Ladies downhill at Lake Louise, Canada
Temporary result after a bad fall of Lindsey Vonn, not harmed
1 Corinne Huetter Austria
2 Tina Weirather Luxembourg
3 Mikaela Shriffin USA
4 Elena Fanchini Italia
5 Jacqueline Wiles USA
6 Sofia Goggia Italia

Surprised to see Mikaela Shriffin doing downhill and also doing it very well.
She has always been reluctant to that.
Anyway. Brava Mikaela Queen of Slalom:)

Beaver Creek, Birds of Prey trail
1 Aksel Lund Svindal Norway
2 Beat Feuz Switzerland
3 Thomas Dressen Germany
4 Christof Innnerhofer Italia
5 Dominik Paris Italia

---

Beaver Creek, Birds of Prey trail
1 Aksel Lund Svindal Norway
2 Beat Feuz Switzerland
3 Thomas Dressen Germany
4 Christof Innnerhofer Italia
5 Dominik Paris Italia

Yes. Axel "Super-Gutten" is back
From the NRK Public Service TV "Aksel Lund Svindal vant - nå er han historisk"
"Nordmannen er den første til å vinne i Beaver Creek fire ganger. – For en maktdemostrasjon, sier NRK-ekspert Marius Arnesen."
Oh, the Norwegian spelling is Aksel.
Actually my middle name is Axel but not spelled Aksel:)

Lake Louise downhill ladies
1 Mikaela Shriffin wonder woman
2 Viktoria Rebensburg Germany
3 Michelle Gisin, Switzerland, her first podium

---

1 Mikaela Shriffin wonder woman

Yes. I wonder what her nickname in Norway is.
Most likely "Super-Jente":)
Oh. Today Marcel Hirscher another "Super-Gutt"/"King of Slalom" will compete.

SuperG ladies Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA
1 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
2 Lara Gut Switzerland
3 Nicole Schmidhofer Austria
4 Tessa Worley France
5 Johanna Schnarf Italia

Lindsey Vonn again out but no damages. Will race the Olympics.

---

Giant slalom men at Beaver Creek
1 Marcel Hirscher Austria
2 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway
3 Stefan Luitz Germany

---

Giant slalom men at Beaver Creek
1 Marcel Hirscher Austria
2 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway
3 Stefan Luitz Germany

Yes. Marcel Hirscher is not from Norway.
But he and Mikaela Shiffren knows how to Slalom.
And perhaps also knows how to tango. :)

BtW Slalom is a Norwegian word.
The word "slalom" is from the Morgedal/Seljord dialect of Norwegian slalåm: "sla," meaning slightly inclining hillside, and "låm," meaning track after skis.
And don't forget Jegertroppen.
A new Special Forces unit and the world’s first all-female military training program.

Fog in St.Moritz. Mikaela Shriffin leads over Wendy Holdener (Switzerland) in the slalom run of the combined event. The SuperG run will be held tomorrow, weather permitting.

---

St.Moritz SuperG ladies
1 Jasmine Flury Switzerland
2 Michelle Gisin Switzerland
3 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
4 Federica Brignone Italia
5 Anna Veith Austria
6 Viktoria Rebenburg Germany
7 Johanna Schnarf Italia
8 Tessa Worley France
Lara Gut falls with no apparent damage. Lindsey Vonn terminates the race but seems unable to rise after the end. She seems to be suffering and goes away in a car after saluting Flury. A problem in the lower spine?

---

Giant Slalom men at Skt.Moritz
1 Alexis Pinturault France
2 Stefan Luitz Germany
3 Marcel Hirscher Austria
4 Mathieu Fauvre France
5 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway
6 Alexander Schmid Germany

---

Marcel Hirscher hit one gate and managed to ski with it's flag wrapped around his right arm :)

At Davos Johannes Klaebo of Norway wins the cross country sprint race over Federico Pellegrino.

---

It is snowing in Val D'Isere over the men slalom, in Skt.Moritz over the ladies SuperG, not snowing in Davos over the 10 km cross conutry for ladies, so Italian TV is altering its scheduled transmissions.

---

Marcel Hirscher wins again the slalom, second Henrik Kristoffersen, Norway, third Andrew Mhyrer, Sweden. The ladies SuperG canceled. Oerstberg (Norway) wins the 10 km cross country ladies.

---

15 km men freestyle at Davos
1 Maurice Magnificat France
2 Sergey Ustiugov Russia
3 Alexander Bolshunov Russia
10 km freestyle ladies
1 Ingvild Flugstad Oerstberg Norway
2Ragnhild Haga Norway
3 Krista Parmakoski Finland
Next week in Dobbiaco/Toblach. I have skied the Dobbiaco-Cortina trail, once a railroad track.

---

Da Santa Lucia il freddo si mette via.
Oggi è il giorno di Santa Lucia.

Enrico Caruso canta Santa Lucia.
https://youtu.be/xX4SzE_GDRE

La Repubblica paper says that the Sardinia Radiotelescope north of Cagliari with its 64 meters antenna with adaptive optics will join the SETI search, but does not say which SETI. Most papers when speaking of SETI refer to the SETI Institute, which has a much better media coverage than SETI@home. Eighty% of the observing time is dedicated to the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica,20% to the Italian Space Agency. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli has just returned to Earth today from the ISS. This was his second ISS mission.
Tullo

---

The National Institute for Astrophysics – Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari does not say which SETI it is either.
Only that one (or more) beams can be dedicated for SETI targets.

Collaboration with UC Berkeley to make a porting in Sardinia of the SERENDIP 6, and in particular with David MacMahon
One ROACH2-GPU chain will be dedicated for piggy-back SETI, other ones can be available in basis of the running observation
While we prepare for future SETI data acquisition (whether in piggy-back or dedicated time), we will be learning how to perform the analysis of SETI data:
- Test SETI detection software on BL baseband data (from GBT)
- Test KLT method on BL data

The current status of SETI in Sardinia: technological and scientific activities
http://sim.oa-cagliari.inaf.it/seti2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/SETI_Sardinia.pdf

SuperG Santa Cristina ValGardena on the Saslong trail
1 Josef Ferstl Germany
2 Max Franz Austria
3 Matthias Mayer Austria
Tomorrow a downhill men in Val Gardena and a SuperG ladies in Val d'Isere, snow permitting. Sunday a Giant Slalom men in Val Badia on the Gran Risa slope and a downhill for ladies in Val d'Isere, always snow permitting.It is snowing heavily in France and also on the Northern side of Swiss Alps.

---