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Card (from Greek χάρτης - chartēs, "paper, papyrus") primarily refers to an entire or piece of card stock.

Card may refer to:

Small flat objects[link]

As a surname[link]

• Andrew Card, politician, Secretary of Transportation under George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush
• Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
• David Card, Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Card, American Christian singer-songwriter, author, and radio host

In sports[link]

• Card (sports), the lineup of the matches in an event
• Arizona Cardinals, a National Football League team nicknamed the "Cards"
• St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Cards"

Other[link]

• Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): card

, in mathematical notation, a function that returns the cardinality of a set

• A tool for carding
• Apple IIe Card, a compatibility card
• Cards (iOS), a card-making application on iOS

As an acronym[link]

• Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme, the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the western Balkans
• Caspase recruitment domain or CARD domain, an interaction motif found in a wide array of proteins
• Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
• Credit CARD Act of 2009 (Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009), signed into law in 2009 by President Obama
• Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration, a competition
• Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters, a non-profit focused on emergency preparedness or underserved communities
• Child Abduction Rapid Deployment, FBI Team

The Card[link]

The Card may refer to:

• The Card, Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel
  • The Card (1922 film), based on the novel
  • The Card (1952 film), based on the novel
  • The Card (musical), based on the novel
• "The Card", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Card"

• All pages with titles containing "Card"

• Card game
• Carding (disambiguation)

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Ricky Jay
At the premiere of Redbelt, April 2008
Born	1948 (age 63–64) Brooklyn, NY
Other names	Richard Jay Potash
Occupation	Magician, actor, author
Known for	Sleight of Hand, Card Tricks, History of Magic

Richard Jay Potash (born 1948), better known by the stage name Ricky Jay, is an American stage magician, actor, and writer. He is a sleight-of-hand expert and is notable for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Jay was born in Brooklyn, New York to a middle class Jewish family.^[2] His grandfather, Max Katz, was a well-to-do certified public accountant and amateur magician who introduced Jay to the profession.^[3][4][5]

At least three of his one-man shows, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, On the Stem, and A Rogue's Gallery were directed by David Mamet, who has also cast Jay in a number of his films. Jay has appeared in productions by other directors, notably Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and Magnolia, as well as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

A collector and historian of note, he was a student and firm friend of the legendary Dai Vernon, who Jay states was: "the greatest living contributor to the magical art". An avid collector of rare books (he has spent over five thousand dollars on single books alone) and manuscripts, art, and other artifacts connected to the history of magic, gambling, unusual entertainments, and frauds and confidence games, he is also opposed to any public revelations of the techniques of magic.^[6]

Jay joined the cast and crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a guest star and writer for the first season in 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Jay played card sharp Eddie Sawyer, a dealer in the Bella Union casino of ambitious newcomer Cy Tolliver. Jay wrote the episode "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking".^[7] He left the series at the end of the first season.

He also played a henchman to villain Elliot Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. When he was offered the role, the producers assured him that they would of course change the Indian name of his character, Gupta, accordingly. Jay in turn said that he would only play the part if they didn't change the name.

Until recently, Ricky Jay was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing a playing card 190 ft at 90 miles per hour (140 km/h) (the current record is 216 feet (66 m) by Rick Smith, Jr.). Ricky Jay can throw a playing card into a watermelon rind (which he refers to as the "thick, pachydermatous outer melon layer" of "the most prodigious of household fruits") from ten paces. In addition, he is able to throw a card into the air and cut it cleanly in half with a pair of "giant scissors" upon its return. In his shows, he often throws playing cards at plastic animals in "self defense".

Consultant[link]

Jay created a consulting firm, Deceptive Practices, which provides "arcane knowledge on a need-to-know basis." His firm's clients are often within the stage, television, and film industries. He has worked with libraries and museums on their collections, including the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, CA.

Credits[link]

Television[link]

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (October 26, 1970)
• Saturday Night Live (1977)
• Arsenio (1988)
• Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women – 1 hour special for American TV (1989)
• Simon Drake's Secret Cabaret (UK)
• Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants – 1 hour version of his Off-Broadway show, taped for HBO (1996)
• Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay (1996)
• The X-Files – "The Amazing Maleeni" (2000)
• MythBusters – Episode 20, "Exploding Jawbreaker, Static Cannon, Deadly Playing Cards." Ricky demonstrated card throwing, and the speed of his throws was clocked. (2003)
• Deadwood – Eddie Sawyer (2004), Season 1
• Tales From The Crypt (Unknown)
• The Unit (2007)
• Kidnapped (2007)
• Lie to Me (2009)
• FlashForward – Flosso (2010)

Film[link]

• House of Games (1987)
• Things Change (1988)
• Homicide (1991)
• The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995) (TV)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Mystery Men (1999)
• State and Main (2000)
• Heist (2001)
• Heartbreakers (2001)
• Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
• Last Days (2005)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Prestige (2006)
• Redbelt (2008)
• The Great Buck Howard (2008)
• The Brothers Bloom (2009)

Books[link]

When not performing, Ricky Jay collects rare books and artifacts. He is the author of several books:

• Celebrations of Curious Characters
• Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians - a collection of 17th, 18th, and 19th-century broadsides^[8]
• Jay's Journal of Anomalies
• Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
• Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
• Cards as Weapons
• Ricky Jay Plays Poker

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ricky Jay Archive at the Magic Newswire website
• Ricky Jay at the Internet Movie Database
• San Francisco Chronicle review of "Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay" during 2005 exhibition
• "Secrets of Magus" 1993 New Yorker profile

Michael Card
Michael Card in concert
Background information
Birth name	Michael Card
Born	(1957-04-11) April 11, 1957 (age 55)
Origin	Madison, Tennessee
Genres	Contemporary Christian music
Occupations	Singer, Songwriter, Author, Composer, Radio Host
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar, harp, banjo
Labels	Milk & Honey, Sparrow, Myrrh
Website	www.michaelcard.com
Notable instruments
Michael Card plays a right-handed strung guitar left-handedly.

Michael Card (born April 11, 1957) is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee. He is best known for his contributions in contemporary Christian music, which couple folk-style melodies and instrumentation with lyrics that stem from intensive study of the Bible. Since his debut in 1981, he has sold more than 4 million albums^[1] and has written 19 No. 1 singles.^[2] He has also authored several books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner A Sacred Sorrow.^[3]

Career[link]

Card was born in Madison, Tennessee as the son of a doctor and grandson of a Baptist minister.^[1] He received Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Biblical Studies from Western Kentucky University, and was awarded the university's "Distinguished Alumni Award" in 1997.^[1] His studies in physics and astronomy allowed him to support himself while a student by working for six years at a planetarium. As of 2005, he is working on a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Classical Literature.

Musician[link]

Card never intended to be a professional musician. He got his start when his professor and mentor, Dr. William Lane, asked Card to write some music to accompany weekly sermons at their church. His friend, musician Randy Scruggs, then asked him to record a demo tape so Scruggs could get a job as a producer. The record label agreed to hire Scruggs as long as his first project was to produce an album featuring Card. Since then Card has released nineteen original albums and at least six compilation albums. Another album, Starkindler, is composed of Card's interpretations of traditional Celtic hymns. The compilations often include one or two new songs along with previously released material. With the exception of Starkindler, Card writes the vast majority of the music he records (although sometimes with collaborators).

Many of Card's albums are structured around a unifying theme. For example, the songs from The Beginning are all based on the Pentateuch. The individual songs have subjects such as Genesis, Leviticus, Abraham, Isaac and Moses. Card is particularly adept at relating difficult or obscure concepts from the Old Testament to more understandable themes from the New Testament. For example, the song "Jubilee" talks about the period of rest and the release from debts and slavery commanded in the Jubilee year as described in Leviticus 25, but also reveals how the idea culminated in the rest and freedom from condemnation offered through Jesus.

Card's most famous song is "El Shaddai", which was recorded by Amy Grant as well as by Card himself. Grant's recording was named No. 326 on the RIAA's list of 365 Songs of the Century in 2001. Other popular Card songs include "Immanuel," "Joy in the Journey," and "Heal Our Land". "Heal Our Land" was commissioned as the 1993 National Day of Prayer's theme song.

Despite his success in music, Card has always maintained that his music career is secondary to his calling as a Bible teacher. He has at times distanced himself from the CCM industry by criticizing the promotion of personalities over musical content^[4] and the shifting emphasis away from God in order to sell more albums.^[5]

One current music project is his writing and mentoring of musicians under the ByFor.org Project.

Author[link]

Michael Card is the author or co-author of nineteen books. He originally started writing as a way to share the knowledge he accumulated while researching his songs. His studies were so in-depth that he couldn't condense everything he had learned into one short song. The books that resulted from album research bear the same titles as the albums. He then branched out to other subjects not specifically based on his music, such as the Gospel of John, homeschooling, and Christian discipleship and mentoring. As of 2005, he has joined with NavPress to pursue his interest in writing Christian fiction.^[2]

Radio Host[link]

In addition to touring and writing, Card also hosted a weekly radio program. In the Studio with Michael Card was carried by stations in 48 states, Canada, and the Caribbean. It was also available via internet streaming audio and as a podcast. The show was an amalgam of talk, musical performances and Bible study. The show ceased production in March, 2009.

Controversies[link]

• In 1996, Michael Card caused some concern within his primarily evangelical fan-base by co-releasing an album (Brother to Brother) as well as touring with musician John Michael Talbot. Some fans and critics felt betrayed by the collaboration since Card is known for lyrics that scrupulously adhere to Protestant theology whereas Talbot is a Roman Catholic.^[6]

• On November 14, 2004, Michael Card provided the music for a sermon by Ravi Zacharias at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. In coverage of the event, a Deseret Morning News reporter attributed the following statement to Card:

Still, Card said, he doesn't see Mormonism and evangelical Christianity as opposed to each other. They are more like the two ends of a long thread — part of the same thing.^[7]

Since the statement was not a direct quote, some have surmised that Card was misunderstood. The impact of this statement can be understood in the context that many Protestants deny that Mormons are Christians and consider the LDS church a cult. Card's response to his critics online^[8] did satisfy some since it denied the quote, whilst the LDS interviewer later admitted to re-wording Card's statement somewhat interpretively.

Jerry Johnson, the author of the article on Michael Card in Desert News, later admitted:

The word Michael used was "continuum." He said he thought the tensions between the LDS Church and the Evangelicals was because the LDS Church was on one end of the "continuum" and Evangelicals on the other.^[9]

Discography/writings[link]

• First Light (1981)
• Legacy (1983)
• Known By The Scars (1984)
• Scandalon (1985)
• The Final Word (1987)
• Present Reality (1988)
• Sleep Sound in Jesus: Gentle Lullabies (1989)
• The Beginning (1989)
• The Way of Wisdom (1990)
• The Promise: A Celebration of Christ’s Birth (1991)
• The Word: Recapturing the Imagination (1992)
• Come to the Cradle (1993)
• Poiema (1994)
• Brother to Brother (with John Michael Talbot) (1996)
• Close Your Eyes So You Can See (1996)
• Unveiled Hope (1997)
• Starkindler: A Celtic Conversation Across Time (1998)
• Concert Talks Volume 1 (1998)
• Soul Anchor (2000)
• Scribbling in the Sand (2002)
• A Fragile Stone (2003) reissued in 2006.
• "The Rabbi's Heartbeat" (2003) CD single available only with Brennan Manning's The Rabbi's Heartbeat book.
• The Life of Simon Peter (eight-disc teaching series) (2003)
• The Hidden Face of God (2006)
• A Fragile Stone (Reissue) (2006) Comes with DVD of a four-part program Michael Card did with Day of Discovery on Simon Peter.
• Hymns (2008)
• Luke: A World Turned upside Down (2011)

Compilations[link]

• Legacy and First Light (1988) both albums reissued on a single disc.
• The Life (1988) contains The Final Word, Scandalon and Known by the Scars in a boxed-set (except "Crown Him (Reprise)")
• The Early Works (1991)
• The Ancient Faith (1993) contains The Beginning, The Way of Wisdom and The Word: Recapturing the Imagination in a boxed-set (plus "Heal Our Land" song for the National Day of Prayer & "Ancient Faith Overture")
• Joy in the Journey (1994) contains "Chorus selections from The Life trilogy
• Signature Songs (1999) contains selections from Legacy and First Light
• The Ultimate Collection (2006)

Other works featuring Michael Card[link]

• Christmas (1988) Michael Card sings "What Child Is This?". Not available elsewhere.
• Coram Deo (1992) Michael Card sings two duets with Charlie Peacock: "Amen! Praise And Glory!" and "Lord Of Love".
• Steve Green People Need The Lord (1994) Duet on "Embrace The Cross".
• Promise Keepers- A Life That Shows (1994) Song "Bearers Of The Light", later available on Poiema, debuts here.
• Wedding album (1995) Michael Card's "Earthly Perfect Harmony" and "Lord of Love", a duet with Charlie Peacock appear.
• Wes King "A Room Full Of Stories" (1997) Wrote "Who But God?"
• Songs 4 Life: Feel The Power (1998) "Love Crucified Arose" appears.
• Songs 4 life: Renew your heart! (1998) "Joy In The Journey" appears.
• John Michael Talbot "Cave Of The Heart" (1999) Backing vocals.
• 30 Years of Award-Winning Music (1999) "El Shaddai" appears.
• Songs From The Book (1999) "The Book" appears. Michael Card also plays acoustic guitar on "El Shaddai" sung by Winans Phase 2 & Amy Grant.
• John Michael Talbot Wisdom (2001) Backing vocals.
• I Will Be Here: 10 Contemporary Wedding Songs includes "The Wedding"
• Giving You the Rest of My Life: 13 Contemporary Classics for Memorable Weddings Michael Card & Charlie Peacock's "Amen! Praise And Glory" is included, but Charlie Peacock isn't credited as singing.
• Let Us Pray: The National Day of Prayer Album "Heal Our Land" appears.

Videos[link]

• "Front Row" (1990)
• "The Word: Recapturing The Imagination" (1992) Includes music video "So Many Books".
• "The Visual Bible: The Debate Over Tradition" (1994) Includes "Recapture Me" music video.
• "Christmas In Belfast" (1997)
• "Scribbling In The Sand" (2002) Also on DVD.

Books[link]

• Sleep Sound in Jesus (1989) (ISBN 0-7369-1219-3)
• Immanuel: Reflections on the Life of Christ (1990) (ISBN 0-8407-7496-6)
• The Promise: A Celebration of Christ’s Birth (1991) (ISBN 0-917143-07-8)
• Come to the Cradle (1993) (ISBN 0-917143-24-8)
• The Parable of Joy: Reflections on the Wisdom of the Book of John (1995) (ISBN 0-7852-8229-7)
• Close Your Eyes So You Can See: Stories of Children in the Life of Jesus (1996) (ISBN 1-56507-425-4)
• Joy in the Journey (1996) (ISBN 0-7935-7665-2)
• The Homeschool Journey (with Susan Card) (1997) (ISBN 1-56507-568-4)
• Unveiled Hope: Eternal Encouragement from the Book of Revelation (with Scotty Smith) (1997) (ISBN 0-7852-7209-7)
• Tell Me Why: Eternal Answers to Life's Timeless Questions (1999) (ISBN 1-58134-031-1) — Answers to children's questions such as "Why did God make me?" and "Why do we have to die?"
• A Violent Grace (2000) (ISBN 1-57673-688-1) — Focuses on the frequently ignored brutality of Jesus' crucifixion.
• The Walk: A Moment in Time When Two Lives Intersect (2001) (ISBN 0-7852-7750-1) — Chronicles the 20-year relationship between Card and his mentor, Dr. William Lane, until Lane's death.
• Scribbling in the Sand: Christ and Creativity (2002) (ISBN 0-8308-2317-4)
• Scribbling In The Sand Audio Book (2002)
• A Fragile Stone: the Emotional Life of Simon Peter (2003) (ISBN 0-8308-2372-7)
• A Fragile Stone Audio Book (2003)
• A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in The Lost Language of Lament (2005) (ISBN 1-57683-667-3) — Reclaiming the ability to cry out to God when we suffer.
• A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide (2005) (ISBN 1-57683-668-1) — A 10-week study that helps the reader relate his own painful experiences to those of Biblical personages.
• The Hidden Face of God: Finding the Missing Door to the Father Through Lament (2007) (ISBN 1-57683-669-X)

Awards[link]

1983 GMA Dove Awards

Songwriter of the Year

Song of the Year: "El Shaddai"

1988 GMA Dove Award

Praise & Worship Album of the Year: The Final Word

1994 GMA Dove Award

Children's Music Album of the Year: Come to the Cradle

1994 RIAA Certified Gold Recording

Sleep Sound in Jesus

1997 Western Kentucky University Distinguished Alumnus ^[10]

1998 National Religious Broadcasters Chairman's Award

2001 RIAA 365 Songs of the Century

No. 26 "El Shaddai," as recorded by Amy Grant

2002 Publishers Weekly Award

Best Religion Book: Scribbling in the Sand

2002 Chicago Book Clinic Award Of Excellence

Best General Trade Book in the Self-Help Category: Scribbling in the Sand

2006 ECPA Christian Book Awards

Winner in the Christian Life Category: A Sacred Sorrow

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Media related to Michael Card at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Michael Card Website
• Street Level Agency's Michael Card page
• Christianity Today's Michael Card page
• Answers.com's Michael Card page
• Artist Direct's Michael Card bio
• Yahoo.com Music's Michael Card bio
• VH1's Michael Card bio
• ByFor.org Project