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In 1989, Joy lived six days’ walk from the nearest road and could only communicate through letters. Things are going to be very different during her second long-term stint with BMS World Mission in Nepal. Get to know her and her fascinating story in our Q&A!
It’s almost thirty years since Joy Ransom first boarded a plane to Nepal to teach with BMS. Now, God’s called her back. She flies on Tuesday 28 August, arrives in Tansen (her new home) on Friday 31 and begins teaching on Monday 3 September – talk about hitting the ground running! The next two weeks are going to be an absolute whirlwind for Joy and she would love it if you would pray for her.
But how rude of us… first you better get acquainted.
Joy is getting ready to move back to Nepal, where she'll be working as a teacher and making lots of new friends.
You’re about to leave to serve long-term with BMS in Nepal, but this definitely isn’t your first rodeo. Tell me about when you’ve worked with us before.
In 1989 I went to teach missionaries’ children in a very remote place called Okhaldhunga, in the east of Nepal. There was a hospital there, a community health project, a forestry project and non-formal education. I taught the children of the missionaries who were working there.
I was there for five years, and at that time Okhaldhunga was very remote and the nearest road was six days’ walk away. We used to travel by plane, which only went twice a week, and in the monsoon it often didn’t fly at all because it was too cloudy. So it felt quite isolated. But there was a good community there as well.
What was it like to live so remotely?
It always felt like a lot of thought to leave, because you had to walk to the airstrip and that was about five hours away. So it wasn’t like you could just nip home again if the plane didn’t come. And in the monsoon it did feel quite cut-off. We had no radio, no telephone and no computer in those days, so it felt very different.
I went back to Nepal with BMS as a volunteer in 2015, and I had the chance to go back to Okhaldhunga to visit. That’s the first time I’d been back in 20 years. Now they’ve built a road and you can actually get there by jeep or bus. It’s changed the place. It was lovely to be back there.
How did you keep in touch with people? Through letters?
Yes, through letters. But we only got mail when the planes came. Quite often I’d be in school with the tutorial group and we’d hear the plane overhead, and the children got very excited and so did I, because we’d think ‘oh yay, the plane’s come today, we might get mail from home.’ But some letters took three months to get to us.
Joy previously served with BMS as a volunteer in Nepal in 2015, when she taught English to teachers.
Tell me about your most memorable experience from that time?
It was monsoon time and I needed to leave the project because it was the holidays and I’d just been in the village for such a long time. So a friend of mine, Florence (who was in her 60s), and I decided that we would walk out. There were no planes, because it was the middle of the monsoon. So we set out with a porter.
The first few days were fine, but then when we got further south the rivers were huge, and we ended up walking through flooded rivers really, full of grit and sand. Florence nearly got washed away – and the porter literally saved her life by helping her. Reaching out to her, holding her up, and then taking her across the river.
When we eventually got to the road, we still had a 12-hour bus journey to get to Kathmandu.
Wow! It sounds like it’s going to be pretty different this time. Why are you going back to Nepal?
When I left in 1996 I felt that God had still got a work for me to do in Nepal. I had just adopted my daughter Bethany, and she was six months old when we came to the UK. I thought maybe she and I would live in the UK for a few years, and then when she was old enough, we would go back. But that didn’t happen. And although I kept asking God, ‘is it time to go back?’, it wasn’t.
But then three years ago, Bethany was at university and so I applied to go as a volunteer. I thought I’d go for a year just to see what it’s like, because, having been there 20 years ago, I knew the country would have changed, but also I would have changed. So I thought it would be a good chance to see if there’s still a role for somebody like me, and if that was really what God wanted me to do.
I built up relationships in the community and found that my Nepali language came back, and I felt very comfortable in Nepali church. So I felt like that was confirmation that I should explore the possibility of going back longer term. And maybe God did have a plan for me in Nepal.
Joy with some of her students when she was teaching in Nepal in 2015. We're so thrilled that God has called her back there.
We obviously agree! What are you going to be doing?
For the first year I am going back to Tansen, to the same place and same role that I had three years ago. The teacher who took over from me has to go back to the US for a year, so they have a need for a teacher.
After that year, I am hopefully going to work with KISC EQUIP [the Kathmandu International Study Centre’s Education Quality Improvement Programme] doing some teacher training or mentoring of teachers in local Nepali schools in Lamjung, with Simon and Wendy Hall.
This year I also have to complete my Master’s degree, because to get a visa in Nepal you need to have a Master’s. That’s what I’ve been working on this last year, but I still have the dissertation to write in Tansen.
Is it fair to say you’ve left a bit of your heart in Nepal?
Yes. I love Nepal. I love the people.
What are you most excited about, about getting there?
Meeting people again. The people that I made friends with last time. I used to walk every day along the same path from my house to where I worked at the school and there were lots of people who sat along the path, and we would chat every day. That was really nice.
It’s the Church who are supporting me and sending me. We’re doing this together.
Joy is keen to get back to Nepal and see her friends again! We can’t wait to bring you more images of her serving there.
Apart from family… I’ll miss having a bath.
Would you like people in the UK to get behind you with prayer and donations?
Yes! I believe that mission is a partnership, and although I get the opportunity to go to Nepal and hopefully have some skills and experiences that mean I can be useful there, it’s not just me going off on my own. It’s definitely the Church who are supporting me and sending me. We’re doing this together. And if I can pray for people here and they can pray for me then hopefully everything will be more effective.
What’s the first thing you’ve packed in your suitcase?
Family photographs and mosquito repellent!
What can we be praying for?
Please pray that in the next few weeks I get to know the children quickly, and their families. Pray too that I can support them and find out what their needs are. I feel the role of teaching the children of missionaries involves supporting the families too, because often parents feel guilty about taking their children away from their family and culture and peer support.
Pray also that I can make a good start on the study for my Master’s dissertation, that I can choose a really good subject. And that with the internet and the time difference, I can still catch up with my tutor back here in Scotland.
Settling in basically and making a good start.
Two amazing couples. Two wonderful countries. Six incredible months. The latest from Team Lynch and Team Vokuhl.
New friendships, hard work, lots of prayer and one very embarrassing language mix-up. These past few months have certainly been challenging and rewarding ones for BMS World Mission workers the Lynches and Vokuhls. Louise and Peter Lynch are working with church leaders in Bangladesh, while Toby and Pippa Vokuhl are helping Nepal rebuild after the 2015 earthquakes. They couldn’t have got this far without your support so please read on for an update on their work.
Louise and Peter Lynch are currently based in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh.
Tell us what it was like when you first arrived?
Peter: It was a bit disorientating. We were tired, and we went straight into meeting people, being at church and getting our bearings. That was easier than going to bed though! The Proctors (BMS workers) were our chaperones for the first couple of weeks. They were really good, very kind to us.
Louise: They took us shopping, showed us how to dress, helped us buy our clothes and showed us the supermarkets. It feels like we’ve settled in well.
Toby: When we first arrived in Pokhara we were very warmly welcomed, which was great. Our housing situation was a little bit of a challenge because our flat was still under construction and we didn’t have a kitchen at all, so for two months we were living in a building site. We now find ourselves in what is a really lovely flat, not far from the children’s school. It’s worked out really well for us as a family with our children having friends nearby.
How is the language learning going?
Louise: We have completed three books, so we’ve finished the basic course. We’re given about 25 new words every day and we’ve learnt tenses we never knew about. So we’re doing our homework. We get most of right, but there is quite a lot of red ink on it most days too!
The most useful phrases we’ve learnt so far are things like ‘kemôn achhen,’ which is ‘how are you?’ So we spend a lot of our time saying that, and ‘bhālō,’ which means ‘fine’, ‘āstē āstē,’ which means ‘slowly slowly’, and ‘ami janina,’ which is ‘I don’t know’, or ‘I don’t understand’. I think we are the entertainment sometimes, but sometimes you just have to go for it. People come along and they come and watch us trying to speak Bangla, and it is almost a sport!
Peter: We make everyone laugh! People appreciate us trying because they’re very proud of their language and they love people trying to learn it. They’ve been great.
Pippa: It’s hard work! We started off doing four mornings a week and we are just doing one or two now. It’s nice to have some basic conversations with friends and people at church, and the local shops, but we have a lot more hours of study ahead. I’ve had a few embarrassing moments. I went into a shop to try and ask for two kilos for carrots and I managed to ask for two kilos of marijuana. The poor shopkeeper looked extremely shocked and distressed, and then said in English, “Oh, you want carrots.” I mentioned it to my language teacher who pointed out what I’d asked for.
Toby: Our landlady seems to think we are doing well settling in. The other day I could make out her saying to me in Nepali, “Toby, you’re so fat… your wife also.” I relayed that to Pippa, but in Nepali culture when you call someone fat you are just referring to how well they are doing. It was still rather funny!
Louise: We just want to build relationships and understand the culture first before leaping in. We sat alongside pastors in some training for discipleship making, I think that’s an area where we’re looking to see how we can support them and help them to put their training into action in their churches.
We’re going up to Dineshpur for a month soon, and we’ll be staying with some of the pastors who were on the training, so it’ll be interesting to see what they’re doing.
Peter: We’ve met most of the key people we’ll be working with in Dhaka, and people from the districts have come here for conferences. It’s been great to meet pastors and regional leaders. We’re developing a really good relationship with them, they’ve been so gracious and welcoming to us.
Everyone says to us that life outside of Dhaka is very different to life in Dhaka, so it will be great for us next month to just be outside of the capital and mix with the local community there.
Pippa: Until recently, I’ve been doing language study and orientation, and at the moment our three children (Jakey, Ella and Millie) are on school holidays so that’s keeping me out of trouble.
Toby: We were waiting for a work visa for quite some time, so we have focused quite heavily on language study, and we’ve also been attending the local church. We’ve had a slightly longer language and culture adjustment period than we expected, but it has helped, and we’re pleased to have moved into the space where I can contribute to the work here.
Peter: I just enjoy the life and vitality of the city, everyone is so industrious and active, there’s so many people everywhere doing so many things. It’s an energetic, lively and colourful place. We love the people.
Louise: We like walking around and we like the buzz of the place.
Pippa: We went as a family to have a look around some of the projects that INF (International Nepal Fellowship) is running in the west of the country in villages and hospitals. It was amazing to see some of the projects that are making a difference to the poorest of the poor in Nepal.
Toby: There has been a wealth of experiences, such as being in a different culture and in a beautiful environment when you get out into the hills and mountains. Another highlight has been being able to make a difference through my work. That has been very rewarding.
Peter: I think pacing ourselves has been difficult. It is hot, and you find yourself on certain days having lower energy. So, I think knowing how to pace yourself and how to navigate your way through that.
Louise: It’s hard on your downtime because it’s not a recreational city. What to do when we’re not studying Bangla is the biggest challenge for us. But we’re enjoying Bangla learning, so it’s quite a win win really, as that’s what we spend most of our time doing.
Toby: Not being able to communicate is disempowering, such as when you can’t say what you want to say to the local shopkeeper. Another challenge is finding your way around locally.
Louise: I think for next month, that we travel and stay well in Dineshpur, and that we make the most of that chance as it’s a really unique opportunity.
Peter: We’re moving house at the beginning of September and we’re moving to an area that’s close to the office. So please pray for that process of moving and getting into a local community.
Pray too for the church in Bangladesh. They’ve got big hearts and a big vision but it’s quite tough. So pray for them, that God would empower them.
Pippa: Please pray for my ongoing language study, and also pray for developing deeper relationships with local Nepali women. I’d also appreciate prayer as I find a role for myself. Please pray that God would move me into what I can do to serve him here.
Toby: Please pray for continued cultural awareness. Please also pray for a construction project that I’m managing at the Green Pastures Hospital, where a new chapel is being built. Everyone would like that to be a success for the hospital and for the people of Pokhara.
Are you inspired by the works our mission workers are doing? You can commit to giving regularly to support the Lynches or Vokuhls by becoming a 24:7 Partner. Just click here. Thank you for standing alongside them.
We bring you the finalists in the annual BMS World Mission Action Team photo competition.
Be warned, you’re about to be bitten by the gap year bug. We certainly were as we looked at the Action Team photos submitted by the class of 2017/18, though sadly most of us are beyond our gap-year years! If you know anyone who isn’t old like us and might want to do a Christian gap year in places like these, share this story with them! They could be our next crop of Action Teams.
We loved judging these photos. And, after much debate (it went on for hours), we finally picked our top ten. They are beautiful.
What a stunning sight this is. We adored this photo of the Annapurna Himalayas the moment we saw it.
Rachel Paton will never forget this view from a five-day trek in the Annapurna Himalayas.
This candid shot of a woman smoking a cigarette was taken when the Nepal Action Team were visiting a temple.
This woman was begging at the foot of a temple staircase in Bhaktapur, a town east of Kathmandu. And then for a moment, she retreated behind an enormous stone statue just as Rachel Paton took her picture.
“She seemed to be hiding; weary, perhaps, of being visible but often ignored by so many people passing by,” says Rachel.
Children fill a classroom in Guinea, though just like in classrooms around the world, concentrating all the time is not possible for every child.
There are over 80 young children packed into this preschool classroom in Guinea. Teaching assistant and Guinea Action Team member Eleanor Hyde found space somehow to take this photo of the children’s eagerness to learn.
This picture from Nepal captured our attention because of its beauty and the sense of tranquillity.
The serenity of Phewa Lake in the Pokhara Valley was captured by Rachel Paton (she really did take a lot of great photos!), with its stillness contrasted by what was happening behind her.
It is play time at a Nepal school, with these young children having the time of their lives.
Children couldn’t contain their excitement when this parachute was brought out at a rural school in Nepal. And Action Teamer and gifted photographer Rachel Paton was there to capture the joy.
“We had to work hard to convince them that this particular parachute was not to be used for flying, just for playing with on the ground!” says Rachel.
Children on a small island off the coast of Guinea head into the water in search of fish to catch.
Guinea Action Teamer Mhairi Cole was on a small island off the African nation’s coast when she saw a group of children being given a fishing lesson.
This adorable scene during a game of hide-and-seek was captured in Mozambique.
Who doesn’t love a game of hide-and-seek? The children Action Teamer Rhiannon Cleghorn met in Mozambique clearly do. And though this boy had only trees to hide behind when Rhiannon was playing, it meant an adorable photo of him could be taken.
Along with great need and a history of conflict and colonial oppression, Mozambique has glorious beaches enjoyed by local people every day. They are even more stunning as the sun sets, as this image shows.
Living by the coast was one of the biggest blessings for the Action Team in Mozambique, says Rhiannon Cleghorn.
These prayer bells in Nepal were wonderfully captured with the contours of the valley in the background.
This is a photo that makes you want to stand where photographer Rachel Paton did. She took this photo at the iconic Buddhist temple, Swayambhu, which is on top of a hill in the Kathmandu Valley.
“We were up there as the sun was setting, and the evening light striking this row of bells caught my attention just before we started to head down,” she says.
This photo, taken in Nepal by Rachel Paton, caught our attention straight away.
What a striking photo this is, and an obvious first place in this year’s Action Team photo competition. It was captured in Nepal by Rachel Paton (who else?!), and shows the beauty of God’s work in the form of this majestic elephant, Mayabhati.
Congratulations not only to those in the top ten, but to everyone who submitted a photo. You’ve inspired, moved and challenged us, and reminded us all of how magnificent God’s creation is.
Do you know a future Action Teamer?
Our Action Teams programme is one of the best Christian gap year programmes out there. If you know anyone aged between 17 and 23 who wants to serve God overseas then encourage them to get in touch with us today. You never know, they might just make next year’s photo competition top ten!
Here are some of the ways you’ve helped people in desperate need this year.
A tarpaulin. A plastic groundsheet. Some thermal underwear. Did these items make your Christmas wish list?
You’ve given these – and other great gifts – to people in desperate need this year.
You’re providing a lifeline for Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Burma (Myanmar), and keeping hundreds of people warm in the harshness of a Ukraine winter.
As you wrap your presents and prepare for Christmas, consider this our thank you note for what you’ve already given. And a reminder of the suffering you’re helping to alleviate, in Jesus’ name, every time you give to BMS World Mission.
Vital aid is reaching refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, thanks to your donations. Photo by Medair/Nath Fauveau.
The Rohingya people have witnessed their loved ones being raped, beaten and executed, and their villages reduced to ashes in a brutal military offensive. The scale of the terror inflicted by Burma’s soldiers is unimaginable, as is the exodus of those being targeted. More than 650,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed from Burma’s northern Rakhine State into Cox’s Bazar district in southern Bangladesh since August. Hundreds are still crossing every day, many of them children who have run for their lives.
How you are helping: By giving to BMS you’re helping more than 500 refugees. They arrive at camps exhausted, hungry and traumatised. They have next to nothing. The tarpaulin, ground sheet and stretch of nylon rope you’ve funded for these refugees are providing shelter. Thanks to you, Rohingya people have protection from the elements, and women can maintain their dignity thanks to hygiene kits containing sanitary products. People will also receive soap for washing and laundry, as well as a cup and a three-litre water jug.
The conflict that erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and pro-Ukrainian groups has displaced 1.5 million people and killed at least 10,000. Government pensions and social benefits have been stopped for people living in areas under separatist control, while schools and hospitals have also had their funding halted.
How you are helping: The temperature in eastern Ukraine is expected to drop to -7 degrees Celsius early on Christmas Day, and it could drop as low as -28 later in the winter. You’re providing over 1,000 people with coal, firewood, ceramic heaters and wood burners so they can survive, and children are being given thermal underwear.
Rachel Conway-Doel, our Relief Facilitator, talks about the crisis in Ukraine and what you can be praying for.
Lebanon continues to host the highest concentration of refugees per capita in the world, with an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees and over 15,000 people from Iraq living there. Close to half of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are children.
How you are helping: You’ve already helped dozens of children who have had their access to education shattered by conflict, and that support continues.
Thanks to your giving, at least 30 more refugee children are being taught English, Arabic and maths this school year, and doing what every child has a right to do – play.
Refugee children in Lebanon are being given an education thanks to you.
Your support this year has been amazing – look at what else you’ve done!
Mozambique — You gave food to 1,000 people affected by a fuel tanker explosion in Mozambique.
Haiti — You helped provide cholera prevention and treatment through water filtration after Hurricane Matthew.
Nepal — You provided food, blankets and medicine to more than 1,100 people following severe monsoon flooding.
Philippines — You helped to give medical check-ups and disaster training for community leaders following July’s earthquake.
Bangladesh — You helped to fund the rebuilding of 50 family homes destroyed by landslides in June.
South Sudan/Uganda — You gave food, tools and seeds to over 1,000 South Sudanese people in danger of starving.
No matter how much you gave this year, you made a difference. People you will never meet have been fed, sheltered and comforted thanks to your kindness. We thank you for all that you have done, and can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in 2018. Happy Christmas from all of us at BMS.


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Emission difference between natural gas usage and digester gas usage.
It is important to burn the air toxics and harmful gases which come from water and wastewater treatment processes. In common practice, instead of natural gas, digester gas is used for economical reasons. This burning process takes place in the Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO). The current research was conducted to identify if there exists any differences between natural gas and digester gas in outlet emission. The location of the experiment was at Morris Forman Wastewater Treatment Plant of Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) of Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. In this experiment, the RTO was run in two cases: one fueling by digester gas and next fueling by natural gas; then samples were obtained from a sampling port during each case. The captured samples were analyzed in the laboratory at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. The resulted data from these two cases showed that there are not much emission differences between these two fuels. Therefore, use of digester gas instead of natural gas is an economical move without causing any harmful emission.
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Although the 4 dimensions have been stable for over 600 years, something is not right about the time traps. Recently they have been moving, coalescing and even disappearing. The air around the time traps reeks of ozone; people are reporting strange and ominous sounds coming from within. Others have seen people entering a portal with a known destination and are never seen again.
Space explorers have reported unnatural fluctuations in the time-space fabric, throwing them off course by many light years.
Eminent scientists are researching the time traps, have come up with some unsettling theories. That the great cataclysm that caused them is reversing and the rifts are falling in on themselves. They cannot explain why this is happening, or if it is just a temporary reversal, but they are certain that if this process continues, unabated; all life is in grave peril. The power that would be unleashed would annihilate the dimensions, nothing would survive. Research is continuing, but the outcome is looking bleak.
In Olde Yorke, dragons have been seen in more numbers than has ever have been in recorded history, all flying in the same direction as if chased by an unseen foe. What could possibly put fear in to so many dragons’ hearts?
The newspapers in Dodge are full of strange tales, mysterious disappearances, and strange lights appearing in the skies above. Prospectors tell of gold singing, a strange, haunting, melancholy song.
In Old Carthage more archeologists are missing than the seasonal norm, the authorities are requesting help from time travels to assist in tracking down the cause. Tides and floods are not predictable anymore, the Egyptians are worried, more and more rituals to Ra are being performed, trying to appease the gods.
Has the war that ended in the year 2079, come back to deliver one final blow? Was the unnatural power unleashed, too much for the dimensions to contain?
“I believe that the Time-space continuum is on the verge of collapse. All readings point to a reversal in the continuum, all energy, time, space and matter are being drawn together. My theory proves that the dimensions are imploding, the four striving to become one. This would put an incredible strain on the fabric of space-time, which I doubt it could withstand. What will happen at the point of implosion, I cannot predict. Will it be total annihilation? Will a new dimension be born? Or is this the cycle of nature, the 4 dimensions in their final throws of rebirth?
Once the paper was made public, panic ensued. No one has the answers, people have no one to turn to. The gods themselves were saying nothing; perhaps even they feared what was coming.
Cults began to grow, some worshipping the time rifts, others condemning them. Fighting broke out, civil unrest was high. People’s faces taught with worry, asking questions that nobody could answer. Some turned to religion, others crime and drugs, each trying to find their own way to meet the end. Others just disappeared without a trace.
Clans have invested heavily in magical protection for their clan hall, pouring all the accumulated gold from over the last 600 years. Banks are collapsing as panic withdrawals continue, as the common people try to protect their own property, but all to no avail as the clans have pushed the price too high for anyone to be able to afford the services, even if they could. The magicians have exhausted their reserves of Mana, and cannot produce any more protection spells.
There is a man, who instead of spending his wealth on protecting his own property and possessions, has invested his wealth in to creating a protected area, using his resources to create a bubble in space and time. This space is not large, it cannot hold more than food, water and the few that will be lucky enough to be inside the bubble when it is sealed. He has now fully prepared the bubble, exhausting himself, magically creating food and water that he knows will not perish. Hopefully enough for the unknown period of time it will take before it is safe to emerge from this sanctuary, indeed if ever.
Who will this man allow to enter? What fee will he ask those that want to shelter inside the bubble? Who will still have the strength and the means to meet his terms? How many will join him, in this bid for survival? And most of all will this magic bubble truly save those, who are inside?

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Is IRS Reporting to Foreign Governments About NRA’s US Deposit Accounts? NOPE!
Generally, nonresident alien individuals (NRAs) are not taxed by the US when they receive interest income from amounts on deposit with US financial institutions, including banks and savings institutions as well as on amounts held by insurance companies. This exception from income tax does not apply if the interest is connected with the NRA’s conduct of a US trade or business. Furthermore, prior to the issuance by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2012 of Treasury Regulations on the matter, US financial institutions were not required to report to the IRS with regard to interest income earned by NRAs on their US deposits. This exemption from tax and reporting had existed in the US tax laws for about 50 years and was designed to encourage NRAs to bank in the US thereby boosting the US economy. With the advent of the Treasury Regulations, the interest income is still not taxed to the NRA, but the Regulations mandate reporting to the IRS by US financial institutions of deposit interest paid on or after January 1, 2013 to nonresident alien individuals of certain countries.
The country list has been prepared and supplemented from time to time as more countries are added. The list identifies the countries with which the Treasury Department and the IRS have determined it is appropriate to have an automatic exchange relationship with respect to the information collected by US financial institutions. The latest country list issued in April 2017 can be found at Rev. Proc. 2017-31 which has supplemented earlier Revenue Procedures by adding countries that have been determined by Treasury to, among other things, have adequate legal and infrastructure safeguards in place for the transmission of such data.
A careful reading of the preamble to the 2012 Regulations makes clear that the Regulations were issued in response to the more recent developments in international tax enforcement – “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” (“FATCA”) and the proliferation of treaties and tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) throughout the world which provide for the exchange of information on tax matters between the signatories. The Regulations essentially enable the US to have information to “trade” with its treaty and TIEA partners about the foreign treaty partner’s citizens and residents.
One would think that the Regulations would surely facilitate the exchange of information between the US and other foreign governments since the information “should be” readily at hand in the IRS data files. A very recent report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), unearths some startling news, however.
IRS Is Not Providing Information to Foreign Governments!
The TIGTA Report also provided a valuable nugget of information about the sending by the IRS of information to foreign governments about US-source payments such as interest on US deposits. In a few words, the IRS has not been sending the information since – get this – 2012! The information is still being gathered, but obviously something is amiss, because it is not being sent. It appears that information chaos reigns supreme over at the IRS. In response to the IRS’ not sending the information, some foreign governments have likewise halted their automatic information exchanges with the IRS! So, at the moment the US and some countries are at an information exchange “standstill”.
So, in summary, while the US demands timely and complete information be sent by its foreign partners about US account holders in the foreign country, the US (unsurprisingly) does not live up to its own obligations. Reciprocal is as reciprocal does…………and the US, well, it just doesn’t.
Along related lines, the IRS recently issued Notice 2017-46, which in part provided some welcome relief for US financial institutions with respect to their FATCA duty to collect foreign taxpayer identification numbers (FTINs). The new guidance delays the date on which US financial institutions must begin collecting FTINs to January 1, 2018. The Notice also provides a phase-in period for obtaining FTINs from account holders documented before January 1, 2018 that will end on December 31, 2019; in addition it circumscribes the circumstances when FTINs are mandated. For example, withholding agents will not be required to obtain FTINs from an account holder in a jurisdiction that has not entered a reciprocal tax information exchange treaty with the United States or in a jurisdiction that does not issue FTINs to its residents. FTINs need not be acquired for governments, international organizations, foreign central banks of issue, or residents of a US territory. (As an aside, just imagine the workload and cost for the financial institution to follow these mandates!). The Instructions for Form 1042-S, “Foreign Person’s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding,” will be revised to reflect the amended FTIN requirements.

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text: After a few more days of hot, humid weather, it is back to cool, dry and pleasant. This summer has seen almost twice as much rain as usual. I am more able to do more work inside and out as well do more bike riding. Maybe I can lose a few more pounds before winter! This drawing of the blufftop view is coming along nicely and hope to finish it by this weekend. I have more summer drawings to do in oil pastel planned.


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I have been on a creative and inner search for most of my life, and my path has followed many forms. I come from a background that includes 35 years of meditation practice ensuing from formal engagement in spiritual practice; I was a stay at home mom with a blended family of five; I was a theater costume designer for ten years; I established JK Design, a wearable art design company that involved studying and traveling in other cultures, selling and exhibiting my work throughout the US and abroad; I have worked with patients as an Art Therapist in various settings. I have also faced and grown through unwelcomed changes in my life, including divorce, death of a child, death of a parent, job loss and cancer, to name a few.
The essential, life-giving force of creativity has been for me a lifelong exploration. The experience of traveling and discovering the essential place of art and creativity remaining in many cultures inspired a midlife career change. I went back to school and completed a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy.
Art Therapy brings art, creativity, spiritual search and healing full circle for me. Art has always been more than just making a pretty object. I see firsthand how art and creativity can help heal and open people to more essential parts of themselves. We all can use art and our creative self to gain clarity, work through issues and loss, and move towards healing and wholeness. My goal is to assist this process in my clients.
Besides my private practice I currently teach Stress Management and Death and Dying at Monroe Community College and supervise graduate art therapy students in the on campus art therapy clinic at Nazareth College.

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Why don't these people ever READ the error messages? They just say "I got an error message" or "it's broken", and expect me to fix it.
When I watch over their shoulder as they try one more time, than repeat the EXACT ERROR MESSAGE back to them, they seem to understand.
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1 Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.
4 In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.
5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.
8 You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
9 When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
10 In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.
11 In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.
12 I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.
13 Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.


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Historically the best way to rent out your property was to advertise in your local shop, put a sign in the garden or at most an advert in the local paper. In the 90’s specialist newspapers came to prominence where people could advertise for a fee to thousands of eager tenants. The specialist newspapers dominance peaked around 2003. Since then the way we rent properties has changed dramatically. Gone are the days when a scrawled not poorly detailing a property were enough. Like most industries rental property started to move online in the late 90’s. Now it’s just as advanced as any other online industry with a variety of websites offering everything from pictures, videos, sound, satellite maps to floor plans.
There are literally thousands if not millions of websites offering alternative ways to rent your property online. Most however are not available to the general public. Propertyfinder, findaproperty, primelocation are all UK property websites or as they are known “portals”. These portals do not allow individuals to advertise properties on their site. This is due to the pressures from estate agents so that they can continue to dominate the market. Therefore in order to advertise with a website like these you must use an agent. Agents tend to charge around 10% of the yearly income.
However there are many alternatives that allow free advertising online and many that offer paid advertising online. Craigslist offer a fantastic way to post simple adverts online especially in the USA and if you are quite tech savvy you can use coding to design a good advert. Many of the online classified sites offer a reasonable service. However beware of “scammers” and make sure you repost your advert frequently.
Specialist rental websites can offer the best solution. They make it simple and easy to post the perfect advert and give the best response. LiveSimply.co.uk [http://www.livesimply.co.uk] offers a fantastic example of a specialist rentals website. Live Simply offers free advertising for both landlords and agents. The site is designed to make life easy when you are renting property so the adverts are designed to get the best response from interested tenants. You can add pictures, videos and sound descriptions and your property will be found on a satellite photo of your area.
You might think that videos and photos are excessive but that’s what tenants want. Statistics show that properties with pictures get 9 times more responses than those without. Adverts with videos get twice as much as those just with photos. You get the picture. In essence like most things in life the preparation work must be made. You need to create a fantastic advert, so get out the digital camera and take lots of photos. If your camera has a video setting like most do then make one and walk around your property. This helps save time later. People know what your place is like before they come. If they like it they will come, if they don’t like it then unfortunately they won’t.


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Think “guitar lesson blog.” Lead editor, senior columnist, and Acoustic Guitar contributor David Hodge is responsible for much of Guitar Noise’s content, which includes a wealth of song transcriptions, technical playing advice, and other tips for getting the most out of your favorite instrument.
How do you keep your guitar’s fretboard in top condition? This beginner’s guide to cleaning and polishing your guitar frets will help ensure you do a perfect job every time.
Getting Past "Up and Down"
In this, the first of a series of four articles, we begin to hone our strumming techniques so that any rhythmic pattern will be within our grasp.

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A housing project which abuts the expansive recreation area is slated for demolition.
Los Angeles County is poised to take the next step forward in its long-term renovation of Willowbrook's Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park.
In November 2017, the Board of Supervisors approved funds to acquire sites located at 900 and 946 E. 126th Street from the Ujima Housing Corporation for $1.76 million. Now, should a motion by 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas be adopted, the County will dedicate up to $300,000 for the demolition of the remaining structures on the properties, which were most recently developed with multifamily housing.
Although most of the 126th Street sites have already been cleared, the removal of foundations and other underground infrastructure will allow for the properties to be folded into the adjacent park, growing its total footprint to 120 acres. Prior to the construction of the park and multifamily housing, the land functioned as an oil storage facility between the 1920s and 1960s. As a result, the entire site is in the midst of an environmental clean-up.
The County adopted its ambitious master plan for Magic Johnson Park in 2016, which calls for sweeping changes to the expansive, but mostly utilitarian recreation area. The proposed makeover would reprogram the current composition of large grass fields, walking paths and ponds with new features such as an equestrian center, a dog park, recreation fields, an outdoor amphitheater, picnic shelters, restrooms, enhanced lighting and an event center. A site plan shows that the existing ponds would be redesigned to incorporated fishing docks, boats, bridges and filtration gardens.
Landscape architecture firm AHBE was tapped to design the master plan, which is expected to be built out over approximately 18 years at a cost of $135 million.
A vote on Ridley-Thomas' motion is scheduled for tomorrow's meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
The Magic Johnson Park makeover serves as a centerpiece to more expansive changes taking place throughout the Willowbrook community, spurred by the revival of the MLK Community Hospital, which is located nearby.
To the south, Olson Homes broke ground last year on a 94-house development at a long-vacant 9.5-acre plot near El Segundo Boulevard.
Farther east, Metro is investing $66 million to upgrade to the busy Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, which serves over 30,000 daily passengers on the Blue and Green Lines. A handful of affordable housing developments are either planned or underway at properties located within walking distance of the light rail stop.
Many of these sites fall within a "T.O.D. Master Plan" for the Willowbrook community, which is intended to guide new development around the station.
The first phase of the project is budgeted at $70 million.
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To roll out the new "Rebuilding your Local Food System" program Purdue Extension has selected Elkhart County to be one of two pilot communities in Indiana.
A robust local food system with year-round markets is paramount for agricultural producers working to meet the high demand for locally grown and produced food. The popularity of local food is evidenced as direct sales to consumers doubled for Indiana growers in the past 20 years, and the number of farmers’ markets doubled in the past three years (Indiana Agricultural Statistics 2011-2012). However, sustained growth for local food cannot be solely maintained with seasonal farmers’ markets alone.
Indiana imports an estimated 90+% of its food from out of state, yet the Hoosier state has the tenth largest agricultural economy in the US. Hoosiers spend over $17 billion annually on food, with nearly half of all food dollars spent eating out. Currently, few resources exist for large volume buyers to source locally grown food, even though strong commitment and high demand exists among institutions, grocers, and restaurants. Intentionally developing local food systems will grow the state’s economy by capturing a higher proportion of food dollars, which are currently leaving the state due to a lack of infrastructure.
This new extension program, Rebuilding your Local Food System, will enable communities to better understand their local food system, engage multiple groups in a dialogue about rebuilding their local food system, and assist with strategic planning for implementing their rebuilding strategy.
For additional information about the program, contact Jodee Ellett of Purdue Extension (jellett@purdue.edu), Mary Ann Lienhart Cross (lienhart@purdue.edu), or Phil Metzler (phil@transitiongoshen.org 574-349-7336).


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The Samsung Galaxy S® 5 isn’t just groundbreaking innovation, it’s technology that adapts to your life.
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Now entering its third generation, the Kia Picanto brings a youthful and energetic character to the A-segment. Just as compact as its predecessor, it now makes an even more assertive impression on the road and delivers a remarkable roominess, functionality and comfort inside. Add in dynamic performance and agile maneuvers, a host of advanced infotainment and safety technologies, and stylish personalization options to the mix, and the road ahead becomes your very own playground on every journey.
The Advanced Driving Assistance Pack (ADAP) with Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) and Supervision Cluster are available subject to special order on grades '1' and '2' and included as standard on '3', 'X-Line', 'X-Line S', 'GT-Line' and 'GT-Line S'.
what car? City Car of the Year 2019: overall winner second year running!!
The Kia Picanto takes the title for a second year in a row, with the same great recipe of space, performance, comfort and equipment.

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Apr. 15-21 "No Weapon Formed Against You Shall Prosper."
Apr. 16 – (Num. 23-25) As I read these chapters, I think of the verse from Isa. 54:17 - “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” Balak tried to curse a people that God had blessed. Let’s go a step further. What are we doing when we gossip about God’s people? No, it’s not quite the same but let’s take heart that all God has for us…He will do. When we criticize or gossip about others, it may be doing the same as a kind of curse.
Apr. 17 – (Num. 26-27) The Israelites were about to enter the promised land. There are steps to be taken that only God can direct. A census was taken. All of the tribes were counted. None but Moses, Joshua and Caleb are left from the original group. Joshua is appointed to succeed Moses. We see order in God’s ways. Many times, after the fact. I am reminded yet again that our lives are ordered by the Lord. Our peace and strength come from trusting God for that order, whether we see it or not.
Apr. 18 – (Num. 28 – 29) Moses is still giving instructions to the Israelites from God. He will until God takes him to his reward. These chapters are final instructions on offerings to the Lord. First among the final instructions are laws about public sacrifices. The regulations make several points: 1. They show the importance of the sacrificial system in Israel. These sacrifices must be offered daily on behalf of the whole nation. 3. They assure Joshua that the nation will become prosperous enough to provide for this expensive worship. 3. They show the importance of the Sabbath. Every seventh day is a Sabbath and the number of sacrifices doubles on those days. The seventh month is marked by a huge number of extra sacrifices. Especially during the Feast of Booths. That feast is clearly the biggest celebration of the year.
DID YOU KNOW? During the Feast of the Booths, the Israelites were to live in temporary dwellings (“booths”) as a reminder of their life in the wilderness. The large number of sacrifices offered during the eight days shows the importance of this feast. The Feast of Booths was celebrated in October., at the end of the agricultural year. It was also a time to pray for plenty of rain in the next year. In Israel, rain is expected only between October and April.
Apr. 19 – (Num. 30-31) Have you ever made a vow? I don’t mean in marriage or maybe even to testify. I mean in your house or maybe only in your mind. Maybe you called it a prayer: “God if you prevent X, then I will do (or won’t do) Y.” I took a class that discussed the damage we allow when we make inner vows. There is a solution to these inner vows in the form of repentance and placing Truth over that vow we made. Lest you think you never did that let’s name a few common ones as examples. “I will never let people into my life at that level again because of the pain I have experienced.” I will always keep busy, so I don’t have to sink to that level again.” “I will never be poor.” “I will never trust affluent people.” God doesn’t want us to limit ourselves because of past pain. He wants us to live in His freedom alone.
Apr. 21 – (Num. 34-36) Chapter 34 describes the borders of the Promised Land God promised Israel. In general terms, Canaan consisted of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River plus modern Lebanon and a portion of modern Syria. God even allocated who would divide the land. They were chiefs of the 10 tribes who would settle west of the Jordan. No chiefs of Reuben and Gad are listed because they were settling east of the Jordan.
Chapter 35 explains how to keep Canaan holy. It was holy because God dwelt there. He is the Holy One and sin and death are in absolute opposition to Him. If the land is made unclean by violent death, atonement must be made. Otherwise the Lord would not protect the land, and Israel would be exiled. The cities of refuge and the laws associated with them showed how cases of homicide were to be handled. The Israelite legal system involved the injured person seeking justice in court. A man slayer was someone who killed any person without intent. The man slayer was protected from the victim’s angry relatives. He could flee to one of the cities of refuge. There, the judges decided whether the killer deserved to be executed for his crime. The guidelines for those decisions are stated in 35:16-34. Do we see any of these descriptions in our justice system today?
Chapter 36 has very interesting instructions. The jubilee occurred every 50 years. During that time, land that had been sold was to return to its original owner (Lev. 25:10-28). This did not apply to land transferred through marriage. Normally when men married, there was no transfer of land; it stayed within the man’s own tribe. But if a land-owning daughter married, the land would be transferred to her husband’s family and tribe. To prevent tribal land being lost through intermarriage, Moses rules that Zelophehad’s daughters (Num. 27:1-11) must marry men from their own tribe (36:6). In this way tribal lands would be preserved. This insistence that everyone… should hold on to this own inheritance can be seen as a promise that the tribes will always live in their God-given land (Gen. 17:8).


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Azalea 'Gillie' - Kings County Nurseries, INC.
Description: Here’s a great azalea for gardeners who have had enough of pinks or purples and would like a glorious rose-salmon flower. The flowers are exceptionally large — 3.5” –, open-faced with wavy lobes, and late blooming. Gillie should reach 22 x 21” in 15 years. A Robin Hill hybrid with the flower characteristics of the Japanese Satsuki azaleas, Gillie is more hardy and dependable. Considered hardy in the range of 0 to +10F.


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EAST LANSING (AP) — Newly released records show Michigan State University spent more than $18,000 to provide security during white nationalist Richard Spencer's March visit to the campus.
MLive.com obtained the records through an open records request. The money went to pay for fencing and barricades erected by police before the March 5 event, six passenger vans, meals for law enforcement and various signs.
Police arrested 25 people during the event on charges that included obstructing police and failing to obey a police officer.


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The Verrerie Renaut et Cie was created in 1764 in the small village of Baccarat. Providing housing for some seventy artisans and their families, the factory restricted its initial production to flat glass for windowpanes and mirrors, and to the production of white glass à la Bohême. While the Renaut works provided a French alternative to the Bohemian imports, another famed French glassworks, Saint-Louis (founded in 1767 and still in existence in the 1990s), was bringing the production of a relatively new type of glass, lead crystal, to France. Modern lead crystal originated in England toward the end of the 17th century. The depletion of the English forests–in part to feed the furnaces of the kingdom’s glassworks–had led to a ban, in 1615, on the use of wood as fuel. Coal was substituted; however, coal produced lower temperatures than wood, lengthening the fusion of the materials used to create crystal glass. This problem found a solution in the 1670s, when George Ravenscroft discovered that, by replacing the calcium oxide traditionally used in glassmaking, as well as some of the silica (sand) derived from quartz, with lead oxide, the resulting glass not only melted at lower temperatures, but also proved easier to cut and engrave, while producing a clearer, more luminous finished product. While 20th-century analysis would lead to the discovery that lead oxide had been an ingredient in glass pieces from the ancient Babylonian and later Chinese Han Dynasty eras, Ravenscroft continued to be credited with the inauguration of the modern lead crystal era.
Lead crystal only gradually imposed itself on the glass market over the next century. The glassworks at Baccarat continued to cling to the production of windowpanes and Bohemian-style white glass–responding to the need for the former and the consumer preference for the latter. By the beginning of the 19th century, however, lead crystal had supplanted the crystal glass of Bohemia and Venice as the glass of choice. At the same time, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, and a fresh series of wars, combined not only to ruin the Bohemian glass production abroad, but to threaten the existence of the Baccarat glassworks. In 1816, the factory was bought by Aime-Gabriel D’Artigues. Formerly director of the Saint-Louis glassworks (which had already begun lead crystal production in the early 1780s), D’Artigues had left France for Belgium, then under French rule, operating the Cristallerie de Vonêche. With Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and the resulting Belgium independence, D’Artigues was forced to return to France. Installing his glassworks at the Baccarat plant, which was renamed the Verrerie de Vonêche à Baccarat, D’Artigues converted production entirely to lead crystal. The Baccarat glassworks began crafting crystal tableware and objets d’art, while adding a level of design that would bring the company to international fame. Already in 1819, the company’s clientele featured among the European royalty.
The Baccarat glassworks would achieve a reputation not only for its design excellence, but also for its continued refinement of lead crystal materials and techniques. Under D’Artigues, the glassworks had rapidly caught up with the level of quality produced by the prominent lead crystal makers in England, as well as by Saint-Louis. After D’Artigues sold the glassworks to his partners, the factory, especially under Pierre Antoine Godard, began a pursuit of “perfection” that would raise Baccarat to the peak of the craft. The glassworks name was changed to Société de Cristallerie de Vonêche-Baccarat in 1824; soon after, the name was changed again, to Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat–which the company would keep until 1994, until the name was changed simply to Baccarat. Over the previous 150 years, the name Baccarat had become synonymous with crystal.

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To order individual components, such as push pins or springs, please visit each link/page.
If heatsink customization (size, hole layout, etc...) is required, we recommend using the online customization tool for our standard Z35 series. MOQ is 1 piece, typical lead time is 1-2weeks.
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Prof. Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota) has been awarded Spitzer time to observe Euclid Deep Field South. Her team will conduct a 687hr survey of the definitive southern continuous viewing zone deep field of the 2020s using IRAC, the primary instrument on Spitzer. This survey will secure legacy data that will allow a broad range of science over the next decade with Spitzer, Euclid, WFIRST, JWST, and ALMA.
Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) representatives will be at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA, on 6-10 January 2019.
Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI) has established the ENSCI Help Center to assist U.S. scientists in preparing to work with Euclid data.
The Euclid spacecraft will have a launch mass of around 2100 kg. It will be about 4.5 metres tall and 3.1 metres in 'diameter' (with appendages stowed). The nominal mission lifetime is six years.

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This solution provides the steps to correct a membership payment that was applied to the wrong membership or constituent. You will want to use this method if you applied a payment to the incorrect constituent's membership, and you cannot transfer the membership to the correct constituent. We will only want to transfer the membership to a new constituent if you would like to transfer the entire membership history of that membership. We can reference this article: I have a membership that is on the incorrect constituent record, if you would like transfer the entire membership.
If the membership transaction was entered via a sales order (Daily Sales, Advance Sales, or Online Sales), you will need to process a refund and a repurchase. We also recommend using an Other Payment Method, especially if it was a credit card transaction to avoid refunding and recharging the member’s credit card.
Search for the membership transaction using the order number or the member’s last name.
In the next screen, confirm the items and amounts to be refunded. If the order was originally processed with a credit card, under Payment Details, change the Refund Method from the original method to an Other payment Method such as Exchange. By changing the Refund Method, you will not have to contact the patron again for their credit card information. Note: If you do need to refund this card in the future, you can do so through your Merchant Services Portal directly.
Enter a Refund Reason and Comment if desired. Click Refund to complete the refund.
After the transaction has been refunded, create a new transaction to renew the correct membership. When applying payment, be sure to use the same Other method that you used for the refund. This way the refund and payment will balance.
Follow Steps 1-6 above to Refund the incorrect Membership transaction.
Re-enter the Membership Transactions through the Add a Membership Form. Be sure to use the same Other Payment Method if you used one for your Refund Method.
Open the Membership Payment. On the left under Tasks, click Delete Payment. Note: Before deleting the payment, if the Payment is in a locked deposit, follow the steps here to unlock the deposit.
If the original payment was processed with a credit card and you do not wish to refund and recharge the card, make note of the last four digits and authorization code on the payment. When prompted, select not to refund the credit card.
Once your payment is deleted, re-enter the transaction through the Add a Membership form.
If the payment was processed originally with a credit card, under “How are they paying?” enter the type, the last four digits, and the authorization code from the original payment. This will not charge the card again, but we can store these details for reconciliation. These details will also be helpful in case we need to locate the transaction for reconciliation purposes.


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It’s been a pretty good week for writing. I hit my 2500 word challenge this week, no problem. Already 500 words into this week’s. I still have no idea where the story is going, in fact I’m starting to worry. Every scene that I come up with doesn’t fit. I have one idea that I’m heading towards, fast, and after that? I don’t know. Hopefully something comes along, otherwise this will get forgotten about like so many other stories I’ve started.
I’m feeling positive, though. I’ve not sat in front of the screen and written nothing, yet. The words flow, but only at a snail’s pace. It took me a lot longer to write the 500 words today, than it does normally. Hopefully it picks up again soon. If not, then I’ll head back to The Broken Pocket Watch. It’s close to being finished, and I have that pretty much mapped out. I just needed to get this idea down first.
I’m pretty sure I will be uploading new writing on here next week at some point. I’m going to start editing tomorrow, and then that should be well underway before next week so I can get ahead before putting it on here. I plan on writing a new post about that later in the week, once I’m sure of what’s going on.
My challenge of reading one book a week has really faltered. It’s only week 3. I did read The Trial by Kafka in a week. That one went well, it was only around 200 pages though. Last week I only read half of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, which I have now finished. I wanted to finish that and read the whole of A Monster Calls by today. I haven’t read much of the latter. I’m about a quarter of the way through it. My plan is to finish that and Moon over Soho by this time next week. I started reading Moon over Soho last year, so I’m cheating and hopefully will get to start a new book fresh next week and stay on track. Probably not though.
I enjoyed Norse Mythology quite a bit. It didn’t blow me away, but I enjoyed my time reading it. I knew nothing about the Norse Gods before, and now I know a little. At some point I would like to read more about them, but that will have to wait. I know about Ragnarok, which other than being the title to the new Thor film I’d never heard of before. That will have to do for now. I thought the collection of stories worked really well as it heads slowly towards the ever impending fate of the Gods. At times it is funny, others truly gruesome. I would recommend the book to anyone looking for a quick fun read.
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On Saturday 11th February over 50 staff, parents and pupils from years 5 and 6 travelled to the Amex Stadium to watch Brighton and Hove Albion take on Burton Albion. There was much excitement on the minibuses as we all knew that a Brighton victory would send them to the top of the Championship, even if for a few hours.
A quick visit to the club shop saw pupils emerge with a variety of items in the traditional blue and white of Brighton. Taking our seats it was time for kick-off.
On a very cold afternoon littered with snow flurries both teams started slowly. Brighton eventually broke the deadlock and entered the half time interval one goal to the good.
Pies, hot chocolate and hot dogs were the order of the day to keep us all warm at halftime and before we knew it the teams were back onto the field of play. Brighton emerged a different side and the pace of their play increased significantly. Brighton went on to provide a 'goal fest' and leapt to the top of the league thanks to a 4-1 victory.
"Jack for one has never been to a proper football match and may not otherwise have had opportunity to do so. It was a lovely idea and a nice chance for him to get someone to one time with his dad alongside his friends. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience."
Thank you to all the staff and parents who attended the trip. A huge well done to all of our pupils. As always you were a credit to the school.