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Children's books illustrator Marcia Brown is dead at 96: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-caldecott-winning-illustrator-marcia-brown-dies-20150507-story.html

I hope Winton survives. Now that I've lost this competition with zero points, I want it to stay that way. If I lose, I want to lose really, really badly.

Claude Durand, french writer, but also, and mainly, translator of spanish literature into french, has died at 76: http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/claude-durand-has-died/103100

'Top Al-Qaeda militant' Nasser al-Ansi killed in Yemen: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32629816 He might have been involved in the planning of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

The crane got her out, the crane will get her in: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/georgia-davis-heavy-duty-crane-winch-5634293 I actually wanted to post the original story last week. The girl has a sort-of claim to national fame as Britain's formerly fattest teenager, and she has already had health problems (not that surprising) They should have a contest of eating each other to death. So, I've refined my idea, a bit. Georgia Davies and Carl Thomas each sit at opposite ends of a gym, in which there is a large, lockable, box. A massive chinese carry out is brought in to stink the place out, placed in the box and locked away. Georgia and Carl know the key to open the box is taped to a wallbar, and is 15 feet up. Together, they can, just about, contrive to reach it. But neither one wants to share the grub. That's an hour of "reality" television gold right there! I think one of the Saw movies had a scene like that.

Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone may be doing MUCH worse than it has been told: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/sumner-redstone-retirement-health-viacom-future

-meh- sorry, two posts above... (why is the Guardian so late with this obit?)

Today's day in court was cancelled because of the "bad state of health" of Mr. Groening: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/prozesstag-im-auschwitz-verfahren-vorzeitig-beendet-oskar-groening-in-schlechtem-gesundheitszustand/11737296.html(link in german, but I bet english articles will appear, since the trial has received a fair bit of attention abroad.)

Even more on Georgia Davis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067016/She-s-just-young-girl-fighting-addiction-Mother-Britain-s-fattest-woman-tells-55st-daughter-s-torment-22-year-old-rescued-flat-crane.html She's on anti-deppresants, recently had a fall and a severe infection. This was really sad: She (her mother) insists Georgia is now eating salads and greens in a bid to lose weight, though she admits the occasional takeaway and plates of sausage and chips are also part of her daughter’s diet.

Oooh, my 4th theme team hit and my Joker... Congratulations! Funny how such a seemingly random idea has led to so much success. And you've still got BB King and René Angélil! Though, I have to confess, I'm cheering even more for the team of Ronnies.

The crane got her out, the crane will get her in: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/georgia-davis-heavy-duty-crane-winch-5634293 I actually wanted to post the original story last week. The girl has a sort-of claim to national fame as Britain's formerly fattest teenager, and she has already had health problems (not that surprising) They should have a contest of eating each other to death.

Ryan Gosling eats his cereal Touching story. The guy even received a DDP-qualifying obit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ryan-gosling-wont-eat-cereal-5638085 But then not every internet celebrity catches the attention of Ryan Gosling.

He actually died after falling off his running machine and hitting his head: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dave-goldberg-dead-husband-facebook-5638084

A president of my own alma mater, the Free University of Berlin, has died at 90: Eberhard Lämmert: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/zum-tod-des-germanisten-eberhard-laemmert-ein-diplomat-der-literatur/11730046.html The Free University was originally founded as an academic connection to the United States, as a counterweight to the Humboldt University which was situated in communist East Berlin. Things got a little complicated with the student protests of 1968 and their decidely anti-american sentiment after the Vietnam War. The Free University was a center of the student protests and experienced heavy ideological conflicts which continued for a couple of years as Germany went through the terror attacks of the Red Army Faction. Then there was the Yom Kippur War, the oil crisis and other things that made the 70s a difficult time... but with Mr. Lämmert's presidency (1976-1983) things calmed down. Mr. Lämmert, like the current president, was a german philogist, by the way.

Could be. The research might have lead to an increasing degree of matching picks among the top teams. In 2014, the top two teams (far ahead of the other teams) only had 2 common picks among their hits. But 2014 was a tricky year because lots of the supposedly sure hits were misses. In 2013, the top 2 teams had 5 matches. Nr. 1 and nr. 3 also had 5 matches, and nr. 2 and nr. 3 had 8 matches, in a record-breaking year. Currently, team nr. 1 and nr. 2 already have 7 common hits, before Martin Crowe and Kate Granger (I guess it's a certainty that one of these two people will definitely die in 2015). Teams nr. 1 and 3 also already have 7 hits. It's definitely harder to get to the top with left-field picks.

Why not Charlotte Diana Elizabeth? Probably intra-family politics.

These comments are asking for a little OCD: Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schulz, born 1947) was part of the Enterprise TNG crew. Or what about Q a.k.a. John De Lancie (born 1948)? He was sort-of part of the crew in one episode. Or Commander Elizabeth Shelby from the Borg episodes (Elizabeth Dennehy, born 1960). Then there was Captain Jelico, who replaced Captain Picard for a secret mission (in Romulan space if I recall correctly). He was played by Ronny Cox (born 1938). Though he might be a better candidate for the Deliverance thread on this forum.

Now switching to Labour: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/04/russell-brand-changes-mind-about-voting-and-urges-support-for-labour

Ryan McHenry, creator of the "Ryan Gosling won't eat his cereal" vine videos (yes, really!), has died of cancer at 27: http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/ryan-mchenry-creator-of-ryan-gosling-wont-eat-his-/27b44139-cf35-4517-845f-783d6ac4a365.htm His fans are now asking Mr. Gosling to eat cereal as a tribute.

Chelsea player Ramires hospitalized with 'kidney problems': http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/574785/Chelsea-Ramires-Hospital-Injury

Former french boxing champion Sauveur Chiocca is dead at 86: http://www.nicematin.com/nice/lex-champion-de-france-de-boxe-sauveur-chiocca-est-mort-dimanche-a-nice-0.2196358.html(french link)

The father of the DSL-technology, Joseph Lechleider is dead at 82: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/technology/joseph-lechleider-a-father-of-the-dsl-internet-technology-dies-at-82.html I guess in 10 years, nobody will remember what DSL is anymore.

I haven't yet said thanks to the Man in Black for all this work, so thank you! I imagine it's quite a lot of work to keep the database in order.

Classical records "mastermind" Paul Myers has died at 83: http://slippedisc.com/2015/05/a-classical-record-master-has-died/ (somehow that website is often very high on my search list)

The last of the 'Irish pardon' soldiers, Phil Farrington, is dead at 94: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/last-irish-pardon-soldier-phil-5632045 Their pardon was for the desertion from the Irish army to fight with the allied forces.