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She's in Ukraine now, but so far only in "safe" Lviv, the coward:

Cup team is in, good luck to all! Thank you msc! Well, I never really "squonked" you. Three times, you got three hits against me, which is a good result. I still wonder how I won against you last year, whenever I remind myself of the Sasha Johnson picture... There must have been cosmic forces in play.

Seems like Mino Raiola is out, everyone moves a place up and Casey O'Brien is in.

The "ghost of Kyiv", Major Stepan Tarabalka, has died: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ghost-of-kyiv-killed-after-shooting-40-russian-jets-identity-revealed-2933893 He shot down 40 Russian planes, allegedly, and now got shot down himself.

Jessie Duarte, who was Mandela's personal secretary 1990-1994, and is now secretary general of the ANC, has cancer, and while she says that she's fighting to get her health back, she was a victim of death rumours this week: https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/its-unfortunate-that-some-people-would-wish-me-dead-says-jessie-duarte-who-has-cancer-dcf0c215-5a4c-4470-9229-43e1bc61dab4

Quick before they change his wikipedia page back again; "Parish is married to Susan, has two children and two grandchildren, and a Platinum+ Brazzers Membership.[19]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Parish

She canceled her European tour for health reasons for the second time: https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/celine-dion/uk-tour-courage-dates-tickets/

Gemma Oaten of "Corrie" and "Emmerdale" "nearly died" for the fifth time because of a rare condition named milk-alkali syndrome which can lead and apparenly has lead to kidney failure: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/corrie-emmerdale-star-gemma-oaten-23823979

I do get the impression that Judd Trump is the only player of the next generation to be on their level. Being the young one at 32 is still a bit worrisome.

I watched Snooker pretty regularly many years ago. And I've just read that Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Williams and John Higgins are in the semi finals of the World Championship. Is this 2022 or 1998?

Well, this time I am actually fielding a very conservative team, as I usually tend to pick the freshest, but not exactly the best names here. And with so few new names, and many of them already on my DDP teams, I might just actually post here: 1.George Perez 2.Vicky Phelan 3.Steve Mongo McMichael 4.Deborah James 5.Mino Raiola 5.Susie Steiner 6.Pelé 7.Nigel Starmer-Smith 8.Chris Stone (AUS footballer) 9.Bill Turnbull 10.Peter Tobin 11.Gordon McQueen 12.Gianluca Vialli 13.Joe Kinnear 14.Frank Field 15.John Gwynne 16.Michael Tilson Thomas 17.Julia Reichert 18.Larry Pressler 19.Mark Souder 20.Cami Elliott 21. Casey O'Brien Subs: Luis Garavito Steve Woodmore Tracy Kashi Liza Minnelli Good luck everyone!

Uuhh ... sweepstakes, I say, 16:24 British time.

Yes, QOs for Ann Davies, hallelujah: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-ann-davies-dead-doctor-26821571

I guess I actually do the same. My win was neatly preceded and followed by two 21st places, if I recall correctly. So yeah, eventually it's going to happen. (next year... 5 years ... 10 years ....) And indeed, I also take some pride in always managing at least 100 pts.

Tory MSP Sir Edward Mountain has bowel cancer, seems okay though: https://www.thenational.scot/news/20098375.tory-msps-bowel-cancer-video-hailed-brave-nicola-sturgeon/

Santa Claus, the North Pole, Alaska councilmember is still doing well and is now running against, for example, Sarah Palin to replace Don Young: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/27/sarah-palin-faces-formidable-opponent-in-congress-run-santa-claus

Fetterman, in my opinion, would be a great candidate. I wonder though if he should maybe wait four years. That said, I don't see any great winners for the Democrats in 2024. The Republicans will probably nominate Ron De Santis. I'm not sure if he is able to win a general election, but there's nobody really on the Democratic side to check all the boxes of experience, the right age, being liked enough by the base, and being pushed enough by the media, like De Santis does. I also doubt Joe Biden will run again, but it would be unwise to say it right now.

German obit: https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/elektronik-pionier-klaus-schulze-ist-tot-a-f057fe14-2791-4e7c-be85-3c24e8191112

Awwwww..... no..... I liked him, sort of. In my opinion, that old Berlin School tended to produce a little too much music, and it all became a tad generic. But some of his albums are pleasant to listen to. Actually, I had wondered before if he would obit. But it seems many of those electronic pioneers die long before they would normally come into deadpooling consideration. Edgar Froese, Florian Schneider, now Klaus Schulze. They don't seem to get old! By the way, he just announced a new album to be released in June: https://www.loudersound.com/news/klaus-schulze-announces-new-studio-album

I think right now is when we lose that hit rate per day. We did well so far, quite possibly better than ever in picking the right people (also, yahoo helped). But eventually, there's the time when it slows down. Arno is still a potential obit, but it seems the yahoo window has passed. He DID get a yahoo finance obit (??) but it did not translate into uk.news. Hilda Bernard got a uk.news.yahoo obit, but it's not in english: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/actriz-argentina-hilda-bernard-muere-185911463.html Also, that Mollie Walker obit never materialised. Though I do wonder if she gets a mention through a later death, but it didn't happen when Kane Tanaka died. Gustav Gerneth got such a belated obit IIRC.

I mean, if they're still alive and have a new picture, or they were previously unknown names, then they belong here. But let's not do uniform porn.

They'll kill as many Ukrainians as they can and will forcefully deport the rest who is able to work in a Siberian mine. They'll try to raise the share of the Russian / Russian-friendly population to move the border bit by bit, the same way they are doing it right now with Luhansk and Donetsk. Destruction is the point. Ukrainian refugees will be less likely to return to Ukraine if their country is completely destroyed and Russia seems to be able to do to its neighbours whatever it wants. Russia wants the Ukrainian territory, and to convert a defeated remnant population to Russian nationalism. Once they have it, they'll try to make the rest of Europe as dependent on agrarian products as they did with oil and gas.

Former football player for the Minnesota Gophers Casey O'Brien has to battle cancer for the sixth time: https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/24/former-gophers-player-casey-obrien-fights-cancer-again/

^^ you could also mention her survival of pancreatic cancer.... some 70 years ago. And colorectal cancer at 103.

Awww sad, as sad as the death of a 119 year old person can be.