Following on from our previous Private/Public space projects which have focussed on the gentrification of London and the erosion of civil liberties that that entails, the Space Hijackers headed out to the Truman Brewery complex on Brick Lane to enforce the rules that are implicit, and perhaps not so implicit in such places. Stopping people from drinking, smoking, talking, loitering, laughing and even reading our sign!
East London is a massive building site with regeneration projects, the olympics, the encroachment of the city and more changing the face of our city. As Anna Minton pointed out in her fantastic book Ground Control, these redevelopment projects, often look positive on the face, but the net result is private corporations wrestling control of our cities from the people. The poor and disadvantaged are pushed out and regeneration often means moving in a new class of people. Public land is reduced and private shopping/living/working spaces are built withprivate police (link to canary wharf security) ensuring that only certain 'welcome' people are allowed to pass through without hassle. This, as you can probably imagine, is something we oppose.
The Truman Brewery Complex just off Brick Lane is a haven for cool and alternative east-end hipsters. With record shops, fixed wheel bicycle shops, galleries, eco & small designer fashion retail and bars it buzzes with creative energy. Walking in from brick lane market you can barely tell where one starts and the other finishes, the beautiful youth litter the streets in both areas drinking from cans and checking each other out.
a destination in its own right."
Alas it also borders one of London's poorest areas, so to keep the relaxed guilt free atmosphere, 24 hour security vigilantly patrol the entrances and spaces. The homeless, poor and troublemakers are kept out, bags are searched, people sitting on the wrong part of the pavement are moved on, only food and drink bought at high price on the premises is allowed to be consumed, and the hipster haven is preserved.
Dressed in black we set up first at the entrance facing Spitalfields Market. We popped up our banners and immediately started keeping the space safer.
"Did you buy that drink on the premesis? You'll have to finish it here"
"I'm sorry, no phonecalls in this area, please hang up"
"No cycling! walk that machine"
"Do you have a job? can you afford to shop here?"
"Move along please, nothing to see"
"No reading our sign sir!"
Before long we were joined by the regular security, obviously eager to help us out.
"Who do you work for? What are you doing, this is private property, you can't do this here".
"We're just making the area safe and secure, we're here to help"
"Do you work for the council?"
"We're just concerned that the wrong types might get through, and intend to keep this area safe"
'The boss' arrived, and to be fair to him was a clever chap. I think he realised we were looking for a rise, so he simply turned around and said that if we moved 1m away, so we weren't in front of the door he was more than happy for us to continue.
"I've been asking my boss for ages to make me some signs, like these. I can see it's very tongue in cheek, personally I really like what you're up to, I'm not sure about the No OAPs though, my gran wouldn't like that"
As always our issue is usually with the people who design, build and own such spaces rather than the people who are paid to work there. However we soon realised that there was a greater audience to be had at the main Brick Lane entrance.
Moving around we set up camp again to a much more receptive audience. The guard at the entrance had obviously been briefed to leave us alone, and so we were free to harass and berate the public for walking too slowly, running, smoking, drinking, holding hands, kissing, loitering, not shopping, asking questions, taking our photograph and more. Even the pretent police who turned up enjoyed the rigid law obiding.
Lots of people 'got' what we were up to, and started deliberately dancing, singing, smoking and taking pictures to break the rules. We had people join us in telling off the passers by, and lots of discussion about private/public space and regeneration. Some people took a little longer than others to realise the game, and so cigarettes we're put out, drinks put down and conversations stopped before they read to the bottom of our sign and smiled.


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As reintroductions go, Baxter Dury's slinky Miami is as striking as any: the first track on his forthcoming Prince of Tears full-length, and a first to emerge from it, it makes for a defining (if less than redefining) listen that can be slightly reductively condensed down into a litany of self-coined sobriquets over a swivelling, gyrating bass line. (Incidentally, having been co-produced by sometime Metronomy accomplice Ash Workman, Miami proves reminiscent of so much of the comparatively lo-fi Summer 08.) Thus as Dury considers himself (or, rather, the song's cocksure, eponymous caricature) everything from "the main course," to "Morgan Freeman," to "the turgid, fucked-up little goat, pissing on your fuckin' 'ill," it's left to a stark, controlling four-string to tie everything together and tide the single over until a number of unanticipatedly disco-based elements strut through its lattermost moments. By which point, it really does seem fairly unfair to speak of it in those reductive terms aforementioned…
Prince of Tears is available from October 27th via Heavenly Recordings, while Baxter Dury plays KOKO on November 29th.

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France's Saint Gobain acquires UK insulation firm Celotex
French building materials and glass producer Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA (EPA:SGO) announced on Friday it had agreed to purchase UK insulating foam producer Celotex Group Ltd, to enhance its presence in the particular market in Britain.
The transaction, the value of which was not given, is awaiting clearance by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Through it, Saint-Gobain will improve its insulation offerings for new segments like flat roofs and floors, it said. Furthermore, the move bolsters its positions in the insulation for the new construction and renovation markets.
Celotex specialises in providing solutions that boost energy efficiency in buildings. The firm. with a staff of 170, has two production lines in Hadleigh near Ipswich, the UK. In addition, it had recently increased its capacity by setting up a GBP3m (USD4.6m/EUR3.7m) distribution and innovation centre. The company's turnover for the fiscal year to August 2011 amounted to GBP69.7m.
Following the takeover, Celotex will continue to operate under its current brand name and will retain its existing management team.
Saint-Gobain produces and distributes building materials with operations in 64 countries and a headcount of almost 195,000. The French company generates annual sales of EUR42.1bn (USD52.5bn). It already operates in the British and Irish insulation markets via its Isover brand.
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Although my outcomes and goals are very personal, reading these may help you realize ways on how you can improve your own game.
Have a clearly defined schedule and purpose in each and every session) Because I know myself better and when I need to take breaks.
Raw improvement will come from personal game analysis and feedback) My primary development goal for the next few years of my career is to develop my brain matter. The best approach available to me to do this is constant analysis of my own games and getting them reviewed by top coaches – something that I can use myself and develop for Effective.
Preparation and recovery now as important as ever before) In the past years I've pounded on an excruciating amount of hard work and long hours towards my craft. There is limited room for growth in the technical and physical department. I sacrificed proper preparation and recovery towards games and training for the sake of development in those areas. Now is the time I have to give 100% in games and not 99% because I feel tired and that will come through proper prep, rest and recovery.
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Step 2: Send a 'scouting report') Relationship build with email newsletters, personal calls and emails, updating with videos and highlights, tweets in social media – so the next time they hear of an opportunity I will be positioned at top of mind.
Step 3: Organise relationship network in excel sheet) and count number of interactions with them and pump up number of interactions before transfer windows.
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All personal connections whom I have a relationship built up with (15-20 people) + 2014 Email Blast scouts at European and American clubs who were interested in hearing more from me (10 people) + 10-20 people from email list + 5 star email list connections.
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This is something players just don't do, however establishing some kind of personal understanding is very important.
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Joint Multi-Role (JMR) and Future Vertical Lift (FVL)
Some interesting reports gathered by Grey Havoc:
Fourth Team To Join JMR Rotorcraft Studies
By Graham Warwick
A fourth team is to join Boeing, Bell-Boeing and Sikorsky in competitively studying concepts for the Joint Multi Role (JMR) medium utility rotorcraft, which could replace U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters beginning late next decade.
Boeing, Bell-Boeing and Sikorsky were awarded 18-month configuration trades and analysis contracts at the end of June. Each is worth around $4 million, with industry contributing a similar amount.
"We are negotiating with one more, and should award a contract in the next couple of weeks," says Ned Chase, platform technologies division chief at the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). He spoke Aug. 31 at a conference in Patuxent River, Md., organized by vertical-lift technical society AHS International.
Concept studies are the first step toward the planned awarding of contracts to build two different JMR technology demonstrators that would fly by fiscal 2017 as a precursor for development of a new medium utility rotorcraft to be fielded around 2027-28.
The three teams already under contract are taking different approaches. One is "doing a deep dive on a single configuration," Chase says. Another is studying three different concepts, while the third is looking at all possible options, he says.
Bell Helicopter CEO John Garrison has said previously that the Bell-Boeing team responsible for the V-22 Osprey proposed a tilt-rotor configuration for the JMR studies.
The fourth contract is taking longer to negotiate because the unidentified entity is not as experienced in contracting with the Defense Department, "but they have a good proposal," Chase says.
The Pentagon has compiled a list of desired attributes for a JMR family of vertical-lift vehicles to replace its current fleet of helicopters, including the AH-64D Apache, UH-60M Black Hawk and CH-47F Chinook. These include 200-kt.-plus speed, 230-nm combat radius, 6,000-ft./95F hot/high performance and increased affordability, durability and survivability.
The configuration studies "will distill out the things that bring the most value, and get from a list of attributes to the design requirements for a next-generation rotorcraft," Chase says. "They will provide the performance specification for the demonstrator aircraft."
The same list of attributes for a medium utility JMR have been supplied to an independent government design team that is looking at advanced helicopter, compound helicopter and tilt-rotor concepts, Chase says.
The government designers are providing data on the three configurations to an operations analysis team at Fort Rucker, Ala., which will run scenarios to establish the relative operational values of the desired attributes.
AATD plans to award multiple contracts in fiscal 2013 to begin design of JMR demonstrators. Following preliminary design reviews, the Army in fiscal 2015 will downselect to two contractors to build the aircraft.
Phase 1 of the demonstration will involve flight tests of the demonstrator air vehicles. Phase 2, following two years later, will involve the design and integration of open-architecture mission systems into the demonstrator aircraft.
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RE: JMR (Joint Multi-Role) program
Army Begins Defining Future Vertical-Lift
Finally responding to calls from operators and industry to begin work on replacing its hard-pressed helicopter fleets, the U.S. Army is moving ahead with a program to develop the next generation of rotorcraft. But the service faces a challenge securing sufficient government and industry funding to sustain competition until a development program can begin around the end of the decade.
The Army has kicked off the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) program not knowing exactly what it wants or which of its helicopter fleets it will replace first. Instead it has a list of desired attributes and a rough timescale—2027-28—for fielding its first all-new rotorcraft in 50 years. The task of turning those attributes into requirements for a next-generation aircraft falls to a pair of technology demonstrators the service plans to build and fly in 2017.
In a sign the Army is getting serious, its budget for rotorcraft science and technology (S&T)—which has long run at a mere $100 million a year—is being augmented for the JMR demonstrators. But additional funding, as well as industry cost-sharing, will be needed if the service is to fly two robust demonstrators with mission systems and so keep its competitive options open.
"It's a major breakthrough that we are not flat-lined at $100 million and they have been successful in getting Army leadership to increase S&T funding for the JMR demonstration," says Michael Hirschberg, executive director of American Helicopter Society (AHS) International, a technical body. "It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to do everything they want the technology demonstrators to do."
JMR is seen as a family of vertical-lift vehicles, from light to ultra-heavy, sharing common technologies. As a starting point, the Army has selected the middle of the range and the medium utility JMR. Not only would this replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks that make up its single largest helicopter fleet, but studies over the next two years will show to what extent technologies required in a medium utility JMR could scale down to the light scout and up to the heavy transport classes.
Distilled from several recent Army and Pentagon-level analyses that identified gaps in U.S. rotorcraft capabilities, the list of desired attributes for the JMR family of vehicles includes speed exceeding 200 kt., up from less than 150 kt. for today's helicopters, a combat radius of 230 nm and 6,000-ft./95F hot-and-high performance. In addition to better affordability, durability and survivability, other attributes include a common core avionics architecture and an optionally manned capability.
"The capabilities demanded cannot be achieved through upgrading the current fleet," says Ned Chase, platform technologies division chief at the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). "We want to build two technology demonstrators to pursue capabilities lacking in the current fleet while maintaining competition and providing different alternatives."
The list of attributes for the medium utility JMR has been provided to three industry teams that received configuration trades and analysis contracts at the end of June. Awarded to Bell Boeing, Boeing and Sikorsky, the 18-month contracts are each worth $4 million, with industry contributing a similar amount. "We are negotiating with one more, and should award a contract in the next couple of weeks," says Chase.
The configuration studies "will distill out the things that bring the most value, and get us from a list of attributes to the design requirements for a next-generation rotorcraft," he says. "They will provide the performance specification for the demonstrator aircraft."
The JMR demonstrators will not be prototypes, as the YUH-60 and -61 were for the Black Hawk or YAH-63 and -64 for the Apache. For one thing, they are expected to be smaller than the objective vehicles to reduce cost. And secondly, Chase says, the Army has committed to industry to have another competition for development and production.
The three teams already under contract are taking different approaches. One is "doing a deep dive on a single configuration," says Chase. Another is studying three different concepts, while the third is looking at all possible options, he says. Bell Helicopter CEO John Garrison has said previously that the Bell Boeing team responsible for the V-22 Osprey proposed a tiltrotor configuration for the JMR studies. The fourth contract is taking longer to negotiate because the unidentified entity is not as experienced in contracting with the Defense Department, "but they have a good proposal," says Chase.
The same list of attributes for a medium utility JMR has been supplied to an independent government design team that is looking at advanced helicopter, compound helicopter and tiltrotor concepts, he says. The government designers are providing data on the three configurations to an operations analysis team at Fort Rucker, Ala., which will run scenarios to establish the relative values of the desired attributes. "They will consider the performance of a fleet of aircraft to establish what operational value each attribute brings to the table," Chase says.
"We need to understand which attributes are most important on the battlefield, and most cost-effective to implement," he says. "We need to understand how to get the right mix of capabilities on the aircraft. The decisions we make will impact rotary-wing aviation operations for the next 50 years."
The aim is to develop a draft requirement for the medium utility JMR—"it's about this big, goes this far, does these things and we have an idea we can afford it," Chase says—and use that to derive the demonstrator specification.
At the same time, an acquisition team involving the Army, Navy, Special Operations Command and other potential customers is developing an initial capabilities document (ICD) establishing the requirements for the JMR. This is expected to be completed by mid-fiscal 2012, says Chase. The ICD is a necessary precursor to an analysis of alternatives and Milestone A approval for a new acquisition program, and it is not clear yet whether the ICD will be for the overall JMR family of vehicles or just for the medium utility class.
"We have established a joint-service team through the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Future Vertical Lift [FVL] working group," he says. This brings together rotorcraft operators within the Pentagon and was directed by Congress to determine capability gaps, develop an S&T road map and strategic plan for vertical lift, and identify funds for technology development.
With the ICD in place, AATD plans to award multiple contracts in fiscal 2013 to begin design of the JMR demonstrators. Following preliminary design reviews, the Army in fiscal 2015 intends to downselect to two contractors to build the aircraft. "We are putting funding in place for two. They may be the same or entirely different configurations," he says. Phase 1 of the demonstration will involve flight tests of the demonstrator air vehicles. Phase 2, following two years later, will involve the design and integration of two open-architecture mission systems into the demonstrator aircraft.
Work on defining the common core architecture has already begun. "We've started that first, to build a Defense Department/industry consensus on an open systems architecture," says Chase, adding that the program office responsible for developing the Army's Victory open architecture for combat vehicles is involved. The goal is to develop a common standard for a scalable architecture to be used in mission-system development in Phase 2. As with the air-vehicle Phase 1, the plan is to award two demonstration contracts to avionics integrators "as a hedge against risk," says Chase.
With U.S. military rotorcraft production facing a cliff around the end of this decade as procurement programs end, AHS has been campaigning for more investment in technology development to sustain industry capabilities and lay foundations for the next generation.
"The Defense Department needs to ensure there is enough funding for the JMR demonstrators to really be relevant," says Hirschberg. "This is the Pentagon's one chance to realize a significant advancement in capabilities—they can't afford to be timid."
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AVX Wins JMR Helo Study Contract
By Graham Warwick graham_warwick@aviationweek.com
AVX Aircraft, a small Texas company staffed largely by former Bell engineers, has won a U.S. Army contract to study a potential replacement for the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter.
AVX joins Bell Boeing, Boeing and Sikorsky in conducting 18-month configuration analysis and trade studies for the Joint Multi Role (JMR) program, which aims to fly two competing rotorcraft demonstrators in 2017.
No further awards are anticipated, says the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, which is managing the JMR technology demonstration program.
Under its contract, the Forth Worth-based company will identify technologies and develop concepts for both a demonstrator and an objective medium-utility rotorcraft that could enter service in the 2025-30 time frame.
AVX's design will feature a coaxial rotor and ducted fans for propulsion and control — a similar configuration to that being proposed by the company to upgrade the Army's Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior to meet its Armed Aerial Scout requirement.
Bell Boeing is studying a tiltrotor, Boeing is looking at a range of configurations and Sikorsky is evaluating an advanced helicopter, tiltrotor and a compound helicopter using its X2 high-speed coaxial-rotor configuration.
The study contracts are each worth around $4 million, with the major manufacturers matching the government funding for a total of $8 million. "We will be close to that," with funds from the company and nine industry partners, says Ian Brown, AVX director of program management.
AVX also is talking to industry partners and private investors about funding a demonstrator for the OH-58D upgrade. This would take a commercial Bell 206L and fit it with coaxial rotors, ducted fans and new transmissions.
The demonstrator could be flying within 18 months of go-ahead, Brown says, and would be flown for about a year to validate the configuration being offered to the Army. A 206-based design also could find application in the commercial market, he says.
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JMR - Tiny AVX Joins the Big Boys
Posted by Graham Warwick at 9/29/2011 3:26 PM CDT
Fort Worth, Texas-based AVX Aircraft is the mysterious fourth team to win a $4 million contract from the U.S. Army to study concepts for the Joint Multi Role (JMR) medium replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk.
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AVX, staffed largely by former Bell Helicopter employees, is best known for its proposal to meet the US Army's Armed Aerial Scout requirement by upgrading its OH-58D/F Kiowa Warriors with coaxial rotors and ducted fans, which would replace the tail rotor and provide both control and propulsion.
AVX is still pursuing the OH-58 upgrade, and working to corral funds from industry partners and private investors to build a demonstrator, but the JMR contract is the first time it finds itself head-to-head against the big players. Three other 18-month configuration analysis and trade study contracts have been awarded by the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate: to Bell Boeing, Boeing and Sikorsky.
Under the cost-sharing contracts, the companies will identify and prioritize technologies to meet the Army's desired attributes (which include a speed of at least 200kt), and develop concepts for both an objective JMR medium rotorcraft that could enter service in 2025-30 and a technology demonstrator that could fly in 2017.
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Four teams are under contract to conduct configuration trades and analyses for the US Army's Joint Multi Role (JMR) technology demonstrator program.
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Boeing (IMHO with Piasecki/Vertol heritage?!)
AVX Aircraft
Source: Ares - A Defense Technology Blog: JMR Tech Demo -- the Concepts; posted by Graham Warwick at 10/31/2011 4:35 PM CDT
From Flateric:
unsuccessful Baldwin Technology Company, LLC Mono Tiltrotor (MTR) JMR entry presentations
(including armed MTR)
http://www.baldwintechnology.com/JMR_Presentation.pdf
http://www.baldwintechnology.com/JMR_Response.pdf
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/10/picture-v-22-tiltrotor-version.html
Bell Boeing responded to the US Army's joint multi-role (JMR) studies with concepts for next-generation tiltrotors. These images were displayed in Boeing's exhibit booth at the Association of the US Army's annual convention on 10-12 October in Washington DC. Note the three pairs of scissor blades and the V-tails.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/10/ausa2011-boeing-displays-ideas.html
The US Army wants to buy a new family of high speed rotorcraft by 2030. Four companies have been awarded study contracts by the Army Aviation Technology Directorate (AATD) -- AVX Corp, Bell Boeing, Boeing and Sikorsky.
Three of the four concepts were on display in the exhibit hall of the Association of the US Army's (AUSA) annual convention in Washington DC. It was especially nice to see Boeing's future rotorcraft concepts, which we had not seen before this event.
Boeing future rotor.jpgBottom-left image seems similar to the Piasecki X-49 Speed Hawk, and we're told the pusher propeller can swivel for anti-torque capability.
The next image shows a growth version of a conventional CH-47 Chinook.
The third image from left to right shows Boeing's futuristic DiscRotor concept, which is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA.)
The upper-right image is a second-generation tiltrotor by Bell Boeing, which we'll write more about later today.
hesham
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http://www.army.mil/article/70641/
Date: Feb 2, 2012
Sikorsky/Boeing concept for JMR/FVL
http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A91d49eee-e5d8-4734-a19b-4252f7c72b9a
http://www.aviationweek.com/blogs.aspx?plckblogid=blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckpostid=blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7post:43e82fd7-8611-43a1-8517-9daf08468732
Bell Hybrid Tandem Rotor (HTR) concept revealed at Army Aviation Associaton of America (Quad-A) convention 2009.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/05/poster-bells-new-hybrid-tandem.html
Bell tilt-rotor JMR concept revealed February 28, 2013.
Bell JMR/FVL concept named V-280 Vigor and unvealed at Army Aviation Associaton of America (Quad-A) convention 2013.
http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A085f3884-fb49-4997-a479-7cd3a38af7d7
http://bellv280.com/
http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/rotorhub/quad-2013-bell-unveils-next-generation-tiltrotor/
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.611467655547881.1073741831.137576202937031&type=1
Bell V-280 Valor Media Brief:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/135276053/20130409-FVL-AAAA-Media-Brief-Final
-- Edited by Triton on Saturday 13th of April 2013 12:13:15 AM
Artist's impression of Piasecki JMR/FVL Medium concept.
http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A6424afd0-6286-4079-a4fe-b136a56e6175&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
Artist's impression of AVX Aircraft concept for JMR/FVL Medium.
Jemiba
Provisional drawing of the V-280 in the latest shown form:
-- Edited by Jemiba on Tuesday 29th of October 2013 06:56:52 AM
Leela25
Informative link... http://www.vtol.org/what-we-do/advocacy/future-vertical-lift/future-vertical-lift
Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Vertical_Lift
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/IF11367.pdf
https://vtol.org/what-we-do/advocacy/future-vertical-lift
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/06/fvl-sikorsky-boeing-defiant-hits-235-mph-aims-for-288/
FVL: Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant Hits 235 MPH, Aims For 288
Despite COVID-19, the SB>1 Defiant team is testing furiously to catch up with archrival Bell's V-280 tiltrotor, which has almost 10 times as many flight hours.
By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. on June 16, 2020 at 4:57 PM
WASHINGTON: The SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter reached 205 knots (235.9 mph) in a flight test last week, and it did so while running its engine at less than half power, Sikorsky test pilot Bill Fell said this morning. Once ground testing this summer confirms all systems are ready – and one such test was audibly whirring in the background as Fell spoke with reporters this morning – the aircraft will ramp up to full power over time, reaching a projected 250 knots (287.7 mph) "within a few months."
By comparison, the UH-60 Black Hawk that Defiant is vying to replace maxes out at 193 knots (222 mph). So Defiant, a joint Sikorsky-Boeing product, is already faster than the Army's current helicopters. But it's not faster than Bell's competing proposal for a Black Hawk replacement, the V-280 Valor, which has already exceeded the 280 knot (322 mph) goal for which it's named.
Why does this matter? Army tacticians believe the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft will have to rapidly cover long distances at low altitude to evade Russian and Chinese-style anti-aircraft defenses. At those low altitudes, agility and keen sensors are equally important: You don't want to fly under enemy radar only to fly into a power line.
Sikorsky argues their award-winning X2 compound helicopter technology is inherently more agile than Bell's broad-winged tiltrotor design. The Defiant's ultra-rigid coaxial rotors make it much more responsive to controls than traditional rotors, which have a lot of wobble, Fell and his fellow co-pilots say. Defiant's pusher propeller can switch from providing high-speed thrust to acting as a giant brake, letting the aircraft dash past anti-aircraft batteries and then stop suddenly to land troops or hide behind a building. In fact, Fell is so happy with how Defiant handles, he said today, that on coming into land after the 205-knot flight, he banked the aircraft at a 45-degree angle — 50 percent steeper than the 30-degree maximum that had been set for this stage of flight test.
"Sometimes I just can't help myself," Fell said.
Now, the Sikorsky-Boeing team is still playing catch-up to Bell on multiple fronts. The V-280 has banked at angles steeper than 50 degrees, for instance. V-280 has reached an altitude of 11,500 feet, while Defiant is still around 10,000.
Bell has also flight-tested software to fly Valor autonomously, without a human on the controls (although a test pilot remained aboard as a safety backup). The Sikorsky-Boeing team says they have tested similar software in simulations, but not yet in the actual Defiant aircraft. While Fell says the current controls let him maneuver the aircraft just fine during test flights, which take place in clear skies, additional computer assistance to spot and avoid obstacles will be a life-saver during high-speed, low-altitude flights at night or in bad weather.
(Both aircraft are also coping with COVID. Bill Fell and his co-pilot now wear masks in the ****pit, while the engineers monitoring test telemetry have split into two teams using two different rooms).
Overall, since the Bell prototype first took to the air in December 2017, it's racked up more than 170 flight hours, including some with Army pilots aboard. The SB>1 Defiant didn't have its first take-off until March 2019, in part due to manufacturing issues with the ultra-rigid rotors that are key to its agility; that, combined with subsequent mechanical troubles, mean it's just recently reached 18 hours of flight time.
The Defiant prototype has also done another 20 hours of ground runs, the companies said today. Its Propulsion Systems Test Bed – basically, a complete Defiant powertrain from engine to rotors – has done over 113 hours. (It's the PSTB that was revving up outside Fell's office during his call this morning). Sikorsky and Boeing have also done extensive computer modeling and simulation.
Sikorsky and Boeing will get the Army all the test data it needs before the fall, the Army's aviation modernization director, Brig. Gen. Walter Rugen, said in March. Indeed, the 18-month contracts the Army awarded in March for what's called Competitive Demonstration & Risk Reduction don't require any flight testing at all.
Instead, the CDRR phase is all about refining the designs. In fact, to speak with reporters this morning, Fell and two other key Boeing-Sikorsky executives had to log out of an ongoing design review their teams were holding online with the Army.
"It's going on right now," said Jay Macklin, Sikorsky's director of business development for Future Vertical Lift aircraft. "Literally. We all just stepped out of it."
"There are probably 50 different configurations" being looked at for the final design, added Randy Rotte, who's Boeing's marketing director for FVL. All the different variations would probably look identical to the layperson, but in one iteration, the design team may try to squeeze out every possible knot of speed, in another they may prioritize fuel efficiency and long range, and in yet another they may aim for minimum cost, working through hundreds of highly technical tradeoffs trade-offs. The Army decides which permutations are most promising, and the companies focus their efforts on refining those chosen designs – which they then bring back to the Army for another round of feedback, repeatedly, until you're left with a single optimized design.
That way, by the time the Army makes its final decision between Defiant and Valor – currently scheduled for 2022 – "you're not starting cold," Rotte said. "You already pretty much have a design, and then that supports the Army's schedule …to bring this capability into the force by 2030."
Rotte, Macklin, Fell, and the Sikorsky-Boeing team all fervently hope, of course, that the aircraft entering service circa 2030 – defense budgets permitting — will be their Defiant. It'll be a tight race with Bell's V-280 Valor.
JMR and FVL topics merged.
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No Surprises in Cullen/Frost Bankers' Second-Quarter Results
Published July 28, 2017 MarketsMotley Fool
Cullen/Frost Bankers' (NYSE: CFR), a regional bank based in Texas, released its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, July 27th. The company posted results that were in line with what Wall Street had expected, thanks to the continued recovery in the energy markets.
Let's put the bank's second-quarter results under the microscope to see if its recovery remains on track.
Cullen/Frost Bankers Q2: The raw numbers
Year-Over-Year Change
Net interest income $258 million $230.2 million
Non-interest income $81.1 million $78 million 3.9%
Net income $83.5 million $69. million 20.2%
Earnings per share $1.29 $1.11 16.2%
What happened with Cullen/Frost Bankers this quarter?
Loan volume increases and higher interest rates once again helped the company's net interest income grow at a double-digit rate.
Earnings per share (EPS) grew 16%, to $1.29. That figure matched what Wall Street had wanted to see.
Net interest margin jumped to 3.7%. This figure was 13 basis points ahead of the same period last year. The increase was credited to higher yields on earning assets.
Average deposits increased 6.8%, to $25.7 billion.
Average loans grew 6.4%, to $12.3 billion.
Return on average assets recovered to 1.11%, which was up nicely from the 0.99% reported in the same quarter last year.
Return on average common equity was slightly over 11%.
Book value per share declined by 1% year over year, to $47.95 at quarter end.
Loan losses provisions fell 8%, to $8.4 million.
Net charge-offs declined 44%, to $11.9 million.
Nonperforming loans increased slightly, to $90.2 million.
The company announced a 6% increase to its dividend in April. The new quarterly dividend payment is $0.57 per share. This marks the 24th year in a row of consecutive dividend increases.
What management had to say
Cullen/Frost CEO Phil Green kept his remarks short and to the point: "We continue to benefit from increases in loan volumes throughout our portfolio, and we're well-positioned as interest rates rise."
CEO Green also mentioned that the company continues to successfully expand its footprint in Texas. The company opened a new financial center in Houston a few months ago, and it has since opened a new financial center in Tarrant County within the last few weeks.
Finally, he also commented that the bank continues to win awards for the outstanding customer service that it provides:
The company's shares declined slightly in the early-morning hours following this report. The bank's shares are trading within a few dollars of their all-time high and at just over two times books value, so a slight pullback shouldn't be all that surprising, since the company simply met Wall Street's expectations.
Short-term price movements aside, Frost Bankers' results clearly show that the bank is back to its winning ways now that the energy markets have stabilized. With the majority of the company's financial metrics heading in the right direction and the recently announced dividend increase, income investors should continue to feel good about this company's long-term potential.
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Leyton Orient vice-captain Liam Kelly applauds the travelling support at Yeovil Town (pic: Simon O'Connor).
Leyton Orient left-back Callum Kennedy looks to bring the ball forward against Carlisle United (pic: Simon O'Connor).
Callum Kennedy believes the return of Leyton Orient's vice-captain Liam Kelly will hand the club a major boost this weekend.
League Two leaders Doncaster Rovers make the journey down to Brisbane Road on Saturday with O's seven points from safety and now bottom of the table.
Kelly has been unavailable for Orient since being handed a six-match suspension by the FA for an act of violent conduct at Plymouth Argyle on February 14.
The ex-Oldham Athletic captain played a crucial part in helping Danny Webb's team draw at Yeovil Town and win at Home Park and the O's have certainly missed him.
"Liam was really looking forward to coming back after his hamstring injury and when he did last month you saw that because he put in a couple of great performances," said Kennedy last week.
"That led to us getting a point at Yeovil and a win at Plymouth, so with what happened – it was a big blow to lose him again.
Orient suffered an embarrassing 5-0 defeat away to Accrington Stanley on Tuesday night – the final match of Kelly's six-game ban.
Webb's team have nine fixtures left including Saturday's encounter with Rovers and the club are set to appear in court on Monday (March 20) over a winding-up petition from HM Revenue and Customs.
It is a worrying time for the east Londoners on and off the pitch, but Kelly coming back for the Doncaster game is a big plus for the O's.
Gavin Massey, who missed the win at Newport County and the defeat at home to Grimsby Town last Saturday, is available again.
Both are vital for Orient and they provide Webb with the chance to give some of his talented youngsters a break after a demanding couple of weeks for the teenagers.
The O's boss reflected on the return of Kelly and admitted the victory at Plymouth on February 14 come at some cost.
Orient's vice-captain was subsequently banned following the 3-2 win and they also lost Nicky Hunt for two games after.
Hunt picked up his 10th booking of the campaign and missed the crucial home games against Notts County and Cheltenham Town as a result.
Webb added: "It is fantastic to have 'Kels' back. I think when you go back to that Plymouth match it should have been a springboard, but 'Hunty' got suspended, 'Kels' got suspended and it just knocks you back.
"I suppose in a weird way we were due a night like Tuesday and I know score at Stevenage (4-1 defeat) was harsh, but we have never come off feeling this low and without loads of positives.


Known for playing the role of Chastity Church in an American romantic comedy film 10 Things I Hate About You, Gabrielle Union is a well-established actress. She has been in the acting world since the early 1990s. She is also famous for starring the role of Evangeline "Eva" Dandridge in an American romantic comedy film Deliver Us from Eva.
Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women of 2002, Gabrielle Union was born as Gabrielle Monique Union in the early 1970s in Omaha, Nebraska, the United States of America to Sylvester Union and Theresa Union. Her father is a business executive and military sergeant. She is American.
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She is 46 years of age, as of 2019.
Gabrielle is married twice, but her relationship with her first husband ended up in a divorce. She is currently married for the second time.
During her mid-teens, Union began her romantic love affairs with an American basketball coach Jason Kidd. This love life lasted for several months and came to an end before her junior prom.
In 1999, while she was attending a party, she met her future husband Chris Howard. Chris Howard is a former professional American football running back player. After years of dating, they got married on the 5th of May 2001.
Though they were happily married, their happy married life turned the direction at the end of 2005 as the news about their separation became public and they finally got divorced in 2006.
In 2009, Union was spotted with Dwyane Wade. Dwyane Wade is also a professional basketball player from the United States. They continued this love life for several years and they broke up in 2013. This split up didn't continue for a long time as they at the end of 2013 and they finally got married in December 2013.
They got married on the 30th of August 2014. Their wedding ceremony was held in Miami, Florida. She is now aged 43 years old and she has black ethnicity.
With her current spouse Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle is a mother to a child named Kaavia James Union Wade, who was born in 2018. Besides, she is also stepmother to Wade's three kids from the previous relationship.
With the completion of her high school graduation, Union joined the University of Nebraska. There she was also active in the club soccer team. Later on, she joined Cuesta College and then UCLA. She became interested in modeling and acting while she was at UCLA.
There she became associated with Judith Fontaine Modeling & Talent Agency. She finally appeared in the TV series Family Matters in 1993 where she played the role of mall girl. Two years later, she appeared in the TV series Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
In this TV series, she starred the role of Hilary and Jennifer. In 1999, she appeared in the movies like She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You and H-E Double Hockey Sticks.
As of 2019, her net worth is estimated at $16 million. But a few years back, she was estimated to be worth around $12 million.
Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women of 2002, Gabrielle Union was born as Gabrielle Monique Union in the early 1970s in Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America to Sylvester Union and Theresa Union. Her father is a business executive and military sergeant. She is an American.
During her mid teens, Union began her romantic love affairs with an American basketball coach Jason Kidd. This love life lasted for several months and came to an end before her junior prom. In 1992, she had a bad incident in her life. She was attacked and raped when she was just 19.
She became interested in modeling and acting while she was in UCLA. There she became associated with Judith Fontaine Modeling & Talent Agency. She finally appeared in the TV series Family Matters in 1993 where she played the role of mall girl.
She made her feature film debut in 1999 by starring the role of Katarina "Katie" Darlingson in the movie She's All That. That year she also appeared in the movies like 10 Things I Hate About You and H-E Double Hockey Sticks.
She got her rise in fame after she starred the role of Isis in the movie Bring It On. Her break through role as an actress came in 2003 after she portrayed the role of Evangeline "Eva" Dandrige in an American romantic comedy film Deliver Us from Eva.
In 1999, while she was attending a party, she met her future husband Chris Howard. Chris Howard is a former professional American football running back player. As a player he played in the NFL for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
After years of dating, Union and Chris got married on 5th of May 2001. Though they were happily married, this happy married life turned the direction at the end of 2005 as they news about their separation became public and they finally got divorced in 2006.
In 2009, Union was spotted with Dwyane Wade. Dwyane Wade is also a professional basketball player from United States. They continued this love life for several years and they broke up in 2013. This split up didn't continue for a long time as they at the end of 2013 and they finally got engaged in December 2013. They got married on 30th of August 2014.
For her role in the movie Bring It On, she got her first nomination in Black Reel Awards in 2001. She was also honored with this award that year for Theatrical - Best Supporting Actress. She has also been nominated in this award for Best Supporting Actress, Network/Cable Television.
In 2004, she got nominated in BET Comedy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Box Office Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Box Office Movie. She won this award from her later nomination.
Till date she has been nominated in Image Awards several times in her life but she has been honored with this award only once. She won this award for the first time in 2014 for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
She has also been honored by Stuff magazine once in her life and that was in 2003. They honored her by listing her in their lists of 103 Sexiest Women of the year. She has also been honored by Maxim magazine several times in her life.


Here is a picture of Môle St. Nicholas in Haiti as a strategic location as potential US naval base to protect Canal of Panama.
Ex-President Florvil Hyppolite, eager to have the might of the United States behind him during a trying period, began to have negotiations with Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, a negotiator appointed to represent US President, Benjamin Harrison, to talk about the US's acquisition of Môle St. Nicholas as a US naval base for the Panama Canal. At that period, the elevated limestone peninsula was thought to be impregnable, and the US, seeking a Caribbean site for their base, was eager to acquire the 5.5km piece of land. The deal fell through, however, as the sale would have been against the Haitian Constitution.


A long and challenging journey through a radical change in Financial services and Banking. The ADB - African Development Bank – engaged us to design an articulate solution for a smooth and people-centric move from Tunis to Abidjan.
African Development Bank headquarters move as a result of the civil war that broke out in Cote D'Ivoire.
Peace is restored and the bank decides to move its headquarters back to Abidjan in 2012/13.
After nearly a decade in Tunisia, employees had to prepare, mentally and logistically, for their return to Abidjan. Caring for the individuals was core to the bank's approach. It thus created a holistic structure aimed at taking care of the needs of every employee.
The return would affect around 1,500 staff members and their families, which made a total of 5,000 people affected.
Most staff members had been recruited in Tunis by the inception of the project and therefore had limited knowledge of Côte d'Ivoire.
The main objective was to both try to mitigate any negative impact of the return on staff and to secure the opportunities that come from such a change.
The organization had recruited about 70% of staff while in Tunis.
Everyone at AfDB had to move with their whole family, so we had to ensure all health and education services were guaranteed for every age group involved.
The change impacted on the organization at all levels, involving managers and employees from different cultures and religions.
Honoring the bank's core value and optimizing their holistic structure, we used the Prosci® Change Management methodology to focus on the key activities and behaviors required by sponsors, managers and others involved in overseeing the change.
We agreed with the Bank that it was imperative that they were seen to be driving this change and not the "outside" consultants. Accordingly, we assisted the bank executives to sponsor and lead the change with their people.
We guided AfDB through this change by training managers and employees with workshops and training programs, namely the Prosci® Practitioner Certification program and the Prosci® Coaching Program for Managers.
and Change facilitators provided coaching and advice in relation to specific challenges, such as how to tackle resistance and engage with senior leaders. Key members of the HR department and managers in charge of managing employees' transition to new ways of working — attended a one day program.
Managers were shown how to apply the ADKAR® model to individuals undergoing change, and were supported in the development of a coaching plan for their direct reports.
We equipped the sponsors and leaders to manage the change.
We trained, coached and guided the Bank's change consultants to fulfill their role.
Skilled up of all levels of the organization.
Established an effective team of internal change agents who helped deliver the change strategy.
Created a project support team in both Tunisia and Ivory Coast as resources were needed in both countries to ensure optimum implementation and execution.
Helped choose the right candidates for internal change consultant roles and then trained them on Change Management to fulfill their roles.
Created change agents to sustain the change at an operational level through liaison amongst managers, change consultants and employees.
Ensured there was a plan for staff who were not going to move.
Provided consulting and advisory support that helped build competency and create change consultants; providing post-training support where needed to help with practical issues.
Over an 8-month time span, we ran workshops with managers and executives to help them decide and drive key actions that would help employees and their families prepare for their changes. They also considered how technical aspects of the project (e.g. refurbishing and build buildings) would be leveraged to help people adopt the change and embrace improvements in facilities.
Access to Prosci®'s Portal was provided, with downloadable templates and assessments, eLearning modules, problem solving articles and presentations.
The Practitioner Certification provided a comprehensive grounding in the method to internal consultants, project managers and senior managers. Participants were guided through the creation of a Change Management strategy for their individual projects, and shown how to apply best practice to the creation of plans covering communications, sponsorship, coaching, training, and resistance management.
The Coaching Program for Managers provided those managing change with a comprehensive grounding in the Prosci® method. We trained a range of internal consultants, project managers and senior managers, helping them position the integration program for success through effective management of the people side of the change.
Major changes of this type require senior executive support, across the entire organization. This coalition of sponsorship is essential to keep all the components of the change aligned. It's also about building a competency in change across all levels in the organization, creating a common language of change, making communication more effective and clear, and improving the sense of purpose for the change.
The bank achieved its ultimate objective of moving its headquarters to Abidjan, retaining key employees and managers in the process. Simultaneously it created a cadre of change practitioners, upskilled managers and executives.
During the process of the project support structures that focused on the people side of the change were established and provided essential support to employees who moved and for those who did not move.
Although the change was carried out successfully, there was a number of employees who decided not to move and resign from their job. However, the bank was very active in helping the employees that stayed in Tunis to find alternative employments.
Responsible for ROI and success. Must understand the impact on projects and people.
Responsible for project team competencies. Develops strategy and works with the PM.
Responsible for project success from an organizational and fulfilment point of view.


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10 Tech-Heavy Compact Cars
Cutting-Edge Tech Wrapped in a Compact Package
Stefan OgbacWords
Times have changed quite a bit. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when you mentioned compact cars, people would think about cheap, economy-minded cars that were sometimes penalty boxes. These days, that's no longer the case. Many mainstream compact cars are so tech-laden that you might question the value of getting a larger vehicle or one wearing a luxury badge.
The world's most popular hybrid, the Toyota Prius, comes with new tech such as climate controls that blow air specifically to areas where passengers are seated and a system that tells pedestrians when you're close. Add to that a revised hybrid powertrain that's good for up to 58/53 mpg city/highway and a unique version of Toyota's Entune infotainment system that helps you get the most out of every drop of fuel, and you've got a hybrid that will do everything it can to save the planet.
Although it's on its last years, the current-generation Subaru Impreza received an upgraded Starlink infotainment system that gives you access to your smartphone apps via the center touchscreen. The available EyeSight safety suite turns the Impreza into one of the safest compact cars available — its active safety features scored the highest marks in the IIHS' front crash prevention test.
Refreshed for the 2017 model year, the Kia Forte received a full suite of active safety features that enables it to stop itself and warn the driver of an impending collision. Additionally, the Forte gains the latest version of Kia's UVO infotainment system and can now let your Android device or Siri take over your multimedia interface via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay.
Now able to travel 53 miles before the gas engine activates, the Chevrolet Volt offers up to 420 miles, giving it the same range as your typical non-hybrid car. For 2017, the Volt gains a full suite of active safety tech. Multimedia geeks should also revel in the new MyLink infotainment system, which offers easy controls, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility, a large 8.0-inch touchscreen, and a Bose audio system.
With a version available for every taste, the Volkswagen Golf family offers a complete lineup of practical, frugal, and fun cars. You can also now add technologically advanced to that list. Volkswagen has added its new MIB II infotainment to the Golf lineup, giving it a better multimedia interface with a larger 6.5-inch touchscreen and the ability to support Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
One of the first compact cars to offer an infotainment system that's a class above, the Mazda3's MazdaConnect interface is user-friendly and features crisp graphics. In addition to a great multimedia system, the Mazda3 offers the i-Activsense safety suite, which adds an array of safety features that makes it one of a growing number of compact cars that can prevent a rear-end collision.
All-new for the 2017 model year, the Hyundai Elantra is now one of the most technologically advanced compact cars available. Not only does it come with an available active safety suite that includes everything from automatic emergency braking to pedestrian detection, but it also comes with a new user-friendly infotainment system and many class-above features, including Android Auto and Apple CarPlay integration.
Another compact car that's all-new, the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze promises to offer technology in spades, especially when it comes to multimedia features. The new MyLink infotainment system comes with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration, 4G LTE connectivity, and wireless mobile charging to keep your devices juiced for those long road trips.
The largest Mini, the Clubman, comes with all kinds of tech gadgets you'd usually find on parent BMW's options list. From a head-up display and a self-parking feature to the new Mini Connected infotainment system, the Clubman can be packed with as much gadgetry as you please. Should you want active safety tech, Active Driving Assistant gives you such features as forward collision warning and lane departure warning in one package.
For 2016, the Honda Civic received a major overhaul that turned it into the class benchmark in a hurry. The range-topping Touring model gives you an overload of technology, including a new HondaLink infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay integration, a 450-watt audio system, a customizable 7.0-inch touchscreen, and navigation. There's also the full Honda Sensing suite to help prevent head-on collisions or running off the road.


Home Equity Loan or Top-Up Loan-Why to take?
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Suppose you have home loan since few years and currently you are looking at upgrading your home furnish then what will be the best option which may run into 5 lakhs to 10 lakhs? Easier option in such situation will be to go for Home Equity Loan or Top-Up Loans. But let us first look at when one can opt such type of loans.
Hope Equity Loan or Top-Up Loans are similar in nature. Such type of loans are available only to the existing customers. Suppose 5 years back you took home loan of around Rs.50,00,000. Currently your property value increased and at the same time your outstanding home loan decreased, in that case you can go for home equity loan or top-up loans.
But what you mean by home equity in such type of loans? Home equity is the difference in your current value of property and current outstanding loan on this property. Suppose your property current value is Rs.1,00,00,000 and you took Rs.50,00,000 loan 5 years back but current outstanding is Rs.45,00,000. Then home equity is Rs.55,00,000. You are eligible to take loan on another Rs.55,00,000 value of your property. Usually in such situation banks will maintain their loan amount to 60% to 70% of your property. So even though property value increased drastically but still you will not receive the whole appreciated value of your property as loan. Considering these factors your current outstanding loan is Rs.45,00,000 and current property value is Rs.1,00,00,000 as a rule you are eligible for a loan of another Rs.15,00,000 (Rs.1,00,000*60%=Rs.60,00,000-Rs.45,00,000). Also such type of loans will be available after reviewing your credit history and loan repayment capacity. So maintaining a good financial track record is a must.
But is it worth to take this blindly?
If you have no option left out to go for personal loan (short period range from 1-5 yrs) then you may chose this option. Otherwise first you may look for finance from your existing LIC policies (tenure till policy maturity), Bank FDs (till maturity) or Gold Loans (short term loan period range from 1-3 yrs). Because such type of loan is costlier than the loan on LIC policies, Bank FDs or Gold Loans, but cheaper than personal loans. Please also note that EMI will attract you to go for such loan as tenure will be longer ranging from 10-15 yrs, but deciding on loan requirement is best option.
It depends on the utilization of this extended loan amount. Suppose the amount is utilized for renovation or further construction of home then you avail the same benefit as of home loan. But if it is used for any other purpose then you are not eligible for any tax benefit.
which Banks are offering such type of loans?
1) Easy to get it than personal loan as processing is not lengthy.
2) Compare to personal loan rate of interest is lower.
3) Tenure is longer so you will not feel the heat of EMI.
4) Tax benefit if it is used for renovation or property add on.
5) Instead of pledging new property it is best to go with already pledged property.
1) As told above lower EMI may attract you to go for such loan but remember that you need to pay for long term.
2) Nothing is free, hence they will pledge your property as security.
3) Their may be certain restrictions on earlier repayment.
4) Usage is tax beneficial only used for property otherwise it is just a normal loan.
5) Eventhough it is part of your existing home loan but few banks may charge some processing fees.
6) Usually this loan will be available after completion of your existing home loan.
7) Rate of interest may be higher compare to other forms of loans like loan on insurance policies or Bank FDs.
Note-Loan in any form is always a bad to one's financial life. Hence consider the need and if it really need then go ahead otherwise strictly avoid it.
Jai-I think you have to produce the proof that your loan is MEANT for that. Beneficial or not depends on you.
I have taken the home loan in 2009. In 2016 i took the top up loan and spent that money for construction of my dad's commericial property.
Can you please let me know whether i can show the interest and principle of top up loan for my tax exemption?
Thanks for your clarification. I have one more doubt, since I took the top up loan on 2016 whether I would be available for additional exemption of 35 thousand as per 2017 budget?
Jamila-Bankers are right that there is no tax benefit for top-up loans. However, if you have proof that you used the loan amount for the purpose of acquisition/construction/repair/renovation of a residential property. The tax benefit is available only on the interest portion of the loan under section 24.
Mrs.Nithesh-Without mortgaging how can a lender give you loan??
SBI SNACTIONED AN HOME EQUITY LOAN LAST YEAR FOR RS 1000000. FROM SBI AND I MENTIONED IN MY APPLICATION HOME EQUITY -PURPOSE : HOME REUATION. THEN THE BANK MENTIONED IN MY WELCOME LETTER . HOME EQUITY PERSONNEL LOAN(ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE LOAN SANCTIONED FOR THE PURPOSE WHICH YOU MENTIONED IN YOUR APPLICATION. AMY I GET THE TAX BENIFITS.
Sudarsan-Home loan taken for a renovation of an existing house, after the issue of completion certificate or after the house has been occupied or let out, is not eligible under Section 80C. However, its interest component is eligible for deduction under Section 24(b) under the head of "income of house property".
I am planning to construct a room (for self use ) on my existing ground floor house I had taken SBI plot and house loan. Shall i go for fresh housing or top up loan . what will be the difference of interest and income tax rebate.
Kiran-Top Up loan will create hassle free sanction. Hence, go for that.
If i purchase a residential plot with home equity loan, mortgaging my second house, is the interest paid is tax deductible? I show my loan for this second house under section 24b.
Sona-But according to IT Law, a plot (whether it is residential or commercial) will not form a House Property. Definition of house property includes flats, shops, office space, factory sheds, agricultural land and farm houses. Further, house property includes all type of house properties, i.e., residential houses, godowns, cinema building, workshop building, hotel building, etc. Please read the same at IT Dept info at HERE.


-UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN - Danish researchers release ground-breaking knowledge about calcium pumps in cells.
Release date- 21102012 - When animals and plants are exposed to influences such as bacterial attack, odour and cold, calcium ions flow into the cells. The calcium provides the cells with a signal about what is going on outside, but as high concentrations of calcium are toxic to the cells, it must be quickly pumped out again. Researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation's PUMPkin Centre at both the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University have now shown that calcium pumps in the cell's outer membrane adjust the pump speed very accurately to the calcium concentration.
These findings have just been published in the prestigious journal Nature.
The calcium pump is located in the thin membrane that surrounds the cells of humans, animals and plants. Leading researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen have now provided new information of how the calcium pump regulates the amount of calcium in the cells. This amount is critical to the health and survival of the cell.
'It turns out that the calcium pump can accurately measure the cell's calcium content and adjust its speed in accordance with this information. This prevents the concentration of calcium ions in the cytoplasm from reaching a critical concentration that damages the cells. The calcium pump is inactive when the concentration of calcium is low, but it is activated stepwise when the calcium concentration increases,' say Postdoctoral Fellows Henning Tidow and Lisbeth Rosager Poulsen, who took part in the joint research project.
The researchers' starting point was the calcium pump located in the cell membrane of the model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), but the regulatory mechanism also applies to the corresponding calcium pump in humans and animals.
Previous studies have shown that calcium pumps in both animals and plants work together with a protein called calmodulin. When there are many calcium ions in a cell, some of these bind to calmodulin, which is thereby able to activate the calcium pump.
'We purified the part of the calcium pump that interacts with calcium-activated calmodulin, and we managed to crystallise a protein complex. To our great surprise, we found that the calcium pump binds two calmodulin proteins, and not just one as always assumed,' explains Dr Tidow.
The fact that two calmodulin proteins are involved in the regulation of the calcium pump activity means that the calcium pump has three steps. It is switched off when no calcium-activated calmodulin is bound, it pumps at medium speed when binding occurs at one calmodulin protein, and it pumps at full speed when both calmodulin proteins are bound.
'Calcium pumps need considerable energy to transport calcium out of the cell. It is therefore important that they are only activated when there is a need to remove calcium. With two calmodulin-binding domains in the calcium pump, the cell can adjust the transportation to be energy efficient, at the same time as being able to quickly reduce the number of calcium ions if the concentration approaches a toxic level,' Dr Poulsen concludes.
The researchers also used mathematical network modelling to further identify whether the calcium pump works differently depending on whether it is activated by zero, one or two calmodulin proteins. This revealed another characteristic of calcium pump regulation of calcium in the cell.
'We could show that the cell only responded to incoming calcium when concentrations above carefully defined threshold values were found. This may be important for the way cells define their status in the circadian rhythm or during cell division, for example,' concludes Dr Tidow.
The results have just been published in the prestigious international journal Nature, and they may form the basis for the development of new drugs and new methods of food production.
-UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING - New study to look at impact of dream fulfilment on seriously ill children.
-University of Groningen - New carbon-14 data provides a more accurate picture of prehistory.


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Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom Involved In Car Accident
Personal Injury Lawyer, Uninsured Motorist Insurance / By guyrledwor34056
Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom was involved in a recent car accident in which his car slammed into a motorcyclist and teen pedestrian. Odom was in the back seat of a car heading to a barber shop when his chauffer crashed into a motorcyclist and a teenage pedestrian in Queens, New York. He was in town to attend his cousin's funeral.
The 15-year-old pedestrian and motorcyclist were immediately taken to Elmhurst Hospital with serious injuries, reports Media Take Out. Their names have not been released and no further information on their condition is available.
Sources say Odom was "shaken up" by the crash, and was upset and crying after the accident. He was back at work on Friday. "Shooting a Nike commercial in New York City," he tweeted. His wife, Khloe Kardashian, was not in the car with him, but tweeted, "Angels are surrounding me always. Thank you!"
No word if the couple will talk about the car accident on their E! reality show, Khloe & Lamar. Last week was a bad week for celebrity car crashes. Twilight star Kristen Stewart was spotted swapping insurance information when a woman rear-ended her Mini Cooper in Los Angeles. Both parties were fine, however, Stewart's car had to be towed away.
This incident proves that even the rich and famous can be involved in a car and motorcycle accident. Hopefully the injured party has consulted an experienced car accident attorney.
If you have been injured through the carelessness, negligence or irresponsible behavior of another individual or organization, you should contact Nadrich and Cohen immediately at 800-722-0765. Our highly experienced Los Angeles car accident lawyers will fight for your future income, obtaining lost wages, damage to your car, hospital bills, doctors' visits, medication, rehabilitation, pain and suffering.
We will make sure that you get the car accident settlement that you are entitled to. The big insurance companies have lawyers working for them, so should you. We do not charge you a penny, we only get paid when you get paid.
Call our car accident lawyers in Los Angeles at 800-722-0765. Remember, when you're injured, the right lawyer does make a difference.


A: FNBmobile is First National Bank of Waterloo's mobile banking solution. We offer three solutions for accessing your account information via a mobile device, Mobile Browsing, SMS/text and Mobile Application.
Q: What devices will work for FNBmobile?
A: FNBmobile works with any web-enabled mobile device whose network allows secure SSL traffic or for SMS/Text only, any phone with texting will be able to receive transaction history and account balances.
Q: What functions can I perform from my mobile device?
A: We use the same security controls for our Mobile Banking solution that are used for our Internet Banking solution. Your Internet Banking user ID and password are needed. You will see your personal security image for verification that you are on the correct site. We use SSL encryption to protect your information. This industry-approved security technology prevents anyone from intercepting or interrupting information transmitted from your mobile device to First National Bank of Waterloo. Security questions are also used for authentication. No personal data is stored on your mobile device.
A: First, you must be an active First National Bank of Waterloo Internet Banking user. You must enroll for mobile browsing and SMS/text separately. You can enroll through Internet Banking by selecting the Options tab, clicking Mobile Settings, under Web Mobile Settings check Enable Web Access for your mobile device, choose yes or no to receive text message alerts, provide your mobile phone number and your provider. Then select the accounts you would like to access through mobile browsing. Read and accept the terms and conditions. You will receive a text message confirming your enrollment. For SMS/text, under Text Mobile Settings, check Enable text access for your mobile device, provide your mobile phone number, and select the accounts you want to access through SMS/text banking. You can also self enroll through your mobile device by browsing to www.fnbwaterloo.com, logging in and accepting the terms and conditions and then performing the same steps as above.
A: First National Bank of Waterloos mobile banking solutions are free! However, your mobile phone service provider may charge for text messages or internet usage-check your plan for details.
Q: Do I need an app to use FNBmobile?
A: No, an app is not required. The mobile browsing solution works anywhere you have access to the internet. To use the mobile browsing solution, simply log on to www.fnbwaterloo.com.
Q: How do I download the Mobile Application for my Android?
Q: How do I download the Mobile Application for my iPhone?
Q: Is there an app for my Blackberry?
A: No. To access FNBmobile on your Blackberry, simply browse to www.fnbwaterloo.com.
Q: What happens if I lose communication/signal during a transaction?
A: When you complete a transaction from your mobile device (bill payment or funds transfer) you will receive an SMS/text message as confirmation that the transaction was successful. If you do not receive this message due to a dropped call or lost signal, check your accounts and re-submit any transactions that did not process.
Q: Why can't I add a new payee?
A: This is a security feature. You can only send a payment to an existing payee. To add a new payee, log in to Internet Banking through your PC.
Q: How much history is available?
A: You will be able to view 15 days worth of transaction history through Mobile Browsing and Mobile Application. When you text, hist, to 89549, you will receive a text with the last 4 transactions for all enrolled accounts. For more text commands, click here.
Q: Why am I not receiving any text?
A: Some cellphone plans may have Premium texting blocked. Contact your provider to see if your account has this blocked.
Q: What happens if I lose my mobile device?
A: Since your account data is not stored on your mobile device, your information cannot be stolen. When you replace your device, simply edit your Mobile settings and make any changes to the Wireless Provider and/or phone number.
Q: What happens if I get a new phone?
A: If you simply get a new phone but keep the same phone number and provider, no changes on your part are necessary. If you switch providers and/or phone numbers, log in to your Internet Banking account via the internet and update your information on the OptionsMobile Settings page. You will not receive SMS/text messages regarding mobile banking transactions if your phone number is not correct.