Howdy board; I have an announcement for the Novice Group meeting on Feb. 18th at Flatiron. Also a presentation of an award to Rick Rotrammel. And = third, I would like to give a short (5-7 min) presentation about astronomy books. = I will set out Night watch, Burnham's, DSOG, Skiff and a few others that = folks can look through. This "back to basics" presentation will be a set up = for the Novice Group meeting at Flatiron. Rick, if you will make me the last announcer, I will lead that into the presentation of the award and the short talk. Whole thing will be 12 to = 15 minutes, tops. This is asking for time to do all that at the meeting; Steve Coe