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An infected essential worker in Australia has caused another area-wide lockdown. The essential work was to assist in the production of "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" She's been fined.

Hand-dealt from a new deck?

That's a great idea! I only had to wait for 30S. I was on the receiving end of this genius once myself.

The simplest way to stop yourself from being abused on the casual table is to start your own table. That way, when you don't like the cut of someone's gib, you can boot them yourself.

I bet he plays Bridge.

Compared to what?

In February 2020 - that was a long time ago - Anthony Fauci and Robert Redfield penned an Editorial for the New England Journal of Medicine. You can read it here.

Even the "peer-reviewed" stuff is sometimes a bit dubious - don't get me started.

It is notoriously hard to predict what will happen in 5 years. Fortunately, in 1973 some clever people at a little technical college in Massachusetts made an attempt. It looked like this http://bit.ly/EndOfTheWorldMIT I was 15 years old. Three years later, I bought my first computer - an HP-125. It was much better than the logbook I was using in 1973 and somewhat better than the slide rule I had the following year. My abacus still works fine.

I searched an academic database with ARTICLE TITLE<Donald AND Trump> and came up with 812 hits. Here is one of my favourites: https://bit.ly/TrumpMoscowUni You either need to be able to read Russian or have google translate to read it - the abstract is below. Here is the reference in case you want to correspond with the Author: Balditsyn P.V. Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Media Linguistics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia e-mail: pbalditsyn@gmail.com Turns out that Muscovites felt that Andy Borowitz is a bit mean; heartbreaking really.

It's probably easier to cheat if you know what to do with the information.

That's kind of what I thought. Doesn't this mean that there is a structural disincentive for non-ACBL members to play in ACBL tourneys? It also suggests that the pool of players in ACBL tourneys is smaller than any other tourney and therefore, the average quality of candidature is weaker in ACBL tourneys. Assuming that on average ACBL players are just as good or bad as any other player and that distribution of their skill around the mean is roughly the same. The implication is that the ACBL (unlike other tourneys) is trying to 'protect' its members even though it taxes all entrants equally. Does the ACBL do the same thing in FTF bridge or is it a BBO-specific phenomenon?

OK ty.

I rejoined Prime today - need practice - and the same problem is still there:

You seem to be suggesting that politicians have 'values'. What are they?

I'm only allowed three questions - add your own below.

Bats have a relatively low average heart rate - especially when hibernating (obviously). Longevity is inversely related to heart rate; Across (but not within) species. The blue-throated hummingbird doesn't stand a chance. We can draw a straight line from human destruction of the climate to the reduction of habitat to the intermingling of species to the admixture of viral reservoirs that don't usually see humans.

This one perhaps? https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%98%B1/

MSNBC just reported the results of some exit poll data in CA. They looked at which issues were important to recallers (Trumpets) vs non-recallers (normal people) Economy ______26 vs 9 Crime ________ 18 vs 2 COVID19 ______15 vs 42 Wildfires _______8 vs 18 Homelessness __23 vs 22 This is the kind of information that is used to place people on the political spectrum graph. If you're an avaricious climate change denier who thinks human life is 3 times less important than normal people: vote recall. Simultaneous equation solving in action.

Is this what they were preparing for in all those US war movies where the soldiers train with the Red Team and the Blue Team?

Regarding the OP's point, I find that the outcome usually depends on the 'quality of the candidature' - if I'm up against a large field of higher-ranked players, my impression is that I do less well. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. On a related matter: I've been playing a lot of $0.29 BBO robot IMP tourneys lately. If the entries are large in number, then stratification occurs. When these tourneys are stratified, is this done based on rank? Similarly, stratification occurs in ACBL tourneys. I assume these are also stratified based on rank. Are all the masterpoints obtained applied during stratification or (in ACBL specifically) only those MP's from the host organisation?

I was surprised that GW was so erudite. Then I found Revelations 18:3 The irony that Babylon is located in present-day Iraq has not escaped notice.

West is a robot. When you play against a robot the program alerts all bids according to the way that GIB interprets the bid - not what the human partner thinks it means. Here is a link to the GIB system notes: https://bit.ly/GIBsystem East did not understand the GIB system and bid diamonds because they had nice diamonds. West is a robot - it is alerting what it 'thinks' the bid means. 2 clubs would mean "I have a 6 card suit" 2 diamonds means "I have both majors" 2 hearts means "I have hearts and a minor" 2 spades means "I have spades and a minor" The alerts you are looking at are put there by the robot - not by the player.