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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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the last Friday of 2017

Today is the 6th day of the 52nd week, the 29th day of the 12th month, the 363rd day of 2017, and: 
  • Independence day:  Mongolia from the Russian Soviet and China in 1921
  • National Pepper Pot Day
  • No Interruptions Day
  • Still Need to Do Day
  • Tick Tock Day
  • YMCA Day (Organization not The Song) -- the first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.in 1851
  • The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity) – five golden rings!
  • The fourth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
On this day in....

1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.

1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th US state. 

1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.

1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

1916 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

 

Quote of the day:

     "Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come."

~ Henri Nouwen, Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian

 

Many people hereabouts take off this entire week and morning rush hour traffic is light.  But like many financial services businesses, our company is open for business, not that much really gets done once the push to settle new loans gets shunted aside.  It is a time to make sure those last transactions are booked, to get the spreadsheets ready for the reports, knowing that on January 2nd management will be immediately requesting information about 2017 and we need to hit the ground running






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