The cards, filed by circonscription ( sub-chiefdom, or village ), are kept in the headquarters of each territoire ( chiefdom ).

Different cards are used for males and females, and a corner is clipped from the cards of adults, and of children when they reach puberty.

Personal identification cards are issued to all adult males on which tax payments, inoculations, periods of employment, and changes of residence are recorded.

The cards of permanent out-migrants are, in theory, sent to an office in the place of new residence.

Illustrations of the use of continuation cards are included throughout the examples illustrating the various statements.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

Additions after the demise of Commodore company are USB cards.

Graphics cards are designed primarily for 2D artwork production, workstation use, and later, gaming.

Video cards are designed for inputting and outputting video signals, and processing and manipulating video.

Acceptance test cards are ideally created during sprint planning or iteration planning meeting, before development begins so that the developers have a clear idea of what to develop.

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.

Burn cards are almost always placed face down next to the discard pile without being revealed to the players.

The player or players are dealt an initial two card hand and add the total of their cards.

Face cards ( Kings, Queens, and Jacks ) are counted as ten points.

All other cards are counted as the numeric value shown on the card.

Between one and eight French decks of cards are shuffled together.

Single cards are dealt to each of wagered-on position clockwise from the dealer's leftmost position, followed by a single card to the dealer, followed by an additional card to each of the positions in play.

Number-cards count as their natural value ; the jack, queen, and king ( also known as " face cards " or " pictures ") count as 10 ; aces are valued as either 1 or 11 according to the player's choice.

However, usually all ten-value cards are treated the same.

In that case they must choose which hand to play behind before the second cards are drawn.

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

In rubber bridge, partnerships may be self-determined or decided by a cut of the cards, the two highest cut playing against the two lowest, and the first dealer is the player cutting the highest card.

Throughout the shuffle, cut, and deal, the dealer should prevent the players from seeing the faces of any of the cards.

Should a card accidentally become exposed, ( visible to all ), any player can demand a redeal ( all the cards are gathered up, and the shuffle, cut, and deal are repeated ) or that the card be replaced randomly into the deck (" burning " it ) and a replacement dealt from the top to the player who was to receive the revealed card.

The game uses trump, often decided by a cut of the deck after the hand's cards have been distributed.

A perfect faro shuffle, where the cards are perfectly alternated, is considered one of the most difficult sleights by card magicians, simply because it requires the shuffler to be able to cut the deck into two equal packets and apply just the right amount of pressure when pushing the cards into each other.

After a deck of cards is shuffled by the dealer, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut.

The simplest form of the cut is done by taking, roughly, the top one-half of the cards, and placing them on the table or a cut card.

Either the player cutting or the dealer then completes the cut by placing the remaining bottom portion on top of the cards that have been cut off.

Once the cut is complete, the dealer then picks up the deck, straightens or " squares " it, then deals the cards.

A cut involving a very small number of cards, such as taking only the top card as a cut, is often acceptable.

On the other hand, any player may specifically request to cut the cards before they are dealt.

For example, in a 10 card deck, if a 7 card cut and a 4 card cut are made, that is, 7 cards are moved from the top of the deck to the bottom and then the resulting top 4 cards are also moved to the bottom, then those two consecutive cuts are equivalent to a cut the size of ( 7 + 4

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

After the shuffle, the dealer will offer a cut to the player on their right, then distribute the cards.

Alternative techniques included inserting microdots into slits cut into the edge of post cards.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

Speech cards used by President George H. W. Bush at the signing ceremony of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) on July 26, 1990.

A retargetable sound API called AHI was developed allowing these cards to be used transparently by the OS and software.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

After all boxes have finished playing, the dealer's hand is resolved by drawing cards until the hand busts or achieves a value of 17 or higher ( a dealer total of 17 including an ace, or " soft 17 ", must be drawn to in some games and must stand in others ).

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

In some situations where 4NT is a quantitative invitation, especially where 4 is a jump, many partnerships use the Gerber convention by some analogy to the Blackwood family: 4 asks for the number of aces or key cards.

) to trivial ( romance, games ) can be any kind of imaginative encoding: flowers, game cards, clothes, fans, hats, melodies, birds, etc., in which the sole requisite is the previous agreement of the meaning by both the sender and the receiver.

When the deal is complete, all players pick up their cards, or ' hand ', and hold them in such a way that the faces can be seen by the holder of the cards but not the other players, or vice versa depending on the game.

For example, in a trick-taking game it may be easier to have all one's cards of the same suit together, whereas in a rummy game one might sort them by rank or by potential combinations.

Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.