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is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, better known by the ring name . Sato started his MMA career in February 2000, fighting for Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling. During the next eight years, Sato fought, on average, five times a year, compiling a record of 18 wins, 19 losses and four draws, which included fights against the likes of Keiichiro Yamamiya, Nathan Marquardt, Ryo Chonan and Yushin Okami. In May 2008, Sato transitioned into the world of professional wrestling, when he was signed by the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) promotion. He has since had ten MMA fights. In November 2010, Sato first became a triple crown trios champion with Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga and then also won DDT's top singles title, the KO-D Openweight Championship. Sato remained affiliated with DDT until January 2014. He is currently working for the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, where he is a former two-time World Junior Heavyweight Champion and four-time All Asia Tag Team Champion, while also being a five-time winner of the Jr. Tag Battle of Glory tournament.

Mixed martial arts career
Sato, with a high school background in amateur wrestling, started training mixed martial arts with Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling in June 1999. He made his fighting debut as a middleweight on February 27, 2000, losing to Daisuke Watanabe with a unanimous decision. He picked up his first win in his second fight on April 30, 2000, by defeating American Michael Sa Jin Kwok with an armbar in the first round. Early on, Sato became known for his eccentric personality, which included him wearing cat ears and dressing up as a maid while walking to the ring for his fights. In 2001, Sato fought three high-profile fights, losing to American King of Pancrase Middleweight Champion Nathan Marquardt via submission on March 31, defeating Ryo Chonan via unanimous decision in Chonan's professional debut on May 5 and losing to King of Pancrase Light Heavyweight Champion Keiichiro Yamamiya via unanimous decision on August 30. On January 18, 2004, Sato defeated Daisuke Nakamura to win Greatest Common Multiple's (GMC) 2004 Demolition Middleweight 4Men Tournament. After his win, Sato proceeded to challenge King of Pancrase Openweight Champion Josh Barnett to a match. During his early years in Pancrase, Sato lost more fights than he won. On February 28, 2007, Sato defeated Rikuhei Fujii and, as a result, for the first time in his career, Sato's number of wins exceeded his number of losses, with a record of 17 wins, 16 losses and 3 draws. On December 22, 2007, Sato finally got into a ring with Josh Barnett, however, the match was contested under catch wrestling rules. Barnett won the match, submitting Sato at the end of the first round. The following year, Sato transitioned into the world of professional wrestling, which led to a drop in his number of fights per year. His most recent fight took place on February 5, 2017, when he defeated Johnathan Ivey via technical knockout, giving him a record of 24 wins, 23 losses and 4 draws.

Professional wrestling career

In March 2008, Sato began training for a career in professional wrestling under Pancrase founder Minoru Suzuki. He made his debut for the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) promotion on May 24, 2008, defeating Shuji Ishikawa in the main event of a "Hard Hit" event, DDT's project, which combines elements of mixed martial arts and professional wrestling to create a more realistic looking, but still worked, style of professional wrestling. As a professional wrestler, Sato continued wearing his maid dresses and occasionally even wrestled in them. During the next months, Sato made appearances for Osaka Pro Wrestling and Minoru Suzuki-promoted independent events, before he began working regularly for DDT the following August, defeating Michael Nakazawa in his return match, contested under "Hard Hit" rules. Afterwards, Sato and Nakazawa formed a regular partnership with each other. On February 22, 2009, Sato defeated Tanomusaku Toba and Yasu Urano in a three-way match to earn his first shot at DDT's top title, the KO-D Openweight Championship. Sato received his title opportunity on March 15, but was unable to dethrone the defending champion, Sanshiro Takagi. After also failing to capture the DDT Extreme Division Championship on September 27, Sato formed the Belt Hunter×Hunter stable with Danshoku Dino, Keisuke Ishii, Masa Takanashi and Tigers Mask, which led to him winning his first professional wrestling title, when he, Dino and Takanashi defeated the Italian Four Horsemen (Antonio Honda, Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku) for the UWA World Trios Championship on November 29. At the following event on December 6, Sato and Takanashi unsuccessfully challenged Kudo and Yasu Urano for the KO-D Tag Team Championship. On January 24, 2010, Sato, Dino and Takanashi lost the UWA World Trios Championship to Tokyo Gurentai (Fujita, Mazada and Nosawa Rongai). Sato would regain the title from Tokyo Gurentai on June 13, this time teaming with Keisuke Ishii and Yoshihiko, a blow up doll. However, his second reign with the title ended just a month later, when the team was defeated by The Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho in a three-way match, which also included the team of Antonio Honda, Kudo and Yasu Urano and was also contested for the DDT Jiyūgaoka Six-Person Tag Team and DDT Nihonkai Six-Man Tag Team Championships. During the late summer of 2010, Sato took part in All Japan Pro Wrestling's (AJPW) Junior League and Pro Wrestling Zero1's Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament, failing to reach the finals in both of them.

On November 3, 2010, Sato reunited with Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga as the Shit Heart♥Foundation to defeat The Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho for the DDT Jiyūgaoka Six-Person Tag Team, DDT Nihonkai Six-Man Tag Team and UWA World Trios Championships. Just nine days later, Sato defeated Harashima to also win the KO-D Openweight Championship. However, Sato's reign at the top of DDT lasted only fourteen days, before he was defeated by Dick Togo. Before the end of the year, on December 26, Sato, Nakazawa and Matsunaga lost the UWA World Trios Championship to Disaster-Box (Harashima, Toru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe). Following the loss, Soma Takao took over the leadership of Shit Heart♥Foundation, kicking Sato out of the group in the process. This built to a Hair vs. Hair match on February 27, 2011, where Takao defeated Sato, who was, as a result, shaved bald. Two months later, Sato returned to AJPW to take part in the 2011 Junior Tag League, where he teamed with Kikutaro, with the two winning two out of their six matches in the tournament. The following September, Sato took part in his second AJPW Junior League, again failing to advance from his block. On September 30, Sato won the second annual DDT48 general election and was thus named the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship; he would, however, go on to fail in his title challenge against Kudo on October 23. The following month, Sato was placed in charge of the newly relaunched Hard Hit project, which led to him introducing new rules to the project on March 12, 2012, making it a more distinct sub-brand of DDT. The following month, Sato entered AJPW's 2012 Junior Tag League teaming with Hiroshi Yamato. After two wins, a draw and a loss, Sato and Yamato failed to advance to the finals, after being defeated by Bushi and Sushi on the final day of the tournament. On May 5, Sato made his debut for women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon, where he formed a comedic tag team with Riho, built around his infatuation over his fourteen-year-old tag team partner. At Golden Ribbon, Sato and Riho entered the annual Go! Go! Golden Mixed Tag Tournament, where they defeated Miyako Matsumoto and Mr. #6 in their first round match, before losing to Maki Narumiya and Masamune in the semifinals of the tournament. On July 16, Sato once again returned to AJPW to take part in the 2012 Junior Hyper League. After two wins, one draw and two losses, Sato failed to advance from his round-robin block. On August 26, Sato challenged Hiroshi Yamato to a match for his World Junior Heavyweight Championship, after he had successfully defended the title against Minoru Tanaka. Yamato accepted the challenge and the title match was made official the following day. Sato received his title shot on September 23, but was defeated by Yamato. In late 2012, Sato once again began teaming with Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga in DDT, forming a stable that would in January 2013 be named "3CC Co., Ltd."

On January 3, 2013, Sato made another appearance for AJPW, when he and Yamato came together to challenge the Junior Stars of Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka to a match for the All Asia Tag Team Championship. On January 26, the team, billed as "Jounetsu Hentai Baka", defeated the Junior Stars to win the All Asia Tag Team Championship, Sato's first title in All Japan. After only a fifteen-day reign, Sato and Yamato lost the title back to Kanemoto and Tanaka on February 10. On February 24, Sato produced the first Hard Hit event in eight months, working in the main event, where he faced Yuji Sakuragi, who had defeated him in a Pancrase fight in January 2006. The Hard Hit match ended with Sato being declared the winner after just 38 seconds, when he was unable to continue after having his nose accidentally broken by Sakuragi. From March 30 to April 7, Sato and Hiroshi Yamato took part in AJPW's 2013 Junior Hyper Tag League, where they made it all the way to the finals, before losing to Burning (Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki), whom they had defeated in their opening match of the tournament. Back in DDT, Sato and fellow mixed martial artist Yukio Sakaguchi defeated Harashima and Yasu Urano on May 3 to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship for the first time. Sato followed that up nine days later by defeating Harashima to become the number one contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship. Sato then went on to fail in his title challenge against Shigehiro Irie on May 26. On June 2, Sato and Sakaguchi made their first successful defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Monster Army representatives Hoshitango and Yuji Hino. Sato's and Sakaguchi's second successful title defense took place on June 14, when they defeated former champions Kudo and Yasu Urano. Post-match Sato, who had earlier mentioned that he wanted to defend the title against younger wrestlers, nominated Akito and Konosuke Takeshita as their next challengers. On June 23, Sato and Sakaguchi defeated Akito and Takeshita for their third successful title defense. On June 30, Sato returned to AJPW to take part in the farewell match of Hiroshi Yamato, who had announced his resignation from the promotion following Nobuo Shiraishi becoming its new president. After defeating Yamato and Kazushi Miyamoto in a three-way match, Sato announced that unlike his former Jounetsu Hentai Baka partner, he would continue to make appearances for the Shiraishi-run All Japan. When All Japan relaunched the following month, Sato worked the entire first Summer Action Series tour with the promotion. On July 28, the final day of the tour, Sato submitted World Junior Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru in a tag team match, where he and Kenso faced Kanemaru and Kotaro Suzuki, and afterwards challenged him to a title match. Back in DDT, Sato and Sakaguchi lost the KO-D Tag Team Championship to Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto on August 18, during Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2013, DDT's biggest event of the year. On August 25, Sato failed in his title challenge against World Junior Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru.

On January 17, 2014, DDT announced that the promotion and Sato had decided not to renew their contract with each other. Sato wrestled his final match under his old DDT contract on January 26, when he and Sanshiro Takagi defeated Akito and Yukio Sakaguchi in a tag team match. Afterwards, Sato began working for DDT's sub-promotion Union Pro Wrestling, while also producing occasional Hard Hit events for the promotion. Sato also continued working for AJPW, where, on February 16, Suwama accepted Sato's direct appeal and allowed him to join himself and Joe Doering, turning their tag team named Evolution into a stable. After starting a storyline, where he began disrespecting Union Pro, Sato won the promotion's top title, the Union Max Championship, by defeating Isami Kodaka on May 18. He made his first successful title defense on June 19 against Hiroshi Fukuda. On July 7, Sato and Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Hub and Mazada, and Dr. Wagner Jr. and Nosawa Rongai in a three-way elimination match to win Tokyo Gurentai's Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. On July 27, Sato received another shot at AJPW's World Junior Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated by the defending champion, Atsushi Aoki, who afterwards agreed to join Sato in Evolution. On August 31, Sato made his second successful defense of the Union Max Championship by wrestling Shuji Ishikawa to a thirty-minute time limit draw. His third successful defense took place on September 15, when he defeated Daichi Kazato. On October 22, Sato and Atsushi Aoki won the 2014 Jr. Tag Battle of Glory, defeating Último Dragón and Yoshinobu Kanemaru in the finals. Directly following their win, Sato and Aoki agreed to a World Junior Heavyweight Championship match to determine the top junior heavyweight in the company. The match took place on October 29 and saw Aoki defeat Sato to retain his title. As a result of winning the Jr. Tag Battle of Glory, Sato and Aoki earned a spot in the year-end World's Strongest Tag Determination League, where, as the only junior heavyweight team, they finished with a record of two wins, one draw and four losses. On December 17, Sato lost the Union Max Championship to Fuma in his third title defense. On March 14, 2015, Sato received his first non-junior title shot in AJPW, when he unsuccessfully challenged Kenso for the Gaora TV Championship.

On June 4, 2015, it was announced that Sato had obtained all rights to the Hard Hit project, which was now becoming independent of DDT. On June 21, Sato received another shot at the World Junior Heavyweight Championship, but was again defeated by the defending champion, Kotaro Suzuki. On July 15, Sato and Mochizuki lost the Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship to Chikara and Mitsuo Momota. On October 23, Sato and Atsushi Aoki, now billed collectively as "Hentai Jieitai" ("Pervert Self-Defense Forces"), won their second Jr. Tag Battle of Glory in a row by winning the round-robin tournament with a record of three wins and one loss. In February 2016, Sato made it to the finals of the 2016 Jr. Battle of Glory, where he was defeated by Evolution stablemate Atsushi Aoki. On April 4, Sato regained the Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, when he and fellow Pancrase representative Ryo Kawamura defeated Kiku-san Hansen and Stan Ichikawa. On June 19, Sato defeated Atsushi Aoki to win the World Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Sato made his first successful title defense on July 14 against Tatsuhito Takaiwa. On July 24, Sato became a double champion, when he and Atsushi Aoki defeated Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto at a Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) event to win the All Asia Tag Team Championship. On August 28, Sato returned to DDT to take part in Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2016, where he lost the World Junior Heavyweight Championship to Soma Takao in his second defense. On November 17, Sato and Aoki won their third Jr. Tag Battle of Glory in a row by defeating Soma Takao and Yuma Aoyagi in a playoff match. On November 27, Sato and Aoki lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship to veteran wrestlers Atsushi Onita and Masanobu Fuchi, who became the 100th champions in the title's history.

On April 28, 2017, Sato defeated Keisuke Ishii to win the World Junior Heavyweight Championship for the second time. On June 20, Sato became a double champion, when he and Aoki defeated Onita and Fuchi to regain the All Asia Tag Team Championship. On July 30, Sato lost the World Junior Heavyweight Championship to Tajiri in his fifth defense. Earlier in July, Sato began campaigning for a grappling match with Evolution leader Suwama. The match took place on August 3 and was won by Suwama. Afterwards, Sato announced he was quitting Evolution. On August 27, Sato and Aoki lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship to Black Tiger VII and Taka Michinoku.

Championships and accomplishments
Mixed martial arts
Greatest Common Multiple
Demolition Middleweight 4Men Tournament (2004)
Professional wrestling
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Asia Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Hiroshi Yamato (1), Atsushi Aoki (2), and Dan Tamura (1)
World Junior Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
Jr. Tag Battle of Glory (2014, 2015, 2016) – with Atsushi Aoki
Jr. Tag Battle of Glory (2019) – with Yusuke Okada
Jr. Tag Battle of Glory (2020) – with Dan Tamura
DDT Pro-Wrestling
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (2 times)
Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga
KO-D Openweight Championship (1 time)
KO-D Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Yukio Sakaguchi
Sea Of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga
UWA World Trios Championship (3 times) – with Danshoku Dino and Masa Takanashi (1), Keisuke Ishii and Yoshihiko (1), and Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga (1)
World Sato Championship (1 time)1
DDT48 (2011)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #184 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
Tenryu Project
International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Keita Yano
Tokyo Gurentai
Tokyo Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Masaaki Mochizuki (1) and Ryo Kawamura (1)
Union Pro Wrestling
Union Max Championship (1 time)

1Championship not officially recognized by DDT Pro-Wrestling.

Mixed martial arts record

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| Loss
| align=center| 24–26–4
| Kanto Fuchigami
| TKO (punches)
| Pancrase: 322
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:32
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 24–25–4
| Doo Hwan Kim
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| Top FC 18
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:21
| Seoul, South Korea
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 24–24–4
| Ryuta Sakurai
| TKO (punches)
| Pancrase: 289
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:23
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 24–23–4
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| TKO (punch)
| Pancrase: 284
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:18
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 23–23–4
|
| Submission (armbar)
| Pancrase: 275
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:03
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 23–22–4
|
| Submission (armbar)
| Pancrase: 269
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:36
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 22–22–4
|
| Submission (scarf hold armlock)
| Deep: Dream Impact 2014: Omisoka Special
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:10
| Saitama, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 21–22–4
|
| KO (slam)
| U-Spirits: Again
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:26
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 21–21–4
|
| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Progress Tour 1
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 21–20–4
|
| Submission (scarf hold armlock)
| ZST: Battle Hazard 4
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:22
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 20–20–4
|
| Submission (heel hook)
| Pancrase: Changing Tour 1
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:46
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 19–20–4
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| TKO (corner stoppage)
| Deep: Gladiator
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:08
| Okayama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 19–19–4
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| Submission (heel hook)
| Pancrase: Real 2008
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:37
| Chatan, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 18–19–4
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| KO (punch)
| Pancrase: Shining 2
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:20
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Draw
| align=center| 18–18–4
|
| Draw
| Kingdom of Grapple: Live 2007
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 18–18–3
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| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Pancrase: Rising 8
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:27
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 17–18–3
|
| KO (punches)
| Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:09
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 17–17–3
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| TKO (punches)
| Pancrase: Rising 4
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:16
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 17–16–3
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| Decision (majority)
| Pancrase: Rising 2
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 16–16–3
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Blow 11
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 15–16–3
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Blow 9
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–16–3
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Blow 6
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Yokohama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 14–15–3
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| Submission (toe hold)
| Pancrase: Blow 2
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:01
| Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 13–15–3
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| TKO (soccer kicks)
| Pancrase: Blow 1
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:55
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Draw
| align=center| 13–14–3
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| Draw
| Pancrase: Spiral 10
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 10:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 13–14–2
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Spiral 8
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Yokohama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 13–13–2
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| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Pancrase: Z
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:43
| Kumamoto, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 12–13–2
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| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Pancrase: Spiral 5
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:16
| Yokohama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 11–13–2
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| TKO (corner stoppage)
| Pancrase: Spiral 1
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:57
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–13–2
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Brave 11
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Draw
| align=center| 10–12–2
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| Draw
| Pancrase: Brave 9
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–12–1
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| TKO (punches)
| Pancrase: Brave 6
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:53
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 10–11–1
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| Decision (majority)
| Pancrase: Brave 3
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–11–1
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| Decision (unanimous)
| GCM: Demolition 040118
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 8–11–1
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| TKO (punches)
| GCM: Demolition 030923
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:29
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 7–11–1
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| Decision (split)
| Pancrase: Hybrid 7
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–10–1
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| Submission (heel hook)
| Deep: 9th Impact
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:57
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 6–10–1
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| Submission (toe hold)
| GCM: Demolition 030323
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:36
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 5–10–1
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Hybrid 1
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Draw
| align=center| 5–9–1
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| Draw (unanimous)
| Pancrase: Spirit 7
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 5–9
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| Decision (unanimous)
| KF 2: Kushima's Fight 2
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Nagasaki, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–8
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| Decision (majority)
| Pancrase: Spirit 4
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–8
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| Decision (majority)
| Pancrase: Spirit 2
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 3–8
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| KO (punch)
| Pancrase: Proof 6
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 4:20
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 3–7
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Zero1: Shingeki Chapter 2
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 3–6
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| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Pancrase: 2001 Neo-Blood Tournament Opening Round
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:08
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–5
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| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: 2001 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 2–5
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| Submission (rear naked choke)
| Pancrase: Proof 2
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| Pancrase: Trans 8
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| Pancrase: Trans 6
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| Pancrase: 2000 Neo-Blood Tournament Second Round
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| Pancrase: 2000 Neo-Blood Tournament Opening Round
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| Pancrase: Trans 2
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| Osaka, Japan
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References

External links
All Japan Pro Wrestling profile
DDT Pro-Wrestling profile
Inoki Genome Federation profile
Pancrase profile

Official blog

1980 births
Living people
Japanese male professional wrestlers
Japanese male mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
Sportspeople from Okayama
All Asia Tag Team Champions
World Junior Heavyweight Champions (AJPW)
UWA World Trios Champions
21st-century professional wrestlers
Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Champions
KO-D Tag Team Champions
Sea of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Champions
Union Max Champions
KO-D Openweight Champions
International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
Tenryu Project International Junior Heavyweight Champions

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Most jackpot winners, however, pick out the lower, immediate money selection. For this $540 million Powerball prize, that cash quantity is $384.3 million . The final four jackpot winners prior to Monday's drawing have come from Florida or New Jersey. The final time all six winning Powerball numbers had been matched came June five, 2021. The $285.six million jackpot went to a single winner in Florida. A winning ticket was sold in Florida on Saturday night for the $285.6 million Powerball jackpot, according to lottery officials.
Contemplate a person with out a college degree who spent an typical of $250 per year getting lottery tickets. If they did the exact same factor for 40 years, that quantity would jump to a lot more than $25,000. Is there a much better, much more lucrative, way to invest or invest the income you'd otherwise devote to the lottery? If a individual spends $five per week on lottery tickets, it adds up to $260 per year.
It is the highest total for a Powerball jackpot given that March 2019, and the lack of a winner signifies the longest streak with no a jackpot winner in the game now stands at 35 draws. The Powerball jackpot was last hit on Sept. 16, 2020, in New York. The Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots are proving to be elusive for lottery players. Lottery winners in Maryland have the correct to stay anonymous to claim the prize. Lottery claiming deadlines have been extended for the duration of Maryland's COVID-19 state of emergency.
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New Brunswick public sector workers ratify five-year contract after 16-day strike
By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted November 19, 2021 11:23 am
Updated November 19, 2021 4:55 pm
1:33 N.B. public sector workers ratify five-year contract after 16-day strike
Watch: More than 20,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in New Brunswick officially ratified a contract deal Friday, following a 16-day strike that paralyzed the province's public school system. Nathalie Sturgeon has more. – Nov 19, 2021
More than 20,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in New Brunswick officially ratified a contract deal Friday, following a 16-day strike that paralyzed the province's public school system.
Union leaders confirmed that 10 of the 11 locals involved in the labour dispute had accepted a tentative deal reached last Saturday.
The CUPE local that represents school bus drivers, school custodians and maintenance workers, however, voted against the offer because of a dispute over pensions. That means they will return to the bargaining table. Iris Lloyd, president of Local 1253, said members of the local will not resume strike action.
The five-year agreement includes a two per cent raise per year and a 25-cent-per-hour wage increase in each year, and significant wage increases for casual workers.
Read more: N.B. students back to class Monday after province and CUPE reach agreement
"The general wage package was certainly better than what we've seen in years," union president Steve Drost told a news conference at the Fredericton Inn. "But I'm going to let governments know: this is just the beginning. People understand their worth."
Drost said it's the first time the union has secured a fair wage increase in at least 15 years. Still, he lashed out at the province's Progressive Conservative government, saying its drive for austerity was hurting New Brunswick.
"This has been an extremely difficult journey, and I believe it should have never gotten to this level," he said. "I think government should have been much fairer to front-line workers … and should have never, ever forced (union members) out into the streets."
Read more: New Brunswick reaches tentative deal with striking CUPE workers
Premier Blaine Higgs issued a brief statement Friday saying the ratified agreements represent a fair deal for unionized employees and taxpayers.
"We were able to balance the needs at both sides of the table to find a solution that includes substantial wage increases for all bargaining groups," Higgs said.
Public schools across the province reopened Monday after the tentative agreement was reached. Among those who went on strike were workers in education, health, transportation, infrastructure and employees at community colleges.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 19, 2021.
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You had the sense from the early stages that this game was going to be decided by an incident, whether it be an error, a moment of magic, a refereeing decision or, as it happened, a wildly deflected shot. Switzerland started with a bit more initiative, but Janne Andersson's double yellow wall held.
Ultimately, it was Emil Forsberg's deflected shot that turned the match and in some ways, it was history repeating itself. Another deflected shot, in the World Cup playoff against Italy, had determined Sweden's place in Russia at the Azzurri's expense.
Maybe the difference between then and now is that while that Sweden team backed into a place in the World Cup, this version is showing it belongs after victories over Mexico and South Korea and their creditable performance against Germany. It's not always pretty, but there is a cohesion and a single-mindedness to this group that squeezes every ounce of performance out of those canary-yellow jerseys.
As for Switzerland, the fear over missing Fabian Schar and Stephan Lichsteiner was probably overblown. Their deputies did their part; the concern was further up the pitch where, despite their technical edge, they couldn't break through the Swedish ranks.
Forsberg's goal was enough as Sweden showed once again that they're not just here to make up the numbers.
Manuel Akanji may not sleep on Tuesday night. Not because of a mistake he made (a defender will always try to deflect a goal-bound shot) but because of the random cruelty of the sport. His right foot met Forsberg's driven finish at just the wrong angle and it trickled behind Yann Sommer into the Swiss goal.
He will, you'd imagine, second-guess himself. Should he have come out quicker? Did he misjudge the trajectory of the shot? Would it have been better if he had not been there at all and Sommer had tried to save it on his own? It's understandable to over-analyze, but really, the reaction of his teammates -- quick to console him both at the time and at the final whistle -- tells him all he needs to know.
Stuff happens. Why fate chose you instead of a teammate to be in the way of that shot is something we'll never know. What matters isn't that it was him; what matters is how he bounces back and that, at 22 years old, he will have a chance to bounce back. Akanji has a bright future ahead at Borussia Dortmund and hopefully another two, or maybe three, World Cups.
Switzerland fought gamely to break Sweden's resolve but were ultimately undone by a cruel deflection.
You often see a somewhat different type of fan at a World Cup than you would at a club game and with it, a different type of fan behaviour. Partly it's down to affordability; partly it's down to stadium design (all-seater stadiums don't exactly lend themselves to a certain type of fan experience) and partly it's down to the fact that tournaments like these bring together supporters from all over a country.
Coordination and chant lyrics can be a challenge, but change the colors and the language, and the Swedish fans at the Krestovsky stadium served up the kind of tifo you don't normally see at neutral grounds.
The large yellow swathe in the stand to the left of the Sweden bench rocked, rolled and bounced throughout the match, drowning out not just the Swiss fans but the usual "Ros-si-ya! Ros-si-ya!" howls that have regularly resonated across World Cup grounds even when the host nation wasn't playing. At one point, there was an elaborate call-response with chants echoing, yodel-like, across the ground.
The most serenaded wasn't a player, but the coach. And it went on for a full half-hour after the Swedish players left the pitch.
"Oh, Janne, Janne! Janne, Janne, Janne, Janne... ANDERSSON!"
It only ended when Andersson himself came out to acknowledge the players. You don't see that at World Cups, but then again, this is a special team.


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Buck-a-roo is a goofball. He's a happy, goofy, nutty dog, thus his name. He's probably about 18 months old.
Buck loves everyone and every dog. He came to his foster home and started playing with everyone immediately. All the dogs welcomed him and off he went with his new doggie pals. We expect he'll settle down in a few days, but on day one he was charging around the yard with some of the rough and tumbles like a stampede of elephants. Buck would probably be happiest in a home with another playful dog.
He took to his crate immediately and he sleeps quietly through the night. He has nice manners although he hasn't had any training.
Buck's ears will not stand up; his 'broken' ears are part of his goofy charm.
Buck met Test Kitty on a day that Test Kitty was really mellow and wouldn't run. Buck took a look at kitty, barely sniffed him and then found something else to be interested in. Because he is so social and lively, it is possible that he would try to play with a resident kitty.
He is in one of our east bay foster homes, either sleeping off his playtime or romping around the yard.


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Dude, strike outs are bad. 40 home runs, 60 home runs, whatever. Strike outs are bad.
3 months ago :: Oct 22, 2021 - 4:13AM #22
Oct 21, 2021 -- 9:59PM, Carp wrote:
M'kay Mr Mackey.
bruner4329
Not to mention fact that if you strike out 250-300 times there is no way you can hit.240/.250. Yeah 40 homers is great but how many men do you leave on base striking out that much and how many nonproductive outs do you have (not advancing runners). The fundamentals of the game have always been so important yet people focus on the glamor aspects like home runs and exit velo.
Oct 22, 2021 -- 10:46AM, bruner4329 wrote:
Who has ever struck out 250-300 times? 213 is the highest total of Gallo's career. 208 is Judge's high, and he hit .284 with all those strikeouts and also lead the league in walks (Gallo also led the league in walks to go with his 213 whiffs).
Ruth led the league in whiffs 5 times. Same for Reggie, who holds the career record for whiffs.
If you got 500 ABs and whiffed 300 times and got hits the other 200 times, you'd hit .400.
I don't mind having some guys that strike out if they produce in other ways, like with power, walks and defense.
Ruth also had a lifetime BA of 342, Reggie was 262. Comparing Gallo's HRs and Ks with these guys isn't telling the entire story.
First of all I was responding to someone who posted the following, "I don't care if Gallo strikes out 300 times. I'd just like to see him hit 40+ home runs, walk over 100 times, and try and hit over .240/.250." Oh wait that was you did you forget already.
As someone else pointed out Gallo is a lifetime .206 hitter. None of the players you mentioned were that bad. All of them had respectable BAs even Reggie which means even though they struck out alot they still got their share of hits., The problem with Gallo is even when he does not strike out he makes outs other ways. That is the only way you can hit .200 lifetime and K over 200 times a year.
People made a big stink with Judge getting thrown out at the plate in the wild card game. It may have been a questionable send but everything went right on the defensive side that enabled them to throw him out. Fact is Gallo was up next and the chances were he was not going to get the run in anyway. If I recall he popped out to short left. The guy is not someone you want up with the game on the line. All the other guys you mentioned including Ruth, Reggie and even Judge would be guys you would want up there.
luvdayanks
Oct 22, 2021 -- 6:02PM, bruner4329 wrote:
With that being said, all legit, shame on Boone or whoever makes out the lineup for having Gallo in the cleanup spot. I would not have batted him higher than 6 or 7.
Whether you think Gallo is going to the HOF or the water closet it remains that the manager had him batting cleanup. A third base coach is not supposed to be working to avoid the cleanup batter at the plate with runners at first and third. Maybe Nevin thought Gallo should have been on the bench or off teh team. None of that matters. The manager made the lineup and the coach is paid to support it.
Running Judge was an awful decision.
Oct 22, 2021 -- 7:30PM, Paterson wrote:
I don't believe Nevin was thinking at the moment, oh god Gallo is up next I've got to send Judge, Gallo will never get him in. I think it was spontaneous and didn't work, right or wrong. Sometimes you're the bug sometimes you're the windshield.
Oct 22, 2021 -- 7:38PM, luvdayanks wrote:
I wish I could say thinking about that play didn't still make me sick !


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Subretinal Rather Than Intravitreal Adeno-Associated Virus–Mediated Delivery of a Complement Alternative Pathway Inhibitor Is Effective in a Mouse Model of RPE Damage
We have a new manuscript out in iOVS, Subretinal Rather Than Intravitreal Adeno-Associated Virus–Mediated Delivery of a Complement Alternative Pathway Inhibitor Is Effective in a Mouse Model of RPE Damage. (pdf here)
Authors: Balasubramaniam Annamalai; Nathaniel Parsons; Crystal Nicholson; Elisabeth Obert; Bryan W. Jones @BWJones; and Bärbel Rohrer.
Purpose: The risk for age-related macular degeneration has been tied to an overactive complement system. Despite combined attempts by academia and industry to develop therapeutics that modulate the complement response, particularly in the late geographic atrophy form of advanced AMD, to date, there is no effective treatment. We have previously demonstrated that pathology in the smoke-induced ocular pathology (SIOP) model, a model with similarities to dry AMD, is dependent on activation of the alternative complement pathway and that a novel complement activation site targeted inhibitor of the alternative pathway can be delivered to ocular tissues via an adeno-associated virus (AAV).
Methods: Two different viral vectors for specific tissue targeting were compared: AAV5-VMD2-CR2-fH for delivery to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and AAV2YF-smCBA-CR2-fH for delivery to retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Efficacy was tested in SIOP (6 months of passive smoke inhalation), assessing visual function (optokinetic responses), retinal structure (optical coherence tomography), and integrity of the RPE and Bruch's membrane (electron microscopy). Protein chemistry was used to assess complement activation, CR2-fH tissue distribution, and CR2-fH transport across the RPE.
Results: RPE- but not RGC-mediated secretion of CR2-fH was found to reduce SIOP and complement activation in RPE/choroid. Bioavailability of CR2-fH in RPE/choroid could be confirmed only after AAV5-VMD2-CR2-fH treatment, and inefficient, adenosine triphosphate–dependent transport of CR2-fH across the RPE was identified.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that complement inhibition for AMD-like pathology is required basal to the RPE and argues in favor of AAV vector delivery to the RPE or outside the blood-retina barrier.
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The Replacement Girl: A Life in 24 Frames
By John-Michael O'Sullivan
A biography of Barbara Mullen, one of the twentieth century's great fashion models
Barbara Mullen in a Mollie Parnis advertisement, photographed in New York in 1953.
"John, my mom says that woman was not a top model."
The message popped up on my phone screen, early one morning in the summer of 2014. I'd gotten used to these small-hours emails, in the months since I'd started to research a Fifties fashion model called Barbara Mullen. Time zone gaps between Britain and the US meant a steady rota of late night electronic and phone conversations as I tracked down her surviving contemporaries, from photographers such as Bill Helburn and Melvin Sokolsky to models Joan Pederson and Lucinda Hollingsworth. Some, like Pedersen, remembered Mullen with an affection that had survived continents of distance and decades without contact; "For someone to have had so much heartbreak, so young," she sighed when we spoke. "It was so sad." Some recalled her with only the vaguest of familiarity:"Oh, she's VERY beautiful,isn't she?" Mullen's British contemporary Jean Dawnay said appraisingly, squinting at pictures with her fading eyesight on a summer afternoon in Eaton Square. And a few, like Frank Horvat, the photographer who shot one of Mullen's final covers in 1959, confessed that they simply didn't remember her at all.
But Horvat was the exception. And everyone that remembered Barbara Mullen seemed to have an opinion about her. That was how I'd heard of her in the first place, after all, skimming an interview William Klein had done with the Financial Times in 2012. "My favourite model was Barbara Mullen," he told reporter Liz Jobey. "She was a tough, Irish-American living in Brooklyn and she had a foul mouth, she was not at all [well bred]." Francesco Scavullo swore they'd had an affair; "I was very much in love with her. We were going to get married." Bill Helburn, one of New York's busiest commercial photographers, remembers an elegant woman who moved like a dancer; "She was just outstanding," he declared, "as good a model as there was — every bit as good as Shrimpton or Twiggy. EVERY BIT. And she always nailed it." Jessica Daves, American Vogue's editor for much of the fifties, called Mullen "one of the queens of the modelling kingdom." And Carmel Snow, the legendary editor of Harper's Bazaar, was less of a fan; "You think you're a beauty, Barbara," photographer Lillian Bassman remembered her telling Mullen, "but you're really only a big, ugly Irish girl." (Though that didn't stop didn't stop Snow putting Mullen on the cover of Bazaar four times in as many years).
Bassman herself was responsible for several memorable tributes to Mullen — most pivoting around their first, unpromising meeting on Christmas Eve 1948, when Mullen was sent to her studio in place of another model. "The replacement girl walked in." Bassman remembered. "I said to the editor, 'This girl is a monster.' Then I turned on the lights and saw this girl just bloom like a flower." It was the start of an extraordinary working relationship between photographer and model; one of many such relationships that Mullen inspired, each with their own distinctive dynamic. At first sight, she may have seemed unpromising to Bassman — but in the now-legendary pictures they took together in the attics and parks of Paris, she transformed into an ethereal swan princess. In Richard Avedon's Manhattan studio, she could be knowingly sophisticated, her slicked-back hair and pouting lips incarnating postwar fashion's liberated new woman. For Norman Parkinson, shot against spectacular Indian backdrops, she could be evocatively exotic. And for Klein, piled high with furs and lavish jewels, she could be a clown, gleefully mocking her own image of elegant sophistication. In an era when most models were memorably recognisable, she was unique; a replacement girl, who could mould herself into whatever photographers and editors desired.
It's not surprising that photographers always seemed to have something to say about Barbara. But as I reached out, one by one, to Mullen's few surviving model contemporaries, I was largely met with silence. Some had moved on, and had no particular interest in revisiting ancient history. Some could only vaguely remember their own careers, let alone someone they hadn't thought of in decades. Some didn't want to be drawn into conversations about a woman whose affair with Jerry Ford, the married boss of her model agency, had ended her American career. And one got her son to email me and say "My mom says that woman was not a top model."
Not an "I don't remember her," or an honest "I didn't like her," or even an "I don't want to talk about it." It shocked me. And it made me wonder whether, in my desire to uncover a story, I'd used Mullen as a replacement girl myself. Had she just been the right body, in the right place, at the right time — someone who'd happened on a run of good luck, and had fluked or been manipulated into striking the right pose for a string of photographic geniuses? But then, everything else I read or saw about Barbara Mullen suggested the opposite. This was a woman who appeared on a host of international magazine covers, in a working life that stretched from from 1947 to 1959 (in addition to those 4 Bazaars there were 4 of American Vogue, 3 British Vogue, 2 French Vogue, 8 Elle and countless other one-offs); a woman who'd partied with Dior, modelled with Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, and waltzed between high-fashion editorials, couture runways and mass market ad campaigns with ease; who, after she'd fled New York, had embarked on a whole new career in Europe, inspiring a new generation of image-makers from William Klein to Guy Bourdin to Peter Knapp.
Mullen also outlasted most of her contemporaries, taking her final runway turn at Ungaro's first fashion show in 1965; by then, she'd gone on to open a pioneering fashion boutique in the Swiss resort of Klosters, stocking labels like Kenzo and Sonia Rykiel when they were just getting off the ground, and building a client list that ranged from Deborah Kerr to Princess Margaret. And from the scattered souvenirs she's kept from her former life, there are plenty of testimonials to the esteem in which she was held. Fifty years after they worked together, Avedon sent Mullen an invitation to his big New York retrospective, across which he'd scrawled with the words "Barbara. This is an order! You must be at our opening at the Met Museum. Dick." There's are other invites in her archive too — from Klein, from George Platt Lynes, this time from Lillian Bassman, and this time with a shorter, simpler message; "To Barbara. The Best of the Best."
When we talk about it, Barbara Mullen is self-deprecating about her past life. "No-one knew our names." she laughs. "No-one whistled at us on the street. We weren't anything special. But we were young, and we were thin, and we were DAMN lucky." But I believe, like Bassman, that Mullen was the best of the best. And it seems only right, at last, that the replacement girl should get to tell her own story.
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Q: Help with this algorithm I have an algorithm that can find if a point is inside a polygon.
 int CGlEngineFunctions::PointInPoly(int npts, float *xp, float *yp, float x, float y)
 {
     int i, j, c = 0;
     for (i = 0, j = npts-1; i < npts; j = i++) {
         if ((((yp[i] <= y) && (y < yp[j])) ||
             ((yp[j] <= y) && (y < yp[i]))) &&
             (x < (xp[j] - xp[i]) * (y - yp[i]) / (yp[j] - yp[i]) + xp[i]))
             c = !c;
     }
     return c;
 }

My only issue with it is it assumes an odd winding rule. What I mean by this is that if the polygon is self intersecting, certain parts that it would considered to be 'empty' will return as false. What I'd need in even if it self intersects, anything inside the polygon will return true.
Thanks

A: Beware: this answer is wrong. I have no time to fix it right now, but see the comments.
This casts a ray from the point to infinity, and checks for intersections with each of the polygon's edges. Each time an intersection is found, the flag c is toggled:
c = !c;

So an even number of intersections means an even number of toggles, so c will be 0 at the end. An odd number of intersections means an odd number of toggles, so c will be 1.
What you want instead is to set the c flag if any intersection occurs:
c = 1;

And for good measure, you can then eliminate c entirely, and terminate early:
 int CGlEngineFunctions::PointInPoly(int npts, float *xp, float *yp, float x, float y)
 {
     int i, j;
     for (i = 0, j = npts-1; i < npts; j = i++) {
         if ((((yp[i] <= y) && (y < yp[j])) ||
             ((yp[j] <= y) && (y < yp[i]))) &&
             (x < (xp[j] - xp[i]) * (y - yp[i]) / (yp[j] - yp[i]) + xp[i]))
             return 1;
     }
     return 0;
 }

A: To translate your original algorithm to english: You're determining if the number of polygon segments to the right of your point are even or odd. If it's even (including zero) your point is outside, if it's odd your point is inside. This means if there are two segments to the right and also two segments to the left, the point is not considered inside the polygon.
What you need to do is change the algorithm so that it checks for segments on both sides; if there's a segment on both sides of the point, then the point is within the polygon.
 int CGlEngineFunctions::PointInPoly(int npts, float *xp, float *yp, float x, float y)
 {
     int i, j;
     bool hasSegmentLeft = false;
     bool hasSegmentRight = false;
     for (i = 0, j = npts-1; i < npts; j = i++) {
         if ((((yp[i] <= y) && (y < yp[j])) ||
             ((yp[j] <= y) && (y < yp[i]))))
         {
             if (x < (xp[j] - xp[i]) * (y - yp[i]) / (yp[j] - yp[i]) + xp[i])
             {
                 hasSegmentRight = true;
                 if (hasSegmentLeft)  // short circuit early return
                     return true;
             }
             else
             {
                 hasSegmentLeft = true;
                 if (hasSegmentRight)  // short circuit early return
                     return true;
             }
     }
     return hasSegmentLeft && hasSegmentRight;
 }

P.S. that for statement construct is a very clever way of dealing with a circular list that wraps around to the beginning; I'd never seen it before.

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Seifritz ist eine Ortschaft und eine Katastralgemeinde der Gemeinde Bad Großpertholz im Bezirk Gmünd in Niederösterreich.

Siedlungsentwicklung
Zum Jahreswechsel 1979/1980 befanden sich in der Katastralgemeinde Seifritz insgesamt 7 Bauflächen mit 3.344 m² und 4 Gärten auf 2.530 m² und auch 1989/1990 waren es 7 Bauflächen. 1999/2000 war die Zahl der Bauflächen auf 29 angewachsen und 2009/2010 waren es 18 Gebäude auf 25 Bauflächen.

Landwirtschaft
Die Katastralgemeinde ist landwirtschaftlich geprägt. 50 Hektar wurden zum Jahreswechsel 1979/1980 landwirtschaftlich genutzt und 15 Hektar waren forstwirtschaftlich geführte Waldflächen. 1999/2000 wurde auf 50 Hektar Landwirtschaft betrieben und 15 Hektar waren als forstwirtschaftlich genutzte Flächen ausgewiesen. Ende 2018 waren 48 Hektar als landwirtschaftliche Flächen genutzt und Forstwirtschaft wurde auf 1.566 Hektar betrieben. Die durchschnittliche Bodenklimazahl von Seifritz beträgt 18,1 (Stand 2010).

Einzelnachweise

Bad Großpertholz
Ort im Bezirk Gmünd
Katastralgemeinde im Bezirk Gmünd


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