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Bridge: Feb. 28, 2020
Here’s another deal from my monthly Birmingham game with old partners and teammates. I played at six spades as South. North’s bid of five diamonds was “Exclusion Keycard Blackwood.” My 5NT response showed two of the “key cards” (the aces — but excluding the ace of diamonds — and the king of trumps) plus the […]
Word Game: Feb. 28, 2020
TODAY’S WORD — RECKLESSLY (RECKLESSLY: REK-les-lee: Carelessly; without caution.) Average mark 27 words Time limit 40 minutes Can you find 37 or more words in RECKLESSLY? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY’S WORD — BASCULE bale base beau blase blues able abuse sable sale sauce scab scale scuba seal slab slub slue suable cable […]
Horoscopes Feb. 28, 2020: Jason Aldean, your success depends on common sense
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jason Aldean, 43; Ali Larter, 44; Eric Lindros, 47; Pat Monahan, 51. Train lead singer Patrick Monahan (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Jose Carlos Fajardo/staff archives Happy Birthday: You can get what you want and where you want without taking risks. Use your intuition and intelligence to formulate the […]
Bed Bath & Beyond to cut 500 jobs as it powers on with its turnaround effort
Bed Bath & Beyond is cutting 500 jobs. There will be a “significant reduction” in management positions and the “outsourcing of several functions,” it said. The company has launched a major turnaround effort under new leadership and has been cutting jobs and closing stores to curb its expenses and streamline the business. Visit Business Insider’s […]
Tim Cook says he’s optimistic that China is getting the coronavirus under control and says Apple has reopened factories
Tim Cook says he’s “very optimistic” China is getting the novel coronavirus under control. Speaking to Fox Business on Thursday, the Apple CEO said the company was reopening factories and ramping up iPhone production. China is a key country for Apple, with so many iPhones manufactured in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou that it’s nicknamed […]
‘The panic mode is full on’: Stocks plunge again as fears mount of a coronavirus pandemic
Global stocks dived on Friday as investors braced for the novel coronavirus to become a pandemic. Several stock indexes are set to end the week in correction territory after falling more than 10% since Monday. “Blood is running in the streets,” Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for markets.com, said in a morning note. Coronavirus has […]
‘Stop playing’: LeBron James initially thought his Lakers teammates were joking when they told him Kobe Bryant had died
LeBron James initially thought his Lakers teammates were “playing” with him when they informed him of Kobe Bryant’s death. James was asleep on a flight to Los Angeles from Philadelphia — where the Lakers had been playing the previous night — when the news broke. He was woken by teammate Anthony Davis, who recalled James’ […]
A Scottish lawmaker wants to force Trump to explain how he could afford 2 golf courses he owns in the country
President Donald Trump’s Scottish golf courses could be linked to a money-laundering scheme, a Scottish lawmaker said, according to the BBC. Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has asked First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to use an unexplained wealth order to get Trump to reveal how he paid for the properties. The order forces a target to […]
Khabib Nurmagomedov’s 24-year-old cousin Umar, another unbeaten Sambo expert, has been signed by the UFC
Umar Nurmagomedov has been signed by the UFC. Umar is the 24-year-old cousin of UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Like Khabib, Umar is an unbeaten mixed martial artist who possesses a solid Sambo fighting style, and has cauliflower ears from years spent wrestling on the mat. He is expected to fight at the UFC 249 […]
Ask Amy: My boyfriend gets upset if I don’t accept his castoffs as gifts
DEAR AMY: My boyfriend has made a habit out of using birthdays and holidays as an opportunity to upgrade his own lifestyle — under the guise of generous gift giving. Columnist Amy Dickinson (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) After buying himself the latest upgraded laptop, he gave me his used laptop for Christmas. (He did spend money […]
Letter: Troubled by bald effort to buy a local Danville election
Troubled by bald effort to buy a local election The Times’ Feb. 23 editorial, “Danville should stop NIMBYism, vote for Magee Ranch homes,” put its finger on the scale in favor of Danville’s Measure Y to make zoning changes allowing construction of 69 homes on the Magee Ranch property off Diablo Road. Enough ink has […]