The U. S. Playing Card Company now owns the eponymous Hoyle brand, and publishes a series of rulebooks for various families of card games that have largely standardized the games ' rules in countries and languages where the rulebooks are widely distributed.

After losing an extra-inning game in Game 1, the Cubs rallied and took a 3 games to 1 lead over the Wild Card Florida Marlins in the NLCS.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

This particular win expanded the Rockies ' Wild Card lead to four games over Giants.

Los Angeles, however, would win the next two games, and with their Wild Card lead down to 3, the Rockies traveled to San Francisco for another 3-game set.

But as in the previous series, San Francisco won the first two games behind Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito, cutting the Rockies Wild Card lead to 2. 5.

The games released in North America are: Digimon World, Digimon World 2, Digimon World 3, Digimon World 4, Digimon Digital Card Battle, Digimon Rumble Arena, Digimon Rumble Arena 2, Digimon Battle Spirit, Digimon Battle Spirit 2, Digimon Racing, Digimon World DS, Digimon World Data Squad, Digimon World Dawn and Dusk, Digimon World Championship, and Digimon Masters.

* Card games, such as Liar's poker, Bridge, Basset, Lansquenet, Piquet, Put, Teen patti

Two collectible card games are Mythos and Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game.

On August 24 the Brewers completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to climb to less than five games out in both the NL Central Division and NL Wild Card races, but then Milwaukee went on a 10-game losing streak that ended any postseason hope.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

With a steady five game lead for the Wild Card, the hope of a playoff spot seemed secured, but the Brewers struggled in September, first getting swept by the New York Mets, and then just over a week later, getting swept in four games by the Philadelphia Phillies, losing their lead in the Wild Card.

With the final 6x games at home, the Brewers were still in the hunt for the Wild Card behind the New York Mets.

They first swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, thanks to walk-off home runs by Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun, tying the New York Mets for the Wild Card lead with 3 games to go against the NL Central division champion Chicago Cubs.

Combined with stellar hitting of Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, Corey Hart, and Jonathan Lucroy, the Brewers, from August 16 to September 23, won 26 of 35 games, and as of September 24, only 2 1 / 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot, with a 79-73 record.

President Bush sent White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. to Ashcroft's hospital bed, where Ashcroft lay semiconscious, to request that he sign a document reversing the Justice Department's ruling.

Card readers are found on ticket gates where otherwise a paper ticket could be fed through, allowing the gate to open and the passenger to walk through, and on stand-alone Oyster validators, which do not operate a barrier.

Card is a native of Holbrook, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife Kathy.

* In May 2006, special tournaments were held for the Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game where the winners were pitted against a special, overpowered deck featuring the Yithians as played by the tournament organizer.

Like other hosts of the day, Trebek made several guest appearances as panelist or player on other shows ; one of his guest appearances was on a special week of NBC's Card Sharks, in 1980, where he and several other game show hosts ( including Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Jack Clark, Gene Rayburn, and Jim Lange ) competed in a week-long round robin tournament for charity.

Card games where each player's cards are hidden from other players are examples of games of imperfect information.

Moltres has been featured in several pieces of merchandise, including cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, where a special Moltres card was given away to celebrate the theatrical release of Pokémon The Movie 2000.

After a scheduling shuffle necessitated by the debut of The David Letterman Show on June 23, 1980, Card Sharks moved to Noon / 11: 00, a timeslot where it faced the top-rated game show in daytime, Family Feud on ABC ; the first half of The Young and the Restless in certain markets on CBS ; and pre-emptions on local affiliates due to many stations electing to air local newscasts, talk shows, or other syndicated programming in the Noon hour.

When he was eight, his mother won the Green Card Lottery, and his family moved to Rockville, Maryland, in the United States, where he attended Sequoyah Elementary School.

The two agreed that their next appearance would be in the following July at the 2002 Gathering of the Juggalos, where they would reveal the Card.

* In 2000 a sketch group called The Benders parody Test Card F in a short film sequence where Carole Hersee is kidnapped by a hooded figure and taken round various locations in a wheelbarrow before meeting with a sad demise.

The centre picture was also re-aligned within Test Card J to put the cross on the noughts and crosses board at the exact centre of the screen, where it was originally intended.

* From 1998 to 2007, Discover Card owned a billboard on One Times Square, just above the flagpole where the Times Square Ball is placed, until Toshiba bought the space.

Schoen later worked for Linuxcare, where he developed the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card.

He applied for a job at the Cleveland-based American Greeting Card Company ( where a fellow underground comic artist Robert Crumb had worked ) but was turned down.

She was raised in Westchester County, New York, where she started her career by performing in summer stock with her family ; she earned her Equity Card at age 15.

David Parlett ( in ' The Penguin Book of Card Games ', 1978 ) describes a UK version of Switch where the above rule for aces applies, but an ace can only be played if the player can play no other card.

Card scrapers are sometimes used in working with ceramics, where they may substitute for the more traditional wooden rib.

After eight tries, at the age of thirty eight, Hamilton went back to Qualifying School in 2003 where he finally earned his first PGA Card.

The IBM 824 Typewriter Card Punch was an IBM 024 where the 024 keyboard was replaced by an IBM electric typewriter, permitting selected text to be typed and punched.

Most notable were perhaps Egypt, where several Jokers who took the form of ancient Egyptian Gods had begun to bring back the ancient religion, and Central America, where two ace brothers were leading a Wild Card revolution.

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.

* Card counting-Many systems exist for Blackjack to keep track of the ratio of ten values to all others ; when this ratio is high the player has an advantage and should increase the amount of their bets.

Eckert's publication of Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation in 1940, described punch card techniques sufficiently advanced to solve some differential equations or perform multiplication and division using floating point representations, all on punched cards and unit record machines.

DBA is required for all US citizens, US residents, US Green Card holders, and all employees or subcontractors hired on overseas government contracts.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film a " captivating romantic bonbon " and added, " Don't look for the originality and grit that distinguished Weir's Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, Green Card has all the heft of a potato chip.

The tape transport was followed by the 405 Card Reader and the 415 Card Punch, followed by a series of tape drives and drum printers, all of which were designed in-house.

Marvel Comics and Orson Scott Card announced on April 19, 2008 that they would be publishing a limited series adaptation of Ender's Game as the first in a comic series that would adapt all of Card's Ender's Game novels.

Orson Scott Card remarked favorably on the novel, noting that although it was " all talk, no action -- but Asimov's talk is action.

USB devices are available for almost all functions the PC Card originally provided.

From Fremantle, the network licenses Match Game ( currently only the 1973-82 versions ; the 1990-91 version aired on the network in the past ), Family Feud ( all except the 1999-2002 version hosted by Louie Anderson ), Password ( all versions ), and Card Sharks ( all except 2001 – 2002 syndicated ).

Card punches could also jam trying to produce cards with all holes punched, owing to power-supply problems.

The elder Card and all four of his sons were captured, but soon released.

Shared facilities include the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Campus Safety, the Tranquada Student Services Center ( which houses Baxter Medical Center, Monsour Counseling Center, and the Health Education Outreach ,) McAlister Center ( home of the Office of the Chaplains and the Claremont Card Center ), Huntley Bookstore, all dining facilities and several sports facilities.

It contains all the cards available in the Trade Card Expansion.

The idea that all events are inevitable due to past decisions ( hitsuzen ) as in Card Captor Sakura, Tsubasa Chronicle, and xxxHolic, and the idea that humans choose their destiny through their own efforts.

Among his offspring are Presidential Ball, Cams Card Shark, Precious Bunny, Camtastic, and Goalie Jeff, all winners of more than two million dollars.

Because they use a slightly modified Parallel ATA ( PATA ) interface, a simple adapter is all that is needed to connect CF cards to function as an PATA or PC Card hard disk.

Launched in September 1997 to collect fares for the territory's mass transit system, the Octopus card system is the second contactless smart card system in the world, after Upass, and has since grown into a widely used payment system for virtually all public transport in Hong Kong, leading to the development of Oyster Card in London.

Programming included variety shows, talk shows, game shows ( such as Fandango and Top Card ), outdoors shows, and lifestyle shows, all centered in some way around country music.

Following the cancellation of The Farmer's Daughter in 1966, Stevens appeared in several movies: A Guide for the Married Man ( 1967 ) with Walter Matthau, Hang ' Em High with Clint Eastwood, 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin, and Madigan with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, all in 1968.