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Update - trebuchet photo below


* The Perseid meteor shower should be good this year, because of the new moon. Watch for meteors emanating from the northeast late Sunday night (Aug 12th) and the wee hours of Monday morning (13th). If possible, get out in the country, preferably northeast of town, so you have dark sky to view the meteors against. FYI, the Perseid meteors are the dregs left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle. As the earth passes through these tiny bits of comet dust, they burn up in the atmosphere, glowing briefly and beautifully.

*Our new faculty members, Jim van Howe and Joe Owczarzak, are now here in the QC and getting ready to start the fall term. It's going to be an exciting year!

*The trebuchet will arrive at the science building around noon tomorrow, if you want to come see it. (Blogger spell-check doesn't know the word trebuchet!)

*Anyone planning on taking the GRE this fall, let me know - you can join our prep sessions.

*It's only a ball, for crying out loud. "...the ball... wound up in the hands of ...Matt Murphy ... he was bloodied and his clothes torn ...."