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CT amplifiers come with their own adjustable rack rails and a separate faceplate designed to conceal all mounting hardware along the sides of the rack. The rails adapt easily to common rack depths while providing front to back support of the chassis. Hidden inside, our unique Intelligent Cooling Tunnel, or ICTunnel™ (pronounced Icy Tunnel) architecture and related circuitry quietly controls the amplifier temperature, ensuring optimum performance and reliability in enclosed, poorly ventilated environments.
Conventional high-end amplifiers use heatsinks with high thermal mass that rely on convection to cool the active circuits. They are slow to heat up and slow to cool down. Eventually they heat up their environment and as the air around them gets hotter, they become part of the problem. For this reason, high-powered amps and racks or cabinets don't easily mix.
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Women's Orange Imran Enamel Thick Cuff
This beautiful Liberty London solid cuff is the perfect keepsake or thoughtful present for friends and relatives. The design which adorns this costume piece was based on the best selling Liberty London Scarf and hero print 'Imran'. Imran is typical of the 'oriental' style of textiles common in the first quarter of the 20th century. Western designers produced these patterns, but the themes are based on Indian and Persian miniatures. The design dates back to 1993, however the first Imran design is much older dating back to 1916 and was used originally as a dress fabric. The current Imran scarf design has a border of marching elephants which became the inspiration for this cuff. Imran design, thick solid cuff. Hinged cuff; press button opening. Base metal: Brass. Hand-filled enamel. 6.2cm x 5.4cm. Button M: 1.2cm. Colour: orange


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There's something epic everywhere you look in Texas. From the awe-inspiring Palo Duro Canyon, to natural wonders like Enchanted Rock and Natural Bridge Caverns, you'll find landscapes begging to be explored. You'll find countless ways to explore them, too, from hiking and biking to kayaking and canoeing. You'll also find superb bird-watching chances, since such an incredible variety of species have flocked to Texas.
Whether you've got a deluxe camper with a queen-sized bed, satellite TV and – the works, – or just a bedroll and a soft rock, camping in Texas is an excellent idea. There's such great variety in this supersized state that you can enjoy experiences from the rugged feel of west Texas to the soft breezes along the beach. Just bring your sense of adventure.Hiking & Mountain Biking
When someone says "Take a hike, buddy!" around here, please don't take it the wrong way. Texans are polite, hospitable folks. It's likely a simple reminder of the endless natural diversity you can explore while getting fresh air and exercise. Mountain biking is extremely popular as well, with many paths (and non-paths) in all levels of difficulty.Canoeing, Kayaking and Fishing
There's water everywhere in Texas. If you want to go with the flow, there are 80,000 miles of scenic rivers and streams of every shape and size here. So the chances to paddle your way to fun and relaxation are nearly endless. Of course, if you're a fisherman, this is one of the best places to visit. Texas has over 100 major lakes loaded with big ol' lunker bass, plus hundreds of miles of coastal shoreline and bays full of fish just waiting for your next cast.


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'England's most perfect almshouse'
(Simon Jenkins: England's Thousand Best Churches)
Welcome to the Hospital of St Cross & Almshouse of Noble Poverty
For further details of events and concerts take a look at the What's On page.
Church Services: For Church Services please go to Church Service Times.
Notice to Visitors: Visitors are advised that on occasional days there may be some areas of the Hospital that are closed to the public due to private events. Wherever possible notice will be given to advise of any restrictions; please visit the Opening Times page for details.
For more information on the Porter's Lodge Shop and opening times please visit our What's On page.
Nestling in the water meadows alongside the River Itchen and in the shadow of St Catherine's Hill lies the ancient Hospital of St Cross. Reknowned for the tranquillity of its setting and the beauty of its architecture, the Hospital is one of England's oldest continuing almshouses.
These fine medieval buildings have provided food and shelter for hundreds of years. The principal activity of the Hospital continues to be the provision of individual, private apartments for a living community of about twenty-five elderly men. Known as 'Brothers' they wear black or red gowns and a trencher hat for daily church and other formal occasions.
At the heart of the Hospital's inner quadrangle is a wonderful Norman church, its tower, chancel, transepts and nave soaring so high that it looks like a cathedral in miniature. Nearby stand a classic medieval hall and kitchen, as well as a Tudor cloister, with another ancient hall in the outer quad that serves as a tea room. The extensive gardens are immaculately maintained throughout the year.
To the surprise of many, and despite it being a place of privacy and even retreat, visitors are welcome to St Cross. The Church is perfect for traditional weddings: this extends beyond the parish to the wider community, for whom baptisms and memorial services may also be conducted. All depend upon the agreement of the Master of St Cross. Other areas may also be hired for private events.
Please use the other areas of this website for your own further information and contact us to enquire about your special interests.
The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty
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NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshall Brickman — who co-wrote "Sleeper," "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" with Woody Allen — is sitting at a table in the back. Rick Elice, who penned the book for "Jersey Boys" with Brickman along with writing countless other shows, is there, too, sipping a martini. The mood is intense and emotional.
But the humor is typically caustic. The topic under discussion this December Friday night is what went wrong with a musical called "The Addams Family," which opened in Chicago in 2009 to mixed but constructive reviews, suffered from a plethora of subsequent creative trauma — including the post-Chicago replacement of original director Phelim McDermott with Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks — and, despite the work between Chicago and New York, was met on Broadway by, mostly, critical contempt.
More specifically at this moment, the topic is a giant squid that ate a musical.
First in Chicago and then on Broadway, the climax of "The Addams Family" revolves around a conservative Ohioan named Mal Beineke who, to the delight of Morticia and Gomez Addams, comes around to a live-and-let-live liberality with the help of the sensual ministrations of a puppet version of a giant cephalopod. For many, the notorious squid-sex scene became a symbol of a show that had lost its way, and forgotten whose names were on the marquee.
Brickman and Elice, it becomes clear at the kind of hour when one might as well speak the truth, do not disagree. "That squid," says Brickman, eyes sparking a little, even as he grits his teeth, "is now working for Disney on Ice."
This is a very unusual conversation, not least because that show-munching squid still does eight shows a week on Broadway, through Dec. 31. So is the similarly charged conversation the next morning in the cafe of the Hotel Edison — another Broadway canteen, this one of the old school — when director Zaks, seated at his regular table inside the so-called Polish Tearoom, could be heard telling composer Andrew Lippa and the producer, Chicago-based Stuart Oken, about his recent shuffle off to Buffalo to "change a few scenes" and keep working on a show that he was not even originally slated to direct. Lippa is clearly very interested in what Zaks is saying about all those last "D-minus choices crying out for attention" — not least because those audiences in Buffalo were hearing five new songs for "The Addams Family" that the final audiences in New York City this holiday season won't be hearing at all.
The story of "The Addams Family" was supposed to be written already — Act 1 in Chicago in 2009, Act 2 in New York in 2010. There is typically not much appetite for a third act. The Broadway opening is long gone and the disappointing ink long dry — the show is closing after a respectable number of performances, but without having recouped its investment. The national tour, put into motion even before the Broadway opening, has been out since early fall and is unlikely to be seen again by most Broadway taste-makers, new songs or not. In most similar circumstances, an original creative team of the caliber that came together for "The Addams Family" would have left the tour to associates, licked their open wounds with memories of their formidable past hits and moved on to the next high-profile project. But that's not what is happening here.
This whole team — producer Oken, director Zaks, composer Lippa, book writers Brickman and Elice — has shown up in New York not so much to argue that there is a third act, but that they have written a whole new third version: An Addams Family 3.0, with the unofficial opening slated for Chicago on Dec. 27. The show will arrive in the city of its birth belatedly because of a low demand for tickets (cutting a three-week stand at the Cadillac Palace Theatre down to one, a further reminder of the bittersweet nature of this quest), presumably because the bulk of the potential Chicago audience decided it had already seen it the first time and did not need to see it again.
Wrong, say the leading people who made it. Their baby is now quite different. And, they all insist, finally the show they really wanted in the first place. They are so passionately insistent on this point that they're willing to talk with uncommon frankness of the limitations of the show playing on Broadway for the next week or so.
To get to this point, the Addams crew has had to plow over some hurt feelings — their own.
"It was difficult to get past that at the outset," Elice says, when asked how he felt as the New York reviews came in. "To be told that this was the worst musical of the past 40 years. Really? That vitriol was part of my energy for reinvestigating the show."
"I felt it personally," Brickman says. "You're not supposed to, but you do. In the end, we all felt like we had swum across the Atlantic Ocean and drowned in the last 3 feet."
Even though the writers, composer and new director say they knew what needed to be done after Chicago, there was just no time to reach the shores of success. The old-fashioned, romantic ideal of the out-of-town tryout is of writers and composers taking to their hotel rooms and creating new brilliance in 24 hours. The modern reality is that the costs of changing a massive set, the deadlines for setting elaborate technical effects and the rules restricting the rehearsal time of actors doing shows at night means it takes a lot more time to make real changes, even though Lippa did his best by writing several new songs.
"Jerry Zaks was mostly doing damage control," Brickman says. "He was restaging so the material was accessible to the audience. In Chicago, people had gone into business for themselves."
As Brickman and Elice see it, another kind of timing did not serve the show, and on Broadway timing is everything. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" had been postponed, leaving "The Addams Family" as the big commercial gorilla in its place, a target, demonstrably, for anger at what some saw as the growing obsession of Broadway with brand names from pop culture, even though Oken had, from the start, tried to create a high-end art piece, based explicitly on the original Charles Addams cartoons, not the TV show or the movies. Then there was the narrative — most big musicals come with meta-narratives these days; "Spider-Man," for example, was a dangerous concoction sending actors to the hospital — of dissent within the ranks, which was indisputably the case, and of a show that had failed to create an arty milieu and thus had sold out to commercialism. Whether the latter was fair wasn't the point. It was the story. Blood in the water had been smelled.
But a few weeks after the Broadway opening, the group had to reconvene to talk about the tour. It was an emotional meeting. "We said we'd like to go back to work," Elice says, "and create a new show. And the producer agreed to step up and make that possible."
That new show will now become the basis of all subsequent productions of "The Addams Family," including a Brazilian production (well under way) and a planned London engagement. It will also become the licensable property — meaning this is the version that will be seen in a few years at suburban dinner theaters.
Why go to all this trouble? "You have a reputation," Brickman says, taking a sip of his drink at Angus McIndoe, and speaking frankly enough, "you want respect. But it's really about connection with an audience. When we opened the tour in New Orleans, we could finally hear them make that sound."
"When I go in 25 years to my great-nephew's high school production," Lippa says the next morning, "he'll be doing the best iteration of the show."
So what, exactly, has taken place?
"Shall I get into specifics?" says Zaks to his colleagues, wondering whether to spill the beans about the big new idea. When told that Elice spilled them the night before, Zaks goes ahead, grinning like a kid. "It's really very simple," he says. "We have now created an actual conflict between Gomez and Morticia."
Although Addams created distinct personalities for the matriarch and patriarch of his kooky world, he did not show them at odds with each other. "They were really," Brickman says, "the same character broken in two." Thus in both 1.0 (directed by McDermott) and 2.0 (doctored by Zaks), Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth played characters whose point of view was singular, even if their relationship was not as close, or as relaxed, as was desirable. "Those characters always told each other everything," Zaks says. Initially, the show respected that.
Not anymore. It has apparently been realized that what works in an Addams cartoon — which sets up a situation but never reveals consequences — does not work in a show, which demands a full arc. "Now," Elice says, "Wednesday comes up to her father and says, 'I'm gonna tell you a secret but please don't tell Mama.' So he has to choose between betraying his daughter or betraying his wife."
Wednesday's secret is that she is getting married to a young Beineke, who she fears will be appallingly normal for her mother, Morticia. Her confidence puts Gomez in a tough pickle which, the writers say, now drives the entire show and necessitated several new songs, including a number wherein Gomez sings of divided loyalties. "It is now a much more engaging story," Brickman says, noting that the writers finally have the focus on the Addamses. "It resonates much more clearly with the audience, and the way it is mounted and presented is consistent with the original intent of the writers and the composer."
That last sentence is clearly the rub for Brickman — sometimes that ideally happens by the Broadway opening, but, in this case, not. As Stephen Sondheim is fond of noting, artists can't control external reaction. All they can ask from a show is that it eventually arrives where they wanted it to arrive, and that it finally represents the artist's own sense of his or her best work. That, all these men say, is what will finally happen with "The Addams Family" in Chicago, when the work on the tour will be done.
In an ideal world, these changes would also have been made on Broadway this fall ("Spider-Man" pulled that off), but Oken says that was not financially doable, given that the show was closing anyway. The only way to make this level of change, he said, was to make it the plan for the tour, and for all productions going forward.
The writers say they understand that. "As an artist, I'd like to have seen it," Elice says. "And the Broadway cast was champing for the opportunity." But the Broadway story of "The Addams Family" is already written.
All everyone involved can do is keep working and move on.At least they get a chance to whip things into shape in Chicago, and the Addams family likes torture devices.
"The Addams Family" opens Dec. 27 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St., and plays one week only. For tickets, call 800-775-2000 or visit broadwayinchicago.com
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Investors will be looking for signs of sustained strength in U.S. labor markets next week when the government releases its June jobs report on Friday.
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Additional economic data are scant in a week shortened by the July 4th holiday. All U.S. banks and securities markets will be closed on Thursday to mark the holiday.
The U.S. labor market has become an intense focal point for investors in recent months as the Federal Reserve has tied its monetary policies to the unemployment rate. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed will consider scaling back its easy money policies only when the U.S. labor markets show signs of sustained growth.
That hasn't happened yet.
In May U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs, a slight improvement over April, but not nearly enough to inspire confidence that hiring is gaining strong momentum. The headline unemployment rate ticked higher to 7.6% in May from 7.5% a month earlier.
Economists said the uptick in the rate was caused by more people returning to the workforce by attempting to find jobs, a good sign. People who are no longer looking for work aren't counted among the workforce used to determine the unemployment rate.
Forecasts for June's report reflect analysts' belief that the job market remains sluggish. The economy is expected to have added 165,000 jobs and the unemployment rate is expected to drop slightly to 7.5%.
U.S. motor vehicle sales are out Tuesday. U.S. car sales have been strong in recent months due to exceptionally low interest rates and rising consumer sentiment, which approached a six-year high at the end of June, according to figures released Friday.
Two key manufacturing reports are also due next week: the ISM index and the Purchasing Manufacturers Index, both of which gauge factory output, are both due Monday.
On Wednesday payroll company ADP (NYSE:ADP) will release its June jobs report. The number is often a good indication of what the government report will look like when it's released a few days later. The weekly jobless claim data from the Labor Department, usually released on Thursday, will be unveiled on Wednesday.


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I confess to having a bit of a love affair with apple cakes; sponge and apple is such a heavenly combination. This cake is a substantial country cake and everyone who tries it loves it. Little airy-fairy cakes are all well and good but sometimes you want to have a slice of cake and really know you've eaten something.
The slightly unusual ingredient in the sponge part of the cake is custard powder and it adds a robustness to the mix – this isn't an airy batter, this is a solid dense cake mix. It has to be to support the weight of the custard and the apples.
There is another thing I love about making this cake: when you put the clingfilm over the custard to stop a skin forming as it cools you get an incredible touch sensation – it's the most amazingly silky surface that's impossible to resist stroking! Hard to put into words but when you get to that point in the recipe you will realise exactly what I mean!
For the custard:
2 tablespoons custard powder
55g caster sugar
250ml milk (whole or semi skimmed)
20g unsalted butter
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
For the cake:
200g unsalted butter, softened
110g caster sugar
2 eggs
185g self raising flour
40g custard powder
2-3 apples, depending on size (I used three small Gala), peeled, cored and thinly sliced
For the cake topping:
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 teaspoons caster sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Additional caster sugar to sprinkle on the baked cake. I recommend this as it adds to the look
How to make:
- Start by making the custard: combine the custard powder and sugar in a saucepan then, over a medium heat, add the milk.
- Stir all the time until the custard thickens slightly. Do not leave the pan or stop stirring because if the custard thickens and you're not there you'll end up with something like glue!
- As soon as the custard thickens take the pan off the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla.
- Press clingfilm on to the top of the custard to stop a skin forming and try to resist wasting about 10 mins stroking the surface of the newly-covered custard! Leave to cool.
- Preheat oven to 190°C/fan oven 170°C/375°F/ Gas mark 5 and line a 22cm round springform tin with greaseproof paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Don't skimp on this stage as I think it is the foundation of success. Take a tiny piece of the mix and place on your tongue. Press it to the roof of your mouth – if it's gritty the mix needs more beating. When it's smooth you can move to the next stage.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time. The mix shouldn't curdle but don't worry if it does as it will correct itself when you add the flour.
- Stir in the flour and custard powder.
- Building the cake in the tin requires care – this isn't a cake where you simply dump the mix in the tin and put in the over. You'll need a knife and spatula and a light touch!
- Spoon half the cake mix into the cake tin and level it. It is a thick batter and you will worry that you don't have enough mix. You do. You just have to be patient and spread it carefully.
- Remove the clingfilm and spoon the custard onto the cake mix in the tin. Be careful not to spread the custard to the edge as you want the top and bottom layers of cake mix to meet and enclose the custard.
- Now the bit that requires patience and care. Spread the remaining cake mix on top of the custard ensuring that as you spread it you don't disturb the custard. Try to skim the surface with your knife so that you only move the mix. It isn't easy but if you're careful you'll manage. My hint is to spoon the mix around the edge and draw it towards the centre – that way you guarantee the custard will be cased in the cake.
- Peel, core and slice the apples. I cut the apple into quarters, and then each quarter into four i.e. an apple yields 16 slices.
- Arrange the apple slices on top of the cake.
- Brush the apples with the melted butter and then sprinkle on the sugar and cinnamon.
- Bake in the oven for approx 1 hour until a skewer comes out clean. Mine took exactly one hour.
- While the cake cools in the tin, sprinkle additional caster sugar on top.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Carly Shay led a pretty normal life... until she and her friends started their own web show. When iCarly becomes an instant hit, Carly and her pals have to balance their newfound success with the problems of everyday life. With her parents overseas, Carly relies on the help of her best friend/co-star, Sam, her longtime pal/technical producer, Freddie, and her eccentric older brother/guardian, Spencer, to keep it all together. Sam and Freddie's constant bickering and Spencer's odd habits make for a lot of good material...but is it enough to fill a new show every week?
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Jason Aldean – Then and Now
What a baby face Jason Aldean had when he debuted with 'Hicktown' in 2005! Other than the clean-shaven cheeks and a few less necklaces, not much has changed in the Georgia born country singer's look. His style is similar, and he still sports the same earrings seven years later. It's a look that works for Aldean, so why change it? Holding onto a little more stubble is probably a good move. It gives his face a farm-worn look.
In 2012, Aldean will release his fifth studio album, the follow-up to the double-platinum 'My Kinda Party.' He's grown into one of country music's biggest superstars, selling out amphitheaters and stadiums nationwide while gathering regular Entertainer of the Year nominations. It's hard to believe that when the 'Then' picture was taken, he was just a few months removed from considering calling it quits on his dream.


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Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Coral Gardens (Oudekraal)
The dive site Coral Gardens (Oudekraal) is a rocky reef at south Oudekraal, on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The high biodiversity, stunning colour and spectacular topography make this one of the regions most rewarding dive sites.
Get in
Shore dive: Use the Table Mountain National Park Oudekraal parking lot off the coast road if there is space. You pay for the parking but the facilities are good, including clean toilets, picnic areas, shade trees, and showers. Security is better than most places. Alternative parking is available at the side of the M6, but the walk is longer.
Go down the stairs at the west end of parking lot and straight across the grassy area to the rocks at the westerly cove. There is a bit of a rough clamber over the rocks from the bottom of the path to the entry area which is usually quite a placid spot as it is well sheltered by reefs a few metres out, and heavy kelp, which is easier to negotiate if the tide is high. The long climb down the stairs and the clamber over the rocks require a reasonable level of fitness, but there is fresh water on tap at the top of the stairs and a few litres on your head and suit before the descent will keep you cooler.
Boat dive: It is a long boat trip to get to Coral Gardens; about 14km from either Hout Bay Harbour or Oceana Power Boat Club, but for those who have difficulty with the shore access, this can be done as a boat dive. This is not a good anchorage, as the anchor is likely to foul amongst the rocks and damage the corals, so a live-boat dive is essential. A shot-line is not recommended, for similar reasons, and the pinnacles provide an adequate reference point.
S33°59.264' E018°20.810' approximately
S34°59.247' E018°20.921' (Western cove entry point)
Off the M6 just south of the Twelve Apostles Hotel
This is in a Marine Protected Area (2009). A permit is required.
The name "Coral Gardens" is derived from the large areas of Noble coral which can be found here.
Maximum depth is 19m, average about 10m.
Visibility is variable, but on a good day can be in excess of 10m.
Large to very large granite corestone boulders and outcrops , Lots of overhangs, crevices and small caves, with occasional swim-throughs. There is an air bubble cave under the inner group of high rocks on the south west side, at S33°59.242' E018°21.817', about halfway along the south side of the group ,at about 8m depth. There is a group of very tall boulders (the pinnacles) further out to the south east, with kelp on top reaching the surface at low tide. The base jumble round this reef covers a large area, with 4 or 5 high pinnacles close together in a sort of L pattern, all of much the same height. The top of these pinnacles is at about 5m depth, the sides are mostly near vertical, with some narrow gaps, there are several deep overhangs and caves at the base of the pinnacles and there is occasional sand bottom between the rocks at about 16m depth.
Big boulders with narrow gaps and overhangs and heavy kelp can be found in the area just west and south west of the gap between the point and the high rock group, opening up and getting deeper to about 12m on the sand in small patches between moderate sized boulders and outcrops
Geology: Late Pre-Cambrian granite of the Peninsula pluton
Often at it's best during or after south easterly winds (offshore). The swell should be low, and short period, though a bit of white water on the outer reefs is normal. The site is exposed to the south west swell, which will both ruin the visibility and make the access difficult, though to some degree this is dissipated by the reefs south of Groot Pannekoek. This is a site where good visibility is usually accompanied by cold water. There is usually some surge, and it can be quite strong in the narrow gaps.
Keep a lookout for times when the south west swell is low and short period. This will usually be in summer, but in winter there may occasionally be a good day.
Limited off street parking with fairly good security, Clean, neat toilet facilities, Fresh water showers and taps, picnic sites (no fires permitted), shade, seating, garbage cans, a nice little beach and pleasant and protected snorkelling areas for beginners. This is probably the best site in the region for shore facilities, and Parks Board staff keep it tidy and in good condition.
Marine life
Very rich in noble corals, small sea fans, sponges of a wide variety of shapes and colours, soft corals, bryozoans and colonial ascidians on walls and overhangs. Also of interest are walking anemones (Preactis millardae), Box jellyfish (Carybdea alata), and various nudibranchs. Mandela's nudibranch (Mandelia mirocornata) [1] is relatively common here, and seldom seen anywhere else. A kelp forest in the entry cove extends out several metres beyond the high rock cluster. There is more sea bamboo kelp on top of the high rocks of the outer groups. and split fan kelp on deeper rocks, along with a range of other smaller algae. The rocks near the surf zone have a dense layer of corallines and limpets, and lots of small brown algae.
The site is excellent for invertebrate photography. Many of the organisms are small, and macro facilities will be useful. On the other hand, wide angle close-ups can be stunning, and when the visibility is good, good scenic views can be taken.
Suggested Routes
Entry at rocks at the western cove, swim to the gap between the shore rocks and high rock group. There is quite heavy kelp, you may have to work your way around some clumps, especially if the tide is low.
Stay safe
Cold water, Strong surge in gulleys and swim-throughs. Sea urchins. Strong offshore winds may develop over a short time. Access to entry/exit point over large boulders may require some scrambling, particularly for those with short legs.
The site requires fitness and good buoyancy control. There are lots of delicate invertebrates which should not be subjected to a battering by the fins and flapping arms of a diver who can not deal with a bit of surge. There is no particular minimum qualification recommended, but this is a site for the reasonably experienced and skilled diver.
The three small coves are very sheltered and quite shallow, and are suitable for beginners to snorkel, if a bit chilly. They are not recommended as scuba training areas.
This is a site where choice of suit is important. The water is cold, the dive is moderately deep and requires a fairly long swim, but there is an energetic walk required before you get in. Do not skimp on insulation. If you are fit enough the extra weight needed for a dry suit will be compensated by the warmer dive you will enjoy, specially if the conditions are very calm. Make use of the water available at the parking lot to wet your suit before or just after putting it on.
A light is recommended for looking into the many cracks and overhangs, where the invertebrates are particularly colourful when full spectrum light is used to illuminate them. A compass is useful for swimming back under water, and Nitrox may be advantageous depending on how long and deep you dive. A DSMB may be used if diving from a boat, but is not essential as this is not an area where you can easily get lost, and there is always the option of swimming to shore in an emergency.
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MILFORD – Stacy Middle School science teacher Robert Gilmore accepted the 2013-2014 Outstanding Teacher Award at Milford High School Monday.
The district-wide honor is presented by The Senator Louis P. Bertonazzi Foundation and comes with a $1,000 cash prize. The former senator, who attended the ceremony, presented the award to Gilmore.
"You know, you just do your thing," he said. "You don't expect to be recognized, you just do it."
Teachers gathered at Milford High School for orientation and organizational meetings prior to today's start of school. But the presentation of the Outstanding Teacher Award was the first order of business.
Gilmore is a life-long Milford resident and has a Ph.D. in audiology from the University of Florida and has been teaching science at Stacy Middle School for the past nine years. Before coming to Milford, he worked as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University and was employed as an audiologist.
His mother, Milly Gilmore, taught in the district for more than 30 years.
Gilmore said he began teaching middle school science because of the opportunity to work with children.
"At the middle school level everything is possible," he said. "The children are so intrigued and curious."
But students can carry with them a lot of misconceptions about the ways in which the world works. And for Gilmore, debunking those myths has become a personal challenge, he said.
Seven nominees – one from each school in the district – were considered. The nominations were submitted by faculty and staff in the respective buildings, then reviewed by an anonymous, seven-member selection committee of Milford residents, according to Bertonazzi.
Bertonazzi presented each of the nominees with a plaque before presenting the award to Gilmore.
"Each nominee is a winner of a nomination in his or her building, therefore obviously an outstanding teacher," Bertonazzi said.
The high school's nominee was Eamon Cunningham, an English teacher. Middle School East nominated science teacher Alissa Holland. Brookside Elementary School nominated Rebekah Louis. Woodland Elementary School nominated Coree Daniels. Shining Star Elementary nominated special education teacher Erin Forgione.
The 17-year-old award recognizes one outstanding teacher and seven nominees every year, Bertonazzi said.
"Every year the people on the selection committee always tend to comment, 'I never knew we had such outstanding teachers in the system,'" he said.
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WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos wrapped up a four-day visit to Yemen by calling for increased humanitarian relief for the troubled Middle Eastern country. More than half Yemen's population are either hungry or on the edge of hunger as the result of a deepening humanitarian crisis on multiple fronts.
SANA'A (Yemen) – WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos concluded their visit to Yemen on Thursday with an appeal for greater support, especially from the Gulf region, for humanitarian relief efforts in the country.
More than 10 million people in Yemen – almost half the country's population – are either hungry or on the edge of hunger with very high rates of food insecurity. Child malnutrition rates are among the highest in the world with close to half of Yemen's children under 5 years – around two million children – stunted.
"WFP is providing life-saving food assistance to almost 5 million Yemenis to break the intergenerational cycle of hunger," said Cousin, "We will continue this vital food assistance by improving food security and nutrition but at the same time helping build resilience of these communities."
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Yemen faces multiple humanitarian crises. Out of a population of 24 million, over half need some form of humanitarian aid. More than half of the population does not have access to clean water and proper sanitation, and one million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
In the south, many returnees in Abyan cannot farm because the land is contaminated with landmines. In the north, 300,000 Yemenis remain displaced. There are also 238,000 refugee seekers, stranded migrants and returnees from Saudi Arabia. Children continue to be recruited and used by armed groups while women and girls are vulnerable to gender-based violence.
"Yemen is a country wracked by chronic poverty and underdevelopment, and millions of Yemenis are struggling to cope," said Amos. "People need food, water, education and health care. But they also want to know that there is investment to secure their future. We urgently need more funding to help those in need."
Vital donor support
While in Yemen, Cousin and Amos travelled to Hudeidah where they saw first-hand efforts to combat malnutrition and food insecurity. They then visited nutrition and health care clinics supported by WFP and UNICEF, a WFP food distribution, and saw the offloading of WFP food supplies at the Hudeidah Port.
They also visited the Al Mazraq camp in Harad, where people displaced by the conflict in Sa'ada still live, and visited a centre where stranded migrants from the Horn of Africa receive assistance from the International Organization for Migration.
"We are working to ensure families themselves are able to take care of their food needs through food for work, food for training and other income generating activities," said Cousin. "We count on the support of our donors and the strong partnership with the Government of Yemen to help communities free themselves from the cycle of hunger."


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On May 14th, ITAC's Digital Business Forum hosted Mr. Eugene Roman of Open Text at The Spoke Club to speak about The Stratford Institute.
In his fascinating conversation, Mr. Roman emphasized that the demands and opportunities in the digital realm provide a new model and set of methods for communication. The internet alone is growing by between three and four petabytes of content every month. When we go out and buy storage these days, we often think in terms of a terabyte drive and this seems like a lot of storage. A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes. Now imagine those drives in racks of four thousand units, with an additional rack every month. Rich Media and Social Networks come together to build Social Media, truly the next phase of our connected world. (more…)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After a weekend that saw the MIT men's swimming and diving squad rack up three victories, a pair from the team were singled out by the NEW England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference for their efforts. Sophomore Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.) was named the Swimmer of the Week and sophomore Danil Tyulmankov (Stamford, Conn.) the Diver of the Week the league announced today. They are the third and fourth Engineers to be selected for NEWMA weekly honors this season.
Against Colby on Saturday, Liao was a two-event winner for MIT, capturing the 50 and 200 Breaststroke events, taking the 50 in 27.08 and the 200 in 2:08.67. On Sunday against conference opponents Springfield and Coast Guard he again dominated in the breaststroke events, picking another pair of victories. This time he won the 100 with a time of 59.12 before taking the 200 in 2:10.76.
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November 15, Akron, Ohio -- Mr. Motoo Yamakura and several GKK members attended the USA Karate Federation's 35th National Championships. In the opening ceremonies, Hanshi Yamakura received recognition for being the Chairman of Goju-Ryu Karate-do Kyokai, one of the largest and oldest Goju organizations in the U.S.A.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Jason Statham: Ski Slope Kisses!
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley gets a sweet kiss from her beau Jason Statham while hitting the ski slopes together on Thursday (January 3) in the French Alps.
The 25-year-old model and Jason, 45, were spotted skiing down the mountains with a group of pals.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Last month, Rosie also hit the ski slopes! "Had a wicked few days skiing! 🎿🏂⛄❄" RHW tweeted in mid-December. Looks like she is quite the ski bunny!
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I don't know why I even bother with Christmas cards, I mean really. [Gulps wine.]
To paraphrase that MasterCard commercial:
40 fairly twee (but really it was the less...est? of 5 million evils that involved lots of candy cane graphics and fonts that might be best described as "Tinsel Ejaculation") holiday cards featuring a single photo of my adorable spawn that I designed on the internet: $80
40 special square envelopes in red because, apparently, plain ol' free white is not festive enough for Christmas Una: $2
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I know, I know. You're wondering why I would shell out that much cash for actual mail when I could just slap up another Fresh Prince of Bel Air gif and call it a day.
Here's why: My grandma doesn't have email.
So I have to send her a card, because at the risk of sounding ageist, old people are weird about holiday cards. Not sending one is basically like telling them to eat a shit sandwich and die.
I have to send a card to my grandma. Which means that I also have to send a card to every other relative in the small town where my grandma and all of my dad's other relatives live. And they're gossipy Catholics so that's 20 right there.
And then if my dad's family all get cards, I have to send them to my mom's family, too, because otherwise I'm playing favorites (and also, I am someone who thought her Cheerios had feelings, so when it comes to actual humans I am hopeless).
And then I have to print some extras just in case I misspell (I just typed mispell, btw, so this is clearly a problem) someone's last name or accidentally get deodorant on the envelope (I DON'T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENS, IT JUST DOES SOMETIMES), because with exactly 40 envelopes for the freakish atypical square cards that require postage made from gold leaf and foie gras, there is no room for error.
(This also explains why I don't just get a box of blank cards and write heartfelt greetings. Nothing doing. I need that shit pre-printed.)
Oh, and disclaimer to anyone reading this who gets a Christmas card from me this year: It is because I am filled with the joy of the season and wish to spread it to you and yours, not for any of the aforementioned, more selfish and paranoid, reasons. Good tidings unto you, o blessed--
[More wine.]


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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Masterpieces of Modern Mexico
Over decades, Mexican film producer Jacque Gelman and his wife, Natasha Gelman, built one of the world's most significant private collections of Mexican art.
Now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Stephanie Fox Knappe explores their treasure trove in a talk complementing the museum's exhibit Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Masterpieces of Modern Mexico from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection on display through August 18, 2013.
Never before seen in this region, the exhibit encompasses paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, and prints dating from 1915 to 2005. It honors the rich artistic traditions of Mexico's past and the vitality of Mexican art today.
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Prince William hosts first soccer match at Buckingham Palace
LONDON – It's all well and good to play soccer on the beautiful lawns at Buckingham Palace, but don't break a window.
That was Prince William's message Monday in advance of the first ever competitive match held on the extensive palace grounds.
"I cannot tell you how excited I am that later today we will be playing football (soccer) on my grandmother's lawn," he said before the game. "One warning, though: if anyone breaks a window, you can answer to her."
The game features two amateur teams, Civil Service FC and Polytechnic FC, playing in a Southern Amateur League match.
The soccer pitch was easily accommodated in the 39 acres of gardens, amid lakes and flowerbeds.
William gave medals to 150 soccer volunteers before the game.


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Sibling Names
Posted 30 May 2010 - 06:05 PM
Posted 30 May 2010 - 06:11 PM
DS/DD: Balthazar "Balt" James/ Geneviva "Viva" Louise
DD: Primrose "Prim" Amelia (ME!!!)
DD: Esmeralda "Esme" Lily
My brother hates Balthazar but his likes Balt and James. Geneviva likes her first name and the nickname Viva but she hates Louise.
I really love my name. It's great because I can use Rose if I want to be familiar but formal like with teachers and Rosie or Prim with my family and friends.
Esme doesn't like Esmeralda but she loves Esme because she is obsessed with Twilight.
I think they go together in an odd way but my name does stick out a little bit because of its normalcy compared to the others.
Posted 30 May 2010 - 06:23 PM
On my mom's side:
Harper Marie
Hailyyne Josephine
Hannah Celene
They all start with Ha so sometimes I feel like the odd-ball, hahaa! I like their middle names actually, Marie is kinda common but oh well!
On my dad's side:
Emma Kadence
Christopher Brayden
I think they go well together, both of their first names are kinda common but yeah, not sure how to explain it, lol. But both of their middle names are sort of trendy.
Posted 30 May 2010 - 06:34 PM
I really think that finding out what names people put together is really interesting!
Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:41 PM
so, my names kristen michelle
and my brother is brandon michael.
i dont really know if my brother likes his name?
but i like my first name, but hate my middle name because it is waaaay to common as a middle name.
Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:58 PM
I love Josephine! It's so pretty.
I really think that finding out what names people put together is really interesting!
I love her middle name as well, but personally her name is VERY long.
Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:59 PM
Posted 30 May 2010 - 08:01 PM
Also, I dislike how I'm the only one with a double middle name even though it's a tradition, but then again, two out of the three are my step-sisters.
Posted 30 May 2010 - 08:04 PM
I wonder why they didn't stick with the tradition?
Posted 30 May 2010 - 08:13 PM
Posted 30 May 2010 - 08:21 PM
Posted 30 May 2010 - 08:27 PM
So ...
DD: Riley-Kate Alyssa
DD/DD: Robyn-Graice Amylea / Rory-Jaime Alyana
I love my name; except the spelling. I'd rather be Ryleigh. I would also prefer Riley Kate Alyssa, or just Riley Kate / Riley Alyssa, but I'm good with Riley-Kate.
LONG story behind my sister's names:
Robyn-Graice Amylea I helped choose so I def love it; I was eight when they were born, and my mom asked my opinion on names (probably just trying to be inclusive) and I suggested Robin because that was my favorite bird. Then my mom picked Rory from her favorite tv show. Then my aunt Bridgette suggested giving them double names since I had one. To make Rory and Robyn more similar, they decided to spell robin with a Y. Then they wanted the second name to have only one syllable, so my mom thought up Grace. So Robyn became Robyn-Grace. My mom liked Rory-Jane, but my dad hates classic names, so she thought Rory-Jamie, except that rhymed! So... it became Rory-Jaime (Jaym)! Then they let my grandma, who died just after the twins were born (RIP Grandma Louise!). She picked Amelia and Alana, and my parents altered them a bit so that they would look good with my name and with each other.
The journeys of the Cameron girl's names:
Rayley Alisabeth - Riley Alisabeth - Riley Katherine - Riley-Kate Alisabeth - Riley-Kate Alyssa
Robin - Robyn - Robyn-Grace - Robyn-Graice - Robyn-Graice Amelia - Robyn-Graice Amylea
Rory - Rory Jane - Rory-Jaine - Rory-Jaime - Rory-Jaime Alana - Rory-Jaime Alyana
And yes, I think they all go together. A bit tackily, but they still go well.
Riley, Robyn, and Rory.
Riley-Kate, Robyn-Graice, and Rory-Jaime
Riley-Kate Alyssa, Robyn-Graice Amylea, and Rory-Jaime Alyana.
so yeah! That's everything! I know my sister's names have a long story, but when I was younger I asked my mom so many times to tell me about my name and Robyn and Rory's names that I remember everything
<3 RileyKate <3
Posted 31 May 2010 - 10:34 AM
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:37 PM
That's really cool, Riley-Kate!
lol. thanks.
You can just call me Riley
BTW Kayra I love Hailynne.
Posted 31 May 2010 - 04:54 PM
Posted 31 May 2010 - 05:15 PM
Oh haha. I'm never sure whether to call people by their full username or not.
It's ok
On the register at school it just has my name as Riley Cameron, without the Kate.
A few weeks ago, a supply teacher was reading the attendance and when she said my name, I said 'Here' and she looked at me and said, "Now, don't be silly. I want you all to behave and there will be no switching names." And I was like "My name is really Riley; It's on my birth certificate." and she sent me to the office for 'being cheeky'. I told the DSO lady, Gale, what happened and she laughed and sent me back to class.
I had to stay after class and explain to the teacher that Riley was a girl's name too
But you can call me Riley Kate if you want I just prefer Riley. My dad calls me Rie-Pie
Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:01 PM
Im Samantha Marie
Our names are very common if you ask me. My middle name is after basically every woman in my family. Noah is biblical and my name means god's listener in Aramaic which is the language Jesus spoke in the Bible. So both of our names have a connection to the bible. I guess they go well together. I would have prefer something a little shorter but I've shortened it on my own to Sam or Sami.
My dad and my uncle are:
Kirk Douglas
Patrick Allen
My grandpas name is Douglas Allen (so they are both named after their dad). They sound well together. I think they like their names.
Posted 01 June 2010 - 12:56 AM
My brother's name is Fernando Luis Jr.
My mom wanted to name me Melody, but then she was watching a show on tv and one of the characters' name was Delilah, and she fell in love with it. My dad always says that he came up with the name, because he saw it on a bathroom wall (no joke!). So they always fight over who named me. Elizabeth is my mother's name.
As for my brother, my mom always wanted to name her son Nicholas. But my father wanted a Jr., and since they only wanted two kids, a boy and a girl, my mother eventually agreed. So my brother became Fernando Luis Jr. As a compromise, my mother calls him Nico. The rest of the family have called him Fernie or Tutus (tootoos) his whole life. Tutus came from when he was a baby. He always walked around in my mothers shoes and called them tutus lol. And the name stuck.
I don't really think our names go together, except that mine ends in the A sound and his ends in an O sound. I think it's cool when brothers and sisters end like that. But Delilah and Nicholas wouldn't have went together either. And definitely not Melody and Nicholas. So I guess it's not too bad.
Posted 01 June 2010 - 01:35 AM
Christopher Alexander
Both popular 80's names...
Posted 01 June 2010 - 05:57 AM
Brock Peter
My first name kinda came from nowhere, parents were expecting a boy and had Brandon Peter picked out which i really dislike, so luckly i wasnt a boy. The 'lee' instead of 'Lie" is a family tradition mum is Leesa instead of lisa and wanted to continue it on.Jennifer is my Grandmas name. My mum always calls me Jen and everyone else calls me Nat.
My brother isnt named after the famous Peter Brock as most people think. Mum seen Brock in some credit of a show she was watching and fell in love with it and Peter is my dads name.
I think our names flow together well as they arent too popular but arent too out there either.
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
I have the advantage of not having much liked Code Geass, so Lelouch is easy for me to get out of my head. I've heard Fukuyama Jun as the self-important Lelouch, as an effeminate young cellist in Corda D'Oro, and as the uke in the yaoi OVA Okane ga Nai. I think his voice here isn't really any of those, but some different mix. We'll see where he goes with it. I think Lawrence has to be a mixture of young and energetic and mature and knowledgeable. There is a nice, sunny energetic edge to Jun-chan's version of him in episode one.
|2008-01-08, 22:42
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
Andrew C said all doubts are removed after watching the first ep and that the new stuff felt like the novel so that's good enough for me. I noticed a lot of people don't like the pacing but that issue came up with the manga and never really bothered me at all.
|2008-01-08, 22:55
|Link #105
It's Horo, not Han Solo.
Join Date: Jun 2006
Anyhow, raw on Veoh if you don't want to download: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v250452846EW6SXm
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|2008-01-08, 23:05
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Inattentive Dreamer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 29
Honestly, I like Jun's Lelouch voice. Even if it is coming out of the "mature" Lawrence's mouth, this shouldn't bother me much. And Koshimizu Ami has yet to fail me. She made Kallen my favorite CG character, and she absolutely dominated the rest of the cast of M;Y as Nanaka.
|2008-01-08, 23:08
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Some lovely avatars there but I took so much heat about dropping Tomoko before I guess I'll have to stick with Tomoko.
I will definitely be wanting a small .sig image of a series of Horo snaps though..... and I also dropped Code Geass like hot iron so there's no VA overlap problem for me.
edit: its only "bestiality" if the date is with a lesser or non sentient creature. With this situation, its xenophilia (love of the exotic).
|2008-01-08, 23:40
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It's Horo, not Han Solo.
Join Date: Jun 2006
You should know what I'm referencing.
|2008-01-08, 23:44
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
On her blog, she says that she got "great good fortune" in her new year's divination this year, after "misfortune" last year, so all will be well. She and her friend Sanpei Yuuko (Eureka7, Precure5)are on holiday in Kyoto and Osaka this week, and Ami is posting pics to the blog. They both joined the big Sigma Seven agency last year, and are looking forward to good roles. This appears to be one.
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|2008-01-09, 00:51
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
|2008-01-09, 02:41
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Actually, the quickness has me a bit worried but if the dialog is a match to lines from the manga or light novels -- translation would go faster (particularly Horo's lines).
|2008-01-09, 04:20
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Affably Evil
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hammerspace or Australia, I forget which
Lawrence's voice reminded me a lot more of Albert de Morcerf (Gankutsuou ) than Leouche's which is a bit disappointing. Jun's sounded a bit young to me and to be honest, the only show I've really liked him in is Code Geass.
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|2008-01-09, 04:41
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Inattentive Dreamer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 29
Yea, I didn't hear any Lelouch in Jun's Lawrence like everyone was claiming. I'm pretty convinced at this point that Jun is an amazing VA. As Lelouch, his tone is extremely menacing, sarcastic and condescending. As Lawrence, its slightly playful, still a little sarcastic (but in a completely different spectrum from Lelouch) and he gives you a sort of "kinder older brother" feel. Ami, as expected from me, did an outstanding job. As Horo, she sounds somewhat indifferent and otherworldly, yet lonely (exactly what you would expect from a goddess who has been bound to the land for centuries).
The interaction between the main characters leaves me craving for more episodes, as well as Lawrence's comment about the "dangers" of being a merchant. A promise for interesting conflict perhaps?
|2008-01-09, 05:02
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Just got around to watching it finally (Damn busy day...) and enjoyed it a lot. This is probably going to be the best series this season. And I usually wait at -least- three episodes to decide whether a series is decent or not. >.>
Best first episode for a series in a long time, I think. Not many have drawn me in and left me craving more like this has.
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