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CAPE CANAVERAL — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.
Aldrin, 94, the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew, headlines a gala at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on Saturday night. He’ll be joined by astronaut Charlie Duke, who was the voice inside Mission Control for the July 20, 1969 moon landing.
Museum President Jim Kidrick couldn’t resist throwing a bash “55 years to the day of one of the most historic moments in not only the history of America, but in the history of the world.”
Can’t make it to San Diego, Cape Canaveral or Houston? There are plenty of other ways to celebrate the moon landing, including the new film “Fly Me to the Moon,” a light-hearted lookback starring Scarlett Johansson.
And you can explore all things Apollo 11 on a special website by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.
If nothing else, soak in the full moon Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Jeff Ostrowski | (TNS) Bankrate.com
When the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and major brokers last year lost a federal antitrust suit, the verdict unleashed new scrutiny of the industry and its practices. With new commission rules set to go into effect in August as a result of the settlement, critics — even some inside the industry — are growing louder, saying the National Association of Realtors is a “cartel.”
One vocal broker, Mauricio Umansky, head of the national real estate brokerage The Agency, thinks so. “It’s a monopoly,” says Umansky, who’s challenging NAR by heading an alternate organization, the American Real Estate Association. “They control everything.”
NAR disputes such a characterization. After all, the trade group is not just a small circle of powerful individuals: NAR has more than 1.5 million members across the U.S., and barriers to entry are relatively low. In most states, getting a real estate agent’s license requires no college degree and about 60 hours of classroom training.