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For Christmas my son received a Green energy snap electronics set. http://www.elenco.com/scg125.htm The set include a hand crank dc motor that can be used to charge the rechargeable battery. It also includes a dc motor with a fan blade for generating current with wind power. I built the hand...

For a book I am writing I need a character to get tricked into doing something. I need the catch to be fairly involved; unfortunately I know very little about con games. Are there any authors known for writing about this I can read to get some inspiration for this plot line?

By the way, this question was asked and answered three years ago but the site that was chosen as best answer no longer provides this info. If anyone has a site that is current as of 9/1/09 I'd appreciate it.

I am on the sporting clays team for a charity tournament my company sponsored. I have little personal history shooting shotguns, though I participated in another tournament a few months ago. Knowing that my distance accuracy would not be good, the 12 ga over/under gun I borrowed was equipped...

Theoretically you will end up netting the entire sale price if it delists and is liquidated. In the case of GM though you are making a bargain with the devil because the government may step in to save it. I am sure many people are thinking like you right now but this is a very risky play.

You will be taxed; there is no way around this. Whomever does the S-Corp's returns will issue a form called a K-1 that indicates how much of the company's income is attributable to you as a material shareholder. Outside of tax exempt accounts such as 401(k)'s, IRA's, etc, all income gets...