Posts tagged as “off topic”

“13,000 will die … millions of others will be displaced or lose access to power, running water, and functioning sewer systems.” The most likely outcome, however, is still that Clinton wins, the Democrats take back the Senate, and PLC stands for at least another 10 years. The FEMA risk analysis is…

Caveat: The Iowa market is thin. Courtesy of David Rothschild and the Iowa Electronic Markets:

Bob Keefer’s Eugene Art Talk has the story here – with a photo of the fabulous winner of the People’s Choice award for the final Jacob’s gallery show last year. The Karin Clarke Gallery website is here. Submissions are due May 31.

The WP has the report here: On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man – with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent – boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse. Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought.…

Matthew Kish has the interesting story in the Portland Business Journal here.

From the U of Iowa Electronic Markets: From David Rothschild’s Predictwise:

From the Iowa Political Markets. The vertical axis is the market price of a contract that pays $1 if the event occurs. (Strictly speaking this price is not a probability estimate, but close enough for economists. See Predictwise for more.) Presidential winner:

Another year, another data point.

8 PM this Saturday, in Aasen-Hull Hall in the Frohnmayer Music Building. $10 cover, byob.

Dréos is a Celtic music ensemble of performing composers who invent and arrange new and old music using a traditional vocabulary. Following the October 2015 release of their debut recording, you’re invited to join with this exciting trio as they light up the dance music of Ireland and Scotland. Dréos…

The Oregonian’s Les Zaitz has a series of reports, here. The US Attorney’s statement is here. From what I can tell this started about 5 years ago when a rancher SE of Burns decided to clear out some sagebrush with a few unauthorized fires, including one that was apparently intended to cover up some…

10/22/2015: The one time I try blogging about something that couldn’t possibly involve a public records scandal, it turns out it involves a public records scandal. Mark Baker has the report in the RG here. 10/19/2015: EUG Flying People to depart for LCC? Bob Keefer has the rumor in Eugene Art Talk, here.…

Here. Interactive map. By time, location, photographer, including Dorothea Lange etc. (Their server is overloaded at the moment.) Closely followed by this worrisome news of water damage to the NYT morgue.

Both baseball catchers. Both recruited out of high school by Branch Rickey for the Cardinals. Both fought in WWII in the invasion of southern France. Both indifferent students. Dad came back from the war convinced that “Harbaugh, you are an ignorant man” so he applied to graduate school at Columbia, the day after the ticker-tape…