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Killzone 2 release date is Feb. 27, 'similar timeframe' for PAL release

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/firstpersonshooters/" rel="tag"First Person Shooters/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/691498/Killzone_2_Release_Date_February_27_2009.html"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone2leipzigmultiplayer1220808490.jpg" //a/div Ready to jump aboard the ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/killzone-2 "Killzone 2/a /ema href="http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/12/04/trophies-killzone-2/"hype train/a? Sony has announced that Guerilla Games' much-hyped PS3 shooter will infiltrate North America retailers on Friday, February 27, 2009 (via a href="http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/691498/Killzone_2_Release_Date_February_27_2009.html"G4/a), where it will face fierce competition from pretty much no one. As for our friends living across the pond, a Sony UK spokesperson has told a href="http://www.videogamer.com/news/05-12-2008-10112.html"Video Gamer/a that the company is "targeting a similar timeframe for the release of Killzone 2 in the PAL regions." With 84 days until the North America launch, we anticipate a marketing blitz to commence just after the new year.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"Killzone 2/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/killzone-2/989299/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone-2-kz2_mp.08_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/killzone-2/989298/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone-2-kz2_mp.06_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/killzone-2/989297/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone-2-kz2_mp.03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/killzone-2/989296/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone-2-kz2_mp.10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/killzone-2/989295/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/killzone-2-kz2_mp.09_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/killzone-2-release-date-is-feb-27-similar-timeframe-for-pal/"Killzone 2 release date is Feb. 27, 'similar timeframe' for PAL release/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/691498/Killzone_2_Release_Date_February_27_2009.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/killzone-2-release-date-is-feb-27-similar-timeframe-for-pal/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1392508/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/killzone-2-release-date-is-feb-27-similar-timeframe-for-pal/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eewH-wRUqMscxjWNpshRLWd5tig/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eewH-wRUqMscxjWNpshRLWd5tig/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=eZ6fyhny"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=eZ6fyhny" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Dn197mad"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Dn197mad" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/hTQ7QW3veUc" height="1" width="1"/

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OJ Simpson profile: Fallen star who fumbled American dream

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/70109?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+OJ+Simpson%3A+Fallen+star+who+fumbled+American+dreamch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=OJ+Simpson%2CUS+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Mark+Tranc7=2008_12_05c8=1129665c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=OJ+Simpsonc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FOJ+Simpson" width="1" height="1" //divpFor many Americans, the sentence awaiting OJ Simpson from a Nevada judge today is justice delayed after he was acquitted of a double murder years ago./ppThe former American football star is widely believed to have got away with murder when he was found not guilty of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman, in a trial that split America along racial lines.br / br /Before what was dubbed the trial of the century, Simpson was already well-known after a career as a brilliant running back in American football. Cashing in on his sporting fame, he appeared in several successful movies including the Towering Inferno and Capricorn One. A stint in ads for the Hertz rental car company, in which he was pictured running through a crowded airport, cemented his status in the upper reaches of B-list celebrity./ppHis marriage to Brown - the coming together of a handsome black athlete and a beautiful blonde - seemed to complete the picture of someone who had achieved the American dream. In reality, their marriage was rocky and when things soured Simpson emerged as ill-tempered and violent. He was jealous of any hint that Brown might have a new boyfriend./ppSimpson's world imploded when his ex and Goldman were found outside Brown's home, knifed to death in a frenzied attack. He was arrested after a slow chase across Los Angeles in a white Ford Bronco that was broadcast live on TV./ppFrom the start, the trial transfixed America. The scene outside the Los Angeles courtroom took on a circus atmosphere and turned some of the key players - from the judge, Lance Ito, to Johnnie Cochran, Simpson's defence lawyer - into household names. /ppCochran, who coined the phrase "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" - of the glove found at the murder scene - mounted a brilliant defence by putting the LA police on trial for racism. In a verdict seen live on TV by more than half of the US population, a mostly black jury cleared Simpson, to the astonishment of many in and outside America./ppSimpson was pursued doggedly by Goldman's family. Fred Goldman, Ron's father, brought a civil suit against Simpson for the deaths. With the burden of proof smaller in civil cases, Simpson was held liable for the deaths and had to pay out $33m, bankrupting him. Simpson fled to Florida where he managed to live comfortably off his pensions, spending much time on the golf course./ppSimpson did himself no favours when, in a bizarre twist out of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, he wrote a book last year called If I Did It, in which he detailed a gruesome "theoretical" version of events on the night of the murder. In the book, Simpson describes going to Brown's house carrying a knife, arguing with her and then being shocked when Goldman appears. He blacks out and comes to again to find two bloodied bodies. The book served only to compound suspicions of Simpson's guilt./ppSimpson's final downfall began in room 1203 of the Palace Station hotel and casino in Las Vegas on September 13 2007. Two men, Bruce Fromong and Al Beardsley, had set up shop in the room, spreading out their memorabilia from Simpson's football career./ppThe men had been told by a friend, Thomas Riccio, that he would bring a buyer to meet them. Instead, Riccio brought Simpson and a gang of other men. At least one them was armed with a gun. /ppThey burst into the room, shouting a stream of obscenities. The two salesmen were pushed against a wall and Simpson and his gang gathered up the goods in pillowcases before marching out of the casino. The shaken victims called police and told them they had just been robbed by OJ Simpson. /ppSimpson's dwindling band of supporters insist the whole thing was a set-up as Riccio, who encouraged Fromong and Beardsley into room 1203, had also bugged the place. It was Riccio who told Simpson about the men. He sold the resulting audio tapes, on which Simpson can be clearly heard, for thousands of dollars to a celebrity website./ppBe that as it may and despite its farcical elements, the robbery and subsequent convictions have ensured Simpson will spend time in jail. 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Want to play that Resident Evil 5 demo today?

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- 2 hours and 58 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_5284/"img hspace="0" border="1" align="middle" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/pcresi5.jpg" alt="" //abr //div You may have heard that we in America were going to have to a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/26/famitsu-resident-evil-5-demo-hitting-xbox-live-dec-5/"wait a bit longer/a for the ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Resident-Evil-5/"Resident Evil 5/a /emdemo than those in Japan, where it arrived this morning. But that's the thing about us Americans: We're unwilling to wait for anything we want, and we're exceedingly crafty. Those are actually two things, but you get the idea.br /br /Our friends at Planet Xbox 360 have laid out a href="http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_5284/"all the steps/a you'll need to play the demo today, but be aware that it may not be for everybody, as this is a pretty elaborate process. See, that's the thing about us Americans: We can also be kind of lazy.br /br /[Thanks, Matt M.]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/want-to-play-that-resident-evil-5-demo-today/"Want to play that Resident Evil 5 demo today?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_5284/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/want-to-play-that-resident-evil-5-demo-today/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1392322/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/05/want-to-play-that-resident-evil-5-demo-today/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gvGylNYIktasNpKl7y51AwBQdP0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gvGylNYIktasNpKl7y51AwBQdP0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=nBJnV4m6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=nBJnV4m6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=mDFyrHL9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=mDFyrHL9" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/QUeE_bw3GrU" height="1" width="1"/

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Holiday Music 2008

The Allmusic Blog

- 4 hours and 45 minutes ago

Of the hundreds of releases the AMG Classical writers reviewed in 2008, here are some specifically suited to the festive season and which will provide you with hours of enjoyable listening.

Profil’s reissue of its 1976 recording of Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël is a solid presentation of an extremely appealing work. Scored for five soloists, chorus, strings, harp, and organ, the oratorio lies within the capabilities of good church and community choirs, and could easily find a place in the repertoires of groups looking for an alternative to Messiah to celebrate the Christmas season. It’s warmly, but not gushily Romantic, with gratifying vocal and choral writing, and both harmonic and contrapuntal richness and variety. Much of it resembles what Mendelssohn might have sounded like had he lived long enough to adopt a late-Romantic idiom. Several of the movements are strongly memorable, particularly the Prelude and “Consurge, Filia Sion” (with their nods to Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium); the duet “Benedictus;” and the trio “Tecum principium.” One of the standouts of this performance is the organ of Hans-Joachim Bartsch, whose sensitive playing and colorful choice of registration is especially striking. The choral singing and orchestral playing of Bachchor and Bachorchester Mainz, conducted by Diethard Hellmann is top notch — full and warmly nuanced. Sopranos Verena Schweizer, Edith Wiens, alto Helena Jungwirth, and tenor Friedrich Melzer sing beautifully, but bass Kurt Widmer is a little hooty. The sound is adequate, but is sometimes slightly distant. With a running time of less than 40 minutes, the CD could have used some filling out, perhaps with a few of the composer’s many excellent liturgical choral works. – Stephen Eddins
Saint-Saëns: Oratorio de Noël - Tecum principium

David Willcocks’ 1972 recording of A Ceremony of Carols is a classic: a straightforward version of the piece, one that forgoes any fanciness of tempos and allows the music’s simplicity and sophistication to work their own charms. The Procession and Recession are refreshingly brisk, and “This little babe,” which some conductors take at a tempo that seems intended to put the listener into a state of nervous anxiety for the welfare of the young singers, is instead shapely and musical. “Balulalow” is also taken at a speed that emphasizes its gracefulness and serenity. Willcocks has the benefit of young soloists (as well as the choristers of King’s College, Cambridge) with sweet, pure, strong voices that are absolutely in tune, something that cannot always be taken for granted in performances of this piece. Osian Ellis plays with wonderful clarity, and the harp is miked so that its delicate traceries are cleanly audible. St. Nicolas is a larger piece, requiring more extended performing forces, including mixed choir, girls choir, two pianos, orchestra, and tenor and treble soloists. The dramatic cantata, which was premiered at the opening of the 1948 Aldeburgh Festival, is stylistically eclectic, full of rousing choruses, intense solos, and intriguing orchestral colors. Robert Tear’s tenor is very similar to Peter Pears’ in its timbre and effect, so it will be pleasing to listeners who like Pears’ voice and annoying to those who don’t. Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields plays with fervor and dramatic energy. EMI’s sound is nicely spacious and resonant. – Stephen Eddins
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols - Balulalow

The Chapter House Choir of York Minster is not one of Britain’s venerable cathedral choirs, but was founded in the late ’60s as part of a fundraising effort aimed at restoring the great structure. The Chapter House Choir is a mixed-gender adult group with 36 members. The sound is tonally accurate and burnished to a clear state equidistant from the pure and voluptuous ends of the spectrum. The program includes one of the group’s trademarks, which is that the members fall silent vocally from time to time and pick up handbells, performing original compositions in that medium. It’s a sprightly break in a sequence of choral pieces that are accompanied by organ or nothing at all. There are also organ solos by Bach and Herbert Howells. The choral music itself is notable for mixing hoary classics like the Coventry Carol and other traditional pieces with music of the English cathedral school of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Howells’ Here Is the Little Door is a forgotten charmer), contemporary crossover pieces by the likes of Rutter and Tavener, and even the American folk carol I Wonder as I Wander. The results as a whole exemplify the jolly old English choral tradition to the hilt without being in the least precious about it, and that’s something to celebrate next holiday season. The choir’s expertise extends to hiring engineers who know how to work in the York Minster space, and text intelligibility is good. – James Manheim
Howells: Here Is the Little Door

This collection of Christmas music isn’t very well identified on its cover, but it makes a fine choice for the holiday season or any other time. The program consists of music composed in German-speaking countries in the 17th century. Heinrich Schütz and Michael Praetorius are the best-known composers represented, but most of the music comes from the generations after them, from the middle and later parts of the century. It is, for the most part, thoroughly Italian in style, with the exception of the Lutheran chorales that weave their way through it. These semi-dramatic treatments of various aspects of the Christmas story are mostly for two sopranos, and they’re an ideal match for the pair of Britain’s Emma Kirkby and Sweden’s Susanne Rydén. Kirkby is one of the veterans of the early music vocal scene. Her voice has lost none of its liveliness, but it has a thicker quality than before. It makes an intriguing contrast with Rydén’s more silvery instrument. The music for the most part avoids the virtuoso quality of Monteverdi’s high monodic style; it depends more on interpretation and consistency of tone, both areas in which these singers excel. The booklet notes by Bell’Arte Salzburg conductor Annegret Siedel effectively set out the expressive dimensions of this music. Even those who don’t speak the languages of the music will find a lot to enjoy here, however. – James Manheim
Geist: Uns ist ein Kind geboren

The title An Australian Christmas tells the basics about what to expect from this album: a collection of Christmas carols by Australian composers, performed by Australians. The listener would not know until after hearing this disc, though, just how delightful these carols are. The most substantial contribution is an artlessly simple, melodically memorable set of 15 carols by William G. James, written around the mid-20th century, to texts by John Wheeler. They are accessible, tuneful, and without being imitative, recognizably Christmas-y; many of them could unobtrusively slip into any collection of traditional carols. Wheeler uses local imagery to give the carols a geographical specificity that sounds quaint, but charming to Northerners; Christmas takes place during the Australian summer, and the texts reflect that very different sensibility about the holiday. The pieces by Ross Edwards, Elliot Gyger, Stephen Whittington, Malcolm Williamson, Anne Boyd, and Peter Schulthorpe, many names familiar to international audiences, are more demanding both of their performers and listeners; these are pieces difficult enough to require a fairly proficient choir and have more of the sound of late 20th century British choral anthems. The final third of the album is devoted to 12 Wassails and Lullabies, which use traditional medieval carol texts in new settings by Andrew Ford, scored for voices and percussion. It’s the most challenging work on the album, but its haunting atmosphere and inventive orchestration give it an immediate appeal. The Sidney Philharmonic Motet Choir sings with unmannered elegance and infectious fervor. The album should be of interest to anyone looking for unfamiliar carols that still evoke a Christmas-y mood. – Stephen Eddins
James: The Three Drovers

Admirers of Harry Christophers and his exemplary choral ensemble The Sixteen will no doubt have the highest expectations for this 2008 Coro release of George Frederick Handel’s Messiah, especially because the group is almost ideal in size, sonority, and technical mastery to render this work in the best period performance style. Even the most demanding listeners will not be disappointed in this recording because Christophers’ scholarship is impeccable, and he leads the performance with sharp Baroque rhythms, brisk tempos, vivid interpretations, and a great flexibility in instrumental combinations, which gives the music greater richness through doublings of the stings with woodwinds and supplies a pleasantly varied basso continuo. The four vocalists — soprano Carolyn Sampson, alto Catherine Wyn-Rogers, tenor Mark Padmore, and bass Christopher Purves — are all seasoned Handelians, and their arias are eloquent in expression and beautifully delivered with a tasteful modicum of ornamentation, but no more than that. The most thrilling highpoints are the glorious choruses in which The Sixteen sounds utterly seraphic in its pure tone and pristine in its transparent lines. As if this extraordinary performance of Messiah was not enough to compel purchase, the special edition set includes a bonus CD that offers attractive excerpts from Coro’s numerous Handel titles. This set is highly recommended for aficionados of recordings of Messiah and newcomers alike. – Blair Sanderson
Handel: Messiah - For Unto Us a Child Is Born

It’s a pleasure to be able to recommend a collection of Christmas music without reservation. This album (as the title suggests) features favorites from the German-speaking world, so some songs may be unfamiliar to English-speaking audiences, but the arrangements are so tasteful and charming and the performances are so sophisticated while being natural and unmannered that only the most unadventurous traditionalist is likely to find fault with the selection. The CD features an attractive mix of familiar sacred songs, chorales, and carols, in addition to the less well-known fare. The arrangements, by a variety of composers, respect the character of each piece while avoiding clichéd conventionality. Eckhard Weyand leads the chamber ensemble Collegium Instrumentale Stuttgart and the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben, a choir of men and boys, in performances that are warm, pure and unaffected, ideally suited to the folk-like nature of the music. Hänssler Classic’s sound is clean and nicely atmospheric. – Stephen Eddins
Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

In the world of the recorder, Michala Petri is the superstar of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. She’s equally at home in her instrument’s mostly Baroque traditional repertoire, new music, and crossover material. In her Christmas album, she largely focuses on carols from her native Denmark, but also includes a generous selection of more familiar pieces. These include arrangements of Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme; the Pastorale from Messiah; the Schubert and Bach/Gounod versions of Ave Maria;[/AMGID] a movement from The Four Seasons, and Silent Night. A number of arrangers, including Petri herself, contributed to the album, and while all the arrangements are fairly traditional, there’s a nice variety of styles represented, from straightforward settings giving the melody to the recorder, to more elaborate and virtuosic sets of variations. The diversity of approaches, and Petri’s use of a variety of recorders, makes for a nicely diverse collection. Her playing, from the simplest folk tunes to the most demanding variations, is impeccably tasteful and beautifully expressive. The Danish Radio Sinfonietta, led by Henrik Vagn Christensen, provides nuanced support. Hänssler’s sound is clean and bright. The collection should be attractive to anyone looking for traditional-sounding Christmas music from off the beaten track. – Stephen Eddins
Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

The Cambridge Singers, founded and conducted by John Rutter, is joined here by the Farnham Youth Choir and the Royal Philharmonic in a collection of Christmas music that includes an assortment of traditional and newly written carols, folk songs, and orchestral holiday pieces. The CD would be of interest to anyone looking for an album of upbeat Christmas fare, who’s open to some unfamiliar but highly appealing new selections. The most familiar carols, O come, all ye faithful, and Hark! the herald angels sing, are presented in attractive arrangements by Rutter and David Willcocks. Rutter is also responsible for most of the arrangements and orchestrations on the CD. Among the new pieces, Rutter’s Ave Maria, Bob Chilcott’s The Shepherd’s Carol, and John David’s Born on a New Day are especially attractive. Delius’ orchestral Sleigh Ride is a fun foray into obscure repertoire, but Nigel Hess’ A Christmas Overture, a medley of traditional carols, is of little interest. The performances are splendid — the singing throughout is fresh, spontaneous, spirited, and unmannered — and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays with polish, but also with a sense of fun. Sopranos Elin Manahan Thomas and Clara Sanabras and mezzo-soprano Melanie Marshall offer lovely solo versions of several of the carols. The sound is warm and clean. – Stephen Eddins
David: Born on a New Day

Founded in 1976, the Folger Consort has primarily focused on music of the Renaissance, but also branches out forward and backward through history. In this collection of music for Christmas, the Washington, D.C.,-based ensemble includes Medieval and Renaissance vocal and instrumental works. The program is divided into sections based on geography and date: 11th century southern France, 13th century England, 14th century Italy and Spain, and 15th century England. The stylistic and emotional range is also broad, from an intensely earnest and passionate a cappella solo to boisterous carols accompanied by a wonderfully noisy instrumental consort. The mixture of genres and styles works beautifully; the juxtaposition of such diverse repertoire is astonishing and often exhilarating. Much credit goes to the extraordinarily(...)

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/audi/" rel="tag"Audi/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008946/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/audi-r10-dgp.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick the R10 above for a high res gallery from the Detroit race/small/strong/embr //div embr //emThe self proclaimed leader in "green racing", the American Le Mans Series, will be losing one of its premier teams for 2009. After winning nine consecutive LMP1 championships with the R8 and then the R10 TDI, Audi will no longer have a works team in the ALMS in 2009. The only official Audi appearance in North America will be the debut run of the new R15 TDI at Sebring in March. After that, the R15 will go to Le Mans and Audi will be represented by the new A4 in DTM and the R8 LMS in GT3 racing. br /br /Audi hasn't indicated whether it will make the R10s available to Champion Racing or any other team. Champion has been operating the Audi Sport North America program for several years. The current economic conditions have been cited by Audi racing boss Dr. Wolfgang Ulrich as part of the reason for withdrawing from ALMS and also the European Le Mans Series. br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/"Detroit Sports Car Challenge 08/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008978/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008952/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008962/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-11_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008968/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-12_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/detroit-sports-car-challenge-08/1008939/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/08/dspc08-1280-13_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /smallspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"Photos Copyright (C)2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.br /br //span/small[Source: Audi]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBREAKING: Audi withdraws from 2009 American Le Mans Series/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/"BREAKING: Audi withdraws from 2009 American Le Mans Series/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1391893/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/05/embargo-12-5-6am-est-audi-withdraws-from-2009-american-le-mans/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NnIEgc_rjeqvujFFZG1KgcXLcB0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NnIEgc_rjeqvujFFZG1KgcXLcB0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=FdWm8Oce"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=FdWm8Oce" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=JNkKo8qP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=JNkKo8qP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/uFA_GhBIlV0" height="1" width="1"/