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Carol H Tucker
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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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Chinese New Year's Eve
Today is the 2nd day of the 6th week, the 4th day of the 2nd month, the 35th day of 2019, and:
- Facebook's Birthday -- a social network known as TheFacebook.com, initially aimed at students at Harvard College, was launched in 2004
- Independence Day -- Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom in 1948
- Liberace Day – the flamboyant pianist who always kept an ornate candelabra on his instrument, died this day in 1987
- Medjool Date Day
- National Create a Vacuum Day
- National Hemp Day
- National Homemade Soup Day
- National Quacker Day
- National Stuffed Mushroom Day
- National Thank a Mailman Day
- Rosa Parks Day – she was born in 1913
- Torture Abolition Day
- USO Day
- World Cancer Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1488 – Bartolomeu Dias commands the first European expedition to reach South Africa and the Indian Ocean.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1758 – Macapá, Brazil is founded.
1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1859 – World's oldest known Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is discovered or stolen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf
1895 - the first rolling lift bridge opens in Chicago
1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
1936 - the first radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1938 - The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
1967 – Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - The NASDAQ stock exchange, the second-largest in the world - behind the New York Stock Exchange - is founded in New York City
1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 - Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror
Quote of the day:
"How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?"
~ Erwin McManus, author, mystic, futurist, filmmaker, and designer
There is an element of repetitive automation in every job at every level – it is this that makes us so fearful of being replaced by AI or robots. But does this mean there is no meaning in your work and/or your life? Me? As I have often said, I work to live; I do not live to work.
But just because I am a cog in the wheel, doesn’t mean my work doesn’t have any meaning! Besides, I don’t define myself by the work that I do….
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