JAM said:

I'm wondering what's going on with Luca. Haven't seen him rise in recent events, much less enter them. I miss him.

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Wayne Crimi said:

Earlier in the thread I was making the case that IMHO Fargo Ratings don't adjust fast enough to new information and should be tweaked slightly to weigh a player's most recent performances a little heavier (more like chess ratings). It wouldn't require a huge change, just a tweak. As part of that I was making the case that Yapp should have been rated higher after his series of tournamant wins last year and that I would take him over several players ranked higher at even money. Now that's he's world 8 ball champion does anyone still think he's the 10th best player in the world?

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Key Details of the Event

Purpose: Following a wave of violence, Byrne aimed to highlight the desperate conditions in the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) complex.

The Experience: Though dubbed a "lovely" and "very quiet" start by the The New York Times initially, the visit was marred by protests from residents who felt it was a political stunt.

Impact: While she was in residence, garbage was cleared, security increased, and broken elevators were fixed. However, some residents and observers viewed it as a media-driven stunt because she had security protection, and conditions soon deteriorated after she left.

Duration: She stayed for roughly three weeks, departing on April 18, 1981, after an Easter event in the community.

The event is a famous, albeit controversial, moment in Chicago history

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Mayor Jane M. Byrne emerged this morning from her new home away from home in the Cabrini-Green public housing project here and announced that she and her husband, Jay McMullen, had spent a ''lovely'' and ''very quiet'' first night at the violence-torn, predominantly black complex.

At a news conference in a small, freshly painted and scrubbed ''social room'' on the first floor of the building, which is about a mile from her regular Gold Coast apartment, Mrs. Byrne, wearing a lavender suit, said that she and her husband had wiled away the evening watching the Academy Awards presentations on television.

The television set was on loan from Montgomery Ward & Company, as was the rest of the furniture in the two-bedroom, fourth-floor apartment.

'We didn't want a lot of hoopla,'' Mrs. Byrne said when asked why the move had been made before informing the press. After the Mayor moved in, two policemen were stationed in the lobby and another outside the door. Two of her bodyguards, who are staying in another two-bedroom apartment adjacent to hers, were reported to be standing outside her door. At least four marked and two unmarked police cars patroled the area around the building.

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JAM said:

No Ronnie?

Ronnie O'Sullivan will be playing his first match in this year’s competition on Tuesday, 21 April, at 9:30 a.m. EDT. He will face He Guoqiang in Round 1, who has won two of the three matches they have played against each other.

This year will be Rocket's 34th appearance at the tournament, having played in it every year since turning professional.

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