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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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Today is the 2nd day of the 30th week, the 25th day of the 7th month, the 207th day of 2016 [with only 152 shopping days left until Christmas], and: 
  • Culinarians Day
  • Feast of Saint James
  • Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day
  • International Red Shoe Day -- founded in memory of Australian Lyme  Patient, Theda Myint
  • National Baha'i Day in Jamaica
  • National Carousel Day
  • National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
  • National Wine and Cheese Day
  • Thread the Needle Day
  • Video Games Day -- the US National Video Game Team (USNVGT) was founded in 1983 in Ottumwa, Iowa
In 285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.  In 315 the Arch of Constantine was completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.  In 1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his way to the fabled El Dorado, founded the city of Santiago de Cali.  In 1538 the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana founded the city of Guayaquil [the original name was "Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil"].  In 1609 the English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, was beached during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking -- and the survivors founded a new colony there.  1837 marked the first commercial use of an electrical telegraph by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London.  In 1861 the US Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.  In 1869 the Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).  In 1908 Ajinomoto is founded when Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovered that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patented a process for manufacturing it.  In 1917 Sir Robert Borden introduced the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket was 4% and highest was 25%).  In 1946 an atomic bomb was detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll [the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships].  In 1959 Lloyd J. Old introduced BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, into experimental cancer research as a way to stimulate non-specific resistance to tumor growth.  In 1965 Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.  In 1973 the Soviet Mars 5 space probe was launched and in 1976 the US Viking 1 took the famous Face on Mars photo.  In 1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" was born.  In 1984 Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

It has been a tough weekend for the world what with storms and earthquakes in the Pacific, shootings and bombings, and political conniving, not to mention the soaring heat indexes hereabouts.  While I may be accused of deciding to emulate the ostrich,  I just don’t see any rhyme or reason for harping on the painful realities.   Instead?  I chose to spend Saturday playing with my granddaughters and visiting with my daughter and son-in-law.  Then  Sunday I took myself to the movies and enjoyed the air conditioned comfort of a double header – and that is what I am going remember about this weekend. 

Oh and FWIIW, I liked both Tarzan and Star Trek Beyond.  Neither are what I would call great, both were entertaining.  I liked this iteration of Tarzan and appreciated that the story moved forward from what we usually see about his life, although we did get the origin story in flashbacks [Rotten Tomatoes was not impressed though].  Star Trek was an awful lot of explosions and CGI, and it seemed more like an episode than a movie with a story that has been told time and time again, but there were several nice little character development moments:  Spock and McCoy have that relationship down pat, the shot of Kirk and his closet, the poignancy of seeing Chekov for the last time, and a very moving tribute to Leonard Nimoy worked seamlessly into the events.  All in all, it was a pleasant and much needed diversion from what we so insistently label “real life” and I feel all the better for it.  I even changed my Facebook profile picture back to the smiling picture of me rather than the sad picture of holding a candle in the darkness….

Now to get through this Monday!




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