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James Harman gets a Guardian obit: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/25/james-harman-obituary Reminds me of the late, surprising Guardian obit for Henry Gray last year. Someone at the Guardian is a Blues enthusiast.

Wes "Wes" Madiko, known outside of Africa as a one-hit wonder for the summer hit of 1998 "Alané", dead at 57: https://newsclic.info/necrologie-wes-madiko-est-decede/ I kind of wondered if he was destined for an early death after the deaths of Manu Dibango and Mory Kanté last year.

The release was scheduled. It was one of Trump's parting "gifts" to ask Congress to deliver this report. Besides, the people who would get less money through foreign deployment, are not the same people who would profit from more R&D in new technology.

The prime minister of Tunisia, Hichem Mechichi, has been diagnosed with COVID: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisian-prime-minister-hicham-amchichi-contracts-covid-19-2021-06-25/

Here's the report now (the unclassified stuff): https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf Out of 144 sightings in the past 17 years, one could be explained as a balloon, the rest remains unidentified. The objects are most likely physical, i.e. no light effects or whatever. The strange movements remain to be explained, could be sensor misreadings or misperception. An alien origin isn't mentioned explicitly in this, as far as I can see. There's just an "other" catch-all bin. It's pretty much what had been leaked before. I'm not disappointed at all, and actually think, that this is quite a step forward.

Italy 2-1 Austria Wales 2-2 Denmark

Mila Ximenez, Spanish TV personality / journalist / gossip lady is dead at 69: https://www.elperiodico.com/es/yotele/20210623/muere-mila-ximenez-69-anos-11834849 I hoped she would survive into the new month. But there had been very dire news in recent days.

Another terminally ill film fan - this time, he wants to see the new Bond movie: https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/22/james-bond-fan-with-cancer-and-weeks-to-live-begs-to-see-no-time-to-die-14813711/

Slovakia 1-2 Spain Sweden 1-1 Poland Germany 4-1 Hungary (yasss!) Portugal 1-2 France

Orndorff's son posted a very telling video: https://www.ringsidenews.com/2021/06/21/heartbreaking-video-shows-paul-orndorffs-failing-health/

Croatia 2-1 Scotland Czechia 2-2 England

He changed his look from Heroin thin to Jack Black-ian: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15346921/pete-doherty-france-dog-unrecognisable-babyshambles-libertines/

Damn, that's more boring.

North Macedonia 0-2 Netherlands Ukraine 1-1 Austria Finland 0-3 Belgium Russia 1-3 Denmark

Alright, new update....mostly to say: Don't forget, the replacement period is coming up soon! After three more weeks, the game hasn't really picked up in speed. Yoo Sang-Chul was a very popular pick. Noel Conway a unique hit for Sean. Dingko Singh a clever hit for two teams. And that seems to be it! Rank Team Score 1 JoeyRuss 907 2 Cpt. Chorizo 906 3 Salmon Mousse 819 4 Banana 730 5 gcreptile 729 6 Death Impends 717 7 Book 610 8 An Fear Beag 597 9 msc 585 10 drol 522 11 DevonDeathTrip 508 12 Wormfarmer 507 13 theoldlady 467 14 Lynchian 435 15 The Unknown Man 387 16 The Quim Reaper 361 17 Kenny 332 18 Annami 328 19 Joe Moneypenny 324 20 The Daredevil 291 21 Etushipushingupdaisies 261 22 The Old Crem 247 23 chilean way 223 24 Sean 222 25 Baby Blue 220 26 markb4 205 27 Yorkshire Banker 183 28 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 160 29 mr.whit 156 30 Toast 124 31 Charles De Gaulle 119 32 Bibliogryphon 93 33 Gooseberry Crumble 75 34 etib80 68 35 Guyfromfuture 33

Johnny Ruffo's brain tumour is now "stable": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9705611/An-emotional-Johnny-Ruffo-bravely-speaks-brain-cancer-battle.html Still, this seems to be a harder fight than the first one.

English local journalist with a bit of BBC recognition, George Makin, dead just a few weeks after announcing his illness: https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/brilliant-local-democracy-reporter-dies-weeks-after-cancer-diagnosis/ Four days after his first vaccination shot.

Italy 3-0 Wales Switzerland 3-1 Turkey

Former quarterback Jay Cutler has memory problems at age 38, and predicts CTE is coming: https://texasnewstoday.com/retired-nfl-quarterback-jay-cutler-38-predicts-cte-is-coming-and-says-he-has-memory-problems/321542/

Roger Stone, the American political troll, reveals that his wife has Nydia has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9696935/Devastated-Roger-Stone-reveals-details-wifes-Stage-IV-cancer-battle-exclusive-interview.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

Hungary 0-4 France Portugal 1-2 Germany Spain 2-1 Poland

Michelle Fazarri, once ranked nr 2 in women's wrestling, has stage 3 cancer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Fazzari https://globalnews.ca/news/7902892/hamilton-olympic-wrestler-cancer/

Ty Templeton, six years after his heavy heart attack, now diagnosed with colon cancer: https://www.cbr.com/ty-templeton-batman-adventures-artist-cancer-diagnosis/

A sudden sprint to death, at the end of this marathon.

Friedrich Karl Berger died in May before his trial: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/kz-wachmann-stirbt-vor-anklageerhebung-a-75206cbb-4373-421c-b76d-24f432920599