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DETROIT - Detroit area drivers will need to keep their car heaters in shape Friday morning. Temps will be in the upper and middle teens with wind chills in the single numbers. Basketball fans will need to wear their winter gear walking around The Palace before and after their NCAA Tournament games. The afternoon will be partly sunny with highs in the middle and upper 30s.
Friday night will be cold with lows near 25. Residents will need to be careful with space heaters.
Saturday and Sunday will be mostly sunny, and this will help temps get closer to 40 degrees or slightly more during the day.
When the next work-week rolls around, another round of snow rolls in with temps backing down to the 30s. Snow showers are possible Sunday night and Monday with some accumulation. At least a few inches are in the forecast, for now, but this may change.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. – After a 2-2 opening weekend in Michigan, the Lions rebounded with a 4-0 performance at the Courtyard Boca Raton Invitational tournament, hosted by Lynn University. With two Friday wins under their belts, Saint Leo defeated the UPR-Mayaguez Janes by a score of 3-0 just before taking home a 3-set win over the Fort Valley State Wildcats on Saturday afternoon.
The action began for the Lions at 9 a.m., when they took the court against UPR-Mayaguez, and after just three quick sets (25-12, 25-19, 25-13), the Lions had claimed their third win of the weekend. Junior Tawni Warren and sophomore Jillian Stolzenburg led the Lions in kills during the short match, collecting eight apiece. Junior Lauren Campbell and senior Meghan Donovan led closely behind, with seven and six kills, respectively. Jaclyn Mailoto notched 23 assists in the effort, and defensively, libero Yaidimar Santiago led with seven digs.
After a short break in play, the Lions took the court for the final time during the Boca Raton Invitational; this time against the Fort Valley State Wildcats. Once again, Warren led the team in kills with 11, while Stolzenburg and junior-transfer Alexa Giffith-Hardy collected nine each. On the defensive side of the ball, newcomer Hannah Pietz notched 10 digs and Santiago took home eight. Though Mailoto has led the team thus far in assists, freshman Elizabeth Nizzoli took home 19 assists to combine with Mailoto for a total of 40 throughout the match.
The next time the Lions take the court will be in their own Saint Leo Classic Tournament on Friday, Sep. 20. In two days of action, Saint Leo will face South Dakota School of Mines, Molloy, Columbus State, and Cedarville. The Lions' first match is set for Friday at 2:00 p.m.
For more on the Lions volleyball team, stay current with SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter and Instagram.

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While enjoying my Sucre and Orange Donut at Cafe Sardine in Montreal, the pastry chef pointed out a treat I'd not likely find outside the area: the Pet de Soeur. I laughed as he told me that it translates to Nun's Fart (or Sister's Fart), and learned that the pet de soeur has its roots in Acadia.
The pet de soeur resembles a cinnamon roll. Sardine's version is made with a sourdough biscuit pastry and has flavoring reminiscent of English toffee, though not quite as buttery. Brown sugar, cinnamon, and cardamom contribute their sugar and spice notes, while a sprinkling of Maldon sea salt flakes brings out the flavor and sweetness.
Ordering a pet de soeur is fun, but even better is knowing that eating a nun's fart is the furthest thing from disgusting. It's a sweet way to start a day, and enough to tide you over until it's time for one of Sardine's special hot dogs, which might just make a nun blush.
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About the author: Jay Friedman is a Seattle-based freelance food writer who happens to travel extensively as a sex educator. An avid fan of noodles (some call him "The Mein Man"), he sees sensuality in all foods, and blogs about it at his Gastrolust website. You can follow him on Twitter @jayfriedman.


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Jason Wu Fall 2014
Well, here's something you don't see every day: Adriana Lima in a suit. Lima, that Brazilian bombshell veteran of many a Victoria's Secret extravaganza, is usually sporting a suit consisting of nothing more than a matching set of teeny-tiny bra and panties. But here she is opening Jason Wu's show covered head to toe, as in not a single inch of her honed physique exposed anywhere. She wore a black wool crepe jacket that had been nipped at the waist, the back gently billowed with volume, a black silk chiffon high-necked shell embroidered to look like astrakhan (a recurring decorative motif here), and superwide wool crepe trousers, which Lima worked with a good old swish as she walked the runway. A colleague leaned in and said apropos of Lima, "It looks like she's hunting for her next husband at a funeral." So, there we have it, then, this is Wu's women for this coming fall—The Sober Sexpot. (The Sexpot In Mourning could be an alternative moniker, but frankly, these gals look like they're having way too much fun to be that downcast.)
From then on in, the tone was set for Wu's show, with almost every girl doing plenty of concealing and very little revealing, in luscious wintry shades of claret, eggplant, and forest green: swaggering coats cut wide through the shoulders and narrowing to the hips, shrugged over turtleneck sweaters; long bias-cut skirts in jacquard crepe or panne velvet; and, plenty more of those fluid pants, so skinniness, it's R.I.P. for you. Wu's collections have, in recent seasons, as even the most casual of observers would have noted, gone from a certain ladylike decorum, all First Lady photo ops, to a harder, tougher vision of womanhood, with fur and leather and lace galore worked into all manner of über-body-conscious looks. Here, Wu went somewhat less hard corps, touching on the kind of urban poeticism that Donna Karan made her own in the nineties, which he then took and mixed up with the masculine refrain expected to be playing heavily during these New York collections. In Wu's case, it manifested itself in his many well-cut coats, a look and attitude perhaps best exemplified on an androgyne beauty named Alana, shrouded in an aubergine top coat and trousers, her glossy dark hair closely cropped to her head.


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Why do some gun owners come so completely unglued when you mention adding or changing gun controls? And why do they keep hiding behind the Second Amendment?
So Sen. Saxby Chambliss has announced that he will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2014, citing "frustration" with partisan politics in Washington.
In recent days, there have been two letter writers who have expressed that the Second Amendment shouldn't be more important than the others and that semi-auto weapons and high capacity magazines should be banned.
Signs of our time:
In response to Jon Schwartz's letter concerning limitation of the Second Amendment, he, like many others, passed over the original intent of the amendment.
Today, a U.S. Senate committee heard from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning the deaths of four Americans at the hands of terrorists in Benghazi, Libya.
I am writing in reference to Monday's article about the idea of anyone wanting to change the name of Friendship Road. This road has history, with the Friendship Baptist Church being No. 1.
Why are some constitutional amendments more important than others?
It is my hope that Congress will pass a law banning the civilian possession of any firearm that fires more than one bullet with one squeeze of the trigger. I hope this is what they mean when they talk about banning assault rifles. I do not need a gun that fires 900 bullets a minute to protect my home.
We almost won the NFC Championship. That's not bad news. That's good news. Look, name another team with a better season record. You can't win them all. Our team is great with great things to come.
Remember Smokey the Bear's slogan, "Only you can prevent forest fires!" In the wake of a host of preventable building fires, including in the Greater Atlanta area, a school fire and a house fire which took four lives from the same family due to a surviving child having played with a lighter, it is very appropriate to add, "Only you can prevent building fires."
On Jan. 15, my cousins and I were having lunch. After finishing our meal, the waitress handed us our bill. As we began to pay, she said the bill had been paid by the gentleman sitting at the table next to us. We were overwhelmed, and our copy of the bill had a note from the gentleman that said "God Bless You."
Bob Leventhal died last week at the age of 88. With his passing, the sports community has lost a part of our soccer history and a friend.
While the shootings in the school in Connecticut were a terrible catastrophe, the liberal news media is silent on the thousands of abortions preformed every year in this country. I guess those babies don't count.
Reading letters on gun control published after the Sandy Hook school shooting, it appears conservatives blame that event on everything but guns. Some insist the Sandy Hook shooting can be attributed directly to legalized abortion, the elimination of prayer in school and teaching the theory of evolution as science. Then they speak out against liberals who would dare exploit this tragedy in order to serve a political agenda. How ironic.
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Now Muslims will have the opportunity of introducing themselves at a state TV channel for the first time since 1974 when Islam was officially recognized in Belgium. On Flemish state channel (Een) first Islamic program is on air on 18th of September. At present, Flemish Radio and TV channel VRT includes the broadcasts of Catholic, Jewish and Orthodox sects.
Flemish Parliamentarian Veli Yuksel had the pioneering role in this. First program will involve an interview with Ingrid Lietens, Flemish Ministry of Media, some adventures of Islamic scholars, the fasting program of Fedactio Federation and an interview with a Belgium man who has converted to Islam.


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A pair of mobile applications offer convenient access to information and decision tools for beef and dairy producers.
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John has been on mytomacin and xeloda for 2 months. We just got his first CT scan since the new chemo and ALL his tumors have shrunk to half their size!!! God is great!!!! I have been pouring my heart out in prayer, as well as you all have been and it looks like He has answered.
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Didn't know it existed, but thanks I'll have a look for it the next time I'm in the mood for a film. :)
Akira (1988)
Despite having seen most of its contemporaries, I had somehow never gotten around to watching Akira, a mistake I decided to rectify last night.
It's difficult to describe the experience that is watching Akira. After sleeping on it I can safely state two things: this is one of the finest films ever created and I have no desire to ever see it again. Sylvia Sensiper once said "Films are dreams that wander in the light of day". If that is the case, then Akira is a continuous nightmare. From the first shots establishing the dystopian Neo-Tokyo to the, even by modern standards, very gruesome finale every scene feels like a punch in the gut. There isn't a moment of reprieve for the characters or the viewer, no genuine happiness or comfort. Even the ending doesn't feel like an actual relief, it just leaves you in a twisted state of shock and confusion.
There are lots of horror films of course and many of them more visceral than Akira, but what makes this film so horrifiying is its technical proficiency. This is a stunningly beautiful work, but its beauty is so grotesque that it's difficult to appreciate unless viewed from a distance. Up close it simply leaves you emotionally drained and empty.
Even beyond the actual images though, there is a certain kind of psychological horror that looms over the entire film. I think any human being is familiar with the fear of the unknown. Not just fearing what we don't know, but what we couldn't possibly know and therefore what we couldn't possibly understand. Akira basically rips that fear out of you and puts it on the screen. It's digusting and fascinating alike, it's terrible and it's beautiful. Akira is the kind of art that touches you on a deeper level than you might be comfortable with. It's certainly possible to appreciate the film and the craftsmanship that went into it on an intellectual level, but ultimatively watching it is a deeply emotional experience.
I'm sorry for rambling that long, but it's been quite a while since a film has affected me the way Akira has.
I think they still manage to get some comic relief, but not much. They really went for the bleak atmosphere.
I only got started with anime recently, I only saw the biggest names (Akira, GITS, Cowboy Bebop) and found them all breathtaking. Do you have more recommendations?
If I find time I'll post a list tomorrow of films I'd consider an essential watch, either because they are historically relevant, because they are very enjoyable, or ideally both.
I just watched Black Swan, it were good. ¬_¬ I'm sleepy leave me alone.
As promised, here's a list of good Animé films worth a watch. It's not exhaustive by any means, but I think it provides a good starting point.
Studio Ghibli: I've said it before, if you talk about Animé you have to talk about Studio Ghibli. Few studios in the animation industry, both West and East, can match their creative heights. Their best films create an unparalleled sense of wonder and imagination, while stile being very human at their core. I've chosen my personal favourites here, but you could watch any of their offerings. Even their worst films are still above average and worth at least one look.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
Nausicaä was Ghibli's first work (technically speaking it came before Ghibli was founded, but that's just nitpicking), a classic tale about the conflict between man and nature set in a postapocalyptic world. Similar to Akira it deals with war, the atomic bomb and human nature, though from a different angle. It is also one of the most influental animated films. In a way its influence in Japan is similar to what Snow White did for Western animation 50 years earlier; its success showed the possibilities of animation as a medium and allowed for the creation of highly experimental films, such as the aforementioned Akira. It was also the starting point for many important Japanese animators, among them Hideaki Anno, who went on to create Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Apart from its legacy, it's simply a wonderful film, my favourite of Ghibli's works and very nearly my favourite animated film of all time. It's postapocalyptic environments are beautifully haunting, it has a great cast of characters and its narrative flow is spectacular.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Castle in the Sky is a very straightforward film, there's no complex characterization or psychological subtext to be found here. It is however a great adventure story. Imagine Indiana Jones mixed with some fantasy elements and you have Castle in the Sky. And, as with all of Ghibli's works, it looks incredible. Even before you reach the titular castle you are treated to some of the most beautiful locations ever animated. It's often forgotten between the more complex Nausicaä and the more human Totoro, but I think it stands very well on its own.
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Totoro is a very different film to those that came before it. It has an incredibly simple plot (in fact, pretty much nothing happens in it) and it lacks the bombastic vision that characterized Nausicaä and Castle in the Sky. It is however such a lovingly crafted portrait of family that I can't not recommend it. If ever there was a film designed to make you feel happy, it's Totoro. Its beauty lies in its humanity and its keen eye for the wonders of life. There is a sense of genuine joy in this movie that you find in few other works. Watch this if you ever feel depressed.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
At the time of its release, Mononoke was the most expensive animated film ever made. And it shows. Almost every scene in it is breathtaking. In terms of plot this is a return to the human vs. nature theme from Naucisaä, but in an even more complex manner. There's not right or wrong here, it's a film full of moral ambiguity and characters trying to survive. The medieval village and its inhabitants feels very believabke, and the forest surrounding it, inhabited by mythological creatures, is fantastic, one of the most gorgeous locations in animation history I'd say. The film moves at a slow pace, but very deliberately so and your patience is well rewarded by the end. It's a stunning picture and truly shows what animation can be capable of.
Spirited Away (2002)
The first (and to my knowledge only) Animé to ever win an Oscar, deservedly so. Spirited Away feels a bit like Alice in Wonderland, a little girl trapped in a fantasy world. And what a world it is. Beautiful and haunting alike, exotic and yet still very recognizable. And wrapped around all that is a very human story about finding your place in the world. Definitely watch this at least once, if only to marvel and the sheer creative genius behind it.
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Technically this wasn't made by Studio Ghibli, but they did the animation for it so I'm including it here anyway. Fireflies is the story of two siblings living in Japan during the Second World War. This is another one of those films I think is fantastic, but probably will never watch again. It's genuinely the most depressing film I've ever see and it was basically made to make you cry at every moment. Words really can't do it justice, you have to see it for yourself to appreciate just how gut-wrenching it can be. Originally this was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro and I can see why. You pretty much need something like Totoro to cheer you up after experiencing this.
That's it for Studio Ghibli. Here's a few unrelated suggestions:
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Compared to most animated works this is a very down-to-earth film, so much so that it could easily have worked as live-action. It's the story of three social outcasts finding a baby and trying to return it to its parents. It's basically the plot of Ice Age, but instead of using it as a stepping stool for wacky antics, Godfather takes its premise to examine human nature and modern Japanese society. I don't know how much of it is lost on me due to cultural differences, but I found it a gripping tale nevertheless. It was also written by Keiko Nobumoto, who wrote the screenplay for the Cowboy Bebop movie and for some episodes of the TV series, so it has that going for it.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
I caught this film by complete accident when I was flipping trough channels a few months ago and I was seriously impressed by it, so now I'm on a mission to make it more well-known. As the title implies it's about a high-school girl who discovers she can travel through time and uses this to fix past mistakes. Despite its premise, this is another fairly humble story, more slice-of-life than grand adventure. But don't let that turn you off. It's funny, it's quirky, it has a relatable cast of characters and damnit, more people should see it.
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Time for a trip down nostalgia-lane. Cagliostro was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, founder and creative figurehead of Studio Ghibli. It's an adaptation of the animé series Lunpin III, but you don't really need any previous knowledge to enjoy this film. It centers around master thief Arsène Lupin III who, together with his accomplices, seeks to destroy a counterfeit operation in the Grand Duchy of Cagliastro while being chased by the police. It's definitely an old-fashioned film, both when looking at the narrative and the animation. It's also fairly light-hearted compared to the heavier works from the 80s and 90s. But sometimes this is exactly what you want. If you can get in the right mood, Cagliostro is very entertaining. It's the perfect film for that rainy Sunday afternoon where you have nothing else to do.
Joke suggestion: Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)
When I was in primary school Pokémon was pretty much the greatest thing imaginable. So of course I had to see The First Movie when it came out. Fourteen years later I remember nothing about it other than that I liked it and that it featured Mewtwo. I should rewatch it one of these days and see how well it actually holds up (not very well, I imagine). If nothing else, it was hugely influential; in its wake followed a whole bunch of bad cash-ins to popular children shows (lika that terrible Digimon movie, ugh).
That's pretty much it. I'm by no means an expert on Animé (American animation is more my forte), so I hope other posters chime in and list their own recommendations. There's a lot of hidden gems that few people ever talk about and I feel animation as a whole deserves a lot more recognition than it generally gets.
The Joneses, starred by David Duchovny (the truth is out there~) and Demi Moore (still as sexy as usual, but time isn't kind on humans, she's over 50 already), and others.
Just like any usual sunny day in this unspecified suburb town in North America populated by middle class, the Jones family moved in. This charming and sunny family appeared just like any usual prosperous US family: two parents with two teens, one boy and one girl. Seems like a great addition to the town, except that truth is out there: this actually was not a family, but a business unit, led by Kate Jones playing mother, with Steve Jones playing father, Jennifer Jones playing daughter, and Mick Jones playing son. This business unit was actually sent in by a marketing agency with one mission: to stealthily promote consumer products for the agency's clients. To do so, this unit, pretending to be an unsuspicious neighboring household, demonstrated a luxurious lifestyle and made it desirable for the others, spread the words, and bingo, sales for promoted products up. Those XXX Jones were of course not their real name, at least the family name Jones was fake. Problem of this unit was with Steve Jones, because he, even though a previously successful car salesman, was a rookie to this unconventional marketing practice. While other members generally achieved something like 15-18% boost of sales for their targeted products in the first review of the unit, he achieved only 3-4%. The manager thought it might be too risky to keep him in the team for him to be too ignorant in this new field of business, but Kate promised that she would lead Steve to achieve high. So, how would this business unit achieve?
This is a movie in 2009. The production year is very critical for this film, because the movie was produced after the 2008 Financial Burst. This is some kinda remorse of wrong, wasting lifestyle of the society before the economic crisis.
This is supposed to be a comedy but with a somewhat sad ending.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise. This is a superb movie, but maybe an acquired taste. Probably my second most favorite "film" after Brazil. It's a mature, rich, slow burning epic. The technical visuals and musical score are incredibly good, and the original English dub is also great. I don't know if you'll like it, but I can't recommend anything more highly. Wonderful stuff.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
I would second this suggestion, it has a surprising amount of punch for something that looks and feels breezy. And also all the studio ghibli!
Thanks for the suggestions. I filled my Watchlist and now it's a matter of time before I see them all.
I'll share my thoughts here, as time goes by...
Speaking about animations, go watch some Jan Svankmajer movies. He is goddamn genius when it comes to stop-motion animation blended with live action. I would suggest to start with his Alice in Wonderland adaptation (the best one ever, trust me) called "Something from Alice".
Just look at it.
Despite of its rather "omg so gritty and grimdark" look it really captures the mood and wonder of book while it's not beign exact copy of it.
His other few full length movies and dozens of shorts are awesome too. If you want to watch some top-notch surreal stuff you will not find a better movies than these.
Pacific Rim. Enjoyable. Completely devoid of any surprises, but it didn't really hurt the movie (although maybe the bit with Ron Perlman during the credits was overdoing the no-surprises-at-all thing a tad). It did make me want a first person giant robot game, so I guess it hit some spots.
Crawlspace (2012). Sort of the same as above, except for the giant robot game, and Ron Perlman.
So the Event Horizon blu-ray turned up. There isn't much in the way of bonus features, but what is there is quite interesting.
There was a scene that was never filmed for the beginning of the movie that would have introduced the Lewis and Clarke crew while they rescued miners from an accident site. It's presented as a storyboard sequence with commentary by Paul Anderson.
At some point when Paramount were testing various versions of the ending with different audiences and not all of the effects work was completed, the placeholder image they used for the explosion of the drive section in Neptunes' atmosphere is very clearly the Praxis wave from Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country. It's not even slightly altered, even at the same exact angle as in ST6.
One of the (few) deleted scenes clears up something that always bugged me about the end of the film when Stark hallucinates Weir in the rescue suit after she comes out of the grav-couch. I kept wondering why she'd be seeing him as the slitted-up, proto-Scorpius looking Weir when up to that point in the film she'd only seen him as sn-seyes Weir, Captain Miller being the only one to see the slitted-up version. In the deleted scene, Stark and Cooper are running from that tsunami of blood when slitted-up Weir comes crawling down a ladder upside-down like a creepy naked human spider.
Paul Anderson mentions in the commentary that for some reason the film was being stored in a salt mine in Transylvania. Is that a standard film practice?
love the combo Oppenheimer + Ligetti
Pacific Rim - Medicore movie.


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Cake Serves 12. Cookies and Candy each serve 1.
Prepare your favorite cookie recipe or use roll-out cookie dough. Roll out dough and cut octopus, whale, shark cookies. Using pattern and knife, cut out 2 propellers and 2 periscopes. Bake at 350°F for 9-11 minutes or until edges are light brown. Cool on pan on wire rack 2 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely.
Tint Color Flow icing orange, yellow, violet, gray, black, light blue; reserve some white. Outline sea creature cookies with tip 2 and full-strength color flow; flow in with thinned color flow. Immediately pipe tip 8 yellow spots on octopus. Let dry 24 hours. Pipe tip 8 blue puddles onto parchment paper. Use full-strength color flow to pipe tip 2 dot eyes and pupils, outline mouths and shark fin and pull-out teeth on sea creatures; let dry.
Melt Candy Melts following package instructions. Pipe color details in molds using melted candy in parchment bag with small hole cut in tip. Refrigerate until firm. Fill remainder of mold with melted candy; do not insert lollipop sticks. Refrigerate until firm; unmold.
Bake your favorite 2-layer cake recipe or mix in First-and-Ten Football pan. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Wrap cake board with Fanci-foil. Place cooled cake on prepared cake board; stack propeller and periscope cookies by cake, attaching with buttercream icing.
Cover periscope with tip 18 gray and green stars; cover propeller with tip 18 violet buttercream stars. Pipe tip 5 black buttercream submarine section outlines. Outline windows with gray tip 12; fill in with black buttercream. Cover cake with tip 18 gray stars, with a tip 18 fill-in star green stripe at front. Add tip 5 dot black rivets. Pipe tip 5 lines and large dots on periscope (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Pipe tip 12 light copper ball heads; flatten and smooth. Add tip #233 pull-out hair and tip 3 facial features. Arrange remaining cookies, candies and bubbles around cake.


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ILKLEY Summer Festival has gained a much-needed £8,000 grant from Bradford Council to help it stage this year's event.
The Council has awarded the funding from its Bradford Visitor Fund for the festival, which takes place through August.
Festival managing director, Anne Hawkesworth says she was delighted to get the news the Festival's application to Bradford Council had been successful.
She said: "Clearly it is not an enormous amount of money in the context of the Festival running at the level of a small business. What it does do is give the Directors, who are all volunteers, of the not-for-profit company limited by guarantee that runs the Festival, some comfort against the risk involved."
But Mrs Hawkesworth says the Festival needs the support of the public with ticket purchases for the many events which the Festival organises. She says festivals can rarely become self-funding, making public money and sponsorship essential.
She added: "The object of this money is not to give Ilkley residents a beano, but to attract visitors to Ilkley. So, some of it will be spent on promotion in neighbouring authorities.
"With my councillor hat on I have voiced concerns recently about the lack of funding for the town centre's infrastructure, cleansing and floral displays.
"Without spending to keep the Town clean and pleasant it will be that much harder to attract visitors, which after all is the object of the grant."


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Almost £50 million has had to be spent by the government on a new computer system for Army staffing because of failures in existing IT which became apparent after a visit to Upavon recruitment centre.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond had to answer questions in the Commons on the IT problems on Tuesday, telling MPs that about £6.7m spent on the recruitment scheme will have to be written off.
The recruitment partnership programme with outsourcing giant Capita is worth £1.3 billion over ten years but there were problems integrating the existing Atlas IT platform with Capita's system.
Around 1,000 Army personnel have been put back into recruiting roles as a result of the botched system and temporary solutions to the problems were costing £1m a month.
Mr Hammond made the decision to ditch Atlas in favour of a £47.7m system produced by Capita after visiting the centre in Upavon last year to see the scale of the problems.
He said: "It was clear to me, despite the Army putting in place measures to mitigate these problems in the near term; further long-term action was needed to fix the situation.
"It was agreed in principle at that point the Atlas system was not capable of timely delivery of the Capita-run programme and we would need to take up the option to revert to Capita to build a new IT platform specifically to run their system that will be ready early next year."
He said the alternative Atlas system would have cost £43m, so the additional cost of Capita's programme was around £4.5m and of the £15.5m already spent around £6.7m would be written off.
The recruitment programme is partly aimed at removing army personnel from administrative roles but Mr Hammond said the problems resulted in almost 1,000 personnel in recruitment jobs.
The Army is being cut from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020 while the newly-renamed Army Reserve – formerly the Territorial Army – is being expanded from 19,000 to 30,000.
Mr Hammond accepted that potential recruits would have been put off as a result of the IT failings.


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The Casio EX-FH25 is a super-zoom camera with a difference - its high-speed capabilities mean that it can take 30 still photos every second and even shoot 1,000fps video footage. The 10 megapixel EX-FH25 has a 20x lens with a focal range of 26-520mm, large 3 inch LCD screen and a wealth of automatic shooting modes to make your life easier. Read our comprehensive Casio EX-FH25 review to find out if this is the right high-zoom camera for you...
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The Fujifilm FinePix HS20 EXR is a brand new bridge-style camera with a massive 30x zoom lens and a long list of stand-out features. The HS20EXR boasts a 24-720mm focal range, full 1080p movies with stereo sound, a 3 inch tilting LCD screen, 8fps burst shooting and a 16 megapixel back-illuminated EXR sensor with JPEG and RAW support. Is this the only camera you'll ever need? Read our Fujifilm FinePix HS20 review to find out...
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The Kodak Z990 is a new ultra-zoom digital camera sporting a 28-840mm, 30x optical lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and optical image stabilization. Other stand-out features of the Z990 include a 12 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, ISO range of 125-6400, PASM shooting modes, RAW support, and a 3 inch LCD screen. Read the world's first in-depth Kodak EasyShare Z990 Review.
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The Nikon Coolpix P510 is a new super-zoom compact camera that features an incredible 42x zoom lens with a massive focal range of 24-1000mm. The 16 megapixel bridge-style Nikon P510 can also capture full 1080p high-definition movies with stereo sound, has a back illuminated CMOS sensor, 3-inch 921K-dot tiltable LCD screen, built-in GPS, electronic viewfinder and fast 7fps burst shooting. Priced at £399.99 / $429.95, read our expert Nikon Coolpix P510 review to find out if that 1000mm zoom is too good to be true...
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Feathers Fashion Online Store: Women's "Nat" Dress by Peter Piloto
Every time I look at this dress I see something different . . . and, of course, that is the beauty of abstract design. The understated color palette and easy silhouette make this silky sheath a wearable work of art.


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Topic: SSDI--Compassionate Allowance Ruling
Just wanted to share that the Social Security Admin has put CC and liver cancer under a compassionate ruling status. This assures that your claim should be processed without waiting, denial or need for an attorney. You still have to wait the 5 months after approval to receive money. Bless everyone !


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Christmas Unwrapped: Creepy Carols
Disclaimer: I LOVE Christmas Carols. Love, love, love! I would start listening to them at Halloween if I could. For a never old, always funny musical commentary on this and other out-there, commercialized, and single-minded Christmas qualities, check out Straight No Chaser's "Christmas Can-Can." I originally started this post because I keep hearing Christmas songs (overplayed much?) that totally creep me out. For instance, every time one of the tons of renditions of "Baby it's Cold Outside" comes on the radio, I shudder a smidge. I struggled with it at first, because I know all of the words, and I would sing it to myself, and think about snuggling with my partner. Really happy thoughts! Enter feminist analysis. There are totally times when I wish I could turn my brain off. Creepy Christmas Carols constitute one of those times.
There were some creepy passages, like "the answer is no" and "hey, what's in this drink?" When I started checking into it, it got worse. I found out that the score of the song, written as a duet, has parts for a "wolf" and a "mouse." Is there room for playful banter in safe, consensual, romantic relationships? Of course there is! Does it seem that way the hundredth time you hear this song? No, not really. Now, I think of that song as the coercion song.
When I started researching creepy songs, I found some really great commentary. Feminist Frequency provides a video outlining the top 5 Creepy and/or Sexist Christmas songs and explains how these songs contribute to establishing a patriarchal rape culture. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was number 1.
Another carol that really makes my skin crawl is Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas. Every time this song comes on the radio I can't help thinking about the "us vs. them" dichotomy that it sets up. Consider the lyric: "And the Christmas bells that ring there/Are the clanging chimes of doom/ We'll, tonight, thank God, it's them/ Instead of you." This reeks of orientalist discourse. While certainly the lyrics ring true in some ways—for instance, access to clean water is a very real issue in many parts of the global south, largely due to resource exploitation by the global north—it also sets up a theme of taking pity on those poor, unfortunate, ignorant souls. The closing plea in this song is to feed the world. Instead, consider not participating in entitled exploitation and promoting sustainable, fair industry.
This leads us into a shameless plug for the final edition of Christmas Unwrapped, where we'll explore Cruel Candy and discuss cool concepts like fair trade chocolate! Gotta love a good, chocolatey blog post. Until then my merry friends!


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A devastating fire has torn through a man's house despite his desperate attempts to tackle the blaze.
Fire broke out at the detached house in Midway, near Sutton Common Recreation Ground, at about 1pm.
It is unknown how the fire started but it is understood to have started in either the roof or the first floor.
Onlookers, including the owner, watched in the Rec as fire fighters tackled the flames, which had all but destroyed the upper floors after an hour.
The fire gave off heavy smoke and the smell of burning plastic to surrounding areas of Epsom Road in Morden and Stonecot Hill in North Cheam.
Two workers at Plumb Crazy, in Stonecot Hill, saw the flames and immediately ran in the direction of the smoke.
There they saw the owner, a man named William of Filipino origin and his daughter, both in a clearly distressed state.
Barry McIntosh, who lives nearby, said: "The owner said he was in his house and then started hearing this banging noise coming from the loft. He had some tools in the hallway so he may have been doing some redecorating.
"We could see this thick black smoke, it was really bad, it looked like somebody had started the fire in the garden by burning tyres.
"Then a policewoman turned up and asked him if he had been growing any cannabis in the roof, but there was no evidence of that at all - you need that like a hole in the head when your house is burning down."
William and his daughter had apparently tried to tackle the fire themselves but were stopped by an off-duty fire fighter who happened to live nearby, who told them to wait for fire fighters to arrive.
Ted Lockhurst, 67, said: "After we got there it took another 10 minutes for firemen to arrive. The owner kept saying he needed to get into his garden because he had some important documents.
"But the police said that could make the situation worse.
"He was in the road with an axe and said he wanted to force his way in but they wouldn't let him and told him to move his car instead. He was clearly panicking.
"Then his daughter got a jet hose from somewhere and they tried to hook it up to the neighbour's tap but it wouldn't reach.
"It's a shame because maybe they could have put out the fire. It wasn't that bad when we got there. By the time the fire engines turned up it had got a lot worse."


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Coast Guard saves two people from grounded vessel in Fort Bragg
Two Fort Bragg residents are recovering tonight after being rescued from their grounded vessel Sunday night near Glass Beach.
Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay said they received a mayday call just before 6 p.m. of a 32-foot vessel approximately 50 yards offshore on a reef.
The Coast Guard launched a vessel from Fort Bragg and a helicopter from the McKinleyville station. Sonoma County Emergency Medical Services and Fort Bragg Fire Department also responded. The Coast Guard was able to utilize their flight crew to save the two people. One person was still on the vessel while the other was in the water. It's unclear if the person in the water attempted to swim to shore and was unable to, or if he was knocked out of the vessel due to the surf.
Within an hour, the crew hoisted both people into the helicopter and landed on shore.
Fort Bragg Fire officials said the victims didn't report any injuries.


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Cantet, Costa-Gavras, Ghobadi and Hallstrom complete San Sebastián Official Selection
The 60th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will have some more big names in its line up. Festival veterans as Bahman Ghobadi and Laurent Cantet join Costa-Gavras Lasse Hallström on the final announcements for the Official Section.
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Friday Night at the Forum Film Series Returns to USI This Friday Evening [VIDEO]
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The weekly series begins with a free showing of the Disney Nature film, Wings of Life.
Taking place in Forum Building on the USI campus (map below, click for larger view), and put on by the College of Liberal Arts, Friday night's showing is open to the public, meaning you don't need to be a student to attend, and will be shown digitally, with stadium seating, digital surround sound, and in its original languages and aspect ratios.
Narrated by Meryl Streep, Wings of Life gives an intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats, and flowers, while discussing their importance on the world as whole as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible — and increasingly threatened — creatures.
Show time Friday night is 7:30pm.
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Picture of ZTE Grand S leaked; 5 inch 1080p device soon to be introduced at CES 2013
A leaked picture of the ZTE Grand S reveals the phone's model number as the Z753 and the manufacturer has also been teasing the device on its Sina Weibo account. Expected to be the thinnest full HD display phone at 7.6mm, the internals are not yet known but could include a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM and a 13MP camera.
We are looking forward to seeing this model presented next month at CES as ZTE continues to ride the momentum that has made the company the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer on the planet.
source: ZTE (translated), Engadget
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1. Tsoliades (Posts: 228; Member since: 22 Dec 2012)
This looks very nice! As thin as the iPhone 5, 5 inch screen, and full HD res? Not bad.
Although, the only real selling point with this over the Droid DNA would be if the skin on top of Android is better than Sense. Hopefully ZTE can make something good.
4. MeoCao (unregistered)
7.6mm thin? What about battery life?
In fact iPhone 5 is too then and very difficult to hold, this phone is bigger and even more difficult to hold than iPhone 5.
for such large phones the thickness should be 9-10mm
5. Evil.Bunny (Posts: 41; Member since: 29 Feb 2012)
I agree with the iphone part but i think that big phones should be thinner and small ones thicker cause if you have a 5" phone which is thick, reaching the edges with one hand would be difficult, and consequently for smaller phones...well...if it aint thick, you get nothing to hold on to.
But even for large phones, i don't think less than 8mm is required, stuff a bigger battery people if you can make such thin components,
8. BadAssAbe (Posts: 465; Member since: 22 Apr 2011)
Thinner is always better because then you can add any case you want and not worry about its bulkness = Common Sense
13. MistB (Posts: 581; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
TBH any phone from china and MeoCao will immediately shoot it down.
2. reyenrique (Posts: 99; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
great for ZTE
3. half_21 (Posts: 44; Member since: 16 Nov 2012)
I have nothing against FHD screens on phones but atleast manufacturers put FHD screens on laptops..make it a standard resolution for laptops.. And also for tablets...
6. belovedson (Posts: 1052; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
poopoo = zte
7. redmd (Posts: 1371; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
nice specs but the OEM skin is also a player in the battlefield.
9. BadAssAbe (Posts: 465; Member since: 22 Apr 2011)
Throw in a microSD slot and any battery bigger than 2100, and you have some turning your way
11. WakaFlakaD (Posts: 527; Member since: 30 Apr 2011)
Possible to fit in a SD card slot? I wonder
10. Thephonegeek (Posts: 118; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
Hopefuly this will cost less than other Full HD phones. Good Job.


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POLICE are warning car owners to be vigilant after a spate of break-ins and thefts in Droitwich over the last two weeks.
Sgt Sarah Kent, safer neighbourhood team sergeant for Droitwich and Pershore, said cars had both been broken into or entered after being left insecure during a series of thefts, many in the east of Droitwich, including three or four overnight last night (Monday night into Tuesday morning).
Items taken include sat navs, laptops, a handbag and designer sunglasses. Sgt Kent says it is possible that the thief or thieves are using a push bike to get around. She urged car owners to take valuables out of their cars and make sure their vehicles are secure overnight. Sgt Kent also said some key fobs were particularly sensitive, unlocking cars accidentally while in someone's pocket or bag while they were inside the house.
Sgt Kent said: "We are putting out extra patrols overnight across Droitwich but we would ask members of the public to be our eyes and ears."
If you spot anything suspicious contact the police on their non-emergency number 101 although, if they see a crime in progress, they should call 999.


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How to grill great lamb loin chops or rib
Lamb's always a point of contention in my house. I love the rich, unique flavor and wondrous, delicious fat of lamb, while my wife opts out of it for the exact same reasons. In researching for this lamb-grilling guide, I may have finally swayed her to my side with a set of perfectly grilled lamb chops, further solidifying my notion that the grill makes just about everything better.
So whether you're a lamb love, hater, or somewhere in between, it's worth trying your hand at lamb on the grill. It's one of the greatest ways to cook this incredible meat.
A Chop Above the Rest
When considering the right chops for the job, you pretty much have three different options. First, the economical shoulder chops cut from the front of animal. These have a fair amount of fat and connective tissue, which gives them a very robust flavor, but negatively impacts tenderness as they can be chewy from too much unrendered fat over a quick, hot cook. That doesn't mean they can't be grilled; they just wouldn't be my first choice.
Moving our way back, next comes the rib chops. These are cut from the center, rib, section of the lamb and usually come with with a long rib bone with an eye of meat at the end. While not the meatiest of the chops, their presentation and smooth flavor make them a prized cut, which is something you'll pay for as well.
While I opted for rib chops for this post (makes a prettier picture), I would have been equally happy with loin chops. These are cut further back, between the ribs and the leg, and have almost the same smooth flavor as a rib chop. Usually looking like little T-bone steaks, they tend to be meatier than rib chops, making them them the best choice when you're looking for a hearty dinner over good looks.
No matter if you choose rib or loin chops, just like with pork chops, you want to go with a thick-cut, preferably around the 1 1/4 to 1 1/2-inch range. This will later give some more leeway in the cook, helping ensure the final product is as good it can be.
Salt and Fat
With either loin or rib chops in hand, it's time to consider prep. Either cut is almost certain to have its fair share of fat. To me, this flavorful fat that softens over the heat is all part of what makes lamb incredible. That being said, too much of it and you'll end up with overly chewy chops.
So I like to use my best judgement and trim off any extraneous hard pieces of fat around the edges of the chops, but leave anything internal in place.
Once trimmed, it's best practice to salt the chops about 40 minutes before they're ready to hit the grill. I'll let Kenji explain the full science behind it, but this acts as a type of brine, first releasing moisture from the meat, then breaking down the meat proteins in a way that they can reabsorb the liquid. The end result is a lamb chop with more concentrated flavor. If you don't have the time on hand, just salt the chops right before they go over the fire and they'll be fine.
Cold Start, Hot Finish
When considering a lamb chop, first think about what you want out of it in the end. A thick-cut chop over a direct high heat will overly to char on the outside before the meat is finished cooking internally, so to avoid that, employ a two-zone approach to cooking, where the grill is split into hot and cold zones by piling the coals all on one side of the charcoal grate. This way the lamb can be seared and slowly roasted separately, giving a combo of perfectly done meat with just the right crust.
Lamb is best when done between rare to medium, medium-rare being my preferred temperature, and with intentional under cooking like this, a nice evenness throughout is also a worthy goal. To achieve this, the reverse sear is in order. While I commonly sear first, then roast, the reverse sear flips that process.
The lamb is started on the cool side of the grill to deliver a more gentle heat to the meat, raising its temperature at a slower pace. I cover the lamb with an overturned disposable aluminum tray (a neat trick I learned from Cook's Illustrated) to help trap in and regulate the heat around the chops. When it reaches a point where it's 10°F shy from being your desired temperature, that's 120°F for medium-rare, the chops are uncovered and moved to the hot side of the grill. They'll quickly sear and come up to the final temperature at the same time—130°F for medium-rare.
Once grilled, let them rest for 10 minutes off the grill, and they're ready to go.
It's All Good
In this how-to series we've covered chicken breasts, pork chops, and fish so far. All of these I like to add an accompaniment at the end to give the final dish a little extra something. Not so much for lamb though—the full flavored, tender meat is thing of beauty , so why hide that natural greatness?
OK, OK, you twisted my arm. There are some great pairings with lamb too, none more apt than mint. A marriage made in heaven, a nice mint sauce seems to only make the lamb be even more, um…lamby. The hefty flavor of lamb can get a light pick-me-up with a simple gremolata, or go the opposite direction and pair one heavy flavor with another using a whole grain mustard. Also, lamb a little hummus never did anyone any harm.
For these ribs chops, I made an accompanying yogurt-mint sauce, which I wholeheartedly enjoyed, but, to my surprise, my wife opted out of it and ate the lamb on its own. For someone who normally doesn't dig on lamb, that's just a testament to how great well grilled lamb chops can be, and why you should really need to grilling them for dinner tonight. Go!
About the author: Joshua Bousel brings you new, tasty condiment each Wednesday and a recipe for weekend grilling every Friday. He also writes about grilling and barbecue on his blog The Meatwave whenever he can be pulled away from his grill.


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Electrix Pro Filter Factory
The Filter Factory is a stand-alone 2-unit rack module stereo/mono analog filter. Use it to filter drum loops, synth arpeggiations, vocal tracks or entire mixes! It features notch, low-, high- and band-pass filtering modes. It functions as a stereo filter with a 2-pole slope, or in mono with a 4-pole slope. Big fat knobs allow hands on real-time tweaking of the Frequency Cutoff, Resonance, LFO Depth and Speed, Distortion and more. Plus it's totally MIDI equipped for recording, triggering and sequencing tweaks of the various parameters.
The Filter Factory is great for DJ's and for Musicians. It sounds great and IS analog with digital control, stability and features. 'Momentary' buttons allow you to drop in or tap in an effect, either the filter or the distortion which is great for live situations! The LFO section allows you to generate nice sweeping filter effects or other weird modulations. There's a Tap-Tempo to match the LFO to the stuff your filtering too. Truly worth getting! It has been used by U2, John Digweed, Freddy Fresh, La Peste, Peace Off, Hellfish & DJ Producer, DJ Pure, and the Chemical Brothers.
The FilterQueen is a 2-unit half-rack design with just a few knobs and buttons and is most likely suited for DJs and easy-access live use. It's still a stereo analog filter with switchable notch, band, low and highpass filtering, envelope follower, LFO and the Momentary button. There's also a large bypass ("Engage") switch. The knobs control the filter cutoff, resonance, LFO speed, depth and more. There is no MIDI, no patch storage, no external audio input or gain controls. The EQ Killer is another 2-unit half-rack design for DJs and performers. It's basically three independent bandpass filters which can be used to filter out or isolate certain frequency ranges of music. These sold for about $300 each.
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A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
To fulfill a promise he made to his son, Jim Butler needed to know how he died. But when he asked how 24-year-old Jake Butler was killed, the Army couldn't produce a report from the field describing what happened.
WELLSVILLE, Kan. — The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to explain what happened.
Your son was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the city of As Samawah, the officer said. But he had no other details to offer, nothing about how the fighting came about or what Sgt. Jacob Butler was doing when he was killed. For the grieving father, it wasn't enough. The question of how Jake died gripped him in the days after, in part because he'd made an unusual promise before his son left: If you are killed, I will go and stand where you fell.
So Butler made a simple request to the Army — for Jake's casualty report. Rules require one when soldiers are killed in a war zone. Unit commanders are supposed to create and maintain them, along with numerous other field records.
"They said, 'We'll have to see,'" Butler recalled, "because one should have been made."
Nine years later, Butler is still waiting for a report he may never get. As an investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times revealed, the Army has lost or failed to keep that document and many other field records from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 1st Armored Division — Jacob Butler's unit — is among those lacking many of its records. Documents and interviews show that dozens of units are in similar shape, and that U.S. Central Command in Iraq also lost records related to joint-service operations in the theater.
History is cheated when front-line records are lost. And without them, veterans can face delays securing benefits for combat-related disabilities.
But missing records can have another after effect — creating uncertainty and confusion as survivors struggle with the heartbreak of loss.
Family members of soldiers who die in war are entitled to casualty reports if they request them. That fact did not help Jim Butler. He pressed the Army repeatedly in the months after Jake's death for his casualty report, but got a series of conflicting and perplexing responses instead.
"I felt hurt because I felt they should be truthful," Butler said of the Army. "Is that too much to ask?
"If it turned out Jake was killed by friendly fire, it would hurt, but I could handle it," he said. "If he died by suicide, it would hurt, but I could handle it."
The truth turned out to be far different, but Butler had to dig out the story himself. And he never saw the most complete official account of Jake's death until a reporter provided it.
Ambushed From Three Sides
In photographs, Sgt. Jacob Butler was, like his father, slight in build. The 24-year-old infantry scout had the look of a determined, sincere and perhaps slightly unnerved soldier new to war. At his heaviest, his father said, he couldn't tip the scales at 130 pounds.
Jake was the middle of five sons the Butlers raised, an outgoing, aggressive boy who had a kind streak, his father said.
"He'd basically give you the shirt off his back. He'd help everybody, but if you screwed him around, your better watch out. He thought everybody should be fair to each other," Jim Butler said.
Shortly after high school, Jake told his father he wanted to join the Army "to make a difference in the world. And he wanted to travel and see what life outside a small town was like."
The world Butler found himself in the morning of April 1, 2003, couldn't have been further from his Kansas home. The sky broke clear after the sand storms of recent days abated. The only green came from palms along the Euphrates River, a break from the mud brown houses and roads coated by sand that drifted like talcum powder in the slightest breeze.
About 11 a.m., Butler and eight members of his unit, known as the 1/41, stared warily through the groves as they drove three unarmored Humvees west on a road parallel to the river. Sgt. Butler commanded one Humvee, sitting shotgun. A gunner sat suspended in a webbed sling, his torso above the roof.
Their goal, according to the squad's leader, was to check on a series of bridges in the heart of the enemy-held city of As Samawah. Commanders needed to know if the bridges were strong enough to support tanks, supply trucks and Bradley fighting vehicles for a pending assault on the city.
As the squad approached the city center on the river's south side, empty shell casings crunched beneath their tires. Sgt. Alex Velasco, in command, expected no trouble despite the fact that a ferocious, four-hour firefight had occurred on the same spot only the day before.
That encounter ended with the U.S. soldiers pulling back, carrying eight wounded. The bridges were left to the Iraqis, who had suffered some 40 casualties.
"Our plan of action was to sneak in and sneak out and not get into an altercation," Velasco recalled in an interview for this account.
The Humvees pulled up to the first bridge in a standard "T" formation — two parked forward and the third to the rear in the middle. Velasco's vehicle had pulled past the bridge while Butler's formed the cross at the bridgehead and the third Humvee sat behind. All was quiet as the soldiers prepared to get out.
In an instant, a rocket-propelled grenade raced across the river from the north bank, exploding on the front of Velasco's Humvee and blasting the driver into the open road. Shrapnel hit Velasco in the face as the boom deafened him.
Rifle fire spurted from both sides of the river while Iraqis poured out of a trench behind the Humvees and others fired from a nearby rooftop on the same side of the Euphrates. Butler's roof gunner took at least two bullets in his legs, and the radio crackled with reports to the others: "I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit!"
Velasco's Humvee burst into flames. Because it was loaded with claymore mines and several pounds of plastic explosives, Velasco, his wounded driver and roof gunner fled.
In the following confused minutes, Butler commanded the remaining soldiers. He told his driver to back around and give cover to the wounded men about 50 yards upstream, all the while firing his M4 carbine out the passenger window. The roof gunners shot at as many as 30 enemy combatants¸ Velasco said.
Two of the wounded soldiers were thrown on the hoods and top of the Humvees, while Velasco squeezed into a back seat. They raced back the way they came, through the palm trees up the river road.
The ambush had come from three sides. A Kiowa helicopter from the 82nd Airborne Division soon appeared above, launched a missile into Velasco's burning Humvee to destroy it, then flew off to the south.
Butler was slumped against the passenger door, Velasco said. According to his fellow soldiers, Jim Butler said, the last sentence Jake spoke was that of an infantryman in combat: "Get them and get the (expletive) out of here."
'To See What He Had Seen'
Just before 11 on the night of a new moon, Jim Butler heard car doors shut and steps on the porch. His wife Cindy was sound asleep. Butler rose from the couch as two U.S. Army officers knocked on the sliding glass door.
"I said, 'Is he hurt real bad? Or is he dead?'" Butler recalled. "They just held their heads down."
When his son had come to him with news of his enlistment, they had a talk, Butler said. He had missed Vietnam — he was too young — but he remembered how hard it had been on the returning soldiers.
"I told him I believe in freedom, honor and peace, and not just for us, but for everybody in the world," Butler said. "And I told him, 'I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope it doesn't come out like Vietnam.'"
Born in Shawnee, Kan., Jim Butler was a jack-of-all-trades who worked as a carpenter, mechanic and most any job he could find to supplement income from raising a few beef cattle. Wiry, with salt-and-pepper hair combed straight back, he often punctuated points in conversation by stabbing his hand through the air, a cigarette between his fingers.
Butler made his promise one day when Jake stood in the gravel driveway, along with one of his brothers. He did it because he felt helpless, he said. This was the last thing he could do for his boy, now leaving on a man's journey.
"I went there to see what he had seen, smell the air that he had smelled, say a prayer for him and kind of get a peace of mind in my heart to what he had gone through that day," Butler said.
"I made the promise. I'd hoped I would never have to do it, but if I did I would do it at any cost."
Butler said he continued asking for a casualty report in the days after Jake died. At various times, he said, he was told the Army did not have to file one in time of war or that the search for a report was continuing.
A similar pattern played out when Butler asked if he could see his son's body: He was told at one time it was not viewable, because of wounds, and at another time that it was partially viewable. When Jake's body did arrive, he insisted.
"I told them, 'You going to open this casket?' 'No, no, sir, we can't do that.' I said, 'Bull.' I said, 'When he was alive he had a contract with you. He's dead, he belongs to me. So open the casket.'
"And we did. So, it was just Cindy and I, but Cindy was able to grab his hand one last time, you know, and it meant a lot to her."
Still, frustration set in, and it focused Butler's grief.
That May, he visited Fort Riley, Kan., where his son's unit was based. This time, Butler said, he was told he would never see a casualty report because the Army was "having problems."
As summer arrived, the family heard nothing more about any record of Jake's death. But in August, the 1/41 came home from Iraq. Twenty-eight members of Jake's platoon traveled to the farm to pay respects to the Butlers.
"Each one I talked to individually," Jim Butler said. On the porch of the farmhouse, they drank beer, told Butler about the ambush and his son's heroism and, finally, about a different cause of death: Jake had been shot twice, in the stomach and head; he had not been killed by a grenade.
Butler then demanded to see an autopsy report. In September it arrived. The pictures of Jake's body were hard to look at, and the report was technical. But it listed yet another cause of death: A single gunshot to the head.
The differing explanations only spurred him to find out more. "Maybe I'm sick, or maybe I'm crazy," Butler recalled thinking.
A month later, Butler decided he would make good on his promise.
At age 47, he had never before been on a commercial jet. But Butler flew economy class to Kuwait City in October 2003, unannounced and uninvited, straight into a war zone. After some initial wrangling with the Army, and with the help of a sympathetic colonel, a squad of volunteers flew him by helicopter to As Samawah.
Butler walked to the spot where Jake was shot, aided by pictures taken by Velasco and other members of the 1/41. As Iraqis stood around them in clumps, he produced a compact-disc player and cued Jake's favorite tune, "Imagine" by John Lennon.
When the piano notes finally faded in the afternoon heat, Butler ejected the disc, flung it into the Euphrates and left for home.
A Posthumous Medal
Jake Butler was the first soldier from Kansas to die in the war.
To verify this account of his death from Velasco and others, ProPublica sought Army records. Despite multiple oral requests and four Freedom of Information Act filings, neither the Army nor Central Command in Iraq produced field records or a casualty report from the time his unit was in Iraq.
It now appears that no records from Butler's battalion, or even his division, exist for the invasion, based on a search for field records by Army history detachments. And according to a spokeswoman for Fort Riley, the 1st Armored Division turned in no records from Iraq before being moved in 2008 to Fort Bliss, Texas.
In September 2003, the Butlers were told that Jake had been posthumously awarded a Silver Star, the third-highest award for valor in combat. The family received it from an Army colonel during Wellsville Days in their hometown, where Jim and Cindy had been named grand marshals by the town.
The citation that accompanied the award contains the most detailed official information available about how Jake died. Yet, Jim Butler said the Army never provided it, and that he hadn't seen it until ProPublica obtained a copy this year and showed it to him.
"Due to his actions, the scout mission was successful and resulted in a successful assault two days later across the very bridge that he died to gather information on," the citation reads. "Sgt. Butler gave the ultimate sacrifice by giving his life for his country, but far greater than that, he died showing the greatest love a soldier can show, by laying his life down for his friends."
Velasco said he believes Butler died instantly. No one realized it at the time, but a bullet had hit him in front of his right ear as the Humvees fled.
Nine years later, Jim Butler has taken on a new task — writing a book to tell his son's story. He drives his son's pickup, emblazoned with Jake's photo in the rear window in front of a U.S. flag. Every year on April 1, he and his wife visit the grave at the Wellsville town cemetery.
He is satisfied with what he knows about Jake's last minutes. Butler just wants to move on.
"I got a pretty good picture now," he said. "No thanks to the Army."
Steve Hebert contributed to this story.
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Peter Sleeth is a veteran investigative reporter who covered the Iraq war for The Oregonian and helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for breaking news. Now freelancing, his most recent piece for the Oregon Historical Quarterly is a profile of progressive-era activist Tom Burns.
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I was saddened to read your account of the difficulty of leaning how Sgt. Jake Butler died in Iraq. The loss of vital records seems to be a pattern that has plagued military families going back to at least WWII.
In the 1990's, I worked for a congressman who occasionally received requests from families needing help establishing claims to benefits or recognition for their loved one's service. There was a period during WWII where records of servicemen stored in a warehouse had been destroyed. And like any beaucracy that does not want to acknowledge its failings, the Congressman would get stonewalled or denials of the military's ineptness. It would then take the kind of effort that Jake's father, Jim, pursued to reconstruct what happened to his son.
I regret that this is still going on.
If this RECORDS-TRAIL (or lack there of) were part of a privately held company, most likely the company would no longer be in business because there would be no individual(s) or group of investors or board of directors that would allow for this blatant disrespect for rules. Don't misunderstand me, I DO NOT WANT A PRIVATE ARMY, however THE MILITARY SHOULD BE HELD TO AUDIT RULES too!! Why as taxpayers, are WE THE PEOPLE (whom fund the military through our taxes on our hard-earned wages) unable to not know about these awful rules, guidelines, etc that obviously have been ignored or ever developed for GOOD RECORD-KEEPING as far back as the revolutionary war. There have obviously had serious breaches in the way military records are kept since the 1980s and probably much earlier during the Vietnam War. MY BIG QUESTION AS A TAXPAYER is: How may I find out how much in salaries has been wasted by our military paid to personnel on the ground, in the Pentagon, on the military bases both on foreign bases and in the United States bases and why is money still being budgeted for something not being completed!!!! There are many people in kindergarten who know how to collect information for wounded soldiers (even if via a picture with crayon) that could show greater documentation than ZERO. Curiously, in a time when computers have been escalating in use both privately and by all departments in our government from local through federal departments, is it so difficult for our military to keep simple, information records??? Did I miss the memo where our military is only recording information via smoke signal as they may have learned from our native Americans? There is only one thing to say: NO MORE MILITARY SPENDING, THEY WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO MISUSE THE FUNDS!!! WE THE PEOPLE need the government to AUDIT every department so the WE THE TAXPAYERS can see the money trail!!! Perhaps if the government audited itself, they would be able to SHOW US THE MONEY!! There is a reason for government, but with people in politics in on the money grabbing without accountability wasteful government will GROW, while the part of the government that WE THE PEOPLE want and need will WASTE AWAY!!! As a very underemployed individual, that was a public accountant prior to raising my family, this lack of accountability of the military, makes me sick to my stomach!!!
The government does perform audits. Unfortunately, the audits for most departments - including the military - cannot be completed because the record-keeping is so poor. And nothing is done.
It's good to see at least one media outlet taking the opportunity of Veterans' Day to show how we actually treat our servicemen and their families instead of vapidly "thanking" them for their service without actually helping them or considering what they've been directed to do in our names.
The reason things like this happen is that the Pentagon considers the men and women in the field to be entirely disposable, even in allegedly peaceful actions. Death? Disappearance? They have better things to worry about, like finding a reason (any reason) to invade Iran.
If we want to thank our veterans, that's the problem to fix.
Susan, my point exactly. How convenient for the military to not have audits…there records are too incomplete? Why does the military (mostly going to "private" companies, but are really an arm from the military going to how many pockets, WE THE TAXPAYER may never know) still get money if they cannot keep track of their human soldiers, imagine what happens to the inanimate objects that the military produces and should be keeping track of. Nothing is done, therefore records are too poor to audit, and then still more nothing is done!! This is ludicrous!!! The military is supposed to be made up of the best and the brightest, along with having higher standards than the "average Joe" so SHOW ME THE MONEY TRAIL and QUICKLY or no more tax dollars!!!
This is very sad for the family, but war has always been this way. Sometimes you know, sometimes you don't.
My mom's favorite cousin flew on bombers in WWII, somewhere in the Pacific theater. After one bombing run his plane didn't come home with the rest. To this day that young man is officially MIA - there's even a memorial in the Philippines with his name and his status: MIA. the official report sent to the family says "MIA" and no more. That's all that could be said in those days because squadron movements were all classified. That's all the family would have known except that someone in the squadron knew my dad and that he was courting my mom. He told Dad so Dad could tell Mom and they could tell the family. The squadron finished its run, but one of the planes had a bomb that didn't fully deploy. That plane pulled out of formation to deal with it, but as they pulled over the cousin's plane, the bomb dropped and hit the wing of his plane. His plane went down, maybe over the jungles of Burma or the mountains of Bhutan or somewhere in that direction. There was no possibility of survival, but the official reports can't say that without seeing a dead body. At least they knew.
Yeah, the army should keep better records, nobody should miss writing a report in an expedient manner, and written reports should never be lost of misfiled, but it's a war. Is that the most important thing to focus on? Was a detailed report the most important thing that personnel needed to do at that time and place? Unless the whole unit dies together, there will be someone who can talk to the family, and in the end that is what matters. This father knows a great deal more than the families of the men who went down with Mom's cousin. They have a body to bury. Mom got to see a photo of his name on a memorial thousands of miles away when she was 91 years old. That's how wars go, and somewhere on the other side of the world in an unspecified place, the body of her cousin and his team remain, probably never even buried.
Suzanne, I'd say that, yes, it is absolutely the most important thing. If we're fighting a war, we can't possibly be in the right if we don't care about the lives we're sacrificing.
We were sold on the War on Terror because they're so callous that they'll send brainwashed kids in as suicide bombers on the pretense of rewards in the afterlife. Is that really so different than convincing kids they're doing good by blowing up civilians (sorry, "potential militants") and promising that their families will get a pension that's later denied because some bureaucrat can't be bothered to look through a file?
We're not talking about MIA, here. That's another horror story for families, but not one that's easily fixed, since…well, it's just not possible to know if a missing person survived because there's no evidence.
But consider that, the day before the World Trade Center attack, Rumsfeld outlined two trillion dollars the Pentagon wasted every year due to duplication of effort, extra layers of bureaucracy, and other low-value behavior (the speech is on the web, often misquoted as trillions of dollars gone missing). New on the job, he was able to trace pretty much every dollar in the organization, meaning that's all recorded somewhere to be found.
If we can account for dollars, we can account for lives and injuries. There are fewer of them, and at least lip service is fairly common that the lives are more important. If, as a country, we don't keep track of our veterans when they die, it's a pretty clear sign of what we think of them, despite the holiday parades: As far as our leaders are concerned, they're disposable.
Thanks Jake for giving your life. Until we meet
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