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I am loading my entire CD collection into iTunes..
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Mar 22, 2014 - 9:59 PM
Lukas Kendall
In preparation for a move (sooner or later) I am loading my entire (and I mean entire) collection into iTunes.
I should say how lucky I am, having published FSM, to have basically gotten a comped CD collection. Beyond lucky, really. We were on every mailing list and except for some stuff that seems to have walked off—well, there's no way I could have afford to buy all of this.
1) What the heck were these movies? This is particularly noticeable for composers who worked a lot in a period maybe 5-15 years ago, before the studios cut back on their mid-level productions. For example, James Newton Howard scored something called Vertical Limit. It has (alleged) movie stars and was a major studio release—but I couldn't tell you anything about it except that it seemed to involve mountain climbing. Composers like Danny Elfman, Mychael Danna, Thomas Newman, James Horner and Patrick Doyle seemed to have scored dozens of these. These used to be called "programmers." The scores seem as interchangeable as the actors...
2) CDs go bad! I have some CDRs of things that we either created for internal work purposes, or were given to us, etc.—many of them are now unreadable. In fact so are some "real" pressed CDs. Ramblin' Rose by Elmer wouldn't load, nor would the original Intrada Wind and the Lion or First Blood CDs.
3) Too many reissues! I understand having a bunch of Star Wars-related CDs—and a short original edition of a worthy score (say, Total Recall) followed by, years later, the expanded version. But I have three Blue Max releases (and I never had the Varese original)...three Dances With Wolves CDs...three Walk in the Clouds CDs...FOUR Krull CDs...ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I am as guilty as anyone for starting this trend (Omega Man 2.0) but really, the labels need to show some discipline and not just repackage the same stuff over and over. I don't know how you guys stand for it. I would feel ripped off, seriously.
4) iTunes is great! I may box up these CDs and never take them out again. Other music in my collection (rock, pop, jazz) I buy, and I prefer downloads. I don't need the clutter, I don't mind MP3s, and I back up my hard drive. I remember having stacks of discs by the CD player that would become a mess until I put them all away—nowadays, I see no reason ever to pull the CD off the shelf unless I needed to check something for reference.
Mar 22, 2014 - 10:35 PM
It is so much easier to have all your music on the computer where you can press a few keys and bring up whatever comes to mind or explore a composer with ease. Once you have gone through the steps to digitize everything make sure you back it up and then periodically back it up again. My lossy music is backed up automatically every week (though every two weeks could probably be just as good). A free program called Syncback free is great for scheduling this sort of thing. I have an external hard drive connected to my router that gets the backups when it goes.
Waiting for the CD defenders in 3...2...1...
Mar 22, 2014 - 11:10 PM
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Mar 22, 2014 - 11:37 PM
Trent B
Best. Post. Ever.
Haha I agree!
That sucks some of your CD-R's won't work, Lukas. I assume you took care of all your stuff?
I loled at the whole "Too many re-issues!" section. Maybe because a lot of us have bought re-issues. But hey a lot of them have been worth it.
Either way good luck with the move and I hope you're able to get everything loaded okay. Now hope you have an iPod Classic to put all that music on a device.
Mar 22, 2014 - 11:38 PM
I've been doing the same thing over the last two years. I'm now up to over 87,000 tracks in iTunes. The CDs are boxed in the basement, and I enjoy a clutter-free home. I never understood the gigantic soundtrack collection people think needs to be on display. It's not like anyone off the street would be impressed!
The best thing about having all that music available instantly? Infinite compilation opportunities!
Mar 22, 2014 - 11:50 PM
It boggles my mind that anyone would waste all the time to copy their music onto their computer only to use a lossy codec.
Mar 22, 2014 - 11:57 PM
I've seen people argue this before here, but I withheld my comments, as others made just the same pro and con arguments as I might have given. Well, I'm in the mood now.
For the generation(s) raised in the computer culture where everything computer is near-intuitive, Lukas, this would seem a natural move....for the MUSIC. And ONLY for the music.
For my generation (60+), the cover artwork, the history and photos in the liner notes, looking at the spine titles to see if I've forgotten that I have a title (a bigger problem as I get older and the collection keeps growing
), and the convenience of the CD is a no-brainer.
If I want to play 5 or 10 individual selections from 7 or 8 different CDs, I want to put the CD in, program what I want to hear, when it's done pop it out and put in the next, and so on. Unless it's a new purchase, I usually don't play one score from beginning to end...with exceptions, of course.
I may not want to hear an individual cue selection all the way through.
I may want to repeat a selection 10 times in a row and conduct it in the dark with my over-the-ear headphones on. (I can't get those blasted little iPod-type earphones to STAY in my ears unless I sit still like a statue!)
I like to refer the liner notes IN MY HANDS (not somewhere online) as I listen.
I don't live on the computer like people today.
I suppose that repetition makes these efforts easier, but here is a recent example from my continuing misadventures with iTunes.
I like Alexandre Desplat. A LOT, as most of us do.
There is a Desplat download-only soundtrack on iTunes, VENUS IN FUR. I don't particularly like downloads, but when it's the only option I will bite the bullet and buy it.
So I bought it. I put it in my playlist and played it. I wanted to burn it to a CDR to listen in the car and at work. No matter what I could think to do umpteen which ways, the iTunes software refused to "Burn to a Disc." It said I didn't have the software or the hardware to do it. Of course, I had both. I'd done it before with The Assignment Bureau and others, and it DROVE ME NUTS. If I had a regular CD, I wouldn't have to go to a Help file (it didn't help) or call Apple Help (didn't have the time at that time). Now maybe, being the age I am, I can blame myself, shrug my shoulders, and wait until I have the uninterrupted online time to have the nice Apple folks figure out what's wrong. I would guess the younger folks with better computer savvy could figure it out on their own.
The last time I had an iTunes problem, they told me I had a corrupted file and patiently went through the instructions of deleting iTunes and then reinstalling it. You have to do it in 5 separate parts and in an exact sequence or you will screw iTunes all up (so they say). It took over an hour.
The TIME convenience of selecting individual cues from CDs IN MY HAND, rather than navigating various menus and screens, is more appealing to me.
I've always wondered. Let's say you want to play...say...Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic playing Franz Waxman's PRINCE VALIANT...the whole suite.
I would pick out the CD, put it in the slot, and hit "Play." And read the liner notes while I listen to the magnificent music.
What would YOU have to do if you've downloaded it into iTunes? Walk me through the individual steps.
And what is the quality of the music if, say, your wife is not home, and you want to really CRANK UP the volume on your high-end speakers and RATTLE the windows with magnificent music. Is the audio quality in iTunes equipotent to that in a CD?
I could go on, but I've said enough. What do you think about what I've said? I'm sure that I've made somebody mad.
Ron Burbella
Mar 23, 2014 - 12:10 AM
It boggles my mind that anyone would waste all the time to copy their music onto their computer only to use a lossy codec.
Mar 23, 2014 - 12:27 AM
RM Eastman
I'm with Ron Burbella. I was not born in the computer age, so I much prefer the physical CD, Blu Ray, DVD etc. for all the reasons Ron stated. I don't have nor buy CDR's because I know they go bad, never had a faulty CD. I have a large home and it is filled with CD's etc. and I love it. I have a first class stereo and surround system and I like my music and movies loud and brilliant.
Mar 23, 2014 - 12:44 AM
Basil Wrathbone
Is the audio quality in iTunes equipotent to that in a CD?
If it's fed with CD quality files, that's the quality you'll be able to listen to.
If you buy low quality mp3, thats what you'll be limited to.
The files on any of your existing CDs can be transferred directly to iTunes for playback without any loss of quality whatsoever, unless you deliberately choose to reduce the quality to cram more files into the available hard drive space.
Mar 23, 2014 - 12:45 AM
A pertinent post from FSM "Ichi ban" on the current state of consumer audio reproduction.
The bulk of CD issues is the infamous "jewel case".
CD's are still necessary for very high end playback.
I often return to the printed literature.
iTunes etc. is the ultimate convenience.
Often you are subjected to Apple's wim in many ways.
There is an rapid diminishing return for audio quality high definition encoding.
Hell yeah! labels ought to show a lot more discipline is their issues, and be respected for the longevity of their issues. My guess they are scared of out doing their future sales.
Mar 23, 2014 - 12:56 AM
Basil Wrathbone
I've never had a CDR go bad over the course of time (unless physically damaged) and I have thousands of them.
People sometimes think a CDR they burned years earlier has gone bad, when in fact it was a faulty burn in the first place and they stored it away without playing it back at the time to check it. Then they eventually play it and they wrongly assume it has deteriorated over time.
Never assume a CDR burn is 100% good until you've played it back in full to check.
Over the years, I'd estimate about one-in-forty of my CDR burns, when immediately checked, have had some kind of error and have required re-burning. If I'd stashed them away without auditioning them at the time, I'd have a lot of duds that are still to reveal themselves.
Mar 23, 2014 - 1:11 AM
Dana Wilcox
To echo Ron and some others here, I love my soundtracks and I like having them as an accessible physical presence with the art and liner notes. I don't love every track of every soundtrack however, so I've ripped the cues I like to listen to (about 1300 or so) onto my computer, reviewing each in Adobe Audition first to modify volumes where appropriate. (I hate having to keep turning the volume up or down from track to track, and there's quite a lot of variability especially with the older releases from mainstream record companies.) I can listen to them on shuffle in Windows Media Player, or easily throw together CDR comps for car listening. By and large once I've ripped the cues I like from a CD, it goes back on the shelf and the disc is not handled again or just occasionally when I want to hear something all the way through. So all of my discs are pristine, and I don't have piles of them lying around waiting to be put away. Maybe there's something in the smog out there in L. A. that affects CDs, but the only CDs I've ever had that went bad on me were a couple of b**ts (CDRs actually) from Soundtrack Library. Never had a pressed CD tank on me. My 900+ soundtracks and related recordings live in a single rotating vertical CD case which has a small footprint (about 18 inches square, and about 64 inches in height), so I'm not having any storage problems. I keep everything backed up to an external hard drive, but if anything went wrong with the computer and the back-up both (unlikely), I've still got my CDs to source from.
Obviously Lukas is happy with his choices. They wouldn't work for me, but to each his own, as they say.
Mar 23, 2014 - 2:26 AM
I grew up with soundtracks on vinyl.
What was great: the big sleeves, the feeling of the disc.
What wasn´t: too often scores remained unreleased, too often they were missing cues I wanted to hear; and most of all: no matter how anal-retentively I treated the vinyl, dust attacked, and beautiful silent passages were spoilt by sudden pops and cracks.
Then the CD changed all that.
What was great: no pops and cracks, just pure listening pleasure; more space to fill with more tracks
What wasn´t: tiny covers, thick jewel cases, taking up lots of shelf space very fast
Then the mp3 came around.
What was great: easily to be stored and carried around, super fast access
What wasn´t: no covers at all, the danger of amassing lots of files and losing sight of what one actually had collected already
I was hesitant at first. For years, actually. Also, there was this talk about mp3 being "lossy" and fatally diminished sound range. So I sticked to CDs.
Until my apartment was actually more a place to live for my CDs than for me.
So I made a change. I pared down my CD collection to the absolute essentials and transferred everything to my hard drive so I could get access quickly, choosing selections for my iPod to carry around whenever I felt like (so much easier than putting tracks on audio cassette and then carrying my walkman).
Nowadays, I only buy CDs when they are either re-issues by the specialty labels or lavishly collector´s box-sets. Apart from that, it´s mp3 download for me.
Why? I´m obviously too old to hear the difference between mp3 or flac or whatever. To me, they absolutely sound much better than vinyl ever managed to.
Also, this way I can encounter so much more music than I otherwise could, due to shelf-space, money (yes, downloads are really much cheaper) and self-preservation.
Mar 23, 2014 - 2:52 AM
I've been loading my CD collection into Itunes since I first got my mac and do so every time I get a new CD. 192 kb mp3 on itunes is sufficient, I don't feel like ripping my collection lossless because of the unnecessary disk space and I like to transfer them to my mp3 player.
I stopped burning CDr's for over a couple of years now, I've managed to replace or get rid of all the CDr's I had of OOP scores with the legit copy and all the compilation, database cdr's and dvdr's I tossed out because it was just too much music I didn't listen to. Oh, and in all this time I've had only one CDR go bad, but it was very cheap spindle back in the day, all my other discs play fine.
Reissues are simple; If there's no reason to upgrade, I wont. I don't get why you would buy the same program twice; that only takes up shelve space. When I see an expansion announced, I immediately list the older version for sale. When La-la announced Creepshow, I put my old one on discogs, sold it and will use the money I got on the new edition. This way my collection is in constant motion and I can keep it from becoming excessive or too expensive. Selling off OOP titles that go for high prices on secondary market, you know will get reissued anyway, helps as well.
I keep my collection around 500 titles, and when I'll be getting new stuff I always look to see what I can sell off. In all honesty I think out of those 500 I could easily get rid off half of them and still be satisfied. My only completion urge is with Christopher Young, I stopped completing franchises with entries that I just can't listen to. If the music is good, it's a keeper or I will get it. I will say that the majority of scores I own, I do like the movies; the film music would have to be exceptionally good for me to buy a score to a shitty movie.
I have the space for my collection so there is really no need for me to replace the jewel cases, so I don't mind having them around. Same for my movie collection; I'm now replacing my dvds with blu-rays and so far I've only opened up more space on my shelves. And it's not like I have my house covered in CD shelves, I've been to places where I wonder how someone can live inside what is basically a warehouse
So in conclusion, I do like to have the physical product with a cover, that I can just take out and spend time with (old fashioned probably, but it matters to me). If space would ever become an issue, I'd consider getting wallet sleeves before selling off the collection. As for having a collection on display, I do find that important for myself, not for someone on the street; It's part of my identity and lifestyle which makes the thought of losing it unbearable.
Mar 23, 2014 - 3:39 AM
Yup, I did the same thing a couple of years ago. I "only" had about 1000 CD's at the time (including all the non-film music too), which is peanuts compared to some of you, but it still took me a couple of weeks to get it all transferred.
I hardly ever play CD's anymore....the CD rack is basically just a piece of furniture that tells people something about who I am.
I've acquired approximately 500 albums or so since then that are purely downloads.
Mar 23, 2014 - 4:19 AM
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I am as guilty as anyone for starting this trend (Omega Man 2.0) but really, the labels need to show some discipline and not just repackage the same stuff over and over. I don't know how you guys stand for it. I would feel ripped off, seriously.
That's the way I used to feel, as a collector. But in the end, I am happy to be able to purchase scores I missed out on previous incarnations (recently, The Blue Max by La-La Land). And it would be sad not to reprint previous limited editions, as I hope the film score fanbase is not static and some newcomers are discovering this field everyday. In the end, I think all the labels'work will end up in digital form only one day, and it will then be available to everyone anytime, except if marketing succeeds in creating some false sense of scarcity (by the way, I'm still waiting for Jurassic Park 20th Anniversary here in Europe *sigh*).
On technical matters, I went down the same road by ripping my entire CD collection a few years ago, and I immediately rip my new CDs as well. It is very time consuming, so my advice is to rip to a lossless audio format. That way, you will be able to convert to any present or future other audio format suited to your habits without ever returning to the CD source again.
Mar 23, 2014 - 4:26 AM
Mr Hand
I've acquired approximately 500 albums or so since then that are purely downloads.
I started to acquire some albums on pure digital too. Not so many in the end, mainly because booklets are often missing and the physical CD price is regularly lower than the digital one.
However, I buy without question when the audio is offered in HD quality, even if the upper price bugs me when dealing with new recordings natively engineered in HD.
One huge positive point of digital is the ability to re-release obscure catalogue titles at reduced costs and near-zero risks. For exemple, I was happy to find long out-of-print solo albums of Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann. Too bad the big labels aren't uploading their catalogue more quickly.
Mar 23, 2014 - 4:43 AM
Mr Hand
Composers like Danny Elfman, Mychael Danna, Thomas Newman, James Horner and Patrick Doyle seemed to have scored dozens of these. These used to be called "programmers." The scores seem as interchangeable as the actors...
I generally prefer the scores of this era over the sound of current big-budget Hollywood films. I'm becoming old, I guess...
Mar 23, 2014 - 5:47 AM
I've never seen Vertical Limit but yes, it involves mountain climbers. I think Martin Campbell directed it - his first movie after GoldenEye. That is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
(You want a programmer? Volcano is on HBO2 here on the east coast. Tommy Lee Jones just asked, "What's magma?" Sheesh!)
So far, I've only had one CD go bad on me and it was a Prokofiev "Favourite Orchestral Suites" CD released by Philips.
As for reissues, I agree with the folks who say that certain albums should always be available (see the Intrada thread). I missed The Blue Max last time and was glad to get it this time.
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Abraham Wald was born into a Jewish family in Hungary. It was a family of intellectuals but, being Jewish, they were forced to earn their living in trades well below their abilities. At this time both primary and secondary schools in Hungary required pupils to attend on Saturdays and the Wald family could not allow their son to attend school on the Jewish Sabbath. As a result Abraham did not attend either primary of secondary school and was educated at home by members of his family. This certainly did not put him at a disadvantage from an educational point of view for his family were very knowledgeable and competent teachers.
After World War I much of the land that had been part of Hungary was given to neighbouring countries and at that time Cluj became part of Romania. Wald was allowed to attend the University of Cluj but it appears that this was not made easy for him because he was Jewish. However his outstanding abilities in mathematics led him to wish to continue to undertake mathematical research and in 1927 he entered the University of Vienna to study with Karl Menger. He worked under Menger's supervision on geometry and was awarded his doctorate in 1931.
Vienna in the 1930s was no place for a young Jewish man to obtain an academic position, no matter how talented. In fact there were few academic positions open at all. The only way that Wald could support himself so as to be able to continue with his research was to take employment. This he did taking the position of mathematics tutor to Karl Schlesinger, a leading Austrian banker and economist. Between 1931 and 1937 Wald published 21 papers on geometry which Menger describes in [5] as:-
... deep, beautiful and of fundamental importance.However his work with Schlesinger did not only give him financial security and hence the opportunity to undertake research in geometry. It also gave him an interest in applying his mathematical skills to the problems in economics and econometrics which interested Schlesinger. During this period Wald published 10 papers on economics and econometrics, and he also published an important monograph in 1936 on seasonal movements in time series. The main aim was to give methods to eliminate this seasonal variation. In [8] Morgenstern writes that in this monograph Wald:-
... developed techniques superior to all others.An indication of the problems that Wald had in Vienna at this time because he was Jewish is indicated by the fate of Menger's seminar. Wald was a member of this seminar which included lectures by both members of the seminar and also invited guests. Speakers raised open problems, and reported on recent publications and research. Wald reported to the seminar on his work in econometrics, in particular he wrote a paper for the seminar on the existence of a solution to the competitive economic model. However, the seminar was forced to stop work in 1936 after it was criticised for its Jewish contributors, one of whom of course was Wald. If life was difficult for a Jew in Vienna in 1936, they would soon become much worse.
In 1938 the Nazi forces invaded Austria. For a Jewish person like Wald conditions under the Nazis were at best extremely difficult and at worst very dangerous. The Cowles Commission invited him to the United States to do econometric research in the United States and he left Austria in the summer of 1938. The move to the United States almost certainly saved his life for all but one of the nine members of his family left behind died in the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. By September 1938 Wald was a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation studying statistics at Columbia University in New York under Hotelling.
Wald remained a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation until 1941 but by that time he had already begun lecturing at Columbia University which he began in academic year 1939-40. He was appointed to the Faculty of Columbia University in 1941 and he remained on the staff there until his death. In addition to his teaching and research at Columbia, he undertook war work after the United States entered World War II, working on military projects with the Statistics Research Group at Columbia. He used his statistical expertise to develop a method to estimate aircraft vulnerability.
As we mentioned above, in Vienna Wald worked on pure mathematics, mostly geometry, and on econometrics. His first pure mathematical work was on metric spaces, an extension of Steinitz's work to infinite dimensional vector spaces, and some beautiful results on differential geometry.
Wald's most important work, however, was in statistics. In [14] Wolfowitz, who was first his student, then his colleague and collaborator, described a paper Wald published in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics in 1939 as:-
... probably Wald's most important single paper.In this 1939 paper Wald [13]:-
... points out that the two major problems of statistical theory at that time, testing hypotheses and estimation, can both be regarded as simple special cases of a more general problem - known nowadays as a "statistical decision problem". ... He defines loss functions, risk functions, a priori distributions, Bayes decision rules, admissible decision rules, and minimax decision rules, and proves that a minimax decision rule has a constant risk under certain regularity conditions.Wald also developed generalizations of the problem of gambler's ruin which play an important role in statistical sequential analysis. He invented the topic of sequential analysis in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. The idea here is a simple one yet Wald was the first to build it into a statistical theory. It is better to analyse data produced sequentially rather than collect all the data and then analyse it. In this approach one does not choose a fixed sample size but can end the sampling at any time if the results justify it.
Wald was the first to solve the general problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. The optimum property of the sequential probability ratio test was conjectured by Wald in 1943 and, in a joint paper with Wolfowitz in 1948, he proved this property. This and related work was very much aimed at practical applications and his theorems on the distribution of the required number of observations, and on the probabilities associated with errors, found immediate applications. His main results on sequential analysis and the theory of decision functions, another topic which was founded by him, were gathered together in his monograph Sequential Analysis (1947).
One of Wald's continuing interests from his time working with Karl Schlesinger was economics. He proved important results, perhaps the most significant being the existence of a solution to the competitive economic model which, as we noted above was written for Menger's seminar. His other work in this area related to [5]:-
... seasonal corrections to time series, approximate formulas for economic index numbers, indifference surfaces, the existence and uniqueness of solutions of extended forms of the Walrasian system of equations of production, the Cournot duopoly problem, and finally, in his much used work written with Mann (1943), stochastic difference equations.Wolfowitz writes in [1] that:-
One of his great contributions to statistics was to bring to it mathematical precision in the formulation of problems and mathematical rigour in argument. These qualities, which were often lacking when he began his statistical career in 1938, have transformed the subject - although not necessarily to the satisfaction of everyone.It was not only in research that Wald had a remarkable influence on statistics, but although he only taught for about ten years, he also had a marked influence as a teacher. The same qualities of precision and rigour he showed in research were brought to his teaching but this did not mean that his lectures were complicated. On the contrary his lectures were renowned for their clarity and [13]:-
He was a master at deriving complicated results in amazingly simple ways.The notes which his students took during his lectures in Columbia were circulated and because of their outstanding clarity they reached students studying statistics at many different universities in the United States.
After Wald emigrated to the United States he met Lucille Lang and the two were married. In 1950 Wald received an invitation from the Indian government to lecture on statistics in that country. He went to India with his wife and tragically they were both killed in a plane crash.
Freeman, who attended Wald's lectures at Columbia, writes in [5] about Wald's character:-
Wald was a quiet and gentle man, deeply immersed in his work. He was fairly aloof from small talk, and he had few hobbies. But he was not indifferent to recognition...
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Then there were the FTF hounds. Those are the dozen or so geocachers in a local area that all love getting the FTF before anyone else. Which then makes it a race and potential bragging rights for the winner and sad disappointment for the rest - nanners. Of course that just added a whole new level of excitement for FTFs.
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In years past FTFs for many it was a competition for bragging rights in the geocaching community but if it has lost it's zing then why? I don't hear about FTF prizes anymore either. For many of the geocaches that I have placed I would always have some sort of FTF prize waiting. Even purchased FTF geocoins to go to the winner. As stated, don't hear about them as much anymore - pity.
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I had got these seven Schmidt beer cans from a lot of Coca-Cola items. The first and third cans have their tabs missing and are open from the top; the rest of them have a hole in the bottom from draining them. They are from the Great North Western series. Does anyone know if they have any value?


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On Monday, March 5, 2012, John Logsdon, space history and policy expert and former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, traced the factors leading to President John F. Kennedy's decision to send astronauts to the Moon and the steps Kennedy took to turn that decision into reality. The program, hosted by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson, concluded with a signing of Logsdon's book John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon. Below, Logsdon answers a few questions about Kennedy's legacy in the field of space exploration.
How did Kennedy's thoughts about a Moon mission evolve throughout his presidency?
John Logsdon: When Kennedy entered the White House, he had no strong views of the future of the U.S. space program. His first inclination was to make space an area of U.S.-Soviet cooperation. But the world's positive reaction to the 1961 launch of Yuri Gagarin convinced Kennedy that the United States had to enter, and win, a space race. Thus Project Apollo was born. Over the final two years of his tragically shortened presidency, Kennedy re-examined his decision and worried about its costs, but never regretted his choice. He also returned to a cooperative theme, suggesting in a United Nations speech in September 1962 that the U.S. and USSR should go to the Moon together.
What is the legacy of Kennedy's space program in the 21st century?
Logsdon: To win the race to the Moon, NASA became a large engineering organization focused on human space flight. It remains so today, but the willingness of the country to provide the funding to match NASA's ambitions and capabilities has not been forthcoming. Landing on the Moon was a remarkable human achievement, but it left a mixed legacy for the U.S. space program. A strong second act in the space narrative has been elusive.
How are considerations of human spaceflight different in 2012 than they were in the 60s?
Logsdon: Apollo cannot be re-created. It was a war-like, but peaceful, mobilization of financial and human resources to achieve a challenging goal through unilateral action. The conditions that made it possible will not reoccur. In today's constrained financial situation, without a single compelling reason to undertake a major space exploration initiative, only a global cooperative effort to return to the Moon and then go beyond makes sense.


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Earthwatch volunteers joined Dr. Harold Avery to investigate the challenges facing the diamondback terrapin, an iconic species of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
The diamondback terrapin is a survivor of the many changes that have occurred since colonial times in coastal estuaries along the east coast of the United States. Dr. Avery, his students, and Earthwatch volunteers worked together to collect critical information to help support the long-term survival of the terrapin in the Barnegat Bay Estuary in New Jersey.
The Barnegat Bay Estuary, a marine conservation zone, has some of the last salt marsh ecosystems left in the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The estuary is located near one of the fastest-developing areas of the United States (Ocean County, New Jersey), as well as one of the most undeveloped and unique terrestrial ecosystems in the eastern United States (the New Jersey Pine Barrens).
How have dredging and development of land along estuarine margins affected the diamondback terrapin? Are current conservation and management practices sufficient to protect the terrapin and its habitat? Earthwatch research findings about terrapins and other species inhabiting the Barnegat Bay Estuary were applied to the management of other estuarine ecosystems in North America and the world.
Data from this project helped protect the terrapin and its threatened salt marsh habitat.
To know how healthy a species is, researchers need to know how many of its members die or survive in a given period.
In order to conserve habitats and species, biologists need to determine the causes of death of individuals from a population and accurately measure the rates of mortality and survivorship for all ages or size classes of the population. Survivorship and mortality data are critically important for determining whether the population is declining and heading toward extinction. By marking and recapturing individuals over time, Earthwatchers collected data on the causes of mortality and determined death rates of individual terrapins in Barnegat Bay. They also made accurate estimates of birth rates by monitoring nests and hatchling survivorship.
Working from a motorized boat, Earthwatch volunteers helped to capture, tag, and track terrapins.
Data from this project were used to augment the protection of the terrapin as well as the protection of disappearing salt marsh habitat that is critical for the long-term survival of the diamondback and countless other estuarine community species.
Barnegat Bay is a place of contrasts. It is close to one of the most popular shore destinations in the country, Long Beach Island, as well as the cities of Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. But it is also next to one of the least developed and biologically unique terrestrial ecosystems in the northeastern United States, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve covering nearly one-quarter of the state.
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Earthwatch volunteers worked with Earthwatch scientists, graduate students, undergraduate students, and interns to mend, set, and check nets for terrapins, measure them, and photograph them to record injuries and physical characteristics. They also helped record the color patterns of terrapins to determine whether females choose males with certain patterns for mating.
Depending upon the time of year, volunteers may also have assisted in measuring eggs and planting them in artificial nests at an on-site hatchery, recording predation, flooding, nest temperatures, and other data. They helped survey beaches for nesting female terrapins. They assisted in determining the hatching success of nests and in the marking, photographing, and releasing of hatchlings from both natural nests and nests protected in the project hatchery. Data on home range and movements were collected throughout the study using GPS units. Volunteers also handled terrapins under staff supervision and assisted in health assessments of terrapins.
Volunteers measured environmental conditions, such as water salinity and temperature.
Scientists tagged terrapins, and recorded measurements of body size, weight, sex, and age.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Harold W. Avery has studied turtles and tortoises for more than 30 years, often inviting Earthwatch volunteers to join in his research.
Camp consists of several simple buildings erected on a large clearing in Budongo Forest. You'll stay in a single room that contains a bed, beddings, mosquito net, reading desk and a chair. All rooms are connected to solar electricity. There are three pit latrines on site which are shared by all. You'll have access to a warm shower, every evening after a long day's work. Water used at camp is harvested off the roofs or taken from the Sonso River so frugal use is necessary.
Evening meals are prepared by cooks who will prepare dishes including rice, chapati, potatoes, spaghetti, beans, beef, fish, ground nuts (peanuts), cow peas, assorted fresh vegetables and fruits, eggs. There are other local foods such as cassava, stewed bananas (locally known as matooke) and maize bread (locally known as ugali or posho). Breakfast will be western style.
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Fort Collins man helps rescue woman from car in frozen pond in Windsor
January 3, 2013
A Fort Collins man went into a frozen pond and helped rescue a 22-year-old woman from her car after it overturned and slid into the water at the south entrance of the Kodak/Carestream campus on Thursday night.
Todd Vess, public information officer for Windsor Severance Fire Rescue, said a car driven by Kimberly Garcia of Evans slid into the lake off Colo. 257 and south of Eastman Park Drive just after 5 p.m. and landed on its roof, with the passenger compartment completely under water. Vess said Garcia was wearing a seat belt.
Vess said Fort Collins resident Rick Merlino, a fellow employee from the Kodak/Carestream campus, saw a tire sticking up above the ice and pulled over.
"He definitely made a difference. They were all site employees leaving work, and he saw the car upside down and pulled over," Vess said. "He had her in his car when I got there wrapped in a blanket from another passer-by. He said that he saw the car in the pond, got out, went down to investigate and she was trying to get out the back window. … That was the only window that was even partly above water."
Merlino, an engineer at Carestream, told The Denver Post he grabbed Garcia just as she climbed through the back window of her car.
"She had been completely submerged. She was panicked. She was screaming for help," Merlino told the Post. "I grabbed her and guided her out of the water."
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Vess said Garcia was fortunate that Merlino saw the car in the frozen pond.
"That's not a high-traveled road," Vess said. "It's a private road on the campus, and it's not like it's a highway. It was good timing to help get her out of that car, because that's the key on survival. Hypothermia could kick in real fast, and it was cold last night."
Vess said Merlino told him that Garcia was really struggling when he went in to help her.
The frozen water was about knee deep when Merlino went in, Vess said.
Garcia was treated at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley and released. Vess said Garcia's injuries were not life threatening, but she was in shock. Fire department personnel walked Garcia to the ambulance when it showed up to get her in the back of the ambulance so she could warm up, Vess said.
"She had not just the problem of a rollover accident, but landing upside down and breaking through four inches of ice in the water," Vess said. "The car was up to the windows in water. She was completely drenched."
Vess estimates that Garcia could have been in the frozen pond for up to 10 minutes. He said Merlino told him there were huge chunks of ice inside the car.
"I don't know what the extent of her injuries were, but even for a healthy person to jump into a frozen lake, your body kind of locks up a little bit and it's hard to do anything," Vess said. "She couldn't open the doors, crawling out through the ice in the water."
Vess said it was the second car to go into the ponds at that site. He said the other car was during the summer about eight to 10 years ago.


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Mystery Ranch G6000
Historic Range: $497.00
Reviewers Paid: $495.00-$540.00
HERE'S MY REVIEW and a follow-up to an earlier Trailspace.com review. Okay, I've used this pack every month for the last 3 years on trips between 10 to 15 days, the longest being 23 days in the mountains of NC and TN. It has been soaked and frozen and beaten and jerked and nothing seems to kill it, and will haul 80lbs without sagging and when the trip's almost over and it's down to 40lbs, it'll seem like a daypack filled with a sandwich and a pair of Crocs. In fact, the pack is sitting right next to me in my tent vestibule as I'm in my 7th day of another 15 day trip in the Citico wilderness of TN.
- Carries 60-80 lbs without sagging (sagging is common with most heavily loaded packs), and makes the weight "feel lighter".
- Torso adjustment is easy and allows a big backpack for a small body as the pack can be ordered with small to large shoulder yokes and hipbelts. This is important if you need a large pack with a small hipbelt as I do.
- Stitching, straps, fabric, zippers and buckles are all battle tested and bombproof. The only wear I have is on the lower shoulder strap webbing getting frayed from passing thru the buckle so many times. (Update: And I found a worn spot on the bottom of the left support stave where the cordura is worn thru and the white plastic support rod is showing thru--minor wear point).
- The hipbelt padding and support is fantastic and way beyond anything else out there. It means, in one word, comfort.
- The top lid becomes a daypack with shoulder straps and dispenses with the irksome feature of having to use the hipbelt like on the old Terraplanes.
- The top lid can be "lifted" to accommodate truly massive loads and stuff placed under the lid like an extra food bag or tent.
- The two back zip pockets are roomy and will hold tent poles, stove, two 22oz fuel bottles with room left over for apples, cheese and a half liter of water.
- There are four beefy side straps on the pack, two on each side, which will hold a vertical tent or Thermarest or let you dangle your crocs.
- The back bottom straps by the sleeping bag can hold either a tent or a pad.
- This pack leaks like a sieve in the rain and even with a pack cover in a hard rain I had a cup of water at the bottom of my sleeping bag compartment, and the top lid always lets in water thru the fabric.
- The back outside vertical zipper replaces the old Terraplane daisy chain and it is never used and is dead weight.
- The water bottle holders have a midlevel seam which always snags my Sigg water bottles when I try to shove them in.
- The whole bottom sleeping bag compartment can be done away with, the zipper, the buckles, the inside divider and it's buckles and straps, and the inside compression strap. It's easier and quicker to just push in your stuffed sleeping bag down from the top. I cut out most of the stuff in the bottom but I didn't remove the heavyweight zipper. Taking it and the back vertical zipper out would save some weight.
The first thing I noticed with this pack is its huge main bag volume when compared to the Dana Designs Terraplane. Another thing is its beefier internal frame system, the Terraplane almost seems like a light daypack when compared to the G6000. One other big difference is the pack material as the 6000 has a very substantial Cordura feel while the Terraplane (LTW)is lighter and thinner.
The 6000 also seems to have a different waterproof coating than the standard urethane of the Terraplane, a crinkly kind of material especially on the sides of the big pack, but both packs share similarities: dual Nalgene bottle holders, the same placement of the sleeping bag compartment (though the 6000's opening is novel and different), the usual lash straps on the bottom(where I put my tent), the twin back pockets(with the 6000 being much bigger and having a slightly different zipper angle), the same lid tiedown buckles (with a subtle difference: the Terraplane's straps end higher up on the bottom of the pack while the 6000's go all the way down to the bottom. This is important as the pack gets smaller during a trip allowing the lid to be cinched down tight even when near empty).
Other than the framing, the two packs are radically different. The 6's lid is very easy to remove and so when I get to camp I just unbuckle the bivalve unit (2 separate compartments) and throw it into the tent since the lid contains all the stuff I need for the night, my ditty bags, journal, paper towels, hair brush, radio, camera, etc. Plus the lid has two shoulder straps tucked away for quick transformation to a day pack (without the nuisance of adding a hipbelt like on the Terraplane).
The design of the bivalve lid allows a fully loaded pack to be closed fully with the lid properly hanging over and buckling down. Another feature is the pack body zipper that runs vertically between the two back pockets. I haven't used this yet and I don't think I'll need it and I miss the Terraplane's daisy chain but there will probably come a day when I'll need to get into the guts of the pack quickly and so the logical placement of this heavyweight zipper.
The adjustable harness system is totally different than the Terraplane and allows one big pack to be sold to someone no matter their torso size (with a man's pack and a woman's pack available). The shoulder yoke is velcroed in and is easily adjusted using a clever plastic support brace. It sounds complicated but it really isn't. Once the yoke is positioned correctly around and about the shoulders and neck, the pack rides very well and with a huge amount of support as compared to the Terraplane.
With the Terraplane carrying 75 pounds it maxes out the capacity and load bearing heft of the pack, but stick such a weight in the 6000 and you'll notice a big difference between the packs. The G6000 arranges such a heavy load and commands it, lifting and maintaining it without complaint and without the sagging so common with the Terraplane. 75 to 80 pounds does feel like 45 to 50, it's not some gimmicky business rant but a real life attribute of this pack.
I'll leave a description of why this happens to the pack experts out there, suffice it to say this pack can handle as much as you can carry without complaint, therefore for those looking for a hauler for long term 2-3 week trips this is the pack for you.
Update: April 28, 2010
This pack when placed upright on the ground fully loaded never seems to stay up and always falls over!! After a hundred times you start to get steamed and by angrily jerking it up with the load lifter strap a million times I can start to hear the strap ripping in the seam. I don't think the little lift strap was made to pick up or drag around a 80-90lb pack.
I've used this pack more than most people and it's the best pack in the world even though I call it the Titan Silverback or the Gray Refrigerator or the Pentagon Filing Cabinet. If you want to stay out in the middle of winter for a 21 day trip without resupply, and you've gotta haul 40lbs of food and a 4 season tent and bag and a goose down parka and don't mind carrying 80lbs on your back cuz you know it's the price of freedom, then this pack is for you.
If you're 25 and like it, get two or three more of them cuz in 20 years you might still be out backpacking but they could be discontinued. I won't live long enough to wear mine out. END OF REVIEW
UPDATE December 2013---IT'S ALMOST 2014
Okay boys, since my last update I have put around 500 more days of humpage on this pack and it is still going strong with few complaints and no blowouts even though I routinely carry 80 to 85 lb loads. I did send it in to Mystery Ranch for a slight repair on the shoulder straps and they replaced all the webbing with cordura for longevity and replaced the shoulder yoke to fix a minor break in the plastic sheathing inside the left shoulder strap cushioning.
I also broke a prong off a plastic buckle on the back bottom where I strap my red tent sack but it was easily replaced. I probably broke it when it was on the ground and I stepped on it. The very bottom of the pack scrapes across the ground at times and I have worn two small holes in the fabric exposing two white frame rods but so far I am able to cover these holes with ripstop repair patches on a monthly basis as they peel off.
After 7 years of hard use no seam has separated and no zipper has broke---knock on wood. Oh wait, the back panel velcro sewn onto the pack body behind the shoulder yoke which keeps the yoke from sliding out came apart but with a needle and some floss I was able to fix it in the field.
I may need to get a new pack someday but if I do it will be another G6000. I will include a few interesting pics of the pack in action over the last couple years.
On the North Fork trail in the Citico Wilderness.
Still Life with Apple.
In the Big Frog Wilderness with the G6000.
Design: top loading internal
Size: 6400 cubic inches
Number of Pockets: 4
Max. Load Carried: 80 pounds
Height of Owner: 5'11"
Price Paid: $540
These are first impressions, as I have only taken this on a few hikes. I will give it a year or two then update.
So far, I have taken a few hikes with a pack weight of fifty pounds. My frame of reference for large backpacks is an old external frame pack and a North Face internal frame expedition pack made in the late 1980s. I shopped and tried on the Gregory Denali, Osprey Crescent 110, Granite Gear Cirrus 7000, and Arc'teryx Bora 95, though I have not hiked with any of these packs. I also debated McHale packs but just could not justify the expense of a truly custom-made pack. All the others were a big improvement over my old internal frame pack, and all fine choices.
The suspension on this backpack is tremendous, very comfortable. Well-designed hip belt, a frame that can handle a lot of weight and put it on your hips easily, and a shoulder harness that is adjustable for torso length and is very comfortable on the shoulders.
The bag has a number of nice features. The top is divided into 2 compartments, so my small stuff isn't quite as jumbled around. The two large front pockets are classic Dana Design, very large and very convenient. The sleeping bag compartment (separated by a barrier with fastex clips that can be undone to create one large bag) has a very wide mouth for large sleeping bags and a very beefy zipper. There are external load compression straps and an internal compression strap too. There is also a heavy zippered opening on the front of the pack, in addition to the top load opening. Finally, it has two bottle pockets that actually fit a one liter bottle within reach while walking, with a grommet in the bottom for drainage.
Build quality appears to be excellent, though not for the ultralight crowd. Fabrics, stitching, and hardware are all heavy duty and heavy - the pack weighs close to eight pounds empty. Hard to say how it will wear over time, but it's made in Montana in small quantities.
Small things I would change: the Dana packs had a very useful daisy chain of webbing on the back; the zipper access prevents that. I would have liked to see the loops somewhere else on the pack. Also, the top can be converted into a rudimentary day pack - that's fine, but I don't have much use for it, and the shoulder straps are completely unpadded. Better to dispense with that feature in my opinion.
Features to watch over time: I have never owned a pack with carbon/synthetic stays rather than aluminum. 7075 aluminum is the gold standard for expedition packs; This one has handled 50 pounds without a hitch and could easily take more. I will be watching how the stays hold up and bear the load over the long term, putting my trust in the company and the design.
Update: February 22, 2008
This is a brief update to my previous review, after taking the pack winter camping in New Hampshire. The suspension held up well under 65-70 pounds, no pack bruises, chafing, or adjustability issues in mixed snow/ice and occasionally steep terrain. Consider the G7000 for long expeditions. Also, extra straps/lash cords I bought came in very handy. Plenty of lash points, but I needed the extra straps.
Finally, I actually used the top sack that converts to a daypack and thought it was convenient - shoulder straps aren't padded, but it was a nice feature to have. Totally unscathed despite the proximity to crampons, snowshoes, and an ice axe. worth the expense.
Design: top loading internal
Size: 6000 cubic inches
Number of Pockets: 4
Max. Load Carried: 65-70 pounds
Height of Owner: 5 foot 10
Price Paid: $525
Absolutly the greatest pack out there. If you need something that'll carry your gear plus the gear of your girlfriend/mother/campers than this pack by the "Dana" of Dana Designs is as good as it gets. The suspension makes insane 80-pound loads feel like 40. Made in the USA, it's what the Dana Design Astraplane used to be when it was still made in Bozeman.
Design: front/top-loading internal
Size: 6400 cubic inches
Number of Pockets: 5
Max. Load Carried: 80+lbs
Height of Owner: 6'1"
Price Paid: $495


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State laws and my lack of a head set on that particular afternoon prevented a call-in, but as Dispicable Me lead 'villian' Gru might say, LIGHT .... BULB!
This Padres club will lose 90 games and is headed for the long off-season. Why not talk about how to improve next year's team? Over the next several posts, I'll explore that.
To set the battlespace for debate, let's look at Padre contractural obligations for 2012. It's a pretty short list. Currently the Padres have only two players under contract for next year: Orlando Hudson and Jason Bartlett. They will each make $5.5M in 2012. Now naturally the rest of the roster is not nearly that simple.
San Diego holds a club option for Chad Qualls ($6M), and a mutual option for 2012 with Brad Hawpe ($6M) and Aaron Harang ($5M). There's no way Hawpe returns for 2012. GM Jed Hoyer will decline the option, pay the $1M buyout, and cut his losses. Not only has Hawpe been hurt most of the year, but San Diego has a lot of guys who can play first. Qualls might return - he's pitched fairly well out of the Padres bullpen - but I wonder if the club will pick up his $6M. Can you imagine a world where a middle reliever is the highest paid player on the roster? That could happen if Qualls returns. Aaron Harang might return as well, and would be a bargain for $5M. Harang has pitched very well this year.
The big Free Agent question San Diego has is Heath Bell. Only Heath Bell has an inkling on how that will play out. The Padres would be crazy not to offer him arbitration, unless they know he'll accept arbitration, in which case they'd be crazy to offer him arbitration. What to do, what to do....
Jeremy Hermida will also be a free agent at the end of the year (5 years service time) but his contract demands won't be very high given the amount of time he's spent in the minor leagues lately. San Diego can manage that if they decide to retain him. The rest of the roster is either arbitration eligible or not quite ready for arbitration.
The Arbitration Eligibles:
- Pat Neshek (Year 3)
- Chase Headley, Tim Stauffer, Dustin Moseley, Chris Denorfia, Alberto Gonzalez (Year 2)
- Clayton Richard, Luke Gregerson, Will Venable, Nick Hundley, Joe Thatcher, Rob Johnson, Ernesto Frieri, Jeff Fulchino (Year 1)
- Mat Latos, Cameron Maybin, Kyle Blanks, Cory Luebke, Wade LeBlanc, Anthony Bass, Josh Spence, Andrew Carpenter, Brad Brach, Aaron Cunningham, James Darnell, Logan Forsythe, Andy Parrino, Evan Scribner, Blake Tekotte.
It is a cost-effective roster at the moment. But what this team really, REALLY needs is a big bat in the lineup. We'll explore that and other questions over the next several days.