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Defensive back. that the backs have

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 27th, 2007

In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players, who take positions directly behind the line of scrimmage.

The defensive backs, in turn, generally are classified into several different specialized positions:

  • Safety
  • Cornerbacks, which include
    • Nickelbacks
    • Dimebacks


See also

  • American football positions

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People’s Union (Iraq). wanted Iraqi

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 27th, 2007

The People’s Union (Ittihad Al Shaab or another name in English: Program of People’s Unity) was the main communist party list in the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election. It is made up of the Iraqi Communist Party and independent candidate Hikmat Dawud Hakim. Before the election, it attempted to form a wider coalition among secularist groups, but this effort failed. The list was led by Hamid Majid Mousa, who served on the Governing Council and as minister of culture on the interim government. The party, while small, ran one of the more organized campaigns in the election, and its list of 257 candidates was the longest of any party. In the January elections, the People’s Union received just under 70,000 votes, or about 0.8% of ballots cast, earning them two seats in the transitional Iraqi National Assembly.

Prior to the December 2005 elections, the list merged with several others to join the Iraqi National List.

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Worshipful Company of Musicians. Company

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 26th, 2007

The Worshipful Company of Musicians is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. In 1500, the Fellowship of Minstrels was granted incorporation as the Musicians’ Company by the Lord Mayor of London; the Company was given the right to regulate all musicians within the City. Thereafter, the Company received a Royal Charter in 1604. However, the Charter was revoked in 1634, at the behest of the Musicians’ rivals, the King’s Minstrels. Another Charter was granted centuries later in 1950.

The Company no longer has the power to regulate music within the City. It supports musicians and orchestras, and also the education of music students.

The Company ranks fiftieth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Preserve Harmony.


External link

  • The Musicians’ Company

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Bottom dealing. Card

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 26th, 2007

Bottom dealing is a method of illegally influencing the outcome of a poker game and other card games by way of dealing from the bottom, rather than the top, of the card deck. A bottom dealer may sneak a peek at the bottom card of the deck just after or during the cut or place selected cards at the bottom of the deck. With the knowledge of that card in mind, he can deal the card to himself or a confederate to help his or his confederate’s hand, or deal it to someone else if he knows the card will not help the opponent (thereby preventing the opponent from improving his hand).


See also

  • Cheating in poker
  • Second dealing
  • Card marking


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Nestor (solitaire). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 26th, 2007

Nestor is a solitaire card game where the object is the removal of pairs.

Cards are dealt into eight columns of six cards. They are dealt in such a way that no two cards in the same column have the same rank. If it is about to be the case, the card about to dealt is placed at the bottom of the deck and a new one is dealt as long as its rank doesn’t match with any of the cards already in that column.

Once the eight columns are dealt, the four remaining cards are placed either face-up or face-down in a row above or below the columns. These four cards will be the reserve.

Play is composed of removing pairs of cards with the same rank (such as two kings or two 7s). All cards in the reserve and the top card of each column are available for play. Once a pair has been removed, new cards become exposed and available for play.

The game is won once all cards are discarded.

An alternate rule in this game is after the eight columns are dealt, the reserve cards are placed as one overlapping row and the top card is the only one available for play.

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Etopps. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 25th, 2007

eTopps is a revolutionary type of trading card originally launched by the Topps company in 2000.

Each week a limited number of sports cards, called IPOs, are offered for sale exclusively through Etopps.com. This method of distribution contrasts with the traditional sale of sports cards through packs at retail stores. Collectors are then allocated a number of cards based on the number of orders for each particular card.

Card owners can then hold their cards in an online portfolio, while Topps retains physical possession of their cards in a climate-controlled warehouse in Delaware. If collectors would rather take delivery of their cards, etopps will ship them the cards for a fee. Card values are tracked from actual sales on the eBay trading floor, giving each collector an up-to-the-minute portfolio value. This facet of the program has attracted investors in addition to sports card collectors.


External links

  • eTopps

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Forecastle. deck

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 25th, 2007

“Forecastle“, also spelled fo’c’s’le (pronounced ), originally meant the upper deck of a sailing ship, forward of the foremast.


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The forward part of a ship with the sailors’ living quarters is also called forecastle. Related to the latter meaning is the phrase “before the mast” which denotes anything related to ordinary sailors (as opposed to a ship’s officers).

The term “forecastle” relates to Medieval shipbuilding, where ships of war were usually equipped with a tall, multi-deck castle-like structure in the bows of the ship which served as a platform for archers to shoot down on enemy ships and could also be used as a defensive stronghold if the ship was boarded.

A similar but usually much larger structure was at the aft end of the ship, often stretching all the way from the main mast to the stern.

Having such tall upper works on the ship was of course detrimental to sailing performance. As cannons were introduced and gunfire replaced boarding as the primary means of naval combat during the 16th century, the medieval forecastle was no longer needed, and later ships such as the galleon had only a low, one-deck high forecastle.

In addition to crew’s quarters, the forecastle may contain essential machinery such as the anchor windlass. On many modern US Naval ships (such as aircraft carriers), the forecastle is the location where boatswain will display their fancy knotwork such as coxcombing. It is also referred to as “God’s Country” as this is where religious services of all denominations are held by Navy Chaplains.

Some sailing ships and many modern (non-sail) ships have no forecastle as such at all but the name is still being used to indicate the foremost part of the upper deck (although often called the foredeck) and for any crews quarters in the bow of the ship, even if below the main deck.

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Flame of Liberty. Liberty

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 25th, 2007

The Flame of Liberty (Flamme de la Liberté) in Paris is a full size, gold leaf covered, replica of the flame carried in the hand of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. It was given to the city of Paris by the International Herald Tribune on behalf of donors as part of the newspaper’s centennial celebrations in 1987. It is located near the northern end of the Pont de l’Alma on the Place de l’Alma in Paris.

For several years, the public fly-posted the base with commemorative material in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, because the memorial is very close to the tunnel where she died. The material has since been removed by the French authorities. However, it is still regarded by many as an unofficial memorial to the late princess.

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/31/europe/flame.php

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Mineur (crater). closest to nine.

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 24th, 2007

Mineur is a lunar crater that lies just to the northeast of the prominent Jackson crater, on the far side of the Moon. Jackson lies at the center of a broad ray system, a portion of which covers Mineur crater. The closest other crater of note is Cockcroft to the north.

This is a heavily eroded crater formation, with a worn rim that stands in contrast to the well-defined features of Jackson crater. The northern part of the rim in particular has been heavily damaged by multiple overlapping impacts. The interior floor of Mineur is relatively featureless.


Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Mineur crater.

Mineur Latitude Longitude Diameter
D 25.9° N 159.2° W 20 km
V 26.2° N 163.1° W 26 km
X 27.1° N 162.7° W 31 km


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Philip Bretherton. tricks.

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 24th, 2007

Philip Bretherton (born 1956) is an English actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Alistair Deacon in the comedy series As Time Goes By.

Bretherton was born in Lancashire, England and studied English and drama at the University of Manchester, where he decided to become an actor.

Bretherton appeared in Casualty as Andrew Bower (Lisa “Duffy” Duffin’s husband), Footballer’s Wives as Stefan Hauser, New Tricks as Doug Standeven and, most recently, Coronation Street as Ian Davenport. He is also active in theatre.


Trivia

  • Bretherton made a brief appearance as “Rod” in Coronation Street in 1988. He then returned as Robert Weston in 1991, and again as Ian Davenport in 2004.
  • His trademark: “Hey Hey” as Alistair in As Time Goes By


References 

http://atgbcentral.com/philipbretherton.html


External link

  • http://www.philipbretherton.co.uk ‘Official Website

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Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 24th, 2007

Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar was the head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Since the fall of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, his whereabouts have been unknown. He is presently #21 on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis (previously #39), and is represented by the “nine of spades” in the deck of playing cards that were printed to accompany the list.

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Duchess (solitaire). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 23rd, 2007

Duchess (also Dutchess) is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It has all four typical features, a tableau, a reserve, a stock and a waste pile, and is quite easy to win.

First, four fans of three cards are set up; they form the reserve. Then a space is left for the four foundations, then four cards are placed in a row; they form the bases for the tableau columns.

To start the game, the player will choose among the top cards of the reserve fans which will start the first foundation pile. Once he/she makes that decision and picks a card, the three other cards with the same rank, whenever they become available, will start the other three foundations.

The top cards of the reserve fans and the top cards of the columns in the tableau are available for play onto the foundations or on the tableau. The foundations are built up by suit and ranking is continuous as Aces are placed over Kings. The cards on the tableau are built down in alternating colors. Ranking is also continuous in the tableau as Kings can be placed over Aces. One card can be moved at a time, but sequences can also be moved as one unit. No cards can be built on the reserve.

Spaces that occur on the tableau are filled with any top card in the reserve. If the entire reserve is exhausted however, it is not replenished; spaces that occur after this point have to be filled with cards from the waste pile or, if a wastepile has not been made yet, the stock.

The stock is dealt one card at a time to the wastepile, the top card of which is available for play. There is one redeal allowed. To prepare for the redeal, the remaining cards in the wastepile are collected and turned face down to become the new stock.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.

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Bingo card. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 22nd, 2007

Bingo cards are used to play various bingo games, including U.S. style bingo and UK style Housie. Cards are usually made of cardboard or non-reusable paper, but more and more bingo halls are beginning to use computerized cards. Bingo cards are printed in various styles (see below) with randomized bingo numbers. As bingo numbers are called, players either check off the boxes with a pen or marker, or use a bingo daber/dauber to stamp the box.


U.S. Bingo Cards

U.S. bingo cards are 5×5 squares, with the columns labeled B-I-N-G-O and with spots contains numbers between 1 and 75. The center square typically is a free spot, and often has the word “free” printed on it.

  • Column B contains numbers 1 - 15
  • Column I contains numbers 16 - 30
  • Column N contains numbers 31 - 45
  • Column G contains numbers 46 - 60
  • Column O contains numbers 61 - 75
  • There are 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 different cards possible.


UK Bingo Cards

UK Bingo, or Housie, cards are usually called tickets and differ greatly from U.S. Bingo cards. The cards contain three rows and nine columns. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains one, two or three numbers.

  • Column 1 contains numbers 1 - 9
  • Column 2 contains numbers 10 - 19
  • Column 3 contains numbers 20 - 29
  • Column 4 contains numbers 30 - 39
  • Column 5 contains numbers 40 - 49
  • Column 6 contains numbers 50 - 59
  • Column 7 contains numbers 60 - 69
  • Column 8 contains numbers 70 - 79
  • Column 9 contains numbers 80 - 90


Other Types of Cards

  • Flimsies
  • Break Open


Sources

Bingo Dictionary


See also

  • Bingo Card Game
  • Keno

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Martha (solitaire). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 22nd, 2007

Martha is a solitaire card game that is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. A game similar to Klondike, it has a novelty of having half of the cards in the tableau faced down.

First, the aces are removed from the deck and set up as the bases for the foundations.

Then, the rest of the deck is dealt into 12 columns of four overlapping cards each, with the top card and the third card from the top faced up and the bottom card and second card from the top faced down. To make this easier, here is a simple illustration of a column: 

D
U
D
U<--- top card

The top cards of the columns are available for play, to be built on either the foundations or on other columns in the tableau. The foundations are built up by suit to Kings, while the cards on the tableau are built down in alternating columns.

One card can be moved at a time, but sequences that are already built can be moved, in part or in whole, as unit. But when a gap occurs, it can be filled only with a single card.

The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.

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Colorado (game). playing cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 22nd, 2007

Colorado is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is a game of card building which belongs to the same family as Strategy, Sir Tommy, Calculation and Sly Fox.

First, twenty cards are dealt in any arrangement the player desires; it is suggested that cards should be two rows of ten cards each.

Then the player searches for an Ace and a King of each suit. These cards should go to the foundations whenever they become available for play. The foundations that start with the Aces are built up by suit, while those that start with Kings are built down by suit. The spaces that they left behind are immediately filled with cards from the stock.

The stock is then dealt one card at a time, and any card that cannot be built yet to the foundations is placed on one of the 20 cards which are in fact bases for waste piles. When placing cards onto a wastepile, they do not have to follow suit or rank. However, there is no building; when a card is placed on a waste pile, the only place it would go is to a foundation.

After each deal, the player will determine if any of the cards on the waste piles can be built onto the foundations.

Again, whenever a waste pile becomes empty, no matter how many cards it previously had, it is filled with a card from the wastepile. This is the only way an empty pile is refilled because when the stock runs out, spaces are no longer filled.

The game ends soon after the stock has run out. The game is won when all cards are built into the foundations; but when there are still cards that are stuck and cannot be possibly released, the game is lost.

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Payment card. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 21st, 2007

The term payment card covers a range of different cards that can be presented by a cardholder to make a payment.


Types of payment card

Typically a payment card is backed by an account holding funds belonging to the cardholder, or offering credit to the cardholder. Payment cards can be classified into types depending on how this account is managed.

Different types of payment cards include:

  • Credit card
  • Debit card
  • Charge card
  • Stored-value card
  • Fuel card
  • Gift card
  • Electronic purse


Payment card technologies

Different technologies used by payment cards include:

  • Magnetic stripe card
  • Smart card
  • Contactless card

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Colorado (game). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 21st, 2007

Colorado is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is a game of card building which belongs to the same family as Strategy, Sir Tommy, Calculation and Sly Fox.

First, twenty cards are dealt in any arrangement the player desires; it is suggested that cards should be two rows of ten cards each.

Then the player searches for an Ace and a King of each suit. These cards should go to the foundations whenever they become available for play. The foundations that start with the Aces are built up by suit, while those that start with Kings are built down by suit. The spaces that they left behind are immediately filled with cards from the stock.

The stock is then dealt one card at a time, and any card that cannot be built yet to the foundations is placed on one of the 20 cards which are in fact bases for waste piles. When placing cards onto a wastepile, they do not have to follow suit or rank. However, there is no building; when a card is placed on a waste pile, the only place it would go is to a foundation.

After each deal, the player will determine if any of the cards on the waste piles can be built onto the foundations.

Again, whenever a waste pile becomes empty, no matter how many cards it previously had, it is filled with a card from the wastepile. This is the only way an empty pile is refilled because when the stock runs out, spaces are no longer filled.

The game ends soon after the stock has run out. The game is won when all cards are built into the foundations; but when there are still cards that are stuck and cannot be possibly released, the game is lost.

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Cards speak. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 20th, 2007

In the game of poker, the term cards speak (”for themselves”) is used in two contexts:

First, it is used to describe a High-low split game without a declaration. That is, in a cards speak game, players all reveal their hands at the showdown, and whoever has the highest hand wins the high half of the pot and whoever has the lowest hand wins the low half.<ref>Poker Dictionary: Cards Speak</ref>

The other context is as a house rule in casino poker rooms. “Cards speak” means that any verbal declaration as to the content of a player’s hand is not binding. If Mary says she has no pair, but in fact she has a flush, her cards speak and her hand is viewed for its genuine value, that of a flush. Likewise if John says he has a flush, but in fact he does not, his hand is judged on its actual merits, not his verbal declaration.<ref>Cards Speak Rule</ref> At the discretion of management, any player miscalling his hand may have that hand fouled, but this is not required.

The “cards speak” rule does not address the awarding of a pot, player responsibilities, or the one player to a hand rule. It merely means that verbal statements do not make a hand value. The cards do.


See also

  • Public cardroom rules (poker)


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Seven Devils. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 20th, 2007

Seven Devils is arguably the most difficult of all solitaire games. It is a two pack game widely available as a computer version.

28 cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column face up, and a further seven cards (the “devil”) are dealt face up to the right of the columns.

The aim is to move all the cards into thirteen-card sequences on the goal piles (at the right of the board), ascending in sequence and following suit, starting with the Aces.

Cards on the table can be stacked red-on-black in descending sequence. Any card can be used to fill an empty column.

Only one card can be moved at a time, but if there are empty columns multiple cards can be moved as if the empty columns were used as temporary spots.

The seven devils in the right-hand stack cannot be placed on other stacks, and can be moved only to the goal piles.

The difficulty of this game arises from three factors

  • Many games are unwinnable from the start. If two higher cards overlie any card in the same suit in the devil, the lower card can never be reached.
  • Even if this is not the case, if high cards overlay lower ones in the devil, the low cards can be very difficult to get to.
  • If low cards like twos or threes cannot be played to a column, they will be buried in the discard pile, and become difficult to retrieve.
  • Key low cards may be hidden face down in columns where they may well prove inaccessible


External links

  • a download site

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Card image. Card

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the September 19th, 2007

A card image is an archaic term for an ASCII string, usually 80 bytes in length. It refers to a Hollerith card, a data storage medium popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Two standard sizes of Hollerith card stored 80 or 132 characters. A single card was typically used to store a single line of text, for example a line of FORTRAN code. Many data formats, such as the FITS image file format, still use card images as basic building blocks — even though physical hollerith cards have not been widely used since the advent of inexpensive disk drives in the 1980s.

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