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Louis Farrakhan has been in the news recently because of an old photo that shows him with not-yet President Obama: http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/democrats-louis-farrakhan-photos/ Maybe some things will develop from that. Here's a follow-up article with a Farrakhan picture from October: https://www.jta.org/2018/02/01/news-opinion/politics/what-was-louis-farrakhan-doing-at-a-congressional-black-caucus-meeting

New poem: https://somethingbeginningwithc.com/2018/02/01/when-no-ones-looking/

My first thought was her own parents. Her mother often accompanies her, I don't know about the father. Her parents are divorced.

Someone "very close" to Queen Letizia of Spain was diagnosed with cancer.... who could it be? http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/spain/queen-letizia-a-person-that-i-love-very-much-was-diagnosed-with-cancer-95617

Prince Henrik has a benign lung tumour: https://www.thelocal.dk/20180202/denmarks-prince-henrik-has-benign-lung-tumour-palace

And now: Some other ranking: The probability score divided by the full potential score becomes: The safety index. For example, the Love Boat's current probabilistic score is 168,725. The full point potential is 230 (assuming unnatural death for Marieke Vervoort, but for noone else) 168,725/230=0,7336 = 73,36% The higher the index the more "safe" is a team. 1. Bucket of Blood 79,54% 2. 20 Hits no Problem 77,90% 3. Drollercoaster 77,23% 4. To Kill a Gabor Sister 75,28% 5. DDP Tofoa 74,75% 6. Ethnic Cleansing 74,66% 7. Still Life 73,71% 8. The Love Boat 73,36% 9. Dead Ends 73,25% 10. The Living End 73,03% Bucket of Blood leads, because he/she "went safe". The two old, but also very likely to die,Charlotte Rae and Dilip Kumar show that for this team, the number of hits was more important than the potential points of younger, riskier picks. 20 Hits no Problem is also ranking appropriately high. Many people with a high chance to die, but very low potential points. The "riskiest" team out of those I calculated scores for is The Whipping Posts at 44,26% followed closely by Still More Life. But then, the point of the B-Teams was to pick interesting people and to score some points on the side, so to say.

An update, now with Paul Alcock and Sara Chivers (and Francisco Nunez Oliveira), and some new team scores, but I think only one of them, Ethnic Cleansing, makes the Top 20. Lots of teams in the 140-point range... 20 hits no problem has 128,54pts. But the intent of the team is number of hits, not score, anyway 1. Dead Ends (177,265) 2. Bucket of Blood (174,995) - Paul Alcock! 3. Deceased Hose (170,44) 4. Dead Wait (169,795) 5. The Love Boat (168,725) - Sara Chivers! 6. Day in the Death (167,575) 7. Drollercoaster (166,0525) 8. Still Life (165,845) 9. Wormer, he's a dead man!... (165,1725) 10. Ethnic Cleansing (163,51) 11. To Kill a Gabor Sister (163,3625) 12. Poochie Died on the Way back to his home planet (160,9425) - Paul Alcock! 13. Shaun of the Dead 69 (159,803) 14. GUN - Ami Brown (159,2925) 15. GUN - Gabriele Grunewald (158,1525) 16. The Living End (157,005) 17. People Who I think might die in 2018 United (156,293) 18. Thomas Jefferson Survives (155,845) 19. Heading Nowhere (155,5225) - Paul Alcock! 20. DDP Tofoa (153,23) I hope I have all the unique/non-unique scores now adjusted correctly. I wonder if any other teams need to be scored. Which one also has the potential to enter the Top 20? I scored 47 teams so far. I hope to avoid scoring any more, but will do so when a previously unscored team stays in the "official" Top Ten for a while.

Ahem, my pick Mike Watson died in January. Only found out now, too late: https://www.singingnews.com/featured/mike-watson-passes-away/ Edit: Happened to me last year, too, in the first round.

Now he got a regional BBC obit: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-42902341 Is there more in store?

Would-be obit for the DDP: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5346583/Jon-Huntsman-Sr-Utah-billionaire-philanthropist-dies.html Back in 2015, I didn't yet fully grasp the Daily Mail/AP copy-paste. Today, I would assume an obit.

The person isn't dead yet. And actually very underwhelming. Doesn't have a wikipedia page in spite of regular coverage.

Well, that, AND, I forgot about the captain.

According to Wikipedia/their belarussian link, Barys Kit died on the first: https://nn.by/?c=ar&i=204209

Garn's game ended on January 9th... ah, so close...

My pick Johnnie Lindsey died today: http://www.wfaa.com/news/dallas-exoneree-loses-battle-with-liver-cancer/512349953 (see editor's note)

My theory: Natalie Wood was accidentally killed by violent double penetration.

Unpicked, but I bet Death Impends knew about him/her. It just amazes me how some search results appear long after the fact. (a week in this case) I will let you know once the person dies, just a matter of days.

I think I was wrong in forgetting/ignoring Liam Miller.

Obviously a fan of "100 Years of Solitude".

Ugh... found out about a perfect pick I could have known before submitting.... Ah well, the grass is always greener (or bluer?) on the other side.

Republican Party train wreck, one killed: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42894295

"Very good results" in cancer treatment: https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0131/937223-gay-byrne/

I stumbled across the original Ocean's 11 movie and noticed that one of the eleven, Henry Silva, is still alive. Wikipedia has him at age 89, but a friend, who blogged about him, said he was 91 in 2017: https://www.geralddipego.com/blog/2017/10/3/a-toast-to-all-these-men Edit: DDP pick with age 89..hmm...

I've never knitted (knot?) an animal, nor anything else, but if I did, it would be a hamster. Edit: Fuck, I thought this was my 5000th post. Edit: Damnit, the stupid BBC one is it.