#1881 The Florida Star

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Beer Events 5.1

Events

Great Britain formed by a union of England & Scotland (1707)

Bavarian Beer Riots began, lasted until May 5 (1844)

Wine and Beer House Act passed to the number of taverns (England; 1869)

Adolph Coors purchased a partnership in a bottling company in Denver, Colorado (1872)

Michael Seibold & Adolph Hafenback bought the New Philadelphia Brewery (Ohio; 1876)

Anton Dreher’s beer first sold on draft (Austria; 1870)

John Gund Brewing Co. incorporated (1880)

Michael Kelley sold the Kelley Brewing Co. (Chicago; 1880)

Chicago and Milwaukee Brewers Association formally organized (1881)

John Bauee patented a Beer Bottling Machine (1888)

William Peter Brewing Co. incorporated (1890)

Bernard Michenfelder bought the Upper Sandusky Brewery (Ohio; 1898)

Shovelers Union of Buffalo went on strike, threatening grain availability (New York; 1899)

Manitowoc County Brewers Association founded (1901)

1st beer bottles for sale from First National Brewing (McKees Rock, Pennsylvania; 1906)

Frank Schneible patented an Apparatus for Dispensing Beer (1934)

Gottfried Piel died (1935)

New Summmit Brewing began brewing at their new facility (Minnesota; 1998)

August Schell Brewing opened their new brewhouse (Minnesota; 1999)

Melbourn Bros. Cherry Fruit Beer debuted (England; 2002) 

Coors released cans with the "Frost Brew Liner" (2006)

Edgar Davis patented a Table System beer cooler (2012)

Scott Simmonds and Michael Calvelage patented a Multi-Stream Draught Beer Dispensing System (2012)

William Apps patented a Plastic Beer Keg (2013)

Brewery Openings

Virginia City Brewery (Montana; 1864)

John Gund Brewing (Wisconsin; 1880)

Worcester Brewing (Massachusetts; 1899)

Zoller's Brewing (Iowa; 1935)

Santa Cruz Brewing (California; 1986)

Royal Beer Co. (Tonga; 1987)

Cherryland Brewing (Wisconsin; 1988)

Frankenmuth Brewery opened (Michigan; 1988)

Cambridge Brewing (Massachusetts; 1989)

Durango Brewing (Colorado; 1990)

Mill Bakery, Brewery & Eatery (Florida; 1990)

Roslyn Brewing (Washington; 1990)

Walnut Brewery (Colorado; 1990)

Celis Brewery (Texas; 1992)

Rohrbach Brewing (New York; 1992)

Holy Cow! Casino, Cafe & Brewery (Nevada; 1993)

Middlesex Brewing (Massachusetts; 1993)

Pikes Park Brewery (Colorado; 1993)

Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza Brewery (New Mexico; 1994)

Passageway Brewing (England; 1994)

Shipyard Brewery (Maine; 1994)

A1A Aleworks (Florida; 1995)

Cape Cod Brew House (Massachusetts; 1995)

Eldorado Canyon Brewing opened (Colorado; 1995)

F&M Breweries (Canada; 1995)

Fife Brewing (Scotland; 1995)

Great Baraboo Brewing (Michigan; 1995)

Joe's Mill Hill Saloon (New Jersey; 1995)

Lexington Brewing (Kentucky; 1995)

Maine Coast Brewing (Maine; 1995)

Newport Beach Brewing (California; 1995)

Paddy's Pub & Brewery (Canada; 1995)

Sheepscot Valley Brewing (Maine; 1995)

Star Garnet Brewing (Idaho; 1995)

Terrific Pacific Brewery & Grill (California; 1995)

TwoRows Restaurant & Brewery (Dallas, Texas; 1995)

Valley Forge Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1995)

Williamsville Brewery (Virginia; 1995)

Captains City Brewery (Washington; 1996)

Hamanako Brewing (Japan; 1996)

Narrow Gauge Brewing (Maine; 1996)

New Knoxville Brewing (Tennessee; 1996)

Slab City Brewing (Wisconsin; 1996)

Beer and Meal Maplip (Japan; 1997)

Deja Brew (Massachusetts; 1997)

Franconia Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Heartland Brewery (Missouri; 1997)

Main Street Brewery (California; 1997)

New Harvest Brewery (Missouri; 1997)

One-Eyed Jack Brewing (Illinois; 1997)

Raccoon River Brewing (Iowa; 1997)

Roanoke Railhouse Brewery & Restaurant / Railroad Brewing (Virginia; 1997)

Tröegs Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Uptown Brewpub (Rhode Island; 1997)

Grand Teton Brewing (Idaho; 1998)

Great Adirondack Brewing (New York; 1998)

Red Lodge Ales/H&H Brewing (Montana; 1998)

Sapporo Beer Nagoya Beer Gardem Koyden (Japan; 1998)

Edermunder Brauscheune (Germany; 2000)

Longwood Brewpub (Canada; 2000)

O'Fallon Brewery (Missouri; 2000)

Ojai Brewpub (California; 2000)

Pictish Brewing (England; 2000)

Upper Mississippi Brewing (Iowa; 2000)

Social Kitchen & Brewery (California; 2010)

[jthurlow]

St Lucie Connections - Lost Through Time

St Lucie Connections – Lost Through Time

Excerpt from 1839 Map of the Seat of War in Florida compiled by order of Brid. Gen. Z. Taylor principally from the surveys and reconnaissances of the Officers of the U.S. Army.

The following of which you will recognize many names and places, was shared from my mother, Sandra Henderson Thurlow. For years it lie dormant in her history files.

Written in 1881 as an article in an old time newspaper,

[bobmccullochny]

December History

December 4   1674 - In what is now Chicago, Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek Indians.

1791 - The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was published in London.

1872 - The US ship Mary Celeste was found, in good condition, but with noone aboard, in the Atlantic Ocean.

1875 - New York City politician Boss Tweed escaped from prison.

1881 - The Los Angeles Times began publication.

1917 - "Shell Shock" was introduced as psychological trauma for war veterans.

1921 - The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ended in a hung jury. (It was a horrible accident.)

1943 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.

1945 - The Senate approved the participation of the United States in the UN. The United Nations began several weeks earlier, on October 24, 1945.

1952 - Starting today, and over the course of the next several days, Smog (severe air pollution) killed over 4,000 people in London.

1954 - The first Burger King (Insta Burger King) opened in Miami, Florida, owned by James McLamore and David Edgerton.

1956 - The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) got together at Sun Studio. The recordings were released in 1981 and 1990.

1973 - NASA's Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.

1980 - Led Zeppelin officially disbanded, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.

1981 - Falcon Crest premiered on CBS.

1981 - You Can't Do That on Television premiered on Nickelodeon.

1981 - Reds premiered in theaters. Warren Beatty wrote, directed and starred in the film.

1991 - Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) ceased operations.

2009 - American Amanda Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy

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[keywestlou]

FANTASY FEST PARADE TONIGHT.....WHERE DOES EVERYONE SLEEP?

I have wondered over the years where those watching the Fantasy Fest Parade sleep afterwards.

Sixty thousand to 70,000 will line the sidewalks watching the Parade. There are not accommodations to provide sleeping in all the keys for that number. Even if they sleep on the beaches and 10 to a room, still not enough space.

The thought occurs every year how the little island of Key West handles that number of visitors. I suspect that some year, Key West is going to slowly sink into the ocean the evening of the Parade from the sheer number of persons watching.

The Parade is 40 years old. Interestingly, the first Parade was on this day in 1979. It had 26 floats and 10,000 observers. Recent years reflect the Parade’s growth. Anywhere from 50-70 floats, anywhere from 60,000-80,000 observers.

People standing along Duval as the Parade passes by. Yelling and screaming for the beads being thrown off floats. Some actually begging. Some women actually life their blouses/tee shirts to expose their breasts. I know. I was on a float once throwing beads.

Some sell their soul to the country store. Tonight all will sell their souls for beads!

I kid you not.

Burger King on the Boulevard took a beating during Irma. I suspect Burger King was looking for a reason to leave the spot. It seemed to always be doing little business.

Popeyes is replacing Burger King. The sign went up yesterday. Not officially open yet, however.

I love Popeye chicken. Better stated, used to. I have not had it in 20 years. Every summer for many years, we would drive to the South Jersey Shore. Stone Harbor. On the way down and on the way back stopped at a Garden State rest spot for lunch. They served Popeyes chicken. To die for!

I look forward to the new one being opened in Key West.

An interesting side note. Popeyes is not named after Popeye the Sailor Man. Recall the movie The French Connection. Popeye Doyle is one of the detectives. Popeyes named after Popeye Doyle.

Everyone knows B.O.’s Fish Wagon on the corner of Caroline and William Street. Most think such has always been B.O.’s location.

Not so.

Bo’s was originally located on Duval. For many years. B.O.’s was required to move. Its building (the shack) and everything that went with it were moved on this day in 1994 to its present location.

Business still good,if not better, than when on Duval.

A diver got a bit screwed up thursday. Call put in that the man had not returned. He was found soon thereafter safe and clinging to an electricity pole. No other information available.

The toga party thursday night was enough Fantasy Fest for me. I stayed in and watched the World Series. Houston beat Washington 4-1. Washington leads the series 2-1.

Earlier in the day, stopped by Lori’s for a haircut.

My beard is coming in well. The little hair on my head has not been well for years. Lori and I talked a couple of weeks ago. The decision was made to let my hair grow.

It has been 2 weeks. Looks like hell! Grows every which way.

Lori says it will take time. She gave me a jar of gel to use. She put it on.

I frequently looked in the mirror all day and night. Horrible! Hair flat. However still in every direction and the grease obvious.

I am waiting for 10 this morning to call Lori. Get me in as soon as possible. We are going back to a bald head!

Wanted to have lunch after the “haircut.” Cuban Coffee Queen the destination. Good luck! Nowhere nearby to park. It’s Fantasy Fest! Drove home and made myself a sandwich.

War was in the air this day in 1962. Between the U.S. and Cuba. More likely, the U.S. and Russia.

A U.S. Army missile battalion arrived in Key West. The Casa Marina Hotel was emptied. The Army moved in and made it their command post.

Still the storm season. Olga has arrived. A tropical storm. Developed in the Gulf of Mexico. Not expected to be a threat to Florida. Will make landfall in Louisiana.

Shootout at O.K. Corral. How many movies and different stars have we seen of the event. It’s a part of the U.S.’s western history.

The shootout occurred this day in 1881. In Tombstone. A name we have all heard. Wyatt Earp, his brothers and Doc Holliday. The bad guys the Clanton-McLaury gang.

The shootout took all of 30 seconds. Several dead. Wyatt Earp’s group won.

The United States is turning into a battlefield. Some believe “We the People” is becoming “We the Police State.” Especially under Trump.

Think about it.

Two days ago, it was announced the U.S. was sending tanks and troops into Syria to protect the oil fields. Yesterday, it was announced Russia had tanks and troops moving into Syria to protect the oil fields.

I have been reporting for at least 6 months that at the heart of the Syria problem was oil. No one was talking oil at the time. This past week is actually the first time oil has been prominently mentioned.

Oil is gold! Iran wants a piece of the oil fields also.

Trump is unhappy with the reporting of the New York Times and the Washington Post. They are on top of his every move and report accordingly.

Trump apparently has had enough. He issued a directive yesterday that no federal department/office could subscribe to either paper. All subscriptions were to be cancelled.

Sort of like an unhappy kid taking his football and going home.

Trump associate Kellyanne Conway has come up with another beauty. It has been a while since we have heard from her.

She claimed during an informal press conference yesterday that Trump cannot be held responsible for what he says. Nothing. Her reasoning is we do not know what is in a person’s heart, mind or soul. Only Trump knows what is in his.

Save me!

Enjoy your day!

    FANTASY FEST PARADE TONIGHT…..WHERE DOES EVERYONE SLEEP? was originally published on Key West Lou

[goldeagleprice]

Letters to the Editor: August 13, 2019

Unexpected Find

I bought a 20th century set of gold coins in 1974 from a dealer in Florida. There were two 20’s, two 10’s, two 5’s and two 21/2’s. Later, I realized that one coin was dated 1881. It was my liberty head five dollar coin, which is not 20th century. Then I noticed that the date looked funny and discovered that it was an 1881/80.

I had it certified and kept it until the mid 1980’s when I finally sold it for one thousand dollars, which was great because I only paid $1,350.00 for the whole set in ‘74. Not bad! I even told the dealer what it was. He didn’t care either way. He had made his money. I have another recent story i’ll tell you later about my clashed die 2009-s proof Jefferson nickel, which is also certified. Does anyone else have one? I’m curious.

John Dunkle Address withheld

  How the Mint Works

In an answer to a recent letter from reader George Parks (Numismatic News, “Letters to the Editor,” July 2, 2019: p 8) I would like to say this. New coin designs and/or denominations are not for the mint to decide and produce.

Since its conception, the Mint has been dependent upon Congress as to which coins and denominations to produce. Perhaps the Mint can suggest such things, but the process must go through “channels” before going to production. First it has to start with some government official in the House or Senate and then go through a committee, where it becomes a Bill. After it becomes a Bill, it has to be voted upon and passed. Then the Bill goes to the Treasury Secretary to tell the Mint “go ahead and produce the coins.”

Yes, I too would like to see more denominations (“higher” denomination) in “regular” circulation. Bring back the denominations of the “original” system from 1790s ( Quarter Eagle = $2.50, Half Eagle = $5.00, [“Original”] Eagle = $10.00, and “Double Eagle” = $20.00). The $2.50 and $5.00 coins could be bimetallic, similar to many world coins of “high” denomination, while the $10 and $20  coins would be “silver alloy” types. Instead of more “Dead Presidents,” let us reintroduce a modern rendition of Miss Liberty, or the depiction of the statue atop the Capitol dome.

Bill Tuttle, Cleveland, Ohio

  More Missing Pennies

I ordered three silver proof sets and one proof set from the Mint. When they arrived the box had been opened and then scotch taped shut. The four pennies were missing and one penny envelope was also missing, three empty penny envelopes were in the box. Also the proof set was crushed so I sent it back for replacement.

I called the mint and told them what had happened. They sent me a replacement proof set and that box was also opened and scotch taped. I called again and said I still needed the pennies and they said they would send them to me. They only sent two pennies. I called them again and they said they would send me the other two pennies, but I have been waiting for over a month.

Chris Kingsley Lehi, Utah

  Replacement Apollo 11 Sleeve

Back in May I read about the Apollo 11 coin that had an error on the sleeve.  The article said to call the mint for a replacement sleeve. I called and was told by a rep that replacement sleeves would be sent out automatically, therefore he did not need to take my name or address.

After waiting over a month, I tried doing an online chat with a mint representative. I could tell by the long delays and her telling me over and over again to “please wait” that she had no idea what I was talking about. Finally she asked me for my name, address, and order number (contradicting what the phone rep told me previously) and she told me that I would be receiving a replacement sleeve.

So far, I still do not have a sleeve. I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem, and what the magic words are that I need to say to get a replacement sleeve.  Just telling readers to call the mint does not work when the mint reps don’t know what to say or do about this.

Peter Glassman Schaumburg, Ill.

  War in the Pacific ‘D’ Mintmark

I went to my local bank and received a box of 50 rolls of the 2019 “War in the Pacific” quarters. Among the four “w” quarters from the box, I found a 2019 “War in the Pacific” quarter with a D mint mark. But in the word ‘Liberty’, I noticed that the ‘L’ was missing. Is this coin worth getting graded?

John Paoni White City, Ill.

  Circulating One Dollar Coin

I am dismayed to think that the United States has abandoned hope of circulating a one dollar coin. I am seldom able to get any of them at my bank. I understand that some vending machines return them in change.

Dan Bubalo Brainerd, Minn.

  My Lucky Finds

I was going through a dealer’s junk silver box once and found (and bought) a 1854 quarter. Now, this wasn’t just any quarter, it was the 1854 “huge O” specimen! Quite a find I thought, for around $3! Even in a grade of around AG-3.

In paper money, I found about a half pack of the key 1976 $2 star notes from the Minneapolis district….each stamped from the 1st day of issue, April 13 1976.

Name and address withheld

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Main Upcoming Sports Events in 2019 | crew art production

Main Upcoming Sports Events in 2019

2019 is going to be a witness on a lot of exciting sports events in all fields of sports like football, handball, tennis, boxing and other athletics games, let’s talk about the main sports events in 2019 in the following article:

Football

The pulse of people and The language for all countries, there is no discrimination with a country and another, it can to cry us and make us happy at the same moment, simply it's the power of Football.

AFC Asian Cup 2019:

2019 is going to be a very crowded year with football events let’s start with January that will have a very exciting start for the year with Asian Cup (AFC) that will be hosted by United Arab Emirates (UAE) after hosting the championship for the second time after 23 years from only time in 1996, Saudi Arabia was the title winner after winning United Arab Emirates (UAE) by the penalty kicks after drawing in the match and extra time 0-0 in the cup final, this year champion will start with the clash between the hosting team and Bahrain on Zaid sports city stadium in Abu Dhabi at Saturday 5 January and ends at 1 February on Zaid sports city stadium in Abu Dhabi.

FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019:

Then we have June that will be really crowded month with football events all over the world starting with the 8th women’s world cup 2019 that will be hosted by France for the first time between 7 June and 7 July, after the last tournament at Canada 2015 that was won by united states of America (USA) after beating Japan 5-2 in the final.

Copa America 2019:

Then we travel to Brazil that will host the tournament no. 64 of Copa America from 14 June to 7 July, with the attendance of 12 nations divided into 3 groups, the last tournament was a special edition Copa America Centenario that was hosted by the united states of America (USA) on 2016, and the winner was Chile after beating Argentina (4-2) by penalty kicks after ending the match and extra time tied 0-0.

FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019:

Another interesting tournament is going to take place in Poland, were the 22nd edition of FIFA U-20 World Cup will take place, the tournament that doesn’t take a big public media attention, while the football clubs, especially in Europe, find it as a big chance to find the future stars, the which 24 nations football teams will compete to win the title.

2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup:

Then we go United States of America was 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup takes place for the 15 times in the USA as she had hosted all the tournament past 11 versions as the only host and 4 shared with other countries (Mexico (twice)-costa Rica- Canada), the championship that only knew 3 winners all over 14 past tournaments who are (USA (6)-Mexico (7)-Canada (1)), this year tournament is going to special event for the championship as there will be 16 competing teams for the first time after there only 12 team.

Africa Cup of Nations 2019:

After that we travel to Africa were Egypt hosts the 32 editions of the African cup of nations for the 4th time that Egypt hosts this championship after last time in 2006, this year tournament will be a special edition with the participation of 24 nations for the first time in a new version of the tournament after it was held by only 16 teams, the tournament will take place from 15 June to 13 July 2019, the Africa Cup of Nations 2019 will see a fresh new teams in the African cup of nations like Mauritania who will attend for her first time, Africa Cup of Nations 2019 will be special for the Egyptian football team as he hosts the beloved championship for the Egyptians as their football team was the runner up in the last edition in Gabon 2017 after losing the final match 1-2 in front of Cameroon, and the most title winner with 6 titles the last title was in Angola 2010.

FIFA U-17 World Cup Peru 2019:

Peru will host the 18th edition of men world cup u-17 championship 2019 after Rwanda had withdrawn from hosting the tournament, it’s the second time that Peru hosts the championship after 2005, there are 24 nations competing for the trophy this year, the tournament has a high level of importance especially for the European football clubs that always looks for the youngsters that shine in this tournament all over the past versions like Ronaldinho in Egypt 1997.

Tennis

Grand slam

the grand slam tournaments are the collection of the biggest four tennis championships of every year it starts with.

Australian Open 2019 (Melbourne):

Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia is going to host the events of Australian Open tennis tournament during the period 14-27 Jan 2019, where the tournament will be held with the attendance of the big three:

1- Roger Federer (el maestro): ranked the world 3rd player, the Australian Open title holder 6 times last time was in 2018 after beating Marin Čilić 3 groups for 2.

2- Rafael Nadal (el matador): ranked the world 2nd player, the Australian Open title holder only 1 time was 2009 after beating Roger Federer 3 groups for 2.

3- Novak Djokovic (Nola): the world 1st player, the Australian Open title holder 6 times last time was 2018 after beating Andy Murray 3 groups to null for Murray.

Where there are also some great compotators that threats the big three for this year title like Martin Del Potro, Marin Čilić the runner up last year, the Japanese Nel Kishikori and the powerful server John Isner. For women competition, we have the Australian lady Margaret Smith court with 11 titles and a wonderful straight run with 7 titles from 1960 to 1966.

French Open 2019 (Roland-Garros) (Paris):

The second tournament of the grand slam world series, that takes place in June, on the French land specify in Paris the French capital and it’s the most important tournament that played on clay ground, where the most winning player of this championship is the matador (Rafael Nadal) the king of the clay playgrounds with 11 titles in Roland-Garros, and total of 17 titles of grand slam tournaments, for women competition the American Chris Evert dominates with 7 titles.

Wimbledon 2019 (London):

2019 Wimbledon Championships is going to held in July 2019, Wimbledon is considered the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament that is played on grass ground, the world record of this tournament titles winner goes to the Swiss Roger Federer (El Maestro) how had won 8 Wimbledon titles 5 of them was in row from 2004 to 2008 and the last one was on 2017, not only Roger Federer also won another 12 grand slam titles, deserving the maestro title, and in the women competition the most title winner is Martina Navratilova with 9 titles 6 of them in row from 1981 to 1987.

US Open 2019 (Miami):

US open is The last grand slam tournament of the year that is held in Miami (USA) in August 2019, US Open is played on a solid playground, the most title winner is shared between 3 players who are (Jimmy Connors – Pete Sampras – Roger Federer) each one of this players had won the title 5 times, and in women competition most title winner is the American Serena Williams with 6 titles.

ATP Masters Tour

Then We have the ATP World Masters series with 9 exciting tournaments with a 1000-point trophy for each, starts with:

BNP Paribas Open:

The ATP masters tour starts with the BNP Paribas open also known as (Indian Wells Open), the tournament was first held from 45 years ago since 1974, BNP Paribas open is played outdoors on solid playground surface that is hosted by California (USA) In March from every year.

Miami open:

Miami open is one of the ATP masters tour tournaments, that is held every year in Florida (USA) at March, the tournament was first held from 34 years ago in 1985, Miami open is played outdoor on a solid surface playground.

Monte-Carlo open:

Monte-Carlo open has first held from 122 years ago in 1897, the tournament that held in April every year in Monaco (France), the tournament is played outdoors over clay surface.

Madrid Open:

Madrid open had first held in 2002 on Madrid arena till 2007 then changed the hosting playground to be Caja Magica since 2009, the tournament is played indoor over a hard surface, the tournament is used to be held on may in Madrid (Spain).

Italian open:

Italian open is also known by Internazionali BNL d'Italia and it was originally called the Italian International Championships, the tournament was first held from 89 years ago in 1930, the tournament is used to be played in Rome (Italy) on May from every year, the tournament is played outdoors on a clay surface.

Canadian open:

Canadian open is also known as Rogers Cup, the tournament that first held from 138 years ago in 1881, the tournament is used to be held in August of every year in Montreal and Toronto (Canada), the tournament is played outdoors on a hard surface playground.

Cincinnati Masters:

Cincinnati Masters open is also known as Western & Southern Open, the tournament was first held from 120 years ago in 1899, the tournament takes place in Cincinnati (USA) on August of every year, the championship is played outdoors over a hard surface playground.

Shanghai Masters:

Shanghai Masters is also known as Shanghai Rolex Masters, the tournament had been first held from 10 years ago in 2009, the tournament is hosted by Shanghai (China) every year on October, Shanghai masters is played outdoors over a hard surface playground.

Paris Masters:

Paris Masters that is also known as Rolex Paris Masters, the tournament was first held from 51 years ago in 1968, Paris Masters is held in Paris (France) every on October, the tournament was used to play outdoors on carpet surface from 1968 to 1982 then it began to be played on a hard surface since 1986.

Handball

Handball was codified at the end of the 19th century in Denmark, and become one of the most popular team sport that has a big size of fans and followers all over the world.

World Men's Handball Championship 2019:

IHF World Men's Handball Championship 2019 is going to be the first handball world cup that held in two countries by share, Germany and Denmark will be the first countries to do this, the tournament will be held from 10 to 27 January, in 6 cites 2 in Denmark and 4 in Germany, the championship is going to be a very exciting one because of the presence of 24 teams, the 26th version of the tournament will see a special event by the participation of the unified Korean team for the first time, the last year championship was the 3rd time that France hosts the World Men's Handball Championship, France was 2018 world cup title winner and that was the 6 time in the championship history as the most team that wins the handball world cup title.

World Women's Handball Championship 2019:

IHF World Women's Handball Championship 2019 is hosted by Japan for the first time to host the handball women’s world cup, the tournament is going to be held from 30 November to 15 December, 24 team from 5 confederations is going to participate in the tournament, Russia is the most title winner with 4 titles with 3 straight wins in tournaments 2005, 2007 and 2009.

Other sports

African games 2019:

Morocco is going to host the 12th edition of the African games from 23 August to 3 September, Morocco will host the tournament in Casablanca and Rabat for the first time the tournament is played in more than one city, the tournament is going to see the compete of 53 different African nations, Egypt is the highest score in the last 11 African cups with 548 gold, 406 silver, 408 bronze medal in total of 1362 medal.

World Weightlifting Championships 2019:

Pattaya Thailand is going to host the 85th edition of the World Weightlifting Championships 2019, this had started since 1891 as a championship for men only when the women championship has been added since 1987, the most titles holders by country is China as 295 different medals in men competitions and 186 different medals for Chinese women, as individual titles the Russian weightlifter Vasily Aleksevev in weight 110+ kg has dominated 8 golden medals in row from 1970 to 1977, and in female competition there are too many champs. That had to be listed like the Chinese weightlifters Peng Liping, Li Yan and the Russian Nadezhda Evstyukhina. AIBA World Boxing Championships 2019:

Sochi (Russia) is going to host the 20th edition of the AIBA World Boxing Championships 2019 from 7-21 September, this year tournament is going to see the competence in 10 different boxer’s weights from light flyweight to super heavyweight, in men’s edition the most country titles holder goes to Cuba with 76 gold, 34 silver, 25 bronze medal and 135 medals in total, and in individual the Cuban boxer Félix Savón Fabre with 6 gold and 1 silver medal in total of 7 medals, and in women edition we have the domination of Russia with 21 gold, 10 silver and 23 bronze in total of 54 medals, individually the Indian boxer Mary Kom with 6 gold and 1 silver medal in total of 7 medals.

World Championships in Athletics 2019:

El Doha Qatar’s capital is going to host the 17th edition of the World Championships in Athletics 2019 from 27 September to 6 October, this edition of the IAAF World Championships will a very special event for Qatar and the middle east region sports event management history, the last tournaments had seen USA athletics domination on the medals with 155 gold, 106 silver, 91 bronze medal and in total of 352 medals total.

World Aquatics Championships 2019:

Gwangju in South Korea will host the 18th edition of World Aquatics Championships 2019 that will be held from 12 to 28 July, the last tournament was held in Budapest (Hungary) 2017 and the next one will be in Fukuoka (Japan) 2021, the USA had dominated the titles with 253 gold, 193 silver and 140 bronze medal in total of 586 medals, for individual the "Baltimore bullet" Michael Phelps had won 26 gold, 6 silver and 1 bronze medal in total of 33 medal, and in the women competitions we have the Russian Natalia Ishchenko with 19 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in total of 33 medal.

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 1.1

Events

Guinness trademark 1st used (1764)

Ale Brewers Association of the States of New York and New Jersey founded (1830)

Westmalle beer 1st for sale (1861)

Cleveland Brewery burnt to the ground (Ohio; 1865)

Eagle Brewery changed its name to DG Yuengling & Son (1873)

Bass red triangle became 1st trademark registered in England (1876)

Brewmasters Association of Philadelphia and Vicinity (1881)

Brewmasters Association of Cleveland and Vicinity (1886)

Apparatus for Making Malt patented by Justin Whitney (1889)

Frederick Pabst died (1904)

Prohibition begins in Iceland, lasting until finally repealed in 1988, 73 years later (1915)

Beer became legal in Vermont after Prohibition (1934)

Carling Brewing took over Heidelberg Brewery (Washington; 1959)

Process in the Manufacture of Beer and the Like patented by Erik Krabbe and Kenneth W. Wendt (1963)

Schaefer Brewing patented a Crowned Bottle Rejection Pin (1963)

Federal Excise Tax on beer doubled (1991)

American Beer premiered (1996)

Twisted Pine Brewery merged with Peak to Peak Brewing, Colorado (1997)

California bars, clubs and card rooms were made smoke free (1998)

International Trappist Association founded (1998)

Miller's infamous "Catfight" ad 1st aired (2003)

Peter Austin dies (2014)

The last human being to be born on earth is killed in a bar fight at the age of 25, in “ The Children of Men,” by P.D. James (2021)

Breweries Opened

Privat-Brauerei Zötler (Germany; 1447)

Kiliaen Van Rennselaer Brewery (Albany, New York; 1649)

Joseph Huber Brewing Co. (Wisconsin; 1845)

Stroh's Brewery (Michigan; 1850)

Miller Brewing (Wisconsin; 1855)

Stevens Point Brewery (Wisconsin; 1857)

August Schell Brewing (Minnesota; 1860)

Straub Brewery (Pennsylvania; 1872)

Joseph Schlitz & Co. Brewing (Wisconsin; 1874)

F.W. Cook Brewing

Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing (Ohio; 1885)

Pabst Brewing/Pearl Brewing (Texas; 1886)

F.X. Matt Brewing/Saranac Brewing (New York; 1888)

Grand Rapids Brewing (Michigan; 1893)

John Wagner Sons brewing (Ohio; 1896)

Arlington Brewing (Virginia; 1897)

Fresno Brewing (California; 1900)

Gund Brewing (Ohio; 1900)

Simon Linser Brewing (Ohio: 1901)

Aberdeen Brewing (Virginia; 1902)

G. Heileman Brewing (La Crosse, Wisconsin; 1902)

Schmulbach Brewing (West Virginia; 1902)

Brasserie Henri Funck (Luxembourg; 1905)

Dixie Brewing (Louisiana; 1907)

Elora Brewery Ltd. (Canada; 1934)

Cervceria India (Puerto Rico; 1938)

Cold Springs Brewing (Minnesota; 1974)

Florida Brewery (Florida; 1975)

Redhook Ale Brewery (Washington; 1982)

Prarie Inn Cottage Brewery (British Columbia, Canada; 1983)

Bridgeport Brewing (Oregon; 1984)

Granville Island Brewing (British Columbia, Canada; 1984)

Kessler Brewing (Montana; 1984)

Pyramid Ales Brewery (Washington; 1984)

Truckee Brewing (California; 1985)

Vancouver Island Brewing (British Columbia, Canada; 1985)

Abita Brewing (Louisiana; 1986)

Sprecher Brewing (Wisconsin; 1986)

Bandersnatch Brewing (Arizona; 1987)

Black Star Brewing/McKenzie River Partners (California/Montana; 1987)

Devil Mountain Brewery (California; 1987)

Golden Pacific Brewing (California; 1987)

Humboldt Brewery (California; 1987)

Union Brewery (Nevada; 1987)

Bull City Brewery & Cafe (North Carolina; 1988)

Port Arthur Brasserie & Brewpub (Ontario, Canada; 1988)

Tracks Brewpub (Ontario, Canada; 1988)

Bison Brewing (California; 1989)

Pacific Northwest Brewing (Washington; 1989)

Breckenridge Brewery & Pub (Colorado; 1990)

Clark's Crossing Brewpub (Saskatchewan, Canada; 1990)

Fitzpatrick's Brewing (Iowa; 1990)

Great Western Brewing (Saskatchewan, Canada; 1990)

Irish Times Pub & Brewery (Florida; 1990)

Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe (California; 1990)

McMenamin's Brewery (Oregon; 1990)

Pacific Western Brewing (British Columbia, Canada; 1990)

CEEP Barney's, Ltd. (Ontario, Canada; 1991)

Edgefield Brewery (Oregon; 1991)

Idle Spur Crested Butte Brewery (Colorado; 1991)

Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario, Canada; 1992)

Oxford Brewing (Maryland; 1992)

Preston Brewery/Embudo Station (New Mexico; 1992)

Unibroue (Quebec, Canada; 1992)

Andrew's Brewing (Maine; 1993)

Glatt Bros. Brewing (Canada; 1993)

Kelly's Caribbean Bar & Grill (Florida; 1993)

Downtown Joe's Brewery & Restaurant (California; 1994)

Frontier Brewing (Iowa; 1994)

Gray Brewing (Wisconsin; 1994)

Toisnot Brewing (North Carolina; 1994)

Bear Brewing (British Columbia, Canada; 1995)

Heartland Brewing (New York; 1995)

Motor City Brewing Works (Michigan; 1995)

Thomas Kemper Brewery (Washington; 1995)

Clipper City Brewing (Maryland; 1996)

Don Gambrino's Brewpub (Florida; 1996)

Firehouse Brewery & Restaurant (Ohio; 1996)

Gravity Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1996)

Madison Brewing Pub & Restaurant (Vermont; 1996)

Michigan Brewing (Michigan; 1996)

Saw Mill River Brewery (New York; 1996)

Silo Brewpub (Kentucky; 1996)

Texas Cattle Co. Border Grille & Brewery (Georgia; 1996)

Breakers Brewing (New Jersey; 1997)

Brewery at Ninth Square (Connecticut; 1997)

Copper City Brewing (Arizona; 1997)

Essex Brewing (Connecticut; 1997)

Franklin County Brewing (Vermont; 1997)

Hinesburg Brewing (Vermont; 1997)

Kelly's Brewery (New Mexico; 1997)

Saints Brewing (Iowa; 1997)

Smaragda's Table (South Carolina; 1997)

Starview Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Timberland Brewing (Oregon; 1997)

Wild Hare Brewing (Montana; 1997)

Windemere Valley Brewing (Canada; 1997)

Yellowstone Valley Brewing (Montana; 1997)

Trumer Brauerei (California; 2004)

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Pop Picks – January 3, 2019

January 3, 2019

What I’m listening to:

My listening choices usually refer to music, but this time I’m going with Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast on genius and the song Hallelujah. It tells the story of Leonard Cohen’s much-covered song Hallelujah and uses it as a lens on kinds of genius and creativity. Along the way, he brings in Picasso and Cézanne, Elvis Costello, and more. Gladwell is a good storyteller and if you love pop music, as I do, and Hallelujah, as I do (and you should), you’ll enjoy this podcast. We tend to celebrate the genius who seems inspired in the moment, creating new work like lightning strikes, but this podcast has me appreciating incremental creativity in a new way. It’s compelling and fun at the same time.

What I’m reading:

Just read Clay Christensen’s new book, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. This was an advance copy, so soon available. Clay is an old friend and a huge influence on how we have grown SNHU and our approach to innovation. This book is so compelling, because we know attempts at development have so often been a failure and it is often puzzling to understand why some countries with desperate poverty and huge challenges somehow come to thrive (think S. Korea, Singapore, 19th C. America), while others languish. Clay offers a fresh way of thinking about development through the lens of his research on innovation and it is compelling. I bet this book gets a lot of attention, as most of his work does. I also suspect that many in the development community will hate it, as it calls into question the approach and enormous investments we have made in an attempt to lift countries out of poverty. A provocative read and, as always, Clay is a good storyteller.

What I’m watching:

Just watched Leave No Trace and should have guessed that it was directed by Debra Granik. She did Winter’s Bone, the extraordinary movie that launched Jennifer Lawrence’s career. Similarly, this movie features an amazing young actor, Thomasin McKenzie, and visits lives lived on the margins. In this case, a veteran suffering PTSD, and his 13-year-old daughter. The movie is patient, is visually lush, and justly earned 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (I have a rule to never watch anything under 82%). Everything in this film is under control and beautifully understated (aside from the visuals) – confident acting, confident directing, and so humane. I love the lack of flashbacks, the lack of sensationalism – the movie trusts the viewer, rare in this age of bombast. A lovely film.

Archive

December 4, 2018

What I’m listening to:

Spending a week in New Zealand, we had endless laughs listening to the Kiwi band, Flight of the Conchords. Lots of comedic bands are funny, but the music is only okay or worse. These guys are funny – hysterical really – and the music is great. They have an uncanny ability to parody almost any style. In both New Zealand and Australia, we found a wry sense of humor that was just delightful and no better captured than with this duo. You don’t have to be in New Zealand to enjoy them.

What I’m reading:

I don’t often reread. For two reasons: A) I have so many books on my “still to be read” pile that it seems daunting to also reread books I loved before, and B) it’s because I loved them once that I’m a little afraid to read them again. That said, I was recently asked to list my favorite book of all time and I answered Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. But I don’t really know if that’s still true (and it’s an impossible question anyway – favorite book? On what day? In what mood?), so I’m rereading it and it feels like being with an old friend. It has one of my very favorite scenes ever: the card game between Levin and Kitty that leads to the proposal and his joyous walking the streets all night.

What I’m watching:

Blindspotting is billed as a buddy-comedy. Wow does that undersell it and the drama is often gripping. I loved Daveed Diggs in Hamilton, didn’t like his character in Black-ish, and think he is transcendent in this film he co-wrote with Rafael Casal, his co-star.  The film is a love song to Oakland in many ways, but also a gut-wrenching indictment of police brutality, systemic racism and bias, and gentrification. The film has the freshness and raw visceral impact of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. A great soundtrack, genre mixing, and energy make it one of my favorite movies of 2018.

October 15, 2018

What I’m listening to:

We had the opportunity to see our favorite band, The National, live in Dallas two weeks ago. Just after watching Mistaken for Strangers, the documentary sort of about the band. So we’ve spent a lot of time going back into their earlier work, listening to songs we don’t know well, and reaffirming that their musicality, smarts, and sound are both original and astoundingly good. They did not disappoint in concert and it is a good thing their tour ended, as we might just spend all of our time and money following them around. Matt Berninger is a genius and his lead vocals kill me (and because they are in my range, I can actually sing along!). Their arrangements are profoundly good and go right to whatever brain/heart wiring that pulls one in and doesn’t let them go.

What I’m reading:

Who is Richard Powers and why have I only discovered him now, with his 12th book? Overstory is profoundly good, a book that is essential and powerful and makes me look at my everyday world in new ways. In short, a dizzying example of how powerful can be narrative in the hands of a master storyteller. I hesitate to say it’s the best environmental novel I’ve ever read (it is), because that would put this book in a category. It is surely about the natural world, but it is as much about we humans. It’s monumental and elegiac and wondrous at all once. Cancel your day’s schedule and read it now. Then plant a tree. A lot of them.

What I’m watching:

Bo Burnham wrote and directed Eighth Grade and Elsie Fisher is nothing less than amazing as its star (what’s with these new child actors; see Florida Project). It’s funny and painful and touching. It’s also the single best film treatment that I have seen of what it means to grow up in a social media shaped world. It’s a reminder that growing up is hard. Maybe harder now in a world of relentless, layered digital pressure to curate perfect lives that are far removed from the natural messy worlds and selves we actually inhabit. It’s a well-deserved 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and I wonder who dinged it for the missing 2%.

September 7, 2018

What I’m listening to:

With a cover pointing back to the Beastie Boys’ 1986 Licensed to Ill, Eminem’s quietly released Kamikaze is not my usual taste, but I’ve always admired him for his “all out there” willingness to be personal, to call people out, and his sheer genius with language. I thought Daveed Diggs could rap fast, but Eminem is supersonic at moments, and still finds room for melody. Love that he includes Joyner Lucas, whose “I’m Not Racist” gets added to the growing list of simply amazing music videos commenting on race in America. There are endless reasons why I am the least likely Eminem fan, but when no one is around to make fun of me, I’ll put it on again.

What I’m reading:

Lesley Blume’s Everyone Behaves Badly, which is the story behind Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and his time in 1920s Paris (oh, what a time – see Midnight in Paris if you haven’t already). Of course, Blume disabuses my romantic ideas of that time and place and everyone is sort of (or profoundly so) a jerk, especially…no spoiler here…Hemingway. That said, it is a compelling read and coming off the Henry James inspired prose of Mrs. Osmond, it made me appreciate more how groundbreaking was Hemingway’s modern prose style. Like his contemporary Picasso, he reinvented the art and it can be easy to forget, these decades later, how profound was the change and its impact. And it has bullfights.

What I’m watching:

Chloé Zhao’s The Rider is just exceptional. It’s filmed on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which provides a stunning landscape, and it feels like a classic western reinvented for our times. The main characters are played by the real-life people who inspired this narrative (but feels like a documentary) film. Brady Jandreau, playing himself really, owns the screen. It’s about manhood, honor codes, loss, and resilience – rendered in sensitive, nuanced, and heartfelt ways. It feels like it could be about large swaths of America today. Really powerful.

August 16, 2018

What I’m listening to:

In my Spotify Daily Mix was Percy Sledge’s When A Man Loves A Woman, one of the world’s greatest love songs. Go online and read the story of how the song was discovered and recorded. There are competing accounts, but Sledge said he improvised it after a bad breakup. It has that kind of aching spontaneity. It is another hit from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one of the GREAT music hotbeds, along with Detroit, Nashville, and Memphis. Our February Board meeting is in Alabama and I may finally have to do the pilgrimage road trip to Muscle Shoals and then Memphis, dropping in for Sunday services at the church where Rev. Al Green still preaches and sings. If the music is all like this, I will be saved.

What I’m reading:

John Banville’s Mrs. Osmond, his homage to literary idol Henry James and an imagined sequel to James’ 1881 masterpiece Portrait of a Lady. Go online and read the first paragraph of Chapter 25. He is…profoundly good. Makes me want to never write again, since anything I attempt will feel like some other, lowly activity in comparison to his mastery of language, image, syntax. This is slow reading, every sentence to be savored.

What I’m watching:

I’ve always respected Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but we just watched the documentary RGB. It is over-the-top great and she is now one of my heroes. A superwoman in many ways and the documentary is really well done. There are lots of scenes of her speaking to crowds and the way young women, especially law students, look at her is touching.  And you can’t help but fall in love with her now late husband Marty. See this movie and be reminded of how important is the Law.

July 23, 2018

What I’m listening to:

Spotify’s Summer Acoustic playlist has been on repeat quite a lot. What a fun way to listen to artists new to me, including The Paper Kites, Hollow Coves, and Fleet Foxes, as well as old favorites like Leon Bridges and Jose Gonzalez. Pretty chill when dialing back to a summer pace, dining on the screen porch or reading a book.

What I’m reading:

Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson tells of the racial injustice (and the war on the poor our judicial system perpetuates as well) that he discovered as a young graduate from Harvard Law School and his fight to address it. It is in turn heartbreaking, enraging, and inspiring. It is also about mercy and empathy and justice that reads like a novel. Brilliant.

What I’m watching:

Fauda. We watched season one of this Israeli thriller. It was much discussed in Israel because while it focuses on an ex-special agent who comes out of retirement to track down a Palestinian terrorist, it was willing to reveal the complexity, richness, and emotions of Palestinian lives. And the occasional brutality of the Israelis. Pretty controversial stuff in Israel. Lior Raz plays Doron, the main character, and is compelling and tough and often hard to like. He’s a mess. As is the world in which he has to operate. We really liked it, and also felt guilty because while it may have been brave in its treatment of Palestinians within the Israeli context, it falls back into some tired tropes and ultimately falls short on this front.

    June 11, 2018

What I’m listening to:

Like everyone else, I’m listening to Pusha T drop the mic on Drake. Okay, not really, but do I get some points for even knowing that? We all walk around with songs that immediately bring us back to a time or a place. Songs are time machines. We are coming up on Father’s Day. My own dad passed away on Father’s Day back in 1994 and I remembering dutifully getting through the wake and funeral and being strong throughout. Then, sitting alone in our kitchen, Don Henley’s The End of the Innocence came on and I lost it. When you lose a parent for the first time (most of us have two after all) we lose our innocence and in that passage, we suddenly feel adult in a new way (no matter how old we are), a longing for our own childhood, and a need to forgive and be forgiven. Listen to the lyrics and you’ll understand. As Wordsworth reminds us in In Memoriam, there are seasons to our grief and, all these years later, this song no longer hits me in the gut, but does transport me back with loving memories of my father. I’ll play it Father’s Day.

What I’m reading:

The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin. I am not a reader of fantasy or sci-fi, though I understand they can be powerful vehicles for addressing the very real challenges of the world in which we actually live. I’m not sure I know of a more vivid and gripping illustration of that fact than N. K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award winning novel The Fifth Season, first in her Broken Earth trilogy. It is astounding. It is the fantasy parallel to The Underground Railroad, my favorite recent read, a depiction of subjugation, power, casual violence, and a broken world in which our hero(s) struggle, suffer mightily, and still, somehow, give us hope. It is a tour de force book. How can someone be this good a writer? The first 30 pages pained me (always with this genre, one must learn a new, constructed world, and all of its operating physics and systems of order), and then I could not put it down. I panicked as I neared the end, not wanting to finish the book, and quickly ordered the Obelisk Gate, the second novel in the trilogy, and I can tell you now that I’ll be spending some goodly portion of my weekend in Jemisin’s other world.

What I’m watching:

The NBA Finals and perhaps the best basketball player of this generation. I’ve come to deeply respect LeBron James as a person, a force for social good, and now as an extraordinary player at the peak of his powers. His superhuman play during the NBA playoffs now ranks with the all-time greats, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, MJ, Kobe, and the demi-god that was Bill Russell. That his Cavs lost in a 4-game sweep is no surprise. It was a mediocre team being carried on the wide shoulders of James (and matched against one of the greatest teams ever, the Warriors, and the Harry Potter of basketball, Steph Curry) and, in some strange way, his greatness is amplified by the contrast with the rest of his team. It was a great run.

May 24, 2018

What I’m listening to:

I’ve always liked Alicia Keys and admired her social activism, but I am hooked on her last album Here. This feels like an album finally commensurate with her anger, activism, hope, and grit. More R&B and Hip Hop than is typical for her, I think this album moves into an echelon inhabited by a Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On or Beyonce’s Formation. Social activism and outrage rarely make great novels, but they often fuel great popular music. Here is a terrific example.

What I’m reading:

Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad may be close to a flawless novel. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer, it chronicles the lives of two runaway slaves, Cora and Caeser, as they try to escape the hell of plantation life in Georgia.  It is an often searing novel and Cora is one of the great heroes of American literature. I would make this mandatory reading in every high school in America, especially in light of the absurd revisionist narratives of “happy and well cared for” slaves. This is a genuinely great novel, one of the best I’ve read, the magical realism and conflating of time periods lifts it to another realm of social commentary, relevance, and a blazing indictment of America’s Original Sin, for which we remain unabsolved.

What I’m watching:

I thought I knew about The Pentagon Papers, but The Post, a real-life political thriller from Steven Spielberg taught me a lot, features some of our greatest actors, and is so timely given the assault on our democratic institutions and with a presidency out of control. It is a reminder that a free and fearless press is a powerful part of our democracy, always among the first targets of despots everywhere. The story revolves around the legendary Post owner and D.C. doyenne, Katharine Graham. I had the opportunity to see her son, Don Graham, right after he saw the film, and he raved about Meryl Streep’s portrayal of his mother. Liked it a lot more than I expected.

April 27, 2018

What I’m listening to:

I mentioned John Prine in a recent post and then on the heels of that mention, he has released a new album, The Tree of Forgiveness, his first new album in ten years. Prine is beloved by other singer songwriters and often praised by the inscrutable God that is Bob Dylan.  Indeed, Prine was frequently said to be the “next Bob Dylan” in the early part of his career, though he instead carved out his own respectable career and voice, if never with the dizzying success of Dylan. The new album reflects a man in his 70s, a cancer survivor, who reflects on life and its end, but with the good humor and empathy that are hallmarks of Prine’s music. “When I Get To Heaven” is a rollicking, fun vision of what comes next and a pure delight. A charming, warm, and often terrific album.

What I’m reading:

I recently read Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, on many people’s Top Ten lists for last year and for good reason. It is sprawling, multi-generational, and based in the world of Japanese occupied Korea and then in the Korean immigrant’s world of Oaska, so our key characters become “tweeners,” accepted in neither world. It’s often unspeakably sad, and yet there is resiliency and love. There is also intimacy, despite the time and geographic span of the novel. It’s breathtakingly good and like all good novels, transporting.

What I’m watching:

I adore Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth, and while I’m not sure his Shape of Water is better, it is a worthy follow up to the earlier masterpiece (and more of a commercial success). Lots of critics dislike the film, but I’m okay with a simple retelling of a Beauty and the Beast love story, as predictable as it might be. The acting is terrific, it is visually stunning, and there are layers of pain as well as social and political commentary (the setting is the US during the Cold War) and, no real spoiler here, the real monsters are humans, the military officer who sees over the captured aquatic creature. It is hauntingly beautiful and its depiction of hatred to those who are different or “other” is painfully resonant with the time in which we live. Put this on your “must see” list.

March 18, 2018

What I’m listening to:

Sitting on a plane for hours (and many more to go; geez, Australia is far away) is a great opportunity to listen to new music and to revisit old favorites. This time, it is Lucy Dacus and her album Historians, the new sophomore release from a 22-year old indie artist that writes with relatable, real-life lyrics. Just on a second listen and while she insists this isn’t a break up record (as we know, 50% of all great songs are break up songs), it is full of loss and pain. Worth the listen so far. For the way back machine, it’s John Prine and In Spite of Ourselves (that title track is one of the great love songs of all time), a collection of duets with some of his “favorite girl singers” as he once described them. I have a crush on Iris Dement (for a really righteously angry song try her Wasteland of the Free), but there is also EmmyLou Harris, the incomparable Dolores Keane, and Lucinda Williams. Very different albums, both wonderful.

What I’m reading:

Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece on Christopher Steele presents little that is new, but she pulls it together in a terrific and coherent whole that is illuminating and troubling at the same time. Not only for what is happening, but for the complicity of the far right in trying to discredit that which should be setting off alarm bells everywhere. Bob Mueller may be the most important defender of the democracy at this time. A must read.

What I’m watching:

Homeland is killing it this season and is prescient, hauntingly so. Russian election interference, a Bannon-style hate radio demagogue, alienated and gun toting militia types, and a president out of control. It’s fabulous, even if it feels awfully close to the evening news. 

March 8, 2018

What I’m listening to:

We have a family challenge to compile our Top 100 songs. It is painful. Only 100? No more than three songs by one artist? Wait, why is M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” on my list? Should it just be The Clash from whom she samples? Can I admit to guilty pleasure songs? Hey, it’s my list and I can put anything I want on it. So I’m listening to the list while I work and the song playing right now is Tom Petty’s “The Wild One, Forever,” a B-side single that was never a hit and that remains my favorite Petty song. Also, “Evangeline” by Los Lobos. It evokes a night many years ago, with friends at Pearl Street in Northampton, MA, when everyone danced well past 1AM in a hot, sweaty, packed club and the band was a revelation. Maybe the best music night of our lives and a reminder that one’s 100 Favorite Songs list is as much about what you were doing and where you were in your life when those songs were playing as it is about the music. It’s not a list. It’s a soundtrack for this journey.

What I’m reading:

Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy was in the NY Times top ten books of 2017 list and it is easy to see why. Lockwood brings remarkable and often surprising imagery, metaphor, and language to her prose memoir and it actually threw me off at first. It then all became clear when someone told me she is a poet. The book is laugh aloud funny, which masks (or makes safer anyway) some pretty dark territory. Anyone who grew up Catholic, whether lapsed or not, will resonate with her story. She can’t resist a bawdy anecdote and her family provides some of the most memorable characters possible, especially her father, her sister, and her mother, who I came to adore. Best thing I’ve read in ages.

What I’m watching:

The Florida Project, a profoundly good movie on so many levels. Start with the central character, six-year old (at the time of the filming) Brooklynn Prince, who owns – I mean really owns – the screen. This is pure acting genius and at that age? Astounding. Almost as astounding is Bria Vinaite, who plays her mother. She was discovered on Instagram and had never acted before this role, which she did with just three weeks of acting lessons. She is utterly convincing and the tension between the child’s absolute wonder and joy in the world with her mother’s struggle to provide, to be a mother, is heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once. Willem Dafoe rightly received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role. This is a terrific movie.

February 12, 2018

What I’m listening to:

So, I have a lot of friends of age (I know you’re thinking 40s, but I just turned 60) who are frozen in whatever era of music they enjoyed in college or maybe even in their thirties. There are lots of times when I reach back into the catalog, since music is one of those really powerful and transporting senses that can take you through time (smell is the other one, though often underappreciated for that power). Hell, I just bought a turntable and now spending time in vintage vinyl shops. But I’m trying to take a lesson from Pat, who revels in new music and can as easily talk about North African rap music and the latest National album as Meet the Beatles, her first ever album. So, I’ve been listening to Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy winning Damn. While it may not be the first thing I’ll reach for on a winter night in Maine, by the fire, I was taken with it. It’s layered, political, and weirdly sensitive and misogynist at the same time, and it feels fresh and authentic and smart at the same time, with music that often pulled me from what I was doing. In short, everything music should do. I’m not a bit cooler for listening to Damn, but when I followed it with Steely Dan, I felt like I was listening to Lawrence Welk. A good sign, I think.

What I’m reading:

I am reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Leonardo da Vinci. I’m not usually a reader of biographies, but I’ve always been taken with Leonardo. Isaacson does not disappoint (does he ever?), and his subject is at once more human and accessible and more awe-inspiring in Isaacson’s capable hands. Gay, left-handed, vegetarian, incapable of finishing things, a wonderful conversationalist, kind, and perhaps the most relentlessly curious human being who has ever lived. Like his biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, Isaacson’s project here is to show that genius lives at the intersection of science and art, of rationality and creativity. Highly recommend it.

What I’m watching:

We watched the This Is Us post-Super Bowl episode, the one where Jack finally buys the farm. I really want to hate this show. It is melodramatic and manipulative, with characters that mostly never change or grow, and it hooks me every damn time we watch it. The episode last Sunday was a tear jerker, a double whammy intended to render into a blubbering, tissue-crumbling pathetic mess anyone who has lost a parent or who is a parent. Sterling K. Brown, Ron Cephas Jones, the surprising Mandy Moore, and Milo Ventimiglia are hard not to love and last season’s episode that had only Brown and Cephas going to Memphis was the show at its best (they are by far the two best actors). Last week was the show at its best worst. In other words, I want to hate it, but I love it. If you haven’t seen it, don’t binge watch it. You’ll need therapy and insulin.

January 15, 2018

What I’m listening to:

Drive-By Truckers. Chris Stapleton has me on an unusual (for me) country theme and I discovered these guys to my great delight. They’ve been around, with some 11 albums, but the newest one is fascinating. It’s a deep dive into Southern alienation and the white working-class world often associated with our current president. I admire the willingness to lay bare, in kick ass rock songs, the complexities and pain at work among people we too quickly place into overly simple categories. These guys are brave, bold, and thoughtful as hell, while producing songs I didn’t expect to like, but that I keep playing. And they are coming to NH.

What I’m reading:

A textual analog to Drive-By Truckers by Chris Stapleton in many ways is Tony Horowitz’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning Confederates in the Attic. Ostensibly about the Civil War and the South’s ongoing attachment to it, it is prescient and speaks eloquently to the times in which we live (where every southern state but Virginia voted for President Trump). Often hilarious, it too surfaces complexities and nuance that escape a more recent, and widely acclaimed, book like Hillbilly Elegy. As a Civil War fan, it was also astonishing in many instances, especially when it blows apart long-held “truths” about the war, such as the degree to which Sherman burned down the south (he did not). Like D-B Truckers, Horowitz loves the South and the people he encounters, even as he grapples with its myths of victimhood and exceptionalism (and racism, which may be no more than the racism in the north, but of a different kind). Everyone should read this book and I’m embarrassed I’m so late to it.

What I’m watching:

David Letterman has a new Netflix show called “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” and we watched the first episode, in which Letterman interviewed Barack Obama. It was extraordinary (if you don’t have Netflix, get it just to watch this show); not only because we were reminded of Obama’s smarts, grace, and humanity (and humor), but because we saw a side of Letterman we didn’t know existed. His personal reflections on Selma were raw and powerful, almost painful. He will do five more episodes with “extraordinary individuals” and if they are anything like the first, this might be the very best work of his career and one of the best things on television.

December 22, 2017

What I’m reading:

Just finished Sunjeev Sahota’s Year of the Runaways, a painful inside look at the plight of illegal Indian immigrant workers in Britain. It was shortlisted for 2015 Man Booker Prize and its transporting, often to a dark and painful universe, and it is impossible not to think about the American version of this story and the terrible way we treat the undocumented in our own country, especially now.

What I’m watching:

Season II of The Crown is even better than Season I. Elizabeth’s character is becoming more three-dimensional, the modern world is catching up with tradition-bound Britain, and Cold War politics offer more context and tension than we saw in Season I. Claire Foy, in her last season, is just terrific – one arched eye brow can send a message.

What I’m listening to:

A lot of Christmas music, but needing a break from the schmaltz, I’ve discovered Over the Rhine and their Christmas album, Snow Angels. God, these guys are good.

  November 14, 2017

What I’m watching:

Guiltily, I watch the Patriots play every weekend, often building my schedule and plans around seeing the game. Why the guilt? I don’t know how morally defensible is football anymore, as we now know the severe damage it does to the players. We can’t pretend it’s all okay anymore. Is this our version of late decadent Rome, watching mostly young Black men take a terrible toll on each other for our mere entertainment?

What I’m reading:

Recently finished J.G. Ballard’s 2000 novel Super-Cannes, a powerful depiction of a corporate-tech ex-pat community taken over by a kind of psychopathology, in which all social norms and responsibilities are surrendered to residents of the new world community. Kept thinking about Silicon Valley when reading it. Pretty dark, dystopian view of the modern world and centered around a mass killing, troublingly prescient.

What I’m listening to:

Was never really a Lorde fan, only knowing her catchy (and smarter than you might first guess) pop hit “Royals” from her debut album. But her new album, Melodrama, is terrific and it doesn’t feel quite right to call this “pop.” There is something way more substantial going on with Lorde and I can see why many critics put this album at the top of their Best in 2017 list. Count me in as a huge fan.

  November 3, 2017

What I’m reading: Just finished Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, her breathtakingly good second novel. How is someone so young so wise? Her writing is near perfection and I read the book in two days, setting my alarm for 4:30AM so I could finish it before work.

What I’m watching: We just binge watched season two of Stranger Things and it was worth it just to watch Millie Bobbie Brown, the transcendent young actor who plays Eleven. The series is a delightful mash up of every great eighties horror genre you can imagine and while pretty dark, an absolute joy to watch.

What I’m listening to: I’m not a lover of country music (to say the least), but I love Chris Stapleton. His “The Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning” is heartbreakingly good and reminds me of the old school country that played in my house as a kid. He has a new album and I can’t wait, but his From A Room: Volume 1 is on repeat for now.

  September 26, 2017

What I’m reading:

Just finished George Saunder’s Lincoln in the Bardo. It took me a while to accept its cadence and sheer weirdness, but loved it in the end. A painful meditation on loss and grief, and a genuinely beautiful exploration of the intersection of life and death, the difficulty of letting go of what was, good and bad, and what never came to be.

What I’m watching:

HBO’s The Deuce. Times Square and the beginning of the porn industry in the 1970s, the setting made me wonder if this was really something I’d want to see. But David Simon is the writer and I’d read a menu if he wrote it. It does not disappoint so far and there is nothing prurient about it.

What I’m listening to:

The National’s new album Sleep Well Beast. I love this band. The opening piano notes of the first song, “Nobody Else Will Be There,” seize me & I’m reminded that no one else in music today matches their arrangement & musicianship. I’m adding “Born to Beg,” “Slow Show,” “I Need My Girl,” and “Runaway” to my list of favorite love songs.

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The Okra All-Stars - Falling Fast - The Okra All Stars

Jonathan Edwards - Stop And Start it All Again - Honky-Tonk Stardust Cowboy

Jonathan Edwards - Everything -  Honky-Tonk Stardust Cowboy 

***Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Cannonball Blues - Sing Me Back Home The DC Tapes - Free Dirt Records***

***Dennis Roger Reed - Cuckoo - Before It Was Before - Plastic Meltdown Records***

***Colter Wall - Saskatchewan in 1881 - Songs of the Plains - Young Mary’s Record Co.***

Del Barber - Ariana - Prairieography - True North Records

Lydia Loveless - Chris Isaak - Somewhere Else - Bloodshot Records

Billy Joe Shaver - Wacko From Waco - Wacko From Waco

Eleven Hundred Springs - Thunderbird Will Do Just Fine - Bandwagon

Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Dallas - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters - Guitar Case - Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters - Organic Records

Vern Gosdin - Set ‘Em Up Joe - Chiseled in Stone

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers - Lesson - Years - Bloodshot Records

***Alejandro Escovedo - Waiting for Me - The Crossing - Yep Roc Records***

Townes Van Zandt - You Are Not Needed Now - Live & Obscure

Billy Don Burns - I Was There - Heroes, Friends & Other Troubled Souls

Tony Joe White - They Caught The Devil And Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas - Tony Joe White

Jann Brown - Louisville - A Town South of Bakersfield 2

Folk Uke - Knock Me Up - Folk Uke

T Bones - Seventeen - Cannot Settle Down

Nashville West - Sweet Susanna - Nashville West

Jo-El Sonnier - J'ai Gone Fou - The Legacy

Paul Eason - One More Dance - Keepin' It 'Tween The Lines

Gene Watson - I'm Gonna Kill You - Between this Time and the Next Time

***Daniel Romano - All The Reaching Trims - Finally Free - New West Records***

Jason James - I've Been Drinkin' More - Jason James - New West Records

***Carson McHone - Sad - Carousel - Nine Mile Records***

***JP Harris - JP's Florida Blues #1 - Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing***

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Titanic Passenger - Archibald Jewell

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Titanic Passenger - Archibald Jewell

I have been very interested in the titanic, way before the movie came out. I have read and watched movies about it. When i went into a web site..I found out that there was an Archibald Jewell who was a lookout, I was once married to a Vernon Jewell, and subsequently we have children that their surname is Jewell…they would like me to find out for them if it is possible that Archie could be related to them. He was 23 yrs old, from Cornwall…but originally from Southampton. He survived on lifeboat 7, the first lifeboat in the water…after that I have no other information.. I have seen the movie 3 times… however I have read many books on the subject way before the movie. My grandmother used to tell me stories of the titanic….and I can’t recall if she said we had any relatives on there….my grandmother’s married name was Smith!! So maybe we are related in some way! Donna Balconi

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I am a historical and genealogical researcher and freelance writer in Florida.

I have been researching Violet Jessop, John Priest and Archie Jewell. The following are some research notes I have gathered on Archie. ~~ Alice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Archie Jewell

Born Dec. 4, 1888 in Cornwell, England

His parents – John Jewell (1855 – Jan. 20,1936) Born in Cornwell – – died in Bude, Franklin, Mississippi ??? (I’m really unsure of this and it needs further checking) and Elizabeth Hopper (1856 ? – April 9, 1891 in childbirth) John Jewell was a sailor.

Archie’s Siblings: Albert, Clara, John Henry (1877 – 1967), Ernest W. (1880 – 1958), Richard (1881 – 1955), Elizabeth (1884 – 1962),and Orlando (1885 – 1965), Archie went to sea about 1903. In 1904 joined the White Star Line. Archie – first served aboard Oceanic for about 7-8 years during which time he married Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Heard in 1915, also a native of Bude, Cornwell and they at 50 Bond Road, Bitterne Park, Southampton, Hampshire.

Archie (Archibald) Jewell was one of 6 of the lookout men on the Titanic. His duty time was 8 pm to 10 pm. In the crow’s nest. At 11:20 pm when the ship hit the iceberg, Archie was in his cabin berth. He was on board the Titanic on the night of 14 April, 1912, and his testimony and writings to one of his sisters describe the horror of watching the great ship sink and hearing the cries of passengers drowning in the icy seas. He was on lifeboat # 7.

Four years later, Jewell survived the sinking of the Britannic.

He died in April 17, 1917 when the SS Donegal was hit by a torpedo in the English Channel. On the Donegal – ship had an encounter with a German submarine on 1 March 1917 but escaped damage as it was able to outdistance the enemy. However, on 17th April, 1917 the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine without warning 19 miles south of the Dean Light Vessel in the English Channel and was sunk. Archie lost his life aged 28 along with 10 other crew members and 29 of the wounded soldiers. One of the survivors was John Priest.

His pay on the Titanic – 5 pounds to be a outlook

Archie Jewell’s son — Raymond Hope Jewell — born 1916 — died Dec. 10, 1930 – age 14 Archie’s wife — Bessie Jewell (Elizabeth — 1889 – 1962) They had married Aug. 24, 1915.

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Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda: 10 vụ mất tích kỳ bí nhất lịch sử

Vùng Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda là nơi rất nhiều tàu thuyền, máy bay biến mất bí ẩn

Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda là một trong những khu vực thần bí nhất lịch sử. Số máy bay và tàu thuyền biến mất ở đây nhiều hơn bất cứ nơi nào khác trên thế giới. Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda nằm ở Bắc Đại Tây Dương, giữa Bermuda, Puerto Rico và Florida của Mỹ. Nhiều người cho rằng hiện tượng siêu nhiên là nguyên nhân gây ra các vụ mất tích bí ẩn trong khu vực.

Vùng biển kỳ bí Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda là một trong những nơi chứng kiến nhiều vụ mất tích bí ẩn nhất trong lịch sử hàng không và hàng hải. Theo báo Anh The Sun, có ít nhất 75 máy bay và hàng trăm tàu thuyền biến mất trong khu vực mà không hề có lời giải thích.

Dưới đây là danh sách 10 vụ mất tích nổi tiếng nhất ở “vùng biển chết” Bermuda, nơi được cho là đã cướp đi sinh mạng của ít nhất 1.000 người trong vòng 100 năm qua, theo The Sun.

10. Chuyến bay 19, năm 1945

Chuyến bay 19 là một trong những sự kiện nổi tiếng nhất của Tam giác Bermuda

Chuyến bay 19 (Flight 19) là tên của đội năm máy bay oanh tạc phóng ngư lôi Mỹ, biến mất trên ở Tam giác Quỷ vào ngày 5.12.1945 trong khi tập huấn.

Tất cả 14 người trên chuyến bay đều biến mất không dấu vết. Trong quá trình tìm kiếm, một thuyền chở 13 người cũng biến mất trên mặt nước và không bao giờ được tìm thấy.

Theo The Richest, chuyến bay 19 là một trong những sự kiện nổi tiếng nhất của Tam giác Bermuda và là cảm hứng của bộ phim khoa học viễn tưởng “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (Kiểu tiếp xúc thứ 3). Trong phim, những phi công biến mất bị bắt cóc đưa đến sao Hỏa và sau đó, được đưa về Trái Đất bởi chính những người bắt cóc.

9. “Tàu ma” đi cùng tàu Ellen Austin, năm 1881

Ellen Austin là tàu lớn của Mỹ đã hai lần chứng kiến "tàu ma" ở Tam giác Quỷ Bermuda

Ellen Austin là tàu lớn của Mỹ thường xuyên di chuyển giữa New York và London. Trong một chuyến đi như vậy, con tàu gặp một chiếc thuyền không người lái di chuyển nhanh trong Tam giác Bermuda.

Thuyền trưởng của Ellen Austin quyết định đưa một số thủy thủ sang “tàu ma” để cố gắng cứu nó. Các thủy thủ cố gắng lái “tàu ma” cùng Ellen Austin đến London. Nhưng hai ngày sau, hai tàu bị tách trong bão.

Cơn bão khiến “tàu ma” biến mất cùng các thủy thủ, theo trang Bermuda Attractions. Cuộc tìm kiếm diễn ra nhưng thất bại.

Trong một chuyến đi khác, tàu Ellen Austin lần nữa đi qua “tàu ma” không người lái. Họ lại cử người lên tàu và kết cục y hệt lần trước.

8. Tàu USS Cyclops, năm 1918

 USS Cyclops cũng biến mất trong Tam giác Quỷ thời Thế chiến 1

USS Cyclops là tàu chở hàng khổng lồ cung cấp nhiên liệu cho hạm đội Mỹ trong Thế chiến 1.

Con tàu khởi hành với 309 người và hàng hóa nặng. Nó được phát hiện lần cuối ở Barbados, nơi tàu dừng lại để tải thêm hàng hóa đến Baltimore.

Tuy nhiên, USS Cyclops không bao giờ đến Baltimore. Một cuộc tìm kiếm lớn bắt đầu với lo ngại các thuyền viên bị tàu ngầm Đức bắt giữ.

Tuy nhiên, không có dấu vết nào của con tàu được tìm thấy và đây trở thành một trong những vụ mất tích có nhiều người thiệt mạng nhất ở Tam giác Quỷ. Năm 1941, hai tàu chị em của Cyclops cũng biến mất trên cùng lộ trình.

7. Máy bay C-54, 1947

Không rõ tại sao máy bay C-54 đổi hướng bay vào tâm bão

Máy bay C-54 cất cánh từ Bermuda vào ngày 3.7.1947 gặp bão lớn. Theo điều tra, cơn bão có thể là lý do khiến máy bay vỡ tan không để lại dấu vết, nhưng câu hỏi đặt ra là tại sao máy bay lại lao vào bão trong khi có thể dễ dàng né tránh?

Ngay từ đầu, máy bay đã chuyển hướng bay định sẵn mà không hề thấy phi công thông báo. Sau đó, nó thay đổi đường đi lần hai, lao vào mắt bão.

Nhân viên mặt đất nghe thấy tiếng cầu cứu SOS không liền mạch nên đã bỏ qua. Sau đó tiếng SOS thứ hai được phát lên và rồi im lặng bao trùm. Chiếc máy bay chưa bao giờ được tìm thấy.

6. Máy bay Tudor Star Tiger, năm 1948

Bản đồ vẽ đường đi định sẵn của máy bay Tudor Star Tiger

Vào ngày 30.1.1948, chiếc máy bay rời Santa Maria, Azores với 25 hành khách. Nhân viên mặt đất nhận được tọa độ và xác nhận máy bay sẽ đến Bermuda vào 5 giờ sáng. Sau đó, họ không thể liên lạc với máy bay Tudor Star Tiger thêm lần nào.

20 phút trước khi đến giờ dự định hạ cánh, họ tuyên bố kế hoạch khẩn cấp. Hàng tiếng sau, máy bay vẫn không đến nơi. 26 máy bay tìm kiếm nó suốt 5 ngày và không bao giờ tìm thấy.

5. Chuyến bay DC-3, năm 1948

Vào ngày 28.12.1948, một máy bay Douglas Dakota DC-3 cất cánh từ Puerto Rico để tới Miami, Florida. Khi cách sân bay 80km, máy bay gửi báo cáo vị trí, và đây là lần liên lạc cuối cùng của họ. Máy bay không bao giờ được tìm thấy cùng 26 người.

4. Chuyến bay 441, năm 1954

Chuyến bay 441 biến mất ở Tam giác Quỷ cùng 42 hành khách

Chuyến bay 441 là máy bay vận tải quân sự lớn của Mỹ. Vào ngày biến mất, nó chở 42 hành khách, gồm sĩ quan hải quân và gia đình.

Khi bay vào Tam giác Bermuda, máy bay bỗng biến mất. Cuộc điều tra nguyên nhân đi vào bế tắc. Được biết máy bay có chứa bè cứu hộ có thể nổi trên biển nếu máy bay bị vỡ khi hạ cánh. Nhưng phi công thậm chí chưa bao giờ gửi tín hiệu SOS.

3. Thuyền Ma thuật, năm 1967

Thuyền Witchcraft mất tích khi không đi quá bờ 1,6km

Witchcraft (có nghĩa là Ma thuật) là con thuyền sang trọng của người đàn ông tên Burrack, người cũng sở hữu khách sạn nổi tiếng. Ông mời cha mình lên thuyền để đi ngắm bờ biển Miami ban đêm. Họ thậm chí không đi quá bờ 1,6km.

Vào 9 giờ tối, lực lượng bảo vệ bờ biển nhận được điện thoại từ Burrack, nói rằng thuyền của ông đâm trúng một cái gì đó. Burrack thêm rằng đây không phải trường hợp khẩn cấp, họ chỉ cần kéo về bờ. Ông cũng nói mình sẽ đốt pháo sáng để giúp xác định vị trí.

Lực lượng cứu hộ đến nơi chưa đầy 20 phút sau đó nhưng chiếc thuyền đã biến mất. Cuộc tìm kiếm trên phạm vi 3.000 km vuông cũng không tìm thấy nó.

2. Loạt máy bay Piper Jets, từ năm 2005 đến 2007

Chiếc Piper Jets đầu tiên biến mất trong Tam giác Bermuda vào ngày 20.6.2005 khi chở ba người. Vụ việc tương tự xảy ra vào ngày 10.4.2007 gần đảo Berry. Phi công ở một mình và không có hành khách nào khác.

1. Máy bay Trislander, 2008

Một chiếc máy bay Trislander đã biến mất vào ngày 15.12.2008

Vụ biến mất gần đây nhất trong Tam giác Bermuda vào năm 2008. Chiếc máy bay Trislander ba động cơ cất cánh từ Santiago để bay tới New York vào ngày 15.12.2008 với 12 người.

Chỉ 35 phút sau khi cất cánh, máy bay biến mất khỏi radar. Cuộc tìm kiếm khổng lồ được lực lượng bảo vệ bờ biển Mỹ tiến hành nhưng vô ích.

Bí ẩn về tam giác quỷ Bermuda với hàng trăm chiếc máy bay và tàu thuyền “bốc hơi” không dấu vết cuối cùng đã được...

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December History

December 4   1674 - In what is now Chicago, Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek Indians.

1791 - The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was published in London.

1872 - The US ship Mary Celeste was found, in good condition, but with noone aboard, in the Atlantic Ocean.

1875 - New York City politician Boss Tweed escaped from prison.

1881 - The Los Angeles Times began publication.

1917 - "Shell Shock" was introduced as psychological trauma for war veterans.

1921 - The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ended in a hung jury. (It was a horrible accident.)

1943 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.

1945 - The Senate approved the participation of the United States in the UN. The United Nations began several weeks earlier, on October 24, 1945.

1952 - Starting today, and over the course of the next several days, Smog (severe air pollution) killed over 4,000 people in London.

1954 - The first Burger King (Insta Burger King) opened in Miami, Florida, owned by James McLamore and David Edgerton.

1956 - The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) got together at Sun Studio. The recordings were released in 1981 and 1990.

1973 - NASA's Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.

1980 - Led Zeppelin officially disbanded, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.

1981 - Falcon Crest premiered on CBS.

1981 - You Can't Do That on Television premiered on Nickelodeon.

1981 - Reds premiered in theaters. Warren Beatty wrote, directed and starred in the film.

1991 - Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) ceased operations.

2009 - American Amanda Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy

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Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago

The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses By Andrew J. Bacevich

Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we represent as a nation and a people. In a fundamental sense, he is us.

It was not always so. Millard Fillmore, the 13th president (1850-1853), presided over but did not personify the American republic. He was merely the federal chief executive.  Contemporary observers did not refer to his term in office as the Age of Fillmore.  With occasional exceptions, Abraham Lincoln in particular, much the same could be said of Fillmore’s successors.  They brought to office low expectations, which they rarely exceeded.  So when Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) or William Howard Taft (1909-1913) left the White House, there was no rush to immortalize them by erecting gaudy shrines -- now known as “presidential libraries” -- to the glory of their presidencies.  In those distant days, ex-presidents went back home or somewhere else where they could find work.

Over the course of the past century, all that has changed.  Ours is a republic that has long since taken on the trappings of a monarchy, with the president inhabiting rarified space as our king-emperor.  The Brits have their woman in Buckingham Palace.  We have our man in the White House.

Nominally, the Constitution assigns responsibilities and allocates prerogatives to three co-equal branches of government.  In practice, the executive branch enjoys primacy.  Prompted by a seemingly endless series of crises since the Great Depression and World War II, presidents have accumulated ever-greater authority, partly through usurpation, but more often than not through forfeiture.  

At the same time, they also took on various extra-constitutional responsibilities.  By the beginning of the present century, Americans took it for granted that the occupant of the Oval Office should function as prophet, moral philosopher, style-setter, interpreter of the prevailing zeitgeist, and -- last but hardly least -- celebrity-in-chief.  In short, POTUS was the bright star at the center of the American solar system.  

As recently as a year ago, few saw in this cult of the presidency cause for complaint.  On odd occasions, some particularly egregious bit of executive tomfoolery might trigger grumbling about an “imperial presidency.” Yet rarely did such complaints lead to effective remedial action.  The War Powers Resolution of 1973 might be considered the exception that proves the rule.   Inspired by the disaster of the Vietnam War and intended to constrain presidents from using force without congressional buy-in and support, that particular piece of legislation ranks alongside the Volstead Act of 1919 (enacted to enforce Prohibition) as among the least effective ever to become law.

In truth, influential American institutions -- investment banks and multinational corporations, churches and universities, big city newspapers and TV networks, the bloated national security apparatus and both major political parties -- have found reason aplenty to endorse a system that elevates the president to the status of demigod.  By and large, it’s been good for business, whatever that business happens to be.

Furthermore, it’s our president -- not some foreign dude -- who is, by common consent, the most powerful person in the universe. For inhabitants of a nation that considers itself both “exceptional” and “indispensable,” this seems only right and proper.  So Americans generally like it that their president is the acknowledged Leader of the Free World rather than some fresh-faced pretender from France or Canada.

Then came the Great Hysteria.  Arriving with a Pearl Harbor-like shock, it erupted on the night of November 8, 2016, just as the news that Hillary Clinton was losing Florida and appeared certain to lose much else besides became apparent.

Suddenly, all the habits and precedents that had contributed to empowering the modern American presidency no longer made sense.  That a single deeply flawed individual along with a handful of unelected associates and family members should be entrusted with determining the fate of the planet suddenly seemed the very definition of madness.

Emotion-laden upheavals producing behavior that is not entirely rational are hardly unknown in the American experience.  Indeed, they recur with some frequency.  The Great Awakenings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are examples of the phenomenon.  So also are the two Red Scares of the twentieth century, the first in the early 1920s and the second, commonly known as “McCarthyism,” coinciding with the onset of the Cold War.

Yet the response to Donald Trump’s election, combining as it has fear, anger, bewilderment, disgust, and something akin to despair, qualifies as an upheaval without precedent.  History itself had seemingly gone off the rails.  The crude Andrew Jackson’s 1828 ousting of an impeccably pedigreed president, John Quincy Adams, was nothing compared to the vulgar Donald Trump’s defeat of an impeccably credentialed graduate of Wellesley and Yale who had served as first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state.  A self-evidently inconceivable outcome -- all the smart people agreed on that point -- had somehow happened anyway.

A vulgar, bombastic, thrice-married real-estate tycoon and reality TV host as prophet, moral philosopher, style-setter, interpreter of the prevailing zeitgeist, and chief celebrity?  The very idea seemed both absurd and intolerable.

If we have, as innumerable commentators assert, embarked upon the Age of Trump, the defining feature of that age might well be the single-minded determination of those horrified and intent on ensuring its prompt termination. In 2016, TIME magazine chose Trump as its person of the year. In 2017, when it comes to dominating the news, that “person” might turn out to be a group -- all those fixated on cleansing the White House of Trump’s defiling presence.

Egged on and abetted in every way by Trump himself, the anti-Trump resistance has made itself the Big Story.  Lies, hate, collusion, conspiracy, fascism:  rarely has the everyday vocabulary of American politics been as ominous and forbidding as over the past six months.   Take resistance rhetoric at face value and you might conclude that Donald Trump is indeed the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, his presence in the presidential saddle eclipsing all other concerns.   Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death will just have to wait.

The unspoken assumption of those most determined to banish him from public life appears to be this: once he’s gone, history will be returned to its intended path, humankind will breathe a collective sigh of relief, and all will be well again.  Yet such an assumption strikes me as remarkably wrongheaded -- and not merely because, should Trump prematurely depart from office, Mike Pence will succeed him. Expectations that Trump’s ouster will restore normalcy ignore the very factors that first handed him the Republican nomination (with a slew of competitors wondering what hit them) and then put him in the Oval Office (with a vastly more seasoned and disciplined, if uninspiring, opponent left to bemoan the injustice of it all).

Not all, but many of Trump’s supporters voted for him for the same reason that people buy lottery tickets: Why not?  In their estimation, they had little to lose.  Their loathing of the status quo is such that they may well stick with Trump even as it becomes increasingly obvious that his promise of salvation -- an America made “great again” -- is not going to materialize.

Yet those who imagine that Trump’s removal will put things right are likewise deluding themselves.  To persist in thinking that he defines the problem is to commit an error of the first order.  Trump is not cause, but consequence.

For too long, the cult of the presidency has provided an excuse for treating politics as a melodrama staged at four-year intervals and centering on hopes of another Roosevelt or Kennedy or Reagan appearing as the agent of American deliverance.  Donald Trump’s ascent to the office once inhabited by those worthies should demolish such fantasies once and for all.

How is it that someone like Trump could become president in the first place?  Blame sexism, Fox News, James Comey, Russian meddling, and Hillary’s failure to visit Wisconsin all you want, but a more fundamental explanation is this: the election of 2016 constituted a de facto referendum on the course of recent American history.  That referendum rendered a definitive judgment: the underlying consensus informing U.S. policy since the end of the Cold War has collapsed.   Precepts that members of the policy elite have long treated as self-evident no longer command the backing or assent of the American people. Put simply: it’s the ideas, stupid.

Rabbit Poses a Question

“Without the Cold War, what’s the point of being an American?”  As the long twilight struggle was finally winding down, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, novelist John Updike’s late-twentieth-century Everyman, pondered that question. In short order, Rabbit got his answer.  So, too, after only perfunctory consultation, did his fellow citizens.

The passing of the Cold War offered cause for celebration.  On that point all agreed.  Yet, as it turned out, it did not require reflection from the public at large.  Policy elites professed to have matters well in hand.  The dawning era, they believed, summoned Americans not to think anew, but to keep doing precisely what they were accustomed to doing, albeit without fretting further about Communist takeovers or the risks of nuclear Armageddon.  In a world where a “single superpower” was calling the shots, utopia was right around the corner.  All that was needed was for the United States to demonstrate the requisite confidence and resolve.

Three specific propositions made up the elite consensus that coalesced during the initial decade of the post-Cold-War era.  According to the first, the globalization of corporate capitalism held the key to wealth creation on a hitherto unimaginable scale.  According to the second, jettisoning norms derived from Judeo-Christian religious traditions held the key to the further expansion of personal freedom.   According to the third, muscular global leadership exercised by the United States held the key to promoting a stable and humane international order.

Unfettered neoliberalism plus the unencumbered self plus unabashed American assertiveness: these defined the elements of the post-Cold-War consensus that formed during the first half of the 1990s -- plus what enthusiasts called the information revolution.  The miracle of that “revolution,” gathering momentum just as the Soviet Union was going down for the count, provided the secret sauce that infused the emerging consensus with a sense of historical inevitability.

The Cold War itself had fostered notable improvements in computational speed and capacity, new modes of communication, and techniques for storing, accessing, and manipulating information.  Yet, however impressive, such developments remained subsidiary to the larger East-West competition.  Only as the Cold War receded did they move from background to forefront.  For true believers, information technology came to serve a quasi-theological function, promising answers to life’s ultimate questions.  Although God might be dead, Americans found in Bill Gates and Steve Jobs nerdy but compelling idols.

More immediately, in the eyes of the policy elite, the information revolution meshed with and reinforced the policy consensus.  For those focused on the political economy, it greased the wheels of globalized capitalism, creating vast new opportunities for trade and investment.   For those looking to shed constraints on personal freedom, information promised empowerment, making identity itself something to choose, discard, or modify.  For members of the national security apparatus, the information revolution seemed certain to endow the United States with seemingly unassailable military capabilities.  That these various enhancements would combine to improve the human condition was taken for granted; that they would, in due course, align everybody -- from Afghans to Zimbabweans -- with American values and the American way of life seemed more or less inevitable.

The three presidents of the post-Cold-War era -- Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama -- put these several propositions to the test.  Politics-as-theater requires us to pretend that our 42nd, 43rd, and 44th presidents differed in fundamental ways.  In practice, however, their similarities greatly outweighed any of those differences.  Taken together, the administrations over which they presided collaborated in pursuing a common agenda, each intent on proving that the post-Cold-War consensus could work in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.

To be fair, it did work for some. “Globalization” made some people very rich indeed.  In doing so, however, it greatly exacerbated inequality, while doing nothing to alleviate the condition of the American working class and underclass.

The emphasis on diversity and multiculturalism improved the status of groups long subjected to discrimination.  Yet these advances have done remarkably little to reduce the alienation and despair pervading a society suffering from epidemics of chronic substance abuse, morbid obesity, teen suicide, and similar afflictions.  Throw in the world’s highest incarceration rate, a seemingly endless appetite for porn, urban school systems mired in permanent crisis, and mass shootings that occur with metronomic regularity, and what you have is something other than the profile of a healthy society.

As for militarized American global leadership, it has indeed resulted in various bad actors meeting richly deserved fates.  Goodbye, Saddam. Good riddance, Osama.  Yet it has also embroiled the United States in a series of costly, senseless, unsuccessful, and ultimately counterproductive wars.  As for the vaunted information revolution, its impact has been ambiguous at best, even if those with eyeballs glued to their personal electronic devices can’t tolerate being offline long enough to assess the actual costs of being perpetually connected.

In November 2016, Americans who consider themselves ill served by the post-Cold-War consensus signaled that they had had enough.  Voters not persuaded that neoliberal economic policies, a culture taking its motto from the Outback steakhouse chain, and a national security strategy that employs the U.S. military as a global police force were working to their benefit provided a crucial margin in the election of Donald Trump.

The response of the political establishment to this extraordinary repudiation testifies to the extent of its bankruptcy.  The Republican Party still clings to the notion that reducing taxes, cutting government red tape, restricting abortion, curbing immigration, prohibiting flag-burning, and increasing military spending will alleviate all that ails the country.  Meanwhile, to judge by the promises contained in their recently unveiled (and instantly forgotten) program for a “Better Deal,” Democrats believe that raising the minimum wage, capping the cost of prescription drugs, and creating apprenticeship programs for the unemployed will return their party to the good graces of the American electorate.

In both parties embarrassingly small-bore thinking prevails, with Republicans and Democrats equally bereft of fresh ideas.  Each party is led by aging hacks.  Neither has devised an antidote to the crisis in American politics signified by the nomination and election of Donald Trump.

While our emperor tweets, Rome itself fiddles.

Starting Over

I am by temperament a conservative and a traditionalist, wary of revolutionary movements that more often than not end up being hijacked by nefarious plotters more interested in satisfying their own ambitions than in pursuing high ideals.  Yet even I am prepared to admit that the status quo appears increasingly untenable. Incremental change will not suffice.  The challenge of the moment is to embrace radicalism without succumbing to irresponsibility.

The one good thing we can say about the election of Donald Trump -- to borrow an image from Thomas Jefferson -- is this: it ought to serve as a fire bell in the night.  If Americans have an ounce of sense, the Trump presidency will cure them once and for all of the illusion that from the White House comes redemption.  By now we ought to have had enough of de facto monarchy.

By extension, Americans should come to see as intolerable the meanness, corruption, and partisan dysfunction so much in evidence at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.  We need not wax sentimental over the days when Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen presided over the Senate to conclude that Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer represent something other than progress.  If Congress continues to behave as contemptibly as it has in recent years (and in recent weeks), it will, by default, allow the conditions that have produced Trump and his cronies to prevail.

So it’s time to take another stab at an approach to governance worthy of a democratic republic.  Where to begin?  I submit that Rabbit Angstrom’s question offers a place to start:  What’s the point of being an American?

Authentic progressives and principled conservatives will offer different answers to Rabbit’s query.  My own answer is rooted in an abiding conviction that our problems are less quantitative than qualitative.  Rather than simply more -- yet more wealth, more freedom, more attempts at global leadership -- the times call for different.  In my view, the point of being an American is to participate in creating a society that strikes a balance between wants and needs, that exists in harmony with nature and the rest of humankind, and that is rooted in an agreed upon conception of the common good.

My own prescription for how to act upon that statement of purpose is unlikely to find favor with most readers of TomDispatch.  But therein lies the basis for an interesting debate, one that is essential to prospects for stemming the accelerating decay of American civic life.

Initiating such a debate, and so bringing into focus core issues, will remain next to impossible, however, without first clearing away the accumulated debris of the post-Cold-War era.  Preliminary steps in that direction, listed in no particular order, ought to include the following:

First, abolish the Electoral College.  Doing so will preclude any further occurrence of the circumstances that twice in recent decades cast doubt on the outcome of national elections and thereby did far more than any foreign interference to undermine the legitimacy of American politics.

Second, rollback gerrymandering.  Doing so will help restore competitive elections and make incumbency more tenuous.

Third, limit the impact of corporate money on elections at all levels, if need be by amending the Constitution.

Fourth, mandate a balanced federal budget, thereby demolishing the pretense that Americans need not choose between guns and butter. [the only point I disagree with]

Fifth, implement a program of national service, thereby eliminating the All-Volunteer military and restoring the tradition of the citizen-soldier.  Doing so will help close the gap between the military and society and enrich the prevailing conception of citizenship.  It might even encourage members of Congress to think twice before signing off on wars that the commander-in-chief wants to fight.

Sixth, enact tax policies that will promote greater income equality.

Seventh, increase public funding for public higher education, thereby ensuring that college remains an option for those who are not well-to-do.

Eighth, beyond mere “job” creation, attend to the growing challenges of providing meaningful work -- employment that is both rewarding and reasonably remunerative -- for those without advanced STEM degrees.

Ninth, end the thumb-twiddling on climate change and start treating it as the first-order national security priority that it is.

Tenth, absent evident progress on the above, create a new party system, breaking the current duopoly in which Republicans and Democrats tacitly collaborate to dictate the policy agenda and restrict the range of policy options deemed permissible.

These are not particularly original proposals and I do not offer them as a panacea.  They may, however, represent preliminary steps toward devising some new paradigm to replace a post-Cold-War consensus that, in promoting transnational corporate greed, mistaking libertinism for liberty, and embracing militarized neo-imperialism as the essence of statecraft, has paved the way for the presidency of Donald Trump. We can and must do better. But doing so will require that we come up with better and truer ideas to serve as a foundation for American politics.

Andrew J. Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, now out in paperback. His next book will be an interpretive history of the United States from the end of the Cold War to the election of Donald Trump.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176316/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_the_great_hysteria/

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Shiller Pe Ratio For The S & p 500

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Shiller Pe Ratio Definition

Given that a picture is worth 1000 words, I am mosting likely to existing revenues and also rate correlated charts on the adhering to three well-known S&P 500 supplies to highlight my point. I will let the charts promote themselves as well as use only this brief description. When the price is above the orange earnings justified assessment line, the stock is miscalculated, when below the line, underestimated, when on the line (or really near it), fairly valued. For that reason, I use Home Depot (HD) as an overvalued S&P 500 business, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as a relatively valued instance, and ultimately Aflac (AFL) as an underestimated business.

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Yet, after more than 12 years of minimal rate admiration and weak dividend efficiency, numerous capitalists locate themselves asking the question, "Will we ever before see 6.6 percent ordinary annual returns once again?"

A high CAPE ratio has actually been connected to the phrase "Irrational enthusiasm" as well as to Shiller's book of the exact same name. After Fed President Alan Greenspan created the term in 1996, the CAPE ratio got to an all-time high during the 2000 dot-com bubble. It also got to a historically high level again during the housing bubble as much as 2007 prior to the collision of the excellent economic downturn. [9]

Shiller Pe Definition

With a combined PE proportion of 15, I believe the S&P 500 is relatively valued based upon actual existing as well as near forecast incomes. My optimism hinges on the concept that the globe economy is enhancing appearing of the terrific economic downturn, which we will quickly see substantial performance enhancements as the release stage of the info transformation enters into high equipment. Moreover, I think that top-level excellent publicly-traded US companies are well-positioned for profitable long-lasting development. The great recession of 2008 required a number of them to take long tough appearances at their equilibrium sheets and P&L's. Consequently, I believe business America is leaner and meaner, in a manner of speaking, compared to they have actually remained in a long period of time. Subsequently, efficiency enhancements need to feed their profits.

Where To Find Shiller Pe

At this point, it's crucial to state that historical F.A.S.T PM Capital. Charts evaluation dimensions are based on real S&P 500 operating incomes as reported, and also estimated revenues (numbers noted with E for quote) come straight from the Standard & Poor's site. This remains in contrast to the incredibly popular statistical S&P 500 valuations based on the Shiller PE ratio computation recognized as CAPE which makes use of profits determined as a 10-year average. If you carefully research the earnings and cost correlating chart above, it is obvious that revenues for the S&P 500 (the orange line) have actually mostly advanced with the exemption of the 2 recessions of 2001 and also 2008.

Shiller PE

The P/E 10 proportion differs a large amount over time. According to information first presented in Shiller's bestseller "Irrational Exuberance" (which was released in March 2000, corresponding with the top of the dot-com boom), updated to cover the period 1881 to November 2013, the proportion has varied from a reduced of 4.78 in December 1920 to an optimal of 44.20 in December 1999.

The measure exhibits a considerable amount of variation with time, and also has actually been criticised as "not always accurate in indicating market tops or bases.". [2] One suggested factor for this time variant is that CAPE does not consider prevailing risk totally free rates of interest. A typical argument is whether the inverse CAPE proportion ought to be further split by the yield on 10 year Treasuries. [8] This argument regained money in 2014 as the CAPE ratio reached an all time high in combination with historically extremely reduced prices on 10 year Treasuries.

The bottom line to my thesis is that I anticipate future earnings of the S&P 500 to be more than they are today, not lower, as the Shiller PE would certainly desire you to think. On an outright basis, simply puts, on real current profits, I believe the S&P 500 is relatively valued. In my experience, when the marketplaces in basic are fairly priced, it is simpler to discover relatively valued individual selections compared to it would be if the marketplace were genuinely overvalued. Furthermore, like all markets there are pricey supplies in the basic market, I shared an instance with Home Depot above. Nonetheless, there is a lot of value to be discovered for the discerning financier willing to dig deep enough.

Shiller Pe Ratio Index

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Shiller Pe Ratio 2017

Consequently, the S&P 500 efficiency when the Shiller PE proportion was at 15.17, indicating a solid buy, was outstanding. Nonetheless, it was likewise during a time when the S&P 500 was moderately miscalculated based upon real revenues, as well as simply prior to the strong revenues breakthrough previously mentioned as well as shown.

What Is Shiller Pe

When I released a write-up on April 7, 2011 the Shiller S&P 500 PE of 23.05 continuouslied non-stop recommend overvaluation. Nevertheless, the marketplace has advanced around an additional 10%, from 1333 to 1472, because that time. Yet all the gains were accomplished during times when the Shiller PE was recommending that supplies were misestimated.

The P/E 10 ratio is based upon the work of prominent capitalists Benjamin Graham as well as David Dodd in their fabulous 1934 financial investment tome "Security Analysis." Graham as well as Dodd advised using a multi-year standard of profits per share (EPS)-- such as 5, 7 or 10 years-- when computing P/E ratios to control for intermittent effects.

Exactly how Is Shiller Pe Calculated

Allow me to attempt to clarify this a little bit a lot more by providing the present revenues and price associated F.A.S.T. Graphs on the S&P 500 because schedule year 1993. The orange line on the graph stories earnings-per-share at the historic normal PE proportion of 15. The reader should keep in mind that the blue line on the chart represents a historically regular PE ratio of 19 over this moment period. This merely indicates that for much of this time structure, that the S&P 500's stock cost remained in miscalculated territory. Notably, observe how the stock cost tracked the orange earnings warranted appraisal line, which whenever it deviated away from the line it inevitably moves back in the direction of alignment. Today, with a mixed PE proportion of 14.8 the S&P 500 is fairly valued. (Note: that since of the long period of time of this chart, that just every other year is enter, although data for all years is outlined).

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Nevertheless, and in order to be fair and also well balanced with this write-up, the complying with F.A.S.T. Graphs considers the S&P 500 since January 1, 2009 when the Shiller PE proportion was at 15.17 indicating undervaluation. From this picture, it is clear that both actual operating incomes as well as the CAPE (Shiller's Cyclically Adjusted PE) both showed fair value. Nonetheless, it's vital to acknowledge that this was a time when the S&P 500's incomes had really fallen from $87.72 in fiscal year 2006 to $49.51 by 2008. In other words, the Shiller CAPE was exact because it was gauged at a time when S&P 500 revenues had succumbed to two consecutive years straight, and also just prior to solid S&P 500 increasing incomes development coming off of the reduced base.

Shiller Pe Adjusted For Interest Rates

After that on November 2, 2010, I released an update recommending that the S&P 500 should get to 1254 by year-end based on approximated incomes, the Shiller S&P 500 PE was 21.69 continuouslying claim that the marketplace was overvalued.

The Shiller P/E and also the proportion of total market cap over GDP can act as great guidance for capitalists in deciding their investment approaches at different market valuations. Historic market returns confirm that when the marketplace is fair or miscalculated, it pays to be defensive. Business with high quality business and also strong annual report will certainly offer much better returns in this setting. When the market economicals, beaten down companies with solid balance sheets could supply outsized returns.

Shiller Pe Emerging Markets

The following profits as well as price associated chart shows the S&P 500 at a rate of 1194.89 on October 10, 2011. As of this writing, the S&P 500 is valued at 1472.05 or about 23% above it was in October of 2011. For that reason, capitalists relying on the Shiller analytical PE lost out on a terrific buying possibility. Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-earnings Ratio

Why Is the Regular P/E Ratio Deceiving? The routine P/E uses the ratio of the S&P 500 index over the trailing-12-month incomes of S&P 500 firms. During economic expansions, business have high profit margins and also profits. The P/E proportion after that comes to be synthetically reduced due to greater incomes. Throughout recessions, revenue margins are reduced and earnings are reduced. After that the routine P/E ratio comes to be higher. It is most apparent in the chart listed below:

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What Is The Shiller Pe Ratio Today

Shiller Pe Ratio For The S & p 500

I think there is no alternative for making intelligent decisions based upon factual info. Having a smart structure with which to earn investing decisions can get rid of blunders that are as well commonly made when emotion is overtaking factor. Within this process, I believe it's crucial to identify that over the huge majority of the time, positives outweigh negative. As a result, it's vital to recognize that unfavorable economic cycles such as economic crises just come seldom, and typically end instead swiftly. So, I recommend that rather than being traumatized and also discouraged away, it's worth thinking about that the very best times to be looking at equities is when times are difficult. Because, it is during these times when terrific companies go on sale.

Shiller Pe Ratio Definition

Given that a picture deserves 1000 words, I am going to existing earnings and cost associated charts on the adhering to 3 popular S&P 500 stocks to highlight my point. I will let the charts speak for themselves and also offer just this short explanation. When the price is above the orange profits warranted valuation line, the stock is overvalued, when listed below the line, undervalued, and also when on the line (or extremely near to it), rather valued. Therefore, I provide Home Depot (HD) as a misestimated S&P 500 company, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as a relatively valued instance, and ultimately Aflac (AFL) as an underestimated firm.

Shiller Pe Explained

But, after more compared to 12 years of very little price recognition as well as weak returns performance, numerous financiers discover themselves asking the inquiry, "Will we ever before see 6.6 percent typical yearly returns once more?"

A high CAPE proportion has actually been connected to the expression "Irrational exuberance" as well as to Shiller's book of the same name. After Fed President Alan Greenspan coined the term in 1996, the CAPE ratio got to an all-time high during the 2000 dot-com bubble. It likewise reached a historically high degree once more during the housing bubble up to 2007 prior to the crash of the terrific economic downturn. [9]

Shiller Pe Definition

With a combined PE ratio of 15, I believe the S&P 500 is relatively valued based on genuine current and also near projection revenues. My optimism hinges on the concept that the globe economy is improving appearing of the excellent economic downturn, and that we will soon see considerable efficiency enhancements as the release phase of the details change comes right into high gear. Additionally, I think that high-profile excellent publicly-traded United States companies are well-positioned for lucrative lasting development. The fantastic economic downturn of 2008 forced much of them to take long hard looks at their annual report as well as P&L's. As an outcome, I think company America is leaner and also meaner, in a manner of speaking, compared to they have actually remained in a lengthy time. Consequently, productivity improvements need to feed their bottom lines.

Where To Find Shiller Pe

Now, it's vital to state that historical F.A.S.T PM Capital. Graphs appraisal dimensions are based on real S&P 500 operating revenues as reported, as well as estimated earnings (numbers marked with E for estimate) come directly from the Standard & Poor's internet site. This is in contrast to the preferred statistical S&P 500 assessments based on the Shiller PE ratio estimation known as CAPE which utilizes incomes computed as a 10-year average. If you thoroughly study the profits and also rate associating graph over, it is apparent that profits for the S&P 500 (the orange line) have actually mainly progressed with the exemption of both recessions of 2001 and also 2008.

Shiller PE

The P/E 10 ratio varies a lot gradually. Inning accordance with information initially offered in Shiller's bestseller "Irrational Exuberance" (which was released in March 2000, synchronizing with the top of the dot-com boom), upgraded to cover the duration 1881 to November 2013, the ratio has actually varied from a low of 4.78 in December 1920 to an optimal of 44.20 in December 1999.

The measure exhibits a significant quantity of variant with time, and also has been criticised as "not always exact in signaling market tops or bases.". [2] One proposed reason for this time around variant is that CAPE does not consider dominating danger free passion rates. An usual debate is whether the inverted CAPE ratio must be more divided by the return on 10 year Treasuries. [8] This debate restored currency in 2014 as the CAPE proportion reached an all time high in mix with traditionally very low rates on 10 year Treasuries.

The bottom line to my thesis is that I expect future earnings of the S&P 500 to be more than they are today, not reduced, as the Shiller PE would certainly desire you to think. On an absolute basis, in various other words, on actual present incomes, I think the S&P 500 is fairly valued. In my experience, when the marketplaces in general are rather priced, it is much easier to find fairly priced individual selections compared to it would certainly be if the marketplace were absolutely misestimated. In addition, like all markets there are expensive stocks in the basic market, I shared an example with Home Depot over. However, there is plenty of value to be located for the critical investor happy to dig deep sufficient.

Shiller Pe Ratio Index

Charles (Chuck) C. Carnevale is the developer of F.A.S.T. Graphs . Chuck is additionally founder of a financial investment administration company. He has actually been functioning in the protections sector considering that 1970: he has actually been a companion with a personal NYSE member firm, the President of a NASD company, Vice President and Regional Marketing Director for a major AMEX provided firm, as well as an Associate Vice President and also Investment Consulting Services Coordinator for a major NYSE member company. Prior to developing his own investment company, he was a companion in a 30-year-old recognized licensed financial investment advisory in Tampa, Florida. Chuck holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Tampa. Chuck is an in-demand public audio speaker who is extremely enthusiastic about spreading out the critical message of vigilance in finance. Chuck is a Veteran of the Vietnam War and was granted both the Bronze Star as well as the Vietnam Honor Medal.

Shiller Pe Ratio 2017

Consequently, the S&P 500 performance when the Shiller PE proportion went to 15.17, indicating a solid buy, was phenomenal. However, it was additionally during a time when the S&P 500 was moderately miscalculated based upon real profits, as well as simply before the solid profits advancement previously discussed as well as highlighted.

What Is Shiller Pe

When I published a short article on April 7, 2011 the Shiller S&P 500 PE of 23.05 proceeded to relentlessly suggest overvaluation. Nonetheless, the market has actually progressed around another 10%, from 1333 to 1472, because that time. Yet every one of the gains were attained throughout times when the Shiller PE was suggesting that stocks were miscalculated.

The P/E 10 ratio is based upon the work of prominent financiers Benjamin Graham and also David Dodd in their legendary 1934 financial investment tome "Security Analysis." Graham and Dodd suggested using a multi-year standard of incomes per share (EPS)-- such as 5, 7 or 10 years-- when computing P/E proportions to regulate for cyclical effects.

How Is Shiller Pe Calculated

Enable me to aim to clarify this a bit more by offering the current revenues and cost associated F.A.S.T. Graphs on the S&P 500 since fiscal year 1993. The orange line on the graph stories earnings-per-share at the historical normal PE proportion of 15. The visitor needs to keep in mind that the blue line on the graph represents a traditionally typical PE ratio of 19 over this time duration. This simply suggests that for much of this timespan, that the S&P 500's supply price was in overvalued region. Significantly, see exactly how the supply cost tracked the orange revenues warranted appraisal line, which whenever it drifted far from the line it unavoidably removals back towards placement. Today, with a blended PE proportion of 14.8 the S&P 500 is moderately valued. (Note: that because of the long period of this graph, that just each year is typed in, although data for all years is outlined).

Shiller Pe For Individual Stocks

Nevertheless, as well as in order to be fair as well as balanced with this post, the adhering to F.A.S.T. Graphs considers the S&P 500 considering that January 1, 2009 when the Shiller PE proportion went to 15.17 indicating undervaluation. From this picture, it is clear that both actual operating revenues as well as the CAPE (Shiller's Cyclically Adjusted PE) both suggested reasonable worth. Nevertheless, it's vital to acknowledge that this was a time when the S&P 500's revenues had really fallen from $87.72 in calendar year 2006 to $49.51 by 2008. In other words, the Shiller CAPE was accurate since it was gauged each time when S&P 500 revenues had dropped for two successive years in a row, as well as just prior to solid S&P 500 increasing earnings growth coming off of the low base.

Shiller Pe Adjusted For Interest Rates

After that on November 2, 2010, I released an update recommending that the S&P 500 ought to get to 1254 by year-end based on approximated revenues, the Shiller S&P 500 PE was 21.69 continuing to say that the market was miscalculated.

The Shiller P/E and the proportion of overall market cap over GDP could act as good advice for capitalists in choosing their investment strategies at different market valuations. Historical market returns show that when the marketplace is fair or overvalued, it'ses a good idea to be defensive. Business with top quality business as well as solid annual report will certainly supply far better returns in this setting. When the market is low-cost, oppressed companies with solid balance sheets can offer outsized returns.

Shiller Pe Emerging Markets

The list below profits as well as price associated chart reveals the S&P 500 at a price of 1194.89 on October 10, 2011. As of this writing, the S&P 500 is priced at 1472.05 or around 23% more than it was in October of 2011. For that reason, investors thinking in the Shiller statistical PE lost out on a fantastic acquiring opportunity. Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-earnings Ratio

Why Is the Regular P/E Ratio Deceiving? The routine P/E makes use of the ratio of the S&P 500 index over the trailing-12-month revenues of S&P 500 firms. During financial expansions, firms have high. With comprehensive experience in the rare-earth elements industry, PM Capital is the premier source for buying gold and silver in the United States. We market and distribute a range of special items varying from gold and silver bars and rounds to uncommon numismatic coins. The objective of our whole service operation is dedicated to supplying these valuable items directly to your doorstep. Our main workplace lies in the Salt Lake Valley, where the surroundings is extraordinary and the company environment is primed for enormous growth. Many major corporations from around the globe are broadening or opening workplaces in Utah, taking advantage of the special environment and the amazing quality of a young and lively workforce. As solid as the Granite Mountains that surround PM Capital, our Client Care combined with our commitment to personalized service makes PM Capital your top trusted source for obtaining rare-earth elements. The quality of our items is our leading objective and we achieve that mission with a personnel dedicated to serving you. Integrating our service with the industry's finest wholesale network makes sure that every brand-new coin, round or bar meets or exceeds current quality requirements established by the NGC and PCGS. Building your rare-earth elements portfolio can be a challenge and that's why PM Capital is committed to streamlining the job every step of the way.revenue margins and incomes. The P/E ratio then ends up being synthetically reduced as a result of greater revenues. During recessions, profit margins are reduced and earnings are reduced. After that the routine P/E proportion comes to be higher. It is most evident in the graph below:

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