If your net income from the business is $xxx or more, you must pay self-employment tax, which is the Social Security tax for a self-employed individual. The good news is one-half of your self-employment tax is deductible from your adjusted gross income

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After a few weeks of news coverage of Republican complaints that the financial reform legislation moving through Congress would permit future “bailouts,” the contentious provision has been dropped from the bill. Trouble is, while GOP leaders kept using that dreaded b-word, and the business press often reported it, the measure didn’t look much like a bailout at all. We’ll have…

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He Said-She Said Victim

Rube Goldberg was a brilliant cartoonist and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines, reports Puggal

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Rube Goldberg: Inventor and Cartoonist

As I’ve mentioned in previous columns , one of the earliest methods of “tele-reading” on the Internet was fan-written fiction, or fanfic. Fanfics were available electronically before most other books simply because they had to be, to be shared with other fans on the Internet. Already popular back when the Internet was inhabited by only a handful of college students, it positively exploded as the Internet grew.

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Novelist Diana Gabaldon causes fanfic furor

WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four Brooklyn, N.Y.-area residents have been charged in connection with a health care fraud scheme operated out of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Freelance writers are budget conscious and enjoy taking advantage of bargains and freebies. That’s why every now and then I like to throw out lists of free things for writers.  You can probably find all these resources on your own, but isn’t it nice to have them all in one convenient place?

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252 Free Things for Freelance Writers

A preteen student in Pennsylvania is receiving praise for his innovative idea, an idea that could possibly revolutionize the auto industry reports WIS News 10 . “There’s this new idea about solar panels they’re thinking about putting it on a car! And I thought if it doesn’t work at night how would you work it? So then one time I came over here and I saw the windmill,” said young inventor Billy Schopf.

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The Power Of Wind… For Your Car

May 5 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said the CNN cable-news channel had discussions with news organizations about partnerships for news delivery.

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The Gizmodo “4G” iPhone prototype story continues to get play in the blogosphere. Dan Gillmor posts a look at Apple’s behavior —apparently prompting a police raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house—and New York Times columnist David Carr’s editorial about it

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PROFIT Magazine : The previous decade saw its share of disasters and near misses: Y2K, 9/11, the South Asian tsunami, the Northeast Blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina. And if the forces of terrorists, tectonics and power grids weren’t enough, the global economic meltdown sealed 2000s’ fate as one of the most disaster-prone decades in recent memory. The result, according to Gerald Celente, director of the Kingston, N.Y.-based Trends Research Institute , is the rise of neo-survivalism

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Gawker ’s “Valleywag” section reports on an intriguing development in the world of iPad newspaper applications . When the iPad launched, one of the first applications to be spotlighted was an early version of the New York Times iPad app

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Steve Jobs reportedly unhappy about New York Times iPad app

CNN’s parent company Time Warner confirmed on Wednesday that it is in discussions with CBS News as well as other broadcast news organizations about a possible news-gathering partnership.

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Amongst the fuss and pointless politicking about the National Broadband plan, did you know that there already is a nationwide super-fast fiber broadband infrastructure? It’s called National LambdaRail (NLR), and it’s been privately funded.

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Charlie Sorrel at Wired ’s “Gadget Lab” blog has a column on “ How to make an iPad-beating tablet .” Though by and large, most of the features he describes are exactly the features that the iPad has. For instance: The suggestions that Apple should let users install apps from anywhere ignore this fact: the App store is so successful because it is closed .

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As with most mergers, the announcement this week that United Airlines was joining forces with Continental Airlines to become the world’s largest airline touted all of the benefits of the combination: Complementary routes that will give consumers more choice and flexibility; scale that will provide cost synergies; and resources that will allow for strategic investments. Continental’s CEO (and CEO-designate of the merged company), Jeff Smisek, even said that “putting these two carriers together is a match made in heaven.” Unfortunately for Smisek and Glenn Tilton, United’s CEO, making the “match” is a lot different than making the “marriage.” Even assuming that the merger is given regulatory approval (which is not a sure thing), the integration process will be extremely challenging. And even if the integration process is smooth, there is still no guaranty that “bigger will be better.” After all, there are plenty of examples of large industry-consolidation deals that did not pay off as expected (e.g

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Shares of News Corp. are down more than 7% after the media conglomerate says its fourth-quarter earnings would end up below that of the year-ago period.

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News Corp. falls on fourth-quarter warning

British entrepreneur and media personality Lord Alan Sugar has warned the publishing industry to “make hay while the sun shines” at a speaking event promoting his forthcoming biography. Lord Sugar founded electronics company Amstrad in 1968, which manufactured a popular British home computer line during the 1980s, and is featured in the British version of The Apprentice . Lord Sugar sees the future of literature moving to devices like the Kindle and the iPad, comparing it to ad-free British TV network Sky Plus taking viewers away from ITV.

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Lord Alan Sugar warns publishers that Kindle is coming

Shares in media conglomerate News Corp fell more than 9 percent in early trading on Wednesday as investors appeared to be dissatisfied with the company’s full-year profit outlook.

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There’s a scene in “Mad Men”, the TV drama about a 1960s advertising agency. One of the junior copywriters is showing the Creative Director an ad he’s just written.

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Why You Shouldn’t Write for Other Writers

This is from the Amazon Help page : After you create one or more collections you wish to use for organizing your Kindle’s content, you’re ready associate items on your Kindle with those collections. Here are a few handy collection features: Collections are stored on Amazon : When you create a collection on a device, we’ll save your collection so it appears in Archived Items on other devices registered to your Amazon.com account.

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Amazon “collections” feature is detailed