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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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Monday musing....

Today is the 2nd day of the 17th week, the 23rd day of the 4th month, the 113th day of 2018, and: 
  • English Language Day
  • English Muffin Day
  • German Beer Day
  • Impossible Astronaut Day --   Beware of the Silence
  • International Nose Picking Day
  • International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day – declared back in 2007   The movement was a strong disagreement with Howard V. Hendrix's [vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] open criticism of professional authors who released their works online for free and the day was created by Canadian author Jo Walton
  • Lovers' Day
  • Movie Theater Day
  • National Cherry Cheesecake Day
  • National Lost Dog Awareness Day
  • National Picnic Day
  • National Zucchini Bread Day
  • Saint George's Day -- celebrate with anything English including morris dancing and Punch and Judy shows
  • Slay a Dragon Day
  • Spanish Language Day
  • Take a Chance Day
  • Talk Like Shakespeare Day – the English actor, playwright, and poet died in 1616 at the age of 52
  • World Book Night
  • World Book and Copyright Day
  • World Book & Copyright Day
  • World Laboratory Day
On this day in ...

1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.

1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.

1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.

1954 - Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Aaron's career total is second only to Barry Bonds.)

1967 – Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.

2005 – Co-founder Jawed Karim [Jawed] uploaded the first video to YouTube.com, titled "Me at the zoo"

 

How do we identify ourselves as male or female?  I’m not talking about what drives attractiveness – whether or not a woman can feel sexy without pretty hair or good boobs -- but what actually defines one as male or female.  When I had my hysterectomy back in the ‘90s, I was quietly informed by a co-worker that there were some men would not consider me a woman without a uterus and fallopian tubes.  That didn’t change how I see myself  In today’s story about a penile transfer, it is clear this man does not consider himself masculine without his equipment.   So without the reproductive organs, am I and this vet actually eunuchs of some sort, neuters?   Given that a person’s sex is as much a social construct as a biological one, I’m not sure about that…


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