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Bill Algeo tells Billy Quarantillo to 'shut the f*ck up': 'We'll fight at some point'

October 9, 2023 7:40 pm ET LAS VEGAS– Costs Algeo sees a battle with Billy Quarantillo taking place, however on his terms. Algeo (18-7 MMA, 5-3 UFC) called out Quarantillo among other names after beating Alexander Hernandez (14-7 MMA, 6-6 UFC) in this previous Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 229 primary card opener at the UFC Apex. Quarantillo (18-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) was fast to reactrecommending…

[morrasydesign]

by Simon Algeo

[theanticool]

Trying to make this a more consistent thing so here is me talking about my 10 most anticipated fights of the week (7/19/2024-7/21/2024). No particular order.

Chantelle Cameron vs Elhem Mekhaled - Less about it being a competitive match up and more about liking both fighters. I feel a bit for Chantelle Cameron. Beat the P4P best boxer in the sport in her own backyard. Took a rematch for big money and basically got jobbed by the referee (and herself). For Mekhaled, she jumps up two weight classes after the loss to Baumgardner. She's won two since and is now fighting for the interim super lightweight championship. Mekhaled is a fun fighter and I can't imagine she doesn't turn this into a firefight.

Junto Nakatani vs Vincent Astrolabio - Junto Nakatani is now a P4P fighter in the sport. And rightfully so. Fantastic talent. Fun style and one of the more skilled finishers below the featherweight division. Vincent Astrolabio isn't a straight walkover, he fought Jason Moloney to a tight decision, but with some of the talent at the top end of bantamweight atm (and them all being in Japan) you'd hope Nakatani was getting those fights. I believe this is a mandatory though, so what can you do but hope for a good fight. If Nakatani really wants to fight Inoue, the fight he should be chasing is against Takuma Inoue.

Kosei Tanaka vs Jonathan Rodriguez - One of the big fights on the undercard of that Nakatani card. Kosei Tanaka was a hot shot super flyweight prospect that got turned away by grizzled vet and champion Kazuto Ioka. Tanaka has won 5 straight since the loss, capturing the WBO super flyweight title in the process. He is now set to face off with Jonathan Rodriguez, a Mexican boxer that failed to win a world title a while back. Tanaka is a fun fighter and Mexico vs Japan fights tend to be absolute head. Looking forward to it.

Tenshin Nasukawa vs Jonathan Rodriguez - A different Jonathan Rodriguez btw. P4P kickboxing great Tenshin Nasukawa continues on his quick ascent up the rankings in boxing. While Jonathan Rodriguez is coming off a loss to Antonio Vargas, he also had knocked out Khalid Yafai in his previous fight in the 1st round. He's not an easy fight for anyone to have in their 4th professional boxing match. Will be interesting to see how Tenshin manages.

Losene Keita vs Predrag Bogdanović - OKTAGON 59 - Losene Keita is possibly the most interesting prospect in Oktagon MMA atm. Fighting out of Belgium, he's got all the physical tools to be a real killer at featherweight. But he's competing up at lightweight for this big Oktagon LW tournament. He did not look great in his previous fight, getting badly hurt by Sardari in the process. So he'll be looking to reaffirm himself. I haven't seen a anything from Predrag Bogdanović outside of his loss to Will Brooks, but he's apparently a strong grappler. Should be interesting.

Doo Ho Choi vs Bill Algeo - UFC on ESPN 60 - This fight will be good for exactly 4 minutes. Either one of them, probably Choi, scores a KO in that time or Algeo will beat the hell out of Choi as he fades and stops him in the 2nd or 3rd. Choi just isn't a very durable fighter, despite his athletic gifts and I don't trust those gifts to still be there at this point. But it does have me invested. So it's on the list.

Amanda Lemos vs Virna Jandiroba - UFC on ESPN 60 - Of the fights on the list, this is the one I could see sucking. Lemos is a strong fighter but not a strong anti-wrestler. Jandiroba is a small grappler who's extremely skilled on the mat but can be scared off wrestling. Could end up being a tepid kickboxing match or a boring, one sided grappling match.

Petchpanomrung Kiatmoo9 vs Kento Haraguchi 3 - Glory 93 - 2023 was a rough year for Petchpanomrung. He went 2-2. He defended his Glory featherweight title twice but lost his two bouts up at lightweight. First he got stopped by Tyjani Beztati. Then he lost a 5 rounder in December to Chad Collins for the RISE title. So now he's defending that Glory featherweight title again. And against a guy he's 2-0 against - Kento Haraguchi. Kento has won 4 straight since losing to Petchpanomrung in 2022, including 3 stoppage wins.

Tyjani Beztati vs Endy Semeleer - Glory 93 - Endy Semeleer is no longer Glory welterweight champion. His reign cut short by a TKO stoppage where Chico Kwasi dropped him 3 times. Tyjani Beztati is also no longer Glory Lightweight champion. But because Glory decided they no longer wanted the division and cut it loose. So now Beztati is moving up to welterweight, possibly in anticipation of a yet to be announced upcoming Glory Welterweight Grand Prix. A very good fighter. Two former champions squaring off, with a possible shot at the welterweight title on the line.

I was really tempted to pick a random fight off the KSW card or Oktagon card but it felt inauthentic. Just did not have a 10th fight that felt super noteworthy. Maybe Jeong Yeong Lee vs Hyder Amil. So imagine an amazing fight that is happening this weekend and put it here. Maybe the start of the Olympics. Go watch some amateur wrestling or boxing or judo. I'm sure there's some great Muay Thai that I'm missing. IDK. Let me know.

[osphilia-co]

Caroline by Simon Algeo

[imagine-darksiders]

Hi! I've been a reader of your work for a while but I haven't mustered up the courage to send anything till now. I've been suffering from chronic pain for months now, and your work (namely Algeo and CHWH) is a huge comfort to me. What I love is how you strike a perfect balance between the bleak nature of the apocalypse and the humanistic nature of, well, humans. And without your writing, I wouldn't have gotten into Darksiders in the first place, so another thing to thank you for! I hope you keep writing for as long as it makes you happy, and I hope it makes you happy for a long time. ^^!

I'm so sorry to hear you've been suffering :( But I'm pleased my works could help in any small way. Thank you for letting me know your thoughts, I really do appreciate it <3

[1hoverman0k]

my algeo getting symbiotic as fuck lately

[allaboutjoseph]

Lord of Divine Mercy Parish, Mandaluyong

Photos from Algeo Pedigan - Facebook. 

[musk420]

500 posts! doc gooden is mike algeo

[realfightjunkie]

UPSET ALERT! Doo Ho Choi {+145} DEFEATS Bill Algeo {-175} via 2 round KNOCKOUT on UFC Vegas 94. Won't go 3 rounds {-125} & Choi wins inside the distance {+265} hits!  

[kennak]

超越関数であるsin関数は通常の四則演算では計算できないが、多くのアプリケーションで効率よく精度のよい計算が求められる。たとえばIntelは基本的なアルゴリズムを公開しているが計算に必要な定数は公開していない。https://androidcalculator.com/how-do-calculators-compute-sine/androidcalculator.comHow do calculators compute sine? | Algeo C

新山祐介 (Yusuke Shinyama): "超越関数であるsin関数は通常の四則演算では計算できないが、…" - Mastodon 🐘

[rae-haven-writes]

Addiction is the disease of the lost self…it is in itself an attachment disorder; adiction is the result of having unmet developmental needs. - Shannon Algeo, Disconnected

I’ve been thinking a lot about addiction these past five weeks. When I woke up to that hospital call in February, the past didn’t come roaring in like a flash flood in a summer-dry creek bed. My nervous system, my heart, n’ my memories never fully dried out because the addiction never took a pause, not for a moment. History dripped in like sepsis, until I woke up and the fever was past the point of breaking. A flash of her nodded out on a lawn chair in some stranger’s yard on my walk to school. A tiny memory, like a papercut, popping up as I stand in line at the grocery store - alone in a hotel lobby for hours, lost and forgotten, as she scored (and shot up) in one of the 300 rooms along the hallway. Men leaning down and talking to me, asking my age, I’m seven. When we finally drive home in the early morning, I grip the backseat upholstery, carsick, as she swerves towards and misses the median over and over again.

It’ll stick for a while, this disease of taking inventory, every morning, of what was lost. 

May what was lost be returned, and what was surrendered stay gone. We have to learn the difference at some point.

Lost - Seventeen; visiting her in the hospital after she almost died from a blood infection, and turning my face to the window where the rain fell outside like we were in some fucked-up opioid-crisis soap-opera when she said “I miss you,” the day I vowed to never love anyone or let them love me again. How I knelt in the driveway nine years later, still tied up in my bakery apron covered in sorghum, saying “I miss you, I love you” into the phone to the social worker who was saying “I miss you” back to me on Mom’s behalf since she still couldn’t talk with the trach in. 

Surrendered - How I wished for a decade she would die. I saw a family constellations therapist, once, who guessed this secret with only two sentences on my end about the whole homeless-addicted-psychotic-mama situation, and told me “I know you wish she would just die so this would be over, but even that is the same seeking of control as constantly giving your life up for her. If this is how she wants to die, step out of the way and let her die. And if she wants to live, let her find her own way. Give her that choice.”

Good people don’t give up on the ones they love. ― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Lost - A woman thought she wanted me for a minute this year, a bodyworker from Israel, goodhearted. She taught me how to have an argument without cutting the relationship into pieces and throwing it in the other person’s face, how to speak to a lover like you love them. Only having known abuse is no excuse after a certain point. I was fed up with my communication style, too, and loved her for being patient with me. Loved her for being a person worth changing in a good way for. It didn’t work out for so many reasons. Still, she texted me yesterday about her dream where I spoke to her fluently in Hebrew, and this morning she told me, in Hebrew, that she loves me. I don't know which language to say it back in.

Surrendered - A few days before we broke up (the third time) we were driving down south together. She was going to drop me off at my mom’s old apartment. I had to get some of her things before it was repossessed and everything in it - furniture, books, TV, fridge, a whole little life - was taken to the dump by the property management company. It was either surrender the apartment, or get served with a lawsuit. At the hospital the day before, Mom wrote a list of the things she needed me to save for her - her dentures, hair dryer, favorite jeans, Tempurpedic pillows. She kept writing down different ideas of how to sell the furniture, but I knew it was too late to do anything about it, so I just nodded and said I would try my best. She gave me the keys to her car, which was now mine to take care of and hopefully sell. 

Lost - I cried on the drive down, feeling deep guilt about not being able to sell the furniture, all of it given over to the assholes who owned the property. Wasted. And my lover said, sternly, “Look, when you make certain choices, there are consequences. You lose things, and you lose people.”

I was my mom’s only “people” left after everyone else had given up. It took a whole long while of being bitter to realize they didn’t give up on her so much as choose themselves. Just like Mom made choices and suffered losses, I had as well; choosing to take care of her, and mother her, instead of myself, had cost me my own ability to survive. It took away from the life I had created for myself, that I'd fought for with my teeth.

At the core of every addiction is an emptiness based in abject fear. The addict dreads and abhors the present moment; she bends feverishly only toward the next time, the moment when her brain, infused with her drug of choice, will briefly experience itself as liberated from the burden of the past and the fear of the future—the two elements that make the present intolerable. - Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

I didn’t ask anybody for help, and I had refused help when it was offered; I didn’t want people I loved going  in there. My lover dropped me off at the apartment and kept driving south. For a little while I just laid on the carpet of her apartment where she had spent the past two years in her psychosis and addiction and cried. The place looked like it had been ransacked, but I knew nobody had been in there but Mom - pill bottles and trash strewn across every surface, blood and a blackened spoon decorating the bathroom sink, every house plant dead and covered in tiny black flies. The floor was littered in pieces of tin foil with the patches of  fentanyl in their centers, burnt into the shapes of listless spirits. There I was, in the realm of hungry ghosts, Gabor be damned. 

I called one of my closest friends when I realized my lover wasn’t going to stick around and kept her on speakerphone as I opened every cabinet in the foul smelling kitchen, sorting through Mom’s medications, finding her dentures (silverware drawer) and birth certificate (under a pile of parking tickets by her Bible). One of the drawers in the kitchen was full of over a hundred little plastic baggies marked with dates in sharpie, filled with her poop; part of the psychosis was believing there was a gang of men out to get her who were putting tracking devices and nanoscopic robots inside of her body. If I ever tried convincing her that if she got clean they would stop torturing her, she flew into a rage. Eventually I stopped trying to convince her it wasn’t real and stopped being so sure of what was real in the first place. 

I disassociated off and on, but my friend kept me centered, asking over the phone what I was grabbing next. I narrated my steps - taking trash bags of clothes down to Mom’s car, stripping the bed, looking through paperwork. 

I drove her silver Toyota southbound through the Santa Ynez mountains, and stopped for fruit a man selling it freshly cut from a cart before the road wove up into Highway 154. I looked at the oak trees that always signify I'm home and smiled at them, wrote a little poem, ate my canteloupe and mango.

I lose and I lose and I lose and I still end up with more than I ever even dreamed to ask for.

The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between…When your parent clocks out before you clock in, you can spend way too much of your life staring into that black hole.― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

In the rare sober spaces there was a mouthful of shame ready to aim at my sexuality, my hair, my partners, spitting on everything I knew I was, and everyone I held dear. 

I finally got to talk to her last week, hear her voice when I’d thought her voice would be gone forever. She said “You cutting your hair short doesn’t mean you’re the boy in your lesbian thing, does it? Because I know that one is usually the girl, and, well…”

I asked her if it mattered and there was silence on the other line. I waited through five weeks of silence to hear her voice, and now I just wanted to hang up as soon as possible. 

Not before she cried, asking “Will this whole thing affect our relationship?” 

Knowing she meant the inventory of her body’s losses, I replied, “Of course not.”

“Even though I’ll be in a wheelchair wearing diapers, just a total loser who lost…lost everything?”

“We can still do everything we love together. Getting lunch, shopping, seeing movies. It’ll be different, but it’ll be okay. What really affected our relationship, Mom, was the addiction.”

She was surprised by that. She halfheartedly told me she wouldn’t use anymore and I could hear the falsity under her tongue like a Suboxone. 

Before we ended the call, she laughed, saying “No matter what I do. I just keep waking up, for some reason, in this broken body, here in this broken life.”

Two nights ago, I dreamt I was painting a mural of an enormous blue sky covered in eagles, the slope of a woman’s body leaning down from above, cradling two of the birds as they crossed in the center of the wall.

I felt someone put their hand on my shoulder as they looked up at what I had painted. “She never really wanted to live, did she,” they whispered.

I woke up mid sentence and heard them finish it in the 5am darkness like they were still there beside me.

The day from there opened up like a canyon in a broken heart and I stepped into it with a hopeful soul and eyes all the way open the way nobody taught me how but me.

[theanticool]

It is fight day everybody. Gonna do this sport by sport. First MMA

UFC Fight Night Dawson vs Green is on tap. It’s a decent card with familiar names. Not crazy about a Grant Dawson 5 rounder but I like Bobby Green. Dober-Glenn, Morono-Buckley, Algeo-Hernandez, Lins-Cutelaba, and De La Rosa-Aldrich are all fun fights. Plus the return of Kanako Murata.

Bellator 300. This might be the last time we see Bellator, as rumors of Viacom cutting ties with the company persist. It’s fitting that it’s headlined by a Russian champion defending the title. Usman Nurmagomedov faces off with Brent Primus in the main event. Plus we have two other title fights, Cyborg vs Zingano at women’s 145 and Liz Carmouche vs Ilima-Lei MacFarlane at 126 catchweight.

We also have Glory 89. At the time of posting, the prelims have already started (and might actually be over). We got a featherweight title fight between champ Petch and challenger Mejia. We also have a couple of big HW fights featuring Badr Hari, Jurjendal, and Levi Ritgers. Plus more.

Over in boxing we got a few big fights. Joe Smith Jr vs Zurdo, Leigh Wood vs Josh Warrington, and Terri Harper vs Cecilia Braekhus

[osphilia-co]

Caroline by Simon Algeo

[imagine-darksiders]

Hello!! Sorry I’m a bit drunk but I had a question about your Reaper fic Alegro I think it’s called? What would happen if Death was able to somehow return to his original form? Would he remember how his Reaper form felt for reader? How would reader react to him now that he could communicate better? Would he stay in the old house or leave to find his siblings? Also would he remember cleaning readers hands off with his tongue cause ew lmao

Ok thank you cxx

Ah~ Algeo, my old passion project.

I never planned on having Death turn back, but if he did, I'd have had him remember everything about Reader, how they met, how Reaper felt for her, etc. But he'd definitely be embarrassed about how he behaved while the Reaper was in control.

Y/n is just as freaked out by Death's sudden appearance and immediately tries to run because she's just seen her spectral friend evaporate and now there's this hulking, terrifying man in its place.

Death's siblings didn't exist in that universe, he was just a cursed shade doomed to haunt Shadowbrook.

[don-lichterman]

In the dynamic world of mixed martial arts (MMA), New Jersey’s #1 Ranked Fighter, Bill Algeo, stands tall as a testament to perseverance, skill, and dedication.

[creative-news-alert]

North Africa Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Market Estimated to Witness High Growth Owing to Rising Demand for Early Diagnosis of Chromosomal Abnormalities and Fetal Development Monitoring

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a screening technique used to analyze DNA from a pregnant woman's blood sample to check the risk of chromosome abnormalities in her fetus. It is a non-invasive procedure that analyzes fetal DNA in the mother's bloodstream, allowing detection of such conditions as Down syndrome, without any risk to the pregnancy. NIPT has revolutionized prenatal testing by providing early and accurate screening with a high detection rate and low false positive rate, which has increased its demand and adoption globally.

The non-invasive prenatal testing market is estimated to be valued at US$ 3805.83 Bn in 2023 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 6.9% over the forecast period 2024 to 2031, as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights. Market Dynamics: One key driver behind the high growth of the North Africa non-invasive prenatal testing market is the rising demand for early diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal development monitoring. NIPT allows detection of major chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome and Trisomy 13 and 18 as early as nine weeks into pregnancy. This enables parents to cope better with the situation and seek necessary medical treatment or make informed reproductive choices. NIPT also helps monitor fetal growth and development with high accuracy and reliability. Growing awareness about the benefits of prenatal screening and diagnosis among expectant mothers and physicians in North African countries is significantly boosting adoption of NIPT. Further, technological advancements enabling more precise and rapid testing with simpler blood draws from pregnant women are fueling uptake of NIPT in the region. SWOT Analysis Strength: North Africa has a growing population with high birth rate which drives the demand for prenatal testing in the region. The governments are also promoting prenatal testing by offering subsidies. Favorable reimbursement policies from governments and insurance companies makes prenatal testing more affordable. Weakness: Lack of awareness about advanced prenatal screening tests is one of the challenges. Due to cultural and religious beliefs, some communities may be hesitant to adopt prenatal screening. Distance to health facilities in remote areas also poses accessibility issues. Opportunity: Rapid urbanization and growing medical tourism are opening new opportunities. Increasing investment from global players to expand services provides growth avenue. Rising female literacy and growing middle class will help create more awareness. Threats: Political instability in some countries creates uncertainty. Stringent regulations may delay new product launches or increase compliance costs for companies. Emerging low-cost alternatives from other regions can take away market share. Key Takeaways The North Africa Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing market size is expected to witness high growth. The non-invasive prenatal testing market is estimated to be valued at US$ 3805.83 Bn in 2023 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 6.9% over the forecast period 2024 to 2031.

Regional analysis comprises Egypt dominates the North Africa NIPT market currently accounting for over 30% market share owing to the large population and growing healthcare infrastructure in the country. Morocco and Algeria also have high potential and are projected to grow at over 8% during the forecast period driven by increasing awareness and expanding coverage. Key players operating in the North Africa Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing market are Enraf-Nonius B.V., DJO Global, EMS Physio Ltd., Dynatronics Corporation, A. Algeo Limited, BTL Industries, Inc., HMS Medical Systems, Whitehall Manufacturing, Patterson Companies, Inc., and Isokinetics, Inc. Enraf-Nonius B.V. and DJO Global collectively hold over 25% share owing to their robust product portfolio and widespread distribution network across the region. Emerging players are focusing on tie-ups with regional healthcare providers and launching affordable testing kits to gain market share.

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