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Freeworlds 2.0
Hey guys,
I wanted to tell you guys about Freeworlds 2.0, a total conversion mod for Freelancer.
FWs 2.0 is currently in development and I'm the mod head there. We're looking to totally change the way FW used to be played. We're adopting a much more "XvT/XWA" type environment, with still the feel of FL. Tides of War (ToW) also has merged with us for this project. We've also been fortunate enough to get ships models from the First Strike mod, thanks to Red Monkey and the crew, as well as the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Project. Our developers have been posting up blogs for everyone to read. They're viewable to guests, so you don't need to register to view them. Although, I do encourage you to register as you can ask questions of the developers.
Here are some links I think you guys should take a look at. The first is a development video, the 6th in the series. This video shows some of the new systems we're in the process of making, the immense capital ships and scale we're using, increase non-player craft (NPCs) AI as well as some "fuse" effects when ships start to get damaged:
The second is our site at MODDB. There you can see all the lovely new fighters we got from the FS Mod/XWAUP. We update this regularly, so I encourage you all to bookmark it and check there often
Freeworlds ModDB site
And lastly, this is a link to all our development blogs. You'll be able to see a lot of the new effects, models, systems, ideas we're trying to incorporate for FW 2.0.
Development Blogs
I really hope to see some of your faces there. I also wish this will satisfy your Star Wars craving when it comes out as well
If you guys have any questions, feel free to PM me on our forums, or here. I'll bookmark this link and check back as often as I can.
Thanks guys.
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This is a video showing the new models from the First Strike Mod we've put into game. Furthermore, it shows the new engine effects and movable turrets we've been developing.
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Well fellas, I don't even know where to begin because so much has happened since I last posted, so I guess I'll update you on the current mod progress.
As of now, we only have one system left to complete, then the alpha version of FW:ToW is finished, in terms of systems. Oma and Qi have worked tirelessly on making the best systems possible for you guys. I even had Oma fix up my old ones I made when I first started this mod back in August. What he has done with them will surely take your breath away. The attention to detail is outstanding. I'd like to also give credit to Orac65, who has been trying his hand at making a system and is showing a lot of promise through his work.
Hmmm...what else. Well, we have a new shiplist now. I think that's important to tell you folks. Sov had been doing such a fantastic job finding and importing models for us, that it allowed us to really diversify the shiplist for each faction; I'll let him post more about that since it is his creation. What this means is that there is more hardpointing/hitbox making and coding for us to do in terms of ships, but I honestly think it's going to be worth it in the end. Fortunately, we had most of our ship coding done before 94/104 ships. So, the new 15+ ships or so shouldn't take up too much time.
Sov has also been busy making his idea of a combat prototype; more about that later in this post.
Dok and Mirkha have been busy making great .sur files for us. Mirkha has finished redoing the entire Aldebaran Modular Station (AMS) hitboxes which are absolutely incredible. Super d has also been a great addition to the team by helping redo glowmaps for us.
Solostaran has been an fabulous texturist for us. His skill/attention to minute details are what makes his textures so wonderful. He will often whip up textures for us within a day of us asking for them, which is a HUGE help. He's currently working on making the AMS textures just right. Here are some pictures of his work in progress:
Why485 has been busy finalizing his combat prototype - more about that later in this post. As well, he's made us some new FX which are utterly stunning. Here are some pictures of those:
Deety has been implementing NPCs into the alpha systems for us. What he has done to the AI is shocking, to be frank. They're so mean and vicious now, we're probably going to have to tone them down because they pwn so HARD. He also has been hard at work bringing his energy drain system - similar to XvT and XWA - to life in his combat prototype.
Now, as I mentioned above, Sov, Why485 and Deety have been busy working on the FW:ToW combat prototypes. What happened is that the developers could not decide on what we wanted for this mod. There were so many ideas, thoughts and beliefs on the way that fighter/bomber combat should be done that it came down to me asking these three developers to bring their thoughts to the mod. I then recruited 6 players, 4 from FW and 2 from FW-France, to test these completed prototypes. These players are: Oma, Kampher, Wedge, Desdina, Pixy and Kelron Trion. What I looked for in testers was fighter/bomber experience, community experience, ability to work well and discuss points with others and objectivity. Based on the testers vote, we will be using their collective choice as the foundation of this mod's combat. As you can probably infer, this is no small task and I hope the testers the best of luck in this critical endeavor. In the end, though, I hope to be using the best ideas of each combat prototype in the final product. There will be no "winner" or "loser" in this combat prototype decision, only what's the absolute best for this mod!
Just so you all can get a rough idea of each prototype, here's a brief synopsis of each:
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As of now, the Why485 side of the prototype is now complete.
Fighter Class: X-Wing and TIE Fighter
Good against: Other fighters and bombers.
Ok against: Interceptors
Turn Rate: Medium
Responsiveness: Medium
- X-Wings have quad lasers which do the same damage over time, but they do more instantaneous damage.
- TIE Fighters have no shield, and are slighly more responsive and have a slightly better turn rate. They also have more hull.
Bomber Class: Y-Wing and TIE Bomber
Good against: Capital ships presumably
Ok against: Fighters
Bad against: Interceptors
Turn Rate: Low
Responsiveness: Low
- Y-Wings have Ion cannons which does the same damage over time when a targets shields are up, but more instantaneous damage. When shield is down, only its twin blasters do damage, making it more energy efficient when target shield is down.
- TIE Bombers have no shield, and are slightly more responsive and have a slightly better turn rate. They also have more hull.
Interceptor Class: A-Wing and TIE Avenger
Good against: Fighters, Bombers, and Interceptors
Bad against: Capital ships presumably
Turn Rate: High
Responsiveness: High
- TIE Avengers have quad lasers which do the same damage over time, but they do more instantaneous damage.
Note: Ordinarily I would class the TIE Avenger as fighter class, but I wanted the Imperials to have an interceptor.
Within a class, the ships are balanced. For example an X-Wing vs a TIE Fighter will come down to skill rather than one ship simply being better. Same applies for the other classes.
Combat itself is heavily reliant on the thruster, and the thruster has a slow drain and recharge to simulate fuel. During a one on one duel it is not that much of a concern. But during any longer multi-person battles, you need to pay attention to your fuel level. Strafe is also fairly useful. It is not hugely obvious, especially to observers, but strafing can be used to fine tune your turn circle, as well as fine tune your aim. Despite being thruster based, you will
see the jerky motions that FL ships experience. The accelerations are smooth and natural.
TIE Fighter and TIE Bomber are both unshielded. They compensate for this by being slightly more maneuverable and having hull strength compensated for lack of shield. The TIE is best suited to circle-fighting, as it can get off solid bursts if it can get inside an X-Wings circle. The X-Wing is best suited for jousting, as its shield works better when hits are few and far between.
Also in the prototype is a fighter version of the full-tilt camera. Both Deety and I utilize this system. It allows for the pilot to keep much better track of his target during a dogfight, this is especially useful for TIE Fighters for trying to coax an X-Wing into a circle fight. The unique flight model makes for very careful flying. You really have to think about
you fight. To be honest in every Freelancer mod I just wing it when I dogfight. This is the first time I've honestly said to myself "That was a good maneuver I pulled there, I should try to do that again."
For example I have one trick I like to pull in the TIE Fighter. When an X-Wing jousts at me, I ignore the joust (and hope I don't get hit), and start turning around before the X-Wing even gets behind me. I then apply reverse throttle (Which is 2/3rds forward throttle in here), get inside the X-Wings circle, and get a good clean shot as I follow the X-Wing coming around. Engine kill is also nicely integrated, its neither intrusively useful, nor useless. Some times it will get you killed, some times it will give you a great burst at the enemy.
Why485 has even been so kind to make a combat prototype gameplay movie. I hope you all enjoy this!
Note, this may/may not be what combat is actually like in FW:ToW come release.
Please click the High Quality button.
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Hybrid Combat Prototype
The Hybrid system is designed as a combination of action/arcade flying and elements from simulator game play. Action gaming requires fast reflexes but little tactical element, simulation gaming is often slow paced but offers greater control over your star ship and a heavy tactical element. A fusion of these styles ensures little boring or slow paced action but the ability to retain tactical gaming options such as maneuvers, unique ship roles and advanced planning. It is my hope that the creation of such a system will make all members of the Freeworlds Community appreciate the game. Neither action fans or simulator fans will be estranged by such a system.
Explanation of Gameplay
Each ship of a class shares the same statistics for balance. Example: X-Wings and TIE Avengers (medium fighters) have the same stats including damage and maneuvering.
Engine kill will gradually slow your ship to a full stop. The process takes less time by class designation, heavy ships stop faster than light ones. EK can only be sustained with the booster a short time.
Boosters have only a few seconds of capacity, and a long recharge. They are designed to be a secondary system, not a primary one.
Weapons are individually balanced, high number of weapons does not mean more DPS. The Y-Wing with two lasers and two ions has the same DPS as the TIE Bomber with only two lasers.
Energy maintenance has some importance. When shields are recharging it negatively affects energy recharge, slowing down how fast the bar fills. Speed negatively affects energy recharge, the faster you go, the slower the recharge. Weapon firing drains energy for every shot. If you are flying at high speed, shooting without pause, and recharging shields you may run dry in short order. This can be countered by retreating, slowing speeds or evasive maneuvers. This is a tactical element adopted from simulator play.
Holding down the reverse thrust key will drop your speed to twenty percent. This will allow you to make tighter faster turns with greater energy recovery.
Ships in this test
(in green)
New Republic:
Z-95 Headhunter - Light Fighter
RZ-1 A-Wing Interceptor - Interceptor
BLT-A4 Y-Wing Starfighter - Medium Bomber
T-65 X-Wing Starfighter - Medium Fighter
E-Wing Escort Starfighter - Heavy fighter
B-Wing Starfighter - Heavy Bomber
BLT-S8 K-Wing Assault Starfighter - Light Patrol Ship
Galactic Empire:
TIE/ln Starfighter (TIE Fighter)- Light Fighter
TIE/in Interceptor (TIE Interceptor) - Interceptor
TIE/sa Bomber (TIE Bomber) - Medium Bomber
TIE/ad Starfighter (TIE Avenger) - Medium Fighter
TIE/D Defender (TIE Defender) - Heavy fighter
Alpha-Class XG-1 Starwing (Assault Gunboat) - Heavy Bomber
GAT-12 Skipray Blastboat - Light Patrol Ship
Light Fighter
Average forward speed.
Fastest turn speed, fastest directional changes.
Weakest hull and shields. Lowest down time on shields.
Lowest DPS.
Best EK time.
Second best thruster speed.
No missiles.
Fastest forward speed.
Second best turn speed and directional changes.
Low hull and shields. Low downtime on shields.
Low DPS.
Good EK time.
Best thruster speed, shortest boost time.
Mounts Concussion missiles.
Medium Bomber
Slow forward speed.
Slow turn speed, slow directional changes.
Heavy hull and shields.
Moderate DPS hull, high DPS on energy and shields.
Short EK time.
Long thruster life, slower boost bonus.
Can mount some heavy ordnance.
Medium Fighter
Moderate/high forward speed.
Moderate turn speed and direction changes.
Moderate hull and shields.
Moderate/high DPS.
Decent EK time.
Middle booster, good speed and length of boost.
Can mount mid-rank ordnance.
Final notes
Missiles are not yet a part of this test. Missile stats remain entirely untouched by me.
Originally Posted by
Deety's Combat Prototype
At first, this combat prototype was based on the Freeworlds-France server ship handling, using high speeds and rotation inertia. I added new elements such as the energy partition from X-wing simulator game. I also tried to emphasise on realism and immersion: ships have the weapons they have in the movies, and speeds, hulls, shields and agility is based on what I have seen in the different star wars database, and balanced.
High speeds
Ships are moving very fast, giving you the opportunity to use the environment (
such as stations, battleships or asteroids
) to take cover and challenge your opponent to follow you. High speeds emphasize on the piloting aspect of the combat, not just the aiming part. Pass by a cruiser at high speed and you're actually feeling that you're piloting a starfighter, not a civilian cargo. Also, differences in speeds are highlighted, and interceptors actually look faster. Outrunning you opponent is possible!
Health and damage
High speeds and agility make it harder to be hit. However, hulls are very weak and shields don't reload quickly, while guns are more powerful than ever. In other words, your starfighter is a deadly, but fragile ship. In a battle, one second of inattention leads to death.
Burn and strafe
Afterburner and strafe are still available but are very limited by a low recharging thruster. Afterburner is meant to be used to evade missiles, and is powerful enough to make it possible. However, use it too often and you'll waste all your evade possibility. Strafe is energy consuming, thus the consequences are the same: a good pilot has to know when to use or not to use it.
Powercell and ions
Your energy bar has a large capacity, but reload is low. This means that you will have to be really cautious with your energy consumption. If you don't shoot aimed, quick, precise bursts to the enemy, you'll run out of energy quickly and your opponent will get the upper hand. This aspect is critical. But it also gives the ability to disable your enemy hitting him with ions, what will empty his energy bar (
Hard against fighters though. Cargos will be more sensible to ions, and can even be slowed down with ions
Energy Partition
This feature is based on the energy partition system from X-wing Alliance, where your power was divided into shields, lasers and engines. In Fw:Tow, all you have to choose is your speed. At max speed, your energy bar will recharge slightly slower. When your shield is hit or is down, another part of your energy is drained your reload it. This means that you can't move fast, take damage and have the greatest firepower all at the same time. Also, note that reverse is using as much energy as max speed. Slowing down manually may be a better option to break.
Chase camera
This feature comes from Why's prototype. I loved it so much that I included it into my own combat prototype. It makes the fight much more dynamic, and gives you the ability to track your enemy during the turns. However, during tight turns you'll expose yourself from attacks coming from the exterior, as any pilot concentrated on his target would be.
Unshielded TIEs
In order to emphasise onto realism and immersion, any unshielded vessel in Star wars comes unshielded in this combat prototype. However, TIE Fighter and TIE Bomber are balanced against other ships : they are more manoeuvrable, they can use afterburner longer to evade missiles better, they have a firepower bonus and are a bit more resistant. Piloting those ships is an unique feeling. You have to use your superior mobility to get behind the target, launch a deadly burst and evade quickly.
This combat prototype introduces a new ship classes system, increasing the number of classes and applying then a bonus/malus system in order to make every ship unique.
Ships classes
Ships not present in the combat prototype are in grey :
¤ Interceptor (
) :
TIE Interceptor
¤ Interceptor (
) : A-wing
¤ Interceptor (
) : TIE Avenger
¤ Fighter (
) : TIE Fighter,
¤ Fighter (
) : X-wing
¤ Fighter (
) :
E-wing, TIE Defender
¤ Bomber (
) : TIE Bomber
¤ Bomber (
) : Y-wing
¤ Bomber (
) :
B-wing, XG-1
Interceptors, fighters and bombers
The main difference between those ships is their mission:
¤ Bombers kill capital ship, using torpedoes. Bombers have the most resistant hulls and shields. They have the more powerful guns. However they lack agility and are easy targets for other crafts.
¤ Interceptors strike bombers before they launch their torpedoes, using superior speed. They are the fastest and most responsive ships. But they are also the weakest. Against fighters, they must use their linear and angular accelerations to compensate for their lack of firepower.
¤ Fighters defend bombers against interceptors, using superior firepower. They have average hull and weapons, and even a higher max turn rate than interceptors, but slower acceleration and responsiveness.
Light, Medium and Heavy
Inside a same class, different subclasses are made to offer different gameplay. All these subclasses are balanced between each others, but play differently. The heavier the ship, the more firepower, health and speed, in detriment of agility. This offers a great variety to the gameplay : heavy interceptors have more firepower and health than light fighters, but light fighters turn drastically faster (
because they are fighters, and because they are lights
). Every ship is different, and every ship has his own tactics !
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The Freeworlds: Tides of War mod team has been busy over the past few weeks fixing bugs, building an economy and, of late, creating more of the mission systems for players to enjoy (ie. Battle of Yavin). Below, you'll find the latest video of this new mission system Deety has designed called, "Battle of Bilbringi." Essentially, this mission will feature a gigantic ongoing battle between the New Republic and the Empire full of huge capital ships, hundreds of laser beams and a whole lot of fun!
Battle of Bilbringi
In other news, Qi, our resident Economy Guru, has completed the first alpha prototype of our economy and it contains over 1000+ trade runs. He strove to make this economy as canonical as he could to further the immersion factor of the mod and we all really think you will love what he's done. In addition to this, Qi is working on a web interface that will allow players to view the changes in commodity prices based on what is being traded on the server. However, I will release more information about that when the graphical interface is near completion.
Lastly, I wanted to show you all the new Pirate factions Deety has created based on what systems you're in. Below is an image on how the territories will be seperated:
Thanks again everyone for following this mod. We've really appreciated the ongoing support and compliments.
And please, if you haven't already, please take the time and give us a vote for the mod of the year awards over at
Happy holidays,
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Hate to resurrect a "dead" thread, but with the
Morning Star
seeking to move in another direction, I became interested in this mod. Would there be a view "in the cockpit," or is there just a third-person view of your ship from behind?
: Question answered by going to ModDB.com...there is at least one image that looks like an in-cockpit view. The other question I had was whether there would be a mission builder for the mod.
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I dont understand... What mod this is ? for what game ? Freelancer?
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Yes, Freelancer, I believe, BlackHawk.
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When something gets wet, it usually appears darker. This can be observed with soil, sand, cloth, paper, concrete, bricks ...
What is the reason for this? How does water soaking into the material change its optical properties?
When something gets wet, it usually appears darker. This can be observed with soil, sand, cloth, paper, concrete, bricks ...
What is the reason for this? How does water soaking into the material change its optical properties?
When you look at a surface like sand, bricks, etc, the light you are seeing is reflected by diffuse reflection.
With a flat surface like a mirror, light falling on the surface is reflected back at the same angle it hit the surface (specular reflection) and you see a mirror image of the light falling on the surface. However a material like sand is basically lots of small grains of glass, and light is reflected at all the surfaces of the grains. The result is that the light falling on the sand gets reflected back in effectively random directions and the reflected light just looks white.
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This image shows that when a surface is covered by water boundary, the light beams that face the surface, will absorb to it. so there would be less light beams in the area for arriving to our eyes. as a result, we see the material darker.
John's answer is the closest. Actually it does not matter of the optical index. Materials that has micro holes will reflect light randomly with only narrow boundary between the material and air. When there is water to fill up the holes, some of the light reflected into the material, so your eye will see less light reflected from the material.
I was told by a physicist that it is because sand clumps together when it is wet, so there is less surface area within it that can reflect the light.
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"Firefighters worked feverishly to keep the blaze from extending to the neighboring residence," said Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins.
The home and the Toyota 4-Runner in the garage were a total loss, estimated at over $200,000. The owner of the home is listed at Joe E. Jr. and Nancy Moore.
In all 9 apparatus, 21 fire personnel responded from six Riley County stations. Riley County EMS responded with an ambulance and treated and released the two occupants due to smoke inhalation. All fire units were clear from the scene by 4:30 AM. The cause of the fire is undetermined due to the extent of damage. The home owner stated that he thought the fire started near the propane furnace. The American Red Cross was on scene to assist the family.


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Are Masterwork weapons limited to a +1 bonus, or can the bonus go all the way to +5? The reason I ask is the books usually refer to items with a bonus as magical items, but the books also say that all magic weapons and armor are masterwork.
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Limited to +1, overridden by magic bonuses.
Masterwork weapons have a +1 enhancement bonus to hit (but not to damage) because they are well-crafted. Magic bonuses to weapons are enhancement bonuses (which apply to both hit and damage rolls) as well. Because they both have the "enhancement" descriptor, these bonuses to hit do not stack with each other. All weapons must be masterwork in order to be valid targets of enchantment.
Thus a masterwork weapon and a +1 weapon have the same +1 enhancement bonus twice and it doesn't stack. A masterwork +4 weapon has a +1 bonus and a +4 bonus of the same type, and so it's a +4 weapon.
A weapon either is or is not Masterwork; there are not levels of Masterwork as there are for Magic weapons. If a weapon is Masterwork, it gets a +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls.
A weapon can only be made Magic if it is already Masterwork. Magic weapons are not called a "magic longsword" or whatever, they're referred to by their enhancement bonus (and any other special abilities), e.g. "+1 longsword." At a minimum, a Magic weapon has a +1 enhancement bonus to both attack and damage rolls.
The Magic weapon bonus, being of the same type (enhancement) as the Masterwork bonus, overlaps and does not stack with the Masterwork bonus. So a +1 weapon has a +1 enhancement bonus to attack, and a +1 enhancement bonus to attack and damage. Because of the type overlap, the weapon's wielder adds +1 to both attack and damage, but not +2 to attack and +1 to damage.


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We put up some composite trim using an 18 gauge air nailer, however, some of the nails did not go in all the way, mostly due to operator inexperience. What's the best way to cover up/remove the nails that are not countersunk? And after they get countersunk, what's the best thing to fill the holes with? This will be in a wet location.
Countersink with a nailset, struck with a hammer.
Fill with painters caulk.
As for the second question regarding filling the holes after countersinking:
Use DAP Painter's Putty '53' - pull out a portion the size of a large marble, shape it into a sphere or ball, and then use it like an eraser on your countersunk nail holes. If you rub the putty ball back and forth along your trim over the countersunk nail hole, you'll slowly fill the hole with the putty and leave a smooth surface appropriate for painting.


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We at the Adena Community Food Pantry are asking for help from the people in our area and donate to our food pantry. We are located at the corner of Main and Lyon streets in Adena. We go only on donations, so anything you could do would help and would be appreciated. We have drop-off points at the Adena United Methodist Church, Peoples Bank in Adena and Hair Headquarters in Adena.
The pantry is in need of nonperishable food, toilet articles and cash. Sometime in November we start giving extra food to the needy so the children can have a nice holiday meal. Donations can be made to the Adena Community Food Pantry, P.O. Box 105, Adena, OH 43901. If you need more information, you can contact them.
This is the time to help others if you can. May God send a blessing your way for all you do.
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The Bowling Green City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to sue former Convention Center Board member Steve Catron in an effort to recover more than $700,000 in alleged over billing or misspent public funds.
Louisville attorney Gregg Hovious conducted an independent investigation into the Convention Center's finances and found that, with interest, Catron was responsible for $745,000 to be refunded to the city.
Hovious will represent the city in the Catron lawsuit, though he says the city has been contacted by Catron's attorney within the past couple of days, and the possibility of a settlement remains open.
"There are continuing negotiations with respect to the efforts by the city to recover some of the taxpayers' dollars," Hovious said.
There are other potential lawsuit defendants who are believed to owe the city Convention Center funds, but the commission voted to hold off on naming other defendants in hopes of reaching a settlement compromise.
Through a series of tolling agreements, the city will retain the right to add other parties to the Catron lawsuit later.


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I installed
hamster-applet and
gnome-shell-extensions-hamster. But I can't see how to actually use it efficiently. It looks like this:
How can I start tracking time for a specific project from this "applet"?
Found an integration with the app-indicator in the bottom of the screen with instructions at http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/install-hamster-indicator-time-tracking.html
The Gnome shell integration is still lacking in Hamtster
there is 1 other project working on this at github that seems to be a bit further along than the official package
For official updates you can always follow the official blog at http://projecthamster.wordpress.com
So unfortunately there isn't a clean integration yet -- I've found that running the program as a stand alone works rather well - the default location is
Press Alt+F2 and paste that line in - should pop right up as a stand alone window
I don't know what it looks like on Gnome 3. What version are you using, with what Ubuntu version?
On Ubuntu Maverick, I've installed the latest version from git.
When I left-click on the applet in the panel, the applet looks like this:
It is a simple matter of entering the project name or whatever other name I want to provide, adding a possible tag, and hitting "enter". It then starts adding to my time for that project. I can see reports, etc, by doing a right-click on the applet in the panel, run reporting tools, export data in html, iCal, xml, python, etc.
In your case it looks like you just need to type in the project name and hit enter. Thay may be enough for you to track your time, and then use the stand-alone GUI for reporting etc. Again I'm not sure what else is different in the Gnome 3 GUI, or what exactly you're looking for, but the Project Hamster site has lots more info, and several ways to provide input or bug reports.


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Given the following command:
gzip -dc /cdrom/cdrom0/file.tar.gz | tar xvf –
What does the
- at the end of the command mean? Is it some kind of placeholder?
In this case, it means 'standard input'. It's used by some software (e.g.
In this instance, standard input is the argument to the
Don't rely on this to mean 'standard input' universally. Since it's not interpreted by the shell, every program is free to deal with it as it pleases. In some cases, it's standard output or something entirely different: on
In this case, the
GNU tar (the version on Linux) accepts its input from the standard input by default. If you do not want this behaviour, and want to pass the file name as a command line argument, then you need to specify the flag
So this is the same as
Or, if the input is gzipped as in your example:
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I'm going to travel in South America (Peru, Bolivia & Chile) for a month. Is travel health insurance necessary / a requirement?
I mean those kind of insurances for emergencies, so that if I recover in a local hospital I'm covered with the costs.
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Absolutely yes. Medical emergencies are one of the few things you definitely need to be insured against, as they can bankrupt most people. Since most regular health insurance policies don't cover treatments abroad, you need extra insurance.
Mere mortals usually think that travel-insurance is a really really good idea.
and / or
A personal experience:
On a visit to China I was bitten lightly by a friendly factory guard dog while playingh with it. (We were and remainded the best of friends).
I was introduced to the logical considerations of potential Rabies infection and its relative prevalence in China. I underwent a course of injections - 1st in China, two more a week apart as I subsequently travelled in Australia. Final one in NZ on my return home.
Total cost the better part of $1000.
Paid travel insurance would have cost me about 1/3 of the Rabies treatment costs.


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I want to borrow the vast amount of packages of R. I know there was one but it is neither sold nor supported anymore. So are there any active open source projects for linking R with Mathematica? Thank you.
Erich Neuwirth on MathGroup mentioned a solution for Windows (free for non-commercial applications) that you can download here.
Here is his example with small updates from Sasha and Mark Fisher. After downloading the R instalation and DCOM server stuff I tried it and it seems to work just fine.
Mathematica 9 includes an RLink feature.


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5 Apr 2012 5:12 AM #21
@worthlutz: Sorry, haven't got time to check this out for you, but maybe you can try this:
- copy the json to a static file on a server (something.json)
- point your proxy there
- see what happens if you remove elements that are not needed
This might not solve your problem directly (if you can't edit the service for example), but it might help the guys at Sencha figure this out if you can pinpoint what's causing the problem.
7 Apr 2012 10:43 PM #22
I have the same error with build 363 here you can recreate error:
- Create Json store
- Copy json file on root directory of designer project
- in proxy enter in url the name of json file (it's relative path)
- When i click load data in Store i have error JSON.stringify cannot serialize cyclic structures.
- If i put the complete URL: http://server/path/file.json it's work
- if i put a wrong file name in url field i have the same error
Hope that help
9 Apr 2012 3:40 PM #23
Thanks guys for sticking with me through this. I was finally able to reproduce the error and resolve the cause.
The reason I was not seeing the error was that it only happens if the proxy's XHR object gets an empty responseText -- I was getting non-empty responses so it would not happen.
Look for the fix in an upcoming update.Jason Johnston
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7 Nov 2012 3:23 PM #24
Could you please tell me where did you fix this bug, I dont want to migrate to 2.1, so I'd like to stay on 18.104.22.168.
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This was a bug in Architect that was fixed in April. It does not have anything to do with the touch version you are using.Aaron Conran


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Allerton Park was the private estate of Robert Henry Allerton, who donated it to the University of Illinois in 1946. It features 1,500 acres of woodlands, formal gardens and more than 100 sculptures. The park is open to the public for hiking, picnicking, cross-country skiing and leisurely garden strolls.
State park with hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and picnicking. Concession stand and boat rental available.
In operation since 1850, the farm features a blacksmith shop and Clydesdale horses. Chuck wagon cookouts are available.
Come visit this working Amish farm and apple orchard. They have a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, plus fresh honey, apple butter and maple syrup. A Deli filled with 15 different Country-Cured Meats & 24 different Cheeses is also available Monday - Saturday. While you're there, enjoy a hand-dipped ice cream cone. You can also find Fresh Baked Goods every Thursday - Saturday. Open year round.
Open year-round and offering annual and perennial flowers, mums, fall decor, pumpkins, squash, and fall treats. Known also for the 7 acre corn maze, haunted maze and mind twisted maze. School tours and groups welcome. Christmas trees and wreaths offered in winter months.
Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area
A 6,400-acre wildlife area on the north end of Lake Shelbyville. Hunting for waterfowl, forest and upland game is popular. Boat access is provided to accommodate anglers and hunters.
Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial
This is the site of Abraham Lincoln's first Illinois home. Bisected by the Sangamon River, the site also features picnicking and hiking.
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This family fun spot features an 18-hole miniature golf course and batting cages.
This campground has 81 campsites, most of which are shaded.
This nine-hole course is par 36/38.
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Most of the campsites in this 82 site campground are shaded. Located on Lake Shelbyville, beach nearby.
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Located on a serene wooded hilltop, gently slopes into a full-service marina and restaurant situated on Lake Shelbyville.
A favorite of walkers and hikers, this park offers year-round camping and scenic hiking trails, many of them hugging Lake Shelbyville, Eagle Creek has 163 vehicular campsites, with 148 of those being Class A sites with electricity, picnic tables, and showers. There are 56 sites available by reservations made at least 2 weeks in advance by mail.
18-hole golf course set in the countryside of Windsor. The Fox offers a golf experience for everyone from the casual golfer to those looking for a real challenge. The course was built on 160 acres of rolling farmland and woods in 1998. GPS ADDRESS: 1300 N 3050 E
Norton Knolls offers a nine-hole, par 34 course.
Wooded camp ground, 2½-acre pond, trails, some cabins and full hook-up.
Check out the store and bakery, where you can buy apples, peaches, cider, jams, jellies and apple butter. A playground and picnic area is available. An apple festival is held over Columbus Day weekend.
Explore 70 acres of prairie, wetlands and forest habitat.The Visitor Center features interpretive exhibits, sensory displays and live critters, including a bird observation area.
two miles of paved surface and 10 miles of aggregate surface. Jogging, walking, equestrian riding and biking permitted.
Spitler Woods State Natural Area
Two-thirds of the area is a dedicated nature preserve containing one of the few remaining stands of old-growth timber in Illinois. Two trails wind through the nature preserve, allowing the hiker to enjoy the unspoiled beauty of the forest.
CITY:Mount Zion
This orchard offers strawberries, peaches, apples, cider and other fresh in-season fruits.
Ride your bike or walk from Charleston to Mattoon on the Lincoln Prairie Grass Trail.
Enjoy the sparkling beauty of Lake Charleston, which features hiking and biking trails.


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Updates Emergency Response Management Procedures
Dear Colleagues,
September is National Preparedness Month, and I want to provide
you with a series of updates on the issue of emergency response
management at the University of New Hampshire.
The goal of National Preparedness Month is to increase public awareness
about the importance of preparing for emergencies and to encourage
individuals to take action, and given the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina, this increased awareness could not be more timely.
I recently approved the University's Emergency Operations
Plan which has been in development for more than a year. The plan
facilitates decision making, communication, and coordination of
response activities in the event of an emergency. It specifically
addresses how we respond to various levels of emergencies and is
comprehensive in its scope because, the more complex the emergency,
the more offices and municipalities will be involved. The plan was
developed under the able leadership of William Conk, Director of
Housing, and I thank him for his excellent work. The responsibility
for the implementation and regular updating of the plan has been
assigned to Brad Manning, Director of the Office of Environmental
Health and Safety (OEHS).
To assist campus departments in emergency planning efforts, OEHS
has developed a comprehensive Emergency Procedures Program (EPP).
The purpose of the EPP is to provide information that will save
lives during emergencies or disasters and hasten the resumption
of normal UNH operations after these events. The document outlines
procedures to be followed by the campus community for responding
to and recovering from a variety of emergency and disaster situations.
These events may include fires, hazardous material spills, medical
emergencies, bomb threats, or major accidents. Evacuation drills
for all campus buildings will be scheduled as a preparedness exercise.
Individual University departments looking for assistance should
contact OEHS at 862-4041.
Environmental Health and Safety has created an Emergency Preparedness
website that the campus community can access for information and
guidance. This site provides information on the steps UNH has already
taken for disaster preparedness, what our community can do to prepare
for emergencies, and how UNH will communicate disaster or emergency
information to the community. It can be viewed at: http://www.unh.edu/emergency.
I urge you all to go to the site so that in the event of an emergency
- you are familiar with navigating around the site so that you can
implement emergency recommendations for yourself and colleagues
in your area. The site covers a broad range of examples from inclement
weather to bomb threats.
Jennifer Murray, Vice President for Communications and Marketing,
has finalized a crisis communication plan. This communication plan
will be rolled out to first responders this month with the assistance
of UNH Media Relations and OEHS.
As we have learned from the past year, the campus is not immune
to emergency situations, whether they are fires, student life issues,
snowstorms, or chemical spills in one of our science laboratories.
We have competent and experienced first responders and other staff
who are specifically trained to address these emergencies. It is
our hope that with an emergency operations plan approved and in
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in the event of an emergency.
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10 Jan 2012 7:56 AM #1
Updating to build 237 freezes Designer
Last update says Update 1/1 complete. Please wait while the update installs.
And is just hanging there.
using Version 2.0.0 Build 237
Windows 7 64bit.
More details needed?
10 Jan 2012 9:56 AM #2
Just download the full installer, the old runtime can't successfully update to build 237. It's available in the pinned thread where I posted the download links.--
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10 Jan 2012 11:10 AM #3
I did a fresh install, seems to be working.
Note that my Controler class was jacked up by this upgrade.
The models, stores, and views params have changes GREATLY.
I am a little concerned that it seems to be using the ids now instead of the class names?
Also all the controlQuery params are quoted now, where I had quoted them manually before.
11 Jan 2012 9:11 AM #4
Same here - same situation, same OS.
11 Jan 2012 11:11 AM #5
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I have a dbf (and xls) that contains ~58,000 records of latitude and longitude for both start and end points. I would like to connect each XY coordinate pair using the XY to Line tool found inside the Data Management toolbox. I will be using the Great Circle method fyi.
The resultant shapefile contains ~16,000 records/polylines. As far as I can tell, there is no difference between processing the table inside or outside a file geodatabase.
Anyone have any thoughts as to why it may not be processing the entire table? This issue persists with both the dBaseIV and XLS file.


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I asked this question previously on math.stackexchange.com, where it had little traction.
Consider the symmetric random walk on $\{0,1,…,n\}$ with transition probabilities $P(j→j±1)=1/2$ for $0 < j < n$ and $P(0→0)=P(0→1)=P(n→n)=P(n→n−1)=1/2$. I am interested in the spectrum of the transition matrix (which is symmetric, hence the spectrum is real).
Mathematica suggests that the characteristic polynomial of the transition matrix is of the form $p_n(x)=(1−x)q_n(x)$, where $q_n$ is a polynomial that is odd / even iff $n−1$ is odd / even and that has only simple zeroes. Therefore, the spectrum appears to be a symmetric set of n points from the open unit interval, plus the point $λ=1$.
It occurs to me that this ought to be well known. In particular, the factors $q_n(x)$ in the characteristic polynomials ought to be special.
Does anybody know more?


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So how exactly does deals.woot make money?
I know that the most obvious answer will be be referrals, but how exactly are the referral tracks? Is deals.woot signed up with a company that tracks every time some links to a website? Do they get a fee for every website or just some?
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Sponsored deals. Referrals to their own Woot sites. Probably some affiliate programs with other sites.
@tsfisch: "some" as in, just about every user-posted deal has its link automatically reconstructed with woot's affiliate account information (mostly CJ)
Plus, of course, the standard advertisements on the side, which is how 99% of websites are able to stay alive.
I discovered the site that tracks deals.woot referrals and posted that one time before and my post got deleted. It's almost like Woot was trying to keep it secret so I'm not going to mention that actual site that does the tracking.
Anyway, the links go to a specific website before it goes to the link that you post (automatic redirects). That website is an affiliate tracking site that will give Woot credit for purchases made by you after you visited the site from the link created. Not all sites are part of the program so they do not get paid for all links but they do get paid for some.
Also, they get paid for the 5 sponsored links at the top of the page unless it's a woot owned deal like Moofi.
@cengland0: don't forget the advertising
@zyxomma100: That's what I was going to say. This morning I went to Snopes to get a link to debunk something someone at work sent me, and I noticed all the overblown and ridiculous ads on their site. One was in the middle of a page I was reading and I thought it was an example of what they were debunking, but it turned out to be an ad. I thought it was a silly place for those folks to advertise, since the site is specifically aimed at people who are skeptical of what they read online. It would seem like Snopes would attract more conservative advertisers.
@zyxomma100 and @moondrake: I never see any advertisements on woot. I use Adblock Plus and it does a good job of stripping those out on all sites. I didn't even know there were ads displayed until you said so.
@cengland0: I don't mind them. They are keyed to the topics on the page so a few times there have been useful ads related to the subjects being discussed. Other times they can be funny, like when we are talking about something being a bad product, and the product has an ad right there beside the discussion. It reminds me of once when I was a kid and I was watching the original Poseidon Adventure. At the scene where the ship rolls over, right when the piano falls into the lighting fixture on the ceiling, the TV cut to a commercial for a cruise line. Worst ad placement I'd ever seen. But now with virtual robots doing the ad placement based on key words you see really dumb ad placements all the time.
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Amazon has set up data centers in Australia to supply its cloud services to Australia-based businesses and global companies with customers in Australia.
It'll be Amazon Web Services' ninth region, the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and the third Region in Asia Pacific after the Singapore and Tokyo Regions.
The new Sydney Region consists initially of two separate Availability Zones.
AWS senior VP Andy Jassy said in a statement that AWS had over 10,000 customers in Australia and New Zealand before opening the new centers. "With the ability to achieve single-digit millisecond latency to end users in Sydney, store data locally in Australia, and get to market more quickly and inexpensively by using AWS's infrastructure," he said, the company is expecting to add more customers.
Amazon will be adding a local technical support operation in Australia early next year.
See http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/asia-pacific-sydney-region-open.html.
There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2016 Silicon Valley. The 19th Cloud Expo and 6th @ThingsExpo will take place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it," stated Roger Strukhoff. "More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Interne...
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides modern company intranets and team collaboration software, allowing workers to stay connected and productive from anywhere in the world and from any device.
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The IETF draft standard for M2M certificates is a security solution specifically designed for the demanding needs of IoT/M2M applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian Romansky, VP of Strategic Technology at TrustPoint Innovation, explained how M2M certificates can efficiently enable confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity on highly constrained devices.
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"We've discovered that after shows 80% if leads that people get, 80% of the conversations end up on the show floor, meaning people forget about it, people forget who they talk to, people forget that there are actual business opportunities to be had here so we try to help out and keep the conversations going," explained Jeff Mesnik, Founder and President of ContentMX, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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When people aren't talking about VMs and containers, they're talking about serverless architecture. Serverless is about no maintenance. It means you are not worried about low-level infrastructural and operational details. An event-driven serverless platform is a great use case for IoT. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Animesh Singh, an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, will detail how to build a distributed serverless, polyglot, microservices framework using open source tec...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session held at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah this afternoon. At the outset, the King briefed the Cabinet on his contacts last week with foreign leaders, including a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II and a message from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.
After listening to a number of reports on current events in the Arab world, the Cabinet stressed the importance of achieving security and stability in the region, stemming bloodshed, and putting national interests above personal goals.
Addressing international efforts to revive the Mideast Peace Process, the ministers welcomed a proposal put forward by France to launch Palestinian-Israeli negotiations based on a withdrawal to 1967 borders, with the goal of establishing an independent Palestinian within a timetable not to exceed one year.
The Cabinet also congratulated United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who was recently re-elected to serve another term, wishing him success in carrying out his duties to work for peace, security and stability for the world's people.
Turning to domestic affairs, the Cabinet congratulated the Kingdom's newest graduates and pointed out King Abdullah's efforts to provide opportunities for them to enroll in institutes of higher education or to secure employment.
Regarding its weekly agenda, the Cabinet approved payments scales and allowances for health and military employees; approved the allocation of housing for physicians and dentists; approved a request to add the Director General of Anti-Narcotics to the membership of the National Committee of Anti-Narcotics; authorized the Minister of Justice to sign a draft agreement in the domain of judicial relations between the Saudi Ministry of Justice and the French Ministry of Justice; and approved amending the National Plan to Respond to Radioactive and Nuclear Emergencies (NPRRNE).
Finally, the Cabinet approved the appointments of Yousuf bin Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Khizaim as plenipotentiary minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Adnan bin Mahmud bin Muhammad Bustaji as plenipotentiary minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nasser bin Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Dahmash as Secretary General of Court at the Ministry of Justice; and Dr. Marwan bin Hassan bin Muhammad Ismail as Legal Counselor at the Secretariat General of the Cabinet. All the appointments were made at the 14th rank.
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I hope this is a stupid question [with an obvious answer that I am missing] ...
My email services have suddenly stopped working and nothing I do seems to affect the problem.
Existing mail accounts are broken. New mail accounts can't be created because the account "fails to access the [specified email server]. This happens on my local servers and on external servers.
This happens on both of my local machines, one running Leopard Server and the other running Snow Leopard Server.
The Network Utility ping function succeeds with "support.apple.com" but fails on "apple.com"
How could one work, but not the other? Is this even related to my problem?


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Taunton Swaim Wins 4-Cylinder Nationals At CGS; Completes Races Despite Threatening Weather
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Despite threatening weather and a heavy shower in the middle of hot laps Cottage Grove Speedway was able to complete all of the events scheduled for Saturday May 17th. The historic ¼-mile clay oval hosted their first ever 4-Cylinder Nationals and it was also one of this year's Pepsi Family Nights. Classes in action included the Hornets, Northwest Extreme Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, and Street Stocks.
The Hornets were the evening's headliner class as they competed for the title of the 4-Cylinder Nationals. A decent car count was on hand and a great race was contested for the thirty-lap feature. Dexter's Taunton Swaim would take full advantage of his front row starting position to seize the lead in the Randy Kuhl owned Bigg Dogg Recycling/DT Machine & Fab/Big B Tire/More of Everything Racing Collectibles #17 Toyota Tacoma.
However he would lose the top spot to James Deatherage from Cottage Grove on lap five. Deatherage would set a quick pace in the D&D Automotive/Furniture Options/A-1 Auto Supply/Harris Machine & Design #7D Chevy Cavalier but unfortunately he would lose his right front tire and wheel on lap eleven. That would give the lead to Springfield native K.C. Scott in the Dr. Vape Products/T.L. Morgan Motors/Dalton Carpet #30 Mazda Protégé. Scott would lead for several laps but on lap seventeen Taunton Swaim would reclaim the lead. Swaim would stay out front for the rest of the distance to pick up his second feature victory in as many starts.
K.C. Scott was a respectable second followed by the Maricle Stainless #11 Honda Civic DX of Joe Maricle from Veneta in third. Chris Pierce of Cottage Grove was fourth driving the Micah Parham owned Bigg Dogg Recycling #28 Mitsubishi Mirage and behind him was Eric Cooper from Cottage Grove in fifth in the Eastside Rollforming Specialties #32 entry.
Despite having some smoke occasionally puff out of the power plant Danny Horner was able to return to his winning ways in the Northwest Extreme Sprints. Horner, from Cottage Grove, got the lead on lap two and would set the pace for the rest of the distance to earn his first win of his career since 2006 for him and the Horner's Inc./BC Motorsports/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply #75H Maxim team.
Raquel Ivie of Eugene was the runner-up finisher in her Three Rivers Casino & Hotel/Bi-Mart/Brook's Cut Rate Auto Parts/More of Everything Racing Collectibles #70 Maxim while third place was the Redmond Trucking #12 J&J of Orion Redmond from Roseburg after starting in the back of the field. Crossing the line in fourth was the Dave Hibbard of Medford in his C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments/Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators/Southern Oregon Veterans Benefit #3 Zeitler Brothers with the Griffith Family Racing #21 Gambler of Fall Creek's Mike Griffith entry in fifth.
In IMCA Modified action it was a fantastic main event as the Furniture Options #84 machine of Eric Ashley from Jasper would lead the early goings. Unfortunately on lap five Ashley and Jacksonville's Mark Wauge would get together racing for the lead out of turn four with several top five drivers getting caught up in the incident bringing out a caution.
On the restart Wauge would set the pace in his Dog House Racing/Payroll Specialties/Hoppes Construction/Rodgers Racing Engines #M1 Impressive and built a sizeable lead only to have it be cut down due to a caution on lap seventeen. On the ensuing restart Wauge would continue to stay out in front but Cottage Grove's Braedon Hand would begin to apply some pressure on him.
Hand would make a bonsai pass for the lead on lap twenty-one and managed to obtain the position. He would lead the rest of the distance in his D&D Automotive/KNND 1400 AM/Vintage Inn Family Restaurant #5 Shaw by SDMF to earn his second feature victory of 2014 at CGS.
Mark Wauge would finish in second while Vernon "Bubba" Foster from Dayton was third in his Busy Bee Cleaning/Pam Pam's Auto Wrecking/JB Printing & Graphics #68 Allen entry. David Schmidt of Eugene was fourth in the EMS Truck Repair/Cindy-Sew-It/Oregon Concealed Training #9 Pro and behind him in fifth was the Marty's Transmissions/All-In-Property Investments/Baldwin Motorsports #01 FR1 of Sandy's Chris Hallberg.
It was pure domination by Justin Evans of Lebanon in the Street Stock main. Evans would capture the lead on lap two and simply checked out from the rest of the field. Leading the remainder of the distance Evans would put the Al Flora owned Albie's Medical Transport/Allied Medical Transport/Monty's Racing Repair #99 Cougar in victory lane for the second time this season.
Ethan Landers from Bend was the runner-up finisher driving his Swan & Sons Woodworking/Smart Solutions #17Z Camaro mount followed by the Nathan Anderson Dentistry/Platinum Hair of Creswell #00 Nova of Darryl Crooks in third. Completing the finishing order was the Henderson Racing #0 Nova of Cottage Grove's Mark Henderson.
Two nights of racing are on tap for the Cottage Grove Speedway next Saturday May 24th and Sunday the 25th. Classes for both nights will feature the American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region, Northwest Extreme Sprints, and Vintage Cars.
For each night the Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 4:00, and Racing starts at 6:45. Ticket prices per event are Adults $15.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $13.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $8.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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Saturday May 17th, 2014
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NW Extreme Sprints
A Feature: 1. 75H-Danny Horner; 2. 70-Raquel Ivie; 3. 12-Orion Redmond; 4. 3-David Hibbard; 5. 21-Mike Griffith; 6. 4-Jesse Thistle; 7. 57-Dusty Redmond; 8. 5D-Patrick Dills
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature: 1. 5-Braedon Hand; 2. M1-Mark Wauge; 3. 68-Bubba Foster; 4. 9-David Schmidt; 5. 01-Chris Hallberg; 6. 84-Eric Ashley; 7. 15B-Tanner Baldwin; 8. 11-Steven Sturdevant; 9. 74-Ricky Ashley; 10. W6-Kevin Williamson; DNS 5M-Jake Mayden; DNS 24-Kevin Hewitt
Street Stocks
A Feature: 1. 99-Justin Evans; 2. 17Z-Ethan Landers; 3. 00-Darryl Crooks; 4. 0-Mark Henderson
A Feature: 1. 17-Taunton Swaim; 2. 30-K.C. Scott; 3. 11-Joe Maricle; 4. 28-Chris Pierce; 5. 32-Eric Cooper; 6. 89-Jim Simmons; 7. 7D-James Deatherage; 8. 51-Jason Nelson; 9. 48-Mike Swaim; DNS 7-Josh Corley; DNS 23F-Marcel Forte; DNS 98-Matthew Woodward
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Many Days at the Races
Neil Latham's study of racehorses, shot at rare proximity and at all hours, reminds a longtime racing fan of the animals' majesty.
May 4, 2016, Wednesday
Trudging to the Train, Gathering Tales
The opposing human tides slipped past each other on Newkirk Avenue this morning, heads bent, feet sliding, people in possession of bad news and people about to get it. No Q train service. No B train service. No explanation. No excuses. No...
December 29, 2010, Wednesday
Misery and Hope by the Snowflake
A morning's slog through Brooklyn from Flatbush to Kensington in search of a functioning subway station: a journey through the heart of the human urban condition.
December 28, 2010, Tuesday
The Thrilla Continues to Thrill
Remembrance of fists past: a documentary on Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier awakens memories of a much-hyped fight in Manila.
April 5, 2009, Sunday
Wandering Canine Gives Train Riders a Tail of the City
The Q train announcement was, actually, decipherable. That's not to say it was easy to comprehend.
September 20, 2006, Wednesday
Tales of the City: Dog on the Track
Routine subway delays had conditioned Q train riders to most anything. But a dog on the tracks seemed different.
September 19, 2006, Tuesday
With Government on TV, Citizens Play Their Parts
Prospective jurors inside State Supreme Court in Brooklyn largely ignored television screens carrying the confirmation hearing of Judge John G. Roberts Jr.
September 15, 2005, Thursday
Personal Accounts of a Morning Rush That Became the Unthinkable
In a Word: Terror As he ran down the stairwell at 1 World Trade Center, Michael Sheehan could smell the fumes of jet fuel that had begun to filter through the ventilation systems of the two buildings minutes after the first plane crashed into...
September 12, 2001, Wednesday
As Temperatures Rise, a Neighborhood Getaway Beckons
It was 11:13 in the morning on Wednesday, and the temperature was 88 degrees and climbing. Samuel Marrow, 74, had risen with the sun, but now he wanted out of it. And so, as he had over the course of the last 51 summers, he walked down Quincy Street...
August 1, 1999, Sunday
Ideas & Trends: Don't Shoot; The Culture of Cops and Guns
THE statistics do not hit with, say, deadly force. But they do have the power to stun slightly, at least for a public soaked in television police dramas: it turns out that police across the country do not fire their guns much -- in a single day or a...
January 11, 1998, Sunday
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How to Pull Off a Twisted Side Fro Hawk
Everything you need to know to achieve this edgy natural style
When we say styling natural hair takes time, effort and patience, we mean it. But would our favorite naturalistas change it for the world? Not a chance. Take YouTube phenom Helecia, otherwise known as iKnowlee on her channel. Famous for her braid outs, twist outs, updos and other natural hair video tutorials, this girl has racked up nearly 100,000 subscribers. One of the signature looks we're loving: her twisted side fro hawk.
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Is Feeding Birds "For the Birds"?
One in five Americans considers himself or herself a "bird watcher," according to a report published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last summer. Going by the report's guidelines, in order to qualify as a "bird watcher," you either had to have taken a trip one mile or more away from home for the primary purpose of watching birds, or you had to have closely observed birds around your house. If you mostly spotted birds passively — while mowing the yard, for example, or while at a zoo — you would not be counted as a "bird watcher."