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Best Options for Your Knee Replacement Surgery
As the largest joint in the human body, the knee is susceptible to injury from a hard fall or sharp twist or damage from progressive wear and tear.
If you're not responding well to conservative (non-surgical) treatments for your knee pain or your symptoms are severe and debilitating, you may be a candidate for knee replacement surgery.
Your options will be either total replacement or partial replacement of the knee joint. Here's what you need to know and what specific techniques and procedures you'll have to consider.
Total Knee Replacement
Total knee replacement (TKR) involves removal of bone surfaces that may be damaged and replacement of the knee joint itself with an artificial implant. TKR may be recommended to ease pain from degenerative arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis), post-traumatic arthritis following a serious knee injury, or severe injury to the knee joint. It's typically a four-step process that includes:
Removing damaged cartilage and bone on the femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone)
• Attaching or affixing a metal tibial and femoral implants to the bone
• Connecting a plastic "button" to the kneecap (patella)
• Inserting a spacer between the artificial femur and tibia to allow for smooth knee movements.
Posterior Stabilized Total Knee Replacement
During this type of replacement, a large ligament (cruciate ligament) that supports the knee is removed if it is damaged or unable to provide sufficient support. It's replaced with a cam and post (special artificial components).
Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Replacement
With this specific method, the cruciate ligament is kept in place if it's still able to provide support to the knee. An artificial joint specially designed to protect the ligament and allow for normal flexion is used.
Partial Knee Replacement
Usually recommended for younger and healthier patients with minimal knee & hip damage, partial knee replacement (PKR) retains the part of the knee that's still healthy and capable of providing support.
Also referred to as a uni-compartmental knee replacement, the procedure is targeted at the part of the knee that's causing the most discomfort (the medial, lateral, or patella femoral compartment). Metal and plastic parts are used to replace any bone and cartilage that's removed.
Traditional Knee Surgery
During traditional knee surgery, a large incision is made either from the front of the knee towards the middle or from the front to the side, depending on where the damaged part is located. The large quadriceps tendon usually has to be cut to access the knee. Full recovery typically takes about 3-4 months.
Minimally Invasive Knee Surgery
Smaller incisions (about 3-4 inches in length) are used during minimally invasive knee procedures. It's also less invasive since the kneecap is pushed to the side rather than turned over, meaning the quadriceps muscle doesn't need to be significantly cut to allow for access.
There's also a quadriceps-sparing method that may be performed without the need to cut this muscle at all.
The midvastus technique goes under the muscle instead. Usually performed on patients whose knees bend outwards, the lateral approach also spares most of the quadriceps muscle. With such procedures, patients often enjoy:
Shorter recovery times
• Faster healing
• Better range-of-motion following recovery
Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery
Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) combines traditional and newer, minimally invasive techniques. CAS procedures involve the creation of a computer-generated 3-D model of the knee. The detailed model often allows for a more precise fit of artificial components and better alignment.
Most of the knee surgeries performed today are total replacements. Regardless of the type of surgery you need, the increasing use of minimally invasive techniques means you may enjoy a faster recovery and have few complication risks.
After you have your surgery, it's just as crucial to actively participate in physical therapy to recondition supporting muscles, tendons, and ligaments. If you have a total replacement and follow basic guidelines for care, your "new knee" may last 15 years (the current average) or more after your surgery.


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Cellular body COAI today termed the merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India as a "bold" move and said the combined stronger entity will be beneficial to both government and consumers of the Indian telecom market.
Cellular body COAI today termed the merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India as a "bold" move and said the combined stronger entity will be beneficial to both government and consumers of the Indian telecom market. Stating that the merger will be "good" not only from an organisational perspective, but from the point of view of consumers and the government, COAI hopes that the amalgamation will get "quick" clearances given the Centre's emphasis on ease of doing business.
"It is a bold move from both the operators… and signals their intention to be long-term players in India. From the government's perspective, it will mean stability in terms of payments because it is a stronger entity that will emerge," COAI Director General Rajan Mathews told PTI.
Idea Cellular board today approved its merger with Vodafone India and Vodafone Mobile Services, a move that will create the country's biggest telecom services provider with a customer base of over 394 million.
Vodafone will own 45.1 per cent of the combined company after transferring a stake of 4.9 per cent to the Aditya Birla group for Rs 3,900 crore in cash concurrent with completion of the merger. Idea will hold 26 per cent of the combined entity while the rest will be owned by public shareholders.
"It is good from the industry's and consumers' perspective as it will mean state-of-the-art services and network, both of which need substantial investment, which is not possible with a financially weak entity," he said, adding that the move will allow consumers to be "ultimate beneficiaries". Mathews hopes that given the government's emphasis on the ease of doing business, the merger would get quick regulatory clearances.
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"In a merger, the speed of consolidation is the essence of its success. So, we are hoping that there would be no delays or roadblocks and the merger would be cleared quickly," he said.
Amid wide expectations that the Vodafone-Idea merger could face a number of regulatory hurdles in terms of hitting the revenue and subscriber market share and spectrum caps in various circles, Mathews said, "no one's interest will be served by spectrum lying idle".
"There will be spectrum cap hurdle. The question is that if the entities have to give back some spectrum, for which they have already made payments, will it be refunded. If it goes back to the kitty, it serves no one's interest. So, we hope that the spectrum cap issues will be looked at reasonably," Mathews said.
Mathews further emphasised that the concerns remain on the industry's deteriorating financial health, which is forcing the consolidation wave. In a statement, COAI reiterated that hyper-competition, rising costs, taxes and tariff war have severely impacted the revenue stream of operators and put "at risk" the financial condition of the industry.
"There has been a continuous increase in expenditure due to high costs of spectrum acquisition and a severe financial burden on the industry caused by extremely high and multiple levies and taxes," Mathews said in the statement. COAI maintained that the ongoing tariff war in the market "may not be sustainable for long".
"This has also severely impacted the revenue stream of operators, not just in terms of an increase in cost but in terms of a marked decline in the revenue stream. All these have put the financial condition of this industry at risk and increased the debt to Rs 4 lakh crore, leading to a severe decline in government revenues from the industry," he said.
The need of the hour is a stable, long term, regulatory and policy environment to ensure financial health of operators and a conducive environment for continued investments, he added.
"Earlier, there were 13 operators, as opposed to the present 4-5. Due to the poor financial health of the sector, we are witnessing mergers, acquisition and consolidation of companies like Idea and Vodafone, Aircel with RCom and MTS. Other companies like Videocon and Etisalat have already left the industry because of this hyper-competitive pressure," he explained.
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Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business (Part 10) – Learning from eBay, NASDAQ, Airlines, & Hollywood
April 25, 2012
Collaborative Drug Discovery Analogies
Airline businesses provide an economic multiplier effect for all users that greatly exceeds the margins of the airlines. Many airlines have little to no margins, but it is hard to imagine a modern society without convenient air travel today.
In Hollywood, typically 3 or more partners work together to bring a visionary blockbuster to market, in contrast to the historical approach for blockbuster drugs.
On the Internet, eBay (and related platforms) created whole industries overnight – specifically by creating value beyond that realized by eBay to a whole generation of traders of everything from antiques to cars. This clearly demonstrated the democratizing and catalytic role that web-based technologies can have on markets.
Online platforms outside the drug discovery industry have demonstrated that transactional friction can be minimized online.
For our industry, the key emerging question is how can consortia of industry, academia, foundation, and government intellectual property guardians evolve a mechanism that allows similar efficiencies in drug discovery?
An ideal, web-based ecosystem would be inclusive of all players and address both scientific and business inefficiencies.
Collaborative Drug Discovery Platforms
Innovative tools are available to create a more efficient marketplace. Platforms for more effective small molecule drug discovery can benefit all projects.
The driver for each drug asset, when considered from a micro-economic perspective, is straightforward and simple. Advance each drug candidate as optimally as possible, with minimum capital expended (both for the successes and failure).
From a marco-economic perspective, technology platforms are the solution for making all the drug discovery projects collectively more efficient.
Emerging platforms include Collaborative Drug Discovery (of course), Innocentive, ChemSpider, eMolecules, Assay Depot, Pubchem, and Your Encore. Fortunately, the platforms have complementary business models complementing the need for individual molecules to accrue maximum value with minimal cost and risk. Here are a few successful examples:
Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD): CDD takes no ownership of IP, but provides a platform for more efficient drug mining and collaboration with an annual subscription. The model is non-competitive with owners of drug assets (startups, academics, foundations pharmas), entirely complementary (value added). Typical costs are pennies on the dollar of the overall asset relative to the value added. CDD will occasionally and selectively team on grants where the partner owns the drug IP and CDD evolves the platform.
Innocentive: Takes no ownership of IP, brokers awards of gifts from seekers to solvers for a fraction of the cost proportional to the value added. Prize sizes are proportional to the value ($10K-1M).
ChemSpider: Publicly available tools around public data. Value added services for private use of information and tools, plus advertise charged.
eMolecules: Public resource of molecules (publicly available, so not associated with IP). Researchers can use molecules to create IP. eMolecules charges a brokerage fee (to sellers) for the value add of making the buying and selling of molecules more convenient.
Assay Depot: Assay Depot's public Research Exchange is a fast, easy and free way to find research services and products. Assay Depot provide additional visibility for service providers for a modest fee, and proprietary value-added services for selected buyers.
PubChem: Government sponsored resource. No charge, but only for public data (no IP). Public data and tools can be leveraged to create private IP.
Your Encore: A network of retired and veteran scientists and engineers providing our clients with proven experience to help accelerate their pace of innovation.
For more context on how and why collaboration is the key to turning around the drug discovery business:
Read Part 1: Collaboration as the key for turning around the drug discovery business – The Problem
Read Part 2: Collaboration as the key for turning around the drug discovery business – The Hypothesis
Read Part 3: Collaboration as the key for turning around the drug discovery business – A Solution
Read Part 4: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business – Collaboration and Innovation
Read Part 5: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business – A Monte Carlo Simulation
Read Part 6: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business – Technology can Make Things Easier
Read Part 7: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business: Collaboration = Leverage
Read Part 8: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business – Standards
And especially read Part 9: Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business – Collaborate Better
P.S. Beyond collaboration as a more enlightened approach to science, here are the top 5 practical reasons collaborative scientists rock with CDD: https://cddvaultdev.wpengine.com/buzz/2011/10/17/5-reasons-why-collaborative-scientists-use-cdd/
You can also download the full series "Collaboration as the key to turning around the drug discovery business" by Barry Bunin as a pdf document:
This blog is authored by members of the CDD Vault community. CDD Vault is a hosted drug discovery informatics platform that securely manages both private and external biological and chemical data. It provides core functionality including chemical registration, structure activity relationship, chemical inventory, and electronic lab notebook capabilities!
CDD Vault: Drug Discovery Informatics your whole project team will embrace!


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Have you ever stopped to think what is in hand soap? Most hand soaps and lotions are full of toxic chemicals, especially antibacterial soaps. What we put on our skin is readily absorbed into the bloodstream and may be effecting our health. Here is a little information about why we should avoid anti-bacterial soaps.
The main reason to avoid anti-bacterial soaps is its active ingredient: triclosan (and the related triclocarbon). Triclosan is an anti-bacterial chemical found in many consumer products, and it's nearly ubiquitous in liquid hand soap. It is linked to liver and inhalation toxicity, and even low levels of triclosan may disrupt thyroid function. Further, the American Medical Association recommends that triclosan not be used in the home, as it may encourage bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
Just think of all the times you wash your hands everyday, or should be washing your hands (about 7-10 times a day) and what is going into your bloodstream via hand soap alone.
You and your children can avoid a lot of chemicals going into your system by simply choosing a non-toxic soap to wash your hands with. I like to use a blend of essential oils that Wild Orange, Clove, Cinnamon, Eucalyptus, and Rosemary which offer a natural and effective way to clean your hands. This combination of essential oil is protects against environmental threats and it smells yummy!
It is super easy and takes only a few minutes to make.
Here is what you need:
- funnel
- 8 0z. container with foaming pump (I buy mine here) or recycle a used one!
- 2 tablespoons Unscented Liquid Castile Soap (Almond or Peppermint Scent is good too)
- 10 drops Essential Oil of your choice.
- water
- 1 tablespoon Fractionated Coconut Oil (optional for added moisturizing)
our the liquid soap into the jar.
Add 10- 15 drops of essential oils.
There are a lot of great essential oil combinations to use. I like
- 5 drops of Peppermint Oil and five drops of Melaleuca oil
- 10-15 drops Lemon Oil
- Use your creativity and your nose to create some other yummy blends.
Slowly add water. Shake gently.
If you see the soap and water separate, you may need to give it a little shake once in a while.
Simple, Safe, and Inexpensive! Keep a jar by every sink!


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Thursday, September 24, 2015
Dr Eva Carneiro quits Chelsea following Mourinho outburst!
Dr Eva Carneiro has decided against a return to Chelsea Football Club, and is now expected to fight for a significant pay-off from the Premier League side.
The Times and the Daily Mail both report that the FA is investigating a complaint from a member of the public claiming Mourinho had shouted "filha da puta" - something that means "daughter of a whore" towards Carneiro during the Premier League match against Swansea City on 8th August.
New evidence regarding the incident involving Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and team doctor Eva Carneiro has been submitted to the Football Association by Women in Football (WiF).
This evidence includes video footage and a written submission from a Portuguese translator who says the coach singled out the club doctor in his outburst.
After the controversial incident with manager Jose Mourinho, Carneiro lost her place on the Chelsea bench and was not allowed to attend training sessions, matches or enter the team hotel.
Carneiro was told to report back for duty at Chelsea last Friday by the club's hierarchy, the day before the crucial game at home to Arsenal, but decided against doing so and is understood to have now left the club.
The news has invited criticism from within the Football Association, with chair of the 'FA's Inclusion Advisory Board' (IAB) Heather Rabbatts expressing her "sadness and anger" at Dr Carneiro's departure.
Anna Kessel, chair and co-founder of WiF, said: "We'll be extremely surprised if there is no charge at all."
Kessel also wrote in the Guardian: "One day we will look back at the story of Dr Eva Carneiro and wonder how any of this happened."
"How did a highly respected doctor have her reputation ripped to shreds despite not putting a foot wrong?"
"How did a Premier League manager lose his rag, misinterpret the facts and the laws of the game and fail to apologise? And why did no one defend her?"
"It is time now to hear from the game's enforcers, the Football Association and the Premier League. WiF urges them to step up to the plate."
"This is about medical ethics, human rights, employment rights, the integrity of the game. This is a test and we urge football not to shy away from it."
Mourinho's heavy-handed actions have been condemned by Fifa and the medical community while Chelsea have continued to insist it is an "internal staffing matter" and have not commented throughout the case.
Mourinho had claimed that both Carneiro and Fearn could both eventually resume their duties despite his angry criticism of them – when he called them naïve and not understanding football - but, according to sources at the club, it was always expected that the doctor would leave as her position had appeared to become untenable.
Carneiro is understood to have further angered the manager when in the immediate aftermath of the incident, during the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge, she took to the social media network Facebook to express her thanks for the "overwhelming support" she received.
Chelsea are unlikely to replace Carneiro (right) in the short-term with Dr Chris Hughes, who has worked with the academy players, continuing to sit on the bench. However it is understood the club is eventually going to use another doctor, David Porter, in the role once he has the necessary certificate to enter the field of play.
In a further twist first team physiotherapist Jon Fearn, who was also rebuked by Mourinho and demoted after also running onto the pitch, is expected to return to the Chelsea bench and has continued to work with the first-team players and also travelled to games.
Defending the doctor's actions against Swansea, Rabbatts said last night: "Any other response would have been a dereliction of her duty and a breach of General Medical Council guidelines."
"In acting properly she was then subject to verbal abuse and public criticism and in effect demoted by her removal from the bench."
"Over the weekend WiF submitted evidence to the FA's investigation into Mourinho's comments as well as writing to Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the highest tier of association football in England, the Premier League.
Anna Kessel says of Carnerio: "Anyone who has met her is impressed by her professionalism, her serious nature, her commitment to helping others – both the patients she treats and the young women who write her streams of letters wanting to follow in her footsteps. She has worked at Chelsea for six years, as first-team doctor under four different managerial regimes. Surviving as a female medic in the football industry is hard enough; excelling as one is almost unheard of.
Dr Carneiro had already endured so much in her career, the horrific sexist abuse from opposition fans highlighted by the WiF campaign last season. It is sad that her ultimate downfall appears to be at the hands of the very club who once supported her and a game that so far has suggested it does not care to."
The expectation remains that no charge will be leveled, but if he is prosecuted Mourinho could be handed a five-match ban.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Will Dr Eva Carneiro accept Chelsea's invitation to return?
Dr Eva Carneiro, who was banned from the Chelsea bench after being criticised by manager José Mourinho, has been told to report for work at the club's training ground today.
Carneiro has not been seen at Chelsea since the incident on 8th August, possibly through the legal advice she has taken from law firm Mishcon de Reya, but has been informed that she needs to return to duty now.
Whether Carneiro turns up at the Cobham training ground in Surrey remains to be seen – although physio Jon Fearn, who also had his duties cut, has continued to work during the intervening period with the first-team.
The Football Association has confirmed it is investigating a complaint that Chelsea manager José Mourinho used abusive language during the incident in the opening game against Swansea that saw club doctor Eva Carneiro and first-team physiotherapist Jon Fearn stripped of their matchday duties.
Fearn has not, as yet, resumed his place on the Chelsea bench but is expected to eventually do so. Whether Carneiro is able to do the same would appear to remain in doubt although there have been claims the duo will be in place for Saturday's Premier League match at home to Arsenal.
Chelsea have previously insisted the issue is an "internal staffing matter" and say they do not intend to comment although Mourinho has publically said that Carneiro might be reinstated.
According to a report in the Independent, the Football Association received a complaint after the match on 8th August and the governing body's compliance department are now studying video evidence.
Carneiro (right), born in Gibraltar is understood to have already taken legal advice with the possibility that Chelsea might be seeking to re-deploy her within their medical department and away from being first-team doctor. Some lawyers have suggested she may have grounds for constructive dismissal.
The Chelsea manager lost his cool towards the very end of his team's 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge, when Eden Hazard went down in the third minute of stoppage time and Carneiro and Fearn ran on to treat the winger and it was revealed last month that Carneiro and Fearn had been told they would not sit on the Chelsea bench after the incident with Mourinho accusing the pair of naivety and failing to "understand the game."
Under FA rule E3, players and coaches can be penalised for using "offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures," with Mourinho facing up to a five-match ban if he is found guilty.
It subsequently emerged that not only did referee Michael Oliver twice gesture the medics to come on, but that he had also checked with Hazard that he wanted to receive treatment. This led to further criticism of Mourinho from medical professionals.
Sky Sports released video footage of the moment Mourinho lost his temper with his medical staff which appears to show the Portuguese boss calling one or both of them "son of a bitch".
According to the report, Carneiro has not returned to Chelsea's Cobham training ground since being withdrawn from matchday duties, with Doctor Chris Hughes and physiotherapist Steven Hughes having replaced her and Fearn.
Mourinho's treatment of Carneiro and Fearn has already been discussed by world football governing body FIFA. Another influential body, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) has also raised the matter with the League Managers Association of which Mourinho is a member.
Chelsea play Arsenal on Saturday 19th September at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League, kick-off 12:45 BST.
Will Eva be on the bench tomorrow in her capacity as Chelsea first-team doctor?
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Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Statistically, the best performing players in the English Premier League so far this season!
The top ten performing English Premier League outfield players in each of their respective positions since the start of the season, ranked according to the exclusive CIES Football Observatory's approach to the technical analysis of performance. Only footballers fielded for at least 60% of minutes are included in the rankings.
Data provider: OptaPro.
For those of you currently playing 'Fantasy Premier League Football' you may want to take note!
Season 2015/16 - Last update: 31/08/2015
2. A. Williams (Swansea) 78.2 (right)
3. J. Fonte (Southampton) 61.4
4. C. Smalling (Man. United) 60.0
5. E. Mangala (Man. City) 57.1
6. F. Fernández (Swansea) 53.2
7. E. Can (Liverpool) 53.1
8. J. Vertonghen (Tottenham) 48.7
9. S. Cook (Bournemouth) 47.4
10. V. Kompany (Man. City) 46.9
1. A.Kolarov (Man. City) 100.0
2. N. Monreal (Arsenal) 96.8
3. J. Amavi (Aston Villa) 86.5 (right)
4. C. Soares (Southampton) 80.5
5. S. Francis (Bournemouth) 75.9
6. J. Holebas (Watford) 71.7
7. L. Shaw (Man. United) 67.5
8. S. Coleman (Everton) 63.1
9. A. Nyom (Watford) 58.6
10. C. Daniels (Bournemouth) 57.6
Defensive Midfielders:
1. Y. Touré (Man. City) 100.0
2. F. Coquelin (Arsenal) 87.1
3. A. Ramsey (Arsenal) 75.5
4. J. Cork (Swansea) 64.1
5. J. Shelvey (Swansea) 60.6
6. J. McArthur (Crystal Palace) 59.0 (right)
7. N. Matić (Chelsea) 58.6
8. E. Capoue (Watford) 56.9
9. B. Schweinsteiger (Man. United) 51.8
10. L. Fernandinho (Man. City) 51.2
Attacking Midfielders:
1. D. Silva (Man. City) 100.0 (right)
2. E. Hazard (Chelsea) 75.0
3. J. Montero (Swansea) 73.0
4. S. Cazorla (Arsenal) 72.8
5. M. Özil (Arsenal) 71.2
6. S. Mané (Southampton) 66.0
7. R. Barkley (Everton) 62.4
8. J. Morrison (WBA) 60.5
9. W. Hoolahan (Norwich) 57.8
10. J. Mata (Man. United) 57.1
1. D. Tadić (Southampton) 100.0
2. A. Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) 97.9
3. R. Mahrez (Leicester) 92.7
4. C. Wilson (Bournemouth) 74.7
5. A. Koné (Everton) 65.3
6. B. Gomis (Swansea) 60.2 (right)
7. R. Sterling (Man. City) 56.4
8. M. Diouf (Stoke) 47.4
9. S. Agüero (Man. City) 46.8
10. D. Costa (Chelsea) 41.4
The Football Observatory is a research group within the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), a private foundation affiliated to the University of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. Set up in 2005 by Drs Raffaele Poli and Loïc Ravenel, it currently comprises a staff of full-time permanent researchers specialised in the statistical analysis of football.
The CIES Football Observatory has regularly been mandated to undertake original analysis by several prestigious institutions such as, but not limited to, FIFA, UEFA, European Club Association (ECA), European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), Swiss Football League (SFL), Aspire Academy, as well as top-flight European clubs in several countries.
CIES Football Observatory, Avenue DuPeyrou 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, +41 (0)32 718 39 00
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Babe of the Month - Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson was born on 9th January 1993 in Woolton, Liverpool and is an English track and field athlete specialising in the heptathlon.
At the age of nine, with an audition for the Royal Ballet School lined up, Katarina reversed Billy Elliot's cinematic route and chose sport over dance.
Her father Ricardo is Bahamian, Katarina attended St Julie's Catholic High School in Woolton and John Moores University in Liverpool, where she studied for her sports science degree. Katarina represents Liverpool Harriers and is coached by Mike Holmes. She is also an ardent fan of Liverpool FC and admits she was "devastated" when Steven Gerrard left the club.
At the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Brixen, Italy, she won the gold medal in the heptathlon.
She missed most of the 2010 athletics season suffering from patellar tendinopathy, also known as jumper's knee.
Johnson-Thompson broke Jessica Ennis' British junior record at the Multistars competition held in Desenzano del Garda, Italy in May 2012.
At the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships, held in Barcelona, Johnson-Thompson chose not to compete in the heptathlon competition to save herself for the Olympics; instead she took part in the long jump and the 100 metres hurdles, winning a gold medal in the long jump, with a leap of 6.81 metres.
Johnson-Thompson competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's heptathlon, alongside compatriots Jessica Ennis and Louise Hazel at the Olympic Stadium. She finished in 15th place with a score of 6267 points.
In September 2012 Johnson-Thompson was nominated for the "European Athletics Rising Star award." In October, she won the "Lillian Board Memorial Award" (for junior women) at the 2012 British Athletics Writers' Association Awards.
In the 2013 IAAF World Championships held in Moscow, Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished in 5th place in the heptathlon. After a first day which left her in 5th place, with a personal best (PB) in the 200m, she had an excellent second day with PB's in the Long Jump, Javelin and the 800m, finishing just 28 points away from bronze medallist Dafne Schippers.
In March 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships held at the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland, Katarina won long jump silver with a PB jump of 6.81m.
On 11th July 2014, Johnson-Thompson set a new long jump personal best of 6.92m at the Glasgow Diamond League meeting, taking her to number 2 on the British all-time list for the event. Johnson-Thompson won gold at the 2014 edition of the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, with a world leading personal best score of 6682.
Katarina was expected to be the GB team's outstanding performer in track and field at the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships last summer. But her hopes of competing were ruined by a stress-fracture in her foot.
Johnson-Thompson set a new British high jump record with a height of 1.97 metres at the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield on 14 February 2015, surpassing her previous record of 1.96 metres set on 8 February 2014. Prior to Johnson-Thompson, Debbie Marti's 1.95 metre jump had held the record since 1997.
On 21st February 2015, Johnson-Thompson set a new indoor British long jump record with a distance of 6.93m at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix.
In August 2015, Katarina finished in 28th place in the heptahlon at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing after three foul jumps in the long jump meant she failed to record a score in the event, effectively ending her hopes of winning a medal. Her final jump appeared to be good at first, but officials discovered on closer inspection that she had marginally overstepped the take-off mark, and ruled it illegal after a delay of nearly five minutes. She had been lying in second place to Jessica Ennis-Hill after the first day of events. Ennis-Hill went on to win gold.
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Bloc Jam is a session of improvised music, collectively composed by an unsuspecting public, live from the street. For the performance, a building's facade comes alive with interactive projections filled with colours and moving to the rhythms of the music.
The creators of this visual spectacle are passersby who create the rhythmic vibrations with their cellular phones. Translated into "tracks" of colours on the wall, the rhythmic figures grow in number, creating an evolving mosaic that is adapted on the go, and that everyone can listen to on their cellphones.


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Brian Horton has parted company with Macclesfield Town by mutual agreement after failing to save the club from npower League Two relegation.
Horton, 63, returned for a second spell in charge at the Moss Rose last month after Gary Simpson was sacked on the back of 14 league matches without victory.
However, the former Manchester City and Port Vale chief was unable to bring about a change in fortunes and eight more winless games garnered only two points, culminating in Saturday's relegation-sealing 2-0 home loss to Burton.
Glyn Chamberlain, who served as assistant to both Simpson and Horton, will take charge for the Silkmen's final game of the season at Southend and vice chairman Andy Scott insists work is already underway to put a permanent successor in place after concluding Horton was not the man to mastermind a return to the Football League.
"We need a different set of skills to be competitive in the Conference," he told Macclesfield's official website.
"Our favoured candidate will be someone who knows the game well at that level.
"We have an excellent set up behind the scenes, which we think will offer an attractive proposition to an ambitious manager. We have some targets in mind and we hope to be able to make an early permanent appointment."
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Clothes Clutter: Organizing All Your Accessoriesposted by Andrea | 08/13/2011
Earlier this week, I took you on a tour of our brand new Master Closet.
It was the first post in a series of posts I'm planning to do about "clothes clutter" and it gave me a good opportunity to show you exactly how Dave and I keep all our clothes organized {and all in ONE closet!}.
However, after hearing feedback from many of you, I decided that accessories should be the next post in this series.
I think accessories are like food storage containers — they magically multiply without your knowledge — and before you know it, they're everywhere!
If you feel like your accessories are taking over your closet, bedroom, bathroom, etc. Then let me give you a few tips to keep them organized — and show you how we keep our accessories organized.
I keep my bracelets in an old star ice-mold that sits on the top of my dresser. It looks fantastic and makes it really easy to find what bracelet I want right away. Plus, if the mold starts to overflow, I know it's time to purge. Cool bowls and baskets would also look nice.
Similarly, I keep all my earrings and rings in an old muffin tin. I actually keep this tin in one of our bathroom drawers so it doesn't spill or tip over. Ice-cube trays are another great way to store earrings and rings in individual compartments — plus they stack!
I hang all my necklaces on an old ladder — simply by pounding nails into the ladder at differing heights. It's nothing fancy, but it also serves as decoration for our bedroom and keeps my necklaces tangle free.
I got a TON of questions asking how I stored my underwear and socks — so although I never thought I would show a picture of my underwear drawer on the internet…. here it is!
It's the very top drawer of my dresser and I use these clear plastic drawer organizers to keep everything in neat rows {yes, I always fold my underwear!} Also, I should mention that I actually have a double layer of socks on the right side of the drawer — heavy wool socks and tights/nylons on the bottom; athletic socks and dress socks on top.
Tank Tops / T-shirts / Athletic Clothes:
I have quite a few tank tops, t-shirts, and athletic clothes because that is what I wear most often. I usually wear a tank top under everything, and the minute I get home, I change into a t-shirt. So I like to keep these items easily available and very visible.
As you can see by the pictures below, I fold all my shirts and stack them "horizontally" instead of in a vertical pile — that way I can see every single shirt when I open the drawer. Tank tops and PJ's are in the 2nd dresser drawer, t-shirts and athletic gear are in the 3rd drawer.
UPDATE: If you would like to see how I fold our t-shirt, click here!!
Shoes were another thing I got a lot of questions about — and I realized shoe storage can be a huge pain, especially if you have big boots, and other more substantial shoes that take up all kinds of space.
I used to have a ton of shoes, but over the last few years, I've really cut back to just the basics — a good pair of black and brown flats, black and brown dress shoes, black and brown boots, a few flip flops, a few "cute" pairs, and then my tennis shoes. Besides the boots and running shoes, I keep everything in the basket below.
A few other ideas for shoes would be to use an over-the-door shoe organizer, put shoe shelves at the bottom of your closet, or even keep your shoes by the back door {if you have enough room there}.
Belts, Scarves, etc.
I just installed a clear over-the-door shoe organizer on the back of one of our closet doors to organize all our belts, scarves, and other mics. accessories — we LOVE it!!
Dave even decided to keep his MP3 player, cell phone, sunglasses, wallet, and watch in a few of the compartments {which means they won't be sitting out on his dresser any more!}
As you can see, we still have plenty of space for more!
A few other ideas for belts and scarves are to install hooks, put the items in baskets, or just hang them on hangers.
Purses and Bags:
Over the past few years, I have REALLY tried to cut back in the purse department too! I have a nice bag for summer/spring and another one I like to use in the fall/winter. I also have a couple smaller bags as well as a couple dressier clutches…but that's it.
I keep all my purses and bags on the top shelf of our closet. I stuff them with newspaper so they keep their shape and then put them inside cloth bags so they don't get dusty.
So that's how I organize our many different accessories.
Obviously, depending on the size of your closet, your bedroom, and the amount of accessories you have, my suggestions may or may not work for you. {too bad I can't have ALL the answers!}
Do you have any suggestions that work well for your accessories? I'd love to hear them!
And just because it's been a while, here's a picture from earlier this week {6 months along}
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Chloe Morgan08/19/2019
This may be an awkward question so definitely dont feel obligated to answer but how do you fold your underwear?
I have never seen it folded like that before and cannot find anywhere online to show me?
Hello Andrea! Love your organizing tips.. Heading tomorrow morning to look for an over the door clear organizer!! I wanted to ask you if you have any suggestions for organizing hats/baseball caps in the closet.. Where there's no drawers but a shelve on top of the hangers.. And my boyfriend keeps them stacked up one on top of the other… Thanks for all the useful tips
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December 3rd, 2017 at 3:44 pm
Hi Melissa,
Hopefully you had luck with your shoe organizer (sorry I was a little slow to respond).
I don't have anything about organizing hats on my blog (we're not big hat-wearers here) but I found several great resources online.
This blog post has TONS of really great ideas.
This hanger idea is super simple and could be done in just a few minutes.
This peg-board idea is also very clever, simple, and space-saving.
Hope these help!!
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The shirt folding is epic. I just have one question/issue. When you pull out a few shirts, don't they all collapse? And it seems like you have to take them all out to put them back in when you. Do laundry. This confuses me.
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I suffer from OCD. I'm realizing bow that I'm a mother and older I NEED things in some kind of Structure! I've seen other blogs that touch on this, But You Explained everything Easy enough to follow. With Pictures!! Lol Thank You so much for sharing!
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I am renting a home with both inadequate closet storage or poorly designed shelving. When using both sides of the master walk-in for hanging, one side partly covers the door. Because of this, we push our clothes toward the back and cannot hang anything close to the door, leaving wasted storage space. Also there is a shoe rack all around the closet near the floor which is covered by shirts, tunics or long skirts on two sides, but can be used on one wall for one person. The second "man's" closet is being used for the non-existing master linen closet and for partially hanging our dressy clothes for church or special occasions. We cannot hang anything towards the middle of the closet because it is shallow and hems of anything squeeze out between the doors.I'd like to rearrange the shelves here to accommodate linens and my clothing accessories such as hats, purses, shoes, wigs, vitamin bottles and jewelry. These items are now clogging up the guest bedroom closet along with out of season coats, luggage and a storage box of a few winter clothes for visiting northern relatives at Christmas time. Any tips to redesign shelves, or move things to better locations would be appreciated.
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More helpful than you know…thank you for sharing.
Ophelie Stone05/27/2015
Great organizing ideas! I have problems with the clothes storage all the time. My husband never finds the t-shirt he needs. Stacking you tops and tees horizontally is brilliant! I'll reorganize some drawers tomorrow. Thank you!
I like using those craft bead plastic containers with dividers to store my necklaces, and jewelry box for earrings. I used to leave the necklaces hanging on a jewelry stand but I didn't like how it got so dusty. I guess it just depends on how dusty it gets. The bed containers are perfect because you can see each necklace even when it's closed and the dividers keeps them from tangling. Then I put the container inside one of the drawers of the dresser so there's nothing on the dresser except the jewelry box of earrings.
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I was so excite about this… and I fold up all my shirts and got them ready to go… and my drawers are too shallow to stack them like that. 🙁
Guess I need that new dresser now. 🙂
Andrea Reply:
February 18th, 2013 at 9:59 am
Shoot — one other option would be to fold your shirts into thirds instead of in half (for the very last step). I've done this before in really shallow drawers and it creates the same effect. It might be worth a try before you purchase a new dresser 🙂
This is so great!
My boyfriend is a baseball hat freak! Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep them organized and looking tidy?
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November 3rd, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Meg, the best way is just like the 'Lids' store. Push the back of the hat toward the brim and they should sit in one another easily. They can go in a drawer or top shelf of a closet.
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Thank you for these organizing……
Cindy Lou09/17/2012
What a find! I did not know there was another organizing nut in this world! I will surely be looking again and I want to thank you for the hints.
I saw someone asked, but didn't see a response…how do you fold and organize your pants/jeans to save on space???? Love this. So neat, clean, and perfect to pick an outfit out of in a pinch with out ruining all the drawers!!
Andrea, I love you ! You should win a Nobel prize for this.
My drawers drive me crazy, no matter how many times I fold and put everything away nicely (for me, husband and 2 kids), they go back to their normal (!) messy state in about 2 days. So I have long given up and resigned to live with messy drawers for the rest of my life… That is untill I stumbled on your blog.
Just now, I I did my drawers by your way of organizing and I can't help myself shutting and openning them and looking at their contents with a smile. I know they won't get messy anymore as I can see every single item. I keep thinking, why didn't I think of this before ? So simple and so effective.
Thank you for sharing !!
I found this linked from another blog, that I found on pinterest- this is a brilliant way to fold shirts! I just organized a couple of my drawers using your method, and I have so much more space now~
Here's my blog about it: http://fightingcomet.blogspot.com/2012/07/getting-organized-clothing-drawers.html
I posted how I folded mine too, because I wear a L or XL, so I found folding the side with the sleeve made more room.
I LOVE THIS! I found this on Pinterest & as an avid organizer am always looking for something to kick it up a notch!!! CAN NOT WAIT TO ORGANIZE MY SHIRTS!!! I chose to do the "framed window screen" for my earring organizing (so super cheap & easy plus…they never spill) & I had a couple plate holders (you know the ones that you display plates on the wall) never found plates for them so they became my necklace holders! Thanks for posting this…& explaining how you fold your shirts!


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Hello dear readers! Sorry for the long absence from Really Recommended Posts. It's been insanely busy, and with a baby due any day now, I may not have another of these for a bit. So enjoy the posts I have compiled here!
Young Earth Creationists arguing in circles– I've seen the claim made time and again: the fossils date the rocks, and the rocks date the fossils–it's a circle! Young Earth Creationists frequently make this claim. Here is a look at one such instance of the claim and the facts behind the tools of geology.
Lies about Relics– An interesting look at the proliferation of relics in the Middle Ages, what Martin Luther had to say about them, and the meaning and usage of the term. I highly recommend readers subscribe to the Christian History magazine. It is free (donations encouraged) and excellent.
John Leland– John Leland was a pastor who wrote extensively on the deist controversy in the 17th and 18th centuries. He wrote a two-volume work that surveys the entire field, offering both exposition and refutation of the works of basically every major player in the controversy. Read more about him and his work here.
Herodotus, Osiris, Dionysus, and the Jesus Myth– A brief look at the historical method of those who claim Jesus is a myth, with a specific look at Herodotus and his discussion of Osiris and Dionysus.
Today is "Give to the Max" day for Minnesota, which means that you can double your gift's effectiveness. Please take the time to go support biblical equality by donating to Christians for Biblical Equality today. Every 10$ you give will turn into 20$! This is a near and dear cause in my heart. Please help support it if you are able.
Christians for Biblical Equality is a phenomenal organization that provides biblically sound resources supporting women's equality in the church and home. I would challenge any who disagree with this position to take the time to browse their website and learn more about the topic. I have written extensively on egalitarianism myself.
Thank you, and God bless!
The latest round of Really Recommended Posts is in, dear readers, and is it a good batch, or what? We have a few posts on Crossway's announcement of the "Permanent Text" of the ESV, a post addressing the claim that Jesus was a false prophet, insight into one of the earliest Christian apologists, and controversy over a citation of a scientist in regards to creationism. As always, let me know your thoughts.
The ESV: The New Inspired Version– A tongue-in-cheek look at the announcement of the "Permanent" ESV and the kind of reasoning it seems like is behind it.
A Permanent Text of the ESV Bible? They Must Be Joking– A more straightforward critique noting several difficulties with the concept of a permanent text or a "literal word-for-word" translation.
The New Stealth Translation: ESV– A post with some more in-depth look at specific aspects of the ESV changed in this "Permanent" text.
Was Jesus Really a False Prophet?– Thorough analysis of the argument that some have made that Jesus was, in fact, a false prophet.
A Crash Course on Irenaeus– Irenaeus offered one of the earliest defenses of the Christian faith. Check out this post with a wonderful infographic to learn the basics on Irenaeus.
Patterson Misquoted: A Tale of Two "Cites"– Some young earth creationists have been using a quote from Dr. Colin Patterson, a paleontologist, to support their claims. Here is a detailed background of the quote and why it does not support young earth creationism.
Thanks for coming by and checking out this week's "Really Recommended Posts!" This time around, we have a look at what we should expect in evidence for God's existence, a response to the "9 Marks of Complementarianism," Patrick Stewart on domestic violence, the "hyperbole" argument regarding the Canaanites, and Aquinas's metaphysics and arguments for God. Let me know what you think in the comments!
A Look at God's Existence: Evidence We Want vs. Evidence We Should Expect– We often ear or read about there not being enough evidence for God. How much of that is set up by expectations about what kind of evidence God should provide?
Kevin DeYoung's 9 Marks of Complementarianism– Recently, Kevin DeYoung posted about what ought to be the 9 marks of complementarianism. Scot McKnight offered a response to these marks from a different perspective.
Patrick Stewart on what he is most proud of– Patrick Stewart is perhaps best known for playing Captain Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. A fan at a recent conference asked him what he was most proud of outside of acting, and his response was powerful- working against domestic violence. This is a beautiful video worth watching. Ignore the clickbait title (which I amended here).
Misunderstanding the Canaanite Hyperbole Argument– Clay Jones, a professor at Biola University, notes that there are several misconceptions about what exactly is answered regarding the argument that the "genocide" of the Canaanites is hyperbolic.
Four Causes and Five Ways– Edward Feser outlines a brief look at Aquinas's metaphysics and its link to his Five Ways (six arguments).
Hello all! Thanks for waiting it out as I skipped last week because I was on vacation in Kansas. This week I provide you with some very deep reading in three lengthy posts that are each well-worth your time. I hope you'll take that time to read them and engage with them.
A Pilgrim's Regress: George John Romanes and the Search for Rational Faith– The story of how a deep 19th century thinker and contemporary of Charles Darwin fell away from faith only to find it again as he searched for the rationality of faith.
Is Jesus like a copy of Horus?– An extensive, expandable examination of the idea that Jesus is a myth based upon Horus. This is a very valuable resource with many cited sources and many avenues for further reading.
A Very Challenging Task: Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus– A serious look at a number of objections to Jesus as the Messiah from Jewish scholars and thinkers.
It's another week and I'm here to bring you some more great reading for your weekend. Be sure to let the authors know what you think, and let me know here as well. Topics for this week include the Grand Canyon and the biblical Flood, Deborah as leader, Jehovah's Witnesses, and more!
Deborah and the "no available men" argument– A refutation of the notion that Deborah was only chosen to lead Israel because there were "no available men" who could or would do so. Unfortunately, this argument is fairly common among those who do not wish to affirm the Bible's teaching on women's equal leadership.
The Grand Canyon's Magnificent Witness to Earth's History– Often, young earth creationists argue that the Grand Canyon can only be explained (or at least is better explained) by the biblical Flood as a global flood. A new book is challenging that perception. Check out this post to learn more.
7 Things to Know about Jehovah's Witnesses– It is important to understand others' beliefs. Here is a post outlining 7 points of belief for Jehovah's Witnesses.
Calamity (The Reckoners)– Superheroes and villains face off with those who seek vengeance against those villains who destroyed their world. Check out this look at worldview issues in Brandon Sanderson's latest Young Adult novel, Calamity. Also check out my own reflection on the book.
Here we have another round of posts for your reading, friends. Topics range from parenting gamers to Augustine, from women in church history to talking about abortion. As always, let me know what you think, and be sure to let the authors of the individual posts know as well!
Christian Thinkers 101: A Crash Course on St. Augustine– We need to be aware of thinkers from the past for a number of reasons: so we don't repeat mistakes made in the past, so that we don't have to re-learn what was learned before, so we can have our biases challenged across time, and many more. Here's a post that helps us do just that by introducing, concisely, the thought of Augustine, one of the greatest luminaries of all time.
A Parent's Guide to Living with Gamers– Some parents may express concern about their kids playing video games. Here are some helpful thoughts from a Christian perspective for parents of gamers.
Women in Church History: Footnoted and Forgotten?– Too often, women's voices are ignored. Here is a post highlighting some women throughout church history. Be sure to also check out a series of women in church history at a different blog that starts with early church history and the Desert Mothers.
Apologia Raido and the Defamation of Tony Lauinger: A Call for an Apology– There are different schools of thought regarding the pro-life movement, and this post is revealing as to how these schools of thought differ radically on method of engagement in law and in person.
Another round of Really Recommended Posts for you, dear readers! This week, we have a biblical scholar from the throw out pile, voting in Lent Madness, the problem of evil and Jesus' response, textual criticism, and women in combat. Be sure to let the authors know what you thought, and let me know your responses as well!
The Biblical Scholar from the Throw-Out Box– "If [Katharine Bushnell] had been a man, every single contemporary Bible scholar writing on gender would have had to reckon with her findings. As it was, she was a woman, and her work was ignored." Here's a post on
Lent Madness– Vote for different theologians throughout history in brackets to determine the winner of this year's Lent Madness. Who will wear the golden halo this year?
Jesus' Answer to the Problem of Evil & the Unfairness of God– What did Jesus have to say about the problem of evil? Here is a post looking into this topic in ways that might make us uncomfortable.
Debunking Silly Statements in Greg Gilbert's Debunking Silly Statements About the Bible: An Exercise in Biblical Transmission– Some clarifications about textual criticism are found in this post that addresses some common misunderstandings that Christian scholars hold about the field.
The Bible and Combat Women- Does the Bible forbid women in combat roles? Does this go against gender roles entirely? Check out this commentary on the issue, and see also my post on the subject.
I can't believe we're almost through January already. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out my awards post for 2015. In this round of Really Recommended Posts, we have messianic prophecy, women in the ministry, evolution and creationism, the Bible, and movies of 2015. Let me know what you think, and be sure to let the authors know as well.
Did Moses really write about Jesus?: A look at Messianic Prophecy in the Torah– An excellent post highlighting a number of biblical prophecies about the Messiah found throughout the Torah.
Prominent Biblical Scholars on Women in Ministry– It continues to amaze me how willing some are to dismiss any nod to egalitarianism as clear rejection of biblical authority and teaching. I do not believe that merely mustering names is enough to prove a position (the list of complementarian scholars is quite long), but the fact that so many clearly biblical thinkers have held to the egalitarian position should give pause to those who make this claim. Here's a list of just a few such scholars.
Dodging Darwin: How Ken Ham's Ark Encounter is Slowly Embracing Evolution– "That which we call a rose…" is the essence of this post. As Ham and other young earth creationists decry evolution, they have been slowly embracing forms of it that go beyond the wildest dreams of modern evolutionary biologists. This post highlights the inconsistency of the Answers in Genesis answer to evolution.
Admit it: Some of the Bible is Hard to Believe– We should not sugarcoat the tough passages in the Bible. Here's a good post that addresses an approach to problematic passages.
An Assassin, White God, and Fury Road- The Top 10 Films of 2015– Think Christian has a post highlighting major worldview-level issues found in several films from 2015.
I've got another round up of reads for you, dear readers! This week, there are some posts I'm pretty excited about. Thinking about attacking the doctrine of the Trinity? Our first post tells you how not to defend one prominent anti-Trinitarian theology. Why are there books in my Bible that don't mention God? Found a post for ya! Other posts include Star Trek and theology, the death of the apostles, and standing up for women at a men's retreat. Let me know what you think, and be sure to let the authors know as well!
How Not to Defend Jehovah's Witness Theology– An excellent post analyzing the way that non-Trinitarians attempt to attack the doctrine of the Trinity. It's not enough to poke holes in another theory. This is a piece well worth your time!
The 2 Books of the Bible that Don't Mention God– Here's an interesting post looking at the book of Esther and the Song of Songs, 2 books which don't mention God. Why are they in the Bible. Disclaimer: I have been convinced that YHWH–the divine name–is mentioned in Song of Songs, but I think this post is still excellent.
5 Reasons to Reunite with Reunion- Star Trek: The Next Generation Retrospective– I love Star Trek. I love when I get to think about theology and Star Trek. If you have those loves, you'll enjoy this post.
What Makes the Death of the Apostles Unique?– All kinds of people are willing to die for their faith. Here is a post showing why the Disciples' willingness to die sets them apart. I have written on this topic myself: "Dying for Belief: Analysis of a Confused Objection to one of the evidences for the Resurrection", so check out my post on it as well!
Standing up for our Sisters at a Men's Retreat– Men have privilege. It's true. Here is a post about how we should stand up for those who do not have the same advantages, even in man-to-man talks.


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I finally managed to finish my blouse! New Look 6407. I've posted about it previously.
In my last post, I had successfully managed to attach piping to BOTH front edges, so running out of piping in the process.
I'd had a bit of difficulty attaching the piping.
First, I had to change my machine needle to a microtex needle as I was running into problems with stitch quality and tangling and I reckoned this was due to sewing through two layers of cotton and two layers of piping, plus, eventually, some of the cord too. Fortunately, this seemed to solve the problem
I used preformed piping and the stitching to hold the piping together was so close to the cord that I couldn't cover this using my narrow zipper foot when sewing the front and facing together. I ordered a foot for my machine, thinking this would help, but it didn't as the groove was much too large, really for upholstery piping not this fine garment mini piping, so the piping wasn't held in place properly. Eventually, in desperation, I decided to use my edgestitch foot, using the stitching I made using the zipper foot as a guide and moving the needle over further. This worked well. This problem wouldn't have arisen with self made piping which I had originally planned to use.
I managed to attach the piping around the collar seam, curving the original fairly sharp points to the collar to make the process easier. I assembled the collar as per instructions on the pattern sheet and it looked pretty good, I thought. I didn't do any understitching (and didn't cut undercollar smaller) because I used piping.
Apparently, I should have attached the collar to the blouse neckline before I started placing piping on front edges (though these were easier to do and I had wanted practice) and I found I had attached too long a section to the front, so had to remove it. No problem, though. However, I had huge problems attaching the collar and getting it to look neat and even. I had that collar in and out on a few occasions and eventually gave up as I was afraid I'd stretch everything out of shape. The collar is not perfect, the main issue being on the inside. I'm sure there must be a better way to construct a collar! I didn't have access to my tutor for advice as this is mid-term holiday week (and I missed the week before because of my golfing duties in the Lake District and a funeral I attended). I will do another blouse in class to see if I am advised on a better way to finish professionally. Meantime, though, I am entering this blouse in PR's beginners' contest. At least everyone can be assured that it was all my own work!
After the collar was attached to the best of my ability, the facings had to be attached. This was no problem now that I had worked out how to deal with the piping. Part of my issue with the finish in the blouse, however, is these facings, which, it seems to me, are used to cover less than tidy work! I'm really not keen on them. I did do the topstitching required by the pattern instructions at 1 inch from the edge. I chose to use matching rather than contrasting thread as I thought the deep pink would be too much.
Because my collar ends were now curved rather than pointy, I also curved the cuffs and bottom of blouse front.
We had a bank holiday weekend last weekend and the fabric shop where I bought my piping was closed on Bank Holiday Monday. Luckily, it was open on Tuesday and still had the same piping available. I bought a further 2 metres, though really I didn't need that much - then I thought I had bought sufficient firts time, so better to be safe than sorry!
I washed the new piping and was then able to carry on.
I decided to insert the piping between the cuff and the sleeve, rather than around the cuff.
Now, I had to insert the sleeves into the armholes - set in sleeves. I have had a demonstration of this and have done it before and managed without too much of a problem. My sleeve width had been increased because of my large biceps and during muslin fitting, I had to add an additional allowance to the back of the sleeve cap, but I was still using the original armhole. This meant, unfortunately, that the marks I had tried to transfer so carefully weren't in the correct places. I think I managed to do a reasonable job, though.
Nearly finished!
The last time I did buttonholes, I had problems because of uneven thickness across the area where the buttonhole foot had to sit and I was very concerned that this would be the case here - I had 5 layers at the piping side, including interfacing, and only 3 at the other. I did some practice on spare fabric made up the same way with piping etc. I managed to make the buttonholes. I did mark out carefully beforehand. I wasn't able to use the buttonhole guide from the pattern as I had altered the length of the front band, and the buttons I eventually chose were a little bigger than recommended. I made up my own buttonhole band, using 1 extra button, 6 instead of 5, and will be able to use this again. I feel that buttonholes are one of the least professional arts of the blouse - I must find a better way to deal with them. Perhaps one of those chisel cutters would help?
Between some of the steps, I decided to draft out my contest entry and PR review. I used Google Drive on my PC - this was late on Wednesday night. On Thursday, I went to access this on my tablet, as I realised I'd forgotten to say I had changed the shape of the collar - and it wasn't there! To cut a long and sad story short, my PC was extremely ill. I could switch it on but it wouldn't do anything and I had no access to the Internet - obviously this must have started the night before as my Google doc wasn't on Drive. With lots of help from DH, I managed to access important documents on the hard drive and save them to a USB stick; although I do back up to an external drive, it looked as though this wasn't up-to-date. DH disabled the faulty Internet connection (we still don't know what the problem is). I wasn't able to go back to a restore point as this didn't work. After he disabled the Internet connection, I found the programs on the PC worked better and faster than they had done for ages. Now I don't know whether some of the problems I had previously with uploading to blogger were due to this rather than other issues.
Recently, I bought a new laptop and a new copy of Microsoft Office to go on it. Today, DH took photos of me in my blouse, between heavy rain and hail showers, and I decided it would be best to use the laptop rather than my tablet to write this blog post and re-do my PR review and entry notes. To cut another long story short, it seems that my copy of Office may not be genuine as Microsoft did not recognise the product key. I have contacted the company I bought it from for a refund or correction and meantime used Google Drive Docs on my laptop.
Then, I couldn't pick up the photos DH put onto our shared drive on our network - still can't - don't know why. So I've had them passed to me on a USB stick. I hadn't used one of those for ages and then had to use 2 on different computers in one day!
Then, I couldn't pick up the photos DH put onto our shared drive on our network - still can't - don't know why. So I've had them passed to me on a USB stick. I hadn't used one of those for ages and then had to use 2 on different computers in one day!
Anyway, I rather like the blouse and think I'm likely to wear it!


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ELMHURST – Two Villa Park brothers have been charged following a Nov. 5 incident in which the driver allegedly attempted to flee after Elmhurst police attempted to make a traffic stop.
Mohammed A. Al Qaisieh, 24, of the 18W200 block of Standish Lane in Villa Park, was charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding, driving while license suspended, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, obstructed windows, no valid registration and no seatbelt following the incident, which reportedly occurred at 9:50 a.m. Nov. 5 in the 100 block of West Industrial Drive in Elmhurst.
Elmhurst Police Deputy Chief Mike McLean said in a phone interview Nov. 14 that the Elmhurst police officer attempting to make the traffic stop had done so after seeing that the Chevrolet Camero Mohammed was driving had expired registration.
McLean said that as the police officer turned on the lights of the police vehicle to make the traffic stop, the Camero quickly accelerated and attempted to pass another vehicle on the roadway.
Another vehicle, which was turning into a parking lot of a business on Industrial Drive west of York Street, collided with the Camero, McLean said.
He added that the time that passed between the police officer turning on the lights of the vehicle and the crash was merely seconds.
Ahmad A. Al Qaisieh, a passenger in the vehicle, also 24 and of the same residence, was arrested on a warrant out of DuPage County and cited with no seatbelt.
McLean said Ahmad was treated for minor injuries at a hospital before being brought to the police department to be processed on the warrant.


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Alterant: A Hunter Legends Novel
Unabridged / Go to Abridged Audiobook
Written By: Dianna Love, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated By: Holter Graham
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date: September 2011
Duration: 10 hours 28 minutes
The way Evalle Kincaid sees it, saving mankind from total destruction should have cleared her name. But when words uttered in the heat of combat are twisted against her, she's blamed for the prison break of three dangerous Alterants. She has one chance to clear the cloud of suspicion hanging over her . . . for good. All she has to do is recapture the escapees. But deals with gods and goddesses are tricky at best, and now the lives of all Beladors, and the safety of innocent humans, rides on Evalle's success. The only person she can ask for help wants to see her dead. "New York Times bestsellers Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love's new Belador series explodes onto the urban fantasy scene with a fresh concept, complex world, and unique characters wrapped into an emotionally engaging story full of twists." -Publishers Weekly


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Mariota magic
Ducks' Heisman hopeful heads high-octane offense
Wed., Oct. 9, 2013
On the flight from Seattle back home to Hawaii three years ago, Marcus Mariota made a decision.
"Mom," he said, "I'm going to be a Husky."
At some point Saturday afternoon, when he leads No. 2 Oregon into Husky Stadium for a Pac-12 North showdown against No. 16 Washington, Mariota will get away from the Huskies all over again. In all likelihood, the biggest challenge of the season for the revamped UW defense will be trying to contain the Oregon quarterback, whose combination of speed and arm strength have made him the odds-on favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.
"He's really good," UW defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox said.
And, yes, for a while Mariota wanted to be a Husky.
"First and foremost, I have family in Seattle," Mariota said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon. "I took an unofficial (visit to the UW campus). I was able to meet all the coaches and meet Coach Sark. That was a really cool experience, honestly. I liked Coach Sark. He was very nice; he was very nice to my family."
Mariota attended an Oregon camp in summer 2010. (Another relatively unknown quarterback, Johnny Manziel – the future Heisman Trophy winner who was committed to the Ducks at the time – was at the same camp.) After that, Mariota went to the Washington camp in Seattle, where he was formally recruited by then-UW offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier.
"He was a fantastic player in camp," Sarkisian said. "He hadn't started on his high school football team quite yet, so there was some hesitation on our part, quite honestly, in evaluating him."
Indeed, Mariota didn't start at Honolulu's St. Louis High School until his senior season. Oregon offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, now in his first season as the successor to Chip Kelly as the UO head coach, was one of the first recruiters to discover Mariota before the quarterback's senior season.
"It was certainly bizarre," Helfrich said Tuesday of recruiting Mariota. "I think he was an unknown because he didn't play. … And the more you talked with people around the high school and the football team, he kind of just took on this legendary-like status of just a great person, great student. And then to watch him play; I can remember calling Chip and going, 'This guy's unbelievable.'
"And then we made the decision to offer (a scholarship) from there and the rest, as they say, is history."
A three-star recruit, Mariota wasn't even offered a scholarship by Hawaii, his hometown school.
"When I first started getting attention from Oregon, I was pretty surprised," he said.
The decision between the Huskies and Ducks, the two rival schools, came down to "the whole package of Oregon," he said. "That whole process was an interesting one, and I'm thankful that things turned out the way they did."
The redshirt sophomore, listed at 6-foot-4, 211 pounds, with a 4.48-second 40-yard time, has 21 touchdowns (14 passing, seven rushing) and no interceptions in the Ducks' 5-0 start. He hasn't played a single snap in the fourth quarter this season for an Oregon offense averaging 59.2 points.
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Dancehall musician Shatta Wale is under attack on social media for calling out the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The "Dem Confuse" singer who arrived from his 'Reign Europe Tour' on Monday, November 3, went on social media to criticise the president for the "economic hardships" his fans are enduring.
According to him, the youth are complaining about being broke and unemployed coupled with economic hardships.
He wrote: "Remember when the youth rise there is no stopping cuz everybody is saying it loud now .."Chale money no deh " "the system hard " my job spoil " this government has failed us" Yes this is what the street is saying and anyone who will comment and say am lying is a damn liar himself …Mr president stand up !!!"
Immediately after making his statement, some Ghanaians took offence, jabbing him under the comment section of his post.
Some roped in MenzGold saga, accusing his record label's bank roller of contributing to the hardships Ghanaians are facing.
"Don't forget MENZGOLD has contributed about 80% to this hardship bcoz imagine the amount of money locked there. All those customers can't spend money in the system like they used to do. All the collapsed shareholders of all the collapsed banks have huge amount of money at MENZGOLD that led to the collapse of all these banks. Tell ur boss to pay and see the economy will boost," Christian Crucial wrote (unedited).
Papa Kwaku Owusu wrote (unedited): "The system is hot yes, send similar message to NAM1 to release monies of the people he ****. You get mouth talk about the president buh u can't find voice to talk about the people you benefited from, the MenzGold money.. Tell your lazy fans to stop complaining cos if clients no dey pay u for start working. How many of them are into legitimate business."
"Sake of dey stopped you and your boss from ****** Ghanaians through Menzgold so now you have a problem with the government...," Kwésï Kíllz II said (unedited).
Some attacked his music. "Aswear ebi only ur lazy poor fun dey cry about hardship...try and find something for them to Do...Mr . youth President.." Adams Hashim said (unedited).


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I reveal to you my first light novel project:
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora.
Long time ago I watched the anime and totally loved it. While searching for LN I saw this with 8 volumes, still untranslated. Perfect found.
I want to hone my translation skill into german a bit more, so I will be translating it (first) into german.
Though I already got many mails asking me if I would share my translation.
So I decided I would convert the prologue into english and release it too.
I activated the comments for this one, and if you like this and want more english releases, please comment.
I will definitely be doing the german version, though it's still unknown if I will make it public. Comments for that also appriciated.
First I want to recruit proofreader for it, but then I wasn't sure if I was going to release it at all, so I didn't accept anyone. The german translation shouldn't be all that horrible, a few wrong commas, but the english one certainly needs proofreading. But I just don't want to bother with that. Depending on the comments I will see how I will proceed.
Okay, then onto the release.
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora Prologue:
Deutsch || English
P.S.: I'll update the pdf over time, so that every volume has one pdf.


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The amazing thing is, it seems as though brands all over the world are killing it with online businesses – in this age of technology and social media – and they are! These days every person is a brand, and every little business has the potential to be a global business. My Mum could build a website if she had to, and my Dad has just discovered LinkedIn (yikes). In fact, my 87 year old grandfather knows how to open an email! Things are getting weird. The power is in your hands, literally, with smartphones and laptops and the good old fashioned 'internet' – to create a scalable online business and retire early.
Woah slow down now – before you go running off to create this magical online business, I'm going to share my opinion (because I'm THAT person) – the hard truth is, nothing can ever be all online.
This is for two reasons;
1) Because we're human
Deep down within us, we all want real connections with other humans. The beauty of technology is being able to connect with millions of people instantaneously and scale your business idea. Harness the power of technology to connect with the world, for sure, but don't forget that people want to connect with people (not just a screen).
Also, we humans enjoy actually talking to other humans – it's wired in our brains to desire this. Some of the best ideas, creativity and connections actually come from the real world. Whether it be networking, events, strategising or simply within your own team – social media and technology should support the real world stuff, and reflect it – it's a luxury add-on. Make the effort to go into the world, meet people and be the human behind your brand.
2) Running a business is still running a business
FACT: at some point, you'll need to talk to people. You'll probably need to create videos of yourself, run events or generally be physically present for business deals and networking. Before you get caught up in the beautiful idea of an online business, be aware that it is still running a business! You'll need to hustle your butt off, and the best hustling is in-person hustling. Online businesses include all the trimmings of a regular business, with the added headache of technology overwhelm – get ready!
All of that being said, I love my online business. I learned very quickly 'Online' is a support to the offline world. My biggest piece of advice is really "make your brand human" and choose online platforms that reflect what you want to achieve.
Now go forth and beat me to cocktails by the pool! (I'll meet you there)
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I agree that we have the power to create an online business that we can get a lot out of. I appreciate you sharing some of your advice on that because it's important that we go into the online business world with the right plan. It may be wise to consult with a service that can help you generate a business plan and make long term goals so that you are in the best starting place to be successful with your online opportunities.


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Illegal downloading outpaces legal downloading alternatives by 20-to-one. Record companies may have grown their digital music revenue by 40 percent over the past year, but that's so far from enough to keep up with the death of the CD business.
So guess what, the music industry is embracing the scary alternative and is now talking about giving away music free and legally. It's the big trend at this year's annual MIDEM music business conference in Cannes.
The big announcement coming out of the world music market: The launch of Qtrax, a legal, free downloading service. You can download songs for free as long as you watch commercials. Sounds similar to what sites like Spiral Frog offer. But Qtrax is distinguished by the fact that it's already done licensing deals with all the major record labels, giving it more than 25 million tracks, which is four times the size of Apple's iTunes library.
Advertisers including Ford,Samsung, and Burger King , are on board so far. But it's taken Qtrax a while to get up and running since it struck those licensing deals, so there are some questions about kinks in the system. The real issue will be whether the ad model works--will people actually watch the ads? Or will they tune out (no pun intended) while their song downloads?
CBS isalso pushing the free music through Last.fm. Last.fm has been CBS CEO Les Moonves' baby since CBS bought the London-based company for $280 million last summer. The site has basically been Internet radio until now. But it'll be a lot more like music on demand--you can listen to any of the site's 3.5 million songs on your computer, up to three times per song.
If you buy a monthly subscription you can listen to songs as many times as you want. It even benefits indi mucians as you can upload your songs to Last.fm and get a piece of the ad revenue. Here's the catch: You can't download the songs to a player like an iPod.
It definitely speaks to a trend. Pay-per-song a la iTunes seems like old news. The big trend is free, ad-supported music, and for full access, subscription models. I'll be really curious to check out the interface of these two systems--are they as quick and easy as iTunes? And I don't know about all those people who listento music at work, but I'm an iPod gal myself. The ability to listen anywhere will be key.
UPDATE:A correction.Though Qtrax claimed its service will be endorsed by the four biggest music labels--distributing music from all of them--three of the four big studios have denied signing any deal. So Qtrax's announcement of broad music industry support--which would have been unprecedented --doesn't seem to be true at all. Warner Music, EMI and Universal deny having licensing deals, and the fourth, Sony, isn't commenting.
I mentioned earlier in this post that it's taken a suspiciously long time for Qtrax to get up and running, raising questions about kinks in its system. But--full disclosure--I had no idea that Qtrax's announcement was false and was wrongly representing its relationship with the labels.
Still, free, ad-supported music does seem to be a growing trend, though certainly not as popular as free and illegal, pirated music.
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text: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wawrzynek of North Tonawanda celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a marital blessing in St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church, North Tonawanda, followed by a family gathering. Mr. Wawrzynek and Adele Rossi were married Sept. 15, 1948, in Ascension Catholic Church, North Tonawanda. He is a retired self-employed carpenter; she is a retired social worker for Catholic Charities of Buffalo. They have seven children, 13 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.


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Home Grown Experience, Honesty and Loyalty Specialising in Residential, Recreation and Investment Property
Mission statement; My life is busy and every day when I wake up at 5:30 am I take a minute to acknowledge how lucky we are to live in this area and enjoy the life we have. Family, good health, and home are blessings. I enjoy people and the challenges offered by my career as a Realtor. Every situation is different. Whether it's a listing presentation, helping a Buyer find that "just right" home, giving development perspectives or giving advice to a First Time Buyer thinking about entering the market, I promise to do my best and guarantee 100% service.
John has successfully represented Buyers and Sellers in all aspects of the constantly changing Real Estate market for twenty years. An understanding and awareness of property inventories both listed and privately owned in the area plus a good local knowledge of the Greater Central Vancouver Island Real Estate and business communities make John an excellent choice as a Realtor. John has been instrumental in the development and marketing of several residential housing projects, a number of mixed commercial and residential building projects, commercial enterprises involving rezoning and development procedures such as land acquisition and development of projects. John also enjoys a good working relationship with the local government agencies such as the City of Parksville and Regional District of Nanaimo. John has a team of well-respected professional colleagues with areas of expertise in planning, rezoning, well water and septic field layout and development, ALR land issues, home design and construction, legal and financial advice for both long term and short term management strategies for all your Real Estate needs.
Professional Profile
- Currently working with 460 Realty. Became a Professional Licensed Realtor in March 1995 joining Coast Realty Parksville, September 1996. .
- Involved in the listing, sales and contract negotiations of over $170,000,000.00 in local Real Estate since 1995. Successfully works with Local Government Agencies in development/rezoning/planning projects: City of Parksville, Regional District of Nanaimo, Agricultural Land Commission, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Forests and Small Craft Harbours.
- Successfully aided in development/ planning/design/list and sell of 978 Lee Rd.
(An executive large lot walk-on waterfront development near French Creek.)
- Currently marketing McKillop Point: A master planned, architecturally controlled neighborhood of nineteen custom homes.
- McKillop Point was a successfully designed, marketed constructed and sold over a three year period. John played a key role in all aspects of the development from conception to completion.
- Successfully marketed and sold all phases of Ermineskin Tribal Enterprises Real Estate Holdings, (Strawberry Crescent / Lodgepole Drive 2000 until present) in Parksville, B.C.
- Consults Ermineskin Cree Nation and Neyaskweyak Group of Companies regarding various Real Estate Holdings and marketing strategies in Parksville including Ermineskin Park and Ermineskin ALR Land Holdings. For over 15 years I have worked with several "First Nations" focusing particular attention to groundwater and urbanization impact issues on existing resources.
- I have a team of established professional colleagues with areas of expertise in planning, rezoning, well water and septic field layout and development, ALR land issues, home design and construction, legal and financial advice for both long term and short term management strategies for all your Real Estate needs.
- I have a strong bond with several local building contractors and tradesmen in the area and would be happy to make introductions should you require a small repair, large alteration, total rebuild or design and construction of a completely new home all with budget conscious planning the focus.


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The mission of Rhode Island Pride is to create opportunities for integrating and promoting visibility for the lesbian. gay, bisexual and transgender community; promoting equal rights and diversity through public education and the arts; provide safe opportunities and venues for people to come out with the ability to express and celebrate their sexual identities.
For generations sexual minorities have been feared, ridiculed, discriminated against, and ostracized because of misinformation and misunderstanding. In 1976, lesbian and gay Rhode Islanders began to organize our first ever pride march, believing it is essential that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have avenues to educate the larger community, as well as opportunities to come together and openly celebrate who they are. State and City leaders attempted to block the parade, but those early organizers pursued litigation which eventually led to a court ruling allowing this "pride" event to take place. About 75 individuals marched through downtown Providence to celebrate their diversity, and to highlight the contributions they had made to the wider community. Thus was born the group that would become Rhode Island Pride. In four decades, participants have grown annually from just under 100 in 1976 to over 60,000 at RI PrideFest today.
In the 1970s and 80s, gay men and lesbians across the nation were engaged in a variety of grassroots actions that we now identify as the "gay liberation movement." Through the production of seminars, rallies, performances, theme events, art, literary programs, and projects, as well as televised political issues, individuals have been able to learn about the oppression, concerns, and contributions of LGBTQ people. Here in RI, early gay pride celebrations were the first steps that eventually led to civil rights protections being extended to gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals in 1995, and to transgender individuals in 2001. Rhode Islanders have been able to legally marry in their home state since 2013. In keeping with this tradition, RI Pride continues to reach out to an increasingly diverse and growing population, hoping to make it easier for all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people to be themselves.
RI Pride is one of the most active and visible LGBTQ organizations in the New England region. RI Pride provides resources and referrals to callers, and space for open house gatherings, community meetings, and celebrations. We produce the annual Pride Fest and New England's only Nighttime Pride Parade which draws over 50,000 — LGBTQ and heterosexual individuals of all race, ethnicity, and age — to celebrate their individuality and their culture. The PrideFest Kid's Zone includes an educational and interactive recreational area where LGBTQ parents engage in family-oriented activities with their children. RI PrideFest attracts attendees from all over the world, especially Canada, New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. Annual events like The Goddess Show: A Celebration of Women in the Arts, The Triple Crown Pageant, Rhode Island Pride Honors, Gallery Q, and our Pride Prom are examples of our vital efforts to provide safe opportunities and venues for the LGBTQ community to come together, be visible, and express themselves.


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Aboriginal practitioners offer culturally safe and responsive CBT: response to commentaries
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Nelson, J, Ryan, K, Rotumah, D, Bennett-Levy, J, Budden, W, Stirling, J, Wilson, S, Beale, D 2014, 'Aboriginal practitioners offer culturally safe and responsive CBT: response to commentaries', Australian Psychologist, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 22-27.
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We appreciate the valuable commentaries that have been provided for our paper "Can CBT be effective for Aboriginal Australians? Perspectives of Aboriginal practitioners trained in CBT." The international authors identify how CBT, with adaptations by culturally responsive practitioners can be of value for non-Western and Indigenous peoples. The commentary by Australian psychologists Dudgeon and Kelly questions the value of CBT for Indigenous Australians, terming it a "Western therapy" that is "culturally unresponsive" and "culturally blind." They also critique the methodology of the study. We argue that CBT can be adapted by culturally competent practitioners to be culturally safe in Australia, as elsewhere. Cultural safety is mostly a function of the therapist, not the therapy. In the Bennett-Levy et al. (2014) study, CBT was delivered in a culturally responsive way by Aboriginal counsellors within their own communities. CBT is a particularly adaptable and versatile therapy, and embodies principles of empowerment and self-determination that are central to Indigenous social and emotional well-being. We are concerned that CBT, which has strong empirical support and has been adapted elsewhere for a range of cultures, including Indigenous cultures, may be being denied to Indigenous Australian clients. There is considerable opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness and versatility of CBT, and variations of its mode of delivery, for all Australians.