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German football team just beat English football team after penalties.

Ahem, yes, that reduces his life expectancy. No 2018 after all. There were some calls to treat him in another country. But if it's useless...

Elias Burstein, pioneer in the development of silicon semiconductors, dead at 99: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/science/elias-burstein-dies-physicist.html

ABC publicist Chris Chamberlin dies under "mysterious circumstances": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4641540/ABC-publicist-Chris-Chamberlin-dies-holidaying-India.html

I had to check again. Bowie apparently lived with it for 18 months: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/david-bowie-dead-what-is-liver-cancer-the-disease-which-claimed-the-singers-life-a6807191.html Yiaobo was diagnosed in May. Bowie's treatment apparently stopped three months before his death: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/06/david-bowie-didnt-know-he-was-dying-until-last-few-months-documentary-reveals Yiaobo is still getting treated, though the prognosis is very, very bad.

Hardanger fjord. That must be where my favourite Instrument comes from.

Yes, I thought of him as well. He had a return of cancer though. And his heart problems might have weakened him additionally.

Good, in my opinion. It takes a long time until the liver ceases functioning. If it hasn't spread yet he might still live for a while. Then again, who knows how long he's had it.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/jerry-nelson-astronomer-1.4174033 Jerry Nelson, astronomer whose innovations built the world's greatest telescopes, dead at 73.

Today I dreamt that Dilip Kumar died and I edited my Generation Game team. It's the first time I dreamt of Deadpooling-related things, as far as I am aware.

I bet Diana Rots' picks 17-20 were my non-obit Jackie Storrar and three non-obiting Shameless folks.

Tony Bennett still canceling concerts over that flu virus: https://www.aikenpromotions.com/component/thelist/show/1013-tony-bennett-live-at-the-bord-gais-energy-theatre-live-in-bord-gais-energy-theatre-dublin-Ireland-on-25-Jun-2017.html?Itemid=1013

Gary Haggarty has pleaded guilty to over 200 charges: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40379903 The numerous articles in the press on this make, again, no mention of his health.

War journalist Veronique Robert dies after getting injured in Mossul: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/24/veronique-robert-journalist-dies-paris-wounded-mosul-explosion-iraq

Wasn't Cancerous Hatred Dr. Zorders? I considered Colin Baddiel for Shameless. But Pick's Disease just didn't seem terminal enough.

Gemma Nuttall, supposedly dying of multiple tumours everywhere, now in Germany and everything is going super: https://www.gofundme.com/teamgemma?u=14749342 But let's see if "Going to Hallwang clinic" is basically the same as "going to Mexico".

Update: I had to clean up the Van Zandvliet-mess I made the last time. Because at some point during the last update, I wanted to check what would happen if Van Zandvliet became a hit. But then I forgot to switch it back to normal (I was only a couple of days too quick.). As a consequence, some people already had the full score for Van Zandvliet, but some didn't. Those who didn't, include Pan Preed, Golden Slumbers and TJS. That's why the scoreboard at the top is now significantly changed. Pan Breed doesn't re-enter the Top20 in spite of me promising it the last time, because the boost for Helen Fawkes (for Dead as a Doornail) was bigger than the one for Van Zandvliet. I had considered Fawkes basically cured. DDP Tofoa had a hit with Helmut Kohl and is now at 132,84pts. And there's Mao Kobayashi, who was The Dead Cow's joker and whose death has a similar effect to that of Julia Perez. Perez gained 7 Pts with her death in my calculation, Kobayashi "only" gained about 4 pts, but as a joker, they count twice, so The Dead Cow gets a boost of about 8pts. This joker bonus can only be beaten by the joker bonus for al-Baghdadi. He would gain about 6 pts with his unnatural death, so 12pts for those who have him as a joker.(Edit: Dead as A Doornail has Pete Frates as a joker. He'd actually gain about 13pts if he were to become a hit.) 1. Thomas Jefferson Survives (179,54) (+1) 2. Bert Trautmann (179,14) (+1) 3. David Quantick's Showbiz Pals (175,24) (-2) 4. Still Life (173,58) (+4) 5. To Kill a Gabor Sister (173,33) (-1) 6. The Love Boat (165,28) (+1) 7. Poochie Died on the Way Back to His Home Planet (163,55) (-2) 8. Deceased Hose (161,15) (-2) 9. drollercoaster (159,14) (---) 10. Buckets of Blood (157,51) (+5) 11. Dead Ends (156,6275) (-1) 12. The Living End (155,39) (-1) 13. New Years and Drinks All Night (155,36) (-1) 14. Heading Nowhere (154,82) (-1) 15. Crossing The Styx (154,26) (-1) 16. Day in the Death (151,79) (---) 17. I'm sorry for your trouble (149,97) (---) 18. I will not die, it's the world that will end! (149,83) (---) 19. Dead as a Doornail (148,49) (new) 20. Drunkasaskunk (146,71) (-1) So, a new leader! It was the trifecta of Errol Christie, Julia Perez and Paul Van Zandvliet. However, my feeling of TJS being the most likely winner had been there for some time (which shows that this statistical exercise may not necessarily be an improvement). Stefan Karl's now very likely death will confirm it, because he's only at 5,85pts in my calculation (50:50 chance of dying and I wasn't 100% sure about his obitability at the beginning of the year. But now I know that there'll be no doubt about it). Since Stefan Karl is worth 13 pts, TJS will gain more than 7pts on Golden Slumbers. Something he can only counter with Jerome Golmard (a pick that, in my opinion, came one or two years too early). Dead as a Doornail is new in the Top 20 and the death of Pete Frates would push him into the Top 10. Shaun of the Dead is now waiting just outside the Top 20, but with the picks of Frates, Stefansson and Hart he'll probably make it very soon. Also, to repeat, the next update will see a half-of-the-year score reduction for all picks without terminal illnesses. I have decided NOT to reduce points for al-Baghdadi, as ISIS basically has a terminal illness now, and it's advancing quickly.... But some of the picks that will be affected by it are: Bruce Forsyth, Alberto Fujimori, Anna Holmlund, Vincent Lambert, a couple of my reserve team picks, even the Shameless pick Juan Pedro Franco, and a couple of others.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Austria, watching his replacement sing an aria, and then joining him for a while. http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/musik/klassik_oper/900228_Eine-Sommernachtsrobengala.html (link to Austrian newspaper) They write that his brain tumour is now affecting his sense of balance. He also looks aged. Downie or him, who will go first...

Indeed, Botswana got very lucky with him and his successor. I only got to know him a couple of months ago by an economics book on institutions. Masire was a good man. In 1980, Zimbabwe was considered to be a rich country in the future. But then they got Mugabe... Botswana however is on a good path.

I had considered Julia Perez the bigger punt. Who would have thought that the right way to play it was to pick both?

BBC world obit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40378443

Well, while I'M hoping for a QO for Kobayashi, here is another japanese suggestion: Kohey Nishi, 24, japanse porn star dwarf with mucopolysaccharidosis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4536810/Japanese-3ft-porn-star-capitalises-looking-like-CHILD.html (not necessarily safe for work) However, a bone marrow transplant has currently halted the progress of the terminal illness.

QO for you: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4630146/Buddy-Valastro-mourns-loss-mother.html

They say grade 4 - unless they're confusing it with stage 4, it means that it's a highly aggressive cancer. One could have guessed it by the speed with which it returned. But now we know why Stefansson is declining faster than Meads - whose cancer is probably less aggressive.

I only just saw that. I hope they quoted me.