At the age of about ten years old, photographer Michelle Agins stood with her grandmother in the South Side of Chicago waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to come to her neighborhood. Wearing her grandfather’s cap with handwritten a sign
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Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin
Seattle-Bound Finnair Flight Returns To Helsinki Twice
OMAAT reader John was on a Finnair flight from Helsinki to Seattle a few days ago, which was quite eventful. While flight diversions aren’t that rare in the grand scheme of things, double diversions for the same reason are pretty rare.
Finnair A330 flying to Seattle returns to Helsinki
This incident involves the Wednesday, September 14, 2022, flight from Helsinki
US Researchers Confirm 98% of Cultural Armenian Heritage
A yearlong investigation by a team of scholars affiliated with Cornell and Purdue universities has documented a pattern of deliberate obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhichevan, a historically Armenian region that became part of Azerbaijan following the Sovietization of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan between 1920 and 1921. The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified
Schedule for Week of September 18, 2022
by Calculated Risk on 9/17/2022 08:11:00 AM
The key reports this week are August Housing Starts and Existing Home sales.
The FOMC meets this week and is expected to raise rates 75 bp.
—– Monday, Sept 19th —–
10:00 AM: The September NAHB homebuilder survey. The consensus is for a reading of 47, down from 49 in August. Any
Fixing squeaky stairs from above
When I bought my house the basement was unfinished, and the stairs to the basement are a “minimal job”.
I finished the basement in 2000 and had carpet professionally installed and they covered the stairs. Over the years the stairs got squeakier, but the basement was mostly a music room and playroom for the kids, so we didn’t worry much
… Read More I finished the basement in 2000 and had carpet professionally installed and they covered the stairs. Over the years the stairs got squeakier, but the basement was mostly a music room and playroom for the kids, so we didn’t worry much
Citi Premier Card: 7 Reasons To Apply
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Hyperallergic’s Journalism Fellowship for Curators
With the support of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, we’re pleased to announce this
Calculated Risk: Predicting the Next Recession
In that 2013 post, I wrote:
The next recession will probably be caused by one of the following (from least likely to most likely):
3) An exogenous event such as a pandemic, significant military conflict, disruption of energy supplies for any reason, a major natural disaster (meteor strike, super volcano, etc), and a number of other low probability reasons.