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Tax News & Views Finding an Infrastructure Outfit Roundup
By Joe Kristan, CPA
House Doubles Down on Moving Tax Changes With Infrastructure Bill -Frederic Lee, Tax Notes ($). "President Biden's agenda to raise taxes on high earners and other reforms won't go up for a House vote until the Senate acts on both an infrastructure compromise and a budget bill, according to the House Budget Committee chair."
Top Dems working to appease fractured party on infrastructure - Sarah Ferris and Nicholas Wu, Politico:
Congressional Democrats are laboring this week to preserve their party's fragile peace on an increasingly fraught infrastructure strategy.
As President Joe Biden scrambles to keep his bipartisan deal with Senate Republicans alive, Democrats are working behind the scenes to mollify their more restive members and present a united front in a critical stretch for his agenda. Moderates are worried about too much spending in a second, one-party bill, while progressives are worried about too little spending — and senior Democrats are caught in the middle.
The very narrow control of both houses leaves Democratic leaders with the difficult task of finding something that works both for representatives from Brooklyn and a senator from West Virginia.
Navigating the Reconciliation Bill - Renu Zaretsky, Daily Deduction. "As House appropriators start working on next year's spending bills, they must work out vast difference between progressives, who want to spend far more than moderates. Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders says he wants $6 trillion in new spending over the next decade. Moderates say total new spending should be closer to $2 trillion."
Paying for Infrastructure With Pixie Dust - Howard Gleckman, TaxVox. "Let's face it: If Congress wants to pay for a $1 trillion spending plan without raising the deficit, the only real ways to finance it are by raising taxes, cutting other spending, or both. This agreement does very little of either."
The Impact of the Biden Administration's Tax Proposals by State and Congressional District - Tax Policy Blog:
The map and Table 1 indicate Biden's proposals would raise taxes on the average taxpayer in most states throughout 2022 to 2031, with the largest average tax increases per filer occurring in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, with tax increases exceeding $1,000 per filer in 2022 and $2,000 per filer in 2031. Several states would get a tax cut in the early part of the budget window, including Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, with tax cuts exceeding $400 per filer in 2022, due primarily to the proposed temporary expansions of the child tax credit (CTC) through 2025. After 2025, every state and the District of Columbia would see a tax increase.
The post has a remarkable interactive map that allows you to see the state and district impact of the proposals year-by-year.
Treasury, IRS extend safe harbor for renewable energy projects - IRS. "The Treasury Department and the IRS recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause delays in the development of certain projects eligible for the production tax credit and the investment tax credit. As a result, many taxpayers may not place projects in service in time to meet the Continuity Safe Harbor, which may significantly impact project financing and development. Today's guidance provides relief to taxpayers impacted by project delays related to the pandemic by allowing additional time to satisfy the Continuity Safe Harbor. It also adds flexibility for taxpayers to satisfy the continuity requirement outside of the safe harbor."
Oregon Lawmakers Approve Changes to Passthrough Tax Break, SALT Cap Workaround - Paul Jones, Tax Notes ($):
The bill would create a workaround to the TCJA's $10,000 SALT deduction cap, similar to those adopted in at least 14 other states and allowed by November 2020 guidance issued by Treasury and the IRS. Under the bill, passthrough entities could elect to pay tax at the entity level, levied at 9 percent on Oregon income up to $250,000 and 9.9 percent on income over that amount. The state would provide a corresponding income tax credit to those entities' owners or partners for the member's pro rata share of the tax paid at the entity level.
The workaround effectively allows the entity to pay the state tax owed on the owners' passthrough income.
Related: IRS Blesses Entity-level Tax Deduction used as SALT Cap Workaround.
Scam attempts to obtain taxpayers' personal info remain part of IRS' Dirty Dozen - Kay Bell, Don't Mess With Taxes:
Phishing scams tend to be mainly via email, but also are used in text messages and social media posts where crooks post as family or friends to engage their victims.
More often, though, phishing attempts try to convince targets that the message is from an official source, even the IRS. After years of practice, the schemes can be tricky and cleverly disguised to look legitimate.
So be careful. Watch out for emails and other scams posing as the IRS. Be particularly skeptical of unsolicited messages promising a big tax refund, missing stimulus payment, or even issuing a threat. And never open attachments or click on links in those emails or text messages.
As Ben Franklin said, don't trust everything that comes at you on the internet.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge on Taxing Employees Who Worked Remotely Out of State During COVID-19 Emergency - Ed Zollars, Current Federal Tax Developments. "Certainly, the failure of the Court to take up this case doesn't mean they necessarily agree with Massachusetts on the merits of their position."
The 2021 Child Tax Credit - Robert D. Flach, The Wandering Tax Pro. "Like the advance premium tax credit, any advance payment of the Child Tax Credit will be reconciled on the 2021 Form 1040. Please be aware that if you do receive advance Child Tax Credit payments in 2021 this will reduce the potential federal refund on your 2020 Form 1040."
Supreme Court ACA decision moots protective refund claims - Roger Russell, Accounting Today. "The Supreme Court decision in Texas v. U.S. has dismissed the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, rendering useless many 'protective refund claims' that taxpayers filed."
Nonprofit Best Practices: Internal Management of Financials - Jackie Brooks, Eide Bailly. "One thing that will never change for accounting within nonprofits, no matter what is going on in the world, is the importance of reporting financials to management and to the board of directors. Nonprofits should develop a written process for internal financial reporting, as well as a timeline for how soon after month-end the books will be closed."
U.S. Corporate Tax Expenditures and Effective Tax Rates in Line with OECD Peers - Garrett Watson, Tax Policy Blog "Last week, an analysis by Reuters suggested that U.S. firms pay less income tax than foreign competitors, in part because "the U.S. tax code is unusually generous with tax breaks and deductions," also known as corporate tax expenditures. However, the Reuters analysis is at odds with other data and studies indicating that U.S. corporate tax expenditures and effective tax rates are about on par with those in peer countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."
2021 Filing Season Bumps in the Road: Part III - National Taxpayer Advocate Blog:
As of the end the 2021 filing season, the IRS had a backlog of about 35 million tax returns that require manual processing, meaning employee involvement is generally required before a return can advance to the next stage in the processing pipeline. The backlog includes about 16.8 million paper tax returns waiting to be processed; about 15.8 million returns suspended during processing that require further review; and about 2.7 million amended returns awaiting processing. In contrast to this filing season, in 2018 and 2019, pre-pandemic years, the IRS had a backlog of 7.4 million and 10.7 million returns, respectively, awaiting manual review at the close of the filing season.
In case you are wondering where the refund from that amended return might be.
On Clients Hating Their Tax Pro - Jason Dinesen.
The tax field is broken — in fact I think it's irreparably broken for solo operators and even for smaller firms with a few staff members. We're operating on volume in a field where volume doesn't work anymore.
Taxes are hard — I used to be fascinated by the complexity of taxes; now the complexity simply scares me. I spend so much time trying to get things right on tax returns and deal with the constant changes and the complexity and the risk, that a client's phone call or email is a really low priority for me.
But here's the thing: all of this is true … but it's not the client's problem. They want a service. We struggle to deliver that service.
The tax field will look very different in ten years. The best hope is that technology comes to the rescue, making consumer tax preparation affordable. We can assume Congress won't be much help.
Court Throws IRS a Bone in Recovering Mistaken $491K Refund - Kristen Parillo, Tax Notes ($) (taxpayer name omitted):
The refund mix-up started when the IRS received a tax payment of $543,000 from an unrelated party in June 2016. Because of a clerical error, the IRS misapplied the payment to the federal tax account of the defendant.... On May 5, 2017, the IRS sent Taxpayer a refund check of $491,104.01 for the 2016 tax year, when he was actually entitled to a refund of $3,463.
Taxpayer didn't cash the refund check until April 5, 2018. The IRS contacted him several times requesting that he return the money. Taxpayer turned over $210,000 in December 2019 but refused to return the remaining amount of $277,641.01, which the IRS claimed he used for "his personal use and enjoyment."
If the IRS can somehow prove that the Postal Service took a year to get the taxpayer his check, the IRS gets the money back. If not, the "personal use and enjoyment" becomes pretty sweet - but also becomes taxable income.
Look sharp. Today is National OOTD Day. "Not sure what 'OOTD' is? Well, it's a Gen X term that means 'outfit of the day.' The short form of the term originated on social media when bloggers and fashion icons would post their outfits on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc." Appropriate, as today is also Social Media Day.
This is a roundup of tax news and opinion. Any opinions expressed or implied are those of the author and not necessarily those of Eide Bailly. Opinions found in linked items are those of the authors of the linked item, not of your bloggers or of Eide Bailly. "$" means link may be behind a paywall. Items here do not constitute tax advice.
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Q: SSRS Multiple Lines of data My SQL Server 2008 report returns me multiple lines in a table.  A simple select statement returns two columns, one is the record number the other is a sector.  The sector column can contain any one of 6 different values.
EDIT: NULL values are allowed in the sector column.
I want this data to be in one line in my table.
Lets say record number 1 has Sector A, Sector C and Sector E
and Record 2 has Sector B and Sector C
And Record 3 has none.
I am after three lines of data.  I also need it displayed two ways.  One so that all sectors appear in the same cell separated by commas.  The other is a separate Cell for each category
Record number  | Sector
1              | A, C, E
2              | B, C
3              |

Or
Record Number | Sector A | Sector B | Sector C | Sector D | Sector E
1             |  A       |          | C        |          | E
2             |          | B        | C        |          |
3             |          |          |          |          |

At the moment my report gives me 6 rows.
Record Number | Sector
1             | A
1             | C
1             | E
2             | B
2             | C
3             |

Is there a way of working around this problem?
I am using the query designer rather than writing the SQL statements.

A: In order to get the first result that you want with the comma-separated list of sector values, you will want to use FOR XML PATH and STUFF.  The code will be:
select t1.recordnumber,
  STUFF((SELECT ', ' + t2.sector
         from yourtable t2
         where t1.recordnumber = t2.recordnumber
          FOR XML PATH (''))
          , 1, 1, '')  AS Sector
from yourtable t1
group by t1.recordnumber

See SQL Fiddle with Demo. The result is:
| RECORDNUMBER |   SECTOR |
---------------------------
|            1 |  A, C, E |
|            2 |     B, C |
|            3 |   (null) |

Then to get the result of the recordNumber in a single row, you can use the PIVOT function:
select *
from
(
  select recordNumber, sector
  from yourtable
) src
pivot
(
  max(sector)
  for sector in (A, B, C, D, E)
) piv;

See SQL Fiddle with Demo. The result of this query is:
| RECORDNUMBER |      A |      B |      C |      D |      E |
-------------------------------------------------------------
|            1 |      A | (null) |      C | (null) |      E |
|            2 | (null) |      B |      C | (null) | (null) |
|            3 | (null) | (null) | (null) | (null) | (null) |

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One of the key factors that should play into any decision you make in fantasy baseball — be it season-long or daily — is the stadium in which a game is played. Depending on the venue, batter and pitcher values can fluctuate wildly.
For example, the high altitude and resulting thin, dry air at Coors Field in Colorado famously causes balls to fly out of the stadium, making even the best pitchers a dicey proposition and even the most mediocre hitters viable options. Meanwhile, in Yankee Stadium, offense is also prevalent but for a different reason. The fences in both left and right field are scrunched in at 318 feet and 314 feet, respectively, making them easy to clear for power hitters.
On the other hand, pitchers thrive at San Francisco's AT&T Park, with its expansive outfield of 339 feet in left and 399 feet in center, along with a 25-foot wall to clear in the shorter right field.
In this two-part series, we'll examine the top five stadiums for first hitters and then pitchers, and provide a complete ranking of every stadium. The park factor data is pulled from 2013-2015 at FanGraphs, and park dimension information comes from swishanalytics.com. Ties are broken by home run factor, and the plus or minus indicates how much scoring is increased or decreased at the stadium relative to MLB average.
No park on either side of the ledger is even in the same stratosphere as Coors Field in terms of distance from the rest of the pack. While even the easiest and toughest parks to hit in are generally somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 percent above or below the league average, Coors is at a whopping 33 percent.
There are a variety of factors contributing to Coors being MLB's premier launching pad. Foremost is the elevation. Located about a mile above sea level, the thinner air in Denver makes it easier for balls to travel farther. Furthermore, the air is also very dry; a humidor has been in use for quite a few years now that has mitigated some of the effects of the dry air, but home runs still occur 32 percent more often than league average. The lack of moisture also reduces the amount of movement on breaking pitches, and flatter breaking pitches are easier for hitters to square up on.
Designers of Coors Field, which opened in 1995, knew full well that home runs would be prevalent and tried to compensate with one of the most expansive outfields in baseball. The dimensions of the park are massive — it's about 350 feet down both foul lines with a decent-sized 14-foot wall in right. That's made Coors a haven for not just bombs, but doubles and triples as well. Only Fenway allows more doubles, and no venue has more three-baggers.
Add it all up, and Coors is in a class of its own as a hitters' park.
The Rangers' ballpark was built in 1994 and has a well-founded reputation as a hitters' park, boosting offense by 12 percent. That may not sound like a ton, but it's well clear of a cluster of teams tied for third.
Home runs in the park are surprisingly only boosted by 12 percent, which is behind a good deal of other stadiums. That's very likely a function of the outfield wall in left field. The majority of batters are right-handed, and while the distance out to left is a relatively standard 332 feet, there's a 16-foot wall over there that turns many would-be bombs into doubles and triples. Sure enough, the park ranks ninth in doubles factor and seventh in triples factor. Lefties, on the other hand, see a big 18 percent boost in homer ability due to a shorter distance of 325 feet and a shorter wall of eight feet.
One big thing hitters have going for them is that Texas sees longer and hotter summers than almost anywhere else in the nation. Hot air is less dense, so balls fly farther, and the dog days of summer are miserable on pitchers at Global Life Park. The foul territory is also very small, especially in the outfield, helping hitters avoid easy foul outs.
"The Cell" doesn't have quite reputation of the two stadiums listed above, but it has nonetheless been kind to hitters since replacing famed Comiskey Park in 1991.
Right-handed batters especially love playing at The Cell, as their home run hitting abilities are boosted by 28 percent compared to 12 percent for their lefty counterparts. That's the primary driver of the park's offense bump, as its actually below average in terms of doubles and triples.
At first glance, the park looks pretty symmetrical but a few subtle factors add up to help right-handed sluggers. First off, the entire wall is a mere eight feet high, which enables many hits that would carom off the wall in other venues to clear the fence. Second, the left-field fence curves very gradually from the 330 feet out to the pole to the 400 feet in center, while right-field fence starts off a little farther out at 335 feet and has a slight but noticeably sharper angle out to center that lengthens the distance in the power alley. Finally, the stands are pretty scrunched next to the field, leaving less foul territory than at many other stadiums.
So, while The Cell is good for hitters in general, right-handed home run hitters are the big beneficiaries.
Chase Field, a retractable roof stadium, opened in 1998 for the expansion Diamondbacks. It has very interesting dimensions that make it unique but fruitful environment for hitting.
Chase boosts home runs by a mere eight percent and it's slightly better for right-handed batters than left, probably owing to the five feet of extra distance down the right-field line. What's really interesting is how important it is to hammer the ball down the lines for players looking to touch 'em all. Though the wall stands less than eight feet high around most of the outfield, making for a generous clearance for hitters, it spikes to a whopping 25 feet in a center field that squares off at 407 feet. What that equates to is doubles and triples for days — the park ranks fourth for doubles and third for triples.
Hot temperatures and the second-highest altitude of any MLB stadium also aid the bats. It typically gets even hotter in Phoenix than Arlington, and hot, thin air is a sure recipe for balls to sail. Summer time in Arizona makes for a pitcher's nightmare.
The oldest park in baseball by just a few years over Wrigley Field — it opened in 1912 — Fenway is probably the quirkiest venue in the MLB.
The famed left-field wall dubbed "The Green Monster" is the primary driver of offense at Fenway. The wall is more than 37 feet high, and along with a deep right field, it makes home runs relatively tough to come by overall at Fenway. Right-handers get a boost of just four percent while lefties see a steep drop of 20 percent. Since the Monster is only 310 feet down the line and veers slowly to center, however, doubles occur far more often than any other park.
The story is different altogether for lefties. The 302-foot right-field pole, dubbed "Pesky's Pole" after former Red Sox player Johnny Pesky, might look like an attractive target at first glance since it's the shortest outfield distance in baseball and the fence is just a few feet high. However, it's fool's gold as the wall curves very sharply out and makes for a rather spacious right field. There's also a bit of a spike known as "The Triangle" just to the right of dead center that pushes the distance to about 420 feet. That area is likely the primary reason behind Fenway being a slightly above average park for triples as it's both far and creates tricky bounces.


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A stump in the middle of lawn makes an ideal flower garden base.
4 Can Anything Be Grown in a Newly Cut Tree Stump?
After you take down a tree, you're left with a tree stump. You can simply mow around it, letting its edges soften in the passing years until you hardly notice it anymore. On the other hand, turning a disadvantage into something good is the mark of a frugal gardener. Turn a plain stump into a decorative base for a small flower garden. You'll reclaim the spot the tree used to hold and add a bright accent to your landscape design.
Place a plastic planter upside down in the center of a tree stump's surface. Trace around the planter's outside edge with a pencil. The outline indicates the portion of the stump that needs to be removed.
Drill holes about 1 inch apart inside the pencil outline on the stump's surface. Make the holes about 1/2 inch wide, and drill them to the full depth of the drill bit. Cover the space inside the pencil outline with the holes.
Fill the holes with water. Allow the water to soak into the stump's wood overnight. The water will soften the wood.
Position a chisel's blade at a 45-degree angle on the edge of one hole you drilled. Hit the other end of the chisel with a hammer or mallet. The action will remove a chunk of wood from the stump. Continue chiseling wood from the stump until its entire center is hollowed out.
Place the plastic planter in the hollowed out hole to ensure it fits. Chisel out more wood from around the hole's edges if necessary to make the planter fit in the hole. If you want the planter to sit deeper in the stump, repeat the drilling and chiseling procedure until the hole is the proper depth.
Sand the stump's top and inside the hole to make them smooth by rubbing them with rough-grade sandpaper. Sanding removes dangerous splinters and rough spots but leaves a rustic, natural appearance.
Drill holes from the stump's sides into the hole that is in the stump's center. Drill a series of the holes around the stump. They will serve as drainage holes.
Place the plastic planter in the stump's center hole. Fill the planter with potting soil to within 1 inch of the planter's top edge. Plant flowering plant seeds or seedlings in the potting soil, and water the soil. Care for the flowering plants by following the directions on their seed packets or nursery pot tags.
Use a basket instead of a planter to expand the size and shape possibilities of your flower garden in a tree stump.
Bailey, Victoria. "How to Grow Flowers in a Tree Stump." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-flowers-tree-stump-67455.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.


The on-premises and cloud editions of Skype for Business Server and the Cloud PBX are promising and less-expensive alternatives to traditional phone systems, but come in a complex array of options and require integration. The software has gained some promising features along with growing support for third-party software, hardware and services. In my review for Redmond Magazine, I look at what is involved in getting it setup and how it works with a sample video conference phone from Logitech here (shown above).
The days of having separate, dedicated networks for video, voice, storage, and general data applications are behind us. In the past, many IT departments had separate groups to manage voice and data, with separate wiring and infrastructures. They even used different vocabularies.
Many companies have been tempted by the notion that everything should be managed in one big happy converged infrastructure, with everything running through the same switches and wires.
To read why that may not be such a great idea, see my story posted in ArsTechnica today.
More and more companies are migrating to SIP trunking services. In fact, one-third of 300 enterprises surveyed by Webtorials have deployed SIP trunking, with an average cost savings of 33 percent. In this ebook for Fierce Enterprise Communications, I wrote articles talking about how you want to take the next steps from your voice over IP telephony and does SIP trunking really mean the end of the public switched phone network.
You can register and download the ebook here (my work is on the last page).
If you run a small business with people in different locations but don't want your customers to know that, then consider the latest Virtual Office Pro v2 from 8×8.com. For $50 per user per month, you get a desk phone and a collection of software that formerly was only available to bigger businesses or for a lot more dough.
The phone is an IP phone, meaning that it connects to your Ethernet network and AC power. The downside is that it can take several minutes for the phone to boot up, because this is really a computer under the covers. You have a clear speaker phone with conferencing, do not disturb, and other buttons, along with a good sized LCD screen.
There are dozens of features as you would suspect in the phone, but what impressed me is the associated software that you can use on your Mac or Windows PC (it is all Web based, by the way, so really you just need a browser) to make calls, send faxes, and set up your address book. You can record calls, do video chats, have Web meetings, and let your co-workers know if you are present or on a call or free. The screenshot at left shows you what this all looks like. There is another piece of software for your Web browser that is used to set up the phone and PBX features and line configurations. One downside is that the two programs have somewhat different user interfaces.
The price includes unlimited local and long distance calling. The product is extremely easy to setup, within minutes really. If you are looking for a managed and hosted virtual PBX service that is inexpensive but feature-rich, then consider Virtual Office.
If you use Vonage, and you want to be able to make calls from your PC instead of an ordinary telephone, you need what is called a "softphone" client, a piece of software that connects to your Vonage account and dials into the public phone network. You will also need to upgrade your Vonage account with a $10 a month optional softphone feature.
The Windows softphone works reasonably well, but the Mac version is the pits. Over the past couple of months, I have tried a variety of other clients, finally settling on the is-phone Portable version. In theory, any SIP-phone should work, but you'll need some combination of parameters and configuration help files are very sparse when it comes to setting things up with Vonage. Here is a screen grab that shows you how I did it. Note, you have to use the softphone password which is different than your Vonage account password, and there are some other special settings too.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony has the wonderful potential for cutting communications costs and delivering additional features. But making the switch isn't a slam-dunk, and you could have potential problems that could end up costing you more money and time in the short-term as you try to adapt your infrastructure technology to handle voice traffic over what is essentially a data network.
Here are five questions that you should answer in an article I wrote for CIOUpdate before deciding on the appropriate system for your enterprise.
The biggest change for office telephony these days is the separating of incoming and outgoing calling plans and how we will use computers instead of an actual phone instrument. Maybe, if we all can get our softphones to work properly.
I am not talking about some Claes Oldenburg sculpture, but the software running on your PC that enables you to make and receive calls. Softphones aren't new – I recall writing about them in the early 1990s. Sadly, the quality of software development is still akin more to this era than the modern day.
Voice over IP has made calling almost too cheap to meter, to recall a phrase from the 1950s (then it was about nuclear power, and we know what happened to that). That's why many vendors currently offer unlimited monthly calling plans for their VOIP Service – Vonage ($25), Skype ($3), Google Voice (Free!). What is important to note is that these are all outgoing calling plans. Anyone can call you without any plan, you just need a phone number. Here is where things get tricky.
I have been a happy customer of Vonage since around 2002 or so, using their phone service in three different states and for both home and work. The best part about using Vonage (or any other VOIP phone with a reasonable feature set) is that I can set up what happens when someone calls my number. Right now I have it ring both office and cell numbers simultaneously. This way I just have to give you one number to call me, and I can change cell numbers, or add a new location if I am working someplace for an extended period of time. The next best part about Vonage is that I can do all of this with just a couple of mouse clicks, without having to wait on hold for a Bell business office service rep to try to upsell me with services that I don't want.
I started thinking that perhaps I could eliminate my office phone line, and swap it for a Vonage softphone, and perhaps save some money in the process. That led me to searching for a softphone that will run on my Mac, connect to my Vonage account, and be reliable. Getting all three criteria has turned into A Project over the past week.
The softphone costs $10 a month. A call to Vonage customer support set up things, and moved my office number over to the softphone account. I thought I was doing well.
Alas, it wasn't so easy. First of all, while Vonage has its softphone app on both Windows and Mac, the Mac version is a poor cousin and I couldn't get it to work properly. After spending some time with Vonage tech support, I found out that there are "issues" with it running on Intel-based Macs (which are all recent Macs for the past several years).
Vonage does have a softphone for the iPhone (and Blackberry too), but you need to set up another $25 a month subscription plan. It really is designed to call internationally from your phone and save you on these charges. So it really isn't the softphone that I am looking for.
There are numerous softphone VOIP software companies, and some even have Mac clients. I have tried a few, and tried to get them configured for my Vonage account, but with no success. There is a lot of poor quality information online, and many of these are smaller companies with no tech support.
What about Skype? Yes, Skype can be considered a softphone (and more, since it does video calls too). The monthly unlimited calling plan is $3, but you also need to purchase an online number for another $3 a month if you want people to call you. All of a sudden, my expected savings are evaporating. I like Skype and have used it for years, mostly for the IM features, and the voice quality is terrific.
How about MagicJack? This is a pretty cool USB device that you can connect to both Macs and Windows PCs, and it will set up a softphone (or you can use a regular phone and wire it to the USB device directly). All for $40 for the first year, and $20 a year thereafter. My one problem with the Jack is that I keep getting people calling me who are calling wrong numbers. Not sure what that is all about. I do get the occasional Skype from someone I don't recognize but not as often.
And then there are Google Voice and eVoice, a new service from J2 Communications, the people that are behind eFax and jFax. These aren't quite softphones, but do offer some interesting communications features to manage your telephony, and if I didn't keep my Vonage number I would probably be more interested in them. Google has also purchased Gizmo Project, which had a really nice softphone that came with a built-in voice recorder, so who knows what will happen to that.
Not having a traditional land-line phone can be an issue, I will admit. But it isn't usually a problem. So as I transition to a phone-free desk, I think back to the days when I had one of the old Western Electric phones. Maybe I should buy one and just keep it on my desk for old time's sake while I keep fooling around with my softphones and headsets. If you are interested, check out this site which has all sorts of great info on the golden era when people had to rent, not own their phones, and they still had dials instead of buttons.
Getting your company ready for a telephone switch migration is never easy. It is especially difficult when you are trying to move toward a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) implementation. Before you choose a VoIP system, be sure to ask yourself these five essential questions that I describe in detail in my current story for Baseline magazine.
I last looked at low-end VOIP PBX systems about two years ago when I reviewed the Linksys SPA9000 for Computerworld here.
This is a small box that connects to your broadband Internet and allows you to hook up four IP telephones and use them as your main telephony system. A new company called Jazinga has recently begun their own version, the MGA120. It also sells for about $1000 but is much easier to setup and operate. The box comes with a customized version of the popular VOIP Asterisk operating system, and all the setup and configuration is Web-based. You plug in your phones, fire up your Web browser, and in about 15 minutes you have a complete working PBX and phone system.
I liked the fact that you can have some of the more advanced features such as voicemail that is converted to email attachments, music on hold and auto attendants without having to get dirty with command-line syntax and Linux-like text editors. The box also includes a Wifi router too, just in case you don't already have one. The menu screens are fairly straightforward and easy to navigate, and there are setup wizards that walk you through 95% of the configuration too. I didn't like that the company doesn't yet have much information on where to buy the box on their Web site, such as VOIP supply.
You still need to purchase your VOIP service from another vendor. Hopefully they will work out their channel strategy soon and make it more of a one-stop shopping experience.
I am attending the Varolii customer conference today. The company makes proactive unified communications tools that are used by call centers to manage their customer communications. Big companies like airlines, banks, Staples, UPS and others use their products. I've met some of the IT managers that have deployed this service and find it interesting to hear what their challenges are and how they are using the Varolii tools. It is all about being proactive, and reaching out to their customers before someone has a problem, or is behind on their payments, or is about to go to the airport and find out that their flight is delayed.
The company makes 4 million outbound calls on behalf of its customers daily. That is a lot of calls. Their system works across voice, email, and text messages and an upgrade is in the works to manage customers' preferences (for example, Gen Y folks like to get texts as their primary touchpoint).
Staples for example, lets people order online and pickup from the closest store. Varolii does the automated notification to the customer that the order is available for pickup.
Southwest Airlines even has a "proactive customer service manager"– Fred Taylor Jr. — who's job it is to develop these outbound communications tools. During the early March snowstorms in the Northeast, they sent out about 19,000 messages in a matter of a few minutes to tell passengers about the delays. They are working on expanding their system for gate change announcements too. "We want to do a really good job with following up with our customers after they fly us to make sure they continue to fly with us," said Taylor. One of the reasons Southwest picked Varolii was because their voice messages didn't sound robotic and were therefore more likely to be listened to than competitors' products.


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Saudi, Gulf growth forecasts cut but region to avoid recession
Analysts cut forecasts for economic growth in region with Saudi Arabia seen slowing to 1.9% in 2016
Analysts have cut their forecasts for economic growth in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf's other rich oil states this year but still expect the region to avoid recession by a comfortable margin, a Reuters poll found.
The median forecast of 22 economists surveyed by Reuters is for gross domestic product growth in Saudi Arabia, the region's biggest economy, to slow to 1.9 percent in 2016. That is down from a forecast of 2.5 percent in the last Reuters poll, conducted three months ago.
But only one economist expects GDP to shrink this year, and the median forecast is for growth to pick up slightly in 2017, to 2.2 percent.
The region's second biggest economy, the United Arab Emirates, is expected to fare better because it has stronger government finances and a diversified business landscape which relies less on oil.
The UAE is expected to expand 3.0 percent this year, slowing only moderately from an estimated 3.3 percent last year and compared to a 2016 forecast of 3.3 percent in October's poll. The median forecast for next year's growth has been kept unchanged at 3.4 percent.
The plunge of the Brent crude oil price to a 12-year low below $30 a barrel, from around $110 just 18 months ago, has given the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries with their biggest economic challenge in more than a decade.
Although their oil sectors have continued growing as production has increased, the price drop has slashed governments' income, forcing them to cut spending and plan to raise taxes. In the last few months, this has started to hurt private sector growth in the region, and pressure is expected to increase in coming months.
London-based Capital Economics said spending cuts in Saudi Arabia would help to reduce its big budget and current account deficits this year, allowing Riyadh to adjust to low oil prices without devaluing its riyal currency, but added:
"All of this will come at the expense of weaker economic growth. We have pencilled in GDP growth of 1.5 percent this year, down from the 3.4 percent recorded in 2015."
The poll shows analysts reducing their 2016 GDP growth forecasts for Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain only moderately, even though all of them have begun constraining state spending and most are considering tougher fiscal reforms.
Most GCC governments are expected to reduce their budget deficits this year through austerity measures, but in some cases the deficits will remain high enough to continue causing concern in financial markets, the poll indicated.
Saudi Arabia's fiscal deficit is forecast to edge down to 14.1 percent of GDP this year and 10.3 percent next year from an estimated 16.8 percent in 2015.
The UAE is projected to shrink its deficit to 3.8 percent in 2016 and just 0.6 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent in 2015. But the two financially weakest governments in the GCC, Oman and Bahrain, are expected to continue to struggle, posting deficits of 14.6 percent and 11.9 percent this year - huge gaps in relation to the size of their economies.
UN sees progress in Qatar's migrant labour reforms
Oman borrows $1bn to fill gap left by falling oil prices
UAE billionaire says Gulf money would quit US if Trump wins
Qatar's royal family drawn into $100m Picasso dispute
Former French president Sarkozy lectures in Abu Dhabi
Weak rouble keeps Russians at home


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Location:Manhattan Beach
Mileage:392
Meal: Corona beer
Music: "Wave of Mutilation" by The Pixies
Upon hearing I wished to interview a female surfer, a Manhattan Beach bartender called me with a recommendation. "I know a pro," he said. The pro's name was Jenn and she came to meet me at a local Mexican dive bar straight from bikram yoga class. Her muscles were still pulsating from her practice.
"I gotta do it every day she said."
I looked down and my huge bowl of guacamole and regretted the fact that lifting the caloric green up to my mouth would be my only form of exercise that evening.
However, the fact that Jenn just stood on one leg in 110-degree heat for 90 minutes was not the main source of my intimidation. In addition to being a yogi, Jenn was both a semi-pro surfer and vollyball player. Jenn was captain of the surf team at UCLA and competed internationally with the U.S. National Surf Team. Seeking out alternative forms of adrenaline, she also competed in Volleyball with the Californian Beach Volleyball Association and the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit.
I had witnessed many women playing volleyball along the beach that day but hadn't encountered many female surfers. I asked her why more women didn't surf in Manhatten Beach. Was it really just a man's sport? She explained to me that it's actually quite rough for woman out there.
"The guys like to steal your waves, and you really have to establish yourself at a particular beach to get respect."
Making a name for herself across the gender line is something that came naturally to Jenn.
"I was always a tomboy and always liked competition. And in sports, the best competition always comes from going with the guys."
Surprisingly it was Jenn's mother, not father, that encouraged her to pursue sports from an early age.
"She was always very athletic but really had no outlet."
Jenn's mother grew up before Title IX, a law that finally allowed women to play scholastic sports. Before Title IX, sports for women just weren't an option. It was assumed women would satisfy their competitive urge by baking pies in Home Ec class.
"She would get grounded if she played baseball with the neighborhood boys."
Luckily for Jenn that wasn't the case. And challenging gender lines wasn't just restricted to athletics. Jenn also pursued a non-traditional degree in computer science and landed a job in aeronautical engineering where she advised the airforce.
"Yeah, 91% of the people in my job are men." I knew I should have gone into engineering. You don't really meet many straight men in the apparel industry.
I asked Jenn why she chose Computer Science. "I'm good at math and technical stuff and understanding how things work. I fixed my Grandma's VCR when I was 6." If it weren't for her female physique, I would have though I was talking to my brother.
Jenn acknowledged the fact that most of her life has been rather gender reversed. "I'm actually going to be a groomsmaid at a wedding this weekend. The groom is one of my best friends, what can I say!"
Sensing my confusion on the appropriate fashion attire, she reassured me she would still wear a dress and heels.
"I'm not a lesbian," she stated. Before I could defend any inclination I had to stereotype she continued. "I know it makes sense if I were. And it would probably be easier for me to fit in!" Jenn sighed reluctantly. "But I like men for better or for worse."
Even though she is a beautiful tall blond with a rockin' body, Jenn admits that dating can be somewhat hard.
"My being overly analytical prevents me from having a long term relationship because I don't always need a man. Men need to be needed. Other women empower a man to fix things. But if I see a problem I want to fix it myself."
I ask her if she has ever been in love.
"There is someone, or rather the "idea" of someone that I have been in love with for years. But even though I can plan my sports and my career, I cannot plan out someone's feelings for me."
However Jenn continues to date multiple men in the area, hoping that eventually one of them will move her beyond her hypothetical love interest.
"I always start them with a test of darts and bowling. If they can beat me at those than there is a good chance of success."
She smiles. After all, sometimes we all just want to be the girl.
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