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The Playing-Card

The Playing-Card is a quarterly publication, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of playing cards and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society.


2nd Wind

Always a believer in cutting-edge technology, Todd used the video for the album's only single, "Change Myself," as a showcase for the NewTek Video Toaster, a desktop video card for the Commodore Amiga computer.

3DO

3DO Blaster, an ISA add-on card for PCs which included the full chipset for the 3DO video game console

Beagle 2

The mission's call-sign was composed by the band Blur, and the 'test card' (Calibration Target Plate) intended for calibrating Beagle 2s cameras and spectrometers after landing was painted by Damien Hirst.

Blockade Billy

#Signed Limited Edition - comes in a traycase and features new additional artwork from Alex McVey and Glen Orbik (the book will be signed by them too), a William "Blockade Billy" Blakely baseball card, and a signed Stephen King baseball card

Brandel Chamblee

Chamblee lost his PGA Tour card in 2003, and since then has worked as an analyst for the Golf Channel on the Champions Tour, and Sprint's Pre/Post Game show.

Bridge convention

Under the rules of the sponsoring organization (for example national federations such as American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the English Bridge Union (EBU), zonal organizations, and the World Bridge Federation (WBF)), certain conventions are alertable, the partner of the player making the conventional call must say "alert" (or show an alert card from the bidding box) before the right-hand opponent calls.

Bryant Anderson

Briefly competing in Jim Crockett, Jr.'s World Wrestling Network, he teamed with Tully Blanchard before turning up in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in late 1994, where promoter Jim Cornette used him as a mid-card heel; his father briefly managed him but left after a few appearances.

Card counting

From the early days of card-counting, some players have been hugely successful, including Al Francesco, the inventor of blackjack team play and the man who taught Ken Uston how to count cards, and Tommy Hyland, manager of the longest-running blackjack team in history.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS (ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 2006 DS) is the card battle game for the Nintendo DS system.

EMV

IC card systems based on the EMV specification are being phased in across the world, under names such as "IC Credit" and "Chip and PIN".

Five-card stud

Five-card stud was one of the preliminary events in the World Series of Poker in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974.

Frank Sinclair

On 6 October 2007, he received his second red card of his short career at the Galpharm Stadium, in Town's 4–0 drubbing at the hands of Walsall at the Bescot Stadium.

Hercules InColor Card

The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.

Howard Scott Warshaw

The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name.

Hustler Casino

A major expansion was completed in February 2007 which included The Crystal Room which serves as a combination card room, conference room and poker tournament site.

Isao Takagi

On December 27, he and Muto (under his Great Muta persona) defeated Christopher Daniels and Dan Maff to retain the titles at a ROH vs. All Japan card.

Johannes Linßen

On 23 January 1971, while playing for MSV Duisburg against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Linßen received the first ever yellow card to be awarded in the Bundesliga, although the card should in fact have been awarded to his teammate Đorđe Pavlić, the referee having confused the two players.

Julie Kedzie

Kedzie was expected to face Germaine de Randamie as part of the Strikeforce Challengers 19 card on September 23, 2011, but withdrew due to injury.

Killer Karl Kox

As a singles heel through the sixties, he was a top-of-card fixture battling well-established crowd favourites such as Mark Lewin, Spiros Arion, Tex McKenzie, Dominic Denucci and Mario Milano.

Lazaros Kalemis

Alpha Card Services provides merchant services and ancillary services, such as Payroll, Point-of-Sale Systems, Gift and Reward Cards, ATM Services and Merchant cash advance to over 15,000 U.S. locations and processes in excess of $2 billion in credit card volume annually.

Madden Season 2

:Season Mode: Anyone who has a Global VR players card can play a season using the real 2006-07 season.

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Nintendo e-Reader

Aside from the regular card packs, some regular series cards were distributed on a promotional basis through GameStop, EB Games, and Energizer batteries.

O'Neil Longson

His third and most recent bracelet came in the 2005 $1,500 Seven-Card Razz event, defeating a final table including runner-up Bruno Fitoussi, Archie Karas, and Mickey Wernick.

Ovince St. Preux

Ovince returned to action less than a month after his win over Britt to fight UFC and Strikeforce veteran Benji Radach on the main card of Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II.

Pablo Motos

Binaca made an announcement referring to a bad mouth, has been the voice of Coca Cola, announced the bank credit card Visa and released the air conditioning Fujitsu.

PC Globe

The minimum system requirements of the DOS version of the software is a 8086 processor, 640 KB of RAM and a graphics card CGA, EGA or VGA

Rashid Mahazi

He started in the right central midfield role and was given a yellow card at the 41st minute of the match following a challenge, logging 79 minutes before being substituted for injury returning Guilherme Finkler.

Raymond Kursar

He created greeting cards for the American Artist's Group as many contemporary artists like Chen Chi, Eyvind Earle, Norman Rockwell, Ralph Avery, Hans Moller, who also created seasonal greeting card designs year after year for the American Artist’s Group.

Richard Chase

An identification card with Chase's identity can be found in the video game Deadlight.

Riddick Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson

The fight took place in RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, was Bowe's second defense of the title he had won from Evander Holyfield in November 1992, and was the main event of a card that included a fight between Roy Jones, Jr. and Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight championship, which Jones won.

Robosquirrel

The microprocessor was mounted on a custom designed, two-layer printed circuit board with a DB9 serial port for RS-232 communication and an SD card slot for data storage.

Royce Gracie

On December 31, 2004 Gracie entered the K-1 scene at the "Dynamite!" card inside the Osaka Dome, facing off against former sumo wrestler and MMA newcomer Akebono Tarō aka.

Sabeel Ahmed

Dr. Ahmed was alleged to have been given Dr. Haneef's British mobile phone SIM card when the latter left Britain last year to take a job at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland, Australia.

Suikoden Tierkreis

By using the DS' Wi-Fi function, two players each with their own game card can connect to each other to exchange characters and items, as well as gain access to unique battle scenarios.

Taro Tsujimoto

In the summer of 2011, trading card company Panini America added Tsujimoto to its 2010-11 Score Rookies & Traded box set.

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based.

The Pick

Another reference is to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter when Elaine blames her boyfriend for condemning her because of the photo on her Christmas card: "Because it is not me that is exposed but you. For I have seen the nipple on your soul!"

The Skywalk Is Gone

After crossing a street illegally, she is stopped by a police officer, who checks her ID card.

The Unutterable

In the song, Smith lists the five things that he, or rather, that Tong, can't leave home without: sunglasses, music, palm pilot, mobile phone and Amex card.

The Way Out Is Broken

Fans could purchase a download card from Armor for Sleep during the later dates of the 2008 Projekt Revolution tour, allowing them to download the EP on the day of its release.

U-Pass

U-Pass BC, the studend card program in British Columbia, Canada

UFC 66

The card also saw the return of former Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski and The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping's first bout in the UFC since winning that season.

UICC

: Note: the official definition for UICC is found in ETSI TR 102 216 where it is defined as a "smart card that conforms to the specifications written and maintained by the ETSI Smart Card Platform project".

Universal transit pass

Both universities in the city of Waterloo, Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo) have implemented U-Pass programs in their tuition fees, allowing full-time students year-round unlimited travel on the Grand River Transit bus system anywhere in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo using their student card.

Virgil Griffith

It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard".

Wallace John Eckert

Nicholas Metropolis and Richard Feynman organized a punched-card solution, proving its effectiveness for physics research and prompting the use of more powerful computers.

Warhammer Quest

These included two new adventure packs, several Warrior packs as well as additional Treasure Card packs & a set of blank Monster Cards & Event cards, where players could record their own monsters from the Warhammer world that were not written within the Roleplay book or else not produced as an official card by Games Workshop.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

Due to the inspirations for some of the cards, such as ancient mythology and Japanese folklore, the card game was a potential target for religious advocacy groups.


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