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bcfcjjw wrote:Hi, i am searching for information about my great grandparents who were from Atina in frosinone, They were Giovanni Farina born 1867, and Angelina Bove born 1871, they had a son Marco Pasquale Farina born 26/04/1892 they moved to the uk in 1894, any information or help/tips very much appreciated. Thank you. John.
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JohnArmellino wrote:I believe that the the correct street address for the Ufficio Anagrafe, Stato Civile of Atina is Piazza Saturno - Centro Storico, tel. 0776.6009212-214, fax 0776.609191. I think the Piazza Volsci address is for the representative of Atina Inferiore, a frazione of Atina. Go to http://www.comune.atina.fr.it/, then Uffici Comunali: personale ed orari>Anagrafe e Stato Civile. Riccardo, perhaps you could check to see if my understanding is correct.
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JohnArmellino wrote:The FHL has microfilmed the Registri dello Stato Civile for Atina for the years 1809-1865. Go to www.familysearch.org, then Library>Family History Library Catalog>Place Search - then type in Atina. Unfortunately, these records predate your information by a few years. Therefore, you will have to contact the Ufficio dello Stato Civile directly for the birth records of your GGPs. I don't know the address of that office, but you can e-mail various municipal officials at the website for the comune, which can be found at http://www.comune.atina.fr.it/
There is also an interesting acticle about the Archives at Atina entitled I tesori dell'Archivio Comunale di Atina by Palma Nardone, which can be found at http://www.cassino2000.com/cdsc/studi/a ... 19p08.html.
I have several families from Atina in one of my databases, including Coppola, Pagano, Fortucci, Tamburrini, and possibly Colucci and Silvano. If you connect with any of these names, please contact me and we can cross-check our data. Good luck!
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[quote author="Ellecram"]The basic premise is that AA et al are religious organizations and are minimally effective support groups.
Obligatory disclaimers first: what follows is my own opinion and not that of any Twelve-Step Group in particular. The author's membership in any group is not implied nor should it be inferred.*** The information I cite is accurate to the best of my knowledge, and can be accessed by the general public over the Internet. Mention or lack of mention of any particular group is neither an endorsement nor criticism of that group, its members, or its philosophy.
I think we need to distinguish between Twelve-Step Organizations that have as part of their collective history and culture certain religious overtones, and Recovery-Oriented Organizations that are quite obviously and deliberately religious in nature. This is relatively easy to do. For the purpose of this discussion, I will compare and contrast the statements of membership published by two major Twelve-Step Organizations and two Christian Recovery Groups.
Here is the Third Tradition as expressed in two of the better-known Twelve-Step Organizations:
[list]Alcoholics Anonymous: "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."
Narcotics Anonymous: "The only requirement for N.A. membership is a desire to stop using."[/list:u]
Here is the Third Tradition, or what can pass for it, as expressed by Recovery-Oriented Religious Organizations (Christians in Recovery and Alcoholics Victorious):
[list]Christians in Recovery: "The only requirement to become a part of Christians in Recovery is the desire to recover and become more Christ-like."
Alcoholics Victorious: Membership is open to "Believers struggling with an addiction to alcohol/drugs who, although committed Christians, may still be suffering in silence ..." and "Non-Christians still addicted to alcohol/drugs who feel compelled to search out the true "higher power" Jesus Christ ..."[/list:u]
The difference between the two, I hope, is sufficiently clear. All four groups take as their members anyone with a particular problem of compulsive behavior that, for whatever reason, the person feels completely unable to control. However, the latter two groups impose an additional restriction on their respective memberships of needing to be Christian. This requirement is noticeably absent from all Twelve-Step Groups. This is how, in my opinion, you can differentiate between legitimate Twelve-Step Groups and those that borrow from Twelve-Step Groups with the purpose of furthering some other agenda.
Note that while neither Recovery-Oriented Group requires you to join a church, you are required to accept or already have it in mind to accept a specific doctrine of faith. In fact, both of these organizations also include an identically-worded statement of doctrine that I won't link to or repeat here, but if you know the Nicene Creed, you have the basic jist of it: the divine authority of the Bible, the Triune God, the divinity of Jesus, yadayadayada. I suspect you'll find the same basic line of thinking in any Recovery-Oriented Group that has religious sponsorship.
In short: membership in a Twelve-Step Group is open to anyone having a desire to stop <insert problem here>, Troo Beleever, agnostic, pagan, or atheist. Membership in a Recover-Oriented Group is not. I don't know if they'd actually kick you out, but my guess is you would not be at all welcome.*
On this basis alone, I would have to disagree with the basic premise that Twelve-Step Organizations are religious organizations. Most religious organizations would also disagree with this premise, because the approach of Twelve-Step Organizations tends to be a bit broad and far too open to subjective experience and interpretation than religious authorities can accept. The two Recovery-Oriented Groups I cited earlier contain very specific statements on how/why they are different from Twelve-Step Organizations. By contrast, Twelve-Step Organizations make no mention of why or how they are different from other related organizations, religious or secular, other than a very clearly-worded statement regarding non-affiliation and non-involvement in outside issues/controversies.
At the same time, I think a very strong case can be made that Twelve-Step Organizations have been very strongly influenced by Western religion, predominantly Christianism, but I do not believe that this influence is justified, warranted, or subject to unquestioning acceptance by its members. Certainly there is nothing in any official, published documentation that supports a religious influence in a Twelve-Step Group.**
I find it disturbing to read accounts of meetings in which religious doctrine is pronounced with authority and without challenge from the meeting chair or secretary. I am gratified to say that this has not been my experience. In fact, I attended one meeting some years ago in which one member decided to start pounding his Bible in the midst of his share time, and another member, himself a church-goer no less, promptly shut him up with little more than a hand-gesture and a very meaningful and direct look. If Twelve-Step Groups have become overly-religious, it is only because no-one has spoken up about it. Religious tolerance does not equate to silence when violations of traditions occur.
I hope this is of some value to you.
* To be fair, AV states very clearly on their website that "AV is not intended to replace Alcoholics Anonymous, Ala-non, or any other support group."
** Discussing the phrase "Higher Power" and "God as we understand" in the context of this post would explode the length out to something approaching a full novel. If there's sufficient interest, I think a separate discussion on the subject of an atheist's approach to working the Twelve Steps would be very welcome, if the forum moderator would allow.
*** Meeting attendance and group membership are two very different things.


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British Airways plc is the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. Its main hubs are London Heathrow and London Gatwick. British Airways holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, and is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. British Airways is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.
The British Airways Group was formed on 1 September 1972 consisting of BOAC and BEA. These two companies were dissolved on 31 March 1974 to form British Airways (BA). The company was privatised in February 1987. It expanded with the acquisition of British Caledonian in 1988 and some of the routes of Gatwick-based carrier Dan-Air in 1992. The formation of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic in 1984 began a tense relationship with BA which ended in "one of the most bitter and protracted libel actions in aviation history" in 1993 in which BA apologised "unreservedly" for an alleged "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin and paid damages and legal costs.
For a number of years the airline was a mainly Boeing customer, but in November 1998 it placed its first direct order for Airbus aircraft. The company's next major order was the start of its replacement of its long haul fleet, ordering Boeing 787s and Airbus A380s in 2007. The centrepiece of the airline's long haul fleet is the Boeing 747-400; the airline is the largest operator of this type. British Airways' strategy and aircraft purchases are seen as an industry "benchmark" that influences other carriers' decisions.
In 2008 BA unveiled its new subsidiary OpenSkies which will take advantage of the liberalization of transatlantic traffic rights, and fly non-stop between major European cities and the United States. Operations are expected to begin with a single Boeing 757 in June 2008. On 2 July 2008 British Airways announced that it had agreed to buy French airline L'Avion for £54 million. The deal is expected to be completed during July 2008 and will result in full integration of L'Avion with OpenSkies.
British Airways has been plagued by difficulties in recent years. The Association of European Airlines reports that BA is the worst airline for lost and delayed baggage, losing over twice as many bags as the average. They are also the worst airline for punctuality of short/medium haul flight departures and arrivals and ranked 17th out of 21 airlines for long haul delays. Many of BA's problems stem from being based at London Heathrow airport which has become crowded and subject to delays. In 2007 Heathrow was voted the world's least favourite alongside Chicago O'Hare in a TripAdvisor survey. The opening of their new terminal, Heathrow Terminal 5 was heavily criticised by politicians, unions, airlines and passengers as an operational disaster.
On 31 March 1924, Britain's four pioneer airlines—Instone Air Line, Handley Page Transport, Daimler Airways and British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd. that had started up in the immediate post war period —merged to form Imperial Airways Limited, which developed its Empire routes to Australia and Africa.
Meanwhile a number of smaller UK air transport companies had started flights. These merged in 1935 to form the original privately owned British Airways Ltd. Following a government review, Imperial Airways and British Airways were nationalised in 1939 to form the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Post-war, BOAC continued to operate long-haul services, other than routes to South America - these were flown by British South American Airways, which was merged back into BOAC in 1949. Continental European and domestic flights were flown by a new nationalised airline, British European Airways Corporation (BEA), which compulsorily took over the routes of existing UK independent airlines.
In 1952 BOAC flew the de Havilland Comet to Johannesburg, halving the previous flight time. The birth of the mass package-holiday business meant change for the airline industry. BEA met the challenge by establishing BEA Airtours in 1970. In 1972 BOAC and BEA were combined under the newly formed British Airways Board, with the separate airlines coming together as British Airways in 1974, under the guidance of David Nicolson as Chairman of the BA Board. British Airways, simultaneously with Air France, inaugurated the world's first supersonic passenger service with Concorde in January 1976.
The flag carrier was privatised and floated on the London Stock Exchange in February 1987 by the Conservative government, with the initial share offering being 11 times oversubscribed. In April 1988 British Airways effected the controversial takeover of Britain's "second" airline British Caledonian, but kept the Caledonian name alive by rebranding its charter subsidiary British Airtours as Caledonian Airways. In 1992 it absorbed some of the routes of Gatwick-based carrier Dan-Air.
During the 1990s BA became the world's most profitable airline under the slogan "The World's Favourite Airline". In 1992 BA purchased the small German domestic airline Delta Air Transport and renamed it Deutsche BA. By the time it was sold in June 2003, DBA was operating 16 Boeing 737s and was the second-largest German domestic carrier, after Lufthansa.
Lord King stepped down as chairman in 1993 and was replaced by former deputy Colin Marshall, who initially combined the roles of CEO and Chairman. Bob Ayling, who would later take on the role of CEO, was appointed Managing Director by Marshall. Lord King was appointed President, a role created specifically for him, and became President Emeritus in 1997, until his death in July 2005.
In 1995 BA formed British Asia Airways, a subsidiary based in Taiwan, to operate between London and Taipei. Owing to political sensitivities, British Asia Airways not only had a different name, but also had a different livery, with the Union Jack tailfin being replaced by the Chinese characters 英亞. Many airlines followed the same practice, e.g., Qantas flew to Taiwan as "Australia Asia Airways" and KLM's Taiwan operations became "KLM Asia". British Asia Airways ceased operation in 2001 when the airline suspended flights to Taiwan due to low yield.
In 1996 British Airways, with its newly appointed Chief Executive Bob Ayling, entered a period of turbulence. Increased competition, high oil prices and a strong pound hurt profits. BA management and trade unions clashed and the disruption cost the company hundreds of millions of pounds. In 1997 Ayling dropped BA's traditional Union Flag tailfin livery in favour of world design tailfins, in an effort to change its image from a strictly British and aloof carrier to a more cosmopolitan airline. The move was not a success and Ayling slowed the process, eventually declaring the fleet would sport a dual livery; half a Union Flag design, half the world design tailfins. Ayling pursued antitrust immunity with American Airlines, but this was unsuccessful due to the conditions placed on the deal by regulatory authorities, the most painful of which would have been the sacrifice of landing slots at Heathrow.
Positive news during Ayling's leadership included cost savings of £750m and the establishment of the successful, but highly subsidised, Go in 1998. Go was a low-cost carrier intended to compete in the rapidly emerging "no-frills" segment. After four years of successful operations, the airline was sold off to venture capitalists 3i and later merged with EasyJet. Ayling also sought a reduction of capacity, cancelling Boeing 747-400 orders in favour of the Boeing 777 and rationalising BA's short-haul fleet with an order for the Airbus A320 family.
On 8 September 2004 British Airways announced that it was to sell its 18.5 percent stake in Qantas, but would continue the alliance (such as sharing revenue), particularly on the Kangaroo routes. The £425 million raised was used to reduce the airline's debt.
Marshall, who had been appointed a life peer in 1998, retired as Chairman in July 2004 and was replaced by Martin Broughton, former Chairman of British American Tobacco. On 8 March 2005, Broughton announced that former Aer Lingus CEO Willie Walsh would take over from Rod Eddington upon his retirement in September 2005.
In September 2005 new CEO Willie Walsh, former Aer Lingus boss, announced dramatic changes to the management of British Airways, with the aim of saving £300 million by 2008, the cost of the move to Heathrow's Terminal 5. He has presided over the disposal of BA Connect to Flybe, with Walsh stating "Despite the best efforts of the entire team at BA Connect, we do not see any prospect of profitability in its current form." BA has retained a 15% stake in Flybe following the sale.
Since 2004, BA has strongly marketed the full-service nature of its domestic flights (i.e the use of principal airports, free food and drink) in response to the low cost operators' aggressive pricing, even though its main full-service UK rival bmi has now abandoned some "frills" on its domestic network. Walsh on the other hand pledged to retain the full-service model, and sees it as a means of distinguishing BA from the competition and that customers will still be willing to pay extra for added levels of service.
The airline won the Skytrax Airline of the Year award in 2006 for the first time. It also won OAG Airline of the Year 2007, Best Airline Based in Western Europe 2007, Best Transatlantic Airline 2007, and Best Europe - Asia/Australia Airline 2007' in the Airline of the Year Awards run by UK-based OAG. However the Airport Transport Users Council rate BA as the worst European carrier for baggage handling.
On 1 August 2007, British Airways was fined £121.5 million for price-fixing. The fine was imposed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after BA admitted to the price-fixing of fuel surcharges on long haul flights. The allegation first came to light in 2006 when Virgin Atlantic reported the events to the authorities after it found staff members from BA and Virgin Atlantic were colluding. Virgin Atlantic have since been granted immunity by both the OFT and the United States Department of Justice who have been investigating the allegations since June 2006. The US DOJ later announced that it would fine British Airways $300 million (£148 million) for price fixing.
The allegations are thought to be linked to the resignation of commercial director Martin George and communications chief Iain Burns. Although BA said fuel surcharges were "a legitimate way of recovering costs", in May 2007 it put aside £350 million for legal fees and fines.
Heathrow Terminal 5 was built exclusively for the use of British Airways at a cost of £4.3 billion and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 14 March 2008. It opened to passengers on 27 March 2008, however a number of serious problems immediately arose. Staff were unable to find the car parks and there were not enough spaces available leading to confusion and delays getting to work. Long queues formed for staff security checks and the belts carrying the bags became clogged as they were not being unloaded quickly enough. The baggage handling system also malfunctioned due to technical problems. At one stage, BA were forced to stop checking in bags as large queues formed at the fast bag drop and seven flights departed with no baggage loaded.
In the first five days, a backlog of 28,000 bags built up and over 300 flights were cancelled. BA initially handed out leaflets to passengers of delayed or cancelled flights offering up to £100 compensation to cover the cost of a hotel room for two passengers. This was criticised by the UK's Consumer Watchdog for the Aviation Industry, the Air Transport Users Council, as being a clear breach of regulation 261/2004 and BA were forced to accept claims for "reasonable costs".
Willie Walsh commented that it "was not our finest hour" and "the buck stops with me". However two directors left the company on 15 April 2008 as a direct result of the poor transition into BA's new terminal.
Despite the initial problems with the new terminal in its first few weeks, operations are now running smoothly according to British Airways. Punctuality is improving as more and more flights are departing on time. Further long-haul services were transferred to Terminal 5 on 5 June 2008 and 17 September 2008 and remaining services not yet operating from this terminal will be transferred in one final phase on 22 October 2008.
On 30 July 2008, British Airways and Iberia Airlines announced a merger plan that would result in the two airlines joining forces in an all-stock transaction. The two airlines would retain their separate brands similar to KLM and Air France in their merger agreement. Later, in the beginning of August, American Airlines was also added to this agreement. Though the deal did not have AA being merged into the BA and Iberia entity, it allows the two carriers to fix fares, routes and schedules together.
|Year Ended
|Passengers Flown
|Turnover (£m)
|Profit/Loss Before Tax (£m)
|Net Profit/Loss (£m)
|Basic EPS (p)
|31 March 2008
|31 March 2007
|31 March 2006 (Restated)*
|31 March 2006
|31 March 2005
|31 March 2004
|31 March 2003
|31 March 2002
|31 March 2001
|31 March 2000
|31 March 1999
|31 March 1998
|31 March 1997
|31 March 1996
|Start Date
|End Date
|London Heathrow
|26 October 2008
|St Lucia
|27 October 2008
|Withdrawn as flights to St Lucia will operate direct from London
|Port of Spain
|27 October 2008
|Withdrawn as flights to Port of Spain will operate via St Lucia
|São Paulo
|Rio de Janeiro
|27 October 2008
|Withdrawn as flights to Rio de Janeiro will operate direct from London
|St Lucia
|Port of Spain
|27 October 2008
|London Gatwick
|New York-JFK
|27 October 2008
|New York-JFK
|26 October 2008
|Withdrawn to enable new flights from LGW to JFK
|London Heathrow
|6 December 2008
|London Gatwick/Antigua
|Saint Kitts
|10 January 2009
|Replacing former XL Airways service
|London City
|New York
|Pending delivery of new A318 aircraft. All Club World configuration
With the exception of the Boeing 707 and Boeing 747 from BOAC, the airline as formed in 1972-4 inherited a mainly UK built fleet of aircraft. The airline introduced the Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 into the fleet in the 1980s, followed by the Boeing 747-400, Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 in the nineties. However, with the exception of 29 of its 777 fleet, it has often equipped its Boeing aircraft with British-made Rolls-Royce engines (examples include the Trent 800 on its Boeing 777s, the RB211-524 on its 747-400s and 767s and also RB211-535s on its 757-200s). This goes back to the 1960s when the company ordered Boeing 707s—a condition was placed on the company that it used Rolls-Royce power for the new jets. BA inherited BOAC's Boeing airline code (36). Boeing aircraft built for British Airways have the suffix 36, for example 737-236, 747-436, 777-236.
Although it had a large Boeing fleet it has always operated other aircraft. British built aircraft were transferred from BEA (e.g. Trident) and BOAC (e.g. VC10), and in the 1980s the airline bought the Lockheed Tristar. It has also acquired through the buyout of British Caledonian Airways in the 1980s the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Airbus A320. In the late 1990s British Airways placed its own first direct Airbus order, for over 100 A320/A319s to replace its own aging fleet of Boeing 737s. In September 2007 BA placed its first order for longhaul Airbus jets, 12 Airbus A380s with 7 options.
BA was one of only two operators of the supersonic Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic airliner, (the other being the state-owned Air France) with a daily service between Heathrow and New York JFK (although the original service was from London to Bahrain). Initially, Concorde was a financial burden, placed on the national carrier by the government, and attracted criticism from the press as a white elephant. However Lord King recognised the charismatic importance of Concorde to British Airways. BA used Concorde to win business customers, guaranteeing a certain number of Concorde upgrades in return for corporate accounts with the airline - a key factor in winning business from transatlantic competitors.
With the Paris Crash in 2000, the 11 September 2001 attacks and escalating maintenance costs, the future of Concorde was limited despite the expensive modifications after the crash. It was announced (on 10 April 2003) that, after 24 October 2003, they would cease scheduled services with Concorde, due to depressed passenger numbers. The last day of its Saturday-only London Heathrow to Barbados Concorde flight was on 30 August 2003. The airline still owns 8 Concordes which are on long term loan to museums in the UK, U.S. and Barbados.
The British Airways fleet includes the following aircraft as of 31 March 2008:
(First/Business/Premium Economy/Economy)
|Airbus A318
|(2 orders)
|LCY to New York
|Features Club World seats only. Flight will have fuel stop and pre-clear US immigration in Shannon on way to NY.
|Airbus A319
|LHR to Europe and UK
LGW to Europe and UK
|14 to be transferred to LGW to replace 737-300 & 737-500s in 2009
|Airbus A320
(19 orders)
|LHR to Europe and UK
|Airbus A321
|LHR to Europe and UK
|Airbus A380-800
|(12 orders)
(7 options)
|LHR to Longhaul Destinations (as yet to be announced)
|Entry into service: 2012
|LGW to Europe and UK
|Exit from service: 2009
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A319
|LGW to Europe and UK
|Exit from service: 2009
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A319 / Airbus A320
|LGW to Europe and UK
|Exit from service: 2009
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A319
|Boeing 747-400
|291 (14/70/30/177)
299 (14/70/30/185)
337 (14/52/36/235)
|LHR to Africa, Asia, Australia, North America and South America
|20 to exit from service 2011 through 2014
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A380
|LHR to Europe
|6 aircraft will be transferred to 'OpenSkies' subsidiary by end of 2009
Exit from service: 2012
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A321
|173 (-/24/24/125)
252 (252)
|LHR and MAN to Africa, Caribbean, Europe and North America
|Exit from service: 2010-onwards
Replacement aircraft: Boeing 787
|229 (14/48/40/127)
|LHR to Africa, Asia and North America
(4 orders)
(4 options)
|280 (-/40/24/216)
224 (14/48/40/122)
274 (-/38/24/212)
272 (-/36/24/212)
226 (14/48/40/124)
|LGW and LHR to Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean and North America
|Launch Customer
(6 orders)
(4 options)
|Entry into service: 2010
|Boeing 787-8
|(8 orders)
(16 options)
(10 rights for 787 family)
|Entry into service: 2010
Delays expected
Replaces 767-300ER
|Boeing 787-9
|(16 orders)
(16 options)
(10 rights for 787 family)
|Entry into service: 2010
Replaces 767-300ER
British Airways offers either three or four classes of service on their long haul international routes. 'World Traveller' (Economy Class), 'World Traveller Plus' (Premium Economy) and 'Club World' (Business Class) always feature. All Boeing 747 aircraft and most Boeing 777 aircraft are also fitted with 'First' (First Class).
The airline has operated the following aircraft (with in-service date):
On 18 May 2007, BA announced that it has placed a firm order with Airbus for eight new A320 aircraft. The new aircraft are due for delivery from 2008. They will be delivered to LHR displacing A319s to LGW which in turn will replace elderly Boeing 737-300/500, the leases on which expire at this time.
On 27 March 2007, British Airways placed a firm order for four 777-200ER aircraft with an option for four more, with the order totalling more than US$800 million at list price. The company has stated that these are for fleet expansion. BA's first batch of 777 were fitted with General Electric GE90 engines, but BA switched to Rolls Royce Trent 800s for the most recent 16 aircraft. This has been continued with the most recent 4 orders as Trent 800 engines were selected as the engine choice.
On 27 September 2007, BA announced their biggest order since 1998 by ordering 36 new long haul aircraft. The company ordered 12 A380s with options on a further 7, and 24 Boeing 787s with options on a further 18. Rolls Royce Trent engines were selected for both orders with Trent 900s powering the A380s and Trent 1000s powering the 787s. The new aircraft will be delivered between 2010 and 2014. The Boeing 787s will replace 14 of British Airways' Boeing 767 fleet and the Airbus A380s will replace 20 of BA's oldest Boeing 747-400s and will most likely be used to increase capacity on routes to Bangkok, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Singapore, and Sydney from London Heathrow.
On 1 February 2008 it was announced that BA had ordered two Airbus A318s to operate a premium service out of London City Airport to New York. The service, which will see the A318s fitted out with 32 lie flat beds in an all business class cabin, is expected to start in 2009. The A318 is the largest aircraft able to operate out of London City Airport. On 4 February 2008 the engine selection was announced as the CFM International - CFM56. Most of BA's fleet of A320 family aircraft are powered by IAE V2500 however these engines are not available to power the A318. It was subsequently announced that this route will include a westbound fuel stop.
On 1 August 2008 BA announced orders for six Boeing 777-300ERs and options for four more as an interim measure to cover for delays over the deliveries of their 787-8/9s.
The advertising agency used for many years by BA was Saatchi & Saatchi, who created many of the most famous advertisements for the airline. It created the "Face" commercial for the airline; its success was imitated by Silverjet in 2007, who created a similar advert.
Prior to "The World's Favourite Airline", advertising slogans included:
As of June 2007, BA's advertising agency is Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
British Airways is the official airline of the Wimbledon Championship tennis tournament.
British Airways is the official airline and tier 1 partner of the London 2012 Olympics.
On 6 June 1999, BA chief executive Bob Ayling announced that all BA planes would be repainted with the Chatham Dockyard Union Flag, based on a design first used on Concorde.
UK Domestic seat pitch is 31" on all aircraft and the seats are in a one-class configuration. Food on these services depends on the destination and time of day. On all UK Domestic services, a breakfast meal is served before 10am and after 10am there is a drinks service, with a light snack from Heathrow and Gatwick. The exception is for Scottish flights to and from Heathrow in the evening, where a meal size salad is served.
Business UK has exactly the same service (same cabin) as UK Domestic, with a fully flexible ticket and lounge access.
Euro Traveller seat pitch is 31", except on Boeing 757 aircraft where it is 32" and Airbus A321 aircraft where it is 30". Food on board depends on the destination "band" (e.g. Band 1 to Paris, Band 3 to Rome, Band 4 to Athens). In-flight entertainment is offered on Band 4 flights on aircraft with suitable equipment.
Club Europe is the business class product of British Airways, offered on all shorthaul routes. Passengers have access to business lounges at most airports and are also served a full English breakfast in the mornings or 'extended breakfast' on later flights (ham, salami etc) and afternoon tea later in the day. Seat pitch is 34". Club Europe has 5 rather than 6 seats across, in a 2+3 configuration, but there is a mini seat in between the first and second seat. The whole row can be adjusted to a 3+3 configuration in order to make the aircraft full economy.
First (recently rebranded from 'FIRST') is the long haul first class product on British Airways and is offered only on BA's Boeing 777 and Boeing 747 aircraft. There are 14 private "demi-cabins" with 6' 6" beds, in-seat power for laptops, personal phones, and entertainment facilities. Meals are available on demand. BA offers dedicated check-in facilities at some airports. At airports without dedicated First check-in, passengers use Club World check-in. BA will unveil its brand new First Class in March 2009.
Club World is the longhaul business class product of British Airways. Passengers have access to business lounges at most airports. On 13 November 2006, British Airways launched a new Club World service (termed Next Generation New Club World), offering larger seats and a service revamp. The Club World service offers a 20" wide, 6' long fully flat bed (6' 6" long in Next Generation New Club World cabins), with 24 seats on the 767-300ER (New Club World), either 40 or 48 seats on the 777-200 (New Club World), and, since 2007, either 52 or 70 seats on the 747-400 (Next Generation New Club World).
World Traveller and World Traveller Plus are the two main economy classes offered internationally on British Airways. World Traveller is standard economy and offers a 31" seat pitch. World Traveller Plus is premium economy and, in comparison to World Traveller, offers a better (38") seat pitch, fewer seats abreast, and in-seat laptop power.
British Airways operate several different types of lounge for passengers travelling in the premium cabins and passengers with status.
|Access - Class
|Access - Status
|Number on Network
|Concorde Room
| Premier
Concorde Room Cardholder
|Available at LHR T5 and JFK T7 only
|Galleries First
|Replacing 'First Lounge'
|First Lounge
|To be replaced by 'Galleries First'
|Galleries Club
| Club World (or higher)
Club Europe (or higher)
|Silver (or higher)
|Replacing 'Terraces Lounge' and 'Executive Club Lounge'
|Terraces Lounge
| Club World (or higher)
Club Europe (or higher)
|Silver (or higher)
|To be replaced by 'Galleries Club'
|Executive Club Lounge
| Club World (or higher)
Club Europe (or higher)
|Silver (or higher)
|To be replaced by 'Galleries Club'
|British Airways Gate 1 Lounge
| Club World (or higher)
|Silver (or higher)
|Available at LHR T4 only, closing 2009
|British Airways Chesapeake Club Lounge
|Club World (or higher)
|Silver (or higher)
|Available at BWI Concourse E only, to be replaced by 'Galleries Club'
|Galleries Arrivals
|Club World (or higher)
|Gold (longhaul only)
|Replacing 'Arrivals Lounge'
|Arrivals Lounge
|Club World (or higher)
|Gold (longhaul only)
|Available at LHR T4 only, closing 2009
At airports in which BA does not operate a lounge, a third party lounge is usually provided for premium/status passengers.
|Terminal 1
|Terraces Lounge (Gate 5)
|Closing 27 January 2009
|Terminal 3
|Galleries Club
|Opening 27 January 2009
|Terminal 4
| British Airways Gate 1 Lounge (Gate 1)
Arrivals Lounge
| Closing 2009
Closing 2009
|Terminal 5A
| Concorde Room (Galleries Lounge South)
Galleries First (Galleries Lounge South)
Galleries Club (Galleries Lounge South)
Galleries Club (Galleries Lounge North)
Galleries Arrivals
|Terminal 5B
|Galleries Club
BA is based at London Heathrow Airport in London, England. It also has a presence at Gatwick and previously had a significant hub at Manchester International Airport, but this was much reduced in 2007 after the sale of BA Connect, in common with operations from other UK airports. BA has succeeded in dominating Heathrow to the point that the airport is commonly referred to as Fortress Heathrow within both the airline and its competitors.
As an incumbent airline, BA had grandfather rights to around 36% of takeoff and landing slots at Heathrow, many of which are used for the lucrative trans-Atlantic market. Some competitors, such as Virgin Atlantic and bmi, assert that this stifles competition and some political think-tanks recommend an auction of slots. In recent years British Airways has been buying slots from other airlines including United Airlines, bmi, Brussels Airlines, GB Airways and Swiss International Air Lines, and now owns about 40% of slots at Heathrow.
Although British Airways describes itself as the 'National Carrier of the United Kingdom', it does not have a presence in Wales and services to all airports 'north of Watford' were severely truncated in March 2007. BA aims to fly UK passengers through its congested Heathrow and Gatwick hubs. However, this policy is now being successfully countered by foreign carriers such as Emirates, who fly direct from several UK provincial airports to Dubai, Abu Dhabi etc and onwards from those hubs to Asia and Australasia.
BA CityFlyer is a subsidiary with Avro RJ aircraft based in Edinburgh, but operating mainly from London City Airport. BA CityFlyer operates around 250 flights per week at London City Airport.
On 27 March 2008, BA moved roughly 50% of its Heathrow operation to the new Terminal 5. A large majority of the moves happened during the night on 26 March, when one of the runways at Heathrow was closed. All BA flights will operate out of T5 by early 2009, except services to Barcelona, Helsinki, Lisbon, Madrid, Nice, Bangkok, Singapore and Sydney, which will operate out of T3 due to them being code-share flights.
British Airways is the full owner of Airways Aero Associations Limited, which operates the British Airways flying club and runs its own aerodrome under the British Airways brand at Wycombe Air Park, High Wycombe. With the creation of Open Skies between Europe and the United States in March 2008, British Airways has a new subsidiary airline called OpenSkies (previously codenamed "Project Lauren"). The airline started operations in June 2008, and now flies between Paris and Amsterdam, to New York, JFK Airport.
The former BEA Helicopters was renamed British Airways Helicopters in 1974 and operated passenger and offshore oil support services until it was sold in 1986.
It obtained a 15% stake in FlyBe when it sold its regional UK operation BA Connect to FlyBe in March 2007.
It owns a 10% stake in Eurostar (U.K.) Ltd. as part of the InterCapital and Regional Rail alliance that also includes SNCF, NMBS/SNCB and National Express Group. Eurostar (UK) is the UK arm of Eurostar, the cross-Channel rail operator.
On 30 July 2008, British Airways and Iberia announced a merger plan that would result in the two airlines joining forces in an all-stock transaction. The two airlines would retain their separate brands similar to KLM and Air France in their merger agreement.
British Airways opened its £250m World Cargo centre, Ascentis, at Heathrow in 1999. As an advanced automated freight handling centre, it can handle unusual and premium cargo, and fresh produce, of which it handles over 80,000 tons per year. BA World Cargo also handles freight at London's Gatwick and Stansted airports, and, through its partner British Airways Regional Cargo, at all of the main regional airports throughout the UK. On 3 July 2007 BA World Cargo announced it would launch new services to Jinnah International Airport, Karachi and Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore in Pakistan using Boeing 727s via Bahrain.
The number of tier points required for Silver and Gold card membership varies substantially from country leading to some passengers changing their address to a European country in order to qualify for membership by with fewer tier points.


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Read more about Minnetonka men and College View women win basketball tournament Teaching Literacy Discussion February 22 February 18, 2011 Have you ever considered becoming a volunteer literacy tutor? Are you preparing to teach and want to be sure you know how to help your students learn to read? Join us on February 22, 2011 for a discussion of John Corcoran's book, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, and learn about effective methods for teaching literacy. Peggy Wahlen from Union's English as a Second Language department will lead the discussion beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Library room 121. Read more about Teaching Literacy Discussion February 22 Union College drama presents "The Dining Room" February 18, 2011 Read more about Union College drama presents "The Dining Room" Free life coaching: A student perspective February 15, 2011 When I discovered that Union College's Teaching Learning Center (TLC) planned to start offering free academic and life coaching sessions, my squeal of glee prompted stares from my coworkers. I had to fight the urge to jump out of my chair, race to the TLC office and schedule my first appointment. Read more about Free life coaching: A student perspective UpToDate Trial: Explore More Evidence Based Medical Information February 15, 2011 We are pleased to announce that Union College is currently trialing a campus wide subscription to UpToDate. UpToDate is an electronic resource offering evidence-based, synthesized medical information quickly at the point of care. It is comprised of original topics that are written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of physician experts. Read more about UpToDate Trial: Explore More Evidence Based Medical Information Union Scholars Travel to Chicago for Winter Break February 13, 2011 Chicago during the winter is a fascinating place. Eight Scholars experienced some of what Chicago has to offer on a trip there during Winter Break, February 10-13, 2011. Arriving in Chicago by rented van at 5:00 pm on Thursday, the students spent the evening in the Art Institute of Chicago, which was free of admission that evening. On a whirlwind tour, they saw most of the highlights of the museum, including Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" Read more about Union Scholars Travel to Chicago for Winter Break "Zacchaeus" to speak for Feb. 18 vespers service February 11, 2011 Actor Mac McConnell will present "Forever Changed," a first person narrative on the life as Zacchaeus, for vespers on Feb. 18. (Photo courtesy www.way.org.) Read more about "Zacchaeus" to speak for Feb. 18 vespers service Native artist connects traditions in McClelland Gallery February 9, 2011 When Jovannah Poor Bear-Adams first started creating Navajo pottery at the Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist School, it was just a craft to her. It was a way for her to fill up empty hours and make a little extra cash. However, since then it has become much, much more. According to Poor Bear-Adams, creating traditional art is "how I connect to my Native American heritage." Read more about Native artist connects traditions in McClelland Gallery Class assignment leads to baptism February 9, 2011 Read more about Class assignment leads to baptism Union nursing graduates continue to have highest NCLEX pass rate in Nebraska January 25, 2011 Union College nursing graduates posted the highest pass rate in the state of Nebraska on the National Council Licensure Examination, or NCLEX, for a fifth straight quarter, ending in December 2010. Since October 2009, Union's 97 percent pass rate has surpassed the fourteen other nursing schools in the state and the Nebraska (88 percent) and national (87 percent) averages. Read more about Union nursing graduates continue to have highest NCLEX pass rate in Nebraska DynaMed Trial: An Evidenced Based Medicine Database January 24, 2011 From now until April 7, 2011, DynaMed will be available for the students and faculty who are interested in medical topics to explore. 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Bridge of Souls: The Quickening Book Three
Bridge of Souls: The Quickening Book Three (Paperback)
Wyl Thirsk, former general of the Morgravian army and bearer of the curse known as Myrren's gift, is running out of time. Marriage between his beloved Queen Valentyna and his sworn enemy, the despotic King Celimus, is imminent; yet, despite the impending nuptials, war looms between the two nations, while the threat from the Mountain Kingdom grows stronger. Trapped in a body not his own, with his friends and supporters scattered throughout the realm, Wyl is as desperate to prevent the wedding as he is to end Myrren's "gift" -- a magic that will cease only when he assumes the throne of Morgravia.
Clinging to an ominous suggestion from his young friend Fynch, an increasingly powerful mage, Wyl must walk his most dangerous path yet -- straight into the brutal clutches of Celimus in a desperate attempt to save his nation, his love, and himself.
About the Author
Born in 1960 and raised in southern England, Fiona McIntosh spent an early childhood in the gold-mining camp of Bibiani in Ghana, where her father was working. She studied in Brighton before starting a career in PR and marketing in London. She made Australia her home in 1980, continuing in a travel-marketing career with an ad agency, a tourism authority, and an international airline. Fiona married her magazine-publisher husband, Ian, and they now live in Adelaide with their teenage twin sons, Will and Jack.
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"BRIDGE OF SOULS concludes all the adventure, grisly deaths and megalomaniacal machinations in gleeful style."
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"High fantasy at its best . . . .A fascinating conclusion to an engaging tale of sword and sorcery."
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"Vibrant and engaging . . . A fast-paced and enchanting page-turner."
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KINSTON — Kinston Post 43 returned to Viking Field on Friday determined not to be embarrassed by Jacksonville Post 265 for the second straight night.
What a difference a day makes.
Ryan Cobb went 3-for-3 with a home run, Marc Hamilton went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs and Ben Brann made pitches when he had to as Post 43 made up for Thursday's mercy-rule loss with a 7-3 win over Jacksonville Friday night at Viking Field.
"I know how good of a team (Post 43 has), and they didn't play to their potential last night, and even coach Battle will tell you that," Post 265 manager Mike Daley said. "Tonight that was the real Kinston team. They came out, played well. They've got a great hitting ballclub."
Less than 24 hours after falling 16-6 at Jacksonville, Post 43 (2-1) looked like a completely different team, and so did Post 265 (4-3).
"When they came out here tonight they knew they were going to play a good ballclub, and I heard a couple of them say, 'We're not going to take the beating we took last night and we've got to do something about it,'" Post 43 manager Ronnie Battle said. "The way we got shellacked last night. … Once the sun comes up it's another day."
Like Thursday's game Kinston struck first on Friday. But unlike Thursday it didn't let up.
Post 43 answered a three-run fourth inning by Jacksonville with a pair in its half of the frame, one courtesy of an RBI double by Hamilton and the other on a run-scoring groundout from Wesley Melvin.
Then Kinston showed its speed in the fifth with a pair of stand-up triples, one that led off the home-half by Grant Tyndall — his third triple in as many games — and another by Cobb, who came a double shy of the cycle.
Sammy West's sac fly scored Tyndall for the 4-3 lead, and that was enough to hold the win. But Post 43 wasn't finished.
Cobb led off the bottom of the eighth with a solo shot to left, then Kinston followed with four consecutive singles off reliever Cole Jones that allowed Dylan Puchalski and Garrett Holland to score.
Post 43 loaded the bases with no outs, but Jones induced back-to-back fielder's choices that got the force out at the plate then got West to fly out to center field to end the inning.
But not before a one-run game turned into an insurmountable lead for Jacksonville, which was held to nine hits after breaking out for a season-best 19 the night before.
With the offense getting things going again after being held to five hits on Thursday, left-hander Ben Brann worked his way out of trouble early and got some solid defensive play behind him for eight innings.
Brann walked Christian Kercado and Joe Curran to start the game then gave up a single up the middle to Andrew Hartness. But Kercado was thrown out at the plate by Tyndall from center field to eliminate the run, and Brann got Corey Case and Spencer Howard to fly out in consecutive at-bats to end the threat.
A leadoff single by Sean Blake in the third was erased when Hamilton caught Curran trying to steal to end the inning. And in the eighth a 5-4-3 double play took the place of Post 43's only error on the night to keep that run from scoring.
Brann (1-0) gave up three earned runs on seven hits, struck out two and walked four.
Garrett Blackburn pitched a scoreless ninth and gave up two hits.
"(Brann) and Marc (Hamilton) did a good job of mixing pitches up," Battle said. "Brann did some quality work out there. Great work."
Andrew Hartness went 2-for-4 with a double and Dawnoven Smith went 2-for-4 and drove in a run for Post 265, which left eight men on base was just 5-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
A lot of that had to do with the speedy outfield of Post 43, made up to Tyndall, Cobb and West.
The trio combined for seven putouts, most hit to the gaps in the spacious ballpark.
"The speed limit sign says 55, then the next one says speed kills. You cannot have an answer for speed," Battle said. "I think that each game we play in, we're beginning to utilize our speed a whole lot more. … It's a big asset to us."
Notes: Zachary Scalzo, Howard and Smith each singled home a run in the fourth to account for Post 256's runs. … Heath Scurlock gave up four earned runs on seven hits, struck out four and walked two in the loss. … The game lasted 2 hours, 31 minutes, and was delayed about 15 minutes at the start due to an umpire's late arrival. … Kinston hosts Jones County Post 154 at 7 tonight.
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CARSON, Calif. – The LA Galaxy struggled through a 2-2 draw to D.C. United on Saturday that saw them lose a pair of starters in A.J. DeLaGarza (elbow) and Landon Donovan (ankle) to injury, but during the first training session since the draw, head coach Bruce Arena stated that there was no update on their statuses.
When asked if there had been any news on the severity of either injury, Arena was consise as he said there were "no updates" yet on either player.
Bruce Arena says "no updates" on the injury status of A.J. DeLaGarza or Landon Donovan. #LAGalaxy #MLS #CCL
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WASHINGTON— A pair of injuries to A.J. DeLaGarza and Landon Donovan marred the LA Galaxy's 2-2 draw with D.C. United, but while head coach Bruce Arena stated that the knocks are "not serious" during the Time Warner Sports Net telecast, the injuries could be a major talking point heading into the stretch run.
DeLaGarza's elbow injury appears to be the most severe, but both Arena and Donovan were optimistic about the forward's status heading into a week that will see LA take Isidro Metapán in the CONCACAF Champions League and league leading Seattle Sounders FC on Saturday at StubHub Center. Donovan's ankle issue arose toward the end of the first half after getting tangled with D.C.'s Luis Silva, which forced him to come off at the start of the second half.
Following the match, Arena asserted that Donovan "should be okay" after suffering, what he described as a "light sprain" and the 31-year-old was just as optimistic that he can make a quick recovery.
"It got rolled on," said Donovan, who tallied his eighth assist on Robbie Keane's goal in the first half. "We got tangled up and [Silva] ended up landing on it. Hopefully it's not too bad. …I'll get it looked at [on Sunday] and we'll see how it goes."
And the Galaxy will certainly need Donovan healthy as they must defeat the Salvadorians to take charge of Group 8 in CCL play and then knock off high-flying Seattle, if they are to remain in the hunt for the Supporters' Shield and the Western Conference's number one record.
Regardless of if he plays or not in any of LA's two matches, Donovan believes that the Galaxy will have their depth tested.
"It's a big week for us, a really big week, and a lot of guys are going to have their number called," said Donovan. "Fortunately, we've had a lot of reserve games in the last few weeks. We've had a Champions League game so multiple games to stay pretty fit and it's going to be a week where we have to use quite a bit of players. The Metapán game we have to win—we win that game and we're in good shape in the group. And if we want to have a chance of catching Seattle we'll have to win on Saturday."
WASHINGTON – Michael Stephens bagged his first goal in two years, but even though the midfielder was jubilant at the time of the finish, the memory was bittersweet as LA played to a 2-2 draw with D.C. United on Saturday.
Stephens entered the match in the 78th minute and needed just three minutes to find the back of the net as Robbie Keane fed him near the top the penalty area and he fired a toe-poke shot that rolled past D.C. 'keeper Bill Hamid. The goal was Stephens' second career MLS goal and his first since May 29, 2010.
Although the goal was his first in three years, the fact that United equalized three minutes after his strike took much of the shine off his finish.
"It was an important one at the time," said Stephens. "It would have been a lot better if it would have been the game-winning goal, but at the time it was an important goal and obviously we gave one up, which is unfortunate. But what are you going to do? "
Although he bagged a goal, if LA had not lost A.J. DeLaGarza and Landon Donovan due to injuries then Stephens believes that he probably wouldn't have seen the field as he has largely been used a defensive substitution.
"I think if you would have told Bruce [Arena] before the game that we were tied or we were losing, I don't think he would have gone to me," said Stephens. "But I think the circumstances with injured players allowed me to get in, and I took advantage of the opportunity."
Now Stephens will look to build on that goal as he is expected to be in the running for a starting position in the Galaxy midfield when they take on Isidro Metapán in CONCACAF Champions League play on Wednesday. With Juninho, Marcelo Sarvas and Gyasi Zardes each going a full 90 minutes in the draw with United and likely dealing with fatigue, Stephens seems poised and ready to turn his goal against D.C. into success in CCL.
"I think that it's always good to get a goal because it doesn't happen very often for me, so it was fun," said Stephens. "The match against Metapán will be important for me and I think we'll all be ready to go."
WASHINGTON – LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena's quotes following the team's 2-2 draw with D.C. United…
Check it out below…
(On the result...)
ARENA: "We're disappointed. At the end of the game, we're positioned to have three points and we need to do better in those situations. It was a day where we give D.C. United credit – they played real hard for 90 minutes. We had to battle real hard. We positioned ourselves poorly at the end of the first half by…I call it giving away a goal. Give [Chris] Pontius credit as well for stripping Omar [Gonzalez] and finishing off the play. Then we got the second goal, which should be enough to give us three points, [but] we failed to keep them off the scoreboard at the end of the game, so that's disappointing."
(On the physicality of the game and whether that hindered LA...)
ARENA; "It was physical. We got fouled a little bit more than we anticipated, and it was a hard game. We made it a hard game because we were well-positioned early in this game. If we would be smart with the ball and good and tight defensively, we go into halftime with the lead."
(On Omar Gonzalez's turnover that led to the first D.C. United goal and whether it was a "teaching moment"…)
ARENA: "If it was a teaching moment, he failed – he got a bad grade, then. He's experienced enough as a player now; he shouldn't be in that position. Hopefully, he continues to grow from his experiences."
(On midfielder Michael Stephens' goal…)
ARENA: "It was a good goal. Give him credit – it was good to see Mike [Stephens] come off the bench and contribute."
(On Robbie Keane's play tonight…)
ARENA: "Robbie [Keane] was on the ball a lot the whole game. His legs were a little bit tired. I think he stood on the ball a little bit too much tonight, and I think that's attributed o his travel and his fatigue."
(On Jaime Moreno being inducted into the D.C. United Hall of Tradition…)
ARENA: "Great player – he belongs there. Well-deserved recognition."
WASHINGTON -- The LA Galaxy will dealt an injury blow on Saturday as A.J. DeLaGarza suffered a dislocated left elbow in the first half of the team's 2-2 draw with D.C. United at RFK Stadium.
DeLaGarza suffered the injury after colliding with the boards behind the Galaxy goal and was immediately substituted for right back Sean Franklin. Typically, elbow injuries can last about four to eight weeks, meaning that LA may be without their starting right back for about a month. Following the match, Galaxy head coach told Time Warner Cable SportsNet that the injury was "not serious."
"[It's an] elbow [injury]," said Arena. "We'll know more when we get back to L.A."
With DeLaGarza out, it's likely that the Galaxy will opt for a tandem of Franklin at right back and Hector Jimenez in the midfield with either Tommy Meyer or Oscar Sorto serving as potential backups on the right side of defense.
The injury, which is graphic is below.
Bruce Arena reflects on D.C. United legend Jaime Moreno as he prepares to enter the club's Hall of Tradition
WASHINGTON— Before Saturday's match against the LA Galaxy, D.C. United will honor forward Jaime Moreno.
LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena will participate in the ceremony as he led United to MLS Cup titles in 1996 and 1997 while also appearing in the 1998 as the franchise was one of the dominant clubs in the league's early years.
Although Arena has coached a number of talented players during his career, he raves about Moreno.
"Jaime came into the league [in 1996] at 19 years old, was probably the fastest player in the league, technically as good as anyone in the league, and he scored goals," said Arena. "He had the whole package. He really did. For a number of years, he was just a dominant player in MLS.
"I've coached some good players, and he's as good a player as I've coached in this league, and I've been around [Marco] Etcheverry and Moreno and [Eddie] Pope and [Landon] Donovan and [Robbie] Keane and [David] Beckham. He's in that class, no question about it."
But just how did the Galaxy boss spot the D.C. United legend?
"He ran circles around Jeff Agoos [in Bolivia's 1-0 victory over the U.S.] And I was coaching the Olympic team as well at the time. On the bus ride back after the Portugal game at RFK [in July], I was sitting with Sunil Gulati, and I said, 'Let's get him.' And we were able to turn that over kind of quickly.
"And as he would say, I owe my career to him, but I'd say it's the other way, and I'm very disappointed that one of his 50 children aren't named after me," the Galaxy boss said with a joke.
Moreno's induction into the Hall of Tradition may not be the only moment that involves the Bolivian soccer legend as Landon Donovan is just two goals away from one goal from tying Moreno's 134 goals mark, which is second all-time in goals scored.
WASHINGTON – Landon Donovan and the rest of LA's international contingent is back with the LA Galaxy ahead of Saturday's match against D.C. United at RFK Stadium.
Although the hyper-focused Donovan is not letting any of the issues of national team duty come into his thinking as he prepares for Saturday, one of the main talking points of Wednesday's match remains with him—literally. Donovan is still suffering from conjunctivitis in his right eye, which surfaced at some point last week.
The pink eye didn't affect him during his 2-0 victory with the U.S. National Team over Mexico on Wednesday and is unlikely to keep him out of Saturday's game, but the question remains. Just how did it happen?
"I don't know," said Donovan following the team's training session at American University. "I was getting treatment from the trainers and when I opened my eye it was all red. But I'm fine now and ready for the game on Saturday."
Although the eye issue is still prevalent, Donovan doesn't expect that—or any national team hangover—to affect him when LA faces D.C. United.
"I feel great. It's been a really good last week or so. It was a lot of fun for Omar and I to have that experience on Tuesday [against Mexico] and now it's important to put that behind us and move forward. We have a game that we need to get three points out of and that has to be the focus now."
And he expects a stern test from a United side that is currently the league's worst team with just 14 points on the year. In fact, Donovan believes that United are circling this match on their calendar and he feels that LA must be cognizant of that fact.
"They've obviously had a rough year and I'm sure that if odds were made, we'd be the favorites, but this league is built on parity. You never know what could happen," said Donovan. "We know that they'll have a good crowd; we know that they're excited for this game. Outside of their [U.S. Open Cup Final], this will be their biggest game of the season. We expect to get their best and we need to be ready to play."
Any one that has ever spoken to or seen a video clip of Bruce Arena knows that he's a person opinionated and affable person and that truly shines in a Q&A that the LA Galaxy boss did with the Washington Post's Steve Goff on Friday.
Arena addresses a myriad of topics in his discussion with Goff that is mandatory reading for all interested in MLS.
Check it out here: A few minutes with Bruce Arena
CARSON, Calif. – He won't be taking the field during Saturday's match against D.C. United or any time soon for the LA Galaxy, but one of the Galaxy Academy's highest touted players Raul Mendiola is starting to blossom.
Mendiola started and went 90 minutes during LA's scoreless draw with the Colorado Rapids reserves on Sunday. Known for his skill with the ball and his impressive displays going forward, the 19-year-old put forth perhaps his most mature performance for the Galaxy reserves. In addition to his characteristic ability to make darting runs behind the defense and combine with the forwards, Mendiola performed aptly on defense as he was able to negate Colorado's ability to create along the right side of midfield.
"The hard work pays off. I know that I still have to work on some things, but I did well. I just want to keep working hard," Mendiola told LA Galaxy Insider on Sunday noting that he believes that fitness remains one of the keys to his continued improvement. "I've learned from the veteran guys and I try to learn their positioning, both with the ball and without it. I feel like I'm growing little by little and if I keep patience then I'll continue to grow."
And Galaxy reserve team head coach Curt Onalfo is beginning to see that evolution.
"I thought Mendiola was menacing for a good 60 minutes. He fatigued a little bit, but he impressed me. He made a lot of things happen and you can see his quality in the final third," said Onalfo. "He's turning into a complete player and it's good to see."
Maturity is important for the young midfielder from San Bernadino via Ciudad Juarez, who has trained frequently with the Galaxy first team over the past year. At the start of training camp, Mendiola was not present as LA coaching staff—both at the first team and academy level—noted that they'd like to see more maturity from the youngster and after some personal reflection, Mendiola believes that the personal growth is happening.
"Last year was one of my first times with the first team and it was tough for me to get used to it. Over that period though, I matured a lot," said Mendiola. "I have a mindset and I've talked to my family about my goals of being a professional soccer player, so I have it in my mind that I need to stick to this."