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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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09 JAN 2017
Today is the 2nd day of the 2nd week, the 9th day of the 1st month, the 9th day of 2016 [with 349 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Balloon Ascension Day
- International Choreographers Day
- Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
- National Apricot Day
- National Cassoulet Day
- National Clean Off Your Desk Day
- National Static Electricity Day
- National Word Nerd Day
- Play God Day – celebrate by making someone’s way easier or brighter
ON THIS DAY: In 475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno was forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gained control of the empire. In 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. In 1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1816 Sir Humphry Davy tested his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. In 1839 the French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype photography process. In 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installed the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, planted the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. In 1923 Juan de la Cierva made the first autogyro flight. In 1968 thee Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon; it was the last of America's unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. In 1990 NASA Shuttle flight STS-32 retrieves the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), left in orbit for nearly 6 years; contained some materials exposure experiments from the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies. In 2001 Apple introduced its iTunes music management software at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. In 2006 "The Phantom of the Opera" became the longest-running show in Broadway history, surpassing "Cats," which ran for 7,485 performances. In 2007 Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple’s long-awaited entry into the cellphone world, the iPhone. In 2017 NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 07 mins 03 secs of light-travel time from Earth
I tweet. I make some comments, I share some pictures, I share links of things that I find interesting. I follow 515 people that I have found to be of interest. I have some followers – bouncing around 190 these days – and lots of folks will start following me when I share a link they find interesting and then promptly unfollow me when I either don’t follow them back or I don’t keep posting on the same subject. Now and then I tweet in response to a celebrity but have never had a response.
I am on Pinterest. Sharing pictures and humor that just resonate with me for one reason or another. I follow 114 people and 275 people follow me.
I am on Facebook. My tweets and my pins go to my feed, so the 466 people who friended me there see that activity, as well as the usual games and conversations.
I am also In G+ [following 90] and ello [following 41 and followed by 29] – but I interact intermittently on those communities.
Linked-In is my professional profile Although I have 332 connections and belong to several groups, I seldom post here and it is not connected to any other social media.
Why am I going through all of these social media accounts? Because in all the time I have been active [about nine years] I have never been moved to whine online or to attack someone as second-rate, stupid or dishonest just because they said they didn’t like me or disagreed with me.
Just saying…..
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