Racing for 4th Win, Stoner Looks to Smoke Rivals in Dutch Tilt

Assen, the Netherlands - Australia’s 2007 world champion, Casey Stoner, goes into Saturday’s Dutch MotoGP looking to make it four wins on the bounce and cement his place at the top of the standings.

The Honda rider, who won at the Assen circuit three years ago, leapfrogged defending champion Jorge Lorenzo to take over top spot in the title race after winning the British GP at a rainy Silverstone on June 12.

“We will work hard to get the set up right on the bike and hope to challenge for another win,” Stoner said.

Lorenzo crashed out at Silverstone to end a run of 25 top four finishes, ranking 18 points behind Stoner. But the Spaniard is eager to mark Yamaha’s 50th anniversary of grand prix racing with a win at a circuit where he triumphed a year ago.

“Assen is my favorite track where I’ve won in all categories and also last season,” Lorenzo said. “Now we are in second position in the championship, we come here looking to put pressure on the leader.”

The Stoner-Lorenzo duel will be shadowed closely by Italian pair Andrea Dovizioso (Honda) and Valentino Rossi (Ducati), who lie third and fourth in the championship and are in need of some serious points if they are not to be dropped from the title race.

Rossi still hasn’t won a race this season, but enjoys the track, known as The Cathedral to fans, having won there five times.

“It is going to be difficult. We know it will be some time before we see the full potential of this machine but we are motivated,” Rossi said.

One major absentee from the race will be Stoner’s teammate, Dani Pedrosa, who broke his collarbone in a fall at the French Grand Prix last month.

Agence France-Presse

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Vettel, Alonso Hope to Turn a Corner on Valencia’s Street Circuit

Madrid - Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel looks to get back to winning ways at this weekend’s European Grand Prix, where Fernando Alonso is hoping to revive his dwindling title hopes with victory in front of his home fans at Valencia’s street circuit.

Jenson Button’s dramatic victory at the preceding Canadian GP was McLaren’s second win from seven races, with Vettel winning the rest to establish a 60-point lead over Button.

But Alonso, who trails Vettel by 92 points in fifth, is confident Ferrari can challenge the German Red Bull driver along the coastal course, which should provide an unpredictable race with the introduction of new tires and an extra overtaking area courtesy of the drag reduction system (DRS) adjustable rear wing.

“At the last two races we showed we were clearly capable of winning,” Alonso said.

“Now we go to a track with reasonably similar characteristics to Montreal and there is no obvious reason why we should not be competitive here, too.”

Alonso was unlucky to go out of Montreal after a brush with Lewis Hamilton, who also needs a strong performance after several sub-par races dropped the McLaren driver from second to fourth behind Mark Webber.Alonso looked strong in Canadian GP qualifying after coming second in Monaco but he failed to finish the race. The two-time world champion may soon run out of time to catch Vettel, who has rarely slipped up.

“So far this season, luck has not come our way,” said Alonso, who came eighth in last year’s race. “In the race in Montreal, not one damned thing went right.”

Hamilton went out of Montreal after clipping Button. He had earlier nearly incurred a ban for unsportsmanlike behavior after finishing sixth at Monaco.

While Hamilton will be trying to consolidate, Button will look to maintain his challenge on Vettel.

The street circuit usually offers few overtaking opportunities but the addition of a second DRS zone could provide some extra excitement, while the introduction of a medium-compound tire will likely provide another challenge for what is expected to be a hot, humid race along the city’s harbor on Sunday.

A clampdown on engine-mapping systems will also come into effect as teams will not be allowed to change settings between Saturday’s qualifying and the 57-lap race. That could stop teams from running extreme setups to take qualifying since those settings will carry over.

Associated Press

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AFC inspects PSSI congress preparations in Solo

Solo, C. Java - An Asian Football Confederation (AFC) representative together with an Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) Normalization Committee member here on Monday inspected preparations for the upcoming PSSI congress.

AFC representative, Jim Jhonson met with the Normalization Committee (KN) member Joko Driyono, Surakarta police chief Adjunct police commissioner Listyo Sigit Prabowo and the representative of congress organizing committee as the effort to check the PSSI congress preparation.

Joko said Jim Jhonson on the occasion checked several facilities for the congress among others place, logistics, the meeting sessions and security affairs.

"During our two-day stay in Solo, we will coordinate with the local committee," Joko said.

In the meantime, Surakarta deputy mayor who is concurrently one of the Normalization Committee members FX Hadi Rudyatmo said Solo city had already prepared the location of the congress sessions, including the carnival presentation to welcome participants of the extraordinary congress.

The Normalization Committee of the PSSI will resume its congress on July 9, 2011 in Solo, following its failure to elect a new chairman in its last congress in Jakarta on May 20.

The PSSI extraordinary congress will elect a new PSSI chairman, deputy chairman and executive committee.

The Normalization Committee`s failure to elect the new PSSI executive board chairman through its congress recently was due to rivalries that had prompted FIFA to seek a settlement.

The failure also prompted Indonesia to struggle hard to avoid sanctions from the world`s football governing body FIFA.(*)

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RI to participate in military olympic games in Brazil

Jakarta - The National Defense Forces (TNI) is preparing nine of its best shooting athletes to participate in a Military Olympic Games in Brazil on July 13-24.

The team manager, Lt Col Budiman said when receiving Major General Hambali Hanafiah, the operations assistant of the TNI commander, as chief of the Indonesia Military Sports Committee here on Tuesday that he was optimistic the athletes could compete with their rivals from other countries.

"In this field TNI prepares nine athletes consisting of three for men`s and three for women`s pistol events and three for rifle event. They are selected athletes of the National Training Center for Southeast Asian Games 2011 that have made achievements at national or international levels," he said.

Budiman said "at the Anniversary Cup held to mark the 484th Jakarta anniversary recently chief sergeant Sihombing even broke the national record in the Center Fire with 583 points held in the past 22 years by Brigadier General Siswanto with 582 points."

Maj Gen Hambali also inspected the preparation of the fencing athletes.

Fencing team manager Lt. Col. Richard said his athletes would compete in the floret and degen categories. He said two of the six fencing athletes that have been prepared had an experience of playing in the World Military Single Games Event in Venezuela in 2010 and grabbed the Best Fair Play title.

For boxing team manager Col. Bambang Sutrisno said four boxers had been prepared for the Olympic Games in Brazil. They are all SEA Games 2011 athletes and one of them second corporal Darsim is the second ranked athlete of the Indonesia Boxing Association (KTI) in the national championship in 2010.

After inspecting the preparations Major General Hambali advised the athletes not to stop training. "Use your time to train. Build your military spirit to make strong. If you make an achievement you will boost TNI image at international forum," he said.(*)

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Tiny Soldiers World War 2 v1.1

Tiny Soldiers World War 2 is a very entertaining, (tiny) 2d war game. You command a group of American soldiers, fighting against evil Nazis. Your mission is to infiltrate behind enemy lines and take down the strategic points. Enemy camps, bridges and bunkers.

Tiny World War 2 just begun, don´t let it continue without you being involved. Enemy is waiting for you with jeeps, tanks and evil soldiers. Your tasks are not easy, but you are the brave one, so come inside and play!

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Kingdom of Llunia 0.5.2

On the world of Tyr, a kingdom controlled by a corrupt ruler sends one of their top generals to raid the world´s Holy Shrine, making off with the four elemental orbs that power the gate into The Void.

Following this general and his companion are three members of a small resistance and a mysterious knight with her own agenda. Together, they must chase the thieves and stop them before they can return to their Kingdom, or all hopes for the resistance are lost.

The Kingdom of Llunia is a free to download and play RPG made by myself with RPG Maker VX.

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Danys Virtual Drum 2.0 Alpha 13

A realistic drum simulator that features a number of effects and allows you to record your drum session.

Features:
Is totally free!
Various key sets for all!
Realistic sound effects!
Nice graphics effects!
Contains a lot of musical bases!
You can record your video or your song!

System Requirements:
A processor with 800Mhz or better;
A monitor with 1024×768 of resolution minmium;
512mb of ram (1gb is a lot better);
Windows 98/ME/XP/VISTA;
A sound card compatible with Directx8.

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