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Great. A book that requires no skill to write and no intelligence to read. Just the thing for the Trump voters on your shopping list. It summarizes Trump thinking on all matters. Kellyanne recommends that you buy this book. An interesting (?) legal question: There have been many books with titles such as How to .....and with all of the pages blank. So can the author of the first one of these cutsie things sue the others for plagiarism? Only the titles are different, the content, blank pages, is word for word the same from one to another.

North probably wouldn't have led the ♠J from ♠J9 so normal restricted choice doesn't apply here. North has one ♠J10 and if I play for that I wn 100% of the time by drawing the last trump and finessing. North could have ♠JT9x - there are three of those. He always would have led the jack, but half the time he plays the ♠9 the second time. Also I need the doubleton heart with South, slightly less than half the time since South has more open spaces if North has four spades. This makes the finesse more likely if South's count can be trusted. South has no reason to play honest count here though, and North could have ♠J109 which swings the decision the other way, as ♠J109 is as likely as ♠J10 (actually it's more likely because the other cards splitting 10:10 are more common that 11:9 with the 11 in North.) So unless I think South is someone who would always show honest count (and why would he from ♠9xxx and give away the show?), I play to the king and if spades aren't 3-3, I ruff the fourth spade with the ♥Q.

scarletv / sieong 29 / 25 4 IMPs 11.28 - 8,72 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:13759029.059b.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489154926 I checked my scores - all correct.

sieong - wackojack 69 - 11 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:44536da5.0488.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489036896&u=sieong

Mine look good, well, not good, but accurate.

The value in field G3 should be in F3. (I haven't played against aurora yet but I did against nekthen.)

el mister 29 : 43 sieong http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:71b90a17.0504.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489090230&u=el%20mister

gordontd - ant590 24-0 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5bf22d64.0611.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489205728&u=gordontd

Day 2 heart76 - Strings11 : 16 - 30

chuck11 19 : smerriman 5 (chuck11 +14)

toast1 29-11 broze http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:b0ac0aa9.03e1.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1488965352&u=toast1

Ovncylmz / Ant590 25-24 (+1) http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:6d2a3fcd.044d.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489011624&u=ant590 Elyk25 / Ant590 17-49 (-32) http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:b3f0d21d.03d2.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1488958915&u=ant590 m1cha / Ant590 I was on the last board when this times out. Guess it's an auto loss? The boards played haven't appeared on myhands yet, or in the "completed" challenges. Sorry Michael, I ended up being busy at the end of the week, and sat down with 5 boards to play in 10 minutes.

So just give individuals/companies private property rights in the waterways. They will sue the hell out of the coal companies. Public waterways are just the modern version of the "commons" problem. Everybody uses/abuses them without having financial responsibility. So give someone some vested interests and they will make the efforts to maintain/improve them. Of course they charge for their use, but you don't get things for free regardless of what the politicians promise.

m1cha - nekthen 31 - 16 (+15) http://webutil.bridg...9149819&u=m1cha

The bad stuff is glucose-fructose syrup, known in the US as high-fructose corn syrup, and it is in everything over there. Not just things that normally have sugar in them, like ketchup and Coke, but also thing where you wouldn't expect to find sugar, e.g. bread,

http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ee3c5787.04c4.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1489062951&u=smerriman smerriman 46 - mkgnao 26 ( smerriman + 20 )

Icycookie - Ovncylmz 13-27 (-14) http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:f35d0ebb.0420.11e7.ab15.0cc47a39aeb4-1488992522&u=icycookie

chuck11 14 : olegru 11 (chuck11 +3)

chuck11 41 : 14 ye17 (chuck11 +27)

Pass. Partner didn't bid 2NT over 2♠ but presumably must have a double heart stop to bid 3NT. I reckon she has something like a 2-4-7-0 shape. That suggests I should be bidding on with my red suits reversed, but not here. There again, if partner is 1-4-7-1 then a spade lead might kill the entry to my hand, so it certainly could be right to play in clubs.

A solution cannot be found in partisan rancor and grandstanding. Why not use the ACA backbone and work to make it better? The polls have shown the American people to like the ACA but to not like Obamacare, which would be funny if not such a serious issue about the power of propaganda to misinform and lead astray. If the Republicans in Congress keep calling for repeal of Obamacare - not the ACA - then they are being disingenuous and relying on inaccurate poll answers to justify their actions.

With no defensive trick I let it go. Too frustrating if next hand will jump to 4 Spades or they reach game in hearts thereafter. We could have 3NT but then partner might also bid 3NT without the diamond ace Rainer Herrmann