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ARLINGTON – Cowboys inside linebacker Bruce Carter will likely miss the rest of the season after dislocating his left elbow early in the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys won't know the full extent of Carter's injury until they evaluate his MRI that he will undergo Friday, but a dislocated elbow usually sidelines a player for an extended amount of time.
Carter was injured along the sideline when he tackledWashingtonreceiver Josh Morgan after he caught a 13-yard pass.
Cowboys safety Danny McCray asked Carter after the game in the locker room what happened, and Carter said his elbow popped out in the opposite direction of his arm before it popped back in.
As Carter left the field, he wouldn't let anyone touch his arm as he held it close to his chest, supporting the weight with his right arm. Carter left the locker room after the game with his arm in a sling.
Losing Carter is another major blow for the Cowboys, who have already lost three other defensive starters (inside linebacker Sean Lee, safety Barry Church and defensive end Kenyon Coleman) for the season because of injury. Carter has been relaying the defensive play-calls on the field for the Cowboys since Lee was lost for the season a month ago.
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The fifth-ranked Tigers used five sectional and school pool records to springboard past defending champion No. 7 Hamilton Southeastern, their neighborhood rival, 540-514. Yorktown (296.5) was a distant third. Fishers qualified all three relays and a school-record 13 individuals for next weekend's state ...


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The Annual meeting of the World Economic forum involves some 3,000 participants representing all sectors of global society, from business and government to civil society, spiritual and media leaders. The people on these pages appear in the public programme, streamed live and archived on the internet.
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Thomas Campbell's signature chacracters, if we should call them that, were the centerpiece of our sold out April 2007 newsstand cover with the artist (you can still get the subscriber). Now the multi-dimensional, multi-talented Thomas Campbell just directed this FUEL TV Signature Series ID of his famed characters running through the forest and hitting an estuary.
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[Editor's Note: Jack Grisham is an author, hypnotherapist, T.S.O.L. front man and all-around troublemaker. This column may or may not be factual, with characters who may or may not be real.]
Jack Grisham
He could hear her breathing in the bedroom--low, alcohol-sodden inhales and exhales sending sour air staggering across the bed sheets. Occasionally, a wet Dewar's burp belted from her mouth and rudely traversed its way into the living room. She was his mother, and he was hoping she'd be passed-out until morning.
He rose from the sofa and went to find the broom. There was broken glass in the kitchen. The beautiful crystal vase of roses he had given her on Mother's Day had been swept from the counter and onto the floor. He had cowered when her great arm rose high into the smoke-filled air, then tumbled violently toward the flowers--her bicep, larger than his thigh, rippling in the air, the mounds of soft, discolored flesh acting as a cheap-gift assassin for her displeasure.
"Richard!" she yelled. "Are you out there?"
"Yes, Mother."
"Mommy wants her baby."
He opened the bedroom door and peeped in. His mother was sitting up on the bed. She had pulled off her nightie and was drunkenly rubbing her breasts.
"Get your things, baby," she said. "I'm feeling hot."
"Don't you think you should rest, dear?"
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"I'm sorry, Mother. I . . ."
"Get your fucking things."
Richard walked to the closet and retrieved a large brown suitcase. Its edges were worn rough, its cheap vinyl handle two sordid nights away from breaking.
"Get out your diapies, baby."
"Oh, Mom."
"Rickie, Mommy is getting angry."
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Sixty years is quite a gap between an original and a sequel, but the 1940 "Fantasia" was never business as usual.
A melding of animation and classical music, it has been ignored (by audiences at its initial release), embraced (by succeeding generations), celebrated (for its "Sorcerer's Apprentice" sequence) and reviled (abstract filmmaker Oskar Fischinger called it "a conglomeration of tastelessness"). Whatever else may be said about its designated successor, "Fantasia/2000," it's unlikely to be that controversial.
Despite being trumpeted as the first feature-length animated movie to be released in large-screen Imax format, "Fantasia/2000" (opening Saturday at selected theaters) is more ephemeral than epochal. A pleasant enough diversion, with seven new sequences joining a reprise of "Sorcerer," it passes the time amiably enough (if you can get used to that overwhelming Imax screen) but doesn't leave much of a residue. Which may make it the paradigmatic entertainment, heaven help us, for the new millennium.
Many years in the making, "Fantasia/2000" follows the pattern of the original by having different animators linked to different pieces of classical music, some of which, like the three-minute version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, have been rather truncated. (The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, provides the sounds.)
Perhaps because we've gotten used to all manner of animation as well as to classical music being used in a wide variety of contexts, this mixing of high and popular cultures doesn't raise the eyebrows it did in 1940. More than that, the system of live-action hosts used to introduce each segment seems quaint and old-fashioned; only Steve Martin and his "12 week home study course" for orchestra members survives with his sensibility intact.
One of the intriguing things about the "Fantasia" scenario is that it's the opposite of how music usually works for the movies. Typically, the composer comes in after the material has been shot and writes music to fit the images. Here, the composers are dead and gone and it's the filmmakers, in an adroit exercise in problem-solving, who have to fit their images to the music.
When this process works best, when the match is good, there is no sense that a match has even taken place. Sound and picture should enhance each other, creating a third entity that lives and breathes on its own. At its worst, the result is an odd hybrid, a forced illustration that allows neither element to stand on its own.
While all "Fantasia/2000" viewers will have their personal likes and dislikes--it's an anthology, after all--one of the places the synergy works well is the marriage of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The concerto is a favorite of Roy Disney, executive producer of "Fantasia/2000," and he passed it on to director Hendel Butoy, who paradoxically uses computer-generated images to give a rich, old-fashioned look to the tale of a beautiful toy ballerina, a lascivious jack-in-the-box and a truly steadfast toy soldier.
Also making interesting use of CGI is the film's finale, directed by Gaetan and Paul Brizzi, Parisian-based animators who also worked on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." They've not surprisingly turned Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite into an ecological fable of life, death and renewal that makes a fascinating counterpart to similar sections in Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke."
Perhaps the most visually distinctive segment, directed by Eric Goldberg, uses an elegant visual style inspired by cartoonist Al Hirschfeld to choreograph a tribute to the hurly-burly of Manhattan in the 1930s to the music of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
Falling into the eye candy category are three abstract minutes of Beethoven's Fifth and the unexpected flying-whales motif Butoy used to accompany Respighi's "Pines of Rome." Among the other segments, the flamingos playing with a yo-yo sequence that goes with a fragment of Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" is too jokey, and Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" serves mainly to show us the caring side of a creature not previously known for his sensitivity, the dyspeptic Donald Duck.
Speaking of traditional Disney characters, the highlight of this "Fantasia," as of the first, remains the Mickey Mouse-starring version of Paul Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" directed by the late James Algar. Grainy as it looks in its massive Imax blowup, Mickey's misadventures with water and a broom still have the kind of magic even modern technology can't always manage.
Fantasia/2000, 1999. G. A Walt Disney Pictures presentation, distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Directors Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, James Algar, Francis Glebas, Gaetan Brizzi and Paul Brizzi. Host sequences director Don Hahn. Supervising animation director Hendel Butoy. Producer Donald W. Ernst. Executive producer Roy Edward Disney. Running time: 1 hour, 15 minutes.


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Last week, after the news broke that X-Men: Apocalypse would be the follow-up to Days of Future Past, the interwebs was set ablaze with new information and rumors regarding the 2016 sequel. One of the biggest rumors that hit was regarding the origins of the big baddie. I won't go into details about what that rumors entailed, but let's juts say that he is an alien rather than the mutant we were all expecting (and deserve). Naturally, fans were rather outraged at this idea, but luckily, this may not be the case.
This afternoon, Bryan Singer took to his Twitter account to dispel those rumors, simply stating that the villain will not be an alien. That's all the information he'd divulge, however.
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I don't know about you, but I'd say this is pretty good news, assuming it's actually true. In their defense, Fox and Singer have never been the kind to be super secretive or try and mislead fans, a la JJ Abrams. We found out today that Singer would be back to direct the Days of Future Past follow-up and that the film will take place in the 1970's, so we can expect the cast from First Class to be at the forefront of that film. No word on whether any of the cast from Singer's films will take part or not. That may depend on what unfolds in Days of Future Past next year.
Days of Future Past stars Ian McKellen,Patrick Stewart, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and Daniel Cudmore. Joining them are a few newcomers in Booboo Stewart, Omar Sy, Peter Dinklage and Fan Bingbing.
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Imagine abstaining from sex for an entire year, just to donate blood. That's what the FDA says gay men will have to do. Alan Cumming introduces them to The Celibacy Challenge.
Criticism High for FDA's New Blood Donation Policy
Yesterday, after more than 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would recommend replacing their outdated lifetime blood donation ban on men who have sex with men, in favor of a one-year deferral period.
GMHC Calls for End to FDA's Ban on Blood Donations By MSM
As advocates fight for a change to the current lifetime ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men, many are disappointed that once again, the FDA has chosen not to replace its outdated and unscientific ban.
U.S. Panel Partially Lifts Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood
On Thursday, November 13, a panel from the Department of Health and Human Service voted to partially lift the longstanding ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
Legislators Urge HHS Secretary to Reassess Blood Donation Policy
Legislators have asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell to review their outdated blood donation policy.
Iowa Woman Calls for Lift of FDA Donation Ban
An Iowa mom is speaking out against the Food and Drug Administration's ban on donations of some tissue from gay men after her son died and some of his organs were rejected.
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Some of a dead gay teen's organs were not accepted for donation, thanks to a longstanding policy by the Food and Drug Administration barring certain tissue donations from men who have sex with men.
Seattle City Council Backs End to Gay Blood Donation Ban
The City Council of Seattle, Washington, unanimously backed a repeal of America's longstanding ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
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Europe's Court of Justice is putting its foot down: being a gay man should not mean you are banned from ever giving blood.
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Fan alert: Stars will practice Thursday morning at Farmers Branch StarCenter
They'll be at the StarCenter located at 12700 North Stemmons. Just north of I-635, take exit 441 off I-35E. They're scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. Today, they'll be at their practice home in Frisco starting at 11 a.m.


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The designer — who claims he personally does not wear fur — did make one interesting statement, according to the report, claiming that there's no point debating fur in a world where eating meat is widely accepted. Unfortunately, making excuses does not help get to the bottom on an issue. And, suggesting that animals are dangerous and therefore should be used for the sake of fashion is hardly a valid argument at all. Quite frankly, if Lagerfeld feels strongly about not wearing fur himself, we wish he would make a real statement by simply not including it in his designs and using his industry influence to better the process by which fur is obtained and used. We can't imagine that one single bunny will be up in arms about that. (Fashion Telegraph)
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Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka
place : Sawara-I, Katori City
Tadataka, Inoh (1745-1821) walked measuring the Japanese whole country after his 50's, and made the first accurate measurement Japan map (Ino chart) in the country. Measurement apparatus, Ino map, and the life of Tadataka are exhibited in the memorial. The maps which have accuracy and artistic beauty are must see. There is historic house of Inoh Tadataka in the opposite bank of Onogawa.
"Hina dolls of the Ino family" are exhibited at the season of Sawara town-walk for Hina dolls .
There is free parking area.
The plus information
The nearby sights
- Historic street of Sawara(National landscape conservation area)
- Machi-gurumi Museum at-home
- Toyohashi-bridge (Jah-jah bashi)
The sights a little way off
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- Sawara area
- Name
- Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka
- place
- 1722-1, Sawara-I, Katori City
- Closed
- The next day of national holiday, Mondays(When the Monday is holiday, closed next day) and Year end and new year
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- 9:00 - 16:30
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- Adult 500 yen(group [15 people or more] 450 yen each ). Below junior high school student 250 yen,(group [15 people or more] 200 yen each)
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By car : Higashi Kanto Expressway, 10 minutes from Sawara-Katori exit
By High-way bus: Kanto Railways Green Bus from Tokyo Station for Hokota-station, getting off at Yasaka.
Keisei bus, from Hamamatsu-cho, or Tokyo-station, by way of Sawara, for Choshi. Getting off at Sawara station north exit, and 20 minutes on foot.
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Elliott Bay Water Taxi's future: Public meeting setNovember 9, 2008 at 10:30 pm | In Elliott Bay Water Taxi, Transportation, West Seattle news | 4 Comments
Less than 2 weeks after the Water Taxi ended its season, we've received word of another upcoming chance for you to have a say on its future: 7 pm Thursday, January 15th, is the time/date just set for a city/county-led public meeting at Alki Community Center, regarding both the WT's anticipated move to year-round service in January 2010, and plans to improve the WT dock at Seacrest. Separately, the King County Ferry District comes up for $ reauthorization later this month and the county's still taking your comments on what the Water Taxi means to you – dozens have come in, hundreds would be better: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Please take a couple minutes to email the ferry district. This can be a vialbe transportation alternative for W seattle.
Comment by big gulps,eh? well, see ya later. — 8:31 am November 10, 2008 #
Just emailed! <3 <3 's for the water taxi!
Comment by austin — 10:08 am November 10, 2008 #
Would the folks with foresight and vision please step to the front and support the cutest ferry on the Sound with an email? Takes three minutes. The future will be better for it.
Also, the Ferry District would eventually allow for expansion of ferries up and down the waterways. Sound smart? I think it is. So, let's get 'er done – write!
Comment by The Little Ferry That Could — 11:15 am November 10, 2008 #
FISHING? I hear no mention of how the Seacrest FISHING Pier will be impacted by these changes. The Pier was originally built for fishing and has always served as a means for fisherman without a boat to catch fish. As it stands, there are indeed two structures. Fishing and Ferry. I HOPE the future plan is NOT to ask for this pier and corresponding area to be designated a WA Ferry site, eventually incorporated into the WA ferry system. This would mean fishing eliminated as no fishing is allowed near WA ferry terminals due to liability concerns. Parking is major issue, especially during Summer.
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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg was born on May 12, 1950 in Herne (North Rhine-Westphalia).
After studying mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Ulrich Hackenberg was active as an assistant at the Automotive Institute from 1978 until 1985. Among other tasks, he was head of the vehicle dynamics research area, developed the motorcycle lecture and gained his doctorate in 1985 on the stability behavior of the "driver-motorcycle-road" system.
In 1985 Prof. Dr. Hackenberg joined AUDI AG, where in 1989 he was put in charge of Concept Definition and later took over the technical project management of the entire product range.
This included the models Audi 80, A3, A4, A6, A8, TT and A2, as well as numerous concept studies and show cars, the technical conception of the platform strategy and the development of a simultaneous-engineering structure.
From 1998 until 2002, Prof. Dr. Hackenberg worked for Volkswagen AG, where he was Head of Superstructure Development and also assumed responsibility for Concept Development in late 1998.
In addition to his tasks at Volkswagen Prof. Dr. Hackenberg was appointed Member of the Board for Development at Rolls Royce Bentley Motor Cars Ltd. and restructured the company's Technical Development. From early 1999 until mid-2000, he was responsible for the concepts of the future Bentley models as well as the new launches of the Bentley Arnage Red Label.
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Middle school students who send sexually explicit text messages and photos to one another are more likely to have sex than those who don't "sext," a new study finds.
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[CEATEC 2012] Sharp ICC-LED 4K TV is what we have all been waiting for!
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Bondurant Instructors Dominate Detroit Grand Prix
Bondurant Instructors Dominate Detroit Grand Prix
The top instructors at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving clearly demonstrated the value of their training when they won all five of their races during the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix on June 2 and 3. The wins were fitting, as Bondurant's chief operating officer Darren Law, vice-president of global operations Johnny O'Connell and instructor Andy Lee drove their Chevrolet- and Cadillac-powered racers to victory on the 2.1-mile Belle Isle temporary street circuit near General Motors world headquarters in Detroit.
Law and his co-driver João Barbosa topped the field in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race, driving the No. 9 Action Express Racing Corvette-powered Coyote Daytona Prototype. O'Connell drove his No. 3 Cadillac Racing Cadillac CTS-V to two overall and GT-class wins in the Pirelli World Challenge. Lee added two World Challenge GTS victories in the No. 20 Best IT Chevrolet Camaro.
O'Connell and Lee now lead their classes in the World Challenge 2012 driver championship standings after seven of 12 races. Law is second in Rolex Series Daytona Prototype standings – just one point behind first place – after the first five of 13 races this season.
"We've been trained by the best at Bondurant," Law said. "All three of us have not only gone through the Bondurant School, but are also employed there, and we all took wins this weekend in Detroit. I don't know that there's any other driving school that has current employees racing in professional series and winning five races in the same weekend. Bob was very proud that all three of his guys made it to the podium and won all of their races this weekend. He follows us every single weekend and calls every night, wanting to know how things are going. He likes to throw in some advice now and then, some of his mentoring. It's cool that he's really excited about it and he's really into it."
Bondurant was quick to praise his graduates: "I am so proud of my men and yes, I check on each one of them every race and I'm quick to praise them after their races. I am just so proud of them. Both Darren and Johnny were past instructors, went on to win world-class championships and made it full circle back at Bondurant to take the school into the next 44 years. Andy Lee has always been a fantastic Bondurant SuperKart and car instructor. I expect these guys to bring home first place every race. They have been groomed and know what to do and they do it well. They don't disappoint!"
The Bondurant School is the Official High Performance Driving School of Chevrolet. The Phoenix school features a range of high-powered Corvettes and SS Camaros, including Chevrolet Grand Sport, Z06 and ZR1 Corvettes, plus Chevrolet SS Camaro, Sonic and Tahoe models.
"Needless to say it was a great week-end for Cadillac and everyone at General Motors," O'Connell said. "Making it even more special was that the wins were in Detroit, under the shadows of their headquarters, and that Darren, Andy and I are all part of the Bob Bondurant team, utilizing the skills we all learned under Bob's method of teaching. As a school supported by Chevrolet, we take great pride in the relationship we have with them, and the wins we achieved are a clear example of why the Bondurant School and Chevrolet continue to lead the way when it comes to performance."
"What a sensational weekend for our Best IT/ Bondurant Camaro team," Lee added. "It's nice to perform so well in Chevrolet's back yard. The Belle Isle venue is amazing and the fans in Detroit are the best! I couldn't imagine a better weekend for The Bondurant School, as two of my mentors and I took the top step in every race. The Chevrolet Belle Isle Grand Prix showcased the great talent at Bondurant and heightens Bob's legacy. I've never been more proud to be a part of the Bondurant family."
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Weird Al Stars in GSD&M's Holiday Effort for Radio Shack - Posted November 7, 2014
In an attempt to boost holiday sales, GSD&M enlisted the services of one Weird Al Yankovic on behalf of the struggling Radio Shack. The resurgent Yankovic, of course, just had the first number one album of his career with his fourteenth full-length, Mandatory Fun. Radioshack CMO ... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M Targets Wedding Season for Southwest Airlines - Posted October 24, 2014
GSD&M is launching its fall campaign for Southwest Airlines with a new spot, entitled "Wedding," which debuts this Sunday during NFL programming. The ad touts Southwest Airlines as the perfect partner for wedding season. While it may seem like odd timing (with wedding season just ending), invitations are likely making their way... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M Celebrates End of Wright Amendment for Southwest Airlines - Posted July 9, 2014
Southwest Airlines has reason to celebrate following the repeal of the Wright Amendment, "an amendment to the International Air Transportation Act of 1979, restricting passenger flights out of Love Field to locations within Texas and to four neighboring states -- Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico." To help celebrate,... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M Combines Drinking, Spearfishing for Pacifico - Posted June 9, 2014
GSD&M has a new campaign for Pacifico, entitled "Yellow Caps," set to roll out this summer. "Yellow Caps" is a term "coined by bartenders and refers to Pacifico's bright yellow bottle caps, which are easily identifiable in crowded beer coolers." For GSD&M's latest campaign they have utilized the iconic caps, with the... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M Convinces Southwest Airlines to Show Us Its Pearly Whites - Posted May 19, 2014
Today Austin's GSD&M released a sunny new spot for client Southwest Airlines in order to promote its just-announced vacation destinations. The "just got our passport" theme stems from the fact that Southwest ... [MediaJobsDaily]
GSD&M Convinces Southwest Airlines to Show Us Its Pearly Whites - Posted May 19, 2014
Today Austin's GSD&M released a sunny new spot for client Southwest Airlines in order to promote its just-announced vacation destinations. The "just got our passport" theme stems from the fact that Southwest ... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M Launch Zales Holiday Campaign with 'Balloons' - Posted November 5, 2013
GSD&M has Zales' "Let Love Shine" holiday campaign with the spot "Balloon," featuring the surprisingly not terrible music of Lord Huron. I say "surprisingly not terrible" because of the band's name, but the diamond store chain boasts that in 2010, it did help propel The Black Keys (not my favorite but... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M, Welikesmall Make Science Look Cool for U.S. Air Force - Posted October 2, 2013
Yeah bitch, science! If you've been paying attention to education in this country, you probably know that U.S. students aren't stacking up so great against students around the world. They're currently ranked 25th globally in what educators have taken to calling STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In an attempt to get more... [GalleyCat]
The Stage is Set for a Scintillating Hitchcock Adaptation - Posted October 24, 2012
Deadline's Mike Fleming was one of the first this morning to the news that after many years of failed attempts, Broadway adaptation rights for Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window have finally been secured. The lucky winning bidders are director ... [FishbowlLA]
GSD&M Bows First Work for Walgreens - Posted August 13, 2012
Three months after reportedly beating out McGarryBowen for Walgreens creative duties, Austin's own GSD&M has unveiled its first campaign for the drug store chain, which carries the tagline "At the Corner of Happy & Healthy" (still a little i... [GalleyCat]
Russell Takes ECD Post at GSD&M - Posted May 16, 2012
A lot of happenings to report at the Austin-based, Omnicom-owned GSD&M, which has confirmed that Jay Russell has been appointed as executive creative director at the agency. From what one tipster tells us, "They finally got it right."In addition ... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M, Mullen Let it Snow - Posted December 20, 2011
For most Americans, the hope of a "White Christmas" is diminishing with each ... [GalleyCat]
The Faces of L.L. Bean Light Up the Holidays - Posted December 2, 2011
Meet A.J., a sales associate at an L.L. Bean retail store somewhere in Americ... [GalleyCat]
Jay Russell Returns to GSD&M - Posted July 19, 2011
Guess there's no place like home. As wonderfully named commenter BootsyCollins noted in our post on Omid Farhang yesterday, Jay Russell had indeed headed back to Austin to serve as VP/managing group creative director at GSD&M (he is one... [GalleyCat]
Farhang Leaves CP+B (Updated) - Posted July 18, 2011
Who needs official agency confirmation when a simple Facebook post will do the trick? A source sent us a recent post from one Omid Farhang, a VP/group creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky who just recently announced his departure from the age... [GalleyCat]
GSD&M's First Work For Goodyear: Pass or Fail? - Posted February 15, 2011
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Do you like cooking for a crowd?
I do. And that's exactly what I'm about to get to work on in just a few minutes.
Each spring for about the past 15 years or so, we've been making a batch of homemade barbecues for a 100 or so people who belong to a group that Therese and I support. The recipe I use is tried and true. I call it Auntie Helen's Barbecues, because it was given to me by my late aunt, Helen Tiedeman, who was the head cook at our Catholic school when I was growing up.
The barbecues were a hot lunch favorite of all the kids. Over the years, I've shared the recipe with friends, relatives and Herald readers. No one has been disappointed.
While Auntie Helen's Barbecues are great, I realize there are a lot of other barbecue or "Sloppy Joe" recipes out there that are pretty good. I can think of a couple right off the top of my head. The Sloppy Joes that are served at The Kegs drive-in in Grand Forks have a lot of fans, and I'm one of them. Also, one of my friends has his mom's recipe that contains chicken gumbo soup, which ranks right up there, too.
While I don't have those two aforementioned recipes, here is my aunt's along with another that was shared with me recently that looks pretty tasty.
Sloppy Joes
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 small onion, chopped
½ red or green bell pepper, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound lean ground beef or ground turkey
½ cup each: ketchup, water
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper
4 kaiser rolls, toasted
Heat oil in medium skillet.
Add onion and pepper; cook until slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute.
Add beef; cook, breaking up pieces, until browned and crumbled, 4 minutes.
Mix in ketchup, water, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper to taste; simmer until flavors are blended, 15 minutes. Serve on rolls.
Yield: Serves 4.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 415 calories, 31 percent of calories from fat, 14 grams fat (4 grams saturated), 69 milligrams cholesterol, 42 grams carbohydrates, 28 grams protein, 1,087 milligrams sodium, 2 grams fiber.
Auntie Helen's Barbecues
6 pounds of ground beef
1 package flaked onions
1 25 ounce-can cream of mushroom soup
½ gallon of ketchup
½ stalk of celery, diced, precooked
2 tablespoons mustard
¼ cup of vinegar
Barbecue spice, to taste
½ cup of brown sugar
Mix all of ingredients and cook for about 2 hours
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Most Americans have not been paying attention to the bureaucratic wrangling and political jockeying that has plagued the construction of the World Trade Center Memorial at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. But it?s not just New Yorkers and developers and 9/11 families who should care.
A good portion of the project is federally subsidized. All of us have not only a financial stake, but also a moral stake, in protecting the honor of the victims and the dignity of our country.
A Blame America Monument is not what we need or deserve. But it looks like one is already in the works.
In a startling op-ed printed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Debra Burlingame exposed the ?Great Ground Zero Heist.? Burlingame is on the board of directors of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines fight 77, which terrorists crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. She reports that the World Trade Center memorial will encompass a ?cultural complex? whose primary tenant will be something called the ?International Freedom Center.?
According to an IFC fact sheet, the project ?will be an integral part of humanity?s response to September 11.? An educational and cultural center will host exhibits, lectures, debates, and films ?that will nurture a global conversation on freedom in our world today.? Tellingly though, as Burlingame notes, early plans for the center that included a large mural of an Iraqi voter were scratched in favor of a photograph of Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson when the designs went public. So much for nurturing that global conversation.
The center?s ?civic engagement network? will connect visitors to ?service? opportunities. Translation: Left-wing activist recruitment center. As the fact sheet notes, ?leading NGOs (non governmental organizations) will be offered outposts at the Center to reach out to its visitors.?
On its face, the project may seem fairly unobjectionable enough (putting aside how far afield it all seems from the task of remembering the victims and heroes of 9/11)until, that is, you take a closer look at the chief movers and shakers behind the project.
Tom Bernstein, a deep-pocketed Hollywood financier and real estate mogul, is the primary driver behind the IFC. Bernstein?s longtime friendship and business partnership with Yale classmate George W. Bush gives cover to his radical activism as president of Human Rights First. The group opposed Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez over the administration?s preventive detention policies and has joined with the ACLU in mau-mauing the Pentagon over alleged prisoner abuse.
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EWU athletes obtain 19 Big Sky Conference qualifying marks
Men's Heptathlon Results
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Kersee Lind of the Eastern Washington University track and field team broke the school record in the heptathlon with 5,033 points Saturday (Dec. 5) at the second annual Candy Cane Invitational in Cheney, Wash., at the Jim Thorpe Fieldhouse.
In dual-meet scoring, EWU men defeated Montana 64 -30 and Eastern women lost to the Grizzlies 50.5 to 46.5.
Lind broke Matt Ludwigson's 2007 record of 4,951 points. Lind's previous best was 4,910 set in 2008. He also qualified for the Big Sky Conference Championships.
Lind was one of 18 qualifying marks attained for the BSC Championships. Others included:
Krystal Deyo (long jump, 18-7 3/4; 55m,
Shene Davis (long jump, 18-6 1/2; 55m 7.31)
Ben Cogdill (pole vault, 16-0)
Brody Faire (shot put, 51-5 3/4)
Steven Warner (55 hurdles, 7.81)
Christy Borders (55 hurdles, 8.53)
Sarah Frey (55 hurdles, 8.37; 55m, 7.17)
Kurt Williams (triple jump, 45-2 1/4
Whitney Leavitt (55m, 7.23)
Brianna Okoro (55m, 7.34)
Chelsi Friese (pole vault, 12-0 1/2)
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This will sound like a really silly question to you, possibly, but well I'll still ask.
I'm an all western rider so far, in my area, many people ride english but it hasn't attracted me much in the past. Both my teachers I have ride western and teach me so, which I enjoy a lot !
However I've started thinking about riding english a little because I'd love to do dressage. Or more, the classic iberian-dressage, or spanish dressage a little. I like reigning in western, which is one of the closer things in western I guess.
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AMD reveals updated Fusion processors, shipping now
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AMD Fusion APUs, better performance, battery life
AMD has announced that it has updated its C- and E-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for ultrathin and low-cost notebooks, netbooks, all-in-ones and desktop PCs. The revised Fusion APUs are said to deliver improved graphics performance, enhanced memory, and DisplayPort ++ (dual-mode support for both HDMI and DVI over DisplayPort). Power management is also improved with 12 hours of resting battery life from a single charge, up from 8 hours in previous models.
The updated E-Series chips now also incorporate support for DDR3 1333 RAM for improved memory bandwidth for faster processing and smoother video playback. HDMI 1.4a is newly supported, which allows for viewing 3D pictures on 3D-enabled TVs and displays.
AMD revealed that has now shipped in excess of 12 million APUs, selling more than 5 million in the last quarter of 2011 alone.
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ACE Mentor 2013: New Beginnings!
It was a little more than one year ago that I wrote about kicking off the 2012 session of ACE Mentor. The clock ticked, seasons changed, calendars were flipped …and here we are in 2013, with an exciting new year for ACE! A lot has changed over the last one year for us ACErs. Olive and Andy, ACE Team 3 leaders from years past have moved onto bigger things (Olive is now Regional Leader for SF, while Andy's helping build a hospital!)
Which means there are big shoes to fill – and trying our best to do that are Jose (HOK), Jamie (Flack and Kurtz) and myself (HOK)… the three new leaders for ACE Team 3. Also new this year – a fresh crop of 18 mentors and an unprecedented 34 students!
It's been a fun few weeks so far, and we're already at session #8! Our ACE team has visited the project site adjacent to San Francisco's Pier 39:
Understood what 'site analysis' is all about:
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….and taken a dive into the world of masterplanning!
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Lexington is gearing up for the 15th annual Race For The Cure in October.
A new store is open to help you get registered and shop for all things pink.
The Komen Shop is now open inside Whitaker Bank Ballpark in the Kentucky Ale Tap Room.
At the shop you can stop by register for the October 15th race, pick up your t-shirt, race number and also shop for Komen gear.
All all of the proceeds from the shop go to help fight breast cancer right here in Kentucky.
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Female-Led 'The Expendables' in Production, Casting Begins
Adi Shankar is backing an all female star-studded 'Expendables' inspired action flick
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'The Expendables 2', starring many of Hollywood's action elite, burst into the box office this past Friday. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Willis, and Jason Statham, this action flick is every macho man's wet dream.
So who would be cast in an all-female action-packed Blockbuster?
Adi Shankar's banner, 1984 Private Defense Contractors, has just secured Dutch Southern to write an 'Expendables'-inspired project, and is already "in talks with several prominent actresses affiliated with the action genre," according to Variety.
Casting rumors are running wild in cyberspace with speculations as to who these supposed "actresses affiliated with the action genre" could be.
Will they be recent action heroes such as Milla Jovovich ("Resident Evil'), Kate Beckinsale ('Underworld') or Summer Glau ('Firefly')? Or will casting directors consider classic action stars including Carrie Fisher ('Star Wars'), Sigourney Weaver ('Alien'), or Linda Hamilton ('The Terminator 2:Judgment Day')?
Considering 'The Expendables' is an even mixture of both new and old, it would be a safe assumption that Shankar's picture will utilize the same successful formula.
Our vote is for Carrie Fisher and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Buffy destroyed hundreds of supernatural creatures and humans alike… I think a decade later, she is still fit enough to defeat Linda Hamilton, at the very least. And Carrie Fisher is Princess Leia. Enough said.


text: Manga comics takes a ride into your dinner plate as Mika Tsutai, graduate student of Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, designs 'Manga Plates' as part of his graduate project. The personality from the frame of a manga anime is featured on each plate as a collection of different black and white drawings. Stories can be created when food is put together in a particular way on these plates. A Japanese comic can arrive just in time for dinner if you place these creative dishes in a certain manner of your choice.


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An unusual light blue and white Wedgewood sweet dish or pin tray. The dish is decorated with a laurel border and a profile portrait of George Washington.
This piece was made in a limited edition for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The image of Washington is based on Houdon's bust, which is in the Gallery's collection (the same bust is also the source of the image on the quarter dollar).
The dish is 4.5" in diameter.
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Several hours after the Galesburg Education Association ratified a new four-year contract on a split vote, union officials held a news conference to discuss contract details, and their displeasure with the administration of the Galesburg School District.
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The Galesburg Education Association is responding to allegations made about the union's contract negotiating motives as those talks resume this afternoon.
Former Superintendent Reacts to Current Teachers Strike
A retired Galesburg School District Superintendent says he remembers a time when negotiating a new contract with the teachers union was, perhaps, much more harmonious then it is now.
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How the CAA monitors aviation noise and how it works to minimise its impact
The CAA has three key roles around aviation noise:
What the CAA doesn't do
The CAA does not decide what amount of noise is considered damaging or annoying for people – while our research often feeds into these decisions, the levels are set by the UK and European Government. We also don't decide whether a particular plan for an airport, such as an extension, should be approved (that is for Local Authorities to decide) – though we are often asked to comment on proposals.
Who works on noise in the CAA?
In total, the CAA employs eleven people who focus full time on aviation noise. They are part of the Environmental Research and Consultancy Department (ERCD) and have many years of experience working on noise, in particular aviation noise, and strong academic backgrounds in noise research and analysis.
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Noise publications
The CAA in general and ERCD in particular have produced a number of reports over the years, particularly on the topic of noise modelling. A full list of our reports is available here.
How do we pay for our noise work?
Around 90% of the CAA's income comes from fees that we charge the aviation industry to operate – that means that if someone wants a pilot's licence, or they wish to run an airport, or set up an airline, they are legally obliged to hold a licence from the CAA, and they have to pay for it. Most of our functions are funded using this money, including our work setting airspace and providing information about noise.
The one area that is different is our noise modelling, where around three quarters of the money comes from Government, which pays the CAA to use our noise model to produce noise contours for major airports and provide them with other technical support and expertise. We also offer similar services to local authorities and the aviation industry, which makes up the remainder of our income. Current and recent clients include the following:
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El Paso has the longest doctor's office waiting times in the country, a new study shows.
The average patient wait time at an El Paso doctor's office was just over 29 minutes -- well above the national average of 21 minutes, shows a new study done by Vitals.com, an online service which provides data about doctors for consumers.
Four other Texas cities -- Fort Worth, San Antonio, Arlington and Houston -- were among the top 10 cities with the longest waiting times.
Some doctor's offices in other parts of the country and many hospitals, including some in El Paso, are using wait tracking systems to broadcast wait times to patients, so patients can spend less time in waiting rooms.
"Patient satisfaction is a key part of the success of any medical practice. If wait times cause patients to become dissatisfied with their doctors and (they) look for another medical provider, I would assume more doctors will be concerned and focus on it," Jeff Cutler, executive vice president of New Jersey-based Vitals.com, said in an e-mail.
Vitals sifted through 314,000 wait time reports from patients, including 519 in El Paso, to come up with averages by city. Some of the doctor profiles on Vitals contain the doctor's average office wait time.
Minneapolis had the shortest average wait time at just over 16 minutes.
Waiting times are a big complaint among patients. The thousands of doctor reviews on Vitals "show that long wait times are a common concern among patients," Cutler said.
The Internet and the proliferation of wireless devices are beginning to be used to make patients more aware of wait times at medical facilities.
A Chicago company last year launched an online-based wait alert system, MedWaitTime, for doctor's offices and other medical facilities to buy, and late last year launched a free wait alert system available to patients nationwide, WaitCatcher.
Sierra Providence Health Network began posting average emergency room wait times on its Web sites last year and in the summer started an emergency room patient reservation service. Las Palmas Del Sol Health Network reported its average emergency room wait times online and on electronic billboards last year, but recently stopped.
Waiting times in emergency rooms were not part of the Vitals study. ER wait times averaged just under an hour nationwide in a 2006 federal survey, but waits often are much longer than that average.
"In many ways, it is not surprising that patient wait times in El Paso are among the nation's highest. El Paso is under-served for health care across the spectrum of ages and specialties," Dr. Michael Romano, associate dean for clinical affairs at the Texas Tech University medical school in El Paso, said in an e-mail. "In addition, our community struggles with a disproportionate burden of chronic disease, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension that require recurrent health provider visits."
Texas Tech measures patient volumes at its El Paso clinics and adjusts doctors' schedules to balance appointments across a week to better use resources and reduce waiting times, Romano said.
Texas Tech is looking at working with New Mexico State University "to develop computer scheduling algorithms that can optimize the appointment process specifically to reduce patient waiting times," he said.
Dr. Andres Enriquez, a family practitioner in West El Paso, said a shortage of El Paso doctors, many doctors no longer accepting Medicaid and Medicare insurance patients, increasing government-required paperwork and insurance red tape are reasons for longer wait times.
"A lot of (private) clinics are not taking Medicare and Medicaid anymore. That means the ones that do take it get overwhelmed, like myself," Enriquez said. "My wait times probably average 45 to 60 minutes." (Vitals lists the average wait at Enriquez's office as 60 minutes-plus.)
"Wait times are a concern. I try to make sure people don't wait. But a lot of paperwork is holding things up," he said.
Dr. Raj Marwah, an El Paso rheumatologist and spokesman for the El Paso County Medical Society, a local doctors group, said El Paso's unique patient population has a lot to do with increased wait times. El Paso has a lot of Spanish-speaking patients who often have to fill out English medical forms at doctors' offices, which can take longer, he said. Doctors who don't speak Spanish may need to use a translator, which also can slow the patient flow, he said.
A doctor's office is "not an assembly line," Marwah said. "You can't process patients every 20 minutes. People have different medical problems that takes different levels of care and time," he said.
"Scheduling is key to reducing wait times, and reminding patients to bring in all (necessary) documents," Marwah said. "In my practice, we have a 30-minute time slot for follow-ups, and 60 minutes for new patients. We try to work in that time frame." (Vitals has the average wait time at Marwah's office listed as 15 minutes).
Dr. Vishal Mehta, a Chicago area orthopedic surgeon, said it's not unusual for his patients and patients of other surgeons to wait more than an hour for an appointment because surgeries often wreak havoc with appointment schedules. That's why he had many patients asking for a way to find out if he's running behind on appointments so they could come in later than their scheduled time, he said.
That's the impetus for MedWaitTime, a wait-tracking service started in May by Mehta and two partners. The service alerts patients via a health-care provider's Web site whether wait times at a subscribing doctor's office or other medical facility are running low, moderate or high. It also sends wait times to patients' mobile devices.
In November, Mehta and his partners also launched WaitChecker, a free service that allows patients nationwide to find waiting times at doctor's offices and other medical facilities through e-mails or text messages. WaitChecker's call center contacts doctor's offices and medical facilities on behalf of patients to get wait times and determine if a patient can show up late for an appointment, Mehta said. The service is being used as a marketing tool to get more subscribers to MedWaitTime, he said.
Doctors have been slower to see the need for wait alert systems than have hospitals, Mehta said.
"Hospitals pay a lot of attention to customer service," Mehta said. "Doctors are just too busy right now and are feeling pinched from all angles" to see a need for such service, which costs $50 per month per doctor, he said.
"No question the desire is there from the patient side," Mehta said. "So far, MedWaitTime is self-sustaining. It's essentially break even, and we're putting money into development of WaitChecker."
Sierra Providence last year began posting average wait times for emergency rooms at Sierra Medical Center, Providence Memorial Hospital, and Sierra Providence East Medical Center to let people with non-emergency problems know which hospitals had the shortest waiting times in hopes of alleviating wait times, said Gregory Deitch, marketing director for Sierra and Providence hospitals.
In August, it began an emergency room reservation system set up by Nashville-based InQuicker.com. Hospitals around the country are using the system. It allows patients with non-emergency medical problems to get an appointment online and be seen at one of Sierra Providence's emergency rooms within 15 minutes.
"We still post wait times for people who don't want to reserve (a time), and can see which hospital has the shortest wait," Deitch said.
"The (reservation) system was created because almost 50 percent or more of people coming to our ERs are non-emergency situations," and it makes it easier for true emergencies to get in, Deitch said.
Sally Hurt-Steffen, CEO of Sierra Providence East, said one reason emergency rooms in El Paso have high usage by people without emergencies is because of a shortage of doctors.
"If people can't get appointments, then they go to the ER," Hurt-Steffen said. "Some doctors have long waits -- two to three months -- for appointments." People also use ERs when doctors' offices are closed, she said.
The reservation system doesn't lower overall wait times for people going to ERs without a reservation, Hurt-Steffen said.
Staffing and other factors influence ER wait times, she said. The average wait time at Sierra Providence East's emergency room, for example, went from 47 minutes in the first nine months of 2011 to 27 minutes in the last three months of the year because of changes implemented by a new emergency room director, not because of the new reservation system, Hurt-Steffen said.
Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare disbanded its emergency room wait-time postings for its two hospitals because "we changed our consumer messaging as part of our routine advertising rotation," Carla Sierra, a spokeswoman for Las Palmas Del Sol, said in an e-mail.
It has no ER reservation system because "we're concerned that it might result in the inappropriate use of the ER for conditions that might be better taken care of in a primary care setting," she said.
Las Palmas Del Sol operates an East Side after-hours clinic open until 10 p.m. daily to treat non-emergencies, she said.
Sierra Providence operates two urgent care centers for non-emergencies. It plans to open another emergency room this month in the Sierra Providence Eastside Center near Trawood and Lee Treviño, and another urgent care center later this year.
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Regie Hamm's journey over the last 10 years has had all the twists, turns, and drama of a Hollywood movie. Only this wasn't Hollywood, and the cast weren't actors. A hit artist, producer, and songwriter, Regie Hamm has penned over 20 #1 hits, many of them in the Christian market. He hit the Top 20 as an artist on the pop charts, and he saw his self-written song "Time Of My Life" stay at #1 for 4 months on the pop charts. Oprah called it the "theme song of the 2008 Summer Olympics," and David Cook announced that with the song, Regie had hit a chord with people.
But the real story is Regie's personal journey --- He was raised in Pentecostal churches, tent revivals, and all night singings. Feeling born to create music, he experienced unprecedented success in the music industry in the 90's with Grammy and Dove nominations, and winning SESAC's Songwriter of the Year award four different times. But nothing would prepare him for the drama he would face in adopting a little girl from China, discovering her severe genetic disorder, and feeling helpless as he watched a life and a career spin out of control. Regie's story is one of a man and his family overcoming enormous obstacles -- a journey that would test not only his physical resources, but his faith. It is the rise, the fall, and the ultimate surrender of a man to God's will, and the powerful journey that brought him full circle.
Regie's amazing journey is chronicled in his book, Angels & Idols, and has been optioned for a Hollywood film.
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