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When you learn how to speak to a person’s conscience and circumnavigate the intellect, the subject of evolution seems to disappear.[1]Kirk Cameron made this statement on his Way of the Master TV series, produced jointly with Ray Comfort. They admit they want to appeal to our fear, and not our common sense. They conduct man in the street interviews and will ask people at random the same tired questions.Have you ever told a lie?Yes.What does that make you?A liar.Have you ever stolen anything?Yes.What does that make you?A thief.So, you’re a lying, thieving sinner, and you’re going to hell if you don’t accept Jesus as your saviour.Telling a lie no more makes me a liar than expressing an opinion about politics makes me a politician.It’s fair to say that the US is the world leader in science and technological advancement. The children of the US will be the scientists, doctors, innovators, and technological leaders of tomorrow, yet some of them are being kept scientifically illiterate by those who object to the teaching of evolution in schools. Unfortunately, this brand of science denial opens the door to a lot of very dangerous ideas, such as climate change denial, opposition to childhood vaccination, and even the intrusion by male politicians into the sphere of women’s reproductive health. Other ideas follow, as you’ll find if you take a trip to the weird part of YouTube. Flat Earthers, Geocentrists, Hollow Moon advocates, and Chemtrail activists all abound. The most offensive of these are the conspiracy theorists who claim that tragedies such as 9/11, the Boston bombings, and the Sandy Hook shootings were all staged false flag operations. I cannot imagine how it must feel for someone who lost a relative on 9/11 when people claim their daddy did not die that day, but is faking his death somewhere.I know many Christians who are kind and caring people and who sincerely believe in the creation story, people whose lives seem to be the better for their belief and are possessed of an inner peace that others see and want to experience for themselves. That’s what drew me to Christianity to begin with. They didn’t draw me in by appealing to my conscience and circumnavigating my intellect. They drew me in with their love. The conviction that I was a sinner in need of a saviour came to me in the privacy of my own heart.On the other hand, Comfort and Cameron terrify people into faith, and they do it with lies - lies about the truth of scientific discovery. In their TV series, The Way of the Master, Comfort interviews random college students on their knowledge of evolution.“We’re now going to look closely at the believers of the theory of evolution and we want you to listen very closely to the type of language they use. True believers use what we call the language of speculation. They’ll start off sounding like an expert, but because there’s such a lack of factual evidence for the theory, they are forced to use words like we surmise, we believe, perhaps, maybe, could have, possibly, I really don’t know, I’m not an expert. [2]Comfort didn’t interview students who were likely to have been able to speak with any great confidence on the subject of evolution. Most of them looked as though they had just rolled out of bed. In his short film “Evolution V God”, Comfort interviews several professors of biology who are all teaching biology currently. One of them was PZ Myers, associate professor of biology at Minnesota Morris university. On his blog Pharyngula, Myers states that he gave perfectly sound answers to every question Comfort put to him, but they were edited out and left on the cutting room floor. Most of the responses Comfort left in the movie were actually long silences in which these professors were framing their answers. [3]When one student stated that he had seen exhibits at the Smithsonian showing transitional forms, Comfort mocked him, saying that they were just stuffed dummies, and that viewing them was like standing around looking at a fire. He made no attempt to address the point that the Smithsonian does indeed display transitional forms. Comfort chose students to use in the film who were unfamiliar with evolution, and tried to portray them as being clueless. If these ‘True Believers’ could not give evidence of evolution (even though one of them just did) then evidence must not exist. Some of these students were on the right lines and some were not, but they must be applauded for their honesty in admitting what they didn’t know.Women need men like fish need fused pelvic fins to climb treesOne student was asked how we could possibly have evolved from fish. Did they dash out of the water, Ray asked, taking a few breaths before dashing back in? [4] Fish are used as examples by anti-evolution proponents, because they cannot understand why an animal that has evolved to live so well in water could possibly evolve to live just as well on land. Well, the mudskipper is a fish and has done just that. They live in inter-tidal swamps and mudflats, where water levels change with each tide. The tide brings in larger, predatory fish from deeper waters, and the mudskipper has evolved the ability to climb trees to escape from them.Mudskippers have gills, but they also breathe through their skins. Their skin is porous and there are sacs just beneath it, into which they absorb oxygen, from the air. They are basically simple lungs. They build nests on land, and their eggs hatch on land, in the air. When oxygen levels in the burrow get low, the males gulp air into their mouths, and release it into the burrow. When their young in their burrow are low on oxygen, they release extra oxygen to them, that they get from the air.[5]How the mudskipper oxygenates his burrowThis is an excerpt taken from Creating the Creators, a wonderful essay written by Stephen Jay Gould, published in Discover magazine, October 1996.Consider two crucial examples in the evolution of vertebrates: Since a fish’s air bladder is the same organ as a mammal’s lung, many people assume that air bladders evolved into lungs (because mammals are supposedly higher than fishes). In fact, evolution took the opposite path: the lungs possessed by all early fishes became air bladders in most modern fishes but remained as lungs in the ancestors of terrestrial vertebrates. Since more than half of all vertebrate species are fishes with air bladders, this creative evolutionary transition represents a key event in the history of vertebrates ( however demoted or ignored because we are so hung up on our own supposed superiority and don’t like to credit fishes for altering a primitive organ like our lung to a different and highly successful function).But how can a lung become an air bladder? How could such a transition occur without suffocation of the intermediary forms? A famous song tells us that fish gotta swim, but they also gotta breathe. The principle of redundancy resolves this riddle. Early fishes breathed with two organs: gills and lungs (as do modern lungfishes, technically known as dipnoans--meaning two breathing). Thus, fish could continue to breathe with gills while lungs evolved to the novel function of air bladders. [6]Next question, Ray?What big hips you have, Grandma Lucy!Kirk Cameron pipes in with the lie that there are huge gaps in the fossil record because they don’t find transitional forms that help one animal form into another. [7] Kirk clearly has no idea what a transitional form is, or is lying when he says this. Animals don’t give birth to offspring of a completely different species - that’s impossible. Speciation doesn’t happen that way.Imagine the unbroken line of women stretching back from me to my distant ancestor Lucy, of the species Australopithecus afarensis. If I were able to to walk past that line of women, I may not notice the change by the time I get to grandma Homo heidelbergensis, and carry on until I get to nana Homo habilis. Anyone viewing this from outside would notice, but I would not. Eventually, I will arrive at my great-nana Lucy, hardly having perceived the differences between each of my female relatives.There are more intermediate forms than the ones I’ve mentioned. Speciation has occurred when each of these intermediates has a genome so different than the others, that they cannot breed together. A modern human male could not produce a lineage with Lucy, even though she is a direct ancestor.[8]Kirk’s claim that there are huge gaps in the fossil record is simply not the case. The fossil record supports the theory of evolution. Just because he doesn’t understand speciation and is ignorant of what a transitional form is, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. He goes on to violate the ninth commandment with an even bigger whopper, the claim that all experts agree that Lucy was just a three-foot tall chimpanzee. [9] Kent Hovind made a similar comment in a debate -”I’d like to know how fast that train was going when it hit that chimpanzee!” This was a sarcastic reference to the claim that Lucy’s bones were spread over a large area. For one thing, Lucy is 3.2 million years old, and her species is represented by the bones of several individuals, and not by hers alone. She had a valgus knee, showing that she moved in an upright position.Her pubic arch was 90 degrees, similar to a modern human female, but totally unlike a chimp.Every time you tell this story, the fisherman gets biggerOf Nebraska Man, Kirk has this to say:They created an entire skeleton with arms, legs, feet, hands, even facial features, when all they really had was one tooth, which was later found to be from an extinct pig.[10]Nebraska man was never considered to be a transitional form. The tooth was from an extinct pig called a peccary, and although peccaries can be found in Central and South America, they did roam free in the Great Plains during the Pleistocene era. Nebraska man was simply a classification error.Is this who you mean by ‘they,’ Kirk?Kirk brings up the example of Piltdown man. Charles Dawson, who announced the find in 1912, was an amateur paleontologist and anthropologist and a certified eccentric. Piltdown man was not his first fraud. It’s unlikely that a great ape would be roaming around a quarry in England, and after Dawson’s death, investigation revealed the jawbone was from a great ape, but had been bleached and artificially weathered to look like it was half a million years old. Research from 2010 suggests that Dawson acted alone in the fraud.[11] There have been many instances of fraud in the pursuit of academic and scholarly glory. That does not mean that every discovery since then is a fake or is fraudulent.Kirk’s next example is the discovery of ‘Neanderthal Man’, a skeleton he claims was found in France over 50 years ago, and was found to belong to an old man with arthritis.[12]To begin with, Neanderthals were first discovered in 1856 in the Neander Valley in Germany, not in France. I’m a nurse, and I can tell you that arthritis does not increase your bone density and make your brow bone stick out. Even if that particular individual had been a pituitary giant, or suffered from some early form of Paget’s disease, that would not account for the appearance of the rest of the over 400 Neanderthal fossils that have been found from Western Europe to the Middle East since the first one was discovered in 1856. We’ve even sequenced their Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA, and we have found that they are NOT HOOMANS!.[13]Keep digging until we find the meaning we need, boys!Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould is the next example of Ray and Kirk’s brand of creationist misrepresentation."The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of the branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."[14]This quote has been taken out of context, and Comfort wants his audience to think that Gould is admitting that all the evidence is missing. Notice that Gould said ‘rare’ and not ‘nonexistent.’ He is referring to particular clades within the fossil record, and not to the fossil record as a whole.Gould proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, an alternative method of explaining gaps in the fossil record. He thought that evolutionary stasis (species remaining relatively unchanged over prolonged periods of time) and new species appearing quickly to fill niches in rapidly changing conditions was a better explanation for gaps than Darwin’s assertion of an imperfect fossil record. Gould was well aware that the fossil record demonstrated change over time, but posited that the change was abrupt, with whole species appearing and disappearing without a smooth gradient. Put simply, he didn’t think the fossil record matched the predictions of the Gradualism that Darwin proposed.Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. [15]Gould wrote this in the May 1981 issue of Discover magazine, clarifying that he did not say there are no transitional forms, but Comfort and Cameron do not tell you that, whether it be by design or stupidity. Either they have never bothered to look up the quote beyond their preferred creation science websites, or they’re relying on you not knowing any better. Lying, in other words."But paleontologists have discovered several superb examples of intermediary forms and sequences, more than enough to convince any fair-minded skeptic about the reality of life's physical genealogy." [16]In another scene, Kirk tells the viewer that he and Ray ‘hired’ an Orangutan for the day. Incidentally, they also criticise evolution because we are classified as primates, something they disagree with. The classification of humans as primates was actually done by Carl Linnaeus, known as the ‘Father of Modern Taxonomy.’ He was a creationist, and died in 1778, thirty one years before Darwin was even born. Evolution had nothing to do with it. [17]The pair devote a chunk of the movie to showing just how alike humans and orangutans are, quite bizarrely - considering what they say next. They point out that orangutans don’t form orchestras or governments because they are a different species than us. Yes, you read that right. Kirk and Ray actually believe that scientists claim humans and orangutans are the same species.[18]If you can’t make it, fake itAnother example of quote mining that is particularly troubling and unethical is in the use of quotes that are completely fictitous, like this one, supposedly from the pen of anthropologist and anatomist Sir Arthur Keith.Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.[19]It’s curious that Comfort thinks Keith’s opinion is weighty enough to support his claim that evolution is unprovable, but not when he says special creation is unthinkable. This quote is supposed to have been written for the 100 year anniversary edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1959, but Keith died in 1955, four years before the anniversary edition was printed. The quote appears nowhere but on creationists websites. There’s no record of Keith having said it at all. He died before the structure of DNA was even discovered.Let me scare the shit out of you while I scare the shit out of youIt is in the last section that the pair reveal what I think is a fairly sinister agenda, and an admission of the mind games they play in order to convert people to Christianity. I’ll quote from them directly.Kirk CameronHere’s a very interesting fact. In the last couple of dozen times that I’ve witnessed to someone I can honestly say that the subject of evolution has not come up even once. Why? Because I didn’t bring it up. I didn’t have to, and it doesn’t come up on its own because it’s often a non-issue. When you learn how to speak to a person’s conscience and circumnavigate the intellect, the subject of evolution seems to disappear.[20]Ray ComfortNow, this is real good news for people like me. It means I don’t have to become an expert in the fossil record, and it also means I don’t have to learn words like rhinorhondothackasaurus.[21]They go on to compare trying to convert people to their religion with trying to convince the guy next to you on an aeroplane that he needs to read the safety instructions so he knows how to use his parachute in the event of an emergency. Teaching evolution is like informing the guy about the name of the plane’s manufacturer and when it was manufactured, pointing out that the name of the manufacturer is written all over the plane. You tell him the plane is new, but he doesn’t believe you, and says the plane is really old and was put together by accident. You say you have proof to back up what you say, and so does he.But…If you tell him about the law of gravity and that he’ll go splat if he falls out of the plane and isn’t wearing a parachute, he’ll say, ‘now I believe you! Pass me that safety card so I can learn how to put on a parachute!’Actually Ray, it’s the terminal change of momentum that kills you, not the law of gravity.It’s clear that Cameron and Comfort don’t want you to know the truth. They don’t want you to think or use your intellect in any way. They want to scare the crap out of you and convince you that you’re going to hell if you don’t listen to their message. If you don’t believe me, watch this video, entitled, ‘Yes, we are trying to scare you. You should be scared.’[22]I don’t advocate that all young earth creationists deserve the vitriol of those of us who accept that evolution is responsible for the variety of life on earth. Many important scientific discoveries have been made by men and women of faith, and there are many scientists working today who are Christians and who accept the truth of evolution, but I have a big problem with individuals such as Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron who have no education in science, yet have the intellectual dishonesty to tell lies about something they claim to know nothing about. [23] Another thing I have a problem with is that although these guys have had these errors pointed out to them and should really know better, they do not correct them, but continue to distribute materials with these lies still not edited out. How long should it take to correct the error that Neanderthal man was found not in France, but in Germany?Young earth creationists such as Kent Hovind and Ken Ham promote their own brand of science denial, and the unfortunate fact is that many churches are taken in by it. The problem is not one of differing religious viewpoints, but of a calculated movement that seeks to ridicule science, abandon the scientific method, and produce a generation of scientifically illiterate children. Bill Nye stated that:Creationism is not suitable for children. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.[24]I looked at a rebuttal to this, made by Creation Ministries International. I was hoping to find a sensible argument in response, but I was disappointed. The guy in the video claimed that ‘an evolutionist’ said that most biology proceeds independent of the theory of evolution. I googled this quote, but could not find it anywhere. However, I can respond to it with a quote from Theodosius Dobzhansky:Nothing in biology makes any sense except in the light of evolution.[25]Dobzhansky was an Eastern Orthodox Christian, and he took the term ‘Light of Evolution’ from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest.Our guy goes on to state that :Academic standards among US schoolchildren are amongst the lowest in the world, so asking children who are illiterate to become scientifically literate is a bit of a stretch. Don’t brainwash our children when you can’t even teach them to read properly.[26]So, US children aren’t worth educating, so there’s no point in teaching them science, it’s the fault of ‘evolutionists’ that children can’t read, and parents are not responsible in any way for teaching their own kids to read? He also mentioned that we need engineers who can build things by examining both sides of an issue. Frankly, if you’re building me a bridge, the only issue I want you to consider is whether it’s going to fall down or not. Our Guy used the rest of the video to psignNow the false claim that many scientists have a problem with evolution, and that it is a hugely divisive issue among them. There is no debate on the truth of evolution in the scientific community, and 99.98% of scientists accept it. [27] Creationists rely on creating the illusion of a divided scientific community, claiming that ‘creation science’ and Intelligent Design hold equal sway with evolution and should be given equal credibility. Our guy from CMI also claims that the day will come when we all realise that evolution is a lie, and stop teaching it. I’m sorry if my response to that is somewhat vitriolic.Footnotes[1] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 3 of 3[2] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[3] Ray Comfort confesses[4] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[5] Abby Hafer: Animals That Shouldn’t Exist, According to Intelligent Design (AHA Conference 2016)[6] Creating the Creators[7] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[8] Human Family Tree[9] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[10] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[11] Charles Dawson - Wikipedia[12] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 1 of 3[13] Homo neanderthalensis[14] Gould, Eldredge and Punctuated Equilibria Quotes[15] https://books.google.co.uk/books...[16] Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory" 1994[17] Carl Linnaeus - Wikipedia[18] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 2 of 3[19] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 2 of 3[20] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 3 of 3[21] The Way Of The Master   Evolution Part 3 of 3[22] Yes, we are trying to scare you  You should be scared[23] American Atheists[24] Yes, we are trying to scare you  You should be scared[25] Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution - Wikipedia[26] CMI: Evolutionism is not appropriate for anyone - a response to Bill Nye[27] Level of support for evolution - Wikipedia

It depends on your circumstances.You will probably have a form W8 BEN (for individuals/natural persons) or a form W8 BEN E (for corporations or other businesses that are not natural persons).Does your country have a double tax convention with the USA? Check here United States Income Tax Treaties A to ZDoes your income from Amazon relate to a business activity and does it specifically not include Dividends, Interest, Royalties, Licensing Fees, Fees in return for use of a technology, rental of property or offshore oil exploration?Is all the work carried out to earn this income done outside the US, do you have no employees, assets or offices located in the US that contributed to earning this income?Were you resident in your home country in the year that you earned this income and not resident in the US.Are you registered to pay tax on your business profits in your home country?If you meet these criteria you will probably be looking to claim that the income is taxable at zero % withholding tax under article 7 of your tax treaty as the income type is business profits arises solely from business activity carried out in your home country.

NOOOOOOO. You are talking to a military romance scammer. I received an email from the US Army that directly answers your question that is pasted below please keep reading.I believe you are the victim of a military Romance Scam whereas the person you are talking to is a foreign national posing as an American Soldier claiming to be stationed overseas on a peacekeeping mission. That's the key to the scam they always claim to be on a peacekeeping mission.Part of their scam is saying that they have no access to their money that their mission is highly dangerous.If your boyfriend girlfriend/future husband/wife is asking you to do the following or has exhibited this behavior, it is a most likely a scam:Moves to private messaging site immediately after meeting you on Facebook or SnapChat or Instagram or some dating or social media site. Often times they delete the site you met them on right after they asked you to move to a more private messaging siteProfesses love to you very quickly & seems to quote poems and song lyrics along with using their own sort of broken language, as they profess their love and devotion quickly. They also showed concern for your health and love for your family.Promises marriage as soon as he/she gets to state for leave that they asked you to pay for.They Requests money (wire transfers) and Amazon, iTune ,Verizon, etc gift cards, for medicine, religious practices, and leaves to come home, internet access, complete job assignments, help sick friend, get him out of trouble, or anything that sounds fishy.The military does provide all the soldier needs including food medical Care and transportation for leave. Trust me, I lived it, you are probably being scammed. I am just trying to show you examples that you are most likely being connned.Below is an email response I received after I sent an inquiry to the US government when I discovered I was scammed. I received this wonderful response back with lots of useful links on how to find and report your scammer. And how to learn more about Romance Scams.Right now you can also copy the picture he gave you and do a google image search and you will hopefully see the pictures of the real person he is impersonating. this doesn't always work and take some digging. if you find the real person you can direct message them and alert them that their image is being used for scamming.Good Luck to you and I'm sorry this may be happening to you. please continue reading the government response I received below it's very informative.   You have contacted an email that is monitored by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Unfortunately, this is a common concern. We assure you there is never any reason to send money to anyone claiming to be a Soldier online. If you have only spoken with this person online, it is likely they are not a U.S. Soldier at all. If this is a suspected imposter social media profile, we urge you to report it to that platform as soon as possible. Please continue reading for more resources and answers to other frequently asked questions:  How to report an imposter Facebook profile: Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... < Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... >   Answers to frequently asked questions:  - Soldiers and their loved ones are not charged money so that the Soldier can go on leave.  - Soldiers are not charged money for secure communications or leave.  - Soldiers do not need permission to get married.  - Soldiers emails are in this format: john.doe.mil@mail.mil < Caution-mailto: john.doe.mil@mail.mil > anything ending in .us or .com is not an official email account.  - Soldiers have medical insurance, which pays for their medical costs when treated at civilian health care facilities worldwide – family and friends do not need to pay their medical expenses.  - Military aircraft are not used to transport Privately Owned Vehicles.  - Army financial offices are not used to help Soldiers buy or sell items of any kind.  - Soldiers deployed to Combat Zones do not need to solicit money from the public to feed or house themselves or their troops.  - Deployed Soldiers do not find large unclaimed sums of money and need your help to get that money out of the country.  Anyone who tells you one of the above-listed conditions/circumstances is true is likely posing as a Soldier and trying to steal money from you.  We would urge you to immediately cease all contact with this individual.  For more information on avoiding online scams and to report this crime, please see the following sites and articles:   This article may help clarify some of the tricks social media scammers try to use to take advantage of people: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/>   CID advises vigilance against 'romance scams,' scammers impersonating Soldiers  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 < Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 >   FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx< Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx>   U.S. Army investigators warn public against romance scams: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...>   DOD warns troops, families to be cybercrime smart -Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...< Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...>   Use caution with social networking  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...>    Please see our frequently asked questions section under scams and legal issues. Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ < Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ > or visit Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ < Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ >.  The challenge with most scams is determining if an individual is a legitimate member of the US Army. Based on the Privacy Act of 1974, we cannot provide this information. If concerned about a scam you may contact the Better Business Bureau (if it involves a solicitation for money), or local law enforcement. If you're involved in a Facebook or dating site scam, you are free to contact us direct; (571) 305-4056.   If you have a social security number, you can find information about Soldiers online at Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... < Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... > . While this is a free search, it does not help you locate a retiree, but it can tell you if the Soldier is active duty or not.  If more information is needed such as current duty station or location, you can contact the Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) by phone or mail and they will help you locate individuals on active duty only, not retirees. There is a fee of $3.50 for businesses to use this service. The check or money order must be made out to the U.S. Treasury. It is not refundable. The address is:  Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) 8899 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46249-5301 Phone: 1-866-771-6357  In addition, it is not possible to remove social networking site profiles without legitimate proof of identity theft or a scam. If you suspect fraud on this site, take a screenshot of any advances for money or impersonations and report the account on the social networking platform immediately.  Please submit all information you have on this incident to Caution-www.ic3.gov < Caution-http://www.ic3.gov > (FBI website, Internet Criminal Complaint Center), immediately stop contact with the scammer (you are potentially providing them more information which can be used to scam you), and learn how to protect yourself against these scams at Caution-http://www.ftc.gov < Caution-http://www.ftc.gov > (Federal Trade Commission's website)

A QuickBooks Trial Balance and Detailed General Ledger - printed and in Excel format. Work with your CPA to create an appropriate chart of accounts for your business. And use a good bookkeeper to keep your books. If your books look good, the CPA will ask some question to gain comfort and then accept your numbers with little further investigation.Please do not bring a boxful of crumpled receipts. You will pay more for your CPA to uncrumple them and categorize them. If you are a really small business, a legal pad sheet categorizing your receipts. If your receipts are a mess, or your books a mess, your CPA needs to ask a lot more questions and spend a lot more time gaining comfort with your books. Bad books from a shady client means a lot of grief for the CPA and a lot more fees.

I was selected for a summer internship 2016.I tried to be very open while filling the preference form: I choose many products as my favorite products and I said I'm open about the team I want to join.I even was very open in the  location and start date to get host matching interviews (I negotiated the start date in the interview until both me and my host were happy.) You could ask your recruiter to review your form (there are very cool and could help you a lot since they have a bigger experience).Do a search on the potential team.Before the interviews,  try to find smart question that you are going to ask for the potential host (do a search on the team  to find nice and deep questions to impress your host). Prepare well your resume.You are very likely not going to get algorithm/data structure questions like in the first round. It's going to be just some friendly chat if you are lucky. If your potential team is working on something like machine learning, expect that  they are going to ask you questions about machine learning, courses related to machine learning you have and relevant experience (projects, internship). Of course you have to study that before the interview. Take as long time as you need if you feel rusty. It takes some time to get ready for the host matching (it's less than the technical interview)  but it's worth it of course.

Transition planning is a formal process for helping kids with IEPs figure out what they want to do after high school and how to get there. It's required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). ... The purpose of transition planning is to help your child prepare to be an independent young adult.

Transition planning is a process mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004) for all students who have an Individualized Education Program (IEP) in K-12 education. The purpose is to facilitate the student's move from school to post-school activities.

Student-centered transition planning is also an ideal context to build and refine a student's self-determination skills\u2014a set of behaviors that entails decision-making, goal setting, problem-solving, independent performance, self-evaluation, and self-advocacy.

Transition Services A primary purpose of IDEA is to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a FAPE that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.

The IEP transition plan ensures not only that children with disabilities will be able to function as adults in the real world but to also increase the likelihood they will pursue post-secondary education. In other words, the IEP transition plan goes beyond simply finding a place for LD students after high school.