Water everywhere. But, not a drop to drink.

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It’s been an interesting year.  We had folks in Charleston, West Virginia banned from using water for several days. (I wrote about this as a terrorist act, because a company managed to have its toxic chemicals leak into the drinking water source.  (You would think this would make folks in West Virginia demand their government do a better job of regulating chemical storage.  But, they haven’t.  Proof that it takes all kinds.)  Or, folks in the Carolinas and even Virginia have Duke Energy pollute their waters with toxic sludge.  By pumping the coal ash into the Dan River.  (Again, no citizen outcry.)

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Data Mining- here we come

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A computer game is about to become an important medical research tool.  Because all of you who play its games (I never found the time to join in), have provided massive data that can be mined to determine some pretty important facts.  The game site?  Lumosity.com.   You know, the game that trains your brain.  (To do what, I might ask?)

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What does it take?

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I just finished reading a really terrible book. One for which I had high hopes. (No, I won’t insult the author by giving you his name or the book title. Even though I think he deserves such condemnation.) After it, it purported to discern whether mathematics could prove or disprove the existence of the Supreme Being.

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What? I am losing money and must take a salary?

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I have written about “reasonable compensation” rules, as they apply to those small businesses that employ the “S” (that used to mean ‘small’ business) designation.  This designation means one is incorporated or has set up an LLC and elected to be taxed as an S entity.  (The IRS demands you provide them a signed- by each and every stockholder- Form 2553.)

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