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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 3rd day of the 9th week, the 26th day of the 2nd month, the 57th day of 2019, and:
- Carnival Day
- For Pete's Sake Day
- Levi Strauss Day
- National Personal Chef Day
- National Pistachio Day
- Tell a Fairy Tale Day
- Thermos Bottle Day
- World Spay Day
ON THIS DAY IN ....
747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to sight Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.
1616 - Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun
1798 - Cartography - David Thompson sets off up Red River to explore the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency
1870 - New York City's first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (The tunnel was only a block long.)
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1916 - Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1919 - Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1952 - PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1966 – Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks
1987 - USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2018 - Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its 1 millionth seed on 10 year anniversary
Quote of the Day:
“I don’t think it’s possible to do the job and not come out of it with some acute stress disorder or PTSD.”
~ Randy, a former content moderator at Facebook, tells The Verge about the toll seeing hundreds of violent, upsetting posts every day takes on its employees.
We all have a lot to worry about – the wellbeing of family and friends, health concerns, money and jobs, are all on the top of the list. But in the past three years, anxiety just from listening to what people are saying seems to be peaking. There was something about the campaigning in 2016 that seemed to bring out the worst in everyone and since then, the level of vitriol found on any one day on any one post about anything seems to be inordinately high. It has been so much that in a way we have actually been deadened to it – another school shooting, another cop killed, another scandal, another fraud, another cruel joke – to the point where we actually stop reacting because we exist in some sort of perpetual state of anxiety and even despair. While we make fun of the bucolic 50’s, and snidely make comments about a patina over sour notes, there is little doubt our news and interactions today seem designed to be upsetting in a very non-productive way leaving you just simply stunned and slightly shell-shocked.
There are all kinds of platitudes floating around about the power of remaining positive, about how to bolster your inner reserves, for stress management. When you come right down to it, whether you try avoidance or coping, you have to keep slogging onwards and try not to let worry wear you down, one day at a time, one step in front of another. Sometimes the bravest thing a person does is get up to face another day, neh?
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