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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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surviving the Wild Wild West
Today is the 5th day of the 51st week, the 20th day of the 12th month, the 354th day of 2018, and:
- Cathode-Ray Tube Day
- Dot Your I's Day
- Free Shipping Day (3rd Thursday at Participating Retailers)
- Games Day
- Go Caroling Day
- International Human Solidarity Day
- Mudd Day
- National Re-gifting Day
- National Sangria Day
- Poet Laureat Day
- Sacagawea Day
- World Day of Prayer and Action for Children
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1699 - Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from September 1 to January 1
1790 - The first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, R.I.
1792 - Opening of First Montréal Post Office, with regular twice-weekly mail service between Canada and the United States.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in New Orleans.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
1808 – The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.
1812 - "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published
1832 – HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands
1879 - Thomas Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, N.J.
1880 - NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1883 - International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet -- it was the first comet visited by spacecraft, the International Cometary Explorer spacecraft, which passed through its plasma tail on September 11, 1985.
1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
1946 – The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its official premiere.
1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1957 - 1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service
1962 - The Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
1971 - First preview issue of "Ms" magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem
1977 - First Spacewalk made by Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko during Salyut 6 EO-1 mission
1984 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is the first to receive the honor)
2007 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, seven months and 29 days.
2012 - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
Some time ago I got a notice from the identity protection firm I subscribed to after the Equifax breach telling me my current email address with a password had been found on the Dark Web. To be honest, since I have been on Gmail since back when you had to find someone with ten invitations to share before you could get in, I rather expect that particular addy has been all over the place. The two highly redacted passwords displayed were ancient from back when a five letter word was sufficient. I changed my current password just to be on the safe side and moved on. In the intervening weeks, I have noticed that I get a LOT more spam than I used to and some of the phishing attempts look really legitimate. Perhaps this is the greatest danger of breaches and personal information getting out – it enables traps to be laid using that information that will trick one into coughing up information that can be used to take them to the cleaners. The most insidious emails this time of year purport to be from USPS, or UPS, or FedEx, announcing that you need to give them information so a package can be delivered.
Be careful out there – don’t click through using any email links but go to the vendor website and search from scratch if you think it might the real thing.
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