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Live testimony via Zoom will also have problems: e.g., How can an attorney and party work together during trial in a distancing environment? But all such problems can be handled ("where there's a will, there's a way"). With experience and in due time, all such problems will be well-known and routinely resolved.
Currently, however, such problems are, in most courts, unknown and imagined—and, therefore, viewed as insurmountable. It is only in doing that such problems will become known and solutions identified.
Impediment and a Prediction
One impediment to the use of live testimony via Zoom is a trial strategy. In any lawsuit, it's common for one party to want the trial process expedited, while another wants delay. And opposing any process that hastens the trial can be a delay tactic.
Such a tactic happens . . . and there is nothing wrong with it.
But judges don't want to gum up their future dockets by today's delays. So, here's guessing and predicting that:
Judges will be searching for Zoom solutions to make live testimony happen in distancing contexts, and their search will be successful; and
The use of Zoom technologies for trials with live testimony, in a distancing context, will become common and routine.<eot>Topic: Blog page glitch – need advice for a fix… | WordPress.com Forums
Blog page glitch – need advice for a fix…
April 20, 2012 at 2:43 am #872318
mikeschultzpaintings
Is anyone having a blog page glitch? Today after doing a simple edit (adding a tag to a post) I clicked back to my blog and now there is a glitch I cannot seem to remedy. There an extra post in the top right hand corner of my blog, and there is an extra gray text block, that is usually not visible, traveling behind the posts all the way down the first page of my blog. If anyone has any idea of how to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated.
The blog I need help with is pinksphinx.wordpress.com.
April 20, 2012 at 2:50 am #872498
April 20, 2012 at 2:55 am #872501
Oops, thought I linked it. Thanks! http://pinksphinx.wordpress.com/
April 20, 2012 at 2:58 am #872502
If you look the second page of "older entries", you can see what my blog usually looks like. From the second page on, it is normal with no glitches. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
April 20, 2012 at 3:06 am #872505
First you click the title of each post to see which post is the culprit. In your case it's "Refugees Fleeing Myawaddy".
April 20, 2012 at 4:39 am #872519
Thank you, justpi! You are an HTML wizard and that totally worked. You just helped to conclude a day of confusion and headaches trying to figure that out.
April 20, 2012 at 5:16 am #872522
Actually there's no wizardry involved in this case, as it's a very common issue. But experienced volunteers like raincoaster or me still cannot fathom why WP insists on keeping the default for the auto-correct option to off instead of on…<eot>We can't get enough of this cute top! Made from beautiful chambray fabric with ruffle bell sleeves and a crop peplum hem, who could resist?
This top is a generous fit. So if you're between sizes or unsure, we suggest sizing down. Model is 177cm tall and wears size S.<eot>The Great Springbank Bake Off 4.10.16 | Farsley Springbank Primary School
This week children are participating in the Great Springbank Bake Off. The Year 5 teachers are giving the children technical baking challenges all week! This will test their measuring and weighing and enable the teachers to see just how accurate they can be. The first task was a Lemon Cloud Mug Cake. Here are some pictures of how the children got on.
The second technical challenge children were given this week was making an apple pie! Here are some pictures of how the children got on!<eot>Standard Of Excellence: Communication From Small Tax Practices - The SA Institute of Tax Professionals
Standard Of Excellence: Communication From Small Tax Practices
Saturday, 29 November 2008 (0 Comments)
Posted by: Author: Dave Bridges
Over the past year or so,clients of small tax practices may have noticed that the standard of communications with them has been less than excellent and not on the same level to which they have become accustomed.
Accounting practices and,in particular,tax practitioners have been subjected to extreme pressure over the past ten months.There could be several reasons for that situation.
The tax amnesty created in excess of six months of additional work. In normal years, tax returns were issued in January each year.Salaried taxpayers were granted until 31 October to submit their returns.Provisional tax payers,members of close corporations/private companies and beneficiaries of trusts were granted ex tensions until 28 February of the following year. This year, tax returns for individuals were issued on 15 August.Practitioners were not notified that hard copies of corporate returns would not be issued. All individuals were granted until 31 October to file their returns, other than by eFiling.
If eFiling was elected as the submission route the extension was until 31 January.This was later extended to 29 February, with the understanding that if 75% of the practices' returns were submitted by that date, their remaining clients would be given until 14 March to submit.
eFiling itself posed a number of problems. By affixing their digital signature to those returns practitioners were deemed to have signed a sworn statement that full and honest disclosure had been made by the taxpayer. That created the risk of the practitioner being held liable for omissions and errors on the part of their clients. That was an unacceptable risk. Therefore, there was a need to obtain a signed mandate from each of their clients, which relieved the practitioner of culpability for their clients' acts. That was a most time-consuming exercise. For many, the drafting of a suitable document was only finalised in late October - thus forcing the use of eFiling in order to save clients from late lodgment penalties.
Obtaining those mandates and the registration for eFiling took the best part of November and a good part of December. SARS had given practitioners until 31 December to achieve that registration in order to avoid penalties for their clients.That was subsequently extended to 31 January 2008. In the meantime, the Christmas shutdown made even that deadline near impossible to achieve, as practitioners were unable to contact a large number of clients until after they returned to work in late January
SARS's training staff was stretched to the limit and, despite frequent requests, our firm received only one on-site visit in mid-February, and that was to solve problems inherent in the SARS's eFiling systems. Some of those problems have yet to be resolved.
Mandatory fields in the new tax return made it necessary to obtain additional information to that normally required, such as bank account details, additional details relating to travel and medical claims and, for certain taxpayers, a statement of their assets and liabilities.Unless the details were inserted on the tax forms the system would not allow the return to be printed or submitted.
Daily frustrations were experienced with the website itself either being offline or certain parts of the programme being inaccessible. January saw the introduction of power shedding and that resulted in a 31% loss of productive time. Valuable hardware was damaged and that caused further lost time.
In some areas of KwaZulu-Natal, ADSL and other telephone lines were out of order for two weeks during January.As early as October - through the media of stakeholder meetings with SARS officials, both at a local and national level - tax practitioners pointed out that the eFiling system was not operating correctly and that inadequate time and resources had been allocated to educating call centre consultants, the practitioners and taxpayers.
Either directly or via the media of various professional institutes, practitioners have brought those factors to the attention of the office of the Commissioner in an attempt to illustrate that the deadlines set are impossible to achieve and to motivate additional ex tensions.To date, there has been no response to those representations.
Small tax practices account for the majority of tax returns lodged in the country.Thus they are highly instrumental in creating improved compliance and collections.Yet SARS officials whilst referring to practitioners as colleagues, continue to ignore the representations of the very people who are helping them achieve the collection goals of which they are so proud.
What SARS has to say about tax season 2008
What is new for employers?The process of employers deducting and paying tax on behalf of employees most notably, the annual PAYE reconciliation process – is the cornerstone of the personal income tax process.That process has for a long time presented difficulties for both employers and SARS, because the reconciliation rarely works out first time round.By fixing the PAYE reconciliation process this year we are able to both enhance the administration of that core element of the income tax system as well as address the challenges of accuracy of third party information encountered during last year's filing season – which will allow us to pre-populate returns for employees.
A simplified PAYE reconciliation process
We have simplified the IRP501 reconciliation form to give you the ability to perform your own reconciliation before you send it to SARS.This new form (now called the EMP501) has been available for download or from the nearest SARS branch offices from 1 July 2008. The EMP501 allows you to calculate any difference between the total value of the tax certificates you issued, your total annual declared liability (as per your monthly EMP201s) and your total payments to SARS – which simply results in a credit amount to be refunded or debit amount to be settled with SARS. Then you are reconciled! You simply submit this EMP501 with copies of all your tax certificates to SARS. You can submit that via eFiling or on disk as you have always done – or manually via a branch.
Custom-built software to help you with your reconciliation
SARS has developed custom-built software that allows you to complete the entire reconciliation process easily and electronically.This SARS software will be compatible with all major payroll systems and has been available for download or from any SARS branch office from 1 July 2008.SARS has also simplified the manual process,including new IRP5 booklets, which you will also be able to download or collect from a SARS branch.
Filing season for employers
For the first time SARS will have a filing season for employers, during which employers need to complete the PAYE reconciliation process.This 60-day period will run from 1 July to 29 August 2008.<eot>Crystal Forest Slot Review | Jackpot + Free Spins
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Introducing Clearleft Presents
It will come as no surprise to learn that we're conference junkies at Clearleft. We love attending conferences, speaking at conferences, and yes, even hosting a few.
Conferences are a great way to gain exposure to new ideas, meet new people, and get excited about the craft. However it's rare to come away from a talk having gained a brand new skill.
There are various reasons for this, but one of them is the concept of embodied cognition. The idea that you learn new skills by practicing them, rather than just being exposed to the underlying concepts. This is why we also love workshops, and ensure they form part of the programme at UX London and Leading Design.
Over the years we've met many amazing speakers and participated in hundreds of workshops, many of which have people talking about them for weeks or months to come. Their content has informed our practices, and the tools we've learned are used on an almost daily basis. Everything from sketching and design games, through to design sprints and the business model canvas.
Many of these workshop speakers have become our friends, and will regularly drop us a line when passing through London. One of the things that drives Clearleft is the desire to share knowledge, so we've decided to use these visits as a way of sharing workshops with the wider community.
In short, we're starting a new workshop programme called Clearleft Presents. It will be made up entirely of some the wonderful and insightful speakers from over the years, and will take place roughly once a quarter.
Our first workshop in the series is with the wonderful Blair Enns. We've been following Blair for many years at Clearleft, and his "Win Without Pitching" book has been a great influence on the way we do business and sell our work.
I was lucky enough to attend one of Blair's rare UK workshops six years ago, and it left a lasting impression on me. So he was the first person I thought of when organising our Founders Assembly event last year. Blair will be visiting the UK in early July and we've invited him to deliver a workshop for agency founders, directors and biz dev folk called "The Four Conversations" on the 6th July in London. Tickets are on sale now and the venue is purposefully small, so book tickets soon before we sell out.
Following Blair in September, I'm excited to announce we'll be hosting a workshop with Jake Knapp, author of the seminal Design Sprints book. Jake's workshop at UX London a few years back was an amazing success; so much so it quickly reached capacity and we were forced to turn people away at the door. Since leaving Google Ventures earlier this year, Jake has been selling out design sprint workshops around the world, so we're super excited to welcome him back to London in September.
We're still working out the details of the workshop, but if you're interested in attending, drop us a line with your details and we'll let you know when tickets go on sale. Also if there is somebody you'd especially like to see, drop us a line and we'll try to make it happen.<eot>Ragtime brings early 20th century to life | The Beacon Newspapers, Inc.
Ragtime brings early 20th century to life
Kevin McAllister plays Coalhouse Walker Jr., and Ada Satterfield plays his wife, Sarah, in the musical Ragtime, which tells the powerful stories of three different families in early 20th century New York. The musical, which features a large and outstanding cast, will be on stage at Toby's Dinner Theatre through Nov. 15.
Remember the bad ol' days, 100 years or so ago, when multi-millionaires ruled the economic and political roosts, when immigrants were barely tolerated, and when blacks tried to show that their lives and their dignity mattered?
Well, those times — not really gone by, are they? — are being played out with vigor, verve and considerable talent in the historical musical Ragtime, now playing at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia.
Based on the novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow, adapted for the stage by Terrence McNally, the production has much of the drama, if not the full scope, of the author's great original work, plus pulsating songs, many of which are syncopated ragtime melodies.
The songs are performed by a cast of very professional singers (even though before the curtain went up and during intermission they serve the dinner theater audience coffee and drinks).