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Music Genius Playing Cards, available at Amazon, $9.42Whether they love game night, music, or are equal fans of both, they'll surely get a kick out of these playing cards.
Genius Music Playing Cards, available at Amazon, $9.42Game night gets a cool upgrade with these playing cards, featuring illustrations of all the big names in pop, rock, country, and R&B. 
We drink, eat, and end up playing Cards Against Humanity.
In the meantime, they while away the time playing cards.
To understand it, think of a pyramid of playing cards.
A squirt gun and mini playing cards because, why not?
Lightseekers will include the game, playing cards, characters and more.
The swimmers use playing cards to determine their racing positions.
"Before this, training the body was playing cards," she said.
The playing cards are from a White House card deck.
But they weren't doing that now; they weren't playing cards.
Playing cards are about as familiar as an object can get.
This year, we learned to fill those hours by playing cards.
He spent his days at a cafe playing cards with friends.
That means drawing lots or straws, flipping coins or playing cards.
The group spent nights playing Cards Against Humanity and other games.
Imagine stacking a series of playing cards on top of each other.
He carried his usual tools: three playing cards and a cardboard box.
We start each day with the crossword and end it playing cards.
Who knew that playing cards used to contain eight or more suits?
In one, he's playing cards while drinking a bottle of Sam Adams.
Sometimes the blades split playing cards or whizzed by a mannequin's ear.
Instead it emerged that they were playing cards in the locker room.
We were sitting around playing cards and chairs would break underneath us.
Theory11 Product(RED) Playing Cards, available on Amazon, $9.49Most people have a random deck of playing cards that they've acquired from a street fair or vacation rental, but they probably don't have a deck of cards that saves lives.
Flowers surround a balloon with images of dice, playing cards, and poker chips.
"Playing cards", too, are hit - but only with an additional 10-percent duty.
On the downside, several buyers complained that the playing cards are poor quality.
A separate 10 percent tariff will be imposed on imports of playing cards.
The list includes ketchup, lawn mowers, toilet paper, sleeping bags and playing cards.
That's bad form for a company that got its start selling playing cards.
Outside the Cafe Les Palmiers, groups of men sat playing cards or smoking.
We have also, as a result, halted the use of RFID playing cards.
Genius Music Playing Cards, available on Amazon, $9.42Two jokers (Björk and David Bowie) and 52 playing cards featuring music's greatest legends — from Madonna and Prince to Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Amy Winehouse — make up a fun pack of cards.
Like this guy sticking a bunch of giant playing cards in a hydraulic press. 
I'm sitting at her bedside, and we're playing cards, or at least trying to.
Crayons, Ivory soap, confederate flag playing cards, and pencils are placed under the flag.
They're playing cards and don't stop dealing or looking at their hands to talk.
Greeting cards, maybe, or a deck of playing cards with famous women on them.
Also, if those better times featured weird cowboys playing cards, that would be cool.
He found ways to harm himself with playing cards, shower shoes, toothbrushes, and books.
Free items include bottled water, playing cards, fuzzy socks, eye masks and luggage tags.
Yaoji Poker, the world's largest maker of playing cards, says rural sales are robust.
The Rubik's Cube and a deck of playing cards are also classic attention grabbers.
Trees made of playing cards and green leaves completed the Red Room's games theme.
The students -- mostly elementary-school age -- kept busy playing cards and watching television, Ard said.
The photos show women using the playing cards and pink box in various inventive ways.
But without playing cards to divest, the goal instead appears to be avoiding a ban.
Green, Fudge's only child, said he enjoyed fishing, playing cards and barbecuing with his dad.
Just eatin', having a good time, a lot of friends over, people downstairs playing cards.
Otherwise, inmates typically sit at tables with their families, sharing a meal or playing cards.
The company has also sold themed beach towels, ice cube trays, backpacks, and playing cards.
The squad became an international hit, and appeared in a film and on playing cards.
The owner plans to design a deck of playing cards that will feature the art.
Later, in what you could describe as the trailer's "stinger" scene, we see Picard playing cards.
Ancient people probably didn't need to remember the order of playing cards of hundreds of names.
"They've been riding horses and I've been playing cards with the cowboys," Nanny Faye chimes in.
In the past, Snap has sold a ghost stuffed animal, playing cards and a ghost backpack.
Playing cards continued and the behaviour police—secular and sacred divisions—eventually focused their energies elsewhere.
Soon she was able to put playing cards in order from the king to the ace.
In one instance, a group of black deputies playing cards were ambushed by white plainclothes officers.
The playing cards were even used by some notorious gangs, including the crime syndicate the Yakuza.
Before the assault, players take turns playing cards that modify how that attack will play out.
Many of the playing cards have this social commentary aspect, although others are not so subtle.
At night, a handful of players sat out on the terrace, overlooking the Mediterranean, playing cards.
Staff are the only ones seated at the tables, playing cards and waiting listlessly for customers.
But in the end it yields, and photographs spill across the kitchen table like playing cards.
So he created a bond with many of the nurses playing cards, board games, and playdough.
They include: Waddington, Process Solutions, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Rawlings, Goody, Rubbermaid Outdoor and U.S. Playing Cards.
Nowadays, my family really enjoys having a very traditional dinner, having some booze, and then playing cards.
Inside the box you get 60 playing cards, each of which represents a part of a song.
For example, the retailer is working with a playing cards supplier who is now manufacturing plastic cutlery.
MANY people try to keep a poker face when playing cards, but not when looking at adverts.
On the long list of products impacted are flat-rolled steel, playing cards and felt-tipped pens.
In 1889, Nintendo founder Fusajiro Yamauchi began manufacturing and selling hand-painted playing cards in Kyoto, Japan.
Pencils hover, playing cards orbit, and water glasses tremble from the intent and concentrated gaze of girls.
K7, home of the popular DJ-Kicks mixes, hasreleased a new online game: DJ-Kicks Playing Cards.
It can also be of value if you're playing cards and are dealt an ACE of diamonds.
He has special dishes written out on playing cards, which he rotates every once in a while.
And under the sheets and the blankets, men had left things, playing cards, romance novels, comic books.
In the event of a tie, the delegate will be decided by a drawing of playing cards.
Shkreli also spent time playing cards in the courthouse cafeteria Tuesday while jurors huddled over his fate.
Aim to eat at least 8 ounces per week (that's about three decks of playing cards big).
While playing cards during the war I took better liars than Cruz for a lot of money.
Right: "Purgatory" (detail), 2009, by Jesse Krimes; 292 hand-printed image transfers, prison-issued soap, and playing cards.
The remaining cards are the Minor Arcana and, at first glance, look a lot like regular playing cards.
Rather than scrolling through a vertical stream of potential matches, mobile apps made the experience like playing cards.
No — it has also released an ice tray, a backpack, playing cards, a plushie, and a beach towel.
Lives One lazy Sunday when I was younger, I was with three friends playing cards, just hanging out.
I put a vintage deck of hanafuda playing cards, based on Nintendo's first game, back on the counter.
He said he hallucinated while hospitalized, including imagining he was telepathically communicating with a man wearing playing cards.
Do they all want to spend those "golden years" watching TV, playing cards or golf, reading or traveling?
You'll notice dozens of locals doing the same while laughing, chatting and playing cards — this is typical Chengdu.
Next to each booth is a tap for refilling water glasses, a stack of napkins, and playing cards.
There have been other attempts to make learning Braille more appealing, including alphabet blocks and UNO playing cards.
She remembers seeing the trucks pass as the kids were enjoying the bounce house and adults were playing cards.
THOMAS DE LA RUE set up shop more than 200 years ago, printing newspapers, then playing cards and stamps.
It has branched out into a thicket of unrelated items, including playing cards, sanitary towels, sports kit and electronics.
Sitting around the kitchen table playing cards became our thing whenever we would see each other through the years.
Few medieval playing cards survive, as they were tactile objects — shuffled, dealt, and traded until they deteriorated from touch.
And small Christmas trees made out of playing cards accompany the actual tree at the center of the room.
The linen bore about 550 jagged holes, ranging in size from a thumbnail to a couple of playing cards.
Snap has sold beach towels, official plushies, a backpack, and playing cards — just to name a few — on Amazon.
Apparently, my household is not the only one that makes up its own rules when playing Cards Against Humanity.
We're here to talk about the kind of PIPS that denote a number on playing cards, dice and dominoes.
Both can be seen in the late-15th-century deck from the Burgundian Netherlands known as the Cloisters Playing Cards.
We play a game of Uno with the biggest playing cards I have seen and hang out for a while.
John Delaney's anti-Trump gear includes $10 playing cards with a caricature of Trump's face on the joker card. Sen.
You've probably seen magicians pull playing cards from thin air, make silk handkerchiefs change colors, or cause cigarettes to vanish.
Mr. Purdy and some siblings were playing cards at a table in a cramped kitchen of her sixth-floor apartment.
"We have squirrels playing cards, some frogs being spanked, a drunk monkey," Ms. Ebenstein said, rattling off some anthropomorphic highlights.
Loose tops bore playing cards Westwood said she designed to "illustrate a plan to save the world from climate change".
Web designer Ben Evans creates realistic representations of everything from oceans to playing cards made from cascading style sheets (CSS).
Of course, over time they'd given each other clues, little comments laid down casually in the night like playing cards.
There was this time I was playing cards with my friend Thomas, and it's hard for me to hold cards.
Its compact size — it's smaller than a deck of playing cards — allows automakers to embed it seamlessly into their vehicles.
In Netflix's three-episode series, "Inside Bill's Brain," Bill Gates and the documentary's director, Davis Guggenheim, are seen playing cards.
The lodging stocks playing cards and board games for rainy days and will arrange family surfing lessons and aquarium tickets.
These glitched-out playing cards designed by Soleil Zumbrunn remind players of the real life-glitching effects of sleight-of-hand.
Now the people behind Mortensen's source material have released a new photobook, Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing Cards by Arkady Bronnikov.
During the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Rijeka exported everything from sugar and paper to playing cards and torpedoes, which were invented here.
"Gigantic playing cards, or paper clips used in a comical way by, let's say, a clown, freak me out," Jarrett says.
The Canadians, meanwhile, are seeking to tax cucumbers, gherkins, pizza, ketchup, beer kegs, lawn mowers, sailboats, sleeping bags, and playing cards.
For example, the researchers found that when counting playing cards, the radar would misclassify the card if it was slightly bent.
Your entire career playing cards is one long session, and your goal should be to be up as much as possible.
Demon now has a cigarette, playing cards, a prison tower, and a woman's face inked on his body. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Betty White's been on this earth for 97 years, but she'll never stop hustlin' ... especially when it comes to playing cards.
But my excitement about football remains rooted in the way that Madden brought the names on the playing cards to life.
Haunting photographs punctuate the text: a row of exhumed bodies, German officers playing cards and drinking schnapps, survivors erecting a memorial.
The Army has reportedly produced a deck of playing cards with Iranian weaponry on them to help soldiers identify those arms.
As well as the views, we had a good time in the dining room playing cards, drinking tea, and playing guitar.
You can head to the online retail giant for other official Snapchat gear like these playing cards or this beach towel.
Last week, I asked my friend, Dave, to destroy one of the playing cards from our weekly game of Pandemic Legacy.
WoW developer Blizzard fully embraced the meme, honoring his abiding legacy with Leeroy Jenkins playing cards, non-playable characters, and achievements.
And the last image I have of him is standing on a plane with this awful cowboy shirt on, playing cards.
There's something beautifully surreal about seeing inanimate objects, be they playing cards or matches, precariously stacked on top of one another.
Her photographs, in stark black and white, show a quiet, anachronistic world of three-piece suits, oil paintings and playing cards.
The museum also contains a fine collection of handmade Ganjifa playing cards used by nobles and royalty during the Mughal era.
It's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," but with business cards instead of playing cards and a lucrative contract as the white rabbit.
Groups of men gathered inside a convenience store to shield themselves from the heat and sun, smoking cigarettes and playing cards.
But I watch my boys, heads tucked together under the light of a headlamp, flipping through comic books and playing cards.
"I was working as a house boy in a local gambling joint, serving coffee for the guys playing cards," he recalled.
Players feel that recent changes in how prizes are awarded have threatened the way they make a living: by playing cards.
"The casting director recalled, "One person sent playing cards where every playing card has their face on it doing a different emotion.
He steps in all judgmental about how little his cousin knows about her insane art collection, or how she enjoys playing cards.
Playing Cards Against Humanity with your parents—if you've never done that, you should know that your family must be pretty cool.
A moment of Sex and the City kismet, as Berger collected lost playing cards and insisted they are all over the city.
Habjouqa, who lives in east Jerusalem, photographed Palestinians experiencing the little joys of life, from playing cards to joining the Girl Scouts.
JD: And we were just doing other shit too [laughs] CLJ: We were just smoking pot and getting drunk and playing cards.
What you need: A red or black dress, heart-shaped accessories, two decks of playing cards, a stapler, and some bobby pins.
Tip ''You can have coffee, just don't overdose,'' says Bryan Berg, who builds elaborate structures out of unfolded, free-standing playing cards.
Bryant, a lawyer and sports agent, opened a case of manila file folders and spread them on the desk like playing cards.
We spent so many summer days playing cards while eating cantaloupe and cottage cheese at our little seaside cabana on Long Island.
"Time is like a tall building made of playing cards," she tells us, meaning we're all in this crazy, unpredictable mess together.
She enters her living room, finding Jack Warner and Hedda Hopper sitting at a table, playing cards, reminiscing and roaring with laughter.
Starting with an ordinary action, like reading a book or playing cards, the company soon transforms it into a wild circus ride.
If Green's larger project is to create this broad digital archive of queerness, then why bother with the playing cards at all?
Delaney's entire store is full of forcibly cheesy merch descriptions and unique Delaney "accessories," like stress grips, playing cards, and an ERASER. Ugh.
The night he was killed, he was playing cards and gambling at a home where police had responded to gunshots on prior occasions.
As boys waited in the shade during one of the breaks, drinking water and Gatorade while playing cards, some briefly spoke to reporters.
The grounds also feature a walking or running trail, and the room itself is equipped with WiFi, board games, playing cards, and books.
In Nintendo's earliest days, at the end of the 19th century, it manufactured and sold hanafuda-style playing cards crafted from tree bark.
He played with them, let them pet him and showed them how he can draw from a deck of playing cards, Roulston said.
But if you know what you're doing and take the time to learn advanced strategies, you can make some serious money playing cards.
On pieces of pasteboard slightly smaller than playing cards attached to key rings, are ranges of colors like points plucked out of colorspace.
I remember she came home twice and on one occasion she was showing pictures of her and her kids playing cards, drinking beers.
Built of stone in the late sixteenth century, it has a pitched roof and little windows with panes the size of playing cards.
Creative director Alex Griendling has already expanded on the lore of the playing cards with original illustrations, and there is more to come.
Explained that one need only do what is natural and unforced; for instance, one does not rise while bathing, eating or playing cards.
When they lean into their race, ethnicity, religion, or gender, they're told they're playing cards — the race card, woman card, Muslim card, whatever.
In recent weeks it has been airing Netflix's "House of Cards," called "House of Straw" here because playing cards is considered un-Islamic.
The playing cards will include portraits of community-driven groups like the Yellow Jackets Collective, Bklyn Boihood, and BUFU (By Us For Us).
Supermarkets sell Chinese foods and at night Chinese men can be seen playing cards at a Chinese-owned casino staffed by Congolese dealers.
In 1995, photographer Catherine Opie created a deck of playing cards with portraits of lesbian women, mostly her friends, affectionately titled the Dyke Deck.
Local police once gathered outside to raid the place, but Pennington was able to fend them off—the mayor's wife was inside playing cards.
Lucky charms: deck of playing cards, backpack, a horseshoe If there is one word to describe Jupiter in Sagittarius people, it would be lucky!
The company hopes its new console can be a modern form of playing cards for a digital-first generation, a portable do-everything machine.
One day he was playing cards with his neighbors in Sarajevo when police broke in, checked their documents and arrested those with Muslim names.
Hoffman released a public version that September loaded with factual footnotes on playing cards, with the intention of encouraging people to vote against Trump.
"I do have a little gambling theme section," he said, bringing out cuff links shaped like stacks of playing cards with tiny dice inside.
And Alice, now a teenager, armed herself with a series of "toys," such as a deck of playing cards and a set of dice.
She hand drew me playing cards of French monarchs; I think I was the only 19603-year-old who knew the entire Plantagenet lineage.
Some might be immediately obvious to art aficionados, others are a bit trickier, such as: playing cards + geometric forms + a palette knife = Paul Cézanne.
He could dance with two women at the same time; he'd swim in the Hudson River; he never lost when he was playing cards.
A previous inmate had accumulated enough cartons to make a crude deck of playing cards, which he had left in the cell for others.
College students playing cards on the sidewalk barely knew she had something to do with cooking, but liked her work as a music promoter.
Food grew in abundance under glass-domed orchards, or came flash-frozen, or Wonder-baked, or in strips of bacon fanned like playing cards.
KAPUT might surprise you in its etymology; I had always assumed it to be purely Yiddish, but apparently the French coined it playing cards.
A character called Man in Bar calls out the number on the playing cards, splitting up friends and family as they enter the main event.
I'm not actually sure what these are for — they look like playing cards, even though they aren't — but people will likely scoop them up anyway.
And it did it just by playing cards; there's no element of machine vision or facial recognition incorporated into Pluribus to spot tells, for example.
Comparing Sam Kaplan's towering pyramid of sandwiches to Scheltens & Abbenes's masculine depictions of neckties and playing cards, you get a completely different feel from them.
This time around, though, the winner won't be calling a coin flip in the air, but pulling their fate from a deck of playing cards.
Two sets of six playing cards, numbered one through six, one set with red backs, the other with blue backs, serve as de facto dice.
The two American actors provided an update on social media, documenting their time playing cards and doing chores around the house during their self-quarantine.
One night father and daughter sleep outside in the cold — just like "pirates" or "explorers," he says — playing cards and sipping whiskey from paper cups.
The Pentagon has even distributed playing cards with photos of cultural sites in Afghanistan and elsewhere to remind troops to safeguard heritage sites and artifacts.
Yet, when she presented him with their playing cards, which require coaches to prove a player's gender via their birth certificate, he still didn't believe her.
Nelson Dellis, a four-time U.S. memory champion, has memorized more than 200 names in 15 minutes and nine decks of playing cards in 30 minutes.
"Everybody knows or can identify playing cards, which is why we combined that visual kind of communication—using drawings and photos—with sign language," she explained.
These including counting the number of playing cards in a deck, measuring compass orientation, and even discerning the specific configuration of a stack of Lego bricks.
As you may already know, tarot decks were originally used like any other deck of playing cards, although nowadays they're almost exclusively used for divinatory purposes.
As for the gambling, Cipriani had been playing cards in Atlantic City since he was 16 years old, sneaking into casinos while he was still underage.
As we plunge into our baffling future, it is believed that, at some point, we will be trading in cryptographically secure kittens, monsters, and playing cards.
He joined Nintendo, which has its roots making playing cards in 19th century Kyoto, in 1977, as the company shifted from making toys to video games.
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Inspired by the Surrealists, he filled his shows with absurd elements—playing cards, cow prints, rubber pig noses, question marks—and parodies of the latest trends.
I like playing cards as a toy in general, and these have the added benefit of being attached to a ring for easy use while traveling.
But with production at a crawl, he said, even salaried workers are left with little to do, and many spend their days playing cards and dominoes.
There are countless books at the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, of course, but also ephemera of all kinds: posters, pamphlets, calendars, playing cards.
They're just friends hanging out playing cards, nothing to do with how they've tried to kill each other to win a 200IM at the Olympics multiple times.
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is selling humorous playing cards called Trumped Up Cards for $20.16, and donating $10 of every sale to the American Civil Liberties Union.
But when a couple of officers discover Malloy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Hysell (Hannah Murray) playing cards on a bed with Robert Greene (Anthony Mackie) they give pause.
Nintendo, which began by making playing cards in the late 19th century, is counting on the Switch to revive its earnings which rely heavily on console sales.
But if tea towels aren't your thing other commemorative items are also available in the Milly Green range including mugs, shopping bags, pens and even playing cards.
Timothy Husband, the curator, points out that some scholars credit the "three P's"—paper, piety and playing cards—with the spread of printed images throughout medieval Europe.
"It's my space, with my childhood memories—playing cards with my sister at night, listening to Beatles tapes, taking piano lessons in the living room," she said.
But the video shows some of them playing cards when the tear-gassing begins, and the entire episode appears to have taken place within a secure area.
The Weng family's museum donation, with about 200 pieces made as early as the seventh century, includes landscape paintings, portraits, pages of calligraphy, embroidery and playing cards.
Weekends in Ensenada's casinos, weekdays at a hotel called La Fonda, playing cards and eating roast suckling pig — this has been Marlowe's life for almost a decade.
Bourdain and his crew ended up at the Royal Hotel, on a hilltop not far from the U.S. Embassy, playing cards while they waited to be evacuated.
Then they put screws and playing cards between strings, put duct tape over the dampers, put bricks on the sustain pedal, and other sorts of odd customizations.
Rapid, stream-of-consciousness visions of gambling — scratch-off lottery tickets, dice, playing cards, slot machines, and the potential payoffs — run amuck, to the edge of incoherence.
The clerks steered him instead toward "The Expert at the Card Table," a slender book from 1902 that cataloged techniques for the stealthy manipulation of playing cards.
The next morning, Jared and Caila were playing cards like the lame couple that they are, but don't get too comfortable now, Jared – BECAUSE ASHLEY I. HAS. ARRIVED.
So were raunchy pulp novels, fliers for Times Square massage parlors, business cards offering phone sex for $2 a minute, even playing cards with illustrations of naked women.
Back at the house, Meraj and Taukir were playing cards on a sofa in sulky silence, light filtering dustily through the old Punjabi-style grilles of the house.
For the friend who organizes her phone's apps by color, or the relative who color codes his bookshelves, here are rainbow-hued playing cards ($333) from Fredericks & Mae.
For the friend who organizes her phone's apps by color, or the relative who color codes his bookshelves, here are rainbow-hued playing cards ($13) from Fredericks & Mae.
New York Giant's running back, Saquon Barkley is spreading his good fortune -- literally -- by passing out hundred dollar bills like they were playing cards at a blackjack table.
They lie in bed playing cards or sit against the headboard, reading or watching TV. Rudy's notebooks are increasingly focussed on mortality—"Death may be pleasurable"—and money.
Army soldiers are being exposed to a deck of playing cards depicting Iranian weaponry to get a better sense of Iran's weapons stockpile, according to a new report.
Some passengers took to social media, posting pictures and video of their fellow passengers passing the time by playing cards, talking or sleeping wherever they could find space.
The result is a deck of playing cards that constantly reminds players that reality could be an illusion, inspiring them to look for glitches in their own world.
The player uses five heroes deployed across these lanes while playing cards from their hand that enhance the heroes, hinder the opposition, and cast spells with varied effects.
These miniature works of art were much different from common playing cards of the Middle Ages, which were printed with a woodblock and cut from a single page.
On shift breaks they sit around on their bunks or on plastic chairs, talking, playing cards, watching A Noble War on the huge TVs that line the dorm.
The E.U. tariffs focus on products that tend to be manufactured in Republican strongholds: whiskey and playing cards from Kentucky, recreational boats from Florida, and rice from Arkansas.
Farther north, in the village of Sambolo, Halimi was playing cards outside his house on Saturday evening when a large wave crossed the road and came unusually close.
During their free time between morning practice and off-ice training, the women gathered around space heaters at the hostel, braiding one another's hair, playing cards and napping.
As you're reading this, Tyler Skaggs was likely scheduled to be at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas -- maybe loosening his arm, maybe playing cards with the other pitchers.
Yet people over time noticed that playing cards failed to people unchaste, that the funny or lovely images on cards—even the sexy ones—never quite summoned the devil.
Britain's King George III infuriated his American colonists in 1765 by issuing the Stamp Act, which taxed almost every sheet of paper they touched, from playing cards to stationary.
Above all, the gift shop looms large, hawking Mozart pencils, key chains, perfumes, playing cards, paper napkins, thimbles, miniature busts, chocolates, golf balls and snap-on cases for cellphones.
The EU responded to duties on steel and aluminum with retaliatory tariffs on more than $3 billion worth of U.S. goods including playing cards, peanut butter and orange juice.
Montgomery officials initially said that Officer Smith had stopped Mr. Gunn, who was walking home after a late night of work and playing cards, believing him to be suspicious.
Sophisticated consumer gadgets might make zero sense for Snapchat at the moment, as their current consumer products include a beach towel, a deck of playing cards and a backpack.
The form says he was arrested in 2016 for smoking, playing cards, playing dominoes and smoking a hookah, as well as either watching or possessing pornographic videos and songs.
Artwork stored on these sites can also be turned into a book or keepsakes like magnets, playing cards, mugs or, yes, even a turd-like ornament of your own.
Mr. Perl is showing three dubious hands of poker at 17-, 73- and 61-Across, and the theme answers turn out to have nothing to do with playing cards.
She produced more self portraits than any female painter before her, and she used these intimate works, on wood, copper, canvas, and playing cards, to establish her artistic identity.
These visuals portrayed the needlework craft as acceptable for men, and a healthy activity that kept idle hands — which might otherwise be filled with liquor or playing cards — occupied.
On the surface, it is just today's version of athletes sitting around playing cards, an obvious conduit for bonding with teammates and satisfying that competitive drive away from the field.
Wilting rose bushes, cupcakes with protruding limbs, giant faded playing cards, and an extravagant hookah (don't forget the hot-headed smoking Caterpillar from the books), make up the otherworldly backdrop.
Riffling a stack as thick as a deck of playing cards — names soon to be fed to door-knockers and phone-bankers — Clint Reed, Mr. Rubio's state director, smiled slightly.
Her close friends would describe her as short, strangers would call the actress "really short," Louis-Dreyfus will always dance to Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," and she's adept at playing cards.
Buyers praise the fun of the game, the fact that it's great for both kids and adults, the quirky illustrations on the playing cards, and the quick and easy play.
The firm began in 1889 with the production of handmade hanafuda playing cards decorated with flowers, and was one of the first to move into arcade games in the 1970s.
The game is a riff on popular collectible card games like Blizzard's Hearthstone where you battle another opponent in strategic combat using playing cards you draw from a virtual deck.
In a dream sequence, she finds Hedda Hopper and Jack Warner, looking just as they did when we first met them, playing cards and drinking martinis in her living room.
This earth-shattering crossover is a collaboration between The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for a new limited edition line of merchandise that includes keychains, playing cards, notebooks, and T-shirts.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Playing cards arrived in Europe from Asia sometime in the 21540th century, and by 299 they had their first citywide ban in Bern, Switzerland.
The enigmatic producer created a set of Magic: the Gathering playing cards featuring his friends, idols and influences like now-defunct performance venue 285 Kent and Anticon, his record label.
Op-Ed Contributor I lived through two hurricanes as a child and I remember all the good stuff that eventually came in the mail — M&Ms, bug spray, playing cards.
Jim O'Shea and Dan Niland sat atop a bright blue mat inside a secured pedestrian plaza in Times Square on Saturday, playing cards as they prepared for the night ahead.
There are even blankets, headphones, hair scrunchies, playing cards, and a giant, zip-up sleep sack all being offered by the fast-food chain to spice up your night in.
When I first arrived over a decade ago, I was shocked to see men playing cards, dominos, and Scrabble at the steel tables, or holding quiet conversations while they smoked.
The woodcut playing cards by Hans Schäufelein, a Nuremberger who worked in Dürer's workshop, evoke, with bold lines and jumbo-size suit symbols, a Chaucerian world of rustics, clerics and merchants.
There is a commissary with plenty of items for sale, including makeup, snacks like Pop-Tarts and chocolate chip cookies, air freshener, cough drops, playing cards and sunglasses, among other items.
We had a record player and two really nice Beach Boy fan club girls that were there, and they were playing cards with Lennon and McCartney (they actually signed the deck).
By year's end, the museum's gilded French salon from the 1730s will be redone to look as if aristocrats were playing cards there and partaking in coffee and chocolate by candlelight.
In a basement studio, which was set up like a Wild West saloon, he took a seat near a wooden table strewn with playing cards, fake pistols, and prop whiskey bottles.
The deck is part of the museum's permanent collection, and the world's only whole set of medieval illuminated playing cards, although it's rarely on view with all 52 of its cards.
Then late last month, Ms. Alghanem, who had held the first meeting on the driving ban in 1990, was playing cards when her phone suddenly began overflowing with messages, she said.
They have earned the right to do what they please, they say, and what pleases them is playing golf, playing cards, playing with the grandchildren and playing with the remote control.
Noted Vicki Noble, who with Karen Vogel created the Motherpeace Tarot Deck in the late 883s, hasn't really kept up with the latest happenings in the community of divinatory playing cards.
The men are also obliged to take spelling and counting lessons on weekdays, using the signs on the saloon walls and the playing cards with numbers on them as their schoolbooks.
At the time, he was unhappily married to his second wife, Zinaida, whose favorite activities included chain-smoking and playing cards, and who had attracted him with her exceptional housekeeping skills.
THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop.
The park teemed with summer life — basketball on the blacktops, splashing in the pool, joggers on the track, old-timers playing cards on chipped picnic tables, teenagers lounging on the jungle gym.
Money raised from this and other Fiona-related products – her face has graced everything from beer to ice cream to playing cards – has helped defray the costs of her care, Maynard said.
The Federation of American Scientists says the Army has already introduced decks of playing cards with Chinese and Russian weapons, and that another set featuring North Korean weapons is in the works.
A Toledo, Ohio TV station reportedly fired seven staffers — three of them on-air personalities — for the ghastly crime of playing Cards Against Humanity in the office over the long New Year's weekend.
We first tested the system during long drives on the bus by recreating the roulette wheel with a pack of playing cards, which we figured was a pretty good simulation of the odds.
Yet with that said, Avegant's prototype managed to expand the field of view, so you're looking through a window more the size of a Moleskine notebook instead of a pack of playing cards.
There are pictures with girlfriends, with a lover eating and reading and playing cards; another picture shows a black woman combing back her hair; there are a few stills with her daughter, too.
For instance, Sony used a copy of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland alongside a physical deck of playing cards and a teacup to bring to life the happenings described in the text.
A down blanket that packs down to the size of a football, but opens up large so that you can wrap it around yourself while cooking dinner and playing cards in your tent.
Texas Rebel Juice, another e-liquid company, faced similar criticism to Dr. Crimmy's when images of its lab, showing workers drinking and playing cards in the mixing room, were posted online in 2014.
And that is next to another Jeff Wall work called "Card Players" (2006), a big, backlit transparency of three middle-age women seated at a table playing cards in a homey dining room.
The house is occupied by the Le Domas family, whose fortune was made on games — first they sold playing cards, during the Civil War, followed by more games and trinkets in subsequent generations.
The game was hours away, and several Mets were playing cards and joking and snapping on one another, and David Wright, already hurting, already past his prime, joined in their jokes and laughter.
Trees made of playing cards and green leaves completed the Red Room's games theme, which the White House said was inspired by the "childlike spirit we all have at this time of year."
He used to take what were effectively playing cards, one for each of the elements known at the time, and lay them out in different ways, trying to figure out the key patterns.
The rambling store is a collector's delight, doubling as a museum of quirk: Every surface not heaving with books is cluttered with whale ribs, giraffe skulls, old playing cards, warthog tusks and more.
He has captured images of the inmates as they handle emergencies but also during their downtime studying for a GED, playing cards, and lifting weights to maintain the physical fitness needed to fight fires.
Staring at a stack of unused playing cards and bags of puzzles, I have one of those epiphanies—lurking underneath these simple stacks of games, there's a complex question that needs to be answered.
Believe it or not, YouTube was once a video dating site, and Nintendo didn't plan on becoming a video game conglomerate when it first started selling hand-painted playing cards in the 19th century.
In the end, there are things Arrive doesn't do for you — like remind you to take playing cards, extra-strong garbage bags or a rain cover for your pack in case of inclement weather.
It's still a point-and-click-style adventure where you use seemingly random objects to solve puzzles, but this time, the items — as well as all of the characters — are represented by playing cards.
Trying to turn actual language into a language element / filter for games is incredibly challenging, but it's actually like converting natural language expressions into playing cards and playing a card game with another person.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "I want to reflect my queer community," explains Naima Green, the artist responsible for Pur·suit, a unique set of playing cards illustrated with portraits of her LGBTQ contemporaries.
The E.U. drew up a list of targeted products, focused on inflicting pain in the GOP heartland: recreational power boats made in Tennessee, digital flight recorders made in Arizona, and playing cards made in Kentucky.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson calls the phenomenon "crowdfunding theft," and last year ordered restitution to donors who had paid up for one project of horror-themed playing cards and got zilch in return.
Here he is in the gift shop, his face plastered on the souvenirs: Stalin flasks, Stalin playing cards, Stalin wall clocks, Stalin key chains, Stalin lighters, Stalin T-shirts, Stalin mugs and Stalin commemorative plates.
On what appears to be a Christmas tree themed to children's board games, a collection of Scrabble letters spell out the two words, placed among the tree branches surrounded by dominos, playing cards and dice.
We've seen what Pokémon look like since they first burst onto the scene in the '90s as videogame stars before moving to playing cards, TV shows, and animated movies, but we've never seen them like this.
Every year, the world's best memorizers gather at the World Memory Championships to recite lengthy lists of random numbers, the order of multiple decks of playing cards, historic dates, and the names and faces of strangers.
Later, they took up poker, and one of their offseason routines became dropping Christopher off at daycare, heading straight to the casino in nearby Commerce, and playing cards until it was time to pick him up.
Another pair of 20-somethings playing cards in the coffee shop in Luke Danes regalia tell me they loved Rory deeply because she was more into reading and art than going out or flirting with boys.
Otherwise, they see the king at official events where it is considered bad form to raise thorny issues or they visit him at night when he is playing cards, also a bad time for serious talk.
"We have 4-Hers in Nevada who have the casinos donate their playing cards, because they can only be used five times before they have to be thrown away and that was a huge waste," Day says.
They built facades and spaces to replicate a 22014th-century western town, as well as the motel, where they stayed up into the night, drinking, playing cards, staging duels and then sleeping it off before starting again.
Here, halfway across the continent, I looked at my dad and my children, playing cards, and thought about how we three generations were watching the same America pass by yet seeing, each of us, a different country.
"The project brings us no benefits, and we have no compensation," said Zhou Shu, 35, a fisherman who was playing cards with friends in the shade of a tree near a village store on a recent afternoon.
Members of his audiences, dressed as clowns, playing cards or giant tomatoes, would shriek "Monty, Monty, Monty!" as they tried to convince Hall to give them a chance to win a washing machine or a new Cadillac.
Many of the orders came with free samples of e-liquid, and 15 orders arrived with promotional materials including playing cards, Mike and Ike candy, Laffy Taffy candy, Sweet Tarts candy, bracelets, B'loonies Plastic Balloons and stickers.
While the major casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City shuttered early in the week, those like Chukchansi Gold in central California promised increased cleanliness, a tricky sell in a world of playing cards and slot machines.
During one of Duval's chemo sessions, Kiick drove across Florida from her home at the time, in Fort Lauderdale, to see Duval in Bradenton, bringing playing cards and a bracelet-making kit to help pass the time.
When you are ready to build the layers, pick up the slices as if they were a slightly disheveled deck of playing cards that you just want to tap back into shape in your hands before dealing.
Made up of 11 lusciously matte Cibachrome prints in lacquered oval frames, the photos show such isolated tropes as a levitating woman; playing cards falling through the air; and a spread of bent silver spoons and forks.
We bring a bottle of wine from home (we buy Two Buck Chuck by the case, please don't judge us) and spend a few hours playing cards and watching our dogs chase each other around the house.
Both pride and prejudice still play their parts, but now in service to one tediously repeated joke: the sight of a gentleman or a lady, together or alone, playing cards or ballroom dancing, fatally swarmed by devouring zombies.
Every inch of the massive sports complex where the caravan is resting is taken up by tents, clusters of people playing cards, local vendors selling cigarettes and peanuts, and portable power stations for migrants to charge their cellphones.
While the President of the United States may be ready to gamble away benefits like playing cards, the women and men of the House and Senate have an opportunity to put people, including millions of women, above party.
The game's menus are understated, decorated only with pictures of Churchill himself, scattered playing cards, and a map of the UK. Its playing surface is similarly classy, with players moving cards around on a desk of digital mahogany.
A certain paradox is not lost on me: While I spent my teens plotting my exit from Sydney, there's not much I wouldn't do to sit in that house right this moment, playing cards with my late grandmother.
When the company's representative opens the book, it springs to life with animations that can be dragged off the page and then used to interact with a nearby physical objects like a teacup or deck of playing cards.
Then, one Saturday last spring, the twins were at home playing cards with Verónica when Ashley noticed a voice mail from a member of the admissions office at Emory, telling her that, after further consideration, she'd been accepted.
She says LaBeouf spent two months with Jupe prior to shooting, "playing cards together, going to baseball games, learning how to juggle," and many crew members were people LaBeouf had worked with as far back as Even Stevens.
He relied on Oswald Jacoby's book How to Win at Gin Rummy for playing cards, and used graphs to time the market when he traded stocks using commissions and kickback money from the various CONCACAF contracts he negotiated.
On Wednesday, the company said it was releasing technology to create better, customized facial images, or avatars, and would soon add the ability to use playing cards in Facebook Spaces, in addition to the dice it already has.
Unlike most museums, Pitt Rivers organizes its items not by age or origin, but according to each object's function (playing cards from across the continents and through the ages, for example), inviting you to draw your own conclusions.
He still recalls the fatherly tenderness and an air of elegance that Mr. Levin displayed, as well as the dirty pack of playing cards he would use to practice tricks on the bunk's cushions of straw and burlap.
Woods said the team had spent the journey, which he described as "a day to kill in a tin can", resting when they could but also doing some team building and having a bit of fun playing cards.
For the biggest Snap fans, the store also offers Snap spectacles, a branded ice tray, playing cards, a ghost-shaped backpack, a beach towel, and, of course, the Ghostface Chillah plushie so you can keep it in the fam.
While on the hunt, Garner, 47, came across several odd items in her bag, including three pairs of sunglasses (you can never be too prepared for the sun!), a fake credit card, playing cards and even a mini beaker.
When Grosjean first reconnoitered the game, he saw that the 12 playing cards used to simulate a pair of craps dice were being shuffled by a machine designed to speed up play and randomize the order of the cards.
The Playing Cards of Hans Schäufelein (Nuremberg, 1535), created by a worker in Albrecht Dürer's studio, have a 6 of Leafs with rabbits cooking a hunter, and an 8 of Bells with a woman trying to milk a bull.
President Trump, making fun of the media (again) at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, a white-tie event which draws both journalists and politicians AND FINALLY Cutting the cards Splitting 10 decks of playing cards with a hydraulic press?
In another video shared on Instagram, Garner documented her search for her glasses, but instead came across several odd items in her bag, including three pairs of sunglasses, a fake credit card, playing cards and even a mini beaker.
Peeps Paper Products, a new luxury paper line that does all manner of playing cards, wrapping paper and invitations, has created a very chic baby journal with a natural asahi Japanese cloth cover and superfine archival paper pages ($125).
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Bridge is not a sport, the European Union's top court ruled on Thursday, thwarting a gambit by a British players to avoid sales tax on the grounds that sitting around playing cards is not a physical activity.
Now, at long last, Derian will launch his first-ever playing cards — his dream deck, based on his 19th-century set but tailored to the needs of modern players — at his two namesake home décor stores in New York.
Shreveport, Louisiana: 2 dead, 6 injuredAt about 173 AM, according to initial police investigations, a group of men playing cards after hours in a tire shop were assaulted by three or four individuals with their faces covered, carrying semi-automatic weapons.
It includes a gorgeous Red Dead themed metal box which can be secured via a key, double-sided puzzle, six shooter bandana, collectable challenge coin, treasure map, pin set, deck of playing cards and a Wheeler, Rawson and Co. Catalogue.
Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, also found that frequent participation in "cognitively stimulating activities" — everything from reading to working on crossword puzzles and playing cards to going to museums and attending classes — is associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease.
He didn't care about Boehner dealing out cashier's checks like playing cards during a House vote, or Trump paying off the attorneys general of Texas and Florida to drop fraud prosecutions over his big-store con known as Trump University.
"If you're inviting me to a hotel room to hang out with another man and a girlfriend of mine, it's very easy for you to believe there's going to be more going on than playing cards or Scrabble," Evans told Kelly.
When Mark Zuckerberg donned an Oculus Rift on stage at the Oculus Connect conference last fall to show off a group of avatars playing cards in virtual reality, it was meant to be a peek at the future of social networking.
One of her anecdotes, which predates the emptying of the nest, remembers how the family coped when Hurricane Sandy left the neighborhood without electric power for nine days and they consumed the time shivering while playing cards and board games.
This is an embellished re-creation of college life before the rise of the modern university in the mid-19th century — presumably without the fines for swearing or playing cards, student duels or frequent riots over inedible dining-hall food.
In "Stony the Road," the vicious imagery — postcards, photographs, newspaper cartoons, political broadsides, knickknacks, theater posters, playing cards, children's books, games of all sorts — forms a sickening onslaught that raises a question: Is the book African-American history or American history?
At the end of the rows of white-clothed tables, a stand sold autumnal bouquets that guests could take with them, along with the set of Greats playing cards — decorated with illustrations of the issue's honorees — that completed each place setting.
She could be driving older clients to doctor's appointments, playing cards or just acting as an extra set of eyes and ears for family members who aren't able to be around but worry about their older relatives being isolated and alone.
Before the performances, the children hang out in their dressing rooms, which take up two floors in the narrow backstage tower, whiling away the time playing cards, Jenga and Clue and making up dances, said Krystal Rowley, the head child guardian.
As part of Tuesday's announcement, which took place at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, the company rolled out a new version of "Oculus Rooms," where people can spend time together in the virtual world, either playing cards, watching a movie or just chatting.
She seems to know every last resident, from the little boys hawking homemade empanadas ($25, surprisingly light and flaky) and the little girls selling lemonade ($225, generously sweetened) to the grounds crew and young guys playing dice and the old men playing cards.
The fact that Nintendo, a 100-year-old company ― that started out life making playing cards before pivoting to making video games ― is still looking for new ways to encourage children (and maybe adults) to "play" in the real world really impressed me.
Its unique strategic element involves playing cards derived from real-life capitalists versus Commies events—say, Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech or the Cuban revolution—and reshaping the game world based on how well one side can mitigate the others actions.
A Smeg mini-fridge stocked with craft beer comes topped with a tray of goodies (price list was missing), including snacks, liquor, a travel adapter, cheekily named playing cards, a dental kit and a racy "love bag" highlighting the brand's playful English wit.
That means reading, playing cards and lawn games, going swimming at the nearby beach, and cooking at the communal grill or your site's individual fire ring, which comes equipped with firewood (but not matches, so be sure to toss some in your bag).
One of the earliest examples of this in the show is Juan Gris's 1916 painting "Cartes à jouer et siphon" (Playing cards and siphon), in which the words "Le Journal" (the newspaper) appear in a Cubist still life of a card table.
Instead, he focussed on the soldiers' everyday lives, when they weren't at the front: the little breaks, the downtime when nothing was happening, soldiers with grubby faces waiting to hear the whereabouts of their artillery batteries or playing cards at a staging post.
Her achievement is contrasted here with the work of Oskar Jonsson (1922-1997), an Icelandic builder whose collages, seen here for the first time, are made with a thin, vinyl-covered sheet metal sometimes used as siding; they resemble elaborations on playing cards.
They were joined by smaller but perhaps more significant losses: a stuffed animal, a deck of playing cards, a broken mirror, a lipstick and a rouge, a large-print copy of Marley & Me. At 12:03 pm on Sunday, Berger finished writing a post titled:
VICE caught up with Damon Murray, one of FUEL's founders, to learn about the relationship between these tattoos and playing cards, how they were made, what was at stake if you were a Russian criminal gambling inside prison, and why this culture has essentially vanished.
Celebrated artist Alison Saar will give the keynote address on Thursday evening, and the summit's closing event will be an opening reception for the exhibition Utopia/Dystopia, showcasing a portfolio of prints created by 26 artists modeled after a deck of 52 playing cards.
I would have been tempted to buy a pack of sultry Dolezal playing cards ($15.75) or a coffee mug ($21.90) if not for the unreasonable prices and my hesitation to reward the unbridled narcissism required to sell wrapping paper with your face on it.
Over the next four decades, the cards were so popular in Japan that the company became the largest card-selling business in the country, eventually creating "durable plastic-coated playing cards" with Disney characters on them, which also brought success, and exporting them worldwide.
The entrance passes through a quirky bodega (its hours are as erratic as everything else in Sachs World) that offers for sale such souvenirs as the phony Swiss passport, a deck of Sachs-designed playing cards and assorted zines that the studio puts out.
There is a huge built-in lounge booth for playing cards or Parcheesi, four big-screen televisions with separate cable boxes (for watching four sporting events at once) and specially commissioned artwork by James Stanley, with comic-book logos and other 1970s-inspired themes.
The bar is an unapologetic bastion of gangster lore, from the poster showing the "Sopranos" cast in a Last Supper arrangement to the framed "Godfather" and "Goodfellas" cast photos to the wiseguy-fantasy-league image of characters from all three stories playing cards together.
The artist known as the Master of the Playing Cards, who was active in the Upper Rhineland from 1425 to 1450, turned out engraved cards with a profusion of suits that included stags, birds of prey, bears, lions, wild men and flowers: roses, cyclamen and pinks.
Sherman is represented by some expected portraits that deal with identity as a seemingly endlessly reshuffled deck of playing cards, but the gallery has also included some images from a Broken Dolls series — black and white photographs of dolls put in provocatively abject poses against blank backgrounds.
Most of the items for sale are typical goods you'd find in any souvenir store, such as playing cards (the most popular product so far), but Real Salvator Mundi also has a "Contemporary Inspirations" line that consists of posters of  "Salvator Mundi" altered to reference contemporary artworks.
DOS is a new take on UNO that uses a similar system of numbered and colored cards, but this time around players have two card piles to choose from for playing cards and win after earning enough points, not by putting down all of their cards.
Pros: Fun for all ages, an easy way to spend quality time with your kids Cons: Adults might tire of the game before the kids do; playing cards tear or crumple easily Buy Exploding Kittens on Amazon for $19.99 Buy Ticket to Ride on Amazon for $38.87
MUSCAT, Oman — In the alleyways near the Mutrah Souk here, amid the chattering families out for a stroll or the barefoot old men playing cards outside a small neighborhood mosque, Bangladeshi and Indian tailors tend to the business of dressing Omani men in their everyday best.
Harley Davidson motorbikes, orange juice and bourbon whiskey, as well as cranberries, peanut butter and playing cards are now subject to a tax by the world's largest trading bloc — a reaction to the levies imposed earlier this month by Trump on steel and aluminum imports from Europe.
"Many magicians crowded their posters with as many symbols as they could muster: ducks, bats, witches, musical instruments, fairies, playing cards, boiling cauldrons, turbans, harem girls, cats, snakes, buzzards, lizards, Asian men, grinning idols, sphinxes, fire, the stars, and the moon," writes Kevin Grace in Illusions.
The building itself is quite beautiful, and houses interesting artifacts like old model ships, ganjifa — round playing cards that became popular under Mughal emperors in the 16th century — and examples of pottery from the Sir J.J. School of Art near the turn of the 296th century.
Another staircase, this one tucked into a corner, dominates the ground floor; its impressive gradient and lack of rails announce that this is a party house — a place for youngish professionals with demanding city lives to hide away on the weekends, cooking roasts and playing cards.
A lot, including snarky references to Shkreli's alleged newfound hobby of collecting rare and valuable playing cards from the game "Magic: The Gathering," a number of songs featuring the "F-word" in their title, and Shkreli being confronted, as in real life, with the power of the legal system.
Clues: tambourine player; toasting with disco ball-shaped cups; playing jacks; playing cards: an ace, nine, eight and four; gold and pink sparkly heels; "For years, I convinced myself that I just wasn't good enough, whether in my career, in my relationships or of course in my family."
The mind-set that playing cards could represent not just a space-consuming hobby but also wise financial planning led to a boom in production and collecting in the 21968s and '19843s, as children were drawn to cheap packs they could trade among friends and adults saw financial opportunity.
Early one morning in February 2016 Smith, who is white and was 23 years old at the time, was patrolling Mobile Heights, a lower income, predominantly Black neighborhood, when he stopped Gregory Gunn, a 59-year-old Black man who was walking home to his mother's house after playing cards nearby.
Joy is certainly profitable — Michelle Curley, the zoo's communications director, says the zoo's attendance this past summer was 22% higher than it was last year — not to mention commodifiable; look no further than the book deal, TV show, ice cream flavor, and special edition of playing cards that Fiona has inspired.
I.P." on his right shoulder that honors a brother shot to death ("Wrong place, wrong time," he says); the skull-and-diamond on his left shoulder that reminds him he's a jewel in the rough; the dice and playing cards adorning his chest, along with the inscription: "Life A Gamble.
Wild Bill Hickok, his days as a lawman only slightly behind him, came here to pan, quickly decided he'd rather make his fortune playing cards, and was shot dead in Saloon No. 10 while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, now known as the Dead Man's Hand.
Luckily, it's so enjoyable to watch Fraser's fluid, goofy and sharp Chace as he butters up Roman bellboys, smooth talks a police chief and cracks jokes with old men playing cards in a piazza that the transition is relatively painless, and it isn't long before you've forgotten about Sutton Place altogether.
And many of these works achieve this goal, like the Bitcoin/Blockchain Founder Myth "Dreambox" Gamer Custom Case Kit series, the shadowbox-like shrines to the illusive figures surrounding the emergence of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, with their strange talisman tokens preserved in plexiglass boxes like cherished action figures or playing cards.
Countless volunteers have arrived at shelters armed with books, and playing cards, animals, costumes, and beyond in hopes of bringing a few moments of joy to the many children who instead of starting school after Labor Day, will remain in shelters as parents and guardians begin to untangle their post-Harvey lives.
It was one of the first developers to start making games for the Apple TV. Now Harmonix has partnered with Hasbro on perhaps its strangest creation yet: Dropmix, an experience that fuses a Bluetooth-enabled game board, NFC playing cards, and a mobile app to create a playful musical mash-up tool.
He prefers Bee brand playing cards — "That's what I learned with" — and he plays with either a queen of diamonds or a queen of hearts — both are red — and two black cards, challenging all comers to pick out the red one off the top of his cardboard box after some sleight of hand.
It feels like being alive in the way so few TV shows do, where half the pleasure is in how Adlon captures, say, the easy bonhomie of old friends coming together for a graduation party, or Sam's mother, Phil, looking back on a life tinged with sadness while playing cards with her friends.
In Handan, in Hebei, the province that rings the capital, the government is so serious about men wearing tops in public that it has launched a campaign, that includes an educational mini-film, which shows a woman introducing her boyfriend to her topless father who is playing cards with his friends at a public park.
There are also three works by Whitfield Lovell, two untitled drawings of faces, one from 2003 and the other from 2005, both with antique playing cards affixed to the lower portion of the paper (a two of hearts beneath an image of a woman and a ten of hearts under a man in a sailor's cap).
Variations of this attitude within Mormonism were bolstered in part by some church leaders, such as Bruce R. McConkie, who advocated for a "retrenchment" within the faith that produced a variety of implied rules such as avoiding caffeine and not using playing cards, according to Matt Bowman, a Mormon and history professor at Henderson State University in Arkansas.
The array of systems, from that of the Library of Alexandria to those of monastic libraries to the French Cataloguing Code of 1791 (which used playing cards to record titles) is chronicled in an opening essay of The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures, a book that was officially published today by The Library of Congress.
Spectators at Thursday's 6900 Congressional Baseball Game will receive a set of 2628 playing cards with headshots of the lawmakers, courtesy of Quorum, a public affairs software company in Washington, D.C. The card backs have their own unique statistics, with info on each lawmaker, including the percentage of votes they received in the last election – their most important number.
Mike Isaac, a reporter for The New York Times and a certified millennial, writes about his own obsession with Pokémon Go. (The link is available only to subscribers with Times Insider access.) He wasn't wild about Pokémon when it was just on playing cards in the 1990s, but it's clear he is highly familiar with the characters.
The WWII vets came home, many of them, somehow able to compartmentalize and simply head into making lives, but they had this huge, national, societal structure to return to, and they did it slowly—on ships, lumbering across an ocean, playing cards, soothing each other, sharing stories, and then parades and VFW hall meetings and a booming post-war economy.
With any wave, needless to say, you get the flotsam, and I am now in possession of a board game all about gin, a pack of gin playing cards—for gin rummy, I guess—and, grimmest of all, a bag of crumbly Pink Gin Fudge, which is slightly less appetizing than a bar of soap but costs five times as much.
Crushed cans, old playing cards, burned out cigarette butts, a lone, fading and bright red bow — the beauty and detritus of urban life — were culled from the streets by Kahlil Robert Irving, a 26-year-old artist who has mixed found objects into a collagraphic print hanging in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn limestone that houses the Jenkins Johnson Projects.

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