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Narelle Graham
Narelle Graham has a gift for putting her guests at ease and making the microphone disappear.
The host of daily current affairs program Riverland Today stepped into the presenters chair in April after returning to her home state of South Australia from Wodonga in Victoria.
The move was also a return to the Riverland for the experienced journalist, who became familiar with the regions issues during a stint at a local television newsroom.
Her background in applied science, nutrition, newspaper and television reporting holds her good stead to present a daily current affairs program.
Narelle says the best part of her job is not talking, but listening to her guests and sharing their stories with the Riverland and Mallee.
Also a mum to an active pre-schooler, Narelle has thrown herself into community life and constantly finds her curiosity being piqued by interesting sights she spots on her daily walks.
Narelle graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2000 with a degree in Applied Science.
After working for a year as a nutritionist, she found her natural calling in journalism and cut her teeth working in for newspapers in Robinvale and Mildura.
In 2004 she switched to television news working as the bureau chief for WIN Television at Loxton and Shepparton.
Narelle joined the staff list at Aunty in 2007, working at ABC Goulburn Murray at Wodonga as a producer of the Saturday Breakfast show. She soon moved on to presenting and cross media reporting and had an extensive stint as a journalist in the radio news room.

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The day after I became the first Southern Baptist minister to officiate at a same-sex wedding, Rick Lance of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions and Travis Coleman, Jr., president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, issued a joint statement called "Stand Strong For Biblical Marriage." The statement said that any Southern Baptist minister who officiated at a same-sex wedding risked being "disfellowshipped" from the Southern Baptist Convention. The Madison Baptist Association through which my church, Weatherly Heights Baptist, belongs to the Convention followed with the decision to remove us from fellowship.
Afterwards, I found myself asking, "When did 'biblical marriage' get to be a thing?" And when did "biblical marriage" come to mean opposition to same-sex marriage?
To clarify, I'm not talking about marriage as it appears in the Bible. I'm talking about the cultural movement which became a catch phrase: "biblical marriage."
Lifeway Christian Resources appears to have been a key player in the development of "biblical marriage." Lifeway is the merchandise arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 20 languages and 186 stores, it offers "biblical solutions to life." These solutions are available through Bibles, vacation bible school materials, church music, books, magazines, gifts, videos, music, jewelry, and hundreds of thousands of "commitment cards."
Whether merchandise was cause or effect, Lifeway undertook a focused plan to promote the idea that control over sexuality is fundamental to Christianity. Through a series of campaigns, the focus was expanded demographically and ideologically.
In 1992, Lifeway launched "True Love Waits." The campaign promoted pre-marital sexual abstinence. "Believing that true love waits," teenagers pledged on a commitment card "to be sexually abstinent until I enter a biblical marriage relationship."
In 1993, True Love Waits entered into a partnership with Youth for Christ, a Protestant evangelical organization. With the partnership, the idea of a biblical marriage relationship went well beyond personal sexual matters. It became associated with the outward purposes of evangelism and missions.
In 1997, True Love Waits developed its Crossing Bridges with Purity program. There was a broadening of the message from simple pre-marital sexual abstinence to pre-marital sexual purity which meant such things as not using pornography. "Biblical marriage," while not invoked per se, was being defined. What strikes me about these abstinence programs, however, is that they do not appear to have been associated with anxiety over intimate same-sex relationships.
However, American anxiety over same-sex marriage had also become a thing. In a separate but related development, the United States Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA]. Signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, the landmark act defined marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman" and banned Federal recognition of same-sex marriages. DOMA was the culmination of two decades of state bans on same-sex marriages.
In 1973, Maryland had become the first state to enact such a ban. Through 1994, nearly every other state in the Union followed suit. As if that were not enough, two years after DOMA, Hawaii and Alaska passed state constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage as did twenty-nine other states.
Meanwhile, there were developments in the biblical marriage movement. In 2003, Lifeway Christian Resources expanded the scope of its message to include parents with its True Love Waits Goes Home program. Having previously expanded its demographic focus to include college students, with this campaign Lifeway went well beyond its original task of encouraging teenagers not to engage in pre-marital sexual activity.
Now it was attempting to control the sexual activities of full grown presumably straight men and women inside marriage. Parents committed to abstain from "pornography, impure touching and conversations, and sex outside a biblical marriage relationship from this day forward."
In 2006, there was an interesting turn of events. The Washington, DC based think tank, The Heritage Foundation, took up the cause of marital purity. The Foundation promoted free enterprise, individual liberty, limited government, traditional American values, and a strong national security apparatus. It launched a campaign similar to the True Love Waits campaign through its website familyfacts.org. The language of the website indicates the Foundation's belief that purity in marriage is related to family "safety" and by extension to national security.
The kind of anxiety which could connect sexuality to national security issues in the US is not unprecedented. The Lavender Scare of the 1950s, by which gays in the State Department were considered a threat to national security, was a parallel development of the McCarthy era's "Red Scare" fear of Communists there.
With the scope of both Lifeway's and The Heritage Foundation's programs focusing on adults in the context of marriage, my guess is that it was right about here that "biblical marriage" began to take on the meaning of opposition to same-sex marriage.
The tide began to turn in June, 2013. The US Supreme Court recognized the same-sex marriage of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, invalidating a key part of DOMA. Like dominoes, state bans on same-sex marriage began falling.
Clearly, for those in the Southern Baptist Convention who disfellowshipped my church, "biblical marriage" is a thing. If this inquiry into the origins of "biblical marriage" are borne out in other investigations, the Convention may have to face the fact that those origins do not necessarily trace to the Bible.
Many thanks to Jonathan Harwell of Rollins College who helped research this article.
Rev. Ellin Jimmerson, Ph. D. is an ordained Baptist minister in Huntsville, AL. Her Ph. D. is in 20th century US cultural and intellectual history. She is the director of the award-winning migrant justice documentary, The Second Cooler, narrated by Martin Sheen. You can find her on Twitter @EllinJimmerson and on Facebook at The Second Cooler Fan Page.


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With Valentine's Day just around the corner, one can't help but feel a little romantic. While my husband and I don't generally do anything to celebrate Valentine's Day per se, we do try to plan a nice dinner at home. This year we splurged for T-Bone steaks!
This got me thinking about a present I made 2 years ago for my husband (and me) on our Anniversary–A Date Jar! I came up with 5 categories of dates–free, frugal (under $10), non bank breaker ($10-$25), typical ($25-$50), and splurge ($50+). I came up with 52 dates total–one for every week of the year–but stayed focused mainly in the free and frugal categories. I printed out all of the dates, cut each one out, and glued it to a color coded piece of cardstock. Each color represented a different price category. Then I rolled each piece of paper up, tied it with twine, and placed them in a vase. I'm only telling you this because I HAVE NO PICTURES to show you. I made the date jar before this blog even existed.
The sad part? We used that jar once for a free date. Neither one of us really liked the idea of having our activities (or dates, if you will) already planned out for us, so it just never seemed very practical.
So why am I telling you all of this? Well, I thought I would share some of those free and frugal date ideas I came up with, so if you were in the mood to make a date jar for your honey, you'd at least have a starting point. Who says a date has to cost a lot? In today's electronic world, just powering off, and spending time together, is good enough.
So, without me going on and on and on like I already have, here's 21 free and frugal date night ideas:
1) Play a board game
2) Play a video or computer game
3) Put together a puzzle
4) Have a picnic in the park
5) Go hiking
6) Plan a dream vacation
7) Give each other a back massage
8) Write out a bucket list
9) Make a list of what your dream house would have
10) Play 20 questions
11) Go for a bike ride
12) Go for a walk around the neighborhood and talk about your favorite houses
13) Watch the sunset in a park
14) Watch a movie on Netflix or from your personal collection
15) Have dinner in front of a lit fireplace. If you don't have one, have a candlelit dinner.
Frugal (under $10)
16) Go for a drive in the country (in frugal because using gas costs $$)
17) Plan a dinner menu where each person can only spend $5–get creative!
18) Paint a piece of art together (canvas, block of wood, etc)
19) Rent a movie and pop your own popcorn
20) Make homemade sundaes, only spending $10
21) Go to a used bookstore and each person spend $5. Make it even more interesting and spend the evening reading to each other.
Want even more date night ideas? Check out this post: 20 MORE Free and Frugal Date Night Ideas
And just in case you needed a few visuals for a date jar, here's a few cute ideas I found browsing Pinterest. Remember to pin from the source, and not from this post, if you like their idea!
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Date Night Jar | Southern In Law
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The Hemnes table is marked down from $129.99 to $79.99 for the IKEA Winter Sale in Brooklyn from December 26 to January 19. (Comes in black, yellow, blue and white.) Still too much for girlfriend, who would like to figure out how to make one from cardboard.
The Syntes dinnerware set is marked down from $24.99 to $19.99. (You could almost throw them out as you go instead of washing them.) Comes in black, blue and white.
Different IKEA stores have different sale items. The Brooklyn store had more than most.


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July 11, 2011
Two notable and important child porn sentencing rulings from the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit today handed down a bunch of criminal law opinions, including two dealing with oft-occurring and important federal child porn sentencing issues. Here are links and the basics from the start of the opinions, which were issued by two distinct panels:
US v. Kennedy, No. 10-30065 (9th Cir. July 11, 2011) (available here):
Joshua Osmun Kennedy was convicted by a jury of possessing and transporting child pornography. He appeals his conviction, his sentence, and the district court's order directing him to pay $65,000 in restitution to two victims. We affirm Kennedy's conviction and sentence. Because the government failed to carry its burden of proving that Kennedy's offense conduct proximately caused the losses incurred by the victims, we vacate the restitution order.
US v. Quinzon, No 10-50240 (9th Cir. July 11, 2011) (available here):
Pio James Quinzon was convicted of possession of child pornography. He now appeals a judgment that includes, as a condition of supervised release, a requirement that monitoring technology be installed on his computer-related devices.
The Kennedy ruling appears to be the most notable of this pair because, as it explains, the child porn restitution matter concerns a "difficult issue of statutory interpretation [that] has been considered, but not satisfactorily resolved, by several... circuits. See United States v. Monzel, ___ F.3d ___, 2011 WL 1466365 (D.C. Cir. 2011); In re Amy Unknown, 636 F.3d 190 (5th Cir. 2011); United States v. McDaniel, 631 F.3d 1204 (11th Cir. 2011). (I hope to have a separate post on this issue and the Kennedy ruling once I have time to consume it fully.)
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I do not excuse sex offenses act sympathetic to people who hurt children. That said, restitution exacted from viewers of pornography seems to miss the point. In US v. Kennedy, No. 10-30065 (9th Cir. July 11, 2011), cited above, the imposition of restitution requires at the least a proximal causation of losses incurred by the victim(s) depicted in the images he consumed and transmitted.
It is my view, and studies show, that victims of child sexual abuse suffer life-long damage because of the trauma caused by their abuser. While these wounds may be re-opened when a victim learns that their images were consumed by a third party offender, I fail to see the logical progression that shows how this offender caused measurable losses or damages not pre-existing.
If possible, I believe the best solution to the restitution issue would differ. If the original abuser were charged restitution of $X,XXX for every person convicted of viewing images of the victims whom they originally assaulted and uploaded onto the internet, the punishment exacted would have a much greater deterring effect to actual abusers, and the victims would be satisfied by restitution to a better extent.
I make no defense of viewers of child pornography. However, these consumers and traders are not the perpetrators of the child sexual abuse depicted in the files they possess. It may be a fringe belief, but molesting a child, then capturing and uploading the images of these horrendous acts is a far worse crime than simply viewing such files. Why, then, are the consumers often punished to a FAR greater extent than the originators themselves? (See Quinzon above: 84 Months incarcerated followed by 30 Years of Supervision)
Exact restitution from the original abusers. Make the original abusers split the incarceration time with the consumers of their depictions of abuse. Wouldn't this make more sense? I realize that this isn't so much possible as abusers are charged primarily within state law, and child pornography viewers are charged increasingly as federal crimes (like the cases here), so these ideas cross jurisdictional boundaries. However, hammering the easily caught/prosecuted pornography offender shows the laziness of prosecutors, and reveals the fact that convictions and sentence-lengths are more important to the DOJ than actually preventing these crimes in the first place.
I openly invite responses to my ideas here.
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Welcome to the Finance & Commerce Experts Forum on financing mixed-income housing development across Minnesota. This is the second of two forums on the topic; the first was called "How to make mixed-income housing happen." For the second forum, we brought top local experts together for a conversation about how they navigate complex market conditions, intricate financing frameworks,
and the potential for new tools.
Click the image at the right to read an edited transcript of the financing discussion, moderated by
Finance & Commerce Editor Casey Selix. The panelists dove into a range of issues, including which incentives are the most effective for building mixed-income projects, how lenders sometimes hold up innovation, why Section 8 plays a critical role, and how energy initiatives may become more prominent in this type of development. Some of the participants' comments have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Meet the experts:
Michael Krych is a partner at Minneapolis-based BKV Group, where he focuses on urban design and development for housing and mixed-use projects. He led design efforts on high-profile Twin Cities projects including Flux, Mill District City Apartments and Schmidt Artists Lofts. He works with communities and developers to build consensus and ensure that projects work for all stakeholders.
David Mullen is senior vice president and director of public finance at Minneapolis-based Dougherty & Co., a financial services firm that works extensively in public finance. The group finances affordable housing projects using state and federal low-income housing tax credits and is among the largest underwriters of multifamily housing developments in the Midwest. Mullen formerly served as a vice president at the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund.
Chris Sherman oversees all multifamily assets for Minneapolis-based developer Sherman & Associates. He focuses on optimizing the functionality and ensuring the profitability of properties. Sherman's portfolio holds more than $2 billion in assets, and includes more than 8,500 rental units. The company is a long-term owner and manager that targets affordable housing projects, but also works in the market-rate, mixed-use, hotel and commercial markets across the Midwest.
Elizabeth Flannery is president of the Community Housing Development Corp., a Minneapolis-based affordable housing developer and owner. The organization, funded by a mix of government contracts and residents' rents, has several dozen multifamily properties in its portfolio, which together comprise more than 3,500 units. It has purchased Section 8 units across Minnesota with an eye toward maintaining long-term affordable options for residents. During its more than 20-year history, the group says it has never sold a property or failed to complete a project.
John Stern is a shareholder of Winthrop & Weinstine, working out of its Minneapolis office. He is a member of the firm's tax credit and real estate practice groups, where he focuses on mixed-use developments, as well as multifamily and senior housing projects. He helps clients with transactions that involve tax credits, tax-exempt bonds, and tax increment financing. He also assists in lining up financing and debt facilities, and nailing down local government approvals.
Andrea Brennan serves as director of housing policy and development for the city of Minneapolis. She leads the city's housing development activities and oversees implementation of the Community Planning and Economic Development's housing policies. Previously, she was director of community and economic development for the Dakota County Community Development Agency and deputy executive director for the Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
Owen Metz is vice president and project partner at Dominium, a Plymouth-based developer and manager of affordable housing. He originates and oversees new project development and financing, as well as acquisitions. In his work at Dominium, Metz has also focused on project feasibility, design and construction elements, and negotiations with lenders and investors. With more than 27,000 units across 23 states under its management, Dominium is among the nation's largest affordable housing owners.


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There is a good chance that you have had the term "pillar content" if you have had any involvement in creating your own blog or website, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you truly understand what it is and how it can benefit you.
What is pillar content exactly?
Pillar content is the foundation that holds up the structure of your blog – and keeps it from collapsing around you. This type of content typically stands the test of time and provides the reader with a thorough overview of a particular topic within your area of focus.
As an example, assume you are writing a blog about motorcycles. Your pillar content might be a few posts along the lines of: 1) how to winterize your motorcycle; 2) three tools every rider needs to have; 3) top ten places to ride. These are articles that you can reference time and time again and will often be linked to frequently from other blogs and websites as well.
So how can pillar content benefit you?
Become an authority
When you first begin your blog – or any time for that matter – writing pillar content will establish your name within your niche. Once people begin to recognize your pillar content, they will link to you and send traffic your way. More and more people will find your website via search engines as well as mentions on social media sites and links from other blogs.
You will become the authority on your topic.
Once you become an authority, you will become the go-to resource for that topic and people will come to you for information. You will form connections with your readers – your community – and they in turn will continue to pass along your name and blog to others.
As your name and authority continue to grow, the sky is the limit – book deals, membership websites, training courses, and many other opportunities will be available to you because you are an authority in your niche.
Another benefit of writing pillar content is that you will continue to receive a steady stream of traffic from these pieces of content – even well after they were written.
Remember earlier when I mentioned that pillar content is like the foundation that prevents your blog from collapsing?
Consider the following example.
Early in 2009 (almost two years from today) I announced to my community that the cost to pursue my passion had become too steep and I needed to step away. Over the course of 2009 and 2010 I published a total of 49 posts. Considering that this blog has well over 500 posts, writing less than 10% over the last two years was a significant decrease in activity.
One would expect that my blog would have shriveled up and died a slow death.
Quite the contrary. As a result of having pillar content that continues to bring in traffic, there has been a steady stream of traffic over the two years that the blog remained mostly dormant. Just how much traffic? Well, here you go:
- 111,200 visitors
- 171,454 page views
Not too shabby considering I only wrote 32 posts in 2009 and 17 posts in 2010.
The pillar content prevented this blog from collapsing into the abyss of abandoned blogs. Not only that but the blog continued to generate revenue during that time as well. Writing pillar content doesn't mean you should leave your blog idle, but this example does show that pillar content can carry your blog when needed and launch your blog to new heights when leveraged properly.
Where are your pillars?
Whether you are just starting your blog or have been writing for awhile now, it is never too late to create outstanding pillar content. Take a look at your niche and ask yourself what you can write that will help people interested in your topic and will stand the test of time.
For more information on how to write great pillar content, here are three authority sources on pillar content that provide a wealth of information:
- How To Write Great Blog Content – The Pillar Article by Yaro Starak
- Killer Flagship Content (free eBook) by Chris Garrett
- How to Create Cornerstone Content That Google Loves by Brian Clark
See what I mean?
These three guys have written great pillar content that I have just linked to while writing about pillar content. Now that is a great example of being an authority on your topic and building sustainability as each of these posts is 3-4 years old.
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Stephen H. Smith - President
Steve Smith is the President of EB5 Coast To Coast LLC, and the owner of Steve Smith Development LLC, with a 30+ year track record of commercial real estate projects spread throughout the Seattle and Puget Sound region.
Mr. Smith's success is due to his careful analysis of each step in the development process—from market research and site selection to design, construction, marketing and customer service. Through the years, he has delivered high-quality apartment, condominium and mixed-use projects that have commanded premium pricing. In 2005 he entered the senior apartments market by teaming up with SHAG (the Senior Housing Assistance Group) to build the 206-unit Cedar Park apartments in Seattle's Lake City neighborhood, and continues to build other senior apartment projects with SHAG. In the aggregate, his portfolio includes the development and/or construction of more than 4,000 residential units valued in excess of $1 billion.
Mr. Smith earned a Bachelor of Art's Degree from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
More information can be seen at www.stevesmithdev.com
Sante Santhanam Chary, JD LLM - Partner
Mr. Chary is founder and Chief Executive Officer of US Physician Resources International, and CEO of IVY CEO-Consulting Company of IVY League CEO's. Being a unique immigrant growing as a kid in Chennai, India he dreamed of going to the USA and meeting a U.S. President at the White House. His perseverance and passion got him to meet SEVEN U.S. Presidents: Carter, Ford, Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton, Bush (43), and Obama. For more than a decade, he has focused and gained expertise in promoting U.S.-India partnership programs and is presently involved in a campaign to commemorate "US-India Partnership Day," as a mark of celebration of the two largest democracies in the world in the U.S. Congress. As a proud Indian-American, Mr. Chary has devoted his non-professional efforts to forging ties between the U.S. and India. He is a recipient of the "One Person Makes a Difference Award" from the 100,000-member AOTA in Washington DC. He is also a registered Lobbyist, and a Charter Member of GDIACC/USICOC in Dallas. Currently, he serves as an Advisor to the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) with 65,000 Indian physicians in the USA. He represented Plano as an Ambassador of the American Cancer Society, is an Officer of the Harvard Business School Alum Association and is involved in various local community activities. His goal is to give back as much as he can to the community. Mr. Chary is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law and The Harvard Business School.
To reach Mr. Chary please call him at 214-597-1571.
Disclaimer: Mr. Chary is a Partner of EB5 Coast To Coast only; he does not serve in a managing position of any of EB-5 Coast To Coast's regional centers.
Mark Raabe - Senior Vice President
Mr. Raabe has been directly involved with the development of over 5,000 multi-family units in the Puget Sound area since 1989. Beginning in 1989, he was the CFO of Polygon Northwest Company, a single-family and multi-family developer. Polygon Northwest was subsequently sold to William Lyon Companies for $500M. From 1991-2003, he was President of The Fortune Group, where he worked with Steve Smith, which was the most prolific developer of multi-family housing in Seattle at the time. Since 2003, he has been a consultant and investor in numerous multi-family developments in the greater Seattle area. He has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1980.
Neil O'Connor - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. O'Connor is a versatile leader with operational and global financial experience in organizations ranging from $20m to $3b+, leading 80+ staff with complex P&L structures. He is a creative and inclusive problem solver with demonstrated ability to develop revenue and expense strategies, translate strategies into action plans and effect execution cross-functionality to turn around a business or accelerate its growth. Mr. O'Connor is adept at organizing, recruiting, retaining, inspiring and motivating large and diverse teams. He drives data aided decisions and leads change required for optimizing shareholder value.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of Cape Town, GDA Master of Accounting and Finance
Languages: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Spanish
Nancy Treder - Marketing Director
Nancy joined the company in 2018. She is a communications strategist with a passion for shaping narratives through community relations, integrated marketing, public relations and social media to create storytelling opportunities leading to news coverage that supports operational and business goals. Treder earned a BA in Communications at the University of La Verne with additional studies at Georgetown University, and the University of Washington. Treder is a 12-year US Army veteran where she served as a photojournalist, military police officer and press secretary.
Diana Harris - Creative Marketing & Web Technology
Diana joined the company in 2012, and is responsible for overseeing marketing and technology services; creating and maintaining company websites, landing pages, marketing and advertising material, including magazine ads featured in EB-5 Magazine, IIUSA Business Journal, and other magazine and newspaper publications. Additionally, Diana manages the travel arrangements of team members who attend company sponsored conferences, along with preparing marketing material and displays presented at the conferences. Diana attended Seattle Pacific University, City University and Cascadia Community College where she studied computer programming, project management and web development. She's a Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society member, and is esteemed with both a President's Honor Scholastic Achievement Award, and Faculty Honor's Award.
Thomas S. Dreyer - Representative
Mr. Dreyer has 29 years of experience in U.S. commercial real estate finance and currently serves as manager of CN Capital, LLC, and is a Principal of EB-5 Coast to Coast. CN Capital, LLC is a U.S.-based real estate advisory firm that works with real estate developers seeking capital for large scale commercial developments across the U.S. Previously, Mr. Dreyer served as Managing Director with FBR Capital Markets ("FBR"), an institutional research, brokerage and investment-banking firm. Mr. Dreyer was a co-founder of FBR's real estate investment-banking group in 1994 and was involved in over $2 billion in real estate transactions before his departure in 1999. Mr. Dreyer returned to FBR in late 2006, again as a Managing Director. From 1999 through 2006, Mr. Dreyer founded and managed Trilogy Capital, a $100 million U.S.-based hedge fund with a focus on real estate related securities. Mr. Dreyer began his career as a financial analyst with LaSalle Partners, now Jones Lang LaSalle in 1988. Mr. Dreyer Graduated from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in 1988.
Andrew Ghim - Representative
Mr. Ghim has 37 years of banking, business consulting and entrepreneurship; VP of First Interstate Bank Seoul Branch; Manager of North Asia region for National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia; Manager of Asia Pacific and Australasia regions for Riyad Bank in Singapore, and CEO and board member for a Seattle-based Asian American Community bank.
His personal experience of immigrating from Korea to Brazil, Singapore, USA and in-depth understanding of the social fabrics of overseas Korean communities make him uniquely qualified to serve as a consult with EB-5 applicants seeking advice in settling into their newly adopted homes in foreign lands. BA in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, MBA in international finance from University of California, Irvine, CA.
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, English and a little bit Arabic and German.


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Today @ Colorado State has been replaced by SOURCE. This site exists as an archive of Today @ Colorado State stories between January 1, 2009 and September 8, 2014.
July 2, 2013
By Rachel Griess
Victoria Frank had one of those moments: imagining the sick person on an airplane sending pathogens airborne through a sneeze or cough, and triggering a domino effect of infectious disease that could spark an epidemic.
The scenario inspired her review of research literature and led to an analysis titled, "Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Outbreak in the United States." Frank's project was one of two from the CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and one of just a handful campuswide, to claim Highest Honors at the 2013 Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity showcase.
"I think a bacterium is awesome," said Frank, a senior in microbiology. "It's amazing how something so little can have such great impact on human health."
Keifer Walsh, who graduated this spring with a bachelor's degree in microbiology, was the other student from the college to win CSU's highest acclaim at the research showcase for a project probing aspects of degenerative brain disease.
The two microbiology students had projects deemed among the best of 366 total writing, research, art and service-learning projects displayed at CURC in late April.
The two represent a tradition of academic excellence in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences: During the past five years alone, students in the college have accounted for less than 3 percent of the CSU undergraduate population, yet have earned an average of 20 percent of all CURC distinction awards.
Walsh said he was paired while still in high school with his advisor, James Bamburg, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and has worked in Bamburg's lab ever since.
"Since freshman year, I've researched neuroscience, particularly oxidative stress and causative factors. It seems like the further I get in my research, the more questions I have," said Walsh, who is continuing his lab work this summer as a graduate student in cell and molecular biology. His CURC research poster was titled, "Cofilin-Actin Rods form in Response to Oxidative Stress and Neural Inflammation as a Precursor to Neurodegenerative Disease."
As freshmen, Walsh and Frank both entered the CSU Honors Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, and in the program have been expected to participate in CURC, which showcases undergraduate research and fosters academic partnerships among students and faculty.
Most of the CURC exhibits are poster presentations. Yet Frank said she wanted to take a different approach this spring and hoped to present her analysis in a way that might be relevant to a broad audience.
Her 43-page investigation of emergency preparedness for the H1N1 flu outbreak was developed from countless hours of research and review of more than 50 articles, academic journals, reports and government papers.
"I spend my summers at the Colorado Serum Company doing research on bacteria," Frank said. "With my mom, a chemist, and my dad, a doctor, I've talked science my whole life. I know how exciting it can be once you get away from the jargon and charts. For CURC, I wanted to present my ideas in a way more people would understand."
Before Walsh's project won highest honors at CURC this spring, it was awarded Best Undergraduate Poster for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in fall 2012. He also was invited to present his project and ideas during a prion conference in Fort Collins, an experience that helped Walsh understand connections among scientific disciplines.
"That's the amazing thing about this project. It isn't even about prions," Walsh said. "But one discovery or conclusion creates new possibilities and new questions. When I began my research, I could have never guessed it would lead me to what I am learning today."
Walsh now has his sights set on medical school, while Frank will complete her undergraduate microbiology degree in spring 2014 and plans to pursue graduate studies in public health.


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We had a great time in Winston-Salem. It is a very cute and fun place, and a welcome break from the packing. We had a fun weekend visit from Danal. We went to to opera and to the strangest house in the world. Brian enjoyed working with Piedmont Opera, and sang beautifully. It really was a great show. (I am still a bit brain dead from moving out of our condo yesterday and am not thinking very well. That means I should probably stop.)
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Duke is cancelling all Visiting Student rotations for Academic Year 2020-2021. We will update our website when this restriction has been lifted. Feel free to contact Scott Campbell at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.
The Visiting Medical Student Program enriches both Duke University School of Medicine and the visiting medical student. Applicants must be in good academic standing, receive academic credit by the home school for the visiting student experience, and be actively progressing toward a Doctor of Medicine degree at an affiliated LCME accredited institution, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at an affiliated COCA accredited institution, or an approved/affiliated international institution. All visiting student requests must be approved by the Visiting Student Coordinator. Visiting medical students must adhere to the Duke School of Medicine academic calendar.
Affiliation Agreement:
Duke University School of Medicine requires an approved affiliation agreement with your home institution to allow for participation in the visiting medical student program and is required to be approved prior to application to the visiting medical student program. All requests to establish said agreement must be submitted by an appropriate home school representative only,via email, to Scott Campbell Visiting Student Coordinator, Office of the Registrar, firstname.lastname@example.com. The request should include the following:
Official Name of Institution / School of Medicine
Location of Institution / School of Medicine
Type of Program (ie: MD, DO, MBBS, etc)
Length of Program
Compelling educational reason to establish agreement
Home Representative and/or Institution contact information
Note: The affiliation agreement is the controlling factor for participation in the visiting medical student program at Duke University School of Medicine. Please check our listing of institutions with existing approved affiliation agreements.
At this time we are unable to accept requests for establishing affiliation agreements with international institutions. In addition, we are currently unable to accept visiting medical student applications for the foreseeable future from students enrolled at international institutions with whom we do have approved agreements. Please note that should this moratorium be lifted, it will be noted as such on this website.
Please note that we are also unable to approve affiliation agreements or accept applications for a student(s) enrolled in a medical school / institution located in any Caribbean nation or other nation as noted on the listing. Please see attached non-inclusive listing.
Application information for MD and DO students
Duke University School of Medicine uses VSAS, the Visiting Student Application Service, to receive visiting medical student applications for students enrolled at US or Puerto Rico LCME accredited or COCA accredited Osteopathic institutions. To apply, please complete and submit a VSAS application for your preferred electives and dates. VSAS applications must be submitted no later than 60 days prior (no exceptions) to the elective period start date as noted in the elective catalog. Please note that we do have additional institutional requirements as noted in VSAS. Applications submitted with missing supplemental documentation will not be reviewed nor will the applicant be contacted regarding missing requirements. Incomplete applications will be denied via VSAS. For more information on VSAS, please visit or contact VSAS at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Medical Student Visiting Clinical Scholars Program
In support of our intentional commitment to foster a culture of diversity, excellence and inclusion at Duke University School of Medicine, we offer the Medical Student Visiting Clinical Scholars Program. Medical students interested in applying for the program should review the information regarding clerkship prerequisites and other application requirements, and then follow the instructions to complete all forms. Approval of the VSAS application is a prerequisite for consideration of an application for the Scholars Program. Please note this program is not available to students enrolled at international medical schools.
Medical Student Visiting Clinical Scholars Application
Applicant Information for International and Canadian (LCME) medical students
Please note that all applications and supporting documentation are to be provided electronically to the Visiting Student Coordinator. Applications submitted with missing supplemental/supporting documentation will not be reviewed nor will the applicant be contacted regarding missing requirements.
Program Information for International Applicants
International Application Requirements
International Application - (Word document)
International Application - (PDF)
Requirements Checklist
Mandatory: Student Health Fee and Student Medical Insurance Program information for international visiting medical students.
All approved and scheduled visiting international medical participating with an F1, J1, B1/B2 or WB visa will be assessed the mandatory Student Health Fee (SHF) at the prevailing rate for the semester of enrollment. Please note the fee will be assessed for each 4 week period of enrollment based on the start/end date of the approved elective period. Should these dates not fall on the first and/or last day of the month, the assessed SHF will be for a minimum of 2 months for each 4 week elective.
In addition, all approved and scheduled visiting international medical participating with an F1, J1, B1/B2 or WB visa, participation in the Student Medical Insurance Program is mandatory. The student will be assessed the Student Medical Insurance Program premium (SMIP) at the prevailing rate as set by the insurance provider. Please note the fee will be assessed for each 4 week period of enrollment based on the start/end date of the approved elective period. Should these dates not fall on the first and/or last day of the month, the assessed SMIP premium will be for a minimum of 2 months for each 4 week elective. Fees for SMIP and the Student Health Fee will be posted to your student account via ACES. You may find additional information regarding the topics online: http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/studenthealth/international-students-scholars
Participation Requirements: Information for all visiting medical student applicants who are approved and scheduled for electives
All applicants who are approved and scheduled for an elective(s) will be required to have all participation requirements completed no later than 15 days prior to the approved elective start date via CastleBranch:
Criminal Background Check
11 Panel Drug Screen
Duke University Mandatory Immunization Requirements (via Medical Document Manager) **
Current Influenza Immunization (via Medical Document Manager)
Current BLS (Basic Life Support) Certification (via Medical Document Manager)
Proof of Health Insurance Coverage (via Medical Document Manager)
These requirements will also be referenced in the acceptance letter and email provided to approved and scheduled students along with Duke specific information on how to establish your profile with CastleBranch. All costs for these required services via CastleBranch are the responsibility of the approved visiting student. These requirements for participation may only be fulfilled/completed via CastleBranch. MD and DO students will utilize the DU40 document and international students will utilize the DU45 document to establish your profile and fulfill participation requirements.
** International students only utilizing the DU45 documentation will be required to undertake TB testing in the US per institutional requirements. TB questionnaire (page 3 only) should be provided directly to the Duke Student Health Center to confirm compliance or determine need for additional testing. TB questionnaire should be provided via email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Electives, Grading and Evaluation Information
Elective Availability
Electives/course descriptions may be reviewed by accessing the Fourth Year Electives booklet online. Please review the attached document for electives which are not available to approved visiting medical students. Visiting Medical Students are not eligible to take electives that are less than 4 weeks, 4 credits.
Evaluations and Final Grades:
Only the Duke Clinical Evaluation will be completed and provided to the visiting medical student and their home school. Final grades will adhere to the Duke grading scale for 4th year electives as follows:
- H - Honors
- HP - High Pass
- P - Pass
- F - Fail
Should an evaluation be provided, there will be no signature on the form(s) as final grades are submitted via a secured electronic grading application. As for noted evaluation criteria and / or comments, we strongly encourage, though do not require, faculty to provide information on student performance either by noting performance criteria, providing narrative comments or a combination of both. Duke faculty will not be required to complete a home school evaluation if provided by the student or the institution.
Elective Calendar Information
Visiting students are required to follow the Duke elective calendar.
Spring 2020
January 06, 2020 – February 01, 2020 (section 41, 1st 4 week elective period of semester)
February 03, 2020 – February 29, 2020 (section 42, 2nd 4 week elective period of semester)
March 30, 2020 – April 25, 2020 (section 44, 4th 4 week elective period of semester)
Summer 2020
June 15, 2020 – July 11, 2020 (section 43, 3rd 4 week elective period of semester)
July 13, 2020 – August 08, 2020 (section 44, 4th 4 week elective period of semester)
Fall 2020
August 24, 2020 – September 18, 2020 (section 41, 1st 4 week elective period of semester)
September 21, 2020 – October 17, 2020 (section 42, 2nd 4 week elective period of semester)
October 19, 2020 – November 14, 2020 (section 43, 3rd 4 week elective period of semester)
November 16, 2020 - December 12, 2020 (section 44, 4th 4 week elective period of semester)
Spring 2021
January 04, 2021 – January 30, 2021 (section 41, 1st 4 week elective period of semester)
February 01, 2021 – February 27, 2021 (section 42, 2nd 4 week elective period of semester)
March 29, 2021 – April 24, 2021 (section 44, 4th 4 week elective period of semester)
General Information
Emergency Contact Information
Blood/Body Fluid Exposure Hotline: On Site 115, Off Site 684-8115(e.g. needle sticks)
Duke Police Department: 684-2444
Emergency from Duke Phone: 911
Severe Weather Policy for School of Medicine
The School of Medicine will handle the cancelation of classes in the following manner:
All School of Medicine students will follow the Provost's decision in regards to cancelation of classes. If classes are canceled, students should not report for any medical school activities (classes, labs, clerkships, clinical assignments, etc.) Course directors, mentors, and faculty are aware of this policy so that individual decisions should not be made.
These decisions can be determined by calling 684-4636 (INFO) or by visiting the School of Medicine, Office of the Registrar's website, registrar.mc.duke.edu, the DukeAlert site, http://emergency.duke.edu, or http://www.duke.edu/today/.
Please note that 684-INFO and http://emergency.duke.edu are considered the official communication for inclement weather announcements.
Internship Interviews
It is the recommendation of the School of Medicine that a student miss no more than three days in any four week course/clerkship/elective. It is, however, at the discretion of the course instructor to determine the number of allowable days a student can miss for the purpose of interviewing. The student must give the instructor of the effected course sufficient notice of his or her intention to be away for an interview so that a mutual determination can be made as to the best time to be absent. This ensures that the learning experience in that course is in no way jeopardized. Students must confer with the instructor to complete missed time and work in a timely manner. Students must complete missed time within the same semester that they were enrolled in the course in which they are making up time.
Shadow or Observer Experiences
Duke University School of Medicine does not have an established program which permits periods of shadowing and/or observership for medical students or medical graduates. Experiences such as or similar to shadowing and/or observership for a medical student or medical graduate may be possible, but would be approved and coordinated through a specific department (ie: Pediatrics, Medicine, etc). You may wish to contact the department in which you have interest to inquire of such opportunities. You will find contact information for departments on the web, www.medschool.duke.edu.
Email is the official mode of communication for the visiting medical student program. Notification of application acceptance and/or denial will be provided via email. Official acceptance letter and supporting documentation will be provided via email notification to all approved and scheduled students. Failure of approved visiting medical students to provide requirements by stated deadlines stipulated in the letter of acceptance and/or email acceptance notification will be withdrawn from the scheduled elective(s) and the visiting medical student program.
Application approval does not assure that elective scheduling will be confirmed, nor does it assure that you will be placed in your preferred elective(s) as all scheduling is contingent on space availability. Elective scheduling for approved visiting medical students will take place only after registration for the same elective period(s) has been completed for Duke medical students. Registration periods are subject to change and as such, may result in a delay of scheduling for approved visiting medical students. Applicants should direct questions to the Visiting Student Coordinator.
FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions regarding the visiting medical student program.
Duke Technical Standards: Approved and scheduled visiting medical students are expected meet Duke Technical Standards as outlined in the Duke University School of Medicine Bulletin.
Visiting medical students are expected to adhere to the same rules, guidelines and Professional Code of Conduct as Duke University School of Medicine degree candidates.
Duke University prohibits discrimination and harassment and provides equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex or age. Duke's non-discrimination and harassment policies can be found at https://web.duke.edu/equity/harassment.html
Reporting Mistreatment
If you feel you have been subjected to negative or offensive behavior while on your rotation at Duke Medicine, we have two ways you can report the mistreatment:
- Contact the Advisory Dean and Director of Student Affairs, Dr. Caroline Haynes at email@example.com or 919-684-6528
- Anonymously report information by completing the fourth year clinical evaluation form which will be sent to you at the end of your rotation
Temporary Housing Information
off-campus housing website: https://offcampushousing.duke.edu/
DukeList: www.dukelist.duke.edu
RotatingRoom: www.rotatingroom.com
Millennium Hotel Durham 2800 Campus Walk Avenue Durham NC 27705 telephone: 919-383-8575 fax: 919-383-6035 email: firstname.lastname@example.com www.millenniumhotels.com
Extended Stay America: Durham-University-Ivy Creek Boulevard location, http://www.extendedstayamerica.com/hotels/nc/raleigh-durham/university-i...
Visiting Physician Assistant Program Information
Information on the visiting Physician Assistant Program may be found on the website of the Duke Physician Assistant Program
Visiting Student Program Coordinator Contact Information
Visiting Student Coordinator
Scott Campbell, Office of the Registrar
Room 0386, 3rd Floor Seeley G Mudd Building
8 Searle Center Drive
Box 3878 DUMC
Durham NC 27710
Tel (919) 684-8042
Main Office (919) 684-2304
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Whether your kid is anxious about his emerging identity or not, though, you have a decent understanding of what makes your child so special. Unfortunately, your kid is unlikely to listen if you impart your insight through lecturing or pleading.
Parenting for your unique child
Thankfully, you actually can create an environment that encourages uniqueness and confidence during this crucial time in your preteen's development. How you do so depends on your personality, the personality of your kid and the closeness of your relationship.
Dr. Jane Greer, New York-based relationship expert and psychotherapist, suggests fostering your child's originality by supporting his or her interests in low-risk ways, like personal tastes and preferences. "Support self-expression by letting your child make choices about the foods he eats, the way he wears his hair or the clothes he picks out," she explained. Greer further suggested that parents should allow children to pursue their hobbies without judgment, and even have free reign over their room decor like posters, paint colors and furniture. All of these options allow kids to play with their uniqueness without any risks.
It's also a great idea to find a role model — in real life or the media — who shares your child's interests. This is particularly useful if your child is teased for his uniqueness, or if he questions his self-worth. "My son came home annoyed that kids at school were calling him a nerd," said mom Barbara Frazell, "so I gave him a list of famous nerds like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Steve Jobs."
Words of caution
Remember, your role as a supportive parent isn't to control your child's interests and tastes. Whatever you do, don't devalue, ridicule or compare your child's interests to those of his peers in an effort to shape his uniqueness. "For example," said Dr. Greer, "don't say something like, 'Why do you have to play sports? Why can't you be in band like your brother?'" This type of communication may result in a desired behavior, but will leave your child feeling insecure and uncertain.
A little brevity never hurt, either. "I would always tell my girls that it would be weird if they didn't feel awkward," said mom Julie Davis. "After all, isn't that what middle school is all about?"
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How to Lose Weight Prior to Getting Married
We understand how important it is that you are happy with the way you look and feel for your big day.
This article will give you some excellent tips and tricks to help you combat your desired weight loss goals before the wedding.
Drink Water
One of the fastest ways to lose weight before your wedding day is to replace all your unhealthy sugary drinks with just plain water.
When we say sugary drinks we mean soda, coffee, juice, alcohol, and even flavored water. It is commonly advised by most health and wellbeing experts that you should drink 8 glasses (8 ounce per glass)per day.
If you follow this rule, you should not really be thirsty for the other unhealthy sugary drinks we mentioned.
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The New York City Transit Authority (NYCT)—part of the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)—released a report last month pointing to a rapid increase in fare evasion by passengers on the city's transit system, the largest in the US. According to the official figures, 208,000 subway riders do not pay their fare on a given day, along with another 348,000 bus passengers. Both figures are reported to have increased about 100,000 since 2013. The subway fare evasion rate has increased to 3.2 percent, compared to 1.8 percent in recent years, according to the MTA. The rate on the buses is much larger, about 16 percent, with many riders using the back doors to enter without paying.
The transit agency is using the fare evasion report to justify or deflect anger over a fare increase that is scheduled for March, one of a regular series that have taken place at two-year intervals. The stage is also being set for a law-and-order crackdown, one that will be aimed at pitting workers and sections of the middle class against the poor.
In fact, the official figures should be taken as only a rough estimate, and the MTA may be seeking to exaggerate fare evasion for its own purposes. The claims are substantiated only by an eight-slide presentation with little information on methodology. It is unclear how the decline in ridership has been factored in, and the data for other years are from the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, while 2018 figures are based on third-quarter numbers.
Whatever the precise level, however, there is little doubt that fare evasion has been increasing, and that should come as no surprise. Millions of workers in the city have been totally left behind by the frenzied real estate boom and the growth of the upper middle class in Manhattan and a handful of neighborhoods in other boroughs. The working poor, not to mention the unemployed, face difficulty in paying the $2.75 fare while juggling the costs of other necessities like food, housing and health care.
There is also barely suppressed anger over the obvious gulf between the conditions of the working-class majority and the conspicuous consumption of the very wealthy and the upper middle class. A 2016 Economic Policy Institute report found that the top 1 percent of people in the state accumulated 45 times the income of the bottom 99 percent. Income inequality is most extreme in Manhattan, along with adjoining sections of Brooklyn and Queens.
The financial aristocracy and the layers closest to it have the means to avoid public transit entirely, opting for taxis and rideshare apps. This gulf is epitomized in the helipad that Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and the world's richest man, will have when Amazon's second headquarters is constructed in Long Island City, Queens.
Under these conditions hard-pressed passengers are increasingly indignant at having to pay for inconsistent, delayed and dilapidated service. Almost 30 percent of the MTA's rolling stock is over 30 years old, and there were 60,000 delays in 2017—up from 23,000 in 2012. Bus ridership declined by 16.5 percent from 2008 to 2017.
The MTA's response, beyond a repair and upgrade program that could best be described as too little, too late, is to set the stage for a law-and-order crackdown. New York City Transit Authority President Andy Byford, who is responsible for the MTA's buses and subways, is leading the way.
Recent weeks have seen statements from Byford, accompanied by articles in the New York Times, blaming the increase in fare evasion for the $1.6 billion deficit the MTA expects to face in three years. The MTA's stated amount for lost revenue this year is $215 million—less than 14 percent of its projected annual deficit, and less than 1.3 percent its current annual operating budget.
In comparison, estimates for necessary upgrades and repairs for the subways run into the billions of dollars, with one recent report from an MTA task force estimating $60 billion. Byford's own Fast Forward plan has been given a price tag of $40 billion.
When reporters asked Byford why he was focusing on fare evasion when it makes up only a small fraction of the MTA's budget, he responded, "I've got to be fair." In other words, he is telling transit riders to direct their anger at those who don't pay the fare, rather than at the Wall Street billionaires and their servants in government who are responsible both for the city's high poverty rate as well as its decaying transit system.
Lawrence Schwartz, an MTA board member close to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, said, "We need to send a very loud and clear message that we may need you to pay more, but we're going to improve the reliability and the performance and we're going to crack down on the people that somehow have been scamming the system and getting away with not paying."
These officials, along with the media, have begun harking back to the 1990s, when then-Police Commissioner William Bratton pioneered the "broken windows" method of policing, criminalizing the poor and targeting violations such as fare evasion.
Byford has specifically blamed the reported spike in fare evasion on the 2017 decision by the Manhattan district attorney's office to stop criminally prosecuting people who evade paying the fare, instead issuing summonses calling for a fine of $100.
The District Attorney, in defense of this policy, issued a fact sheet claiming that the policy of substituting summonses for arrests has actually been cost-effective. "…[S]tops for turnstile jumping have gone up by 25%, because the new policy has actually freed up police officers to stop more offenders," according to the Gothamist. The DA's office also claimed that its policy had saved the city money, since issuing a $100 ticket avoids the cost of criminally prosecuting someone on fare evasion charges.
There have also been claims that crackdowns on fare evasion fall disproportionately on minority New Yorkers; 89 percent of those arrested at subway turnstiles in the first half of 2018 were black or Hispanic. This figure points to the social crisis facing the poorest sections of the working class. The disparity, as in similar indices, is primarily due to the higher levels of poverty, unemployment and low-wage jobs.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was first elected in 2013 on the slogan of a "Tale of Two Cities" and a promise to reverse inequality, now claims the mantle of law and order. He even opposed the DA's decision to halt fare evasion arrests, saying at the time, "There's no way in hell anyone should be evading the fare. That would create chaos."
De Blasio's steady rightward trajectory proves yet again the impossibility of defending the social rights of the working class through the Democratic Party. The mayor and the transit bosses will do nothing about inequality because the system they represent requires it.
The greatest fear of de Blasio, in contrast to his phony campaign rhetoric from a few years ago, is that the social anger that finds a distorted reflection in fare evasion will link up with working-class opposition nationally, reflected in the movements of teachers, Amazon, auto workers and millions of others, which are in turn connected to recent anti-austerity protests in France, Tunisia, Sudan and elsewhere.
The necessary resources exist to repair the transit system, guarantee good jobs for transit workers and provide free or low-cost public transit for all. These resources can only be secured, however, through the political struggles of the working class, armed with a socialist and internationalist program.


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Weekly WordPress News: $225 Theme Experiments and Official WordPress Themes
This week, WP Tavern has an interesting look at the behind the scenes motivations behind PixelGrade's decision to use ThemeForest's author driven pricing to offer a $225 theme.
There are also two interesting discussions of official WordPress themes – one for WordPress.com, and one for the WordPress.org plugin repository.
As usual, I've also got some helpful tutorials covering things like automating WordPress setup, resetting your WordPress site, and getting the most from magazine themes.
And finally, you can check out some details on Let's Encrypt and their free SSL offer.
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- Why PixelGrade is Experimenting with a $225 WordPress Theme on Themeforest – an interesting look at the pricing logic behind PixelGrade's $225 theme.
- New WordPress Default Theme Twenty Seventeen Merged into 4.7 – WordPress 4.7 will ship with a new default theme in December.
- Why Let's Encrypt Has Completely Changed The SSL Landscape – a look at the free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt.
- Version 3.0: Rethinking How a Page Builder Should Work – how should a page builder work? Benjamin from Page Builder Sandwich discusses just that.
- Behind the Scenes of WordPress.com Themes with David Kennedy – an interesting look behind the themes of wordpress.com.
- Do You Need WordPress.org to Promote Your Themes – after the Zerif fiasco, Ionut discusses whether or not you need WordPress.org for theme promotion.
- How to Reset Your WordPress Website – sometimes you need to reset part or all of your WordPress website. This article shows you how.
- The Ultimate Guide on WordPress Security – if Ahmad's Security September Series on WPLift didn't sate your security thirst, here's a big guide from Kinsta.
- Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package – a bit of an advanced guide from Delicious Brains.
- Responsibly Updating your WordPress Website – a guide to WordPress updates from Matt Cromwell.
- How To Choose The Right WordPress Theme For Your Business – some tips for choosing a theme for your business.
- The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Most from a WordPress Magazine Theme – magazine themes can be tricky to use well.
- How to Manage WordPress Sites: 75 Tasks To Keep Your Site Running Smoothly – a comprehensive list of WordPress management tips from iThemes.
- 14 Best Logo Showcase Plugins for WordPress – easily showcase your sponsors or "featured on" brands.
- 13 Surprising WordPress Usage Statistics (Updated 2016!) – an updated list of WordPress usage statistics.
- 10 Best WordPress Facebook Widgets – the best Facebook widgets for WordPress.
- 30 Best Minimalist WordPress Themes – some of the best minimalist WordPress themes out there.
- A Complete Plugin Rewrite Case Study with Ninja Forms – a MasterMind podcast discussing Ninja Forms' rewrite.


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If you are searching for homes for sale in Columbia, SC and you want to live in one of Columbia's most sought after communities, then maybe Wood Lakeis the place for you. Located off of Rhame Road in Northeast Columbia, SC, Wood Lake is a beautiful community with winding streets and mature trees that greet you as you drive or stroll through.
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Of course the use of the word lake in the name is not just to make it sound good, there is a great lake in the center of the community with several homes lucky enough to be right on the water. If you don't have a home right the lake itself, you can still enjoy it, as Wood Lake has a playground and a club house right along the shore, also in the heart of the community. Makes a great place to relax and enjoy the afternoon.
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