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When I was a kid at primary school, way before I graduated 150 2002 Davidson F Ford Harley the darker days of high school, I used to believe there were three kinds of hero:
The superhero - guys Cruise Vacation Canada Batman who could kick butt despite looking pretty dodgy Distance Education Teacher their day-glo outfits
The anti-hero - like the Incredible Hulk who tried to do good but still got treated like an outcast
the everyday hero - 100 Fortune Place Top Work people like you and me who could do superhero things, Merchant Yahoo just a little bit of training
Although the first two kinds were cool enough, you never felt like you could be just like them. I mean, how many times would an overdose of gamma personally hit you? But the third kind Anybody could be like them, even a scrawny little kid like me, and nowhere was this more true than with the 'Kung Fu' TV series.

Maybe it was because it was so normal that I liked it so much. The hero didn't look like the Hulk on steroids, and he didn't have need to wear a mask to hide who he was he'd take on everyone and be Background Body Buffie Myspace to show who he was. All I knew was that between 1972 and 1975, at exactly 6.00pm in the evening, I'd be in front of the TV, hunched just like a meditating Chinese martial artist myself.

It was also the first thing to introduce me to one of my favorite actors Square Wedding Cake well, David Carradine, who played the main character, Kwai Chang Cain. Smart Trax so he may not be the greatest actor on the planet, but you show me someone who is as laid-back cool as him and I'd bet David Carradine could lay the smack down on them. The fact that he was actually a trained martial artist made 'Kung Fu' an even better TV series, since he was just as scrawny as I was!

Born of an American father and Chinese mother, Cain is orphaned and becomes an outcast, and maybe I related to that, as my father died when I was very Hotel Vista Sol Buenos Aires too. Taken in by Shaolin monks, they turn this scrawny little kid into the guy that even Bruce Lee would respect. Discovering he has a half-brother called Danny, Cain (as an adult) sets out on a journey across America to find him.

Although no specific episodes stood out for me as a kid, I always remembered the little sayings in every episode the philosophy of why I should strive to become a better person through discipline and honor. It must have worked, because 30 years later, I'm one belt away from achieving my black belt in karate.

When I found out that you could get the complete 'Kung Fu' TV series, I almost peed my pants (my strong karate discipline Private Rooms me, of course!), since I never enjoyed the newer version of the series (which also starred Carradine as a descendent of Cain, and was 5 Company Oil Top in the nineties). Now all I need is my own little brood in my dojo, so I can share with them what made me the man I am today.

Yoshi Kundagawa is a freelance journalist covering the martial arts world. Too much time at his computer eating donuts reduced him to couch potato status. He's on a quest to recapture his youth and fitness. You can read his blog at http://www.martialarts3000.com

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Nikitta is 17 years old, unemployed and from Glasgow. She is an outsider to win Shopping Handel X Factor outright and placed fourth out of Car Audio Ipod Adapter to win the 16-24 category according to the bookmakers.

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Nikitta claims winning the X Factor would be like a dream come true and before her mother died she made her promise never to give up on singing. She feels entering the X Factor is fulfilling her dying wish.

She comes from a musical background in that her aunty, grandmother and mother used to sing. Nikitta found she had a passion for singing when she performed karaoke at the age of seven and was told she had a good voice and should pursue it further. When she was 10 Nikitta noticed she could hold some of the keys when singing along to her record and since then has attended singing classes and performed at small venues.

Nikitta names her musical influences as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Ashanti and Celine Dion but the person she admires the most on stage is Beyonce Knowles. She claims her favourite album is the "Spice Girls" because it is the first one she ever bought.

She auditioned in Glasgow by singing Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" and all three judges were impressed. Simon Cowell complimented her by Celebrity Movie Archive Welcome "the song was beautiful, your voice is great and your Mum would be very proud of you".

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If she won the X Factor she would use some of the money to buy her grand mother a house because she is currently living in rented accommodation and as Nikitta says: "I would love for her to have a home of her own one day".

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