She was prosecuted as a result and forced to resign from the campaign team, and Prabowo personally apologised for spreading the hoax.

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An opposition campaigner's bizarre deception has shone a light on the problem of online misinformation in the world's 4th most populous country

Opposition campaigner Ratna Sarumpaet falsely claimed she had been attacked by political opponents to hide the fact she got plastic surgery.

An Indonesian anti-government activist's secret plastic surgery procedure has spiralled into the country's latest fake news scandal ahead of next year's presidential polls and bruised a former army general's ambitions to unseat incumbent Joko Widodo.

The bizarre case began last month when former actress Ratna Sarumpaet, 69, a member of ex-general Prabowo Subianto's campaign team, told family that her swollen face and eyes were the result of a politically motivated attack.

Ratna claimed that three unidentified men had assaulted her on September 21 in Bandung, a city two hours from the capital Jakarta.

Photos of Ratna went viral on the internet, with Prabowo springing to her defence.

In a news conference, the presidential challenger said Ratna was "traumatised" and he would speak to the police chief about the "human rights abuse".

One by one, Prabowo's political supporters, including Muslim leader Amien Rais – a key figure in the reform movement that forced the resignation of President Suharto in 1998 – voiced their support for Ratna and demanded an investigation into the assault.

But in a bizarre twist, a tearful Ratna came clean following a police investigation that unearthed images of her checking into a hospital for face liposuction.

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"I needed a reason to explain my bruised face to my children, so I told them that I got attacked," she admitted on October 3.

"I never thought that I would be stuck in this stupidity."

She continued: "I'm sorry that I lied about this.

I hope everybody affected by my lying can accept the fact that I am just a human.

This time I have created the best hoax … scandalising an entire nation."

Ratna, who was forced to resign from Prabowo's campaign team, has since been detained and charged under Article 14 of the criminal code for spreading fake news.

Police have alleged that she paid the 90 million rupiah (US$5,913) cost of the surgery from a bank account set up to channel donations to relatives of the victims of a June ferry disaster in which almost 200 people drowned.

Her lawyer has denied the misuse of funds.

Prabowo has apologised to the public for "amplifying something where the truth had not been verified".

Analysts said the deception could deal a blow to Prabowo and his vice-presidential running mate, businessman Sandiaga Uno, who have trailed behind Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, and running mate Ma'ruf Amin in opinion polls.

Jakarta-based pollster Indikator recently found that nearly 58 per cent of Indonesians favoured Widodo as the next president, compared with 32.3 per cent who support Prabowo.

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"Ratna Sarumpaet's hoax shows that political hatred and black campaigns are still used for campaigning," said Septiaji Eko Nugroho, founder and chairman of Mafindo, a community dedicated to combating misinformation.

"There seems to be a 'justify all means' approach among political elites in order to win …

this polarisation will remain until the presidential election is over."

But with the Widodo government grappling with an economic downturn and its biggest currency depreciation since the Asian financial crisis last month, the opposition has an opportunity and time to make up ground before the April 17 election.

"The impact for Prabowo would be greater had this happened in 2014, when [presidential] campaigns were only six weeks," said Hendri Satrio, a political analyst in Jakarta.

"While legally the case is ongoing, I think that Widodo's supporters can't afford to keep bringing this up as it could backfire and generate public sympathy towards Prabowo."

Meanwhile, Indonesia continues to debate how to grapple with the insidious spread of fake news, which is exacerbated in the country of 260 million by poor digital literacy and growing religious and racial intolerance.

Disinformation has spiked in hotly contested polls since the 2014 presidential election, when Widodo was a regular target of unsubstantiated claims that he was anti-Islam and a communist.

Former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese and Christian, later became a victim when a doctored video circulated appearing to show him telling voters not to be fooled by a Koranic verse that barred Muslims from voting for non-Muslim candidates in elections.

He is now serving a two-year sentence in prison, after a Jakarta court last year found him guilty of blasphemy.

Libel, defamation and hate speech are already illegal in Indonesia.

While lawmakers have proposed new laws to tackle so-called fake news, human rights activists have raised concerns that too-broad legislation could be used to crack down on political dissent.

Neighbouring countries are also grappling with the issue.

In Singapore, a parliamentary committee recently recommended the introduction of new laws to curtail misinformation online.

Malaysia already criminalises the reporting of misinformation, although the government of Mahathir Mohamad is trying to repeal the related legislation.

In Indonesia, Mafindo highlighted 230 examples of fake news and hoaxes in the third quarter of this year alone.

Most of the cases concerned politics and were spread through Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

"There are many online hoaxes that also reached a lot of people, but haven't blown up in mainstream media [unlike Ratna's hoax], which is truly worrying," said Nugroho.

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"Our homework is figuring out how to increase people's digital literacy.

This is a long-term solution to prevent them from falling for disinformation."

But political elites and religious leaders must also play ball, he said.

"We hope political parties will actively report hoaxes and fake news that cause damage not only to them, but also their rivals," Nugroho said.

"Many leaders giving sermons are sourcing their information from gossip spread through WhatsApp groups.

"This is poisoning the quality of information being circulated among the public.

We need religious leaders to also be involved in our collective effort to stop fake news."

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With millennials making up around two-fifths of Indonesia's population, there were significant efforts by both sides to appeal to the age group. One example of a major social media-centred campaign, dubbed #2019GantiPresiden emerged, initiated by PKS politician Mardani Ali Sera. It included holding rallies in multiple cities until they were disallowed following clashes with Jokowi supporters.
 Before the campaign period began, observers had expected rampant hoaxes and fake news coming through social media and WhatsApp. One observer noted that the government was limited in its impact in handling the issue, as it may be framed as favouring the incumbent. One particular case involved activist and Prabowo campaigner Ratna Sarumpaet. She falsely claimed to have been assaulted, initially causing many prominent opposition politicians to voice support. However, she admitted that she had lied following a police investigation.


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The UFC's return to Brisbane has added another bout.

Combat Press has confirmed with sources close to the situation that welterweights Viscardi Andrade and Richard Walsh are set to clash at UFC Fight Night 84 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on Sunday, March 20 (Saturday, March 19 in North America).

Brazil's Andrade has won two of his three Octagon appearances, including a decision win over Gasan Umalatov at UFC Fight Night 77 in November.

The 31-year-old enters the contest having won eight of his last nine outings.

Of his 18 career wins, 11 have come before the final bell.

The Australian Walsh snapped a two-fight skid in his last bout, edging Steve Montgomery at UFC 193 in Melbourne.

"Filthy Rich" is a veteran of The Ultimate Fighter: Nations.

The 27-year-old carries nine wins on his resume, including four via knockout.

UFC Fight Night 84 will take place from the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

The event will be headlined by a heavyweight match-up between former champion Frank Mir and hard-hitting Kiwi Mark Hunt.

The co-main event will feature Cuban judoka Hector Lombard against Neil Magny.

The main card will air live on Fox Sports 1.

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Despite dropping and almost finishing Musoke in the first round, Andrade lost the fight via unanimous decision.
 Andrade was expected to face promotional newcomer Andreas Ståhl on July 26, 2014 at UFC on Fox 12.  However, Andrade was forced from the bout due to injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Gilbert Burns.
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The Maple Leafs were eliminated in the First Round of the 2019 playoffs on April 23, after losing to the Bruins in a seven-game series.

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# Leafs face another long summer of second-guessing after devastating Game 7 loss

The Stanley Cup drought will hit 52 years on May 2, the anniversary of the franchise's last championship in 1967.

Toronto hasn't won a single playoff series since 2004.

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Maple Leafs' Morgan Rielly and Frederik Andersen react after a goal is scored against them by the Boston Bruins during the first period of Game 7 on Tuesday night.

Another Toronto Maple Leafs season died in Boston and another long summer of second-guessing began on Tuesday evening.

The last rites officially were given to the Maple Leafs at 9:33 p.m. ET as history repeated itself.

The Boston Bruins were the victors in a critical Game 7 for the third time at TD Garden since 2013.

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This outcome, a 5-1 decision thanks to a pair of late-game empty-net goals, was just as devastating as the third period collapses in 2013 and last spring.

This Maple Leafs team had an improved roster.

Rookie general manager Kyle Dubas added a talented free agent in 47-goal scorer John Tavares and a Stanley Cup-winner before the trade deadline in defenceman Jake Muzzin.

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For the second straight season, Boston used home ice to their advantage, eliminating Toronto with a 5-1 win on Tuesday night.

But the result was the same, another year of agony for the Maple Leafs and their faithful.

Mike Babcock's side was the better team through the first two periods.

But the Maple Leafs found themselves behind 2-1 after 40 minutes.

Toronto goalie Frederik Andersen was not sharp.

In hindsight, he should have held on to the puck for a whistle on the first goal.

But he moved it, leading to a giveaway from Maple Leafs defenceman Travis Dermott and a bad-angle goal from Boston's Joakim Nordstrom late in the first period.

Marcus Johansson took advantage of a turnover from Dermott's defence partner Jake Gardiner a few shifts later to give Boston a 2-0 lead.

"I thought we played real good until it was 3-1," Babcock said.

"We carried lots of the play, we executed and played the way we wanted to play.

"It's disappointing because I thought our series, compared to last year, we were a way better hockey club and we weren't rewarded.

I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

It's part of the scars and pain you feel in building a franchise."

Toronto head coach Mike Babcock thought his team wasn't rewarded despite playing a great series.

Babcock often talks about "the process" and "the opportunity" when discussing his team.

But it was the Bruins who were opportunistic.

Andersen certainly helped the opposition's cause with a poor outing after he played so well in the first six games of the series.

Bruins fourth-line forward Sean Kuraly caught Andersen napping on a 30-foot shot to make it 3-1 early in the third period.

It didn't help matters that the Tavares line was at the end of a long shift and the Morgan Rielly-Ron Hainsey defence pairing had just hopped over the boards and were caught backing in.

Andersen now has a career 0-4 in Game 7s.

But Babcock's recent record in crucial games is not good either.

He has lost his last five potential series-clinching games, dating back to his days at the helm of the Detroit Red Wings.

The Bruins, who will meet the Columbus Blue Jackets in the second round, had a relatively stress-free finish after the Kuraly goal.

Gardiner, who was playing hurt, finished a minus-three on the evening to push his plus-minus rating to minus-10 in his three Game 7s in Boston.

The Maple Leafs power play also let Toronto down.

It went 0-for-5 in the final two games of the series.

You could see the disappointment on the face of Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan when television cameras spied on him late in the game.

He and Dubas have built a young and talented team.

But windows to win in the NHL are small these days because of the monster second contracts to young, talented players.

Dubas and his management team have to figure out how to improve the roster and keep the key players under the constraints of the salary cap.

Gardiner, Hainsey, fourth-line forward Tyler Ennis and backup goalie Michael Hutchinson are slated to become unrestricted free agents this summer.

But the difficult negotiations will be with the trio of restricted free agents in Mitch Marner, Kasperi Kapanen and Andreas Johnsson.

This will play out in the days, weeks and months to come in what will be another long summer for Maple Leafs and their deflated fan base.

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Team history.:Brendan Shanahan era (2014–present).

In their second season under Babcock, Toronto secured the final Eastern Conference wildcard spot for the 2017 playoffs. On April 23, 2017, the Maple Leafs were eliminated from the playoffs by the top-seeded Washington Capitals four games to two in the best-of-seven series.
 Toronto finished the 2017–18 season with 105 points by beating Montreal 4–2 in their final game of the regular season, a franchise-record, beating the previous record of 103 points set in 2004. They faced the Boston Bruins in the First Round and lost in seven games. Following the playoffs, Lamoriello was not renewed as general manager. Kyle Dubas was subsequently named the team's 17th general manager in May 2018. During the 2018 off-season, the Maple Leafs signed John Tavares to a seven-year, $77 million contract. Tavares was subsequently named an alternate captain for the Leafs, alongside Morgan Rielly and Patrick Marleau. On April 1, the Maple Leafs clinched a division berth for the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs.


The film also stars María Conchita Alonso and Max Ryan as two local townspeople who try to save the town from destruction.

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A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years.

She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way.

Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.

A werewolf terrorizes a small city where lives the paralytic Marty Coslaw, his uncle, and his sister, the story's narrator.

A bus full of college students stumble across an abandoned western town and realize it is haunted by the ghosts of outlaws who brutally killed the residents and now kill visitors every 13 years on Friday the 13th to become stronger.

Framed for a murder she did not commit, fearless and resourceful loner Christy has no other choice but to run for her life.

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A group of college kids hired to help open an aviation museum on a closed U.S. military airbase accidentally unearth an ancient artifact which unleashes an evil spirit whom possesses them one by one making the host kill off the rest.

An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor.

But when his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus he finds his smile.

A young man is killed and resurrected by the Aztec God of Death as his slave.

A crack team of professional Zombie Hunters team with a top female British security agent to save her sister from a mad scientist and stop his plan to procreate a new half-human half-zombie master race.

Small town in the Wild West is attacked by poisonous snakes.

Real love and fate collide in a small town girl's life as Amy falls in love with a mysterious drifter who brings with him a family curse.

Bender, who shares the curse with his son, brings hell to Amy's town.

Helping Dan and Amy are an oddball crew; ex-cop, Thibodeaux, who's seen Bender's bloodlust firsthand, Sam, the local sheriff and ex-homicide detective, and John, a local farmer and Amy's father, head for the ultimate showdown with Bender and the evil terror he has drawn them to.

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Horror icon Dee Wallace worked on the script to this film with writer/director Dana Mennie for over a year.

After casting her in the role of Sam, Mennie replaced Wallace with Maria Conchita Alonso in the eleventh hour.

No animals were harmed in any way during the filming of Dark Moon Rising, not a whole lot of humans either!

When you put the line on your DVD sleeve "twilight meets ginger snaps" than you have put the cat with the milk.

Immediately you will refer to Twilight and admit it, Twilight was a big insult to the genre.

It had nothing to do with horror or vampires or werewolves.

It was just a love story with a strange twist.

And I must say that this flick is indeed the same story of Twilight but without the vampires.

But it clocks in at around 2 hours and that's a bit too long as did the Twilight shite.

It's all about a normal girl falling in love with a stranger who appears to be a werewolf.

But not only that, there's another werewolf on the loose.

This is Dana Minnie's first attempt to make a horror.

Being the story a bit too lame it's good on the gory side.

The bites and killings are indeed gory and the guys will be amused by some nudity.

Based for me a bit too much on Twilight I would tear it down but due the gory bits I gave it a 3.

It's not like Twilight for 5 or 6 year old ones, this is for teenager ready to take some red stuff and a lot of love story.

The acting was okay and believable but the werewolves were a bit to much of CGI and you could see the use of blue key.

If they only had the werewolves done with real effects in stead of CGI it would have been much better.

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"Dark Moon Rising" (aka "Wolf Moon") is a horror film made in 2009 directed by Dana Mennie who also co-wrote the movie with Ian Cook. The film is about a small town girl, Amy (played by Ginny Weirick), who falls for wanderer Chris Diveccio.


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His father Syed Zakiuddin had worked as an insurance agent.

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The Indian face behind the November 26, 2008 carnage in Mumbai [ Images ] has emerged out of the shadows.

Intelligence agencies have revealed that the mystery man with a heavy Indian accent who was handling the Mumbai attacks was 29-year-old Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin Ansari.

The various transcripts and telephonic conversations between the handlers and the attackers, which are in possession with the Mumbai police and the Intelligence Bureau, point out to the role of Syed Zabiuddin in the attacks.

His exact words at the start of the attack at the Nariman House in Mumbai were 'Tell the media that this is just the trailer, the real movie is yet to begin'.

He stayed in touch with the fidayeen member Abu Akasha and his men at the Jewish centre and during the course of the attack used words such as gathbandan (alliance), karenga (to do something) and prashasan (administration), which are very typical Hindi words as against the strong Urdu spoken by the rest of the handlers, who were of Pakistani origin.

The tapes also reveal that Syed Zabiuddin was extremely particular that the fidayeens on the ground should conceal their Pakistani identity at any cost.

He is heard saying on tape to the Nariman House attackers to identify themselves only as Indian citizens.

He also directs them to say that they hail from the Toli Chowki area in Hyderabad.

According to the IB, while listening to the transcripts they had a strong doubt about a man of Indian origin present in the control room.

While we were sure that Abu Jundal, who is also of Indian origin, was present along with the 26/11 operations team, we were trying to ascertain who this other Indian in the camp was.

Abu Jundal is the man who imparted accent training to the 26/11 attackers so that they could speak like Indians and not get identified as Pakistanis.

The Syed Zabiuddin storyIndian intelligence agencies say that the rise of Syed Zabiuddin was phenomenal.

We have been able to establish that he is from Gevrai, a small village in Beed district, Maharashtra [ Images ]

.Born on November 13, 1981, he almost made it to the second rung of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ], barely seven years after taking the terror path.

The son of an insurance agent, Syed Zabiuddin did his schooling at Gevrai and then joined the Indian Technical Institute in Beed district.

It was at this time that his entire path changed and he started drifting towards terrorism.

Like several other jihadis produced on the India [ Images ]n soil, Syed Zabiuddin too made up his mind to join an extremist outfit following the Gujarat riots.

Through his earlier days, he had witnessed communal riots in Maharashtra and also was keen on the happenings following the demolition of the Babri Masjid [ Images ].

Immediately after the Gujarat riots, he came in contact with the Students Islamic Movement of India.

Syed Zabiuddin shuttled between Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] and Maharashtra, organising camps and recruiting youth into the SIMI [ Images ].

Prior to taking the terror path, he was sent along with several other SIMI activists to train with the Lashkar.

He was asked to approach Mumbai-based operative, Rahil Sheikh who managed to slip him into Pakistan and undergo training.

The IB says that Syed Zabiuddin trained along with several other Indian operatives on the Pakistan-Iran border before returning to India.

According to the IB, he remained with the SIMI for nearly two years before moving completely into the Lashkar.

His main areas of operations were Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, from where he managed to recruit the highest number of persons.

From India operations, Syed Zabiuddin was asked to move into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir [ Images ] and take care of operations there for some time.

Here too he was given the task of facilitating the entry of Indian operatives, who could fight alongside the Lashkar in Kashmir.

Over a span of just four years, he had built up an excellent network.

Although his biggest assignment with the Lashkar was the Mumbai attack, he started off with the Delhi [ Images ] serial blasts, which occurred in 2008.

The blasts at New Delhi were mainly an Indian Mujahideen-based operation and the attack on the capital city was probably one of the biggest assignments for the IM.Prior to handling the Delhi blasts

, Syed Zabiuddin was also given a brief to carry out a fidayeen strike in Gujarat, which was to result in the assassination of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi [ Images ].He

slipped into Gujarat along with 11 other operatives and was getting ready for the operation.

But the IB picked up information and passed it on to the Gujarat police, which foiled the plot.

Ansari managed to give them the slip and fled to Pakistan.

His 11 accomplices were, however, arrested.

After executing the Delhi blasts, Syed Zabiuddin was instructed to lie low before being summoned to handle the Mumbai attack.

The Lashkar thought that it would be a good idea to use Ansari in this attack since he was familiar with the Mumbai terrain and could guide the attackers well.

Moreover, the Lashkar also wanted to ensure that there was a person speaking with an Indian accent, as it would then look as though the attack was being manufactured in India.

Intelligence sources point out that Syed Zabiuddin is very much in Pakistan and as of today, he is one of the most important men in the Lashkar network that India would like to lay its hands on.

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Zabiuddin was born on 30 November 1980 in a village "Hathi Khana mohalla" in Georai area of Beed district in Maharashtra in western India.


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Bremerton's beginnings can be traced in large part to two men: Ambrose Wyckoff and William Bremer.

Wyckoff, a Navy lieutenant, came to Seattle in 1877 to conduct a surveying mission.

The man who would become known as "That Puget Sounder" made his case to Congress for a shipyard in Sinclair Inlet, and eventually, he got his way.

Congress appropriated $10,000 in 1891 and the 145-acre Puget Sound Naval Yard was born.

Bremer, a German immigrant and Henry Paul Hensel, a jeweler, saw opportunity in Wyckoff's purchase.

They bought up the land, sold some of it to the Navy at $50 an acre and ultimately developed the beginnings of Bremerton.

The shipyard sputtered at first during a nationwide depression but got rolling after Wyckoff and others worked to get another $1.5 million from Congress by 1901, when the city was officially incorporated.

The same year, nearby Charleston established a post office, the beginnings of a bustling commercial district there.

The postmaster, who also owned a mill near what is now Evergreen-Rotary Park, started burning refuse from the mill in what became the city's first source of electricity.

Bremerton has been known for its rowdy bars through the years, but its earliest era may well have been the roughest.

By 1903, the town had 16 saloons in a city of only 1,200 people.

The Navy threatened to leave Sinclair Inlet until Alvin Croxton, the town's first mayor, did something about it: he led the charge to close them all.

Even before Bremerton, a community was building around a mill on the shores just north of present-day Manette.

William Renton established a saw mill in 1854 at Enetai Point, but it burned down 16 years later, after Renton sold it and established a mill at Port Blakely on Bainbridge Island.

Still, a town grew there and in neighboring Tracyton.

In 1916, a ferry was established between Bremerton and Manette.

Two years later, Manette was incorporated into the city, and Charleston followed in 1927.

What was created was a city on two peninsulas, finally linked by the Manette Bridge in 1930.

As it has throughout history, Bremerton has ebbed and flowed like the tides with the country's war efforts.

Following the first world war, the city started to languish until its biggest boom of all came with the second.

The population here exploded from 15,000 to 85,000, as Westpark, Eastpark and Sheridan Park were built in an effort to provide enough housing.

An African American population grew as well, but was confined to Sinclair Park in what is now the West Hills until residents like Lillian Walker fought against the de facto segregation.

Barrage balloons surrounded the city in case of an attack by Japanese warplanes, blackouts were held and "victory gardens" became popular.

Women working in the shipyard gave rise to the cultural icon "Rosie the Riveter."

Even after the war, it was allegedly a local resident who told President Harry Truman to "Give 'em hell," while at a speech at Fifth and Pacific.

The post-war years saw Bremerton decline from its war boom but maintain its status as Kitsap County's commercial hub.

Olympic College was created by the Bremerton School District in 1946, and was eventually taken over by the state.

The Casad Dam, named for the visionary head of Bremerton public works was completed in 1957, and its Union River headwaters still provide the city's water supply today.

The Warren Avenue Bridge was completed in 1958, offering a second link to East Bremerton.

Then came an exodus toward more rural parts of Kitsap County.

The federal government chose to build a new submarine base at Bangor in 1973.

Suburban life grew in other parts of the county, and developers started eyeing locations outside Bremerton for shopping malls.

Ed Bremer, last surviving member of the founding family, attempted to keep Bremerton as the commercial center of the county.

But his efforts would backfire: Ron Ross, developer of the Kitsap Mall, sued successfully and won a $2 million judgement for impeding an attempt by Ross to build a mall near Wheaton Way and Riddell Road.

Bremerton's end as the county's retail hub more or less officially came on Aug. 1, 1985, the day Kitsap Mall opened in Silverdale.

His fortunes went to the Bremer Trust, which now benefits Olympic College but still maintains a portfolio of Bremerton properties.

Efforts in the 1990s to restore Bremerton's downtown were hit-and-miss.

There were victories, including the restoration of the Admiral Theater and the construction of the new Bremerton Transportation Center.

But gang violence and high crime still plagued the city, and in 1998, the city lost the famed World War II Naval ship USS Missouri to Hawaii as a museum.

Bremerton's beginning to the 21st century has seen its own set of victories and setbacks.

Under Mayor Cary Bozeman, the city embarked on a vigorous downtown revitalization effort, branding it the "Harborside," and developing controversial condominiums, conference center and fountain park.

Many other city parks have been redeveloped, the old Westpark housing area was demolished and violent crime has plummeted.

A tunnel funneled traffic out of downtown, a new Manette Bridge replaced the old span and a 10-screen movieplex was built.

But Harrison Medical Center, with roots here dating back to the early 20th century, announced plans recently to vacate most of its East Bremerton campus for Silverdale.

A spate of downtown apartment projects aims to bring even more people into living an urban lifestyle in downtown Bremerton.

Special thanks to so many in helping me to put this together, including Kitsap Sun's archives, historians Frank Wetzel, Fredi Perry Pargeter, Russell Warren and Ruth Reese, The Kitsap Historical Society and Museum and its staff, the book "Manette Pioneering," historylink.org and others.

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During the 2016 B-Level qualifier, Kremer once again won the Most Valuable Pitcher award.

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# Sweden wins B-Level European Championship in Vienna

Box scoreSweden has won the B-Level European Championship in Vienna, Austria.

On Saturday evening the Scandinavian team defeated Austria 8-5 in the championship game in the front of a sold-out stadium to return to the 2016 European Championship.

Sweden finished in 11th place in last year's tournament, getting relegated to the B-Pool.

It was a close contest at the Prater in Vienna.

Austria took a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth.

Sweden first tied the game at 4-4 in the seventh.

After Austria regained the lead in the eighth, Sweden put four runs on the board in the ninth to seal the win.

Peter Johannessen tied the game with his RBI single.

After the bases got loaded with an intentional walk, Matt Merrifield scored the go-ahead run through a passed ball.

A RBI single and a hit batter with the bases still loaded added some insurance, which wasn't needed as Austria went down in order in the bottom of the ninth.

Richard Alzinger and Moritz Hackl hit home runs for Austria.

During the closing ceremony Sweden's catcher Bjorn Johannessen was named Most Valuable Player.

His brother Peter Johannessen picked up the trophy for the best batter.

Dean Kremer of Israel, who got drafted by the San Diego Padres last month, took home the award for the best pitcher.

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During the 2016 C-Level qualifier, Dean Kremer was named the Euros’ Most Valuable Pitcher and Simon Rosenbaum was named MVP.


It featured various battles, destructible environments, and lighting effects among others.

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## Sony shows off a shiny teaser for its anticipated PlayStation 3 shooter.

By Ricardo Torres | @GS_RT on March 7, 2007 at 11:11AM PST

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Word on Sony's Guerilla-developed Killzone for the PlayStation 3 has been scarce since it made its splashy debut in the I-can't-believe-that's-gameplay trailer from the Electronic Entertainment Expo a few years ago.

Since then, the game has been mostly off the radar, save for a few mentions peppered throughout public comments from Sony reps.

Though hard info on gameplay and a release date is still scarce, the game made an intriguing appearance, again in trailer form, at Sony's Game Developers Conference press event last night.

Following a brief overview of the PlayStation Edge suite of developer tools Sony is set to release to devs in the hopes of helping with development of PS3 games, Phil Harrison casually mentioned he'd show a trailer of a game that had benefited from the tools.

Before firing up the video from the cross media bar of a PlayStation 3, Harrison offered the disclaimer that the demo was meant to highlight technology and not the game itself.

The video offered a montage of sequences from the game that emphasized various technical aspects of it.

A lone soldier running with a vast cityscape behind him segued to various combat sequences that showed situations that seemed tailor-made to highlight the tech Harrison had mentioned.

An indoor combat sequence showed a soldier blowing to bits everything around him in a kitchen.

Another sequence showed a soldier blasting the objects some enemies were using for cover.

An outdoor combat sequence showed off standard on-foot combat as well as vehicle-based shooting, courtesy of a mean-looking tank.

Given the tech-focused nature of the trailer, there were some showy moments that revolved around blowing out individual windows in a warehouse area, as well as another sequence that showed shafts of light coming in through holes being blown in a structure.

The use of light also figured prominently into a sequence, specifically the light on a soldier's rifle as it illuminated a dimly lit area.

An extended sequence also focused on assorted soldiers getting plugged full of bullets in different venues, which yielded the expected twitching and flailing.

The humanoid- and vehicle-focused action was livened up at the end of the video when wicked mechanical sentinel-like creatures unfurled their appendages and menaced the camera.

As with the previous Killzone trailer, the game looks like it has the potential to make quite a splash for the PlayStation 3 if it delivers on its promise.

The action looks fast and detailed, and it seems to be covering all the right bases.

The visuals are looking sharp, and the vast scale of the outdoor areas is impressive, while the indoor spaces we saw were good and claustrophobic.

Granted, we didn't see anything quite as jaw dropping as the eerie human animation in the previous trailer, but as Harrison noted, this trailer was more of a technical showcase than a proper trailer.

Look for more on Killzone at E3 later this year, where Sony and Amsterdam-based Guerilla will hopefully deliver the goods in playable form.

Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email news@gamespot.com

At E3 2005, "Killzone 2" was debuted with a trailer depicting soldiers landing in a hostile war-zone on Helghan and fighting Helghast forces. Critics in the media argued that the trailer shown at the trade show did not show actual gameplay footage, as its high level of visual detail has been argued to be impossible to render in real-time on the PlayStation 3 and the audio mix of the trailer was slightly delayed. SCEA's Vice President, Jack Tretton, stated that the footage of "Killzone 2", that was believed to be pre-rendered, "is real gameplay everybody's seeing out there". Several days later, Phil Harrison, SCE Europe's Vice President of Development, stated in an interview that all of the footage of PlayStation 3 games at E3 2005 were "running off video" which was "done to PS3 spec". Further interviews eventually revealed the trailer was indeed a "target render", a prerendered video showing the developer's goals for the finished product. At the Game Developers Conference in 2007, a "Killzone 2" teaser was shown behind closed doors, and was never released to the public.


It was championed by Pony Express Council Executive Parvin Bishop who expanded the program when he became Director of Program at the National Office.

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Project C.O.P.E. is a series of inter-related events that challenge on an individual and group level.

Events are divided into four categories: initiative games, trust events, low elements and high elements.

C.O.P.E. was originated within the Boy Scouts of America at Camp Geiger, in the Pony Express Council, in the late 1970's under the direction of Parvin Bishop, then Scout Executive.

Bishop later became Director of Program at the National Office and is currently Regional Director, Southern Region.

C.O.P.E.'s origins are often traced back to European efforts.

A Project C.O.P.E. course is operated under the oversight of a volunteer committee including National Camp School-certified directors.

C.O.P.E. courses are built the strict standards of the Association for Challenge Course Technology and operated only under the direction of NCS-certified individuals.

Standards of safety are stressed at every level of the course.

Project C.O.P.E. courses typically include open areas for games and trust events, and a series of "low" and "high" elements.

The concept of 'challenge by choice' encourages each person to participate fully while maintaining the right to 'opt-out' of any individual part of the program.

Games introduce teamwork concepts while also serving as warm-up exercises.

Trust events further the teamwork development while also developing risk-taking from low to higher levels.

Low elements can include a wall, spider web, and other cable and rope combinations that involve teamwork relatively close to the ground.

High elements are generally individual events involving climbing to heights of 20-30 feet, crossing cables, etc.

Each element -- low or high -- is carefully spotted or belayed to minimize danger while still challenging the individuals to challenge personal levels of risk-taking.

Climbing walls, rappelling towers, and similar elements are not, strictly-speaking, a part of the COPE concept, although they are currently supervised under the COPE standards.

Separation of these programs is planned for the year 2000.

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 It was first camp in the United States to offer Project C.O.P.E..
 The camp is named for Charles Geiger, a St. Joseph physician, who donated land from his boyhood home in 1930.  It replaced Camp Brinton at Agency, Missouri (named for W.E. Brinton who had loaned 30 acres (120,000 m) for the camp) which had been the Scout council's main summer camp since 1918.  Scouting executive H. Roe Bartle founded the Mic-O-Say organization at Camp Brinton in 1925 while serving as head of the Pony Express council.  Bartle was to found a Mic-O-Say chapter in Kansas City, Missouri when he was transferred to being head of the Heart of America chapter in Kansas City there in 1929.  However the Kansas City chapter also includes Order of the Arrow in its offering at its Camp Naish while having Mic-O-Say exclusively at its other camp—Camp Bartle.
 In 1930 Geiger announced the donation and in 1935 it opened with a Dining Hall made of native limestone.  In the 1950s, the council bought land higher on the bluffs and further to the north and a "new Camp Geiger" was begun with the bulk of the camp moved to the higher land in 1952.  The original swimming pool lower on the bluff was replaced in 1971 with a new pool on top of the bluff. In the late 1970s the Pony Express Council began Project COPE which is aimed at encouraging teamwork, self-confidence, trust, leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving.


Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, Yahoo!'s former Q&A platform which was discontinued in March 2006.

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Yahoo Answers, arguably one of Yahoo's most successful products of the year, has turned one today.

Yahoo has listed The Best of Answers 2006 showing off some of the best user generated questions and answers for the year.

You can get a free gift from Yahoo for their birthday over here.

They give you a different gift based on your "levels."

Since I am a level one, I do not get a gift.

Gifts Include: Level 2: Yahoo! Answers sticker Level 3: Yahoo! Answers car magnet Level 4: Yahoo! Answers water bottle Level 5: Yahoo! Answers hat Level 6: Yahoo! Answers mug Level 7: Yahoo! Answers fleece

Postscript: Brand Republic has a write up named Yahoo! hunts brand licensees for Answers service describing Yahoo's search for UK companies to partner with, in order to white-label the Yahoo Answers Q&A software.

YAHOO! ANSWERS CELEBRATES ONE YEAR OF KNOWLEDGE AND SUCCESS AS POLL REVEALS USE AND INFLUENCE OF Q&A SITES Yahoo! Answers Surpasses 60 Million Users and 160 Million Answers Worldwide

– As Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com), the leading Q&A site on the web, turns one and celebrates a thriving community of users, knowledge and success, a recent survey commissioned by Yahoo! and conducted by Harris Interactive® indicates that one in three online adults (33%) have used a Q&A site, and, of these, half (52%) say that information from a Q&A site has influenced a decision they have made.

The survey also indicates that online adults have looked for advice and reviews online and would be even more inclined to do so if the information was free and provided answers to questions in minutes.

"We believe Internet users are looking to real people for their advice and knowledge more than ever before,

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Major Jerry Crew, an RSO, told "Air & Space/Smithsonian" that he used a jammer to try to confuse surface-to-air missile sites as their crews tracked his airplane, but once his threat-warning receiver told him a missile had been launched, he switched off the jammer to prevent the missile from homing in on its signal.

## Stories from the fastest jet ever flown.

The SR-71 was the last major aircraft designed with a slide rule.

When Bob Gilliland made the first flight of the SR-71 on December 22, 1964, engineers were still tweaking 379 items on the aircraft.

That didn't deter Gilliland, who took the airplane to 50,000 feet and Mach 1.5.

At a 2010 talk in Ridgecrest, California, Gilliland recounted that he ignored the one error message he saw in the cockpit that day: "Canopy Unsafe."

We have the cold war, Kelly Johnson, and the CIA to thank for what is still the fastest aircraft propelled by jet engines.

Once the U-2 proved vulnerable to the Soviet Union's surface-to-air missiles, the CIA issued a contract for a spyplane that could evade SAMs.

Johnson responded with the A-12, the aircraft that would evolve into the SR-71.

Fifty years later, the Blackbird continues to mesmerize pilots and public alike.

During its career, the reconnaissance aircraft gathered intelligence all over the globe.

Crews spied on military activities in North Vietnam, took imagery during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, flew over the Persian Gulf, and peered into the former Soviet Union.

We've collected just a few of the stories from Blackbird crews, but when we asked pilots to compare it to other aircraft they'd flown, we stumped them.

One summed up the slim similarities: "It's got controls and a throttle."

Visit airspacemag.com for additional stories, pictures, and trivia—and add your own. —The Editors

Some stories first appeared in Richard Graham's SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends; and SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story.

An SR-71 flies over California's Tehachapi mountains in 1995.

The first SR-71 arrived at Beale Air Force Base in January 1966, and Beale remained the aircraft's home base for the next 24 years.

Tires were compounded with aluminum powder to reflect heat, and filled with inert nitrogen to prevent their combustion.

Made by B.F. Goodrich, tires lasted fewer than 20 landings, and cost about $2,300 each.

The KC-135Q/T Stratotanker was built with special tanks to contain the corrosive and volatile fuel needed for the SR-71.

Some missions required six rounds of refueling in flight.

Only 56 of the 803 Stratotankers built were converted for the SR-71.

High-frequency sound waves fused the quartz-glass outer windscreen directly to the titanium frame.

At maximum Mach the windscreen exterior reached more than 600 degrees.

Some pilots used the window as an ad hoc oven, pressing the squeeze tube that held their dinner against the glass to heat the food before eating.

An A-12 sits outside L.A.'s California Science Center.

The National Air and Space Museum's SR-71 flew coast to coast in one hour, four minutes, 20 seconds.

Landing at about 170 mph, the SR-71 used a drag chute to relieve stress on the tires.

After a chute failure, one Blackbird slammed off the runway and was destroyed.

The Blackbird was America's first stealthy aircraft.

When the SR-71 was decommissioned, the fuel tanks at Beale Air Force Base that held its JP-7 jet fuel were unusable for any other purpose and were demolished.

The SR-71 was famous for the diamond pattern in its exhaust, which alternated between hot pockets of excess fuel that were ignited, and cooler sections of lower density.

Eleven spyplanes lined up at Beale Air Force Base, with a two-seat trainer in the center foreground.

A total of 32 Blackbirds were built; 12 crashed.

Shelton was the first Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron commander of the SR-71 unit at Beale Air Force Base, California.

He was the fifth SR-71 crew member to reach the 900-flying-hour plateau.

During the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, our government wanted to know the battlefield situation between the Israelis and Egyptians.

They couldn't move one of our spy satellites out of a Russian orbit due to higher-priority targeting.

Lieutenant Colonel Gary Coleman (recon systems officer) and I were asked to obtain the information.

We were to take off from Beale Air Force Base, fly through the Mediterranean Sea, down the Suez Canal, around the city of Cairo, Egypt, head through Israel, back through the Mediterranean, and recover at RAF Mildenhall, England.

This would be about an 8-hour-and-45-minute flight.

The next day, we were informed that the British would not let the SR-71 land in England due to their dependence on Middle East oil.

The new plan was to fly from Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, through the Middle East and return to Griffiss.

It meant that the mission was now 11 hours and 30 minutes.

As we headed down the Suez Canal, Gary informed me that a SAM site in Egypt was tracking us.

Fortunately, as we continued south over the Suez Canal, the SAM site stopped tracking our plane.

Eventually, we turned west to circle around Cairo.

Once again, an Egyptian SAM site started tracking us.

Through the side window, I spotted high-altitude condensation trails approximately 40,000 feet below us.

Now we had fighter aircraft trying to track us or attempting to shoot us down, as well as the threat from the SAM site.

Based on our location, I believed they were Egyptian aircraft and not Israelis.

Our sixth air refueling was over Canada.

Knowing the weather at Griffiss was clear and we wouldn't need any extra fuel, I pushed the throttles up to full military power, just before the afterburner range.

This increased our speed to around Mach .98.

The Canadian air traffic controller kept asking us what type of aircraft we were.

I responded, "As filed on our flight plan."

After landing, I questioned our mission planners as to the type of aircraft they had indicated on our flight plan.

No wonder the traffic controller wanted to know the type of aircraft—a KC-135 flies almost 150 miles per hour slower than I was going.

Our photos showed that the Israelis had moved farther into Egypt than Golda Meir had admitted.

The State Department used these photos to convince Meir to withdraw from Egyptian territory.

Crew was a navigator on B-47s and B-52Gs when he became aware of the SR-71 program.

After 308 hours in the back seat of the SR-71 and an unplanned medical retirement, Crew is now known as the World's Fastest Farmer.

The morning of 26 July 1968 started as another typical day at our detachment on Okinawa.

Major Tony Bevacqua, pilot, and I formed Crew 013.

We were hoping for a chance to fly an operational sortie over North Vietnam and, because of a glitch with the crew in line ahead of us, got it.

Our mission would take us over Hanoi and Haiphong.

North Vietnam had been socked in for two weeks by weather.

Knowing that current, up-to-the-minute intelligence was necessary to conduct the ground war added urgency to our mission.

Turning inbound on our first sensor run, I noticed the "R" light on my electronic countermeasures (ECM) panel was illuminated.

A North Vietnamese SAM site was tracking us on its radar.

What we didn't expect was the illumination of the "M" light, followed closely by the "L" light!

This meant that the North Vietnamese had actually fired one or more SAMs at us.

(The "R" light meant they were searching for you, the "M" light meant they were tracking you, and the "L" light meant they were launching at you.)

Attempting to seem calm (I failed), I told Tony we had just had a SAM shot at us.

This news couldn't have occurred at a worse time.

We had just started our sensor take, and evasive action was not an option.

Tony asked how long ago was it launched, and I replied, "About five seconds."

The time of missile launch was important; we were told countless times by our intelligence experts that the SA-2 missile's total flight time was only 58 seconds.

In other words, if nothing happened by then, we were probably safe.

We had practiced what to do in the event of a SAM launch many times in the simulator.

My duty was to turn off the ECM jammer because we didn't want the missile tracking the jamming frequency during flight.

The purpose of our jammer was to confuse the missile prior to launch.

My other duty was to start the stopwatch to time the missile's flight.

It took forever to turn off the jammer (actual time: five seconds), and I never started the stopwatch.

However, I did notice the position of the second hand on the clock when Tony asked how long ago the missile had been fired.

I thought the whole time was spent answering Tony about the length of the missile's flight.

"Five seconds since the last time you asked," I answered.

Interphone tapes show that Tony only asked four times.

I do know it took much longer than the missile's predicted flight time to convince us of our safety.

We completed the sensor run and descended to our tanker over Thailand, preparing for our return run back over North Vietnam.

In reality, two missiles had been fired at us.

Luckily they shot early and below us—our cameras confirmed this.

Blackwell had about 3,500 hours as an RC-135 navigator before entering the SR-71 program.

He left the program in 1976 to attend Air Command and Staff College.

Pilot Colonel Darryl Cobb and I experienced two separate flameouts while on deployment to Okinawa.

During the first flameout, we were getting ready to fly down to Vietnam to take some bomb assessment pictures.

After we'd taken on fuel, the inlet guide vein failed to shift.

As we were descending, heading back to Kadena Air Base, I said to Darryl at 55,000 feet, "Can you get the engines restarted?"

His response was "How did you know they're out?"

At 10,000 feet, if it's obvious the plane is going to crash, the RSO is supposed to eject.

So we're at about 20,000 feet, and I started reading the emergency checklist sewn on the pressure suit arm, on how to get into a rubber raft without puncturing it.

At 12,500 feet, Darryl got one engine started, and the other came on at about 11,000 feet.

This happened on my first operational sortie.

On another mission, we were descending into Thailand to take on fuel from a tanker at 25,000 feet when Darryl saw a thunderstorm topped at 62,000 feet.

He decided to take the SR off auto-navigation, and once we got to the other side of the thunderstorm, we'd do an emergency descent to get back on the profile.

As soon as we started down, both engines flamed out.

We got the first engine started at 26,000 feet, and the second at about 22,500.

We're probably the only pilot and RSO who have about 20 or 30 minutes of triple-sonic glider time.

Shul was the first pilot to write a book about flying the SR-71.

Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet, first published in 1991, now in its sixth printing.

Walter and I had just completed the 100 hours required to attain Mission Ready status in the jet.

Ripping across the Arizona deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California.

I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat.

There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios.

The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, controlling daily traffic in their sector.

While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.

We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed.

Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at 90 knots on the ground."

Now the thing to understand about Center controllers was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important.

I referred to it as the "Houston Center voice."

Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne.

Better to die than sound bad on the radios.

Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed.

"I have you at 125 knots of ground speed."

Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren.

Then out of the blue, a Navy F/A-18 pilot out of Naval Air Station Lemoore came up on frequency.

You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios.

Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, "Hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout?"

Ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is.

He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet.

And the reply, always with that same calm voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."

And I thought to myself: Is this a ripe situation, or what?

As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios.

The click of the mic button from the back seat.

That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew.

Very professionally, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?"

There was no hesitation: "Aspen 20, I show you at 1,842 knots, across the ground."

I think it was the "42 knots" that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling.

Walt keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."

And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A. came back with "Roger that Aspen.

Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours.

It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on frequency were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew.

We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

When Alison left the SR-71 program, he had 966 hours in the Blackbird.

He went on to become the Chief of Collections Management at the National Air and Space Museum.

We had two occasions to fly missions from Beale to Kadena that required very precise timing.

On one, we were scheduled to pass a point off the coast of Petropavlovsk at the same time as another "Habu" [SR-71] was passing the same point in the opposite direction, heading from Kadena to Beale.

After two air refuelings and three and a half hours of flying, we hit the spot within 10 seconds of our planned time and had the spectacular experience of seeing Lieutenant Colonels Bob Crowder and Don Emmons pass us, head on, about 5,000 feet below at a closure rate of over Mach 6.

On the second occasion, we were again going toward Kadena from Beale.

My RSO, Lieutenant Colonel JT Vida, planned it so we left the third air refueling right on time, and we passed Majors Lee Shelton and Barry MacKean exactly "bang on" off the Soviet coast near Vladivostok.

We continued on into Kadena and were followed moments later by Lee and Barry.

The Blackbird watchers on Habu Hill had seen one SR leave, but somehow two came back!

One of the best known race pilots in the world, whose 1977 low-altitude speed record (988 mph) in a modified F-104 still stands, Greenamyer was a Lockheed test pilot in the 1960s, flying A-12s and SR-71s.

The idea of flying the SR-71 is you take off—or come off a tanker—and as best you can, get to 3.2 Mach number.

With the SR-71 we'd fly out of Palmdale [California] or Edwards and fly to Florida in 58 minutes.

At that time, I was living in Burbank, so I'd drive to Palmdale, have breakfast at a little café that I always went to, go to the factory where the airplane was, get in the airplane, fly to Florida, hit the tanker, fly home, and go to the same café for lunch.

Once I was flying an A-12 westbound from Florida, and I lost an engine over West Texas or New Mexico.

So I started the descent, and I called them at Edwards to find out what they wanted me to do, and they told me, "Go ahead and land it in Nellis," which is Las Vegas.

They had some remote taxiway pads to park, and this was probably left over from the war, when they would spread the airplanes around, so if somebody bombed the base, they'd only get one airplane.

But to get there, I had to taxi down the flightline, and it looked like the whole base was looking at me taxiing by.

Edwards Air Force Base had sent a colonel in charge of security to base ops to talk to the local security guy, and he was a captain.

And the captain was so excited to have seen the airplane.

The colonel from Edwards said, "I need to talk to everyone that saw the airplane," and the captain said, "Well, everybody on the base saw that," and the colonel said, "Well, schedule the auditorium."

I didn't go to the meeting, but the next day when I got in the airplane and got ready to take off, there were even more people on the flightline when I taxied by.

The majority of the flights were like flying a kiddie car.

It's a slick-flying, easy-flying airplane.

You're just sitting up, looking down at the contrails that the airlines are making and the curvature of the Earth, and it's an exciting adventure.

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Initially, the TEOCs could not match the resolution of the A-12's larger camera, but rapid improvements in both the camera and film improved this performance.
 SLAR, built by Goodyear Aerospace, could be carried in the removable nose. In later life, the radar was replaced by Loral's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System (ASARS-1). Both the first SLAR and ASARS-1 were ground-mapping imaging systems, collecting data either in fixed swaths left or right of centerline or from a spot location for higher resolution. ELINT-gathering systems, called the Electro Magnetic Reconnaissance System, built by AIL could be carried in the chine bays to analyze electronic signal fields being passed through, and were programmed to identify items of interest.
 Over its operational life, the Blackbird carried various electronic countermeasures (ECMs), including warning and active electronic systems built by several ECM companies and called Systems A, A2, A2C, B, C, C2, E, G, H, and M. On a given mission, an aircraft carried several of these frequency/purpose payloads to meet the expected threats.


The palace ensemble is now protected by fortress walls erected in the first half of the 19th century.

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Like all ancient fortresses, the Baku fortress was built to defend the city rich in development by foreign invaders.

The city, built on a high hill, in the form of an amphitheater, is exposed to the sea at the bottom, and surrounded by the mountains of the Caucasus at the top.

With its triple row of walls, the Maiden Tower and other fortification facilities, The Old City appeared to be an impressive stronghold.

Like other medieval cities, all the buildings within the fortress walls of Icheri Sheher were defensive in nature in terms of tactical and strategic functions.

The urban model of the city suggested a real labyrinth.

The large squares and wide streets gradually narrowed and shrank in a geometric design that allowed the full involvement of the residents in defensive activities.

Today, the walls of the old fortress of the city of Baku to allow the medieval image conservation of the historic center, with its numerous alleys, roads that wind and the flavor of an oriental city.

Fortresses have passed many centuries fulfilling their historical functions.

solid walls, huge towers were not only the means of security, but also symbolized dignity and magnificence of the city.

Some of them were razed to the ground, but others might endure the trials and survived.

Now they are admiring for their stability, sustainability and uniqueness.

Baku, the largest city on the coast of the Caspian Sea, like all other ancient cities has its unique architecture.

There are old cities without fortresses, towers and other fortifications.

It 'clear why the ancient people associated with the concept of a city with fortresses, both in Azerbaijan and Central Asia, the concepts `` `` fortress`` and city`` often meant the same notion.

The age of the city of Baku, as the age of the most ancient cities of Azerbaijan is unknown.

Researchers consider Baku to be one of the cities that Ptolemy noticed in the ancient city Albany list.

According to the inscriptions, Baku was said to be born in the period of the reign of Shirvanshah Manuchehr III (12th century), but there is no doubt that Baku had more ancient defensive works even before that period.

Fortress Baku - Icheri Sheher (downtown or Old Town) - it was surrounded by single walls along the coast and double wall in all other places.

The walls, in turn, have been closed from the outside by deep, wide ditches.

In fact, today`s Icheri Sheher is a medieval inner city of Baku.

The outer walls of the fortress of Baku have reached the sea, stretched for 30 meters and forming an artificial abyss.

That`s why the ships could anchor in the port of Baku in the vicinity of the fortress walls.

How Abdurrashid Bakuvi, Azerbaijani geographical scientist wrote: `` Now the sea water washes the walls of Baku.

The sea had flooded some fortress towers and is very close to a mosque.

The city has two very firm and strong fortresses.

The sea is too close to the largest of the forts.

The fort itself was inaccessible for Tatars.

Ovliya Chelebi, the famous medieval traveler, in his description indicates that while his visit to Baku in 1656, the inner fortress located outside the fortress city.

According to Fuad Akhundov, head of Political Studies of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, Baku initially was surrounded by two walls.

The inner wall is almost completely preserved.

The construction of the fortress walls - very high on the outside and inside quite low - as well as the construction of underground roads and passages show that, while the construction of Baku old masters used the relief peculiarities and local rocks very effectively . All these factors have improved the conditions of the field and the safety of the fortress defenders and gave the opportunity for the materials to savings and construction work.

The outer wall was much lower in height, and was installed by the local governor, Zufuqar-Khan in 1608-1609.

A deep moat surrounded the walls and was filled by ground water in times of danger.

The khanate of Baku was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1806.

The walls have been used for the last defense in 1826.

At the start of oil exploitation in the industrial 1870`s, Baku grew rapidly.

In 1859, the city's population barely exceeded 13,500 inhabitants, most of whom lived within the old city walls.

At the end of that most of the 19th century gate was built near the northern gate of the Baku fortress.

Now it called Gosha Gala Gapysy (dual port).

These ports are different from all other ports of Azerbaijani architecture with their plastic arts high and fabulous ornaments.

In 1903, there were 143,000 the Baku citizens, and in 1913, the `` black gold`` had increased the population of more than 214,000.

The small medieval fortress was, of course, too small to hold all these people.

Therefore, the outer walls was taken down in 1884, along with the wall on the side of the old town facing the sea.

The stones of this wall were used to restructure the inner wall.

And window openings (double-glazed windows) of the second floor were laid out so that only small windows remained. New wide doorways were pierced.
 During this period, the Eastern Orthodox Church in Baku sought the demolition of the palace to build a Baku cathedral in its place. However, this petition was rejected by the tsarist authorities only because the premises of the palace were used for large warehouses.
 There was an entrance made to the second floor of the northern facade of the palace and a huge opening was punched in the wall. This was done for the cart drawn by the horses from the street would enter the second floor of the palace. After making the above-mentioned reorganization, the military department attached a ladder to the eastern facade of the palace, and the entire southern (or lower) courtyard was surrounded by a stone wall with loopholes. This wall was erected from a foundation left from the old walls surrounding the palace.


He also competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

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Born: September 19, 1903 in Mégrit, Côtes-d'Armor, France

Died: October 11, 1962 in Lescouët-Jugon, Côtes-d'Armor, France

Émile Poilvé had the following finishes at major championships – 1930 European Championship: 79.0 kg. Freestyle (3rd).

Johansson (SWE) fall (12:50), Poilvé (FRA)

Poilvé (FRA) fall (4:22), Stockton (CAN)

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Émile Poilvé (September 19, 1903 – October 11, 1962) was a French wrestler who won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. France had to wait 72 years and Steeve Guenot at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to win another gold medal in wrestling.


The story of the game is told through a series of conversations and cutscenes, with each of the 35 levels serving as a flashback.

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The Hong Kong Massacre is Hotline Miami meets Max Payne on the set of a John Woo movie, and for the most part it's every bit as violent and thrilling as that combination sounds.

While the minimalist story presentation and some repeated environments and boss fights expose its slightly limited scope, The Hong Kong Massacre consistently delivers a brutal ballet of ballistics that remains gripping from the first shot fired to the last enemy downed.

The Hong Kong Massacre is Hotline Miami meets Max Payne on the set of a John Woo movie.

"There's some semblance of hard-boiled plot backboning the experience – you play an ex-cop out for revenge after his partner was killed by triad gangsters – but it mostly serves as a vehicle for your violent shootouts.

It's told through a series of disjointed cinematics and bar room conversations, with each of the 35 levels serving as a flashback to prior events.

The storytelling may be sub-standard, but the shooting is so electrifying and addictive that the only plot you really need concern yourself with is the plot you'll bury each of your enemies in at the dead triad cemetery.

LoadingEach level in this top-down shooter plays out in much the same way.

One shot is all it takes to kill both you and your enemies (with the exception of the bosses), and thus you must learn through trial and error the placement of each goon before you can choreograph the best and bloodiest path through them in one perfect run.

Crucially, you can restart a run just as instantly as you failed it since there's no prolonged loading time to spark the embers of your frustration from repeated death into full flame.

I found the live-die-repeat cycle of to be intensely compelling, and the sense of satisfaction upon completing a level – complete with a gory, close-up kill-cam of the last enemy dispatched – absolutely immense.

The Hong Kong Massacre is certainly quite challenging by design, though its unforgiving difficulty is alleviated somewhat by the ability to toggle in and out of slow-motion.

You can also perform Max Payne-esque shoot-dodges that also make you briefly invulnerable to enemy fire.

Use of the slow-motion ability recharges quickly, and it only took the first couple of levels for me to lock into its pulsing, tempo-shifting rhythm - bursting through a door, slowing time to rattle off a round of assault rifle fire to all corners, and returning to full speed to watch the bodies hit the floor.

The controls feel streamlined to the point of becoming second nature.

the most remarkable thing about The Hong Kong Massacre is how its spectacular shootouts are pulled off with such simple controls, and this is largely thanks to the context sensitive dive button.

The same button that lets you slide along your knees also lets you crash through windows and cartwheel over the top of furniture, all while you're firing in 360 degrees and decorating the walls with Jackson Pollock paintings made of bad guy brains.

Since it requires an intense amount of focus to keep one eye on your enemies and the other on the bullets zipping a handful of pixels away from your skull, it's great that the controls feel streamlined to the point of becoming second nature.

But not every aspect of The Hong Kong Massacre is on target.

While each level is unique in layout and every firefight can play out in numerous different ways, the assets used for the environments themselves are frequently recycled to the extent it's often hard to distinguish one nondescript office tower floor from the other.

More disappointingly, the boss fights that unlock at the end of each set of seven levels are re-skinned rehashes of what's effectively the exact same duel – it's a shame there wasn't more of an effort made to set these climactic shootouts apart.

Yet while there are only 35 levels including the repetitive boss fights, there's ample incentive to return to those you've finished.

Points earned by completing challenges in each level can be spent to upgrade your arsenal, which is beneficial for the more populated stages later on.

Each set of challenges is always the same; beat the level in a set time limit, avoid the use of slow-motion, or kill all the enemies without missing a shot.

While I doubt I'll ever muster up the fortitude to go for the latter on the hardest levels, the inclusion of these challenges kept me playing The Hong Kong Massacre well beyond its story's end.

The Hong Kong Massacre is an intense and spectacular shoot-'em-up with a stylish slow-motion hook.

While some corners have been cut in terms of its presentation and boss fights, those issues are easy to overlook when the core gunplay is so fiercely challenging, unashamedly violent, and relentlessly enjoyable.

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Inspired by classic action movies such as those of John Woo as well as other video games like Hotline Miami and Max Payne, "The Hong Kong Massacre" is a top-down shooter in which the player character will die by being shot only once. As a balance measure, the game features a number of special abilities, such as a slow-motion system, a dive/dodge which renders the player invincible for a small amount of time as well as weapon upgrades.


In 1908 he won the gold medal in the freestyle middleweight class.

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Born: August 13, 1885 in Camberwell, Greater London, Great Britain

Died: October 13, 1952 in Streatham, Greater London, Great Britain

Affiliations: London Amateur Wrestling Club, London (GBR)

Related Olympians: Brother of Edgar Bacon; Brother of Ernest Bacon.

Stanley Bacon was the eldest and most successful of five brothers who were in the top-flight of British wrestling for more than a decade.

Between them, the Bacon brothers won almost 30 British championships, with Stanley winning 15 titles.

To reach the middleweight freestyle final at the 1908 Games, Stanley Bacon defeated three British wrestlers and then met a fourth Briton, George de Relwyskow, in the final.

The two were very evenly matched, but Bacon won the first two bouts on points, after the expiration of the fifteen-minute time limit and the scheduled third bout was not contested.

He also competed in the Greco-Roman middleweight event in 1908, but lost in the first round and in 1912, when there were no freestyle events, he again suffered an early defeat in the Greco-Roman style competition.

At the 1920 Olympics, his third, he returned to the freestyle events, but he was by now 35 years old and lost his first bout.

Bacon was a civil servant and an enthusiastic supporter of their sports club.

He was the Civil Service diving and middleweight boxing champion and played rugby for their first XV for ten years.

He was held in high regard in wrestling circles and was a judge at the 1928 Olympic Games.

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Stanley Vivian Bacon (13 August 1885 – 13 October 1952) was a British sport wrestler who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics.


Harris was an agricultural scientist, holding a doctorate in agronomy from Cornell University.

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When Franklin Stewart Harris became president of BYU in 1921, LDS President Heber J. Grant voiced his approval by saying, "We feel we have the right man in the right place."

Over time Harris became known as "Mr. BYU" and remained the university's president for 24 years, the longest tenure of any BYU president.

The former university leader is also the "right man" for Homecoming 1998.

His legacy will be honored during Founders Day on Oct. 6, the opening Homecoming event in a week of activities tied to the theme "On the Wheels of a Dream."

Harris arrived on campus as president at age 36, armed with a doctorate from Cornell University, a national reputation in agronomy, a love for the arts, and a vision of crafting a great university.

In his inaugural address, President Harris outlined an ambitious plan to lead BYU to considerably higher academic levels.

Although Brigham Young Academy had granted degrees as early as 1897, had begun awarding four-year degrees in 1900, and had changed its name to reflect university status in 1903, the unaccredited school was still essentially an intermountain denominational college when Harris assumed the presidential helm.

In fact, the university had more high school students than college students.

Harris was determined to raise the standards of the 46-year-old school, an ambition that remained constant throughout his presidency.

In his new position, however, he also encountered a faculty with some misgivings about the future of BYU.

According to his granddaughter Janet Jenson, who was on the BYU library faculty for 20 years and who recently completed a biography on Harris, financial challenges were a continual concern but did not deter his dream of making BYU a superb center for learning that compared well with other universities.

His secretary, Kiefer Sauls, articulated Harris' vision and educational philosophy: "He immediately charted an ambitious course for the destiny of BYU as he envisioned it and set sail.

I once heard a faculty member philosophize about a young man with grandiose plans; it was thought the young man's sail was too big for his rudder.

President Harris's sail was big, but the rudder proved adequate. . . .

Dr. Harris believed in a well-rounded education.

He had a better working knowledge in more fields of learning than any person of my acquaintance.

Though his major field was science, he loved the classics in literature, art, and music and knew of the accomplishments through the centuries of the great artists in these areas."

According to Ernest L. Wilkinson, BYU president from 1951 to 1971, Harris "energetically worked to make Brigham Young University the great university he envisioned in his inaugural address."

This he did in spite of national economic difficulties following World War I, during an uncertain period when financial considerations forced LDS Church President Heber J. Grant to reassess the entire educational program of the Church, and, later, amid the greatest depression in modern history.

Within five years of being president, Harris organized five new colleges–education, arts and sciences, commerce and business, applied science, and fine arts.

He also added graduate and research divisions as part of his goal to upgrade the scholarship and academic standing of the university.

Wilkinson said Harris' objective was to introduce BYU students, faculty, and trustees to the world of a modern, well-organized university.

As a lover of the arts, he encouraged the first college of fine arts in the West, which was established at BYU.

In handwritten notes in the B. F. Larsen papers in BYU's Lee Library, Harris is attributed as saying, "I use my knowledge of science to make a living.

The legacy of that love is reflected in the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center that today houses the School of Music and the departments of Visual Arts, Communications, and Theatre and Media Arts.

With faculty salaries consistently inadequate and facing the increasing need to construct facilities and build up the academic base of the university, Harris could have characterized many of his years at BYU as lean years, but still the campus grew.

During his tenure, the student body expanded from 450 to about 3,000 students.

The library grew tremendously, from 19,000 to 120,000 volumes.

Despite an extremely small budget, he spared every possible cent to purchase land surrounding "Temple Hill," the school's upper campus.

And Harris–along with other persons dedicated to the BYU dream–managed to keep the university alive during the Great Depression.

"He had a wonderful gift," wrote the late Gerrit de Jong, Jr., a former dean of the College of Fine Arts.

"He could make every faculty member feel that the university was a school of destiny, that great things were bound to happen, and that it would be a distinct pleasure to have a hand in all the growth and development that was to be."

"Harris' rapport with the faculty was one of the hallmarks of his administration," Jenson said.

"Many faculty members who could have gone elsewhere stayed with BYU because they trusted President Harris and knew he believed in them.

He traveled the state extensively and became so well-known he was often referred to as Mr. BYU."

He also traveled the world–for his profession, his university, and his church–and according to Jenson, he always made it a point to stop and visit the libraries and universities wherever he went.

"Everything he did is traceable to making BYU as excellent academically as other, longer-established universities."

Oxford University scholar Karl Young summarized Harris' achievements by writing, "A life could be written of F. S. Harris the Humanist, or of Harris the World Citizen, or of Harris the Educator, or of Harris the Man of Religion, or of Harris as the Big Brother to All His Fellows.

But Franklin Harris' greatest work in life was in education."

Franklin Stewart Harris (August 29, 1884 – April 18, 1960) was president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from July 1921 until June 1945, and president of Utah State University from 1945 to 1950. His administration was the longest in BYU history and saw the granting of the first master's degrees.  Under his administration the school became an accredited university. He set up several colleges, such as the College of Fine and Performing Arts with Gerrit De Jong as the founding dean.