into the plant genome . The opines are used by the bacterium as an important source of nitrogen and energy. Each strain of Agrobacterium induces and catabolizes a specific set of opines. There are at least 30 different opines described so far. File Synthesis opines.svg thumb none 600px General overview of opine synthesis Chemical structure Chemically, opines fall into two major structural classes ..., separate class of opines. Chemically they are sugar phosphodiesters. For example, agrocinopine ... opines has the ending opine . Exceptions are nopaline and strombine. On the other hand, not all molecule names ending in opine are opines. For example, atropine , stylopine , europine , and lycopine belong to different classes of molecules. Other sources of opinesOpines and opine like substances ... marine invertebrates alanopine, strombine, and tauropine. Opines like acetopine and nopaline can ... amino acids valinopine, epileucinopine, isoleucinopine and phenylalaninopine. List of opines This is an alphabetical list of some opines or opine like compounds. Acetopine Acetopine N sup 2 sup Carboxymethyl ... a true opine. Agrocinopines Agrocinopines A D are a separate class of opines. They are sugar ... member of the mannityl family of opines. Mannopinic acid Mannopinic acid N 1 D mannityl L ... family of opines. It was also found in certain nontransformed plant tissues as a result of arginine ... member of the octopine family of opines. Octopinic acid Octopinic acid N sup 2 sup D l carboxyethyl ... similar to true opines. It is formed by condensation of lysine and alpha ketoglutarate. Saccharopine ... more details
Chembox ImageFile Nopaline.svg ImageSize 200px IUPACName N 1 R 1 Carboxy 4 diaminomethylene amino butyl small L small glutamic acid OtherNames Section1 Chembox Identifiers CASNo 22350 70 5 CASNo Ref cascite correct PubChem 441577 ChemSpiderID 390247 SMILES O C O C H N C H C O O CCC N C N N CCC O O InChI 1 C11H20N4O6 c12 11 13 14 5 1 2 6 9 18 19 15 7 10 20 21 3 4 8 16 17 h6 7,15H,1 5H2, H,16,17 H,18,19 H,20,21 H4,12,13,14 t6 ,7 m1 s1 InChIKey LMKYZBGVKHTLTN RQJHMYQMBC StdInChI 1S C11H20N4O6 c12 11 13 14 5 1 2 6 9 18 19 15 7 10 20 21 3 4 8 16 17 h6 7,15H,1 5H2, H,16,17 H,18,19 H,20,21 H4,12,13,14 t6 ,7 m1 s1 StdInChIKey LMKYZBGVKHTLTN RQJHMYQMSA N Section2 Chembox Properties C 11 H 20 N 4 O 6 Appearance Density MeltingPt BoilingPt Solubility Section3 Chembox Hazards MainHazards FlashPt Autoignition Nopaline is a chemical compound derivative chemistry derived from the amino acid s glutamic acid and arginine . It is classified as an opine . Ti plasmid s are classified on the basis of the different types of opines they produce. These may be nopaline plasmids, octopine plasmids and agropine plasmids. These opines are condensation products of amino acid s and keto acid s or may be derived from sugar s. The opines are used as carbon and nitrogen sources and metabolized by Agrobacterium . References unreferenced date February 2010 reflist Category Amino acid derivatives organic compound stub ar ... more details
Hell s Bells The Dangers of Rock N Roll is a Christian film Christian documentary film released in 1989. Eric Holmberg produced and directed the film, as well as its successor Hell s Bells 2 The Power and Spirit of Popular Music 2004 Overview The film examines the relationship of rock music to sex , violence , suicide , Recreational drug use drug use , rebellion , the occult , and other activities considered immoral by Biblical Theology . The music in the documentary is music produced prior to the nineties. The film portrays various lyrics and visual imagery in rock music and rock stars as evidence that it is Satanism satanic or Anti Christian discrimination anti Christian . It also opines on the theory of backmasking . See also Social effects of rock music References imdb title id 0884089 Category 1989 films Category Christian films Category American documentary films Category Documentary films about Christianity in the United States documentary film stub ... more details
Gerald Durani Martineau 1897 died May 29, 1976 at Lyme Regis was a prolific England English cricket writer. Martineau s notable works on cricket include Bat, ball, wicket and all , on the history of cricket implements They Made Cricket Museum Press, 1956 The valiant stumper , on the history of wicket keeper wicket keeping and The field is full of shades . He contributed to E. W. Swanton s World of Cricket and The Cricketer . Martineau was a captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment and authored the History of the Royal Sussex Regiment Moore & Tillyer, 1953 . His Wisden Cricketers Almanack Wisden obituary opines that his books were not works of much original research but, pleasantly written, they were ideally calculated to arouse the interest of the novice and spur him on to try for himself the masterpieces . Martineau died in 1976 at the age of 79. References Obituary in the Wisden Cricketers Almanack . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Martineau, G. D. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1897 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1976 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Martineau, G. D. Category 1976 deaths Category Cricket historians and writers Category Royal Sussex Regiment officers Category 1897 births ... more details
The proventriculus is part of the digestive system of birds , invertebrate s and insect s. ref name Encarta World English Dictionary 2007 Encarta World English Dictionary North American Edition 2007 . Proventriculus . Source http encarta.msn.com dictionary 1861736288 proventriculus.html accessed December 18, 2007 ref Birds The proventriculus is a standard part of avian anatomy . It is generally a glandular part of the stomach that may store and or commence digestion of food before it progresses to the gizzard . ref Source http www.kidwings.com glossary proventriculus.htm accessed December 18, 2007 ref The Encarta 2007 holds that the proventriculus is blockquote The first part of a bird s stomach, where digestive enzymes are mixed with food before it goes to the gizzard. It is analogous to the gizzard in insects and crustaceans. ref name Encarta World English Dictionary 2007 blockquote Dr. Thomas Caceci undated discusses the proventriculus of the avian stomach and opines that blockquote The proventriculus is the glandular portion of the avian compound stomach, and a rather peculiar organ it is. There s nothing like it in mammals. ref Caceci, Thomas undated . Proventriculus . Source http education.vetmed.vt.edu Curriculum VM8054 Labs Lab22 EXAMPLES EXPROVEN.HTM accessed December 18, 2007 ref blockquote See also Esophagus Crop anatomy Gizzard Notes references digestive system Category Animal anatomy Category Bird anatomy Veterinary med stub Animal anatomy stub ar bg de Proventriculus es Proventr culo fr Proventricule he ja ... more details
Image Ti plasmid.svg thumb 350px right Ti plasmid with T DNA region The transfer DNA abbreviated T DNA is the transferred deoxyribonucleic acid DNA of the Ti plasmid tumor inducing Ti plasmid of some species of bacteria such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes . It derives its name from the fact that the bacterium transfers this DNA fragment into the host plant s cell nucleus nuclear DNA genome . The T DNA is bordered by 25 base pair repeats on each end. Transfer is initiated at the left border and terminated at the right border and requires the vir genes of the Ti plasmid. The bacterial T DNA is about 20,000 base pairs long and contains gene s that code for enzyme s synthesizing opines and phytohormone s. By transferring the T DNA into the plant genome, the bacterium essentially reprograms the plant cells to grow into a tumor and produce a unique food source for the bacteria. The synthesis of the plant hormones auxin and cytokinin enables the plant cell to grow uncontrollably, thus forming the crown gall tumor s typically induced by Agrobacterium infection. The opines are amino acid derivatives used by the bacterium as a source of carbon and energy. T DNA transformation Agrobacterium mediated T DNA transfer is widely used as a tool in biotechnology . In genetic engineering , the tumor promoting and opine synthesis genes are removed from the T DNA and replaced with a gene of interest and or a selection marker, this is required so that it is possible to establish which plants have been successfully transformed. Examples of selection markers include neomycin phosphotransferase , hygromycin B phosphotransferase which both phosphorylate antibiotics and phosphinothricin acetyltransferase which acetylates and deactivates phosphinothricin , a potent inhibitor of glutamine synthetase . Agrobacterium is then used as a vector to transfer the engineered T DNA into the plant cells where it integrates into the plant genome. This method can be used to genera ... more details
Infobox protein family Symbol Octopine DH Name NAD NADP octopine nopaline dehydrogenase, alpha helical domain image PDB 1bg6 EBI.jpg width caption crystal structure of the n 1 d carboxylethyl l norvaline dehydrogenase from arthrobacter sp. strain 1c Pfam PF02317 Pfam clan InterPro IPR003421 SMART PROSITE MEROPS SCOP 1bg6 TCDB OPM family OPM protein CAZy CDD In molecular biology, the octopine dehydrogenase family of enzymes act on the CH NH Enzyme substrate substrate Chemical bond bond using Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NAD or NADP as an acceptor. The family includes D octopine dehydrogenase octopine dehydrogenase EC number 1.5.1.11 , D nopaline dehydrogenase nopaline dehydrogenase EC number 1.5.1.19 , D lysopine dehydrogenase lysopine dehydrogenase EC number 1.5.1.16 and opine dehydrogenase EC number 1.5.1. . NADPH is the preferred cofactor, but NADH is also used. Octopine dehydrogenase is involved in the reductive condensation of arginine and pyruvic acid to octopine small D small octopine . ref name pmid9665174 cite journal author Britton KL, Asano Y, Rice DW title Crystal structure and active site location of N 1 D carboxylethyl L norvaline dehydrogenase journal Nat. Struct. Biol. volume 5 issue 7 pages 593 601 year 1998 month July pmid 9665174 doi 10.1038 854 url ref Opine dehydrogenases can be found in both bacteria and marine ocean marine cephalopods . In bacteria, some of these opine dehydrogenases are involved in Crown Gall crown gall tumours that are produced by Agrobacterium spp., and which encode for the opine dehydrogenases on a Ti plasmid . These bacterium bacteria can transfer a portion of this plasmid T DNA to a susceptible plant cell the T DNA then integrates into the plant cell nucleus nuclear genome , where its genes can be gene expression expressed . Some of these gene s direct the synthesis and secretion of unusual amino acid and sugar derivatives called opines these opines are used as a carbon and sometimes a nitrogen source by the infectin ... more details
Overweight is part of a three tiered rating system, along with underweight stock market underweight and equal weight , used by financial analyst s to indicate a particular stock s attractiveness. If a stock is recommended to be overweight , the analyst opines that the stock is a better value for money than others. ref cite news first Walter last Updegrave title Glossary please What do terms like overweight and underweight mean, anyway? url http money.cnn.com 2003 08 19 pf expert ask expert work CNN.com CNNMoney.com , Ask the Expert date 2003 08 19 accessdate 2007 01 03 ref In a portfolio, overweight indicates that an investor holds proportionately more than the Capitalization weighted index benchmark weight of a certain asset a share, bond, industry sector, country, currency or asset class etc. . ref http www.thisismoney.co.uk jargon O overweight ref Examples Suppose that Technology stocks make up 10 of the relevant stock market index stock index by market value, i.e. the weight of the Technology sector in the index is 10 . Overweight Suppose that an investor holds 15 of his her investment in Technology stocks then, the investor s stock portfolio is 5 overweight in Technology stocks. Suppose further that the investor is advised by his broker or financial advisor that Technology should be overweight then, the investor is being advised to hold more investments in Technology, as a percentage, than the weight of that asset in the index market. i.e., more than 10 by value of Technology shares in this example. Underweight In contrast to overweight holding, if the broker advises that Technology should be underweight , the recommendation to the investor is to hold less than 10 by value of Technology shares. Equal weight The third possibility is that the broker advises that Technology should be equal weight in which case, the recommendation is to hold 10 by value of Technology shares. References references Category Stock market ... more details
Eastern Christianity Alexander of Lycopolis was the writer of a short treatise, in twenty six chapters, against the Manicheans J. P. Migne , Patrologia Graeca , XVIII, 409 448 . He says in the second chapter of this work that he derived his knowledge of Manes teaching apo ton gnorimon from the man s friend . The work is a specimen of Greek analytical procedure in the service of Christian theology, a calm but vigorous protest of the trained scientific intellect against the vague dogmatism of the Oriental theosophies . Photios I of Constantinople Photius says Contra Manichaeos , i, 11 that he was Bishop of Lycopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid , but Otto Bardenhewer opines Patrologie , 234 that he was a pagan and a Platonism Platonist . Sources cite encyclopedia last Christie first Albany James authorlink title Alexander Lycopolites editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 118 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http quod.lib.umich.edu cgi t text pageviewer idx?c moa cc moa idno acl3129.0001.001 size l frm frameset seq 133 Attribution Catholic wstitle Alexander of Lycopolis External links wikisource author http www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu 30 20 0250 0350 Alexander Lycopolitanus.html Greek Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca, with Analytical Indexes DEFAULTSORT Alexander Of Lycopolis Category 4th century Romans Category Anti Gnosticism Category Ancient Lycopolitans ca Alexandre de Lic polis de Alexander von Lykonpolis pt Alexandre de Lic polis ru ... more details
Infobox Film name Dark Intruder image Dark Intruder.jpg image size caption Theatrical poster to Dark Intruder director Harvey Hart producer Jack Laird writer Barr Lyndon narrator starring Leslie Nielsen br Gilbert Green br Charles Bolender br Mark Richman br Judi Meredith music Lalo Schifrin cinematography John F. Warren editing Edward W. Williams distributor released runtime 59 min. country USA language budget gross preceded by followed by Dark Intruder is a 1965 television movie that was released theatrically. It is a horror film starring Leslie Nielsen , Peter Mark Richman Mark Richman and Judi Meredith set in San Francisco in 1890 concerning playboy sleuth Brett Kingsford Nielsen . Kingsford is an expert on the supernatural and along with his dwarf assistant Nicola he helps the police uncover the scheme of a Sumerian demon to return to earth and take over a human body. This atmospheric black and white film is only 59 minutes long and was directed by Harvey Hart . It was the pilot for a failed television series called The Black Cloak and was written by Barr Lyndon . In plot and character it greatly resembles Chamber of Horrors 1966 film Chamber of Horrors , which was made the next year and had a similar fate. The dialogue includes some references to alien beings invented by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft . Brett Kingsford, occult expert, opines that gods older than the human race...deities like Dagon and Azathoth still have worshippers. ref Don G. Smith, H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture . Jewfferson, NC and London McFarland & Co Inc, 2006, p. 123 ref Reflist External links imdb title id 0059083 title Dark Intruder Amg movie 88696 Dark Intruder Category 1965 television films Category American television films Category 1960s horror films fi Dark Intruder ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Ancient Cross Dressing Songs Type EP Artist Rasputina band Rasputina Cover Album Ancient Cross Dressing Songs cover.jpg Released start date 2009 09 17 Recorded Brooklyn, NY on September 13, 2009 Genre Alternative rock Length Label none Producer Melora Creager Reviews Last album The Willow Tree Triptych br 2009 This album Ancient Cross Dressing Songs br 2009 Next album Sister Kinderhook br 2010 Ancient Cross Dressing Songs is a 2009 EP by Rasputina band Rasputina . The album contains 3 ancient folksongs about female to male crossdressers. It also features a personal message from the band s front woman, Melora Creager . Much like their two previous EPs, Melora a la Basilica and The Willow Tree Triptych , the album is available only via the band s website and is hand crafted by Creager herself. Of the decision in not using the distribution services of a record label, she opines that, cquote It s interesting to me that today s music fan sees recordings as cost per song a real iTunes mindset. You will feel better if you look at it like, Melora made this thing for me with her bare hands. ref cite web url http www.rasputina.com newsbunny.html title Newsbunny work Rasputina A Division of the Ladies Cello Society ref Track listing tracklist music credits yes total length 11 37 title1 A Message From Melora length1 1 44 title2 The Female Highwayman length2 2 53 title3 Jackaroe length3 2 53 title4 The Female Smuggler length4 4 05 Album details Original Release Date 2009 Label none Recording Mode Stereo Recording Type Studio Producer Melora Creager Distributor self distributed Rasputina Melora Creager cello, vocals References reflist Rasputina DEFAULTSORT Ancient Cross Dressing Songs Category 2009 EPs Category Rasputina albums Category Rasputina 2000s alt rock album stub ... more details
notability date February 2012 refimprove date June 2010 Infobox Book name Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma title orig translator image File ZenWrappedinCover2.jpg image caption author Brad Warner illustrator cover artist Johnny Kraft country United States language American English series subject S t Zen Zen Buddhism , genre Philosophy Autobiography publisher New World Library release date February, 2009 english release date media type pages 224 isbn 1 57731 559 6 dewey congress oclc preceded by Sit Down and Shut Up followed by Sex, Sin, and Zen Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma often referred to simply as Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate is a book written by Zen priest and punk rock bassist Brad Warner . The book chronicles Warner s 2007, the year in which Zen helped Warner handle his mother and grandmother s deaths, the dissolution of his marriage, and the end of his career. The Title Brad Warner has said that the title was inspired by a yogurt commercial featuring two women discussing the deliciousness of their yogurt. One opines that it is Zen wrapped in Karma dipped In chocolate good. ref http www.buddhistgeeks.com 2009 06 bg 127 pop buddhism satori porn Buddhist Geeks interview ref References reflist Category Buddhist literature Category 2007 books Category Zen studies books ... more details
Merge to Dictatorship date May 2010 A stable dictatorship is a dictatorship that is able to remain in power for long periods. The stable dictatorship theory concerning the Soviet Union held that after the succession crisis following Joseph Stalin s death, the victorious leader assumed the status of a Stalinist dictator without Stalin s terror apparatus . ref citation title The Structure of Communist Politics author RC Thornton publisher World Politics year 1972 jstor 2010454 ref Chile under Pinochet Chile and Paraguay were considered to be stable dictatorships in the 1970s. ref citation title Fiscal Policy, the Military, and Political Stability in Iberoamerica author AG Cuz n publisher Behavioral Science year 1986 url https secure.uwf.edu govt documents Cuzan 1986 FiscalPolicytheMilitaryandPoliticalStabilityinIberoamerica.pdf ref It has been argued that stable dictatorships behave differently than unstable dictatorships. For instance, Maria Brouwer opines that expansionary policies can fail and undermine the authority of the leader. Stable dictators, would therefore, be inclined to refrain from military aggression . This applies to History of China Imperial era imperial China , Byzantium and Japan , which refrained from expanding their empire at some point in time. Emerging dictators, by contrast, want to win the people s support by promising them riches from appropriating domestic or foreign wealth. They have not much to lose from failure, whereas success could elevate them to positions of wealth and power. ref citation title Democracy and Dictatorship The Politics of Innovation author M Brouwer year 2006 url http www1.fee.uva.nl pp bin 278fulltext.pdf ref References Reflist Category Dictatorship ... more details
Image Ti plasmid.svg thumb 350px right The structure of the Ti plasmid Ti plasmid is a circular plasmid that often, but not always, is a part of the genetic equipment that Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes use to transduce its genetic material to plants. Ti stands for tumor inducing. The Ti plasmid is lost when Agrobacterium is grown above 28 C. Such cured bacteria do not induce crown galls, i.e. they become avirulent. pTi and pRi share little sequence homology but are functionally rather similar. The Ti plasmids are classified into different types based on the type of opines opine produced by their genes. The different opines specified by pTi are octopine , nopaline , succinamopine and leucinopine . The plasmid has 196 gene s that code for 195 protein s. There is no one structural RNA . The plasmid is 206,479 nucleotide s long, the GC content is 56 and 81 of the material is coding genes. There are no pseudogene s. The genetic engineering modification of this plasmid is very important in the creation of transgenic plant s, but only in dicotyledon plants. Virulence Region Genes in the virulence region are grouped into the operons virABCDEFG , which code for the enzymes responsible for mediating transduction of T DNA to plant cells. ref cite journal author Scott E.Stachelt, Eugene W.Nester title The genetic and transcriptional organization of the vir region of the A6 Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens journal The EMBO Journal volume 5 issue 7 pages 1445 1454 year 1986 pmid 3017694 pmc 1166964 ref virA codes for a Receptor biochemistry receptor which reacts to the presence of phenolic compounds such as acetosyringone , ref name Schrammeijer cite journal doi 10.1093 jexbot 51.347.1167 author Schrammeijer, B., Beijersbergen, A., Idler, K.B., Melchers, L.S., Thompson, D.V., Hooykaas, P.J.J. title Sequence analysis of the vir region from Agrobacterium tumefaciens octopine Ti plasmid pTi15955 journal Journal of Experimental Botany volume 51 issue 3 ... more details
Online opines CRUTCH is a captivating and brutally honest look into love, loss, lies and our own ... Film , Retrieved 12 10 2008 ref However, on the negative side, DVD Verdict opines that Rob Moretti ... more details
WS, Canfield ML. 1997. Diversity of Opines and Opine Catabolizing Bacteria Isolated from Naturally Occurring ... amongst bacteria. In the presence of opines , A. tumefaciens produces a diffusible conjugation signal ... Vir genes , c Replication origin , d Opines catabolism genes br D Plant cell br E Mitochondria br F ... of cytokinin s are also expressed. This stimulates cell proliferation and gall formation. Opines ... s which the bacteria can metabolize , called opines. ref Zupan J, Muth TR, Draper O, Zambryski P .... Plant J. 23 11 28. ref Opines are a class of chemicals that serve as a source of nitrogen for A. tumefaciens ... shown to be involved in the metabolism of opines and to conjugate with other bacteria in the absence ... more details
Infobox comic name Donald Duck in Old California image Inoldcalifornia.jpg image caption Donald Duck in Old California comic book cover. Cover art by Carl Buettner . code W OS 328 00 title orig hero Donald Duck appearances Donald Duck br Huey, Dewey and Louie pages 28 layout 4 rows per page story Carl Barks ink Carl Barks date 1950 first Four Color Four Color Comics 328 br May, 1951 Donald Duck in Old California is a Donald Duck comicbook story written and illustrated by Carl Barks and first published in May, 1951. Plot synopsis Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie are on a holiday in California , heading to Los Angeles, California Los Angeles . They take a small narrow road that seems deserted and discuss California s history as they travel. Donald Duck opines that the turning point in California s history was the California gold rush . As he speaks passionately on this topic, Donald Duck is momentarily distracted from his driving. The car crashes in a rock besides the road. When Donald Duck and his three nephews regain consciousness, they find they are visitors of a local tribe of Native Americans in the United States Native Americans . The tribe kindly offer to help the columbine foursome recover. The exhausted Ducks are offered a drink, and they fall sleep. When they wake again, they find themselves in Alta California , 1848. They quickly manage to befriend a local Spanish speaking family of Californios , owners of a cattle ranch , together with the ranch workers. As visitors, Donald Duck and his nephews are privileged to observe the family s life and moreover, they attempt to help with the family problems. They visit San Francisco and acquire land cheaply, but soon are swindled out of them by American settlers. Afterwards, the Ducks become involved in the Gold Rush and as goldminers partner with a friend from the ranch. The Ducks do the digging, and their partner s fists and guns make sure that nobody swindles them out of their gold. After their fr ... more details
Orphan date September 2008 Gary Carson born 1949 is the author of The Complete Book of Hold Em Poker , The Complete Book of Casino Poker , and multiple articles and essays focusing on poker , gambling , and probability . He is a frequent contributor to the newsgroup rec.gambling.poker. Several of Carson s unorthodox strategies remain topics of fierce debate years after first being published. Born in Austin, Texas Austin , Texas , Carson holds an MS in Quantitative Business Methods from Louisiana State University LSU , an MS in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University Northwestern and is ABD in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. He has taught in the business schools of LSU, Loyola University Chicago , University of Illinois Chicago Circle , and Sam Houston State University. He often takes a contrarian view of strategic decision making. His writings emphasize that the loose versus tight conditions of a game are a strong driving force in evaluating a situation. In intermediate betting rounds in loose games, he opines it is often more valuable to play a good draw strongly than to do so with the current best hand, while in tighter games the opposite is often the case. His books and recent gambling related writings have been on poker, although he wrote on horse handicapping in the 1980s. He has also written on a wide range of non gambling topics ranging from human resource topics to commercial snail farming. He has written about gambling for CardPlayer , Poker Digest , American Turf Monthly , Racing Star Weekly , and websites Pokerpages.com, Pokermagazine.com, Pokerhands.com, and Gaminglinks.com. He is also a prolific blogger and blogs about poker, mathematics as it relates to poker, and culture and politics. Gary Carson lives in Cushing, Oklahoma Cushing , Oklahoma . External links http www.garycarson.com Official site http garycarson.blogspot.com Poker Road Trips, Gary Carson s Blog http www.mathandpoker.com Gary Carson ... more details
Infobox Book name Ayodhya and After Issues Before Hindu Society title orig translator image Image deleted Image Bookcover ayodhya.jpg FAIR USE of IMAGENAME.jpg see image description page at http en.wikipedia.org wiki Image IMAGENAME.jpg for rationale image caption author Koenraad Elst illustrator cover artist country India language English language English series subject genre publisher Voice of Dharma release date 1991 english release date media type pages isbn preceded by followed by Ayodhya debate Ayodhya and After Issues Before Hindu Society is a book by Koenraad Elst published in 1991 by Voice of India . The book is about the Ayodhya debate, but does also discuss Indian politics and communalism South Asia communalism . Elst opines that reaching national integration requires dropping the anti Hindu separatist doctrines that have largely been created for the purposes of several imperialisms, and are now being kept afloat with a lot of distortive intellectual and propagandistic effort. The book attempts to examine the polemics between communalists and secularists in India. He also writes about Indian secularism and Communalism , and alleges that a clear majority of the riots are started by Muslims . In another chapter, the author discusses the banning of books like Ram Swarup s Understanding Islam through Hadis . In the 14th chapter he discusses the concept of Hindu Fascism . Other books about the debate by Elst include Ayodhya, The Finale and Ayodhya The Case Against the Temple . The Ayodhya debate Elst believes that in keeping with the internationally accepted standards of methodology and inference in scientific history writing, we may conclude ... that the Babri Masjid was built in replacement of a Hindu temple where Ram worship used to take place. In fact, this conclusion is merely a restatement of what was a matter of consensus until a few years ago. But Elst does not believe in a forcible take over of ancient temples. According to him, the Hindus should ask ... more details
cleanup afd Rocco Lampone 2nd nomination date May 2011 Refimprove date December 2009 Infobox character colour DEDEE2 name Rocco Lampone first The Godfather novel The Godfather last The Godfather II video game Godfather II nickname gender Male age born death rivals spouse relatives Rocco Lampone is a fictional character appearing in Mario Puzo s novel The Godfather novel The Godfather and its The Godfather film adaptation , as well as the sequel, The Godfather Part II . He was portrayed in the films by actor Tom Rosqui . Fictional character biography In the films Lampone is an associate of Peter Clemenza . When Clemenza is assigned to kill the treacherous Paulie Gatto in The Godfather , he decides to give Lampone a chance to made man make his bones . Clemenza and Lampone drive Gatto to a remote spot near New York , making him think they re scouting out places to live in case Sonny Corleone Sonny orders them to go to the mattresses. While Clemenza is waiting outside the automobile, Lampone kills Gatto with three bullets to the head. Lampone rises quickly in the Corleone family . After Michael Corleone takes over the family, he makes Lampone a caporegime . On the advice of Vito Corleone , Michael puts together a secret regime for Lampone, but makes sure that it is eventually discovered by Tom Hagen . Later in the film, Lampone and another unnamed associate kill Philip Tattaglia in his bed, and his men play a role in the wave of murders that cements Michael s power. He subsequently moves to Nevada with the family and arranges security for the Lake Tahoe compound he is, however, unable to prevent the attempt on Michael s life by two mobsters hired by Michael s rival Hyman Roth , and allowed in by fellow conspirator Fredo Corleone . When the time comes to take revenge on Roth, Rocco opines that assassinating him would be difficult, not impossible , and is personally entrusted with the hit. Disguised as a reporter , Rocco successfully approaches Roth at Miami Airport and s ... more details
Infobox Film name The Crimes of Stephen Hawke image caption director George King film director George King producer George King writer Jack Celestin br Frederick Hayward br H. F. Maltby br Tod Slaughter br Paul White narrator starring Tod Slaughter br Marjorie Taylor br D. J. Williams actor D. J. Williams br Eric Portman br Graham Soutten music Colin Wark cinematography Ronald Neame editing John Seabourne Sr. distributor released May 1936 runtime 69 Mins country UK language English language English budget preceded by followed by The Crimes of Stephen Hawke 1936 is a British period film melodrama directed by George King film director George King and starring Tod Slaughter as the nefarious Stephen Hawke who masquerades as the Spine Breaker . It also features Marjorie Taylor , D. J. Williams actor D. J. Williams and Eric Portman . This is the third of Tod Slaughter s film outings, billed as a new old melodrama . In the introduction Slaughter appears in person, in a BBC studio, where he describes with relish his murderous activities in his two previous films Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn 1935 and Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936 . In the film Slaughter plays a seemingly kindly money lender who dotes on his daughter Julia. He has however a double life as the notorious Spine Breaker , Victorian England s most maniacal serial killer. His nefarious activities are eventually detected by his daughter s suitor Matthew Trimble, the son of one of his victims, who after pursuing and failing to catch him somewhat charitably opines to his daughter Julia, Julia, my darling, listen to me. I know that he s the notorious Spine Breaker and he ought to be dead a hundred times but I also know that his death cannot bring my father back to life. But alive or dead it cannot alter my love for you. In the end Slaughter comes out of hiding to kill another unwelcome suitor of his daughter, before falling to his death from the roof of his house in a dramatic final exit. ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2011 Cleanup date January 2011 class greencolours border 1 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 style float right margin 0 0 1em 1em width 250px border collapse collapse font size 95 colspan 2 style margin left inherit background FFC0CB text align center font size medium Baloch Clan MASTOI align center style vertical align top Distribution Balochistan Pakistan Balochistan , Sindh , Punjab Pakistan Punjab style vertical align top Descended from Rind tribe Rind style vertical align top Branches Many style vertical align top Religion Islam style vertical align top Languages Balochi language Balochi , Sindhi language Sindhi , and Seraiki language Seraiki style vertical align top Surnames MASTOI style vertical align top colspan 2 small footnotes small The Mastoi or Mustoi are a Baloch tribe in the Balochistan Pakistan Balochistan , Sindh , and Punjab Pakistan Punjab provinces of Pakistan . History and origins Mastois are the descendants of Mir Chakar Khan Rind Baloch. There are different views some historians are of the view that Mastoi tribe is an offshoot of Rind, the main Baloch tribe. But few other writers and renowned historians opines that Mastoi is an independent Baloch tribe. On the other hand there are few oral traditions which say that Mero and Masti were brothers, Rind tribe is descendants of Mero and Mastoi are the descendants of Masti or Mir Masti Khan. While there is another oral tradition that during a tribal conflict forefathers of Mastoi fought with great bravery and chivalry and that s why they were given the title of Mast or Mast an , which means in Balochi language brave, courageous and chivalrous. Therefore from onward as time passed that section of Baloch population came to be known as Mastoi. Mir chakar Khan Rind united baloch tribes and took his finest army to fight Empror Sher Shah Suri on the edge of Multan to bar him entering into Balochistan.He defeated Sher Shah Suri and eventually died in 1565 in Satghara in Sahiwal District ... more details
Bad As I Wanna Be is a 1996 book that is the first autobiography of NBA player Dennis Rodman and was written during the 1995 96 season when Rodman was a member of the 1995 96 Chicago Bulls season record setting Chicago Bulls team that went on to win the NBA Championship. Tim Keown was Rodman s ghostwriter . Bad As I Wanna Be was followed up by Walk on the Wild Side , which was released in 1997, and I Should Be Dead By Now , which was written in 2005. This book also saw a rejoinder novel written by Rodman s ex wife Anicka Bakes, called Worse Than He Says He Is , that was released the same year as Walk on the Wild Side . Background The book opens with Rodman recounting an incident during the 1992 93 basketball season where he nearly took his own life in the parking lot of The Palace of Auburn Hills , while Rodman was still a member of the Detroit Pistons . During this time he describes his feelings to that point, how his life seemed to be falling apart and how he felt he was living a lie, and the first chapter ends with Rodman declaring that the incident turned him into the person that he became later on and how that person was the one you should have been seeing all along . Throughout the book, in addition to talking about his life and his basketball career Rodman opines about several things, including his relationship with Madonna entertainer Madonna , the influence of drugs on professional athletes, how his marriage fell apart and the toll it took on him, how he doesn t feel that certain basketball players should be paid as much as they are, his views on homosexuality and bisexuality , and his dislike for various NBA players including Grant Hill and Karl Malone . Rodman is particularly critical of NBA Commissioner David Stern , his San Antonio Spurs teammate David Robinson s apparent lack of leadership skills, and the team s general manager Gregg Popovich . A particularly testy piece concerns something that Chuck Person , who Rodman played with his second season in ... more details
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