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Paula Pigeon is depressed. She's got a great idea for solving a company problem, but no one will listen to her--after all, she's just a pigeon!

In the Land of Penguins (situated somewhere on the shores of the Sea of Organizations), only penguins get their way. All the other birds--hawks, eagles, parrots, swans--are relegated to "what they do best." But when a company crisis arises, Paula seizes the opportunity and shows those conformist penguin leaders that you can't judge a bird by its feathers--not if you want a creative solution.

In this delightful parable (a follow-up to the highly successful A Peacock in the Land of Penguins), Hateley, Schmidt, and Weiss have collaborated again to create witty narration and wry illustrations. The story of Paula and her fowl friends demonstrates how organizations must become much better at capturing the talents, energy, and commitment of all employees (if they want breakthrough ideas). How? By focusing on diversity, creativity, and teamwork--and avoiding pigeon-holing at all costs!

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Semi-Fabulous.......2000-04-22

This book really does examine at least some of the causes and effects of stereotyping. Part One provides a fable with allegorical dimensions and implications. Part Two discusses how the lessons learned from the fable can be applied to the so-called "real world." I would have rated this book higher had there been more substance in Part Two. I would have rated it lower had the fable suggested fewer correlations between the Land of Penguins and the contemporary organization. In the Foreword, Ken Blanchard correctly points out that "Stories are powerful...Stories stick with people." He also thinks that the story told in this book is priceless." Perhaps. Presumably he is referring to the fable. Certainly not to Part Two which seems to suffer from the same lack of resources which the penguins encounter in Part One.

Here's what I suggest. First, buy the book and read it cover to cover. Then re-read Part One. Next, formulate your own check-list of correlations between the fable's narrative (in Part One) and your own organization. All organizations have core values. What are yours? All organizations function in terms of certain basic premises and assumptions. What are yours? Is there stereotyping in your organization? If so (probably so), what are the pigeon holes to which customers as well as employees are assigned? Take a look in the proverbial "mirror" and ask yourself: What are my own core values? What are my own basic assumptions and premises about myself? About the people I associate with?

You may not be pleased by the all of the answers (if they are honest answers) but they will certainly help you to reduce (if not eliminate) stereotyping from your perspectives on yourself as well as on others. Also, you will be better prepared to recognize -- and cope with -- others' stereotyping. Once you complete this process, re-read Part Two. Then review and fine-tune your conclusions with the authors' assistance.

One word of caution about those conclusions: Over time, they could become assumptions and premises which encourage (or at least permit) some more stereotyping. You're not living in the Land of Penguins but there are lessons to be learned from it. As I think Hateley and Schmidt would concur, the ultimate value of those lessons will be determined by what you learn from them...and then what you do as a result of what you have learned.

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Pettifoggery Can Be Hazardous to Your Freedom

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If you haven't read - don't review!

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(From the back cover) For the 64 years of its existence, the U. S. Internal Revenue Code has been ridiculed, feared and despised by virtually everyone. And why not? As presented by the Internal Revenue Service, the code appears illogical, inconsistent and incomprehensible. As presented, the code defies practically the entire Bill of Rights: requiring citizens to testify against themselves, allowing searches and seizures without warrants, levying fines and penalties without trials and imposing a tax on the basic right to earn a living. As presented, the IRC would appear to turn everything we all thought we had learned in grade school English and Civics on its head. Is it possible that we all just misunderstood those simple lessons? Maybe. But researcher, analyst and scholar Peter E. Hendrickson believes that after Cracking the Code, youll agree that what has been misunderstood is the 3,413,780 word monstrosity itself-and how, and to whom, it applies. Hendrickson delves deep into the history, statutes and case law behind the Code to reveal its startling and liberating secrets; and unless you live in a cave, you need to know what he has uncovered. Once you've finished Cracking the Code, the tax laws will never mean the same thing to you, or your bank account, again!

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Pettifoggery Can Be Hazardous to Your Freedom.......2006-05-31

Beware this book. I would give it no stars if that were possible. An earlier reviewer had it right when he said, "Twisting the meaning of 'includes' to exclude everything but the items in the phrase following 'includes' is the basis of his argument." It sounds like this can't be true, but it is. It reminds me of Bill Clinton's quibbling over the word "is." What such tax pettifoggers don't understand is that the power to tax incomes or income-producing activity is inherent in the state. Therefore, the income tax is illegitimate only if the state itself is illegitimate (which it is). If you accept the legitimacy of the state, then the income tax follows. The idea that Congress meant to, and constitutionally could, tax only federal employees and the like is absurd on its face. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly said, even in the tax resisters' beloved Brushaber opinion (reproduced in Hendrickson's book), that the federal government has an "all-embracing" power to tax -- incomes and anything else -- that predates the 16th Amendment. No court has disagreed. We will never get the tax monkey off our backs by this transparent trickery. If I were paranoid, I might wonder if peddlers of this kind of stuff were really IRS agents trying to entrap us. But I don't think the IRS would be so obvious.

This stuff works.......2006-04-14

Cracking the code is Pete Hendrickson's interpretation of the status and applicability of the Internal Revenue Code. Pete shows us that the code as written does not apply to most of the income most people earn in the US.

The results of Pete's work can be seen on his website "LostHorizons" where are posted many of the refunds and offsets that have been received by those following Pete's research and methods.

The book is concisely written and, if you are presupposed to think that every lawyer and CPA out there is lying about what your tax liability is, then this is the book for you.

Never mind that the US government has now filed for an injunction against Mr. Hendrickson and is suing for recovery of the refunds received by some of the larger recipients of refunds, never mind that Pete himself is not an attorney; and that his website and book have more disclaimers than seen by workers building the atomic bomb. Be sure to overlook that promoters of this stuff are now being regularly sentenced to jail. Also, you probably shouldn't go online to see that the IRS is disallowing the refunds and tacking on frivolous filing penalties. Just remember, so far, those using the information and filing according to Cracking the Code have yet to go to jail.

If you haven't read - don't review!.......2006-04-07

After reading some of the other "reviews", I'd suggest, If you haven't read - don't review! I've read the book forward and backward, annotated and highlighted and researched the findings on the web.

But, if this is your subject and you know more about your citizenship than you do about your sports team or that reality show, this is a must read for you!

Let me ask a question!... Is there any other law in the United States of America that implies "individual self-assessment" and "voluntary compliance"? Not a one! That should be a good indication of the mendacity at play here. A stop sign at a lonely crossroads in the dead of night. One "self-assesses" the situation and decides not to stop. Whether a cop is present or not, there is no "voluntary compliance" - the law says stop - always! Running the stop sign breaks the law - it's illegal. Every law in this country applies the same way, either positively or negatively. That's the way law works.

There is either a law that compels people to owe and pay an income tax or there is not. If there is a law it should be clear, concise and understandable. If it exists at all it would be "mandatory" and "compulsory". There would be absolutely NO abiguity. But....

And that is why you need to read this book. The author clearly and concisely reveals the truth about the Internal Revenue Code and sheds light on the terms, phrases, and definitions that do indicate who has and who does not have taxable income. The fact revealed is that most of us "volunteer" to comply with a law that doesn't even apply to us. And we do it time and again, year after year. The facts in this book, properly applied, can end that cycle.

Don't be fooled by negative reviews by people with "conventional wisdom" who have no intention of learning, or allowing you to learn. Buy this book. Read this book. Apply this book. And, share this book.

Buyer Beware!.......2006-03-08

The IRS has put this "method" on its new dirty dozen list, attached below. Twisting the meaning of "includes" to exclude everything but the items in the phrase following "includes" is the basis of his arguement. I don't work for the government. I am not in the tax business either. Your wages, salary, income from employment or whatever you want to call it is wages that must be reported and may be subject to taxes regardless of whether you work for the government or not. Please also go to the losthorizons.com website to read about the cases where the IRS is pushing back. Nobody that has filed recently is getting refunds - but they are getting the 'frivolous' filing letter. The people that have gotten refunds already using this scheme are also getting these letters now. They don't have any idea what it is going to cost them to defend against the IRS, and they will lose.

IR-2006-25, Feb. 7, 2006

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2006 "Dirty Dozen"--its latest annual tally of some of the most notorious tax scams--along with an alert to taxpayers this filing season to watch out for schemes that promise to reduce or eliminate taxes.

Two new schemes have worked their way onto the list in 2006. In recent months IRS personnel have noted the emergence of the two scams--"zero wages" and "Form 843 tax abatement"-- in which filers use IRS forms to claim that their tax bills have been wrongly inflated.

Also high on the list in 2006 is "phishing," a favorite ploy of identity thieves. Over the past few years, the IRS has observed criminals working through the Internet, posing even as representatives of the IRS itself, with the goal of tricking unsuspecting taxpayers into revealing private information that can be used to steal from their financial accounts.

Several of the usual suspects from last year remain on the list. The IRS, for example, continues to see schemes designed to exploit charitable organizations. Some taxpayers, meanwhile, still use frivolous arguments to claim they do not owe taxes, despite the fact such reasoning has been thrown out of court time and again.

"When it comes to taxes, everyone has to pay their fair share," IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said. "I urge taxpayers not to be taken in by hucksters who promise to lower or eliminate taxes. Getting caught up in the Dirty Dozen or similar schemes can lead to big headaches."

Namely, involvement with tax schemes can lead to imprisonment and fines. The IRS pursues and shuts down promoters of these and numerous other scams. Anyone pulled into these schemes can also face repayment of taxes plus interest and penalties.

The IRS urges people to avoid these common schemes:

1. Zero Wages. In this scam, new to the Dirty Dozen, a taxpayer attaches to his or her return either a Form 4852 (Substitute Form W-2) or a "corrected" Form 1099 that shows zero or little wages or other income. The taxpayer may include a statement indicating the taxpayer is rebutting information submitted to the IRS by the payer.
An explanation on the Form 4852 may cite "statutory language behind IRC 3401 and 3121" or may include some reference to the paying company refusing to issue a corrected Form W-2 for fear of IRS retaliation. The Form 4852 or 1099 is usually attached to a "Zero Return." (See number four below.)

An Excellent Start.......2005-11-14

This may be the first review of "Cracking the Code" (CtC) not to award it either 5 "stars" or 1 - and so to be of more than usual value.

Writers of those giving CtC a mere 1 star probably have sawdust between their ears or a tax-funded paycheck in their pockets - or quite likely, both.

Writers favoring it with 5 stars convey an understandable enthusiasm, but perhaps not one tempered by the experience of reading comparable works; having just discovered that government has been wickedly deceiving Americans for nearly a century, and that in Law there is no obligation to pay most income tax, they are naturally excited.

My perception is that CtC is a must-read for newcomers to the subject, for it's well written and reasoned and makes a lot of sense out of an apparently incomprehensible volume: the Internal Revenue Code. However, I don't stop there. The author concludes that the income tax does bear upon a minority of Americans; other authors, equally scholarly, conclude that it bears upon nobody at all.

In particular, after enjoying "Cracking the Code" I recommend the reader to study what is still the definitive work in this field of law, Irwin Schiff's classic "The Great Income Tax Hoax." Like Hendrickson, Schiff traces the origins of the alleged income tax back to the Civil War and through the critical decade following 1909 - but concludes for good reason that the entire "tax" is a gigantic scam from A to Z. The "Hoax" also carries the strong endorsement of a government book-ban, so if necessary buy it used.

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This comprehensive and authoritative resource provides full, unabridged text of the complete Internal Revenue Code in two volumes. CCH offers this tax information in a timely and reliable manner that business and tax professionals have come to expect and appreciate. This Winter Edition of Internal Revenue Code reflects all new statuatory tax changes through January 1, 2007. CCH's Internal Revenue Code is presented in a reader-friendly format oversized page and larger type fonts for enhanced readability. And, it features a two-volume format to allow for a more legible single-column presentation of the Code provisions themselves. Reproduced is the complete Internal Revenue Code dealing with income, estate, gift, employment, and excise taxes, along with all the procedural and administrative provisions. Current text of the statutes are presented, and a history of each tax code section, or subsection if appropriate, is provided in the amendment notes. The amendment notes specifically identify the changes made by prior Acts and serve as a means of reconstructing the former text of a Code section or subsection if reference to prior law is required. The detailed Topical Index located at the end of both volumes reflects all matters covered, so researchers can quickly pinpoint any information needed, and rate tables are also helpfully included. Serious tax professionals who rely on the Code in the normal course of their work know they can count on CCH's Internal Revenue Code over any other volumes available. The CCH Code is also great tool for students in tax courses who need the latest Code provisions, and it has served for decades as a useful tool for new hires and for firm-wide distribution. This bound set remains very popular as a desktop reference in the new millenium--even for professionals with extensive electronic tax resources. Such tax professionals value it as an easy-to-access and easy-to-read print complement to their electronic libraries.

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Often Humorous; Has its Moments.......2005-06-07

This is an overly turgid work that suffers from constant rewrites; there have been nearly one-hundred editions issued, each slightly different from the last. There are times when the entire book seems self-contradictory. For some reason, for example, the authors feel compelled to follow the elegant and simple statement that "gross income means all income from whatever sources derived" with endless, often monotonous exceptions.

Significant parts of this work are relevant only to those with special interests, while other parts are likely to be universally appreciated (or depreciated, as the case may be). While often eminently practical, there are times when the authors become incredibly vague (they never seem to define "ordinary and necessary", for example, yet insist on using the phrase an inordinant number of times) and other times when they become downright mystical (for example, they spend some time, particularly in the accompanying regulations, talking about "disregarded entities").

Still, despite its flaws, I'd recommend that everyone read this book. By April 15.

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Stellar evolution - the birth, development and death of stars - is central to our current understanding of astronomy. This area of astrophysics is often portrayed as being difficult and mathematical, but Mike Inglis brings it to life in a unique way, combining a step-by-step introduction with suggestions for making practical observations of stars at different stages in their evolution. Every amateur astronomer - regardless of their current level of knowledge - will find this book fascinating and informative.

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Potentially Good Book; Copyediting at its worst.......2003-09-23

Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution

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Book Review: `Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution'

By Richard Tihany

"The Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution" by Mike Inglis (Springer-Verlag) can be used as a quick reference to a few hundred commonly observed astronomical objects. The author also provides a comprehensive explanation of the basics of astrophysics, using the objects as illustrations of the concepts he presents within the text.
Inglis meticulously discusses in great detail the methods of measurement of such essential astronomical details as distances and the use of spectral analysis of starlight to determine stars' composition and relationship to other objects.
We are taken from the formation of protostars in the interstellar medium to the actual birth of a star, at the point when pressure and temperature increase enough to start the core's hydrogen-fusion reaction, producing first helium and then all other elements, known as metals to astronomers.
The author imparts one of the most important concepts of astronomy in his handling of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, a compilation of research named in 1911 for Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and, in 1913, for American astronomer Henry Norris Russell. He repeatedly approaches the H-R diagram from several avenues, including measurements of the radii of stars and consideration of every possible facet of a star's genesis, life and death.
Inglis deals with the H-R diagram more effectively than many authors by the deftness with which he reapproaches the subject time after time. Rather than creating the impression of being overbearing and too repetitive, Inglis increases the reader's understanding of the H-R diagram's importance to the concepts under consideration. His explanation of the crux of the H-R diagram, the diagonal band of stars know collectively as the "main sequence," is key to any further understanding of astronomy, for these stars comprise 90% of all visible stars.
Inglis' explanation of the "proton-proton chain," the series of nuclear
reactions by which four hydrogen atoms interact at extremely high temperatures to form one helium atom, is the best I've read. His lucid description of helium burning, which results in the creation of carbon and oxygen, couldn't be clearer. The next main event in the sequence, the "helium flash," only happens in low-mass stars but is best described as spectacular: energy output about 100 times greater than the entire Milky Way. The temperature of the star's core at this point can reach 300 million K.
Due deference to the mathematically-challenged is provided by Inglis' decision to keep nearly all formulas and computations separate from the text in shaded boxes scattered throughout the book. The book's diagrams are well-done and informative. I intend to plan some observing sessions in the near future by referring to the object descriptions.
Notably missing is an effective and comprehensive glossary. This necessitates frequent use of the index, a poor substitute.
While this book is the product of a talented astronomer, it reveals the worst example of copyediting I've seen in years. The reader is forced to reread many sentences and to guess their meaning. In fact, only a determined reader is likely to finish the book.
The author knows better than to say (page 36), "It is easier to have an idea of a star if we say it is about 10 times as hotter (sic) than the Sun..." Or, (page 73) "...they can in affect (sic) sweep away the residual gas and dust clouds...." On page 101, Inglis tells us that a star cluster "...can vary from a few dozen light years to about 70 light years across...." (70 is a few dozen.) On page
117, he states, "The mechanisms by which provides the `triggers' for star formation have three very disparate origins..."(By which what provides the
triggers?) I was repeatedly left with the impression that Springer is selling a fairly thin paperback for $44.95 which could be more aptly identified as a rough draft than a book. However, the factual content is valuable despite the nearly fatal defects. This impression is largely due to my knowledge of astronomy before venturing into this prematurely-published minefield. Had I paid for the book rather than been provided a review copy, I would have been tempted to return it.
The current edition of this book could be the makings of a rather good book if Inglis, his editor and his publisher decide to complete the project.

Don't be Afraid of Math.......2003-08-14

My definition of a good Scientific American article is that an intelligent person outside the specialty can understand it. Mike Inglis definitely passes this test! As a mechanical engineer I especially appreciate the basic math that applies to magnitudes, distances, and stellar sizes. The H-R diagram is covered from many angles in a more logical, understandable format than I have ever read. I will definitely wear out this book going over the good sections time after time (sometimes under red light!)
Chris Norris

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