Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

EXEC Ive seen somewhere where it says he still owns 2.8% or something like that Ill try and find it on twitter.

Has Mili-Bland got nothing better to do than continue his smear of Lord Freud... I think his time would be better spent concentrating on the substance of his manifesto... Mind you it wouldn't surprise me if Mili managed to hang himself with all the rope he's been given..

When President Barack Obama first spoke about Ebola after an American aid worker was flown to Atlanta for treatment having contracted the disease in West Africa, he said the risk of an outbreak was small in the extreme. It was all about containment.
Spool forward to today, and let's just look at the maths for Texas alone.
The Dallas Presbyterian Hospital treated one Liberian, Thomas Duncan, who died. From caring for him, two nurses have now contracted the disease.
Nearly 80 health workers are under observation. It is claimed by the biggest nursing union that those charged with his care did not have the right protective clothing, flesh was exposed, there were no clear guidelines of what to wear, how to wear it, and how to disrobe.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concedes that it is possible flesh was left exposed when treating Duncan. And that is why among those nearly 80 still under observation, no one can rule out the possibility that there will be further cases.
This is a crude, and damning, statistic but so far Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has treated thousands of people in West Africa with Ebola, and has seen 16 medical workers contract the disease. This hospital in Dallas has treated just one patient, and has two sick healthcare staff.

In the country with the most advanced healthcare of anywhere in the world, with the best trained health workers, with resources that any third world medical centre would kill for, the question that - not surprisingly - is being asked is how in the name of God is this possible.
Now if this bit causes you to arch an eyebrow, the next bit has caused many jaws to hit the floor. The day before the second nurse was diagnosed she flew on a commercial flight from Cleveland, Ohio, back to Dallas.
The CDC is now trying to reach 132 passengers who were on the plane with her as a matter of urgency. The CDC has said it was a clear breach of guidelines and protocol for a health worker under observation to fly, or travel on a bus or a train. But did the nurse herself know this?

The infected nurse flew on Frontier Airlines the evening before diagnosis
Remember that word containment? It seems to be quite the reverse. It is as though someone has taken Steven Soderbergh's script from the film Contagion and decided to try to make it reality - what is it they say about life imitating art?
Of course, there is no serious outbreak in the US - there are two healthcare workers who've contracted the disease and are receiving the best possible treatment, and it may be that these will be the first and last cases contracted in the country.
But no wonder the president has cancelled his scheduled trips to New Jersey and Connecticut today. The public like to see their political leaders "gripping" a crisis. What has been seen so far is a crisis being fumbled.

Exec this might help.........Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245 million shares in supermarket giant Tesco.

The sale brings Berkshire's holding to below 3%.

It could only happen in America

Could it ? or Spain. It seems the UK as got its act together and is well prepared

GF

Going upwards instead of downwards, he does not have to report until he actually does pass the 3% level of ownership..

I don't actually know if he has to report exactly what shares he still owns if the percentage of shares actually does drop below the 3% level.

However, there is a space on the form to do this and it has been left blank. In doing so, one interpretation to readers is that 'blank=NIL'

cynic unlike you I am a very honest person and my family diea fighting to make the uk great . they did not run away . they would now turn in their graves to se the uk today . they died for nothing buried in Poland . the uk is dumping ground for all the scum from other countries . all those that died fighting for peace died for nothing
you will not agree that is fact .

the people of the uk are going to vote ukip make no mistake we have had enough of the eu scum

GF

You say: "Exec this might help.........Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245 million shares in supermarket giant Tesco.

The sale brings Berkshire's holding to below 3%."

That is all very well, but what is the source of your copy and paste? Is it a reliable one or just someone's opinion? You don't actually say.

if eblola is not airborne why I they breaking their necks to find the 130 people on were on a flight in the usa

They all touched the tops of the backs of the seats on their way down the aisle of the plane.

Exec yep your probably right Ive seen another tweet that says the company have NOT DISCLOSED how much stock they still own, so that looks to me like they still have some (below 3%) .......but for how long.

TANKER they were sat in the plane not on the wings.

GF

I found your posting excerpt from the BBC's site.

Just as I suspected, the reporter merely has an opinion on things and has given it. It is just a journalist's 'opinion' and not the 'fact' and so could be totally incorrect.

Some of these RNS announcements are so bad and so misleading they are not worth the paper they are written on.

If the sage has dumped ALL his shares, then that fact is extremely important.

If he has retained a holding but kept it below 3%, then that is also important.

Tanker,post 47788, possibly because people use toilets in planes!

I fly a lot and never touch anyone or seats that I do not seat but always have the exit seats or I do not fly do not like anyone infront of myself . 11e 11d

Tanker

You have a brain. Why don't you use it and think just a little more widely about things?

doodle thanks . I very rarely use the toilet then always wash my hands
but now you mention it thanks

It will do no good if this strain of ebola is airborne, it will circulate through the aircrafts ventilation system.

For Tinker,

You wipe the taps before you turn them on or off. (unless electronic trigger)

You wipe the door handles before using them.

You don't brush into anyone going on off the plane.

Perhaps they wiped their hands on their clothes. (Transient.)

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But Ebola should be easier to contain than other "nasties"!

It transmits through body fluid.
Those who were in touch with the two Americans who died are fine, aren't they?