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Barring a change to the current plan, teams will be given an 80-game schedule for next season in August. Those 80 games will include "tournament" games — probably four — that will count in regular-season standings. All teams will have two more games added to their schedule eventually so the full 82-game slate is played; the two teams that make the tournament final will be playing an 83rd game that won't count in the standings.
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Another new part of the CBA will be a second luxury tax level that, when reached, will keep teams from using their midlevel exception to sign players. That was a clear compromise, given how some teams wanted the so-called "upper spending limit" that would have essentially installed an absolute ceiling on what can be spent each season and help balance the playing field between the teams that are willing to pay enormous tax bills — like the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors — and those who aren't.
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The new CBA won't include a return to the policy that would allow high school players to enter the NBA draft. It was discussed and has been an agenda item for months, but the rule won't be changing anytime soon — probably not for at least the term of the next CBA.
"We also appreciate that there is a lot of benefit to really having veterans who can bring those 18-year-olds along," NBPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio said in February during an NBPA news conference at All-Star weekend. "And so, certainly anything that we would even consider, to be quite honest, would have to include a component that would allow veterans to be a part of it as well."
Silver said Wednesday, at the conclusion of a two-day Board of Governors meeting, that he was hopeful of getting a deal done by the weekend — a clear positive sign. The current CBA, which took effect July 1, 2017, came with a mutual option for either the NBA or the NBPA to opt out after six seasons, or June 30 of this year.
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The owners will have to vote on what the negotiators have hammered out, and the players will have to vote to approve the deal as well. Then comes the actual writing of the document — the most recent CBA checked in at around 600 pages containing nearly 5,000 paragraphs and 200,000 words. Much of it will be the same; much of it will need revising.
And while these talks went on for more than a year, this is the second consecutive CBA to be negotiated without the dysfunction that accompanied the talks in 2011 — when the league wound up locking out players for 161 days and had to eventually shorten the 2011-12 season from 82 to 66 games.
There was no appetite for a work stoppage, not after a 2021-22 season in which the NBA revenue topping $10 billion for the first time and basketball-related income reaching $8.9 billion, another record. Silver said the NBA is on pace this season for more sold-out games than ever before.


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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Look, this is a state that has suffered the tragedy of two of the worst mass shootings in our history. Fourteen years ago this month in Columbine, and just last year in Aurora. But this is also a state that treasures its Second Amendment rights. The state of proud hunters and sportsmen.
HORSLEY: Now, next week the president will travel to Connecticut where the legislature is also moving forward on gun control legislation. Connecticut, of course, suffered its own horrific mass shooting last year at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Ryder: "Hey, CJ, tell me why I didn't finish high school."
CJ: "Because you been dealing drugs, man, since the age of ten!"
Ryder: "No, that ain't it."
CJ: "(laughs) Because you went and put hands on that teacher for wearing Ballas colors!"
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— Ryder to CJ in Robbing Uncle Sam.
Lance Wilson, more commonly known as Ryder, is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series, appearing as a main character and the tertiary antagonist in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Ryder is a high-ranking member of the Grove Street Families who later joined forces with the Ballas, Vagos and C.R.A.S.H.
Ryder is a drug user, something known by both Sweet and Carl, and he can usually be seen with or searching for his 'water', which is in fact PCP mixed with cannabis. During the mission Home Invasion he can be seen frantically searching for it in his garden, having already dug numerous holes with a shovel.
Ryder's short stature is often commented on by many characters, with Kendl, Cesar Vialpando and a Well Stacked Pizza Co. employee (among others) calling Ryder a 'midget'.
Early life[]
Ryder was born in Los Santos, most likely in Ganton due to his close relationship with Sweet and Carl Johnson. Ryder was expelled from high school for assaulting a teacher who was wearing Ballas colors, although Ryder claims he was 'too intelligent' for school. It is also revealed that Ryder has been a drug dealer since the age of ten.
At an unknown point in time, Ryder joined the Grove Street Families street gang, eventually rising through the ranks of the gang until becoming one of Sweet's closest allies, being helped by the departure of Carl Johnson in 1987 following his brother's death. The Grove Street Families, however, began to lose influence, power and money to their arch rivals, the Ballas, due to their stance against the sale of drugs, which was fueling the Ballas rise to prominence.
Big Smoke attempted to convince Sweet about the benefits of selling drugs but failed, later meeting Ryder in his house where he convinces him to join his newly formed alliance with the Ballas. The alliance is later expanded to include the Los Santos Vagos and Russian Mafia, while another was established with the Loco Syndicate, who began supplying the new alliance with drugs from their base in San Fierro, although they do not realise that an undercover government agent is involved in the operation.
Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Carl Johnson's Return[]
- Ryder: "Hey, man, what you want?"
- CJ: "Seeing my homie. What's up with you?"
- Ryder: "Yeah, homie, yeah yeah. It's good to see you back."
- —Ryder and Carl, during "Ryder's first mission".
The death of Beverly Johnson brings her son, Carl Johnson, back to Los Santos from Liberty City. Johnson meets Ryder again shortly after the funeral where they are attacked by a group of Ballas in a drive-by shooting, destroying Smoke's car. Carl, Sweet, Smoke and Ryder flee the area on BMX bicycles. The four cycle to Mulholland Intersection where Sweet breaks away from the group, distracting the Ballas vehicle, allowing Carl, Smoke and Ryder to escape. The three are briefly followed again by a Ballas car, although the Ballas do not aim their guns at Smoke and Ryder due to their clandestine alliance, a fact missed by the Johnson brothers. Smoke also refuses to shoot at a Ballas car performing a drive-by shooting, claiming he did not wish to waste the food they had just ordered, although Ryder does start shooting at the Ballas.
Ryder continues his life as normal with the Grove Street Families, often being seen with Sweet and Carl. He begins to hire Carl to do various tasks, the first being to drive to The Well Stacked Pizza Co. fast-food restaurant in Idlewood, where Ryder attempted to rob the store but was thwarted by the manager, using a shotgun in self-defense. Ryder later assists Carl to kill a drug dealer and then a number of Ballas gangsters who were associated with the dealer in a home in Idlewood. Ryder also hires Carl to help him steal weapons from the home of Colonel Fuhrberger in East Beach, steal a weapons shipment from a train coming from Las Venturas and to steal weapons from the National Guard Depot in Ocean Docks.
Ryder later accompanies Carl, Sweet and Smoke to the Cluckin' Bell fast-food restaurant in Willowfield, where they see a group Ballas attempt a drive-by shooting. The four survive and destroy the Ballas car. Ryder is again seen when the four discuss the gang's weapons and later performs a number of drive-by shootings with the three in East Los Santos and Jefferson. He also attended a party thrown by OG Loc on Grove Street.
Sweet later arranges a meeting at the Jefferson Motel between the various subdivisions of the Grove Street Families, in an attempt to bring the factions back together to fight against the Ballas.
Ryder, upon arriving with Sweet, Carl and Smoke, criticises the non-Grove Street gangsters, which Carl and Sweet do not realize is an attack on the gang rather than the subdivisions. Sweet enters the motel on his own and, when the Los Santos Police Department ambush the meeting, Ryder and Smoke flee the scene in Sweet's Greenwood. The two, however, later reappear at the side of the motel and escape with Carl and Sweet from the pursuing police, driving the car through a Sprunk billboard. The car explodes upon landing on the road below while the four, who had bailed out of the car, decide to go back home seperately.
After Sweet explains to CJ that he is going to go to the Mulholland Intersection to ambush some Ballas members, Cesar Vialpando, the boyfriend of Sweet and Carl's sister Kendl and also a friend of Carl's, phones Carl and tells him that he must urgently come to an alleyway in Verdant Bluffs. Carl meets Cesar in the alleyway, where the duo witness Smoke and Ryder, along with C.R.A.S.H. officers Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski, and also some more Ballas members with the car used in the killing of Carl's mother. Deeply shocked, Carl finally realises the true colours of Smoke and Ryder and how they are complicit in his mother's death, but he is unable to confront the alliance between the game's three antagonistic groups (C.R.A.S.H., Ballas, Big Smoke/Ryder) and is forced to go to Mulholland Intersection to save his brother from a Ballas ambush during a shootout. Sweet is injured during the shootout, but Carl continues fighting the Ballas. The police arrive and the duo are arrested, with Sweet taken to a prison hospital 'upstate' and Carl to Angel Pine in Whetstone by Tenpenny, Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez.
In the absence of both Sweet and Carl, Smoke and Ryder take control of the Grove Street Families and add them to their alliance. Tenpenny orders Carl to stay out of Los Santos or else Sweet will be put in danger. With both their leaders out of Los Santos, the Grove Street Families turf is taken over by the Ballas, with Families members now working for Smoke and Ryder by taking drug shipments from the Loco Syndicate drug manufacturing plant in Doherty, San Fierro back to Los Santos. Cesar Vialpando, however, later discovers this and informs Carl, who stops a number of the shipments from reaching Los Santos. Carl later moves to San Fierro, but with Cesar's help, later photographs Ryder and the other Loco Syndicate members doing business in the mission Photo Opportunity.
- CJ: "You sold us out, Ryder. You fucked with us all!"
- Ryder: "I'm a motherfucking genius!"
- ―Carl and Ryder, before the latter's death.
After obtaining the photographs, Carl returns to San Fierro and has them developed. He meets with Wu Zi Mu, a leading member of the Triads in San Fierro and his assistant, who identifies the three leaders as Jizzy B., a nightclub owner, T-Bone Mendez, the leader of the San Fierro Rifa, and the gang's leader, although they are unaware that he is an undercover government agent.
In the mission Pier 69, Ryder and Mendez are in a deal—after using Wu Zi Mu's Triad army to help subdue the gangs, Cesar and Carl kill Mendez. Ryder will then attempt to flee in a boat; Carl kills him by either sniping him whilst he swims to it, or by chasing and shooting him down whilst seaborne.
Following Ryder's death, Cesar tells Carl that Ryder once tried to have sex with Kendl. Although Carl responded as a protective brother would, he still seemed to regret having to kill his lifelong friend.
Ryder is depicted as loud, wild, and unpredictable. He is known to go into rampages and always attempt the impossible. Ryder has a peerless mean streak and an extremely short temper, making him the loose cannon of the Grove Street Families. He also has delusions of grandeur and a possible Napoleon Complex, stemming from his short stature. He sees himself as a "genius" and thinks he is too intelligent for school. Furthermore, Ryder is also very brusque, as he rudely states his terse opinions of CJ since the latter's return to Los Santos and has the tendency to belittle him. Though Ryder is very passionate of the Grove Street Families, he is also easily convinced by Big Smoke to make a little cash despite the fact that it means turning on his own gang. Ryder's impulsive and wild attitude is possibly due to his drug addiction, for he is almost always seen holding a joint in each cutscene he appears in. Though his history is unknown, it is implied that he was once a rebellious and belligerent child due to CJ saying in the mission Robbing Uncle Sam that he once beat up a teacher just for wearing purple, which is a color used by the Ballas.
Despite turning on his own gang and CJ, in the whole series of events, including the deadly hunt on him by CJ, Ryder never shows any attempt to kill or harm CJ, even when the latter finally kills him in the mission Pier 69, although this was mostly due to him not having any weapons to defend himself.
He commonly says "jeah/geah", which is a term commonly used by his voice actor MC Eiht instead of saying "yeah".
- Ryder owns a brown Picador with a number plate which spells out SHERM, referring to his addiction to sherm (as Carl also calls him a "sherm head" in Photo Opportunity), a cigarette with marijuana mixed into the tobacco that has been immersed in PCP. In many pre-release screenshots, Ryder's vehicle was a brown Sadler.
Mission Appearances[]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- The Introduction
- Sweet & Kendl
- Ryder (Boss)
- Cleaning the Hood
- Drive-Thru
- Nines and AK's
- Drive-By
- Home Invasion (Boss)
- Catalyst (Boss)
- Robbing Uncle Sam (Boss)
- House Party
- Reuniting the Families
- The Green Sabre (Betrayal)
- Photo Opportunity
- Pier 69 (Killed)
- Ryder is voiced by MC Eiht, a rapper from the rap group CMW. He has appeared in films such as Menace II Society, and can be heard on the in-game radio station Radio Los Santos with the song "Hood Took Me Under".
- Due to the fact that the default radio station in Ryder's Picador is Radio Los Santos and because it plays in the cutscenes to the missions Robbing Uncle Sam and Home Invasion, it could be implied Ryder's favorite radio station is Radio Los Santos.
- In the mission Los Sepulcros, if the players kills one of directed Grove Street members, Sweet might shout "CJ, you been hitting Ryder's wet stick?".
- Ryder's appearance is similar to that of the late rapper Eazy-E, founder of the iconic rap group N.W.A, who was famous during the late-1980s and early-1990s, and died of AIDS complications in 1995.
- Ryder has 3 in-game models in gta3.img, two being his original models used in-game, while the last one is used when Ryder attempts to rob a Well-Stacked Pizza restaurant.
- In an easter egg from Grand Theft Auto V, three men resembling Carl, Ryder, and Big Smoke can be seen riding bikes down Grove Street in the mission Hood Safari. This is an obvious reference to the first mission of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Despite being the subject of various comments about his height, Ryder is actually taller than Carl and Cesar, who refers to Ryder as a "midget" during Yay Ka-Boom-Boom.
- In the beta for GTA: San Andreas, Ryder was supposed to die on the pier and Carl would chase and shoot down T-Bone Mendez. However, in the final version of the game, their deaths are reversed.
- It's possible that Ryder's voice lines (More specifically whenever he calls people "Buster" or says, "You can't see me!") were inspired by Lil' Chris in Friday (1995)


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the Habit of Being Third Dimensional
Dear Ones,
the Arcturian expression of our many grounded ones wish to assist you in
releasing the habit of being third dimensional. This habit, like all habits, is
a set of behaviors that originate in your unconscious mind. Therefore, you are
not consciously aware of these habitual actions, thoughts and emotions. Hence,
you do not know the reason for these habits. To change a habit you must bring
up from your unconscious mind and into your conscious awareness. Once you can
consciously observe your habit, you can begin to change it.
first, you may not be aware that certain habitual actions, thoughts make you
feel unhappy. However, if you continue to observe when you feel unhappy, you
can begin to trace that feeling back to its source. For example, you may not
know why you are feeling anxious for quite a while, but you keep observing your
self. Then once day, you realize that a certain thought, that used to be
unconscious and is now conscious, always makes you feel anxious.
you can begin to change that thought by trying to "catch yourself in the act."
At first it may take several days for you to realize that
you are feeling anxius because you have allowed yourself to think in a certain
Then, with continued observation, you realize you are
anxious because you just had that thought.
Then, you have the "last time" experience, in which you can
catch yourself in the NOW of having that thought. But, you cannot change it!
This is very important, for you can clearly observe how the type of thinking
makes you feel anxious.
After you catch your self in the act, you can stop the
thought just before you have it and transmute it into a higher frequency
Eventually, you will heal yourself of thinking in that
fashion and suffer much less anxiety.
best way to catch your self in the habit of being third dimensional is to be
conscious of your third dimensional thinking. Third dimensional thinking is
based on time, space, separation, limitation, gender and illusion. This type of
thinking brings about many fearful emotions because you are constantly on the
clock of what you have to do, how far you have to go to do it, other
people that you have to deal with, all the limitations that you must
surmount, social gender issues, and myriad illusions. Third
dimensional thinking lowers your consciousness and dis-allows you to perceive
the amazing reality that is just beyond your limited perceptions.
the source of your third dimensional thinking out of your unconscious and into
your conscious awareness is the same process as releasing habits. Eventually,
you must "catch yourself in the act," so that you can transmute your third
dimensional thinking into its higher expression of multidimensional thinking. It
is through conscious recognition of the emotions that arise from third
dimensional thinking that you can begin your process of releasing that type of
dimensional thinking is largely fear-based, and many fear-based emotions arise
from the myriad limitations, loss of personal power and loneliness that arise
from it. At first, you may
not realize that you are thinking in a time-bound, third dimensional way. However, you are very aware that you are
feeling nervous, anxious, depressed, angry or sad. Instead of asking yourself
what outside event initiated these feelings, you ask yourself what thought initiated
this feeling. In other words, instead of looking into the illusions of your
third dimensional world to find the source of your emotions, you look inside to
your own manner of thinking.
If you take a moment to connect with your
higher expression of SELF, you can use your superconscious perspective to quickly
identify that third dimensional thinking has created your uncomfortable emotions. At first, you may wait until your emotional
reactions to your thoughts are quite extreme. Fortunately, with practice, you
will learn to more immediately identify that the source of your discomfort is
your own third dimensional thinking and NOT an outside source.
In this way you can realize that most of
your emotions arise, not from your physical life, but from the way you think
about your life. With this realization, you can begin to catch yourself in the
act of thinking in a limited, fearful, separate and/or time-bound manner. This
is when you can begin to release your habit of third dimensional thinking, and
begin to allow yourself to remember your innate multidimensional thinking. Multidimensional
thinking arises not from your third dimensional unconscious brain but from your
superconscious multidimensional mind.
Whereas your third dimensional thinking
has been trained to use only 3% of your DNA and about 5% of your brain,
multidimensional thinking arises from the 97% of DNA that was formerly
turned-off. As the higher light from the Galactic Center enters your Pineal
Gland and is integrated into your physical brain, the 97% DNA is turned-on and
your "whole brain thinking" is activated. With whole brain thinking, the 95% of
brain activity comes online to originate your Multidimensional Operating
System, which is based on multidimensional thinking.
Whereas third dimensional thinking is
based on the illusion of time, multidimensional thinking is based on the NOW of
the ONE. With continued experiences of the NOW, you loose time. And, with no
time, there is no space. Therefore, there is no separate. At this point you
begin to have "NOW experiences," in which you are ONE with your
Multidimensional SELF. In these moments of Unity with the ONE you can perceive
and experience higher dimensions of reality.
Within these experiences of being you Multidimensional
SELF you begin to understand how YOU have created and chosen to participate in
every aspect of your life. As you gradually return to the habit of being
multidimensional, you remember how to transmute your habit of being third
dimensional into the Truth of being your true SELF. Transmutation is your
innate ability to change any experience through raising its resonance into a
higher frequency of reality. Raising the resonance of your reality is
ascension. As you ascend with your beloved Gaia, you will choose to perceive
and participate in progressively higher frequencies of your ascending reality.
Transmuting your reality as it is
happening is a rehearsal to remind yourself that you do NOT want to participate
in reality in that fashion—or that you do not want to participate in that
reality at all. With each rehearsal you identify the reality that you don't
wish to participate in and/or the behavior that you no longer wish to exercise.
Each time you catch yourself in the act of behaving a certain way or
participating in an unwanted reality, you have an opportunity to look inside
yourself as and say, "I AM the creator of my reality. Why did I create and/or
participate in that reality?"
There may be different reasons at
different times, but if you observe that you acted, or are acting, in an
unconscious, habitual manner say: "I AM the creator of my reality and All
patterns of resonance are created by my consciousness. My reality, the reality
that I AM creating, begins with a thought form, which I created by the thoughts
and emotions that I am consciously, or unconsciously, allowing to fill my heart
and mind." This sentence is the key to being able to remain on New Earth.
New Earth is not a place; it is a
frequency. It is not your responsibility to experience it; it is your choice.
You can only perceive and experience New Earth when you are resonating to a
fifth dimension and beyond state of consciousness. These higher states of
consciousness are what open your Inner Portal to New Earth. However, whenever
your consciousness drops below the fifth dimension, you will no longer resonate
to that frequency of reality. Therefore, you will no longer be able to perceive
the reality that is always there.
For example, insects perceive and
experience the ultraviolet reality. This reality is always around you, and you
can easily see the third dimensional insect bodies that are seeing and living
in that reality. However, your consciousness and, hence, your perceptions, do
not resonate to the ultraviolet frequency of the physical light spectrum.
Therefore, you can see the insects, but you can't see reality as they see it.
At first, ascension will be similar to the
insect vision, in that you can perceive New Earth, and others could see your
physical body, but they will not be able to see the reality you are seeing
until their consciousness resonates to the same frequency. This example is
similar to a clairvoyant who can see beings from higher dimensions or a
clairaudient who can hear higher dimensional voices. Those whose consciousness
is still only third dimensional, can see these people, and may ask them to
share the reality their experiences, but they cannot experience that reality
Fortunately, as your
consciousness expands,
so do your perceptions.
so do your perceptions.


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It's easy to become weary in doing good when the culture around us increasingly mocks what we hold dear. However, David Wheaton points out that believers being mocked and ridiculed for their faith is nothing new — in fact, it goes back to the beginning of humanity itself.
"Just remember there's always been this pandemic in the heart of God-rejecting man to reject God. From the very beginning, Satan fell, he rejected God, so this is not new."
"Christians need to really think about the best way to respond to this. Should we lash out? Should we correct people? What's the best step?"
When considering our best response to some one who's mocking God, David says there are some key scriptures to keep in mind, including two side-by-side instructions in Proverbs 26:4-5.
"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him."
"Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes."
He unpacks these instructions a little further,
"It seems like it's saying two different things but we can understand this particular passage together to say: a fool should not be answered with agreement to his own ideas or he will think he's right, but rather he should be rebuked on the basis of his folly, in showing the truth so he sees how foolish it is."
"We need to be really careful when we are answering mockers and ridiculers, but we need to respond with truth and grace. The truth needs to be there, but the grace needs to be there as well. Grace is always seeking the best for someone else. We respond to correct the record and say what the truth is, but we do it with grace in order to see God's working that person's life that it can actually turn out for good for that person."
Our example is Christ was completely innocent, yet people openly reviled and ridiculed Him. How did He handle that pressure?
"It seems like this would be the hardest thing to do, because there's really not much response to ridicule. When you're being laughed at, really scorned, it's one of the most powerful forms of putting someone down. When Christ was hanging from the cross, He said "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."
"This is the highest, most sanctified point of being a believer, when you can come to that place in your life when you're being mocked and ridiculed, and you can respond like Jesus. When you can forgive your enemies in this way, you are being fully controlled by the Holy Spirit (because it's the opposite of what our natural response wants to be)."
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In the Dallas News today ("Dallas county district attorney wants unethical prosecutors punished," May 4), he's quoted declaring:
Williamson County DA John Bradley was quoted calling the idea "ridiculous" and an "overreaction," but even he didn't argue against:"Something should be done," said Craig Watkins, whose jurisdiction leads the nation in the number of DNA exonerations. "If the harm is a great harm, yes, it should be criminalized."
Wrongful convictions, nearly half of them involving prosecutorial misconduct, have cost Texas taxpayers $8.6 million in compensation since 2001, according to state comptroller records obtained by The Dallas Morning News. Dallas County accounts for about one-third of that.
Mr. Watkins said that he was still pondering what kind of punishment unethical prosecutors deserve but that the worst offenders might deserve prison time. He said he also was considering the launch of a campaign to mandate disbarment for any prosecutor found to have intentionally withheld evidence from the defense.
Such ideas could not be more at odds with the win-at-all-costs philosophy that was the hallmark of legendarily hard-line Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade and, to a lesser extent, of subsequent administrations.
"Most prosecutors would say, 'No, no, no,' " said Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor who studies prosecutorial misconduct.
It is rare for a prosecutor to advocate strict penalties for misconduct – even when it's intentional, said Mr. Gershman, a former New York prosecutor. "I couldn't give you five cases in the last 40 years of criminal charges against prosecutors," he said.
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, chief author of the Texas law that created the compensation system for wrongfully convicted inmates, said he, too, would support criminalizing the intentional withholding of evidence by prosecutors. No criminal charge exists in Texas for a prosecutor who intentionally commits a "Brady violation."
That term refers to the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brady vs. Maryland, which held that prosecutors violate defendants' constitutional rights if they intentionally or accidentally withhold evidence favorable to the defense.
"What better way to get to the truth?" said Mr. Ellis, a Houston Democrat who will chair a summit on wrongful convictions Thursday in Austin. "Why wouldn't we have a criminal statute to keep prosecutors from lying when they know the truth?"
changing state bar rules to allow grievances to be filed when they are discovered rather than within four years of the alleged misconduct, as currently required. There is no recourse when Brady violations are discovered decades later.As it turns out, the News reported, the only recent prosecutor cited for misconduct at the state bar was Terry McEachern, the district attorney from the infamous Tulia drug stings:
Personally I'd rather just see the Lege mandate an "open file" policy. But prosecutors at the Lege have opposed an open file policy by trying to tack on "reciprocal discovery" provisions that many in the criminal defense bar believe violate the 5th Amendment right to avoid self incrimination. Watkins' proposal could break that logjam by simply providing penalties when prosecutors don't follow the rules.The State Bar of Texas oversees the conduct of lawyers. But it does not prosecute crimes and, legal experts say, rarely sanctions prosecutors for misconduct.
Maureen Ray, an attorney in the bar's disciplinary section, recalled one recent example in which the bar did sanction a prosecutor for withholding evidence.
In 2005, the bar gave the former district attorney of Hale and Swisher counties, Terry McEachern, a two-year probated suspension of his law license for hiding evidence at trial in the discredited Tulia drug bust. In that case, 39 of 46 defendants were black, prompting questions about whether the arrests were racially motivated.
The point of an open file policy, anyway, is to avoid "Brady" violations, so if prosecutors want to continue to pick and choose what information to give defendants, this idea would make sure there were consequences when they failed to live up to that obligation.
RELATED: Watkins will participate on in a forum in Austin on Thursday in the Texas Senate chambers discussing how to prevent convictions of innocent people.
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Mandatory Drug and Alcohol Training for CDL Drivers and Supervisors
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Fort HealthCare Business Health at Fort Memorial Hospital will present a drug and alcohol training seminar that is mandatory for supervisors and owner/operators of commercial motor vehicles. The seminar, which will be held Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of Fort Memorial Hospital, is a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Department of Transportation compliance seminar offered to the local business community.
Since January 1, 1996, all companies with employees who have a CDL and own, lease or operate a commercial motor vehicle, are required to have an established drug and alcohol testing program as mandated by Federal Department of Transportation rules 49CFR, Part 382.
Program highlights include:
• Review of Law 49CFR, Part 382, with emphasis on supervisor training, prohibited conduct and the steps to take for managing positive test results.
• Drug and alcohol training to determine whether reasonable suspicion exists to require a driver to undergo testing under Part 382.307.
• Proper urine screening and breath testing collection procedures for drug and alcohol testing of drivers.
Supervisors of CDL holders are required to have training on the behavioral, physical, speech and performance indicators of controlled substance and alcohol misuse, so that they can more accurately identify it in the CDL drivers they oversee.
Fort HealthCare Business Health offers this seminar as a convenience to CDL drivers and supervisors in the Fort Atkinson area. Pre-registration on or before Friday, November 12 is required. The cost of the seminar is $75/person. However, discounts are offered for Business Health customers ($60) and Business Health Consortium members ($52). Continental breakfast will be provided.
For questions, additional information or to register, please contact Susan Ott at Fort HealthCare Business Health at (920) 568-5018.


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1) Floor prep – floors are prepped with specialized equipment, this step can involve grinding the surface.
2) Repairs – cracks and pits are patched and repaired to make an even surface.
3) Cleanup – A round of cleanup is done to remove any dust or partials from the grinding process.
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South Indian Thali: Idli, Madras Erulli Sambhar, Uddina Vade, Hurikadale Chutney and Tuppa!
Phew!! That was one busy week! Weather suddenly improved and is almost like Spring now. That means Allergy season for me too. Not looking forward to itchy eyes, red skin etc but got to deal with it! Hey btw, Anoop Desai aka "Noop dawg" has survived Simon (American Idol) so far, he sings well, outfit is not that geeky anymore! :D
Well..I didn't have anything in particular to post this week. I thought why not post a south Indian favorite; Idli, Sambhar, Vada, chutney, ghee thali instead. What's so special about these, you might ask but take a look at the Urad dal vadas! Reminds you of something? Yeah, don't they look like sweet Doughnuts?
Oh, my 2L wet grinder "Ultra Grind" is coming home today, I will post the photo next week. YAY! Softest idlis, come to momma! HeHe!
I always have hard time making these Urad dal vadas into a thick batter and shaping them like thick doughnuts. You can see my old posts of vadas here and here. I did get lot of advice from other bloggers like chilling the soaked Urad dal, adding chilled water to grind, and chilling the blender bowl before you grind the batter etc. to make the traditional shape of vadas. So, I followed them all and they do work to make batter thick! Any more tips are welcome from you.
These vadas are like savory Doughnuts of India, usually shaped on your wet palm or on a banana leaf, make hole in the middle and deep fried. When I saw the Doughnut maker at the store (also available in Amazon) last month (about $15), something clicked in my head and thought of using this to make Urad dal vadas! I couldn't stop laughing at the sight of these perfectly round thinner rings of Urad dal vadas. They may not be traditional looking vadas as we make in India but they do look cute, don't they? :D
My south Indian thali:
Katori Idli, Udupi or restaurant style Pearl Onion Sambhar, Urad dal vadas shaped by Doughnut maker, Roasted yellow gram dal chutney and homemade ghee.
My whole Idli, sambhar thali goes Rathna of "Asvadha" blog to her "Made for each other" event! These are not the traditional Valentine's day grub but definitely a very well loved, "any time", heart healthy (if you skip the ghee!) south Indian platter. Thanks R, enjoy hosting! :)
Photo of Doughnut/Donut maker and a close up of the spout where all magic happens! :D
Click on the collage to make larger, you can see where the batter comes out forming the shape of a doughnut. Urad dal batter should be a bit thinner than usual thick batter we use for making the regular vadas which helps the batter slide out of doughnut maker easily.
This is how it works; You spray the inside with no-stick oil, pour the thick batter in, hold this straight up on the top of the hot oil, press the red thing down you see on top to drop the batter directly into the oil and release it quickly and deep fry. If the spout were little smaller than it is here, we Indians would have a perfect thicker round Urad dal vadas with smaller holes in the middle!
Plain Urad dal vadas/Uddina vade:
Beautiful Urad dal savory doughnuts are south India's favorite snacks to have. With some of these around, we make a snack called Mosaru Vade/Dahi baras as they call in North India, basically these round dal vadas are soaked in spicy yogurt, served chilled in Summer. I will post that recipe and dish this Summer.
1. Soak 1 cup Urad dal, 1 tbsp rice grains in water overnight in the fridge. Keep the blender jar in the fridge too if you can. This keeps the dal and the jar cooler when grinding it and helps to make the batter thick.
2. Next day, drain the water and grind dal with enough salt, 1-2 pinches of baking soda, 2-3 tbsp water until thick, airy and fluffy. Do not add too much water, batter should be very thick to keep the shape of the vadas.
3. Heat oil to deep fry or at 360F in electric fryer. Spray the inside of the Doughnut maker to make the batter slide easy.
4. Pour the batter 3/4 full, hold it straight on top of the oil, and press the lever and quickly stop the the flow.
You will get a round batter rings and deep fry these until golden and drain on the paper towel. It does take some practice to get the knack of dropping the batter but you will get it eventually like I did!
It costs about $15 in the store or online to buy. If you use it to make sweet Doughnuts as well, it's worth buying. I will make sweet Doughnuts some other time to post here! :)
My doughnut shaped Urad dal vadas go to Ashwini of "Spicy cuisine" blog, who is hosting a new event called "Lentils Mela" this month. What better snack could there be than these Urad dal vadas for lentil mela, right? Thanks Ashwini, enjoy hosting! :))
Katori Idlis:
Katori means cup in Hindi. I poured the ildli batter in cups rather than using the usual Idli stand we use in India to make traditional smaller round Idlis. I use 2 cups any rice, 1/2 cup Urad dal,
1 tsp Methi seeds and salt. You can the Idli and Dhokla stand here.
I made the rice and Urad dal Idli batter in the same way ie chilled before grinding, you do a get soft batter which we need to ferment overnight.
Rest of the method to make idlis are the same as you see here but pour the fermented rice and Urad dal batter halfway upto in Katoris and steam as usual, one layer at a time.
Unmold the Idlis, cool and keep them covered or serve immediately for the best taste. You can reheat the cooled Idlis in the Microwave to serve.
Pearl onion (Madras Erulli) Sambhar:
This is my favorite Sambhar which tastes so good with Idlis and Vadas, almost like restaurant. Sanna Erulli or Madras onions are Pearl onions. I get frozen ones which are so easy to use without the hassle of peeling etc. I just thaw them overnight and saute lightly in oil until almost cooked and golden to use in the Sambhar.
Roast these without oil and pd these first:
1 1/2 tbsp Coriander seeds,
1/2 tsp cumin seeds,
1 tsp mustard seeds,
1/2 tsp Methi seeds,
3 tbsp dry coconut,
1/2" cinnamon(Dalchini),
Grind with 1/2 tsp turmeric pd,
1/2 tsp chilli pd.
To make Sambhar:
1. Pressure cook 1/2 cup Tuar dal, 1/4 cup Green gram dal (Moong dal), 1/4 tsp turmeric with 3 cups of water until soft, mash.
2. Add thawed and sauteed 1 cup Pearl onions to the dal, set aside.
3. Heat 1 tsp oil, 2 tsp butter or ghee, add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds,1 tsp cumin seeds, 2 dry red chillies, few curry leaves and 1/8 tsp Hing. When they splutter, add 1/ 2 cup of water, 1/2 tsp thick Tamarind paste, powdered masala pd, salt, 1/4 cup Tomato sauce, (optional),1 tsp sugar or Jaggary, simmer for 5 mins.
4. Now, add the dal mixture, and 4 tbsp chopped Cilantro, simmer not more than 2 mins and serve hot. Sambhar must not be too thick or too thin. Adjust the water and salt.
Hurikadale Chutney/roasted yellow chana dal chutney:
This is a simple but most delicious low fat chutney because we use lot less coconut and more of the roasted dal (Dalia or chutney dal). I have posted a similar chutney before with different proportions. This chutney is even better tasting and last longer in the fridge than coconut chutney.
1. Lightly toast 3/4 cup roasted yellow chana, 2 tsp Urad dal, 3-4 green chillies, few curry leaves and grind these with 2" chopped fresh ginger, 1/4 cup fresh grated coconut, 1/4 cup or more water, 1/4 tsp thick tamarind paste, few Cilantro stems and salt.
2. Take it out into a bowl, adjust the salt.
3. Season with 2 tsp oil and 2 tsp mustard seeds. Let it splutter. Take off the heat, cool it a bit and add to chutney and mix.
I make this chutney a bit thinner than usual thick chutney. Thinner chutney is great for scooping with vadas.
Home made Tuppa or ghee is here.
To serve, get a traditional stainless steel south Indian style thali or platter, arrange one or two Idlis, vadas, sambhar, chutney and homemade ghee! Slurp!! :D
My tried and tasted list:
Thanks to all of you:
Potato Onion Rasa Palya, from Rupa Mohan.
Channa masala South Indian style, from Adlak.
Neer Dosa, from Ranji.
Khara bhath, from Nirupama.
Carrots chutney/stir fry, from sra. (I used Broccoli, carrots,red cabbage)
Chettinadu Tomato Rasam, from Dibs.
"Revolutionary road", made into a movie with Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Got bored after few pages because of same old "going thru' middle age crisis" and how they "find themselves" in the end kind of "soppy" stuff. Well...on to the next one! :D
My big thanks to my blogger friends who sent me all those beautiful awards last week. I have listed you on my sidebar and as always, I appreciate each one of those awards and you too. Hugs to all of you! :))
Have a wonderful weekend and happy Valentine's day. See you all next week with Haryanvi cuisine!


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Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant
Researchers trying to determine whether nature or nurture determines an ant's status in the colony have found a surprising answer. Both.
Nature (that is, the ant's genetic makeup) and nurture (what it eats, for example) play a role in determining the fate of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, a resilient creature found in many parts of the southeastern United States.
The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, the University of Arizona, Linfield College and Arizona State University. The findings appear this month in American Naturalist.
In the hierarchy of an ant colony, status is everything. If you are a "gyne" and thus destined to become a queen, you can expect the very best accommodations and generous portions at mealtimes. If you are a worker, you must be ready to sacrifice your health, welfare and reproductive capacity for the betterment of the colony.
The researchers were drawn to P. badius because its social structure is more complex than most. Its caste system includes two categories of workers: majors and minors. Major workers are nearly four times heavier than minors, but the minors outnumber them by 20 to 1. Gynes (pronounced jines) are about eight times heavier than minors.
The researchers wanted to know whether the ant's genetic endowment dictated its caste and size or whether nutrition also played a role.
"Basically what we found is that things are more complicated than previously thought," said Christopher R. Smith, a former graduate student in the School of Integrative Biology at Illinois and corresponding author on the study.
"Our study shows that there is a large genetic component to caste determination, but that there is also a very strong environmental component."
The researchers found that the genetic makeup of the colonies they studied was quite diverse. The average P. badius queen had mated with at least 20 males (the norm for ants is one to five). The genetic analysis also suggested that the offspring of most males could develop into any caste, but that some male lineages (patrilines) were more likely to become gynes while others were more likely to become major or minor workers.
A recent study of honey bees found that colonies with a lot of genetic diversity were better at nest building and finding and storing food than their less diverse counterparts.
It was long assumed that castes are environmentally determined, but recent studies on Pogonomyrmex harvester ants have found colonies in which becoming a worker or gyne is determined exclusively by genetic differences. Such rigidity constrains the colony's ability to adaptively adjust to environmental realities. For example, colonies that have few workers and yet produce a lot of larvae that are destined to become gynes fail to grow to maturity because they lack the resources to feed the voracious gynes.
On the other hand, colonies that can respond to environmental factors and alter the ratio of the castes they produce are often more successful in a changing environment. They can produce more workers when resources are scarce and more gynes when food is plentiful.
"Flexibility in caste determination is essential as it allows the colony to respond to changes in need or environmental fluctuations," said principal investigator Andrew Suarez, an Illinois professor of animal biology and of entomology and an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology.
In the new study, the researchers analyzed what the P. badius ants were eating. Using stable isotope analysis, which looks for different versions of elements such as nitrogen and carbon in the diet, the researchers could tell whether individual ants were eating higher or lower on the food chain. Those at the top would have a more carnivorous diet, with a higher nitrogen content in their foods. They would also ingest more of a specific isotope of nitrogen in their foods than those eating seeds or plants.
The analysis showed that gynes were at the top of the dietary food chain and had the highest proportion of nitrogen in their diets. The minor workers had the lowest nitrogen content and were eating primarily from plant rather than animal sources. The majors were getting a better diet than the minors, but were not eating as well as the gynes.
"Differences in the nutrition that an individual assimilated during larval growth are strong predictors of caste," the authors wrote.
The researchers also found that genetic differences predict size in major workers and gynes, but not minor workers. Minor workers increase in size only as the colony grows, probably because larger colonies have more resources available to them.
The exact mechanisms by which genetics or diet influence caste are not yet known, Smith said, but in P. badius both play an important role. There may be a hormonal response, for example, that is driven in part by genetics and in part by nutrition that determines the trajectory of an individual ant's development, he said. Smith, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, continues to explore how genetic differences interact with variation in diet to generate diversity in the form and function of all ants.
The fact that nutrition can alter the genetic destiny of some ants in the colony probably allows it to adjust the ratio of workers to gynes to survive in tough times, he said.
"But there are still 'haves' and 'have nots' in the colony: those genetic variants who have a reproductive advantage and those that don't," Smith said.
Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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The New Orleans Saints announced Saturday that they have signed former Tulane University safety Devon Walker.
A four-year letterman at Tulane, Walker played for the Green Wave from 2009-12. He joined the team as a walk-on in 2009 and had moved into the starting lineup and was named a team captain as a senior in 2012. Opening the second game of his senior campaign on Sept. 8 at Tulsa, Walker suffered a career-ending spinal injury when he collided with a teammate while attempting to make a tackle just seconds before halftime. Walker injured his C3 and C4 vertebrae, which left him paralyzed from the neck down and spent over three months in the hospital before returning home in December 2012.
Despite the adversity and extensive rehabilitation that Walker has faced, he has embraced all of these challenges directly and has been an inspiration to others. In the fall of 2013, Walker returned to Tulane's Uptown campus and to the classroom to continue his studies in cell and molecular biology. He participated in graduation ceremonies prior to signing with the Saints on Saturday.
Walker also returned to the football field sideline as a constant supporter of his teammates in 2013 as Tulane enjoyed their finest season in more than a decade and played in the New Orleans Bowl. While taking part in rehabilitation three days a week and completing his studies, Walker spent extensive time with the team, attending meetings, practices and all Tulane football games at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, giving a pregame speech to the team prior to each home game.
Walker has been recognized nationally for his inspirational attitude. In 2013, he received the Disney Spirit Award, an honor given annually by Disney Sports to college football's most inspirational figure. He was honored by the New Orleans Fellowship Foundation and the organization renamed one of their annual awards the "Devon Walker Courage Award." He also was named the 2012 Brandon Burlsworth Courage Award winner and earned a spot on the Burlsworth Trophy watchlist, which recognizes former walk-ons who provide solid contributions to their team.
"When Devon got hurt, his football career was just starting to take off after three years of hard work," Saints Coach Sean Payton said. "Despite the devastating injury he suffered, Devon refuses to let that define him. He is an outstanding young man, who is not only an inspiration to his coaches and teammates at Tulane, but to all of us. Devon's character, determination, intelligence and work ethic are everything that we look for in a New Orleans Saint when we sign a player. This is the least we can do to recognize Devon and these attributes that we want all of our players to have."
"I would like to congratulate Devon on his graduation and for all his accomplishments," Tulane Coach Curtis Johnson said. "I am very proud of him and I am very happy for his family. This is a first-class move by a first-class organization. The Saints have been very supportive of Devon and I would like to thank Mr. (Tom) Benson, Mickey Loomis and Sean Payton for allowing Devon to be a part of an NFL team. I believe it once again demonstrates the organization's commitment to the New Orleans community and to one of its own."