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A comprehensive motorsports facility, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course features a permanent road-racing circuit with two primary configurations: a 2.4-mile, 15 turn, and a 2.25- mile, 13-turn circuit. The park-like, 330-acre complex is located in Lexington, Ohio, near Mansfield, 60 miles north of Columbus and 75 miles south of Cleveland. The track has been called the most competitive course in the U.S. and annually hosts a diverse lineup of locally, regionally and nationally sanctioned racing events for amateur, club and professional drivers and riders. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course opened in 1962 and is owned and operated by Green Savoree Mid-Ohio, LLC.


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Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling briefly commented about it along with detailing a "substitute" for the co-op mode, Spec Ops mode.
To quote from the interview: "We did it early on; that's what Spec Ops started out as, as co-op through story," said Bowling when asked why Campaign co-op didn't make the final game.
"But it really broke the cinematic experience, took the immersion out of it, out of the story and the pacing and everything we'd spent so long crafting.
It just ruined the experience we were aiming for, so we took it out, kept the single-player for that one player intact and polished it."
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There isn't a spare square inch of space on his massive desk. He knows where everything is but lives in fear of a sudden windstorm shuffling the stacks like playing cards.
Handly is thin as a proverbial rail, the product of a passion for fencing when he was younger—he'll be 73 in August—and possibly because he has never married. "Let's just say I'm still interviewing," he quips.
Sitting at his desk, with a Texas Hill Country landscape behind him, he faced a portrait of Winston Churchill with clear, blue eyes that contrast with his white beard.
He resembles someone Faulkner might have described occupying a similar office on the Yoknapatawpha county square.
Handly might give pause at such a literary reference, considering his preference for other writers. "Kipling and Twain know all there is to know," he asserts. "Everyone else knows all the rest."
He was born in Beeville, graduated from George West High School in 1959, then graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1967 — the same year he was licensed to practice law.
His legal status was a strong attribute when he joined the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.
"I tried to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General's corps, and the Air Force's JAG group," he says. But, at the last moment, his recruiter asked him if he would like a posting where he would wear civilian clothes, drive an unmarked car and carry a gun.
He jumped at the chance.
"I was lucky," he admits, using a reference not just a few veterans have uttered: "I was in the right place at the right time."
He spent most of his military time near Langly, Virginia, as an Office of Special Investigations officer with a high security classification working in counterintelligence.
"I had a telephone and a mailbox to watch and that's about all I'm allowed to tell," he says.
"But, thank goodness, I didn't make it into JAG. What I did in OSI was a lot more interesting than writing divorce decrees or powers of attorney."
After his required seven years, Handly could have chosen to practice in a larger city, enjoying the professional benefits of a substantial law firm.
Instead, he returned to Beeville.
Does he consider himself, then, a country lawyer?
"I once told an Arab client that I was just a country lawyer," Handly remembers. "He told me, 'Get off that (BS).'
"I wanted to be near a large city for the amenities it offers," Handly says.
He returned to Beeville "ready to take anything that walked into the office."
Through the ensuing years, he gradually began to specialize in oil and gas law.
"Law has changed," he says. "Today, you practically have to specialize."
Another example he cites, "when I started, you could handle a divorce decree on a single page. Today, it takes about 60 pages. That's both good and bad."
Concurrently, computers help to alleviate paperwork.
"I used to type 100 words per minute when I was younger, using a Remington my parents gave me."
While his office looks as if it should be decorated with a manual typewriter, the Remington is stored in his garage, broken long ago.
Texas has changed too, he notes. "When I started, Texas was a rural state. Now, it's a urban state. But, we still have a lot of open space. Loving County has a population of 71; King County's population is 276. McMullen County's population is 726."
Then, utilizing that keen sense of timing that most attorneys learn early in their courtroom experience, Handly pauses just long enough.
"I have an almanac."
He was the city's municipal judge during the 1974 Iranian crisis. While American embassy personnel were held hostage, some Iranian students at the college held a protest in the gym.
A friend advised Handly, "You know what we ought to do with them uraniums? We ought to export them!"
He also served as county judge in the mid-1980s.
He got involved with St. Philip's Episcopal Church when a lady asked him to be a godfather. "My parents only went to church for weddings and funerals. But I was involved in a high-church place, just where I wanted to be."
He has served on the vestry and teaches an adult Sunday school class.
"A Sunday school teacher?" exclaims former district attorney Martha Warner incredulously. "He's a profound biblical scholar."
And what are the plans for this biblical scholar?
"To put one foot in front of the other," he says, "living one day at a time."
Maybe, write a book?
"My grammar's too bad."
Advice to youngsters who want to become lawyers?
"Pace yourself. Have some fun while you're in law school.
And afterward, "One time some advertising agency asked if I would be willing to answer a few questions," he recalls.
Surveyor: What kind of cigarette do you think of for men?
Handly: Virginia Slims.
Surveyor: And what brand for women?
Handly: Marlboro.
Surveyor: What brand do you smoke?
Handly: Old Gold.
Surveyor: To make sure we have a good sample, are you white, black, Indian, Asian or Hispanic?
Handly: You know what, I've never given it much thought, one way or the other.
Another anecdote that he still chuckles at: When he was a municipal judge, he dialed up the clerk.
"I'd like to obtain a copy of my death certificate."
Long, long pause.
"Is this Kinkler Handly?"
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at email@example.com.


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The talented musical duo and husband-and-wife team of Bill Powers and Shelley Gray have deep roots in traditional music - they were half of the popular Paonia-based old-time bluegrass band Sweet Sunny South for 10 years - but it's an expanded sound that marks their newest musical endeavor, Honey Don't.
With soulful lyrics, folksy influences and a dash of country, swing and blues, the songs of Honey Don't are very much about living the good life.
"Our music is much more broad and all-encompassing Americana rather than bluegrass," Powers said. "We're a little more amped-up now."
The duo, along with fiddler, mandolinist and electric guitarist Randall Utterback, will perform on Friday, Feb. 22, at the Rifle campus of Colorado Mountain College. The performance is free to the public, following a tradition over the past four years of sponsored musical concerts and film showings for the community, hosted by CMC and Chevron.
Folk music for everyone
The band's songs are a mix of catchy, funny, sad and uplifting, and the variety lends them to please most everyone from fans of bluegrass to country swing and folk. But the quality of song writing from Powers and harmonies between these two close musicians are what bring an emotional quality and depth to the music.
As Dave McGee of TheBluegrassSpecial.com said, "Crackling with life and overflowing with soul, its music rare and true, Honey Don't exalts the human spirit."
"It's really straightforward music with a positive message," Powers said. "It's all based in folk music and that's the meaning of folk music - it's for folks. It's for everyone."
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The couple, who once toured extensively and performed across the country with Sweet Sunny South, said they are at a different stage of life than when they were traveling artists. Although music is still a significant part of their lives, they have other commitments, including jobs and two teenage children.
Honey Don't evolved as a passionate "side project" for the duo to explore new genres and song writing. For example, Powers said they have worked away from the single traditional microphone set-up of Sweet Sunny South. And they haven't been afraid to add elements like drums and electric guitars to "make people dance more," he said.
Although the band has had a limited touring schedule, their music has made an impact on a national audience. Their 2009 debut CD, "Honey Don't," hit the top 40 of the national Americana Music Charts for several weeks, topping off at number 25. The CD was one of five nominees in the bluegrass category for "Westword" newspaper's 2010 Showcase.
The band regularly plays with talented musicians from around Colorado. For their first album, Powers and Gray recorded with mandolinist Greg Schochet and fiddler Ryan Drickey.
Another album is in the works, Powers said, but with no set release date.
Honey Don't will perform in the Clough Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, 3695 Airport Road. For more information about this free evening of Americana music, call 625-1871. For information about Honey Don't, go to honeydont.net.


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Vivid new work at Museum of Contemporary Art 'belongs to everyone'
One South African phrase has special significance for artist Liza Lou: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.
It loosely translates to "a person is a person because of other people" or "I am because we are."
"That's a South African cliché in a lot of ways," said Lou, who had just finished installing her remarkable "Color Field" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown. "But it has great meaning in the sense we are all connected. You can't do anything by yourself. I am because of other people."
That's the essence of "Color Field," which Lou subtitled "All the Love in the World" during the three years she and Zulu artisans worked on the project in Lou's studio in Durban, South Africa. Like most of her work, it comprises millions of beads, in this case organized into hundreds of squares of vivid colors.
"This project was about using all my material, all the people that I work with, to make some sort of generous object, something that belongs to everybody," Lou said. "I couldn't have made this on my own."
Lou burst onto the international art scene in 1996 when her life-size "Kitchen" was shown as part of a group show, "A Labor of Love," at the New Museum in New York City. Fame followed, as did fortune when she was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2002.
The money eventually allowed her to do something she had only imagined: to make a difference in a very specific, real-world way. She established a studio in Durban, an impoverished city in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, and became a significant source of employment for the locals who craft elements of her art work.
How many beads are in "Color Field"?
"It's so embarrassing. I don't really know," said artist Liza Lou. But she knew the formula: Each wire has nine beads (think a blade of grass comprised of beads). Each "box" (the square tiles in which the wires are inserted) has 24 rows of 24 wires. And the entire installation has 520 boxes.
That's 2,695,680 beads.
"It took me a couple years to get there, but (the MacArthur grant) did change my thinking," Lou said. "I felt really responsible and beholden to do something and try to work in a different way."
She initially planned to start a collective in India, but pursued a project in South Africa that she thought would be short-term.
"But I realized that wasn't good enough," she said. "What happens when you leave? Everyone is left in the lurch. So I just kind of kept the studio going. I call it home now. My life has totally changed."
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Although she executed "Kitchen" by herself, working alone in studios in Los Angeles and San Diego, in most of her subsequent art works she's collaborated with others, whether studio assistants, graduate students ("people with degrees I don't have") or community members. But working in South Africa was different.
"In South Africa you are working with people who have a history with this material, who have grandmothers who taught them how to weave with beads when they were children," she said. "So there's this incredible history around the material."
Zulu beadwork has a very specific set of conventions, even a kind of social code that certain patterns and colors communicate. While Lou has resisted the influence of the beadwork itself, she's been moved by the Zulu attitude toward the process and especially the material, which has become increasingly important in her work.
"I have a reverence for the material in a way I never had before," Lou said. "And I have an understanding of the kind of deeper place that art can have in the world."


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Seven Holyoke football players were recognized by the North Central 1A League following the 2008 season. Dragons named to the All-Conference list were senior Austin Tharp and juniors Kyle Carper and Logan Krueger. Honorable Mention All-Conference recognition went to seniors Brandon Price and Dylan Bradley and juniors Luke Garrett and Mark Gertner.
Other All-Conference picks were Benji Vigil, Logan Davisson, Bruce Hall, Dalton Jefferson, Kendall Monasmith, Brandon Wood, Brennen Hottinger, Joe McKay and Cade Leavell of Akron; Al Brown, Joel Rhoades, Mitch Wills, Dakin Bushner, Zack Diaz, Adrian Bencomo and Ryan Lebsack of Yuma; Paul Campfield, Brady Buck, Ben Reinick, Cam Berghuis, Kelly Siegrist, Tim Kerbs and Jake Beckman of Wray; Damian Fedler, Tyler Clawson and Dylan Dillingham of Highland; and Kyle Pollock of Wiggins.
Other Honorable Mentions on the All-Conference list went to Logan Merrill, Alec Vasquez and Byron Guy of Akron; Nolan Bohm, Nick Lovell, Nick Witte and Grant Muirheid of Yuma; Bryan Rodgers, Jeremy Lund and Jarrett Cure of Wray; Andrew Jackson, Colton Gardner, Nick Pacheco, Nathan Stone, Michael Romero and Jeremy Herrick of Highland; and Rolondo Celis, Dustin Marini, Tyler Davis and Juan Munoz of Wiggins. Brian Christensen of Akron and Keith Gille of Wray were named Co-Coaches of the Year, and Benji Vigil of Akron was Player of the Year.


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ST. CLAIR Co., Ill. (KSDK) - Three people have been charged with burglarizing a construction company on two different occasions.
St. Clair County Sheriff's deputies were called to Clymer Construction January 6 for a report of a burglary to a vehicle. The owner of the vehicle said three nail guns worth around $250 apiece were taken.
The owner of the nail guns said another employee located the nail guns at a flea market in Fairmont City.
Derek J. Stinnett, a 28-year-old employee of the flea market, has been charged with theft. His bond is set at $30,000.
On January 18 deputies were called to Clymer Construction for a second burglary after $1,500 in power tools were taken from another company vehicle in the parking lot.
The owner of the company said he installed surveillance cameras after the January 6 burglary and gave a copy of the recording to law enforcement.
The video showed a Chevrolet Impala pull into the driveway and a man loading items into his vehicle.
The tools were later recovered at a St. Louis pawn shop.
Ashley L. Geiger, 27, and Gary E. Schultz, 29, both of Caseyville, have been each charged with burglary.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA 9) -- The brother of former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown was sentenced Tuesday to three months in prison for bank fraud, say Justice Department officials.
Che Brown was sentenced on a federal charge of bank fraud related to a scheme in which he submitted false documents to a mortgage lending service to win approval of a modification on a mortgage for his home, say officials. Following his prison time, Brown will be placed on five years of supervised release and have to perform 200 hours of community service, say authorities.
According to a statement of offense, Brown fell months behind on his mortgage in 2009. GMAC Mortgage LLC told him that the mortgage was in default and also sent him a letter advising him to consider his eligibility for a loan modification to make his monthly mortgage payment more affordable, according to the statement. Then, from September 2009 through September 2010, Brown submitting documents making it appear that he had received $35,000 in income, which he had never actually received. He was then deemed qualified for the mortgage modification, which cut his payments by more than $700 per month, according to authorities.
Authorities say Brown was convicted of bank fraud before -- in 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia --- for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a scheme involving credit cards.
The latest conviction stemmed from an investigation into the campaign of his brother, Kwame. The investigation lead to the guilty plea and conviction of Kwame Brown for a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from false documents that he used to secure a home equity loan, and a loan used to buy a boat.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A terrifying Friday night for a family at the Best Buy near the Avenues Mall. A 9-year-old girl was beaten and nearly killed in the women's bathroom at the Best Buy on Southside Boulevard, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
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Jacksonville Sheriff's Office initially responded to a reported battery Friday evening. According to JSO Sgt. Jay Farhat, a 9-year-old girl was shopping with her mother.
The girl got out of her mother's sight for a minute and 29-year-old James Patrick Tadros from St. Johns County, lured the girl into the women's bathroom.
Another customer heard her screams for help and rushed in. The customer came into the bathroom and found Tadros beating the girl. Farhat said if the customer hadn't come in when they did, the girl would have been killed.
Farhat said Tadros, did not know the young girl. Police also said that he punched and kicked her, put a plastic bag over the girl's head and held her head down in the toilet.
"By the grace of God she survived customer and employees got in when they did. If it had been any longer this could have been a much worse outcome," Farhat said.
The victim is receiving treatment at UF Health. Farhat said the victim does not appear to be sexually assaulted but testing is being done to make sure.
"This appears to be an isolated random incident," Farhat said.
Tadros is in custody and will be charged with attempted murder. His arraignment is set for 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
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Looks exciting! I may have a go (if I can find the time!) The CG is wonderful but it doesn't half swallow up your life! (in a good way)....well not if you speak to my wife...
Assorted Cartographers, Artists, and Others.
I am announcing an illustration request / challenge / contest of sorts. My (very) small company, The Fantasy Cartographic, is putting out a pdf rpg product in the next several weeks; the product will be the first in a series of products. For a variety of reasons, we havent designed a logo for the product line yet. This request / contest is my means of obtaining a suitable logo.
Pertinent information is as follows:
Deadline: 01 June 2008 (Yikes, its a tight one.)
Image Size: 300dpi. Six inches by X inches. (X is between 2.5 and 5. Its up to you to make the logo work to your artistic style.)
File Type: Preferred PNG
Ive attached a jpg with a rough sketch to serve as a starting point. But you do NOT need to use this at all in your entry; it merely serves to show one possible idea.
Yes, you read it correctly, the title of the product line is Points of Light.
Artistic guidance: What I am looking for is the words Points of Light in a font of your choosing floating just above a map on parchment. (Very similar in style to the map in the logo of the Cartographers Guild.) Except, most of the map is blackened, smudged, unreadable. Only in a few (2-3) small places is there a spot where the black doesnt cover the map. In those places (each surrounding a city or town a bright, perhaps even glowing, circle on the map), the original color of the map shows through in bright vibrant colorsforest greens, river blues, hills, etc. [The effect that I am looking for with the black over the map contrasting to where the black is not is similar to the Sistine chapel, before restoration and after restoration, except the dark is much darker than the Sistine before restoration. The items on the map can just barely be seen under the smudge.] The geography is completely up to the artist, as it will not have any bearing on the product content. The entire logo should be surrounded by a slight shadow so that it stands off the cover.
Some other guidance: Although I depict the map as a 3D scroll, this is NOT a requirement; if your artistic sense says otherwise, dont make it 3D. The words do NOT have to be arranged in this manner over the map; if you think it looks better horizontal or vertical or some other arrangement, go for it. The words can be completely surrounded by the map or can hang over its edgesagain, up to you.
Okay, so, how is this like a challenge? Anyone who attempts this endeavor is free to post WIPs, and I will offer further guidance, advice, clarification throughout.
How is this like a contest? Well, the winner, to be chosen by me, on or about June 2nd, will get the following for their troubles:
- Artistic credit, by name, in the product.
- A free copy of the product, which will retail for somewhere between $5 - 6 on RPGNow.com.
- A residual (amount yet to be determined, probably on the order of $0.12 to $0.20 USD) for every item that is sold with this logo on its cover. We have plans for at least 4 products that will bear this logo and perhaps several more.
Why am I doing this in this format? Because in my seven months of membership here, I am continually amazed by the quality of artists/cartographers here. What better place to seek a logo? And because someone might come up with a better vision than the vague one floating in my head.
Finally, I may have a few similar request / challenge / contests in the coming days, so keep your eyes peeled!
Looks exciting! I may have a go (if I can find the time!) The CG is wonderful but it doesn't half swallow up your life! (in a good way)....well not if you speak to my wife...
Well, I had some time to kill while the kids swam, and the laptop, so I thought I would get the logo going.
It is a mixture of Leveller for the heightfield ,used to flatten everything below a set height for the map, Leveller's scan line renderer, 3 images with the light source in 3 different locations, and some Photoshop work (which is not my best ability).
Hopefully this gets the ball rolling, as I am sure there are many more, more talented Cartographers here
SeerBlue - Thanks for being the first to dip your toe into the water. I appreciate you taking the time, and I hope that I can offer some thoughts to steer you (and others) to completion.
My first thought is that I did NOT do a good job of explaining of what I was looking for. So let me first clarify some of what I said and then offer some thoughts on your map.
I stated that I want "the words Points of Light in a font of your choosing floating just above a map on parchment." I didn't mean above the map in the image of the logo itself but actually over top of the map so that the map is behind the words. The text is just as important to the logo as the image of the map behind it. [More on the text below.]
I think in my discussion of 3D, I clouded the picture a bit. When I was talking about 3D, I was referring to the image of the scroll in the sample logo that I provided; I was NOT referring to the map itself. The map I want to be in a hand-drawn style. Whether the parchment that it appears on is made to look 3D or not is up to the artist.
The text is important, as is its appearance. What I'm trying to say is that the map is merely the background behind the text; the text has to be large and easily readable.
Based on the importance of the text, I think that I'm going to alter the challenge slightly. If one entry has a fantastic map whereas a second entry has an interesting/well-designed/cool font, I might request taking the font from one and combining it with the map from another. This means that there would be two winners. If that occurs, the financial "prize" will be split evenly between the two, whereas they will share credit and each receive a copy of the product.
SeerBlue, the one other specific thought about your entry is that the effect you used was one of spot lights shining down on the map. I want a look where the contrast is due to the map itself and not the lighting over the map (if that makes sense). The effect should be almost that the map was in a fire and it is charred almost beyond use except for two or three spots surrounding cities/towns depicted by a bright circle. Or perhaps that dark ink has been smeared on the map everywhere except for right around these two or three "points of light" (which refers to the city or town).
I hope these clarifications help you and everyone else thinking about taking a stab.
Is this heading in the right direction ? Where do I need to take this now ?
Is the idea that you don't want the light flare ?
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Redrobes You are a machine! (A high compliment indeed!) YES, this is heading in the right direction. [Unfortunately, Im at work right now and my system doesnt seem to allow me to view a full-size version, only the thumbnailhopefully that will not affect my comments.]
First, I love the shape of the scroll. I think that it is almost perfect--could it lengthened slightly in the horizontal to make the overall logo a little more rectangular?
On to some specific critiques:
- I like the glowing points, but you could make them a little less bright? The glare that theyre throwing off looks really good, but I dont want them quite so bright.
- Can you make the colors of the lands around the points brighter? I dont want them to be garish or fluorescent, but I do want them to stand out.
- I really want the areas of illuminated land to be separated by the blackness that surrounds them. In other words, rather than one large area with three points, three smaller areas each with its own point. Obviously, the placement of those points will affect the title text that you overlay above the scroll (or vice versa).
- The coloring of the scroll itself requires a couple of comments:
First, could you make the general color more of a tan parchment color, including the back of the scroll. Currently, it is a bit too gray.
Second, could you also make the blackness that covers the map on the scroll more black. I think that it doesnt have to cover the entire front of the scroll, specifically the edges, but should cover almost all of it except for the illuminated lands.
Third, the pattern on the scroll is a bit regular. Is there any way to make it less so? (Although this issue might go away entirely when you blacken the black.)
I think that I may have some more minor bits and pieces, but thats mostly it. Really, really nice.
Is this getting warmer ?
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here is a more refined render, it is done in sketchup,SkIndigo, Indigo, and PS.
Hopefully, it is closer to what you want, though I don't think it is really the quality you need.Hand drawn maps and PS are something I need alot of practice with. I posted it mostly to show what can be done with the apps listed above, and perhaps to get some others to give those programs a go.
The nice thing about this route is that once the SKP file is made, the font can be changed, the image changed,Textures changed, and the whole thing rerendered in Sketchup/indigo.
And all the programs are free, Sketchup6, SkIndigo plugin, Indigo renderer, and a few ruby scripts which make creating scrolls easier.
So if your itching to make a logo, and try out some new apps, give them a try.
Redrobes Yes. Getting warmer the change to the texture of the scroll helps a lot. I would like the general color of the scroll to be a lighter tan/parchment color.
With respect to the blackness covering most of the map, I want it to be darker, inkier. Actually, very similar to what SeerBlue did with his second take on it.
I had made up a brief examplethree images. First is the map, unblackened. Second is a black shadow. Third is the final map with shadow. However, I did this before seeing SeerBlues second take. The way he handled the black is better looking to my eye than my feeble GIMP-fuzzy-brush attempt.


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Russia is rapidly closing its doors to western Christianity. Religious visas are almost a thing of the past. The stance of the government toward evangelical Christianity is beginning to resemble the hostile attitudes that Christians experienced under Communism prior to perestroika.
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Dart 427ci SHP Short-Block - The Anti LS - Part 1Written by on October 1, 2011 The traditional small-block Chevy is more competitive than ever, thanks to Dart's new 427ci SHP short-block.
If you read most enthusiast magazines, and especially the Chevy-only ones, you'd think that there isn't a single person building a pre-'97 small-block Chevy anymore. With the advent of the LS series of engines, you might believe the hype that everyone has abandoned their old-style engine in favor of retrofitting the newer generation of powerplants. Camshaft makers have chucked those cores on the back lot along with flathead Ford and Buick nailhead components. Block makers have smashed those casts and Gen I small-block heads are little more than bulky doorstops.
We're here to say that the demise of the original small-block Chevy engine is greatly exaggerated. In fact, COMP Cams sells more Gen I camshafts than LS by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Go ahead and pop the hood on your favorite hot rod. Odds are, there's a traditional small-block staring you in the face. If that's the case, even if you need to replace the engine, you'll be money ahead to put another Gen I in your car because of the cost of new headers, accessory drive, adapter bellhousing, and other miscellaneous stuff you'd need to pull off an LS engine swap. Those parts can easily set you back several thousands of dollars which you could be investing in power-making parts for your Gen I. Don't get us wrong; we've done our share of LS engine buildups, and we're not refuting the power potential of this design, the driveability, or any of the other positive characteristics. We're just saying that there are a whole lot of people who aren't ready to make all of the changes necessary to swap an LS engine in place of their old, trusty Gen I motor.
We've also more than once pondered the question of just how much streetable power you can squeeze from an early design small-block with all that we've learned in the past 20 years about cylinder head engineering, cam timing, and combustion chamber design. Could we find an LS competitor that looked like an anemic mid-'80s 305? And which LS would we set our sights on as a target? The carbureted GM Performance Parts LS3 makes 515 hp for about $7,500, but to build it beyond that you're replacing the pistons and doing other work to beef up the bottom end. Before you know it, you've got an easy $10,000 in the engine. For that much money, you can buy a GMPP crate LS7, but then you have another host of engine swap challenges, and you're still making "only" 505 hp.
We decided that a 600hp Gen I motor would probably scare the crank right out of most LS engines. So when the engine in our Laguna gave up the ghost, it gave us the perfect opportunity to put our theories to the test.
The first step was to find the biggest small-block we could build without getting into exotic racing parts. It didn't take long for us to identify the Dart Special High Performance (SHP) block as a worthy candidate. It can be built in displacements from 372 up to 427, and accepts all of the original small-block paraphernalia; it even has the '55 Chevy front lower motor mount bosses. The ability to match the LS7 in displacement with a Gen I is very desirable, and helps even out the power playing field.
A little more research unearthed that Dart offers an SHP short-block with righteous parts that produces 550 hp and 545 lb-ft of torque on pump gas. Now we were definitely interested. Strength and durability issues are shelved with a 4340 forged steel crank, aftermarket steel rods, forged pistons, and splayed main block caps. Plus, Dart builds the blocks and heads that pro racers use to make 2,500 hp or more. Their SHP line is targeted at putting that same quality and performance expertise into the hands of street guys like us who also like to pound on our equipment at the racetrack.
We drummed up a conversation with Jack McInnis and Tony McAfee at Dart to see what it would take to shift that 550hp number north of 600 while still having an engine that would run on pump gas and be durable on the street. Those of you who follow our Laguna project know that we enjoy tossing the two-ton Betty into the corners on autocross and road race courses, but it spends more than its fair share of time in Los Angeles traffic. McInnis and McAfee thought that a bit more compression and camshaft will be sufficient to push the 427 SHP over the 600 mark without creating a hand grenade with the pin pulled.
There are definitely some things you should realize about an engine like this. That kind of horsepower and torque will plaster a smile on your face that will make your girlfriend jealous. But it's not a docile, smooth idling, 25-mpg mill. It's going to have a lumpy idle, low vacuum for accessories, and scare small children. We'll have no problems tolerating it in bumper-to-bumper traffic in SoCal, but not everyone would. With that reality check out of the way, we stopped by Dart in Troy, Michigan, to photograph the drool-worthy parts that would make up the short-block of this potent anti LS engine.
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Unlike a purebred race block, the deck height and cam location match stock specifications, so all of your existing sheetmetal, exhaust, and accessories will bolt right up. There are also threaded mounting holes for the late-style roller cam plates. The engine uses a priority main oiling system, which means the main bearings get lubricated first.Dart machines all of its blocks in-house, starting with a line hone. This assures that the main bearing journals are prepped and also perfectly perpendicular to the cylinders. Then, the cylinders are finish bored, and torque-plate honed in Dart's computer controlled honing machine. Because these are all-new blocks and the first round of machining is done by CNC, no other machining is needed.The oil pan side rails in the Dart SHP block are clearanced using a CNC machine. There's clearance for up to a 3.750-inch stroke with steel rods. Engine builders will rejoice in not having to spend a day grinding the block by hand, and a half day of cleaning the block after sending metal everywhere. The pan rail accepts a stock or aftermarket oil pan and gasket, although it uses an '81-85 style pan and right-hand dipstick tube.The exact components in a Dart SHP short-block will depend on your desired power level and how you intend to use the engine. Even though these are sold as engine assemblies, the company takes you into account and builds each engine to best suit your needs within a range of options. Think of it as custom built for a crate-motor price.The heart of our new small-block is an Eagle 4340 forged steel crank, which Dart balances using a computer-controlled dynamic spin balancer. You can build a 372 Dart SHP with a 3.480-inch stroke, a 400 with a 3.750 stroke, or the big dog 427 with a 4.000-inch stroke. With the 4.000-inch stroke, there might be rod clearance issues on the block and cam. With the CompStar H-beam steel rods in our engine, it cleared without any additional work.Typically, a Dart 427 SHP short-block comes with 26cc dished full-floating pistons. That is part of a combo that's good for 550 hp at 5,700. We are hoping for 600 or a tad more out of this engine build, so Mahle forged flat-tops with eyebrow valve reliefs were selected to raise the compression ratio to 11.2:1. These pistons come with Mahle's skirt coating for durability and reduced friction.The 372 and 400 versions of the Dart SHP engines use ⅜-inch ARP rod bolts while the 427 steps it up to 7/16-inch bolts to deal with the additional stress of larger displacement, a longer arm, and more power. All fasteners used in this engine are ARP.Tony McAfee assembled our engine, and he builds most of the Dart SHP short- and long-blocks. He checks every critical measurement as he builds each engine. Here, he uses a dial-bore gauge to compare the main bore with the bearing installed to the outside diameter of the main journals of the crank. McAfee likes these clearances to be around 0.003 for an engine that will see a combination of road racing and street use, such as with our Laguna.Gasket sealer is applied to the rear main seal seat in the block, and McAfee set the seal in place clocked at an angle to keep the seal and block parting lines away from each other. This decreases the chances of an oil leak. The Dart SHP blocks accept the traditional two-piece seal, but can be converted to a single-piece seal as an option. A dab of grease is applied to the top of the seal so it has lubrication against the crank at start up.
With the splayed main caps torqued, McAfee checks the crank endplay. Ours came in at 0.006 inch, which is within the target that McAfee likes to see for an automatic transmission application.With the splayed main caps torqued, McAfee checks the crank endplay. Ours came in at 0.006 inch, which is within the target that McAfee likes to see for an automatic transmission application.The COMP Cams roller camshaft requires either a bronze or composite gear on the distributor. We're using a Performance Distributors ignition system, and ordered the distributor with one of the company's composite gears. These tend to last longer than the bronze gears, and they do not send bits of bronze through the engine as they wear.The lobe separation is 108 degrees, and we ordered a reduced based circle camshaft for added rod clearance; this is a must with a 4.000-inch stroke. We'll fill you in on the rest of the valvetrain next month when we build the top end of this engine and stick it on the dyno to see if we'll reach our 600hp goal.We love COMP's billet timing set. Beyond robust parts that look and feel great, these double-roller timing sets make it super easy to degree the cam. Pull the lower gear off and select the crank keyway with the desired amount of advance or retard in cam timing, then line up the appropriate gear tooth with the dot on the cam gear. The roller cam requires a thrust button. McAfee will check cam endplay and adjust this against the COMP Cams two-piece timing cover before final assembly.Before assembling all of the rods and pistons, McAfee mocked up one and bolted it on the crank to check piston-to-valve clearance with our Dart Pro-1 heads. Ours was a little tight on the exhaust side (McAfee likes to see .110-inch clearance at max lift on the exhaust and .050 on the intake unloaded), which left us the choice of fly cutting the pistons or retarding the camshaft 2 degrees. We determined that retarding the cam wouldn't free up enough clearance, and for the best power, we decided to leave the camshaft timing alone and take a little material out of the intake pocket of the pistons.The Mahle pistons call for 1.5/1.5/3.0mm rings. McAfee filed the rings to get consistent gaps of .018 for the top and .015 for the second rings. His advice for naturally aspirated motors is to follow the manufacturer's recommended spec.Using Dart assembly lube on the friction surfaces of the bearings and ARP assembly lube on the rod-bolt threads, each rod and piston assembly was slid into place and torqued. The last spec that McAfee checks before turning the engine over again is rod side clearance, which on this engine was pretty consistent at .027 inch.The final measurement of the short-block is the deck height, or where the top of the piston sits in relation to the top of the block deck at top dead center. Our engine ranged from .026- to .027-inch deck height. Combined with a .034-inch head gasket (when compressed) and 64cc chamber heads, our 427 will net out at exactly 11.2:1 compression. With aluminum cylinder heads and a pretty radical cam profile, that will run on pump gas just fine.
If you order a Dart SHP short-block, this is what you can expect to receive in the mail, minus the camshaft and timing set. This is the start of a very serious small-block that looks like a 350, but will pound the ground like a big-block. Next month, we'll bolt on the heads, the rest of the valvetrain and the intake, add fuel and spark, and see what this specific combo is worth on the dyno!


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Sick of spending an hour strapping your bikes over, under, and around your spare tire? Us too, which is why we've slapped the Yakima Sparetime 2-Bike Rack onto the donut of our goat-mobile to help us make quick and easy jaunts to the trails. The Spartime bolts quickly and securely to your spare tire's mounting bolts, and it comes with a universal mounting plate that fits to almost every lug pattern under the sun. It's made of rugged steel for durability and holds two bikes in anti-sway cradles to prevent banging. Yakima built in two bottle openers to help you crack open some brews after your ride, and included a locking cable to keep your babies safely strapped to the rack. The arms of the Sparetime also fold down when they're not in use, so you won't accidentally ram them through the garage door when you roll into the driveway.
- Mounts to spare tire's mounting
- Universal mounting plate fits most lugs
- Locking cable
- Powder-coated steel construction
- Anti-sway cradle
- Fold-away arms
- Two integrated bottle openers
- Item #YAK0285
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SPARETIME only carries ONE bike
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Warning to anyone who wants to carry two mountain bikes using this rack from yakima - it will NOT work. The rack's carry arms are too narrow and only one bike will fit - unless you want to remove wheels etc..this is a flawed design but should be ok for road bikes.
The tongues look cheap too.
Will possibly block your 3rd brake light and back up camera too.
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I was a little nervous at picking up these spare tire racks. We have an old van, and were concerned that the mounting plate wouldn't have the proper hole configuration. I'd much rather have something that bolted on, rather than wrapped around the tire then secured by hooks.
Turns out the mounting plate has tons of holes, and can be rotated so a good fit is fairly likely. The two of us got it all set up in a few minutes and it looks/works great!
This rack also locks your spare tire to your car, which is a nice bonus
worked great on cross country road trip
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This was so easy to install on my daughter's 2005 Honda CRV. Pop the spare off, insert the mounting plate, put spare back on - that's all there is to it. We then drove from Utah to Virginia with her bike on the back. Loved the built in locking cable feature. Only adjustment we had to make was to back off on over-tightening the rubber straps. in the heat of Kansas one broke loose - and that's because it was stretched too thin (my fault) and the hot rubber let go. Once we backed it down a notch it never let go again.
Great product. Not for me.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
I ordered this rack and it did not work for me , but it looked like a great product. Very easy to return. Thanks Backcountry!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Got yakima spare time for my 2006 rav4 after reading many reviews. Fits easily and snugly onto spare tire. Plus, a bonus is that now my tire is locked onto my car with this rack. Didn't realize before that my spare would be so easy to steal! Fits great, works great. Shipping from backcountry.com was SUPER FAST! Ordered it Wednesday morning and had it Friday afternoon ( in Illinois ). If you have a rav4, this is the rack you want!
Does this bike rack offset for vehicles that have an offset spare tire?
Is there an extender for a 3rd bike??
Is there an extender for a 3rd bike??
Unfortunately this does not have the ability to extend to a 3rd bike.


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ATLANTA -- ManpowerGroup released new numbers Tuesday that signal a slowdown in hiring for metro Atlanta in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The global staffing company surveyed thousands of companies to come up with Q4 Employment Outlook for Atlanta, Sandy Springs and Marietta.
The survey shows 13 percent of companies plan to increase staffing levels during the last three months of the year, while nine percent plan to cut staff and 78 percent plan to maintain staffing levels at the current levels.
The numbers combine to create a net employment outlook of four percent, which is down from last quarter (13 percent) and last year (10 percent).
Despite the numbers, Beth Herman, Manpower's Regional Vice President of Atlanta, said she sees reason to be encouraged.
"My clients are not doom and gloom," Herman said. "They are not laying off. They are not shutting down. For the most part, we've seen manufacturing running three shifts. We've seen people working overtime. They're still placing orders and still struggling to find the right talent to fit the jobs today."
Manpower's survey shows the best job prospects in manufacturing, technology and leisure and hospitality.
Herman said the uncertainty of the presidential election is one factor in the weaker fourth quarter numbers. Long-term unemployment is another factor.
"They look at you like you're rusty," said Eric Hunter, a father of two who's desperate to get back in the workforce.
Hunter lost his job at an Atlanta warehouse almost a year ago.
"I just need a chance to get in to an interview," Hunter said. "Just a little chance would help."
Hunter is one of millions of Americans struggling with long-term unemployment, defined as those out of work for 26 weeks or more.
Herman calls it an epidemic.
"There's a gap there," she said. "In some cases, we've got the skills gap and the talent mismatch. It continues to be a pervasive issue in our local economy."
Herman encourages job-seekers to stay active, positive and sharp, despite their hardships.
She also pushes employers to give the long-term unemployed a closer look.


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Bonilla arrested for misconduct, denies charges
Returns to work at Town of Hempstead amidst calls for his resignation
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Hempstead Town Clerk Mark Bonilla was arrested late last week and is facing criminal charges stemming from sexual harassment allegations that have been under investigation for the past month.
Bonilla, 50, was arrested on Sept. 21 by investigators from the Nassau County district attorney's office. According to Town Supervisor Kate Murray, complaints of sexual harassment by Bonilla were made to the town's Human Resources department in mid-August. The town attorney's office began its own investigation before turning the case over to District Attorney Kathleen Rice.
Bonilla, the town clerk since 2003, faces misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, second-degree coercion, and attempted petit larceny. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last Saturday morning. A second official misconduct charge was added to a revised complaint that was filed at First District Court on Thursday morning, according to the district attorney's office.
The matter became criminal, Rice explained, when Bonilla "abused his position in an effort to discredit his accuser." She said that Joseph Ra, the town attorney, told investigators that when Bonilla was interviewed, he asked whether a $10,000 payment to a female employee would make her allegations of sexual harassment against him "go away." Rice said it was not clear whether he was suggesting that the complainant be offered town funds or if Bonilla was willing to make the payment himself.
According to the criminal complaint, Bonilla later tried to obtain personal photographs of the female employee from a male employee, 21-year-old Alex Desidoro. The complaint alleges that Bonilla told Desidoro he would be transferred out of the town clerk's office if he did not comply with the request, but would be promoted if he did.
Since Bonilla's arrest, orders of protection have been issued for the female employee and Desidoro, which Bonilla's attorney, Adrian L. DiLuzio, said were unnecessary.
There have been three specific allegations of harassment made against Bonilla, Rice said. However, she added, they do not involve physical abuse, but rather inappropriate conduct that created a hostile work environment. Those claims are a civil and administrative matter to be handled by town officials, but Rice said they do not appear to be criminal.
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Wow! With the push of a button, a man's career is ended! What happened to due process? I'm not saying that Mr Bonilla is innocent or guilty, but he deserves his day in court.
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and....Ms. Murray's brother in law is or at least was the judge until he recused himself....Hold on, let me put my surprised face on.
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text: Report: TEDGlobal 2011, day 1 David Rowan's Blog 13 July 11 James Duncan Davidson / TED David Rowan Editor of Wired magazine Follow @iRowan I'm at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh all week. WIRED is a big supporter of TED -- there's a strong overlap in our world views and story subjects, and indeed WIRED founder Louis Rossetto first presented his business plan to potential investors at the Long Beach event almost 20 years ago. Good on Nicholas Negroponte for ponying up some cash (though he did get a rather brilliant column out of the deal).This year, the UK-based "global" version of the conference moves from the Oxford Playhouse after two years to the bigger and more modern Edinburgh International Conference Centre. There are around 850 people here, from 70 countries -- including the TED Fellows, who have been selected from huge numbers of applicants for their extraordinary gifts and early achievements. The theme is "The Stuff of Life" -- which is pretty general, but the floral stage backdrop gives a clue that there's a dominant programme strand that touches on evolution, energy innovation and public health. Not that there isn't also inspiring social enterprise, architecture and design, and a Swiss pilot who flies over the Channel with wings strapped to his back.I'll be posting some highlights. First, from the pre-TED conference sessions known as TED University -- 29 short talks on eclectic and diverse themes, from "Why the next generation will be thinner" to "Building the future of Tunisia".A bunch of ideas worth spreading and remembering:Ian Ritchie, the chair of Iomart:The title of Ritchie's talk: "The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee". Ritchie was part of the team that delivered the world's first hypertext computer system, called Guide, for Apple. In 1990, he took it to a trade show in Versailles and met Berners-Lee -- who tried to persuade him to create a browser for his planned World Wide Web. But Berners-Lee wasn't being taken seriously then: his 1992 paper on the web was rejected by the Hypertext Conference. The next year, Marc Andreessen created the Mosaic brower -- and, well, you're looking at the result. "According to Fortune magazine, Andreessen is worth $700 million," Ritchie said wistfully. "But is he happy?" Cue audience laughter.Sonaar Luthra, social entrepreneur:I met Luthra, a TED Fellow based in New York, at the Monaco Media Forum last autumn. I was impressed then by his project to make water-quality detection easier, quicker and cheaper -- so it's great that TED is giving him a new platform. We can predict stormy weather, Luthra explained, yet we still have little knowledge of water quality in places like Haiti, where cholera was reported last October for the first time in 50 years. Conventional detection tools are expensive and slow. "We think there's a simpler solution." His small device, Water Canary, uses light rather than chemicals to detect the composition of water within seconds. "There's no waiting, no need to use reagents that can run out." A red or green light will reveal whether the water is clean -- and inbuilt GPS will tag all results on a map to create useful public data. The hardware is open-source, so expect it to be improved.Raghava KK, artist: The Indian artist has created Pop-It, a children's book for the iPad. But this one lets you click on characters to change the outcome -- turning parents into gay, lesbian or straight, as you wish. "I have a problem with children's books," he said. "They're full of propaganda." His is working on a children's book about Indian independence that, once the iPad is shaken, gives you the Pakisatani perspective, then the British perspective. "The way to teach creativity is to teach perspectives. The child camn put themselves into the shoes of someone else. I can't promise my child a life without bias but I can promise bias with multiple perspectives." Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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First Battle of Deep Space 9
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|First Battle of Deep Space 9
|Part of the Dominion cold war
|The Klingons open fire on Deep Space 9
| United Federation of Planets
Bajoran deputies
Cardassian Union
|Klingon Empire
|Notable commanders
| Benjamin Sisko
Gul Dukat
| Gowron
Martok (Changeling)
| Deep Space 9
USS Defiant
| >50 Klingon vessels, including at least:
1 Negh'Var-class warship
6 Vor'cha-class attack cruisers
11 K't'inga-class battle cruisers
34 Klingon Birds-of-Prey
|Casualties and losses
|At least a dozen dead, many injured
|≥11 ships, dozens of troops
The First Battle of Deep Space 9 opened the Federation-Klingon War of 2372-2373. In early 2372, a Klingon task force led by Chancellor Gowron and General Martok launched an attack on the Federation space station of Deep Space 9, in an attempt to force Captain Benjamin Sisko to relinquish the Cardassian Detapa Council members under his protection. The Klingons had under-estimated the station's defenses, and were unable to take the station before the arrival of Starfleet reinforcements. Faced with the prospect of massive losses and an escalating war on two fronts, Gowron ordered his forces to withdraw.
Prelude Edit
After the Battle of the Omarion Nebula in 2371, the Cardassian Union was in a state of turmoil. For centuries, the Obsidian Order had kept an iron grip on all levels of Cardassian society, keeping the status quo firmly in place. With the Obsidian Order decimated by the Jem'Hadar, the Cardassian Underground was finally able to make headway against the oppressive rule of the Central Command. Faced with growing unrest and civil uprisings, the Central Command sealed the borders of the Cardassian Union to focus their attention on the rebellion. Despite their efforts, early in 2372 a popular revolt overthrew the Central Command and restored the power of the civilian Detapa Council. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Meanwhile, the Klingon Empire had been infiltrated by a Founder, masquerading as General Martok. This Founder, taking advantage of the paranoia effected by the very notion (and actual occurrences) of Changeling subterfuge, misled the Klingon High Council into concluding the Cardassian uprising could have succeeded only with Dominion assistance – and, with ironic mendacity, he proclaimed the Detapa Council had been replaced by Founders. The Martok Changeling advocated that the Klingons mount an invasion of the Cardassian Union to neutralize the "Dominion threat". His proposal came at a time when many Klingons believed that years of peace had led them astray, and thus the invasion plans were eagerly embraced by Klingons hoping for a return to the gloried old ways of war and conquest. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior", "Apocalypse Rising")
When preparations were complete, a Klingon task force of over twenty warships, led by the flagship IKS Negh'Var, arrived at Deep Space 9 claiming to be supporting the Federation in their stand against the Dominion. Once their true purpose was discovered, Captain Benjamin Sisko urged Martok to reconsider their plans. With reckless disregard of Starfleet's refusal to support them, the Klingon fleet proceeded into Cardassian space, commencing the Klingon-Cardassian War. Bound by their alliance, the Federation could do nothing to interfere, although Sisko "unofficially" sent an advance warning to the Cardassians through Elim Garak. A few days later, the Federation Council condemned the Klingon invasion. Outraged that his ally had refused to support him in "defending the Alpha Quadrant" from the Dominion, Gowron withdrew from the Khitomer Accords and broke off all diplomatic contact. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Flight from Cardassian space Edit
Although the Cardassian fleet mobilized in time thanks to Garak's warning, the speed and magnitude of the Klingon advance broke through their lines a short time after the invasion began. Now the Klingon forces were only 52 hours from Cardassia Prime itself, and if they were permitted to conquer the planet and execute the Detapa Council, the war would effectively be over. To prevent this from happening, Sisko contacted Gul Dukat, the new chief military advisor to the Detapa Council, and advised him to evacuate the Council to Deep Space 9. Dukat agreed, and left Cardassia with the Council members aboard the cruiser Prakesh.
At the same time, Sisko took the USS Defiant into Cardassian space to rendezvous with Dukat, using its cloaking device to hide from the Klingon forces (in violation of the terms of its loan from the Romulans). When they arrived they found that the Prakesh had been intercepted by three Birds-of-Prey, and was under heavy attack. The Klingons ignored Sisko's order to stand down, and opened fire on the Defiant. With those shots, two decades of peaceful co-existence came to an abrupt end. Amid the fighting, Dukat managed to contact Sisko and informed him that while he and the Council members were alive, the Prakesh had already lost all engine, weapon and shield power, and would likely suffer a warp core breach before long.
The Defiant engaged the Birds-of-Prey, buying time for the stricken Prakesh while a Vor'cha-class attack cruiser entered the battle. Using a modified tractor beam to deflect some of the cruiser's fire, the Defiant lowered its shields long enough to transport the Detapa Council members aboard. The Prakesh exploded shortly afterwards as the Defiant headed back for Deep Space 9 at maximum warp, the two remaining Klingon warships in close pursuit. With this development, the main Klingon force turned away from Cardassia Prime and headed to the Bajoran system. Aboard the Defiant, Doctor Julian Bashir administered blood screenings of the Council members and verified that they had, in fact, not been replaced by Founders. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
The Battle Edit
When the Defiant reached Deep Space 9, they found several dozen Klingon warships in attack formation, waiting for them beyond the station's shield perimeter. The Bird-of-Prey and the Vor'cha-class attack cruiser which were pursuing the Defiant all the way from Cardassian space, joined the Klingon fleet. Gowron and Martok, aboard the Negh'Var, sent an ultimatum to Sisko: surrender the Council members, or have them taken by force. Sisko refused, informing them of the results of the blood screenings. Not surprisingly, the fact that the Council members were not Changelings meant little to Gowron, who asserted that the Alpha Quadrant would be safer with the Klingons in control of Cardassia. Sisko gave a last warning: that in the past year, the station had had ample time to prepare for a massive attack by the Dominion or any other hostile force. These preparations included the installation of new torpedo launchers and phaser emitters, as well as a stockpile of five thousand photon torpedoes. Gowron scoffed at this threat and ordered his forces to advance, announcing "CHEGH-chew jaj-VAM jaj-KAK" – "Today is a good day to die."
The first wave of Klingon ships opened fire on the station, moving to surround it on all sides. The station's weapons returned fire, destroying eight Klingon warships in the opening volley and heavily damaging several more. Undeterred, the Klingon forces pressed on their attack. Realizing the futility of additional negotiations with the Klingons, Sisko ordered the station to fire at will. Surprised but undaunted by the station's upgraded defenses, Martok ordered the Negh'Var and several support cruisers to concentrate their fire on the station's shield generators. The Negh'Var's heavy disruptor cannons scored several direct hits, disabling two of the generators and opening a gap in the station's shields.
Seizing this opportunity, Klingon boarding parties began materializing in the operations center, Promenade, habitat ring, and lower pylon 3. Small-scale firefights and hand-to-hand combat erupted throughout the station, although civilian casualties were minimal as Sisko had evacuated non-essential personnel to the emergency shelters prior to the battle. The Klingon forces additionally found themselves hindered by force fields erected between all major access points of the station. After the command crew repelled the Klingon boarding parties in Ops, Chief Miles O'Brien managed to restore Deep Space 9's shields and prevent additional Klingon troops from reinforcing their positions on the station. In the meantime, Odo and his security forces had managed to contain the Klingon troops in the habitat ring, Promenade and lower pylon 3, though Odo himself was unsure how long they could continue to do so.
As the Federation personnel in Ops returned to their posts, another wave of Klingon ships was detected entering sensor range. However, a Starfleet relief force of six starships, consisting of the USS Venture, two Excelsior-class starships, one Miranda-class cruiser, and two more starships led by Admiral Hastur aboard the Venture, also entered sensor range. Realizing that the Federation relief force would arrive at the station before the Klingon reinforcements, Sisko contacted Gowron again, hoping that the chancellor would see how mutually destructive continuing his attack could become. Martok insisted that the Klingons could still prevail, but Sisko and Worf both warned him that continuing his assault would result in the Klingon Empire entering a protracted, all-out war with both the Cardassians and the Federation, which would only serve to weaken them all and pave the way for the Dominion conquest. Gowron recognized the truth of the Starfleet officers' argument and ordered the Klingon fleet to stand down and withdraw. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Aftermath Edit
The battle at Deep Space 9 ended indecisively, as even though the Klingons had failed to capture Deep Space 9 or the Detapa Council, their offensive against the Cardassians continued. After the battle, the Detapa Council was safely returned to Cardassia Prime, though their rule would be short. Less than two years later, the devastating war with the Klingons would lead Dukat into delivering the Cardassians into the hands of an even more oppressive power than the Central Command, the Dominion. (DS9: "In Purgatory's Shadow")
For the Federation, an all-out war with the Klingons had been averted, but the alliance that had unified the two powers in friendship for decades was lost. The ensuing Federation-Klingon conflict would escalate into open warfare in late 2372; it would end with a cease-fire several months later, after Martok was exposed as a changeling, but only after mounting casualties on both sides. Beginning with the Battle of Deep Space 9, the Founders had nearly succeeded in their goal of irreparably destroying the Federation-Klingon alliance, the only power which could have stood against a Dominion invasion. Fortunately for the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, the two powers were able to reconcile in time, and turn their attention back towards the Dominion, but not until after the loss of a great many lives. (DS9: "Broken Link", "Apocalypse Rising", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "By Inferno's Light")
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|Release Date: May 06, 2005
|Running Time: 107 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $55,382,847.00
|Genre: Drama
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