Wooden shelter perched on a mountain in the Alps on the border of Slovenia and Italy. The cabin “bivouac Luca Vuerich” pays tribute to the mountaineer Vuerich Luca, who died in an avalanche in 2010. Mountaineers can take refuge there for free if they manage to climb the 2531 meters.
Designed by Italian architect Giovanni Pesamosca. Suggested by Joan Childs.
Bread machines are useful for a lot more than just making bread. After all, you've got a single device that can both stir and heat and even do it on a schedule. So if you have a bread machine sitting on a shelf gathering dust, clean it up and put it to use.
If you've got your eye on any of those new GoPros, they're now available for purchase. Prices start at just $130 for the GoPro Hero, and go all the way up to $500 for the Hero4 Black. In typical GoPro fashion, there are also a bunch of new accessories to sort through as well. [Amazon]
November 13th-15th marks the 3rd Annual Cheeca Lodge Backcountry Fishing Tournament at mile marker 82 on Islamorada’s Oceanside. This prestigious fishing event lures anglers from around the world to compete for individual and team prizes for the release of snook, redfish, bonefish, tarpon, and permit with tackle divisions that include fly, artificial and general. The fishing headquarters is World Wide Sportsman, just half a mile from Cheeca Lodge & Spa.
This tournament’s new format hosts a Welcome Reception and Cocktail Party November 13th in the Sunrise Ballroom and Terrace at 5:30PM with the rules meeting at 7:00PM mandatory for all guides. The tournament begins the 14th with an extravagant All-American BBQ on Cheeca’s beach, and an awards ceremony and banquet on the 15th to conclude the event. “This new format allows our guides to get home early on Saturday evening, and allows our anglers to have a full day Sunday to relax or travel home,” says Tournament Director Julie Olsen.
The entry fee of $2,000 per angler includes entry into each of the three social events for the individual, a guest, and the angler’s guide and guest, plus breakfast and lunch each day. The event’s goal is to raise funds for the locally based Guides Trust Foundation, which assists Florida Keys fishing guides and awards scholarships to local students. For information or donation forms, visit guidestrustfoundation.org. Contact Julie Olsen for questions or entry forms. (305) 517-4449; jolsen@cheeca.com; cheeca.com/all-american
By Christine Carpenter, Southern Boating October 2014
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The fine art of the motorcycle film has hit a speed hump in recent years. Raw and gritty paens to the alternative lifestyle are harder to find. And easy access to broadcast-quality DSLR recording has caused a rise in quantity rather than quality.
But it’s not all showers of sparks from angle grinders, or softly-spoken men with beards muttering dreamy platitudes. Here are six terrific films that we’ve enjoyed recently, including a couple of old favorites—and a very enticing trailer.
ON ANY SUNDAY, THE NEXT CHAPTER Released back in ‘71, On Any Sunday is one of the best-loved motorcycle films of all time. Directed by Bruce Brown—famous for the surf classic Endless Summer—it captured the spirit of motorcyling in a way that even non-riders could understand. And deservedly won an Academy Award nomination.
A sequel is now being readied for release, directed by Bruce’s son Dana Brown and shot using 4K Ultra HD equipment. On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter is backed by Red Bull, KTM and Skullcandy, and the PR machine is about to hit top gear.
Fortunately, the trailer suggests that the film will live up to the hype. It’ll hit theaters in the USA on November 7.
LONG LIVE THE KINGS Clement Beauvais and Arthur de Kersauson scored a king hit with this oddball six-minute documentary. Released two years ago, it follows the lads from Blitz Motorcycles on a roadtrip through France. Shot on Super 16 film, it’s a beguiling mix of edginess and elegance.
If you like Kings, keep an eye out for Beauvais and de Kersauson’s new full-length documentary, The Greasy Hands Preachers. It’s just premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival, with Orlando Bloom on board as executive producer. Early reports are mixed for that one, but we’ll reserve judgment until we’ve seen it ourselves.
TOM FUGLE If the name Scott Pommier sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen his peerless motorcycle photography—often monochrome, but always atmospheric. Pommier has now made a five-minute film: a profile of veteran builder Tom Fugle.
Fugle is one of the founders of the El Forastero outlaw motorcycle club—which counted artist Dave Mann amongst its members. But this film is about Tom’s passion for bikes, and mighty fine it is too.
WAITING OUT WINTER Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. This is Andrew David Watson’s homage to craftspeople who spend cold days inside their workshops, building and fettling, and waiting for better weather. If you’ve ever shivered inside your garage while working on your bike, you’ll sympathize.
CHENNAI TO PONDICHERRY Director Skylar Nielsen took a crew on a motorcycle tour of Southern India, and the result is as tasty as a hot masala dosa. The trip south down the East Coast Road was eye opening, and Nielsen has somehow captured the mayhem of being surrounded by thousands of cars, tuk-tuks, cows, goats, and dogs. Sensory overload at its finest.
SHINYA KIMURA—CHABOTT ENGINEERING This is the gold standard: the film that raised the bar, and every other director looks up to. It’s four years old now, but has lost none of its appeal. Director Henrik Hansen takes us on a trip into the world and mindset of Shinya Kimura, the enigmatic Japanese builder who set up Zero Engineering and now practices his craft in the small town of Azusa, California.
He’s one of the few builders who can command more than $100,000 for his work, and after watching this, you’ll see why. It’s two minutes and 45 seconds of perfection.
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However, Special Forces are believed to have told the Ministry of Defence that an attempt to capture him would fail due to the level of security around him. Sources have suggested that he is in Raqqa, the de-facto capital city of ISIS but this is deep in territory controlled by their fighters.
One source said: “The imagery from the drones and satellites is instructive but IS infrastructure in Raqqa would have to be targeted over a sustained period to make any sort of raid a realistic possibility.
“On the basis of our current advice there is very little chance of the Prime Minister signing off a rescue bid. The prospect of success has got to be 100 per cent or thereabouts, and at the moment it is nowhere near that. And for now there are not many other options on the table.
“While sightings of Jihadi John are useful, as was establishing his identity, we are still a long way off getting a hit on him. Right now a raid would be suicidal.”
Western powers, particularly the British, have been desperate to capture Jihad John because of his campaign of beheading hostages such as Alan Henning. Although the identity of the masked man in the video has never been confirmed there are widespread rumours reported on Bereitbart London that he is 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary.
Mr Bary is known to be fighting for ISIS, and is the son of a former Al-Qaeda press officer who was given political asylum in the UK. Despite his terrorist connections Mr Bary's father was also given a £1m taxpayer funded home in West London.
If Jihad John does turn out to be Bary there are likely to be serious questions about how a family of terrorists were afforded a taxpayer funded package that was far beyond the means of most British people.
A new Associated Press poll finds that Americans lack confidence in the U.S. government's ability to protect them across a wide range of issues ranging from economic instability to terrorist attacks.
"I think what we've got going on here in America is the perfect storm of not good things," Joe Teasdale, 59, told the Associated Press.
Perhaps most devastating of all is the fact that the AP poll was conducted before it was known that a Liberian man in Dallas had Ebola.
On the issue of terrorism, just 27% of Democrats said they were confident in government's ability to protect them from terrorist attacks.
When asked how confident they were that the "U.S. government can effectively minimize the threat Americans face" from "racial tensions," 61% of likely voters said "not too confident" or "not at all confident."
On an unstable job market, just 12% of likely voters said they were "extremely" or "very confident" in government's ability to help.
The AP poll contained 31% Democrats, 24% Independents, and 24% Republicans.
Traditionalists took over London Bridge yesterday to exercise their historic right to drive sheep into the city, despite calls for a boycott by animal right activists. Paul O'Grady – who plays the transvestite Lilly Savage – had written to Lord Mayor of London Fiona Wolfe demanding the event be cancelled because of the "distress" it causes to the sheep.
The annual event involves Freemen of the City of London taking herds of sheep over the bridge. Freemen have had the right to freely trade in the City since around 1237, but in this case they each pay a charitable donation to participate in the event.
O'Grady was reported in the Evening Standard as saying: "I understand that as Lord Mayor of the City of London, you are historically entitled to the Freedom of the City, a privilege that theoretically affords you the right to carry a naked sword in public, in addition to other equally archaic practices.
"I am sure that you will agree that these "rights" should not be exercised simply because they can be exercised."
He added: "Herding sheep down a very busy London street while cars continue to speed along the road next to them shows a disregard for their welfare and needlessly causes them distress. I have no doubt that you would be able to match, if not exceed, the donations that the previous Lord Mayor received by promoting an event without the use of any animals."
Despite the calls from the TV presenter the event went ahead yesterday without incident with hundreds of participants and thousands more spectators. In the end the Lord Mayor did not join the Worshipful Company of Woolmen, the body that traditionally regulate the wool trade in London.
Vice President Joe Biden made another gaffe on Thursday, telling Harvard students that China is a part of North America.
Speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Biden made yet another blunder after saying that "North America is literally--not figuratively--the epicenter of energy in the world today."
"North America will account--meaning Mexico, China and Canada--for two-thirds of the growth of global energy supply over the next 20 years," Biden said. "By 2018, the United States will be a net exporter of natural gas, and most projections show North America will be totally energy independent by 2020, and the United States shortly thereafter."
Biden continued by saying "there are more rigs, gas and oil rigs in the United States pumping today than every other nation in the world combined."
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts doctor and missionary who was successfully treated for Ebola he contracted in Africa is back in the hospital with what appears to be a respiratory infection, but doctors don't suspect a recurrence of the virus.
UMass Memorial Medical Center said in a statement that Dr. Richard Sacra was hospitalized Saturday for observation and is in stable condition. He has a cough and conjunctivitis, commonly known as pinkeye, hospital officials said.
Sacra will remain in isolation until doctors have confirmation from tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that he is not infected with the virus, the hospital said. Doctors expect to know with certainty by late Monday.
"We are isolating Dr. Sacra to be cautious pending final confirmation of his illness," said Dr. Robert Finberg, who is heading Sacra's medical team. "We think it is highly unlikely that he has Ebola. We suspect he has an upper respiratory tract infection."
Sacra, of Holden, returned to Massachusetts on Sept. 25 after weeks of treatment at an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital.
He spent much of the last two decades in Liberia, working with a missionary group. He also works at Family Health Center of Worcester.
Bruce Johnson, president of the SIM USA missionary group, said in a news release that Sacra first visited a Boston-area hospital emergency room Saturday morning because of a persistent cough and low-grade fever and concern that he might be developing pneumonia. Johnson said Sacra was transferred to UMass Memorial for observation as a precaution under CDC guidelines.
Johnson said Dr. Phil Smith of the Nebraska Medical Center, where Sacra was treated, told SIM that Sacra's recent viral illness lowered his immune system but his current symptoms aren't those of someone suffering from Ebola.
"Dr. Sacra did the right thing by going to the hospital," Smith said in a statement released by SIM. "He's been through a lot over the last month, and he wanted to be sure his respiratory illness didn't worsen. Being a doctor himself, he knows the importance of preventative care."
Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," with Candy Crowley, CDC Director Tom Frieden said Ebola is spreading so fast in Africa that it is "hard to keep up."
Frieden said "It's going to take time. The virus is spreading so fast that it's hard to keep up. That's why it's terrific the president has deployed the Department of Defense there in support of the disease control efforts. This is exactly what's needed and it's going to make a difference, but it's going to take time."
Frieden called the mistakes made in the Ebola first case in Dallas a "teachable moment," adding, "After this incident I'm certain there's a lot more concern and attention throughout the U.S."
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On Friday night, Bill Maher hosted atheist author Sam Harris, actor Ben Affleck, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to discuss Maher’s rant last week in which he discussed the violence of radical Islam and the prevalence of belief in radical Islam. Harris sided with Maher; Maher defended his comments.
Affleck, Kristof, and Steele, however, all suggested that Maher’s criticism of Islam went too far. Steele said that moderate Muslims just don’t receive media coverage. Affleck actually suggested that Maher’s criticisms of Islam were akin to calling someone a “shifty Jew.” Kristof said that because Maher and Harris had the temerity to quote polls about acceptance of anti-Muslim violence by Muslims all over the world, he was talking “a little bit of the way white racists talk about African-Americans.”
Maher, correctly, stated, “What you’re saying is, ‘because they’re a minority, we shouldn’t criticize.’” He added that Islam is the “only religion that acts like the Mafia that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book. There’s a reason why Ayaan Hirsi Ali needs bodyguards 24/7.”
After 9/11, Americans wondered why the Bush and Clinton administrations had failed to connect the dots. Perhaps it’s because the culture of political correctness means that we must see every dot as disconnected, rather than as part of a broader intellectual and philosophical framework. If you stand too close to a Seurat painting, you’re likely to miss the fact that you’re looking at a Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte, rather than a random series of colored dots.
By acting as though terrorists and their supporters are outliers, occasional needles hidden within massive haystacks, we fail to make policy based upon reality. The politically correct mob insists we look at terrorist incidents as occasional blips, rather than outgrowths of a dangerous ideology that must be uprooted completely. And so we miss signals. We miss red flags.
Now, it is possible that our politicians lie to us. It is possible that they see the patterns and monitor those patterns. It’s possible they understand the radical Islamic funding of mosques all over the world, the recruitment of Muslims across the planet to support jihad.
But those lies – if they are lies – have consequences. They are parroted by fools, both left and right, who cite Bush and Clinton and Obama and all the rest for the proposition that Islam means peace and that Islamic terror groups are not Islamic. Instead, they claim, Islamic terrorists are merely crazy folks. Which means we don’t have to take their ideology seriously, their appeal seriously, or their outreach seriously.
And so we don’t. That’s why the State Department released an ad in early September showing crucifixions, Muslims being shot in the head, a blown-up mosque, and a beheaded body. Apparently, the State Department believed their own press: they believed that by castigating ISIS as an un-Islamic outlier, they could convince potential allies to stay away. That’s idiocy. ISIS releases precisely the same sort of videos as recruitment efforts – the Islamic terrorists understand that they are, in fact, Islamic. So do those they target.
In order to defend an ideology or a religion, one should know something about the ideology or religion. Ben Affleck, Nicholas Kristof, and Michael Steele are not Islamic scholars. Neither are George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton. In fact, when it comes to points of Islamic law, any average member of ISIS likely knows more than any of the aforementioned defenders of Islam.
The West cannot be the great defender of Islam, because we have no capacity to slice radical Islam out of broader Islam. We are radically unqualified to do so. We can only fight those who share an ideology dedicated to our destruction. And defending that broader ideology by downplaying a so-called “fringe minority” only emboldens those of the radical minority.
Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org. Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro.
SANTA MONICA -- A controversial company that pays tenants of rent-controlled apartments to move out so that landlords can raise rents is in local headlines after it paid students to hold an advertising banner during a recent high school football game. The ad for Lease Buyout Now, a company started in San Francisco in 2011, was canceled by Santa Monica High School amidst the controversy, the Santa Monica Daily Press reports.
Rents have skyrocketed all over California in recent years, but especially in the Los Angeles area, which has the nation's lowest proportion of homeowners to renters. In Santa Monica, where rent control policies allow tenants to stabilize their rent when they move in, many landlords find themselves unable to take advantage of the new, higher prices. Ironically, the policy creates a disincentive to invest in new housing stock that would lower rents.
Enter Lease Buyout Now, which pays tenants to leave and pockets some of the money--a small price to pay for those landlords eager to raise rents to several times what they were in the 1980s and 1990s, when the area was a sleepy beach community instead of a trendy tech hub and attractive destination for professionals and families.
Parents and members of the local rent control board noticed when high school cheerleaders unfurled a banner reading "Got Rent Control?" at halftime at the team's home opener last month. The promotion included a game in which contestants would try to throw a football through a hoop to win a scholarship. After public outcry--no small event in a city whose politics are dominated by renters' advocacy groups--the school district canceled the Lease Buyout Now campaign, which the Daily Press says had not yet brought money into the district's coffers.
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On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the economy added 248,000 jobs in September, corrected slightly from the disappointing report in August. The unemployment rate edged lower, falling to 5.9%, but part of the drop in unemployment is due to 315,000 people leaving the labor force in September.
September job gains were slightly higher than economists had predicted. Consensus estimates were for the economy to gain about 215,000 jobs. Job growth in July and August was also revised upward. The September report returns the economy to the "new normal" of monthly job growth slightly above the 200k threshold. This level is important, as it allows the economy to merely keep up with population growth. The working population of the country grew by 217,000 people in September.
Wages were flat. Average hourly earnings were unchanged, while average weekly earnings dipped 0.1%. The number of hours worked each week was also flat. The lack of wage growth signals a continued weak job market, with little pressure on employers to raise wages to attract needed workers.
The economy continues to be stagnant, with job growth just keeping up with organic population growth. In our world of declining expectations, the Labor Department report is a "good" number. The unemployment rate did drop, but it's driven as much by people giving up the prospect of work as people finding good jobs.
DALLAS, Texas -- Breitbart Texas has learned the family sharing the apartment with America’s first Ebola Patient was scheduled for an October 1st eviction prior to the victim’s onset of Ebola. Notification had reportedly been given to the tenants of the apartment that their lease had not been renewed and they would have to leave the property. Three days prior to the eviction, Thomas Duncan became so ill from the Ebola virus he contracted in Liberia, he was transported to the hospital.
A source close to apartment management spoke with Breitbart Texas on condition of anonymity. “The occupants of this apartment were notified of the non-renewal of their lease and were advised they would have to move,” the source said. “There had been a lot of problems associated with the people living in that apartment and it was time for them to move on.”
The source claimed there were many domestic disturbances at the apartments. Additionally, he claimed, the woman in the apartment was always calling the city to report some problem or another and then would refuse to allow the responding city agency access to the apartment.
“We had a lot of problems there,” the source claimed.
While Duncan is quarantined in the hospital, the family is now sequestered under an in-house lockdown. The source said the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office served a protection order on the family ordering them to remain inside the apartment after the woman sent her children to school after being advised not to. “Since receiving the protection order and threatened with arrest if they attempt to leave the apartment,” the source stated, “the occupants have become cooperative with us.”
The source claimed they occupants would still be evicted once their quarantine period ends.
Bob Price is a staff writer and a member of the original Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.
Parents, teachers, and a social worker are interviewed in a new documentary titled The Parent Interviews, in which they describe their experiences and those of their children and students with the Common Core standards.
Published by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and filmmaker Ian Reid, the film, a follow-up to a prior documentary called Building the Machine, exposes the frustration of parents with the Common Core’s tendency to place unrealistic, non-age appropriate expectations on their young children, transforming school from a rewarding learning experience to a high stakes, high stress environment.
In a press release, Reid said:
We were really happy with the response to the Building the Machine film. Most viewers felt that it was an excellent primer on the standards and their questionable background, but many also expressed that they wanted a more in-depth look at the Common Core and how the standards have impacted parents and children. In response to those requests, we’ve put together an additional 20-minute documentary featuring parent interviews from the state of New York and six content-specific episodes that explore issues such as international benchmarking, high-stakes testing, datamining and more.
The Parent Interviews can be viewed free online from October 1-7, and is included in the complete edition of Building the Machine, available at HSLDA.
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan stood at the very spot on the northern coast of France where forty years before Allied soldiers had stormed ashore to liberate Europe from the long night of Nazi tyranny.
As an audience of D-Day veterans and world leaders listened, President Reagan introduced the American Rangers who captured the cliffs as “champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”
But starting this year, many of our best students won’t learn about the “boys of Pointe du Hoc.” Although state and local U.S. history standards recognize and honor the heroism and contributions of American military commanders, servicemen and women, and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, the College Board’s redesigned Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) Framework ignores them. In fact, it essentially ignores all of American military history from the Revolutionary War to the present day.
About 500,000 of our nation’s most academically talented high school sophomores and juniors take APUSH. The College Board’s new Framework completely omits all American military commanders and notes just two battles – Gettysburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea. It totally neglects the valor and sacrifices of the American servicemen and women. Veterans and their families will be dismayed to learn that Washington does not cross the Delaware, William Travis (a South Carolina hero) does not defend the Alamo, and the GI’s do not liberate Europe.
Instead, our students will learn that the American Expeditionary Force in World War I “played a relatively limited role in the war” (yes, it states that even though American casualties totaled almost 321,000) and that during World War II the “atomic bomb raised questions about American values.” In addition, the Framework reduces both the Korean War and the Vietnam War to just one sentence, while completely omitting the GI Bill, the Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Although the APUSH Framework largely passes over American military history, it does devote extensive coverage to conflicts with Native Americans. For example, the Framework notes five major wars between Native Americans and the colonists and two major battles between Plains Indians and the U.S. Cavalry. Indeed, the Framework devotes more space to diplomatic relations with Native American tribes following the French and Indian War than it does to both World War I and World War II combined. It is also shocking to learn that the Framework omits all mention of General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of the D-Day Invasion, yet sees the need to note Chief Little Turtle -- whose warriors killed 600 U. S. soldiers in America’s worse military disaster against Native American forces.
The College Board insists that the APUSH Framework offers a “balanced” presentation of the American story. However, the imbalance between its minimal coverage of traditional American military history and its enhanced coverage of the conflicts with Native Americans strongly supports the conclusion that the authors of the Framework had other objectives.
The nine professors and high school teachers who wrote the APUSH Framework adopted a consistent revisionist interpretation of American history. In a penetrating analysis of the roots of the Framework, Stanley Kurtz explains that, from the revisionist point of view, “the heart of our country’s history lies in the pursuit of empire, the dominion over others.” Given this focus on America as a rising imperialist power, “the formative American moment was the colonial assault on the Indians… This is why the Framers and the principles of our Constitutional system receive short shrift in the new AP guidelines, and why the conflict between the settlers and the Indians has taken center stage.”
The Framework’s neglect of American military history is also closely tied to the document’s aversion to the concept of American Exceptionalism. According to this traditional concept, America has a historic mission to be a model and defender of freedom and democracy. American forces thus do not go into battle because they hate the enemy or to seize new territories. Rather, like “the boys of Pointe du Hoc,” they risk their lives to defend freedom at home and around the world.
One must wonder how, in a few years, APUSH will describe the heroics of today’s military. Or will the College Board just ignore them altogether?
The Framework’s neglect of the valor and contributions of America’s military forces is unacceptable. During the initial assault on Omaha Beach, the American commander called on his troops to demonstrate extraordinary valor with this legendary command: “Rangers lead the way!” No such inspirational stories appear in the APUSH Framework.
We urge veterans and their families to lead the way in demanding that the College Board withdraw the APUSH Framework and return to a curriculum that rightly honors their bravery and sacrifice, and that reaffirms our founding principles as something worthy of the good fight.
Jane Robbins is the senior fellow of APP Education of the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.
Larry Krieger is a retired AP U.S. History teacher from Pennsylvania.
