Looking South from 4 ½ Street towards 4th Street. Beginning to place the columns.

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Fall Band Classes begin September 3, 2013.

Once again Salem Congregation and Home Church will sponsor band classes each Tuesday evening for all ages 4th grade and older.

Beginning Band begins at 6:30pm each Tuesday and

2nd Year and Chorale Study Band classes which meet at 7:30pm each Tuesday.

WHERE: The classes are held at Home Church in Room 5 of the Rondthaler Memorial Building.

If you have wanted to learn to play, 2013 is the year to make the commitment. For more information please contact: Robah Ogburn – 985-3267 or Connie Merritt – kapwing

Here is the progress on the construction on West Fourth Street as of July 7, 2013

Charming West End Home. Historical note: Ben Folds band practiced in the 3rd Floor.

For more photographs and information, go to: http://www.1124west4th.com

336-765-4728 (real estate agents welcome)

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Note: Triad Lawyer & Sanders Law Firm PLLC make no confirmation of size and condition. Prospective Buyers are to perform their own due diligence

Photographs of initial demolition on June 27, 2013

Later in the day (from corner of 4th & Broad St.)

ISSUE: what happens when you or someone you know dies & you can’t get into their financial accounts which are only accessed online? Not just that, there other digital assets.

importance of providing for the distribution of digital assets after death.

THE PROBLEM: includes not being able to access online financial information due to lack of password information to inablility to update the deceased’s Facebook, Twitter or other social media accounts.

Compounding the problem is that many states lack statutes and rues that determine who has rights to the deceased’s digital assets.

Think how damaging this could be if the decedent or POA principal owned a small business.

LIMITED SOLUTION: The named Personal Representative (executor, administrator or estate) must depend on the “terms and policies” that users agreed to. These provisions vary: eg. for access to a decedent’s email account, Google simply requires proof of death, while Yahoo! requires a court order.

LEGISLATION: At the time of this blog, only 8 states have laws giving Personal Representatives rights to a decedent’s social media assets.

PERSONAL SOLUTION: In the meantime, contact your estate planning attorney to consider provisions you can incorporate into your Power of Attorney and Last Will & Testament. Be careful giving the access information to one person. Perhaps consider splitting up the necessary information among two completely separate entities.

I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my Lastpass.com account information. Lastpass.com is wonderful way to keep up with all your passwords.

For More information, see T. Beas, Gone, but Social Media Not Forgotten: Social Media Estate Planning Update, 3/1/13, K. Brier & J. Rossetti, Death in the Digital Age, Private Wealth, Wall Street Journal 1/5/13.

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Per the IRS, as of Jan. 1, 2013, the OPTIONAL standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:

· 56.5 cents per mile for business miles driven.

· 24 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes.

· 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/2013-Standard-Mileage-Rates-Up-1-Cent-per-Mile-for-Business,-Medical-and-Moving

Note rates are subject to change, please confirm rates with IRS website.

The number of law school applicants and applications has continued its downward trend, according to data compiled by the Law School Admission Council.

By May 31, about 56,424 people had applied to law schools accredited by the American Bar Association for the 2013-2014 school year, a drop of 13.2 percent from the year before. That’s from last year’s applicants. Keep in mind that applications have been on decline for 4 to 5 years.

With the typical applicant applying to multiple schools, there were 376,380 total applications filed, which was a drop of 18.6 percent from the year before.

At least would-be applicants are getting the picture: there are few jobs for recent graduates.

My question: why don’t more people apply to engineering schools instead? We need more engineers and scientists.

Build-A-Bandit owner, Robert Allen McElreath, took over $2,000,000 in deposits from car owners then didn’t work on their cars. He’s believed to have fled the state.

Attorney General Roy Cooper said June 3 that a judge issued a temporary restraining order against Robert Allen McElreath. The order issued last week told el Bandito to stop taking orders and advance deposits for automobile restoration in North Carolina.

“Promising consumers a custom car, taking their money and then leaving them high and dry is no way to do business,” Cooper said. “We want to stop bandits from making off with people’s money.”

The business name is a reference to the 1977 movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” which featured the Trans Am driven by Burt Reynolds. Other pseudonyms are Pick a Pony, Pontiac Pros, Common Man Classic Hot Rods and Discount Automotive Classic Reconstruction, Cooper said.

Since June 2012, the Attorney General’s Office has received 52 written complaints from people from as far away as Australia. There have been 26 warrants have been issued against McElreath for obtaining property by false pretenses.

The complaint filed by Cooper’s office lists Erica Kampert as an accomplice. The scam, per the AG, is that McElreath advertised “Smokey and the Bandit” cars on Internet auction sites. Bidders who lost got a call from McElreath offering them a car at a discounted price, Cooper said. Then the duped consumer executed a contract and wired thousands of dollars before work began, according to the AG complaint said.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning ordered McElreath to appear in court June 10. He did not appear at the hearing last week when the temporary restraining order was issued.

Welcome the newest construction to Downtown Winston-Salem. Commercial Realty Advisors is developing the lot at the corner of 4th and Broad Street with Frank L. Blum as contractor, archSTUDIO7 as the architect, and Stimmel & Associates as the engineer. This rendering of this 55,000 sf building is excellent. John Reese II, the managing partner, says it is 65% preleased . Good to see Class A on the West End side of Downtown.

Construction begins in June 2013.