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Barack Hussein Obama
is the President of
the United States of America.
He is facing monumental
challenges in ridding the world of
mountainous hardships, and the
U.S., as a nation, bears a heavy
responsibility of fully supporting
him. All indications are that he will
prove to be a president with
extraordinary abilities.
There were more than 500
tax law changes in 2008.
Signs of the time: Job sites
Monster.com and
careerbuilder.com plan to
advertise during the Super Bowl.
Donations from corporate America
to the nation's charities is drying
up. And construction companies
could be poised for a rebound
under Obama's expected stimulus
package. Investors are bidding up
construction and engineering
stocks. In late November shares
of URS Corp., a San
Francisco-based engineering and
construction company rose 34%,
global giant Flour corp. rose 17%
and Granite Construction Inc., a
domestic engineering company,
rose 22%.
U.S. Department of Defense
has 2.5 million employees. Ten
thousand of them are lawyers!
Richard Nixon used to enjoy
telling about the time that Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev stayed
at the Nixon home in
San Clemente, California.
Emerging from his room with an
attractive, if somewhat Amazonian,
young woman, Brezhnev leeringly
introduced her as his "masseuse."
After Nixon shook hands with her,
he noticed a lingering scent that
he was able to identify as the
classic but decidedly
nonproletarian perfume Arpege,
because it was one of Pat Nixon's
favorites.
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Wishing you the season's
peace,
joy and blessings. Happy 2009 and
thank you for your friendship.
DNA Computers: Computers
store data in strings made up of
numbers 0 and 1. Living things
store information with molecules
represented by the letters A, T, C
and G. Supported by grants from
NASA, the Pentagon and others, a
number of researchers worldwide
are now creating tiny
biology-based computers, hoping
to harness the power of life itself.
They call their creations
"machines" and "devices." But
they, really, are nothing more than
test tubes of DNA-laden water.
And yet this liquid has been
coaxed to crunch algorithms and
generate data. The problems
solved by DNA computers to date
are rudimentary, as in the early
days of development of binary
computers. But it is hoped that
someday tiny DNA-computers can
be injected into humans to zap
viruses, fix good cells gone bad
and keep all healthy. They're also
pursuing the idea that generic
material can self-replicate and
grow into processors so powerful
that they can handle problems too
complex for silicon-based
computers to solve.
Most married couples file
joint
tax returns, says the IRS. For
2006, the IRS received over 138
million individual income-tax
returns. Of those, 53 million
represented married filing jointly.
Only 2.5 million returns came from
married filing separately.
We see more in numbers
than just numbers...
Ali R. Kakhsaz, CPA, MAcc
www.arkcpa.com
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