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CONOVER, N.C. (AP) – The first impression Tom Lehman had of the Greater Hickory Classic course came from looking at past tournament scores.
The 53-year-old thought it was an easy course.
Then after he played his first practice round earlier this week on the course designed by Robert Trent Jones, the former British Open champion quickly changed his mind.
"I was seeing a bunch of low scores here, so I figured this course must be easy,'' Lehman, who has four PGA Tour victories in addition to his 1996 British Open title, said Thursday. "But I've found the last two days that it's anything but easy. It's playing fairly long and the greens are really fast. The other players are saying the greens are the fastest they've ever seen them play.
"It's quite a test. … I like it. To say I'm impressed is a real understatement.''
Lehman enters this week's PGA Champions Tour event, which begins Friday, trailing Bernhard Langer by 69 points in the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
Langer, 55, took over the points lead after rallying from six strokes down to win last week's Champions Tour event in Cary, N.C., ending Lehman's eight-week run as the leader.
"I've actually played very solid throughout the whole year,'' said Langer, a two-time Masters champion who has 16 career victories on the 50-and-over tour. "I've been very consistent; it's probably been one of my most consistent years.''
Both players are looking to win the Charles Schwab Cup and its $1 million annuity for the second time in their careers. Lehman is the defending champion and could become the first player to win the title in back-to-back years, while Langer won the prize in 2010.
However, with just two tournaments remaining – in San Antonio in two weeks, followed by the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Scottsdale, Ariz., Nov. 1-4 – after the Greater Hickory Classic, a bad weekend here could let Lehman close in or Langer pull further ahead.
"There isn't any way you can lock it up, no matter who you are,'' said Lehman, who has one win (at Shoal Creek, Ala., in June) and 10 top 10s in 16 events this season. "But you can certainly do yourself a favor by playing well.''
Both players head into this weekend's tournament on a roll. In addition to winning twice, Langer has finished in the top 10 in 11 of his last 12 starts, while Lehman has seven top 10s in his last eight tournaments.
"I'm not afraid of'' a letdown, said Langer, who ended a 17-month winless stretch with his victory at Blaine, Minn., in August. "I'm just going to play my own game and hopefully continue to play well. If Tom or somebody else plays that much better, then hats off to them.
"I can't control anybody else; I'm just trying to play as good as I can, Langer said. He added that if he can play like he did in the final round at Cary, when he shot a 9-under-par 63, "I can compete with anybody at the highest level.''


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Swede softball squad now at 10-2 with Scottsbluff title
Gothenburg rated sixth in Class C.
Gothenburg softball players had little time to celebrate a victory over McCook Thursday with a 4:20 a.m. departure for the Scottsbluff Invitational the next day.
The Swedes battled four Class B teams and came away with four wins and the invitational championship in action Friday and Saturday.
Gothenburg puts its 10-2 record on the line Thursday when the team travels to Holdrege.
The Swedes face an entire lineup of unfamiliar teams Saturday at the Grand Island Northwest tournament. With Gothenburg being the lone squad with a winning record, the Swedes will have to be sharp to avoid an upset.
Other schools in the tournament include Adams Central, Aurora, Boone Central, Central City, High Plains and York.
The Swedes open against Boone Central at 10:45 a.m. The next game is set for 12:30 p.m. if they lose and 2:15 p.m. if they win.
One is just fine for Swedes
The Swedes scored all that was needed in the first inning against Gering.
That one run remained the advantage through the final out.
Surprisingly, Gothenburg coach Roger Neujahr said he felt confident of a victory throughout the contest, despite not much of a cushion.
Bre Messersmith hit a one-out double in the first frame. Courtesy runner Payton Prall scored on Vanessa Linegar's single.
Gothenburg couldn't take advantage of Shelby Eggleston's triple in the third inning, nor her double in the fifth. Nevermind, it wasn't needed.
Two Swede pitchers held the Bulldogs to just four hits with each coming in separate innings. Gering put a runner at third twice, but one was put out and the other was stranded.
Messersmith went five innings on the mound and Amanda Barkmeier pitched two frames. Both gave up two hits and didn't walk a batter.
Eggleston, with her double and triple, started what would be a four-game barrage going 6-for-8 in the tournament.
Alliance troubles continue
Facing 0-10 Alliance in the second round, Neujahr elected to sit five varsity players. Even that didn't have much effect on the outcome with Gothenburg winning 12-0 in a game shortened to three innings.
The Bulldogs are having a tough season averaging less than a run a game while giving up 17 per contest.
The Swedes increased their scoring output in each inning after starting with a three-run first frame. Consecutive singles by Roni Putnam, Ali Abramson and Jordyn Haake sparked the rally.
Three walks and an error along with two singles paved the way for a four-run second inning.
The score grew to 12 with a five-run third. Alisha Ballmer's double was the big hit of the inning.
Amanda Barkmeier pitched for the victory giving up three hits while striking out five and walking none.
Swedes beat hosts at start
The Swede coach was concerned that the early departure Friday would catch up with his players Saturday morning.
"We were sluggish, but we stressed that to the kids (before the game) and they had a great warm-up," Neujahr said.
A five-run first inning gave Gothenburg a lead that the Bearcats couldn't overcome.
Both teams had hitting success. Gothenburg stroked 11 hits, including four doubles, while Scottsbluff had nine hits.
The Bearcats scored a single run to open the top of the first.
Roni Putnam and Karen Franzen each hit a double to pace the scoring burst in the bottom of the inning.
Vanessa Linegar popped a RBI double in the second inning.
Taylor Wolf reached on a fielder's choice and then scored on Ali Abramson's ground out to the pitcher in the third.
Scottsbluff edged closer with two runs in the fifth inning.
Abramson scored the final run for Gothenburg in the sixth inning. She singled and later came home on a double by Shelby Eggleston.
Squeezing out some runs
Gothenburg "squeezed" out an 11-2 victory over Chadron in the Swedes' final game of the tournament.
Four suicide squeeze bunt plays—where the runner at third heads home on the pitch relying on the batter to lay down a bunt—in the second inning were all successful.
Neujahr, who likes to manufacture runs, said the team has been successful on all but one suicide squeeze attempt this season. That is attributed to good base-running and batters up and down the lineup who can put down a bunt successfully when getting the sign.
The successful squeeze plays came after each team scored a single run in the opening frame. Gothenburg's eight-run second blew open the game. Six hits and three walks contributed to the scoring explosion.
The Cardinals managed another run in the fifth, but Gothenburg answered with two more in the bottom of the inning before the game ended early after five.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Darren Mattocks and his future with Vancouver Whitecaps FC have been big talking points since his bizarre appearance last month on Jamaican TV.
The striker has since apologized to the club and to fans via Twitter, and on Monday the reconciliation between player and club took another step with new head coach Carl Robinson suggesting the Jamaican speedster will get a fresh start when preseason begins in January.
"Darren's a fantastic individual," Robinson said of the 23-year-old striker during a press conference which unveiled him as the new head coach of Whitecaps FC. "I know Darren's footballing ability and I know what makes Darren tick and what doesn't make Darren tick.
"So, come the first day at training camp I will be hard on Darren because I know he's got so much potential. I said from the outset, it's my job to unlock the potential of the young players and Darren certainly has got that. I look forward to that challenge because I have a good relationship with Darren. I know he can score goals but it's getting him right. He wants to reach for the stars and I want to help him get to the stars."
There's no doubt Mattocks has vast potential – he topped MLSsoccer.com's 24 Under 24 list in 2012 after a rookie season which saw him bag seven goals in 15 starts and add a goal in Vancouver's lone playoff game that season against the eventual MLS Cup champion LA Galaxy.
This past season was a different story, however, with Mattocks starting four games consecutively before falling off the map altogether – Mattocks didn't start back-to-back matches again for the rest of the season.
Whether it was a poor individual season or a case of mismanagement is up for debate, but the end result was a year which was disappointing for both sides, with Mattocks notching just three goals and an assist from 20 appearances.
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But, it appears 2014 will be a fresh slate for the athletic attacker – after he makes amends in person.
"When he comes back, we'll sort that out... you can't make those kinds of comments and assume it's going to be swept under the carpet," club president Bob Lenarduzzi said Monday. "Having said that, in my conversation with him, he was very apologetic and assured me that wouldn't be happening again.
"When he gets back, we'll move on. I know that he feels he's going to need to come back, get his head down and work hard."
Martin MacMahon covers Vancouver Whitecaps FC for MLSsoccer.com.


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NATO force movement must grow faster, evaluates Estonian Defence Ministry
The pace of movement of NATO forces in Europe should be faster, the Estonian Ministry of Defence evaluated after a visit by the head of the U.S. Transport Command.
Estonian public broadcaster ERR reports that Gen. Darren McDew heads the U.S. Transport Command, the United States' global defence logistics system and its services cover air, sea, and land transport, also moving American military equipment in Europe.
After meeting the Gen. McDew last week, the Secretary-general of the Estonian Ministry of Defence, Jonatan Vseviov commented: «We have to make the transport of forces faster, and this requires the necessary planning, infrastructure development, and simplification of the bureaucracy. With regard to the latter we see great potential in the EU».
As part of the visit, the U.S. general also discussed current issues with the Deputy Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Brig. Gen. Indrek Sirel, visited the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the the Ämari air force base.
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The Driver franchise has been sort of forgotten in recent years. After Driv3r, it sort of faded into the background, overshadowed by games like Grand Theft Auto and Burnout. Perhaps that is the reason Driver: San Francisco is going in such a different direction. Oddly enough, Driver: San Francisco is staying rather mum about the biggest mechanic, which is not mentioned in the title of the game or the trailer video. You still play as undercover officer Tanner, but you're playing … as his disembodied spirit. After an accident leaves him in a coma, Tanner continues to fight crime and battle his archenemy Jericho from beyond the realm of mortals. It's odd for Driver to take a jump into the supernatural, but this also gives it the chance to do something that no other game can.
The thing that really makes Driver: San Francisco stand out is the Shift feature, which is a little difficult to explain, so please bear with me. Instead of controlling a driver, you're playing as a disembodied spirit that can possess cars. It's more than a little weird, but it lends itself to very unusual game mechanics. You can switch cars at any time during the game as long as your Shift meter is full. You are drawn out of the car and hover around as a ghost. At this point, you can highlight any other car, click the button, and instantly be in control of the new car. This lets you quickly switch cars during a car chase. If an enemy gets away from you, you don't need to waste time catching up with him. Just Shift to a nearby car and continue the chase as if nothing had happened.
We tried Shift in Tag mode, one of the multiplayer modes. At the start of the match, an NPC car is carrying a tag marker. Whoever touches that car first, whether it's a light tap or a brutal ram, will get the tag marker. From that point on, the car earns a point every couple of seconds, but if someone else rams it, he'll get the tag marker and begin to earn points. Whoever reaches 100 points is the winner. It's straightforward enough until you take Shift into account. Every character in multiplayer has the ability to Shift, so they can change cars at any point. The exception is that whoever has the tag marker is stuck and cannot Shift. This puts you at a distinct disadvantage when you're "it" because you're in one car and your opponents are every other car in the city.
Shift made Tag mode into an incredibly intense experience. In most racing games, getting the tag and throwing off your pursuers would be enough to win, but here, that's not possible. Once you have the tag marker, you're treated to the odd sight of cars being possessed all around you. You might be driving down the road when an adjacent car flashes red, hits a turbo boost and rams into you. You might be zooming down the highway when you see two or three cars suddenly change direction and zoom toward you down the opposite lane. There is never a quiet moment in the game, you're never safe, you're never secure, and you can never assume that your enemies are far off. It makes the entire experience heart-poundingly insane. The close calls and near-misses are constant, and keeping hold of the tag marker long enough to reach 100 points is much more difficult than it sounds.
That isn't to say that you can't turn this to your favor, but it requires more thought. San Francisco is a pretty big place, and the people mostly obey the rules of the road. This means that back alleys and hidden paths can take you to places where cars don't drive, so your opponents are less able to surprise you. In the demo, this trick came with its own risks. Most of the side paths are not meant to be driven on, so it's easy to crash into a wall or get stuck in a corner in these areas. This means that you'll make easy prey for any enemy who finds and follows you. It's neat because it makes you analyze your surroundings instead of merely utilizing the fastest routes. Driving along a highway lets you hit high speed, but it also surrounds you with potential enemies, and that's not something you can afford in a close game. It's also important to keep an eye on the cars. Jumping into a car near the enemy isn't going to be very useful if you jump into a slow jalopy and he's driving a top-of-the-line sports car.
At first glance, Driver: San Francisco looks like a generic action/racing game, but the Shift mechanic makes it play like absolutely nothing else on the market. Being able to switch cars at the touch of a button keeps the action far more intense than any other car action game on the market. You might not have machine guns or rocket launchers, but you're never safe, even for a moment. It's a curious mechanic because it almost all but eliminates downtime. You'll never be too far behind to make a comeback. The brief time I spent with Driver: San Francisco's multiplayer mode was some of the most fun I've had with a racing game. If the main game can maintain that amazing intensity, it might be exactly what the franchise needs to stand out among its competitors.
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To some they are trash, rusting in yards and crumbling in fields. To others they are heirlooms, treasures of a time past, reminders of what was.
Trash or treasures, though, removal of the thousands of junked vehicles scattered about Nikiski is a top priority for the area's community council, according to its action plan. The ongoing endeavour is also part of the council's effort to improve the community's image.
"There's people living in absolute filth with their yards cluttered the way they are," Council President Fred Miller said. "Hopefully we can offer an opportunity for people to say, 'Hey, can you help me? We don't have the money to get rid of all this stuff.'"
The vehicles are also a potential threat to the environment, said Steve Russell, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation environmental program manager for prevention and emergency response. Russell said while the vehicles do not pose an immediate threat to Nikiski's groundwater reserves, due to their broad distribution, they could damage plant and animal life with long-term leaking fluids.
On the state level, there is nothing profound about Nikiski's junked car collections, said Lori Aldrich, DEC solid waste program regional coordinator. But, for areas with council ordinances addressing the matter, Nikiski ranks high.
In December the council ratified the community's action plan, which sent $100,000 in a state grant and $27,756 in a community revenue sharing grant to its Junk Car Removal Project. Already the council has spent four years and $53,000 in state grants hauling roughly 300 abandoned vehicles from woods, fields and yards.
But there are still more, said Charlie Rediske, owner of Reddi Towing and Junk Car, the towing company that removes the cars.
"You get up in a small plane and fly over the area, and you'd be surprised, especially in the summer time. It's like glitter," he said. "There's cars everywhere. It doesn't seem like you've done much."
From the Sleepers Trailer Court — once a retrofitted junk yard — Rediske said he has likely hauled about 2,000 cars. And that location, he said, probably held about 4,000.
But clearing the cars from Nikiski needs to be done delicately, Miller said.
"I just can't walk onto someone's property and say, 'Hey, you got potential ground water contamination here for your neighbor.' I mean, he's going to shoot me off with a shotgun," he said.
The owners of the cars, or those that inherited the vehicles with their property, do have to nominate them for removal, Miller said.
Often property owners are thrilled to see the junked cars go, Rediske said.
"In fact, I get wives who are waiting for their husbands to leave so they can call me," he said. "You got to be pretty careful; you can get some pissed-off people."
But there are also those who do not see the rusting wreckage as front-yard flotsam.
"You read about these guys," Miller said. "I got to laugh, but they said they remember Gramp going over to Grandfather's house and, anytime something of Grandfather's broke down, he'd just go rummage around the yard until he found the part that he needed.
"So there's this mindset that these things are these little treasure piles, and of course as people get older or they pass away or move on, you get all these legacy deposits."
Those "legacy deposits," he said, for many are vestiges of the homesteading era, when families in the 1950s and '60s would collect the family, pack the truck and drive north into a land unknown.
The McGahans are one of those families. Dale McGahan and his two parents and eight siblings left from Michigan when the government closed their farm. They drove to the end of the road.
When McGahan was 17, after his family had settled on their claim, he bought what was at the time the fastest car on the Peninsula, he said — a 1957 Chevy with a 283 V8 engine.
He drove it at high speeds down the Peninsula's graveled and potholed roads for three years, he said, until the transmission blew out and he had to lay it to rest in the field behind the house.
In those days in Alaska, he said, automobiles were so cheap and money was so plentiful that replacing a car was a causal investment. And, a new car meant old parts from the leftovers.
With "the type of roads out here, the gravel roads, I was buying a new car every year," he said. "A new car or a new pickup. It was rough on the equipment. I drove them like a madman because I was young."
So his '57 Chevy sat there, for 40 years, and he moved on. He bought other automobiles — a 1960 Plymouth Fury, Ford pickups, more cars — and the Chevy slowly crumbled into the ground and the grass grew tall.
In that same field four other vehicles still collect rust. And on his brother's property are probably nearly 200 various vehicles, some with trees jutting through them.
Some of the vehicles collected by the McGahans — including that '57 Chevy — have been restored. Others have been sold for their parts.
"My five brothers, well, they had to park a rig or two up there, too," Dale McGahan said.
When McGahan looks at the trucks, cars, graters, busses and tractors he recalls his homesteading days.
"It's really sentimental value just where they are," he said, "because they were there when we were young and kids. You go down there and look back. It brings back memories."
Like the time he bought three cars off of Skip White's father for $25. Or how he and his brothers and sisters used to use the hoods from old cars to sled down hills. How he used to run into snow banks to get his brother's nose out of books when they were driving together.
Or of the time he met his wife outside the movie theater in his '57 Chevy. He said he rolled down his window to say hello, but she kept walking, he said. Then she turned around.
"Nice car," she told him. He said that's when he knew he had a chance.
"Those were good memories," he said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals won baseball's first wild-card playoff, taking advantage of a disputed infield fly call that led to a protest and fans littering the field with debris to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-3 Friday.
Matt Holliday homered and the defending World Series champion Cardinals benefited from three Braves errors. St. Louis advanced to play Washington in the division series starting Sunday.
Chipper Jones played his final game for the Braves, and made a crucial throwing error in the fourth inning that led to three runs.
But the first game in the majors' new postseason round — and one-and-done matchup — will be remembered forever for a wild play in the eighth on a shallow fly to left field.


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In this feature we catch up with one of the most up and coming talents of windsurfing, Alessio Lucca Stillrich and size him up against someone who is showing a level of talent like never before seen in freestyle skiing, Luca Tribondeau. We caught up with the two of them and fired them a similar set of questions to see if the minds of these two young action sports stars of the future think in similar ways.
THE FREESKIIER - Luca Tribondeau
Short Bio:
Name – Luca Tribondeau
D.o.B – 03.08.1996
Years skiing – 13 years, 3 years racing, 4 years freeskiing
Years competing – 6 years (3 race, 3 Freeskiing)
Number of competition entered –Don´t know...
Highest level competition entered – Will take part at the Jon Olsson Invitational soon, where the level is same as for example at the X-Games.
Best result (what competition) – 5th Place Red Bull Playstreets, 2nd Place Springgingerle Invitational Kronplatz.
Most memorable skiing moment – Triple Cork 1440
Sponsors – Atomic, Colmar, Blue Tomato, Yniq.
BS: How did you get into your sport?
LT: I started Freeskiing when I was 12 years old, because of my brother, because I always wanted to do the same things as he.
BS: Did it take long before your sponsors spotted you?
LT: Not really, because I skied one year without any future expectations and competing but in the upcoming season I decided that that is the sport where I want to be successful in and I started off winning my first Slopestyle Competition.
BS: Why did you choose skiing?
LT: Well, I started skiing when I was 3 years old and never did any other sports that consequent as some kind of wintersports and skiing was the most fun part for me!
LT: Being in the nature and you can do what you want! There are so many things which are awesome but definitely one of the best feelings is, when you land a crazy new trick!
BS: Where do you rank on a national/international level and what are your aims for the this/next season?
LT: I won the Austrian Champonships this year so national there are no more higher things to do, but international its really difficult to say, because now I have the triple cork 1440 on my repertoire and that is for example a 3 place at X-Games this year. Everything can change so quick in our young sport.
BS: How does competition work in your discipline and do you get nervous at all?
LT: I love competing and also for me it seems like my skiing gets better when I'm skiing with some kind of pressure! Everybody gets nervous when it comes to big things, but I'm a guy, I don't care to much if it is a competition or if it is just training!
BS: Most amount of prize money available for best competition that you have entered?
LT: Its always like 5000-10000 Euros.
BS: When the season ends, what do you do to keep training?
LT: When the season is over, than it is time for me to hit the water-ramps and work on new tricks for the upcoming winter! Beside that, I spend a lot of the time in the gym to keep my body strong. That's one of the most important things you have to do, because that's the reason that I haven't ever had any injuries regarding skiing!
BS: Do you do any other sports? How are you getting on in them?
LT: I really like windsurfing, but it's all about fun for me! I'm not competing or challenging in any other sports at the moment than skiing! That would be way to stressful for sure!
BS: Is it important to focus purely on your number one sport or to mix it up?
LT: If you're a professional athlete its definitely important to focus on one sport! I mean, I can't imagine doing something different than skiing!
BS: What are your aims for the 3-5 years? World champion? X-games?
LT: Staying injury free and have tons of fun at what I'm doing! I think everything else comes from this and just following the path of progression! A big thing for me are the Olympics in Sochi 2014 but also X-Games and other huge competitions are definitely my plan!
BS: What's the best move name you've heard of and what would you name a new move if you had a chance to?
LT: Kangaroo Flip is definitely my favourite one! That's a tough question, but I think I would not be to creative!
BS: Who is your idol?
LT: Jon Olsson is my biggest idol, because he is the absolute Star in the Freeski scene and he is such a nice guy! He is helping me a lot since about 2 years now which is un-payable! There are many other guys, but Jon definitely is my favourite!
BS: Tell us the most scariest move you can do and what the scariest part of it is?
LT: Thats for sure the Triple Cork 1440! I did it my first time a few weeks ago, when I was at the Springgingerle! The jump was perfect and I just went for it! The scariest part of it is, when you're only used to do double flips, to go upside down one more time, but that's an indescribable feeling!
BS: Next competition and video part?
LT: Jon Olsson Invitational is up next! No video projects at the moment!
BS: Since the making of this interview, Luca placed 5th in the Jon Olsson Invitational where he truly set his mark as the star of the future. Mark our words this kid is going places, check out the event highlight video and keep your eyes peeled for the guy in the yellow/orange outfit...
Follow Luca's progress on his blog - www.lucatribondeau.blogspot.com
Short Bio: I was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. My mom is German and she moved to Gran Canaria when she was pregnant with me. I visit a private school since I am 6 and I will finish it in two month. I started windsurfing in 2004.
Name - Alessio Stillrich
D.o.B - 14/03/95
Years Windsurfing - 8
Years competing - 5
Number of competition entered - About 20.
Highest level competition entered - PWA Worldtour Tour Stops
Best result (what competition) - 13th at the PWA events in Pozo Izquierdo and El Medano
Most memorable windsurfing moment - My first no handed goiter, I think!
Sponsors - Fanatic, North Sails, ION
BS: How did you get into your sport and do you think where you live helps?
AS: The father from my friend Moritz Mauch gave me a beginner board as present and I started to get in to the sport. After I went to a windsurfing school in Pozo Izquierdo, yes that definitely helped, we get a lot of windy days here. Last year I sailed 648 hours in total.
BS: Did it take long before your sponsors spotted you?
AS: No, not really. I first got sponsored by North Sails after sailing two years and about 12 months later I got my board sponsor Fanatic.
AS: I found the sport fascinating from the beginning and I could not stop practising it.
BS: What's the best thing about it?
AS: I think the thing I most like about windsurfing is to stick a move for first time… It is an awesome feeling to land any new move after trying and training it for lots and lots of hours
BS: Where do you rank on a national/international level and what are your aims for this/next season?
AS: I got ranked 26th at the World Tour this year. Had a bit of bad luck in the last comp and I lost lots of points. Hope this year everything goes good so I can get into the top 10.
BS: How does competition work in your discipline and do you get nervous at all?
AS: Competition works with a elimination leather. We get different heats in witch 4 sailors fight 2 against 2. The winner from both duels gets to next round and then they both fight against each other. This goes on like that till the final. After the single elimination there can be run a double elimination too, which is kind of a second chance for every body to climb back up the results up but you can also drop down from the result from the single elimination too. I wake up quite nervous actually but as soon I hit the water I come completely down, most of the times...
BS: Most amount of prize money available for best competition that you have entered?
AS: I'm not quite sure actually but it must be a 90.000 Euro I think!
BS: When the season ends, what do you do to keep training?
AS: I still go sailing if there is any wind. If not I try to go out on the water with my SUP.
BS: Do you do any other sports? How are you getting on in them?
AS: I actually only practice some stand up apart from windsurfing. I got a new Fanatic SUP now which is quite small but I'm getting used to it really well.
BS: Is it important to focus purely on your number one sport or to mix it up?
AS: I think dedicating about 80% to the sport you practice and a 20% to other activities that may be useful for progressing in windsurfing is the perfect mixture.
BS: What are your aims for the 3-5 years? World champion?
AS: Will be really hard to become best of the world. To be honest I don't really know, everything can happen. Of course I will try to become World Champion one day, it's the dream of everybody I suppose. I think that becoming at least top 10 results in every tour stop is quite a good job.
BS: What's the best move name you've heard of and what would you name a new move if you had a chance to?
AS: A name I really like is the Sky Man, which is a high stalled forward. Hm… I think I would call it Stillrich
BS: Who is your idol (both in your sport and out of your sport) and why?
AS: My idol is Victor Fernandez since I started sailing. He has a great personality, nice style sailing, lot of discipline and he seems to be a really serious and professional guy. Out of windsurfing it could maybe be Che Guevara. He fought a lot for the freedom of the cuban people, he got to be the symbol of the revolution against the oppressing power and he died because of his ideas.
BS: Tell us the most scariest move you can do and what the scariest part of it is?
AS: I think my tweaked push loops are quite nice, or that's at least what people say… Most scariest part is maybe the moment in which you are completely inverted and prone at 10 meter hight. It is scary in the beginning both with the time you get used to it and you can enjoy it.
BS: Next competition and video part?
AS: Next competition will be the first PWA tour stop at Gran Canaria, in July. I will be working on new videos as from June.


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Law of Erfworld
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This is an attempt to formulate the Laws of Physics for Erfworld:
The laws of Conservation
- An equal amount of juice going into a spell results in an equal amount of magic being stored.
- An equal number of Shmuckers being spent produces something with the same value of Shmuckers.
- example: a gem worth 10,000 shmuckers is created by converting 10,000 shmuckers through Moneymancy.
- Numbers can neither be created nor destroyed; they can only change form.
- Corollary One: Mathamancy can describe Numbers, but may not directly change Numbers.
- Corollary Two: For every change in Luckamancy, there is an equal and opposing change in Luckamancy.
- Corollary Three: In the end, it all adds up to Zero.
The laws of Entropy (like the 2nd law of Thermodynamics)
- If you replace Motion with Juice through Croakamancy, eventually the Juice will be used up moving the croaked unit.
- The amount of juice used when casting from a scroll is always less than the amount of juice used to create the scroll, the rest being lost to 'storing' the spell in scroll form.
- Example: If Y is the cost in juice to cast a Croakamancy spell and Z is the juice cost of the same spell in Scroll form, then Z - Y = X, the amount of juice 'lost' to storing that spell in scroll form. Thus the total amount of juice is conserved, while accounting for the fact that a scroll costs more in juice than its conventionally cast equivalent.
- The amount of Shmuckers produced by a city decreases as the number of cities a side controls increases.
The law(s) of Similarity
- Similar spells cause similar effects, even if the spells are from different disciplines.
- Example:
- Predictamancy sees Event X.
- Mathamancy calculates that Event X has a given probability of occurring.
- Thinkamancy figures Event X will occur by studying cause and effect that allowed Event X to occur in the past or by putting themselves into another person's shoes and deciding what they would do in the other person's place.
- Dollamancy Molls and Dirtamancy Rock Golems are both made from stone.
Law of Contagion (rules regarding 'connections' between units and objects)
- All units are bound to their ruler through Natural Thinkamancy, such as Loyalty, Duty and Obedience.
- All units are connected to other units through Grandiocosmic Strings.
- These connections can be manipulated through the use of Thinkamancy, Turnamancy and other external factors.


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Project Car Hell, Junkyard Fixer-Upper Edition: Fiat Spider, VW Beetle, or Shelby Charger?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! I walked into an East Bay self-service junkyard a few weeks back, and look what they had for sale!


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Tuesday Through Friday's KHL Scores
Alexei Glukhov did not play in Mytischi's 4-1 loss to St. Petersburg.
Denis Kazionov did not play in Khabarovsk's 4-2 win over Voskresensk.
Albert Vishnyakov did not play in Novokuznetsk's 3-2 loss to Omsk.
Ilya Solarev and Vitali Smolianinov were scoreless in Astana's 4-2 win over Novosibirsk. Smolianinov was +1 in the match.
Vasily Koshechkin did not play in Togliatti's 6-2 win over Chelyabinsk.
Dimitri Kazionov was scoreless in Kazan's 4-2 loss to Yulaev.
Anton But had an assist and was +1 in CSKA's 3-2 win over Dynamo Moscow.
Alexei Glukhov did not play in Mytischi's 6-1 drubbing of Cherepovets.
Denis Kazionov was scoreless in Khabarovsk's 4-0 shutout loss to Omsk.
Ilya Solarev had a pair of assists and was +1 in Astana's 4-3 win over Novokuznetsk. Vitali Smolianinov was scoreless in the match for Astana. Albery Vishnyakov recorded a helper and was +1 for Novokuznetsk.
Vasily Koshechkin fell to 1-1-1 on the season as Togliatti lost 2-1 in overtime to Yulaev. Koshechkin stopped 31 of 33 shots faced.
Denis Kazionov did not play in Khabarovsk's 4-3 loss to Omsk.
Anton But had 1 goal, 1 assist, and was +1 as CSKA pounded Misk 8-3.
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Why Cologne?!
You maybe ask yourselves why of all things you should start at the Cologne Marathon?
It is impossible and also not necessary to compare all big city marathons. Each of them has its own attractions - and this is how it should be! None of the organisers can handle the thousands of active marathoners at once! Even the Cologne Marathon cannot ...!
But what makes the Cologne Marathon unique and outstanding?
We offer all of you the adequate competition! It does not matter whether you are a running amateur or experienced marathoner, an offspring talent or competitive athlete, an individualist or member of a team. When you would like to be part of our event, come and join us - we care about you!
The youngsters may already participate in the kids competitions on the day before. Race day starts with the half marathon. And the day's highlight is of course the marathon.
This ultimate competition also has a distance of 42.195km in Cologne.
However, nonetheless it is something special and exquisite: Here not only arouse the top athletes cheering enthusiam among the spectators. Spread along the entire course and particularily at the numerous hot spots the several hundred thousands of motivated spectators let explicitly the slower and "more comfortable" runners feel being in the focus of a marathon day in Cologne.
It is not only the records and peak performances that are fully celebrated by the viewers with body and soul, but also the more emotional scenes with legs sometimes twitching and people fighting with themselves to overcome the symptoms of endurance running.
Just try it, register, and experience how Cologne really is - fast and charming!


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Movies have glamorized many occupations over the years. The films of Humphrey Bogart let viewers live vicariously as street-smart private eyes. James Bond made audience members imagine themselves as debonair, globe-hopping spies with exotic seductresses in every port of call. And Clint Eastwood's westerns made people visualize themselves as the frontier's messengers of bloody vengeance.
What these films failed to do was accurately convey a picture of their main characters' day-to-day finances. Was James Bond paid enough to afford all that Beluga caviar, or did he have to expense it? Did Sam Spade earn enough to cover what he spent every day on cigarettes? How many people did "The Man with No Name" have to kill to collect enough bounty to buy his poncho? The movies never answered these questions.
CNBC.com looked at several contemporary films and considered how their main characters made their living. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and job search sites such as Indeed.com, we determined what the characters' actual salaries would be in real life, and then tried to determine if they could really afford to live in that apartment, drive that car, or eat at that restaurant.
Which movies had main characters that lived within their onscreen means, and which depicted unrealistic fantasies? Click ahead and find out.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Do little things mean a lot? Or not?
Four years ago, Barack Obama denounced petty attempts to "make a big election about small things." Now Republicans accuse the president of going small himself in pursuit of a second term. Whoever is to blame, this year the minor stuff is multiplying like fleas on a foxhound.
On the short list:
— Big Bird. He towers over Sesame Street at 8-foot-2 but amounts to a tiny financial target for budget-cutters. Yet the campaigns have been sniping about Big Bird ever since GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney turned the flightless yellow fellow into a debating point.
— Tweets. Limited to a tidy 140 characters, they nevertheless launch a lot of dustups (see Big Bird above). When the campaigns go low — like bickering over which is worse, strapping your Irish setter's carrier to the car roof or eating dog meat in Indonesia — they tend to tussle via Twitter.
— Trivial pursuits. Even hobbies beget trifling controversy. Obama is assailed for taking time out for more than 100 rounds of golf. Paul Ryan gets caught knocking an hour off his marathon record. Ann Romney's Olympic dressage horse inspires gibes about the couple's life of privilege.
— Bite-size controversies. For pushing healthy eating, first lady Michelle Obama is mocked as chief of the "food police." She's not the first to be caught in a small-potatoes controversy. President George H.W. Bush offended farmers by dissing broccoli. Barack Obama was labeled an elitist when he noted the rising cost of arugula.
Should candidates sweat this small stuff?
In the big picture, no. "People are more serious than that," says Rutgers University political science professor Richard Lau. After all, voters are busy mulling the economy, the nation's debt, health care, troubles in the Middle East.
Yet the paltry has its place.
Dinky issues can help a campaign distract attention from a major one, like high unemployment. And even a measly mistake can do damage when it fits into worries about competence or character — remember Dan Quayle misspelling "potato"? Or John Kerry's clumsy explanation that he had voted for military funding "before I voted against it"?
Plus, any little thing has potential to sway a few more swing-state votes in a tight race.
For example, while Ryan's overstatement of his marathon time won't matter to many people, it might grate on some amateur athletes, says Steve Frantzich, a political science professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. Frantzich notes that he can "tell you down to the inch how far I broad-jumped in high school." It was 20 feet, 6 inches, back in 1966.
"People use a web of misinformation and information to come up with a conclusion about why you like or don't like a particular candidate," he said. "Sometimes those lines of reasoning are pretty tenuous."
That's democracy.
Voters get to choose a candidate for any reason they please — no matter how small.
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Type Functions and Associated Types in GHC - The Master Plan
This page serves as a collection of notes concerning the implementation of type functions and associated types, especially about the implications for type checking, interface files, and FC intermediate code generation.
New features:
- Open type-indexed data types and type functions
- Associated data types and type synonyms, which are type-indexed data types and type functions associated with a class - i.e., associated types are syntactic sugar for type-indexed types and type functions.
Revised features
- We may want to re-implement functional dependencies using associated type synonyms.
We keep track of the current implementation status.
We also have notes on type checking with indexed synonyms.
Data-type family: a data type declared with a
data family declaration.
Type-synonym family, or type function: a type synonym declared with a
type family declaration.
Type family: a data-type family or type-synonym family.
Parametric type constructors: the type constructor of a vanilla Haskell type.
Family type constructor or Family
TyCon: the type constructor for a type family.
TyCon: the
TyCon arising from a
data/newtype/type instance declaration. Sometimes called the representation
TyCon. The instance
TyCon is invisible to the programmer; it is only used internally inside GHC.
Associated type: A type family that is declared in a type class.
Kind signature: Declaration of the name, kind, and arity of an indexed type constructor. The arity is the number of type indexes - not the overall number of parameters - of an indexed type constructor.
Definitions vs. declarations: We sometimes call the kind signature of an indexed constructor its declaration and the subsequent population of the type family by type equations or indexed data/newtype declarations the constructor's definition.
Note: we previously used the term "indexed type", but have now switched to using "type family". Please change any uses of the former into the latter as you come across them.
Specification and Restrictions
The user-level definition of the type-family extensions is given here http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Indexed_types. Section 4, "Definition of the type system extension" constitues the specification.
Refinement of the specification in the Beyond Associated Types paper. (I'll actually link this paper here once it is a bit more coherent.) Some examples are on an extra page.
- Kind signatures of indexed data type families have the form
data family T a1 .. an [:: <kind>]and introduce a type family whose kind is determined by the kinds of the
ai(which can have kind annotations) and the optional signature
<kind>(which defaulys to
- Kind signatures of type function have the form
type family T a1 .. an [:: <kind>]and introduce
n-ary type functions (with
n>= 1), which may be of higher-kind. Again, the type variables can have kind signatures and the result kind signature is optional, with
*being the default. Equations for an
n-ary type function must specify exactly
narguments, which serve as indexes.
- Applications of type functions need to supply all indexes after unfolding of all ordinary type synonyms. (This is the same saturation requirement that we already have on ordinary type synonyms.)
- Instances of data families and equations of type functions have the keyword
instanceafter the first keyword. They otherwise have the same form as ordinary data type/newtype and type synonym declarations, respectively, but can have non-variable type indexes as arguments. Type indexes can include applications of data families, but no type functions.
- Instances of type families are only valid if a kind signature for the type constructor is in scope. The kind of an indexed type is solely determined from the kind signature. Instances must conform to this kind. In particular, the argument count of data and newtype instances must match the arity indicated by the kind. The number of arguments of a type equation must be equal to the number of type indexes (i.e., type variables in the head) of the family declaration.
- Data family instances can have deriving clauses as usual (but they do not support the non-standard deriving of
- Associated types are type families declared as part of a type class. The syntax of family declarations in class declarations and of type instance declarations in instance declarations is as for toplevel declarations, but without the
- Instances of an associated type can only be defined in instances of its class. However, it is admissible to omit the type definition in instances of the class (similar to how methods may be omitted). Then, the only inhabitant of the corresponding type is
- All argument variables of an associated type family declaration need to be class parameters. There may not be any repetitions, but the order of the variables can differ from that in the class head and the type family can be defined over a subset of the class parameters.
- In instances, the type indexes of a type declaration must be identical to the corresponding class parameters (i.e., those that share the same variable name in the class declaration). And all arguments that where not connected to a class parameter in the family declaration must be variables; i.e., cannot be used as type indexes.
- Type contexts (including super class and instance contexts) can have equational constraints of the form
t1 ~ t2, where the two types
t2need to be rank 0 types.
- In an export and import list, associated types are treated as subcomponents of their type class, just like the class methods. In particular,
C(..)denotes class
Cwith all its methods and all its associated types. If the associated types of a class are explicitly listed in the parenthesis, each type name needs to be prefixed with the keyword
type; i.e., to denote class
Cwith associated type
Tand method
foo, we write
C(type T, foo).
- In export and import lists, all data constructors of newtype and data families defined in any newtype or data instance is regarded to be a subcomponent of the family type constructor, and hence specified by
Fis the family type constructor. Instead of specifying them all with "
..", they can also be explicitly listed, just as with vanilla data types.
- Instances data families may not overlap (as such instances correspond to indeterminate type functions). Type equations may only overlap if the equations coincide at critical pairs. (Rational: We cannot be more lazy about checking overlap, as we otherwise cannot guarantee that we generate an FC program that fulfils the formal consistency criterion.)
- FFI signatures do not look through indexed newtypes nor through indexed synonyms. (The main reason for not looking through indexed synonyms is as they may occur in the rhs of a vanilla newtype.)
- To enable indexed type families, the switch
-ftype-familiesneeds to be used (which is implied by
- We currently don't allow indexed GADTs. I cannot see any fundamental problem in supporting them, but I want to keep it simple for the moment. (When allowing this, a constructor signature in an associated GADT can of course only refine the instantiation of the type arguments specific to the instance in which the constructor is defined.)
How It Works
The details of the implementation are split over a couple of subpages, due to the amount of the material:
Possible Extensions
- Our type-indexed data types are open. However, we currently don't allow case expressions mixing constructors from different indexes. We could do that if we had a story for open function definitions outside of classes.
- Class instances of entire data families (including
derivingclauses at family declarations to derive for all instances) requires the same sort of capabilities as case expressions mixing data constructors from different indexes. This is, as they require to build a dictionary that applies to all family instances (as opposed to a distinct dictionary per instance, which is what we have now).