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DESERT 7E STARWATCHTODAY IN HISTORY A CES ON BRIDGE HOUGHT FOR TODAY Today's Jumble solution Today is Sunday, September 27, the 270th day of 2015. There are 95 days left in the year. On this date in: 1540: Pope Paul III issued a papal bull establishing the ociety of Jesus, or Jesuits, as areligious order. 1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived. 1935: Judy Garland, at age 13, signed a seven-year contract with MGM.

1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. 1954: hosted by Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC-TV. 1964: The government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. 1979: Congress gave its final approval to forming the Department of Education.

1995: The government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Yet another redesign, featuring a high- tech makeover aimed at thwarting counterfeiters, was announced in April 2010.) 2005: Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu hraib prison scandal. (She ended up serving half that ime.) 2010: Southwest Airlines announced the $1.4 billion purchase of AirTran. hought for Today: have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American humorist (1818-1885). 12345678910111213141516 17181920 21222324 252627 282930 3132333435363738 394041 4243444546474849 505152 5354555657 585960616263 646566676869707172 73747576777879 808182 838485 8687888990919293 949596 979899100101 102103104105 106107108109 110111112113 ITSTIMEKUDUCLARA FROWNATSPINESOUTBOX FINISHAHEADOFSCHEDULE YEASTORBSTROYTEL DRTMANILALOADSOF AGEBEFOREBEAUTY PINETAROMITSTASER FEMALETRUANTSENORA GRANDOPENINGSALESFAN SINKROTUNDEATAT LILYESTDLPGASCAD DEARSTAOISTTRUE UPIWAYBEHINDTHETIMES MOOINGADAGESNOVOTE PETRIPRIZEMUTTERS ONEAFTERANOTHER STUNGUNSLATESOPT IRSRESTMAGIASONE FORMFOLLOWINGFUNCTION TUDORSINPLAYSILENTI STACYPEAKBLURTED No.

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success secret: think about it. Act. Go. Do. There are many opportunities in danger being lost to the lever rumination trap.

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Capricorn and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are 4, 30, 22, 24 and 15. To write to Holiday athis, visit www.crea- ors.com and click the on her page. ou also may email Holi- ay at holidaymath- i or visit her website at HolidayMath- i s.com. COPYRIGHT 2 015 CREATORS.COM Holiday Mathis Creators Syndicate Dear Mr.

Wolff: Several years ago, I saw a suggestion from you that it may be right to open in rst or second seat on a balanced hand with 11 points, consisting of two aces and a king. I have been doing so ever since admittedly with mixed results. Please comment on whether I understood you correctly, or whether there are other factors to consider. Stepping Out, Lakeland, Fla. ANSWER: Opening a balanced 11-count is not mandatory, even with great controls, though I might open for the lead with ace-king-fourth in a minor.

With any real distributional shape in the hand, I believe 2 honor tricks constitute a valid opening bid. Non-vulnerable, you want to get your blow in rst. Dear Mr. Wolff: I nd the question of whether to advance facing an overcall especially hard. For example, holding 9-2, Q-7-6-2, J-2, A-Q-7-4-3, should you keep the action open in the fourth seat after hearing one diamond to your left and one spade from partner, when your RHO passes? If so, what would you bid? Lying Low, Kingston, Ontario ANSWER: I think this hand has just too much to pass here.

Responding two clubs may get partner off to the right lead if you end up defending, and you can surely stand a retreat to spades from your partner. I do not like the idea of raising with this particular spade holding, and the diamond stopper is too feeble for a call at no-trump. Dear Mr. Wolff: What is a weak no-trump, and how can a bridge player tell if a bidder is opening with a weak or a strong no-trump? Square Basher, Selma, Ala. ANSWER: This is not something you should ever have to guess at.

Some people do play weak no-trump when non-vulnerable, and strong when vulnerable, but one cannot play both at the same time. In duplicate, it is customary to announce the range of your no-trump call each time it is opened, so it should not come as a surprise to the opponents. Dear Mr. Wolff: We believe we disagree on such a simple sequence after playing two-over- one for 14 years, but we need advice regarding a response of two clubs to one diamond. Has responder denied a major? Should opener always show a major at his second turn? And should opener rebid diamonds if he can? John and Dee, Salinas, Calif.

ANSWER: There is no right answer. My personal preference is for opener to rebid no-trump when balanced, with or without a major, to use calls in a major as natural, guaranteeing long diamonds and some extras, and to raise with four (occasionally three) trumps. A rebid in diamonds shows at least ve and an unbalanced hand. Dear Mr. Wolff: When should you try to nd suit, rather than leading your own, against no-trump? Suppose the bidding has gone one no-trump three no- trump, and you have to lead from 7, 10-9-7-4-3, Q-8-7, 9-8-6-2.

Since you have little chance to both set up and cash out your anemic heart suit, does it make sense to lead a spade, since partner is likely to have ve or more? sh, Macon, Ga. ANSWER: Leading short or weak suits with bad hands against no-trump is a reasonable policy. But leading a singleton seems wrong, since if this would set the hand, partner might have doubled to get me to lead my short suit. With a 2-4-4-3 Yarborough, a spade is certainly not silly. But on your example hand, guess to lead hearts, I think.

Bobby Wolff have lived in this world just ong enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain ofthe first (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American humorist (1818-1885).