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24-year-old Jay Howard from Basildon, Essex,
England, has followed in the footsteps of so many of today's top drivers
by starting in karting. He graduated into Formula Ford in his homeland,
and went on to win the 2003 Formula Renault UK Winter Series. When his
plans to move on up the racing ladder in Europe were thwarted by a lack
of funding, Howard decided to spread his wings to North America. A pair
of Cooper Tire FF2000 Series race outings at Infineon Raceway in
California in 2004 netted a third-place finish and a victory, after
which he pledged to return for a full-fledged attack on the championship
this year.
Jay Howard, left, dominates like the
late great Ayrton Senna, right, used to
Howard made his presence felt
at his one-off Star Mazda event this weekend at Mosport International Raceway,
qualifying on the front row and pulling away to victory. As always the
2nd and third place finishers look demoralized.
Eric McCombs
And attack he did, completely dominating the
2005 Cooper Tire Formula Ford 2000 Series winning the first 6 races in a
row and then going on to win a total of 9 out of 12 races, including
winning the pole in 10 of 12 races. Of the races he didn't win, he was
only beaten once in a fair fight. Mechanical failure took him out while
leading round seven at Road America, and he crashed with bitter rival
and fellow Briton Joey Foster while battling for the lead at Virginia
International Raceway. The only race he lost in a fair fight was a
second to Foster at Mid-Ohio.
Other drivers in the series have told us to
keep an eye on Jay Howard, "he's so fast he's demoralizing." In fact
he's won the first time out in every series he has raced in!
This kept alive his record of winning his
debut event in each of the four auto racing series he has competed in,
starting with Formula Ford in the United Kingdom, Formula Renault, the
USF2000 Championship and now the Star Mazda Series."
Given your dominance this year in the Cooper Tire FF2000 series, you
must feel pretty good with your performance?
I feel like my performance this year has been very good, I have been consistent,
so has the team. There is always room for improvement, I always look
back on every session thinking of how I can improve no matter how fast I
was or how much I won by. So I will be looking to do so in 2006.
Howard took the lead in his
first Star Mazda race and drove away in a field that included the likes of
Andretti, Rahal, Matos, Hinchcliffe and Pecorari
Eric McCombs
Have you always been this dominating as
you worked your way up, or is it a case of you finally putting
everything you learned together?
I have been fairly dominant throughout most of my career. The problem has always
been money, therefore you don't get in a car that often when you're
pot-less! And if you do manage to find a drive for free, quite often
it's not a very good ride. So racing for me has been difficult ever
since a young age, until this year where I got a great car (Aiken
Racing) and engineer (John Hayes) to show people what I'm capable of
constantly, not flashes here and there because lack of money has
restricted me to showcase my talent on a regular basis, as some would
Who was your childhood racing idol growing up in England?
My idol is Ayrton Senna, enough said! Don't even compare M. Schumacher, not even
in the same league.
When did you know you wanted to be a race car driver and when did you
realize you were good enough to actually be one?
I knew I loved racing at the age of 7ish... When I did my first ever race I won,
so right from the start it looked pretty good
Howard demoralized the Cooper
Tire FF2000 series in 2005
Bill Kistler
You started your career in Europe, yet decided to come to the USA
because of lack of funding. Was the racing that much more expensive in
Europe or were you able to find more money in the States?
There are far too many politics in Europe. Yes, racing is a little bit more
expensive in Europe than in the US. Technically, no I haven't found more
sponsors here than back home. But I did get myself a great manager
They say that the European development series are a better training
ground for young drivers. Do you agree, and if so why?
Yes, I do agree. Europe is a lot more competitive, the racing is closer and more
aggressive. One thing I had to adapt to when I arrived was to be
careful! What I called racing was too aggressive here in the States.
Back home they are more flexible. One of my strongest points as a driver
is my race craft, this would show back home, so when I came to the
States it really showed just how quickly I could get through traffic.
When American guys go to Europe the first thing they say is how tough it
is. It's harder for the American guys to adapt to the European style
than it is the other way. One rule in England which is the opposite of
America is there are no rules for 'blocking'. This is something I think
is a vague area and hard to scrutinize from an officials point, was it
or was it not blocking? In the UK, soon as the race starts it's pretty
much first one to the finish line! Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
one is right and one is wrong, this is just my view experiencing the
different racing from both sides of the pond! If I had to choose, 'first
to the finish line' sounds good to me!
You and fellow Brit Joey Foster pretty much dominated things this
year. Did you compete against one another in Europe and how did it
happen that you both ended up in the USA?
Yeah, Foster and I raced against each other in the Renault winter series which I
won. He was just about a front-runner.
Well the mentality of all British people is, 'I can beat him or I can do
that, it's easy' that applies in all sports. No one seems to give any
individual credit for their achievements. So when I came to America in
2004 for my one-off visit in which I won, everybody back home says, 'Oh,
I can beat him!' Hence why Joey came to America to compete against me.
This same theory I have seems to be happening now as the amount of
interest in the USF2000 Championship for 2006 has grown considerably.
And so it should, it is a great championship to get exposure and jump-start your career. I am confident you will see a number of British
drivers come and compete in the series as it seems that they all can
break my records! I will be watching the championship closely in 06; it
will be an interesting year.
You, Foster, Katherine Legge, Justin Wilson, Dan Wheldon, etc.? Is
this a British invasion?
Nigel Mansell was the first inspiration for British drivers to come and race in
America. Wheldon obviously continued that inspiration on and we all seem
to have a fairly successful time here! Goes back to what I said
previously about the different styles of driving from Europe to the US.
Do you like living in the States, or do you stay here just during the
race season?
Love it!! I'm planning on staying!! One thing I miss apart from the obvious like
friends and family, is there is no history here in the states,
everything looks the same! But that doesn't really bother me and the
weather really makes up for that! I love Florida!
Howard hopes to move straight
to Champ Car in 2006
Bob Heathcote
Rumor has it that you want to drive Champ
Cars. What's next for Jay Howard?
There are rumors flying around about me everywhere. Yes, Champ Car would be great,
there have been offers but that's all I'm saying!
170 HP FF2000 to 700 HP Champ Cars would be a big step. Doesn't it
make more sense to do a year in the 300 HP Atlantic Series first?
I understand that's how people think, how I look at it is if you're good enough,
you're good enough, that's it. If I had a dollar from every person that
has told me 'you should just get straight in a Champ Car, you're ready for
it', I'd be rich! A few weeks back I had a test in a 525HP Daytona
Prototype and it was easy compared with driving a 170HP USF2000. A few
examples for the people that think I'm crazy saying I can't jump
straight into Champ Car: Ayrton Senna went from a 165HP car to a 1000HP
F1 car, as did N. Piquet and several others. Kimi Raikkonen went from a
175HP F.Renault to 900HP F1 car, so it's all relative. If it was my
first year racing in cars I may think twice about it, but I'm not a
beginner, very far from it. It shows what Karting does for drivers,
especially direct drive racing such as ICA/FA.
Do you have any Champ Car tests lined up? Have you spoken to any
What about money? Do you feel you can get the sponsorship together
for a go at the Champ Cars?
Not my department, I turn up with my helmet and pedal the car around!
Does your family help you financially, or are you on your own when it
comes to pursuing your career?
My family have been incredibly supportive of me right from the start and continue
to do so. Unfortunately they are not financially blessed like others in
the sport, but they have given me everything they possibly could and now
it's my turn to return the favor by giving them all the things they have
missed out on over the years because of my expensive racing! A nice car
for my dad is top of the list!!
Coming from Europe, is F1 still the ultimate goal?
F1 is still a goal for me, that's for sure. I do realize there are only a couple
of drives that become available each year if you're lucky and even then
you need to be in the right loop, plus the whole politics thing comes
back into play. Maybe one day!
What is your primary goal/target in life?
I want to be special. I want people to remember me. Yes I'll win races
and hopefully more championships, but you ask nearly any driver this
question and it's always, F1 World Champion, Indy 500 winner etc... Yes
I want that to, but to be remembered with such words as sensational,
special, talented, ability and successful is more important to me.
Hopefully I'm on the right path with what I've done this year, anyone
who knows me will understand!
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|Key stat: Parker was riding a 19-game unbeaten streak until mid-September, holding a 9-0 record with a 2.61 ERA.
|At Comerica Park (reg. season)
Career: 11-5, 2.92 ERA
Career: N/A
|Against this opponent (reg. season)
Career: 1-1, 5.09 ERA
Career: 0-2, 10.00 ERA
|Loves to face: Josh Reddick, 0-for-9, 2 K
Hates to face:: Seth Smith, 7-for-19, 3 HR
|Loves to face: Prince Fielder, 1-for-10, 2 K
Hates to face:: Austin Jackson, 6-for-11, HR
|Game Breakdown
|Why he'll win: Sanchez led the AL with a 2.57 ERA and went 7-2 with a 2.20 ERA in the second half.
|Why he'll win: Parker has pitched well on the road this season, posting a 3.74 ERA and striking out 64 in 86 2/3 innings.
|Pitcher beware: Sanchez gave up four runs in five innings to the A's on Aug. 26, throwing 112 pitches.
|Pitcher beware: Parker struggled at the end of the season, giving up at least seven runs in two of his last three starts.
|Bottom line: Sanchez only allowed nine home runs this season, and will need to continue that trend against a powerful A's lineup.
|Bottom line: Parker needs to find a good game plan against Detroit. He went 0-2 with a 4.26 ERA in last year's ALDS against the Tigers.
"When he got here last year he struggled a little bit [1-3, 7.97 ERA in his first four starts]," Jones said. "And I think he got to where he became unafraid to throw any pitch at any time. There's something to be said for that, obviously, because the hitter never really knows what's coming. And he stays out of patterns. To me, that's been the biggest difference compared to when he got here.
"He's got four quality pitches. His velocity is good. He's got great movement and he's got a lot of confidence. The guy competes as well as anybody I've ever coached. He's fun to watch."
It was the arsenal and the velocity and maybe even the inner fire that convinced Dave Dombrowski to package Jacob Turner, Brian Flynn and Rob Brantly to Miami for Sanchez and second baseman Omar Infante. But even the Tigers president and general manager couldn't have predicted the way Sanchez has blossomed.
"We were looking for a guy who would fit into at least a No. 3 role for us. And our scouts felt he could do that. We had a couple guys, primarily, who had seen him. Mike Russell had seen him a lot and Scott Reid had watched him a lot, and they thought he would fit into that type of description," Dombrowski said.
"We knew he was a free agent at the end of the year and [that was why] he had the potential to be traded. They recommended him. They thought he would pitch well for us. To say that [we knew] he would pitch as well as he has would be inaccurate. But we did think he was a guy who could win 15 games in the big leagues. ... We really had thought when we acquired him it was most likely going to be a very short-term situation. But, as it developed, we decide to keep him long term, and we're fortunate that we did."
After that slow start, Sanchez got on a roll. In his last eight regular-season appearances, his ERA was 2.15. In three postseason starts, it was 1.77. The Tigers locked him up with a 5-year, $80 million deal. Some free agents have a difficult transition after signing for big bucks. Sanchez flourished. He won a career-high 14 games and probably would have been right in the middle of the AL Cy Young conversation if he hadn't missed three weeks with a right shoulder strain.
The way this ALDS has unfolded, with the teams splitting the first two games in Oakland, Sanchez will start what becomes the Tigers' most important game of the season to date. The team that loses Monday will be one loss from elimination.
"In that situation, the short series, it's a challenge," Sanchez said during Sunday's media availability at Comerica Park. "You have to win. You don't have to think about it. If we are ahead, 2-1, 2-0, I think we need to win it. Win games and make another series. I always say in playoffs, it's day by day. We don't need to think about the whole series."
"This is a challenging game. We need it here. We need this win. We need to hang onto that situation, because if we're ahead, we're going to feel more comfortable for the next game. So we need to come early and try to get some runs, and I'm going to do the best I can, try to be aggressive from the beginning."
As it turns out, a pitcher who arrived as something of a question mark has evolved into an exclamation point that the Tigers will be counting on heavily Monday.
"To be honest with you, I knew nothing about him at all [when he came to Detroit]," manager Jim Leyland said. "I think I saw him one time in Spring Training. I knew nothing about him, but our scouts were high on him.
"When we first got him, he looked fine but really didn't look out of the ordinary too much. Then as the season went on, I mean, he's got good stuff, throws the ball harder than I thought he would throw it. He has a repertoire of pitches. He can throw anything on any count. I think this guy has some of the better stuff in the American League, in my opinion. He's been terrific for us."
Better than anybody could have anticipated, in fact, even if it's hard to pinpoint exactly why.


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|A Civil War-era view of Battery Buchanan, the highest battery at Fort Fisher. Thanks to the fort, Wilmington, N.C., was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union.
Shiloh. Antietam. Cold Harbor. Gettysburg.
|A Civil War-era view of Battery Buchanan, the highest battery at Fort Fisher. Thanks to the fort, Wilmington, N.C., was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union.
Very interesting, McKenna. I don't recall learning of this imprtant battle in either of my college classes. Thank you for sharing this. I can see how it could make for the backdrop of a tension filled story.
Oh, I admit. I looked up the answer. January 12, 1865 with a land attack on January 15th which lasted only 6 hours.
Great post! I had always grown up on family tales (no doubt heavily embroidered) of the Fort Sumter bombardment from Charleston.
I can see where Fort Fisher's story can get lost over the years.
Thanks for sharing...
Love these posts! I learn every time. I didn't know anything about Fort Fisher. It sounds like a perfect backdrop for your story.
Thanks for sharing.
You're right, I'd never heard of this battle. Thanks for the lesson. You never know when a story like this will spark a story idea.
Thanks so much for stopping by Jenn, Angelyn, Sandy and Carolline! I'm thrilled you found the story interesting. With enough readers like you, maybe Ft. Fisher will finally get the attention it deserves.
And Jenn, make sure to email your answer to my question (and the other questions posted on the blog this month) to the address at the bottom of my post. Your answer is absolutely right, but posting it here doesn't count. I don't want you to miss out on a chance at that yummy goodie basket!
I had no idea all that history revolved around the forts. Thank for sharing. I found it all something worth knowing.
Thanks for a great post. Being a Louisiana 'Southern Belle' married to a Connecticut Yankee (in King Arthur's Court), I know that we probably couldn't have married a hundred years ago back in 1889, at least not as easily. And even now, there were/are culture clashes. LOL
I shall have to add this post to my repertoire of Civil War books.
I've been to Fort Fisher! I think it would make the perfect backdrop for a Civil War story. Even now the grounds are rather moody and imposing.
Too bad it's such a little known piece of the Civil War. It's a story worth telling.
Nice post, thanks for sharing.
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Warfare is a fascinating subject. Despite the dubious morality of using violence to achieve personal or political aims. It remains that conflict has been used to do just that throughout recorded history.
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I often get angry e-mails from readers – people just like you, except with more time on their hands – who complain about the fact that virtually everything I write is an outright lie. So today I'm going to employ an entirely different strategy: I'm going to tell the truth. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Our topic today is automotive options. You probably know all about options, because you have a few of them on your current car. What probably happened is, you went in to the local BMW dealer looking for a $35,000 328i, and you realized that – at that price point – the 328i is missing a few crucial items, such as heated seats, and leather upholstery, and doors. So you decided to add those features, and a few others, and then a few others,and in the end you drove away from the dealership in a $94,000 328i with 13-inch wheels. (You have to draw the line somewhere.)
Options have always been tricky like that. Of course, you want all of them. You want to be able to cruise along and listen to high definition radio while your seat both massages your back and cools your butt. You want to walk away from your car and just know that the doors will lock on their own, so you don't have to press the button like some poverty-stricken loser. You want that minivan vacuum cleaner thing, so that – with the simple push of a button – you can kill spiders in your garage.
But sometimes your budget doesn't allow such opulence. Here I'm reminded of a recent column I wrote after discovering that adding lane departure warning to the Infiniti something-or-other increases the car's base price by eleven grand. Interestingly, this might be a good thing, because it could stop you from going crazy with extras. Think about it! Maybe this sort of pricing will make you look at options prices, and look at your budget, and say: "No! Lane departure warning is not worth the same amount of money as a 1999 Porsche Boxster!"
The problem is that not enough car shoppers say this sort of thing. And that's because they justify their crazy option-adding antics by telling themselves not to worry, because they'll make the money back when it comes time to sell the car. Fortunately, I'm here to provide you with a simple reality of the automotive world: that just isn't true.
For proof, I suggest you turn to the classified listings over at AutoTrader.com. (Motto: "Helping car enthusiasts get through the work day since 1997!") Go check out the listings for your favorite car, or truck, or SUV. In fact, go peruse the listings for the reigning king of options, the Porsche 911, which offers everything from heated and cooled seats to distilled and expertly aged engine oil.
What you'll find is unfortunate for any driver who ever poured money into an options list. Oh, sure, in the first couple of years, some of the bigger options make a difference. You'll get a few grand more if you went with the spider-killing Honda Odyssey. And you'll get a few grand less if you got talked into one of those stripped-down base models they put on the grass in front of the dealership with huge writing on the side – especially if you can still see the outline of the "$" in "BIG $AVINGS".
But after a while, none of this stuff matters. Go look at cars that are four or five years old, and you'll discover that nobody cares what options they have. As an example, the going rate for a 2009 Buick Enclave appears to be something like $22,000. That means it doesn't matter what features your 2009 Buick Enclave has: it's still worth $22,000. You installed a rock garden in back? $22,000. You converted the second row into a gymnasium for ferrets? $22,000. God himself comes in through the gauge cluster every time you start the car to give you daily guidance? None of these things will increase your value. OK, maybe you'd get $22,500 for the God thing.
It's important to note that all of this is also true for trim levels. When you go to sell your 2004 Mercury Monterey, nobody will care that you have the XLE Anniversary Edition instead of the LE Normal Weekday Edition. Instead, used car buyers will be far more eager to get the answers to other, more pressing questions, such as: "Does it run?" and "What are all those stains in the back?"
The reason for all this is that options are far more important on a new car level, where each vehicle is otherwise identical, since they all have a full warranty and zero miles on the odometer. Drivers looking for used cars are less picky, because they have to be. For example: most used car buyers would probably choose a car with an excellent service history, low miles, and few options over one with high miles and no records, even if the high-mileage car has – in the words of most Craigslist sellers – TV'S IN THE SEATS!!!!
So if you're about to head into a dealership and start wildly checking options boxes, just remember: don't go crazy, because you probably won't see of that money back. Even if you have the best ferret gymnasium in the world.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 245 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
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In particular, I have a real connection with my gay clients, being a gay man in a long term relationship myself, and have decided to rebrand my business completely, to more closely (but not exclusively) align myself with this market.
I aim to become established as one of the leading Civil Partnership (gay wedding) photographers in the UK and need an eye catching, stylish and memorable logo/identity which will be used on my new website, business cards, letterhead etc.
The brand name is meant to reflect a number of different things. The term "Boy oh boy" can be an exclamation that something is great, but it also makes reference to the main target market and also to the fact that both my partner and I photograph the wedding.
The brand will be actively marketed to gay male professionals, 25 - 45. For all of my clients, it's a big decision to have made to get married and they're looking for someone to record their wedding with a sensitive eye and no preconceptions on how the day "should be".
I am planning to develop my straight wedding business off the back of this brand also, primarily through word of mouth from my gay clients. Similarly, my straight clients would be discouraged by anything overtly gay, as this could marginalise them.
Everyone I work with appreciates photography and wants their photographer to record their very personal moments of their special day.
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Styles I like are:
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I love the quirkiness of this brand (although am not overly keen on having a camera in my logo):
(my site will be a similar layout to this)
I will be building my brand both through advertising and networking, the logo needs to be eye catching and memorable.
The logo will be used in print (cards / letterheads etc), web, watermark on photos, so I need the logo and true type font in all the appropriate formats for these files (jpegs/psds – in CMYK & AdobeRGB).
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Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
By Christopher Buckley, December 16, 2011
We were friends for more than thirty years, which is a long time but, now that he is gone, seems not nearly long enough. I was rather nervous when I first met him, one night in London in 1977, along with his great friend Martin Amis. I had read his journalism and was already in awe of his brilliance and wit and couldn't think what on earth I could bring to his table. I don't know if he sensed the diffidence on my part—no, of course he did; he never missed anything—but he set me instantly at ease, and so began one of the great friendships and benisons of my life. It occurs to me that "benison" is a word I first learned from Christopher, along with so much else.
A few years later, we found ourselves living in the same city, Washington. I had come to work in an Administration; he had come to undo that Administration. Thirty years later, I was voting for Obama and Christopher had become one of the most forceful, and persuasive, advocates for George W. Bush's war in Iraq. How did that happen?
In those days, Christopher was a roaring, if not raving, Balliol Bolshevik. Oh dear, the things he said about Reagan! The things—come to think of it—he said about my father. How did we become such friends? I only once stopped speaking to him, because of a throwaway half-sentence about my father-in-law in one of his Harper's essays. I missed his company during that six-month froideur (another Christopher mot). It was about this time that he discovered that he was in fact Jewish, which somewhat complicated his fierce anti-Israel stance. When we embraced, at the bar mitzvah of Sidney Blumenthal's son, the word "Shalom" sprang naturally from my lips.
A few days ago, when I was visiting him at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, for what I knew would be the last time, his wife, Carol, mentioned to me that Sidney had recently written to Christopher. I was surprised but very pleased to hear this. Christopher had caused Sidney great legal and financial grief during the Götterdämmerung of the Clinton impeachment. But now Sidney, a cancer experiencer himself, was reaching out to his old friend with words of tenderness and comfort and implicit forgiveness. This was the act of a mensch. But then Christopher was like that—it was hard, perhaps impossible, to stay mad at him, though I doubt Henry Kissinger or Bill Clinton or any member of the British Royal Family will be among the eulogists at his memorial service.
I first saw his J'accuse in The Nation against—oh, Christopher!—Mother Teresa when my father mailed me a Xerox of it. He had scrawled a note across the top, an instruction to the producer of his TV show "Firing Line": "I never want to lay eyes on this guy again." W.F.B. had provided Christopher with his first appearances on U.S. television. The rest is history—the time would soon come when you couldn't turn on a television without seeing Christopher railing against Kissinger, Mother (presumptive saint) T., Princess Diana, or Jerry Falwell.
But even W.F.B., who tolerated pretty much anything except attacks on his beloved Catholic Church and its professors, couldn't help but forgive. "Did you see the piece on Chirac by your friend Hitchens in the Journal today?" he said one day, with a smile and an admiring sideways shake of the head. "Absolutely devastating!"
When we all gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a few years later, to see W.F.B. off to the celestial choir, Christopher was present, having flown in from a speech in the American hinterland. (Alert: if you are reading this, Richard Dawkins, you may want to skip ahead to the next paragraph.) There he was in the pew, belting out Bunyan's "He Who Would Valiant Be." Christopher recused himself when Henry Kissinger took the lectern to give his eulogy, going out onto rain-swept Fifth Avenue to smoke one of his ultimately consequential cigarettes.
"It's the fags that'll get me in the end, I know it," he said once, at one of our lunches, tossing his pack of Rothmans onto the table with an air of contempt. This was back when you could smoke at a restaurant. As the Nanny State and Mayor Bloomberg extended their ruler-bearing, knuckle-rapping hand across the landscape, Christopher's smoking became an act of guerrilla warfare. Much as I wish he had never inhaled, it made for great spectator sport.
David Bradley, the owner of The Atlantic Monthly, to which Christopher contributed many sparkling essays, once took him out to lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. It was—I think—February and the smoking ban had gone into effect. Christopher suggested that they eat outside, on the terrace. David Bradley is a game soul, but even he expressed trepidation about dining al fresco in forty-degree weather. Christopher merrily countered, "Why not? It will be bracing."
Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick's Café of Washington, began at 1 P.M., and ended at 11:30 P.M. At about nine o'clock (though my memory is somewhat hazy), he said, "Should we order more food?" I somehow crawled home, where I remained under medical supervision for several weeks, packed in ice with a morphine drip. Christopher probably went home that night and wrote a biography of Orwell. His stamina was as epic as his erudition and wit.
When we made a date for a meal over the phone, he'd say, "It will be a feast of reason and a flow of soul." I never doubted that this rococo phraseology was an original coinage, until I chanced on it, one day, in the pages of P. G. Wodehouse, the writer Christopher perhaps esteemed above all others. Wodehouse was the Master. When we met for another lunch, one that lasted only five hours, he was all a-grin with pride as he handed me a newly minted paperback reissue of Wodehouse with "Introduction by Christopher Hitchens." "Doesn't get much better than that," he said, and who could not agree?
The other author that he and I seemed to spend most time discussing was Oscar Wilde. I remember Christopher's thrill at having adduced a key connection between Wilde and Wodehouse. It struck me as a breakthrough insight; namely, that the first two lines of "The Importance of Being Earnest" contain within them the entire universe of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.
Algernon plays the piano while his butler arranges flowers. Algy asks, "Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?" Lane replies, "I didn't think it polite to listen, sir." And there you have it.
Christopher remained perplexed at the lack of any reference to Wilde in the Wodehousian oeuvre. Then, some time later, he extolled in his Vanity Fair column the discovery, by one of his graduate students at the New School, of a mention of "The Importance" somewhere in the Master's ninety-odd books.
During the last hour I spent with Christopher, in the Critical Care Unit at M. D. Anderson, he struggled to read a thick volume of P. G. Wodehouse letters. He scribbled some notes on a blank page in spidery handwriting. He wrote "Pelham Grenville" and asked me, in a faint, raspy voice, "Name. What was the name?" At first I didn't quite understand, but then, recalling P.G.'s nickname, suggested "Plum?" Christopher nodded yes, and wrote it down.
I took comfort that, during our last time together, I was able to provide him with at least that. Intellectually, ours was largely a teacher-student relationship, and let me tell you—Christopher was one tough grader. Oy. No matter how much he loved you, he did not shy from giving it to you with the bark off if you had disappointed.
I once participated with him on a panel at the Folger Theatre on the subject of "Henry V." The other panelists were Dame Judi Dench, Arianna Huffington, Chris Matthews, Ken Adelman, and David Brooks; the moderator was Walter Isaacson. Having little original insight into "Henry V," or into any Shakespeare play, for that matter, I prepared a comic riff on a notional Henry the Fifteenth. Get it? O.K., maybe you had to be there, but it sort of brought down the house. Nevertheless, when Christopher and I met for lunch a few days later, he gave me a tsk-tsk-y stare and sour wince and chided me for "indulging in crowd-pleasing nonsense."
I got off lightly. When Martin Amis, his closest friend on earth, published a book in which he took Christopher to task for what he viewed as inappropriate laughter at the expense of Stalin's victims, Christopher responded with a seven-thousand-word rebuttal in The Atlantic that will probably have Martin thinking twice before attempting another work of historical nonfiction. But Christopher's takedown of his chum must be viewed alongside thousands of warm and affectionate words he wrote about Martin, particularly in his memoir, "Hitch-22," which appeared ironically—or perhaps with exquisite timing—simultaneously with the presentation of his mortal illness.
The jacket of his next book, a collection of breathtaking essays, perfectly titled "Arguably," contains some glowing words of praise, including my own (humble but earnest) asseveration that he is—was—"the greatest living essayist in the English language." One or two reviewers demurred, calling my effusion "forgivable exaggeration." To them I say: O.K., name a better one. I would alter only one word in that blurb now.
Over the course of his heroic, uncomplaining eighteen-month battle with the cancer, I found myself rehearsing what I might say to an obituary writer, should one ring after the news of Christopher's death. I thought to say something along the lines—the air of Byron, the steel pen of Orwell, and the wit of Wilde.
A bit forced, perhaps, but you get the idea. Christopher may not, as Byron did, write poetry, but he could recite staves, cantos, yards of it. As for Byronic aura, there were the curly locks, the unbuttoned shirt revealing a wealth—verily, a woolly mastodon—of pectoral hair, as well as the roguish, raffish je ne sais quoi good looks. (Somewhere in "Hitch-22," he notes that he had now reached the age when "only women wanted to go to bed with me.")
Like Byron, Christopher put himself in harm's way in "contested territory," again and again. Here's another bit from "Hitch-22,"a chilling moment when he found himself alone in a remote and very scary town in Afghanistan,
in a goons' rodeo duel between two local homicidal potentates (the journalistic euphemism for this type is "warlord"; the image of the goons' rodeo I have annexed from Saul Bellow). On me was not enough money, not enough food, not enough documentation, not enough medication, not enough bottled water to withstand even a two-day siege. I did not have a cell phone. Nobody in the world, I abruptly realized, knew where I was. I knew nobody in the town and nobody in the town knew (perhaps a good thing) who I was, either…. As all this started to register with me, the square began to fill with those least alluring of all types: strident but illiterate young men with religious headgear, high-velocity weapons and modern jeeps.
His journalism, in which he championed the victims of tyranny and stupidity and "Islamofascism" (his coinage), takes its rightful place on the shelf along with that of his paradigm, Orwell.
As for the wit … one day we were talking about Stalin. I observed that Stalin, eventual murderer of twenty, thirty—forty?—million, had trained as a priest. Not skipping a beat, Christopher remarked, "Indeed, was he not among the more promising of the Tbilisi ordinands?"
I thought—as I did perhaps one thousand times over the course of our three-decade long tutorial—Wow.
A few days later, at a dinner, the subject of Stalin having come up, I ventured to my dinner partner, "Indeed, was he not among the more promising of the Tbilisi ordinands?" The lady to whom I had proferred this thieved aperçu stopped chewing her salmon, repeated the line I had so casually tossed off, and said with frank admiration, "That's brilliant." I was tempted, but couldn't quite bear to continue the imposture, and told her that the author of this nacreous witticism was in fact none other than Christopher. She laughed and said, "Well, everything he says is brilliant."
Yes, everything he said was brilliant. It was a feast of reason and a flow of soul, and, if the author of "God Is Not Great" did not himself believe in the concept of soul, he sure had one, and it was a great soul.
Two fragments come to mind. The first is from "Brideshead Revisited," a book Christopher loved and which he could practically quote in its entirety. Anthony Blanche, the exotic, outrageous aesthete, is sent down from Oxford. Charles Ryder, the book's narrator, mourns: "Anthony Blanche had taken something away with him when he went; he had locked a door and hung the key on his chain; and all his friends, among whom he had been a stranger, needed him now."
Christopher was never a "stranger to his friends"—ça va sans dire, as he would say. Among his prodigal talents, perhaps his greatest was his gift of friendship. Christopher's inner circle, Martin, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, James Fenton, Julian Barnes, comprise more or less the greatest writers in the English language. That's some posse.
But in leaving them—and the rest of us—for "the undiscovered country" (he could recite more or less all of "Hamlet," too) Christopher has taken something away with him, and his friends, in whose company I am so very grateful to have been, will need him now. We are now, finally, without a Hitch.
The other bit is from Housman, and though it's from a poem that Christopher and I recited back and forth at each other across the tables at Café Milano, I hesitate to quote it here. I see him wincing at my deplorable propensity for "crowd-pleasing." But I'm going to quote it anyway, doubting as I do that he would chafe at my trying to mine what consolation I can over the loss of my beloved athlete, who died so young.
Smart lad to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/postscript-christopher-hitchens.html or http://nyr.kr/u3IjyF
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In Windows 8, you can still keep writing classic .NET applications as you have done for the past decade. Windows 8, however, adds a new family of applications often referred to as "Metro applications." To be precise, "Metro" is the blanket term used to indicate a collection of design principles that have inspired Microsoft in the creation of the new interface of Windows 8, running side by side with the classic Windows interface. Glimpses of the Metro style are visible in Windows Phone and will likely be visible in the new releases of Microsoft's flagship products in the months to come. I agree with those who say that we can measure the real commitment of Microsoft to Metro with the next version of Office.
According to Wikipedia, Metro is a "design language" inspired by the "principles of classic Swiss graphic design" that emphasize cleanliness and readability. If Metro is mainly a design language, then a Metro application is a Windows application whose user interface and user experience are inspired by the Metro principles. In light of this, what's the role of Windows 8 and why does Metro seems to be so tightly bound to it? What's really going to be different for developers?
Meet WinRT
The .NET framework runs on top of the old Win32 API and it uses the P/Invoke mechanism to make calls from the dazzling world of managed code to the wilds of COM and C-based APIs. With Windows 8, Microsoft is undertaking an important move replacing the underlying layer through which the core of the OS functions is exposed to applications. In other words, Microsoft is attempting to touch and restructure some of the pillars of all Windows applications. They're doing so by introducing WinRT short for Windows Runtime.
WinRT is ultimately a new layer of code that is expected to provide the same core services as Win32/COM. You should be able to see immediately the deep impact of such a change: WinRT can't just be plugged in silently while keeping existing .NET applications working as usual. WinRT is the dawn of a new generation of applications. It goes beyond .NET in the sense that it would ideally require a new, revisited .NET.
Not really a realistic scenario is it? Or, at least, not a scenario that will be realistic in the space of a Windows release; and not a scenario you can enable overnight. That's why Windows 8 is presented as a dual operating system the classic Windows/.NET model and the new WinRT-based model.
WinRT-powered applications are also expected to show off a new and more modern user interface and user experience the Metro style. However, WinRT and Metro are distinct things. It is mere guesswork at this time, but it seems that you can have WinRT applications equipped with a non-Metro UI; likewise, you could have Metro-inspired applications written for classic .NET. If past history holds, it will take only a few months to see Metro-inspired UI components from major vendors. At that point, the circle will be closed and the message will be clear to everybody: Metro is the recommended UI/UX of the next Windows. And WinRT is the new runtime for building next-generation Windows applications.
WinRT and .NET
What's the relationship between WinRT and today's .NET Framework? As I said, my guess is that in an ideal world, Microsoft would have shipped a brand new .NET Framework working on top of WinRT and would have educated the masses to forget the old and embrace the new. This is ideal, but not realistic, and some common ground must be found.
WinRT offers a framework that looks like the familiar .NET Framework, but still has some key differences clear signs of the underlying idea of reworking the programming framework developers deal with. Some classes are very similar as .NET Framework classes, with only minor differences; some.NET Framework classes have a counterpart in WinRT, but in different namespaces (and renamed and refactored a bit); and some of the .NET Framework classes are not exposed to WinRT applications and are unavailable. Finally, some new classes make their debut in WinRT.
In addition, WinRT is driven by a new set of policies and this is reflected in the organization of the programming API. For example, all APIs expected to run for longer than a few milliseconds have been designed to be asynchronous. This is a huge change that introduces a significant paradigm shift for most developers. The shift, however, is partially mitigated by some new facilities available at the language level, such as the new
await/async keywords, which you may have already seen in F#. Direct file access is also restricted in the name of sandboxing and making new applications ready for a Windows-specific marketplace. That doesn't mean that you cannot permanently store data in WinRT applications: You just have to use a different API, such as the classes stored in the new
Windows.Storage namespace. To open and save documents and files, you have new file picker components that replace the standard common dialogs of Windows. You also have an ad hoc WinRT API for accessing the registry. In a nutshell, you have a new API, only a part of which exactly matches the .NET API.
WinRT native components can be written with primary .NET languages such as C# and Visual Basic as well as with C++ and JavaScript.
Anybody outside Microsoft today who claims to have a vision regarding WinRT and what Windows 8 will become might be proved wrong in a few months. This is due to the lack of specific and detailed information at this early stage. At any rate, I feel confident stating that the new Windows runtime takes on a huge challenge: improving the Windows programming model and subsequently the foundation of Windows applications. To make this happen and push a more modern view of applications, Microsoft had to touch the ground occupied by the .NET Framework. In doing so, it considered and rejected breaking changes in the framework that serves millions of applications today. That's why we now are getting this "new" thing the new Windows Runtime.
Dino Esposito is a frequent contributor on Microsoft topics and has written several developer-oriented books for Microsoft Press.


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Parachute Glitch
Firstly introduced in GTA SA, the glitch is, in a nutshell, a free fall. The glitch is caused by an unknown factor, when the player is falling and pull the switch, the top of the parachute disappears, and you would be unable to turn or let go to perform the fall glitch. The player will fall with the speed of falling while moving forward as if falling with the parachute in fast motion. It will ensure certain death, unless above water.
Reintroduced in the second DLC content pack for Grand Theft Auto IV, The Ballad of Gay Tony features the ability to use parachutes, allowing the player to base jump from buildings and helicopters in safety.
However, the nature of the parachute's turning system makes it possible for the player to actually achieve vertical lift, suspending their glide for an indefinite amount of time.
This glitch can be exploited from any height, as long as the player has the parachute active.
Pull back with the left thumb-stick, putting the player in the 'slow fall' position, then, rhythmically press the left and right triggers together. At a certain rate, the player begins to stop falling and start going up.
With sufficient altitude, it's possible to reach incredible heights, even leaving the game's skybox. However, if the button to turn is pressed too rapidly, the parachute will break, ensuring certain death, unless above water.
Glitch Fixed (TBOGT)
Due to a patch by Rockstar the glitch no longer works in The Ballad of Gay Tony. But it is still possible as long as you enter the invisible parachute glitch.


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The Lady Bisons volleyball team will host a free clinic for ages 6-13 of all skill levels.
The clinic is scheduled from 1-to-2 p.m. in Sunday, March 22, in the Student Activity Center on the Lipscomb University campus.
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Over the past week, he is averaging 13 PPG, nearly 8 RPG and over 2 BPG. Yes, my friends, Kosta Koufos is on a roll recently. On Chinese Food & A Movie Day, Koufos had a double doubke with 16/10 and a perfect 8-8 in shooting. He's had 9 or more rebounds in the past 4 games. I just added him in one league. You should, too.
Danilo Gallinari – Hit only 1 of 10, including 3 missed threes, to finish with 7 points, 3 rebs, 4 assists and 2 steals. He's 6 for his last 31.
Matt Barnes – He led his team in minutes and almost in points, finishing with 20 (3-5 from downtown), 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks. It was a Christmas miracle!
Rajon Rondo – Despite scoring a team high 19, he again failed to reach double digit assists (19/6/5/3). I'm not saying to be concerned, I'm just saying "Huh."
Andray Blatche – With Kris Humphries out, Keith Bogans (3/0/0) got the start, but Blatche saw the majority of minutes, going for 6 points, 7 rebounds, an assist, a steal and 2 blocks.
Kurt Thomas – Started, played 13 minutes for 6 points, 3 rebounds, and one each for assists, steals and blocks. Is Amar'e ready yet?
Jason Kidd – Led the team in assists (7) and tied for steals (2). He'll never be a source of points, but he can really help out with the other stats (<- advice that was useful two months ago).
Pau Gasol – He had 13 points (including 1 three), plus 8 rebounds (all defensive), 6 (!) assists, a steal and a block. By January he should be back to full force.
Kendrick Perkins – In a league full of choice Centers, Perkins went 4/5/1/2/0. Check please!
Mario Chalmers – Call them the big four? Chalmers had 20 points, thanks in part to 4 threes on 8 attempts, and threw in 3 boards, 2 dimes, a steal and a block
Omer Asik – The Rockets had 4 starters finish with 20 or more, including Asik, who had 20 and 18 rebounds, plus 3 blocks.
Nate Robinson – Led the Bulls with 27 points, including 4 of 8 from behind the arc, to add to 4 rebs, 3 dimes, and a steal.


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Researchers develop sperm-sorting design that may aid couples undergoing in vitro fertilization
(Medical Xpress)—According to the World Health Organization, approximately 70 million couples experience infertility worldwide. Current data suggests that nearly one third of infertility disorders are due to poor sperm quality. For couples undergoing in vitro fertilization, certain sperm characteristics, such as motility and stamina, are crucial when sorting and selecting sperm. However, selecting the fittest sperm can be a challenge.
Now researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a simple and cost-effective design for sperm sorting, in which healthy, motile sperm can be effectively separated by space-constrained microfluidic sorting chips.
The study was published online this month in the science and technology journal Small.
According to the researchers, the chip design was inspired by nature. In the female, sperm naturally must swim through the cervical mucus in the cervical canal to reach and fertilize an egg. The pathway that the sperm must swim is akin to a microfluidic channel, since sometimes mucus on the walls of the vagina become watery and form tiny microchannels that guide the sperm through to the egg.
Based on this naturally occurring phenomenon, the researchers developed a microfluidic design at the length and scale of channels in which sperm could successfully swim towards the egg.
"These bioinspired microfluidic devices create tiny corridors for cells at the size scale comparable to their own allowing them to interact with their surroundings and each other," said Utkan Demirci, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and health sciences and technology at Harvard University Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, principal investigator for BWH Bio-Acoustic Mems in Medicine Laboratory, senior study author. "This enables applications, such as cell sorting, by controlling their microenvironment."
The researchers tested their design using human and mouse sperm—employing computational models to assess the movement of sperm as they navigated their way through various channel lengths.
Measuring the effects of exhaustion time of sperm, they found that mouse sperm had an average exhaustion time of 30 minutes during incubation. On the other hand, human sperm were at their highest motility for up to one hour of incubation when swimming in a 20 millimeter channel.
"These inexpensive devices sort sperm without any sample handling," said Demirci. "This has the potential to lead to unique and simple strategies for home-based sperm testing especially if we are able to integrate this with existing technologies such as cellular phones and cameras."
In terms of extending the technology's use beyond infertility treatment, Savas Tasoglu, PhD, BWH Bio-Acoustic Mems in Medicine Laboratory, the study's first author adds, "This technology can also be helpful to preserve sperm of endangered species, where access to samples is challenging in the wildlife."
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UKRAINIAN officials say a roof section at the exploded Chernobyl nuclear power plant has collapsed causing no injuries and leaving radiation levels unaffected.
Maya Rudenko, spokeswoman for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, said a 600-square-metre section of the roof over the turbine hall at energy block No 4 collapsed on Tuesday.
Rudenko emphasised, however, that the affected area is about 50 metres away from the exploded reactor. She said on Wednesday that radiation levels were normal and there was no danger to the public, so "everybody should be absolutely calm."
The Emergency Situations Ministry said that the roof collapse was caused by heavy snowfall.
The April 1986 explosion at Chernobyl has forced the evacuation of 115,000 people and a 30-kilometre area around the plant remains largely off-limits.
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By David Colman
Hypes: Based on Agile Lancer Chassis
Gripes: Saddled With CVT and Low HP
Now in its third year of production, the Outlander Sport gets a fresh face and rump for 2013, along with larger wheels and new color palette. The revised snout and upturned, spoiler-topped tail impart a hunting hound rake to this crossover SUV based on the Lancer chassis. In the SE model, more up market interior trimming than before belies the Sport's modest $22,295 base price. After spending several hours in the manually adjustable driver's seat, I had no complaints about lack of comfort or support. The steering wheel is also manually positionable for rake and reach. The leather trimmed wheel itself features useful audio volume and band controls on the left spoke and effective cruise controls on the right spoke.
An extra $2,050 Premium Package garnishes the Sport with an enormous glass roof which admits plenty of light to the interior but does not slide or open. But it does confer fantasy status on the interior at night thanks to a long row of orange LED bulbs that illuminate both sides of the roof opening. The package also includes black roof rails, rear view camera, and a knockout loud Rockford Fosgate 710 Watt, 9 speaker audio system with 5CD/MP3 dash-mounted head unit. Since Mitsubishi thoughtfully provides the Sport with standard SIRIUS radio, there's no lack of choice in the infotainment department.
The Outlander Sport is one curvaceous beauty. Its interior design is so full of arcs and parabolas that you can't lay anything on a flat surface. The exterior is equally sloping, so if you want to store your coffee cup while you fumble for your keys, your only choice is the ground. But the cabin's severe tumble home has a positive effect on outward visibility. The side and rear windows are tall and informative, and the included rear view camera helps you check all the safety boxes when you back out of a parking place.
Given Mitsubishi's years of success with Lancer on the World Rallye Championship, it should come as no surprise that the Sport's handling is precise and informative. The new 8-spoke, 18 inch alloys plant 225/55R18 Toyo A24 tires at each corner. These all weather radials never lose their footing, even when the softly sprung Sport achieves some rather dramatic lean angles in tight corners. However, neither the refined chassis, the athletic suspension, nor the sticky tires will determine how effectively you cover ground in this Outlander. That final measure of performance is determined by the engine/transmission combo, and here the Sport is sorely lacking. The engine is an inline 4, making just 148hp and 145 lb.-ft. of torque. Given that the Sport weighs in at 3,032 pounds, the power-to-weight requires each horse to move 20.4 pounds. Further complicating the equation is the SE's lethargic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), which is particularly hard put to find the right gear ratio when you most need passing power. Although Mitsubishi optimistically equips the Sport with large paddle shifts next to the steering wheel rim, these tools are rendered virtually useless by the engine's lack of power and the vague speed ranges of the CVT's stepped "gears."
If you like the Sport for all its admirable qualities – looks, finish, utility – then forego the SE trim level and opt for the base model, $19,170 ES, which comes standard with a real 5-speed manual transmission. This transmission is not available on ES versions. In the long run, you'll still get great mileage (25 MPG City/31 MPG Highway) without paying the performance surcharge that the CVT extracts.
2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport SE 2WD
- Engine: 2.0 Liter Inline4, DOHC, 16 Valves
- Horsepower: 148hp
- Torque: 145 lb.-ft.
- Fuel Consumption: 24 MPG City/31 MPG Highway
- Price as Tested: $27,170
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Jamshed Bharucha Speaks at Yale University
POSTED ON: February 21, 2012
Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha delivered the second of the 2012 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities at Yale University on Tuesday, February 21. His talk, entitled "The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States through Music," is organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar on music and human evolution. The seminar explores the development of human capacities for music-making in light of recent advances in evolutionary science and theory.
Aside from his role as Cooper Union's twelfth President, Dr. Bharucha is a cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained violinist. He has written extensively on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of music and has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for his work. He has taught at Dartmouth and Tufts, and most recently at The Cooper Union World Forum—a unique interdisciplinary class that brought students from all three of Cooper Union's schools to explore the topics and discourse of globalization.
Dr. Bharucha's visit was highlighted today in the Yale Daily News as he spoke about productively synthesizing academic disciplines in pedagogy and scholarship. An excerpt and a link to the full text follow.
As an active musician, Bharucha said that the interplay between the sciences and the humanities is the future of academics.
"Historically, the disciplines [of science and the arts] have been treated as fairly isolated and represented by different departments in universities," Bharucha said. "But the ideas themselves are becoming a lot more interconnected across disciplines. There are tremendous numbers of very interesting relationships yet to be explored."


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Kung Fu Killer DVD - David Carridine
Kung Fu Killer DVD - David Carridine
Kill Bill stars David Carradine and Daryl Hannah reunite for this two-part television mini-series set in late 1920s China, and following a Wudang monk and a vengeful lounge singer on their violent quest to assassinate the man responsible for killing their loved ones and destroying their lives. The orphaned son of Western missionaries, White Crane (Carradine) was trained by Wudang monks to become a spiritual leader and martial arts master. When Kahn Xin (Lim Kay Tong) and his murderous henchmen kill White Crane's mentor during a brutal raid on the Wudang temple, Crane infiltrates the Shainghai underworld on a mission to track Kahn down and ensure that justice is served. But during the course of his quest, Crane crosses paths with Jane Marshall (Hannah), a nightclub singer from Manhattan who also has a score to settle with Kahn. Kahn has kidnapped Jane's brother and the time to rescue him is fast running out. When Crane and Jane realize Kahn's diabolical plans are in fact much more ambitious and malevolent than previously suspected, they hatch a daring plan to enter his inner circle and destroy his gang from the inside out. Later, just as everything begins to fall into place and Kahn's empire quickly begins to crumble, Crane suddenly faces a serious moral dilemma - how can he reconcile his all-consuming hunger for revenge with the peaceful teachings of his Wudang mentors? Later, as Crane returns to help rebuild the fallen Wudang temple, he receives word that his old nemesis Bai Tang has kidnapped Jane back in Shanghai. Now, in order to prevent Jane from being forced into a life of sexual slavery, Crane and his faithful protégé Bingo (Osric Chau) set out to rescue her before all hope is lost.
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