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|In the Beginning
The Southern Indiana Japanese School (SIJS) opened in September 1997 in Evansville, Indiana, at the request of Japanese companies locating in southwestern Indiana. SIJS exists to enable the school-age children of Japanese employees of these companies to keep up with their peers in Japan and to help these children integrate smoothly into Japanese school life when they return to Japan. Any local child who would like to study at SIJS may also be accepted if he/she has adequate Japanese language skills for participation in classroom activities.
|SIJS holds classes on Saturdays most of the year, and on some Fridays during the summer.
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The students of the SIJS live in Evansville or in nearby towns. These students study at local schools with American students on weekdays, and they study at SIJS on Saturday using the same textbooks used at schools in Japan.
|Number of Students
SIJS has 55 students and 11 teachers. SIJS is a small school with a very friendly and family-like atmosphere where intensive individual and small-group teaching is practiced. Students and teachers at SIJS are working hard and with enthusiasm.
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SIJS has 48 school days, which is five to six days more than other Japanese supplementary schools. This is possible because SIJS has classes not only on Saturdays but also on Fridays in June and in July when the local schools are not in session.
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Students and teachers have lunch together in the middle of the day, with everyone bringing their favorite foods from home. After lunch, students enjoy themselves playing with their friends.
Activities of the School Year
Each September a Field Day is held in which many parents and the Japanese residents of the area participate. You will see more adults than students. This is a festival for the Japanese living here. All the participants are separated into teams and participate in footraces, tug of war, tamaire (a type of basketball), relays, and other contests.
At the annual Christmas party students read their literature works, give performances, and exchange presents. Such events as special writing for the New Year and New Year card party in January, and the graduation ceremony in March, remind students of Japanese traditions and culture.
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Southern Indiana Japanese School is a place of a warm, cheerful, and family-like atmosphere, where the students study hard and teachers teach enthusiastically.
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Pradeep Doesn't Deliver – I don't know what the in-house experience is here, but we ordered delivery and were highly disappointed. Claimed free delivery, but had hidden delivery charges. The portions were really small and the food took over an hour to get a mile away. Everything was cold and the food itself was nothing about which to write home. Guess these guys didn't take into account that there are many choices for Indian food in this city, and they will not again be ours.
AWFUL – POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE ...We have ordered from Pradeep's several times and the food has always been good, albeit expensive for what you actually get. Ordered tonight and they left out the samosas. We were told when we called that we were out of luck, the samosas were in the bag. They were in fact NOT in the bag so if you're considering ordering from a restaurant that has such POOR customer service think again. There are so many good places that actually value their customers and cost far less. And give you your entire order and don't argue with you.
Contemporary Indian restaurant blends traditional curries with health-conscious influence. – In Short
On trendy Montana Avenue, this neighborhood Indian spot is a popular place for impromptu dates, casual family dinners and post-yoga meals. Candlelit tables, shiny wood floors and Indian music create a comfortable and eclectic dining experience. Pradeep's touts healthy Indian dishes and curries without butter or cream. Lots of vegetarian choices are available, like the fried vegetable samosas and potato pancakes with ginger and green chili.
Cozy, trendy atmosphere and great food – A lot of my other favorite Indian restaurants (Nawab, Akbar) have slightly better food but fugly atmosphere. Pradeep's is adorable inside and the food is great. I know their whole thing is healthy Indian food but luckily the food is so great you never think about the missing cream or ghee. Nice to have some salad on the plate, too.
Love It! – I can't say enough good things. Pradeep is a hands-on chef and very warm and talented. Try the Vindaloo -- you won't be disappointed. A+
Truly Stellar! – Based on reading reviews of every Indian restaurant on the Westside, plus having tried (and enjoyed) many others--we decided to give Pradeep's a shot. Right away, we loved the warm (yet casual) environment, and the service was friendly and prompt, not snooty. More than anything though, the food was excellent. We tried the special salmon, which melted in our mouths. The vegetarian sampler plate was amazing--terrifically nuanced flavors, and hard to believe they cook with no butter or cream. You never miss the unhealthy ingredients! The naan was very fresh. We also tried the lemon ball rice appetizer--which was actually more like a salad with puffed rice. Different, but light and fun. This restaurant appears to be a little hole in the wall, but it's going to become a regular stop of ours in the future.
Delivery is the only way to go – Lot's of vegetarian dishes and great Indian dishes. We almost always use the delivery and now coupled with the ability to order online it makes it soooooo easy to have dinner.
No Ghee! – Many people are surprised to learn that most Indian food is made with clarified butter, otherwise known as ghee. Many sauces are also made with cream and milk, and Indian food can be heavy, if not downright unhealthy. Even regular Naan bread is not really vegetarian!
Thankfully, Pradeeps is one of the few places in LA where you can get healthy Indian food that does not use ghee. Instead, they use plant oils like olive oil. The taste is not compromised at all, and the food is infinitely better for you. In fact, because the food is a little lighter than most Indian cuisine, I find it even more enjoyable.
Indian food w/o usual food coma... – A refreshing twist on Indian cuisine - dishes are made without butter or cream, so you enjoy a deliciojus Indian meal without that I-just-had-Indian-food-and-ate-too-much feeling. (You know what I mean.) The roasted eggplant soup should not be missed. Ambiance is peaceful. Great date spot. Plenty of vegetarian options.
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Some Sailors from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 departed the battalion's main body in March with equipment, materials, and supplies to set and maintain defensive positions while constructing a sustainable compound for U.S. Marines. The new compound will include everything from power and communications capabilities to berthing, dining facilities, office spaces, and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation buildings. Sailors assigned to construction battalion are commonly referred to as Seabees.
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Certainly, Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz deserves applause for his persistent attempts to push the conversation on our economy and address our need for jobs. And Gary Hamel is right that bosses need to look in the mirror to deal with the sorry state of employee engagement today. Both of these problems are related: one a macro example, the other, on a smaller scale. And both have dragged on for a very long time.
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I'm sorry that I have been quiet on the song posting front lately. I've had some changes in my life and other priorities seem to have emerged. I hope that you can still find a song or two on the site to enjoy.
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Shawn Hunwick's entrance was scripted.
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When Shawn finally heard his name called, he was supposed to explode off the bench, tear across the ice pumping his first and turn sharply into his crouch when he reached the crease.
He was supposed to re-enact the famous scene from the 1993 film Rudy. Shawn Hunwick would be Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger. The kickoff would be a faceoff. Notre Dame Stadium would be Yost Ice Arena.
Shawn turned to Chris Porter and laughed at the idea.
It was the first time the 5-foot-6 wisp of a goaltender had been compared to Rudy. Chris, the younger brother of Michigan's second Hobey Baker winner Kevin Porter, was on to something.
"Five fist pumps as you run out there, just like Rudy," Chris said.
"No one's going to remember you if you're only going to play a few plays anyway, so you've got to do something funny."
But that wasn't how Shawn Hunwick would be remembered.
Seated in the open-air patio outside BTB Cantina on South University Avenue, with the sun beating down on a warm summer afternoon, Shawn called his shot.
It was August 2007, and Shawn, a third-string freshman goaltender, declared that he would be the Michigan hockey team's starting goaltender before it was all said and done.
That might normally fly. But not for this last-resort goalie. That's because his brother, senior defenseman Matt Hunwick, was seated beside him.
"Hey, even though you think that, you can't say that stuff," Matt said, pulling Shawn aside. "You're coming here to be a role player, so you need to know your role and accept that."
Shawn wasn't really serious. Truth be told, he didn't even belong there. Just a few months earlier, he was preparing to join the hockey team at Division-III Adrian College, when he got a chance phone call.
It was Kevin Porter and Chad Kolarik, two of his brother's teammates at Michigan. Steve Jakiel didn't show up for spring workouts.
"We need a third goalie. Do you want us to talk to coach?" they asked.
"Sure, I guess," Shawn said.
Small beginnings.
Later that week, he dressed up fancy, shaved, made sure his blonde hair was standing just right and marched into Michigan coach Red Berenson's office. When Shawn marched back out, he was still missing something.
He forgot to ask one question, so he called Michigan assistant coach Billy Powers to clarify.
"I had to ask Billy if I actually got a spot on the team, because I didn't comprehend what they were saying to me," Shawn remembers.
He had a spot. But that was it.
Shawn was the third-string goaltender, firmly planted behind junior Billy Sauer and freshman Bryan Hogan.
"I remember reading on one blog, where someone wrote, '(Hunwick) is a waste of space. I'm not sure why we're bringing him in. He's going to stand at the end of the bench with a clipboard,' " Hunwick said.
"That's pretty much what I was for the first three years I was here. That's where I thought I was going to be."
Shawn finally made his freshman debut in a 10-1 rout of Nebraska-Omaha on March 14, 2008. He didn't pump his fist as he skated onto the ice, as he'd forgotten all about being Rudy.
"I think everyone (in the crowd) was probably scared when I first came in, thinking, 'Who's the little midget in the net?' " Shawn said.
He played two minutes and 52 seconds. He didn't see the ice the next season. That was alright.
"Back then is when I wasn't even sure if I could play, so I wasn't too beat up about not playing," Shawn said. "I was just more safe and sound on the bench."
But that wasn't how Shawn Hunwick would be remembered.
Shawn carved up the crease at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. It was a big day.
He had vaulted Michigan into the National Championship game against Minnesota-Duluth by shutting out No. 1 overall seed and perennial powerhouse North Dakota two nights earlier.
And it was Shawn's 24th birthday.
After a lingering groin injury had sidelined Hogan for the second half of the season, Hunwick had taken over. He did the same thing a year earlier, as a junior, when he filled in for Hogan in the last light of the regular season and carried Michigan to the brink of a Frozen Four berth, before Miami (Ohio) finally prevailed in a double-overtime thriller.
But now he was in net for the championship game. He was no emergency fill-in — he was Berenson's starter. He was Michigan's star.
He was Cinderella.


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Better news: The 1-in-100 chance of being called on the carpet really overstates the severity of the situation. Fully 70% of all audits are handled by mail, not by mano a mano combat with an IRS agent. And, if your return doesn't include income from a business, rental real estate or a farm, or employee business expense write-offs, the basic 1-in-100 chance of being challenged jumps to 1-in-250.
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Another piece of rarely reported good news: Each year, tens of thousands of taxpayers walk out of an audit with a check from the government. In 2011, for example, 66,381 audits resulted in refunds totaling over $1 billion.
The 1-in-91 chance of being audited is the overall average. Your actual odds turn on the kind of return you file and the type of income you report.
Our calculator, based on official IRS data on returns audited in 2012, will give you a good idea of the odds that your personal 1040 (or 1040-A or 1040-EZ) will be selected for review — either by mail or in person. And, remember, even if it is, there's a 1-in-7 chance you'll walk away unscathed or be one of the lucky ones whose audit results in a refund.
With few exceptions, of course, the IRS doesn't randomly choose which returns to audit. The few thousand random reviews each year are performed to help the IRS calibrate the computers that identify the juiciest targets.
Over the next few months, the IRS will be plugging data from more than 140 million tax returns into a computer that scrutinizes the numbers every which way and ponders how the picture you paint of your financial life jibes with what it knows about other taxpayers. The computer tries to spot returns that are most likely to produce extra tax if put through the audit wringer. The computer's choices are reviewed by a human being who can overrule them if, for example, an attachment to your return satisfactorily explains the entry that set the computer all atwitter. Short of such a veto, your name will go on the list.
See Also: IRS Audit Red Flags -- The Dirty Dozen
Even if your return survives the computer's scrutiny, you're not necessarily safe. You may have listed an investment in a tax shelter the IRS is particularly interested in, for example, or the agency might decide to take a closer look at your return because it smells of the latest scam du jour identified by the IRS.
And there's always the chance that someone has fingered you as a tax cheat. The IRS encourages such tips and even pays a bounty for leads that pay off in extra tax.
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Whatever the reason you're chosen for an audit, it's chilling to get the word that the IRS wants to examine your return. After all, everyone knows that the IRS was able to do what J. Edgar Hoover and all the G-men of the FBI couldn't do: put Al Capone behind bars. Even if you have no reason to think you did anything wrong, you can't escape the anxiety that accompanies an audit notice. For one thing, the return being audited is unlikely to be the one you just filed. A lot of taxpayers are only now hearing from the IRS about their 2011 returns ... and some 2010 returns are just coming up to bat. (Generally, the IRS has three years from the due date of your return — until April 15, 2016, for 2012 returns — to initiate an audit.)
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You'll get a letter announcing your fate. The simplest audit — a correspondence audit — requires only that you mail in the records needed to verify a specified claim on your return. In a field audit, an IRS agent comes to your home or place of business to go over your records. Most common, though, are office audits, which involve getting yourself to a local IRS office. You'll probably have at least a couple of weeks to prepare. If the appointment is set for an inconvenient time or you find that you'll need extra time to pull your records together, call the IRS promptly to request that the audit be rescheduled.


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Today we know better, and staying well hydrated is the name of the game. Athletes or anyone who plays sports or exercises is well advised to consume liquids before, during and after exercise to aid in rehydration and prevent heatrelated illnesses. We now have many choices of sport drinks to choose from, along with good old water.
Sports drinks are formulated with four purposes in mind: improving hydration, enhancing performance, optimizing recovery and adding weight or lean mass. Each drink uses slightly different ingredients, depending on the purpose.
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If this is not considered an appropriate question for this list (I couldn't quite tell from the FAQ), feel free to close it, but I could really use some specific, concrete advice. I passed the ACE exams for InDesign and Photoshop a few months ago, but I am stumbling on how to get practical experience. I have a couple of years of news page design, and a very small number of non-newspaper work samples. (I'm a mid-career professional and have spent most of my time editing.) I'd be very happy to do some jobs for free to beef up my portfolio, but I've had lousy luck finding any. Unfortunately, most of my editing clients are not design-friendly so I'm not having much luck with referrals that way. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
It's probably time to hang up a shingle and promote yourself as a freelancer, at least for the time being. Acquent is one good place to start. Make yourself a fantastic-looking business card, carry everywhere and give out freely.
Although you can always poke around for pro bono work for local charitable or religious organizations, these aren't the best for building a portfolio. You can more profitably (in both senses of the word) find work by surveying your local area and finding small to medium sized companies with awful identity designs and just dropping in to see the owner(s) with a proposal to revamp their look for a modest-but-not-too-modest fee. A complete identity program or a coordinated series of ads says far more about your abilities as a designer than a collection of one-off pieces.
Local performing arts or music groups that don't have good design expertise are also good places to promote for work.
Your approach should always be in the "what can I do to help you be more successful?" vein. Not everyone will bite, and in some cases you won't want to take them on board after meeting them, but with some legwork and a little persistence you'll have a steady trickle of work that you can turn into a good portfolio.
Make sure everyone you come in contact with knows you're a designer. Get in touch with your local InDesign and Photoshop user groups, and ask those folks. Situations where a small design shop needs extra hands come along, and you can make a reputation for yourself by being the heroine of some huge production crunch.
At this stage, it's all about finding lines of communication to people who need design, finding out what they want and tailoring your delivery to the market.
Alan's advice is solid. It's all about making yourself known. Attend some local design groups and un-conferences. And don't shy away from the slightly geekier ones either; a group of web developers/engineers are often looking for someone to help with a side project, or may know of a job opening with their current employer before it's posted.
Head over to Meetup.com and look at what's going on in your area. Attend a few that stand out to you; go out of your way to meet new people; ask them about their work. If you find you don't have the skills people are looking for, then great, now you know what to work on!
In summary: build a network, and you'll have plenty to do.
You could join http://www.aiga.org/, the professional association for design. They have plenty of opportunities to meet others and network as well as post what you have done to look for more jobs.
If what you want is experience and a bigger portfolio of work to go alongside your new qualification, and you don't urgently need cash, think of people you could approach who would appreciate a bit of designer input but who wouldn't normally be able to pay for it. Choose some you like, and approach them - explaining clearly what you are offering and why.
Since it's indesign and publishing, think of places and things that produce a lot of written material. Here's some suggestions:
It doesn't have to be presitgious to be useful experience and look good in a portfolio. Important tip: make sure that they genuinely want what you're offering, and that you have a clear point of contact and clear information up front.
Also, don't be afraid to just do things off your own back. It's not uncommon for people to see a household name brand campaign, think "how would I have done that" and just do it as an exercise. It's fine so long as you're completely honest about it. The classic answer to "How do I become a filmmaker" is make films, and the answer to "How do I get experience as a designer" is to design. Designing to real briefs are best, but never be afraid to just be bold, make things and get feedback on them from whatever sources are available.
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While Google has been working on a new Google Maps app for iOS, the question has been raised as to whether or not the app will be approved. Google apparently wishes to launch the app by the end of the year, but certain circles within the company are wondering if Apple will draw out the approval process for the app or reject it outright.
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So iOS 6 has been out for over a week now, and that means everyone has had a chance to test out the new iOS 6 Maps apps for over a week. So what do you think of it? Is it the best Maps app ever? Is it okay with a few rough edges? Is it bad but you hope it gets better? Or is it a totally mapping disaster?
Back before Apple even announced the new Maps app at WWDC 2012, Rene wrote a post on what to expect in terms of both potential features and problems. And I dare say it's turned out to be pretty accurate. Do you think people were expecting too much? Or do you think Apple failed to deliver too much? Should Apple have done a better job warning users that there might be growing pains?
Apple can make beautiful map tiles and fancy flyover views all they want, but if the core map data isn't accurate, it's a big problem. If it's accurate in some places and terrible in others, that's still a big problem. Especially since Google doesn't seem likely to have a Google Maps app ready for the App Store any time soon, and the Google Maps mobile website is a stop-gap at best.
I know you've got an opinion on this one, so vote up top and tell me how you really feel in the comments!
Apple has a year left on their most recent Google Maps agreement, apparently, and didn't expect Apple to remove them from iOS 6 and launch a new app anywhere near this soon. Meaning, Google was caught flat-footed and won't be ready to ship a standalone Google Maps app for the App Store for several more months. This according to a quartet of stories published today.
Google Senior Vice President of Commerce & Local, Jeff Huber, teased that, new Apple Maps in iOS 6 not withstanding, we might not have seen the last of Google Maps on iPhone or iPad either. Responding to a comment on Google+, Huber said:
We look forward to providing amazing Google Maps experiences on iOS.
We look forward to providing amazing Google Maps experiences on iOS.
iOS 6 was another step towards removing Google from the core functionality of Apple's mobile operating system. While they once were friends, remain partners in certain areas like the YouTube app and search in Safari, they're now fierce competitors in smartphones and tablets and Apple reportedly doesn't want Google collecting data from iOS users.
Apple's new Maps app swaps out the Google maps data for TomTom maps data, and Google maps tiles for Apple's own custom made tiles. It loses Street View but adds turn-by-turn navigation, something Google wouldn't give Apple previously.
So that raises the question: Now that Google is gone from Apple's Maps app, will Google release their own, full-on, Android-style Google Maps app in the App Store?
Maps are core technology on a smartphone these days. We depend on our phones to make calls and otherwise keep us in contact, and we depend on them to tell us where we are and help us find where were are going. We depend on them. Messing with a successful mapping solution on mobile, in any way, is non-trivial.
As Android Central's Phil Nickinson has often remarked -- maps could well be Google's flagship product. (AdSense/AdWords may be their most important, but nothing else comes close to the sheer user-facing coolness of Maps.) As 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman mentioned after Google's own map event yesterday, Google has devoted years to building out and developing their Maps service.
How will Apple replace all that in iOS 6?
Rumors have been spreading for a while now that Apple would use iOS 6 to replace the Google mapping data in the Maps app with Apple's own solution. About a month ago iMore told you why -- to start removing Google's hooks in iOS and the information and revenue they generate from iOS users.
Google has just announced that they're holding an announcement event for Maps directly before Apple's World Wide Developer Conference next week. The timing of June 6 isn't entirely a surprise since we're expecting the announcement of iOS 6 to include Apple's own Maps infrastructure in the place of Google's.
Anonymous sources are claiming that iOS 6 won't come loaded with Google Maps as usual, but will instead host an Apple-made solution instead.
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In 2012, 206 law enforcement officers across the state were assaulted while on duty, according to a report released last month from the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center. That number is down 23 percent since 2010, a comparison of previous reports noted.
Of the 206 officers who were assaulted last year, 78 percent of the incidents involved hands, fists or feet.
Jacksonville police Chief Tommy Thompson said he doesn't believe there's any way to control something like police officer assaults.
"Officers can verbally handle some folks and talk them out of some things, but sometimes a fella is going to assault you," Thompson said.
He said most officers learn quickly to use their words first to talk themselves out of a potentially dangerous situation.
Oxford police Chief Bill Partridge said he attributes the decline to more defensive tactic training and the use of stun guns.
"Training has gotten better for police officers and the tools in our tool boxes have gotten better," Partridge said.
Partridge said he'd rather his officers have the tools to avoid a hand-to-hand assault situation with a suspect than get hurt and be on leave.
"It hasn't gone down because society has gotten better," Partridge said.
Owing to its inherent uncertainty, a seemingly routine disturbance call is considered to be the most dangerous type an officer can respond to, according to the ACJIC report; such calls made up 24 percent of assaults in 2010 and 2012.
Yet there's no such thing as routine, said Anniston police Chief Shane Denham, and training classes try to stress this.
Thompson couldn't recall a recent officer assault in Jacksonville, but said most disturbance calls his officers see involve alcohol or anger. Denham agreed that a disturbance call is hazardous for officers.
"A majority of our calls come out as a disturbance call and you never know what's going to happen or what you're going to get," Denham said.
In the past, Thompson said his officers have been pushed or grabbed when they're attempting to make an arrest. An arrest attempt, according to the ACJIC, was the reason for 20 percent of officer assaults in 2012.
"When you finally decide you're going to take them in, that's when they either resist or assault you," Thompson said.
Anniston police are assaulted more than Denham said he'd like to admit. Last week, a man was charged with assaulting an Anniston officer with a box cutter during a traffic stop.
The person sitting in the car when a police officer pulls them over knows in their mind if they're a good person, Denham said, or if they just committed a crime. Yet the officer approaching the car has no idea what the driver or passenger is capable of, he said, which is why the situation can end in officers getting injured.
It's rare for officers to be assaulted with firearms; only 4 percent of the cases in 2012 involved guns and 2 percent were reported in 2011, the ACJIC noted. In August 2011, Justin Sollohub, an Anniston police officer, was killed during a foot chase. Two more officers died in the line of duty that year, but their deaths were caused by a vehicle crash and a motorcycle accident.
Denham described the day Sollohub was shot as the "worst experience of his life."
"It's still raw for me and a lot of people," he said.
The man charged with Sollohub's killing, Joshua Russell, will stand trial in September. Denham said his officers were familiar with Russell from previous encounters.
"I wish we could have done more at that time so this had never happened," Denham said.
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The lure of the gangs often stems from the money, clothes and cars that seem to come easy with a life tied to selling drugs. But, the seduction of the streets also comes with the very real risk of violence as we learned from talking to gang members who gave us a candid look at crime and the consequences.
In the shadowy street corners on Chicago's West Side is where drug dealers and gang bangers spend their nights. In the 15th police district, there have been at least 65 shootings and 17 murders so far this year.
The violence is something one 19-year-old, who we'll call "D," is all too familiar with.
"My closest friend, a couple of my closest friends been killed," "D" says. "Ain't even been over, what, six months, two of my friends been killed."
Many shootings in Chicago are inextricably tied to drugs. "Cortez," as we'll call another 22-year-old we spoke with, just got out of prison after serving time for possession of heroin.
Responding to a question about when he started selling, "Cortez" says: "Eleven years old. It gave me good money, nice little money. Nice profit, enough to get by."
He says he was lured into it watching his older peers.
"You go to school, you're playing with the basketball, third grade, fourth grade. Everybody else around you out selling on the corner, dress nice, looking nice, nice cars, throwing money up, so now you looking like, I think I want to do that," he explains.
But sometimes the dealing is out of desperation. "D" has a 1-year-old daughter, but no job.
"I don't like selling drugs, but sometimes it be hard to get a job," he adds. "So you ain't got no choice, 'specially if you got a daughter or a son, how they gonna eat. You got to get out and do something."
Cortez says disputes over drug dealing territory or money have resulted in him being shot at numerous times. He says many of the shootings that make the news don't involve victims that are as innocent as they seem.
"Can't just point the finger and say 'well, they just hit a kid, they just shooting the wrong person,'" "Cortez" tells FOX 32. "Nine times out of ten you see 13, 14-year-old kids dying, everyday there on the news, but them be the ones that shooting."
"They gonna make you look good in front of the camera," "Cortez" continues. "Oh, he was a good kid, he was this and that, but little JuJu's a good guy. But JuJu just robbed Big Homey last night, now he dead. Now they go, they killed a little boy for nothing, they need to get the guns off the street. People be knowing what's going on man."
But sometimes the violence does injure or kill those who are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Cortez says most of the time shootings are about sending a message.
"The message is like don't f**k with me, don't do the wrong thing, don't try to get over on me nothing, that's basically the message," he explains.
And despite the best efforts by police, those on the street will tell you the gangs, drugs and the violence they breed will keep their grip on the city's dark side.
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PFT's 2014 NFL Draft visit / workout report is up and running
As the 2014 NFL Draft approaches, we're keeping tabs on prospect visits, workouts and meetings conducted by all 32 NFL teams. And to that end, we've compiled a working list of prospects linked to clubs that we'll update until the draft begins on Thursday, May 8.
With every team talking to scores of draft-eligible players, it's likely some workouts and/or visits haven't made our original list. Moreover, a team won't select many of the prospects with which it has contact before the draft.
Nevertheless, with the great interest in the draft, we offer the workout list as a resource for fans interested in how clubs are proceeding in the weeks leading up to the NFL's annual selection meeting.
Sheriff confirms McNabb served one day for misdemeanor DUI
Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb spent a day in jail this week as a sentence for driving under the influence.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio confirmed in a statement that McNabb was booked in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Detention facility on and was released from county jail after serving one day for a misdemeanor DUI charge.
"I have had other high profile athletes who have been incarcerated with no problems and this latest athlete follows that same pattern," Arpaio said.
Still unexplained is how McNabb managed to be arrested in December, arraigned in January, go through pre-trial conferences in February, have change-of-plea hearings in March and spend a day in jail in April without anyone in the media hearing a thing about it until today.
Rolando McClain reinstated from reserve/retired list
Linebacker Rolando McClain, who last played in 2012 with Oakland, has been reinstated from the reserve/retired list, the NFL disclosed in its Thursday transactions.
The Ravens hold McClain's rights. He recently had a workout with Baltimore, but he did not perform especially well, according to multiple published reports.
It remains to be seen how the Ravens will proceed with the 24-year-old McClain. The Ravens commence offseason workouts on Monday, and were McClain on the roster, he could take part in the activities.
According to a 2008 Washington Post report on Brett Favre's reinstatement from retirement, a player, once reinstated, has 24 hours to be added to the roster, given his release or traded to another club.
McClain recorded 246 tackles in three seasons with the Raiders, who took him eighth overall in the 2010 draft. The club released him last April.
Jaguars' Tandon Doss arrested for disorderly conduct, not charged
Jaguars receiver Tandon Doss was arrested on Wednesday in Indianapolis for disorderly conduct, but he will not be charged.
An Indianapolis police report describes Doss as "out of control" during a disturbance with another man. But the Marion County Prosecutor's Office decided not to file charges.
The Jaguars have acknowledged they are aware of the matter but made no other comment.
Doss, who grew up in Indianapolis, was a 2011 fourth-round draft pick of the Ravens and spent his first three years in the NFL in Baltimore before signing this offseason with the Jaguars.
Report: Donovan McNabb was arrested for DUI, spent one day in jail
Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb was arrested for driving under the influence in January, agreed to a plea deal and has already served his sentence of one day in jail, according to TMZ.
Although the arrest is months old, it went unreported until McNabb's mug shot was released today.
There are still no details about exactly what McNabb's plea was, and no explanation about why the arrest took so long to become public.
McNabb did not address the matter on his NBC Sports Radio show today.
Report: Pitt quarterback Tom Savage invited to Draft
As the NFL Draft creeps ever so slowly closer, you'll hear lots of talk about "late-risers."
Usually, they're more cases of the media catching up with what teams have thought all along. Regardless, one of this year's hot names of the last few weeks is quarterback Tom Savage.
According to Sam Werner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the former Pitt passer has been invited to New York for the draft, but hasn't decided whether he'll attend.
That goes along with reports that there are more teams wanting to talk to him than he has time to talk to, and it's becoming clear that Savage's stock is higher than many anticipated.
He has the size and the arm strength teams covet, which could lead him into the late-first, early-second round neighborhood.
Which side of that line he's on, and how much he likes sitting around a green room, could ultimately influence his choice to attend the proceedings.
Ravens visited with C.J. Mosley, Jimmie Ward recently
Rolando McClain wasn't the only former Alabama linebacker to pay the Ravens a visit this week.
Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun reports that the Ravens had C.J. Mosley in for a pre-draft visit. For Mosley's sake, let's hope it went better than McClain's attempt to restart his NFL career.
Mosley is considered the top inside linebacker prospect in this year's draft and is expected to be a first-round pick next month. Mosley suffered a handful of injuries during his time with the Crimson Tide, but said recently that he got a clean bill of health at the combine.
The Ravens re-signed Daryl Smith this offseason and also bring back Arthur Brown, Albert McClellan and Josh Bynes at inside linebacker, but saw Jameel McClain sign with the Giants. That doesn't make it the most pressing of needs, especially with a hole at safety next to Matt Elam.
On that front, Wilson reports that the Ravens have also met with Northern Illinois safety Jimmie Ward recently. Ward is coming off a foot injury, but has been able to work out this spring and is projected to be selected in the first two rounds.
Another jam-packed PFT on NBCSN today
Thursday's edition of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN expands back to an hour. And we'll be covering plenty of ground during that time.
It's Bengals and Chargers draft preview day, and we've interviewed Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis and San Diego coach Mike McCoy.
Also joining the program will be Washington running back Bishop Sankey, who would be a first-round pick based on name alone.
Then there's the poll question. As posted below. Please answer below.
And please tune in at 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN for a full hour of the latest NFL news and analysis.
Jaguars release four, including starter Russell Allen
The Jaguars were among the league's most prolific transaction-makers a year ago, and they're doing some more business before they start adding players again before the draft.
The team announced they had released veteran linebacker Russell Allen, and waived three other players — defensive ends Will Pericak and D'Aundre Reed and wide receiver Jabin Sambrano.
Allen had started 29 games for the Jaguars the last two seasons, and 44 total in five years with the team. The former undrafted rookie from San Diego State was scheduled to make $1.975 million this year, the final year of his contract.
He was a solid enough player for them, and they don't exactly need the cap room, so the reason for his release is a bit unclear.
UPDATE 4:24 P.M. ET: Via Mark Long of the Associated Press, the Jaguars said Allen failed his physical. He ended last season on injured reserve because of a concussion.
Khalil Mack to visit with Falcons next week as well
The Falcons went into this offseason hoping to put together a defense that makes more impactful plays than the 2013 version and they're devoting a good chunk of next week to meetings with players that might help them do that.
We've already seen reports that South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney and UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr are headed for visits with Atlanta next week and Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports that the Falcons are also expected to meet with Buffalo linebacker Khalil Mack. That gives them a clean sweep of the top three defensive edge players in this year's class.
The Falcons aren't locked into going that route, however. They've also shown interest in the top two offensive tackles — Auburn's Greg Robinson and Texas A&M's Jake Matthews — and they can use the help in either area.
Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitroff made a big trade up to get wide receiver Julio Jones a few years ago and the Falcons could make another move this year if they don't think the player they want will make it to the sixth pick. Next week's meetings will likely help inform that decision.
Oakland hopes to work something out with Raiders before A's
Raiders owner Mark Davis has repeatedly said that he wants Oakland to address the team's stadium situation sooner rather than later, especially since the Raiders signed a one-year Band-Aid stadium lease through 2014.
Davis apparently has gotten the city's attention.
Via SportsBusiness Daily, the Oakland A's hope to sign a 10-year lease to remain at the outdated, sewage-ridden (at times) Coliseum. Oakland, however, hopes to work something out with the Raiders first.
The A's would pay little rent and would make $10 million to $12 million in improvements, including a new scoreboard and a ribbon scoreboard between the two decks.
The Raiders presumably want their own place. Davis has called the presence of a dirt infield in the only venue shared with the local baseball team "a travesty."
Some Raiders fans would say it's fitting, given the franchise's performance over the last decade.
Joe Reitz signs RFA tender with Colts
The Colts start their offseason workouts on Monday, which may explain why guard Joe Reitz decided to bring his time as a restricted free agent to an end on Thursday.
The team announced that Reitz has signed the tender offer extended to him earlier this offseason. Reitz will make $1.431 million as a result.
Reitz was claimed off waivers from the Dolphins in 2010 and has played in 34 games over the last three seasons. He's started 20 of those games, including three in 2013, but is slated for a reserve role next season with Donald Thomas expected back to full strength after last year's injury-marred season.
With Reitz back in the fold, the Colts return most of last year's offensive line. Center Samson Satele was cut and sometime-starter Jeff Linkenbach signed with Kansas City while Phil Costa and Lance Louis were signed to join Reitz in the mix for depth roles.
McNabb's arrest relates to traffic citation
Yes, former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb has been arrested in Arizona. The details of the arrest remain largely vague.
Via KTAR.com, the arrest relates to a "criminal traffic" situation. The incident apparently occurred on January 6, with an arraignment on January 15.
The list of court dates shows three different "change of plea" entries. It's possible there was only one change of plea, and that the hearing relating to the change of plea was postponed twice.
Trial is set for May 16, 2014. It remains unclear what McNabb allegedly did.
Arizona sheriff releases mugshot of Donovan McNabb
It's unclear why a mugshot has been taken of former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb. But a mugshot of McNabb has indeed been taken.
The mugshot also has been released publicly by the Maricopa (Arizona) County Sheriff's Office, with no explanation of the purpose or reason for the mugshot.
It's rare for a law enforcement agency to release a mugshot without explaining why the mugshot was taken. But that's precisely what has occurred.
AZFamily.com, which has posted the mugshot on its website, says that more details are coming. The details, frankly, already should have arrived.
Dominique Easley says he'll be ready for OTAs
After his workout for NFL teams Thursday, Florida defensive tackle Dominique Easley said his knee was "about 80 percent" and that he'd be ready to minicamp practices this spring.
His coach is 100 percent sure he'll make some team very happy.
According to Jeff Barlis of ESPN.com, Easley worked out for 17 teams Thursday, showing them he was largely recovered from his second ACL tear from last September.
The fact he's torn both ACLs will drop his draft stock, but he could still be a second-rounder. Many think his ability to rush from inside could push him even higher.
He said he'll start seven straight days of visits to teams starting Sunday.
"I felt real good out there," Easley said. "I wanted to show them that I can move, that I still have the quickness, I still have my get-off and my tenacity in everything that I do."
Easley has plenty of experience rehabbing, after tearing his left ACL in 2011 and then the right one last fall.
"He was very impressive," Florida coach Will Muschamp said. "The [NFL scouts] all commented you could see what he does on tape in the workout. His competitive edge is one of his greatest talents.
"I think he's got a great ceiling. . . .He would have been [a sure first-round pick]. It's unfortunate, but his best football is ahead of him. I know one thing: Nobody is going to work harder than him to get it done. He's got a great work ethic. He's got a great competitive edge. All the intangibles are there."
Imagine that. An SEC coach saying one of his star players has a good work ethic. Interesting concept.