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NDC has settled on a solid team of accomplished propagandists – Gabby
Gabby Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said that, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has elected a solid team of propagandists to lead the party into the 2024 elections.
The NDC over the weekend elected Johnson Asiedu Nketia and Fiifi Kwetey as national chairman and general secretary respectively at the Accra Sports Stadium to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years.
In a tweet on Sunday (December 18), Otchere-Darko congratulated the newly-elected executives, adding that the strategy for 2024 is now set.
"Congratulations to the NDC and their new national officers! Asiedu Nketiah is now the Chairman-General (apologies to Kwami!) What is clear is that Ghana's opposition party has settled on a solid team of accomplished propagandists in all departments. The strategy for 2024 is set," Otchere-Darko tweeted.
Congratulations to the NDC and their new national officers! Aseidu Nketia is now the Chairman-General (apologies to Kwami!) What is clear is that Ghana's opposition party has settled on a solid team of accomplished propagandists in all departments. The strategy for 2024 is set. pic.twitter.com/7iDNVgEueZ
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) December 18, 2022
Asiedu-Nketia, who until this latest election had served as the general secretary of the party for the past 17 years, received 5,569 votes (65.17% of the vote) to obtain the Chairmanship position.
Fiifi Kwetey, the former MP for Ketu South, becomes the party's new general secretary.
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Mooning Over Pixar's 'La Luna'
The Director of the Oscar Nominated Short Revelas How He Reached For the Stars
By Scott Huver	• Published at 5:48 pm on June 25, 2012
Weren't you just over the moon for "La Luna," the Academy Award-nominated Pixar short that preceded "Brave?"
Perhaps the most poetic and enchanting of all the many shorts from Disney's high-quality CG animation wing (and, at seven minutes, its longest), the Italian flavored coming-of-age story "La Luna" enraptured even Oscar voters, who nominated it as one of the past year's best animated shorts. Director Enrico Casarosa reveals the inside story of how he and his team created a glowing modern classic.
Was this based on a folk tale, an idea you came up with or stories someone told you?
It's a little bit of a mixture of all of the above, but there isn't really an actual folktale prior to my interest in this idea of going after the moon came from a few different stories that inspired me. One of them is actually Italo Calvino, an Italian writer. He's written 'Invisible Cities.' He's a wonderful surrealist and he has a lot of short stories based on these short stories called Cosmic Comics. They were based on scientific data and then he'd go off on his own and do his fiction over it. The scientific data is that the moon is getting further away from us every year – a certain amount of inches, for real. This is true. And so you can imagine a time if the moon keeps on going, it must have been really close. And you can imagine a time where you could go up on it. In his tale, he had people go on the moon and get milk, of all things. I don't know if you remember there are some shorts from Aardman, like "A Grand Day Out,' where Wallace and Gromit would go get cheese. I love these kind of stories that take the moon and give it a strange myth. So I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to come up with something of my own?' I went on my own direction of what could be a job on the moon. And the other part of it was my memory of my childhood: my dad and my grandfather never got along, so the relationship with the boy and them are a little bit my dinners where my dad and my grandfather would be by my side. They wouldn't talk to each other, but they would talk to me. So there was tension. The memory of that started to be an interesting story to get them to go off to where it's a coming of age story."
Expanding on the gibberish dialect used and your own father and grandfather – were those elements you always knew you'd have from the beginning?
The gibberish I really did have in my mind, mostly because I love a lot of animation that has it. There's an Italian animation called 'La Lina,' which is worth looking up on YouTube if you've never seen it. It's a simple little line where a hand would come in and draw a character made out of a line. The character would be always talking this gibberish, gesticulating a lot, so that was always the inspiration. That was the example and inspiration that told me there was something very universal about gibberish that would be fun, but also very Italian because we could do gesticulating. So we could have a lot of interesting flavor to that. It was hard to convince John Lasseter for it because at first he wasn't quite on board with that. We do always in our story reels temp voices – we call it scratch – and it was me and the editor doing it [mimics gibberish], and it was kinda annoying, and I think JL was right about that. It took us awhile to find the right tone of gibberish so it wouldn't be too overbearing. You want a little bit of pressure from these guys, but not too much. And a little bit to find the right performers. We had to look for a grandpa. We tried someone younger and it was sounding like someone wasn't grandpa. We found this wonderful 75-year-old – Phil Sheridan is his name and he did a great job. The first day he came on he says, 'Do you want me to do this with my teeth, or without my teeth?' We were so impressed! We said, 'Let's try it without!' and everything you hear is without his teeth…There's also another factor of gibberish that I love: it's of childhood. My daughter makes up languages all the time. It seems that kids just right away get it and accept it immediately. It's a little bit of the world of childhood.
What has this experience been like for you – to produce something for Pixar and then to be nominated for an Oscar for the work?
It's been quite a ride. I've been a story artist there for many years, so you're kind of in the trenches. This is a tiny bit more rarefied air. You get to travel with it. You get to go and share. I made a little 'making of' talk that we took to festivals last year. So I enjoy that a lot. It's really fun to go around the world to talk about the thinking behind it, the artwork behind it that helped you make it. And then it was really great to then get the nomination on top of that. It was kind of a strange adventure that you kind of can't quite understand if it's happening for real or not. And then this feels like even further satisfaction because I can't wait for kids to see it and everyone to see it."
At Pixar, what's their general approach to the thinking behind the shorts? What are they hoping, internally is happening: are they trying to spark new creativity among the staff, discover fresh talent, or is there also a commercial agenda? What's the checklist?
I don't think there's much of a commercial agenda. We're not really making money with shorts but they're a wonderful place for people like me and everybody in the small team for a short gets to do a little more. So everyone takes on a little more responsibility. It's a great place for everybody to get a great learning experience and taking on leading roles. I think then as far as the creative side of it, it's a wonderful place for us to take some chances. They are shorter in form. They can be stylistically different. They're not necessarily the research-and-development place they used to be a little bit. But the wonderful thing is, in this balance between art and commerce, they can be closer to art. And that's what's great about it. The last thing is, really, John Lasseter and Pixar really love and believe in having a little appetizer in front of your feature. The short as it used to be, in the Golden Era, as a pre-feature.
From concept to completion, what has the process been? And what brought John Lasseter on board the notion?
We pitch to John to begin with. You come with two or three ideas to John, so there's a pitch day. When he saw a lot of it, he was on board and immediately liked 'La Luna.' Then it was a little bit about waiting for the right timing. There's a little bit of waiting time to have enough people for me to work with. We're so busy with features, there are peaks in production where no one would be available. I had to wait a few months. The actual production was nine months and I was on it a few months before storyboarding. Being a storyboard artist, the nice thing was being able to do that myself.
What comprised the pitch?
I made a lot of watercolors. In fact a lot of those watercolors ended up inspiring this look. I made roughly 20 watercolors and scanned through key note telling the story. I had my little remote. You try to change it up. The actual story I had printed on boards. I liked the physical look of the old storyteller in the street – card by card. It's actually a fun process. You were very comfortable with it as a story artist, as that's what we do normally. We have to draw a scene and pitch it to the directors, so you need a tiny bit of showmanship.
The tools look like the characters using them – was that used to show the different generations and technology that defined them?
At first it was just one is saying one thing, and the other is saying the other. One says, 'Push' and one says 'Pull.' For a little bit, it was as simple as that. Then when we started really designing them and drawing them we came up with this idea of 'Wouldn't it be cool if they looked like their tools? Then we ended up with a push broom because of the mustache. Honestly, that started making a lot of sense. A push broom felt effective – more modern than just the broom, and the broom for Grandpa started really working wonderfully too. Honestly John Lasseter had a specific note about curving it. He remembered sweeper days, when he used to be a sweeper at Disneyland, how that everyone would be really jealous of their broom as it would get beat up just right. It had this hook to get cigarette butts. Then we used that. We recorded our animators using hockey pucks. The wonderful thing about that we find this contrast about Papa wanting to be done and Grandpa more specific precision and taking his time. Slowly it came into view. Animation ended up being a wonderful contrast even in rhythms. That was a wonderful sculpting of it that wasn't right away in my mind. It slowly happened.
Was it always your intent to get Michael Giacchino to score this?
It was a bit of searching for us. John kept on saying to us, 'You know, we we've got someone with an Italian last name who could do a great job.' I was listening to a lot of Nino Rota from Fellini movies. A lot of Italian composers and Italian folk music. I think Michael was so open to reach for his roots. It won me over immediately. Sometimes you're not sure if you can afford everyone for your feature and for your short. So it wasn't clear right away. Once Michael was into it, we figured maybe we can do this. And it was wonderful. I'm so happy Michael did the soundtrack. It did capture a little something…it does feel like a little Fellini-esque moment."


TheArmenianKitchen.com : Happy Father's Day!
Father's Day is synonymous with barbecues.
Grill masters will show their stuff with menus plain and fancy. No matter what you plan to serve, we ask that you grill cautiously. Here are a few tips to help keep your Father's Day safe.
My dad, Andy Dabbakian, not only grilled terrific shish kebab, he built his own shish kebab machine and skewers! I'll share his recipe for the kebab, but you'll have to conjure-up your own grilling machine; sorry!
Place cubed meat into a large mixing bowl. Add the onions, oil, coriander, vinegar, tomato paste, salt and pepper. Mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Be sure to toss the meat mixture periodically to redistribute the ingredients.
1. Mix meat once more before placing meat on the skewers.
2. Broil over charcoal fire; skewers should be turned frequently at the start to sear the outside of the meat, retaining natural juices.
3. When the tips of the meat cubes take on a well-roasted appearance, remove from fire.
2. For interesting variations, you may alternate pieces of green pepper, large mushroom caps, and hard, small tomatoes between the meat cubes.
Thanks, Dad. We miss you, and will remember you always.
Do you ever make this with beef? If so, what cut of beef do you recommend for shish kabob?
Also, what's your favorite wine vinegar to use with this recipe?
I don't think it really matters, just use whatever red wine vinegar you like best. We also use a good drinking red wine or pomegranate juice, too.


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Home Joseph Vecsey
Whether it's sharing stories about his days playing professional street basketball with modern Globetrotters or being the sensitive soft dude in relationships, Joseph Vecsey loves making audiences laugh at his expense and sharing his bizarre personal experiences.
Joseph made his television stand up debut on Gotham's AXS TV and also co-starred and punched up a web series and commercial for Optimum Cable TV called "The Un-Movers." In addition to the spots being on TV, "The Un-Movers" have over a million views online. This is not the first time Joseph has been a part of a viral video. Joseph acted and co-produced the sketch "Sneaker Heads" starring star radio personality Charlamagne The God and Guy Code's Andrew Schulz where it reached a million views on Youtube and World Star. Earlier this year, Joseph also wrote, acted, edited, and directed a sketch for MTV2's popular show "Uncommon Sense" called "Stud Walk." Joseph currently has been performing all over New York City, California, and went international hosting the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Show in Bermuda at a sold out resort. He also hosts the most popular variety stand up show in the Hamptons at The Bay Street Theater where comedians such as Donnell Rawlings from Chappelle Show (who Joseph has opened for on numerous occasions) has graced the stage.
Joseph also keeps busy writing and acting in sketches that he produces on his Youtube channel while working on feature length screenplays. Joseph also was a contributing writer for the hilarious "BGCP3TV" sketch show promoting the Jordan Brand starring Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
Even with stand up, writing, and acting, Joseph still finds time to host The Call Back Podcast that has featured interviews with the world's most successful comedians and entertainers such as Chris Rock, Aziz Ansari, Garry Shandling, Paula Patton, Tom Green, and Romany Malco just to name several. Joseph has also written articles for the NBA's most popular publication Slam Magazine that featured brilliant comedian Colin Quinn and Power 105's Charlamagne The God.


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Atari Pilot's Right Crew, Wrong Captain
Only gamers of a certain age will know of The Attic Bug. Hedonistic socialiser, Miner Willy had a party in his manor and wanted to retire for the evening. Just how a miner in the eighties could've afforded a manor remains a mystery; but that erroneous flaw was the tip of the iceberg. In this ground-breaking ZX Spectrum platform game, the Ribena Kid's mum appeared to guard Willy's bedroom, tapping her foot impatiently. Touch this mean rotund mama and she'd kill you, unless you'd tided every bit of leftovers from the bash. Turned out, months after the game's release, one piece, in the Attic, was impossible to collect. Until this glitch became public knowledge, players were fuming as an intolerable bleeping version of "If I was a Rich Man," perpetually looped them to insanity.
I swear, if I hear that tune, even some forty years on I cringe; the haunting memory of my perseverance with the impossible Jetset Willy. Music in videogames has come a long way, thank your chosen deity. Yet in this trend of retrospection I terror at musical artists influenced by these cringeworthy clunky, bleeping melodies of early Mario, or Sonic soundtracks; like techno never happened, what are they thinking of? It was with caution, then, when I pressed play on the new single from Swindon band "Atari Pilot." I had heard of them, but not heard them. I was pleasantly surprised.
For starters, this is rock, rather than, taken from the band's name, my preconceived suspicion I would be subject to a lo-fi electronica computer geek's wet dream. While there is something undeniably retrospective gamer about the sonic synth blasts in Right Crew, Wrong Captain, it is done well, with taste and this track drives on a slight, space-rock tip. Though comparisons are tricky, Atari Pilot has a unique pop sound. No stranger to retrospection, with echoey vocals and a cover akin to an illustration from Captain Pugwash, still this sound is fresh, kind of straddling a bridge between space-rock and danceable indie. Oh, and it's certainly loud and proud.
A grower, takes a few listens and I'm hooked. Their Facebook blurb claims to "change the rules of the game, take the face from the name, trade the soul for the fame…I'm an Atari Pilot." After their debut album "Navigation of The World by Sound" in 2011, a long hiatus took in a serious cancer battle. But Atari Pilot returned in 2018 with an acoustic set at the Swindon Shuffle. The full band gathered once again the following year with live shows and a new set of "Songs for the Struggle." This will be the title of their forthcoming follow-up album, "When we were Children" being the first single from it, and now this one, "Right Crew, Wrong Captain," is available from the end of July.
Its theme is of isolation, "and defiance, after the ship has gone down," frontman Onze informs me. There's a haunting metaphor within the intelligent lyrics, "you nail yourself to the mast and you pray that everything lasts, you just want to know hope floats, when the water rises, coz it's gonna rise, take a deep breath and count to ten, sink to the bottom and start again."
There's a bracing movement which dispels predefined ideas of indie and progresses towards something encompassing a general pop feel, of bands I've highlighted previously, Talk in Code and Daydream Runaways, Atari Pilot would not look out of place billed in a festival line-up with these acts, and would add that clever cross between space-rock with shards of the videogames of yore, yet, not enough to warrant my aforementioned fears of cringeworthy bleeps. Here's hoping it's "game over" for that genre. That said, thinking back, when you bought your Atari 2600, if you recall, oldie, you got the entire package of two joysticks and those circler controllers too, as standard; could you imagine that much hardware included with a modern console? Na, mate, one controller, you've got to buy others separately.
So, if decades to come we have a band called X-Box or PlayStation Pilot, I'd be dubious, but Atari gave us quality, a complete package; likewise, with Atari Pilot!
Author Darren WorrowPosted on Jul 26, 2020 Categories UncategorizedTags Atari Pilot, bands, Indie, music, pop, retro, rock, space rock, swindon, swindon shuffle, synth-pop, wiltshire
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Most Babies Born Out Of Marriage By 2016, Trend Suggests
The majority of babies born in three years' time will have parents who are not married, official figures suggest. The proportion of children born out of wedlock rose in 2012 for the 40th consecutive year to 47.5%. By 2016 it is expected to rise to more than 50%. Figures from the Office for National Statistics go back to 1938 when just 4% of babies had unmarried parents. One former children's minister called on the government to tackle family breakdown by supporting marriage. Tim Loughton told the Daily Telegraph without marriage, people "drift in and out of relationships very easily". "In families where parents break up children do less well at school, are more likely to suffer mental health problems and are more likely to have substance abuse problems," he said. "The government needs to send a very clear message that it supports marriage. That's why married tax breaks are so important." Married minority David Cameron has been under pressure from some in the Conservative Party to reward marriage in the tax system. Plans being considered by the prime minister, which could be introduced in the autumn, could make four million married couples and civil partners £150 a year better off. The proportion of couples that are married has now fallen below 50% according to the 2011 census - the first time since 1801 (when figures were first collected) that they have been in a minority. There were 729,674 babies born in 2012 - up from 723,913 the previous year.


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When you think of Instagram, do you think of animation? Well, animated Instagram visuals are becoming very popular. Here are a few tips you should keep in mind when creating your own animated Instagram visuals.
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Sprout Social has a free tool that will save you time creating graphics for social media. With this tool, you can resize one image to fit all of the suggested dimensions for the most popular social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and YouTube.
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Now that BellaOnline has upgraded to a mobile friendly responsive layout, each article needs a featured image. If you are familiar with Wordpress, you know about featured images. A featured image represents the contents of the article.
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The getcpu() system call identifies the processor and node on which the calling thread or process is currently running and writes them into the integers pointed to by the cpu and node arguments. The processor is a unique small integer identifying a CPU. The node is a unique small identifier identifying a NUMA node. When either cpu or node is NULL nothing is written to the respective pointer.
The third argument to this system call is nowadays unused.
The information placed in cpu is only guaranteed to be current at the time of the call: unless the CPU affinity has been fixed using sched_setaffinity(2), the kernel might change the CPU at any time. (Normally this does not happen because the scheduler tries to minimize movements between CPUs to keep caches hot, but it is possible.) The caller must be prepared to handle the situation when cpu and node are no longer the current CPU and node.
getcpu() was added in kernel 2.6.19 for x86_64 and i386.
Linux makes a best effort to make this call as fast possible. The intention of getcpu() is to allow programs to make optimizations with per-CPU data or for NUMA optimization.
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The tcache argument is unused since Linux 2.6.24. In earlier kernels, if this argument was non-NULL, then it specified a pointer to a caller-allocated buffer in thread-local storage that was used to provide a caching mechanism for getcpu(). Use of the cache could speed getcpu() calls, at the cost that there was a very small chance that the returned information would be out of date. The caching mechanism was considered to cause problems when migrating threads between CPUs, and so the argument is now ignored.


A unique 'aerofoil' shaped fascia soffit system from the Alumasc Skyline range has been used for the O2 UK headquarters in Slough.
Having already won a 2009 International Property Award and a UK Commercial Property Award for its stunning architecture, the striking new building, which forms part of a 200,000 sq ft campus, has now been short listed for the 2010 RIBA Awards South.
London-based architects, Nicholas Hare, invited Alumasc to assist with the design of the fascia and soffit system from the early stages. Alumasc produced a variety of CAD drawings, showing how the bespoke Skyline system would appear on different building elevations. The resulting nosed design has a pointed section supported by concealed webbed brackets. The nosing connects to sloping soffits in modular form which were made in 500mm wide sections so that the joint coincided with the mullions. Alumasc also worked closely with installer, S & J Roofing Ltd, to help achieve an excellent result from design stage to final fitting.


Adventure Mad was the English-language title of the German comedy-actioner Die Drei Kuckucksuhren. Nils Asther plays a fabulously wealthy young man who is bored by his hothouse existence. To pass the time, Asther begins collecting cuckoo clocks, keeping a clockmaker on the premises for this purpose. The clockmaker turns out to be a crook, who intends to hypnotize Asther and ascertain the whereabouts of the family jewels. Somehow this ends up with Asther being spirited off to Cairo, where he experiences enough excitement for a lifetime. The film was director Lothar Mendes's final European effort before launching the American phase of his career; ditto for its Swedish leading man Nils Asther.


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Q: Update Duplicate value in second row if found I have come across a problem. I have a table where some rows will have one column data duplicated. However other columns are unique.
What I am after is when it detects that this is the second row and a previous row might already have the same column value, in that instance just add some number to that columns value.
if object_id('tempdb..#tempt') is not null drop table #tempt;
create table #tempt(
  cmpName varchar(50),
  cmpCode varchar(50)
)
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-ABC234FG Ont','252750023862545';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-XDDF34FG Ont','252750057762511';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-POC624AG Ont','252750057762789';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-ABC234FG Ont','252750057762511';

cmpName             cmpCode
cmp-ABC234FG Ont    252750023862545
cmp-ABC234FG Ont    252750057762511
cmp-POC624AG Ont    252750057762789
cmp-XDDF34FG Ont    252750057762511

in the above example int first 2 rows column cmName has duplicate values. What I am after is the second row should have any char appended to its value so that it will become a unique row .eg.
cmpName             cmpCode
cmp-ABC234FG Ont    252750023862545
cmp-ABC234FG Ont-2  252750057762511

Can some kind soul help me with this?
Thanks in advance

A: As astentx stated, you'll need a column to order by or decide which row you want to update. In this example I used cmpCode:
if object_id('tempdb..#tempt') is not null drop table #tempt;
create table #tempt(
  cmpName varchar(50),
  cmpCode varchar(50)
)
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-ABC234FG Ont','252750023862545';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-XDDF34FG Ont','252750057762511';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-POC624AG Ont','252750057762789';
insert into #tempt select 'cmp-ABC234FG Ont','252750057762511';

;with cte as(
select row_number() over(partition by cmpName order by cmpCode) rn,
        *
from #tempt
)

update cte
set cmpName = concat(cmpName,'-',rn)
where rn > 1

select *
from #tempt

This will take into consideration there might be more than two records with the same cmName value.

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Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo is not the stereotypical rockstar. Clad in thick-rimmed glasses and all the trappings of a bookish indie-rock kid, Toledo makes highly personal lo-fi records reminiscent of some early Beck. While the music isn't necessarily stylistically equivalent, both artists manage to hybridize many elements — Car Seat Headrest being an amalgamation of most of the alternative styles familiar to anyone who came of age in the mid-2000's. The music can be somber and understated, so when he and his band hit the stage at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday night playing dense, vibrant and downright raucous rock, it showed in spades the versatility of the involved musicians. The crowd — comprised mostly of people in their early 20's — even could be caught moshing to some of the band's noisier selections. The group played renditions of songs from Toledo's sprawling catalog, particularly focusing on his recently re-released opus Twin Fantasy.
Fellow Seattle residents Naked Giants opened the night and immediately set the vibe with their grungey pop compositions and funny stage presence. Their anthemic single "Sluff" — a Weezer-esque track centered around a nonsense word — was the clear crowd favorite. The trio were well-suited openers, standing tall in their own right, but never outshining the lead act. The two groups have been touring together for some time, the friendship between the young musicians clearly fueling the tour's particular energy.
While everyone in the audience came expecting a great show, what nobody expected was Toledo's full-blown rockstar persona. The musician commanded the stage with all the charisma of a seasoned veteran, but all the hunger of a man still positioning himself as one of the more intriguing forces in rock today. His band — featuring two guitarists, a bassist, a keyboardist and two drummers — riffed on Toledo's productions, transforming the lo-fi compositions into full-blown jams worthy of the group's musical forbearers. While the lyrics still had the heavy emotional weight found on the record, the music was decidedly less melancholy.
While Toledo was the clear mastermind — orchestrating things with grace — the band's chemistry is really what made the event. Everyone in the group carried their weight, the level of musical dexterity matching Toledo's lyrical finesse.
In the eight years Toledo has been making music, the young musician — now only 25 — has managed to release a whopping 12 albums. The breadth of his creative scope informed the show which was diverse but never scattered. The group managed to update some of his more classic tracks, making the older music feel as relevant and contemporary as his newer selections.
The show ended early, letting out before midnight. Some of the audience scattered back in the direction of UMS, others veered off — willing to call it early. The only certainty was people exiting the venue all seemed to have been in some way soothed by what they had witnessed. There was a sense of unity, driven by the knowledge that everyone in the room could relate to the tender lyrics. The raw exposure seemed to give people a sense that perhaps vulnerability is indeed a strength and coming together to celebrate our delicate nature can be enormously rewarding.
Hey, "sluff" is not a "nonsense word". It's a card playing term, used when you cast off a useless card to set up a strong play from your partner.


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Landmark Preservation Commission
7 PM on the 1st Monday of every month; except the 3rd Monday in January, July, and September
View Agendas and Minutes
Term Ends
Bob Dearborn Council Representative 847-446-2961 May 1, 2023
Christopher Enck At-Large 630-334-0952 May 18, 2024
Laura Good At-Large 847-386-6170 October 15, 2017
Chris Marx Staff Liaison 847-716-3587 N/A
Beth Ann Papoutsis At-Large 847-784-8417 July 1, 2018
Joe Stuart At-Large 312-656-2259 February 5, 2022
Paul Weaver At-Large 847-446-5739 October 6, 2018
Jack Coladarci Chairperson 847-784-1623 May 18, 2024
Members of the Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) are appointed based on a demonstrated expertise, experience or interest in:
Neighborhood organization
The LPC consists of seven Winnetka residents appointed by the Village President with the advice and consent of the Village Trustees. The Village President also designates one member of the Committee to serve as chairperson. Members of the Landmark Preservation Commission serve for terms of three years, which are staggered to assure the Board's continuity.
Powers and Duties
Conducting an ongoing survey of the Village, using the criteria identified in the Landmark Preservation Ordinance, to identify buildings, structures and properties that are of historic, cultural or architectural significance, and are therefore potential landmarks
Developing and maintaining information pertaining to the physical and financial aspects of preservation, renovation, rehabilitation and reuse, and making available to owners of existing and potential landmarks
Maintaining information on procedures for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, and making information available to owners of potential landmarks
Informing and educating the Village's residents about the historic, cultural or architectural heritage of the Village
Holding public hearings and making findings and recommendations to the Village Council on applications for landmark designation
Reviewing and commenting on applications for alterations affecting designated landmarks, as well as compiling information concerning potential and designated landmarks
Preparing and publishing maps and/or registers of potential and designated landmarks
Establishing an appropriate system of certificates, markers or plaques for designated landmarks
Reviewing applications for demolition permits and determining whether a Historic and Architectural Impact Study (HAIS) should be conducted before a demolition permit is issued
Seeking grants and donations to achieve the purposes of the Landmark Preservation Ordinance
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Home » Entertainment » US actor, Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to hate attack hoax charges
US actor, Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to hate attack hoax charges
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US television actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he lied to police about being the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime.
The 36-year-old actor was charged with 16 felony counts last week for allegedly masterminding a false attack to gain publicity and win a bigger paycheck.
He is accused of sending himself a threatening letter and hiring two acquaintances to stage a street attack in downtown Chicago, complete with homophobic and racial slurs, while invoking Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
News of the attack in January attracted widespread shock and support for the actor, who is gay and black.
Smollett has maintained his innocence and his attorney Tina Glandian earlier this week said the case against him is mired in "misinformation."
"There has been a lot of misinformation in this case that has been presented as fact and evidence against Mr Smollett, which is demonstrably false," Glandian said Tuesday.
Smollett found fame on Fox musical drama "Empire," but was removed from the last two episodes of the show's latest season amid the controversy.
The next court hearing was set for April 17.


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The First-ever Afghan ultramarathon team
[February 2015, Hong Kong] First-ever Afghan ultramarathon team to take part in the Gobi March (China) 2015
In a country where women risk their safety simply walking alone, two women are training for a self-supported, seven-day race across the Chinese desert.
Two Afghan women, along with Free to Run founder Stephanie Case, comprise the first-ever Afghan ultramarathon team. Their first appearance will be at the Gobi March 2015, a 250 kilometer, 7-day self-supported foot race which is part of the 4 Deserts Race Series.
Free to Run is a charity that empowers women through physical fitness. The founder of the charity, Stephanie Case, had the inspiration for the idea. Stephanie is herself a seasoned ultramarathon runner and 4 Deserts Race Series veteran - she says "forming a team of Afghan women to run had always been a dream". I told myself it was too early, too controversial, too impossible, too much of everything to even try to attempt," she says. That changed when Case made a trip to Afghanistan last fall to launch Free to Run's projects.The women she met, particularly Nelofar and Zainab, stood out for their strength and determination.
She has led a selection process with Afghan partner Skateistan to identify the team members. A large number of applications were received and two young women, Nelofar and Zainab were selected. The primary reason for their selection was their wish to inspire other women in Afghanistan and raise awareness about women's rights around the world. RacingThePlanet is sponsoring the team's training, equipment and journey to the Gobi March 2015.
Zainab is 25 years old and lives with her mother and sister. "When I received the acceptance email for this race I cried and I couldn't stop shaking. It is the first time in my life that I have an opportunity like this". She continues "when my mother was a child, she used to run in the Lahore desert of Pakistan she would reward herself with chocolate. My reward is being a messenger of Afghan women."
For most 4 Deserts competitors, getting through a 30-, 50- or 60-kilometer training run takes a great deal of effort. For Zainab and Nelofar, simply finding a place to run and getting there safely is a logistical Everest.
"It is unsafe for them to run outside and they don't yet have access to a treadmill, so they are stuck with running inside," says Case who eventually found an amusement park so the women could run outside, but the journey there is so unsafe that they can't go regularly. Additionally, the facility doesn't have any hills for the women to run.
Getting proper gear poses another challenge involving shipping items into Germany for a hand-over to a courier, who brings them into Kabul, and a bus to the village where the women train, about 400 kilometres from the city.
Neither Nelofar nor Zainab have ever travelled out of the country, so they will have to fly to Kabul to apply for passports and visas in person. Both will have overcome enormous odds by the time they arrive for the physical challenge that is the Gobi March, a seven-day, 250-kilometre race carrying approximately nine-kilogram backpacks through harsh weather conditions in the Gobi Desert.
The women don't doubt they'll cross the finish line, and Case doesn't, either. Nineteen-year-old Nelofar told Case she's strong and "100 percent sure she could simply decide to deal with the challenges."
"Neither of them are runners," says Case. "This is an incredible challenge they are taking on. We chose them because of their mental strength, positive energy, and their desire to act as role models for other Afghan women."
"I want to say thank you to everybody who is here to support us," says Zainab. "I hope one day all Afghan women will be able to show to the world that we don't want war".
Zainab's final words are "let's bring peace, we can do it!"
← Introducing Nelofar and Zainab


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Elena Cecchini 11th in Beccles
In wet conditions, the opening stage of the OVO Energy Women's Tour was won in a bunch sprint by Jolien D'hoore (DLT) ahead of teammate Amy Pieters. Elena Cecchini was CANYON//SRAM Racing's best placed rider in eleventh position.
Despite some teams keen to try for a breakaway, the peloton rolled through the 157km stage from Beccles to Stowmarket largely together. Only in the final 25km, a solo move from Abby-Mae Parkinson (DRP), was able to gain a decent advantage on the peloton. The British rider was reeled in with 3km remaining in the stage, and the Belgian sprinter, D'hoore, was delivered to the front with 150m to go, where she sprinted to a clear victory.
"We saw today that positioning in this tour is going to be key," said Cecchini after the race.
"With these types of roads, being well-positioned can really help you save a lot of energy during the race, but is the difference also in a sprint finish."
"There are only a few teams that don't have a sprinter here, and they were trying to create something at various points today. In those moments, when the peloton is stretched out and it's left, right, up, down, windy and wet, then you need to pay attention because it can always be a little bit of a dangerous situation if you're not positioned well," explained Cecchini.
"After four hours in the rain, the legs were hurting for everyone, even if the stage wasn't raced that hard today."
"I had Alice (Barnes) and Lisa (Klein) help me until around 1.5km to go. In the final corner, with 750m to go, I was too far back and when we came out of it, there was already a gap to the Boels train. I decided I had nothing to lose and started my sprint already then. That meant I spent most of my matches in the hardest part of the little rise at the finish and I had nothing left in the final 150m," said Cecchini who crossed the line in eleventh.
"We messed it up a little bit in the end today, but the positive thing is that we're all feeling really good and this means we can look forward to the next days," added Cecchini.
Throughout the OVO Energy Women's Tour, CANYON//SRAM Racing is using a special edition design across its clothing and equipment. The design is based on the Rapha Women's 100, an annual event to inspire women all across the globe to ride 100km together on the same day, this year set for 14 September.


President Barack Obama speaks during a fundraiser at the film studio of actor Tyler Perry in March. Activists have sued the president for signing a military authorization bill which they claim threatens civil liberties.
Environmentalists have also registered their opposition. In light of many prosecutions of U.S. environmental activists under ramped-up terror laws in the past six years, many fear the new law will be used against them.
Plaintiffs include Hedges, Bolen, scholar Noam Chomsky, Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir and Kai Wargalla, both of Revolution Truth, Alexa O'Brien of U.S. Day of Rage, and "Pentagon Papers" activist Daniel Ellsberg.
The suit demands cutting or reforming a new section in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Subsection 1021 (b)(2) allows the U.S. military to detain anyone who may have "substantially supported" terrorists or their "associated forces," without defining what those terms mean, and to detain those individuals indefinitely, without charge, including U.S. citizens. President Obama signed the bill on the last day of the year, Dec 31, 2011, with a signing statement saying the new powers would not be used against U.S. citizens.
Activists, however, say they are not buying it. Not only is "substantial support" not defined in the language of the act, but activists indicate that the meaning of "terrorism" itself has been stretched. Since9/11, the Dept. of Justice has focused intense scrutiny on Islamic humitarian aid groups, and environmentalists have been subject to terror prosecutions for such acts as arson, posting information on a website and writing chalk slogans on sidewalks. For that reason, Andy Stepanian, an animal rights activist sentenced to three years in federal prison as a terrorist in 2009 in the first use of the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act, is contemplating joining the suit.
"The language just says 'terrorist,' and fails to list specifically who the terrorists are, I mean, obviously they state the obvious: Al Qaeda. But then they go to list all these other terror groups. That will become a problem at some point," says Stepanian.
Stepanian was a part of a group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or SHAC, which sought to shut down the company Huntingdon Life Sciences, which conducts product testing on animals. He and six others were convicted on a terror charge for putting information on a website. That information may have later been used by unknown persons to vandalize the homes of executives whose work was deemed to support Huntingdon Life Sciences. The seven defendants were also collectively fined $1,000,001.
Bolen, too, sees her action as proactive.


The Annual General Meeting on the 10 May went very well. We didn't have a huge attendance, but those who were there made some great contributions.
Patrick Haston presented the chair's report: Annual General Meeting 2017 – Chair's Report.
We were joined by Peter Christie from the Strathnairn Community Woodlands and he gave us some useful advice.
Jeanette Taylor has stepped down from the role of Secretary: she has done a brilliant job over the last year. Her organisational skills and work ethic are very impressive.
We elected two new committee members: Alex Sutherland and David Smith.
We will post reports of our investigations on the website and our Facebook page, where you are welcome to join the ongoing discussion.
The agenda for our AGM on 12 May is now available. As well as the normal things you would expect to see at and annual general meeting, we have allocated quite a bit of time to presenting our vision of the opportunities that a community land purchase provides. But more importantly, we need you to tell us what you think we should be doing.
We look forward to seeing you at Gorthleck village hall at 7:30 pm on Friday 12 May. Tea and coffee will be available.
Earlier this year we found out that our bid to the Scottish Land Fund for help had been unsuccessful. We were asking for funding for a consultation to establish the wishes of the community of South Loch Ness for a possible purchase of land from the National Forest Estate. In their feedback, the Scottish Land Fund said that they would like to see a more fully developed proposal.
We met earlier this week to consider our options. We had the help of Duncan Bryden to facilitate or referree our discussion, and it proved to be a hugely productive evening.
He challenged us to think about what we were trying to achieve, and surprisingly we found a great deal of agreement Neil Sutherland is going to write up or new vision statement, but it revolves around our desire to use this opportunity to help create a sustainable community in South Loch Ness.
A ramble for all abilities to raise awareness of the Farigaig centre and explore the local environment, in view of the potential community land purchase of some of the area.
All you need is a comfortable pair of walking shoes and a waterproof jacket – it may be wet underfoot in places!
Either meet us at the centre at 1.00 pm or the bus stop outside the Dores Inn to lift share at 12.30.
Refreshments at the forestry building after the walk.
The main asset being offered by the Forestry Commission for transfer to the community is the building housing the public toilets and the Forest Classroom. Beside the building is an area with seating and some wooden sculptures. Across the road is a small field that could be included, and on the other side of the house (currently used for holiday rental) is the paddock, a steeply sloping field.
Welcome to the website of the Farigaig Community Steering Group. This group has been set up to explore the offer made by the Forest Commission for Scotland to transfer the facilities at Farigaig Forest to the local community. We plan to carry out a feasibility study to determine the options available, to present these to the local community and then to take forward the preferred option.
This website will provide links to the key documents during this process.


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Millennium Prize to Perelman
Posted on March 18, 2010 by woit
The Clay Mathematics Institute announced today the award of the Millennium Prize to Perelman for the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. The award was made based on the rules set up when the prize was created: a Special Advisory Board (Donaldson, Gabai, Gromov, Tao and Wiles) made a recommendation to the CMI Scientific Advisory Board (Carlson, Donaldson, Margulis, Melrose, Siu and Wiles) that was accepted.
On June 8 and 9 Clay will host a conference to celebrate at the Institut Henri Poincare.
The initial press release says nothing about the question many have been wondering about for years: who will get the million dollars? Does all of it go to Perelman? Did he accept it?
Update: According to alexbellos on Twitter, Carlson says that Perelman has been informed of the award of the prize, but there has been no response yet from him about whether he will accept it.
38 Responses to Millennium Prize to Perelman
Since he declined the Fields Medal in 2006 despite two days of fruitless attempts to make him accept, maybe they'll take the easy option and mail him the check for the Millennium Prize?
David Rysdam says:
Why have many been wondering about the million dollars? Are the rules unclear or something?
Dr.Kathrine Martinez-Martignoni says:
I am really very happy for him.
Will be Prof. LOUIS DE BRANGES the next one to receive this "premium" for his demonstration of the Riemann hypothesis?
dr. kathrine (Switzerland).
literalman says:
There's a question about the $1,000,000 because Perelman refused the Fields previously — see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman#The_Fields_Medal_and_Millennium_Prize
Kathrine,
There are very specific rules governing the Millennium prize, including a process that begins when a complete proof has been written down and refereed according to the standards of major journal or its equivalent. In this case, Clay helped fund the book written by Morgan-Tian to make sure that this was done. In the de Branges there is no such refereed paper.
Roger Schlafly says:
What took them so long? Perelman posted his proof 7 years ago, and it was published in a peer-reviewed journal 4 years ago. The Clay rules say only to wait 2 years.
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John Baez says:
Yay! That's great news! He deserves it. Whether he wants to take the money or not, that's up to him…
neo says:
Recognition of his great accomplishment is all that matters. Whether or not he wants to accept it is up to him.
Chris Oakley says:
It could be that the Clay Mathematics Institute, under pressure to cut costs, is now only allowed to award prizes to those who are not likely to accept them.
Sakura-chan says:
Hamilton should get some of that too.
Ricci's Pieces says:
Just leave him alone. Why can't people understand, he feels like accepting these prizes are beneath him. It's almost sad at this point. Everyone knows he completed Hamilton's Ricci Flow program. I'm even more stunned that Gromov was on that committee; the one person I thought understood Perelman.
Ricci's Pieces,
The task of the committee Gromov was on was mainly to get experts to go through the proof and make sure that it is a valid proof of the claimed theorem. Checking the proof is important and requires experts like Gromov. I see no rational reason Perelman should object to this activity, quite the opposite. He should be pleased that other mathematicians are working hard to understand his ideas and their implications.
As for the decision to award him a $1 million prize, the thing may be beneath him or not, but once the prizes associated with problems were set up, when one of the problems is solved, that must be acknowledged. That's what Clay has now done. If Perelman wants to either ignore them or reject the award, he's free to do so.
I'm struck actually by how low-key this announcement was. There appears to have been no effort to get this wide distribution in the media, and the $1 million is not mentioned at all in the press release.
Simplicio says:
@Ricci's: I don't see how they can not at least try and award him the prize. It was set up to go to whomever proved Poincare's conjecture, and that was Perelman. Its not like the Field's medal where its more of a judgement call.
Will be interesting to see if he takes the money though. A million bucks is a lot to turn down, especially since he's now reportedly unemployed.
capitalistimperialistpig says:
Einstein once described Dirac as living on the knife edge between genius and insanity. Guys like Perelman and Groethendieck seem a bit over that edge. I don't think that their motivations can be interpreted in conventional terms. It would seem sad, at least to me, if Perelman, like Groethendieck, has lost interest in mathematics
When I mentioned Gromov, I meant much more in the sense of politically and not mathematically. I know a lot of Gromov's work was used in Perelman's work and naturally you would ask someone like Gromov to check the work or parts of the work. However, in Gessen's recent book on Perelman, it was very apparent that Gromov supported Perelman's stance on the Fields Medal situation. On the other hand, I guess Clay has their hands tied; they have no choice but to award it to Perelman.
amateur says:
I think there is a difference between recognition and fame. If Perelman has stated he wanted recognition, I think that is a very different thing than being famous.
I would argue that Perelman's refusal to accept the Fields medal and apparent refusal to accept the Clay prize has nothing to do with those things being "beneath him". I think he his trying to make a statement about purity of math, and any exchange of money effectively cheapens math and makes a mathematician look like a prostitute. Although that might not be the precise way to phrase it, I can see it as a principled position and I suspect it is one that is closely aligned to Perelman's.
professional says:
and any exchange of money effectively cheapens math and makes a mathematician look like a prostitute.
More than a principled position it seems to me juvenile, if not downright childish. Nobody thinks of Euler as a prostitute, even though he worked for Catherine the Great, and the Clay institute is certainly not a brothel.
I very much doubt you're accurately representing Perelman's ideas.
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Perhaps your right, I humbly submit my apology if I caused offense.
Soarer says:
Uncertain of its validity, yet some russian media's indicating that perelman has declined the award.
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/19-03-2010/112643-perelman-0
Come on amateur, we're just discussing ideas, no need to apologize. Prof. Perelman certainly has a very uncommon, and maybe extreme, view of the mathematical community which probably very few people, aside from him, fully understands. I just don't think your rather simple interpretation of his behavior could possibly reflect his way of thinking.
martibal says:
I guess there is not so much money in Russia for science right now. Would it be so "impure" to take the money to help other young (or less young) mathematician in his country ?
I have read several articles and a few books, and they all seem to say basically the same thing. He really just wanted his work checked, he was upset that some competing mathematicians tried to claim his work as their own, and he feels isolated from the broader mathematical community. I think if my suggestion that accepting money might make him feel like a prostitute is childish, it would seem to fall in line with some of his behavior already. However, just because one might perceive such behavior as childish, I would argue that because of his apparent situation of being exceptional at math, he probably has never fully developed strong personal skills, simply because there are probably fewer than 10 people in the world he can have discussions with about the type of math he's interested in (probably less if you consider the language barrier). I think under those situations, a person would behave very childishly, particularly when you consider that a few of the people he can converse with behaved equally childishly and tried to take claim for his work.
From what I've read, I think one of the things Perelman is reacting to is his perception that sometimes positions, prices, and credit are given for political reasons, whereas often talented and deserving people don't get the credit (and money…) they deserve because they are not well connected politically.
If so, his attitude of withdrawing from mathematics could not be more wrong. He's just leaving a vacuum that will be filled by others, perhaps less deserving.
I fully agree with you that he should have accepted the price and use the money to help young people who lack support to develop their careers as mathematicians. Even more, if he had accepted the Fields medal he could have used the prestige and political influence that comes with it to try and change some of the things he thinks are wrong with the community.
andreask says:
..as far as I understood it should be well-known that Perelman was far from being that stereotyped lack-of-personal-skills-mathematician, it seems quite clear he never visited any new-age-manager-seminars on 'development' of 'personal skills and potential', but his love for literature, including Dostojewskij and Tolstoj is one of his few personal convictions that made it through the media and seem to have been, in fact, directly initiated by Perelman himself. Possibly those are some of the few hints Perelman gave to mathematical community, knowing that the ones that he aimed at would understand and the ones he did not aim at, would refuse to understand. One could call this childish, but in Dostojewskij's perception of reality (compare 'Notes from the underground', 'The Idiot' etc.) characters similar to that one being 'performed' by Perelman were the great and unrecognized heroes of the Russian society during the 19th century.
Common Sense says:
One could call this childish, but in Dostojewskij's perception of reality (compare 'Notes from the underground', 'The Idiot' etc.) characters similar to that one being
I would like to suggest to Prof. Perelman a much more effective course of action, though definitely less literary.
Accept the prize, and donate the money to the children of Haiti, or whatever needy place you like. There's no lack of starving children in the world that could use a million dollars worth of food.
Then, with a few thousands of dollars of the prize money, publish and ad in a large newspaper saying: "Dr. so-and-so, president of whatever mathematical institution, is a corrupt asshole".
Mind you, that message would reach very far and would be heard loud and clear by millions. After that, he can go back to his favorite cave with the pleasing satisfaction of a job well done.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who actually knows something about Perelman and his thinking on the prize issue. But most of the comments here seem to be pure speculation, informative perhaps about the commenter, but not about Perelman. Enough.
jester says:
here is the link. it seems he refused the money (or prize).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259863/Worlds-cleverest-man-turns-1million-prize-solving-mathematics-greatest-puzzles.html
Being a mathematician myself, I doubt in his situatin I would have refused the prize, acting on moral high ground, as Common Sense suggests, or otherwise – but he gets all my respect for mocking the lusts of this world.
Eugene Stefanovich says:
Take a look at two video clips on http://www.lifenews.ru/news/18018
In the first one a reporter talks with Perelman on the phone and asks if he decided to take the Clay prize. Perelman's response is that he has not decided yet. If he is going to accept the prize the Clay Institute will be the first to know. The clip is dated March 23, 2010.
The second clip shows Perelman walking to a neighborhood grocery store. A (different) reporter is stalking him trying to ask questions. And Perelman is doing his best to avoid the annoying encounter.
Good grief, that obnoxious "news crew" behaving more like paparazzi probably does nothing but drive him further underground. He should have wasted some of the food he bought on the camera's lens.
D. says:
The site linked directly above is a fascinating microcosm of another culture. Fully half the women commenting are proposing to bear his children. I am fairly certain that recent US Fields medalists did not inspire this response in the general public.
"Even more, if he had accepted the Fields medal he could have used the prestige and political influence that comes with it to try and change some of the things he thinks are wrong with the community."
I don't think you could be more wrong about this. Perelman gets little if any prestige or political influence from the Fields medal, especially in the mathematical community, unless it's the kind of influence that he doesn't want in the first place. On the contrary, it's he who would give prestige to the medal.
I think the media should just leave him alone.
student1729 says:
If Diogenes was around today walking with his lamp in Saint Petersburg looking for an authentic, honest human being he would actually find one.
Come on, what's a million dollars these days? Peanuts. It wouldn't buy you an apartment in London (or just a tiny apartment, perhaps). And I hear that Moscow is the most expensive city in the world, which is probably where Grigori Perelman would like to buy an apartment. Big deal. They should increase the prize to a 100 million USD.


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Most teams fudge the fifth starter from year to year, hoping that that a young prospect or retread veteran takes the reins and provides the team for just enough for the team to win games at a decent clip. The Yankees are no different in this regard – and yet they've had some decent fifth starters over the years. Some even rose to fantasy relevance.
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Could Ivan Nova or a young man behind him step to the fore? The problem with Nova is that he's never shown the upside to approach the league average in either K/9 or BB/9, even in the minor leagues. If his control was better, he might be able to take advantage of an okay ground-ball rate, but he hasn't shown strong control.
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