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Day 2: After a delicious breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi, at 8: 30 AM we drove to Memphis, Tennessee which is located on the Mississippi River. After crossing the river, we stopped at a welcome rest area in Arkansas. The other senior bus from Valdosta (not with us–but taking the same tour) stopped at the same place to use the restrooms. We then drove to Little Rock, Arkansas and stopped for lunch. I ate with some friends at Chili’s. We continued for a long time on the Interstate across Arkansas. We turned north and traveled through the Ozark Mountains. In Clinton, Arkansas suddenly police cars, ambulances, and a hearse sped past us. Then we all came to a stop with many cars/trucks stopped in front and in back. We were stuck in traffic for 80 minutes. We learned there had been a BAD accident, and 4 people lost their lives. After we passed the accident, we found the first place that might have a restroom. It only had one for women and one for men. It took 70 minutes for all 84 people to use the restroom in Leslie, Arkansas. We learned that we were 85 miles from Branson. We watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" while sitting on the bus. Amazingly we arrived in Branson, Missouri and were only 15 minutes late for our dinner reservation at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill. After a scrumptious meal, we arrived at our hotel where we’ll stay for 4 nights.

I just finished reading an article about a network news program that did a negative report on reverse mortgages, citing an incident in Los Angeles of a senior borrower who was talked into buying annuities that did not mature until the year 2033 without a substantial penalty. I saw the actual Nightly News piece with Tom Costello. I was very concerned with the piece because I saw that they interviewed a woman identified as Robin Talbert with the AARP.

I have to believe that only part of Ms. Talbert’s comments were represented in the piece on the program as her comments stated “We’re all living longer and you don’t want to outlive that equity in your home to which the piece cut away immediately to Mr. Costello who added Because the bank could then take the home. Ms. Talbert is absolutely correct, and the AARP champions all things for seniors, but they are extremely aware of how reverse mortgages operate and Mr. Costello’s remarks are done in a way to mischaracterize reverse mortgages.

This is the type of misinformation and misreporting that we have been running into for several years now. While I do not know all of the borrower’s circumstances in this particular situation and I always get extremely angry when I hear of any mortgage professionals who do not keep the borrower’s best interests at heart, it is not the Reverse Mortgage that is the rip off here, it was the end use of the funds.

The notion that the bank will take the borrower’s home when her equity is gone is just plain wrong and bad reporting. The whole idea behind the reverse mortgage and one of the reasons the borrowers pay mortgage insurance is that no matter what happens to the equity, the borrower will never make another house payment and the borrower or the borrower’s heirs will never owe more than the property is worth, regardless of what the equity position does. The loan is set up so that you own your property, not the bank.

If the Nightly News or Mr. Costello had researched reverse mortgages more thoroughly, they would have learned that if the borrower had chosen what is known as the tenure option or payments for life, she would have received those payments for the rest of her life so long as she continued to occupy the property and the bank would never then take the home when the senior outlived the equity as the report leads the listener to believe.

I think it is very important for seniors to not only go through the required counseling, but also to enlist the assistance of their loved ones or trusted financial advisors whenever available. In this piece, the borrower said she didn’t really even need the money, she was doing just fine without it. Her daughter was with her during the television interview and maybe if she had been with her during the reverse mortgage process, she could have helped her to keep from getting the loan in the beginning. Another piece of advice, don’t ever go into the process with someone who is only looking to sell you another product or service.

If you don’t need a reverse mortgage and someone is trying to sell you one so that you can buy something else, or you do need one for living expenses and then someone tries to tell you that you should put the money into something else instead, find a reverse mortgage specialist who is only looking to help you fulfill your reverse mortgage needs. Many people have used reverse mortgages as retirement tools but make sure that your use of your funds is from your careful plan and decisions, not from someone elses salesmanship.

Reverse Mortgages can be a very viable retirement tool and I’ve seen them help many senior borrowers. Like almost anything, they can be abused but if you take the time to research the products and the people with whom you are working, the reverse mortgage can be the difference to many seniors of staying in their homes or having to leave; between barely surviving and aging in grace and dignity.

I would hate to see a senior borrower avoid this viable option that may be badly needed due to bad or partial reporting.

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Day 2: After a delicious breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi, at 8: 30 AM we drove to Memphis, Tennessee which is located on the Mississippi River. After crossing the river, we stopped at a welcome rest area in Arkansas. The other senior bus from Valdosta (not with us–but taking the same tour) stopped at the same place to use the restrooms. We then drove to Little Rock, Arkansas and stopped for lunch. I ate with some friends at Chili’s. We continued for a long time on the Interstate across Arkansas. We turned north and traveled through the Ozark Mountains. In Clinton, Arkansas suddenly police cars, ambulances, and a hearse sped past us. Then we all came to a stop with many cars/trucks stopped in front and in back. We were stuck in traffic for 80 minutes. We learned there had been a BAD accident, and 4 people lost their lives. After we passed the accident, we found the first place that might have a restroom. It only had one for women and one for men. It took 70 minutes for all 84 people to use the restroom in Leslie, Arkansas. We learned that we were 85 miles from Branson. We watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" while sitting on the bus. Amazingly we arrived in Branson, Missouri and were only 15 minutes late for our dinner reservation at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill. After a scrumptious meal, we arrived at our hotel where we’ll stay for 4 nights.

Question by jerry: Has anyone ever heard of Leroy New and the New’s Band in Branson,MO ?
Has anyone ever heard of Leroy New and the New’s Band in Branson,MO ? I am looking for any DC’s that they may have made . Leroy New is called the Guitar Wizard of Branson,MO , If that helps any.
Thanks

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Answer by deedeetres
sorry, i have not.

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Happy Travelers Branson Extravaganza Show Trip


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Day 2: After a delicious breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi, at 8: 30 AM we drove to Memphis, Tennessee which is located on the Mississippi River. After crossing the river, we stopped at a welcome rest area in Arkansas. The other senior bus from Valdosta (not with us–but taking the same tour) stopped at the same place to use the restrooms. We then drove to Little Rock, Arkansas and stopped for lunch. I ate with some friends at Chili’s. We continued for a long time on the Interstate across Arkansas. We turned north and traveled through the Ozark Mountains. In Clinton, Arkansas suddenly police cars, ambulances, and a hearse sped past us. Then we all came to a stop with many cars/trucks stopped in front and in back. We were stuck in traffic for 80 minutes. We learned there had been a BAD accident, and 4 people lost their lives. After we passed the accident, we found the first place that might have a restroom. It only had one for women and one for men. It took 70 minutes for all 84 people to use the restroom in Leslie, Arkansas. We learned that we were 85 miles from Branson. We watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" while sitting on the bus. Amazingly we arrived in Branson, Missouri and were only 15 minutes late for our dinner reservation at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill. After a scrumptious meal, we arrived at our hotel where we’ll stay for 4 nights.

Question by turtle girl: Is there a more effective route to depression than nonstop network news, funniest videos and Branson Jubilee?

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Answer by rere
no. that’s pretty much straight on.

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Before the world knew Kingfisher as an airline in India, Kingfisher was more identifiable with the tropical bird of the same name.

Kingfisher was started by UB Group owner and Kingfisher chairman Dr. Vijay Mallya, often referred to as India’s Richard Branson. He is known for his flamboyant style and risk-taking business ideas. Kingfisher airline was launched in 2005 and the aircrafts exuded luxury and 5 star class with offerings like personal entertainment systems and gourmet meals served in Kingfisher First and Kingfisher Class, known as business and economy classes in other airlines. After the huge success of Kingfisher airlines in metro India, the company was looking to increase its airline connectivity in smaller, more regional air routes.

As a step towards this, Kingfisher announced a merger with Air Deccan in 2008, after much speculation. Air Deccan was considered to be the country’s first Low Cost Carrier that changed how people traveled all across India. Air Deccan operated on sectors like Mumbai to Coimbatore and Delhi to Guwahati. Offering airfares at par with train tickets, Air Deccan offered no frills like meals or entertainment on its aircrafts, which enabled them to price their tickets lower than anybody else. In fact, Air Deccan can be credited for forcing other airlines to drop their fares when they introduced the never-before Rs. 1 fare.

In its years of operation, Air Deccan, under the guidance of Capt. Gopinath, was hailed as truly being the common man’s airline with the catch-line “Simplify Deccan”.

After the Kingfisher – Air Deccan union, Air Deccan was rechristened to Kingfisher Red Airlines, carrying the brand of its parent company Kingfisher. Under its new name, the airline repositioned itself as a low fare airline. It has also included appetizing meals on its aircrafts. The goal was to offer travelers the Kingfisher experience on all its aircrafts irrespective of how much they paid for a ticket.

Kingfisher and Kingfisher Red Airlines (formerly Air Deccan) collectively have 81 aircrafts in their fleet that service over 60 airports within India. Some of their most popular routes include flights between Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, Delhi and Goa, Kolkata and Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, Agatti and Kochi and Bangalore and Tirupati. Kingfisher also operates charter flights to all routes in its network.

To add another feather in its illustrious cap, Kingfisher will begin flying international skies, commencing flights from Bangalore city to London early 2009.

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Day 2: After a delicious breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi, at 8: 30 AM we drove to Memphis, Tennessee which is located on the Mississippi River. After crossing the river, we stopped at a welcome rest area in Arkansas. The other senior bus from Valdosta (not with us–but taking the same tour) stopped at the same place to use the restrooms. We then drove to Little Rock, Arkansas and stopped for lunch. I ate with some friends at Chili’s. We continued for a long time on the Interstate across Arkansas. We turned north and traveled through the Ozark Mountains. In Clinton, Arkansas suddenly police cars, ambulances, and a hearse sped past us. Then we all came to a stop with many cars/trucks stopped in front and in back. We were stuck in traffic for 80 minutes. We learned there had been a BAD accident, and 4 people lost their lives. After we passed the accident, we found the first place that might have a restroom. It only had one for women and one for men. It took 70 minutes for all 84 people to use the restroom in Leslie, Arkansas. We learned that we were 85 miles from Branson. We watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" while sitting on the bus. Amazingly we arrived in Branson, Missouri and were only 15 minutes late for our dinner reservation at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill. After a scrumptious meal, we arrived at our hotel where we’ll stay for 4 nights.

Aviation industry is playing avital role in the economic,social and political world as it makes travel  easier and  quicker through air transport, thus the need for the update on the new develpoments.Many bussiness depend on aviation industry for both imports and exports and it needs new technology to make the air transport cheaper and convinient to enable  transactions to be quicker.

Every Month or after two weeks there news on new technology like introduction of new model of aircrafts for example the Citation X  fitted with the Elliptical Winglets to give it more range,less fuel consumption which will make the Private Jet Flights even more cheaper. The introdduction of the Dreamliner 787 Boeing which will have more seating capacity thus  reduction in cost per seat and saving of 20% on fuel consumption.

WORLD  AIR NEWS  ROUND UP

Big  Contract

Stratford,conn.Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) in Wichita has been awarded a contract to provide the T-6A trainer aircraft- claimed to be the worlds most proven military training programme-to the Israel Air Force.

This is the first foreign military sales case contract also includes ground-based training systems and publications.

Active Rotor System Begins

As part of an effort to improve helicopter perfomance,Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, has begun whirl testing a demonstration rotor system  with  active flaps. The effort is jointly funded by Sikorsky and the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate.

Testing is expected to be completed soon and wind tunnel testing at NASAs facilities is planned in 2010.

Three Million Passengers

Arik Air Lagos,Nigerias leading domestic commercial airline ,has carried its three millionth passengers-a particularly impressive tally considering it has been operating for less than three years.In addition to this milestone ,July was a record breaking month for the airline,as it carried the most passengers in a month since it started operations-182075-and operated the greatest number of scheduled flights in a calendar month,namely 3203. To supplement on the domestic flights ,it  now operates  long-haul flights from Lagos to London and Johannesburg.

Euro-Russian Agreement

Tyumen,Russia-Eurocopter and UTair Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to establish a certified Eurocopter flight training centre in Tyumen.

This centre will begin operations early next year and will allow flight crews and technicians to be trained locally in Russia to operate  Eurocopter helicopters.

This Eurocopter -certified  maintenance centre will open its doors towards the end of 2009.

UTair has been operating Eurocopter helicopters since 2006 .The carriers fleet compromises light multi-purpose helicopters such as AS350 B3s,AS-355N and BO-105S. Starting from 2012 ,Eurocopters new product ,the EC175  will also join UTairs fleet of helicopters.In 2008 ,UTair became a launching partner of the EC175  with an order of 15 helicopters ,and an option for 15 more.

Delivery of 4000th  A320  TAM  Flag Carrier Brazil

Airbus recently delivered its 4000 th A320 Family aircraft to Brazilian flag carrier TAM from its final assemly line in Hamburg,Germany.

The aircraft ,an  A 319, was handed over to TAM in the presence of the president of the Board of TAM, Maria Claudia Oliveira Amaro, as well as the Airbus president and CEO, Tom Enders.

On the 319s ferry flight from Hamburg to Brazil, TAM transported goods for schools for handicapped children in the region. The equipment was donated by Aviation Without Borders  Germany (LOG) and facilitated by the Airbus Foundation.

New Schedule  For the First Flight  And DeliveryFor  Dreamliner 787 By Boeing.

Boeing has announced that the first flight of the 787 Deamliner is expected by end of 2009 and first delivery is due to occur in the fourth quarter of 2010.

The new schedule reflects the previous announced need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft,along with the addition of several weeks of  schedule margin to reduce flight test and certification risk.The projects achieving a production rate of 10 aircrafts per month in late 2013 this was announced by Boeing  Chairman,President and CEO Jim Mcnerney.The design details and implementation plan are nearly complete , and the team is preparing airplanes for modification and testing.

African Airline News

A new airline has started services inbetween Nairobi,Kenya and Dubai with a  single Boeing 737-200. The airline is called JUBBA AIR and it is not associated with JUBBA AIR SUDAN and its slogan is “The happy way to fly”

AIR ZIM PRIVATISATION  HARARE. Zimbambwes state-owned airline,Air Zimbambwe ,is considering opening up to prfivate shareholders in exchange for a huge cash injection needed to avert its collapse.

Air Zimbambwe ,which plans to cut up to 500 jobs and which government officials say currently receives $ 2-million a week from state coffers, is a perennial loss-maker weighed down by an ageing fleet,debt and a severe economic crisis in the Southern African country.

Maputo. Lam  has taken its second delivery of ERJ190 from Brazilian aircraft manufacturer,embraer

Africa Express Airways Nairobi, has leased two MD-182S for sceduled services.The aircraft were sourced from 20 aircraft Safair has placed in storage at Upington Airport, in Northern Cape.

Air Uganda has taken delivery of a single Canadair regional jet to be operated on scheduled services out of Entebbe International Airport Uganda.

Air Burkina has taken delivery of asn additional MD-83 as part  of a continued fleet expansion programme at Ouagadougou .

An aircraft brokerage company,believed to be Tigris International ,is to base at least three airbus A300-600S at Lanseria Airport in South Africa

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA STARTS COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS FROM MELBOURNE TO JOHANNESBURG.

Sydney-V Australia, the Australian long-haul carrier owned by Sir Richard Branson,has announced that it will start sheduled flights twice per week between Melbourne and Johannesburg.

The services will begin in May 2010 andd be operated using Boeing 777-300ER equipment.

With the above information especially for bussiness community they can put their strategic plaln in place as they have a clue of the happenings in the industry all over the world.

Happy Travelers Branson Extravaganza Show Trip


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Day 2: After a delicious breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi, at 8: 30 AM we drove to Memphis, Tennessee which is located on the Mississippi River. After crossing the river, we stopped at a welcome rest area in Arkansas. The other senior bus from Valdosta (not with us–but taking the same tour) stopped at the same place to use the restrooms. We then drove to Little Rock, Arkansas and stopped for lunch. I ate with some friends at Chili’s. We continued for a long time on the Interstate across Arkansas. We turned north and traveled through the Ozark Mountains. In Clinton, Arkansas suddenly police cars, ambulances, and a hearse sped past us. Then we all came to a stop with many cars/trucks stopped in front and in back. We were stuck in traffic for 80 minutes. We learned there had been a BAD accident, and 4 people lost their lives. After we passed the accident, we found the first place that might have a restroom. It only had one for women and one for men. It took 70 minutes for all 84 people to use the restroom in Leslie, Arkansas. We learned that we were 85 miles from Branson. We watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" while sitting on the bus. Amazingly we arrived in Branson, Missouri and were only 15 minutes late for our dinner reservation at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Grill. After a scrumptious meal, we arrived at our hotel where we’ll stay for 4 nights.