Reviews for 2008 U. S Master Tax Guide (Trc)

The average rating for 2008 U. S Master Tax Guide (Trc) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-28 00:00:00 George Ohlin This is a scholarly and detailed work examining the history and character of one of Ireland's best known newspapers. As such it will be a little heavy for the average reader but appropriate for those with particular interest or studying history or journalism. I found an ideal way to read was to dip in a chapter at a time. That way the portion on the Easter Rising remained separate in my mind from the portion on the Emergency (WW2). The early pages are peppered with still-familar Dublin business names such as Arnott and Eason. Irish readers will get more out of this book than overseas readers for this reason. Adverts carried by the paper were for well known brands at the time and may bring back memories. The paper was founded in 1859 by Lawrence Knox, and is the oldest national daily in the country. At the time and for many years, it was serving the Protestant community, who were more likely to be well educated and interested in matters at the British court. Because of this it continued to have strong connections with Belfast after Independence. The first editor was Dr George Frederick Shaw who soon left to pursue his Trinity College duties; Revd George Bomford Wheeler then took the post until he was killed in a coach crash. The paper was set by hand in cold metal type, hand picked from a case and arranged to form the page. Engagingly we are told that the sheets were uncut at the top and had to be separated before reading, probably by the butler or batman. When Knox died his widow sold the paper to Sir John Arnott and his family continued to hold it, later establishing a Trust. The knotty Trust issues recur throughout. We progress through the way the paper treated matters of the day. I'm glad I didn't have to read all that the author obviously waded through in order to assess the language, content and tone. The paper went along with independence, having always strived to build a better Ireland and help her citizens. An effort was made to broaden its appeal by reaching around the country and sending international correspondents. John Healy was editor 1907 - 34. Robert Smyllie edited 1934 - 54, dodging the censor during WW2 as Ireland was supposed to be strictly neutral. He cleverly arranged to rearrange the photos on the front page on VE Day; the page the censor didn't see carried the photos in a V shape. This page, along with photos of the editors and some front pages and cartoons, are in the black and white illustrations. Political figures of the eighties and nineties were followed and some major scandals revealed, including breaking the X case about a 14 year old girl raped and pregnant and banned from leaving the country to get an abortion. Another was breaking the news that Annie Murphy, a priest's housekeeper, had borne his child, and the diocese had paid her off while elevating the man, Eamonn Casey, to Bishop of Galway. Myles na gCopaleen was the pen name for Brian O'Nolan who wrote a column; another columnist was Kevin Myers. Maeve Binchy worked both in Dublin and London for the paper. Cue a nice photo of a double row of tired-looking hardworked female journalists including Geraldine Kennedy, later to edit the paper after Conor Brady who edited 1986 - 2002. Brady, a longtime staffer who had also worked for other papers, has been quoted at length. Computers caused many trade disputes in other papers but in mid-1980s the journalists at the Times would type up their stories on computer, hand them to the printers who would retype them for the press sheet. This saved disputes. I am not impressed by the couple of quotes given by Kennedy, which come across as recorded from an impromptu chat and have no literary merit. She uses the word it five times in two sentences (P275). I dislike that Francis Sheehy-Skeffington is mentioned in one line with absolutely no context. The paper supported calls for a public enquiry into his shooting by a British officer in 1916 (P51) - but there is no mention that he was a journalist. If you don't know already, you won't know. My other niggle is that I spotted one or two typos in each chapter; the kind which swap that for than. In a book of this length something is bound to slip past, but I'd hope they would be corrected if a second printing occurs. The book adds that the Irish Field (about which almost nothing is said) was a daughter paper covering equestrian matters and was sold in 2003. This book was written in 2007 just before the economic collapse. Luckily, the paper had gained £2.7 million in 1984 when Reuters, in which it held shares, went public. This had bought a new colour press for £1 million and paid off the bank loan. However, it was already in debt again before the banks crashed, due to a fall in advertising. The paper did not publish on the Friday declared a day of mourning after Sept 11th 2001; the Irish Independent did. The Irish Times.com was the first newspaper website in Ireland and the UK, in 1994. The book tells us that £10 million was spent on this website. Notes are on P 277 - 295 and I counted eight names I could be sure were female, including the memoir Angela's Ashes and McCafferty N. which I knew to mean Nell. Bibliography is on P297 - 302. Separated into primary sources - interviews - and secondary sources. I found three names I could be sure were female in the interviews and one, Gillespie E, which I knew to mean Elgy, in the books. Index P 303 - 312. I found 22 names I could be sure were female, including Cathleen ni Houlihan, a poetic representation of Ireland. I recommend also reading: Conor Brady's memoir Up With The Times which is mentioned in this book (but not by name until the notes). Grania Willis's memoir of climbing Mount Everest, Total High, which spends a few pages on The Irish Field and her Irish Sport Horse section. The Press Gang is the contrasting and humour-filled account of life at the Irish Press and Evening Press in short articles by many of those who worked there, from printers to copy-takers to journalists to sportswriters to editors. Editor David Kenny. Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981, edited by Elgy Gillespie.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-04-25 00:00:00 jonathan tieche Despite the bombastic title, this is meticulous and authoritative history of Project Apollo. It is available as a free PDF from NASA, part of their official history series. Factual and somewhat dry, it nonetheless contains a number of revelations, one being the degree to which the prime contractors (North American Aviation and Grumman) shaped the Apollo program. They not only designed and built the command, service, and lunar modules, they chose subcontractors and even had a role in mission design. When the nation committed in 1961 to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, nobody really knew how to go about doing it. Or if it was even possible. It had proved difficult enough to shoot one man into Earth orbit in a tiny Mercury capsule and drop him back in the sea. How to get someone to the Moon, land there, take off again, and get him back to Earth? The initial plan actually imagined a kind of Buck Rogers spaceship that would have to be refueled in orbit and would land and take off from the Moon in one piece- the “direct return” mode. It would involve gargantuan booster rockets, and seems now to be more the stuff of ‘50s comic books than an engineering plan. A reminder of how long ago Project Apollo was. Apollo was designed and built in the days of vacuum tube black & white television sets and propeller driven airliners.