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I met her on several occasions. A lovely lady, and a respectable artist in her own right so it upsets me that the media have to make the story of her death all about Boris. I have one of her paintings in my living room, she came over to hang it and we had tea and biscuits.

Ready for a new random list with some curse in it? Here are the Golden Wreath laureates at the Struga poetry evenings: 1966 Robert Rozhdestvensky (USSR, 1932 -1994) 1967 Bulat Okudzhava (USSR, 1924 - 1997) 1968 László Nagy (Hungary, 1925 - 1978) 1969 Mak Dizdar (Yugoslavia, 1917 - 1971) 1970 Miodrag Pavlović (Yugoslavia, 1928 - 2014) 1971 W. H. Auden (United States, 1907 - 1973) 1972 Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1904 - 1973) 1973 Eugenio Montale (Italy, 1896, 1981) 1974 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (Turkey, 1914 - 2008) 1975 Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal, 1906 - 2001) 1976 Eugène Guillevic (France, 1907 - 1997) 1977 Artur Lundkvist (Sweden, 1906 - 1991) 1978 Rafael Alberti (Spain, 1902 - 1999) 1979 Miroslav Krleža (Yugoslavia, 1893 - 1981) 1980 Hans Magnus Enzensberger (West Germany, 1929) 1981 Blaže Koneski (Yugoslavia, 1921 - 1993) 1982 Nichita Stănescu (Romania, 1933 - 1983) 1983 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey (India, 1911 - 1987) 1984 Andrey Voznesensky (USSR, 1933 - 2010) 1985 Yiannis Ritsos (Greece, 1909 - 1990) 1986 Allen Ginsberg (United States, 1926 - 1997) 1987 Tadeusz Różewicz (Poland, 1921 - 2014) 1988 Desanka Maksimović (Yugoslavia, 1898 - 1993) 1989 Thomas W. Shapcott (Australia, 1935) 1990 Justo Jorge Padrón (Spain, 1943 - 2021) 1991 Joseph Brodsky (United States, 1940 - 1996) 1992 Ferenc Juhász (Hungary, 1928 - 2015) 1993 Gennadiy Aygi (Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation, 1934 - 2006) 1994 Ted Hughes (United Kingdom, 1930 - 1998) 1995 Yehuda Amichai (Israel, 1924 - 2000) 1996 Makoto Ooka (Japan, 1931 - 2007) 1997 Adunis (Syria, 1930) 1998 Liu Banjiu (China, 1922 - 2009) 1999 Yves Bonnefoy (France, 1923 - 2016) 2000 Edoardo Sanguineti (Italy, 1930 - 2010) 2001 Seamus Heaney (Ireland, 1939 - 2013) 2002 Slavko Mihalić (Croatia, 1928 - 2007) 2003 Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden, 1931 - 2015) 2004 Vasco Graça Moura (Portugal, 1942 - 2014) 2005 William S. Merwin (United States, 1927 - 2019) 2006 Nancy Morejón (Cuba, 1944) 2007 Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine, 1941 - 2008) 2008 Fatos Arapi (Albania, 1930 - 2018) 2009 Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia, 1941 - 2014) 2010 Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria, 1935 - 2019) 2011 Mateja Matevski (Macedonia, 1929 - 2018) 2012 Mongane Wally Serote (South Africa, 1944) 2013 José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico, 1939 - 2014) 2014 Ko Un (South Korea, 1933) 2015 Bei Dao (China, 1949) 2016 Margaret Atwood (Canada, 1939) 2017 Charles Simic (United States, 1938) 2018 Adam Zagajewski (Poland, 1945 - 2021) 2019 Ana Blandiana (Romania, 1942) 2020 Amir Or (Israel, 1956) 2021 Carol Ann Duffy (United Kingdom, 1955) Ok, the mean age of the winners is high, but category's life expectancy is usually higher. Between those born in 1940s only 4 out of 10 are still alive and only 5 out of the 17 born in 1930s. I can't find particular news on the health of the survivors but at least Enzensberger and Adunis are good candidates due to advanced age.

Sad but true. I lived in the US for many years. Many USans have binary belief systems: their political party can do no wrong, the other party can do no right. Either someone is Christian or someone is going to hell. Either someone is a person of colour or someone is a racist. Either someone watches FOX News or CNN or MSNBC. Nobody could possibly be still reading newspapers and current affairs, either print or online. Nobody could possibly not own a television set. Either someone is a Mac user or a Windows user. Linux users aren't numerous enough to be catered to. Every data collection, every point of surveillance, every humiliation is "for your protection." Either you are on a commoditized, commercialized social media platform where your data is harvested for marketing purposes and your images subjected to shoddy AI algorithms in pass/fail content moderation, or you don't exist. U.S. oncologists and nurses told me in March 2020, when it was revealed my husband had terminal cancer and I suggested to him he be treated in the country that we had moved to six months earlier, that Canada would catch up to the US in Covid-19 cases. Maybe they were right, maybe in August 2021 after 18 months of enduring the pandemic Canada caught up to the US June 2020 percentages of active cases and deaths. It can't be that I would want to avoid border lineups or closures or ill-trained border patrol people putting us through interrogation making us late for chemotherapy, or that I understood I'd be a widow in six months, they had to take the "oh? Our country/treatment isn't good enough for you?" attitude. Try telling a rural American that a white family can live peaceably in a Black-majority city for a lifetime without requiring a gun for protection. Either the income disparity is wonderful, or someone is a Communist. If you don't say anything when someone relates at lunch or breaktime highlights from a Comedy Central evening news commentary show they assume you must be a political opponent, not that a permanent resident might think it's best to not comment as she can't vote.

The scaffold is a rather strange thing. I don't really accept this, but I think that history has given rise to the present. But these boards reminded us of our home. We are going to start work on finishing the facade of a country house. There was a question about scaffolding. The height of the house is more than 14 m, and the dimensions are 11 m x 14 m. The installation of frame scaffolding is obvious, but there are a number of elements on one wall that protrude beyond the size of the building. Therefore, I can advise you to take a closer look at your personal experience.Petesune because they helped us a lot and did all the work perfectly. _________________________________________________

Cult leader, convicted embezzler David Yonggi Cho dead aged 85 from stroke complications: https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/religious/1011608.html Former leader and co-founder (with his mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil 1915-1989) of the Yoido Full Gospel Church, a megachurch that has a claimed membership of around 800,000. Also the founder of Bethesda University. Claimed that the 2011 tsunami "could be a warning from god" One of his pastors vandalized a buddhist temple by urinating in a hall and drawing on portraits with a marker in 2012.

This is just to really share Shadow Lists and compare to the performance of the committee. There are more competitive versions such as Deathlist Correctlist and Deathlist Prediction Game Assuming they both run in 2022 and then of course there is the Crwodsourced Deathlist where a democratically elected Deathlist goes head to head with the committee

“Wokeflake” You really are Andrew Neil with tits, aren’t you? I think you’re arguing with a post you must’ve made up; most of your little diatribe here is a reply to something I clearly didn’t say, but you’re too busy with your Jurassic-age excuses for your I’m-not-racist-buts to notice what’s being said. To help you out here, I said it’s not racist for one to acknowledge and celebrate one’s (or someone else’s) heritage, but saying it’s “disappointing” to see someone who doesn’t have “English blood”…that is questionable. Not the English bit. The rest of it. You could cut the English and put any other nation there, and it’d still be problematic and divisive. You won’t have noticed, but we’ve moved on from tribal times. People like you are a large part of the problem; you won’t pay any attention to anyone on the receiving end of social injustice, as you, a white, straight, upper-middle-aged English woman from what you’ve said, have “been around” for a while so you’re obviously best placed to judge I mean, I would say you may have some perfectly valid arguments on everyday sexism were it not for your previous of sickening victim-blaming when it comes to sexual assaults against young women. Your older age doesn’t acquit you of ignorance, and my younger age doesn’t make my view invalid or ‘brainwashed’. It’s not a brainwashed mindset to be aware of injustice and to want society to do better and to be upset/angered by it happening on a daily basis. It’s a compassionate, progressive, accepting one. You’ve demonstrably managed none of those three. I don’t expect you to read this. Because I think you’re incredibly ignorant. Sorry.

Zeman and Klaus both hospitalised.

Has to be in the running, didn't start a new thread yet.

Gold Medallist in the hammer throw at both the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. A world record holder. As such, he is yet another Scavenger Hunt miss.

Died Soviet athlete Yuri Sedykh https://m.sport-express.ru/athletics/news/umer-sovetskiy-legkoatlet-yuriy-sedyh-1835069/

Roger Newell, bass player for Rick Wakeman, and 60s cult psychedelic band Rainbow Ffolly among others, has died aged 73. https://www.loudersound.com/news/roger-newell-bassist-for-rick-wakeman-dies-aged-73?fbclid=IwAR0KEYZScmMSRjXOzJ3iC6kR3ykQc6Y0yOYjixbe3yP6UDCzJltTaLBuPds

Elena Baltacha! Still properly gutted by that one. She had a lot of talent and I think she'd had have done far better if not for the life limiting health problems which wound up killing her in the end.

The latest news on Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend.

Parys Haralson, linebacker who played for the San Francisco 49’ers and New Orleans Saints, dead at 37. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32205494/former-san-francisco-49ers-lb-parys-haralson-played-new-orleans-saints-dies-37

For our US users, Melvin Dunlap, the bass player in Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, reportedly dead: https://www.soultracks.com/story-melvin-dunlap-dies He went on to slap that bass on the late Bill Withers numbers including Lean On Me.

An excerpt of the Express obit: He clearly didn’t pay attention to her in the slightest, but she tried. May she rest in peace.

Seeing this was the next topic gave me quite a scare

Well Germany still has a lot, 4 in total, 2 of whom were communists of East germany: Youngest is a woman in their mid 70s

George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, dead at 95. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/arts/music/george-wein-dead.html

I've not looked at the details of this leak but is there anything much different to the Operation London Bridge plans that have been circulating for a decade? Or is there more specific detail included?

from The Guardian's cricket live coverage: I laughed anyway

Reminds me of the priest whose church was being threatened by a flood. As the waters rose, one of his parishioners with a small boat floated past the church and called for the priest to get into the boat and save himself. "No" said the priest, "l'll be fine. The Lord will provide for me." A while later, as the flood waters rose to the second floor of the church, other parishioners came by in another boat and pleaded with the priest to get into the boat and save himself. "No," replied the priest. "I place my faith in the Lord." Later still, the waters rose up the church steeple and, as the priest hung on tightly so that he wasn't washed away, another boat came by. But still the priest refused to get into the boat. Eventually, the flood waters covered the church, and the priest was swept away and drowned. When he got to heaven, Saint Peter met the priest at the pearly gates. The priest approached Saint Peter perplexed and even a little angry. "I had faith in the Lord," he said, "why didn't he assist me in my hour of need?" "Well," said Saint Peter, "We did send three boats, you know."

Yes, same here. Think this is the most upset I’ve ever been by a celebrity death. On the plus though, Twitter is absolutely awash with people paying tribute to Sean by sharing their favourite clips of him from stand-up and panel shows. Every single post is a different clip (which just shows he was the best in the business), and every single clip is absolute gold. His legacy is bringing much joy and laughter today.

Obviously you get more for your vaccine in Scotland...