It follows a major rock fall at the quarry in April 2012 that saw half a million tonnes of rock cover the quarry floor and hamper operations at the site.

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Engineers said they believed the rock fall was caused by a combination of heavy rain followed by cold temperatures.

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At one point I stopped for a swig of water, and when I slapped at the whining mosquitoes that danced on my neck and hands, I slipped and slid over some tumbled pieces of rock, grabbed at branches to stop my fall, and landed just in front of a bas-relief of warriors, maidens and fish alive in stone.

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They said the rock fall was believed to have been caused by a combination of heavy rain followed by cold temperatures.

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In 1991, the year that Glen Hansard started The Frames, he also played Outspan, the baby-faced Dublin guitar player in "The Commitments, " a feature that has gained a global following. (It's one of my favorite films ever.) What makes "The Commitments" so widely loved is, among other pleasures, its use of a working-class rock band's rise and fall as an armature for individual drama.

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Arthur Ryan , chief executive of the brokerage's parent company, Prudential Insurance Co. of America a.k.a. the Rock handpicked Strangfeld, 48, for the job last fall.

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