Great work Scotty. I particularly love the running commentary in the reveal

I'll tell you who's not in yet, the defending champion, nor the runner-up. Archer has done a hit and run. Tal fuming that I robbed him of victory.

Thks for the reminder. Sent if not too late.

He's only agueroed it...

Well done, Archer!

 

Ah fuck

 

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Great quiz and thanks Scotty

Well done and congratulations Tal

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So been a busy couple of weeks but seems like a good time for a work update...

Saw this link earlier, and although I know some of you don't like the paper I think this headline is going to be reasonably accurate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211739/Farce-banks-coronavirus-crisis-loans-just-5-000-businesses.html

We still don't have anything agreed and an actual CBIL doesn't appear to be on the table, but to be fair to them there have been a lot changes for us since the process first started.

We secured an order for 4000 metal storage trolleys going into NHS Nightingale. The first 250 went in on Friday and the remainder are to be delivered through the rest of the month. That was our biggest ever single order.......

Until we found out that one of our Chinese suppliers has a huge amount of PPE available for sale. We have an operation in the USA and things moved very quickly and we now have a 747 full of PPE being delivered to the USA government on Thursday.

Further to this, I can get a lot more and even 2000 ventilators but I believe the pricing on these is hugely inflated so I have made offers to NHS & Bupa.

Makes me wonder what the UK Government are doing if I can source it so easily.

Crazy times compared to wondering if the business would make it through the year 2 weeks ago.

Hey All

Been a busy couple of weeks since this post!

747 of PPE successfully delivered to NY State Government last week

But what is more unbelievable is we offered the same service to the NHS two weeks ago...... nothing.

A week ago we spoke to Nicky Morgan who but us directly in touch with Matt Hancock.
He passed us on to the cabinet team in charge of sourcing PPE. We were a priority offer for review as we had access to gowns. A week later we have submitted spec sheets but they've ordered nothing.

In that same week NY have sorted their second order for 3 more planes full!

It's no wonder we are short of PPE!

Incredible. Nice one, a brilliant story and turn round for you and your company.

After all the song and dance about the 747 from Turkey to the UK last week and 1st hand accounts of the PPE issues from 2 of my doctor contacts, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the UK weren't able to benefit here despite your efforts.

What do you think the reasons are? Cost, spec, inefficiency or something else?

Has to be inefficiency.

NHS via their portal have not come back asking for specs, just have not responded full stop
Cabinet office are still checking specs, they have come back for clarification on one item, we haven't even started to discuss pricing yet

I have a quote in to the NHS via a different route and I believe they are happy with the pricing, and are trying to action it faster.

Fascinating - cheers.

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So been a busy couple of weeks but seems like a good time for a work update...

Saw this link earlier, and although I know some of you don't like the paper I think this headline is going to be reasonably accurate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211739/Farce-banks-coronavirus-crisis-loans-just-5-000-businesses.html

We still don't have anything agreed and an actual CBIL doesn't appear to be on the table, but to be fair to them there have been a lot changes for us since the process first started.

We secured an order for 4000 metal storage trolleys going into NHS Nightingale. The first 250 went in on Friday and the remainder are to be delivered through the rest of the month. That was our biggest ever single order.......

Until we found out that one of our Chinese suppliers has a huge amount of PPE available for sale. We have an operation in the USA and things moved very quickly and we now have a 747 full of PPE being delivered to the USA government on Thursday.

Further to this, I can get a lot more and even 2000 ventilators but I believe the pricing on these is hugely inflated so I have made offers to NHS & Bupa.

Makes me wonder what the UK Government are doing if I can source it so easily.

Crazy times compared to wondering if the business would make it through the year 2 weeks ago.

Hey All

Been a busy couple of weeks since this post!

747 of PPE successfully delivered to NY State Government last week

But what is more unbelievable is we offered the same service to the NHS two weeks ago...... nothing.

A week ago we spoke to Nicky Morgan who but us directly in touch with Matt Hancock.
He passed us on to the cabinet team in charge of sourcing PPE. We were a priority offer for review as we had access to gowns. A week later we have submitted spec sheets but they've ordered nothing.

In that same week NY have sorted their second order for 3 more planes full!

It's no wonder we are short of PPE!

Incredible. Nice one, a brilliant story and turn round for you and your company.

After all the song and dance about the 747 from Turkey to the UK last week and 1st hand accounts of the PPE issues from 2 of my doctor contacts, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the UK weren't able to benefit here despite your efforts.

What do you think the reasons are? Cost, spec, inefficiency or something else?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-52221688

Shameful scenes.

Just been talking about that and amazed at the numbers particularly police being called out to " 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties" over a 4 day period.

Hope it prompts the release of the same numbers for the rest of the country and not just greater manchester.

Reports coming in of London being under military lockdown by the weekend troops are already being deployed not sure how much truth in this

Laura Kuenssberg: "No 10 says there is 'zero prospect' of a big lockdown of London - as we've been reporting there might be tightening of restrictions but remember that is VERY different from other suggestions of travel bans or the kind of total lockdowns some other countries have pursued"

Guess it's happening then.......

I was quite surprised to see Leicester a general 7/1 and 5/1 draw no bet at Man C tomorow night

8 wins and a draw in 9

4 points ahead in the table

only conceded 11 goals in 17 league games

Can counter-attack if needed.

It's not the 10-1 we were in this fixture a year ago but City aren't as strong in central defence and holding midfield, due to injuries

I have seen worse 1.85+ bets on the Leicester +1.5 asian handicap anyway. Gl.

I'm on this with different bets both Asian and standard as I often do when betting against City when value.No question performance has been way off compared to the last couple of seasons. Multiple reasons for that and not just those alluded to by Tighty.

City still remain the xG kings though - best for xG and NPxGA.  Using understat, city top the table based on expected points. Actual points running at -5.  Meanwhile Leicester are +9 and Liverpool a staggering +15.

My favourite mad stat for xG is City are now on a winning streak of an unprecedented 34 league  games on the bounce. Clearly some perception of poor performance is overdone and no doubt feeds into the odds.

[Those uplands look sunlit to me.]

What a night and a good start to the day with enjoyable short speeches by Gove and Johnson rejoicing in the determination of the British people to not be cowed by the remainiac movement.

Properly triumphalist in celebrating the British rejecting the lunacy of the antisemitic, identity obsessed, climate bandwagoning, Marxist economics of the Labour party and the anti democratic, smug, Waitrosian, gender self id ing Lib Dems. But clearly aware of a broader responsibility to those people voting Tory for the first time.

Those uplands look sunlit to me. I won't have to listen to Pidcock and Swinson for a while, Brexit will be done within a few weeks - the world will continue, the British economy will take off over the next few years.

Haven't felt like an election could really change things since Blair won in 1997 but this one will and I feel very optimistic.

The result showed Jonathan Ashworth to be more visionary than banterer. Hopefully Labour can collect themselves and replace hand wringing, whining, talking Britain down, obsession with grievance and identity politics and wild economic policy with something that can be seen as a viable alternative to the Tories

At moments like these you need a bit of Sir Ivan in your life 

A very long read but I'm confident you will persevere. Enjoy.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ivan-rogers-i-do-not-think-johnson-will-pivot-to-a-softer-brexit-general-election-conservative-majority

I've enjoyed reading his perspectives before but this was a very short read - did you put the wrong link in.

I did. Try this:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ivan-rogers-on-brexit-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-eu-trade-deal-boris-johnson-labour-election-speech-glasgow

[Those uplands look sunlit to me.]

What a night and a good start to the day with enjoyable short speeches by Gove and Johnson rejoicing in the determination of the British people to not be cowed by the remainiac movement.

Properly triumphalist in celebrating the British rejecting the lunacy of the antisemitic, identity obsessed, climate bandwagoning, Marxist economics of the Labour party and the anti democratic, smug, Waitrosian, gender self id ing Lib Dems. But clearly aware of a broader responsibility to those people voting Tory for the first time.

Those uplands look sunlit to me. I won't have to listen to Pidcock and Swinson for a while, Brexit will be done within a few weeks - the world will continue, the British economy will take off over the next few years.

Haven't felt like an election could really change things since Blair won in 1997 but this one will and I feel very optimistic.

The result showed Jonathan Ashworth to be more visionary than banterer. Hopefully Labour can collect themselves and replace hand wringing, whining, talking Britain down, obsession with grievance and identity politics and wild economic policy with something that can be seen as a viable alternative to the Tories

At moments like these you need a bit of Sir Ivan in your life 

A very long read but I'm confident you will persevere. Enjoy.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ivan-rogers-i-do-not-think-johnson-will-pivot-to-a-softer-brexit-general-election-conservative-majority

I have to confess that I was a bit shocked to find that anyone would think Hillary was guilty.

It seemed so obvious that he was set up, from the original police interview when he was supposed to answer some questions about a list and ended up being stripped and photographed, (Why wasn't the cop boyfriend stripped btw?) to the prosecutor crying to the judge for a guilty verdict because he had no evidence, to the campaigning on the fact that she would convict him if elected

But it's not beyond the realms of possibility that I'm just much more naïve than I thought I was.

Bad policing which was racially led.

As Archer, Teddy and Neil said I think he is guilty but wouldn’t convict based on the shoddy job the Postdam police did.

There were to many inconsistencies in NH’s story.

Just for the record  I don't think he is guilty 

Cheers for the tip Tom. Really enjoyed watching this.
Very conscious that this is made from a biased perspective, & knowing that means that it is difficult to accept any of it at face value.

Genuinely hope the he didn't do it, but I don't think there is a credible alternative presented.

Good to see you here Neil, there's always room for another Wise Elder to accompany nirvana.

PS - we can't assume Hillary was guilty on the basis we can't come up with an alternative. The most credible witness - for me - was Hillary's daughter. If she was lying, she has a great future as an actress.  

Yes I thought she was very credible as well. As was the assistant coach.