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Dear friends and colleagues
I was hoping to ask for your help with filling out this questionnaire on EN.
It was put together in response to questions we had in our IBD group on how we each use EN in IBD. Some of these have been addressed in the past in the literature (e.g., length of treatment, type of formula), but many other aspects, such as 'cheats' (what we allow patients to have to make the process easier), how we transition off EEN, and other 'tricks of the trade' have not.
It takes about 10 min to complete through the following link:
https://redcap.ualberta.ca/surveys/?s=WY7REXR3AC
I would appreciate if you could forward this email (or the link) to any of your colleagues (not only MDs) who are involved in IBD care as I'm looking for a broad perspective on this.
I will also be sending this to the Peds GI Bulletin Board so you may get this twice - my apologies.
As you will see, I invite anyone of you to be as involved as you want in this project.
Thank you in advance and looking forward to seeing many of you in Athens,
Eytan


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What is Ray Taras reading?
The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Ray Taras, author of the recently released Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia, Understanding Ethnic Conflict, 4th edition, and hundreds of books, chapters, and articles.
His entry begins:
October is a great month for reading for someone able to bend to the rhythm of the academic year. Student essays are being written but are not yet ripe for grading. Grant writing to meet end-of-September deadlines is done with. In my case a book manuscript, on European Islamophobia, is in the hands of reviewers and there is nothing to do but await the reports.
So I have indulged, indeed, satiated, myself with reading. As I teach courses on Russian politics and foreign policy, what better way to absorb the cultural pathways that give them shape than to read contemporary Russian fiction. Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker, Russian literature specialists on the faculty of universities in Montreal and Toronto, have compiled a collection of twenty-two short stories by young Russian authors and titled it Rasskazy ("short stories"). They identify the genre shared by these authors as New Russian Realism.
As with many comparative lit anthologies, the quality of the stories, and their rendering into English, are uneven. Clear standouts are narratives detailing the cruelties of war. One, by Arkady Babchenko, author of A Soldier's War published last year in the U.S., details the hazing and persecution of young Russian conscripts stationed in the Caucasus. Another, by German Sadulaev, who is of Chechen background and the author of I am a Chechen! being published in English in the U.K., describes the indiscriminate killing of Chechens by the Russian military in the 1990s war. The two authors test the limits of literary censors while courageously...[read on]
Ray Taras is a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.
Among the early praise for his Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia:
"For a student of literature it is eminently gratifying to see a prominent political scientist factor works of the literary imagination into his riveting account of contemporary Europe's intricate negotiation of its multi-layered, old/new identity. As it panoramically canvasses the sea changes overtaking the continent, this timely book bridges not only disparate scholarly fields and academic disciplines but also different research methodologies, evaluative criteria, conflicting narratives, and alternative strategies of identity formation."
--Muhammad Siddiq
"Taras presents a wide-ranging and engaging analysis of the condition of contemporary Europe. Using a combination of historical, cultural, and political approaches, he deals with its institutions and policies, its hopes and uncertainties. He explores the differences between Atlanticist and post-Communist Europe and the role of the European Union in bridging them; the tensions between traditional and globalizing Europe; and the challenges of immigration, integration, and socioeconomic change to national identities."
--William Safran
At the Campaign for the American Reader, Taras covers the Sundance Film Festival and regularly reviews world literature.
He recently interviewed concert violinist and debut novelist Gerald Elias about Devil's Trill, Elias' award winning first book.
Also see: Coffee with a Canine: Ray Taras & Zin and Zephyr.
Writers Read: Ray Taras.
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IDEAS will be with our friend Professor Tinkermeister from Kid's Get a Plan this Saturday April 28, 2012 from 10:00am – 1:30pm at the Osceola County, FL Education in the Park Event. Professor Tinkermeister is a weather-awareness expert for the Florida Division of Emergency Management. The Professor travels across Florida teaching people, especially kids, about how to prepare for weather emergencies. Education in the Park is the largest youth oriented event in Osceola County, as over 20,000 people are expected to come and enjoy this free family fun day designed to celebrate children and education. Click HERE for more information about Education in the Park. Click HERE for more information about Professor Tinkermeister and the other books created by IDEAS for the Florida Division of Emergency Management to help bring awareness and prepare Florida's citizens for emergencies and disasters in order to mitigate loss.


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From 2015.1, the ACEM Fellowship Exam has taken on a new format, comprising of the written select choice question (SCQ) and short answer question (SAQ) paper, and the clinical OSCE-format examination.
If you are responsible for teaching and examining ACEM fellowship candidates, you should register to gain access to the Educator features.
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SEC Charges NFL Player Mychal Kendricks and Former Investment Banker With Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a professional football player and a former investment banker with insider trading in advance of corporate acquisitions facilitated through coded text messages and FaceTime conversations. The SEC alleges that after meeting at a party, Mychal Kendricks began receiving illegal tips from Damilare Sonoiki, an analyst at an investment bank who had access to confidential, nonpublic information about upcoming corporate mergers. Mychal Kendricks allegedly made $1.2 million in illegal profits by purchasing securities in companies that were soon to be acquired and then selling his positions after the deals were publicly announced, in one instance generating a nearly 400 percent return on his investment in just two weeks.
According to the SEC's complaint, Mychal Kendricks rewarded Sonoiki for his tips and other assistance, which included setting up an online brokerage account that both men could access, by providing cash kickbacks, free NFL tickets, and an evening on the set of a pop star's music video in which Mychal Kendricks made a cameo appearance.
"As alleged in our complaint, Kendricks paid cash and shared celebrity perks for illegal tips that enabled him to trade and profit on confidential information that the rest of the investing public didn't have," said Stephanie Avakian, Co-Director of the SEC Enforcement Division.
"Kendricks and Sonoiki allegedly tried to evade detection by using a variety of communication methods to hide their misconduct, but we were able to use methodical investigative work to piece together a trail of evidence and expose their insider trading scheme," said Joseph G. Sansone, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Market Abuse Unit.
The SEC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Philadelphia, charges Kendricks and Sonoiki with fraud and is seeking the return of their ill-gotten trading profits plus interest and penalties.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania today announced parallel criminal charges against Kendricks and Sonoiki.
The SEC's investigation, which is continuing, has been conducted by Rachael Clarke and Patrick McCluskey of the Market Abuse Unit in the Philadelphia Regional Office, with the assistance of John Rymas of the unit's Analysis and Detection Center. The litigation will be led by Jennifer Chun Barry. The case has been supervised by Mr. Sansone and Kelly L. Gibson. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Philadelphia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
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Henry Quastler (November 11, 1908 – July 4, 1963) was an Austrian physician and radiologist who became a pioneer in the field of information theory applied to biology after emigrating to America.  His work with Sidney Dancoff led to the publication of what is now commonly called Dancoff's Law.

Life
Quastler spent his early career in Vienna as a doctor. He received his medical degree in Vienna in 1932, focusing on histology and radiology. He met his wife, Gertrude Quastler, a milliner, when she came to him for treatment for tuberculosis. They married in 1933. The couple moved to Albania when King Zog asked for Quastler to train up radiologists. While there he also worked on malaria. Quastler's malaria expertise earned him a place on the International Health Board. As World War II approached in 1939, the couple left Albania and traveled to America. Within a year Quastler was working as a radiologist at New Rochelle Hospital in New York. In 1942, the Quastlers relocated to Urbana, Illinois, where Henry was employed as chief radiologist at Carle Hospital Clinic. While in Illinois, Gertrude Quastler studied art. She soon became a noted artist. Henry also painted as an amateur. According to his sister Johanna, the couple sometimes exhibited together.

In 1949 Quastler gave up his medical practice to concentrate on science. Heinz von Foerster, who knew Quastler well, said that he became even more interested in radiation after the invention of the atomic bomb, which he considered "a horrifying human catastrophe". Foerster recalled Quastler pondering: "[Quastler asked] 'Can I now, as a working person, find out what damage has been done by the radiation of atomic bombs?'—that was his research question. Thus he started to conduct experiments on radiation damage in living organisms."  ... Henry Quastler learned the basic concepts and formalisms of information theory with a speed that was almost unbelievable. And why? Because he needed this instrument urgently.".

In the 1940s Quastler met Dancoff and collaborated with him to develop information theory in biology. They were interested in the problem of how to define the information content of a gene. After Dancoff's death, Quastler organized the symposium Information Theory in Biology, founded by him in 1952. Quastler soon became interested in how information theory could be used to understand the origin of life. In 1953 he edited Information Theory in Biology. He edited another collection of essays, Information Theory in Psychology: Problems and Methods, in 1956. That same year he helped to organize the Symposium on Information Theory in Biology in Gatlinburg, Tennessee which two years later resulted in an eponymous book.

Despite his best efforts, his wife's tuberculosis slowly worsened. A deterioration in his wife's health led Quastler to take a job at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, where he continued to work on both radiation and information biology. When his wife died in 1963, Quastler was devastated. He took an overdose of pills, laid down beside her and held her hand until he died. Richard Diebenkorn later said, "Neither my wife nor I can think of a couple we encountered more indivisible." Heinz von Foerster said of Quastler that he was "an exceptionally conscientious, ethically and morally conscious human being."

Work with Dancoff
In Foerster's words Quastler and Dancoff attempted to answer the following problem:

According to Lily E. Kay, Quastler and Dancoff created "the first technical application of the Weiner-Shannon theory in genetics." Quastler and Dancoff proposed that the replication errors inevitable in biological reproduction must be held in check by a statistical process that functioned as a "checking device" within the gene. Quastler compared this to the system of "checks and balances" in the American constitution. The proposition known as "Dancoff's Law" emerged from this work. A non-mathematical statement of this law is, "the greatest growth occurs when the greatest number of mistakes are made consistent with survival".

The Emergence of Biological Organization
In 1964 Quastler's book The Emergence of Biological Organization was published posthumously. In 2002, Harold J. Morowitz described it as a "remarkably prescient book" which is "surprisingly contemporary in outlook". In it Quastler pioneers a theory of emergence, developing model of "a series of emergences from probionts to prokaryotes".

The work is based on lectures given by Quastler during the spring term of 1963, when he was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Biology at Yale University. In these lectures Quastler argued that the formation of single-stranded polynucleotides was well within the limits of probability of what could have occurred during the pre-biologic period of the Earth.  However, he noted that polymerization of a single-stranded polymer from mononucleotides is slow, and its hydrolysis is fast; therefore in a closed system consisting only of mononucleotides and their single-stranded polymers, only a small fraction of the available molecules will be polymerized.  However, a single-stranded polymer may form a double-stranded one by complementary polymerization, using a single-stranded polynucleotide as a template.  Such a process is relatively fast and the resulting double-stranded polynucleotide is much more stable than the single single-stranded one since each monomer is bound not only along the sugar phosphate backbone, but also through inter-strand bonding between the bases.

The capability for self-replication, a fundamental feature of life, emerged when double-stranded polynucleotides disassociated into single-stranded ones and each of these served  as a template for synthesis of a complementary strand, producing two double-stranded copies.  Such a system is mutable since random changes of individual bases may occur and be propagated.  Individual replicators with different nucleotide sequences may also compete with each other for nucleotide precursors.  Mutations that influence the folding state of polynucleotides may affect the ratio of association of strands to dissociation and thus the ability to replicate.  The folding state would also affect the stability of the molecule.    These ideas were then developed to speculate on the emergence of genetic information, protein synthesis and other general features of life.

Lily E. Kay says that Quastler's works "are an illuminating example of a well reasoned epistemic quest and a curious disciplinary failure". Quastler's aspiration to create an information based biology was innovative, but his work was "plagued by problems: outdated data, unwarranted assumptions, some dubious numerology, and, most importantly, an inability to generate an experimental agenda." However Quastler's "discursive framework" survived.

Forty-five years after Quastler's 1964 proposal, Lincoln and Joyce described a cross-catalytic system that involves two RNA enzymes (ribosymes) that catalyze each other's synthesis from a total of four component substrates.  This synthesis occurred in the absence of protein and could provide the basis for an artificial genetic system.

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Created on 2016-08-20 00:32 by vstinner, last changed 2016-12-15 16:02 by python-dev. This issue is now closed.
The issue #27128 added _PyObject_FastCall() to avoid the creation of temporary tuples when calling functions.
Using METH_VARARGS, args is a Python tuple. Using METH_FASTCALL, args is a C array of PyObject*, and there is a second nargs parameter.
Later, Argument Clinic will be modified to *generate* code using the new METH_FASTCALL calling convention. Code written with Argument Clinic will only need to be updated by Argument Clinic to get the new faster calling convention (avoid the creation of a temporary tuple for positional arguments).
This issue depends on the issue #27809 "_PyObject_FastCall(): add support for keyword arguments". I will wait until this dependency is implemented, before working on the implementation of this part.
For a full implementation, see my first attempt in the issue #26814. I will extract the code from this branch to write a new patch.
Anyway, Victor, I definitely appreciate your efforts in this direction.
Right. If you call directly PyCFunction functions, you will likely get quickly a crash. But... who call directly PyCFunction functions? Why not using the 30+ functions to call functions?
I guess that Cython calls directly PyCFunction. cpyext module of PyPy probably too. Ok, except of them, are you aware of other projects doing that?
Extensive callback interfaces like map() come to mind, where a large number of calls becomes excessively time critical and might thus have made people implement their own special purpose calling code.
However, I don't know any such code (outside of Cython) and I agree that this is such a special optimisation that there can't be many cases. If there are others, they'll likely be using the obvious fallback already, or otherwise just adapt when Py3.6 comes out and move on. The fix isn't complex at all.
I do not consider this a road block.
> Extensive callback interfaces like map() come to mind, where a large number of calls becomes excessively time critical and might thus have made people implement their own special purpose calling code.
I'm now aware of map() or list.sort()/sorted() function rewritten from scratch for better performance, but I can imagine that someone did that. But do these specialized implementation use PyObject_Call() or "inline" PyCFunction_Call()?
If someone "inlines" PyCFunction_Call(), be prepared to "backward incompatible changes", since it's common that CPython internals change in a subtle way.
In short, I found nothing. But I didn't search far, maybe there are a few other code bases using "case METH_VARARGS:"?
According to discussions in the issue #27809, require a Python dict leads to inefficient code because a temporary dict may be required. The issue #27830 proposes to pass keyword arguments as (key, value) pairs.
It should be used for the new METH_FASTCALL calling convention.
I changed the dependency to the issue #27830 "Add _PyObject_FastCallKeywords(): avoid the creation of a temporary dictionary for keyword arguments" which itself depends on the issue #27213 "Rework CALL_FUNCTION* opcodes".
working on a tuple directly.
keyword arguments. kwnames can be NULL.
Issue #27810: Regenerate Argument Clinic.
Stefan Behnel: "There is a tiny bit of a backwards compatibility concern as the new function signature would be incompatible with anything we had before,"
_PyObject_FastCallKeywods() is not really written to be called directly: Python/ceval.c calls you, but you may call _PyObject_FastCallKeywods() again "wrapper" functions, like functools.partial().
Currently, tp_call (and tp_init and tp_new) still expects a (tuple, dict) for positional and keyword arguments, but later I will add something to also support METH_FASTCALL for callable objects. I just don't know yet what is the best option to make this change.
The main idea is implemented (implement METH_FASTCALL), I close the issue.
I will open new issues for more specific changes, and maybe extend the API (especially tp_call).
Could you please wrap "#define METH_FASTCALL  0x0080" with "#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API"/"#endif"? I think this method still is not stable, and we shouldn't encourage using it in third-party extensions.
I would use two methods: just METH_FASTCALL and METH_FASTCALL|METH_KEYWORDS. The former is simpler and more stable, it takes just an array of positional parameters. The latter takes also keyword arguments, and the format of passing keyword arguments may be changed.
> Could you please wrap "#define METH_FASTCALL  0x0080" with "#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API"/"#endif"?
Sorry, this is a mistake. I tried to exclude all new symbols related to fast call from the stable API.


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John Wallis (1616 - 1703)
Mathematician who developed calculus and who introduced the symbol for 'infinity', ∞
John Wallis, 'the greatest of Newton's precursors in mathematics', did not begin to learn arithmetic until the age of fifteen; but academic education in his day usually neglected mathematics entirely, as something for tradesmen and navigators. Wallis first found time for it because by fourteen, when he went to Felsted School, he had already learned as much of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, logic, and music, as most university students. In his Emmanuel days (1632-1640) he also read medicine and anatomy.
He was ordained in 1640, and at first held several private chaplaincies. While in the household of Lord Vere, in 1642, he deciphered a secret letter relating to the capture of Chichester. The feat made his name, and his skill as a code-breaker was much used by the Parliamentarians, though he claimed later that he did not reveal to them nearly as much intercepted intelligence as he could have done. His politics have been described as devious, but not dishonest. He gave evidence against Archbishop Laud in 1644; but in 1649 he signed the remonstrance against the execution of Charles I. Cromwell respected him, and it was he who in 1649 appointed him to the Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford. But he was not obliged to relinquish his offices at the Restoration.
From 1644 Wallis was secretary to the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and while in London associated much with Robert Boyle and others whose meetings led to the foundation of the Royal Society. (Other Emmanuel graduates in the group were the mathematician Samuel Foster and the anatomist William Croone.) Wallis's mathematical work made important advances: his Arithmetica infinitorum (1655) contained the germs of the integral and differential calculus; he introduced the symbol 8 for infinity; he wrote on gravitation; he evaluated p by the interpolation (his own word) of terms in infinite series. His capacity for mental calculation was prodigious: one sleepless night be extracted in his head the square root of a number of 53 digits, and next morning dictated a correct result to 27 places. He was a correspondent of leading continental mathematicians and astronomers such as Fermat and Huygens.
In another field, Wallis wrote a book on English grammar (1652), with an appendix on the production of speech-sounds, from which he went on to develop a method of teaching the deaf and dumb to talk.
Among Wallis' s London friends was Samuel Pepys, who commissioned Kneller to paint his full-length portrait to hang in the Bodleian at Oxford.


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Pluralist and independent artist, Wax Tailor is considered as a defining figure of the trip-hop and orchestral hip-hop scenes. Being now an ambassador of the French scene worldwide, he has gained recognition through the years with five studio albums, two double live albums and about seven hundred concerts in over fifty countries. With his last studio album, "By Any Beats Necessary" (featuring Tricky, Ghostface Killah, Lee Fields, R.A The Rugged Man, Token…), Wax Tailor initiates a new take on the western frontier, leading us on a fabled road where Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Funk and Hip-Hop collide.
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Also, could you add Kelsie to your blog? She is mckenzie_531@hotmail.com; thanks!
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// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

#nullable disable

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Classification;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Extensions;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Options;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Tagging;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Utilities;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Tagging;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Notification;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Options;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.Extensions;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.TestHooks;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities;
using Roslyn.Utilities;

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        // We want to track text changes so that we can try to only reclassify a method body if
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        protected override ITaggerEventSource CreateEventSource(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer subjectBuffer)
        {
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            // Note: we don't listen for OnTextChanged.  They'll get reported by the ViewSpan changing
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            // we appear semantically unclassified for a very short amount of time.
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                TaggerEventSources.OnViewSpanChanged(ThreadingContext, textView, textChangeDelay: Delay, scrollChangeDelay: TaggerDelay.NearImmediate),
                TaggerEventSources.OnWorkspaceChanged(subjectBuffer, Delay, this.AsyncListener),
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        protected override IEnumerable<SnapshotSpan> GetSpansToTag(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer subjectBuffer)
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            // Find the visible span some 100 lines +/- what's actually in view.  This way
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                return base.GetSpansToTag(textView, subjectBuffer);
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            return SpecializedCollections.SingletonEnumerable(visibleSpanOpt.Value);
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        {
            Debug.Assert(context.SpansToTag.IsSingle());

            var spanToTag = context.SpansToTag.Single();

            var document = spanToTag.Document;

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            var classificationService = document?.GetLanguageService<IClassificationService>();
            if (classificationService == null)
            {
                return Task.CompletedTask;
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            return SemanticClassificationUtilities.ProduceTagsAsync(context, spanToTag, classificationService, _typeMap);
        }
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}

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Chiropractors are medical professionals who have studied and mastered the science of chiropractic. It involves manipulation and adjustment of spinal vertebrae, joints and soft tissue. All this is done without the use of any medicinal drugs and now more and more people are turning to chiropractic care for neck pain in TC MI. The main reason of the increased number of chiropractic patients is its effectiveness. A chiropractor treats the problem and not the symptoms. This technique is very effective as it prevents the problem i.e. neck injuries, whiplash from getting worse. Furthermore, some patients have reported overall good health after visiting a chiropractor for neck pain.
Unlike other forms of medicine, chiropractic aims to treat the whole body rather than the specific area experiencing illness. In chiropractic, it is believed that the whole body works like a machine with the neural system being the interconnection between different parts of the body. A problem in the neural system can manifest in other areas of the body as well. So when you visit a chiropractor with neck complications, you can expect him or her to evaluate the health of your whole spine. The problem in your neck could be emanating from your thoracic (mid-back) or lumbar (lower back) vertebrae. After this evaluation, the chiropractor will determine which treatment procedure is best for you.
The chiropractor will use a physical approach to diagnosing your problem that will involve a physical examination. If you are experiencing neck pain in TC Michigan, your chiropractor will observe some things such as your posture, range of movement in your neck as well as how your spinal column is aligned. Afterwards, you can expect a medical history inquiry to know if you have any previous health issues. It is just the same procedure you take at your physician's office. The chiropractor could additionally do some imaging on your neck (i.e. MRI or x-ray exam) to know the root cause of your neck pain. The physical exam can take five to twenty minutes after which the chiropractor will have a treatment plan for you.
Some procedures can be combined to alleviate neck pain. Manual therapy and spinal manipulation are more popular with chiropractors. Some of the manual therapy techniques include joint stretching, resistance and soft tissue therapy. The former may increase your range of motion of your cervical vertebrae. Soft tissue therapy may involve the use of specialized instruments to alleviate tension in soft tissue. Another common procedure is the trigger point therapeutic procedure, which treats tight muscles, and specific points that are ailing. Chiropractors can also incorporate a massage therapy procedure in a bid to help relax tension in the neck muscles.
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« Glos/Somerset Legal Challenge Special
Historically, the "good guys" were not the ones throwing away books »
Kidnapping books
Things you can do today
Email Justin Tomlinson MP for Swindon about your concerns. He is the chair of the new All-Party Parliamentary Group for libraries to be launched in December.
Vote for public libraries to be campaigned on by the highly successful 38 Degrees group, you can vote three times.
Gloucestershire and Somerset Judgement
Coverage on Points West this evening (17th) and likely to be on Politics Show on Sunday 20th, although it is unclear as to whether this will be the regional or national edition.
The real question on this aspect of the case, it seems to me, is whether there was a conscious directing of the mind by the decision makers to their obligations under the legislation and in particular to the need to exercise the duty to have due regard in substance and with rigour and based on sufficient information, appropriately analysed.
In my judgment, on the preponderance of the evidence, no such due regard was had in substance. In order to discharge their respective duties, GCC and SCC should have undertaken a sufficiently thorough information gathering exercise and then properly analysed that information. In this case I conclude that both GCC and SCC failed to comply with that obligation, accepting as I do the substance of the Claimants' criticisms made of their respective information gathering and analysis to which I have referred above." The Queen on the application of Kirsty Green -v- Gloucestershire County Council and others – Judiciary of England and Wales.
"Judge Martin McKenna ruled that, as the closures would hurt disadvantaged groups such as the elderly and the disabled, which is contrary to the conditions laid down in equalities legislation, the councils would just have to scrap their plans and think again. And he also made it crystal clear – as he quashed the closure decisions and told the councils to pay campaigners' legal costs – that he was sending a message to other local authorities intent on restructuring their library services. The councils had claimed "hyperbole, exaggeration and hysteria" on the part of the campaigners. But Judge McKenna, reflecting on how the case had been conducted, described the campaigners' approach as "perfectly reasonable" and "proportionate" even in the areas where their legal claim had not been successful… a clear line has now been drawn on equalities law, and up and down the country, local authorities will now be closeted in urgent meetings with their legal advisers to review their library plans" Campaign against library closures has scored a vital victory – Guardian.
DMBC must take equalities duties seriously – Save Doncaster Libraries. "The council should not force its own citizens to take it to court for failing to address their needs and legal rights. The council knows that these library cuts will impact those most in need – young people, the elderly, unemployed, the poor and those unable to travel, for example – so why is it taking such a risk? The council must scrap its volunteer plans and take responsibility for the provision of a library service across the whole borough, not just the lucky half. The law takes public sector equality duties seriously – DMBC can't afford not to."
Donaldson: Gloucs/Somerset ruling "best news all year" – BookSeller. In a statement given to Somerset group Watchet Library Friends, Donaldson hailed the ruling "a triumph for the all those committed campaigners, for libraries, and for common sense". But she added: "While it is admirable that the residents of Gloucestershire and Somerset were determined, organised and brave enough to go down the route of litigation, it is shameful that they had to do so. This costly process could have been avoided if the councils had listened to the arguments and above all if the government had fulfilled its statutory requirement to superintend library services."
Dorset library campaigners cheered by Somerset court statement – Dorset Echo. "In Dorset there is no current legal action by campaigning group AdLib but a spokesman said it was still considering it after seeking detailed legal advice. Graham Lee, the chairman of AdLib, said the judge's decision that Somerset County Council needed to pay more attention to the needs of dependent people meant that the decision to cease funding to nine libraries in Dorset was 'rushed and ill-considered'.He said: "The parts of Dorset where most of the threatened nine libraries are located is much more rural than many parts of Somerset."
"The authority said extra research would now be done into how closures could affect vulnerable people. Council chief Peter Bungard said the judgement had shown that community-run libraries were perfectly legitimate. "We had a fantastic response from the community on all 10 libraries that we were asking them to run," said Mr Bungard. "We have had some brilliant offers, which in all honesty could be better services that we could ever afford to run, and I really do want those community groups to stay around." Gloucestershire Council "committed to library plan" – BBC. No real acceptance by Council that they did anything wrong. Council Leader Mark Hawthorneays that £2m would still need to be cut. ""Some people might disagree with me and think that I should be cutting social services to protect libraries but I don't think that is right and I am willing to stand by that.""
Landmark victory in Gloucestershire libraries battle – This is Glos. "Gloucestershire County Council is now expected to draw up a fresh plan for library cuts. But it is understood the council will proceed with its plan and any consultation is likely to lead to a similar or identical scheme. Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries (FOGL) member John Holland said: "Quite frankly, the people have been treated with disdain by the county council. The proposals were deeply flawed and from the beginning many of us told the council they were likely to be breaking the law." … "The decision will come as a hammer blow to the Conservative administration, which had insisted its plans were legal, despite repeated warnings from opponents."
"But, despite the judgement, Councillor Mark Hawthorne (C, Moreland) said the council's plan for community-run libraries was still "sound". He said: "The most important thing here is that the judge said there is nothing wrong with our plans to transfer some libraries over to communities. We are very disappointed for the community groups who are lined up to take over their services, but our promise to them is that we will continue to work with them on delivering successful community-run services." [NB. none of these community groups want to run libraries in preference to the Council. To an uneducated ear, that does not necessarily feel like being sued, Cllr Hawthorne may here sound suspiciously like a man in denial – Ed.]
Library cuts stopped in their tracks – Counterfire. "Gloucestershire and Somerset Councils may well take the case to the Court of Appeals but for the time being this is an anti-cuts victory that has the potential to scupper the destructive plans of Councils across the UK."
Save Bolton Libraries Campaign Statement – via Alan Gibbons. "We welcome yesterday's High Court ruling that planned library closures in Gloucestershire and Somerset are unlawful and call upon Bolton Council to reconsider its own planned closure of one third of our library network … We have made a strong case to Bolton council that older people, families with children and disabled people will all be adversely affected by these closures, especially where they do not have a car, or access to the internet at home, and we still do not feel these concerns have been properly addressed."
Daunt: Booksellers face same "crisis" as libraries – BookSeller. "Speaking on BBC Radio 4's "Four Thought" last night (16th November), Daunt said both bookshops and libraries have an important role to play in tackling illiteracy in the country. He said the benefit of libraries was "inestimable" in comparison to the "tiny amount" of money that would be saved by local councils closing them down. He said: "We are facing a particular and rather dramatic moment of crisis which we share with our fellow purveyors of the written word, librarians, for quite different reasons but coincidentally at precisely the same moment." Radio interview here. "James Daunt argues libraries and bookshops should be vital social and cultural spaces."
""It seems to me a point of national scandal that element of our community is being imperilled and I think all of us should encourage our political masters, in whom obviously the decision ultimately resides, to recognise that this is a tiny cost to keep this inestimable benefit within our communities….You can be part of an ecosystem which has digital, which has this very impersonal internet offer which is highly efficient if you know what you want—bang it can give it to you, but it doesn't give you discovery of a physical bookshop or [the] physical interaction a library gives you."
Election Ehustings – CILIP. Now on Youtube, edited so one can play answers to specific questions. The one on librarians being at least partly to blame for closures due to keeping a low profile is here.
Middle classes love libraries, says Dame Joan Bakewell – Telegraph. "The baroness told neighbours she was a regular library user and her two children and six grandchildren had also signed up as members of Chalk Farm library. "It is crystallising part of this community, which is really not just about buying, shopping and eating, eating, eating," she added."It is about the people who live here and I will be appealing to everyone to do everything they can to help."
Questions for political parties with responses – Lianza (NZ). The professional library organisation in New Zealand wrote asking questions of all poltical parties prior to the general election there. Here are the questions and responses. All parties replied.
Surefire, can't fail way to prove your library's relevance – 21st Century Library Blog (USA). Forget quantitative or anecdotal, go straight for qualitative day one 9am. "The only way to collect these data is to get up-close and personal with your customers, constituents, partners, stakeholders. You should be already, but in order to prove your value to the community – it is essential."
Why the NYPD are kidnapping books – New Statesman. "It would appear that the New York Police Department has finally jumped the shark. One day after the eviction of Occupy Wall Street, the image that has shocked the world most profoundly — and I mean image in a purely theoretical sense, since a solid wall of state heavies, now part-financed by JP Morgan Chase, stopped the press getting near enough to take photos — was of police and sanitation workers tearing up the tent of the encampment's extensive library, and reportedly tossing the books into dumpster trucks. I mean, books."
Bolton – January start for book collections – Bolton News. "Neighbourhood book collections, which are to replace five closing libraries in Bolton, will start as early as January. Bolton Council has said no libraries will be closed until their corresponding collections are up and running.". 300 books for each collection point, self service other than one visit per week. 79% of online poll don't think scheme will work. Council wishes to charge rent, and repair costs, to any volunteers who wish to run endangered libraries.
Brent – Classical concert for libaries – Save Kensal Rise Libraries. 28th November. "Each Razumovsky member may be king of their chosen instrument, but they scale the heavens as a team. England's sport teams could learn a great deal" The Times. TICKETS: £10 (£5 unwaged/children) from Queens Park Books Salusbury Rd, L'Angolo's deli College Rd, Minkie's deli Chamberlayne Rd, The Pop Up Library, Kensal Rise Library Piazza. Refreshments thanks to Mionetto Prosecco"
Buckinghamshire – Cafes bid to help preserve Great Missenden Library – Bucks Advertiser. Local cafe wants to be based in threatened local library in mutually beneficial relationship. Great Missenden is likely to become volunteer-run but will be bigger than any previous Bucks example, hoping to retain some paid staff.
Bury – £17.7m savings to be made before 2015 – Guide. £540k cut to libraries. "The draft programme of savings is now subject to a 12-week consultation before the budget is set in February. More than 3,500 people took part in a Choices consultation to identify their most important priorities."
Hammersmith and Fulham – Barons Court Library to house Citizens Advice Bureau – Chronicle. £400k to upgrade/add a CAB to previously endangered branch. "Initially the council was set to shut Barons Court Library last year, but abandoned plans after an outcry from residents and civic groups. Welcoming the decision, chairman of the Hammersmith Society, Melanie Whitlock, said: "We welcome any money being spent on a listed building provided that core library services are being preserved. There's no reason not to have other services provided in the same building, as long as the provision of books is protected.". However, fears that books will be shoehorned into corner.
Kirklees – Council plan casts doubt on future of village libraries – Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Several smaller libraries feared under threat. "A spokesman for Kirklees Council said: "At this time of year the council embarks on the process of setting the budget for the coming year as part of the three-year budget plan to balance the books. "The financial situation having not improved, there is a continuing need for us to achieve efficiencies from across the whole range of services and councillors will have some difficult decisions to make. As part of last year's budget settlement, there was all-party agreement to continue to fund the library service whilst requiring officers to review provision."
Leeds – Village will decide library's fate – Morley Observer and Advertiser. "Following public consultation, it was said that Drighlington Library would stay open to allow talks over the possibility of it being run by the community. A steering group, The Friends of Drighlington Community, has now been formed and two meetings will be held this week where everyone will be welcome to given their views."
"We have asked people around the village what they want to see at the library and they have said everything from coffee mornings to a computer club. But to make it a success, we need the community's help. We would need staff – from people working on the counter to cleaners – even if people can only spare an hour or so a week, even a month, it will all help."
Middlesbrough – Pupils launch campaign to save Marton Library – Gazette. "Marton Library is earmarked for closure by the council under plans unveiled by mayor Ray Mallon to reduce its annual budget. The children of the school's own council are now writing to Mr Mallon and council officers to highlight their concerns. Chairman of the school council 11-year-old James Wood said: "The library is so important to us. Lots of the children at school go there to get books to read and help with homework and projects."
Oxfordshire – Save the back offices at all costs – Question Everything. Oxfordshire is surrounded by other Conservative-run councils so the defence of the back office to the expense of branch libraries is not political. Big savings can be made by merging behind the scenes officers/management but is not doing so. Suspicion council is protecting its own officers and also keen to promote Big Society libraries even if other ways are there to save the money.
North Yorkshire – Libraries to lose 36 jobs – Whitby Gazette. One-fifth of library workforce to be cut. "County councillor Chris Metcalfe, executive members for libraries, said: "We have listened to what people have said about how they want to become involved in the provision of this service, we have examined the proposals they have put forward for achieving those aims and I'm delighted to say that the result is a set of proposals designed to ensure a viable and sustainable future for our libraries.""
Surrey – Concerns raised over future of Hersham Library – Elmbridge Today. "However, in the village itself, there are fears that volunteers will be asked to take control of the facility and that it may even close if nobody comes forward. The friends of Hersham Library have now organised a protest march on November 23. A public meeting is also being held on November 30 to discuss the library and its future. Local resident Roy Green said: "This is the third time in 25 years that we have had this problem in Hersham and had to fight to keep Hersham Library open. "It is a vital asset and a community centre. We are very proud of the staff we have got there. Some of the staff have been there for more than 23 years.". Estimates 100 volunteers needed to keep branch open.
Wokingham – Libraries' future to be debated – Get Wokingham. "The council's executive approved proposals in June this year to seek a private organisation to take over the running of the libraries in a bid to save £170,000 a year. But the move prompted a huge backlash from library users and a campaign and petition were launched by Liberal Democrats Anthony Vick and Rachelle Shepherd-DuBey."
"We are currently in a competitive dialogue process with potential library partners and cannot discuss details of these discussions. But many exciting and innovative ideas have come forward that could build on what is offered at our libraries." UllaKarin Clark, Councillor, Wokingham.
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I sheepishly emailed the Southside Players in mid-September enquiring whether they would be looking for any new members. I received a friendly and encouraging response asking me to come along to watch a rehearsal of the, then upcoming production of 'Calendar Girls'. I was welcomed with open arms and treated to a behind the scenes taster of how this dynamic and diverse group tackle a rehearsal! Ideas were swapped and roles were adapted and changed, it was really interesting – I also enjoyed the somewhat mandatory glass of wine in the pub after a Sunday rehearsal!
Needless to say, I wanted in! Especially so after seeing the full, professional and delightfully entertaining performance of 'Calendar Girls'!
The day of my audition finally came – three friendly faces smiled up at me as I took to the abandoned 'Calendar Girls' stage. It was nerve-wracking, exciting and absolutely brilliant to have an audience, albeit a small audience!
As new member of Southside, I have been extremely lucky to secure a part in the upcoming production of 'Road' by Jim Cartwright and throughout the rehearsals and social events have never looked back!
– Owen will be playing the parts of Joey and the Soldier in Road, performed at the Chestnut Grove School Theatre, February 20th-23rd 2013.


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Until the end of 2015, BEV cars were exempt from paying the (very significant) registration taks (VAT was still applied) (ACEA, 2017c). In 2016, the government decided to gradually phase in a vehicle registration tax for BEVs: 20% of the full registration tax in 2016, 40% in 2017, 65% in 2018, 90% in 2019 and 100% in 2020. The registration tax for cars has also decreased since2015. These changes paralysed electric car sales.To re-boot the market, the Danish government introduced a deduction based on battery capacity in April 2017. At the same time it decided to maintain the registration tax for BEV cars at 20% for two additional years or until reaching the threshold of 5 000 new registrations (Government of Denmark, 2017). In October 2017, a new reduced registration tax for cars was enforced. This includes new incentives for electric and efficient cars (SKAT, 2018).
The Danish government issued a rule exempting electric cars from parking fees for up to DKK 5 000 (EUR 670) per year (Flader, 2017). In practice, this means that other than in Copenhagen, electric car owners rarely pay for public parking.
Since 2016, Denmark offers a taks exemption for commercial charging, which in 2017 was extended to 2019, and favourable tariffs for electric buses were extended to 2024 (Government of Denmark, 2017).
Companies that supply EV charging on a commercial basis can receive an electricity tax rebate that amount to approximately 1 DKK ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour.
In Denmark, circulation taxes are differentiated based on fuel consumption and weight. BEVs pay the minimum amount and PHEVs pay less than an equivalent ICE car.
Since 2013, the Danish Energy Agency has funded programmes to support municipalities and companies in the purchase of electric cars for fleets (Sørensen, 2017). Public procurement is moving quickly in Copenhagen, which aims to convert its entire bus fleet to electric vehicles by 2031.


REGION — Mancelona senior Matt Boyer and Forest Area junior Chase Ingersoll were among the players selected to the All-Ski Valley Conference boys basketball first team for their play during the 2018-19 season.
CENTRAL LAKE — Forget about any of Central Lake's players being alive the last time the Trojans won back-to-back boys basketball district titles.
CENTRAL LAKE — Survive and advance is a familiar refrain for basketball teams come tournament time.
ELLSWORTH — Win No. 13 in a row was not unlucky for the Ellsworth boys basketball team.
ELK RAPIDS — With the boys basketball season winding down, and weather cancelled games still needed to be played, the Elks took to the road playing three games in three days.
ELK RAPIDS — Playing in its first game in 10 days due to the whims of Mother Nature, Elk Rapids held visiting East Jordan to just 10 second-half points for a dominating 73 -33 Lake Michigan Conference win on Friday.
MANCELONA — First place in the Ski Valley Conference was on the line when Pellston traveled to Mancelona for a high stakes boys basketball game on Tuesday night.
MANCELONA — The Mancelona boys basketball team went on a revenge tour last week and was able to deliver paybacks from earlier losses this year in wins over Gaylord St. Mary and Johannesburg-Lewiston.
KALKASKA — The Elks' boys basketball team headed into Kalkaska on Tuesday, Jan. 22 undefeated in the Lake Michigan Conference with a six-game winning streak, but the Blazers ended both runs with an 88-81 win.


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It appears there's a reason so many crime books and films involve abandoning cars in airport long-term parking lots. Nobody notices them.
At Kansas City International Airport, a decomposing corpse sat for eight months behind the steering wheel of a vehicle in an airport's long-term carpark without being noticed or arousing suspicion.
Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the deceased searched high and low for the missing man.
Relatives even hired a private investigator to track down the dead man.
Randy Potter, 53, who worked for a mobile phone company, went missing in January. After an extensive search that continued for practically all of this year, family members were shocked and dismayed to learn he had been deceased all this time, the Kansas City Star reported.
Police discovered Potter's body sitting in his truck when they investigated reports of a foul smell emanating from a vehicle in the long-term carpark at MCI.
The family held a news conference on Friday to ask why Potter wasn't found sooner.
Potter's wife and niece, who went to the airport looking for him within a week of his disappearance, say airport authorities assured them that if Potter's vehicle was in the carpark, security officers would surely find it. They didn't, though thousands of people drove past the parked truck.
Authorities say Potter's death appears to have been a suicide.


Today's networking model is complex and can be difficult to provision and troubleshoot for security, path optimization, QoS, and policy compliance. A distinct problem is implementing and maintaining network settings across multiple devices in a campus or WAN network. At best, the settings are static and time consuming to implement; at worst, manually implemented, error-prone and poorly managed, or just not feasible. Is there a better way for network engineers to manage their network infrastructure?
At Cisco Live Milan (Jan 2014), Citrix and Cisco teamed up to demonstrate dynamic provisioning of QoS settings across multiple Cisco campus and WAN devices. Upon recognizing a VDI traffic flow needing higher QoS prioritization, the Citrix NetScaler ADC communicated to the new Cisco ACI Application Policy Infrastructure Controller's (APIC) Enterprise Module using the APIC EM's REST-based APIs. In response the APIC EM pushed new QoS settings to the network devices carrying that specific traffic. Not only were the QoS settings provisioned automatically, it was done on a per session basis, something that is impossible with normal network management tools. The result – an improved VDI end user experience. To see the demo, click on this Cisco TechWise TV video and jump to 18:20 on the timeline.
In addition to QoS settings, the Cisco APIC EM controller can dynamically maintain ACL and Multi-path route settings across an entire WAN and campus network. Citrix NetScaler leverages the APIC EM APIs to deliver the best application experience possible, automatically.
In the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live San Francisco (May 19-22), Citrix and Cisco will demonstrate additional API-based integration between Citrix solutions and the Cisco APIC Enterprise Module. Citrix techs will show you how to simplify and automate the WAN and Access portions of your network, especially around user identity, policy compliance, QoS, and other network gateway issues. In addition, we will explore how you can take advantage of the latest from Citrix and Cisco to drive automation for provisioning and maintaining your network in a faster simpler way.
Citrix invites you to come to the Citrix developers pod at DevNet and we will take you through the Citrix vision for integration between Citrix solutions and Cisco's APIC Enterprise Module to deliver apps and data with the best performance and reliability.
We look forward to seeing you there and helping your network automation ideas come alive!
As a Strategic Alliances Director, Rod oversees the growth of Citrix's strategic business and technical relationship with Cisco, specializing in the cloud and networking marketplaces. He has over 30 years experience in the networking and computing industries and has held management level positions in the software industry for the past 15 years. Rod's extensive background includes roles in consultative systems engineering, software development, and product marketing. The past 12 years have been spent exclusively managing industry partnerships with Microsoft and Cisco.


Going Up unblocked is like a doodle jump based game. You use balloons to go up over time sort of as a timer. The balloons are attached to a ball that you can control. Your goal is to jump as high as you can and collect stars in an unlimited sky. You only get 3 lives before you restart. If you get a good score you have the option to add your name at the end of the game to keep a record of your best scores.


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UEFA spooks pay TV with D2C overture
The specter of D2C is turning into reality for some major sports leagues as UEFA, Europe's association football governing body, plans to ramp up its own OTT service with some live Champions League matches in lesser territories in the next rights cycle commencing almost two years from now in late 2021. We have been charting the groundswell welling up for D2C in major sports for some time now, stressing the likelihood that the big leagues would test the waters with highlights packages, or streaming live matches in their smaller country markets. One thing not quite right in media reports of UEFA's plans is the suggestion that it is motivated by concern that major pay TV operators are falling out of…
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Luscious and bright, this marmalade combines the delicate flavour of apricots with the zest of citrus. Packed with flavour, it's like sunshine on your morning toast. Use as a glaze, as a cake filling, as a dessert topping, or just eat as it is!


After the Red Sox won in 1967, people would flock in there to see anything. There was a mystique to the place that still exists.
I'd go out and get plenty of respect. But they would still call me Gino. He would go out and be called Babe. I was married and Gino was single, so that things interesting.


KLM is the national carrier of the Netherlands and flies to over 90 destinations worldwide. The airline has recently merged with Air France allowing KLM to join the Skyteam Alliance. The airline flies from 18 airports in the UK and Ireland to a variety of destinations across the world. Based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the airline has a reputation as a world-class carrier which is recognised as the world's oldest airline still operating under its original name.
KLM fly to a large number of both long and short haul destinations. Due to the inclusion in the SkyTeam Alliance American flights are particularly popular, as well as to closer European destinations. KLM flies from a variety of UK airports, including Heathrow, Manchester and Glasgow.
KLM flights allow a minimum of 31 inches leg room for all passengers, with additional leg room in Economy Comfort Class and Business Class. Seats in all class cabins vary in size and pitch depending on aircraft; you can check the seat dimensions on your flight by visiting the KLM website.
KLM advises that all passengers should be able to 'effortlessly move the arm rests of their seat on board up and down'. For those passengers who may compromise a section of the adjacent seat(s), it is advised that a second seat is booked in advance; these seats will receive a 25% discount. If an extra seat is booked and upon departure, at least one seat is available in the same travel class on your flight, you can apply for a refund of the costs of the second seat.
KLM work hard to ensure that all passengers will have a comfortable flight, whether at economy or first class level. Most aircraft have seatback personal screens for entertainment purposes, including the facility to text and email while in the air. Some flights even offer quick lessons in the language of the destination! Also available to all passengers is a copy of the Holland Herald; KLM's in-flight magazine with news, features and competitions relating to a different theme each month.
On short haul flights business class is known as Europe Business Class, while on long haul flights the service is known as World Business Class.
World Business Class offers a 60 inch pitch for passengers, with a 176 degree angled lie flat seat. Seat back TV monitors with AVOD (audio video on demand) and email text messaging capabilities are available, as well as a privacy canopy, a massage function and a power socket. Boeing 777-300ER flights also have personal; reading lamps, foot rests and personal telephones. Dining options include a three course meal, pre-departure snacks and drinks and additional small nibbles while flying. World Business Class passengers may also use the exclusive check in desks and airport lounge facilities where available. KLM World Business Class passengers are also presented with KLM Delft Blue Houses; small blue-and-white porcelain reproductions of old Dutch canal houses, filled with jenever as flight mementos. These houses are each numbered according to the year of the flight and can be highly sought after by collectors.
Europe Business Class offers the same lounge access and check in options, as well as a 33 inch seat pitch with additional incline and in seat power sockets. Passengers benefit from on board newspapers, a meal, more personal space and fully flexible booking.
Seats have a 31 inch seat pitch on all aircraft (other than the Airbus A330-200, which has a 32 inch pitch) but there is no in-flight entertainment on short haul flights. Longer flights on Boeing 747 aircraft have private seatback screens. Long haul flight passengers receive a hot meal service, while short haul passengers receive a snack and drink. All drinks (excluding champagne) are free on KLM for all passengers.
Economy Comfort Class is offered on all flights; the additional facilities vary depending on whether the service is inter- or intra-continental. Upgrading to Economy Comfort Class costs between 20 and 70 Euros, and guarantees a greater seat pitch and recline, and quick disembarkation. It does not change luggage allowance or in-flight services a passenger receives. Some Flying Blue members can upgrade to Economy Comfort Class free of charge.
One bag is permitted, not exceeding 22lb weight or dimensions 22 x 14 x 10in. One personal item is also allowed, such as a purse, umbrella or blanket.
Europe: one bag is permitted, with a maximum weight of 23kg and maximum linear dimensions of 158cm (length + width + height).
Rest of World (check to ensure your destination is covered): two bags are permitted, with a maximum weight of 23kg and maximum linear dimensions of 158cm (length + width + height).
For World Business Class and Europe Select passengers, an additional two pieces of luggage of the same size and weight as the above are permitted.
Passengers travelling with a child under two years old without a booked seat may also check in one additional piece of luggage (under 10kg) and one carry-on for infant food and other in-flight necessities. You may also check in one fully collapsible stroller, as a carry-on item if cabin space is available or else as checked baggage in the hold. If you have booked a seat for your child you may also take a car seat into the cabin, but there are regulations relating to the standard of car seat which are suitable; check with the airline before flying.
Sports equipment will be treated as part of your baggage and will incur excess baggage charges if necessary. This includes bicycles and SCUBA gear. The exception is golf equipment; one golf bag per passenger can be checked into the hold free of charge if the entire journey is operated by KLM or Air France.
Musical instruments are also treated as part of luggage and need to occupy an additional, paid for seat in the cabin if it is too large to be treated as hand luggage.
SkyTeam flies to 898 airports in 169 countries, serving 385 million passengers annually.
Passengers flying on a flight operated by any SkyTeam partner can earn miles towards benefits on any partner airlines flights, according to the rules of the individual airlines. Passengers can work towards SkyTeam Elite and SkyTeam Elite Plus status, gaining benefits such as airport lounge access, priority check-in, preferred seating and guaranteed reservations on sold out flights.
If you are already a KLM silver tier passenger you automatically qualify as a SkyTeam Elite member. If you are a KLM gold or platinum tier passenger, you qualify as a SkyTeam Elite Plus passenger.
Being part of the SkyTeam Alliance also allows KLM to offer flights as part of the SkyTeam Round The World (RTW) and country specific passes. The popular RTW pass allows passengers to travel to between 3 and 15 destinations across the globe, with flights spanning between 10 days and a whole year! For more info, take a look at the SkyTeam website.
KLM passengers can become a member of Flying Blue, KLM's airmiles rewards system. The system is simple; the more you fly with KLM, the more points you amass, which can be used to gain services on KLM flights. KLM offer two types of Miles; Award Miles and Level Miles, both of which are earned every time you fly on an eligible flight.
Award Miles: earned each time you fly KLM or with any eligible partner flight, Award miles can be spent on offers – from award tickets to hotel packages. Award Miles are valid for life, if you fly at least once every 20 months with Air France, KLM or any other SkyTeam partner.
Level Miles: Level Miles take you to a higher Flying Blue membership level: from Ivory to Silver, Gold or Platinum. Level Miles are valid until 31 December each year. On 1 January, your Level Miles are reset to zero for a new year.
KLM offers a range of dining options across all flights in each cabin class. Depending on whether your flight is short or long haul, Economy passengers will be offered either a small snack or a choice of two hot meals, respectively. Economy passengers also have the option of ordering from an a la carte menu on some longer flights.
For business class passengers, a larger selection of snacks and meals are offered, including fresh fruit and yogurt on short haul flights. Longer flights have hot meals, including appetiser and dessert served separately, for business class passengers. World Business Class passengers are offered three course meals prepared by top chef Jonnie Boer.
There are some discounts for children, but these do not include promotional or already reduced fares. Children under one always travel at reduced rates, but are expected to travel on the lap of a parent or guardian. There are no reduced rates for senior travellers.
KLM ensures that all disabled passengers have the required facilities for their flight; they offer assistance while boarding and disembarking, transport of mobility devices, facilities for assistance dogs and meals according to dietary requirements. It's suggested that you let the airline know of your requirements at least 48 hours before your flight.