... 7 July 2009 bring the most benefit of to the membership ­ such as the clamshell observatory and the new workshop ­ rather than getting bogged down in lots of smaller but less astronomy related projects. ... June Meeting Minutes . ... Most of the budget was clubhouse (and still is) related where the project list was so extensive it was "expected" that only portion of the work would get completed. ... I can accept submissions at the June and July regular meetings and at the ATMoB Clubhouse work...

... I will touch upon the following points: ­ fast evolution of the sizes of quiescent (elliptical) galaxies between z = 2 and z = 1; ­ prolonged star formation histories of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group; ­ apparent lack of external sources of cold gas accretion for the nearby spiral galaxies; ­ old stellar ages and magnesium overabundance of the large-scale disks of nearby lenticular galaxies. ... This discovery has challenged the recognized scenarios of elliptical galaxy evolution. ...