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At the end of the summer, the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") came down with a game-changing decision that affected fast-food chains and related companies dealing with contractors and franchisees. The decision heavily favored unions because it changed the meaning of an employer-employee relationship by including a staff contractor—a person hired to staff the parent company's facilities—within the concept of a joint employer. Therefore, because a staff contractor is employed by the parent company, a union is legally entitled to bargain directly with the parent company, bypassing any bargaining relationship with the staff contractor at that specific facility. Previously, employees in this line of work rarely succeeded in union organizing, which, in some degree, was due primarily to their weak negotiating leverage against franchisees and staff contractors. Now, however, the Board significantly made union representation easier through an "indirect test" that establishes a greater number of bargaining relationships through an "ever-widening circle of employers." For example, if fast-food employees at a particular restaurant choose to become unionized, this decision gives union representatives the opportunity to negotiate not just with the franchisee or contractor of that particular restaurant, but also with the corporate headquarters. For more information on this decision and how it may impact companies beyond fast-food restaurants, check out this article from The New York Times!
Category Archive: NLRB Decisions
Mar 13
Around the Web: March 13, 2014
It might be 19˚ here in New York, but spring is almost here! With the change in seasons, there are a whole host of new issues coming down the pipeline. We are counting down the days until the Title VII at 50 Conference, and have put together a selection of current events that show just how relevant Title VII is today.
First on the list is President Obama's call to update the minimum salary threshold and revamp overtime rules to expand overtime for salaried employees. This directive is expected to be announced via executive order today, read this before the announcement!
*Update from the New York Times*
Our own Professor Gregory is in the final stages of preparing a paper on Fisher v. University of Texas, and the far-reaching implications that the Supreme Court's decision may have on diversity. The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting report on the challenges schools face to increase or maintain diversity. Read it and then let us know your views at the Title VII conference. H/T to Brendan Bertoli for this!
Going along with the Title VII theme, activists fighting the employment discrimination faced by the LGBT community are renewing a push for federal legislation that would prohibit anti-LGBT workplace discrimination. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act did not pass, but activists are hopeful that the president will issue an executive order circumventing the Congress. Click the link for an article framing the necessity of an anti-discrimination initiative.
The Ministerial Exception is making news with a recent case about a gay school administrator fired from a Catholic school. Read the links here, here and here about the issues this case is bringing up.
The EEOC has issued new guides to religious accommodations in the workplace. The documents, titled Religious Garb and Grooming in the Workplace: Rights and Responsibilities and an additional fact sheet, gives a guide to when and how employers must accommodate employees' religiously based requests on clothing, religious dress, head coverings, hair styles, and facial hair. These sheets provide a cheat sheet of the basic requirements of Title VII and provide case specific examples.
What news stories are on your radar? Let us know what you're thinking in the comments, and don't forget to mark the Title VII at 50 conference (April 4-5) on your calendar!
Nov 19
NLRB Authorizes Charges Against Wal-Mart
On November 18, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it would be pursuing charges against Wal-Mart. The agency's general counsel reportedly investigated workers claims that Wal-Mart had threatened employees for taking part in walkouts surrounding last year's Black Friday shopping season. According to the NLRB, in several states, Wal-Mart unlawfully threatened, surveilled, disciplined or terminated employees as a response to or in anticipation of legally protected worker activities. The Wal-Mart stores were in a waide range of states, including: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Washington. Despite authorizing these claims, the NLRB found no merit in other violations alleged. The NLRB found no merit in claims that alleged that worker's were told to leave private property and changing work schedules. This case will be interesting to see unfold, as Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America, with over 2.2 million employees. 1 Black Friday 2013 is right around the corner and workers are planning other protests of Wal-Marts practices; this authorization of a complaint will give some publicity to the ongoing struggle between Wal-Mart and their employees. 2 For the official release from the NLRB, click here.
Jul 22
David L. Gregory on NLRB
In an article titled "Vacancies and Partisan Fighting Put Labor Relations Agency in Legal Limbo" written by Mark Landler and Steven Greenhouse and published in The New York Times on July 15, 2013, Professor Gregory offers context for the situation which has arisen in the National Labor Relations Board.
The NLRB has been functioning without a quorum of members (a full slate is five members) and President Obama's NLRB recess appointments have been the subject of an acrimonious court battle set to go before the Supreme Court next term.
Experts, like Professor Gregory, say that these issues have cast doubt upon the rulings of the NLRB and without a clear sense of direction in solving labor disputes.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"The situation we're seeing now is really unprecedented," said David L. Gregory, a professor of labor law at St. John's University. "There was a period of chronic vacancies that was as much the fault of the Democrats as the Republicans. But we really haven't seen a showdown like this in modern history." The White House reiterated Monday that Republicans were "needlessly and systematically" obstructing the president's nominees, arguing that he had put forward a full bipartisan set of candidates in April.
Feb 04
The D.C. Circuit Invalidates NLRB Recess Appointments
In its recent decision, Canning v. NLRB,[1] the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated a National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") order, ruling that the Board lacked a quorum because three of its members were invalidly appointed.[2] Although President Obama attempted to appoint three of the Board's members under the authority of the Recess Appointments Clause of the Constitution,[3] the D.C. Circuit concluded that the appointments were constitutionally invalid.[4] The decision suggests that nearly two hundred years of presidential recess appointments may be invalid exercises of executive power.[5]
The first issue the court addressed pertained to the meaning of "recess" in the Recess Appointments Clause. At the time President Obama made the three recess appointments to the NLRB, the Senate was holding pro forma sessions every three business days between December 20, 2011 and January 22, 2012.[6] Despite an agreement stating that no business was to be conducted during those pro forma sessions, the Senate conducted business twice during that time period.[7] The court concluded that only "the"[8] intersession recess of the Senate provides an appropriate opportunity for recess appointments, distinguishing other "adjournments" or "generic break[s] in proceedings" as insufficient to confer appointment authority.[9] Because the court believed the Senate had only "broken for three days within an ongoing session," it concluded that it was "not in 'the Recess.'"[10] The court cited separation of powers concerns and the original meaning of the term according to the Framers in support of its interpretation.[11]
Although the court acknowledged that its holding regarding the meaning of the term "Recess" would have been sufficient to vacate the Board's order, it nevertheless continued to address a second constitutional issue: the meaning of the word "happen" in the Recess Appointments Clause.[12] On this issue, the court concluded that because the vacancies in Board membership did not "happen" during "the Recess," the president lacked authority to make recess appointments.[13] The court rejected three other circuits' interpretation that the word "happen" in the Recess Appointments Clause includes all vacancies that "exist," relying heavily on an originalist reading of the Constitution.[14]
This decision has already generated substantial criticism.[15] Some have expressed concern that the court's reading of the term "recess" suggests that the Senate can continue holding pro forma sessions to thwart presidential appointments indefinitely.[16] Others are concerned that the decision threatens the status of hundreds of NLRB decisions.[17]
Despite the apparent force of the D.C. Circuit's ruling, there are appeals pending in other circuits that will also address this conflict.[18] Regardless of the outcomes of those decisions, however, it appears extremely likely that the Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether the recess appointments to the Board were valid.[19] Because recess appointments can contribute to the smooth functioning of government, especially in times of political partisanship, the Supreme Court should carefully consider this issue and not read the Recess Appointments Clause unduly narrowly so as to completely impede use of the Recess Appointment power.
[1] Nos. 12–1115, 12–1153, 2013 WL 276024 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2013).
[2] See id. at *23.
[3] U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, cl. 3 ("The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.").
[4] Canning, 2013 WL 276024, at *7.
[5] See Charlie Savage & Steven Greenhouse, Court Rejects Obama Move to Fill Posts, N.Y. Times, Jan. 25, 2013, at A1 ("Presidents have used recess appointments to fill vacancies that opened before a recess since the 1820s, and have made recess appointments during Senate breaks in the midst of sessions going back to 1867.").
[6] See id. at *7.
[7] Id. (explaining that the Senate acted twice between December 20, 2011 and January 22, 2012: once to pass a temporary extension to the payroll tax; once to fulfill its constitutional duty to meet on January 3).
[8] An extended discussion of the significance of the word "the" and its difference from "a" or "an" appears in the court's opinion. Id. at *8.
[9] Id. at *8-*9 & *16 (differentiating between "recesses" and "the Recess" and concluding that the latter only refers to the intersession recess, not to other adjournments).
[10] Id. at *9.
[11] Id. at *11-*12.
[12] Id. at *16 (quoting U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, cl. 3) ("The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.").
[13] Id. at *23.
[14] Id. at *17 -*19 (quoting Evans v. Stephens, 387 F.3d 1220, 1224 (11th Cir. 2004); United States v. Woodley, 751 F.2d 1008, 1012-13 (9th Cir. 1985); United States v. Allocco, 305 F.2d 704, 709-15 (2d Cir. 1962)) (emphasizing that the other circuits' analysis was misguided because they "did not focus their analyses on the original public meaning of the word 'happen.'").
[15] See, e.g., Jeffrey Toobin, A Judicial Atrocity, Jan. 29, 2013, available at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/the-awful-recess-appointment-ruling-in-canning-v-national-labor-relations-board.html.
[16] Id. ("[T]he opinion essentially said that the Senate need almost never be in recess; a handful of senators could create 'pro-forma' sessions that would trump any President's ability to make appointments.").
[17] See, e.g., Robert Barnes & Steven Mufson, Court Says Obama Exceeded Authority in Making Appointments, Jan. 25, 2013 (describing several labor leaders' reactions to the decision).
[18] See id.
[19] See Toobin, supra note 12.
Jan 03
Irrelevant! Irrelevant on All Counts! – But You Still Have to Respond: The NLRB's Order in IronTiger Logistics, Inc.
On October 23, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued an order in IronTiger Logistics, Inc. and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO[1]. The case was decided by a three-member panel of the Board; the panel consisted of Chairman Pierce and Members Hayes and Block[2]. The case centered on whether IronTiger had violated Section 8(a)(1) and Section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act). The NLRB affirmed the ruling of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), which held a violation did occur[3].
IronTiger Logistics, Inc. (IronTiger) is based out of Kansas City, Missouri, and "employs approximately 100 employees at four locations[4]." The main business of IronTiger is moving freight[5]. The company has a close relationship with another company, TruckMovers.com, Inc. (TruckMovers), which assigns loads to both IronTiger drivers and TruckMovers drivers[6]. IronTiger's drivers are unionized; TruckMovers' drivers are not unionized[7]. The union and IronTiger signed a Letter of Agreement which clarified that any loads that were given to TruckMovers drivers would not be considered IronTiger loads, meaning the loads were not work that was being subcontracted by IronTiger to avoid using union drivers[8].
The union began to suspect that the dispatching process was not working as it was supposed to. It believed IronTiger was not placing all of the available loads on its dispatch board and that, as a result, TruckMovers drivers were getting assignments that should have been going to union drivers[9]. The union filed a grievance on March 29, 2011, and a few weeks later requested information pertaining to the loads that had been assigned to all drivers by TruckMovers, which IronTiger provided[10]. The union then requested additional detailed information regarding the loads on the list IronTiger had provided; in part, the union requested the name of the driver that had been assigned to each load, the destination each load was delivered to, and "relevant communication" from the entities receiving each load[11]. After IronTiger did not respond to the request for additional information, the union filed an unfair labor practice claim with the NLRB[12]. Eventually, IronTiger responded to the union's request by stating that the information about the loads assigned to TruckMovers drivers had no bearing on the union's claim, as those drivers were not members of the union[13]. IronTiger further stated that it did not have to provide the information requested pertaining to its drivers, members of the union, because the shipments in question had already been delivered and, therefore, the information being requested was not relevant[14].
Section 8(a)(5) of the Act places a duty on the employer to respond to requests from the union for information that is relevant to the union complying with its responsibilities to its members[15]. The employer must provide the response in a "timely manner[16]." The ALJ held that the information requested by the union in this case was "presumptively relevant" to the union's objective[17]. As such, IronTiger was required to respond to the union's request in a timely manner, even if the response simply explained why IronTiger believed it did not have to provide the information to the union[18]. The ALJ further held that the information the union had requested was, indeed, irrelevant to the union's claim and, therefore, IronTiger was not required to provide the information[19].
The Board upheld the ALJ's determination, stating that the issue in this case was whether IronTiger had to respond to the request, not whether IronTiger had to provide the requested information[20]. The Board cited a "well-established corollary" to Section 8(a)(5) which requires an employer to respond to a request for information from a recognized union, regardless of whether the employer believes it must actually provide the information that has been requested[21]. The information being requested must only be presumptively relevant to trigger the duty of the employer to respond[22]. In the Board's view, it is appropriate to place the burden on the employer to respond because the employer "is in a clearly superior position to ensure that a dispute is avoided[23]."
Member Hayes dissented to the order, stating his belief that the corollary to Section 8(a)(5) cited by the majority does not exist, but rather that information is either relevant or irrelevant[24]. In the case that the information is irrelevant, the employer should not be required to respond, according to Member Hayes, because it would open the door for unions to request information for strategic reasons that have no bearing on collective bargaining[25].


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May 26, 2016
By Gary Bingel, CPA
New Jersey businesses got some more good news on May 11 after Governor Chris Christie added another $180 million to his April announcement of $200 million in payroll tax relief. This represents the largest cut to unemployment business taxes in modern NJ history. Effective July 1, this should equate to a $100 break per employee for businesses.
The tax relief will come from the NJ Unemployment Trust Fund, which currently has a $1.8 billion surplus. However, that wasn't always the case. From 1992 through 2005, various lawmakers and administrations used the fund to plug more than $4.5 billion in other budgetary shortfalls.
This left the fund far too depleted to cover a huge jump in the state's unemployment rate to 10% during the Great Recession. Ultimately, New Jersey had to increase its payroll tax as well as borrow more than $2 billion from the federal government to meet the state's unemployment claims. (30 other states had done likewise.)
Thankfully, a pair of initiatives changed the tide. First, NJ voters approved a 2010 measure protecting the unemployment trust fund against future raids in Trenton. Second, anti-fraud efforts by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development yielded $800 million in unemployment savings. This enabled the state's unemployment trust fund to return to solvency in 2014, 2 years ahead of schedule. Combine that with far fewer New Jerseyans collecting unemployment, and the once-daunting deficit became a healthy surplus.
This is especially welcome news for New Jersey businesses that are currently facing potential legislation requiring paid sick leave and increasing the minimum wage.
December 7, 2015
By Gary C. Bingel, CPA and William Gentilesco, CPA
On November 23, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania decided Nextel Communications v. Commonwealth, (No. 98 F.R. 2012) struck down Pennsylvania's Net Loss Carryover ("NLC") limits as they pertained to Nextel for the 2007 tax year.
Over the years, Pennsylvania has imposed various limits on the usage of net operating losses for corporations. For the year in question (2007), taxpayers were limited to the greater of the following: $3 million or 12.5% of taxable income. Nextel filed its return in accordance with these limits, and then filed a refund claim for taxes paid as a result of the caps, proposing that the cap, as applied to Nextel, violated the uniformity clause of Pennsylvania's constitution.
Under Pennsylvania's NLC limits, taxpayers with $3 million of income or less could entirely offset their income (assuming they had sufficient NLCs), while taxpayers with more than $3 million of income would be unable to do so, and consequently would owe Pennsylvania tax. For 2007, Nextel had $45 million in taxable income, and was only able to utilize $5.6 million of NLC (despite having a total NLC of $150 million), resulting in a tax liability of approximately $4 million. The crux of Nextel's argument was that a similarly situated taxpayer with $3 million of taxable income would be entitled to offset all of their income, resulting in no tax liability. Thus, these two taxpayers would be subject to different effective tax rates, effectively creating a progressive tax structure. Under Pennsylvania's Uniformity Clause, "All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax . . . . "
The Commonwealth attempted to argue that the NLC cap scheme was "roughly uniform" and therefore withstood scrutiny, and that Pennsylvania's Constitution should yield to the "wisdom of the legislature."
The Commonwealth Court concluded that the NLC deduction treated taxpayers with more than $3 million of taxable income differently than those with less than $3 million of income, and further agreed that a classification based solely on income levels violates the Uniformity Clause.
Regarding the appropriate remedy, the bulk of the court held that both the dollar limits as well as the percentage limits should be struck down. The dissenting opinion felt that only the dollar limit should be severed from the statute, and the percentage limit should be upheld. As a result, Nextel was granted a refund of approximately $4 million.
It should be noted that this case will almost certainly be appealed by the Commonwealth, so a final decision regarding the matter is still a quite a ways off. Further, Nextel's challenge was that the cap was unconstitutional "as applied" to Nextel in their specific facts and circumstances, as opposed to a facial challenge of the caps as a whole. As a result, the caps remain in place (at least for now).
Pennsylvania taxpayers that have had their utilization of net loss carryovers limited in the past (including those that have had their NLCs expire prior to usage) should evaluate their circumstances and seriously consider filing refunds claims for relevant periods.
November 19, 2015
By David Venanzi
Alabama Adopts Economic Sales and Use Tax Nexus Standards
The Alabama Department of Revenue recently adopted Rule 810-6-2-.90.03 which establishes an economic nexus sales and use tax standard for out-of-state sellers. This rule is effective January 1, 2016. For more information on the changes, click here.
California Enacts IRS Conformity Legislation
On September 30, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law L.2015, A154 which, effective immediately, updates California's Revenue and Taxation Code conformity date with the Internal Revenue Code to January 1, 2015. For information on what provisions were brought into conformity and non-conforming provisions, click here.
Possible Refunds to Iowa Residents as a Result of Wynne
On October 16, 2015, the Iowa Department of Revenue released guidance on how Iowa residents who earned out-of-state income (excluding Illinois) may be eligible for a refund as a result of Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne. For more information, click here.
Louisiana Announces Tax Amnesty Period
On October 29, 2015, the Louisiana Department of Revenue announced it will conduct a tax amnesty program from November 16, 2015 and ending Tuesday, December 15, 2015. For more information on the amnesty, click here.
Michigan Addresses Where the Benefit of Services Is Received for Tax Apportionment
On October 16, 2015, the Michigan Department of Treasury released Revenue Administrative Bulletin 2015-20 explaining where the benefit of services is received with regards to corporate income tax. For more information, click here.
New York Issues Draft Apportionment Regulations
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance recently issued draft regulations relating to sourcing of receipts from digital products and other business receipts. Comments on the rules are due by January 16, 2016. For more information on the draft regulations, click here.
Pennsylvania Held that LLC Member Payments are Subject to Unemployment Tax
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held in King's Kountry Korner, LLC v. Department of Labor and Industry, Office of Unemployment Compensation Tax Services, that payments made to members of an LLC are subject to Pennsylvania unemployment tax because the members of the LLC are considered employees of the LLC. For more information, click here.
October 24, 2015
Alabama Enacts Tax Delinquency AmnestyOn September 21, 2015, Alabama enacted the Alabama Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act of 2016. This act requires the Department of Revenue to run a tax amnesty program in 2016 for at least a 2-month period prior to August 31, 2016. For more information, click here.
Maryland Launches New Website to Claim Refunds as a Result of WynneMaryland Governor Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot launched a new website to help Maryland taxpayers receive refunds in the wake of the decision in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne. For more information, click here.
Michigan Court of Appeals Held Retroactive Repeal of MTC Was ValidThe Michigan Court of Appeals held that S.B. 156 (P.A. 282) which retroactively repealed the state's Multistate Tax Compact (MTC) provisions was a valid act by the state legislature. For more information, click here.
Missouri Issues Private Letter Ruling Regarding Taxability of SoftwareOn August 21, 2015, the Missouri Director of Revenue issued Private Letter Ruling LR 7615 regarding the taxability of canned software, custom software, software licenses, and maintenance agreements. For more information, click here.
North Carolina Budget Bill Phases in Single Sales Factor and Lowers RatesOn September 18, 2015, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed the 2015 Appropriations Act which reduces corporate income tax rates, puts a provision in place for further reductions of the tax rate, and phases in a single sales factor, among other items. For more information on the changes, click here.
Nevada Provides FAQs on the New Commerce TaxOn September 8, 2015, the Nevada Department of Taxation issued a set of question and answers, along with other information, regarding the newly enacted Commerce Tax. For more information, click here.
New Hampshire Overrides Governor's Veto and Enacts the FY 2016-2017 BudgetOn September 28, 2015, the New Hampshire Legislature enacted H2, the FY 2016-2017 budget bill, by overriding Governor Maggie Hassan's veto. This bill lowers business taxes and provides a tax amnesty and voluntary disclosure program. For more information on the changes, click here.
September 21, 2015
Alabama Enacts Factor Presence Nexus Standards
On August 4, 2015, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2014, Alabama enacted legislation that establishes factor presence nexus standards for business activities for the purposes of income tax. For more information, click here.
City of Tucson, Arizona Announces It Will Offer Tax Amnesty
On August 24, the City of Tucson announced that it will offer a tax amnesty program running from September 1, 2015 through October 30, 2015. For more information on the amnesty program, click here.
Kansas Makes Amnesty Application Available Online
As mentioned in our July SALT Blog, Kansas has announced that it will run an amnesty; the application for amnesty is now available online. As a reminder, the amnesty will run from September 1, 2015 through October 15, 2015. Payments may be made online at either https://www.kdor.org/TaxCenter/login.aspx or credit/debit card payments can be made at https://www.officialpayments.com/index.jsp. Otherwise, a check can be submitted with the application. For more information, click here. Kinko's Receives Refund for Double Taxed Royalties by New Jersey
Kinko's Network, an affiliate of Kinko's Ventures, received a post-audit refund for double taxed royalties by New Jersey because Kinko's Network was required to addback paid royalties to Kinko's Ventures and Kinko's Ventures were required to claim the amount as income. For more information, click here.
Missouri to Offer Tax Amnesty
The Missouri Department of Revenue has announced that it will offer a tax amnesty from September 1, 2015 through November 30, 2015. This will provide individuals and businesses with a one-time opportunity to pay back taxes that were due prior to December 31, 2014. For more information, click here.
New Jersey Issues TAM Regarding Convertible Virtual currency
On July 28, 2015, the New Jersey Division of Taxation issued Technical Advisory Memorandum 2015-1(R) regarding tax treatment of transactions that involve virtual currency. For more information, click here.
New Jersey Division of Taxation Issues Technical Bulletins Related to Nexus
On August 13, 2015, the New Jersey Division of Taxation Regulatory Services Branch issued two technical bulletins, TB-78(R) and TB-79(R). These TBs deal with nexus for sales and use tax and nexus for corporation business tax respectively. For more information, click here.
New York Budget Enacts Investment Capital Identification Requirements
Amongst the numerous changes as a result of the 2015-2016 New York State budget, there is an added change to investment capital identification requirements for taking a deduction for investment capital on your New York State corporate tax return. For more information on the requirements, click here.
President Obama Signs Stopgap Highway Bill Changing Federal Due Dates
On July 31, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Stopgap Highway Bill. Under the bill, the due dates of several different types of tax returns were changed. For more information and the impact this will have on states click here.
Texas Releases Guidance on the Effects of an Unaffiliated Third-Party Manufacturer
On August 12, 2015, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts issued Texas Policy Letter Ruling 201508350L which discusses if a taxable entity that uses an unaffiliated third-party manufacturer to produce products is eligible for the 0.5% tax rate (Please note that this rate has changed effective 1/1/2015 and again in 1/1/2016). For more information, click here.
Vermont Discusses Sales & Use Tax on Cloud Software
This past month, Vermont issued a fact sheet describing sales and use tax implications related to cloud software. For more information, click here.
Washington Enacts Amnesty for Unclaimed Property Holders and Other Changes
Effective July 1, 2015 through November 1, 2016, the Washington Department of Revenue allows qualifying unclaimed property holders amnesty for penalties and interest if they report and pay unclaimed property by November 1, 2016. For more information, click here.
Wisconsin Issues Tax Bulletin Summarizing Recent Tax Law Changes
On July 1, 2015, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue issued Tax Bulletin 189 summarizing the various tax changes as a result of Wisconsin tax law changes. For more information, click here.
August 5, 2015
By Gary Bingel, CPA and David Venanzi
Connecticut Governor Signs Budget Mandating Combined Reporting, NOL Limits, and Other Provisions
On June 30, 2015, Connecticut Governor Daniel Malloy signed into legislature the biennium budget. This budget contains major tax changes. In addition to various personal income tax changes, changes were made to corporate business taxation which now mandates combined reporting and limiting of corporate NOL carry forwards. Click here for more details.
Massachusetts Governor Enacts 2016 Budget Bill
On July 17, 2015, Governor Charlie Baker signed the fiscal year 2016 budget bill. This bill, in addition to various personal tax changes, authorizes a tax amnesty program to start sometime in the 2016 fiscal year. Click here for more details.
Ohio Budget Bill Enacts Click-Through Nexus
With the signing of the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget by Ohio Governor John R. Kasich comes click-through nexus provisions. These provisions are effective July 1, 2015. A presumption is provided that a seller will have substantial nexus in Ohio if the seller enters into an agreement with an instate resident, who for a commission or other consideration, refers potential customers by a link on a website, in-person oral presentation, etc., to the seller. Click here for more details.
Washington Enacts Economic Nexus Provisions and Click-Through Nexus Provisions
Effective September 1, 2015, an out-of-state seller will be presumed to have substantial nexus in Washington if the seller enters into an agreement with a resident wherein the resident will refer customer via link on an internet website or other method for a commission or other consideration. Click here for more details.
Delaware Makes Changes to Unclaimed Property Laws
Delaware recently enacted legislature amending its laws regarding unclaimed property. These changes include changes to its voluntary disclosure program and imposing interest on late-filed unclaimed property. Click here for more details.
Kansas Announces Tax Amnesty
The Kansas Department of Revenue has announced that, beginning September 1, 2015, it will start accepting applications for tax amnesty. The program will run from September 1, 2015 through October 15, 2015. Click here for more details.
Indiana Announces Tax Amnesty
The Indiana Department of Revenue has announced that it will conduct a tax amnesty program starting September 15, 2015 and running through November 16, 2015. Click here for more details.
Vermont Mandates E-Filing
Beginning with the 2015 tax year, effective January 1, 2016, the Vermont Commissioner of Taxes has mandated electronic filing of Vermont Corporate Income, Business Income, and Fiduciary Income Taxes. This mandate applies to tax practitioners who prepare more than 25 tax returns per year. Click here for the announcement.
July 20, 2015
By Dan Piasecki
The Educational Improvement Tax Credit ("EITC") is an opportunity for businesses and business owners to reinvest in their communities by making a charitable contribution to qualified educational improvement, scholarship and pre-K organizations. In exchange for the contribution, the business will receive a tax credit of up to 90% of the value of the contribution to be used against various Pennsylvania taxes including (but not limited to):
A list of qualified organizations can be found on the Pennslyvania Department of Community and Economic Development's website .Time is of the essence as there is a limited amount in the tax credit pool. Credits are issued on a first-come, first-serve basis. The application period opens July 1 each year. Once all the credit money is allocated, a taxpayer must wait until the following July 1 to try again. The business community has overwhelmingly responded to this Program. Since its inception in 2001, more than 23,500 applications have been approved pledging in excess of $657 million dollars to the programs. When you combine the benefits of a federal charitable contribution and the state tax credits, many businesses receive a benefit that exceeds the amount of the contribution. Don't wait to take advantage of this opportunity. For more information and application contact your tax advisor. Additionally, there is a program summary on the Department's website.

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Snapchat Is Now More Popular Than Twitter Because Maybe Everything Shouldn't Be Public
It's about something called "context collapse."By Brian Feldman
It's about something called "context collapse."By Brian Feldman
Today's Leftovers.
Plus: An all-ladies meat-eating competition, and more, in today's Leftovers.
A tiny cocktail hub by the pros.By Alyssa Shelasky
Back to square one.By Mary Reinholz
And more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
Pump Room gets an acclaimed pastry chef for its revamp.By Nick Kindelsperger
We are leaning towards keeping the restaurant the same.By Nick Kindelsperger
What to eat at Mary Queen of Scots now that Christopher Rendell is the new chef.By Daniel Maurer
The Pump Room is going to reopen sooner than we thought.By Nick Kindelsperger
The acclaimed chef will hopefully bring some style back to the space.By Nick Kindelsperger
The Aussie restaurant has apparently won the right to serve kangaroo meat.By Daniel Maurer
Starting in October.By Willa Paskin
How did energy-hogging filament bulbs become so trendy? And will they survive new efficiency standards?By Daniel Maurer
The events lineup promises burger, oyster, and grits bashes.By Daniel Maurer
A preview of the food to come, including cullen skink and authentic haggis.By Daniel Maurer
Like Eight Mile Creek, Public was forced to take kangy off its menu. By the EPA, it seems.By Daniel Maurer
Smoked haddock and boutique gin come to the former P*ong space.By Daniel Maurer
Plus: a guide to 'Top Chef''s local contestants, and a Q&A with Public pastry chef Ellen Mirsky, all in our morning news roundup.By Leila Cohan-Miccio
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My pleasure Don,
A good friend Joey Leach did the cad work and laser cutting, he's really the one we should be thanking. He does fantastic work and he is very conscientious standing behind everything he does. Anyone needing any laser work done can use him with confidence.
Earl advised of a couple of parts which may need a little tweaking so as soon as they are edited and recut the new parts will be sent out to everyone. I think it's only two parts so it won't hold you up and they should be finished up by the end of the weekend.
Thanks again'
United States, MI, Ann Arbor
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Ok, figured I'd chime in here... Don & I have received the laser cut short kit from Barry. Very nice outstanding short kit, ( good job Barry" ). I ended up with 3 cowls. For the retracts, I'm using Electric retracts (P-51's), will modify them a bit for the scissor action. For the power plant. Have a NIB OS 320 Flat four Pegasus. Most likely won't start the Swift build until the Spartan Executive is finished. Just acquiring all the hardware I will want too use first. I have picked out a subject too model, as for now. Glenn
Hi Guys,
Looks like many of you are well into your Swift builds. I noticed in Barry's posts that there may be a few tweaks that need to be made for some of the parts. If you find anything, please let me know and I will correct the plans and add an addendum. I never found anything from my father that described any changes to the original drawings, so I'm relying on you guys
I have had several of you ask me about offering a "speed" cowl version. Well after seeing Glenn's subject Swift above, I guess I should start making a plug. If I'm going to do that then I guess I should look at making a sliding canopy mold as well and vacuform some canopies. I don't have any info on dimension or shapes for these (cowl & canopy) and, in the absence of anything, would probably just go off of some detailed pictures. If anybody has anything then that I could use then send it along.
I'm really excited at the level of interest in the Swift and hopefully can build on all of your enthusiasm to offer more... and maybe even build one for myself
No promises on when I can get to the speed cowl and canopy, but with the weather turning colder here in Colorado, I should have more time to spend in the shop. -Erik
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Erik, glad you like the speed version's of the swift. Before I had ordered from you, I had researched a lot of photo's & stuff of the Globe Swift. Photo wise I have a lot of speed versions to choose from, No two are really alike. Somewhere in the main stream of things I lost your email address. Would be glad to forward all the photo's I have to you. but for the mean time I'm posting a few of them here... Glenn
Me I prefer the the smile of this freindly little plane
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Joined Dec 2009
225 Posts
I would like to get a set of plans, emailed erick but no reply.
Cowling Reference
I own a Swift with a "speed cowl" and as Glenn stated, no two are exactly alike. SwiftWorks in Athens, TN (where the Swift Museum Foundation is located) made cowls and they were unique to the installation (depending on which engine was in the plane...180 Lycoming, 210 Continental, 200 Lycoming, 220 Franklin, etc.).
I have many pictures of the front, side or whatever you need if you need pics for scaling and shape.
Sam Swift
Stock Swift cowling
Also, please note that the early GC-1A (85hp) Swifts have a much shorter cowling than the later GC-1B (125hp) Swifts, due to the longer engine (6 cylinders vs. 4 cylinders).
Also, the GC-1A has a different "smile" than the GC-1B's (as shown below)
Sam Swift
Landing gear differences
One other thing to note between stock vs. custom Swifts is the landing gear doors.
The stock Swift came with "half-length" gear doors, whereas many Swifters have the "Mustang" or "P-51" gear doors, which are longer in length.
Also, the many Swifters have installed hubcaps which look more like a P-51-style.
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Canopy options
There is the stock Swift hatch, which allows the side windows to slide down and the top to open upwards (and forward).
Other options are the very popular sliding canopy (Nagel canopy) and the less-popular gull-wing canopy.
see below...
Stock windows
My last point to make (I think )
The Swifts built by Globe had the wrap-around rear window, whereas the Temco-built Swifts had the "new look" D-windows in the back.
see below...
Wow, thanks for all the great info Sam! Looks like lot's of options to consider. As far as the speed cowl versions, I guess I would like to start with the one that seems to be common in Glenn's photo's (with the Nagel sliding canopy). Let me see how that goes and then I guess I could try a different style ... if there is enough interest (I need to make a new mold for the standard "smiley" cowl...pulled nearly 30 cowls so far and stating to wear it out ) I also want to make a fiberglass fuselage available at some point. I never realized that there were so many Swift lovers out there I don't think that I will do the GC-1A cowl that you show Sam. I have enough trouble getting the 1B grill to release from my mold! I also worry about the narrowness of the grill work, and to be honest I am a bit worried about the present cowlings...you guys let me know how it goes after you have had a chance to "dremel" out the grill slots. I'm worried that the narrowness of the material between the slots my be too weak...I had considered putting some carbon tow in there to help stiffen it up...you may want to do this as a precaution. Let me know.
I spent a bit of time looking through my dad's old documents and found a few things on the 1/3 scale GC-1B that he was designing...like a typical "modeler" he had 10 projects going on at the same time and never finished the drawings. I think that I am going to try to scale up the 1/4 version to 1/3 scale and make a cowl plug for that. With a 117" wingspan and 6" wheels I think it would be perfect for a DA-100 or DLA-111.
Flyinucrazy...I never received your email (I think you may have misspelled my name). I am sending you a PM.
United States, MI, Ann Arbor
Joined Feb 2009
461 Posts
Outstanding information indeed. Erik, as for the 1/3 scale @ 117'ws, ... Oh count me in, Would be an outstanding addition for my Spartan. Glenn
United States, TN, Huntsville
Joined Dec 2009
225 Posts
Erick, thanks for the reply. Tim
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The apartments lies inside a 19th Century villa among the most famous historical houses in Sorrento, recently renovated and finely furnished, able to immerse its guests into a unique and unrepeatable atmosphere.
The villa is surrounded by a garden with orange and lemon trees. Part of the amazing shared garden, holds a bar/restaurant. Five elegant holiday apartments are situated in this building.
You will stay in the heart of Sorrento, close to restaurants, shops, public transportation, a tourist harbor and at 500 meters' distance from the beach. Though optional, you will find that a car is not necessary while staying at this apartment.
It lies in the very heart of the lively town of Sorrento, among the most famous and suggestive cities in the gulf of Naples.
Very close to the sea and to the characteristic "old town" center, filled with shops, local handcrafts and boutiques typically of the Campania region, it will allow you to live and breathe Tasso's hometown, a famous 16th Century poet whose greatest literary work was "La Gerusalemme Liberata"(Jerusalem Delivered).
Sorrento is an ideal starting point while intending to visit the nearby and famous tourist attractions, such as, Naples, Pompeii , Herculaneum, Capri and the Amalfi Coast.
A perfect location to explore Sorrento's surroundings in search of the very peculiar villages situated along the Campania coastline; to taste local delicacies and rich flavors, not to mention the wide variety of fine tasting wine. If you enjoy walking, say no more as you may stroll along, ride a bicycle across the magical landscape or simply enjoy a vacation of total relaxation. You will find it to be an unforgettable experience!
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Prices are in Euros.
Check-In is from 11:00 to 17:15, Check-Out is by 10:00 AM
Prices include taxes, wi-fi, cleaning costs upon arrival, midweek cleaning, and at departure time, bed linens and towels.
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City tax: € 1,50 per day, per person (from 18 years onwards)
The apartment lies inside a 19th Century villa among the most famous historical houses in Sorrento, recently renovated and finely furnished, able to immerse its guests into a unique and unrepeatable atmosphere.
The villa is surrounded by a garden with orange and lemon trees. Part of the amazing shared garden, holds a bar/restaurant. Five elegant holiday apartments are situated on the first floor. Casa Alberto is an elegant apartment located on the second floor(there is a lift) of this amazing property located in the center of Sorrento. It can accommodate up to 5 people. It has 2 separate double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a large living room; a kitchen, a dining seat and a sofa bed in the event of a fifth guest. From the kitchen one can reach a large terrace which also includes a lounge seat.
You will stay in the heart of Sorrento, close to restaurants, shops, public transportation, a tourist harbor and at 500 meters' distance from the beach.
We spent Easter 2014 in this unit and really enjoyed it. We arrived by ferry from Naples and after taking the bus to the main square, we walked to the property no problem. After spending 5 days walking and exploring Sorrento, we were convinced we had picked the best part of town to stay in. Close to shopping and restaurants but on the quiet end of the street that felt more like we were staying among the locals. Short jaunt to local shops selling cheese made on site, fresh bread, produce, local wine and other groceries. We were only a party of two and this unit is quite large so we had lots of space. We spent a lot of downtime on the deck including watching the procession at 3am at the church across the street. We can't speak for the food served at the café in the lemon grove on the same property but we did relax there with good cappuccinos. Daily cleaning service was a pleasant surprise. We would stay there again!
Great location, easy walk to all of Sorento's sights and transportation.
Clean, and bright with user friendly kitchen. The roof top patio is a great place to start and end the day. Customer friendly staff. Great apartment for 4 or more.
I have been to Sorrento many times as I love this place, his art, history, food and the coast. Casa Alberto was just perfect for my holiday, located in the historical center of Sorrento but in a very quiet a nice area, in few steps you can reach the most beautiful attraction of the town. I rented also a car as I know very well the surrounding of Sorrento and I would like to go around by myself to see all the beauty of this location and the parking at few meters from casa Alberto helped out very much as in Sorrento is very difficult to find parking space. The house it self is very nice and in a very typical building that seems to bring you to the Roman Empire, but with a modern touch.
I usually have very good experiences with apartment rentals. Unfortunately, this one was the exception.
The apartment: The apartment was large and clean and it had a washing machine and free wifi. (The pictures accurately reflect what it looks like.) Unfortunately those are about the only good things I can say about it. There really wasn't a living area, only a very uncomfortable, hard single bed facing a desk with a small TV on it, which didn't work. The beds were like sleeping on stone slabs and the oven also didn't work, which is a problem if you choose an apartment so you can have some relaxing time and meals at home. In their defense, I must say that when we complained about it, they offered to bake our pizza in their restaurant oven. Which leads me to the property...
The property: What we didn't get from reading the ad is that this isn't a private villa but rather an apartment hotel. There are several units on 3 floors. Which means, of course, not much privacy. The yard is beautiful, but you're sharing it with all the guests, as well as the patrons of the public restaurant on the patio, (I don't remember seeing this in the ad, although when I look now it does say there's a restaurant) which specializes in children's parties. Oh, and did I mention that there's a techno disco in the basement??? The bass reverberated through the walls until midnight. Forget relaxing or sleeping -- except for a brief window between midnight and 3:30AM. Because, in addition to the noise from the disco and restaurant, the site is located directly across the street from a hospital -- which has trash pickup around 3:30AM, every night. No, you cannot keep the windows open -- ever. We were there in June. It was very warm. I really like fresh air when I sleep, so on top of the hard beds, it was stuffy in the room. And did I mention the noise from the restaurant and disco? Oh, yes, I did.
The neighborhood: I usually like to be right in the heart of an old city in Italy, but I didn't realize just how touristy Sorrento is (my bad). It would have been preferable to be a few blocks outside the city center in a quieter, more residential neighborhood. (The area surrounding the city center is all residential and easy to walk.) The narrow alleyways in the city center were swarming with wall-to-wall shopping tourists from about 10AM when the cruise ships disembarked until evening when they all went back to the ships, making it crowded, noisy and difficult to get to or from our apartment.
La casa e molto pulita e molto bella. Sta molto vicino al centro ma puo stare con tranqullita. Non c'e rumore. il personale e' stato molto gentile. Puo mangiare al ristorante che sta nello stesso palazzo e molto buono. Noi non sapevamo che vengono ogni giorno per pulire l'appartamento. E difficile lasciare la macchina per strada ma c'e un parcheggio a due passi. Sopratuto, e' stato un esperienza molto piacevole e comodo stare in questo immobile e consigliero' ai nostri amici.
You will stay in the heart of Sorrento, close to restaurants, shops, public transportation, touristic harbor and at 500 metrs from the beach. You will not need a car to stay at this apartment.


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Natalie Portman, who's played a queen a couple times before, will once again take up the royal mantle.
The 27-year-old actress will play a warrior princess in the fantasy comedy "Your Highness," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
She joins Danny McBride ("Land of the Lost") and James Franco ("Pineapple Express") in the Universal Pictures project that revolves around an big-headed, layabout prince (McBride) who's challenged to complete a quest in order to save his dad's kingdom. Portman will play his love interest while Franco will play his more competent and heroic brother.
Portman will next be seen on the big screen in the indie film "New York, I Love You," in which she also directed a segment, and the drama "Brothers," due in theaters in December.
Portman's royal lineage includes playing Queen Amidala in the "Star Wars" prequels and Anne Boleyn in "The Other Boleyn Girl."
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How To Mod A Playstation 1?
Posted 13 June 2007 - 11:46 AM
Posted 13 June 2007 - 01:19 PM
get an original PSX game (preferably something with a lot of audio tracks)
and you'll need something to hold down the lid sensor.
o Remove the original CD when the motor changes to 2x and replace it
with your backup CD.
[If you did this right, you *SHOULD* see the black PS screen now.]
o Watch and listen to the CD motor. It will slow down and then
speed back up to 2x.
o After a few seconds, the CD motor will slow down again. Replace
with your original CD once again.
o After another half second or so, the original CD will speed up again.
Finally replace your backup CD.
from the gamefaqs swap faq http://www.gamefaqs....ame/916392.html
Alternatively all of the modchips made for the PSX were just pic chips, if you can find the hex you can flash your own for about $2 worth of parts (chip + wire) if you don't have a programmer I'm sure you could find someone to program it for you. There are only 6 or 8 VERY EASY wires to solder (depending on your model) and backups/imports/homebrew will play on that console just as well as originals do.
don't buy those stupid plug mods, they're expensive and they basically just make the swap trick easier to do.
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Posted 13 June 2007 - 10:37 PM
Twisted where are you getting your prcing from, Microchip direct wants $9 for a 12c508/12c508a which is what all the PSX Hex's I have found use. thanks.
His pricing would be correct.
I last paid 35p each for these (UK Currency).
Brings back memories of Xmas past when I would chip 10 to 20 a day in the weeks running up to Xmas.
Not chipped one for donkeys years now.
A quick UK search reveals them here http://www.crownhill...ct.php?prod=159 not as cheap as I got them trade but still cheap.
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Posted 14 June 2007 - 02:09 PM
Twisted where are you getting your prcing from, Microchip direct wants $9 for a 12c508/12c508a which is what all the PSX Hex's I have found use. thanks.
I haven't ordered one in quite a long time but I don't remember paying more then $1 and change for them when I was doing PS1 mods... I'd almost always order them from digi-key as they have good prices and even better bulk pricing.
"xxCxx" PICs should be dirt cheap as IIRC those are write once/non rewritable chips designed for cheap mass production unlike the "xxFxx" rewritable models.
If the price is significantly higher then it's probably because they're phasing out the chip (or canceled the chip altogether)... once they stop making a certain model they'll jack up the MSRP to get people to buy the newer models instead (why pay more for an old chip when the newer one is faster, has more features and is cheaper). Usually 3rd party vendors will just sell at the old price until stock is depleted so you might have better luck shopping for them some place other then directly with Microchip.
Edited by twistedsymphony, 14 June 2007 - 02:11 PM.
Posted 15 June 2007 - 01:58 PM
Is it relatively easy to rewrite code from one pic or another, I have plenty of 12f629's and 83's around. Also, I am not really sure what hex I would flash anyway, so the ability to flash more than once would sure be nice.
Edited by EverestX, 15 June 2007 - 01:59 PM.
Posted 18 June 2007 - 08:00 PM
if you've got the original source it's pretty damn easy.
you might try looking for some kind of conversion tool but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
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Monday night's Sony Radio Awards rightly celebrated Radio 4, some of the biggest names on Radio 2 and the very fine work rather more quietly done by the World Service. Radio 1 and Five Live only took single awards, but they were in two of the most prestigious categories - the breakfast show award for Moyles and speech broadcaster of the year for Simon Mayo. As these results came in, and commercial stations took a smattering of awards, there was one notable absence from those winning the gold: Radio 3.
The station was nominated in several categories (for Jazz on 3; Music Matters; Sean Rafferty; Blood Wedding; Enter the Garden; Opera on 3 - Carmen; Two Platforms, and coverage of WOMAD 2007), and did secure a couple of bronze awards, but didn't take top spot in any of them.
This fact alone might not be cause for consternation given how unpredictable the awards can be - Chris Evans wasn't even nominated this year for his Radio 2 drivetime show in the Music Radio Personality category he has won for the past two years. But Evans can take comfort from having added 620,000 listeners to the show in his last set of RAJAR figures, and proving early critics of his move to the teatime show (remember the almighty fuss?) wrong.
Radio 3, by comparison, saw its lowest ever audiences in August's RAJARs last year - six months after a revamp of the station's schedules - and little sign of things improving in the most recent audience figures (an average weekly audience of 1.79m, up from 1.78m last summer). It's never going to be the most popular network, with its commitment to classical music and mind-stretching speech output, but you might still expect critical and industry acclaim, and that was in short supply at the Sonys.
So, is the network in trouble? I still listen as much as ever, mostly to the drama output, Between the Ears, and Night Waves, but I wish Mixing It hadn't gone and (though this is hardly Radio 3's doing) I do miss Andy Kershaw. But Radio 3 is not my default station, it's one I dip into now and then, and not often for its core classical output, so I'm not exactly a typical listener.
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Now that Jessica Simpson is cozying up to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, will they be double-dating with BFF CaCee Cobb and her boyfriend, Donald Faison?
"CaCee and I prefer to keep our relationship away from the glitz and cameras," the Scrubs star told PEOPLE at Hollywood Life magazine's Breakthrough of the Year Awards on Sunday. "But he is a great guy."
The friendly foursome did log some quality time last week, when they helped Cobb celebrate her 30th birthday at Teddy's nightclub. (As the bash wound down, Simpson and the NFL star, both 27, were spotted smooching.)
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In the Seychelles, putting coconuts in a cart proves difficult for several teams
Here's a conundrum for you:
Let's say you hate Non-Elimination Legs of "The Amazing Race," but you somehow find ways of accepting them when they save teams you like. But then say that the team that you like so clearly deserved elimination that you find yourself resenting the team you like because you can't even find any way to enjoy having seen them skirt death. But you can still find pleasure that it was the team you like that dodged elimination, rather than the team that you hated that would have otherwise survived, because at least the Non-Elimination leg didn't have to be wasted on that team you hate.
Does that make sense? Because that's the way I felt at the end of Sunday (March 28) night's "Amazing Race." I was relieved, but frustrated and also a bit disappointed. That's too many darned emotions for one man.
Full "Amazing Race" recap after the break...
So Sunday's episode was Non-Elimination, a suspicion I had from the beginning of the episode, a feeling which just got worse and worse as the episode progressed. Adding to the sinking sensation was the certainty that Carol & Brandy were about to finish last and I'd have been happy if they'd gone home and irked if they survived. But then Jet & Cord fell behind and I became temporarily pleased with the turn of events, before thinking back over everything that Jet & Cord had done during the leg. I couldn't dismiss that all things being equal, they screwed up enough different things along the way that going home wouldn't have been at all unfair as a punishment.
Jet & Cord, definitely my favorite team remaining, had a weak leg and everything that went wrong was completely in their control. They couldn't say they were unlucky. They somehow just took their eyes off the prize.
And it started from the very beginning. As they departed France and the previous Pit Stop, the teams were told they were all flying on the same plane to Seychelles, which meant that the lead accumulated by the Detectives was about to be a thing of the past. They were told that once they got to Seychelles, they'd have to rush to a point and take a number, which even a team as generally dumb as Dan & Jordan -- they derisively said they'd never heard of Seychelles, as if that were the fault of the islands -- knew meant a footrace getting off the plane. Somehow, once they got to the airport, Jet & Cord suggested to the Detectives that they should go get breakfast, while four other teams rushed to kiosks and tried to make sure they got seats at the front of the plane.
And get this: The three teams at the front of the plane got to the clue box first and, as a direct result, those three teams gained a one-hour advantage over the competition. Brent & Caite, Steve & Allie and Dan & Jordan were on the first set of helicopters because they knew to properly book seats. Jet & Cord were an hour back because they prioritized breakfast. So that was one big blunder.
The helicopters took the teams off to the island of La Digue, where they arrived at the Detour.
The Detour was the choice between Turtle Toddle and Ox Trot.
In Turtle Toddle, the teams had to use a banana to lure a giant tortoise across a field and then they had to carry a heavy bunch of bananas 1.5 miles.
In Ox Trot, the teams had to fill a cart with coconuts. In the clue, host Phil Keoghan carefully emphasized "without losing any of their cargo." Think that might be significant? And then the teams had to get an ox hitched to the cart and had to steer the ox to the dock.
On a pretty basic level, these tasks were a wash. Dan & Jordan did Ox Trot quickly, while Steve & Allie did Turtle Toddle in no time at all. We were led to believe that Steve & Allie got a spectacularly cooperative tortoise, because Carol & Brandy struggled with their tortoise and ended up quitting the task. I'd imagine that Carol & Brandy's problems were human-driven, rather than tortoise-driven, but any time you're relying on a cantankerous 100-year-old turtle, predictability isn't always an asset.
With Ox Trot, the challege was exactly what Phil's emphasis warned us it would be. Of the five teams that ended up doing Ox Trot, only two -- Dan & Jordan and Mike & Louie -- did it without misplacing a coconut the first time around. And only one stinking coconut. No team mislaid two or three coconuts. Two teams -- Jet & Cord and Carol & Brandy -- were even vocal about making sure to include every coconut. But with three teams, they made it to the docks and the man with the clue shook his head and said they didn't include enough coconuts. Carol & Brandy and Jet & Cord were incredulous, but didn't waste time arguing. Brent threatened to quit, threw off his bag and stomped around like a five-year-old, while Caite misused the word "unfair" a couple times before they accepted their fate and went back. The forgetfulness led to several wild swings of momentum. It looks like Brent & Caite were in trouble, but then other teams made the same gaffe and they were easily safe. Then it looked like Jet & Cord were doomed, but Carol & Brady lost a coconut under a wheel.
There wasn't much room for momentum to shift after that, because the Roadblock was a real dud. Swim a couple yards, dive down a few feet, get a bottle and swim back? Why even make that a named challenge? The teams would have done it for fun. Other than the most minor of difficulties, nobody lost time getting their bottle and taking the boat near the shore. From there, the teams had to swim to shore, assemble a map and take it to Phil. There was a tiny bit of struggling there, because several contestants -- Louie, mostly -- aren't in great shape. But it couldn't have been much easier.
Except for if you left your bottle on the ship. Jet & Cord, holding a significant lead over Carol & Brandy, acquired the ship, boating to within swimming distance of shore and dove into the water without their bottle. They went guessed on the proper direction to travel and got to Phil by accident and were told they had to go back, by which time their boat seemed to have drifted farther away and they were also swimming against the tide. Because of that, Brandy & Carol reached the Pit Stop ahead of them.
Fortunately for the Cowboys, it was a non-elimination, but if you mess up the pre-challenge travel, mess up the Detour and mess up the Roadblock, your entitlement to continue in the game is really limited. It doesn't seem like the Cowboys are very far off, so I doubt the extra task next episode will be what does them in, but if they'd been sent home tonight, it would have been hard to do anything other than shrug and gone, "Well, that's fair."
Overall, it was an episode of misadventures, as one would expect from "The Amazing Race: All-Stupids Edition. While the Cowboys made the ones that were potentially related to elimination, it's possible that Steve & Allie's oversight may have greater long-term consequences. They left their bags at the first step of the Detour, a blunder they realized as they were already at sea and headed towards the Roadblock. Since they had their money and their travel documents with them, they decided to leave everything behind, much to Allie's sadness. "It'll just strip me down and I'll be raw," Allie initially said, worrying about her makeup. Then she got philosophical and decided, "It'll make us faster, that's for sure." We'll see how quickly they suffer from lack of all-terrain attire. The last time something like this was an issue was when Dan & Andrew left their shoes behind. That led them to waste money on shoes the next leg and then have issues paying a cabbie.
It's a pity that Steve & Allie made their stand and refused to go back for their bags in an episode that turned out to be Non-Elimination. At least they won the leg and got $7,000 apiece courtesy of 7-Up, which apparently sponsored the leg in some forgettable way.
More thoughts on the episode:
*** In addition to losing their stuff and winning the leg, it was a good exposure leg for Steve & Allie. We learned things about the season's most enigmatic team. It turns out that Allie likes to pray. And Steve is a really funny guy. I liked his answer for choosing between Detour options: "I've never met an ox I can trust and turtles are cool, man." They were likable and enthusiastic.
*** Meanwhile, we got more of the usual complaints from Carol & Brandy. Like I said, if they'd finished last and been saved, I'd have been angry. They're just not good people. Their ongoing vendetta against Caite & Brent is just unseemly, because as dumb and pretty as Caite & Brent may be, they're utterly harmless and they appear to have no capacity for malice. The only reason to hate Brent & Caite is pointless spite and Brandy has that in spades. Carol has mostly been the superior partner this season, but it was pretty ugly how fast Carol blamed Brandy for misplacing a coconut without any corroborating evidence. Boo, Carol.
*** Nobody likes Carol & Brandy. When Brent & Caite reached the Pit Stop with the Detectives right behind, Phil Keoghan asked who both teams wanted to see go home. Both teams agreed Carol & Brandy. As Brent put it, "It's pretty anonymous among the teams" Phil corrected his word choice. By that time, I'd already become convinced it was non-elimination.
*** Since the episode title was "Anonymous?" that gets credited to Phil, rather than Brent. It always feels a bit unfair when Phil gets to name the episode. Following "Cathy Drone?" last week, it's the second straight episode title based on a malapropism from the cast.
*** Favorite exchange of the episode: After noting their problems with details (again rearing its ugly head with the coconut flub), Caite said, "You can tell we were the bad kids in school." Brent responded,
"I wasn't bad in school." And Caite's eye-roll was classic. And no, Brent quitting wasn't likable, but he quit for maybe a second and then they pouted their way back to the coconuts, neither blaming the other.
*** Line of the episode: Steve watching Allie lure the tortoise with the banana and cracking, "That's what her mom does to me, but it's usually a beer or something."
*** I was a little worried that Louie & Michael breaking their bottle would be an issue, but they stuck to their guns and didn't look at the map before hitting land. And even then, they didn't assemble the map, just tagging along behind Brent & Caite in a really funny partnership.
*** Seychelles is one of those locations where *I* would probably mangle the pronunciation and therefore I won't mock any of the teams for also doing so. Seems only fair.
*** There's a musical sting that "The Amazing Race" has started to overuse, indicating every time we're supposed to notice something dramatic. It sounds a bit like the sound effect that indicates that Jason Voorhees is lurking behind the tree getting ready to chop up the topless cheerleader. Know the one I mean? We must have gotten that sting 10 times this episode. And when Brent & Caite left their coconut, we saw no fewer than three close-ups of the poor, lonely, forgotten coconut. The producers may want to remember that just because the contestants are stupid doesn't mean the viewers are.
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Main Event - Zahir Raheem def. Tim Coleman TKO2 2:04 - After easily taking the first round, Raheem came out and dominated Coleman in the second round. A shot to the gut took Coleman down early. After getting up, Coleman was immediately knocked down twice more with right hooks to the body. Standing up again, Raheem ended the fight with a flush left hook to the face that dropped Coleman for the fourth time forcing the referee to stop the fight.
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"It was never like one day I'm going to run for office until I become the president or the governor, it was never like that. It was more like, you start seeing needs in the community and you start serving in the community and pretty soon you realize that you could bring something to the table," said Perla Alarcon-Flory, Iowa House District 6 candidate.
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