Hold the presses!

The big news on CNN this morning is that the next Harry Potter book will be the last.

Hasn't that been common knowledge for the last few years?

Halo!

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An unusual phenomenon was seen over Tucson for a couple of hours around noon today -- a very fine halo around the sun. Usually these are caused by ice crystals high in the atmosphere. Ice crystals? Over Tucson in June?

Hurrah!

A new Sharpe novel is coming in September! bernardcornwell.net appears to be having technical difficulties, however.