Hello

Did you know that today is World Hello Day? It's actually the 36th annual one, so this celebration has been around for a while! Basically, the challenge is to greet 10 people today with a simple "hello." The concept behind this is really simple: if you say hello to people (especially people you may not have said hello to on a regular day) you're spreading good vibes. The creators of this day want to make everyone aware of the importance of personal communication for preserving peace in the world. That's a nice message, right?

So... hello! Let's see how many people YOU can say hello to today!

(Feel free to say hello to the Hauppauge Library via the comment button on this blog post!)

Imagine having to know all this in complete detail...

Here's a interesting website: Presidential Transition Resources

This is the official introduction to what's contained within the site:
The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-293) authorizes the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop a transition directory in consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Act provides that the transition directory "shall be a compilation of Federal publications and materials with supplementary materials developed by the Administrator that provides information on the officers, organization, and statutory and administrative authorities, functions, duties, responsibilities, and mission of each department and agency." Senate Report 106-348 clarifies that the directory is intended to "assist in navigating the many responsibilities that fall on a new administration" that is "confronted by an overwhelming amount of material."

What that means is:
Every president-elect gets a "study-packet" of all the governmental branches, departments and agencies (who heads them and what they do) as well as how they fit into the overall umbrella of our government.

There's A LOT of info contained in this website... A LOT! This site would be a great help to anyone doing a paper or project on this subject.

New Twilight Book... someday?

Here's something to ponder while waiting for the movie to arrive in theaters. It sounds a little more hopeful than her last statement... what do you think?

Stephenie Meyer, author of the hugely popular *Twilight* series of books,
told reporters that she's leaving the door open to writing a fifth
volume, *Midnight Sun*, though she previously said she'd put it on hold indefinitely.

"People are going to forget about it," Meyer said in a news conference in
Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 8. "It's going to go away, and that'll be the
time when I sneak back in and give it a try again. But it's going to have to
be after everything is [over]. It's not writing in a fishbowl, because I
can't work that way."

Meyer earlier said she would put off finishing *Midnight Sun*--a retelling
of the first *Twilight* book from the point of view of vampire Edward
Cullen--after an early draft of the book's first chapters was released on
the Internet without her authorization. Meyer--whose books have sold more
than 17 million copies--later posted the draft on her official Web
site<http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html>.


"*Midnight Sun* is not on my schedule right now," Meyer said while promoting
the upcoming film adaptation of her first book. "It's part of my writing
process that, for me to really write a story--and like I was saying
before--I can't think about what other people want and what other people are
thinking and what the editing is going to be and what the expectations are
when I'm writing. Because it's paralyzing to do that. You really can't put a
word on the page. I have to be very alone with a story. It has to be just me
and what's happening, and I just can't feel that way about it right now."

The *Twilight* movie opens Nov. 21.



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