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Episode 028 - The Vodka Episode
Usually, here on the Modern Bar Cart Podcast, we interview a cocktail or home bartending expert, or we examine certain bartending topics and figure out what tips and tricks we can take from the pros to help you become a more effective home bartender.
But this time, we've got a bit more of a journey on our hands—one fraught with controversy, flavor, and more than a little bit of vodka.
Our key questions this episode are:
- Why does vodka get such a bad rap in the cocktail community?
- Does vodka have flavor?
- And what separates a good bottle of vodka from the rest of the herd?
To help answer these questions, I invited a few friends to help guide us on our journey through the allegedly flavorless landscape of this controversial clear spirit.
Our Vodka Investigation Squad
RB Wolfensberger
RB is the head distiller at Gray Wolf Craft Distilling in St. Michaels, Maryland (part of the Lyon Distilling Company). He's been deeply immersed in making craft single malt vodka for the past few years, and his insights on the distilling process and our cultural expectations about vodka were crucial for this episode.
His Lone Single Malt Vodka is turning heads and converting people into vodka drinkers all over the U.S. You can find a bottle in select liquor stores in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Jordan Wicker and Alex Luboff
These gents are the hosts of the Speaking Easy Podcast, a cocktail and home bartending audio resource that provides excellent advice and inspiration for budding mixologists.
Alex and Jordan are self-professed vodka skeptics, but they agreed to lend us their palates and give vodka a fair shake by taste testing three different vodkas with Eric and recording their impressions for this episode. By the end, we may not have turned them into vodka drinkers, but I think we learned some interesting things about craft vodka.
Alla Polyakova
Alla is a former citizen of the Soviet Union. Growing up in Russia in the 1980s before emigrating to the United States, she is our cultural guru, who's here to make sure we don't overlook the social aspects of vodka drinking.
Alla sheds light on the fascinating history of vodka, as well as a host of rituals and traditions that accompany this beloved Russian libation.
The Vodka Tasting
In this episode, Jordan, Alex, and Eric taste through three craft vodkas made with different base grains. Here's what we found:
Reyka Vodka
Reyka is an Icelandic vodka made with wheat and barley, as well as (allegedly) glacier water. Regardless of how this may impact the polar ice cap, it does give a certail allure to the vodka, which we discuss when we note that the bottle is a slightly bluish hue--like the color of a glacier.
Tasting Notes: Minimally sweet (sucrose), slight alcohol burn, clean finish. Would be imperceptible if chilled.
Hanson of Sonoma
Hanson of Sonoma produces an organic vodka distilled from grapes, which makes sense, considering that Sonoma is one of the largest grape producing regions in the United States. This bottle was probably the favored sipping vodka of the three that we tasted.
Tasting Notes: Noticeably sweet (fructose), slight plummy flavor on the palate, with a lot of body and almost no alcohol burn on the finish.
Hailing from New Zealand, VDKA 6100 is a whey-based vodka. That's right...milk protein. This vodka, although clean and generally agreeable, exhibited more of the traditional alcohol burn and numbing that many people expect from vodka.
Tasting Notes: Abundant alcohol on the nose and palate, clean flavor, some numbing. Of the three we tasted, it has the thinnest body and the harshest finish. On their website, they claim that the flavor "hints at citrus and white pepper," but we admittedly didn't come to the same conclusion.
Creative Commons Attributions
Clips from the following artists were used in this episode, with great gratitude. All music is licensed for commercial use under Creative Commons 4.0.


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So I bought a 21' Cougar jet (cdn) and am in the process of re-powering it. It has a basic 12JG pump with a bronze A3 and electric jetovator. The original Gen IV 454 is semi-seized from sitting, I took one head off - its rusty so a complete rebuild would be required. I can move crank 1/4 rotation.
I have run carb motors in cars/trucks etc, but I wanted a FI motor in the boat, I found a local 8.1L Mercruiser base engine\ecu (Gen VII) that turns over, has some hours but ran when removed (he said). I paid $750 for the core and thought I would run it a season and see. Of course I cant leave stuff together unknowing for long so I pulled the FI and flushed out bad gas, pulled intake, found loose injector parts in intake tracts and before long its a shortblock. Heads looked reasonably good, lapped valves, threadlocked studs in ( a bit loose) and put them aside for later. Cleaned pistons and found one with small detonation pits or ??, minor wear on cylinders. There are Hypereutic which I dislike but there are .005 over forged pistons that can be hone fit so thats it, sorted.
A vac trip to San Diego and a new roller cam and rockers came home. All upgrades easily handled by the stock ecu with a bit of fuel pressure increase. Reprogramming a Mercury ecu for me is mail order and expensive and who knows how good.
And along comes Seattle boat show.
Met a guy there who was local and ended up buying an old school Banks TT setup, complete, shiny, hardly used, it followed me home.
It all fits nicely inside the doghouse and should make a lovely sleeper or maybe just and explosion who knows.
I have a custom NA boat cam 242/249 @.635/.649 LSA 116 and 13 deg overlap, I could trade this in on two different forced induction cams they make but I dont know if either is better Turbo suited, they sell for Whipple charged engines, I will attempt to get timing cards for them. I have a Holley HP ecu and wiring harness to deal with the tuning aspect of this.
Anyone got any thoughts?
How do most tune wet exhaust engines? on water?, anyone know of wet-dynos in Pacific NW area.
I know this all looks kinda hair-brained, but its a hobbly and it just happens when pieces became available and they are suitable for the era of boat I think.


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Folks, it's that time again. Issue 35 of The Lifted Brow has been delivered unto us and we are totally rapt. Want to know why? Just gaze upon this luscious cover artwork, whipped up by the inimitable Haein Kim. It's the bubble-gum-pink fantasy you didn't know you needed in your life.
As well as revealing the winning piece for the 2017 Prize for Experimental Non-fiction, this issue contains an incredible mix of essays, fiction, poetry, comics and visual art from around Australia and all across the globe.
Please be more specific, you cry? Of course! Issue 35 of The Lifted Brow features:
- mixtape cassette liner notes by Anwen Crawford (and for subscribers only, instructions on how to claim your free mixtape cassette or download code);
- non-fiction from Ellena Savage, Jana Perković, Hayley Singer, Dion Kagan, Mark Dean, Adalya Nash Hussein, Sarah Sentilles, Zoe Holman, Antonia Pont, Shirley Le, and Joanna Walsh;
- short fiction by Haris A. Durrani, and also a piece of Croatian fiction by Jasna Jasna Žmak translated by Jana Perković;
- poetry by Abdellatif Laâbi (translated by Pierre Joris), Najwan Darwish (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid), and Dai Weina (translated by Liang Yujing);
- a conversation between George Saunders and Paul Dalla Rosa;
- comics and artwork from Shay Colley, Meg O'Shea, Rosie Whelan, Ben Juers, Emma Davidson, Gina Wynbrandt, Joanna Frank, Bryce Pemberton, Bailey Sharp, Amaya Lang, Lasse Wandschneider, Matthew Thurber, Dianna Settles, Jason Herr, José-Luis Olivares, Mish Meijers, Power Paola, and Fionn McCabe;
- and, as always, Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny's sex and relationships advice column 'Law School'.
This pink prize will be available to purchase in early September. As always, subscribers will be the first to get their hands on freshly printed copies of our mag. And, as mentioned above, they will also receive instructions on how to request their own TLB mixtape cassette/digital download. So subscribe now and get the full TLB sensory experience. TLB in 4D.


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Great Sunsets
Posted by BC on September 2nd, 2008
Because of the eruption of Kasatochi, an Alaskan volcano, observers in the Northern Hemisphere have been witnessing some great sunrises and sunsets. The eruption occurred on 07 August 2008, and it sent ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the winds have carried it across North America and parts of Europe.
The photo to the left was taken on 30 August 2008 from Kansas, USA.
The particles have caused scattering of light, which gives it more vibrant colors at the red end of the spectrum. Hence, brighter and more colorful beginnings and endings of our days (or nights, if you will).
You can see many photos and read more information on spaceweather.com.


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Confused about what to do for cleaning your window shutters? Window shutters can either be functional or decorative. Choose your shutter that you want to install in your home. Many a times, it is both functional as well as decorative in looks. Whether its natural wood shutters, painted shutters or vinyl ones, they offer a beautiful look and a charming featuring character to any of the home. But, if you're unable to take care of your window shutters, it simply would result in getting dirty, dingy and bad looked. If not maintained and cleaned your window shutters properly, it will result in damaging the losing its beauty for which it is installed.
But, wait a minutes! In order to keep your window shutters looking best and beautiful; you are definitely needed to clean it regularly. It is not only important but it is really essential to perform the process of cleaning. Well, the good news for the home owners here, whether it's a functional window shutter or a decorative one, both of them are relatively easy and simple to maintain. Trust me folks, the cleaning process would turn yup to be very easy if you're following the stated tips. Here are certain tips on cleaning the window shutters that will definitely prove fruitful to the home owners!
Don't forget, there are different types of window shutters available in the market. Each and every home owner might have selected one of them either. Examples are: Exterior window shutters, wood shutters and vinyl and painted window shitters. See for which one falls for your category of window shutters and perform the cleaning process thereby.
Cleaning painted or vinyl window shutters:
Things you'll need for cleaning:
- Warm water
- Cleaning cloths or rags
- Bucket
- Vacuum attaching with soft brush
- Soft towel
- Mild dish washing soap
- Toothbrush
When it comes for the cleaning process, at least for once or twice in a week, make the use of soft brush attached vacuum cleaning for cleaning the surface on the window shutters.
Vacuuming regularly helps in keeping your window shutters free from accumulated dirt and debris on the surface. Now take a bucket and add some amount of warm water and dish washing soap. Mix it well before you start applying on the window shutters. It works like a cleaning solution for your window shutters.
Use a clean cloth and dampen it by the prepared cleaning solution. Wash the surface of the window shutters completely. If you need something for stepping up, make the use of a ladder or a stool for heading up to clean the upper section of the window shutters.
Make the use of your second cloth by dampening it with clean water. Remove any accumulated soap residue that you observe on the shutters. Use a dry towel for wiping the shutters completely dry. If you observe any small crevices or grooves that have the major chances of accumulated dirt, make the use of tooth brush for removing and scrubbing out any of the residue of dirt.
Dip the toothbrush into the cleaning solution and rub it up on the grooves for cleaning the dust.
Wood window shutters cleaning process:
Things you'll need for cleaning:
- Dusting cloth
- Toothbrush
- Soft brush attached vacuum cleaner
- Wood polishing agent
Similar to the above process, start examining your wooden window shutters first. The wooden window shutters should be cleaned at least once in a week. If you find it important, you can clean it more than once also. Make the use of soft brush attached vacuum cleaner for cleaning the shutters and the surface of the wooden shutters. It's advisable of keeping the settings at the lowest mode, so that it doesn't result into damaging the surface of the wooden shutters.
At least once or twice in a month, make the use of a dusting cloth for spraying and polishing the wooden surface. Before polishing it, it's advisable of cleaning the wooden window shutters thoroughly.
Make the use of steeping tool or a ladder for climbing up and cleaning the other sections of the window shutters. It's advisable, not to stand on a chair or a table any time. It simply would result into any serious injury that you might have not thought for. And if you're using any ladder or a stool, it's advisable to make sure that the surface of flat enough for being sturdy.
It's even better if you have someone to hold the ladder or the stool for you; it helps in lowering the chance of getting injured. If you observe any small grooves filled with accumulated dirt and debris, make the use of toothbrush for removing the same. Spray the cleaning solution on the toothbrush and remove the dust. It can easily clean the hard to reach places in your wooden window shutters.
It's advisable to not to use water or soap on the wooden window shutters installed in your home. As there are chances of water that it can damage and even wrap up the wood surface of the shutters.
Cleaning the exteriors window shutters:
Things you'll need for cleaning:
- Water
- Dish washing detergent
- Sponge mop
- Hose
- Bucket
Start the process by filling up the bucket 4 to 5 parts of water and a part of dish washing detergent. Collect your cleaning tools for cleaning the surface of the shutters. Make the use of hose for spraying on the shutters. Don't forget to apply the cleaning solution on the entire surface of the shutters. Start from the top surface and went off to the bottom. This will help in cleaning the surface in a better way. Decide how much solution you want to apply on the surface and let it rest for some time.
Make the use of clean cloth for removing any residue observed ion the surface. Let it dry and enjoy a spotless window shutter in your home.


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Arlington Nat Cemetery-Shrine
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Arlington National Cemetery: Shrine to America's Heroes | Participate in a lecture and tour of the nation's most famous cemetery. Learn its history and visit the sites of notable veterans, dignitaries, presidents and lesser-known notables interred there. $85 includes $35 fee. Note: Transportation provided. Extensive walking required. Participants must be able to walk and stand for hours without assistance. Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for outdoors. Bring a bag lunch or purchase on own.
This course is offered: Spring 2019 Fall 2019
Course and section data last updated: 08/21/2019 6:09 AM


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DC Estate Winery Engagement | Kadie + Chad by Peer Canvas Photographer
We recently had the pleasure of shooting their engagement pictures at DC Estate Winery. Brenton and I are very much looking forward to their wedding!! and Many thanks to Ashley and Tia at DC Estate for the use of their beautiful location :)


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New management at the newsagency means Thirroul's South Side is about to once again have a general store!
In addition to running Austinmer Post Office and Newsagency, Suzie Wynn-Jones and Mark Lewis have taken over Olivers newsagency (on the Ryans Hotel side of town) and, following the closure of the general store several weeks ago, plan to introduce a wider range of products to make life that bit more convenient.
Now called Thirroul Railway Stationers and Newsagency, Suzie and Mark will also stock a range of basic food items, including milk and fruit, so we can pop in on our way past and grab those last minute essentials.
Suzie says they took over the business last week, and are in the middle of a massive refurbishment.
"Things are a bit crazy at the moment," she says, "but it has to be done because we want to give the business a fresh start and a new lease of life! We will stock a much broader range of items, much like we do at Austinmer Post Office."
"We saw the need to provide the basics on the Southern side of town," she says. "Since the general store closed, locals can no longer just duck down and grab those few things they might need, so we decided to fill that gap. We
will still be doing all the normal things, but in addition to becoming more of a general store, we are also expanding our stationery. First step was to include printer ink!"
Meanwhile, work is underway at the former General Store next door, as Coledale's 'Cocoon' prepares to move in.
The business, which stocks amazing and unique homewares, has been struggling with space for some time as their amazing range is swamped in the tiny shop on the western side of the village.


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Getting To The Point – Personalizations
Finding The Best Koozies On The Internet
Numerous people experience challenges when seeking to identify the right koozies. By taking certain actions, the process of purchasing personalized koozies can be simplified. For many centuries, and the use of personalized koozies has been widespread. Indeed, people have been using them at advertising tools for a long time. There are also people who have been using the personalized koozies as fantastic party favors for a long period of time.
When looking for an online koozie, it is always prudent to undertake some research. Before choosing a certain koozie, a person should aspire to known the various styles which are available. Developing a creative design is very critical in personalizing the koozie. Paying a lot of attention to the kind of colors used in developing the koozie is very important. When making a koozie, the color of the ink used has to be taken into account.
Using matching colors is one of the best ways to improve its appeal. Being careful when choosing the design of the online koozie can go a long way. There are many people who like the practice of inscribing a company logo on a koozie to make it more appealing. Inscribing a monogram on a koozie is preferred by many people today. There are many companies which are willing to help people in customizing a koozie.
Short Course on Shopping – Covering The Basics
Talking to the design team of such a company can go a long way for the client. Having adequate experience in developing koozies can go a long way for any person. There are various reasons why online koozies have become so popular recently. Owing to the affordable prices, many people are in a position to afford the personalized koozies. Purchasing in bulk is the best way to ensure that the price comes down significantly.
The Beginner's Guide to Personalizations
The use of koozies for fundraisers has become the norm today. In the testimony of many clients, using personalized koozies can be quite fun. To enhance the fun, it is important to ensure that the koozie a person is using is quite unique. Taking some time to establish the durability of the online koozie is very essential. However, it is important to note that durable koozies also happen to be quite expensive. Considering the kind of material that has been used in making the koozie is the best way to determine if it is durable.
When making koozies, many companies use neoprene material. The testimonials of other people can be quite beneficial for those seeking to purchase an online koozie. If numerous clients are impressed with the personalized koozies which have been supplied, it is an indication that they have a superior quality. The process of buying the personalized koozies should not be complicated with a view to helping in saving tim.


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"ThatKellieGirl" is featured in the "I Am Ward 8" profile on the Congress Heights on the Rise (CHOTR) blog for the month of June.
Written by the dynamic, effervescent and ultimate advoc8te, Nikki Peele, CHOTR highlights the wonderful people, places and things that make the Congress Heights neighborhood of Ward 8 so fantastic! It also includes community news covering Anacostia, Barry Farm, Washington Highlands, Bellevue, Deanwood, Hillcrest and other Ward 7 and 8 neighborhoods making up the new River East.
I am truly excited and appreciative to be highlighted as the "I Am Ward 8" profile. The best is yet to come for the "ThatKellieGirl".


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Chris and I slept poorly last night thinking about our frozen embryo transfer today. We wake up bleary-eyed at the indecent five o'clock hour (good practice for kids right?) and make our way to the reproductive center. Traffic is near gridlock, so we come skidding into the parking lot about five minutes late. We sign in at 7:50, and wait for them to call us back for our 8:30 transfer.
Ok, so I know we are a little late, but they are running much later than us. Normally, I wouldn't mind so much. However, with an embryo transfer, they require you to come with a full bladder. I'm starting to think my bladder is weak sauce because at about 8:45 (still no call back) I start thinking I'm going to piss myself in the swanky lobby chairs. Chris starts to see that panicked look in my eyes, and says he's going to go find a nurse. They tell me it'll be at least another 30 minutes, so they ask me to "partly" empty my bladder. I probably looked at the nurse with that same sideways expression my dogs give me when they hear a high-pitched noise. So she explains I should start to pee, count to ten, and shut it down. After that, I feel much better, and we go back to the swanky chairs to wait some more.
A nurse calls us back, asks us to sign the waivers, and then tells me I should undress from the waist-down and get under a sheet on the hospital bed. They provided me with some sexy rubber-grip hospital socks, but I brought some of my own.
The nurse walks in and tells me she's going to look at my bladder. She squirts the clear ultrasound goo on my lower stomach region, and begins pressing like hell with the ultrasound into my oh-still-very-full bladder. She tells me how perfect the fullness is (uh, yeah lady, I can feel that it's full). Meanwhile, our doctor walks in, greets us, tilts the hospital bed so my feet are in the air, goes to the end of the bed and flips my sheet back. I know they are used to seeing the goods, but I was so bashful lying there with my cookie hanging out. He proceeds to spread my legs, grab a speculum, and do the regular gyno routine, and then insert the catheter through my cervix.
The nurse called the embryologist, and she loaded our chosen embryo into a syringe. We decided to go with our top rated male. The moments while we waited for her to come in were probably the most awkward since no one in the room really had a job to do, and I was lying there feeling pretty exposed. Soon enough our embryologist came in, and the injected our little boy through the catheter and into my uterus.Our embryo is a handsome little guy by IVF standards. He's rated a 6AA on the Gardner Blastocyst Grading Scale, which I was really pleased to learn is the best rating an embryo can receive. The 6 means he's a hatched blastocyst. The first "A" means his inner cells are tightly packed (this part becomes the fetus), and the second "A" means his TE cells are plentiful and form a cohesive layer (this part becomes the placenta). This is light years better than our only blastocyst in our first failed IVF cycle. We are thrilled. I feel like a drug addict, but we added ANOTHER pill today. In addition to my estrogen shots and progesterone lozenges and suppositories, now I'm taking methylprednisone. This is supposed to help prevent my body from rejecting the embryo so it can attach.
All in all, good news to report today. Our doctor said my endometrium looked great, the transfer was flawless, and we have a perfect embryo. He said it's all up to my body at this point. So come on, body, let's get pregnant!


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I love decorating our house for holidays – my favorites are Christmas, Halloween and Easter. We have a huge under stairs closet that is filled with bins of holiday decorations mostly for those 3 holidays. For the other holidays I only have a few decorations including 4th of July. This year I hoped to add a few more and I'm quite happy with my kitchen table center piece. I found these pinwheels in Walmart's $1 bins (I think they were actually 98 cents each). The glass vase I had recently picked up at Goodwill for under $1. The stars and polka ribbon I already had so this turned out to be a bargin centerpiece!
I also pulled out several Christmas red candles, some candle holders and hurricane vases and tied more ribbon around those for a simple patriotic update. Also used a few red (usually used at Christmas) table runners.
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|This is a classic RPG work and the third in this series. It takes place in a magical world where six young bloods are fighting for their lives. In the game, the player will be on a magical continent full of treasures and monsters. In order to get these treasures, he will start a long adventure, and he will meet many like-minded friends and challenge the big terrible Devil together. Devil. The game's graphics are a bit rough today, but because of its very attractive story and contains a number of distinctive RPG elements, the game has become an influence on many subsequent games, as the players like to still experience it.


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An attorney argued Tuesday that the Geauga Park District Board of Commissioners did not violate Ohio's Sunshine Laws at their meeting last month when the board allegedly discussed in executive session a resident's request to speak at the meeting.
Todd C. Hicks, an attorney with Thrasher, Dinsmore and Dolan and the Burton village solicitor, briefed the board on a 5th District Court of Appeals decision to uphold a trial court's ruling that Bolivar Village Council did not violate Ohio's Open Meeting Laws, also known as Sunshine Laws, when the council discussed a resident's request for public comment in executive session.
The facts in that case, he said, are similar to allegations of sunshine law violations against the park board stemming from the board's August meeting.
On Aug. 8, Protect Geauga Parks President Kathryn Hanratty sent an emailed request for public comment to the three park commissioners and Executive Director John Oros. At the Aug. 15 board meeting, the board went into executive session to discuss the purchase of property. When the board returned from executive session, they said they had nothing to report, and later in the meeting, Board President Andrej Lah stated that the board would not allow Ms. Hanratty to speak. Protect Geauga Parks has been critical of the district's elimination of public comment at their meetings.
According to Ms. Hanratty, she asked Mr. Lah after the meeting when her request had been discussed, and Mr. Lah responded that her request had been briefly discussed in executive session.
"That's not the reason they went into executive session, but it's a violation of Sunshine Laws," Ms. Hanratty said following the Aug. 15 meeting. "It's not something they can discuss privately and it's a fairly big decision to make without allowing the public to know why you made it."
Similarly, on May 19, 2014, Bolivar Village Council voted to go into executive session, and prior to adjourning Irvin W. Huth asked if the public would be permitted to speak after the executive session, according to court documents. Bolivar Mayor Rebecca Hubble advised that the general consensus was no, but that she would let council make that decision after executive session. Following the executive session, Mayor Hubble announced that public comment would not be allowed.
On May 18, 2016, Mr. Huth filed a lawsuit alleging the village council had violated sunshine laws, and the trial court dismissed each count of Mr. Huth's complaints on March 6, 2018. Mr. Huth filed an appeal, and on Aug. 27, 2018, appellate judges Patricia A. Delaney, Craig R. Baldwin and Earle E. Wise Jr. upheld the trial court's decision that no violation had occurred.
"Essentially (the court of appeals said) to have a sunshine law violation, you have to have two things. You have to have deliberations in an executive session, but the second part you need is some official action on the part of the public body, meaning the passing of a rule, an ordinance or something else. And what both courts found was that a decision to not allow public comment, or to allow public comment, does not rise to the level of an ordinance or rule or some other official action. That's an administrative decision, and therefore no violation occurred, even if that decision was discussed outside of a public meeting or in executive session," Mr. Hicks said.
In an interview following the meeting, Protect Geauga Parks Trustee Dave Partington, who had not yet reviewed the case cited by Mr. Hicks, said "I don't see (the Bolivar case) as relevant. Our question is, (the board) had an attorney with them the entire time and you made a decision. And you made a decision in private that's not appropriate for executive session. (Last month) Mr. Lah said 'We agreed.' Well to me, either you held a formal vote or an informal vote, but agreement is agreement and you did this and you didn't do it in public and you should have.
"This again is a total lack of transparency, and they didn't have to do it this way," Mr. Partington said. He continued that Protect Geauga Parks would be reviewing Mr. Hicks' assessment and the Bolivar case with their attorneys.


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When? Thursday 15th February
Where? Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
What channel is it on? Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Action
Where can I stream the match? Sky Sports subscribers can stream the match online via Sky Go
Are tickets still available? www.eventim.co.uk
Simon Whitlock 13-17 Raymond van Barneveld (1 draw)
These are two very experienced players who ARE looking to build on their unbeaten starts to the 2018 Premier League. Simon Whitlock has exceeded all expectations over the opening two weeks to claim two wins from two matches; his display against Cross last week certainly didn't reach the levels he produced against Suljovic but he did what needed to be done and comfortably punished a below-par opponent.
Raymond van Barneveld upped his performance in week two - especially on his checkouts - and the way he has held his nerve in winning the twelfth and final leg in both matches bodes well for his chances. It is the Dutchman who holds an overall lead in their head-to-head win record, and this is their first meeting since November 2016 when Whitlock ended a six-match losing streak against Barney.
It's a tough game to predict but the big Dutchman may just have what it takes to maintain his unbeaten start to the Premier League season with victory over the Wizard here.


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I'm at Freenode in #astroparticle and #itsyndikat. You will find me as ph03nix there.
I have a 24/7 client running, but for reasons I'm not willing to spend 24/7 of my life online. Best to try it during office hours.
Ham radio
In case you want to contact me, I'm quite often online on the OE7XCJ (2m) and OE7XBI repeaters (70cm). My callsign is OE7PHX.


text: She is survived by her sons, Dr. Dean (Kathi) and Colonel USAF (Ret.) Brian (Barbara) and grandchildren Jacqueline, Lindsay and Alexander and great-grandchild Jacob and her sister, Aldona. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Mary, brother Kye and her loving husband of many years, Fred. Ronnie was a veteran of WWII and served in Woman's Air Corps (WAC). A small service of remembrance will be held 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at VITO-NERO FUNERAL HOME IN GARFIELD HTS., OH. Burial will follow at Arlington National Cemetery at a future date.


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Adding Carestream's mammography/tomography module will equip physicians to read these images on picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstations and eliminate use of standalone mammography workstations.
The University of Iowa Health Care's Vue Archive enterprise repository stores radiology images, cardiology catheterization images from a dedicated cardio PACS and echo images from a separate PACS. It maintains both a production data center and a backup data center to supply redundancy and ensure access to patient data.
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I sewed my brains out yesterday to get this one finished. I decided against machine sewing the binding. So obviously it took a little bit longer.
Gavin likes it. He was helping me take the pictures.
I think I might try and sell this one.
I don't remember what the finished size was, my hand is all cramped up and I am too lazy to get up and measure it again.


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We've got a truly fucked up one today. The first video is from a dashcam showing two motorcyclists speeding down the highway when one crashes into a car coming from the opposite direction. The dude goes flying in the air and it looks like a second one fell to the ground closer to the bike then suddenly the second motorcyclist smashes into the car recording. Now I'm not sure which guy it is in the second video but it's supposed to be one of the motorcyclists and their face is completely missing except for their eyes. We see this kind of face (or lack thereof) in a lot of attempted suicides via a shot to the head. That is not the case here though and this poor fucker has nothing left. From the pictures we can see one man missing his head entirely and the other in the striped shirt I believe is our faceless friend. The hairstyle looks to be the same plus there's hardly any face left and the injury seems to match up overall. I'd love to see how he looks after the docs stitch him up.
Thank you Pinky for the awesome videos!


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The Month in Mines, January 2017Posted: February 28, 2017 Filed under: Month in Mines | Tags: Africa, Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Kenya, landmines, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara Leave a comment
At this year's Academy Awards, the Danish film, "Land of Mine," was one of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Picture. "Land of Mine" (Under Sandet in Danish) lost to the Iranian film, "The Salesman," but garnered quite a bit of attention for its subject: in the days after World War II, the Danish government forced German prisoners of war to clear the landmines placed on Danish soil during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. I haven't seen it yet, but as a fact-based account, I am looking forward to this film. Other the flip side and made of pure hokum, is "Mine" starring Armie Hammer as a US military sniper who steps on a landmine and hears the fateful, "click," as the mine arms itself. Hammer then has to survive for 52 hours on the same mine as he waits for rescue. We've covered this before, but landmines don't go "click," they just explode. Having them go click may be a good trick for heightening narrative tension, but it is also supremely lazy writing.
Check out "Kilo Two Bravo." Like "Land of Mine," "Kilo Two Bravo" is based upon real events, specifically the experiences of a British army unit in Afghanistan which, during a routine patrol of a dry riverbed near the Kajaki dam, wanders into a minefield. The mines don't go click. They wait like silent predators, unseen and unmarked, until they are disturbed. The filmmakers treat the landmines like monsters in a horror movie which is what "Kilo Two Bravo" is: a modern monster movie with tragic, terrible and real outcomes. The soldiers try desperately to save one another and incur additional injuries in the process, but steadfastly refuse to withdraw until they are all rescued. The audience knows the mines are there but it is still a shock when they detonate because landmine explosions are inherently shocking. Writing gimmicks are not needed to heighten the tension, the facts of the situation facing the characters creates its own tension. A very good, if tough movie, which shows the true horror of these weapons.
South Africa
A woman living on the border with Zimbabwe was gardening in her yard when she detonated a landmine that had been left behind when the area was a military base in the Apartheid era. The woman was injured in the arm and face. This incident followed one a year earlier when a person was killed salvaging scrap metal in the same area (All Africa).
A suspected landmine from the Lord's Resistance Army severely injured six children in Pader District who found the explosive and were striking it with sticks (All Africa).
A Biafran War-era landmine was discovered in Ebonyi state, sparking panic that it might be an improvised explosive device (IED), until the item's actual provenance was confirmed by local police. The police also searched the nearby area but found no other explosive remnants of war (ERW) (All Africa).
In further news of relics from long ago wars, herders in Kenya's Samburu county found two bombs in an area that had been a British army training post during the colonial period. The bombs were reported to the police who collected them for destruction. There have been many such discoveries of abandoned munitions in the area, some made by children tending herds (All Africa).
Five Malian soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine in the central Mopti region of the country (Agence France Press). Three other Malian soldiers were killed and fourth injured by a landmine as the soldiers traveled to the northern city of Gao (The News).
One child was killed and seven others wounded by an ERW. The children found the item in the woods near their home which is southwest of Algiers and was thought to be a stronghold for Islamist rebels during Algeria's civil war in the 1990s (Maghreb Emergent).
In much better news for Algeria, the nation declared that all known border minefields and anti-personnel landmines have been cleared, fulfilling the Mine Ban Treaty obligations under Article 5. During the course of the work, almost 9 million mines were destroyed and 62,000 hectares of land were cleared. Algeria joins Tunisia as the second North African state to achieve this milestone (Africa Times).
A military messenger was killed by a landmine in the western part of the city of Benghazi (Al Wasat). Landmine and ERW clearance in Benghazi has been extremely dangerous and several deminers from military engineering units have been killed and injured by explosives laid by Islamic State members as booby traps (Arab 24). An explosive booby trap claimed the life of a special forces volunteer when he was searching and clearing a house in Benghazi (Al Wasat). As Libyan forces made progress towards liberating Benghazi, a brigade commander was killed in the Ganfouda neighborhood (Libya Herald). A second unit commander was killed by a landmine just as the army declared Ganfouda liberated, leaving only "mopping up" operations to fully secure the city of Benghazi (Libya Herald)
Twenty years ago this month, a divorced mother of two boys took a walk through a field. Photos show her walking alone, although there were large contingents of deminers and reporters close by. This brief walk, maybe a couple hundred meters and just a minutes, showed that humanitarian demining worked and could be trusted to make land safe for even the most famous woman in the world, Princess Diana. The government of Angola, the HALO Trust (Diana's host for that walk), and diplomats from the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, gathered to recognize the anniversary of Diana's minefield walk and re-commit to a mine-free Angola. The United States committed an additional US $4 million to landmine clearance as the participants in the event recognized that landmines still pose a danger to Angolans, as evidenced by the death of a child from an anti-tank mine a couple months earlier in a town just a few kilometers away (HALO Trust, Relief Web)
Elsewhere in Angola, a mine-risk education campaign in southern Cunene province targeted school children and shoppers at local markets to reduce the likelihood of accidents (ANGOP).
In the World War II battle of El Alamein, the tank battalions of Great Britain and Germany famously faced off, but they were not alone. On the German side could be found many Italian soldiers, and the legacy of that Italian involvement is still being recognized. A decade ago, an Italian Air Force officer found minefield maps that were shared with the Egyptian government and some amateur and professional Italian historians are scouring wartime diaries and journals to uncover more information that may be of help to the Egyptian government in its demining efforts. Now, satellite images are being used to further refine the information in those maps as battlefield locations are pinpointed (The Daily Beast).
Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation announced the establishment of a national center for mine action that will clear 150,000 acres of landmines from the northern coast. The center will also provide mine risk education and support survivor assistance with the creation of a prosthetics facility (Daily News).
Western Sahara
A man was killed by a landmine when his car struck the mine near the village of Jreyfiya (Sahara Confidential).
South Sudan
Since the outbreak of violence in South Sudan in December 2013, the contamination from ERW has increased, especially in Bentiu and Upper Nile States. Equatoria State remains heavily contaminated from ERW from the civil wars when South Sudan was still a part of Sudan (Eye Radio).
Michael P. Moore
February 28, 2017
Moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
The Month in Mines, December 2016Posted: February 27, 2017 Filed under: Month in Mines | Tags: Algeria, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, landmines, Libya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe 2 Comments
Many apologies for this one being so late. Will try to do better for the rest of the year…
2016's news that the number of landmine casualties had gone up severely is tempered only slightly by the fact that this news seems to have spurred some action in the international community. At a meeting of the African Union in December, the countries that had joined the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions re-committed themselves to the goal of a mine-free world by 2025 and setting up mechanisms to create cross-border cooperation to help achieve that end (African Union).
In the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, security forces fought militants aligned with the Islamic State for the first time in that region of the country. The firefight began when Puntland troops were stopped by landmines placed in the road. When the troops started to clear the mines, Islamic State fighters attacked. No casualties were reported from the mines (All Africa).
In Hirshabelle, one of Somalia's key agricultural regions, the United Nations Support Office in Somalia and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) collaborated to rehabilitate major roadways to enable access and transport. During the operation, the teams rebuilt a bridge near Jowhar town that had been destroyed by a landmine (UN Support Office in Somalia).
The Zimbabwe Mine Action Center (ZIMAC) hosted a national mine action strategic planning workshop to develop the 2017 workplan and set up a long-term plan for clearing all remaining landmines in the country. This plan will help to inform the expected extension request from Zimbabwe to the States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty (All Africa).
An India company, JMC Projects India, is building a hundred kilometer road between Kenya and Ethiopia and has pledged to provide prosthetics to members of the Tigray Disabled Veterans Association. An estimate 100,000 people in Tigray Regional State have been disabled by landmines or the wars in Ethiopia (All Africa).
Last year Nigerian military engineers discovered multiple caches of cluster munitions in northeastern Adamawa state and a suicide attack in Maiduguri carried out by a female bomber is thought to have used similar munitions (The Daily Beast).
In December, a lieutenant colonel in the Nigerian army died when his vehicle struck a landmine buried in the road in Borno state; the mine was attributed to Boko Haram. The lieutenant colonel is the fourth officer killed by Boko Haram in just two months (Naij.com).
To combat Boko Haram and the landmines, IEDs and booby-traps left by them, the Nigerian army acquired a Slovak-made mine-sweeper to clear the roads in Borno state (Naij.com).
The spokesman for the Libyan National Army's engineering division was killed by a landmine in the Banfouda area of Benghazi (Libya Herald). As the army liberates more of the city, civilians are attempting to return to their homes and many have been killed or wounded by landmines and booby traps left by the fleeing Islamic State forces. A Chadian national was injured by a mine on a farm just east of Benghazi (Al Wasat). Bobby traps have been found not only in the streets and fields but also in Benghazi's main hospital where two mines exploded. Fortunately no one was seriously injured (Libya Herald). As IS forces expand their asymmetrical warfare to include suicide car bombs and the use of weaponized drones, a brigade commander was killed by a landmine (Libya Herald) and a special forces soldier was killed and two other soldiers injured by a mine (Arab Today).
In the western city of Sirte, recently liberated from the Islamic State, residents and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR) have called for assistance to clear the landmines left by IS. UNHCR and Mercy Corps are conducting a rapid needs assessment and have identified landmine clearance as the more pressing need (UNHCR). In partial response, army engineering teams from Misrata, Zliten and Tripoli are clearing the mines in Sirte and as they clear neighborhoods, alerting the residents so they can return. The engineering teams are also asking residents not to return to areas before those areas have been declared clear of mines to avoid further casualties. (Libya Observer). This message has been reinforced by the UN Secretary General's special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, in remarks aimed at fostering national reconciliation (Press TV).
Democratic Republic of Congo
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) reported on its 2016 achievements in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In addition to clearing almost 175,000 square meters of ground and destroying over 26,000 explosive remnants of war (ERW), 8,000 Congolese have been sensitized about the dangers of landmines and ERW. The sensitization campaign included a pop song by a local artist and is available on YouTube. The current pace of clearance would allow DRC to meet its Mine Ban Treaty requirement of clearance of all known minefields by January 1, 2021 (UNMAS).
A shepherd lost his left leg to a landmine on Mount Semmama in the Kasserine region. The right leg was also severely damaged and may also require amputation (Webdo). Two Tunisian soldiers were also injured in the Kasserine region in a separate incident (Direct Info).
In the northern Malanje province, Angola's National Demining Institute handed over to the local government, a 2,500 square meter field that had been cleared of mines. The local authorities plan to use the land for an electrical substation (ANGOP).
In Huila province, fears of a previously undocumented minefield were heightened when a farmer was injured by an anti-tank mined as he was plowing a field for a newly launched agricultural program. This was the second such blast in the area in the last two years and the earlier explosion killed two people (ANGOP).
In its annual review of progress, the National Inter-ministerial Commission on Demining and Humanitarian Assistance (CNIDAH) reported 1.4 million square meters of land have been cleared of mines by Angolan military engineers. CNIDAH also announced its intention to secure another extension for its Article 5 clearance obligations under the Mine Ban Treaty with the extension period lasting until 2025. CNIDAH calculates that US $275.2 million will be required to clear all known landmines and minefields (Prensa Latina).
Just a little a year after declaring the country free of anti-personnel landmines, Mozambique has declared itself free of cluster munitions. In 2015 Norwegian Peoples Aid, with support from UNDP, conducted a comprehensive survey of cluster munitions remnants and identified 4 provinces affected by cluster munitions. After the survey, NPA cleared 144 Rhodesia-made submunitions from multiple campaigns along the border leaving Mozambique cluster munition-free (Norwegian Peoples Aid).
In the North Darfur region, two boys were killed and a third injured by an ERW that the boys found and played with (Radio Dabanga).
According to the Sudanese Defense Minister, 14 civilians were killed or injured by landmines in Sudan in 2016. In response, almost 99 million square meters of land has been cleared of mines and other ERW (Sudan Vision).
Three French soldiers were killed and three others wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine. The vehicle was in the lead of a convoy traveling to Tessalit from Gao (Africa News).
In December, the Algerian National Police cleared over 81,000 landmines from the border with Morocco (DZ Breaking).
Western Sahara
A man was injured by a landmine when he drove his Land Rover over it. The injuries were not thought to be life threatening, but there is concern that recent floods in Western Sahara may have moved some mines causing areas that had previously been safe to now be dangerous (Dales Vozalas Victimas).
Michael P. Moore
Moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
February 27, 2017
The Month in Mines, November 2016Posted: December 22, 2016 Filed under: Month in Mines | Tags: Egypt, landmines, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Western Sahara Leave a comment
The release of the annual Landmine Monitor report included the shocking fact that landmine casualties had increased substantially in 2015 from recent years. Whereas 10 people were killed or injured by landmines each day in 2014, 18 people were killed or injured daily in 2015. On the African continent, Libya had the most casualties, with more casualties than all other African countries put together. I am hopeful that 2015 was an anomaly.
Five Nigerian soldiers were injured by a landmine during a patrol near Maiduguri, capitol of Borno state. Army official believe Boko Haram members planted the mine the previous night in expectation of the patrol (News 24).
Near the Chibok area of Borno state, a local militia patrol vehicle struck a landmine killing two militia members and wounding two others. Boko Haram members followed up on the blast with gunfire (Naij).
South Sudan
Despite the violence in South Sudan that erupted when the President, Salva Kiir, ousted his Vice President, Riek Machar, no evidence has been found of new landmine use in the country according to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS). In this blog we have documented multiple accusations of new use, but cannot confirm those accusations.
The violence has not prevented UNMAS and its partners from continuing to map and clear landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). So far, 750 hazardous areas have been identified and UNMAS prioritizes clearance and assessment of schools and humanitarian access points. Much of the country remains to be surveyed – the violence has made Jonglei and Upper Nile states inaccessible.
UNMAS maintains the South Sudan Mine Action hotline (+211 92 000 1055) and encourages all South Sudanese to use the hotline to report suspicious items (All Africa).
The United Nations Security Council, in its re-authorization of the peacekeeping force in the disputed territory of Abyei, expressed concern about the continuing presence and threat from landmines and ERW which prevent the return of displaced persons (All Africa).
In Sudan's South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Eastern States, the Japanese NGO, Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan), is conducting mine risk education work. These states are some of the most mine-affected in the country and the Japanese ambassador to Sudan led a delegation that included the State Minister of Defense, the Ambassadors from Italy and Sweden, and the US Embassy's Charge d'Affaires (All Africa).
Sudan's Foreign Minister repeated the government's denial of possession or use of cluster munitions, claiming that international NGOs are making accusations for fundraising purposes. The minister also claimed that there was peace in Darfur (Morocco World News).
Conflict Armament Research published a report on weapons smuggling and trade in North Africa and the Sahel. The report says that despite efforts by the United States and Europe to prevent the proliferation of small arms from Libya after Gaddhafi's fall, many factions in the region possess anti-tank landmines looted from Libyan stockpiles (All Africa).
In Germany, an eleven year-old girl from the Libyan town of Sirte continues her recovery from a landmine blast that also killed most of her family. Yaqeen Al-Hajali endured 17 hours of surgery in Libya, a medical evacuation to Tunisia and then onward evacuation to Germany. No word on Yaqeen's brother and sister who also survived the blast (Libya Observer).
In Sirte, two members of the engineering brigade were killed and two more injured by a landmine attributed to the Islamic State (Al Wasat).
In Benghazi's Al-Gawarsha neighborhood, a soldier in Khalifa Haftar's army was killed by a landmine as Haftar's army closed in on an Islamic State stronghold near the European Hospital (Libya Observer). A second soldier was killed by another landmine in the same area a few days later (Al Wasat). A few days later, Haftar's army announced the liberation of the Al-Gawarsha district. Once the army had captured the European Hospital, the Islamic State forces fled the neighborhood. During the final approaches, a field commander was killed by a mine (Libya Herald).
Five young men were killed when they discovered a suspected landmine on former battlefield dating to the period before the 1994 genocide. The men were grazing cattle and, upon discovery of the explosive, began to play with it causing the blast (New Times).
A 60 vehicle convoy of the French army struck a landmine claimed by a rebel group affiliated with Al Qaeda. One soldier was killed and another wounded (The Local).
During a visit of the International Cooperation Minister, a new prosthetic center was opened in the town of Masra Matrouh. The center will support landmine survivors injured in the minefields of the World War II battlefield of El Alamein, which is nearby. In addition to the prosthetic center, the Minister delivered a variety of economic and social supports to survivors and their families including water access, small business kits, agricultural inputs and sewing machines. During the ceremonies, the British ambassador to Egypt also announced the handover of maps of the minefields laid by British and Allied forces during World War II (Because).
The interventions were critiqued by several in Egypt who hold the position that because Germany and Britain laid the landmines, they hold all of the responsibility for their clearance. According the head of the military engineering department, the British minefield maps handed over by the ambassador are "sketch maps" and most of the mines were buried randomly. The prosthetic center was also critiqued as many of the survivors suffered loss of vision and / or hearing and will not benefit from prosthetic limbs. Among the survivors, almost half (48%) suffered upper limb injuries which suggest that they might have been digging or farming at the time of their injury, not just walking through the mine-affected areas (Middle East Observer)
The International Cooperation Minister also met with the Swiss ambassador to Egypt to discuss support for landmine clearance (Daily News Egypt).
The Japanese ambassador to Angola confirmed his commitment to support landmine clearance projects in Angola during a visit to Japanese-funded development projects in Uige province (Relief Web).
Western Sahara
Recent flooding in the Western Sahara region of Saguia El-Hamra have displaced many landmines laid by Moroccan forces. The displacement of mines by flooding can lead to additional injuries as areas that had previously been free of mines may be contaminated (Facebook).
A child was killed and two others injured by a landmine in Galkayo in the Puntland region (Puntland Mirror).
In central Somalia, police forces located and cleared several landmines from busy roadways. The mines were attributed to Al Shabaab and found on a road used for transport convoys (Goobjoog).
The US Embassy in Senegal reminded citizens of the presence of landmines in the Ziguinchor and Sedhiou areas of Senegal's Casamance region. The notice said that landmine clearance efforts are reducing the threat, but caution must continue to be taken (Overseas Security Advisory Council).
Michael P. Moore
December 22, 2016
Moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
The Month in Mines, October 2016Posted: November 30, 2016 Filed under: Month in Mines | Tags: Angola, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe Leave a comment
The passing of one of the towering giants of the Cold War, Fidel Castro, has prompted a lot of column inches in other venues. This past summer I saw some of the impact of Cuba's military adventurism in Angola but in previous trips I saw Cuban-built hospitals in Vietnam and met Cuban engineers in Denmark. During Castro's leadership, Cuba was a country with an outsized impact on the world. Even before the recent thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba, the United States had removed the minefields that surrounded the military base at Guantanamo Bay and Cuba's role as mediator in negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels had held out hope for demining progress there. Cuba recently joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the improving relations between the US and Cuba removed one of the principle excuses Cuba had used to remain outside the Mine Ban Treaty.
A newly discovered minefields was reported in the central province of Bie. The exact extent of the contamination is not known, but the area had been the scene of fighting during one of Angola's many periods of fighting in the province (All Africa).
In the northern province of Malanje, the Japanese ambassador to Angola re-affirmed his country's commitment to Angola's humanitarian mine action program. Annually the Japanese government provides US $20 million for demining in Angola (Relief Web).
In the northern Zaire province, the National Demining Institute detonated over 100 explosive remnants of was including eight landmines (All Africa).
The director of Angola's mine action program estimates that 270 million euros will be required to clear the remaining 1,435 known minefields. Angola will need international support to meet the Maputo Declaration's goal of clearing all known minefields by 2025. At present, Angola still needs to complete minefield surveys in eight of the country's 18 provinces to fully document the extent of contamination (Government of Angola).
During an attack on Mandera, a town along the Somali-Kenya border, Al Shabaab members planted landmines in the town which have hindered the efforts of the security forces to respond to the attack (All Africa).
In Mogadishu, three suspected Al Shabaab members were killed by the landmine they were trying to plant in a roadway (All Africa).
The extensive use of remote-controlled and victim-activated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has been a major security challenge for the African Union peacekeepers in Somalia. 225 separate attacks have been recorded in 2016 with hundreds of casualties. Victim-activated IEDs, including pressure-plate and magnetic IEDs, are banned by the Mine Ban Treaty (All Africa).
The Nigerian army, having ousted Boko Haram from much of northeastern Nigeria is now busy trying to certify the safety of liberated areas. The army recognizes the threat from landmines and IEDs and once an area has been cleared of explosives, it will be released back to the population (The Eagle). The governor of Adamawa state acknowledged the threat and fear of landmines during a speech at the United States Institute of Peace. The governor also noted that despite the assurances of the army, many farmers are reluctant to return to their fields (All Africa). Those fears have some validity as less than an hour after the Nigerian army declared a road in Maiduguri safe, a truck struck a landmine injuring several passengers (All Africa).
During the fight against Boko Haram, Nigeria recruited and used local vigilante forces to augment the formal army units. At least 162 women whose husbands served as vigilantes have been widowed as a result of the fighting, many by landmines, and the Borno state government has committed to providing assistance to those widows (All Africa).
The national mine action authority is developing a new extension request for its Article 5 mine clearance obligations under the Mine Ban Treaty. This would be the fifth such extension request and set a new deadline for clearing all known minefields of 2025, matching the global deadline from the Maputo Declaration. At present, the HALO Trust and Norwegian Peoples Aid are actively demining in Zimbabwe and they will soon be joined by Mines Advisory Group and APOPO (All Africa). Unfortunately, the national commitment to demining appears to be lacking. For the last several years, the government of Zimbabwe has only allocated US $500,000 for demining and in 2016, that allocation was reduced to US $100,000 (News Day). The government, in its extension request, should state its commitment to demining and identify national resources to match that commitment.
Multiple landmine incidents were reported in northern Mali. Three Malian soldiers were killed and another injured when their vehicle stuck a mine in the northern Timbuktu region. This accident closely followed an incident in which a Chadian soldier was killed by a landmine in Kidal when his vehicle struck a mine (Fox News). A Tuareg leader from an anti-government faction was killed by a landmine less than 300 meters from a United Nations base in Kidal where he has been meeting with peacekeeping troops (Reuters). Landmines were used as part of an ambush of Malian soldiers in the village of N'Goma Coura in the center of the country. Four soldiers were killed and seven injured in the attack (Yahoo).
Female parliamentarians in Libya called upon the Italian government and the international community to support demining in the liberated areas of Benghazi (ANSAMed). The Dutch ambassador to Libya pledged one million Euros for demining in Sirte (Libya Observer). Despite the gains made by the government-backed army in Sirte, there are concerns about the insurgent attacks. A teacher was killed and his family members injured by a landmine on the road from Sirte to Misrata, an area that is supposed to have been liberated from Islamist forces. This was the fifth such explosion on that stretch of road in less than three months (Libya Herald).
Despite the war, students at Benghazi University managed to complete their studies and to celebrate their graduation, they visited the campus which had recently been liberated after a two years' occupation by Islamic State forces. Demining teams continue to work to clear the campus of explosives, but estimate that only 5% of the booby traps and landmines have been cleared (BBC News).
Three militia members aligned with the government were killed when their vehicle struck and detonated a piece of unexploded ordnance (All Africa).
Egypt's International Cooperation Minister met with Swiss representatives to request support from Switzerland to clear the landmines in the Northwest Desert that remain from World War II (El Balad).
Western Sahara
A four-year old child was killed by a cluster munition and two others were injured (Remove the Wall).
Michael P. Moore
November 30, 2016
Moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
The Month in Mines, September 2016Posted: October 29, 2016 Filed under: Month in Mines | Tags: Angola, landmines, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan 2 Comments
"Every time I get close to making ends meet, someone moves the ends."
This is the story of mine action. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Lloyd Axworthy's call for a global treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines (CBC), but we also see the new use of mines in Nigeria and Libya, Yemen and Syria. The vision of a mine-free world is still possible by 2025, but only if we can stop new use.
Two soldiers were killed and six more injured when their truck struck a landmine attributed to Boko Haram. At the time of the blast, the soldiers were returning to their base (All Africa). Another four soldiers were killed and 19 others wounded during an ambush that began when two Nigerian army vehicles hit a landmine (The News Nigeria). In and around the Nigerian army barracks at Bama, which had been captured by Boko Haram but has since been liberated, Nigerian soldiers cleare some 67 landmines and improvised explosive devices (All Africa).
Angola's new Social Welfare minister, Manuel Gonçalves Muandumba, pledged to continue landmine clearance programs (All Africa). Since the civil war ended in 2002, 3.4 billion square meters of land has been cleared of mines, with almost half a million landmines destroyed. In addition to mine clearance, thousands of Angolan landmine survivors have benefited from rehabilitation and prosthetic services and 15 million people have received mine risk education (All Africa). In central Bie Province, 350 hectares of land has been cleared so far this year (All Africa). In Malanje province, the Baroness Northover, the British Trade Envoy to Angola, visited UK-funded landmine clearance programs to observe the progress and see the investment opportunities created by demining (British Embassy Luanda).
Rwanda cleared the last of its known minefields several years ago, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to be able to declare itself as mine-free. However, like other mine-affected countries, Rwanda continues to face contamination from other explosive remnants of war (ERW). In southern Rwanda, four boys were collecting scrap metal and one discovered an old hand grenade. One of the boys played with the grenade, detonating it, killing himself and insuring the other three (All Africa).
In Darfur, two boys played with a piece of unexploded ordnance. When the item exploded, one of the boys was killed and the other severely wounded (All Africa).
A Ugandan soldier serving with the AMISOM peacekeeping mission died after medical evacuation to Kenya. The soldier had been riding in a convoy that struck a landmine near the town of Barawe. Three other soldiers were also injured and evacuated (The Nation). North of Kismayo, a bus struck a landmine in the road killing three civilians (Garowe Online). In Somalia's capitol, Mogadishu, a landmine placed near the central livestock market detonated killing another three civilians and injuring many more (Garowe Online).
Worth showing a map of Libya here:
There are two ongoing battles in Libya at the moment. In the east in the city of Benghazi ("Banghazi" in the map above) four soldiers allied with Khalifa Haftar's army were killed and others injured by a landmine placed by Islamist forces (Libyan Express). West of Benghazi, about half of the way to Tripoli, Haftar's forces are also fighting Islamists in the city of Sirte ("Surt" in the map above). Haftar's demining and engineering brigades are busy trying to clear landmines and explosive traps placed by the Islamists to slow his advance (AAWSAT). Five soldiers were injured by a landmine and have received treatment (AAWSAT) and the US special envoy to Libya has warned the residents of Sirte not to try to return to their homes until Haftar's demining teams have cleared the city (Libyan Express).
Michael P. Moore
October 29, 2016
moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
The Month in Mines, August 2016Posted: September 26, 2016 Filed under: Month in Mines, Uncategorized | Tags: Africa, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, landmines, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tunisia, Zimbabwe 2 Comments
Syria and Yemen deservedly get the majority of the news about use of cluster munitions and landmines, but North Africa has also seen fairly widespread use of these weapons in the last few years. Beginning with the Gaddhafi regime's use to try and hold off the liberation forces encouraged by Arab Spring, through current use by various Islamist groups, new landmine use can be seen in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt and Nigeria. In Libya and Sudan, government aligned forces have been alleged to use cluster munitions. The use of these weapons in these ongoing conflicts means that their effects will be felt for years to come, in countries which already faced substantial burdens of explosive remnants of war.
During World War II, British and German armies laid some 17 million landmines in the western deserts of Egypt, an area that became famous as the tank battle of El Alamein. Most of those landmines remain in the deserts and until recently have only been a threat to the nomadic communities who make the desert their home. Two people were killed and three injured by a mine in the Wasy el-Natroun area. Egypt now has plans to development much of the western desert to take advantage of the natural gas deposits that lie below the surface and has cleared 155 square kilometers of desert of mines (Daily News Egypt), but another actor has also emerged with plans for the minefields: the Islamic State. According to the former director of Egypt's Mine Action Center, Fathy el-Shazly, there have been at least ten confirmed reports of jihadists digging up old landmines and repurposing them as improved explosive devices, the first coming in 2004. The March 2016 landmine blast in the Red Sea area was attributed to repurposed landmines. Newsweek's story about ISIS using World War II mines is a bit breathless and sensationalized, but points to another danger of abandoned ordnance. To its credit, Newsweek also highlights the poverty of the nomadic communities in the western desert and notes that some of the nomads are tempted to dig up the old mines and sell them as they have no other form of income (Newsweek).
In the Sinai region, where the Egyptian government is fighting a separate Islamist insurgency, a policy captain was killed while chasing insurgents following a firefight and an attempted bombing of an Al-Arish police station (Ahram).
When Papias Higiro stepped on a landmine shortly after the genocide and civil war in Rwanda, his life prospects were bleak. 21 years later, Papias has received his first prosthetic leg and can fulfill his dream of walking again and will attend vocational training to become a hairdresser. This intervention was made possible by the charitable arm of AirTel, a mobile phone company (All Africa).
The government of Zimbabwe has accused three Zimbabweans living abroad of trying to destabilized the government. One of the men is accused of threatening to plant landmines on the roads to kill a thousand people (The Herald).
In recognition of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, recognized the landmine clearance efforts of the Zimbabwean army, the HALO Trust and Norwegian People's Aid (All Africa).
Nigerian soldiers are clearing landmines and other explosives left by Boko Haram and have arrested five members of the group who are suspected of planting some of the mines (All Africa). The local Nigerian commanders boasted of a massive demining effort covering the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, an effort made possible by the purchase and delivery of demining equipment (Vanguard).
Nigeria is not the only country affected by Boko Haram. Four Chadian soldiers were killed by a Boko Haram landmine near that country's border with Niger (Reuters).
In Libya, the army under General Haftar, has ousted Islamic State forces from the city of Sirte, but Islamic State laid many landmines and booby traps. Deminers from the army and from Libya's intelligence services are now tasked with clearing mines and explosives which have killed over 300 soldiers and injured another 400. At least four deminers have been killed and another injured trying to clear Sirte. Five months of clearance work remains in Sirte according to a military spokesman (IRIN News). To assist the Libyan forces, the Italian government is believed to have deployed special forces to the country to train Libyan deminers (Sputnik News; Ahram).
General Haftar's army, while calling for assistance with landmine clearance, has also not helped its own cause by using banned cluster bombs. In official photos published by the Libyan National Army (LNA), army helicopters are shown carrying the munitions, which challenges the LNA's denial of use of such weapons in Derna and Benghazi (War is Boring).
In addition to the LNA's cluster bombs, the Islamic State left landmines in Derna city, one of which killed a leader of the Shura Council of Mujahideen, an Islamist group that ousted Islamic State before being besieged by the LNA (Libyan Express).
In Benghazi two soldiers were killed and two more wounded at a checkpoint in the Al Gawarsha district (Libya Observer). And in Misrata, the local hospital reported three soldiers killed in two separate incidents, both attributed to Islamic State landmines (Libya Observer).
Of course, the extensive use of landmines can also backfire as seen in Sirte when an Islamic State member tried to drive an explosive laden car into Al Bunyan Al Marsoos positions and struck a landmine laid by Islamic State forces, destroying the car and causing no casualties beyond the driver (Libyan Observer).
Three Tunisian soldiers were killed and seven more injured by an anti-tank landmine in the western region of the country, near the Algerian border. The mountainous region has been a hideout for militants since the start of Arab Spring in 2011 (Press TV).
The Algerian army cleared 866 landmines dating back to the liberation war against the French. This was part of the ongoing clearance work along the borders of the country. Algeria is also facing a current threat from Islamist groups that are fighting against the government and the army. In the last year and a half, Algerian has killed or arrested hundreds of suspected Islamists and the government claims that the Islamists have mostly been defeated and the government is now trying to consolidate its position and make the affected areas safe for the population. The government reported the seizure of two landmines that were believed to have been intended for use along the country's roads. In just such an incident, four civilians were killed when their vehicle struck a mine attributed to Islamist groups (Strategy Page; Defence Web).
Michael P. Moore
September 26, 2016
Moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
The Month in Mines, July 2016Posted: September 6, 2016 Filed under: Month in Mines, Uncategorized | Tags: Africa, Angola, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe 1 Comment
Two stories this month, one from Libya and one from Sudan, remind us of the dangers of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). In Libya, an experienced and knowledgeable deminer was killed in the line of duty; in Sudan some children played with an unexploded munition with tragic results. Mine risk education is a vital part of mine action, but despite the numerous warnings in Sudan, people, including children, continue to tamper with mines and ERW. However, even those most aware of the risks of explosive devices can still fall victim to them. The lesson is this: the sooner all such items are cleared and destroyed, the sooner we can all live a little more securely. On to the news:
The low price of oil has created a serious economic crisis in Angola. Many government subsidies have been cut as revenues from oil have evaporated. However, the Minister of Welfare and Social Reintegration stated that programs benefitting some of the most vulnerable Angolans, including landmine clearance, will continue (All Africa).
The deputy governor of Cabinda province, Angola's hub for oil production, announced that between 2008 and 2015, 2.1 million square meters of land had been cleared of mines, along with 586 kilometers of road (All Africa). In southern Cunene province, 41,000 square meters of land were cleared in the first half of 2016 (All Africa).
In areas liberated from Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, returnees are unable to farm their lands for fear of the landmines placed by Boko Haram. This is one of the factors that is creating a famine with two million people needing food aid (All Africa). In Borno state, personnel from Medicins Sans Frontieres were involved in a landmine incident that went unreported until a Nigerian army convoy was ambushed by Boko Haram in the same area a few days later (Trends).
Four people were injured in the Kenyan town of Mandera, near the border with Somalia, by a landmine blamed on Al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist group which has been expanding its geographic reach. The mine was placed near a communications tower as an ambush (All Africa). After the ambush, Kenyan soldiers were accused of attacking and looting the town of Lafey in retaliation for the death of one of the soldiers during the ambush. This is one of many incidents in which military forces fighting Al Shabaab have killed or injured civilians, civilians who are just as traumatized by the acts of Al Shabaab (All Africa).
A Libyan deminer, the Chief of Explosives for Operation Dignity in Benghazi, was killed trying to defuse a landmine. The deminer had previously escaped injury when the car he was in drove over a landmine in May and he had just recently completed a demining course in the United Arab Emirates (Libyan Express). The Libyan forces, led by General Haftar, have suffered many injuries from landmines laid by retreating Islamists. Four special forces members were killed by a landmine in Benghazi's al-Gwarcha district as the army tries to fully control the city (Daily Mail).
In Zimbabwe the HALO Trust employs a number of female deminers as part of its equal opportunity policy in hiring. For many women in the Mukumbura region where the HALO Trust is working, few formal employment opportunities exist and, thanks to the training and focus of the deminers, female deminers can support their families and build houses (News Day).
Three separate blasts from unexploded ordnance occurred in North Darfur. In the first, two women were killed and a man injured; the survivor lost his hands and feet in the blast (All Africa). In the second, a farmer was killed when he struck an explosive while plowing his fields (All Africa). In the third, two children were killed and a third injured when they played with a munition and tried to set it on fire (Strategy Page).
The government of the Netherlands committed 45 million euros to landmine clearance. In Africa, the Dutch will support demining in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Mali, Somalia and South Sudan (Netherlands Times).
The British charity, Find A Better Way, sponsored a dozen trauma surgeons from mine-affected countries to attend a seminar at the Imperial College of London to learn about the latest research and advice for treatment of traumatic amputations. Algeria was among the African nations represented at the seminar (Imperial College of London).
The European Union proposed to shift some development funds to improving the security sector in African and Middle Eastern countries. According to a EU Commission spokesperson, one of the ways these re-allocated funds could be used is for demining by national armies (CCTV).
Michael P. Moore
moe (at) landminesinafrica (dot) org
September 6, 2016


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"When not busy contemplating my death or dismemberment, I was having the time of my life. I was witness to a whole group of people discovering a love of the open road. There is a flavor of life not tasted by those in cars or trucks. With no cage to protect you, you place your trust in nature and the road stretched out before you. In return, both open themselves to you and reveal a side unseen by most.
The center line divides your thoughts. The mountains stand like an ancient chorus poised in grandeur to sing their verses of solitude. The wise, old hills listen as your silent heart pours out its contents. The details of your life float away as though dandelions scattered by the wind to be swallowed by rolling, emerald pastures. And as you ride through a countryside that exudes life, you can't help but to get some on you."
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Openfire SSL instructions
The instructions for openfire ssl are incomplete. I had my certificate signed by a CA and following the instructions in the openfire ssl guide, I had difficulty. After you follow the steps down to the part about the truststore, you need to follow these instructions, replacing the filename, alias and password with your own. Once you import the signed cert into the truststore and restart openfire and go to the server certificates page, you will see that openfire now reports your cert as signed and all will be great. You can then require ssl communication and if you view sessions, it will show that they are secure. $ keytool -export -alias example.com -file mycert.cer -keystore keystore Enter keystore password: changit
Certificate stored in file mycert.cer
Then we need to create the truststore if it does not exist and import the certificate into the trueststore:
$ keytool -import -alias example.com -file mycert.cer -keystore truststore
Enter keystore password: opensource Owner: CN=Unknown, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown Issuer: CN=Unknown, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown Serial number: 43bff927
Valid from: Sat Jan 07 18:23:51 CET 2006 until: Fri Apr 07 19:23:51 CEST 2006 Certificate fingerprints: MD5: CF:DC:71:A8:F4:EA:8F:5A:E9:94:E3:E6:5B:A9:C8:F3 SHA1: 0E:AD:F3:D6:41:5E:F6:84:9A:D1:54:3D:DE:A9:B2:01:28:F6:7C:26 Trust this certificate? [no]: yes
Certificate was added to keystore


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This type of essay will normally consist of three main parts: introduction, body and conclusion. Introduction should contain that hook that will catch and keep your readers' attention till the last word. Body is the main part in the paper. It may have 3-5 paragraphs where you present your proofs of your opinion. In conclusion you summarize everything you wrote above and make a statement. It is great if your final part contains call for action.
You will find a lot of similarities between persuasive and argumentative papers. The difference is that in an argumentative essay you have to prove your point of view which is opposite to the point of view of the author of the source text.


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Mikee is now ready to spread her wings. We met the grand daughter of Asia's Nightingale Ms Lani Misalucha Mikee Misalucha at GMA yesterday when she launched her EP #PaalamNa under GMA Records. A graduate of BA in Music Production at De La Salle College - St.Benilde, Mikee had been singing since she was young coming from the Asia's Nightingale influence. Her album "Highs And Lows" include her original compositions "I Got You(feat.Eph Raim), "For The World(feat.Joe Ramos)", "Keep Going" and "Paalam Na".
The Hugot Girl of GMA Records is a Swifty(Taylor Swift fan) who would love to sing with Kapuso hearthrob Alden Richards and other Kapuso artists. She also wants to try acting and will soon be on workshops soon. Don't miss her album "Highs and Lows" now available on Spotify, iTunes and other digital stores. For more updates on Mikee please like and follow https://www.facebook.com/mikeemisaluchamusic/


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As of Wednesday, Jan. 9, the City of Winnipeg has declared a Residential Parking Ban to allow for the City's snow clearing operation.
All residential streets have been assigned to a snow zone. Each snow zone will be identified by a letter of the alphabet. It's important that all city residents become familiar with their zone. You can look up your residential street snow zone with our address lookup tool or by contacting 311.
The Residential Parking Ban is effective on the following schedule of dates and times with respect to zones established by previous declarations and published on the City of Winnipeg website:
Vehicles parked in violation of the residential parking ban will receive a $150 ticket ($112.50 if paid early), and may be towed to a nearby street that is not scheduled to be plowed or that has already been cleared. (Note: Tickets will only be issued from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. See Winter Parking Bans Update for more information.) If your vehicle has been towed, please call 311 for its location.


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Chapter 9
Go the Extra Mile that Failures Refuse to Travel
LET ME SET THE SCENE. Everyone will benefit from this chapter. But if you're in the type of selling where you have to get an appointment, this chapter is especially for you.
You are about to make the phone call to get the visit. You know that if you get to see the likely buyer, you are well on your way to making the sale.
Here's what I want you to do. Put yourself in the buyer's shoes. Think like the buyer. Become the buyer.
Look at it from the buyer's viewpoint. In Chicago's Millenium Park, they have some tables permanently set with a chessboard marking.
I stop to watch two old-timers intent on their chess game. It is obvious these are experienced old pros. The match is well under way. One of the men gets up. He stands behind his opponent.
He wants to look at the board from the opponent's side of the table. He seeks a different perspective. He wants to think like his opponent.
That's what I want you to do. In making the call for the visit, I want you to look at it from the likely buyer's side of the table. Look at the situation from his perspective.
You're ready to make the phone call for the visit. Stand!
You dial the number. The likely buyer is on the phone. You've gone through the initial pleasantries. You have your calendar handy.
The moment has come. If you are uneasy about making these calls, or even a bit timid, I can identify with that.
After all these years, I still feel the same anxiety. There is no pleasure ...
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MILLEDGEVILLE — The Rev. Sophia Hyon recently was appointed as pastor of Milledgeville United Methodist Church, effective Nov. 1.
Hyon was born and grew up in South Korea. She received a degree from the graduate school of Methodist Theological University in Seoul with a concentration in pastoral care and counseling. She came to the U.S. to study at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, where she received her Master of Divinity in 2015.
Hyon will serve both Coleta and Milledgeville UMCs. Sunday worship service time at Milledgeville UMC has changed to 10:30 a.m. as a result. Sunday school will begin at 9:15 a.m. beginning Nov. 6.
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ACC Power Rankings: 'Canes, Tigers movin' on up.
By Mack McCarthy
Not a lot went on last week and not much coming up until most teams start league play December 30. We've got a few changes in the power rankings and a few games to look back at or forward to:
1. NORTH CAROLINA. A really good win for the Tarheels at Tennessee. Maye, Berry, and Pinson are carrying Carolina while the very talented young bigs are getting ready for league play.
2. DUKE. Been off since being off vs. Boston College. Can't wait to watch the Blue Devils and Seminoles on the 30th.
3. MIAMI. Being unbeaten this close to Christmas moves the Hurricanes up in the rankings. A nice Hawaiian vacation is coming up with just an average field. A good MTSU team in the opposite bracket might make for an interesting championship game.
4. FLORIDA STATE. A surprising close loss to Oklahoma State dropped the 'Noles behind their state rival, for now.
5. VIRGINIA. Tony Bennett's team is playing predictably solid basketball and looking for a third reliable scorer.
6. CLEMSON. Had a win over a talented but struggling Florida team. Big rivalry game tonight with the Gamecocks.
7. SYRACUSE. They beat Georgetown last week. That used to be a big win.
8. VIRGINIA TECH. Had a big opportunity at Kentucky, but turnovers cost them. No real challenges until traveling to the 'Cuse for a New Year's Eve party.
9. LOUISVILLE. They beat Memphis last week. That used to be a big win.
10. NOTRE DAME. I'm hanging with Mike Brey in the rankings, but two losses to mediocre teams in their own state has them teetering on the bubble.
About the Author: Mack McCarthy has spent over 40 years in Division I Athletics including 19 years as head basketball coach at Chattanooga, VCU, and East Carolina. Mack led his Chattanooga teams to the NCAA Tournament five times including a trip to the Sweet 16. Mack works as a TV Color Analyst for multiple networks covering the ACC, SEC, Conference USA, Big South, and Southern Conferences.