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As I am checking on my personal survivors and find some news on Yoo Sang-Chul and the like... Sophie Sabbage had her 5th round of radiotherapy: https://www.cancerwhispering.com/blog/more-myself-by-being-less-myself Her situation is "stable" with four brain tumours. Well, she's had 60-70 brain tumours so far (!!!!). It impairs her brain functions, but far less than the doctors thought it would. I think it's acutally quite incredible.

Updated after about 3 years - added the years 2018-2020. 2015: The Love Boat (initial success: 4/20), now 14/20 1. Charlie Sheen 6. Jack Nicholson 8. Alexis Tsipras 9. Scott Thorson 13. Paul Gascoigne 14. Ryuichi Sakamoto Economics - The Fatal Science (Initial success 2/20), now 12/20 3. Alan Greenspan 6. Robert Aumann 9. Harry Markowitz 13. Edmund Phelps 15. Amartya Sen 17. William F. Sharpe 18. Vernon L. Smith 20. Robert Solow 2016: The Love Boat - initial success 15/20 (obitability doesn't matter), now 18/20 Left alive: 2. Yoshiro Nakamatsu 4. Gary Haggarty The B-Team - initial success 9/20, now 18/20 9. Roh Tae-Woo 10. Brian Shivers Shameless: Initial success (13/20, one death in 2015 already), now 18/20 11. Jake Bailey (probably alive for the next 70 years) 14. Kris Hallenga (cancer is slowly progressing) 2017: The Love Boat: Initial success 12/20, now 18/20 Valeri Spiridonov Greg Gilbert The B-Team: Initial success 13/20, now 17/20 1. Nick Boles 2. Steve Gleason 3. Seiji Ozawa Shameless: Initial success 13/20, now 17/20 Emma Houlston Heidi Loughlin Sophie Sabbage 2018: The Love Boat: Initial success 12/20, now 19/20 Tiffany Youngs The B-Team: Initial success 10/20, now 17/20 Dilip Kumar Anna Pavord Jean-Louis Trintignant Going Down in Down Under: Initial success 7/20 (or probably 8/20 because Blaso Vuksanovic is probably dead), now 17/20 Barry DuBois Thomas Keneally Olivia Newton-John 2019: The Love Boat: Initial success 10/20, now 13/20 Samu Anoa'i Greg Gilbert Lars Hogh Lloyd Klein David Smith Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacci Woodcock The B-Team: Initial success 9/20, now 13/20 George Alagiah Bob Dole Bill Freehan Deborah James Dewayne Lee Johnson Sacheen Littlefeather Nick Phillippoussis Coda: Initial success 4/20 (actually 5/20, because of Kato Havas), now 7/20 Janet Baker Alfred Brendel George Crumb Sofia Gubaidulina Toshi Ichiyanagi Seiji Ozawa Anne Parsons Murray Perahia Mikis Theodorakis Colin Tilney Christoph Von Dohnanyi John Williams La Monte Young 2020: The Love Boat, initial success 14/20, now 14/20 Ady Barkan Tim Bilton David Gulpilil Yoo Sang-Chul Tom Smith Gianluca Vialli The B-Team: Initial success: 6/20, now 10/20 (already 4 hits in 4 months this year!) Jimmy Carter Mikhail Gorbachev Nick Hitchon Lars Hogh Andrew McDonald Ernie Moss Bradley Murdoch Carel Du Plessis Peter Tobin Jacci Woodcock The House of Extravaganza: Initial success 8/20, now 13/20 Don Asmussen Chris Baggolley Jana Bennett Miroslava Duma Scott Dureau Yasuhiko Funago Litsa Menounos Belinda Sykes Rachel Zoll Alright..... I'm still a little mystified at my 2019 performance. What did I do wrong? On the other hand, I've already lost 7 names of the 2020 picks, which shows that the B- and C-team were just slightly off with their timing, but still full of potential. Those old teams, well, some names will stay on forever, but apart from those, they pass away at a rate of about 4 names per year.

I saw that, but then in the next paragraph, there is a different statement. Can't quite make that out of what Google translate gives me.

Yoo Sang-Chul was supposedly in critical condition, being blind, and the cancer had spread to his brain. But his manager said nothing is true: https://www.chosun.com/national/national_general/2021/03/29/ZS6SS7MDTFBNVG22HUYG6E7324/ But he has had a bad eye for many years which had turned into blindness during treatment.

Admins are still in mourning.

A foreign source says that conservative social scientist Judith Reisman has died: https://www.tvlibertes.com/actus/judith-reisman-figure-de-la-lutte-contre-les-pedocriminels-sest-eteinte-a-lage-de-84-ans Among her classics are: "Today's youth groups for gay kids are like the Hitler youth", gay liberation created the Nazis, and porn viewers have their minds brainwashed, do not have any more "free speech", and their opinions are no longer protected by the constitutional right to free speech.

US journalist Reese Erlich dead at 73: https://progressive.org/dispatches/in-memory-and-celebration-of-reese-erlich-210409/ A progressive journalist who also published in Australian papers. I found out about him just last month, thought he had a bit more time left.

Bobby Fulton has had surgery to open up his throat to consume solid foods again: https://411mania.com/wrestling/health-update-on-bobby-fulton-following-battle-with-cancer/ Apparently, he posts good news, and yet, it sounds as if the cancer is progressing steadily.

Diagnosed with the Coronavirus: https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sport/26765775/gianluca-vialli-positivo-covid-come-tutto-staff-mancini-preoccupazione-sue-condzioni.html

Damn, now I need another name for my Cup team.

The competition has no favourite yet, in my opinion. Tom Parker is like Marieke Vervoort and Leah Bracknell, picked as a joker by lots of teams, and his survival or death would totally change the race. I can't believe I have two non-obits which kill my advantage with a joker who is definitely on borrowed time. Plus, many teams had interesting side hits, Julie Strain and the like. There are still 20-30 teams with plausible ways to victory. Including HDS, or Expiry Date, Book, etc etc ... And so far, we haven't had too many picks who are already a "bad" pick, Tracey Emin, now, maybe Derek Draper, who could be a new Michael Schumacher.

Can't we discuss him in the Meghan Markle thread?

Dob Bole

Now, the only question on my mind is, will Meghan be at the funeral?

So soon... Well, you keep waiting for it, and are still surprised when it happens.

Yes, a little surprising there's no BBC local obit for Howarth. Still, there should be a Times obit within a month or so?

Derek Draper returns home, now needs round-the-clock care: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-kate-garraways-husband-derek-23880528

Ah well, he's elderly.

Ableist language: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210330-the-harmful-ableist-language-you-unknowingly-use Examples: "Turning a blind eye", calling a person "crazy", or someone "psychopathic". Also the words "Dumb" and "lame". Now, okay, I get some of it, it's like saying "gay" when you mean "bad". But somehow, I still feel that this is a bit too much. The examples are too broad. Eventually, we'll all be reduced to speaking like robots.

Home and Away director John Clabburn killed in a freak garden accident: https://www.fm104.ie/news/buzz/home-and-away-director-john-clabburn-has-died-following-a-freak-gardening-accident/ He cut himself off a tree with a saw and apparently injured his hand (cut it off?). He lost so much blood that he died from a cardiac arrest. I told you, this show is a curse. Edit: This one, of course, also wit QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14584305/home-and-away-director-john-clabburn-hedge-trimmer-sydney/

He's currently being in London again for medical reasons: https://www.dailysabah.com/world/africa/nigerian-president-buharis-london-medical-trips-cause-outrage

I already see three suitable UK media outfits giving him coverage right now, The Sun, The Independent and Yahoo. So the answer is 100% yes.

Alright, let's have a bit of an update... I actually forgot about Bibian Mentel, so.. thanks! She was picked by only a few, but yielded quite a few points. Paul Cosford and Sarah Hughes are also hits, the latter is a unique hit for me. Plus Alcee Hastings, picked here and there. Rodion Rosca was a bit of a "Guardian or bust" gamble. It's pretty certain that it didn't work, for Banana and me. It's my third non-obit - quite possibly a record! Dramatic changes are missing though. Wormfarmer rises two places because of Bibian Mentel. Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 781 2 JoeyRuss 700 3 Salmon Mousse 694 4 gcreptile 604 5 Banana 534 6 Death Impends 527 7 An Fear Beag 526 8 Book 460 9 drol 451 10 DevonDeathTrip 437 11 Wormfarmer 415 12 msc 364 13 theoldlady 356 14 Lynchian 301 15 The Unknown Man 281 16 The Quim Reaper 269 17 Annami 257 18 Joe Moneypenny 253 19 Kenny 240 20 The Daredevil 237 21 The Old Crem 226 22 Etushipushingupdaisies 190 23 Yorkshire Banker 183 24 chilean way 167 25 Sean 165 26 markb4 151 27 mr.whit 135 28 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 120 29 Baby Blue 112 30 Charles De Gaulle 98 31 Bibliogryphon 93 32 Gooseberry Crumble 75 33 Toast 53 34 etib80 33 34 Guyfromfuture 33

US journalist and NBC anchor Joe Krebs dead at 78: https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/dc-area-news-anchor-dies/ A pancreatic cancer sufferer, he had appeared on the forum once before. Edit: Would have gotten a QO, but now we know how those work: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/joe-krebs-dies-legendary-d-213616778.html

Next prominent church critic, Hans Küng, dead at 93: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/hans-kueng-theologe-im-alter-von-93-jahren-gestorben-a-58a63785-ba1f-44f0-a78b-7185dbd66171 While Uta Ranke-Heinemann liked to point out the sexual hypocrisy of the church, Hans Küng liked to criticise other ethical problems, including, gasp!, the papal infallibility. Maybe a bit of a miss for us. And a DDP pick. Edit:QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hans-kueng-dissident-catholic-theologian-161148657.html