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John Totten (1885-1969) began his career at Carnegie Hall in 1903 as an usher. He frequently escorted Andrew Carnegie to his box in the Main Hall, now known as the Isaac Stern Auditorium. Totten worked his way up through the ranks of Carnegie Hall and became house manager in 1927, a position he held until his retirement in 1968. As house manager, Totten was responsible for the day to day operation of the performance spaces and for arranging all the details associated with the performance. Totten was very competent at handling the pressure backstage and was highly respected by the artists and artists' managements.
Totten also aided young artists whom he thought showed promise. When George Gershwin was a young, struggling composer, Totten would sneak him into the Hall to watch performances. He also arranged for Gershwin to rehearse some of his works at Carnegie Hall. Gershwin never forgot Totten's kindness, and the two remained friendly colleagues until Gershwin's untimely death in 1937.
The amicable relationships Totten developed with various artists over the years aided him in his passion for collecting. Along with his regular duties, Totten collected photographs and autographs of the artists who appeared onstage. During his tenure the house manager's office and backstage walls were covered with autographed photos of the many musicians and performers who appeared at Carnegie Hall.
In 1955, together with baritone Lawrence Tibbett, John Totten organized the "Save Carnegie Hall Committee" when the building was threatened with demolition. The Committee attempted to raise enough money to buy Carnegie Hall from owner Robert Simon, Jr. The committee did not accomplish its goal, but did raise $6,000 which was given to Isaac Stern and his committee to save Carnegie Hall.
After the Hall was successfully saved and Philharmonic Hall was completed in 1961, John Totten left Carnegie Hall to become the first house manager of Philharmonic Hall, now Avery Fisher Hall. The reason for his sudden move is not clear. He stayed with the Philharmonic until the end of the 1962-63 season and then returned to Carnegie Hall. Totten finished out his career as house manager and vice president until he retired in 1968. John Totten died May 3, 1969 in Manhattan.
The bulk of the John Totten Collection is from Totten's tenure as House Manager, 1927-1960, during the adminstration of Carnegie Hall Incorporated. The collection consists of three series: Photographs, Administrative Records and the Autograph Book.
Series one, Photographs, contains two subseries: Photographs signed "To John Totten" and unsigned photographs. The "To John Totten" photographs are autographed by artists, managers, and critics who appeared in Carnegie Hall or were connected to the Hall and the music community. There are 136 signed photographs including Duke Ellington, Vladimir Horowitz, and Arturo Toscanini. The photographs have been conserved and are stored in acid free sleeves and print boxes. The photographs are mounted and on 11" x 14"board. There are sixteen oversize photographs approximately 14" x 18". The use of the photographs is confined to valid projects and when possible copy prints are used. The unsigned photographs consist of approximately 100 black and white 8" x 10 copy prints of John Totten in Carnegie Hall. There are several photographs showing the house manager's office and backstage facilities as they existed in the 1940s and 1950s. Other photographs include group shots of John Totten with artists backstage such as Jack Benny, Arthur Rubinstein, and John Barbirolli. All photographs are housed with the Photograph Collection of Carnegie Hall.
Series two, Administrative Records contains programs, newspaper clippings and correspondence. The programs are Carnegie Hall concert programs that Totten kept from galas and important performances, such as an autographed Vladimir Horowitz program from April 17, 1966. There is also a program from John Totten's 50th Anniversary Dinner, held on the Main Hall stage (now Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage) on April 28, 1953. There are also photographs of this event in the unsigned photographs portion of his collection. The correspondence dates from 1943 to 1967 and includes letters from conductor Leopold Stokowski, pianist Alfred Wallenstein, as well as others in the music community. The correspondence mainly consists of thank-you letters concerning particular performances and congratulation letters when he became the first house manager of Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall). There are approximately twenty letters of correspondence. The clippings in this collection are primarily essays on the history of Carnegie Hall and include interviews and photographs of John Totten.
Series three, the Autograph Book contains approximately 100 signatures of artists who have appeared at Carnegie Hall including Irving Berlin, Pablo Casals, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The book also contains signatures of impresario Sol Hurok, music critic Deems Taylor, and others in the music industry. The book measures 4" x 5" and has been disbound and conserved for preservation purposes.
The collection is arranged in three series: Photographs, Administrative Records and the Autograph Book. The photographs are arranged alphabetically.
Carnegie Hall Archives
Open for research without restrictions.
The John Totten Collection is on deposit from the Estate of John Totten. The collection was deposited at the Carnegie Hall Archives in 1986.
Alda, Frances 1951
Anderson, Marian
Arrau, Claudio 1946
Barbirolli, John 1937
Barere, Simon 1946
Bartlett, Ethel [and Rae Robertson]
Barzin, Leon
Baver, Marian
Beckett, Weaver
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Bernstein, Leonard 1956
Boerner, Charlotte
Brailowsky, Alexander 1950
Busch, Fritz 1942
Chapman, Frank
Cheatham, Kitty 1938
Cohan, George M.
Corigliano, John 1957
Curry, Lt. Col. Hugh
Damrosch, Frank
Damrosch, Walter [with Sir John Barbirolli & Robert Simon, Jr.]
Damrosch, Walter 1930
Easton, Florence 1937
Ellington, Duke
Elman, Mischa 1942
Enesco, Georges 1938
Farrar, Geraldine 1932
Firkusny, Rudolf 1940
Flagstad, Kirsten
Gabrilowitsch, Ossip 1931
Ganz, Rudolph 1939
Gelb, Fred 1939
Gershwin, George 1935
Gieseking, Walter
Goldman, Edwin Franko
Goodman, Dody
Grainger, Percy 1937
Greenfield, Alfred 1951
Hadley, Henry 1931
Hayes, Roland 1930
Heifetz, Jascha 1930
Hendl, Walter 1947
Hendl, Walter 1948
Hess, Myra
Hofmann, Josef 1940
Holmes, Burton 1933
Horowitz, Vladimir 1947
Huberman, Bronislaw 1942
Hurst, Fannie
Janssen, Werner
Jaroff, Serge 1940
Jepson, Helen
Jeritza, Maria 1937
Jones, Allan
Key, Pierre van Rensselaer
Kleiber, Erich 1930
Klemperer, Otto 1942
Koussevitzky, Serge
Koven, Reginald de 1919
Kreisler, Fritz 1931
Kullmer, Ann 1948
Lange, Hans
Laurence, Robert
Lawrence, Marjorie 1940
Leginska, Ethel 1942
Lehmann, Lotte 1936
Levant, Oscar
Levine, Mark
Levitzki, Mischa 1930
Liebling, Leonard 1931
List, Eugene 1942
MacDonald, Jeanette
MacMillan, Ernest 1954
Magnes, Frances 1947
Mahler, Gustav [signed by Alma Mahler] 1961
Maria-Theresa 1930
Marini, Nino 1936
McCormack, John 1932
Meltzer, John Henry 1928
Mengelberg, Willem 1928
Menuhin, Yehudi 1931
Merriman, Nan
Milstein, Nathan 1949
Mitropoulos, Dimitri [with King Paul & Queen Frederica of Greece]
Mitropoulos, Dimitri 1941
Molinari, Bernardino
Oistrach, David 1956
Ormandy, Eugene 1936
Peerce, Jan
Pons, Lily
Ponselle, Rosa 1936
Rabin, Michael 1936
Rachmaninoff, Sergei 1931
Raphael, Edward 1937
Reiner, Fritz 1942
Richardson, Alexander
Rodzinski, Artur 1941
Rous, Marion 1953
Rubinstein, Arthur 1941
Schrade, Robert 1954
Shaw, Robert
Shawn, Ted 1950
Sokoloff, Nikolai 1930
Soule, Thayer 1954
Spalding, Arthur 1937
Stock, Frederick 1940
Stoessel, Albert
Stokowski, Leopold
Stransky, Josef 1931
Stravinsky, Igor 1940
Swarthout, Gladys
Szeryng, Henryk 1961
Taubman, Howard H.
Tibbett, Lawrence
Toscanini, Arturo 1941
Totten, John [with Artur Rubinstein]
Totten, John
Totten, John [signed to wife, Hazel] 1956
Totten, John [Alfred Eisenstadt photo for Life magazine of Totten removing photos from Carnegie Hall] 1960
Totten, John [NY Herald Tribune photo of Totten removing photos from Carnegie Hall] 1960
Traubel, Helen 1942
U.S. Army Band
Van Praag, Maurice
Van Praag, Maurice 1932
Voitchenko, Sasha
Wallenstein, Alfred
Wallenstein, Alfred 1938
Walter, Bruno 1932
Whiteman, Paul
Yon, Pietro 1936
Iturbi, Jose 1952
Zirato, Bruno 1936
Astruc, Rose
Barbirolli, John
Bay, Emanuel
Berlin, Irving
Brico, Antonia
Burnside, R.H.
Bustabo, Giulia
Calimahos, Lambros
Cantor, Eddie
Casals, Pablo
Casadesus, Robert
Cheatham, Kitty
Clayburgh, Alma
Copeland, George
Copley, Dick
Damrosch, Walter
Draper, Paul
Elman, Mischa
Enesco, Georges
Feuermann, Emanuel
Fischer, Leo
Friedberg, Annie
Ganz, Rudolph
Gibson, Alexander
Godowsky, Leopold
Gold, Walter
Goldberg, Simon
Goodman, Benny
Gorodnitzki, Sascha
Guerney, John
Heifetz, Jascha
Hofmann, Josef
Hurok, Sol
Iturbi, Amparo
Iturbi, Jose
Johnson, Osa
La Forge, Frank
Lawrence, Marjorie
Lehmann, Lotte
Levine, Marks
Levitzki, Mischa
Lhevinne, Josef
Lhevinne, Rosina
List, Emanuel
Martinelli, Giovanni
Matzenauer, Margaret
Melchior, Lauritz
Menuhin, Yehudi
Moscona, Nicola
Ormandy, Eugene
Pauly, Rose
Peters, Julia
Piastro, Mishel
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Pitzinger, Gertrude
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Reiner, Fritz
Rosen, Max
Rosenthal, Moritz
Ross, Hugh
Rubinstein, Arthur
Salmond, Felix
Sarnoff, David
Schipa, Tito
Schnabel, Arthur
Serkin, Rudolph
Shankar, Uday
Spaeth, Sigmund
Szigeti, Joseph
Taylor, Deems
Taubman, Howard
Thomas, John Charles
Toscanini, Arturo
Seidel, Toscha
Van Praag, Willem
Vronsky, Vitya
Winchell, Walter
Wise, Stephen
Wolf, Ernest Victor
Zimbalist, Efrem


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Thank you to the XDA original poster bloodychaos. I used some of his info/code and changed a few things to reflect new versions of Ubuntu/Android SDK.
OK I can confirm that the method for installing Android SDK and using ADB in the original post for Ubuntu 11.04 also works with the horrible looking, "unity" infested, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. There are some minor changes from the OP and how it will work with 11.10/11.04. Here are the steps I took to get ADB working like a charm. Again, all the credit goes to the original poster. I'm just reporting my experience using his method/advice:
***please make sure debugging is enabled on your phone: menu/settings/applications/development/check mark debugging to enable***
1-Install java by Sun(JDK). There are different ways of installing sun-java and one is mentioned in the original post. I've used my method often and it has worked for me quite well. Here it is:
method 1: I actually like this method best since you know what you are doing step by step.http://sites.google....ipsproject/java
This works in Linux Mint 12 also.
Method 2 (I'm still leaving this here but I strongly suggest you use method 1): If Synaptic is not acting weird (it does in 12.04 Beta), use this method. Since Ubuntu no loinger includes Synaptic, go to Ubuntu Software Center, search for it, check all the add-ons in the middle, apply the changes, once done, click install in the right hand corner. Once installed start the package manager (start typing synaptic in the dock's search) and click on it. Now click on settings/repositories. Click the "other software" tab and click ADD. Now in the APT line copy and paste this: ppa:ferramroberto/java
click add source and then add volume and close. When you are back in the Synaptic window, click reload. Once reloaded, in the quick filter field type java6. You will see some entries, you need to "right click" the box and choose mark for installation for 4 items: sun-java6-bin, sun-java6-jre, sun-java6-jdk, sun-java6-plugin. Click apply and now you should see the box next to those items as green. You are done with java.
2- Download and Install Android SDK (which has ADB included of course):
Click and download the Linux version. Go to your Download folder and "right" click the .tgz file and click extract here. Now you have a folder called android-sdk-linux. Cut it from this folder and paste it in the Home folder. Note that the most of the names have changed from the original post.
Fire up a terminal (search for terminal in the dock's search field) and change directory from Home (that terminal opens in) to android-sdk-linux/tools type:
cd android-sdk-linux/tools
( you can do it in one step like above or two steps, first cd into the android-sdk-linux then into tools)
Now update the sdk by typing:
./android update sdk
The update window and the sdk open up. By default, all platforms have been selected to be installed. This will take a very long time; so if you don't need all those platforms, only pick a few you need to install. I chose all and it took me a few hours. No harm to choose all but be warned, it takes for ever.
HTC and MOTO now want you to have a dev account. You can create one, it takes a few seconds for each. Once you enter your new login and password in the SDK update window once, you don't need to enter it for all their platforms.
3- make sure USB debugging box is checked on your phone, settings/applications/development. Now connect your phone. You DO NOT want to turn on USB storage and you should see the usb debugging connected message.
4- In the terminal type:
cd android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
to go to that folder. Now type:
./adb devices
If you see your device in something like this, you are done.
List of devices attached HT12HS005115 device
But I doubt it. I've never seen it work that easily. You have to give permission to your phone. While still connected to your phone, in the terminal type lsusb to get a list of all usb devices. Usually the last one is your phone. I didn't know HTC stood for High Tech Computer Corp so it took me a few seconds to locate it. Now right down the 9 character (xxxx:xxxx) ID to the left of your phone.
In the terminal, type in cd then press enter to be at the ~$ prompt. Now type:
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules
to create a blank file and open it (you have to enter your root password every time you type sudo. You don't see anything being typed but it's there. If you are here reading this you already knew that though). In the file type (copy and paste of course):
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="####:####", SYMLINK+="android_adb", MODE="0666" GROUP="plugdev" TEST=="/var/run/ConsoleKit/database", \ RUN+="udev-acl --action=$env{action} --device=$env{DEVNAME}"
(thank you cainn24 for the typo correction)
now care fully replace the ####:#### with the 9 character you wrote down above. Save and exit.
sudo service udev restart
and press enter.
5- Now we need to test adb to see if it worked. In a terminal, type:
cd android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
to change to that directory. ADB is in there. Type in
./adb devices
If you see your device and it's serial number your done. If you don't (which I did not) stop and restart adb by using these commands while you are in that folder still:
./adb kill-server
./adb start-server
Now unplug your phone and replug it and tyoe:
./adb devices
You should now see your device and it's serial number.
6- To be able to use adb from any folder in the terminal and use it as a command (without the ./), do this: (creating a path)
In a terminal type: (it can be at any prompt)
sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
enter password and enter. A file opens up. You need to add the following at the end of the file: (again note that names have changed from the original post)
# Android tools export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
save and exit. Make sure you are not adding or omitting anything or you will get an error. You need to restart your computer, kill adb and restart adb as above, and unplug/re-plug your phone to complete this step. Now press cd and enter to be at ~$ prompt. Lets see if adb works without being in that folder: type:
adb devices
if you get the same device name and serial number you got when you were in the adb directory, you are done. You can now run adb from anywhere as a command. If you don't, unplug and re-plug the phone, restart the terminal and should work.
update 02-22-12: It seems like Google has included fastboot in the platform-tools folder now. Before doing anything check and see if it's there. If it is, all you need to do is test it. Go to the last paragraph marked by *** in this section to test fastboot.
Setting up fastboot in Ubuntu 11.10: Now that you have adb setup, it's pretty easy to setup fastboot. The source of my knowledge for this is http://wiki.cyanogen...m/wiki/Fastboot
You may run into a guide that would ask you to use fastboot to accomplish something. So it's nice to have it handy when needed but don't be going around using commands you know nothing about. It may mess up your device.
For fastboot to work, you have to have S-OFF and be in the bootloader (fastboot menu). Remember, Bootloader/fastboot is not the same as the recovery menu. Unlike adb, nothing happens if you have your phone booted normally, you have to be in the fastboot menu. Now go to http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/ and download the right version (Linux of course). Extract the zipped file and rename it fastboot for ease of use. Cut and paste it into your android-sdk-linux/platform-tools folder from the above settings. Because you set your path above to be able to issue commands from both tools and platform-tools folders, you are done. I chose the platform-tools since Google has moved adb from the tools folder to this folder. I read somewhere that they by mistake omitted fastboot from the latest version of Androiod SDK.
***Now to test it, turn your phone off and boot into the bootloader manually (each phone has different combo keys for this) or fire up a terminal and type:
adb reboot-bootloader
now type:
fastboot devices
and see if your device and serial number is recognized.

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Some of those moments were captured as part of this week's ESPN's series Depth Chart that airs Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET. Wisconsin allowed the network access to the program throughout preseason practices as the team prepared for the start of the season and its first game against UNLV.
The show chronicles Wilson as he arrives to meet his teammates for the first time and formally introduces himself to the team in addition to the challenges of learning the Badgers playbook in a limited time frame.
It shows him bonding with wide receiver Al Toon over video games and the announcement that he was elected as one of the team's four captains.
There's also some humorous moments as Wilson and other first-year players are forced to fake their way through the school fight song, On Wisconsin!, the quarterback participating in an impromptu dance contest in the locker room and the team celebrating the end of two-a-days by jumping into their rehab pool.
The episode is the third of a four-part series. Depth Chart previously has looked at Auburn and Oklahoma State and will focus on Arkansas next week.
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Bosko and Honey's Ukelele Honeymoon
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When Bosko and Honey happened upon a 1920's cartoon in which a character, who happened to be called Bosko gave his girlfriend, who happened to be called Honey, a Ukulele for her birthday, it seemed like a message from above tailored for them.
While neither of them could play ukulele, Bosko purchased one for his wife for her birthday, taught himself to play, taught Honey to play and now Bosko and Honey's Ukulele Safari has travelled the world delighting uke fans with their performances.
Their adventures have taken them from their hometown of Kuranda in Northern QLD right around Australia, Japan, the USA and Europe. Along the way they have shared musical experiences with many thousands of ukulele players, visited dozens of uke clubs and performed at ukulele festivals in New York, Germany, Italy, the UK, Melbourne and now... Newcastle!
Check out Bosko & Honey's UKULELE SAFARI and UKULELE LOVE-IN
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Well that's pretty inspirational! I taught myself to play the ukulele last year... maybe I should get one for my wife so we can play duets! Very cool.
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Lovely music. Makes me want to get a Ukulele and join in the fun.
Bosko has a cool voice too.
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Question: Why do different sources give different figures for the number of Jupiter's moons? How many moons does Jupiter really have?
Answer: The figures given for the number of Jupiter's moons vary because of new discoveries that are happening all the time. What has enabled the ongoing discovery of new moons has been the advance of CCD (charge-coupled device) cameras during the early 2000s. Before then, the number of moons in the Solar System had been the same for 20 years or so, with most of the moons of the outer planets discovered by the Voyager spacecrafts. But at the beginning of the new century, CCD cameras had improved so that we could look at more of the sky in a single image (a wide field of view). Also, as bigger telescopes were being built (8m and 10m), it meant that the smaller telescopes (2m and 4m) were now available for such projects – re-observing the same part of the sky every 30 to 60 minutes.
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Some things are changing in the world of optics. It uses to be that you had to spend a good chunk of money to get good optics; after all, it is difficult and requires expensive lenses, expensive anti-reflection treatment, some quality components, and precise work to mount it all and to get the optics to perform as they should.
Some optical aberrations and distortions can only be corrected the best possible. It is difficult to make good glasses to deliver a flat picture of good quality when the light ray has to pass through curved lenses.
But the new computerized optics programs than the optical engineer is using these days has brought a solution to the trial-and-error and time-consuming work that was needed to produce decent binocular blueprints in the old days.
They are several factors, beside objective size, that will determine how good the image quality in binoculars will be.
They include optical coating, quality of optics, distortions and aberrations, optical alignment, and manufacturer tolerances.
Back in 1970, I came back from the jungles of South America in one piece, but minus my good Zeiss binoculars. In seventy-one, freshly married and planning a trip, I was in need of a binocular, but my budget was $25.00 (you bought a lot of gasoline with $25 in the seventies).
After looking at several on that price range, I selected a 7x35 Porro prisms Sunset (Japanese). It says in big white letters that it is an extra-wide angle (10 degrees), which, at the time, didnt affect me since my young eyes in those days didnt need prescription glasses (wide angle will reduce the eye relief, an important consideration to eyeglass wearers). But poor eye relief means that you have to get your eye very close to the lens to see the whole picture, which can put a drop of perspiration on the glass in hot days or fog them in the cold climate.
It also makes it impossible to focus the edges of the glass. The center will be in focus, but the edges will be blurry: this distortion is called curvature of field, so keep in mind to stay away from wide field-of-view glasses if you want your picture to be relatively sharp all around.
It also says that it has coated optics, which means (and I can see it) that only the exterior lenses have been coated on the outside, and that translates that a good amount of light is going to be lost throughout reflection, making them inferior to glasses that used multi-coating lenses to see in deep shadows and at dusk .
So brightness and sharpness are affected by the amount and quality of the coating that are used in binoculars- the more the better (as much as seven coats for glass surfaces are been used now). When you think that as much as 4 % of light is lost through reflection from uncoated surfaces and that a binocular uses a total of 14 or more optical glass inside them, you will understand why multi-coats are so important for light transmission.
I can see that the lenses in the Sunset havent been corrected for chromatic aberrations, which means that the colors will be more muddled if I were looking at birds. Of course, correcting for color needs a set of different glass, all keyed to a certain spectrum on the color scale, which makes binoculars more expensive and will have taken me out of my $25.00 budget in those days.
Be careful of cheap binoculars with big lenses (50 to 60 or more mm of objective), as the bigger the lenses are, the more intense the chromatic aberration will be, unless it is corrected by low dispersion glass that will make the binoculars much more expensive.
Good glasses should be corrected for another aberration called astigmatism, which is the effect of the light at the edges of the glass that is elongated into an oval that points toward the center. This together with the curvature of field tends to make glasses fuzzy toward the edges. I believe my Sunset 7x35 glasses shows a good degree of astigmatism.
Of course, my 38 year-old glasses also show a good deal of spherical aberration. There is no way that ray of light passing trough the center of a normal glass can be in the same focus as the ones passing through the edges. This makes the image loss detail. Newer binoculars are now using an aspheric lens (usually in the oculars) that corrects the focus by bringing the center light rays to the same focus as edges rays of light, making the glass brightest and with increased contrast.
My Sunset glasses show some barrel distortion. Were a straight line placed on the edge of the field of view, it will bow outwards at the center. If that line will bow inwards at the center, it will be called pin cushion distortion. Good glasses correct for this distortion with quality glass, although you can still find just a little of it even in expensive glasses.
My Sunset 7x35 binoculars did fine for a few years (I didnt use them much in low light) until I replaced them in my neck for a Bushnell Custom Compact 6x 25 CF in 1974, which then started my love affair with 6x lenses.
The Bushnell Custom Compact are beautiful binoculars; light, small, and highly good optics that still sells today and is highly sought after by those that dont want to carry full binoculars when birding or hunting.
The street price on the Custom Compact is around $250.00, and it is well worth it. I have used mine for years in hikes into the high peaks of the Adirondacks. I think so highly of them that I had bought a pair for my wife in 1976.
The only thing I always wondered was how it would perform in poor light if the objectives were as big as 30 mm instead of 25mm.
Now, after so many years, another 6x binocular has fallen into my hands, thanks to the advice of FirstFreedom, a member of TFL forum.
The Leupold Yosemite Porro prisms 6x30 is in my hands now and a beauty it is, both physically and optically.
This Leupold is miles ahead of my Sunset 7x35, the comparisons I made in low light gives a great edge to the Leupold even than the objectives are 5mm smaller in the Leupold, and the numbers for exit pupil gives both the same 5mm value (35 mm divided by 7x = 5mm and 30 mm divided by 6x = 5mm of exit pupil). The Leupold outperforms my Sunset glasses, due to better coating and better optics.
I was surprised when I put both in my fish scale because both weigh 1 lb. 1 oz., but the Leupold feels much lighter. The rubber covering and the twist up eye-piece guards are a big asset for the Leupold, as the Sunset doesnt have any eye-piece guards at all. The Leupold Yosemite comes with a rain guard that is tethered to the elastic strap and regular caps in the objectives. That is one thing I would like to see changed; objectives should be protected with covers, such as the ones find in my Nikon Monarch, that are attached to the binocular body and not by caps that are easily lost.
Optically, the Leupold Yosemite is very superior to the Sunset glass. Some aberrations and distortions are still in the glasses, but only in a reduced amount and in the edge of the field of view, and it is okay, because only very high quality glasses like the Swarovski and Zeiss can make those defects disappear almost completely, and after all, most of us look through the center of the field anyway, and not through the edges.
Color seems to be fully corrected in the Yosemite, although I have yet to find a proper test medium to judge it (hummingbirds or woodpeckers).
Sharpness and definition are well up in the scale, leaving the Sunset glasses in the dust. That all this optical quality is attained at the cost of only less than a hundred USD is a miracle of new manufacturing techniques. I am well pleased with the new Yosemite binoculars by Leupold, I took a calculated risk when I bought them, based on the Leupold name in others optics and I am well satisfied with what I got and for the little money I got them.
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I must be off my rocker. I have binoculars coming out of my ears and I just went out and ordered another.
This time the culprit that captured my heart is the Leupold Wind River Katmai binoculars, a roof prism model that is quite compact and light but offers superior viewing compared to full sized premium binoculars.
I had seen them before in catalogues such as Cabelas and Red Head, but I never got interested because I thought they were only available in 8x32.
Having recently bought the Leupold Yosemite 6x30 binoculars, I became interested in seeing what others models they offered and discovered that the Katmai were also available in 6x32.
The reason that I am particular about the six power binoculars is that they offer a perfect magnification for the kind of close woods hunting I do.
When available in the 32 mm sized objectives, I am getting a 5.33 mm of exit pupil, giving good quality optics; the right pupil opening for the low light condition that I often glass under. I never saw any reason to own them in 8x32, as I will be getting only a 4 mm of eye pupil: no doubt good for daylight, but no good for the use I put binoculars through.
If I am going to use an eight power, then it will have to have 42 mm objectives to give me 5.25 mm of eye pupil. I already have two great pairs of glasses in that size (the Pentax and the Nikon) and I use them often, but the new Leupold Katmai is going to fulfill the same task, using less bulk and weight, which is important for me in certain instances.
Here is a picture of them together so you can appreciate the size difference. From left to right: the Leupold Yosemite 6x30 Porro prisms, the Leuopold Katmai 6x32, the Nikon Monarch 8x42, and the Pentax DCF 8x42.
I am fifty miles from New York City, so it is not possible for me to go to check binoculars every time I have a whim for them (and it happens often), so I ordered the Katmai over the mail knowing that you will not always get something over the mail that will fulfill your expectations. No such problem occurred with the Katmai binoculars, though: they are great and exactly what I expected them to be for a glass of this price and more.
I performed the usual checks and was amply satisfied with the optical quality and mechanical precision of the glasses. The ergonomics are also great for a glass of this size, and I was well pleased with my purchase.
One aspect of this purchase is worth mentioning: when looking at the Katmai 8x32 that Cabela's and Red Head have in their catalogues, the price for them was hovering around $400 to $420. I bought the Katmai 6x32 over the web for $289 shipped.
Now the question is how they compare optically with the lower priced ($98) Porro prism Leupold Yosemite binoculars, and if the $200 difference is noticeable in the optical quality.
If that difference is there, I cant notice it! Both glasses performed well in my low light test and both are sharp and with enough resolution to satisfy the most rabid birdie.
We all know that roof prisms are more expensive and difficult to make well, so part of the money goes toward that end, perhaps of influence in the price is the fact that the Katmai are made in Japan and the Yosemite in China; we know that our money buys more Yuan than Yen.
So what is going to happen to the Yosemite 6x32 now that my new love is the Katmai? No problem on that end, since my son already declared ownership of the Yosemite, as he recently took them on a trip to Floridas Everglades, using them in the Aninha trail and in the Flamingo point.
He came back saying, Dad, you will never these back; they are great glasses! Now if I can just hide the Katmai from him until he goes to college in September, I will be fine.
For those that dont understand the obsession that possesses me, I am here to tell you that there is nothing better than to look through quality glasses. I am just in a rush to finish typing this to go and sit in my patio and look for the red-tailed hawk that has been visiting us here lately.
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Well, what now, you just put he binoculars to your eyes and look through them, right?
Just in case we have new binocular users here, I am going to explain the mechanics of glassing the right way. Not long ago a new hunter in the family was showing me his new binoculars that I noticed were adjusted in the interpupilary distance with a far greater length that I knew his eyes to be set.
When I questioned him if he was not seeing two uncompleted circles when looking through the glasses, he admitted it and was surprised when I told him that the binoculars are supposed to deliver only one circle. I guess he has seen too many movies where the view trough binoculars are shown that way.
So our first business with the binoc is to adjust the interpupilary distance by bending the barrels at the center hinge until our eyes see only one circle; that will ensure that the optical center of the glasses is in line with the center of our pupils.
Second is to adjust the diopter wheel that is usually in the right barrel; as not everybody has 20/20 vision, this wheel will adjust the focus for your right eye. To accomplish the adjustment cover the right objective with your hand or objective cap, look through the glasses and adjust the center wheel until the view is sharp and clear, now cover the left objective and adjust the diopter wheel until the view is sharp.
I used for years to do this in the reverse sequence, adjusting the diopter first and then the center wheel, you get the same results.
Look at the markings at the edge of the wheel to remember the settings in case somebody changes them, (I just put a small drop of white out correction fluid to mark the setting).
The eye relief is fixed and in modern binoculars quite generous, but the eye cups collapse to use the binoculars with your eye glasses, some models can be adjusted to stop midway or at increments so you can get your oculars lenses as far or as close as you want to your eye glasses.
Now you are ready to glass, if yours glasses are 10x they are marginal in how steady you can hold them, people varies but 10x is the magnification that can do with some serious help in holding the glasses.
Sit down and brace your elbows against your knees or sunk them into your stomach looking for the best stable position, grasp you binos with both hands but leave your index fingers free and anchor them against your temples, or alternatively grasp the edge of your caps bill to add another anchor point. What you are looking for is to minimize or cancel any tremors, as a jumping up and down picture magnified 10x will not let you appreciate the detail that you bought the glasses for.
With the 8x you have a little more freedom from those tremors, I have a very steady hand (I am a watchmaker) and can hold 8x glasses with one hand for relatively quick looks, but it is not recommended, after all glasses are not for quick looks.
Dont scan with glasses, your vision should be concentrated in the center of your view, and the glasses when moving, should be moving in very small increments when you are sure that the picture that you are seeing is completely understood by your brain.
The part of the eye that does the stationary looking and captures detail is very small; it is called the macula and covers only two degrees of your vision. When looking through 8x glasses this angle decrease to ¼ of a degree, so if you want to capture the detail that you pay so much money for, keep your glasses steady and look through the center of them.
The crouch and the belly down position are also glassing positions that should be not overlooked, take a tip from African hunters and steady your glasses in the standing position with the aid of a mono pod or shooting sticks or even a walking stick.
In carrying your glasses you can do as the African white hunters do and use a long strap to place them out of the way in the left side of your body at waist level and under your arm, or hang them from your neck but with a very short strap, so they ride high on your chest and will not swing and strike another object when you bend down.
There are in the market some harnesses that will keep your binoculars close to your body when you move around, but they usually interfere with other equipment, at least in my case as I wear a back pack most of the time but for those that carry only the glasses those harnesses work well.
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Ok, all of above being said;
I need to upgrade my binocular situation. I'm using a set of 10X25s that are of reasonable weight, quality and functionality. They serve me well during the brightness of the day. The downers are too small of a field of view and usefulness during the critical low light conditions.
The fellow I was with had a set of Swaro 10X50 EL(??) which I would rate at top of the line for usefulness in all respects. Limiting conditions to this Swaro bino are cost and weight (They weigh a ton.)
I have been doing the shopping thing for the last few days inspecting whats available (Sportsman's Warehouse and local sporting goods stores)
What would be a good recommendation for a LRH use bino where distances are, at times, measured in miles and shadows are prevelant, such as large deep canyons were one side is dark most of the day. Also during the early and late part of the day, the sun is a real bother when low in the sky.
I found a set of Nikons that seemed to me to out do a set of Leicas for about a third of the cost???
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I bought a pair of Leica Geovids. I've never been sorry. The resolution is the best I've ever seen. Low light is great, too. I got the 10X42. Plus I don't have to carry an extra lrf...
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Ok, all of above being said;
The fellow I was with had a set of Swaro 10X50 EL(??) which I would rate at top of the line for usefulness in all respects. Limiting conditions to this Swaro bino are cost and weight (They weigh a ton.)
The 10x42 EL's are one of the lightest weight full size binos on the market. I'm pretty sure you were looking at 10x42 SLC's or 10x50 SLC's. I have had them all literally (Swarovskis, Leicas and Zeiss) and I can tell you from experiece that the Swarovski EL's are the best class on the market to day! IMHO.......... I have the 8.5x42 EL's and a pair og Leica 10x42 BN's right now and average daylight viewing is close to the same but early morning and later evening the EL's shine bright. BIG DIFFERENCE!!! Now.........I know the exit pupils are slightly different but but the difference is amazing. I will be trading the Leicas in for another set of the EL's ASAP.
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This is a discussion on Remington R51 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; It is a cool looking gun but I will wait until it gets some mileage on it. Too many recalls on new models regardless of ...
It is a cool looking gun but I will wait until it gets some mileage on it. Too many recalls on new models regardless of the manufacturer.
Let me know how the beta testing works out.
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Yep, but some people will pay the asking price no matter what it is, just cause they want one and demand exceeds supply (I'm not one of those people however) .
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What caught my imagination was when talking about the cycling speed:In other words you should be able to double tap very well.This system is so fast that an engineer at Remington was able to fire 0.8-split second times between shoots. Incredible. To give you an idea of how fast that really is, most pro shooters' split times are in the .17-second range. Going a step further, a full-size 1911 requires 0.10 of a second to cycle. So, to say the recoil system of this pistol is efficient would be an understatement.
What wasn't mentioned, and what I always look for most, are whether or not there were any FTF/FTEs. Just that over 1500 rounds were fired "through a few different samples."
As far as ergonomics go, it appeals to me. I should be able to wrap all three bottom fingers around the grip. That's very important to me. ymmv.6.62" long, 4.6" high, 0.90" slide width, 1.07" total width (includes slide release thickness).Originally Posted by strangerjames
It's not the length that dictates whether or not a pistol is a micro, sub-compact, compact, or full size, it's the height. At 4.6" high it is less than the 5.0" height of a true compact. That makes it a sub-compact. What you may be referring to are micro-compacts, tiny pocket guns. That it is not. Not everyone wants a micro pistol. The R51 has a 3.4" barrel, not the under 3.0" of a micro pistol. At 21.9 oz. it won't appeal to the micro-pistol crowd, ie, those interested in the PM380, LCP, etc. But it does compare favourably with the SIG P232's 6.60"l x 4.70"h x 1.20"w 3.60" barreled, 18.5 oz. pistol, which many consider the acme of the pocket pistol. I just hope that it is just as reliable. Being $150 cheaper certainly appeals to me.
No, chances are that it will appeal most to the 1911ers because of it's SAO trigger, slide width, full hand presentation, those who have no problems with a grip safety. It will probably have no appeal to the DAO, DA/SA, no-safeties, under 12 oz. crowd. All the Glockers will sneer at it - "21 oz.? That's how much my G19 weighs! Why the heck would I want to carry 7 when I can carry 16?" It'll definitely turn off the G26 crowd. But I would rather have the R51 than the G26. Everything else is splitting hairs: Once someone rationalises that 1.18" (G19, G26) is really not that much bigger than 0.90" (R51) {That's about 1/3"} then why were the G30 @1.27" slide width lovers enamoured with the G36's 1.13" slide width? Trust me, 1/3" of an inch is big.
It is longer than my G26, it has roughly the same length barrel (0.06" shorter), it is roughly the same height as mine with the +2 extension, and only .1" thinner. I can't see giving up 5 rounds to carry a gun that is essentially the same size. That is a real shame because I was digging the look. I guess my next purchase will be something else.
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I will not be the first one in the door ,but after it has been out awhile I will give it a good look. Don't really have a use for another small 9mm.
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I played with all of the R51s Remington had at the Harrisburg Outdoor Show today at Remington's booth. I don't care for them one bit.
The slides were all gritty and the triggers were all bad. I also didn't care for the grip safety. I felt like I had to think about making sure it was engaged, rather than with a 1911, where it just is. This thing is also considerably larger that what everyone seems to be hyping it up as.
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Government Shutdown Looms
The rhetoric in Washington is ratcheting up. Houser Republicans say they won't fund the government if Obamacare is a part of that funding. Senate Democrats say they won't pass a bill that doesn't have Obamacare funding in it. It will all come to a head over the next week because of a bill isn't passed by October first the government will be shut down.
That sounds scary, right? Sure it does. But if you take a look at what a shutdown really entails, you'll notice that its impact on you will be very limited.
"It won't have an impact in vital services. Air traffic controllers will still be there. Social Security will still be running," Mark Jones of Rice University told KTRH.
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"The impact on us is mainly a public relations campaign. A lot of the things that will get shut down are things that you wouldn't notice. At least not right away," Preston said.
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It means that there is some tissue in the left kidney (2cm in size) which is made up of different types of cells. In general the more types of cells in a mass or lesion, the better the news.
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A Comics Artist Is Taking On Amazon
Those of you keeping score at home can add comics artist Anders Nilsen to the list of individuals, companies, and European nations taking sides against Amazon in its increasingly public dispute with publisher Hachette.
On Tuesday Nilsen announced that he's self-publishing his new book, God and the Devil at War in the Garden. That announcement ended on a mysterious note:
The first 25 orders will go out with a free 13 page minicomic called Conversation Gardening. It's both a comic and the beginning of a little experiment I'm embarking on. I'll explain more later this week.
Later this week has arrived, and with it Nilsen's explanation, in the form of the first panels of Conversation Gardening. The comic offers Nilsen's thought on Amazon's recent actions and on its hegemonic control of online book retail. But as Nilsen alluded to in his initial announcement, he's also beginning an experiment. He's trying to incentivize not buying any of his work from Amazon:
I'm asking people who buy one of my books (any of my books, not just this new one) at an independent bookseller (or from my online store) to send me 1) the receipt, (a formality to show it's not from Amazon) and 2) a question or idea written on a piece of paper. I will then make a drawing in response on the piece of paper and send it back to them. I'm planning to do 100. Signed and numbered.
There's an easy and cynical response to this, which is simply "big deal, it won't do anything." Looking at it that way misses the point, though. Of course losing 100 sales is nothing for Amazon, Nilsen isn't going to singlehandedly drive them out of business. But at least this experiment is attempting to prod a few people into more conscientious consumption.
What's more, it means someone invested in the fight is actually trying to talk about the situation. Dennis Johnson, co-founder of the small publisher Melville House, observed this morning that large publishers (including Hachette) remain quiet even as Amazon — usually silent — goes on the record. For his part, Nilsen has said that this is his attempt to make something grow out of the dispute:
I wanted to do something that would amount to a positive response – creating something new. A boycott or an anti-trust case or vaguely shaming people for shopping on Amazon are all fine, too, but they are negative responses that try to keep something from happening. I wanted to make something new happen.
Yes Amazon will remain largely untouched, but at least there'll be a conversation about it, and some cool comics, too.
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HHey everyone! Just wanted to say hi to all the Oregonians out there! Range day if anyone is ever around Seaside!
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HHey everyone! Just wanted to say hi to all the Oregonians out there! Range day if anyone is ever around Seaside!
Technically, I think this forum defines Oregan as the Pacific Northwest. I believe your message would fair (fare?) better in there.
This doesn't seem like a very popular feature, does it? At least not for the California section on here. I'm sure if we Californians were to have a large enough group meeting of gun owners, local people would find out a figure out a way to arrest us in mass.
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Everyday is Range Day here in Lakeview! Come on down - I'll supply the guns & ammo!
Anyone in or around the Illinois Valley out there?
South-Central Oregon - about 15 miles from the Cali border. It's Oregon's "Mile High" city... well, town anyway. Our population hovers around 2,500 - elevation is just under 5,000 ft.
It's well worth the drive - if for no other reason than to get out of the smog and traffic and enjoy the dry Oregon Outback high desert air!
Besides, we're (Warner Mt. Gun Club) building a new shooting range just out of town. The big bore range will take anything up to 50 caliber and will have birms for targets out to 500 meters (100, 200, 300, & 500 meter ranges), plus a second, shorter range for rimfire and handguns. Off to the right will be the shotgun area.
The range is still being worked on and will probably not be 100% completed until summer '09, but it is open for daily use now (unless a work party is going on at the same time.)
Fun, fun, fun!
Nothin' like seeing a 2 year old post be replied to. And by one of the OP's! Now that's persistence! :smt023
My naps don't usualy last that long. I wish it wasn't so far. Free ammo and guns provided sounds like a deal to me.
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The music is ok but dear lord the vocalist sucks so bad!Actually, I think the band kris long is in - Beast of Burden is fantastic if you like metal. They're all very talented musicians (kris brandon mike and eric ) and everyone has a private life that has absolutely nothing to do with their talent or ability. There are entirely too many haters in Greeneville. Lots of talent and too much hate.
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Alcohol May Trigger Serious Palpitations in Heart PatientsJune 04, 2012
The term "holiday heart syndrome" was coined in a 1978 study to describe patients with atrial fibrillation who experienced a common and potentially dangerous form of heart palpitation after excessive drinking, which can be common during the winter holiday season. The symptoms usually went away when the revelers stopped drinking. Now, research from UCSF builds on that finding, establishing a stronger causal link between alcohol consumption and serious palpitations in patients with atrial fibrillation, the most common form of arrhythmia.
In a paper scheduled to be published August 1 in the American Journal of Cardiology, the UCSF researchers report that people with atrial fibrillation had almost a four and a half times greater chance of having an episode if they were consuming alcohol than if they were not.
"One of the remaining big unknowns is why or how this happens," said senior author Gregory Marcus, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Division of Cardiology. "In a previous publication, we suggested that there was an effect on the electrical activity of the atrium that leads to these arrhythmias but we do need additional studies to prove that."
Alcohol and Heart Palpitations
In the study, conducted from September 2004 to March 2011, UCSF researchers interviewed 223 patients with documented cardiac arrhythmia, a term that encompasses both atrial fibrillation and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), or rapid heart rate originating above the ventricles. Researchers asked patients, "Does alcohol trigger your heart palpitations?" Participants ranked their symptoms on a scale from one to five (i.e. never, rarely, sometimes, frequently, and always).
"We defined 'yes' as frequently or always versus the rest of the responses," Marcus said, "and found that, after adjusting for potential confounders, atrial fibrillation patients had statistically significant greater odds of reporting that alcohol would trigger their symptoms." Of those patients interviewed, 133 reported intermittent or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, or irregular heart palpitations, when drinking, and 90 had SVT, without any atrial fibrillation. After adjusting for variables, the paroxysmal atrial fibrillation group had a 4.42 greater chance of reporting alcohol consumption as an arrhythmia trigger, compared to the SVT group. Patients' claims of atrial fibrillation were verified by surface electrocardiograms and invasive cardiac studies.
The mean age of the study participants was 59 years. Eighty percent were Caucasian; 11 percent were Asian; 5 percent Latino, and 4 percent declined to state their ethnicity in the atrial fibrillation group. All were referred to and studied at UCSF.
"We didn't find any clear associations between age and race as a trigger, but we probably had insufficient number of people in the study," Marcus said.
Studying the Effects of Alcohol
Other studies have suggested that alcohol could help decrease the chance of developing atherosclerosis, which clogs or narrows the arteries. One of the proposed sources of benefit is the antioxidant in red wine called resveratrol, which may help prevent heart disease by increasing the "good" cholesterol in a person's body.
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"There may be some beneficial effects to alcohol, but it's important to look at actual heart outcomes, like stroke and death," Marcus said. "Keep in mind that we used to think estrogen was good for your heart based on observational studies, and now we know that's not exactly true."
He says there's insufficient information at this time to recommend any lifestyle changes related to alcohol and heart disease risk. Still he points out that this report and previous reports indicate alcohol can cause cardiomyopathy and worsen hypertension.
"If someone has heart palpitations or atrial fibrillation, I'm often asked, 'Can I drink at all?'" Marcus said. "And I don't know the answer, but it may be that certain people are susceptible.
"The clinical evidence suggests that some people are susceptible and other people aren't, but if they know that they're susceptible they should avoid alcohol," he said.
Co-authors are Mala Mandyam; Vasanth Vedantham, MD, PhD; Melvin Scheinman, MD; Zian Tseng, MD, MAS; Nitish Badhwar, MBBS; Byron Lee, MD, MAS; Randall Lee, MD, PhD; Edward Gerstenfeld, MD; and Jeffrey Olgin, MD, all of the UCSF Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Section.
This study was supported by the National Center for Research Resources, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, through UCSF-Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Grant Number TL1 RR024129. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.
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Easyjet's founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his family have sold more than £5 million-worth of shares and warned the board of the budget airline that they will sell the rest of their stake — more than a third of easyJet's shares — if it places a large aircraft order.
Sir Stelios, his brother and sister each sold 200,000 easyJet shares, representing about 1 per cent of their 37 per cent holding, Sir Stelios said, to "send a clear message to our directors".
He added: "The only reason that the profits have kept pace is due to the average customer now paying 33 per cent more than they did four years ago. There is still one major concern that could screw up this financial success story: another aircraft order."
If easyJet exercised all its current options on jets, it could increase the fleet to 259 aircraft by 2017 from 213 today. But in the coming months it may also place a new order. "[That would] destroy shareholder value," Sir Stelios said. "If they place such an order I will be looking to dispose of more of my stake.
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