sea, Pitman s duties included ... s collision with the iceberg , Pitman was off duty, half sleeping in his bunk in the Officers ... him they had struck an iceberg and were taking on water. Pitman was then ordered to report to the starboard ... the boats, Murdoch ordered Pitman to take charge of lifeboat No. 5. Before entering the lifeboat, Officer Murdoch shook Pitman s hand saying, Goodbye good luck. With Murdoch s utter seriousness, Pitman thought for the first time that night that the Titanic was really going to sink. Pitman stepped into the lifeboat and it was lowered to the water. Murdoch had ordered Pitman to take the lightly loaded lifeboat to the gangway doors to take on more passengers, but finding the doors shut, Pitman moved the lifeboat away from the ship. Up to this point, Pitman had expected the ship to remain afloat .... Hearing the screams of those in the water, Pitman immediately decided to row back and rescue whomever he could. However, the others in his lifeboat were fearful of being mobbed and capsized, and Pitman .... Pitman was rescued by the RMS Carpathia along with the other survivors, arriving at Pier 54 in New ... more details
MC Pitman is a rapper and hip hop producer from Coalville , Leicestershire , UK . MC Pitman is the alter ego of Styly Cee, a former Pirate Radio DJ based in Nottingham . Prior to creating Pitman, he was member of Lost Island, with another rapper called Frisco. Pitman s music is a combination of American style hip hop production, combined with humorous and satirical lyrics. He speaks with a prominent East Midlands English accent. Amongst his targets are UK group The Streets , pop rap and Tony Blair . He styles himself as a coal miner , and appears on stage and in videos dressed in a British Coal jacket, a hard hat with a lamp and a flask of tea. His face is often covered in coal dust. Discography Albums It Takes A Nation of Tossers , Son Records, 2003 Pit Closure , Son Records, 2004 The Dirty Helmet Sessions , Son Records, 2008 Singles Phone Pitman 2 7 , Son Records, 2002 Witness The Pitness 7 , Son Records, 2002 It Takes Tea 7 , Son Records, 2003 Music Maker 7 , Son Records, 2007 External links http www.pitmanworld.com Pitman World Official website http www.sonrecords.com Son Records http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi programmes the state were in 2967871.stm BBC article Category Living people Category English rappers hiphop bio stub ... more details
Image Isaac Pitman.jpg thumb upright Isaac Pitman Sir Isaac Pitman January 4, 1813 &ndash January 12, 1897 , knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand , known now as Pitman shorthand . He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton under Edge . He was also the vice president of the Vegetarian Society . Biography He was born in Trowbridge , Wiltshire in England . In the 1851 census he appears in Bath, Somerset Bath aged 38, living with his wife, Mary, aged 58, born in Newark on Trent , Nottinghamshire . He married Isabella Masters in 1861, and he appears in the 1871 census, aged 58, with his new wife Isabella, aged 46. In the 1881 census he is listed as Eisak Pitman given his occupation, the phonetic spelling is interesting. In the 1891 census he is again listed as Isaac, but his birthplace has moved to Bath. Isaac Pitman was fervently Swedenborgianism Swedenborgian . Not only .... In 1837 Isaac Pitman first published his system of phonetic shorthand, in a pamphlet entitled ... , and Swedenborg s Rules of Life . Pitman was active in the local The New Church New Church congregation ... in service to God and duty to man. In about 1837 Pitman discontinued the use of all alcoholic ... hours. Pitman founded Pitman Training, a company which he established as colleges to provide training ... and internationally offering 125 courses. Isaac Pitman is the grandfather of Sir James Pitman ... eb article 9060218 Pitman, Sir Isaac 2007 . In Encyclop dia Britannica. Retrieved February 12, 2007 ... Persondata . NAME Pitman, Isaac ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1813 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1897 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Isaac Category ... from Trowbridge Category Christian vegetarians de Isaac Pitman es Isaac Pitman fr Isaac Pitman pt Isaac Pitman fi Isaac Pitman ur ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 File Jim pitman.jpg frame right Photo Sir Isaac James Pitman , Order of the British Empire KBE 14 August 1901 &ndash 1 September 1985 was a United Kingdom British businessman, civil servant , publisher, politician and spelling reformer. Sir James was vitally concerned with the teaching of children to write the English language. His analysis of the teaching of handwriting to students, both in school by professional teachers, and at home by parents has several strong pedagogical theories in its intellectual background. Along with his analysis Pitman created a system of spelling that allows students to spell as words are pronounced according to an alternative orthography ..., where it is more widely accessible to Internet users. Overall, the Pitman initial teaching alphabet ... in regard the writing of their own tongue some two decades ago. Pitman was the son of Ernest Pitman and grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman , who developed the most widely used system of shorthand , known now as Pitman Shorthand . James Pitman was to become chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press and Pitman Publishing . Pitman was educated at Summer Fields School , Eton College and Christ ... union which he also played for England against Scotland . In 1934 he became chairman of Sir Isaac Pitman ... Teaching Alphabet Foundation. During World War II Pitman was a Squadron Leader in the RAFVR. He ... , Pitman was elected as Conservative Party UK Conservative Member of Parliament MP for Bath UK Parliament ... Society Simplified Spelling Society . Pitman retired from Parliament in 1964. He continued to serve ... of Bath 1972 81 and ensured that the Pitman papers would reside with the University. Pitman married ... and had three sons and a daughter. External links Hansard contribs sir isaac pitman James Pitman ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, James Category 1901 births Category 1985 ... more details
Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Pitman symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research Team discovery site Socorro, New Mexico Socorro discovered April 20, 1998 designations yes mp name 17832 alt names 1998 HV39 mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 3.0015937 perihelion 2.8116529 semimajor eccentricity 0.0326738 period 1810.0124458 avg speed inclination 3.00966 asc node 50.45866 mean anomaly 90.70631 arg peri 69.81540 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 14.1 17832 Pitman 1998 HV39 is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on April 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico Socorro . References Reflist External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 17832 Pitman JPL Small Body Database Browser on 17832 Pitman DEFAULTSORT Pitman Category Main Belt asteroids Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1998 beltasteroid stub fa it 17832 Pitman pl 17832 Pitman pt 17832 Pitman ... more details
Richard Pitman , is a retired jump jockey who rode 470 winners in his career including Lanzarote in the 1974 Champion Hurdle and 4000 losers including Crisp horse Crisp in the 1973 Grand National . He also won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse twice, the Bet365 Gold Cup Whitbread Gold Cup once and the Hennessy Gold Cup once. He joined the BBC TV racing team in 1976. As an author he has written seven racing novels and five non fiction books. He was formerly married to Jenny Pitman , they divorced in 1977. External links http news.bbc.co.uk sport1 hi other sports horse racing 2888811.stm Grand National guide by Pitman on BBC Online http www.dailymail.co.uk pages live articles sport horseracing.html?in article id 440260&in page id 1967 Daily Mail article Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Richard Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category English jockeys Category British horse racing writers and broadcasters England sport bio stub horseracing bio stub ... more details
Infobox musical artist Name Chris Pitman Img Img capt Background solo singer Born birth date and age ..., Replicants band Replicants , ZAUM , Tool band Tool , Blinker the Star Chris Pitman born November ... instrumentalist , Pitman is known to play Keyboard instrument keyboard s, guitar and Drum kit drums , in addition to his role as a Lead vocalist lead or backing vocalist . Pitman currently fronts ... as Lusk, Replicants band Replicants and Tool band Tool . Pitman studied at the Art Institute of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City and the University of Missouri . In 1993, Pitman worked with the controversial artist Les Levine . The following year, Pitman worked with Dr. Dre in Dre s home studio ... on the album Bourgeois Kitten by Blinker the Star . Pitman was co founder of Los Angeles based art ... be imported. This work has been in progress since 2003. Guns N Roses In early 1998 Pitman joined Guns ... Pitman plays mostly keyboards and sub bass as well as programming and background vocals, he plays ... track Silkworms which Pitman confirmed that it s just a demo that didn t make the cut on the album. Pitman has performed live with Guns N Roses ever since their comeback concert in January 2001 and alongside ... Pitman has collaborated with a number of well known acts, as well as founding a number of experimental ... by Pitman, Ken Andrews , Greg Edwards, and Paul D amour. ZAUM guitar, electronics, and lead vocals with Danny Carey of Tool, and Marko Fox of SexTapesTM. Tool band Tool BMG Zoo In 1994 95, Pitman ... Wheeler, Marko Fox, and Ryan Brown starting in 2006. Guns N Roses In 1998, Pitman joined this hard rock band as songwriter, co producer, and instrumentalist. Workshop projects Pitman has also done sound ... 1998 end box Guns N Roses Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Chris ALTERNATIVE ... OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Chris Category Guns N Roses members Category Replicants band members Category ... Pitman cs Chris Pitman de Chris Pitman es Chris Pitman fr Chris Pitman it Chris Pitman no Chris Pitman ... more details
BLP sources date December 2010 Matt Pitman is an United States American public address announcer for the WNBA s Women s National Basketball Association Seattle Storm . Pitman is also a broadcaster with KIRO AM in Seattle , Washington U.S. state Washington . He has worked at KIRO covering all Seattle area sports, as well as serving on the pre and post game broadcasts of the Seattle Mariners radio network, since 2003. Pitman has served as the Key Arena voice for the Sonics since the 2004 05 NBA season until the Sonics relocation after the 2007 08 NBA season , replacing longtime announcer Jim Graci. In May 2006, he was hired to be the arena voice for the Storm. ref cite news url http www.oursportscentral.com services releases ?id 3305456 title Seattle Storm hire Matt Pitman as new in arena public address announcer date May 4, 2006 publisher OurSports Central accessdate December 20, 2010 ref References reflist External links http www.insidehoops.com sonics announcer 090204.shtml Pitman s hiring with Seattle Sonics Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Matt ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Matt Category Living people Category American sports announcers Category Seattle SuperSonics Category NBA public address announcers ... more details
Orphan date December 2010 Mount Pitman coor dm 70 9 S 67 42 W is a mountain with two mainly ice covered, dome shaped summits, the higher and northern rising to 1,830 m, standing 9 nautical miles 17 km inland from George VI Sound , between Riley and Chapman Glaciers on the west coast of Palmer Land . First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition BGLE under Rymill. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC in 1954 for E.L. Pitman , an airplane carpenter of Byfleet, Surrey, who made the sledges used by the BGLE, 1934 37, introducing important new elements into the design of the Nansen type sledge. usgs gazetteer Category Mountains of Antarctica Pitman, Mount WAntarctica geo stub ... more details
For the geophysicist Walter C. Pitman, III Walter George Pitman , Order of Canada OC , Order of Ontario O.Ont born May 18, 1929 is an educator and former politician in Ontario , Canada . Born in Toronto, Ontario , he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1952 and a Master of Arts postgraduate Master of Arts in 1954 from the University of Toronto . His victory in a federal by election held in Peterborough, Ontario in 1960 as a candidate for the New Party Canada New Party was a significant catalyst in the movement to refound the social democracy social democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation as the New Democratic Party NDP . Pitman was a high school teacher when he was nominated by Peterborough ... in Peterborough. As a New Party candidate, however, Pitman won over 13,000 votes, beating his nearest opponent by more than 3,000 votes. Pitman not only won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons but his ... federal election, 1957 1957 and Canadian federal election, 1958 1958 elections . Pitman s victory ... Democratic Party. Despite Pitman s new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the Canadian ... 1967 Ontario provincial election , Pitman won the Peterborough seat for the Ontario New Democratic Party . As a Member of Provincial Parliament Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament MPP , Pitman unsuccessfully ... defeat, Pitman returned to education as director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education ... . Dr. Robert Gardner recalls Professor Pitman s leadership years at Ryerson University. He was universally ... most enduring legacy. Pitman is also a former president of the Canadian Civil Liberties ... Pitman, MPP Parliamentary History s start s par ca s bef before Gordon Knapman Fraser s ttl title Member ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Walter ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Walter Category 1929 births Category ... Category University of Toronto alumni fr Walter Pitman ... more details
Infobox Writing system name Pitman shorthand type Borderline abugida abjad typedesc shorthand creator Isaac Pitman time 1837 present languages English language English children Pitman s New Era br Pitman s 2000 sample Pitman.png Pitman shorthand is a system of shorthand for the English language developed by English people Englishman Isaac Pitman Sir Isaac Pitman 1813 1897 , who first presented it in 1837. ref cite book title Pitman s Shorthand Instructor A Complete Exposition of Sir Isaac Pitman s System of Shorthand publisher Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd location Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ... the centenary of the system of shorthand invented by Sir Isaac Pitman, who, in 1837, published ... s. ref As of 1996 , Pitman shorthand was the most popular shorthand system used in the United Kingdom ..., p. 811. ISBN 0 19 507993 0. ref One characteristic feature of Pitman shorthand is that unvoiced and voiced ... s are now more commonly used. ref Pitman shorthand uses straight strokes and quarter circle ... sound before or after the R. There have been several versions of Pitman s shorthand since 1837. The original Pitman s shorthand had an alphabet of consonants which was later modified. Additional modifications and rules were added to successive versions. Pitman New Era 1922 1975 had the most developed set of rules and abbreviation lists. Pitman 2000 1975 present introduced some simplifications ... straight stroke are present in Pitman s New Era, but not in Pitman s 2000. History Pitman was asked ... system. The first phonetics phonetician to invent a system of shorthand, Pitman used similar looking ... , as in thigh , as in thy . Pitman s brother Benjamin Pitman settled in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States, and introduced Pitman s system there. He used it in the 1865 67 trial of the conspirators ... Pitman brother, Jacob Pitman Jacob . Jacob Pitman is buried in Sydney s Rookwood Necropolis , in Australia ... 2002 ref blockquote IN MUVING MEMERI OV JACOB PITMAN, BORN NOV. 28, 1810 TROWBRIDGE ENGLAND, SETELD ... more details
Michael George Pitman Order of the British Empire OBE 7 February 1933 30 March 2000 was an English born Australia n biologist, who was Office of the Chief Scientist Australia Chief Scientist of Australia from 1992 to 1996. Early life Pitman was born in 1933, at the family home in Bristol , England to Percy George Pitman a butcher and Norma Ethel n e Payne a milliner . His family lived in Bedminster, Bristol Bedminster where Michael attended Southville Primary School in an adjacent suburb. When World War II began, Michael and his mother and brother lived in the village of East Harptree which was relatively safer from the threat of German bombs. Returning to Bedminster, Michael attended Colston s School as his father and grandfather had, although the family s financial circumstances required him to qualify for a scholarship to attend Colston s. Whilst attending a Christian student conference in 1951, he met his future wife, Maureen Room, with whom he corresponded while attending university and whom he married in 1955. ref name aas http www.science.org.au academy memoirs pitman2.htm Biographical Memoirs Michael George Pitman 1933 2000 , Australian Academy of Science . ref University education and academic career Whilst attending Colston s School, Pitman had achieved high marks in science ... aas In 1962, Dr. Pitman was offered a job as a lecturer at the University of Adelaide in South Australia ... in Australia very enjoyable, and when Pitman was offered the position of Professor of Biology ... permanently. ref name aas Organisational career In 1983, Dr. Pitman retired from the University ... Pitman, Michael George 1933 2000 , Bright Sparcs University of Melbourne , 10 September 2004. ref In 1992, Pitman was made the second Office of the Chief Scientist Australia Chief Scientist of Australia ... Pitman, Michael ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 7 February 1933 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 30 March 2000 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Michael Category Australian people of English ... more details
Kent M. Pitman is the President of http www.hypermeta.com HyperMeta, Inc. and has been involved for many years in the design, implementation and use of Lisp programming language Lisp and Scheme programming language Scheme systems. He is often better known by his initials KMP. Kent Pitman is the author of the Common Lisp Other types Common Lisp Exception handling Condition systems Condition System ref http www.cs.cmu.edu Groups AI html cltl clm node312.html Guy L. Steele Jr., Common Lisp the Language , 2nd ed., Chapter 29 ref as well as of numerous papers on Lisp programming language Lisp programming and computer programming in general. He was a technical contributor to X3J13 , the American National Standards Institute ANSI subcommittee that standardized Common Lisp and contributed to the design of the programming language. He prepared the document that became ANSI Common Lisp , the http www.lisp.org HyperSpec FrontMatter index.html Common Lisp HyperSpec a hypertext conversion of the standard , and the document that became International Organization for Standardization ISO ISLISP . Kent champions a new paradigm for standards called http www.substandards.org Substandards as a background task, he s working on a prototype, but because of his busy work schedule he has not yet deployed it. Kent Pitman is also the author of http www.anotherwayout.com Another Way Out , a parody of the CBS Daytime series The Young and the Restless . He can often be found on the Usenet newsgroup tt comp.lang.lisp tt , ref http groups.google.com groups?q author 3AKent author 3APitman group 3Acomp.lang.lisp&start 0&scoring d Google Groups list of Kent Pitman s posts ref where he contributes not only expertise in Lisp and computer programming, but also an authoritative perspective on Lisp s evolution ... kent index.html Personal website Category Lisp programming language Pitman, Kent tr Kent Pitman ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2010 Pitman, Pennsylvania is a small valley located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Schuylkill County in the northwest of central Pennsylvania , United States . The valley s economy is mainly agriculture. Hospitals, schools, and the local business, Maussers Produce, are all major employers in the area. Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania geo stub coord 40 42 54 N 76 31 15 W type city region US PA source GNIS enwiki display title Category Populated places in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania ... more details
Refimprove date August 2007 Andrew Pitman is an atmospheric scientist who was born in Bristol in 1964 and educated at Liverpool University B.Sc. Hons and Ph.D. . He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership Higher Education from Macquarie University . In 2002 became a Professor at Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia , moving to University of New South Wales in 2007. He is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council s Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. He won the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society s Priestly Medal for excellence in Atmospheric Science Research in 2004 and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Medal in 2009. He contributed to the Copenhagen Diagnosis which was shortlisted for a 2010 Eureka Prize and won the 2010 Future Justice Prize. He won the New South Wales NSW Climate Scientist of the year in 2010. Current Research Interests Pitman has recently been working on coupled carbon modules for climate models including dynamic vegetation, how vegetation responds to increasing carbon dioxide and how uncertain our projections of the future might be given instability in terrestrial carbon storage. He has also explored the global and regional impacts of land cover change. He has interests in climate extremes and how these are likely to change in the future. Current Positions Held Pitman currently ... Centre. Pitman also served as a Category IPCC lead authors lead author of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental ... assessment. Selected publications cite journal quotes last Pitman first A. J. authorlink coauthors ... laydate quote cite journal quotes last Pitman first A. J. coauthors A. Henderson Sellers, C .... Zhang, T. B. Durbidge and A. J. Pitman date year 1995 month April title Global climate sensitivity ... coauthors R. E. Dickinson, T. B. Durbidge, P. J. Kennedy, K. Mcguffie and A. J. Pitman date ... accessdate 2008 07 28 laysummary laysource laydate quote References references DEFAULTSORT Pitman ... more details
Jenny Pitman born 11 June 1946 ref name autobio ISBN1852252545 Jenny Pitman, The Autobiography ref ref http www.bbc.co.uk radio4 womanshour timeline jenny pitman.shtml BBC info on Pitman ref is a former United Kingdom British racehorse Horse trainer trainer and author . She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner, when Corbiere won the race in 1983. She went on to win a second Grand National with Royal Athlete in 1995. Following her retirement from horse training in 1998 she became a writer of novels, principally with a racing theme. Childhood Pitman was born as Jenny Harvey on her family s farm near Hoby with Rotherby Hoby , Leicestershire , one of seven children. She was brought up assisting in manual farm work, where horse powered equipment was a novelty, and learned to ride a pony so young that being on horseback seemed as natural as walking . In 1957 she left the Hoby village school to attend Sarson Secondary Modern Girls School in Melton Mowbray . She sustained a fractured skull when a showjumping pole fell on her head during a gymkhana at Syston, it was many months ... holiday job at Brooksby Grange horse racing yard. ref name autobio Pitman left school two weeks before ... Adult life Pitman worked at Bishop s Cleeve for two years. One day there, she was returning from a workout ... fast and on the wrong side of the road. The cyclist in question was jockey Richard Pitman . Jenny s initial ..., she married Richard Pitman. In August 1966, their son Mark Pitman was born and Jenny became a full ... struggled to live in an unheated caravan. By the end of 1968 Pitman had 8 horses at the yard. With Richard ... 1974, Pitman was able to enter a horse she had trained in her first point to point race. Ridden ... to son, Mark. Pitman was the first winner of the Helen Rollason award at the BBC Sports Personality ... Grand National World Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pitman, Jenny ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT Pitman, Jenny Category 1946 births Category Living people Category British horse trainers ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
