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Hospital noise initiative reduces average peak decibel levels by 20 percent
(30 November 2009: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Patients often complain that getting a good night's sleep or a bit of peace and quiet in hospital can be difficult. But a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing has shown that adopting some simple measures can reduce peak noise levels on hospital wards by just under 20 per cent.
UK researchers from Newcastle upon Tyne audited average decibel levels before and after a noise reduction intervention programme on three wards with a total of 92 beds - a surgical ward, medical ward and orthopaedic ward.
Forty-six ward staff – just over 51 per cent of the total – took part in the initiative, along with five members of the multi-disciplinary team, including a physiotherapist and junior doctors. The training was delivered on an individual basis by the same staff nurse to ensure consistency.
"Hospitals can be very noisy places" explains lead author Annette Richardson, a nurse consultant in critical care at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. "Dropping a stainless steel bowl creates 108 decibels, which is more than the 100 decibels from a nearby car horn or chainsaw. Even opening a packet of rubber gloves creates 86 decibels, which is louder than heavy traffic at 80 decibels.
"Our study found that peak decibel levels at the start of the study were 96.48 decibels over 24 hours and at the end of the study they had gone down to 77.52 decibels, an overall reduction of just under a fifth."
After the initial noise levels were monitored, key parts of the ward environment were reviewed against clinical guidelines put together by a working group led by a nurse consultant and involving ward sisters, staff nurses and modern matrons from the different specialist areas.
These included the door entry system, the position, number and volume of telephones, the patientline system, the nurse call system and the physical make-up of the ward, including floors, drawers and rubbish bins.
"A number of practical steps were taken to reduce noise" says Ms Richardson who won a prestigious Nursing Times award for her clinical work in promoting sleep for critical care patients.
"Telephones were turned down at night or switched to vibrate and carried by a member of staff, staff wore soft soled shoes and changes were made to the night call systems.
"We also displayed posters at nursing stations highlighting the noise created by certain activities, the impact on patients and sleep promotion guidelines."
When the pre and post intervention noise levels were measured they were found to be remarkably similar on all three wards, despite the fact that they operate differently. Peak levels in the surgical ward fell by 18 per cent from 95.13 decibels to 77.65, in the medical ward they fell by 20 per cent from 97.04 decibels to 77.70 and in the orthopaedic ward they fell by 21 per cent from 97.27 decibels to 77.52.
UK legislation expects employers to carry out a risk assessment if employees are exposed to peak levels higher than 80 decibels, but no patient focused standards are set for the National Health Service. However, the United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends levels of 45 decibels for day-time noise in hospital settings and 35 decibels for night-time noise. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has recommended that noise levels should not exceed 35 decibels in rooms where patients are treated or observed.
"The main significant finding of our study was the reduction in average peak noise levels on all wards" says Ms Richardson. "Previous studies have shown how patients can become accustomed to low-level white noise, but they can be more aware of high pitched, irregular sounds.
"Sleep deprivation is detrimental to patients with acute illness, so any developments to improve patients' sleep are important.
"This nurse-led practice development programme has shown how improvements can be achieved by significantly reducing peak noise levels by making simple changes to ward routines."
Development and implementation of a noise reduction intervention programme: a pre and post audit of three hospital wards. Richardson et al. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 18, 3316-3324. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02897.x
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I'm on holiday! I'm enjoying it. 🙂 I've been eating all sorts of Christmas crap, having marathon 'Lie To Me' sessions, cuddling my cat and planning my projects for next year. I'm getting a bit restless actually so am about to start making new outfits for shoots and looking into my next career…
I've also been sent so many images and tearsheets recently- I'll post them one at a time. 🙂
My recent article (about the ins and outs of latex) in Rebelicious magazine features photos of me in some seriously awesome latex. (Credits on the page) 😀
I've also had images back from one of the most beautiful locations I've ever shot in! During last year's South Coast tour (I'll be back in the area from March 12th-26th), I worked with Imagesse. He sent me some images from the various locations in advance of the shoot so I was very excited about it.
It was freezing so I spent most of the morning running around in naked circles to warm up before climbing around rocks, watched by perplexed sheep. After a lunch break (and a few minutes spoiling some friendly ponies), the sun came out and we climbed down into the valley amid gnarled trees like little moss-covered Ents (Lord of the Rings), toward a stream with stepping stones. As the sun shone through the tree line, I saw the tiniest rope swing. What an amazing thing to be able to visit the place and fly through the air whenever I fancied! One day…
Coincidentally, I was watching Sherlock the other day and could have sworn they filmed at one of the same locations! (It's the episode called 'Hounds of Baskerville' if you're interested. It's a great show!)
Anyway, if a picture really is worth one thousand words, I'll stop waffling and show you these… 😉
And this one's more of an outtake, but I quite like it! I think it was part of my "get warm" dance routine, lol!
While I enjoy improving my flexibility, I do love shots where I'm curled up on things. 🙂
Keep an eye out for my next blog- I learned a lot this year, did a lot, and am excited about my plans for 2013. You can even be part of them! As I say… keep watching and subscribe by clicking on the link at the right if you'd like an automatic update! 😉
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I'll speak to you very soon,
p.s. To the very kind fans who bought me a gift from my Amazon wishlist, thankyou so, so much. It means a lot to me that you thought of me this Christmas. I'm looking forward to reading the books and wearing the clothes, which you'll see very soon. 🙂

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WINEDALE — Hello one more time from the old farm house in Washington County, but today I've changed directions. I'm on the back porch instead of the front.
To do these country dispatches, I've always sat out front, mainly so I can see what's happening on the road. If anybody slows down and threatens to turn in our gate, I'll have time to go in and put on a shirt and get ready for company.
The distance from the road to the house is not much more than a hundred yards, but the lane is winding, and graveled, and tires make a nice crunchy sound on it, almost always audible in the house. If we don't hear it, the dog does, and makes an announcement: Somebody's coming.
Neighbors, especially, will move slowly along our lane (what you in town would call a driveway), to give us time to receive visitors. This is an ancient rural custom.
Back in my traveling days, I once interviewed a country woman whose house stood near the top of a gentle hill. Her front gate was a full mile from the house, but she could see it clearly. When visitors turned in that gate, they proceeded very, very slowly. Some took so long getting up to the house that she had time to change her dress, comb her hair and stir up a cake and get it in the oven.
Wait a minute. It just now struck me that what I've always called the front porch on this old house is really the back porch. It seems like the front because it faces the road.
But it looks mostly like a back porch, if you judge by the stuff we keep on it. For years we stacked half a cord of fireplace wood out there. Then we discovered that a colony of evil-tempered scorpions was thriving beneath the loose bark of those post oak logs and finding their way into the house.
So the wood is gone, but we still have a cotton scales displayed near what we call the front door. Also a crock churn with a crack in it. An old pulley off somebody's cistern. A rusty long-handled pump not connected to anything. And other rural treasures that wouldn't bring 50 cents at a flea market.
I collected this junk years ago. I thought it was handsome and called it decoration and put it on the only porch this old house had at the time.
Later on, men in bib overalls came with saws and hammers and built another one, which we called the back porch even though it was attached to the front of the house. We couldn't very well call it a front porch because that designation was already taken by the one in the back, which we think of as the front.
My architect friend Jim Bishop, who lives in Bellville, reminded me recently that when this old house was built, the porch probably wasn't called a porch but a gallery.
Maybe so. My Grandmother Oxford always talked about sitting on the gallery. She was married to a physician and counted herself a city woman. She lived in Stephenville, which wasn't much of a city when she was there. But it had the courthouse and was surely known as the most important town in Erath County.
Now my Grandmother Hale lived out her life in the same county, but she was a country woman from the jump. She didn't like electricity and went to town only on Saturdays, and only when necessary. She called a porch a porch.
Actually I like the term gallery and wish it would come into popular use as a synonym for porch. Because I am about to wear out the word porch and can't find a substitute for it.
But right now if I wrote here that I was reporting from the gallery, my customers might think I was in an art gallery somewhere.
So, let's return to the back porch where we started. It's not as big the front one, but it's nicer. It has a sturdy wooden rail, so I can lean back in a chair and put my feet up. I remember Sunday afternoons when the men on Grandma Hale's porch did that, and I thought they were so sophisticated. They'd take their feet down now and then and lean forward and spit over the rail.
The ceiling of this back porch is painted a pale blue. A lot of Texas farm houses built in the 1800s have this feature, as Jim Bishop was telling me the other day. The blue color is meant to discourage wasps and dirt dobbers from building nests on the ceilings.
And it does seem to work, although I don't know why. Our front porch, which has no ceiling at all other than the underside of its roof, is home to a healthy population of wasps and dobbers. But few of them nest on this back porch.
The best time to be here in back is when the day is dying and the birds finish eating and start talking to each other about going to roost. Sometimes deer come and nuzzle at the grain that falls out of the bird feeders.
And once in a while, a great horned owl sends up a soft hoot from down on the creek.


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DWTS 17 Rumors: Farrah Abraham, Patricia Krentcil, Bella Thorne, Seth MacFarlane, WWE Superstar to Dance?
Hollywood Life is kicking around a few more names for the rumor mill for Dancing With The Stars Season 17. Some of them, we've reported already: John Stamos, Paula Deen, and Jason Varitek. However, take a look at the other new names to add: Farrah Abraham (who?), Patricia Krentcil (who?), Bella Thorne (again who?), a WWE superstar(who could this be? In the past we've seen Shelley Martinez, Maria Kanellis, and the Real Melina rumored or campaigning to dance …not that this means anything?) and Seth MacFarlane(ok, so this might be a good one!).
So far, they are awaiting confirmations from John Stamos, former baseball player Jason Varitek, Paula Deen, Backdoor Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, Tanning Mom Patricia Krentcil, a WWE Superstar, Bella Thorne and Seth MacFarlane! They are hoping for confirmations soon, but it's coming down to the last minute. None of these people are definites, but they have been asked and it's in their hands," a source close to production tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively.
Seeing Uncle Jesse shake his hips on the dance floor, sans shirt, would certainly help us feel a little bit better about Sean's absence from the dancing competition series. And we have a feeling that Farrah knows a thing or two about doing the tango on camera.
You can read the full article at Hollywood Life. Note that this site isn't reputable of being correct on their rumors, but, it can go either way. Remember this post from last season? As Heidi likes to say, "you be the judge".


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Sen. McCaskill says her more moderate bill is better, but she's losing the public battle to Gillibrand. "I'll give that to her." By Stacy Kaper
The fight over legislation to combat military sexual assaults is getting more tense.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., the No. 4 Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who has long been a leader on sexual assault issues, said she is frustrated that reforms she has championed have not gotten more credit. And she appears miffed about the attention rival Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is getting.
"I'm frustrated that the reforms that we have done have not gotten the attention they deserve because they are amazing and it's going to make a huge difference," McCaskill said Thursday. "I'm not sure that I've done so well at the public relations on this; I'll give that to her," she said of Gillibrand.
McCaskill's comments came at a press conference where she was joined by two other women on the Armed Services Committee, Sens. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and Deb Fischer, R-Neb., in criticizing the Gillibrand proposal and promoting more moderate reforms.
Gillibrand is pursuing an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would radically reform the military justice system by taking the decision of whether to prosecute military sexual assaults out of the chain of command.
Gillibrand's bill is favored by victim advocacy organizations and is adamantly opposed by the Pentagon and Armed Services leaders on both sides of the aisle.
(Read more: Why Taking Sexual Assault Cases Out of the Chain of Command Protects Our Troops)
But one of Gillibrand's most damning opponents might be McCaskill. The first female senator from Missouri is a former courtroom prosecutor who specialized in sex crimes, helped establish her state's first domestic/sexual violence unit, is more senior on Armed Services, and is coming out swinging hard against a fellow Democrat.
"Sometimes it's not easy to do what you think is right on the policy when the politics are hard," said McCaskill, flanked by Ayotte and Fischer. "I'm very proud of my colleagues to have the courage to stand here on policy and substance as opposed to, I think, the easier path of deciding this is a winner-and-loser argument, with women on one side and men on the other. That does this issue and victims a great disservice."
For her part, Gillibrand said that she and McCaskill probably agree on 11 out of 12 reforms and that she respects her work.
"It is not personal for me," she said. "Senator McCaskill has spent months on this issue. She cares deeply. We just disagree on this one issue. And I'm fighting for it because I think it will make the difference ... in more reporting, more cases going to trial, and more convictions."
McCaskill's press conference came the day after Gillibrand announced she is considering changing her bill to limit its proposed prosecution system to only sexual assaults and rape. That would narrow it from covering all major crimes considered a felony in the civil justice system, as it is currently structured.
McCaskill took blatant swipes at Gillibrand's approach Thursday.
"I will say that the goalposts keep moving," she said.
"For us it's about the policy and it's not as much about vote-counting. We are not changing our provisions to try to figure out ways to get more votes. We are trying to stay focused on what's best for victims," she said.
McCaskill argued that because commanders would be stripped of the decision to prosecute in Gillibrand's bill, the measure would fail to hold them accountable.
"We just had a fundamental policy difference on whether or not it was going to help victims more to hold the commander accountable or to allow them to walk away," she said.
McCaskill's temper flared hot on this issue in July when Protect Our Defenders, a victim advocacy group, ran an ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, calling her an obstacle to reform, which she called "unfair."
Greg Jacob, the policy director with the Service Women's Action Network, said he wonders if that caused McCaskill to feel the need to reassert herself as a leader on the issue.
"I don't know if there have been conversations going on and McCaskill feels she has to kind of dig her heels in and reaffirm that she is a leader and advocate on this, because the record clearly shows that she has been quite effective and very, very good.... She's still a player here, so I don't know what kind of stuff is going on that would make her feel that way," Jacob said.
He added that both McCaskill and Gillibrand have considerable influence. McCaskill has a history working on these issues; Gillibrand is the chairwoman of the Personnel Subcommittee with jurisdiction, and she has launched a massive campaign to talk to every senator she can to support her bill.
"Whether or not one has more juice than the other in the committee--that is the dynamic," he said.
The measures that McCaskill wants more credit for in the defense bill had wide support, including from Gillibrand. They would take away commanders' ability to overturn convictions and provide a special counsel to provide independent legal advice to victims. The amendment McCaskill wants to add to the bill would allow sexual assault victims to challenge unfair discharges and would add additional checks to commanders' prosecution decisions. It is cosponsored by Ayotte and Fischer and has the support of Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. McCaskill said she expects uniform support across the Senate and would be "stunned" if Gillibrand did not also support it.


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Final Four Delivers Highest Overall Ratings since 2005
CBS Sports' coverage of the 2011 Final Four on Saturday, April 2 earned an average fast national household rating/share of 8.9/17, which ties with 2010 as the highest rated Final Four since 2005.
The 2011 Final Four averaged 15.4 million viewers, which was the highest for the two Final Four games since 2005 (16.6 million; Illinois-Louisville and North Carolina-Michigan State).
"We are very pleased that this year's Final Four ratings matched last year's strong numbers which were the best in five years," said Mike Aresco, Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Sports. "We are excited about the Championship game which features two of the most remarkable stories of the season in Connecticut and Butler."
The first game, Butler beating VCU, earned an average household rating/share of 8.3/17. The game averaged 14.2 million viewers, which was the second-highest viewer average for the first Final Four game since 2006 (14.5 million; Florida-George Mason).
The second game featuring Connecticut's victory over Kentucky delivered a 9.5/17. This 9.5/17 is the best rating in the window since a 10.9/19 in 2005 (North Carolina-Michigan State). The game averaged 16.7 million viewers, which was the highest viewer average for the second Final Four game since 2005 (17.5 million; North Carolina-Michigan State).
Turner Sports' and CBS Sports' exclusive live coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship across CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV has delivered the best overall tournament-to-date ratings since 2005. The overall tournament average-to-date rating/share, including the FIRST FOUR(R), is a 6.2/13, +9% from a 5.7/13. The 6.2/13 is the highest average rating for the NCAA Tournament through the Final Four since a 6.6/14 in 2005.
"We are thrilled at the continued success of the Tournament on our combined networks and look forward to what should be a terrific culmination of our joint coverage with Monday's Championship game between Butler and UConn on CBS," said Lenny Daniels, Turner Sports Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.
The overall tournament is averaging 9.9 million total viewers, +10% from 9.0 million total viewers for CBS Sports' 2010 coverage. This is the highest viewer average at this point in the Tournament since 10.2 million in 2005.


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The '''Church of Ukraine''' is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Church of Russia]]. Its history extends to the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus' with the [[baptism]] of Prince St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]] and his people in 988, known as the [[Baptism of Rus']]. Its current primate is His Beatitude [[Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev|Volodymyr (Sabodan)]] (who resides at the [[Monastery of the Kiev Caves|Kiev Pechersk Lavra]], which is the heartbeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. Its autonomy is currently not recognized in international Orthodox gatherings.
The '''Church of Ukraine''' is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Church of Russia]]. Its history extends to the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus' with the [[baptism]] of Prince St. [[Vladimir of Kiev]] and his people in 988, known as the [[Baptism of Rus']]. Its current primate is His Beatitude [[Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev|Volodymyr (Sabodan)]] (who resides at the [[Monastery of the Kiev Caves|Kiev Pechersk Lavra]], which is the heartbeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. Its autonomy is currently not recognized in international Orthodox gatherings.
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website
*[http://www.orthodox.org.ua/ Ukrainian Orthodox Church], official website
*[http://pravoslavye.org.ua/ UOC
*[http://pravoslavye.org.ua/ UOC
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|Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
|Apostle Andrew; St. Vladimir of Kiev
|Autocephaly/Autonomy declared
|Autocephaly/Autonomy recognized
|1990 by Church of Russia
|Current primate
|Metr. Volodymyr
|Kiev, Ukraine
|Primary territory
|Possessions abroad
|Liturgical language(s)
|Church Slavonic, & Ukrainian
|Musical tradition
|Kyivan Chant
|Population estimate
|Official website
The Church of Ukraine is an autonomous Orthodox church whose primate is confirmed by the Church of Russia. Its history extends to the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus' with the baptism of Prince St. Vladimir of Kiev and his people in 988, known as the Baptism of Rus'. Its current primate is His Beatitude Volodymyr (Sabodan) (who resides at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, which is the heartbeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. Its autonomy is currently not recognized in international Orthodox gatherings.
Ukrainian Orthodox divisions
- Main article: Orthodox divisions in Ukraine
Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine is currently divided into three main factions:
- Church of Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) (which this article covers)
- Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate) (UOC-KP)
- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC)
Only the UOC-MP is currently in full communion with the Church of Russia and the remainder of the mainstream Orthodox Church.
Structure of the Church
Church of Ukraine in 2007 has 40[1] dioceses (eparchies):
- Diocese of Berdiansk[2] (established in 2007)
- Diocese of Bila Tserkva (1030th as Diocese of Yuriiv; re-established in 1994)
- Diocese of Cherkasy (1898)
- Diocese of Chernihiv (988)
- Diocese of Chernivtsi (1401; 1783)
- Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk (1775; 1803; 1926)
- Diocese of Donetsk (1991)
- Diocese of Horlivka (1994)
- Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk (1946)
- Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsk (1795)
- Diocese of Kharkiv (1799; 1836)
- Diocese of Kherson (1775; 1837; 1991)
- Diocese of Khmelnytsk (1795; 1990)
- Diocese of Khust (1994)
- Diocese of Kirovohrad (1947)
- Diocese of Konotop (1994)
- Diocese of Kryvyi Rih (1996)
- Diocese of Kyiv (Kiev) (988)
- Diocese of Luhansk (1944)
- Diocese of Lviv (1156)
- Diocese of Mukachiv (9 century)
- Diocese of Mykolaiv (1992)
- Diocese of Nizhyn (2007)
- Diocese of Odessa (1873; 1991)
- Diocese of Olexandria (2007)
- Diocese of Ovruch (1993)
- Diocese of Poltava (1054; 1803)
- Diocese of Rivne (1990)
- Diocese of Sarny (1999)
- Diocese of Severodonetsk (2007)
- Diocese of Shepetivka (2007)
- Diocese of Simferopol (1859)
- Diocese of Sumy (1945)
- Diocese of Ternopil (1988)
- Diocese of Tulchyn (1994)
- Diocese of Vinnytsia (1933)
- Diocese of Volodymyr-Volynskyi (992; 1996)
- Diocese of Volyn (992; 1996)
- Diocese of Zaporizhia (1992)
- Diocese of Zhytomyr (1799; 1944)
Current episcopacy
By their rank[3].
- Volodymyr (Sabodan), metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, Primate (Predstoyatel) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Diocesan bishops
- Nykodym (Rusnak), metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (1961)
- Iryney (Seredniy), metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad (1975)
- Agafangel (Savvin), metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail (1975)
- Lazar (Shvets), metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea (1980)
- Ioannykiy (Kobzev), metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk (1990)
- Nyfont (Solodukha), metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn (1990)
- Onufriy (Berezovkyi), metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna (1990)
- Ilarion (Shukalo), metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol (1991)
- Antoniy (Fialko), metropolitan of Khmelnytsk and Starokostiantyniv (1992)
- Mark (Petrovtsiy), archbishop of Sumy and Ohtyrka (1988)
- Ionafan (Yeletskykh), archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav (1989)
- Varfolomiy (Vashchuk), archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh (1990)
- Vasyliy (Zlatolynskyi), archbishop of Zaporizhia and Melitopol (1990)
- Serhiy (Hensytskyi), archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenetsk (1991)
- Sofroniy (Dmytruk), archbishop of Cherkasy and Kaniv (1992)
- Vissarion (Stretovych), archbishop of Ovruch and Korosten (1992)
- Pytyrym (Starynskyi), archbishop of Mykolaiv and Voznesensk (1992)
- Avhustyn (Markevych), archbishop of Lviv and Halych (1992)
- Anatoliy (Hladkyi), archbishop of Sarny and Polissia (1993)
- Symeon (Shostatskyi), archbishop of Vinnytsia and Mohylev-Podilskyi (1996)
- Ioann (Siopko), archbishop of Kherson and Tavria (1996)
- Mytrofan (Yurchuk), archbishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav (2000)
- Feodor (Hayun), archbishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodotsk (1992)
- Yefrem (Kytsay), archbishop of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol (1996)
- Fylyp (Osadchenko), archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuh (2001)
- Panteleymon (Romanovsky), bishop of Kirovohrad and Novoarchanhelsk (1992)
- Ipolyt (Khylko), bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1992)
- Huriy (Kuzmenko), bishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsk (1994)
- Inokentiy (Shestopal), bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv (1996)
- Amvrosiy (Polikopa), bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi (1998)
- Ahapit (Bevtsyk), bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod (1998)
- Panteleymon (Bashchuk), bishop of Olexandria and Svitlovodsk (2000)
- Mytrofan (Nikitin), bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (2007)
- Yelysey (Ivanov), bishop of Berdiansk and Prymorsk (2007)
- Nykodym (Horenko), bishop of Volodymyr-Volynsk and Kovel (2007)
- Iryney (Semko), bishop of Nizhyn and Baturyn (2007)
- Volodymyr (Melnyk), bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta (2007)
- Ilariy (Shyshkovskyi), bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (2007)
- Panteleimon (Luhovyi), archimandrite (October 18, 2007), will be bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia (2007)
Auxiliary bishops
- Pavlo (Lebid), archbishop of Vyshhorod (Metropolis of Kyiv), governor-general of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (1997)
- Mykolay (Hrokh), archbishop of Bilohorod (Metropolis of Kyiv) (1992)
- Volodymyr (Moroz), archbishop of Pochaiv (Metropolis of Kyiv), governor-general of Pochaiv Lavra (2000)
- Onufriy (Lehkyi), bishop of Izum (Diocese of Kharkiv) (2000)
- Luka (Kovalenko), bishop of Vasylkiv (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2005)
- Arseniy (Yakovenko), bishop of Sviatohirsk (Diocese of Horlivka) (2005)
- Meletiy (Yehorenko), bishop of Khotyn (Diocese of Chernivtsi) (2006)
- Oleksiy (Hrokha), bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk (Diocese of Odessa) (2006)
- Antoniy (Pakanych), bishop of Boryspil (Metropolis of Kyiv) (2006)
- Varnava (Filatov), bishop of Makiivka (Diocese of Donetsk) (2007)
Retired bishops
- Mefodiy (Petrovtsiy), ex bishop of Khust and Vynohradiv (1994-1998)
- Alipiy (Pohrebniak), schibishop[4], ex bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk (1991-1997)
- Serhiy (Zaliznytskyi), schibishop, ex bishop Serafim of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk (1994-2007)
Ukrainian Orthodoxy abroad
Orthodox churches of the Ukrainian tradition outside of Ukraine are mainly cared for by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, including:
There are also Ukrainian parishes outside of Ukraine in dioceses of Moscow Patriarchate.
But even outside the Ukraine there are splinter groups. These include
- Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America (AUOCA) which was formerly known as the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Canonical and which claims its lineage through the Tomos of Autonomy of 1924 given by the Orthodox Church of Poland.
- ↑ http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/2007/08/23/1626.html , http://orthodox.org.ua/uk/istoriya_eparhiy_0 (in ukrainian).
- ↑ Transliteration of cities according to w:Administrative divisions of Ukraine.
- ↑ In Ukrainian (and Russian) tradition "metropolitan" is higher status than "archbishop".
- ↑ Bishop in monastic schema.
See also
|Autocephalous and Autonomous Churches of Orthodoxy
|Autocephalous Churches
| Four Ancient Patriarchates: Constantinople · Alexandria · Antioch · Jerusalem
Russia · Serbia · Romania · Bulgaria · Georgia · Cyprus · Greece · Poland · Albania · Czech Lands and Slovakia · OCA* · Ukraine*
|Autonomous Churches
|Sinai · Finland · Estonia* · Japan* · China* · Ukraine*
|The * designates a church whose autocephaly or autonomy is not universally recognized.
External links
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church, official website (Ukrainian, Russian)
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church, official website (English)
- Orthodox Ukraine, website of UOC press service (Ukrainian, Russian)
- Orthodoxy in Ukraine, UOC news website (Ukrainian, Russian)


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For Nathan and Christy Nockels, the husband/wife duo known as Watermark, this Valentine's Day will likely be spent changing diapers and rocking daughter Elliana Noel to sleep. Elliana, born December 18, and brother Noah Luke bring tremendous joy to their busy parents. With Valentine's Day in mind, we asked Christy and Nathan to share their love story and thoughts on marriage and parenting in the public eye.
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Nathan: We were acquaintances in college in Oklahoma, probably around '92, but we became friends at a summer festival in 1993. When we met, it had nothing to do with music and we were both there by chance. Christy was on vacation and they were just coming in the evenings to watch the concerts, and a friend of mine and I were just camping. After that we started dating pretty quickly. She lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I lived in Oklahoma City, so we spent the first year of our dating relationship about two hours apart, which was good. I was still going to school and we got married in '95. So that's kind of how that all happened.
Crosswalk.com: What was it that first attracted you to each other…when you looked at her, what first drew you to her?
Nathan: Oh personality (laughing). I mean she was beautiful, man she was gorgeous. But I just thought she was way, way out of my league. And I'm not saying it because she's sitting here. Getting to know her, it was really strange to me to be able to hang out with someone and talk to someone and feel so comfortable, just like I was talking to one of my best friends.
Crosswalk.com: Christy, how about for you?
Christy: I thought he was very handsome. I loved the way he dressed and everything. In college, we had some mutual friends, but we both were dating other people. A year before we really met out in Colorado, I would always look at him and think, "He is so cute." He has a very gentle and tender look about him, and his personality is the same. So I always just thought I would love to get to know him, but he was always… you know, I was either dating someone, or he was dating someone.
Crosswalk.com: Can you tell us a little bit about your wedding?
Christy: We got married in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, which is right outside of Tulsa, and that's kind of where I'm from. I'm really from a lot of different small towns in Oklahoma because my dad has been a minister all my life, so we moved around a lot. My dad married us and it wasn't too small of a wedding; it was medium size and it was a wonderful day. It was very traditional and very special. His dad was involved as well, so it was very personal.
One of the neat things about it, we wrote a song together -- a few months before we got married we worked on it. They had a big black grand piano and we had that as the whole centerpiece; the décor and the candles were all around that. And Nathan played at the very end. Right after we lit the unity candle I sang and he, of course, wrote the music and I wrote the lyrics, and it was just a very special thing. We really wanted the song to be to each other, but also just to be a testimony, because I knew that there were a lot of people that weren't married in the congregation that would be… just able to minister to them about waiting for the right person.
I really didn't know if I was going to make it through it, especially with my dad reading the wedding. I'm close to my family and I knew if my dad broke down, I was going to break down. And right at the moment that my dad got choked up and I was thinking, "Oh great," Nathan's little brother, Ben, who at the time was about 15 years old–he passed out. We each had eight attendants and so Ben was kind of off the stage a little bit, which was a good thing. Nathan and I didn't know it was going on, but my dad was distracted enough to pull himself together because he could see what was happening. Poor Ben… he was so tender and sweet. He was so broken-hearted that he thought he had ruined our wedding!
Crosswalk.com: What are some of the challenges of maintaining a marriage in the public eye?
Nathan: I think probably the first few years of us traveling full-time and doing this, we had to learn to have lines where Watermark stop and Nathan and Christy begin. That was a very hard thing to get established in the beginning. We'd be saturated with, "We've got to write, we need to tour, we need to travel, we need to do this." Our jobs don't really start at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. It's an all-consuming kind of a job. So, I think it took us a few years to really try to place those boundaries around us and draw those lines. Now, if we go on a date, we don't talk about any music or anything like that. Our talk has to be outside of music. Having Noah two and a half years ago–that really made us set up some boundaries as far as where our family begins, too.
People always say to us, "Gosh, it would just drive me nuts if I brought my spouse to work with me." I can understand what they're saying, but I think to us, it's kind of all we've ever known. It just seems natural. It seems odd when we are apart or if I'm working here in town without Christy -- that seems out of the ordinary instead of the other way.
Also, having to be on stage and to sing songs and to minister together as a couple, I think it makes us have to talk about stuff more. We have to make sure that there's nothing in between us before we go on stage, because we're the kind of folks–we're not real good entertainers, so on stage, we're just kind of who we are. We're maybe a little too honest. And Christy, if she's not real happy with me–she could mention it that night. So anyway, that's kind of a double-edged sword there; it's good that we have to talk through stuff every night before we go on.
Crosswalk.com: Would you say that having children has improved your marriage, or changed it in any way?
Christy: It's definitely improved it because we've grown up so much. We're not allowed to be selfish. We definitely did get to a place with Noah where we would carve out our date night every week, which we were able to do because we had a nanny for the road. So we had somebody to help and that was a huge deal and proved to be very helpful for our marriage, you know, to just go out and eat and talk. And also, we've gone out with other couples a lot, which has been incredible and we learn from them and get involved in their lives too.
We hope to get to that place with the new one, and I know we will. It's just right now we're still kind of in survival mode. But the children have definitely caused us to grow a lot with each other. I think I fall in love with him all over again when I watch him be a dad and bless his heart, he has to be a dad and a mom sometimes because he's at home a lot more than other dads. It's kind of tough right now. He's kind of itching to get out of the house and work.
Crosswalk.com: Do you have plans to resume recording?
Nathan: I think that we actually want to do some dates this spring. We started traveling with Noah, our two-and-a-half year old, when he was about seven weeks old, so traveling to him is just another part of his life. It's not a big shock to him to go jump on a bus. We haven't been on a bus probably in four months, but still, probably every other day he'll say, "Go night, night on the bus?" It's part of his thing and it's part of his little groove, so we want to make sure that we set that up with the new baby, with Alley, to where it's just kind of part of her life as she grows up. But yeah, we'll probably do a few dates this spring and then…
Christy: Kind of ease into it (laughing)
Nathan: Yeah, we'll probably ease back into it and then this summer we'll record and hopefully, we'll kind of be back in the swing of things by the fall.
Crosswalk.com: What are you going to be doing for Valentine's Day?
Nathan: Our biggest challenge is we've got to find a couple to take care of the kiddos for a few hours (laughing).
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If you need to claim
In the unlikely event that you need to claim against us, you should notify us as soon as possible, and definitely within 7 days of delivery.
If we can't deal with your claim personally, we have nominated REMOVAL CLAIMS SERVICE to deal with it on our behalf. They have vast experience in dealing with claims, and will deal with you fairly and speedily.