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Gibson, acknowledging he mocked Ledger's death, said: "There's no point in passing up a good joke"
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John Gibson responded to criticism of his comments the previous day mocking the death of actor Heath Ledger, and said "Did I mock him?" After Gibson's producer pointed out that Gibson had in fact mocked Ledger's death, Gibson replied, laughing, "Oh, that. Well," later adding, "There's no point in passing up a good joke."
On the January 23 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, John Gibson responded to a post on the blog Think Progress about his comments the previous day mocking the death of actor Heath Ledger, and said, "Did I mock him?" After Gibson's producer, known on-air as "Angry Rich," pointed out that Gibson had in fact mocked Ledger's death, Gibson replied, laughing, "Oh, that. Well," later adding, "There's no point in passing up a good joke." When Angry Rich noted that a commenter on Think Progress asserted that "Gibson will be whining tomorrow that his words were taken out of context," Gibson replied: "No. I meant them, whatever they were. I don't remember what they were, but whatever they were, I meant them."
Still later in the broadcast, Gibson returned to the controversy and said: "ThinkProgress.org, the George Soros organization, is attacking me for calling Heath Ledger a weirdo in discussing his death yesterday. At first, I thought, oh, they're lying, I couldn't have said that. And then I listened to the tape, and I realized I did say that."
During the January 23 broadcast, Gibson baselessly asserted that Ledger was "snorting heroin," telling his listeners: "Here I am, in trouble for mocking the death of Heath Ledger, snorting heroin, as he was, along with the Xanax and the Ambien." A caller later said to Gibson, "I'm just curious where you actually got your information on any white powder and-or the fact that it was heroin, 'cause there's nothing out there yet that states that." Gibson replied, "Well, yeah, there is, you just gotta read a little more." He then cited "CBS News in New York" and claimed that "the Daily Mail in London, which keeps up on these things, says that a source told them that he had a heroin problem." Later in the broadcast, while discussing Ledger's death with guest Michael Hungen of the gossip website TMZ.com, Gibson stated that "there have been reports from other media outlets that there was some sort of powdery residue on that $20 bill." When Hungen noted that a New York Police Department report indicated that no illegal drugs were found in Ledger's apartment, Gibson persisted, asking : "Why would anybody be rolling up $20 bills if not to snort powdered drugs?" During the closing segment of the broadcast, however, Gibson announced, "That rolled up $20 dollar bill in Heath Ledger's house, clean. No drug residue. Just want to be on the record here, all the facts, keeping you quite up to date on this burgeoning controversy surrounding yours truly." Gibson never apologized for or retracted his previous assertion. As CNN.com reported on January 24, "Tests on a $20 bill found at the Lower Manhattan apartment where 'Brokeback Mountain' actor Heath Ledger died yielded no drug residue, New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said." The CNN.com report further noted that there were no illegal drugs found in Ledger's apartment.
In referring to "this burgeoning controversy surrounding yours truly," Gibson was acknowledging the response to comments he made, first noted by Think Progress, on the January 22 broadcast of his radio show. On that broadcast, Gibson began a segment of his show by airing a series of quotes from the film Brokeback Mountain, in which Ledger starred, while funeral music played in the background. In the audio clip, Jack Twist, played by actor Jake Gyllenhaal, says to his lover, Ennis Del Mar, played by Ledger, "I wish I knew how to quit you." Gibson then broke in and said: "Well, he found out how to quit you," and went on to announce, "Actor Heath Ledger found dead today in his New York City apartment." Gibson later said: "You're 28 years old, and you're thinking about death? Give me a break." He later added: "Maybe he [Ledger] was a weirdo." Gibson then aired another clip from the film, in which Ledger's character says: "We're dead." Gibson, adopting a cowboy accent, repeated: "We're dead." Gibson then asserted: "Nah, it's a terrible thing. ... [I]t is terrible. I don't know why a 28-year-old guy is thinking about death. He should be thinking about all the great things that he's going to do in the 50, 60 years he's got left." Later in the broadcast, Gibson again discussed Ledger's death, saying: "You know, there is new news coming out right now that apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal, and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, 'cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant -- good looking, wears a suit well -- but should just leave the stage."
From the January 22 broadcast of Fox News Radio's The John Gibson Show:
[begin audio clip -- from Brokeback Mountain]
JACK TWIST (by Jake Gyllenhaal): Well, since we're going to be working together, I reckon it's time we start drinking together.
ALMA BEERS DEL MAR (by Michelle Williams): If you don't go out there and finish her.
ENNIS DEL MAR (by Heath Ledger): You don't know nothing about her.
JOE AGUIRRE (by Randy Quaid): You boys sure found a way to make the time pass up there.
DEL MAR: We was fishing buddies.
TWIST: I wish I knew how to quit you.
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Well, he found out how to quit you. Christine, don't be upset. Hi everybody, it's John Gibson.
CHRISTINE: I am very upset.
[begin audio clip]
DEL MAR: Woo wie!
TWIST: Yeah!
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Actor Heath Ledger found dead today in his New York City apartment, face down in the bedroom, surrounded by prescription drugs. A confidant telling TMZ -- and TMZ is right about everything about 90 percent of the time -- that he had a serious drug abuse problem. So it appears to be an accidental overdose, could be a suicide. Listen, November '07, he was talking about -- and this is a 28-year-old guy -- saying, "Well, you know, it's a whole -- give me a whole different thought about death." What? You're 28 years old, and you're thinking about death? Give me a break.
CHRISTINE: Maybe he was a deep thinker.
GIBSON: Maybe he was a weirdo.
ANGRY RICH: I'm thinking about it right now.
GIBSON: OK, anyway, Heath Ledger died, and I'm sure people will be upset. All you Brokeback Mountain fans, you want to give Christine a call, she'll be happy to talk to you.
DEL MAR [audio clip from film]: We're dead.
GIBSON: "We're dead."
DEL MAR [audio clip from film]: We're dead.
GIBSON: Nah, it's a terrible thing. I mean, you know, it's -- it is terrible. I don't know why a 28-year-old guy is thinking about death. He should be thinking about all the great things that he's going to do in the 50, 60 years he's got left. The conservative civil war rages on today.
GIBSON: Let's talk about what happened today with yo' money. There was a not-so-black Tuesday, as the U.S. stock market, Wall Street, closed down a bit, sort of in the correction zone, after yesterday's absolute bloodbath around the world. My guest is Tom Sullivan, host of The Tom Sullivan Show here on the Fox News Talk Network, and who also anchors the Fox Business Network each day between 10 a.m. and noon. Tom, so --
SULLIVAN: I thought I was coming in to talk about "Keith Bledger."
GIBSON: Yeah, well --
SULLIVAN: I'm a "Keith Bledger expert."
GIBSON: Well --
SULLIVAN: Did I get that --
GIBSON: Maybe he had a serious position in the market.
SULLIVAN: Yeah, possibly, and today, he looked at the window --
GIBSON: And said, "Oh my god."
SULLIVAN: His name's not "Keith Bledger." Is that right?
GIBSON: No. I mean, he was depressed about yesterday's downturn in the world stock market.
GIBSON: Bob in Ohio. Bob.
BOB: Hey, John. John, how you doing buddy? I hope your old cough gets a little bit better.
GIBSON: Thank you very much. I am going to keep it from you, because my colleagues here say it's so disgusting.
BOB: Well, you know, I work in a hospital; we can give you something for that. Listen, John, the --
GIBSON: I don't want a Heath Ledger situation going on here.
BOB: Yeah, well, I don't think you're going to sleep yet --
BOB: -- but we'll work on that. But anyway, John, this three-quarter drop is nice.
GIBSON: Well, it is John Gibson. You know, there is new news coming out right now that apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal, and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, 'cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant -- good looking, wears a suit well -- but should just leave the stage.
From the January 23 broadcast of Fox News Radio's The John Gibson Show:
GIBSON: There is a war on Gibson, and even though Gibson's always right, there is a war.
GIBSON: Just to give you a heads-up about it, I did this -- an hour yesterday on Heath Ledger on my TV show 'cause he, like, was still warm. I got an email, Angry Rich, just moments ago from somebody who said that I was just a horrible, low-life, awful person for mocking the death. [unintelligible] News!
ANGRY RICH: John, the start of yesterday's show is now prominently featured on Think Progress, the George Soros operation. Yes. It says, "John Gibson mocks 'weirdo' Heath Ledger's death."
GIBSON: Did I mock him?
ANGRY RICH: He found out how to "quit you," quote-unquote.
GIBSON: Oh that [laughter]. Well --
ANGRY RICH: A little satire.
GIBSON: Yeah, it was little Brokeback Mountain joke.
ANGRY RICH: You feel bad about it. C'mon.
GIBSON: No. I mean, I feel bad about his death, but that's --
ANGRY RICH: It's horrible.
AUDIO CLIP (from Brokeback Mountain): I wish I knew how to quit you.
GIBSON: There's no point in passing up a good joke. I mean, how many months did we live off that line, Brokeback Mountain?
AUDIO CLIP (from Brokeback Mountain): I wish I knew how to quit you.
ANGRY RICH: Several.
GIBSON: I mean, it went on for months and months and months. I'm not giving that up.
ANGRY RICH: The comments are unfortunate.
GIBSON: Oh are they? Are they going after me over it?
ANGRY RICH: Oh, yeah.
GIBSON: OK. Well it's the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but --
ANGRY RICH: You're a closet homosexual. That's the first --
GIBSON: I am?
ANGRY RICH: Apparently.
GIBSON: Well, I'm still breathing. There's a difference right there.
ANGRY RICH: I guess.
GIBSON: Christine, it took you so long to get that? I mean, I was, like, counting the seconds there.
ANGRY RICH: "Gibson will be whining tomorrow that his words were taken out of context."
GIBSON: No. I meant them, whatever they were. I don't remember what they were, but whatever they were, I meant them.
More on that a little bit later.
GIBSON: Jerry, Missouri. What, Jerry?
JERRY: Well, I'm sorry to hear that you have a head cold. You know, when I tuned in just a few minutes ago on XM and I heard you talking, you know, I thought it was Hillary giving one of her Southern speeches.
GIBSON: Y'all fixing to drive on down the road there, Jerry? And sidle up to a plate of beans and a few [unintelligible]?
SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY) [audio clip]: I don't feel no ways tired. I've come too far from where I started from.
GIBSON: You are cruel, cruel, Jerry. Here I am, in trouble for mocking the death of Heath Ledger, snorting heroin, as he was, along with the Xanax and the Ambien, and you mock me.
GIBSON: Well, it is John Gibson. Be sure to stay tuned for the next hour, 'cause we're going to go into this thing of me getting attacked. I'm just reading this -- just by way of piquing your interest. It says here on the Think Progress deal that I called Heath Ledger a weirdo. Hm. I don't -- I don't remember saying that. I might have. I suppose he was a little weird to keep to himself. Although, I keep to myself.
ANGRY RICH: So do I.
GIBSON: I suppose he was a little weird to be so in love with his drugs that it caused his -- the mother of his child to kick him out of his house. Still wondering about that rolled-up $20 bill with the white powdery substance on it, but you know. I guess it's sort of normal and probably what Think Progress thinks is normal, is if you're somewhere between 20 and 35, you probably do heroin once in a while. You know, just sniff a little for the heck of it. I might think that's weird. Eric in Los Angeles.
CALLER: Hey, John.
GIBSON: How are 'ya?
CALLER: Pretty good. Hey, I'm just curious where you actually got your information on any white powder and-or the fact that it was heroin, 'cause there's nothing out there yet that states that.
GIBSON: Well, yeah, there is, you just gotta read a little more.
CALLER: OK, where is it?
GIBSON: Well, CBS News in New York reported cops --
CALLER: There's no toxicology reports that have come back from that yet.
GIBSON: We're not talking about toxicology reports, Eric. Wait, look, the Daily Mail in London, which keeps up on these things, says that a source told them that he'd had a heroin problem. And that -- listen -- and that he had been in rehab recently. In addition, two stations here reporting that there had was a mysterious, or traces of a mysterious powder that they're testing. Let's hope it's not true, let's hope that he needed to take his Ambien by rolling up a $20 bill and snorting it.
CALLER: You know, I just think it shows really bad taste on your part, you know, which, you know, he wasn't even, he wasn't even, he was still warm when you started, you know, ripping on him yesterday.
GIBSON: No, he wasn't still warm but his body was still there. I'm not ripping on him. I mean, look, here's an interesting thing. Did you notice over the weekend that the AP had prepared a obituary on Britney Spears? And that right now in London the newspapers are making the obituaries of Amy Winehouse? And, you know, nobody knew about Heath Ledger. He was smart enough to keep his life private. He wasn't out in the clubs, stagging around, falling over. I mean, I feel bad for him. He shouldn't have been doing this stuff. Somebody should have warned him. A whole bunch of Ambien, a whole bunch of Xanax, and a whole bunch of whatever it was, and if he was involved in snorting heroin, it was going to depress his central nervous system and he was going to stop breathing. Now, you tell me, why is it millionaire 28-year-olds don't know that? And you tell me, why is it one of the great singers right now -- Amy Winehouse, she is a great singer -- she's lighting up a crack pipe on the air, on video, right in front of people --
GIBSON: It is John Gibson. I am -- I'm under constant attack these days, because -- partially because of the sound of my voice, has really crapped out because of a cold. ThinkProgress.org, the George Soros organization, is attacking me for calling Heath Ledger a weirdo in discussing his death yesterday. At first, I thought, oh they're lying, I couldn't have said that. And then I listened to the tape, and I realized I did say that. And here's the context. There was a interview that Heath Ledger did where a reporter asked him, just recently, about his daughter -- he's got a 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, that he apparently loved very much -- and which he said this:
[begin audio clip]
LEDGER: [inaudible] changed my life. Well, I don't know. I mean, God, where do you start? I mean --
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Did it change the way you work, you think?
LEDGER: No, I guess you're forced into kind of respecting yourself more. You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. And I think you also look at death differently. Like -- it's like a Catch-22. Like, I feel good about dying now, because I feel like I'm alive in her, you know, but at the same time, you don't want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life. It's kind of like --
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Now, I reacted to the fact that he said, you know, having a child changed my attitude about death. And I thought, changed your attitude about death? I'm sure it changed your attitude about life, but who at his age and his success and all of that is thinking about death? And I said:
[begin audio clip]
GIBSON: Listen, November '07, he was talking about, and this is a 28-year-old guy, saying, "Well, you know, it's given me a whole different thought about death." What? You're 28 years old, and you're thinking about death? Give me a break.
CHRISTINE: Maybe he was a deep thinker.
GIBSON: Maybe he was a weirdo.
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: [clears throat] Christine?
CHRISTINE: Yeah?
GIBSON: Well, upon reflection, should I be attacked for that remark?
CHRISTINE: You called him a weirdo.
GIBSON: Well, I think it is weird that this guy -- look, evidently, and I don't know whether it's because he has to think about death playing things like the Joker. And apparently, this new movie in which he plays the Joker, he's just fabulous.
LEDGER (audio clip as the Joker from The Dark Knight): You can change things. Forever. There's no going back. See, to them, you're just a freak. Like me.
GIBSON: Like me. Like me! And I must tell you, the fact that I said what I said yesterday on this radio program, was not the strangest bit of reporting that went on on Heath Ledger's death yesterday. This was on MSNBC:
COURTNEY HAZLETT [MSNBC gossip reporter, audio clip]: Chris, I have to say, in a lot of ways, this reminds me we've almost had a dress rehearsal for this almost with Owen Wilson and --
GIBSON: Wow!
HAZLETT [audio clip]: -- thankfully, that turned out a lot differently. But it's hard to look at this --
GIBSON: Whoa.
HAZLETT [audio clip]: -- and not feel reminded --
GIBSON: Whoa.
HAZLETT [audio clip]: -- of that from earlier.
GIBSON: Whoa. OK. Now, why is Truth -- ThinkProgress.org not attacking the MSNBC lady for saying, well, Owen Wilson's suicide, that was a dress rehearsal for what we saw with Heath.
ANGRY RICH: Bathtub Boy [Keith Olbermann] uses their site for his show every night.
GIBSON: Oh, right. He draws his script from that site.
ANGRY RICH: Right.
GIBSON: And from Media Matters, the other George Soros-funded operation.
ANGRY RICH: That's right.
GIBSON: Well, all right, then if you weren't going to attack MSNBC, you could attack Larry King.
[begin audio clip]
KING: His parents were divorced, Pat. Are they living?
GIBSON [talking over audio clip]: Are they living?
PAT O'BRIEN (host of The Insider): I don't know the answer to that, Larry. I'm just going to have to tell you I don't know the answer to that.
KING: Ben, do you know?
BEN WIDDICOMBE (New York Daily News columnist): Honestly, I don't know. I do know that his family has released a statement insisting that he has not committed suicide, that that is not in his nature. The exact family members that issued that statement, I am not clear on.
KING: Do you know, A.J.?
A.J. HAMMER (host of Showbiz Tonight): I don't have that exact information, Larry.
KING: Do you know, Howard?
HOWARD BRAGMAN (publicist): I don't know. I think his parents are living, though.
KING: Does he have brothers and sisters?
BRAGMAN: I think he had a sister who helped get him into acting when his parents got divorced when he was about 10 years old. Supposedly his sister tried to put him into acting so he could really have a cathartic moment.
KING: Was his fiancée an actress?
BRAGMAN: Oh, yes. She was also in Brokeback Mountain. That's where they met, on the set. Michelle --
KING: Oh, she played his wife.
BRAGMAN: Exactly.
KING: Thank you all very much.
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Talk about a moron. Larry, ask me, is his -- are his parents living? Yeah, Larry, in fact, they spoke.
KIM LEGDER (father) [audio clip]: We, Heath's family, confirm the very tragic, untimely, and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother, and doting father of Matilda. He was found peacefully asleep in his New York apartment by his housekeeper at 3:30 U.S. time.
GIBSON: Larry, that's his father. He's very much living. Who does produce Larry King's show now?
ANGRY RICH: That tape was out there well before that show aired.
GIBSON: I could see him asking one person. You know, but by then, the producer's supposed to open the mic, you know, the [inaudible], talk in his ear and say, "Larry, don't go there." He asks five more people.
All right, let me go now to Michael Hungen of TMZ.com. He's been doing a lot of work on this. So Michael, I've gotten a lot -- attacked on this radio program over the last 24 hours, for suggesting there might have been some other drug than a legal prescription drug involved in Heath Ledger's death. Now, there was a rolled-up $20 bill found in his apartment. It was confirmed by New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. And there have been reports from other media outlets that there was some sort of powdery residue on that $20 bill. Know anything about that?
HUNGEN: Yeah, John, they just -- actually, this news just broke, literally. They are saying the $20 was clean. So, no, you know, no illegal substance, I guess, coming out of that. CBS is reporting today that there were packets of drugs found in the apartment, which, I'm assuming now that that can't be true, if, you know, this -- obviously there was nothing on the $20 bill. So that's the latest coming out of the NYPD.
GIBSON: Why would anybody be rolling up $20 bills if not to snort powdered drugs?
HUNGEN: Your guess is a good as mine. Maybe he was looking to get some money rolls? I'm not really sure. They're saying, though, that it's clean. I don't know if they're going to keep testing or look at other things and also, you know, confirm what CBS reported, but I'm assuming that that also is not true.
GIBSON: Michael, the other thing is that that's not the only report on which we based this notion. There was a Daily Mail, which is a newspaper in Britain, talking about a source of theirs, a friend of Ledger's said he did have a heroin problem at one point and had gone into rehab. Do we know anything beyond the state of rumor about drug use involving drugs that are not legal?
HUNGEN: Yeah, I mean, we talked to sources close to him yesterday who confirm with us that he was struggling for a long time with a drug abuse problem, and he -- they told us he did not go to rehab. They also told us that he had been clean for a year, you know, and it could have been part of the reason that he and Michelle Williams got separated last year, you know, that she was his fiancé. But what we were told from his sources close to him that he had been clean for a long time. Now, again, we won't know until the toxicology reports come back if that's completely true anymore. But that'll going to be an interesting turn to this whole story.
GIBSON: Well, the whole deal with Michelle Williams, that's his actress girlfriend, mother of his child, young Matilda, was that they were very happily ensconced, they bought a townhouse in Brooklyn in one of those neighborhoods that's, you know, being gentrified, and suddenly there's problems and he's out of the house, and the story so far has been that she could not take his continued dalliances with drugs.
GIBSON: News bulletin as we go off the air. That rolled up $20 bill in Heath Ledger's house, clean. No drug residue. Just want to be on the record here, all the facts, keeping you quite up to date on this burgeoning controversy surrounding yours truly. Tune in tomorrow, I may have more voice and I may be in more trouble if things go right.
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HOUSTON - The man accused of abducting, raping and slashing a Dickinson girl's throat in 1990 confessed to the crime before committing suicide in his jail cell, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.
WATCH IT: WATCH IT: FIND IT: Justice For Jennifer
KPRC Local 2 obtained a copy of the three and half hour confession tape. On it, Dennis Earl Bradford takes responsibility, in graphic detail, for the attempted capital murder of 8-year-old Jennifer Schuett.
"She was innocent. I was a sick, deranged, beat-up little punk. I took that little girl out there and I raped her and cut her throat," Bradford said.
Schuett survived the attack and over the next 19 years helped investigators piece together the evidence. In October 2009, Bradford was arrested in North Little Rock, Ark.
"I didn't get caught in 20 years, but I sure didn't get away from it," Bradford told investigators.
Earlier this month, Bradford committed suicide by hanging himself in his Galveston County Jail cell.
Schuett said she is deeply disappointed she will never have a chance to face Bradford in court, but there is one thing that makes her feel better.
"I am very relieved that he will never hurt anyone else," she said.
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Ernesto Pujol is a performance artist and public choreographer with an established social practice. Pujol is known for site-specific, walking performances as collective portraits that reactivate familiar landscapes and emblematic architecture that has become invisible, revealing its psychic underlay. He is interested in silence and the unconscious, in secrets and dreams as vital fragments to understanding and healing history. His slow durational performances serve as ephemeral monuments to unresolved social issues, which can be mourned or reflected about by mainstream audiences. Pujol trained in art, education, humanities, media, psychology, and monasticism. He continues to performe with urban and rural communities worldwide and is the author of numerous published essays.
"Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice," published by McNally Jackson, New York.
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It took a while, but here it is! I used an Amy Butler pattern (a bit too wordy) and fabric from Woodin in Benin. I made this top in Benin but saved it until I could make a trip to London because I wanted a photo shoot with the rest of the fabric (i bought and split it with a friend) – was was turned into curtains and pillows.
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I hope they don't integrate this service with iTunes. It really is a terrible program. It's very crash happy and only seems to get slower with every update. Then it tries to take over your computer and open whenever it can, and change itself to the default media player. Oh and then it tries to annoy you with updates every 2 weeks, and hopes that when you do update, you accidentally install safari or some other software in their update program.
Via Apple Website
"With iTunes Match, all your music even songs youve imported from CDs can be stored in iCloud. So you can access your music from all your devices and listen to your entire library, wherever you are."
The catch is...it'll cost you to use iTunes Match...
This new music feature sounds more like Pandora, I❤Radio, Yahoo Music, etc.
And fyi, iTunes Match is specifically for content NOT purchased from iTunes i.e. imported from cd's or wherever. Anything purchased from iTunes is already accessible through iCloud free of charge.
Using iCloud, it holds and streams your music which frees up your device's memory. The only hitch is when you want to listen to your music in an area w/out wifi and/or cell service. If you know your heading to a 'dead-zone' then you would download your specific iCloud songs to ur device prior to heading out.
Otherwise, your music stays in the cloud waiting to be accessed AND it will probably 'play' at a higher quality since Apple matches your music w/ their database and attempts to stream the best version they have of that particular song.
If I'm wrong, please let me/us know! Thanx!
"With iTunes in the Cloud, the music you buy from the iTunes Store automatically appears on all your devices.1 And for music you havent purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution."
The verbiage on the website is a little confusing. You can stream on a Mac, but not on a iOS device...until iOS 6!
The 5th iTunes Match FAQ explains it much more clearly,
Does iTunes Match stream or download songs?
On a computer, any songs stored in iCloud will stream over the air when played, though you can download them at any time by clicking the iCloud download button. iOS devices will start playing tracks from iCloud as they download and will store them so that you can listen to them later even if you dont have a network connection. Apple TV only streams songs."
A few weeks from now and you will be right
And updates can be good. Most of the times it fixes the crashing and security problems. So it's good to update and just not complain, because in the end, Apple's just trying to improve. Once you're over Apple, you can stop the continuous updates.


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Lefty tosses seven scoreless at Fenway; Doumit hits reviewed homer
BOSTON -- So far for Scott Diamond, there has been no sophomore slump.
Diamond, who was a pleasant surprise for the Twins as a rookie last year, is out to prove his impressive rookie campaign was no fluke. And so far, he's doing just that in the early going despite starting the year on the 15-day disabled list after having a bone chip removed from his left elbow in December.
Diamond recorded his fourth straight quality start and Ryan Doumit homered to help back him offensively, leading the Twins to a 6-1 win over the Red Sox on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.
Diamond, making his fifth start of the season, turned in his best outing, tossing seven scoreless innings to pick up his third win. The left-hander allowed just three hits and struck out two without issuing a walk.
"Everything is getting back in sync," said Diamond, who improved to 3-2 with a 3.03 ERA after posting a 3.54 ERA in 27 starts last year. "This is what you always work toward. It feels good to have it happen. But it's still a long season, so we have to continue to build."
Diamond retired the last 15 batters he faced after giving up a leadoff single to Stephen Drew in the third. No Red Sox runner reached second base against Diamond, who gave up leadoff hits in each of the first three innings.
"I could've set up a rocking chair back there," Doumit said. "He makes it real easy. He's one of the most prepared pitchers I've ever been around. He has a game plan every time out and sticks to it. Nights like this are fun. That's a really good baseball team over there and to only give up three hits against a lineup like that is impressive."
Diamond outdueled Boston right-hander Ryan Dempster, who was solid but couldn't quite match his Twins counterpart. Dempster went seven-plus innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on five hits and a walk while striking out eight.
"A very good outing by Ryan Dempster," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "Unfortunately not much to show for it on our end, and that's not taking anything away from Diamond, who lived on the edge, stayed out of the middle of the plate. Even when he got in a couple of fastball counts, he located well. By the time he was in there, I don't think we had a guy past first base."
Doumit sparked the offense for the Twins, doubling in the fifth and coming around to score on a one-out single from Wilkin Ramirez.
Doumit later connected on his first homer of the year on a solo blast off Dempster in the seventh. The homer, which landed in the first row of the seats atop the Green Monster in left, was reviewed by the umpire crew but was upheld.
"It's nice to get off the schneid," Doumit said. "You don't like looking up at the jumbotron and seeing a zero in the home run department. So it's nice to get one out of the way."
The Twins were helped by shaky defense in the eighth, as Pedro Ciriaco -- who replaced an injured Will Middlebrooks at third base in the seventh -- made back-to-back errors to open the inning.
The errors chased Dempster from the game and reliever Craig Breslow couldn't contain the damage. Joe Mauer made the Red Sox pay with an RBI double to left before Justin Morneau and Trevor Plouffe added back-to-back RBI singles.
Doumit then grounded into a fielder's choice that brought home another run, as catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia's throw to first base on a potential double play went under the glove of first baseman Mike Napoli for an error.
"We were able to have a big inning near the end there," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We capitalized on a few mistakes. So it was a nice win for our baseball team."
In the ninth, Saltalamacchia went deep for the Red Sox's lone run off reliever Josh Roenicke, who pitched the last two innings for the Twins. Gardenhire said it was a tough decision to pull Diamond -- who threw 96 pitches -- after the long top of the eighth, but the skipper felt it was the right one.
"It was a big decision to take him out or leave him in but coming off the elbow thing, we're still a little leery of it. We didn't want to push it. We'll push it a little later. But a great performance."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This article was published 5/12/2012 (1721 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a man who threatened to kill a blind man and his seeing-eye dog earlier in the fall.
Police said even with surveillance video, investigators have not been able to track down the suspect.
"We're at a point in the investigation where we've exhausted all efforts in regards to the identity of this individual," Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen said.
Michalyshen said the incident happened Sept. 17. The 41-year-old man and his guide dog were waiting for a westbound bus at about 8 a.m. at Portage Avenue near Spence Street when an unknown man approached them and started distracting his dog.
The man asked the suspect to leave the dog alone but the man persisted and then escalated his behaviour, eventually threatening to harm and kill the man and his dog.
The man boarded a bus but the suspect followed him and continued to threaten him, despite protests from other transit riders.
The threats continued for the duration of the bus ride, when the man and his dog got off near Polo Park.
The suspect remained on the bus. The man contacted police when he arrived home but police have not been able to track the suspect down.
The threats "were pretty blatant," Michalyshen said. "They were something that nobody would like to hear."
Michalyshen said there does not appear to be a motive for the threats, adding the victim had done nothing to provoke the outburst.
"The comments were really quite despicable," Michalyshen said. "We're going to continue to make every effort to identify this individual... and hold him accountable."
The suspect is described as a white, adult man, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9, with dark brown hair and a goatee.
At the time, the suspect was wearing a dark jacket with red lettering on the left front, a light-coloured hoodie, blue jeans and sunglasses on his forehead.


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Overland was involved extensively in the construction of motorhomes since the 1970s. Building Class A and Class C motorhomes, the vehicles produced by Overland were powered by gasoline and diesel powerplants. Overland also built the Westover line of travel trailers ranging from 24 to 33.5 feet until 1978. Produced under the name Mallard Coach, Overland motorhomes concluded production after the 1992 model year.Read more Read less
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Prizes & Awards
Frank J. Padden Jr. Award
The Frank J. Padden, Jr. Award, consisting of a certificate and appropriate recognition, honors a graduate student for "Excellence in Polymer Physics Research.
UKPPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange
To recognize research excellence and promise by polymer physicists just beginning their independent careers
APS Prizes & Awards in the area of Polymer Physics
John H. Dillon Medal
To recognize outstanding research accomplishments by young polymer physicists who have demonstrated exceptional research promise early in their careers.
Polymer Physics Prize
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I've been searching the forums and I couldn't find this anywhere so I figured I'd go ahead and ask. Do the drivers that come with BT (particularly b43 and rt2800usb) not have the capability to pick up 5 GHz broadcasts? My Broadcom (in my Macbook) and Tenda (USB adapter) NICs can both see 5 GHz networks when using the proprietary, out-of-the-box firmware, but seem to be limited only to 2 GHz when using b43 and rt2800usb. Am I missing something? Is there something to enable? Is this a feature that's being developed? Or am I SOL when it comes to pen-testing 5 GHz networks? Thanks for any help/feel free to yell at me if I missed something.
What I'm using:
Natively installed BT 5R3 on a Macbook MC240LL/A 5,2
Broadcom and Tenda wireless NICs
Trying to test on a Cisco AP broadcasting at 5 GHz


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After the growing, and counter-intuitive success of the London Collections: Men, aka the only fashion week on the calendar these days with any buzz; after the purchase of Christopher Kane by the-former-PPR-now-known-as-Kering; after Jefferson Hack's work with Tod's; today comes yet another announcement that adds fuel to the growing sense that London is the fashion city of the moment: Katie Hillier, British accessories designer, and Luella Bartley, the YBD, are joining Marc by Marc Jacobs as creative director and design director of womenswear, respectively. Bring on the Brits! If you want to be a buzzy brand, these days, apparently, you need some of your own.
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Smyly tosses two-hitter for first career shutout
Longoria falls a triple short of cycle in left-hander's 'artistic' outing
TORONTO -- Drew Smyly isn't David Price, but his impression has been pretty spot on since the two lefties swapped uniforms.
Smyly hurled the first shutout of his career, facing one batter over the minimum, while Evan Longoria did the heavy lifting with his bat in a 8-0 blowout win over the Blue Jays to kick off a three-game set at Rogers Centre on Friday night.
"That was, for my money, the best pitching performance I've seen from a Ray in this ballpark," manager Joe Maddon said following Smyly's two-hit masterpiece.
Smyly allowed a leadoff single in the bottom of the first, which was quickly erased when he got the following batter, Melky Cabrera, to hit into a double play. The only other batter who reached base was Steve Tolleson, with a two-out single in the third inning before Smyly retired 19 consecutive to end the game. He walked none, struck out four, and needed 105 pitches to dispose of the Blue Jays in front of 28,506.
Not one Blue Jays player made it into scoring position against Smyly, who guided the Rays to their American League-leading 17th shutout of the season. Tampa Bay, which blanked the Tigers in a 1-0 victory Thursday, recorded back-to-back shutouts for the first time since September 2013.
Smyly turned in his third consecutive quality start -- going seven-plus innings in each effort -- and lowered his ERA to 1.55 over four outings since the Rays acquired him at the non-waiver Trade Deadline as part of a three-team deal that saw Price land in Detroit.
Over those four starts, Smyly has struck out 23 while walking six in 29 innings. Price, meanwhile, has 32 strikeouts, six walks and a 2.35 ERA in four starts with Detroit. Price's lone loss as a member of the Tigers came Thursday in his return to Tropicana Field.
Maddon described Smyly's effort against Toronto as artistic.
"The fact that he went out there with a game plan, and him and [catcher] Curt Casali recreated that game plan," Maddon said, when asked to explain what made the outing artistic. "When theory and reality come together, that's a beautiful thing to watch. I would say the essence of theory and reality coming together equals art."
Smyly said it was the first complete game he has thrown since he pitched for the University of Arkansas.
The 25-year-old thanked his changeup -- and defense -- for helping him achieve the feat.
"It's not something starters get that often," said Smyly, who improved to 8-10 on the year with a 3.42 ERA. "You have to do your job and be on point from inning one to inning nine to usually throw a complete game. It's tough; not many do it. It's a good mark to reach and a big accomplishment for me."
Longoria fell a triple shy of the cycle, going 3-for-4 with a walk and three RBIs to help Tampa Bay win its second consecutive contest.
The third baseman opened up the scoring in the second inning when he pounced on a first-pitch fastball from Blue Jays starter Marcus Stroman to lead off the frame, depositing the ball into the left-field seats for his 16th homer. He added a single in the third and a two-run double during a four-run sixth inning, which blew the contest open.
Kevin Kiermaier (3-for-5) had a big day at the dish too, and thanks to some aggressive baserunning, he stretched a pair of would-be singles into doubles.
The first time came in the third with two outs, when he hit one up the middle to drive in Tampa Bay's second run of the game and caught Toronto center fielder Colby Rasmus off guard.
"You can be aggressive with two outs. That played a factor," Kiermaier said. "I just don't think a whole lot of outfielders are expecting anyone to do that. That's really tough to make a throw right there."
The Rays, who outhit Toronto, 14-2, added one more in the fifth before chasing Stroman from the contest the following inning. Three consecutive singles to begin the frame, including an RBI base hit from Desmond Jennings, ended Stroman's night. The rookie lasted five-plus innings, allowing six runs (five earned) on a career-high 10 hits. He walked three and struck out six, falling to 7-5 on the year.
"He battled tonight," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Stroman. "They had some good at-bats on him, they got some big hits. I thought overall, we played a lousy game, but Smyly took it to us pretty good."
Wil Myers made it 8-0 by hitting a solo homer off right-hander Todd Redmond in the eighth inning.
James Loney was the only player in the Rays lineup who was held hitless.
The Rays allowed three runs or fewer on the road for the 19th consecutive contest -- the second-longest streak in Major League history -- and are two games shy of tying the Major League record set by the Chicago Cubs in 1908.
Chris Toman is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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THE parents of a boy with severe autism are devastated after a thief stole their Motability car – which had been left defrosting on their driveway.
Father-of-two Jonathan Westall said the family's £12,000 Vauxhall Zafira was taken from outside his Blackburn home when his wife Kimberley left the engine running while she popped back into the house.
He is now urging other motorists to be on their guard against opportunist thieves.
The Westalls, of Full View, Livesey, use the car to ferry around their nine-year-old son Jack, who attends Newfield Special School.
Because of his condition he finds it very difficult to adapt to change.
Mr Westall, an engineer, said: "When my wife told me the car had gone I thought she was having a laugh. It was literally left for just a few minutes.
"You cannot understand the mentality of people who do this. It's been a setback for us and you would have thought that this was a quiet estate.
"I just want other people to be aware that this kind of thing can go on and to be on the lookout themselves."
Jack attends a number of after-school clubs at Newfield and a car was essential for the family's busy schedule, including medical appointments.
The couple, who also have a six-year-old daughter Leah said they now face a battle with insurers over the car, which was black and had a registration number of PO11 XAW.
The family's trauma comes just as police issued a winter warning urging motorists not to leave their cars unattended when defrosting them during cold snaps.
Insp Simon Ingham, of the force's vehicle crime team, said: "We know from previous years that some car thieves specifically target vehicles that they see sitting on driveways with the engines running.
"As soon as the owner goes inside the house, usually to finish getting ready for work, they take their chance and drive the car away.
"With the increase in vehicle security, this is the quickest and easiest way for a thief to steal your car.
"Many insurance companies may refuse to pay out if vehicles are stolen in this manner."
People with any information about the Westall's theft, which happened on Thursday morning, or any similar vehicle crime are asked to call police on the new non-emergency number, 101.


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Our dear friend, Lynette, recently passed away. It was a shock. I'm still not sure I've comprehended our loss. I can't tell you how many times something has happened, and I make a mental note to call Lynette ... only to quickly remind myself I can't do that anymore. My heart still aches and probably always will.
Lynette Ivey was best known in this area as an educator. She taught school in the Princeton Elementary School District for many years, and she was a great teacher. She was one of those teachers who started the day long before many of her colleagues arrived, and she was the one who was still working in her classroom long after many of her colleagues had gone home for the evening.
Any student who had Lynette as a teacher was clearly impacted by her. A traditional teacher from years gone by, she had great hopes and expectations for her young students, and they didn't disappoint her. They embraced learning and loved it — many times because Lynette had gone that extra mile to make learning interesting, within their young grasp, and of course, fun.
But Lynette's teaching career was just one facet of a life filled with countless adventures. Our dear friend had a variety of interests and just as many friends. She was always the one to send a note, a thinking of you or a get well soon greeting card. Likewise, she was the one to take a home-baked loaf of bread, freshly baked cookies or a bowl of homemade soup to a friend or neighbor.
Even though Lynette moved from the Princeton area a few years back, we'd speak frequently on the telephone and occasionally meet in Princeton, at her new home near the Wisconsin border, or in Rockford, where we'd spend the day shopping, eating lunch, sipping coffee and chatting the day away. We'd laugh, catch up, reminisce and laugh some more. We were never at a loss for words.
Lynette was a positive influence in many lives. She touched many souls, including my own. Because both of us had fought the cancer battle, we shared many tears, fears and other emotions that only we were able to understand, as opposed to those who hadn't personally fought that fight. While each of us went through treatments, there were daily phone calls, greeting cards, notes sent in the mail and visits. The bond grew stronger.
And now she is gone. In the blink of an eye, she left all of us behind to wonder how our dear friend filled with so much life and goodness could be snatched away so quickly. My heart hurts for her husband, Bob, and their adult children, whom she cherished. Life will clearly be different for all of us without Lynette's presence.
While Lynette was able to leave many memories behind, I have to tell you about one thing she used to do that has caused me to feel her presence every time I travel through the countryside. Living in the rolling hills of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, Lynette spent many a day parked on the side of the road and gathering what most farmers in this area would deem as weeds — Ditch Daisies, Queen Anne's Lace, Yarrow, Chickweed, Chicory ... At the end of each adventure, she'd have a bouquet of these "wild flowers," which she would take home and place in a special vase we had given her a few years back. To Lynette, they weren't weeds, but wildflowers to adorn her table and bring some sunshine into her world.
Frankly, I think Lynette's ability to turn weeds into wildflowers was perhaps the best lesson she taught us all ... even when it didn't involve "flowers." Always the teacher, she taught us that while less-than-desirable issues or weeds may clutter our lives, there are opportunities to turn them into something worth keeping, something to brighten one's world, something to admire.
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I have a simple hardware project that sends the following data over the netwerk by using UDP protocol.
UDP Port 8234
Datatstring: unique_number and reader number
When I have only on sender ther is no problem, only when I jabe multiple senders like 8 PCB's that sending data, the received data get broken. When they send like:
The data string becomes like: 123-A0277678-A0112377678 or something like that.
So I think i have to send a STX and ETX only how can I check for STX and ETX when data strings get mixed-up


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TECTERRA Geomatics Initiative Funds GNSS Innovation
TECTERRA is an Alberta government initiative to encourage and support start-ups in the geomatics field in Canada. In June, TECTERRA held its annual Geomatics Showcase at the TELUS Centre in downtown Calgary, where 56 companies and four universities had booths to exhibit their wares, tell their stories, and hopefully generate business. Since May 2010, TECTERRA has provided $30 million in repayable loans,... read more


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Hey stlbbq, there is a place nestled between I-40 and the Chesterfield Mall, I think it was called the Smokehouse or something like that. Nice large looking place from the outside. Worth checking out for your list. Maybe next time down I can check it out.
If I was you, I'd make more of an attempt to go to Ethyl's than I would the Smokehouse. Many years ago, it was simply a meat market with no name. Then it got into smoking meats for their customers and the customers started calling it the "smokehouse", so the name stuck. After about 4 different sets of owners, a couple minor floods and one really bad one in 1993, the place has no semblance of what it once was and now caters to the uber-yuppie in Chesterfield with average (at best) BBQ and smoked items that are way, way over priced. My $0.02 is go there only if you want to go away unimpressed and a lot poorer for it.


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Moog has released a limited edition Voyager, it's Moogerfoogers and the Slim Phatty in white. They also released white wood sides for the Slim. Why didn't the regular Phatty didn't get the white treatment? I have a Slim and really like it a lot. With it's overdrive and Moog heritage it has a sound all it's own. In addition to the snow color job Moog has sent an email with a download link for 100 new presets to all registered Phatty owners. The presets are designed by Phil and Paul Hartnoll AKA Orbital, Chad Hugo of N.E.R.D./The Neptunes, and DJ/Sound Designer Dom Kane. I do think the Phatty is one of those synths where presets are useful so this is welcome. Don't forget there is also a Little Phatty Editor Librarian plug-in available too.
"Today Moog Music announced the limited edition release of an all white series of its classic analog instruments. Moog has polarized the color of their traditionally black steel and natural wood instruments to a solid white finish." – Moog
For more info: moogmusic.com/products/phattys/slim-phatty


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A shepherd Kirkburn is patiently tending his flock on a calm sunny afternoon… yet something is different about today. He feels a tremble and his knees go weak. In the distance volcanoes burst violently, the ground shakes and massive tidal waves threaten to destroy the once peaceful town of WoWWiki. For hours the heat is unbearable and ash covers the sun. When the dust clears, the pillars of WoW have cracked and crumbled; the villagers now look to a new god to worship in the gaming pantheon.
For the first time in years, WoWWiki was not our number one wiki…with the release of Mothership Zeta (a downloadable content pack for Fallout 3), The Vault reached number one across Wikia. Overnight, traffic grew nearly 100% to a record 2.9M page views and edits have shot up as gamers document every detail for the expansion pack.
So, Mr. Fallout – Congratulations and enjoy it while it lasts, Blizzcon is coming shortly and WoWWiki will likely push you back down to #2 :).
Now if only WoW and Fallout had a release simultaneously, we could take on Google!!!


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Trowbridge artist Pat Drinkwater has set up his own display featuring 24 carat gold-plated wire copper trees at his home.
Former scrap merchant, Mr Drinkwater, 76, of Longfield House, has been making the pieces worth between £1,000 and £2,000 for 40 years.
He is looking for somewhere in Trowbridge to display his work but in the meantime has set up his own exhibition.
Mr Drinkwater, who also sculpts, said: "Anyone who wants to come and look at the display is more than welcome and perhaps they might want to use them as part of an exhibition in the town."
He said making the trees was an elaborate process and time-consuming.
Mr Drinkwater, who lives with wife Kate, has exhibited the trees before in London art galleries.


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Seton Memorial Library & Philmont Museum
Whether you are visiting Philmont Scout Ranch to go on a trek or just pass through the area, the Philmont Museum is always a nice place to stop by. Located across the street from camping headquarters, the Philmont Museum is home to the Seton Memorial Library. The Philmont Museum features a rotating exhibit, so if you have visited in the past, don't hesitate to drop by and see something new next time you are in the area!
Ernest Thompson Seton was an artist, naturalist, environmentalist, explorer, the founder of the Woodcraft League and Co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Seton was mostly self-taught; however, he did study art in London and Paris in 1879 and 1894, respectively. He completed his first oil painting at the age of 16.
During his lifetime, Seton produced 4,000 paintings and countless drawings. His wide variety of style, medium and surfaces is most unusual as most artists show a strong preference for one medium and style.
"Gift of Inspiration"
In honor of Philmont's 75th anniversary the Philmont Museum exhibit presents "The Gift of Inspiration." Waite Phillips hoped that the ranch would harbor a place where children had the ability to discover their passion, talents and gifts.
Nearly one million Scouts have explored the backcountry of Philmont since 1938. In addition, thousands of individuals have spent their summers working at Philmont. This exhibit showcases 14 different artists who once were staffed at the ranch.
The purpose of the exhibit is to showcase how Philmont affected and inspired these artist's lives. "The Gift of Inspiration" exhibit demonstrates various arts from acrylic paintings to photography to pinball machines. Next to each piece of art is a plaque with the artist's description of their "Philmont Inspiration," entailing how Philmont affected their life path. The artists displayed at the exhibit could not have become the people they are today without their journey here at Philmont.
Philmont Scout Ranch, the Boy Scouts of America's premier High Adventure™ base, challenges Scouts and Venturers with more than 214 square miles of rugged northern New Mexico wilderness. Backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and training and service programs offer young people many ways to experience this legendary country.
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