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This is something I have been a bit unsure about for a while. I know that during the clone wars, the Republic was recieving shipments of clones from Kamino, but afterwards did the Empire keep cloning more troops? Or did they just use the troops they had left? I know that they stopped using clone officers and starting recruiting, but did they do the same with the stormtroopers?
According to a George Lucas interview (a REAL one) from 2005, the Empire did indeed continue cloning troops. But, they branched out from just Jango clones (although Jango clones were still being used in the time of ANH for example*) to using multiple templates. Eventually, according to Lucas, the Empire also started mixing in non-clone conscripts into the Stormtrooper ranks. So there's your answer.
Accoring to the C-Level canon ROTS Visual Dictionary released right before the movie came out, they had already started expanding into using multiple templates and more planets for clones than just Kamino about the time of Episode III. Of course we only saw two clone "faces" in Episode III, that of Temuerra Morrison and his "younger look alike" played by a different actor (Bodie Taylor, iirc).
*I base the "they still had Jango clones" thing on Lucas's statement on the Episode II DVD commentary, during the scene of Jango bumping his head on the door of the Slave I. He says he wanted the audience to draw a direct connection between the head bumping in that movie and the head bumping gaffe (which he added a sound effect to, effectively canonizing a goof) in ANH, showing us that Jango's clones retained a bit of his clumsiness (rather than the old joke explanation that they really couldn't see very well in those helmets, which also was used by fans to explain some of their poor accuracy).
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Speaking during the Gearbox panel at PAX, company president, Randy Pitchford declared that the level cap for Borderlands is set to increase from 61 to 69 and will cost absolutely nothing, which is nice.
"The level cap will now be 69," confirmed Pitchford. "That's the magic number." He then went on to say that the new level cap will arrive in time for the release of the Borderlands Game of the Year Edition in late-October.
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Josef Bachmeier (27 October 1908 — 4 February 1971) was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Josef Bachmeier born on the 27 October 1908 in Dingolfing. After finishing elementary school he joined the 19th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in April 1929 and later volunteered to join the SS-Totenkopfverbände in June 1935 and was assigned to the SS Totenkopf Ostfriesland. He later served with the SS Totenkopf Brandenburg (1936) being selected to become an officer and promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) in November 1936 and was then transferred to the SS Totenkopf Oberbayern (1937) being promoted to Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in September. His next posting as the SS Totenkopf Ostmark and the SS Totenkopf Kirkenes in 1940.
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In World War II Bach was posted to the 4th SS Infantry Regiment in 1941 and in September promoted to Hauptsturmführer (Captain). Here he remained until 1943, when he was transferred to the SS Training and Reserve Battalion Nord, 6th SS Gebirgs Division Nord In 1944 he was moved again this time to the 4th Company, Begleitkommando-SS, Reichsführers SS.
He was again moved in 1944, to command the II. Battalion, 23 Panzergrenadier Regiment Norge, 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. He was awarded the Knight's Cross in August 1944, when in command at the Mountain Pine position on the Eastern Front. When he launched an attack with three company's and forced the Russian forces to retreat.
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Josef Bachmeier survived the war and died on the 4 February 1971 in Sarstedt near Hanover.
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- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
- Mitcham, Samuel W (2007). Retreat to the Reich : the German defeat in France, 1944. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3384-7.
- Fey, Will; Henschler, Henri (2003). Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-2905-5.
- Mitcham, Samuel W (2007). The German Defeat in the East, 1944–45. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3371-7.
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Bought a bunch of Oct 4 $50 calls and Oct 19 $48 last week and was thankfully able to sell them today for a great return. Will start scaling in to shares tomorrow. Good luck to all
I see that they went opposite directions at the same exact moment, but I don't exactly know who could explain a connection?
Already back down in AH
It looks like it wants to put on some reversal...
It looks like big boys keeping Goog and Aapl down pretty aggressively. This drop definitely makes the chart look pretty weak.
It's come back down to the 807 range and bounced three times now over the past week. Looks like it's setting up for some nice gains by the end of the week. $825 target.
yeah pretty strong action so long as it doesn't mimic last Tuesday with that 819 pop-and-drop. I'm holding a bet that's looking for 830 by EOW
I'm seeing a reversal to the upside next week, setting up for a run to 850 in to earnings.
just loaded a bunch of april calls. If we can close green today we're looking good
has to be one of the worst stocks ever.
We're set for a technical rebound the next two days. Load 'em up
good one
Sold all of my APril calls for a nice profit today. Good luck to all.
The past two days have shown such strength that I'd anticipate it will eventually lead to a sizable and dramatic run in the short term. It's safe to assume that there are now many people in the mix who are holding for a buyout.
The press has been pretty positive about this change over the weekend. Wouldn't be surprised to see some huge gains again on Monday and Tuesday. Whole new ball game now.
GIven the rise to 4.92 today, I'd've expected this news to put us firmly over 5 in AH. Only being up $0.12 at the moment is a bit pitiful. They need to name someone new asap instead of having two co-ceos who have many many other things going on.
very possible. the Board is meeting today. I'm hoping for the pop as well
I'm holding a bunch of calls that I got real cheaps yesterday. The price action today is kind of disconverting though
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|Número de publicación
|Tipo de publicación
|Número de solicitud
|Fecha de publicación
|13 May 1986
|Fecha de presentación
|22 May 1984
|Fecha de prioridad
|26 May 1983
|También publicado como
|Número de publicación
|Karl Leibinger, Franz Leibinger
|Cesionario original
|Karl Leibinger, Franz Leibinger
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|Citas de patentes (11), Otras citas (3), Citada por (65), Clasificaciones (8), Eventos legales (3)
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet
The invention relates to an instrument for the mutual position-fixtation of bone parts or sections during osteosynthesis. In surgical and orthopedic operative techniques it is frequently necessary to fix bone parts, which have been separated through surgical means or through a fracture, in an exact mutual position and to join them together under pressure. For such so-called osteosynthesis it is common to retain the bone parts to be joined together by means of metal splints which are preferably screwed to the bone parts. The affixation of the splints by means of screws frequently results in further damage to the bone. Furthermore, the splints can also cause irritation and infections.
In the course of osteosynthesis of bones which are divided in a longitudinal direction, in particular, for example, in the case of the sternum which is separated in a longitudinal direction for cardiac surgery, it is known to place wire loops around the bone parts and to twist the wire ends together, so that the wire loops come to lie under tractive force around the bone parts and hold the same together. When twisting the wire ends together, the created tractive force of the wire can be determined only by feel and therefore only very inaccurately.
A tractive force whish is of a too low order of magnitude does not hold the bone parts together under sufficient pressure, which is disadvantageous for the process of osteosynthesis. However, when the wire ends are twisted together too tightly, a buckling-type fracture of the wire can occur. If this type of fracture occurs during the surgical procedure, this entails an unfavorable prolongation of the duration of the surgery. However, such buckling-type fractures also manifest themselves only after the conclusion of the surgery, which is particularly unfavorable, since the surgical wound has to be reopened in order to insert a new wire loop. Finally, the twisted wire ends can lead to tissue irritations which could disturb and prevent the healing process.
The invention places at one's disposal a device for the mutual position-fixation of bone parts, making it possible for the bone parts to be reliably held together under a specific tractive force while preventing breaking of the wire during or after surgery.
For the purpose of the mutual position-fixation of the bone parts to be joined together, a wire--in loop form--is guided around the bone parts to be held together in accordance with the invention. The two ends of the wire loop are guided through narrow boreholes of a metallic plate, whereby the borehole diameters are only slightly larger than the wire diameter. In actual practice, a diameter difference of a maximum of 0.08 mm, preferably one of 0.03 to 0.05 mm, has been effective.
The wire is deformed directly at the plate by the device of the invention so that the wire ends can no longer slip through the boreholes of the plate. First of all, one wire end is secured in this manner, then, by means of a tightening device, a tractive force is executed with respect to the other wire end until the required tension of the wire loop is attained and, finally, the second wire end is deformed directly at the plate by the device, namely, in such a manner so that the wire end is tightly retained by the plate.
In other cases of application, the bone parts which are to be held together are drilled through and a wire is passed through the bone parts. The one end of the wire is retained in the borehole of a plate through deformation in the described manner. The diametrically arranged other wire end is guided through a borehole of an additional plate and is then tightened to the desired tractive force by means of the device and is then deformed, so that the wire is retained in the plate under the desired tractive force.
Investigations have shown that, at a customary wire diameter of, for example, 1.0 mm, a tractive force of more than 50 kp can be exerted on the wire ends which are retained in the perforated plate, without the deformed wire end being pulled through the borehole of the plate. Such high tractive forces cannot be attained in the course of the conventional twisting of the wire ends, since the tensile load capacity of the wire is reduced by the buckling load during the twisting procedure.
A further advantage results from the fact that the wire ends can be cut off directly adjacent the deformations, so that practically no protruding wire ends are present to cause tissue irritations which delay the healing process.
In a particularly advantageous form of the device of the invention the tightening and deformation functions are united in one instrument. The wire, which has been pulled through the boreholes of the plate, can be tightened with the instrument to the desired tractive force, and the end of the wire which is under this tractive force can be deformed directly at the plate.
In an expedient manner, the deformation function is accomplished by jaws which bluntly abut against one another with flat surfaces at their frontal end. The flat surfaces permit the achievement of high deforming power when the operating surgeon has to use great force.
The surfaces of the jaws which abut against one another in the closed state preferably touch one another only along a line which is spaced a distance from the frontal edge of the jaws. In the closed state of the jaws, the two surfaces abutting against one another form an outwardly opening angle. Along the contact line of the jaws, the wire, under suitable pressure application, is squeezed to such an extent that a shear point is created. The surfaces of the jaws which diverge outwardly from one another guarantee that in the area lying between the plate and the shear point the wire is deformed to a sufficiently high degree, but is not cut off.
The tightening means of the instrument is preferably designed as a shaft onto which the wire end is wound. The shaft is mounted, in a rotatable manner, in the deformation means which, for purposes of tightening the wire, braces itself at the plate. The deformation means supports itself with the frontal edges of the jaws at the plate, so that the above-explained deformation position and the assigned shear point result automatically.
In order to be able to wind the wire on the shaft for the generation of the tractive force, without which the shaft under the effect of the tractive force rotates backwardly, a freewheeling coupling is provided which permits rotation of the shaft only in one direction of rotation.
In order to attain an accurately defined tractive force on the wire, means for the limitation and the determination of the moment of rotation for the drive of the shaft are provided. In a simple form, a leaf-type spring projecting radially from the shaft is provided, which serves as driving element for the shaft. Depending on the magnitude of the amount of rotation expended for the drive of the shaft, the free end of the leaf-type spring becomes deflected so that the deflection of the leaf-type spring, which can be read off on a scale, can be taken as a measure of the tractive force exerted on the wire.
In order for the driving leaf-type spring not to intrude on the surgical area during the rotation of the shaft, the leaf-type spring preferably engages with the shaft through the intervention of a ratchet gear, so that pivoting of the radially projecting leaf-type spring is necessary only over a small angular range.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following specification and the accompanying drawings which are for the purpose of illustration only.
FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of the instrument which combines the tightening and deformation means;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the instrument, partially shown in axial cross section;
FIG. 3 shows the jaws of the instrument;
FIG. 4 is a side elevational view illustrating the operation of the instrument on a fractured bone;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary end elevational view showing the deformed wire end; and
FIG. 6 is a side elevational view similar to FIG. 5.
In the drawings, only the instrument is illustrated, in which the tightening means and the deformation means are combined. As previously indicated, the wire acts to hold the plate, which serves as a splint, in a predetermined relationship with the bone sections or parts.
The instrument incorporating the tightening means and the deforming means is constructed in the form of pliers. The pliers incorporate two hand levers 10 which, in opposition to the force of two leaf-type springs, can be pressed together around a pivotal axis 12. The short front ends of the hand levers 10 engage in an articulate manner with the rear longer arms of jaws 16, which are designed as two-armed levers, which can be pivoted with respect to each other around a pivotal axis 18. The lever relationships of the hand levers 10 and of the jaws 16 achieve a high power ratio, so that the frontal ends of the jaws 16 are pressed against one another with great force when the hand levers 10 are pressed together.
During the closing of the pliers, the outer ends 20 of the jaws 16 bluntly abut against one another with flat angularly oriented surfaces 22. FIG. 3 clearly shows that the flat surfaces 22 of the outer ends 20 of the jaws 16 form an angle α in the closed state. Thus, the surfaces 22, during the closing of the pliers, engage each other only along a line 24 and toward the outer ends 20 diverge from one another by the angle α.
In the area of the outer ends 20, the jaws are extended in one direction beyond the pivotal plane, as shown in FIG. 2. As also can be seen from FIG. 2, the outer ends 20 are inclined at an angle β in direction toward their closing slit, so that they display the greatest distance from the pivotal axes 18 or 12 at the side projecting beyond the pivotal plane. The opening angle α of the angle surfaces 22 preferably amounts to about 12°, whereas the angle of inclination β preferably amounts to about 5°.
By means of the pivotal axis 12, base plates 26 are mounted on each side of the hand levers 10. Within these base plates 26 a shaft 28 is mounted in a rotatable manner, which is arranged between the hand levers 10 in perpendicular manner to the pivotal plane of the same. One extremity of shaft 28 extends beyond the pivotal plane of the hand levers 10 in the same direction and in essence by the same amount as the extension of the outer ends 20 of the jaws 16, as can be seen from FIG. 2. This extremity of shaft 28 incorporates an axial slit 30 for receiving one end of the aforementioned wire.
The other extremity of shaft 28 which projects beyond the opposite side of the pivotal plane of the hand levers 10 is rotatably mounted in a bushing 32. By means of axially projecting lugs 34, the bushing 32 engages with corresponding recessed areas of the base plate 26, so that it is retained against rotation with respect to the base plate 26, and thereby with respect to the pliers. A U-shaped wire spring 36 is inserted in bushing 32 and elastically engages a circumferential groove of the shaft 28 with its legs and retains the same axially with respect to the base plates 26 and thereby with respect to the pliers.
A bushing 38 encompasses the shaft 28 in a rotation-resistant manner and adjoins bushing 32. A spiral spring 40, in a tightly fitting manner, coaxially encompasses the bushings 32 and 38. The spiral spring 40 is inserted in an axial direction between one radial shoulder each of bushings 32 and 38, so that it cannot expand in an axial direction. Through the spiral spring 40, a freewheeling coupling is formed between the bushing 38 and the shaft 28 which is connected with the same in a rotation-resistant manner, and the bushing 32 or the pliers. When the bushing 38 is rotated in a clockwise direction (FIG. 1), the rotation is transferred to the spiral spring 40 which expands slightly in the radial direction. The bushing 38 and therewith the shaft 28 can freely rotate clockwise. However, when the bushing 38 is rotated in the opposite direction of rotation (in FIG. 1 counterclockwise), then the spiral spring 40 is reduced in diameter. Thus, the spiral spring 40 tightly clamps itself on the bushing 32 and on the bushing 38, so that the bushing 38 is tightly retained against rotation with respect to the bushing 32. Consequently, rotation of the bushing 38 and therewith of the shaft 28 in this direction (namely, the counterclockwise direction as indicated in FIG. 1) is also not possible.
On the extremity facing away from the bushing 32, the bushing 38 incorporates a ratchet-type gear 42. The ratchet-type gear 42 engages a corresponding ratchet-type gear at the rear end of an axially adjoining third bushing 44, which in a freely rotatable manner is mounted on shaft 28. The end of the shaft 28, in a freely rotatable manner, penetrates a cylindrical block 46 which axially adjoins the bushing 44. A disc 48 is mounted in a rotation-resistant manner on shaft 28 and axially supports the cylindrical block 46. With respect to the cylindrical block 46, the bushing 44 is rotation-resistant, but is axially displaceable along shaft 28. Two guide pins 50 serve for this purpose, which pins 50 are inserted into the blind boreholes of the bushing 44 and the cylindrical block 46 adjacent surfaces. A compression spring 52, which is inserted between the adjacent surfaces of the bushing 44 and of the cylindrical block 46, presses the bushing 44 axially against the bushing 38, so that the ratchet gears 42 of said bushings 44 and 38 engage with each other. A covering sleeve 64 protects the bushings 32, 38 and 44, as well as the spiral spring 40 and the ratchet gears 42 from dirt which could penetrate the same.
The cylindrical block 46 incorporates a radially projecting arm 54, and a leaf-type spring 56 is mounted on the cylindrical block 46 parallel to the arm 54. In the tension-free state, the leaf-type spring 56 projects in the same radial direction as the arm 54, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. At the free end of the leaf-type spring 56, a handle 58 is affixed by means of which the leaf-type spring can be pivoted. A pointer 60, which is provided on the handle 58, moves along a scale 62 which projects in a circumferential direction from the end of the arm 54.
When the cylindrical block 46 is rotated by means of the leaf-type spring 56 in the clockwise direction, FIG. 1, the cylindrical block 46, through the intervention of the guide pins 50, rotates the bushing 44. The compression spring 52 urges the ratchet gears 42 into gear, so that the bushing 44 also rotates the bushing 38 and the shaft 28 which, in a rotation-resistant manner, is connected with the same. The freewheeling coupling which is created by the spiral spring 40 allows the rotation of the bushing 38 and the shaft 28 in the clockwise direction.
However, if the cylindrical block 46 is rotated counterclockwise by means of the leaf spring 56, the bushing 44 is also rotated by means of the guide pins 50. The bushing 44 tries to rotate the bushing 38 clockwise by means of the ratchet gears 42. However, the spiral spring 40 prevents the bushing 38 counterclockwise rotation and the ratchet gears 42 disengage in opposition to the pressure of the compression spring 42. Consequently, while the shaft 28 is immoblized, the cylindrical block 46 and the bushing 44 can be freely rotated counterclockwise by means of the leaf-type spring 56.
In utilizing the instrument the one end of the wire, through which the bone parts are to be held together, is passed through the borehole of the plate, the diameter of the borehole being only slightly larger than the wire diameter. By means of the flat inclined surfaces 22 of the jaws 16, the cross section of the wire end is deformed so that it can no longer be pulled through the borehole of the plate.
Subsequently, the other wire end is either placed around the bone parts which are to be held together and passed through a second borehole in the plate, or the wire is pulled through a hole which has been drilled into the bone and passed through a corresponding borehole in a diametrically arranged second plate.
The free end of the wire is then inserted into the slit 30 of shaft 28. The pliers, by means of the frontal ends 20 of the jaws 16, are braced in such a manner on the plate that the plate borehole and the wire which had been pulled through this borehole are located between the jaws 16. The shaft 28 is then rotated by means of the leaf-type spring 56, whereby the wire is wound onto the shaft 28. The freewheeling coupling created by the spiral spring 40 permits free rotation of the shaft 28 so that the wire cannot become unwound again. The ratchet-type locking mechanism formed by the ratchet gears 42 permits the leaf-type spring 56 to be pivoted only through a certain angle to rotate the shaft 28 and for a subsequent use to be pivoted back again. As a result, it is possible to pivot the leaf-type spring 56, for example, only within the area of the hand levers 10. A complete rotation of the leaf-type spring 56, in the course of which the latter should intrude upon the surgical area, is not necessary.
As soon as the wire has become taut during the rotation of the shaft 28, a torque has to be applied to the shaft 28 in order to tighten the wire. This torque, which corresponds to the tractive force imposed on the wire, can be determined by the deflection of the leaf-type spring 56 and can be accurately read off on the scale 62 by means of the pointer 60, namely, when the leaf-type spring 56 is pivoted by means of the handle 58.
As soon as the tractive force, which is required to hold the bone parts together, is attained for the optimum osteosynthesis, the hand levers 10 are pressed together, as a result of which the jaws 16 close. Thereby, the flat inclined surfaces 22 of the frontal ends 20 of the jaws 16 are pivoted toward one another and deform the wire cross section to such an extent that the wire end can no longer slip back through the borehole in the plate. The aperture angle α of the surfaces 22 insures that the squeezing of the wire is of the greatest order of magnitude along the shear line 24. Thus, by the contact line 24 a shear line is created in the wire adjacent the deformation area. In the course of a subsequent further tightening of the wire by means of the leaf-type spring 56, the wire then breaks at the shear line.
The freewheeling coupling of the shaft 28 insures, also at the time of deformation, that the wire is held at the adjusted tractive force.
The inclination of the frontal ends 20 of the jaws 16 by the angle α insures that, during the tightening of the wire, the plate together with the wire cannot slip away from the frontal ends 20 of the jaws 16. If the plate does slip, this can only take place in direction of the angle. Consequently, the plate can move only in that direction and the wire moves toward the jaws 16. Therewith, slippage from the plate of the frontal ends 20 of the jaws 16 bracing themselves on the plate is prevented and, likewise, disengagement of the wire from the shaft 28 is prevented.
Shown in FIGS. 4-6 of the drawings is the manner in which the two ends 70 and 71 of the fractured bone 72 are maintained in operative and healing relationship with each other by the use of the instrument of the invention. The fracture line is shown at 74, and the wire 76 is disclosed as partially encompassing the two ends 70 and 71 of the bone 72 and having its deformed ends 76 juxtaposed to the bores 78 in the plate 80.
As previously indicated, while the wire 76 is under tension, the last deformed extremity 76 is provided on the wire by the instrument, thus compressing the extremities 70 and 71 of the bone 72 toward each other. The deformed extremities 76 of the wire prevent the wire 77 from being drawn through the bores 78 in the plate 80 and cause the wire 77 to maintain its tension on the bone ends 70 and 71.
Thus, the adjacent ends of the fractured bone are held securely in place by the tension exerted by the wire 76 on the plate 80 and the deformed extremities 76 of the wire protrude a minimal amount into the adjacent tissue or musculature.
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Murton and Other Notes
Two quick notes from Gordon Wittenmeyer...
The Cubs are getting enough interest from other teams in outfielder
Matt Murton that a deal might get done by the end of the weekend to
keep the Cubs from having to send the .296 career hitter to the minors.
They're just making sure no injuries occur today and Murton will most likely be out of here.
The battle between lefties Sean Marshall and Carmen Pignatiello for Eyre's vacated spot is going down to the final day.
Manager Lou Piniella said before Friday's late game that each lefty
would get an inning of work during the two-game set against Seattle.
It seems Lou really want to give Marshall every chance to win that spot, even though Pignatiello has easily outperformed him this spring.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
Some how i got linked to MLB Trade Rumors (which i refuse to ever visit) and picked up what some of the other blogs were saying about Murton.
The gist....is an outstanding hitter, good power, excellent speed on the basepaths.
You go to Cubs blogs and he isn't that good of a hitter, has no power, and can't run the bases. Basically he is worthless junk.
I hope he finds a new home where he can play everyday.
an outstanding hitter, good power, speed on the basepaths.
All true. I don't know what the Cubs are thinking. Thanks to his ability to get on base and run, Murton was an outstanding run-scorer. Much better at it than Juan Pierre for example. You can look it up.
We're a weaker team now without him. Our problem last year was scoring runs.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
Ohh and the Astro's are going to pay Woody $6.5 million to not pitch for them. Smart move...
Re: Murton and Other Notes
I agree that Murton is a nice player, but where does he fit in with the Cubs? Nowhere.
I'm fine with trading him as long as we get something valuable in return.
Murton is in the game right now
...which is unusual if a deal is in the works.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
Trading Murton only makes sense if you think that Fukudome and Soriano are immune to injury or some other GM makes Hendry a very strong offer for Murton. I suspect we'll need a fill-in corner outfielder for at least a month of this season due to injuries, and I'm not yet convinced that Fukudome's game is going to translate into what Cubs fans are hoping for.
With 600 plate appearances you can reasonably expect these things: an average around .300, an OBP over .360, 20ish homeruns, flashes of exciting opposite field power and a frustrating ground ball rate. You can also expect well above average defense in left field, according to The Hardball Times, and quickness out of the box if not a great speed on the base paths.
Murt has great potential and is already a strong ball player. The Cubs' major mistake is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on two corner outfielders who will block a young, cheap, productive player. Murton may not outperform Soriano or Fukudome overall, but the difference between them may not add up to the improvement the team could have made spending those millions of dollars or something other than another outfielder. Then again, Murton may outperform Soriano in batting average and OBP, something you look for in a top of the order hitter, and likely will outperform Fukudome in average and power, something you look for in a number 5 hitter.
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I think you're being overly optimistic about Fukudome. I've said this before in another thread, look at what Iwamura did in his final three seasons in Japan and then what he did in his first season with Tampa. His stats in Japan were extremely close to Fukudome's, and people projected him to hit somewhere near 20 homers last season. He hit 7.
His slugging numbers dropped approx 150 points from his previous 3 years.
Fukudome's line this year is probably going to be more like .285 or less, 8-10 hr's, and if he's hitting second 50'rbi's or less. His obp probably drops to .340ish. An ok number two hitter but not an impact bat.
Unless he's been dogging it all spring on purpose, his power numbers in the majors will be way down.
As for Murton, he's a poor fielder but I love his bat. A guy who has proven he can draw walks, hit around .300, hit a lot of doubles and a fair number of hr's. To trade him or send him to Iowa is a mistake. With the cold Wrigley weather and a ton of home games in April and May, Murton would get plenty of AB's, far more than Fontentot will.
And Reed Johnson was a nice addition to platoon in CF but he's not a particularly good hitter vs rhp's. Murton is.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
Yeah, that was a prediction for Murton, but my organization was not clear. Whoops.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
I totally agree with you on Murton, the problem that I see is Daryl Ward. If not for Ward, Murton would be on the roster. So my question is who do you keep Ward or Murton?
It's Just Depressing
how little Murton is valued by teams trying to acquire him. Apparently the Padres were thinking something like $50,000 including tax out the door. At least that's what this story in the San Diego Union implies.
Attempting to fill a need for right-handed power off the bench and an emergency catcher, the Padres acquired corner outfielder/first baseman Justin Huber from the Royals and optioned utility man Luis Rodriguez to Triple-A. Huber hit 18 home runs in 286 Triple-A at-bats last year. The Australian has batted .204 in 38 major league games with four doubles.
Manager Bud Black said Huber, a catcher early in his professional career, could make it more likely that Black would use either of his other catchers as a pinch hitter. Huber, 25, is out of minor league options.
The Padres are to send $50,000 or a player to the Royals within 30 days. They preferred Cubs corner outfielder Matt Murton but were unwilling to give up a prospect for him.
Re: It's Just Depressing
Well if the team who currently owns him (Murton) doesn't value him enough to keep him on a major league roster, why should the other teams value him more?
Re: It's Just Depressing
Think it shows Hendry (at least for now) won't give up Murt for less than a prospect more than it does SD thinks he's worth 50K including tax...
murt's pretty exclusively a LF'r who's not really flashy there. i'd rather see soriano in RF, murt in LF, and spend the loot elsewhere, but it wasnt and now this situation is here.
it's pretty highly doubtful murt will spend much time in AAA this year for the cubs or whoever he may be traded to.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 10:15am.
and an AZ Phil question... If the Phillies decide to dump Lahey, does he go back through the whole waiver process or just starting from the teams that didn't get a chance to claim him?
Can the Cubs put a claim in?
If I recall this correctly, Phils were near the bottom of the order but it goes NL first, than AL? Are there a few teams below the Phils that could still grab him?
ROB G: If a club decides not to keep a player they acquired via waiver claim and places the player back on waivers, the waiver process starts all over again from scratch. The Cubs could put in a claim, but because Lahey is a Rule 5 player, if they are awarded the claim it would just put the Cubs back in the same position they were in before they placed him on waivers. That is, they would have to keep him on their 25-man roster for the entire 2008 regular season.
If more than one team claims a player off waivers, the club from the same league gets the claim, and if more than one club from the same league makes a claim, the club with the lowest winning percentage gets the claim.
The previous season's standings are used to determine waiver claim order through the end of the waiver period that extends through the 30th day of the regular season (this year that's April 28th), and then starting with the waiver period that commences with the 31st day of the regular season (April 29th in 2008), the current standings are used to determine waiver claim order.
Re: Murton and Other Notes
My guess....The 3rd base line
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Russell left game with left heel contusion from foul ball on Saturday. Started to bother him during the Sunday game.
a.russell out and down into the clubhouse...no one knows why.
it's very hot on the field, so it might be heat related.
I blame the All-Star game again, or else Michael Barrett.
Miller park roof is closing. Hmmm, might play differently now?
Lester at 72 pitches through 3. Roof closing might get him through 6.
Middlebrows pulls a calf or hamstring. Len says he blew a tire rounding 1st. Nieuwenhuis enters game.
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First inning: two on, no out, Rizz and Zobrist due up. Don't score.
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39 pitch inning by Lester. I guess it's a wash vs yesterday's 1st when Lackey gave up 2 run HR.
39 pitch, 2 run, 1st inning for lester. bleh.
horrible control so far today.
lester threw over to 1st! ...badly. braun takes 2nd.
it was a slow rainbow throw.
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Torres for Chapman I think Yankees are aiming high,but would much rather get him to keep away from Giants or Nationals.
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harold aptroot wrote:Also, from the moment we successfully test that warp drive, we'll have Vulcans looking over our shoulders while we get into all sorts of unlikely trouble.
harold aptroot wrote:Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship back just to transmit the data.
harold aptroot wrote:While cheaper than a full ship with live support and such, they can't be cheap. And you'd have a limited number of them - producing more of them (forcing you to take a whole warp drive factory with you) does not seem realistic (yes I really just used that word) to me.
erzengel.des.lichtes wrote:I do wonder about your sending an RF signal idea though. Are you assuming the RF signal will just bounce around inside the bubble? Or do you need a 2-light-year long bubble to keep up with the RF signal's natural propagation inside the bubble?
harold aptroot wrote:Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still
either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship
back just to transmit the data. That's going to suck no matter what you do,
unless subspace communication turns out to be a real thing.
Mark Wallace wrote:they're not sure what the "exotic matter" is or how to find or fabricate it
Mark Wallace wrote:turn water to wine
Mark Wallace wrote:Of course, if you're spending all your time on postulating what could be done with magical materials, you're not doing any actual science, and you're not advancing anything
Collin Jasnoch wrote:Using working theories that it exists allow advancements that are applicable to other fields of research and also allow the targeted field to continue to progress
Collin Jasnoch wrote:You do not find the concept of a Warp Field Interfermeter intriguing?
Mark Wallace wrote:They can postulate any damned thing they like about such a magical substance.
Mark Wallace wrote:My theory is that exotic matter doesn't possess the properties needed to form a warp field, but it does possess properties that randomly and sporadically make pieces of coffee machines and single socks disappear.
Mark Wallace wrote:Physics is not "Oh, maybe one day we'll find a magical substance that will let us do miraculous things", it's "This is what we've got; what can we do with it?"
Collin Jasnoch wrote:While it is not about magical substances it is about gaining an understanding of substances we do not understand.
Mark Wallace wrote:It's f***ing shameful that such utter cr@p should get so much attention
Collin Jasnoch wrote:Whats a shame is someone has such hostility towards theoretical physics.
Mark Wallace wrote:But it's Not Real.
RafagaX wrote:Like the theory of the relativity, which wasn't confirmated several years after
postulated, like the metamaterials that were predicted by "bending" the physics
but wasn't produced until recently, like making things invisible which was
theorized first and executed until not so long ago.
Mark Wallace wrote:Dark matter is just stuff that doesn't give off the gigawatts of electromagnetic energy required for it to be seen with telescopes from Earth -- mainly rocks, dust, etc. (basically, anything that isn't a star).
Collin Jasnoch wrote:So now here you go down a tangent arguing against a hypothetical trip regarding
a hypothetical warp drive (which the post is about... not the trip).
Collin Jasnoch wrote:And it also talks about in our life time
Collin Jasnoch wrote:Power generation is a huge field into itself. And on top of that generating
anti-matter is a whole different field. It would not make sense to diverge into
said topics with out creating a journal itself.
Collin Jasnoch wrote:It was a simple article about some research done and went into its possible
Collin Jasnoch wrote:Now they found a way to shrink that down to 500Kg. That is astonishing!
jschell wrote:There is no evidence that the cost will become feasible in the next 50 years.
jschell wrote:And so what does that have to do with the fact that the article was in fact mostly about making trips to distant locations?
jschell wrote:No it was an article mostly about one application. It is quite possible and perhaps even feasible, at least if the cost drops many orders of magnitudes, that other applications would exist.
jschell wrote:Perhaps. But unless they can get it down to about one molecule then, based on current evidence, it doesn't mean much.
jschell wrote:Per the article time on the vessel remains relativistic.
Thus the 2 years one way mentioned in the article repesents 20 years on board the ship.
...we would be able to create an engine that will get us to Alpha Centauri "in two weeks as measured by clocks here on Earth." The time will be the same in the spaceship and on Earth, he claims, and there will not be "tidal forces inside the bubble, no undue issues, and the proper acceleration is zero. When you turn the field on, everybody doesn't go slamming against the bulkhead, which would be a very short and sad trip."
erzengel.des.lichtes wrote:You fail at reading comprehension.
erzengel.des.lichtes wrote:We cannot know what the final costs will be, but as your article points out, the
costs for producing antimatter have already dropped 3 orders of magnitude in a
QuoteDr. White and his colleagues don't just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically possible; they've already started the work to create one.
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