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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 10th week, the 9th day of the 3rd month, the 68th day of 2017 [with 290 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Amerigo Vespucci Day
- Bang-Clang Day
- Barbie Day
- False Teeth Day
- Get Over It Day
- Joe Franklin Day
- Nametag Day
- National Crabmeat Day
- National Meatball Day
- Panic Day
- Popcorn Lovers Day
- World Kidney Day
ON THIS DAY: In 141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumed the throne over the Han dynasty of China. In 1009 the first known mention of Lithuania, can be found in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. In 1500 the fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral left Lisbon for the Indies -- it will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas. In 1815 Francis Ronalds described the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine. In 1831 the French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria. In 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premiered in Milan, establishing Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers. Also in 1842 the first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. In 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours at Hampton Roads, Virginia. In 1959 the Barbie doll debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York. In 1960 Dr Belding Hibbard Scribner first implanted a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. In 1961 Sputnik 9 successfully launched, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. In 1982 "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of Time travel. In 1997 observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia were treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. In 2011 the Space Shuttle Discovery made its final landing after 39 flights.
Back on March 3rd, this blog turned six. Can’t say that I have written all that much here as I don’t know how many posts I have made and I am not sure what kind of traffic it gets – neither of those analytics are available on this platform. Other drawbacks? Posting pictures and videos is difficult, there isn’t a way to search for previous posts, there is a strict length limit, and the formatting is archaically stilted. But I keep at it here because …. Well I guess the real reasons are pure inertia and the expectation that this platform will remain since my previous blogs all poofed. If I google “banking on tomorrow” with quotes, Google shows me two posts immediately, one from four years ago and the other from this past Monday. Googling without the quotes and I am nowhere in sight.. Been a couple of bumps along the road vis-à-vis content too – had to get it in my head that my family and friends did NOT want to be featured in a blog post, and especially NO PICTURES. OTOH, that keeps it from turning into too many stories about grandchildren, neh?
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