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Typical transportation and life around Lake Toba
Typical transportation and life around Lake Toba
Durian: a medium sized, yellow spiked fruit native to Indonesia. Particularly popular in Sumatra but eaten and transported all over the country. Sold in the raw and as a number of different desserts such as Durian Pancakes, Durian Ice Cream, etc. The worst smelling and tasting fruit second only to Brazil's caju (see earlier posts on Brazil).
Most effective to least effective methods of avoiding this demonic fruit (both smell and taste):
1. Do not travel to Indonesia
2. Do not travel to Sumatra
3. Do not fly Lion Air or Garuda if you don't want durian placed in the overhead compartment or to smell durian farts from the passengers in front of you.
4. Stay in your hotel as durian is not allowed
5. Fake an illness and/or wear a surgical mask at all times
6. Run away when offered (or slink casually back into the crowd)
7. Hold your nose and just swallow. This comes in handy when a restaurant owner offers you free durian pancakes and sadistically wants to watch you eat it. Take small bites and DON'T let it sit too long on your tongue
8. Beg a friend to eat your portion (consider bribery)
9. Only eat when you are already having sinus issues and everything tastes like cardboard anyways
10. Drink excessively
Hiking through monkey and orangutan jungles in North Sumatra's Bukit Lawang. Amazing to see these animals in the wild!
As one of the business capitals of the world for both developed and developing countries, I can't say I wasn't shocked to find the majority of the city covered in 5 star hotels boasting enough conference rooms to host a small nation. The urban sprawl and lack of physical barriers give Jakarta an almost never-ending sense of expansion. As though the central highways reach beyond Java's shores. Not to mention the traffic—making any journey in or around the city feel as if you are traveling absurd distances just to reach the corner 7/11 (where you can buy train tickets AND skin whitener!).
But perhaps most interesting but maybe not surprising is the way communities have developed around streets.
If you've ever traveled around Latin America you've seen the fruit stands and whatnot dotting the side of highways to give drivers a rest during long trips; even in Europe or the USA the occasional mall-like rest stop and/or lodge can be found every 20miles or so. But in Jakarta, these "rest stops" occur every 20feet. People stuck in traffic for hours will leave their cars mid-jam and pop over to a food stand to buy some tasty (but probably bacteria ridden) ayam goreng. As a result, food stands, mini marts, and mom and pop restaurants spill out onto the cramped Jakarta sidewalks to offer this liminal space between private and public.
The traffic jams in Jakarta are largely unplanned but ask any taksi driver and they can tell you the worst times are between 5am-noon and again from 5pm-9pm. So basically the entire day. As a result, these private/public spaces where drivers or pedestrians can move in an out of with ease offer a break from driver's solitude and offer a makeshift community that lasts only as long as the jam.
Even if you're not a driver, the stands attract nearby office employees, students waiting for public transit, and tourist groups waiting to cross the street. By in large though you see mostly Indonesian men frequenting these stands. But street life is not just for them! Children play in the flooded streets trying to hang onto the back of trucks and women sit making many of the hot foods sold at the stands. The sheer number of people on the streets despite the heat and heavy humidity is a testament to both the growing economic gap in Indonesia but also the ability of humans to form communities in physically and geographically complicated areas.
Food findings in the Hong Kong International Airport
Clockwise: bird's nest candy (???), panda-themed cookies and chocolates, fast food menu, questionable "organ congee", food displays, pork ramen and Japanese dumplings for breakfast
Today I arrived in the Dominican Republic and I cannot believe it has taken me this long to leave the United States. Over a year since I last stepped foot on foreign soil and sunk my teeth into a new culture—way too long if you ask me.
My sister, her boyfriend and I have decided to join my parents in their new (temporary, as always) home in Las Terrenas for the holidays. Though I'll only be here for a few weeks I thought I would continue this blog and recount some of my experiences in this new country. From the delicious seafood and lush green forests that surround my parents' humble apartment, I can tell this is going to be a particularly delightful adventure.
On my first open water SCUBA dive I was terrified to even jump off the boat. It was a wall dive and the thought of venturing so close to the deep blue had me squeezing for my Papi's hand throughout the entire experience. I was only ten years old at the time.
Almost twelve years later, instead of trembling at the thought of a wall dive, I'm discovering the land—er, so to speak—of cavern and cave diving. I'm trading in my vast ocean for confined darkness and desperately searching for my Papi's hand once again. Because this time, if something goes wrong you can't just swim up to the surface and get back on the boat.
Cenotes, Spanish for underwater caverns and caves derived from the Mayan ts'onot, is essentially a backyard swimming pool for many residents of the Yúcatan Peninsula here in Mexico. The extensive system of caves and caverns is among the largest in the world and boasts crystal-clear water coming all the way from the mountains of Nicaragua. The ancient Mayas used cenotes for a number of reasons (including sacrifice…leading to the discovery of skeletal remains at many cenotes) but today cenoteculture is a little different than it was back in the day. While Mayas used theMot Mot bird to find these fresh-water havens, today you're almost guaranteed access to a cenote when you purchase a piece of land. Most of the cenotesattract SCUBA divers, tourists, and scientists but even the locals jump in on the fun and host a sort of "pool party" or backyard BBQ that you would expect to find in the States—just with this Maya twist.
The first cenote I ever dove was Dos Ojos right outside of Tulúm a few years ago. It was everything you would expect in a cavern/cave dive: lots of stalagmites/ctites, complete and total darkness, and beautiful cuts of sunlight streaming into the opening. I can remember hoards of tourists, dive groups rotating in every ten minutes, and picnics on the overhang of the cave ceiling.
(Entrance to Dos Ojos)
Coming back to Tulúm had me itching to try cenote diving again. We dove two in one day—Gran Cenote and Car Wash…
Gran Cenote:
It's always colder than you expect it to be. And thinner, if that's possible. It's almost as if you're cutting through the water rather than pushing and pulling against it. You're weightless and for a moment you forget that you're underwater; instead, you're floating effortlessly in this quiet space where only your breath is heard.
Darkness looms ahead and as the golden stalagmites and stalactites welcome you into the cavern, the feeble flashlight that ventured down with you seems to grow stronger with every kick. But still there's darkness. It's as if it's feeding off of your light and steadily swallowing you whole. Your heart quickens but not even claustrophobia can set in because the darkness has consumed any and all physical barriers. And it's just you. Following the set of flippers in front of you. Hoping that they don't disappear.
But then you turn the corner and swim towards the entrance. The most beautiful blue light beckons you back and the darkness suddenly forms the shapes of the limestone structures you saw at the beginning. You're floating again. The flashlight has served its purpose and with each stroke your hungry eyes roll over formations that before the darkness hid. There's a sensation that you are the first one to see this light and these formations. It's as if this cave were discovered by you and yet you can feel the weight of time—other eyes have been here before. But it's quiet. No one is there to claim the discovery as their own. All you can hear are your bubbles. The only reminder that you're underwater.
(Looking towards the opening. Photo Cred: www.flickr.com/photos/xoto)
Car Wash:
It looks and smells like the lagoon from The Black Lagoon books that I read when I was a kid. There are bugs jumping on the surface and every so often a fish blows up bubbles from the murky deep. This is not your typical cenote. It was dubbedCar Wash because local taxi drivers used it for just that. But hidden beneath its dingy exterior is a cenote unlike any other in Mexico.
The first five meters are warm and cloudy. For a moment you are completely alone in the mess of yellow-green and this new sort of blindness has your body acutely aware that it is sinking.
Suddenly your feet are cold. Then your legs, your torso, your arms, and then finally your head. The water is crystal clear under the thick layer of algae and schools of small spotted fish dash away as you sink another few meters. The transition has you dazed for a moment as you take in this alien world: thick seaweed coats the dusty floor of the lagoon and the entrance to an uncharted cave sits up ahead with a thick, beautiful cloud of lime green and electric blue. Fallen tree branches stand at the opening of the massive cave and their black arms twist eerily into the cloud.
To enter the cave you have to drop another few meters and swim around the fallen tree branches and alien cloud. The limestone here is black with what appears to be gold patches. Intricate formations of the stone give the entrance an almost tarnished Baroque quality that only further suggests this alien, submerged world was built not born. Complete darkness comes almost immediately when you venture further in and only the alien light serves as your beacon home.
There are no fish here in the cave, no movement past that cloud of green. Even the freshwater turtles that dive down into the lagoon turn away from the entrance. There is no life down here—at least none you can see.
(Looking towards the opening, green cloud and all)
For more information on measures being taken to protect the cenotes, you can visit (and support!) SAVE: Aguas con los Cenotes at http://saverivieramaya.org/take-action/aguas-con-los-cenotes/
Isla Holbox off the coast of Cancún. Quite possibly the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen.
Home, for the moment, in Tulum, Mexico


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I'm really starting to love myself. I've started to love my life and accept that there are bumps in the road, but ultimately its part of your journey. I live in this beautiful bungalow with a pool facing the San Gabriel Mountains. I have a husband who really truly loves me and he works his butt off for our family. My daughter is so unbelievably smart and pretty. My parents are so encouraging and supportive, and have helped us immensely in achieving our goals. And I have a few true blue friends I can count on. These are the important things in life. As I head toward my 30s, I think I'm really getting a feel for what kind of life style I'd like to have as we grow older. Achieving a steady growth of our savings account would mean we would be able to travel more- which is very important to me that our family travels and experiences different cultures and environments. Being able to make necessary home improvements without budgeting every penny.
One thing Adam and I were talking about was that there seem to be certain time marks during relationships were problems seem to trend. At the 1 year mark, it's all lovey dovey, romantic. By year 2 mark, the pressure is on for an engagement or cohabitation. Years 3 and 4 are the testing period. Regardless of whether you are married or not, this is the make it or break it time period. Once you get to year 5, what the hell we've gotten this far. Year Six is the six year scratch. It seems, from what i have observed, that what they say about the seven year itch is true. We have a few friends that seem to have had significant problems during that seventh year. So is it true? Does your marriage decline because as beings that require love and attention we feel as if we become a bore just being with our spouse?
Currently my husband and I are are in the six year scratch, a term I endearingly made up. We bicker, we fight (what couple doesn't) but I feel like we still love each other. I still have fun with him, I love his sense of humor and what a great father he is. I just really don't want to see the seven year itch happen with us. We'll turn it into the seven year smooch, haha 😘😍

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The ground is moist and clammy. I wade ankle deep in the river. I can feel the icy chill from the water swirl between my toes. The pebbles in the river bed are soft and round, massaging the balls and heels of my feet. The tension in my lower back is loosening up.
I walk along the shore of the river and graze my hand along the large green leaves of vegetation. Some of the leaves are very large and have a dark, bold green tone to them. They almost appear plastic. I touch them. I rub a leaf between the tips of my thumb and forefinger. The leaves are very much alive and very warm to the touch. The sun rays have been beating down upon them.
There is a light breeze in the air. I take in a deep breath. I can smell the wild flowers in bloom. There's a fresh citrus scent gliding along the breeze. I follow the scent.
As I walk along the shore of the river, I notice I am walking with the waves of the river. I pick up pace and play with the waves. I am jogging and gazing back at the waves I've left behind, and the ones ahead of me, and the ones just at my side.
The river is alive and she is in the mood for a race. I pick up my jogging to the pace of running. The river is running at my pace now. She is picking up speed too. Her waves are challenging me to run with her to the finishing line.
We reach the finishing line together as my friend, the river, jumps with a rush and a huge continuous splash over a cliff and to the base of the waterfall she has created.
I remain at the top and watch her play at the bottom. I sit on a large boulder mother nature has left at the edge of this high cliff. It's her chair she has provided for any creature to rest and take in the view of the richly forested valley below.
The breeze lightly blows through my hair and whispers a distant bird melody. It says, "I am hear with you".
This is my home. My heart. This is the place forever within me.
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Two officials at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department have been overpaid by a total of HK$1.73 million worth of housing allowance, according to recently published government accounts.Monday, 21 December, 2009, 12:00am
Lawmakers are assured that they will have a say on the contentious amendment
A bill to amend the Housing Ordinance to eliminate the controversial clause that caps public housing rent will be ready for Legislative Council scrutiny early next year, a housing official said yesterday.7 Sep 2006 - 12:00am
The Civic Party has urged the government to extend its consultation period on public housing rents to allow more discussion on its proposed rent-adjustment system.
Party legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit said the public had focused on differential rents, while there should have been more discussions on the proposed rent-adjustment mechanism.9 Jun 2006 - 12:00am
An Insight article on Page A15 on Monday, June 5, 'Why it pays to end the rents deadlock', incorrectly explained the median rent-to-income ratio. The cap on public housing rents makes it compulsory for any rent adjustment to ensure the median rent-to-income ratio of the population of public tenants does not exceed 10 per cent.7 Jun 2006 - 12:00am
Only six years ago, many young couples in Hong Kong had to get married before they could buy a subsidised flat or obtain a government housing loan.
The rules to exclude singles from housing benefits were changed after the Equal Opportunities Commission found that they were discriminatory.25 May 2005 - 12:00am
More than three months after a court judgment threw the government's public housing policy into disarray, a long-term solution to the question of just how much tenants should pay remains elusive. The latest proposals floated by the Housing Department include linking rents to the consumer price index or refining the existing system, which bases levels on the median income of tenants.22 Oct 2003 - 12:00am
The rent for 12,500 public flats in So Uk, Sai Wan, Wah Fu and North Point will be frozen until December 2002, the Housing Authority said. More than 70 per cent of the authority's tenants are now paying less than $1,500 a month.10 Feb 2001 - 12:00am
College heads are demanding taxpayers sponsor their housing under a policy now only enjoyed by their staff.
Their request is expected to draw criticism.8 Mar 1999 - 12:00am
COMMERCIAL property rents have been slashed by up to 80 per cent under the Housing Authority's re-assessment scheme.
The authority revealed yesterday that since the review began in June, about 2,000 commercial tenants had won rent cuts.
The Housing Department said that of the cases reviewed so far, 397 tenants had received rent reductions of 30 per cent or more.16 Aug 1998 - 12:00am
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Injury Collision on KY 139 in Trigg County
Date of News Release: 09/24/2008
(Mayfield, KY) - Mr. Zachary Lunte was southbound on KY 139 as he approached a horse and buggy also traveling southbound. Due to an oncoming vehicle and the fact that the amish buggy had no slow moving vehicle emblem displayed, Mr. Lunte was unable to avoid the collision with the horse and buggy. Mr. Lunte and his passenger were treated and transported to Trigg County Hospital by the Trigg County Ambulance Service. Mr. John Stoltzfus and his passengers (Lavina Stoltzfus & David Stoltzfus) all refused medical treatment on scene. Mr. Stoltzfus was issued a citation for slow moving vehicle emblem required. Trigg County Sheriff's Department, Ambulance Service and Rescue assisted Tpr. Paull at the scene.


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From the beginning of Barack Obama's quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, there were African-American critics who accused him of not being "black enough." Ironically, some of those questioning his ethnic credentials were neoconservatives, or apologists for the Republican Right Wing.
For example, conservative writer Debra Dickerson, author of The End of Blackness declared in January, 2007, that "Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race, if he were actually black." Journalist Stanley Crouch took a similarly negative approach, stating that while Obama "has experienced some light versions of typical racial stereotypes, he cannot claim those problems as his own – nor has he lived the life of a black American." Juan Williams, of FOX News, warned that "there are widespread questions whether this son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father really understands the black American experience." Even Al Sharpton challenged Obama's legitimacy, stating, "Just because you are our color doesn't make you our kind … It's not about his genealogy, it's about his policies … What is it that you're going to represent?"
As late as December, 2007, roughly one-half of all African Americans polled still favored Hilary Clinton over Obama as their Democratic presidential candidate. Some of Obama's sharpest "racial doubters" were even from Chicago, his home base. Eddie Read, chair of Chicago's Black Independent Political Organization, for example, predicted that "nothing's going to happen" from the Democratic Senator's candidacy, because "he doesn't belong to us. He would not be the black president. He would be the multicultural president."
Such criticisms were based, in part, on the Obama campaign's initial presentation of its candidate as both "nonracial" and "multicultural." Obama's diverse family and kin network are a multicultural collage of divergent ethnicities traditions and languages. For months, the Obama campaign deliberately downplayed discussions about "race." Even their young campaign workers and volunteers have chanted, "Race doesn't matter!" as their rejoinder to critics. Obama and black Democratic politicians like Corey Booker, Newark, New Jersey's mayor; Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick, and former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, represented themselves as a "post-black, colorblind" political elite who are now attempting to come to power, supplanting both the traditional civil rights/social activism style leadership of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, as well as the black elected officials who owed their easy re-elections to the existence of majority minority legislative districts.
As the Democratic primaries progressed, however, Obama established the ability to win a significant share of whites' votes. He consistently won majorities among all voters under 30, voters earning over $50,000 annually, and college-educated voters. After the South Carolina Democratic primary, where Bill Clinton's race-baiting alienated thousands of voters, the African-American electorate swung decisively behind Obama.
As the percentage of blacks' votes for Obama increased, the tactics used to discredit or derail his campaign changed. Instead of "questioning" Obama's racial legitimacy, the anti-Obama forces switch to a strategy of "blackening" him.
One decisive step in "blackening up Obama" was Clinton's controversial "3 a.m. ringing telephone" advertisement. In theory, the ad was designed as a "National Security" advertisement, designed to highlight Hillary Clinton's superiority as a global problem-solver. But as Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson observed, if one simply turned off the advertisement's soundtrack, the visual images of the political commercial were almost identical with a sinister "home security ad": Innocent children and white babies sleeping, shadows revealing a possibly intruder, the urgency of an unanswered telephone in the middle of the night.
Patterson argued that to many Southern whites, all that was missing was black man in a ski mask, slipping through an open window. It would not be terribly difficult within the white American imagination to perceive Obama as a sophisticated, articulate "Willie Horton," the black murderer whom George Herbert Walker Bush manipulated in advertisements to his electoral advantage in 1988, winning the White House. Barack, in baggy Levis and a sweatshirt, might easily be mistaken for Amadou Diallo, coming home in the Bronx, confronted with guns by the New York Police Department's Street Crimes Unit.
The next stage in "blackening Obama" came in Mississippi's Democratic primary, where Obama easily trounced Clinton. Media pundits were quick to attribute Barack's victory to the overwhelming mandate of Mississippi's African-American electorate. Not surprisingly, 92 percent of Mississippi black voters had supported Obama. Obama's white vote in Mississippi was 26 percent, a figure which frankly surprised me because it was so large. More instructive was the fact that Clinton's greatest vote totals came from conservative Republican counties. Despite, Obama's strenuous efforts to present a color-blind campaign, the American electorate is so indoctrinated by "race" that the Illinois Democrat was unable to escape his black identity.
Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of Public Affairs, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University, where he also directs the Center for contemporary Black History. The author and editor of over two dozen books, Dr. Marable's most recent publication is Seeking Higher Ground: The Katrina Crisis, co-edited with Kristen Clarke. "Along the Color Line" appears in over hundreds of publications worldwide, and is available at http://www.manningmarable.net.
From the beginning of Barack Obama's quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, there were African-American critics who accused him of not being "black enough." Ironically, some of those questioning his ethnic credentials were neoconservatives, or apologists for the Republican Right Wing.


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The Truther Girl:Obama Boycotts His Birther Trial
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Effectively proving that he considers himself to be above the law, Obama was a no-show today at a hearing in a Georgia court where they were trying to address whether he is in fact eligible to run for office. How can Obama just not show up? Is there one set of rules for the elites and another for the rest of us?
Note: Obama was not charge with contempt for refusing to show up today.
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Ronaldblair January 29, 2012 1:27:01 AM CET
Why won't this lousy BIRTHER issue just DIE & go away? IT WON'T GO AWAY BECAUSE IT's TRUE- BIRTHERS are smeared as kooks & RACISTS- but in fact 5 top Forensic Documenrt specialist (used in court to verify documents) have all declared the (PDF) birth certificate Obama released on April 27th to be a blatant FORGERY- GOOGLE "MARA ZEBEST" (who has written dozens of ADOBE software books) Hear her stake her reputation that the birth cerificate is an absolute FORGERY (a cut & paste composit that was created on a computer) Bottom line is "OBAMA is a FRAUD who has deceived America" Have you ever read one word about MARA or any other specialist or lawsuit in the newspaper? (of course you haven't) Have you ever wondered why? More than 20 lawsuits have been secretly dismissed in court about Obamas birth certificate & multiple SSN's used in real estate scams- recently (in the 9th circuit court) Judge Lamberth dismissed the lawsuit against his multiple SSN's saying "Obama probably obtained the SSN's illegally but his right to privacy trumps all" This means that Obama does not have to obey the same laws that you & I do- He is above the law-


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The 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection will be held in the heart of downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 15-17, 2010. This symposium brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss issues and technologies related to intrusion detection and defence. RAID is please to announce that the keynote speaker will be Eric Chien, whose blog can be found here.
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listening to the whole RED album…yup, that's what's goin on when it's past 12am and I can't fall asleep.
"'Cause there we are again on that little town street.
You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over me.
Wind in my hair, I was there, I remember it all too well."
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Jesse Hartley
Jesse Hartley (21 December 1780 – 24 August 1860) was Civil Engineer and Superintendent of the Concerns of the Dock Estate in Liverpool, England between 1824 and 1860.
He had one son J.B. Hartley (1814-1869).
Hartley's career[edit]
Despite having no experience of dock building, Hartley was the first full-time professional dock engineer in the world. He had previously worked for his father Bernard Hartley, a stonemason, architect and bridgemaster John Carr, and the Duke of Devonshire.
Initially he was appointed Deputy Dock Surveyor to John Foster Jr. However, due to John Foster Jr. resigning three days later, he was promoted to Acting Dock Surveyor. During his service, he not only built new docks, but also modernised all of the existing docks with the exception of the Old Dock (opened in 1715), which had become disused and filled in. The docks at Liverpool grew from 46 to 212 acres (19 to 86 ha) during his tenure.
In 1831 he was appointed to convert the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal to a railway line. He persuaded the company to keep the canal open and build the railway more or less along its route.
Between 1841 and 1843 he prepared a number of different designs for fireproof construction of dockside warehouses. In 1843, he made models of warehouse arches at the Trentham Street Dockyard, to test sheet iron lined timber floored building method and brick and iron building materials. Through fire testing of these models, he eventually convinced the Dock Board Trustees of the benefits of his iron framed construction method. These experiments proved the worthiness of his fireproof design and he designed the Albert Dock to these specifications.
Hartley's improvements over earlier dock and warehouse design included the use of locks to keep the water at a constant level, so that loading and unloading of ships' cargoes was not reliant on the tide and the enclosure of the dock with high boundary walls, to reduce theft. He also adapted and improved the design of St Katherine's Dock in London, by incorporating high arches in the buildings to accommodate cranes.
Docks built[edit]
- Clarence Dock – opened 1830
- Brunswick Dock – opened 1832
- Waterloo Dock – opened 1834
- Victoria Dock – opened 1836
- Trafalgar Dock – opened 1836
- Canning Half-tide Dock – opened 1837
- Albert Dock – opened 1845 (officially opened 1846 by the Prince Consort)
- Salisbury Dock – opened 1848
- Collingwood Dock – opened 1848
- Stanley Dock – opened 1848
- Nelson Dock – opened 1848
- Bramley-Moore Dock – opened 1848
- Wellington Dock – opened in 1851
- Wellington Half-tide Dock
- Sandon Dock – opened 1849
- Huskisson Dock – opened 1852
- Canada Dock – opened 1859
Notable buildings[edit]
Hartley utilised an eclectic mix of styles and methods of construction in the various buildings associated with the docks. These ranged from the cyclopean to ordinary brick built methods and styles as diverse as Greek revival and severe Gothic.
- Albert Dock Warehouses
- Wapping Dock warehouse
- Stanley Dock warehouses
- Stanley and Wapping Docks' accumulator towers
- Canada Dock accumulator tower (demolished)
- Wapping policeman's lodge
- Salthouse Dock Transit shed (rebuilt granite gable end survives)
- Canning Half-tide Dock watchmen's huts
- Victoria Tower
- Jesse Hartley – Dock Engineer to the Port of Liverpool 1824–60 – Nancy Ritchie-Noakes, 1980
- Buildings of Liverpool – Liverpool Heritage Bureau, 1978
- Pevsner Architectural Guides – Liverpool – Joseph Sharples, 2004
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Review: Dragon's Dogma
Appearances can be deceptive. Take Dragon's Dogma, for instance. On the surface, it seems like an ill-informed attempt at a Western RPG designed in the East. Look a little deeper, however, and you'll find that it brings some well-disguised originality and highlights the failings of our most recent, beloved RPG experiences.
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Review: Capcom Digital Collection/Devil May Cry HD
Face it: you're old. That's what I tell myself as I stare into the abyss that is my ever-increasing forehead. As the hair recedes, all that is left is pale, shiny flesh that serves only to reflect past glories and hide regret within the ever-deepening recesses. This week sees two 'retro' collection releases from Capcom appearing on our shelves. The games I grew up with are now fit for re-packaging and retro bumper packs. It's all getting too real. Still, it's hard to feel sorry for myself when I'm smashing the collective face of the Mad Gear Gang with Mike Haggar's iron pipe of justice (trademark pending).
Review: Resident Evil - Operation Raccoon City
The ferocity with which some fans yearn for 'traditional' survival horror from the Resident Evil series often blinds us to just how diverse a series it has managed to become. Throughout its history we have seen it shift to a more contemporary, action-centric pace with Resident Evil 5, have seen it re-interpreted as a lightgun shooter with Darkside Chronicles and now, we see Operation Raccoon City recalling the often forgotten co-op experience of Resident Evil: Outbreak.
It's difficult to review Binary Domain without getting caught up in the history of third-person cover shooters and how they are typically defined by western developers. Just for you though, I'll refrain. After all, why would you want to hear my ramblings over how lackluster Gears of War 3 was, or how Quantum Theory is one of the worst games ever spawned from Satan's shitty asshole? All you need to know is that Binary Domain is one of the most surprisingly entertaining and rewarding games I've played in years.
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I went to the Cass open days and contacted some current MBA students as well as alumnies, who were of the opinion that I can easily get in if I can afford the tuition fees, furthermore one candidate stated that he had not done the GMAT, contradicting with the members of the admission team who clearly stated that every candidate had to do the GMAT test to be considered for enrollment.
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Then he went on to GMAT where I got a good Quant (92% percentile) and a low Verbal score, due to the fact that English is my 3rd language. He asked how is it possible that I stated I am a hard worker but did not increased my verbal score. I answered that I did GMAT 4 times and I took part in a Veritas GMAT preparation course and got an ILETS score of 7.5, hence my GMAT verbal score did not improved. Dr. Giantvito Lanzolla confirmed that he is fine with my final GMAT score but still not convinced that I am a hard worker due to my inability to increase my verbal score.
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Horror Movie A Day: AUDREY ROSE (1977)
We're not talking about possession. We're talking about reincarnation.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's installment of A Movie A Day.
[The regular A Movie A Day list has been frozen in order for me to do an all-horror line-up for October. I've pulled many horror titles from my regular "to see" stack and have ordered many more horror and thriller titles to make sure we have some good stuff. Like the regular AMAD column all the movies I'm covering are films I have never seen, but unlike the regular AMAD column I will not connect each film to the one before it. Instead I will pull a title at random every day and watch whatever the movie Gods determine for me.]
Today we take a gander at Robert Wise's horror/drama AUDREY ROSE starring Marsha Mason (NICK OF TIME, THE GOOD-BYE GIRL), John Beck (ROLLERBALL, THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT), Susan Swift as the titular Audrey Rose and Anthony Hopkins.
The movie opens with a horrendous car wreck, a head on collision on a rainy day, which causes a car to flip and catch fire. That car has a small girl and a woman in it. We cut to New York City sometime in the future as a family (Mason, Beck and Swift) enjoys a day out.
Those attentive people will notice a bearded Hopkins shadowing them. He's kinda creepy, actually. I love this era Hopkins… if you've seen MAGIC, you know why.
Anyway, Hopkins becomes more and more evident over the first 10 minutes. He's outside of Audrey Rose's school, following the parents as they shop, etc.
We also learn that little Audrey has some powerful night terrors, trances that are becoming more and more powerful. She thrashes and screams, calling out for her father. When she wakes up she has no memory of her nightmares.
Finally, Hopkins introduces himself, but not after he's frightened the mother and father of this little girl. His name is Elliott Hoover, a British man who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident. After two separate psychics tell him his wife is at rest, but his daughter is alive on this Earth he goes on a search for answers.
That led him to India where the idea of reincarnation grabbed him immediately. Going off of details given to him by those psychics he spends the next few years narrowing down the possible vessel for his daughter's spirit, ultimately deciding it's Audrey Rose.
He tells all this to the parents, who, understandably, think he's bugfuck insane.
However, the spells get worse and on the advice of their lawyer, they invite Hoover to their house in order to find out what he wants from them, with the lawyer in the other room ready to be witness to blackmail or threats or whatever the hell this guy wants.
Nothing like that comes out, Hopkins just genuinely wants to help his daughter's soul find rest, but only with complete cooperation and consent of the parents. During this discussion, Audrey sleepwalks up behind the lawyer standing in the hallway, out of sight… and she looked freaky as hell. Not quite Linda Blair scary, but close.
No make-up, just a weird, slack face and her eyes rolled up, showing their whites. She freaks out and the parents run up to try to calm her. She runs back into her room and starts pounding the windows, screaming for her father.
Her palms begin showing burns as she pounds the windows. She is uncontrollable until Hopkins enters and starts calling her Audrey Rose. Nobody has gotten through before, but she hears that. She runs to him and instantly falls asleep in his arms.
So that's the question of the movie. Does reincarnation exist and if it does, does the soul of Audrey Rose live within this girl? Or is there something more sinister going on?
You can tell an obvious EXORCIST influence, but not in a horror sense. It's in the family dynamic, particularly in the mother-daughter relationship between Mason and Swift.
The father, Beck, is a bit of a prick, actually. He's a nice enough guy, but he starts to feel like Hopkins is trying to take him out of the picture. Whether he is or not, I can't really tell you. I think the film does a good job painting Hopkins as a very rational and in the right person… Which might be to its detriment. It might have been a more successful thriller if we didn't know if we could believe Hopkins or not, if we could question his motives.
But as it stands, Beck gets jealous, feels helpless and starts turning into a dick. All this culminates in Audrey having another fit and Hopkins trying to run in to help. Beck wrestles with him and they fight. Hopkins breaks free, locks the parents out of the house and grabs Audrey, taking her to his apartment.
Then the flick turns into a courtroom drama as Hopkins is charged with kidnapping. He actually brings his belief in reincarnation into the court, making it the centerpiece to his defense.
The whole ordeal ends in a hypnotism scene that is incredibly effective.
I'd say the whole movie is a slow burn which doesn't really capitalize on the suspense opportunities, but I found it fascinating nonetheless. Hopkins is great, as you'd expect and the kid, Swift, is effective even if her performance is a little uneven. She can give a horrible line delivery in one scene and be really great the next.
Wise's direction is good, too. His choice of focus is, at times, beautiful. For instance, there's a shot of Swift at a window. It's nighttime and it's raining, but the focus is on the water droplets falling down the window, with her out of focus and thrashing out of focus behind it.
The cinematography is very… standard. Like I said, they don't play up the suspense, so the atmosphere isn't all that dark or interesting. It's actually a little on the dull side, maybe by choice… but whatever the reason, the visual identity of the movie definitely isn't one of its strengths. It's all in the script, character work and performances.
Final Thoughts: Sure, I'd prefer a little more menace, a little more suspense and a little more mystery, but that's not what the aim of the movie was. And I love the ending, which really plays into Hopkins' new religious views and seeing how that has influenced not only Mason, but also how it's starting to influence the real non-belief of the father character. It's the happiest sad ending ever.
Here are the titles in the drawing pool for the rest of October:
Wednesday, October 1st – Friday, October 31st: H-MAD! Horror Movie A Day! Check out the list here!
Added another '80s horror flick to the list… but we're in our last 10 days of HMAD. How the time flies… A good majority of those films linked above will be reshuffled into the regular AMAD stacks come November 1st.
Now's the the time to pull the next HMAD!
Next up is:
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? Interesting. I love me some Shelley Winters… and Oliver (Mark Lester) is in the movie! Creepy Shelley Winters and Oliver! is a winning combination, I think. Let's see if the movie lives up to that promise!
Previous Movies:
June 2nd: Harper
June 3rd: The Drowning Pool
June 4th: Papillon
June 5th: Gun Crazy
June 6th: Never So Few
June 7th: A Hole In The Head
June 8th: Some Came Running
June 9th: Rio Bravo
June 10th: Point Blank
June 11th: Pocket Money
June 12th: Cool Hand Luke
June 13th: The Asphalt Jungle
June 14th: Clash By Night
June 15th: Scarlet Street
June 16th: Killer Bait (aka Too Late For Tears)
June 17th: Robinson Crusoe On Mars
June 18th: City For Conquest
June 19th: San Quentin
June 20th: 42nd Street
June 21st: Dames
June 22nd: Gold Diggers of 1935
June 23rd: Murder, My Sweet
June 24th: Born To Kill
June 25th: The Sound of Music
June 26th: Torn Curtain
June 27th: The Left Handed Gun
June 28th: Caligula
June 29th: The Elephant Man
June 30th: The Good Father
July 1st: Shock Treatment
July 2nd: Flashback
July 3rd: Klute
July 4th: On Golden Pond
July 5th: The Cowboys
July 6th: The Alamo
July 7th: Sands of Iwo Jima
July 8th: Wake of the Red Witch
July 9th: D.O.A.
July 10th: Shadow of A Doubt
July 11th: The Matchmaker
July 12th: The Black Hole
July 13th: Vengeance Is Mine
July 14th: Strange Invaders
July 15th: Sleuth
July 16th: Frenzy
July 17th: Kingdom of Heaven: The Director's Cut
July 18th: Cadillac Man
July 19th: The Sure Thing
July 20th: Moving Violations
July 21st: Meatballs
July 22nd: Cast a Giant Shadow
July 23rd: Out of the Past
July 24th: The Big Steal
July 25th: Where Danger Lives
July 26th: Crossfire
July 27th: Ricco, The Mean Machine
July 28th: In Harm's Way
July 29th: Firecreek
July 30th: The Cheyenne Social Club
July 31st: The Man Who Knew Too Much
August 1st: The Spirit of St. Louis
August 2nd: Von Ryan's Express
August 3rd: Can-Can
August 4th: Desperate Characters
August 5th: The Possession of Joel Delaney
August 6th: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx
August 7th: Start the Revolution Without Me
August 8th: Hell Is A City
August 9th: The Pied Piper
August 10th: Partners
August 11th: Barry Lyndon
August 12th: The Skull
August 13th: The Hellfire Club
August 14th: Blood of the Vampire
August 15th: Terror of the Tongs
August 16th: Pirates of Blood River
August 17th: The Devil-Ship Pirates
August 18th: Jess Franco's Count Dracula
August 19th: Dracula A.D. 1972
August 20th: The Stranglers of Bombay
August 21st: Man, Woman & Child
August 22nd: The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
August 23rd: The Young Philadelphians
August 24th: The Rack
August 25th: Until They Sail
August 26th: Somebody Up There Likes Me
August 27th: The Set-Up
August 28th: The Devil & Daniel Webster
August 29th: Cat People
August 30th: The Curse of the Cat People
August 31st: The 7th Victim
September 1st: The Ghost Ship
September 2nd: Isle of the Dead
September 3rd: Bedlam
September 4th: Black Sabbath
September 5th: Black Sunday
September 6th: Twitch of the Death Nerve
September 7th: Tragic Ceremony
September 8th: Lisa & The Devil
September 9th: Baron Blood
September 10th: A Shot In The Dark
September 11th: The Pink Panther
September 12th: The Return of the Pink Panther
September 13th: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
September 14th: Revenge of the Pink Panther
September 15th: Trail of the Pink Panther
September 16th: The Real Glory
September 17th: The Winning of Barbara Worth
September 18th: The Cowboy and the Lady
September 19th: Dakota
September 20th: Red River
September 21st: Terminal Station
September 22nd: The Search
September 23rd: Act of Violence
September 24th: Houdini
September 25th: Money From Home
September 26th: Papa's Delicate Condition
September 27th: Dillinger
September 28th: Battle of the Bulge
September 29th: Daisy Kenyon
September 30th: Laura
October 1st: The Dunwich Horror
October 2nd: Experiment In Terror
October 3rd: The Devil's Rain
October 4th: Race With The Devil
October 5th: Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom
October 6th: Bad Dreams
October 7th: The House Where Evil Dwells
October 8th: Memories of Murder
October 9th: The Hunger
October 10th: I Saw What You Did
October 11th: I Spit On Your Grave
October 12th: Naked You Die
October 13th: The Wraith
October 14th: Silent Night, Bloody Night
October 15th: I Bury The Living
October 16th: The Beast Must Die
October 17th: Hellgate
October 18th: He Knows You're Alone
October 19th: The Thing From Another World
October 20th: The Fall of the House of Usher
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Oct. 22, 2008, 4:02 a.m. CST
by macheesmo3
This film to me is the perfect example of the above word .
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:05 a.m. CST
I agree..
by macheesmo3
on Hopkins being good in this , and there is good work here by Wise as well. But the courtroom thing drags it down and I thought the girl was kinda pthhhhh! Agree on the hypnotism scene tho. But , overall a Meh for me. ( I think the fact that i knew Wise directed it may have led me to judge it too harshly . Like why I don't think much of Scorsese's Cape Fear.
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:12 a.m. CST
All I can remember about this film is..
by Boba Fat
Hopkins bellowing 'Audrey Rose!" a lot.
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:21 a.m. CST
by aint_it_cruel?
that you're not pulling the actual DVD's out of a giant Santa Bag each day. Just a crummy slip of paper pulled out of a crummy plastic Safeway bag. This feature is no longer fun for me. ;-) If I am accepted to BNAT I will give you a Santa Bag you can use next October. I also want to take a peek at the famous DVD collection while I'm there. Yes, I just invited myself to your place...
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:38 a.m. CST
This movie blows
by hank quinlan
I rented this a few years ago, hoping for a cool, underrated 70's ghost story. It's mostly a bunch of new age nonsense. There's nothing really remotely scary or interesting at all. Hopkins character seems menacing at first so they get some mileage out of that. But they drop all pretense to horror or suspense by the end. And **spoiler*** Hopkins leaves with the little girl at the end. Very bizarre. Totally not worth anyone's time. It's always marketed as a thriller or supernatural story. It's not. Do not bother.
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:53 a.m. CST
Loved the japanese poster
by ricarleite
They always do some neat stuff. And Polish ones are always creepy! I don't know why!
Oct. 22, 2008, 6:43 a.m. CST
As fright Flicks go with chicks named Rose
by deanbarry
I think the "Emily" one is lot more scary.
Oct. 22, 2008, 7:17 a.m. CST
Don't look now
by DrNookie
I remember this starting well and getting progressively crapper. For definitive 70's creepy you must watch Don't Look Now. Even the trailer makes the hairs stand on the back of my neck.
Oct. 22, 2008, 8:52 a.m. CST
The japanese poster sure looks like
by skimn
a mushroom cloud, doesn't it?<p>I never saw this, but it sounds a bit like The Entity, another late '70s/early '80s supernatural story that was given a serious, scientific angle that was popular after The Exorcist.
Oct. 22, 2008, 9:37 a.m. CST
Who slew Auntie Roo is just as bad....
by 2for2true
There goes four hours of your life you'll never get back. May I recommend that you get your hands on a copy of "Sssss".... that's a fairly decent early seventies horror film that beats both of these two stinkers.
Oct. 22, 2008, 9:59 a.m. CST
by Lost Jarv
how goes it, oh pencil stabbing deity? Have you dealt with the shitheel problem in your 'Hood?
Oct. 22, 2008, 10:05 a.m. CST
Wise directed one of my all-time fav horror flicks...
by the beef
The Body Snatcher. Hurry and pick that one randomly.
Oct. 22, 2008, 10:06 a.m. CST
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Oct. 22, 2008, 10:18 a.m. CST
This was a court room drama disguised as horror
by ArcadianDS
i enjoyed the film and still enjoy many of its parts, but this was NOT a horror film - its a convoluted episode of Perry Mason written by Rod Serling.
Oct. 22, 2008, 10:59 a.m. CST
by Darthkrusty
Saw AR recently on cable and was disappointed. Not horrible, but a bit dull. I remember the commercial for it creeping me out when I was little. Also, some talkbacks yesterday compared this film to The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. I've never seen that entire film, but I remember it was playing in the theatre across the hallway from JAWS when my dad took me to see that when I was 7. During the night scene before the head pops out of the sunken boat, I had to leave the theatre because I was scared shitless. I recall walking across the way and catching about 5 minutes of Proud before mustering the courage to go back and witness the rest of JAWS. The titular actor of Proud... Michael Sarrazin was in the wonderful FRANKENSTEIN: The True Story. Very highly recommended. ALSO, a great Robert Wise sci-fi film I highly recommend is the Andromeda Strain.
Oct. 22, 2008, 11:01 a.m. CST
by skimn
Are you referring to Audrey Rose, or Emily Rose? The statement could apply to both.
Oct. 22, 2008, 11:36 a.m. CST
my lord...2for2true!
by just pillow talk
which shitheel shall your loyal warciples dispatch today?
Oct. 22, 2008, 11:41 a.m. CST
1968-1983 pest period for horror movies
by Continentalop
Sure Audrey Rose was disappointing, but part of the reason it doesn't work is because the filmmakers where trying something new. Sure, it didn't work, but at least they tried something a little different. And that is what makes that era of filmmaking so interesting and great: the willingness to try something new and different, things that we now take for granted, especially in the horror genre. Gore, brutality, blasphemy, nudity, sex, blood, violence, harsh language, all of these came out in this era. It also brought forth better storytelling, more realistic characters and storylines, and better acting and direction than the genre was used too. And in that spirit I would like to suggest a couple of films to you Quint: Pretty Poison; the Witchfinder General; The Legend of Hell House; George Romero's Martin; The Funhouse; Videodrome; and the House of Long Shadows. I am sure you have seen most of these, if not all, but I think these are all worth checking out (I would of added Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly but I think it is only available on vhs; which is to bad because that movie is f'ed up).
Oct. 22, 2008, 11:45 a.m. CST
+100000 on
by macheesmo3
Andromeda Strain. The best split screen work ever! It is also a great hard science fiction film from a time when the directors seemed to acknowledge that the audience weren't too stupid to understand it. Great film!
Oct. 22, 2008, 12:19 p.m. CST
by Darthkrusty
Caught about 20 minutes of the recent made-for-cable remake and couldn't stand it. Love the look & feel of the original. I think Wise tried to carry that same tone over into ST: TMP, but it just didn't translate well to that universe & characters.
Oct. 22, 2008, 12:35 p.m. CST
Top 3 movies that scared me most
by Darthkrusty
1. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (original) 2. JAWS 3. ALIEN Honorable mention to.... Saving Private Ryan, (mainly opening half hour, but the whole thing had me on edge)
Oct. 22, 2008, 12:45 p.m. CST
Part of ST:TMP problem
by skimn
is the cerebral nature of the plot, and that everything that happens to the characters is reactive. Its not a very proactive movie. They react to this, they watch that, etc. The voyage through V'ger, though impressive because of Trumbull's effects, brought the movie to a dead halt. It was Wrath that gave them an adversary to react to and act against.
Oct. 22, 2008, 1:11 p.m. CST
Sorry about my lack of spacing/paragraphs
by Darthkrusty
I agree with you skimn. I was mainly commenting on the look & wardrobe. Khan was definitely more colorful... in look & action. But I still dig TMP.
Oct. 22, 2008, 1:18 p.m. CST
Don't Look Now
by BenBraddock
I finally saw it the other day, having just returned from Venice myself I was inspired to see what all the fuss was about. Pretty good! A bit dated but effective despite (or maybe even because of) that. Worth checking out. Venice has surely never looked more menacing..
Oct. 22, 2008, 1:33 p.m. CST
Unbelievably dated
by reflecto
The hypnotism scene IS absolutely spellbinding and fascinating, but much of the rest of the movie, especially the ending, is New Age nonsense from the 70s. Especially the "well, we lost everything but it's OK because of our new spiritual beliefs" monologue at the end.
Oct. 22, 2008, 1:53 p.m. CST
by skimn
With the infamous "did they really DO IT" scene between Sutherland and Christie. Is Nic Roeg still around?
Oct. 22, 2008, 1:57 p.m. CST
by skimn
Oh yea, I really loved the "futuristic" design of Wildfire, with the tubular hallways, and color coding. The remake was dull in comparison. And while even knowing the outcome, the originals race to shut down the bomb is still exciting (love the druggy visual POV effect).
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:12 p.m. CST
by Continentalop
Yes Nicolas Roeg is still around. I believe he is living in a hotel in LA. As for "Don't Look Now", my only problem with the film was the ending" "Wow. A dwarf killed him."
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:15 p.m. CST
by Continentalop
My mistake. I am thinking of Kenneth Anger. He lives in a hotel in LA.
Oct. 22, 2008, 4:21 p.m. CST
Nic Roeg
by Darthkrusty
He was Director of Photography on Masque of Red Death. Loved Don't Look Now, but my fav of his is THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Cosmic poetry
Oct. 23, 2008, 10:04 a.m. CST
Hey don't spoil the ending, Continentalop
by BenBraddock
Some people may not have seen it! I hadn't; it was a great ending. Though the blood was way too red paintish
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When the injured Brad Lidge returns to the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen, he will not be fortunate enough to resume duties as the closer. While he's been out, Ryan Madson has done so well manager Charlie Manuel says things won't change. Even with the loss of duties, he has no problem applauding Madson for his season thus far.
"I think, honestly, that he's the best closer in the National League right now," Lidge told reporters recently. "And I have no problem saying that."
Madson has been outstanding for the Phillies thus far. In nine save opportunities, he has successfully closed out ball games and posted a 0.47 ERA with 23 Ks in 19 innings pitched. One has to wonder if his success will make Phillies fans forgive his wife.
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Preview: Sharks vs Bulls
It's do or die for the Sharks at Mr Price Kings Park on Friday evening when they host the Bulls in what promises to be an enthralling Super Rugby encounter.
Lose and The Sharks will not make the playoffs. It's as simple as that really.
The permutations are a little bit better for the Bulls, who can still top the South African Conference if they win in Durban, but would need the Stormers to slip up somewhere in their final two matches.
John Plumtree, coach of the Sharks, knows the pressure is on his team to deliver the goods on Friday, even though they will be without injured Springboks Willem Alberts and Pat Lambie, while two other stalwarts of the pack, Steven Sykes and Jacques Botes, are also out with injuries.
"Clearly, when the gun is pointed straight between our eyes, we react better, which is a bit unfortunate," said Plumtree.
"But this is a home game for us and we're looking forward to a big crowd to help us out. We have a few worries, but there is plenty of character in this group and we have to dig deep on the weekend and get on top of this Bulls team that is riding pretty high at the moment.
"When we played them early in season, we didn't look after all of their threats; we didn't get on top of them and hence they got the win. They put us under pressure and our discipline wasn't good enough and we weren't good enough on the day; we need to turn that around."
Frans Ludeke, whose Bulls team come off a comprehensive 40-24 victory over the Cheetahs, relishes the challenge of travelling to the Shark Tank for such a big game.
"I would like to believe that our team thrive on challenges and the bigger they are, the better we respond," said Ludeke.
"This is why the guys put in the hours and hours of hard work after all. They want to be out there when the challenge is at its biggest and toughest. We prepared well and everyone is very keen to do well. We still have our destiny in our own hands and want to keep it like that."
Bulls captain Pierre Spies knows it will be very tough in Durban against a Sharks side that has a lot riding on the result of this match.
"There are numerous game breakers in their side and they do play in front of passionate supporters," said Spies.
"We have been able to achieve important results there in the past though and the feeling in the camp is that we can do it again. We cannot repeat what happened in the last 20 minutes against the Cheetahs.
"To beat the Sharks in Durban you not only need 80 minutes of effort, but a special 80 minutes to that."
Key Battle: Tight five vs. tight five. South African derbies are traditionally won and lost up front and Friday's fixture will be no different.
The front rows are pretty evenly balanced with the Sharks shading it with their all-Springbok trio, but the Bulls, in Boks Flip van der Merwe and Juandre Kruger, will have a distinct advantage in the second row.
Injury has forced Plumtree's hand, the Sharks coach naming Anton Bresler and Baby Bok standout Pieter-Steph du Toit as his locks. The greenhorns are promising prospects for the future, but as this stage of their careers they will find the going tough against a tried-and-tested Bulls combination.
Last Meeting: Bulls 18-13 Sharks (Pretoria).
Prediction: Experience will be a telling factor in this contest, even more so than home ground advantage, and the Bulls have it in abundance.
The visitors have settled combinations from one to 15, whereas the Sharks have a new lock and centre pairing, a reshuffled loose trio and back three and Frederic Michalak partnering Charl McLeod in the absence of Pat Lambie.
The Bulls also boast the superior bench and will therefore have too much firepower for the hosts. Bulls by five points.
Friday 6 July: Sharks vs. Bulls, Durban (19:10)
Sharks: 15 Louis Ludik, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Tim Whitehead, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Ryan Kankowski 7, Marcell Coetzee, 6 Keegan Daniel (captain), 5 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 4 Anton Bresler, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Jandre Marais, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Cobus Reinach, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Odwa Ndungane.
Bulls: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Morne Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies (captain), 7 Jacques Potgieter, 6 Dewald Potgieter, 5 Juandre Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Dean Greyling.
Replacements: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 CJ Stander, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Louis Fouche, 22 Francois Venter.


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Teen dies sledding on closed ski slope
PINKHAM NOTCH - An 18-year-old Massachusetts man died while sledding on Wildcat Mountain while the ski slopes were closed, according to a New Hampshire Fish and Game Department release.
Joseph Murad, 18, of Hanson, Mass., was found dead by a search party after disappearing during a midnight sledding excursion on the slopes of Wildcat Mountain in Pinkham Notch, the release said.
"The ski slopes of Wildcat Mountain were closed during the time that Mr. Murad's party was on the mountain," the release said. "In addition, these trails are not open to sledding."
The release said Murad and two friends hiked to the mountain's summit Thursday night intending to ride sleds to the bottom. Authorities were called about 3:30 a.m. Friday when his friends were not able to find him, the release said.
Murad's body was found about 8 a.m. and it appears as though injuries he suffered during a crash "were major contributing factors in (Murad's) death," the release said.
City suspends rule on odd/even parking
MANCHESTER - The city's odd/even winter parking regulations are being waived from 1 a.m. Sunday through 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to Deputy Public Works Director Tim Clougherty.
That means drivers don't have to worry about the correlation between the day and the address number - odd-numbered side on odd days and even-numbered on even days - until Wednesday morning. After 6 a.m. Wednesday, vehicles must be parked on the odd-numbered side of the street.
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From steel to green.
Like most Angelenos, artist Stephen Glassman spends too much time stuck in traffic.
Choked with smog and surrounded by concrete, steel, and advertising, the experience of driving in LA can feel like the ultimate disconnect from other humans and the environment.
Urban Air seeks to subvert that daily alienation — one billboard at a time. The idea is pretty simple: Take disused billboards, remove the commercial facade, and install a living, breathing cloud forest of bamboo.
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Choco-3.2.0: released , Jun 4, 2014.
Choco-3.2.0 is now available for download.
Choco-3.1.1 is now available , Jan 31, 2014.
A new release, 3.1.1, is now available.
MiniZinc Challenge 2013 , Sep 26, 2013.
MiniZinc'13: Choco-3.1.0 won 2 solver medals!
CHOCO is a java library for constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) and constraint programming (CP).
It is built on a event-based propagation mechanism with backtrackable structures.
CHOCO can be used for:
- teaching (a user-oriented constraint solver with open-source code)
- research (state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques, user-defined constraints, domains and variables)
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Please visit the web site for downloading and more information.
CHOCO's environment
CHOCO is an open-source software, distributed under a BSD License, developed with Intellij IDEA and JProfiler.
CHOCO is involved in the Java Specification Requests 331 : Constraint Programming API, winner of JCP Award for The Most Innovative JSR of 2010.
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"The damage is not repaired by any stretch, and the markets are wise to hold back on a positive reaction to the Senate passing the rescue bill," says Bob Brusca of Fact & Opinion Economics in New York. "But the economic data is so terrible, the economy looks decisively in a recession, and the market has to deal with that."
Business leaders report the tightening credit milieu is becoming increasingly widespread. "It's more difficult to get a car loan, more difficult to buy large appliances, for small business to finance their purchasing," says John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable, a Washington association of 160 CEOs of leading US companies.
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Mom of Shaniya Davis Is Pregnant
According to ABC News, Jail officials said for that reason, Antoinette Davis, 25, was being kept separate from the rest of the prison population.
Shaniya's body was found yesterday after a nationwide search. Her mother is accused of human trafficking, prostitution, and felony child abuse in her daughter's disappearance.
Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, came out to a vigil last night to honor little Shaniya.
"I ask you to give me and everyone who loved poor Shaniya -- my little baby, my angel -- the strength to continue on," Lockhart told the crowd that gathered.
Shaniya was last seen alive at a Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, NC, last week -- the same morning her mother reported her missing from her Fayetteville home. Police say a surveillance video from the hotel showed the child with 29-year-old Mario Andrette McNeill.
McNeill turned himself in Thursday night, and police say he confessed to taking the 5-year-old.
Momlogic- maybe you can have the writer of the article Pregnant Women in Prison step into defend her! So funny alot of the readers were so quick to judge the system for how it deals with pregnant inmates…wonder if they'll feel different about this monster being chained during delivery?
I agree with you to a point. I think that it simply depends on the situation at hand. Obviously, Shaniya's mother is not fit to have any children, and does not deserve any special treatment. Look at the charges against her. But I think that each situation should be treated differently and the mother's charges and past are what should be taken into consideration.
i think that they system fails our kids everytime and they have two monsters on t.v. that are a disgrace to this country, this ugly mother sold her child instead of protecting her from a jerk that kidnapped raped and then murdered her took her innocense away from her shaniya was a beautiful child that was taken away too soon from a dad who loved and protected her and now feels guilty because he was trying to be a good parent and let her be with her mom and look what happened his beautiful daughter is gone and now he is her coping with the death of his baby. antionette davis does not even deserve to be called a mother and she should never be allowed to be around children again her son should not be given back and the baby she is caring should immediately be taken and i know that GOD has the last say and i hope that he makes them suffer and for all the dummies in antionette's family who thinks she is innocent that need to burn right with her and i pray for bradley lockhart and his family that GOD continues to give them the strength that they need to overcome this tragedy the lockhart's have everyone in the country's blessing and we are with your family 100 percent and hope that both monsters get the death penalty with no trial


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Rimmel London Fix & Perfect Pro Primer Reviews
Awesome for drugstore primerhis is a very affordable drugstore primer that works as well as some other higher end primers. It is priced at $7.49 for a 1fl oz bottle. The product does last a long time considering your only need a little bit at a time. Fix & Perfect claims to be a skin perfecting primer; it is evident that it does just that because when applied it does smooth out and even out your face for easier and a more ...read moreeven makeup application. The product has a orange color to it, but once applied and blended into the face, the color fades away. Fix and Perfect primer does make your foundation stay on longer, and it fades away any shine that might be on your face. This product works well on any skin type, whether dry, oily or combination. It is definitely gentle enough for sensitive skin, since that is a big concern when using primers! It glides on fairly well and quickly even with the driest spots; yet doesn't make your face shiny or greasy at all! The product does have a floral scent to it which might be bothersome for some people, however if scents don't bother you then I would highly recommend this product over a few higher priced primers that work equally the same. — 1 year, 8 months agoGlitzGlamBudget | 135 reviews
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Great Drugstore PrimerI like that this primer is different than the other ones I've tried. Other primers have a silky feel. This one is just like putting on face lotion, but it does a great job of prepping your face for foundation, powder, and the rest of your makeup. Plus, it helps control my oily skin too. I highly recommend that you try this out! — 3 years agodarkangel81 | 301 reviews
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I'm Not A Primer Girl, But I Do Like ThisI bought this a while ago and am just now starting to use it everyday. There's no coverage, per se, but it does seem to smooth and blur out the imperfections on my face - freckles, redness, spots and pores. It feels very silky to me and it smells really nice. I have an extremely oil-prone T-zone and this doesn't really help tame the oil....only after first applying, maybe. But it's cheap and I had to see what all the primer hype was about. I'll use this up and might buy it again. — 10 months agonycmuse | 136 reviews
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For the price-AMAZING.I have extremely oily skin, so most foundations tended to disappoint me and eventually, I decided it was time to venture into the realm of face primers. Since I have had great experiences with many Rimmel products, I decided to give this primer a try. It seemed like a great value getting so much for such an affordable price-another feature I love about Rimmel. Plus the whole 5-in-1 advertising mad...read moree it seem like a well-balanced, multi-purpose product. Upon trying it out for the first time, the first thing I learned is that a little really does go a long way. Too much, and your skin can feel a bit oily. It feels like a much like a typical moisturizer in my hands, but once I start blending it into my face, it gets very silky and leaves my face extremely soft and even. If you use a mineral foundation, it can cause patches of product to stick and not blend well, so be wary of that. However, I typically use liquid foundations and found that this product has worked well with every foundation that I have. As for keeping my makeup in place-this is not my miracle product. At the end of the day, not matter what combination of foundations and setting powders on my face, it is usually a bit shiny on my t-zone. But it certainly helps my makeup to last a couple more hours than usual, and for the price, I can't complain at all. I am not sure if I will ever find a better primer for the price. So for now, this is my everyday product. I highly recommend it to any skin type since it does have a bit of moisturizer for those of you with dry skin. Great job Rimmel, just not quite strong enough for the oiliest among us. — 1 year, 6 months agohanana | 34 reviews
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Best drugstore primerI bought this primer because it was the first decent looking, inexpensively priced primer I found, and I honestly wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that this primer did everything it claimed to do! It doesn't clog my pores, feels great on my skin (it's like putting on a moisturizer), it gives me that lit-from-within glow, and it makes my skin look flawless in gener...read moreal. In terms of making my foundation last longer, I can't say much (my foundation lasts all day without a primer. Yeah, I splurged on it), but I feel like it would probably pass that test with flying colors too! I love how you really don't need to use much and the bottle lasts for a really long time. I wish it had SPF, but I don't mind much that it doesn't since most foundations have it mixed in. It also keeps my skin moisturized. I'd totally buy this again and I really do recommend it! By the way, I'm talking about the non-tinted clear formula. I've noticed that almost all the negative reviews are talking about the original formula, which has a weird salmon-orange tint to it. So I'd recommend buying the clear (002) instead of the tinted (001) primer. — 2 years, 3 months agoGingerDrink | 95 reviews
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Best thing I could buyIt fills in all of my creases and pores without clogging and minimizes their appearance. My skin becomes smooth, and it protects my face in the winter from wind chapping! No other primer protects my face from the cold like this does. Sometimes I wore it without any foundation on top because it gave my skin a nice glow and smooth Finnish. I just wish that it had SPF, but that is not a problem sinc...read moree EVERY foundation and moisturizer I wear has at least SPF10. It works best if you use less that what you think you will need and really spread it out. it's an amazing deal for the price since I have been using it every day for 6 months and the small tube still feels half full! It passed all seasons of the North with flying colors, so if you have frigid winter months give this a try! — 2 years, 4 months agoMrsBrunetteBeauty | 89 reviews
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VelvetyL ove it. Keeps skin matte helps make-up go on smooth & bright. Love the velvet texture — 5 months, 3 weeks agoMilliondollarface | 4 reviews
I'm not a Rimmel girl, but this is a great product.I've never been satisfied with Rimmel products. However, for whatever reason, the other drugstore brands DON'T sell face primers. So, I gave this a chance out of my desperation for a primer. This primer is spot on. Everyone who wears make-up needs a primer, and this is the one to get. Amen. — 5 months, 3 weeks agolipstickeater | 15 reviews
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Love it!It makes me skin look flawless and not cakey which is amazing. It does have a orange tint to it but I learned to use a little and leave it on for about 15mins and the orange tiny is gone — 6 months, 3 weeks agoashuuuhley13 | 3 reviews
Best Drugstore Primer!!!!!I usually never write reviews. In fact this is the first review I have ever made... Why am i reviewing the Rimmel fix and perfect pro? Because it is AMAZING!!!!! I've tried many primers in my years of doing makeup.. I have acne prone, dry skin... And with this primer my full coverage foundation is able to go on flawlessly and seamlessly... And as for the slight premature aging i have around my ey...read morees, i just put a little more of a concentrated amount under my eyes. And VOILA.. crows feet no more... And the number one thing I love about this silicone based primer is that I have yet to break out from it and I have been using it for 3 months so far... HG status!!!! — 11 months, 1 week agocamille_renee_russo | 1 reviews
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