Kitaoka isn't known as "Shimewaza Kuma Shogun" (The Shogun Bear of Chokes) for nothing.
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Shogun has no intention of cultivating that same kind of punk impenetrability that Royal Headache sometimes had with his new band, Shogun & The Sheets.
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True to Shogun World's bloody tendencies, things go horribly awry.
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"I more or less drunk myself to death," Shogun says.
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Shogun is coming out of Y Combinator's 2018 winter class.
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He returned to Japan when the shogun was deposed in 1868.
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First and foremost, holy shit, is that Maeve in Shogun World?
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People in Shogun World don't necessarily wear hats, what about them?
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And interestingly enough, Manuwa is actually older than Shogun at 37.
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But we've been talking about a 185-pound Shogun for years.
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These weapons look like they belong in Westworld and Shogun World.
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If you could give Shogun some tips what would they be?
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While he's still miles off from an Instagram-ready self care regimen, Shogun has recently taken some steps to try and ensure he's "less punishing" in Shogun & The Sheets than he feels he was in Royal Headache.
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He won his return bout against Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua in November 2011.
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He's beaten legends like Rampage Jackson, Shogun Rua, Lyoto Machida and more.
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With this latest win, Shogun extended his current win-streak to three.
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" Shogun & The Sheets' debut 7" is out now on What's Your Rupture?
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Take, for instance, the season's fifth episode, largely set in Shogun World.
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Rinko Kikuchi (one of my favorite actors) is Maeve's Shogun World counterpart!
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As such, he is a fresher, faster, and probably more powerful man than Shogun is, and so this fight quickly becomes unappealing for the exact same reason that it's unappealing to imagine Shogun against Rumble, Cormier or Jones.
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The universe of Westworld is expanding to encompass another park called Shogun World.
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On March 20th, however, the show finally took a visit to Shogun World.
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Everyone around Shogun looks excited beyond belief, but he looks calm as ever.
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All that said, Manuwa has been in far fewer wars than Shogun has.
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The same was true of much of Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua's PRIDE FC run.
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Brett Gibson, general partner at Initialized Capital and a Shogun board member, made a similar point in a statement: For DTC brands competing against goliaths like Amazon, Shogun Frontend now gives them features and capabilities once only reserved for enterprise companies.
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He's got solid victories over guys like Shogun Rua, Rashad Evans and Volkan Oezdemir.
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Japan won the Wii U crew tournament with players Abadango, Kameme, Komorikiri, Shogun and Kie.
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In Japan, it was revered among warlords, and the Shogun oversaw competitions between elite players.
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Dan Henderson and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua's legendary battle at UFC 139 could well take the honor.
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Earlier this year, the show's viral marketing revealed the name of that new park: Shogun World.
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He was clearly a misplaced host from Shogun World next door, a teaser for season 2.
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Anderson stuck to 'Shogun' in the dying round to the audible disappointment of his hometown crowd.
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Alaska, I think it's time for us to share some words on Shogun, the Scottish rapper.
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Mauricio "Shogun" Rua would also make a strong addition to this branch of the Hall of Fame.
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The geisha refuses, and in retaliation, the Shogun sends a pack of ninjas to attack the group.
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Plus, this trailer gives us our first real look at another park outside of Westworld: Shogun World.
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"There's nothing normal about being a rock and roll singer," Shogun explains, spitting out that word: normal.
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" While he feels that the 7" is "ordinary," Shogun is excited about how the project might evolve.
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After being set up, a former shogun executioner (Tomisaburo Wakayama) strikes out as a roving, freelance assassin.
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He has served up vodka stingers for Joanne ("Company") and chrysanthemum tea for the Shogun ("Pacific Overtures").
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Nogueira proceeded to exploit the same flaw in Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the next round of the tournament.
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Ten years on from Royal Headache's genesis, Shogun is grown up now, a few years off from 40.
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The last actress of Asian descent to win in that category was Yoko Shimada for Shogun in 1980.
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You will remember that from the Bisping knockout and the numerous times he used it against Shogun Rua.
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His 2011 win over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua was one of the most brutal, thrilling battles ever fought on canvas.
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Sounds like the perfect opponent for the version of Shogun we're dealing with in the year 2017, doesn't he?
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The track itself is contemplative, stripped back and sees Shogun rap in his characteristic rapid-fire, pitter patter flow.
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And yet the destruction part, in the final few years of the band, was very, very bad for Shogun.
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Shogun was born Tim Wall in Pennant Hills, a "comfortably middle-class" suburb near Hornsby, in Sydney's outer suburbs.
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Between Shogun World and the symbolism behind Bernard's red pearl, we are trying to make sense of this confounding show.
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Then, on March 2nd, that blurry image was replaced with the formal announcement of the series's new park: Shogun World.
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Pennant Hills is "about as fucking conservative and white as you can get," and Shogun didn't enjoy growing up there.
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Following a loss to a prime Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua, Randleman was on a 2-7 run dating back four years.
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There's also the 24-pound, 3/8-inch-thick Shogun ($93.51), and the 32-pound, half-inch-thick Emperor ($109.43).
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Side note: As much as I enjoyed being introduced to Shogun World, I feel as though this whole transition was rushed.
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The scope of the series also began to expand with the tease of something audiences would later discover was Shogun World.
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But Maeve then focuses and appears to issue a series of commands to the Shogun World hosts simply by thinking it.
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So, as far as spitting bars like you're packing punches in the boxing ring goes, Shogun is proving to be lethal.
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Shogun wants to create a simpler workflow for a page editor to set up an online store on platforms like Shopify.
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Tokugawa Iyeasu was a daimyo who rose to power and was granted the title of shogun from the emperor in 1600.
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From two of the worst performances in his career, 'Shogun' went on to have three of the best, back-to-back.
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It's he who warns the shogun of Perry's imminent arrival and helps Kayama prevent the landing party from touching Japanese soil.
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Most glaringly, what's the equivalent of the cowboy hats in Shogun or Raj World, where there were many bare-headed guests?
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The jab has often proven to be a marvelous weapon against Henderson even when used by relatively uncomfortable jabbers like Shogun.
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It soon becomes clear that Shogun World is going through a similar awokening as Westworld, and narratives are no longer being respected.
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During the first season, Lee Sizemore often bragged about his sophisticated storytelling, but in Shogun World, his pompous pontifications are laid bare.
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Like his compatriots Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Wanderlei Silva before him, Nascimento landed two violent head stomps to the head of Motoya.
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" She also became the first woman of Asian descent to win that award since Yoko Shimada did so in 1980 for "Shogun.
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And when it comes to speed, Shogun Frontend's sub-second load time is the critical difference between retaining or losing a customer.
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Pam Bondi: What he didn't say on that video, according to the New York times, this was the prosecutor investigating Burisma Shogun.
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While Belfort hurt Henderson with the counter uppercut, attempting it with the lead hand low got Shogun dinged up a few times.
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War-ravaged veterans like "Shogun" Rua and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira still round out the top 10, and for how long is anyone's guess.
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She is the first Asian woman to take home the award since Yoko Shimada first won in 1980 for her role in Shogun.
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As this season took great pains to prove to us, Delos owns a multitude of other parks, including The Raj and Shogun World.
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It's a clever reveal, with the episode's earlier detour into The Raj turning the anticipated appearance of Shogun World back into a surprise.
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"Are you ready for Shogun?" they shout into the crowd, seemingly made up of a mixture of fellow MCs, students and hipster-types.
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Well, he might be, but the glaring problem with Oezdemir as a potential Shogun opponent is that nobody really knows who he is.
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Declining or not, Shogun will always deserve an opponent with a name the fans recognize, and for the moment, Oezdemir is not that.
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In Sum: The moral here is that, with his latest knockout win, Shogun has opened the door to plenty of interesting matchup options.
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Geisha in the form seen in Shogun World started cropping up in the mid-1700s, more than a century after that Catholics vs.
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Cody Donovan, Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua and Patrick Cummins will all testify to the power that Knoxville Martial Arts Academy proponent has to offer.
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Which may be true, though it's hard to imagine any promotion being upset with the matchmaker who came up with Shogun Rua vs.
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He suffered enough during that time that he feels like he knows how to avoid a similar situation occurring with Shogun & The Sheets.
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Then, a few months later, Shogun — a tool to help small businesses build shopfronts for sites like Shopify — started making a bit more.
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On the subject of cross counters, Gian Villante was teeing Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua up for them all night in the co-main event.
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When Maeve and company travel to Shogun World, they discover many of the stories are just very barely disguised copies of Westworld tales!
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MAEVE/SHOGUN WORLD Our foray into this world has been a long time coming, and one of the most anticipated moments of this season.
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When commissions suddenly outlawed exogenous testosterone, Henderson became the last fighter to compete with a TRT exemption, knocking out "Shogun" in a 2014 rematch.
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Curitiba has produced the likes of Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Anderson Silva and Wanderlei Silva—all MMA luminaries in their own right.
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The same holds true of the entire drama with Akane at Shogun World, carrying her daughter's heart to a shrine for some ritualistic burning.
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Sophiegrophy is playing the Noisey Holiday Party in Melbourne on Tuesday 4th December, along with Katie Dey, Spike F—, Good Morning, Shogun and Waterfall Person.
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First off, one is entirely in Japanese, titled "Akane No Mai" and described as ショーグン・ワールドへようこそ (Welcome to Shogun World).
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"Akane No Mai" dives into Shogun World moments after episode three's cliffhanger ending, with Maeve, Lee, and the other members of their party under attack.
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It's certainly a twist in what fans expected of Season 2 – namely a clamoring for Shogun World – and an interesting choice, to say the least.
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Yet, just when it seemed Anderson had done enough to win the round, 'Shogun' clobbered him again and sent him down in the final seconds.
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The set includes all six films, as well as documentaries and "Shogun Assassin," the 59.993 English-language mash-up that kicked off the cycle here.
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Built in 1856 for the bride of a Tokugawa shogun, its exterior is patterned in gold and silver, its interior painted with suitable "Genji" vignettes.
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This ceremonial offering eventually evolved into an Edo-era ritual during which the shogun bestowed confections on his daimyo (feudal lords) as they swore fealty.
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A massive underdog, Griffin hung in there with Shogun while both men traded blows on the feet and shared plenty of scrambles on the mat.
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They're quickly captured, and Lee informs the group (and the audience) that Shogun World was created for guests who find the violence of Westworld too tame.
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Sakura is killed by the Shogun, who is, in turn, brutally murdered by Akane, and then both Maeve and the geisha are lined up for execution.
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In Samurai Jack alone you can see traces of films like Seven Samurai, and Shogun Assassin, as well as anime like Ninja Scroll, and Speed Racer.
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Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua was neither the wash up that some Jones detractors pretend he was, nor the top tier champion that others would like to imagine.
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It works for a group just as well as it does for Shogun, alone—while he likes his current band, they might not always be there.
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Even before he proved his elite standing against Jones, there were many who thought the Swede had absolutely no chance of beating former champion Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua.
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While it makes sense that the Shogun World hosts would revert to Japanese once they reject their original programming, it's not a useless gimmick to entertain viewers.
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But the chances of this one ending with a severe concussion for Shogun seem quite high, and at this stage, we just don't need to see that.
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While he was not the first shogun, he completed the unification of Japan, which had been fractured after a series of clashes called the Warring States period.
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There was no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Anthony Ghosn or that he knew about the origin of the funds invested in his firm, Shogun Investments LLC.
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It's more difficult for Maeve to take control of Hosts in Shogun World, even when she speaks the local language, for reasons that only slowly become clear!
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In the 17th century under one animal-loving shogun, it is said that a samurai who slew a dog was ordered to commit seppuku, ritual suicide by disembowelment.
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Their plan to pose as Chinese envoys very predictably fails, especially since the Shogun appears to be pulling a Bernard and leaking cortical fluid out of his ears.
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And guests in the right place at the right time might even come face-to-face with an armored samurai, a host from Westworld's sister park, Shogun World.
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First off, Smith is no joke -- the guy is on a 3-fight win streak with violent victories over guys like Shogun Rua, Rashad Evans and Volkan Oezdemir.
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Having faced greats like Nick Diaz, Maurício 'Shogun' Rua and Gegard Mousasi the 38-year-old Brazilian was forecasted to bring a new level of competition to 'Venom'.
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While we don't want to dump Shogun into the cage with somebody that's going to damage his body or brain permanently, there's also no sense in coddling him.
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It's right there in the band name: conceptualised by his mother, 'The Sheets' refers to the hundreds of handwritten lyric sheets that Shogun has scattered around his bedroom.
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There, in one bold pitch to his boss, William lays out what will eventually become the real reason Westworld, Shogun World, and all the other Delos parks exist.
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One of her books, "Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun," received the Newbery Honor for literature from the Association for Library Service to Children in 1986.
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Then there's the Shogun Mary, which puts a twist on the classic Bloody Mary by using both vodka and gin, as well as soy sauce and wasabi powder.
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There is true depletion in the ranks at 205 pounds: with Johnson's retirement, a shopworn Mauricio "Shogun" Rua is now the fourth-ranked light heavyweight in the promotion.
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At the time, Shogun was rated as the world's number one light heavyweight fighter by most MMA publications, having won the Pride Middleweight Grand Prix two years previous.
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Part of the fun of this episode was the various Shogun World Hosts finding ways to subvert Maeve's power, then Maeve having to adapt to overcome their maneuvering.
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Lisa Joy, The Hollywood Reporter: Q: Season two revealed the Raj, and we already knew about Shogun World, but there are still three other parks we haven't seen yet.
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In last night's episode, this mission took Maeve to Shogun World, where she met a kindred spirit: Akane (played by Pacific Rim's Rinko Kikuchi), who also has a daughter.
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The Silson House recalls a shogun temple, with its axial symmetry and steep roof overhangs; the Siegel house features sliding Shoji screens and a koi pond in its garden.
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Changing the game In the final moments of "Virtù e Fortuna," Maeve, Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), and the rest of their traveling companions do finally come across Shogun World.
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The season 1 finale took the first steps into Shogun World, and in season 2, the show visually embraces the opportunity to head outside its previous Old West confines.
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Armed with this information, Japanese earthquake researcher Kenji Satake turned to diaries and logs from prominent families and temples of the Shogun era that go back to the 600s.
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In youth, Shogun found that he was picked on for being effeminate and disliking sports; as he started playing music, he was criticised for seeming chauvinistic and too masculine.
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With her win, Sandra Oh became only the second Asian woman to win a Golden Globe, following Yoko Shimada, who took one home in 1981 for her role in Shogun.
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Two weeks ago in Brazil, there was plenty to celebrate with national heroes like Demain Maia, Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua, Cris 'Cyborg' Justino and Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza claiming wins in Curitiba.
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The Discover Shogun World site appeared that night, with a detailed description of the park's inspirations, and a live-updating map that tracks the movements of hosts across the park.
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Feints and pressure will again be very useful here, but Mauricio "Shogun" Rua had his success by flurrying with his hands and running into the low kicks as Machida retreated.
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Dana says Jon's got a pretty solid case too ... beating the hell out of stars like Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, Alexander Gustafsson (twice), Vitor Belfort, Lyoto Machida and Ryan Bader.
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But now, we've confirmed ... Jon's next opponent will be 30-year-old Smith, who's currently on a 3 fight win streak after beating Volkan Oezdemir, Shogun Rua and Rashad Evans.
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Now all we need is the establishment of day-of weigh-ins, the rebirth of "Shogun" Rua, and the return of GSP and we'll have nothing left to hope for.
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Shogun looks different today, without the ragged hoodies he used to wear in Royal Headache; now, his hair is thinning a little more and his face looks full and alert.
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Japanese bank MUFG was engaged by Chilean paper and pulp company CMPC to lead a five-year US$100m green Shogun loan, raised in dollars and granted by Japanese banks.
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That's why the two decided to start working on Shogun full-time, which is now looking to expand beyond to a general-purpose storefront for businesses trying to get online.
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That would make him Abe Masahiro, the chief councillor of the Tokugawa shogunate who, in the face of American gunships and a dead shogun, opened the country to foreign trade.
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Back in July, an unknown MC called Shogun exploded onto the internet with "Vulcan;" a complex and fast-paced freestyle filmed on the streets of his hometown of Paisley, Scotland.
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In 2011, when he beat Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to become the youngest MMA champion in history, it looked like Jones' destiny was to become the greatest mixed martial artist ever.
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Glover Teixeira and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua have both had their best days and are now simply hanging around because the rest of the division is so lacking in young talent.
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Taking sips of cerveza and striding across stage Shogun seems relaxed and energetic and the band sound tight with the keyboards of Gabrielle de Giorgio more prominent in the mix.
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After his win over Ramirez at UFC 72, Griffin was positioned to fight against new Pride FC signing Mauricio "Shogun" Rua for his first ever UFC bout at UFC 76.
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" How Geishas Inspired Maeve's Shogun Look Marsh: "The biggest shift in the hosts' appearance in season two is that they are no longer objects of desire, but of their own agency.
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It's good that they do, because soon thereafter, they wind up at odds with the local Shogun, who wants to buy one of Akane's dancers, a woman named Sakura (Kiki Sukezane).
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Shogun World is a sequel, essentially, put together on a schedule for a predetermined, gore-hungry audience, and clearly, no one at Delos put much work into the place's narrative design.
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He is considered one of the best fighters outside the UFC, and a dream matchup for the UFC's best light heavyweights, from Lyoto Machida, to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, to Jon Jones.
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The band are going to record an album soon, and Shogun wants to distil as much of himself into it, something he didn't always feel was possible in his old band.
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And there's a new product, Shogun Frontend, which allows brands to create a web storefront that's entirely customized while still using one of the big commerce platforms as their back end.
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As one of the key features of Shogun Frontend, Taylor pointed to the fact that it creates progressive web apps that should be as fast and smooth as a native app.
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And there's a new product, Shogun Frontend, which allows brands to create a web storefront that's entirely customized while still using one of the big commerce platforms as their back end.
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After all, Curitiba has produced MMA greats such as Anderson Silva, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino and Wanderlei Silva: the former three of which will all feature on this very card.
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Young Mo trained in Korea and opened up Shogun—along with many other Korean sushi restaurants in LA—in the 90s, until he sold them all to retire a few years ago.
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Hometown Hero Rua Grinds Out Win Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua's big stopping power punctuated the ends of the first and second round, which proved enough to win a split decision over Corey Anderson.
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On a Thursday afternoon in early October, Shogun meets me at the Lady Hampshire in Stanmore, a large, mostly-empty pub a few blocks from the home he shares with his mother.
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His final usage exemption came in his rematch against 'Shogun' in Brazil where a third round knockout rewarded him with a 'Fight of the Night' and a 'Performance of the Night' bonus.
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Still, the conqueror of the known world is ranked much higher than other leaders with similar numbers, including the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart.
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In his post-fight interview with commentator Joe Rogan, he took the opportunity to call for a bout with former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua—an opportunity he certainly deserves.
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The Westworld hosts all have Shogun World doppelgängers, and Maeve finds hers in Akane, whose protective treatment of her geishas, particularly the vulnerable Sakura, has the effect of affirming Maeve's motherly instincts.
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CORRECTION: Because Rousey and Shogun will be under 35 years old at the time of 2016's induction ceremony, they are currently ineligible for the Modern Era Wing of the Hall of Fame.
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Anderson's wrestling pedigree has allowed him to sharpen his boxing tools over the last couple of years and he hasn't looked out of place when competing against top-level strikers such as Shogun.
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Like the colonizing forces of the West itself, Westworld itself has expanded this season to show us new parks with imagined settings in British-ruled India (the Raj) and feudal Japan (Shogun World).
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The show has been teasing Shogun World since the first season's finale, and the new destination delivers on the promise of a Kurosawa film-inspired theme park heavy on swordplay and gory violence.
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Realising that his relationship with masculinity was only ever based on what others projected onto him, Shogun now has the chance to play with his own perceptions of how masculinity looks on him.
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The meta-humor of "Akane No Mai," in which it's revealed that Shogun World is just a reskinned riff on Westworld's narratives, was one of the few times the show actually laughed at itself.
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The new season has also hinted at a bigger canvas, with up to six different parks mentioned in the season premiere, and the Shogun World park expected to play a major role this season.
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At the same time, the Japanese emperors were becoming largely ceremonial, if not decadent; in reality, Japan was ruled by a succession of aristocratic clans, headed by a shogun, starting with the Fujiwara family.
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An example of dynamic ground striking would be the throw by pass to right hand that was made famous by Fedor Emelianenko and earned knockouts for Dan Henderson, Shogun Rua and many, many others.
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Maeve and the gang make it out of the underground tunnels and back on their way, until they walk straight into a trag set by Shogun warriors who have strayed out of their zone. Oops.
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There are aspects of Shogun that make him seem like a stereotypical poster boy for Scotland's zero-opportunities working class generation, with him appropriately declaring on "Element": "I hate Paisley, but, man, Paisley made me".
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The last recorded appearance of shinobi was in 1638, when the shogun hired a bunch of ninjas to crack down on a rebellion of Catholic farmers (there's a true sentence I never thought I'd write).
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He made his name a mainstay in the light heavyweight division once he demolished Mauricio "Shogun" Rua by KO in an impressive comeback bout following a dull decision loss to Ryan Bader last time out.
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Shogun at its heart is a page builder, and that's what the original target was as the pair started pitching it around to agencies (Raushenbush had some experience in the video creative side as well).
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As NHB became MMA, PRIDE attracted most of the era's best fighters: Emelianenko, Rampage, Cro Cop, Wanderlei Silva, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Murilo Bustamante, Dan Henderson, Takanori Gomi, Paulo Filho, and too many others to count.
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Along the route to these two very different destinations, we also got glimpses of Shogun World (a historical samurai equivalent to Westworld) and the Raj, a part of the theme park based on colonial India.
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It made for a spectacularly bloody battle, delivering on the gory promise of Shogun World while also underscoring some of the thematic questions the show has been asking this season about the nature of free will.
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That's when Taylor and Raushenbush, who had started Shogun as a side project, realized that though it took a while to get rolling, people were signing up and using it and were actually paying for it.
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Before getting down to more serious business, the episode has a grand time laying out Shogun World's tacky theme-park pastiche of the Edo period, which cribs shamelessly from the characters and scripted adventures of Westworld.
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Right: Half-brother of the last shogun and lord of the Mito domain, Tokugawa Akitake (294-21867) was dispatched to France in 1867 as a special emissary, accompanying the Japanese delegation to the Universal Exposition in Paris.
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In the talent-starved light heavyweight division, streaks like this are becoming increasingly rare, and so suddenly, a 35-year-old Shogun looks like he could be a win or two away from another shot at gold.
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When Shogun joined Royal Headache, it was the reprieve he needed from what he describes as a "severe mental breakdown" that had been occurring for the 10-or-so months before he became part of the band.
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Machida is a legend himself -- dude's got a 26-8 pro record with wins over some of the best fighters of all time ... including B.J. Penn, Tito Ortiz, Rashad Evans, Randy Couture, Dan Henderson and Shogun Rua.
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The division is so thin on new blood that Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua, now in the fifteenth year of his professional career, has jumped back to number five in the UFC's rankings after besting the shambling Gian Villante.
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According to Nolan: The reason we went with the shogun, Imperial Japanese motif for that world is in large part because of the beautiful relationship you had between the golden age Westerns and the golden age samurai films.
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With a larger universe comes the need for a larger cast, too — new visitors to the park, new Westworld security to clean up the hosts' revolution, new androids to populate Shogun World, a park inspired by feudal Japan.
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But changing the story's focus for a bit meant leaving other characters on the back burner, including Maeve (Thandie Newton) and Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), who were both last seen confronting a group of warriors from Shogun World.
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Lee Sizemore is almost immediately called out for what Maeve terms "plagiarism" — there's even a geisha named Akane (Rinko Kikuchi) who serves as Maeve's counterpart — but eventually, the Westworld and Shogun World hosts realize they should be allies.
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A triumph of research and plot over character and subtlety, Clavell's historical novel about an Englishmen who goes native with the first Japanese shogun is the first among equals of the James Michener era of middlebrow informational epics.
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Antonio Rogerio Nogueira landed dozens of hard counters on the bum-rushing Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in their PRIDE bout, but ended up on the worse end of many exchanges as Rua gritted his teeth and kept running forward, swinging.
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Only instead of leading the heist, this time Hector (Rodrigo Santoro) and Armistice are watching it all go down, as it's carried out by a ronin (Hiroyuki Sanada) and a female assassin who are presumably their Shogun World doppelgängers.
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When the show finally visited Shogun World, that park got its own new site, as well — one that copies heavily from the Discover Westworld site, echoing the idea of self-plagiarism that the season's fifth episode plays for laughs.
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Post-retirement, Davis began work as a trainer and delved deeply into the world of MMA, acquiring a position as a striking coach at American Top Team, and helped prepare Chuck Liddell for his first bout against Shogun Rua.
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On Saturday night, in the co-main event of the UFC's latest trip to Brazil, former UFC light heavyweight champion and Pride Grand Prix winner Mauricio "Shogun" Rua once again set back the clock with an impressive knockout win.
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Smith -- who's DESTROYED his last two opponents, Shogun Rua and Rashad Evans -- fights Volkan Oezdemir Saturday on FS1, but tells us after that fight he's got his sights on a much, much bigger face off, and that's with Jones.
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Sure, the claws come out when talk turns to the barn-size target Michael Ovitz, who made more enemies than seems humanly possible when he was the agency's self-anointed Shogun in Chief in the 1980s and early '90s.
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Indeed, "Kiksuya"—meaning "remember" in Lakota—is the second example of Westworld making a deliberate choice to advance the plot largely through non-English dialog (the first being "Akane no Mai," a Japanese language episode set in Shogun World).
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They are re-enacting the Joseon tongsinsa missions, or "sharing of good faith from Joseon" (an ancient name for Korea), which began in the aftermath of the Imjin war to reaffirm friendly ties between the Korean king and the Japanese shogun.
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There is the standard "rise to power" campaign where you take part in an expansionist drag race to become the unchallenged hegemon of the setting, which has been the basis of most Total War games since the original Shogun in 2000.
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Knowing even the most basic facts about the world at large, as well as the sister parks to Westworld (which include the Shogun World teased in season one and another I daren't spoil), helps situate the show's chaos in something real.
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The kind of fight (like Shogun/Henderson I or Ali/Frazier III) that makes fight fans believe in something bigger than the sport and convinces them that there may just be something meaningful, even spiritual, behind their nasty little hobby.
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He suggested that this is a "mutually beneficial" split, as Shopify and its competitors are going "super deep" on building the infrastructure needed to operate a store online, while Shogun focuses on the actual experience of the customer visiting that store.
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Shogun raises $10M to help e-commerce brands build faster websites The company's first product, Page Builder, offers a drag-and-drop interface to make it easier for e-commerce brands to build their storefronts on Shopify, BigCommerce, Salesforce and Magento.
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After the feudal lord Asano (Yoshizaburo Arashi) is wrongly sentenced by the shogun to commit hara-kiri, Asano's chamberlain, Oishi (Chojuro Kawarasaki), organizes the lord's newly leaderless samurai to take revenge, knowing that it will lead to their own death.
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Despite this, there is still no real sub-categorization of Korean sushi within sushi restaurants in the US. However, if you live in Los Angeles or are visiting, you can step up your sushi game and see exactly what I'm talking about by dining at New Shogun Sushi in Koreatown, since it is one of the pioneering Korean sushi establishments in the US. "Typically, Korean chefs get trained by Japanese sushi chefs in South Korea and then add sauces and things that Korean people like to make it Korean," Neil Kwon tells me as we share a Korean sushi feast at Shogun.
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With promotional clips offering quick glimpses of Maeve (Thandie Newton) wearing a kimono, it seemed all but certain that Westworld wouldn't just be bringing audiences to this new destination, but that Shogun World might actually play a significant role in the new season.
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For now, the company is partnering with Atomos (its Sumo 19 and Shogun recorders will be getting firmware updates to support ProRes RAW) and DJI, which will be selling a ProRes RAW-compatible Zenmuse X7 camera and Inspire 2 drone later this spring.
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Westworld the show may be named after Delos's Wild West park, but after Sunday's "Akane No Mai" episode, everyone is talking about Shogun World, the extra-violent, samurai-filled park that Maeve, Hector, Lee, and their tiny band of Westworld survivors stumbled into.
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As the Wall Street Journal reported a little more than a week ago: In March 2015, the Ghosns set up in Delaware an investment vehicle called Shogun Investments, which Mr. Ghosn described as a fund that would invest in Silicon Valley startups.
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Rather than inch all the stories forward in the same hour, it can fiddle with structure, like tracking three decades of experimentation on a host version of Jim Delos, or taking a detour to exotic locales like Shogun World or the Raj.
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Sporting a nice looking grey sports jacket, vocalist Shogun was still keeping it punk underneath by wearing a shirt from Toronto punk legends Career Suicide, who along with Warthog were playing Royal Headache's sold out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg later that evening.
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In the early 1600s, the Tokugawa shogun instituted a system whereby all daimyō and their retinues were required to divide their time between Edo and their respective home territories, with the lords obliged to leave their wives and families permanently in the big city.
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Westworld's Shogun World, for instance, calls back to an earlier reinvention of the Western: the 1960s Sergio Leone movies about an outlaw coming to town and John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, which were themselves adapted from Kurosawa's sagas of corrupted samurai and existential swordplay.
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The birds, the surrounding architecture, and particularly the music choice — a sitar-heavy cover of The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" from composer Ramin Djawadi — quickly make it clear that this isn't some undiscovered corner of Westworld, and it's not part of Shogun World, either.
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Maeve goes to Shogun World, refuses to turn her back on the women she found there, taps into new powers, makes a man impale himself on a spike via telepathy with those powers, finds her daughter, loses her daughter, and gets near-fatally shot.
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The mystery around the remaining three Delos parks, the characters who stayed behind in Shogun World, and Delos' determined host-salvage project each offer ways for the writers to keep the story within Delos' bottle worlds, instead of moving it out to a broader stage.
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In a way, it's probably a perfect place to get lost in music – nevertheless, it's an unexpected home for the UK's newest break-out MC. Nineteen-year-old rapper Joe Heron (aka Shogun) lives with his mum in "a wee tin roofed semi detached gaff".
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Some of the characteristics of the Edo period were a very strict class system that put a military overlord known as the shogun and his clan on top, landed lords called daimyo underneath them, warriors called samurai underneath the daimyo, and peasants under the samurai.
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" Shogun is done with the Royal Headache period of his life, and he's reluctant to provide details about that band's dissolution, "out of respect" for his previous bandmates—although he's quick to add a mumbled aside of "not that they have any for me.
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Counter-culture was deeply uncool and deeply unavailable in Pennant Hills, and at around 14, Shogun—a nickname given in high school that happened to stick—began heading into the city, hanging around on King St, Sydney's great punk centre, and learning to skate.
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It's why the UFC can still headline events with Dan Henderson, Shogun Rua and either Nogueira if they want to, and it's why they keep guys like Takenori Gomi on the roster just to preent Japanese promotions from having his name to sell tickets.
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But, to the surprise of most, Griffin had Shogun in all sorts of bother before singing in a rear naked choke with just 203 seconds of the fight remaining—a victory which was later named the 2007 Upset of the Year by the UFC.
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So if you were wondering what the author really thinks about "Band of Brothers" (2001) or "NYPD Blue" (1993-2005) or "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006-7) or "The Wire" (2002-8) — or, hell, "Shogun" (1980) — this is the volume to slake your curiosity.
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Jimi Manuwa Given that Shogun currently holds the number six spot in the light heavyweight rankings, a fight with the division's fourth ranked Jimi Manuwa (provided he gets past Corey Anderson next weekend) wouldn't technically be all that big of a step up after his knockout of Villante.
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Five years ago, in March 2011, a young and green Jon Jones found his way into the biggest fight of his career: what was considered to be a premature title fight against the long time PRIDE FC superstar and recently crowned UFC light heavyweight champion, Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua.
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As you may have guessed, Vitor Belfort and Kelvin Gastelum will be squaring off in the main event in a match-up pitting old guard against new, while that bout is supported with a fight between Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Gian Villante, serving as the co-main event.
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While rewatching the Westworld season 1 finale for this exhaustive recap, it became clear even a random piece of blink-and-you'll-miss-it packaging receives the same amount of scrutiny as our first hint at the existence of Shogun World (along with, likely, many other Delos parks after that).
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One episode might follow the diptych of Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and the Man in Black (Ed Harris), linked in ways they don't quite understand, while the next lays out what happens as Maeve heads into Shogun World and Dolores chases her own ambitions into an ever-tightening, potentially self-destructive spiral.
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Thandie Newton's performance as an increasingly empathetic and vengeful Maeve is the best part of the show, and while Shogun World raises its own set of questions, they're not the kind that will drive the internet crazy with fan theories that won't be validated until the third episode of Westworld season 5.
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When I got to Sweetwater around 1:30PM, enterprising guests were just starting to shift the topsoil off her resting place — and they were finding things in the dirt, like a samurai-embossed coin from Westworld's sister site, Shogun World, and a rolled-up copy of the horse painting Dolores creates on the show.
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Since then, Anderson has went 4-2 in the UFC, beating tough opposition such as Jan Blachowicz, Fabio Maldonado and the aforementioned Tom Lawlor, while losing to tougher opposition in Gian Villante and one Mauricio "Shogun" Rua—the latter of which was a controversial split decision which went in favour of the Brazilian in his hometown of Curitiba.
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While the idea of Shogun challenging for the UFC light heavyweight title in the twilight of his incredible career might be exciting to his throngs of diehard fans, the thought of the ever-deteriorating legend being locked in the cage with monsters like Daniel Cormier, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and, god forbid, Jon Jones, is quickly sobering.
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If you are a regular reader of Noisey dot com, you may remember us spending the day in Paisley with a then-19-year-old rising Scottish MC called Shogun, who gave us a tour of his local area and showed us round the "wee tin roofed semi detached gaff" that he shares with his mum.
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Rua's low kicks once again bothered Machida but after a picture perfect counter knee strike, the champion got caught hanging around in the pocket too long, and a Rua overhand put him down for the KO. To many fans, Shogun had begun to actualize his tremendous potential and match fight smarts to his always evident technical and athletic talent.
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Think about Robbie Lawler versus Rory MacDonald, or Jon Jones versus Alexander Gustafsson, or Dan Henderson versus Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, and those fights more or less have the same final complexion: a tableau of two fighters spent, bloodied, bruised, pained, sometimes sporting cuts that make everyone else want to barf, their entire world a blur of perception.
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He earned a Fight of the Night bonus in an entertaining back-and-forth fight against Brazilian bruiser Glover Teixieira and garnered two Performance of the Night bonuses with the devastating 34-second knockout over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in his own back yard and a slick submission win, a rare Von Flue choke, over Ukrainian brawler Nikita Krylov.
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Despite openly speaking out about UFC before he initially walked out to join Strikeforce, the victory over 'The Last Emperor' forced the hand of the promotion, and in his first fight back in the Octagon Henderson showed no signs of his advancing years when he put on the 'Fight of the Year' for 2011 against fellow Pride legend Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua.
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Contract negotiations spurred him to Strikeforce, and Henderson had a remarkable 2011: he knocked out Rafael Cavalcante to claim the light heavyweight title, TKO'd the great Fedor Emelianenko in the first round of their heavyweight bout, and returned to the UFC once again with a unanimous decision over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in one of the most brutal things any of us will ever witness.
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As noted, "Westworld" has a genuinely epic quality to it, augmented by the addition of this season's Shogun World; a cast to die for (heck, we haven't even mentioned Jeffrey Wright yet, whose Bernard is one of the more complicated and fascinating personalities); and a demonstrable willingness by its writers to play the long game, in a way that turned first-season fans into amateur spoiler hunters.
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And today, Shogun is announcing that it has raised a $10 million Series A, led by Initialized Capital, with participation from VMG Partners and YC. (The startup has now raised a total of $12 million.) The company's first product, Page Builder, offers a drag-and-drop interface to make it easier for e-commerce brands to build their storefronts on Shopify, BigCommerce, Salesforce and Magento.
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"And if we didn't get quite enough Shogun World (or other worlds/parks for that matter) for my taste, the third season sets up a blueprint that would allow Dolores, Bernard and Charlotte — or at least the nonhuman version of Charlotte — to live in the real world, expand the number of hosts who will exist beyond the walls and, at the same time, keep those left behind (or dead) in the parks relevant."
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Save for the opening, in which Bernard and the Delos team pick through the waterlogged bodies of hosts dredged up from a bay, "Akane No Mai" limits itself to alternating between two story lines, both in the same timeline: the first following Dolores, Teddy and their army in Westworld, the second following Maeve, Hector, Armistice and Lee Sizemore in Shogun World — which, we're told, is for guests who find the former park too tame.
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But for an MMA fan who grew up in this sport with Jose Aldo always there as the greatest of the great, as the most terrifying of the terrifying, spiritual heir to Pride-era "Shogun" Rua and next in line to the artistic throne of Anderson Silva; and who himself isn't entirely comfortable with the trash-talking, bottle-throwing, designer-suit-wearing new world order McGregor embodies, it would be deflating to see him go—just further confirmation that the Era of Self-Regard in MMA is ascendant.
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