Low cards increase the count as they increase the percentage of high cards in the remaining shoe, while high cards decrease it for the opposite reason.

High card by suit and Low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit.

In Low the strength of the cards are reversed while the 5 of Hearts and the 3 of Spades are neutral ( for example in " Low " play a seven would take a trick over an eight ).

Low ranking males benefit from an unstable hierarchy and have increased sexual opportunities.

In May 2005, the band teamed up with Gary Brooker and Andy Fairweather Low to give a charity concert called " Aftershock " in India, with all proceeds to benefit victims of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Ethnic minorities declined since the beginning of the Modern Age, like the Polabs, Sorbs and even the once important Low Germans had to assimilate themselves.

Low speed modes would ostensibly dominate the distribution, since low speed modes would require ever less energy, and prima facie a zero-speed mode would require zero energy and its energy partition would contain an infinite number of atoms.

Grandiose imperial desires to turn back the French expansion to the Rhine which had occurred since the middle decades of the seventeenth century were not realized, nor was the French border pushed back in the Low Countries.

Low frequencies are not easily localized in small rooms, hence many stereo and multichannel audio systems feature only one subwoofer channel and a single subwoofer can be placed off-center without affecting the perceived sound stage, since the sound produced is difficult to localize.

Low frequencies excite these modes the most, since long wavelengths are not much affected by furniture compositions or placement.

Most of these Anglo-Catholic " innovations " ( or, rather, revivals of dormant practices ) have since been accepted by mainstream Anglican churches, if not by Evangelical or Low Church Anglicans.

A variety of names have since been given to the Wandering Jew, including Matathias, Buttadeus, Paul Marrane, and Isaac Laquedem ( a name for him in France and the Low Countries, in popular legend as well as in a novel by Dumas ).

However, parts of the county had long been known as retreats, including the " Little Charleston " of Flat Rock in which South Carolina's Low Country planter families had maintained second homes since the early 19th century.

Writ Religio Medici in English, which was since translated into Latin, French, Italian, High and Low Dutch.

Low DC voltages were used ( on the order of 100 volts ) since that was a practical voltage for incandescent lamps, which were the primary electrical load.

Pirenne's argument that the long Spanish rule in the Low Countries had little continuing cultural impact has likewise fallen, in the face of new as research since 1970 in the fields of cultural, military, economic, and political history.

Schnaps is a Low German noun that means " swallow "; it has been documented in its High German meaning since before the 18th century.

Chrysler models with a three-speed automatic since the late 1980s have called this gear 3 while using the traditional names for Drive and Low.

Many Amrumers moreover speak Low German, since it had been the language of the coastal sailors.

Yet tourism has been helping substantially the local economy since the late 19th century with sanatoria and winter sports resorts built in the High Tatras and the Low Tatras, the areas of natural beauty such as the Slovak Paradise ( Slovenský raj ) in the south-west and the Pieniny National Park at the Slovak-Polish border, and also the region's many historical sites like Spiš Castle and nearby-located Spišské Podhradie, Spišská Kapitula, Žehra and the town of Levoča ( all of which are listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites ), Kežmarok, and Stará Ľubovňa Castle.

She has served as an advisor to the Prazska Skola Projekt in Prague, the Study Abroad on the Bowery ( since 2004 ), and has been a faculty member in the New England College Low Residency MFA Program ( since 2003 ).

The smousje, a small dog mentioned since the Middle Ages in the Low Countries known for its firm, even temperament and rough coat, was the initial breeding stock for the Griffon Bruxellois.

However opponents point all the achievements where over 10 years, at time of Strong Global economic growth, Low oil prices and relative to other countries the achievements where average, particularly since a massive Balance of Payments crises began in 2008.

** Low Prussian ( spoken by minorities around Gdańsk in northern Poland ; nearly extinct since 1945, considered to include Plauttdietsch by some observers )

The type of Low German spoken in these communities and in the Midwest region of the United States has diverged since emigration.

The ISO 639-2 language code for Low German ( Low Saxon ) has been nds ( nedersaksisch ) since May 2000.

Since Low German has undergone a strong decline since the 18th century the perceived similarities with High German or Dutch may often be direct High German / Dutch adaptations due to the growing incapability of speakers to speak correctly what was once Low German proper.

* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut ( according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty ).

Rollo is also known in the documents as Radulf ( us ) ( Old Low Franconian ) ( or sometimes Rodulf ( us )) > French Raoul, that is the French translation of Hróðulfr > Hrólfr, according to the Low Franconian variant form Radulf of Germanic Rodulf / Rudolf .</ ref >

* 1550 BC — Ahmose I becomes Pharaoh of Egypt ( although only de facto ruler of Upper Egypt ) according to the Low Chronology.

Several dialects of Low Saxon ( Nedersaksisch in Dutch ) are spoken in much of the north and east and are recognized by the Netherlands as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

The manifesto, which had last been updated in 1994, took one year to work on according to Low.

This " Low Iotic " is characterized ( according to the narrator ) by a reduction of verbs to the present tense.

Low German has been recognised by the Netherlands and by Germany ( since 1999 ) as a regional language according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In the celebration of a Low Mass according to the 1962 rubrics, incense is not used.

At its peak in terms of sales, in one month during the 1970s, Commando comics circulation figures reached 750, 000 according to George Low, the editor.

This powertrain made use of the Lexus Hybrid Drive system of integrating electric and gasoline engine motors, giving the GS 450h a Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle ( SULEV ) emissions rating, and total output of, allowing the GS to accelerate in 5. 2 seconds, according to manufacturer data.

He fought in the Low Countries during this period, apparently under Sir Sigismund Alexander according to Anthony a Wood, and in 1629 was indicted for assaulting one Edward Moore with his sword and wounding the man's head.

The territorial Duchy of Burgundy reverted to the French crown according to Salic law, and King Louis XI of France also seized the French portion of the Burgundian possessions in the Low Countries.

Low necklines were commonly worn by women during the period, but according to the art historian Zahira Veliz, " the codes of pictorial decorum would not easily permit a known lady to be painted in this way ".

The file was now with the office of the DPP, according to police spokeswoman Sylvia Low.