I am one of those lucky souls to have breached the horrors of the curse. Do not take this curse lightly, as it is real, with few, such as myself, immune I have to admit, spudman, that was well worth the read. A great work. Should be flagged as historical, and put in the Wiki... i love it! I never thought of the zero card strategy...that seems to be the main difference between your and my strategies. I'm going to try it!

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Yes, you surely may. We have found it best not to do any "one time" awards and so new awards must be funded for a minimum of ten years at the outset, as well as be approved by the Awards Committee and Board. Bring us your ideas and donations! And by the way, there ARE opportunities to donate "one time" awards to individual shows. Good ideas should be run by the Central Office, who will forward them to the Awards Committee and/or Public Relations Committee if needed.

Jack has won the 2001 ESPN Action, Sports & Music Award for Surfing's Music Artist of the Year. Jack won the 2002 ESPN Action, Sports & Music Award for Surfing's Music Artist of the Year.

In FIRST, there are many different awards that can be won. First and foremost, at each regional and the national competition, awards are given out to the teams who place, with the usual first place getting a gold medal, second getting a silver, etc.

In 2002 I won an Associated Press award for my photographs from the Biscuit Fire in Oregon while employed at a small paper there.

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In the first category of GAME TYPES 10, 9, and 8, if the total winnings for any Draw exceed Lm100,000 (€232,937.34), Lm50,000 (€116,468.67) and Lm25,000 (€58,234.33) respectively, winners share the above amount according to the participation value of their STAKE. If Player A plays GAME TYPE [10] with a STAKE of Lm0.20 (€0.47) and Player B plays GAME TYPE [10] with a STAKE of Lm0.30 (€0.70), the total number of basic columns (i.e. columns with the basic price of Lm0.