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Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep continues the story of Danny Torrance, 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and newcomer Kyliegh Curran star in the supernatural thriller, directed by Mike Flanagan, from his own screenplay based upon the novel by Stephen King.

Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the shine.

Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.

Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abras innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.

Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III, T2 Trainspotting) as Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson (the Mission: Impossible films, The Greatest Showman) as Rose the Hat, and Kyliegh Curran, in her major feature film debut, as Abra. The main ensemble cast also includes Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe and Cliff Curtis.

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In 2015, he made his championship debut for Dublin. In 2016, he finally got a proper run in the team but lost out eventually to Mick Fitzsimons. 2017 and 18 didn't bring much joy to him personally but this year, when the stakes were at their highest, Davy Byrne was the man entrusted with protecting Dublin's bid for immortality.

In nine championships matches in 2019, Byrne started eight of them - rested for the Roscommon Super 8s game - and come two epic finals with Kerry, he was deployed as a free man in the first game and tasked with wrestling with Paul Geaney in the second game.

If there was any doubt about how much faith Jim Gavin had in him, it was all alleviated across two ding-dong deciders in Croke Park.

It's a lesson in patience, in fortitude and constant self-reflection. It wasn't easy for Byrne doing all that work and not getting the same game time as some of them.

You're giving up hours upon hours, sacrificing weekends, eating and breathing this battle and, at the end of it, you're sitting with the subs.

It made Byrne hungrier.

"Every year, it takes such a time commitment and such a huge lifestyle commitment out of your life that you don't want to do it to sit on the bench and not play," the Dublin corner back admitted.

"It can weigh you down. Even mentally it's tough. So every year you're going out to try to get your place in that starting 15."

Byrne got his rightful place and almost made it an automatic selection despite the big guns missing out. It made it even more special.

"I think whenever you don't play you're obviously delighted for the team but there's obviously a little bit of individual disappointment there," he said.

"And luckily for me this year that wasn't the case. It's always going to be a little bit more special when you're out on the pitch.

"I've been on the bench a lot of times and those guys have been out on the pitch. But, I suppose, it's just the nature of the sport, different guys are going to get to represent the team every day.

"I was just delighted to be out there on the pitch. It was a goal for me at the start of the year to be starting more or less every game. So to achieve it was fantastic from an individual perspective."

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For those who are interested in the runtimes of upcoming movies, weve learned this week that Mike Flanagans Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen Kings sequel to The Shining that also serves as a sequel to Stanley Kubricks The Shining, will be joining this years IT: Chapter Two on the list of longest feature film adaptions of Kings horror novels.

Doctor Sleeps runtime is 2 hours, 32 minutes, making it just a tad bit longer than Kubricks The Shining. The 1980 horror masterpiece ran 2 hours, 26 minutes long.

As Flanagan joked on Twitter, You may want to go with the SMALL soda!

Ewan McGregorleads the cast as adult Danny, withRebecca Fergusonas Rose the Hat.

Carl Lumblyis playing Dick Hallorann withAlex Essoeas Wendy Torrance in the continuation of the storyline fromThe Shining.Kyliegh Curranhas been cast in the role of Abra Stone, a girl who has the gift of The Shining.Bruce Greenwoodplays the role of Dr. John.Alyn Lindis Snakebite Andi, withJocelin DonahueandJacob Tremblayalso starring.

InDoctor Sleep, still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the shine. Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.

Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abras innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never beforeat once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.

Doctor Sleephits theaters onNovember 8, 2019.

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The oldest etchings of the mythical path to immortality has been found in a 4,000-year-old coffin of a map for the soul to attain eternal life in Egypt.

Ancient Egyptians believed that by following the zig-zagging map in The Book of Two Ways they would reach Osiris, lord of the underworld.

Osiris is the high court judge of human souls in ancient Egyptian religion.

He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard.

It was believed that anyone who saw Osiris would achieve immortality and after a great feast with the deity they would achieve all their hopes and dreams.

But the route was perilous with the dead having to cross a lake of fire, the abode of the knife-wielders, gates of fire and darkness, and other hellish obstacles and demons.

Several copies of the ancient guide have been found, but a new study published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Harco Willems suggests this discovery is the earliest known copy of The Book of Two Ways.

It was unearthed in 2012 in the famous necropolis city of the dead Dayr al-Barsha, located on the east bank of the Nile.

Inscriptions in the tomb refer to Djehutinakht I from around the 21st to 20th century BC and it was originally believed to belong to him, Ancient Origins report.

It was previously assumed the coffin must contain the body of Djehutinakht I, but Willems study points to an elite woman called Ankh as the likely inhabitant.

This comes after reports that the Great Sphinx could have a twin hiding under sand mounds in Giza.

Meanwhile, an ancient Egypt expert may finally have revealed the function of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

And Tutankhamun's great-grandmothers coffin was recently opened, which revealed the noble lady had blonde hair.

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Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley and producer Mark Nielsen discussed a number of fan theories about the entire Toy Story franchise in a new video for Vanity Fair. If youve been wondering where the hell Andys dad went, you wont exactly get an answer, but Cooley and Nielsen share their thoughts on what couldve happened to Andys perpetually absent father.

Witness protection, maybe? Cooley says.

Nielsen offers, Id like to think that maybe they split up? Maybe hes still alive and living somewhere in another town? Maybe he was part of the CIA and is deep undercover. Any of those are possible, we dont need to know because its really all about serving the story of Woody playing the father figure role in Andys life.

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Cooley and Nielsen read through a number of theories submitted by Reddit users covering everything from whether or not Boo from Monsters, Inc. and Bonnie from Toy Story 3 and 4 are the same person, whether the girl who used to own Jesse before abandoning her in Toy Story 2 grew up to be Andys mom, and if Home Improvement takes place in the Toy Story universe.

Maybe thats who Andys dad is, Cooley suggests. Tim The Tool Man Taylor.

Things get a little dark when one Reddit user posits the theory that the toys are immortal, and will outlive every human on earth before ultimately inheriting the planet.

That seems plausible, Nielsen says. I kind of buy that.

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One of the things Ive heard is that maybe the toys are some sort of vampire that instead of sucking blood they suck the joy out of children and live forever, Cooley laughs. We never really thought about that when making the movie, its more about just family and being friends.

The filmmakers also explain the ending of Toy Story 4, and why they chose it over two other possible endings that had been written. So if you havent seen Toy Story 4 yet, you might want to skip that part of the video, or loudly sing a Randy Newman song to yourself to block out the spoilers. Watch the video below, and check out our review of Toy Story 4.

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Born to French-Canadian parents, Jack Kerouac excelled in sports from a very young age. Initially, never interested in literature, Kerouacs athletic pursuits won him a sports scholarship at Columbia University in the early 1940s.

At the same time, Allen Ginsberg, also won a scholarship at Columbia University and then met Lucien Carr. Carr, a well-read academic, was popular for his views and writings, which were infamously anti-establishment.

This is the time when, the core members of the Beat Generation Kerouac, Ginsberg, Carr, Herbert Huncke and William S Burroughs would go on to start a movement that would inspire generations to come. Through their prose and poetry, they would advocate spiritual awakening, purification, and illumination through heightened sensory awareness. This, they argued, might be induced by drugs, jazz, sex, or, in the later years, Zen Buddhism. But it was Kerouacs book titled On the Road, and his friendship with Ginsberg, that made headlines every now and then.

In the 1960s, as their writing gained momentum, adoration was closely followed by denunciation. However, their works, in time, influenced these popular trends, then engulfing the world.

The hippie movement

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility, wrote Kerouac in his seminal work, On The Road. Published in 1957, this part travelogue part novel, took Kerouac only three weeks to write. Written in a single, effortless flow, the book was inspired by Kerouacs travel across the rapidly changing post-war United States.

Cited by legendary artistes including, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and David Bowie as an influential read, Kerouacs work inspired a generation of hippie trails. The quest for soul searching, lied in travel, and for him, the journey he underwent before writing the book, was just a start. Unsurprisingly, American teens read the book cover-to-cover and before late, he became a literary icon.

The manuscript of On the Road

In fact, the term hippie was introduced in the 1960s. Before that, the American media coined the term, beatnik, to describe Americans, setting on a long journey inspired by Kerouacs writings. His works, acquired a global reach after hippies became prevalent around the world. The trail, required Americans to fly to Europe, which is where it would start. The final stop, more often than not, being Southern India, the travellers used the passes through pre-revolution Iran, and Afghanistan, before it was invaded, finally crossing over to Pakistan and entering India before settling in the southern states of Goa and Kerala.

Countercultures

Arguably, nothing influenced music and literature the way counterculture did. Constantly associated with liberation, one can see the rise of ideals of pacifism, LGBT acceptance and marijuana legalisation when one reads works like Post Office by Charles Bukowski or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson.

Counterculture literature grew with time when authors, notably, used their writings as a tool to critique the establishment that was governing them. Risking imprisonment and sedition charges, Kerouacs contemporary, Allen Ginsberg penned his much acclaimed poem, Howl. Ginsberg regularly mentions Kerouac in his works.

Allen Ginsberg in Banarasin 1963(HT PHOTO)

What is obscenity? And to whom? he wrote in the initial pages of his book, Howl and Other Poems. Ginsberg was frustrated that the rapidly growing American economy was masking the countrys military ventures. He accused the everyday white collar worker of ignoring the countrys atrocities. I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade, he wrote about how the US government was fooling them by luring them with jobs, as a way to mask Vietnam Wars atrocities. Subsequently, he had to face sedition charges.

Religion and spirituality

In Kerouacs final days, which would also mark the conclusive years of the Beat Generation, he set out in search of spirituality and was fascinated by Eastern religions. Ginsberg made a historic trip to India and Kerouac published, The Dharma Bums, what is now considered the hippie handbook.

My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom, he wrote. Raised a devout Roman Catholic, Kerouac after being introduced to Buddhism, mentions Bodhisattva frequently in his works which followed The Dharma Bums. Moreover, this was the early 1960s, when hippies, in their Volkswagen buses, thronged the beaches of California chanting Hare Rama, Hare Krishna.

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Just before Texas' Cameron Dicker made the kick to beat Oklahoma last year, FOX Sports announcer Gus Johnson boomed that Dicker was kicking for a place in "Red River immortality."

Really, there are few better ways to describe it. Anyone familiar with the history of the rivalry knows the names that make it arguably the greatest rivalry in college football, from Stoney Clark's stop to Roy Williams' Superman.

And plenty of players in the past decade (2010-on) have made their marks on the Red River Showdown as well. We asked Jeff Howe of Horns247 and Joey Helmer of OUInsider both of whom took in every game between the two schools over that time period for the five best from the school they cover. And to mix things up, we tried to keep it to one player on either side of the ball per year; while it would be easy to pick several Texas defenders from the 2015 game, or Oklahoma offensive players from the following year, we looked for one player who truly swung things in his team's favor.

The result is a reminder of just how good individual Texas and Oklahoma players have been over the past decade; for those who took in these games, they may wind up telling their own children and grandchildren about these players, the way Clark and Williams have already been passed down.

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The weight of Texas all lied on the shoulders and foot of Cameron Dicker, the kicker from China. The only thing separating the Longhorns from 2018 Red River glory was a freshmanand his 40-yard field goal attempt.

"Cameron Dicker, from 40 yards away, for University of Texas Red River immortality," Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson said on the call.

Dicker's parents, Rachel and Kelly, nervously scanned the field as Kyler Murray led a vicious comeback, overcoming a 45-24 fourth-quarter deficit to tie the ballgame 45-45 with two minutes left.

"We were enjoying the game," Kelly said. "It was an incredible atmosphere ... (With) probably about 10 mintues left is when we started noticing that this might come down to a kick."

Rachel focused on the game, but Kelly was fixated on his son, Cameron, who patiently waited until he was asked to line up for the biggest kick of his career.

This was all relatively new for the Dicker family, not just the pageantry of the Red River Showdown or the scent of corn dogs and deep-fried everything sweeping across the Texas State Fair, but college football and the state of Texasin general.

Cameron didn't grow up like the majority of the players at the Cotton Bowl who anxiously awaited his kick with the Red River Showdown on the line. Home for him was over 7,300 miles away.

Cameron was born in Hong Kong, though Shanghai is where the Dickers called home for the first decade of his life. It's also where he was introduced to sports.

While success in soccer dominated Cameron's early childhood, Kelly decided to introduce him to American football by building a program with a group of fathers who were also expatriates living in China. They had enough numbers to form two teams,the hardest part of forming a league waschecked off the list -- in theory, the plan sounded fine.

Then, Cameron got stuck playing on the offensive line and middle linebacker for his team, the Shanghai Dragons.

"He definitely did not enjoy that position at all," Kelly said. "He did really well at middle linebacker. They made him the center just because of his size."

Cameron wasn't exposed to kicking in China simply because that wasn't an option -- it wasn't part of the version of football they played in Shanghai. That all changed when Cameron got his hands on a tee after a practice.

"One night in a practice, someone threw out the 1980s orange tee that we all grew up with as kids, something that somebody threw out of a bag," Kelly said. "We were messing around. He and a couple of other kids were kicking the ball. It was a very natural swing for him."

That natural swing is exactlywhy Cameron raised his hand when a middle school coach asked, 'Can anybody kick?' after the Dickers moved to Austin due to Kelly's job.

Even in middle school, though, Cameron was less than excited to still be playing on the offensive line.

After a season of playing it, I was like Im done with this. It pushed me away from football. I was about to be done with the sport, Cameron said. Im a soccer player, so I enjoy running around and doing stuff. At O-Line I just stood there and blocked. It wasnt very fun, it just pushed me away from it.

The following year, Dicker decided to shift his focus solely on kicking duties.

As time would tell, this move was a permanent one. Neither Cameron nor his family knew it at the time, but 92,000-plus fans inside the Cotton Bowl would eventually watch his every move,awaiting that same swing for "Red River immortality."

According to Cameron, none of this pressure fazed him. He still managed to ooze the confidence the Longhorn fan base has come to associate with the kicker, even with the crimson half of the Cotton Bowl erupting as the Sooners completed the 21-point comeback.

"When they started coming back, I was like, 'OK, I'll kick the game winner,'" Cameron said after the game. "I knew I was going to, I felt that, and I was ready to go."

Before Cameron got his shot, he watched as Sam Ehlinger led a nearly perfect two-minute drill, converting on a third down to advance the ball to the Oklahoma 32.

"Once they got the first down, I knew it was in the 40 range," Kelly said. "I became more calm because I know Cameron can make that kick."

Kelly continued to read his son's body language from the stands, but what he didn't see was Cameron's facial expression, which went viral in the middle of the game.

Right before Cameron ran out for the field goal, a Fox camera found the freshman with a wide grin and a confident head nod, a moment that quickly turned into one of the most popular GIFs among UT fans and students alike.

"It's a perfect reflection," Ehlinger said. "He's just enjoying the moment and having fun. That's how he is all the time."

"He's goofy," linebacker Joseph Ossai said.

He recently claimed he was unaware the camera was locked in on him, clarifying that the gesture was toward Ossai and not to the millions of viewers watching at home.

"That was our thing," Ossai said. "There's a lot of pressure on those guys. They have such a little job, but it means a lot and everybody is watching. Before and after every kick I would hug him and say, 'No matter what, I love you, bruh.' After a made kick he would just wink at me, and I would wink back."

Ossai says they still do the wink, but it also has evolved into a handshake as well.

With Cameron busy going viral on national television and Kelly calming down a bit, Rachelappeared to be the only onestill trying to get a handle on her nerves.

Rachel and Cameron made their first trip to the Red River Showdown the year prior, though Cameron was just a recruit, not the kicker who lined up for this 40-yard attempt with 14 seconds on the clock.

"It's all on the shoulders of a freshman," Johnson said.

Some players linked arms, others prayed and a few couldn't bring themselves to watch.

"I was sitting next to (Texas safety, Class of 2017) DeShon Elliott, and I ask, 'How do you want to approach this?'" former defensive end Breckyn Hager said. "He (DeShon) said, 'I don't know, bro.'I said, 'Let's look up.' So we're looking up. We're not going to watch it. As we're looking up I was like, 'God told me we were going to win this game, so why would he miss it?' That's when I was like, 'Oh wait, he went to Lake Travis, and I'm from Westlake.'"

Hager's joke dates back to their high school days, which featured a bitter rivalry between Dicker's Lake Travis Cavaliers and Hager's and Ehlinger's Westlake Chaparrals. None of that mattered when Cameron stared down the goal post against the crimson backdrop of Oklahoma fans, did his double heel tap routine and took a deep breath.

"Earthquake! He hit it. Dicker the kicker, 48-45, Texas," Gus Johnson announced in the specific octave he saves for monumental moments.

Cameron said he didn't even watch the kick -- the shot that sent the burnt orange half of the Cotton Bowl into a frenzy -- go through the uprights.

"I remember after he kicked the field goal and he made it through -- I felt weak in the knees," Rachel said. "Literally weak in the knees. I was thrilled for him."

Cameron's game-winner not only came with the Golden Hat, but also a rare appointment with the media.

"I just remember it took him a really long time to come out to where we were waiting," Rachel said. "We were anxious to see him but he was apparently doing all these interviews. He was quite happy. I wouldn't say overwhelmed but it was a lot for him, all the attention he was getting."

Even after last year's kick, or his 57-yarder against Rice this year, Tom Herman still refuses to call Cameron, or any specialist by their name. If former Texas punter, and Texas Bowl MVP, Michael Dickson wasn't able to shake the name "punter," it's tough to expect Cameron to earn such a feat.

He is convinced that Herman enjoys this special teams group more than previous units, though. Herman hasn't gotten around to saying that, and he likely won't, but the compliments Cameron is drawing from the Texas head coach is slowly inching toward the Dickson tier of praise.

"I think our kicker is pretty dang good," Herman said in August. "I'm not afraid to say that. It's a luxury. It's rare to find one that is talented but yet mentally in a really, really good place."

Unlike last year, nothing will be new for the Dickers on Saturday. It looks like it might be 20 degrees cooler, but everything else -- the 50/50 split, the deep fried everything, the tunnel, the specific hatred shared between border states -- will all look familiar.

The attention Dicker received after last year's game is going anywhere, either. The same kicker -- the one who picked up the sport by playing on the offensive line in Shanghai -- will arrive to the Cotton Bowl on Saturday with his name, loved by one half of the stadium and deeply hated by the other, already cemented into the history of the Red River Showdown.

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Murmurs of immortality attended Leanne Glovers premiere of the Iain Grandage cor anglais concerto, Orphee, with WA Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall.

The legendary hero-musician Orpheus challenged death, embracing love yet failing as mortals must.

Such poignant feelings are riven through the concerto delivered with stunning effect by Glover, a dazzling figure in glittering jade, expressive and alluring throughout.

Shimmering strings and percussion set the scene, rustling over Baroque arpeggios, wavering slightly as Glover drifted eloquently in with a high, keening lament; rueful over a sinister underworld accompaniment, deep drums and funereal bells.

Sinuous playing and gesture cut neatly through antiphonal string ensembles held in perfect balance by Douglas Boyds deft baton.

Ghostly, the title of the first movement, was the leitmotif, while a meditative line emerged to explore the cors distinctive alto voice as drums and strings spoke of death and beyond, from which the hero seeks to lead his lover.

In the finale, what Glover terms curly bars lifted the intensity but never quite left behind the sighing tones of the opening; genuinely virtuosic passages rushing to an all-too-sudden conclusion.

Orpheus plea for his lost love Euridice, Do not separate two loving hearts, inspired this work through the medium of UWA professor emeritus David Tunley, whose affection for French composer Clerambaults telling of the classical myth led Grandage to write the concerto as a 90th birthday present.

Ever the showman, Grandage gave a hint of whats to come in his three-year directorship of the Perth Festival by appearing beforehand with piano accordion to expose the themes of the work.

At the last he sprinted on stage and embraced Glover to applause, cheers and bouquets of all kinds.

Vaughan Williams opened the night with Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; another borrowing from an archaic source expressed by antiphonal string ensembles, in this case small (quartet), medium and large.

Chords mystic and solemn evoked the ecclesiastical origin of Tallis work, a setting of Psalm 2.

In Vaughan Williams reworking, Greensleeves meets ancient faith and the Reformation, a musical kaleidoscope underpinned by deep pedal notes as if accompanied by organ.

Boyd blended three dozen string voices into one, micro-managing the ebb and flow; lush tones and refined dynamics the hallmark of the climax and cadence.

After the interval, Beethovens Eroica Symphony gave a foretaste of next years 250th anniversary tributes.

Clarity in the opening surging theme was tightly knit with complex rhythm and, again, precise dynamics.

Eroica, Beethovens third symphony, is the precursor of the Romantic revolution he unleashed.

Soaring melody, strident chords and a wealth of passion shone through, woodwind and brass scintillating and sharp.

The funeral march second movement gives a hint of the magnificent seventh symphony to come, the death of earthly glory subtly evoked in Liz Chees oboe.

Horns were especially powerful in the Scherzo, three playing as one over urgent, energetic offbeat entries and embellishments that Boyd clearly relished.

Launching attacca into the finale, all the above returned, challenging orchestra and audience with delicious forebodings of the year to come.

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Captain Tim Ritson, who has died aged 84, brought inexhaustible enthusiasm to his various incarnations as cavalry officer, farmer, fisherman and horseman.

Ritson belonged to that species of Englishman for whom taking part was the thing. Disappointments were not to be dwelt on and he had his share of those. A serious eventer in his younger days, he was selected for Great Britains team at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, only for his horse to go lame, preventing them from competing.

Later, in 2001, he briefly had visions of immortality when he hooked a monster salmon (It was like a shark) on his beloved River Brora in Scotland. After he and his ghillie had played the fish for two hours, the...

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