Periodicals - disappearing & changing pub frequency

Just found out from periodicals vendor that Mad magazine will become a quarterly, after April issue, and, I was not aware, that U.S. News & World Report went monthly. Don't know what's happening next, but if anyone has any idea, please let me know. - Pat H./KAT

WLS Adult Services Meeting, 6/23/09 - Topic TBA

Folks, you might wish to contact Rachel about a topic for this meeting. I won't be here for it - I'll be in sunny Italy. - Pat H/KAT

Read any Good Books lately - April edition

Read with a book group in Somers - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest GAines (THE BIG READ). That was a good book and I listened to the audiobook version, read by Jay Long, which made it really come to life. Its a book that speaks both of the black experience during Jim Crow years in the south, but also speaks to a universality of finding out who you are and not who people think you are and should be. Read last year's BIG READ - Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston and that was one book that keep me glued to it until I finished it. Good book, no matter if its about blacks, whites or chartreuse. Gaines book is very good, but Hurston's was fantastic. Anyone read any of her other books? OR read any good books lately, Pat H/KAT ;-)

Poem Round Robin

This is fur fun & relaxation; think like a cat.

If you wish to add on to this poem or even create a whole new one that people can add on to, please do. This is one that I have been trying to make into something other than a fun 2 or 4 liner. Please help! - Pat H./KAT

Two Cats have i
who don't see eye to eye

They wander by
With tails held high



Another version to work on (by a brother poet):

Two Cats have i
Who don't see eye to eye
Sometimes they make me crossed "I"'d.

They wander by
With tails held high
And I wonder why

They understand I
I comprend them not
I play with them
And they playing me.

Program Idea for Quadricentennial

If anyone has to plan a program for the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, I just had Richard de Koster come from the Constitution Island Association do a talk on the Warner Sisters of Constitution Island. They were young ladies whose father lost everything in the financial panic of 1837 and they had to leave NY society and move to their home (supposed to be a vacation home) on an island in the Hudson. The older girl was devastated; the younger one loved being outdoors. As they grew up they began to support their family by farming, gardening, and writing and became very popular writers-almost as popular as Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe in their day.
He gives a nice talk about the sisters, about the history of Constitution Island, the house and gardens. You might be pleased. If you wish more info, go to http://www.constitutionisland.org/or contact me. Sara Rodgers

Westchester Library Association Conference May 8

Go to http://www.westchesterlibraryassociation.org/

Google in the News - Privacy Issues

A privacy advocacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to pull the plug on Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and the company's other Web apps until government-approved "safeguards are verifiably established."
If the FTC grants the request, hundreds of millions of Internet users would be unable to access their e-mail or documents until the agency's formidable collection of lawyers in Washington, D.C., became satisfied with the revised applications. The outage would extend to businesses that pay for access to Google Apps.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center submitted the far-reaching request to the FTC in a letter from its director, Marc Rotenberg, on Tuesday. It argues that a formal legal injunction halting all Google cloud-computing services pending formal government approval is necessary to "adequately safeguard the confidential information" of users.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10198740-38.html