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Listened to a 30 min interview with Elizabeth Bellak this morning about the publication of her sister Renia Spiegels diaries, pretty much the Polish Anne Frank. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/watch-livestream-renia-spiegel-diary-event-180970654/ Interestingly Elizabeth was known as the Polish Shirley Temple and mentioned she had been in a film she had no memory of, Gehenna, that she only found out about recently and is the last survivor. At the time Elizabeth was Ariana Spiegel. https://uncoveringjewishheritage.com/2016/05/25/the-polish-shirley-temple-and-her-sister-the-poet/ Haven't had the time to look bar finding links and thought I'd batter this down for posterity. Interview worth a listen, r5 at 2.00-2.30 am.

While I understand that safety has improved and racing drivers and spectators are safer than they have ever been, it has to be said, Formula One is as boring as fuck.

For a show jumper to say " It’s important to focus on getting over this obstacle before we make plans for the future ." Is funny 4 faults right there Tim.

A few names that have never been mentioned on this forum before. Legendary Irish entertainer Richie Kavanagh (b. 1949) was diagnosed with Parkinson's back in 2011, but probably had it since around 2006. He will turn 70 next year. American politican Ted Poe (b. 1948) got leukemia last year and, while said he was healthy as of Nov 2017, will retire soon so maybe he is still in poor health after all? Raimonds Vejonis (b. 1966) is the current Latvian president. He was battling a specific health issue in 2016. Might return again in the future, who knows? Canadian Olympic figure skater silver medalist Karen Magnussen's (b. 1952) health deteriorated after an ammonia leak in 2011. Dutch football coach Huub Stevens (b. 1953) quit Hoffenheim in 2016 due to being diagnosed with heart arrhythmia. Irish bishop William Lee (b. 1941) stepped down from his job as a child abuse enabler bishop in 2013 cuz of poor health since 2011. Well, he is still alive 5 years later, but he might be on his last breath by now. British illustrator Clifford Harper (b. 1949) has throughout his life had tuberculosis, heart attacks, diabetes & most recently cancer. Scotish lead singer for the hard rock band Nazareth Dan McCafferty (b. 1946) has strangely never been brought up here despite having COPD. Had to retire in 2013. Karen Lewis (b. 1953) is a Chicago teacher & labour leader who has brain cancer since around 2014. Here is a recent article. Maybe the man formerly known as Rad Guy could tell us just how notable she really is for any type of deathpool... Brazilian football coach Muricy Ramalho (b. 1955) suffers from diverticulitis since at least 2015, and had to leave Sao Paulo. More recently, he fell ill during the World Cup in Russia during a TV studio job. Taiwanese buddhist Hsing Yun (b. 1927) has had a few health issues in the past. Just two years ago, he had a stroke. Steve Lieberman (b. 1958) is an American punk musician who is also known as "The Gangsta Rabbi". Has had cancer for I don't know how many years now, and even released an album in 2014 titled Cancer Ward. Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-Bian (b. 1950) got his medical parole extended in May 2018. He and his wife were imprisoned back in 2009 for 19 years due to bribery charges. The "Health" section in his Wikipedia page reveals a few of the issues he's had in the past 9 years or so.

Can't keep their Brexit Secretaries. Esther McVey gone. Which is good on many levels.

Thank you! Hopefully now I can make good on my pledge and stay off the bottom of the pool until it ends thus progressing on last year's last place finish!

I’d argue putting Bush 43 ahead of Trump. He had that heart surgery a few years ago.

Completed my first major shortlist cuts this afternoon, 124 names long turned into just 88. Mostly people who were too old, had no obits chances, or too tasteless to pick. Just like on my current DDP team, I think I'll manage again without any FFBI picks. Glad to see so many other deadpoolers moving away from them.

QO from the Daily Mail.

I was gonna say, if I ended up in the lead due to that, I’d be amazed since I made my team by randomness tbh...

They are two different MPs. Kate Osamor (Edmonton) has the drug-dealing son. Fiona Onasanya (Peterborough) is currently on trial for claiming someone else was driving when caught speeding.

Highland league cup first round tie Fort William FC v Wick Academy FC 17th November 2018, Claggan park, 3pm kick off. Match day sponsors: BSW TIMBER Adult Entry: £7.00 Concessions: £3.50 Children accompanied by adults go free Promises to be another big attendance with some past legends also making an appearance in the club house. Let’s hope the ultras can make it again too .

You don't give a fuck anyway. You have an axe and a map. You will commence chopping Scotland away from England as soon as.....

I wonder what were actually scored on if life is some sort of simulation game. I'd imagine some sort of advanced technological race would be behind this so maybe we as a person would be a fusion of the person who is playing our character and then "us" as the character. The photo-realistic world around us would be the bounds of the world. You'd imagine it would be a sandbox style world rather than an open world game and there'd be a few hard-coded limitations (you can't grab a gun and shoot everybody on the planet unless the game has reached a post-apocalyptic stage), but you can work scientifically towards that goal and create a nuclear weapon capable of destroying a few countries). Maybe you'd be scored on your progression as an individual throughout the lifespan of the game - if you'd player spawned as an orphan in the middle of the DR Congo and managed to get to be a US billionaire tech business man that could be worth 5bn points - whereas being born to do lawyers in London and becoming a homeless ex-con burglar in Glasgow would be worth nothing. Or maybe you're given a specific mission, but the character can't know what your mission is; and you have to conceal it from them and make them view it as there own decision or they won't pursue it. Or maybe your scored on how well you live your life according to the values of the society, maybe in the opinion of the game-creator the entire Earth is some kind of hell and you're just being thrown into it to see how long you can survive. What prize could you win for "winning" the game? Whatever that is (maybe living to 100 or managing a exceptional level of success), maybe the society has immortality rings they give out to high achievers in the game, or enough money to set up five or six generations of the player's family?

Oh, the double slit experiment... if only I had a penny... I'll try to explain it simply. We have a double slit where the distance between the single slits is very short. We send to the slit electrons, one by one. We put a screen behind the slit and when an electron hits the screen it leaves a sign. If we send only one electron it seems to behave like a bullet and hits the screen in a random point. We send an infinite number of electrons. Surprisingly we will find on the screen behind a whole interference figure typical of waves and not of particles. Bullets would distribute on the screen with a simple (double) Gaussian probability. So electrons are waves, we think. Now we want to know which of the two slits was crossed by the electron. We put a simple measurement system, a lamp that lights the electron (physically it sends a photon to the electron) whenever it passes through a slit. Well we use the goddamn lamp and obtain a Gaussian curve, exactly as if electrons were bullets! So we think it's the energy of light that changes the system. We use a low intensity lamp. If we do that we obtain the interference pattern but can t say where electrons passed because there are not enough photons. So we try to keep intensity constant and use a large wavelenght (red for example) for the lamp. We do obtain the pattern but now d<<wavelenght with d distance between slits so we can't distinguish slits anymore as the detector sees them as an only slit. Conclusion: we can see only the pattern (wave aspect) or from which slit they passed (corpuscolary) but never both together. This is because the measurement system changes the system! You may know measurable properties of a quantic system are associated to Hermitian operators known as Observables. The eigenvalues of this observables are the possible result of a measurement. The system is not usually prepared in an eigenstate but in a linear combination of the eigenstates as they are a complete (and orthonormal) base. Every eigenstate will have a coefficient Ci that expresses its contribute to the complexive state. Ci^2 is the probability to obtain the eigenvalue related to that eigenstate |i> of the observable. Sum of Ci^2=1 if the state is normalyzed. Now we can imagine electrons are the combination of two states |wave> and |particle > with ci= √2/2 obviously for both. Measurement will NEVER restitute the complexive state but only one of the two states (in form of the eigenvalue). That' s the exact point. Measurement makes the system collapse into a single eigenstate. And after the system collapses if you repeat measurement you only obtain that eigenvalue. I don't introduce the concept of expectation value but I hope you at least understood why the double slit experiment does not fucking mean things behave differently if you watch them.

No matter where in the world you are, over the next couple of nights the planet Mars can be seen as a bright reddish-brown starlike object in the vicinity of the moon. If you're in South America, you'll see a lunar occultation. (Details here.)

MPFC has read it, met many Aetherians and even spent a truly memorable afternoon on a Devon hillside chanting mantras with them as some more skilled initiates twisted, twirled went closer to free-style rapping and generally directed the prayer energy. Actually some of the most agreeable and approachable people you'll find anywhere in the UFO community though I struggle to recognise literal truth anywhere in their cosmology and for the sake of balance you might want to read Flying Saucery by David Clark and Andy Roberts which is a social history of the whole movement and discusses a purported event much earlier in King's life where in a state of some agitation and advanced refreshment he disrupted a meeting set up to investigate the flying saucer mystery (as it was then known). The implication of the social history is obvious - suggesting that King may have figured he could advance himself from taxi driving to something akin to a deity if he could come up with a load of impressive mumbo jumbo and keep a straight face. He crashed a meeting in London in the 50's and died in California in the 90's, just thought I'd mention that.

Is this the real life or is this just fantasy Can't in a landslide no escape from reality.

No.

With Babs Chinnery's death, @Gooseberry Crumble hauls himself off the bottom of the pack with a hit. 5 Additional Points also for hitting a Lemmy. Leaderboard updated. New one will be posted after the next hit.

Cool. What's the best way to go about it. Anyone interested send me a list of 50 ANZAC celebs in some kind of order and I'll combine them together, resend the prioritised list together and we can debate any required adjustments? Sound reasonable?

Excelsior! Numerous teams's Spidey-senses were not tingling for Stan Lee, meaning this result is not fantastic for them. Indeed, the scoreboard has been HULK SMASHED! machotrouts now Marvels at taking the podium. 1. machotrouts 17 2. Joey Russ 20 3. The Dead Cow 21 =4. Death Impends 23 =4. John Key 23 6. theoldlady 25 7. CastAway 30 =8. drol 31 =8. msc 31 10. Grim Up North 32 =11. deadsox 33 =11. gcreptile 33 =13. Toast 37 =13. Wormfarmer 37 15. Pedro67 38 16. Bibliogryphon 39 17. Torva Messor 40 18. YoungWillz 42 19. CaptainChorizo 44 =20. FixedBusiness 45 =20. paddyfool 45 22. Dr_T 48 =23. Garn2 49 =23. Sean 49 =25. Bentrovato 50 =25. CharonsCrew 50 27. Mercarte 51 28. Book 54 =29. Dead Wait 57 =29. Sir Creep 57 31. Spade_Cooley 62 32. time 68 33. Phantom of the Midway 69 34. GraveDanger 70 35. Deathray 76 36. The Unknown Man 84

As I've posted a few times, I DO make an attempt to adapt my spelling and etc to fit in. A few of the more amusing words/phrases I latch onto, mainly because they are a better way of saying whatever it is. 'Summat' a perfect example. Along those lines, I hope it's appreciated that us Yanks get beat up with spellcheck for every 'colour' or 'neighbour' or 'theatre' or 'centre' being typed. If you see a Yank posting proper know that they put some effort into it. I'll be happy to pass along 'cuntbiscuit' as much as possible. SC

This forum has def influenced my lingo as well. A frequent user of "bollocks" when frustrated, now!

With a unique pick dying in spite of high improbability, with a Darwin Award style death (bringing out a BB Gun against American cops?) too, and possibly the murder/suicide bonus...has @The Dead Cow picked up the biggest bonus in Hartlepool history for a single pick? That being Vanessa Marquez, ER actress. My hats off on an inspired pick if so. No sign of Hollywood squares, panto or Morris Dancing, but I await Ali noting how big that bonus was.