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January: British Airways announced the introduction of a new cabin, World Traveller Plus. The cabin would offer more space and facilities than World Traveller for a premium to the full World Traveller fare. Services between London and New York JFK were to be fully embodied with both the Club World 'Lounge in the Sky', the world's first fully flat bed in business class, and World Traveller Plus by Summer 2000.
British Airways took delivery of its first two Boeing 777 extended range aircraft.
British Airways completed the £17m (R168m) purchase of an 18.3% shareholding in Comair, its franchise partner in Southern Africa.
British Airways agreed to sell Galileo UK to Galileo International Inc.
British Airways launched the world's first commercial interactive TV service offered by an airline. The service was to appear within the interactive TV travel sections of the UK cable companies Cable & Wireless Communications, ntl and Telewest.
February: British Airways announced its e-business strategy, comprising e-Commerce, e-Working, e-Procurement and e-Ventures. E-Procurement was targeted to increase on-line purchasing in the UK from 25% to 80% by March 2002, saving more than £175m on the airline's £3.7 billion a year purchasing spend. E-Working was to transform the way the company carried out its business internally. E-Ventures included three new on-line ventures, in which up to £100m of investment was planned over the following two years. These would be an on-line travel agency; a lifestyle portal; and a significant expansion of the on-line activities of Air Miles.
British Airways and Qantas announced the introduction of new services between the UK and Australia. Together, the airlines were to offer four daily services between London and Sydney. Qantas would also add a second daily service between Melbourne and London. Frequencies between Singapore and Perth were to rise to 18 per week, with Singapore-Brisbane frequencies rising to 11 per week. These legs were to be operated by Qantas 767 aircraft and would offer more connections to London via Singapore. To support the new schedules, Qantas was to lease from British Airways seven Boeing 767 aircraft, released as a result of BA's new fleet strategy.
The oneworld® alliance announced the formation of a central management team to drive future growth and the launch of new customer services and benefits. It would be led by Peter Buecking, who was to step down from his role as Sales and marketing director with Cathay Pacific Airways. As oneworld managing partner, he would report to the alliance's governing board, comprising of the chief executives of the member airlines.
March: British Airways completed its acquisition of 9% of the shares in Iberia, at a total of Ptas41 billion (£155m). If the price of the shares in Iberia offered through its public flotation were less, the sum paid by British Airways was to be reduced accordingly.
British Airways and Cathay Pacific signed a codeshare agreement, adding Cathay's CX code on British Airways' flights between Heathrow with Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester.
April: Six major world airlines, including British Airways, announced the formation of a company to create and operate an internet marketplace, linking airlines worldwide with sellers of airline-related goods and services. The company would handle approximately $32 billion of the six airlines' supply chain business annually. The other founding member airlines were American Airlines, Air France, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines.
British Airways announced it was to transfer management of its flight booking, departure control, inventory and related information systems to Amadeus.
British Airways teamed up with GetThere.com, the leading supplier of internet-based business-to-business travel systems in the US, to launch a new on-line business travel management system. The private access website was available to travel agents for their medium to small sized corporate clients and also to corporate customers who wished to book directly.
Following extensive consultation with trade bodies and UK travel agents, British Airways announced the payment levels for the agents' remuneration scheme, which in 2001 was to replace the standard seven 7% payment. Payments were to be higher for longhaul than for shorthaul, and for full fare flexible tickets than restricted tickets to reflect the increased workload.
May: British Airways sold its 86% shareholding in the parent company of Air Liberté to Taitbout Antibes BV. British Airways' net cash proceeds were FFr457m (£40m). Accounting rules required goodwill previously written off to be reinstated, leading to a loss on disposal of approximately £56m. The net effect of the disposal was to increase reserves by £117m, and eliminate the continuing trading losses of Air Liberté.
In conjunction with ten other major airlines, British Airways announced the creation of the first European, multi-airline, on-line travel agency. The new site would offer the public access to the most up-to-date fare information, including the airlines' lowest branded fares. Passengers would also be able to book hotels, car hire, insurance and other travel services through the site.
British Airways sold its 14.1% stake in Hogg Robinson to the management buy-out consortium, leading to a £4.9m profit on disposal.
British Airways rolled out a free on-line information service for leisure and business travel agencies. This gave give the UK travel trade extranet capability, allowing the agent to view product and service information, special promotions, training information and an on-line service to enable agents to talk to the trade query centre.
1 May: Rod Eddington joined British Airways as Chief executive, succeeding Robert Ayling. Previously Mr. Eddington was Managing director of Cathay Pacific and Executive chairman of Ansett.
June: With the entry into service of the ninth Airbus A319 at Birmingham, the last Boeing 737-236 aircraft was retired from the Eurohub terminal.
British Airways and LanChile announced a codesharing agreement. Due to start in August, LanChile would operate connections between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile, replacing British Airways' service on that sector, which had struggled to make a profit since introduction in 1993.
Canadian Airlines International withdrew from the oneworld alliance. oneworld airlines continued to provide services to seven Canadian cities with 64 daily flights.
British Airways consolidated its leisure activities into one division, to offer an integrated range of leisure products sold through all distribution channels, including travel agents, tour operators, British Airways Telesales, Travel Shops and ba.com.
British Airways renewed its franchise agreement with GB Airways for a further eight years. The Gatwick-based carrier had been a franchise carrier since 1995.
July: The embodiment of Club World flat beds was completed for the Heathrow to JFK route.
British Airways launched a trial offering on-line check-in for its top corporate customers via the British Airways extranet. The system allowed customers to check in and select seats from home or the office up to 24 hours before departure. If the trial proved successful, the service was to be offered to the top 200 corporate customers by the end of March 2001.
The British Airways Executive Club was relaunched with an enhanced range of benefits. In October, BA Miles would replace Air Miles as the mileage currency for UK Executive Club members. Members would be able to earn miles on discount economy fares for the first time and mid and longhaul destinations were to be easier to reach. BA Miles were to focus on rewarding anyone who flies with British Airways, while Air Miles continued as the UK's leading frequent shopping reward scheme.
CityFlyer Express ordered six new Avro RJ100 jets, together with options for six more. The aircraft were to be used to upgrade selected routes currently operated by ATR aircraft, as well as introduce some new routes on to the CityFlyer network. Delivery of the aircraft was scheduled from November 2000 through to April 2001.
National Jet Italia, a start-up carrier, became the 11th member of the British Airways franchise family, flying from Rome to Palermo four times daily.
August: The new Club World flying beds were now available on the Hong Kong route. The seats had been well-received by customers on the Heathrow to New York JFK route, with a significant rise in customer satisfaction ratings for cabin crew, catering, sleep, privacy, comfort and space.
World Traveller Plus was now available to be booked between London Heathrow and New York JFK, Hong Kong and San Francisco for services from 29 October.
British Airways cancelled all Concorde operations after the loss of an Air France aircraft near Paris Charles de Gaulle on 25 July. British Airways remained optimistic that services would resume at some point. As a result of the suspension of Concorde operations, an extra 32 new Club World seats were to be available on two daily Heathrow to New York JFK services from mid-September.
October: Following the completion of the Club Europe embodiment on its aircraft, British Airways increased the baggage allowance for the cabin. Passengers could now take two pieces of hand baggage weighing up to 18kgs on board, doubling the previous allowance.
AirNewco, an airline-led B2B initiative which included British Airways, and MyAircraft, a B2B exchange led by aerospace manufacturers, announced their intent to combine their efforts into one venture.
British Airways launched a new corporate rewards program for small to medium sized businesses, called On Business, following a successful nine months trial period. Each time an employee of a member company booked an eligible fare with British Airways, the company earnt points which could be exchanged for a range of business travel rewards, such as free flights, chauffeur drives to or from UK airports, Heathrow and Gatwick Express train tickets and hotel vouchers.
British Airways and Iberia announced further codesharing agreements. BA codes were added to Iberia services between Gatwick and Oviedo, Palma and Ibiza and between Palma and Mahon. The IB code was added to BA flights between Gatwick and Faro, Oporto, Palma, Tenerife and Bermuda and between Heathrow and Faro.
November: British Airways announced that it was to restructure its operations at Gatwick into a largely point-to-point business. British Airways also announced its intention to sell Go, its no frills subsidiary, and to better integrate its various shorthaul operations.
British Airways unveiled its new-look First cabin. The investment included new interiors, improvements to seat cushioning and bedding, and in-seat telephones and laptop power.
British Airways and Finnair extended their codesharing agreement to include a longhaul route. Finnair's AY flight code was added to one of British Airways' two daily services between Heathrow and Toronto.
December: British Airways announced the results of its review of Gatwick operations, marking a shift from previous attempts to build Gatwick as a transfer hub. The plan, which was to be implemented over two years, included reducing longhaul destinations served from Gatwick from 43 to around 25, through cutting some destinations and relocating other services to Heathrow. Gatwick's shorthaul business would be refocused on serving the needs of London and South East England, and the consolidation of City Flyer operations in the North Terminal.
Thomas Cook and British Airways announced that they planned to merge their existing UK scheduled businesses, Thomas Cook Holidays and British Airways Holidays outbound business, to create a 50/50 joint venture company.
British Airways appointed Mike Street, the airline's Director for Customer Service and Operations, to the company's board.
Zambian Air Services (ZAS) became a British Airways franchise company. ZAS was to begin flying from Johannesburg to N'dola twice a week and from Johannesburg to Lusaka three times a week.
January: British Airways began modifying its Concorde aircraft, with the hope of resuming services later in the year. £17m was to be spent on safety-related modifications and £14m on upgrading the onboard product.
British Airways announced large cuts in many of its fares, effective from 1 April. The adjustments to fares reflected the changes in payments to agents, following the introduction of its new agents' remuneration scheme.
British Airways announced the launch of its new Value Pass, enabling passengers to buy full fare domestic and Club Europe e-tickets in bulk at a 10-18% discount.
British Airways and Iberia announced the expansion of their codesharing agreement to cover four destinations in Spain served by Iberia subsidiary Air Nostrum. From February, the BA code would be added to Air Nostrum/Iberia flights between Madrid and the regional cities of Almeria, Murcia, Pamplona and Zaragoza.
February: British Airways re-opened its First class lounge at London Heathrow's Terminal 4 for premium passengers, ensuring unrivalled comfort and luxury on the ground and in the air. A new Concorde Room designed by Sir Terence Conran was also opened in the airline's Lounge Pavilion at Terminal 4, in anticipation of a resumption of supersonic services later in the year.
March: British Airways confirmed it intended to make a recommended offer for all of the issued shares in British Regional Air Lines PLC (BRAL). The offer was subject to formal approval by the Office of Fair Trading. The purchase was a further step in British Airways' previously announced plans to co-ordinate better its various shorthaul businesses and reduce fragmentation among subsidiary and franchise partners.
The Airline Group, including British Airways, was named by the UK Government as strategic partner for National Air Traffic Services' public-private partnership. The group announced plans for £1 billion worth of investment.
April: British Airways and Iberia announced that they were to extend their codesharing arrangements to long-distance routes. British Airways' code was to be added to Iberia's six weekly flights between Madrid and Lima. Iberia's code was to be placed on five weekly British Airways flights between London Heathrow and Bangkok.
Australia became the latest country to get the Next Generation products; the Club World flat beds and World Traveller Plus. Aircraft flying to Melbourne and Sydney were embodied with the new 21st century products.
May: British Airways announced that customers could save money each time they buy a ticket from the airline's website - www.ba.com. Passengers would benefit from a £3 discount for domestic and shorthaul flights and £5 for longhaul journeys. The discount applied to all bookings to and from the UK.
June: British Airways sold its no-frills subsidiary "Go" for £100m to private equity company 3i.
British Airways celebrated 10 years of operations at Birmingham's Eurohub.
July: British Airways Concorde G-BOAF flew for the first time since modifications were made as part of the programme to return the supersonic airliner safely to service.
11 September: Possibly the worst day in aviation history. Terrorists hijacked two United Airlines and two American Airlines flights, crashing two of the aircraft into the World Trade Centre's twin towers in New York, and a third into the Pentagon in Washington. The fourth aircraft crashed in woodland in Pennsylvania. No British Airways aircraft were directly involved, although 22 aircraft were diverted. More than 4,000 people were killed. Staff all over British Airways volunteered to ease disruption in the terminals as chaos reigned following many cancellations and aircraft diversions.
Following the attacks British Airways drew up a plan of action. A Business Response Scheme to achieve 7,000 workforce reductions was approved. A reduction in flying of 10% was also announced. Other measures included a review of spending on new projects, aircraft modifications, investment in products and a moratorium on IT expenditure.
Concorde's Certificate of Airworthiness was returned by the Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent, DGAC. It marked the end of an intensive programme of work by the manufacturers, regulatory authorities, British Airways and Air France to ensure Concorde returned safely into service.
October: British Airways combined its two UK regional subsidiaries, British Airways Regional (BAR) and CitiExpress, creating the second largest regional airline in Europe. The combined regional business would have a turnover in excess of £600m and a fleet of 92 aircraft serving more than 120 routes. The new entity would employ around 3,200 people and carry some 5m passengers each year.
Concorde tickets went on sale and were snapped up in preparation for the flagship's return to commercial service.
British Airways launched a new twice-daily service between Manchester and Zurich. The flight, operated by British Airways CitiExpress, the wholly owned British Airways regional subsidiary, provided a Club Europe and Euro Traveller service.
British Airways launched a promotion to get people flying again, with 50,000 Club class tickets up for grabs for Executive Club members, enabling them to take a companion free. Five million cut-price tickets also went on sale to destinations all over Europe with children able to fly for free.
British Airways won the prestigious Grand Prix Award for International Design Effectiveness for the new Club World seat which turned into a six-foot fully flat bed. The award was given in recognition of how the product had revolutionised business travel. The seat also won the best consumer product award.
November: Armour-plated cockpit doors were fitted on all British Airways aircraft as an extra security measure.
7 November: Concorde returned to commercial service. G-BOAF landed in New York for the first time since July the previous year. The atmosphere on board was described as "electric".
Heathrow Terminal 5 was given the go-ahead by the UK Government. It was due to open in 2007.
December: Concorde services returned to Barbados. British Airways was to operate a once a week scheduled supersonic service to the island from London Heathrow. The average flight time between London Heathrow and Barbados was 3 hours and 50 minutes. A subsonic aircraft such as a Boeing 747, flying the same distance, averaged a flight time of 8 hours 50 minutes.
British Airways suspended services from Hong Kong to Taipei and Manila. British Airways and its oneworld alliance partner, Cathay Pacific Airways, announced an expansion to their codesharing agreement to cover Kuala Lumpur, Auckland and eleven destinations in Europe.
January: British Airways increased services to Nassau and Grand Cayman for the summer to cope with increased demand. The extra weekly service meant an additional Boeing 767 was put on the route to operate to the Caribbean islands.
The US Department of Transportation announced the regulatory conditions for the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines, which involved giving up 224 Heathrow slots. Rod Eddington, British Airways' chief executive and Don Carty, chairman and chief executive, American Airlines said the regulatory price was too high.
February: The chief executives of the eight oneworld member airlines - Aer Lingus, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, LanChile and Qantas - underlined their commitment to the alliance by accelerating plans to deepen working relationships between the partners. The new developments included a major expansion of codesharing agreements between the airlines.
British Airways unveiled a major package of measures designed to return the airline to profitability, following a wide-ranging analysis of its business, led by chief executive Rod Eddington. The review - known as Future Size and Shape - showed the measures that would need to be introduced to meet £650m of annualised cost savings. They included 5,800 further job losses in addition to 7,200 announced previously with total head office and support staff to be reduced by more than a third and a significant restructuring of the short haul business to compete with no frills carriers.
March: The wholly owned BA subsidiary BA CitiExpress was officially launched, operating to 48 destinations from 26 airports.
Passengers benefited from travelling with a full service regional airline that offered high frequency schedules to some of Europe's top cities. BA CitiExpress was created from the integration of two wholly owned subsidiaries, Brymon Airways and British Regional Airlines.
April: British Airways signed a deal with Warburg Pincus to enable the private equity investor to acquire a majority shareholding in World Network Services (WNS), the airline's India-based data management company. The sale of WNS was put forward to enhance the future growth prospects and development of the company and allowed British Airways to maintain a meaningful stake, whilst pursuing its ongoing strategy to focus on core business.
The outcome of the Future Size and Shape in the regions was unveiled. BA CitiExpress had undertaken a review to ensure the profitability of its services at airports throughout the UK. They announced the withdrawal of 12 loss-making routes, launched two new routes, increased frequency on nine and reduced staffing by the equivalent of 500 full time positions. The changes were to bring £20m cost savings each year by 2004.
May: BA launched a summer promotion for Concorde return fares to New York. The special Concorde tickets went on sale for £3,999 representing savings of up to £3,867. The tickets were on sale throughout May.
British Airways signed a deal with easyJet for the sale of Deutsche BA (DBA), a subsidiary which flew exclusively in Germany. Under the terms of the deal BA granted easyJet the option to buy 100% of DBA by 31 March 2003. The deal was potentially worth between £18.3m (30m euros) and £28m (46m euros), dependent on when easyJet exercised the option.
June: British Airways and Finnair expanded their current codesharing arrangements by adding destinations in South Africa, Canada and the UK regions. The Finnair code was added to BA operated flights from London to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. British Airways also added its code to selected flights operated by Finnair.
British Airways cut European air fares by up to 80% on 42 routes. Saturday night stay and advance purchase restrictions were scrapped and prices slashed to from £59 return on domestic routes and £69 return to Europe. More than 50,000 air tickets at the lowest fare would be available every month on the 71 domestic and European routes, which also would have lower flexible fares and fewer booking restrictions.
July: A World Traveller Plus promotion was launched on 11 US destinations for passengers to travel for an extra £150 for a one-way upgrade in the airline's premier economy cabin. A return ticket to New York, Boston and Washington with a one-way upgrade to World Traveller Plus started from £399 including taxes (saving up to £74).
British Airways and its oneworld partner, Iberia, announced that they would be expanding their codesharing arrangements, resulting in new international destinations for each carrier. From 12 July, the Iberia code was added to connecting flights operated by British Airways from London Heathrow to Budapest, Nairobi and Singapore. At the same time, British Airways added its code to connecting flights operated by Iberia from its main hub in Madrid for travel on to Havana in Cuba and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
British Airways and SN Brussels Airlines announced that they were entering into a commercial relationship, subject to regulatory approvals. The agreement between the two carriers was to enable the SN Brussels flight code to be placed on all British Airways services between Brussels and London from 27 October. In addition to the codeshare, new ticketing arrangements were put in place to allow customers to benefit from improved access to each airline's network.
British Airways announced changes to its winter schedule for 2002, which included increased services to profitable destinations and further route transfers from London Gatwick to London Heathrow. These transfers were in line with the airline's Future Size and Shape strategy, unveiled in February 2002. Services to San Diego, Denver and Phoenix in the USA and Harare in Zimbabwe and Lusaka in Zambia moved from Gatwick to Heathrow's Terminal 4, a move which concentrated British Airways' African network at Heathrow. Flights to New York's JFK airport from Heathrow increased from six to seven daily sub-sonic services.
August: The launch of British Airways' winter longhaul sale saw thousands of discounted flight tickets to 49 far flung destinations, offering savings of up to £204. Prices started from just £239 for a return ticket to New York, Boston and Atlanta including taxes. Prices were reduced by up to 80% on flights to Spain, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary and Luxembourg, completing the launch by the airline of year-round low fares on 170 key routes to Europe.
November: British Airways and American Airlines filed an application with the US Department of Transportation seeking US regulatory approval to offer certain codeshare services permitted under the current provisions of the US-UK air services agreement. The arrangement was to enable British Airways to place its code on American's flights beyond British Airways' US gateway cities to points in the US, Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America. The application submitted by the two carriers excluded codesharing on each other's transatlantic services between the US and London.
December: British Airways switched its aircraft order with Airbus to receive 10 A321 aircraft instead of 12 A318 aircraft and three A319 aircraft. The airline's capital spend with Airbus for the orders placed in 1998 and 1999 remained unchanged. The move came as part of BA's fleet simplification strategy to base its Airbus fleet at London Heathrow and Gatwick airports and re-deploy its fleet of 16 110-seat RJ100 aircraft from Gatwick to British Airways CitiExpress at regional airports. British Airways announced that it would be simplifying and strengthening its UK regional operation.
British Airways CitiExpress was to operate for the first time from London City in April 2003 with the launch of three new routes. In addition British Airways was to give its key Manchester network a major boost with the introduction of three new routes and extra capacity. British Airways CitiExpress also signed a heads of terms with Eastern Airways with the intention of transferring its 12 strong fleet of 29-seater Jetstream 41 aircraft and its associated engineering hangar at Glasgow to the Humberside-based airline. This was the first part of an accelerated strategy to move to an all jet regional operation.
CitiExpress was to withdraw from 21 regional routes and would no longer fly from Cardiff and Leeds-Bradford airports.
January: British Airways announced new routes from Gatwick and Manchester and increased services on routes to Europe.
February: A three month internet trial began on a British Airways 747-400 aircraft, on services between London Heathrow and New York using Connexion by Boeing broadband system. Passengers could plug in their laptop from their seat and access personal and work emails, corporate intranets and the web.
British Airways, its oneworld partner Iberia and franchise partner GB Airways, announced new codeshare routes on services between London Heathrow and Seville, Valencia, Malaga, Santiago de Compostela and Bilbao and services between London, Gatwick and Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.
British Airways and its oneworld partner Cathay Pacific Airways increased their code-share destinations with the announcement of extra code-share flights to Seoul, Copenhagen and Lisbon.
April: British Airways announced the retirement of its Concorde fleet of seven aircraft with effect from the end of October 2003.
British Airways launches a new direct air link from Glasgow to London City operated by its wholly owned subsidiary, British Airways CitiExpress, using 110 seat RJ100 jet aircraft. This followed the launch of flights from London City to Paris and Frankfurt at the end of March.
May: British Airways signed an agreement to sell its wholly owned German subsidiary dba to Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, the Nuremburg-based aviation consultancy and investment company.
June: British Airways was named as the "best low cost airline" in an annual Guardian newspaper poll.
July: New services from Gatwick to Turin and Dubrovnik were announced.
August: The airline unveiled its first set of codeshare flights with oneworld partner American Airlines which would ultimately add more than 100 new destinations to its network. These routes included Raleigh Durham, Nashville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Minneapolis St Paul, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Panama City and San Antonio.
24 October: British Airways withdrew Concorde, signalling the closure of the world's only supersonic passenger services. The last scheduled commercial flight was BA2 from JFK operated by G-BOAG. BA's fleet of seven aircraft were dispersed for preservation at Barbados (AE), Edinburgh (AA), Filton (AF), Manchester (AC), New York (AD) and Seattle (AG) with one (AB) remaining at Heathrow.
October: British Airways introduced the award-winning Club World flat bed as well as World Traveller Plus, its premier economy cabin, on services from London Gatwick to Houston, Dallas and Bermuda operated by Boeing 777s.
December: British Airways, Iberia Airlines and BA franchise partner GB Airways were given exemption from competition legislation by the European Commission. The exemption allowed them to share airport facilities, extend code-sharing services, coordinate sales and marketing programmes, undertake joint network planning, coordinate capacity and pricing and cargo services.
January: British Airways' first transatlantic codeshare flights with American Airlines to and from the UK regions opened for sale on daily flights from Manchester to New York and Chicago.
February: The airline announced the launch of wireless internet connections at 80 of its main customer lounges around the world giving instant internet and email access to users.
March: The airline's Heathrow flight switch programme was completed. Seven shorthaul services transferred from Heathrow Terminal 1 to Terminal 4 and five longhaul services transferred from Terminal 4 to Terminal 1 making it more convenient for transfer passengers to connect between longhaul and shorthaul flights.
A new feature on ba.com was launched enabling customers to request their own seats and special meals.
April: British Airways unveilled its new uniform created by leading British fashion designer Julien Macdonald for more than 25,000 staff including flight crew, cabin crew, dispatchers and check-in agents.
Customers flying to Australia with British Airways and Qantas are able to use e-tickets for the first time.
June: A record number of British Airways' customers used the online check-in facilities on ba.com, with more than 100,000 checking in from the comfort of their own home.
May: Her Majesty the Queen visited Heathrow Airport to mark the tenth anniversary of Change for Good, the fundraising partnership between British Airways and UNICEF which has raised over £18 million from donations of loose change from British Airways customers. The money has directly benefited UNICEF's work to improve the lives of children in over 50 developing countries.
July: Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge retired as Chairman of British Airways at the company's AGM. He was succeeded by Martin Broughton, previously the airline's Vice-Chairman.
August: The Joint Services Agreement between British Airways and Qantas on the kangaroo routes is given draft approval for a five-year extension by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
December: British Airways launched its first drive-through check-in facility for Club World passengers and a new exclusive check-in and lounge for First passengers at Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados.
March: Willie Walsh was announced as British Airways' new chief executive officer. Previously CEO of Aer Lingus, he would begin as chief executive designate on May 3. It had been announced that Rod Eddington would retire at the end of September at which stage Mr Walsh would become chief executive.
May: Prime Minister Tony Blair signed a British Airways Boeing 747 in support of London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. British Airways, a premier partner of the London 2012 bid, planned to collect in excess of 100,000 signatures on the aircraft that would carry the bid team to Singapore for the decision vote by the International Olympic Committee.
June: A five times a week service was launched between London Heathrow and Shanghai's Pudong airport operated by Boeing 777 aircraft. Services from London Heathrow to Beijing increased from four to six times per week and from 17 to 21 times a week to Hong Kong.
September: Rod Eddington, CEO, retired and was succeeded by Willie Walsh. Mike Street, OBE, director of customer service and operations, retired after 42 years service.
A new voluntary scheme was launched to enable customers to help offset the carbon dioxide emissions from their flights by making a contribution to an environmental trust.
October: British Airways' winter schedule included increased services from London Heathrow to India including a new service to Bangalore, twice daily flights to Mumbai, and six flights a week to Chennai. Flights from Birmingham to Rome and Vienna, operated by British Airways CitiExpress, were suspended.
November: Talks on a new transatlantic aviation agreement between the EU and US ended with some progress on aspects of the regulatory framework. No agreement was reached on market access and lifting restrictions on foreign ownership in US carriers. Interested parties were asked to comment and a final decision is expected in March 2006.
British Airways and The Tussauds Group signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing the sale of the airline's entire interests in the British Airways London Eye to the company for £95 million.
December: The withdrawal of BA's daily service from London Heathrow to Melbourne via Singapore from March 25, 2006, was announced. Melbourne flights will transfer to Qantas as part of the Joint Services Agreement


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Paul is now part of the fourth generation in America that is involved in farming and hopes the next generation will be involved also. Through his blog he provides analysis and insight to farmer tax questions.
Gladstone Land Corporation (LAND) just recently raised $50 million in their IPO at a $15.50 price to invest solely in farmland. To date, they have purchased acreage in California and Florida (primarily berry related) and just closed on a blueberry farm in Michigan. Since its IPO, the price has increased almost 10% to close at $16.80 on May 20, 2013.
The company intends to elect Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status which allows the company to pay no income taxes assuming at least 90% of its taxable income is distributed as dividends each year. In reviewing their balance sheet, it does appear their farmland purchases to date are fairly leveraged. As of March 31, 2013, they have incurred total purchases of about $40 million with almost $30 million of long-term debt. Their current long-term debt bears interest at 3.5%, but is scheduled to reset in another year or so.
Their margin is in good shape now, however, if rates rise a couple of points, it may be difficult for them to maintain their expected dividend payout.
I have seen many private farmland investment funds get capitalized over the last few years, but this is the first publicly traded farmland REIT in the US that I am aware of. There are many similar companies in Europe and Asia. Normally, if we see a flood of these type investments on the public market, a top in the market may not be far off. We shall see.
After the House passed their Farm Bill today, it appears that their version on the Senate version are not too far apart. The key points for both are:
The Price Support program is either based on a price set by Congress (the House version) or based on the average Olympic average of the prior 5 years of prices (the Senate version). If a farmer elects the Price program, they cannot participate in the Revenue program and vice versus.
A couple of key differences is a payment limitation in the Senate of $50,000 per person for the Senate and $125,000 for the House.
The Senate also eliminates these payments if your adjusted gross income is over $750,000 while the house boosts this to $950,000. This will most likely make the accounting simpler than it is now since you will most likely only need to look at the bottom line income shown on the bottom of your Form 1040 page 1.
We would guess that a final farm bill will be ready for a vote in the next week or so, but with Memorial Day only a week from Monday, who knows long Congress will take off for that Holiday.
We will keep you informed.
I was doing a google search on the House Farm Bill today and the 10th item that showed up in my search was this article. With a title of "House Ready to Make Draconian Cuts to Food Stamps in House Bill" I was interested in what these "draconian" cuts were. As you read the article, you will note that the author point out that the House Farm Bill is proposing cutting "Food Stamps" by about $2.5 billion per year or $25 billion over the 10 years. This compares to the Senate Bill which calls for lower cuts of about $4.1 billion in total over 10 years.
On the face of it, $2.5 billion might be a lot of money, however, the total "Food Stamp" portion of the Farm Bill is close to $60 billion per year. The proposed $2.5 billion cut equates to a 4% reduction. I would normally not consider that to be "Draconian". The House is most likely battling this issue as I write this post and it will be interesting to see what final number they pass onto the floor for a vote.
It also appears that the Dairy margin management program is still part of the Bill, but this may get eliminated or changed in the committee between the House and Senate. We will keep you posted on any material changes in both versions. So far, the Senate Bill appears to mostly follow the bill passed last summer.
The University of Illinois puts out a great daily email called the "Farm Doc Daily". In today's email, they summarized the debt to asset ratio from 2005 through 2011. The lower this ratio goes, the better. Their database showed that the average farmer in Illinois for 2005 had total assets per acre of $1,267 and related debt of $365. This resulted in a debt to asset ratio of 29%. For 2011, the total assets had increased to $2,385 while related debt increased but by a lower % to $500. This resulted in the debt to asset ratio declining from 29% to 21% in 2011.
Farmers have done a great job over the last few years in keeping this ratio low, however, you can note that total debt has increased from $365 to $500 per acre. I wondered how this ratio would change if we assumed that the three major asset categories used (crop and feed inventories, machinery and farm land) would each decrease by 10% or 20%. A 10% reduction would lower total assets from $2,385 to about $2,150 and would increase the ratio from 21% to 23%. A drop of 20% would put total assets at about $1,900 resulting in a ratio of 26%.
As you can see, even if all asset values decrease by 20%, farmers are still better off (using this ratio) than they would have been in 2005. To get to the same 2005 29% ratio would require an almost 28% drop in asset values.
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The Kansas City Federal Reserve 4th quarter survey of Ag conditions spotlighted an ever upward trend in farm land prices. On a year-over-year basis, irrigiated farmland in Kansas, Nebraska and the Mountain states all saw increases over 30% and non-irrigated land increased by more than 20% in all states.
For the last two plus years, land prices on a year-over-year basis in most corn belt states have increased 15% or more. We are starting to see the Federal Reserve discuss how to reduce and then eliminate the fiscal stimulas (QE 1, 2, 3 .....). Once this stimulas is removed, interest rates should start to revert to their norm. The question is what the norm will be. If we end up like Japan, we may still have very low interest rates. If we end up like previous recoveries from recessions, long-term interest rates should range around 3% plus inflation. Currently, this would suggest rates in the 5-6% range. How would this effect farm land prices.
If cash rents are at $350 per acre and land is trading for $15,000, then the cash return is about 2.3%. In today's very low interest rate environment, this may be acceptable. But if rates rise to 5% and a farm investor wants a cash rate of return of 4% on their land, this suggests a value of $8,750 per acre. Also, there are certain expectations built into land right now (the price is going up, I need to grab that quarter section before the neighbor does) that "gooses" land values.
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I thought this was one of those alarm clocks that rolls under your bed and you can't find and it drives you and your partner crazy but at least you wake up.
integrar0064 wrote:LOL wow. I had an open mind about this and then read "centripetal and centrifugal" which immediately proved everything is BS.
Centripetal and centrifugal force actually is the correct terminology...in lamens terms, this means circular, outward movements which the video shows clearly. Fortunately the developer of the product DOES know what he's talking about. "centripetal force and centrifugal force, action-reaction force pair associated with circular motion" Read more: centripetal force and centrifugal force — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0811114.html#ixzz2341AyCRI
I have a close friend who used one of these for three months, including packing it when she traveled on business. She lost weight and looks great! If it motivates individuals to be consistent about exercise, it has value. It may not be the trick for restoring a SEAL to his former glory, but it makes more sense to me than shelling out $30-40 per month to shake powder onto your food while you continue to eat "whatever you want."
rwrjr1961 wrote:It only weighs 10 lbs folks. You're much better off using a good body weight training program or a kettlebell program. I have a 106 lb kettlebell. Swing that and then tell me the ThunderBell isn't a joke. I went to their website and some of the routine doesn't look bad, the only problem is the ThunderBell isn't adding much.
The ThunderBell Training Program (TTP) combines the wisdom of traditional weight lifting with functional, transitional, dynamic, and movement-integrated patterns. The TTP quickly integrates isolated muscle and joint exercises into multi-joint, multi-muscle group exercises combined with linear, circular, and primal motion patterns. Exercise integration, flow, and transition are stressed over traditional set, rep, and rest periods. You optimize calorie burn during exercise because you are using all muscles under a continuous load without interruption. The multi-dimensional, dynamic movements blending strength and motion exercises enhance and restore your ability to bend to extend, push, pull, squat, rotate, lunge, and perform single leg exercises – your ability function and take on what life demands.
John1000 wrote:If buying one of these things motivates some one to go from zero exercise to doing some sort of exercise, then go for it. Only $10 less than Amazon and looks like just another motivational workout program of which there are thousands to choose from, so choose wisely.
The offer on Amazon only includes the Training & Level 1 DVD. This Woot offer also includes the Advanced DVD which offers Level 2 workouts AND 2 bonus Core programs. The DVDs are a critical to getting the most out of the ThunderBell - the workouts take full advantage of its unique gripping points and move you seamlessly through action-packed, time-saving exercises that combine cardio and strength training into one.
Sign me up! This thing will look far cooler gathering dust in the corner than an adjustable dumbbell bar (<$10) and a stack of cast-iron plates (<$1/lb). If you really think that buying a piece of equipment will motivate you to get off the couch and move, go for it. But first you may want to talk to somebody who sprung for a NordicTrack in the '90s.
Look me in the Internet eyes and tell me this is going to build muscle at the same rate as a simple pair of dumbbells. I'm sure there's *something* to be gained out of your program, but I will guarantee you it's nothing compared to a good body-resistance training routine. You wanna lose weight and tone your muscles or put on mass? Try something like P90X or just come up with your own routine of tried and true body resistance and weight training exercises. Every "New Greatest Single All-In-One Workout Device!(tm)" is a joke. Get this stuff off W00t.
DocFunky wrote:$100 for a ten pound weight, no matter how well designed, is shameful. For a hundred bucks you could buy two ten-pound dumbbells, two ten-pound kettlebells, and still have LOADS of money left over. Woot's price here is a bit more reasonable, but like others have said, a good body weight workout like the ones you can find on YouTube will do more than enough. And it'll be free.
To clarify, the website offer is for the entire ThunderBell Complete Training Program, which includes the ThunderBell, 3 DVDs with 10+ workouts including 2 bonus core programs, and 2 digital guides (Fitness Guide to help you customize and get the most out of the program, and a 5-Phase Eating Guide formulated to jump-start muscle building and burn fat.) The Woot deal is a phenomenal offer because it includes the ThunderBell plus 2 DVDs (8+ workouts to get you well on your way to the body you want) and access to the guides. All for less than half the price.
raptor700r wrote:I purchased this product about 6 months ago and found it to be a VERY challenging workout! It combines both weightlifting and cardio for a total body workout. I followed the meal guide and I lost 27lbs in 2 months! Considering you would pay the same amount for a cross-fit membership this is great deal.
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Symbolic2007 wrote:Look me in the Internet eyes and tell me this is going to build muscle at the same rate as a simple pair of dumbbells. I'm sure there's *something* to be gained out of your program, but I will guarantee you it's nothing compared to a good body-resistance training routine.
There's no denying that a traditional weight training program works to build muscle. The point of the ThunderBell program is to workout in such a way that blends strength and motion exercises to enhance and restore your ability to bend to extend, push, pull, squat, rotate, lunge... your ability function. Traditional weight training is very linear. With the ThunderBell, your movements are multi-dimensional and dynamic. You optimize calorie burn during exercise because you are using all muscles under a continuous load without interruption.
snapdragon59 wrote:Seems overpriced for what you get. You could probably use a dumbbell for most of the moves.
The Dumbbell offers only one gripping position. Holding a dumbbell any other way other than by the handle could risk injury. Its short length and lack of additional grips makes it extremely difficult, awkward, impossible and dangerous to do dynamic, synchronized muscle movements like the ThunderBell program.
gingerrox wrote:I'm a somewhat doughy 5'4" girl, and when I started with kettlebells the very tiniest one we had was 12 lbs. Nowadays I usually have a 16-20 lbs bell in each hand. Whatever you do with a ten pound weight, you can do a better exercise with NO weight and save the money. When was the last time you need help carrying ten pounds of anything? If you're going to lift something, lift heavy. Just because it makes you tired doesn't mean it's actually making you better. This is junk.
Kettlebells are mainly used for pendulum-based swinging movements such as the Swing, the Snatch, and the Clean, but no functional movement patterns as the off-center mass makes that type of training difficult and risky. They are designed mainly for single arm exercises and swinging movements as opposed to sequencing, leveraged circular and spiral patterns - the core of the ThunderBell.
screamingpenis wrote:If you want to lose weight, move more and eat less. If you want to build muscle, lift heavy things. That's it. That's the secret.
You're absolutely right! Except it's no secret. At it's core, the ThunderBell program is simply a way to get you up and moving... a total body workout program that combines cardio and strength training in one. And it comes with a great eating guide to help you trim the fat. We can go on all day about the science behind the program but the fact is if you're in need of some motivation, the ThunderBell program is a great option that will give you all you need to get started.
I'm new to Woot and this was my first post. I made my first purchasewith Woot a few weeks ago. I got a Dyson (love my Dyson too!). I posted because Thunderbell is a product that I really believe in.
wilbur444 wrote:0 posts and you've got a testimonial to add all the sudden... That's funny... I'm definitely swayed now...
This is the better of the two definitions given. (2) The amount of tension or resistance to movement in a muscle[/quote] Tone is typically referred to as the constant innervation to a muscle by its nerve; which can be hyper or hypo tonic. Which relates to its resistance to movement, typically seen in upper motor neuron damage. Lower motor neuron damage results in hypotonicity and typically flaccidity. In this case when they are constantly referring to "tone" they are referring to the lean appearance of the physique; this has nothing to do with the aforementioned definition and clinical term of tone.
thunderbell wrote:Kettlebells are mainly used for pendulum-based swinging movements such as the Swing, the Snatch, and the Clean, but no functional movement patterns as the off-center mass makes that type of training difficult and risky. They are designed mainly for single arm exercises and swinging movements as opposed to sequencing, leveraged circular and spiral patterns - the core of the ThunderBell.
Wait, wait, wait. You're claiming that KBs offer no functional movement? LOMFL Shake weight Version 2.0 is all this POS is. The shill is a joke. I will relent and say if you're grossly out of shape, this would probably do you some good, just like the shake weight however.
screamingpenis wrote:If you want to lose weight, move more and eat less. If you want to build muscle, lift heavy things. That's it. That's the secret. Buying BS like this will only make you lighter in the wallet.
SHHHHHH YOU! How am I supposed to stand out if you are going to give away my secret?!?!?!
Simple flowchart here: Is it a gimmick? The only answer is Yes. Are you annoyed by gimmicks? Yes: Do not buy this product. Post a comment claiming it's a gimmick. No: Continue Do you have a regular fitness regime? Yes: Do not buy this product. Post a comment saying your fitness regime is better. No: Continue Are you likely to throw this thing through your television/window/sternum? Yes: Do not buy this product. Post a comment mocking your current state of fitness, the notion of swinging a thing around your head, or the word "centripetal." No: Continue CAN YOU HONESTLY SAY that you will use it if you buy it? Yes: Buy it. No: Do not buy it. Post a comment reciting truisms about fitness. Fin. (NB - Buying one to insert a workout in between yoga days.)
I just don't see what is special about this it's to light and I don't see what you can do with this that you cant do with a kettle-bell and/or your own body weight. I would not buy.
The purpose of pointing out gimmicks to avoid is so people will really get into fitness and stick with something real that works. I'm not saying ThunderBell's program would do nothing at all, I just think there are better and more efficient ways to get results, but those come with taking the time to perform research and learn proper form. There are a hundred and one tips and tricks I've learned to dieting and exercise over the years that can only be truly learned and understood by acquiring the data from multiple sources and then figuring out what works for YOU.
There are innumerable ways to work out and get fit. The challenge is getting started and remaining motivated so that you actually get the results you want. The ThunderBell program makes the process very simple… but it's up to you to get started. No gimmicks. Just an approach to fitness that works. A recent study by POTENTRx Performance found that the ThunderBell achieved similar results to a typical cardio workout with the added benefit of strength training – so you not only burn calories but develop and define muscles in a way that "goes beyond simple free-weight exercises that isolate muscles." With the ThunderBell, you get everything what you need to get started and finish strong…you just add the will to get fit. • You get a time-saving total body workout program that combines both cardio and strength training. • You get one multi-functional tool that allows you to combine the benefits of a dumbbell, barbell, Kettlebell and medicine ball. • You get the DVDs with workouts developed and led by elite fitness trainer Jeremy Levine, designed to activate all of your muscles and joints in a way that supports functional movement. • And you get support and guidance with a digital fitness guide and a 5-phase eating guide formulated to burn fat and jump-start muscle building.
This is like the hipster of exercise equipment. I have 10lb olympic plates with grab handles on each side...looks like I could do the same with them. You can get similar plates at Walmart for less than $10.
wootmeharder wrote:This is like the hipster of exercise equipment. I have 10lb olympic plates with grab handles on each side...looks like I could do the same with them. You can get similar plates at Walmart for less than $10.
Why we've got plates right here on Woot!
Looks like they are just trying to sell Pilates rings to men.
In hindsight I almost wish I'd gotten this. I say "almost" because although I think it could give results, there is too much of a lack of reviews online for the program. And, unfortunately, the ones I have found seem to be mostly fake. The Pro package on Amazon has 5 5-star reviews and 3 of those it is their first review on Amazon. The other two ppl only have two reviews. Not to mention all of the newbie commenters on this thread throwing out praise. Fishy. A good way for a new exercise program on the scene to garner online response is to get it into a lot of people's hands by selling a bunch cheaply (like here on WOOT). Perhaps later the company can have more success selling it for full price. Unfortunately the sale here has been soiled with spamming of self promotion and suspicious testimonials. Pay attention, Teeter.
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On the upside, there are a number of things that you can do at home to rid yourself of claudication's pain and help slow the progression of peripheral vascular disease.
Leg pain is a symptom of many conditions, some very serious. If your pain is severe, worsens rapidly, or lasts for more than a week, see your doctor as soon as possible.
Chronic foot problems that get infected are a leading cause of amputation in people who have intermittent claudication. If you have a cut, scrape, blister, or other foot problem that develops the redness, swelling, heat, and pain of infection, seek immediate medical help.
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Unless you're the seasoned pro at finding the best gifts at the last minute, the rest of the over-worked and highly-stressed world are up late at night screen shopping on Amazon.com saying to themselves, "Hell, I don't know if Casey will like this stained-glass art sculpture, but wow! I didn't know they sold Tabasco in gallon jugs!"
And to add more shit to the pile, your dickhead boss is telling you that you're going to have to pull some extra hours on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this next week that is going to cut into your last-minute shopping time.
Oh, and your overly-needy hot girlfriend, Casey, isn't making your life any easier because she feels the need to text you every three minutes about the latest office gossip. You can't forget that she's also laying into you about your "chores" for when you get off work: walk her dog, pick up her kids, clean her kitchen mess, and BUY HER CHRISTMAS PRESENTS (as she has specified).*
And this is only scratching the surface before you're ready to explode.
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Topping seven other high schools that day at the college in Barnesville, among them Spalding High, Griffin High School received the winning nod by three judges for its performance of "Once On This Island Jr."
The musical tells the story of a peasant girl who rescues and falls in love with a wealthy boy from the other side of the island. When the boy is returned to his people, the fantastical gods, who rule the island, guide the girl on a quest to test the strength of her love against the powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death.
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ABC / PEOPLE 'sexiest man alive' – :90 digital short from ABC News Promos on Vimeo.
We've been given a sneak peek at Kim Kardasian's one hour ABC special on People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive". People magazine has a yearly award for the "Sexiest Man Alive" and this year has a TV show to interview the finalists, talk about previous winners and more.
Kim isn't leaking the winner for this year's event, but says on her blog that she had a great time filming the event (of course). Kardashian wrote: "We're celebrating the 25th years of sexy, and counting down the hottest guys of the year, and although I can't reveal yet who 2010's sexiest man is… I can reveal that he IS pretty sexy! LOL"
Some of the possible winners include George Clooney (who has won it before), Robert Pattinson (from Twilight), Taylor Lautner (again, from Twilight), Usher, and actor Patrick Dempsey.


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Ah, these mellow autumn days, with a fat golden sun being born after a cool grey morning. I felt myself coming down from the stress of the past weeks as I played in the garden today. I came in smiling, with my left hand full of seeds for next year's cardinal climber vines and the fingers of my right hand splayed to hold two fat green tomatoes, my camera swinging from the strap around my neck.
F. gave me an approving look, and I answered him in words, "I feel like I'm becoming me again." He smiled and nodded. He knows.
That's what the garden does for me sometimes. Often, even. Restoration.
I felt like I'd been swallowing sunshine, nourished by the moist red earth, caressed by the wingtips of the chickadees as they continued to crisscross the blue sky overhead, flying to the feeder on the back porch, undisturbed by my meanderings down below.
And meander is the right word. I couldn't bring myself to do any hard work yet, even though there is tons to do right now in the kitchen garden. Of course there is: I've only managed the bare minimum of activity there for the past two weeks.
Things are a real mess, if looked at from a certain angle. But if looked at from the right angle — oh, bliss!
Isn't it amazing how this little insect's eyes are a precise color match with the seed-in-formation he's grasping? (Click the picture above to get a close-up.) I have no knowledge of him, his purpose, whether he's just resting, soaking up the sun or gathering pollen, drinking nectar, or even doing something that would shock me if I ever learned the details, perhaps. But I didn't need knowledge to appreciate him this afternoon.
Facts would just have gotten in the way; don't you think?
Instead I just soaked up his presence, standing on a patch of bark-chipped path that's slowly giving way to weeds and encroaching grass, with the sun warm on my shoulders, the gentlest of breezes caressing my cheek, and a train whistle sounding in the distance.
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I know it isn't free, but I've seen Photoshop CS2 selling on eBay for around $100, so it isn't necessarily exorbitant either. I thought I'd share a quick tutorial on the batch processing which is available in Photoshop to automate post-processing of DIY Book Scanner scans. While different people are using different hardware, these scanners tend to produce scans in which right-hand pages are generally consistent with each other as far as size, keystoning, illumination, etc.. The same is true for left-hand pages. The right-hand pages are usually not consistent with the left-hand pages, but Photoshop can help correct the inconsistencies.
I start by creating a new folder on my computer for the book. Within that folder, I create 5 sub-folders: RRAW, LRAW, R, L, and Both. I begin by loading the right-hand images from my camera's SD card to RRAW, and the left-hand images to LRAW. Then, I'll create a Photoshop action which will process the images in RRAW and write the processed images to R, and run that as a batch process to automatically process each page.
Begin by opening a regular page from the RRAW directory. I generally wouldn't choose the cover of a hardback book, because it will be a bit bigger than the pages you want to process. If the "Actions" panel is not visible, you can add it from the Window menu, or toggle it on with Alt-F9.
Click on the "Create New Action" button at the bottom of the "Actions" panel. It's the square-within-a-square next to the trash can.
That will open the "New Action" dialogue.
I give the new action a descriptive name ("Right"), and just for the heck of it, associate it with Shift-F2 as a hotkey. The set to which the action belongs remains "Default Actions". Click the "Record" button to begin recording the new action.
The first thing I want to do is rotate the page into an upright orientation. This is done from the "Image" menu.
Next, I want to get rid of that greywash background. There are many possible ways to accomplish this in Photoshop. I've seen folks contemplate taking a "blank" page, subracting it from a "white" page, and adding the difference to the target page. Or something like that. My own approach is quite a bit cruder: I just use a "Curves" adjustment.
And not a particularly sophisticated curve either.
Which yields this result:
It's not as washed-out as it appears, though there is obviously room for improvement. It's a bit brighter toward the edge than toward the center; maybe a gradient would fix that, but I'm blessed with low standards, and as it is it's good enough for me. Those whose standards are more exacting can work out this bit for themselves.
Now -- finally -- we're ready to address the keystoning. Photoshop CS2 was the first release which offered perspective correction, and this is the first time I've had occasion to use it. Choose the "crop" tool:
Drag a quick selection from corner to corner -- no need to be too precise, we'll refine it in a moment. Once the selection is made, click the "perspective" box in the toolbar to enable each of the corners to be dragged independently.
Now I zoom way in, scroll to all four corners, and drag my selection points into place.
Then zoom back out and see how it looks.
Looks okay to me (there's those standards again), so I press "Enter" to complete the perspective crop.
Bingo! Let's zoom in again and see what we have.
See? I told you it wasn't as washed-out as it looked. Nice crisp anti-aliased text on a nice bright background. Easy on the eyes. And it looks like it's lined up right, too. Good enough for spamsickle, anyway.
Before I save it and close it, there's one more thing I want to do. I mentioned earlier that there may be discrepancies between the left pages and the right pages, and one of those discrepancies may be in the size of the images, due to camera placement, zoom, whatever. I'd like to make the images the same in the final product, and I do that here by modifying image size.
I specify the width, and let the length stay proportional. I'll specify the same width on the left side, so at least my output images will have the same width. The length may vary a bit, but, well, you know...
And that's the meat of it. Now I just save the file...
... to a different directory (we got it from RRAW, and we'll save it in R) ...
--- with the quality I want.
When I close the file, this is how my completed action looks:
I click on the little square beside the red "Recording" indicator to stop recording, and my new action is ready to use. To use it, I choose "Automatic ... Batch" from the "File" menu.
That brings up the "Batch" dialogue, with my new action ("Right") already selected. I want to apply this action to all the files in my RRAW directory, so I choose Source as "Folder" and click "Choose" to specify which one it is. I'll be saving the images to a new folder ("R"), so I also specify Destination as "Folder" and choose that one too. All that's left to do now is to click "Okay" and go get a cup of coffee.
It runs fairly fast (on my not-so-speedy laptop, it takes just over 15 minutes to do 175 pages), and if your images are consistent, the output will be pretty much what you want. If they're not -- well, that's a hardware problem, isn't it? Get your scanner straight...
I create a separate "Left" action, and run that too, so I have anti-aliased de-keystoned formatted-just-like-the-originals images in two separate directories. At this point, you can go different ways -- convert them to PDFs, run OCR software, process them some more with an eye to making DJVu files or some other format. For me, I just run a script to rename them and faro-shuffle them into my "Both" directory, and I'm done. I'm perfectly happy reading my new book with IRFanView or some other image viewing program, and my design objectives have already been met.
There are some things you can do if your images aren't quite aligned and you can't (or don't want to) reshoot them -- the "Crop" step can be made interactive for every image by clicking the "modal" box next to that step in the script, or you can process them in smaller batches -- but this little tutorial is already too long, and who knows if anyone will even be interested.
I will say, setting up the action and running it takes no time at all, despite the fact that reading about it may have caused you to nod off. If you have Photoshop CS2 or later, and have any interest at all in quick-and-dirty get-it-done post-processing, you owe it to yourself to at least give it a try.


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generationsue wrote:Finished all of the rows! Now to figure out how to take the washcloth off the needle without unraveling it!
Looks beautiful!
Casting off or Binding Off has a couple different options.
If you're like me, the bind off could be too tight. I'm STILL working on making my bind offs looser, even after several years of knitting.
Here is a good bind off video:
You can do it!


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'Nutcracker' magic stretches across Whidbey Island
December 14, 2012 · Updated 1:43 PM
Whidbey Island Dance Theater's 20th anniversary of "The Nutcracker" isn't just for South Whidbey; performers from throughout the island join the magical holiday tale. Pictured are Sylvia Hurlburt of Coupeville, Skyylynn Lippo of Coupeville, Christine Monaghan of Oak Harbor, Kelsey Lampe of Oak Harbor, Megan LeMay of Oak Harbor and Hannah Lampe of Oak Harbor.
Catch the final performances this weekend at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 or at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16 at South Whidbey High School, 5675 Maxwelton Road, Langley. All tickets cost $22 at the door, or $15-$20 in advance by calling 360-341-2221.
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Minute Maid Park and the Houston Astros Hospitality Group are proud to feature Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs "Award of Excellence" winner Randall Cox as their executive chef.
Chef Cox has extensive experience in the world of culinary arts, having recently served as executive chef at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel & Convention Center as well as corporate executive chef for Cherokee Nation Enterprises overseeing all culinary operations.
Originally from Dearborn, Mich., Chef Cox began his illustrious career at the tender age of 15 working at a local family-owned restaurant. He has spent over a quarter of a century honing his vast culinary prowess working with culinary titans such as: Zagat "Triple Crown" winner Gunther Seeger, James Beard award winner Gary Danko, French Culinary Association "Chef of the Year" Christian Rassinoux, James Beard nominee William Koval, and native Texan and Master Chef Amy Ferguson-Ota.
"Google Randall Cox and you will find his name linked to other well-known and esteemed chefs including celebrity chef and television personality Emeril Lagasse," Joy Hampton of the Owasso Progress said.
Chef Cox, one of the pioneers of the farm-to-table movement, has a resume that reads like a "who's who" tour of the hotel and casino worlds, with stops at the Fairmont, Starwood, Ritz Carlton and Pinnacle Entertainment. Cox prides himself on designing elegant dishes that allow the ingredients to shine on their own, dazzling the pallet in their simplicity. McFarland Farms' Pheasant Consume and Roasted Garlic & Lavender Crusted Rack of Heartland Lamb are just a couple of dishes with which he wowed more than 100 food editors, journalists and critics who gathered on the Fairmont Tulsa rooftop.
A native Houstonian, nationally acclaimed Bryan Caswell is considered one of the most valuable and visible players in the city's culinary scene. Chef Caswell is known for his excellence and creativity at his string of successful local restaurants -- REEF, Little Bigs and El Real Tex Mex. Chef Caswell's influences come from working with some of the world's greatest chefs in the Bahamas, Bangkok, Thailand, Barcelona, Spain, Hong Kong and New York, as well as a lifetime spent entrenched in the food cultures of South Texas and Louisiana.
Chef Caswell's accomplishments and numerous awards emphasize that he is one of the country's top rising chefs.
Locally, Chef Caswell is an award winner as Restaurateur of the Year and Chef of the Year by My Table Magazine. The Houston Press has also awarded him with Best Restaurant, Best Seafood Restaurant and Best Milkshake, to name a few.
In 2010 Bryan earned a spot on the Food Network show "The Next Iron Chef" and was put to the test as he persevered through an impressive six out of eight rounds of elimination. In the kitchen, he is intense and moves quickly, despite his 6-foot-4, 240-pound stature. During an interview, "The Next Iron Chef" judge Simon Majumdar spoke about Bryan, saying, "Chef Caswell confounds me. He looks like a linebacker and cooks like a ballerina," referencing his artistic skills and exceptional style. In addition to being a chef and restaurateur, Caswell was recently appointed to the Continental Airlines "Congress of Chefs" to lend his expertise in developing the menu for its first class in-flight food service. He also co-hosts a weekly radio program called "Southbound Food" on Houston's "1560 The Game" AM radio and is now proud to share his talents in "the big leagues" at Minute Maid Park.
"I've been a diehard Astros fan all my life. It's like I've been called up from the Minors to play for the home team. I am excited to be part of the Astros and ARAMARK team. It is an incredible opportunity, and I'm humbled. I look forward to doing my part to make the food at Minute Maid the best in Major League Baseball."
Located in the heart of beautiful downtown Houston, Minute Maid Park is home to the Houston Astros and hosts a variety of meetings, conventions, conferences, weddings and other special events year-round. Chefs Cox and Caswell look forward to the opportunity to impress you and your guests. Bon appétit!


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text: This year is especially exciting because the grand finale of our four-day event will be a "ring-of-fire" solar eclipse. The festival will be held now through Sunday, May 20 and features Dr. Janna Levin,Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University's Barnard College. Her presentation entitled ― Booming Black Holes: Listening for the Sound of Intense Gravity will start at 8:30pm, Sat.,May 19 at Ebenezer's Barn and Grill in Bryce Canyon City, adjacent to the park. Tickets available at the door—$3 per person or $10 per family. For more information about obtaining program tickets, shuttle-only road closures, amateur astronomer participation, and directory of area accommodations, consult the Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival Website: www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/astrofest.htm, download the Astronomy Festival brochure, or call 435-834-5322.


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