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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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Today is the 5th day of the 8th week, the 23rd day of the 2nd month, the 54th day of 2017, and:
- Curling is Cool Day
- Diesel Engine Day
- Digital Learning Day
- Discover Girl Day
- International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day
- National Banana Bread Day
- National Chili Day
- National Rationalization Day
- Play Tennis Day
- Single Tasking Day
- The Great American Spit Out (Thursday of "Through With The Chew Week")
- Terminalia held in honor of Terminus (Ancient Rome)
- World Understanding and Peace Day
ON THIS DAY: In 303 Roman emperor Diocletian ordered the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. In 532 Byzantine emperor Justinian I ordered the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia. In 1455 this is the traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. In 1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1886 Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall. In 1898 Émile Zola was imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. In 1903 Cuba leased Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". In 1909 John McCurdy flew the AEA-designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 9 metres for 2.5 kilometres at speed of up to 65 kph across the ice of Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian In 1927 Calvin Coolidge signed a bill establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. In 1927 German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. In 1941 plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr Glenn T Seaborg. In 1954 the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh. In 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman reached the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and were photographed raising the American flag -- a picture that became iconic. In 1987 Supernova 1987a was reported in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In 1997 scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named Dolly. In 2013 Canada's NEOSSat (Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) and Sapphire satellites launched from the southern Andhra Pradesh state in India
Remember back when calling someone a workaholic was a bit of an insult? When talking about life/work balance and having time to “smell the roses” was considered a mark of an enlightened person? Seems like that kind of thinking is out of style these days, neh? Read an article yesterday about how the importance of being perceived as very busy -- http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/having-no-life-is-the-new-aspirational-lifestyle -- and had to chuckle because yes, I know and have worked with people who pride themselves on being so much in demand that they cannot possibly take a day, much less a week or more, off. I have often wondered why they want to be dashing about so frenetically, but have concluded that for some people it is actually their version of fun – you have to enjoy playing what I call “the game” whether it is sales or lending or marketing or political maneuvering [internal or external]. Certainly there was a point where I was all about management and organizational development, compulsively devouring books and information on both subjects when I was not at work, but there was always a point at which I would put things down and be “off”. Don’t see the real benefit myself of being super busy all the time, but then again I do not have a career – I have made the choice to have a job and there is a huge difference.
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