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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 00:23, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

High decline
Delete - neologism, dicdef at best. FreplySpang (talk) 01:04, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - agree. original research --Anonymous Cow 01:12, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism, dictionary definition. Megan1967 08:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I concur. --Coolcaesar 19:16, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Whatever you may think about Waterworld, it doesn't seem to meet the stated criteria.  RickK 23:03, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dicdef. Wmahan. 04:22, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
 * Transwikied This belongs in Wiktionary. It is a useful term and totally removing it seems to be a waste, unless of course it's already in Wiktionary. --Fritz9000 07:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User:Gliukozka

Hi! I'm GliuKoZka. My nickname comes from the Russian pop group Gliukoza, although there is nothing in common. I was born in Moscow, which back then was USSR, and now is simply Russia, and I currently reside in Virginia, United States. I lived in Genoa, Italy, for several years and I've seen a lot of Europe. I've traveled a lot so I know some foreign languages: Russian, Italian, English, and Fench--now I'm working on my German. Among my passions: computers, Internet, computer games, travel, and listening to music.

I guess what I'm good at is languages, so I try to focus more on articles related to languages and international issues.

My modest accomplishments so far:
I went to Virginia's Governor's French Academy for the summer of 2004.

Hmmm this is it I think ;^_^;;

--Gliukozka 01:06, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Bob Kurtz (animator)

Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute. He has taught at the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.

Director / writer / designer / producer

 * Harold And His Amazing Green Plants (1984)

sequences theaterical feature films
 * Max Dugan Returns (1983)
 * Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (You & Me animation sequence)
 * City Slickers (1991) (also for City Slickers II)
 * Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992)
 * Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
 * Straight Talk (1992)
 * Jurassic Park (1993) ("Mr. DNA" animated sequences)
 * City Slickers II (1994)
 * Four Rooms (1995)
 * George of the Jungle (1997)
 * Minority Report (2002) ("Pine & Oats" animated sequence)
 * The Pink Panther (2006)
 * Are We Done Yet? (2007)
 * Gambitt (2012)

Other
 * The Way Things Work (3D-3 screen experience at Sony's Metreon)
 * Chevron ("Dinosaur" commercial)
 * Clubhouse (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
 * Junior (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
 * Sesame Street ("My Various Me's", "Lincoln Park Zoo", and "More Moths" animated sequences)
 * Schoolhouse Rock! Earth ("Tiny Urban Zoo" scene)

TV
 * The Roman City (1994 TV movie) (animated version of the David Macaulay book) (Best Primetime Animation Emmy)
 * Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël (1996, TV movie) (Lily Tomlin special) (Peabody Award winner)
 * Carlin on Campus (1984) ("Drawing on My Mind" animated sequences)

Awards
Winner of over 250 major awards including:
 * Peabody Award
 * Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, 1994
 * Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991
 * Clio Awards
 * International Festival of Short Films - Annecy, France
 * U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York
 * Ottawa/Hamilton Canadian International Animation Festival
 * Chicago International Film Festival
 * Society of Illustrators - New York
 * London Television Advertising Awards
 * Andy Awards
 * Telly Awards

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System equivalence

In the systems sciences system equivalence is the behavior of a parameter or component of a system in a way similar to a parameter or component of a different system. Similarity means that mathematically the parameters and components will be indistinguishable from each other. Equivalence can be very useful in understanding how complex systems work.

Overview
Examples of equivalent systems are first- and second-order (in the independent variable) translational, electrical, torsional, fluidic, and caloric systems.

Equivalent systems can be used to change large and expensive mechanical, thermal, and fluid systems into a simple, cheaper electrical system. Then the electrical system can be analyzed to validate that the system dynamics will work as designed. This is a preliminary inexpensive way for engineers to test that their complex system performs the way they are expecting.

This testing is necessary when designing new complex systems that have many components. Businesses do not want to spend millions of dollars on a system that does not perform the way that they were expecting. Using the equivalent system technique, engineers can verify and prove to the business that the system will work. This lowers the risk factor that the business is taking on the project.

The following is a chart of equivalent variables for the different types of systems:

 * {| class="wikitable"

! System type ! Flow variable ! Effort variable ! Compliance ! Inductance ! Resistance qv = volume flow rate
 * Mechanical
 * dx/dt
 * F = force
 * spring (k)
 * mass (m)
 * damper (c)
 * Electrical
 * i = current
 * V = voltage
 * capacitance (C)
 * inductance (L)
 * resistance (R)
 * Thermal
 * qh = heat flow rate
 * ∆T = change in temperature
 * object (C)
 * inductance (L)
 * conduction and convection (R)
 * Fluid
 * qm = mass flow rate,
 * conduction and convection (R)
 * Fluid
 * qm = mass flow rate,
 * qm = mass flow rate,
 * p = pressure, h = height
 * tank (C)
 * mass (m)
 * valve or orifice (R)
 * }

 * Flow variable: moves through the system
 * Effort variable: puts the system into action
 * Compliance: stores energy as potential
 * Inductance: stores energy as kinetic
 * Resistance: dissipates or uses energy

The equivalents shown in the chart are not the only way to form mathematical analogies. In fact there are any number of ways to do this. A common requirement for analysis is that the analogy correctly models energy storage and flow across energy domains. To do this, the equivalences must be compatible. A pair of variables whose product is power (or energy) in one domain must be equivalent to a pair of variables in the other domain whose product is also power (or energy). These are called power conjugate variables. The thermal variables shown in the chart are not power conjugates and thus do not meet this criterion. See mechanical–electrical analogies for more detailed information on this. Even specifying power conjugate variables does not result in a unique analogy and there are at least three analogies of this sort in use. At least one more criterion is needed to uniquely specify the analogy, such as the requirement that impedance is equivalent in all domains as is done in the impedance analogy.

Examples

 * Mechanical systems
 * Force $$F = -kx = c\frac{dx}{dt} = m\frac{d^2x}{dt^2}$$

 * Electrical systems
 * Voltage $$V = \frac{Q}{C} = R\frac{dQ}{dt} = L\frac{d^2Q}{dt^2}$$

All the fundamental variables of these systems have the same functional form.

Discussion
The system equivalence method may be used to describe systems of two types: "vibrational" systems (which are thus described - approximately - by harmonic oscillation) and "translational" systems (which deal with "flows"). These are not mutually exclusive; a system may have features of both. Similarities also exist; the two systems can often be analysed by the methods of Euler, Lagrange and Hamilton, so that in both cases the energy is quadratic in the relevant degree(s) of freedom, provided they are linear.

Vibrational systems are often described by some sort of wave (partial differential) equation, or oscillator (ordinary differential) equation. Furthermore, these sorts of systems follow the capacitor or spring analogy, in the sense that the dominant degree of freedom in the energy is the generalized position. In more physical language, these systems are predominantly characterised by their potential energy. This often works for solids, or (linearized) undulatory systems near equilibrium.

On the other hand, flow systems may be easier described by the hydraulic analogy or the diffusion equation. For example, Ohm's law was said to be inspired by Fourier's law (as well as the work of C.-L. Navier). Other laws include Fick's laws of diffusion and generalized transport problems. The most important idea is the flux, or rate of transfer of some important physical quantity considered (like electric or magnetic fluxes). In these sorts of systems, the energy is dominated by the derivative of the generalized position (generalized velocity). In physics parlance, these systems tend to be kinetic energy-dominated. Field theories, in particular electromagnetism, draw heavily from the hydraulic analogy.

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King's Meadow Campus

King's Meadow Campus is a university campus, which is part of the University of Nottingham, and is in Nottingham. From 1983 until 2005, the complex was an ITV studio complex called East Midlands Television Centre and later The Television House and Carlton Studios.

History
As part of the agreement of the 1982 franchise being awarded to the broadcaster, Associated Television (ATV) agreed to restructure itself as Central Independent Television and provide separate television studios and news programme for the East Midlands region, a 17-acre site was bought in March 1981. While the complex was under construction, a temporary studio was set up in Giltbrook although this was never used because of industrial action at the time. The cost of the build (called the East Midland Television Centre) was £21 million. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Thomson, the chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), on 23 February 1982.

Central Independent Television began operation in the complex in September 1983, but was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip in March 1984. It was designed to be spacious and provide the facility to extend if so required – and provide adequate floor-space for the major production work that was once carried out at Elstree Centre, as well as provide additional small presentation studios, plus a new permanent base for Central News East.

Originally there were three studios. The first one to be completed was first used on 4 November 1983. The other two were completed by 1 January 1984, just over two months before the official opening by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 2 March 1984. Although the site covered 17 acres, the actual studio buildings only covered five acres. At its peak, the studio employed 600 staff.

It was decided to maintain continuity with its operations in Birmingham, (Studio 1–4 were in Broad Street) which resulted in the Nottingham Studios being numbered 5–10.

 * Studio Five, used for local news bulletins (not the main programme) and in-vision continuity when that still existed.
 * Studio Six was a medium-sized studio with an audience capacity of 100.
 * Studios Seven and Eight were the two biggest studios. They each had an audience capacity of 500. These two studios covered 10,000 square feet each.
 * Studio Nine, was used for Central News
 * Studio Ten (added in the 1990s)

The studio complex featured a music recording studio, a small continuity announcement studio, and four electronic-news-gathering suites. A post-production area that was the first in the country to contain computer-based video editing suites. A sound department with 24-track recording and multiple cartridge machine. In 1994, Central Independent Television, along with the studios were taken over by Carlton Television.

From 1996, a section of the prop store was converted to make way for the programme library, which had recently moved over from Birmingham. This area eventually took up a total of three floors – one section dedicated to News material and the two remaining spaces allocated to network programme material.

By 2000, yet more alterations at the Studios were made to accommodate what was to be the final major ITV production from the studios: the revived version of Crossroads, which went on air in March 2001 and ran until May 2003. The show used the exterior of the Carlton Studios, by having a purpose-built canopy constructed, a pond and also extra landscaping which doubled as motel exteriors. Inside, the music studio was the first to go, along with a small portion of the props store – that in the end was converted into extra studio space for additional bedrooms and suites for the show.

By 2003, all production work at the studios was dwindling as ITV was undergoing major changes. Some floor space was hired out to the BBC on odd occasions. But ITV had decided to wind down operations and sell the complex, which created controversy amongst the 200 strong workforce at the studio, the Journalists Union the NUJ, and 27 local MPs who signed a petition to keep the studios open.

The idea was to relocate the Central News – East operation to a new purpose-built office and studio in Chilwell, on the outskirts of Nottingham. This new office opened in February 2005 – named Terry Lloyd House after the ATV/Central/ITN Reporter who was killed while covering events in Iraq in 2003. This is only a regional office and Central News – East is broadcast from Birmingham.

In February 2004, ITV plc announced plans to close and sell the Lenton Lane production centre in Nottingham with over 350 jobs being axed in the process. Following the closure of the studios, a new news-gathering centre was established in the city, but production and transmission of Central News East moved to the Birmingham studio in spring 2005. It still maintains one studio (Studio 7), and this is rented out to television and film companies, generating income for the University.

Production and broadcasting of the East Midlands edition of Central News was moved to Gas Street Studios in Birmingham.

The complex was renamed "King's Meadow Campus" in 2005, and now houses the University of Nottingham's Manuscripts and Special Collections, in which the University has been collecting since the early 1930s. The original staff canteen and most of the floor-space in the studios has been converted to office and lecture space. In 2007, the campus opened a fitness centre called "King's Meadow Campus Fitness Centre".

In June 2018, Heart Church began using Studio 7 for their Sunday services.

Productions

 * A Word in Your Ear (1993–1995)
 * Barbara (1995–2003)
 * Beat the Nation (2004)
 * Blockbusters (1984–1989, 1990–1995)
 * Bob's Your Uncle (1991–1992)
 * Body Heat (1994–1996)
 * Bullseye (1990–1995)
 * Bunny and the Bull (2009)
 * Catchphrase (1997–2002)
 * Celebrity Squares (1993–1995)
 * Control (2007)
 * Crazy Cottage (1996–1998)
 * Crossroads (2001–2003)
 * Doctors and Nurses (2004)
 * Family Fortunes (1990–2002)
 * Freddie Starr (1993–1994)
 * Goal III: Taking on the World (2009)
 * Harry's Mad (1993–1996)
 * Jeopardy! (1995–1996)
 * Kiss Me Kate (1998–2000)
 * Mad for It (1998–2000)
 * Midas Touch (1995–1996)
 * Married for Life (1996)
 * Outside Edge (1994–1996)
 * Pot of Gold (1993–1995)
 * The Price Is Right (1984–1988)
 * Q-Asia (1996–1999)
 * Spitting Image (1985–1996)
 * Supermarket Sweep (1993–2001)
 * Turner Round the World (1997)
 * The Upper Hand (1990–1996)
 * Wise Up (1995–2000)

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Mountain Top Arboretum

Mountain Top Arboretum (178 acres), located in Tannersville, New York, United States is located in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Mountain Top Arboretum is a public garden dedicated to displaying and managing native plant communities of the northeastern US, in addition to curating its collection of cold-hardy native and exotic trees. Its mountain top elevation of 2,400 feet at the top of the New York City Watershed creates a unique environment for education, research and pure enjoyment of the spectacular and historic Catskills landscape. The Arboretum trails and boardwalks connect 178 acres of plant collections, meadows, wetlands, forest and Devonian bedrock—a natural sanctuary for visitors interested in horticulture, birding, geology, local craftsmanship, hiking and snowshoeing. Its founders, the Ahrens family, designed and planted a seven-acre mountain top area starting in 1977, to display the range of native and exotic trees and shrubs that successfully adapt to the rigorous climate at 2,400 feet elevation. There are twenty three acres of displays in three distinct areas: the West Meadow, the Woodland Walk, and the East Meadow, and a 163-acre wild forest and wetland area called Spruce Glen which has trails along a fen, bogs, old growth hemlocks and mixed hardwood forest. The Arboretum is home to a wide range of mammals and amphibians. Over 70 species of birds can be seen and heard throughout the various habitats found throughout the Arboretum.

The Arboretum currently contains 50 species of conifers, and many species of oak, maple, rowan, hawthorn, Rhododendron, Kalmia, and wildflowers. Other plantings include Turkish Fir, weeping katsura, Japanese Larch, Dawn Redwood, Bald cypress, Incense-cedar, Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine, goldenseal, ginseng, maidenhair fern, Hepatica, blue cohosh, flowering crabapples, fantail pussy willows, ash, viburnum, lilac, fringe tree, Fothergilla, daylilies, Clethra, Stewartia, bottlebrush buckeye, American holly, beeches and bayberry.

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Talk:Expo 2005

Dual license
For the record, Calton's edit has incorporated some content written by me on Wikitravel, which does not use GFDL. But to prevent unnecessary hassle I'll hereby dual-license it as GFDL. Jpatokal 05:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Needs major additions on controversies
I know that there were charges by local NGOs that the Expo organizers were running roughshod over both local ecosystems and small communities, especially in the Kaisho Forest. There was, I believe, even talk that the Expo was being used by as a Trojan Horse to develop Kaisho Forest.

I am not the person to add this content, since I am currently on short-term contract by the Expo Organizing Committee. I actually came across the aforementioned controversy while doing online research for the job. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wintersmith (talk • contribs).

And how does the Expo 2005 look today?
Should add information on how the area looks today! Is there anything to see today (2006)? Are the building standing? Is the area open or closed? Is it still interesting? That kind of information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.62.243.136 (talk • contribs).

Why more Expos?
''"Theme The theme of the Expo is "Nature's Wisdom", with national and corporate pavilions expressing themes of ecological co-existence, renewable technology, and the wonders of nature. In Japanese, this is rendered as Ai-chikyūhaku (愛・地球博), which means (roughly) "Love the Earth Expo". According to the official website:

We must come together and share our experience and wisdom, in order to create a new direction for humanity which is both sustainable and harmonious with nature."''

No wonder World's Fairs generate no enthusiasm these days!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.79.37 (talk) 20:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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File:Enough nightscene.jpg

This picture depicts how movie makers make a complicated night scene. As you can see from this picture taken in Gig Harbor, WA., it takes different kinds of lights. This picture was taken on June 18th, 2001 on the set of 'Enough.'

Source: Brandon Wholey, 2001.

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Ainu

Ainu or Aynu may refer to:
 * Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East
 * Ainu languages, a family of languages
 * Ainu language of Hokkaido
 * Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands
 * Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct language from the island of Sakhalin
 * Ainu music
 * Ainu cuisine
 * Ainu (Middle-earth), spirit in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
 * Ainu (insect), a beetle in the family Tenebrionidae
 * Äynu people, of Western China
 * Äynu language

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Eziowelle

Eziowelle is a town in Idemili North local government area of Anambra State, Nigeria. Eziowelle translates into English as 'a good place'. It is an agrarian community lying about twenty-three kilometers east of Onitsha. The Vatican Cardinal Francis Arinze is a native of Ezoiwelle. Eziowelle is in Idemili North Local Government Area.Historically, Eziowelle, Nimo Owelle,Abagana and Abba; all in Njikoka local government except for Eziowelle are siblings. Eziowelle is the first son of Owelle and is followed by Nimo,then Abagana and Abba being the last child. Their father was Owelle hence Eziowelle and Nimo Owelle bore their father's name while others still do but it's more pronounced in EziOwelle and Nimo Owelle than others. It has boundaries with Abatete, Abacha, Nimo Owelle, Abagana, Ogidi, and Umunachi. Eziowelle is made up of five villages which are Umuikwele, Umunnama, Ezinimo, Okpaliko, and Ubulu. According to Peter Emelumgini, in his book, A Compendium Knowledge of Eziowelle, "the first people to settle in Eziowelle were the Uruojukwu and Uruogbuefi of Umuikwelle ... before Umuikwelle Etiti migrated from Ifite-Ikwele and settled, with the originals. In Umunnama, the Uruezenebo were the originals, or settled earlier before others came from Umunoha of Port Harcourt side. In Ezinimo village, the Umu-oba,Umuoradigwo,Umu-Chidobelu-Ezeokobu, Umuagu, Uruama, Umudimatuand Umuawa settled earlierthan others before others came from Isi-Uzo Nsukka side when they were driven and scattered as a result of tribal wars. Some others later joined the village from other locations when they were driven out of the town as a result of misunderstanding and constant quarrelling from their relatives and that made them move and settle with the early settlers." The last two villages which are Okpaliko and Ubulu are believed to have migrated from Nteje, a town in the Anambra State of Nigeria between the 18th and 19th centuries. The town is ruled by a traditional ruler called "Igwe" as obtainable in other neighboring Igbo-speaking towns. The Igwe of Eziowelle is also called the Owelle of Eziowelle after Owelle the great ancestor of Eziowelle. The current Owelle of Eziowelle is Igwe Mike Okonkwo Etusi..The first OWelle of Eziowelle, Igwe Christian C. Anene relinquished the throne to the Owelle 2, after his death in 1990. The current Onowu of Eziowelle is Obi J. Akukwe.

Schools
Eziowelle had originally four primary schools, two of which belong to the Roman Catholic Church and the other two to the Anglican Church. They were taken over by the government after the Biafran War but have been recently handed back to the Churches. The most popular of the Schools is Uzubi Central School Eziowelle. Before the handover of the schools, the two churches had built two other progressive primary schools on their premises. There are also some other private nurseries and primary schools that have been opened recently. Eziowelle has three secondary schools. The oldest is the Community Secondary School Eziowelle formerly known as Owe Girls. The Queen of the Rosary Secondary School Eziowelle built by the Catholic Church has over one thousand students and is currently the most popular secondary school in Idemili North Local Government. The Standard International Secondary School, Eziowelle owned by the Anglican Church is also very enterprising and has posted excellent WAEC results.

Land dispute

The people of Eziowelle and Ogidi have been on a heated boundary dispute in Idemili north local government, the Anambra State Boundary Committee has intervened in the boundary dispute between the people of Ogidi and their neighboring Eziowelle in Idemili North local government area of the state. The affected villages are Ezinimo and Uruoji.

Other facilities
Eziowelle has a modern social center with many recreational and sporting facilities including a standard football pitch where State and Local Government matches are played. The center is called Eziowelle Civic Centre and numerous major events take place here including Idemili Day. There is a Magistrates Court located in Eziowelle. Eziowelle currently celebrates two major festivals which are the Eziowelle cultural day and the Elimede festival annually. These two festivals among other things feature all kinds of masquerades for public amusement. The Eziowelle Solemn Assembly holds on 31 December every year and is a day set aside by the Community for Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for the year ended and seeking His favor and protection for the coming year.

honor External links

 * Welcome to Eziowelle, Home of Cardinal Arinze

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astrid Lagunes Padilla

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Astrid Lagunes Padilla
Looks like Vanity. Head of a Mexican travel agency. The "You can contact TURISSSTE at..." sentence at the bottom suggests that this is an ad. It claims that Padilla "made the headlines", but doesn't substantiate that. Google search for "Astrid Lagunes Padilla" returns 10 hits and "Astrid Padilla" gets 6 hits. -Eisnel 01:19, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ad/Vanity Mwanner 01:34, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity/Ad Tempshill 22:23, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As above --Carnildo 22:29, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity Dsmdgold 23:48, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

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Gender of immigrant
Do we have information on male to female ratio of those Japanese people that migrate Brazil?ShanghaiWu (talk) 18:24, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I know that there are a lot of Chinese who migrate to America continent for work are mostly male but does the same thing also goes for the Japanese where most that migrate are male?ShanghaiWu (talk) 08:49, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

So who intermarries more? Men or women?
I would say Japanese-Brazilian women intermarry more than Japanese-Brazilian men, but most of the celebrities listed here have paternal Japanese ancestry.== — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.213.193.29 (talk) 04:07, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I cannot speak about Brazilian Japanese, but I recall a statistic that in Japan, women were seven times more likely to marry a foreigner, than a Japanese male. Assuming it's a "cultural thing", your guess might well be right.46.7.85.68 (talk) 15:34, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Why so many in Brazil?
Does anyone know why there's such a large Japanese population in this country out of all other countries? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.10.178.141 (talk • contribs).

Many Japanese farmers emigrated to Latin America, at the time work prospects in latin america for farmers were very good, now the inverse is true for industrial jobs in Japan. Japanese descendents living in Brazil & Latin America can get long term working visas relatively easily from the Japanese government, and many come to Japan with an already basic knowledge of the language. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Reamonn (talk • contribs).

 * The USA in 1905(firsts imigrants of Japan in Brazil) was very racist/restritive politic of imigration against asians and non-europeans imigrants(south/east europeans too was discriminated); Japaneses preffer imigrate to Brazil(in Brazil the restrictions with imigration of japaneses was very small comparated to USA - in second world war include, was a very "japanphobyc" sentiment against the japanese people)!! see: "the yellow peril" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.71.77.13 (talk) 10:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Dekasegi
As for the dekasegi term, isn't it a general term in Japan for anyone who works in a city/state/region/country and came from somewhere else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.175.130.105 (talk • contribs)

 * According to WWWJDIC:

 * 出かせぎ; 出稼ぎ(P) 【でかせぎ】 (n,vs) working away from home
 * 出稼ぎ労働者 【でかせぎろうどうしゃ】 (n) economic nomad

 * According to the Sanseido dictionary :

 * でかせぎ　出稼ぎ

 * ・〜に行く　go to〈Tokyo〉to work; work away from home.
 * 出稼ぎ労働者　a seasonal [migrant] worker.

 * See the dekasegi article for cultural connotations. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
Japanese-Brazilian → Japanese Brazilian – Unless used as an adjective, this should not be hyphenated. New title reflects Japanese Canadian, Japanese American, Japanese Peruvian, etc. — Dekimasu 01:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. I also merged the page histories, which fit cleanly in terms of dates, though not in terms of substantial differences. —Centrx→talk • 02:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Population estimates
It seems confusing. The referenced web site (http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/brazil/index.html) gives an estimates of 1.3 million people of Japanese descent in Brazil (an estimate I was familiar with), but the article bumps it to 1.5 million, apparently adding up the estimated number of these that are currently living in Japan. What led the original editor to assume that these numbers are complementary? I'm reverting it to the estimate given by the reference, just in case. It should be noted that the 2000 Population Census (http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2000/populacao/cor_raca_Censo2000.pdf) numbers for population by race (yeah, yeah, we know how precise those numbers can be in Bra

Adriana Lima's Japanese heritage
Adriana Lima mentions her Japanese ethnicity in a interview on E! Here is the link posted on YOUTUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZdkNAx6sE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.215.81.225 (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Japanese Brazilians in the New York Times "Lens Blog"
Here is an interesting article about Japanese Brazilians. I have added it as a reference. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/japanese-brazilians-straddling-two-cultures/?partner=rss&emc=rss Eastmain (talk • contribs)  02:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Decline of Japanese Brazilians
The article claims that "The overall Japanese Brazilian population is declining, secondary to a decreased birth rate and an aging population; return immigration to Japan,[9][10][11] as well as intermarriage with other races and dilution of ethnic identity".

I don't think this is true. Yes, the Japanese-born population in Brazil is aging and declining, but to assume that Brazilians of Japanese descent are "disappearing" is a gross exaggeration. By the way, many people have been returning from Japan to Brazil in recent years. Xuxo (talk) 05:08, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

 * I checked and none of the cited sources claim this absurd. I removed them. Xuxo (talk) 05:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Distribution and Population
There is reference to the population in a 2000 GIBE report. Alongside it is a box showing the distribution of the population in 2010, and the population is identical. I assume that this is the same report, but in one of the references, the year mentioned is wrong.46.7.85.68 (talk) 15:42, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

There is reference to the population in a 2000 GIBE report. Alongside it is a box showing the distribution of the population in 2010, also from a GIBE report 46.7.85.68 (talk) 15:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)and the population is identical. I assume that this is the same report, but in one of the references, the year mentioned is wrong.

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Côn Đảo

The Côn Đảo ("Côn Island") are an archipelago of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam, and also a district (Huyện Côn Đảo) of this province.

Geography
Situated about 185 km from Vũng Tàu and 230 km from Ho Chi Minh City, the group includes 16 mountainous islands and islets. The total land area reaches 75.15 km2 and the local population is about 5,000. The islands are composed of magmatic rocks of different ages. Hòn Bảy Cạnh, Hòn Cau and Hòn Bông Lang are composed of Cretaceous microgranite rocks]. The northern part of Côn Đảo Island is composed of quartz diorite and granite - granodiorite of late Mesozoic- early Cenozoic age, and is partially covered by Quaternary marine sediments. The southern part of this island and Hòn Bà island are composed of the rhyolite and intrusive formations of unknown age. On the western slope of Côn Đảo Island, there exist groups of outcrops of diorite and microgranite penetrated by big quartz bands.

The island group is served by Con Dao Airport situated on the largest island in the archipelago, Côn Sơn Island. Total size of Côn Đảo Airport is 3792 m2, with one runway 1830 m long. It can handle 400,000 passengers per year. Currently, Vietnam Airlines (Operated by VASCO), Bamboo Airways and Vietnam Helicopters are three airlines operating flights to the island.

History
On June 16, 1702, the East India Company from English  founded a settlement on Côn Sơn Island, which they named Pulo Condore as an entrepôt for ships plying between India and China. Three years later, on 2 March 1705, the Bugis mercenaries hired by the English mutinied, murdered the agents, destroyed the factory, and expelled the remaining settlers.

During the internecine wars for the Court of Huế, the Nguyễn prince, Gia Long, born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, ceded the islands to France as part of the 1787 Treaty of Versailles in return for military assistance. The treaty however was abrogated as France failed to provide the aid.

It was only under conquest that the islands came under French control in 1861. Côn Sơn Island became infamous during the French colonial era because of Côn Đảo Prison and the notorious "tiger cages". Vietnamese and Cambodian nationalists and revolutionaries were sent here to serve their sentence for anti-French activities. Many Vietnamese Communist leaders were "schooled" on Côn Đảo Island as well.

The French Indochinese government named the group of islands Poulo-Condore Islands, a name that derives from the islands' Malay name Pulo Condore (pulau meaning "island" and kundur meaning "wax gourd"). The islands can be identified with Ptolemy's Satyrorum insulae (Isles of the Satyrs), a name probably drawn from the monkeys endemic to the islands, the Con Song long-tailed macaque, (Macaca fascicularis ssp. condorensis). Ptolemy refers to the three islands inhabited by people, 'said to have tails such as they depict satyrs having'.

In 2020, the United States Navy sent ships on freedom of navigation exercises around the islands to challenge what they deemed to be Vietnam's "excessive maritime claims."

Côn Đảo National Park
Many of the islands were given protected status in 1984 as part of Côn Đảo National Park. This natural preserve was subsequently enlarged in 1998. Endangered species protected within the park include the hawksbill sea turtle, the green sea turtle, dolphins, and the dugong. Ecosystems represented in the park include seagrass meadow, mangrove and coral reefs.

Côn Đảo National Park is working with the World Wide Fund for Nature, formerly the World Wildlife Fund, (WWF) Vietnam to further protection in the marine areas, with programs to establish a marine protected area that protects coral reefs, seagrass beds and species, while also developing sustainable nature-based ecotourism. The island's management is strongly geared towards sustainable use, hoping to learn from previous experiences in Vietnam and the region to balance development with conservation.

Ferry
A hydrofoil service from Vũng Tàu to Côn Đảo was started in February 2019. The service is a daily return and boasts that the ferry will operate year-round, regardless of the weather. Travel time is 4–5 hours, departing Vũng Tàu at 8am and returning from Côn Đảo at around 2pm.

Two ferries operate between Côn Đảo and the mainland. There is a daily overnight hour ferry service from Vũng Tàu which, in addition to bringing passengers, serves as the main source of importing goods to the islands. The ferry operates on a daily basis, however in winter months the service depends largely on weather conditions as the seas between Côn Đảo and the mainland can be rough.

In 2016, a ferry service primarily for passengers opened up between Sóc Trăng and Côn Đảo, shortening the length of the journey to three hours. With the addition of a fast ferry to the islands, the islands have experienced an increase in tourism fueled mostly by domestic tourists who view Côn Đảo as a sacred place due to its history.

List of islands
Côn Đảo Islands include 16 islands, with a total area of 76 km2

 * Côn Lôn Island or Côn Sơn Island (French: Grande-Condore), Phú Hải, 51.52 km2
 * Little Côn Lôn Island (Petite-Condore), or Hòn Bà, Phú Sơn, 5.45 km2
 * Bảy Cạnh Island, or Bãi Cạnh Island, Phú Hòa, 5.5 km2
 * Cau Island, or Phú Lệ 1.8 km2
 * Bông Lan Island, or Bông Lang, Bông Lau, Phú Phong, 0.2 km2
 * Vung Island, or Phú Vinh, 0.15 km2
 * Ngọc Island, or Trọc Island, hòn Trai, Phú Nghĩa, 0.4 km2
 * Trứng Island, or Đá Bạc Island, Đá Trắng Island, Phú Thọ, 0.1 km2
 * Tài Lớn Island, or Phú Bình 0.38 km2
 * Tài Nhỏ Island, or Thỏ Island, Phú An, 0.1 km2
 * Trác Lớn Island, or Phú Hưng 0.25 km2
 * Trác Nhỏ Island, or Phú Thịnh 0.1 km2
 * Tre Lớn Island, or Phú Hòa 0.75 km2
 * Tre Nhỏ Island, or Phú Hội, 0.25 km2
 * Anh Island, or Trứng Lớn Island
 * Em Island, or Trứng Nhỏ Island

Thứ phi Hoàng Phi Yến
Thứ phi Hoàng Phi Yến, or Imperial Concubine Phi Yến, is a controversial local legend from the Côn Đảo archipelago. According to the legend she was the concubine of Lord Gia Long (Nguyễn Phúc Ánh) and gave birth to a son known as Prince Cải, she advised Lord Ánh not to ask foreigners for help as that would make their victory less glorious and might cause issues in future, these comments caused Lord Ánh to be suspicious of her motives and to lock her up in a cave. Later when their toddler asked where his mother was he killed him. She grieved their son and later committed suicide as she was touched by a butcher during a vegetarian festival seeing it as "harming her honour as a concubine". This caused the villagers of Côn Đảo to hold a festival in her honour every year.

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Calvin Griffith

Calvin Robertson Griffith (December 1, 1911 – October 20, 1999), born Calvin Griffith Robertson, was a Canadian-born American Major League Baseball team owner. As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955 through 1984, he orchestrated the transfer of the Senators after 60 years in Washington, D.C., to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in the autumn of 1960 to create the Twins. He was famous for his devotion to the game and for his sayings.

On June 19, 2020, the Minnesota Twins removed his statue from Target Field regarding what the Twins called "racist comments he made in Waseca in 1978."

Early life
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, as Calvin Griffith Robertson, the son of James A. Robertson and the former Jane Barr Davies. His father was a native of the Shetland Islands who emigrated to Canada and became a minor league baseball player. Robertson had a tryout with the Montreal Royals of the high minors before his career washed out and he became a newspaper distributor. Troubled by alcoholism, he died in 1922, leaving a widow and seven young children in Montreal in dire circumstances. But a sister, Anne ("Addie") Robertson, had moved to the United States, where in 1900 she married Clark Griffith, a future Hall of Fame pitcher who became a manager (Chicago White Sox, New York Highlanders, Cincinnati Reds and Washington Senators) during the first two decades of the 20th century, and then president and chief stockholder of the Senators after 1920.

Clark and Addie Griffith had been concerned for some time about James' alcoholism. After he died, the childless Griffiths took Calvin and a sister, Thelma, into their Washington home in 1923, when Calvin was 11 years old. The two children both assumed the Griffith surname, even though they were never formally adopted. Their mother and siblings moved to nearby Takoma Park, Maryland.

Griffith was a batboy for the Senators, including during their 1924 World Series championship. During the 1925 World Series, United Press published short articles written by Griffith and the batboy for the opposing team, the Pittsburgh Pirates (who won the series).

Washington (1955–1960)
The senior Griffith owned the Senators until his death at age 85 in October 1955; the team then passed into the hands of Calvin, 43, who had worked his way up through a variety of positions since the 1920s. After starting as a batboy, he attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and George Washington University in the U.S. capital. Then, he was a minor league player and manager (serving a brief stint under Joe Engel and the Chattanooga Lookouts at Engel Stadium) before he joined the Washington front office in 1941, eventually becoming executive vice president. Calvin and his sister, now Thelma Griffith Haynes, each inherited half of their uncle's 52 percent stake in the Senators. For the next 29 years, Thelma voted her shares along with her brother's, giving Calvin effective control of the team.

Other Robertson children also assumed important positions with the Senators. Three of Calvin's brothers — Sherry, Jimmy and Billy Robertson — became team executives, as did Thelma's husband, former pitcher Joe Haynes. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Joe Cronin, a Hall of Fame shortstop married to sister Mildred Robertson, served as playing manager of the Senators and then the Boston Red Sox. Cronin eventually became general manager of the Red Sox and then president of the American League. Calvin's son Clark Griffith II and nephews Bruce Haynes and Tom Cronin held executive posts in the Twins' front office.

On the field: Sluggers and struggles
Under Calvin's ownership, the left-field dimensions of cavernous Griffith Stadium were immediately shortened. Although the distance along the left-field foul line decreased by only 14 ft to 388 ft in 1956, the left-center-field power alley was reduced to 360 ft; a 6 ft-high inner fence made the new contour even friendlier to right-handed power hitters. The original dimensions were favored by the late Clark Griffith, who, as a former moundsman, built his successful early 20th-century teams on pitching, speed, gap-to-gap hitting, and defense. The pennant-contending 1945 Senators, who fell short of the AL championship by 1 $1⁄2$ games, hit only one home run—an inside-the-park blow by Joe Kuhel on September 7 —in 2,601 home at bats all season. The 1955 Senators hit 20 home runs at Griffith Stadium during their 77-game home schedule.

The 1956 club, with the new dimensions in place, slugged 63 long balls at their home park, and Washington clubs of the late 1950s featured powerful right-handed hitters like Roy Sievers, Jim Lemon, Bob Allison and Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew. Sievers (1957) and Killebrew (1959) established a new Senators' single-season home run record with 42 blasts to lead (or, in Killebrew's case, co-lead) the American League in that category.

However, the Washington pitching staff bore the immediate brunt of the changes to the ballpark. The 1955 Senators posted a 4.62 staff earned run average—4.01 at Griffith Stadium. One year later, the staff ERA jumped to 5.33—with an abysmal 5.55 ERA at home. To Griffith's credit, however, his pitching staff (led by ace right-hander Camilo Pascual) began to post respectable earned run averages beginning in 1958 and by 1960, the Senators' ERA was down to 3.77 (3.88 at Griffith Stadium).

Calvin Griffith also invested in Washington's traditionally weak farm system and scouting operations. In 1946, The Sporting News' Official Baseball Guide showed only three full-time scouts on the Senators' org chart, although one of them was Joe Cambria, who established a pipeline of playing talent from Cuba to the franchise that endured until his death in 1962. The 1951 TSN Baseball Guide listed eight scouts on the Senators' staff. But by 1960, the team's last year in Washington, the same annual listed 23 full-time talent hunters working on the Senators' behalf. The changes to the farm system were less dramatic. Historically, Clark Griffith's farm system was concentrated on low-level minor league teams. For years, Double-A Chattanooga was Washington's top farm team, and for a time the Senators had only two other farm teams, Class A Charlotte and Class D (equivalent to a Rookie-level team in today's system) Orlando. Calvin added Triple-A affiliates, first in 1956 and then, for good, in 1960. Even then, the team usually fielded 6–8 affiliates throughout the 1950s, and the 1960 Senators actually sponsored one fewer team than the 1951 club.

Griffith also began to invest, cautiously, in bonus babies, with Killebrew a notable success. The proof of his endeavors was in the pudding: by 1960, his Senators featured home-grown players like Killebrew, Allison, Pascual, Pedro Ramos, Jim Kaat (elected to the Hall of Fame in 2021) and Zoilo Versalles. He also obtained young talent like Earl Battey, who was the team's starting catcher from 1960 to 1967, and power-hitting prospect Don Mincher, both acquired for Sievers in April 1960, and starting pitcher Jack Kralick, signed as a minor league free agent the previous season. The trio came to Washington from the White Sox.

Off the field: Relocation efforts
But the results of Griffith's efforts were initially hard to detect. The 1956–59 Senators averaged 95 losses each season, with three last place finishes in a row (1957–59). Attendance hovered below 500,000 until 1959, when it improved to 615,000. The 1954 move of the St. Louis Browns to nearby Baltimore as the Orioles (a move Calvin had adamantly opposed) dampened the Senators' regional appeal, even though the Orioles of the 1950s were also mainstays in the American League's second division.

Even before his uncle's death, Calvin had doubts about whether the Senators could survive in Washington. Not only was Griffith Stadium the smallest stadium in the majors, but the surrounding neighborhood had already gone to seed. At the 1956 World Series, Griffith, not even a year into his tenure as the Senators' president and majority owner, began preliminary talks with Los Angeles city and county officials about a potential transfer to the West Coast. Brooklyn Dodgers' owner Walter O'Malley, learning of Griffith's interest and thwarted by New York City officials in his plans to replace his decaying ballpark, Ebbets Field, soon supplanted Griffith as Los Angeles' prime target. The Senators also attracted other suitors: The Washington Post reported in the autumn of 1956 that the club's board of directors had received (and rejected) feelers from San Francisco, Louisville — and Minneapolis. The Senators still owned their home ballpark, but Washington was considering building a new, publicly financed facility in a location Griffith disliked, saying it was too far from the team's traditional fan base in the District's northwest suburbs. Under the plan, Griffith's main tenants, the Washington Redskins of the National Football League, would abandon Griffith Stadium for the new District of Columbia Stadium (which they did upon its completion in the fall of 1961). While the new facility was intended for the Senators as well, Griffith and the District could not agree on rental terms.

By this time, it was an open secret that the Senators were a candidate for relocation. Like his uncle before him, Griffith had no income apart from the Senators. However, American League owners were reluctant to antagonize the United States Congress (and jeopardize baseball's exemption from antitrust laws) by moving the Senators out of town without a suitable succession plan. Indeed, Griffith himself publicly testified that he intended to keep the Senators in the capital as long as he could make ends meet.

Even then, however Griffith had begun to seriously discuss moving his club to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–Saint Paul in September 1959, but talks stalled. The area's hole card was Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, roughly halfway between Minneapolis and St. Paul. While it had opened in 1956 for the Triple-A Minneapolis Millers, its real purpose was to attract a major league team to the Twin Cities. It had been built to major league specifications, and could easily be doubled in size to 40,000 seats in order to accommodate a major league team. Griffith had initially been skeptical of moving the Senators there because of Minnesota's harsh winters, but was sold on the area when the Senators played an exhibition against the Philadelphia Phillies shortly after the 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Years later, he offered another reason for moving to the state: "I’ll tell you why we came to Minnesota, it was when I found out you only had 15,000 blacks here. Black people don’t go to ball games, but they’ll fill up a rassling ring and put up such a chant it’ll scare you to death. It’s unbelievable. We came here because you’ve got good, hard-working, white people here.”

At the same time, Twin Cities-based owners won a franchise in the new Continental League, which served in part to turn the spotlight on Griffith's financial struggles in Washington. However, when he sought permission to move there for the 1959 season, the other American League owners turned him down again.

As the Senators' future was being debated off the field, the 1960 team enjoyed new on-field success thanks to its young talent base. Although it was still a below-.500 outfit (at 73–81), the Senators rose from eighth and last place to fifth in the league, and attendance exceeded 743,000. But when the 1960 season ended, Griffith was able to come to terms with Minnesota public officials. At the same time, the American League seemingly solved the potential antitrust issue (and helped to scuttle the Continental League) by voting to add two new teams for 1961, including an expansion team in Washington that would take on the Senators' name. This cleared the way for Griffith to move his franchise to Minnesota. The new Senators started at square one with players discarded from the eight original AL teams; the club lost 100 games in 1961, and had only one winning season (in 1969). In 1972, it moved to Dallas–Fort Worth as the Texas Rangers. Meanwhile, Griffith took his young talent, along with the heritage of the 1901–60 Senators, to the Twin Cities.

1961–1970: Contenders and a championship
Just five years after his uncle's death, Calvin Griffith moved the Senators to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in 1961. Well aware of the bitter century-long rivalry between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Griffith was determined not to offend fans on either side of the Mississippi River. Rather than name the team after either city, he made the then-unprecedented decision to name the team after its home state, christening it the Minnesota Twins.

At first the Twins took a step backward, winning only 70 of 160 games in 1961's new, longer American League schedule. But they drew 1.26 million fans to Metropolitan Stadium, 200,000 more than their most successful season in Washington. (Meanwhile, the Twins' second-largest shareholder, Washington businessman H. Gabriel Murphy, filed suit in federal court seeking to block the franchise shift; his legal battle with Griffith lasted for eight years.)

Despite the poor debut of the Twins on the field, Griffith's farm system continued to bear fruit. In 1962 rookie infielders Rich Rollins and Bernie Allen joined the maturing core of the team as the Twins vaulted into second place with 91 wins, only five games behind the New York Yankees. The 1963 edition also won 91 games, but fell further behind the Yankees, placing third, 13 games out, then the 1964 Twins slumped to a below-.500 season (79–83) and seventh place in the ten-team AL. But during both 1963 and 1964, Griffith continued to add young players to the Twins' lineup: center fielder Jimmie Hall, first baseman Mincher, and in 1964, AL rookie of the year and batting champion—and future Hall of Famer—Tony Oliva. Griffith also shrewdly acquired two starting pitchers, Jim Perry and Mudcat Grant, in separate transactions with the Cleveland Indians.

Griffith's efforts came together when the 1965 Twins broke the Yankees' stranglehold and won 102 games and the American League pennant. It was the franchise's first league title since 1933 (and was Calvin Griffith's only pennant-winner as owner). Versalles was the AL Most Valuable Player, Grant won 21 games and Oliva captured his second straight batting title. Griffith was named Major League Executive of the Year by The Sporting News. In the 1965 World Series, the Twins and the Los Angeles Dodgers split the first six games, with the home club winning every contest. But in Game 7 at Metropolitan Stadium, the Dodgers' Sandy Koufax shut out the Twins, 2–0, to deny Griffith a world championship. The 102 wins are still the most the franchise has ever won in either Washington or Minnesota.

The Twins won 89 or more games for four of the next five seasons. Only the injury-plagued Twins failed to contend or finish in the first division. In 1967, sparked by Griffith's off-season trade for 20-game-winner Dean Chance, 1965 acquisition César Tovar, and another brilliant rookie, Rod Carew, who became the team's starting second baseman at Griffith's insistence, the Twins narrowly missed the pennant by dropping the season's final two games to the eventual league champion Red Sox. They also drew 1.48 million fans to Metropolitan Stadium, the high-water mark for their first two decades in Minnesota. Perry, the versatile Tovar, who finished seventh in the AL MVP balloting for 1967 and played all nine positions in a single game on September 22, 1968, and Carew, a future Hall of Famer and seven-time AL batting champion, also figured heavily in the Twins' successful and  editions. In 1969, the American League expanded to 12 teams and two divisions, and the Twins promptly won the first two American League West Division championships ever contested. But, on both occasions, the Twins fell to the AL East's Orioles, going winless in ALCS competition.

1971–1984: Decline and rebuilding
With the exception of future Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven, who debuted as a teenager in 1970, the team's supply of elite minor league talent began to ebb during the 1970s. Oliva and Killebrew battled injuries and age, and the Twins sank back in the standings for the rest of the decade. The striking down of the reserve clause in 1976 meant the family-owned Twins had to compete with wealthier teams to keep their stars. Griffith was known for being a penny-pincher, as his uncle had been, and was either unable or unwilling to compete with owners who had access to more money. Some of the club's best young players, such as relief pitcher Bill Campbell and outfielder Lyman Bostock, departed as free agents. Blyleven, only 25, was traded to the Rangers for prospects and cash in June 1976 as he approached free agency. Then, in 1979, facing Carew's imminent free agency—and after the Lions Club debacle (below), when the Twins' owner's racist remarks enraged the star player—Griffith traded Carew to the California Angels for a package of prospects. Carew downplayed the significance of Griffith's remarks in later years, stating that he "saw no signs racism whatsoever" when he played for the Twins under Griffith and that he and Griffith did in fact agree that he should play for a bigger market team which had enough money to pay him what he was worth.

Additionally, Metropolitan Stadium, which had been the biggest factor in Griffith's move west, was already obsolete despite being just over 20 years old. However, there weren't enough revenue streams available to extend its useful life. There were only bleacher seats along the third base line, but the Twins couldn't afford to replace them with permanent seats. Talk of a new stadium began as early as 1970. Finally, the Metrodome opened in downtown Minneapolis in 1982. However, Griffith initially balked at signing a 30-year lease at the new stadium, instead opting for a provision that allowed the Twins to break the lease if average attendance fell below 1.4 million or the average attendance for the American League as a whole, whichever was lesser.

The last five full seasons of Griffith's ownership (1979–83) witnessed only two .500 or better teams, and attendance fell below one million fans at both Metropolitan Stadium and the Metrodome. Behind the scenes, however, the Twins' farm system was stepping up its development of young talent. Griffith's roster in 1984, the year during which he sold the Twins, included Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Tim Laudner and Frank Viola, all key members of the Twins' 1987 world championship team.

Sale to Pohlad
In 1973, as one of the Junior Circuit's longest-serving owners, Griffith was elected vice president of the American League, a post once held by his late uncle Clark; he served in the position into the 1980s. However, by the 1980s, the changes in baseball brought about by free agency proved too much for Griffith; by this time, he was the last MLB owner who had no income apart from his baseball team. In 1984, Griffith sold the Twins to Minneapolis banker Carl Pohlad on August 15. Calvin and Thelma's controlling 52 percent stake reportedly fetched $32 million, a handsome return on their uncle's purchase of a stake in the then-Senators in 1912 for $27,000 (he effectively acquired controlling interest in 1919). Pohlad then acquired Murphy's 40.4 percent interest through the Tampa Bay Baseball Group for a reported $11.5 million. The transaction ended almost 65 years of Griffith family ownership. He stayed on for a time as chairman of the board.

Allegations of racism
Griffith became well known for his public statements. Wrote Sports Illustrated in 1983: "Griffith long ago established himself as one of sport's most accessible and quotable owners. Reporters could rap on his door, enter and fill their note pads with sentences so coarse in honesty and so magnificently mangled in syntax that some began to enjoy him. He was quoted last year as saying that rookie center fielder Jim Eisenreich was 'doomed to be an All-Star'."

"He'll either be the best manager in baseball — or the worst", he said when he gave a young Billy Martin his first manager job after the 1968 season. A year later, Griffith became the first owner to fire Martin, despite Martin's having led the Twins to 97 victories and the 1969 American League West Division title. The firing—which stemmed from Martin's well-publicized, alcohol-fueled assaults on 20-game-winning pitcher Dave Boswell and team executive Howard Fox—was highly unpopular with many Twins' fans. However, even before then, a number of Twins executives had received complaints about Martin's heavy drinking on road trips. When he was asked who would replace Martin as the Twins' 1970 manager, Griffith replied, "I guarantee you one thing. I won't do anything rational."

However, Griffith's off-the-cuff remarks landed him in more serious trouble in September 1978, and drew charges of racism. Speaking at a Lions Club dinner in Waseca, Minnesota, Griffith was unaware that Minneapolis Tribune staff writer Nick Coleman was attending the gathering. The meeting proceeded in a question and answer format. Griffith began to make comments about specific players and about race in general. Coleman is quoted as saying “I was wincing the whole time thinking, you don’t want to say that.” At that point, Griffith interrupted himself, lowered his voice and asked if there were any blacks around. After he looked around the room and assured himself that his audience was white, Griffith resumed his answer stating:

"'I'll tell you why we came to Minnesota. It was when we found out you only had 15,000 blacks here. Black people don't go to ballgames, but they'll fill up a rassling ring and put up such a chant it'll scare you to death. We came here because you've got good, hardworking white people here.'"

He went on to call Carew a "damn fool" for accepting a below-market $170,000 annual salary when he was actually worth "a lot more than that." Griffith denied charges of bigotry, but his Waseca remarks allegedly spurred Carew's trade before the 1979 season and "haunted Calvin for the rest of his life."

Upon hearing the comments for the first time before a game, Carew stated: "I will not ever sign another contract with this organization. I don’t care how much money or how many options Calvin Griffith offers me. I definitely will not be back next year. I will not come back and play for a bigot," further stating, "He respects nobody and expects nobody to respect him. Spit on Calvin Griffith." Carew's anger seemed to lessen by 1991 when he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and called Griffith to thank him for jump-starting his career. Carew claimed that Griffith was "the first person" he called after being inducted.

In June 2020, Carew issued a response to the removal of Griffith's statue that acknowledged that the controversial comments Griffith made were “irresponsible, wrong and hurtful.” However, Carew also downplayed the public remarks he made in 1978 regarding his departure from the Twins, and stated that a basis for his trade to the Angels was the fact that both he and Griffith agreed that he should play a team which could pay him better, stating, "When he traded me prior to the 1979 season, Calvin told me he wanted me to be paid what I was worth. Later that year the Angels made me the highest paid player in baseball. A racist wouldn't have done that." Carew went on to say he had forgiven Griffith for his mistake and did not believe that he was a racist, noting he believed Griffith's “thoughts on race evolved over time”. While Carew always supported the statue of Griffith, he stated that he understood and respected the Twins' decision to remove it.

Death
Griffith died in Melbourne, Florida, on October 20, 1999, at the age of 87 from complications related to pneumonia, a kidney infection and a high fever. He was buried in Washington, D.C., a city he rarely visited after moving the Senators to Minnesota.

Griffith was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.

title: Calvin Griffith