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How to Rebuild the Calgary Flames - A Four Year (and a bit) Plan - Part Five
January 02 2013 01:08PM
This is a continuation of a series in which I propose a method of rebuilding the Flames organization. For a frame of reference, you can go to the first in the series here.
To date, the team has drafted a high-end center prospect within the top ten (estimated at 6th overall, at the 2013 draft and added another high-end pick, estimated at around 9th overall, either a forward or defenseman. The remainder of the draft would be run with an eye to skill and hockey intelligence at all positions. Seven selections were made, two in the first round.
Rebuilding the Flames - Year 2
At the end of year one and going into training camp for year two, 2013-2014, the roster looks like this:
|Left Wing
|Right Wing
|Taylor/Chris Mason
Notable by their absence are Jarome Iginla, Miikka Kirpusoff, Jay Bouwmeester, Anton Babchuk, Matt Stajan, Cory Sarich, Leland Irving and Blake Comeau.
Irving currently appears to be facing a crisis of confidence within the organization and it would seem that his time as a Flame is coming to an end. I might be wrong, maybe he goes on a wild run to end the AHL season, but at this time he is the 3rd string netminder on an AHL team getting by with two non-NHL backstoppers.
On Cervenka, I have decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he can make a successful transition to the NHL. I have grave doubts about this in reality, but for the sake of argument let us suppose that he does rise to the challenge, however, I have still slotted him behind Mikael Backlund as the 3rd line center for the 2013-2014 season.
The Flames have added considerable depth to their prospect system and the plan now is to let that talent percolate and develop while the veterans continue to occupy the NHL roster spots.
There are new faces in management and scouting and new associate coaches behind the bench, all in addition to a new organizational philosophy. You can review those in the opening article of the series, the link to which has been posted above.
Let us begin year two, 2013-2014.
I don't expect this season to be a smooth ride. However, I do expect that the Flames will be an entertaining team at times. This roster is not built to win immediately, but rather to put forth a solid effort, provide enough scoring balance such that they have, at the very least, a chance to win on any given night, and allows flexibility in the roster for eventual promotion of younger players. It is a roster filled with placeholders and temporary assignments.
By December I would expect the Flames to be anywhere from 7th in the West to 14th (have to save that 15th spot for the Oilers! There I said it. Feel better?) Over the short-term the results of this roster are unpredictable, as the team could spike in the standings similar to what we have seen in Colorado and Minnesota in recent years. However, the year-end result is much more likely to fall back into expectations, meaning a bottom five finish in the West.
Around this time I would be hiring at least one more person to the professional scouting team, if I have not already in year one. I have previously outlined my reasoning for this earlier, but to recap, there are currently only two professional scouts in the Flames system and the addition of at least one more experienced voice to the table is necessary.
Trade Deadline 2014
At the trade deadline I will have several expiring contracts to deal with. Chris Campoli, Lee Stempniak, Michael Cammalleri, Tim Jackman, Derek Smith and Blair Jones are all expiring UFAs. I would attempt to trade Campoli, Stempniak, Jones, and Smith. My asking price for Campoli would be a 2nd round pick, the same with Stempniak, depending on his level of play, while Blair Jones' value may be as high as a 2nd round pick, depending on the desperation of the buyer and Jones' season thus far. Smith's price would be no lower than a 5th round pick in either 2014 or 2015, but perhaps as high as a 3rd round selection, again depending on the level of his play and the market for defenceman at the deadline.
I have all day for Tim Jackman in a depth role and, depending again on the level of play and potential injuries, would offer him a two-year contract extension with no restrictions or clauses at around $1 million a year.
As you can see, the return is meant to add more draft picks and thus more potential NHL players to the development system. I have faith in Troy Ward and his coaching style. Providing him, or his eventual successor, with a steady supply of young athletes is necessary to creating a strong and competitive farm system.
As for Michael Cammalleri, I would prefer a deal of perhaps two years in the range of Hudler's $4 million/year. If a deal cannot be reached then he must be traded at the deadline for a pick. I suspect that he would be worth a 1st round pick to the acquiring team, however, for the purposes of this exercise I am going to assume that he can be re-signed. His numbers are within the range of Hudler, and as such I feel that a similarly structured contract would be negotiable. No clauses or restrictions would be offered.
My explanation for retaining Cammalleri isn't that I believe he is worth keeping so much as that, if he goes, who on earth can I find to play first line minutes on this dreadful roster? The next players in line would be Hudler and Stempniak, neither of whom is capable of holding their own as a top line winger.
Draft Day 2014
At the 2014 draft I expect that the Flames would again be drafting in the top ten. Because this draft is so far away and prospect evaluation at this point is essentially academic, I will simply say that the instructions to the scouting team would be to take the best player available not based solely on that point in time, but the one with the highest potential ceiling in three to five years' time. Preferably one whom we have seen in high-levels of competition and, barring any surprising sliding in the rankings, a forward.
Once again, I am not drafting an immediate impact player. None of these prospects will be rushed into the NHL, but rather allowed to return to their respective leagues to continue to develop.
Provided that all of the UFA trades go more or less as outlined above, that would give the scouting crew eleven picks in the seven rounds – one in the 1st, four in the 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, two in the 5th, a 6th, and a 7th. That is the upper-limit of the number of draft selections I would ever try to accumulate in a single year of a seven-round draft. In fact, depending on the depth of the draft, I may attempt to trade two of the 2nd round picks for a 1st round pick somewhere after 17th overall.
As a general rule, I would try to limit my draft picks to no more than ten and no fewer than seven. This allows for a focus on restocking the prospect pool, but mitigates the chances of losing a promising prospect in three years due to restrictions on the 50-man reserve list.
Prospects need to be spaced out and my ultimate goal is to create long-term stability and a steady stream of young players graduating to the NHL at an even pace.
Now we head into the summer of 2014 and our RFAs are demanding attention. The defensive core may begin to take shape behind Patrick Sieloff and Ryan Culkin as the key future prospects. James Martin may or may not still be in the organization, as he could just as likely be replaced with an equally effective AHL veteran. As well, I am leaving open the possibility of signing AHL free agents to help man the blueline.
Ben Street is likely to be retained, based on his AHL career to date and the need for offensive depth on the farm team.
The development of Joni Ortio would determine if he is to be retained, but for the sake of argument, let us imagine that he is playing well and deserves to be signed and to play in the AHL. Laurent Brossoit will have finished his junior career and would be assigned to the ECHL for a season of professional development before moving to the AHL.
Roman Horak would become an RFA as well, however, the players drafted in the summer of 2013 would be entering their final year of junior and may need to play on the AHL team. For that reason I would retain Horak at a modest increase for only one more season. His value may not exceed that of an AHL veteran, yet as drafted prospects begin to enter the farm system it will be vital to equip that roster with veteran talent to help bring them along, or continue as a depth NHL forward. Horak fits that bill.
Ramo would likely be coming off of his second contract at this point and would need to be re-signed. Based on the development of Irving and Ramo's play overseas I am going on the assumption that Ramo will be the better goaltender at this time and will need to be retained. My contract offer would be two years at approximately $2 million to $2.5 million a year. No clauses or restrictions. The intention here is for Ramo to perhaps unseat one of Mason or Niemi. This is a long-term project as the position has been woefully understaffed for years, with only Irving emerging with even the possibility of becoming an NHL regular. While I do not expect Ramo to become the next franchise goaltender, I do expect that he will at the very least be able to perform at an NHL average as a backup until the emergence of Ortio or Brossoit can deepen the talent pool.
John Gaudreau and Bill Arnold are each entering the final year of their NCAA careers at this point, and either may yet decide to turn professional. As such, they would either finish their college careers or be signed to entry-level contracts, barring any Justin Schultz-like escape clauses, and then go to Abbotsford. Mark Jankowski will have just finished his second season in the NCAA. Michael Ferland, Max Reinhart and perhaps Turner Elson will be entering their third year in the AHL. Mikael Granlund will have come over from Europe and would be assigned to the AHL squad as well. This would quickly fill up many of the roster spots available on the farm and limit the roster spots for AHL veterans at forward.
None of these players will yet have any impact on the NHL team. Their apprenticeship will be gradual and paced. Introducing a 23-year old Jankowski with four years of NCAA hockey and a season in the AHL under his belt to the NHL is likely to be far more beneficial to the Flames organization than to rush him along any sooner.
Ryan Howse and David Eddy would not be retained.
2014 Free-agency
On the free-agency front, I would need to sign a right-winger to replace Stempniak. I would look for comparable talents, responsible players whose style and abilities complement their likely line partners and fit into the responsible, puck-possession philosophy that now governs this franchise.
As outlined in the first of this series, advanced analytics would play an important role in the decision-making process alongside the input of an expanded professional scouting team. Depending on the development of Nemisz, I may need to acquire two players for this wing. The right-wing is the absolute weakest area of prospect depth for the Flames and under the new development system there are unlikely to be any immediate reinforcements available.
Potential UFA targets for the right-wing in 2014 would be players like Ales Hemsky, Mikael Samuelsson, or Nikolai Kulemin – skilled players who can complement their linemates and whose veteran experience would enable them to fit readily into a lineup, on either the 1st or 2nd line. Each one has a skill set in line with a puck-possession strategy.
Another area of concern on the NHL roster is now the center position with the imminent expiration of Scott Gomez's (infamous) contract. This is the one area that cannot be remedied easily on the open market but does require the most significant investment of resources, even if only in the short-term. There may exist trade options at this time but as some of you may have noticed, outside of Gomez, I have yet to make mention of a trade to acquire a player. To be honest some of this is due to my own reticence to engage in even more subjective trade-scenarios. I can control and extrapolate my potential moves under various circumstances. I cannot offer opinions of what other managers might do in completely different circumstances this far into the future.
To that end, I have no solution for the center position other than to offer a two-year contract to a defensively responsible, veteran center capable of logging 1st line minutes and chipping in some offense. For this position I have to be willing to overpay to counter the shorter contract term, somewhere in the range of between $6 million or even $7 million a year. Because we are casting two years into the future at this point I am not going to offer specific names, but the style of center that I would consider signing is in the range of Joe Pavelski or Paul Statsny.
Neither is a top-shelf 1st line center, but for a short time, and on a team with limited immediate expectations, they would suffice. Part of my selling the contract to the free agent would be in offering them the chance to sign a lucrative deal, over a short period, in order to prove that they can be a 1st line center in the NHL, with the potential of then turning that into an even larger deal in free-agency. I feel that this argument, coupled with an Alex-Semin-type short-term arrangement would be enough to lure a suitable player.
That being said, depending on the effectiveness of the free-agent signings, the result might be that the 2014-2015 season could be the worst in recent Flames history. With Karri Ramo or a UFA backup (Chris Mason, as mentioned) and Antti Niemi in net, a suspect defense, center depth that boasts sophomore Roman Cervenka and Mikael Backlund as the best options – even with the addition of the above-mentioned UFA - and limited options on the wing, this isn't a team that inspires much confidence. This lineup, in my eyes, bears some resemblance to the current Winnipeg Jets, with more question marks and placeholders than NHL players slotted into their most appropriate positions. As such, I believe a similar outcome can be expected.
At this point I could expect to see the torches and pitchforks make their early-season debut.
The prospect pool, by contrast, would paint a very different picture. Max Reinhart and Bill Arnold would be entering their third season of pro. By the end of the year, Joni Ortio may be ready to step into the NHL in a backup role should the goaltending picture become clearer. Laurent Brossoit would be ready to move from the ECHL to the AHL as the potential starter. Mark Jankowski would be entering his third year in the NCAA while John Gaudreau and Bill Arnold would be finished their college careers, or would have been playing the past season in the AHL. The 1st round selection from 2013 would be leaving junior and entering the AHL for their first season of pro, in addition to many of the other junior players drafted in that year. The farm team's defense would feature players like Tyler Wotherspoon, Pat Sieloff, Ryan Culkin, and others drafted in 2013. The right-wing position might still be weak, though perhaps less so.
The prospect depth chart might look something like this: center – drafted center in 2013, Jankowski, Reinhart, Granlund; left-wing – Gaudreau, Ferland, Coda Gordon; right-wing – likely at least one drafted prospect from 2013, perhaps two. Defense is too vague at this time to outline, but based on the number of selections attained and the draft order in the 2nd and 3rd rounds it is likely that there would be at least two decent defensive prospects, in addition to Sieloff, Culkin and Wotherspoon. Goaltending has already been discussed, but the pipeline would also likely have been replenished after two years of targeting the draft.
By season's end I would estimate the Flames payroll would be sitting at approximately $54 million, which, based on pessimistic projections of league revenue following the lockout and with the new split of hockey-related revenue, may be near the salary cap. Much of this is due to remaining inflated contracts for players such as Wideman, Tanguay and Niemi and will be corrected as the roster evolves.
Your turn to tell me what you think of the direction thus far. I'm all ears, figuratively speaking.
Rex's Flames Rebuild Series
January 02 2013, 01:55PM
Great series, Rex.
I do however fundamentally have a problem with a strategy that likely a) fails to make the playoffs during the "re-build", and b) fails to draft impact players as a deliberate strategy. Finishing 6th - 14th is no-man's land, and may only lead to perpetual mediocrity.
The goal, in my opinion, is to turn the Flames organiztion into a perpetual elite Western Conference team as quickly as possible.
I don't think taking-it Oilers-style is a legitimate option for most teams, and especially for Calgary. The Oilers used it as a strategy because they had been deprived of elite talent for two decades, were unable to attract impact players via free agency, and had a despicably poor prospect pool. In accordance with your strategy through this series, as Feaster's replacement as GM of the Flames I don't feel it would be a viable mid-term strategy for the Flames.
Calgary can however re-stock their shallow prospect pool while rapidly returning to a highly competitive on-ice team.
How? The NHL lockout provides a unique opportunity to pick over the carcasses of teams who are, how shall we say, highly leveraged.
Here is the Chambers Plan.
Gomez? :(
"have to save that 15th spot for the Oilers!"
please. Columbus.
I'm curious as to why you have Campoli ahead of Butler on the depth chart. Butler is a unilaterally superior player. How does Butler go from being ahead of Scott Hannan and Cory Sarich (and arguably Giordano, too) on the depth chart to behind Chris Campoli?
11 picks would be nice. Under Sutter, the Flames never even had the full 7.
Gaudreau and Arnold are not in the same college season. Arnold would finish a year ahead of Gaudreau.
Having Pavelski would be awesome.
January 02 2013, 02:09PM
The Chambers Plan:
2012-2013 Season - (assume a 48-game season). If fans are going to have to sit through a season of god-awful last-place hockey, at least it would be a shortened season. The Flames should tank during (and only) the 2013 season. What they have is crap, and they need to endure 48 games of transition.
It's the best mid- and long-term strategy for the following reasons: 1) As stated, the team they plan to ice is crap, and not a legitimate threat to make the playoffs. For draft reasons, it's better to finish in the lottery than 20th overall.
2) The 2013 draft class is amazing. As Rex has stated, obtaining as many picks within this draft class as possible is perhaps the greatest way to re-stock the barren cupboard as rapidly as possible.
3) Iginla, Kiprusoff, and Bouwmeester are depreciating assets who posit an opportunity to a) obtain young assets, and b) FREE UP CAP SPACE for July 2013 where the Flames should BINGE ON FREE AGENTS in order to make the playoffs in '13-'14 and beyond.
Functionally, the Chambers Plan beginning in January, 2013 looks like this:
January 02 2013, 02:23PM
The Chambers Plan - 2013
1) Give Iginla cushy soft minutes and pp time through the first 25 games of the season to show that "he's still got it", and create a market amongst teams eager to re-build their post-lockout brand with an extensive playoff run. Trade Iginla to the highest bidder. As an example the return may look like *Matt Read and a 1st rounder from Philly, or *Olli Maata and a 1st rounder from Pit. The return may not be that good, but at least a 1st and 2nd rounder in 2013 is realistic. The Flames may have to take back some salary, but as long as the salary wasn't signed long term (ie Bryzgalov or Ville Leino) they should be willing to do this if it means obtaining quality young players and top-60 draft picks.
2) Create a market for Mikka Kiprusoff. Chicago and San Jose are likeliest targets. Again, Calgary should be willing to take on salary in return, but a return of say Brandon Saad + a 2nd, or Antti Niemi + a 1st is realistic.
3) Find a buyer for Bouwmeester. Detroit, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, and Tampa Bay are possible options. A return of a prospect(eg. John Merill, or Brenden Smith, or Joe Morrow) + a 3rd round prospect may be realistic.
After trading their "big 3" by the end of February, the Flames should provide Baertschi, Horak, and other young players like Saad or Merill with lots of minutes in order for them to both learn as well as fail.
The Flames should conclude the season having turned the big 3 (as an example) into Matt Read, Brandon Saad, John Merill, as well as an additional 1st rounder (from Philly), a 2nd rounder (from Chicago), and a 3rd rounder (from New Jersey). Calgary would draft 4th 25th, 34th, and 62nd.
The Chambers Plan continues...
January 02 2013, 02:30PM
@John Chambers
Not too bad JC.
January 02 2013, 02:59PM
The Chambers Plan - June, July, & Aug 2013
1) Use the 4th overall pick to select Barkov or Monaghan. The organization starts with strength at C. Under no circumstances, no matter how well they play in training camp, will either of these players make the opening day roster in '13-'14.
2) Draft the BPA 25th, 34th, and 62nd. Or, consider trading one of these picks to a team needing to shed salary for a quality player or possible starting goalie Eg. The late 2nd rounder for Phx for Antoine Vermette or to Buffalo for Jhonas Enroth.
3) It is likely that Minnesota buys out Heatley, Montreal buys out Gomez, Pittsburgh buys out Paul Martin, Tampa will buy out Ryan Malone, Philly buys out Meszaros, etc etc etc.
The UFA pool will also be both deep and cheap (relatively) - Nathan Horton, Alex Semin, Andy MacDonald, Perry, Getzlaf, Derek Roy, Ryder, Penner, Ribeiro, Poti, Timmonen, etc etc etc.
With the cap space cleard from trading le "big 3", acquire FA's to replace them. Let's assume Perry and Getzlaf are unattainable. My picks would be Derek Roy, Alex Semin, and Kimmo Timmonen. My assumption is that you'll be able to sign these guys to shorter term (3-5 year) contracts in the neighborhood of, on average, $4.0 - $4.5M apiece. A few other depth signings such as Andrew Ference and BJ Crombeen round out the roster.
So ... I've made this ultra concise, but after finishing 4th last in 2013, the Flames come loaded for bear and with a facelift in '13-'14 with their opening day roster looking something like this:
Semin - Roy - Cammalleri Baertschi - Hudler - Tanguay Glencross - Cervenka - Read Crombeen - Horak - Jackman Saad
Timmonen - Wideman Ference - Giordano Brodie - Merill Butler
Enroth / $1.5M backup
With the prospect pool to include Sean Monaghan and a late 1st rounder. Baertschi, Merill, and possibly Saad begin the season with the big club with the assumption / hope that they'll be 500+ game NHL'ers.
Can I have a job now?
January 02 2013, 03:56PM
@John Chambers
You had me at "the Flames should tank" 2013. If Feaster doesn't come to a similar conclusion/remedy then you're on my shortlist as his replacement. You would bring back Ference, also like that. Not sure about Timmonen though, almost 38yr old.
Kent, with the looming change in salary cap structure, what is you opinion on what will happen to the value of Iginla and Kiprusoff.
I think it is really going to hinder them. Not a lot of teams are going to have room for them, and as a tool to fit under the cap teams will value prospects more than ever and will not be moving them easily. ELC will be a necessity for the next two years.
A lot of teams historically known for renting these players are tight to the cap, or do not require either player. Sure Iggy is a big bonus next year but the value after may not be worth it.
January 02 2013, 04:16PM
Yeah I was an advocate of trading Iginla for Brayden Schenn and a 1st when that rumor was being thrown around in late 2010. The Flames could've scorched the earth and endured a prolonged lottery re-build, but I think the dearth of available UFA's and teams' need to get under the $60M bar creates a big opportunity to fast-track the process.
Lengthy rebuilds are awful for fans to endure and too dependent on marginal draft picks becoming real NHL'ers to rely comfortably on. The plan I've detailed is all about clearing out big, bad contracts (like J-Bo's ... Cammalleri & Wideman's are completely untradeable) for more economical ones. The '13 free agency season is going to be a free agency buffet and teams with cap space (perhaps the Islanders, Jackets, and Stars will be buyers while Boston, Philly, Vancouver, Washington and the NYR will be tapped) will leverage the chance to add veterans to their young core.
Under my plan Calgary wouldn't boast the wealth of A+ prospects that the Oilers or Islanders do, but the process would be over quick and if they found a decent goalie you could make a case for this bring a consistent playoff team again in short order.
January 02 2013, 04:17PM
@John Chambers
Much prefer your solution, however;
- I just don't see the Flames trading Iggy.
- Timonen is a terrible idea, his age, fragility, and salary are all out of whack.
- I agree that Perry as a FA is unlikely, but I would offer heaven and Earth to get former Hitman Ryan Getzlaf as a FA. Given the limits on contract offers likely in place with any new CBA, a Getzlaf offer would be competitive with everyone else's, but he would have some familiarity in place here that might seal the deal (and he could prop up Iginla through his dotage).
January 02 2013, 04:28PM
@John Chambers
That's pretty solid work JC. Not bad at all. There might just be a job for you somewhere.
Hell.. The Flames weren't sharp enough to hire John Davidson as President of Hockey Operations, so maybe they should be considering John Chambers??
Rex.. Solid work dude.. Nice job. One thing... Go back in and edit the entire series to remove all traces of Scott Gomez.
That dog just don't hunt...
@John Chambers
Love it! If there was ever a good time to trade the big 3, it's now!!
Iggy can come back as a UFA later if he really wants to, but in the meantime swapping him, Kipper and JBo for top prospects and 3 top 60 picks is the best direction for this mediocre team at this time.
Nice job, Chambers. You got my vote.
where did backlund go in your plan? or did i just miss it??
Thx Rex! I gotta say, for an Oiler fan you are a good shight:) Mr Chambers, I think tanking on a shortened season is the next best thing to brilliance & truly if the Flame braintrust cant figure this one out, well I dont know. Agree, punt on the Timmo signing. & I agree, we get 1 lottery pick, I would say make a pitch for another top 8 pick with players &/or picks we have acquired.
January 02 2013, 09:22PM
Put me down for JC's overall plan of short term pain for long term gain.
Enjoying the series Rex
only a few small differences from my plan :)
I like Troy Ward, but I doubt we see him in 2013-14. He appears to be pretty self serving, and may bolt if he doesn't feel he'll get the NHL job soon.
Its not the end of the world. I'm all for Abby winning, but at some point, he has to do a better job of juggling the Flames long term plans and Abby's short term goals. He's under pressure from Walter to win now, and his NHL window is closing fast.
Troy obviously likes to play his guys, but in any circumstance where a player the Flames have a "vested interest" in should get a lineup spot as long as they are in the same ballpark as one of Ward's guys.
For me, the proof will be in the pudding. I'm not going to drool over Troy Ward as a coach and teacher until I see it translate to the NHL in a meaningful fashion. (I still think we should have given the NHL job to Lane Lambert, and had him staff the abby bench).
Thanks again Rex!.
Wow, ifs and buts were candy and nuts....what's the difference between this article the rest of us talking about our fantasy league line up?
January 03 2013, 09:26AM
@John Chambers
I'll take it! However, I do not give Feaster and company that much credit. I agree that there will likely be deals to be had to those that can take on salary.
I wonder if Stajan's NHL career will be over once he gets bought out?

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Archive for the 'Horizontal cooperation' Tag
Navigating the Seams – Guest post by LCDR Chuck Hall, USN
By Fouled Anchor
In the Navy, our concept of an organization is dominated by the "chain of command" and the quintessential "org chart," both of which are vertically focused. These concepts do a good job of telling us who we work for, and who works for us. However, they serve little purpose in outlining with whom we should work. These relationships are horizontal in nature and help us navigate the seams of an organization, seams which are readily apparent in a traditional, vertically-focused "org chart." While vertical relationships are key to authority and responsibility, effective innovation, planning, and execution are typically dependent on horizontal relationships.
The Chief Petty Officers' Mess is well known for establishing horizontal relationships. Chiefs utilize relationships established during CPO 365 and within the Chiefs' Mess to solve problems and accomplish the mission. In essence, the effectiveness of the Chiefs' Mess is based in large part on these horizontal relationships. These horizontal relationships need not be limited to the Chiefs' Mess, however. Command members at all ranks, officer and enlisted, can and should seek to establish these relationships in order to make themselves and their command or organization more effective.
A good example is the somewhat recent emphasis on the N3/N2 (Ops/Intel) relationship, linking the operator to the intelligence professional, and vice versa. The result has been greater synchronization between these supporting entities. Another example is the establishment of the Information Dominance Corps (IDC), which seeks to establish a close working relationship between information-focused communities. Regardless of where these information-focused professionals work in an organization, a roadmap for their horizontal relationships has been pre-established by the formation of the IDC. The possibilities for horizontal relationships are truly endless, while the potential value in establishing and utilizing these relationships is immeasurable.
Establishing a horizontal relationship takes little effort. Warfare qualification programs, command functions, social events, and command organizations, such as the First Class Petty Officers Association, all encourage the establishment of horizontal relationships. Getting out of your work space and interacting with your peers is another method. Share each other's roles and responsibilities and seek to identify overlap, and common or supporting efforts. Then establish a relationship and ensure you leverage it whenever necessary or feasible.
Horizontal relationships need not be limited to your own command or organization. Establishing relationships with other commands or supporting staffs can be beneficial as well. Horizontal relationships can also be established within a wider community, leveraging the collective thoughts of a large, diverse group. Tools like the IDC Self-Synchronization website enable establishment and utilization of such relationships.
So the next time you think about the chain of command or look at an org chart, focus on the horizontal vice vertical aspects of the organization. Identify the seams and look for places to establish horizontal relationships, relationships that will help make you and the command more effective. Then set out to navigate the seams.
LCDR Chuck Hall is an Information Warfare Officer and member of the Information Dominance Corps. He enlisted in the Navy in 1988 and served 13 years as a Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) prior to commissioning as a CWO2. Subsequently selected for LDO, he transitioned to the Restricted Line once he completed his BA in Middle Eastern Studies. He currently serves on the CCSG-8 staff, embarked in USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. When at home he enjoys spending time with his wife and three amazing children. He has also contributed to Connecting the Dots with his blog post Waiting to Lead.
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By RAINER HUCKSalt Lake City
You can't pick up a paper these days without being assaulted by the climate change doomsayers and their endless whining about how the evil super consumers of America are destroying the planet.
Elements of the media have become like hungry dogs snapping up every scrap of news describing the various "sky is falling" scenarios threatening global devastation if we continue to maintain our standard of living through the use of fossil fuels. With story after story predicting doom, and next to nothing being said about the objective reality of the threat or the cost of the cure, it is understandable that even ordinarily rational people are demanding some kind of action.
The human caused global warming "crisis" is a classic example of the Problem-Reaction-Solution principle employed by our rulers for countless generations to build popular support for the power they intend to misuse. The process is simple and foolproof: A problem is invented and dire predictions are widely and repeatedly publicized about its catastrophic consequences. The people are whipped into a frenzy of fear until they cry out: "Something must be done!" And just when all seems lost, the resolution appears, being provided, not entirely through coincidence, by inventors of the problem. Naturally, the solution is always effective because no problem can be more reliably solved than one which does not exist.
Nine hundred years ago the Altomec Indians of Central Mexico were grappling with a similarly grave predicament. Starting in mid summer, the days were becoming noticeably shorter, until it seemed that they would vanish altogether, hurling the people into perpetual darkness and cold.
The priesthood, eager to elevate its prestige and power, proposed a brilliant solution to this dire situation. They decreed that a sacrifice to the sun god, wherein living hearts would be ripped from unlucky enemy warriors, would bring about a reversal of the sun's decline. When implemented, this ceremony was 100 percent effective. It always produced the desired result, and the sacrifice of captured enemies did not seem like a high price to ensure the tribes' survival.
Unfortunately, the time came when no captured enemy warriors were available for sacrifice. The ritual, now so important, could not be abandoned. It began to consume the tribes' own people in growing numbers until it became a blood feast of unparalleled proportions. It is estimated that the lives of one million people were ultimately sacrificed to ensure the return of the summer sun.
Since we live in a more enlightened time---it is not politically correct to rip out people's hearts --- our handlers must content themselves by merely ripping the heart out of our economy. Nothing more than fossil fuels can lay claim as the "heart" of our civilization; they propel all of our production, commerce, and growth. The ripping will start slowly at first, just a little tax here and some minor limits there, but as people become conditioned to sacrifice, more and more will be consumed to appease the "God of Global Warming".
Ultimately, when the earth begins to cool, as unbiased geologists tell us it must (After all, we are statistically in the final stages of an unusually warm interval between glacial periods), the messengers of deceit who would be our masters will gloat over having saved us from our "fiery fate". But then a very real problem will arise: How to keep an impoverished population from freezing and starving as the glaciers march toward the equator.
The entire global warming scenario is predicated on complex computer climate models that are full of assumptions and unknowns. Anyone with scientific training knows their accuracy is limited by the skill of the programmers as well as the validity of the model and the input data. In general, a physical process must be completely understood before a reliable computer simulation can be achieved.
We have devoted tremendous effort and billions of dollars to the computer modeling of short and long range climate variation. Despite years of empirical data and banks of super computers, our ability to predict weather even 10 days out is only marginally better than chance. With this disappointing level of success it is absurd to think that we can predict trends never before seen hundreds of years into the future. This is hardly a rational basis for the formulation of global energy and economic policy.
There are plenty of real challenges to life on this planet if we want to address risks that have a proven existence outside of cyberspace. Meteor impacts, for example, have regularly wreaked environmental devastation on a massive scale, sometimes destroying over half of existing life forms in a single event. We have some technology to minimize this demonstrated danger, but it is ignored for the most part, perhaps because it does not offer the prospect of a massive bureaucracy with a global reach. Sadly, the coming global warming taxes and regulations will squander our wealth and drain our productivity without any return on investment, thus decreasing our ability to cope when a real crisis threatens.
We need to recognize the global warming hysteria for what it is: A trumped up crisis manufactured by a virulent secular quasi-religious movement for the purpose of imposing its beliefs on the worldwide population by force of law. The Global Warming they threaten will never come, but the devastation it promises is knocking at our door.


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Thomas Edward John (twitter: @TommyJohn288)
Position: Pitcher
Born: May 22, 1943 in Terre Haute, IN
High School: Gerstmeyer HS (Terre Haute, IN)
School: Indiana State University (Terre Haute, IN)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1961. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1963 (Age 20.107, 9,759th in MLB history) vs. WSA 1.0 IP, 2 H, 0 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER
Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1964 season [*]
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Yankees/Dodgers/Angels/Indians/... 1963-1989
Agents: Bob Cohen [*]
Last Game: May 25, 1989 (Age 46.003)
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President Obama has spoken at two memorial services in just over a week — one for victims of the Boston Marathon attack and one for those who died in the chemical plant explosions in West, Texas. In both speeches, he focused on victims and survivors.
But other Democrats are using these events to talk about another subject — the role of government.
The day after the Boston explosions, while thousands of investigators were searching for evidence, retired Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts told MSNBC that while much was still unknown, he wanted to "talk about what we do know."
"Let's be thankful that we have spent a lot of tax money to build up the capacity to do this," he said, arguing that the police, FBI agents and others in Boston make a strong case for what is often derided as "big government."
"It's very fashionable these days for people in my former line of work to brag about how they cut government, reduced government," he added. "Well, I'm glad that they weren't as successful as they wanted to be."
Some liberals made a related argument when an explosion and fire killed a dozen people in Texas. They said government regulations exist to prevent those kinds of disasters from happening.
"The point is government actually does something, and this makes it very concrete," says Dean Baker, who directs the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. "It's the job of government inspectors to look into, certainly, fertilizer [factories] — we know these are dangerous places — to look at them and make sure that companies are following good safety procedures, so that you don't get explosions like that."
People who want smaller government say liberals are reaching the wrong conclusions from these events.
"We always have to be careful about trying to childproof the country," says James Carafano, a security expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's always bad to make public policy off a single tragedy — particularly when you're talking with chemical facilities. If your answer is, 'I never want to have a chemical fire or incident,' then you might as well not have a chemical industry."
And conservatives argue that while government regulations might prevent some disasters, they also impose a real burden on innocent people and businesses every day. Onkar Ghate with the Ayn Rand Institute says regulations add to overhead.
"They impose an enormous cost on companies and all individual Americans of the amount of paperwork and regulations that you have to go through when you're not doing anything wrong," Ghate says.
These disagreements about the role and size of government are as old as the country. They were a central issue in last year's presidential campaign. Republican Mitt Romney often said that if elected, he would unshackle American business by getting government out of the way.
Obama often says "the government is us" — the schools, roads and research centers that help the country thrive.
"As a nation, we've always come together through our government to help create the conditions where both workers and businesses can succeed," he said in Osawatomie, Kan., late in 2011.
This ideological split came into focus again this week as Congress revisited the spending cuts known as the sequester. Lawmakers created these cuts as part of an effort to shrink the government.
This week, people got upset when air traffic controller furloughs led to long flight delays.
So Congress undid that part of those cuts Friday. An earlier exception had been made for meat inspectors as well.
"We have been fed a narrative or an argument or a story," says Neera Tanden with the progressive Center for American Progress, "that the government can't do anything right. And what's been interesting about the sequester is that people are beginning to pay attention to the fact that there are ways in which the government has a positive role, and we don't like that role to be taken away."
Polls consistently show that people want less government spending. Polls also show that people don't want the government to cut back on specific services.
The tug-of-war between the parties is all about reconciling these two deeply held, mutually exclusive desires.


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NC Salvaged Vehicles
Understanding what a salvaged vehicle is can help you avoid purchasing a used vehicle that is going to result in higher costs and low quality transportation. There are two main indicators that qualify a vehicle as a salvaged vehicle – leading to a "salvage" brand on the title of the vehicle:
- Vehicle is legally and/or mechanically inoperable based on state highway and roadway standards.
- Vehicle is unable to successfully pass a state safety inspection without needing repairs that will overcome the value of the vehicle.
You cannot register or even drive a salvaged or branded vehicle, but it is possible to buy and sell, or even own these vehicles. When you hear about a vehicle history report or title check, however, these are the vehicles these reports are protecting you from buying as in some cases they are sold fraudulently without the information you need to make a quality decision.
There are serious requirements that are in place with registration and titling of vehicles so that fraud like this doesn't occur – however it is up to you to protect yourself as it will happen if you aren't careful.
Salvaged Vehicle Registration and Titling
Since a salvaged vehicle is known as such due to safety compliance failure and mechanical error, it is absolutely necessary that you prove your vehicle's repairs bringing it to compliance and appropriate operation before you can even register and title it.
You must obtain a Rebuilt Salvage title before you can register the vehicle, meaning that these repairs and code compliance must be proven to get the rebuild title, which then is used to obtain salvage vehicle registration.
- Complete your application for title. This form is an office issue only and cannot be found online.
- Obtain your certificate of salvage if your vehicle is an out-of-state branded vehicle; or complete the appropriate certifying form.
- Complete an application for Reconstructed, Specially Constructed, and Modified Vehicles which may be available on the internet.
- Take and submit photos to show all sides of the vehicle in color.
- Submit any Bill of Sale or other documentation that purchase of the appropriate parts and necessary components to bring the vehicle to standards took place. A generic Bill of Sale kit is offered online for complete documentation.
- Complete the VIN Plate application if necessary. This form can be often found online and must be submitted to DMV office.
Once you pay all your registration fees following, you will receive your salvaged vehicle registration. Remember that a safety inspection and confirmation of parts is required before the application can be submitted.
Declaring a Vehicle Salvaged
For branding a vehicle as salvaged, you can apply for the original salvaged certificate. You must own the vehicle and will have to surrender the current title.


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