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Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration / Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Rudolf Firkusney, Frederica von Stade
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2013-07-09Works: Antonin Dvorák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92; Romance for violin & piano in F minor (arr. from Andante of Str Qrt no 5), B. 38 (Op. 11); From the Bohemian forest, Op. 68; Humoresques (8) for Piano,...
Performers: Firkusny, Rudolf; Ma, Yo-Yo; Perlman, Itzhak; Von Stade, Frederica [Mezzo-soprano vocals]
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: ; Boston Symphony Orchestra
Recording information: Smetana Hall, Prague (12/16/1993)....continue...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - 100th Anniversary Edition, 10 Reference Recordings from Stokowski, Stravinsky, Monteaux, Ozawa, Boulez, Salaonen, Bernstein, Tilson-Thomas
10 CD / Sony Classical / 2013-05-21Works: Igor Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Fireworks, Op. 4; Symphony in Three Movements
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold; Ozawa, Seiji; Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Thomas, Michael T.
It was exactly a century ago Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps shocked and overwhelmed its first audience, provoking a now-legendary riot at its Paris...continue...
Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Cello Concerto / Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Ozawa, Boston SO
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2013-04-23Works: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35; Arnold Schoenberg: Concerto for Cello in D major after Harpsichord Concerto in D by G.M. Monn
Performers: Ma, Yo-Yo
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: ; Boston Symphony Orchestra
Recording information: Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts....continue...
Orff: Carmina Burana / Ozawa
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-04-05Works: Carl Orff: Carmina burana
Performers: Kolk, Stanley; Mandac, Evelyn; Milnes, Sherrill [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Recording information: Symphony Hall, Boston, USA (11/17/1969)....continue...
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-04-05Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel; Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Kor...
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Drawn from the worldwide catalog holdings of Sony Classical, which includes both the Columbia/CBS and RCA Victor label imprints, the SONY Classical Originals, SONY Classical...continue...
The Essential Leon Fleisher
2 CD / Sony Classical / 2008-01-15Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Op. 34; C...
Performers: Fleisher, Leon [Piano/Conductor]; Laredo, Jaime; Ma, Yo-Yo; Silverstein, Joseph [Violin/Conductor]
Conductors: Szell, George; Ozawa, Seiji
Pianist Leon Fleisher joins the pantheon of America's cultural giants when he receives the 2007 Kennedy Center Honor in December. One of the most dazzling...continue...
Strauss: Don Quixote, etc / Ma, Ax, Ozawa, et al
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2005-08-30Works: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 6
Performers: Ax, Emanuel; Ma, Yo-Yo
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is the eloquent soloist is Strauss's sumptuous orchestral fantasy based on Cervantes' classic novel, and he is joined by pianist Emmanuel Ax...continue...
The Dvorák Album
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2004-09-07Works: Antonin Dvorák: Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191; From the Bohemian forest, Op. 68; Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 72/B 147; Humoresques (8) for Piano, Op. 101/B 187; Gypsy S...
Performers: Ma, Yo-Yo; Perlman, Itzhak; Zander, Patricia
Conductors: Masur, Kurt; Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: ; Boston Symphony Orchestra; New York Philharmonic
Yo Yo Ma celebrates the life of Antonin Dvorak on this all new compilation featuring Ma in performance of some of the composer's greatest works....continue...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Entremont, Watts
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2003-04-01Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Performers: Entremont, Philippe; Watts, Andre [Piano]
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard; Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
Classic Perlman - Rhapsody
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2002-04-02Works: William Walton: Henry V; Henry V, choral suite (arr. by M. Sargent) and orchestral suite (arr. by C.Matthieson); John Williams: Schindler's List; Ernest Chausson: Concert for Piano, Violin and String...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Bolet, Jorge; Ma, Yo-Yo; Perlman, Itzhak; Williams, John [Guitar]
Conductors: Williams, John; Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: ; Boston Symphony Orchestra
The 12 recordings on CLASSIC PERLMAN - RHAPSODY were selected specifically to showcase the unparalleled lyricism of the brilliant violinist Itzhak Perlman. The emphasis here is not so much on his flaw...continue...
Classic Yo-Yo
1 CD / Sony Classical / 2001-09-18Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Cantata no 75 "Die Elenden sollen essen" BWV 75; Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Astor Piazzolla: Five Tango Sensations, for ban...
Performers: Agri, Antonio; Alimjan; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ax, Emanuel; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Console, Hector; Cossin, David; Kahane, Jeffrey; Kasim; Krauss, Alison; Laredo, Jaime; Ma, Yo-Yo; Malvicin...
Conductors: Koopman, Ton; Ozawa, Seiji; Williams, John;
Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; Shanghai National Orchestra; Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Personnel: Alison Krauss, Bobby McFerrin (vocals); Horacio Malvicino (guitar); Mark O'Connor (mandolin); Antonio Agri, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern (violin); Néstor Marconi (bandoneon); Emanuel ...continue...
Liszt - Greatest Hits
1 CD / Sony Classical / 1995-06-13Works: Franz Liszt: Work(s), Mephisto Waltzes 1-4, for orchestra, piano or piano, 4 hands; Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124; Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244; Liebesträume for P...
Performers: Ax, Emanuel; Entremont, Philippe; Feltsman, Vladimir [Piano]; Nakamura, Hiroko; Shimizu, Kazune
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Mehta, Zubin; Ozawa, Seiji; Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra
Dvorák in Prague - A Celebration
1 CD / Sony Classical / 1994-03-22Performers: Firkusny, Rudolf; Ma, Yo-Yo; Perlman, Itzhak; Von Stade, Frederica
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Prague Philharmonic Chorus
R. Strauss: Don Quixote, etc / Ma, Ozawa, Boston SO
1 CD / Sony Classical / 1990-01-30Works: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35; Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83
Performers: Fine, Burton; Ma, Yo-Yo
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji; Davis, Andrew
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jaar, hems or antwon would be nice. Whatever the lineup ends up being I'm sure it will be dope as always.
I'm sure it will be great; missed out on the early bird… Can't wait till Friday!!!!
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With all the news of suicide and bullying and beating and anger and hatred; we sometimes forget that the world isn't all full of hate and ill will. We would do well to look for those stories that inspire and give us hope and make us believe.
I wish I could hug each member of this family and say thank you personally. Thank you for being a light, a beacon of hope and acceptance. I wish each person in the world could experience the kind of compassion and support this young man is recieving. Imagine. Imagine a world where everyone was made to feel OK for being their authentic self.
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Readership: Developmental psychologists interested in language development; advanced undergraduates and graduates students in developmental psychology; philosophers working in language and philosophy of mind. Linguists
James Russell, Reader in Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
"...an important addition to the literature on first language acquisition, and could be very useful as a supplementary text in graduate seminars." - Journal of Child Language, Vol 32, No 1
"...this book is a remarkable piece of work...[and] it will appeal to scholars of the language sciences and to graduate students who are coming to grips with their own thoughts on where language comes from." - Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol 19, No 5
"A fresh and integrative approach to language development. Russell is to be applauded for injecting some hard new thinking into this difficult topic." - Steve
Part 1: Three psychologies: Rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist
1.1: Rationalism
1.2: Empiricism
1.3: Pragmatism
1.4: Taking stock
Part 2: Syntactic nativism: Language development within rationalism
2.1: The 'psychological reality' of the syntactic level of representation: From phrase structures to X-bar grammar
2.2: The road to minimalism - transformational grammar
2.3: The Minimalist Programme
2.4: Assessement for the time being
2.5: The question of evidence: Experiments with young children
2.6: Evidence for syntactic modularity from atypical development: children with specific learning impairment
2.7: Taking stock
Part 3: Empiricist connectionism as a theory of language development
3.1: Do connectionist representations have 'casual roles'? Two connectionist models of production
3.2: Trying to replace competence with statistical regularity: The limits and uses of cue learning
3.3: Variables: In thought, language, and in connectionist modelling
3.4: The clear utility of associative models - and more on their overreaching
3.5: Connectionism and the conceptual-intentional systems
3.6: Some new moves in modelling production
3.7: Taking stock
Part 4: The pragmatist approach to language acquisition
4.1: Two functionalist grammars
4.2: Are functionalist theories better placed to explain acquisition than generativist ones?
4.3: Explaining development: cognitive-functionalist theory and data - past and present
4.4: Is semantic knowledge sufficient or only necessary? Semantic bootstrapping versus semantic assimilation
4.5: Does an evolutionary perspective reveal the strengths of the pragmatist approach?
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You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond. If your brochures, videos, and Web site do not capture your prospects' attention, interest, and imagination, they have not fulfilled their primary function. You must get their attention first, long before you close a sale.
Attention Getters
There are many ways you can make sure your marketing materials grab the attention of your audience. You just need to set your camp apart from all the rest.
Dare to be different
Traditions should be maintained around the campfire, not on the pages of your brochure or Web site. There should be no standard whatsoever for camp brochures, camp videos, or any camp marketing materials. Put your feet up and think of the advertising messages you remember most vividly and use them as guidelines for your camp's marketing.
Discover the good in "World of Good"
ACA's "Camp Gives Kids a World of Good" message can function strongly to differentiate your camp and boost perceptions of your camp's value. Find the relevance of the "World of Good" message to your specific program and make sure that families understand your camp is more than friends and physical skills.
Focus on one message
Rather than trying to describe every acre of your property and everything that happens there, concentrate on a message that cannot be missed, can be understood quickly, and can be easily remembered. Simplicity is key to retention. Yet brochure after brochure and Web site after Web site move the reader quickly into suffocating details about the daily operation of the camp. At first exposure, prospects want to know what you stand for, not how many nurses are on site or the precise height of your climbing wall.
Use wit and humor
Humor is one of the most popular tactics used by advertisers, and camp — that thing that makes kids laugh and play throughout the summer — is the best product to market with humor.
The use of wit in advertising is an excellent strategy to create reader or viewer involvement with the message. The advertiser who uses wit never travels 100 percent of the way to the audience but rather forces the audience to participate in order to unlock the puzzle and thus get the idea. Humor forces a heightened need for alertness on the part of the reader or viewer; your audience becomes a part of your communication.
Be careful, however, not to set out with the specific objective of being funny. Instead, set out to be interesting. Then, if humor surfaces as the best strategy to build interest, it will fulfill the proper role.
Keep Your Message Simple
When you sit down to write anything about your camp, think about the power of the stop sign. It has no introduction. It has no explanation. It requires neither. When you approach that red octagon, it does not say, "Kindly bring the vehicle to a speed not exceeding zero miles per hour at this precise coordinate in space and time, as there may very well be other traffic — vehicular and/or pedestrian in nature — traveling in a direction opposed to yours that may very well intersect with the current path of your own vehicle." It just says, "Stop." And you do it.
Where is your stop sign?
A simple message is more believable; it gives readers and/or viewers less to criticize and ponder. There is a time and a place for all the details about which parents ask, but it is not while you are simply trying to attract attention and interest. Get close to closing the sale — then get into all those details. Remember that the function of your front-line marketing materials is to get prospects interested in your camp.
Use simple graphics
Simplicity in graphic design means giving the reader or viewer a dominant image — a place to start. Too many camp brochures use the 100 percent collage technique, splattering dozens of small photos together with no logical point of focus for the eye. Look at good magazine advertisements, and you will see dominant images, bold headlines, and lots of white space. Your brochure cover is your advertisement. It is the image of your camp that sits most continuously on your prospects' coffee tables or kitchen tables.
If you keep your own message simple, your message will inevitably stand out among the clutter of other camp's complex and convoluted versions of what camp is all about. Kids think uncomplicated thoughts about their camp experiences. Why confuse the issue?
Choosing the right camp for a child is indeed a worthwhile endeavor. But if you think that camp is the most ponderous decision a family will ever make — lighten up! Speaking of lightening up, you need to remind yourself of a healthy perspective about camp. Yes, camp can be many or even all the points in the "World of Good" platform. Yes, you do some pretty impressive things for campers when you're having a good day. Sometimes, you even create defining moments in children's lives. But it's still good ol' camp, and you need to fill your marketing tools with the smiles, laughter, and excitement that abound at your facility.
Bad news and good news
The bad news: Families are hardly ever out there waiting breathlessly for your package. Yes, they may have requested it, but it arrives with the rest of the mail on just one more hectic day to be digested on the fly by variously fractionated family units.
The good news: When you sit down to create your message, you start with an absolutely blank page. You have the opportunity to be different, to do the things it takes to grab more attention than others, and to thereby give camp a bigger share of mind than it occupied before your message arrived. Now, go for it!
Steve Cony is a marketing consultant who assists children's camps with the development of strategic plans and the execution of marketing materials. Camp directors may contact him at 914-271-8482.
Originally published in the 2000 January/February issue of Camping Magazine.
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Translucent mirror to flip where? It is a limitation in the old SLR design thats why the mirror need to flip. else it will be blocking the sensor. So if can dun flip then why you still want to flip?
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If you like OVF so much then you should go back to use film. Film is like OVF and Digital is like EVF. So why you wanna use OVF with Digital? Whatever you can say about OVF applies well to the film, whatever you talk about for EVF applies for our DSLR.
Fotogeneticist: Until an EVF has the same refresh rate and dynamic range that matches my eye, it will never replace OVFs for me. What does an EVF give me except for battery drain and shadows you can't see into? And to the poster that said an EVF needs 2MP to out-resolve an OVF, if you out resolve what your eye can see anyways, what good would that do?
when you see the OVF and your photo on the LCD - are they the same? when you see the EVF and your photo on the LCD - they the same? Honestly, the VF that can show the same thing as the Photo should be better as it tells you what you will get before you shoot.
gedoxey: Another reason I enjoy a camera that does not have a moving mirror is a quiet shutter mechanism like is present with the Sony a57 and a77. I assume this will be true for the a99 as well. I was at a wedding the other night and the photographer was shooting away during the ceremony with his Nikon and his shutter noise was annoying even 75' away. When I shoot at a wedding or a formal indoor concert I can take pictures any time I want without disturbing the ceremony or performance. Before using a camera with a traditional moving mirror I had to wait until the music or singing was loud enough to not disturb the performance. I won't use a camera with that noisy mirror slap in these situations. My next purchase will be Nex 6. And maybe I'll make the jump to the FF SLT. Perhaps it won't be too long before even the Sony SLT cameras will be mirrorless too.
gasdive... you lose the PDAF...
This camera is really perfect. not for extreme usage but perfect for my daily shot.
Sony is winning. DSLR are everywhere today and most of the people who holds a DSLR are using kit lens. This is a perfect camera for them.
Still there is one major flaw... it is too expensive.
huh anyone know what is the fps so low?
nalex: 24MP full-frame CMOS Sensor with on-chip phase detection AF
Fixed-mirror design SLT
How dumb is it? Sony put phase detectors ON SENSOR and put semi-transparent mirror IN FRONT OF IT.
Why not mirrorless then?
this is first time with dual PDAF. we need to try it out.
oh my god... sony is truely number 1....
This nex is getting too good.
This is the end.
This is a very good attempt. If you see it as a camera (with a phone feature) then dslr is better but if you see it as a phone (with a camera feature) then it may just be the best.
This is super nice. Big and scary eyes. You are good!!!
cgarrard: Ugh, when are manufacturers going to stick a small evf in the upper left corner of one of these enthusiast compacts? (See nikon p60 if you need an idea it can be done). This camera with a compact evf with decent magnification and resolution would jump its way into my bag. No viewfinder, sorry Nikon just not for me.
i dun get it... why is VF so important? There is a big screen for you to see behind so why still need a VF?
Yiotis: I stopped wasting my time trying to understand their so called new technology(This go for every manufacturer). Do you even realize with what kind of info you are bombarding us?
I want pictures not blah blah.
I am a part time software programmer. This is what I really hate most. Many people do not care about the technology and only wanted better output. It is on that technology advanced then end result can improve. Technology takes a small step every time so it may or may not give you any visible results, however it is nevertheless.. a stepping stone for the next great advancement. So please learn to appreciate what DP has presented to you.
Camediadude: Add my vote to: no evf, never going to buy it
actually, I am quiting ovf to the big big big lcd screen. I really cant find any reason to continue to use OVF or EVF! I just do not understand, what is the thing about EVF/OVF that some pro like it so much.
FTW: I have used that camera for a short moment and to me the picture and video quality is amazing. The main problem is the absence of outer controls since almost everything is made by menu. For the P&S user this is no problem, he will shoot in auto mode or P mode only. Being an ancient in the field and using the NEX-7 with ease, this camera is a bit unusual for me, not enough controls. And this is the same for testers. One should have a tester for that objects who only tests P&S material, an adept to a dslr and button monument will always criticize the absence of that gadgets. At least, all this mirrorless cameras have one feature in their setup that Nikon does not have found necessary to include in the menu of their low end dslr's like the D3100-3200 series, down to the D40 and this feature is to shoot without lens attached, a feature that would allow good hybrid lenses to be used with adapters in that systems.
NEX is quite friendly. Try P A or S. Simple interface and high IQ
VideoSam: Panasonic's CDAF has come a long way since the G1. From what I gather, and after taking over 80,000 photos with my GH2, the G5 looks even faster than the flagship GH2. Makes me excited for the GH3 around the corner!
G3 AF is super fast.
Some of the compact can AF faster due to a smaller lens. Smaller lens is due to smaller sensor. But this smaller sensor in G3 as compared to 650D does not lose out very much on image quality.
So what is this about Bigger DSLR?
chrisnfolsom: This is bizarre - who takes pictures with an slr by pressing on the screen on the back of the camera?
1. The experience would be better looking through the viewfinder.
2. With low light and exposure the mirror will be down longer creating the illusion of speed - this exposure time is very slow - please test this in the sunlight.
3. We need to see if the actual focusing is better for the phase detection. Some final prints from each with a very shallow lens would let us know much more.
4. Please test this with moving objects in movie mode - moving at different speeds in different directions - pausing at different speeds to test overshoot - that would be interesting - as well as their vibration control.
Interesting though - DPR should include some movies of the camera's in actions to put some actual real world association to all those numbers that are shown - I love the numbers personally, bit it is hard to actually know what they all mean - thanks for all the hard work!
If I have a G5 and I want to know if 650D is better then clearly -- G5 is better.
I am not a G5 owner or supporter but clearly I can say that G5 can take more shots in the same given period of time compared to 650D
actually i really wonder who uses these...???
Maybe can consider gigapan for hi-resolution images...
D800 is 36mps and Leaf Credo 80 is 80mps... the jump is not really big but leaf lose a lot of agility.


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- When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fogletree just became number five. His body was found in the basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies, Judge Fogletree and his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fogletree, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story.
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Finally, SMD has announced the production of a cuben haven! What do y'all think about this forthcoming shelter? My initial thoughts: 8-ounce weight saving sounds well worth an extra $150, considering MLD Duomid cuben upgrade saves only 4 oz for an extra $200. I can't imagine how the cuben would compromise the performance of this shelter, and it should, at least to some degree, solve the design's sagging problem that has been discussed here. Seems like this has some pretty awesome 3-season potential. It would only be slightly heavier than the hex twin with a floor, and it would offer much more usable space in addition to modular components and superior weather protection. Now I understand the Duomid offers 4-season capability, but the cuben Haven should be a superior two-person shelter in the three temperate seasons, at least in my humble opinion. Thoughts??
Edited by Pharoah on 11/03/2011 00:03:23 MDT.
Man, that's exciting! but only 8oz weight savings? So it would be about 24oz for haven tarp and innernet? That's a little disappointing, because I love this design, but the zpacks hexamid twin that has been on the top of my list would come out to what I estimate around 15oz give or take. Although it sacrifices a little in the ease of entry/exit. Choices... Choices...Seems the longer I put off buying lighter gear, the lighter the gear gets!
Edited by stingray4540 on 11/03/2011 01:16:25 MDT.
Love the SMD Haven design. Now I know what to ask for for Christmas!
Very good news....I'll have to keep this shelter in mind when I buy something this winter. I've long been wanting them to make the Haven in cuben, and yeah it should reduce sag in the canopy.Nick, the main difference between the Hexamid and the Haven is that the Hexamid is a single wall design. That accounts for a huge portion of the weight difference and the correct decision depends a lot on where you hike and your tolerance for condensation. Also I think the Haven is going to be significantly more roomy, but I haven't really crunched the numbers.
I have a Cuben Wild Oasis for sale RIGHT NOW if any one is interested ;)http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=53236
Should be a great tent. Light enough for one, big enough for 2, full double wall, and the lightest thing on the market in that category. No stretch, no sag. Maybe no drum-tight pitch either, but what good is a tight pitch that gets slack after a while anyway, esp in rain.Actually saves another 1+ oz over the sil version if they tape the seams so no seam sealing is necessary (which they SHOULD do)
Edited by livingontheroad on 11/03/2011 19:47:37 MDT.
"Nick, the main difference between the Hexamid and the Haven is that the Hexamid is a single wall design." - Dan DurstonActually, I was thinking of the hexamid with a bug shelter, so it would also be a double wall design. He doesn't have a twin bug shelter on his site, but I've talked to him about it, and he's willing to make one. Assuming a twin bug shelter would come out around 11.3oz(using the difference between the solo and solo+ weights, added to the solo+) and the tarp w/beak is 5oz. Would be about 16.3oz for a double walled hexamid with heavy bug shelter floor. 14.3oz w/ lite floor.But, I still like the design of the haven for the dual entrances and probably a bit more comfortable to move around in for the other person. And, if I make the wife carry it, the weight difference doesn't affect me. ;) This is gonna make for a tough decision.
Edited by stingray4540 on 11/04/2011 00:12:54 MDT.
I'm exited about the Haven in Cuben - at 10 oz for two people. My main use would be for trips with my wife -- and she would prefer to have the inner net too. So far SMD is not considering to also offer the Haven Net Tent in Cuben in addition to the silnylon version. With enough interest Ron might make that an option.What are the thoughts on this forum? Are there other people who would like to see a net tent in cuben to go with the Cuben Haven?
I'd still prefer the Skyscape X if I'm spending the money for Cuben fabric. >Fast setup>hybrid single/double wall>optional "porch">great 2-sided netting ventilation in fair weather
There's not that much silnylon in the net tent as I recall, as it's mostly no-see-um netting. I think it's mostly just the floor that is silnylon. I'm not a fan of light cuben for floors...I really prefer 1.2oz or 1.5oz cuben for a floor as the lighter stuff can't really handle the abrasion/wear IMO unless you're super careful. A floor made of 1.2oz or 1.5oz cuben wouldn't save any weight, so you'd mostly be spending a lot more money to get a floor that's more waterproof and not so slippery. It would be nice, but likely not a big seller.
eagerly waiting to see how this turns out myself. Should be a great 2 person option.Id like to see them produce an inner net for 1 or for 2 people too. A one person version should be sub 20 oz, with plenty of covered room for gear or a dog. If they dont, bearpaw will likely be making them on request for someone.
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Good grief, woman, don't you know any better than to try and intimidate a 'witness'? That's about as dumb as it gets.
Pure class, just like her husband!
Yep, her husband is guilty as charged. He just got lucky on a technicality. He belongs in prison right along side his lovely bride!!!!!
maybe you should know the whole story before you bash someone that you dont know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And not everythimg the paper puts out is true..
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Going Public: Kartell refocuses its contract channel
Icons of the design landscape, global brand Kartell's products – with their innovative use of plastic and their clever and expressive, often emotional, forms – have captured the imagination of design-conscious consumers around the world. The Italian manufacturer has now set its sights on expanding its contract business, with among other moves, a dedicated new team, a post-sales follow-up service, and a new flagship-store layout concept. Kartell is out there.
Functional, architectural and supremely modular, Piero Lissoni's 'Plastics' sofa system for Kartell gets to work at Dali in Berlin
There's more than a touch of modern-day alchemy about Kartell.
Nothing to do with the dark arts, you understand. Rather, it's the way in which the leading Italian design manufacturer, in business now for over half a century, has managed to pull off a feat of transformation. It's taken what was deemed for decades in the postwar period as a cheap, ersatz-material – plastic – and single-handedly transformed the stuff, through a steadfast commitment to material and technological innovation, into a truly aspirational design product.
Launched in 2011 and already selling 15,000 pieces a month, the expressive, Kartell-produced 'Masters' chair, designed by Philippe Starck, is ideal for contract use. Shown here, 'Masters' specified for the Universidad de Zaragoza
Kartell's marketing and retail director Lorenza Luti, daughter of Kartell chief Claudio Luti, sums up the brand's value-adding, metamorphic mission when she says 'Our aim over the last 20 years has been to make plastic a rich material, which it wasn't before.' With the company offering over 150 product families across two dozen product categories – from chairs and sofas to lighting, storage and a recently launched, innovative bathroom programme – and its list of collaborating designers reading like a Who's Who of the design and architectural worlds, all of them go-to creatives, it's safe to say they've achieved this.
At that temple of design, la Triennale di Milano, design legend Vico Magistretti's 'Maui' chair provides flexible audience seating (top); the upholstered version of 'Maui', shown here with castors, features fabric from Kvadrat (above)
With over two million of Philippe Starck's now iconic 'Louis Ghost' single-mould, polycarbonate chairs sold worldwide since its launch in 2002, and classic designs such as Anna Castelli Ferrieri's beautifully reduced and supremely modular 'Componibili' storage units and the contemporary classic that is Ferruccio Laviani's 'Bourgie' table lamp proving their credentials as long-sellers, Kartell has played a major role in shaping the landscape of the design interior for decades. More recently, Starck's 'Masters' chair, launched in 2011, is already selling in high numbers – currently 15,000 pieces a month. But it's perhaps because the brand has been so successful not only in its pioneering of high-end design in plastic, but also in understanding how to create a collection of objects that, while unified by the Kartell hallmarks of immaculate moulding and finishing, are individual pieces that aren't governed by any overarching, singular aesthetic, that it has performed so well internationally in retail terms, eclipsing to an extent its contract business.
'Our products lend function and performance an emotional added value,' says Kartell CEO Claudio Luti. Shown here, the Hospital Santa Joana in Santos, Brazil (top), the Archivio Bertarelli in Milan (middle) and the Byblos Art Hotel in Verona (above)
The versatility of Kartell's products – with their sometimes playful, sometimes restrained, but always expressive, quality ensuring that they add value to any space in which they are placed and used – combined with the company's truly global approach to sales and distribution has seen the Italian manufacturer establish an enviable retail presence in over 130 countries around the world with 130 flagship stores and 250 shops-in-shop. This is design democratised. Yet, as Kartell CEO Claudio Luti puts it, 'Our contract channel has always been part of the DNA of Kartell, too.' And it's the DNA of the products themselves – their flexibility, comfort, material lightness, stackability, robustness, and, of course, the fact that they are industrially produced in series – that makes them ideally suited for specification in public, non-residential projects. 'Contract is a natural consequence of our product strategy,' explains Luti.
Kartell products have been specified internationally for exterior contract environments. Shown here, the Museo dell'Ara in Rome ('Bubble Club' sofa), Baita La Grolla in Courmayeur, Italy ('Louis Ghost' chair), and Residence Lot on Curacao ('Pop Duo' sofa)
The desire to communicate with a greater clarity to architects, interior architects and designers, and planners the fitness-for-purpose of Kartell's product offering for the contract market, married with the recognition by Luti and his team of the potential that emerging regional markets such as Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America and Africa offer in respect of a burgeoning of large-scale architectural projects (ranging from hotels and airports to hospitals, universities and conference halls) has seen Kartell, ever the alchemists, effect a transformation of an internal, organisational kind. 'We have strengthened our contract division even further by creating a dedicated team to cover these new markets, with an appropriate customer-care follow-up service for special projects.'
Cultural spaces are just one of many types of large-scale public venue to have been given the Kartell treatment. Shown here, the Museo d'Arte di Ravenna, Italy ('Magic Hole' chair), and the Concert Hall in Thessaloniki, Greece ('Hi-Cut' chair)
This strategic move to raise the profile of the company's contract business has a strong underpinning. Hundreds of new high-profile architectural projects and existing buildings internationally across a range of sectors have already elected to specify Kartell furniture and lighting to lend function and character to their interior and exterior realms. With their lightness and flexibility, and often wit (Luti prefers the adjectives 'communicative and sexy'), Kartell chairs are a natural choice for the hospitality and gastronomy sectors, as evidenced by their installation in spaces ranging from the Byblos Art Hotel in Verona ('Frilly' and 'Ero/S' chairs) and the Elle Deco Café in Paris ('Hi-Cut' chair) to the Teatro restaurant in Boston ('Maui' chair) and London's 'Pret à Diner' ('Louis Ghost' chair). Numerous large public spaces, such as the Concert Hall in Thessaloniki ('Hi-Cut' and 'Louis Ghost' chairs), the Universidad de Zaragoza ('Masters' chair), the Museo d'Arte di Ravenna ('Magic Hole' chair), and that most revered of spaces in terms of Italian design, the Triennale in Milan ('Maui' chair), have also received the Kartell treatment.
The Kartell Soft furniture family marries the company's signature pedigree plastic moulding with quality upholstery. Shown here, the Piero Lissoni-designed 'Pop' and 'Plastics Duo' sofas, the latter installed at the Calcio Catania football club, Italy
Venture outside at the Museo dell'Ara Pacis in Rome or the Community Garden in New York and you'll find Kartell's 'Bubble Club' sofas and 'Magic Hole' chairs respectively giving expression and shape to their surroundings. Meanwhile, modularity is in full swing at the Calcio Catania football club in Sicily and the Hotel Cipriani in Venice, where the 'Plastics' and 'Plastics Duo' sofas have been specified to provide expansive, upholstered seating configurations. These last two products form part of the brand's Kartell Soft furniture family, which marry its signature pedigree plastic moulding with quality upholstery to create a range of ultra-versatile sofas and lounge chairs by two of the most respected names in the contemporary design world – Piero Lissoni and Patricia Urquiola.
Teatro restaurant in Boston ('Maui' chair; top) and the Elle Deco Café in Paris ('Hi-Cut' chair; above) are just two of international projects where Kartell lives and works. Shown here also (middle), Piero Lissoni's 'Audrey' chair
Another celebrated design duo, Roberto and Ludovica Palomba, were commissioned by Kartell, in collaboration with leading Swiss sanitaryware manufacturer Laufen, to create an innovative, architecturally led bathroom system, ideal for the contract market, that would draw on the key competences of both companies – Kartell's mastery of fine plastics and Laufen's technical expertise in high-end ceramics. The result, the Kartell by Laufen programme, is a total system of washbasins, baths, WCs, furniture, storage and accessories, which, through its emphasis on rational line and strong geometry, balanced with a considered, judicious use of colour, works to underscore and even define the interior-architectural spaces in which it is installed. Laufen's game-changing new SaphirKeramik material, which permits for the first time ever super-thin-walled washbasins, creates alongside Kartell's semi-transparent products a new kind of bathroom landscape, one characterised by formal and visual lightness.
With over two million pieces sold worldwide, Philippe Starck's iconic 'Louis Ghost' chair can be found at, among other places, the Ristorante Cavoli a Merenda in Milan. Also shown here, Starck's companion single-mould 'One More' bar stool
A joined-up bathroom programme thanks to joined-up thinking. This should come as little surprise, given that Kartell is a company that's never lacking when it comes to strategy and the ability to see the big picture. Claudio Luti sees the company's contract channel being aided directly by what he describes as the 'capillary network' of flagship stores around the world, which will serve, beyond their direct retail function, as platforms for staging the relevance and versatility of Kartell's products for contract settings. To this end, architect and designer Ferruccio Laviani, a seasoned Kartell collaborator, has been commissioned to create an engaging new store-layout concept, which will communicate in a clear and inspiring way just how the Kartell line adds value to a range of public spaces. The stores, in this respect, play a vital role in forging stronger, longer-term relationships with clients.
Kartell's expertise in fine plastics and leading Swiss sanitaryware manufacturer Laufen's innovation in high-end ceramics join forces in the versatile Kartell by Laufen bathroom programme, ideal for the contract market
For Luti, this is an important development and one that's completely logical. The added value Kartell products bring to the world of contract beyond their functional and performance aspects is, for him, one that's felt on a deeply human level – emotion. 'Of course there are many other brands that produce industrial and functional products that are able to meet all sorts of requirements of contract projects,' Luti says. 'What's particular about our products is the glamour of plastic and precious materials in all sorts of colours and finishings, lent form by the most important designers in the world. It's something different and anything but boring, like the Opera in Prague furnished with transparent Louis Ghost chairs by Philippe Starck. A true vision!'
Designed by Philippe Starck with Eugeni Quitllet, Kartell's 'Top Top' dining and low tables form an essential part of the brand's contract offering
Turning up the volume on their contract activity is just the latest initiative in Kartell's ongoing transformative drive, one that has seen the value of plastic materials enriched, and their products, in turn, enriching the spaces into which they are used, while, at the same time, heightening our emotional responses to those very spaces. It's a kind of magic.
Kartell CEO Claudio Luti: 'What's particular about our products is the glamour of plastic and precious materials in all sorts of colours and finishings, lent form by the most important designers in the world'
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MABALACAT CITY -- A barangay chief here warned owners of small and unlicensed shops selling gasoline and other petroleum products refilled in soda bottles to stop their illegal operations.
Dr. Oscar Aurelio, chairman of Barangay Dau, said he ordered the stoppage of the merchants' illegal operations two months ago following an accident where two children died at Sitio Canida due to a fire and an explosion.
"It is really hazardous. Pinatawag natin sila. I directed these people to stop selling gasoline, yung naka-bote," Aurelio said.
Last month, a group of residents at Sitio San Isidro (Barangay Subdivision) asked the assistance of Vice Mayor Christian Halili regarding the continuous operation of a certain Balingit in their neighborhood.
According to the complainants, Balingit did not stop from selling "bottled gasoline" to tricycle drivers and motorcycle owners.
Halili immediately directed the city police to close down Balingit's fuel station.
Aurelio said the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Health and other government agencies are prohibiting the selling of gas on streets because of the danger it may pose to people.
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Alice-Miranda is set for more adventures.
IN Alice-Miranda At School by Jacqueline Harvey, the titular character makes a phone call to her parents and is greeted with "Oh, darling, so it really is awful? We'll come and get you straight away."
Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones is not your average seven-year-old. For one, her full name is a mouthful and she's in her first year of boarding school at the posh Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies. Imagine going through the first day of boarding school with a long name like that. Then, instead of crying to mum and dad about how awful it all is, Alice-Miranda loves every minute of it – much to the dismay of her clingy parents!
In an exclusive telephone interview from Singapore where the Australian author is currently on a whirlwind book tour, Harvey explains how the whimsical book series about a very articulate and affable young girl came to be.
"I started writing Alice-Miranda as a character for a picture book. Over time, I realised that she had so much more to say so I decide to expand it into a book," says Harvey.
Could the inspiration for Alice-Miranda have come from Harvey's life experience as a teacher at boarding schools? After all, till October last year, Harvey served as deputy of development at a girls school in Sydney, Australia.
"No, Alice-Miranda is not based on any specific student that I personally know. But I've met a lot of children in my line of work and I can say that some of them have inspired me to write Alice-Miranda."
The Alice-Miranda series has been around and growing in popularity since 2010, when In School was first published. Since then, Alice-Miranda has gone from adventures in school and on a cruise to New York city, and now to a fashion runway in Paris. Harvey is delighted to talk about the latest Alice-Miranda In Paris book.
"The book is the seventh one in the series and it follows Alice-Miranda on a school-trip to Paris. As usual, she goes on an adventure, solving mysteries and meeting new friends. One of them is a fashion designer who says he's been robbed. Alice-Miranda also finds out that there's more to the fashion designer than meets the eye."
Harvey describes Alice-Miranda as a "perpetually positive seven-year-old", someone who will stop at nothing to help anyone in need. In the first book, Alice-Miranda In School, for instance, where Alice-Miranda is very much the new kid on the block, she decides to take matters into her own hand to a couple of troubled characters she meets. The new girl also encounters bullies (one of them is snooty Alethea Goldsworthy – hell hath not seen fury like a spoilt child scorned) and a seemingly hostile headmistress (the appropriately named Miss Grimm).
"What I really like about Alice-Miranda is that she chooses to see the good in everyone. Whenever someone is mean to her, she sees past the behaviour and often thinks that there is a valid reason for someone to be that way."
For Harvey, the process of writing Alice-Miranda is about "finding the right voice". Bullying is a prevalent theme in the Alice-Miranda series and Harvey thinks it's something that a lot of her young readers can relate to.
"It's such an age-old issue. I think any school that says bullying doesn't happen on their premises is lying. In fact, most parents don't know how to talk to their children about how to overcome bullies."
Apart from Alice-Miranda, Harvey also has another series for younger readers. Clementine Rose is a charming series which revolves around the adventures of a little girl and her pet teacup pig, Lavender. So far there are three books in the series and Harvey happily says that Clementine Rose will crossover with Alice-Miranda.
"Oh yes, it's going to happen. Readers have to watch out for the next Clementine Rose book!"
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