What is ment by RIG?

Answer 1

RIG =

1. Remote Imaging Group - www.rig.org.uk
2. RIG Veda - Hindu holy book - www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda
3. Ríg is the name applied to a Norse god described as "old and wise, mighty and strong" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADg
4. In abstract algebra, the term rig may refer to a semiring - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiring
5. Rigging is the arrangement of sails on a sailing vessel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigging
6. A type of horse drawn carriage in the U.S.
7. An oil rig or drilling rig is a structure housing equipment used to drill for and extract oil from underground oil reservoirs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_rig
8. In computer animation, parts of a 3D model are rigged so that an animator can easily select and move parts of the model (such as an arm or leg) without having to painstakingly select every single vertex in the desired part. The rig also helps the animator with constraints and movement of other attached parts.
9. In skydiving, a rig is a harness/container or a full parachute system including a harness/container, a main parachute, a reserve parachute and an Automatic Activation Device
10. Rig (band), a musical group of the early 1970s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rig_%28band%29

There are many more meaning.

Answer 2

If You are refering to Oil Rigs, its a machine that is used to Drill Oil wells in to the earth.
It may be an Onshore Rig (Used on Land) or an Offshore Rig (Used in the Sea, rivers etc)
Offshore Rigs are usually mounted onto a hull that can float, and could be a jack-up (standing on legs on the ocean floor), A Drill Ship, that floats on the sea, or a semi submersible that has a hull submersed under the sea.
A Rig basically consists of the Drilling Mast, along with the Hoisting and Rotating system (Used for lifting the Drill bit attached with a string of Drill pipes and rotated to make hole) , The Mud system (used to circulate a liquid mud through a bit in order to bring cuttings drilled out to the surface, cool the bbit and control the high pressures encountered as you go deeper into the earths crust), The well control system (To control the down hole pressures)

Answer 3

Rig - to provide with harness
RIG - Right In the Groin
RIG - Righteous Indignation of God
RIG - Return Investment Grounds
RIG - Rolling In the Ground

Answer 4

There are 2 means I know for the word "rig"

1) Is mainly a truckers term used widely by people to describe what they are driving.. truckers used the word rig to refer to whatever they were pulling...

2) "rig" is also used to describe scams and unfair treatment in deals also bias. Example My brother runs a bingo competition and I win every week... some says its "rigged"

Answer 5

RIG is a appreal brand owned by Pantaloons.

Answer 6

Depends on the usage.

More info needed.

Answer 7

The Rewards and Incentives Group (RIG)
On 9thJanuary 2004 the Government, Employers' Organisation and the ATL, NAHT, NASUWT, PAT and SHA signed the Agreement on Rewards and Incentives for Post-Threshold Teachers and Members of the Leadership Group. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=6075

The RIG, comprising the signatories to the January Agreement, has been working since February 2004 towards the successful implementation of its provisions and towards the School Teachers Review Body's (STRB) longer term vision by considering what further reform is necessary to enable schools to better use the pay and performance management systems to meet the objectives of raising standards and rewarding teachers.

Current RIG membership:

Association of School and College Leaders

Association of Teachers and Lecturers

Department for Education and Skills

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers

National Employers Organisation for School Teachers

Professional Association of Teachers

RIG documentation:

RIG has recently published their fourth RIG note on teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments, which clarify the principle of awarding teachers with TLRs.

The Rewards and Incentives Group have provided a Frequently Asked Questions sheet on implementing the new pay system . RIG also provided advice to the Secretary of State on the school staffing restructuring.

Joint evidence to the STRB issued on 25 May 2005. This evidence was submitted in response to the Secretary of State's remit of 11 March. The new evidence covers the general pay uplift, Special Educational Needs allowances, pay for secondary maths and science Advanced Skills Teachers, fast track, local pay, new teacher professionalism and part time teachers.

The Rewards and Incentives Group have also produced guidance in the form of letters on key issues. These include a letter on performance pay progression, a letter on the arrangements for awarding management allowances and a note with a checklist on light touch verification. RIG have recently published a third note on light touch validation of performance management.

Evidence to the STRB: September 2004 Agreement on Teachers' Pay from the Rewards and Incentives Group was submitted to the STRB on 27 September 2004. The evidence was submitted in response to the Secretary of State's remit of 22 July which asked the STRB to make recommendations on: an Excellent Teacher Scheme; the arrangements for awarding management allowances; the principles for safeguarding within the pay system; and whether there should be changes to the pay arrangements for secondary maths and science Advanced Skills Teachers. The evidence also includes a statement on Local Pay, in response to the recommendations made by the STRB in their 13 Report Part 2 (March 2004).

The Department for Education and Skills provided statistical evidence to STRB in October 2004.

The Rewards and Incentives Group (RIG) submitted further jointly agreed evidence in response to specific questions raised by STRB members.

David Miliband also wrote a letter to the STRB as part of the evidence process. An additional letter was sent to the STRB in December 2004.

In February 2005 RIG produced additional information and advice on the processes which follow the publication of the STRB's fourteenth report.

2nd Answer :
Ríg is the name applied to a Norse god described as "old and wise, mighty and strong" in the Eddic poem Rígthula (Old Norse Rígþula - Song of Ríg).

Ríg wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of the three classes of human beings as conceived by the poet. The youngest of these sons inherited the name "Ríg" and his youngest son, Kon the Young or Kon ung (konung meaning 'king' in Old Norse) also inherited the name or title "Ríg". This third Ríg was the first true king and the ultimate founder of the state of royalty as appears in the Rígsthula and in two other works in connection. In all three sources he is connected with two primordial Danish rulers named Dan and Danp.

The poem Rígthula is preserved incomplete on the last surviving sheet in Codex Wormianus following Snorri Sturluson's Edda. A short prose introduction explains that the god in question was Heimdall who wandered along the seashore until he came to a farm where he called himself Ríg. The name Ríg appears to be the oblique case of Old Irish rí, ríg "king", cognate to rex in Latin and rajan in Sanskrit.

That Heimdall is an ancestor, or kinsman, of humankind appears in the first two lines of the eddic poem Völuspá:

I ask for a hearing of all the holy races
Greater and lesser, kinsmen of Heimdall.





[edit] The Rígsthula
The Rígsthula tells how Ríg happened upon a farm-hut which was owned by Ái 'great-grandfather' and Edda 'great-grandmother'. They offered Ríg shelter and poor, rough food for a meal. That night Ríg slept between the pair in their bed and then departed. Nine months later Edda gave birth to a son who was svartan (dark/black in color). They named him Thræl (thrall, serf, slave). Thræl grew up strong but ugly. He married a woman named Thír (slave girl, bondswoman) and they had twelve sons and nine daughters with names mostly suggesting ugliness and squatness. They became the race of serfs.

Travelling further, Ríg came across a nice house where lived a farmer/craftsman, Afi "grandfather" with his wife Amma "grandmother". The food was good and this couple also let Ríg sleep between them. Nine months later, a son, Karl (churl, freeman) was born whose face and hair was red. Karl married a woman named Snör (daughter-in-law) and they had twelve sons and ten daughters with names mostly suggesting a neat appearance or being of good quality. One of the names is smiðr (smith). These become the ancestors of the lesser farmers and herdsmen.

Travelling further, Ríg came to a mansion inhabited by Faðir (Father) and Móðir (Mother). They gave him excellent food served splendidly and, nine months later, Móðir gave birth to a beautiful baby named Jarl (earl, noble) whose hair was blond and who was bleikr (bright white in color). When Jarl grew up and began to handle weapons and to use hawks, hounds, and horses, Ríg reappeared, claimed Jarl as his son, gave Jarl his own name of Ríg, made him his heir, taught him runes, and advised him to seek lordship.

Through warfare Jarl became lord of eighteen homesteads with much wealth besides. Jarl also gained the hand of Erna 'Brisk' daughter of Hersir 'lord'. Erna bore eleven sons to Ríg-Jarl but no daughters. All of the sons were given high sounding names, mostly meaning 'son'. They became the ancestors of the warrior nobility.

The youngest son, named Kon, was the best of them. He alone learned rune-craft as well as other magic and was able to understand the speech of birds, to quench fire, and to heal minds. He also had the strength of eight normal men. His name was Kon the young (Konr ungr in Old Norse), the name and title to be understood as the origin of the Norse word konungr 'king' (though in fact that etymology is false). Kon, like his father, also gained the name or title of Ríg.

One day, when Kon ung was riding through the forest hunting and snaring birds, a crow spoke to him and suggested Kon would win more if he stopped hunting mere birds and rode to battle against foemen, that he should seek the halls of Dan and Danp who were wealthier than he. At that point the poem breaks off.

A marriage by Kon ung into the family of Dan and Danp seems to be where the tale was headed as seen in the two other sources which mentions this Ríg. According to Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga:

Ríg (Rigus) was a man not the least among the great ones of his time. He married the daughter of a certain Danp, lord of Danpsted, whose name was Dana; and later, having won the royal title for his province, left as his heir his son by Dana, called Dan or Danum, all of whose subjects were called Danes.

The other tradition appears in chapter 20 of the Ynglinga Saga section of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. The story speaks of King Dygvi of Sweden:

Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue. His descendants always afterwards considered the title of konungr the title of highest dignity. Dygvi was the first of his family to be called konungr, for his predecessors had been called dróttinn ['chieftain'], and their wives dróttning, and their court drótt (war band). Each of their race was called Yngvi, or Ynguni, and the whole race together Ynglingar. Queen Drótt was a sister of King Dan Mikillati, from whom Denmark took its name.

Despite genealogical discrepancies (to be evaded only by imagining more than one Danp and more than one Dan) the accounts relate a common tradition about the origin of the title konungr 'king'. The title entered a Danish line of kings through a hero who was called both Konungr and Ríg. The title konungr was then adopted from the Danish usage by the rulers of Sweden.

Kon ung, whose magical abilities are so emphasized, is as much a magician as a warrior: a magician king, perhaps a sacred king. Dumézil (1958) pointed out that Kon alone represents the supernatural function, represented by the brahman caste in India, the flamen function in Rome, the Druids in some Celtic cultures, and by the clergy in the three estates of medieval Europe. Instead of the three estates of clergy/priest, warrior, and commoner, with serfs outside the system, the Rígsthula presents three estates or castes in which the clergy/priest class has been subsumed within the warrior class and identified with royalty. Also, although in Rome and India the color white is assigned to the brahman and priestly functions and red to the warrior function, here the noble warrior is white in color while the red coloration is ascribed instead to the commoner in place of the green or blue or yellow color which appears in other cultures associated with Proto-Indo-European society. Dumézil saw this as a Germanic adaptation of Indo-European inheritance.

The Rígsthula account may be an attempt to harmonize different tales. Though Ríg seems to be father in all three families of sons born nine months after he has departed, in fact the sons seem to take after their parents in all ways and it is not clear that they are in any way special, except for the third. But the superiority of the third of three sons is a common motif in Indo-European legend and folklore.

That the Rígsthula names the three couples as "Great-Grandfather" and "Great-Grandmother", "Grandfather" and "Grandmother", "Father" and "Mother", suggests a conflicting concept in which Jarl, the first real noble, is descended in the fourth generation through fathers each of which was superior to his own father, each of which rose above the station of his siblings and founded a new sub-class within the common class of humanity.