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A lot of the early entries are theme teams and the long-term-but-casual players. Don't really expect to see any patterns emerge in terms of most popular picks until my true love brings five gold rings.

Seems like a decent pick to me, but hardly a household name Basically the sort of person people will put on their own lists but the Committee won't

The marginal Tories don't matter, do they? VoNC needs simple majority? Labour/SNP/Lib Dems/Caroline Lucas/Plaid = 308. You just need 18 disgruntled ERGs* to decide that's the nuclear route to get rid of May (and most of those types are in the shires which are super-safe because they ain't voting Labour no matter what) and Bob's yer uncle. I don't think saving Anna Soubry or Amber Rudd's seats will be high on their list of priorities. But anyhow that'd be idiotic. *Yeah I know there's a bunch of Independents there too, 5 ex Lab, 1 ex Lib, and that 6 would "probably" vote with Labour which reduces further the number of turkeys needed.

The cunt.

October 1946 Hermann Goring Hans Frick Albert Jodl Wilhelm Keitel Joachim von Ribbentrop Julius Stretcher Alfred Rosenberg Joseph Stillwell

Looked very well at the Mary Poppins sequel premiere this week. Far better candidates for 2019. One to drop.

I want a place we can post information/data about diseases or medical conditions, their various treatments, and potential recoveries (%age) or life expectancies therefrom. You see something that says 20% of all patients undergoing a medical procedure recover fully, I (well we) need to know and act accordingly when putting together out DP lists. I am aware of and understand the competitive nature that brews in these parts--I mean I want to win a DP as much as anyone--but if we collectively can spot trends in medicine, seems a reasonable thing to share. It's not like we are sharing NAMES of people with said afflictions. For instance, my research shows a person undergoing the Whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer adds about 18 months to their lives. That's it. You see someone getting a Whipple procedure, pencil them in for your DPs 12-18 months down the road, depending on age I reckon. Isn't that something we all should know? Of course. Am I going to tell you who had a Whipple procedure done and when? Of course not. -------- Anyway, what instigated this was I needed a place to post about this new refractory large B-cell lymphoma gene therapy treatment called Yescarta. Yescarta, also referred to as a CAR-T therapy, works like this: T cells, or immune system cells, are filtered from a patient’s blood and reprogrammed to target and kill cancer cells. Returned to the patient, the revved-up cells can continue multiplying to fight the disease for months or even years. Initial trials were promising. "After a (median) 15.4 month follow-up, shows that more than half of patients [who responded] are still progression-free. Indeed, 42% of patients continue to respond to Yescarta, and 40% are disease-free. In this analysis, 12% of patients experienced grade 3 or higher cytokine release syndrome (CRS), and 31% experienced neurologic toxicities." Yescarta was only approved by the FDA in October 2017, and despite some early promoted as a breakthrough by maker Gilead Sciences, Inc., only 6 patients have actually gotten the costly therapy, while others linger on waiting lists [waiting lists for the $373,000 treatment have grown to at least 200 people, shrinking as patients die]. -------- And my Yescarta research was instigated by the death of Kristine McCulley (58). She died February 9, 2018 after a yearlong battle with lymphoma. She had been one of the first 6 people in the country to try Yescarta (allowed/perscribed only after chemotherapy and radiation have been unsuccessful). McCulley received her reprogrammed T cells just before Christmas 2017. So what have we? Unsure of what cancers the trial patients had, but a bit less than half taking the drug achieved some beneficial results, with some extraordinary results as well. However, when put into practice of our small sample size of 6, we already have 1 person (16%) who didn't last 50 days. Pretty safe to say the drug had zero or nearly so effect. Anyway, a drug to keep an eye on to see if the other 5 patients do well, or don't do well, so that if you read of someone taking Yescarta in the future you'll have some reasonable expectations as to what that means. SC

Nope. Don't take the clue literally.

Cardinal George Pell was unanimously convicted by an Australian jury on Tuesday of sexually abusing two choir boys while serving as Archbishop of Melbourne. Apparently the good people of Australia aren't allowed to know about it, the Daily Heil tells us. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6489637/Catholic-Churchs-senior-cleric-removed-Popes-inner-circle-sex-abuse-claims.html

Jesus Christ, I won’t even begin looking at this for a week yet lol you people are something else.

Correct well done toast.

I'm in! Three teams submitted! It's going to be a worrying 19 days....

Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy, What A Wonderful World in 2007?

This was left in the topic on my phone so I assumed I had not posted it. I am old enough to be confused by technology which some may consider enough to get you on a list however it will only help if Chemistry World or JSLTC were allowable obit sources* *Deathrace

Ah, he's kicked the Beckett!

So here's the veritable wall of text: DDP (1) 12 Lords A-Leaving, 8 Ladies Dying: 9 deaths so far however some very obvious tap-ins. Unlikely to hit anymore. Serious improvement on numbers and position, but now a few years in should still have had half my team go. B. (Last Year: A-). DDP (2) Comedy Cremations: Four hits so far. Again. Steady performance and still chuckling. Strong C. Edit: With June Whitfield's late death that's five hits now, so upgrading to a B- .(Last Year: Strong C). DDP (3) Hits of 36 Years Ago and Hits Today: For the third year in a row, one hit. However, there have been several fallers, some I couldn't have seen coming, but some I ruled out. Must be marked down severely, hoping my more detailed research pays off next year. E- (Last Year: B+) Hartlepool: Zero hits with one of my two subs falling only. Worst performance on a pool I've had little luck in. F+ (Last Year: Weak C.) Hare's Pool: I've simply been consistently awful at this, so used the strategy of having a theme team. Only two hits, but my highest score ever. And I now hold the "longest period without a hit" record. So it's better. D. (Last Year: F). Death By Numbers: Joker still hasn't died. Not picking him again. Strategy was to get a load of oldies dying and some ill folk. Hasn't worked but still a fair hit rate. And it's not about the winning, is it? B (Last Year B+). Inverse DP: I predicted a torrid year for deaths on this list and so it has come to pass. Half the number of hits than last year but still a hefty score. Tried to compensate by placing the picks I had elsewhere fairly high, so I win on other pools but not here. Still, I'm happy overall. B. (Last Year: B.) Scavenger Hunt: Well now. The previous Hunt which finished earlier this year just stalled, gaining no hits, so the grade for that remains F. On the current Hunt, I have 2 hits, but I've a feeling that's where it might end. Probably in 2020! Anyway improvement so it's a C so far. Generation Game: Steady progress again. Entered this pool under the original rule of BBC Obit requirements, so later entrants had/have an advantage when the obit requirements were relaxed. 6 hits in 2018 so slight improvement in the hit rate. B+ (Last Year: B). Windy City: 2017/18 as you know was brazen theft of names picked for the Hare's Pool. Turns out that even when I pluck names from the Forum, I can't even do that right! For 2018/19, I already have as many hits so far as I did for the whole of last year. So I'm expecting a fair result, but let's call it a team effort among us all! A- (Last Year: B+). ABC: 2017/18 got 6 right. Which meant I got 20 wrong! Nevertheless, finished about 4th as I recall so I'm upgrading last year's grade from a D to a C+. Struggling for the current year with only one dead so it's a provisional F. Grammys: Got three hits in quick succession and then...nothing! Is anyone but me bothering with this? Anyway, it's a rolling pool so upgrading from Unawarded to E-. Shadowlist: Poor show, fallen back in hit numbers, probably because I treated this as a repository for spare names I had kicking about. I'm hoping for better next year (aren't we all?). D. (Last Year: a fifth of an A). Midsummer: My pick lives to this day. Unawarded. (Last Year: B.) Advent Avalanche: My 2017 pick is alive. Early days on the current year as there's only been one death as far as I know. Unawarded- (Last Year: Unawarded). Poker: I've outperformed last year already, but not hopeful that the next few days will bring much else. D- (Last Year: E). Deathlist Cup: Well, rub me gently and make three wishes! Final eight by sheer force of luck. Wouldn't even have got by the first round except for the flip of a coin. Lucky lucky bastard. Still it's an upgrade for a specky nerd. B- (Last Year: F). DL Prediction: Additional telepathy lessons did not pay off and ended up fairly near if not bottom of the entries. However, I'm having the last laugh as it looks like my entry will outperform the Official Deathlist. So yah boo! He he. D (Last Year: C+). Silver Screen: Early days yet, but no hits, so it's an Unawarded.

Dilip Kumar is 96 today! Sorry, @drol, lol!

Please check your own list posted above for accuracy and let me know if it is incorrect. My list was previously PM'd to Quim since he was the first to get his list in for Dec. Madhatter and the Unknown Man were eliminated in Rd 2. Carryover (tiebreaker) points were earned by Joey Russ (7), Capn Chorizo (6) and Skinny K (1). These will only count against you if you ever end up in a tie for elimination at the end of a round. Some Rd 3 stats: Most picked: QE2 - 8 times, mugabe - 7 times, cardin/dole/nolan - 6 times there were 8 solo picks (meaning instant death if you picked them and they are the only death in Dec): barker, escheverria, frates, harper, lear, overton, reiner, stiles 13 names were unpicked for Dec!! Good luck all!

Archie Moore was counted out for the last time after this day 20 years ago, aged 84.

What am I doing with my life?

PETA are evil, and murder thousands of dogs and other animals every year. I wouldn't trust them if they told me I was Scottish...

Utter nonsense. I've never claimed to be a feminist, and I read this without guilt while I happened to be eating scrambled eggs. Eggs which come from free-range hens at a farm in the next village are delivered to my door every week. I have no plans to change this arrangement.

Made me smile

There's 5 names on there I was checking on in the past few days. And I thought they'd fly under the radar. Alas, looks like few or fewer uniques for me next year.

Worth keeping an eye on that miracle cure that Jimmy Carter had. Didn't someone who took it die recently? Also, an average for the Gordie Howe treatment will appear over time, too. In terms of pancreatic cancer, I note 8 people who got to announce "in remission" from it in my notes: - Ruth Ginsberg, Chris Rea, Wilko Johnson all still alive and at the "we are bloody lucky" end of the scale. - Vera Caslavska - 13 months from diagnosis, with surgery/remission in between - John Hurt - 19 months. - Jack Poole - 26 months - Brian Lenihan - 19 months (added at last minute here from vague memory) - Simon Hoggart - 44 months (though he kept his treatment very private so we don't have the full stats bar diagnosis and death)