gcreptile

I'm starting to believe that I will advance. Good luck to you as well.

Enrique Castro, played for Barcelona and the Spanish national team, dead from a tremendous heart attack at 68: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/685191/Barcelona-Enrique-Castro-dead-heart-attack-Spain-Gijon

Hawai'i Senator Mazie Hirono plans to run for re-election in spite of her stage IV cancer: http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/02/hirono-on-her-cancer-battle-my-voice-remains-strong/

If you're in a mood for a gamble: Australian fashion designer Gary Bigeni has lymphoma: https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/gary-bigeni-cancer-fight/ First round of chemo didn't work. Second, more aggressive round is upcoming. He got a Daily Mail mention in 2017 and a Guardian mention in 2015, though only as part of a fashion show. And you can't participate in a fashion show when you're dead.

She's injecting the needle AS WE SPEAK.

He's been one of the great teasers ever since I've been here.

I'm ahead, but am I still faster? Still - the statistics based approach yielded good results here. They are better and safer the bigger the pool is. 60 people here, 50 people in the Death By Numbers.

1. Emma Hannigan 2. Marieke Vervoort 3. Tom Benson 4. José José 5. Herman Wouk

Lionel Messi's grandfather Antonio: http://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2018/02/24/5a9198f022601d66458b45a4.html

"Silent blob" is great.

Well Done, DI! Good to see you rewarded for the risk (I assume the Guardian is the only, but very likely obit source.). I tried the one-tweet + silence thing for my first B-Team with Roh Tae-Woo and Jim McLean - didn't work. I would have risked it again (and been rewarded) if Labour MP Frank Doran had survived that one tweet for more than 24 hours.

Hey! Rachel Cowan actually started some initiative or something. And Derek Elvy got accepted for the Hare's! But I thought my team would do well enough without them so I didn't argue and well, they are still alive and were both in the press last month...so it doesn't matter. Anyway, may I nominate some new subs just in case? I think I'm down at least two after Scott Westgarth.

A little update on my Generation Game pick New Zealand businessman Sir Owen Glenn: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11972051 Still fighting liver cancer, lost a lot of weight (which has reversed his diabetes), he had 22 operations, not just cancer-related but also an epidural haematoma. On the other hand, he has a "globe-spanning schedule" this year.

Interesting comments under the related Facebook notice... no bombshell, but interesting.

A little early, but I have submitted my team for the 2nd round now. The "mystery person" I alluded to a couple of pages ago, is still alive and now picked by me. If I don't advance, I will reveal the name on the 1st.

Trial delayed again, this time because of a diabetes related hospitalization: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/02/artie_lange_sentencing_drug_charges_feb_23.html

I just noticed that nobody picked US Special Counsel Robert Mueller. There must be quite a few people who wish him dead.

Emma Houlston - picked by me and Cpt. Chorizo last year is still alive - after a year of silence. She's on immunotherapy but has to take a break from it now: https://www.gofundme.com/EmmaLastStand

I'll throw bankrupt Lisa Marie Presley into the mix: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/23/lisa-marie-presley-sues-former-manager-14000-elvis-cash-barry-siegel-mismanagement

Barbara is overtaking him I guess.

Updated for 2017 2017: The Love Boat (initial success: 12/20, currently 14/20) Leah Bracknell DJ Casper Rayya Elias Greg Gilbert Catherine Nevin Simon Ricketts Valery Spiridonov Stefan Karl Stefansson The B-Team (initial success: 13/20, currently 13/20) Nick Boles Colin Butts Herbert Kretzmer Steve Gleason John Swinton of Kimmerghame Andrew Fairlie Seiji Ozawa Shameless 2.0 (initial success: 11/20 with non-obits, currently 13/20) Juan Pedro Franco Heidi Loughlin Cheyann Clark Leanne Hock (?) Emma Houlston Gemma Nuttall Sophie Sabbage

Marieke and her mum never got along. She's going to kill herself as a birthday present.

Claribel Alegria got an Independent obit (!) at least.

I sent something.. ..good luck everyone!

Donald Trump's bio probably, and sadly, needs updating.