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Aludemon by Jowy

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Hope

I hadn’t given much thought to hope, beyond it being a nice feeling to have, until I heard of CR Snyder’s cognitive model for hope which shed a new light on it for me. He proposed a model of hope where (paraphrasing) an individual may be hopeful if they have:

1. Goals they desire. If you don’t or can’t picture any future state you’d like then you won’t have a lot of hope.
2. Pathways. You need to see some ways that you may make step-by-step progress towards a goal.
3. Willpower or agency. You need to be motivated and believe that you have the ability to succeed at your goal.

With all of these you can imagine feeling hopeful. Without any one of them and you probably won’t so much.

The mountain is the Ogre, a wholly impossible looking peak scaled by Doug Scott and others for which I would have had zero hope to climb (no pathways, no willpower) and yet they remarkably did.

HT once again to Brené Brown in Dare to Lead.

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 I definitely have some recurring themes on this blog... and the GLC handing out Power Rings like Pez is definitely one of them!  I thought it might be fun to present some of the characters that have wielded the universe's most powerful weapon...



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OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN!

I try not to give myself too many restrictions while creating covers for this blog, but I do have a few rules:  Don't use images from something that was already an inter-company crossover to begin with, and try not to re-use any character images more than once.  That second one is a rule that I have broken quite a few times as you will see below.  I didn't do it on purpose, sometimes I just forgot that I had already used an image - you have to forgive me, I've done a lot of these.  Anyway, I thought it would be fun to present some of these examples here, it's interesting to see how an image can be used in different ways:



COMING SATURDAYS THIS FALL!


It hasn't been easy keeping up with this blog on a daily basis for the past decade, but I am glad that I have kept with it - your enthusiasm, encouragement, ideas and patronage have helped keep me inspired and motivated and I want to thank you all for joining me on this ride!  Let the march to STF #4000 begin!

being 40 means my pun powers have leveled up

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Morrigan - SFW>NSFW by X3

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A friend of mine gave me a copy of The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, and I absolutely devoured it.I had seen the character in some movies, but finally reading the original tales made me a life long fan.  I've made a point to pass on the collection to others.  The stories are all great, but my favorites include the first one, A Study in Scarlet, which introduces Holmes, Watson, LeStrade and the whole setting.  Other standouts include The Solitary Cyclist, The Greek Interpreter and The Red-Headed League.  My Favorite has to be The Musgrave Ritual, there are some really great twists and turns in that one.

For this week’s Succubi art just something that is so perfectly cute and fun… which just makes me smile…

This wonderful work is by the artist arseniquez on DeviantArt and you can find the original page with this work here.

Lovely cleavage in her outfit, but really it’s her smile and the sparkle in her eyes that I love the most. Amazing hair, her horns fit her really well too. It’s a shame that we can’t see the rest of her, and I do hope her tail is as lovely as she is…

She just makes me smile and that’s a delightful thing…

 

Tera

Succubus by 海鵜げそ

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Sexy value

This is what you get when someone is able to launch something that is not only cheaper, but also better. It’s kind of an irresistible proposition. Most new things that are better don’t tend to also be cheaper. Often this is only possible with a whole new technology or approach. It’s like when the first taxi apps started appearing. To me it was like hang on, this is way better — no trying to catch a taxi in the rain, simple, non-awkward, no swinging by the ATM payments — and also cheaper. It’s also similar to Target’s Cheap Chic.

It is of course, not the only way to compete. If you make something better, people will pay what it’s worth to them. But if you can do it cheaper too you’re on to a winner.

Sexy value is a name, I believe, from Ogilvy and Mather.

You might also like another model of theirs: The Big Ideal.

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Guest post by Kate Brown, Adult Non-Fiction Librarian, Clinton-Macomb Public Library (Michigan)

In the months that the Clinton-Macomb Public Library has been closed due to COVID-19 we've offered programs through Zoom and on Facebook Live. We've had story times, trainings on databases and book discussions and recommendations. Our enlivened Facebook page seemed a good place for a program I've always wanted to do on the basics of the Dewey Decimal system. Many Library customers seem mystified by the arrangement of non-fiction titles. I suspected that a basic understanding of the Dewey decades would enhance their ability to browse the collection productively and enjoyably. With this in mind, our four-person Adult Non-Fiction team put together a five-day Facebook Live series called Dewey Demystified.

We each have responsibilities for different Dewey decades. We decided right away to present on our own decades, so we were able to work with areas of the collection that we knew well and to focus on the most popular sections within those areas. While the program was intended to highlight the types of materials found in each Dewey decade, it also ended up being something of a team-building experience, as we met frequently over Zoom to consult with each other and to practice our presentations.

We brought our own styles and ways of presenting the material to the project. We all created PowerPoint slides, but we didn't try to make all the slides look the same. In choosing the images of books we considered the timeliness, popularity and attractiveness of materials, as well as how representative they were of the Dewey decade. We made sure that there wasn't a day when only one person presented and tried to keep each of the daily program under twenty minutes. Whenever possible we made comments and asked questions during our co-workers' presentations. A friend of the Department Manager's came up with the idea of using the app My Talking Pet to make it appear that her dog, Sally, was contributing to the program. Sally gave an amusing introduction that touched on Melvil Dewey's issues with women. Later Sally wondered why her little cousin, a wolf, was not in the Dewey decade with dogs. She also recommended two books of dog-focused poetry that happened to be favorites of mine.

We've had positive feedback on our program and the videos remain available on the Clinton-Macomb Public Library's Facebook page (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). We'd be happy to provide more details and to answer any questions if you'd like to offer a similar program.

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I guess that with all of these characters under the Disney umbrella, this combination could actually happen someday.  The House of Mouse has kept its various properties apart thus far, but who knows what the future holds?  They are on the verge of diving head first into the possibilities of the multiverse after all.  How long before characters from Disney proper, Marvel, Star Wars, The Muppets and more get thrown together in one big adventure?

Holidays & Special Events for June 24, 2020.

*   St. John’s Day (Christianity) which use to be a big deal of a holiday, basically going in order of importance, Easter, St. John’s Day, Christmas. The main activity of the day was lighting bonfires for St. John. That really would not work today, the environmental impact would be terrible.  

*   Bartender and Mixologist Day

*   Feast of the Sun (Aztec)

*   Bannockburn Day (Scotland) Date of a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence, also celebrated on September 10th.

*   Celebration of the Senses Day (international) go out and smell something.

*   International Fairy Day

*   Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil) celebration of the contributions and identity of the original caboclos and their descendants.

*   World UFO Day

* Also It was on the 24th in 1717 that the Masons went public in London.

in 1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion

It’s the day on which Shakespeare’s Mid-Summer’s Night Dream took place, it is also the date that people thought Fairies were most likely to be active.

It was the Festival of Mati-Syra-Zemlya (Dark Earth Goddess) & Zemlya’s Night (Slavic Lands).

The 24th is the Day King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter in 1348, which some believe was secretly tied to the pre-Christian Pagan beliefs of Europe.

By tradition, this is the day the Pied Piper lead 130 children out of the town of Hamlin and into a mountain.

In 1664 New Jersey is founded

It was on the 24th of June in 1694 that the Utopian community known as Woman of the Wilderness (which was all-male) made up of Primitive Christians, alchemists, & mystics landed in what would come to be known as Germantown, Pennsylvania. And the day in 1701 that the above community said they were visited by a glowing white sphere while burning their St. J Day fires.

It’s is also the day in 1947 that Kenneth Arnold claimed he saw a number of crescent-shaped objects “flying with a motion like saucers skipping over a lake.

Other June 24th Fortean phenomena can be found at:

https://forteanhistoricalarchive.blogspot.com/2007/06/

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Please join us on 14 July 2020 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT for our OCLC Dewey Update Virtual Meeting. This meeting replaces the OCLC Dewey Update Breakfast session that was originally scheduled to have been held at ALA Annual this year.

In this session, you will hear from:

• Violet Fox and Alex Kyrios, Dewey Editors, as they share the latest news, including new classification numbers, future plans, and how you can get involved in making changes to Dewey
• Eric Childress, Community Manager, as he showcases the WebDewey Community Center
• Michele Zwierski, Cataloging Services Manager, Nassau Library System and Editorial Policy Committee (EPC) Chair, as she discusses Dewey Decimal Classification in the context of a library system or consortium

There will be time to take questions you have at the end of the presentations, and we will answer as many as time allows.

Register now

UPDATE, July 22: The recording is now available! See today's post for full info.

The sound of a black hole is a B-flat note

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