-= TOS, Season 2, Episode 13, The Trouble with Tribbles =-

To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, hungry little creatures as pets.

• Teleplay By: David Gerrold
• Story By: David Gerrold
• Directed By: Joseph Pevney
• Original Air Date: 29 December, 1967
• Remastered Air Date: 29 December, 1967
• Stardate: 4523.3 - 4525.6
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• Pensky Podcast
• Ex Astris Scientia - 9/10
• AV Club - A
• TOS Watch Guide by SiliconGold

 

Athletics @ Pirates - Wed, Jun 07

Game Status: Scheduled - First Pitch is scheduled for 09:35 AM PDT

Links & Info

• Venue: PNC Park
• TV: National: MLBN (out-of-market only), Athletics: NBCSCA, Pirates: ATT SportsNet-PIT
• Radio: Athletics: Bloomberg 960 AM/103.7 HD2, A's Cast, Pirates: 100.1 FM/KDKA-AM 1020
• MLB Gameday
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• Discord

ALW Rank	Team	W	L	GB (E#)	WC Rank	WC GB (E#)
1	Texas Rangers	40	20	- (-)	-	- (-)
2	Houston Astros	36	25	4.5 (98)	2	+0.5 (-)
3	Los Angeles Angels	32	30	9.0 (93)	5	4.0 (97)
4	Seattle Mariners	30	30	10.0 (93)	7	5.0 (97)
5	Oakland Athletics	13	50	28.5 (73)	12	23.5 (77)

	Probable Pitcher (Season Stats)	Report
Athletics	Hogan Harris (0-0, 6.97 ERA, 10.1 IP)	No report posted.
Pirates	Roansy Contreras (3-4, 4.82 ERA, 56.0 IP)	No report posted.

Division Scoreboard

SEA @ SD 01:10 PM PDT
HOU @ TOR 04:07 PM PDT
STL @ TEX 05:05 PM PDT
CHC @ LAA 06:38 PM PDT
^{Posted: 06/07/2023 06:00:00 AM PDT}

I understand that the drama has to be here but it's only episode 3 and we cant catch a break! First Amelia takes my man, than ivy does her tricks, then roberto CAN'T take a hint and then my man jumps in bed with the wrong twin...... smh... I want pEACE.
But I am enjoying this season so far! An improvement!

Hey all, hope you all okay.
I had my first episode of pneumothorax a month ago on the right side. After spending a week at the hospital with a chest tube, I’ve had surgical pleurodesis, as things were too long to heal by themselves.
Everything went well, and I’ve been dispatched 3 days after surgery. I also had an appointment with a pulmonologist, and everything is perfectly fine.
However I had a few questions (that I also asked the doctor) I wanted to ask to you guys, as many of you probably went through this already.
First, since surgery, it seems like I lost some feeling on my skin. To clarify, when I touch my lower ribs region, I almost can’t feel anything, like having pins and needles, without the itching part. Do some of you felt the same? Will I be able to feel any touch sensation ever again in this area? Or will I forgot about this feeling as time goes? Doctor only said that it’s normal, but didn’t give me the full answer I was looking for.
In July, for a week there’s a music festival with heavy soundsystems that I planned to attend. There will be really loud music and basses, that will make my inner body shake a lot. I will add that I went to a concert on Saturday. I felt a bit of chest pain, but after 30 min of rest, everything went back to normal, and I can’t feel any consequences right now. However as I said, the festival will be a week long, and it’s nothing like a few hours concert. Could that cause an issue with my PT? Can the acoustic cause any trouble?
Lastly, I used to smoke joints and cigs, but now stopped. I’ve only smoked one cig in weeks, but don’t feel like doing it again. I wonder if plant vaporizing could cause any harm to my lungs. I know that combustion and smoke is really bad and will cause harm, no doubt. But there are medical devices that are used in hospitals to perform plant vaporization such as the Storz&Bickel brand. Could this be a good alternative to smoking cigs and joints?
I also heard that it’s more potent and healthier, but couldn’t find studies regarding pneumothoraxes and the use of vaporizers. Please don’t confuse plant vaporizers and classic vape, it is supposed to be hot air with no smoke.
Thanks for reading me and I wish you the best!

Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi: Seiiki-hen, episode 9
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I decided to create a system to rank each team on a scale of 1 to 100 on the level of optimism they should have about their team. Each metric is graded a little differently, and I have an explanation for each below.

	Last WS App. (# yrs)	Pts	LCS App's last 10 Yrs	Pts	Last 100-win Season (# yrs)	Pts	MVP/CY/ROY winners last 10	Pts	Last Playoff Series Win (# yrs)	Pts	# Playoff App's last 10	Pts	Winning Seasons Last 10	Pts	Last Winning Season (# yrs)	Pts	TOTAL
Tampa Bay Rays	3	8.0	1	1.67	2	9	3	5.00	3	7.0	5	5	6	6	1	10.0	64.63
Baltimore Orioles	40	-5.0	1	1.67	43	0	0	0.00	9	0.0	2	2	3	3	1	10.0	14.58
New York Yankees	14	0.0	3	5.00	4	7	2	3.33	1	10.0	7	7	10	10	1	10.0	65.42
Toronto Blue Jays	30	-3.0	2	3.33	never	-1	2	3.33	7	1.1	4	4	6	6	1	10.0	29.73
Boston Red Sox	5	6.0	3	5.00	5	6	2	3.33	2	8.5	5	5	6	6	2	7.5	59.19
Minnesota Twins	32	-3.2	0	0.00	4	7	0	0.00	21	0.0	3	3	3	3	4	0.0	12.25
Detroit Tigers	11	0.0	1	1.67	39	0	3	5.00	10	0.0	2	2	3	3	7	0.0	14.58
Chicago White Sox	18	-1.3	0	0.00	106	-1	2	3.33	18	0.0	2	2	2	2	1	10.0	18.79
Kansas City Royals	8	3.0	2	3.33	46	0	0	0.00	8	0.0	2	2	3	3	8	0.0	14.17
Cleveland Guardians	7	4.0	1	1.67	6	5	3	5.00	1	10.0	6	6	9	9	1	10.0	63.33
Houston Astros	1	10.0	6	10.00	1	10	6	10.00	1	10.0	7	7	7	7	1	10.0	92.50
Oakland Athletics	33	-3.4	0	0.00	21	0	0	0.00	3	7.0	5	5	6	6	2	7.5	27.68
Los Angeles Angels	21	-1.2	0	0.00	15	0	5	8.33	14	0.0	1	1	2	2	8	0.0	12.67
Seattle Mariners	never	-6.2	0	0.00	22	0	2	3.33	1	10.0	1	1	5	5	1	10.0	28.92
Texas Rangers	12	0.0	0	0.00	never	-1	0	0.00	12	0.0	2	2	3	3	7	0.0	5.00
Philadelphia Phillies	1	10.0	1	1.67	12	0	1	1.67	1	10.0	1	1	2	2	1	10.0	45.42
New York Mets	8	3.0	1	1.67	1	10	4	6.67	8	0.0	3	3	4	4	1	10.0	47.92
Atlanta Braves	2	9.0	2	3.33	1	10	3	5.00	2	8.5	6	6	6	6	1	10.0	72.32
Washington Nationals	4	7.0	1	1.67	never	-1	3	5.00	4	5.6	4	4	7	7	4	0.0	36.53
Miami Marlins	20	-1.0	0	0.00	never	-1	3	5.00	3	7.0	1	1	1	1	3	2.5	18.18
St. Louis Cardinals	10	1.0	3	5.00	8	3	1	1.67	4	5.6	7	7	10	10	1	10.0	54.03
Pittsburgh Pirates	44	-5.8	0	0.00	114	0	2	3.33	10	0.0	3	3	4	4	5	0.0	5.67
Cincinnati Reds	33	-3.6	0	0.00	47	0	2	3.33	28	0.0	2	2	3	3	2	5.0	12.17
Milwaukee Brewers	41	-5.2	1	1.67	never	-1	3	5.00	5	4.1	4	4	6	6	1	10.0	30.68
Chicago Cubs	7	4.0	3	5.00	7	4	3	5.00	6	2.6	5	5	6	6	4	0.0	39.50
Arizona Diamondbacks	22	-1.4	0	0.00	24	0	0	0.00	6	2.6	1	1	3	3	4	0.0	6.50
Los Angeles Dodgers	3	8.0	6	10.00	1	10	6	10.00	2	8.5	10	10	10	10	1	10.0	95.65
San Francisco Giants	9	2.0	1	1.67	2	9	0	0.00	7	1.1	3	3	5	5	2	7.5	36.61
Colorado Rockies	16	-0.2	0	0.00	never	-1	0	0.00	5	4.1	2	2	2	2	5	0.0	8.60
San Diego Padres	25	-2.0	1	1.67	never	-1	0	0.00	1	10.0	2	2	2	2	1	10.0	28.33

• The first metric is simple - how long has it been since your team has been to the World Series. Coincidentally, this is also the harshest category of grading, since most supporters of long-suffering franchises tend to have very little hope that the curse will ever actually end any time soon. You get 1 point for each year if your team has made the world series in the past 10 years (last year being worth 10, 10 years ago being worth 1). The average of all 30 numbers is 16.67, so I decided to start penalizing teams at 16. 11-15 are worth 0. Anything higher than 15 years is worth -0.2 points per additional year. For the Mariners I went back to the date of their founding.
  
• The second metric is also simple - how many LCS's has your team competed in in the past decade. This one is graded on a curve - the Dodgers and Astros have been in 6, which is the highest, so 6 is worth 10 points.
  
• When is the last time your team has won 100 games? If it;s been in the past 10 years, that's 1 point for each year same as the WS category. This is the only other category that it;s possible to earn negative points in. If your team has never won 100 games, or if has been over a century, I gave you -1 points.
  
• Even if your team isn't the greatest, having one of the biggest and most promising names in the game on your roster will give fans hope. How many Cy Young winners, League MVPs, or Rookies of the Year have your team put out in the past decade. Again, this one is graded on a curve, with 6 being the highest.
  
• When's the last time your team has won a playoff series? This just counts backwards from 10 and stops if it's been more than a decade.
  
• How many winning seasons has your team put out in the last 10 years? 1 point per season.
  
• When's the last time your team had a winning season? Counts backwards from 10 and stops at 0, though that's not actually necessary, because the highest number for any team is 8 years.
  

What if Dan Harmon had written for Season 4? -No Gas Leak Year -Changnesia would have never been a thing but I can't think of anyway Chang would be able to return to the show unless they sent him to prison -WTF was with the tank -Character development would not have been hard reset
-Later seasons would have likely had less appearances from Greendale as Dan Harmon had originally planned (Maybe to the deficit or benefit of the show) -Do you think that the show would have continued down the path of weirdness it was on or would it have grounded itself?
What if NBC never cancelled Community (With the same thing having happened as in reality) -The lighting in Season 6 would have been regular -Its possible that certain new characters would not have appeared at all -The season 6 premiere roof collapse joke would not have appeared -Pacing would be improved due to a more condensed runtime (imo season 6 episodes were too long to the disadvantage of the season)
Sorry for the rambling but these are just ideas that have popped into my head. Anyone got any thoughts or other what ifs?

(WARNING: Drunk post….so sorry for the rambling that you may encounter).
After reading numerous posts and articles, does anyone think season 5 would benefit from a shorter season?
I read that Nickerson’s and Lyle’s pitch was a 5 season plan, and I think it makes perfect sense unlike a lot of people on the internet . My only suggestion would be that the final season should be a shorter season….possibly 6,7 or even 8 episodes at the very most. Since it’s more than likely the final season will cover the 90s timeline, post-rescue, I think it works quality-wise to have a shorter season. At its heart, Yellowjackets always works best when it focuses on the teen timeline as that’s where most of the suspense and anticipation lies. I’d imagine the post-rescue playing out more like a coda. Sort of the like season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where the climax happened the episode before and the finale was the aftermath. Although this time, the climax is all of season 4 while the aftermath, reflection, and introspectiveness is season 5. We see these teenagers adjust to the rules of normal life and witness how they cope and reflect on all of the horrible things they have done.
I can definitely envision the writers wrapping up all of the characters’ storylines in the adult timeline but throwing all of their resolutions away at the very end. Similar to David Lynch in Twin Peaks season 3 (the final season of the best series ever made) - showcasing how the after-effects of trauma never end. Obviously, it most likely won’t be nowhere near the level of Lynch. Hopefully, it will wrap up the show appropriately all while making us wanting more from these characters than ever before.

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I love the show, absolutely love it. I have a 9 year old who loves to play games like Minecraft and Roblox. I supervise him playing and have always taught him the rules. 1. Stranger Danger. 2. Never tell anyone your name, age, or where we live. 3. People online lie all the time.
I wish there was an episode of Underage Undercover that was intended for children to watch that I could show him. It could show a decoy and the ASM grooming, asking for personal information, just without the sexual material. Then end with SOSA investigating and proving that the ASM is a creepy lier. He follows our rules, and I have never had a specific situation that worried me. But I just wish I could show him an episode so he would see that it’s not just Mom whose a paranoid weirdo, there really are bad people out there.

Twins (31-30) @ Rays (44-19)

First Pitch: 6:40 PM at Tropicana Field

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Twins	Pablo Lopez (3-3, 4.54 ERA)	BSNO	TIBN
Rays	Shawn Armstrong (0-0, 0.00 ERA)	BSSUN	WDAE, WQBN (ES)

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Gameday	Game Graph	Strikezone Map	Live Comments	Libera: ##baseball

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Mets @ Braves - 07:20 PM EDT

Game Status: Scheduled

Links & Info

• Venue: Truist Park
• TV: Mets: SNY, Braves: Bally Sports South
• Radio: Mets: Audacy (es), ESPN Deportes 1050 (es), WCBS 880, Braves: La Mejor 1600/1460/1130 AM (es), 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan
• MLB Gameday
• Statcast Game Preview

	Probable Pitcher (Season Stats)	Report
Mets	Max Scherzer (5-2, 3.21 ERA, 47.2 IP)	No report posted.
Braves	Charlie Morton (5-6, 3.62 ERA, 64.2 IP)	No report posted.

NLE Rank	Team	W	L	GB (E#)	WC Rank	WC GB (E#)
1	Atlanta Braves	36	24	- (-)	-	- (-)
2	Miami Marlins	34	28	3.0 (99)	2	+1.0 (-)
3	New York Mets	30	31	6.5 (96)	5	2.5 (100)
4	Philadelphia Phillies	29	32	7.5 (95)	6	3.5 (99)
5	Washington Nationals	25	35	11.0 (92)	11	7.0 (96)

Division Scoreboard

DET @ PHI 06:05 PM EDT
KC @ MIA 06:10 PM EDT
AZ @ WSH 07:05 PM EDT
^{Last Updated: 06/07/2023 08:05:06 AM EDT, Update Interval: 5 Minutes}

Cuddles: Probably about 15 He’s immature and childish at times and that might be because he still has a lot to learn
Theory: he and Giggles are engaged
Giggles: Same as Cuddles,15
Theory: She’s been seen hanging out with other male characters and may be in a relationship with them,so i think she’s a whore
Toothy: 12 He seems more childish than the two others
Theory: “She’s” a Female
Lumpy: 32 I just think it’s kind of the right age
Theory: He’s not stupid and just acts dumb to get closer with the younger characters and is secretly a child molester
Petunia: 16: she seems older and more mature than the other characters Also she’s been seen driving a car
Theory: She may be gay for Giggles
Handy: 21 He’s more hardworking than the rest,he’s rarely seen playing childish activities like going to the playground and is focused on doing his job,he also seems to be experienced
Theory: He didn’t lose his hands because of a work accident I think it’s because Handy survived an attack from Flippy,Flippin’ out and forgave him
Nutty: 10
He’s rarely seen being a mature person,he acts like a child and does childlike things
Theory: He knows that he can’t control his never ending hunger for sugary things so he tries doing other things like going to a meat shop and going to the library to read books on how to stop addictions,also in that episode where he gets thrown in a mental asylum or something,he seems happy that his addiction is done
Sniffles: 19 I know i’m kinda stretching it a little but he has jobs Theory: Sniffles is the reason why all of them are immortal (in Blast in the Past) He got all of the characters including himself trapped in a time loop
Pop: 34 34 is a standard age to be a parent and like the other adult characters,he’s barely seen at a playground playing and only goes there because Cub wants to
Theory: Pop was the reason for his Wife’s death due to his idiocy
Cub: 3 He’s a toddler and still wearing a diaper,he has also gone to school at some point so i assume he’s one of the younger ones at school
Theory: Cub isn’t Pop’s child,i think because of his ignorance and stupidity,he picked up the wrong baby at the hospital
Flaky: 16 She’s nervous and anxious,like a lot of teenagers and is definitely at least 16 because she’s been seen driving a car
Theory: Flaky is aware of all of the deaths and the reason why she’s always nervous is because she’s worried at what will happen to her and her friends next
Flippy: 30 He’s a war veteran and he’s barely seen playing
Theory: The real Flippy died in the war and the Flippy we see is a sleeper agent
Disco Bear: 50 He’s definitely old since I believe the theory that he used to be famous in the 80s And he hits on…Giggles and Petunia Which I think are underage.. Does…that make him a pedophile? …I mean…Bears ARE predators in the real world…
Splendid: 23 He’s a superhero who still needs some time learning about responsibility Definitely older than 17 because he works a job
Theory: He’s an experiment made by the army so that they could stand a big chance fighting the other armies in the war
Lifty and Shifty: 20-26 Because i think that’s the age of a most criminals Also they’ve been seen driving a car
Theory: like Nutty,they want to stop stealing but unlike him,they can’t stop
Mime: 13 He’s kinda childish
Theory: The “invisible” things he’s interacting with are real,but only he can see it
The Mole: 24 I don’t even know anymore,my brain is telling me things i know are dumb
Theory: He was never blind,He was sent as an assasin
Cro Marmot: 280 Million Years old Ooga Booga caveman
Theory: Cro Marmot is the reason for the terrible deaths and immortality He’s seen selling cursed idols to people and seems like he has sold them to the whole cast,which is why they are all immortal and cursed with terrible deaths
Lammy: 15 I don’t know
Theory: She bleats instead of the normal HTF gibberish ,which make me believe that she’s a foreigner

so, I have watched all of the owl house until season 2 episode 17, but episodes after that are just not in disney plus. I know season 3 is, but this part of season 2 isn´t. How do I watch episode 18 then?

BRAVO

• Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney comfort sobbing former Vanderpump Rules co-star Dayna Kathan after the tragic death of her beloved cat Leo (Daily Mail)
• Scandoval Timeline “Evolves” in Final Reunion Episode, ‘Vanderpump Rules’ EP Says (Jackie Strause for The Hollywood Reporter)
• Following Scandoval, ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Star Ariana Madix Is Turning Her Relationship Distress Into Dollars (Mesfin Fekadu for The Hollywood Reporter)
• Lala Kent Addresses Vanderpump Rules Reunion Theories—Including Raquel Leviss Pregnancy Rumors (Amazon Live/E!)
• Lala Kent’s staples include this $31 bustier: ‘Won’t let Raquel ruin my corset vibe’ (Amazon Live/Page Six Style)
• Lala Kent Reacts to The View’s Sunny Hostin’s Take on ‘Sociopathic’ Friends Amid Raquel Leviss Drama (US Weekly)
• Brittany Cartwright 'Cannot Believe' How Big 'Vanderpump Rules' Has Become Since Scandoval: 'It's Been Crazy for Everybody' (OK! Magazine exclusive)
• Vanderpump Rules vet Brittany Cartwright poses in a bikini as she says she was 'shocked' by Tom's cheating and thinks Ariana will be 'amazing' (Daily Mail exclusive)
• Stassi Schroeder Questions Tom Schwartz for ‘Riding So Hard’ for Tom Sandoval Amid Raquel Leviss Cheating Scandal: ‘You Are Wrong’ (Straight Up With Stassi podcast/US Weekly)
• 'Bucks are done, "Vanderpump" is in.' Without playoff run, bars draw customers with reality TV watch parties (Jordyn Noennig for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal)
• ‘Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard’ star Jordan addresses ‘sweet’ Tom Schwartz romance rumors (Page Six exclusive)

ORANGE COUNTY

• Heather Dubrow Shares Secrets of Her 24-Year Marriage to Husband Terry Dubrow: ‘Date Your Spouse’ (Heather Dubrow Instagram/People)
• Photo: Heather Dubrow filming a confessional for season 17 of The Real Housewives of Orange County (realhousewivesfranchise Instagram)

NEW JERSEY

• Teresa Giudice Has a Major Update on Milania's College Plans (Teresa Giudice Instagram/Bravo)
• Jon Gosselin & RHONJ’s Margaret Josephs help real estate mogul Patrick Carroll donate sneakers to kids in need (The Sun U.S. exclusive)
• RHONJ Alum Kim DePaola Thinks Andy Cohen ‘Is Not Happy’ With Luis Ruelas’ Actions (Behind the Velvet Rope podcast/Heavy)

NEW YORK

• Jenna Lyons attends NJ/NY Gotham FC's Pride game at the Red Bull Arena (Page Six Star Snaps)
• Press release: Jill Zarin, Star of The Real Housewives of NY, Launches Jill Zarin Beauty - A Luxurious Skincare Line Featuring Essential Products for Radiant Skin (PR Newswire)
• Bethenny Frankel gives tour of her luxurious $2.3 million Hamptons home (Bethenny Frankel TikTok/Page Six)

BEVERLY HILLS

• Erika Jayne’s Las Vegas ‘date,’ lawyer Jim Wilkes, clears up his relationship status (Page Six exclusive)

POTOMAC

• Gizelle Bryant’s Daughter Grace Graduates from High School (Gizelle Bryant Instagram/Bravo)

TORONTO

• Real Housewife Kara Alloway on her debut novel and life in Toronto (Ron Johnson for Streets of Toronto)

WYNLANDE

• ‘RHOWL’: Director opens up out about backlash, negative comment (The South African)

Links to this week's episode discussion posts:

• RHONJ S13E18 🍝
• RHOA S15E5 🍑
• VPR S10E17 🍸
• VPR S10E17 - "Pumped Up Edition" 🍸

This is my journey in League of Legends!
I started this game exactly like 9 months ago. I was introduced by my friend who is a league of legends enthusiast, who played the game for more than 3 years. He told me to learn one champ in the starting and Darius really caught my eyes. So, I started one tricking him.
In like 2 month, I leveled up to 30 (had to balance school work too), did my placements, and ended up in Bronze I, around 40 LP or something. And then went on a literal 14 game lose streak. Bronze elo is literally HELL man! I eventually ended up all the way in Bronze IV and gave up ranked. I only inted like one or two games tbh but the rest was either a feeding jg, mid, bot, or even all of them.
While this was misfortunate, I just played normals. I explored all the different roles but still felt that top was the place for me! I got a better feel of this game and really want to climb this season!!! I know the first split gonna end soon but it is not gonna stop me from getting my LP and finally, getting the hell out of bronze..
While the limitation of a champion like Darius became evident day by day, I would really like if someone would give me a champion pool to start with in my journey in ranked.
Any champ pool that you think would work and the situations to choose them. Please help me out. I am ready to put in the work!!!

LAST MAN STANDING 13 has found its champion, and that champion is the definitely not an alt of some regular user, suckmynewts!
The extensive post history of suckmynewts sends one into a paternal glow as one admires their growth through the sub, contributing substantively season in season out.
Nonetheless, suckmynewts navigated 14 rounds of torrid tipping, with many rounds seeing off more than half of our users. The users only made it four or so rounds post having a life this year, it was tough as.

Yes there's a LMS 14 this year, with a usual twist, keep your eye out after State Of Origin 2

For the VICTOR of 2022's edition of Last Man Standing we have the prize of a shiny new /NRL jersey!

Tips by user Round 14

user	tip
Fattdaddy21	Wests Tigers
suckmynewts	Penrith

Progressive results

	users	correct	incorrect	%	eliminated	still alive	with both lives
R1	768	251	403	38%	0	768	251
R2	768	174	411	30%	403	365	62
R3	365	162	120	57%	175	190	34
R4	190	128	39	77%	53	137	25
R5	137	89	42	68%	40	97	17
R6	97	43	54	44%	45	52	8
R7	52	39	9	81%	12	40	7
R8	40	36	4	90%	3	37	6
R9	37	19	18	51%	17	20	5
R10	20	9	11	45%	11	9	1
R11	9	9	0	100%	0	9	1
R12	9	3	6	33%	6	3	0
R13	3	2	1	66%	1	2	0
R14	2	1	1	50%	1	1	0

Previous champions of /NRL's LAST MAN STANDING competitions:

LMS 01 and inaugural winner tylerderhden LMS 02 and winner of the first "tip the margins" comp LateRegg LMS 03 and winner of the 2017 main comp Vectera LMS 04 second 2017 comp winner Cameronz LMS 05 main round 2018 winner attackclown LMS 06 and 2018/19 off season champion wizardchips LMS 07 and our 2019 LMS champ Doombadger LMS 08 our second comp and GF winner NigellusWolf LMS 09 and Covid19 part 1 champ D0NNIE-DANKO LMS 10 the Hard Mode winner Karlossalot LMS 11 and our Underdog story victor smilingface2 LMS 12 champion and the first post covid victor addaus16

Beginning Chit Chat - Lala is loving the RHONJ reunion and says Margaret and Melissa have no control on what the show is going to focus on as far as a storyline - Lala loves Lisa Rinna and if you don’t like her, Lala doesn’t know if she can really fuck with you
Reunion - Lala said it was strange to hear Lisa telling her to stop when Sandoval was calling Lala a narcissist. - Lala said granted she was calling Sandoval a narcissist and understood he had to fight back - However Lala again said there is a difference between narcissism and ego - Lala said that Sandoval wants to keep bringing up her past and everyone else’s past but it is his past and present that is still aligning, still existing - Talked about how again we will not see one tear from Raquel when she is with the group - Lala said she is going to backtrack on her saying Raquel is broken and say she is scary - Lala loved Andy’s face when he was interviewing Raquel
IUD Comment - When they were filming the reunion, Lala did not hear Sandoval’s comment about her pulling her IUD out the second she found out Stassi was pregnant - Lala said when she watched that, her heart fell into her stomach and she sobbed - She posted a Instagram story talking about the comment and then afterwards sobbed - Lala said it wasn’t because it was Sandoval who said it, it could have been anyone who spoke about her daughter and she would get upset - Lala said Sandoval’s comment had nothing to do with anything and he was just trying to throw anything at the wall like Ariana said he would - She’s so thankful she didn’t hear him in the moment because, “that would have been a full on spiral and then they would definitely had security get involved.” - Lala said she isn’t a violent person but moms know when someone says something nasty about your child, you want to rip that persons eyes out - Lala did know that Brittany was trying to get pregnant, Stassi was pregnant, and Scheana was trying and this was around the time (OP here, trigger warning: mentions pregnancy loss) Scheana had a miscarriage. Lala knew she wanted her child to have friends - Lala’s mom also planned her pregnancies around her friends that were having babies
Part 3 of the reunion - When this episode was recorded, Lala still hadn’t been sent part 3 - They usually get the episodes the Friday before Wednesday’s episodes - Lala heard they weren’t going to get it at all and would have to watch it tonight (OP here, however if you saw James Instagram story, it looks like he watched it last night) - Lala said that there is a comment that Sandoval makes tonight that will show who this person really is and Lala thinks he is going to need security for a while and Lala knows it will air - Lala said she knows it will air because when Scheana and Lala went to the For you consideration, NBCU Emmy event, they showed 6 or 9 minutes of the final reunion and they were like we saw the clip of Sandoval saying this and they were like I’m disgusted - Lala said it’s funny how Sandoval can pretend to cry and act like he was acting at the reunion and then deliver a line like that
Raquel and pageants - Lala said you put, “Raquel in a pageant and for many years the competition had to deal with who’s prettier, who looks better in a bathing suit, who looks better in a gown, and it’s the most unhealthy competition you could possibly place your daughter in.” - Lala is shocked that pageants are still around - Raquel has been in competition mode with women in an unhealthy way since she was a child
Raquel - Lala said Raquel is very into appearance. The night in Vegas, Raquel got so wasted, and then the next day she walks in with a full face of make up - Lala said when they left Vegas and went to Havasu, they went to a diner and this is where Raquel is claiming that everyone was so mean to her but Lala said that Raquel was in the bathroom that whole time throwing up. - They kept asking if she was okay and they ordered her food and a soda. They put her in a booth behind them, not to exile her, but so she could lie down - Lala thinks that Raquel will return for season 11 and the only way she wouldn’t return is if her parents kept her in a bunker - Lala said, “I have heard that communication has been happening. I don’t know if it’s between this side of things and her team, direct, but I’ve heard that communication is open, it’s alive and well and happening.”
WWHL - She is nervous for WWHL because part 3 will be very fresh to her and she won’t have time to re watch it and process it
Ariana - Lala wanted to clarify that on last weeks episode she was talking about Ariana and her thriving now and that when her and Sandoval were together, Ariana became background noise - Lala said that was not a insult to Ariana - What she was saying was when you deal with someone like Sandoval, they are exhausting so you become background noise, you fade into the distance because you just cannot - She said even Schwartz is background noise against Sandoval because you just can’t go up against someone like that because you are just tired - Lala text Ariana after last weeks episode and said, “I just want to tell you, I fucking hate your ex. Im so glad that your out here being the star that you fucking always been because he stifled your fire.”

I find this stuff pretty interesting so respond in the comments if you have better suggestions, or just wanna point something else.
My rules are that "Rick", "Mort" and "Morty" are the only puns that can be included for consistencies sake ("Jerry", "Beth", and "Smith" are sometimes included, but not always and not in the first two seasons, and other puns [eg Claw and Hoarder: Special Rictims Morty replaces "Law" with "Claw"] will also not be included for the same reason). Only one reference to media (made before the episode released) can be made.

Season 1

Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
Pilot	PiRick	Pun version of "Pilot". The network probably wouldn't allow this, but still.
Lawnmower Dog	Lawnmower Mort	The original title references the movie "Lawnmower Man", but my rules say that another pun/variation besides "Rick", "Mort", or "Morty" is not allowed.
Anatomy Park	MiRickle on Thirty-Mort Street	Same explanation as above. I can't do "JuRicksic Mort" because it will eventually be used in season six. So instead of focusing on the human body stuff, I've focused on the Christmas aspect, and chosen a classic movie. Also, just a note, Miracle on 34th Street is eventually referenced in dialogue in season six as well.
M. Night Shaym-Aliens	The Rixth Sense	Same explanation as above, once again, but this episode title uses "Aliens" as a pun as well as the name of an actor (M. Night Shyamalan). I instead did a pun on one of the actor's most famous movies, The Sixth Sense.
Meeseeks and Destroy!	Rick and Destroy	A better pun on the original reference, the song Seek and Destroy.
Rick Potion #9	Rick Potion No. 9	The pun (on the song Love Potion No. 9) still sucks, because there's nothing to work with, but at least the grammar is like the original song name now
Raising Gazorpazorp	VivaRickum	Pun on Vivariam, a movie about raising an alien
Rixty Minutes	Interdimensional Cable	First exception to my rules. This title will now align with Interdimensional Cable II: Tempting Fate properly
Something Ricked This Way Comes	Something Ricked This Way Comes	First one with no issues.
Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind	Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind	No problems again.
Ricksy Business	Ricksy Business	Yo we're on a streak!

Season 2

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Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
A Rickle in Time	A Rickle in Time	We are on a rooooooooll!!!
Mortynight Run	Mortnight Rick	Better pun of Midnight Run. We were on a streak guys this is so sad can we get -293 upvotes
Auto Erotic Assimilation	Hive Mort	The original episode title had no pun and was based on auto-erotic asphyxiation (which was actually seen in Ricksy Business from Squanchy, just a weird coincidence), so I've based the new title on Hive Mind. I bet you can't guess what the movie's about.
Total Rickall	Total Rickall	There kinda getting the hang of it now!!!!
Get Schwifty	Mortsic and LyRicks	Based on the movie Music and Lyrics. If I wanted to go further the episode could have been called MortRick and LyRicks but that looks and sounds weird.
The Ricks Must be Crazy	Rick Gods Mort Be Crazy	Better pun of The Gods Must be Crazy
Big Trouble in Little Sanchez	The CuRickous Case of BenjaRick Button	Movie about a dude getting younger, like Rick in the episode. The name "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" (title based on the movie "Big Trouble in Little China") is a pun because the name of the movie has been altered to reference the plot of the episode; but the plot of the actual movie is arbitrary. I have made it to be like the other episodes: so that the pun is on a movie which actually has plot similarity: in this case The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate	Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate	-
Look Who's Purging Now	The Purge: Anmorty	The title "Look Who's Purging Now" doesn't follow the format. Made it based on the movie The Purge: Anarchy. Was gonna do "Rick Purge: Amorty" but it would've been completely unrecognizable then.
The Wedding Squanchers	AmortRickan Wedding	Based on "American Wedding" (2003). First famous wedding movie that came up, which I could work with pun-wise.

Season 3

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Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
The Rickshank Rickedemption	The Shawshank Rickdemption	Better pun of The Shawshank Redemption
Rickmancing the Stone	Rickmancing the Stone	Follows all the rules already!!
Pickle Rick	Couples Ricktreat	This movie is about therapy. I would've preferred some bottle-episode-like movie taking place entirely in a therapists office, but this is the best I could get (based on Couples Retreat, only partly about therapy). Getting a movie about the subplot was the only choice because the main plot was so farfetched and unique.
Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender	Rickvengers: Age Mort UltRick	The pun (based on Avengers: Age of Ultron) is kind of a stretch, but basing it on The Avengers alone (making it The Rickvengers or Mort Rickvengers) would be too short.
The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy	Adventrick-land	Based on Adventureland, a movie about a run-down theme park. There wasn't much to go off of, because its such a unique plot, similarly to Pickle Rick. This might actually be why some titles don't attempt an episode pun.
Rest and Ricklaxation	-	I'm completely stumped. I couldn't find any movie, book, or TV show even remotely similar to any aspect of the plot.
The Ricklantis Mixup	Ricklantis The Lost Contirick	Based on Atlantis, The Lost Continent. I kept the Atlanatis mislead because it is a very important part of the episode and title.
Morty's Mind Blowers	Interdimensional Cable 3: Morty's Mind Blowers	To be consistent with the other two episodes.
The ABCs of Beth	I Mort-ied a Mort-ster from OutRick Space	Again, the original title is likely unique because the plot has never been done before. But I found something kind of similar to the side-plot, a really old movie called I Married a Monster from Outer Space
The Richchurian Mortydate	The Mortchurian Candirick	Much better pun on The Manchurian Candidate.

Season 4

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Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat	Edge of Tomorty	The original movie is Edge of Tomorrow, and the tagline is "Live Die, Repeat", but it is not needed in the title.
The Old Man and the Seat	-	Again, another name based on title pun as opposed to the actual plot of the source material. I can't find anything remotely related to any of the three plots, so help me out here.
One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty	Ocean's Rickleven	Originally based on One Flew Over the Cucoo's Nest, also purely based on name pun and not plot contents.
Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty	Rickvanced Dungeons Mort Dragons	Original episode title was bad for a number of reasons. If you get the new reference, you get it, if you don't, you don't.
Rattlestar Ricklactica	Battlestar Ricklactica	"Rattle" can't be used in place of "Battle", per my rules for a good title.
Never Ricking Morty	The Nevericking Morty	Better pun of "The Neverending Story".
The Vat of Acid Episode	The Vat of Acid Episode	Perfect title already, the fact that there is no reference makes it better.
Childrick of Mort	Childrick of Mort	Perfect pun already (based on Children of Men)
Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri	Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jedi	Don't know why the colon wasn't there already. "Jerri" isn't allowed because of my rules blah blah blah

Season 5

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Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
Mort Dinner Rick Andre	Mort Dinner Rick Andre	-
Mortyplicity	Mortyplicity	-
A Rickconvenient Mort	A Rickconvenient Mort	A Rickconvenient Truth
Rickdependence Spray	Rickdependence Day	"Spray" can't be used as a pun... i'm starting to sound like a broken record
Amortycan Grickfitti	AmortRickan Grickfitti	A better pun of "American Grafitti"
Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular	A Morty Brown Thanksricking	Based on "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving". To my knowledge, this is a very famous Thanksgiving movie, but I wouldn't properly know; there might be a better one. Tell me in the replies if there is.
Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion	Morton Gene-rick Evangelion	Improved pun on "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort	Rickternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mort	"Friendshine" can't be used because BLAH BLAH BLAH YOU ALREASDY KNOWEWFRGHTIUJ3Q
Forgetting Sarick Mortshall	Forgetting SaRick Mortshall	Good, but the pun isn't obvious, so the "r" should be capitalised as shown
Rickmurai Jack	SamuRick Jack	MUCH better pun based on "Samurai Jack". IT WAS RIGHT THERE GUYS.

Season 6

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Original Title	Better Title	Explanation
Solaricks	Solaricks	THEY DID IT!!
Rick: A Mort Well Lived	Rick Free Mort Die Hard	Based on "Live Free or Die Hard", because the original title casually breaks all the god-dang rules
Bethic Twinstinct	BasRick Instinct	Better pun on "Basic Instinct". Tell me if the original movie is even related to the plot cause I have no idea and plot descriptions can be misleading.
Night Family	Night Gallerick	Better pun of "Night Gallery" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA THIS PAIN IS ALMOST OVER REPEATING THE SMAE JRTHING OVEVR OVER OVER OVER O VOER OVEOR OVEOR OVEOR OVOEVOR OOVEOROVOE OVOER
Final DeSmithation	Final DestRickation	ALMOST THERE
JuRicksic Mort	JuRicksic Mort	no complaints also ALMOST THEEEEEERE
Analyze This	-	Again, this plot is so unique there's no movie I can reference. Comment if you know one. also ALMOST THERE SO CLOSE SO CLOSE SO CLOSE
A Rick in King Morur's Mort	A Rick in King Arthur's Mort	better pun on "A Kid in King Arthur's Court'" ONE MORE ONE MORE SO CLOSE SO CLOSE
Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation	Natrickal Lampoon's Rickmas Vacation	YEEEEYEYYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYS PAIN ENDED YES LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

So yeah I just find this pretty interesting. Comment if you have any suggestions or disagree or agree or anything.

Elaine Wilcox (ITV) https://twitter.com/ElaineWITV/status/1666385305505595392?s=19
Judith Moritz (BBC) https://twitter.com/JudithMoritz/status/1666378285448560641?t=qJIAyKIzIFPZzVced5ZJPA&s=19
Sky News: https://news.sky.com/story/lucy-letby-trial-latest-nurse-baby-murders-prosecution-sky-news-blog-12868375
Chester Standard: https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/23572442.live-lucy-letby-trial-june-7---cross-examination-continues/
Chester Standard:

The trial is now resuming, with the 12 members of the jury in attendance.
Nicholas Johnson KC is continuing to cross-examine Lucy Letby, turning to the case of Child M.
Letby confirms there is nothing she wishes to change in her evidence given in cross-examination so far.

​

Child M

Sky News:

Now the prosecution turns to his twin, Child M, who was also allegedly attacked by Letby - this time having air injected. He survived but was left brain-damaged.

Chester Standard:

Mr Johnson says for Child M, Letby - in her defence statement - said Child M 'was slotted into a space' in nursery room 1 which was 'full'.
Child M was 'apnoeic', and it was not known if he had a desaturation.
A crash call was put out, and Child M was turned around in an incubator by a nursing colleague, to get him on to a monitor.
Letby added she did not notice any skin colour changes in Child M at the time.

​

Letby said in her statement she had written notes on Child M's resuscitation on a paper towel which ended up in her pocket and were taken home with her.
Letby tells the court it would have been used to write up [nursing] notes.
Letby says Child L and Child M 'stood out' in her mind at the time, as they were the first twins delivered where she was the allocated nurse.

​ Sky News:

Child M was born in "good condition" and was breathing by himself. He had his observations taken every two hours.
Letby agrees this was the case.
"He was not an intensive care baby, was he?" Mr Johnson asks.
"No, I don't believe he was at this time," Letby says.

​ Chester Standard:

Letby agrees Child M was 'not an intensive care baby' and had been doing well.
Asked if staffing levels were a contributory factor in Child M's collapse, Letby says the "unit was very stretched" during the April 9 shift. She adds she does not know what caused Child M's collapse.
Asked to clarify by Mr Johnson, she says it "was a potential" factor.
Letby tells the court Child M had been in a corner unit in a full nursery, and "as nursing and medical staff we were very stretched that day".
Staffing "was not at a great level".
Letby says she "does not know" what caused Child M's collapse, so rules out a mistake by staff. She says it is "hard to say" if staff competencies were a factor in the collapse.

​

Mr Johnson says Dr Ravi Jayaram observed skin colour changes in Child M at the time of the collapse.
He says "because [Child M] was darker skinned, it was more obvious."
He said Child M was pale with pink 'blotches' on the torso that would 'appear and disappear'. He said he noted the most 'obvious' patches on the abdomen.
"I noted them when I got there at the start of the resuscitation".
He added he had only seen that once before, in the case of Child A.
Letby says "I did not see anything like that, no".

​ Sky News:

Lucy Letby is being asked about Child M, whom she is accused of leaving brain-damaged after injecting with air.
"Did the lighting in the nursery make it difficult to see?" Nick Johnson KC, the prosecution barrister, asks her.
"No," says Letby.
Letby previously told the police the lighting was "poor" in the space where Child M was.

​ Chester Standard:

Letby is asked if the lighting was an issue in nursery room 1.
Letby had told police in interview the lighting was "poor" in room 1, and she tells the court she has an independent memory of that event. Child M was "in a darker corner of the nursery", Letby tells the court.
She added to police: "I do remember his [Child M] colour being harder to assess as he was an Asian baby."
Letby tells the court the colour change, if any, was more difficult for her to see.

​ Sky News:

The prosecution points out that Letby has previously said she was able to see Child I had become "very pale" when in a darkened room at night, so questions why she could not see Child M in a well-lit room in the middle of the day.

​ Chester Standard:

Mr Johnson asks why was it necessary for Child M to be in a corner of room 1 if there were four babies in there for a capacity of four.
Letby says there always needs to be an incubator free for emergency admissions in room 1.
There were four babies in nursery room 2, three in nursery 3 and four in nursery 4.
The court hears the neonatal unit was "at effective capacity".

​

The court is shown a clinical note by Dr Anthony Ukoh, made at 10.25am on April 9.
Letby says she does not remember if she had involvement with Child M at this time. Child M was not Letby's designated baby on this day.
A neonatal schedule for Letby on April 9 shows a number of duties Letby had for her designated babies in room 1 between 9am-9.11am.
Letby says one of the designated babies was "not a low-maintenance baby", with complex cannulation issues, and was on the ward for a long time. Mr Johnson says Letby has an "extraordinary memory" for this baby, seven years on, but not for Child D, who had died.

​

The court is shown a 1.5ml bile-stained aspirate is recorded for Child M, following which Child M was nil by mouth, and the naso-gastric tube was put on free drainage.
Mr Johnson says at 3.30pm, a 10% dextrose fluid bag is started for Child M.
Letby agrees with Mr Johnson there is nothing to suggest insulin was put in this bag.

​ Sky News:

At 3.30pm on 9 April 2015, half an hour before Child M collapsed, he was given an antibiotic infusion, either by Lucy Letby or a colleague.
Letby is asked what her colleague was doing at the time.
"I can't say without looking."
Letby's colleague previously said she was dealing with a blood sample for Child L and was interrupted by Child M's emergency call.
"It was while [the colleague] was getting sterile that you sabotaged Child M," Nick Johnson KC, the prosecution barrister, says.
"No."
An extract from the witness statement of Child M's mother is then read to the court.
She said: "About ten minutes after we left the boys, a nurse came running up and said we had to go back and took me down in a wheelchair."
"Whatever happened, happened after his mum and family had left him," Mr Johnson says.
Letby says she does not recall "exact timings".
It is "another case where the parents are there and they leave and the baby collapses", Mr Johnson says.
Letby agrees this appears to be the case, but reiterates that she was with a colleague at the time.

​ Chester Standard (same exchange):

Letby says she cannot recall what Mary Griffith was doing at this time. Mr Johnson suggests this was when Ms Griffith was collecting a blood sample for Child L to be 'podded' and sent to a laboratory for analysis.
Letby says she "couldn't say" how long it would take to draw up a 12.5% dextrose solution, which in this case was for Child L, the twin of Child M.
Letby agrees it would have been after 3.45pm that that process would have started.
Letby denies that it was around 3.45pm that she "sabotaged" Child M.
Mr Johnson says the twins' mother said in an agreed evidence statement, she had to be taken back to the unit in a wheelchair, having been alerted by nurse Yvonne Griffiths, and she observed "one of the doctors was pressing [Child M's] chest." Mr Johnson says this is another case where a baby collapsed when the parents were away.
Letby says she was with Mary Griffith at the time of Child M's collapse.
Letby agrees Child M recovered quickly following the collapse.
Letby says she did not see skin discolouration, and it was not discussed at the time.

​

A colleague had previously told the court Child M's blood gas record sheet was disposed of in a confidential waste bin.
Asked how it had ended under Letby's bed at home, Letby says she has never taken anything out of the confidential waste bin.
Letby says she does not know how many blood gas records she has taken home. She says it has been put in her pocket and taken home with a handover sheet.
She says she "probably" put it in her pocket, and put it under her bed.
Asked why, Letby replies: "Because I collect paper".
Letby says household bills and bank statements would be shredded as they were 'there and then'. Other sheets such as handover sheets were not thought about.

​

Dr Ukoh's records on the resuscitation for Child M are shown to the court. Mr Johnson says the record is "meticulous", including six adrenaline doses.
Mr Johnson says the data for the resuscitation efforts is on the paper towel [that Letby took home], which Mr Johnson says he must have had in his hand at some point. Letby agrees.
Mr Johnson says that was in his hand at 8.25pm when he wrote up his notes.
Letby said she had to stay late that shift for the handover and writing up medical notes for Child M. She denies "waiting an hour and a quarter" to write up those nursing notes or "hanging around" to get the note Dr Ukoh had when writing up the note.
Letby denies "rooting around in the bin" for the blood gas record for Child M to take home. She also denies sabotaging Child M.

​ Sky News:

Letby says she stayed late that night to finish "all the work that needed doing". Medical records show she was still on the unit an hour and 15 minutes after her shift ended.
The prosecution claims she "hung around" on the unit to collect the paper towel, and removed confidential paperwork from the bin.
"No, I have never rooted in the bin," Letby says.
The prosecution claims she wanted the notes because she "sabotaged" the infant. Letby denies this.

​

Child N, charge #1

Chester Standard:

Mr Johnson is now turning to the case of Child N, born on June 2, 2016.
Letby, in her defence statement, says she had never encountered a baby with haemophilia before, and no-one on the unit seemed specifically to know how to care for such a baby.
She says she does not believe Child N 'collapsed', and it was not accurate to say he had screamed for 30 minutes. She denied causing any harm to him.

​

Letby tells the court she does not believe this event, for Child N, was a collapse which required resuscitation.
The court is shown the nursing rota for the night shift of June 2-3. Letby was designated nurse for two babies in room 4. Child N was in room 1 with one other baby - the designated nurse for both babies was Christopher Booth.
Letby rules out staffing levels or incompetence as factors in Child N's collapse.
Letby agrees Child N collapsed just after Christopher Booth went on his break.
Letby denies she was 'bored' or had 'time on her hands' working in nursery 4 that shift.
She agrees Child N 'was in good shape' at the start of the shift.

​

The neonatal schedule for June 2-3 is shown, with Letby's duties for her two designated babies from 8.30pm-8.38pm.
One of the designated babies received a 50ml NGT feed at 8.30pm as they were asleep. Letby says that feed can take '10-15 minutes or so'. She says she can't put a 'definitive number' on it.
Mr Johnson says other estimates for this kinds of feed have been 20 minutes.
Letby: "I really can't say."
Mr Johnson says Letby was texting her friends 'right through this shift'.
A sequence of messages is shown to the court. The first sent by Letby is at 7.33pm, followed by 7.35pm, 7.58pm, 7.59pm, 8pm ['We have got a baby with haemophilia'], 8pm, 8.01pm, 8.02pm, 8.03pm, 8.04pm [Ah ok I'll have to Google it later lol don't know much about it [haemophilia]], 8.06pm, 8.11pm [Complex condition, yeah 50;50 chance antenatally].
NJ: "That is where you got the answer from, Dr Google?"
LL: "No, '50:50' is something staff would know"
Messages are sent by Letby at 8.26pm [Ffs Mel asing me how to make up 12.5%],
Letby said she was "shocked" that a band 6 colleague was asking her how to make up such a solution, when she could have looked for herself.
8.29pm: 'No I've passed her folder but now asking if can run via cannula- she needs to look herself!'
Letby says she was "not happy" with Mel.
Another message is sent from Letby at 8.29pm, and at 8.31pm, and 8.31pm, at 8.32pm, 8.34pm.
Letby is asked how she can feed a baby at 8.30pm when she was also texting.
LL: "You can't."
Letby denies feeding the baby "very quickly" by putting the plunger on the end.

​

Another message is sent from Letby at 8.38pm [Had strange message from [doctor colleague] earlier...']
Mr Johnson asks if Letby's nursing colleague was implying Letby and the doctor were in a relationship. Letby says she does not know.
Letby's colleague sent two messages: "Did u? Saying what?
"Go commando? 😂"
Letby is asked by Mr Johnson if she knows what the implication of 'go commando' means.
LL: "I don't know what was meant, I can't say right now."
NJ: "Do you think this was an army reference, being from Hereford?"
LL: "I don't know."

​ Sky News:

In one message, Letby's colleague encouraged her to "go commando".
Letby denies knowing what this means.
"What does that mean, is it a reference to the royal marines?" Nick Johnson KC, for the prosecution, asks.
"I don't know," Letby says.
"Go commando, you don't know what that means?" Mr Johnson says.
The court is shown that Letby replied with a series of laughing emojis.
"Did you think this was an army reference, you being from Hereford?"
"I don't know," Letby says.
Further text messages are shown to the court, in which Letby denies to her colleague that she was being flirty with the other colleague.

​ Chester Standard

The messages are sent by Letby at 8.39pm, 8.40pm, 8.41pm, 8.43pm [Do you think he's being odd?], 8.44pm [Shut up!], 8.44pm [I don't flirt with him!].
The text message conversation was:
Letby: 'Had strange message from [colleague] earlier....'
Reply: 'Did u? Saying what?'
Letby had replied at 8.39pm: '😂😂😂😂'
LL: 'Asking when I was working next week as wants to talk to me about something, has a favour to ask..?'
Reply: 'Think he likes u too'
Reply: 'Hmm did u not ask what it was?'
LL: 'No just said when I was working and he said wants my opinion on something'
LL: 'Hmm...🤔'
Reply: 'Hmm'
LL: 'Do you think he's being odd?'
Reply: 'Thought as flirty as u'
LL: 'Shut up!'
Reply: 'What?!'
LL: 'I don't flirt with him!'
Reply: 'Ok'
LL: 'Certainly don't fancy him haha just nice guy'
Reply: 'Ok'

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Mr Johnson says Letby was 'texting non-stop' on the nursery room.
Letby says the feed "must have happened at a different time". She says she cannot answer when. She denies 'pushing it through' the feed.

​ Sky News:

Questioning continues about how Lucy Letby could have been texting her colleague "non-stop" while she was allegedly feeding a baby.
"I couldn't feed a baby while texting so it must have happened at a different time," Letby says.
"What must have happened?" Mr Johnson asks.
"The feed."
Mr Johnson then says: "Or the alternative is, to use your phrase, you pushed it through."
"No," says Letby.
Child N collapsed at 1am on 3 June 2016. Notes written hours later said his oxygen levels dipped down to 40%. He is also recorded as "screaming".
"Screaming is very unusual of a child of this age," Mr Johnson says.
"Yes," says Letby.
Mr Johnson then says: "This was your doing."
"No, it was not," says Letby.

​ Chester Standard:

Mr Johnson says Child N collapsed at 1am. Christpher Booth 'one episode whilst I was on my break, whereby infant was crying++ and not settling. He became dusky in colour, desaturating to 40s. Responded to facial oxygen within 1-2 minutes. Crying subsided within approximately 30 minutes and colour returned to normal...'
Letby tells the court this was not a 'collapse' as facial oxygen was all that was required, not resuscitation.
Mr Johnson says Dr Jennifer Loughnane had a 'look of surprise' in court when she had read her note she had written Child N was 'screaming', as that was unusual. Letby says she does recall that.
She denies sabotaging Child N.

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Child N, charge #2

Mr Johnson turns to the second set of events for Child N on June 15, when the plan was for Child N to go home that week. Letby agrees he only needed phototherapy at this stage.
A feeding chart is shown for Child N, who was being fed mostly expressed breast milk.
Child N's mother had visited on the morning of June 14, and in the evening, at 5.15pm. Child N had taken a 60ml bottle feed. Letby agrees with mr Johnson this was "a very good sign".
Mr Johnson suggests Letby did something to destabilise Child N before the end of her day shift.
LL: "No I did not."
Letby says it was a "coincidence" Child N was, according to nursing notes that night "very unsettled early part of night", with observations of mottling.

​ Sky News:

Medical notes show the infant was "unsettled" for the first half of the night shift - when Letby was not working.
In a Facebook message sent to Letby, a doctor on the unit later told her: "Unsure why became unwell... They're optimistic he'll be okay."

​ Chester Standard:

Letby is asked about a message sent by a nursing colleague at 5.26am which said 'Baby [N] screened, looks like [s]'*
Letby responded: 'Oh no'
Letby denies she saw this as an opportunity to sabotage Child N during the day shift.
LL: "No, that's not what happened."
Letby messaged a doctor colleague at 6.04am on June 15: 'Wonder if I'll find my way back into 1 today then....',
This is in response to his message at 5.53am, which begins: 'What a chaotic 7 hours!
'Sorry - I may have filled NICU [...]
'Have a good breakfast 😉 I think your day may be busy.'

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Swipe data shows that Letby is on the neonatal unit at 7.12am. Child N desaturated three minutes later and was 'crying'.
Letby says she does not recall Child N crying. She says, at the time, she was in the doorway, talking to Jennifer Jones-Key - her friend, when the alarm for Child N went off.
Letby says it "was very busy" and "a lot of intervention was needed" for Child N after he collapsed. She does not cite staffing levels as a contributing factor for the collapse, or a mistake by medical staff.
Letby says she "does not know" if issues with intubating Child N were a factor, and does not know what caused Child N to collapse.
She denies "setting up" Child N to collapse overnight.

​ Sky News

Lucy Letby is questioned about why she arrived early to her day shift on 15 June 2016, swiping in just under 20 minutes before the handover began.
She is accused of attempting to murder Child N twice that day.
"You sabotaged him on the night shift, in effect by going in early," Nick Johnson KC, the prosecution barrister, says.
"No," says Letby.
The prosecution claims Letby set Child N "up to fail at the end of the previous day shift" and then came in early "to make it look like he came from the night shift with a problem".
Mr Johnson accuses her of "making a beeline" for Child N, in nursery three.
Letby tells the court she went into the room to speak to her friend, and at this point "handover hadn't been allocated".
But a Facebook message to a colleague timestamped at 7.12am (when she arrived on the unit) disputes this.
It says: "I've escaped being back in 1, back in 3."
At 7.15am, the child was "blue" and "wasn't breathing", according to medical notes.
Mr Johnson says this happened "within a minute or two of you arriving in that room".
"Yes," says Letby.
"Just bad luck, is it?" says Mr Johnson.
"Yes," says Letby.

​ Chester Standard (same evidence):

Letby, in her defence statement, said she had gone to nursery room 3 not to see Child N specifically, but to speak to Jennifer Jones-Key, her friend.
She said Child N was 'blue' and 'not breathing'. She shouted for a doctor colleague to assist and Neopuff breathing assistance was applied.
Letby is asked about the 'Jennifer and I were talking at the doorway'. Letby says she meant only she was at the doorway, and Jennifer Jones-Key was in the nursery room.
Letby, in a Facebook message to a colleague: 'No repeat today. I've escaped being in 1, back in 3' at 7.12pm.
Mr Johnson says Letby had gone in to room 3 as she knew by that point she was designated babies for that room. Letby says she had gone to see her friend.
Letby denies sabotaging Child N.
Letby agrees it was a "serious event" which happened "within a minute or two" of her entering the room. Mr Johnson says it was "bad luck?" Letby replies: "Yes."

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Mr Johnson asks Letby when blood was seen orally on Child N.
Letby replies "the only time definitively" she recalled that was at 3pm. she says that is on her memory "sitting here now".
Mr Johnson says if she had recorded blood observations at the time, would she accept that now? Letby says she would, although it may have been based on what people had informed her at the time.
Mr Johnson says the one who would have informed her would have been the doctor colleague she "loved as a friend".

​ Sky News:

The doctor who responded to this initial incident is someone Letby says she "loved as a friend" - she admits this colleague would not have had it in for her. (Letby has previously accused a "band of four" colleagues of conspiring against her.)
"Do you accept what [the doctor] says about this initial desaturation... about it being concerning?" Nick Johnson KC, for the prosecution, asks.
"Yes," says Letby.
Letby did not write up the nursing notes on the collapse at 7.15am of Child N - claiming she took over his care from 7.30am.
"Who discovered him [at 7.15am]?," Mr Johnson asks.
"We were both there," Letby says.
"Who discovered him?" Mr Johnson presses.
"We both heard his monitor, I went over to him," Letby says.
Mr Johnson says Letby was "hoping to create the impression on the paperwork that these were all events that happened before you arrived".
"No, I disagree."

Chester Standard:

Letby's nursing note: '...infant transferred to nursery 1 on handover. Mottled, desaturating requiring Neopuff and oxygen.'
Letby says "both" she and Jennifer Jones-Key had gone over to Child N at the time of desaturation.
Mr Johnson says Letby was "hoping to create the impression" on the nursing notes that the problems for Child N happened before the handover.
LL: "No, I disagree."
Letby tells the court she had taken over Child N's care from 7.30am.

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Letby's note, written at 1.53pm-2.10pm adds: 'unable to intubate - fresh blood noted in mouth and yielded via suction ++'.
Letby says the 3pm blood observation was the first one she could "definitively remember".
Mr Johnson says this note is a 'good hour' before that observation.
Letby denies Child N was bleeding from when she first got involved that day.

Additional details from Sky News have been inserted into the above Chester Standard reporting