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Former US secretary of defense Leon Panetta is looking very tired on CNN right now. I also kind of missed that he's already 83 years old.

Paul Di'Anno now in Zagreb receiving lymph drainage for his swollen leg. Sitting in a wheelchair, talking to a podcast: https://loudwire.com/paul-dianno-sepsis-almost-killed-him-2015/ He's getting better, he says, and might appear at a concert again.

Frank Beckmann actually received a DDP QO, because of the Sun copy/paste black box mystery machine: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17639144/frank-beckmann-dead-detroit-radio-sports-presenter/ Puts a lot of potential DDP hits on the menu, as long as the Sun does this.

US federal judge Roger Vinson, who almost killed Obamacare and whose legal statements allowed the unlimited data collection uncovered by Edward Snowden, has terminal prostate cancer. He was given 3 months to live last June, but is very unbothered by it and still drives himself to work: https://eu.pnj.com/story/news/local/pensacola/2022/02/14/u-s-district-court-judge-roger-vinson-fights-prostate-cancer/6708546001/

I replace Frank Beckmann with Vicky Phelan.

^^ Literally the post above yours.

One of three people injured in a shooting at a Justin Bieber aftershow party (check the news) is DDP pick Kodak Black: https://allhiphop.com/news/kodak-black-shot-in-los-angeles-rapper-hospitalized/

When Donald Trump spoke at the Forum in 2020 I knew he was one of them.

I've edited my original team post to clarify which hits there have been for me, hope that makes it easier.. (for me, too)

I replace Isabel Torres with Frank Beckmann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beckmann

Biden supposedly called for an urgent phone chat today. And while I think that the Russian government in general has been a force of evil in the past 5 years or so, this "urgent phone call" reminded me of the "smoking gun" times.

Yes, GUN, that's the spirit, in my opinion. If all your picks die, you win. And February is far too soon to give up in that (unless you had an "in critical condition in Dec 31st case).

The former two-term PM of Belize, Sir Manuel Esquivel, has died at 81: https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/former-belize-pm-sir-manuel-esquivel-has-died

"Legendary" homeless man Glenn Skinner, living/existing in the Devon area has died at 50: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/legendary-homeless-man-glenn-skinner-6642174 There's a gofundme for a funeral, I wonder if they'll collect more money than he was ever given while alive.

#FreeWendy

Ah, I see, you're doing the bonusses in-game... and I got a dud. Meh...

Great work! Good luck scoring the 2020 pool! Obligatory immediate nitpicking: I should have at least two points?

Roman Kostzrewski, frontman of Polish heavy metal group Kat, has died of cancer at 61: https://kultura.onet.pl/muzyka/wiadomosci/roman-kostrzewski-nie-zyje-lider-zespolu-kat-mial-61-lat/r2jjfb6

This is a nice Washington Post obit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nobel-laureate-luc-montagnier-dead/2022/02/10/e317c046-b6d5-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html I didn't know that he claimed that good nutrition could prevent AIDS, that antibiotics could treat autism or that he studied "water memory".

So has he now become the BOGE man?

Lars Hogh immediately got the Sun Uk obit. But nothing else. The year-end roundup is more for the local UK news, premier league players of the 50s and 60s, not for the international ones. Still, I guess it's not a 0% for a Hellström QO yet.

Mollie Walker got a local obit just yesterday, maybe the beginning of something more? https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/169814/oldest-woman-in-britain-dies-days-before-birthday.html

It's very possible (in my opinion), that COVID never leaves us and there'll be wave after wave, like the annual flu waves, and I think it's possible that many, many people will basically get re-infected every few months or so. I think everybody will have one or two weeks per year a bit under the weather, if there are any symptoms at all.

Arthur Scargill still looking excellent and still "on picket lines now": https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-60290283

Emma Thompson describes living with her "frail mother" and daughter during quarantine. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/10/living-in-a-womans-body-my-daughter-thrums-with-life-my-mother-is-frail-and-im-balanced-between Only health-related details about her mother Phyllida Law is that she wonders why her "fanny is getting bigger".