** Word-initial and postconsonantal ( Catalan and ) alternates with intervocalically ; e. g. joc ' game ', but pitjor ' worse ', boja ' crazy ' ( Standard Valencian, ; ; Standard Catalan, and ).

In 2003, Juan Catalan, a resident of Los Angeles, was cleared of premeditated murder charges against a material witness ( a crime eligible for capital punishment ) after outtake footage shot for the " Carpool Lane " episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the crime-scene at the time of the murder, resulting in a $ 320, 000 settlement against the City of Los Angeles.

Some episodes are a vehicle to introduce a new character into the storyline, while others are parodies of cultural phenomena, such as Hello Kitty, Japanese karate and ninja movies, ' 80s anti-drug documentaries, Michael Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9 / 11, Kill Bill, the crime drama CSI: Miami, the iPod " silhouette " ad campaign, the MTV show Pimp My Ride, the game show Krypton Factor, Mel Brooks ' History of the World, the video game Portal, Final Fantasy VII, the Academy Awards and even retailers such as PC World (' Pissy Werld ' in the show ), IKEA ( or ' PIKEA ') and Matalan (' Catalan ').

* If White chooses to fianchetto his king's bishop, the game transposes into the Catalan Opening.

Black has two main approaches to choose between: in the Open Catalan he plays ... dxc4 and can either try to hold onto the pawn with ... b5 or give it back for extra time to free his game.

In the Closed Catalan, Black does not capture on c4 ; his game can be somewhat cramped for a while, but is quite solid.

His last game for the Catalan XI was his own testimonial on 4 March 1993 at the Montjuïc Stadium against an International XI.

The Catalan XI marked the end of the Franco era with a friendly game against the USSR at the Camp Nou on June 6, 1976.

The game finished 1 – 1 with Neeskens scoring for the Catalan XI.

The victorious Champions League Final on 27 May 2009 was the Brazilian's final game for the Catalan club.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Maillol “ spoke Catalan, wore traditional espadrilles, a sash and a barretina ( the traditional Catalan cap ), he danced sardanes ” and he openly proclaimed his Catalan identity: “ I consider Catalonia my true homeland ”.

In addition to the original Broadway and London cast recordings, and the motion picture soundtrack ( no longer available ), there are recordings of the 1990 studio cast, the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival ( starring Judi Dench ), and the 2001 Barcelona cast recording sung in Catalan.

Some people, ( mainly in Spanish / Catalan ), use the BCN acronym.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

* Catalan Company ( or Catalan Grand Company ), a mercenary free company in 14th century Europe

* Catalan ( grape ), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre

* Webpage devoted to Carlo Goldoni ( lletrA ( UOC ), Catalan Literature Online )

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

* Aliens ( Kaypro video game ), a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP / M operating system

* Animal ( video game ), a video game by Microtime

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

The hardware consists primarily of a standard MOS 6502 CPU, which executes the game program, and the Digital Vector Generator ( DVG ), vector processing circuitry developed by Atari themselves.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

Legally recognized good reasons for consent include ; surgery, activities within the rules of a game ( Mixed martial arts, wrestling, boxing, or contact sports ), bodily adornment ( R v Wilson ), or horseplay ( Jones and others ).

* Ajax ( video game ), an arcade game

Playing across the western U. S., the tour made stops in Hawaii ( although no game was played ), New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and England.

* Antwerp ( Quest For Glory ), a monster in the Quest for Glory computer role-playing game series

* The Ark ( Halo ), in the video game Halo

* Aberration ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a creature type in the role-playing game

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

This seems to be the case in other traditional games such as Go and Oware ( a type of mancala game ), but data is lacking in regard to contemporary board games.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

In addition, if the situation of the game is such that the steal is of little use ( usually in the late innings when the runner would not change the game's outcome by scoring ), and the catcher does not attempt to throw out the runner, the runner is not credited with a steal, and the base is attributed to defensive indifference.

He defeats and befriends Mongo ( Alex Karras ), an immensely strong, slow-thinking ( but surprisingly philosophical ) henchman sent by Taggart and Lyle to kill Bart, and then beats German seductress-for-hire Lili von Shtupp ( Madeline Kahn ) at her own game.

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

The card would indicate which game functions, such as changing the view or vehicle speed, were assigned to each key.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

The namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre, though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards ( as well as games which use neither cards nor a gameboard ) are often colloquially included.

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer and played with one or more decks of 52 cards.

The recreational British card game of black jack is a shedding-type game and unrelated to the subject of this article.

In the modern game, a blackjack refers to any hand of an ace plus a ten or face card, regardless of suits or colours.

On their turn, players must choose whether to " hit " ( take a card ), " stand " ( end their turn ), " double " ( double wager, take a single card and finish ), " split " ( if the two cards have the same value, separate them to make two hands ) or " surrender " ( give up a half-bet and retire from the game ).

When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.

Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game where on each of several deals the opposing sides first compete in a bidding auction for the right to establish the contract for that deal, the side winning the auction being known as the declaring side.

* Blitz ( game ), a card game

* Another name of a trick-taking card game Belot

In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood.

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A new card game starts in a small way, either as someone's invention, or as a modification of an existing game.