2020 Lexus LX 570 Redesign, Release Date, Price– The Lexus LX 570 could be the correct decision in case you're in a business opportunity for an extravagance SUV with a three-push seating arrangement, superb towing ability, and a solid V-8 unit. Also, the LX 570 is proficient to vanquish any sort of landscape, in spite of the fact that it isn't as skilled as the Land Cruiser. By the by, it is a dependable vehicle which likewise offers numerous wellbeing highlights as standard. The 2019 model year is as off noww accessible available or has brought the Lexus Enform Safety or Service Connect telematics framework which is offered for the initial 10 years with no charge. It has additionally included another outside shading "Famous White Pearl" while the Starfire Pearl has been erased. In any case, this time we will discuss the most current adaptation of this model which will hit the market as the 2020 Lexus LX 570. The 2020 Lexus LX 570 future shouldn't touch base with any huge changes aside from that this time it will bring a two-push seating setup in one trim level which we will cover independently.
The Lexus LX 570 changes is a huge SUV which is known for its square shaped, tall, and amazing structure. The front end is overwhelmed by its gigantic axle grille and thin headlamps which give it a forceful look. There is an enormous guard beneath while the profile highlights numerous sharp plots for more forceful and solid appearance. Moving to the back sash, there are the L-molded taillights and a two-piece rear end. It is additionally accessible with the bigger 21-inch composite wheels. Then again, the new Lexus LX 570 2020 ought to get some little changes outwardly with the end goal to remain crisp and aggressive. In this way, we may see changes of the grille and guard yet those ought to be minor and the back guard and taillights could likewise be marginally revived. Moreover, the maker could likewise offer some new outside shading shades and the new Lexus may likewise increase new plans of the wheels.
The 2020 Lexus LX 570 accompanies a wide decision of inside shading shades and mixes. It is accessible with two lines of seats and the three-push seating arrangement is currently discretionary. The front seats are exceptionally comfortable and control flexible. They are additionally warmed and cooled. The second line is additionally comfortable, can welcome three grown-ups and give great extra space to move around. The third line is currently discretionary and it is the best for littler grown-ups or kids. Talking about the payload room, with the third line utilized, the new 2020 LX 570 offers the room of around 16 cubic feet. Furthermore, with the third line collapsed down, there is a room of 45 3D squares. In any case, with second and third column collapsed down, the most extreme load space extends to 135 cubic feet. The rendition with two columns of seats has the most extreme freight space of 140 solid shapes. Moreover, the seats are shrouded in excellent cowhide and there is some decent genuine wood trim on the entryway boards, dashboard, and focus support.
Along these lines, it is a charming spot to invest energy in and extremely present day. In the focal point of the dashboard, there is an expansive 12.3-inch touchscreen for the infotainment framework. It likewise has route, Apple Siri Eyes Free coordination, and sound highlights. The 2020 Lexus LX 570 will be extremely present day and outfitted with the most recent tech highlights. In this way, it will come standard with atmosphere control, cowhide upholstery, 14-way control customizable driver's seat, a power moonroof, control tilt/extending directing wheel, a 12.3-inch touchscreen for the infotainment framework, a few USB ports, Bluetooth availability, AM/FM/CD sound framework with 9 speakers, HD radio, route, Amazon Alexa similarity, et cetera.
See also: 2018 Lexus LX 570 for those of you who want to see the difference in this SUV in 2018, 2019 with a new model, and about the interior, exterior, engine and price.
With regards to the motor, the 2020 Lexus LX 570 will hit the market with the natural motor found in the current model. What's more, there is one single choice under its hood. Along these lines, it is a 5.7-liter V-8 motor which is fit for making 383 steeds and the torque of 403 pound-feet. The LX 570 is mated to a 8-speed programmed transmission and accompanies full-time all-wheel drive setup. Its greatest towing limit will be up to 7,000 pounds. With respect to the mileage, the Lexus LX 570 hybrid SUV is anything but a decent decision in case you're in a business opportunity for an eco-accommodating SUV. What's more, it is appraised at 13 mpg in the city, 18 mpg on the interstate, and 15 mpg joined. Too, it doesn't offer a stop/begin framework or either any sort of half and half innovation which may enhance its eco-friendliness.
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Investing for MONTHLY income! Why is there no answer to this question anywhere?
If I gave you R100 000 would you be able to generate an income of more than R640 per month?
1. If I gave you R100 000 would you be able to generate an income of more than R640 per month?
I go from one financial website to the next to find an instrument, ideally an ETF, that will generate a monthly income.
I'm willing to sacrifice on "living" for say up to 4 months, but then I want to start receiving a monthly income from that financial sacrifice.
I know the options are dividends, especially in property shares as they must pay out a component of what they make every quarter.
I know about bonds and of course fixed deposits at banks. What else is there?
My question: Why is there not an ETF that include these items all in one place? Why can't I get income from an ETF every 3/4 months? Why must I hold for 30 years for retirement? What do the financial advisors think I should do in the meantime while I put away all my money for my old day? What should I then live on in the meantime while the cost-of-living is sky rocketing?
PS: I spoke to people and was informed that right now, on an investment of 1 million rand, I can expect to get a monthly income of +- R6400. So on an investment of R100 000 I can expect to get R640 per month, right, R10 000 would give R64 and R1000=R6.40. So let me clarify that a bit more. I give my R1000 to a financial specialists for a period of 30 days and all he/she can give me is R6.40? Please, if these numbers are wrong, enlighten us because this is terrible.
You live on your salary and save the rest for retirement.
I am very serious. Show me an ETF that is geared to paying monthly income. When you retire, where do your monthly income come from? Your financial advisor invested your funds that you put away for 20 or 30 years and from that, income is derived for you to live off. So if they can do it then, why can't they do it now? As I see it, the only difference is the size of the amount that you have invested.
So if they can pay you R6400 per month per million invested, why can't they pay it right now on whatever amount you have invested, or am I understanding your statement wrong and you talking about the R6400 per million that the people that I talked to said they were getting because that is peanuts.
Well lets look at that in real terms per month.
Wow, no food yet and I am at R20 000 bring home pay required. So lets see. Work deducts tax, uif and medical. So I need to earn round R30 000 a month or more. So lets say you cover the "live on your salary" part, where must the "save the rest for retirement" part come from?
I am not joking. This is real life. So what did I do? I started a second income working weekends and that part I want to invest in a place that will subsidies my income every month and that is why I asked the question that I started this forum topic with.
Am I being unrealistic or are people just not asking the right questions? What I don't understand is that people are willing to save for their old day's, but right now they barely survive. In a nutshell, people are willing to suffer for 30 years so they can have money for the last 20 years of their life and on top of that, the medical aid that they pay R3000 per month for will cost them R10 000 per month in 20 years time.
That is the reality of South Africa the vast majority of South Africans cannot afford to save for their retirement.
If you want a monthly payout so badly just get an annuity. The lump sum required will probably be quite high but you'll get your monthly. It's quite difficult to get monthly payouts from an investment- and if you do they'll be a small fraction of the original investment.
But why? Why a small fraction of the original investment? Who determined that we should only get a small fraction?
Because we are sheep that are being told that and we never query anything. In my example above I mentioned that you get R640/month on a R100 000 investment. So I ask, who can beat that? Lets put that in perspective. Let's say I bought a portable car wash machine and it cost me R100 000. Do you think I would be able to wash 7 cars at R100 a car in a month of 30 days? I am sure I would, but that then makes the investment that pays R640 /R100 000 absolutely useless right, cause I can make R700 a month.
On top of that I would be paying a fund manager to give me a dismal return. Wow, what a bunch of poor suckers the public is.
When you purchase shares in a company, you're essentially buying part ownership. You buy into the growth and demise of the company. So if the company does well, you do well. No company listed is likely to experience massive growth over night. So you can't expect massive gains on your investment.
Investing in shares is completely different than your car wash machine example. If you want the type of gains you get from owning something, then buy all means, go and buy yourself a company.
I don't think you understand that companies need good cash flow and capital to run and survive. They cannot just pay out every person who comes along and demands monthly payments.
Your interest rates are governed by a lot of factors- too many to go into. One of them is South Africa's economic performance. And as we all know, it's not spectacular at the moment. Hence, not a lot of high growth.
Also, whoever you're giving your money to to invest, is making more than your "6.5%" and is keeping the excess. If you don't like that, then invest in shares on your own behalf or again, start your own business.
You're also missing the point of an investment. It's to invest. I.e. Put your money somewhere it will grow and earn you returns. So even though you may earn a 6% return on shares, this continues for a long period of time. Once you decide to cash in on your shares, you have your compounded amount which, if done correctly, should be significantly higher than your original investment.
The R640 examples, that's the interest/inflation rate and what you'll get with a 32 day account. You can beat it with a fixed deposit.
Comparing income from interest with income from work (car wash machine) is silly. If sitting back and doing nothing paid more than doing actual work we'd all be rich and lazy.
The people and/or companies you invest in use your money to make more money themselves (acquire more assets, expand etc) and as an incentive pays out the bare minimum they need to to keep you interested and pick them over somebody else.
They all pay out quarterly but not an optimum solution. There are also a ton of unit trusts you can look at.
Again, I'm not sure if you are serious or just trolling.
You can most definitely make more than R640 p/m with R100 000, but in most cases it would involve spending actual time working to earn more, as time is money, and that initial R100 000 would be spent buying whatever is needed to make said monthly return, whatever figure that might be.
It's just "easier" putting it in the bank and not having to work at creating more wealth.
Guys, thanks for the feedback and yes I am serious. I still have not received an answer to my original question.
Still I have no answer to my original question - Why is there no instrument dedicated to fixed income that contain, dividend shares (variable), fixed deposit (fixed for 30 days minimum), Reit (variable) and bonds (fixed for 3/5/10/20 years) in one single ETF? Surely this is not rocket science but it needs a fund manager especially to manage the variable components on a day to day basis. How hard can this be to run??
Maybe I should start such a fund and market it to the public.
4. Bonds - Well this one will be fixed for 3/5/10/20 years so not a biggy but need to give clients best value for money.
5. Do all this but keep fees at a minimum.
It helps when you think of ETFs as building blocks for a portfolio so you can use them in the exact amounts and combination that is optimum for you.
Are you sure there are no unit trusts meeting this criteria?


LAHORE - National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested former president Bank of Punjab Hamesh Khan, its General Manager and another official on Sunday, a source disclosed. According to the source, the officials of the Bank of Punjab were arrested for their alleged involvement in a fraud case detected by the Bureau. Monitoring Desk adds: The NAB picked up these officials in connection with a Rs 13 billion fraud case, reports a private TV channel. Former president Bank of Punjab Hamesh Khan, general managers Rauf Aziz and Aziz Hameed have been arrested. After launching an inquiry three months ago, the State Bank of Pakistan had referred the case to NAB. A thorough inquiry of three months into the case led the NAB authorities to arrest former officials of BoP, the channel added. More arrests in this connection are likely to take place.


The next part of our adventure at The Creative Connection Event that I want to share with you was my booth in the HandMade Market. I don't usually do craft shows, and in fact, this was only the second one that I've ever done. I worked all summer building inventory, which was a challenge with the volume of sales in my etsy shop, but I wanted to have a strong presence there. I actually brought my sewing machine to Minneapolis because I needed it for one of my classes, but I was glad to have it because I ended up doing some last minute work in my mobile Olive and Ollie studio. Or, in other words, my hotel room.
My sister Kate and I did a lot of prep work in our hotel room, tagging the clothes, and ironing things that needed it, so when we went down to the exhibit hall, all we really needed to do was set up. She was such a great help, and even ran to the Target up the street on a last minute trip to buy a second clothing rack. Here's what the booth looked like on Wednesday evening, for the preview.
In addition to my standard designs, I made some modern patchwork scarves and hung them from a vintage quilt rack. I loved the pop of color that they provided on the white table top. This project is really simple and quick and I'm thinking of making a tutorial for them later this fall.
I thought my booth looked ok, but I really felt that it was lacking something. So, I decided to pull the curtains back on the side. Since I was on a corner, there wasn't another booth directly to my right, so I opened up the curtain on that side, which helped a bit.
Then, like I often do, I had an idea pop into my head about 6 am the following morning, to run a clothes line on the two open sides of the booth, and hang some garments from it with clothes pins. Great idea, right? Of course, I didn't have any of those supplies with me, but thank goodness for the Target up the road. After the meet and greet coffee in the morning, I ran up the street and luckily found just what I was looking for. I really think that simple change added so much to my booth.
All in all, I had a great experience at the HandMade Market. I met some amazing people there, including so many talented artisans and designers. But the highlight of the event was when Nancy Soriano, one of the creators of The Creative Connection, and a personal hero of mine, interviewed me for F&W Media's new website, which is scheduled to go live next month. Can you believe it? I couldn't, and in fact I'm still kind of pinching myself. Nancy was so gracious and kind, and had even chosen some of my designs to be featured on her appearance on the local Minneapolis NBC affiliate. You can see the video here by clicking on the icon to the right in the link.
Honestly, as I said before, I'm still pinching myself about everything that happened last week. And I'm so honored to have had such an amazing experience at The Creative Connection Event.
SO cute! Wish I was there!
Thank you, Bari! It really was a great event. You definitely need to come next year!
It's all so cute. Your design are great.
Thank you very much, Patty. I really appreciate it!
THAT is awesome!! I wish we had something like that here!


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Louisiana Tax Commission head arrested, accused of fraud and malfeasance
January 16th, 2019 Bethany Blankley
Louisiana State Police arrested Charles Abels III, 51, of Baton Rouge, the administrator for the Louisiana Tax Commission last week, but you'd never know with media silence.
Abels, the administrator for the state commission that oversees property tax assessors, is accused of 63 counts of filing or maintaining false public records and one count each of malfeasance in office and public payroll fraud, all of which are felonies.
He is accused of charging the state for work hours he didn't work and for using a state rental vehicle for personal use and allegedly requested fuel reimbursement from the state.
His arrest comes many months after the Louisiana Legislative Auditor contacted State Police last May about possible payroll fraud committed by Abels. Once notified the State Police launched a joint investigation with the auditor's office. Investigators claim Abels on multiple occasions was paid for time he said he worked when he was not performing duties for the Tax Commission.
Abels, a former assessor for Livingston Parish, lost his bid for re-election in 1999 to current assessor Jeff Taylor. Abels even resigned from his position before his term ended.
He lost in part, according Livingston Parish News, because of his alcohol-related arrests and legal problems. He was arrested for driving while intoxicated for the fourth time in 2002, the report says.
He was also arrested and accused of domestic violence last March, according to The Advocate.
The Louisiana Tax Commission is tasked with achieving "fair, accurate, and uniform ad valorem taxation through effective oversight of assessors and improved ratio studies, providing assessment guidelines and other technical assistance, commitment to improved efficiency through technology, and professional and unbiased administration of tax laws."
Abels faces criminal charges including malfeasance in office and payroll fraud, according to a press release published by the Louisiana State Police.
Online records show Abels was jailed Friday at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, with bond set at $16,300.
Tax Commission Chairman Lawrence Chehardy said in an interview that Abels has been on suspension since November, Watchdog News reported.
Chehardy requested assistance from the Legislative Auditor's office after complaints were made about Abels to the Governor's Office and the state Commissioner of Administration.
"These investigations have identified a number of improprieties," Chehardy said in a prepared statement. He said investigations are ongoing and have resulted in personnel and policy changes at the commission.
"The Louisiana Tax Commission remains fully operational and continues to satisfactorily perform its duties and service to the general public," Chehardy added.
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Cramer: Don't Buy Till Dow 9,000
Published Fri, May 7 20106:22 PM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT
The Dow's intraday collapse of nearly 1,000 points on Thursday offered a clue into what investors truly think of this market, Cramer said during Mad Money. In short, they assumed the move was legit, and not some computer error.
These people believed that Procter & Gamble deserved to plummet to $47 from the low $60s, that the Dow's decline was the natural result of Europe's debt troubles and the riots in Greece. They showed they had no confidence in the markets, no conviction at all.
"And that's deadly for stocks," Cramer said.
But he was quick to point out the differences between the Europe Union and the US. While Cramer wouldn't disregard the Continent's affect on the American markets, he did note we're much stronger than the EU right now. Employment's getting better, housing is improving, and business is ticking up. So as scary as yesterday's intraday plunge may have been, it was not the stuff of late 2008/early 2009, when the market had a fundamental reason for being that low.
That means, as bad as Europe is right now, there's a level at which that contagion is baked in and stocks look interesting, and Cramer thinks we saw that level yesterday: Dow 9,000. And he said he doubted it was out of the realm of possibility that we could pull back to that level. Therefore, investors should wait for the decline before they buy anything again, other than his preferred accidental high-yielders.
In the end, though, people need to keep in mind that the American markets and economy continue to improve. The US is not the EU.
"Our markets will stop their declines sooner," Cramer said, "and rebound harder than any of the markets over there."
Cramer's charitable trust owns Procter & Gamble.
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Murakami's novel a hit in Japan before it arrives
Source: Agencies | May 28, 2009, Thursday | Online Edition
Everything is secret, except the author and title. But the first novel in five years by Japan's Haruki Murakami has become a hit even before its arrival in stores Friday.
"It is amazing. People are craving his latest novel," said Takashi Machii, spokesman for the book's publisher Shinchosha, which has raised its first printing to 480,000 copies, up from 380,000 after orders flooded in.
Murakami, 60, is one of the most widely translated Japanese writers alive, with global best-sellers such as "Norwegian Wood," ''Kafka on the Shore" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." He is considered a top Japanese candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
"Norwegian Wood," his 1987 love story that shot him to stardom, has sold 9.2 million copies in Japan alone.
In a clever marketing scheme, the contents of his new novel have been kept secret. Fans ordering the book know nothing but the title, "1Q84," which can be read as "1984" in Japanese.
Shinchosha began selling the 1,000-page, two-volume work at a handful of stores in Tokyo on Wednesday. One store sold 840 copies in just one day, it said.
It is unclear when the work will be translated into English, according to Shinchosha.
Murakami, who has lived in the U.S., including stints at Princeton and Harvard, is fiercely private. He was not immediately available for comment.
Murakami has also written works of nonfiction, including a piece based on interviews with victims of the 1995 deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo, and translated works by Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving and J.D. Salinger.


I was born in a small town near the middle of Ohio along the I-75 corridor, north of Dayton, south of Toledo, called Piqua. My parents, and their parents, and grandparents, and further on back in their genealogy lived in Piqua. Most who immigrated here from Germany, or Ireland, or England, settled in Piqua and established homes and families. Many are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery along the river in the north section of town.
In March of 2011, I wrote about my memories of growing up in Piqua.
Even back in the 1950s, it wasn't easy to find a job in a small town. When my dad returned from the service in the mid-1950s, he started working for NCR in Dayton, Ohio, about an hour's drive away. In the 60's my parents packed up our bags and moved us there. Neither my mom or dad really wanted to go. My mom didn't work outside the home. All her family and friends were in Piqua. Over the years, my dad made no secret of the fact that he always missed Piqua. My parents had conversations about moving back "home" during their retirement years. They finally made it back in January of 2013, when they were both buried in Forest Hill Cemetery.
I understand the allure of small town life.
So, this morning, as I watched a CNN report on Beattyville, a small town in Kentucky where people are struggling to get by, it brought me to tears. I am a small-town girl at heart.
But sometimes you have to move. Times change. Opportunities shift. Throughout history we can find example after example of towns and cities that once prospered but then failed. The Dust Bowl comes to mind (probably because I just watched the documentary on Netflix). Sometimes we see cities that came through a rough patch and are beginning to thrive again. Buffalo, NY, is a good example. Buffalo was a rich city at one point during the height of waterway commerce. Then other forms of transportation developed and Buffalo was left with empty grain silos decomposing along its riverfront. The good news is that Buffalo is finding a way to reinvent itself. It is finding a way to thrive in the country and world as it is today.
St. John the Baptist Church in Bakum viewed from Elmelage farmland.
My husband, Mark, and I visited Bakum, Germany last summer. It's a small agricultural town in northern Germany about a half-hour's drive south from Bremen. We've traced Mark's ancestors back to Bakum from 1530 until 1850, when they emigrated to Amerika. In some ways, you could argue that Bakum is Mark's family's "hometown." Certainly it was his great-grandfather's.
In the early 1800s, the population in Bakum grew at a fast rate and the farming communities became over-crowded. People were living in barns, sheds, bake houses, in any available structure they could find. There was no food to eat. Parents struggled to provide shoes for their children. Poverty was rampant. Mark's ancestor, Bernard Dominicus Grote, lived in the farming community of Elmelage and worked as a hired hand on land owned by the Knese family. Dominicus' brothers all lived nearby on other farms. They all went to St. John the Baptist, the small church in town. I'm sure they did not wish to leave their family, their hometown and their homeland to come to a strange country with a language they couldn't understand.
But they did. Like other ancestors of probably most, if not all of us.
I'm not talking about immigration right now. I'm talking about people following opportunity and doing what they need to do to survive. There is nothing new about this. It is the story of human survival from the beginning of time.
I truly hope our country can find a way to make things better for the folks in small towns who have lost their local industries and jobs. No one wants to see people suffer like that. But I also believe the way forward is exactly that, forward. Not back.
I thought you'd want to know. You can read more about it over at my author site. I promise to get back to posting random thoughts here again soon. Thanks for sticking with me.
I just wanted to let you know to check over at my blog at christinemgrote.com. I've posted a picture of the cover for my book. I hope to get back to blogging here soon. I have photos I'd like to share of the Lincoln Funeral Train, but I am focusing all my effort right now on getting Where Memories Meet published. So many details.
Last night I thought I lost my InDesign book file. You can imagine my distress. I still don't know what happened. It wasn't in the folder I had been keeping it in, and then later on it was. Computer magic.
I will tell you just a short little story about publishing details. I have photos in my book, primarily of my dad. A few have other family members in them, but one photo had one of Dad's classmates named Jim in it. I was just going to try to let it slide by and hope no one complained, even though I know you're supposed to have signed waivers when you use a photo with someone in it. I didn't even know if Jim was still alive.
But today I had a guilt attack and decided I needed to at least try to contact Jim. I got out the copy of my mom's phone and address book, which was actually a rolodex file, and looked up Jim's name. I dialed the number and got some crazy recording that said I needed to enter a password if I wanted to leave a message. I'd never encountered anything like that. I thought maybe Jim was in a nursing home or something.
"I miss him too," I managed to say. Then I needed to spend about a half an hour regaining my composure before I called Jim.
Sometimes it feels just as hard as ever.
But Jim was happy to allow me to use the photo, and all's well. Jim and Norma both will be getting complimentary copies of Where Memories Meet.
I got home and took a good hard look at my 15 x 10 x 1/2 in metal case with a keyboard that contains most of my life's work. If I had a catastrophic digital failure of some kind, I would lose my genealogy, videos of my grand kids, photographs, and all my writing. My life's work contained in this slim piece of metal.
Sure I back it up to an external hard drive. But is that really enough to protect against the devastation that the loss of what is stored inside would cause?
That led to yet another diversion from writing my dad's book, as my daughter so nicely pointed out in a phone conversation. "Maybe you are trying to avoid something," she said.
That may be true. But I still need to formulate and execute a better back-up plan. And I need to sort through my files, consolidate, and edit them down. Another motivation that drives me forward is the thought that my husband or kids would have to deal with my computer if something were to happen to me. How can I expect them to deal with all the photos, videos, and documents I have loaded it up with? I don't want to deal with it myself.
So I started sorting through my old recorded videos and came across one that I took at my sister's house for a celebration of Mom's birthday in May of 2009. We had just gotten Arthur and he was playing with my sister's new puppy. I spent over 13 minutes that day recording Arthur. On the video, like an unobtrusive soundtrack running in the background, my parents are talking all the while.
And I wonder, why didn't I, even once, turn the camera around?
A quick stop in Columbia, S.C.
I hadn't really thought about it when we made the plans to go to the beach. And I was never very good at geography anyway. So when Mark found a place to go to in Ocean Isle, North Carolina, I was all in.
It wasn't until the days before the trip when I read the information about our accommodations that I realized we were going to be quite close to Myrtle Beach.
When I was young, Myrtle Beach was for me "the ocean." Recently while sorting through my parents' old photos and contemplating parts of their life that I just never took the time to think about before, I realized Myrtle Beach was where my dad first experienced the ocean, when he was in the army.
If memory serves, I think it may be the first beach we ever went to as a family and one we returned to on several trips.
I contemplated this more as I was driving through the hills of Tennessee and noticed the lack of giant billboard signs for Ruby Falls. It's funny the things that stick in your mind as a child riding in the back of a packed station wagon, playing alphabet word-scavenger hunts with my sisters as we rode along, my dad driving every mile of the way, using the open window as an arm rest while his bent elbow got redder by the minute.
On this trip I realized we would be passing somewhere close to Ft. Jackson, where my dad went to basic training in the early 50's, and to Columbia where my parents stayed in the Wade Hampton Hotel when my mom flew down to visit him. But Mark is a get-to-your-destination, no-funny-business-side-trips allowed, kind of traveler, so I didn't mention it at first.
"I wonder if we could try to find the Wade Hampton Hotel in Columbia for a quick stop?" I asked.
Mark googled it and started laughing. The first hit he got was about the implosion of the famed hotel.
We decided to go anyway, because the hotel had been across the street from the statehouse and I wanted pictures.
Columbia was a larger city than I had imagined, and the statehouse was massive and impressive. I was looking for an empty lot across the street that might have held the ill-fated Wade Hampton and found only modern high-rise buildings. So we went in a coffee shop where neither the young man working behind the counter, or the woman maintaining the automatic teller, knew anything about the Wade Hampton Hotel.
"Are you sure it imploded this April?" I asked Mark who got back on his phone. "1985," he said, "It happened in 1985." No wonder the young man behind the counter hadn't heard of it. He might not even have been born yet. I wondered if my parents had heard about the implosion. For some reason I have a shadow of memory at the back of my mind about it. Maybe they told me when it happened, and like so many other things I just didn't give it due attention. Or maybe it is my imagination re-creating history.
I listened to the implosion video and found out which corner the old hotel had occupied. I took a photo of the shiny high-rise standing there now and several of the statehouse. Mark bought a drink at the coffee shop. And we were on our way.
Author CMSmithPosted on September 6, 2013 Categories Dad's story, PostcardsTags Columbia S.C., Columbia statehouse, Myrtle Beach, photos, travel, Wade Hampton Hotel14 Comments on A quick stop in Columbia, S.C.
Had they lived for seven more months, today we would have been celebrating my parents' 60th anniversary. Last fall Mom had already been thinking about the upcoming event and was worried about how we were going to celebrate it with Dad's condition and all. Now, here we are today, left in their absence to note the day and celebrate or not, as we choose.
I'd like to share with you a short excerpt from my work in progress—Where Memories Meet. My dad wanted me to write his story. From about 2008, until my dad couldn't speak coherently anymore I interviewed him about his life. At this point in his story, he is engaged to marry my mother, but a date has not been set. He has been drafted and sent to Fr. Jackson, S.C. for basic training. He did not want to marry my mother before he left because we were still fighting, and some were dying, in the Korean War. He did not want to leave my mother a widow if he got sent to Korea and was killed in action.
The following is my dad's story in his own words.
I got to Fort Jackson on March 28th and left at the end of July. I started basic training on Monday April 6th and finished on Wednesday June 3rd. Then, a few days later, I started Motor Maintenance School. The maintenance of jeeps, trucks, or whatever. Wheel School.
I was in the military school when I found out that I wasn't going to go to the Far East. If you were going over there you had to get the cholera shot. Everybody I knew who was going to Korea had already had their cholera shot. And I never did get one. I surmised that I wasn't going to go to the Far East.
I called your mother from Ft. Jackson. I stood in the g-damn line half the night to get to use the telephone, milling around the damn telephones with maybe a hundred other guys. And I waited until I could get a telephone and I called her. I asked, "Are you sure you want to get married?" And she went, "Huh?" That didn't sound right to me. She has always denied that, but that's actually what she did. She claims she couldn't hear me.
She eventually came down to South Carolina. Got in an airplane and flew down to Fort Jackson. We got a motel room at the Wade Hampton. It was right down at the capital of Columbia, S.C. I got a one-day pass to go to town. I think she was only there one day. Then we got her back out to the airport and she flew back to Vandalia. It was really shocking that your grandmother and your grandfather allowed it. She was only 19 years old. She'd never been out of the state of Ohio prior to that.
So she went on home.
We corresponded of course, about what had to happen to get married. That all worked out and she got her blood tests and I had mine before I left Ft. Jackson. That was a trip—a lot of running around to do on the base to get that stuff taken care of. I had to clear a lot people. I got all that done.
When I got finished with the school, I got leave. I got transferred to Fort Knox, Ky to the armored school and I had a two-week delay in route, is what they called it. You'd get a piece of paper saying you had to be somewhere on this date. I had to be in Ft. Knox by August 12th.
I finished school on July 31st and I left for home on August 1st. I got a cab and went out to the airport in Columbia S.C. and got on a propeller airplane. It was a military plane. We didn't pay for any transportation. I flew to Vandalia. I believe that was the first time I ever flew.
I came home and got married. The wedding was on August 4th. We had a little bit of a honeymoon in Chicago then I went back—to Ft. Knox, Ky.
I'm thankful for the dedicated years Mom and Dad spent together and I hope that there is a place after our life here on earth ends where they are happily together still.
Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad, from a very grateful daughter.
So in this whole scheme of things, even though Dad got the lion's share of attention over the past 3 or 4 years, he has taken a back seat in the memories that assault me and the grief I am trying to work my way through. I don't feel like I can ignore him on Father's Day.
Last year I took the coward's way out and re-posted what I had written the year before. And for a flash, I considered doing the same again.
But I think it is time for me to begin the hard work of reclaiming my memories of who my father was, what was important to him, and what he meant to me.
Memories are a funny thing. My memories of Mom and Dad's last weeks crowd out my memories of times before. Memories of the challenges and struggles we faced as Dad became less and less independent due to his Alzheimer's take center stage over the memories of him laughing at a wedding, or holding a grandchild.
As I may have told you before, I'm working on my dad's story that interlaces his memories of growing up, that I collected from interviews with him in 2008 and 2009, with my experiences as he declined in his later years, and my memories of earlier times. At least that's my plan at the moment. So I decided an appropriate way to celebrate this Father's Day is to share with you an excerpt from my work in progress – Where Memories Meet— from Dad's point of view.
I got drafted in November of 1952.
Signing up for the draft was not an option, it was the law and just something you did. I was not happy about it but you just did what you had to do. I had signed up at the draft board on my 18th birthday in January of 1951, before I graduated from high school.
The thing to do after school was to get a job. Like many of my peers, that's what I did. I suppose going to college was a possibility but most people didn't think that much about school, and there was not any guidance in that direction.
In November of 1952 I got a letter from the president of the United States – General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "You have been selected by your friends and neighbors to . . ." It was an invitation to come down to Cincinnati and take a physical. I wasn't thrilled to have to do that. I don't remember how Mom, or Dad for that matter, reacted when I got drafted. Again, it was the thing to do. You were called and you went.
I went to Cincinnati with a whole bunch of guys. The first time they took us down on a bus and brought us home the same day. And then we went home and waited for our call.
Some of my friends didn't get called up. Some of them joined up. Ray Kelly and Tom Staley both joined the marine corp. Tom Murphy joined the navy. Frank Curtis didn't pass because of his health. Dale Razor tried to join and they wouldn't take him because of his heart murmur. It eventually killed him.
Tom Laster didn't have to go. He'd ran off and gotten married. A lot of guys hid behind their wives to keep from going.
At that time your mother and I were engaged and she wanted to get married. I said no because I had no idea what would happen to me. They were still killing people in Korea and I didn't feel right about leaving her with that burden—what if we had started a family and all that implied. I think about that when I see the news today with all the casualties every day.
I got my "show-up" letter and had to go to the draft board in Troy in March of 1952.
I asked whether the fact that my dad was in a mental hospital constituted reason for me not having to go into the service, because my mother needed me. They said no. So I went ahead and left. I didn't appeal it.
I didn't particularly want to go. I had never been anywhere. When I went it seemed like it was going to be forever. I was essentially leaving home.
As it turned out, it didn't ruin my life, it gave me the chance to do a lot of things I would never have been able to do on my own.
My dad was buried with military honors and a gun salute. I think that would have made him happy. He was proud of his experience in the military and its influence on the man he became. I have the flag that was draped across his coffin and presented to our family. It hangs, neatly folded in a display case, on the wall over my left shoulder here in my study.
I hope you are blessed with many happy memories of your father, whether he is alive or not, today.


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I live in Canada and am confused by the use of the title Professor.
In Universities, the term 'professor' (or assistant / associate/ full professor) is used to indicate, I think, one's progress, and accomplishments, through the University system.
But in Colleges in Canada which offer certificates and diplomas (but not degrees, like a BA) it seems one is called a Professor right from the beginning.
Can someone help me understand this difference?
A professor in Canada, whether at a College or University must hold a Post Doctorate (Ph.D) to have such a title. Those with Masters, even part-time instructors at either type of post secondary institution are only qualified as instructors or those working on their Ph.D degree, can be titled 'associate' professor with a designation... Ex: Associate professor Lane to Professor Thomson, Ph.D. They must accredit their superior in which ever department.
Once anyone has achieved and received the Post Doctorate they're either/and or both, a professor and doctor. One can also be a doctor of physical education; it does not differentiate the subject once the Ph.D is obtained.
I am from South Africa and I must say that I too was a little confused about the title of "professor" when I arrived in Canada and attended a college in Ottawa because the title professor in South Africa is only usually bestowed upon those of highest academic standing within an institution like a university. Even teachers in technical colleges do not hold this title in South Africa.
However, since the technical definition of "professor" is one who teaches, professes or vows to have expertise and experience in a particular field, colleges in Canada take into consideration academic qualifications, years of experience working in a particular sector and personal professional development related to a particular trade or job when hiring staff to teach in specific programmes. So technically, those who teach in specific programmes who have the experience and expertise can call themselves professors of a specific skill because they have the extensive knowledge and experience in that particular field.
Hope this helps to clear up any confusion.
The definition of the word in Canada is one who teaches and holds a Ph.D (and if you believe my uncle has a requirement to stay published biannually - but that might be just the university he teaches at).
The use of the word 'professor' for other lecturers/teachers is slang use of the word. My uncle has a Masters and holds tenure, his students refer to him as their "prof" yet technically he is not a prof, doesn't refer to himself as a professor and when he introduces himself to his class he says he is a Tenured Lecturer. But I suppose its just easier for the students to call him their Prof.
Yes these titles can be confusing. Much of what makes it confusing is that some of the titling will depend on the institution and their collective agreement. For example, in many college institutes that do not have the Rank system, teachers are titled instructors. Other institutes have what is known as a Rank system and if that is the case the typical titling goes: those who are not yet tenured are titled assistant professors, those who have tenure and work at a certain pace and fulfill certain expectations on a yearly basis are titled Associate Professor. Those known as Full Professor or in some institutes simply Professor (those who are not full should use associate or assistant as a prefix).
To become a full professor you need to have achieved national or international recognition for your work.
Some institutions that do not have Rank will title differently so it is important to know how the institution uses titles. There are times when an instructor will call him or herself a professor, but unless that is the actual title used in that person's institution then they really should not be using that title.
I hope that helps to clarify for you.
As a former college "teacher" or "instructor" who started teaching in the 1970s, the difference has mainly to do with inflation and status-seeking.
Most employment positions over the past 20-30 years have taken on titles denoting what most people see as higher status positions. Bank tellers are "service representatives," salesmen are "account executives," workers are now "practitioners," etc..
University professors with PhDs weren't all that common up to 1950s. Many were Masters degrees. Many jobs required Grade 10, some required Grade 12. Now, you'd need a college diploma just to get an interview. Inflation has not been limited to economics.
It's probably all connected to people's desire to better themselves, feel important, etc. -- the same reason people in the past chose the names of gods and royalty for their children, and now media and pop stars.
I live in manitoba currently, raised equally in Ontario and Nova Scotia, born in Alberta. Traditionally, in my experience across this country, professor was used for PhDs at universities. People who have studied many years in their field and deemed knowledgeable enough to teach with great authority. I think though in more recent years we are relaxing our definition of the word. We need more people in skilled positions and Canada is slowly recognizing that teaching these skills also comes from people who have worked in the field for many years and have gained vast experience. These teachers have also earned the right to professor.
This Wikipedia link (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor#Canada) gives a good definition. I would like to add that some schools may be giving out the title arbitrarily, the aim being to make the student feel important and give the school a higher reputation.
A Professor 'professes', a Teacher has tea with the Dean, an Instructor is just instrumental ... I'm not sure what I should say about Lecturers.


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In the lead up to your interview, you do need to be focused in your preparation.
I recommend getting the logistics out of the way first for all the Junior Doctors I work with. By which I mean: getting approval to take the day off from work, working out what you are going to wear, working out how to get to the interview on time, and finding out the details of the interview (panel member names, amount of time for the interview) if the interview coordinator will give you this information.
This way you can spend the rest of the time preparing for the actual interview without being worried by any other parameters.
The very next thing you should do, if you have not already, is start practicing answering interview questions and getting some feedback.
Don't worry too much about the actual questions. If you have a set of questions from previous years interviews, great. But if you don't just start practising some of the common question types. If you hunt around the web it won't take too long to find a question bank like this list of questions for interviews.
If possible, practice answering one or two questions in front of your supervisor, family member or friend. At the very least video tape yourself answering a couple of questions.
What you want to focus on here is how you come across in a general sense. Are you speaking comfortably and are you making sense in your answers? It should be reasonably obvious whether you are too relaxed or too tense. Similarly, you will quickly see whether your answers are clear and concise, versus rambling or full of gaps.
Keep practising one or two questions with feedback until you are happy with your demeanour in answering as well as the clarity of your responses.
If you have a short period to prepare this is how you will make the maximum gains.
You have probably heard it before from some well-meaning friend, family member or mentor. "Just relax and you will be fine". But it's easier said than done isn't it?
There are a whole host of things you can do to be more relaxed during your interview, from practicing deep breathing, to doing yoga, to learning mindfulness. But what if you only have a few days to go?
Well, there is one simple thing you can do to help yourself out, something that is automatic to us all: smile. So before you say anything in your interview, smile. Most of us already have good muscle memory for so it doesn't take practice or learning. It really just requires implementing.
Something I recommend to the Junior Doctors that I work with on interview preparation is to implement a routine where the first thing you do after you sit down for the interview is to smile and thank the panel for the first question.
The act of smiling does 3 things. It relaxes you. It also tends to relax the panel members. And it makes a positive first impression. Its far harder for a panel member to "not like you" if they are smiling back.
Most interviews these days will include more than one question where you are asked to provide a past example to demonstrate how you meet one of the selection criteria.
We call this the "Past Behaviour Question" approach. It's based upon the principle that past behaviour is a reasonable predictor of future behaviour and that such questions are harder to fake at the interview.
So, you want to have some examples ready for some of the common interview scenarios that come up. These include: dealing with conflict, communication challenges, good teamwork, a difficult challenge, teaching, even sometimes quality improvement and conducting research.
I'd recommend firstly going through your CV and highlighting all the achievements you are most proud of. Come up with your top 4 or 5 and then practice telling the story of these. Because these are things that you are proud of when you describe them to other people you will be much more passionate about them and this will come across. Practice telling the story using a structured framework such as the STAR technique.
STAR stands for: Situation; Task; Action/s and Result. In my experience with trainee doctor interviews it's the "Result" that is often missed when giving an example. And this is a real shame as its the Result that helps you to "sell" the example to the panel. So, make sure you do talk about the result. This shows the panel that you are interested in results and evaluating your own performance.
OK. You are comfortable with all the common questions and you feel reasonably good about answering a clinical scenario. But what if they throw a curveball at you? A question you are not expecting?
Sometimes panels like to pose an ethical dilemma or ask how you might go about setting up an audit of problem "x".
Like the STAR framework above there are frameworks for dealing with hypothetical questions. My favourite is the CanMEDS framework because I think it suits just about every hypothetical question and gives you some handy headings that might prompt you with ideas. It's also the framework that most medical colleges base their training curricula on.
So, if you do get stuck with a hypothetical remember: Scholar, Professional, Health Advocate, Communicator, Collaborator, Leader and Medical Expert.
Best of luck in your interviews!
Anthony has also prepared some videos on the interview process which are available on his Career Doctor YouTube.
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Dr Anthony Llewellyn graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1996. Anthony has had a diverse career in Medicine. A career that has seen Anthony become a consultant Psychiatrist and then go on to work in a range of leadership, administrative, executive and teaching roles. Anthony has previously been a Director of Medical Workforce at Hunter New England Local Health District as well as the Executive Medical Director of the Health Education and Training Institute from 2012 to 2016.


SIR: I have the honor to report that, in obedience to orders, my command was reported on the brigade parade ground at 6 a.m. February 5. The regiment marched with the brigade until we reached the picket-line on the Vaughan road. The One hundred and eighty-fourth was then assigned to the right of the brigade, and, after several maneuvers, was formed in line immediately west of the Riddle house. Here fortifications were erected and skirmishers thrown in front. I remained in this position until the morning of the 11th instant, when, after destroying all the fortifications of the brigade, I withdrew the regiment to the lines it now occupies. The regiment was not heavily engaged with the enemy, and consequently I lost but two men wounded, viz, Joseph Jenkins, sergeant, Company B, wounded, and John Adams, private, Company K, wounded in hand. I have every reason to be proud of the deportment of the officers and men during this campaign. No special opportunity was presented for unusual gallantry, except on the night of the 5th, when a portion of the picket-line was driven in by the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kleckner promptly re-established the line, driving the enemy from the pits he had captured. I accordingly recommend him to the favorable notice of the colonel commanding the brigade.


Increasing access to physical activity opportunities is associated with positive change in youth physical activity behavior and many additional individual, social, economic and environmental benefits for the communities involved. This dissertation has three aims: 1. Identify examples and suggest best practices for increasing access to physical activity in low-income communities and communities of color. The method chosen is a systematic literature review into three databases. The use of an ecological framework for sustainable community-level health change, Active Living by Design, will guide the analysis. 2. Identify all facilities within Pasadena, TX that currently provide an opportunity for active recreation, sport, and other forms of physical activity, and display this information in an asset map. Geospatial analysis will be used to identify facilities and create the asset map. Additional information will be added to map from a facility level survey, described in aim three. 3. Determine facilitators and barriers, and other key issues, relevant to sharing facilities with the public for the purposes of active recreation, sport, and other forms of physical activity in Pasadena, TX. To elicit this information, an online survey will be distributed to the facility administrators of each respective location within Pasadena. Results will be gathered, analyzed, and disseminated to community partners. In response to the first aim, only 13 cases demonstrate success in increasing access, suggesting that more can be done to address inequalities in physical activity opportunities. Of the existing efforts, few utilize crucial components to create a sustainable change in the community. For the second aim, findings from mapping all facilities in Pasadena, TX illustrate inadequate access to places for physical activity that were open, developed, and in good condition. Lastly, for the third aim, there were trends in facilitators to shared-use showing a willingness and interest in sharing facility space with the community. Concerning barriers to shared-use, findings were similar to national studies in the types of challenges faced by facility administrators including staffing, liability and cost. Utilizing formal shared-use agreements may help address the barriers surrounding liability, misuse of facilities, insurance, and maintenance; concerns expressed by facility administrators.
Stasi, Selina Marie (2018). Access to Physical Activity in Low-Income Communities and Communities of Color. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /173355.


Passed away unexpectedly on April 9, 2019 at the age of 41. Charlie was the loving son of Duane and Bonnie Grenier and brother to Kristin (Nick) Drenzek, Jeff (Jodi) Grenier, and Susan Grenier. He was "Uncle Charlie" to Ben, Lauren, Katie, Maddie, and Aaliyah. He is further survived by his aunt Doreen (Steve) Haimann, and cousins Lori (Blair) Czarnecki, Linda (Jeff) Snyder, Amanda (Larry) Lawver, and Samantha (Andrew) Becker. He was preceded in death by his aunt and uncle, Judy and Tom Hawkins, and his grandparents.
Our family would like to thank Charlie's "extended family" of friends and "buddies" for their love. Charlie truly lived by the old saying, "Family isn't just blood, it's the people in your life who are there for you when you need them most". Our lives were all blessed by Charlie's enormous heart and a laugh that lit up a room. May we all find comfort in knowing that Charlie is resting in the arms of the Lord and the memory of the love and laughter he gave to all of us will never ever be forgotten.
In keeping with the spirit of Charlie, we are planning a Celebration of Life memorial gathering which will take place at a later date.
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Who's afraid of . . . ? What? Why drawing? And who is afraid of drawing? Not many of the artists featured in this new show in Canonbury Square, surely? Umberto Boccioni was an influential Futurist painter and sculptor, his most famous work was most probably Unique Forms of Continuity...


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New Crochet Classes starting in January!
Have you noticed the recent profusion of crochet? Whether its crocheted mittens at Anthropologie, or the granny square blanket on Amy Farrah Fowler's sofa, crochet is definitely becoming as prevalent as knitting.
To help you get in on this trend, we are once again offering crochet lessons here at Wet Coast Wools! We are very excited to have Astor Tsang as our new instructor. Astor is a talented knitting and crochet instructor who has been teaching Vancouver for over ten years. She is the author of the book Hip Knitting: Stylish Projects for the Absolute Beginner, which you may have seen at KnitCity. You can learn more about Astor on her website www.KnittingAstor.com.
Our first crochet class will be held on Tuesday, January 21st and 28th, from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Click here to read more about the class, and to register!
We will be continuing our knitting classes in January as well. Stay tuned for more information about class titles and schedules - we will start posting them after Christmas.