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Doctors generally begin by treating epilepsy with medication. If medications don't treat the condition, doctors may propose surgery or another type of treatment.
Most people with epilepsy can become seizure-free by taking one anti-seizure medication, called anti-epileptic medication. Others may be able to decrease the frequency and intensity of their seizures by taking a combination of medications. Your doctor will advise you about the appropriate time to stop taking medications.
More than half the children with epilepsy who aren't experiencing epilepsy symptoms can eventually discontinue medications and live a seizure-free life. Many adults also can discontinue medications after two or more years without seizures.
Finding the right medication and dosage can be complex. Your doctor will consider your condition, frequency of seizures, your age and other factors when choosing which medication to prescribe. Your doctor will also review any other medications you may be taking, to ensure the anti-epileptic medications won't interact with them.
Your doctor likely will first prescribe a single medication at a relatively low dosage and may increase the dosage gradually until your seizures are well-controlled.
Anti-seizure medications may have some side effects. Mild side effects include:
More severe but rare side effects include:
To achieve the best seizure control possible with medication, follow these steps:
At least half of all people newly diagnosed with epilepsy will become seizure-free with their first medication. If anti-epileptic medications don't provide satisfactory results, your doctor may suggest surgery or other therapies. You'll have regular follow-up appointments with your doctor to evaluate your condition and medications.
Surgery is most commonly done when tests show that your seizures originate in a small, well-defined area of your brain that doesn't interfere with vital functions such as speech, language, motor function, vision or hearing. In surgery, your doctor removes the area of your brain that's causing the seizures.
If your seizures originate in an area of the brain that controls movement, speech and other functions, you may be awake during part of the surgery. Doctors will monitor you and ask you questions during the procedure.
If your seizures originate in a part of your brain that can't be removed, your doctor may recommend a different type of surgery in which surgeons make several cuts in your brain (multiple subpial transection). These cuts are designed to prevent seizures from spreading to other parts of your brain.
Although many people continue to need some medication to help prevent seizures after successful surgery, you may be able to take fewer drugs and reduce your dosages.
In a small number of cases, surgery for epilepsy can cause complications such as permanently altering your thinking (cognitive) abilities. Talk to your surgeon about his or her experience, success rates and complication rates with the procedure you're considering.
Vagus nerve stimulation. In vagus nerve stimulation, doctors implant a device called a vagus nerve stimulator underneath the skin of your chest, similar to a heart pacemaker. Wires from the stimulator are connected to the vagus nerve in your neck.
The battery-powered device sends bursts of electrical energy through the vagus nerve and to your brain. It's not clear how this inhibits seizures, but the device can usually reduce seizures by 20 to 40 percent.
Most people still need to take anti-epileptic medication, although some people may be able to lower their medication dose. You may experience side effects from vagus nerve stimulation, such as throat pain, hoarse voice, shortness of breath or coughing.
Ketogenic diet. Some children with epilepsy have been able to reduce their seizures by following a strict diet that's high in fats and low in carbohydrates.
In this diet, called a ketogenic diet, the body breaks down fats instead of carbohydrates for energy. After a few years, some children may be able to stop the ketogenic diet and remain seizure-free.
Consult a doctor if you or your child is considering a ketogenic diet. It's important to make sure that your child doesn't become malnourished when following the diet.
Side effects of a ketogenic diet may include dehydration, constipation, slowed growth because of nutritional deficiencies and buildup of uric acid in the blood, which can cause kidney stones. These side effects are uncommon if the diet is properly and medically supervised.
Researchers are studying deep brain stimulation as a potential treatment for epilepsy. In deep brain stimulation, surgeons implant electrodes into a specific part of your brain. The electrodes are connected to a generator implanted in your chest or the skull that sends electrical pulses to your brain and may reduce your seizures.
Implantable, pacemaker-like devices that help prevent seizures are also under investigation. These responsive stimulation or "closed loop" devices analyze brain activity patterns to detect seizures before they happen and deliver an electrical charge or drug to stop the seizure.
In addition, new minimally invasive surgical techniques, such as MRI-guided laser ablation, show promise at reducing seizures with fewer risks than traditional open brain surgery for epilepsy.
Researchers are also studying stereotactic radiosurgery as a potential treatment for some types of epilepsy. In this procedure, doctors direct radiation at the specific area of your brain that is causing your seizure.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Snagging that monofilament fishing line on the submerged tire or seaweed is annoying at the very least, but it can also be deadly to the birds and aquatic animals that might get entangled in the line. A new recycling program aims to help clean up Texas shores of unsightly fishing line snarls and everyone can help.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is supporting the new Texas Sea Grant's program calling for volunteers to set up and periodically clean out collection bins where people can recycle used fishing line.
Fishing line from a single, all-nylon filament can be recycled as long as it is not too contaminated with growth or plant material. Volunteers sort trash, hooks, leaders and weights from the line and send it to the Berkley Pure Fishing Company in Iowa, which melts down the line into plastic pellets that can be made into products from toys to tackle boxes.
"We are asking that our volunteers monitor the bins at least once or twice a month, weigh the monofilament and send that data to the Sea Grant office," said Ann Miller, TPWD Aquatic Education Coordinator. "When they collect 3-4 pounds of monofilament, they can send it off to Pure Fishing to be recycled."
Sea Grant's John O'Connell is working to push the program from the coast to inland rivers and lakes. "I think what's really interesting is that everyone I've come in contact with has really been supportive," O'Connell said. He has seen more than a dozen collection sites go up in one weekend.
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It looks like I´m the only member from continental Europe, so possibly I´m the only one that cares, but I´ll post it anyway. If nothing else, as a little exercise for me to get used to US-units. (SI-units is what we over here call the metric system).
1 foot (abbr. ft or ') = 0.3048 metres (abbr. m).
1 metre = 3.281 ft
A small conversion table for distances commonly used in topics on throwing distances:
25' =7.62m 5m=16.4'
50' =15.2m 10m=32.8'
100'=30.5m 25m=82.0'
150'=45.7m 50m=164'
200'=61.0m 75m=246'
250'=76.2m 100m=328'
300'=91.5m 125m=410'
I know that some of you americans view the metric sytem as somewhat dubious and suspect. It was invented in France and the only people who use it on a daily basis in the US are drugdealers, who can blame you? However, I assure you that I´m neither french nor a drugdealer, I´m a just regular joe, who lives Gothenburg, Sweden and has recently become fairly obsessed with discgolf.


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Green Energy Can Stop Recession
Storing Solar Energy for the Night
By Béla Lipták, columnist
The gross world product was estimated at $65.85 trillion in 2007, and the combined global debt is over $100 trillion. Future generations will inherit not only this debt, but also the melting ice caps, the atmosphere turned into a garbage dump, the nearly exhausted global resources, not to mention our military bases and nuclear warheads that can destroy the planet 25 times over. Yet warheads do not increase our reserves, only the likelihood of energy wars.
Mankind's overloaded "ship" is sinking, yet some passengers argue that it is just rocking with the waves. Others believe that the leak will plug by itself, or the ship will drift to shore on its own. Still others argue that the leak is small, and there is no urgency to fix it or are sharpening their knives to fight their way get the remains in the kitchen. This series of articles speaks to those passengers who want to plug the hole and do not want our grandchildren to ask, "Why did you not act?"
The road to an inexhaustible and clean energy future is obvious. The third industrial revolution is already beginning: Just as we lead the world in developing the computers, we Americans must find the moral courage and determination to lead this revolution also. The process control profession (the only profession that is capable of integrating and optimizing complete processes) should be in the forefront of this effort.
In this series of articles, I am describing the components of this, the world's first 1,000- MW solar-hydrogen electric power plant. Below I will describe the electrolyzer that converts solar energy into electricity during the day and uses that to make electricity at night. My invention is to develop the controls and optimization needed to convert this electrolyzer into a reversible fuel cell (RFC), so that the same RFC can be used at a fraction of the present cost to make solar energy continuously available.
Making Solar Energy Continuously Available
The development of the controls and optimization strategies of this new process will be difficult. Yet once we have figured it out, it will serve not only power plants, but also "energy free" households with solar roofs and electric cars. In these homes, the reversible fuel cells (RFCs) will generate hydrogen when the sun is out and will refill the hydrogen fuel tank, reducing the cost of transportation by a factor of three to five. When solar power is unavailable, it will use the inexpensive night-time electricity to make hydrogen to be used at peak periods during the day.
Hydrogen fuel is safe. It is used in space exploration to lift vehicles into orbit. The international space station uses an acre of solar collectors to provide it with electricity.
The main reason why hydrogen is safer than gasoline is its low molecular weight, which in case of an accident, causes it to rise instead of soaking into the ground. Hydrogen technology is well-established, used by industry, but practically unused in power plants.
In January, I was on a lecture tour in India describing the controls and optimization of the world's first solar-hydrogen power plant. Here I will discuss only one aspect of this new power plant, the way how solar energy can be stored during the day so that it can be made available at night, thereby making solar energy continuously available.
In nature, hydrogen is produced by plants. Vegetation uses sunshine as the energy source to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is released while a catalyst in the plants (chlorophyll) serves to decompose water and to generate hydrogen. Once water is decomposed, the plants use the hydrogen to react with the carbon dioxide in the air to produce glucose and cellulose.
Therefore, plants emit oxygen while taking up carbon dioxide. Animals and humans do just the opposite. They obtain their energy by oxidizing glucose and cellulose while inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. When the concentration of plant and animal life on the planet is in balance, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is constant. When mankind overpopulates and its lifestyle also generates more carbon dioxide while plant life shrinks, the balance is upset.
For the last million years the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere stood at 280 ppm. As the industrial age began and the proportion of forests and plant life was, the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere increased to 380 ppm, and soon will have doubled as our carbon footprint further increases. Yet,this balance can be reestablished by using sunshine to make hydrogen and burning hydrogen to meet our energy needs.
Figure 1: I held eleven lectures in six cities on the automation of renewable energy processes
The Electrolyzer
Today, the United States is using some 9 billion cubic feet of hydrogen a day in the petrochemical, food and rocket propulsion industries. Some 98% of the bulk hydrogen is produced by steam reformation of natural gas. When hydrogen is made from fossil fuels, the carbon is exhausted into the atmosphere, and this contributes to global warming.
In 1820, Faraday discovered electrolysis by passing electricity through water and thereby generating hydrogen at the negative electrode (cathode) and oxygen at the positive electrode (anode) of the electrolyzer. Thus he found that hydrogen can be produced from water. If the energy of the sun is used to drive this process (as is the case with plant life) the fuel is free, and the emission is only oxygen. This process is called electrolysis. The electricity for operating an electrolyzer can be provided by a battery (Figure 2) or by solar collectors.
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6 Top Reasons to Avoid Being Stagnant at Work
6 Reasons Why it's Important to Keep Learning at Work; Avoid Stagnation
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It's important to stay current in your career to prevent stagnation. Stagnation has killed many a promising career. We are naturally inquisitive beings who require mental stimulation, yet some people endure the stagnation that comes from discontinued learning.
People who allow stagnation to set in end up hating their
and perhaps making those around them miserable as well. We must avoid stagnation at all costs. Here are six reasons why:
1. The landscape of the labor market is changing rapidly.
are paring back on apathetic employees and sticking with those who demonstrate an ability to grow with the company. In other words, they're cutting out the dead wood. They want hungry, lean, ambitious workers. This is simply the trend of the present and future, and it makes complete sense.
2. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be. Forget for a moment that you don't make as much as you'd like, or that you find it a bit odd to read work-related literature before bedtime. (Guilty as charged.) Keep in mind that when you stop bettering yourself, you essentially stop reaching the goals you strive to obtain.
3. You're a role model for your colleagues. The more effectively you work, the more effective your colleagues become; the better the company or organization for which you work becomes. You are concerned with the success of your company. You want your colleagues to feel the same. Success for your colleagues and ultimately the company won't come unless you are proactive in your quest to become better.
4. You are judged by your expertise and performance. If not by your boss, you're judged by the customers who depend on your service or products. When you can't keep up with the demands of your customers, you
become stagnant. You shrink into the shell of self-defeat. Don't give up on your goal to be the best in your area.
5. When people ask you what you do, you'll want to tell them with enthusiasm; have a glint in your eye and excitement in your voice, when explaining the job that offers you stimulation and challenge. Some interviewers ask the question, "What did you like most about your last job?" When you can't answer that question, you come across as someone who wasn't challenged and motivated to perform. And that's your fault.
6. The final and one of the most important reasons to avoid stagnation is preparing yourself for future employment. One thing employers are looking for is increased responsibility at your former job. Have you stayed idle, or have you shown the willingness to do more? Think about your future in this precarious economy.
Staying current in your job may not be a priority of your employer. It may require that you read literature on your own, or take a college class on your dime, or reach out to other experts in your field. It may seem implausible at the moment, but if you think about how damaging stagnation can be to your career, you'll either make the effort…or find a new job.
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ATLANTA /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – As part of its campaign to engage the public via social media, the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute recently announced the launch of its first-ever blog, "Certifiably Green."
The blog will cover topics related to indoor air quality, sustainable building and design, health, and green living. Each post will be written in an animated, conversational style and friendly tone of voice that breaks concepts down in an easy-to-understand manner.
The blog will also incorporate multimedia elements, such as video and audio, whenever possible. Readers will be encouraged to post their own comments beneath each post and participate in online discussions.
"We're extremely excited about our latest foray into the realm of Web 2.0," says Henning Bloech, executive director of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. "The science of indoor air quality and chemical emissions is so technical and seemingly abstract that it can be very difficult for the average person to understand it. We hope to make this blog a fun and informative online destination that both educates and entertains visitors from all walks of life."
Boasting a slightly more whimsical aesthetic than its parent organization's website, "Certifiably Green" does maintain GREENGUARD's token green, orange, and white color scheme and showcases the GREENGUARD Certification marks on every page. In addition, GREENGUARD's consumer-oriented video displays prominently in the upper right corner of every page.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL—Although NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue declared the Super Bowl XXXIX experiment with in-game product placement a success, fans and players expressed mixed feelings about the championship game Monday.
"Don't get me wrongthis year's Super Bowl was an exciting face-off," said Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid, whose team was defeated 24-21 in a hard-fought contest. "The Patriots only got 331 yards on our defense, mostly because it took us a while to adjust to tackling players doused in Axe Deodorant Bodyspray For Men. But you can be sure they felt the heat of our Ford Motor Company sponsored Lincoln Mark LT blitzes. Our nose tackle drove this season's hottest new luxury truck straight into their offensive line."
In spite of complaints from football fans, Super Bowl XXXIX was a tremendous financial success, with an estimated audience of 2 billion worldwide and a sponsorship revenue exceeding $820 million.
Advertisers as diverse as H&R Block, Verizon, and FTD paid top dollar to have their products and logos used or represented during game play.
"It was great for the team to earn a couple million when we lined up and used the Anheuser-Busch logo as our scrimmage formation," said Eagles safety Brian Dawkins. "Unfortunately, that logo is really elaborate, so we got flagged for having 40 men on the field."
Dawkins was hampered by penalties and flagged once for failing to dial 1-800-COLLECT.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who completed 30 of 51 passes for 357 yards, three touchdowns, and three interceptions, said he would have performed even better if it weren't for the wind and the difficulties he experienced throwing the two-liter Pepsi bottle, the oversized Viagra tablet, and the 13 other objects that served as balls during the game.
"This is great for the league, but I'm not sure it's the best thing in the world for the players," McNabb said. "The anxiety made me throw to [wide receiver Todd] Pinkston a half-second before he turned and looked back for the ball—I mean, looked for the can of Campbell's new Chunky Chili. If I hadn't felt so much pressure to please the advertisers, I wouldn't have hit him in the forehead with that pass. I also believe that, if he'd been wearing a traditional helmet instead of a KFC bucket, he wouldn't be in the hospital right now."
The play in question earned McNabb and Pinkston $65,000 each.
Patriots running back Corey Dillon said it took some time to adjust to the new game rules.
"You expect to get hit, and you expect the game to be played hard," Dillon said. "But you don't expect the quarterback to call a lead-toss right off-tackle play and then hand off a damn 50-pound Kyocera Mita combination copier/printer/fax machine."
In spite of the unusual circumstances, Dillon went free with a 45-yard run, breaking four tackles and making clean, crisp prints all the while, in an open-field romp that office-machine manufacturers are calling the play of the century.
"One thing's certain," Dillon said. "Kyocera office products go the distance."
Patriots wideout Deion Branch, Super Bowl XXXIX's Most Valuable Player, was instrumental to the Patriots victory, catching The Pepsi Spirit, The Great New Feeling Of The Great City Of Jacksonville, and 11 passes for 133 yards.
NFL marketing chief Phil Guarascio admitted that on-field product-placement is in its early stages.
"The league is sensitive to complaints from fans who say advertising should not affect play," Guarascio said. "That's why we've urged Kyocera to develop lighter copiers."
"And we're still hearing things, good and bad, from the professional-sports community," Guarascio continued. "The NFL Player's Association has made several good points about a few ill-considered product placements that may have led to player injuries. Nonetheless, we think product placement will make the NFL a more exciting and profitable venture for players and marketers alike."
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Boskovich Farms grows organic program
Boskovich Farms Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has increased its volume of organic produce as it begins its second year of organic production in Holtville, Calif., said Peter Oill, organic sales manager.
The company now has up to 30 organic items, he said, and hopes eventually to have organic versions of its entire product mix to offer a one-stop shop.
The firm plans to add more acreage for the spring and summer.
Boskovich Farms' newest organic items include celery, carrots, kales, parsley, green onions, cilantro, chards and spinach.
The company also has come out with its own B/Organic label for celery hearts. More volume and additional items will be available under that label in the future, Oill said.
Earl's Organic creates sustainability post
Earl's Organic Produce, San Francisco, has added a position, office and sustainability coordinator, which has been filled by Katherine Vining, previously the company's office administrator.
The position was created to help make the company more energy efficient, said Susan Simitz, marketing manager.
"We're looking at things we can do to be more sustainable and save energy," she said.
Earthbound Farm announces changes
Will Daniels, most recently senior vice president of operations and organic integrity for Earthbound Farm, San Juan Bautista, Calif., has been promoted to chief food integrity officer, said Samantha Cabaluna, vice president of communications and marketing.
The company also has hired Santiago Pacheco, formerly with Ready Pac Foods Inc., Irwindale, Calif., as senior vice president of operations.
On Jan. 6, Denver-based The WhiteWave Foods Co., which recently purchased Earthbound Farm, announced in a news release that chief executive officer Charles Sweat was being replaced by Kevin Yost.
Sweat will serve in an advisory role during the leadership transition, according to the news release.
Earthbound Farm's newest organic products are its three PowerMeal bowls, Cabaluna said.
"These are all organic, ready-to-eat salad bowls that are a great way to kick off healthy eating in the new year."
Global Organics adds bagged product line
Global Organics, Sarasota, Fla., has launched a private-label bagged program under the Noah's Organic Garden label, said Kevin Weaver, newly named director of sales and new business development.
The line consists of 3-pound bags of sweet potatoes, russet potatoes, red potatoes, fruit medley (apples, oranges and pears), bunched red beets, mixed onions (red, yellow and white) and rainbow carrots.
Weaver most recently was vice president of produce and floral for Montvale, N.J.-based The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Global Organics is a full-line distributor of certified-organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, milk and eggs.
Lakeside Organic kicks off winter harvest
Watsonville, Calif.-based Lakeside Organic Gardens is shipping out of California's Imperial Valley and should experience steady volume and good quality through early spring, when sourcing returns to northern California, said spokeswoman Lindsey Roberts.
Items include lettuce, root crops, chard, cabbage, carrots, kale, radishes, herbs, greens and celery, Roberts said.
"The demand for us right now is outdoing the supply," she said in late December.
Lakeside Organic Gardens grows on 700 acres in the Imperial Valley.
Naturipe Farms boosts Chilean blueberries
Despite a major freeze in Chile early this season, Naturipe Farms LLC, Salinas, Calif., is increasing its imported blueberry program, said Jim Roberts, vice president of sales.
"For us, based on where our organic blueberries are, we actually had minimal impact," he said.
While the company lost some early-season fruit, "the majority of fruit weathered the freeze extremely well, and we are looking at a record year of organic blueberries that will start hitting in January."
Naturipe should have an increase of up to 25% over last year. The company will offer a variety of packaging options, ranging from 6 ounces to 24 ounces.
Also at Naturipe, the company plans new organic strawberry acreage in Oxnard, Calif., starting this winter to help close the gap between winter volume and the onset of picking in northern California in the spring.
The company already had started picking small volume by late December. Production should continue in Oxnard until May.
Organic trade group appoints CEO
The Organic Trade Association, Brattleboro, Vt., has appointed Laura Batcha its chief executive officer and executive director, according to a Jan. 7 news release from the group.
Batcha was mostly recently OTA's executive vice president and interim co-executive director and has worked for the group for six years, according to the release.
Christine Bushway, the group's former CEO, resigned in the fall.
Stemilt Growers reports ample apples
Stemilt Growers Inc., Wenatchee, Wash., has a good supply of organic Piñata apples this season, said Roger Pepperl, marketing director.
"Many retailers are pushing organic Piñatas as a way to bring a better apple to market organically," Pepperl said. "We also have a great supply of organic Pink Lady."
Stemilt has good sizing in the Pink Lady variety as well as some organic bags, he said.
"Both organic Pink Lady and Piñata are fun items that are eating at their best in the winter months."
Stemilt also has a large anjou pear crop, which the company will promote during the winter.
"We will have good bulk sizing and also some organic bag stock," Pepperl said.
The Nunes Co. rolls out organic items
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The company's product line now includes organic leeks and organic beets, he said.
The newly designed Foxy Organic logo maintains the heritage of the Foxy brand name while adding a fresh and contemporary focus on the word "organic," he said.
The Nunes Co. offers 17 organic Foxy items from major growing areas in California, Nevada and Arizona.
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Viva Tierra Organic Inc., Sedro-Woolley, Wash., includes Italian kiwifruit among its organic offerings this winter, said Matt Roberts, sales manager.
The first shipments arrived in Philadelphia in late December, and availability should continue into February.
The company expects to receive about 750,000 cartons, which will be distributed primarily on the East Coast. Viva Tierra Organic specializes in organic apples, pears and onions.
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Thursday, December 27
Wednesday was a quiet day on the Hot Stove, with the Red Sox dotting some i's and crossing some t's, but most other teams still recovering from their eggnog hangovers. Here's a look at a couple of stories that broke the silence.
Rangers continue to hunt for offensive upgrades
About two weeks ago, I wrote that although many relevant free agents and trade candidates had already settled into their 2013 digs, Daniels had no shortage of lingering options to upgrade his roster. Since then, the Rangers have secured one of their then-rumored targets (Pierzynski), but watched another (Nick Swisher) agree to terms with the Indians. A handful of free-agent choices and a variety of trade options are still viable, with just 47 days left before the team's pitchers and catchers report to Surprise, Ariz. for spring training.
Michael Bourn and Adam LaRoche are the big-ticket bats looking for new homes, and on the trade market, Jason Kubel represents one possibility—although Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Passan threw a wrench into that idea last week. Daniels has a plethora of controllable, high-ceiling players at his disposal, and even if shortstop Jurickson Profar is deemed untouchable, corner infielder Mike Olt or a lower-level prospect could headline a return package. The ability to shift second baseman Ian Kinsler to first, thereby creating a spot for Profar in the 2013 lineup or making room for a newcomer, should enable Daniels to cast a wider net in his search.
Adam LaRoche still talking with Red Sox
Earlier in the day, Royle tweeted that a different source told her that LaRoche would prefer to stay with the Nationals, but a few weeks ago, the 33-year-old told Boston Globe beat writer Nick Cafardo that he "loved hitting at Fenway Park," so the winner of this race may well be the first team to tack on a third year to its offer. More intriguing than its implications for the LaRoche market, though, is its window into the ongoing saga between the Red Sox and Mike Napoli, who agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal with Boston at the Winter Meetings, yet has still not been added to the roster.
If the Red Sox were to sign LaRoche, they would almost certainly do so with the intention of making him their everyday first baseman, with some combination of Jarrod Saltalamacchia, David Ross, and Ryan Lavarnway accounting for most of the starts behind the plate. Napoli might have seen sporadic playing time at catcher, but his injury history—including the hip issue that was flagged during his ill-fated physical—suggests that a complete transition to first would eventually have been in order. Thus, although the afore-linked story by Brian MacPherson of the Providence Journal suggests that the deal is not "in danger of falling apart," it must be—otherwise Cherington would have no reason to pursue LaRoche.
And if the pact with Napoli is indeed broken, then the Red Sox might become the favorites to land LaRoche, with $39 million back in their budget for his desired three years. In that scenario, CSN Washington's Mark Zuckerman believes that Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo would have no reservations about moving forward with Michael Morse, whose lumbering frame hinders his range in the outfield (-2.4 FRAA) and might fit better at first.
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I know it's well settled that "clutch" (or the lack thereof) is a myth, but still, I was wondering if BP or anyone else has ever compiled data re: home runs hit at various score differences in the games. It's probably just a fluke, but it seems like any time I ever saw Adam Laroche homer, it was when his team was up or down by 6 or more runs.
Dec 27, 2012 10:54 AM
Baseball Reference has "clutch" stats if you dig into the splits. In his career, LaRoche has hit better in games with a margin of 4+ runs than in all other situations. However, I don't know if that's statistically significant or not - it could be that all players hit better in that scenario because 1) If their team is up big, there's a higher chance the player has had a better game, and 2) if the team is down big, there could be some scrub pitchers filling in and eating innings.
Dec 27, 2012 11:06 AM
Thanks for that - I've monkeyed around in Baseball Reference quite a bit, but I never noticed a "clutch" category in the splits. Good thing it wasn't a snake or it would have bit me. Also, I agree with your caveats re: statistical significance, i.e., whether there's anything there to bolster the anecdotal. An observation that "Johnny Grubb kills the Red Sox" is easy enough to prove, but my observation that "Adam Laroche only homers when the game is out of reach" might not be.
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No the priest gear on the character creation screen is not available in-game. The only gear that is available on those characters is the DK set I think. All of the others are new/retextured sets with higher res and more features.
No the priest gear on the character creation screen is not available in-game. The only gear that is available on those characters is the DK set I think. All of the others are new/retextured sets with higher res and more features.
Well right now my set is:
But i'm planning on getting a new one, it will look like these:
But i need a helm or something, i think i'm going to use:
the problem is that, that halo is a little overused and i don't like to have something everyone else have >.<, can you guys recommend me a head piece?
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"When I die I want the shaman class developers to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time."
Shamans in WoW - "We're the dumb blonde at the workplace. We look great, but people question what we're actually doing."
T2 helm might work.
You should get that book from sunwell as your offhand, it has the correct colours if I remember it right.
Anyone know of a good looking dagger to go with t5 pvp? Interested in all kinds of weapons but mainly daggers atm.
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Good call
Not the most thoughtful set. PvP gear; t4 copy mostly, but the t5 copy head because it looks alot better.
And the staff because it's one of the coolest in game
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Shimmering Bracers (wish I could hide them entirely)
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Frostweave Pants (but who cares, they can't be seen)
Netherweave Boots
Healing Sets:
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Aurora Mantle (wish I could hide shoulders with this set)
Also looking for a better belt that matches the dress.
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Laughing Skull Shoulderpads.
Crimson Silk Belt
I also occasionally use T10 and T13.
Was originally going to use the Black Mageweave set, but I felt too naked.
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After farming bloodsail rep and getting the hat & costume I wanted a set to pvp with and so assembled this :
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Clovis oviously doesn't give a damn about politics. He also refused to learn how to pilot a Knightmare, and is never shown to make an effort to please his father. He wouldn't even have gotten involved with that whole governing thing if it hadn't been for Lelouch's "death" in Japan, and I don't think the Emperor approved of his lack of political ambition.
Clovis also kept Code R a secret from his father, which makes me doubt he held much love for him. If anything, he would blame him for sending his siblings to Japan in the first place, because despite what some people might think, Clovis is not dumb. Charles didn't have to attack Japan while Lelouch and Nunally were there.
It is clearly shown that without Lelouch, Clovis doesn't have a purpose and couldn't care less about anything at all. He was, however, ready to take on a job he despised in honour of his brother and the match they never finished, and probably loved him more than anything else.
So, in my opinion, if Lelouch had asked him to, and especially if he had told him what exactly the Emperor had done, Clovis wouldn't have hesistated to support Lelouch's cause. He used to be a truly awesome person before he came to Japan, and in the anime, he appeared for two episodes. You can't just take that little screen time and say: "It's completely certain he wouldn't have helped Lelouch" when the most defining thing about his character was his love for his brother.
Sure, Clovis clung to his status. But did he have anything else left? If he'd been disinherited, he could have as well gone and jumped off a cliff. Actually, he could have done that before, but he's not the honourable death kind of guy.
And his hatred really runs deep. He was so sure Clovis was involved in his mother's death, when in truth, he admired her just like Cornelia did.
Oh, and I think it was shown that Schneizel wasn't happy at all with what his father did. He simply wanted his ultimate world peace.
Also, I doubt it's a coincidence that there is not one of Lelouch's siblings who was shown to love their father. That family was all about power - they tried to claw each other's eyes out whenever they could, which is why Lelouch viewed everyone there as his enemy. Those like Cornelia and Clovis, who truly cared about their siblings, were probably a huge exception. And I have a hunch Clovis only cared about some of his siblings.
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1. does the "Knight" rank exist for Princes? because it seems like Bartley was Clovis' second-in-command
and we all know how gay kanon is for schneizel
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How come no one tried to use biological weapons in the series? I'm sure some kamikaze pilots from Japan could've air-dropping fleas and dead bodies infected with engineered strains of bubonic plague on the Britannian mainland to trigger a genocidal epidemic or the capital to take out the leadership.
Better yet, have the Japanese covertly infect some food products with smallpox before selling them to the Britannians.
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In any case, I think biological warfare was mostly done through the use of Refrain that the Britannians ran the cartels for in order to keep the Japanese in line. It would be nice to see some of the Japanese resistence utilize plague and smallpox but cleaning up infected areas is too much trouble. However, dropping those diseases in the Britannian mainland would have been a different story altogether... no different than sending a certain cursed video tape that kills people in seven days after they watch it.
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I think the word one is looking for here is not royalty, but nobility. Carline's mother may have been a noble, thus putting her higher than Lelouch. Carline may have only gotten higher than Nunnally after she and Lelouch were exiled to Japan.
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He's an artis who, according to the Sound Drama, neither enjoys piloting a knightmare nor ruling a country
He seemed to be truly interested in that research, yes, but we don't know his reasons. Was he bored? Was he curious?
I can't imagine a likely scenario that would have forbidden him to go with the Emperor with whatever it was that he was looking for - except if he knew that his father already knew something, or if he was just trying to spite him.
Or maybe he wanted to find something awesome and get the Emperor to let him return to Britannia without disinheriting him.
But ambition - beyond retaining his social status - is a trade Clovis was never shown to have.
Actually, his family is the only thing he was shown to truly value.
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He used to blame Japan, probably a very long time before he decided to go to Area 11.
That's the impression I got, and I already explained somewhere why it makes the most sense to me. But sure, if you ignore his tone of voice and want to have everything at face value, I can't prove it, since Clovis' personality is really mostly a matter of interpretation. (Still, he found out that Lelouch had a Japanese friend, and at least that made a difference.)
Doesn't change the fact that he was never shown to think very highly of his father, or that he probably loved Lelouch more than anything else.
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And it's awesome. Every Clovis fan should have listened to it. *-*
So... you'll definitely get a pm from me. xD
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And then, something happened along the way and Clovis became... the guy who Lelouch shot.
Also, I find it interesting that Clovis is the only person Lelouch felt ill about killing.
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Whoever doubts those facts really needs to listen to teh respective Sound Drama. Did I mention it's awesome?
Also, Clovis was a part of Lelouch's past, and he basically did to him with his own hands what other people did to his mother.
Not to mention they had an interesting relationship going on once upon a time. Even though Lelouch completely disregarded that, he probably didn't forget about it.
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The Los Angeles Superior Court recently announced plans to cut spending by $30 million this fiscal year - the most significant reduction of services in its history.
But in the coming fiscal year, officials are preparing to tackle an even large number - possibly up to $85 million - in an effort to stay afloat.
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Witnesses and jurors "are going to have to commute half an hour to an hour to get to court in the morning."
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"They're working but the longer they're traveling to court the more time they spend off the streets patrolling," Smith said.
But that's not even the major concern.
Smith is worried the additional miles will keep already-reluctant witnesses from trekking to the courthouse.
"We already lose court cases because some victims don't show up," Smith said. "A lot of people aren't willing to go that extra just to go to court and testify."
The California court system has had $1.1 billion in court cuts in the 2009-10 to 2012-13 fiscal years, officials said.
The state courts budget this fiscal year will see a reduction of about $600 million, which is a substantial amount of the multi-year cut, officials said.
Los Angeles County, which accounts for about a third of the total, will see cuts of about $217.1 million, Hearn said.
San Bernardino County - one of the most understaffed and under-resourced counties in the state - will be hit with nearly $23 million in cuts this fiscal year.
"This is not a ploy," Hearn said about Los Angeles County's operating plan, referencing the cuts across the state.
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Dennis: Creating a large MPC application to run a production unit is like configuring a cruise control for a battleship. You want the best technology and the best people. Cheaper is often not better. The view that the automation specialist is a commodity is counter-productive. Chevron has built considerable in-house expertise and is self-sufficient in creating, implementing, maintaining and improving MPC. We cover all the essential aspects; development, documentation, training, maintenance and continuous improvement.
Stan: What keeps you on the best route?
Dennis: Continual measurement and monitoring MPC metrics. For MPC benefits, the ISA Transactions paper "Estimating Benefits from Advanced Control" by Latour, Sharpe and Delany (http://tinyurl.com/bqj4eg5) is the heart of our guidance system, The statistical methods for quantifying the financial gains from MPC in this paper are tried and true and have stood the test of time. The methods are applicable for any level of control. We have put together an internal course on achieving and documenting benefits.
Greg: I noticed that besides the safety margin opportunity, the paper notes the value of gaining the results of the best operator consistently by MPC. While the benefits may be less than the safety margin, the results having been achieved are more realizable. We did this in an analogous way at Monsanto and Solutia by the use of an opportunity sizing, where Glenn Mertz would analyze the cost sheets and find the best period of operation, as noted in the June 2012 column "The Human Factor." The gap between "normal and best-demonstrated" was the basis of the opportunity assessment that lead to process control improvements (PCI) that achieved on the average a 4% reduction in the cost of goods. In our case, further adventures in PCI stopped when we left the plant. What we implemented stayed online, but innovation ceased for the most part and benefits become less recognizable. How do you make MPC benefits self-sustaining?
Dennis: You need infrastructure to make the benefits consistent. Site A and B are on the same basis. We have corporate standards and systems to historize and report MPC key performance indicators (KPIs).
Stan: Do you have online metrics?
Dennis: Yes, however the online metrics need to be screened for outliers and bad inputs. KPIs need to be reviewed before being reported to management.
Greg: Why is MPC so advantageous in refining, petrochemical, chemical and the special nonlinear MPC in polymer plants?
Dennis: These are all high-volume, continuous processes. An increase of just a few percent in production rate is a huge amount of money. Some refining companies have fallen flat in using and sustaining MPC. You cannot just dump it over the fence. If the developer moves on, and maintenance is not able to deal with changes in the process or objectives, the MPC gets turned off. The same is true for at-line analyzers, which create considerable potential. If an analyzer specialist is not involved in the calibration and troubleshooting, the analyzer will fall into disuse.
Greg: I suspect the negative stories I have seen on MPC are indicative of this problem. I also suspect the difference in opinion between Hunter Vegas (a project manager) and I (a technologist) on the value of analyzers is the result of whether in-house expertise is consistently involved on startup and on an on-going basis. Hunter wanted to write a tip recommending the avoidance of at-line analyzers. We compromised by me adding exceptions and watch-outs to my "Tip #63 – Use Field Analyzers to Measure Key Component Concentrations." One of the problems with near-infrared (NIR) analyzers is that they rely on statistical models that are too mathematically complex for the technician to understand as noted in the December 2011 column with Jim Tatera "Process Analyzers. Analyze This!" The concern was echoed by Michael Chaney in the January 2012 column "Gas Chromatographs Rule." For NIR analyzers the supplier is often needed to decipher and rebuild the model. When do you need to change MPC models?
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Taj Smith's Journey from Newark to the NFL
A Twisting Path to the Pros for Colts Player
Taj Smith is revisiting stops along his personal timeline, a rough ride through a painful past that involved burying two older brothers and a soul-shaking murder that left him stained with the cold blood of an acquaintance.
As he talks about his troubled past during a ride through his native New Jersey, Smith pauses often, exhales deeply and shakes his head slowly, decisively.
"Everyday I think about everything I've been through," said the 27-year-old Indianapolis Colts wide receiver. "I don't ever want to go back to that."
Mindful of his past, Smith offers inspiration to his home city of Newark, a city of urban blight. While waiting for the National Football League to solve its ongoing labor dispute, the Weequahic High School product provided nearly 400 youngsters the opportunity he craved when he was getting into trouble during his formative years, combining football and life skills training with the chance to meet pro players at the Taj Smith Never Give Up Clinic held July 16 at his alma mater's Untermann Field.
Last Friday, Smith drove around North Jersey personally thanking the Clinic sponsors, including Applebee's in Union Township, where he retraced the roots of the tumultuous past he overcame over a bite to eat.
A Haunting Past
Before becoming a professional athlete, Smith feared he would become a statistic in an area that his father, Victor Wilson, compared to the movie "New Jack City." His upbringing began in a two-bedroom apartment on 19th Street in Newark, where he and his seven siblings (four brothers, three sisters) bundled together, sleeping four to a bed in their room.
Outside, gunshots provided a omnipresent soundtrack to daily life, filling the air so frequently Smith vividly recalled all the times he fell to the floor out of harm's way. One time in particular, an uncle who dealt drugs was murdered on 19th Street while Smith's parents shielded their children from any potential crossfire coming into their home.
Drugs were ever-present in Taj's childhood on street corners and even in Smith's home. Both of his parents used and he recalled times he urinated in balloons to help his father pass drug tests for pending job opportunities.
"That was part of my past, being caught up in a vicious cycle and overcoming that. Despite all of that, I stayed with my kids," said Wilson, who has been clean since 1995 and maintains a close relationship with Smith.
Eventually, Smith and his family moved to the Prince Street, where the 10-year-old's indoctrination to those "projects," as he referred to the area, included him fighting nine other boys while his older brothers watched. He tried to stifle his feelings, but ultimately became a product of his violent environment.
For years, loyalty led Smith to swinging his fists in his friends' fights. It was a matter of survival on the streets, where he said, "It wasn't me starting stuff. It was just me helping my friends."
At the start of his junior year at Weequahic, however, Smith jumped into a fight started by another friend and "hurt the guy real bad." Having his buddy's back became cause for incarceration after he broke his classmate's eye socket, jaw and nose.
"I'm sitting in class. Everybody gets up, I get up and the teacher tells me to sit down," Smith recalled, "locks the door, and detectives come in and tell me I (am) charged with aggravated assault."
Getting Out of Newark
After two weeks in a juvenile detention center, Smith found himself expelled from Weequahic and desperately seeking redemption. Enter Ian Scott, a consultant at Newark's Gateway Academy, an alternative school formed as a partnership between the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission and Newark Public Schools that helped rehabilitate troubled students.
"He was considered an aggressive kid even though he was as quiet as a church mouse," recalled Scott, who has since served as a mentoring role to Smith. "You would never know or you would never think that."
For all of his aggression, Scott described a young Smith as almost meek upon their first meeting, with glasses, short dreadlocks and sharing his love of football and writing poetry only after being asked.
Knowing this, Scott called the coaches at Weequahic and West Side high schools, eventually getting Smith back onto the football team at his old school after the then-principal who said she was retiring that year mainly because of Smith and his older brothers made it clear that while he could play, he could not dress or even take part in halftime meetings inside the school.
Not being able to dress with his teammates paled compared to what Smith encountered while walking home with a cluster of classmates. They traveled together because there was safety in numbers. Or so they thought. In an alley near Arts High School, Smith, who was a high school junior at the time, said an armed man stopped them and demanded they hand over everything they had.
Everyone but Smith scattered.
"If you're going to shoot me," Smith thought then, "you're going to shoot me in my face not in my back."
Seconds later, the man opened fire on an acquaintance Smith only remembers as "Michael," the blood from the gunshot splattering on to Smith's face and clothes. He does not recall the details of the shooting, only remembering the blood on his skin and the sheer sense of panic as he sprinted to a local gas station to wash up before heading up Irvine Turner Boulevard to catch the No. 99 bus home.
"I jumped in the shower, got in bed and started crying," said Smith, shaking his head and exhaling loudly. "I thought, 'That could have been me.'"
Ever mindful of this experience, Smith was inspired to get better grades and earned his way back into Weequahic after a year of matriculation at Gateway, becoming a star defensive end despite his wiry 6-foot-1, 180-pound frame.
Deep in his heart, Smith hoped his efforts would punch his ticket out of the projects, but his grades and lack of game film left him without a quality college option. And so he worked screening T-shirts for months after graduation, making what he called "good money" and helping his family before going back to visit his old high school midway through the 2002-03 school year.
Luckily, that was the one year an English teacher named Reggie Beard spent at Weequahic. Although Beard estimates he may have spent 72 hours with Smith, their relationship proved impactful. Smith's new friend knew Jeff Chudy, the head football coach at Bakersfield College, a California junior college, and helped Smith find a way to get away.
"I told him about the responsibilities of being a college student," said Beard. "I always believe in giving guys the benefit of the doubt. ... You can see that he wanted to get the hell out of Newark."
Tragedy Strikes Back Home
In his first year 3,000 miles from home, Smith became a cornerback at Bakersfield, but a strained hamstring sidelined before a bruised ego over lack of playing time got him kicked off the team. The following fall, he switched to wide receiver but thought of quitting after not seeing the field his first two games. But then, in the third game, he scored two touchdowns and was well on his way to becoming a Division I prospect.
During his college days, Smith spoke to his older brother Al-Mutakabbir daily. However, his brother, a drug dealer in Atlantic City, didn't pick up the other end for two days.
Taj Smith hoped against hope his brother was behind bars, but learned the worst from a Bakersfield assistant coach: Al-Mutakabbir Smith was found burned to death in an alley Oct. 21, 2004, after his roommate allegedly tied a black plastic bag over the 22-year-old's head before setting him on fire.
Immediately, Taj Smith took a flight home, went into the bathroom of his family's apartment, punched a wall and the tears started flowing. The case regarding his brother's death is still pending, leaving Smith to continue to wistfully ask: "How could anybody be so cruel to somebody?"
"I'd never really seen Taj cry before," said Bernadine Smith, Taj's mother. "He was in the bathroom and I was in the bathroom with him and he punched a wall."
"It was shocking," said Epiphany Smith, one of Taj's three younger sisters. "It was a whole bunch of 'Why did this happen?' I can't even begin to tell you how our family was impacted by it."
Soon after Al-Mutakabbir Smith's funeral, some of Taj Smith's old, angry feelings he tried to stifle began surging back, making him rethink running a comeback route to Bakersfield.
Everyone in his inner circle convinced him going west again was his best and only move. Scott stepped in and offered a sobering reminder of life in his hometown.
"We love you and enjoy you being here, but there's nothing good here," Scott recalled telling Taj Smith. "I want you to go and finish what you started. The other guys around here, they're dying everyday."
Added Epiphany Smith, who eventually followed Taj's lead and left Newark to study business at Westwood College in Georgia: "He was going good. We were all affected by it, but we didn't want him to stay home and get into more trouble."
A couple of weeks later, Smith listened to reason and returned to California, breaking his old pattern and running a new one.
"I was to a point where I was trying to plan to get the guy back," said Smith. "But when reality set in, I knew that nothing I would have did could bring (Al-Mutakabbir) back, and in all actuality, something could have happened to me in the process by trying to get the guy back. I didn't want my mother to lose another child."
Another Murder Amid Gridiron Heartache
A couple of weeks later, Smith went back west. He learned sign language from a professor named DeAnn Sampley, who took him and other students to Romania so they could work with children in hospitals and orphanages.
And he graduated in December 2006, with a 3.8 grade point average that helped him earn an academic and athletic scholarship to Syracuse University; Rutgers had also recruited him, but the school was too close to home, Smith said.
After two years of playing for the Orange and earning his degree in special education, Smith earned a free-agent tryout with the Green Bay Packers. They cut him, but the Indianapolis Colts signed him to their practice squad Sept. 23, 2008.
Football dealt him with some heartache, too, such as the three hours in 2009 when Smith was called up to the main roster before being relegated back to the practice squad. But no 250-pound linebacker could have blindsided him the way a call from home did Nov. 17, 2009.
On the other end of the line, Bernadine Smith was sobbing: Fuquan Wilson, Taj Smith's 30-year-old brother, shot fatally himself as police entered his hotel room in Virginia after Wilson slashed his brother-in-law's throat and shot him in the head following an argument.
"That's what they say happened," Smith said solemnly. "Gotta roll with that."
Now the oldest of his six surviving siblings, Smith shook his head again, his dreadlocks flying about as though he just got his bell rung.
"Why'd you do it? Why'd you do it fool?" he asked softly, sadly.
For comfort, Smith developed a bottle-a-day vodka habit. He left open containers in his car, did shots before practice and even practiced under the influence. No one was any the wiser until New Year's Day 2010, when he was arrested on a DUI charge.
"They could have let me go, but obviously they found something in me that they wanted to keep me," said Smith, who kicked the habit for good after his arrest. "I told everybody I apologized. I was just going through a lot at that time and they understood it."
Second Chances
After joining the Colts at Super Bowl 44 (he did not play), a refocused Smith impressed during training camp that summer. He said head coach Jim Caldwell told him he would have earned a roster spot, but he tore his hamstring on the last play of the last practice prior to the last preseason game.
Not long after, the Colts cut him loose. Another obstacle, sure, but also another second chance came his way when Indianapolis resigned him and promoted him to the active roster on Nov. 30 five days before his current team was playing the squad he rooted for with his father, the Dallas Cowboys.
Beforehand, Smith told everyone within earshot he would block a punt. Late in the third quarter, he proved his clairvoyance, deflecting the kick and scooping it up for his first professional touchdown.
"Taj has been through a lot," said Victor Wilson. "His camp couldn't have had a better title, Never Give Up. It talks about his life. Taj's got his head on straight. It's truly a blessing to be his father."
Said Bernadine Smith: "I thank God that he is the strong person he is today because it made him into the man he is today. He wants to see kids not go through the things he did."
Nearly 400 kids saw Taj Smith in the same light at his clinic earlier this month, where he mentored youngsters on everything from running pass patterns to dreaming big, studying hard and staying in school.
"I'm just trying to follow what he did and follow in his footsteps," said Daveon Washington, a former wide receiver at Malcolm X. Shabazz High School who graduated in June.
Taj Smith will see those kids again when he comes back home after seeking a more prominent role than serving as the special-teams standout he was last winter. With the NFL finally ending its lockout, he can return again to the national platform he has used to inspire kids across the Newark.
"I'm just ready to go back," Smith said. "Not just because of money, but because I want to prove myself. I'm not where I want to be. I've just got to keep fighting."