7 Secrets to Success ..... :- Answers found in a room. Roof said: Aim High, Fan said: Be Cool, Clock said: Every minute is precious, Mirror said: Reflect before you act, Window said: See the world, Calendar said: be up to date, Door said: push hard to achieve your goals.
~ Dib Massam
At sto lat 100 year: Former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, seen at home in Chevy Chase, Md. on June 29, 2016, died July 15. He was 103.
Bloomberg Law, Mortimer Caplin Leaves Legacy at IRS, Top D.C. Law Firm:
Caplin was IRS commissioner under former President John F. Kennedy and later co-founded Caplin & Drysdale. As IRS chief, he worked to make the agency kinder and friendlier, according to an obituary from his alma mater, the University of Virginia.
Scott Michel, a member at Caplin & Drysdale who has been at the firm for nearly four decades, said that Caplin played a key role in the firm’s culture.
“Those of us who are old-timers around here frequently comment that the tone and culture and the level of excellence that we aspire to, you can trace right back to the tone and culture and level of excellence that Mort Caplin conveyed,” Michel said.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in a statement that Caplin had a powerful personal story and career of public service, highlighting his time at the IRS and as a beachmaster at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion in World War II.
B-box is a beehive designed for use in close proximity to humans, like near your house or in an urban environment. It does this by separating the honey part of the hive from the area where the bees live and limiting their access to the hive through an entrance more than seven feet above the ground.
Search Engine Journal – “DuckDuckGo is rolling out several updates to its maps search experience while maintaining the same commitment to user privacy. Earlier this year, DuckDuckGo began using Apple Maps to power its maps search results. Since then, the company says it has been working on additional upgrades that are rolling out now. Here’s what’s new in DuckDuckGo maps search…”
The secret Swiss Agent: Puzzling comments reveal new twist to the Lyme disease saga Stanford Medicine
Women in Rock & Roll’s First Wave is a project by Leah Branstetter that uncovers and highlights the women who pioneered rock & roll in the 50s.
For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s.
In every decade, you can find someone commenting on the absence of women on the charts during rock and roll’s heyday. Others note that women during that era were typically not so inclined to a wild, raucous style.
The reality is, however, that hundreds — or maybe thousands — of women and girls performed and recorded rock and roll in its early years.And many more participated in other ways: writing songs, owning or working for record labels, working as session or touring musicians, designing stage wear, dancing, or managing talent — to give just a few examples.
Meet, for instance, Laura Lee Perkins.
Perkins cut several sides there, where she was backed by the same band that accompanied Ricky Nelson (she was thrilled that she also got to meet Nelson). The label did some publicity for her — though they appeared to have listed her under several different stage names — and apparently tried to bill her as the “female Jerry Lee Lewis” because of her skill at the piano. Perkins returned to Cleveland, where she had difficulty promoting her recordings. She recalls that being single and working as a waitress, she couldn’t muster the payola required to break through in some markets. She would play record hops where she would lip sync to her Imperial sides. Some of the other acts at the hops she played included Connie Francis, the Everly Brothers, and Fabian.
And Ruth Brown:
A red neck walks into a hardware store and asks for a saw that will help him cutdown 6 trees in one hour.
The salesman recommends the top of the line chain saw model.
The red neck is suitably impressed and buys it.
The next day he brings it back and says, “This saw is defective. It would only cut down one tree and it took all the gosh-darned day!”
The salesman takes the chain saw, starts it up to see what’s wrong, and the red neck asks,
“What’s that noise?”
Men at work
The ABC has a YouTube video of William Barton and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra playing Down Under at Bob Hawke’s memorial service. (Warning – cellphone speakers won’t do justice to Barton’s didgeridoo
Amazon
tells customers that renting textbooks instead of buying them can save
up to 80 percent off the purchase price: “Get your textbooks delivered
to your door and save both time and money."
Philadelphia Inquirer, College Student Was Late Returning a Textbook to Amazon, So the Company Took $3,800 From Her Dad:
Mapping Where The Creative Class Wants To Live
The creative class has seen remarkable growth in the past decade, increasing from 44 million members in 2005 to more than 56 million in 2017, as virtually all large U.S. metros saw growth. The rate of creative class growth (27.2 percent) was more than double the growth rate of overall U.S. workforce (13.6 percent) over this period. – CityLab
The Author Of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Says Books Are Better For The Brain Than Movies
Cressida Cowell, laureate for children’s literature and a writer
whose fame has greatly benefitted from film and TV, says, “Books are a
kind of transformative magic that offer magical things that films aren’t
as good at creating in children: empathy, creativity and intelligence.”
– The Guardian (UK)
Why miniatures matter. Alluring and inaccessible, they represent possibility and impossibility at once. They are tiny, but infinite in what they evoke
Have We Hit Peak Podcast - The New York Times – If past experience (cough, blogs) is any indication, a shakeout is nigh. – “…Call him cynical, but Jordan Harbinger, host of “The Jordan Harbinger Show” podcast, thinks there is a “podcast industrial complex.” Hosts aren’t starting shows “because it’s a fun, niche hobby,” he said. “They do it to make money or because it will make them an influencer.”
Why miniatures matter. Alluring and inaccessible, they represent possibility and impossibility at once. They are tiny, but infinite in what they evoke
Have We Hit Peak Podcast - The New York Times – If past experience (cough, blogs) is any indication, a shakeout is nigh. – “…Call him cynical, but Jordan Harbinger, host of “The Jordan Harbinger Show” podcast, thinks there is a “podcast industrial complex.” Hosts aren’t starting shows “because it’s a fun, niche hobby,” he said. “They do it to make money or because it will make them an influencer.”