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Jammu and Kashmir: Kulgam MLA Tarigami demands judicial inquiry into blast
Immediately after the three Jaish-e-Mohammad were encountered, a large number of people gathered on the site when a blast took place leaving seven dead and scores injured.
Villagers fouse fire from damaged house where three Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed during an encounter with security forces at Redwani area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir on Sunday July 22 2018. | PTI
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SRINAGAR: Alleging that the Kulgam blast that left seven civilians dead was a result of non-compliance of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), senior CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami demanded a judicial inquiry in the incident to fix responsibility.
"The killing of unarmed innocent civilians'' has deeply shaken the whole valley. Legitimate question of the people is whether the tragedy could have been averted," Mr Tarigami, who is the MLA from Kulgam, told reporters during a press conference here on Thursday.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants were killed in an encounter by security forces at village Laroo in Kulgam on Sunday. However, immediately after the encounter, a large number of people gathered there when a blast took place leaving seven dead and scores injured.
The Kulgam MLA said the SOP of 2012 makes it mandatory for security forces to sanitise the encounter site before leaving. Why was it not done in Larro, Kulgam, he asked.
Mr Tarigami said strong voices are emerging in and outside the state that a credible inquiry should be held to fix the responsibility so that such tragedies could be avoided in future. "Will the government heed to this demand is to be seen. Though no amount of money could heal the wounds of the families of the victims, they should be provided jobs under SRO-43 to give them some relief," he said.
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He said what happens in Kashmir today is, of course, a matter of life and death for its citizens. "But it is also a test case for the policies of Government of India pursued in relation with Kashmir," he said.
"While violence has engulfed Kashmir, but the response of Government of India has only been the disproportionate force, which has compounds the vicious cycle of violence. Instead of listening to the grievances of Kashmiris and resolving the issue through a credible process of dialogue, the BJP government's stubborn attempts to subdue people's political aspirations is making the situation worse," he said.
"If to address the anger of younger generation is any priority for the present administration, it must give a clear cut direction to the law enforcing agencies to desist from using excessive force.
Indiscriminate arrests, registering cases and slapping PSAs is not going to solve the problem," he said.
However, he said contrary to this, the present dispensation in New Delhi led by BJP, continue to refuse to draw lessons from the previous mistakes, but has compounded the problem in the last more than four years and thereby deepened the alienation and mistrust among the people further.
He said the Modi government consistently refuses to initiate a political dialogue with all the political forces, including the voices of dissent. This, he said, has resulted in a number of young men joining the militants.
"For the last three years, there has been a steady escalation in violence. Dozens of unarmed people got killed and a number of people injured. This disastrous policy of the government is alienating more sections of the population and driving number
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Clipper broadcaster Ralph Lawler gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Clippers coach Doc Rivers introduces Ralph Lawler at the broadcaster's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Thursday, March 3, 2016. (KABC)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- After 37 years as the voice of the Los Angeles Clippers, sportscaster Ralph Lawler was honored Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lawler's time with the team goes back to right after the Buffalo Braves relocated from New York to San Diego in 1978 and renamed themselves the Clippers. He has broadcast more than 2,800 Clippers games and is the third-longest tenured team broadcaster in NBA history.
Lawler said the honor for him was also a reflection of the city's improved attitude toward the team itself, with its winning record under new owner Steve Ballmer and Coach Doc Rivers.
"Everything has changed," Lawler said. "I can't tell you how different it is. Now the city can finally without any fear of any problems embrace our basketball team. That's really a happy time for me."
Lawler's star is located at 1708 Vine St., next to the 33 Taps bar and grill. The ceremony was attended by team coach Doc Rivers, point guard Chris Paul and several former players.
The 77-year-old sportscaster's star is the 2,575th on the Walk of Fame.
Rivers said Lawler really identifies with the team and takes wins and losses to heart.
"This is what I'm most impressed about with Ralph, over everything else," Rivers said. "He's a great broadcaster, he's a great husband, he's a great man. He really cares about the team."
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During NALP's Leaders Forum, changing employee perceptions of their jobs was a focus in the keynote.
NALP members attended the 2018 Leaders Forum at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
The National Association of Landscape Professionals hosted their 2018 Leaders Forum in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Jan. 25-27 where employee motivation was a main topic. Here are some highlights from the event.
When you take a look at your staff, there's a good chance that only 30 percent of the group is highly engaged in their job. About 50 percent are not engaged and are just there for a paycheck. Even worse, 20 percent are highly disengaged.
"If you have 10 employees only 3 are saying they are actively into the work they are doing," she said. While the 20 percent who are highly disengaged is basically a lost cause, the 50 percent who are not engaged can be won over, Dawson said.
They may enjoy the job, but it's not a place of satisfaction. Happiness is judged by how far away they are from their weekend.
But before you just throw money at them, even if that is what they ask for, realize that may not be the best solution to making that employee more engaged.
Dawson said the best way to engage employees is to find out their core values and bridge those values to the job.
Core values aren't the following: Competencies – things you are good at; shoulds – "I should have more control, I should have stood up for myself;" wishes; or a company motto or virtues.
To discover your core values, Dawson recommends looking to someone you admire and asking yourself what is so compelling about that person. Also look to moments where you sacrificed something – look at the reason why you made the sacrifice and the answer could lead to a core value. Finally, talk to someone about a "peak moment" in your life and explain why you felt so happy about that moment.
If you can find out your employees' core values, you can craft their job to mean more to them.
This is what you should be doing as a business owner, "Instead of finding a bigger bonus for somebody," Dawson said.
Erica Dawson of Cornell University says keeping employees happy goes beyond just increasing their pay.
Sometimes a gift card to a nice restaurant isn't the best way to recognize an employee's good work.
Such was the case for a client of Sean Martin's, when the assistant professor at the Carol School of Management at Boston College was a business consultant. This client always gave employees a gift card to an upscale restaurant to show the company's appreciation for a job well done.
Except one day, an employee gave the gift card back to the human resources manager. The HR manager couldn't believe it because the manager would love a gift card there, Martin said.
But the employee explained the gift card meant she had to buy a nice dress, find a babysitter and if they go over the gift card amount, it's money out of her pocket.
"There is a disconnect over what managers do to motivate and what actually motivates the employee," Martin said. Martin's session, "Diversity that is hard to see: Motivation and the psychology of social class," at the Leaders Forum dealt with how lower income employees view motivation differently compared to upper class employees.
Stay away from groups. When you want unfiltered feedback on your company, don't ask employees in a group setting. They won't give honest feedback, or maybe any feedback. "They are afraid of looking stupid," he said.
Invite conversation. Martin said to avoid telling people, "Don't bring me a problem unless you have a solution." That's a great deterrent in finding out about problems in your company.
Understand priorities. Martin said studies show that people from lower class incomes prioritize community/family more than any job. "That social capital they develop in their community is far more important than a paycheck," he said.
Put in extra effort. Martin said many lower income employees don't want to speak up when there is a problem because they operate under a "don't complain, don't speak up" point of view. "You might have to put in an extra effort," to train the workers to speak up, Martin said.
Illustrate the value of the work. A study was done with low wage people who made calls to solicit donations for a university. The job was so bad it had 350 percent turnover. The study broke the employees into two groups.
One group continued to do the job as is, and the other group had lunch with students who received scholarships because of the phone calls the employees made. A week after that lunch, a number of job performance measures increased including donations and phone calls made for the group who had lunch with the students.
The CEOs Unplugged panel featured: Paul Fraynd, Sun Valley Landscapes; Chris Joyce, Joyce Landscapes; Jennifer Lemcke, Weed Man USA; Jason Mathers, Monarch Landscapes; and Mark Tomko, Metco Landscape.
Describe the position. Mathers said his company was losing people as it grew. The employees would fit when the company was one size, but as the company grew bigger those people weren't a good fit anymore and they would be fired. To stop the turnover, the company began doing profiles of key performers and use them as a benchmark of who would fit at the company and then write a job description. As the employee was mentored, Mathers could track key indicators and work on the areas the employee was struggling. If it didn't work out and you had to fire someone, you could pinpoint the area that caused it.
Accept reality. As business owners and executives, Lemcke said sometimes you have to accept you can't be all things to all people, and sometimes a good work life balance isn't possible. "Once I accepted that I gave myself a little bit of a break," she said. Joyce said he started to realize that he wasn't always going to be the best dad and learned to accept it. "Let's be honest, you do what you have to do," he said.
Sponsors of the event included: Caterpillar (Platinum), Bayer (Gold), John Deere (Silver). Other sponsors included: Toro, Aspire, GIE+EXPO, Syngenta, Bartlett Tree Experts, Gravely and Vermeer.
NALP Executive Director, Sabeena Hickman said the organization has seen 35 percent growth, and will continue with their focus on increasing the workforce through moves like their career website and a planned career day in April.
NALP also handed out some awards. Woman Entrepreneur of the Year: went to Jennifer Lemcke, COO Weed Man USA. Lemcke has been with Weed Man for more than 25 years, working alongside her husband, Chris, and father, Roger Mongeon, CEO of Weed Man. Lemcke has been instrumental in the growth of the franchising of the company in the U.S., recently reaching the $100 million milestone. Lemcke said when she is at industry events she is usually the only woman in the room, but recently taught a class at Brigham Young University and half of the classroom was female students.
"It was very encouraging," she said.
Lifetime Leadership Award: Frank Mariani, CEO of Mariani Landscape in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Mariani is the second generation to run the family-owned Mariani Landscape, building it into an award-winning company, servicing some of the most prestigious properties in the Chicago area.
Mariani said one of the most important lessons he's learned during his decades in the industry was that not everyone was like him.
Marc McTeague, partner with SeibertKeck Insurance, has been involved in insuring green industry businesses for about 25 years.
During MGIX 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, McTeague broke down a few standard areas of insurance and why these things should be covered.
Large equipment, trucks, rented equipment and some materials need to be covered by insurance for when they are in transit or operation.
McTeague said employees can be the most dangerous part of your business in terms of liability.
The "people" side of your insurance includes workers' compensation both in state and out of state and employment practices liability.
Marc McTeague of Seibertkeck Insurance said to "have an umbrella policy" with additional protections to help your business.
McTeague said this type of coverage is essentially paying for your attorney if a situation occurs. But, companies need to understand that this may only apply to intracompany incidents.
He also suggested having key person life insurance. If something were to happen to a key player in your company, there would be life insurance on that person.
Insuring your work will protect your products, property damage, subcontractor relationships and even mistakes.
"Error and omissions coverage will cover you if you misread a plan and have to restart your entire project. You will have a cushion with that coverage," he said.
Having insurance on property damage will protect anything that may be damaged while in your care, custody or control. Additionally, when using a subcontractor, they are covered as if they are part of your company with this type of insurance. However, McTeague recommended subcontractors also get their own insurance to be safe.
You will be able to insure anything in your care, custody or control on a jobsite. McTeague also considers issues regarding client feelings. These third-party employee policies cover liability claims brought by nonemployees like customers and clients.
Pesticide bans and restrictions, immigration laws and leaf blower restrictions are just a few legislative topics the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) is looking at this year. And digging deeper to the state and local levels, even more of these topics emerge. With that in mind, NALP appointed Bob Mann to serve as its director of state and local government relations in September, which was a newly created position.
"It's not something that the association hasn't done before, but it's the first time we've had a position with this label on it," Mann said.
Prior to working with NALP, Mann served as an agronomist for Lawn Dawg. He was a landscape industry certified lawn care manager and certified pesticide applicator in six states. However, he also had experience helping with local and regional policies in Massachusetts, as well as with serving as president of the Massachusetts Association of Lawn Care Professionals.
Lawn & Landscape met with Mann to learn more about his new position at NALP and which legislative issues are of the most concern to the association this year.
Lawn & Landscape: Why did NALP add the position of director of government relations again last year? Are there more legislative issues than usual?
Bob Mann: Politics is like a pendulum. It goes back and forth between the extremes. For a very long time, there wasn't a lot of activism on the state or local level. Most of that activity was taking place at the federal level, especially with prior administration. With the election of Donald Trump and his selection of Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA, you notice that of course there's downsizing of the agency, a lot of people let go and things they were doing over prior administration were either shut down or restricted. You notice that activism is now reverting to the state level. And in speaking with friends who happen to be on the other side of the argument, they recognize that this is a trend. They embrace it and say this is our opportunity to affect change at the state and local level. Now there is activism at the local level, that wasn't there a couple of years ago.
L&L: So, do you see more of these bans emerging in communities?
Mann: Yes, I think that's where that is trending now. You see anti-pesticide groups that are mobilizing localities to work on a ground swell at local levels. The current hotspot for this kind of activity is in the Portland, Maine, area. The Portland City enacted the most stringent pesticide ordinance in the country back in January on a unanimous vote.
This ordinance, and similar ones in South Portland and Ogunquit, Maine, exist in the absence of state pre-emption of pesticide regulations in Maine, one of a handful of states that do it this way. Anti-pesticide activists organized in these communities a couple of years ago giving one-sided and open-ended presentations to political boards with the intention of enacting local ordinances. Once passed, the activists use the victories as leverage in the next fight.
We saw this when a bill that would strip state pesticide pre-emption was debated in Massachusetts in October 2017.
An activist testified in front of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture telling of their success in getting local ordinances passed in Maine and how wonderful it would be if they could do that in Massachusetts.
L&L: Are there any other laws emerging in the last year that are concerning to you?
Mann: We see there's a particular class of insect controls that we use that are called neonicotinoids. It's an insecticide that's used extensively in agriculture and also in horticulture and lawn care. The beauty of these insecticides is they're systemic in nature. You apply it, it goes in the plant so there's not an awful lot of it on the outside, so it doesn't have a lot of effect on non-target insects. Then (there is) colony class disorder. This is a problem with managed honey bee colonies where the bees would just fly away. Where'd they go?
They don't know where they are. Another symptom is they drop dead outside the hive. There was great deal of concern as to why these bees were acting this way – there were tremendous losses up to 40 to 60 percent of the hives were being destroyed. If you are on the outside and don't understand what the reason is, it's very easy to go and say, "It must be pesticide." A knee jerk reaction.
It took a lot of research to dive into it. And we found out it was sort of a multifactorial kind of thing – there's a lot of things going on with it.
But if you happen to be an anti-pesticide advocate, you just want to remove pesticides from the market regardless of the reason. You seize upon something like this and say, "Let's go after that." There have been a number of bills filed across the country that seek to either restrict or eliminate the use of neonicotinoids regardless of whether they're a problem or not.
L&L: Are there any regions of the U.S. where anti-pesticide advocates are more common?
Mann: Yes – it's a red state, blue state equation. Up in the northeast where the states are very blue, there's an awful lot of activism. I live in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and there's a lot of activism up there. And all the way down the corridor into D.C., those are all very blue areas. But you don't find a lot of activism in agricultural states. In more rural areas, people have more intimate knowledge of pesticides because they live in farming communities. So, it's really down to a red state, blue state equation in my estimation.
L&L: What are some other challenges NALP is looking into?
Mann: Many of our members rely upon labor that's available to them under the H-2B program. It's a fight that has to be refought on an annual basis. There are so few H-2B visas available that makes it difficult for our members to get enough people they need to have work done. But (this topic) gets tossed into the big, ugly snowball of illegal immigration. Even the president doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that as an owner of golf courses, his golf courses were using H-2B labor.
That's public knowledge. It's kind of surprising that the administration is so harsh on this particular issue. Be that as it may, it's a different administration with a different battle plan.
L&L: We've also noticed there are reports in the news on towns banning leaf blowers, either due to noise violations or the use of gas-powered equipment. Has NALP been looking into this?
Mann: It's curious that one of our members was listening to a radio broadcast based in Boston and this was the topic of conversation. The city of Newton just outside Boston is a very progressive city. They are contemplating a complete ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, which was driven by complaints. People were complaining, complaining, complaining.
They would call the police department, and the police kept record of complaints. They narrowed it down to roughly 15 to 25 people in town who made up the vast majority of the complaints. It's not a small town – there's a lot of people living in Newton. But only 25 people made all the noise about the leaf blower use, and one person in particular who never put the phone down.
The ordinance is apparently empowering the police department to write tickets for people who use their leaf blowers – including contractors. And police are saying, "We don't want anything to do with that – we have far more important things to do." The last thing they want to do is deal with leaf blowers.
So what we've done in conjunction with OPEI (Outdoor Power Equipment Institute) is put together guidelines for landscapers to use as a communication device for with media and politicians to explain to them the proper way to operate these types of equipment. A lot of time you hear a leaf blower and those are from circa 1962, and they don't have a muffler or they're blowing smoke. But what used to be a giant, horrible, deafening machine is now much quieter and does a better job.
Unfortunately, if you happen to be a detractor of this type of landscape equipment, you don't appreciate the fact that the industry is making advances. It's a difficult situation to overcome.
L&L: What should landscapers do to help advocate on behalf of these issues?
Mann: We desperately need more people to come out – not only belong to the association – but become active in the association. People are busy, there's only so many hours in the day. And it can be hard to impress upon landscapers how important it is to be politically active in your industry. But there are people out there trying to put you out of business. Just because you don't see them on a daily basis, it doesn't mean they're not there. You can't be reactionary. If you show up to try to defend your business and don't have a relationship with your representative, senator or governor, it's already too late. It's all over. It's important to understand and appreciate who it is that's representing you.
L&L: Contractors are busy and working more hours than they'd like – but how do they make time to meet with senators and representatives?
Mann: First, you'd be surprised to learn who some of your customers are. Back when I owned my own business, one of my customers was Elizabeth Warren. Go figure. Sen. Warren and I are opposite ends of the political spectrum. But when we do the Renewal and Remembrance Event in Washington, D.C., every year, you spend the second day on Capitol Hill, meet representatives and senators and say what things are important to your industry where you live. When I went to Sen. Warren's office, I sat down with her and her staffer who worked with environmental issues but we had a good time.
I had a meet-and-greet with her after and she remembered me from when I worked for her and her husband. I don't think people appreciate the fact that these people representing them at a national level are actually their neighbors, and in some cases, you probably have some of them as customers.
I had an incident not too long ago where there was something important that needed to be done. I reached out to horticulture groups and asked for help. Someone got back in touch with me and said, "It so happens there are two people on the legislative committee in my town, they're good friends of mine I grew up with." It's a constant network of relationships that grow and you initiate. But you have to invest in these relationships for them to come to fruition.
After 25 years, horticultural tradeshow New England Grows is discontinuing operation. The Grows board of directors, representing the four founding partner organizations, made the unanimous decision to dissolve and disband both the Grows event and the organization.
"The decision to dissolve New England Grows was difficult, but we all believe it is the right decision at the right time," said Grows president Michelle Harvey of Lakeview Nurseries in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. "Changes both within and outside of the industry contributed to the decision to close Grows, but this does not diminish the significant and positive contributions Grows has made to the local green industry."
The 25-year-old organization will disband with the dissolution of the trade show.
Founded by New England Nursery Association, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Massachusetts Nursery & Landscape Association, and Massachusetts Association of Landscape Professionals in 1993, New England Grows' mission was to educate, elevate and support the region's commercial horticulture industry. Over the course of more than two decades, the nonprofit contributed millions of dollars in educational grants to the industry through its partners, as well as to horticultural and community groups like Cooperative Extension, the Horticultural Research Institute, FFA organization, local vocational schools, and the Boston Schoolyard Initiative.
"We want to thank each and every one of the countless volunteers who worked tirelessly to produce Grows over the past 25 years, as well as the loyal exhibitors who supported the show from day one," said Virginia Wood, executive director of Grows.


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Big Man on Campus: Salute to a new college football season
8yGene Wojciechowski
Gene WojciechowskiSenior Writer
ESPN.com senior national columnist
Author of "The Last Great Game"
This week's top 20:
I'll be at the game of the week -- Michigan versus Alabama this Saturday evening at Cowboys Stadium. But the scene of the week, maybe of the entire season, will take place at noon Saturday at Penn State.
It doesn't matter whom the Nittany Lions are playing. In this case, it's the Ohio Bobcats. It could be the Charlotte Bobcats, and nobody would notice.
Bill O'Brien will usher in a new era at Penn State on Saturday. Rich Barnes/US Presswire
The storylines could fill an 85-man roster:
For the first time since 1949, no Joe Paterno on the Beaver Stadium field. No Joe Paterno statue outside the stadium. No Silas Redd. He transferred in the wake of debilitating NCAA sanctions. And he wasn't alone. The Bill O'Brien era begins. So does the era of names on the back of the PSU jerseys. And blue ribbon helmet decals to support child abuse victims.
It will be a bittersweet, conflicted and emotional day for Penn State fans, players, coaches and, most certainly, the Paterno family. Something new, almost foreign and inconceivable is about to happen: a Nittany Lions football program without Paterno, its longtime patriarch.
For decades, Paterno was the face, the body, the all-encompassing presence at Penn State. The Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal changed all that. And in profound, lasting ways, changed Paterno's legacy.
Saturday will be a day of football. But at Penn State it will, and should, be a day of both remembrance and moving forward.
O'Brien has a nearly impossible job this season and in the coming seasons. NCAA sanctions kneecapped his program before he coached his first game. And the mushroom cloud of the Sandusky scandal continues to linger over State College.
But perhaps at noon Saturday, the simple sight of a football in the air will, in some small way, help put some Neosporin on Penn State's flesh wounds. For the sake of the players, who had nothing to do with this long, awful mess, I hope so.
19. BMOC conference picks
I'll make it simple:
Major conferences: ACC (Florida State); Big East (Louisville); Big Ten (Ohio State if it were eligible, but it isn't, so Wisconsin); Big 12 (Oklahoma); Pac-12 (USC), SEC (Alabama).
18. Conference picks -- Part II
The other guys:
Conference USA (Central Florida); Mid-American (Ohio); Mountain West (Boise State); Sun Belt (Florida International); WAC (Louisiana Tech); best of the independents (Notre Dame).
By the way, Notre Dame begins its season Saturday without starting tailback Cierre Wood (suspended), former starting quarterback Tommy Rees (suspended), linebacker Carlo Calabrese (suspended), likely starting cornerback Lo Wood (ruptured Achilles) and reserve defensive end Justin Utupo (suspended).
Rees and Calabrese are eligible to return after the opening game against Navy, but Cierre Wood and Utupo are gone until the Sept. 15 game at Michigan State. Lo Wood is lost for the year.
Not exactly the way Brian Kelly wanted to start his third season in South Bend.
17. BMOP (Big Man On Podium)
Or in this case, UTEP president Diana Natalicio.
"I told the president of UT-Austin that we'd do our best to ensure that Oklahoma would be not as competitive after they left El Paso, because we will have shown them a surprise. We're looking very much forward to welcoming the Sooners to the Sun Bowl."
--Natalicio, to The Oklahoman's Jason Kersey, on OU's season opener against UTEP on Saturday.
For what it's worth, Oklahoma is a 31-point favorite.
16. 500 words or less
Spent some quality time at Ohio State a few weeks ago and left Columbus semi-convinced that Urban Meyer has undergone a work-style change.
Don't misunderstand: Meyer is still as intense as the Russian roulette scene in "The Deer Hunter." His icy stare is Pat Summitt quality. I saw it firsthand.
But after coaching burnout caused him to resign from Florida in 2010, Meyer returned to Ohio State with a supposed new attitude. Behind his desk is a framed copy of a "contract" handwritten by his oldest daughter, Nicki, and signed by Meyer himself. In it, Meyer agrees to put his family and his spiritual and physical well-being ahead of football. The 10 promises are non-negotiable.
Will Urban Meyer keep his promise to his family as Ohio State head coach? AP Photo/Jay LaPrete
"I just think that he knows that he owes it to us to make sure it's different," said Nicki, a senior volleyball player at Georgia Tech. "I think he knows that it doesn't have to be the way it was, because that's not normal."
The "way it was" overpowered Meyer. It compromised his relationship with his family and affected his health. The losses were the worst.
"Ugh, he would usually go to his den, where he could just go and sit and be by himself," said his wife, Shelley. "Except that he didn't want to be there by himself -- he wanted me to maybe be sitting there with him. Well, I don't want to sit and -- I just don't like to feel that way. I'm a happy person, and I want to be happy. I do not want to wallow in sorrow all night and I didn't know how to help him. I would have just preferred to shake it out of him and just say, 'OK, let's get on with it.'"
When Meyer quit after the 2010 season, it was as if he had to give himself permission to finally relax. But once he did, the effects were immediate.
"I was home for Christmas that year when he was finally done [coaching]," Nicki said. "And he would be sitting on my bed every morning, shaking me awake at 7:30 [and saying], 'What are we going to do today? What do you want to do? You want to go on a walk? Do want to go get coffee? Let's go to Disney World.'
"[There were] just so many things that he had the energy just to go do."
Two months into his self-imposed retirement, Meyer started dropping hints to Shelley about a return to coaching. In October 2011, while attending a Miami Dolphins game in which the 2008 Florida national championship team was honored, Meyer texted his wife from the Sun Life Stadium sidelines.
Read the text: "I got to do this again."
This. Coach again.
A month later, Ohio State approached Meyer about taking over the Buckeyes program. Meyer assumed it was a no-brainer. He was wrong.
15. Meyer -- Part II
In the past, Meyer gave veto power to Shelley and the family on any job change. The exceptions: Michigan, Notre Dame or Ohio State. Those would be automatic yeses.
"It was different now because of everything he went through and what we as a family went through," Shelley said. "So it wasn't as simple as him just making the decision."
There was an emotional family meeting during a trip to see Nicki in Atlanta. That's when Nicki gave her dad the contract, which was written in pencil on a single sheet of pink notebook paper.
"I remember him looking at me and being like, 'This is the toughest contract I've ever had to sign before,'" Nicki said.
He signed the document. Now then, can he follow it once the season starts?
"I know he will," Nicki said. "I am 100 percent confident that he will."
Shelley remains skeptical. She wants to believe, but
"I'm happy just seeing how he's handled the little blips that we've had so far, but … the season needs to start, and I want to see how he does with the season," Shelley said.
Meyer is eating better, exercising on a regular basis, monitoring his workload and communicating with his family more often. He didn't suffer a meltdown when running back Jordan Hall tore a tendon in his foot.
And if a player screws up off the field, he doesn't take it so personally.
But what it Meyer suffers a relapse?
"It won't get as far as it did before," Nicki said. "I think all of us are watching very, very closely."
14. Heisman Trophy race
Seated in the front row at Best Buy Theater:
• USC quarterback Matt Barkley -- If the Heisman race were Powerball, Barkley would already have four of the six winning numbers.
Montee Ball was invited to the Heisman Trophy ceremony as a finalist in 2011. Will he bring the trophy back to Madison with him in 2012? Kelly Kline/Getty Images for The Heisman
• Wisconsin running back Montee Ball -- Ball won't finish 1,339 points out of first place this year. If he puts up the freakish rushing and touchdown numbers of 2011, he might win this thing.
• Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson -- Opposing defenses tape their ankles twice when facing Robinson.
Keep a coat and tie handy:
• Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones -- Capable of huge numbers. Also capable of too many interceptions.
• Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson -- If Arkansas squeezes into the SEC championship -- and national title picture -- Wilson will be the main reason.
• West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith -- Anybody named Geno always gets my early support.
• South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore -- If the post-ACL Lattimore is as a good as the pre-ACL version, the Gamecocks are going to have a season to remember.
Semi-sleepers:
• Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas -- Cam Newton-ish, but without the drama.
• Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas -- He accelerates faster than a Shelby GT500.
• Utah defensive tackle Star Lotulelei -- If the first name fits
• Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel -- An FSU run for a national championship will pole-vault Manuel into the Heisman short-list discussion.
13. Why Vegas sends a limo for me
Based on exhaustive research (seconds' worth of analysis) and a complicated tiebreaker system (the first team logo my dog Oskie sniffs or paws at is the choice), I present my Upset of the Week.
Thought Hard About: Navy over Notre Dame (but saw that the Domers are 1-0 against Navy in Dublin); No. 24 Boise over No. 13 Michigan State (tempting, especially when you give Chris Petersen this much time to prepare a game plan); Vanderbilt over No. 9 South Carolina (just sort of like the Vandy football vibes these days).
Went with: Auburn over No. 14 Clemson (no Sammy Watkins for Clemson).
12. The picks
(Some of these athletic directors should be ashamed of themselves for scheduling these openers. And I'll be ashamed of myself if I don't go at least 21-1.)
South Carolina over Vandy, Michigan State over Boise State, Stanford over San Jose State, Georgia over Buffalo, West Virginia over Marshall, Ohio State over Miami (Ohio), Wisconsin over Northern Iowa, Nebraska over Southern Miss, Florida over Bowling Green, Florida State over Murray State, LSU over North Texas, Arkansas over Jacksonville State, Auburn over Clemson, Oklahoma State over Savannah State, Kansas State over Missouri State, USC over Hawaii, Alabama over Michigan, Texas over Wyoming, Oklahoma over UTEP, Oregon over Arkansas State, Louisville over Kentucky, Virginia Tech over Georgia Tech.
Is it unreasonable to ask why Casey Pachall will be the starting quarterback when TCU opens its regular season Sept. 8 against Grambling State?
Talent isn't an issue. Pachall was a tattooed revelation last season as he set school records in completions, completion percentage and passing yards. Keep this up and it will be, "Andy Dalton who?"
But speaking of revelations, a recent TCU360.com report revealed that Pachall tested positive for marijuana use in February and that he also told police he had used cocaine and Ecstasy. TCU coach Gary Patterson was so outraged by the behavior that he suspended Pachall for zero games.
This isn't about exacting a pound of Horned Frogs flesh. Or picking on Pachall. But given how other programs have dealt with misbehaving players, TCU's leniency seems either naive or conveniently calculated.
LSU star Tyrann Mathieu's drug-related violation of team policy resulted in his dismissal from the Tigers. Former Auburn running back Michael Dyer was drop-kicked from Arkansas State after marijuana and a gun were found in a car he was driving. An offseason drug arrest resulted in a two-game suspension for Clemson star wide receiver Sammy Watkins. All-SEC wide receiver Da'Rick Rogers was suspended indefinitely by Tennessee after a reported substance abuse violation.
See where I'm going with this?
Pachall's situation, the school says, was handled "internally." As dictated by the university student conduct handbook, Pachall was required to complete drug and alcohol counseling. He also is subject to drug testing.
The good doctor himself, Lou Holtz, likes to say that "choices have consequences," and that discipline isn't what you do to someone, "but what you do for them."
TCU's choice was to keep Pachall in the starting lineup. The unintended consequence of the decision -- that there's a perception TCU was soft on Pachall after a failed drug test -- is the program's own fault.
10. BMOC coach under the most duress
The finalists: Tennessee's Derek Dooley, Maryland's Randy Edsall, Texas' Mack Brown, Oregon State's Mike Riley, Texas Tech's Tommy Tuberville, Notre Dame's Brian Kelly.
The preseason choice: Dooley.
After 6-7 and 5-7 seasons, Dooley is under immense pressure to deliver.
9. BMOC comeback player of the year
A healthy Marcus Lattimore will be a huge boon to South Carolina. C. Michael Bergen/The State/MCT/Getty Images
The finalist: South Carolina's Lattimore.
The preseason choice: Lattimore. Duh.
Nothing against the likes of Arkansas running back Knile Davis, whose ankle injury caused him to miss the entire 2011 season, but an ACL trumps an ankle.
8. Knucklehead alert
As detailed in ESPN.com SEC blogger Chris Low's recent report, almost nobody was lamenting the indefinite suspension of Tennessee's Rogers or his impending transfer (to Tennessee Tech).
According to those inside the program, Rogers was an All-SEC talent and an all-planet divisive force within the locker room. Think about it: A head coach clinging to his job all but dismissed one of the best wide receivers in the conference. So either Dooley is a coach of conviction, or Rogers simply wasn't worth the trouble anymore.
Anyway, addition by subtraction is the best way to describe Rogers' departure. If the Vols are going to reverse the gruesomeness of last year's 5-7 record (including a humiliating 10-7 loss to a Kentucky team that started a wide receiver at quarterback) -- and keep Dooley employed in Knoxville -- then the fewer distractions, the better.
Two early reasons for optimism: Quarterback Tyler Bray, who isn't the first person you think of when the words team leader are mentioned, has had a strong fall camp. And new defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri, formerly of Alabama and the Carolina Panthers, has made an immediate impact.
It sounds ridiculous, but the season opener in Atlanta against North Carolina State could be a defining game for Dooley and his program.
7. BMOC surprise team of the year
The finalists: Tennessee, Ohio State, Nebraska, UCLA.
The preseason choice: UCLA.
Rick Neuheisel is gone, but he won't be forgotten. He left new coach Jim Mora Jr. a nice collection of returning starters. Plus, the Bruins' toughest games (Stanford, USC, Utah and Nebraska) are all played at home.
6. BMOC coach of the year
The finalists: Penn State's Bill O'Brien, Texas' Brown, Ohio State's Meyer, UCLA's Mora, Nebraska's Bo Pelini, Arkansas' John L. Smith.
(Yes, I know: Where's Bama's Nick Saban, Oregon's Chip Kelly, USC's Lane Kiffin, etc.? I'm going with the semi-underdogs here. If, say, the Ducks make a beeline for the BCS championship, Kelly will get his props in this column. But for now, I'm going with these guys.)
The preseason choice: O'Brien.
If the Nittany Lions can manufacture six wins out of their schedule, it will be a blue-and-white mini-miracle.
5. If there were a playoff
(And there will be in two more years …)
Shoulder Pad Bracket: Alabama versus Oregon
Drool is forming at the corner of my mouth. Can you imagine the Nickanator scheming a defense for the Quack Attack?
Chin Strap Bracket: USC versus Florida State
Lots of pregame weaponry issues, what with the Trojan guy and the Seminole guy sticking swords and spears into the turf.
4. BMOC player of the year
The finalists: Barkley, Ball and Robinson
The preseason choice: Barkley.
There's not much going for Barkley: a great backstory, potentially a great team, leadership skills, unselfishness, a telegenic personality. Yeah, I like his chances.
3. BMOC national championship matchup
There's no reason to overthink this. The SEC has won six consecutive national titles. It has a good chance to win a seventh.
Anyway, it's not like it became the WAC overnight. And please, save the SEC fatigue factor argument for someone else. Since when does the SEC get penalized for being too good?
So figure on Bama, Arkansas, LSU, Georgia, South Carolina or Florida advancing to the BCS championship in South Florida.
At least eight other non-SEC teams could play for a title: Oregon, Florida State, Oklahoma, USC, Texas, Wisconsin, Clemson and Oklahoma State. And I'll throw in Michigan State, Virginia Tech and West Virginia as long shots.
The preseason choice: Roll Tide versus Men of Troy.
I wanted to take a flier on Oregon versus FSU but did the weenie thing and went with the chalk. I hate myself.
2. Two-liners
Alabama and Michigan have played a combined 2,418 games over a combined 249 years. But Saturday's Cowboys Classic at Jerry World will be the first time the two programs face each other during the regular season. … Oregon is playing the guilt card on its website, as it reminds fans that the nation's fourth-longest sellout streak (82 games) is in jeopardy unless people start scarfing up those Arkansas State tickets for the opener at Autzen. Nebraska is the undisputed sellout leader (318 consecutive games), followed by Notre Dame (225) and Virginia Tech (87). … For what it's worth, if TCU beats Grambling State, Patterson becomes the winningest coach in Horned Frogs history, surpassing 1930s legend Dutch Meyer. ("Fight 'em 'til hell freezes over … then fight 'em on the ice.") Season-ticket sales at the $164 million renovated Amon G. Carter Stadium have been capped at 31,257, which is more than double the number of season-ticket sales just four years ago. … Wisconsin running back Montee Ball, now fully recovered from an Aug. 1 concussion suffered during an attack near campus, will begin his Heisman campaign against Northern Iowa on Saturday. It will mark the first time since the loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl that Ball will be subjected to live tackling. (Per coaches' orders, he wasn't involved in full, tackle-to-the-ground contact during spring or fall practices.)
1. The BMOC top 10
No. 10: Ohio State
This was a coin flip between the Buckeyes and Longhorns. Both are motivated to reverse the general suckiness of recent seasons (a history-making seven losses for Ohio State in 2011; a combined 6-11 conference record for Texas during the past two seasons). Both have lots of talent. Love the Longhorns' defense, but love the Urban Meyer Effect (and the potential of quarterback Braxton Miller) an itsy bit more.
No. 9: Florida
The Gators will figure out their quarterback situation and then exact revenge on the memories of last season's 7-6 train wreck. Killer schedule, though.
No. 8: Wisconsin
There is no truth to the rumor that the Badgers are joining the ACC. Instead, they simply keep welcoming former ACC quarterbacks to their starting lineup. Russell Wilson last season, Danny O'Brien this season.
Can Oklahoma QB Landry Jones carry the Sooners to the title game? Matt Kartozian/US Presswire
No. 7: Oklahoma
Retirement and injuries have changed the dynamic of the OU O-line, but the bigger question is: Which version of quarterback Landry Jones will the Sooners see?
No. 6: Georgia
The schedule, relatively speaking, is as soft as Uga's fur. No Bama, LSU or Arkansas until the SEC championship. At least, that's the plan.
No. 5: LSU
No Honey Badger, but maybe not as many in-house distractions? Junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger makes his first career LSU start for the vertically challenged Tigers (106th in passing offense last season).
No. 4: Oregon
The Ducks start a freshman quarterback in the season opener for the first time in 21 years (Marcus Mariota -- pronounced, Mar-ee-oo-tah). They also start a season with a defense that has some actual bona fides.
No. 3: Florida State
What can I say? I'm a sucker for senior quarterbacks (EJ Manuel) and scary good offensive and defensive lines.
No. 2: USC
Senior QB Matt Barkley didn't stiff the NFL, so he could provide product for the new Pac-12 Network. He wants a Heisman and a national championship. He might get both.
No. 1: Alabama
Attendance for the Tide's annual spring game (78,526) was larger than January's BCS Championship Game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome (78,237). So, no, I don't think Bama is going to freak out over the pressures of making a run at the rare national title repeat.


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The early days of the new Colonies in America were dictated by the King Charles II and his granting of land within them. William Penn played a huge role in the development of Pennsylvania shortly after receiving his grant in 1680. He offered portions of his new lands up for sell to be purchased out right or a person could purchase the "Rights" to lands that the final parcel has not yet been determined. When purchased out right , the buyer would be delivered a description of the land in terms of metes and bounds. When someone purchased the "Rights" to lands, he would receive a warrant for his money. He would then provide this to the Surveyor General when he arrived in Pennsylvania and choose his parcel land. Many times these warrants or "Rights" to lands would be purchased as investments and alter put back up for sell as the original purchaser had no intentions on coming to the new world. This book is invaluable for the researcher of early Pennsylvania genealogy. This book is based on the minutes of the Board of Property beginning in the year 1687 and ending in 1732. It not only gives the history of the property in detail but also provides a great deal of genealogical information about the family who purchased these lands.


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Zongdian lies on the former Tibet/China border and is currently in the process of being modernised – Chinese style! This picture depicts the clear line of destruction as new buildings crush old with seemingly little respect for traditional Tibetan heritage.
Showing sections of a monastery by a local monk.
Recently Tibetans have been allowed to re-build their monasteries. This one will be the third largest in China when it is finished.
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Between visits to the dentist, I went to see my new friend Mr Panda a couple of times.
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District courts were created effective January 1, 1969, by Public Act 154 of 1968. They replaced all but four municipal courts as well as all the police and justice of the peace courts and circuit court commissioners (officials in each county of a circuit who had limited judicial powers and performed administrative duties). The district court is often called "the people's court" because the public has more contact with it than any other court in the state and many people choose to represent themselves rather than hire an attorney. There are 83 counties in Michigan, but 103 districts, and many are served by more than one judge. The district court has exclusive jurisdiction over most traffic violations, civil cases where the amount disputed is not over $25,000, landlord-tenant and land-contract matters, and civil infractions. The court may also conduct marriages in a civil ceremony.
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The Kurds have been friends of United States and are deserving of our help to develop their own sovereign nation. The Kurds are spread out over Turkey, Iran, and Iraq and since World War I have been deprived of their own territorial boundaries. They have been a force multiplier in the fight against ISIS and quite helpful to the United States over the years. The Kurds are fully deserving and justifiably waiting for help from the United States.
In September the Kurds are scheduled to hold a referendum on independence. They are receiving pressure from Iraq and Turkey not to hold such a referendum. Kurdish moves toward independence have generally met with resistance especially from Turkey. This makes for a complex political situation because the United States has its own considerations with respect to Turkey.
The Kurds for decades have been fighting for rights and recognition even though they are the indigenous people of the area. After World War I when the Ottomans were defeated there were plans to establish a Kurdish state. But these plans were dashed when treaties ignored the Kurds, and they consequently settled in areas as minorities and were never organized into a political unit but still maintained their cultural particularity.
There is serious hostility between the Turks the Kurds. The Kurds have been persecuted by the Turks for years. In response to pressures for independence, many Kurds were resettled, Kurdish names were changed, and cultural particularities were banned. The use of the Kurdish language was restricted and even the existence of a Kurdish ethnic identity was denied, with people designated as "Mountain Turks."
In 1978, Abdullah Ocalan established the PKK, which called for an independent state within Turkey. Six years later, the group began an armed struggle. Since then, more than 40,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Look here for a statement about the current political situation. In particular, this statement explains the betrayal of the Kurds.
The US no-fly zone established in 1991 has allowed the Kurds to govern themselves in northern Iraq. They have their own parliament, currency, and postage stamps. The Kurdish Federal region was established after the US eliminated Saddam Hussein.
The Kurds are a vital cultural force who are proud, dignified, and democratically inclined. They were forgotten and ignored after World War I. For the longest time the US opposed an independent Kurdistan. That's before the Kurds have become a friend to United States and so central to the fight against the Islamic state. Turkey has always wanted to assimilate the Kurds and deny their history and culture. They long feared that any gains by the Kurds will be a loss for Turkey.
Turkey's fears are now moot, because the Kurds of Turkey have no need for external encouragement. It is time for the international community to catch up with the Kurds and work with them to establish their own political institutions.
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Hula Lake Park
Hula Lake, in the center of the Hula Valley in the Galilee panhandle region, was restored by KKL-JNF in the 1990's, after the area was drained in the 1950's to eradicate malaria and to create land for agriculture. KKL-JNF, with the help of its Friends worldwide, has developed Hula Lake Park into an internationally acclaimed bird watching park, where no less than 500 million migratory birds pass through the area, twice a year.
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In the 1950s, the Hula swamps were drained in order to combat malaria and to create much-needed agricultural land. More recently, KKL-JNF has worked to recreate the rich ecosystem that once flourished here, creating a world-class wild-life park.
Afforestation is an important component of the Hula Lake restoration project, So far, some 30,000 trees have been planted along both sides of the eastern channel, and an additional 50,000 orchard, ornamental and shade trees will be planted soon.
KL-JNF has a policy of creating and upgrading existing projects, to make them accessible to people with disabilities. The Hula Restoration Project development program includes specific guidelines for making the valley accessible to all.
Before the Hula area was drained, the most notable mammal inhabitant was undoubtedly the herbivorous water buffalo, known by its Arabic name jamus. KKL-JNF is now reintroducing a breeding stock of buffalo into the area.
The diversity of species passing through the area is among the greatest in the world – some 390 different species in an area of less than 20 square miles. KKL-JNF is committed to protecting these birds, including species in danger of extinction.
As part of the restoration of the Hula Valley area, the historical course of the Jordan river has been restored. The reintroduction of a river course as a central element of the valley is an important anchor of the area's restoration project.


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The national flag of Ukraine () consists of equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow.

The blue and yellow bicolour first appeared during the 1848 Spring of Nations in Lemberg, then part of the Austrian Empire. It was adopted as a state flag for the first time in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the Ukrainian People's Republic, the West Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian State. It was also later adopted by Carpatho-Ukraine in March 1939. When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, the bicolour was banned and it used flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which featured a red flag along with the azure bottom with a golden hammer and sickle and a golden bordered red star on top. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the bicolour gradually returned in use before officially being adopted again on 28 January 1992 by the Ukrainian parliament.

Ukraine has celebrated the Day of the National Flag on 23 August since 2004.

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Design
Ukrainian law states that the colours of Ukrainian flag are "blue and yellow", but other state bodies have determined the colours. In the table below, the colours are presented according to DSTU 4512:2006 technical specifications:

There has been disagreement over the shade of blue used in the flag. In 2013, scholar Dmytro Malakov argued that sky blue was the correct colour, and that, according to rules of heraldry, dark blue should not be used. The Ukrainian Heraldry Society stated that this heraldry issue does not apply to flags.

The flag is similar to that of the Austrian state of Lower Austria, the German city of Chemnitz, historical Kingdom of Dalmatia (now Croatia) and the Hungarian city of Pécs, but all of those flags have a darker shade of blue. The flag is also somewhat similar to that of the Malaysian state of Perlis, but has a reversed colour arrangement, darker shades of blue and yellow, and a different aspect ratio.

Protocol and use

Article 20 of the Constitution of Ukraine states that "the State Flag of Ukraine is a banner of two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow colour." ().

In addition to the normal horizontal format, many public buildings, such as the Verkhovna Rada, use vertical flags. Most town halls fly their town flag together with the national flag in this way; some town flags in Ukraine exist only in vertical form. The proportions of these vertical flags are not specified. When hung like a banner or draped, the blue band should be on the left. When flown from a vertical flagpole, the blue band must face the mast.

The flag did not appear on Ukrainian postal stamp issues until 1992, when they depicted the flag with the state coat of arms. Since then, the flag has frequently appeared on stamps. Cinderella stamps of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists were printed outside Ukraine during the Soviet period for patriotic purposes.

Decoration
Traditionally, the flag may be decorated with a golden fringe surrounding the perimeter of the flag, as long as it does not deface the flag proper. The tradition began with the flag of the Ukrainian SSR. In addition, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia shows a flag decorated with a gold star. Ceremonial displays of the flag, such as those in parades or on indoor posts, often use a fringe to enhance the allure of the flag. No specific law governs the use of the fringe. Traditionally, the Army, Guard, Navy and Air Force use a fringed flag for parades, colour guards and indoor displays, while the Office of the President and local authorities use a fringed flag on all occasions.

Places of continuous display
Ukrainian flags are customarily displayed continuously in certain locations.
 Maidan Nezalezhnosti, main square of Kyiv, traditional site for political rallies, including large-scale radical protest campaigns (Orange Revolution and Euromaidan)
 Presidential Administration Building, Verkhovna Rada building and Budynok Uryadu
 Kyiv City Council
 Lviv High Castle
 Vernadsky Research Base
 State Border Guard Service of Ukraine sites
 National, regional and local government buildings
 Ukrainian embassies and consulates

Particular days for display
In particular, the flag should be displayed at full staff on the following days:
 1 January: New Year's Day
 7 January: Christmas (Julian)
 22 January: Ukrainian Unity and Freedom Day
 8 March: International Women's Day
 1 & 2 May: International Workers' Day
 9 May: Victory Day over Nazism
 28 June: Constitution Day
 23 August: Flag Day
 24 August: Independence Day
 13 October: Defenders of Ukraine Day
 21 November: Day of Dignity and Freedom
 6 December: Armed Forces Day
 25 December: Christmas (Gregorian/Neo-Julian)

Display at half-staff
The flag is displayed at half-staff (or half-mast) as a sign of respect or mourning. When done nationwide, such a step is proclaimed by the president. Half-mast means flying a flag two-thirds of the way up a flagpole; the top of the flag must be at least a flag's height from the top of the flagpole. Black ribbons indicate mourning on banners that can't be lowered to half-mast.
 4th Saturday of November: Holodomor Memorial Day
 Other historical cases: mass victims of accidents, Russo-Ukrainian War and Euromaidan; death and state funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński, funeral of Pope John Paul II and 11 September attacks.

Flag Day

The Day of the National Flag in Ukraine is celebrated on 23 August; it began in 2004. Previously, 24 July was National Flag Day in Kyiv. The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990, at the flagstaff of the Kyiv City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag. Since 1992, the Independence Day of Ukraine has been celebrated on 24 August. Following a government decree, the flag must be flown from public buildings on this date and certain other holidays; not all are public holidays. Flags must also be flown on parliamentary election days and regional-specific flag days. The public display of flags to mark other events, such as the election of the president or the death of a prominent politician (whereupon flags are flown at half-mast), can be declared at the discretion of the Cabinet of Ministers. When flags are flown at half-mast, vertical flags are not lowered. A black mourning ribbon is instead attached, either atop the mast if hung from a pole, or to each end of the flag's supporting cross-beams if flown like a banner.

History

The roots of Ukrainian national symbols come from pre-Christian times when yellow and blue prevailed in traditional ceremonies, reflecting fire and water. During the battle of Grunwald in 1410 two Polish banners of Lwów and Przemyśl Lands used flags with yellow and blue colours.

Blue-yellow, red-black, crimson-olive and especially raspberry colour banners were widely used by Cossacks between the 16th and 18th centuries. These were not the only possible combinations, since normally Cossacks would fly their hetman's banners, which were similar to the coats of arms of the nobility. Also, yellow and blue were the colours common on coats of arms in Galicia. In fact, the coat of arms of Lviv to this day remains a golden lion on a blue field.

Some put the starting point of the adoption of the current national flag of Ukraine to 1848 when, during the Spring of the Nations on 22 April 1848, a blue-and-yellow banner was adopted by the Supreme Ruthenian Council in Lemberg (Lviv), the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and flew over the city's magistrate for the first time. Although this move did not have significant consequences, the newly formed Ukrainian divisions in the Austrian army used blue-and-yellow banners in their insignia.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, this flag was used by Ukrainians of the Dnieper Ukraine.

Early independence: 1917–1921

Both blue-yellow and yellow-blue flags were widely used during the Ukrainian struggle for independence in 1917. For the first time in the history of the Russian Empire, the blue-yellow flag was flown on 25 March 1917 in Petrograd during a 20,000-strong mass demonstration. On the territory of Ukraine the national flag was flown for the first time in Kyiv on 29 March 1917 by soldiers. On 1 April 1917, Kyiv saw a 100,000-strong demonstration where over 320 national flags were flown. Afterwards, similar demonstrations with Ukrainian flags took place across the entire Russian Empire, even beyond ethnic Ukrainian lands. Numerous famous Ukrainian politicians wrote about the 1 April demonstration, including Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Serhiy Yefremov, noting that there were blue-and-yellow flags, while Dmytro Doroshenko claimed that they were yellow and blue. The blue-yellow flag was flown at the First Ukrainian Military Congress on 18 May 1917.

The official flag established by the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918 was blue-yellow. Instead, they refer to the decision on the Fleet Flag, which was to be light blue–yellow, as an indication that the official flag was light blue–yellow. Also adopted were several other service flags of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

The official flag of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Hetmanate was also light blue-yellow and remained the same under the Directorate of Symon Petlura. The flag of the West Ukrainian People's Republic was blue-yellow. The stateless Makhnovshchina, which existed during the Ukrainian War of Independence, used the black flag.

Among Ukrainian immigrant organisations, there were proponents of both blue-yellow and yellow-blue flags. Eventually, an agreement was reached to use the blue-yellow flag until the issue could be resolved by an independent Ukraine.

Soviet Ukraine: 1922–1991

During Soviet rule, the Ukrainian flag was banned, and anyone displaying it could be criminally prosecuted for "anti-Soviet propaganda". The first flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 10 March 1919, to serve as the symbol of state of Soviet Ukraine. Details of the official flag changed periodically before the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, but all were based on the red flag of the October Revolution in Russia and an exact replica of the flags of the neighbouring Russian SFSR.
The first flag was red with the gold Cyrillic sans-serif letters У.С.С.Р. (USSR, acronym for Ukrayinskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika in the Russian language). In the 1930s, a gold border was added to the flag. In 1937, a new flag was adopted, with a small gold hammer and sickle added above the gold Cyrillic serif У.Р.С.Р. (URSR, for Ukrayins'ka Radyans'ka Sotsialistychna Respublika in the Ukrainian language).

Interbellum and Reichskommissariat Ukraine
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organisation which as a movement was originally created in 1929 in Western Ukraine (interwar Poland at the time). For a long time, the OUN did not officially have its own flag; however, during the Hungarian and Polish aggression against the Republic of Carpathian Ukraine in 1939, Carpathian Sich, a militarised wing of the OUN, adopted as its flag a design taken from the OUN's emblem – a golden nationalistic trident on a blue background. The flag was finalised and only officially adopted by the organisation in 1964 at the 5th Assembly of Ukrainian Nationalists.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both underground and communist Poland. The group was the military wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists — Bandera faction (the OUN-B), originally formed in Volyn in the spring and summer of 1943. Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942. The battle flag of the UPA was a 2:3 ratio red-and-black banner. The flag continues to be a symbol of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The colours of the flag symbolise 'Ukrainian red blood spilled on Ukrainian black earth'.

In 1949, the flag of the Soviet Ukraine was changed once again. The Soviet Union managed to obtain two additional seats in the United Nations by adding Ukraine and Byelorussia as member states. The flag change came about because all the Soviet flags were the same. The new Ukrainian flag consisted of red (top, 2/3) and azure (bottom, 1/3) stripes, with the golden star, hammer and sickle in the top left corner. Communist party leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev and Lazar Kaganovich feared using words like 'light blue' and 'blue' in the official flag colors, as they were the terms used by the Ukrainian diaspora.

During the Soviet period, multiple unsanctioned attempts to hoist the national blue-and-yellow flag were made. In 1958, an underground group was established in the village of Verbytsia, Khodoriv Raion; its members raised national flags and spread anti-Soviet pamphlets under cover of darkness.

Return of the national flag

Under the influence of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost, individual Soviet republics gained a strengthened sense of national identity, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This was particularly true for the three Baltic states and Western Ukraine, which were the last territories annexed into Soviet Union. The national awakening was accompanied by attempts to restore historical national symbols. In 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR re-established Lithuania's national flag and coat of arms as the state symbol. The parliaments of Latvia and Estonia soon followed suit.

The events in the Baltic countries soon led to similar patterns in Ukraine. In particular, West Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR's capital city of Kyiv were the scenes of near-constant political demonstrations, in which yellow-and-blue flags were waved by demonstrators.
 On 14 March 1990, the Ukrainian flag was raised for the first time since the establishment of the Soviet Union in the small city of Stryi.
 On 20 March 1990, the Ternopil town council voted on the use and re-establishment of the yellow-and-blue flag and the tryzub and Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy national anthem. The same day, the yellow-and-blue national flag was flown for the first time in 80 years on a governmental building in Kyiv, replacing the then-official red-azure flag of the Ukrainian SSR.
 On 28 April 1990, the Lviv oblast council (oblasna rada) also allowed the use of the national symbols of Ukraine within the Oblast.
 On 29 April 1990, the yellow-and-blue flag was flown from the Ternopil city theatre's flagstaff without the flag of the Soviet Union hanging above it.
 After 24 July 1990, the yellow-and-blue flag was flown for the first time over an official governmental building, the Kyiv City Council, on Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square of Khreschatyk Street.
 After the declaration of independence of Ukraine on 24 August 1991, the national yellow-and-blue flag flew for the first time over the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) building on 4 September 1991.

The blue and yellow flag was provisionally adopted for official ceremonies in September 1991 following Ukrainian independence, before officially being restored on 28 January 1992 by the Parliament of Ukraine. At the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, landmarks all over the world were lit up with the colours of the Ukrainian flag, while numerous cities raised the Ukrainian flag in solidarity.

Controversies and criticism

Origin
One claimed version is that, since one of the first known coloured depictions of the Coat of Arms of Kyiv was mainly in yellow-blue colours, this tradition may have existed since the time of the Nordic-Slavic Grand Prince of Kyiv Volodymyr the Great. However, the blue-yellow colouring dates back to Kievan Rus', as an early version of the Tryzub, Ukraine's national coat of arms, sported the same colouring as the seal of Sviatoslav I of Kyiv (c. AD 945). During the 1709 Battle of Poltava, the Cossacks following Mazepa fought under yellow-blue banners, while their Swedish allies were under yellow ones. Some Cossacks and noblemen had coats of arms in yellow and blue.

Yellow-blue versus blue-yellow
Ukrainians commonly refer to the flag as "yellow and light blue" (, zhovto-blakytnyy)—a different version of the flag used during UNR (Ukrainian National Republic) years (1917–1921) with yellow on the top and blue on the bottom. The yellow on the top allegedly represents golden domes (cupolas) of Christian churches and the blue the Dnieper river.

The head of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society, Andriy Grechylo, points to the fact that the discussion about order of colours was taking place as far back as 1918. Nonetheless, both governments of the Ukrainian People's Republic as well as the Ukrainian State defined that the upper half would be light-blue, while the lower would be yellow. During 1918 it was taken into consideration that light blue would lose its shade under sun, therefore it was decided to make the colour darker.

Already in the 1918 draft of the Constitution of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the order of colours was defined as blue and yellow. The same order could be found in legislative acts of the West Ukrainian People's Republic for November 1918 and the Republic of Carpathian Ukraine on 15 March 1939. The argument on the order of colours was taking place in the Ukrainian diaspora as well. In 1949 it was decided that, until Ukraine defined a single state flag, the diaspora would use the blue-and-yellow banner.

Attempts to revive Soviet flags
On 21 April 2011, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law allowing the Victory Banner to be raised on Victory Day. The current Victory Banner was adopted in Russia in 2007. On 20 May 2011, the law was signed by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. On 17 June 2011, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognised the law as unconstitutional and proposed that the parliament implement required amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine.

On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation on decommunization, banning the promotion of symbols of "Communist and National Socialist totalitarian regimes". Since then, Soviet symbols, like the Victory Banner, have only been allowed in cemeteries.

Although the Soviet flags remained illegal in Ukraine, they have been flown in territories outside of the government's control after Russia invaded the country in 2022 and occupied parts of it.

Flag of the head of state
Throughout the history of Ukraine, various heads of state have used different flags. The designs differ according to the historical era they were used in and in accordance with the political scene in Ukraine at the time. The first flag to be used by a head of state of Ukraine was that of Pavlo Skoropadskyi. The current design, the flag of the President of Ukraine, was adopted in 1999. In 2022 the President of Ukraine used a variant where the left side of the blue upper-half contains the yellow Tryzub.

Military flags

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See also

 List of Ukrainian flags
 Flags of the regions of Ukraine
 Coat of arms of Ukraine
 National colours of Ukraine

References

External links

 DSTU 4512:2006 Technical specifications from DSTU (Ukrainian national standards body) regarding flag of Ukraine, in Ukrainian. 1 September 2006.
 Ukraine – Vexillographia
 Armed Forces Flag in Ukraine
 Departmantal Flag and Emblem in Ukraine
 Brief history of the flag  at the Science Library of Franko National University (Lviv).
 "About Ukrainian flag". Statement of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. 18 September 1991.
 "About the State Flag of Ukraine". State of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. 28 January 1992.

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Maximalist shoes are currently very popular. They are in stark contrast to the minimalist shoe movement that has occurred since born to run was released. So what's all the fuss?
Cushioning in shoes is created to absorb the loads of running. Making for a smoother ride with reduced risk of injury. Sounds great right? So when recent research found that highly cushioned shoes increase impact loads on the body, we were very surprised.
This study by Kulmala et al. 2018 compared the Hoka One One Conquest (Stack height 43mm with 6mm drop) to Brooks Ghost 6 (33mm stack height with 11mm drop).
The participants completed short distance runs in the Hoka and Brooks shoes at 10km/h and 14.5 km/h. On analysis, researchers found that in the maximalist condition, running impact forces significantly increased when running at speeds of 14.5km/h (About 4:08 min/km). Increased impact forces are often associated with increased risk of overuse injuries.
A similar study by Chan et al. (2018) compared maximalist to regular shoes when running on level and declined surfaces. Interestingly, they found that downhill running significantly increased impact loading by 12% in the maximalist condition compared to the regular condition. No difference was found between groups on level surfaces (Note: the speed run at was 8.3km/h, which is much slower than the 14.5km/h speed in the previous study.
How do maximalist shoes increase impact forces and injury risk?
This question is still under debate. However, in light of this study researchers believe the increased impact forces are due to increased leg stiffness. Make sense?
A good way to think about it is to imagine the leg is a spring. A stiff spring won't compress as much as a complaint spring. Now imagine this in regard to shock absorbers on a car. If they are stiff, you will feel every bump. If they are compliant, it will be a smooth ride.
This study compares 43mm stack height shoes to 33mm. In the running community 33m is often considered to be on the maximalist end of cushioning. It will be interesting to see how maximalist compare to more minimalist shoes in future studies.
The increase in impact loads in the maximalist condition was very minor in the 10km/h condition. Hoka One One's biggest market is ultra runners who rarely exceed 10km/h. Therefore we cannot say conclude that maximalist shoes increase injury risk in this group. More research is needed.
If you are running fast (>14.5km/h) or downhill, we recommend avoiding highly cushioned shoes. However, the jury is still out for slower ultra distances events.
Chan, Z. Y., Au, I. P., Lau, F. O., Ching, E. C., Zhang, J. H., & Cheung, R. T. (2018). Does maximalist footwear lower impact loading during level ground and downhill running?. European journal of sport science, 1-7.
Kulmala, J. P., Kosonen, J., Nurminen, J., & Avela, J. (2018). Running in highly cushioned shoes increases leg stiffness and amplifies impact loading. Scientific reports, 8(1), 17496.


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Spirydon (ur. w Twerze, zm. między 1503 a 1509) – biskup prawosławny, w 1475 wyświęcony na metropolitę kijowskiego, nie objął urzędu.

Życiorys
Pochodził z Tweru, był człowiekiem gruntownie wykształconym. Przed 1475 złożył wieczyste śluby mnisze, służył na terenie Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. 15 września 1475 został wyświęcony na metropolitę kijowskiego przez patriarchę Konstantynopola Rafała. Patriarcha wyświęcił go na metropolitę, gdyż przedstawiony przez króla polskiego Kazimierza IV Jagiellończyka kandydat na ten urząd – biskup smoleński Mizael – zgodził się przyjć unię florencką. Wysunięto też przypuszczenie, że Spirydon został wysłany do patriarchy właśnie dla tego, żeby zdobyć potwierdzenie dla Mizaela, ponieważ już jego poprzednik na metropoli Grzegorz, postawiony metropolitą przez papieża, był potem potwierdzony patriarchą. Jednak wbrew swej misji Spirydon intrygą zdobył wyświęcenie dla siebie samego.

Wróciwszy na Litwę jako metropolita kijowski, Spirydon nie mógł objąć swoich obowiązków, gdyż nie uzyskał uznania królewskiego i został uwięziony, a następnie wygnany z kraju. Udał się do Moskwy, gdzie również nie został poparty przez władze świeckie. Jego przyjazd do Wielkiego Księstwa Moskiewskiego miał miejsce najprawdopodobniej w 1483. Spirydon został uwięziony z Monasterze Terapontowskim.

W monasterze Spirydon napisał Izłożenije o prawosławniej istinniej naszej wierie – list do wiernych opisujących siedem soborów powszechnych, wzywający prawosławną hierarchię do obrony prawosławia i opisujący życie i okoliczności wyboru autora na metropolitę kijowskiego. W 1503, na prośbę ihumena Monasteru Sołowieckiego Dosyteusza, Spirydon poddał redakcji napisany przez niego żywot Sawwacjusza i Zozyma Sołowieckich. W pierwszej dekadzie XVI w. Spirydon napisał także Posłanije o Monomachowom wience.

Spirydon zmarł w Monasterze Terapontowskim w wieku 91 lat, przed śmiercią złożył śluby mnisze wielkiej schizmy z imieniem Sawa. Nastąpiło to między 1503 a 1505, lub nawet w 1509.

Przypisy

Zakonnicy Monasteru Terapontowskiego
Metropolici kijowscy (Patriarchat Konstantynopolitański)
Metropolici kijowscy (I Rzeczpospolita)
Ludzie urodzeni w Twerze
Urodzeni w XV wieku
Zmarli w XVI wieku


Wonderful project, Sahar! It was inspirational to hear your ideas when we met a few months ago. I do hope this is the first of many Change Please cafes.
Sahar spoke about your project and I think it is a great way of giving the homeless the tools , shelter and support to get their lives back. Happy to help in any way .
Lovely practical project. Totally transferable skills too. Hope you make the big number by 25th!