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The victims: Shooting at offices of satirical newspaper kills 12, including prominent cartoonists

The suspects: One man turns himself in; two brothers linked to terror network remain at large

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House GOP far from united after speaker vote Boehner takes action against two dissenters; backers want more

By Erica Werner The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans began the new Congress with old divisions on display Wednesday, bitter fallout from a failed rebellion against Speaker John Boehner.

Boehner took swift action against two of the dissenters, knocking them from a key committee. But some of his allies demanded more, furious at the two dozen lawmakers who opposed the Ohioan in Tuesday’s speaker vote. In the process, the GOP is starting the year with party infighting instead of a unified challenge to President Barack Obama.

“All of us think that they should have retribution,” Boehner loyalist Devin Nunes of California said of the rebels. “They put the conservative agenda at risk with their wanting to be on television and radio.”

The dissidents warned of their own payback if Boehner does take further steps against them.

“There’s going to be a fight,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, when asked what would happen if leaders retaliated against lawmakers who opposed Boehner’s re-election. “And it’s going to be real hard to bring the party together like they say they want to do.”

The dispute proved a distraction as

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An injured victim is transported to an ambulance Wednesday after masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

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PARIS — Police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

President Francois Hollande, visiting the scene of France’s deadliest such attack in more than half a century, called the assault on the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo “an act of exceptional barbarism.”

France raised its terror alert system to the maximum — Attack Alert — and bolstered security with more than 800 extra soldiers to guard media offices, places of worship, transport and other sensitive areas. Fears had been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis trained in warfare abroad would stage attacks at home.

French brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, should be considered armed and dangerous, according to a police bulletin released early Thursday.

A third suspect, Mourad Hamyd, 18, surrendered at a police station in CharlevilleMezieres, a small town in France’s eastern Champagne region, said Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre.

She did not offer details on Hamyd’s relationship with the men.

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Shortly before black-masked gunmen stormed the east Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, an image went out from the satirical newspaper’s Twitter account. Poking fun at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State organization, the caricature depicted him speaking into a microphone, offering New Year’s greetings and wishes of good health.

The spoof captured the spirit of an irreverent — sometimes crass — French institution that on Wednesday became the site of a national tragedy. The gunmen struck at 11:30 a.m., a strategic time when the weekly paper that had made Islam one of its many targets was holding a key editorial meeting.

Within a few violent moments, some of the most provocative voices in French journalism were extinguished — including the paper’s chief editor, Stephane Charbonnier, and some of France’s top cartoonists, including Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac. A paper that for the past several years had bitterly defended its right to lampoon Islam, just as any other juicy target, found itself paying the highest price.

“It’s as if Matt Groening of The Simpsons had been assassinated, somebody everybody knows, who makes quips at society,”

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New Mexico’s Medicaid director, who was involved in the state’s controversial behavioral health shake-up in 2013, is leaving her $103,000-a-year position later this month to go to work for the private contractor that had set the provider overhaul in motion.

The head of at least one organization affected by the shake-up sees a conflict of interest in Julie Weinberg’s job change.

Weinberg, 46, will step down as MedJulie icaid director at the Weinberg state Human Services Department effective Jan. 16, according to her resignation letter, obtained by The New Mexican. The department confirmed that Weinberg is leaving to accept a job at a division of OptumHealth, a private company that had a state contract to oversee Medicaid-funded behavioral health services in 2013, when suspicions of Medicaid billing fraud prompted the state to terminate funding to 15 providers.

Mark Johnson, CEO of Santa Fe-based Easter Seals El Mirador, one of those ousted providers, said Weinberg’s move from state Medicaid director to Optum raises ethical questions. “There certainly would be an appearance of a conflict of interest in [Weinberg] going to work for a contractor that Medicaid contracted with,” Johnson said.

The fraud allegations against the terminated providers, which have not been proven more than a year and a half later, originated with OptumHealth’s accusations of Medicaid overbilling. Optum’s allegations spurred an audit that found more than $36 million in suspected overbilling, which Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration cited as the basis for terminating the providers’ Medicaid funding and replacing those organizations with five Arizona companies.

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Report: In New Mexico, adults trail kids in getting flu vaccine

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Dr. Troy Watson receives his second flu shot of the season at Railyard Urgent Care from nurse Lisa Armijo on Wednesday. As the flu season gets well underway, officials urge residents to get vaccinated.

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New Mexico is among the top states in the country for childhood flu vaccinations, but the rate drops for adults ages 18 to 65, statistics show.

According to health surveys completed in 2012, New Mexico tied for eighth in the United States with a vaccination rate of 60 percent for school-age children. In fact, New Mexico and Arkansas were the only states west of the Mississippi with a vaccination rate above 60 percent for children during that flu season, the most recent with available data.

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that season, the report says. For adults under 65, however, the state’s rate dropped to 39 percent, which, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is about the national average.

Nationwide, there have been 21 flu deaths so far this season, while the entire 2012-13 season saw 109 fatalities.

Even though the 2013-14 flu season has been relatively mild in New Mexico, with no reported deaths as of the end of December, officials are redoubling efforts now that students are back in school and temperatures are colder.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who tried to buy an airline ticket using a fake ID was fatally shot Wednesday after returning to his illegally parked car, where he lunged at an airport police officer with a knife during a confrontation, police said.

The man had multiple knives on him and suspicious items in his car that led to a bomb squad investigation, Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner said. The man was identified only as a Columbusarea resident in his early 40s pending notification of his relatives.

After the first shots were fired, the man got up and headed back toward the terminal, at which point a second airport officer shot him, Weiner said.

New frat rules after rape story Fraternities at the University of Virginia can get their parties started again with the blessing of the school’s president after a semester of blistering criticism over campus sex assaults. But they’ll have to do it without kegs.

Greek organizations have until Jan. 16 to agree to new drinking rules as a condition for ending a temporary ban on social activities, which UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan imposed following a November Rolling Stone article describing a campus culture that fosters violence against women.

That article was later discredited

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Prosecutor calls death ‘senseless’ ORANGEBURG, S.C. — The 2011 killing of an unarmed black man by a small-town South Carolina police chief was a senseless act of violence by an officer who should be convicted of murder because everyone is equal under the law, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

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PASADENA, Calif. — Netflix wants to make Sony’s The Interview available to its 53 million worldwide subscribers, the streaming service’s chief content officer said Wednesday.

Ted Sarandos of Netflix would not comment on efforts to make that possible, however. The movie starring Seth Rogen and James Franco is available on some other video services and in some independent theaters, after its wide release was canceled due to the Sony hacking scandal.

Sony declined to comment on the possibility of a Netflix airing, a spokesman said.

Rogen and Franco play journalists involved in a CIA plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before the movie could be released, the Sony studio’s computer system was hacked by unknown assailants linked to North Korea, leading the studio to ditch plans to release the movie widely on Christmas Day.

Combs fired in self-defense while trying to serve a lawfully obtained arrest warrant.

Opening arguments started Wednesday in Combs’ murder trial.

He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted.

Combs was indicted last month shortly after grand juries produced no indictments against white officers in the deaths of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and in New York. He was the third white officer indicted in 2014 in a shooting of an unarmed black man in South Carolina.

Both sides agree Combs shot Bernard Bailey outside Eutawville Town Hall in May 2011 after an argument over a ticket for a broken taillight that the chief had given Bailey’s daughter about six weeks earlier.

Prosecutor David Pasco said Bailey was “gunned down in an absolutely senseless act of violence” and that even police officers are not above the law.

Suicide bomber kills 37 in Yemen SANAA, Yemen — A suicide bomber rammed his explosivesladen minibus into a gathering of recruits outside a police academy in the heart of Yemen’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 37 people in the latest high-profile attack to hit Sanaa.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Yemen’s local al-Qaida branch has carried out similar assaults in the past against the army and police in this impoverished Arabian Peninsula country, viewing them as U.S. proxies.

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An unusual method for producing antibiotics may help to solve an urgent global problem: the rise in infections that resist treatment with commonly used drugs, and the lack of new antibiotics to replace ones that no longer work.

The method, which extracts drugs from bacteria that live in dirt, has yielded a powerful new antibiotic, researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The new drug, teixobactin, was tested in mice and easily cured severe infections, with no side effects.

Better still, the researchers said, the drug works in a way that makes it very unlikely that bacteria will become resistant to it. And the method developed to produce the drug has the potential to unlock a trove of natural compounds to fight infections and cancer.

Teixobactin has not yet been tested in humans, so its safety and effectiveness are not known. Studies in people will not begin for about two years, according to Kim Lewis, the senior author of the article and director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston. Those studies will take several years, so even if the drug passes all the required tests, it still will not be available for five or six years, he said during a telephone news conference Tuesday.

Experts not involved with the research said the technique for isolating the drug had great potential.

They also said teixobactin looked promising but expressed caution because it has not yet been tested in humans.

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, called the research “ingenious” and said, “We’re in desperate need of some good antibiotic news.”

Drug-resistant bacteria infect at least 2 million people a year in the United States and kill 23,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization warned last year that such infections were occurring all over the world, and that drug resistant strains of many diseases were emerging faster than new antibiotics could be made to fight them.

The new research is based on the premise that everything on earth — plants, soil, people, animals — is teeming with microbes that compete fiercely to survive. Trying to keep one another in check, the microbes secrete biological weapons: antibiotics.

“The way bacteria multiply, if there weren’t natural mechanisms to limit their growth, they would have covered the planet and eaten us all eons ago,” Schaffner said.

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KITCHENER, Ontario — Bill Cosby got a standing ovation from polite Canadian fans at the end of his first show since November, but protesters outside braved below-freezing weather to shame the ticketholders as they streamed in.

Cosby’s show in Bill Kitchener was the Cosby first of three performances planned in Canada’s Ontario province and comes in the wake of sexual assault allegations from more than 15 women. The entertainer saw at least 10 performances get canceled on his North American tour.

Wearing a sweater saying “hello friend,” Cosby climbed the stage decorated with two giant posters of him with Nelson Mandela.

“First of all, thank you,” Cosby said to the audience before starting his routine with some cold weather jokes. There were no disruptions during the performance and the crowd laughed throughout. “I had a wonderful time,” Cosby said before leaving to a standing ovation.

Some ticketholders had said they would boycott the performance, and the 2,000-seat venue was about twothirds full.

Outside the Centre in the Square, more than a dozen protesters came out in sub-freezing temperatures, carrying signs saying “rape is no joke.” Some shouted “you support rape” and “shame on you” at fans.

Hours before Cosby took the stage in Kitchener, attorney Gloria Allred said three more women are accusing the comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting them in Las Vegas, Nev., or Los Angeles between 1981 and 1996.

The comedian, who starred as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992, has never been charged in connection with any of the sexual assault allegations.

Phylicia Rashad, who played Cliff Huxtable’s wife, Claire, on The Cosby Show, defended her co-star in an interview Wednesday with ABC World News Tonight.

Rashad said she believed the allegations are part of a campaign to ruin Cosby’s legacy.

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Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 HOMEOPATHY FOR HOSPICE: From 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ponce de Leon Retirement Center, 640 Alta Vista St., Santa Fe Doorways hosts a brown bag lunch featuring Lia Bello, who will discuss homeopathy for Hospice. The event is free and open to the public.

FREE DREAM WORKSHOP: From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Pick Room at the Santa Fe Main Library, 145 Washington Ave., a free workshop titled “The Language of Dreams, Grammar and Vocabulary” will be presented by Jungian scholar Fabio Macchioni. RSVP is required. Call 982-3214.

“THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT”: Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Santa Fe Playhouse presents Jean Giraudoux’s 1943 satire, special preview 7:30 p.m., $10, 988-4262.

INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS WRITERS FESTIVAL: IAIA Auditorium, Library and Technology Center, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2356. Readings held at no charge 6 p.m. daily through Friday; tonight’s authors: Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan; sophomore students read at 7:30 p.m.

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Lotteries Branch, 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2828. Program led by singer/storytellers Michael and Lisa. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

NIGHTLIFE Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 BLUE ROOSTER: Electronic Expressions, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., call for cover. 101 W. Marcy St., 206-2318. ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Jazz duo pianist Bert Dalton and bassist Milo Jaramillo, 7 to 9 p.m., no cover. 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756.

COWGIRL BBQ: Folk rock band The Bus Tapes, 8 p.m. to close, no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565.

EL FAROL: Guitarras con Sabor, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 8 p.m., no cover.

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EVANGELO’S: Thursdays with Little Leroy & His Pack of Lies, dance band, 9 p.m. to close, call for cover. 200 W. San Francisco St., 982-9014.

LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Dance band Sierra, 7:30 to 11 p.m., no cover. 100 E. San Francisco St., 982-5511.

LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Pat Malone Jazz Trio, 6 to 9 p.m., call for cover. 330 E. Palace Ave., 954-9668.

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THE MATADOR: DJ Inky Ink, soul/punk/ska, 8:30 p.m., no cover. 116 W. San Francisco St., 984-5050.

SWISS BISTRO: Guitar duo Wes & Mito, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 7:30 p.m. to close, no cover. 401 S. Guadalupe St., 988-5500.

TABERNA LA BOCA: Nacha Mendez, 7 to 9 p.m., no cover.

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TINY’S: Electric-jam night with Nick Wymett, 8 p.m., no cover. 1015 Pen Road, 983-9817.

VANESSIE: Pianist Branden James, 6:30 p.m.; call for cover. : 434 W. San Francisco St., 982-9966.

VOLUNTEER TAX PREPARERS: AARP TaxAide is looking for tax preparers for one or more 4-hour shifts each week during the season. Training will be provided. Call Peter Doniger at 670-6835.

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House GOP forcing AirAsia plane’s tail found in Java Sea debate on finances Priorities are finding data recorders, recovering bodies of Social Security Disability program is under scrutiny

By Stephen Ohlemacher The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans want Congress to address the troubled finances of Social Security’s disability program, setting the stage for a contentious debate that could affect 11 million people in the middle of the next presidential campaign.

The House has adopted a rule that could force lawmakers to tackle the issue by the end of 2016, when the program is projected to run out of reserves, triggering automatic benefit cuts.

An easy fix was available.

Congress could have redirected payroll tax revenue from Social Security’s much larger retirement program, as lawmakers have done before.

But Tuesday’s new rule blocks such a move, unless as part of a larger plan to improve Social Security’s finances, by either cutting benefits or raising taxes.

Tinkering with Social Security never has been easy, and factoring in election-year politics makes finding votes even harder for those alternatives.

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., said he sponsored the provision to prevent Congress from “raiding” the retirement fund to prop up the disability program.

Reed said lawmakers are working on proposals to bolster the disability program’s finances, but that taking tax money from the retirement program is “a short-term BandAid.” “We need to do better than that,” Reed said.

Added the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., “We just want to make sure we improve the integrity of the Social Security trust fund all across the board.”

Advocates for older Americans say the rule could be used to help push through benefit cuts, especially because House Republicans have opposed raising taxes.

“This is a blatant attempt on the first day members take office to sneak a rule into the process that virtually guarantees devastating cuts for beneficiaries of the Social Security disability system,” said J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.

David Certner of AARP said it would be a mistake to eliminate the option of redirecting money from the retirement fund.

“Otherwise, we could be facing a deadline, and certainly over the last couple of years, we’ve seen Congress seemingly unable to pass bills, even with deadlines in front of them,” Certner said.

New House rules will govern the chamber for the next two years. The 36-page set of rules passed by a vote of 234-172, with all Democrats opposed and almost every Republican in favor.

On page 32 is a provision that allows any representative to raise a point of order if the House tries to pass a bill redirecting tax revenue from Social Security’s retirement fund to the disability fund. The House could vote to overcome the objection, but that could be difficult, with almost every Republican supporting the rules package.

The number of workers, spouses and children receiving Social Security disability benefits has ballooned over the past decade. Members of Congress from both political parties say fraud has played a part, too.

About 11 million people get disability benefits, nearly 40 percent more than a decade ago. By comparison, about 48 million people get Social Security retirement or survivor benefits.

Unless Congress acts, the trust fund that supports the disability program will run dry sometime during the last three months of 2016, according to projections by the trustees who oversee Social Security. At that point, the program will collect only enough payroll taxes to pay 81 percent of benefits.

That would trigger an automatic 19 percent cut in benefit payments. The average monthly payment for a disabled worker is $1,146, or a little less than $14,000 a year.

Social Security is supported by a 12.4 percent tax on wages up to $118,500. Half is paid by workers and half by employers.

Most of the payroll tax — 10.6 percent of wages — goes to the retirement fund. The remaining 1.8 percent of wages goes to the disability fund.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to run dry in 2034.

Social Security has more than $2.7 trillion in reserves, but the retirement program has been paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes since 2010. The disability program has been paying out more than it collects since 2005.

If the retirement fund and the disability fund were combined, they would have enough money to pay full benefits until 2033, giving lawmakers more time to address their finances.

So far, 40 corpses have been found, including an additional one announced Wednesday, but time is running out.

At two weeks, most corpses will sink, said Anton Castilani, head of Indonesia’s

By Achmad Ibrahim The Associated Press disaster identification victim unit, and there are already signs of serious decomBPANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — Divposition. Officials are hopeful many of the ers and an unmanned underwater vehicle more than 122 bodies still unaccounted for on Wednesday spotted the tail of the will be found inside the fuselage, which is AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java believed to be lying near the tail.

Sea with 162 people on board, an imporThe Airbus A320 went down halfway tant finding because the jet’s all-important through a two-hour flight between Indoblack boxes are located in that part of the nesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya and aircraft.

Singapore, killing everyone on board. It is Powerful currents and murky water connot clear what caused the crash, but bad Members of the National Search and tinue to hinder the operation, but searchweather is believed to be a contributing Rescue Agency carry coffins Wednesers managed to get a photograph of the day containing bodies of the victims factor. debris — nearly 6 miles from where Flight aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 at the airJust before losing contact, the pilot told 8501 lost contact Dec. 28 — after it was port in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia. The air traffic control he was approaching detected by an Indonesian survey ship, tail section of the downed aircraft was threatening clouds, but was denied permisNational Search and Rescue chief Henry found Wednesday in the Java Sea. sion to climb to a higher altitude because ACHMAD IBRAHIM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bambang Soelistyo told reporters. of heavy air traffic. No distress signal was One released image appeared to show issued. an upside down “A” painted on a piece of data recorders, or black boxes, “should be Finding the black boxes will be key to metal, while another grainy shot depicted there.” the investigation. Sonar-equipped ships some mechanical parts.

He said the airline’s priority still is to involved in the massive international hunt “Today we successfully discovered the recover all the bodies “to ease the pain of have identified what they believe to be the part of the plane that became the main fuselage of the plane in recent days. aim since yesterday,” Soelistyo said. “I can our families.”

The carrier, meanwhile, said families The search area for bodies and debris ensure that this is part of the tail with the of those killed would be compensated in was expanded this week to allow for the AirAsia mark on it.” accordance with Indonesian laws. Each strong currents that have been pushing Tony Fernendes, AirAsia’s chief execuwill receive $100,000, Sunu Widyatmoko, debris around, said Indonesian search tive officer, welcomed the news.

If it is the right part of the tail section, he president of AirAsia Indonesia, told report- and rescue operation coordinator Tatang tweeted, then the cockpit voice and flight Zainudin. ers in Surabaya.

FDA panel OKs copycat version of cancer drug Class of expensive drugs could become much cheaper

By Jason Millman The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — A government panel Wednesday took a major step toward approving a copycat version of a blockbuster cancer drug, paving the way for a new class of cheaper medicines that could save consumers billions of dollars.

An expert Food and Drug Administration panel unani-

mously recommended that the government approve the drug known as EP2006, a lower-cost imitator of a popular medicine called Neupogen, used to help cancer patients fight off infection while undergoing chemotherapy. The FDA usually accepts recommendations from advisory panels but isn’t required to.

The drug, manufactured by Sandoz, could win final FDA approval this year, which would make it the first so-called biosimilar to enter the United States. Biosimilars are versions of complex biologic drugs, which are produced from living cells and more expensive

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These drugs are frequently used to treat complex diseases such as cancer that can result in astronomically high medical bills. Popular biologic drugs include Rituxan and Avastin for cancer and Humira for autoimmune disease.

Janet Woodcock, the FDA director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, called Wednesday’s review meeting “a historic occasion.”

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Attack: 1 suspect convicted on terror charges

A ‘dangerous moment’ in Europe after latest attack

By Steven Erlanger and Katrin Bennhold The New York Times

Continued from Page A-1 Heavily armed police moved into the nearby city of Reims, searching for the suspects without success, Thibault-Lecuivre said. Video from BFM-TV showed police dressed in white apparently taking samples inside an apartment. It was not immediately clear who lived there.

One of the police officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: “You can tell the media that it’s al-Qaida in Yemen.”

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation.

Cherif Kouachi was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq’s insurgency. He said he was outraged at the torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad.

The masked, black-clad men with assault rifles stormed the offices near Paris’ Bastille monument in the Wednesday noontime attack on the publication, which had long drawn condemnation and threats — it was firebombed in 2011 — for its depictions of Islam, although it also satirized other religions and political figures.

Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men used fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees.

Artist Corinne Rey told the French newspaper L’Humanite that she punched in the security code to the Charlie Hebdo offices after she and her young daughter were “brutally threatened” by the gunmen.

Eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker and a visitor were killed, said prosecutor Francois Molins. He said 11 people were wounded — four of them seriously.

After fleeing, the attackers collided with another vehicle,

Parisians gather Wednesday to honor the victims of a terror attack against satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the paper earlier Wednesday, killing 12 people before escaping in a getaway car. THIBAULT CAMUS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

then carjacked another car before disappearing in broad daylight, Molins said.

Among the dead: the paper’s editor, Stephane Charbonnier.

The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for Charbonnier — widely known by his pen name Charb — killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union spokesman.

Rey said the assault “lasted five minutes. I hid under a desk.”

Two gunmen strolled out to a black car waiting below, one of them calmly shooting a wounded police officer in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video and a man who watched in fear from his home across the street.

The witness, who refused to allow his name to be used because he feared for his safety, said the attackers were so methodical he first thought they were members of France’s elite anti-terrorism forces. Then they fired on the officer.

“They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grace,” he said.

“Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We killed Charlie Hebdo,” one of the men shouted in French, according to video shot from a nearby building.

The other dead were identified as cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Berbard Verlhac, better known as Tignous, and Jean Cabut, known as “Cabu.”

Also killed was Bernard Maris, an economist who was a contrib-

Cartoonists, economist among the dead The 12 people killed in the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo included a prominent economist and some of France’s leading cartoonists. A look at some of the victims: Stephane Charbonnier, 47, known professionally as Charb, was chief editor of Charlie Hebdo, as well as one of its top cartoonists and a stout defender of its provocative approach.

He was in charge when the paper’s offices were destroyed by a firebomb in 2011 after it had proposed inviting the Prophet Muhammad to be a guest editor.

Charbonnier defiantly held up a copy of the paper as he stood amid debris. In an interview with The Associated Press, he suggested the attackers “are themselves unbelievers … idiots who betray their own religion.”

In 2012, the paper again provoked controversy by publishing crude caricatures of Muhammad. Charbonnier, who by that time was under police protection, defended the cartoons. “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he said. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under

utor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio.

Le Bechec, the witness who encountered the gunmen in another part of Paris, described on his Facebook page seeing two men “get out of a bullet-ridden car with a rocket-launcher in hand, eject an old guy from his car and calmly say hi to the public, saying ‘you can tell the media that it’s al-Qaida in Yemen.’ ” Charlie Hebdo has been repeatedly threatened for its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and other sketches. One cartoon, released in this week’s issue and titled “Still No Attacks in France,” had a caricature of a jihadi fighter saying, “Just wait — we have until the end of January to present our New Year’s wishes.” Charb was the artist.

In a somber address to the nation Wednesday night, Hollande pledged to hunt down the killers, and pleaded with his compatriots to come together in a time of insecurity and suspicion.

“Let us unite, and we will win,” he said. “Vive la France!”

France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Schools closed across Paris, although thousands of people later jammed Republique Square near the site of the shooting to honor the victims, waving pens and papers reading Je suis Charlie — “I am Charlie.”

Similar rallies were held in London’s Trafalgar Square as well as Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and Brussels.

French law. I don’t live under Quranic law.”

In an interview with Le Monde, one of France’s leading newspapers, he professed to be unafraid.

“I don’t have kids, no wife, no car, no credit,” he told Le Monde. “Maybe it’s a little pompous to say, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.”

Bernard Maris, 68, gained prominence as both an economist and a journalist.

He wrote a weekly column in Charlie Hebdo called “Uncle Bernard,” was a regular commentator on economics for the France Inter radio network, and taught economics at a branch of the University of Paris.

He also was a member of the General Council of the Bank of France.

“Bernard Maris was a man of heart, of culture and of great tolerance,” the bank’s president, Christian Noyer said in a statement. “We will miss him very much.”

Jean Cabut, 76, widely known as Cabu, established himself as one of France’s best-known cartoonists over a career that spanned 60 years.

He served in the French military during the Algerian war for independence in the late

“This is the darkest day of the history of the French press,” said Christophe DeLoire of Reporters Without Borders.

Both al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have repeatedly threatened to attack France, which is conducting airstrikes against extremists in Iraq and fighting Islamic militants in Africa.

During Cherif Kouachi’s 2008 trial, he told the court, “I really believed in the idea” of fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

In the winter 2014 edition of the al-Qaida magazine Inspire, a so-called chief describing where to use a new bomb said: “Of course the first priority and the main focus should be on America, then the United Kingdom, then France and so on.”

In 2013, the magazine specifically threatened Charb and included an article titled “France the Imbecile Invader.”

President Barack Obama offered U.S. help in pursuing the gunmen, saying they had attacked freedom of expression.

He offered prayers and support for France, which he called “America’s oldest ally.”

A tweet from an al-Qaida representative who communicated Wednesday with The Associated Press said the group was not claiming responsibility for the attack, but called it “inspiring.”

Philippe Val, onetime Charlie Hebdo chief, raised the possibility of publishing a special edition of the newspaper, saying “a way of speaking has been exterminated.”

“We must respond, because we must testify for them,” he told RTL radio.

1950s, and later drew cartoons for several publications. Among them was Hara-Kiri, a satirical magazine that emerged in the ’60s and a forerunner of Charlie Hebdo.

One of Cabut’s recurring characters was the Grande Duduche, a skinny, blond schoolboy bearing some resemblance to Cabut himself.

Cabut’s son, Mano Solo, a prominent singer and composer, died in 2010 at age 46.

Georges Wolinski, 80, was another of Charlie Hebdo’s veteran cartoonists. His works had appeared in Hara-Kiri, Paris Match and numerous other publications.

He was born in Tunisia and moved to France as a schoolboy. By age 26, he was working for Hara-Kiri.

He was awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration, in 2005.

Bernard Verlhac, a cartoonist who drew under the name Tignous, was born in Paris in 1957 and published his first works in 1980.

He was a member of a group of artists called Cartoonists for Peace and also belonged to the Press Judiciare, an association of French journalists covering the courts.

He sent his last drawing — a self-portrait wishing Happy New Year — to the association the night before his death. It was posted on the group’s website Wednesday.

David Crary/The Associated Press

LONDON — The sophisticated, military-style strike Wednesday on a French newspaper known for satirizing Islam staggered a continent already seething with antiimmigrant sentiments in some quarters, feeding far-right nationalist parties like France’s National Front.

“This is a dangerous moment for European societies,” said Peter Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London.

“With increasing radicalization among supporters of jihadist organizations and the white working class increasingly feeling disenfranchised and uncoupled from elites, things are coming to a head.”

Olivier Roy, a French scholar of Islam and radicalism, called the Paris attacks, the most deadly terrorist attack on French soil since the Algerian war, “a quantitative and therefore qualitative turning point,” noting the target and the number of victims. “This was a maximum-impact attack, they did this to shock the public, and in that sense they succeeded,” he said.

Anti-immigrant attitudes have been on the rise in recent years in Europe, propelled in part by a moribund economy and high unemployment, as well as increasing immigration and more porous borders.

The growing resentments have lifted the fortunes of established parties like the U.K. Independence Party in Britain and the National Front, as well as lesser-known groups, like the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamization of the West, which assembled 18,000 marchers in Dresden, Germany, on Monday.

In Sweden, where there have been three recent attacks on mosques, the anti-immigrant, anti-Islamist Sweden Democrats party has been getting about 15 percent support in recent public opinion polls.

Paris was traumatized by the attack, with widespread fears of another. “We feel less and less safe,” said Didier Cantat, 34, standing outside the police barriers at the scene. “If it happened today it will happen again, maybe even worse.”

Cantat spoke for many when he said the attacks could fuel greater anti-immigrant sentiment. “We are told Islam is for God, for peace,” he said. “But when you see this other Islam, with the jihadists, I don’t see peace, I see hatred. So people can’t tell which is the real Islam.”

The newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, in its raucous, vulgar and sometimes commercially driven effort to offend every Islamic piety, including the figure of the Prophet Muhammad, became a symbol of an aggressive French secularism that saw its truest enemy in the rise of conservative Islam in France, which is estimated to have the largest Muslim population in Europe.

On Wednesday, Islamic radicals struck back.

“This secular atheism is an act of war in this context,” said Andrew Hussey, a Parisbased professor of postcolonial

studies. Hussey is the author of The French Intifada, which describes the tangled relations between France and its Muslims, still marked by colonialism and the Algerian war.

“Politically, the official left in France has been in denial of the conflict between France and the Arab world,” Hussey said. “But the French in general sense it.”

The attack left some Muslims fearing a backlash. “Some people when they think terrorism, think Muslims,” said Arnaud N’Goma, 26, as he took a cigarette break outside the bank where he works.

Samir Elatrassi, 27, concurred, saying that “Islamophobia is going to increase more and more. When some people see these kinds of terrorists, they conflate them with other Muslims. And it’s the extreme right that’s going to benefit from this.”

Nowhere in Europe are the tensions greater than in constitutionally secular France, with as many as 6 million Muslims, a painful colonial history in Algeria, Syria and North Africa, and a militarily bold foreign policy. That history has been aggravated by a period of governmental and economic weakness, when France seems incapable of serious structural, social and economic reform.

The mood of failure and paralysis is widespread in France. The Charlie Hebdo attack came on the publication day of a controversial new novel, Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, which describes the victory of Islam in France and the gradual collaboration of the society with its new rulers from within. Houellebecq, like the famous caricaturists and editors who were killed at Charlie Hebdo, has been a symbol of French artistic liberty and license, and his publishers, Flammarion, were reported to be concerned that he and they could be another target.

But the atmosphere has been heightened by the rise of the National Front and its leader, Marine Le Pen, who runs ahead of the Socialist Party in the polls, campaigning on the threat Islam poses to French values and nationhood.

“This attack is double honey for the National Front,” said Camille Grand, director of the French Foundation for Strategic Research. “Le Pen says everywhere that Islam is a massive threat, and that France should not support attacks in Iraq and instead defend the homeland and not create threats by going abroad, so they can naturally take advantage of it.”

The mood in Paris, near the scene of the attack, was both apprehensive and angry.

Ilhem Bonik, 38, said that she has lived in Paris for 14 years and has never been so afraid.

“I am Arab, Tunisian, Muslim, and I support the families, the journalists and all the people involved,” she said. “This is against Islam.”

When journalists are killed for expressing their views, it is one step away from burning books, said Annette Gerhard, 60.

“It’s like Kristallnacht,” Gerhard said, noting that her family had died in Nazi deportations. “There’s no respect for human life.”

Paper: Offices firebombed after 2011 cover depicting Muhammad Continued from Page A-1 said Laurence Grove, author of Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context. “OK, they are a little bit more rude and daring than Matt Groening would be, but it’s at that level of everyday knowledge in France.

Everybody knows Charlie Hebdo.

Everybody laughs at it, or is disgusted by it or disapproves, but everybody knows it.”

The successor of a satirical newspaper first founded in the 1960s, Charlie Hebdo held few things sacred. And that’s why French of a certain stripe held it dear. You name it, and Charlie Hebdo lampooned it. The birth of Jesus Christ. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Jewish rabbis. The outlandish antics of the far right.

It seemed to thrive in hot water,

purveying a particular brand of French humor for street sweepers and intellectuals alike. In a previous incarnation, when the publication was named Hara-Kiri Hebdo, a cartoon spoofing the 1970 death of Charles de Gaulle earned it a ban by the French government. Its publishers found a loophole by renaming it Charlie Hebdo, an homage to Charlie Brown cartoons as well as a sly reference to the de Gaulle comic that had once incurred the wrath of the French elite.

But without doubt, its most polemical publications revolved around Islam.

In 2006, Charlie Hebdo was one of several European publications to reprint cartoons of the prophet Muhammad from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, including one showing the prophet with a bomb

fuse under his turban. In 2007, several French Muslim organizations sued the magazine for insulting their religion but lost in court.

Emboldened, the newspaper did not hold back. In an infamous 2011 cover, it jokingly renamed itself Charia Hebdo, a crude play on “sharia,” or strict Islamic law. Muhammad was depicted on the cover, saying, “100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter.”

Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters was firebombed the next day. The attack destroyed the offices but injured no one.

“This is the first time we have been physically attacked, but we won’t let it get to us,” Charbonnier, also a cartoonist who was known by the pen name “Charb,” pledged after the attack.

After the bombing, the paper moved

to a nondescript location in an office building in Paris, initially guarded by riot police.

In September 2012, Charlie Hebdo chose its next moment, after a lowbudget American anti-Islam film sparked riots in the Middle East.

The images of a disrobed Muhammad in the paper came amid an already tense international environment. The French police called Charbonnier and asked the newspaper to reconsider publishing the cartoons.

When the editor declined to do so, law enforcement once again stationed riot police outside Charlie Hebdo’s offices, and the government moved to temporary close 20 embassies across the Muslim world.

At the time, the White House criticized the decision to publish the

cartoons. “We don’t question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it,” press secretary Jay Carney told reporters.

But Charbonnier was always defiant, calling it an issue of democracy, freedom of speech and, in short, the right to laugh.

“The accusation that we are pouring oil on the flames in the current situation really gets on my nerves,” Charbonnier told the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2012. “After the publication of this absurd and grotesque film about Muhammad in the U.S., other newspapers have responded to the protests with cover stories. We are doing the same thing, but with drawings.

“And a drawing has never killed anyone,” he added.

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GOP: 25 dissenters in Mexican government, militias clash in Michoacan House speaker vote

By Joshua Partlow The Washington Post

and who have repeatedly complicated leaders’ efforts to pass Congress convened under full legislation on immigration, GOP control for the first time farm policy and other topics. in eight years. Republicans are Egged on by outside conserpursuing an ambitious agenda, vative groups, they’ve forced including early votes on bills to House leaders into embarrassadvance the long-stalled Keying retreats on legislation and stone XL pipeline and change humiliations on the House floor. the definition of full-time work Many mainstream Repubunder Obama’s health law from licans are fed up and would 30 hours a week to 40 hours a like to see the dissenters held week. Obama has threatened to accountable as the new Conveto both measures. gress gets underway, espeIn one of its first acts, the cially since Boehner now may House passed legislation have less need for their votes.

Wednesday to renew the fedRepublicans now command a eral program that props up the bigger majority — they have private market for insurance 246 members in the House, the against terrorist attacks. most in more than 60 years — And in the Senate, now under along with control of the Senate.

GOP control, new Majority Some contend that even though Leader Mitch McConnell of Ken- Boehner punished four people tucky pledged to cooperate with who voted against him two Obama where possible, on such years ago by yanking their comissues as trade and tax reform, mittee assignments, he’s been but to challenge him elsewhere. too mild with his opponents and “The American people would do well to crack down elected divided government. and keep them in line.

But that doesn’t mean they don’t Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, want us to accomplish anywho often is a voice for the thing,” McConnell said.

Republican establishment, said In the House, the divisions that each of the two dozen that mattered were within the Republicans who voted against GOP itself.

Boehner should realize “that Republicans began the day nine of out every 10 Republiafter Boehner’s election in a cans voted against me, against closed-door meeting where a my position. Maybe I’m the one series of lawmakers stood up that’s out of step.” to demand punishment for “You need to be professional the speaker’s opponents. Othin the way you approach your ers counseled caution, urging job,” Cole said.

Boehner not to crack down and It’s not clear whether Boehner instead move forward and focus will take further steps beyond on policy issues. removing Reps. Daniel Webster “I’d rather be magnanimous and Richard Nugent of Florida in victory,” said GOP Rep. Joe from their posts on the House Wilson of South Carolina.

Rules Committee. Webster For lawmakers less willing to received 12 votes in the speaker’s election on Tuesday, the most of move on, their frustration over the 25 dissenters — a historically any of the Boehner opponents. high total for a speaker’s race — At Wednesday’s meeting, was about more than the failed Boehner indicated that his move attempt to take down Boehner. against Webster and Nugent Disorganized and haphazard, the wasn’t final and could be revisrebels never coalesced around ited, participants said. an alternate candidate, instead Afterward, Boehner told spreading their votes among reporters: “We’re going to have nine people, some of whom got a family conversation, which we just one or two votes. had this morning, about bringYet the group included some ing our team together. And I of the same lawmakers who expect that those conversations forced the government into a over the next couple of days 16-day partial shutdown in the will continue and we’ll come to a decision about how we go fall of 2013 in a failed effort to end Obama’s health care law, forward.”

Continued from Page A-1

MEXICO CITY — What began as a scrappy band of Mexican farmers rising up against a brutal drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan has devolved into a confusing mess of factions fighting each other and the government.

The latest sign of trouble in Michoacan came early Tuesday, when shootouts erupted between Mexican soldiers and local gunmen, leaving at least nine people dead in the town of Apatzingan.

Even before this week’s violence, the farmers’ movement had been consumed by power struggles. One of the founders of the militia the farmers formed, Hipólito

or manning checkpoints, while the militiamen rounded up cartel suspects.

Faced with a large — and, in some areas, popular — group of untrained armed civilians, the Mexican government proposed converting them into official “rural police.”

Last May, the government began demobilizing the militias, as people turned out by the hundreds to register their weapons.

But the new police force has failed to pacify the area, and the government’s point man for the Michoacan crisis, Alfredo Castillo, said on the radio this week that the force may be temporary.

The militia movement has disintegrated into warring factions, with rival commanders accusing each other of colluding with drug cartels and sometimes openly fighting.

Mora, is now in jail and accused of murder for his involvement in a gunbattle in midDecember between his followers and those of another militia commander, Luis Antonio Torres, that killed 11 people, including Mora’s son. The charismatic face of the movement, a lanky surgeon named José Manuel Mireles, has been imprisoned for months for illegal possession of weapons.

When the uprising started in February 2013, the government relied on the militiamen to do much of the fighting against the Knights Templar cartel, which had been killing and extorting residents across the Michoacan lowlands known as the Tierra Caliente. Even after more Mexican troops and federal police were deployed there, they could often be seen standing around

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Office has cleared two of the Optum currently contracts 15 ousted providers of fraud. with the state to administer The new attorney general, Hec- Medicaid payments for medical tor Balderas, who took office services, but it no longer hanJan. 1, has vowed to prioritize dles payments for behavioral the behavioral health investiga- health services. tion. Under Balderas’ predecesKennicott said Weinberg sor, Gary King, the Attorney did not play a lead role in the General’s Office opposed discussions that led to the proreleasing the full audit report vider shake-up. to the public and argued that “Julie would have particiits release would compromise the criminal probe. Many of the pated in occasional meetings on behavioral health topics,” he providers have expressed frustration that they still don’t know said, but she was not part of the team in charge of the changes. the specific allegations against Johnson questions how disthem, even as some have been forced to go out of business.

No state personnel rules forbid someone in Weinberg’s position from taking a job with a government contractor, a Human Services spokesman said.

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Statewide, some 55,000 students have been vaccinated in 470 schools, said Anna Pentler, executive director of the New Mexico Immunization Coalition Institute at the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Santa Fe Public Schools, which has 15,000 students, dispensed just 4,400 doses of the flu mist and 470 shots to students, said Anita Hett, the district’s nurse supervisor. Robocalls were made to homes to alert parents about the vaccination consent forms, but many students still did not return the documents.

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City panel advances measure on public utility Peter Ives, city councilor says his

Committee votes 3-1 to send bill to full council

goal was to create an opportunity for the city “to better and further chart its energy future.”

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

The city Public Utilities Committee on Wednesday advanced a proposal aimed at creating a publicly owned electric utility in Santa Fe, despite lingering questions about how the venture would be set up and how much it would cost.

The committee voted 3-1 to send the full City Council a draft ordinance that creates an entity called Santa Fe Public Power.

City Councilor Peter Ives, the measure’s sponsor, and Councilors Chris Rivera and Joseph Maestas voted in support of it. Councilor Bill Dimas cast a dissenting vote, however, saying the city had “more important issues” to tackle.

“Our streets are falling apart. Our

infrastructure is falling apart. We need to look at raising our employee salaries at the city. We have officers living in Albuquerque because they can’t afford to live in Santa Fe,” Dimas said. “I think we have a lot more important issues than this particular one that’s going to cost millions of dollars, and it will probably go nowhere.”

City Councilor Patti Bushee abstained from the vote, saying the proposed ordinance failed to identify the true costs associated with creating a municipal utility. A fiscal report attached to the ordinance estimates the cost of staff time to implement the ordinance at $50,000, but it doesn’t

CAST YOUR VOTE ON SANTA FE PUBLIC POWER Santa Fe New Mexican readers are sharply divided over whether the city should start its own electric utility, according to an online poll.

The survey shows that of the 460 people who had weighed in by Wednesday night, 240 were opposed to the plan, while 220 had voted in favor of a government-owned power company.

To vote in the poll, go to www.santafenewmexican.com.

mention any other costs.

“If this had a real fiscal impact attached to it and it said half a million dollars instead of $50,000, and if the city was really, truly intent on pursuing this construct, I would be all in,”

‘Hansel’ gives kids taste of opera

Bushee said. “But I am going to say that this, for me, is just one more piece of paper [and] that all it’s achieved to date, without a real cost affixed to it, is

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Acoma OKs gaming deal with state Pueblo agrees to increase revenue sharing; Legislature must approve

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

Kate Tombaugh as Hansel and Maren Weinberger as Gretel perform in Hansel and Gretel during a family preview Wednesday at the Scottish Rite Center. To see more photos from the show, visit http://tinyurl.com/p5w7jvf. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Performances slated for this weekend

IF YOU GO What: Performance Santa Fe’s production of Hansel and Gretel.

When: 7 p.m. Friday; 2 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday.

Where: Scottish Rite Center, 4463 Paseo de Peralta.

Cost: Free; call ahead by Friday morning to reserve a seat at 984-8759, or arrive early the day of the performance.

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

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hildren danced, sprinted and cackled in the Scottish Rite Center on Wednesday evening, behavior that might seem at home on a playground but unusual for those anticipating an opera.

Performance Santa Fe, formerly called the Santa Fe Concert Association, chooses an opera each year to present in a condensed form during free performances before crowds that may be unfamiliar with the art.

This year’s selection was Hansel and Gretel.

Marketing manager Sandra

From left, Samaika Azania Bird and Tessa Tiegler, both 5, watch a performance of Hansel and Gretel.

Noe said the goal of the program is to provide a welcoming sampler of the opera world.

“For a lot of people, it can be very intimidating,” Noe said.

“These are performances for

everyone in the community. This gives them a taste.”

Before Wednesday’s family preview performance, orchestra members tuned their instruments while the din of children’s chatter filled the 400-seat the-

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Man pleads innocent to shooting officer Homeless man’s bond set at $500K; he claims police abuse The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — A homeless man with a lengthy criminal record pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges related to the shooting and wounding of an Albuquerque police officer during a weekend traffic stop.

Shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Christopher Cook appeared in court with his attorney. His bond was set at $500,000.

Defense attorney Jeff Rein asked the judge to prohibit any contact between Cook and police as a condition of release. Rein claimed police wrapped Cook in a blanket and beat him up while he was being held.

The police department disputed the allegations.

“These are the accusations of a career criminal who has a history of attacking law enforcement,” police spokeswoman Celina Espinoza said in a statement. “There is zero evidence to support these claims.”

She said officers actually made Cook a

Albuquerque police Officers Henry Landovazo, left, and Ed Burchell escort Christopher Cook from the Albuquerque Police Department on Tuesday.

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meal because he said he had not eaten in several days.

Cook, 36, faces numerous state charges, including attempted murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm, shooting from a

Main office: 983-3303 Late paper: 986-3010 News tips: 986-3035

motor vehicle and receiving and transferring a stolen vehicle. He’s also facing a federal firearms charge.

He’s accused of shooting Officer Lou Golson last Saturday after the officer pulled him over on suspicion of drunken driving. It turned out Cook was driving a stolen SUV and was wanted on felony warrants.

Footage from Golson’s lapel camera shows Cook opening the vehicle’s door and firing several shots at the officer. Golson was hit four times and fell to the ground before returning fire.

Cook ran from the scene, sparking a massive three-day manhunt.

Police Chief Gordon Eden has said it was a lucky break that two sheriff’s deputies spotted Cook staggering along a road before dawn Tuesday.

Unaware that the man was Cook, the deputies stopped to check on him due to the frigid temperatures. He gave them fake names and birth dates, but a fingerprint check confirmed his identity and he was arrested.

As for Golson, he was seriously injured and remains in stable condition at an Albuquerque hospital.

Acoma Pueblo said Wednesday it has reached an agreement with Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration on a gambling compact that would increase the percentage of revenue it shares with the state from operating a casino on Interstate 40 west of Albuquerque.

The announcement comes after the Navajo Nation last week agreed to a proposed compact that also calls for a higher revenue-sharing percentage and would allow that tribe to build an additional casino in six years.

Some tribal officials have argued that the casino market is too saturated to allow more gambling facilities, and some tribes have agreed to have pay a higher percentage of gambling revenue to the state, as long as no further casinos are built near their tribal lands.

The Navajo compact, if accepted by the New Mexico Legislature, would allow the nation’s largest tribe fewer new casinos than a proposal that was voted down last year by the state Senate. Several other gambling tribes opposed that deal, which would have allowed the Navajo Nation to increase its operations from its two current Las Vegas-style casinos to five over the course of 30 years.

Acoma Tribal Secretary Jonathan Sims said officials there feel confident their proposed deal will win approval from the Legislature during its 60-day session that convenes Jan. 20 in Santa Fe. Under the Acoma’s current compact, which expires in June, the tribe shares 8 percent of its revenue from slot machines at its Sky City Casino, about 75 miles west of Albuquerque. Under the proposed new 22-year compact, the revenue sharing would increase to 8.5 percent through 2018, then 8.75 percent through 2030 and 9.5 percent through 2037, the final year of the compact.

“The agreement will provide the economic development we desire,” Pueblo Gov. Fred Vallo said in a news release. “We will be able to fund tribal operations at all levels. … But more than anything it will be used to provide jobs, by offering a paycheck every two weeks.”

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In brief Dems plan Tesuque town hall Two Santa Fe Democrats, state Sen. Peter Wirth and Rep. Carl Trujillo, have scheduled a town hall from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Tesuque Elementary School, 1555 Bishops Lodge Road.

“Representative Trujillo and I look forward to visiting with our constituents,” Wirth said in a statement.

“Constituent input and ideas are critical as we head into the legislative session.”

“These meetings are one of the most important things we do,” Trujillo said. “They are a way for us to better understand individual and neighborhood concerns, while discussing the best way to proceed on legislative issues.”

Wirth represents Senate District 25. Trujillo represents House District 46.

Pilots plan record balloon flight ALBUQUERQUE — An international team led by two veteran pilots is preparing to break a pair of major ballooning records when it launches its heliumfilled balloon this week.

Albuquerque pilot Troy Bradley and fellow pilot Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia say they anticipate launching early Friday morning from Saga, Japan.

The team’s mission control will be located in Albuquerque at the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum.

Staff and wire reports

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Public: Support comes despite city staff’s request to get more data nance only creates a utility on paper.

“The big question after that is: What to confuse the public even more about does the city do? What can we create? what we are intending and what we How do we fund it? How much is it intend to pursue.” going to cost?” he said. “Staff would The committee’s endorsement came prefer, as directed by the Finance Comdespite a request from city staff to mittee on Monday … to aim first and follow directions given Monday by then shoot.” the city Finance Committee, which Ives said his goal was to create an had asked for more information after opportunity for the city “to better and reviewing the draft ordinance. For instance, the Finance Committee mem- further chart its energy future” and to let residents know that Santa Fe is bers were concerned about the legal serious about moving toward “a more and technical parameters involved with creating a municipal electric util- renewable electric energy future.”

“The Santa Fe Public Power itself, ity.

John Alejandro, the city’s renewable and creating it, doesn’t necessarily energy planner, said the proposed ordi- dictate that we’re trying to buy out

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PNM,” he said, referring to Public Service Company of New Mexico, which has said it has no interest in selling its power lines and other infrastructure to the city of Santa Fe. Ives said Mayor Javier Gonzales’ Climate Action Task Force would soon be coming forward with “various measures … that could function through this entity.” Ives’ comments about buying out PNM came after City Attorney Kelley Brennan issued a memo stating that, in her opinion, state law doesn’t appear to allow the city to force the state’s largest utility company to sell the portion of its distribution system that delivers power to homes and busi-

nesses in Santa Fe. The issue of whether the city could force PNM to sell through a condemnation action, however, is still murky.

Longtime utilities attorney Bruce Throne, whom Brennan consulted before issuing her memo, believes the city may have the power to acquire the electric utility’s infrastructure by condemnation.

Throne declined to comment to a reporter, saying in an email late Tuesday that the substance of his communications with the City Attorney’s Office remain confidential and subject to the city’s attorney-client privilege, “unless and until the City informs me

Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@sfnewmexican.com.

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Prize offered with architecture award The Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture is now accepting submissions for the annual award, which carries a cash prize of $10,000.

For the fifth year, the Thornburg Foundation, sponsor of the Harnar prize and program, is collaborating with the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of New Mexico in all aspects of the competition process and selection of the award recipient. The award honors the late Jeff Harnar, known for his design in conNo one was injured when this truck crashed into Refresqueria Delicias, in the temporary architecture in Santa Fe. Chamisa Center shopping plaza, on Wednesday. COURTESY PHOTO The award will be announced Feb. 20.

Details for the submission requirements one employee was working when the crash FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders said may be viewed at www.jeffharnaraward. occurred.

Wednesday. com. Virgin Galactic Terminal Hanger at Police said in a news release that cusSpaceport America, designed by Norman tomers were inside the ice cream shop at Foster and SMPC, was honored last year the time of the crash, but no one was hurt. with the Harnar Award.

Police haven’t charged the driver, who didn’t have any passengers in the vehicle, No one was injured, but a southwest said Lt. Andrea Dobyns.

Santa Fe ice cream shop was extensively Police said they don’t know what caused damaged when a male driver drove a truck the crash and were still investigating.

DENVER — The FBI is investigating the into the business at 4350 Airport Road on “There is extensive damage to the busiWednesday afternoon. possibility that a homemade explosive set ness,” Dobyns said in the news release.

A picture provided by police shows a off near a Colorado NAACP office was a Campos couldn’t provide an estimate on white truck partially inside Refresqueria case of domestic terrorism. the damage, but he said that in addition to Delicias, in the Chamisa Center shopping Investigators also are considering many the building facade, the crash also damaged plaza. other possible motives and have not detertables and an ice cream cooler.

Owner Roberto Campos, who also owns mined whether the nation’s oldest civil a clothing store in the complex, said only Staff and wire reports rights organization was targeted, Denver

FBI investigates blast near NAACP office

Police: Driver crashes into ice cream shop

Kids: Show appeals to youth, their parents Continued from Page A-6 ater. Many parents and children opted to sit on the floor just a few feet from the stage.

Joaquin Pope, 11, and his sister Ana, 5, were among them. He said he had friends in the show and loved being able to sit close to the performers.

Sanja Nikolic sat in the front row with her 3-year-old son, Aleksander Garcia. She said she had brought him to other such performances and had feared he would be too bored. To her surprise, she said, he loved the shows. He bounced up and down in her lap during Hansel and Gretel.

“He just loves the music,” Nikolic said. “He now requests opera music at home.”

Occasionally during the performance, a parent would carry out a crying or fidgeting child. But Gina Browning, Performance Santa Fe’s education director, said the performers and organizers “don’t care if kids make noise.” Other children didn’t seem to mind the distractions, either.

About a half-hour before the show started, Browning led a handful of young performers in a vocal warm-up. When she asked for calm from the audience, the children fell silent at her command.

Some leaned forward in their seats to listen.

When the warm-up ended, children in the audience began fidgeting again, until the lights dimmed and professional opera singers Kate Tombaugh, as Han-

otherwise.”

“Therefore, I’m afraid I can’t comment at all to you or to anyone else about the references to me in that memo or even confirm if they are accurate at this time,” he wrote.

During Wednesday’s committee meeting, Maestas announced plans to introduce a new resolution to create what he called a Santa Fe Public Utility Board “to advise the governing body on behalf of and for the benefit of the residents of Santa Fe.” “I hope to have a draft by the end of the week,” he said.

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LEGAL # 97913

STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT Santa Fe COUNTY

NOTICE is hereby given that on October 9, 2014, the City of Rio Rancho, a municipal corporation, c/o R. Scott Sensanbaugher, PE, 3200 Civic Center Circle NE, Rio Rancho, NM 87144, and Greer Enterprises, Inc., c/o Alexis Girard, 215 West San Francisco Street, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501 as coapplicants filed Application RG-20516 et al., and SP-4842 into RG6745 et al. with the STATE ENGINEER for Permit to Change Point of Diversion and Change Place and/or Purpose of Use of Underground Water within the Rio Grande Underground Water Basin of the State of New Mexico.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Theresa R. Gonzales, DECEASED. No. 2015-0001 NOTICE OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT: 1.This notice is being sent to the heirs and devises of the decedent.

2. On January 2, 2015 (date), Jose A. Gonzales (personal representative’s name) was appointed the personal representative of the estate of the decedent in an informal proceeding under the Uniform Probate Code.

3. No bond has been filed.

4. All documents relating to the estate are on file with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County. They are available for your inspection.

5. The estate is being administered by the personal representative according to the terms of the Uniform Probate Code without supervision from the court. You are entitled to information regarding the administration of the estate from the personal representative.

You may also petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

The water rights proposed for transfer are owned by Greer Enterprises, Inc., and were originally transferred as pre-1907 surface water rights to the County of Santa Fe and the City of Santa Fe under permit SD-03942-A into RG-20516 et al., approved January 23, 2007 for 50.085 acrefeet, for purposes of offsetting depletions from existing rights to groundwater diversions by the County and City of Santa Fe to support proposed development

by Greer Enterprises in Santa Fe County.

Followed by subsequent permit RG20516 et al., into SP4842, approved December 18, 2013 which allowed the said 50.085 acre-feet to be transferred into the Buckman Direct Diversion (BDD) as an alternate point of diversion. No increase in the diversion amount was sought 5, by or permitted by the prior transfers.

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sel, and Maren Weinberger, as Gretel, began singing about the woes of childhood.

“To them, it’s actually real,” said conductor and show organizer Joe Illick, referring to children in the audience who were 7 and younger.

Tombaugh said children seem to experience a visceral reaction during the shows.

“We can literally feel the air stop in the room,” Tombaugh said. “It reminds you why you’re doing this when a whole com-

munity is touched.”

She also said she enjoys working with the younger performers.

The nonprofit provides post-show refreshments such as cookies and punch in the lobby, where performers mingle with members of the audience.

Noe said the young ones often request autographs from their favorite performers.

Now in its sixth year, the free opera program requires patrons to reserve their seats.

Performance Santa Fe’s website says those who call earliest will be seated earliest. Noe said call-ahead seating will close

by Friday morning for this weekend’s performances, but seats may still be available for those who arrive early the day of the show. Noe said the performances usually draw large crowds.

Contact Chris Quintana at 986-3093 or cquintana@ sfnewmexican.com.

Acoma: 6 tribes negotiating new compacts Continued from Page A-6 The pueblo said its Sky City Casino development provides more than 600 jobs to both tribal members and others in the rural area.

Acoma and the Navajo Nation are among six tribes that have been negotiating with the Governor’s Office for months over new compacts. Others include the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe, which also already operate casinos under compacts that expire in June. Jemez and Zuni pueblos, which don’t currently have gambling operations, are seeking gambling agreements, as well, though neither

has immediate plans to build a casino.

Pojoaque Pueblo, whose compact also expires in June, has had a contentious relationship with the Martinez administration.

The tribe has argued that the casino market is too weak for it to agree to pay out more revenue to the state. Pojoaque also wants any proposed compact to include changes such as allowing casino patrons to drink alcohol on the gambling floor. Alcoholic beverages are now prohibited on casino floors in the state.

The pueblo has sued the state, claiming the Martinez administration has not negotiated in good faith. A federal district judge declined to hear the case, ruling that the

pueblo needs to continue negotiating with the state. But the pueblo has appealed, saying it wants to negotiate a compact directly with the U.S. Department of the Interior. If Pojoaque is successful in federal court, its effort could change how gambling tribes deal with the state.

Currently proposed compacts require approval from both the state Legislature and the U.S. Department of the Interior before taking effect.

Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

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Jose A. Gonzales Signature of Personal Representative Jose A. Gonzales Printed Name 4440 W. Alameda Street Street Address Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 City, Street and Zip Code (505)471-2876 Telephone Number

Sarah Luiz, 14, as Sandman helps Kayleigh Glazier, 13, as the Dew Fairy put on her wig backstage before Wednesday’s performance of Hansel and Gretel at the Scottish Rite Center. To see more photos from the show, visit http://tinyurl.com/p5w7jvf.

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01/22/15 50-516-14-05221 NM Department of Game and Fish Mobile Forensics Equipment, Software and Related Services 50-516-14-05220 New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Forensic Software, Hardware and Related Services Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on January 8, 2015

Greer Enterprises Inc., proposes to discontinue the consumptive use of 39.085 acre-feet per annum used to offset depletions on the Rio Grande resulting from pumping of groundwater, authorized by Permit RG20516 et al., and SP4842 for domestic, municipal, industrial, commercial and any and all purposes of use related thereto or allowed by said permit within any location in the service area of Santa Fe County, on lands owned by numerous owners within the County of Santa Fe, from 13 groundwater points of diversion comprising the Buckman well field.

The said 13 wells are generally located 7-16 miles Northwest of the intersection of State Road 599 and County Road 85, and 7-16 miles Northwest of the City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

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Diversion of water under the City of Rio Rancho’s permit RG6745 et al., shall not exceed 24,020.16 acre-feet per annum for domestic, commercial, industrial, housing subdivision, and any related purposes within the service area of the City of Rio Rancho’s Municipal Water System. No increase in the diversion amount will occur as a result of the transfer of water rights under this application. This application is made for the purpose of complying with Conditions of Approval of Permit No. RG-6745 et al., which requires the City of Rio Rancho to offset the impacts of groundwater pumping on surface flows of the Rio Grande and its tributaries.

Any person, firm or corporation or other entity having standing to file objections or protests shall do so in writing (objection must be legible, signed, and include the writer’s complete name, phone number and mailing address).

The objection to the approval of the application must be based on: (1) Impairment; if impairment, you must specifically identify your water rights; and/or (2) P u b l i c Welfare/Conservatio n of Water; if public welfare or conservation of water within the state of New Mexico, you must show how you will be substantially and specifically affected.

The written protest must be filed, in triplicate, with the State Engineer, 5550 San Antonio Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 871094127, within ten (10) days after the date of the last publication of this Notice.

Facsimiles (faxes) will be accepted as a valid protest as long as the hard copy is hand-delivered or mailed and postmarked within 24-hours of the facsimile. Mailing postmark will be used to validate the 24-hour period. Protests can be faxed to the Office of the State Engineer, (505) 383-4030. If no valid protest or objection is filed, the State Engineer will evaluate the application in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 72 NMSA 1978.

Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on January 8, 15 and 22, 2015 LEGAL # 97917 NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING Notice is hereby given that the regular meeting of thee Joint Powers Board of thee Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency will convene on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Santa Fe County Administration Building, Legal Conference Room, 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. Agendas will be available at least 72 hours before the meeting in the County Manager’s Office, the City Clerk’s Office, and on the the Agency’s website at www.sfswma.org.

The meeting may constitute a quorum of the Board of County Commissioners; however, no County business will be discussed. Anyone who has questions regarding the meeting or requiring special accommodations should contact Rosalie Cardenas at (505) 424-1850, extension 150.

Greer Enterprises Inc., no longer needs the water rights for the above stated purpose, therefore the applicants propose to transfer the above-described 39.085 acre-feet per annum of consumptive use water rights to the City of Rio Rancho’s wells permitted under permit RG-6745 et al., consisting of 35 groundwater points of diversion, all located on land owned by the City of Rio Rancho within the city metropolitan area within Sandoval County, for domestic, municipal, industrial, irrigation, commercial, housing subdivision and all related purposes within the service area (owned by numerous owners) of the City of Rio Rancho municipal water system. The City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County by letters dated August 7 and October 3, 2014 respectively authorized Greer Enterprises Published in The SanInc., to transfer said ta Fe New Mexican on water rights to the January 8, 2015

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Gay advocates assail TV show the couple’s strong connection helped her work through her questions.

Megan Dahlgren says her

By Lindsay Whitehurst marriage remains strong, The Associated Press including the physical aspects of their relationship. “We do SALT LAKE CITY — Preshave a happy, healthy sex life,” ton “Pret” Dahlgren has led she said. what might seem like a pictureDahlgren and Bennion both perfect Mormon life: He met said their upbringing in the his high school sweetheart in Church of Jesus Christ of LatSunday school as a teenager, ter-day Saints was a big part of completed his mission and why they wanted to remain in a married her. husband-and-wife relationship.

He is active in the church “I would say it was part of my and the proud father of two decision early on, especially, young daughters. and a big influencer of that,” Jeff Bennion and his wife, Tanya, will appear in the reality Dahlgren also is attracted to Dahlgren said. “It certainly TV show My Husband’s Not Gay. RICK BOWMER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS men. helped guide me toward where His story is the subject of I’m at today, no doubt about it.” a new TV show called My Church spokesman Eric The gay rights group countless young LGBT people Husband’s Not Gay, which gayHawkins said in a statement in harm’s way.” rights advocacy groups are call- GLAAD, however, says the Tuesday that marriage is deeply show sends the wrong mesThe organization pointed to ing irresponsible and dangerpersonal. sage and is a sad reminder a change.org petition asking ous. They want the TLC cable “While the church does not TLC to cancel the show that network to pull the plug on the of so-called gay conversion promote marriage as a treattherapy, often faith-based so far has gathered more than program before it airs Sunday. ment method for same-sex efforts designed to change 80,000 signatures. Responding attraction, couples who are Dahlgren and another Morsexual orientation that can to GLAAD, the network says mon man from Utah featured trying to be lovingly supportbe emotionally scarring. New it will tell compelling stories in the show say they’re happy ive of each other while being Jersey and California in 2013 about different ways of life, and true to their religious convicin their marriages, and they hope the program gives stories banned therapists from practic- the four men on the hourlong tions deserve our support and show speak only for themlike theirs a foothold in the con- ing gay conversion therapy on respect,” Hawkins said. children and teenagers. The selves. versation about sexuality.

Jeff Bennion said he would Jeff Bennion, 44, met his wife, be horrified if a parent told a Dahlgren said he’s known he American Medical Association and the American PsychologiTanya, more than 13 years ago was attracted to men since he gay child that they should be cal Association do not support after he had dated men. He told more like one of the men on was about 12 years old, but he her he was attracted to men also always wanted the kind of the therapy. the show.

“No one can change who after they’d been dating for family he grew up in: a father, “That’s not anything that I they love, and, more imporabout a year and a half. mother and children. would support or agree with,” “I was devastated because I “There are a lot of stories out tantly, no one should have to,” he said.

GLAAD President Sarah Kate didn’t know what that meant there, and this just isn’t one of But Bennion said that he’s Ellis said in a statement. “By for me,” said Tanya Bennion, them,” Preston Dahlgren, 32, happy with his wife and their investing in this dangerous said in an interview with The 42. She worried that he’d cheat 6-year-old son. “I can’t believe Associated Press this week. programming, TLC is putting how lucky I am,” he said. on her with a friend but said

TLC to launch ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’

FBI: VA shooter was ex-employee of clinic ance against Fjordbak and had said something to the effect of, The Associated Press “I know what you did and I will take care of it.”

EL PASO — An Army veteran “It was something in public at who fatally shot a psychologist a grocery store where Mr. Serat a West Texas veterans hosrato approached Dr. Fjordbak, pital before killing himself was who did not recognize him, a former clerk at the clinic and and he made a verbal threat, had threatened the doctor in and that was the extent of the 2013, the FBI said Wednesday. report. As far as we can tell, that The FBI identified the gunwas the only connection that man in Tuesday’s shooting as they had,” Lindquist said.

Jerry Serrato, a 48-year-old who Both men worked at the VA was medically discharged from at the same time in 2013, but the Army in 2009 after serving authorities do not believe they in Iraq two years earlier. Doughad a working relationship, las Lindquist, who heads the Lindquist said. There was also FBI’s El Paso office, said Serrato no immediate indication the used a .380-caliber handgun to gunman was a patient, the FBI shoot Dr. Timothy Fjordbak, 63, said. and himself at the El Paso VeterA security assessment is ans Affairs Health Care System underway at the clinic in the at Fort Bliss. wake of the shooting, said Peter Fjordbak was a psycholoDancy, the VA hospital’s acting gist who left private practice director. after the Sept. 11 2001, terrorist Hundreds of patients, staff attacks because he wanted to and others were at the clinic work with military veterans, when the shooting happened. officials said. Serrato had served The shooting comes just in the Ohio Army National four months after the Fort Bliss Guard from 1985 to 1993, then Commanding Officer Maj. Gen. enlisted in the Army in July Stephen Twitty announced new 2006, military records show. He security measures after a miliserved in Iraq for five months tary assessment found the base in 2007. was not fully in compliance Officials did not provide a with Department of Defense motive for the shooting. Howdirectives. The measures ever, Fjordbak had reported that included random vehicle checks Serrato made an unspecified and limiting access to Defense verbal threat against him at an Department personnel at some El Paso supermarket in 2013. gates. However, four gates still Lindquist said Serrato had some remained open to the public, according to a news release. sort of perceived or real grievBy Russell Contreras and Seth Robbins

Police notes Funeral services and memorials The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Katherine Weisbrod, 26, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass in the 1800 block of Agua Fría Street at about 9:40 p.m.

Tuesday. u A burglar took jewelry from a home in the 800 block of Camino del Monte Sol between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Tuesday. u Samuel M. Pacheco, 31, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage to property after a resident in the 2600 block of Agua Fría Street reported that he had seen a man break a window of a house.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following report: u A burglar grabbed a purse from a vehicle parked on Old Las Vegas Highway between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. u A purse, electronics and an unspecified amount of cash were stolen from a vehicle parked on Caliente Road in Eldorado between 6 and 7 p.m. Tuesday. u Between 1 and 1:20 p.m.

Tuesday, a burglar took an unspecified amount of cash and electronics from a house on West Gutierrez Street in Pojoaque.

DWI arrest u Deputies arrested Travis A. Chavez, 26, of Santa Fe on suspicion of driving drunk after someone reported a suspicious vehicle on Calle Lazo Errante in southwest Santa Fe.

Help lines Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800-473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 Youth Emergency Shelter/ Youth Shelters: 438-0502 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-4357166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 800-721-7273

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JANE MAES

LEONOR L. (MARTINEZ) LUCERO

Jane Maes, 85 passed away on December 30, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born in Pecos, NM to the late Cerilio and Antonia Quintana. She was proceeded in death by her beloved husband Basilio Maes, and 2 brothers Phil and Ramon Quintana. She is survived by her 2 sons Billy (Sally) and Basilio Maes Jr. (Tina); granddog Chata; Linda Babcock (Steve); Darlene Balduini (Dan); a granddaughter who she raised, Nicole Maes, grand-dogs Lily and Louie; 6 grandchildren, Michelle, Amanda (Charles) and Joe Babcock (Angel),Stephanie Watkins (Justin), Meghan Maes and Andrew Balduini; 6 great grandchildren, Mariah (Esteban), Evan and Elijah Watkins, Savana and Bianca Babcock and Kailey Babcock (Blue Eyes); 5 brothers, Paul, Eliseo (Connie), Joe, Tim (Diane) and Don Quintana (Lorraine), 1 sister Cecilia Quintana (Isidro), sister-in-law Mary Quintana and many nieces, nephews, cousins & friends.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that a donation be made in Jane’s name to; The Parkinson’s Foundation, The Lou Revo for Brain Center Las Vegas, NV (Cleveland Clinic), The Kidney Foundation or St. Jude.

A mass is being held on Jan. 8th at 6:30 p.m., Santa Maria De La Paz, Santa Fe. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at a later date.

Leonor L. (Martinez) Lucero passed away and went to be with Our Lord and her family that has gone before her on Monday January 5, 2015 surrounded by her loving family after a lengthy illness. Leonor was born in Pueblo, Colorado, spent her early years in Glenn Aspen and Monument Lake Colorado where she developed her love of the mountains and all God’s creatures. Her family moved to New Mexico when she was a teenager where she lived the remainder of her life. Leonor joined her family in Heaven which includes her father Anastacio, her mother Madeline, her sister Ellen, a brother Dave and other individuals that were close to her heart which included Mel Lopez, John and Libby Lucero and Pat Lucero. Leonor is survived by her husband James (Ron), her son Theodore, daughter Staci, Amanda, a brother Gilbert and wife Kathy, and the joy of her life her grandchildren Lynn Marie, Theodore Ivan, and Melissa Madeline. Leonor’s family what was most important to her and spent her life caring for her husband, children and her grandchildren.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 5:30 to 6:30pm at the McGee Memorial Chapel where a Rosary will be recited from 6:30 to 7:30pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, January 9, 2015 at 1:00pm at St. Anne’s Catholic Church.

Berardinelli Family Funeral Service & McGee Memorial Chapel 1399 Luisa Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 984-8600 Please sign our guestbook for the family at: www.berardinellifuneralhome.com

LEROY G. ORTIZ Leroy G. Ortiz , age 75, passed peacefully at his home on Wednesday, December 31 2014. He is survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Irene Ortiz; his children Elizabeth Palmer (Andy), Lori LeRouge (Leonard), Anthony Ortiz (Amy) and Adrian Ortiz. Grandchildren Jeanelle LeRouge (Anthony), Lenny LeRouge (Erica), Falicia Palmer Sypnier (Kevin), Megan Ortiz, Nicolas Ortiz, Alex Ortiz, Emily Ortiz and Michael Ortiz. Great-Grandchildren Christiana, Jayla, Anthony and Drew. He is survived by his brothers Tino Ortiz (Marlyn), Orlando Ortiz (Lorraine) and sisters Amelia Romero and Theresa Ortiz; sister-in-law Anne Ortiz; brothers-in-law Jimmy Martinez (Patsy), John Martinez, Jerry Martinez, Jake Martinez (Laura) and many other nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Leroy was preceded in death by his parents, Florentino and Celestina Ortiz; Father-in-law and Mother-in-law Eliseo and Ramona Martinez; brothers, Oliver Ortiz, Thomas Ortiz and Ernest Ortiz; brother-inlaw Lalo Romero and sisters-in-law Christella Martinez, Sharon Martinez and Carol Ortiz. Leroy was retired from the US Postal Service, Letter Carrier. Leroy had a strong passion for music. He played and entertained with his guitar and Guitarrón for private parties, community events, his family and friends. He was a member of several Mariachi and Church Choir groups throughout the years. He was a loving Husband, Dad, Grandpa and Greatgrandpa. He will be deeply missed and will live in our hearts forever.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 5-7 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, where a rosary will be recited at 7 pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, January 9, 2015 at 11 am at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, 511 Alicia Street, Santa Fe, M 87501 Burial will follow at Rosario Cemetery, N. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe NM.

MARY (CONNIE) CHAVEZ Mary (Connie) Chavez, age 76, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2015.

She was born on August 28, 1938 in Madrid, NM to Fernando and Frances Pena. She worked for Bill Harvey for many years as well as Jim and Ann Maryol at Tia Sophia’s for over 30 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Fernando and Frances Pena, husband Phillip Chavez, brothers, Pablo (Helen), Nate, Fernando and Johnny Peña, and sister, Frances (Elidoro) Tapia, and inlaws, Felipe and Demecia Chavez, Juan, Luis and Tommy Chavez, Isidro Tapia, Isaac Tabor, Jane Anaya, Clorinda Chavez, Rita Sanchez (Ben) and Rosina Anaya.

Connie is survived by her son Mike Chavez (Leann); brothers Joe Peña (Lori), Tommy Peña (Darlene), Ray Peña (Geri) all of Santa Fe and Louie Peña (Lollie) of California. Sisters Tillie Peña, Rose Montoya (Joe), Corine Vargas (Alex) and Jennie Aragon all of Santa Fe. Brothers and sisters-in-law MaryAnn Gonzales, Gloria Dofflemeyer, Virginia Pena, Joe Anaya, Rita Chavez, Rosie Chavez, Pauline Tapia, Manuel Chavez (Wendy), Josie Balich, and Toni Tabor; many special nieces, nephews, godchildren and her precious Savana Gallegos.

A Rosary will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at San Isidro Capilla at 9 AM with a Funeral Mass to follow at 10 AM. Burial will follow at Rosario Cemetery.

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A respite for Chaco

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Keystone vote shouldn’t come first WASHINGTON t’s official: Congress’ first agenda item, when Republican control began this week, will be passing a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This maneuver failed late last year, but with Republicans now in control of the Senate, it’s expected they can get a bill to the desk of the president — who has already said he’ll veto it.

There may be many reasons to object to another Keystone vote — including the fact that the Keystone XL legislation singles out one company for special treatment — but perhaps the biggest objection is that it is really just a symbol.

For environmentalists, it symbolizes the increasingly urgent need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. For Republicans, it symbolizes everything they hate about how environmentalists seek to block industrial projects.

But when Congress focuses on symbols rather than substance, everybody loses.

The truth is that building Keystone is not economically essential to the U.S. (sorry, Republicans), but stopping it is also not, in the view of many scientists, going to do a ton to save the climate (sorry, greens).

Either way, the last thing America actually needs is another Keystone debate.

But there are really helpful things Congress could be doing instead to protect the environment and boost the economy.

Here are four of them.

Pass a national carbon tax.

Later in this congressional session, we’re expecting a brutal fight over the Obama administration’s plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. But here’s the thing: This fight could be easily avoided if Congress would simply pass a law to deal with these emissions, and thus preempt EPA’s activity. A growing economists’ consensus says the best way to do this is to put a tax on carbon, and then let the power of the market do its work.

By passing a carbon tax, we could not only avoid the fight over the regulations.

We could actually generate new revenue

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that could be used for any number of beneficial purposes — including cutting every last American a monthly paycheck.

This, incidentally, would likely have a much more beneficial economic effect than Keystone XL would. For instance, one study commissioned by the Citizens Climate Lobby found that with a $10 per ton carbon tax (rising $10 per year), and with 100 percent of the revenue returned to Americans in the form of a dividend, the economy could gain as many as 2.8 million jobs over 20 years.

Take advantage of low gas prices to fix our aging highway infrastructure.

Nationally, averaged gasoline prices are on a record plunge right now, having fallen for over 100 days straight and over $ 1 per gallon of regular gas. That means that people are paying shockingly less than they’re used to for gas, which in turn creates a rare opening for raising the current 18 cent national gasoline tax — which has not been raised in two decades, but which is vital to restoring the ailing Highway Trust Fund.

In fairness, some have suggested that a better way to find funds to take care of our roads is a mileage-based highway user fee. But the same story goes: Driving has just gotten a lot cheaper, yet our highway infrastructure is in rough shape.

So now’s the moment for Congress to move to make driving a lot better in this country, and to set our infrastructure on a more financially sound footing.

Fix the mess you created with the ethanol mandate.

The so-called Renewable Fuel Standard, created by the 2005 Energy Policy Act and expanded in 2007, is a mess.

The standard requires a fixed volume of ethanol and other renewable fuels to be blended into gasoline, starting with 9 billion gallons back in 2008, and increasing over time to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

But Congress passed these requirements without knowing how much overall fuel drivers would use in the future, or how economic conditions would

develop. Thus, it has been hard to blend in the required amounts of ethanol and other renewable fuels in the fuel supply.

Meanwhile, another thing holding everything up right now is the failure to create enough refueling stations to support flexfuel vehicles that can run on E85 gasoline, which contains 85 percent ethanol.

Late last year, the EPA punted, rather than setting a required standard for how much renewable fuel energy companies would have to blend into their products in 2014. The agency now is more than a year behind in making rules under this mandate, and industry has announced plans to sue, objecting strongly to the regulatory uncertainty that this creates. But the problem is the standard itself: Congress should step in and fix the Renewable Fuel Standard, so that it achieves the original objectives — making our fuel supply more sustainable — without the current dysfunction.

Extend the renewable energy production tax credit.

Meanwhile, America’s wind industry is also in a state of uncertainty — because late last year, Congress voted to extend a production tax credit that is vital to wind power, but only through the end of the year. And it only did so at the last minute, so that literally, wind power folks had only two weeks to take advantage before the tax credit was gone again. That’s just a ridiculous way to treat a major sector of the energy industry. Congress should move to give the wind industry more stability and a stronger footing going forward, so that it, just like energy companies and the ethanol industry, can know what to expect.

So, in sum: Congress is going to hold a Keystone vote, and likely pass a bill that the president will veto — but there are many better things, on energy, that it might be doing.

Chris Mooney of The Washington Post reports on science and the environment.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Police forces should hire more women

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he U.S. having women border guards (“Border patrol makes push to hire women,” Jan. 5) is a fine idea not only for the safety of female immigrants but also because of helpful information women can give. I wrote our president asking him to declare the importance of every American police department hiring 50 percent women.

They will see the essential duty of going to auto accidents, robberies, arguments, endangered children and citizen fights, etc., with different eyes.

Most will not imagine that everyone they stop has a gun and wants to shoot them. Women — curious and insightful — make great community protectors, especially if someone comes up with a less limiting and wiser name than police work.

Barbara Beasley Murphy

Santa Fe

Consider Calzada

tion District holds elections for board members every two years.

The election in 2015 will be on Jan. 13 at the water district office, and three of the five board positions are open.

Eldorado resident John Calzada is a candidate for one of the open positions.

At present, Calzada is on two Eldorado Community Improvement Association committees and, prior to Eldorado, was a community service volunteer in California for many years.

He served four years in the Air Force and was in law enforcement for more than 32 years.

Calzada is smart, well-spoken and a dedicated worker, all important attributes for a water district board member. Board members make policy decisions that impact all residents of our community, since a reliable water supply directly affects our property values.

I highly recommend a vote for John Calzada on Jan. 13.

In the article (“Fugitives in Cuba dicey issue in U.S.,” Dec. 23) about Assata Shakur, many facts were omitted. At the time of her arrest, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI (in a program commonly called COINTELPRO) targeted members of the Black Panther Party. Many landed in prison.

In Assata’s case, she and another BPP member, Sundiata Acoli, were both accused of killing the same officer. Assata was shot, it was proven, with her arms overhead. No weapon was found with her fingerprints on it. It is reported the officer was killed by friendly fire.

In the 1970s, in circumstances very similar to now, black Americans were slain by police officers for “perceived threats,” such as failing to back down when civil rights were threatened. Some of those imprisoned then, like Sundiata Acoli, are still incarcerated 40 years later.

History, whitewashed, is just a lie.

Ray Nichols

Chrysa Wikstrom

Eldorado

Santa Fe

The Eldorado Area Water and Sanita-

Section editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

Lies of history

ood news — at least for now — on the preservation of Chaco Canyon.

The Bureau of Land Management has decided to defer leasing on five Navajo allotment parcels near Chaco Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The parcels total more than 2,800 acres and could be used for fracking, a system of extracting natural gas from the ground.

As the BLM continues to update its management plan for these public lands, it needs to ensure that the consequences of new technology are understood and accounted for. The proposed development could lead to a quadrupling of fracking in the area, with all that entails.

The deferral means more analysis must take place before any land can be leased and drilling started. We, of course, believe it’s important to put the preservation of the world’s heritage first and foremost. Chaco Canyon, abandoned all those centuries ago by the ancestral Puebloans, is a gift to those of us living today, a reminder that people and land do not always coexist in harmony. We still have much to learn from what happened there, and oil and gas drilling cannot be allowed to degrade this place. Irreplaceable cultural treasures are at risk.

Chaco Canyon is just one area that must be preserved.

Other sacred tribal sites still could be damaged by oil and gas activity nearby. Just the creation of too many roads and the impact of heavy trucks and potential for oil spills, too, cause environmental issues that must be considered.

Clearly, the BLM has more decisions to make. For now, these delays mark a worthy beginning to an energy policy on public lands that won’t put profit first. All the private citizens, tribal members and groups working to preserve Chaco Canyon and the lands in Western New Mexico deserve a moment to pat themselves on the back — before, of course, continuing to remind federal land managers that what matters most shouldn’t be profit.

Transfer of power

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hree Kings Day, a holiday that passes with little fanfare in the United States, is an important day in New Mexico. Not necessarily for descendants of Spanish colonial settlers who brought the celebration with them, as much for the Pueblo people who met the explorers centuries ago.

On Jan. 6 each year — the day traditionally marking the Wise Men’s visit to the baby Jesus — leaders at many of the state’s 19 pueblos are introduced to the community so that the business of governing can begin anew. (Across Latin America, of course, Three Kings Day, or Los Tres Reyes Magos, is a day to exchange gifts and celebrate the discovery of Jesus in the manger by those wise visitors from the East.) Locally, it is at the Native villages that this Christian holiday — Epiphany — continues to be marked.

With the presentation of the new governors and other tribal officials, there are ceremonial dances and the customary feasts. For those hours, the stresses of the outside world are left behind, and people gather, as they have for centuries. The drums echo as the buffalo and deer dancers spill into plazas, the faces of the men transformed into the animals they embody. It is a gift to the world, these dances, these celebrations.

Good fortune to the new tribal leaders, and may the wisdom handed from their predecessors guide them in the year ahead.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 8, 1965: Charred envelopes popping up in some Santa Fe postal patrons’ mail boxes the past few days brought puzzled queries as to “what happened?” … Postmaster E.J. Martinez revealed that the charred mail resulted from an apparent prank.

Jan. 8, 1990: New Mexico could be facing unusually hard economic times in the near future, a possibility that must be figured into this year’s deliberations over tax increases, legislators of both political parties agree. But not too surprisingly, Democrats and Republicans disagree about what the threat of hard times demands of state government.

Gov. Garrey Carruthers’ 1990 budget proposal contains no pay raises for public school teachers or state employees, although college and university teachers would receive $4.5 million in increases. Carruthers said he couldn’t propose raises for state employees or school employees without a tax increase.

A few changes on Opinions page Starting this week, La Cucaracha returns to the comics page and Mallard Fillmore is no longer running. That will allow more room for letters and commentary on the editorial pages.

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Tablet apps let cats catch critters Some people worry about damage to the devices, but claws won’t hurt the screen, said apps co-creator T.J. Fuller, who ran many tests.

Motion draws felines’ attention to device

By Sue Manning The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES hen Laura Fritz’s felines play with her iPad, her fat cat loses the urge to eat, her scaredy-cat loses his fear and her youngest just loses interest.

If you’ve had enough time to play with the tablet you got for the holidays, try turning the device over to your tech-savvy cat.

Every cat app, no matter the maker, has something for felines to electronically track, stalk or hunt, such as mice, bugs or laser dots.

“Cats are attracted to things that move, and that is the ‘magic’ for most of the apps,” said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and executive director of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists.

“The motion in most apps is jerky and quick, much like an insect,” she said, adding that any sound component would quickly be eclipsed by the draw of movement.

Every cat is different, but if they are like two of Fritz’s, they will love pawing the screen to catch critters, which breaks anxious Maxie out of his shell and gives hefty Mr. Brutus a way to exercise, said Fritz of Waltham, Mass. But they may be like her youngest, Pansy Rose, who couldn’t care less.

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A cat named Maxine plays Game for Cats on a tablet in Valencia, Calif. T.J. Fuller, Nate Murray and their company, Hiccup, created Game for Cats, Paint for Cats and Catzilla.

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Maxie and Brutus work together on the app Paint for Cats, chasing a mouse and leaving a trail of splattered paint where they have pawed, rubbed, jumped or made other marks with their movements. Many cat owners see the results as art worthy of sharing on social media, so the app allows people to email the creations.

It is among three popular apps created by T.J. Fuller and Nate Murray’s Los Angeles company Hiccup. The company also features a mouse chasing game called Game for Cats and monster crushing game dubbed Catzilla.

There are several cat apps on the market. Pocket Pond for Android tablets allows cats to follow fish or dragonflies with their paws. Friskies’ Cat Fishing also taps into the fish theme for Android and Apple devices.

In brief Shelter offers more spay, neuter services The Santa Fe animal shelter is increasing its spay and neuter services at its south-side clinic.

The clinic, 2570 Camino Entrada, is offering free spay and neuter services for dogs on Sundays.

Appointments are encouraged, but the

Some people worry about damage to the devices, but claws won’t hurt the screen, said Fuller, who ran many tests.

But nobody has tested for teeth, and Karen Rittmuller of Salem, Mass., found a problem with a bite.

Rittmuller tried to get her calico cat Pixel to live up to her high-tech name, so she downloaded Game for Cats, but her pet will only stalk, pounce and bite the iPad, so she took it away.

“I did not want the device ruined or her hurt from biting too hard,” Rittmuller said.

Even cats at shelters are joining the tech trend.

When the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles received a couple of used tablets two years ago, the shelter decided to see if any of their homeless cats were hid-

clinic will accept walk-in clients upon availability.

The first free Sunday clinic is scheduled for Jan. 11. Check-in time is 8 a.m.

The clinic offers spay and neuter surgeries for all animals on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Most of the surgeries are available at no or low cost.

The clinic also offers low-cost vaccinations on Tuesday afternoons between 1 to 4 p.m. and all day Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m.

For more information or to make an appointment, please call 474-6422.

ing inner artists.

Two of them, dubbed Pawblo Picasso and Frida Catlo, created abstract art that looked like fuzzy circles, and the organization turned it into sellable notecards.

Those trading up to a newer model tablet should consider donating used devices to shelters, said Ana Bustilloz, spokeswoman for the organization.

People give food, kitty litter and blankets, but many don’t think of animal shelters when it comes to tech equipment, she said.

Back at the Fritz house, the cats work out their problems with the tablet.

The 21-pound Brutus is only motivated by food and refuses to exercise, so Paint for Cats gets him to move, Fritz said.

“Maxie is scared of everything that moves. But when he’s painting, he becomes a different cat … and really gets into it,” she said.

Tracks Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Braxton, a 1-year-old female brindle mix, is a little shy at first, but is improving.

Sapphire, a 1-year-old bunny, is a sweet girl whose amazing eyes will steal your heart.

These and other animals are available for adoption from the shelter at 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Visit adoptable animals at the shelter’s weekend mobile adoption events: from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at PetSmart Santa Fe, 3561 Zafarano Drive.

Visit www.sfhumanesociety. org or call 983-4309, ext. 610.

Española Valley Humane Society: Lexi, a very playful 1-year-old, will make a great addition to any family. She loves playing with other dogs.

Tonto is a gentle giant who loves to play. He enjoys long walks, playing outside and would love to have the right buddy in his life.

These and other animals are available for adoption at the shelter, 108 Hamm Parkway. The shelter is open from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday

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through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Call 753-8662 or visit www. espanolashelter.org.

Felines & Friends: Chucky was shy at first, but has come around with TLC from his foster home. This handsome boy with a medium-length coat and brown tabby markings is now outgoing and playful. Ramie is a sweet girl and is become sweeter with every passing day. This petite, beautiful girl with a short, dark calico coat is very engaging and affectionate.

Cats are available for adoption from Felines & Friends and can be visited at PetCo. Advisers are available 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at PetCo on Cerrillos Road.

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The adoption fee special is meant to encourage people to adopt for the new year, said Dylan Moore, the shelter’s director of adoptions. To view adoptable animals, visit the shelter’s website at sfhumanesociety. org or call the adoptions desk at 983-4309, ext. 610.

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Outdoors: Ice climbing in Ouray, Colo., offers accessible exhilaration. Page B-4

NBA JAZZ 97, BULLS 77

TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Favors leads Jazz past Bulls The Associated Press Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles, front, drives under the basket past Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson during the first half of Wednesday’s game in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Derrick Favors and the Utah Jazz wanted to match the intensity of the Chicago Bulls, and they certainly accomplished that goal on Wednesday night.

Favors collected 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Utah had a strong defensive effort in a 97-77 victory over the Bulls.

The Jazz held the Bulls to a season-low point total on just 28-of-84 (33.3 percent) shooting. The Bulls were averaging 103.1 points.

“I think we just wanted to come out and be physical because we know Chicago is gonna be physical,”

CHARLES REX ARBOGAST THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Favors said. “We wanted to come out and match their intensity, match their physicality and I think we did a good job of that.”

Gordon Hayward had 18 points for Utah (13-23), and Trey Burke scored 17. Seven of the Jazz’s wins have come on the road.

“I think it was a team effort; collectively, we played great on the defensive end,” Burke said. “We knew they were one of the greater defensive teams in the NBA, so we knew it was gonna be an aggressive game. I think for 48 minutes we competed.”

Jimmy Butler led the Bulls with

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NFL PLAYOFFS

Manning vs. Luck III

Virginia center Mike Tobey, left, and teammate guard Marial Shayok block the shot of North Carolina State forward Cody Martin, center, during the first half of Wednesday’s game in Charlottesville, Va. STEVE HELBER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 3 Virginia outlasts N.C. State for win

By Hank Kurz Jr. The Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia coach Tony Bennett won’t say it, and his team still has room to improve, but when the third-ranked Cavaliers are struggling to get their offense clicking, they can almost 3 Virginia 61 always rely on their defense to keep them in games.

N.C. State 51 That was the case Wednesday night in their 19th consecutive home victory, 61-51 against North Carolina State.

“In the second half, we laid it down defensively,” forward Darion Atkins said after Virginia limited the Wolfpack to nine field goals and 20 points by shutting down their hottest shooter, Ralston Turner, and their sizzling 3-point shooting.

The game turned late, after the teams exchanged the lead five times, when Virginia reeled off 10 straight points while holding the Wolfpack scoreless for nearly six minutes. It was the second drought of at least that long for N.C. State in the game.

It left coach Mark Gottfried thinking about how close his team could have been to winning.

“We had some breakdowns that just really hurt us,” he said of the drought, which started with his team ahead 42-41 and 8:59 to go. “We had some offensive fouls called, we had couple where we didn’t block out and they had a couple putbacks, two or three in a row. … There’s a lot of good things that we did. We just didn’t do enough and didn’t finish the game.”

Virginia (14-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), meanwhile, got 16 points from Justin Anderson, 14 from Malcolm Brogdon, 12 from Anthony Gill and 11 from Mike Tobey in keeping its best start since the Ralph Sampson era going strong.

Tobey, especially, was a difference-maker, grabbing three offensive rebounds after halftime and scoring eight

Please see VIRGINIA, Page B-3 Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is 40-12 with Denver, including 2-2 in the playoffs. He is 1-1 against the Indianapolis Colts. DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is 35-17 and 2-2 in the playoffs, including a 26-10 win over Cincinnati in the wild-card round last week. MICHAEL CONROY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Opposing QBs let everyone else talk about matchup

By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. oth quarterbacks are downplaying Luck vs. Manning III as Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning seek to knock each other out of the play-

offs.

They’re 1-1 against each other heading into Sunday’s tiebreaker that will determine which one gets to play for the AFC championship and which one gets to start thinking about Luck vs. Manning IV next season in Indy.

Manning lost his homecoming in 2013 when his emotions and the Colts both got the best of him in Denver’s 39-33 defeat that

wasn’t really that close.

He bested his successor in this season’s opener with a trio of TD tosses to Julius Thomas in a 31-24 win that wasn’t really that close.

If not for “Tebowmania,” this game might very well have pitted Luck and the Broncos against Manning and the Colts.

After a poor start in 2011, the Broncos promoted backup Tim Tebow, and many beleaguered Broncos fans, dreaming of a franchise-changing quarterback, adopted the popular slogan “Suck for Luck.”

The Broncos fell out of the running when Tebow started winning games, guiding Denver to the AFC West title and the playoffs while the Colts wrapped up a 2-14 season with Manning sidelined after neck surgery.

The Colts drafted Luck and Manning went to Denver to restart his career. Tebow went to New York for a forgettable season

with the Jets and is now a college football analyst for the SEC Network.

Since coming to Denver, Manning is 40-12, including 2-2 in the playoffs. Luck is 35-17 and also 2-2 in the playoffs, including a 26-10 win over Cincinnati in the wild-card round last week.

Afterward, Luck was asked about facing his predecessor in the playoffs.

“I think we face the Broncos in a sense.

It’s not the quarterback versus quarterback thing,” he said. “We’re not on the field at the same time. I have a lot of respect for him, what he does, what he still does is amazing. He’s a stud. I’ll worry about the Denver defense, that’s what I worry about.”

That’s pretty much how Manning sees it, too. As he’s fond of reminding people, he doesn’t really like “going down memory lane.”

Please see MANNING, Page B-2

BOXING

Cold War comes to Buffalo Thunder

By James Barron The New Mexican

Given how cold it has been in Northern New Mexico for the past month, Pat Holmes Sr. came up with a good title for his latest boxing card.

Holmes will hold a Jan. 24 card called “Cold War” at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, but this event will have a twist.

After son, Brandon Holmes, was a co-main event draw, this time Pat Holmes Jr. will be featured. Pat Holmes Sr. said

Brandon is taking some time off to focus on school, and won’t return to the ring until after March.

So that means Holmes’ other son, Pat Holmes Jr., will share center stage with Española’s Antonio Martinez, a 28-year-old who has a 1-2-3 record as a light welterweight. However, Holmes said Martinez went the distance against U.S. Olympian Jose Carlos Ramirez, who is 10-0 as a pro with eight knockouts, back in 2013 before losing a fourround unanimous decision.

“I’ve taken over his training and management — everything,” pat Holmes Sr. said.

“He’s a tough fighter in a bad situation because he didn’t have the support.”

Martinez will fight Albuquerque’s Henry Barahona, who is making his professional debut, in one co-main event. Holmes takes on Denver’s Andrew Almiger, who is 3-1 in a short pro career. Pat Holmes Jr. is coming off a win over John Gonzales in his October fight and is 2-1 in his lightweight career.

The undercard includes a Valencia-County flavor as heavyweights Cody East and Manuel Eastman, both from Los Lunas, face off in one event.

Making his professional boxing debut on the card is Damacio Page, who has made his name in the MMA field. Featherweight Jose Osorio, who has been on the last two cards at Buffalo Thunder, is scheduled to fight on the card.

Pat Holmes Sr. said tickets can be purchased by calling 795-2772 or 699-2845.

Sports editor: James Barron, 986-3045, jbarron@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

Bowl ratings up, attendance down in new playoff era

By Steve Megargee The Associated Press

The new playoff era is drawing lots of college football fans to bowl game broadcasts. But it isn’t necessarily bringing more fans into stadium seats.

ESPN announced that the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinals in the College Football Playoff drew the largest two audiences in cable television history, with each game attracting over 28 million viewers. The two semifinals drew more viewers than any of the four BCS championship games broadcast by ESPN, which also will air Monday’s title game between Ohio State and Oregon.

“That was a pleasant surprise,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN’s senior vice president of programming and acquisitions. “We’re cautiously optimistic about Monday, but obviously the new format has resonated with fans.”

ESPN spokeswoman Keri Potts said that ESPN’s bowl telecasts through New Year’s Day drew an average rating of 3.4, whereas its average rating through all its bowl telecasts other than the championship last season was 3.2. Ratings represent the percentage of homes with televisions tuned to a program.

While ratings are slightly up across the board for bowl games, attendance has dipped.

The 38 bowl games this season have drawn an average announced attendance of 43,285, down 9.2 percent from the average of 47,659 for the 34 bowls last season that led up to the BCS championship game.

Those figures are skewed by the fact that all four new bowls that had their inaugural games this season drew fewer than 30,000 fans. But even if you throw those four games out of the mix, the average attendance for the remaining 34 bowls is 45,904, down 3.7 percent from last season.

Wright Waters, the executive director for the Football Bowl Association, notes that the attendance drops reflect

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NATIONAL SCOREBOARD

THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, January 8, 2015

BASKETBALL NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic Toronto Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia New York Southeast Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando Central Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

W 24 16 12 5 5 W 27 24 15 13 13 W 25 19 19 14 12

L 10 19 21 29 33 L 8 11 20 24 25 L 11 17 18 23 23

Pct .706 .457 .364 .147 .132 Pct .771 .686 .429 .351 .342 Pct .694 .528 .514 .378 .343

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25 GB — 8½ 11½ 19 21 GB — 3 12 15 15½ GB — 6 6½ 11½ 12½

Wednesday’s Games No. 2 Duke 73, Wake Forest 65 No. 3 Virginia 61, N.C. State 51 No. 4 Wisconsin 62, Purdue 55 No. 5 Louisville 58, Clemson 52 No. 9 Utah 74, Colorado 49 Illinois 64, No. 11 Maryland 57 No. 12 Kansas 56, No. 21 Baylor 55 No. 15 Wichita State 63, Bradley 43 Xavier 69, No. 19 Seton Hall 58 No. 20 VCU 71, Davidson 65 Thursday’s Games No. 6 Gonzaga vs. San Francisco, 7 p.m.

No. 7 Arizona at Oregon, 8:30 p.m.

No. 25 Old Dominion at Marshall, 5 p.m.

Friday’s Games No games scheduled.

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 25 10 .714 — Dallas 26 11 .703 — Houston 24 11 .686 1 San Antonio 21 15 .583 4½ New Orleans 17 18 .486 8 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 27 8 .771 — Oklahoma City 17 19 .472 10½ Denver 16 20 .444 11½ Utah 13 23 .361 14½ Minnesota 5 29 .147 21½ Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 28 5 .848 — L.A. Clippers 24 12 .667 5½ Phoenix 22 16 .579 8½ Sacramento 15 20 .429 14 L.A. Lakers 11 25 .306 18½ Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 97, Philadelphia 77 Washington 101, New York 91 Charlotte 98, New Orleans 94 Houston 105, Cleveland 93 Atlanta 96, Memphis 86 Boston 89, Brooklyn 81 Utah 97, Chicago 77 Detroit 108, Dallas 95 Denver 93, Orlando 90 Phoenix 113, Minnesota 111 Sacramento 104, Oklahoma City 83 Golden State 117, Indiana 102 L.A. Clippers 114, L.A. Lakers 89 Thursday’s Games Charlotte at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at New York, 6 p.m.

Miami at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Leaders Through Jan. 6 Scoring G Harden, HOU 34 James, CLE 29 Anthony, NYK 30 Davis, NOR 33 Bryant, LAL 31 Aldridge, POR 31 Curry, GOL 32 Wade, MIA 27 Griffin, LAC 35 Lillard, POR 35 Butler, CHI 32 Bosh, MIA 27 Thompsn, GOL 31 Lowry, TOR 34 FG Percentage Jordan, LAC Chandler, DAL Zeller, BOS Howard, HOU A. Johnson, TOR Davis, NOR Stoudemire, NYK Favors, UTA Joseph, SAN

FG 281 256 270 305 248 285 261 241 301 263 226 209 233 242 FG 143 144 120 154 129 305 148 204 141

FT PTS 270 917 171 731 135 717 171 781 189 733 128 714 119 735 123 620 178 787 155 778 216 700 117 575 94 650 157 702 FGA 200 216 190 257 223 539 265 371 260

AVG 27.0 25.2 23.9 23.7 23.6 23.0 23.0 23.0 22.5 22.2 21.9 21.3 21.0 20.6 PCT .715 .667 .632 .599 .578 .566 .558 .550 .542

Men’s AP Top 25 Rec Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (64) 13-0 1,600 1 2. Duke 13-0 1,535 2 3. Virginia 13-0 1,446 3 4. Wisconsin 14-1 1,397 4 5. Louisville 13-1 1,322 5 6. Gonzaga 14-1 1,275 7 7. Arizona 13-1 1,260 8 8. Villanova 13-1 1,089 6 9. Utah 12-2 1,059 10 10. Texas 12-2 976 11 11. Maryland 14-1 966 12 12. Kansas 11-2 884 13 13. Notre Dame 14-1 775 14 14. West Virginia 13-1 712 17 15. Wichita St. 12-2 686 16 16. Oklahoma 10-3 674 18 17. Iowa St. 10-2 663 9 18. North Carolina 11-3 591 19 19. Seton Hall 12-2 448 — 20. VCU 11-3 311 — 21. Baylor 11-2 186 22 22. Ohio St. 12-3 184 20 23. Arkansas 11-2 103 — 24. St. John’s 11-3 92 15 25. Old Dominion 12-1 80 — Others receiving votes: N. Iowa 72, Iowa 63, Butler 53, LSU 50, George Washington 39, TCU 33, Temple 33, Colorado St. 31, Stanford 29, South Carolina 16, Washington 13, Wyoming 11, Indiana 9, Oklahoma St. 9, Georgetown 7, Cincinnati 6, Dayton 5, BYU 3, Xavier 2, Davidson 1, Hofstra 1.

Men’s Division I Wednesday’s Games Midwest Adrian 74, Olivet 69 Albion 72, Kalamazoo 49 Aquinas 68, Michigan-Dearborn 34 Augsburg 66, Gustavus 57 Ball St. 60, E. Michigan 59, OT Benedictine (Ill.) 73, Wis. Lutheran 57 Bowling Green 66, Kent St. 64 Buffalo 79, Miami (Ohio) 72 Calvin 93, Alma 87 Cardinal Stritch 73, Judson (Ill.) 51 Concordia (Moor.) 80, Bethel (Minn.) 72 Concordia (Wis.) 90, Concordia (Ill.) 75 Cornerstone 82, Indiana Tech 61 Davenport 48, Lawrence Tech 42 DePaul 70, Creighton 60 Edgewood 64, Dominican (Ill.) 56 Illinois 64, Maryland 57 Illinois St. 81, Drake 45 Indiana St. 71, Missouri St. 56 Kansas St. 58, TCU 53 Loyola of Chicago 71, Evansville 70 Mayville St. 68, Viterbo 62 Milwaukee Engineering 80, Aurora 76 N. Illinois 70, Ohio 60 N. Iowa 55, S. Illinois 39 Ripon 72, Carroll (Wis.) 62 S. Dakota St. 75, W. Illinois 44 St. John’s (Minn.) 82, Hamline 73, OT St. Norbert 81, Lawrence 72 St. Olaf 81, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 50 St. Thomas (Minn.) 96, Macalester 45 Wichita St. 63, Bradley 43 Wis.-Oshkosh 59, Wis.-River Falls 57 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 74, Wis.-Platteville 55 Wis.-Whitewater 88, Wis.-Superior 57 Wisconsin 62, Purdue 55 Xavier 69, Seton Hall 58

East Bloomfield 78, Felician 71 Boston U. 70, Navy 64 Bucknell 79, Lafayette 69 Colgate 74, Holy Cross 60 Duquesne 71, Saint Joseph’s 68 Hartford 69, Binghamton 59 Lehigh 71, Army 60 Loyola (Md.) 56, American U. 53, OT Manhattan 68, St. Peter’s 63 Mass.-Lowell 73, UMBC 61, OT NJIT 69, Md.-Eastern Shore 60 Old Westbury 95, Sarah Lawrence 54 Philadelphia 68, Wilmington (Del.) 62 Post (Conn.) 67, Caldwell 54 Rhode Island 68, Fordham 65 Richard Stockton 58, NJ City 56 St. Joseph’s (LI) 77, Purchase 66 Thiel 65, La Roche 56 UMass 71, La Salle 65 Ursinus 76, Gettysburg 75 Vermont 68, Maine 54 South Barton 84, North Greenville 80 Belmont 73, SIU-Edwardsville 69 Brevard 81, Tusculum 79 Bryan 85, Tenn. Wesleyan 74 Campbellsville 84, Asbury 60 Carver Bible 101, Selma 93 Duke 73, Wake Forest 65 E. Illinois 64, Tennessee St. 57 Florida 72, South Carolina 68 Guilford 66, Roanoke 64 Hampden-Sydney 59, Randolph 57 Kentucky Wesleyan 97, Oakland City 61 Limestone 77, Belmont Abbey 67 Lincoln Memorial 73, Anderson (SC) 54 Louisville 58, Clemson 52 Mount Olive 82, Southern Wesleyan 68 Newberry 109, Catawba 98 Randolph-Macon 63, Bridgewater (Va.) 45 Syracuse 46, Georgia Tech 45 Temple 64, Tulane 56 Tennessee 61, Mississippi St. 47 Thomas More 73, Bethany (WV) 65 Union (Ky.) 63, Bluefield St. 57 VCU 71, Davidson 65 Virginia 61, NC State 51 Southwest Kansas 56, Baylor 55 Oral Roberts 69, IUPUI 61, OT Texas-Pan American 87, Our Lady of the Lake 78 Far West Air Force 78, San Jose St. 56 Fresno St. 61, Utah St. 52 Nevada 64, UNLV 62 Southern Cal 71, California 57 UC Davis 71, CS Northridge 61 Utah 74, Colorado 49 Wyoming 60, Colorado St. 54

Women’s Top 25 Wednesday’s Game No. 2 UConn 98, Tulsa 60 No. 3 Texas vs. West Virginia No. 16 Oklahoma State vs. Texas Tech No. 24 Rutgers 81, Michigan 68 Thursday’s Games No. 1 South Carolina at Alabama, 5 p.m.

No. 4 Notre Dame at Miami, 5 p.m.

No. 7 Tennessee vs. No. 9 Texas A&M, 5 p.m.

No. 8 North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

No. 10 Kentucky vs. Auburn, 5 p.m.

No. 12 Maryland vs. Purdue, 4:30 p.m.

No. 13 Duke vs. No. 21 Syracuse, 4:30 p.m.

No. 14 Mississippi State vs. Arkansas, 7 p.m.

No. 17 Iowa at Illinois, 6 p.m.

No. 18 Arizona State at Arizona, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Nebraska at Michigan State, 6:30 p.m.

No. 20 Georgia vs. Missouri, 5 p.m.

No. 25 Western Kentucky at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Friday’s Games No. 11 Oregon State vs. Oregon, 8 p.m.

No. 15 Stanford at Washington, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 3 Texas at Iowa State, 10 a.m.

No. 5 Baylor at West Virginia, 1 p.m.

No. 16 Oklahoma State at TCU, 5 p.m.

No. 18 Arizona State vs. Arizona, 6 p.m.

No. 22 Princeton vs. Pennsylvania, Noon No. 24 Rutgers at Penn State, 10 a.m.

No. 25 Western Kentucky at Old Dominion, Noon

FOOTBALL Women’s Division I Wednesday’s Games East Albany (NY) 76, New Hampshire 65 American U. 62, Loyola (Md.) 50 Bloomfield 60, Felician 56 Bucknell 77, Lafayette 71 Caldwell 81, Post (Conn.) 54 Colgate 76, Holy Cross 71 George Washington 83, Saint Joseph’s 69 Lehigh 63, Army 51 Navy 61, Boston U. 55 Philadelphia 71, Wilmington (Del.) 53 Richard Stockton 70, NJ City 58 Rutgers 81, Michigan 68 Stony Brook 60, Vermont 38 Thiel 80, Chatham 74 UConn 98, Tulsa 60 Yale 57, Maine 55 Midwest Akron 67, Bowling Green 59 Aquinas 74, Michigan-Dearborn 57 Ball St. 72, Miami (Ohio) 41 Calvin 101, Adrian 73 Cardinal Stritch 73, Judson 43 Carroll (Wis.) 52, Ripon 36 Carthage 58, North Park 53 Cent. Michigan 66, Buffalo 58 Concordia (Moor.) 68, Bethel (Minn.)

56 Cornerstone 73, Indiana Tech 57 Davenport 70, Lawrence Tech 47 Green Bay 68, Wright St. 59 Gustavus 83, Augsburg 49 Hope 88, Albion 62 Indiana-East 88, Wilberforce 72 Kalamazoo 68, St. Mary’s (Ind.) 58 Madonna 63, Siena Heights 56 Mayville St. 78, Viterbo 60 Milwaukee 84, Detroit 68 Oklahoma 69, Kansas 57 Olivet 76, Alma 68 Purdue-Calumet at Chicago St., ccd.

St. Benedict 85, Hamline 68 St. Norbert 88, Lawrence 34 St. Olaf 66, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 65 St. Thomas (Minn.) 69, Macalester 30 Toledo 67, Kent St. 49 W. Michigan 61, Ohio 51 Wis.-Eau Claire 66, Wis.-Stout 49 Wis.-Oshkosh 59, Wis.-River Falls 51 Wis.-Platteville 67, Wis.-Stevens Pt. 61 Wis.-Superior 71, Wis.-Whitewater 59 South Anderson (SC) 82, Lincoln Memorial 78 Barton 84, North Greenville 69 Dayton 67, Davidson 51 E. Mennonite 55, Guilford 42 Furman 74, SC-Upstate 59 Limestone 68, Belmont Abbey 63 Loyola NO 68, Xavier (NO) 55 Memphis 70, UCF 66 Newberry 64, Catawba 60 North Georgia 63, GRU Augusta 60, OT Northwestern St. 61, Abilene Christian 56 Pikeville 92, Milligan 70 Randoph 55, Shenandoah 52 Southern Wesleyan 65, Mount Olive 49 Tenn. Wesleyan 75, Bryan 58 Thomas More 94, Bethany (WV) 45 Transylvania 89, Hanover 81 Tulane 76, East Carolina 63 Tusculum 82, Brevard 72 Union (Ky.) 54, Bluefield St. 50 Washington (Md.) 65, Dickinson 47 Southwest Cincinnati 76, Houston 73, 2OT Oklahoma St. 66, Texas Tech 35 TCU 86, Iowa St. 84 Tarleton St. 81, Angelo St. 71 Texas 61, West Virginia 55 Texas Woman’s 57, Texas A&MKingsville 43 Far West Colorado St. 58, Wyoming 55 Fresno St. 70, Utah St. 64 Nevada 71, UNLV 62 New Mexico 62, San Diego St. 53 San Jose St. 91, Air Force 64

Manning: Game set for Sunday Continued from Page B-1 He was asked on Wednesday about facing his old team and shrugged it off, noting, “I’ve been here for three years and this is the third time we’ve played them.”

As for the parallels between the passers, “I’ve never thought much about comparisons, how it affects me,” Manning said, “and I’m sure he doesn’t either.”

However, both quarterbacks realize they’ll be linked forever.

“I guess if you’re the first pick of the draft, you’re always going to be compared to other first picks.

When you play for a team, there are going to be comparisons to other quarterbacks that have played,” Manning said.

Luck said talking about Manning beats being asked about his beard all the time.

“It’s part of the job I guess,” Luck said. “I mean honestly, people don’t ask me too much about it. It’s you guys on the media days, and I would, too. As fans, we love story lines. It seems to be the nature, the sport culture today, so be it.”

Luck led the league with 40 TD passes, one more than Manning, who threw just three TD passes last month.

“A year ago, he broke probably every single-season record known to man,” Broncos coach John Fox said.

“It was the style we played and what was best for our team at that point. This year, I think we’re a little bit different team. We’re built different. He was a 12-4 quarterback during the regular season which is I think tied for the best record in football this year.”

Bowl: Fewer compelling matchups Continued from Page B-1 regular-season trends. A CBSSports.com study showed that the average regular-season attendance for home games this year was 43,483, down 4 percent from last season and its lowest figure since 2000.

“It’s not just a bowl problem,” Waters said. “It’s a college football problem that we’ve got to deal with.”

The first season of the playoff era created plenty of uncertainty for all the bowl games. The old BCS format was replaced by the “New Year’s Six,” which featured the Fiesta, Orange and Peach on New Year’s Eve with the two semifinals and the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. That new format led to plenty of change. For instance, the Peach Bowl was formerly known as the Chick-fil-A Bowl and traditionally pitted a Southeastern Conference school against an Atlantic Coast Conference program in a prime-time game. This year, the playoff committee arranged a matchup that had a 12:30 p.m. kickoff.

TCU trounced Ole Miss 42-3 in front of an announced attendance of 65,706, ending the bowl’s string of 17 consecutive sellouts.

“Obviously it was a 12:30 game where in the past we were in prime time,” Peach Bowl CEO and president Gary Stokan said. “We’re going to study every-

thing. I don’t know if that had anything to do with it.

We’re studying everything because everything has changed for us. … But how do you complain with [65,706]?”

Waters suggested that some bowls should try attracting more local fans who aren’t affiliated with the two schools playing in the game each year. He cited the Sugar, Peach and Rose as three bowl games with exceptional community support.

“We’ve probably gotten comfortable with crowds coming from schools,” Waters said. “Just as schools are having trouble with their attendance, we’re going to have to get more active locally.”

Waters said bowl games that have attendance increases generally have compelling matchups featuring regional opponents that are hungry for a bowl appearance.

The Texas Bowl had all those elements, as former Southwest Conference rivals Arkansas and Texas made the short trip to Houston for the Razorbacks’ first bowl appearance since the 2011 season. Arkansas’ 31-7 victory drew a sellout crowd of 71,115, more than double the announced attendance of 32,327 for the Texas Bowl’s Syracuse-Minnesota pairing last season.

But there apparently weren’t enough of those types of matchups this bowl season.

Mountain West Conference Conference W L Pct. Wyoming 2 0 1.000 Utah St. 2 0 1.000 Nevada 1 0 1.000 San Diego St. 2 1 .667 New Mexico 2 1 .667 Colorado St. 1 1 .500 Fresno St. 1 1 .500 UNLV 0 1 .000 Boise St. 0 2 .000 Air Force 0 2 .000 San Jose St. 0 2 .000

AllGames W L Pct. 13 2 .867 9 5 .643 5 8 .385 12 4 .750 10 5 .667 14 1 .933 6 9 .400 9 5 .643 10 5 .667 7 6 .538 2 12 .143

Western Athletic Conference Conference W L Pct. Grand Canyon 0 0 .000 Seattle 0 0 .000 New Mexico St. 0 0 .000 Texas-Pan Am. 0 0 .000 Utah Valley 0 0 .000 UMKC 0 0 .000 CS Bakersfield 0 0 .000 Chicago St. 0 0 .000

AllGames W L Pct. 9 8 .529 7 7 .500 8 9 .471 5 9 .357 5 9 .357 5 12 .294 4 11 .267 4 13 .235

NHL Eastern Conference W 26 24 26 26 22 21 22 20 21 17 16 18 15 15 14 12

Saturday, Jan. 10 Baltimore at New England, 2:35 p.m.

(NBC) Carolina at Seattle, 6:15 p.m. (FOX) Sunday, Jan. 11 Dallas at Green Bay, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Denver, 2:40 p.m.

(CBS)

Wild-card Playoffs Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20 Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 NFC, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) AFC, 4:40 p.m. (CBS)

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 - At Glendale, Ariz.

Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 6 p.m.

(ESPN)

Super Bowl

HOCKEY GP Tampa Bay 42 Pittsburgh 40 Montreal 40 N.Y. Islanders 40 Detroit 41 Washington 39 N.Y. Rangers 37 Boston 41 Toronto 41 Florida 37 Ottawa 39 Columbus 38 Philadelphia 40 New Jersey 42 Buffalo 41 Carolina 40

NFL PLAYOFFS Divisional Playoffs

L OL Pts GFGA 12 4 56 138 110 10 6 54 120 97 12 2 54 110 93 13 1 53 123 112 10 9 53 116 103 11 7 49 118 101 11 4 48 117 91 15 6 46 107 110 17 3 45 132 128 11 9 43 87 97 15 8 40 103 107 17 3 39 100 121 18 7 37 108 121 20 7 37 94 118 24 3 31 78 140 24 4 28 79 105

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 42 26 10 6 58 116 114 Nashville 39 26 9 4 56 119 90 Chicago 40 26 12 2 54 124 87 Vancouver 38 23 12 3 49 112 100 St. Louis 40 24 13 3 51 124 99 San Jose 41 22 14 5 49 113 108 Los Angeles 40 19 12 9 47 112 103 Winnipeg 40 20 13 7 47 103 96 Calgary 41 21 17 3 45 117 108 Dallas 39 18 15 6 42 121 128 Minnesota 38 18 15 5 41 107 110 Colorado 40 16 16 8 40 103 117 Arizona 39 15 20 4 34 92 130 Edmonton 41 9 23 9 27 90 139 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Wednesday’s Games Washington 6, Toronto 2 Boston 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Detroit 3, Calgary 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Anaheim 1 Thursday’s Games New Jersey at Boston, 5 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Florida at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Calendar Jan. 22-26 — All-Star break.

Feb. 21 — Stadium Series: Los Angeles vs. San Jose at Santa Clara, Calif.

April 11 — Regular season ends.

Sunday, Feb. 1 - At Glendale, Ariz.

AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 4:30 p.m. (NBC)

NFL Calendar Jan. 3-4, 2015 — Wild-card playoffs.

Jan. 10-11 — Divisional playoffs.

Jan. 18 — Conference championships.

Jan. 25 — Pro Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

Feb. 1 — Super Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

Feb. 16 — First day for teams to designate franchise or transition players.

Feb. 17-23 — NFL combine, Indianapolis.

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Saturday, Jan. 10 Medal of Honor Bowl - At Charleston, S.C. American vs. National, 12:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 12 College Football Championship At Arlington, Texas Ohio State (13-1) vs. Oregon (13-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 17 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 24 Senior Bowl - At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

TENNIS ATP-WTA TOUR Brisbane International Wednesday At Queensland Tennis Centre Brisbane, Australia Purse: Men, $494,310 (WT250); Women, $1 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men - Second Round Martin Klizan, Slovakia, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov (7), Ukraine, 1-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7).

Kei Nishikori (2), Japan, def. Steve Johnson, United States, 6-4, 7-5.

Grigor Dimitrov (4), Bulgaria, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8).

Bernard Tomic, Australia, def.

Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 7-6 (2), 6-1.

Women - Second Round Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, def.

Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Carla Suarez Navarro (7), Spain, def.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Ana Ivanovic (2), Serbia, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 6-4, 6-1.

Jazz: Flagging Cavaliers fall to Rockets; LeBron still out Continued from Page B-1 16 points and 11 rebounds, and reserve Taj Gibson added 15 points.

HAWKS 96, GRIZZLIES 86 In Atlanta, Jeff Teague scored 25 points, and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Memphis Grizzlies for their sixth consecutive win.

Atlanta has won 20 of 22 overall. The Eastern Conference-leading Hawks also have a nine-game winning streak against teams from the West.

ROCKETS 105, CAVALIERS 93 In Cleveland, James Harden scored 21 points, Dwight Howard had 17 points and 19 rebounds, and Houston roared past Cleveland in the fourth quarter.

The Cavaliers played their sixth straight game without LeBron James. The fourtime NBA MVP said he’s on target to return in a week from a strained back and knee.

HORNETS 98, PELICANS 94 In Charlotte, N.C., Kemba Walker scored 31 points, including a tiebreaking threepoint play with 1.4 seconds left, and Charlotte earned its third consecutive win.

Walker drove the right side of the lane and converted an 11-foot jumper after Jrue Holiday hit him on the arm. Walker then made the foul shot for a 97-94 lead.

WIZARDS 101, KNICKS 91 In Washington, the Knicks set a record for longest in-season slide in the proud franchise’s 69-year history.

The defeat was the Knicks’ 13th in a row, surpassing the mark set at the end of the 1984-85 season, and their 23rd in 24 games.

KINGS 104, THUNDER 83 In Sacramento, Calif., Rudy Gay scored 28 points and Darren Collison added 24 to help Sacramento snap a 12-game losing streak to Oklahoma City.

DeMarcus Cousins had 23 points and 15 rebounds, and the Kings rolled to just their fourth win in 11 games under new coach Tyrone Corbin and first against Oklahoma City since Feb. 12, 2012.

SUNS 113, TIMBERWOLVES 111 In Minneapolis, Gerald Green scored 15 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter, and Phoenix handed Minnesota its 13th

straight loss.

Green hit three 3-pointers in the fourth, helping the Suns wipe away a seven-point deficit to start the period in the blink of an eye.

PISTONS 108, MAVERICKS 95 In Dallas, D.J. Augustin scored 17 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter, and Detroit earned its seventh consecutive victory.

The Pistons (12-23) have the NBA’s longest current winning streak.

Greg Monroe had 27 points and 18 rebounds for Detroit. Brandon Jennings added 14 points, and Jodie Meeks had 11.

WARRIORS 117, PACERS 102 In Oakland, Calif., Klay Thompson scored 40 points, and the Golden State Warriors shook off a slow start to put away the pesky Indiana Pacers for their fifth straight win.

Thompson made 14 of 25 shots, including 6 of 11 from 3-point range, and Stephen Curry added 21 points and a season-hightying 15 assists to help the NBA-leading Warriors (28-5) stretch their home winning streak to 13 games.

NUGGETS 93, MAGIC 90 In Denver, Ty Lawson scored 23 points in Denver’s third consecutive win, and Arron Afflalo had 17 against his former team.

The Nuggets also got a key contribution from Jusuf Nurkic, who had eight points in his first career start in place of Timofey Mozgov, who was traded to Cleveland earlier in the day in exchange for two firstround draft picks.

CELTICS 89, NETS 81 In New York, Avery Bradley scored 21 points, and Boston snapped a threegame losing streak.

Tyler Zeller added 18 points for the Celtics, who won for just the second time in nine games by outplaying the Nets over the final three quarters after a slow start.

BUCKS 97, 76ERS 77 In Philadelphia, Brandon Knight and Khris Middleton scored 18 points apiece, leading Milwaukee to the victory.

The Bucks (19-18) shot 53.9 percent from the field in their fifth consecutive road win.

SPORTS

Thursday, January 8, 2015 THE NEW MEXICAN

Muhammad Ali released from hospital

By Bruce Schreiner The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Muhammad Ali is home after being hospitalized with a severe urinary tract infection.

The three-time world heavyweight champion was released from an undisclosed hospital Tuesday night, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Wednesday.

Ali is back home and looking forward to celebrating his 73rd birthday on Jan. 17 with his family and friends, Gunnell said.

“He’s in great spirits and enjoying being back home,” Gunnell said. “He’s back in his daily routine.”

Ali has had Parkinson’s disease for years.

Ali was hospitalized Dec. 20 with what was initially believed to be a mild case of pneumonia. Doctors later determined Ali

had a severe urinary tract infection and not pneumonia, Gunnell said.

The Ali family appreciates the outpouring of support and well wishes, and also thanked his team of doctors and nurses, he said.

Muhammad Ali and his wife, Lonnie, Ali have homes in Paradise Valley, Ariz.; Berrien Springs, Mich.; and in Louisville. Gunnell would not say which home Ali had returned to.

Ali’s public appearances have diminished in recent years as he wages his fight against Parkinson’s disease, but he appeared in public in September at a ceremony in his hometown of Louisville for

the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards.

Ali did not speak to the crowd but posed for photos with award winners, including former NFL star Jim Brown.

Brown leaned over and whispered to the seated Ali during the photo session. Later, Brown said he told Ali: “You’re the greatest of all time.”

Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and devoted himself to social causes. He has traveled the world on humanitarian missions. Ali received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2005.

The Muhammad Ali Center, in Louisville, is dedicated to Ali’s humanitarian causes and showcases his boxing career, reliving his epic fights with Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.

Wyoming hangs on to beat Colorado State FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Larry Nance Jr. scored 15 points, Jason McManamen hit a key 3-pointer with 23 seconds left and Wyoming outlasted Wyoming 60 Colorado State 60-54 Wednesday night.

Colo. State 54 Charles Hankerson Jr. and Josh Adams chipped in 13 points apiece for the Cowboys (14-2, 3-0 Mountain West). Nance and Adams each grabbed six rebounds and Adams dished out five assists.

J.J. Avila finished with 23 points, seven rebounds and four steals for Colorado State (14-2, 1-2), which dropped its second

Northern New Mexico

SCOREBOARD Local results and schedules ON THE AIR

Today on TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

GOLF 3:30 a.m. on TGC — European PGA Tour, South African Open Championship, second round, at Johannesburg (same-day tape) MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5 p.m. on ESPN — Michigan St. at Iowa 5 p.m. on ESPN2 — LSU at Missouri 5 p.m. on ESPNU — Radford at Gardner-Webb 5 p.m. on NBCSN — George Mason at Richmond 7 p.m. on ESPN — Stanford at UCLA 7 p.m. on ESPN2 — Memphis at SMU 7 p.m. on ESPNU — Rutgers at Nebraska 7 p.m. on FS1 — Arizona St. at Oregon St. 9 p.m. on ESPNU — Pepperdine at BYU NBA 6 p.m. on TNT — Houston at New York 8:30 p.m. on TNT — Miami at Portland

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE ROUNDUP

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straight after opening the season 14-0.

Wyoming moved out to a 13-point lead in the second half after a pair of 3-pointers from Hankerson. The Rams chipped away to pull within one with 4:01 remaining after a split pair of free throws from Stanton Kidd.

Nance made a layup and followed Avila’s lay-in with a dunk to make it 56-52 with 1:38 left. McManamen came up with a late steal before draining his clinching 3-pointer.

AIR FORCE 78, SAN JOSE STATE 56 In Colorado Springs, Colo., Marek Olesinski scored 16 points as Air Force coasted to victory over San Jose State for its first Mountain West Conference win of the season.

Air Force (8-6, 1-2) closed out the opening half with 12 straight points to lead 37-26 at the break. The Falcons were up by 15 with 8:02 left in the second and held San Jose State without a field goal for 4:19 to take a 23-point advantage with 4:16 left to play.

Air Force dominated in rebounds (32-22) and assists (23-11), ending the contest shooting 61.1 percent (33 of 54) from the floor. Hayden Graham finished with 14 points, Max Yon added 13 and Zach Kocur chipped in 12.

Rashad Muhammad scored 26 points on 10-of-18 shooting — including 6 of 12 from 3-point range — and Darryl Gaynor II added 11 for the Spartans (2-13, 0-3).

LOCAL TV CHANNELS FOX — Ch. 2 (KASA) NBC — Ch. 4 (KOB) ABC — Ch. 7 (KOAT) CBS — Ch. 13 (KRQE) Univision — Ch. 41 (KLUZ) ESPN — Comcast: Ch. 9 (Digital, Ch. 252); DirecTV: Ch. 206; Dish Network: Ch. 140 ESPN2 — Comcast: Ch. 8 (Digital, Ch. 253); DirecTV: Ch. 209; Dish Network: Ch. 144

ESPNU — Comcast: Ch. 261 (Digital, Ch. 815); DirecTV: Ch. 208; Dish Network: Ch. 141 FOX Sports 1 — Comcast: Ch. 38 (Digital, Ch. 255); DirecTV: Ch. 219; Dish Network: Ch. 150 NBC Sports — Comcast: Ch. 27 (Digital, Ch. 837): DirecTV: Ch. 220; Dish Network: Ch. 159 CBS Sports — Comcast: Ch. 274; (Digital, Ch. 838); DirecTV: Ch. 221; Dish Network: Ch. 158 ROOT Sports — Comcast: Ch. 276 (Digital, 814); DirecTV: Ch. 683; Dish Network: Ch. 414

PREP SCORES

Boys basketball Robertson 65, Socorro 63 Albuquerque Metro Tournament Consolation Quarterfinal Manzano 55, La Cueva 43 Sandia 55, Eldorado 51 Volcano Vista 56, Highland 38 Quarterfinal Atrisco Heritage 61, West Mesa 58 Cibola 60, Albuquerque

High 54 Cleveland 65, Valley 60 Rio Rancho 73, Hope Christian 71 EPAC Tournament Texico 74, Fort Sumner 49

Girls basketball Coronado 66, Menaul 18 Cuba 78, Monte del Sol 35 Tatum 67, House/Grady 24 Albuquerque Metro

Consolation Quarterfinal Atrisco Heritage 50, West Mesa 38 Cleveland 47, Highland 25 Del Norte 46, Manzano 29 Sandia 61, Rio Grande 34 Quarterfinal Cibola 57, Valley 38 Hope Christian 45, Albuquerque High 32 La Cueva 55, Rio Rancho 39 Volcano Vista 67, Eldorado 55

WRESTLING RESULTS

Virginia: No. 2 Duke holds off Wake Forest Continued from Page B-1

home and 21 in a row in the MVC. The Shockers also have won 10 in a row against Bradley, including the past six at home.

points. At times guilty of lacking the aggression that could make him a dominant player inside, he found that strength after halftime.

“I think a lot of it is just getting into a mindset and just remembering how successful you can be,” the 7-footer said.

Ralston Turner led N.C. State (11-5, 2-1) with 14 points and Kyle Washington had 13, but Turner didn’t score in the second half after making all four of his 3-point shots before intermission. Brogdon and Anderson drew that assignment.

NO. 2 DUKE 73, WAKE FOREST 65 In Winston-Salem, N.C., freshman forward Justise Winslow scored a season-high 20 points and No. 2 Duke held on to beat Wake Forest 73-65 on Wednesday night.

Jahlil Okafor added 12 points and 11 rebounds in his first Atlantic Coast Conference road game, and Quinn Cook had nine of his 12 points in the final 5 minutes for the Blue Devils (14-0, 2-0).

They shot 44 percent and pulled away by scoring on eight straight possessions down the stretch to keep pace with No. 1 Kentucky and No. 3 Virginia as the last unbeaten teams in Division I. This was Duke’s closest game all year: The Blue Devils had won each of their first 13 games by double figures.

Devin Thomas scored 24 points and Codi MillerMcIntyre added 13 for the Demon Deacons (8-8, 0-3).

NO. 4 WISCONSIN 62, PURDUE 55 In Madison, Wis., Frank Kaminsky scored 21 points and Josh Gasser added 15 as Wisconsin held off stubborn Purdue.

The Badgers (15-1, 3-0 Big Ten) pulled away from a 45-all tie with a 9-2 run to open a 54-47 lead on Gasser’s free throw with 3:19 left.

Wisconsin, which has won eight straight since an 80-70 loss at home to Duke in early December, maintained a twopossession lead the rest of the way.

XAVIER 69, NO. 19 SETON HALL 58 In Cincinnati, Dee Davis scored 14 points and Trevon

NO. 12 KANSAS 56, NO. 21 BAYLOR 55 In Waco, Texas, Wayne Selden made three consecutive baskets when No. 12 Kansas needed them most, and the Jayhawks held on for a 56-55 victory over No. 21 Baylor on Wednesday night to win their 24th consecutive conference opener.

Selden was 1-for-6 shooting before scoring seven points in a row, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2:17 left that put the Jayhawks (12-2, 1-0 Big 12) ahead to stay.

A jumper by Selden with 2:59 left tied the game, and he added a layup with 1:19 to go.

Duke’s Quinn Cook, right, tries to pass the ball as Wake Forest’s Konstantinos Mitoglou, left, and Devin Thomas, back, defend during the first half of Wednesday’s game in Winston-Salem, N.C. CHUCK BURTON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bluiett led a late run as Xavier pulled away from Seton Hall for the Musketeers’ second straight home win over a ranked team.

Xavier (11-4, 2-1 Big East) broke open a close game with a 20-6 spurt that gave the Musketeers the first double-digit lead of the game with 3 minutes to go. Bluiett had six points during the run, and Myles Davis had a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws.

The Pirates (12-3, 2-1) couldn’t extend their run of big wins. They knocked off St. John’s and Villanova last week to gain their first ranking in three years and their highest in 14 years.

NO. 20 VCU 71, DAVIDSON 65 In Richmond, Va., Treveon Graham had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Virginia Commonwealth, which held Davidson’s long-range shooters in check.

VCU (12-3, 2-0 Atlantic 10) built a 13-point lead midway through the second half and held on for its seventh straight win.

Melvin Johnson and freshman Terry Larrier each had 11 points for the Rams.

ILLINOIS 64, NO. 11 MARYLAND 57 In Champaign, Ill., Illinois wondered who would score with Rayvonte Rice injured, and Malcolm Hill provided the answer Wednesday with a career-high 28 points in a 64-57 upset over No. 11 Maryland.

Hill turned it on in the second half with 18 points. The sophomore’s hot hand fueled a 20-3 run that the Illini (11-5, 1-2) used to take over the game.

Rice is Illinois’ leading scorer and rebounder but will be out up to six weeks after breaking his left hand this week in practice. His loss left Illinois looking at possibility of a 0-3 conference start with its next two games on the road.

NO. 15 WICHITA ST. 63, BRADLEY 43 In Wichita, Kan., Darius Carter scored a game-high 19 points and No. 15 Wichita State beat Bradley 63-43 on Wednesday night.

The Shockers defeated the Braves after trailing at halftime for just the second time this season.

Wichita State (13-2, 3-0 Missouri Valley Conference) has won 25 consecutive games at

NO. 5 LOUISVILLE 58, CLEMSON 52 In Louisville, Ky., Chris Jones had his second straight 20-point second half to help fifth-ranked Louisville rally past Clemson 58-52 on Wednesday night.

Louisville trailed 22-18 at halftime after shooting 22 percent, but Jones and fellow guard Terry Rozier helped the Cardinals (14-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) snap out of their funk with a 17-0 run to open the second half that featured big plays on both ends.

Jones’ three 3-pointers and 7-of-9 free throw shooting were crucial, especially consecutive long-range shots that gave Louisville a 42-32 lead and thwarted Clemson’s momentum.

NO. 9 UTAH 74, COLORADO 49 In Salt Lake City, guard Brandon Taylor scored 14 points and guard Delon Wright added 13 points, six assists and four steals to help No. 9 Utah run away from Colorado for a 74-49 victory on Wednesday night.

Dakarai Tucker added 11 off the bench as the Utes (13-2, 3-0 Pac-12) won their sixth straight.

Utah blew open the game early after clamping down defensively on the Buffaloes.

Asika Booker and Jaron Hopkins each scored 12 points for Colorado (9-6, 2-1 Pac-12), which was held to its second lowest point total this season.

The Buffaloes shot just 39.5 percent from the field (17-of-43).

Dual Team score — Capital 46, St. Michael’s 27 Weight classes (in pounds) 106 — Lucas Romero, Capital, pinned Damian Munoz, 1 minute, 47 seconds.

113 — Alex Wisdom, Capital, pinned Clayton Montoya, 5:50.

120 — Jose Tapia, Capital, pinned Joshua Trujillo, 0:23.

126 — Adrian George, Capital, pinned Martin Martinez, 1:17.

132 — Tommy Wright, Capital, def. Jackson Compton, 16-4 (majority decision).

138 — Jonathan Anaya, Capital, pinned Dylan Herrera, 0:57.

145 — Jacob Jiron, Capital, def. Samuel Baca, 6-4 (OT).

152 — Arnoldo Loya, Capital, def. Juan Ayapan-Smith, 10-7.

160 — Jesus Vargas wins by forfeit.

170 — Julian Brittain, St. Michael’s, def. D.J. Williams,

5-4.

182 — Xavier Vigil, St. Michael’s, pinned Manuel Carrillo, 0:59.

195 — Benjamin Marino, St. Michael’s, pinned Oamara Mendoz, 3:01.

220 — Shaun Lave, St. Michael’s, pinned Clay Rhinehart, 0:28.

Heavyweight — Ryan Ortiz, St. Michael’s, pinned Dennis Pineda, 2:29.

PREP SCHEDULE This week’s high school varsity sports schedule. For additions or changes, contact us at sports@sfnewmexican.com:

Today Boys basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at N.M. School for Deaf, 6:30 p.m.

Taos at Questa, 6:30 p.m.

Moriarty at Capital, 7 p.m.

Peñasco, Desert Academy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Tierra Encantada at Wagon Mound Tournament, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA Girls basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at N.M. School for Deaf, 5 p.m.

Santa Fe Preparatory at Escalante, 6 p.m.

Socorro at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Desert Academy, McCurdy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA

Friday Boys basketball — Questa at Raton, 6:30 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Santa Rosa, 6 p.m.

Santa Fe High at Taos, 7 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Socorro, 7 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m.

West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Peñasco, Desert Academy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Santa Fe Waldorf, Academy for Technology & the Classics at Wolf Invitational, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA Girls basketball — West Las Vegas at Lovington, 6:30 p.m.

Capital at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at Navajo Prep, 7 p.m.

Thoreau at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Desert Academy, McCurdy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Santa Fe Waldorf, Academy for Technology & the Classics at Wolf Invitational, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA Wrestling — Al Salazar Invitational (at St. Michael’s), 1 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Tohatchi at Coronado, 1 p.m.

Santa Fe Preparatory at Tucumcari, 3:30 p.m.

Abq. Academy at Capital, 4 p.m.

Los Alamos at Belen, 5 p.m.

Springer at Mora, 5:30 p.m.

Wingate at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m.

West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Peñasco, Desert Academy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Santa Fe Waldorf, Academy for Technology & the Classics at Wolf Invitational, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA Girls basketball — Springer at Mora, 1:30 p.m.

Tucumcari at Santa Fe Preparatory, 2 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at Dulce, 4 p.m.

Piedra Vista at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Las Vegas Robertson at Portales Shootout, pairings TBA Desert Academy, McCurdy at Bean Valley Tournament (Estancia), pairings TBA Santa Fe Waldorf, Academy for Technology & the Classics at Wolf Invitational, pairings TBA Mesa Vista at Abq. Evangel Christian Tournament, pairings TBA Swimming & diving — St. Michael’s Invitational, 9 a.m. (at GCCC) Wrestling — Al Salazar Invitational (at St. Michael’s), 9 a.m.

Las Vegas Robertson, Santa Fe High at Moriarty Duals, 9 a.m.

Taos at Pagosa Springs (Colo.) Tournament, 9 a.m.

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Monte del Sol girls fall to Cuba, 78-35 Down 15 points at the end of one quarter and 38 by halftime, the Monte del Sol girls basketball team was no match on the road against Cuba on Wednesday night.

The Lady Rams led 54-16 at the midway point and extended the margin to 48 points

entering the fourth quarter, and their way to a 78-35 nondistrict win.

“They shot lights out on 3s, then they spread out the floor and fed the ball inside against us,” said Ricardo Arredondo, Monte del Sol head coach.

Alejandra Castillo led the Lady Dragons (4-10) with 17 points. Ariana Rodriguez added 8, as did Brooke Gallegos.

Paige Sam had a game-high 20 points for Cuba (8-5). Sydney Cayaditto added 17 while Katie Sam chipped in with 15 points.

Monte del Sol has dropped three straight, but the team has nine days off before returning to action Jan. 16 against Tierra Encantada.

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OUTDOORS

On the wall

With weather: Fishing report.

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On our website: For more stories and an outdoors calendar, go to www. santafenewmexican.com/outdoors

Ice climbing in Ouray, Colo., offers accessible exhilaration

ABOVE: Climbers ascend the ice wall at Ouray Ice Park in Colorado, which features manmade ice falls that are accessible to both beginner and experienced ice climbers.

RIGHT: Donna Wickham of Denver climbs the face of the ice. PHOTOS COURTESY PETER OLSON

By Peter Olson For The New Mexican

OURAY, Colo. y wife, Deb, is at the top of a vertical sheet of ice partway up the canyon wall. On her feet are crampons. The front points are jammed into the ice on the steep face. She is holding an ice ax or tool in each hand. The ax is jammed into the ice where the cliff face bends back and away, sloping up to the next vertical section. The tool in her other hand is flailing.

She is scratching, scrapping and searching for solid ice in which to sink her tool so she can pull over the lip of this frozen face in an area called the New Funtier of the Ouray Ice Park.

It doesn’t look like she’s having fun, but she is. A different kind of fun. The cold-sweatrunning-down-your-back, better-when-thispart-is-over kind of fun. The sloping shelf is slushy underneath and covered with snow from last night’s storm. No place is within reach for a solid placement of the high tool.

Somehow, Deb must get over this lip and onto more solid ice above this sloping shelf before her feet pop off.

Teetering on less than an inch of crampon steel in the ice and a dicey tool placement death-gripped in her left hand, she tries not so gingerly to hook a small pocket in the rock with her right. That’s what she wants to do, but what happens is her ice tool pops off, causing her to swing out away from the wall of ice.

Luckily for her, I have the rope locked in the brake position, keeping her on belay and from falling to the ground. She lets loose a nervously excited whelp and a laugh as she swings free on the end of the rope. Not scared but a bit startled, she swings back to the frozen wall and makes the moves quickly this time fueled by a surge of adrenaline. The rest of the climb is in solid blue ice to the top of the 90-foot-high canyon wall; it is strenuous but exhilarating.

I decide I’m going to get her that new helmet with a visor to protect her face from the shards of ice that fly with her, uh, enthusiastic bashing of the ice.

The Ouray Ice Park is a mile-long section of the Uncompahgre River Gorge that cuts through the foot of the mountains on the southern edge of Ouray, Colo. The ice is man-made — or “farmed” — by a dedicated group of ice-climbing enthusiasts. The park is within walking distance of downtown Ouray, a picturesque town surrounded by mountains on three sides.

Jan Lisk says it’s the land of ice and steam.

Jan and her husband own the Ouray Victorian Inn just across the street from the north end of the park. Every morning, she makes

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breakfast for her guests, many of them ice climbers.

“The ice park was born in this very room, probably,” she says.

The previous owner of the inn, Gary Wild, wanted to have a place to climb ice and stay in Ouray. The mountains around the town offered some good backcountry ice climbing, but before 1995, most of the businesses in town closed their doors in the fall and didn’t open until the spring. So people had to camp or stay in nearby towns.

While exploring for new ice falls to climb, Wild and Bill Whitt discovered water pipes leaking into the gorge, with the water freezing. This led to the idea of running pipes and installing spray nozzles to farm man-made ice formations along the canyon.

Wild, a lawyer, worked to resolve land-use and water issues, and Ouray Ice Park Inc. was born. What they developed, and others perfected, is an intricate feat of plumbing and engineering that ice farmers use to make ice, building layers of frozen water, which feeds a booming winter economy for the small western Colorado town and one of the premier ice-climbing venues in the world.

I’ve been climbing frozen waterfalls for 35 years. My first expedition was in my college roommate’s boots that were two sizes too big using one mountaineering ice ax. I set off one bitterly cold day climbing up and down the creek that cascaded through the middle of the city where I lived. Blisters on my feet, frost nip on my fingers, I clomped back to our apartment after dark smiling big and hooked on ice climbing. Tools and expertise have evolved since those days. Shops in Ouray rent the latest gear and guide services provide expert instruction.

Sondra Ripperger, who lives in Ouray during the winter and Albuquerque in the spring and fall, is working with Donna Wickham on her swing, getting her arm to move smoothly through the air, sticking the pick on the first try.

“Pick it and stick it!” says Wickham, who is a jazz voice teacher in Denver. She came last year and is back again honing her skill on vertical ice.

“This is great for me,” she says. “I can climb a lot in a short period of time in a safe environment without trudging into the back country. It is really fun; the camaraderie of all these climbers is wonderful.”

“I think it’s true that climbing ice is a bit easier than rock climbing. Every handhold is a jug,” Jennifer Tichy says, laughing. “Swing your tool, get a nice placement and you have a really good handhold.”

Tichy and her husband, Adam, came from Albuquerque to meet friends for a long weekend of climbing. Mike Shepherd, one of the friends, had just started to pick and kick his way up ice walls.

IF YOU GO Where: Ouray, Colo., is about a six-hour drive from Santa Fe, 70 scenic miles north of Durango. Drive the Million Dollar Highway (U.S. 550) with steep cliffs, narrow lanes, no guardrails and many hairpin turns between Silverton and Ouray.

What: The 20th Annual Ouray Ice Festival starts today and ends Sunday.

Some of the best climbers in the world flock to Ouray for the festival of climbing competitions, clinics, parties and an expo.

Cost: Climbing in the ice park is free but buying an annual membership starting at $40 is encouraged. Local businesses offer discounts with a membership card.

Lodging: Many hotels and motels and restaurants cater to ice climbers but ask you to take your crampons off before walking inside.

More info: Visit ourayicepark.com.

“I’ve been climbing ice since Dec. 4!”

Shephard says. “Some of my friends and family think I’m a bit crazy anyway, so climbing a waterfall in the winter isn’t a big surprise for them. It is so much fun, I am addicted.”

“It’s so easy to climb here. The approach is 10 minutes tops, and you can even walk from town to the climbing.

Access is as easy as a walk in the park from our hotel room to the top of the climb. Far easier than trekking into the backcountry for hours to get the bottom of a remote smear of ice. What’s not easy this opening weekend is finding a place to anchor my rope at the top of a climb. The park is packed full. Every patch of ice is crawling with climbers, so I am waiting to set up on the anchors Xander Subashi is using to belay his father.

“Our dad took me for the first time when I was 14 years old, and I have been hooked ever since,” says Subashi, a 27-year-old graduate student at Columbia University, as he belays his 60-year-old father climbing toward him at the top of the cliff.

As his father pulls himself over the top of the cliff, huffing and puffing, he grins at his now grown son and daughter. They are waiting for him to get to the top so they can walk downtown to get a hot chocolate on Main Street and a delicious meal in one of the restaurants and a soak in the hot springs.

Sierra Club hikes All Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter outings are free and open to the public. Always call leader to confirm participation and details. Visit www. riograndesierraclub.org/outings for the most updated information.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10: Strenuous snowshoe outing to Spirit Lake starting from the ski basin, 13 miles and 2,100-foot elevation gain. Early start.

Two or three dogs OK. Send email to lorenz.hughes@gmail.com or call Larry at 913-0589.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17: Rio Nambé Basin loop snowshoe, 8 miles, 1,800 feet of elevation gain. A loop route through a beautiful area in the winter. Difficulty depends on snow conditions. Call Aku at 577-2594.

SUNDAY, JAN. 18: Easy hike along

Arroyo Chamisa Trail, start at Zia Road parking area, return via Rail Trail. Call Norma McCallan at 471-0005.

SATURDAY-MONDAY, JAN. 17-19: Moderately strenuous backpack to Buds Hole at the intersection of the main and west forks of Mogollon Creek (about 5 miles) in the Gila Wilderness from the Mogollon Creek

Trail trailhead. Send email to walton@utep.edu or call John Walton at 915-747-8699.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21: Legislative training. Learn how to make an impact at the state Legislature.

Whole Foods Community Room, 1090 S. St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Send an email to daniel.lorimier@sierraclub.org.

Don’t judge Sipapu by its size alone L

ike “The Little Engine That Could,” the tiny Sipapu ski resort cannot be judged on size alone.

Despite its modest 1,055-foot vertical drop spread across 200 acres, the diminutive ski area has introduced thousands of people to the sport over its long history and continues to provide an inexpensive and fun experience to some 40,000 skiers and boarders during an average winter.

The resort was launched by Lloyd Bolander and his wife, Olive, in 1952 when they set up a rope tow above the charming Rio Pueblo some 20 miles southeast of Taos and began charging folks 50 cents for a day lift ticket. Aiming at families who could stay in their home lodge or adjoining cabins, the operation began with affordability in mind and maintains that practice to this day.

Bolander died last year and in a tribute to him at the time, I noted, Daniel “I have vague memories of spendGibson ing a few nights there at age 4 or Snow Trax 5. I recall huge masses of snow, and dim, gray light, the warmth of a wood-fired stove and stone fireplace, of getting wet and painfully cold but eager to get outdoors again, into the white world. I didn’t ski, but we sledded and built snow forts and crawled around in the fluff. I recall the owners were wonderfully cordial, a lot of laughter among the adults, and a promise as we left that we would be back again the following year.”

The resort is now directed by general manager Gary Forrest. The 63-year-old began his tenure in July 2013. A ski instructor for 16 years who maintains his Level 3 certification to this day, Forrest began his career at a small Southern California area called Holiday Hill. He then moved on to Mammoth, then China Peak, Keystone and Arapaho Basin in Colorado with his wife, Andrea. Moving back to China Peak, which was bought by Snow Summit Ski Corp., he began to work in management; first as ski school director, then operations manager.

“Finally, I went to work for Snow Summit in their corporate offices for many years. Then I retired,” Forrest explained in early December in his tiny office at Sipapu.

So what happened to his retirement?

“Nine years later, my wife and I had moved to Rio Rancho, to be close to our son, his wife and grandkids,” he said. “I saw a job description for this position and said, ‘I’ve done every single thing they are asking for — from sewer plants and electrical systems to teaching skiing, accounting, management and marketing, food service, housekeeping, grooming and snow making.’ You name it, and I’ve been involved in it.”

So he applied for the job and got it.

He and Andrea now live in the little log cabin with the red roof in the Sipapu parking lot.

“Especially with a resort that has lodging, as we do, I felt it was essential that I always be on the property,” Forrest said. “It’s been a lot of work but also a lot of fun.”

The low base elevation of the ski area (8,200 feet) poses some significant difficulties for Sipapu. The day I visited, in fact, a “Pineapple Express” weather system brought rain to the resort — a most discouraging development. The occasional lack of natural snow has led the resort to create an extensive snowmaking system and develop a staff that is tops in the field.

“Taos has a much larger snowmaking system, but we just do a better job of it,” Forrest jokes.

This has allowed the area to be the first to open in the state for many years running.

An astounding amount of money is tied up in operating even a small ski operation. Forrest notes a new snow-grooming cat can run $250,000 or more.

“But we don’t operate like that,” Forrest said. “We buy used equipment and take care of it. As the most affordable summer and winter resort in New Mexico, we are always looking for ways to be cost effective.”

Sipapu is the only ski area in the state (and one of just a handful in North America) to offer organic terrain parks — that is, parks created exclusively from natural elements from the local forests. The Playground includes a rail, canon and 30-foot C-shaped wall ride, and Flight School offers a 10-foot gap kicker and canon. By mid-January, they hope to add a full quarter pipe wall ride, two more down rails and one tree tap to Playground. And with another foot of snow, expect to find six different jumps on Flight School, anywhere between 10 and 20 feet in length, and a canon.

A third terrain playground, Pedro’s Park, is complete and is expected to open in mid-January. It will include a new quarter pipe, an A-frame box, a 20-foot tabletop, five rails and six additional jumps for a total of 14 features.

Another secret of Sipapu is its fine powder skiing. With the acres of glades now found at the top of the mountain, one can uncover powder stashes here days after a storm, as most of its clientele stick to the groomers or are found in the terrain parks.

Harking back to its roots, one can find great deals on combination lodging and lift tickets. But don’t come expecting gourmet dining or nightlife. Here you make your own party. It’s a totally no-frills experience, where many people will be seen skiing in Carhartts or blue jeans.

It is something of a throwback to a simpler era in skiing, when people didn’t dress to impress or expect four-star amenities. It’s simply about the joys of skidding on snow, the fresh air and exercise. Check it out.

For more on Sipapu, visit its website at www. sipapunm.com.

Daniel Gibson can be reached at dbgibson@ newmexico.com.

Thursday, January 8, 2015 THE NEW MEXICAN

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Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Wednesday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 45 /21 Normal high/low ............................ 44 /18 Recor g ............................... 55 n 1956 Recor ow ............................... -16 n 1971 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate ................. Trace/Trace Norma mont /year to ate ..... 0.10”/0.10” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate ................. Trace/Trace

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Weather trivia™

The temperature stayed below zero in New York City for an entire day only once--on Jan. 8, 1859. During the same cold snap, Toronto had its coldest January temperature ever.

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TV

its way into cyberspace in the new episode “Naked and Afraid.”

The timing isn’t great, since she’s in the midst of presiding over a much-analyzed case. Gary’s (Ryan Hansen) advice causes problems.

John Ducey and Miguel Sandoval also star.

9 p.m. on NBC Parenthood When Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) suffers a post-operation setback and is returned to the hospital, the whole Braverman family stands vigil as the soon-toend drama enters its home stretch with the new episode “How Did We Get Here?” Joel (Sam Jaeger) lends a shoulder to Julia (Erika Christensen). Adam and Crosby (Peter Krause, Dax Shepard) are torn by other concerns involving the Luncheonette. Lauren Graham, Monica Potter, Bonnie Bedelia and Ray Romano also star.

9 p.m. on ABC How to Get Away With Murder Though a judge has ordered a gag order on her case, Rebecca (Katie Findlay) isn’t content to leave things at that in “He Deserved to Die.” Annalise (Viola Davis) and her team continue to work on her behalf, though it becomes more challenging. Laurel and Frank’s (Karla Souza, Charlie Weber) connection moves beyond their mutual interest in the law. Michaela (Aja Naomi King) gets a shock. Actor Eric Stoltz (Mask) directed the story.

A: Nor’easter.

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7 p.m. on CBS The Big Bang Theory It’s no mystery to fans of this comedy that the brainy fellows normally do what they choose to, but in the new episode “The Space Probe Disintegration,” they let the ladies in their lives do the deciding.

It’s a nice gesture, but it has a big cost since Leonard and Sheldon (Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, pictured) end up at loggerheads with each other over it. Kaley CuocoSweeting, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar and Mayim Bialik also star.

8 p.m. on NBC Bad Judge Given Rebecca’s (Kate Walsh) unapologetically free lifestyle, it might not be a shock that a questionable photo of her makes

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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. hatever part inside Tommy Caldwell that made him attempt the seemingly impossible — a free climb of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall — might have been born in 2000 when he and three others were kidnapped by militants while climbing in the Pamir-Alai range of Kyrgyzstan.

They escaped after six days when Caldwell shoved an armed guard over a cliff.

Or it might have come shortly after, when Caldwell severed his left index finger with a table saw during a home renovation.

As with a concert pianist or a surgeon, the index finger is a useful digit for a world-class rock climber, and some worried that Caldwell’s career was over.

Instead, his biggest climbs have been performed with nine fingers.

But to his parents, Caldwell was hard-wired against giving up from the beginning.

“As a kid, he’d draw a dragon, and he wouldn’t draw just one,” Mike Caldwell, Tommy’s father, said from his home in Estes Park, Colo.

“He’d draw 20, and they’d look almost identical. He once dug a hole so darn big, we could have used it as a foundation for a small house.”

Tommy was 3 when Mike, a climber himself, attached a rope to his son and led him up the 200-foot Twin Owls formation in Rocky Mountain National Park, seducing him with the promise of flying a kite at the top. (They tried, but it was too windy.)

Tommy Caldwell is 36 now.

For more than a week, he and his climbing partner, Kevin Jorgeson, have been scaling the Dawn Wall, attempting what some believe is the hardest rock climb in the world.

On Tuesday night, Caldwell completed the last of the trickiest sections, Pitch 16, giving him a clear shot toward the top.

Jorgeson continued to strug-

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The following water statistics of January 6 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 2.013 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.109 City Wells: 1.872 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 6.994 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.103 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 11.1 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.03 million gallons.

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed.

• Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited.

• Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle.

• Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

Climbers dream big, then hold on

By John Branch

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Tommy Caldwell, left, and Kevin Jorgeson climb the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Jan. 1. The two climbers are attempting the climb without ropes.

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gle to complete the sideways traverse of Pitch 15 and was saddled with battered fingers.

The question increasingly becomes whether Caldwell waits for his partner or continues upward, hoping Jorgeson catches up with him later.

Caldwell called the day “bittersweet,” adding: “Let’s all send Kevin good skin healing vibes.”

But while this push began on Dec. 27, when the two men last touched the floor of Yosemite Valley, it took root nearly a decade ago.

The Dawn Wall, so named because its sheer face catches the morning sun, was first climbed in 1970 by Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell (no relation to Tommy).

They drilled hundreds of bolts and pulled themselves up ropes to reach the top.

The idea of free climbing the 3,000-foot rock formation — to use nothing but hands and feet to move upward, relying on ropes only to stop falls and pull equipment — was thought to be virtually impossible.

But Caldwell thrives on the virtually impossible.

“I have a very distinct goal all the time that I’m working toward, and I love the way it makes me live,” Caldwell said Sunday from the midcliff camp that he and Jorgeson had, 1,200 feet up El Capitan.

“Most of the days of the year I wake up with this on my mind, thinking, ‘What am I going to do today to get one step closer?’ It gets me outside every day in the mountains in beautiful places, pushing myself. It makes me live at a higher level, having this as part of my life.”

When he first considered the Dawn Wall, Caldwell and his wife at the time, professional climber Beth Rodden, rappelled its vertical face, exploring if it could be freeclimbed despite its featureless surface.

That he would still be working on it 10 years later does not surprise Rodden.

“I’d say, ‘That kind of sounds like Tommy,’ ” Rodden said Tuesday.

New Mexico fishing report Catches of the week

LAGUNA DEL CAMPO: Closed for the season.

NAVAJO LAKE: Fishing pressure was light and fishing continued to be slow for all species.

TINGLEY BEACH: Before the cold snap, fishing at the Youth and Central ponds was good using Pistol Petes, Gulp eggs, Velveeta cheese, homemade dough bait and salmon eggs for trout. We had no reports from the Bob Gerding Catch and Release Pond.

TROUT LAKES: We had no reports from anglers this week.

NOTE: If you have a catch of the week story or want to share your latest New Mexico fishing experience, send it to fishforfun2@hotmail. com. For catches of the week, include name, date and location, as well as type of fish, length and weight, bait, lure or fly used.

Northeast CHARETTE LAKES: Closed for the season.

CLAYTON LAKE: Closed for the season.

CONCHAS LAKE: Fishing pressure was very light and fishing was slow for all species.

EAGLE ROCK LAKE: Closed through next fall.

The closure will allow Chevron Mining to dredge the lake and reconstruct the area.

EAGLE NEST LAKE: Call the State Park Office at 575-377-1594 for updated conditions.

LAKE ALICE: Closed due to thin ice on the lake.

LAKE MALOYA: Call the State Park Office at 575-445-5607 for ice updates. With the colder weather, safe ice conditions could allow fishing by next weekend.

MAXWELL LAKE 13: Closed for the season.

MORPHY LAKE: Closed for the season.

STORRIE LAKE: As of Monday there was a thin layer of ice covering the lake. For updated conditions, call the State Park Office at 425-7278.

Northwest BLUEWATER LAKE: For updated ice conditions, call the State Park office at 876-2391. Note: Anglers should be aware that it is illegal to use bait fish at this lake.

EL VADO LAKE: Call the State Park Office at

Southwest QUEMADO LAKE: As of Sunday, there was a thin layer of ice on the lake considered unsafe for fishing.

Southeast

On Jan. 1, James Martinez, 6, of Belen used a marshmallow to catch a 13-inch rainbow trout at Tingley Beach.

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575-588-7247 for updated conditions.

FENTON LAKE: A layer of ice has formed on the lake and it is closed to ice fishing. Put this one back on your list for great fishing early next spring.

HERON LAKE: There was some ice around the edges of the lake as of Monday and we had no reports from anglers.

BONITO LAKE: Closed.

BRANTLEY LAKE: Anglers are to practice catch-and-release for all fish here as high levels of DDT were found in several fish.

OASIS PARK LAKE: As of Monday morning, the lake was covered with a thin layer of ice and closed to fishing. For updated information, call the State Park office at 575-356-5331.

This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and the Department of Game and Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers, anglers, guides and local businesses. Conditions may vary as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities.

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2 BEDROOM, $800. 1 BEDROOM, $700.

Private estate. Walled yard, kiva fireplace. Safe, quiet. Utilities paid.

Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

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BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN, 1000 sq.ft. One bedroom. Washer, dryer. $1,200. Near community college, 2.5 acres. Private gated property. 505-901-7415.

HOUSE FOR RENT DURING LEGISTLATIVE SESSION. Fully furnished, 3 bedrooms. Off Osage. Close to bus-stop. $1100 to March 30th. 505-470-0758

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2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, no pets. $750 monthly. Quiet neighborhood. 2-car garage. East Carlson Subdivision, by National Guard. 505-471-7587, 505690-5627.

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH. Ra n c h o Siringo Road, fireplace, fenced yard. $729 monthly.

GREAT 1 BEDROOM. Fenced yard, washer dryer in unit. Cozy floor plan with spacious kitchen. Plenty of off-street parking. Only $629 monthly.

RODEO ROAD AREA. 2 excellent apartments, nice amenities. $699 or $750 monthly.

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Chamisa Management 505-988-5299 $700 MONTHLY, 1 BEDROOM

986-3000 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

RETAIL SPACE 1607 ST. MICHAELS DRIVE

For Sale or Lease. 4000 sq.ft. Open space. Ample parking. 505-699-0639

INVESTMENT PROPERTY 104 FAITHWAY: Downtown 7-plex $1,200,000.

1425 PASEO DE PERALTA: Downtown 9-plex $1,350,000. 813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: 8-plex $750,000, 1 3 0 1 - 1 3 0 3 RUFINA LANE: 9-plex, $1,050,000.

1616 BRAE: Triplex $350,000. Lot for Sale: Puesta del Sol, 2.5 Acres, water well, electric near, $185,000. Fo r Details: 505-471-4405.

Investors Only, NO Realtors , NO Owner Financing.

LOTS & ACREAGE

Very clean, quiet, cozy with Kiva fireplace. All utilities paid. Great location off St. Francis Drive. No Pets. 505-473-0278.

CHARMING 2 bedroom Casita, $850 plus utilities. Centrally located, near bus stops and parks. 101 1/2 Taos, Call Gertrude, 505-983-4550.

1 BEDROOM DELIGHT! Enormous!

1300 sq. ft. with high ceilings, great light, architectural details.

Huge bathroom, laundry, radiant heat. Fenced yard. Secure shed.

Offstreet parking. Pets okay!

Lease. $1275. $500 deposit. 505-7955245.

3 BEDROOM 3 BATH HOME in Eldorado. Very high quality home, over 3,000 sq.ft. of living including 3 car garage and lots of outdoor parking. Many amenities including a jetted tub in the master bedroom suite. Extra library room, over 1 acre of land. Easy walk to Eldorado community center, all included. $1950 monthly, deposits and pets negotiable.

Chamisa Management 505-988-5299 BEAUTIFUL 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. Airport Road area, close to 599 and I25, schools. Gas range, dishwasher, island kitchen, Washer, dryer, central air, 2 car garage. $1300 monthly plus Utilities. 505-819-8619.

EFFICIENCY EAST SIDE 1 bedroom, non-smoking, no pets. $750 monthly includes utilities. $300 deposit. Lease. References. 505-9835203, evenings or leave messages.

Where space is a concern and convenience is priority, look no further than Las Palomas Apartments. Call us today at 888-4828216 for a tour of a spacious studio and see the incredible amenities our community offers!! Let us help you start the year off right. ¿Mencionamos, hablamos español!

SUBLETS NOW AVAILABLE IN DESIRABLE RETAIL LOCALE IN SANTA FE. RESPOND VIA EMAIL OR PHONE. TESOROCONSIGNMENT@YAHOO.COM 505-467-8422

CONDOSTOWNHOMES

$100 REWARD! Please help find me. I am a 1994 4x4 Toyota pickup.

Burgandy. Xtra cab with camper shell. I went on test drive, but was never returned to my owner. The person that road tested me prevously worked at Santa Fe Cheverolet & Performance GMC. I miss my owner & want to get back home. Please call, 424-1225 or police.

PERSONALS NEEDED INVESTOR for an invention with working prototype. Low-risk investment with possible high return.

Patent search completed with promising results. Patent is pending. If interested call 575-375-2030.

IMMACULATE 322 Rancho Viejo, kiva fireplace, tile, new carpets. Walled yard, all appliances. $1580 monthly.

Patrick Thomas Owner, Broker. 505780-0129

SAN JUAN Pecos, 2 bedroom house. Adobe, with 8 acres. Washer, dryer, refrigerator. $1000 monthly plus utilities. Good credit background check. 505-423-3788

OFFICES GATED, GROUND FLOOR, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, air, washer, dryer, fireplace, patio. $600 security, $1145 monthly, 1st, last. Available 2/1/15. 1 pet ok. richboyle@aol.com. 505-795-2783

OUT OF TOWN NEWLY REMODELED ADOBE HOME FOR SALE!

GUESTHOUSES

Sits on one acre of land next to the Rio Grande . 505-995-0318 DETAILS: www.northernnewmexicohome.com

Learn God’s ways of handling money at the Santa Fe Church of Christ, 505-983-8636, 1205 Galisteo Street.

Free Previews: January 11; 3pm & January 12; 6:30pm.

Classes: Wednesdays; February 4 - April 1, 2015 at 6:30pm.

Notice is hereby given that the Procurement Reform Taskforce will hold its regular monthly meeting to discuss proposed changes to the Procurement Code. The agenda will be available at least twenty-four hours prior to the meeting on the State Purchasing Division website at www.generalservices.state.nm.u s/spd.

If you are an individual with a disability who is in need of special accommodations, please contact Mr. Tim Korte, Public Information Officer at (505) 8273881 at least twenty-four hours prior to the scheduled meeting.

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Taylor Properties 505-470-0818 Vista Property Corp 505-988-5299 PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

Great location and parking! $500 monthly includes utilities, cleaning, taxes and amenities. Move in incentives!

ROOMMATE WANTED

MUSEUM HILL WELCOME LEGISLATURES! 1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH. Completely furnished, high-end, turn-key. Quiet, secluded. $1000 monthly plus deposit. sfedit@comcast.net 505-988-5671

Private rooms, shared bath & kitchen, washer, dryer. $425 and $475.

Clean, safe, quiet. No Pets. Month-toMonth. Deposit. 2 miles North of Plaza. 505-470-5877

Roomate Wanted in a 3 bedroom, 2 bath House. $600 monthly, split utilities. Colores Del Sol Area. 505-470-7641.

ACCOUNTING ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST Los Alamos County Los Alamos $19.68 hr.-$29.52 hr. Requires an Associate’s in Accounting, Business Admin or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience; and 2 years accounting, bookkeeping or related experience. County application is required. Application and full job information available at www.losalamosnm.us or by calling 505-662-8040. Deadline is January 16, 2015 at 5 pm.

ADMINISTRATIVE 2ND SHIFT RECEPTIONIST for 2015 Tax Season. Must be bilingual in Spanish, have good people skills, and basic computer skills. Call 505473-4700 to set up appointment for interview.

MEDICAL DENTAL

Community Home Health Care and The Hospice Center RN Full and part-time positions, including weekends. See website for details.Most positions benefits eligible.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Tollfree hotline 1-866-661-5491.

EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

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Office: 505-821-1034, 8900 Washington NE Albuquerque, NM Fax Resume to: 505-821-1537 Email: frontdesk@ sparlingconstruction.net

986-3000 DOMESTIC JOBS ASSISTANT FULL -TIME HOUSEKEEPER 505-660-6440

LPN/RN

WE HAVE RN/LPN POSITIONS AVALIABLE. THE SHIFTS ARE 6AM TO 6:30PM OR 6PM TO 6:30AM, 3 DAYS ON AND 4 DAYS OFF.

CNA’S

WE HAVE CNA POSITIONS AVALIABLE. THE HOURS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 6AM TO 6:30PM, AND 6PM TO 6:30AM.

UNIT MANAGER

Full-time position with Early Head Start program in Santa Fe. Serves as technical support for staff training and development.

See website for requirements.

WE HAVE A POSITION OPEN FOR A FULL-TIME UNIT MANAGERS. THE POSITION REQUIRES THAT YOU MUST BE A REGISTERED NURSE. THE DUTIES WILL BE TO HELP THE DON OVERSIGHT & SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT. THIS IS A SALARY POSITION. Any one interested please come by and speak to Judy Wilson, RN/DON, or Craig Shaffer, Administrator, 505-982-2574 635 HARKLE Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE, AA, M, F, SO, Vet, Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

NEW HEALTH CENTER & ASSISTED LIVING ADDITIONS COMPLETED! We have Full-Time Positions

MANAGEMENT

Open in our clinical areas for all levels of long term care. All shifts available. Experience in geriatric nursing care preferred.

Great medical and retirement benefits, shift differential pay & pleasant working environment.

Email your resume to humanresources@elcnm.com or fax to 505-983-3828.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Northern Pueblos Housing Authority

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority seeks an Economic Development Director.

This is a one-year grant-funded position with a primary responsibility to finalize business plans for two identified proprietary Pueblo-owned businesses, arrange financing, and initiate implementation of the business plans.

For further information and application instructions, please e-mail receptionist@nphousing.com.

MEDICAL DENTAL

Children’s Services Coordinator Health and Nutrition

1441 St. Francis Drive. Take all or part of the building, available up to 3750 square feet. Kitchenettes, private and public baths, and outdoor balcony with views.

1 ROOM available in 3 bedroom home. $400 monthly plus utilities.

Call 505-490-3560.

NO BETTER DEAL IN NM. 804 Colbert, Springer. Population: 1,047. (2 hours north of Santa Fe on I-25). Price: $39,850. Down: $551. Payment: $350.

Sq.Ft.: 1050. Natural gas, beautiful 3 bedroom adobe, metal roof, refinished wood floors. FSBO, 480-392-8550.

*Health insurance *401K *Salary DOE / EOE *Drug testing

986-3000

Please call (505)983-9646.

2 BEDROOM 2 Bath, $1,900 monthly with lease, $2,500 monthly without lease. 992-0412

Two years’ experience, needed for paving crew. Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Espanola Area. Good Pay, Steady Work.

EDUCATION

MODERN OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE $14 PER SQ.FT. ANNUALLY

1994 REMODELED TRAILER 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. 16x80. Ready to move-in. Parked, buyer pays space rent. 505-204-2078, 505-484-0428

ASPHALT RAKER & SCREED OPERATOR

JUMPSTART 2015 Write Your Memoir 6-week classes begin January 6 & 7. Includes literary craft, construction and personal workshop of your creation. For other classes, go to imattered.com 505-316-1521. email hello@imattered.com

Call and d talk to one of our friendly Consultants today!

NEAR TRADER JOES. 1000 MARQUEZ PLACE. 2 bedrooms.

Excellent condition. Non-smoking, no pets. $950 monthly, utilities included. $1000 damage. 505-670-1002

RANCHO VIEJO Upscale smoke-free townhome, light & bright corner unit, extensive upgrades, lovely portal with mountain & sunset views. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2-car garage.

Vigas, gaslog kiva, refrigerated air, washer, dryer, stainless steel appliances. 1650 square feet. $1500. 505463-9334

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Procurement Reform Taskforce Meeting January 16, 2015 - 10:00 a.m 12:00 p.m.

State Capitol Bldg. - Rm 317 Santa Fe, NM 87503

PEACE & QUIET: 3 bedroom, 2 bath.

Plaster, stucco. Highway 14 area. $850 monthly. Lease, deposit. References required . 505-473-7155, 505699-0120.

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RIVERFRONT PROPERTY in Village of Pecos. FOR SALE BY OWNER 2.840 acres. Breathtaking views, tranquil setting. $350k. Gene 505920-5629

Full-time positions in Santa Fe and Pojoaque with Early Head Start program. See website for requirements.

Education Specialist

GORGEOUS 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2700 SQ.FT. ESTATE- plus art studio that is attached. Light & bright. Saltillo tile, vigas, 3 fireplaces, office, chef kitchen. $2,800 monthly. Pond, kiva fireplace, hot tub in private backyard. 5 minute walk to Plaza. Owners NM real estate brokers. Skye’s the Limit Realty LLC. 505-629-9998.

BUSINESS PROPERTY

ADOPTION ADOPTION. A loving married couple wishes to adopt 1st baby. Expenses paid. Legal and confidential. 1-866867-0378 Mariana & Anthony.

1 BEDROOM 1 bath. Prime north railyard. Fenced yard. Washer, dryer.

Parking. Near Farmer’s Market. $1000 monthly plus utilities. 505-2315410.

FAMILY SERVICES ASSISTANT

Excellent benefits. Apply on line at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE, AA, M, F, SO, Vet, Disability Follow us on Facebook.

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ADMINISTRATIVE

Full-time position with Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Santa Fe. Requires degree in health, nutrition, or closely related field and experience working with young children and families.

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE, AA, M, F, SO, Vet, Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

MDS Coordinator (Santa Fe Care Center)

We are currently looking for a Fulltime MDS Coordinator. Hours will flexible according to census.

R e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s : Would be to complete MDS according to State and Federal Regulations.

Q u a lific a tio n s : Licensed Nurse, experience in completing MDS. If interested please come by 635 Harkle Rd Santa Fe, NM 87505

RN, LPN, CNA & Activity Director

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS CARETAKER Caretaker for boarding kennel.

Looking for a responsible individual or couple to reside on kennel property. Oversee kennels and maintain security from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. Serious inquiries only.

Apply in person at 27712 West.

Frontage Road.

PART TIME PART-TIME COOK; Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., $11.50 hourly. Starting February 2nd. For more information: 505-474-8080 or stop by: 4601 Mission Bend.

TRADES

WEB PRODUCTION ASSISTANT The Santa Fe New Mexican has an immediate opening for a Web Production Assistant. The selected candidate will work 5 days a week, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., monitoring local and national news to keep our website up-to-date. The position may include breaking news and headline writing. Additionally, the candidate will aid in design of special online sections, edit brief audio and video clips and perform a variety of other tasks related to online presentation. Must possess good news judgment, attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.

Social media savvy and experience in journalism or writing-intensive discipline required. Experience on Macs, Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut X is preferred.

The New Mexican offers paid vacation and benefits, in addition to a free gym membership.

Send Cover Letter and Résumé to: Natlaie Guillén, Digital Production Manager nguillen@sfnewmexican.com The Santa Fe New Mexican 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

No phone calls, please.

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APPLIANCES CALTHALON XL Convection Oven with crumb tray, baking pan, user guide and broil Racks. Superb condition, $91. 505-470-0758.

ART SELLING FINE ART AT BELOW WHOLESALE PRICING including many well-known New Mexico artists. 136 Grant Avenue. 505-6810597, Jack.

AUCTIONS WANTED: Any type farm freight wagon or buggy made by Joseph Murphy of St. Louis. Call Tom, 800959-5782.

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES GOOD ALFALFA FOR SALE. Some cow hay. Please call: 505-927-7043.

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HORSES

4x4, merely 21k miles, local trade, navigation, leather, loaded, clean Carfax, $30,971 505-913-2900

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CLASSIC CARS 1985 Oldsmobile, Royale Brougham, fully loaded. Nice interior, paint & tires. Runs well, however smokes. $2,500, OBO. 505-660-4079.

Toy Box Too Full?

CAR STORAGE FACILITY

INDOOR GARAGE sale-flea! Years of collecting. Time to find new homes!

Furniture, standing mirror, rugs, antiques, pottery; regular, vintage clothing, household items, much more!

KSK Center, 3777 K.S.K. Lane, off Airport Road, Southside, follow signs.

SATURDAY, January 10, 9-1 p.m.

ESTATE SALES

CLOTHING WOMEN’S BROWN leather boots, knee high, 2" heels. $20. new black boots, 2" heels, $40. 505-927-5428.

MOVING SALE. Saturday, January 10, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Furniture, household items. Lots of quality great stuff!

Proceeds will go to local animal rescue groups. 252 Loma Entrada, off Old Taos Highway. NO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE!

682 CALLECITA JICARILLA ESTATE SALE: 2 DAYS ONLY - Saturday, January 10 & Sunday, January 11 6 A.M. to 4 P.M. Furniture; area rugs; works of art, folk art. Costume jewelry; dishes; glassware other kitchen items. Crystal. CDs, DVDs, books.

Cash only please.

2014 JEEP Cherokee Latitude 4WD 17K, loaded, auto, 1 owner...$25,641 Call 505-216-3800.

2010 Acura MDX AWD, pwer HEATED seats, XM, moon roof, loaded with 3rd row seating. In time for changing weather $30,729 Call 505-216-3800.

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 www.collectorcarssantafe.com

DOMESTIC

2014 TOYOTA RAV 4 LIKE BRAND NEW, SAVE THOUSANDS, $24,365 .

T1853 CALL 505-473-1234.

FIREWOOD-FUEL STEPHENS A CONSIGNMENT GALLERY

FIREWOOD Get yours now! Cedar, Pinon, Russian Olive…Quantity discounts. Full cords available. Call for prices & delivery options. 505-231-3034.

Our next Estate sale will be Saturday, January 17th in Park Plazas.

For more information, check out www.stephensconsignments.com and "Like" us on facebook

10 YEAR OLD 1/2 ARABIAN, 1/2 MUSTANG GELDING. Nice & gentle. For pleasure or pack. $800 OBO. 505-4745978, 505-577-0764.

4X4s

»cars & trucks« 2007 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LS, SUV 4WD, VERY CLEAN!

CHICKENS FOR SALE. 5 year old for $10 each. 10 months, $15 each. All layers. 505-507-4350

SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

FURNITURE

PETS SUPPLIES Brown Miniature Male Poodle, 25 pounds, sweet, outgoing. Must have secure fenced yard. Shots UTD. $800.

More Information: 575-613-2309.

MINI DOXIES. Reg,shots and health guaranteed. $650. 575-910-1818 POTTY PAD trained. PAYMENT PLAN credit, debit, PAYPAL. Red & sable. txt4pics. cingard1@hotmail.com.

USDA license PARTY POMERANIANS Registered, shots POTTYPAD trained. $800+ PAYMENT PLAN. Credit Cards, PAYPAL. 575-910-1818 txt4more pics. Taking deposits. cingard1@hotmail.com USDA licensed.

PUPPIES, FREE to good homes!! 10 available. 3/4 Pitbull. 6 weeks. Jeff or Billy Ray, 505-438-2424.

AUTO PARTS ACCESSORIES

2013 DODGE CHARGER, LOW MILES, ALWAYS IN FASHION, SAVE $16,995. P1710 CALL 505473-1234.

2014 BMW X3 low miles and even lower price, auto, moonroof, heated seats, why buy new... Call 505-2163800.

AUTOS WANTED

2014 Ford Edge Limited AWD 19K, super nice, new body and loaded...$27,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2 MEXICAN TIN MIRRORS, floor length. $300 each. 505-988-1715

2011 FORD Ranger XLT 4x4, with extended cab. Only 31K miles. New tires. $20,763. please call 505-6608007.

BENCHES, SIDE TABLES, small cabinets, and coffee table, $300 each.

505-699-5987

Donate used cars, trucks, boats, RV, motorcycles in any condition to help support Santa Fe Habitat.

Call: 1-877-277-4344 or www.carsforhomes.org Local: 505986-5880.

Custom made 40" Round Southwest Pine Table, bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Matching chairs, $125. Choose finish, upholstery, 505982-3214.

STAINED GLASS LAMPSHADES. BEAUTIFUL. Perfect condition. Reasonable.

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Horoscope ACROSS 1 Haunt 7 Game with its own dictionary 15 Sense 16 Showed one’s support, in a way 17 Casino employee 18 Pulls 19 It stinks 20 Like the rightmost elements 22 Fox 23 Theatrical event 24 Woman’s name with a ring to it?

26 Play in 7-Across with the rack DEIORRW 29 Singer on Canada’s Walk of Fame since 2005 30 Mars, to some 31 One with all the answers?

32 Common workout target 35 “Rocks” 36 Play in 7-Across with the rack DDEEIRS 39 Major suit 40 Youth 41 Sonata, e.g.

42 Latin trio member 43 Youth

44 Play in 7-Across with the rack ADEGNRS 47 Lower 50 Orange ___ 51 Université breaks 52 “Clear now?”

53 “Li’l ol’ me?”

56 Governor who said “I don’t think there’s anybody in America who would necessarily think my personality is best suited to being number two” 59 Creation 61 Place with rides 62 1998 and 1999 Super Bowl champ 63 What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle 64 Kind of bar

1 2 3 4 5

DOWN Even ___ Sugar source Blackjack choice Elusive one When Kane dies in “Citizen Kane”

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015: This year you will experience many changes in your daily life. You have the spirit to not let this situation bother you, and you have what it takes to cruise right by it.

6 Aimed 7 Something settled long ago?

8 Dove’s home 9 Hooey 10 SFO info 11 Nursery rhyme opener 12 One way for urbanites to travel 13 Do not disturb 14 Car that famously debuted on “E Day” 21 Plant protrusion 23 Transportation lines: Abbr.

24 Memo starter 25 What one might attach to a vehicle after a snowstorm

26 Complain loudly 27 1977 horror film set at sea 28 Plant that’s not cultivated 29 ___ station 31 Potential aunt, for short 32 Ne plus ultra 33 Black ___ 34 They’re often wasted 36 Some deer 37 Modern pentathlon event 38 Morning ___ 42 Suffix with block 43 Shocking, in a way 44 Tip of Greenland?

45 How a superhero might stand

46 Something a lawyer might once have called on?

47 Record label for Jimmy Dorsey and Louis Armstrong 48 Allen in history 49 “You can observe a lot by watching” speaker 50 Shucks 52 Twins’ home?

53 Moneymaking enterprise 54 Previously 55 Operatic prince 57 Rap’s ___ Mix-a-Lot 58 Dam-building org.

60 Takes down, briefly

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Chess quiz BLACK HAS A CRUSHER Hint: Win the queen.

Solution: 1. ... Qd5ch!

2. b3 Rd2ch! gets the queen.

Hocus Focus

Super Quiz Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: THE WORLD’S LARGEST BAY (e.g., What is the world’s largest bay measured by area? Answer: Bay of Bengal.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. The bay forms the northeastern part of which ocean?

Answer________ 2. Name the river that is a boundary of India and empties into the bay.

Answer________ 3. Which two countries share the region known as Bengal?

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. What smaller bay is the world’s largest bay measured by shoreline.

Answer________ 5. What is the national animal of both India and Bangladesh?

Answer________ 6. What is the largest city in Bengal?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Provide the acronym for either of the two economic blocs centered by the bay.

Answer________ 8. Name either of the two major island groups to the east of the bay.

Answer________ 9. This former capital of Burma is an important port on the bay.

Answer________ ANSWERS: ANSWERS: 1. Indian Ocean. 2. Ganges River. 3. Bangladesh and India. 4. Hudson Bay. 5. Bengal Tiger.

6. Dhaka (Dacca). 7. ASEAN and/or SAARC. 8. Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 9. Yangon (Rangoon).

Jumble

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2015 Ken Fisher

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Someone close to you will push hard to achieve what he or she wants. Moodiness seems to be everywhere. Tonight: A chat is inevitable.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Your imagination seems to be going haywire. A brainstorming session could help take you in a new direction. Tonight: Let loved ones know how much you care.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Make calls in the morning, when others appear to be more responsive. The less upset you create, the less you’ll have to resolve.

Tonight: Remain secure.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll want to focus on completing an important project. Tonight: Invite a loved one to join you for dinner at a favorite spot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You could be taken aback by everything that is going on. Someone might be a little too serious for your taste. Tonight: Buy a gift.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might feel off in the morning, but later in the day you’ll feel like the lead player. Investigate opportunities that appeal to you. Tonight: As you like it.

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Reader no longer feels love for wife Dear Annie: Twelve years ago, I married my best friend, lover and the woman I believed to be my partner for life. Before we married, my wife and I were physically active: hiking, biking, skiing, rollerblading, you name it.

We enjoyed movies, plays, board games and talking for hours. We also had a fantastic sex life.

Seven years ago, all of that began to change. She lost interest in outdoor activities and board games. Hours of talking have been replaced with hours in front of the TV or staring into our cellphones and computers. Our sex life became nearly nonexistent.

We’ve both put on a little weight, but for me, it’s 10 pounds, and for my wife, it’s 40. I still think she’s incredibly sexy and tell her so.

I have maintained a regular fitness regimen and a few years ago started competing in triathlons.

My wife views this as encroaching on our social life.

I love my wife, but I’m no longer in love with her the way I once was. Not long ago, we had a heartto-heart, and I said I no longer wanted to be married to her and told her why. She responded by telling me she recognized that I had been pulling away and understood why. She said she wished things could be different, but she would move forward.

Since “the talk,” my wife has been extremely clingy and insecure, wanting to know my whereabouts and activities at all times.

Where I suffered sexual frustration in silence for years, my wife is now quite vocal about having her sexual needs met.

Annie, I can’t manufacture feelings for her, sexual or otherwise, and I am still leaning toward the exit. I feel staying is dishonest, but leaving means I’m not giving our relationship a chance. What do I do? — Crossroads in California Dear Crossroads: Your wife doesn’t want you to leave. That is why she is clingy, insecure and demanding more sex. In the past seven years, you have gradually become disillusioned with your married life, but you only told your wife about it recently. You

haven’t given her the time to work on it. Instead of looking for a justification to leave, please get into counseling with your wife. See whether you can find the “best friend” and “partner for life” you married. It’s not too late.

Dear Annie: I am a 67-year-old widow. My husband died six years ago. We enjoyed a good sex life, and I miss it very much. I would like to relieve myself (masturbation), but I don’t know how the Catholic Church feels about it, and I don’t want to ask my priest.

Is it a mortal or venial sin? Or are they more lenient these days? Can you please, please help me? — Frustrated Dear Frustrated: According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, masturbation is still a mortal sin.

However, there are “conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen or even extenuate moral culpability,” making it a venial sin. We know the Church’s position matters to you, but our position is that masturbation is a perfectly reasonable alternative for someone who is widowed. Please consider talking to your priest about this. He has undoubtedly heard it before.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “California Patient,” who complained about the long waits at the doctor’s office.

I would suggest “California” talk directly with the physician regarding the long wait times. When I experienced this same problem with my kids’ pediatrician, I discovered the doctor was not aware of the problem. It was his staff that scheduled the appointments too close together. The pediatrician thanked me for letting him know, and the wait times decreased substantially after that. — Been There Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Pressure builds, and some of you could be easily antagonized by a child or loved one. Tonight: Let off some steam.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Defer to others, rather than find yourself in the midst of a public squabble. Tonight: Where the fun is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Reach out to someone at a distance whom you care about but might be irritated with. Tonight: Make it an early night.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Deal with someone directly, and know that this person will be quite touched by your time and attention. Tonight: Get ready for some TV binging.

Today in history

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Others will demonstrate their caring, but not in the way you might expect.

Zero in on what you want.

Tonight: Out late.

Today is Thursday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2015. There are 357 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 8, 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces led by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. (Given the slowness of communications at the time, the battle took place even though the United States and Britain had already signed a peace treaty.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You’ll be more on edge than you realize. Part of the problem could be that you seem to be holding on to your uglier feelings.

Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.

Jacqueline Bigar

Cryptoquip

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2015 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Editor's note: Beginning this week, La Cucaracha returns to the comics page, replacing Mutts. Mutts can still be found in the Sunday comics section, and readers can sign up to get Mutts delivered daily to their email in-boxes at muttscomics.com.

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