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United Kingdom

 * Golders Green Crematorium - Kingsley Amis, Ronnie Biggs, Enid Blyton, Marc Bolan, Jack Bruce, Sigmund Freud, Jack Hawkins, Keith Moon, Peter Sellers, Bram Stoker, Conrad Veidt
 * Highgate Cemetery - Douglas Adams, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Litvinenko, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Karl Marx, Malcolm McLaren, George Michael, Tim Pigott-Smith, Corin Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Peter Shaffer, Jean Simmons, Storm Thorgerson
 * Kensal Green Cemetery, London - Pete Burns, Harold Pinter
 * Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, London - James Beck, J. Bruce Ismay, Daniel Massey, Lance Percival, Jon Pertwee
 * Westminster Abbey, London - Neville Chamberlain, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Hawking, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Isaac Newton, Laurence Olivier, Alfred Tennyson
 * Wolvercote Cemetery - Roger Bannister, J. R. R. Tolkien

United States

 * Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto – Steve Jobs, David Packard, Shirley Temple
 * Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington – Alan Bean, Roger B. Chaffee, Pete Conrad, Jackie Cooper, Bob Dole, William J. Donovan, Charles Durning, R. Lee Ermey, Medgar Evers, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Alexander Haig, Dashiell Hammett, Ira Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Todd Lincoln, Joe Louis, George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, Lee Marvin, Robert McNamara, Audie Murphy, Maureen O'Hara, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Sink, Ted Stevens, William Howard Taft, Earl Warren, George Westinghouse
 * Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno - Walter Huston, Richard Kiel
 * Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, Long Island – Joyce Brothers, Bernard Herrmann, Andy Kaufman, Martin Landau, Sidney Lumet, Jackie Mason, Abe Vigoda, Herman Wouk
 * Calvary Cemetery, Woodside - Tony Bennett, Dom DeLuise, James Hayden, Una O'Connor, Lefty Ruggiero, Tony Sirico, Joe Spinell
 * Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles - Ross Bagdasarian, Nigel Bruce
 * Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn and Queens - Lee Falk, Jackie Robinson, Mae West
 * Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma - Eddie Fisher, William Randolph Hearst, Willie McCovey
 * Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City - Sonny Bono, Cameron Mitchell, William Powell, Frank Sinatra
 * Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles - Lenny Bruce, James Caan, Jerry Heller, Groucho Marx
 * El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego - Ray Kroc, Patti Page
 * Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside - Karen Black, Junior Seau
 * Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall - Norman Abbott, Robert Bice, Roy Brown, Andraé Crouch, Ed Gilbert, Fred J. Koenekamp, Noble Johnson, Tor Johnson, Boyd Kirkland, Gene Vincent
 * Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale – Aaliyah, James Baldwin, Richard Barthelmess, Cab Calloway, Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Evans, Midhat Frashëri, Oscar Hammerstein II, Heavy D, Alberta Hunter, Jam Master Jay, William Moulton Marston, Otto Rank, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Conrad Veidt, Cornell Woolrich, Malcolm X
 * Flushing Cemetery, Flushing - Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie
 * Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo - Shirley Chisholm, Millard Fillmore, Rick James
 * Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress - Eddie Cochran, Philip Ford, H. B. Halicki, Ken Maynard, Glenn Quinn, Jack Sheldon, Richard Street, Sandy West
 * Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Covina - Deezer D, Mary Ford, Cory Lidle, Joe De Santis
 * Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale - Gracie Allen, Wayne Allwine, James Arness, Lauren Bacall, Joe Barbera, Billy Barty, L. Frank Baum, Wallace Beery, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, George Burns, Lon Chaney, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Ellen Corby, George Cukor, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Walt Disney, W. C. Fields, Larry Fine, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Michael Jackson, Ted Knight, Harold Lloyd, Tom Mix, Clayton Moore, Alfred Newman, Hugh O'Brian, Mary Pickford, Red Skelton, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Bobby Womack, William Wyler, Ed Wynn
 * Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles - Edie Adams, Steve Allen, Gene Autry, Tex Avery, Judith Barsi, Mary Kay Bergman, Ernest Borgnine, Tom Bosley, Solomon Burke, Jerry Buss, David Carradine, Warren Christopher, Lee Van Cleef, Scatman Crothers, Hal David, Bette Davis, Sandra Dee, Ronnie James Dio, Michael Clarke Duncan, Richard Farnsworth, Marty Feldman, Carrie Fisher, Andy Gibb, Buck Henry, Nipsey Hussle, Michael Hutchence, Al Jarreau, Tony Jay, Bob Kane, Buster Keaton, Rodney King, Jack LaLanne, Dorothy Lamour, Fritz Lang, Stan Laurel, Lemmy, Liberace, Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Brittany Murphy, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Lewis Nixon III, Dick Van Patten, Bill Paxton, Brock Peters, Freddie Prinze, Debbie Reynolds, John Ritter, Isabel Sanford, Telly Savalas, John Singleton, Rod Steiger, McLean Stevenson, Paul Walker, Fred Willard, Scott Wilson, Paul Winfield, Bill Withers, John Witherspoon
 * Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach - Nate Dogg, Ricky Harris, Rickie Sorensen
 * Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne - James Cagney, Mary Higgins Clark, Sal Mineo, Babe Ruth
 * Glenwood Cemetery, Houston - Howard Hughes, Gene Tierney
 * Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes - Charles Bukowski, Lewis Collins, Willie Naulls, Yokozuna
 * Green River Cemetery, Springs - Peter Boyle, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Frank O'Hara, Alan J. Pakula, Jackson Pollock, [[
 * Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Joe Gallo, Diana Millay, Frank Morgan
 * Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City - DJ AM, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Shelley Berman, Theodore Bikel, Sorrell Booke, Andrew Breitbart, Nell Carter, Mickey Cohen, Jerry Goldsmith, Eydie Gormé, Monty Hall, Ruth Handler, Moe Howard, Al Jolson, Larry King, Michael Landon, Peggy Lipton, Vic Morrow, Leonard Nimoy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Poston, Jerry Rubin, Sherwood Schwartz, Dick Shawn, Robert B. Sherman, Dinah Shore, Aaron Spelling, Lupita Tovar, Jerry Weintraub, Shelley Winters, Stan Winston
 * Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood - Don Adams, Norman Alden, Mel Blanc, Chris Cornell, Dick Dale, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Peter Finch, Victor Fleming, Judy Garland, Janet Gaynor, Estelle Getty, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Hackett, Valerie Harper, Anne Heche, Rance Howard, John Huston, Don LaFontaine, Peter Lorre, Darren McGavin, Ken Miles, Maila Nurmi, Tyrone Power, Dee Dee Ramone, Paul Reubens, Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Tony Scott, Ann Sheridan, Bugsy Siegel, Jerry Siegel, Paul Sorvino, Stella Stevens, Carl Switzer, Rudolph Valentino, Clifton Webb, Fay Wray, Anton Yelchin
 * Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma - Joe DiMaggio, Vince Guaraldi
 * Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City - Mary Astor, Ray Bolger. Charles Boyer, Daws Butler, John Candy, Jackie Coogan, Darby Crash, Jimmy Durante, Vince Edwards, John Ford, Jack Haley, Rita Hayworth, Dwayne Hickman, Joan Leslie, Bela Lugosi, Fred MacMurray, Ricardo Montalbán, ZaSu Pitts, Rosalind Russell, Sharon Tate, Joe Viterelli, Lawrence Welk, Mary Wilson, Loretta Young
 * Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood - Ray Charles, Johnnie Cochran, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Grable, Robin Harris, Etta James, Robert Kardashian, Kirk Kerkorian, Juanita Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Cesar Romero
 * Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla – Anne Bancroft, Wendy Barrie, Billie Burke, Paddy Chayefsky, Tommy Dorsey, Gloria Foster, Lou Gehrig, Gilbert Gottfried, Jill Haworth, Al Hirschfeld, Danny Kaye, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ayn Rand, Soupy Sales, Gil Scott-Heron, Elie Wiesel, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
 * Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York
 * Los Angeles National Cemetery, West Los Angeles
 * Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens
 * Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles - Frances Bay, Sid Caesar, Lee J. Cobb, Cass Elliot, Norman Fell, Bonnie Franklin, Arthur Hiller, Ted Post, Don Rickles, Bob Saget, Phil Silvers, Hillel Slovak, Wendie Jo Sperber, Bea Wain
 * New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York - Mae Questel, Tommy Ramone
 * Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth - Fred Astaire, Stephen Boyd, Gloria Grahame, Ginger Rogers, Ken Spears, Gregory Walcott
 * Pacific View Memorial Park, Corona Del Mar - Kobe Bryant, Don Durant, Bobby Hatfield, Rafer Johnson, John Wayne
 * Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside - John Agar, Bernie Hamilton, George Clayton Johnson, Woody Strode, Noble Willingham
 * Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. - Robert N. Butler, Elizabeth Norment, Robert Prosky, Tim Russert, Upton Sinclair, Gore Vidal, Willie Wood
 * Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier - Alvin Ailey, Lewis Arquette, Eazy-E, Ron Glass, Jack Larson, Tommy Lasorda, Keye Luke, Haing S. Ngor, Lupe Ontiveros, Mark St. John, Thuy Trang
 * Saint Charles Cemetery, East Farmingdale - Vincent Gardenia, Peter Steele, Carol Ann Susi, Clarence Williams III
 * San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills - Walter Brennan, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Bob Hope, Clarence Nash, Penny Singleton, Ritchie Valens, Jane Wyatt
 * Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara - Bradford Dillman, Domino Harvey, Tab Hunter, John Ireland, Fess Parker, Peggy Rea, Alan Thicke
 * Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow
 * South-View Cemetery, Atlanta - Hank Aaron, Walt Bellamy, Julian Bond, John Lewis
 * Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, North Dallas - Mary Kay Ash, Greer Garson, William Hootkins, Tom Landry, Mickey Mantle, Ross Perot
 * Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan - John Jacob Astor IV, Alexander Hamilton, Jerry Orbach
 * Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood - Bea Benaderet, Yakima Canutt, Aneta Corsaut, Joe DeRita, Cliff Edwards, Gorgeous George, Lita Grey, Lois Hamilton, Oliver Hardy, Gail Russell, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Martha Vickers, Ken Weatherwax
 * Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village - Karen Carpenter, Steve Forrest, Ruth Hussey, Jack Kirby, Virginia Mayo, Harry Nilsson, George O'Hanlon, Kristoff St. John
 * Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood - Patty Andrews, Eve Arden, Lew Ayres, Jim Backus, Robert Bloch, Peter Bogdanovich, Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, John Cassavetes, James Coburn, Jackie Collins, Tim Conway, Alexander Courage, Bob Crane, Rodney Dangerfield, Kirk Douglas, Dominique Dunne, Peter Falk, Farrah Fawcett, June Foray, Eva Gabor, Paul Gleason, Merv Griffin, Armand Hammer, Hugh Hefner, Florence Henderson, James Wong Howe, Jack Klugman, Don Knotts, Burt Lancaster, Angela Lansbury, Ed Lauter, Peggy Lee, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Robert Loggia, Karl Malden, Dean Martin, Walter Matthau, Marilyn Monroe, Carroll O'Connor, Heather O'Rourke, Roy Orbison, Bettie Page, Wolfgang Petersen, Donna Reed, Buddy Rich, Minnie Riperton, Doris Roberts, Wayne Rogers, Herbert Ross, George C. Scott, Dorothy Stratton, Mel Tormé, Billy Wilder, Carl Wilson, Natalie Wood, Edward Yang, Frank Zappa
 * Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx - Irving Berlin, Nellie Bly, Harry Carey, Diahann Carroll, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, E. L. Doctorow, Duke Ellington, Archibald Gracie IV, Herman Melville, Hideyo Noguchi, Dorothy Parker, Otto Preminger, Joseph Pulitzer, Clark Terry, Cicely Tyson
 * Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira - Ernie Davis, Hal Roach, Mark Twain
 * Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica - Barbara Billingsley, Glenn Ford, Tom Hayden, Paul Henreid, Harvey Korman, Audra Lindley, Sally Ride, Mitchell Ryan, E. C. Segar, Hal Smith

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Talk:Andrii Derkach

Translation of parts of Netzwerke der Macht (networks of power)
Under (prime minister and president) Kuchma business and politics interpenetrated even more than in Russia. Clans, mostly regional cross-industry holding companies closely intertwined with the regional political elite, were formed that continue to exist to this day. Through a combination of lobbying, close cooperation with political parties and illegal appropriation via corruption networks, the owners of big corporations try to influence politics or become politically active themselves. Most notably, three main clans- consisting of various subgroups-have emerged.

Dnipropetrowsk clan

The "Dnipropetrowsk clan" -the historical home of CPSU secretary-general Leonid Brezhnev and Kuchma's political base - is made up of five groups: the Pintschuk group, the Derkatsch group, the Prywatbank group, the Kutmer group, and the Tymoshenko group …

The Pyntschuk group …

The Derkatsch group is led by Leonid Derkatsch, a longtime friend of Kuchma's, and his son, Member of Parliament Andrei Derkatsch. Leonid Derkatsch was formerly chairman of the Ukrainian Security Service and was fired by Kuchma in February 2001 in connection with the assassination of journalist Georgy Gongadze. Andrei Derkach heads the "Ukrainian Press Group" holding, which owns three daily newspapers, a TV guide, a business newspaper, and the "Wersii" website. He is also a member of the top executive body of the "Working Ukraine" party which was founded by Pinchuk (head of the Pinchuk group and second husband of one of Kuchma's daughters) and Derkatsch and is part of the Kuchma-friendly group "For a united Ukraine!". In addition, Andrej Derkatsch is a lobbyist for Russian companies in Ukraine belonging to the Russian aluminum group Sibirskij aljumij. He also maintains a good relationship with Anatolij Tschubajs, chairman of the Russian electricity monopolist JeES Rossii.

The most prominent member of the Kuchma group is former president Leonid Kuchma. Other members of the group include a number of former deputy prime ministers and ministers. The main task of the Kuchma group is to represent the interests of arms companies in eastern and southern Ukraine. The group also is in control of the space flight industry. The Ukrainian defense industry, on the one hand, has close ties to the Russian military-industrial complex, and on the other hand also competes with them on the world market. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 17:47, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Fork fight against corruption?
On Derkach's website he is listed under blogs with the caption Фуршетная борьба с коррупцией. In French, fourchette means "fork." Anyone know what this odd phrase (foorshetnaya fight against corruption) means? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Really - Gossip Girl?
Blogger Дима Фомин (Dima Fomin) using a picture of actor Desmond Harrington in season 2 of Gossip Girl (same blog page and at the top of the blogger's article, an attack piece on Vitali Klitschko). Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 18:28, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Unsourced material
in "Career," "Parliamentary activity," "Public work," and "Honors and recognition" sections seem to have been taken from Derkach's personal website. Without secondary sources a lot of the content looks like self-promotional fluff that may need to be removed. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 12:21, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Tag asking editors to expand article with text translated from corresponding article in Ukrainian
Both articles originally seem to have been copies of the biography section on Derkach's personal website, containing content that is written like an advertisement, to quote one of the tags, and without any sources. I just Google-translated the Ukrainian article and noticed that it still looks very much like the biography on Derkach's website, and it still does not have any sources. Please, tell me which part of the text should be used to expand this article and whether there are any sources for it? Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 10:07, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * well that is not good. Thank you for your review.  My "expansion" was hopeful request in that I hoped there would be better RS there, but maybe 5P Ukrainian Wikipedians haven't been able to get to it, with the Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present), Trump's attacks, intense internal issues, etc.  I don't understand Ukrainian, and Google and Bing's translators all too often fall far too short for non-simple language translation.  X1\ (talk) 22:33, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Update RAO UES
At time of writing, this article talks about RAO UES in the present tense. The company was broken up and ceased to exist in 2010 as per RAO UES' Wikipedia page. Maybe an update is in order using a better source? The current FT article is behind a paywall and no longer resolves. | Archive linkTMLutas (talk) 18:04, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

To be added
According to the Israeli National Police, in December 1999, Andrii Derkach, Vadim Rabinovich, who became business partner of Yevhen Murayev at NewsOne, Semyon Mogilevich, Alexander Angert, and Leonid Minin are very close and from December 12-13, 1999, Andrii Derkach, his assistant O. Kovalchuk, V. Kovalchuk, Alexander Angert, and I. Sharov met Vadim Rabinovich at Vadim Rabinovich's villa near Netanya, Israel, after which the visiting group returned to Kyiv in Rabinovich's private plane. Also, in December 1999 in Herods Hotel at Eilat, Israel, Israeli National Police monitored a meeting among Mikhail Chernoy, Semyon Mogilevich, Vadim Rabinovich, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Taranov, who was the head of the National Agency of Ukraine for State Property Management, and Andrii Derkach.

Last sentence, first section
The last sentence in the first section makes absolutely no sense. I don't even know where to go with it Jtb323 (talk) 20:07, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Charged in U.S. federal court on December 7, 2022
Wasn't Derkach charged (with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Acts, bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and four counts of money laundering) in U.S. federal court on December 7, 2022? Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/russian-intelligence-agent-charged-fraud-and-money-laundering-connection-purchase-and <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:02, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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Radiology

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MRI uses radiowaves and magnetic fields for excellent soft tissue detail. It is used heavily in Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal imaging.

CT and xrays both use high frequency low wavelenght xrays. Bony detail is excellent though soft tissue detail is limited.

Ultrasound uses sound waves.

Nuclear medicine uses radioactive tracers and particles and depicts many physiologic processes.

A separate branch, interventional radiology, uses diagnostic techniques such as fluoroscopy, CT, ultrasound, and in the future, MRI, to guide the placement of needles, catheters and wires inside the human body for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

In the future, many newer techiniques, such as a functional MRI, interventional MRI, MRI/PET fusion, and molecular and genetic imaging will become routine.

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Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Bavarian: Naimakk in da Owerpfolz) is the capital of the Neumarkt district in the administrative region of the Upper Palatinate, in Bavaria, Germany. With a population of about 40,000, Neumarkt is the seat of various projects, and acts as the economic and cultural center of the western Upper Palatinate, along with Nürnberg, Ingolstadt, and Regensburg.

Geography
Neumarkt lies on the western edge of the Franconian Jura, nestled in a valley. The municipal region reaches as far as the Bavarian Jura to the east. The Neumarkt valley drains to the north through the Schwarzach River, a tributary of the Regnitz, eventually flowing into the Main, and to the south through the Sulz, a tributary of the Altmühl, which eventually flows into the Danube. The Ludwig Canal cuts through the area from North to South, bridging the European water divide. The elevation varies from 406 meters on the Beckenmühle River to the north, to 595 meters in the vicinity of Fuchsberg; as a reference, the elevation of city hall is given as 423 meters.

The municipal region has an area of 73.09 km2. The following municipalities, all of which belong to the Neumarkt district, border the district capital. They are named clockwise, beginning in the north: Berg, Pilsach, Velburg, Deining, Sengenthal, Berngau and Postbauer-Heng.

Geology
Neumarkt is located on the western edge of a former Coral Reef (now called the Franconian Jura) of the Tethys Ocean during the Jurassic. The floor of the valley is predominately sandy, whence came the earlier name Neumarkt auf dem Sand (Neumarkt on the Sand), on the sides are isolated regions of loam. The mountains are formed of hard Limestone containing numerous springs, including, for example, the source of the White Laber River near Voggenthal.

Municipal subdivision
The core of the municipal area is the Old City and its still-recognized borders. The first housing developments built outside the city walls began in 1850 to the east, along Mühlstraße, Mariahilfstraße, and Badstraße. To the south, the Industrial area developed beginning around 1920. After 1945, the city expanded to the north and west, and eventually grew together with the municipalities of Woffenbach and Holzheim. Numerous other settlements developed around the city center, named, going clockwise from the north: Altenhof, Koppenmühle, Kohlenbrunnermühle, Mühlen, Wolfstein (at the site of the former Prison Work Camp), Weinberg, Schlosserhügel, and Hasenheide.

During the 1972 Municipality Reforms, nine municipalities were merged with the city, substantially increasing the municipal area.

History
Traces of the earliest settlement at Neumarkt go back as far as the Neolithic period. Around Neumarkt there are numerous burial mounds and multiple Celtic embankments. The town is assumed to have been first founded by the Bavarii in the 6th or 7th century, for example, the quarter of the city now named Pölling.

The precise date of the city's founding is unknown, but its founding as "neuer Markt" is assumed to have happened in the beginning of the 12th century, on the trade route between Nuremberg and Regensburg. The city was first mentioned in a document in 1135, and city fortifications were mentioned for the first time in 1315. In the 13th century Emperor Frederick II granted Neumarkt Reichsfreiheit, and with it, the right to collect customs on trade between Nuremberg and Regensburg and itself. However, the city never enforced this status, because the city fell to the Wittelsbachs in 1329 through the Treaty of Pavia.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Neumarkt was the residence of the rulers of the Palatinate. Count Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt established the seat of his government here, and began to develop the city into a residency. Included in his work are the church of St. Johannes, the Court Chapel, and the castle of the counts of the Palatinate. Johann was succeeded by Counts Otto I, his son Otto II, and Frederick II, who later became an Elector, and moved to Heidelberg.

After the Palatinate Counts left, Neumarkt lost much of its importance. Subsequently, the city played a part in political and economic life only for the surrounding area, and the growth of the city stopped almost entirely. The next perceptible period of growth did not occur until the middle of the 19th century. In the Thirty Years' War, Neumarkt was occupied by Swedish troops from 1633 to 1635 and from 1646 to 1649. Both times the city was plundered and partially destroyed. During the war of the First Coalition a dramatic encounter between the French and Austria troops occurred in Neumarkt in the Summer of 1796. The French barricaded themselves in the city and the Austrians began its complete destruction. Only through the intervention of a smith from Neumarkt, who single-handedly opened the upper gate, was something worse averted. Neumarkt attained the status of Bavarian imperial city, and was the seat of a district court after the Kingdom of Bavaria was formed by Napoleon in 1806.

In the 19th century Neumarkt gradually developed into an industrial center. Beginning in 1830, thousands of laborers worked on the Ludwigskanal in the vicinity of Neumarkt, the completion of which, in 1846, made Neumarkt a port city. The Express-Werken, established in Neumarkt in 1884, were continental Europe's first bicycle factory.

The economic and political results of World War I were quickly noticeable in Neumarkt. Over 300 of its young men fell on the battlefield.

In September 1923 one of the first local chapters of the Nazi Party was founded in Neumarkt, which appeared publicly on September 23 for "German Day". The chapter was created shortly before the death of Dietrich Eckart, one of the founders of the Nazi party, who was born in Neumarkt. The removal of active party members, however, led to its quick disintegration. The party was not reorganized in Neumarkt until 1928. In 1934, in memory of Eckart, the town was officially given the added suffix "Dietrich-Eckart-city". In that year, Adolf Hitler inaugurated a monument in Eckart's honour in the city park. It has since been rededicated to Christopher of Bavaria (1416-1448), King of Denmark, who was probably born in the town.

Economy
The Lammsbräu Brewery is located in the town.

Sports
Neumarkt offers sport activities like martial arts (Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Aikido, Boxing and Thai boxing) as well as table tennis, wheelchair sports, athletics, bowling, volleyball, wrestling and tennis. league and wrestling.

Twin towns – sister cities
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz is twinned with:
 * 🇫🇷 Issoire, France
 * 🇦🇹 Mistelbach, Austria

Notable people

 * Christopher of Bavaria (1416–1448), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
 * Otto II, Count Palatine of Mosbach-Neumarkt (1425–1499), Pfalzgraf, bridesman at the Landshut Wedding, astronomer and mathematician
 * Caspar Schoppe (1576–1649), publicist of the Counter-Reformation
 * Martin Schrettinger (1772–1851), library scientist
 * Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), poet, playwright, journalist and political activist
 * Max Feldbauer (1869–1948), painter
 * Albert Reich (1881–1942), painter, graphic artist and illustrator
 * August Rinaldi (1883–1962), film architect
 * Michael Rackl (1883–1948), Bishop of Eichstätt
 * Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), actress
 * Ludwig Ott (1906–1985), Catholic theology professor, dogmatist and mediavist
 * Adolf Beck (1938–2009), politician (CSU), member of Landtag of Bavaria 1970–2003
 * Alois Karl (born 1950), Lord Mayor of Neumarkt 1990–2005, since 2005 Bundestag deputy
 * Karl-Heinz Radschinsky (born 1953), weight lifter
 * Stefan Körner (born 1968), politician (Pirate Party Germany)

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These are topped with the appropriate Bookshelf at Wikibooks and list key readings in an order that supports the practicum

Wikiversity
New or existing Learning materials at Wikiversity. Some may be written as part of the practicum. Example: Multilingualism

Workbook
See the Multilingual worksheet as an example.

Labs
Labs are exersises that may require something physical to be done. In our multilingualism example, the learner has to get sound working and listen to audio versions of the language he/she is learning.

The next Lab may be to hook up a microphone and create audio versions for a language host group to present to a visiting language group.

Collaborations
A collaboration is a learning project that applies learning materials developed within a  host  practicum to real problems within a  guest  practicum, school, division, department, or other group. In our example, we multilingual experts play a custodial role for the Wikiversity the Movie/multi-lingual part of Wikiversity the Movie.

Other collaborations might include help for Labs with our practicum in the role of  guest  of say Practicum:Sounds of the Wikiverse. They, the audio experts help us do the Labs, assisting us non-technical multilinguals in the production of Audio files for versions of Wikiversity the Movie in potentially every language on the planet.

We can remain focused not on the details of Audio production, but on our subject - Multilingualism while they can remain focused on their subject - Audio production. So what if our practicums merge and spawn a new practicum altogether?

We all learn and the work gets done! (See Learning to learn a wiki way) 04:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Resources
These are generally external links to software resources, further reading and other resources needed to conduct parts of the practicum.

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Vita (brand)

Vita is a brand name of various types of beverage and food produced by Hong Kong-based beverage company Vitasoy. First introduced in 1976 as a series of different flavored fruit drinks the brand later expanded to include the world's first ready-to-drink lemon tea beverage. Vita-brand beverage are now available not only in Hong Kong, but also in different countries.

Different beverages such as fruit juice, tea, milk and water are given the Vita brand while high-protein soy milk drink are given the Vitasoy brand.

Vitasoy-brand

 * Vitasoy series – original soy milk drinks
 * Calci-Plus series – calcium enriched plant milk
 * Pure series – "pure taste" drinks
 * Sansui series – non-GMO organic soybean soy milk and tofu

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Kaspa

Kaspa (Каспа; Каспа) is a rural locality (a selo) in Shebalinsky District, the Altai Republic, Russia. The population was 372 as of 2016. There are 5 streets.

Geography
Kaspa is located 42 km southeast of Shebalino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkh-Apshuyakhta is the nearest rural locality.

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Talk:Calculus/Power series

Help!
This page badly needs attention. I've tidied up some of it, but it still lacks content. Carl Turner 21:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Problems
This page falsely implied all series have finite radii of convergence. Corrected and expanded. Also, series aren't always expanded around x=0, notably ln x. More work is needed, maybe including quote of full Taylor-Mclaurin expansion. - Robert 2/4/4

convergence
after find the convergence radius need to test the extremities.

eg: if the radius is 5 and the center is -3 the extremities is -8 and +2, so you need to test if the series converge with -8 and +2.

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Talk:Dave Nilsson

never played in MLB again...
He left MLB at the height of his career and never came back? Why? I know he left to play in the Olympics, but why did he never come back? Kingturtle 07:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

He didn't get anywhere near the recognition he deserved in Australia. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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User:Rose Petals

Hello to any out there who may stumble across this page. I am Rose Petals. I like to blog a little, and share my opinions a lot! If I post enough here and you read enough of my posts you will see just how opinionated I am. But that's the great thing about being American. We all have opinions and most of us are not shy about sharing them.

I suppose the best thing to do would be to write something clever and smart. Unfortunately writer's block has kept me from doing so. I hate writer's block! I feel like I should be writing but can't think of anything worth saying. As a result I tend to ramble on just as I am doing now.

Well let me see what I can get into on this site. Perhaps something will inspire me to write and I will have something clever and smart to share. Don't hold your breath though!

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Statistics/Different Types of Data/Quantitative and Qualitative Data

Qualitative data
Qualitative data is a categorical measurement expressed not in terms of numbers, but rather by means of a natural language description. In statistics, it is often used interchangeably with "categorical" data.

For example: favorite color = "blue" height = "tall" i hated the most = "zen"

Although we may have categories, the categories may have a structure to them. When there is not a natural ordering of the categories, we call these nominal categories. Examples might be gender, race, religion, or sport.

When the categories may be ordered, these are called ordinal variables. Categorical variables that judge size (small, medium, large, etc.) are ordinal variables. Attitudes (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) are also ordinal variables, however we may not know which value is the best or worst of these issues. Note that the distance between these categories is not something we can measure.

Quantitative data
Quantitative data is a numerical measurement expressed not by means of a natural language description, but rather in terms of numbers. However, not all numbers are continuous and measurable. For example, the social security number is a number, but not something that one can add or subtract.

For example: molecule length = "450 nm" height = "1.8 m"

Quantitative data always are associated with a scale measure.

Probably the most common scale type is the ratio-scale. Observations of this type are on a scale that has a meaningful zero value but also have an equidistant measure (i.e., the difference between 10 and 20 is the same as the difference between 100 and 110). For example, a 10 year-old girl is twice as old as a 5 year-old girl. Since you can measure zero years, time is a ratio-scale variable. Money is another common ratio-scale quantitative measure. Observations that you count are usually ratio-scale (e.g., number of widgets).


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Buisson, Vaucluse

Buisson (Boisson) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Buisson is a small, wine-producing, Knights Templar village, dating back at least as far as the 12th century, and linked since its beginning to the nearby village of Villedieu, with which it produces its principal crop, Côtes-du-Rhône wine, which is sold from their joint winery, le Cellier du Templier.

Geography
Situated above the Aygues River, Buisson lies at the northern edge of the Vaucluse and within sight of the southern border of the Drôme, the département immediately to its north. Located 9km (5mi) northwest of the small, ancient city of Vaison-la-Romaine, known as "the French Pompeii," Buisson is one of fourteen communes surrounding that city that share its postal address: 84110 Vaison-la-Romaine.

Economy
Besides its wine, Buisson produces in small quantities such products as olives, apricots, cherries, figs, lavender, and numerous other vegetables and fruits. It is situated above the same valley as Nyons, the ancient olive capital of France, and within an hour's drive of the Mediterranean, from which fresh-caught seafood is brought to neighboring markets at Vaison, Valréas, Nyons, Malaucène, and Tulette, as well as to the nearby cities of Carpentras, Orange, Avignon, and L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

It also has an active bistrot which generates a small amount of revenue and is owned by the council. There are multiple bed and breakfasts situated in and around the village which are all privately owned but attract in excess of 100 tourists yearly.

Small business ventures started by locals involve hat sellers, toymakers and even apricot and apricot jam merchants.

Sights
Buisson, whose population rises to approximately 360 inhabitants in summer, is a pretty, typically Provençal village, whose annual wine fête occurs in July. Its physical attractions include an intact, inner medieval walled section with two entrances, one of which housed a 14th-century portcullis; a church dating from at least the 12th century, Notre Dame Del Bois, whose northern yard affords views of the entire region; and two lavoirs, one, on its main plaza, with an attractive fountain. The site of Buisson's medieval castle now includes a large residence, which was constructed several centuries after the original structure disappeared.

Renovations and Building Projects
In 2020, the council took on the task of renovating and restoring the castle behind the lookout point.

Another project undertaken was the restoration and reopening of the Pigeonnier (dovecote) situated just outside the village. The idea was to turn it into a small art gallery in which local artists of the surrounding villages could display their work.

One proposed idea for the field where the Pigeonnier was situated was to build a small Super U supermarket but this was rejected by members of the council. Instead, olive trees were planted and benches were installed.

When the lookout point lookout point collapsed in late 2022, the area was soon cordoned off and the century old walls were rebuilt to provide a safer structure.

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Bailey Brook (West Branch French Creek tributary)

Bailey Brook is a 4.39 mi long tributary to West Branch French Creek that is classed as a 1st order stream on the EPA waters geoviewer site.

Course
Bailey Brook rises in Venango Township of eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and then flows southwest to meet West Branch French Creek near Lowville.

Watershed
Bailey Brook drains 4.63 sqmi of Erie Drift Plain (glacial geology). The watershed receives an average of 46.6 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 423.76. The watershed is about 54% forested.


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Top-rated United States television programs of 1974–75

This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1974–75 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research.


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Rikizo Takata

Rikizo Takata (18 October 1900 – 31 October 1992) was a Japanese painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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quarantena

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1) a set of forty units
 * 2) quarantine

Etymology
From form of.

Noun

 * 1)  quarantine
 * 2)  period of forty days
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Single colour reflectometry

Single colour reflectometry (SCORE), formerly known as imaging Reflectometric Interferometry (iRIf) and 1-lambda Reflectometry, is a physical method based on interference of monochromatic light at thin films, which is used to investigate (bio-)molecular interactions. The obtained binding curves using SCORE provide detailed information on kinetics and thermodynamics of the observed interaction(s) as well as on concentrations of the used analytes. These data can be relevant for pharmaceutical screening and drug design, biosensors and other biomedical applications, diagnostics, and cell-based assays.

Principle
The underlying principle corresponds to that of the Fabry-Pérot interferometer, which is also the underlying principle for the white-light interferometry.

Realisation / setup
Monochromatic light is illuminated vertically on the rear side of a transparent multi-layer substrate. The partial beams of the monochromatic light are transmitted and reflected at each interphase of the multi-layer system. Superimposition of the reflected beams result in destructive or constructive interference (depending on wavelength of the used light and the used substrate/multi-layer system materials) that can be detected in an intensity change of the reflected light using a photodiode, CCD, or CMOS element.

The sensitive layer on top of the multi-layer system can be (bio-)chemically modified with receptor molecules, e.g. antibodies. Binding of specific ligands to the immobilised receptor molecules results in a change refractive index n and physical thickness d of the sensitive layer. The product of n and d results in the optical thickness (n*d) of the sensitive layer.

Monitoring the change of the reflected intensity of the used light over time results in binding curves that provide information on:
 * concentration of used ligand
 * binding kinetics (association and dissociation rate constants) between receptor and ligand
 * binding strength (affinity) between receptor and ligand
 * specificity of the interaction between receptor and ligand

Compared to bio-layer interferometry, which monitors the change of the interference pattern of reflected white light, SCORE only monitors the intensity change of the reflected light using a photodiode, CCD, or CMOS element. Thus, it is possible to analyse not only a single interaction but high-density arrays with up to 10,000 interactions per cm2. Compared to surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which penetration depth is limited by the evanescent field, SCORE is limited by the coherence length of the light source, which is typically a few micrometers. This is especially relevant when investigating whole cell assays. Also, SCORE (as well as BLI) is not influenced by temperature fluctuations during the measurement, while SPR needs thermostabilisation.

Application
SCORE is especially used as detection method in bio- and chemosensors. It is a label-free technique like Reflectometric interference spectroscopy (RIfS), Bio-layer Interferometry (BLI) and Surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which allows time-resolved observation of binding events on the sensor surface without the use of fluorescence or radioactive labels.

The SCORE technology was commercialised by Biametrics GmbH, a service provider and instrument manufacturer with headquarters in Tübingen, Germany. In January 2020, Biametrics GmbH and its technology was acquired by BioCopy Holding AG, headquartered in Aadorf, Switzerland.

Literature

 * Ewald, M., Fechner, P. & Gauglitz, G. Anal Bioanal Chem (2015) 407: 4005. doi:10.1007/s00216-015-8562-0
 * Bleher, O., Schindler, A., Yin, MX. et al. Anal Bioanal Chem (2014) 406: 3305. doi:10.1007/s00216-013-7504-y
 * Schindler, A., Bleher, O., Thaler, M., et al. (2014). Diagnostic performance study of an antigen microarray for the detection of antiphospholipid antibodies in human serum. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 53(5), pp. 801–808. Retrieved 2 Mar. 2017, from doi:10.1515/cclm-2014-0569
 * Ewald, M., Le Blanc, A.F., Gauglitz, G. et al. Anal Bioanal Chem (2013) 405: 6461. doi:10.1007/s00216-013-7040-9
 * Rüdiger Frank ; Bernd Möhrle ; Dieter Fröhlich and Günter Gauglitz, "A transducer-independent optical sensor system for the detection of biochemical binding reactions", Proc. SPIE 5993, Advanced Environmental, Chemical, and Biological Sensing Technologies III, 59930A (November 8, 2005); doi:10.1117/12.633881; https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.633881
 * SLAS Technol. 2017 Aug;22(4):437-446. doi: 10.1177/2211068216657512. Low-Volume Label-Free Detection of Molecule-Protein Interactions on Microarrays by Imaging Reflectometric Interferometry. Burger J, Rath C, Woehrle J, Meyer PA, Ben Ammar N, Kilb N, Brandstetter T, Pröll F, Proll G, Urban G, Roth G.

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Talk:Ocean Ranger/Archive 1

Anecdotal evidence
Kryz 23:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC) Unverifiable anecdotal prose does not belong in an article; it should remain in the talk page until proven citation is available. Propose removal of "Correction" section of main article until content can be backed up with references...

Reference

 * No disagreement here; the comments should have gone on this Talk page rather than within the article. But the article does have a lot of problems (plain factual errors, speculation with no factual basis, and some gratuitous cracks like the Titanic line) that need to be corrected. I'll try to get to it if no one else does first. I also have some other primary source materials (newspapers, trade press articles from the time) that aren't available online.

Ghaff 23:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I accept that the facts within the "Correction" passage are valid and that they give a good description of the event, but an encyclopedia article should not contain first-person prose without quote marks. Quotes from the article with appropriate citation give the article neutrality.

Kryz 19:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * As I noted earlier, this article from the February 2002 issue of Atlantic Oil & Gas Works appears be be a reasonably complete and accurate accounting of events based on contemporary records and accident reconstruction. The inquiry findings would doubtless contain a far more complete accounting (with the caveat that many details of what happened are not known with certainty) but I do not have access to them.

Ghaff 16:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I reviesd the time of the first helicopter arriving on scene from 04:30 to 02:30 as a Universal Helicopter did arrive on scene at 02:30. The first military search and rescue helicopters arrived later at 04:30.

User:skarrletter 12:16 PST, 7 March 14 2009 (UTC)

Further Details and Corrections About the Sinking
The "Corrections" section in this version of the Ocean Ranger article looks to be substantially accurate. I was likewise a mechanical engineer just out of school when the rig sank. I was not involved in the Ocean Ranger design (it was launched before I joined the company) but I was involved in the investigation of the sinking because my department, Operations Engineering, was among other things responsible for rig piping design, including the ballast control system. I have a few additions and possible corrections.

The tragedy took place over 20 years ago and I don't have access to inquiry findings or other detailed information. However, this article from this February 2002 issue of Atlantic Oil & Gas Works jives closely with my recollections.

Almost everything known about the disaster is based on accident reconstruction. There were only a few brief radio messages and no survivors. Thus, stories about hairdryers or who exactly was doing what on the rig as events unfolded are essentially inventions out of whole cloth. Based on the positions of the ballast control valves and the recovered ballast control panel, ODECO's conclusion was that: 1.) The porthole of the ballast control room broke, shorting out the electrical controls that controlled the pneumatic ballast control valve system; 2.) At some point, manual overrides (the brass rods referenced in the above article) were inserted to manually operate the system but apparently were opening valves (the opposite of the intended purpose); and 3.) Because of this, the rig passed the point where ballast control pumps had sufficient head to pump out and the rig capsized. I also recall that the manual overrides appeared to be something left in the ballast control room from shipyard testing and were not intended or documented for operational use-but, as I say, these events took place a long time ago and I don't have any backup for that recollection. The single most tragic thing about the accident is that it's generally accepted that if the crew had just left the ballast control panel shut off (with the valves thereby in their default closed state) and gone to bed, there's no reason to believe that the rig wouldn't have been able to ride out the storm witthout harm.

According to the reference materials I have, the rig was found on the ocean bottom about 300 ft. from the drillsite, inverted with its structure intact.

The news stories I have give conflicting reports about the lifeboats and whether there were people still alive that the workboats couldn't rescue but I'm inclined to accept what it says in the 2002 article rather than confused accounts in the days after the sinking. It's probably hard to visualize the conditions under which rescues were being attempted. Winds were close to 100 knots and there were waves as high as 70 feet or so. Thus, inadequacy of survival training and equipment notwithstanding (and there certainly were problems) it's unclear what difference it would have made in the end. I don't know if there were technical problems with lowering one or more of the lifeboats or not.

Ghaff 18:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I was a witness to this tragedy and asked to assist in identifying the 22 bodies recovered. I lost one man, not an Odeco hand, whose body was never found. Most of what is written above is accurate to the root cause of the sinking concerning the errors made with the ballast control system and the "culture" of the rig. It should also be noted that the environment at the time of the sinking played the biggest role in making this a disaster. If the chain of events had been broken this would never have happened. I was one of a few who had personally complained to Mobil supervisors in St.Johns when they had ballast and listing problems a week before the sinking, and the lack of safety drill participation when I had visited the rig. ( in fact- I was to go out the morning the rig went down to follow up on some of the complaints not related to safety, but for some rig equipment). I was assured by Odeco management who I will keep nameless as I know one of these individuals is now dead, that their offices were looking into the problem. There were survivors that did manage to get away from the rig in one life boat but did perish when they panicked and tipped over the boat by getting on one side as it approached the Seaforth Highlander. I was in Mobil's radio room at the time the vessel was in contact with Odeco and Mobil personnel and heard the exchange about the found lifeboat. I was asked to leave the radio room as I was a contractor rep at 3 am. I was later informed at 5 am that the rig was lost and the survivors in the lifeboat were also lost as mentioned above. The rig structure was not intact when it was upside down, the derrick and all contractors "trailers" were spread around the ocean floor. This was a time I know I will never forget as I lost many good friends. I do believe that there was one big injustice done to the Newfoundlanders' families that people generally do not know. They received about $50,000 for each individual lost due to Workmens Comp laws ( approx. 50 individuals affected). Any other man's family got about a million each. Odeco received due to insurance ( rig was over insured and lawyers for Odeco would not let the company set a precedent by paying out more) about 100 million. Odeco showed a big profit when the rig went down. Too bad the lawyers didn't go down with the rig instead of the 84 good souls. Oceanrangerwitness 04:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I can verify the lack of training aspect here.I was the control room operator on the Ocean Ranger when it was operating in Lower Cook Inlet and the Gulf of Alaska.I was "trained" in the Gulf of Mexico on other rigs,one of which sat on bottom.Neither of the operators on either rig would ever let me touch the control panel.When I arrived on the Ocean Ranger,my training pretty much consisted of the operator from the other shift showing me the ropes while the tool pusher explained that he would not pay the overtime.A very OTJ training aproach.I even have a picture of that portholeand that control panel. I did see a 65' wave through that porthole...............

rewrite
Hi there, I've re-written a substantial part of the text based on the United States Coast Guard's Marine Casualty Report, which I've listed as the main source for this article. The Marine Casualty Report details the main evidence, including the radio traffic, of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, and also outlines the main scenarios which could have contributed to the sinking. Note that there is not one verified explanation to the sinking, only a number of observations and deductions which indicate what may have happened.

I've tried to be as objective as possible whilst reviewing the Marine Casualty Report but it's possible that some errors have crept or that I've missed something, in which case please feel free to update the article.

Vodkasim 16:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

A nice job on a delicate subject. The USCG would seem to be as reliably neutral source as could be expected in this sort of situation. The only addition that I would suggest comes from the article that I reference below. It contains the paragraph:

"The seawater short-circuited the control panel and caused several sea valves to open, allowing seawater to enter the forward tanks. This created a list in the Ocean Ranger. At this point, the crew left the pumps running and inserted the brass manual control rods in an effort to close the valves they thought were open. In fact, insertion of the rods opened the valves and allowed more water to pour into the rig."

While speculation, it is informed speculation based on an examination of physical evidence on the ocean floor (I don't know what, if anything, was brought up to the surface.) It was also consistent with the results of an analysis of the physical behavior of the rig based on the hypothesized scenario. Thus, it seems as valid as any sort of accident reconstruction. I would suggest adding this, not as "fact", but as what ODECO reconstructed as the most likely scenario in its view.

BTW, I think I have a publicity photo of the Ocean Ranger when drilling in Alaska that should qualify under fair use.

Ghaff 23:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello Ghaff, thanks for your comments.

I had to think long and hard about what to include on the subject of the ballast control malfunction. The USCG Marine Board of Investigation stated in its conclusions regarding the opening of several ballast control valves that 'there is insufficient evidence to favour support for any one of the several possible scenarios for this event'. The Marine Board of Investigation goes on to state, 'the first possibility was that an entirely electrical malfunction occurred which directly caused several ballast system valves to open. The second possibility was that those individuals who were attempting to correct an actual or perceived malfunction of the console, or who were attempting to operate the system by manual control, made an error which had the same end result as opening several ballast system valves and allowing water to enter the forward tanks. A number of other possible and entirely plausible scenarios can be made combining various aspects of these two extremes.'

So you can see that it is difficult to objectively state what caused the initial list. For this reason, I wrote: 'The United States Coast Guard concluded that the rig's list was a result of a either a ballast control malfunction or human error, or a combination of the two, causing, at some point, valves to operate which allowed water to enter the rig's forward ballast tanks', because it cannot be concluded with certainty which was the cause.

As a result I would recommend not including the statements that the sea water caused a short circuit and that this short circuit caused sea valves to open, as these points have not been proven (as far as I can tell in my readings). I would also hesitate to state that the crew left the pumps running and that the insertion of the manual control rods allowed more water to pour into the rig as this is again only one speculated route to loss.

It may be simpler to add a paragraph detailing the chain of events causing the loss:

 * a large wave appeared to cause broken portlight;
 * the broken portlight allowed the ingress of water into the ballast control room;
 * the ballast control panel malfunctioned or appeared to malfunction to the crew;
 * as a result of this malfunction or perceived malfunction, several valves in the rig's ballast control system opened, or were opened;
 * the Ocean Ranger assumed a forward list;
 * as a result of the forward list, boarding seas began flooding the forward chain lockers located in the corner support columns;
 * the forward list worsened;
 * the pumping of the forward tanks was not possible using the usual ballast control method as the magnitude of the forward list created a vertical distance between the forward tanks and the ballast pumps located astern that exceeded the suction available on the ballast system's pumps;
 * detailed instructions and personnel trained in the use of the ballast control panel were not available;
 * at some point, the crew blindly attempted to manually operate the ballast control panel using the brass control rods;
 * at some point, the manually operated sea valves in both pontoons were closed;
 * progressive flooding of the chain lockers and subsequent flooding of the upper deck caused the rig to capsize.

Any comments on this welcome. My one worry is that the article will become too long and unwieldy - it might be an idea to break the article up into a few sections, such as 'Introduction', 'Prior to the Accident', and 'Causes and Aftermath'. Something like that.

I've also removed the POV Check code from the beginning - my aim was to make the article more neutral and I think it now has a much more unbiased feel.

Oh, and please upload the photo - it would certainly complement the article. Thanks again, Vodkasim 16:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

That all sounds very reasonable. I understand the concern about complexity. I think the issue with leaving the chain of events out is that it invites future additions to the article that are not based on the facts or, at least, engineering-based reconstructions of what facts are known. Breaking into sections could indeed organize the material.

Some of the speculations re: the shorts seem reasonable given that the Ranger used an electro-pneumatic ballast control system rather than a conventional all-pneumatic system. However, I agree that anything related to that is conjecture.

FYI, my background here is that I was an engineer at ODECO who was involved in the accident reconstruction. I wasn't a designer on the Ranger (though I was involved with designing the Odyssey (OR II at the the time) and was also involved in shipyard retrofits on various other rigs). I was also involved with adding an emergency ballast blow system to a variety of rigs after the Ocean Ranger tragedy.

Again, good job on this. I'd been meaning to but you've done a great job with the best source material available.

Ghaff 04:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Have added the USCG chain of events and split the article into sections. Also included the possibility of shorting in the ballast control panel in the chain of events paragraph. Looks ok - comments/updates welcome.

Vodkasim 16:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Rogue Wave
To FT2, Hi, sorry to be a pain, but I've removed the links to the Rogue Wave article as I do not believe that there is any relevent link between the Ocean Ranger and Rogue Waves. The argument against including a reference to rogue waves is as follows:

The storm seas experienced by the Ocean Ranger on the day of its sinking were 50-60 feet (see the USCG Marine Investigation Board report). The Ranger had an 80 foot draft on the day of the sinking, meaning that the main deck was 54 feet above sea level and the ballast control room was at 25 feet above sea level. The bottom line here is that it is possible for many large waves to strike up to the main deck level, and certainly likely that waves could strike up to the ballast control room height. One of the probable causes of the accident was that the portholes of the ballast control room were not covered with their protective hatches thus allowing the portholes to sustain damage.

Further to this, the Ocean Ranger and the neighbouring two rigs each had their own individual support vessel which maintained a position within a few kilometres of each rig. If a rogue/freak wave had been involved in the sinking of the Ranger then it would almost undoubtedly have been experienced and recorded by one of the neighbouring 5 vessels. No such mention of a rogue wave is made during the witness statements of the crews of the various neighbouring vessels.

Vodkasim 13:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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Correction: I was a young engineer (BSME) just out of school working for ODECO, the owner/operators of the rig, at the time of the sinking. I was hired into a toolpusher's (the title given to the head authority on a rig) training program along with 10-15 other engineers in an effort by ODECO to put engineers offshore because of the increasing complexity of the operations as deeper waters were being encountered. There was also a corporate culture of master/servant between the toolpushers and management that made communication between the two very difficult as the toolpushers tended to avoid revelations of mistakes. It was probably thought that fellow engineers would be much more forthcoming as to what was transpiring offshore in an effort to avoid disasters which had occurred in the past. Our group worked on the rigs, usually on the drill floor as roughnecks, so while it was awhile ago I have pretty good knowledge of rig operations. The reasons for it's sinking were explained a few years afterward by the head of operations to this group of engineers which differs from the above explanation.

First there are a few mistakes in the above text to clarify.

''separate the main drilling platform from the rest of the rig if they could retrieve the drill string. This had been done only once or twice before''

The main drilling platform is not detachable from the main rig. It is an integral part of the rig. Detaching the rig from the blow out preventer (BOP), which sits on sea floor, is probably what the author means. This has been done many times and is a simple and well understood procedure.

 The crew removed the relays, rinsed them in clean water to get the salt out of them, and dried them with a hairdryer. But when they reinstalled the relays and turned on the power, the control panel was still wet and shorted out again.

This was never revealed to us. What was revealed, was that some of the last messages from the rig was that for some unexplained reason the valves were opening and closing on their own. This communication was not directly to the company but through a land based office in Canada as the means of communication was not long range. On all previous rigs the ballast control systems employed pneumatic pilot valves which sent a control signal down to the ballast valves located in the legs, that allow movement of water between the ballast tanks and the ocean. On this rig a slightly different method was used which indirectly caused the sinking. Instead of using pneumatic valves at the control panel, electric switches were used that via solenoid operated the pilot vales located inside the control panel. It was these switches that malfunctioned after becoming wet. To the crew this appeared as random opening and closing of the ballast valves. If the crew would have known the difference between this rig and every rig they had worked on before, they could have simply opened up the control panel and overrided the electric switches (the pilot valves had this capability). I recall that all of this was based on the evidence that the only way the system could have behaved in this manner was because of the electrical components becoming wet not because of any reports involving hairdryers.

Rescue attempts by helicopter and the attending supply ship, Seaforth Highlander'', were hampered by the storm and cold water. The men in the lifeboat caused it to capsize when they all stood on one side and tried to climb a rescue line thrown to them from the supply ship. The Seaforth Highlander then launched its own large inflatable life raft, but it floated away just out of reach of the freezing and drowning men. The men on the supply ship then used long poles with hooks on the ends to try to catch the men stranded in the sea, but to no avail. All hands aboard the Ocean Ranger perished, and at 3:38 a.m. on February 15, 1982, the rig capsized and sank to the floor of the Grand Banks.''

I have never heard of any rescue attempt that spotted live men. They were dead before any boat or helicopter had arrived. The rig also did not actually sink to the bottom but flipped over 180 degrees and was found floating. The flipping of such a large structure would have been quite violent to humans onboard. The crew was physically unable to abandon the rig by lifeboat because of a design flaw in the lifeboat lowering mechanism. The way the lifeboat's lowering system worked, was that there was a lowering mechanism attached to the rig that was operated from inside the lifeboats by pulling down on a cable that ran from the lowering mechanism through a small opening in the deck of the lifeboats. As someone inside the lifeboat pulled on this, the lifeboat would lower. It was found later that the design of the mechanism did not work past a certain angle of list, hence the crew was unable to abandon ship properly.

I tend to believe the explanation of management because their audience was not ignorant of rig operations. In addition, there was quite a bit of nepotism at the company and some of the lives lost were kin of higher ups. I believe the disaster was a direct result of ignorance of how the ballast control system worked and was compounded by the inability of the crew to abandon ship. Indirectly, I believe that the corporate culture created the situation. The rig designers were ODECO engineers and probably would have figured out what was wrong quite quickly with the ballast control system if they would have been contacted by the rig personnel, who because of this culture were reluctant to do.

It has been a quite long ago and I cannot swear my memory of the meeting is completely accurate. It was also my impression that that by the time the company heard anything about troubles on the rig it was already lost. I left the oil industry after about 3 years and this would account for any technical errors as I am far from an expert. It should also be remembered that these rigs were operated by oil men and not seaman. I do believe that there was a captain onboard since the rig was not towed between jobs but had it's own propulsion system. He would have been in charge only when the rig was not anchored which it was during the accident. -AND-

The last sentence in the correction is true. There was a captain aboard and the captain was not in command while the ship was stationary and drilling.

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I'm assuming the writer(s) meant well, as do I. Please drop me a note if you have any concerns.

JaeRae 09:15, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hojima 22:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC) I think someone should add something about the Russian sailors who died trying to help the crew of the Ocean Ranger, they're barely ever talked about and were real heroes.

Vodkasim 21:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC) I think it's possible that Hojima has confused the Ocean Ranger with another incident. There are no Russian sailors listed as casualties in reports of the Ocean Ranger incident. In fact, there are no other casualties reported, besides the crew of the Ocean Ranger.

Which came first.....
On the subject of the actual capsizing.......

The Ranger had twelve large mooring cables, several of which were broken or severed on the ocean floor after the capsizing.

Did the the cables snap and then the rig capsized..... or did the rig snap the cables in the capsizing motion?

Pete318 (talk) 22:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

By "mooring cables," I assume that you're referring to the anchor chains. (And I would have thought 8 rather than 12--two from each corner--but I don't have all the design details handy.) But, to answer your question, as it says in the article per the inquest findings, the rig capsized because of a malfunctioning/misoperated ballast control system rather than a mooring system failure. So presumably the mooring system damage was caused by the capsizing.

ghaff (talk) 16:38, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

"Mooring Lines" was the technical term used in some reports. There were three on each corner of the rig for twelve in total. They consisted of the anchor, some chain and mostly cable.

“……The Ocean Ranger had a twelve point mooring system with twelve 45,000 pound main anchors. Each anchor was attached to 1650 feet of 3.25 inch link chain, which in turn was connected to 5600 feet of 3.5 inch wire rope….”(pg.14)

One report - the Commission's or perhaps the report for the Province's DOE - discussed the concept of locked winches on the mooring cables as opposed to constant force winches, ie those with a clutch mechanism which would limit the force on the cable.

Recommendation number 64 (page 158), mentions "....intentional slackening of anchor lines....."

There should not be any need for students of this catastrophe to make assumptions on which failed first..... the sequence of failure ought to have been included in at least one of the capsizing scenarios. While loss of stability was perhaps the precipitating factor in the disaster, the rig could not have rotated without shifting or breaking some of the mooring lines. But did they break during this rotation (capsizing), or did they break because some other factor (wave action, with locked winches?), thus permitting the rapid inverting of the rig?

All References from: Report one: the loss of the semisubmersible drill rig Ocean Ranger and its crew / Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster. by Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster (Canada). Ottawa : Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1984. ISBN:<PHONE_NUMBER> Bib #: 161809

Pete318 (talk) 22:02, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

For reference: (from Wikipedia article "Alexander Kielland wreck"

"....Suddenly the rig heeled over 30° and then stabilised. Five of the six anchor cables had broken, the one remaining cable was preventing the rig from capsizing. The list continued to increase and at 18.53 the remaining anchor cable snapped and the rig turned upside down....."

A multimedia animation of the capsizing does not include (visually) the role of the mooring cables or their sequence of failure (i.e. breakage). Is there a similar animation or simulation for the Ranger?

apparently(?) from

Pete318 (talk) 18:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

She
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/12/ships.html

''As we’ve written on our blog, the personification of nonliving nouns (e.g., ships or nations) as “she” has fallen out of common usage. It’s now generally considered quaint or poetic.''

The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), as well as the style books of the Associated Press and theNew York Times, recommend using “it” or “its” to refer to ships.

In 2002, Lloyd’s List, the 276-year-old London-based shipping newspaper, officially dropped the gender personification and now refers to ships with the pronouns “it” and “its” instead of “she” and “her.”

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Full moon in the image
The size of the moon in the top right image appears rather large, could be edited. What do you think? AadaamS (talk) 08:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Victim list
The victim list here likely violates WP:NOTMEMORIAL and a general consensus against victim lists (see, e.g., WP:VICTIM, WP:VL, and WP:CASL). The victim names were added by an anonymous editor 9 years ago and sourced to a blog which, in turn, got those names from Memorials Online. As user-generated sites, they cannot be considered reliable sources. Unless there is an objection, I will shortly be removing this section. Please let me know it you think there are reasons to retain this. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:10, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * As there have been no objections after a few days, I have removed the unsourced/poorly sourced victim list. Eggishorn  (talk) (contrib) 20:22, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

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Shoud we add David Phelps the gospel artist to David Phelps
When I tried to add an entry for David Phelps the gospel artist, I was simply directed to David D. Phelps the politician. The artist seems to deserve a page to himself.

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There's a link to him on this page but it leads to this politician's page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaither_Vocal_Band

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Calling Grosvenor 'dictator' is like calling Socrates a dictator for attempting to teach others what he considered useful to their survival as a society. -- Anon

 * Well it's bit more than that. He moves beyond teaching and seizes control of his little society (the ship) in the end. Socrates never did that. It was the right thing to do but that doesn't mean that it wasn't dictatorial. -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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New Review in 2010
Should the following be referenced? There is a comprehensive review in the June 2010 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction (Number 262 Vol. 22, No. 10) of The Voyage of the Space Beagle re-issued by Orb Books (New York) in July 2008 (Orb Books, July 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7653-2077-3, ISBN10: 0-7653-2077-0, ) http://us.macmillan.com/thevoyageofthespacebeagle The author Joe Milicia describes changes made by Van Vogt to the original Astounding stories for the novel, and also gives a comprehensive review from a contemporary perspective; reading this would likely profit anyone with an interest in the novel. Carey McCarthy (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds as if it would be worthwhile adding it as an External link then (assuming it's available online). -- Derek Ross | Talk'' 21:04, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Alas the NYRSF is not available online but back- (or single-) issues are available from its web site http://www.nyrsf.com/; the publication also has a entry in Wikipedia.  NYRSF Only references to on-line review periodicals recommended ? What about if I wrote a brief outline of the ground covered in Joe Milicia's NYRSF review and then referenced it in References (rather than External link)? Carey McCarthy (talk) 09:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, I had a quick look at its website and WP entry. Very interesting. Anyway, your suggested brief outline sounds like a good idea. If you could precis it as an example of a modern perspective on the novel, you could certainly cite it as a reference even though it is off line. -- Derek Ross | Talk'' 05:08, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

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Cookbook:Pico de Gallo

| Sauces | Mexican Cuisine | Tex-Mex cuisine

Pico de Gallo has two meanings in Mexican cuisine. The most familiar to North Americans is a fresh, tomato-based salad. It is what North Americans usually mean when talking about 'ensalada' or 'tomato ensalada'. This ensalada is never cooked.

The second meaning, more common in some regions of Mexico, is a spice mixture including salt and dried chiles, which is served over fresh fruit, often with lime juice. If one is unfamiliar with the regional origin of a recipe including pico de gallo, context may be the only way to determine which meaning is intended, though for US-Mexican dishes the uncooked salsa meaning will almost always be correct.

Ingredients

 * 2 cups chopped fresh, seeded tomato
 * ½ cup chopped white or yellow onion
 * 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
 * ½ teaspoon salt
 * 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice
 * 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
 * 1 ½ tablespoons stemmed, seeded, and minced jalapeño or other chiles
 * 1 small clove of garlic, minced
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Procedure

 * 1) Wash vegetables and cilantro.
 * 2) Combine vegetables, mixing well.
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Organic Chemistry/Introduction to reactions/Oxymercuration/demercuration

Oxymercuration is a process by which water is added to an alkene through treatment of the alkene with mercury(II) acetate [Hg(O2CCH3)2, usually abbreviated Hg(OAc)2] in an aqueous tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvent. Rarely this reaction is referred to as Oxymercuration/reduction. This reaction looks just like Markovnikov. addition of water across a double bond, however there is no carbocation intermediate, so there is no rearrangement. You will learn that NaBH4 is a common reducing agent.


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John Davenport (critic)

John Lancelot Agard Bramhall Davenport (10 May 1908 – 27 June 1966) was an English critic and book reviewer who wrote for, amongst other publications, The Observer and The Spectator. He was a mentor to the critic Nora Sayre.

Life
The son of Robert Davenport (known as "Robin" or "Arthur"), a self-described "dramatic author", writer and illustrator of children's stories, and writer of lyrics for popular songs (including as a collaborator with H. G. Pelissier on an adaptation of The Follies) and the actress Muriel George (who later married the actor Ernest Butcher), Davenport was primarily raised at Barons Court by his grandmother, and subsequently educated at St Paul's and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, at which latter he opted to study rather than taking up a history scholarship he had won to Hertford College, Oxford. He would later compare his childhood to the story of Compton Mackenzie's Sinister Street. Davenport's great-grandfather was the composer and musicologist Sir George Macfarren; Macfarren's daughter had married Francis ("Frank") William Davenport, a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Royal Academy of Music, who was a collaborator, formerly pupil, of MacFarren. The Davenports were mainly clergymen, originally from Cheshire, and kinsmen of the Davenports of Bramall Hall, at Bramhall, Greater Manchester (historically Cheshire).

After coming down from Cambridge, Davenport worked for MGM as a screenwriter with F. Scott Fitzgerald; it was at this time he became acquainted with Nora Sayre's family. He taught at Stowe School in the 1940s, and worked for the BBC at Bush House as Head of the Belgian Section (he spoke fluent French, having lived there for some time)

He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, with whom, in 1941, he wrote The Death of the King's Canary, a satirical detective novel (it remained unpublished until 1976). Up at Cambridge as a contemporary of William Empson, Davenport was entrusted in 1947 with the only manuscript copy of Empson's The Face of the Buddha, which he subsequently misplaced whilst drunk. Although Davenport finally admitted to Empson in 1952 that he thought he had left the manuscript in a taxi, in fact he had given it to the Tamil poet, Tambimuttu, and it eventually made its way to publication many years later. Davenport was also a friend of the novelist Malcolm Lowry, since their Cambridge days.

Davenport was renowned for his physical strength and willingness to employ that strength as a countermeasure to what he considered "impertinence" in others; he had been an all-in wrestler, as well as a noted boxer whilst at Cambridge, making a living for a time as a fairground boxer. One anecdote (related slightly differently by Paul Johnson and Nora Sayre) has him, whilst at either the Savage Club or the Savile Club, hoisting a man (per Johnson, Lord Maugham, the Lord Chancellor and brother of the author Somerset Maugham; per Sayre, a bishop) six feet into the air and depositing him upon a mantelpiece, from which descent proved complicated. Davenport was duly expelled from the club. In contrast to this bellicose approach, Davenport was considered "one of the most remarkable and talented men of his generation", with an "appreciation of literature ... equalled only by his insight into the wearisome condition of humanity" and "exhilarating" wit.

In 1934, Davenport married Clemency (known as "Clement") Hale, a painter and set designer, daughter of Swinburne Hale, an American lawyer, and his wife Beatrice, née Forbes-Robertson, the niece of the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Following their divorce, Davenport married Marjorie Morrison. He had children from both marriages, including a son, Roger, an author. In the 1960s, following difficulties with alcoholism, Davenport retired to the country where his mother lived, and died shortly afterwards.

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Sugarcane Seed Farm

Sugarcane Seed Farm is an India-based integrated farm and sugarcane producing institute under Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala started in 1963. It is situated in Pandalam, Pathanamthitta, Kerala.

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