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06/27/2024
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This weekend on June 30, we celebrate National Corvette Day.  If you're involved with either automotive engineering or industrial maintenance, you may be interested in one of Kentucky's unique manufacturing plants -- the GM Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green.  The Corvette Museum nearby sells tickets to tour the plant and see how America's premier sportscar is created on a factory floor of 1 million+ square feet.   Since its opening in 1981, it has produced over 1.1 million Corvettes.  This fall in late August, the plant will celebrate another Corvette Caravan week on the parkways of Kentucky.

 

 

 

12 Amazing things We Learned at the Corvette Assembly Plant Tour

 

Branding the Social: Leisure, Consumption, and the Corvette Community


Maintenance Strategies for Industrial Multi-Stage Machines: The Study of a Thermoforming Machine

 

Recently, plant tours closed amid the rumors of an "unthinkable" improvement.   Factory managers definitely didn't want any snoops to bring the news to the outside world.  Perhaps during the Corvette Caravan days the new improvements will be revealed.  For more car news, check out the library app Flipster for Motortrend and Car & Driver magazine issues!

 

 

06/10/2024
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It's Men's Health Week.    While you may celebrate Dad or Papaw's health on one particular Sunday, these articles describe different important aspects of health for men, of all ages and all backgrounds.

Chris Ford, a volunteer coach of the football team at North Lawndale College Prep in Chicago, talks with players Dayvion Harris, 18, from left, Asant'e Steele, 17, and Michael Tucker, 16, in a locker room on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Chris Ford had a heart attack last year and decided to spend less time at work and more time doing what he loved.

Have you ever wondered whether the men in your life would be struck with the so-called "widow maker"?   The most prevalent cardiovascular issues among African-Americans are heart disease and stroke.  A gene also makes African American men susceptible to high blood pressure, even when eating right and moving a lot.  All of these factors are precursors to the early brewing of fatal and long-term disabling diseases. For these reasons, we should be looking for the early signs of disease as early as childhood.  To keep their hearts healthy -- as well stave off other diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's disease -- doctors study markers from a surprising source: inflammation.

 

Today’s proposed “crisis of masculinity” suggests that boys remain under immense pressure to fit a specific mold of boy and manhood.  The boy code transitions into the man box, in which many academics argue that boys suppress their emotional vulnerability to preserve a macho bravado and appear strong and tough no matter the circumstance.  No one wants to be rendered an outcast by failing to fit the mold of manliness.   Studies have found a surprising way to open up boys (and the men they become) to other possibilities: camping.   Leo Rinta, 9, of East Bethel takes aim at the 3D archery area at the Game Fair on Friday, August 7, 2015 in Ramsey, Minn.A traditional, overnight boys’ camp could provide an emotionally and physically safe space for boys to eschew gender role stereotypes.  Camps have a unique role in crafting healthy conceptions of masculinity: to allow spaces to appreciate beauty, sanction physicality, model conflict resolution and celebrate ritual. 

 

Father and son lunch at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on March 30, 2017, with Michael Zalin, left, and his father, Bill Zalin.More than 74 million guys in America right now identified as a father in a recent census--that's more than the entire populations of Texas and California combined, with room for the good people of Minnesota--and per a Pew Research study, 85 percent of fathers said that being a dad is the most or one of the most important aspects of who they are as a person. For a special issue in May 2023, Men's Health asked six dads to turn their attention to their stories, as tough and confusing as it can be raising a boy in a world that's not quite sure what to do with him.  From the dad who works (and parents) from home, to the one who had to make hard decisions about "man up"  and "you're fine" when his son was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, these dads are the epitome of modern fatherhood. 

 

On the American scene in recent years, millions of men nervous about their loss of cultural centrality have turned to hypermasculine posturing and regressive gender politics.  Jacob's Shadow: Reimagining Masculinity, by pastoral theologian Herbert Anderson uses the biblical Jacob story to offer a vision for a new masculine humanness. .Cancer survivor Ron Greer stands next to the He challenges every young male he meets to practice the embodiment of two principles that he believes are fundamental to healthy masculinity: nurturing the capacity to love and be loved, and making the world a fairer place for everyone. Using Jacob's story, including his thirst for power and his eventual woundedness, highlights how a change in men's ideals can also change the world.

 

Are there real, actionable methods for optimizing one's path in today's world? Finding stuff that works is hard, but a lot oLuthier David MacCubbin strums a chord while posing for a portrait in the basement of his home, where he builds acoustic guitars, on March 19, 2015 in Cockeysville, Md.f this advice is fundamental. Go for a walk and let ideas percolate. Sleep well and life might look better the next morning. We can't offer guarantees, but we feel confident that if you do this stuff, you won't come away with regrets. Men can make improvements in various aspects, such as listening skills, connecting with nature through birdwatching, decluttering, walking for exercise, and gardening. The goal is to optimize one's path in today's world and promote health and happiness.

 

06/04/2024
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We are all HUMAN text on a sky of many colorsWe've updated the library's holdings for gender and sexuality.  For children's and young adult books, it's one of the most challenged topics in the nation.  As we welcome students from schools where they may not have been able to see themselves represented in their libraries, we say Happy Pride Month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover ArtAll Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

ISBN: 9780374312718
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. Velshi Banned Book Club Indie Bestseller Teen Vogue Recommended Read Buzzfeed Recommended Read People Magazine Best Book of the Summer A New York Library Best Book of 2020 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 ... and more!
 
 
 

Cover ArtGender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

ISBN: 9781549304002
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns,thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographicalcomic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortablewith strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intenselycathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes themortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to comeout to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, andfacing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way toexplain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer ismore than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on genderidentity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates,friends, and humans everywhere.  
 
 
 

Cover ArtLast Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

ISBN: 9780525555254
Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller "The queer romance we've been waiting for."--Ms. Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root--that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.  But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite his hard-won citizenship--Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
 
 
 
 
 

Cover ArtThe Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson

ISBN: 9780316276726
In the woods of a small Kentucky town, Aubrey and Joel are like two tomato vines that grew along the same crooked fence: weird, yet the same kind of weird. But lately, even their shared weirdness seems weird. Then Joel disappears. Vanishes.The whole town is looking for him, and Aubrey was the last person to see Joel. Aubrey can't say much, but since lies of omission are still lies, here's what they know for sure: For the last two weeks of the school year, when sixth grade became too much, Aubrey and Joel have been building a raft in the woods. The raft was supposed to be just another part of their running away game. The raft is gone now, too.. Aubrey doesn't know where Joel is, but they might know how to find him. As Aubrey, their friend Mari, and sister Teagan search along the river, Aubrey has to fess up to who they really are, all the things they never said, and the word that bully Rudy Thomas used that set all this into motion.
 
 
 
 
 

Cover ArtAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780689878459
And Tango Makes Three is the bestselling, heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo get the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own. Selected as an ALA Notable Children's Book Nominee and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, "this joyful story about the meaning of family is a must for any library" (School Library Journal, starred review).
 
 

Cover ArtGrandad's Camper by Harry Woodgate

ISBN: 9781499811933
Discover a wonderful grandfather-granddaughter relationship, as a little girl hatches the perfect plan to get her Grandad adventuring again.Gramps and Grandad were adventurers. They would surf, climb mountains, and tour the country in their amazing camper. Gramps just made everything extra special. But after Gramps died, Granddad hasn't felt like traveling anymore. So, their amazing granddaughter comes up with a clever plan to fix up the old camper and get Grandad excited to explore again.