GREENSBORO, N.C. – Sunday marks one week since a tornado ripped through Greensboro, leaving a man dead, hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed and thousands without power.
Guilford County Superintendent Sharon Contreras said at a Sunday evening press conference that the Board of Education will declare a state of emergency on Monday to help get money for aid.
Contreras also said the three heavily-damaged elementary schools that will remain closed through the end of the year. The students have been moved to other schools.
Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday signed an executive order to declare a State of Emergency for Guilford and Rockingham counties, areas that suffered significant damages from the storms on Sunday.
Interim City Manager David Parrish also the outpour of help from the community has been amazing, with 600 volunteers signing up to help and hundreds more showing up.
But the city still needs donations of food, hygiene products and tarps. Donations can be made to the Interactive Resource Center at 407 E. Washington St.
Volunteers have worked for the past week to clear downed trees and power lines from the destruction that damaged at least 1,000 structures. Crews have worked to remove about 10,000 tons of debris.


Pearce Bottomley Architects is a chartered architectural practice based in Yorkshire.
The business was founded in 1957 by Messrs Anthony Pearce and Derek Bottomley. Today, the team prides itself on blending cutting-edge thinking with the founders' original values and beliefs.
"When I joined the business in 2006, the practice was being managed by its third generation of partners but Mr Pearce and Mr Bottomley still had a presence.
"One of the first jobs I was tasked with was to design a new house for Anthony Pearce and his wife Gill.
"I visited them in their impeccable modernist villa in Linton, Wetherby. The house was astounding: a faded exemplar of the kind of post-war optimism that infected the architects of that generation like a bug.
"But the house as a 'machine for living' was never intended as a durable entity. By then, the plot out-valued the house's beauty and function and the family decided to sell up and move to town.
"Mr Pearce gave me exact instructions on how to convert a cottage in the centre of Wetherby into the home they needed. Under his guidance, we fitted the accommodation to their specific personal requirements and created a home that would pay dividends with time. We collaborated on every detail of the process; the whole-house ventilation system, the choice of timbers, the points of contract and, most importantly, the nature of space.
"I worked with Mr Pearce on the assumption that he and Gill were downsizing for their autumn years but after practical completion, I realised that we'd been crafting well-loved plans for Gill's future without him.
"I didn't get to know Mr Bottomley so well before he and Anthony both passed away, within a month of each other in 2010. By all accounts they were the perfect partnership, complementing and accommodating each other in their joint intentions and ambitions. Anthony maintained a dogged attention to detail and Derek Bottomley had no fear or limit to his horizons.
"I can remember him arriving at our offices in his pristine Fiat X 1/9. He must have officially retired a good 20 years previously but he still had an insatiable drive and passion for architecture. His house, named Non-Such, was a modernist villa of equal prominence to Mr Pearce's but of a more brutal and decisive style.
"After 60 years of practice, the principles of Pearce Bottomley Architects' founders continue to guide our work.
Anthony's attention to detail, technical understanding and absolute dedication to the project, combine with Derek's love of our art and his recognition of the importance of a long-term relationship with our clients, our craftsmen and our buildings.
"The other building I know Mr Bottomley through is the medical centre in his town. Pearce Bottomley Architects built the GP surgery in 1976.
"When we work on the building today, we can't help but go back to Derek's original hand-drawn, imperial scale blueprints, although the fact that they are as old as I am makes me nervous to handle them.
"The building is typical of the functional optimism of the time and might easily have suffered from neglect, but we still work closely with the centre management.
"By adapting the original building to current needs and expanding the facility into the adjacent listed property, we have continued Derek's loving relationship with the building, its owner and its surrounding community."


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Cliff Richard and The Shadows to reunite after 20 years
CLIFF Richard and The Shadows are to team up for the first time in two decades to celebrate 50 years in the music business.
GORDON BARR has EXCLUSIVE news on Cliff and The Shadows coming to Toon.
The pairing, which saw a stream of hits in the late 50s early 60s, will play Newcastles Metro Radio Arena on October 12 next year, with tickets believed to be on sale from Sunday.
The news comes just two days before Cliff plays a solo show at the venue, celebrating his five decades in showbiz.
The reunion tour will have special resonance for North East fans, with two of The Shadows, schoolmates Bruce Welch and Hank Marvin, growing up in the region. Third member Brian Bennett will join them for the tour, along with Cliff.
We hope it is going to be fantastic, Bruce Welch tells me in an exclusive interview.
We hope it is going to be wonderful. I know Cliff is raring to go we are raring to go, it will be a fantastic time, I think. Fifty years is a long time but the memories are with you forever, especially from the early days. It is just exciting, playing the big venues. I hope there are enough people alive that remember.
Hank and I will be nearly 68, Cliff will be 69 and Brian will be nearly 70, but I think we can show todays young pretenders a thing or two!
Cliff and the Shadows will first get together next month for the Royal Variety Performance their first gig together in 20 years.
Its a bit of history, says Welch, who now lives in London, about the reunion. For want of a better word, we were pioneers and certainly the first famous group. I think the original group boom came from The Shadows. Apache was 1960, and then suddenly every group had a guy with glasses on playing lead guitar.
Everybody wanted to be Hank. I think most of them still do, he laughs. Hes coming from Australia for the Royal Variety. It will be on TV in December, to show the public we are still alive. We only have seven minutes to pack so much in.
The Shadows had their farewell tour several years ago, and Welch himself admits to being a bit surprised at hitting the road again. We hadnt thought too much about it being 50 years. But it is, so why not celebrate it?, he smiles.
He is also looking forward to coming back to the North East, He grew up in Chester-le-Street, while Hank is Newcastle born and bred.
I havent seen the Arena yet. Of course, we used to play the City Hall, which is still going strong and I used to sing there in a choir when I was at Rutherford College.
My mum is buried in Chester-le-Street and I come up once a year and have a drive around the old haunts.
Newcastle is a very groovy place now I am told, with girls walking around in T-shirts in February. A bit different to in the 50s!
Bosses at the Metro Radio Arena are keeping tight-lipped about the reunion tour, but we understand tickets will go on sale this Sunday with no pre-sale.
In the late 50s and early 60s, Cliff and The Shadows dominated the British popular music scene, enjoying solo and joint careers, and establishing their undisputed place in pop history.
Between them they notched up a string of hits, including Living Doll, Travellin' Light, Please Don't Tease, Bachelor Boy, Wonderful Land and Apache, and starred together the popular films Summer Holiday and The Young Ones.
This Friday Cliff will be at the Metro Radio Arena as part of his Time Machine golden anniversary tour.
It's been a 50 year-old love affair, he says.
Fantastic travels, memorable experiences, a world-wide family of amazing fans, a truck-load of awards and job satisfaction to last a life-time. I've been so lucky and the great thing is, it ain't over yet!"
Proof of that will be when Cliff takes to the stage this Friday and returns with The Shadows next year.
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Directed By: Sydney Pollack
In Theaters: Dec 10, 1969 Limited
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Palomar Pictures , American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Reviews
Steve D
With these many great performances I would think the plot would be better.
Another one of those cases of me having a dissenting opinion on a movie in the name of personal preference, for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" isn't necessarily a poorly executed film in any sort of regard. The performances are commendable, the subject matter is effectively presented and even the thematics are resonant (try thinking about this movie as an allegory for reality television. . .yeeeeeesh). My problems with the movie lie within the more utilitarian elements. This is a supremely grimy, gross and upsetting portrait of a desperate era in American history, filled with unfortunate characters, traumatic events and all sorts of delusions surrounding the American Dream. It's not my cup of tea, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't accomplish what it set out to do.
Tony C
Perhaps just a little dated in slight ways, it nonetheless stands the test of time as a great film! In any case, its underlying themes maintain their relevancy even today, perhaps even more so.
Daniel B
a film you wont forget watching, its just as relevant today as it was in the 1930s and the 1970s
David L
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is technically strong with a particularly good soundtrack and excellent performances across the board with Jane Fonda being the most memorable member of the cast. But the movie is otherwise very weak on all fronts with the melodramatic elements being forced, overdone and depressing, the metaphor being pretentious and the film plays like that dance marathon in it - it becomes pointless and exhausting way too quickly.
One word review: extraordinary! (is that 4 words?)
Felipe F
They Shoot Horses Don't They? is a harsh portrayal of the ruthless consequences of the Great Depression over common people's spirits.
Gary L
I read a review of "They Shoot Horses..." in "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" which sounded intriguing, and we like Jane Fonda, so we watched this. Rotten Tomatoes was pretty high on it as well. It's not exactly cheerful, but it said a lot about the Great Depression and our culture then and now. Being relevant today is, for me, a sure sign of great work of art. The actor who impressed and surprised me the most was Gig Young. He's usually a character actor who you can take or leave but he was riveting in this performance. 4 stars.
Drama about a dance competition during the Great Depression. Excellent performances bogged down by a mediocre script.
Isaac L
Sydney Pollack's pungent film adaptation of Horace McCoy's 1935 novel about a dance marathon contest during the Depression-era - the ultimate test of energy and endurance, which blurs the line between competition and reality show. The various contestants spurred by the 1500$ reward, push their strength and fortitude to the limits, little they know, they are merely dispensable pawns to attract audience, since the mass needs something they can believe in in that particular era, and clearly, watching other people in suffering and bad shapes is a massively effective way to achieve that, what a sadistic revelation! Also the film has an unflinchingly bleak ending can give a gut punch to first-time viewers who are unfamiliar with the source novel. keep reading my review on my blog: http://wp.me/p1eXom-1Zy


This is a wonderful recipe i made without planning it. Its Italian alike but its now Swedish :-) I hope you like it!
Slice and chop the Mortadella so that you get 2*2 cm square slices.
Take the above engredians and put in the pan.
Fry it for a few minutes on medium high temprature to it get a little color.
Add the white vine, bay leaves and basil and let it cook for just a minute.
Add the crushed tomato and let it boil slowly for a few minutes.
Let it boil slowly for another few minutes.
Make some Penne or Ragatoni (Make it al dente) and put t in the pan and stair it with the sauce.


little do you know he was actually trying to eat them, and not smell them...still looks sweet though, no?
Alice & Milo, I love love love you and I love being your mama.
To my partner, my husband. my best friend: Mother's Day was lovely. Thank you for honoring me and caring for me in all of those little - and big - details. I love being your wife and help-mate.
God, thank you that I still have my own mama to talk to and spend time with. Help me appreciate her more.
And as always, thank you, God, for my little family.
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Q: Reloading nginx config from within a rails app I have a multi-app system running on a centOS box, that consists of our main app and a deployer app. when a client wants a new instance of our app, they use our deployer, fill in some info and the new install is created on our server. the issue i am having is that i can't get nginx to reload it's config file automatically. so after the deploy when visiting the new app we receive a 404 until i reload manually.
I've tried a few different ways including chmod /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx to 777, chmod the install script and deployer app to 777,
the script goes like this:
#create install directory -- works correctly
#copy files over -- works correctly
#run install script
##-- and then at this point i've tried multiple lines, including:
system("nginx -s reload") ## this works manually
system("/etc/init.d/nginx reload") ## this works manually

i've followed directions here: Restart nginx without sudo? to create a script to run without a sudo password and then tried this:
system("sudo /var/www/vhosts/deployer/lib/nginx_reload")

nothing seems to work, i'm assuming this is a permissions error, but maybe i'm wrong, if anyone could point me in any direction, that would be very helpful since i've been trying to figure this out for a few days too long and i'm fresh out of new ideas

A: sudo  /etc/init.d/nginx reload

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With No Exit Polls, The "Why?" For Dem. Coakley's Senate Defeat Gets Spun
by Stan on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 3:44 pm EDT in Healthcare, Politics
One of the most vexing revelations to come from last night's Senatorial contest in Massachusetts was the fact there were NO EXIT POLLS. NONE! Not a single news organization conducted exit polls to ascertain a "why?" for such a huge, significant upset.
Surely, the networks knew the significance of last night's election before a single vote was cast, and they clearly saw Coakley's sliding poll numbers since January 5, when Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points.
Call me a cynic, but you just have to wonder if the absence of exit polls wasn't somehow intentional. Perhaps the beltway media establishment didn't want to quantify the populist voter outrage which would likely incite a legislative turn to the Left, against entrenched interests.
By not conducting exit polling, the establishment accorded itself the opportunity to reframe the impending Democratic upset in the usual way: Obama needs to move further to the right to placate enraged Independents (whom they routinely misportray as nothing more than disaffected Republicans).
Ryan Grimm of the Huffington Post addressed the establishment's reaction to last night's Republican victory in Massachusetts as being focused entirely on the Independent voters; while largely ignoring the base:
With all the talk about "angry independents" deciding the special election in Massachusetts Tuesday night, the inclination among establishment Washington Democrats is to chase after them. Progressives, meanwhile, want the party to deliver on promises made during the campaign.
Not surprisingly, Democratic politicians are already indicating that they will likely shift rightward. Barney Frank seemed to suggest to Rachel Maddow, in reaction to the upset, "that without support from at least some Republican senators, health care reform, at least in this iteration, wouldn't happen." In other words, he interpreted this defeat as a need to appease the right — as if they haven't been doing that all along. That move would certainly help him to water down even further his current banking reform initiative (as would also be necessary to gain Republican votes).
Anthony Weiner "suggest[ed] on MSNBC that maybe it'd really be better to drop health care reform–and pivot to jobs."
Digby points out that Chris Matthews, in reaction to Coakley's defeat, has now joined the deficit-hawk choir:
The predicted reverberations are already being felt. Chris Matthews is already going on about deficits being the most important problem in the whole wide world and how his daughter is really worried about government spending and taxes.
And the Democrats are subsequently making it much more difficult to fix the economy by playing into this deficit propaganda themselves.
The usual conservative voices, as one would expect, are all too happy to capitalize on the absence of exit polls.
Here's Michael Gerson at the Washington Post, suggesting that Obama's "liberalism" has infuriated Independent voters:
It means that Rahm Emanuel's "big bang" theory of legislative liberalism is the most foolish political strategy in recent memory. It means that spending political capital on health reform instead of economic recovery and growth was a dreadful error. It means that a crisis that Obama didn't want to waste has largely been wasted. […]
There is only one explanation for this remarkable turn of events. Americans thought Obama was a moderate. He certainly sounded like one. But now he is attempting to remake one seventh of the economy in a quick march of party-line votes. In the process, he has alienated independents in large numbers — even in Massachusetts.
Did you get that? According to Michael Gerson this isn't about populist outrage from both the Left and Right; this is about Obama (who actually ran on a progressive populist platform) somehow misleading Independents into thinking he was more conservative than he really was. To Gerson, it would seem Independents have suddenly awakened to discover that Obama and his "liberal" cohort Rahm Emanuel are governing as some kind of commie-liberals.
David Broder never once mentions populist outrage in his column; no talk of Wall Street bailouts while turning a blind eye to the plight of Americans; no mention of Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry giveaways off the backs of hurting Americans.
First he mentions voter concerns about deficit spending, and then he describes just how Republican victor Scott Brown was able to capitalize on the current Health Care Reform bill before Congress:
This allowed Brown to argue that he would vote against the legislation pending in Washington, which by comparison looks more expensive and more bureaucratic and more partisan than the Massachusetts model.
Perhaps subtle to some, but the word "bureaucratic" is actually a lightening rod term within Conservative circles. It conjures up images of an inefficient government run entity (i.e. the Republican stigmatization of a would-be public option — something which isn't even part of the bill under consideration). In reality, the Senate Bill is clearly a giveaway to the private "for profit" health insurance industry — a dream bill to a corporatist like Broder.
The only Democratic politicos Broder spoke to were the ones who seemed to parrot the White House talking points:
"They were critical of Coakley's campaign, arguing that it was a serious miscalculation for her to break off campaigning and advertising after her easy victory in the primary."
Like Gerson, Broder implies it is more about ideological differences; meaning the "liberal" Democratic Congress and President are imposing their will on a more "moderate" electorate, and it's backfired. Broder gives his readers two false choices to explain the Democratic upset: 1. voter repudiation of liberal initiatives (i.e. runaway spending and government 'bureaucratic' health care), or 2. a poorly run Coakley campaign (i.e. the White House talking points). Yet he never mentions the visible outrage bubbling over from the left, as Obama continues to sell out the American people to serve his corporate masters.
The reality is President Obama has been governing from right of center since the moment he took office. Liberals feel betrayed. The Democratic base couldn't be less energized — thanks to all of Obama's broken promises, and his backdoor deals with entrenched interests.
Ryan Grimm contends that Independents and liberals have indicated they want essentially the same thing: CHANGE.
A review of surveys of independent and Democratic voters show that both want much the same thing: change. Both groups are deeply troubled by the state of the economy and angered that bailed-out Wall Street firms seem to be the only ones to have recovered from the crisis. […]
"If Scott Brown wins tonight, he'll win because he became the change-oriented candidate," Celinda Lake, pollster to losing Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, told HuffPost before the election results came in. "Voters are still voting for the change they voted for in 2008, but they want to see it. And right now they think they've got economic policies for Washington that are delivering more for banks than Main Street."
Ezra Klein from the Washington Post perfectly sums up the frustration from the Left:
A Democratic Party that would abandon their central initiative this quickly isn't a Democratic Party that deserves to hold power. If they don't believe in the importance of their policies, why should anyone who's skeptical change their mind? If they're not interested in actually passing their agenda, why should voters who agree with Democrats on the issues work to elect them? A commitment provisional on Ted Kennedy not dying and Martha Coakley not running a terrible campaign is not much of a commitment at all.
Joe Trippi, a longtime party strategist and high-ranking official on the Howard Dean and John Edwards campaigns told the Huffington Post:
"This needs to be a wake up call that people are still demanding change. I don't think it is ideological, I don't think it is left versus right. I think it is outsider versus insider. It is the new way versus people doing it the old way. That is still the carryover from 2008. And whether the Obama administration recognizes that is important. This is a wake up call that they can't play the inside game."
Glenn Greenwald weighs in on the establishment's effort to reframe Coakley's defeat as voter repudiation of the Left:
The very idea that an administration run by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel and staffed with centrists, Wall Street mavens, and former Bush officials — and a Congress beholden to Blue Dogs and Lieberdems — has been captive "to the Left" is so patently false that everyone should be too embarrassed to utter it. For better or worse, the Democratic strategy has long been and still is to steer clear of their leftist base and instead govern as "pragmatists" and centrists — which means keeping the permanent Washington factions pleased. That strategy may or not be politically shrewd, but it is just a fact that the dreaded "Left" has gotten very little of what it wanted the entire year.
Senator John Kerry — the quintessential Washington 'insider' — has wisely calculated the necessity in addressing populist angst, by attributing it to Coakley's defeat:
I didn't need any reminders, but this election encapsulated what was clear in 2006 and 2008 and remains clear today: Americans are angry. They're mad at Washington and they're mad at Wall Street. They've seen millions of jobs lost and been left no choice but to bail out those responsible. They're tired of insurance companies that charge exorbitant premiums but don't deliver decent coverage when they need it. They're fed up with sending billions of dollars a day overseas for foreign oil. They hate knowing that they pay taxes while powerful interests evade taxes and hide money overseas in Cayman Island bank accounts. And they expect all of us, Democrat or Republican, to fight for them.
So what should those on the Left take away from these dueling-message efforts? In the future, if Progressives intend to send a 'resounding' message by abandoning Democratic candidates, they'd be well served to at least hire an independent polling company to conduct exit polls that accurately quantify the "why?" for voter behavior.
If exit polls aren't there to capture the true underlying motivation of the voters, then the beltway establishment will gladly define it for them.
Thanks to cbsunglass at FireDogLake for pointing out a newly released Research 2000 Massachusetts Poll.
Though not an exit poll, it reveals exactly what we hoped to show. Fascinating how this has been largely overlooked by much of the press all day.
Here are some of the findings of that poll:
95% of voters said the economy was important or very important when it came to deciding their vote.
53% of Obama voters who voted for Brown and 56% of Obama voters who did not vote in the Massachusetts election said that Democrats enacting tighter restrictions on Wall Street would make them more likely to vote Democratic in the 2010 elections.
51% of voters who voted for Obama in 2008 but Brown in 2010 said that Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street.
Nearly half (49%) of Obama voters who voted for Brown support the Senate health care bill or think it does not go far enough. Only 11% think the legislation goes too far.
The Redistribution of Wealth In America Continues …
by Stan on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm EDT in Politics
The fleecing of the American Taxpayer continues unabated (as reported by Bloomberg):
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year.
The firms — the three biggest banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) — will hand out $29.7 billion in bonuses, according to analysts' estimates. That's up 60 percent from last year and more than the previous high of $26.8 billion in 2007. The money, split among 119,000 employees, equals $250,400 each, almost five times the $50,303 median household income in the U.S. last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country continues to suffer from the highest unemployment rate since 1983.
Ed Schultz rips Congressman Barney Frank a new one tonight for his dereliction of duty on Wall Street Reform. Frank tries to deflect the inexcusable $30 billion in bonuses (mentioned above) by stressing that he'll be able to tax them on this income:
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George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films.
McCutcheon was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. His father, despite his own lack of formal education, stressed the value of literature and encouraged his sons to write. During McCutcheon's childhood, his father had a number of jobs that required travel around the county. McCutcheon studied at Purdue University and was a roommate of future humorist George Ade. During his college years, he was editor of the Lafayette Daily Courier and wrote a serial novel of satire about Wabash River life.
Although McCutcheon became famous for the Graustark series (the first novel was published in 1901), he hated the characterization of being a Romantic and preferred to be identified with his playwriting.
He was the older brother of noted cartoonist John T. McCutcheon and died in Manhattan, New York City, New York.
McCutcheon, along with a number of other Indiana writers of the same period, is considered to be part of the Golden Age of Indiana Literature.
Emil Carlsen : On the beach, ca.1909.


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The cuddle monkey box is so cute!!
I didn't know Mrs Fields did cookie cakes! I haven't seen those in years!
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Real Science Radio's List of Transient Lunar Phenomena (updated)
Thread starter Jefferson
This is the show from Friday, February 8th, 2019
* Cold, Dead, and Inert: The laws of physics and the inexorable move toward equilibrium led Michael Seeds, popular textbook author of the 1997 Foundations of Astronomy, to write, "The Moon is now a cold, dead, geologically inactive world." Except that it's not. The following list gives an overview of the various kinds of transient lunar phenomena (TLP). Hundreds of events that last for only a short time, especially as compared to the moon's claimed 4.5 billion year existence. Similarly, a tremendous number of transient events have been documented happening across the solar system (rsr.org/sste). So the questions arise, "Are transient events anomalies?" "How many anomalies must occur before they are no longer anomalies?" And, "Does the tremendous number of observed short-lived events on the moon and throughout the solar system contradict the expectations of the billions of years paradigm?"
* RSR's List of Transient Lunar Phenomena: Please excuse our dust while we update this list throughout the week of Feb. 20, 2019!
- Explosive Outgassing: NASA reports that though, "lunar volcanism was supposed to have ceased billions of years ago... outgassing... a rapid release of gasses, blowing off surface deposits" may have been happening recently "and may still be happening today"! This is not unlike the many magma-less eruptions on Earth that release only volcanic gasses. A 2006 journal Nature paper, Lunar activity from recent gas release, describes a three-square-mile region on the Moon called "Ina" which presents evidence, including Ina's colors, lack of craters, and sharp edges, of "recent, episodic out-gassing from deep within the Moon." (This is in addition to hundreds of other "relatively young craters with crisp outlines and freshly-excavated crustal material [that hasn't] had time to darken from the effects of solar ions and cosmic rays...")
- Space Dust Clouds: Major dust clouds are being tenuously gravitationally held in two of the Earth/Moon Lagrange points as reported by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. These "temporary" clouds were mostly ignored for six decades until 2018, overlooked we posit because like dinosaur soft tissue, etc., they don't fit well in the old-earth paradigm. For if the dust is the debris that is assumed to have filled the early solar system, gravitational disturbance from the Sun should have dissipated these clouds billions of years ago. And by the same uniformitarian assumptions, the inner solar system has become relatively dust-free over the last billions of years, and so there wouldn't be enough dust to populate these clouds faster than they would dissipate. Hence, they are temporary.
- Fast Lunar Recession: An "anomalously high" lunar recession rate measured in 2007 of the Moon moving away from the Earth by 1.5 inches per year would amount to an unworkable 24,00 miles per billion years, leading to repeated int'l conferences for this "lunar crisis" and then a desperate "dark matter" lunar recession proposal to try to defend the alleged 4.5 billion year age of the moon.
- Outgassing of Helium & Oxygen: The AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research reported in 2014 the direct measurement of oxygen and helium in the Moon's exosphere.
- To be continued...
* Our Annual Telethon: The guys also mention that we're in our annual February BEL/RSR Telethon and it's vital goal of raising $40,000 so that more and more people can be reached with the creation-based Christian worldview and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please help by calling 1-800-8Enyart (836-9278) or clicking on over to the store at store.kgov.com. Thanks so very much!
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* Two Program Notes:
- China's announcement that the Moon's far side is 30 degrees colder than the near side has prompted Bob and Fred to air this transient lunar phenomena program and to postpone until next week discussion of the three remaining news headlines from last week's broadcast.
- The audio for today's program has been corrected from that which originally aired. Immediately after the broadcast we began hearing from listeners who kindly informed us of a science mistake that Bob made. It was sufficiently embarrasing that we unpublished the program, corrected the audio, and then republished the show. Toward not wanting to further the error (and really, out of embarrasment), we'll just leave it at that!


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The following events occurred in April 1945:

April 1, 1945 (Sunday)
The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a  beachhead.
The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it. Of the 2,004 passengers and crew there was only one survivor.
The 6th Guards Tank Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front captured the Hungarian city of Sopron on the Austrian border.
The Battle of Kassel began between German and American troops for the city of Kassel.
British Commandos began Operation Roast in an effort to push the Germans back to and across the River Po and out of Italy.
Adolf Hitler moved his headquarters from the Reich Chancellery to the Führerbunker.
Died: Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, 96, American businessman; William Fairbanks, 50, American actor

April 2, 1945 (Monday)
Operation Roast ended in British victory.
The Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front launched the Vienna Offensive in order to capture the city of Vienna.
German submarine U-321 was depth charged and sunk southwest of Ireland by a Vickers Wellington of No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron.
Born: Jürgen Drews, singer, actor and restaurateur, in Nauen, Germany; Linda Hunt, actress, in Morristown, New Jersey; Reggie Smith, baseball player, in Shreveport, Louisiana; Don Sutton, baseball player, in Clio, Alabama (d. 2021)

April 3, 1945 (Tuesday)
The Ninth United States Army captured Münster and attacked the Ruhr Pocket.
Thousands of prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp were forced to evacuate and march away from the Allied advance.
Died: Fritz Vogt, 27, German Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer (killed during an Allied air raid on Fürstenfeld, Austria)

April 4, 1945 (Wednesday)
The East Pomeranian Offensive ended in Soviet victory.
The Battle of Kassel ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher began between German and American forces for territory between the Neckar and Kocher Rivers.
Born: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, politician, in Montauban, France

April 5, 1945 (Thursday)
The Georgian uprising on Texel began.
The first of the incidents at the Freeman Army Airfield near Seymour, Indiana known as the Freeman Field Mutiny took place.
The Soviet Union renounced the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of April 1941, explaining that the "prolongation of that pact has become impossible."
Kuniaki Koiso resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
German submarine U-242 struck a mine and sank in St. George's Channel.
Born: Cem Karaca, rock musician, in Antakya, Turkey (d. 2004)

April 6, 1945 (Friday)
The Allies began Operation Grapeshot, the Spring offensive in Italy.
The Battle of Slater's Knoll ended in decisive Australian victory.
Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze was beached at Amoy after an attack by American B-25s.
American destroyers Bush, Colhoun, Leutze, Morris, Mullany, Newcomb, Rodman and Witter were all hit by Japanese kamikaze attacks off Okinawa. Bush and Colhoun were sunk while Leutze and Necomb were subsequently declared constructive total losses.
Died: Leon Feldhendler, 34 or 35, Polish Jewish resistance fighter (shot through the door of his home by an unknown assailant)

April 7, 1945 (Saturday)
Operation Ten-Go: The Japanese battleship Yamato and nine other warships launched a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. Yamato was bombed, torpedoed and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft south of Kyushu with the loss of 2,055 of 2,332 crew. Five other Japanese warships were sunk by American aircraft.
The Allies began Operation Amherst, a Free French and British Special Air Service attack with the goal of capturing Dutch canals, bridges and airfields intact.
Germany sent out 120 student pilots to face 1,000 American bomber planes in a suicide operation with the objective of ramming their planes into the U.S. aircraft and then parachuting to safety. Only a few of the pilots managed to hit the bombers and three-quarters of the Luftwaffe pilots were shot down. It was the Sonderkommando Elbe group's first and last mission.
Kantarō Suzuki replaced Kuniaki Koiso as Prime Minister of Japan.
German submarine U-1195 was depth charged and sunk southeast of the Isle of Wight by British destroyer Watchman.
Born: Werner Schroeter, film director, in Georgenthal, Germany (d. 2010)
Died: Elizabeth Bibesco, 48, English writer and socialite (pneumonia); Seiichi Itō, 54, Japanese admiral (killed in the sinking of the Yamato)

April 8, 1945 (Sunday)
Operation Amherst ended in Allied victory.
The Battle for Cebu City ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Lijevče Field ended in victory for the forces of the Independent State of Croatia.
The 1945 NFL draft was held in New York City. The Chicago Cardinals selected halfback Charley Trippi of the University of Georgia as the #1 overall pick.

April 9, 1945 (Monday)
The Battle of Königsberg ended in Soviet victory.
The Battle of West Hunan began as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Battle of Bologna began in Italy.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer was sunk in an RAF raid on Kiel.
German submarines U-804 and U-843 were sunk in the Kattegat by de Havilland Mosquitos of No. 143 Squadron RAF. U-1065 was sunk in the neighboring Skaggerak by Mosquito aircraft of No. 143 and No. 235 Squadron RAF.
Australia's Z Special Unit began Operation Opossum with the objective of rescuing the Sultan of Ternate from Ternate Island.
Charles de Gaulle nationalized Air France.
The last B-17 rolled off the line at Boeing's assembly plant in Seattle.
Born: Peter Gammons, sportswriter and media personality, in Boston, Massachusetts
Died: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 39, German Lutheran pastor; Wilhelm Canaris, 58, German admiral; Ludwig Gehre, 49, German officer; Hans Oster, 57, German major general; Karl Sack, 48, German jurist; and Theodor Strünck, 50, German lawyer (executed for treason by the Nazis in Flossenbürg concentration camp); Johann Georg Elser, 42, German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Hitler on November 8, 1939 (shot at Dachau concentration camp)

April 10, 1945 (Tuesday)
The U.S. 84th Infantry Division captured Hanover.
The U.S. Ninth Army captured Essen.
The Battle of Authion began in the French Alps.
In the "day of the great jet massacre," Allied aircraft shot down thirty of 50 Me 262 jet fighters. The loss was fatal to the Luftwaffe and the defense of Berlin was abandoned.
German submarine U-878 was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by British warships.
Died: Gloria Dickson, 27, American actress (asphyxiation from a fire at her home); Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, 62, Dutch artist, typographer and printer (executed by the Gestapo); Walther Wever, 22, German Luftwaffe fighter ace (shot down near Neuruppin); Carl L. Becker, 81, American historian

April 11, 1945 (Wednesday)
Operation Opossum ended successfully with the rescue of the Sultan of Ternate and his family.
Allied commando unit Z Special Unit launched Operation Copper with the objective of capturing a Japanese officer for interrogation and discovering the location of two naval guns of Muschu Island, New Guinea. Eight commandos were landed but only one survived.
Chile declared war on Japan.
Born: Christian Quadflieg, television actor and director, in Växjö, Sweden
Died: Alfred Meyer, German Nazi official (suicide)

April 12, 1945 (Thursday)
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a stroke, collapsed and died while sitting for a portrait painting by Elizabeth Shoumatoff. The painting is known as the Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman was inaugurated president in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
American destroyers Lindsey, Mannert L. Abele and Zellars were severely damaged off Okinawa by kamikaze attacks. Mannert L. Abele was sunk but Lindsey and Zellars survived, although they were out of action for the rest of the war.
The Syrmian Front northwest of Belgrade was broken by the Allies.
The Battle of Authion ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher ended after one week.
German submarines U-486 and U-1024 were sunk by British warships in the North Sea and Irish Sea, respectively.
The Berlin Philharmonic gave one of its final performances of the Nazi era at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, with various members of the military and political elite in attendance. Robert Heger conducted Brünnhilde's last aria (the Immolation Scene) and the finale from Richard Wagner's Götterdammerung, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and Anton Bruckner's Romantic Symphony. Historical records confirm that members of the Hitler Youth offered cyanide capsules to the audience as they left the building.
Died: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63, 32nd President of the United States (cerebral hemorrhage)

April 13, 1945 (Friday)
The Vienna Offensive ended in Soviet and Bulgarian victory with the capture of Vienna itself.
Soviet forces began the Samland Offensive.
German SS and Luftwaffe troops carried out the Gardelegen massacre in the northern German town of Gardelegen. 1,016 slave laborers were forced into a large barn which was then lit on fire.
Born: Tony Dow, television actor, filmmaker and sculptor, in Hollywood, California; Lowell George, rock musician (Little Feat), in Hollywood, California (d. 1979); Bob Kalsu, football player, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1970)
Died: Ernst Cassirer, philosopher, 70; Aarne Michaёl Tallgren, Finnish prehistorian, 60;

April 14, 1945 (Saturday)
The Fifth United States Army opened a major offensive into the Po Valley in Italy.
Admiral Karl Dönitz grouped six U-boats into Wolfpack Seewolf and ordered them to the Atlantic to tie down Allied forces in the region. The Allies suspected that the U-boats were equipped to attack America's eastern seaboard with V-1 or V-2 rockets and launched Operation Teardrop with the objective of sinking them.
German submarine U-235 was sunk in error by the Kriegsmarine torpedo boat T17.
A brief memorial service for Franklin D. Roosevelt was held in the East Room of the White House.
Born: Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist and songwriter (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night), in Weston-super-Mare, England

April 15, 1945 (Sunday)
The Race to Berlin began between two Soviet marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev.
The British 11th Armoured Division liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp pursuant to an April 12 agreement with the retreating Germans to surrender the camp peacefully. There they found 60,000 ill and emaciated prisoners and more than 13,000 corpses strewn about the camp.
The First Canadian Army captured Arnhem.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was buried on the grounds of his family estate in Hyde Park, New York.
First Flight of North American Aviation XP-82 Twin Mustang 483887.
German submarines U-285, U-1063 and U-1235 were all depth charged and sunk by Allied warships in the Atlantic Ocean.
Died: Joachim Albrecht Eggeling, 60, German Nazi Gauleiter (suicide by gunshot); Friedrich von Rabenau, 60, German general (executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp for opposing the Nazis)
11 Ki-84 Hayates attacked US airfields on Okinawa, destroying many aircraft on the ground

April 16, 1945 (Monday)
The Battle of Berlin began, opening with the Battle of the Oder–Neisse and the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights began on the Eastern Front.
Canadian forces took Harlingen and occupied Leeuwarden and Groningen in the Netherlands.
The German transport ship Goya was sunk in the Baltic Sea by Soviet submarine L-3 with the loss of over 6,000 lives.
German submarines U-78, U-880 and U-1274 were lost to enemy action.
Oflag IV-C, a prisoner-of-war camp in Colditz Castle, was captured by soldiers of the U.S. 1st Army.
Death marches from Flossenbürg concentration camp began.
Harry S. Truman addressed Congress for the first time as president, in a speech broadcast over the major networks. "With great humility I call upon all Americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt," Truman said. "I want in turn to assure my fellow Americans and all of those who love peace and liberty throughout the world that I will support and defend those ideals with all my strength and all my heart. That is my duty and I shall not shirk it. So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that America will continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains!"
American destroyer USS Pringle was sunk by a kamikaze attack off Okinawa.
Died: Ernst Bergmann, 53, German philosopher and proponent of Nazism (suicide)

April 17, 1945 (Tuesday)
The Battle of the Hongorai River began in New Guinea.
The Battle of Otterlo in the Netherlands
The Martin B-26 Marauder Flak Bait completed a record 200th bombing mission.
Flooding of the Wieringermeerpolder in the Netherlands, when retreating German troops breached the IJsselmeerdijk
In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill paid tribute to Franklin Roosevelt as "the greatest American friend we have ever known, and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the new world to the old."
One-armed baseball player Pete Gray made his major league debut on the St. Louis Browns, going 1-for-4 against the Detroit Tigers.
Historian Tran Trong Kim was appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.

April 18, 1945 (Wednesday)
The First Canadian Army captured the eastern end of the IJsselmeer causeway, trapping German forces in the western Netherlands.
SS guards began loading 5,000 concentration camp prisoners aboard the immobilized ocean liner Cap Arcona.
Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff met with Adolf Hitler and disclosed his negotiations with the Allies. Hitler told him to get better terms.
Benito Mussolini went to Milan to establish his government there. His mistress Clara Petacci came along.
Died: Arthur Andrew Cipriani, 70, Trinidad and Tobago labour leader and politician; Hans Källner, 46, German general (killed in action in Olomouc, present-day Czech Republic); Joseph F. Merrell, 18, U.S. Army soldier and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor (killed in action in Germany); Ernie Pyle, 44, American journalist (killed in action on Iejima); Edward G. Wilkin, 27, U.S. Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor (killed in action in Germany); William, Prince of Albania, 69

April 19, 1945 (Thursday)
Pyinmana, the base of the Japanese puppet Burma Defence Army, fell to the 5th Indian Division.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights ended in Soviet/Polish victory.
The Battle of Odžak began in Croatia between Yugoslav Partisans and the Croatian Armed Forces.
Richard Dimbleby described Belsen concentration camp on the BBC shortly after its liberation by the British.
German submarines U-251, U-548 and U-879 were lost to enemy action.
Johnny Kelley won the Boston Marathon.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical Carousel opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway.
Died: Sōsaku Suzuki, 53, Japanese general (killed in action in the Philippines); Fritz Wächtler, 54, Nazi German politician (executed by the Nazis for desertion)

April 20, 1945 (Friday)
Soviet artillery began shelling Berlin at 11 a.m. on Hitler's 56th birthday. Preparations were made to evacuate Hitler and his staff to Obersalzberg to make a final stand in the Bavarian mountains, but Hitler refused to leave his bunker. Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler departed the bunker for the last time.
The Seventh United States Army captured Nuremberg and pushed south.
Operation Herring began, with American aircraft dropping Italian paratroopers over Northern Italy.
Mussolini gave the last interview of his life to one of his few remaining loyal followers, the fascist newspaper director Gian Gaetano Cabella. Mussolini declared that "Italy will rise again ... For me, however, it is over."
The comedy-fantasy film The Horn Blows at Midnight starring Jack Benny was released.
Born: Gregory Olsen, entrepreneur, engineer and scientist, in Brooklyn, New York
Died: Karl Holz, 49, German Nazi official (found dead in a barricaded police building in Nuremberg; unknown whether suicide or injury sustained in firefight); Herbert Lange, 35, German SS officer and commandant of Chełmno extermination camp (killed in action during the Battle of Berlin)
Killed in Hückeswagen Germany John Hamish Gardner III (95th Chemical Mortar Btn) The entire battalion was relieved from 97th Div and attached to the 28th Rgmt of the 8th Div. Lt Gardner and 12 men of Hq Co were searching an area for German soldiers and snipers when Lt Gardner was hit by small arms fire. Medical attention was rushed to him, but he died that afternoon from the effects of the wound.

April 21, 1945 (Saturday)
The Battle of Bautzen, one of the final battles of the Eastern Front, began around Bautzen, Germany.
Hitler ordered a final, all-out attack by the troops in Berlin under the command of Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. Hitler expected every single man, tank and aircraft to be used in this attack.
The battle of the Ruhr Pocket ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Bologna ended with the Polish II Corps and supporting Allied units capturing Bologna.
German submarine U-636 was depth charged and sunk west of Ireland by British warships.
The stage musical Perchance to Dream by Ivor Novello premiered at the Hippodrome Theatre in London.
Died: Karl Decker, 47, German panzer general (suicide); Martin O. May, 23, U.S. Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor (killed in action on Iegusuku-Yama, Iejima, Ryuku Islands); Walter Model, 54, German field marshal (suicide)

April 22, 1945 (Sunday)
Hitler held a conference that afternoon in the Führerbunker to discuss the military situation. Upon being informed that the Steiner attack had not happened, and that the Soviets were now entering the northern suburbs of Berlin, he flew into a rage. He denounced the Army, complained that his generals and anyone who had deserted him were cowards and had failed him, then he finally conceded that the war was indeed lost. Over the protests of all those present, Hitler stated that he would stay in Berlin to the absolute end and then shoot himself, rather than try to escape to the south.
The British Fourteenth Army captured Taungoo and Oktwin, Burma.
Heinrich Himmler secretly met with Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden and asked him to act as an intermediary to offer the surrender of all German forces in the west. The message took 48 hours to reach the Allies and they did not take it seriously.
The U.S. Seventh Army crossed the Danube.
German submarine U-518 was depth charged and sunk north of the Azores by U.S. destroyer escorts Carter and Neal A. Scott.
The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup, four games to three.
Earth and High Heaven by Canadian author Gwethalyn Graham topped the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list.
Died: Wilhelm Cauer, 44, German mathematician and scientist (shot dead by the Soviets during the fall of Berlin); Käthe Kollwitz, 77, German artist; William H. Thomas, 22, U.S. Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor (killed in action in the Zambales Mountains, Luzon, Philippines)

April 23, 1945 (Monday)
The Race to Berlin ended in a tie.
German radio broadcast a report that Adolf Hitler was in the "main fighting line" in Berlin and would "remain there despite all rumors." Allied circles doubted the report and suspected that Hitler was in Bavaria organizing a last stand.
Hermann Göring sent the so-called Göring Telegram, a message asking for permission to assume leadership of the Third Reich. Interpreting the telegram as an act of treason, Hitler relieved Göring of his official titles and ordered his arrest.
The main Flossenbürg concentration camp was liberated by the 90th Infantry Division of the United States Army.
Action of 23 April 1945: In one of the rare actions of the Pacific War to involve a German submarine, U-183 was sunk off the southern coast of Borneo by the American submarine Besugo.
Members of the 358th and 359th U.S. Infantry Regiments liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Antiship Bat missiles were used for the first time in combat when Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateers of the U.S. Navy launched two of them at Japanese vessels in Balikpapan Harbor in Borneo.
The 101 arrestees in the Freeman Field Mutiny were released.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Cramer v. United States, deciding five-to-four to overturn the conviction of Anthony Cramer, a German-born naturalized citizen, for treason.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) was founded when the Institution of Industrial Safety Officers (IISO) was formed as a division of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). The Institution gained its charitable status in 1962 and continues to operate as a not-for-profit organisation.

April 24, 1945 (Tuesday)
The Battle of Halbe began on the Eastern Front.
Shortly after sinking the American destroyer Frederick C. Davis, German submarine U-546 was sunk in the North Atlantic by U.S. Navy ships. With four of the six submarines in Seewolf now lost, Admiral Dönitz disbanded the wolfpack.
The Royal Air Force conducted its last significant mission of the war with a raid against Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden.
The final evacuation of the Dachau concentration camp system began, with Jewish prisoners from the main camp's satellite camps arriving at Dachau, to head southwards on a death march away from liberating American troops.
On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson announced that expenditure over the past year had exceeded £6 billion for the first time in history, exceeding revenue by £2.825 billion. He also revealed that the war had cost the country a total of £27 billion through March 31. Anderson presented a "no change" budget and said that it might have to be superseded by another budget before the end of the year due to the tremendous impending events throughout the world.
The 1945 Major League Baseball All-Star Game scheduled for July 10 at Fenway Park was cancelled due to wartime travel restrictions.
Born: Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival), in Palo Alto, California
Died: Ernst-Robert Grawitz, 45, German physician and SS officer (probable murder-suicide of his entire family with grenades)

April 25, 1945 (Wednesday)
Elbe Day: Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River near Torgau in Germany.
The East Prussian Offensive and the Samland Offensive ended in Soviet victory.
General Robert Ritter von Greim was taken on a risky flight from Munich to Berlin by Hanna Reitsch for a meeting with Hitler. During the flight Greim was injured by enemy fire that struck the cockpit. Hitler promoted Greim to field marshal (making him the last German officer ever to achieve that rank) and gave him command of the Luftwaffe. Greim was then flown back out of Berlin with the only airworthy plane left in the city.
Via telephone hookup, President Truman addressed the delegates at the opening session of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO) in San Francisco. "You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world," Truman said. "In your hands rests our future. By your labors at this Conference, we shall know if suffering humanity is to achieve a just and lasting peace. Let us labor to achieve a peace which is really worthy of their great sacrifice. We must make certain, by your work here, that another war will be impossible."
The final Luftwaffe air victories of World War II were recorded when five Allied bombers were shot down over Aussig in the modern-day Czech Republic.
German submarine U-326 was torpedoed and sunk west of Brest, France, by an American B-24.
Born: Stu Cook, bass guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival), in Oakland, California; Björn Ulvaeus, musician and member of ABBA, in Gothenburg, Sweden
Died: Miotero Geninetti, 40, Italian partisan (shot); Walter Gross, 40, German physician and Nazi politician (suicide)

April 26, 1945 (Thursday)
The Battle of Baguio ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Collecchio began around the town of Fornovo di Taro, Italy.
Philippe Pétain was arrested on the border between Switzerland and France.
At the first plenary session of UNCIO, State Secretary Edward Stettinius, Jr. said that the world body should work out only a charter. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov said that the lessons of the failed League of Nations must be remembered.
The war film Counter-Attack starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman was released.
Died: Sigmund Rascher, 36, German SS doctor (executed by the Nazis at Dachau concentration camp for fraud)

April 27, 1945 (Friday)
While attempting to flee to Switzerland, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were captured by partisans. The next day, both were summarily executed near Lake Como along with twelve other leading fascists. The bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were then brought to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down on public display.
The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captured Potsdam directly adjacent to the city of Berlin.
The Battle of Davao began.
The U.S. Fifth Army reached Genoa, although most of the city was already in the hands of resistance fighters.
The Western Allies rejected Himmler's proposal to surrender all German forces in the west, interpreting the offer as an attempt to split their alliance with the Soviets.
Soviet forces liberated the 3,000 remaining inmates of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The Red Army captured the Berlin airports of Tempelhof and Gatow, preventing the capital from receiving any further supplies by air.
U.S. troops liberated Kaufering concentration camp and found thousands of corpses.
The provisional government of Austria headed by Karl Renner asserted its independence from Germany.
Born: August Wilson, playwright, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)
Died: Hans Schleif, 43, German architect and member of the SS (suicide)

April 28, 1945 (Saturday)
Adolf Hitler learned of Himmler's offer to surrender and ordered him to be arrested.
Hitler and Eva Braun were married in the Führerbunker.
The U.S. Fifth Army took Alessandria and Vicenza.
In the Philippines, the Eighth United States Army took Digos and advanced toward Davao City.
German submarine U-56 was sunk in an RAF raid on Kiel.
Died: Hermann Fegelein, 38, German SS-Gruppenführer (shot by the Nazis as a deserter); Benito Mussolini, 61, Italian leader of the National Fascist Party and Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943 (shot by partisans); Clara Petacci, 33, mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot by partisans)

April 29, 1945 (Sunday)
Adolf Hitler dictated his last will and testament designating Karl Dönitz as his successor.
At the royal palace in Caserta, two German officers signed the terms of surrender of German forces in Italy. Hostilities would cease at noon on May 2.
The Battle of Collecchio ended in Allied victory.
Dachau liberation reprisals: German prisoners of war were killed at the Dachau concentration camp after the U.S. 45th Infantry Division entered the concentration camp complex.
Hitler's dog Blondi died as a result of a test verifying the potency of the cyanide capsules Hitler had in his possession. The capsules had been given to him by Himmler and, having lost trust in Himmler after the revelation of his attempted negotiations with the Allies behind Hitler's back, wanted to confirm that the capsules were truly fatal.
German submarines U-286, U-307 and U-1017 were lost to enemy action.
Born: Hugh Hopper, bass guitarist, in Whitstable, Kent, England (d. 2009); Tammi Terrell, singer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
Died: Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, 51, German SS-Obergruppenführer (committed suicide after being captured by the Soviets); Malcolm McGregor, 52, American film actor; Achille Starace, 55, Italian fascist leader (shot by partisans)

April 30, 1945 (Monday)
Death of Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide at around 3.30 p.m., when the Red Army was less than 500m (1,640 feet) from the Führerbunker. In accordance with Hitler's Last Will and Testament, Karl Dönitz and Joseph Goebbels took on Hitler's former roles as Head of State and Head of Government of Germany respectively.
The Battle of Bautzen ended in a localized German victory.
German submarines U-879 and U-1107 were lost to enemy action.
The Hockey Hall of Fame named its first inductees. Players: Hobey Baker, Charlie Gardiner, Eddie Gerard, Frank McGee, Howie Morenz, Tommy Phillips, Harvey Pulford, Hod Stuart and Georges Vézina. Builders: H. Montagu Allan and Lord Stanley of Preston.
Died: Adolf Hitler, 56, Führer of Germany (suicide); Eva Braun, 33, German wife of Adolf Hitler (suicide); William Orlando Darby, 34, U.S. Army officer (killed in action in northern Italy); Luisa Ferida, 31, Italian stage and film actress (shot by partisans); Osvaldo Valenti, 39, Italian film actor (shot by partisans)

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A generalized formatter and parser for moving between internal data and strings. In fOOrth, this is currently used to support the Duration class and as a prerequisites for the String parser based on ruby_sscanf (see below).
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If an object is already an array, do nothing to it, otherwise, wrap the object in an array. This tiny gem is an excellent case study in how object oriented design can eliminate the need for complex decision paths by using the class hierarchy instead.
The unit and integration test suites for fOOrth rely heavily on the minitest facility built into Ruby. The minitest_visible gem simply adds some additional progress tracking features to that excellent software tool.
The builtin library readline is based closely on the GNU facility that supports the Bash shell in L/Unix. It is perhaps too closely based because it suits Bash better than it suits Ruby or fOOrth and it works very poorly indeed under Windows. The code is also huge, messy and very, very smelly. For this reason the mini_readline gem was created. Reasonably, it may be possible to correct the old readline library's poor showing under Windows, but the code will remain a big, fat skunk regardless.
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The fOOrth language also requires the ability to reliably perform a shallow clone operation. The safe_clone gem does this without all the drama of the builtin clone operator. This tiny gem is also an excellent case study in how object oriented design can eliminate the need for complex decision paths by using the class hierarchy instead.
minitest/unit is a small and incredibly fast unit testing framework. It provides a rich set of assertions to make your tests clean and readable. minitest/unit is meant to have a clean implementation for language implementors that need a minimal set of methods to bootstrap a working test suite. For example, there is no magic involved for test-case discovery.
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Q: Calculate without operator order Is there some function in C# which could let me calculate ignoring the order of operators? I mean that 2 + 6 / 2 results 4 instead of 5.

A: Even if you try to overload these operators, that does not change precedence. Many programming languages (include C#) use precedence levels that conform to the order commonly used in mathematics,
As David mentioned, this is not only about C#. It is also about Mathematics. I don't think this is possible in C# except writing your own mathematical operators (which sounds extremly hard and complex to me).
From 7.2.2 Operator overloading

User-defined operator implementations always take precedence over
  predefined operator implementations: Only when no applicable
  user-defined operator implementations exist will the predefined
  operator implementations be considered.
User-defined operator declarations cannot modify the syntax,
  precedence, or associativity of an operator. For example, the /
  operator is always a binary operator, always has the precedence level
  specified in Section 7.2.1, and is always left-associative.

A: It is not possible as value integer types are built in to C# and you can't even modify their behavior. Why would you even want to do that? You can use parentheses to prioritize, e.g. (2+6)/2

A: Given that you can't override the precedence behavior of c# operators i'd create my own expression calculator.
From your question i believe your expressions will always be number operator number and  outputs a number
Therefore you can then pick your last number and process it with the following operator number and so on so on.....
Two different approaches come to my mind:

*

*take a string as input and parse it

*take a System.Linq.Expressions.Expression and parse it from here

*There are several extensible math expression calculators for c#. Just a matter of google it and see if it can fit your needs.

Nevertheless i'd love to hear from you why you need such behavior. Is it academic?

A: Operator overloading does not allow you to change operator precedence. To achieve what you want, you'd need to implement your own parser for mathematical expressions. To support only digits 0-9 and 4 operators (+, -, *, /) is not too difficult, although time consuming if you've never written a parser before. There are plenty of tutorials on writing compilers on the Internet; they'll teach you how to write a simple tokenizer, and then how to interpret the stream of tokens. In your case, you only have to deal with digits and operators, which makes this job a lot easier than implementing an entire language.
EDIT: actually, to write a parser ignoring operator precedence is actually a lot easier than implementing BODMAS.


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1 Did the Mughals make the Taj Mahal?
2 What does Taj Mahal tell us about the Mughal empire?
3 What is the story of Taj Mahal?
4 Which Mughal emperor is best known for building the Taj Mahal?
7 How many years did it take to complete the Taj Mahal?
8 How much did the Taj Mahal cost?
10 Why there are no lights at Taj Mahal?
11 Why there are no lights in Taj Mahal?
13 Why tajmahal is 7 Wonders?
Did the Mughals make the Taj Mahal?
What does Taj Mahal tell us about the Mughal empire?
The Taj Mahal tells us a lot about the Mughal Empire. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to Shah Jahan's 14th child. The way Shah Jahan created the Taj Mahal is very fascinating. As it proves that the Mughal Empire were aware of earthquakes.
What is the story of Taj Mahal?
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Which Mughal emperor is best known for building the Taj Mahal?
How many years did it take to complete the Taj Mahal?
The white marble monument, with its sprawling gardens, took more than 15 years to build. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, as a tribute to his favorite wife, who died in childbirth in 1631. The white marble monument, with its sprawling gardens, took more than 15 years to build.
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"First of all, Taj Mahal does not need lighting at all. It is a marble structure and can be seen in all its glory in natural night. It is absolutely unwise to illuminate it with artificial lighting, which attracts insects. On full moon day, one can see Taj in all its splendor.
Why there are no lights in Taj Mahal?
Simple answers to these questions are just for security reasons and to save the Taj Mahal white marble from the light effect there are no lighting provisions on the edifice of the Taj. Barring a few low-level posts which were installed for security purposes, so far there is not a major lighting system.
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For his first series regular role, Matt Greenwood plays Tom Clarke, best friend of Rebecca, across all three series of The A Word on BBC One, with the most recent episodes airing earlier this year. Over his many years of acting so far, Matt's screen roles have included playing Martin Dunbar in Waterloo Road, appearing in the Freddie Mercury biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody and, during lockdown, he has been filming for an upcoming online project. Last year, Matt played the titled character of Vicky in Call Me Vicky at the Pleasance Theatre, a new play based on a true story, which saw him be nominated for Best Male Performance at The Off-West End Theatre Awards. Matt talked to us about playing Tom Clarke in The A Word, being on set of his first film – Bohemian Rhapsody and performing in Call Me Vicky.
You've filmed all three series of The A Word, what's it like filming on location and returning for each series?
I absolutely adore working on The A Word. It's like an extended family that I've got to see every eighteen months or so. I can never wait to see what's going on in these characters' lives and what they're up to now. The Lakes will forever have a special place in my heart. They've had their moments of temperamentality – from floods and blizzards in Series 1, to heatwaves in Series 2, to being pelted with rain in Series 3 – but this show has really changed my life in so many ways. And so The Lakes feel like home.
How would you describe your character Tom Clarke?
Tom is an absolute joy. His loyalty to Rebecca is genuinely inspiring to me personally. His quick-witted repartee is always so fun to play and he can have a sharp tongue when it's called for, but his heart of gold rings through. He's Rebecca's confidante and often her reality-checker, but he's also very much a source of comedy within the show.
How have you found playing your first series regular role and do you remember how you felt meeting the rest of the cast for the first time?
Tom is very special to me in so many ways. He's quelled the doubts that plague so many LGBT actors – that they will probably never be a main-player in a show or film. That they will forever be an afterthought. Tom dispelled that for me. Not only is he woven throughout the fabric of the show, but we've seen him increasingly brought into the fold of the family. Symbolism aside, it's such a joy when playing a series regular to have a character that you're able to come back to and take them further on their journey. As an actor, the insecurity of where your next job is coming from can be crippling. And it's such a comforting feeling to know that you have that particular job to come back to, a lifeboat in some ways. And what a job to have had as your lifeboat.
Meeting the cast for the first time, five years ago now, I look back on with innocence and warmth. There were some established icons of mine, and some that quickly became icons to me also. Little did I know where that would lead.
What have been some of your favourite scenes to film from the recent Series 3?
My favourite scenes to film have got to be the scenes surrounding the antenatal class with Molly who plays Rebecca and the scenes in the Maternity Ward waiting room with Chris Eccleston, Greg McHugh and Lee Ingleby. The idea of Tom and Maurice having a debate over the modern family set-up is golden.
You've filmed for an episode of Giri/Haji, what was this like to work on?
It was so fun! We were filming in a real club in Soho and pretty much having a real night out – but at seven in the morning. I'd originally auditioned for a different role in the show, and as is very common practice, it went to someone slightly more established. But it was so lovely to have been asked to be involved in whatever capacity. When the piece is as brilliant as Giri/Haji was, not much else matters.
Can you tell us about your time on set of Bohemian Rhapsody?
That was an experience. It was my first movie and so bewildering in the moment and even more so to see it on screen. I get quite intense stage fright when working on stage, but not so much when working on a set. However, this time I was incredibly nervous. To even have a small part of a film like that was terrifying and to see the scale of a production like that was mesmerising. It was also really fun to be wearing so much prosthesis and equally terrifying to look in the mirror and see the ravaging effect of AIDS that so many people saw looking back at you.
What do you remember from your time filming Casualty as Mark Davies?
Casualty was great fun! It was shot in Wales and was the first time I'd been to one of the other countries of the UK besides England. I remember a large proportion of it being on location in a quarry with me lying at the bottom of a cliff, rather cold and wet. But because of that, coupled with the SFX makeup and not-so-everyday costume, it really allowed my imagination to come into play. It was a great experience to have.
Can you tell us about preparing for your role of Martin Dunbar in Waterloo Road and what was this character like to play?
Playing Martin involved a lot of preparation and research. I wanted to educate myself on transgenderism as much as the information available to a fifteen year old in 2010 would allow. I read case-study after case-study so that I could really imbed those ideas and nuances in my head and we worked with the charity Mermaids to ensure that we told the story as realistically and best we could. Waterloo Road was my first ever pro job and will always have a special place in my heart. It was honestly one of the best times of my life. Martin was great fun to play, but also very emotionally wearing. I had to carry those thoughts they were thinking and those emotions they were feeling around with me for months. And the experience taught me a lot about having them available to you but learning how to put them ever-so-slightly to one side so you don't end up being completely miserable in every waking moment of your life.
Last year, you played Vicky in Call Me Vicky, can you tell us about working on this production?
Call Me Vicky was another one of the best experiences of my life. It was a lot of work and a lot of pressure. We had a very short amount of time to put the show together, but it was made so much easier because of the brilliant cast and crew. It was a dream project and I'd do it all again tomorrow.
What was it like reading the script for the first time and what was the atmosphere like on opening night at the Pleasance Theatre?
Reading the script for the first time I thought, "this is brilliant". I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. And then read it all again. I couldn't wait to delve into this woman's life and experience even just a glimmer of it. The atmosphere on the opening night was buzzing – but I was sick to my stomach with nerves. We'd had a terrible final rehearsal; everything that could have gone wrong went wrong and there was nowhere for me to hide if it happened again because I was on stage pretty much the whole time.
How was the experience working on a new play based on a true story?
It was amazing to have a brand new story to tell, because I got to experience being there almost in its infancy and being the one to let it fly the nest. The fact that it was based on a true story, and there was the very real possibility that the person who I was playing and whose story I was telling was going to be sat in the audience, made it all the more special but even more terrifying. I had to do Vicky justice and that was the most important thing to me.
You were nominated for Best Male Performance at The 2019 Off-West End Theatre Awards for your performance, how did this feel?
It was a shock. I got the news sat in the dressing room as I was getting ready for the night's show and, without warning, I screamed "Oh my God!". It was a lovely honour to be nominated.
How did you get into acting and is it something you always wanted to do?
I initially started not through my own volition. I'd always put on 'shows' for my family at home. But I was also a very shy kid. So, my mother sent me to drama classes after school from the age of six. I was so shy I wouldn't even say "yes" to my name on the register before each class for a good four to six weeks. Once I started to come out of my shell, I very quickly fell in love.
Can you tell us about your training?
Training has always been something very important to me. I don't believe in the idea that you spend a few years at drama school and then you're done. I believe in constantly working on your craft, evolving your techniques and attending classes when not working. Which not getting into drama school has probably served me well for. I spent years and years auditioning for the top drama schools, shredding my self-esteem to pieces in the process, and they weren't interested in the slightest. Which goes to show that there isn't one way of getting into the industry. I like to refer to myself as an Apprentice, as opposed to others who are Graduates. I began acting at the age of six, starting at the Helen O'Grady Children's Drama Academy where I trained up until the age of ten, and then from ages ten to sixteen I trained at the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop. It was during this time that I began working professionally as an actor. I then went on to train at The Manchester College – Shena Simon Campus, the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, and the Manchester School of Acting, whilst continuing to act professionally alongside my studies. I still receive coaching from Mark Hudson of the Manchester School of Acting and still attend classes there every week. I even spent some time training with Ivanna Chubbuck in LA earlier this year – now that was an experience, I'll say.
What are some of your favourite TV and stage shows to watch?
I've recently gone back and rewatched some classics that I adored growing up, like The Royle Family, Absolutely Fabulous and Dinnerladies. I also LOVE horror and zombie films/shows so I recently rewatched the fictional Big Brother zombie series Dead Set and the BBC Three show In The Flesh (BBC Three, if you're listening, you need to bring that back. You can't just leave the story there!). As well as some things I never got around to watching, like Ricky Gervais' Extras. Of the more recent shows to come out, I've also really loved Sex Education and Derry Girls. Of the plays I've seen recently, I absolutely adored Hobson's Choice at the Manchester Royal Exchange, the West End play Home, I'm Darling and the stage adaption of Kay Mellor's Band of Gold.
What are you up to next? Can we see you in anything soon?
I've just finished shooting a monologue as part of a new mini-series for an online channel that I can't say much about. It was a full-scale production, but shot completely in isolation with all the crew on Zoom and with me operating all of the cameras, lights, mics etc myself. That should be coming out in the next couple of months hopefully. And there are other projects floating about in the peripheral but nothing concrete. So, until face-to-face auditions start up again post-COVID, it's back to self-taping which I've been lucky enough to do a decent amount of during quarantine.
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A city of Chicago public notice is posted March 27, 2015, at the entrance to a residential building that houses the Skybox on Sheffield rooftop club behind Wrigley Field.
Dressed in a dark suit and glasses, Hamid, 47, showed no reaction as the verdict was read in U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin's courtroom. After the jury left, Hamid sat with his wife on a courtroom bench and mopped his face with a handkerchief while she wiped tears from her eyes. The couple left the courthouse without comment.
A sign advertises the Skybox on Sheffield rooftop club behind Wrigley Field on March 27, 2015.
Hamid's lawyer, Chris Gair, told reporters he was disappointed by the outcome but thought jurors "did the their best with very complicated evidence." He said he plans to dispute the total loss amount to the Cubs in advance of Hamid's Dec. 6 sentencing hearing, which could affect how much prison time is recommended.
"This is a very traumatic moment for anybody," Gair said. "It's not easy when the verdict slaps you in the face."
Hamid was the longtime owner of Skybox on Sheffield, a rooftop club beyond the right field wall, as well as two ticket brokerages called Just Great Seats and Just Great Tickets.
From 2008 to 2011, Hamid under-reported attendance and revenue at Skybox on Sheffield through a variety of schemes, including "zeroing out" invoices and charging customers through one of his brokerages instead of the rooftop business itself, according to the charges. The phony numbers meant the Cubs did not get as much in royalty payments as they should have under terms of the rooftop owners' agreement with the team.
According to prosecutors, Hamid then submitted false sales tax returns to the state of Illinois and amusement tax returns to Cook County and the city of Chicago for those years, failing to report about $1.5 million in sales. Hamid allegedly used some of the unreported money for personal and business expenses, including payments on luxury cars.
At the trial, Gair argued that Hamid was simply a bad businessman who had hired sloppy bookkeepers, not someone who orchestrated a fraud scheme.
Gair also accused several witnesses of lying, including former Skybox on Sheffield manager Richard Zasiebida, a former Oak Park cop who admitted on the witness stand he'd abused alcohol and cocaine and pocketed cash at the door from fans who wanted a seat for the game.
Zasiebida, who has pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme and is awaiting sentencing, is a man who "lies to get what he wants," Gair said in his closing argument Thursday.
"And what does he want? He wants to skate. He wants to avoid going to jail," Gair said.
But prosecutors presented emails, bank statements, game day records and other evidence that they said showed what Hamid did wasn't a simple mistake — it was greed.
"This wasn't an accident," Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas said in his closing remarks to the jury. "This was a deliberate scheme that went on for four years. ... By diverting the funds, he cheated the Cubs, he cheated the city and the county, and he put more money in his pocket."
Prosecutors also presented evidence of the bad blood between the Cubs and rooftop owners, a tense situation that had escalated after the Ricketts family bought the team in 2009.
In one email, when asked whether the latest revenue estimates should be sent to Cubs business President Crane Kenney or some other team executive, Hamid wrote back, "Just write to (the) resident (expletive) and they can figure it out."
When the criminal case against Hamid was unveiled in March 2015, Skybox on Sheffield was one of two rooftops involved in a federal suit accusing the Cubs of violating a contract struck a decade ago when it planned to erect a 2,250-square-foot right field video board and other signs. The owners said the signs would block their views.
A week later, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Kendall denied a request to order the Cubs to halt construction while the lawsuit was pending, effectively ending the litigation. The Ricketts family has since purchased several of the rooftop businesses in its ongoing effort to transform the neighborhood around the ballpark.
Opened in 1993 and completely renovated five years ago, Skybox on Sheffield once touted gorgeous sightlines from just inside the right field foul pole to home plate. To maximize views of the action on the field, the four-story building was outfitted with a three-tier outdoor roof deck that seats 150.
But with the right field video board now blocking the view, Skybox's website instead promotes the "energy of the area" around Wrigley.
"Skybox on Sheffield is all about the experience of the Wrigleyville atmosphere and the celebration of Chicago," the website states. "We don't have a view of the infield, but our offerings are well beyond just the game."


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C-10 Podcast, Ep. 44: Jim Carr, Pres./CEO, NAIA
March 11, 2021 Matt Fulks, Director
It's perhaps the toughest basketball tournament in the country: the national tournament for the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics), which starts on March 18 in historic Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
We're joined this week by the President and CEO of the NAIA, Jim Carr. We talk hoops, leadership, the relationship between the NAIA and the NCAA, and Jim takes a swing at our "Pregame Batting Practice" questions.
Jim Carr joined the NAIA in July 1998 as Managing Director and General Counsel and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, while retaining the title of General Counsel, in 2000. In September 2006 Carr became the seventh President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAIA.
Before joining the NAIA, Jim practiced law in Birmingham, Ala. from 1994-1998. His primary areas of practice were public finance, and corporate and intellectual property. He also worked in the athletics development office and served as Director of Licensing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1989-1991.
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Tales From Vader's Castle #1
Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #1 (of 5)
Writer: Cavan Scott
Artists: Derek Charm, and Chris Fenoglio
Letterer: Robbie Robbins
Cover Artist: Francesco Francavilla
Like usual, Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #1 contains two stories. However, this time one story is nested within another. Thus readers get a taste of a new Rebel crew who winds up stranded on Mustafar in from of Vader's castle, and a spooky story featuring the Ghost crew from Star Wars Rebels.
The framing story features a female Rebel pilot and Commander named Lina Graf, and her colorful crew. There's a human thief named Lieutenant Hudd, a bug like technician named Skritt, a bodyguard droid named XM-G3, and CR-8R who's showed up in the previous Star Wars Adventure comics. They takes some hits from some TIE fighters and crash land on Mustafar. CR-8R warns them that they shouldn't leave the ship, and he tells them a story that Chopper once told him. This leads to the Rebels story.
Now the Rebels story has a different artist, and has a different setting. They're searching for a contact in an asteroid field and come across a ghostly spirit of some long dead Force sensitive being who starts lashing out at everyone. Hera manages to trick the being into going into Kanan's holocron where they trap it. It's a nice little Rebels story with a spooky vibe, but it also raises an interesting question: is that ghost thing still in Kanan's holocron? Or at least was it until Ezra and Maul starting playing around with it and destroyed it. I'm not really sure on the canon position of the story.
Regardless, the framing story finishes up with the crew deciding to leave the ship anyway, and they head towards Vader's castle. This sets up the next issue which will continue that story. The comic includes a cover gallery, and I'm very happy that they decided to include full page covers this time instead of the usually mini-images. Definitely more bang for the buck.
All in all, a pretty good issue. I like the Halloween theme, and I definitely liked the Star Wars Rebels story. I give this one a four out of five nexus.


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Facebook Plans to File $5 Billion IPO
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You don't get to 800 million users and a billion-dollar initial public offering without sparking some speculation. Facebook may look to raise as much as $5 billion in its preliminary IPO filings Wednesday, IFR reports. While the company will not settle on a final stock price for months, early estimates peg a valuation at as much as $80 billion, and this first round of funding may signal a cautious approach on the part of the world's most prominent social-networking site. Investors and investment banks have long awaited the IPO of Mark Zuckerberg's masterwork, and the company's debut is anticipated to be one of the largest ever.
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I just wanted to wish you all a very happy, healthy and successful new year 2016! I also want to thank you all for being here, for engaging, for reading my blog and following along on social media. Without you all this wouldn't make any sense honestly! Thank you all!
To join in the crowds I am also sharing my '2015 Best Nine' from Instagram. See you all in 2016 – happy and with a smile on your faces! And now pop that champagne! Happy new year 2016!


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Did i just gets hacked?
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Test if a Port on a remote framework is reachable (Without Telnet).
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Can we ping an address:port?
Connect to the host machine from a VirtualBox visitor OS?
Differrentiate between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0?


I've recently begun reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Amazon|UK), which is well overdue since the accompanying TV series has been my favourite piece of television since I was in primary school.
The secrets of evolution are death and time — the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations that were by accident adaptive, time for the slow accumulation of patterns of favorable mutations. Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
What a magnificent turn of phrase. It sums up what we know of artificial and natural selection, underlines the breakthrough of its realisation, and wraps it into a beautiful philosophical illustration.
When you then consider the likelihood that this is the only life we get — that there's nothing once we pop our clogs — all of that suffering, brutality and ignorance becomes tragic.
Of course if there is a god of some kind, then he/she/it/them will appreciate the person who used the brains they were given, rather than hitching their horse to the wagon they were born next to.