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Epigenetics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Somatoform Disorders in the Course of Psychotherapy (TREPS)
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This reported observational clinical study aims at identifying epigenetic markers in a sample of patients undergoing high dose inpatient psychotherapy suffering from a variety of psychiatric/psychosomatic diseases such as somatoform disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders.
The exact epigenetic markers that will be traced are yet to define.
The investigators believe that
- Epigenetic patterns found in the group of psychiatric patients show differences from healthy controls
- Different diagnosis show differences in epigenetic patterns as well
- Epigenetic patterns correlate to the severity of the psychosocial disorder as measured in interviews or psychometric ratings
- Epigenetic patterns can change under inpatient high dose psychotherapy
- Changes correlate to clinical psychometric variables.
|Psychiatric Disorder Somatoform Disorders PTSD
|Behavioral: psychotherapy
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
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|September 2012
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in- and out-patient psychotherapy patients
All included patients are highly selected in- and outpatients in a department of psychosomatic medicine (Germany) undergoing high dose psychotherapy (e.g. group therapy, creative therapy, cbt and psychodynamic psychotherapy).
Behavioral: psychotherapy
"multimodal complex psychotherapy"
Other Name: all patients in the department are primarily included. There are no parallel groups.
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The present study includes all patients selected for multi-modal inpatient or day-clinic treatment in the department of psychosomatic medicine (as part of the centre of psychiatry)of the hannover medical school - given the informed consent of the patients. The patients treated in this unit are first seen in primary care and sent to us because of e.g. depression, somatization, eating-disorders, panic disorders, PTSD, or other psychiatric diseases commonly refered to as "psychosomatic" in Germany. They are subject to at least 2 diagnostic sessions in which further treamtment options are assessed.
For about one third of the patients with grave psychiatric disorders, intensive "multimodal" psychotherapy in an inpatient or day-clinic setting is recommended.
Inclusion Criteria:
- informed consent given by the patient
- adulthood to 65 years
- stabel physical health
- at least fluent in German language (as it is a group-therapy)
Exclusion Criteria:
- psychiatric disorder such as substance addiction, psychosis, schizophrenia.
- insufficient understanding of the terms and conditions of the study
- insufficient emotional stability to fill out the psychometric forms required for the study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01391897
|Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, 30625
|Contact: Stefan M Henniger, MD 49 511 532 ext 6446 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Frieling, Prof. 49 511 532 ext 6840 email@example.com
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|Stefan Martin Henniger, MD., Department of Psychosomatic Medicin and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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|NCT01391897 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 8, 2011
|Last Updated:
|July 11, 2011
Keywords provided by Hannover Medical School:
somatoform disorders
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mental Disorders
Problem Behavior
Somatoform Disorders
Pathologic Processes
Behavioral Symptoms
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Today is one of those days when everybody is alike. One-day-old babies and 103-year-old grandfathers can sit down and converse (well, sorta) about how neither of them has seen anything like what happened yesterday. By which I mean: no manager has ever pinch-hit for a 100-WARP future Hall-of-Famer making $31 million with a 40-year-old late-blooming pretty-good-but-not-really-memorable player and had that pinch-hitter go on to hit a game-tying homer in the bottom of the ninth and a walk-off homer in extra innings of a playoff game. This has never happened, and we should all be rejoicing. (Except Orioles fans. You're exempt.)
Is that perhaps an overly specific way of defining what happened in yesterday's Orioles-Yankees contest as regards Alex Rodriguez and Raul Ibanez? You could say that. If you're the nitpicking type. But fine, I'll broaden the question.
Here's a list of players who have hit two homers in two at-bats in a playoff game after not starting the game:
Still unique! How about removing the at-bat requirement, simply leaving players who have hit two or more homers in a playoff game after not starting:
Well! What about two homers in two trips to the plate in the playoffs, whether as a sub or not?
This one is perhaps less surprising — what are the odds that a player who has hit two homers in his first two at-bats would be substituted out of the game? It would require an injury or ejection, presumably.
In the regular season, two homers in two trips as a sub is more common: it's happened 29 times since 1918, beginning with Jess Doyle for the Tigers (against the Yankees, in a loss) and most recently accomplished by Scott Hairston, last July 31st, helping the Mets lose 3-2 to the Nationals. (Starters have done it another nine times, with Vladimir Guerrero in 2005 being the most recent.) Ibanez is the first Yankee to manage the feat.
But of course Ibanez didn't just hit two homers in two trips as a sub. He hit a game-tying homer in the ninth and a game-winning homer in the 12th. Finding comparable games requires a little more work to whittle down the above list of 29. How is it possible to be in Ibanez's position? Well, the team has to be at home and that team must have won the game. Limiting the list of 29 like so leaves us with 11 occurrences. This is always fun. Let's take a look:
Well, shoot. We've found our match! I guess we can all go home now, right?
What? You want the rest of the list? OK. Twist my arm!
It wouldn't be fair to talk about all this without giving Art Shamsky the closing position he earned on August 12, 1966. Shamsky entered the game for the Reds in an eighth-inning double-switch, smashed a two-run homer in the bottom half of that inning to give Cincinnati a one-run lead, hit another in the bottom of the 10th to re-tie the game after Willie Stargell had gone deep for the Pirates in the top half, then did the same thing again in the bottom of the 11th, bringing in two runs to tie the game once more.
After all that, though, and you just knew this would happen, the Reds lost in the 13th when All-Name Team member Billy McCool and Jack Baldschun combined to give up three runs. Shamsky ended the game in the hole, representing the theoretical tying run. Of course he did.
(One last fun fact! The pitcher that Shamsky replaced was Joe Nuxhall, who by 1966 was a 37-year-old part-time starter, but who is most famous for being probably the youngest player in major-league history, having faced nine batters in 1944 as a 15-year-old.)
Jason Wojciechowski is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @jlwoj
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This article was a lot of fun!
Oct 11, 2012 09:25 AM
Another fun fact! Art Shamsky also hit a homer in his next at bat, putting him on the short list of players who hit four homers in a row.
Oct 11, 2012 09:59 AM
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Great article, Jason. Not to steal your thunder, but I looked at that 6/30/60 game and here are a few potential fun facts!.
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CS Moore is probably best known for his large-scale statues, and those were in full force at the San Diego Comic-Con booth this year with plenty of great deals for the fans. The highlight was the unveiling of Magdalena, available for the first time here. The statue was so "fresh," that it wasn't available until Thursday; Wednesday night Clayburn was touching up minor imperfections from the rush shipment from China! (The statues are perfect; there was a slight marring of the varnish on the base.) Other hot new statues included the Sneyd Mermaid and Dean Yeagle's Mandy.
Also on display at the CS Moore booth was a variety of Zenoscope Grimm Fairy Tales figures from the 2012 SDCC Exclusive red Alice in Wonderland (as well as blue and white versions). Prototypes were on hand for the next releases Calie and Queen of Hearts and Fairy Tales "Grimmies" mini-figures. Also on display were the first two Jurassic Strike Force 5 figures (Rex and Spike) and Monster Hunter's Survival Guide Pitt & Sasquatch.
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EXCLUSIVE | Jefferson 82 Starship Pilothouse — By Capt. Bill Pike
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Venerable Voyagers
Traveling with the founder of Jefferson Yachts and six of his buddies aboard a splendidly outfitted 82-footer.
And the final biggie was visibility. Whether I ran the 82 from the skylounge or the pilothouse-and I did both to gauge the qualities of each-visibility forward and to the sides was superb, no matter what rpm the mains were turning. And while visibility aft from the skylounge was typical of the motoryacht genre, meaning it was limited by the boat deck and its accoutrements (Zodiac Yachtline Deluxe RIB, Brower davit, wetbar with Jenn-Air BBQ, etc.), I could easily keep tabs on activities abaft the 82's stern by simply looking aft from the pilothouse beneath the overhead galley locker and straight through the saloon.
I'm a big fan of the MTU Smartline engine controls that were on our test boat for one big reason: built-in redundancy. Should a glitch beset either the gear-shift or throttle functions at any given control head onboard, an entirely separate system comes into play and, via signals from a computer, reassigns those functions to the very same throttle/shift levers. Such an arrangement does away with the need for a backup panel at the principal helm, with its clunky stop-gap controls that typically consist of toggles (for gear shifts) and rheostat-type knobs (for throttles). And since the built-in feature's part and parcel of every helm station onboard-our 82 had four (skylounge, pilothouse, and two wing statons)-there's no need to bolt for the lone backup panel at the principal helm for some far-distant location in the event of an emergency. Cool!
Given that a couple of decades have elapsed, I guess it's not surprising that I can't remember whether the first Freeman Marine deck hatch I ever saw was atop the fo'c'sle of a commercial fishing vessel or a big, long-range passagemaker. But I do remember how sturdy and tough-as-nails the heavy-gauge aluminum component looked. Afterwards the name Freeman became synonymous in my mind with watertight integrity while on the high seas.
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Polyphenols, the bioactive compounds in green tea, account for a third of the dry weight of the leaves. The predominant polyphenols are the catechins including epicatechin, epicatechin-3-gallate, epigallocatechin and epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). Most research has focused on EGCG as the predominant polyophenol.
German researchers recently tested the effects of EGCG rates of carbohydrate and fat oxidation. Subjects consumed either 300 mg of EGCG or placebo in a fasted state and after a standard meal. Compared to placebo, supplementation with EGCG caused a shift in energy utilization from carbohydrate to fat oxidation. The effect was more pronounced after eating a meal. In the placebo trial, only 30% of the total energy burned after the meal was attributed to fat, whereas 54% of the energy burned came from fat oxidation after EGCG supplementation.
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pitbulls, and the devastation their attacks cause:
While Vick participated in eliminating pitbulls for the wrong reasons, he still
unwittingly did society a favor by doing so. He should not have had them
in the first place.
It simply amazes me how many folks out here talk about these dogs as if
they are Aunt Bessie's fluffly little Pomeranian. Pitbulls are different from
other dogs, and other types of Bull Terriers. They have been specifically
and intentionally bred for strong tendancies to viciously attack other dogs.
If they become excited or aggitated, they very often will not differentiate
between a dog or some other creature.
If it means saving even one precious innocent child from having
their face brutally ripped off by a pitbull, then I fully support efforts
to eradicate this breed of dog by whatever means neccessary.
Furthermore, I fully support legislation that would criminalize the
breeding and ownership of pitbulls.
Want to eliminate the dog fighting? Want to eliminate life-long devastation
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel and casino in the Marina District
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Shuttle to the boardwalk
Harrah's Resort Atlantic City is right on the water in the Marina District, 12 miles (19 km) from the airport. Harrah's shuttle bus provides convenient transport to attractions like the legendary boardwalk, with its shops, casinos, and restaurants, less than 4 miles (6.5km) away.
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The glass-domed pool is the spot to relax during the day, then dance to top DJs in the evening. The fitness center is open for workouts 24/7, and there's a big choice of bars and dining, from snacks at Café Tazza to upscale Italian at Martorano's. The casino offers gaming options for every taste.
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Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. This eco-friendly resort also offers a casino, nightclub, and family pool. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
- 24-hour front desk
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- Number of bars/lounges - 6
- Business center
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Casino
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Conference space
- 24-hour fitness facilities
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- Number of indoor pools - 2
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 67
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Total number of rooms - 2590
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Poolside bar
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- Number of restaurants - 10
- Self parking (surcharge)
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- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Cable TV service
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- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Pay movies
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Martoranos - This fine-dining restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only.
Dos Caminos - This restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
McCormick and Schmicks - This steakhouse specializes in American cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Waterfront Buffet - This buffet restaurant specializes in fusion cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Sammy Ds - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
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Two indoor pools are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna, a steam room, and a 24-hour fitness center.
Guests under 21 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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- Kayaking nearby
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- Fishing on site
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Red Door Spa has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with a spa tub and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and reflexology.
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A Phase I Trial to Evaluate Didanosine (ddI) in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women
This study has been completed.
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I'm looking for a climbing partner to climb with me on the 19th of May at the Montagu Rock Rally. My climbing partner dropped out on short notice and I really wanna get some good climbing done at Montagu this weekend. Ive got all the gear except a car but that can be organised. I lead a 22, I'm at UCT in res, with two other mates coming along to the rock rally. Let me know if you're up for it. Shot. My email is andwoo8182(at sign)gmail.com
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Hows it going Woody. I'm a UCT student and also well ampt for the rock rally on Saturday. If you're looking for a partner I strongly recommend that you go check out the Mountain and Ski club notice board (above the post office near the stationary shop). The club is rounding up a bunch of guys to go together as a group, so as to minimize petrol costs. You and your mates should put your names on the list and come along! Even if you're not a Mountain and Ski member. It's chilled. The pre climb meet is on Thursday 1pm.
There's a possibility I might need a climbing partner. I also lead about a 22.
My cell: 0832279144
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3rd Plymouth Rapidplay (a six-round Swiss Rapidplay) will take place on Sunday 4 December at Plymouth Chess Club, from 10am to 6:15pm.
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Washington, D.C., The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported today that retail sales for February rose 4.4% over last year and increased 0.3% seasonally adjusted over January.
"February's sales were especially robust given the strong competition from a year ago and the persistent dreary weather last month," said NRF chief economist Rosalind Wells. "Consumers were motivated to spend on the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day, and holiday gift cards are continuing to trickle in, which is improving some retailers' first-quarter performance."
Most retail categories experienced growth in February. Super Bowl spending spurred sales at electronics and appliance stores, whose sales rose 1.6% seasonally adjusted from January and 4.2% over a year ago. Sales in furniture and home-furnishings stores rose 0.7% from the prior month and 3.3% over last February. Apparel specialty stores saw gains of 1.1% from January and 2.9% over last year.


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One of the reasons that the topic of seeding rates is a popular one in coffee shops, internet chat rooms, the farm press and crop seminars is that variable rate seeding technology is becoming more and more commonplace today as a standard accessory on modern corn planters. Another factor that spurs the interest in corn seeding rates is the not uncommon belief that today's modern hybrids will respond dramatically to aggressively high plant populations. This belief is fueled by the harvest populations often associated with national corn yield contest winning entries, coffeeshop scuttlebutt, and encouragement from seed company sales folk.
Corn plant populations have been steadily increasing in Indiana for the past 25 years at approximately 300 plants per acre per year (Nielsen, 2013). In 2012, the estimated average plant population statewide was just over 29,000 plants per acre (ppa). Considering stand establishment success ranging from 90% to 95%, this means that the average statewide seeding rate is probably between 30,000 and 32,000 seeds per acre (spa).
Statewide increases in plant population have occurred as growers have shifted from quite low seeding rates to intermediate and higher seeding rates. In 1998, nearly 46% of Indiana's corn acres were estimated to have final stands less than 25,000 ppa and only 5% with final stands greater than 30,000 (Nielsen, 2013). Whereas in 2012, only 14% of Indiana's acres were reported to be less than 25,000 ppa and 50% of the acres were reported to be greater than 30,000 ppa. Among the changes that have allowed growers to steadily increase plant populations has been the genetic improvement in overall stress tolerance that has resulted in a) ear size and kernel weight becoming less sensitive to the stress of thicker stands of corn and b) improved late-season stalk health.
Field-Scale Seeding Rate Trials
I began a more focused effort several years ago to evaluate yield response to seeding rates in field-scale trials at Purdue Ag. Centers and with growers around the state. As of the end of the 2012 growing season, I have completed 43 field-scale seeding rate trials and believe that I now have a critical mass of results to begin developing seeding rate guidelines for Indiana growers.
The severe drought of 2012 offers an interesting insight into the relative risk of higher seeding rates for crops under severe stress. Consequently, the results of the 43 trials are presented separately in terms of the 31 trials from 2001 through 2011 and the 12 trials conducted in the droughty 2012 growing season.
The relationship between yield and plant population is shown in Fig's 1 and 2 in terms of "percent of maximum yield" rather than actual bushels per acre. This facilitates the interpretation of results from multiple trials with differing overall yield levels.
Figure 1 represents the yield response to plant population for the 31 trials conducted prior to the drought year of 2012. Surprisingly, the visual effect of plant population on grain yield is not very dramatic. In fact, the yield response is so flat that one cannot confidently calculate an optimum plant population using the entire dataset. However, optimum plant populations can be calculated for each individual trial and the average of those individually calculated optimum plant populations is 31,150 ppa. This average optimum plant population would be equivalent to seeding rates of approximately 32,500 to 34,600 spa depending on your typical stand establishment success rate.
Calculated in the same manner, the average optimum plant population among the 12 trials conducted in the drought year of 2012 (Fig. 2) was lower, at 28,000 ppa or seeding rates of approximately 29,500 to 31,000 spa. The yield penalty for higher plant populations under drought conditions is more evident, but varied among the locations. In fact, the highest yield occurred at the lowest plant population (approximately 21,000 ppa) at three of the 12 locations. The effect of severe drought stress on optimum plant population is also evident when the optimum plant populations for each trial are graphed against the optimum yields at those locations (Fig. 3).
More importantly, though, Fig. 3 also illustrates that there is little relationship between optimum populations and yield levels ranging from the low 100's to the low 200's (bu/ac). This is relevant information for growers who are contemplating the merits, or lack thereof, of variable rate seeding for corn in Indiana because the results suggest there would be little value in varying seeding rates in fields with yield potentials within that range.
Results from 43 field-scale trials around Indiana since 2001 suggest that optimum plant populations for corn grown under typical yield levels and growing conditions are in the neighborhood of 31,150 ppa or seeding rates between 32,500 and 34,600 spa. The results further suggest that corn grown under moderate to severe drought stress conditions may perform best at plant populations no higher than 28,000 ppa and perhaps as low as 21,000 ppa under truly severe growing conditions (actual drought, non-irrigated center pivot corners, non-irrigated sandy fields with minimal rainfall, etc.).
On-Farm Field-Scale Seeding Rate Trials
The 43 research trials that provide the basis for the guidelines offered in this report are scattered nicely throughout the state and represent a fair range of growing conditions. However, there is a need for even more such trials to better "capture" the effects of different growing conditions on yield response to plant population. Field-scale on-farm seeding rate trials are simple to conduct, especially if your planter is equipped with GPS-enabled variable rate controls. These trials can be customized to include two or more nitrogen fertilizer rates or multiple hybrids. Such trials can also be used to evaluate yield response to plant population in different areas or "zones" within fields to help address the question about the relative merits of variable rate seeding. If you would to participate in one or more on-farm seeding rate trials with corn, please download the protocol for this at the following URL and contact me for additional information.
The field-scale, often on-farm, research summarized in this update has been supported, in part, by funds from the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, the Purdue Mary S. Rice Farm Fund, and the Indiana Certified Crop Adviser Program. The collaboration of the participating farmers, crop consultants, retail agronomists, county Extension Educators, and Purdue Ag. Center personnel is gratefully acknowledged.
Related reading
Nielsen, RL (Bob). 2013. Thoughts on Seeding Rates for Corn. Corny News Network, Purdue Extension. Online at http://www.kingcorn.org/news/timeless/SeedingRateThoughts.html[accessed Feb 2013].


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Editorial: To Learn to Grow
by Jan Tritten
© 1991 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
[Editor's note: This editorial appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 20, Winter 1991. Reprinted in Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education, 3rd ed.]
"The person who seeks an education must involve [her]self in discovering the meaning of [her] own life and the relation between who [she] is and what [she] might become. Without that vision of a personal future and a hard look at the reality of one's own situation, the ultimate purpose of education itself—that is, to grow, to change, to liberate oneself—is almost impossible to achieve." —Harold Taylor, from Peak Learning by Ronald Gross
Feeding the heart of midwifery through support, good counsel, and continuing education has always been the end goal of my efforts at Midwifery Today.
From the first issue of Midwifery Today, I had wanted to create a magazine that would substitute for a good conference, offering practitioners love, support, information, and a sharing of ideas and experiences. It's a little ironic—for the magazine still strives to meet these intents, but now I'm looking forward to meeting you in person at (one of our) Midwifery Today Conferences—in Eugene, at our annual West Coast Conference, at one of the Annual East Coast Conferences, or at one of our International Conferences. The magazine comes alive, with many of your favorite authors and speakers, as well as the chance to learn techniques to enhance your practice, and make new friends. In addition to a wide variety of courses, there will be time to "Meet The Practitioners," "Network," and share your "Tricks of the Trade." We're truly eager to meet our readers, and know more about how we can serve your needs.
If you need information about upcoming conferences, be sure to call our toll free number (800-743-0974), write to us at email@example.com or look over the information we've placed online. We want you to see for yourself—we've planned something just for you.
We're realizing some of the dreams we've planned for ourselves. Have you spun a dream of your own lately? Perhaps such a dream would include the investigation of new training or practice options. In this publication, Paths to Becoming a Midwife, we'll begin the questioning process with you. We're emphasizing childbirth education and direct entry programs as well as mapping out certified nurse-midwifery and apprenticeship programs. We contacted many current and former programs by phone and mail; if we missed your training avenue or school, please let us know you're out there, and we'll pass the word along.
And if you are selecting a new educational route, or modifying your previous training to explore other areas of birth practice, don't just seek a program to glean from. The root of our word educate means "to draw out from a dark place."
The task of learning requires humility and attentiveness, and a sometimes painful birthing of our potential. For such a holy event, only an extraordinary teacher will do. Choose a midwife.
Toward Better Birth,
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Jan Tritten is the founder and editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine and a midwife who was in active practice from 1977 to 1989. She became a midwife in 1977 after the powerful homebirth of one of her daughters. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies throughout the world. Meet Jan at our conferences around the world! [ PHOTO BY ANDREA NOLL ]
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I have made more than 50 flights with Jet2 now,mainly UK to Spain and have not had any problems other than a few small delays on a few of the flights, however this I think is normal with any airline.
The website is easy to use, and easy to look for flights and compare prices.
The booking procedure is also easy to use.
The first price you get does not include the reservation of seats.
The handling at the airports in Spain and and in the UK (Manchester) has always been very efficient and the boarding usually quick and easy.
The destination usually appears on the screen at the gate as soon as the gate number is announced.
The planes are always clean,and bright and the seats have more legroom than other short haul companies.
The anouncements are made usually in English and sometimes in English and then Spanish (On the flights to and from Spain)
Another good thing about the seats is that they DONT recline, so you never have the problem of the seat in front being 2 inches from your face when the ignorant person in front decides to recline.
There is no entertainment on the short haul flights, but for two hours, I don't think anybody should have any problem with that, there are such things as newspapers, books,Ipods, Ipads etc etc.
The staff I have always found to be pleasant and helpful, and there is the usual updates about the journey from the captain.
I will continue using Jet2 although I will still check other companies (except Ryanair) for pricing
My husband and I have just returned from a holiday in Mallorca. We flew from Blackpool airport which was a bonus as it is on our doorstep. Our flights were on time both ways. There was more legroom than on other budget airlines and the staff were polite and attentive. Our captian kept us well informed through out the journey. I am not really a confident air passenger but I felt a lot less anxious than I usually do. I was very impressed with everything. Thank-you Jet2.com
I flew with Jet2 last year from my local airport - Newcastle - to Murcia in Spain. Flight was booked as a return, and price was £89.99, which seemed reasonable enough to me - given that Jet2 has recently announced that there were no more "hidden" charges and the price was all-in (includes base fare plus all applicable taxes). This isn't necessarily true, as the below items are not included in the face value price when you initially search for the flights:
- Seats (£5 normal, £12.50 extra leg room)
- Checked In Baggage up to 23kg (between £15-25 per journey)
- Check In (Online with bags £6, Airport with bags £12)
Once you come to the final page to confirm the booking, then you will be asked to enter your card details. Advice here is to use Debit Cards where at all possible, as there is no extra charge at this stage for these cards - though if you choose to pay by PayPal or Credit Card, then there is a 2-2.5% charge on top of the total amount you have chosen to pay (basic flight and tax cost, plus seats and other extras etc.)
Once aboard, the seats (our aircraft was a Boeing 737-300 series) were new, slimline, bucket stype seats which felt like you had a lot more room than on other low-cost airlines I have flown with. You can also buy a meal on the flight for around £12 (£9 is you book online in advance), or enjoy from a wide range of refreshment priced from around £1.50 onwards.
Whilst yes this is a low-cost airline and people say you get what you pay for, I believe Jet2 offer a very attractive product here, and are reasonably priced as such versus so-called "full service" airlines - which are now more commonly also charging for seats and checked in baggage.
Apologies for the deceptive title... this reads very long, but hopefully be helpful if Jet2 are on your flight-booking radar...
My review of Jet2.com is based on a return flight to Portugal over the last weekend...
Planning a trip for 8 friends is mainly about getting the best value - or cheapest price - to suit everyone. That usually means Ryanair. When we spotted the Jet2.com flights for our preferred weekend, though, they beat Ryanair by a few pounds, but had far better flight times. They offered an early morning flight out, and an early evening return flight - just what we were looking for in order to get the most out of a short break. I have since been on the website browsing other flights, and for some reason, they do appear to have more attractive flight times than their immediate competitors.
When you input your destination and dates, the search is quick, and the available options are clear to see. As soon as you select, your selections are summarised in a panel on the right. Booking was a boring and time consuming operation. There was lots and lots of "Do you want to add X" and "are you sure" and plent of reminders to BOOK MY 22KG LUGGAGE NOW's ... but again, I've found that to be typical of most budget airlines. By the end of the process I was screaming "Yes, I am sure I don't want to check a bag in" "Yes I realise we may not be guaranteed sitting together" "Yes I'm sure I'll be very hungry if I don't order an in flight meal" etc - you get the picture.
As you may expect, there seems to be a fee for everything. However, we did avoid fees by travelling with hand luggage only, online check in and pay with debit card. You do need to be prepared to take time though because for instance if you select a hold-bag (£17.50 each way) you also incur an extra fee to check in online (£6.00) so just be aware. They also try to scare you into prebooking seats warning you may have to sit on your own if you don't reserve at a minimum £6.00 each way. More on that coming up...
When you check in you enter all passport details, which is a clearly laid out screen easy to follow and easy to check before submission. Then you are shown to the plane layout screen. If you have not pre-booked & selected seats then you are allocated seats free of charge. You are shown on the diagram where you will be sitting. Very good to see. As a group of 8 we were all together on the outbound flight. When it went through to the return flight, however, 7 were together with me (the booker) two rows behind against the window on my own! However- I could, if I wished, purchase any one of 3 available seats which would have sat me right next to another member of my party ... hmm. Why me you wonder? Well cynical me thinks that as I was the one doing the booking I would be more likely to take up their generous offer! I declined. Two of the seats were still empty on the return flight when it actually came around so I sat there for free anyway!! A bizarre little interlude you might like to be aware of. After completing your seat selection (or allocation) you are checked in, and can print your boarding passes ready to go.
On arrival at our airport (East Mids) a lady approached us to ask who we were flying with. She happened to be a member of Jet2 staff and when we were told her we were flying with them, she told us that they were checking hand luggage into the hold for no cost that morning if we wished. We took advantage of that, going straight to the check in desks to check our trolley-cases in. This was a good bonus, not being laden down with our bags in the airport ... although, being bleary-eyed-o'clock, we failed to weigh that against the waiting time to collect our bags at the other end ... still, when you're offered something for nothing, some greater instinct kicks in!! You live and learn. The staff at the desk were friendly and chatty, there was no queue and they were quick and efficient. One of our bags (only one!) was slightly over weight 11kg v 10kg allowance, but the lady just said to be aware of it coming back and popped it through. The flight was almost full so we still don't know why the free hand-luggage check in was offered, and obviously it should be remembered as a bonus rather than something to count on.
Boarding was stress free and super quick. It's hard to know whether that's down to the airline or the airport, but a few minutes after the gate notification went up we went to the gate to find no-one waiting, and the staff at the desk checking passports and allowing people through to board. No stampede that tends to be a feature of Ryanair flights. There was no evidence of them weighing or measuring hand luggage had we carried any, it all felt very relaxed.
Thinking of one word to describe the aircraft interior, plastic came to mind. The interior (to me) is quite garish in red and grey plastic seats, and the way they are crammed in it didn't add any feeling of indulgence anywhere along the way! Legroom was minimal. I'm small and whilst not cramped, if I dropped anything on the floor it definitely had to stay there until we got to the other end - there was no room for manoeuvre. The plastic fold down tray "table" was very small - you couldn't really lie your book on it for instance, it was only really to put a drink on or hold a snack. There's also a cup holder which is just a metal ring which folds down and holds their shaped cups, it won't hold a bottle or other drink because it's literally just a ring, no bottom in it. There's also a lack of seat pocket to pop your magazine into, there's a metal rail behind which their inflight magazine should be mabye (ours were missing), the menu card (which surprisingly were all In place! (See, I'm such a cynic!!)) and the emergency procedures card. Again - being metal there was no way you could put your own mags or things behind the bar. I had no problems with the plane itself for a short flight but wouldn't have enjoyed say, 3 hours plus.
The flight itself was good, there was a full trolley service serving hot and cold drinks, alcohol, and snacks, and duty free trolley. Prices on board were on a par with others, and as with others, there were offers such as buy a hot drink and get a chocolate bar for £1 - that type of thing. In flight information from the flight deck was clear to hear and there wasn't an excessive amount of scratchcard-selling or uneccessary announcements. Our flight attendants were very pleasant. Landing was very bumpy but I'm a calm flier and inclined to think that was due to it being incredibly windy at our destination. We took off 5 minutes late going out, and on time on our return and arrived 20 minutes ahead of schedule in both directions. We also disembarked from both sets of doors on both occasions which also added to the ease of the overall flight experience.
This flight experience was really good. When using budget airlines you need to be prepared to run the gauntlet of turning down all the generous optional extras and be prepared for pretty basic conditions on the aircraft. So amongst their competitors, this experience with Jet 2 puts them at the top for me. We had everything including a good price, perfect flight times, punctual flights, efficient boarding and disembarking and friendly staff. All you could wish for. Maybe it therefore seems harsh to only put 4 stars on my rating, but I am so miffed by what I perceived to be an attempted con to get me to buy that seat that I knocked a star off! Considering our booking was over £1200, I can't persuade myself otherwise than to regard that attempted extra £6 was a bit of an unecessary, (and a bit of a naughty!), trick.
~~Background information~~
I live in Cyprus with my husband who works out here, so we frequently fly back to the UK to visit family; we have used a variety of different budget airlines and found that we could fly to Newcastle airport from Paphos instead of the lengthier trip to Manchester airport with Easy Jet. Being pregnant and living in Cyprus is extremely difficult as anything you can find is extortionate and not of great quality. I therefore have to buy most things off line but a lot of the shops do not deliver to our address, so I decided that before the baby was due that I would travel on my own back to the UK to get the rest of the items we needed and to visit family while I was still able to fly.
~~Website and booking~~
The website itself is well laid out and easy to use, as soon as you enter the home page there is a search bar on your left hand side which you fill out your required details such as leaving destination, arrival destination, preferred flight dates and number of passengers. One thing I would like to highlight is the difficulty we face when booking flights from this end as many UK flight websites only allow the outbound flight to be from a UK airport however, this is not the case with the Jet2.com and it therefore saves you a lengthy phone discussion trying to explain your circumstances and why you need a flight from Cyprus to the UK and back. Once you have filled this in it will take you to the next page which will display possible dates and prices of each flight. On this next page you are able to select the flights that you require at this stage allow for extra cost on to the flights, I will go into this later. When I flew home last in June my flights for a 10 day gap was roughly £400 this is with all the additional costs that they add, before these "extras" my flight price was around £300 so these prices can definitely be misleading. Once you have selected your flights you can either continue as a guest or login to the site, I would recommend creating an account as you can collect jet2 loyalty points on every flight which can be claimed back in the form of free flights when you have collected so many, they also send you frequent emails which highlight special member only offers. The prices that were shown on the flight detail page does contain your flight duty and taxes however the next page goes on to take additional money for some unnecessary things. Jet2.com have the biggest baggage allowance to which I am aware of most other airlines allow 20kgs of luggage whereas jet2 allow you to take 22kg per passenger, the fee for a return flight per passenger is a whopping £56, personally I think the price should be included in the flight price and then it is to your discretion whether you take luggage of not. You have to also pay for the privilege of checking in, if you do so online it is £14 per passenger both ways or if you would like to do it face to face you have the pleasure of paying £23. You are then taken to the next page which features an image of the plane with all of the seats, the seats in blue are extra leg room which are around £18 per flight and the seats in yellow are the standard seats which cost £8 per flight. Be warned these prices always seem to change with different bookings. I find it even more frustrating as I travel alone the majority of the time so I will not be sitting next to anyone I know anyway. If I was to recommend change to this particular aspect I would say that you should only have to choose to pay extra if you require a chair with extra leg room, why should you have to pay extra for choosing a seat when you have already had the pleasure of paying a few hundred for sitting in one. Moving on in the booking process you then have to choose whether or not you would like a meal on flight for an adult this will set you back £10.00 per flight or £5.00 per child. You also get a drink with the meal; however I would recommend buying something at the airport lounge or buying a sandwich on the plane when you are flying. Another additional cost you can decide on is whether you would like to purchase inflight entertainment these come in the form of handheld TV in which you are charged £5 per person per flight, you get a good choice of films and TV programs; there is something to hopefully suit everyone's taste. I have not used these before so I could not comment on the quality of the service, I think it is a good idea though if you are travelling with children and they do not own something similar which can keep them entertained throughout the flight. Finally, you can decide whether or not you would like travel insurance this is charged at the rate of £6 per person per week, each paying customer is then covered for medical expenses, cancellation, personal belongings, passport and baggage. Finally, you are taken to the payment page, now you input your card details and passenger details, please be aware that debit cards are free but credit cards face a charge of 3.6%.
~~Online check in~~
I chose online check in for the purpose of it saving me a couple of pounds; it did not however save on time as I later found out. To check in online you log into the jet2 website up to 72 hours before your flight and input your details into the system and click check in, it is as simple as that. Remember to print out flight confirmation and also your boarding passes which you also receive, failure to do so results in possible fines at the airport. When you arrive at the airport, take your paperwork alongside your passport and baggage and go to the jet 2 baggage drop off area. They will check your paperwork and weigh and label each piece of luggage, don't be fooled though this can take as much time as regular check in due to the fact more people are now choosing to check in online so the line can be just as long if not longer.
~~Boarding the plane~~
The staff were extremely efficient at allowing passengers on to the plane from the terminal. They use a system in which they call out specific chair numbers and all those numbers go at one go. This therefore saves people pushing and prodding to get to the front, this was particularly helpful as I had a rather large bump and stairs to contend with. Once on the plane the air hostesses pointed out your seat for you and helped place the baggage in the overhead lockers, again I found this extremely helpful as being a tiny 4ft 11 and travelling on my own I normally need assistance with this, however I found I didn't need to ask for any help before a lovely hostess came and offered to assist me with my bags. When we had been seated I was originally sat in a window seat next to an elderly couple, I then realised my mistake, having a bump pressing on my bladder I knew that I would be constantly doing trips to the loo and therefore annoying these kind people. I was delighted when a hostess came over and explained that there were many empty seats and would I like to take the 3 seater to myself at the front which was situated directly behind the toilet, I could have hugged her with happiness! Due to my huge bump, and people feeling sorry for me travelling on my lonesome, I had not only shortened my trip to reaching the toilet but I had gained addition leg room (not like I needed it with my little legs) and also two extra seats to stretch out on.
~~During the flight~~
The air hostesses made frequent trolley trips up and down the aisle, selling a vast range of hot/cold sandwiches, snacks and drinks, all of which were detailed in the menu situated in the pocket of the seat in front. They were extremely polite and stopped for a chat to ask questions and make small talk which I thought was nice considering it was just over a 5 hour flight and on my own with no one to talk to, can quite quickly become lonely and incredibly boring. I purchased many soft drinks which where around £1.50 per can which is expensive but that is what you expect to be paying on any flight, I did not buy any food but I would like to comment that both the hot and cold sandwiches looked and smelled delicious. The flight was quite bumpy due to turbulence so the majority of the time the seat belt sign was switched on, I had to ask if I was able to use the toilet at one point when it was particularly bumpy and the hostess was very helpful in that she gave me a hand to steady myself on the walk to the toilet. I could not say one bad word about any of the staff they were all so helpful and friendly.
I am awarding Jet2 four stars; it would have been less if it weren't for the lovely staff. The major problems I find with this company are the ridiculous extra charges they pile on. However, I would say if you don't mind paying a little more than average than I would definitely recommend giving jet2 a try.
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Im the sort of person who likes my holidays. Especialy abroad. I love the sun. Over the years Iv travelled all over the world. Turkey, Spain, Florida, France etc etc. I have 2 and 3 a year. People ask me how i can afford it when they carnt afford even one holiday a year. Well i save very hard and dont do much else. If i were to book from a holiday broucher and go to a travel agent, i propably wouldnt be able to afford one holiday a year either. But i dont. I aways book online direct with the company. I have used jet 2 on a number of occasions and have never had any problem at all. You can check in on line and If you have no suitcase you dont need to go to the check in desk, you just walk straight to passport control, which saves all the queing. I find the plane to be clean modern and the leg room to be ample. Though the seat belts could be a little larger as i struggle to get it round as im a larger lady. But you can get an extention off the hostess. The staff on the plane are very polite and friendly. You can get food, drinks and duty free like all other airlines. Delays can happen occasionaly but they do with all airlines. Value for money jet2 are excellent and i would recommend them to anyone.
A nightmare from start to finish ... This was the first time we had gone with Jet 2 and it will never happen again. Very poor check in staff, delayed flights both out and back with not a word from JET2 staff on how long the delays were going to be. Crew on the flight where no better,Immature, disrespectful staff with a poor approach to customer service.Fly with anyone but these Amateurs ...If you want a hassle free trip look else where......
I have flown all over the world but have never experienced such poor customer service as I had with Jet2. My flight to and from Palma was delayed 7hrs out and 5hrs on the way back, none of the Jet2 staff or their handling agent where any help and wasn't till they had all of us on the flight demanded a response did we get any answers...little too late and very poor. To top it all, on our late return my baggage was damaged and a lot of my clothes missing, I am still fighting with them for compensation with them trying to get out of it. I have written to them twice, phoned with no positive outcome to date...so be warned ... I have since flown many times to Palma with BMI baby ...far better company and a more professional and customer service approach ...So Jet2 Never again..
We used Jet2 this year for the first time for our return journey from East Midlands airport to Faro in Portugal. We chose Jet2 purely on price which was around £110 cheaper per person that other similar airlines flying the same route and the flight times were better for our needs.
We experience no direct problems, although our outbound flight was delayed but not indicated as so on the screens which were actually showing the flight as boarding. We were left waiting at the boarding gate for around 45 minutes and then we sat on the aircraft for a further 30 minutes after the doors had been closed but no explanation was offered.
Despite this the flights in both directions were pleasant with a friendly and helpful crew. The seats (standard) were comfortable enough for a short haul flight. I am only 5'3 so usually don't have problems with leg room anyway but my son is 6' and he said he was comfortable and did not have any problems with the leg room. The aircraft was clean but the arm rest cover on my window seat was missing therefore unable to use as uncomfortable.
The prices given online do include taxes and charges but extras generate additional charges, which I have detailed below. A booking fee of 3.6% applies with Jet2.
When booking you can choose and reserve your seats for £5.99 per person each way or if you prefer extra leg room its £12.99 per person each way. In-flight meals can be pre booked, at least 96 hours before departure, for £9.00 per adult each way or £5.00 per child each way. Discounted bundles are available for adding seats, meals and travel insurance to your booking.
The online booking process is clear and easy to follow or you can book through the call centre. You can choose on line check in which works out at £10 per person or airport check in at £20 per person. As I recall, if you choose online check in you can do this anytime within 28 days of departure, and you print off your boarding passes to take to the airport.
If you need to check in luggage the baggage allowance is a generous 22kg which costs £16.49 per person each way and the hand luggage allowance is 10kg.
During your flight you are offered the usual refreshments (drinks, snacks sandwiches etc) which are quite expensive but this is normal for airlines. On board shopping is also available. No entertainment but I think this is usual for a budget short haul flight.
Check in. It stated on our booking that the desk would be open 2 hours before departure but we arrived two and a half hours before due to the taxi being early and the desk was already open. This was a bonus for us as we wanted to eat at the airport before our flight so it gave us more time. Seats we not an issue as we had pre booked them but it might be worth checking on this if you haven't to avoid disappointment of not sitting together.
Overall we found our Jet2 experience very satisfactory. We would use again and would not hesitate to recommend this airline to our family and friends.
I have flown with Jet2 a few occasions, the last time was in June of last year when I took a flight from Edinburgh to Dubrovnik in Croatia. The reason we have flown with Jet2 in the past was mainly due to the routes they offer from Edinburgh and the prices are very competitive. I would class Jet2 as a budget airline.
I have flown with a number of a low cost carriers over the years and Jet2 are up there with the best of them. Unlike some of the budget airlines, I have found that Jet2 offer good flight times and from my experience they fly into the central airports.
One of my pet hates with the budget airlines are the restrictions that are placed on you in terms of the amount of baggage you can fly with. Jet2 are competitive with these airlines and some of the most luxurious airlines also. Each passenger is able to take 10kgs worth of hand luggage on board the aircraft and I believe it's around £18 each way to check a bag into the hold. If you pay to check a back in, you a 22kg baggage allowance, which I believe is quite generous.
The Jet2 planes I have flown on aren't the most modern aircrafts. The have grey leather seats and you get pretty good amount of leg room compared with some of the low cost carriers. I am just over 6ft tall and I did not find I was short on space. The aircrafts have always been clean and I have found cabin crew to be friendly and approachable.
As you would probably expect, there is no in flight entertainment on a Jet2 flight. This is standard with the low cost carriers.
When booking flights with Jet2 you are awarded loyalty points. These can be redeemed for a free flight when you reach a certain amount. To the best of my knowledge, these points are valid for a period of 12 months.
I would fly with Jet2 again and would recommend them to friends and family. I would possible be a little reluctant to fly more than 4 or 5 hours on one of their planes. I would be looking for a bit more comfort on a longer journey.
This Christmas I decided to escape to cold and flew from Manchester to Tel Aviv with Jet2. The flight costed about £100 less than tickets from other non-budget carriers, with respect to the price I think the service is really good value. However, I would only recommend Jet2 for short-distance flights only. I'll explain why.
The flight was 5 hours 30 minutes each way - which shouldn't be too bad if you fly with non-budget carriers. Jet2 uses 757-200 (for this route at least) which is cramped (seat pitch is 29 inches - for most carriers they are 30-32 inches); as a 5"4' petite woman I had just enough leg room to rest comfortably, you can imagine how comfortable it is for taller and perhaps bigger people. If you want to choose your own seat, you have to pay about £5 extra, unlike Easyjet which you can choose your own seat on a first come first serve basis. There are a few (I think 2) seats with extra leg rooms but you'll have to pay extra again. The seat was rather hard and if I didn't have a massaging flight pillow, I'd have found it very hard to rest at all. I was assigned a window seat 3 rows away from the rear, although it wasn't anywhere near the loo it smelled a bit funny (it wasn't strong).
Jet2 charges you more money for airport check-in(£16) than online check-in (£8), so I picked online check-in and I'm quite happy with its online system, easy and fast. You're only allowed one 10kg hand luggage on board (dimension:56cm x 45cm x 25cm) and if you want to take more things with you, each luggage (22kg max, recently increased from 20kg) costs £36 for a return. Bag-drop was done without much hassle and the queue was short to my surprise, since I did research prior to my trip and quite a few people mentioned long queueing time (>1 hour) for bag-drop. I'm very pleased with Jet2 in this aspect.
Cabin crew was very friendly and helpful. If you use Jet2 to go from Tel Aviv to Manchester, you'd go to Ben Gurion terminal 1 by airport shuttle to check-in or drop your bag(s) off, but afterwards you'd have to take a shuttle back to terminal 3 where the gate is - the shuttle takes about 20 minutes including waiting time. I didn't know that, I was panicking when one of the flight attendants noticed me sitting at terminal 1 and led me to the gate at terminal 3. I wasn't feeling well since after this visit I won't be seeing my Israeli boyfriend for quite some time, one of the flight attendants was really nice to me and looked after me on my way boarding on the plane. Very pleased with the staff.
Other complains would be the fact that both my inbound and outbound flight departed about an hour later than the scheduled time, and the baggage took about half an hour (or more, it seemed to had taken forever) to get to the conveyor belt. As a result of these, my mum ended up waiting 2 hours at the arrival hall late at night. I used other budget airlines like Easyjet/Flybe/Ryanair and in these two aspects Jet2 is the worst in my opinion.
For this route Jet2 is the only airline which offers direct flight from Manchester to Tel Aviv and it'sthe cheapest, so I didn't have a lot of choices and considerations; if you were to go to some more popular destinations like Amsterdam I would recommend other budget airlines instead of Jet2 since they are probably more punctual, more comfy and cheaper as well. For short-haul flights (under 3 hours) I think the journey wouldn't be too uncomfortable, however if you're thinking about medium-haul destinations like Greece/Cyprus/Egypt/Israel, choose other airlines if you're not too tight on budget. Israel is perhaps the furthest destinations Jet2 goes to so I guess for most services the journey wouldn't be as uncomfy as mine was. I think it's good value for the money, you get what you paid for afterall.
This was the first time that we had flown with Jet2. We were impressed with the amount of leg room we had and that the seats cannot be reclined. Great baggage allowance of 22kgs and you can aggregate the total baggage weight accross multiple bags.The flight attendants were very professional and 'human' rather than robots. In my estimation Jet2 are miles ahead of Ryan Air and I will definitely fly with them again.
This summer a large group of us travelled with this airline to lanzarote. The check in was fast as we checked in online. I was pleased to find on the boarding card £5 off purchases when spending 25 pounds. This is easy to spend on refreshments when there is such a large group of people.
The aeroplane was very basic compared with other airlines we have flown with previously. However, this is to be expected with a budget airline. The seating was slightly different than I had expected as the chairs were alot thinner and leather. I didn't find this to be too uncomfortable on a short flight and it gave each seat a larger amount of leg room.
The flight was roughly 4 hours and there was no entertainment, for example, films been shown or radio to listen to. Again with the price of the flight this was to be anticipated.
On the flight out the temperature aboard the flight was ok. Although when returning the aeroplane the flight was extremely cold. This made the flight home really uncomfortable for me. With 2 cardigans on I still felt cold. I wasn't the only person on the flight complaining about the temperature. I did fill out the feedback sheet and explained why I only marked it fair.
When really cold I decided to buy too hot drinks to keep me warm. Neither of these drinks had very warm water in them and seemed to go cold very quickly. So the warm drinks didn't really warm me up either.
The airline staff were always polite, directed us too our seats and kept the areoplane clean and tidy both travelling too and from the destination. They kept checking the toilets regularly, which was fortunate as one of the passengers travelling with us had left their designer glasses in the toilet. This made travelling with Jet 2 more pleasant.
The price of the flights outway the negative experience of the temperature on board and I would not hesistate to fly with Jet 2 again.
I usually fly airlines that are not as 'cheap budget' as Jet 2. Jet 2 is probably the cheapest airline out there, with flights advertised from as little as 99p. (although once taxes are included, the price soon comes to £90 or more.
The reason I flew with Jet 2 was because I was seeking a cheap flight to Belgium. The flight was cheap - coming to about £200 for two people.
My first piece of advice would be if you are looking for a cheap flight then book with jet 2, as they are simply a cheap bus for the skies. However, I would not recommend this airline for long haul flights, only for short haul.
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Check in was not the best I have experienced. It was rather slow and the staff were not particularly pleasant. They seemed more interested in rushing everybody through rather than having customer service as their top priority, and eve though people were rushed through, the queues still were slow to get moving.
The flight was okay, but the reason I would not recommend for long haul is because I know they do not provide entertainment or give you the luxuries other airlines do to keep you comfortable, so I can imagine the flight would be uncomfortable, boring and tedious. However, for short haul, the airline is good for doing its job which is getting you from A to B.
The air con was not that great when I flew, and on the airline there was an odour - not sure exactly where it was coming from, but it was certainly off putting. However, ignoring it seemed to help a lot.
I did not find the seats particularly comfortable and there was not as much leg room as some airlines I have flown with. In addition, I may just be being picky here but I do not like the colour scheme inside the plane of grey seats. I find it rather depressing. I have to admit, I did feel really cramped inside the aeroplane, although for the price, I can't say I was not expecting this.
The staff were fairly pleasant, always having a smile on their face, although they do not really attend to you that much.
I experienced no delays, so I will give credit there - for efficiency. On some airlines I have experienced delays up to 8 hours!
Overall, I would not really recommend this airline unless you dont really care about comfort and a smooth travel experience. But for the budget, you can't complain really.
I flew JET2 to sharm a 5 and a half flight my first and last time , there was no inflight entertainment no tv and no radio the most boring flight that i have ever been on it might be ok on 2- 3 hour flights and there seems to be a constant stink coming from the air con


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Ernie Tough more than lived up to his name when he survived a World War Two Arctic convoy which suffered the loss of five ships under attack by German air, U-boat and surface forces in 1942.
The 91-year-old, of Purton Road, yesterday received the Arctic Star medal from Swindon Mayor Nick Martin for his efforts during the convoy.
Ernie was a part of Convoy PQ 13, which delivered war supplies from the Western Allies to the USSR. Aboard the SS New Westminster City, he sailed from Loch Ewe, Scotland, on March 10, 1942, and arrived in Murmansk, Russia, on March 30, surviving persistent attacks from German forces.
Just four days later, Ernie's ship was bombed in Murmansk port and sunk on April 4. Two members of the 52-strong crew were lost as a result.
After playing his part in what Winston Churchill described as the "worst journey in the world," Ernie became a firefighter in Swindon, a role he sought for the action which came with it.
Ernie's son, Peter, 67, who cares for his parents at their Purton Road address, could not hide the pride he has for his father and his achievements.
"It's a marvellous achievement. Churchill described it as the worst-ever, so he deserves this," said Peter.
"He's never really talked about it much, which I think shows how bad it was for him. He tried to push it from his memory.
"The only thing he ever said was that they spent an awful lot of time chipping ice off the ship.
"He's even got a medal from the Russian people to thank them. Without what they did I don't think Russia would have survived.
"After he came out I just think he wanted to do something with a bit of action, so he became firefighter."
The Arctic Star is a retrospective award, which only came into being in December 2012.
Following a review into the rules and principles governing the award of military campaign medals, David Cameron and the coalition Government backed a recommendation for veterans to be recognised.
Coun Martin (Con, Shaw) said: "We are 70 years on, but we know people, like Ernie, who actually made the effort for people like ourselves by putting their lives on the line.
"A little while ago I was astonished to see how many of the servicemen were still alive, even now.
"It's an honour and a privilege to meet the people I get to. This is a fabulous achievement for Ernie and a piece of history."


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The Supreme Court's twin rulings on same-sex marriage came early on Wednesday, California-time, but many Inland Empire residents were up and ready for the long-expected historic rulings. How they reacted to them, however, varied greatly.
"I'm elated," said Jerry Arispi, the executive director of Inland Empire Pride.
"Sure, there are some people that are saying that they could have gone a little further or they could have given marriage rights to the entire United States. But I don't think it's beneficial for us to dwell on that very, very minor point. I think we should see this moment for the wonderful and hard-fought victory that it is."
Officials of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino were not among those celebrating on Wednesday morning.
"We acknowledge with regret what now appears to be a fundamental change in the legal definition of marriage in our state," Bishop Gerald R. Barnes said in a written statement. "This decision will have no impact on how we, as Roman Catholics, celebrate and practice the sacrament of matrimony. Let us take this moment to look again at what our faith teaches us about marriage, an expression of love and commitment between man and woman, a sign of Christ's love for us, and a source of new life in God's plan for humanity."
And Barnes cautioned those opposed to same-sex marriage against holding it against the gay members of their community.
"I ask that in whatever emotions we may feel in the wake of this ruling, we remember that we are called to recognize the dignity of our brothers and sisters who are homosexual," he said. "Let us welcome them in our communities of faith as children of God."
Pastor David Rosales, of Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, remains firmly against gay marriage but was not surprised by the Supreme Court's decisions on Wednesday.
"I believe very strongly the majority of Americans opinions regarding moral thought are not well thought-out," he said. "The majority of Americans base their opinions on legal opinions the court makes: If the court makes a decision, that makes it right. I don't hold a whole lot of esteem from a philosophic perspective. The moral fabric has been deteriorating for so long it's not surprising to me, because people make ethical and moral judgments based on legalities."
But not all local religious leaders were opposed to the decision.
"This is a landmark day in the history of our nation and the global struggle for human rights," Jeffrey Kuan, president-elect of Claremont School of Theology, said in a written statement. "I am proud to stand and rejoice with my LGBT sisters and brothers as we celebrate today, while recognizing the work yet to be done on the long arc toward justice. As we continue to determine what this means for the church, we join with communities of faith across the country and around the world to seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God, together and forever."
Former Redlands Unified teachers Doug Hairgrove and Warren Wood married in 2008 during the window when same sex marriage was legal in California. The Palm Springs couple both cried while watching TV coverage of the Supreme Court rulings.
"It makes us equal to everyone else now," Hairgrove said.
The pair have been dating since their senior year at the University of Redlands and have been active at the university's Pride Center.
"I have never had anyone say or indicate in the slightest being against our marriage, not in the slightest," Hairgrove said.
The same-sex marriages haven't started yet in San Bernardino County and probably won't do so for a few weeks: The state Department of Public Health told counties to hold off on issuing same-sex marriage licenses until the 9th Circuit court lifts the stay of the 2010 U.S. District Court ruling that found Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The 9th Circuit Court could take up to 30 days to do so, according to the office of the assessor-recorder-clerk of San Bernardino.
Once that happens, marriage licenses will be available at the County Hall of Records, 222 W. Hospitality Lane in San Bernardino and the Recorder's Office in the High Desert Government Center, 15900 Smoke Tree Street in Hesperia.