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Talk:Chuck Liddell

Career Fights / Wins
According to the Matt Hughes article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hughes_%28fighter%29) he has 24 fights, not 23. Anyone opposed to fixing the wording in the beginning of this article to reflect that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.65.144.247 (talk) 22:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

 * ✅ Dachknanddarice  ( T ‖ C ) 23:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Former MMA fighter?
Cite this or remove it. Just because he's not fighting for the UFC doesn't mean he's not fighting any more.

Inducted into UFC Hall of Fame
On Friday, July 10th, the UFC Hall of Fame inducts its two newest members, former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell and TapouT co-founder Charles “Mask” Lewis. http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=100085807868&h=k-6Nl&u=CBMLj Visit www.UFCFanExpo.com for information. >> Source: www.ufc.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.35.56.147 (talk) 05:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Cite not needed
Requesting a citation for the statement "is considered by some to be the hardest puncher at 205 pounds" is as unneeded as a citation for "Dogs have fur". Anyone who's seen Liddell fight would know he's in the top 5. For reference, see fights vs Couture, Sobral, and Horn. Besides "considered by some" implies this is an opinion which needs no cite.
 * Do opinions go in encyclopedias? I didn't know that, I shall call up Encyclopedia Britannica right away and demand more opinions in their entries.--Blingice 07:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * As a note, I agree with the opinion, but I mean, come on, let's not be stupid.--Blingice 07:13, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Why no matchup against Forrest Griffin?
I recall reading that Forrest doesn't feel that he is ready for Liddell at this point in time. -- Dan N.

Well, after tonight's performance, I think Forres is right on. Tito barely held on for two rounds. Jackbox1971 05:52, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

wasnt quite sure if the picture actually showed up
uh sorry. anyways silva vs liddell will be a good fight to it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.167.97 (talk) 21:50, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Wanderlei Silva matchup
Edited the latest information in regards to this last matchup early this morning (9/19/06, towards the end of Liddell's information). Seems like the matchup may still be underway. -- Dan N.
 * view reference for update, not happening Thesaddestday 00:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Pound for Pound status
When chuck liddell was in his prime during his reign as the champion of the lightheavyweight division he was widely regarded as the pound of pound best mixed martial artist in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.140.228 (talk) 22:53, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

08/26/2006 	Win 	Renato Sobral 	UFC 62 	TKO (Barrage) 	Round1 	1:35

Someone locked the page due to "vandalism"

Change to 19 wins

this was a great fight.

19 wins (12 KO's, 1 submission, 3 decisions), 3 losses (2 KO's, 1 submission), 0 draw.

 * This page is no longer protected, so you may add the information yourself. However, please cite a source for it, as it will make it easier for people to verify the information is correct (now, and in case of future vandalism). Petros471 13:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

JHBLKJNIJIJ/IKJU;IU —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.161.203 (talk) 00:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

SILVA FIGHT ISN"T HAPPENING
It should be removed its false--Donnie from the mean streets of Boston, KY 02:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It is still relevant, atleast to inform people it is not happening... by the year's end it should be gone until something more than speculation is on the plate Thesaddestday 05:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * ?? It was a rumored fight to begin with, Dana jumped the gun and announced it under the premise that PRIDE would be closing shop after the yakuza scanadal...But yeah I guess it should still be in the article????--Donnie from the mean streets of Boston, KY 17:37, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Somebody vandalized the Personal Life section
Read it and you'll see what I mean.

MMA Fight record
1. Chuck Liddell has lost all of his fights via. TKO (his first loss to Horn was by passing out, he stated HIMSELF that he never tapped because he thought he could hold on until the next round. He didn't) 2. Chuck's TKO loss to Rampage in 2003 was actually due to Chuck's corner throwing in the towel, not by strikes. Watch the ending of that fight and you can clearly see a white towel thrown to the referee, who then stops the fight.

I'll change these 2. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SuzukS (talk • contribs) 03:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

Might be interesting to mention Liddell's close friendship with FB stud Lorenzo Neal of the SD Chargers. They train together, and are close friends.

Liddell's latest fight was lost by TKO, not KO, according to the UFC website. I'm changing it back to TKO. http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=EventDetail.FightCard&eid=547 Bockbockchicken 17:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it is worth noting that the match was ruled a KO after the fight. but yes the site does say tko. i'm not going to bother with a source because i'm pretty sure it will be deleted if i place a link to a torrent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.68.66 (talk) 20:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter what they announce. The government organization dedicated to regulating combat sports in Nevada has the final say.  east .  718  at 10:52, 10/18/2007

To the first comment, Liddells first loss would be considered a Technical Submission --SuzukS 05:42, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Good Morning Texas
Any official explanation so far as to his appearing drugged/asleep/mentally injured during this now infamous appearance promoting the film "300"? Let me say IMO I don't think he was on any recreational or illegal drugs, the UFC tests it's fighters and he came up clean (which also would probably discount non-prescribed prescription painkillers). However he DID appear to either be heavily drunk, suffering from serious sleep deprivation, or as some people are speculating suffering from some form of head trauma. Now I'm sure it was something simple (I'm voting sleep deprivation, I've heard those dudes between publicity stuff, training, and just day to day life end up with a pretty hellishly hectic daily regieme), however what was his camps or his sports governing bodies official response on the incident? That would be nice to put up here, since it would be a 'fact' we could link and would put an end to some of the sillier rumors that have circulated since.

Clarification of status
In the introduction it states that Liddell has received his purple belt in Jiu-jitsu. I assume because of his career that it would mean BJJ and not some other form; can anyone clarify?

Career Record
Since 67.164.23.186 screwed up the box by adding some random crap to it, could someone proficient in Wikicode either revert the change or just fix the box? Thanks. --Blingice 16:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandilism
Stop vandilizing the page because Chuck lost. Someone deleted his record off the page. Can we please have this restored asap and place a lock on this page.

I don't think whoever deleted it did so because they were upset that Chuck lost, as they left only 1 fight of the record on the page, his recent loss. 74.107.206.130 09:24, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Restored
I've restored the damages made by another person.

MMA Record
Can someone change the format of Chuck's MMA record with the notes section to tel you about titles and stuff? The way it is now looks stupid.(MgTurtle 19:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)). Never mind, I fixed it.(MgTurtle 16:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)).

MMA Record
Can someone change the ending method of his last fight against Rampage? I don't remember a submission named kiss of death, and it was a TKO (referee stoppage).

I am sorry if this is not proper category but I just wanted to ask you - what the hell??? You wrote Chuck Liddell lost from Rashad Evans, but on the official ufc site it says Chuck withdraw from the match due to an injury.... ??? I am confused? I would appreciate the explanation. Thanx!--VEGETA_DTX (talk) 12:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

opening paragraphs
I think that the opening paragraphs do not need to mention that high school football player who started 4 years its something plenty of guys do (maybe move it to a trivia area). I think instead in the opening paragraph is should state that he was college wrestler, being that is something he is more known for.

What is with the records of certain fighters (Liddell's included) showing their record after EVERY fight? I find that extremely pointless.

Do we have to include the number of times he beat someone?I think it's stupid and is pointless since it shows the opponents in the mma record.(MgTurtle (talk) 14:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC))

Dan Liddell
Should it be mentioned that Chuck's brother Dan is also training in mma?(MgTurtle (talk) 20:33, 7 August 2008 (UTC))
 * On Chuck's page, NO Swampfire (talk) 20:34, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Dan Liddell? Can't find anything about him... Are you sure you're not thinking about Sean Liddell, who is already mentioned in the article? --aktsu (t / c) 21:59, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

No I'm talking about his younger brother Dan Liddell who hasn't made his mma debut yet but will on August 15th, 2008.Here's a link (MgTurtle (talk) 01:54, 8 August 2008 (UTC)).

Also not mentioned are his other siblings, (Chuck talked about them in his book) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.1.80.2 (talk) 16:50, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Kickboxing record
I wanted to ask before i make the change. I wanna add his kickboxing rec (20F, 18W, 16KO's, 2L) to his infobox. example Mark Hunt. Any objections?Marty Rockatansky (talk) 20:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

edit war
Please lets settle this on talk instead of this continuous edit war.

 * He was named the "Most Dangerous Man" at the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007.

 * He was named the "Most Dangerous Man" at the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007, despite being knocked out by Quinton Jackson less than three weeks prior.

Discuss —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cube lurker (talk • contribs)
 * The latter provides unwarranted significance towards a factoid of marginal use and should be excised unless specifically commented on in third-party sources. east718 //  talk  //  email  // 20:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

hmm
ok well i see you using alot of big words but you dont seem to be saying much. facts are facts. he was named "most dangerous man" despite being TKO'd less than three weeks prior. you cant argue with the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emex4 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

 * No, but we can apply WP:NPOV and WP:UNDUE to edits done by people trying to push their own agendas, particularly when they edit war over it. -   Ca ri bb e a  n ~ H. Q.  00:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I think part of the edit war is because Chuck Liddell was not knocked out by Quinton Jackson. It was a premature stoppage by the referee and everyone that was there in person knows that Jackson was booed out of the presence of the spectators. The booing didn't stop until Jackson went to his dressing room. Dana White rushed over to Liddell immediately after the premature stoppage and it was obvious that he was offering him a big pay check to keep his mouth shut about the premature stoppage. He was mouthing words such as "pay you" "pay you" "worth while" over and over again. It was enough money that Liddell did keep his mouth shut. Everyone that was there saw that immediately after Liddell went down he was actively protecting himself and when the ref prematurely stopped the fight the ref had to sit on Liddell to keep him from standing up in protest. Once Dana White ran over and offered money to Liddell several people had to convince him to sit on the stool because he was still upset by the "fixed fight". Those of us who were there know what really happened. So the "official" record might say he was knocked out, but we know what the true facts are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertasdfgzx (talk • contribs) 17:44, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Why Is Tito Ortiz Not Mentioned?
Chuck Lidell and Randy Couture are considered to have brought the UFC out of the dark ages, Why is Tito Ortiz not mentioned also? He is the first Light-Heavyweight champion of the renamed middleweight belt against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 25 (Before UFC 25 middleweight tittle was defended at 205 lbs) and went on to defend it 5x successfully.

MMA Record design
I think first two columns are needed to align to center for better appearance and perception. Location also lacks flag icons.--Metacrush (talk) 17:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Noe Hernandez link
I think the link in the section ultimate fighting championship for Noe Hernandez redirects incorrectly. That is of course unless he did fight an Olympic race walker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captain Deez (talk • contribs) 22:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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Chuck isn't retired yet
Even though Dana has said he doesn't WANT Chuck to fight anymore, Chuck has to make the decision for himself. There's a big dispute going on currently because Dana is trying to force Chuck to retire but Chuck has yet to make a decision. He's not retired yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.140.237 (talk) 17:13, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Of Course not. He'll be back. Give him about 4 months to pick up his shattered ego and he will be back on the road again. 41.234.40.184 (talk) 20:16, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Liddell is over, but he's gonna continue and end off like Ken Shamrock most likely.Lasttiger (talk) 16:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Dana White said in an interview during The Ultimate Finale 9 "I'm not Chuck Liddell's dad. I can't force him to retire, so it's really a matter of whether or not he wants to come back." --24.177.4.216 (talk) 04:45, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

He'll Be back I agree with user 41.234. He's just depressed about his loss at the moment. But I'd say more like a year than 4 months until he comes back. Lasttiger (talk) 02:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * As of August, his stance seems to be undecided. Atleast, that's what it appears given the evidence. Changed the title to 'Possible retirement' too, since I wouldn't really call it a rumor given Dana White's announcements.Jonhan (talk) 03:22, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Error found
The date in his fight record for UFC 40 is Feb 15, 2003 is wrong. The correct date is Nov 22, 2002 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.179.63.190 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 13 August 2009
 * ✅ snigbrook (talk) 23:22, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Stuff
it says he has the most wins and ko/tko wins by a fighter, but it should be clarified that this is only the record for ufc fighters while in the ufc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.246.138 (talk) 01:06, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ --aktsu (t / c) 20:01, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Dancing with the stars
The first paragraph is outdated it still states it was announced he would compete in DWTS when he has already competed and been eliminated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.2.217 (talk) 10:24, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

his participation in DWTS should be part of his "TV appearances" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdad1029 (talk • contribs) 00:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

The Ultimate Fighter 11
Chuck Liddell will be coaching The Ultimate Fighter 11 and facing off against Tito Ortiz for their 3rd fight.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmlinney (talk • contribs) 04:41, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * there's a typo in ur sentence, can someone fix it the page is locked. also you didn't provide a source gotta do that too cheers 128.54.174.218 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 18:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC).

Naked Workout
Per CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/26/crimesider/entry6246351.shtml, Chuck and his girlfriend Heidi Northcott have taped and posted a video of them wearing nothing but the Reebox that Liddell endorses as a "viral video". Video is available Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBs68zRlng

This should be included, yes? 38.109.88.196 (talk) 00:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Liddell not fighting Franklin
Can someone please fix that. Dana White confirmed on his Twitter that Franklin is fighting Couture not Liddell. Right after that he said there was nothing wrong with Ortiz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.14.52 (talk) 03:26, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

I have corrected this, including reference. JoeDan 04:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe8609 (talk • contribs)

Acting career section
I've noticed that he is cited as having a cameo in the movie "300". Since the cited source seems to be IMDB and there is no record about 300 on his page, i wondered how that works. i realize that he was participating largely in the promotion of the movie in the US, but does this qualify as a cameo? i don't think so and the source is bogus. on another note, does imdb pages even qualify as a reliable source? after all it can be edited by users just as well as wiki. Copykill (talk) 01:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Edit Request
excessive vandalism

 * A request has already been filed here. Bejinhan  Talk   06:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Tutti Musk ??
It says at UFC 52 he once again fought Tutti Musk ?

Why do people have to screw around like this ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.69.157 (talk) 22:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

MMA Record Guy Mezger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_14

It was 0:21 of the second round, not 2:21... and I just saw the fight on The Best of Pride.OrLULando (talk) 01:31, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Not what Sherdog has and I trust that more. Paralympiakos (talk) 01:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

his last 2 listed wins are losses who keeps messing with this??? he lost to franklin by K.O at 115 and T.K.O by Shogun Rua At UFC 97! no wonder this site is a joke and can't be used factually!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.38.117 (talk) 22:44, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Ultimate Iceman Store In San Luis Obispo Closed
It closed a few year ago if my memory serves me right. It is now Emily's Cinnamon Rolls. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.84.27.140 (talk) 20:09, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I found a source for that The Ultimate Iceman store closed in January 2011. It was only open a few months. While http://chuckliddell.com/ has a section for the store it can't be clicked. There's evidence this is a new web site constructed May 15, 2014 meaning the on-line store may reappear. --Marc Kupper|talk 21:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Dannika
Should his daughter Dannika be included in the personal section for this article? I suspect she is Heidi's daughter from a previous relationship meaning she's a step-daughter. This post from August 16, 2011 says "We can't wait to add a little one to our family along with our amazing kids Cade, Dannika, and Trista". Dannika is also identified in this post. I don't trust the reliability of this site but it identifies Dannika as a step-daughter (and has the wrong birth date for Guinevere). Chuck Liddell consistently refers to Dannika as his daughter and so if she's added to the article I'd use that term rather than step-daughter. --Marc Kupper|talk 19:55, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Link to reference 7 is broken
http://www.koeikan.com/ gives a server not found error.

A quick search yielded some links that may be substituted: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-behind-Chuck-Liddells-head-tattoo http://www.mmamania.com/2006/12/18/ufc-fighter-chuck-liddell-promotes-peace-with-his-tattoo http://www.koeikanwa.com/about-koei-kan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:8E01:C8E0:B5F7:45E1:8CE8:B04A (talk) 20:23, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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''Liddell announced on April 14, 2018, that he was coming out of retirement to target a third fight with Tito Ortiz. The fight took place on November 24, 2018 under Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions.[39][40] Liddell lost the fight via knockout in the first round.[41]'' I think more detail should be added here about Chucks clearly degraded ability in every aspect, this 'fight' should never have happened and was nothing more than Golden Boy Promotions cashing in on Liddell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.192.213 (talk) 12:28, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Is this a legal move?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Liddell#Liddell_vs._Ortiz Is the "rear mounted scrotum hold" real? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.234.59 (talk) 13:21, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Chuck Liddell


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Gaia (Mägo de Oz album)

Gaia is a 2003 album by Spanish folk metal band Mägo de Oz. It is the first rock opera of a trilogy. The album tells of a woman, the reincarnation of Azzak (or Gaia), who after her execution, is relieved of her soul: the soul of Azzak. Gaia, now free of her mortal skin, uses an e-mail to converse with the man who ordered her execution and tells him the story of Azzak and her affair in Colonial times. Upon his finishing the e-mail, she appears before him and it is left as a cliffhanger for Gaia II: La Voz Dormida to finish.

Track listing

 * 1) "Obertura MDXX" (Overture MDXX [1520]) 3:56
 * 2) "Gaia" 11:04 (incorporating the 23rd Psalm and The Lord's Prayer)
 * 3) "La Conquista" 5:08 (The Conquest)
 * 4) "Alma" 6:42 (Soul)
 * 5) "La Costa del Silencio" 4:41 (The Shore of Silence)
 * 6) "El Árbol de la Noche Triste" 4:50 (The Night of Sorrows' Tree)
 * 7) "La Rosa de los Vientos" 4:17 (The Compass Rose)
 * 8) "La Leyenda de la Llorona" 4:22 (The Legend of La Llorona)
 * 9) "Van a Rodar Cabezas" 6:32 (Heads Will Roll)
 * 10) "El Atrapasueños" 4:17 (The Dreamcatcher)
 * 11) "Si Te Vas" 6:00 (If You Leave)
 * 12) "La Venganza de Gaia" 11:04 (Gaia's Vengeance)

DVD

 * 1) "Introducción
 * 2) "Gaia y su concepto
 * 3) "El álbum y su proceso
 * 4) "Canción a canción
 * 5) "La sesión de fotos
 * 6) "La grabación del vídeo-clip
 * 7) "El diseño gráfico
 * 8) "La Costa del Silencio (Video)
 * 9) "Créditos

Story of Gaia
The album comes with a novella that narrates the story behind every song.

Obertura MDXX: It introduces the story with an orchestral melody set with the sound of the sea and the Spanish ships traveling to the New World.

Gaia: Set in 2003, it tells the last moments of the life of Alma Echegaray, who has been unjustly sentenced to die on the electric chair by Georgia's governor, Joe Hamilton. She asks herself why has this happened, since she never hated anyone before. This traumatic event leads her soul to seek for revenge.

La Conquista: When returning home after the execution, Joe Hamilton receives an e-mail sent by Alma herself, in which she tells him a story dating back to the year 1500. This song is the beginning of that e-mail, narrating the journey by sea of Hernan Cortés's army and their arrival to Mexico's shores, as well as the fear that the natives felt when they saw white men coming to their lands in strange floating wooden mountains. One of the main characters in the story is introduced, Pedro de Alcázar, a soldier in Cortés's army. He begins to realize the evil that will fall over the people they'll find on this New World, all in order to take their gold and their lands.

Alma: The song introduces another main character, Azaak, an 18-year-old native made prisoner by the Spaniards, who imprisoned any woman capable of giving birth. When Pedro sees her for the first time, he's captivated by her beauty; in that moment she is surrounded by a group of old women crying their hearts out. Pedro asks Azaak about them, and she shows him a litter made of leaves with a 4-year-old lying sick there. After that, the old women start a song in order to save the child's soul.

La Costa del Silencio: In this song, Azaak tells that for every evil against the sea and against Mother Nature, we'll be punished by her [Mother Nature] because of our actions. Azaak foretells that in many years, when the humans no longer need the wind to travel by sea, a big catastrophe will happen in a place called Galicia.

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Photobleaching

In optics, photobleaching (sometimes termed fading) is the photochemical alteration of a dye or a fluorophore molecule such that it is permanently unable to fluoresce. This is caused by cleaving of covalent bonds or non-specific reactions between the fluorophore and surrounding molecules. Such irreversible modifications in covalent bonds are caused by transition from a singlet state to the triplet state of the fluorophores. The number of excitation cycles to achieve full bleaching varies. In microscopy, photobleaching may complicate the observation of fluorescent molecules, since they will eventually be destroyed by the light exposure necessary to stimulate them into fluorescing. This is especially problematic in time-lapse microscopy.

However, photobleaching may also be used prior to applying the (primarily antibody-linked) fluorescent molecules, in an attempt to quench autofluorescence. This can help improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

Photobleaching may also be exploited to study the motion and/or diffusion of molecules, for example via the FRAP, in which movement of cellular components can be confirmed by observing a recovery of fluorescence at the site of photobleaching, or FLIP techniques, in which multiple rounds of photobleaching is done so that the spread of fluorescence loss can be observed in cell.

Loss of activity caused by photobleaching can be controlled by reducing the intensity or time-span of light exposure, by increasing the concentration of fluorophores, by reducing the frequency and thus the photon energy of the input light, or by employing more robust fluorophores that are less prone to bleaching (e.g. Cyanine Dyes, Alexa Fluors or DyLight Fluors, AttoDyes, Janelia Dyes and others). To a reasonable approximation, a given molecule will be destroyed after a constant exposure (intensity of emission X emission time X number of cycles) because, in a constant environment, each absorption-emission cycle has an equal probability of causing photobleaching.

Photobleaching is an important parameter to account for in real-time single-molecule fluorescence imaging in biophysics. At light intensities used in single-molecule fluorescence imaging (0.1-1 kW/cm2 in typical experimental setups), even most robust fluorophores continue to emit for up to 10 seconds before photobleaching in a single step. For some dyes, lifetimes can be prolonged 10-100 fold using oxygen scavenging systems (up to 1000 seconds with optimisation of imaging parameters and signal-to-noise). For example, a combination of Protocatechuic acid (PCA) and protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (PCD) is often used as oxygen scavenging system, and that increases fluorescence lifetime by more than a minute.

Depending on their specific chemistry, molecules can photobleach after absorbing just a few photons, while more robust molecules can undergo many absorption/emission cycles before destruction:
 * Green fluorescent protein: 104–105 photons; 0.1–1.0 second lifetime.
 * Typical organic dye: 105–106 photons; 1–10 second lifetime.
 * CdSe/ZnS quantum dot: 108 photons; > 1,000 seconds lifetime.

This use of the term "lifetime" is not to be confused with the "lifetime" measured by fluorescence lifetime imaging.

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George Hamilton (broadcaster)

George Hamilton (born 2 January 1950) is an Irish broadcaster born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is best known as the chief football commentator for RTÉ, for which he also commentates on other sporting events, such as the Olympic Games. He presents a classical music programme on RTÉ lyric fm on Saturdays and Sundays called The Hamilton Scores.

Early life and education
Hamilton was christened in the same Presbyterian church as George Best. His father Jimmy played for Cliftonville F.C., but George was a Glentoran F.C. ‘superfan’.

While a student at Methodist College, Belfast, Hamilton was, for a time, principal cellist with the school orchestra. He then studied German and French at Queen's University, Belfast.

Broadcasting career
Hamilton began his commentary career with BBC Sport, before joining RTÉ eight years later in 1984. He had previously worked for RTÉ during the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Since 2003, he has worked for RTÉ lyric fm (Ireland's classical radio station) on Saturday mornings. For many years, he fronted a popular weekly quiz show on RTÉ, Know Your Sport, alongside fellow commentator Jimmy Magee.

Hamilton was chief commentator for RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the ninth one in which he has been involved. Hamilton was RTÉ's chief commentator at Euro 2012, and commentated on all of Ireland's matches in the competition. He has been involved in the coverage of the Olympic Games since the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Memorable quotes
Hamilton is known for his use of colourful phrases and memorable quotes when commentating on games, his phrase describing David O'Leary's penalty against Romania in the 1990 World Cup, "The nation holds its breath", was used for a book of Irish football quotations, compiled by Eoghan Corry, for which Hamilton wrote the foreword.

The sports humour website, DangerHere.com, takes its title from another quote by Hamilton: "And Bonner has gone 165 minutes of these championships without conceding a goal. Oh danger here..."

Other examples

 * "Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals"
 * "And Ireland have got to contain the brothers Baggio." [Later in the game…] "The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related"
 * "When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one"

Personal life
On 16 August 2011, he felt unwell and had a suspected heart attack, and later had several hours of emergency bypass surgery at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin after being transferred from St. Vincent's University Hospital. He recovered, and resumed both his commentating and radio show.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minneapolis Ice Bats Broomball

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 02:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Minneapolis Ice Bats Broomball
non-notable defunct amateur team, heavy advertising angle Pete.Hurd 17:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I stand corrected, non-defunct, non-notable amateur team whose page contains little other than lists of their sponsors. Pete.Hurd 02:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. NN "low level recreational league" team. Their web site is on a user's ISP-based home page. MCB 22:35, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Brian C. Mitchell

Brian Christopher Mitchell (born 1953) is the president and managing principal of Academic Innovators. Prior to founding Academic Innovators, he served as president of Brian Mitchell & Associates, LLC. He was previously the president of Bucknell University, serving from 2004 until 2010. From 1998 through 2004, he served as president of Washington & Jefferson College. He is a nationally recognized expert in higher education, especially on private higher education.

Mitchell has served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarships and is a past president of the National Association of Independent College and University State Executives. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and is a former member of the boards of National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and National History Day.

Early life and education
A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Mitchell graduated from Keith Academy and from Merrimack College in 1974. He received his Ph.D from the University of Rochester, and is an expert in 19th century urban, ethnic, and labor history. He wrote The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–1861, a critically acclaimed book examining those fields. As a professor, he chaired the history department at Anna Maria College and taught at George Mason University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Bentley College, Lesley College, New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), and the University of Rochester. He was awarded the Haskell Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities from Lowell and the Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in American History from the American Historical Association.

Career
Mitchell worked as a program officer in the Division of State Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and became president of the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (CICU) in 1991. In that position, Mitchell was instrumental in getting House Bill 55 of 1997, the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act, unanimously passed in the Pennsylvania State House and the State Senate. The bill provided uniform standards for determining the tax-exempt eligibility for all nonprofits, especially private colleges. This legislation was passed in response to Washington, Pennsylvania's 1993 lawsuit against Washington & Jefferson College challenging the college’s tax-exempt status. The bill clarified the law and has had a long-term impact on other nonprofits besides private colleges, including hospitals, nursing homes, and public universities.

Washington & Jefferson College
Upon assuming the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College in 1998, Mitchell was thrust into a long-simmering schism between the city of Washington, Pennsylvania and the college. During a courtesy visit to local officials early in his tenure, Mitchell was berated by the officials for 45 minutes, blaming the college "for everything that had gone wrong in the last 50 years.”

In 2000, the college and Franklin & Marshall College, Michigan State University and SUNY Geneseo participated in a collaborative effort sponsored by the Knight Collaborative, a national initiative designed to develop strategies for partnership between colleges and local community revitalization efforts. Shortly thereafter, Washington & Jefferson was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to develop a coherent plan, entitled the "Blueprint for Collaboration," to detail goals and benchmarks for the future to help the College and the city work together on economic development, environmental protection, and historic preservation. The plan included provisions for the college to offer more academic opportunities for the community and to explore moving its bookstore into the downtown area, develop student housing in the downtown area, and to expand student use of the downtown eating, shopping, and visiting destinations. The City of Washington began a downtown revitalization project featuring new sidewalks, landscaping, and fiber-optic cables. The plan also called for an "investors roundtable," comprising federal and state officials, the banking community, commercial interests, and potential investors.

Mitchell ushered in an expansion of the academic programs, including the addition of an Environmental Studies Program, an Information Technology Leadership Program, the Office of Life-Long Learning, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree Program in Music. The college's international partnership and student exchange with the University of Cologne was expanded. A capital campaign brought in over $90 million and the college simultaneously increased the volume of applications and became more selective in its admission practices.

In June 2001, Mitchell and the Washington and Jefferson trustees adopted a new master plan to remodel the campus and its educational environment, building modifications and a campus beautification program. The campus dining facility, the "Commons," was remodeled in 2000, the football field was improved and rededicated as Cameron Stadium in 2001, and the Old Gym was re-purposed as a campus fitness and wellness center. Several new buildings were constructed under the plan, including The Burnett Center in 2001, a new technology center in 2003, and a new dormitory in 2002. A second dormitory was initiated in 2003 and was completed after Mitchell's March 2004 departure for the presidency of Bucknell University.

Bucknell University
Brian C. Mitchell was named Bucknell University’s 16th president in July 2004 and served six years until stepping down in June, 2010. During his tenure, Bucknell expanded programs in biomedical engineering, environmental studies, and public policy. Mitchell is the principal architect behind the development of Bucknell University’s strategic plan and its first comprehensive master plan since the 1930s. He led a major fundraising effort for Bucknell to raise at least $400 million over the next several years and which has already raised over $170 million from all sources to date. He assisted with the development of new 30,000 sq. ft. Barnes & Noble Bookstore in downtown Lewisburg as well as rehabilitated downtown administrative office space, the rejuvenation of the art deco Campus Theater, a business incubation center, Bucknell Landing which opens the Susquehanna River directly to Bucknell's faculty, students, staff and programs, and more than 10 miles in rails-to-trails projects in the region.

Working with Bucknell's faculty, he implemented a new arts and science curriculum; ABET reaccreditation of the University's engineering college, the move from department to a School of Management, and the migration to the 5-course load that lowered the student/faculty ratio to 10/1. More than 60 new professors were hired during his tenure, amid a focus on improving faculty salaries, expanding sabbatical and travel funds, opening a new Teaching and Learning Center. During his service, Bucknell improved its bond rating.

Edvance Foundation
In July 2010, Mitchell partnered with Kurt M. Thiede to establish the Edvance Foundation, a nonprofit organization bringing expertise, resources, ingenuity, and foresight to institutions of higher education across the U.S.

Later career
Mitchell serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees of Merrimack College. He is also a member of the board of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation in Chicago and has served as a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College.

Mitchell was honored with the 2010 national award for individual contributions to American higher education by the Posse Foundation in New York City in May 2010.

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David Underdown

David Edward Underdown (19 August 1925 – 26 September 2009) was a historian of 17th-century English politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Born at Wells, Somerset, Underdown was educated at the Blue School and Exeter College, Oxford. The books Revel, Riot, and Rebellion and Fire from Heaven won prizes from the North American Conference on British Studies and the New England Historical Association. After retiring from Yale in 1996, Underdown wrote a well-received book about the history of cricket in the Hambledon era, Start of Play.

According to The Guardian:
 * His most famous study, Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution (1971), is a narrative of the tangle of events that took place in England during the late 1640s and led to the purge of the Long Parliament and the execution of King Charles I. Almost four decades on, the book remains a fixture of undergraduate reading lists. Underdown went on to pioneer the study of local history, popular politics, gender and sport.

Historian Phil Withington argued in 2015 that Underdown's sense of localism has been superseded by new scholarship, as has his sense of popular culture. The 1985 book on Revel, Riot and Rebellion and The Social History of Politics was an:
 * early attempt to ... build a new narrative of popular political participation and activism. But in doing so, it drew a straightforward and somewhat unlikely chain of causality between locale, cultural practices and conflict, and national political allegiances after 1642 – a chain all the more suspect if the sturdy concepts of localism and popular culture out of which it was forged are found to be a little rusty. The book now appears to rest on major fallacies and misinterpretations.

John Morrill argues that Revel, Riot and Rebellion received much less enthusiastic reviews compared to Underdown's earlier and later books. He concludes it is a book that was either published too early or too late.

Books by Underdown
This is a partial list:
 * Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum Newton Abbot, 1973.
 * Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century. 1992.
 * A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England. 1996.
 * Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution. Oxford, 1971.
 * Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603–1660. OUP, 1985.
 * Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649–1660. New Haven, 1960.
 * Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. 2000.

Articles by Underdown

 * 'A Case Concerning Bishops' lands: Cornelius Burges and the Corporation of Wells', Eng H.R.lxxviii (1963) 18-48
 * 'The Chalk and the Cheese: Contrasts among the English Clubmen', P&Pno.85 (Nov 1979), 25-48
 * 'Honest Radicals in the Counties, 1642–1649', in Puritans and Revolutionaries, ed. Pennington and Thomas, pp. 186–205.
 * 'The Problem of Popular allegiance in the Civil War', TRHS5th Ser., xxxi (1981), 69-94.
 * 'The Taming of the Scold: The Enforcement of the Patriarchal Authority in Early Modern England', in Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson, Cambridge (1985), ch.4.

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Evelyn Chrystalla Pielou

Evelyn Chrystalla "E. C." Pielou (February 20, 1924 – July 16, 2016) was a Canadian statistical ecologist.

Biography
Pielou studied at the University of London, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in botany in 1951 and her PhD in 1962. From 1963 to 1964, she worked as a researcher for the Canadian Department of Forestry, followed by the Canadian Department of Agriculture between 1964 and 1967. Later she was professor of biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1968–71) and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1974–81) and then Oil Sands Environmental Research Professor working out of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta (1981–86).

Pielou was the second woman to win the Eminent Ecologist Award (1986) from the Ecological Society of America. She has contributed significantly to the development of mathematical ecology, the mathematical modeling of natural systems, and wrote six academic books on the subject. She lived in Comox, British Columbia, Canada, and wrote popular books on natural history until her death in July, 2016.

Pielou's evenness
Pielou's evenness is an index that measures diversity along with species richness. While species richness is the number of different species in a given area, evenness is the count of individuals of each species in an area. A calculated value of Pielou's evenness ranges from 0 (no evenness) to 1 (complete evenness). When taken into account along with other indices such as Simpson's index or Shannon's index, a more thorough description of a community's structure can be interpreted.

Mathematical ecology
Pielou's approach added mathematical modelling to ecology. Quantifiable analyses could be done with theoretical ecology in areas like population and community ecology. Mathematics would provide insight into, for example, which factors are most significant to ecosystem stability and by how much compared to others.

One of Pielou's papers mentioned the importance and uses of mathematical modelling in ecology as well as their limitations. Population dynamics was better explained as to why they behaved in the ways that they did through modelling. Predictions to an ecosystem's behaviour and its outcomes became more of an explanation as to why, rather than simply a forecast, through the use of such models. If a model was unrealistic, it did not mean that it was wrong. Mathematical modelling allowed the creation of new hypotheses looking into why the model did not match observations. An outcome was not always one or the other, as it might have been different due to unforeseen circumstances or conditions initially thought as unimportant. This allowed mathematical models in ecology to be used as a standard for comparisons with other systems. No two ecosystems are identical, and the significant differences between them could be more easily identified.

Scholarly books

 * Introduction to Mathematical Ecology (1969). Wiley-Interscience, New York. ISBN 0-471-68918-1
 * Population and community ecology: principles and methods (1974). Gordon and Breach, New York. ISBN 0-677-03580-2
 * Ecological diversity (1975). Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-471-68925-4
 * Mathematical ecology (1977). Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-471-01993-3
 * Biogeography (1979). Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-471-05845-9
 * The interpretation of ecological data: a primer on classification and ordination (1984). Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-471-88950-4

Popular books

 * After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America (1991). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-66811-8
 * A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic (1994). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-66814-2
 * Fresh Water (2000). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-66815-0
 * The energy of nature (2001). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-66806-1
 * The World of Northern Evergreens (2011). Comstock Publishing Associates (a division of Cornell University Press). ISBN 0-8014-2116-0

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Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club in Wellington, near Telford in Shropshire. Their 1st XI play in the Birmingham and District Premier League Premier Division, which they won in 2003 and 2004.

They play their home games at Orleton Park in Wellington, which has also been used for one first-class match between the Minor Counties and the Indian tourists in 1979 and for Minor Counties and List A matches played by Shropshire County Cricket Club.

Teams
Wellington CC has 6 senior Men's teams and a Ladies team as well as a thriving junior section.

Management Structure: President: Charles Bathurst, Chairman: Steven Oliver Secretary: David Ross, Cricket Chairman: Simon Topper, Club Captain: Matt Stinson, Safeguarding Officer: Jennie Good

Senior Team Captains: Mens 1XI: Dan Lloyd - BDPCL Premier Division, Mens 2XI: Matt Stinson - SCCL Division 1, Mens 3XI: Simon Topper - SCCL Division 2, Mens 4XI: David Morris - SCCL Division 5, Mens 5XI: Steven Oliver - SCCL Sunday Division 1, Mens 6XI: Paul Willis - (Friendly Fixtures), Ladies 1XI: Hannah Young Ladies 2XI:

Notable players

 * Joseph Smith - represented Shropshire at Minor Counties level 1968-88
 * Richard Cousins, businessman - played for club 2nd XI in late 1980s and sometime club committee chairman.
 * Tony Parton – represented Shropshire 1988–2004
 * Guy Home – represented Shropshire 1991–2006
 * Adam Byram – represented Shropshire 1989–2002 and Staffordshire 2003
 * Gavin Byram, his brother – represented Shropshire 1992–2002

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Category:Airports in Hungary

This category is for airports in Hungary.

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Contention of the bards

The contention of the bards (Irish: Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh) was a literary controversy of early 17th century Gaelic Ireland, lasting from 1616 to 1624, probably peaking in 1617. The principal bardic poets of the country wrote polemical verses against each other and in support of their respective patrons.

There were 30 contributions to the Contention, which took the form of a bitter debate over the relative merits of the two halves of Ireland: the north, dominated by the Eremonian descendants of the Milesians, and the south, dominated by the Eberian descendants.

The verses were first published in print in two volumes produced by the Irish Texts Society in 1918 edited by Lambert McKenna who acknowledged the significant contribution of Eleanor Knott to the accompanying translations.

Context
The Contention took place in the context of the settlement of the country following on the Tudor conquest of Ireland, when full domination by Stuart royal authority had led to the Flight of the Earls (1607) and the Plantation of Ulster (1610).

The occasion for the Contention was a dispute over the allegiance of the Earl of Thomond, a Gaelic nobleman of the ancient O'Brien clan (or sept). Unusually for the time, the earl was a Protestant and loyal to the new dispensation. The spark came in 1616, after the final annexation of the modern County Clare (containing part of the ancient kingdom of Thomond) to the Eberian province of Munster (when the Earl of Thomond was appointed president of the province) and the death in exile of the last great Eremonian, Hugh O'Neill in July that year.

For centuries before 1616, the bards had been sponsored by the Irish Gaelic dynasties, and confirmed their paternal lineages by recitals at social events, so they had a political importance as well as a cultural impact. In a society where most were illiterate, bardic recital in public was the primary method of recalling a clan's history back to its claimed Milesian origins.

Substance
In 1616 the Earl of Thomond's bard, Tadhg Mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha, wrote verses attacking the semi-legendary bard Torna Éigeas on account of historical inaccuracies in his work and his partiality to the northern half of Ireland and the Eremonian branches of the Gael. In effect, Tadhg's verses celebrated the greatness of the Eberian septs of the southern half of Ireland and their ascendancy over the North; he even included his patron's Norman lineage as worthy of the race of Ébhear.

This provoked verses in response from other court bards, notably, Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, in which abstruse points of poetic etiquette and the respective merits of the two halves of Ireland were vehemently argued. In extolling his own side, Lughaidh emphasised the historical defence of Tara, rather than the internecine struggle for the high-kingship of Ireland; Tadhg's response referred to the achievements of his patron's ancestor, Brian Boru, and pooh-poohed the former martial feats of the Eremonians as consisting merely of battles among themselves; the northern poets (whose allegiance lay with the exiled Ulster princes) countered with the accusation that Tadhg was betraying the bardic profession in his failure to comprehend the truth of the noble history of the Gael.

Some of the participants in the Contention mocked the principal debate between Tadhg and Lughaidh; for example, Ó Heffernan used the fable of a cat and a fox (Eremonians and Eberians) that were bickering over a fat piece of meat (Ireland) when a wolf came along and snatched it all.

In June 1617, Tadhg had suggested in a letter to Lúghaidh and the northern poets that a decisive face-to-face poetic disputation be convened in order to resolve the Contention. It is not known if the suggestion was acted upon, but it appears to have marked the moment of greatest controversy. The Contention came to a head in a whirl of extreme sarcasm from the poet Mac Artúir, who defended the bards' tradition in a novel, run-on free-form, which contrasted with the traditional form in which Tadhg wrote.

Perspective
The poems of the Contention share a sense of national culture, but their political allegiance is clan-centred. It was a period of decline for the court bards, and the fact that they were addressing each other suggests a realisation that their audience was losing its influence and that few within the new dispensation were paying heed to them.

In the course of the exchange, the theme of North-South rivalry was developed to include a debate about the struggle between tradition and iconoclasm. That allowed the poets to vent their bitterness at the late conquest and colonisation of the country and at the collapse of the political order upon which they depended.

Throughout the Contention, each side had eagerly and jealously claimed James I of Ireland as a descendant in its Milesian lineage, as he was descended from Marjorie Bruce whose ancestors included the Gaelic kings of Scotland, such as Kenneth McAlpine, back to the formation of the kingdom of Dál Riata c.400 CE. His royal authority based ultimately on his Gaelic ancestry was ironically the instrument by which the traditional Gaelic order was being destroyed or transformed in Ireland.

The Ireland that the poems traced in their lore was past, and it seems that the bards were incapable of adapting their ways. The Contention proved to be the last flourish of Dán Díreach courtly poetic style: within decades the great school metres had been abandoned in favour of the looser Amhrán or Aisling, and the esteem in which the bards had been held in Gaelic Ireland was never regained.

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Category talk:Tourist attractions in Birmingham, West Midlands

Recategorising
This category was renamed from Places of interest in Birmingham, England to Visitor attractions in Birmingham, England to accord with the general practice within the UK cats. The archived discussion can be viewed at Categories for deletion/Log/2005 September 23.

It appears that the Places of interest cat was being used as a catch-all for Birmingham locations, some of which can scarcely be called visitor attractions - e.g. Frankley Water Treatment Works. I'm therefore planning to recategorise those that do not belong in the newly titled cat as per the archived discussion. Most will be going to Category:Buildings and structures in Birmingham, England which I have previously removed as a subcat of the Places of interest cat and made a subcat of the main Category:Birmingham, England. Valiantis 17:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It appears that the category's scope, which was deliberately wide, has been narrowed, causing such problems. It's a pity that the proposal to rename the category wasn't mentioned on the Birmingham talk page. Furthermore, your removal of several articles of Birmingham interest from the new category leaves them with no Birmingham categorization,. This helps interested readers, how, exactly? Andy Mabbett 19:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


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Mount Dragon

Mount Dragon is a 1996 techno-thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The action primarily follows Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca, two researchers employed by the corporation GeneDyne and stationed at the Mount Dragon facility in New Mexico. In attempting to engineer a therapeutic hormone to prevent all forms of influenza, GeneDyne has accidentally created a frighteningly virulent disease. Meanwhile, Carson and Cabeza de Vaca face a much more immediate threat at the Mount Dragon facility—from their own colleagues.

Plot summary
Dr. Guy Carson is a young scientist and cowboy-at-heart, raised on a southwestern ranch and bored with city life. That is, until the prestigious genetic engineering corporation GeneDyne offers Carson a six-month position as a lab researcher at its Mount Dragon Remote Desert Testing Facility in Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico. Carson accepts and soon finds that the Mount Dragon laboratory is testing far more promising and dangerous things than Carson ever expected. Scientists at the facility spend months isolated from the outside world, essentially locked in the guarded facility within a Level 5 containment lab, as they research a vaccine for the influenza virus. With the help of his feisty lab assistant, Susanna Cabeza de Vaca, Carson begins to unlock the mysteries of the spontaneously mutating influenza virus, dubbed “X-FLU”.

Over time, Carson and DeVaca discover that their predecessor Dr. Franklin Burt, was literally driven mad by his time at Mount Dragon and was institutionalized. Burt’s death is not the only one caused by the facility; an emergency quarantine prompted by the contamination of the Level 5 lab by a chimp infected with the deadly X-FLU results in the death of researcher Rosalind Brandon-Smith. Soon, more human harm follows as Carson’s friend and messmate Dr. Andrew Vanderwagon spontaneously punctures his own eye with a fork and attempts to commit suicide and kill others. Through researching Burt’s descent to madness, Carson and DeVaca realize that what occurred with Vanderwagon closely resembled the behavior of Burt toward the end. In fact, everyone at the facility except for Carson and DeVaca begin to display abnormal and erratic behavior that Carson at first presumes is the result of tight quarters or contamination by X-FLU.

However, Carson has an epiphany after conducting further tests on influenza and discovers that what caused the virus to mutate is Burt’s filtering system — a system that was used to filter the artificial blood product PurBlood that GeneDyne is releasing in hospitals across the nation in mere days. Burt’s journal confirms that PurBlood is in fact contaminated; Burt’s filtering system caused the contamination by mutating the cells in the artificial blood.

Carson and DeVaca are the only workers at the Mount Dragon facility who did not undergo a PurBlood transfusion for beta testing, and thus are the only ones not driven to insanity by the contamination. They set off an explosion to destroy the facility and flee from its homicidal and suicidal inhabitants. Attempting to alert officials before PurBlood can be introduced across the nation, resulting in an epidemic, Carson and DeVaca set off on horseback across the arid New Mexico desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest civilization. They are chased by the security director, an eccentric Englishman named Nye whose PurBlood-induced madness has led him to believe that there is a treasure buried in the desert and that Carson and DeVaca are trying to steal it from him. After days of thirst and starvation, Carson and DeVaca find water—and the remains of the worthless “treasure” of Spanish explorer Mondragón—before engaging in a fight-to-the-death battle with Nye. Carson and DeVaca are injured, but survive, and make it to a nearby cattle ranch in time to spread the word about the dangers of PurBlood.

Aside from the action-ridden plot of Carson and DeVaca, the novel highlights political and scientific battle between the CEO of GeneDyne, Brent Scopes, and his former best friend, Charles Levine, over the ethics of genetic modification. Scopes argues that genetic modification, such as that involved in the creation of PurBlood, will one day lead to a healthier human race. Levine counters that the extent of the dangers of genetically modified products is unknown, and that humans should proceed with caution in genetically altering or engineering products that could change the biological make-up of humanity. In the end, Scopes and Levine are exposed to the mutated influenza virus X-FLU and resolve their differences before dying.

Continuity
Mime, the "Thalidomide baby" hacker who assists Professor Levine, later appears in Preston and Child's Aloysius Pendergast series, offering similar assistance to Special Agent Pendergast. GeneDyne devices are also used in early Pendergast novels.

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The Prestige (film)

The Prestige is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan and based on the 1995 novel by Christopher Priest. It stars Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in Victorian London who feud over a perfect teleportation illusion.

The cast also features Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. The film reunites Nolan with actors Bale and Caine from Batman Begins and returning cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, and editor Lee Smith.

The Prestige was released on October 20, 2006, to positive reviews and grossed $109 million worldwide against a production budget of $40 million. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.

Plot
In 1890s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as plants (clandestine assistants posing as members of the audience) for a magician, under the mentorship of John Cutter, an engineer who designs stage magic. During a water tank trick, Angier's wife Julia fails to escape and drowns when Borden ties a different knot. Angier, devastated, accuses Borden of causing her death. The two become bitter enemies and part ways. Borden begins a solo act while Cutter helps Angier launch his own career. In retaliation for his wife's death, Angier sabotages Borden's bullet catch trick and shoots off two of the latter's fingers. Borden, in turn, sabotages a performance of Angier's and later develops a trick he calls "The Transported Man," in which he appears to travel instantly between two wardrobes on opposite ends of the stage.

Unable to discern Borden's method, Angier hires a double, Gerald Root, to perform his version of the trick. The imitation is a greater success, but Angier is dissatisfied, as he ends the trick hidden under the stage while Root basks in the applause. Borden then approaches Root and explains that he has high leveraging power over Angier, causing him to act more and more arrogant. In return, Angier has his assistant Olivia spy on Borden to learn how he performs The Transported Man. However, Olivia falls in love with Borden and becomes his assistant. With her help, Borden sabotages Angier's act, crippling him. Confronted by Angier, Olivia gives him a copy of Borden's encoded diary. Angier acquires the keyword to decode it, "TESLA," by threatening to kill Borden's stage engineer, Fallon. The diary takes Angier to America to meet scientist Nikola Tesla, who supposedly built a machine for The Transported Man trick.

Angier realizes the diary is fraudulent but Tesla still manages to create a machine for him. However, instead of teleporting objects, Tesla's machine creates a duplicate of them a short distance away. Tesla is driven from Colorado Springs by agents of his rival, Thomas Alva Edison, but has the machine delivered to Angier. He advises Angier to destroy it, saying it will bring him nothing but misery. Borden's wife, Sarah, is driven to suicide by his contradictory personality. Borden reveals to Olivia that he never loved Sarah and that he loves her more. Disgusted by Borden's inhumanity over his wife's death and the two magicians' feud, Olivia leaves. In London, Angier debuts "The Real Transported Man" using Tesla's machine.

Borden witnesses Angier fall through a trapdoor and drown in a water tank. Borden is discovered by Cutter and turned over to the police. He is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Lord Caldlow, an aristocrat, offers to adopt Borden's soon-to-be-orphaned daughter, Jess, so she is not sent to the workhouses, in exchange for Borden's tricks. However, on meeting Caldlow, Borden realizes that it is Angier in disguise, and comes to gloat. When Cutter realizes that Angier is still alive, he is disgusted that Angier allowed Borden to be sentenced but agrees to help dispose of Tesla's machine. Borden is hanged for Angier's murder. Back at the theatre, Angier is shot by a stranger who reveals himself as Borden.

How each man performed the Transported Man act is revealed: "Alfred Borden" was an identity shared by a pair of identical twins; offstage when one was "Borden," the other was disguised as "Fallon". When Angier had shot off one twin's fingers, the other amputated his own fingers to maintain the disguise. The surviving twin loved Sarah while his brother loved Olivia.

Meanwhile, when Angier used Tesla's machine, every performance created a new Angier, while the original drowned in a tank beneath the stage. Angier dies from his gunshot and drops his lantern, setting the theatre on fire. Borden picks up Jess at Cutter's workshop. In the burning theater, rows of tanks hold dead Angiers.

Cast

 * Hugh Jackman as Robert "The Great Danton" Angier / Lord Caldlow, an aristocratic magician. Nolan cast Jackman, stating that Angier "has a wonderful understanding of the interaction between a performer and a live audience", a quality he believed Jackman possessed. Jackman based his portrayal of Angier on 1950s-era magician Channing Pollock. Jackman also portrays Gerald Root, an alcoholic double used for Angier's New Transported Man.
 * Christian Bale as Alfred "The Professor" Borden / Bernard Fallon, a working-class magician. While Nolan had previously cast Bale as Batman in Batman Begins (2005), he did not consider Bale for the role of Borden until Bale contacted him about the script. Nolan subsequently believed that Bale was "exactly right" for the part and that it was "unthinkable" for anyone else to play it. Nolan suggested that the actors not read the original novel, but Bale ignored the advice.
 * Michael Caine as John Cutter, the stage engineer (ingenieur) who works with Angier and Borden. Caine had previously collaborated with Nolan and Bale in Batman Begins. Nolan noted that the part had been written "before I'd ever met" Caine. Caine described Cutter as "a teacher, a father, and a guide to Angier". In trying to create the character's nuanced portrait, Caine altered his voice and posture.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Olivia Wenscombe, Angier and Borden's assistant. Nolan was "very keen" for Johansson to play the role, and when he met with her to discuss it, "she just loved the character".
 * Piper Perabo as Julia McCullough, Milton the Magician's assistant and Angier's wife.
 * Rebecca Hall as Sarah Borden, Borden's wife. Hall had to relocate from North London to Los Angeles in order to shoot the film, although the film itself takes place in London.
 * David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, the real-life inventor who creates a teleportation device for Angier. For Tesla, Nolan wanted someone who was not necessarily a film star but was "extraordinarily charismatic". Nolan stated that Bowie "was really the only guy I had in mind to play Tesla because his function in the story is a small but very important role". Nolan contacted Bowie, who initially turned down the part. A lifelong fan, Nolan flew out to New York to pitch the role to Bowie in person, telling him no one else could possibly play the part; Bowie accepted after a few minutes.
 * Andy Serkis as Mr. Alley, Tesla's assistant. Serkis said he played Alley with the belief that he was "once a corporation man who got excited by this maverick, Tesla, so jumped ship and went with the maverick". Serkis described Alley as a "gatekeeper", a "conman", and "a mirror image of Michael Caine's character." Serkis, a big fan of Bowie, said he was enjoyable to work with, describing him as "very unassuming, very down to earth... very at ease with himself and funny."
 * Ricky Jay as Milton the Magician, an older magician who employs Angier and Borden at the beginning of their careers. Jay and Michael Weber trained Jackman and Bale for their roles with brief instruction in various stage illusions. The magicians gave the actors limited information, allowing them to know enough to pull off a scene.
 * Roger Rees as Owens, a solicitor working for Lord Caldlow.
 * W. Morgan Sheppard as Merrit, the owner of a theater where Angier initially performs.
 * Samantha Mahurin as Jess Borden, the daughter of Borden and Sarah.
 * Daniel Davis as the judge presiding over Borden's trial.
 * Russ Fega as Man in Hotel.

Production
Julian Jarrold's and Sam Mendes's producer approached Christopher Priest for an adaptation of his novel The Prestige. Priest was impressed with Christopher Nolan's films Following and Memento, and subsequently, producer Valerie Dean brought the book to Nolan's attention. In October 2000, Nolan traveled to the United Kingdom to publicize Memento, as Newmarket Films was having difficulty finding a United States distributor. While in London, Nolan read Priest's book and shared the story with his brother while walking around in Highgate (a location later featured in the scene where Angier ransoms Borden's stage engineer in Highgate Cemetery). The development process for The Prestige began as a reversal of their earlier collaboration: Jonathan Nolan had pitched his initial story for Memento to his brother during a road trip.

A year later, the option on the book became available and was purchased by Aaron Ryder of Newmarket Films. In late 2001, Nolan became busy with the post-production of Insomnia, and asked his brother Jonathan to help work on the script. The writing process was a long collaboration between the Nolan brothers, occurring intermittently over a period of five years. In the script, the Nolans emphasized the magic of the story through the dramatic narrative, playing down the visual depiction of stage magic. The three-act screenplay was deliberately structured around the three elements of the film's illusion: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige. "It took a long time to figure out how to achieve cinematic versions of the very literary devices that drive the intrigue of the story," Christopher Nolan told Variety: "The shifting points of view, the idea of journals within journals and stories within stories. Finding the cinematic equivalents of those literary devices was very complex." Although the film is thematically faithful to the novel, two major changes were made to the plot structure during the adaptation process: the novel's spiritualism subplot was removed, and the modern-day frame story was replaced with Borden's wait for the gallows. Priest approved of the adaptation, describing it as "an extraordinary and brilliant script, a fascinating adaptation of my novel."

In early 2003, Nolan planned to direct the film before the production of Batman Begins accelerated. Following the release of Batman Begins, Nolan started up the project again, negotiating with Jackman and Bale in October 2005. While the screenplay was still being written, production designer Nathan Crowley began the set design process in Nolan's garage, employing a "visual script" consisting of scale models, images, drawings, and notes. Jonathan and Christopher Nolan finished the final shooting draft on January 13, 2006, and began production three days later on January 16. Filming ended on April 9.

Crowley and his crew searched Los Angeles for almost seventy locations that resembled fin de siècle London. Jonathan Nolan visited Colorado Springs to research Nikola Tesla and based the electric bulb scene on actual experiments conducted by Tesla. Nathan Crowley helped design the scene for Tesla's invention; It was shot in the parking lot of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Influenced by a "Victorian modernist aesthetic," Crowley chose four locations in the Broadway theater district in downtown Los Angeles for the film's stage magic performances: the Los Angeles Theatre, the Palace Theatre, the Los Angeles Belasco, and the Tower Theatre. Crowley also turned a portion of the Universal back lot into Victorian London. Osgood Castle in Colorado was also used as a location.

Nolan built only one set for the film, an "under-the-stage section that houses the machinery that makes the larger illusions work," preferring to simply dress various Los Angeles locations and sound stages to stand in for Colorado and Victorian England. In contrast to most period pieces, Nolan kept up the quick pace of production by shooting with handheld cameras, and refrained from using artificial lighting in some scenes, relying instead on natural light on location. Costume designer Joan Bergin chose attractive, modern Victorian fashions for Scarlett Johansson; cinematographer Wally Pfister captured the mood with soft earth tones as white and black colors provided background contrasts, bringing actors' faces to the foreground. Editing, scoring, and mixing finished on September 22, 2006.

Together with The Illusionist and Scoop, The Prestige was one of three films in 2006 to explore the world of stage magicians.

Themes
The rivalry between Angier and Borden dominates the film. Obsession, secrecy, and sacrifice fuel the battle, as both magicians contribute their fair share to a deadly duel of one-upmanship, with disastrous results. Angier's obsession with beating Borden costs him Cutter's friendship while providing him with a collection of his own dead clones; Borden's obsession with maintaining the secrecy of his twin leads Sarah to question their relationship, eventually resulting in her suicide when she suspects the truth. Angier and one of the twins both lose Olivia's love because of their inhumanity. Finally, Borden is hanged and the last copy of Angier shot. Their struggle is also expressed through class warfare: Borden as The Professor, a working-class magician who gets his hands dirty, versus Angier as The Great Danton, a classy, elitist showman whose accent makes him appear American. Film critic Matt Brunson claimed that a complex theme of duality is exemplified by Angier and Borden, that the film chooses not to depict either magician as good or evil.

Angier's theft of Borden's teleportation illusion in the film echoes many real-world examples of stolen tricks among magicians. Outside the film, similar rivalries include magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Kellar's dispute over a levitation illusion. Gary Westfahl of Locus Online also notes a "new proclivity for mayhem" in the film over the novel, citing the murder/suicide disposition of Angier's duplicates and intensified violent acts of revenge and counter-revenge. This "relates to a more general alteration in the events and tone of the film" rather than significantly changing the underlying themes.

Nor is this theme of cutthroat competition limited to sleight of hand: the script incorporates the popular notion that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were directly engaged in the war of the currents, a rivalry over electrical standards, which appears in the film in parallel to Angier and Borden's competition for magical supremacy. In the novel, Tesla and Edison serve as foils for Angier and Borden, respectively.

Den Shewman of Creative Screenwriting says the film asks how far one would go to devote oneself to an art. The character of Chung Ling Soo, according to Shewman, is a metaphor for this theme. Film critic Alex Manugian refers to this theme as the "meaning of commitment."

Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment addresses the points raised by Shewman and Manugian in terms of the film's "refracted take on Romanticism":

"Angier's technological solution—which suggests art as a sacrifice, a phoenix-like death of the self—and Borden's more meat-and-potatoes form of stagecraft embodies the divide between the artist and the social being." For Manugian the central theme is "obsession," but he also notes the supporting themes of the "nature of deceit" and "science as magic." Manugian criticizes the Nolans for trying to "ram too many themes into the story."

Release
Touchstone Pictures opted to move the release date forward by a week, from the original October 27, to October 20, 2006. The film earned $14.8 million on opening weekend in the United States, debuting at #1. It grossed $109 million, including $53 million from the United States. The film received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Nathan Crowley and Julie Ochipinti) and the Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister), as well as a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2007.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 76% based on 202 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is a dazzling period piece that never stops challenging the audience." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Claudia Puig of USA Today described the film as "one of the most innovative, twisting, turning art films of the past decade." Drew McWeeny gave the film a glowing review, saying it demands repeat viewing, with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone agreeing. On At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper, Richard Roeper and guest critic A.O. Scott gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating. Todd Gilchrist of IGN applauded the performances of Jackman and Bale whilst praising Nolan for making "this complex story as easily understandable and effective as he made the outwardly straightforward comic book adaptation (Batman Begins) dense and sophisticated... any truly great performance is almost as much showmanship as it is actual talent, and Nolan possesses both in spades." CNN.com and Village Voice film critic Tom Charity listed it among his best films of 2006. Philip French of The Observer recommended the film, comparing the rivalry between the two main characters to that of Mozart and Salieri in the highly acclaimed Amadeus.

On the other hand, Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film as gimmicky, though he felt the cast did well in underwritten roles. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter felt that characters "...are little more than sketches. Remove their obsessions, and the two magicians have little personality." Nonetheless, the two reviewers praised David Bowie as Tesla, as well as the production values and cinematography. On a simpler note, Emanuel Levy has said: "Whether viewers perceive The Prestige as intricately complex or just unnecessarily complicated would depend to a large degree on their willingness to suspend disbelief for two hours." He gave the film a B grade.

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four, describing the revelation at the end as a "fundamental flaw" and a "cheat." He wrote, "The pledge of Nolan's The Prestige is that the film, having been metaphorically sawed in two, will be restored; it fails when it cheats, as, for example, if the whole woman produced on the stage were not the same one so unfortunately cut in two." R.J. Carter of The Trades felt, "I love a good science fiction story; just tell me in advance." He gave the film a B−. Christopher Priest, who wrote the novel the film is based on, saw it three times as of January 5, 2007, and his reaction was "'Well, holy shit.' I was thinking, 'God, I like that,' and 'Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.'"

The film has grown in stature since its release. In 2009, The A.V. Club named The Prestige as one of the best films of the 2000s. The film was included in American Cinematographer's "Best-Shot Film of 1998-2008" list, ranking at 36. More than 17,000 people around the world participated in the final vote. In 2020, Empire magazine ranked it among "The 100 Greatest Movies Of The 21st Century".

Music
The film score was written by English musician and composer David Julyan. Julyan had previously collaborated with director Christopher Nolan on Following, Memento and Insomnia. Following the film's narrative, the soundtrack had three sections: the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige.

Track listing
Some critics were disappointed with the score, acknowledging that while it worked within the context of the film, it was not enjoyable by itself. Jonathan Jarry of SoundtrackNet described the score as "merely functional," establishing the atmosphere of dread but never taking over. Although the reviewer was interested in the score's notion, Jarry found the execution was "extremely disappointing."

Christopher Coleman of Tracksounds felt that though it was "...a perfectly fitting score," it was completely overwhelmed by the film, and totally unnoticed at times. Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks recommended the soundtrack for those who enjoyed Julyan's work on the film, and noted that it was not for those who expected "any semblance of intellect or enchantment in the score to match the story of the film." Clemmensen called the score lifeless, "constructed on a bed of simplistic string chords and dull electronic soundscapes."

The song "Analyse" by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is played over the credits.

Home media
The Region 1 disc is by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and was released on February 20, 2007, and is available on DVD and Blu-ray formats. The Warner Bros. Region 2 DVD was released on March 12, 2007. It is also available in both BD and regionless HD DVD in Europe (before HD DVD was canceled). Special features are minimal, with the documentary Director's Notebook: The Prestige – Five Making-of Featurettes, running roughly twenty minutes combined, an art gallery and the trailer. Nolan did not contribute to a commentary as he felt the film primarily relied on an audience's reaction and did not want to remove the mystery from the story.

The film was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 18, 2017, in the United Kingdom. The film was also released by Touchstone Home Entertainment on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 19, 2017, in the United States.

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Dai-ichi Life

The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited (第一生命保険株式会社), or Dai-ichi Life for short, is the third-largest life insurer in Japan by revenue, behind Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life.

Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-Ichi was one of the oldest mutual insurance companies in Japan until a motion to demutualise was passed in 2009 and, on April 1, 2010, it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, raising 1.01 trillion yen. As of March 2013, it had the most assets of any listed company in Japan with a total of 33 trillion yen on its stand-alone balance sheet, more than twice the total assets of #2-ranked Tokyo Electric Power Company.

It was announced in October 2014 that Dai-ichi would raise US$1 billion by issuing US-dollar-denominated subordinated bonds in overseas markets.

It is also the largest single shareholder of the Tokyu Corporation, holding 6.35% of all issued stock.

Key facts
As of March 30, 2006:
 * Total assets - US$276,552 million
 * Policy reserves - US$227,524 million
 * Total capital - US$21,425 million
 * Solvency margin ratio - 1,095.5%
 * Policies in force - US$2,085 billion
 * Policyholders - 8,646,469

History

 * 1902 - Founded by a statistician and the Earl Yanagisawa Yasutoshi, Ohashi Shintaro, the President of the Hakubunkan, and the Lieutenant Hamaguchi Kichibe, supported by an insurance doctor Yano Kota.
 * 1937 - After Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July which the Major general Masakazu Kawabe and the Colonel Renya Mutaguchi led the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Colonial Affairs issued Manturia Insurance Business Act on December 27 and enforced it the next day.
 * 1938 - Taizō Ishizaka, former high-rank officer of Ministry of Communications become the President of Dai-ichi Life and licensed for business in Manchuria.  Tokyo head office relocated to current place, Yurakucho, Hibiya.
 * 1945 - The Tokyo head office was requisitioned as the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ) government building.
 * 1975 - first overseas representative office is established in New York City.
 * 1977 - begins to sell UU Insurance for the male.
 * 1982 - first European representative office is established in London.
 * 1990 - investment in Lincoln National Life Insurance Company marked the first time a Japanese company participated in capitalizing a leading U.S. insurer.
 * 1993 - completion of the DN Tower 21, a new head office building.
 * 1995 - Great Hanshin earthquake: simplification of claims settlement procedures.
 * 1996 - establishment of the Dai-ichi Property and Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd.
 * 1997 - establishment of Dai-ichi Life Research Institute Inc.
 * 1999 - agreement on total business cooperation with the Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Financial Group.)
 * 2000 - agreement to form a comprehensive business alliance with Sompo Japan Insurance and Aflac.
 * 2002 - celebration of its 100th anniversary.
 * 2010 - Demutualization and stock listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
 * 2011 - completes take over of ASX listed Tower Australia life insurance company, the wholly owned subsidiary is then renamed TAL
 * 2015 - purchased Protective Life Corporation

As an institutional investor
As an institutional investor, Dai-ichi Life Holdings owns 230 Japanese companies' stocks as of 2022.

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Mägo de Oz (album)

Mägo de Oz is the first studio album by the band Mägo de Oz.

Unlike their later metal-oriented works, this production has elements of jazz, blues, country and rock and roll, rhythms that are very different from the current ones and that prevailed in a couple of songs by Jesús de Chamberí.

The album initially was not very successful (no more than 150 copies sold in the first year), this caused the departure of Chema, Juanma and Tony in the following months.

Personnel

 * Juanma: Voice
 * Txus di Fellatio : Drums, Voice in "Gone with the Wind" and "Yankees go Home"
 * Mohamed : Violin
 * Tony Corral: Saxophone
 * Carlitos : Rhythmic Guitar
 * Chema: Solo Guitar
 * Salva: Bass

Collaborations

 * Francisco J. Urchegui: Trumpet in "T 'esnucaré contra'l bidet" and "Gimme some lovin"
 * Manuel Villoria: Trombone in "T 'esnucaré contra'l bidé" and "Gimme some lovin"
 * Miguel Mengual: Alto sax in "T 'esnucaré contra'l bidé" and "Gimme some lovin"
 * Bob Sands: Tenor sax in "T 'esnucaré contra'l bidet" and "Gimme some lovin"
 * Javier Iturralde: Baritone saxophone in "T 'esnucaré contra'l bidé"
 * Josemi Redondo: Keyboards and piano in "Rock kaki rock", "Gone with the wind left" and "Mägo de Oz"
 * Miguel: Harmonica in "Yankees go home" and "Nena"
 * Eva: Choirs
 * Pedro Gil: Choirs
 * Enrique Gil: Choirs
 * guitar
 * guitar
 * bass

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West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club

West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. Founded in 1834 it is a founder member of the Birmingham & District Cricket league. Its First XI currently plays in the Premier Division, and its Second XI in the First Division. The Third XI play in the First Division of the Staffordshire Clubs Cricket Championship and the Fourth XI in the Fourth Division. The First XI is captained by former Gloucestershire batsman Kadeer Ali, brother of England international Moeen Ali.

The unusual name "Dartmouth" comes from the original ground residing in the estate of the Earl of Dartmouth – Sandwell Hall. They now play their home games at Sandwell Park, West Bromwich (also within the Earl's old estate), next to Sandwell Park Golf Club and almost opposite The Hawthorns, home to football team, West Bromwich Albion.

They were runners-up to fellow Birmingham League team Old Hill, in the 1993 national club knockout cup final.

Birmingham & District Cricket league Honours
'''Premier Division Champions. 1st XI''' 1930 1932 1934 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1948 1953 1955 1958 1965 1971 1974 1993 2014 Joint Champions 1890 1933

'''Division One Champions. 1st XI''' 2003

'''Premier Division Champions. 2nd XI''' 1905 1929 1963 1965 1970 1972 1973 1974 1998

'''Division One Champions. 2nd XI''' 2004

Challenge Cup Champions 1969 1970 1972 1989 1990 1992 1993 1994 1997

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Farmington, Pennsylvania

Farmington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Farmington is located along U.S. Route 40, the National Road, approximately 60 mi southeast of Pittsburgh, and is the closest settlement to Fort Necessity National Battlefield. It is also home to Historic Summit Inn Resort, the four-star Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the New Meadow Run and Spring Valley Bruderhofs, two of a group of international Christian communities with about 200 members in each. As of the 2010 census, the population of Farmington was 767.

Geography
Farmington is located in northeastern Wharton Township at geographical coordinates 39° 48′ 28″ North, 79° 34′ 1″ West (39.807220, -79.566154). Via U.S. Route 40, Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is 12 mi to the northwest, and Cumberland, Maryland, is 50 mi to the southeast. Pittsburgh is 60 mi to the northwest via US 40 and Pennsylvania Route 51.

The U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code for Farmington is 15437.

title: Farmington, Pennsylvania