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Monday, August 2, 2004
Mavs, Grizz and Knicks still have work to do
By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider
The free-agent frenzy is over and a number of high-profile teams have a lot to show for it. With NBA spending at an all-time high and trades going down in frantic pace, there is a growing parity in the league that gives hopes to franchises that have had little to cheer about the past few years.
From Boston to Utah to Orlando and even Cleveland, GMs can stand up credibly after a busy summer and tell fans that hope is on the way.
Unfortunately, not everyone can say that. A number of teams that still need help have done nothing. A few more have made only minor, lateral moves that won't likely affect the win column once the season begins.
With all the focus the past few weeks on what a handful of teams have done in an effort to improve, it's just as instructive to look at what a handful of teams haven't done. A number of teams on the list, including the Grizzlies, Knicks and Hawks, came into the summer with high hopes. With nothing to show for it (yet), is it time to write them off or will they still make a big splash this summer?
Insider takes a look 10 teams that still need a major overhaul this summer. Can the Mavs land Jason Kidd? With the Grizzlies finally get their hands on a big man -- Eddy Curry? Will Isiah Thomas finally make the big move he's been promising? Here's our take.
Dallas Mavericks
Cash remaining: None
Players signed/added: Calvin Booth, Marquis Daniels, Devin Harris, Didier Ilunga-Mbenga, Pavel Podkolzine
Players lost: Danny Fortson (Sonics), Steve Nash (Suns)
Skinny: Are the Mavericks rebuilding? That's the question everyone in the league is asking in the wake of their decision not to match the Suns' six-year, $60 million offer to Steve Nash. With the exception of Booth, all four players the Mavs signed this summer are either rookies or have just one year of experience in the NBA. The team has no money left. They had to spend their mid-level exception to re-sign Daniels and their $1.6 million exception to sign rookie Mbenga.
Where do they go from here? Their one major asset is Antoine Walker. Walker is in the last year of his contract and has received heavy interest from the Knicks and 76ers. The Mavs still need a veteran point guard and some defensive toughness in the paint. Can either team deliver? The Mavs want Samuel Dalembert in any package the 76ers put together -- but there's no way Sixers GM Billy King is going to do that. Dalembert is too valuable. The Knicks are trying to sell the Mavericks on a package that includes Kurt Thomas. The Mavs are interested, but only if they take back Jerry Stackhouse, not Walker, in return.
The most attractive option for the Mavs? Working out something with the Nets. The team is cutting costs like crazy right now and it's evident that Jason Kidd no longer wants to stick around for the rebuilding process. A Walker/Josh Howard/Tony Delk for Kidd and Alonzo Mourning trade works under the cap and would give the Nets more than $20 million under the cap next season -- even if they do re-sign Richard Jefferson.
However, given owner Mark Cuban's sudden fiscal responsibility, is he really willing to swallow the last five years, $85 million of Kidd's contract given his recent knee surgery? Probably not, unless, that is, the Nets also are willing to take back at least one big salary in return. The Nets have a $10 million trade exception and could easily swallow a player like Calvin Booth, Jerry Stackhouse or Tariq Abdul-Wahad in return.
Memphis Grizzlies
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Antonio Burks, Brian Cardinal, Andre Emmett
Players lost: None
Skinny: Brian Cardinal may be the hardest-working guy in the NBA, but he isn't going to be the player who puts the Grizzlies over the top next season. Jerry West has been looking for a legit big man for the past two seasons but still keeps coming up empty. The Grizzlies were the front-runners to land Erick Dampier in a sign-and-trade earlier in the summer, but the Warriors aren't willing to make a trade, leaving Memphis no real options for Damp.
Late last week the Grizzlies turned their attention to landing a younger, but riskier big man -- Eddy Curry. League sources told Insider this weekend that the Grizzlies and Bulls had discussions about Curry and that GM John Paxson is willing to trade him for the right price. The Grizzlies have a ton of assets to throw at the Bulls, and a trade that would send Bonzi Wells and a re-signed Stromile Swift to Chicago for Curry, Eddie Robinson and Chris Jefferies works under the cap.
Paxson has grown weary of Curry's inconsistency and lack of conditioning. He reportedly showed up at the Bulls' training facility 35 pound overweight two weeks ago -- after vowing to get in the best shape of his career as the season ended. The team is beginning to think that Curry, with all the distractions of living and playing in his hometown, needs a change of scenery to succeed. Getting a combo of Wells (who is in the last year of his contract) and Swift allows the Bulls to save some face.
On the Grizzlies' side of things, Curry has the ability to be a dominant low-post scorer in the league. But does he have the head? The Grizzlies believe that coach Hubie Brown can turn his career around. If Brown can do it (the fact that Curry is in a contract year also provides some motivation) the Grizzlies could move into the top tier in the West. Without Curry or a similar dominant big man on board, the Grizzlies could end up sinking a bit this year given the major improvement of several non-playoff teams in the West.
New York Knicks
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: None
Players lost: None
Skinny: Isiah Thomas has been in hot pursuit of every free agent on the planet this summer -- but so far he's come up empty. By now you know about the high-profile attempts to work out a sign-and-trade with the Warriors for Erick Dampier, the Bulls for Jamal Crawford and even the Lakers for Kobe Bryant. All three deals look dead at the moment.
The Warriors are telling everyone that they aren't inclined to take on more salary just to get Dampier more money on the open market. Bulls GM John Paxson is insisting that he won't do a deal with the Knicks unless Thomas takes back Jerome Williams and Eddie Robinson. Paxson wants only expiring contracts and Shandon Anderson back in return. The team has also tried hard to pry away Antoine Walker from the Mavericks to no avail.
On the likely chance that all of Isiah's pursuits fall through . . . what's left Knicks fans? The Knicks still have their mid-level, though it appears they're on the verge of giving three million of it to Vin Baker. It doesn't appear there are any unrestricted free agents out there are worth Isiah's time with the extra $1.9 million he'd have left. The team does have the valuable expiring contracts of Dikembe Mutombo, Othella Harrington, Frank Williams and Cezary Trybanski to work with, which gives Thomas one shot, if he combined all four players, of taking on a contract worth roughly $10.3 million. The Mavs are also pushing Jerry Stackhouse their way if the Knicks would give up Kurt Thomas in return.
New Jersey Nets
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Rodney Buford, Nenad Kristic, Jacque Vaughn
Players lost: Kerry Kittles (Clippers), Kenyon Martin (Nuggets)
Skinny: I don't think there's much hope, Nets fans. There's talk that help is on the way in the form of free agents Eric Williams and Ron Mercer. But don't kid yourselves. Neither of those players replaces Kittles, let along Kenyon. The Nets are burning down the house and team president Rod Thorn is distraught.
Whether Jason Kidd officially demands a trade is irrelevant. The team needs to trade him this summer if it wants any real chance of cap flexibility down the road. The Nets are already talking about a near-max extension with Richard Jefferson (6 years, $75 million) that puts them right up against the cap next season. Assuming they also re-sign Jason Collins, give Williams the three-year, $11.5 million deal they've been talking about and use some of the first-round picks they got in the Kenyon Martin deal next year, they're likely be over the cap again.
What's the point? Without a legit center or power forward the Nets are no longer championship contenders in the East -- even with a healthy Kidd. As Kidd gets older and his contract keeps escalating by 12.5 percent, their flexibility is gone. The challenge for the Nets isn't whether to trade Kidd, it's whether they can right now. He's coming off knee surgery and might not be able to go by training camp.
Is there an owner out there willing to swallow his deal, send expiring contracts or talented young players back in return with that much uncertainty? The Mavericks are the only team to come to mind (though you have to wonder if they're really interested given the contract they refused to match for Nash). The Nets may have to wait until mid-season, when they can prove Kidd is healthy, to trade him.
It's too bad ownership didn't listen to Thorn before the trade deadline when he advocated moving Kidd to San Antonio for Tony Parker and expiring contracts. Thorn saw the writing on the wall and wanted to give the Nets a shot at keeping Martin. Now, the Spurs wouldn't touch that deal and the Nets are in ruins.
Atlanta Hawks
Cash remaining: $10.7 million
Players added: Josh Childress, Jason Collier, Al Harrington, Josh Smith
Players lost: Michael Bradley (Magic), Stephen Jackson (Pacers), Jacque Vaughn (Nets)
Skinny: A member of the Hawks' ownership group objected to my characterization last week in a chat that the front office was a mess and that the ownership group didn't see eye-to-eye on everything. The information came directly from a number of GMs and player agents who have dealt with the Hawks this summer. However, he rightly pointed out the team has made progress. They've cleared more than $10 million in cap space, hired an up-and-coming head coach in Mike Woodson and made a great trade for Harrington.
Given where the Hawks were last season, those are all improvements. Still, cap space is only meaningful if you use it. The Hawks' excuse is that teams are overpaying for free agents and they don't want to fall into the same trap. It's tough to argue with that premise (I've been railing on teams for overspending all summer) but . . . cap space and a team full of shooting guards and small forwards (they've drafted six in the past two years -- Boris Diaw, Travis Hansen, Childress, Collier, Donta Smith and Royal Ivey) don't win games.
Whatever GM Billy Knight's vision is, so far it includes no bigs and no true point guard (Jason Terry will always be more comfortable at the two) -- a recipe for disaster in the NBA. The team has made two high-profile attempts to land free agents. Both have failed. Kenyon Martin turned his nose up at a max contract with the Hawks, choosing the Nuggets instead. Erick Dampier continues not to commit to the Hawks despite the fact that they're the only team with cap room willing to pay him more than the mid-level exception.
With the free-agent market thinning, the Hawks are running out of options. Damp will always be a possibility as long as a team he actually wants to play for doesn't figure out a sign-and-trade with the Warriors. Stromile Swift could be another option if the Grizzlies don't use him in a sign-and-trade first.
After that, there isn't much left. The Hawks can always try to use their cap space or Jason Terry to facilitate a trade. Short of that, however, the team is on the verge of challenging the Bobcats for worst record in the league next season. That's not exactly the progress I'm sure the new ownership was looking for when it headed into the offseason.
Houston Rockets
Cash remaining: $5.4 million trade exception; Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Reece Gaines, Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue, Tracy McGrady
Players lost: Kelvin Cato (Magic), Steve Francis (Magic), Cuttino Mobley (Magic)
Skinny: The Rockets pulled off the second-biggest trade of the summer when they swapped Francis and company for Tracy McGrady. A combo of T-Mac and Yao Ming should easily get the Rockets into the postseason next year. But you don't make a blockbuster trade like this unless your gunning for a championship. To that end, the Rockets still have a couple of major holes to fill. Losing Francis left the team very thin at the point guard position. Lue is a backup and Gaines isn't even that yet.
So far their search for a legit, veteran point has come up empty. They flirted with Eric Snow, Derek Fisher, Brent Barry and even Mike James, but all of them are now somewhere else. There isn't an obvious solution to their problem left on the free-agent market. A guy like Charlie Ward might be serviceable, but he isn't ideal either.
The team also has no depth at center. Yao averaged just 33 mpg last season. Who plays the other 15? The good news is that the Rockets have a huge trade exception and their full mid-level to work with. The bad news is there aren't many bigs on the market (free agent or trade) worth wasting their time on.
Sacramento Kings
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players signed: Kevin Martin, Greg Ostertag
Players lost: Vlade Divac (Lakers)
Skinny: We're still scratching our heads at the Kings' decision to let Vlade Divac go only to replace him with Greg Ostertag. The Kings cited money concerns at the time, but Insider has learned that the Kings actually guaranteed more money to Ostertag than the Lakers did to Divac. Divac's deal is for two years, $10.3 million, but only $2 million of his contract is guaranteed for his second season, bringing his guaranteed money down to $6.9 million over two years. Ostertag's deal is for two years, $8.8 million.
Maybe it had something to do with Chris Webber's diatribe in the Sacramento Bee where he seemingly called out Divac a number of times for being soft, not lifting weights and not having a serious attitude in the locker room. Webber claims that it wasn't Peja Stojakovic he's was railing on in his post-playoff rant but other players who play like their from the "suburbs."
"It's time to stop playing soft and (like) suburban kids. That's what we play like. We play like we're from the suburbs and the best basketball is played in the city. Everybody knows that."
Webber's list of tough guys? Stojakovic, Bobby Jackson, Doug Christie, Mike Bibby and Darius Songaila. That leaves just one player, Brad Miller, left on the team in CWebb's doghouse. It isn't likely that the Kings will trade Miller, given that he and Ostertag are the only big guys left on their roster. However, Stojakovic and Christie have been offered around the league. If a trade doesn't work, it appears that the team has some serious interest in bringing Nuggets free agent Rodney White into the fold.
Minnesota Timberwolves
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Fred Hoiberg, Troy Hudson
Players lost: None
Skinny: The Timberwolves shook off that first-round playoff hex and made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals last season. Do they have what it takes to go all the way this year? The only player who may not be returning is starting two guard Trenton Hassell. The Blazers gave him a six-year, $27 million offer sheet that may be too rich for the Wolves' blood. Hassell's defensive intensity will be missed, but his loss shouldn't be a major impediment to the Wolves' quest for the Finals.
Still, with so many teams improving in the West, should the Wolves stand completely still? They have their full mid-level exception at their disposal and one very valuable trade asset -- Wally Szczerbiak. The Blazers have been after Wally for a while. A combo of Wally and Michael Olowokandi for Shareef Abdur-Rahim or a combo of Derek Anderson, Vladimir Stepania and a re-signed Darius Miles could help put the team over the top next season.
New Orleans Hornets
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: J.R. Smith
Players lost: Robert Traylor (Cavs)
Skinny: Yawn . . . . Once again it's a relatively quiet offseason for the Hornets. They did make a bold run at restricted free agent Morris Peterson, but the Raptors quickly matched, putting an end to that quest. There was heavy speculation last week that the Hornets were making a play for Vince Carter, but Raptors GM Rob Babcock blew that out of the water claiming there was nothing to the rumors.
The team has plenty of money to spend and one semi-valuable asset in Jamal Mashburn they're trying to trade. Short of that, there isn't much going on. A new high-profile coach, Byron Scott, and hot shot rookie J.R. Smith, who lit up the summer league (for whatever that's worth), will have to be enough to propel the Hornets out of mediocrity in the Western Conference this season. Right now, the odds of that don't look too hot.
Seattle SuperSonics
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Danny Fortson, Robert Swift
Players lost: Brent Barry (Spurs), Calvin Booth (Mavs)
Skinny: The Sonics are in perpetual rebuilding mode. They made no significant improvements to a team that won just 37 games last year and lost its starting point guard, Brent Barry, to the Spurs. Fortson should give the Sonics some needed toughness in the post, but there's a reason he couldn't get off the bench in Golden State or Dallas the past two seasons.
Jamal Crawford and Stromile Swift both would make some sense in Seattle, but the team knows that the mid-level won't be enough to land either guy. There is significant trade interest in a number of their players from Ray Allen to Rashard Lewis to Vladimir Radmanovic. However, the only guy they've been close to moving is backup point guard Antonio Daniels. Something has to give in Seattle or the team faces the real possibility that they'll challenge the Clippers and Warriors for the worst record in the West next season.
Chad Ford covers the NBA for ESPN Insider.


text: LaMarcus Aldridge felt he had missed enough easy shots for the night. "I thought my time was coming," he said. "The odds had to even up." They did. Aldridge hit a turnaround fadeaway jumper that gave the Trail Blazers the lead over the Golden State Warriors with 39.9 seconds to go Sunday night.

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Nice article.
When the NBA released its schedule this summer, I was shocked. The Indiana Pacers were fresh off pushing the Miami Heat to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals. I've seen series go seven games and not be close. This was as close as you could get. Miami controlled that Game 7, but really, the Pacers were one good quarter away from stealing the Heat's spot and facing San Antonio. Not to mention, they had a bizarre coaching decision (keeping Roy Hibbert out of Game 1) that in part impacted the finish to that game.
This team, which had shown likeable, fun, young stars like Roy Hibbert and Paul George, who had funny press conferences and big highlight reels, who played in a place renown for being a basketball mecca.
They are scheduled to be on non-NBATV national television 10 times ths season. Ten.
I won't go into the dynamics of what other teams are on there more. There are some understandable decisions (Kobe Bryant was a dice roll and the Lakers could roll out Kobe and the Tiny Toons cast -- and they kind of are -- and get ratings), there are some baffling ones. But the bigger point is that Indiana is being wholly ignored, after establishing itself as title contender last season, then improving their roster this summer.
And here's the amazing thing. That decision has actually gotten worse.
The Pacers improved to 6-0 Friday night, coming back from a double-digit deficit against Toronto and holding the Raptors to 33 percent shooting from the second quarter on. They have the second best defensive efficiency (points per possession allowed), the second best net points per possession, the thirteenth best assist ratio, the third best rebound percentage (percentage of available rebounds grabbed), 11th in effective field goal percentage (factoring three-pointers, seventh in true shooting percentage (factoring three pointers and free throws), second in points of turnovers... You getting the picture yet? Wait, there's more! 1st in opponents' fast break points and opponent points in the paint allowed, and are allowing opponents to shoot just 46 percent in the restricted area.
So, yeah, they're pretty good. It's early in the season, but their schedule hasn't been especially soft, either. They look like a monster.
And still, people will sleep on them.
Last season, the talk was about the New York Knicks on account of their (unsustainably) hot start shooting and a wonderful April run. This, despite the Pacers having been a more consistent and better team for the middle and longer part of the season. When they kicked the Knicks down the stairwell in the playoffs, the narrative was more about te Knicks' struggles than Indiana. No one really noticed how tough they had played Miami.
If you're making the case for Indiana, it goes like this:
1. Their defense is dominant, one of the better teams of the past decade, with the ability to protect at the rim and on the perimeter.
2. Their offense is improving, 15th this season in offensive efficiency up from 19th last year. Paul George looks like a significantly improved player from last season... when he won Most Improved Player. Luis Scola and C.J. Watson gives them better offensive balance off the bench and they are shooting more three-pointers and fewer mid-range jumpers. They're also shooting fewer shots at the rim, but an increased shooting percentage is likely leading to fewer points for offensive putbacks. (14.3 second-chance points per game last year, compared to 11.8 this season).
The Pacers are converting inefficient shots to efficient shots, and that's only going to help their offense. They used this same tactic against New York and it was part of why their sluggish offense from last year turned into a monster in the last two rounds.
3. They are one of the best coached teams in the league thanks to Frank Vogel, who balances drive and ease with his players and has managed the team's identity brilliantly.
4. They lack egos. This is where the question of marketability comes in. Would the Pacers be more popular if they had a me-first, isolation-heavy star on their roster? Would they be more noteworthy with more internal drama and in-fighting? Instead, the Pacers always seem positive, go about their business, and do their work.
5. No team hates Miami more. Sure, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and blah blah blah. The Pacers hate the Heat. It's been this way for two years. The Pacers knock the Heat around, defend LeBron James as well as Chicago does, and have the offensive weapons to counter. And they take every matchup personally.
Even if the Pacers lose to the Nets Saturday, they'll still have the best mark in the league, still have the best resume of any team, and still have answered most of the questions people had about them. ("Can Paul George get any better?" "How good is Roy Hibbert?" "Can David West maintain?" The answers, in order, are: yes, yes, yes.)
So the Pacers will go along, not being seen by the public despite funny and engaging stars, despite being one of the league's best, despite being the early (and it is extremely early) favorite to knock off Miami, if anyone can. They are the stealth contenders, your Indiana Ninja Pacers.


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May 8, 2013
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Every Thing That's Been Wrong with the Angels
There's no Grand Theory here. I just keep getting asked—by people at church, family members, Ben—why the Angels have been so bad, and I just stutter a bunch of stuff about Albert Pujols' legs, and Josh Hamilton's slump, and Jered Weaver's injury, and small samples. But it's not just Albert Pujols' legs, or Josh Hamilton's slump, or Jered Weaver's injury. Or even small samples. Of the 14 players who had starting jobs with the Angels on Opening Day—the nine regulars, and the five members of the starting rotation—11 are underperforming their PECOTA projections. Of the three who aren't, Mike Trout is perceived as underperforming, and Peter Bourjos might soon be underperforming, as he sits on the DL and waits as games pass him by. And this doesn't even include the bullpen, which has the American League's 13th-best ERA, despite a pitcher's park and a good group of defenders behind it.
So if somebody says it's because of Hamilton, push back. If they say it's because of Pujols, argue! It's nearly the whole team, and this is simply an accounting of how it's the whole team:
Chris Iannetta
Albert Pujols
He has one hit to right field this year—not one homer, but one hit. In his career, he has gone to right field 20 percent of the time; in 2012, that figure dropped to 15 percent, and this year it's down to 10 percent. This despite nearly all teams now employing heavy shifts against him that leave the second base position unoccupied. He can't run. He has a .167 BABIP on grounders (career: .260), and the highest groundball rate of his career. It's hard to tease out exactly how much of this is related to his lower-body problems, whether the foot pain affects his swing (he says no), and whether his lack of footspeed influences teams' defensive shifts against him.
Howie Kendrick
Erick Aybar
Alberto Callaspo
Mike Trout
Peter Bourjos
Mark Trumbo
Huzzahs all around for these three.
Josh Hamilton
Ben wrote during the offseason about about Hamilton's cliff-falling potential, mentioning the research he did looking at Adam Jones' likely aging curve:
What I found was that after a certain age, the low-walk hitters aged worse than the high-walk group. Not only did their production per plate appearance suffer a steeper drop, but their playing time tailed off more quickly, too. Because Jones was still just 26 when his extension was signed, I concluded that despite his impatient profile, the deal made sense for Baltimore… Hamilton's employer, however, won't have that luxury: his prime production is already past, and his decline phase is about to begin in earnest.
Hamilton has not, despite many narratives to the contrary, been swinging at more pitches out of the strike zone this year. He's been swinging at a lot, but not more, cutting his O-Swing rate from 43 percent last year to 42 percent this year. (He's cut his zone-swing rate by a similarly small amount.) He is not swinging and missing more this year; at pitches in the zone, the ones he wants to hit, he has improved from 77 percent to 80 percent. He is not the victim of pitchers suddenly discovering they can exploit his impatience; 45 percent of the pitches he has seen this year have been in the strike zone, compared to 40 percent last year. They are, at least, throwing him fewer fastballs.
So there's a possible cause/effect issue here, where we don't know if they're throwing him more pitches down the middle because he can't hit them, but in my experience teams don't adjust to hitters nearly that fast. But, regardless, the point is that the narrative about Hamilton being on tilt and swinging at too many changeups out of the zone isn't a great explanation for his struggles. He's basically doing what he did when he was good; and now it's not working, at all; which is encouraging, in the short term, suggesting the fundamentals of his economy remain strong; but would be extremely discouraging, if it persists, suggesting in that case that he has simply lost the ability to play baseball the way he used to. If you're ungenerous with regards to random fluctuation over short time spans, you'll look at this image and get pessimistic:
That's Hamilton, on four-seamers, this year. Here's Hamilton, on four-seamers, during the same stretch last year:
All in all, you'd rather see Hamilton struggling because he's chasing too many pitches than because he has a slow bat.
Jered Weaver
Weaver is expected back this month. It's fair to wonder about how effective he'll be, considering the lost velocity, but his history of succeeding under 90 mph should earn him the benefit of the doubt. The Angels' lack of rotation depth—they've now seen every pitcher on the 40-man roster, and none exactly opened any eyes—is likely to be an issue again, though.
C.J. Wilson
Did sportswriters try to get you to talk about the injury last season?
So, Wilson says—and I think this is absolutely correct—that we never really know what physical things a player is dealing with, and we never really know what performance things a player is dealing with. We can tick off the checklist of the first things to look at:
And yet four times in six starts he has walked as many or more batters as he has struck out (in each case, at least four walks), and he has recorded just one out later than the sixth inning, and he leads the AL in walks. So it's obviously not all peaches.
What it seems like is that Wilson is periodically fighting with his mechanics in the middle of innings. Four times this year he has unintentionally walked back-to-back batters, for instance. Six times he has unintentionally walked multiple batters in an inning. Overall, batters are hitting .286/.414/.444 against him with runners on base, and .216/301/.297 with the bases empty. (The league average OPS is typically 20 or 30 points higher with runners on base.)
Wilson has allowed a .364 BABIP with runners in scoring position and .254 with the bases empty. You'd expect those numbers to regress a lot, but, interestingly, not necessarily all the way. In his career, Wilson has allowed a .331 BABIP with runners in scoring position, and .274 with the bases empty. (It's over about 1,000 plate appearances for the shorter half of the split.) League average difference the past few years has been a couple points in the other direction. That's fascinating!
Jason Vargas
Tommy Hanson
Joe Blanton
Within that group has been a decent core of relievers: Ernesto Frieri, Dane de la Rosa, Scott Downs, Michael Kohn, Burnett, and Richards. Those six should all be healthy and available once Burnett returns from the disabled list in a week, and Ryan Madson is now throwing off a mound, too.
So that's the deal. A whole team playing badly, and in all sorts of different ways. They're 27th in baserunning. Opponents are 23 of 27 stealing bases against them. They've been worse hitting with runners in scoring position, and their opponents have been better hitting against them with runners in scoring position. They're slightly underperforming their run differential. Etc. If the Angels miss the playoffs again, we'll probably remember one reason more than any other, like how last year's Red Sox were the Bobby Valentine debacle and last year's Blue Jays were injuries and last year's Phillies were too old too fast. But it takes a lot of things going wrong to underperform by 20 wins, so stop asking me about it at church unless you've got nowhere else to be for a while.
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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The Angels' problems is that Hamilton and CJ Wilson use Head & Shoulders with Old Spice.
May 08, 2013 05:22 AM
Brady Childs
The first 4 sentences of the "Bullpen" section are hilariously shocking. Great description!
May 08, 2013 08:16 AM
Tommy Hanson's expected WARP for this point in the season was 0.4? Really? Why? How is that justified after 0.9 for the entire 2011 season and 0.0 for last year?
May 08, 2013 08:47 AM
that is for this portion of the season completed so far only
May 08, 2013 09:47 AM
Sam Miller
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I think he's saying that's high -- that Hanson's 2+ projection for the whole season is very high considering Hanson's recent past. Answer is probably that PECOTA has a fairly long memory and knows that Hanson has been very good in the not-too-distant past, and doesn't know about his specific shoulder.
May 08, 2013 09:54 AM
I would imagine because PECOTA builds multiple years into its projections, and because he's in the right spot on the aging curve, meaning that perhaps the 2009 and 2010 datapoints are being overvalued. Although other projection systems like ZIPS, which I think uses four years of data are a little more down on him in their projections.
May 08, 2013 09:57 AM
Who's better at raking? Mark Reynolds or Mark Trumbo.
May 08, 2013 10:27 AM
Marco Lepe
I don't know why, but it surprises me that Sam goes to church. Maybe it's that by the end of a 30 minute podcast he wants to be done so bad - I can't picture him sitting in a pew for 60-90 minutes ha.
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AUSTIN –The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has extended until noon on Monday, Feb. 7, the closure to fishing along parts of the coast to provide additional protection to the resource.
A list of affected areas can be found on the TPWD Web site tpwd.texas.gov.
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A blog devoted mainly to the cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts with occasional forays elsewhere in New England. A member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
...hop...into starting another one!
Back when Terry Thornton started the Association of Graveyard Rabbits
he invited me to join as a charter member. I declined at that time because
of my work schedule at the bookstore which left me tired and sore at
the end of the day. Of course the reason for that was my lousy diet and
health habits which eventually caught up with me about this time last
Several months ago I started taking walks and getting out more. One of
my excursions was to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery to take pictures of
the headstones of some Dunham family relations to send to cousin
Chris Dunham. It was a nice Autumn afternoon and I found myself
enjoying the hunt. That's all it took. I was hooked.
Since then I've taken walks in several cemeteries in the area and
taken pictures of relatives' graves which I've posted over at my
West in New England genealogy blog. But it occurred to me that
there are people living in other parts of the country who have
ancestors buried here that may never see those grave sites in
person. And so, at last, I decided to start a new blog, The Old
Colony Graveyard Rabbit.
Here's what I'm planning to do: whenever I visit one of the local
cemeteries in search of my relatives' graves, I'll also take photos
of other graves and post them here. Eventually I'd like to get all
of the headstones in Abington, Whitman and Rockland photographed.
When the snow has melted and warm weather returns I might range
farther afield to other neighboring communities and up to Essex County
where many of my ancestors lived. At that time if anyone has a relative's
grave located in the area around Boston I might be able to get a photo
of it for them. I'll also be posting what I find to the Find A Grave website..
I'll be starting off posting some pictures already posted over on West in
New England so there will be duplicates here at first.
Finally, the background image to this blog will be changing from time to
time. The inaugural image is of headstones belonging to the Nash family
buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery here in Abington, Massachusetts.
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I love the look of your new blog! And this reminds me that I need to get out to the graveyards and start taking pictures again, not to mention posting the pictures I have already taken.ReplyDelete
OK BILL! Now that you are a Rabbit, it is time for you to be in the spotlight. As you know, I have the "Meet A Rabbit" column over at the GYR Assoc. and this is a perfect opportunity to pimp your new blog. Email me -ReplyDelete
we will come up with something special!
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I love your new blog and think you've inspired me to create a 3rd blog, this one for cemeteries. I have tons of photos of head stones and love to take photos thereof. I am going to think on this and see what I can come up with.
Kudos to you with this new undertaking!
Oh I know I am going to love this blog! I can't wait until you get under way! Maybe you'll find some of my ancestors that I haven't even fond yet.ReplyDelete
This looks like it will be a gem. I remember when I went "grave yard hunting" as a child with my mother - the vaguest of memories - might have been MA, CT, NY or RI -someplace in NE- but we found a grave that said "here lies ]Lilliput??] who was the wife of Simeon Peabody. a few feet over was "here lies [Elizabeth??] who should have been the wife of Simeon Peabody." hmmmm. Graves were early 1700s - story here someplace... The two women were contemporaries and there were lots of little Peabodys around, but we never found Simeon - his name stuck in my childhood memory for obvious reasons... If you ever come across Simeon, be sure to let me know! Meanwhile enjoy those walks!ReplyDelete


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Customers and staff of the Wiltshire Yeoman pub in Trowbridge are calling for helpers to take part in a community-wide litter pick tomorrow.
Covering the Broadmead area and the pond, the pick will start at 10.30am at Tesco Express on Brook Road.
More than 20 residents are expected to get their hands dirty while tidying the neighbourhood.
Joining them will be staff from the Greene King pub in Chilmark Road, Trowbridge, including managers Jay Parkinson and Stacey Mutton.
Before the litter pick, helpers are invited to have a free tea or coffee at the pub at 9.30am and call in for thank-you refreshments afterwards.
Mr Parkinson said: "Everybody wants to live in a tidy neighbourhood and with this being such a close-knit community, I was not surprised to see how many people have already signed up.
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Taylor Swift Made a New Best Friend … Lena Dunham!
Is a cameo on 'Girls' inches away from Taylor Swift's schedule and her resume? It very well may be, since the 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' songstress was cozying up to writer and series star Lena Dunham at a Grammy party on Feb. 10. Dunham could easily write a role for her new BFF into the show, since she's the boss, right?
Is T. Swizzle's "other" bestie Selena Gomez about to go nuclear and start hate tweeting Dunham? Nah! But we do see why a friendship should and very well could blossom between these two ladies who like to very publicly mine their personal lives for entertainment source material for their songs and their show, respectively.
Yes, we realize that they are like a total opposites. One is tall and statuesque and seems to live the life of America's sweetheart while her heart is splattered all over the place, while the other is short, short-haired and isn't afraid to let it all hang out on camera, physically and emotionally.
Check out their posture and chemistry in the photos? They are totally "OMG'ing" each other and probably said they love each other like 80 times before the night ended. They are even looking into each other's eyes longingly, knowingly. Are they, like, the same person, OMG?
But we could see Dunham totally writing a role for Swift for an episode that would not embarrass the singer and might win over some of her detractors and critics. On the flip, while 'Girls' is a critical darling, could you imagine the dose of ratings that would come as a result of T. Swizzle's starpower and from her fangirls? The Nielsens would shoot through the roof.
Swift needs more ladies in her life for when the next Harry Styles comes along and breaks up with her three months into their relationship. Dunham could totally be one of those girls. Or 'Girls.'
We bet Dunham could pull off a multi-ep arc where Swift's character dates an emotionally unavailable British guy.
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The San Dimas Festival of Arts gallery will be open March 8-9 and 15-16 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Walker House is at 121 N. San Dimas Ave.
Onen of the artists, Eric M. Davis, is influenced by the landscapes and colors of Southern California. Some of his works have been used on sets for television programs and motion pictures.
Terry Swanson works in pencil, oils and watercolors. She specializes in canine and equine subjects.
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Alan Klapmeier, the former chairman of Cirrus and new CEO of Kestrel Aircraft, told AIN yesterday at EAA AirVenture that the company still needs to raise additional funds to certify its six- to eight-seat, 350-knot single-engine turboprop, but was confident it would succeed. Klapmeier said "a huge amount of design work" had already been done on the airplane by previous owner Farnborough Aircraft "with an eye toward certification," but acknowledged that more work needs to be done on the design in response to market demands and ease of manufacture. "We are going to be editing the design, not starting over." Klapmeier estimated that $20 million to $30 million "already has been efficiently spent making progress" and said that an additional $100 million is a "ballpark" figure to get the aircraft into production. Klapmeier would not offer specifics but said, "We still have a lot of money we have to come up with." Part of it will be provided by various government entities in Maine, subject to public approval, as Kestrel moves into facilities at the former Brunswick Landing Naval Air Station, with the remainder coming from private equity. Klapmeier said he "hopes" the aircraft will cost less than a TBM850 and estimates that the company will eventually sell 35 to 50 aircraft annually.
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Granger isn't a leader, IMHO. He doesn't have the personality to lead a team, which isn't a bad thing.
Just because you're the teams best player doesn't put you in a position to lead. Lead by example yes, but not the tone setter and the one to rally the troops when times are tough.
And as long as the actual leader and the best player(s) see eye to eye, I think there's no problem.
Mental focus.
Strong moves to the basket.
A reliable 15 footer.
Blocking shots.
Team spirit.
An attitude that cares whether we win or lose.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Does it take an overly aggressive shot, usually driving into a crowd, instead of working the pass and being a little more patient? Sure. But he's not a ballhog.
I think there is a rift in the team, but it doesn't revolve around Danny and DJones.
I also think that Rush, DJ and Granger have strong cases for being the top 2-way players on the team. Yes Danny does lack on straight up defense, but he's a great hustle defender who gets a lot of help defense blocks. Rush and DJ have offensive questions, but technically they balance each other well. Rush has scoring skills but lacks will at times, DJ is the opposite.
DJ and Rush both space the defensive floor well, and in turn that helps set up Hibbert to defend more at the rim where he's been pretty solid. You lack rebounding, though DJ and Rush are both good wing rebounders, but you can defend and you do have multiple offensive attack points.
I also strongly agree that Watson fits as a 2 way guy.
I even think Foster makes a good case on offense due to awareness, passing and screening (slightly, never been great at this). He won't score but he will work the offensive space to help create a score for someone.


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�If you're getting married this year, how did you get engaged? And what do you love about him or her? The most romantic stories will be featured in the Feb. 14 print edition of The Oakland Press.
For those who are not fans of the holiday, share with us the worse date you've ever been on or the worst break-up you've ever had. Selected stories will be featured in a separate anti-Valentine's Day article on Feb. 14.
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For those who remember those early 60s shows.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
I had a friend tell me that he'd passed but I didn't believe her.
Then I saw her face....
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
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The petroleum sector, which includes the production, import, processing, transportation, and distribution of crude oil and refined products such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel, propane, and jet fuel, is a significant source of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recent GHG cap-and-trade proposals have covered petroleum-related emissions by placing the point of regulation at the petroleum refinery or point of import of refined products.
Consumption of most finished petroleum products is already subject to a fuel tax. One alternative to regulating GHG emissions from petroleum at the refiners and importers is to regulate the same entities currently responsible for paying taxes on petroleum products and to apply other measures for regulating emissions from fuels not already subject to a tax. Another option for the point of regulation for this sector is upstream at the producer and importer level.
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Research scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are singing a new tune with a new type of interactive fiber that has the ability to detect and create sound. For associate professor Yoel Fink and his team at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and even optical fibers are too passive to be truly useful. It may have taken a decade, but the researchers have finally developed a far more sophisticated version, one that enables fabrics to interact with their environment.
Noel Fink (center) and graduate students Sasha Stoyarov and Noémie Chocat
Featured in the August issue of Nature, the acoustic fibers have innumerable potential applications, from microphone-like clothes that capture speech or monitor bodily functions to microscopic filaments that can measure blood flow or brain pressure.
The fibers could be used to create microphone-like clothes that capture speech or monitor bodily functions.
Unlike regular optical fibers, which are made from a "preform" (a large cylinder, comprising a single material, that is heated up, stretched, then cooled), the fibers in Fink's lab are composed of several different materials, all of which must maintain their integrity through the heating and stretching process.
At the core of the fibers is a plastic commonly found in microphones. Fink and company tinkered with the plastic's fluorine content to create an asymmetric distribution of fluorine molecules on one end and hydrogen molecules on the other. The imbalance is what makes the plastic "piezoelectric," which means that it changes shape when exposed to an electric field or conversely, generates electricity when under mechanical strain.
It can emit and detect sound, measure pressure and flow, and even generate electricity when stretched.
"You can actually hear them, these fibers," says Noémie Chocat, a graduate student in the materials science department. "If you connected them to a power supply and applied a sinusoidal current, then it would vibrate. And if you make it vibrate at audible frequencies and put it close to your ear, you could actually hear different notes or sounds coming out of it."
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Vargas on verge of testing free agency
TEMPE, Ariz. -- This is uncharted territory for Jason Vargas -- not because he's on a new team after spending his last four seasons in Seattle, but because he'll be a free agent at season's end.
Vargas, acquired from the Mariners in exchange for Kendrys Morales on Dec. 19, will make $8.5 million in 2013. That figure is about $1 million more than projected for his final season of arbitration. And this offseason -- given Vargas' consistency and the starting pitching market around him -- he could once again surpass monetary expectations as a free agent.
Barring an unexpected long-term agreement with the Angels, Vargas will head into a free-agent market that doesn't seem to boast any clear-cut, Zack Greinke-like aces, with Matt Garza, Dan Haren, Tim Lincecum and Adam Wainwright seemingly among the best of the bunch. James Shields, Ryan Vogelsong, Jon Lester and Roy Halladay all have options for 2014.
Vargas was among baseball's most consistent starters over the last three years, averaging 204 innings while posting a 3.96 ERA. If he can repeat his 2012 season -- career bests in ERA (3.85), WHIP (1.18), innings (217 1/3) and strikeouts (141) -- the 30-year-old left-hander could be setting himself up for a nice payday.
Asked whether pitching with a looming contract situation could affect him on the mound, Vargas said: "I don't think so. I mean, I can't give you a for-sure because I've never experienced it, but there's always going to be distractions along the way. It's how well you deal with them. But for me, it's not something that I'm looking at like it's going to make or break me. I'm just confident in what I can go out there and do. As long as I stay healthy, I mean, that's the whole key. You just have to grind it."


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Comparison Between Single and Triple Rubber Band Ligation for the Treatment of Hemorrhoids
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|Second-degree Hemorrhoids
|Procedure: Single hemorrhoidal ligation Procedure: Triple hemorrhoidal ligation
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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|Double-blind Randomized Controlled Study of Single Versus Triple Rubber Band Ligation of Hemorrhoids
- Ligature-related pain intensity [ Time Frame: 7 days ]Patients are asked to record pain intensity related to the hemorrhoidal ligation performed in a chart containing a modified pain intensity visual scale (Wong & Baker). Investigators inquire patients about immediate pain sensation after a ligation session and at regular intervals, by telephone calls, until the 7th post-treatment day (12 h, 24 h, 2nd day, 3rd day, 4th day, 5th day, 6th day and 7th day).
- Immediate complications [ Time Frame: 30 days ]Complications eventually ocurring until 30 days of each session of rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids (effective or sham) are recorded by the investigators.
- Resolutive capacity of rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids [ Time Frame: 90 days ]Resolution of pre-ligation hemorrhoidal symptoms is investigated 3 months after first session of rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids.
- Degree of patient satisfaction [ Time Frame: 90 days ]Three months after first session (or single session, according to the arm of treatment) of rubber band hemorrhoidal ligation each patient degree of satisfaction with the method is recorded analogously using the modified visual pain scale of Wong & Baker.
- Costs of each of the modes of ligation [ Time Frame: 90 days ]Three months after the first rubber band ligation session, the costs involved in each treatment modality is raised. Calculations are done taking into account the value of the material employed in all the ligation sessions that are necessary to treat each individual patient, the value of the fraction of the investigators' salaries compromised in the treatment of each individual patient, how much each patient spends in pain medication and the value of the fraction of the patients' salaries involved in occupational absenteeism.
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Experimental: Single hemorrhoidal ligation
Effective ligation of one hemorrhoidal group and sham ligation of the two other major hemorrhoidal groups is performed in each session of treatment.
Procedure: Single hemorrhoidal ligation
Effective ligation of one hemorrhoidal group and sham ligation of the two other major hemorrhoidal groups is performed in each of three sessions of treatment. Final revision is performed 90 days after first session of hemorrhoidal ligation.
Other Name: Rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids, single
Experimental: Triple hemorrhoidal ligation
The three major hemorrhoidal groups are ligated in the first session of ligation. The three following monthly appointments of patients of this arm are for sham hemorrhoidal ligations and final revision.
Procedure: Triple hemorrhoidal ligation
The three major hemorrhoidal groups are ligated in the first session of ligation. Sham triple hemorrhoidal ligations are performed 30 and 60 days after the first session. Final revision is done 90 days after first ligation session.
Other Name: Rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids, multiple
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Because of conflicting results in existing literature in relation to features such as pain and immediate effectiveness of single or multiple rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids and because in the literature consulted no study was found that addressed economical features comparing single with multiple rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids, this study was designed to compare, in a double blinded, randomized and controlled model, the results of single hemorrhoidal ligation in three sessions with triple hemorrhoidal in a sole session in terms of immediate effectiveness, patient satisfaction and costs.
Patients enrolled in the study, after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, signed the consent form, and responded to a questionaire about epidemiological data and hemorrhoidal symptoms, are (and will be) randomly allocated to one of the two arms of the study: G1: a single major hemorrhoidal group is ligated in each of three sessions of hemorrhoidal ligation, while the two other hemorrhoidal groups are submitted to sham ligation (a McGown aspirating type of hemorrhoidal ligator is employed); G2: all three major hemorrhoidal groups are ligated in the first session of treatment and in the next two sessions only sham ligations are performed. Three sessions of hemorrhoidal and/or sham ligation are performed in all patients, each spaced by one month from the other. A final consultation is held 1 month after the third ligation session in order to gather all the results of the treatment.
After each session of hemorrhoidal ligation patients receive a chart containing a modified level of pain scale (Wong & Baker) and are asked to indicate pain level (from 0 to 5: 0 = no pain, 5 = unbearable pain) at fixed intervals (immediate post-ligation, 12 h post-ligation, 24 h post-ligation and each other day until 7 days post-ligation). Investigators gather this information about pain, and patient well-being post-ligations, from 8 programmed telephone calls to the patients after each session of hemorrhoidal (or sham) ligation.
Three months after the first session of hemorrhoidal ligation all patients are examined in order to observe treatment effectiveness and gather data about complications, patient satisfaction, number of days of occupational absenteeism linked to each session of treatment and number of analgesic pills necessary for pain relief.
Comparative costs of each modality of ligation are raised taking into consideration the salaries of health professionals involved in the treatment, the salaries of the patients (calculation of absenteeism), the value of consumables used in each session of effective ligation, the depreciation price of permanent material employed and the price of medications patients have to buy.
Patients are blinded to the modality of hemorrhoidal ligation employed and the statistician does not know the nature of each treatment group.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with second-degree hemorrhoids
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with special needs
- Immunodepression
- Indians
- Infectious, inflammatory or tumoral anorectal comorbidities
- Previous anorectal surgeries
- Patients on anticoagulant therapy or with coagulation disorders
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01383577
|Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas - Ambulatório Araújo Lima
|Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, 69020-160
|Principal Investigator:
|Ivan T Costa e Silva, PhD
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Érico L Melo, Med Grad
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Giselle L Afonso, Med Grad
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Felicidad S Gimenez, MSc
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Shymmene O Cardoso, BAccount
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Daniel Richard M Mota, Med Grad
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Rachel M Carvalho, Med Grad
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Saskia Regina F Coppens, Med Grad
|Universidade Federal do Amazonas
|Study Chair:
|Themis C Abensur, MSc
|Federal University of Amazonas
|Responsible Party:
|Ivan Tramujas da Costa e Silva, PhD, Federal University of Amazonas
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01383577 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 24, 2011
|Last Updated:
|September 24, 2013
Keywords provided by Ivan Tramujas da Costa e Silva, Federal University of Amazonas:
Patient Satisfaction
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Rectal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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FULLERTON – A man pleaded guilty Monday to robbing an Orange bank branch by threatening employees and customers with a gun and a fake bomb in a 2011 robbery, prosecutors said.
Garry Allen Reeder, 50, of Santa Fe Springs faces a potential 25 years in prison at his sentencing by Superior Court Judge James Rogan on April 12.
Reeder, who has four prior bank robbery convictions, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree robbery, one count of false bomb delivery and one count of second-degree burglary, plus sentencing enhancements for using a gun and for prior felony strikes.
Reeder entered a Bank of America branch in Orange on Jan. 4, 2011, under the pretense of opening a checking account, prosecutors said. He sat at a desk with a bank employee and opened a day planner containing what appeared to be a bomb, prosecutors added.
Reeder told two employees that they had 30 seconds to get money from the vault while lifting his shirt to show a gun to customers to dissuade them from moving, a news release said. He grabbed $30,000 from the employees, left what turned out to be he fake bomb on a desk, and fled.
He was arrested three days later by Orange police at a hotel in Corona with $19,000 of the stolen money in his possession, prosecutors said.
Reeder was dubbed the "Scanner Bandit" by the FBI during the federal case involving the four prior bank robberies in Los Angeles County, prosecutors said.
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Great Britain's women's curling team chalked up their third round-robin victory in emphatic fashion, crushing Japan 12-3 at the Ice Cube Curling Center.
Starting with the hammer, GB went 2-0 up in the first end and 4-2 up in the third, before a five-point steal in the seventh prompted their opponents to concede the match.
With that effort in the seventh, Team Muirhead once again got their names in the record books, equalling the highest number of points stolen in a single end of an Olympic fixture since curling, in its current format, was introduced to the Games programme in 1998 - matching a feat that Canada's men are the only other team to have achieved.
Earlier this week, Muirhead's rink set a new Olympic record by notching a seven in the fourth against the United States (another 12-3 victory), the most points scored by either a men's or women's team in a single end.
However, vice-skip Anna Sloan, happy to see GB move into joint-third in the table - the top four progress to the semi-finals - played down the importance of records as they turn their attention to South Korea and Switzerland on Saturday.
She told Press Association Sport: ''It (a record) builds momentum for the coming games and it's a good building block but unfortunately you don't get any prizes for getting them.
''But it's always good and it shows we are performing well and going in the right direction towards the end of the round-robin.
''It was great to beat the Japanese. It was a solid team performance and we supported each other really well."
In the men's cross country 15km classic Britain's Andrew Young finished 37th in 41 minutes 29.6 seconds, 2mins 59.9secs adrift of Swiss gold medal winner Dario Cologna.
Young's Team GB team-mates Andrew Musgrave and Callum Smith finished 44th and 67th respectively, Musgrave clocking 42:25.7 and Callum Smith registering 44:14.7.
Young said: "It was an awesome race, I'm really happy. I really enjoyed myself and skied to the best of my ability in these conditions. I just focused on myself, my technique, relaxed into it and really enjoyed my skiing."
Musgrave was less happy with his showing. He said: "It wasn't amazing. I felt I opened off at the speed I normally would do and up until about halfway it was going alright.
"Usually I open off at that speed and I can increase for the second half whereas today I felt I started off at good speed but at halfway instead of being able to increase I just died.
"There is still next week and the team sprint and the 50km, so hopefully I will take it a little bit easier in the next few days."
Smith said of his race: "It was okay, I had a pretty good day."
In the men's skeleton at the Sanki Sliding Center, Kristan Bromley pronounced himself moderately happy with his first two runs which left him placed in joint eighth position, nearly seven tenths of a second off bronze.
Bromley said: ''I made a few mistakes in the first run but I was better in the second run and I pushed faster.
''I was more competitive but I just went too high on bend 11 and that cost me a couple of tenths. I'm pretty pleased with where I am - I've still got two runs to go and I feel like I can only improve.''
Bromley's Team GB team-mate Dominic Parsons was 0.14 seconds further behind in joint 10th place.
Parsons said: ''It was a great experience - I love competing and it's been great competing in this kind of atmosphere.
''As far as the runs go I was pretty happy with them down to about corner 11. I made a few mistakes in that section and hopefully I can pick up a bit of time there on Saturday.''
Russia's Alexander Tretiakov will take a huge 0.56 second advantage into Saturday's final runs after two blistering performances in front of his home fans. World Cup leader Martins Dukurs lies in second place with two Americans - John Daly and Matthew Antoine - in third and fourth places respectively.
Britain's Amanda Lightfoot finished 71st in the women's 15km individual biathlon, 11 minutes 18.5 seconds behind gold medal winner Darya Domracheva.
The Belarusian, who claimed the Olympic title in the 10km pursuit on Tuesday, raced round the course in a time of 43 mins 19.6 secs to finish 1:15.7 ahead of Switzerland's Selina Gasparin. Nadezhda Skardino rounded off the podium positions, crossing the line 1:38.2 behind compatriot Domracheva.
Lightfoot said: "It didn't go to plan. It's my first Olympics so it's a learning curve for me but I'm a bit disappointed.
"This makes me more determined to come back in four years' time for sure."


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Wenger happy with striking options
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claims he is content with the striking options at his disposal and has again suggested he is willing to bring Nicklas Bendtner back in from the cold to play a role this season.
• Cross: Ramsey performance epitomises Arsenal
Gonzalo Higuain, Luis Suarez and Demba Ba were all believed to be summer targets for Wenger as he looked to add firepower to a line-up that appears to have just one lead striker in Frenchman Olivier Giroud, yet the Frenchman now believes he does not need any additional forwards to launch a push for the Premier League title.
Wenger has high hopes that new signing Yaya Sanogo will develop into a star under his watch and, with Bendtner remaining at the club despite expectations that he would leave, the Gunners chief is satisfied with his striking trio.
"We have now strikers who are real strikers," stated Wenger. "Sanogo is not fit but he has stature as well, we are building him up physically, he has good technical quality and don't forget we have Bendtner who is coming back.
"It's a fantastic opportunity for Bendtner. Honestly, he was supposed to go, but he stayed and once he stays you have to consider him as a full player of the squad.
"He lost his way a little bit, but he is not a bad boy. He is a good guy. He took the easy way a little bit, but now he realises this can be his moment. He has got the message."
Critics have suggested that Wenger is relying too heavily on Giroud to remain fit and in-form over an extended period, yet the Arsenal boss believes his leadings scorer still has more facets to add to his game.
"I think there is still a lot to come from Giroud and I am convinced that this is a very important season for him," he added.
"He is a positive guy, he has a positive charisma. He has a good physical basic stamina, and guys who have a good stamina recover, and can repeat again. Let's analyse at the end of the season before judging how good he is."
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quote:Originally posted by John ATomcats could shoot down from 40-50 miles away and they're retired. We know about the Raptor, what's on the boards we are not aware of?
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tmiles The paper had a Paris Airshow picture of the "new" Su-35 yesterday. It's an update that is expected to sell about 100 export copies. It is said to be cheap (in aircraft terms), fast, and very reliable/easy to maintain. It is certainly good looking and very large, and as long as it doesn't have to face modern U.S. airpower, should have a long service life.


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The woman and her 58-year-old husband, Ricky Lee McFarland, had been visiting Big Bend National Park when they were told on Tuesday that they had to leave the park because of the government shutdown. A park ranger gave the couple a map of Big Bend Ranch State Park and suggested they go there, which they did. The couple arrived at the state park Wednesday, set up their tent at one of the park's camping areas and then drove to what they believed was the trail head for the park's Puerta Chilicote Trail, one of the park's most popular hikes. Misinterpreting the small-scale map they had, the couple hiked farther than they had anticipated, eventually reaching a scenic overlook in the general vicinity of Mexicano Falls. Tired and out of water, they decided to spend the night on the high ground. At sunrise Thursday, they found the correct trail and hiked into Arroyo Mexicano the drainage area above the falls. However, they lost the trail again and walked into the center of the arroya. When they stopped at one point to rest, Mrs. McFarland removed a fanny pack that contained food and forgot to pick it up when they moved on. Eventually, the couple discovered a live spring. They refilled their water bottles and washed their clothes, pulling from their clothing and skin numerous cactus thorns they had collected. That night, the temperature dropped sharply. In their still-wet clothing and with nothing to start a fire with, the McFarlands experienced some symtoms of hyperthermia. Friday morning, they headed north from the spring and reached the vicinity of the old Howard Ranch. At a point about a half-mile east of the ranch, Mrs. McFarland said she was too exhausted to continue. About 30 minutes later, her husband headed out to get help. Hoping to get back to where he had parked their truck, he walked west from the area, stopping periodically to rest in shady spots. Later that day, he saw a reflection coming from a vehicle's windshield in the distance and used his digital camera to photograph it and then blow up the image on his screen. While he could tell it was not his truck, he walked to the vehicle and from there was able to find his way back to where he had parked his vehicle Wednesday. McFarland drove to the park headquarters, and Asst. Park Superintend David Dotter immediately went with him to try to find Mrs. McFarland. When they could not locate her, Dotter returned to park headquarters and mobilized local park and law enforcement personnel to assist in the search. The Texas Department of Public Safety, the U.S. Border Patrol, the Presidio County Sheriff's Office and the volunteer Texas Search and Rescue Team all assisted Texas game wardens and state park police in the search for the woman. At one point Sunday morning, 37 persons were involved in the search. 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Capuano, Guerrier find work in short supply
SAN DIEGO -- Starters pitching into the late innings. A bullpen that hasn't been scored upon. Two off-days in the first week.
That's mostly good news for the Dodgers, although not necessarily for Chris Capuano and Matt Guerrier, whose roles have changed radically.
Capuano, a former starter sent to the bullpen to be the long man, has yet to pitch in a game. Guerrier, signed two years ago to be a relief workhorse, didn't appear until Sunday, when he faced two batters.
"It's a different role, I'll say that," said Guerrier.
"I'll get Cappy in a game," said manager Don Mattingly. "The right situation hasn't come up. Matt got in the other day. This could be a good series for Cappy. There's a number of hitters he matches up well against. The game tells me what to do. Our starters have gone deep and Kenley [Jansen], Belly [Ronald Belisario] and Leaguer [Brandon League] get the ball late. But I'm not afraid of using Cappy."
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.