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Dummy Defined

Declarer's partner. Dummy does not participate in the play. After the bidding is completed and the opening lead is made, dummy places his cards face-up on the table, sorted into suits, and they are played by declarer.

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Published July 4, 2009, 1:23 am, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Neither vulnerable. South deals. NORTH ♠7 5 ♥Q 10 4 ♦A K 10 9 5 ♣9 7 2 WEST EAST ♠10 9 6 2 ♠K Q J ♥5 ♥K 9 8 7 2 ♦J 7 4 2 ♦6 3 ♣K Q 6 3 ♣8 5 4 SOUTH ♠A 8 4 3 ♥A J 6 3 ♦Q 8 ♣A J 10 The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1♣ Pass 1♦ 1♥ 1NT Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Five of ♥ Perhaps the most underrated bridge player in the history of U.S. bridge is Meyer Schleifer of Los Angeles — ...

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Published July 2, 2009, 12:06 am, Arizona Daily Star

Let's say you reach four spades on the bidding shown and West leads the heart jack. You hopefully play the queen, but East produces the king, which you take with the ace.

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New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents

Published July 1, 2009, 8:12 pm, Ars Technica

Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem. A new Linux kernel patch that was published last week offers a workaround that might make it possible to continue including FAT in Linux without using methods that are ...

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Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit

Published July 1, 2009, 1:06 pm, Mashable

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a promotion from website builder Squarespace , where the company offered up 30 iPhones in 30 days to be randomly awarded to users who included #squarespace with their tweets. The campaign worked in getting exposure – #squarespace was on top of trending topics for several days in a row – but we took issue with some of the messaging, as in reality, users were ...

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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む

Published June 29, 2009, 2:04 pm, Japan Today

An elementary school boy gave money to a girl saying it was her salary and she spent it to buy a pair of jeans and a jacket. ‘‘The company made a profit thanks to your work and I am paying you a salary,’’ the boy said.

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Best of the Best: Hive Five Winners, March through June 2009 [Hive Five]

Published June 29, 2009, 12:32 pm, Lifehacker

The year is flying by, and so are our readers' picks for software, hardware, and other tools. Come on in to see the winners of our Hive Five polls for the second quarter of 2009. Every week we pose...

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Safety first promoted on the farm

Published June 28, 2009, 1:43 am, The Hendersonville Times-News

By Jessica Goodman Times-News Staff Writer With a puppet show on the dangers of some household items, presentations on how to wash hands and proper handling of food and a demonstration of the dangers of tractors, it was a learning experience for all in the family.

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Published June 27, 2009, 12:50 am, Baltimore Sun

To prove that you'd have defended better than today's East at the ACBL Spring Championships, cover the West and South cards.

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Discussion Policy

Published June 26, 2009, 9:00 pm, Washington Post

DAILY BRIDGE CLUB For release 6/27/09 bc-stewart-bridge 06/27 TMS Original

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THE DEVIL"S TICKETS: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age

Published June 26, 2009, 6:23 pm, Book Reporter

This is (among other things) the age of Sudoku. Well, maybe that’s a little extravagant, but to the extent that we have widespread crazes in the 21st century, Sudoku is (or was) one of them. Sudoku is solitary, intellectual, logical, online and disposable.

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