RoverAndOut

There is a Radio Stars fan site: http://www.radio-stars.com/ On it are detailed biographies of the various bandmembers but no dates of birth. Steve Parry hails from Manchester, which you may already know - there are matching births on FreeBMD for 1957 and 1958 but tying down one may be trickier. Ian MacLeod hails from Benfleet near Southend apparently but there are no specific births in that area of Essex. 4 Ian MacLeods (that spelling) born between 1940 and 1957 - the 1957 one is possibly most likely? The band retired in 2016 according to this: https://vivelerock.net/radio-stars-announce-final-gig/

Big I hope. I watched John Oliver last night, and he was highlighting the various issues with the election process this year (huge lines at the few open polling stations, mail-in ballots being rejected for various spurious reasons, the time taken to verify and count the huge increase in absentee ballots, for example) and suggested that there is no way the full results will be known on Election Night. The problem with this is that Republicans are more likely to vote on the day (because they don't think it's dangerous) and Democrats by post (because they do). So on the night, Republicans may be leading in early counts in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, etc. but then there would be a so-called 'Blue Shift' in the following days as absentee ballots are counted. Trump's already said on Twitter that the results must be announced on the night or else it's a fix (I paraphrase, but, scarily, not that much). Unless Biden's lead is sizeable enough that he's already in front in the electoral college, regardless of a few potentially close states to rack up the score, this could be even more horrifically messy that it already threatens to be.

Yep, I thought this too. Out in the open air and still looks to be breathing heavily. Then he walks into the White House mask-less, while still infectious. There just aren't words left anymore.

Jamie Byrne, Python Lee Jackson proved elusive. Found a few bits to add to the search though: he's a serial bandmember. Joined Python Lee Jackson from The Groove (another Australian band) in 1969 - that's from Wikipedia. Prior to that he was in Running, Jumping, Standing Still and the Black Pearls, two more Australian bands. OOOH, last look before I posted and disappearing down a rabbit hole has found this: A fan site for the Rod Stewart recordings said after the session, Byrne returned to The Groove. The Groove's page here: http://www.milesago.com/Artists/groove.htm says: The article was updated in 2007, so after that the trail goes cold.

Quantum Jump's Mark Warner has a website: http://www.markwarnermusic.com/ Living in Los Angeles these days. No biographical details that give years but there is a contact function. Clearly still living, either way.

White House Press Secretary the latest to test positive, on Monday, having 'consistently tested negative since Thursday' (fancy that). https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-coronavirus-white-house/index.html McConnell's shutting the Senate down for a fortnight, so they can all be 'fighting fit' to confirm Amy Coney Barrett on their return. In order to facilitate this, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings will still begin next week as planned, even if the rest of the Senate is shut. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/politics/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-confirmation-coronavirus/index.html

I still think he's going to make a full recovery, but given the situation that we're in with him a)not liking hospitals, b)supposedly not wanting to stay in confinement at the White House (which he said in one of his rambling videos and would go against his image if he did) and c)watching his poll deficit grow by the day, I can see him rushing back onto the campaign trail as soon as possible, which surely wouldn't be advisable for an elderly patient who suffered a pretty bad reaction to Covid? Could be consequences further down the line if he's not careful.

I may actually be able to contribute to something on this thread! Fancied a little detective work before bed and agreed with Ulitzer that this guy shouldn't be that difficult to trace. Found this link to a book called 'Happy Days and Dark Nights' by Jerry and Susanne McClain: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-Days-Nights-Jerry-McClain/dp/0964105810 which must surely be the same guy? Published 1996. Did a Google search for Susanne McClaine and the top Facebook choice was this woman: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008641597784 'Married to Jerry for 50 years'! Here they are in 2019: One of the comments on the picture, from February 11th 2019 says 'Happy birthday Jerry!' Year eludes me, but I didn't do an exhaustive search. Still - it's a start? There you go @YoungWillz, done one for ya!

The ridiculous thing about this situation is that after 4 years of misinformation and lies coming out of this White House, even if they are telling the truth and there's nothing wrong with him how is anyone meant to believe them? You talk bullshit for a whole presidential term, don't be surprised when people call bullshit during the most serious health crisis a US leader has faced since the late 80s.

Boris looked fine when he first came down with it. It was only when he tweeted about the fact he was staying in isolation a week later that people said 'shit, he looks ten times worse now than when he first got it' and it was about 24 hours later he went to hospital. Methinks they want him in a hospital in case he takes a turn for the worse, which they clearly think is likely enough that they want him in hospital right now. And as was suggested earlier, Trump isn't someone who likes hospitals. All that said, I'm not reading too much into it just yet.

Probably insisted on it.

Can't fault the right's commitment. Seems packing the court really is a cause worth dying for!

Given he did the minimum of work before he got ill, I don't think we need to worry too much about him working himself to death. More time to watch Fox News and Info Wars and get his conspiracy theories in order ready for the final fortnight or campaigning. I get this is a big deal but I just don't believe that he's going to get seriously ill. And we all know that unless he ends up on a ventilator because of this, he will continue to explain why it isn't a big deal, because it barely affected him, that people should stop scaremongering about it and that the hydroxycholoroquine protected him. "You know, the doctors told me that they've never seen anybody recover like this, they said I have the greatest immune system they've ever seen..."

Interestingly, nobody fancied her as a pick on the Eurovision category of this round's Scavenger Hunt, possibly the oldest qualifying person not picked. Make of that what you will. She represented Luxembourg in 1963 with 'À Force de Prier' - finished 8th. It doesn't really go anywhere in all honesty.

Just looks pissed off with humans really. Looks perfectly well for 94.

It won't last. It never does.

It's been a bad time for Bond actors in the Scavenger Hunt so don't lose hope just yet...

Care to tell us all the dastardly things that make anything David Attenborough has to say utterly irrelevant? All you've highlighted so far is that it's awful that he suggests climate change is an issue whilst travelling the world making nature documentaries. As if nobody who's stepped on a plane is allowed to speak on such issues.

Is that what I said? Must've missed that.

What was the reason when he started out? He started making nature documentaries for the BBC because he had a passion for the subject and wanted to share it with people who had never seen a giraffe or gorilla or elephant outside of a picture book. When Attenborough started, he was a big-wig at the BBC (Controller of BBC2 when it launched). He was guided first and foremost by the Reithian mantra that the BBC's purpose was to Inform, Educate and Entertain. He never suggested others shouldn't do the same, but it was never practical for Joe Public until relatively recently. I also reckon that his personal carbon footprint, and the footprint of his shows has reduced significantly over the past 20 or 30 years. Mostly these days, at most he films a couple of shots to introduce series/episodes and the rest is voiceover. Regarding the wildlife shoots, a lot of it uses local talent and remote equipment, which can reduce the personnel and length of time spent out on location. I would also be astonished if the teams travel on anything other than commercial air services, which means their carbon footprint is divided among all the people on the plane: the plane would still be going whether they were on board or not. Thank you. I tried composing a similar sentiment last night but gave up as I couldn't find the right words. People 60 and under have all grown up watching Sir David's documentaries and are interested in and care about nature because he's inspired them. Long may it continue.

Fair enough. A quick glance at Cap's other uniques is interesting: no one that jumps out as a definite hit, but they could easily die in quick succession. It's feast or famine in this game!

Yeah, but we're pretty much all just 3 hits from winning, right?

They're dropping like flies this time around! Course, the way this game works we'll still be here in 2024, but at least there's some action!

Another hit! 3 already and I'm now up and running! Best crack out these stats before we get too far into game play or, who knows, we could be done by year's end! This round saw 225 picks, far more than Round 1 (192) or Round 2 (190). This is probably not surprising as we have 19 participants in R3, 4 more than Rounds 1 and 2 (15). There are 6 brand new players, while 9 have played all 3 rounds so far and 3 have returned from R2. Biblio has played the last 2 games and was obviously around for R1 but didn't play. There were 52 picks in the Eurovision category, matching the number from the Grammys category in R2 and more than any in R1. Space Flyers was the smallest category (38 picks) but this is larger than the smallest categories in R1 (Presidential elections - 22, Cricketers - 36) or R2 (EU Leaders - 29, Dallas Stars and Boxers - 34) Most popular pick this round was the indestructible Nobby Stiles (11/19 teams) - this is more than anyone on R2 (Morgan Woodward, Dallas, 8/15 teams) but equals picks of George H.W. Bush on R1 (11/15 teams), however this is a higher percentage due to less teams taking part (Lord Carrington, House of Lords - 10/15 and Lindsay Tuckett, Cricketers - 9/15 also better Nobby's pick percentage) Jimmy Carter has been a pick on all 3 games so far (Presidential Elections, Grammy Winners and Nobel Prize Winners) - I haven't done an exhaustive search but I'm not aware of anyone else who has been picked in all 3 games (although at least one other possible exists: Olivia Newton-John - #1s, Grammy Winners, Eurovision) Jim Lovell was picked in 6 teams but fellow astronaut Frank Borman was more popular, being in 9 teams - this, despite the fact that Borman is just 1 week older than Lovell! Strangely, I got a unique pick with Park Jae-Sung in the World Cup players category - he is the oldest living World Cup footballer at 97! All players bar The Old Crem (2) and Grim Up North (1) have a chance of winning by the 3 unique picks method. This includes me for the first time in this game! Toast, Death Impends, Banana, GCReptile and msc were saved on this count only once the Eurovision picks were revealed and all just qualify with 3 uniques. Most unique picks this time were Great Uncle Bulgaria and Time (14 each) followed by Yorkshire Banker (13) and Bibliogryphon (11). This is less than FujimoriNoMorey's 15 uniques last time but to date only ONE of Fujimori's 15 uniques has actually died. Rotten Ali won R1 by this method but only had 8 uniques in total, of which 4 have now died. Finally, following the death of Michael Lonsdale, this is the second time that the first 3 deaths have all come in the same category (after Test Match Cricketers in R1) but only 2 more deaths in that category occurred during game play . It is the first time we've had 3 deaths in a calendar month of game play since February 2019, when there were 4 scoring deaths - still 9 days to go in September, mind!

Pretty much how I saw it @Joey Russ, thanks for that. From a Dem point-of-view on this, I think their key aims are to make sure they avoid a vote before Election Day and then hope that Biden and Mark Kelly both win. That would mean the Republicans were deprived of their majority before January and Biden would nominate Ginsburg's replacement in January. Mad to think if the maths add up the Republicans might still try to ram it through before January even if they were set to lose control of the Senate and the Presidency - surely not...