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If you want the best, you buy Champagne. If you are looking for aromatic complexity, elegance and poised, precise flavours, it beats all other sparkling wines hands down.
Why does Champagne reign supreme? First of all, Champagne means three grape varieties: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Chardonnay is a white grape; the two Pinots are both black. Each brings something special to a blend. Chardonnay suggests flowers, vanilla, honey; Pinot Noir is earthier, rootier, more structured; Pinot Meunier adds fresh, appley notes.
Secondly, Champagne is the name of a place in northern France. It's a range of low chalk hills which rise gently up from a dreary agricultural plain east of Paris. The hills drain the chalk and lift the vines towards the sun, allowing them to achieve the barest minimum of ripeness. Turn those grapes into wine, and their nervy, high-acid profile is perfect base material with which to make great sparkling wine. True Champagne, therefore, comes only from Champagne.
Thirdly, Champagne is made by a unique method, now imitated wherever winegrowers want to make great sparkling wine. The Champagne method begins with still wine made from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grown within the Champagne area. That wine is then bottled with a little extra sugar and yeast, and carefully laid on its side in the cool, deep cellars which honeycomb the region.
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Very slowly, the yeast ferments the sugar, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. Since the bottle is sealed, the CO2 has nowhere to go. Bubbles form. The fermentation leaves yeasty sediment in the bottle. After at least 12 months (and usually much longer than that), the wine is upended so that the sediment settles in the bottle's neck. It is then removed by freezing the neck, allowing the gas to expel the frozen plug of sediment, and quickly recorking the bottle, adding extra syrup at the same time to balance the naturally high-acid profile. The yeasty sediment, too, has left rich, sometimes creamy flavours in the wine.
The Champagne is now ready to be opened and enjoyed. There are a number of different Champagne styles. The most widely seen is non-vintage Brut: a blend of different years, bottled with up to 15g of residual sugar, which encapsulates each house's style. These wines are usually given a branded name, such as Moët's Brut Imperial, Bollinger's Special Cuvée or Roederer's Brut Premier.
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Single vintage (or Brut Millésime) Champagnes reflect the characteristics of a single good or outstanding vintage, and receive extra cellar age. Blanc de Blancs means a Champagne made from Chardonnay alone, and Blanc de Noirs a wine from either or both of the Pinot varieties. Very dry Champagne is called Brut Nature, Extra Brut, Brut Zero or Brut Integral, while sweeter-than-normal Champagnes are called Sec (which paradoxically means 'dry'), Demi-Sec or Rich.
Champagnes made from the best vineyards in the region are labelled Premier Cru or (better still) Grand Cru. Finally, there are the celebrated luxury Champagnes, usually called prestige cuvées in French. Examples include Moët's Dom Pérignon, Roederer's Cristal and Veuve Clicquot's La Grande Dame. Most are wines from a single vintage (although Krug's Grande Cuvée is multi-vintage), and are blended from the finest parcels of vines and the most successful wines of the year.
Did you know?
- a Champagne cork can reach up to 40mph when popped
- there are approximately 50 million bubbles in a 75cl bottle of Champagne
- Marilyn Monroe reputedly once took a bath using 350 bottles of Champagne
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This is the fourth and culminating module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Student teams use information and resources from the other three modules in the project suite to create a 3D interactive solar exhibit to... (View More) educate others about the Sun and how SDO informs scientists about the Sun's activity, structures and features, and Earth-Sun interactions. Students then self-evaluate their team's solar exhibit. Both a teacher and student guide are included, as well as tools for students to self-direct and track project process, and record reflections and information. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This collection of math problems is based on a weekly series of space and Earth science problems distributed to teachers during the 2013-2014 school year. The problems were intended for students looking for additional challenges in the math and... (View More) physical science curriculum and were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data. Includes information for teachers and answer key. (View Less)
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Norfolk State University will celebrate Constitution Day on Thursday, September 27, 2012. The guest speak will be Congressman Bobby Scott who will address the top of "Legislations on Closing the Achievement Gap".
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The information contained on this site does not constitute medical advice and the PCDF cannot respond to questions from patients about individual therapies. The goal of presenting these FAQs and information of a possible treatment picture is not to suggest that this what every PCD patient should be doing, but to make you aware of options for treatment which may or may not be appropriate for you at this time. PCD is rare disorder that is still being investigated. No one has all the answers about the best or most effective way to treat PCD right now. These FAQs are an effort to address some of the most common questions about PCD that affect the patient population as a whole with the most up-to-date information currently available. No single treatment plan or therapy is right for everyone with PCD and it is important to consult your physician.
What is Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)
PCD stands for primary ciliary dyskinesia, an inherited disorder of motile (moving) cilia. PCD is also sometimes referred to as Kartagener syndrome (PCD with situs inversus) or immotile cilia syndrome.
Effective activity of motile cilia is required to keep the lungs, sinuses and ears free of organisms and debris that can cause infection and disease. Motile cilia also are important in helping determine organ placement in the developing embryo and in moving the cells of reproduction into place (egg cells through the ciliated fallopian tube in females and sperm via sperm tails that closely resemble cilia in the male). Motile cilia are also found in the ventricles of the brain.
A person with PCD experiences chronic, recurrent infections in the lungsears and sinuses due to the loss of ciliary activity in those areas. Faulty determination of organ placement (aka 'situs') may result in reversed organs or in other organ placement/development abnormalities. Reduced spermmotility means that most males with PCD are infertile (not sterile—the sperm are still viable, they just can't get where they need to be) and women with PCD may experience subfertility or increased risk for miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. Some women with PCD are able to conceive with no problems. In very rare instances, PCD may be associated with hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess fluid in the ventricles of the brain causes them to be enlarged.
For more information, read this paper published by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PCD research team: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1122/
How do people get PCD?
PCD is a genetic disorder, meaning it is inherited from one's parents and cannot be acquired from the environment. PCD is most often passed in what is called an 'autosomal recessive' pattern of inheritance, in which the disease is only expressed when a child inherits two copies of a mutated gene—one from each parent. The parents are considered 'carriers' because they 'carry' the mutation, but are not sick themselves because they only have one copy of the mutated gene. When two carriers produce children, however, they have a 1 in 4 (25%) chance of having a child who will inherit both of their mutations, which will result in the disease being expressed.
One common misconception with PCD is that since it is inherited, it should be seen in other family members. Recessive diseases simply don't appear in that way. Carrier status can be unknowingly passed in a family for decades, possibly even centuries, before a carrier meets another carrier by random chance and they produce an affected child. Because there is a 1 in 4 chance (with each pregnancy, not with the total number of children produced) of passing a recessive disease, it is not uncommon to see family groups with multiple affected siblings. It is not common, however, for PCD to pass fromparent to child to aunt to cousin, etc. This form of inheritance suggests thatsomething other than a recessive trait is at work.
Because we don't know everything about PCD genetics at this point, suspicion of PCD requires diligent workup from PCD experts to make sure that the diagnosis has not been made in error.
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How is PCD diagnosed?
Diagnosis by clinical symptoms alone is not a valid way to confirm PCD because the symptoms of PCD overlap with a number of other disorders. Sometimes it is not possible to confirm the diagnosis of PCD using currently available methods so PCD is simply assumed to be the underlying disorder.This can be useful for directing treatment, but its important to note that a clinical diagnosis alone does not constitute a confirmed diagnosis. Insurance companies often now ask for proof of the diagnosis either by biopsy or genetic testing. Clinical diagnosis alone may also make it difficult to participate in research projects, since accurate data collection requires that the diagnosis be verified.
Genetic Testing
Getting a confirmed diagnosis of PCD is fraught with all sorts of challenges right now, resulting in a huge problem with misdiagnosis—either people with PCD not being diagnosed or people with some other underlying condition being mistaken for PCD. This is frustrating for families, researchers and treating physicians alike and underscores the need for comprehensive genetic testing rather than biopsy as the gold standard.
Ciliary Biopsy
There are currently only two officially recognized ways to make the diagnosis of PCD: A biopsy that evaluates the ultrastructure (internal components) of a cilium and genetic testing. Ultimately, genetic testing will be the best, most reliable method for making the diagnosis, but currently available genetic testing does not pick up all known mutations for PCD. For this reason ciliary biopsy performed at a center trained to collect, process and analyze cilia for PCD is still the 'gold standard' for diagnosis.
Nasal Nitric Oxide
Nasal nitric oxide (NO—'nitric' not 'nitrous' oxide) measurement is a good screening test for children over the age of five, but it is not diagnostic. People with PCD have unusually low levels of nasal NO for as yet unknown reasons. However, other conditions can also result in low nasal NO, including cystic fibrosis and some forms of severe sinusitis. For this reason, nasal NO tends to be better at ruling PCD out, then at ruling it in. If a person over the age of five has a normal nasal NO level, it is less likely that PCD is the cause of their symptoms.Back to top
How does PCD affect the lungs?
Our bodies need oxygen to survive. The best way to get oxygen from the outside atmosphere is to breathe in large amounts of air through the nose and mouth into the lungs where it is absorbed into the blood stream and pumped by the heart throughout the body. Unfortunately, outside air also contains things we don't want in our lungs, like pollutants, germs and dust.
These unwanted particles are breathed in, as well. Sometimes these particles can be dangerous or cause disease, so the body has developed an elegant system for removing unwanted particles called mucociliary clearance. Mucociliary clearance consists of cilia in the right quantity and of the right length beating vigorously in a set pattern in a fluid layer in the airways. This fluid layer is topped by mucus of a very specific stickiness and amount that traps debris and pathogens. The ciliary activity underneath this sticky mucus moves the mucus toward the mouth where it can be coughed out or swallowed. Together, properly functioning cilia, mucus of the right stickiness and quantity and a vigorous cough provide an important line of defense for the lungs.
When any of these three components is impaired, the lungs are not able to effectively remove inhaled particles. Sensing the presence of unwanted elements, the lungs step up production of mucus to flush them out. If the mucus cannot be moved because it is too sticky (as in cystic fibrosis), the cilia aren't beating (as in PCD) or cough is impaired (as in a number of neuromuscular disorders), a vicious cycle of mucus over-production, inflammation and infection occurs. In time, repeated and chronic infections actually damage the airways, a condition known as bronchiectasis, and the cycle continues to get more severe.
In PCD and CF, the mucociliary clearance system is profoundly damaged from birth. In PCD, cough is generally spared, which may explain why lung damage in PCD usually progresses more slowly than in CF. In CF, extremely sticky mucus makes cough ineffective, as well, so all components of primary lung defense are impaired. In both disorders, bronchiectasis is nearly universal and as it progresses, more serious infections with difficult to treat bugs become common.
Is there a cure for PCD?
There is no cure for PCD, but aggressive treatment to slow the progression of bronchiectasis in the lungs and to address other PCD-related problems with ears, sinuses and other related issues can do much to promote a relatively healthy life. Research is the key to better treatments and ultimately a cure. Supporting research efforts in PCD is the most important thing you can do to improve the quality of life for those with PCD.
What is the life expectancy for people with PCD (in the United States)?
Because we have no formal way of collecting this data right now (like a registry, which we are working on through our Path to Clinical Trials program), we cannot say for sure. Most papers say life expectancy in PCD is 'near normal,' but that is based on experience with a limited number of patients. The PCDF's informal data collection indicates that there is a wide range of life expectancy in the PCD population. In addition to the focus on age at death, it is equally important for us to assess age at disability from lung disease because that certainly interferes with 'normal' life.
Where can people with PCD get the best care?
PCD is a rare disorder and like any rare disorder, the best care comes from centers familiar with the disease. We currently have seven expert centers in the US and two in Canada, which can be found here:
If it is not possible to get to one of the PCD expert sites, the next best thing is to be seen at a cystic fibrosis clinic where doctors are familiar with mucociliary clearance disorders, bronchiectasis and most importantly, the need to treat preventatively, rather than just as symptoms arise.
If none of these options work for you please contact the PCD Foundation and we will try to help you find someone in your area.
Does lung transplant cure PCD?
The genetic mutations that cause PCD are found in every cell of the body and the only 'cure' for PCD is repairing these mutations. A lung transplant means your lungs will no longer be affected with PCD, but it does not cure PCD and you will still have ear and sinus problems related to the disorder. Additionally, many people are unaware that the cilia in transplanted lungs do not work for many months after transplant, so while the transplanted lungs don't have PCD they do have ciliary impairment until function is restored. Lung transplant is a major procedure involving life-altering changes. It is a last resort for treating PCD lung disease when all other options have failed, rather than an alternative treatment option.
What about gene therapy? Is it a treatment for people with PCD?
Gene therapy is not currently available for treating PCD. There are promising advances in potential treatments related to genetic mutations being investigated in the lab right now, but it will be some time before true gene therapy is an option in PCD.
What is a clinical trial?
To understand clinical trials (clinical research), it is important to understand what research is. 'Research' is a broad term that encompasses many different aspects of scientific discovery. In medicine, research is a systematic way to evaluate effects that are observed under controlled conditions. The goal of this controlled observation and analysis is to reach validated (credible) conclusions about the nature of a disorder, the safety or effectiveness of a particular treatment, the best course of treatment, or to collect data that will direct future research efforts.
The notion of 'validation', or establishing that the conclusions reached can be supported by data and evidence, is the most crucial aspect of research. It is not enough that research be done. It must be done using standards agreed up on by the scientific community in order to achieve broad acceptance. Without the acceptance of the scientific community, it is very unlikely that a treatment or prevention would become standard of care or that insurance providers would cover it.
Generally, achieving validity requires the involvement of large numbers of clearly identified individuals.
This requires:
These requirements are particularly difficult for rare and difficult-to-diagnose disorders like PCD to meet. Nevertheless, we are making progress in meeting these basic requirements and are finally at the point where we can anticipate participation in clinical trials.
In broad terms, clinical trials are those done on human subjects with the goal of understanding the natural history of a disease, validating diagnostic tools, or evaluating a treatment or intervention. Basic science research generally refers to studies done attempt to answer more fundamental, but equally important, questions that may be used as the foundation for further research. For affected individuals, the importance of clinical research is obvious, but it would be a mistake to discount the importance of basic science research.
In PCD for example, the genetic mutations that cause the human disease were discovered in large part by basic science research done on a single celled organism called Chlamydomonas. These discoveries were then translated ("translational research" is another term you may have heard) for use in human genetic testing. Ideally, both targeted basic science research and clinical research are employed in understanding a disease.
We would all be skeptical if a friend with no medical background offered to do brain surgery on us, right? The reason for this is that we understand that there is a significant foundation of knowledge and skill that must be achieved before attempting anything as complex as brain surgery. Learning about cells and frequently biology allows a student to move on to basic anatomy and physiology, which in turn allows more in-depth study into brain anatomy and physiology, and so forth.
We would not have much faith in a practitioner who skipped any of these crucial steps. The same is true in research. For the results to be valid, a solid foundation of fundamental knowledge needs to be built first. In PCD, we are well into the process of building that foundation through NIH-sponsored GDMCC studies that clarify the natural history and progression of disease in PCD.
We must have evidence of what can be expected to happen in PCD for trials of therapies or preventive measures to have any meaning. Building this foundation is expensive and time-consuming, but it is essential. The support of the PCD community in facilitating these trials is critical to advancing future research efforts.
Are there programs available to help pay for PCD drugs and care?
There are no PCD-specific programs to help pay for drugs and care and, unfortunately, many of the drug manufacturer programs are available only to people with a diagnosis of CF. However, there are assistance programs available in many states for children with chronic illnesses. Many of these programs have more generous income guidelines than traditional Medicaid programs and provide help with medical and drug costs. Children and adults with PCD might also be eligible for Medicare or SSD/SSI depending on income and current health status. Social workers affiliated with your clinic or hospital should be to help you determine which plan might be right for you.
How can people help advance PCD science, research, and support?
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On Rebuilding - Part 4, The Toronto Maple Leafs
Kent Wilson
July 05 2012 10:48AM
(RexLibris continues his series on rebuilding this week with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Parts 1 through 3 can be found here, here and here.)
By: RexLibris
What are the common perceptions surrounding the Leafs and their recent rebuilding efforts? Okay, let's be more specific, what are the common perceptions surrounding the Leafs rebuilding efforts that can be repeated in polite company? Here are a few that I would propose:
- "The Maple Leafs tried to do a short cut because ownership and fans are impatient and Brian Burke believes that he is smarter than everybody else"
- "Draft Schmaft" ©1997 and 2010
- "Toronto always trades away their first round picks trying to land marquee players to feed their ego and then when they do retain draft picks they always screw it up"
- "They spent years buying their way out of their problems so that when that was taken away from them (via the salary cap) they were exposed for what they really were, a piss-poor run NHL team"
- "The Leafs couldn't afford to stay in the bottom of the league and gather up draft picks like other teams, the fans are too demanding"
A Winding, Yet Circular Road
These are all approximations of the common refrains surrounding the Leafs recent rebuild. Some of them from Leafs fans, others from fans in the ROC (Rest of Canada). The Maple Leafs, since 2008, provide a very interesting, and not altogether easy, case study for a team trying to rebuild without doing many of the things that are typically associate with a rebuilding team.
If we are going to start with a forensic examination of the Maple Leafs' rebuild, then there are a few significant dates to keep in mind. For our purposes we shall start with October 5th, 2005: the first game of the "New NHL" following the lockout. I'll begin by looking at some of the moves that the Leafs made in the seasons prior to the lockout to get an idea of the type of team they were and the direction of management during this period.
From September 4th, 2002 to March 8th 2006 the Leafs, first under General Manager Pat Quinn then followed by John Ferguson Jr., the club made eighteen player trades. In all but three, the Leafs were either trading away a player or a draft pick in exchange for a roster-ready asset. The players that the Leafs acquired were Brad Leeb, Owen Nolan (ret. 2012), Phil Housley (ret. 2009), Doug Gilmour (ret. 2003), Glen Wesley (ret. 2008), Drake Berehowsky (ret. 2006), Ron Francis (ret. 2004), Brian Leetch (ret. 2006), Jeff O'Neill (ret. 2008), and Luke Richardson (ret. 2008), most of whom were on the proverbial back-nine of their NHL careers. The Leafs were an aging team filled to the brim with declining veterans more notable for past achievements than their current abilities to perform.
On the eve of the lockout the Leafs roster had only nine players on it under the age of 30 while ten of the active players had been born before 1970. The average age of the team was 31.7 years old. In those eighteen trades the Leafs sent away eleven draft picks, only one of which was in the first round, a 21st overall choice which was used to select Mark Stuart. So the price wasn't an exorbitant nor obvious mortgaging of the future. However, the loss of eleven draft selections over the course of a four year period would come back to haunt the team, along with their traditionally poor drafting record.
Prior to the lockout the Leafs had made the playoffs twelve times in the previous fourteen years, and six consecutive years leading up to 2005. Since the lockout they have not made the post-season once. Coincidence? If you are not a conspiracy-theorist Leafs fan, then probably. Otherwise you are likely to just see this as a symptom of a larger problem: Blue and White Disease.
Directly preceding the lockout, the Leafs had gone two consecutive years without a first round pick. From those two draft years, center John Mitchell is currently the most accomplished NHL player with 222 games played and 71 points. Only three other players of the thirteen selected have played in the NHL: Robbie Earl managed 47 games, Jeremy Williams got into 32 games, while the franchise's star goaltending prospect at the time, Justin Pogge, has played 7 games (all of them with the Leafs in the 2008-2009 season).
The Ownership group of the Toronto Maple Leafs has been a lightning rod for fans and media alike since the days of Harold Ballard in the 1980s. By 2005 the Leafs were owned by a collection of business interests including the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan and CTVGlobemedia, while Larry Tanenbaum held a position as non-executive chairman. In 2008 CTV sold half of its MLSE interests to Tanenbaum. This was the ownership situation when the Leafs entered their rebuilding efforts in 2008, split between a provincial pension fund, a media conglomerate, and the aforementioned Tanenbaum.
Ownership of the Leafs had been accused of meddling in the affairs of then-GM John Ferguson Jr. The team was said to be run by committee with more emphasis placed on financial returns than the quality of the product on the ice. It is difficult to either prove or disprove these assertions. However, anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that there is a corporate lethargy and stubborn arrogance to the management structure that has prevented the Leafs from exploiting new opportunities and player resources that have been readily adopted by other NHL franchises. Stubborn arrogance and an unwillingness to adopt new methods? And this is before Brian Burke was on the scene?
Dawning of a New Age
Following the lockout the Leafs appeared to have moderated their approach in trading away draft picks for older players. Only twice since the 2005-2006 season have they dealt away 1st round picks in exchange for a player or players, though both times were disasters in their own respect. The first was a deal in 2007 that sent Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell to Toronto in exchange for a 1st round pick (Lars Eller), a 2nd round pick (Aaron Palushaj) and a 2009 4th round pick (Craig Smith) to San Jose. Bell would eventually leave the NHL following issues with substance abuse and a DUI while Vesa Toskala would become a Youtube sensation. This trade would end up being John Ferguson Jr's last as Leafs GM.
Enter Brian Burke.
November 29th, 2008. The Toronto Maple Leafs' rebuild can be directly tied to the time in office of General Manager Brian Burke. His hiring marked a hopeful new beginning for the team and in his introductory press conference he stated that he would rebuild the team by unconventional means, publicly eschewing the route that had been taken by Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Washington.
Burke began his tenure with the assertion that he was going to rebuild the Leafs while maintaining a competitive team on the ice and challenging for the playoffs. He stated that he would accomplish these seemingly mutually-exclusive goals by pursuing free agents, both those in the NHL and undrafted players in Europe and the college ranks, and by trading for immediate team needs. Burke deliberately stated that he was not interested in, and would not pursue, a draft-and-develop approach to rebuilding the team. Specifically that he did not subscribe to a five-year rebuilding plan that would see the team finish at the bottom of the standings (don't laugh yet, we aren't at the punchline!) but instead would be aggressive and mine untapped veins of hockey talent in order to add talent while still trying to win immediately.
To that end Burke brought in Tyler Bozak, Christian Hanson and Jonas Gustavsson, all undrafted and highly touted free agents playing in either the college ranks or overseas. Four years later, Bozak has seemingly hit a career plateau as an average to below-average second line center better suited to a third line role amassing 106 points in 192 games. Gustavsson appears to be one poor season away from returning to Europe. Hanson has settled into a career in the AHL, currently with the Washington Capitals' farm team. During his brief NHL career, 42 games, Hanson managed only 9 points.
Interestingly, Burke has seemed to veer away from the undrafted college free agent ranks of late. Despite an attempt to sign Fabian Brunnstrom when he came over from Europe, there haven't been as many high-profile college free agents in the Leafs' sights since that initial foray.
Among Burke's first order of business, as is often the case of incoming GMs, was to untangle the knot that Ferguson had left in his wake. Burke began by sending away some veteran players in Hall Gill, Wade Belak, and Chad Kilger, netting a 2nd, a 3rd and two 5th round draft picks in return. After a quick purge, Burke went back on a buying binge. He traded up at the draft to take Luke Schenn 5th overall, sending away three draft picks: a 1st round pick (7th overall) and 3rd round pick in that year (2008) and a 2nd round pick in 2009. Later, he traded for Mikhail Grabovski, Ryan Hollweg, Mike Van Ryn, Lee Stempniak, and Brad May all within the first calendar year of his tenure.
The Kessel Deal
The second time the Leafs traded 1st round picks following the lockout was in the Phil Kessel deal that would result in the Bruins drafting a first-line center, a power-forward winger, and a top-pairing defensive prospect; Burke handed Boston enough talent to restock a championship team on the fly. When Brian Burke's time is over in Toronto, it will most likely be this one deal that will dominate his legacy.
While Kessel has become a focal point for the team, alongside captain Dion Phaneuf, to date he has not proven to be the talent necessary to single-handedly raise the team to the level needed for a playoff position. Kessel has finished 69th, 36th, and 6th, respectively, in the scoring race in his first three seasons with the Leafs. Yet in his best year, this past season where he finished with 82 points, the Leafs fell lower than they had in 2011, finishing 26th overall in the league.
That said, if there is an area of strength in Brian Burke's time with the Leafs it is that he has made some (the Kessel deal notwithstanding) astonishingly good trades. The first one being the Phaneuf trade when he was able to acquire two defensemen in Phaneuf and Keith Aulie (and don't forget Fredrik Sjostrom!) for what amounted to a collection of NHL spare parts in Jamal Mayers, Ian White, Matt Stajan and Niklas Hagman. While Sjostrom is long gone, Aulie was later dealt to Tampa Bay for Carter Ashton while Phaneuf became captain of the Leafs.
Today Matt Stajan is the only remaining Flame from that deal, his presence being somewhat begrudging as were it not for the size and burdensome clauses on his contract he would likely have been dealt away or demoted already.
The second considerable trade that Burke managed to negotiate which, in hindsight, looks like highway robbery, is the deal that sent Francois Beauchemin to Anaheim for Jake Gardiner, Joffrey Lupul, and a conditional 4th round pick in 2013. Gardiner is becoming a highly coveted defensive prospect while Lupul had a renaissance season last year. Beauchemin, on the other hand, has slowly declined into a second-pairing, or lower, defensive defenseman.
Other moves of Burke's that deserve consideration are his trade of Tomas Kaberle to Boston for Joe Colborne, a 1st round pick (used to select Rickard Rakell), and a 2012 conditional 2nd round pick, as well as the trade of Brett Lebda and Robert Slaney to Nashville for Cody Franson and Matthew Lombardi.
Who Wouldn't Want to Play for the Leafs?
One part of Burke's rebuilding-fast-track plan was to lure high-profile free agents to Toronto. To date this hasn't worked out to his advantage. Originally banking on using Toronto's vaunted reputation as "Canada's Team" in order to attract talented players, he has not yet met with success for a number of
excuses reasons. According to Burke, some free agents have chosen other teams based on money (Kovalchuk), term (Richards), local familiarity (Sedins), or a desire to join what is considered a stronger team (Hossa).
It hasn't been for lack of trying, and Burke has been vocal in his criticism of some of these contracts, most recently with the Brad Richards signing in New York, saying that he had no interest in signing a player to a contract that would see him paid into the very twilight of his career.
Weighing the talent that he has added through trade versus free agency, the former is a clear winner. By trade Burke has acquired Dion Phaneuf, Jake Gardiner, Carter Ashton, Joffrey Lupul, John-Michael Liles, and Cody Franson. As free agents the Leafs have signed Colby Armstrong, Brett Lebda, Clarke MacArthur and Tim Connolly amongst a few others. Further to that point, even when acquiring draft picks by trade during his tenure with the Leafs, the June selection process hasn't yielded the same promising results for Burke and the Leafs that an exchange of players has.
Has Burke made things better?
Burke has eschewed the conventional wisdom on rebuilding an NHL franchise. He hasn't prioritized the draft or shied away from trying to sign free agents. For all of Burke's stated bluster, the most significant pieces that he has added to the Leafs organization by way of rebuilding the team have been through trade. Burke's strengths have always been in acquiring players by these means, even at the draft, as in 1993 when he traded up to select Chris Pronger in Hartford, or to acquire the draft picks for both Henrik and Daniel Sedin. A more recent example is when he traded up to 5th overall in order to select Luke Schenn (although that one didn't work out quite as well).
His team is heading in the wrong direction, if one could say they were headed in any direction at all. In fact, in spite of his statements that he would not build a team through the draft by finishing at the bottom of the standings year after year, that is in fact where his team has ended up. Unfortunately, in exchange for a single, high-caliber but one-dimensional player, Burke sent away what would become two players who would have compensated the organization for that failure.
The team is now at the end of that same process, but without a significant portion of the reward for the journey. If one were to attempt to forecast the Leafs 2012-2013 season, would anything higher than 10th in the Eastern conference be a reasonable expectation? With so many pending unrestricted free agents is it not also reasonable to conclude that at least some of them won't finish the season in Toronto? Is there any reason to seriously expect that the team will improve to the point of finishing in eighth place or higher in the Eastern conference next year? And would a first-round exit be enough to convince MLSE to retain Burke as GM?
At the same time Burke has managed to acquire some decent talent at key positions for the Leafs future in Joe Colborne, Cody Franson, and Jake Gardiner. Keeping this talent, along with the addition of the players available at the draft positions forfeited in the Kessel deal could have seen the Leafs as one of the more well-stocked teams in the Eastern conference.
The team cannot be said to realistically be any closer to their ultimate goal of winning a Stanley Cup now than they were on November 28th, 2008. The only area of improvement is the addition of some prospect depth within the organization.
Are we there yet?
In the four years Brian Burke has been managing the team, with the stated intent every season of being competitive and making the playoffs, they have finished with 81, 74, 85, and 80 points, respectively. The goal differential for a club that Burke was supposedly building from the back end out has been -43, -53, -33, and -33.The team that was supposed to play with truculence and tenacity has tallied a steadily declining 1113, 1071, 985, and 824 penalty minutes over the last four seasons.
The Leafs have, at the end of this season, seven pending unrestricted free agents, all forwards, with Phil Kessel, the franchise keystone and Burke's crown jewel, set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the following season, 2013-2014. The prospect pool for the Leafs has improved significantly over the time that Brian Burke took over, albeit through somewhat non-traditional means - and it could probably be stronger still absent the Kessel deal. Some of the Leafs most highly-rated prospects, with the exception of Nazem Kadri, have come to the club through trade, which is both a compliment to Burke's ability to trade and a damning statement of the organization's ability to identify and procure talent at the amateur level.
The past four years have been an era of wasted effort and expenditure for the franchise. I would call it a lost generation, but the Leafs are the only NHL team that uses dendrochronology to measure the time between championships. Burke's decision to trade for Phil Kessel was borne partly out of a desire to immediately improve his roster and to avoid the long and painful process of losing that often accompanies a rebuilding effort. Had Burke not made that one move in trading for Phil Kessel, the Leafs would today have a potential franchise forward in Tyler Seguin and perhaps a promising and coveted defensive prospect in Doug Hamilton. Stubborn impatience denied the Leafs those talents, and will likely make the Brian Burke era one more in a continuing trend of lost years for Toronto fans.
So let's look again at our initial statements to see if anything has been altered upon review.
The Maple Leafs tried to do a short cut because ownership and fans are impatient and Brian Burke believes that he is smarter than everybody else" – Hard to argue this point. The franchise has been famously impatient about the success that it feels is a birthright and Burke's general disdain for criticism and his recent comments on advanced statistics have certainly cemented this view in the public opinion.
"Draft Schmaft" – The Leafs have had middling success at the draft table. Nowhere near as successful as teams like Montreal or Boston but certainly better than the Oilers and Flames have been over the last decade. The fault lies in two parts: a failure to recognize amateur talent at the draft, and a failure to properly prioritize draft picks and the need to develop internally replacement players. In addition, the Leafs draft record could be considered to be falsely inflated as several of their drafted players have gone on to success within other organizations (see Boyes, Brad).
"Toronto always trades away their first round picks trying to land marquee players to feed their ego and then when they do retain draft picks they always screw it up" – Kind of a repetition of above, but to add to the subject, of the teams I have and will examine in this series, the Leafs since 1995 have missed the most 1st round draft picks (six), in 1996, '97, '03, '04, and '07. They had to trade to get back in to the first round in 2011. The most significant player the Leafs have selected in the first round in that same timeframe was Nik Antropov in 1997.
"They spent years buying their way out of problems so that when that was taken away from them via the salary cap they were exposed for what they really were, a piss-poor run NHL team" – While it is difficult to gather payroll information for the team prior to the lockout, it was well known that the Maple Leafs were consistently among the highest-salaried rosters in the league alongside the Rangers, Devils, Capitals and Red Wings. While it cannot necessarily be proven that the institution of the salary cap has hamstrung the organization's ability to compete, the coincidental evidence is certainly enough to lend credibility to that conclusion.
"The Leafs couldn't afford to stay in the bottom of the league and gather up draft picks like other teams, the fans are too demanding" – There is nothing to suggest that the team is being run on anything less than a full-scale NHL budget. The ownership group is wealthy and well-funded, and with the net worth of the franchise at just over half-a-billion dollars, it would seem reasonable to conclude that the team could afford to weather an avowed turn of fortunes. Also, they suck anyway, so why not just be honest about it. It isn't like the fans have anything else to watch.
In Summary
The Leafs have been a misguided organization for several generations now, often looking covetously at the fortune and talent of other teams without taking note of how those teams were assembled. They are a marketing, and arguably still a cultural, behemoth in Canada, yet management and ownership appears to have failed to realize that this does not translate automatically into a more successful product.
Brian Burke was brought in as a management version of all the previous free agents who had not brought success to the team. Burke was given a large degree of autonomy by ownership, and yet he seemed to fall prey to many of the same faults that had dogged the organization prior to his arrival. He has made some poor decisions that were spurred by this flawed logic and an eagerness to reach the end result that has, to date, failed. When the first five years of Brian Burke's time in Toronto have come to a close, the team may find itself in more or less the same position from which it began in 2009.
For Further reading: Leafs Abomination by Dave Feschuk and Michael Grange.
July 05 2012, 02:22PM
My opinion: Burke's the problem with the Leafs. Murray's been criticized to the point of getting the axe in Ottawa, but he'd have a better chance at resurrecting the Leafs than Burke.
So would Glen Sather.
I tried to focus more on Burke's time, having to skip over a great deal of the JFJ and Fletcher regimes.
That Grabovski deal stood out to me when I was reviewing the team's history. A very fortuitous steal. Not Ryan McDonogh luck, but pretty darn good.
Moving out Kaberle for Liles is easily a long-term upgrade. If he's slotted into a 2nd or 3rd pairing with plenty of powerplay time Liles is a difference-maker, in my opinion. He seems to play a little larger than his frame would suggest at times, too, if I recall correctly.
I saw a lot of him during his time with the Avalanche.
"To that end Burke brought in Tyler Bozak, Christian Hanson and Jonas Gustavsson"
I think you're intellectually obligated to also mention Stalberg.
"Interestingly, Burke has seemed to veer away from the undrafted college free agent ranks of late."
Ahem... Spencer Abbott
July 05 2012, 11:34AM
It was actually Cliff Fletcher, not Burke, who traded up for Luke Schenn and traded for Grabosvski
Burke's biggest problem is his own hubris.
I mean if you believe there's even a slight chance you get to draft Seguin you don't trade your pick (to say nothing of two) and certainly not in the offseason to acquire a restricted free agent... but it was easily apparent at the time that burke didn't even consider it a remote possibility. Kessel is a good player... but not that good.
Unlike Feaster I have never made any public claims of "intellectual honesty". ;-)
I overlooked Stalberg, my mistake. And apparently misread the dates on Fletcher's tenure. Two for two. Can we make it a hat trick? I'm going to go through and make sure I didn't misspell Kessel or claim that Dougie Hamilton plays the wing.
I would argue that Burke honestly believed that the team he was putting together would finish, at worst, just outside the playoffs. I think his most significant long-term miscalculation was in offering that much (as opposed to an offer sheet, which he would have been both loathe and hypocritical to submit) for a winger.
Kessel is a fine player but he is not the kind of player, nor does he play the position, around which one can build a team.
Either way, it is a significant blunder and both it and the Penner offer sheet seem to have scared GMs off of trying to poach, even by relatively honest means, other teams' RFAs.
"Burke began his tenure with the assertion that he was going to rebuild the Leafs while maintaining a competitive team on the ice and challenging for the playoffs. He stated that he would accomplish these seemingly mutually-exclusive goals by pursuing free agents, both those in the NHL and undrafted players in Europe and the college ranks, and by trading for immediate team needs. Burke deliberately stated that he was not interested in, and would not pursue, a draft-and-develop approach to rebuilding the team. Specifically that he did not subscribe to a five-year rebuilding plan that would see the team finish at the bottom of the standings (don't laugh yet, we aren't at the punchline!) but instead would be aggressive and mine untapped veins of hockey talent in order to add talent while still trying to win immediately."
Take this statement and change Burke to Feaster and Leafs to Flames and you have almost exactly captured what the team in Calgary is attempting to do. Use trickery and slight of hand to make the fan base believe there is hope for the future. There are no more hidden reservors of talent and it is a pretty small percentage of players that go undrafted that make it to the NHL.
The Flames are about four years behind the Leafs and I would not be surprised if Feaster does not try to short cut the rebuild process as well with draft picks.
The problem that Burke had with the Kessel trade is that he did not leverage all of his resources at once and basically sold the two first round picks when the team was hitting bottom. Had they moved Sundin and Kaberle for NHL ready prospects they would have been in a more competative situation.
The biggest part of the failed rebuild for Toronto that you did not touch on was lack of a franchise goaltender. While there might have been options available the Leafs always overpaid for at best average solutions. They have not tried to get somebody that had some star potential. An average rebuilding team with below average goaltending means bottom results. That wont change for the Leafs this year either unless they can get Luongo.
Last thought is that if they get Luongo they are in the playoffs this year. And even without Luongo the Leafs are going to make it back into the playoffs before the Flames do again.
In the Kaberle trade, the 1st round pick that the Leafs got was traded along with a 2nd round pick to acquire Tyler Biggs, not Rickard Rackell
This is a similar rebuild to that of the Flames and it looks like we will be getting the same results. Now, if we can just trade JBo and Backlund for Briere, we would be set.
yup. Biggs. Waste of a 1st rounder. The Flames got an equivalent player in the 4th round of the previous draft (Bill Arnold).
@everton fc
At least Burke is better than Howson... and Fletcher (I remain derisive of Fletcher, and am waiting for him to trade Parise for Gomez).
Some of the failures are: not having a legitimate #1 goalie, Phaneuf, Kessel, and Lupul are not enough to carry the whole team to the playoffs. I do like the acquisition to get Van Reimsdyk.
The Leafs keep developing Nazem Kadri for what seems like an eternity, he was drafted like three years ago or so. I think he should be plenty ready by now.
And we have a Hat Trick! Go Team Me! Three errors in an article. Kent is going to make me wear Lanny MacDonald Flames thermal underwear in July as punishment.
When going through and plotting the trade history the site I was using only lists who was eventually drafting with the pick in question. Apparently I failed to read through and follow the extra history of that pick. My fault, but thanks for catching it.
Some very astute points in your essay.
Note that Fletcher acquired Grabovski from MTL.
The conditional 2nd round draft pick acquired in the Kaberle to Boston deal was sent to Colorado in exchange for Liles.
Stalberg was drafted by JFJ.
Also to RKD,
Are you a TML scout? Kadri put up 40 points in the AHL this year. How can you say that he is ready for the NHL? I am betting that it was you who convinced Ron Wilson that Luke Schenn was ready for the NHL when he was only 18.
July 05 2012, 09:38PM
Good work Rex!
I know it's beyond your scope here, but Ron " the smartest man in hockey" Wilson was doing a very bad job as a a coach in TO, while Burke was trying to do his magic. It's hard to measure, but good coaching may have given the Leafs a few more wins per season. In a similar vein, albeit more generous to Wilson, the old saying goes, show me a good coach, I'll show you a good goalie. TO has been plagued with bad goaltending for years, which has helped their cause.
Some very astute points in your essay.
Note that Fletcher acquired Grabovski from MTL.
The conditional 2nd round draft pick acquired in the Kaberle to Boston deal was sent to Colorado in exchange for Liles.
Stalberg was drafted by JFJ.
Also to RKD,
Are you a TML scout? Kadri put up 40 points in the AHL this year. How can you say that he is ready for the NHL? I am betting that it was you who convinced Ron Wilson that Luke Schenn was ready for the NHL when he was only 18.
Of course not, not everything is about point production. When he was called up, he was helping the team out with goals, winning games with shootout goals. Kadri is better than Schenn and I think it's only a matter of time before he proves it in the NHL.
You are right that Toronto has had goaltending issues more or less since Potvin left. And I do hold to the old saying of Scotty Bowman's that if you want to be a good coach, have good players. However, Toronto's goaltending issues (aside from the occasional Toskala incident, wasn't he a Flames retread too?) are partially a symptom of a larger issue.
The Leafs seem to be really good at getting one good player. Then it is almost like some sort of myopathy sets in and they lose focus on the larger picture. They had Sundin but could never fill out a roster around him. They have Kessel and appear to be rehashing the same storylines. It is partially a reflection of below average drafting and an almost pathological impatience with developing players.
Also, it would have taken a lot more than a few more wins in either 2010 or 2011 for the Leafs to climb the standings. As much as the middle of the league is a dogfight, the cellar is usually very, very low. For comparison, the Oilers in 2010, finishing 30th, were twelve points back of the Leafs in 29th. That is a significant hurdle for a team that poor. Four more wins would only have moved the Leafs from 29th to 28th overall.
This may be why solving the Leafs is so troublesome. There isn't just one issue, but rather a series of them. Fans want a one-shot fix, but it may take much more than that.
Stalberg was actually a Leafs Pick
Spencer Abbott hasn't been brought in with anything near the same hype that Bozak and Hanson were.
All NHL teams pursue college free agents, but Burke's lack of bombast with regards to the expectations of impact I think speaks to a more humbled approach.
I'm not criticizing the act, but rather the implementation. College free agents are almost always depth signings. Burke sold Bozak as a first line center, and Wilson played him as such. The responsibility for Bozak's failure to succeed at that level rests partially on their shoulders as well.
Only a Flames fan could go there. I certainly drew comparisons between the two in my mind, but drawing similarities between Toronto and Calgary can be fatal. ;-)
For what it's worth I think Burke is an overall better GM than Feaster, but is also hampered by a more glaring weakness: his own ego. When Feaster messes up it looks like Babchuk or Sarich. When Burke messes up it looks like the Kessel trade.
There are quite a few similarities between the two organizations though: impatient fans and management, a reluctance to build things from the ground up, a seemingly endless search for that one magical player that will solve everything without a serious discussion about the true extent of the challenges ahead, and sometimes a failure to appreciate the full measure of effort that other franchises have put in to overcome those challenges.
"When Burke messes up it looks like the Kessel trade."
to be fair, awesome prospects for the Bruins aside, the Leafs did get a 30 goal scorer in that trade. I think Connolly was a bigger failure, myself. Certainly Bozak was as well.
Wow so many errors... A few points to make note: Kessel has/ had out preformed Segiun in everyway. I doubt Segiun will be as much as a game breaker Kessel is. Not too many 23-24 ppg players out there and as for the other two picks, we'll have to wait until they play in the league a bit before we anoint them as you already have, like you dumb comment on a wasted pick in Biggs. Your comment regarding Grabo and mcD... really? How does one justify a comment like that other than if he's a Leaf he isn't as good.
To sum it up, your article was bad from start to finish. Didn't mind reading it since it did make me laugh as I read it...wait was this meant to be funny? If so, great job!
Agreed. Kessel is a terrific goal scorer. My issue with the trade at the time was that the Leafs didn't have any of the other necessary pieces on their roster for that move to make sense in the long term.
Calgary fans know this better than perhaps any other hockey market, a terrific and consistent winger cannot singlehandedly lead a team to victory. It takes that player plus a great deal of other high-performance pieces to win a championship (that's my benchmark).
If the Leafs had been able to add a player of Kessel's abilities four years earlier, when Sundin was still performing well, and been able to find some decent goaltending then the trade would look far better, even if it did mean handing over a talent like Seguin.
But the timing and the team into which Kessel was brought just didn't add in my mind.
@Ron Moore
I've reread the article, albeit quickly, and I can't find any point where I specifically criticize the Tyler Biggs pick. You've got me confused with a commenter. I don't usually come out with strong statements on draft selections this early other than to say that I think prospect A was taken a bit early or prospect B surprisingly dropped.
Time has to be given to properly evaluate the wisdom (luck?) of a draft pick.
With regards to Seguin, he is entering his third year in the league. He and Kessel are playing on entirely different teams and are at notably different phases of their development.
That being said, my preference between the two would be for the winger/center. Call it bias. I was in the draft Seguin camp in 2010.
My references to Hamilton are couched in subtle, but very specific language. I say that Hamilton is "a promising and coveted defensive prospect".
I haven't handed either of these players anything that hasn't already been conceded by multiple scouting and talent evaluation services.
My comment on the Grabovski deal is that it was a great trade for the Leafs. How on earth does that offend? I don't think it ranks compared to exchanging Scott Gomez for Ryan McDonagh, sorry, but still one heck of a deal.
Glad you had a laugh. As long as you read it and took the time in your day to comment then mission accomplished.
I'm assuming you are a Leafs fan, if so and you're in the GTA I hope you stay cool today. I hear it is a scorcher out there.
Like your work but please provide more LT ish type pictures.
@Ron Moore
"like you dumb comment on a wasted pick in Biggs"
that was me, actually. And yes, Biggs was a wasted pick. Look at the players taken before and after him. Not even close. Players like Biggs are routinely available in the 2nd 3rd and 4th rounds.
in fact, Bill Arnold (a Flames 4th rounder in the 2010 draft) had superior stats--across the board--than Biggs in both his draft year and 1st NCAA seasons. He's also a center, where Biggs is a winger.
Am I saying Biggs is a sure bust, or a terrible prospect? Certainly not. But he's definitely not the kind of player you draft in even the late 1st round, particularly not in 2011, which was actually a reasonably deep draft. To use an example from the same draft as Biggs, Seth Ambroz (who is the same size as Biggs, plays the same position, and shoots from the same side) was taken in the 5th round by Columbus. His USHL stats were also better, though NCAA was much worse.
Man I wish I could. LT (does anyone else feel like they are in a 'Nam movie when they use that nickname?) does some fantastic aesthetic additions to his already solid writing.
I think I might try and do some Iginla Photoshop work for the Flames article. And maybe something special for the Oilers one as well, assuming Kent OKs it. ;-)
Regarding Kessel, he has certainly had a very good start to his career. A couple of All-Star Game selections and a number of 30+ goal seasons. Only time will tell whether Seguin will also be a perennial All-Star.
I agree with Greg Zaun, that you pick up valuable pieces when you can as opposed to seemingly endless waiting for the right time to arrive (i.e. Blue Jays), which in their case may take a decade. To this end we shall see whether or not the Oilers will duplicate the success of the Tampa Bay Rays which required a decade of utter futility.
Finally, I think that people forget that up until January the Leafs were poised to finish in the top 6 in the East and qualify for the playoffs for the first time post lockout. In the very least Burke has assembled some decent talent in the AHL, NCAA & Canadian Major Junior for the first time in a generation. It should also not be forgotten that the Leafs along with were the youngest teams in the NHL this past season.
I absolutely give credit to Burke at having redone the Leafs prospect pool and made it into something that, for the first time in my memory, has garnered some unbiased attention. It isn't necessarily top-drawer, but it does, in my opinion, have some better prospects than Calgary, Vancouver, and the Jets, for Canadian teams.
My problem lies in that he has done that mostly through trade. Burke's draft record is still less-than-stellar. The Leafs could have one of the most dominant scouting divisions in the NHL by trading on their brand as well as tapping some very deep pockets.
They're continual reluctance or failure to do so has only exacerbated their situation.


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The Ferron/Price District of the Manti-LaSal National Forest is seeking comments on two wildlife habitat improvement projects. The project names are the Hoag Springs Rejuvenation and Protection Project, and the Box Pond Exclosure Project.
Hoag Springs is located on Gentry Mountain approximately 15 miles northwest of the town of Huntington, and 15 miles southwest of Price. The two springs are an important water source for wildlife and livestock. Current conditions around the springs are less than desirable. First, water flow has diminished substantially over approximately the past 10 years. According to a local livestock permittee, flow from several nearby springs has halted altogether, and has heightened the importance of Hoag Springs. Second, improvements associated with the springs are in severe disrepair. Fences around both the upper and lower springs are breeched. In addition, the headbox, pipeline, and trough associated with the lower spring are non-functional. Because the trough no longer provides water, livestock are forced to get water directly from the springs. The results of these conditions are decreased water availability for wildlife and livestock, and a degraded spring source with little or no riparian vegetation.
The forest service, in conjunction with the livestock permittee, proposes a project to rejuvenate spring flow, protect the springs from unrestricted livestock access, and provide reliable water for wildlife and livestock.
In attempt to release underground water for surface flow, Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir greater than 10 inches diameter-at-breast-height would be cut from approximately one acre immediately surrounding the lower spring. Smaller trees would be left standing. The felled trees would be built into a logworm exclosure fence that would encompass the cut area and both springs. Leftover slash would be burned. A new headbox would be installed at the lower spring, and a new, buried pipeline would transport water approximately 150 feet to a trough located away from the potential riparian zone.
Following treatment, the upper spring would remain fully vegetated and undeveloped, and would provide species that prefer heavy cover. The lower spring would have only small trees, shrubs, forbs, and snags around it, and would provide habitat for wildlife species that prefer more open areas. One or both springs would be seeded with riparian plant species if natural colonization did not occur. Both springs would be fenced to protect water quality and promote growth of riparian vegetation. The fence would allow access by wildlife, but exclude livestock. Pre- and post-treatment water flows, riparian vegetation growth, and exclusion effectiveness would be monitored.
Box Pond is located in "the Pines" area, approximately seven miles northwest of the town of Emery. It is within approximately one mile of the only known, active sage grouse lek (breeding grounds) on the Manti-LaSal National Forest, and one of the few leks in central Utah. Box Pond and the associated bottomland are thought to have high potential for providing wet meadow brooding habitat. Brooding habitat provides food and cover for hens and their chicks, and is very limited in the area.
Currently, Box Pond is used as a water source for livestock, and the adjacent meadow is grazed. By fencing the pond/bottomland complex and providing an alternative water source, the area would be more likely to express wet meadow characteristics and provide consistent brooding habitat, while still accommodating traditional livestock uses. The Forest Service proposes to construct a post-and pole fence that would enclose approximately five acres, and install a pipeline and water trough outside of the exclosure.
Analysis of these projects is anticipated with the use of a Categorical Exclusion. This is based on the belief that this action would not have an individual or cumulative significant effect on the quality of the human environment. Specifically, the category the action falls under is wildlife habitat improvement activities as found in Section 1901.15 of the Forest Service Handbook, Chapter 30, Section 31.2, Category 6. If you have questions regarding these projects, contact Cara Staab at (435) 384-2505. If you have comments provide them in writing by March 29, to the Ferron/Price Ranger District, P.O. Box 310, Ferron, UT 84523.


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Rippetoe – who was playing in just his second game after sitting out fall semester concentrating on academics – hit five of six shots, including 3-of-3 3-point attempts. He also added three assists and a rebound.
"What a great outing for Eric Rippetoe, we're fortunate to have him back at Southern Utah," SUU Coach Nick Robinson said. "He was a redshirt at Southern Utah, then went to a junior college for two years and we're happy he chose to come back. He played extremely well tonight."
The two teams were neck-and-neck through the first 10 minutes of the game and SUU held a 12-11 lead after a Hess 3-pointer with 10:38 to play but the Thunderbirds went cold after that point, going without a point until Rippetoe hit a 3-pointer at the 3:56 mark.
SUU missed seven straight shots and the Thunderbirds fell behind 24-12 before Rippetoe's three. Rippetoe added a traditional 3-point play with 2:03 to go in the half, pulling the Thunderbirds within 29-20, but the Toreros wound up with a 33-22 lead at halftime.
San Diego opened the second half with another 12-0 run, stretching the 11-point lead to 45-22 before Casey Oliverson scored inside to end the Thunderbird drought. USD went on to push its lead to 53-26 on a pair of Johnny Dee free throws but Southern Utah battled back, cutting into the deficit and closing the game with back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers by Chris Nsenki and Race Parsons.
"We did a much better job in the second half of moving the basketball," Robinson noted. "We felt we got the shots we wanted in the first half, we were being very aggressive in the paint but had some shots that just didn't fall."
"I thought our guys played extremely hard. Jayson [Cheesman, who had two blocks] had quite the presence defensively," Robinson added. "It was a good game for us, good matchups, but give their staff credit, they did a good job putting their guys in position to win. Our guys battled, we just need to continue to improve."
Oliverson pulled down a game-high nine rebounds and added eight points for the Thunderbirds on 4-of-6 shooting.
Dee led all scorers with 16 points while Dennis Kramer added 15 and pulled down eight rebounds to lead the Toreros.
SUU dipped to 1-8 on the season with the loss while USD improved to 9-4. The Thunderbirds are now off until Jan. 2 when they open Big Sky play at North Dakota.


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Secretary Salazar Finalizes Plan Promoting Responsible Oil Shale and Tar Sands Research, Demonstration and Development (03-22-13)
BLM proposes revisions to commercial oil shale regulations to ensure fair return to taxpayer; will open 60-day public comment period
WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible development of the nation's energy resources, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department's final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and tar sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
The Record of Decision and plan amendments make nearly 700,000 acres in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming available for potential oil shale leasing and about 130,000 acres available for potential tar sands leasing in Utah. In November 2012, the BLM signed two additional leases for RD&D oil shale proposals to encourage industry to develop and test technologies aimed at developing oil shale resources on a commercial scale.
"This plan maintains a strong focus on research and development to promote new technologies that may eventually lead to safe and responsible commercial development of these domestic energy resources," Secretary Salazar said. "It will help ensure that we acquire critically important information about these technologies and their potential effects on the landscape, especially our scarce water resources in the West."
As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy, domestic oil and gas production has grown each year the President has been in office, with domestic oil production currently higher than any time in two decades and natural gas production at its highest level ever. Renewable electricity generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources has doubled and foreign oil imports now account for less than 40 percent of the oil consumed in America – the lowest level since 1988.
Under the Record of Decision, the BLM-managed lands will be available for RD&D leases of oil shale resources. Eligible companies could convert to a commercial lease after satisfying the conditions of the RD&D lease and meeting basic due diligence requirements and clean air and water requirements. The plan issued today will amend ten of the BLM's land use plans.
"The BLM recognizes the importance of taking a balanced approach to exploring the potential of our oil shale resources," said Neil Kornze, BLM's Principal Deputy Director. "This is a smart approach that will not only support companies as they work to determine if development is commercially and technically viable, but also yield the necessary information upon which broader scale commercial leasing could be based."
The BLM will also begin soliciting public comments on proposed revisions to the commercial oil shale regulations. The proposed revisions are designed to ensure a fair return to the American taxpayer, encourage responsible development of federal oil shale resources, and evaluate necessary safeguards to protect scarce water resources and important wildlife habitat. The BLM is accepting public comments for 60 days following publication in theFederal Register, which is expected next week.
The proposed rule identifies several options for amending the royalty rates for commercial oil shale production. The BLM will consider whether to retain some flexibility to adjust royalty rates when more information is available about costs of production, energy inputs, and impacts associated with various extraction technologies.
The results of ongoing research and development activities combined with administrative flexibility in setting royalty rates will allow BLM to determine whether future applications to lease should include specified resource-protection plans and whether other aspects of the regulations need to be clarified.
Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen and is distinct from "shale oil." The largest known domestic oil shale deposits are in a 16,000-square mile area in the Green River formation in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Oil shale can be mined and heated to an extremely high temperature (retorting) in aboveground facilities, and the oil can then be separated from the resulting liquid. Oil shale also can be subjected to extreme heat and pressure while in underground formations (in situ retorting) andthe resulting liquid pumped to the surface. The final oil shale plan examines surface mining with surface retort, underground mining with surface retort, and in situ retorting technologies.
Tar sands are sedimentary rocks containing a heavy hydrocarbon compound called bitumen, which can be refined into oil. Unlike the oil sands deposits in Canada, oil is not currently produced from tar sands on a commercial scale in the United States. U.S. tar sands are hydrocarbon wet, whereas the Canadian oil sands are water wet, meaning that U.S. tar sands would require different processing techniques. The final oil shale plan evaluates the potential impacts of various extraction methods for tar sands, including surface mining with surface retort, surface mining with solvent extraction, in situ steam injection, and in situ combustion technologies.
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Skip to comments.No. 3 Hawks start fast, beat top-ranked Penn State
Posted on 02/02/2013 7:40:03 AM PST by traderrob6
On paper, the third-ranked Iowa wrestling team had every bit a chance to win Friday nights dual with Penn State as the top-ranked Nittany Lions.
Both teams had top-ranked wrestlers and both had matches they should have won.
The Hawkeyes took care of the matches they were favored in and did a little more as Tony Ramos earned a big win by fall at 133 and sophomore Mike Evans won the only true swing match of the night during a 22-16 victory over Penn State in front of a loud and crazy sold-out crowd of 15,077 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The win gave the third-ranked Hawkeyes (16-1, 6-0) sole possession of first place in the Big Ten and snapped Penn States (8-1, 5-1) streak of 20 consecutive dual victories.
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Terrific key words. For a 3rd grader maybe.
I didn't do that Einstein.
So an administrator added those key words? If so, that's a new low.
As to the meet. Good meet. Tough loss at 125, but McDonough is just a stud.
The two close matches and 157 and 174 that reversed in the last 30 seconds were obviously huge.
I was disappointed in the PSU horses. No falls and not enough points. Other than Taylor, only Nico seemed to show up. The Altons havent wrestled much in a month and it showed.
It is a tough place to go to. 15,000 I guess can change things.
PSU would win this at home and I still think is the favorite to win the ncaas.
It appears so. I happen to be a Hawkeye fan and the 3 keywords I added were sports, wrestling and Iowa.
The thread was changed from the "News" forum to "General chat" and the disgusting keywords were added.
I have lodged a complaint for what good it will do.
Thanks traderrob...the haters aren't going to like the month of February. Lots of news will be coming out.
Pardon my ignorance. I am a transplanted Iowan myself. Which "keywords" are you talking about?
I thought it was some kind of NCAA law that Iowa and Iowa St would always be ranked 1 and 2 in either order. When did that change?
PSU hired Cael Sanderson a few years ago and has won the last two national championships.
Some nimrod added "pedophilestate; pedstate" to my list of keywords.
Actually Oklahoma State is rated number 2. That may change now with them taking over the number 1 spot and Iowa #2.
Iowa's only loss came at the hands of OSU. PSU was off their game a bit last night though so nothing may change.
Hey traderrob - what's the average Hawk fan's view of Ferentz these days? I was sort of shocked at his last contract. You see him being there in a few years?
That Iowa crowd is such a difference maker, but they won't be there come the national tournament. Kudos to Iowa on this dual meet, but Penn State looks like it will be in the driver's seat again at the end of the year.
I think the vast majority of fans are still strongly behind him. He had a pretty fair amount of talent this year but they underperformed ie. Vandenberg.
As you know though a few more bad years and that could all change.
Appears that wiser minds prevailed, they removed the offensive keywords.
I added the keywords: juvenile, administrator
That might have had something to do with it. Good luck in the Big Tens traderrob...
We can tell who adds keywords.
Yeah, but can you activate the camera on my laptop without me knowing it?
No, just listen to you breathing.
That's not me. That was my dog.
I love how the Iowa crowd screams for back points or when they don't like an escape or a non-escape. They are all in unison and they are all on the same page. Reffing those meets can't be easy, and it has to be harder in Carver/Hawkeye.
PSU crowds are the same way, but Rec Hall only holds 6500 people. PSU women's volleyball fans are like that too. Knowledgeable to the point that sometimes you wonder if they are more on top of things than the actual officials.
The Nationals, other wise known as the Big Ten tournament with friends invited, is in Iowa's back yard, Wells Fargo Arena - Des Moines. As you know the chanpioship will be decided by the team that has the most wrestlers who out perform their seeds.
The 157 and 174 results once again demonstrate that it's not over until it's over, i.e., Rob Rohn 2002 win in the finals at 184.
Don't say that out loud around an Oklahoma Cowboy.
Thanks for the ping. Sort of an Iowa State - Iowa show down.
Good to know you're surving the winter.
Also guessing that you'll be busy between wrestling seasons now that Senator Harkin has made his announcement. Please keep me posted on developments in that area.
Looks like Cael got through to a few guys. PSU shut out #8 Illinois 37-0 today.
As to the B1G's and ncaa's, I think PSU is set up as a better tournament team than the rest. We'll see though.
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A new interchange is in the works for the Hunter Plant just south of Castle Dale. The plant sees on average 450 loads of coal brought into the facility each day and the new interchange will help ease traffic flow issues.
Traffic currently entering the plant from the north must make a left hand turn across traffic lanes to enter county road 426. When the interchange is completed, traffic from the north will enter a deceleration lane and travel over the overpass on the coal haul road. Travelers from the south will enter a deceleration lane which will bring them onto the coal haul road. When leaving the plant, traffic will enter merge lanes with the traffic going their way.
The new interchange will keep trucks from making left hand turns which will increase safety. Traffic traveling from Ferron to Orangeville will use the lane and go over the overpass and continue to Orangeville. Traffic from Orangeville to Castle Dale will go across the overpass and then make a left hand turn onto the lane which merges with northbound SR-10.
There will still be some traffic using the county road when the project is completed to reach farms in the area. Access to the county road from Orangeville will be across SR-10 in order to keep slow moving farm equipment out of the high speed travel lanes. A left-hand turn lane is provided to facilitate county traffic coming from Castle Dale.
Hunter Plant manager, Mark Mansfield said they appreciate the support the county has given in the development of the design.
Bryant Anderson, county planning and zoning director said that PacifiCorp brought the design before the planning and zoning commission and they are very favorable. The county commissioners, Drew Sitterud and Gary Kofford voted to approve the plan.
Mansfield said they are anxious to begin on the project and would like to do so by June 1 so it would be completed by fall. Things are dependent on state approval of the project as far as a starting date.
Jeff Hymas from PacifiCorp said they have worked cooperatively with the county and state on the project in keeping county officials updated on plans. He said they have tried to develop a plan that works for everyone. "We believe this is a win/win situation for everyone to allow better access and it will be a great benefit for county residents. Utah Power is investing more than $1 million to cover the entire cost of construction of the project. We realize that Utah Power has an impact on the community and we want to facilitate improved access for the coal truck traffic," said Hymas.
The engineer for the project is Johansen and Tuttle. Bids for the project have not been advertised at this time.


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