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The Official Entry period is now closed and the masterlist on page 1 is the definitive article. Late entries are permitted but no duplicate picks are allowed. You may be better off waiting for Round IV. With a much higher number of players it is possible this will be a shorter game Leslie Phillips is picked by 4 teams and there are a number of picks who are on two teams but it is a wide field and some interesting choices Thank you all for playing

Con Sullivan dead:

Sonny Caldinez has sssssadly passssssed away

Letizia Battaglia, photographer who captured 20th century Sicily and - most importantly - the impact the Mafia had on it, dead at 87. Was still exhibiting last month so it must have been something pretty sudden. The documentary about her, Shooting the Mafia, is a good watch if you have a few hours:

And there is a catch in his argument. Nobody would dispute that natural immunity is better than vaccine-induced immunity, but you have to survive the disease in order to benefit from it.

Why do you persist with this? You haven't persuaded a single person to your point of view and are still the only one here who gives any of this any credence whatsoever (if there are others they are remaining steadfastly silent on the issue), so what exactly is the aim of repeatedly posting variations on this theme beyond ratcheting up a record number of facepalm emotes?

Dianne Feinstein's colleagues now all regard her as "mentally unfit to serve": https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php Could be expected, I guess, that it's quickly downhill after her husband's death.

American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement Rachel Carson died on this day 58 years ago, aged 56. American fraudster and financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion Bernie Madoff died on this day a year ago, aged 82.

American singer-songwriter who was listed in deathlist Loretta Lynn is 90 today

And? She was more than an appendage to Henry Cecil, as Time explained.

Ah, the one he dumped for a bit of skirt half his age, who then fucked Kieran Fallon in the shower, which made Henry sad and mad, before he got cancer and kicked the bucket. All very Jilly Cooper.

I read the book this is based on. I didn't think it was very good. There wasn't a proper ending so you haven't missed much.

Phil Katz, co-creator of the Zip file format died on this day in 2000, 22 years ago aged 37 from acute pancreatic bleeding.

In other news: Russian oligarch in exile Nevzlin claims Shoigu is either disabled or a dead man walking after a major heart attack that has left him hooked up to a million machines. To no one's surprise, the heart attack was reportedly not a natural occurrence

Is Freddy Rincon (and Bodo Ilgner) the only footballer ever immortalised in a Disney movie? (Encanto)

you are correct at 2281 will ammend the error

Michel Bouquet who passed away yesterday is sadly a hit for me https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97y9d44wn7o

Oon Chiew Seng (Wiki), a Singaporean physician known for being one of the country's first gynecologist and obstetricians dead at 106

Station Eleven - Post apocalyptic tale of thesps touring in some sort of caravan that somehow is more important to them than eating. It jumps about all over the place with the timeline which is a device I'm not fond of at the best of times unless it's completely unavoidable - and here it is not - this series is just taking liberties with it for style points or something which simply serves to piss me off even more than I already was by the lame generic storyline. Never really got the point and bailed on 7 of 10 which shows more stamina than I thought I had or a misguided and pig-headed belief that something will improve when I know deep in my soul that it won't. It was lauded by some writer in the Grauniad whilst being simultaneously poised to be demoted to second place on their list for the year so far by :- Severance - Only 3 episodes into this but already it's more interesting than the above, not least because the premise is at least a new twist if not a completely new idea rather than yet another "after the apocalypse" story that is going to have to be quite something to stand out from the thousands of times it's been done before (the above emphatically does not). Based on the premise that in a near future or parallel present your brain can be divided into working life and home life with a divider that cannot be crossed, so the one knows nothing about the other. Of course this plays with notions of self and also the lengths corporations go to to control your every waking/working thought which has been done before, but at least this is a different twist and thus far has not irked me for wasting my time in the way the preceding has. Original review by a member of that band mumford and sons or somebody is here.

"a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis" do you work for deadline or something?

and Jason Isaacs

Tweet reporting the death of American historian Charles P. Roland (wiki), at the age of 104.

Independence City Councilwoman Karen DeLuccie, who just last week was elected to another term, died on Tuesday. DeLuccie, 64, had been undergoing cancer treatment. SC

He has just Been found guilty. Nit sure when sentencing is or if he will resign before then.