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Study could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer’s Researchers say a failure of the brain’s stress response may be linked to the disease. PAGE A-2

Six months later, no details on governor’s travel costs Administration still won’t say how much it spent on out-of-state fundraising trips. LOCAL NEWS, A-6

Bairstow’s time to shine Lobos’ performance on NCAA stage could boost senior star’s NBA stock. SPORTS, B-1

Cultural program vetoes clash with Martinez’s diversity push $600K in budget marked for African American center, Indian Market and others cut

By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Republicans have thrust New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez onto a national stage as an ambassador to women and minorities in the party’s mission to rehabilitate its reputation of exclusion. But closer to home, Martinez is drawing harsh criticisms from

groups that say she’s deliberately withholding money from ethnocentric programs.

Martinez exercised line-item veto power last week to strike from the Legislature’s $6.2 billion budget more than $600,000 for programs geared toward Native American, African American and Hispanic cultural programs and international studies at state universities.

“If we were to ask the governor one question, it would be, ‘Governor Martinez, what is it about African American culture that you do not like?’ ” said Joby Wallace, board president of the Sheryl Williams Stapleton African American Performing Arts Center and Exhi-

bition Hall at Expo New Mexico.

Martinez, whose office denies it singled out cultural programs for vetoes, has blocked appropriations for the African American center every year since she was elected. This year, the center lost out on $75,000 that would have helped pay its administrative staff and would have helped the center develop a children’s theater group, create a music academy and support research on African American history in the state. Since Martinez took office, she has vetoed nearly $500,000 budgeted for programs at the center.

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Obama using Web to draw attention to climate change

Deputy chief defends $50 rent for site at city park

White House unveils new website to illustrate potential effects of global warming

Schaerfl says he’s on call at Ashbaugh Park in exchange for his mobile home spot

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By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

A Santa Fe Police Department deputy chief who earns nearly $99,000 a year has been paying the city just $50 a month for years to live on city park land.

Deputy Chief John Schaerfl said he moved his mobile home to a site at Ashbaugh Park in 2002, when he was still a patrol officer. He said he took over the lot from another officer who had built a house elsewhere and wanted to move. In exchange for the low rent, Schaerfl said, he was expected to be on call at all hours to respond to public safety matters in the area.

Schaerfl and Deputy Chief George Ortiz are currently managing the police department’s day-to-day activities as city officials search for a new police chief to replace Ray Rael, who retired earlier this month following the mayoral election.

Patti Bushee, a longtime city councilor, said she has long supported the idea of allowing officers to live on city land as a recruiting tool and a deterrent to crime.

But Bushee said the benefit was meant for younger members of the force, not “higher ranking officers.”

“I am always disappointed to see new officers leaving town,” she said.

City spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter confirmed the deputy chief does live on city property, but she couldn’t immediately say which city policies or programs allow him to do so.

Deputy Chief John Schaerfl, who earns nearly $99,000 a year, has been living in his mobile home on city park land since 2002. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

The 16.2-acre Ashbaugh Park is behind Fire Station 3, near Second Street and Cerrillos Road. Schaerfl’s mobile home is between an open field and a basketball court. It is surrounded by an aging wooden fence, and there is an American flag behind the house. Another city employee lives in a second mobile home at the park.

Schaerfl, who has been on the force since 1996, said no one has ever questioned his rental status. Another officer used to live on the lot next to him, he said, but after that person left, no officers requested the space.

Instead, a city employee from a different divi-

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants Americans to see how climate change could deluge or destroy their own backyards — and to make it as easy as opening a Web-based app.

As part of an effort to make the public see global warming as a tangible and immediate problem, the White House on Wednesday inaugurated a website, climate.data.gov, aimed at turning scientific data about projected droughts and wildfires and the rise in sea levels into eyecatching digital presentations that can be mapped using simple software apps.

The project is the brainchild of Obama’s counselor, John Podesta, and the White House science adviser, John Holdren.

The effort comes as Obama prepares to announce a set of aggressive climate change regulations aimed at limiting emissions from coal-fired plants. Although a poll by the Pew Research Center in October found that 67 percent of Americans believe that global warming is happening, a Pew poll in January showed that Americans ranked global warming as 19th on a list of 20 issues for Congress and the president.

Podesta has taken on the uphill task of building a political case for the climate rules, both by defusing the opposition and by trying to create an urgent sense among Americans that they are necessary.

The website is the latest step in that strategy.

“Localizing this information gives a sense of how this affects people and spurs action,” Podesta told a small group of reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “If you’re thinking

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Missing jet spurs many theories but few leads

By Joel Achenbach

The missing plane left behind a vapor trail of scenarios, and they have grown increasingly elaborate in the absence of information.

Aviation consultants sense that this could be a 9/11 plot gone awry. Or perhaps it is a 9/11 plot brilliantly executed and still operational. And yet an accident of some kind still hasn’t been ruled out.

The crucial evidence about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 8 may be 2½ miles deep in the Indian Ocean.

One awful possibility: We’ll never know.

The lack of solid data has invited freewheeling speculation in the news media and around water coolers everywhere. Individually, the scenarios tend to lack strong factual foundations. Collectively, they may or may not hold the answer.

It is in the nature of disastrous events, whether accidental or intentional, that they can occur in ways not previously anticipated, involving technological failures or nefarious strategies that become clear only in hindsight.

“There’s still no clarity about what hap-

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pened to that airplane other than the fact that it changed course and went off to points unknown,” said Sean Cassidy, an Alaska Airlines captain who is national safety coordinator for the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association.

After an initial period in which authorities presumed that the plane’s disappearance was an accident and that wreckage would be found at sea, the investigation pivoted last week toward scenarios involving an intentional

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diversion of the aircraft.

The search has increasingly focused on remote waters nearly 2,000 miles west of Australia. On Wednesday, U.S. officials said a U.S. Navy plane able to search under water was repositioned to help look for the jet in that corner of the Indian Ocean.

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In brief NEW YORK — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.

A week later, the mentally ill homeless man was found dead in a Rikers Island jail cell that four city officials say had overheated to at least 100 degrees, apparently because of malfunctioning equipment.

The officials said the 56-year-old former Marine was on anti-psychotic and anti-seizure medication, which may have made him more vulnerable to heat. He also apparently did not open a small vent in his cell, as other inmates did, to let in cool air.

“He basically baked to death,” said one of the officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity.

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HOUSTON — Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.

But correction officials will not say where they bought the drugs, arguing that information must be kept secret to protect the safety of its new supplier.

The decision to keep details about the drugs and their source secret puts the agency at odds with past rulings of the state Attorney General’s Office, which has said the state’s open records law requires the agency to disclose specifics about the drugs it uses to carry out lethal injections.

The dispute in the state that executes more inmates than any other comes as major drugmakers, many based in Europe, have stopped selling pentobarbital and other substances used in lethal injections to U.S. corrections agencies because they oppose the death penalty.

100 people found in Texas stash house HOUSTON — Houston police say authorities have found more than 100 people presumed to be in the U.S. illegally in a suspected stash house.

Police told the Houston Chronicle the discovery was made Wednesday

A professional dancer has taken the stage for the first time since losing part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing last year. Adrianne Haslet-Davis, 33, of Boston danced Wednesday at the 2014 TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Haslet-Davis wore a white sparkling dress that showed off a new prosthetic leg as she twirled across the floor with a partner to a version of ‘Ring My Bells’ by Enrique Iglesias. MIT professor Hugh Herr started designing the bionic leg specifically for dancing after visiting Haslet-Davis in the hospital. Herr says he wanted Haslet-Davis to be able to get back to what she loved doing. Haslet-Davis finished the performance with a huge smile on her face as she wiped a tear from her cheek. JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

morning. Five men suspected of running the operation were detained at the scene in southeast Houston.

Authorities say the investigation started when a Houston family called police to report a woman and her children missing. They said a planned coyote drop of the mother and children did not happen. Investigators then were led to the house and set up surveillance. Officers found 94 men and 15 women inside.

Italians rescue 2,400 African migrants ROME — Italian navy and coast guard vessels rescued about 2,400 migrants coming from North Africa over the past two days, the authorities said Wednesday.

The Italian authorities, working with three merchant ships, saved 2,128 migrants along the southern coast of Sicily on Tuesday, and the coast guard rescued 268 Eritrean and Syrian migrants about 10 miles east

of the Italian island of Lampedusa the following day.

“This is a very serious emergency and the toll will rise; we estimate that about 2,000 more people will be coming in the next days,” said Flavio Di Giacomo, the spokesman for the International Organization for Migration in Italy.

The number of migrants reaching Italian shores in the first months of the year was 10 times as high as in the same period for 2013, Di Giacomo said. About 500 migrants were rescued by the Italian authorities from January to March last year, and more than 5,000 had been rescued in 2014 as of last week. Most of the boats intercepted in recent days were sailing from Libya, the authorities said.

Israel warplanes strike Syrian targets JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes on Syrian military posts early

Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding seven in one of the most serious clashes between the countries in the past four decades.

The airstrikes came in retaliation for a roadside bombing a day earlier in the Golan Heights that wounded four Israeli soldiers on patrol along the tense frontier with Syria. The overnight raids marked a sharp escalation of activity for Israel, which largely has stayed on the sidelines during Syrian President Bashar Assad’s battle against rebels trying to topple him.

It is unclear which of the many groups fighting in Syria may have planted Tuesday’s bomb. But Israel has said it holds Assad responsible for any attacks emanating from his country, and accused his forces of allowing the attack to take place. “Our policy is clear. We hurt those who hurt us,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Assad would “regret his actions” if attacks continue.

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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — The holders of two lucky tickets purchased states apart awoke to good news Wednesday: They will split a Mega Millions jackpot of $414 million, the third-largest prize in the game’s history.

The tickets — one sold at a Sunoco convenience store on Florida’s Space Coast, the other at a

Maryland liquor store southeast of Washington — matched all six winning numbers in the Tuesday night drawing: 11, 19, 24, 33 and 51 with a Mega Ball of 7.

The full $414 million jackpot has a cash option of $230.9 million. Maryland lotto officials estimate that if its winner takes the cash option, he or she will take home about $76.4 million after taxes.

The Florida winner — the state’s first in the

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It is one of the big scientific mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease: Why do some people whose brains accumulate the plaques and tangles so strongly associated with Alzheimer’s not develop the disease?

Now, a series of experiments by Harvard scientists suggests a possible answer, one that could lead to new treatments if confirmed by other studies.

The memory and thinking problems of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias may be related to a failure in the brain’s stress response system, the new research suggests.

If this system is working well, it can protect the brain from abnormal Alzheimer’s proteins.

“This is an extremely important study,” said Li-Huei Tsai, director of the Picower institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the research. “This is the first study that is really starting to provide a plausible pathway to explain why some people are more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s than other people.”

The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, focuses on a protein previously thought to act mostly in the brains of developing fetuses. The scientists found that the protein also appears to protect neurons from aging-related stresses.

But in people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias, the protein, is sharply depleted in key brain regions.

Experts said if other scientists can replicate and expand upon the findings, the role of the protein, called REST, could spur development of new drugs for dementia, which has so far been virtually impossible to treat.

“You’re going to see a lot of papers now following up on it,” said Dr. Eric M. Reiman, executive director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, who was not involved in the study. “It raises an avenue that hasn’t been considered before.”

REST, a gene regulator that switches off certain genes, is primarily known to keep fetal neurons in an immature state until they develop to perform brain functions, said Dr. Bruce A. Yankner, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the new study’s lead author.

While investigating how different genes in the brain change as people age, Yankner’s team was startled to find that REST was the most active gene regulator in older brains. His team discovered that REST appears to switch off genes that promote cell death, protecting neurons from normal aging processes like energy decrease, inflammation and oxidative stress.

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Thursday, March 20 HASIDISM: At 7 p.m. at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, 1601 S. St. Francis Drive, HaMakom Continuing Education lecture series presents Michael Nutkiewicz and a talk titled “Not Your Fiddler on the Roof: The Religious Thought of Hasidism.” The public is invited. A $10 suggested donation is requested.

NUCLEAR HOT SPOTS: From 5 to 7 p.m., Siegfried S. Hecker of Stanford and LANL looks at India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail.

THE NEW MILKY WAY: Learn about the galaxy during the public programming at SFCC Planetarium, 7-8 p.m., 6401 Richards Ave.

PALACE RESTAURANT & SALOON: Thursday limelight karaoke, 10 p.m., 142 W. Palace Ave. PIZZERIA DA LINO: Accordionist Dadou, European and American favorites, 6-9 p.m., 204 N. Guadalupe St. THE MATADOR: DJ Inky Inc. spinning soul/punk/ska, 8:30 p.m., 116 W. San Francisco St. TINY’S: Classic-rock band Controlled Burn, 8 p.m.-midnight, 1005 St. Francis Drive, Suite 117.

VANESSIE: Pianist/vocalist Bob Finnie, ’50s-’70s pop, 6:30 p.m., 427 W. Water St. ZIA DINER: Trio Bijou, vintage jazz with Gemma DeRagon on violin and vocals, Andy Gabrys on guitar, and Andy Zadrozny on bass, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 326 S. Guadalupe St.

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LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Bill Hearne Trio, classic country tunes, 7:30 p.m., 100 E. San Francisco St.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: On April 26 and April 27, there will be an AERC 2-Day Endurance Ride in the Caja del Rio area of the Santa Fe National Forest to support Listening Horse Therapeutic Riding, a nonprofit organization in Santa Fe. Assignments also will be available for which previous horse experience is not necessary. Volunteer to support this therapeutic riding program that assists active military, veterans and

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THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Volunteers are needed to support the Cancer Resource Center at the Christus St. Vincent Cancer Center.

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Putin’s next move? Destabilization Sabotage could work instead of invasion

the rest of Ukraine.

As Putin seeks to counter Western influence in Ukraine, Russia is demanding that its neighbor adopt a new federal

By Henry Meyer constitution that guarantees Bloomberg News political and military neutrality, MOSCOW — After annexgrants powers to the regions, ing Crimea, Russian President and make Russian a second Vladimir Putin may not need official language. There’s no to invade the rest of Ukraine indication it would be acceptto bring it to its knees. Political able to the Ukrainian governand financial sabotage can work ment, which took power after just as well.

Yanukovych was toppled amid While Putin promised Tuesprotests last month, or to its day that Russia isn’t about to Western supporters. send in troops, he has plenty Russia won’t deploy troops of other tools to undermine in eastern Ukraine unless mass the Western-backed Ukrainian killings occur there, Sergei government. They include Mironov, leader of the profomenting insurrection by Kremlin Just Russia party, told Russian-speakers, waging a reporters Wednesday in Moscyberwar and crippling Ukraine cow. financially by ramping up natu“It would be highly undesirral gas prices and demanding able and I think it’s unlikely, the repayment of billions of dol- unless we see large-scale maslars in debts. sacres,” he said. “Of course we “Putin has the means to can’t look calmly on while Rusdrastically destabilize Ukraine,” sians are killed, no country on Fredrik Erixon, director of the earth could allow that to hapEuropean Centre for Internapen. But I don’t think things will tional Political Economy in go that far.”

Brussels, said by phone. “The Russia may opt to use ecomore problems and unrest, the nomic levers first, including a better his chances of getting temporary cut-off of gas supeast Ukraine to exit and join plies and an increase in prices, Russia.”

Eurasia said in a research note More than two decades this week. Ukraine needs $15 bilafter the collapse of the Soviet lion to repay foreign debt after Union, Ukraine’s pro-Western investors withdrew funds. Since ambitions represent the biggest its European and U.S. allies are challenge for Putin as he seeks effectively on the hook for that to project Russian power in his debt, adding to the repayment backyard. burden “punishes Ukraine and Putin, in a speech to lawmak- consequently the West as well,” ers Tuesday, accused the West Eurasia said. of relentlessly encroaching on Russia also warned this week Russia’s interests since the end that it may demand repayment of the Cold War as the Euroof $20 billion in Soviet-era pean Union and North Atlantic debt from Ukraine. Ukraine’s Treaty Organization expanded economy faces a squeeze even eastward. He described without additional pressure Ukraine, where leaked audio from Putin. After rebounding recordings have shown U.S. dip- 3.7 percent in the fourth quarlomats discussing how to oust ter from a year earlier, it is set Moscow-backed President Vik- to slip back into a “disastrous” tor Yanukovych and who should recession this year as a result of replace him, as the last straw. the crisis, according to London“Everything has its limits,” based Capital Economics.

Putin said. “And in the case of Russia doesn’t plan to Ukraine, our Western partners demand early redemption of have crossed the line.”

Ukraine’s debt over technical The United States and the EU issues, and is interested in ecohave branded the March 16 refnomic stability in the neighborerendum that paved the way for ing country, Prime news service Russia’s annexation of Crimea reported Wednesday, citing illegal, imposing sanctions and Deputy Finance Minister Sergey warning of escalating measures Storchak. to come. The worst standoff A proposed bailout by the between the West and Russia International Monetary Fund since the Cold War looks set to and EU will come with strings intensify even without direct attached, requiring austerity Russian military intervention in measures that will hurt house-

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Chief of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Alexander Vitko leaves the Ukrainian navy headquarters stormed by Crimean proRussian self-defense forces in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday. ANDREW LUBIMOV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

hold incomes, said Lilit Gevorgyan, senior analyst at IHS Global Insight in London.

“If Russia’s goal is to make the current Ukrainian government unpopular, Moscow does not have to do much in the coming year,” Gevorgyan said.

Putin also has low-level military options that fall short of conventional models of warfare.

Andrei Illarionov, a former economic adviser to Putin, said the Russian leader is using special forces as well as activists in eastern cities such as Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk to whip up rebellion. Clashes between pro-Russia and anti-Kremlin protesters turned deadly in Donetsk and Kharkiv last week.

Ihor Baluta, the governor of Kharkiv, said Russia is bolstering troops on the border.

They’re concentrated along highways for rapid invasion, as Putin tries to “pump in separatism” and replicate the Crimean situation elsewhere in the east, he said in an interview Tuesday.

Sergei Markov, a Kremlin adviser, said Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine have already seized government buildings.

If they’re suppressed by the authorities in Kiev, then “the Russian army will have to come to their assistance.”

Organized provocation has been going on for three weeks already, with Ukrainian reports of cyberwar, according to Timothy Snyder, professor of central and eastern European history at Yale University.

Hackers have launched attacks on the websites of state agencies and publications on both sides. A Russian government watchdog has ordered a shutdown of the social-network pages of Ukrainian nationalist groups.

A Ukrainian phone company said its network in parts of the Crimean peninsula was damaged.

Putin’s strategy is aimed at influencing the Ukrainian presidential election due on May 25.

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Ukraine plans troop withdrawals SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — Surrendering to Russia’s inexorable seizure of Crimea, Ukraine announced plans Wednesday for mass troop withdrawals from the strategic peninsula as Moscow-loyal forces seized control of Kiev’s naval headquarters here and detained its commander.

Attempting to face down the unblinking incursion, Ukraine said it would hold joint military exercises with the United States and Britain.

Hours after masked Russianspeaking troops forced their way onto Ukraine’s main naval base here, forlorn Ukrainian soldiers streamed out carrying clothing and other belongings in bags. A group of local militia and Cossacks, later joined by officers from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, looked on.

Just how many retreating troops Ukraine will have to absorb in what amounts to a

military surrender of Crimea was unclear. Many servicemen have already switched sides to Russia, but authorities said they were prepared to relocate as many as 25,000 soldiers and their families to the Ukrainian mainland.

Humbled but defiant, Ukraine lashed out symbolically at Russia by declaring its intent to leave the Moscowdominated Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance of 11 former Soviet nations. The last nation to leave the group was Georgia, which lost a brief war with Russia in 2008 and ended up losing two territories.

Vice President Joe Biden, in Lithuania trying to reassure nations bordering Russia alarmed by the sight of an expansion-minded neighbor, said the U.S. would stand by them.

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Rent: Schaerfl says he pays for utilities Continued from Page A-1 sion began living there. The amount that person is paying was not immediately available.

The deputy chief said he chose to live at Ashbaugh Park because he didn’t want to live in Rio Rancho or Albuquerque, as many of his peers did. He had a family to support, and he said he was the sole earner because he and his wife chose to home-school their children.

He said it has been beneficial for his family to live on the city land, and no one has ever asked him to leave the property.

“I don’t see any evidence of anyone suffering a hardship because I am there,” Schaerfl said.

And said he owns the mobile home, and he pays for utilities.

Since April 2013, he has responded to about 35 calls in the area, according to a police spokeswoman. Those varied from people pounding on his door at 2 a.m. to reports of suspicious people or vehicles.

Schaerfl said he doesn’t have any plans to move, but he would “strongly encourage” a young officer to take advantage of the property when he does leave the site.

He also said he would like to see more housing for officers at city parks and schools, which used to be the case.

Schaerfl said he is not the only officer living on city land. He said about four or five others have similar arrangements, such as one on Camino de los Montoyas

and another near Siringo Road, close to a police substation. It’s unknown how much those officers are paying for the home sites.

Schaerfl, who has been with the department for about 17 years, earns about $98,987 per year. A new cadet with the police force starts at $19.11 per hour, which is about $39,748 annually.

Matthew Martinez, president of the Santa Fe Police Officers Association, said he believes these properties are meant for younger officers “to have an affordable residence until they’re able to find adequate housing on their own.”

In 2007, the City Council passed a resolution that would allow the placement of a “public safety employee and/or municipal employee housing in any appropriate City park for purposes of providing a caretaking presence at City parks.”

Councilor Ron Trujillo, who sponsored the resolution, said his motivation was to provide extra security for the parks while making housing available for law enforcement officers. Trujillo said the resolution focused on new recruits, and people were supposed to live in the houses for a couple of years before finding a new home. He added that the program was open to anyone.

“A lot of our officers lived in Albuquerque,” Trujillo said. “We wanted them to live in Santa Fe.” Trujillo said he wasn’t aware that any

police officers were currently living at city parks.

Affordable housing for police officers has long been a problem in Santa Fe. Former Corrections Department secretary John Denko, who was the Santa Fe police chief from 1998 to 2002, said he couldn’t recall a specific policy that would allow police officers to live on city property, but he said he likely would have approved of it. He added that he was more concerned about the rank-and-file officers who would have a harder time affording homes in Santa Fe rather than higher-ranked officers.

Schaerfl has worked with the police department since February 1996, when he started as a patrol officer. He has headed a number of departments, including the training and recruiting division, the traffic division and the SWAT team.

In February 2012, Schaerfl was promoted to the rank of captain, and later that same month he was named interim deputy chief. He was made the official deputy chief of administration in August 2012.

The city is looking for a new police chief, but it is not clear whether Schaerfl applied for the position. The deadline for applications is April 4. Officials have said the city will consider candidates from across the country.

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

Theories: Speculation rampant on jet’s fate Continued from Page A-1 day that data had been erased from a flight simulator that the plane’s pilot had kept at his home. The FBI has stepped in to help Malaysian authorities retrieve the deleted files in an effort to find out whether they reveal clues to the plane’s whereabouts.

The data deletion is not necessarily suspicious, aviation experts say.

Malaysian officials have asked the public not to jump to conclusions. That thought was echoed by Cassidy.

“I understand why they’re going down the criminal road, because they have stuff they can still investigate — background checks, pulling the pilot’s computer, and looking at all the folks who were in the airplane or somehow touched the airplane,” Cassidy said. “The data points on how to pinpoint the airplane are kind of drying up. But that does not mean that they should not still give a lot of thought to the possibility that it was an accident.

I don’t think they should be running to vilify the pilots.”

Aviation experts are discussing many possibilities, and they include: Mechanical failure The plane could have suffered some kind of electrical fire that caused a crisis and an emergency response. This was the hypothesis of a much-discussed article on Wired.com by a pilot who argued that the pilot of Flight MH370 must have turned the aircraft around in hopes of reaching an airport for an emergency landing, only to crash somewhere at sea.

Another possibility is catastrophic decompression. The crew could have lost consciousness and the plane could have kept flying — what people have been calling the “Payne Stewart scenario,” after the golfer who died in 1999 when a Learjet underwent decompression and kept flying for more than 1,000 miles before crashing in South Dakota.

If the Malaysian plane’s diversion was pre-programmed, as some reports suggest, that would pretty much rule out an accident. The pilot never radioed any distress, and the radios rely on batteries and would still operate after an electrical fire, said Hans Weber, a San Diego-based aviation consultant.

Moreover, a fire would presumably be progressive and would allow time to transmit a distress signal. Cassidy said the lack of radio transmission makes the fire scenario difficult to believe. But the lack of communication doesn’t prove anything, he said.

“Every single professional pilot is trained that, when you have an emergency, the first focus is on actually flying the plane, next is on navigating it, and the third priority is actually communicating,” Cassidy said. “The absence of a distress call does not imply that there was no distress in the airplane.”

Hijacking/commandeering Technically, a hijacking comes with demands, whereas commandeering can be for a variety of malevolent or idiosyncratic purposes. But in both cases this would have been a plane intentionally diverted — for reasons unknown — from its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

“It had enough fuel to go many places, and, unfortunately, it had enough fuel to go into places where you don’t have civil radar systems, for example, and into a part of the world where terrorism and to some extent state-supported terrorism exists,” said George Hamlin, an aviation consultant based in Fairfax, Va. He broached the possibility that this is part of an ongoing operation akin to the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks — including, perhaps, using the plane to deliver an explosive device somewhere.

“It suggests something else horrific is being planned, because no one is claiming credit or saying, ‘Ha ha, you have to deal with us.’ There have been no demands for the 200-something hostages on the aircraft,” Hamlin said.

Although this line of thinking has spawned a great deal of guessing, there is no hard evidence behind it. Investigators have not indicated that anyone on the plane has any affiliation with a terrorist organization or showed signs of a murderous mind-set.

Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst in Fairfax, Va., said he doubts Hamlin’s scenario of the Boeing 777 being used to deliver a bomb.

“Jeez Louise, why mess around with a triple-7? Go and rent yourself a Cessna,” he said.

The plane landed Hundreds of airfields were in range of the airliner, conceivably. It’s implausible that it landed at a major commercial airport. This leads to speculation that it reached an abandoned airstrip.

“There’s a lot of World War II airfields left over,” said Ron Carr, a former pilot and a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. “These guys are not interested in protecting the airplane,

so they’re going to use minimal airfields.

They’re going to use one that’s fairly secluded. You’re not going to need landing lights; you certainly don’t want a tower.”

There is no evidence that the plane landed, however. It would have had to elude radar coverage, land and then hide.

This scenario also requires additional layers of speculation about the perpetrator and the motive.

Officials know where jet is Officials in charge of the investigation may know much more than they have revealed. They may have decided to withhold information to protect investigatory assets (such as satellite capabilities), to cover up a mistake or national security inadequacy (such as a lack of good radar coverage), or to avoid tipping off people of interest.

“We’re dealing with military organizations, and they don’t want to tell you, and especially they don’t want to tell you if it looks like they really screwed up,” Weber said. “The military doesn’t want to look bad in their own country. I think there is a lot of incentive for the militaries there to not come clean.”

There is no evidence that anyone knows where the plane is, and there is enormous pressure from the public and grieving families in particular for an answer to the mystery.

Terror attempt aborted If hijackers seized the plane, they conceivably could have been challenged by passengers or crew members, as happened on United Airlines Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Many scenarios emerge from this one. It’s possible that hijackers intentionally crashed the plane in the remote Indian Ocean to cover the tracks of an ambitious operation that didn’t quite work, but one that could be attempted again someday.

“That’s the only thing that holds together with any logical consistency: that this is a failed 9/11,” Aboulafia said.

Said Weber, “I think the most likely scenario is these terrorists managed to commandeer the airplane, and they set a route, and at some point the pilots fought with the people who commandeered the airplane and somehow everybody got incapacitated and there was no one anymore who could fly the airplane.”

Said Hamlin, “I’m not taking bets on any of the scenarios. But you have to do some out-of-the-box thinking in terms of what could have happened here.”

Web: Site links to simulations and maps Continued from Page A-1 about this from the perspective of how your local community will be affected, it’s likely to change that question of salience.”

Initially, the website will serve mostly as a clearinghouse for climate science data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Defense Department and NASA. The first batch of data will focus on coastal flooding and the rise in sea levels.

Most users will not be able to do much yet on their own. Instead, NASA and NOAA will call on researchers and private companies to create software simulations illustrating the impact of rising sea levels.

Some major software and mapping companies have expressed interest in using the climate data, chief among them Google and Esri, a Redlands, Calif., company that supplies mapping and geographic information systems software to federal

agencies, including the CIA, and city and local governments. Company executives said they expected a strong interest in the data. “There’s a market for this,” said Jack Dangermond, Esri’s chief executive, who joined Podesta and Holdren at the White House. “We’re excited to use it. Reading climate data in real time is unusual.”

Esri’s mapping programs layer census and income data on top of geographical data. The company has used government data on the projected rise in sea levels to create an interactive map of what will happen, for example, should a hurricane hit the town of Gloucester, Mass. The digital map shows how flooding will affect specific buildings, roads, houses, schools and low-income and older residents.

White House officials hope that if city planners and homeowners around the country see such vivid digital projections of the impact of climate change in their backyards, it could melt political resis-

tance to climate policy and create a new impetus for action. In 2012, as North Carolina was creating a development plan, the state Legislature voted to disregard scientific projections that climate change would cause rising sea levels.

“If people in North Carolina had had this initiative, that decision would have been less likely,” Holdren told reporters at the White House.

Google also hopes to combine its mapping technology with the government climate data. “What if we could make information about sea-level rise, extreme heat and drought as simple to digest and interactive as using Google maps to get directions?” said Rebecca Moore, the engineering manager of Google Earth, who was also at the White House. “That is not possible, but we think it’s possible to get a lot closer. There’s the possibility to create a living, breathing dashboard in a way people can understand and relate to.”

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Vetoes: $25K for Indian Market cut Continued from Page A-1 Native American interests, including the Santa Fe Indian Market, which saw $25,000 for advertising taken away by veto, are cross with the governor as well. John Torres Nez, chief operating officer of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, which presents the market, said this is the third straight year that money for the market has been diverted by the governor. And the market is merely one example of the Martinez administration’s effort to deny money to cultural heritage initiatives, he said.

“Her track record is a complete lack of one,” he said. “I would be surprised if any of the cultural event organizations feel like they are getting any support from this governor.”

Other cultural programs affected by the veto are the Santa Fe Spanish Market, international studies institutes at The University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, UNM initiatives aimed at getting more Natives to attend college, efforts to encourage healthy living among tribal people and programs for Native students at Tibbetts Middle School in Farmington.

“The tribal engagement proposal [at UNM] was requested and supported by [the New Mexico Higher Education Department],” said Ted Jojola, director of the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute at UNM’s School of Architecture. “So I’m surprised that it got the poison pen.”

The $150,000 that was vetoed would have launched a three-year initiative to connect the state’s 24 colleges with New Mexico tribes, with the goal of enrolling and graduating more Native American students. Without the money, Jojola said, the program will take at least one more year to get off the ground.

Martinez’s spokesman said the projects that weren’t funded fall into several categories that the governor did not approve based on her overarching principles, such as blocking lawmakers’ attempts to earmark funding for specific projects in their districts.

That’s why funds for the markets in Santa Fe were vetoed, along with money for the university and school initiatives, spokesman Enrique Knell said.

Citing the African American Performing Arts Center at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque, Knell said, “Back-of-the-budget earmarks to an enterprisefunded agency like Expo are not an appropriate method of funding. That has been tried over and over the past few years. It’s not appropriate, and it’s been vetoed each time.”

Wallace, of the African American center’s board, said she disagrees with the governor’s assessment that the center should be a self-sustaining enterprise such as the State Fair, also held at Expo New Mexico. The center’s sole connection to the Expo is the location of its building, she said.

That structure is named in honor of Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, an Albuquerque Democrat, whose racially charged reference to Martinez as “the Mexican” drew negative attention in late 2011. Stapleton later apologized. Martinez’s office termed the remarks “sad and disappointing.”

Knell said the governor’s vetoes of funding for the center that bears Stapleton’s name were not meant to settle any political scores. He pointed to more than $160,000 in physical improvements to the center that the governor approved as proof.

While Martinez beats back criticisms from ethnic groups

in her home state, on a national scale she has been tapped by the Republican State Leadership Committee to co-chair the Future Majority Caucus, a push to build a stable of competitive candidates from segments of America where the GOP traditionally has struggled to make inroads.

“As the first elected Hispanic female governor in our nation’s greater than 200-year history, there are few people who appreciate more than Gov. Martinez how important it is that our political discourse includes voices from every walk of life,” said Danny Diaz, Martinez’s political spokesman. “The governor is proud of the work she has undertaken to elect more minorities and women to public office, both in New Mexico and across the country.”

The political initiative backed by the deep-pocketed Republican State Leadership Committee has set a goal for 2014 of helping to elect 75 Republican lawmakers with diverse ethnic backgrounds and 150 GOP women to state legislatures.

In 2012 in New Mexico alone, the group pumped $1.1 million into the conservative politicalaction committee Reform New Mexico Now, which provided indirect support to Republican legislative candidates by attacking their opponents in ads and literature.

An offshoot of the group, the Republican State Leadership Committee New Mexico PAC, contributed $10,000 to Martinez’s political committee, Susana PAC, which made targeted contributions to Republicans in legislative races in 2012.

Candidates benefiting from those donations were men and women of varied races, and election results were mixed.

Republicans have struggled to appeal to minority voters nationally. Among Hispanic voters, 71 percent supported Democratic President Barack Obama in the 2012 election after giving Obama 67 percent of their votes in 2008 and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry 53 percent of the vote in 2004, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

African American support for Democrats was even stronger, never slipping below 88 percent in the past three presidential elections.

Albuquerque NAACP President Harold Bailey said Martinez deserves credit for her personal accomplishments, particularly as a trailblazer for women and people of color, but he says the governor missed appointments this year with state NAACP officials and was unresponsive to written correspondence from the organization. Coupled with Martinez’s funding vetoes for cultural programs, that hasn’t won over Bailey.

“With this political and executive leadership history, it is difficult to understand how one can effectively head a statewide or national effort to recruit diverse groups into any politically affiliated party,” he said.

SWAIA’s Torres Nez said Martinez and the outreach effort she is fronting won’t change the perception that ethnic minorities’ interests are a low priority for the GOP. “Her veto is consistent with a national agenda in the Republican Party,” Torres Nez said. “A splash of color does not make a group diverse — honoring true diverse opinions makes it diverse. Until the important thoughts and ideas of various people of color are actually heard, their efforts will not be successful.”

Contact Patrick Malone at 986-3017 or pmalone@sfnew mexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @pmalonenm.

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Objects spotted in Indian Ocean Australia launches search; FBI begins analyzing pilot’s flight simulator files

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 leaves a hotel ballroom after a daily briefing meeting with managers of Malaysia Airlines in Beijing on Wednesday.

By Kristen Gelineau and Scott McDonald The Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Australia’s prime minister said Thursday that two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have been spotted on satellite imagery in the Indian Ocean, and an air force aircraft was diverted to the area to try to locate them.

The Orion aircraft was expected to arrive in the area Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament in Canberra. Three additional aircraft are expected to follow for a more intensive search, he said.

Abbott called it “credible information,” adding that after “specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified.”

But Abbott cautioned that locating the objects could be extremely difficult and “it may turn out that they are not related to the search for flight MH370.”

He did not say where the objects were.

Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand were covering a search region over the southern Indian Ocean that was

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narrowed down Wednesday from 232,000 square miles to 117,000 square miles.

The hunt for the Boeing 777 has been punctuated by several false leads since it disappeared March 8 above the Gulf of Thailand.

“As I’ve been doing from day one, I’ve followed every single lead. And this time, I hope it is a positive development,” Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters.

Nearly two weeks after the plane went missing, the FBI has joined forces with Malaysian authorities in analyzing deleted data on a flight simulator belonging to the pilot of the missing jet.

Files containing records of flight simulations were deleted Feb. 3 from the device

found in the home of the pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said.

It was not clear whether investigators thought that deleting the files was unusual.

They might hold hints of unusual flight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went, or the files could have been deleted simply to clear memory for other material.

Hishammuddin told a news conference Wednesday that Zaharie is considered innocent until proven guilty. He said members of the pilot’s family are cooperating in the investigation.

Zaharie was known to some within the online world of flight simulation enthusiasts.

56 million Americans ages 40 to 75 are eligible to consider a statin; 43 million were under the old advice. Both numbers include 25 million people taking statins now.

“That is striking … eyeopening,” Dr. Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania said of the new estimate.

But since too few people use statins now, the advice “has the potential to do much more good than harm,” said Rader, a cardiologist who had no role in writing the guidelines.

Nearly half a million additional heart attacks and strokes could be prevented over 10 years if statin use was expanded as the guidelines recommend, the study estimates.

The guidelines, developed by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology at the request of the federal government, were a big change. They give a new formula for estimating risk that includes blood pressure, smoking status and many factors besides the level of LDL or “bad” cholesterol, the main focus in the past.

By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press

Almost half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 60 qualify to consider cholesterol-lowering statin drugs under new heart disease prevention guidelines, an analysis concludes.

It’s the first independent look at the impact of the guidelines issued in November and shows how dramatically they shift more people toward treatment.

Supporters say they reveal the true scope of heart risks in America. Critics have said the guidelines overreach by suggesting medications such as Zocor and Lipitor for such a broad swath of the population.

“We wanted to be really objective and just quantify what the guidelines do, and not get into a discussion about whether they are correct,” said Michael Pencina, the Duke University biostatistician who led the analysis. It was published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Nearly six months after a request for expense records for out-of-state travel by the governor and her entourage, the Martinez administration still won’t say how much taxpayers spent on those political trips.

The Governor’s Office has sent lists detailing Gov. Susana Martinez’s out-of-state trips for campaign fundraisers and speeches, but the state Department of Finance and Administration has not provided costs of the trips, as formally requested by The Santa Fe New Mexican.

The travel records tussle isn’t the first time Martinez has tried to fend off document requests from the Susana media, despite campaigning on a Martinez promise for a more transparent government.

New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Executive Director Susan Boe criticized the administration’s delay, pointing out that March 16 to March 22 is Sunshine Week in the state and across the U.S. — “What better time for the DFA to step forward with the requested documents?”

“The Department of Finance and Administration, like all public entities, has a duty under the Inspection of Public Records Act to timely respond to all IPRA requests,” Boe said Wednesday. “… No exceptions to IPRA are applicable so why have the records not been turned over?”

Asked Tuesday about the lengthy delays, Department of Finance and Administration records custodian Tim Korte replied in an email: “DFA has been working as quickly as possible to provide the information you’ve requested.”

Early last June, after a flurry of publicized political trips following the 2013 legislative session, The New Mexican made an initial request for travel records from the Governor’s Office.

After a series of time extensions, the information finally arrived in September. The governor’s records custodian sent a list with dates, destinations and reasons for travel, while Finance and Administration sent a list of state money spent on food, lodging and transportation for the governor, her staff and her police security team.

The newspaper reported that, based on the information released, the state had spent more than $27,000 on 11 out-of-state trips between the end of the legislative session in mid-March and early June last year. The administration declined to let The New Mexican inspect actual records of the travel, such as receipts, citing security concerns.

“Disclosure of procurement card statements create security risks to the governor and the governor’s family,” a Finance and Administration spokesman said in a statement. “Procurement card statements for the governor and the governor’s security detail identify the officer assigned to protect the governor and/or her family on specific dates and include transactionlevel detail, including the transaction date, vendor name (e.g., hotel or restaurant), and city and state of the transaction.”

The New Mexican made a second request Sept. 25 to Pamela Cason, records custodian of the Governor’s Office, and to Korte, asking for “any and all records

Please see REQUESTS, Page A-7

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New Mexico enrolls 103K in Medicaid since October

In brief

By Barry Massey

The cast and crew of 50-1, a new film based on the true story of Mine That Bird, a gelding from Southern New Mexico that won the 2009 Kentucky Derby, will be in Santa Fe on Friday to meet movie fans.

The film opens Friday in theaters. Events in Santa Fe are scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Regal Stadium 14. The cross-country road tour to promote the film started Monday.

The title of the movie refers to the odds on Mine That Bird the day of the colt’s monumental upset. The horse earned more than The investiture ceremony for state $2.2 million over its three-year racing career Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil of and retired in 2010. The real Mine That Bird Santa Fe as chief justice will be April 4. will make special appearances at some stops Vigil, 54, is the newest justice, having been during the road tour. elected to the Supreme Court in 2012. She ran as a Democrat, defeating Republican Paul Kennedy, the incumbent by appointment.

In New Mexico, the five justices of the Supreme Court rotate the job of chief justice on two-year terms. The chief justice leads Residents opposed to a proposed basalt the court during hearings and represents the mine on La Bajada mesa say they’re planjudiciary before the state Legislature. ning to turn out in force Thursday evening The court says the work of authoring opinfor a public hearing on the project before the ions is divided evenly and randomly among Santa Fe County Development Review Comthe five justices. mittee.

Vigil’s background in law is varied. She has The meeting begins at 4 p.m. at the County worked for law firms and the state attorney Commission chambers. general and also has worked as a solo practiBuena Vista Estates and Rockology have tioner. Former Gov. Gary Johnson, who was asked the county to approve a mining zone a Republican at the time, appointed Vigil as a for a 50-acre parcel on La Bajada mesa. district judge in 2000.

Buena Vista, which owns the property, and The New Mexican Rockology, which would manage the mine,

earnings of about $27,300 a year.

That’s roughly 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

About 103,000 low-income In the past, Medicaid mostly New Mexicans have enrolled served children in lower-income in Medicaid since the state families, pregnant women, expanded who qualifies for the elderly adults in nursing homes health care program, according and some disabled people. to the latest figures from Gov. The Medicaid expansion was Susana Martinez’s administration. provided for under the federal The state opened enrollment health care overhaul law that in October, and medical services also allows uninsured individustarted for new recipients in Janu- als — those who don’t qualify ary. With the expansion, Medicaid for Medicaid — to buy medical provides care for nearly 30 perinsurance from private insurers cent of the state’s population. through an online marketplace.

Human Services Department The growth of Medicaid has spokesman Matt Kennicott said been much greater than health the pace of enrollment suggests coverage enrollment through the agency will meet or exceed the exchange. About 15,000 New its projections of about 130,000 Mexicans have signed up for low-income adults gaining medi- health insurance plans through cal coverage during the first year a federally operated exchange of the Medicaid expansion. from October through February.

The federal government The federal exchange was initially is covering the cost of plagued with technical problems health care for those who enroll. at the outset that made it diffiNew Mexico has among the cult for consumers to use. highest uninsured rates in the New Mexico is initially relying U.S., with nearly 1 in 5 of its resion a federal exchange website dents lacking medical coverage. for enrolling individuals. A stateUnder new Medicaid guiderun exchange allows small busilines, an adult with two children nesses to offer insurance covercan qualify for Medicaid with age to employees.

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The state exchange first expected about 80,000 new individuals to sign up for health plans in the first year, but that goal has been rolled back to 40,000 to 50,000 by the end of the year.

There’s no deadline for enrolling in Medicaid, but March 31 is the last day to sign up for a potentially subsidized health plan through the online exchange. New Mexico exchange officials hope to see as many as 40,000 individuals enrolled by the end of the month, according to exchange spokeswoman Debra Hammer.

She said the state exchange plans to start handling open enrollment for individuals in October for coverage that will start in 2015.

Kennicott said about 60,000 of the newly enrolled Medicaid recipients are individuals who previously had received limited health care through other state programs — one that had served the working poor and the other offering family planning services.

In the shift to the expanded Medicaid program, those individuals receive a broader range of medical benefits.

want to mine aggregate from an open pit.

The proposed site is east of Interstate 25 off Waldo Canyon Road.

Residents in Cerrillos and nearby areas claim the mine will ruin the La Bajada landscape, use too much water and harm the dark night skies in the area when operating at night. They also worry that rezoning the parcel for mining will open the way for the mine to expand later or for other commercial operations to begin in the area.

The mine applicants say it will provide commercial aggregate at a cheaper price than hauling it from Albuquerque and will provide jobs.

‘50-1’ bus tour to stop in Santa Fe on Friday

Barbara Vigil to be installed as chief justice

Residents plan to protest La Bajada basalt mine

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Utah chairlift concept would link 7 ski resorts three times the size of Vail, Colo., and twice as big as Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia.

SALT LAKE CITY — More than Rafferty said it would create an three decades after the idea was first experience unique to North America. discussed, general managers at seven In Europe, lifts connecting ski areas are Utah ski resorts announced Wednescommon. In the U.S., a daily pass to a day they are committed to finally ski resort usually confines you to that building a series of chairlifts that resort no matter how close a neighborwould link their ski areas and give the ing resort is. state a European-style experience.

If completed, the linking lifts would But it won’t be available to skiers bring the spotlight to Utah’s ski comanytime soon. munity and put it in prime position to Utah ski officials made clear during lure skiers from popular resorts in Cola news conference that it’s a concept, orado and California, ski officials said. not a plan, with no hard timeline.

“You combine that with our accessiDozens of key decisions still need to bility and the airport, and there’s not a be made, and the project will require ski community in this country that can permits and approvals from governbeat us,” said Jenni Smith, Park City ment officials. One general manager Mountain Resort general manager. said he thinks it could take a decade to The new proposal will reopen a complete. debate that has long triggered strong The project is expected to cost up opposition from backcountry skiers, to $30 million, paid for entirely by the wilderness advocates and municipal resorts, said Nathan Rafferty, president water officials. of Ski Utah, a trade organization repreCarl Fisher, executive director of senting the ski resorts.

Save Our Canyons, said the ski resorts It would link Alta Ski Area, Brighton already have a sufficient footprint on Resort, Canyons Resort, Deer Valley the Wasatch Range, and linking lifts Resort, Park City Mountain Resort, would ruin pristine areas used by outSnowbird Ski Resort and Solitude Moun- door enthusiasts. tain Resort. Skiers who buy one pass “It’s a gimmick, a marketing ploy,” would have access to 100 lifts, 750 ski he said. “They are trying to use [it] to runs and more than 18,000 skiable acres. attract more tourists.”

By combining 25 square miles of terRafferty said the resorts are comrain, the Utah resorts could offer North mitted to maintaining the watershed, preserving backcountry ski terrain and America’s largest skiing complex —

By Brady McCombs The Associated Press

lift towers instead of rocks and trees,” he said. “You’re going to be looking at cable and chairs instead of wildlife.”

Alta Ski Area general manager Onno Wieringa said he hopes the project can be accomplished in the next decade.

But he said it will come down to each ski area crunching the numbers and seeing if it makes sense financially.

“Before we would invest $10 million or $5 million or whatever, we’ve got to feel that we’re going to get some return on that money,” Wieringa said.

Though completion of the concept may be years away, having all seven ski resorts agree on the parameters is a significant step, said Mike Goar, general manager at Canyons Resort.

They’ve reached outlines for revenue sharing and identified three sites for connection points. The project now A group prepares to ski last year at Park City Mountain Resort in Park has a name, “One Wasatch,” and a webCity, Utah. A coalition of Utah ski resort managers from Alta Ski Area, site with maps and information.

Brighton Resort, Canyons Resort, Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain “The idea was finally baked enough,” Resort, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort Goar said. are reviving their plans for a series of interconnected chairlifts that All seven said making it happen would link seven ski areas and give the state a Euro-style experience. is long overdue. When Wieringa’s ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO children, now in their early 20s, were tiny, he and his wife dreamed of their going through all the necessary public public land. Even if the lifts are on children being able to take an interconpermitting. They’ll continue talking private property woven amid public nected lift from the small town of Alta with Fisher’s group and others with parcels, the ski runs likely would be on over the mountain ridge to Park City to concerns, he said. forest land, he said. go to school.

The latest proposal calls for the lifts And it’s not just about ski season.

“It gets off the dime and makes us to be built on private land. However, Hiking trails used in the summer accountable to the process,” Wieringa Fisher said he doesn’t think it’s poswould be affected as well, Fisher noted. said. “It is going to put a little heat on us.” sible for linking lifts to avoid affecting “You’re going to be hiking around

Requests: Gov. sued over alleged violations Governor wants state to stop collecting workers’ union dues Continued from Page A-6

related to out-of-state travel expenses for Gov. Susana Martinez from June 8, 2013, to the present. This would include, but not be limited to expenses and reimbursements for the governor, her security detail and any other staff that traveled with her … during this time period.”

Both Cason and Korte later responded that additional time would be needed beyond the 15 days allowed under the Inspection of Public Records Act. Korte said the the extra time was needed because “we believe your request is broad.” He said he would “provide an update by November 12.”

By Nov. 15, Cason had sent The New Mexican a list of travel dates, destinations and reasons for travel during the period requested. But the Department of Finance and Administration did not send expense records, and a subsequent email said even more time was needed.

On Dec. 3, The New Mexican sent a simi-

lar request to the Governor’s Office and to the department for out-of-state travel covering late September through early December. Again, the Governor’s Office responded by saying more time was needed. Eventually, on Jan. 31, Cason sent another spreadsheet with dates and destinations of out-ofstate travel during that time.

But again, there was no word from Finance and Administration. In late February, in a conversation at the Capitol during the legislative session, Korte told a reporter he would work on the travel records request when the session was done.

Those records have yet to come.

Last year, the weekly Santa Fe Reporter sued Martinez, claiming she had violated the Inspection of Public Records Act with regard to several records requests by reporters and an editor. Martinez has denied the allegations. The case is pending in state District Court.

The Martinez administration also was sued last year by the Las Cruces Sun-News

and the online news service New Mexico In-Depth over its refusal to release a controversial audit of 15 mental health providers. However, two separate District Court judges upheld the administration’s position against releasing that document while a criminal investigation is underway.

In 2012, The New Mexican revealed Martinez and key members of her administration routinely used private emails to communicate on state policy matters. The governor’s chief of staff, Keith Gardner, later was caught on tape saying he never used state emails so his communications would be safe from public records requests.

After a few days of negative news stories, Martinez signed an executive order declaring all state officials under her should use state email for communications about state business.

Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@ sfnewmexican.com. Read his political blog at roundhouseroundup.com.

Project: Next step is to build a parking lot Continued from Page A-6 partnership of several government agencies and nonprofits.

“A lot of people have been coming together to make this work,” Hamilton said as he surveyed the bosque. “It has been a powerful collaboration.”

“This is really the only river access people from Santa Fe County have to the Rio Grande,” he said. “It’s really an important area because if people want to learn about the Rio Grande, which is so important to New Mexico, this is it. This is where you can come and really learn about it hands on.”

More than a decade ago, Hamilton was part of a group of funders and environmental organizations called the Alliance for the Rio Grande Heritage, which pooled resources and sought ways to protect the river. They interviewed people from Taos to El Paso. “What we found was how few people actually even went to the river,” Hamilton said. “It was almost like a mythical river that lived in the imaginations of people, but there was no real direct connection to the river. It became apparent if people were really going to fight for the protection of this river, they needed access to it.”

The area around what would become the river diversion project to supply drinking water to the city of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County already had a road to it, Old Buckman Road, and was a popular spot for recreation. It was a logical place to create an access point.

With the clearing and replanting work done — 3,500 trees and native shrubs have been planted, along with a backwater wetlands — the next step is to build a parking lot and kiosk at the spot near the Buckman Direct Diversion, with historical information and maps showing popular trails heading south and north along the river and connecting to the mouth of nearby Diablo Canyon.

It has taken seven years, more

the union, are withdrawn with the employees’ consent.

ALBUQUERQUE — Con“The state is opposed to this tract talks with state employee practice and has not included unions are at an impasse ‘fair share’ in its last, best offers because New Mexico Gov. to [American Federation of Susana Martinez wants the State, County and Municipal state to stop collecting union Employees] and [Communicadues through withdrawals tion Workers of America],” from employees’ paychecks, Thames said in a statement. the governor said.

“We made this decision The Republican governor because of the unfair effect raised the issue this week ‘fair share’ has on non-union at a real estate luncheon in employees [who] have comAlbuquerque while criticizing plained that they do not want teachers unions for opposing to pay money to the unions her administration’s policy when they are not members initiatives, the Albuquerque and they are not receiving any Journal reported. benefit.”

Teachers’ union dues are But spokesman Miles Conwithdrawn under contract way of AFSCME calls Martiprovisions negotiated at the nez’s desire to end dues withlocal level, but Martinez is drawals a “declaration of war.” pressing for an end to dues He said public employees will withdrawals for state employee actively fight that cut through unions. the arbitration process.

“The state collects them “There’s no question she’s [dues] for the unions, and then coming to cut the unions off at we cut a check to the unions the knees, but we didn’t know who then use that money against reform,” Martinez told she was going for the head,” he said. business leaders.

The current contracts According to Martinez, the expired in 2011, but proviunions use the dues money to sions allowed the contracts to attack her administration. roll over until new ones were At issue is the practice of negotiated. withdrawing dues of about Republican leaders in the $13 per paycheck from workstate House during this year’s ers who do not participate in legislative session attempted the union but are represented by the union in contract nego- to amend unrelated legislation to include a statutory tiations, said Nivia Thames, ban on paycheck withdrawals deputy director of the State of union fees, but that effort Personnel Office. was defeated by a Democratic Those payments, known as majority in the chamber. “fair share” contributions to The Associated Press

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Santa Fe MPO Transportation Policy Board A crew member from GeoSystems Analysis uses an auger to dig 8-foot holes near the Rio Grande to plant cottonwoods. Matthew Gautreaux, right, said the crew planted about 3,500 cottonwood saplings, willows and other native plants near the Buckman Direct Diversion.

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than $1 million and the collaboration of the city and county, the Bureau of Land Management, the Santa Fe National Forest, the state Department of Game and Fish and numerous conservation groups such as the Sierra Club, Audubon, River Source and Amigos Bravos to get to this point.

Ranchers with grazing leases on the Caja del Rio helped build fences to keep their cattle out of the area. A group from Santa Fe High School has a grant to study raptors in the bosque and potentially build nesting platforms, Hamilton said.

“We feel like the more collaboration there is, the more ownership people will take over it,” said Todd Caplan, who oversaw the restoration project for GeoSystems Analysis. “It is a beautiful place that really has not been treated well by people who party there and trash it.”

The project was delayed for months as the agencies and environmental groups in support of improving the Buckman bosque addressed concerns of an anti-nuclear group over potential contamination from legacy radioactive waste that had washed down over the years from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

But the project finally moved ahead. It encompasses 13 acres of riverside habitat and 25 acres of upland grass and shrub habitat.

Caplan said non-native vegetation had a leg up in the area, and it took a lot of work to beat it back. “The hydrology in most river systems in the Southwest has been altered [by dams, diversion and drought] and at the same time, we have introduced non-native vegetation that thrives in this altered hydrology,” he said.

The vegetation his crew

planted in the past several weeks is expected to attract more insects, birds and other wildlife to the area — as long as it survives.

“This is a tough site,” Caplan said. “The water table is anywhere from 5 to 8 feet below the ground surface. With the lack of snowmelt, the water table may not come up at all.”

If too few plantings survive, he said, the crew may have to replant next year.

Trees and other vegetation at the site will be monitored for two years under a contract with the Buckman Direct Diversion Board, said Rick Carpenter, the city of Santa Fe’s water resources and conservation manager.

Contact Staci Matlock at 986-3055 or smatlock@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow her on Twitter @stacimatlock.

Thursday, March 27th, 2014 @ 4:00 PM City of Santa Fe Offices @ Market Station 500 Market Street, Suite 200, Santa Fe, NM (Map: http://tinyurl.com/l6kejeq) AGENDA

CALL to ORDER ROLL CALL APPROVAL of AGENDA APPROVAL of MINUTES: February 27th, 2014 A. MATTERS FROM THE PUBLIC B. PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Approval of a Recommendation for an Update to the Functional Classification of Roadways within the Santa Fe MPO Planning Area – MPO Staf C. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION 1. Presentation on the Status of the NE/SE Connectors Alignment and Corridor Study – Santa Fe County Staff 2. Presentation on the Status of the Amtrak Southwest Chief Train – NMDOT Staff 3. Presentation on the Pedestrian Master Plan Phase I – MPO Staff 4. Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Project Updates – MPO Staff D. MATTERS FROM THE MPO STAFF E. MATTERS FROM THE SFMPO TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD F. MATTERS FROM THE NMDOT AND FHWA G. ADJOURNMENT – April 24th, 2014.

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TIME OUT

Thursday, March 20, 2014

ANNIE’S MAILBOX ACROSS 1 One way to stand 7 Sources of wool 14 Come up again, as a web page 15 Statement preceding a blunt truth 16 Title girl in a children’s book series set in Paris 17 Meter reading 18 Like the first two “Brandenburg” Concertos 19 City known as “Florence on the Elbe” 21 Prefix with -form 22 Trim 24 Plotter’s place 25 Sportscaster who lent his name to a popular video game series 26 Unconvincing 27 Fleet 28 Cinco follower 29 Wash. neighbor 30 One on the move

31 ___ the custom (traditionally) 32 1968 Beatles hit 35 Backs, as a front 37 Member of the familia 38 Big name in plastic 42 Almond ___ (candy brand) 43 Big hit 44 Earth sci.

45 What shouldn’t follow you?

46 Macbeth or Macduff 47 Golfer ___ Pak 48 Woman 49 Ogle 52 Justice Dept. division 53 “Modern Family” actor 55 Boxster competitors 57 In situ, as stones 58 “Psst!” follower, perhaps 59 Sonnet enders 60 Corona alternative

In-laws can wait a month to visit

DOWN 1 Carrier of plates?

2 Asset for a mimic 3 Notoriety 4 Cry of mock incredulity 5 Wedding staple 6 River through Pomerania 7 “Evangeline” locale 8 More easygoing 9 Nabokov novel after “Lolita” 10 Justice Dept. division 11 Italian actress Cardinale

12 Nickname for Michael Jordan, with “His” 13 Welcome to one’s home 15 1963 movie with the tagline “Everybody who’s ever been funny is in it!”

20 The Jetson boy 23 Disregard 25 Caused a stir 27 Added stipulations 28 Nine-digit ID 31 Flying without ___ 33 ___ loss 34 Hold forth

35 Titian subject with Bacchus 36 Witticisms 39 Summer drink 40 Pitcher’s woe 41 George Eliot and George Sand 43 Balance 45 Musical middle name 46 Time spent doing time, say 49 Dry 50 Marseille mates 51 “Glee” girl 54 Weirdo 56 Arabic name meaning “highly praised”

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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: ONE-ITEM PAIRS Unscramble the letters to find the single item referred to as “a pair of ____.” (e.g., Tansp. Answer: Pants.)

Dear Annie: My husband and I are expecting our second child.

When our first was born, my in-laws (who live out of town) visited shortly after the birth, and it was awful. They tried to separate me from our baby to have alone time with him. And instead of helping out, they created additional work, even though I was still recovering from the birth.

I don’t want to shut them out, but would like the first visit to take place at least a month after the baby is born. My husband is understanding, but likes to please his family. How can I tactfully schedule a visit to preserve both my sanity and my relationship with my husband’s family? — Not Looking Forward Dear Not: Your husband must agree to support you in this request. It would be best if he could convince his parents to wait before visiting. And of course, this is not their first grandchild, so they may be perfectly agreeable.

If not, we recommend you enlist the help of your pediatrician to suggest that it’s better for the child to wait until he has had his first set of immunizations (usually at two months). When they press to come sooner, you can give in slowly and eventually settle on four weeks. We trust you will give the same information to your parents.

Dear Annie: My husband and I own a home on a cul-de-sac.

Most of the other original owners have moved on, and several of the homes are now rentals and inhabited by multiple families.

This means many, many cars.

Two homes alone account for 13 automobiles. Every home has a spacious garage and driveway, but these neighbors use that space for junk. As a result, we always have multiple cars parked in front of our house, sometimes for days at a time, including giant SUVs parked between two driveways, hanging over on each side. And because it’s a cul-de-sac, sometimes the cars are double-parked.

I’ve called the police multiple times, but they don’t always show up, or by the time they arrive, the offending vehicle has been moved. A ticket or two might teach these people, but they just keep getting away with it. I’m so tired of looking out my living room window or sitting on my patio looking at other people’s cars. I feel as if I live in a parking lot.

It’s not fair that I should need to move out of my retirement home in order to have a decent view. I know you cannot solve this for me. I’m just venting. — Sick of Your Clunkers Dear Sick: We get it. Do you have a neighborhood or homeowners association of any kind that could mediate this? Do you think talking to your neighbors would help? People often don’t consider the possibility that their neighbors would be cooperative if they were approached in a spirit of friendship. But also ask the police whether there is anything else you can do.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Glad the Holidays are Over,” whose mother-in-law hogs the conversations and constantly talks about herself.

That was me! For years, I was loud and abrasive, hogged conversations, interrupted and didn’t listen, thinking instead of what I was going to say next. I thought I was the life of the party and had to keep conversations going.

I learned my lesson when I met another person like me. I heard people say how he wouldn’t let anyone get a word in edgewise and that he must not care about others. What an eye opener! Since then, I’ve learned to ask others questions and actually wait for the answers. It’s a relief not to be responsible for all of the conversation, and it allows me to get to know people better.

Please cut this out and send it to those who feel they must keep talking to avoid odd silences. — Minot, N.D.

Sheinwold’s bridge

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Lisper

2. Less sag Answer________ 3. Cross sis Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL

Answer________ 5. Rose rust Answer________ 6. Snug lasses Answer________

7. Egg logs Answer________ 8. Were zest Answer________ 9. Albino curs Answer________

Cryptoquip

ANSWERS: 1. Pliers. 2. Glasses. 3. Scissors. 4. Clippers.

5. Trousers. 6. Sunglasses. 7. Goggles.

8. Tweezers. 9. Binoculars.

BLACK WINS A PIECE Hint: Create a double threat.

Solution: 1. … Bf2ch!

2. Kh2. Rf4! (threatens both 3. … Rh4 mate and 3. … Rxa4), etc.

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) 2014 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Thursday, March 20, the 79th day of 2014. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 12:57 p.m. EDT. Today’s highlight in history: On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was first published in book form after being serialized.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Use your intuition with an important situation involving a loved one. You can rely on feelings only to a certain level. Tonight: Celebrate the first day of spring.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Handle any important matter in the morning; otherwise, you might not gain the results you want.

Tonight: Defer to a friend or loved one for now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You will want to handle an important matter on your own. The financial benefits of a situation outweigh the negatives.

Tonight: Where your friends are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Dig into your bag of creative ideas in the morning.

You might be surprised by what evolves as a result.

Tonight: Get into weekend mode.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You’ll react instinctively to a perception or to a change in tone, and will wonder when you can say “enough is enough.”

Tonight: Stay close to home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Be willing to express your deeper feelings about a personal matter, as you seem to be more than serious about a long-term investment. Tonight: Celebrate spring!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be more easily confused than you realize.

Ask questions to clarify, but phrase them carefully to get an appropriate response. Tonight: Remain upbeat. Greet spring with a smile.

PH.D. LEVEL

Chess quiz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 20, 2014: This year you finally will be able to deal with a loved one directly. Conversations will start flowing even more.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your resourcefulness draws strong results in the morning. A family member, though well-meaning, could add to the pressure of the moment. Tonight: Relax.

4. Cripples

ANSWERS:

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Pressure builds involving a work matter and your finances. Additional demands from a family member could add to your discomfort. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

Answer________

Jumble

Horoscope

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. © 2014 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Use the morning to the max, when others are more responsive to your inquiries. Look at a matter through someone else’s eyes. Tonight: Happily head home.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Pace yourself, as you have a lot to get done. You have a smile that helps draw others closer to you.

Remain sensitive to the possibilities. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be in a situation that touches many other people. Understand what is happening by reaching out and getting more information. Tonight: Treat a loved one well.

Jacqueline Bigar

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Cat attack spooks family ‘My Cat From Hell’ host makes way to Oregon to help pet

By Sue Manning

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES he large cat that attacked a baby and trapped an Oregon family in a bedroom touched off an Internet uproar that worries Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s My Cat from Hell.

Cats don’t become ferocious felines that turn on their families for no reason, says the cat behavior expert, who is heading to Portland soon to work with the 4-year-old part-Himalayan pet named Lux. Galaxy will film the visit for his show’s fifth season, which kicks off April 26.

“Every parental site on the Internet blames the cat for this confrontation. Every pet site blames the family,” he said, adding that something is wrong if the cat is acting out. “We need to step away from the hysteria.

There is a story behind all this.

Don’t assume anything.”

Lux became a worldwide phenomenon after owner Lee Palmer called 911 and said the cat had cornered him, his girlfriend, their baby and the family dog inside a room.

Palmer says his 7-month-old pulled Lux’s tail, and he kicked the animal after it scratched the child. Then, the cat “just went off over the edge,” Palmer told an emergency dispatcher after the family barricaded themselves. “He’s charging us,” Palmer said, as the cat was heard screeching in the background. Officers arrived and caught Lux with a dog snare.

Palmer said the cat had a history of violence, but the family kept Lux until Monday, when they turned him over to a Portland-area shelter. But the family assured Animal Planet they were going to keep the cat and agreed to therapy with Galaxy.

Palmer didn’t return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday.

There are many reasons a cat can turn aggressive, and there is

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Cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy, host of the Animal Planet television show My Cat from Hell, sits with Lulu in Los Angeles. ANIMAL PLANET/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

no universal way to deal with it, Galaxy said. But the star feline behaviorist provided five ways to tame out-of-control cats: u Never leave a young child unsupervised with a cat. u Take it to a vet at least once a year. If a cat is acting suspiciously, the owner needs to pay attention. “Know what suspicious looks like,” Galaxy said. “If they’re not feeling well, cats will socially withdraw themselves, or they will lose weight, or they will gain weight, or they’ll be howling in the middle of the night when they never did before.

“I’ve known cats who acted out similarly to Lux because of an abscessed tooth, a brain tumor, hyperthyroidism or diabetes.” u Make sure cats can literally climb out of a situation. Having a space up high, like a cat condo, to get away from children and other pets is crucial, Galaxy said. “Make sure the cat can make the choice to get away from the kid,” he said. u Timeouts are good things.

“We associate timeouts with punishment, but in the world of cats, timeout is not a punishment.” They can go to a designated place where they

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Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Denver, a 4-year-old, 74-pound male German shepherd mix, is ready to join you on a hike or cuddle with you on the couch.

Linden, a 7-year-old male cat, would like nothing more than to sit on your lap all day and purr. This handsome gentleman is a perfect companion.

These and other animals are available for adoption from the shelter at 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s adoption hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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

The shelter’s mobile adoption team will be at PetSmart in Santa Fe from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday. The shelter will be closed Sunday and Monday for in-service training and reopens at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Española Valley Humane Society: Muffin Man the cat is healing from a broken leg but is ready for his new family. His back leg is still in a cast, so he has some mobility issues, but once the cast comes off, he’ll be good as new. Tiny Tidbit loves other dogs and loves to prance along with you. He’s the perfect size for a household with limited space.

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 through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Call 505-753-8662 or visit the web-

In brief Shelter closes for training

Lux, a 22-pound Himalayan cat, attacked a 7-month-old baby in Oregon. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

can settle down, come back to a peaceful moment or ground themselves, he said. u Stop fights between felines with “timeout drills.” With simple pieces of cardboard, left strategically around the house, you can stop a fight between two cats. Put the cardboard between them, blocking their vision and providing a moment of disorientation when you can lead them to their timeout spot.

It’s especially important to have

the drills with aggressive cats.

Galaxy said he was going to Portland to act as Lux’s advocate and find out what’s wrong.

“I have no idea what made Lux aggressive,” he said. It could be a chemical imbalance, a history of stressful environments or because he was kicked.

“If you want a blanket statement on how to deal with aggression, how about, ‘Don’t set the cat up for failure,’ ” he said.

PET SHOT POOCH PLAYDATE

The Santa Fe animal shelter will be closed Sunday and Monday for a special training seminar hosted by the shelter.

The shelter is hosting a playgroup seminar for shelter workers, volunteers and animal-welfare professionals with Aimee Sadler, director of training and behavior at the Southhampton Animal Shelter Foundation in Southhampton, N.Y. Sadler is the founder of Dogs Playing for Life!, a program designed to enhance shelter dogs’ quality of life and increase their chances of adoption.

The Playing for Life! program is sponsored by the Animal Farm Foundation and is endorsed by the Humane Society of the United States. It has been introduced to more than 55 shelters in the U.S. The shelter will return to its normal operating hours Tuesday. The shelter’s admission building is open at 8 a.m., while the adoption building opens at 9 a.m. Kennel viewing for both facilities starts at 11 a.m.

Rescue volunteer earns accolades

Rosie, right, goes for a ride with her pals Porkchop and Milton. COURTESY JANE BRICKNER

David Schultz, a longtime volunteer with Felines & Friends New Mexico, has been chosen as the winner of the

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Felines & Friends: Foxy Lady is very sweet and playful.

She is quite social and loves to be handled. Sweet and social, Dink adapts well to new environments. He would do well in a home with other friendly cats. He does have a heart murmur, but no medications are required at this time.

Cats of all ages are available for adoption from Felines & Friends and can be visited at Petco throughout the week during regular store hours.

Adoption advisers are available from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday at Petco on Cerrillos Road. Become a Felines & Friends volunteer.

Visit the website at www. petfinder.com/shelters/NM38. html or call 316-CAT1.

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Salute to Senior Service Campaign for his ongoing efforts with the group’s trap-neuterreturn program.

The award is sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care for the state of New Mexico.

Schultz’s efforts in one project resulted in more than 50 feral cats being sterilized, of which 31 were female, according Bobbi Heller, the group’s executive director. This kept more than 120 kittens from being born, she said.

Clinic expands hours, services The Santa Fe animal shelter’s south-side clinic is expanding its hours and vaccination clinics.

The Spay/Neuter & Wellness Clinic, 2570 Camino Entrada, located next to Outback Steakhouse, now offers spay/neuter services on Tuesday mornings and a walk-in vaccination clinic on Tuesday afternoons. In addition to Tuesdays, the clinic offers spay/neuter services by appointment Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; the clinic’s drop-in vacci0nation clinic is Fridays from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m.

The clinic offers high-quality, low- and no-cost spaying and neutering for companion animals, along with low-cost vaccinations during the vaccination clinics. Call 474-6422 for information about prices or to schedule an appointment.

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Google Maps returns for iPhone, and it boasts big improvements

By Bree Fowler

The Associated Press

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ike a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone.

I’d been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had replaced it three months ago. For one thing, it didn’t have public transit directions, a feature important for New Yorkers like me. Apple’s mapping app also wasn’t as good as the old Google app in finding destinations. I often had to type full addresses rather than just the name of a business.

I tried to get by with maps on Google’s mobile website instead, but I found that clunky and slower to start up. So when Google Maps returned this week as its own app, I installed it right away.

Although it may not be perfect, it is a big step up from both Apple’s current software and the old Google-powered Maps app that Apple kicked off the iPhone in September.

For the first time, Google Maps has turn-by-turn voice navigation on the iPhone, and with that, automatic recalculation of routes whenever you make a wrong turn. The feature had been available on Android phones since 2009, but Google’s previous refusal to bring it to the iPhone is believed to be a key reason Apple decided to develop its own technology.

The new app also offers public transit information for more than 500 cities around the world. That’s a feature Apple’s own mapping software lacks.

The turn-by-turn driving directions work exceptionally well. It quickly and accurately calculated the most direct route from The Associated Press’ headquarters in Manhattan to my home in the Bronx. It offered a variety of routes for traveling from New York to Boston.

The app’s voice directions came in the form of a pleasant female voice that sounded much more human than the GPS system my husband had in his car years ago. She was also more pleasant to hear than Siri, the virtual assistant on my iPhone 4S. The maps themselves are clear and easy to read, and directions were easy to understand. But don’t worry if you’re the type of person, like my husband, who finds voice directions annoying.

There’s a mute option.

Google’s app usually gives you the choice of a couple of routes.

Unlike Apple’s app, Google Maps lets you automatically exclude routes that involve highways or tolls. You can also add an overlay showing how bad the traffic is along the way, along with satellite and extensive street-level photography of the area you’re traveling through. Those features are much more limited in Apple’s app.

To test out the walking directions, I took to the streets of New York. I didn’t get as many bells and whistles as the driving directions. For instance, there was no nice lady to tell me which way to go, because the voice directions only work for driving. In addition, the app doesn’t automatically recalculate your route if you miss a turn. The little blue dot marking your location just continues on its merry way in the wrong direction.

To get the voice and the recalculations, you’d have to walk with driving directions, but you might then find yourself walking farther as the app won’t let you walk against traffic on a one-way street or through a park on recreational paths.

Google’s mapping service is typically adorned with multitudes of landmarks such as tourist spots, dry cleaners and bars. To test this out, I took a walk up Ninth Avenue toward Hell’s Kitchen. I found that while Google knows this neighborhood pretty well, it doesn’t know it as well as I do.

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The world’s most popular online mapping system returned to Apple with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app.

The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device’s built-in navigation system and inserted its own map software into the latest version of its mobile operating system. GOOGLE

The video game universe in 2012 is a study in extremes.

At one end, you have the old guard striving to produce mass-appeal blockbusters. At the other end, you have a thriving community of independent game developers scrambling to find an audience for their idiosyncratic visions. Can’t we all just get along?

Turns out, we can. For while some industry leaders are worried (and not without cause) about “disruptive” trends — social-media games, free-to-play models, the switch from disc-based media to digital delivery — video games are blossoming creatively. This fall, during the height of the pre-holiday game release calendar, I found myself bouncing among games as diverse as the bombastic Halo 4, the artsy The Unfinished Swan and the quick-hit trivia game SongPop. Some of my favorite games this year have benefited from both sides working together. The smaller studios get exposure on huge platforms like Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network. The big publishers seem more willing to invite a little quirkiness into their big-budget behemoths. Gamers win.

1. Dishonored (Bethesda Softworks, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC): Arkane Studios’ revenge drama combined a witty plot, crisp gameplay and an uncommonly distinctive milieu, setting a supernaturally gifted assassin loose in a gloriously decadent, steampunk-influenced city.

2. Mass Effect 3 (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PC): No 2012 game was more ambitious than BioWare’s sweeping space opera. Yes, the ending was a little bumpy, but the fearless Commander Shepard’s last journey across the cosmos provided dozens of thrilling moments.

3. The Walking Dead (Telltale Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, iOS): This moving adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comics dodged the predictable zombie bloodbath in favor of a finely tuned character study of two survivors: Lee, an escaped convict, and Clementine, the 8-year-old girl he’s committed to protect.

4. Journey (Thatgamecompany, for the PlayStation 3): A nameless figure trudges across a desert toward a glowing light. Simple enough, but gorgeous visuals, haunting music and the need to communicate, wordlessly, with companions you meet along the way translate into something that’s almost profound.

5. Borderlands 2 (2K Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC): Gearbox Software’s gleeful mashup of first-person shooting, role-playing and lootcollecting conventions gets bigger and badder, but what stuck with me most were the often hilarious encounters with the damaged citizens of the godforsaken planet Pandora.

The big publishers seem more willing to invite a little quirkiness into their big-budget behemoths.

Gamers win.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, March 20, 2014

Lawmakers want gray Arizona, Kansas win court wolf protections to stay approval on voter ID rules wolves annually, though state The Associated Press officials insist the species’ population remains healthy.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal But lawmakers led by lawmakers pressed Interior Sec- Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, retary Sally Jewell on Wednesthe ranking Democrat on the day to drop the administration’s House Natural Resources plan to end federal protections Committee, contend protecfor gray wolves across most of tions elsewhere should remain. the Lower 48 states.

That’s in part because gray Seventy-four House memwolves have not yet repopubers signed onto a Wednesday lated areas where researchers letter to Jewell that cited a identified suitable habitat for peer-review panel’s recent con- the animals in California, Utah, clusion the government relied Colorado and the Northeast. on unsettled science to make The lawmakers wrote that its case that the wolves have taking the animals off the sufficiently recovered. endangered species list and Gray wolves were added to putting them under state manthe endangered-species list in agement would “stifle gray 1975 after being widely exterwolf recovery” and undermine minated in the past century. decades of restoration efforts.

Protections already have been Among those signing the lifted for rebounding populaletter were two House Repubtions of the predators in the licans — Chris Smith of New northern Rockies and Great Jersey and Mike Fitzpatrick of Lakes regions.

Pennsylvania.

Hunting in those regions A panel of independent scinow kills hundreds of gray entists last month rejected the

By Matthew Brown

government’s claim that the Northeast and Midwest were home to a separate species, the eastern wolf. The government claim would make it unnecessary to restore gray wolves in those areas, but the peerreview panel said there was too little science to support such a view.

In their letter to Jewell, the lawmakers criticized Interior for resurrecting a dormant government journal to publish a study from its own employees that justified the findings about the eastern wolf.

A public-comment period on Interior’s proposal ends Thursday.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Chris Tollefson said a decision on how to proceed will be made after federal officials review the comments and the peer-review panel’s report. The agency has said it expects to make a final decision by the end of the year.

gress had not “pre-empted state laws requiring proof of citizenship through the National Voter PHOENIX — A federal Registration Act.” judge in Kansas on Wednesday Proof of citizenship became ordered federal election author- a requirement in Arizona under ities to help Kansas and Arizona Proposition 200, approved in require their voters to show 2004 — the law struck down by proof of citizenship in state the Supreme Court in June — as and local elections, in effect part of the long legal and political sanctioning a two-tier voter reg- fight against illegal immigration istration system that could set in this border state. Gov. Sam a trend for other RepublicanBrownback of Kansas, a Republidominated states. can, signed a similar law in 2011.

Judge Eric F. Melgren of the In an interview, the Arizona U.S. District Court in Wichita, attorney general, Tom Horne, Kan., ruled that the federal also a Republican, said, “This Election Assistance Commisdecision is an important victory sion had no legal authority to against the Obama administradeny requests from Kansas and tion because it ensures that only Arizona to add state-specific U.S. citizens, and not illegals, instructions to a national voter registration form. The states sued vote in Arizona elections.”

The secretary of state of Kanthe agency to force the action sas, Kris W. Kobach, a Republiafter it had turned them down. can and one of the most forceful The Supreme Court ruled in advocates nationally against June that Congress holds full illegal immigration, called the power over federal election ruling “a win for states’ rights.” rules but indicated that states He added, “We have now paved could require proof of citizenship in state and local elections. the way for all 50 states to protect their voter rolls and ensure Federal rules require prospecthat only U.S. citizens can vote.” tive voters only to sign a form There has been little evidence attesting to their citizenship, of in-person voter fraud or a procedure that is favored efforts by noncitizens to vote,

by Democrats who want to increase participation of minori- but the poor and minorities are likely to be affected. Studies ties and the poor in elections, but that Republican officials say have shown that the poor and minorities often lack passports fosters voter fraud. and access to birth certificates In his ruling, Melgren, who needed to register under the was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush, char- laws in question.

Melgren’s decision holds paracterized the decision by the ticular significance this election election commission to deny year, as it could prevent thouthe states’ requests as “unlawful and in excess of its statutory sands of people from voting just as the governorship and other authority.” He said that ConBy Fernanda Santos The New York Times

major offices are on the ballot in both states.

In a blog post Wednesday, Richard L. Hasen, an expert on voting regulations at the law school of the University of California, Irvine, wrote, “The upshot of this opinion, if it stands on appeal, is that states with Republican legislatures and/or Republican chief election officials are likely to require documentary proof of citizenship for voting, making it harder for Democrats to pursue a relatively simple method of voter registration.”

Defenders of voter identification laws argue that fraud is hard to detect but still a real danger and that Americans uncomplainingly present identification for getting on airplanes and numerous other things, so asking the same for voting, a sacred right of democracy, is only appropriate.

The ruling takes effect immediately unless the courts grant a stay pending an appeal. The Justice Department said that it was reviewing the court’s decision.

If the ruling stands, Kansas and Arizona could be forced to maintain separate ballots covering only federal races for voters who do not provide proof of citizenship, thus excluding them from state and local races.

Ultimately, though, it would allow officials to “move forward with one way of becoming a registered voter in Arizona, as Proposition 200 required when passed 10 years ago,” the state’s secretary of state, Ken Bennett, a Republican, said Wednesday.

Funeral services and memorials WARM WEATHER IN TIME FOR START OF SPRING Jared Castellano, 16, enjoys a warm day Wednesday at DeVargas Skate Park. The first day of spring is Thursday, and temperatures are expected to be around 60 for the rest of the week. KEIFER NACE/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN

In brief New trial for family denied DEMING — A federal appeals court has denied a new trial for a New Mexico family convicted of gun smuggling.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s decision that ordered a new trial for Deming couple Rick Reese and Terri Reese and their son, Ryin Reese.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Brack granted the defense request in February 2013 because prosecutors failed to disclose that a key prosecution witness, Luna County sheriff’s investigator Alan Batts, was himself under criminal investigation. They argued the information would have allowed them to challenge his credibility.

Subjects of the Batts investigation included allegations of theft of money from a drug dealer, working with Mexican drug traffickers and assisting with immigrant smuggling. No charges have ever been filed against him.

But the federal appeals court said the trial’s outcome likely would have not have changed.

“We conclude there is not a reasonable probability that the outcome of defendants’ trial would have been different had the government disclosed” the investigation, the appeals court wrote.

A jury convicted the three in August 2012 of making false statements on federal firearmssales forms. They were acquitted of most of the charges that they sold weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

Dem staying in treasurer’s race The Secretary of State’s Office says former Bernalillo

County treasurer Patrick Padilla has secured a place on the June primary ballot as a Democratic candidate for state treasurer.

Padilla turned in additional nominating petition signatures Tuesday to continue his candidacy after failing to win a place on the ballot at the Democratic pre-primary nominating convention earlier this month.

Candidates with less than 20 percent support of convention delegates are off the ballot unless they submit a certain number of petition signatures.

In the 3rd Congressional District, Democrat Robert Blanch has taken the steps to remain a challenger against incumbent Ben Ray Luján.

Padilla, former Sen. Tim Eichenberg and former state Democratic Party chairman John Wertheim are seeking the party’s nomination for treasurer. Republican Rick Lopez is unopposed in the primary.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u A bicycle worth about $550 was stolen from a home in the 3200 block of La Paz Lane between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday. u Someone stole TVs from a home in the 400 block of Arroyo Tenorio between 10 a.m.

Sunday and 9:45 a.m. Tuesday. u A 43-inch TV was reported stolen from a home in the 1300 block of Maez Road sometime Monday. u A woman reported March 13 that she believes one of her former employees at Ferrellgas, 4151 Cerrillos Road, embezzled about $2,548 from the business. u Someone stole a PlayStation 3 gaming console and money from a home in the 2800 block of Cerrillos Road between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Tuesday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u County deputies responded to the unattended death of a 56-year-old man at a residence on Mustang Road in Edgewood sometime Tuesday. The man had health issues, and there were no signs of foul play. u Arthur Martinez, 29, of Tesuque was arrested sometime Tuesday after deputies say he violated an order of protection. A deputy said Martinez was found in a residence off Valle Romero with “a self-inflicted puncture wound to the neck.” The man was first taken to the hospital and later booked into the Santa Fe County jail.

Speed SUVs u Mobile speed-enforcement vehicles are not in use as the city renegotiates its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems.

TOVA CALLOWAY

RICHARD R. GORMAN

Tova Calloway, born Tova Maria Mathiasen, was a resident of Santa Fe for over forty years. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and was a graduate of Hollywood High and UCLA. As early as childhood, Tova was fascinated with indigenous cultures, which led her to study anthropology as an undergraduate.

She was drawn to New Mexico and moved to Albuquerque in 1967 to continue her anthropology studies at UNM. She first visited northern New Mexico as a student assistant on an archaeological dig in Taos. She accepted employment as a Human Services Department case worker, based in Santa Fe. Tova had an extensive career in social work, beginning as a case worker in Pecos, NM. In 1968, she became a Juvenile Probation Officer with the First Judicial District (later Children Youth and Families.) Her counseling would benefit troubled teenagers in the Santa Fe region for the next 25 years. In the early eighties, Tova returned to UNM to complete her graduate studies, where she received her Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling.

Tova was also active with Amnesty International and worked on human rights issues for Central and South America. She was a freelance writer, nearly fluent in Spanish, a creative spirit, loving mother, loyal friend, and compassionate advocate of juvenile outreach. She passed away peacefully at home on March 3, 2014, after a lengthy illness.

Tova was born in Los Angeles, California in August, 1944, to Ruth Evelyn Thompson and Harold Mathiasen. She was the former wife of New Mexico journalist Larry Calloway, and is survived by her daughters, Lara Lee Calloway and Maia Marie Calloway.

She also leaves behind her dear friends and the community of Northern New Mexico, which she loved so much.

A memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 21, 2014, at Cristo Rey Parish, 1120 Canyon Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, Phone:(505) 983-8528. A burial will follow at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, 417 Rodeo Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Phone:(505) 989-7032.

A rosary will be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 7:00 p.m. on March 19, 2014. The mass will be celebrated at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on March 20, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., followed by internment at Rosario Cemetery. A reception for family and friends will immediately follow at St. Anne’s Parish Hall.

CHIEF Z. O. OLORUNTOBA 1919 - 2014 Chief Zacheus Olowonubi Oloruntoba passed away in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, March 13, according to his son, Patrick, and daughter, Abiola. Cause of death was a stroke.

Chief Oloruntoba was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, October 1, 1919. He is a prominent African artist who is known for his colorful herbal-dyed, cotton-cord tapestries depicting African life. He showed in Lagos, Nigeria and in London. His U.S. representative, Dorothy Rogers of Dorothy Rogers Fine Art, Santa Fe, staged many one-man exhibits including 1999 and 2000 at The Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas. Rogers curated a major exhibit for The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn. in 2002. This exhibit was reviewed by William Zimmer and featured in The New York Times, Sunday, April 7, 2002. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, chose a work from this exhibit for their permanent collection. Oloruntoba is also in the collections of Queen Elizabeth II and David Rockefeller.

Oloruntoba was among the first folk art artists to exhibit at the International Folk Art Market sponsored by the Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, 2004 and 2005. The artist had yearly exhibits at Rogers’ gallery, Santa Fe, 2003 to 2011. The lively openings featured Chief and African drummers, all in full regalia.

Chief Oloruntoba will be buried in Ogidi, Nigeria. Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

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The West’s oldest newspaper, founded 1849 Robin M. Martin Owner

COMMENTARY: CATHERINE RAMPELL

Online: They’re out to spy on us M ark Zuckerberg is angry that the National Security Agency is violating Facebook users’ privacy, which is a bit like the Silicon Valley equivalent of “Get your government hands off my Medicare.” He thinks users should be upset about this, too.

But you know what? I’m not particularly fazed.

Rather than having a turf war over who gets to surveil whom, maybe Facebook and the NSA should team up. The NSA probably already has a rich database of my calls, texts, travels, toenail clippings and repressed childhood memories; maybe, aided by such additional Big Data, Facebook could finally figure out how to show me ads for things I actually want to buy.

Allegedly the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click on ads (well, that or how to help teenagers swap naked pictures of themselves). But if the ads I’m seeing today represent our best minds’ best work with the best Big Data available, color me unimpressed.

The department store pioneer John Wanamaker famously said he knew that half of his advertising budget was wasted but he didn’t know which half. Even that dour assessment dramatically overestimates the efficacy of modern advertising. Today, of all online display ads, the share that gets clicked on is not 1 in 2; it’s somewhere between 1 in 500 and 1 in 1,000, according to marketing analysts and some of the ad networks themselves.

That’s a pretty lousy batting average. Yet if you consider the number of times you have ever clicked on or even noticed an online ad supposedly curated just for you, these numbers may not be surprising. They certainly didn’t astonish me. Facebook, despite being able to track what music I like, where I’ve vacationed, which Wikipedia

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C rabbit holes I’ve fallen down and what embarrassing hypochondriacal ailments I’ve googled (Are those bedbug bites? Do I have mono again and, if so, did my spleen just explode?), has strange beliefs about who I am and what I’d be interested in buying.

For a while last year, I was seeing a lot of ads for Mormon dating services. “Meet local Mormon singles just like you!”

Facebook urged, not realizing that I was in a relationship and, perhaps also relevant, not Mormon. Just a few weeks later, I was seeing ads for discount engagement rings. A few weeks after that, Facebook plastered my feeds with ads for diapers and child care services.

Dang, I thought, Facebook thinks I move fast. All that was missing from this ad sequence were the shells for my father’s shotgun.

The ads I’ve seen since then (on Facebook, Google Display Network sites and other highly algorithmic advertising platforms) exhibit less narrative, alas, but are equally unhelpful.

Online ads served to me usually fall into one of two

categories: things that leave me feeling intensely, uncomfortably judged — teethwhitening, weight-loss or hair-removal products — or things I already own and do not intend to duplicate. For example, the boots I bought on Zappos (but not socks, waterproofing spray or other complementary products I might actually want), the credit card I use, Broadway shows I’ve seen, the hotel I just booked.

Likewise, my significant other sees ads from test-prep companies offering to help him gain admission to a university from which he already has a degree. Someday, the ads promise, he might even get accepted to the school where he currently teaches.

Remember, these are the ads curated specifically for our clicking and consumption pleasure by firms that have their pick of the world’s greatest talent and where even interns draw salaries of about $75,000 annualized. So if one in 1,000 is the batting average in Silicon Valley, I cannot even imagine what it is at the super-secretive NSA — where the highest-paid workers

make about as much as the mid-tier employees at a place such as Facebook, where HR can’t even import bunches of talented H-1B visa holders and where the mission is more complicated and diffuse than “get people to click and then maybe buy stuff.”

Excuse me, then, if I’m skeptical about the greater social welfare benefits that come from secretly collecting infinite reams of private citizens’ data — benefits supposedly calibrated to outweigh the costs of intrusion and distrust.

(What good is ubiquitous surveillance if, after more than a week, the world still can’t find a missing 777?) Maybe tech firms and government agencies need to hoover up ever more data about my indecipherable mutterings to my cat.

Or maybe they need to start proving they’re doing something useful with the invasive data they already have.

Catherine Rampell, a former economics reporter for The New York Times, writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

La Bajada is a resource worth protecting

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hank you for posting the recent letters concerning La Bajada. As a resident whose view is of that mesa, I am sick with worry for its fate.

It’s not easy living out here. I have a delicate solar system and a primitive water-collecting method. I am conscious of every drop of water I use. I have an hour commute to work each way, and part of it is on a rocky, dusty, bumpy road.

I live here because of the beauty of La Bajada mesa. The best part of this beauty is that it is for everyone. Not everyone chooses to live out here, but anyone can appreciate La Bajada. The beauty of the natural world can heal a broken soul.

The destruction of such beauty is criminal.

I hope that I, and many, many generations to come, will be able to enjoy the beautiful La Bajada mesa forever.

SEND US YOUR LETTERS Send your letters of no more than 150 words to letters@sfnew mexican.com. Include your name, address and phone number for verification and questions.

Diane Senior

near the same area. That pit is a huge eyesore and is growing larger every day. One of the Cerrillos hills is disappearing before our eyes. We do not need another strip mine in Santa Fe County. Then we all can enjoy this beautiful view into the future. La Bajada is a striking landmark. Visit www. savelabajada.com.

Pat Brown

Emilie Sederholm

Cerrillos

I want to bring everyone’s attention to what could be about to happen. A company is trying to put a strip mine on top of La Bajada mesa. Many of us are fighting to stop this. It is on County Road 57, a halfmile east of Interstate 25. They want to strip its beautiful volcanic lava flow. They also want to buy county water for dust control and waste thousands of gallons that people could be using. You will see the strip mine as you drive up from Albuquerque. There is already a gravel pit working

La Bajada mesa is one of the most stunning and scenic places in our county. The reward for cresting the long, hard climb on I-25 toward Santa Fe is a vast expanse of open space where sun and shadow dance across the plain. It has been a demarcation — dividing Rio Arriba and Rio Abajo — for centuries, and it is still a place of transition. It signals “home” to residents and “welcome to Santa Fe” to visitors.

But this special place could fall to a massive, 50-acre strip mine, right in the heart of La Bajada mesa. Yes, this mag-

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nificent part of New Mexico’s landscape, ecology, history and tradition — and everything that depends upon it — is under threat of being crushed to gravel.

Learn more at www.savelabajada.org.

Speak out to save the mesa at the county hearing, at 4 p.m. Thursday, at 102 Grant Ave.

MALLARD FILLMORE

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

Madrid The proposed mine on the eastern part of La Bajada mesa would be a shame to New Mexico. A beautiful little section of our state would be ruined. Archaeological and historical evidence would be destroyed. The environmental impact on air, water, flora and fauna would be tragic and would not be limited to the immediate vicinity; the traffic (an endless flow of huge trucks hauling equipment and gravel) would be horrific. There will be no way of hiding any of this. What will our visitors think?

Furthermore, the proposed mine site is only a small part of the property owned by the Buena Vista development company on the the eastern mesa. And the whole area is underlain by the same gravel-yielding basalt. If the proposed mine receives a permit, it is easy to imagine what might happen next.

Edith Jonas

Albuquerque

all it a tale of two tweets.

First, the bad news that New Mexico continues to bleed jobs.

Retweeted NM Telegram (@NMTelegram): “NM only state in the region to lose jobs in 12 months ending on Jan 31.”

Then, a happier perspective: Retweeted Susana Martinez 2016 (@ReadyForSusana): “Did you know Governor Martinez cut the business tax rate by 22% to help businesses create more jobs?”

The recovery is taking hold. Just not in New Mexico, despite the governor’s campaign tweets.

Whatever the spin from Gov. Susana Martinez as she seeks re-election, the business tax breaks of 2013 are not working — at least not yet. Studies proclaiming that New Mexico is more open to business are wonderful for news releases. But in real life, they haven’t stopped the bleeding. Job numbers are abysmal. All the happy talk can’t change that reality.

What could make a difference, though, is a decision by Tesla Motors to build its new Gigafactory in the Land of Enchantment. New Mexico, of course, has been identified as one of four states being considered as a finalist for the plant, which will build batteries for the Tesla Motors electric car. Gov. Martinez is even considering a special session, if necessary, to put together economic incentives to woo the auto manufacturer. We can be skeptical about Tesla’s intentions (after all, the big news conference of 2007 with then-Gov. Bill Richardson and others announcing a New Mexico auto manufacturing plant came to nothing). Yet, we can still cheer on Martinez and her negotiating team. This is not a political issue.

Democrats must support the push to attract Tesla, not quibble with the governor’s goals or blame her for issues that went unaddressed in the last Legislature. A special session, fine. Smart tax breaks, OK. (We do agree with Think New Mexico’s Fred Nathan that certain tax incentives should kick in once the jobs actually materialize.) The promise of 6,500 jobs and a construction budget in the billions is something New Mexico can’t pass up, even if the all-out recruitment effort fails. Think of this as laying the foundation for the future. Martinez and her economics team need to use this wooing of Tesla to seek out other jobs for New Mexicans, win or lose the big one.

The lag between New Mexico and the rest of the region in terms of economic growth is too alarming not to treat our current job situation as a crisis. Without job growth, the social welfare statistics that are so depressing — child poverty, poor educational outcomes, violence, drug use, etc. — cannot improve.

In the meantime, the governor should use what tools she does control to improve the employment picture. The government sector leads the employment losses in the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It shed some 3,000 jobs — partially because of the tighter federal budget. However, many government jobs are not in the federal sector. Martinez must push her Cabinet secretaries and others to focus on efforts they do control. Fill state jobs. If Martinez wants to cut red tape in the private sector, she should practice by streamlining the process through which state jobs are filled. That is the most productive way to improve our dismal jobs climate in the short run.

Until the jobs picture improves — whether because business tax cuts worked or because New Mexico wins Tesla — all the talk about welcoming business climates and business-friendly legislation is just that. Talk.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: March 20, 1964: State agencies and departments will begin using a newly issued state credit card for the purchase of gasoline, tires and wash jobs on April 1. The cards show the number assigned the state by the oil people and the department of finance number for the department using the cards. Each card will have a number beside the department’s name which shows who is responsible for the card. Every purchase can be traced to a certain card when the system is placed in effect.

March 20, 1989: The median price of a house in Santa Fe is $108,000, but three-fourths of the families who live in the area can’t afford to buy it, a housing expert says. More than 60 people attended a panel discussion at the College of Santa Fe on ways to beat the city’s housing crunch. The average family of four in Santa Fe has an annual income of about $26,000 a year. That’s enough to afford a $50,000 home.

LA CUCARACHA

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The following water statistics of March 14 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 1.345 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.700 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.013 Total water produced by water system: 6.045 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.083 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 63.6 percent of capacity; daily inflow 2.52 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

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LOS ANGELES very year, the NCAA college basketball tournament gives employees a reason to goof off at their desks and root for their alma maters.

But there’s a growing source of potential headaches for bosses. Media companies like hosts CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc.’s Turner are doing all they can to promote so-called TV Everywhere services, which add value to cable and satellite TV packages by allowing subscribers to watch live TV on smartphones and tablets while on the go — and on the job.

Although people have long been able to stream games live over the Internet, employers have always had the option to block content to keep productivity high. That’s harder to do when workers are bringing their own devices and using their cellphone data plans to engage in March Madness.

Turner Broadcasting senior vice president Jeremy Legg said the tournament, which kicks off in earnest on Thursday, is “one of the most significant opportunities we have to promote TV Everywhere” — and the numbers show it’s working.

Last year, streamed video viewing of the first two weeks of the tournament more than tripled from the previous year to 14 million hours. The number of viewers using the NCAA March Madness Live mobile app more than doubled to 3.4 million.

Jumping on the bandwagon, Dish Network Corp. started a new ad campaign Tuesday that touts how well its Hopper set-top box can help customers sneak in some game-watching at work. One of Dish’s TV spots features the company’s stuffed kangaroo mascot, who is streaming NCAA basketball to a tablet while at the office. The marsupial tucks the device away when a manager walks by.

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A frame grab from Dish’s commercial in which a kangaroo watches NCAA basketball action on a tablet at work . Dish Network Corp. started running new ads Tuesday that tout how well its Hopper digital video recorder can help customers sneak in some game-watching at work, by streaming to a tablet. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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“Hey boss, woo! I love working,” said the kangaroo.

Dish’s chief marketing officer James Moorhead said it’s up to companies to trust their employees to get work done, even if they spend time watching the games. Dish is encouraging its own employees to watch games on their mobile devices during breaks at work. And the company has bolstered its Wi-Fi network to accommodate the expected increase in streaming during the NCAA tournament.

“Who better to evangelize this than Dish?” Moorhead said.

Although the devices employees bring to work can present challenges for managers, productivity experts suggest that well-communicated company policies set the right tone for appropriate workplace activity.

“There needs to be clearly defined ground rules,” said Robert Hosking, executive director of job placement firm Office Team. Such rules include that deadlines can’t be missed, and that real money betting isn’t allowed.

But office activities can be a good way of promoting good-natured competition and friendly interactions, he says.

A poll the company released two weeks ago showed that 32 percent of the 300 managers found participating in March Madness at work boosted morale, up from 20 percent who thought so a year ago. About 62 percent thought it had no impact.

Chicago-based Trustwave Holdings Inc., a provider of Web filtering and security tools, says more information technology managers are taking a moderate approach by employing measures such as time limits to keep workers focused without dampening their enthusiasm.

For some companies, active March Madness participation on the job can definitely help.

Denise Sawyer, a reporter at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md., said her station’s $5-a-bracket pool not only brings employees together, it helps strengthen the news team’s bond with viewers. “It does produce this intangible profit,” she said. “People from our viewing audience love it.”

A: Into the Northern Hemisphere.

N.M. fishing report Catches of the week EAGLE NEST LAKE: On March 13, Toby Varos of Taos caught a 34-inch 11.5-pound northern pike. He was using a Rapala.

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.

Events this week OASIS PARK LAKE: Trout fishing was good using homemade dough bait, Pistol Petes, wooly buggers and Power Bait. The State Park will host its fifth annual spring trout derby Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call the State Park office at 575-356-5331.

Northeast CLAYTON LAKE: Fishing pressure was light over the past week but anglers who showed up caught some good-sized rainbow trout. They were using Power Bait.

EAGLE NEST LAKE: Fishing for trout was good using Power Bait, salmon eggs, Pistol Petes and worms. Fishing for perch was fair to good using worms. Fishing for northern pike was slow to fair using crank baits, Power Bait and worms.

The lake remains closed to boating but open for bank fishing. For updated conditions, call the State Park office at 575-377-1594.

LAKE MALOYA: Trout fishing from boats and from the bank was good for anglers using salmon peach and orange Power Bait and white

Berkley power eggs. The lake was completely free of ice.

MONASTERY LAKE: Trout fishing was good using Power Bait, salmon eggs, small streamers and Pistol Petes.

PECOS RIVER: The Mora and Jamie Koch fishing and recreation areas have reopened. The Bert Clancy and Terrero campgrounds remain closed. Trout fishing was good using prince nymphs, salmon eggs and Power Bait.

RED RIVER: Trout fishing was good using dry dropper combinations, worms and salmon eggs. There was some good cloudy day action with caddis and mayfly hatches coming off in the afternoon hours.

Northwest ALBUQUERQUE AREA DRAINS: Trout fishing was fair to good using worms, Power Bait, wooly buggers and salmon eggs. We had no reports on other species. Anglers reported good trout fishing on the Albuquerque, Peralta, Bernalillo and Belen Drains BLUEWATER LAKE: Fishing was good using large streamers, silver spoons, jerk baits and crank baits for 25 to 35-inch tiger muskies.

Fishing was slow for all other species but there was one trout reported. It was caught by an angler using Power Bait. Anglers should be aware that it is illegal to use bait fish at this lake.

FENTON LAKE: Trout fishing was very good for anglers using worms, Power Bait, Pistol Petes and olive wooly buggers.

HERON LAKE: Bank fishing was fair using Power Bait and salmon eggs for rainbow trout.

JEMEZ WATERS: Trout fishing on the Jemez was good using small bead head nymphs and salmon eggs.

SAN JUAN: Trout fishing through the Quality Waters was good using egg patterns, red and orange annelids, red and brown San Juan worms and wooly buggers. Through the bait waters trout fishing was very good using salmon eggs, Power Bait, Gulp eggs, jerk baits and copper John Barrs.

SANTA CRUZ LAKE: Trout fishing from boats and from the bank was good for anglers using Pistol Petes.

TINGLEY BEACH: Fishing at the Youth and Central Ponds was very good using Power Bait, salmon eggs, homemade dough bait, small crank baits, small spoons and Pistol Petes.

Fishing at the Catch and Release Pond was fair using small streamers and egg patterns.

Southwest BEAR CANYON: Trout fishing was good using salmon eggs, worms, Power Bait and Pistol Petes.

BILL EVANS LAKE: Trout fishing was very good using Power Bait, Pistol Petes, wooly buggers and salmon eggs. We had no reports on other species.

CABALLO LAKE: Fishing was good using Bombers, Wally Divers, Rapalas and curly tail grubs for white bass. Fishing was very good using swim baits, Wally Divers, Flicker Shad, jig and minnow combinations and Rapalas for walleye.

GLENWOOD POND: Trout fishing was good using Power Bait.

YOUNG POND: Trout fishing was fair to good using Power Bait, small Daredevils, corn, salmon eggs and Pistol Petes. Fishing for crappie was fair using Pistol Petes.

Southeast BATAAN LAKE: Trout fishing was good using homemade dough bait, small spoons, Pistol Petes, worms and salmon eggs.

CHAPARRAL PARK LAKE: Trout fishing was fair to good using homemade dough bait, Power Bait and small Kastmasters.

EUNICE LAKE: Trout fishing was good using Power Bait, homemade dough bait and salmon eggs.

GREEN MEADOW LAKE: Fishing was good using spinners, salmon eggs, Power Bait and homemade dough bait for trout.

GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR: Trout fishing continued to be very good this past week as limits of fish were caught by angler using worms, Power Bait, small spoons and Pistol Petes.

JAL LAKE: Trout fishing was very good using Pistol Petes, salmon eggs and Power Bait.

PERCH LAKE: Trout fishing was good using Power Bait, spinners and Pistol Petes under a bubble.

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.

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. nmsierraclub.org/outings for the most updated information.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22: Moderate hike to Tor, Blowhole and Cerro Rito.

About 7 miles, 1,000-foot elevation gain, some ontrail, some off-trail. Call Daisy Levine at 466-8338.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29: Strenuous hike to Stone Lions in Bandelier. 13.2 miles, 3,200-foot gain.

Limit 12, no dogs. Call Dag and Lajla Ryen at 466-4066.

SUNDAY, MARCH 30: Solar Energy Exploration, where kids can link solar panels with toys and more, 2-4 p.m. Send email to saritastreng@yahoo. com or call Sarita Streng at 288-8713.

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St. Mike’s must improve hitting to compete

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

The St. Michael’s baseball team has come so close to a state championship the past two years, but in order to finally get there, it has to improve at the plate.

Pitching has carried the Horsemen to the Class AAA semifinals the last two years, where they lost to Cobre and Ruidoso, respectively.

But third-year head coach David Vigil said hitting is the key ingredient to getting the Horsemen to the championship game.

“We’re going to have to become a better-

hitting baseball team,” Vigil said. “We have a really good defense and we have pitching, but if we don’t hit the ball, we’re not going to go anywhere.”

St. Michael’s is 5-4 on the young season, and Vigil already said there needs to be a lot of improvement on the offensive side. For starters, the Horsemen simply need to stop looking for the home run.

“We’re swinging long and we’re swinging for the fences,” Vigil said. “We have to work on hitting everything back up the middle and just making contact with the baseball. We’re not a

power-hitting team by any means. We’ve seen a lot of good pitching this year, and that’s one reason why we’re only one game above .500.”

The Horsemen have some good pitching of their own, starting with 6-foot-4 senior Matt Smallwood — who signed a letter of intent to play for Ray Birmingham at The University of New Mexico — as their ace.

“He’s definitely one of the top pitchers in the state,” Vigil said. “He’s a big, strong force on the mound.”

St. Michael’s is going to need Smallwood,

St. Michael’s pitcher Matthew Smallwood throws during a May 2013 Class AAA quarterfinal game against Silver in Albuquerque.

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Bairstow’s big day

Mike Kluk tapped as Los Alamos boys coach Interim coach since Jan. gets first head job

By James Barron The New Mexican

New Mexico’s Cameron Bairstow, right, rebounds over Boise State’s Nick Duncan during the second half of a Jan. 21 game in Albuquerque. The Lobos won 84-75. If UNM goes far in the NCAA Tournament, Bairstow could attract attention from the NBA. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Tourney victories could turn NBA’s eyes toward UNM’s star forward UP NEXT

Even the rest of the MWC and its fans know about him.

Friday: NCAA Tournament, second round, No. 7 The rest of the country, that’s a different story.

ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico (27-6) vs. No. 10 Stanford (21-12), Despite his inclusion as a finalist for the Nai11:40 a.m. ith the bright lights and big stage of the TV: TBS smith Player of the Year and Oscar Robertson NCAA Tournament about to engulf the Radio: KKOB-AM 770, KVSF-AM 1400 Trophy awards, Bairstow is still flying under the country’s collective imagination, Camradar to the rest of the nation. He has barely drawn eron Bairstow’s NBA audition is about a mention on various NBA mock draft boards and the Mountain West Conference Tournament’s most to begin. isn’t listed as a draft prospect on several prominent valuable player award.

The 6-foot-9 power forward has led The Unisites, including CBSsports.com.

Albuquerque knows all about him. versity of New Mexico men’s basketball team into He can change all that if the Lobos can make a His friends and fans back in Brisbane, Australia, the Big Dance after a breakout senior season in know about him.

Please see BAIRSTOW, Page B-4 which he averaged better than 20 points and won

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A year later, SDSU looks for a better result

By Eddie Pells

Vols rally to beat Iowa The Associated Press

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SPOKANE, Wash. — For those who don’t remember San Diego State’s last appearance on the March Madness stage, the Aztecs say “Thank you.”

It was ugly: An 81-71 loss to upstart Florida Gulf Coast last year that made “Dunk City” a national sensation and sent San Diego State back to the drawing board — and back there right away.

“We started working out,” sophomore Winston Shepard said. “Not too many guys took a break. I went back and worked out over the summer. My teammates were doing the exact same thing.”

The Aztecs (29-4) lost four key players off that team,

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u Intriguing side stories abound behind tourney action u Stanford’s head coach Dawkins has learned to avoid outside pressure u Tourney fever strikes New Mexico again, although some are guarded.

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DAYTON, Ohio — Jarnell Stokes dominated inside as Tennessee finally caught up in the closing minTennessee 78 utes of regulation, and Iowa 65 then opened overtime with a three-point play that got the Volunteers headed to a 78-65 victory over Iowa on Wednesday night in the NCAA’s First Four.

The Volunteers’ late comeback sent them Raleigh, N.C., where they’ll play sixth-seeded Massachusetts on Friday in the Midwest Regional.

Tennessee (22-12) didn’t lead until Antonio Barton’s 3-pointer put the Vols up 59-57 with 3:05 left regulation.

There were five lead changes before the Vols’ Jordan McRae missed a jumper missed at the buzzer, leaving it tied at 64.

Stokes’ three-point play was the key moment in his 18-point, 13-rebound performance. Iowa

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(21-13) managed only one free throw in overtime, ending a hectic and stressful day for coach Fran McCaffery.

CAL POLY 81, TEXAS SOUTHERN 69 In Dayton, Ohio, Chris Eversley scored 19 points, and Cal Poly avoided its 20th loss of the season and won its first NCAA Tournament game with a victory over Texas Southern.

The Mustangs (14-19) were 0-3 and 4-9 early before losing nine of 11 heading into the Big West Conference Tournament — which they won to earn the program’s first NCAA bid.

The team with the worst record in the tournament now moves on to face the one with the best — top-seeded Wichita State (34-0) — in the second round in St. Louis on Friday.

Aaric Murray, the former La Salle and West Virginia player, closed out his career with 38 points for Texas Southern (19-15), champs of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament.

Michael Kluk has been a big part of high school athletics at Los Alamos, just always in the background.

On Wednesday, he got a chance to lead. Los Alamos announced that it hired Kluk as its head boys basketball coach, removing the interim tag the title he has worn since January.

Kluk replaced Fil Dominguez, who resigned to deal with a family illness.

Los Alamos went 2-24 overall in the 2013-14 season, and was 1-12 under both coaches.

Kluk said he learned a lot from his two-month apprenticeship as the one in charge of the program.

“It’s a different view out in front,” Kluk said. “Instead of constantly supporting the head coach, you have to learn to turn around and get input from the assistant coaches and make decisions on the fly. It seems a lot easier when watching from behind the head coach.”

This is Kluk’s first head coaching job, but he has made a career out of coaching in a variety of sports. He spent the last six years as a junior varsity and varsity assistant with the boys basketball program, and was the C-team girls soccer coach for the past two seasons.

Prior to that, he coached under Gerry Washburn with the girls basketball program from 2001-08, serving as C-team, then JV head coach.

He also coached basketball at the Los Alamos YMCA for nine years prior to that. He had two daughters, Nichole and Chandra, who play soccer and basketball at Los Alamos.

Kluk feels his familiarity with the community — he has lived in the town for 28 years — can help him rebuild the program. he can look at the success of Alan Kirk (from 2003 to 2010) and Terry Hiller (1990-2002), both of whom are long-time residents of the area. Kluk inherits a program that was in a similar situation when Kirk took over. Los Alamos has won a total of three games over the past two seasons and 20 since the 2009-10 season, in which current University of New Mexico center Alex Kirk played.

The first place Kluk wants to hit are the middle school and youth programs.

“I think our job is that we are going to develop a program,” Kluk said. “So we have to go out and get those younger players and get them hooked on playing basketball.”

Kluk will be in the forefront of that approach, instead of the shadows.

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Nets 104, Bobcats 99

BASKETBALL BASKETBALL NBA Eastern Conference

Atlantic Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia Southeast x-Miami Washington Charlotte Atlanta Orlando Central x-Indiana Chicago Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee

W 38 35 28 23 15 W 46 35 33 31 19 W 50 38 26 25 13

L 29 31 40 46 53 L 20 32 36 35 50 L 18 30 42 42 55

Pct .567 .530 .412 .333 .221 Pct .697 .522 .478 .470 .275 Pct .735 .559 .382 .373 .191

GB — 2½ 10½ 16 23½ GB — 11½ 14½ 15 28½ GB — 12 24 24½ 37

Western Conference

Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 51 16 .761 — Houston 45 22 .672 6 Memphis 40 27 .597 11 Dallas 41 28 .594 11 New Orleans 27 40 .403 24 Northwest W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 49 18 .731 — Portland 44 24 .647 5½ Minnesota 34 32 .515 14½ Denver 31 37 .456 18½ Utah 22 47 .319 28 Pacific W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 48 21 .696 — Golden State 43 26 .623 5 Phoenix 39 29 .574 8½ Sacramento 24 44 .353 23½ L.A. Lakers 22 45 .328 25 x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s Games Chicago 102, Philadelphia 94 Brooklyn 104, Charlotte 99 Boston 101, Miami 96 Memphis 96, Utah 86 Toronto 107, New Orleans 100 New York 92, Indiana 86 Minnesota 123, Dallas 122, OT Denver 118, Detroit 109 Phoenix 109, Orlando 93 San Antonio 125, L.A. Lakers 109 Tuesday’s Games Miami 100, Cleveland 96 Atlanta 118, Toronto 113, OT Portland 120, Milwaukee 115, OT Sacramento 117, Washington 111, OT Golden State 103, Orlando 89 Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.

Washington at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Bulls 102, 76ers 94

CHICAGO (102) Dunleavy 5-12 4-4 15, Boozer 5-9 2-2 12, Noah 6-12 2-4 14, Hinrich 1-5 0-2 3, Butler 5-8 5-5 16, Augustin 6-15 4-4 20, Gibson 7-17 5-6 19, Mohammed 0-2 0-0 0, Snell 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 36-83 22-27 102.

PHILADELPHIA (94) Thompson 0-1 2-2 2, Young 10-19 0-0 24, Sims 2-9 0-1 4, Carter-Williams 7-16 2-4 16, Wroten 6-16 1-6 17, Varnado 3-3 1-2 7, Nunnally 3-5 1-2 8, Williams 1-5 0-0 2, Davies 1-2 0-0 2, Mullens 4-5 2-2 12. Totals 37-81 9-19 94.

Chicago 28 24 23 27—102 Philadelphia 26 19 24 25—94 3-Point Goals—Chicago 8-15 (Augustin 4-6, Hinrich 1-1, Snell 1-2, Butler 1-2, Dunleavy 1-4), Philadelphia 11-24 (Wroten 4-6, Young 4-7, Mullens 2-3, Nunnally 1-2, Thompson 0-1, CarterWilliams 0-2, Williams 0-3). Fouled Out—Carter-Williams. Rebounds— Chicago 60 (Gibson 13), Philadelphia 46 (Carter-Williams 9). Assists— Chicago 22 (Noah 6), Philadelphia 22 (Wroten, Carter-Williams 7). Total Fouls—Chicago 19, Philadelphia 21.

Technicals—Philadelphia Bench, Philadelphia def three sec. A—13,222.

CHARLOTTE (99) Kidd-Gilchrist 3-6 1-2 7, McRoberts 3-5 1-1 8, Jefferson 8-19 2-3 18, Walker 2-8 2-2 7, Henderson 6-13 0-0 13, Neal 5-9 4-4 17, Douglas-Roberts 5-9 0-0 13, Zeller 5-9 0-0 10, Ridnour 2-5 0-0 4, Biyombo 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 40-85 10-12 99.

BROOKLYN (104) Johnson 8-18 1-2 20, Pierce 2-4 2-4 7, Plumlee 4-6 3-5 11, Williams 8-15 6-6 25, Livingston 5-9 7-9 17, Teletovic 0-5 0-0 0, Thornton 4-7 1-2 11, Blatche 6-10 1-3 13, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, Kirilenko 0-0 0-4 0, Collins 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 37-75 21-35 104.

Charlotte 21 25 24 29—99 Brooklyn 26 28 21 29—104 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 9-27 (DouglasRoberts 3-6, Neal 3-6, McRoberts 1-2, Henderson 1-5, Walker 1-6, Ridnour 0-2), Brooklyn 9-20 (Williams 3-5, Johnson 3-7, Thornton 2-4, Pierce 1-2, Teletovic 0-1, Anderson 0-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Charlotte 53 (Jefferson 12), Brooklyn 46 (Johnson 8). Assists— Charlotte 27 (Walker 7), Brooklyn 19 (Williams 8). Total Fouls—Charlotte 26, Brooklyn 17. A—17,222.

Celtics 101, Heat 96

MIAMI (96) Beasley 5-11 2-3 12, Haslem 7-8 0-0 14, Bosh 3-11 0-0 6, Chalmers 3-6 0-0 7, Wade 7-17 3-3 17, Allen 5-11 3-4 14, Andersen 6-7 4-5 16, Battier 0-3 0-0 0, Cole 4-7 0-0 10. Totals 40-81 12-15 96.

BOSTON (101) Green 5-13 0-0 13, Bass 8-12 2-2 18, Humphries 2-4 3-4 7, Rondo 4-8 1-2 9, Bradley 8-13 1-1 23, Sullinger 5-14 2-2 14, Bayless 3-6 0-0 7, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Olynyk 4-6 1-1 10, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-77 10-12 101.

Miami 34 25 19 18—96 Boston 22 31 27 21—101 3-Point Goals—Miami 4-17 (Cole 2-2, Chalmers 1-3, Allen 1-4, Wade 0-1, Battier 0-3, Bosh 0-4), Boston 13-28 (Bradley 6-9, Green 3-7, Sullinger 2-5, Olynyk 1-1, Bayless 1-3, Johnson 0-1, Rondo 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 42 (Bosh 11), Boston 42 (Rondo 10).

Assists—Miami 29 (Chalmers 11), Boston 29 (Rondo 15). Total Fouls—Miami 15, Boston 18. A—18,624.

Grizzlies 96, Jazz 86

UTAH (86) Jefferson 4-5 0-0 9, Favors 3-10 0-2 6, Kanter 6-14 0-0 12, Burke 6-14 1-1 16, Hayward 7-16 2-5 16, Burks 6-11 2-2 16, Williams 4-7 0-0 9, Garrett 1-6 0-0 2, Evans 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-84 5-10 86.

MEMPHIS (96) Prince 2-7 0-0 4, Randolph 8-16 5-7 21, Gasol 6-14 8-8 20, Conley 7-15 3-4 18, Lee 4-8 0-0 8, Koufos 3-4 1-1 7, Allen 3-8 4-4 10, Miller 2-5 1-1 6, Calathes 1-4 0-0 2, Leuer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-81 22-25 96.

Utah 19 13 31 23—86 Memphis 30 18 26 22—96 3-Point Goals—Utah 7-18 (Burke 3-4, Burks 2-5, Jefferson 1-1, Williams 1-4, Garrett 0-1, Hayward 0-3), Memphis 2-11 (Miller 1-1, Conley 1-6, Calathes 0-1, Lee 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Utah 47 (Kanter 12), Memphis 53 (Randolph 11). Assists— Utah 20 (Burke 6), Memphis 21 (Conley 7). Total Fouls—Utah 22, Memphis 18. Technicals—Utah defensive three second. A—17,011.

Raptors 107, Pelicans 100

TORONTO (107) Ross 3-9 0-0 6, Johnson 8-13 0-0 17, Hansbrough 3-8 1-1 7, Lowry 6-18 8-10 23, DeRozan 9-19 11-13 31, Salmons 1-5 1-2 4, Vasquez 4-7 4-5 14, Hayes 2-6 1-1 5, Novak 0-0 0-0 0, De Colo 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-86 26-32 107.

NEW ORLEANS (100) Evans 7-10 4-5 18, Withey 3-6 3-6 9, Stiemsma 1-2 0-0 2, Roberts 4-10 2-2 11, Gordon 4-10 5-6 15, Ajinca 3-4 4-4 10, Aminu 7-8 4-6 19, Rivers 4-9 2-3 10, Morrow 3-6 0-0 6, Miller 0-2 0-0 0.

Totals 36-67 24-32 100.

Toronto 24 32 25 26—107 New Orleans 32 25 28 15—100 3-Point Goals—Toronto 9-22 (Lowry 3-7, DeRozan 2-4, Vasquez 2-5, Johnson 1-1, Salmons 1-2, De Colo 0-1, Ross 0-2), New Orleans 4-13 (Gordon 2-6, Aminu 1-1, Roberts 1-3, Morrow 0-1, Rivers 0-1, Miller 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 54 (Hansbrough 13), New Orleans 41 (Aminu 10). Assists—Toronto 20 (Lowry 5), New Orleans 16 (Evans 3).

Total Fouls—Toronto 20, New Orleans 25. A—15,282.

Knicks 92, Pacers 86

INDIANA (86) George 4-17 7-8 17, West 4-9 0-0 8, Hibbert 8-10 4-4 20, G.Hill 3-7 0-0 7, Stephenson 8-16 3-6 21, Mahinmi 1-3 1-2 3, Turner 1-5 1-1 3, Sloan 0-1 0-0 0, Scola 1-2 2-4 4, Allen 0-0 1-2 1, Copeland 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 31-73 19-27 86.

NEW YORK (92) Anthony 12-23 10-12 34, Stoudemire 8-15 5-6 21, Chandler 2-5 3-4 7, Felton 4-11 2-3 11, Smith 3-9 0-0 7, Shumpert 1-5 0-0 3, Prigioni 2-5 0-0 5, Hardaway Jr. 0-7 2-2 2, Aldrich 0-2 2-2 2, Brown 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-82 24-29 92.

Indiana 14 21 27 24—86 New York 21 26 20 25—92 3-Point Goals—Indiana 5-23 (Stephenson 2-7, George 2-9, G.Hill 1-4, Sloan 0-1, Copeland 0-2), New York 4-17 (Shumpert 1-2, Felton 1-2, Prigioni 1-2, Smith 1-3, Hardaway Jr. 0-4, Anthony 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Indiana 47 (Stephenson 9), New York 58 (Chandler 14). Assists—Indiana 12 (G.Hill 4), New York 15 (Felton 6). Total Fouls—Indiana 25, New York 26. Technicals—Anthony, New York defensive three second.

A—19,812.

Timberwolves 123, Mavericks 122, OT

MINNESOTA (123) Brewer 6-15 0-0 13, Love 11-20 11-14 35, Dieng 5-5 0-0 10, Rubio 8-12 6-7 22, Martin 5-15 6-6 19, Barea 6-13 1-2 15, Cunningham 1-4 1-2 3, Budinger 0-2 0-0 0, Hummel 2-6 0-0 6. Totals 44-92 25-31 123.

DALLAS (122) Marion 8-12 0-0 16, Nowitzki 11-27 5-6 27, Dalembert 3-7 1-2 7, Calderon 5-9 0-0 12, Ellis 7-15 4-5 22, Wright 3-3 1-4 7, Carter 4-7 3-3 14, Harris 4-11 5-5 13, Ellington 0-0 0-0 0, Blair 0-0 0-0 0, Crowder 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 47-95 19-25 122.

Minnesota 37 29 28 19 10—123 Dallas 24 35 28 26 9—122 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 10-29 (Martin 3-7, Hummel 2-5, Love 2-5, Barea 2-7, Brewer 1-3, Rubio 0-1, Cunningham 0-1), Dallas 9-27 (Ellis 4-6, Carter 3-4, Calderon 2-4, Harris 0-3, Marion 0-3, Nowitzki 0-7). Fouled Out—Carter.

Rebounds—Minnesota 52 (Dieng 11), Dallas 56 (Dalembert 14). Assists—Minnesota 25 (Rubio 15), Dallas 26 (Marion 5). Total Fouls—Minnesota 18, Dallas 25.

Technicals—Ellis, Dallas defensive three second. A—20,100.

NCAA Men’s Tournament

First Round At Dayton, Ohio Wednesday’s Games Cal Poly 81, Texas Southern 69 Tennessee 78, Iowa 65, OT East Regional Second Round Thursday’s Games At Buffalo, N.Y. UConn (26-8) vs. Saint Joseph’s (24-9), 4:55 p.m.

Villanova (28-4) vs. Milwaukee (2113), 30 minutes following At Spokane, Wash.

Cincinnati (27-6) vs. Harvard (26-4), 12:10 p.m.

Michigan State (26-8) vs. Delaware (25-9), 30 minutes following Friday’s Games At Raleigh, N.C. Memphis (23-9) vs. George Washington (24-8), 4:55 p.m.

BASEBALL

Ballparks rush to thaw fields before opening day

NIT

First Round Wednesday’s Games Illinois 66, Boston University 62 Louisiana Tech 89, Iona 88 Georgia 63, Vermont 56 Southern Miss 66, Toledo 59 SMU 68, UC Irvine 54 LSU 71, San Francisco 63 California 77, Utah Valley 64 Second Round Friday’s Game Robert Morris (22-13) at Belmont (25-9), 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Southern Miss at Missouri (23-11), TBA Saint Mary’s (Calif.) (23-11) at Minnesota (21-13), TBA

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Members of the groundskeeping crew on Monday work to ready the field for opening day at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago after one of the most brutal winters the city has ever seen. M. SPENCER GREEN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

to what Chicago (66.7 inches) and Detroit (78 inches) are dealing with. Boston had 56.4 inches over that three-month period, and Cleveland had 65.

The worst may be over in terms of cold weather, but the outlook for opening day isn’t all that promising. From March 26 through April 1, there’s a decent chance of below-normal temperatures all over the eastern half of the country, particularly near the Great Lakes.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

“The back’s against the wall a little bit,” Bossard said.

Bossard estimated that his crew removed over 400 tons of snow last weekend. Snowblowers and plows can help, but it’s a delicate operation: Plows can only do so much before there’s a risk of damage to the field.

There’s a certain charm to a football game played in the snow on a raggedy, chewed-up field — but baseball is supposed to be about sunshine and soft grass. Nobody ever waxes poetic about the frozen tundra of Fenway Park.

Even in the warm summer months, baseball fields are meticulously manicured to prevent bad-hop grounders, crumbling mounds and any number of other potential problems. If the field is too slick because of cold conditions, players could get hurt, and a rock-hard surface obviously isn’t ideal for an outfielder trying to make a diving catch.

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AL W L Pct Tampa Bay 13 4 .765 Cleveland 15 5 .750 Seattle 14 6 .700 Baltimore 10 7 .588 Detroit 11 8 .579 Oakland 11 8 .579 New York 12 9 .571 Kansas City 10 8 .556 Los Angeles 10 10 .500 Minnesota 7 9 .438 Houston 8 11 .421 Toronto 8 11 .421 Chicago 7 10 .412 Boston 8 12 .400 Texas 6 12 .333 NL W L Pct Miami 13 7 .650 Pittsburgh 11 7 .611 Arizona 11 9 .550 San Francisco 11 9 .550 Colorado 10 10 .500 Washington 10 10 .500 New York 9 10 .474 Milwaukee 10 12 .455 St. Louis 7 9 .438 Chicago 10 13 .435 Cincinnati 9 13 .409 Atlanta 8 13 .381 Los Angeles 6 10 .375 San Diego 6 11 .353 Philadelphia 5 13 .278 Note: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games St. Louis 3, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 4 Toronto 11, Philadelphia 6 N.Y. Yankees 7, Atlanta 0 Oakland 13, Cleveland 3 L.A. Angels 14, Chicago White Sox 10 Milwaukee 9, Seattle 7 Houston 2, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 4, Boston 2 Kansas City 6, Cincinnati 3, 6 innings Colorado 9, Chicago Cubs 6

HOCKEY HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference

Atlantic GP Boston 69 Tampa Bay 69 Montreal 70 Toronto 71 Detroit 68 Ottawa 68 Florida 69 Buffalo 69 Metro GP Pittsburgh 68 Philadelphia 68 N.Y. Rangers 70 Columbus 68 Washington 70 New Jersey 69 Carolina 69 N.Y. Islanders70

W 47 38 38 36 31 28 26 19 W 45 36 37 35 33 29 30 26

L OL Pts GF 17 5 99 223 24 7 83 203 25 7 83 180 27 8 80 208 24 13 75 178 27 13 69 194 35 8 60 172 42 8 46 133 L OL Pts GF 19 4 94 214 25 7 79 195 29 4 78 185 27 6 76 196 27 10 76 204 27 13 71 168 30 9 69 172 35 9 61 195

Western Conference

Central GP W L OL Pts GF St. Louis 69 47 15 7 101 226 Chicago 70 40 15 15 95 237 Colorado 70 44 20 6 94 216 Minnesota 69 36 23 10 82 171 Dallas 68 32 25 11 75 194 Winnipeg 71 32 30 9 73 199 Nashville 70 29 31 10 68 165 Pacific GP W L OL Pts GF Anaheim 69 45 17 7 97 220 San Jose 70 45 18 7 97 216 Los Angeles 69 38 25 6 82 168 Phoenix 69 33 25 11 77 192 Vancouver 72 32 30 10 74 172 Calgary 69 28 34 7 63 168 Edmonton 70 25 36 9 59 176 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3 Chicago 4, St. Louis 0 Winnipeg 5, Colorado 4, OT Vancouver 2, Nashville 0

GA 149 181 177 219 190 229 223 205 GA 168 195 174 187 209 180 195 239 GA 156 182 192 168 197 208 208 GA 175 168 148 196 194 203 225

Thursday’s Games Minnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Florida at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Washington at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

TENNIS TENNIS ATP-WTA TOUR Sony Open

Wednesday at Key Biscayne, Fla. Purse: Men, $5.65 million (Masters 1000); Women, $5.43 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men First Round Thiemo De Bakker, Netherlands, def.

Victor Hanescu, Romania, 6-3, 6-2.

Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, def.

Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 7-6 (9), 6-1.

Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 6-4, 7-5.

Matthew Ebden, Australia, def. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Albert Montanes, Spain, def. Michal Przysiezny, Poland, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def.

Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.

Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5).

Julien Benneteau, France, def. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2.

Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def.

Filippo Volandri, Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (1).

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def.

Daniel Brands, Germany, 6-3, 6-0.

Dominic Thiem, Austria, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 7-6 (6), 6-4.

Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, def.

David Goffin, Belgium, 7-5, 6-3.

Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 7-6 (5), 7-6(3) Marinko Matosevic, Australia, def.

Alejandro Falla, Colombia, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Women First Round Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austria, def.

Karin Knapp, Italy, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Vania King, United States, def. Estrella Cabeza Candela, Spain, 6-0, 6-0.

Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, def. Victoria Duval, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Paula Ormaechea, Argentina, def.

Katarzyna Piter, Poland, 7-6 (0), 6-1.

Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Shahar Peer, Israel, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3.

Virginie Razzano, France, def.

Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, 6-0.

Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, 7-6 (2), 6-2.

CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, def.

Mona Barthel, Germany, 6-4, 4-2, retired.

Nadia Petrova, Russia, def. Urszula Radwanska, Poland, 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.

Peng Shuai, China, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-0.

Lauren Davis, United States, def.

Zhang Shuai, China, 6-2, 6-3.

Christina McHale, United States, def.

Zheng Jie, China, 6-4, 6-2.

Andrea Petkovic, Germany, def.

Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, Spain, 6-3, 6-4.

Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, def. Alexandra Cadantu, Romania, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-3, 6-4.

Yvonne Meusburger, Austria, def.

Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 6-3, 6-0.

Alison Riske, United States, def. Nadiya Kichenok, Ukraine, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Madison Keys, United States, def.

Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-3, 6-2.

NFL

Patriots, Broncos are still fighting for AFC supremacy

offseason, the Broncos added a player from the Patriots’ roster, luring Talib a year after ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — they cajoled Wes Welker to Two months after meeting in leave Tom Brady for Peyton the AFC championship, the Manning.

Denver Broncos and New The Patriots responded by England Patriots are squaring signing cornerback Darrelle off in the wine and dine game. Revis, who was released by They’ve been the conferTampa Bay, and then added ence’s most aggressive teams cornerback Brandon Browner, in trying to upgrade their ros- who spent the past three seaters in free agency. sons with the Seahawks.

After watching Seattle win Browner missed the Super the Super Bowl, both DenBowl while serving a suspenver and New England have sion for violating the NFL’s focused on beefing up their substance-abuse policy and defenses. must sit out the first four regNew England added two ular-season games in 2014. He cover cornerbacks and Dencan participate in offseason ver signed three Pro Bowl activities, including training defenders. camp and preseason games.

Broncos general manager The Broncos lost wide John Elway, who committed receiver Eric Decker to the $66 million in guaranteed New York Jets but they signed money to four players in the Sanders, a speedy wide first week of free agency, receiver formerly with the acknowledged the additions Pittsburgh Steelers, to a threeof safety T.J. Ward, corneryear, $15 million pact. back Aqib Talib, pass rusher After losing Brady’s top DeMarcus Ware and receiver target to the Broncos last year, Emmanuel Sanders weren’t the Patriots were in danger made in a vacuum but with of losing Brady’s favorite the Patriots in mind. receiver again this spring but “You always know you have wide receiver Julian Edelman to go through New England,” re-signed with New England Elway said. “If you look at on Tuesday after testing the their track record the last free agent market.

10 years, they’re a team that Edelman, who caught a you’re going to have to be able career-high 105 passes with to deal with. And for us to be six touchdowns last season, able to get done what we want signed a deal reportedly to get done, you have to be worth $17 million over four able to beat them. years two days after the Patri“So, it’s kind of a fun arms ots added wide receiver Branrace and we’ll see what hapdon LaFell, who became a free pens next year.” agent after catching 49 passes For the second straight in his fourth NFL season, all

By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

By Noah Trister

In all his years as a groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox, Roger Bossard has never faced anything quite like this.

The snow that piled up at U.S. Cellular Field could be dealt with easily enough. It’s Chicago, after all. But the frost in the ground can be measured in feet, not inches. To ready the field for the first pitch, Bossard is overseeing an effort akin to blowing a gigantic hair dryer under a tarp to pump hot air onto the field and thaw it out.

Crews have been chipping away at ice near the right field line with shovels.

And opening day is less than two weeks away.

“This has actually been the perfect storm for me,” Bossard said. “I’ve been in this for 45 years and I’ve seen a lot of snow. Certainly, that’s not hard to handle. … My problem actually is the permafrost. I’ve actually never run into where I’ve got 30 inches of permafrost.”

Groundskeepers all over baseball are scrambling to help their ballparks recover from months of snow and freezing temperatures that left fields looking more ready for cross-country skiers than bats and balls.

Like the White Sox, the Detroit Tigers are scheduled to play at home on March 31, when the regular season begins in earnest with 13 games.

The Minnesota Twins — who for so long played in the indoor confines of the Metrodome — have been digging out from their own snowy surroundings at Target Field. They at least have until April 7 before they have to play a home game.

Points farther south have been affected, too.

“It’s rare that we get snow as bad as we’ve had this winter,” said Nicole McFadyen, head groundskeeper at Camden Yards in Baltimore. Luckily, McFadyen caught a break just in time: The snow is melting because the sun’s reflection is heating the stadium.

Baltimore received 26 inches of snow from December through February, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That was almost a 50 percent increase from an average winter, but it was nothing compared

Virginia (28-6) vs. Coastal Carolina (21-12), 30 minutes following At San Antonio North Carolina (23-9) vs. Providence (23-11), 5:20 p.m.

Iowa State (26-7) vs. North Carolina Central (28-5), 30 minutes following South Regional Second Round Thursday’s Games At Buffalo, N.Y. Ohio State (25-9) vs. Dayton (23-10), 10:15 a.m.

Syracuse (27-5) vs. Western Michigan (23-9), 30 minutes following At Orlando, Fla. Colorado (23-11) vs. Pittsburgh (25-9), 11:40 a.m.

Florida (32-2) vs. Albany, 30 minutes following Friday’s Games At St. Louis New Mexico (27-6) vs. Stanford (2112), 11:40 a.m.

Kansas (24-9) vs. Eastern Kentucky (24-9), 30 minutes following At San Diego VCU (26-8) vs. Stephen F. Austin (31-2), 5:27 p.m.

UCLA (26-8) vs. Tulsa (21-12), 30 minutes following Midwest Regional Second Round Thursday’s Games At Orlando, Fla. Saint Louis (26-6) vs. N.C. State (22-13), 5:20 p.m Louisville (29-5) vs. Manhattan (25-7), 30 minutes following At Milwaukee Michigan (25-8) vs. Wofford (20-12), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (23-10) vs. Arizona State (2111), 30 minutes following Friday’s Games At Raleigh, N.C. Duke (26-8) vs. Mercer (26-8), 10:15 a.m.

UMass (24-8) vs. Tennessee (22-12), 30 minutes following At St. Louis Wichita State (34-0) vs. Cal Poly (1419), 5:10 p.m.

Kentucky (24-10) vs. Kansas State (20-12), 30 minutes following West Regional Second Round Thursday’s Games At Milwaukee Wisconsin (26-7) vs. American (2012), 10:40 a.m.

Oregon (23-9) vs. BYU (23-11), 30 minutes following At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash.

Oklahoma (23-9) vs. North Dakota State (25-6), 5:27 p.m.

San Diego State (29-4) vs. New Mexico State (26-9), 30 minutes following Friday’s Games At The AT&T Center San Antonio Baylor (24-11) vs. Nebraska (19-12), 10:40 a.m.

Creighton (26-7) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (23-11), 30 minutes following At Viejas Arena San Diego Arizona (30-4) vs. Weber State (1911), 12:10 p.m.

Gonzaga (28-6) vs. Oklahoma State (21-12), 30 minutes following

with the Panthers.

Elway’s primary focus was rebuilding his defense.

With the release of Champ Bailey saving the Broncos $10 million and the retirement of Chris Kuper giving them another $4.1 million savings, Elway had lots of financial flexibility and he signed: u Ward for four years and $22.5 million to play strong safety with Rahim Moore returning to free safety. u Talib for $57 million over six years to play cornerback opposite Chris Harris Jr., who’s coming off knee surgery. u And Ware for $30 million over three years to rush the passer and mentor Von Miller and Quanterus Smith.

Talib was injured in the AFC championship game when he took a hard hit from Welker on a pick play at the line of scrimmage (the Patriots called it a hip injury but Talib says now it was a thigh injury and insists he’s 100 percent).

Of Denver’s four additions, only Ware is north of 30 years old.

“That goes to show you that’s not for now. We want young football players that are going to be here for a long time, who are still young in their career and are still going to get better,” Elway said. “So, the age thing is big. That’s one thing we’ve had some success with is being able to plug in some older guys in the right spots but that’s usually been right around training camp if something were to happen.

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Thursday, March 20, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

NBA ROUNDUP

Knicks beat Pacers for 7th straight win The Associated Press

BULLS 102, 76ERS 94 In Philadelphia, D.J. Augustin scored 20 points, Taj Gibson had 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Chicago handed the 76ers their 22nd straight loss.

The Sixers are four losses shy of matching the NBA record for longest-single season losing streak.

The Cleveland Cavaliers set the record of 26 consecutive losses in the 2010-11 season.

The Vancouver Grizzlies (1995-96), Denver Nuggets (1997-98) and Charlotte Bobcats (2011-12) each lost 23 straight.

The Sixers also lost their 17th straight home game since beating Charlotte on Jan. 15.

Thaddeus Young scored 24 points for the Sixers and Tony Wroten had 17.

NETS 104, BOBCATS 99 In New York, Deron Williams scored 23 points, Joe Johnson added 20, and Brooklyn overcame a late deficit to win its 10th straight at home.

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NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony scored 34 points, and the New York Knicks opened the Phil Jackson era by beating the Indiana Pacers 92-86 Wednesday night for their season-high sevKnicks 92 enth straight victory.

With their new team Pacers 86 president watching from a midcourt seat, the Knicks dominated the first half, then pulled away after the Eastern Conference leaders finally got untracked in the second half.

Fans stood to cheer Jackson in the first quarter and were on their feet again in the final minute to watch the Knicks beat the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year.

Lance Stephenson had 21 points and nine rebounds for the Pacers, who had their four-game winning streak snapped and failed to extend their three-game lead over the Miami Heat, who lost to Boston earlier Wednesday.

CELTICS 101, HEAT 96 In Boston, Rajon Rondo hit two running baseline shots in the last two minutes, and the Celtics capitalized on the absence of LeBron James to beat Miami.

One night after scoring 43 points in a 100-96 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, James sat out the game with back spasms and the Heat lost for the first time in their three games without him this season.

Rondo finished with nine points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds as Boston stopped a five-game losing streak.

Avery Bradley led Boston with 23 points and had career highs of six 3-point baskets and nine 3-point attempts. Brandon Bass added 18 points.

The Heat, which had won their previous two games after losing five of six, were led

by Wade with 17 points, Chris Andersen with 16 and Ray Allen and Udonis Haslem with 14 each.

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

GOLF 1 p.m. on TGC — PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer Invitational, first round, in Orlando, Fla. 4:30 p.m. on TGC — LPGA, Founders Cup, first round, in Phoenix MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 5 p.m. on ESPN — Preseason, N.Y. Yankees vs. Boston, in Fort Myers, Fla. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

The Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony, left, tries to move around the Pacers’ Paul George during the first half of Wednesday’s game at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Williams scored 11 of his points in the final six minutes.

Al Jefferson scored 18 points for Charlotte and Gary Neal added 17.

After Josh McRoberts’ dunk and free throw gave the Bobcats an 85-82 lead, Williams hit a driving layup with 6:00 left, then a 3-pointer on the next possession.

He followed that with a steal and two free throws to give the Nets an 89-85 lead with 5:22 remaining.

TIMBERWOLVES 123, MAVERICKS 122 (OT) In Dallas, Kevin Love scored 35 points, including the go-ahead basket in overtime, Ricky Rubio had a triple-double, and Minnesota blew several leads before hanging on to beat the Mavericks.

The Timberwolves broke a six-game stretch of alternating wins and losses with their second straight victory to move two games over .500 for the first time since Nov. 23.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 27 for Dallas and put the Mavericks ahead with a fadeaway over Love with 33 seconds left in overtime before Love scored on a jump hook with 17 seconds to go.

RAPTORS 107, PELICANS 100 In New Orleans, DeMar DeRozan scored 31 points, and Greivis Vasquez victimized his former team with six points in the last two minutes to help Toronto defeat New Orleans.

Kyle Lowry scored 23, Amir Johnson added 17, and Vasquez finished with 14 to help Toronto overcome a 14-point first-half deficit and snap a two-game skid.

Tyler Hansbrough, playing additional minutes with starting center Jonas Valanciunas sidelined by a sore back, grabbed 13 rebounds, seven on the offensive end.

GRIZZLIES 96, JAZZ 86 In Memphis, Tenn., Zach Randolph scored 21 points, Marc Gasol added 20, and the Grizzlies maintained its hold on a Western Conference playoff spot with the victory over Utah.

Gasol and Randolph each had 10 rebounds for Memphis, which won its eighth straight home game and fifth straight over the Jazz. Mike Conley finished with 18 points and seven assists, and Tony Allen scored 10 points.

Gordon Hayward, Trey Burke and Alec Burks each scored 16 points for Utah, while Enes Kanter had 12 points and 12 rebounds.

The Jazz lost their sixth straight and 11th of their last 12.

NUGGETS 118, PISTONS 109 In Denver, Aaron Brooks had 27 points and a career-high 17 assists to lead the Nuggets past Detroit for their fourth win in five games.

Randy Foye added 22 points, Kenneth Faried had 14, and J.J. Hickson had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Nuggets, who were without Ty Lawson (sinus infection) and Wilson Chandler (injection to treat hip injury).

Greg Monroe scored 22 points for the Pistons and Rodney Stuckey added 18.

SUNS 109, MAGIC 93 In Phoenix, Goran Dragic scored 18 points to lead a balanced Suns offense, and Phoenix used a big second-half run to beat Orlando.

Gerald Green added 14 points, including three 3-pointers during a 23-3 Phoenix outburst that turned what had been a close game into a runaway.

Channing Frye and Markieff Morris added 12 apiece and Miles Plumlee had 10 points and nine rebounds for the Suns, back from a 2-1 eastern trip.

10:15 a.m. on CBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Ohio St. vs. Dayton in Buffalo, N.Y. 10:40 a.m. on TRUTV — NCAA Tournament, second round, Wisconsin vs. American in Milwaukee 11:40 a.m. on TBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Colorado vs. Pittsburgh in Orlando, Fla. 12:10 p.m. on TNT — NCAA Tournament, second round, Cincinnati vs. Harvard in Spokane, Wash.

12:45 p.m. on CBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Syracuse vs. Western Michigan in Buffalo, N.Y. 1:10 p.m. on TRUTV — NCAA Tournament, second round, Oregon vs. BYU in Milwaukee 2:10 p.m. on TBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Florida vs. Albany in Orlando, Fla. 2:40 p.m. on TNT — NCAA Tournament, second round, Michigan St. vs. Delaware in Spokane, Wash.

4:55 p.m. on TBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, UConn vs. Saint Joseph’s in Buffalo, N.Y. 5:10 p.m. on CBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Michigan vs. Wofford in Milwaukee 5:20 p.m. on TNT — NCAA Tournament, second round, Saint Louis vs. N.C. State in Orlando, Fla. 5:27 p.m. on TRUTV — NCAA Tournament, second round, Oklahoma vs. North Dakota St. in Spokane, Wash.

7:25 p.m. on TBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Villanova vs. Milwaukee in Buffalo, N.Y. 7:40 p.m. on CBS — NCAA Tournament, second round, Texas vs.

Arizona St. in Milwaukee 7:50 p.m. on TNT — NCAA Tournament, second round, Louisville vs. Manhattan in Orlando, Fla. 8:02 p.m. on TRUTV — NCAA Tournament, second round, San Diego St. vs. New Mexico St. in Spokane, Wash.

8:30 p.m. on ESPNU — NIT, second round, teams and site TBD SOCCER Noon on FS1 — UEFA Europa League, Benfica vs. Tottenham, in Lisbon, Portugal 2 p.m. on FS1 — UEFA Europa League, Porto at Napoli

ALL-DISTRICT 2AAAA TEAM SELECTIONS The All-District 2AAAA boys and girls basketball teams, as selected by the district coaches.

Boys

Girls

First team — Carl Herrera, senior, Bernalillo; Eric Coca, sophomore, Capital; Ivan Olivas, senior, Capital; Jared Garduno, junior, Española Valley; Bobbie Ray Sisneros, senior, Española Valley; Skyler Veenis, senior, Los Alamos; Warren Fulgenzi, sophomore, Santa Fe High; Hayden Hargrove, junior, Santa Fe High.

Second team — Santiago Dominguez , senior, Bernalillo; Josh Urban, senior, Bernalillo; Elias Archuleta, sophomore, Española Valley; D. J. Curtis, junior, Española Valley; Marcos Flores, sophomore, Española Valley; Franklin Archuleta, senior, Los Alamos; Keanyn Evans, junior, Santa Fe High; Julio Rivera, junior, Santa Fe High.

Most valuable player — Garduno Coach of the year — Richard Martinez, Española Valley

First team — Rachel Darnell, junior, Bernalillo; Alexis Lovato, freshman, Española Valley; Kaitlyn Romero, sophomore, Española Valley; Ashlynn Trujillo, sophomore, Española Valley; Amber Logan, junior, Los Alamos; Kayla Herrera, junior, Santa Fe High; Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage, junior, Santa Fe High, Jackie Martinez, senior, Santa Fe High.

Second team — Alleah Candelaria, junior, Bernalillo; Deana Lopez, senior, Bernalillo; Julissa Gandera, junior, Capital; Selena Gonzales, senior, Capital; Kayla Romero, senior, Española Valley; McKenzie Logan, senior, Los Alamos; Kiana Zerr, senior, Los Alamos; Andrea Gonzales, senior, Santa Fe High.

Most valuable player — Herrera Coach of the year — Elmer Chavez, Santa Fe High

PREP SCHEDULE

PREP SOFTBALL

SFIS bounces back from 4-0 deficit to beat Taos

district win over Taos at the SFIS Athletic Complex on Wednesday.

The SFIS senior came on with the bases loaded and one out in the second inning.

Chastity Sam knows how to bounce back She allowed a two-run single and Taos from a bad outing. tacked on two more runs with an error, and Thanks to her, so does the Santa Fe she surrendered one single the rest of the Indian School softball team. way. That came off a rough start on TuesSam allowed a hit in 5⅔ innings of a relief day against Las Vegas Robertson in a 12-4 loss. stint, which allowed the Lady Braves to rally from a 4-0 deficit to take a 7-4 non“It was magnificant,” said Leroy Valencia,

SFIS head coach. “She didn’t have a good day [on Tuesday], but she’s a senior and she had a very good day in relief. She held her own.”

The Lady Braves scored six runs in the fourth on two singles, three walks and a pair of Taos errors. Reyes Crespin went 2-for-3 with an RBI for SFIS, and freshman Alexis Quam had a pair of hits as well.

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Baseball: Dragon Invitational this weekend Continued from Page B-1 because Vigil expects AAA will be very tough this year. Along with defending champion Albuquerque Hope Christian, Vigil thinks Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory, Silver, Las Vegas Robertson and Lovington also pose challenges for the Horsemen’s chances at a state championship.

“From what I’ve seen so far, [AAA] is pretty well balanced and I expect it to be really competitive,” Vigil said. “It’s going to be a challenge for us to get into the state championship this year.”

But before the Horsemen worry about the state tournament, they will play host to the Jim Pierce Memorial Tournament this weekend. The field consists of AAA and AAAA schools, with St. Michael’s playing Bernalillo in the first round at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Also holding a tournament this weekend is Monte del Sol with the Dragon Invitational at Fort Marcy Ballpark, which starts Friday.

The Dragons lost to Cobre 10-0 in the opening round of the Class AA State Tournament last year, but head coach Frank Lucero expects a much better finish this season.

Monte del Sol starter Eduardo Rivas delivers to the Panthers in an April 2013 game in Pecos. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

“With the caliber of guys we have coming back, we should make a run at state,” Lucero said.

Like St. Michael’s, Monte del Sol has a strong pitching rotation in seniors Eduardo Rivas, Peter Bartlett and Antonio Tapia.

“We really have the pitching this year,” Lucero said. “Those guys are some of the best that

you’ll find out there.”

What also helps Monte del Sol (1-1) is that Lucero developed the players over the course of several years. He is the first and only baseball coach at the school and has built it from a winless program in 2009 and 2010 to a 17-8 program last year.

“That’s something I take a lot of pride in,” Lucero said.

“It’s a good feeling to know that you can get a group of guys together and make things happen. It’s great to see these guys develop and come into their own.”

Like all other sports at Monte del Sol, the baseball team had to build a program without the use of athletic facilities, but that’s where the Dragon’s ingenuity came into play.

The team built its own indoor and outdoor batting facilities on campus, and since the city did not open its public fields until last Friday, it had to practice fielding on a dirt field at Monte del Sol. It doesn’t matter where the team practices, Lucero still expects the Dragons to sweep through District 6AA over strong teams like Pecos and Santa Fe Preparatory.

They have a head start on that, as they are the only team in the district to play this season. But that’s not the only thing that’s going to give the Dragons a district crown. This team has been slowly getting there for the past several years.

“Some guys are finally old enough to play at a high level,” Lucero said. “People are going to be pleasantly surprised when they see us play.”

This week’s list of varsity high school sporting events. For additions or changes, email us at sports@sfnewmexican.com:

Today Baseball — Jim Pierce Memorial Tournament at St. Michael’s, first round: Española Valley vs. Santa Fe High, 9 a.m.; Bloomfield vs. Raton, 11:15 a.m.; St. Michael’s vs. Albuquerque Academy, 1:30 p.m.; Cobre vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 4 p.m.

Los Alamos at Piedra Vista Tournament, first round (vs. Fruita Monument, 2 p.m.)

Taos at Aztec Invitational, first round (vs. Moriarty, 4 p.m.)

Pecos at Dexter Tournament, first round (vs. N.M. Military, 1 p.m.)

West Las Vegas at Socorro Tournament, first round, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at McCurdy, doubleheader, 3 p.m.

Softball — Lady Horsmen Invitational at St. Michael’s, first round: St. Michael’s vs. Albuquerque Academy, 1 p.m.; Raton vs. Capital, 3 p.m.; Española Valley vs. Las Vegas Robertson, 5 p.m.; at Santa Fe Indian School, Pojoaque Valley vs. Bernalillo, 5:30 p.m.

Friday Baseball — Dragon Invitational, first round, hosted by Monte del Sol (Santa Rosa vs. Santa Fe Preparatory, 3 p.m.; Monte del Sol vs. Mesa Vista, 4 p.m.)

Jim Pierce Memorial Tournament at St. Michael’s, semifinals: Española Valley/Santa Fe High winner vs. Cobre/Las Vegas Robertson winner, 1:30 p.m.; Bloomfield/Raton winner vs. St. Michael’s/Bernalillo winner, 4 p.m.; consolation: Española Valley/Santa Fe High loser vs. Cobre/Las Vegas Robertson loser, 11:15 a.m.; Bloomfield/Raton loser vs. St. Michael’s/Bernalillo loser, 9 a.m.

Los Alamos at Piedra Vista Tournament, second round (pairings TBA) Taos at Aztec Invitational, second round (pairings TBA) Pecos at Dexter Tournament, second round (pairings TBA) West Las Vegas at Socorro Tournament, second round (pairings TBA) Cimarron at Mora, doubleleader, 3:30 p.m.

Softball — Lady Horsemen Invitational at St. Michael’s, semifinals: Raton/Capital winner vs. Española Valley/Las Vegas Robertson winner, 2 p.m.; Pojoaque Valley/Bernalillo winner vs. St. Michael’s/Albuquerque Academy winner, 4 p.m.; consolation: Raton/Capital loser vs. Española Valley/Las Vegas Robertson loser, noon; Pojoaque Valley/Bernalillo loser vs. St. Michael’s/Albuquerque Academy loser, 10 a.m.

Santa Fe High at Scorpion Invitational, first round, hosted by Farmington High (vs. Farmington, 4 p.m.)

Saturday Baseball — Dragon Invitational, final round, hosted by Monte del Sol (Santa Rosa, Mesa Vista, Santa Fe Prep, Monte del Sol) Jim Pierce Memorial Tournament at St. Michael’s: championship, 4 p.m.; third place, 1:30 p.m.; fifth place, 11:15 a.m.; seventh place, 9 a.m.

Los Alamos at Piedra Vista Tournament, final round (pairings TBA) Taos at Aztec Invitational, final round (pairings TBA) Pecos at Dexter Tournament, final round (pairings TBA) West Las Vegas at Socorro Tournament, final round (pairings TBA) Softball — Lady Horsemen Invitational at St. Michael’s: championship, 4 p.m.; third place, 2 p.m.; fifth place, noon; seventh place, 10 a.m.

Santa Fe High at Scorpion Invitational, final round, hosted by Farmington High (pairings TBA)

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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, March 20, 2014

Intriguing stories behind action to prepare for the game, then heading back to Iowa City to be with his family while his son The start of the NCAA Tourhad a thyroid tumor removed. nament is arguably the best The procedure for Patrick, who week on the sports calendar, turns 14 on Thursday, went filled with great teams, exciting well on Wednesday morning games, star players and, usually, and McCaffery rejoined his plenty of upsets. team for the game. Patrick will Mixed in with all the action undergo more tests to deterare some interesting subplots, mine further treatment options. lots of little side stories within Long wait: Mercer forward the bigger picture of who wins Jakob Gollon will play in the and loses — like a Big East NCAA Tournament for the reunion, a player who became first time after six years of what close friends with a cancermay be the most unique route stricken girl and some Omaha to March Madness. He played love. only two games as a freshman We’ve got a few of them here, because of foot problems and dressed up in our handy little nine the next season because of Pick Six format: lingering foot issues and a new injury to his right knee that Biggest little fan: Michigan threatened to end his career.

State’s Adreian Payne had a big Gollon has played in Mercer’s little fan on his side: “Princess last 141 games after having his Lacey.” Payne met the 8-yeareligibility in the 2008-09 and old two years ago while she 2009-10 seasons restored, and was in the hospital for a cannow enters the NCAA Tournacer treatment and struck up ment for the first time after an immediate bond with one Michigan State forward Adreian Payne, right, hoists the net with Lacey Holsworth, who is battling cancer and has earning undergraduate and of his biggest fans. Lacey has become close to Payne, after Michigan State defeated Mich- Master’s degrees. Mercer faces neuroblastoma, a fetal-nerve igan 69-55 in Sunday’s championship game of the Big Ten Duke in Raleigh, N.C. on Friday cell cancer and wears a blond Conference Tournament in Indianapolis. in the Midwest Regional. wig because chemotherapy MICHAEL CONROY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS caused her to lose her hair.

Big East reunion: The She’s been a huge supporter of NCAA selection committee got tor in Austin. Have to figure McDermott has made the Blue- creative when it set up the East Payne’s and he’s reciprocated it’s going to be a little strange jays popular even outside of by becoming a close friend, Regional pod of games in Buffor him seeing his new school Nebraska and will be playing in falo, N.Y., creating a reunion of visiting her at the hospital and play his old one. On top of the NCAA Tournament for the sorts with former Big East powinviting her to games. Payne that, Texas coach Rick Barnes final time, so there’s excitement ers. Among the eight teams in carried her around the court and Arizona State coach Herb there. Nebraska has drummed on Senior Night at Michigan that pod, which includes games Sendek are close friends, creat- up interest for something other in the East and South RegionState and last week she got to than the football team by reach- als, are Villanova, Syracuse and help the Spartans cut down the ing an interesting cross-court ing the tournament for the first UConn. They were once part nets after they won the Big Ten dynamic. They met in 1978 Tournament and she received a and worked together for a year time since 1998. If Creighton of the hierarchy of the Big East, beats Louisiana-Lafayette and championship hat with the rest when Sendek served as an but split up during the recent of the team. Hard to find a bet- assistant under Barnes at Provi- Nebraska gets past Baylor, conference realignment. Villadence. They’ve remained close they’ll meet Sunday in San ter feel-good story than that. nova is the only team left out of ever since.

Antonio. Omaha! those big three after Syracuse Longhorn-Sun Devils conOmaha!: We’re not there McCaffery’s son: Iowa left for the ACC and UConn nections: The second-round yet because both teams have coach Fran McCaffery had headed to the American AthMidwest Regional game to win their opening games, more than Tennessee on his letic Conference. Syracuse between Texas and Arizona but if Creighton and Nebraska mind heading into the Hawkplays the second game of the State has jokingly been called do get through to the third eye’s First Four game against South Regional on Thursday in the Patterson Game. That’s round, the city of Omaha could Tennessee on Wednesday Buffalo then UConn faces Saint because Steve Patterson left become the center of the hoops night. McCaffrey has had a Joseph’s and Villanova opens Arizona State in November to with Milwaukee in the East. become the new athletic direc- world for about 48 hours. Doug rough week, flying to Dayton

By John Marshall

The Associated Press

Bairstow: Forward focused on next game Continued from Page B-1 deep run into the tournament.

It all begins Friday when New Mexico (27-6) faces Stanford (21-12) in the South region’s opening round in St. Louis. The winner likely faces Kansas in Sunday’s round of 32.

The longer a team survives, the higher a star player’s profile can rise. Bairstow knows this.

The problem is, he doesn’t seem to care.

“I’ve been receiving more and more attention as the year’s gone on and it really hasn’t affected me,” he said. “It hasn’t had me feeling different about it all, so I don’t consider it to be a factor.”

Painfully humble when it comes to discussing himself, Bairstow is more inclined to talk about opponents and trends rather than what he thinks of his stock among NBA scouts. Asked repeatedly this season about his prospects, he is better at deflecting the attention than he is deflecting shots.

“I haven’t thought about anything after the season,” he said. “All my focus has been this year and enjoying the time I do have here. … All I know is I have this season and I’m not sure where I’ll be in the future so all I can do is focus on this season.”

His main concern entering the tournament is a familiar term in basketball circles: Stretch 4s.

In basketball parlance, it means a bulky player with height who, by appearances, should play with his back to the basket but instead has the skills to spot up and drive like a guard. Their ability to create means they can stretch a defense.

New Mexico’s Cameron Bairstow, right, and Kendall Williams embrace at the end of a March 5 victory over Air Force at The Pit in Albuquerque.

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“In the tournament it happens the first few games a lot,” Bairstow said. “We’ve had to deal with it all year and it’s something that a lot of teams have tried to exploit and have exploited to some extent.

I’m getting used to it all, but at the same time it’s always a concern.”

He admits he’s gotten better playing that kind of opponent, thanks due in large part to the way several teams in the Mountain West Conference have used a four-guard lineup to counter UNM’s big man combo in Bairstow and 7-foot center Alex Kirk.

The thinking is, the quicker and more versatile the opponent, the less effective the Lobos’ big men are at stopping it.

Harvard used that rational to perfection in last year’s tournament upset in Salt Lake City. Forcing Bairstow to guard a shooter

four to five inches shorter, the Crimson exploited UNM’s mismatched defense by draining outside shots over it. The upset loss simply ignited a fire under Bairstow.

He spent the offseason working out like a mad man in the weight room, adding more than 15 pounds of bulk to a frame that has gotten bigger and stronger at a consistent pace since his freshman year three seasons ago.

A sneak peak of that hard work was available last summer when he led his native Australia to the gold medal game of the World University Games in Russia, becoming the most versatile big man in the tournament.

Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin saw Bairstow in action at the tournament and knew right away he was looking at perhaps the best kept secret in all of college basketball entering this season.

“I knew right away he was going to be a special player,” Cronin said after the Bearcats lost to UNM in The Pit back in December, a game in which Bairstow dominated the game in the paint. “You just don’t see players that big, that strong move the way he does. Not at this level, anyway.”

All of which leads back to Bairstow’s prospects at the professional level.

While there will be plenty of chances to prove his worth at pre-draft camps, he can take a big step in the right direction by seizing the national spotlight right now.

“All I know is the cat can play,” said UNM head coach Craig Neal after a game last month. “If he’s not the best power [forward] in the country, I don’t know who is.”

Tourney fever strikes New Mexico — again they are there but I’m not getting my hopes up this time.”

Restrained or not, the state ALBUQUERQUE — Fans in once again has caught March New Mexico have big dreams Madness fever after the interin the NCAA Tournament. state rivals won their respective For the third year in a row, the conference titles to earn tourstate’s top two schools — New nament spots. From Las Cruces Mexico and New Mexico State to Albuquerque, fans are pull— are going to the dance. And ing out their jerseys, setting up this time they are packed with viewing parties and taking to experience and a lot of talent. social media to discuss their But after two straight early chances. exits from the tournament by The race to the tournament both, fans say this year they are even affected New Mexico being more restrained.

Gov. Susana Martinez, who “I have no expectations. after signing a slew of bills, None,” said 34-year-old Todd jumped on a plane to Las Vegas Johnson, owner of Dos Herma- to watch both the Lobos and nos burrito shop in AlbuquerAggies in their title games que and a Lobos fan. “I’m happy last weekend. After the Lobos

By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

defeated San Diego State in the Mountain West tournament title game on Saturday, Martinez and her husband, Chuck Franco, traded in their New Mexico gear for New Mexico State attire to cheer on the Aggies over Idaho in the Western Athletic Conference title game hours later. She also tweeted photos from the scene.

“They’ve got a sense of spirit that is amazing,” said Martinez, who sported New Mexico Lobos shirt during an announcement last week on a drop in alcoholrelated traffic deaths.

A spokesman for Martinez said the governor plans on attending New Mexico’s game in St. Louis.

Still, many fans said they want to remain cautious especially after much-touted New Mexico was shocked by Harvard in the first round last year.

Cory Munoz, 27, an admissions adviser for the University of New Mexico, said many fans are still hurt by last year’s surprise early exit.

“Last year, I personally overlooked Harvard,” said Munoz.

“This year, I’m a little bit more guarded.”

But will the interstate rivals be cheering for each other?

“Absolutely,” Johnson, the burrito shop owner, said. “They are from New Mexico and we want all teams from New Mexico to do well.”

Dawkins has learned to avoid outside pressure the tournament for the first time STANFORD, Calif. — since 2008, Johnny Dawkins’ father once coming two caught his son reading posiyears after tive press clippings during the Cardinal the teen’s junior year of high won the NIT school and quickly put an end championto it, with the harsh reminder Johnny ship in 2012.

Dawkins that the words wouldn’t Dawkins always be so kind. will continue to lead the proDawkins learned a valuable gram, with athletic director lesson from his dad that day Bernard Muir acknowledgthat he still abides by all these ing last spring the program years later while coaching the needed to reach the NCAA NCAA Tournament-bound Tournament this season for Stanford men’s basketball Dawkins to stay. team. As a college student, Everybody is moving Dawkins had one slip up forward and focusing on during a rough sophomore making sure Stanford’s team season at Duke, but insists he hasn’t read a word about him- of tournament first-timers doesn’t get so caught up in the self since. moment and the Cardinal lose “And you can imagine their edge. how long that is now, I’m “He doesn’t let outside not getting any younger,” the things affect him,” forward 50-year-old Dawkins said with Josh Huestis said. “That’s had a chuckle. a positive effect on us as well.”

Even through the praise Some of Dawkins father’s from coaching mentor Mike advice will be applied again Krzyzewski when he departed Duke to lead his own program through preparations for New Mexico. Dawkins still recalls at Stanford, or the constant their conversation clearly. chatter over the past year “He said: ‘Well, because if about Dawkins’ uncertain future if the Cardinal failed to you continue to read what you’re reading, eventually it reach the tournament — he will always turn. And so if has somehow ignored it all. you can’t handle reading the Now, Dawkins is back on bad, you probably shouldn’t that familiar big stage — for the first time as a head coach even read the good, just let it all go,” Dawkins said. “From after some special runs as a that point on I never really player and Blue Devils assistant. kept up with what’s said about me, unless someone says it No. 10 seed Stanford directly to my face, I have (21-12) will face seventhseeded New Mexico (27-6) on really no clue. My players will tell you I’m the most mindless Friday in the South Regional guy when it comes to knowat St. Louis. This marks the storied program’s return to ing what’s out there.”

By Janie McCauley The Associated Press

Aztecs: Aggies without key guard Continued from Page B-1 including Jamaal Franklin to the NBA. But the hard work, combined with coach Steve Fisher’s innate sense for keeping his program moving forward, helped San Diego State win the Mountain West regular-season title and land back in the tournament again.

The fourth-seeded Aztecs make their fifth straight NCAA appearance Thursday in a West region game against No. 13 New Mexico State (26-9).

Given all the departures, San Diego State was picked as a middle-of-the-road team in the Mountain West. But thanks in large part to the blossoming of Xavier Thames (16.8 points per game) — a senior who was originally recruited to San Diego State, chose Washington State instead, but ended up transferring to Fisher’s program after all — the Aztecs turned out better than that.

The matchup against the Aggies pits Fisher against Marvin Menzies, who was on Fisher’s first staff at SDSU back in 1999.

Aerick Sanders, a member of Fisher’s first team, is an assistant for Menzies.

Like his old boss, Menzies often takes the nontraditional route to build his roster.

Daniel Mullings, the Western Athletic Conference player of the year, is from Toronto. So are New Mexico State’s 7-footplus, 330-pound-plus brothers, Sim and Tanveer Bhullar. Tshilidzi Nephawe is from South Africa. In all, seven Aggies are from somewhere other than the United States.

“It was a niche we knew we needed,” Menzies said. “We knew we had to kind of reinvent our paradigm a little bit.”

Here are some things to watch when New Mexico State plays San Diego State: Thames vs. Mullings: A pair of all-conference shooting guards who each average 16.8 points a game.

Quality over quantity: The Mountain West Conference spent much of the 2012-

New Mexico State’s Daniel Mullings shoots during practice Wednesday for the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Wash. ELAINE THOMPSON/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

13 season ranked as arguably the best in the nation. It sent five teams to the tournament, and they combined to win two games. This year, the conference came back to earth.

It’s just San Diego State and New Mexico. The Lobos, who beat the Aztecs in the conference title game, play Stanford on Friday.

The big fellas: When Menzies arrived at New Mexico State, he used an upand-down style he learned as an assistant for Rick Pitino at Louisville. Now that he’s got a 7-foot-5 center (Sim Bhullar) and a 6-10 forward (Nephawe), it’s more about set plays and kicking the ball out off of double teams.

No Miller: One of the ugliest episodes of the college basketball season is costing the Aggies one of their key players, guard K.C. Ross-Miller.

Miller is off the team after hurling the ball at a Utah Valley player after a loss there last month. That triggered a brawl involving New Mexico State players and Utah Valley State fans who stormed the court.

Ross-Miller was originally suspended for two games; later, the school said he wouldn’t play the rest of the season. The Aggies are 5-0 since he was kicked off the team.

Thursday, March 20, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

OUTDOORS A guide to skiing in spring W

ith the start of spring, it’s sadly time to look forward to the end of the season.

But before it is done, there is still some great skiing and boarding to be had, if you keep a few basic concepts in mind.

We still will probably have a few more powder days ahead (I recall many a closing day here on a foot or more of fluff), but the key to spring powder is to get it while it’s fresh. If a storm is followed by clear skies, the intense sun this time of year quickly turns light powder into mashed potato that is very difficult to turn in. Or, if it warms then freezes overnight, you’ll find powder with a hard crust that is even more difDaniel ficult to maneuver Gibson in.

So, if it snows, Snow Trax be sure to arrive early for first chair. In the morning, ski runs that are exposed to the direct sun, then move into the trees or onto northfacing slopes later in the day where you’ll still find good snow.

If there is no fresh snow, don’t despair, as corn can be king. The freeze-thaw cycle of spring snow eventually produces the kernel-like snow known as corn, which can be as sweet a condition to ski as fresh powder. In its prime, it provides an easily carved surface — like slicing butter — great edge hold and moderate speeds. You can get in the moguls and ski like a champ.

The key to corn is timing. In the spring, you might linger over a longer breakfast or sleep in. Early mornings on the mountain will present you with corn that froze overnight into a corrugated surface that will bounce you around, shriek as you set your edges and pound your lower back.

But between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. — depending on how sunny it is — the snow will begin to melt and soften back into loose kernels, providing prime corn conditions.

If the sun stays out, however, by 3 p.m. or so, the corn will become too soft and too deep to maneuver easily in, leading to knee strain, falls and getting sopping wet. If that is the case, again seek out the woods or north-facing slopes, where the softening process will lag behind that of the sun-soaked slopes.

As snow melts, settles and evaporates, the stumps, rocks and logs that were buried begin to emerge, so you also must ski defensively, looking ahead to your next turn. You might need to modify your turn radius to avoid objects or come to a halt, so ski in control.

Don’t forget to apply sunscreen several times during the course of the day, as the reflective power of sun off the snow can leave you looking like a raccoon, and your boss wondering why you called in sick the day before.

You might also consider an end-ofseason road trip to some areas that stay open far into spring.

While our local season started great, then went into a slump and is now cruising to a decent finish, areas in Colorado and farther north are heading down the final stretch in great shape. Wolf Creek has a 102-inch base and often receives heavy late snowfall.

Its last scheduled day is April 6.

Monarch has a 90-inch base and closes April 13. Breckenridge has a 92-inch base and will push its closing to April 27. Copper has 87 inches and closes April 20. Arapahoe Basin often is the last ski area left standing in any season, and has on-mountain events planned through at least May 31. But with a 77-inch base, it might not make it.

The Wasatch Range of Utah is enjoying another excellent year. Alta, with a 116-inch base, will end daily operations April 20, but will offer Friday-Sunday skiing (boarding is still not allowed there) through May 4. Snowbird also has a 116-inch base and is expected to close May 23.

Jackson Hole, Wyo., just picked up a foot and has the Rockies’ best base at 136 inches. It will close April 6.

The Sierra Nevada range of California is usually a dependable late-season venture, but not this year. Squaw Valley has a 67-inch base, Alpine Meadows 65 inches at 8,000-foot elevation and Northstar 59 inches.

So, get out there and grab the gusto while it’s left.

Daniel Gibson can be reached at dbgibson@newmexico.com.

With weather: Fishing report and Sierra Club hikes. Page A-12

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Online: Your guide to skiing in New Mexico. www.santafenew mexican.com/outdoors

A dog sled tour — in snow or mud — is just a short drive away in Pagosa Springs, Colo.

Pagosa Dog Sled Adventures breeds and trains its own Alaska malamute puppies, often taking them on tours to learn from the older, more experienced dogs.

Born to mush

Full grown Alaska malamutes can pull up to 20 times their own body weight, making a team of 16 adult dogs more than capable of pulling loads of several thousand pounds with ease. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TWILA BAKER

By Will Webber The New Mexican

IF YOU GO

s her website suggests, Twila Baker’s mind turns to mush every winter.

Considering she surrounds herself with a pack full of dogs strong enough to pull a loaded school bus down a snowpacked trail, that’s actually good news.

Baker is the owner and operator of Pagosa Dog Sled Adventures, a onehorse — or 40-dog, to be more exact — outfit located in Pagosa Springs, Colo.

While she leaves the driving to the hired help these days, she is the brains and brawn of an operation that is finding a niche in the expanding field of outdoor winter activities.

Her business now requires advance reservations as word is getting out.

“Everything about this business is self-taught, so I’m still trying to figure things out,” she says.

Baker’s been doing what she does for about 30 years, but only recently has she put out her shingle in southern Colorado. In all that time, she has spent most of her days trying to curate the perfect mix of canine temperament and solid work ethic.

She may have finally found it. Her customers rave about the tours she stages. They range from one hour to three, navigating private land not far from Pagosa Springs. Perks include hot chocolate and a snack, professional photos along the way, and an experienced guide who manages the dogs and leads the adventure.

Her business caters to adults to small children, and tours can accommodate up to six people at a time.

It even does tours when there’s no snow — as is currently the case around most of Pagosa Springs.

While nearby Wolf Creek is having another banner year with its ski season, Pagosa Dog Sled Adventures utilizes more even terrain at lower levels, where snow accumulation is next to zero in most spots.

In such cases, the sleds are replaced by wheeled carts and packed snow trails become dirt and muddy roads.

While some people are inclined to

What: Pagosa Dog Sled Adventures Where: Based in Pagosa Springs, Colo., about a 3-hour drive north of Santa Fe Contact: Twila Baker, 970-903-8141 Web: www.pagosa dog.com Cost: A full tour (three hours) runs $350 for two people, $585 for four, $650 for five. Includes photos, food and guided tour of private lands; a half tour (approximately 1 to 1½ hours) runs $100 per person.

Custom quotes for larger groups are available. Reservations are required.

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Mike Knapp leads a team of Alaskan malamutes on a recent sledding tour through the wilderness near Pagosa Springs, Colo. Knapp and his wife, Julie, were joined by their son, Talon, and daughter, Rylie, as a team of 16 dogs pulled their sled.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE KNAPP

consider dog sleds a form of animal cruelty, Baker says it couldn’t be further from the truth. Alaskan malamutes are powerful animals whose endurance and strength are unrivaled.

She recalled a recent adventure when a teenage girl showed up with her family and refused to get on the sled because she didn’t want to hurt the animals. “As soon as she saw the way the dogs reacted when we were attaching them the [harness], she knew they were doing something they loved,” Baker says. “By the end of the day, she was on the sled riding around with her family.”

The dogs’ only limits are based on temperature. The warmer it gets, the less they are subjected to. That makes this time of year — late winter and early spring — the tail end of Pagosa Dog Sled Adventure’s season. Over the summer, the animals routinely head out on predawn training runs.

Rylie Knapp was one of Baker’s recent patrons. A 10-year-old from Pagosa Springs, she took a tour with her older brother, Talon, and parents Mike and Julie. The family was introduced to the dogs, taken on an extended tour through remote forest

land, then given a chance to get up close and personal with the team.

“My favorite part was getting to pet and love on the dogs afterward,” Rylie says. “They’re really friendly.

My favorite was the female, the leader. She let me play with her.”

Asked if a typical city kid should be afraid of the dogs, most of whom stand 24 inches at the shoulder, Rylie suggested that it’s all up to the individual.

“If you’re nice, the dogs will be nice,” she says. “If you’re not, I don’t know. Maybe not.”

Cute and cuddly by all outward appearances, the breed Baker uses — Alaskan malamutes — are all business when it comes to pulling a sled. She calls them the Clydesdale’s of the husky breed. With healthy adult males weighing as much as 85 pounds and females roughly 70 to 75 pounds, each animal can pull up to 20 times its own body weight.

With 16 dogs on each team, Baker’s dogs can pull more than 12 tons of cargo. She has a kennel of 40 animals at her disposal, ranging in age from just a few weeks up to 10 years and more. Her monthly expenses for food — which combines meat, fat and

high-quality kibble — top $2,000.

Baker’s business is literally homegrown. She painstakingly chooses the top bloodlines and breeds her own dogs, taking time to choose which pups will make the best fit.

“I can tell by 10 to 12 weeks if they’re going to be part of the team,” Baker says. “We’ll take them out and let them run with the older dogs. The pups who want to run with the leaders are the dogs we’ll keep. The pups who want to be left behind at the trail head become pets. The pups who might wander off on their own — those become the show dogs.”

The process began three decades ago when Baker and her husband — whom she describes as “one of those cat people” — got their first Alaskan malamute, a bigger, more domesticated version of the Siberian or Canadian huskies. That led to another pup, then another and then a few more.

Before long she had a dozen, igniting an idea of starting a dog sled team.

“Back then it was the ’80s and there was no Internet or many books about how to do it,” Baker says. “I literally had to feel my way through it; figure out what kind of temperament worked best. It took a long time to get the line I wanted, that I needed.”

Baker employs a pair of mushers, Morgan and Ashley, to lead the guided tours. Both women have a close, personal bond with the animals that clearly makes the experience even more fun for those signing on.

“They unloaded the dogs from this van they were riding in and the noise level [the dogs] made when they realized they were about to get ready was amazing,” Julie Knapp says. “They knew from the girl that was taking care of them that they were about to do something they loved to do. She was great with [the kids], and the dogs, all of them were great with the kids.”

That’s all music to Baker’s ears.

As her business continues to grow, the more she pays attention to the specific details of the animals she has under her care.

Now all she needs is for it to snow a little more. “Snow or not, though,” she says, “the dogs love to pull.”

FOR THE BIRDS

Nesting season nears for area birds

By Anne Schmauss For The New Mexican

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rea birds are preparing for the nesting season. Bluebirds are among the earliest nesters in Northern New Mexico. There are a dizzying number of housing requirements that bluebirds need to be happy and safe. Check out the North American Bluebird Society website, www. nabluebirdsociety.org, for more information. Many of those requirements have to do with safety. A bird’s primary consideration when choosing a nesting site is security. Protection from predators and proximity to food is of vital importance to the success of a bird’s offspring. This is not only true of bluebirds but of all birds, whether that species nests in a house or builds a nest in a tree, shrub or on the ground.

Abundant and easily obtained sources of food allow for more time to be devoted to better nest site selec-

tion and construction of higher quality nests, along with more time and energy to be vigilant in defense of the nesting territory from interlopers and predators. Nesting is a full-time job for your birds and truly a matter of life and death. So providing foods loaded with fat, protein and calcium this time of year actually gives your birds more time to tend to their nest and young. Building a nest, defending it, laying eggs, feeding babies and helping them fledge not only takes a lot of time but a lot of energy. Food you provide now not only helps young birds, but gives parents the energy and nutrients they need to get through this difficult season.

Calcium helps thicken egg shells, making them less susceptible to breakage. It also is crucial in the development of skeletal (bone) production in baby birds. Demand for calcium will be very high for the next few months, so it’s the right time to add calcium-

rich foods to your bird food offerings.

If given a choice between two foods that are identical in every respect except calcium level, young birds and laying females will select a calciumadequate food more frequently than a deficient one. Birds find calcium in their natural foods like insects, mortar picked off buildings, ash and soil (if it’s rich in calcium). Adding suet nuggets spiked with calcium to your birdseed mix is an easy and effective way of giving extra calcium to your birds. A good nesting birdseed mix will not only have calcium-rich suet nuggets but will include powdered calcium carbonate, which is easy for birds to digest. Bark butter (spreadable suet) also has added calcium.

I’m hearing lots more singing from many of my backyard birds. Male house finches are brightening up and I’m seeing several types of birds begin to gather nesting materials. The robins at my house are starting to pair off.

Robins aren’t nesting quite yet but will be soon. COURTESY PHOTO

This week, one of my backyard robins has been visiting my nesting mix. My feeder has a cage on the top to keep dove away and this robin clung to the side of the tray and, rather desperately, stuck his head through the cage to get to the food. Maybe he’s been after the bits of fruit, nuts or calcium. I can’t tell what he’s eating, but it’s unusual to see robins come to a seed mix. Enjoy watching the beginning of nesting season and give your birds a few extra treats to help them out.

Anne Schmauss is the co-owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Santa Fe and she loves to hear your bird stories.

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2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH, $775.00 monthly + utilities, $600.00 Security Deposit, Non-Smoking, No Pets, Sec 8 Accepted, back yards, close to shopping. 505-690-3989

OLD ADOBE OFFICE LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN

1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH T E S U Q U E D R I V E . Fenced yard, washer & dryer. $625 monthly.

1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH DON DIEGO, close to town, nice complex $600/mo 1yr lease only.

2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH DON DIEGO. G orgeous town house close to downtown. $750 monthly. Lease only.

Chamisa Management Corporation 988-5299

813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: Live-in studio, full kitchen and bath, tile. $680 with gas, water paid. 1303 RUFINA LANE: 2 bedroom, 1 full bath, washer, dryer hook-ups, living and dining room. $765 plus utilities. NO PETS! 505-471-4405

Down Town Area Studio Apartment

1 bedroom, 1 bath, Fenced yard, Non-Smoking. Small pet may be considered. $680 includes utilities.

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Taylor Properties 505-470-0818

986-3000 REDUCED! Spacious single-level 3 bedroom, 2 bath. New paint. All appliances. Washer, dryer. 1,494 sq.ft. with 9’ ceilings, 2-car garage. FSBO, $238,750. 505-231-8405 RENOVATED 3 bedroom, 3 Bath. Near Plaza. Inspect 3/22-23. Bid start at $419,500. Sold 3/23 to highest bidder. casaloma19@gmail.com (505)3592358

(3) 2.5 Acre Lots, Senda Artemisia, Old Galisteo Road, Close to town.

Easy building sites. Views, utilities, shared well. Owner financing. No Mobile homes. $119,700- $129,700 each.

Greg. 505-690-8503, Equity Real Estate.

21 ACRES of Paradise on the San Juan River. Great for fishing, hunting, and ranching. 6 Acre feet of deeded water rights. 575-937-3135

1,900 SQ.FT. WAREHOUSE, 600 sq.ft Office space, reception area, two offices, kitchen, security, fenced yard, On-site parking. $1,500 plus utilities.

505-982-2511

1 bedroom, 1 bath- $385.00 monthly; 1 Bedroom park model, 1 bath- $450; Deposit and background check required. Non-smoking, no pets. 505471-2929 appointment.

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH. RUFINA LANE. Fireplace, balcony, laundry facility on site. $745 monthly.

DOWTOWN CONDOMINUM, Short walk to Plaza. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths.

Carport. Gated community. Private fenced patio. $329,000. Jay, 505-4700351.

3100+/- sq.ft. main level and 2400+/sq.ft. daylight basement. 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, remodeled kitchen, 3 fireplaces, 2 car garage on 1.43 acres near Richards Ave. 2916 Calle Vera Cruz. NOW $424,000

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EFFICIENCY APARTMENT IN CIENEGUILLA. $400 monthly, $200 cleaning deposit. No pets, nonsmoking, no drugs. Quiet. Long-term tenant. 505-424-3755 INCREDIBLE SANGRE VIEWS! $935. ZIA VISTAS LARGEST 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM, large walk-in closets.

Fireplace. Exceptional layout. Gated.

Much more. 505-316-0986.

Brick floors, large vigas, fire places, ample parking 300, 800, or 2100 sq. ft. $12 per sq. ft. per month.

CANYON ROAD GALLERY SPACE for lease or share. Excellent location.

Santa Fe style charm with superb furnishings and beautifully landscaped sculpture gardens. Current tenant- artist wishes to share with one or two artist- sculptors. Share expenses. No studio space. Nonsmokers only. Contact Anthony 505820-6868

GUESTHOUSES FURNISHED CASITA, utilities, television, internet included. fully equipped kitchen. 44 Arroyo Viejo. $950 monthly. www.santafecasita.info ABQ Properties LLC 505-717-3002 x702

505-992-1205 valdezandassociates.com LOVELY TOWNHOME

2 bedrooms and 1 bath, granite counter tops, washer, dryer, kiva fireplace, vigas, tile, carpet flooring, conveniently located. $850 plus utilities.

LOCATED AT THE LOFTS ON CERRILLOS

This live & work studio offers high ceilings, kitchenette, bathroom with shower, 2 separate entrances, ground, corner unit with lots of natural lighting. $1000 plus utilities

$950. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, sunny, washer, dryer, woodstove, LP gas, brick floors. Pet ok. Hwy 14, Lone Butte. Steve 505-470-3238

CASA SOLANA 3 - 1, sunroom. Walled, landscaped. Hookups. Garage.

Non-smoking. Cat ok. $1,200 per month. Deposits. Available April 1. carolcooperxyz@gmail.com (best).

699-8839 (message).

HOUSES FURNISHED

EAST SIDE 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Washer, dryer, dishwasher, radiant heat, 2 blocks from plaza. $1650 plus utilities. Call 505-982-2738.

ELDORADO

New, Large 3 bedroom, 3 bath, Highend contemporary home: Super Energy efficient, hilltop views, 12.5 acres, paved access. 505-660-5603

STUDIO, LA CIENEGA. Skylights, private. 490 sq.ft. $375 monthly plus utilities. Call Dan, 505-269-7410.

VIEWS! GREAT DEAL! Exclusive Estancia Primera

3 bedroom, 2.5 bath. Den. Pool, tennis. Walk to Plaza. 2700 square feet. Great views, 2 car garage, 2 fireplaces, washer, dryer. $2,500. 214491-8732

LIVE IN STUDIOS 2nd Street LIVE, WORK, OFFICE

1200 & 1300 SQUARE FEET. 800 square feet downstairs, 400 - 500 square foot living area upstairs. Skylights, high ceilings. Wayne Nichols, 505-6997280.

FRONTING ON 2ND STREET 2160 sq.ft on 2nd Street.

Live- Work. Studio. Gallery, or Office.

High ceilings, 2-story. Handicap bath.

Wayne Nichols, 505-699-7280.

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CHARMING EAST-SIDE ADOBE HOUSE with garden, walk to plaza, washer, dryer, all appliances. $1100 monthly plus utilities, No dogs. 505-660-3131 COUNTRY LIVING Pecos, "20 minutes from Santa Fe ". Sunny remodeled, 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, deck. Responsible People. $995 plus deposit. No Pets. 505-351-0063, 505-920-7326.

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LOVELY HOME

3 bedroom, 2 bath home with kiva fireplace, beamed ceilings, carpet and tile flooring, washer, dryer hook-up, 2 car garage and large fenced back yard on a corner lot. $1300. Deposit $1200. Plus utilities.

REMODELED CASITA, FURNISHED, 1 BEDROOM, saltillo tile, wood ceilings, best location, walk to town, views, patio, washer, dryer, $1,050 monthly including utilities. 505-984-1290

ADOBE GUESTHOUSE East side, 1 bedroom, fully equipped, private. $1,250 including cable TV, DSL and utilities. Available Now. 505-988-4055.

3 BEDROOM 1 BATH DUPLEX .

Large yard, front & back. $1,150 monthly, utilities included, $1,000 deposit. Prefer long term. Pets are negotiable.

FABULOUS HIGH-end, views, secluded. 4 blocks to Plaza. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths (2500) yard-parking $1750 monthly + utilities. Lease. Call Connie 505-553-1975.

NAMBE AREA 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, Appliances, washer, dryer $850 monthly plus utilities, $700 deposit.

No smoking, no pets. 505-455-1174 RECENTLY REMODELED. 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Hardwood & tile floors. Laundry hook-ups. Fenced yard. No pets.

Lease. References. $975. 505-412-0197

COLAB AT 2ND STREET A CO-WORK OFFICE

Desks and private offices, complete facilities, conference room, $300 monthly. Wayne Nichols, 505-699-7280.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

Great location and parking! $500 monthly includes utilities, cleaning, taxes and amenities. Move in incentives!

Please call (505)983-9646.

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ROOM FOR RENT, LA CIENEGA. Separate entrance, share adobe farmhouse, bathroom, kitchen. Washer, dryer. $425 monthly plus utilities. 170 sq.ft. 505-269-7410

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505-713-2113 CARETAKING HOUSE & PET SITTING. Reasonable, Mature, Responsible. Live in Sol y Lomas area. Former Owner of Grooming store in NYC. 505-982-6392

CLEANING A+ Cleaning

Homes, Office Apartments, post construction. House and Pet sitting.

Senior care. References available, $18 per hour. Julia, 505-204-1677.

Clean Houses in and out. Windows, carpets. $18 an hour. Sylvia 505-9204138. Handyman, Landscaping, Roofing. FREE estimates, BNS. 505-3166449.

ELIZABETH BECERRIL General Cleaning for your home.

Low prices. Free estimates.

References available.

505-204-0676

MENDOZA’S & FLORES PROFESSIONAL MAINTENANCE.

Your business in print and online for as little as $89 per month!

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS. We use natural products. 20 Years Experience, Residential & Offices. Reliable.

Excellent references. Licensed & Bonded. Eva, 505-919-9230. Elena.

505-946-7655

CONCRETE EXPERIENCED SPECIALIZED IN CONCRETE REPAIR, OVERLAYMENTS, INTERIORS, EXTERIORS. DRIVEWAYS, SIDEWALKS, BASKETBALL COURTS, ETC. LIC, INSURED, GUARANTEED. $9-11 PER SQ.FT. 505-470-2636

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AFFORDABLE HOME REPAIR

Housecleaning, garage cleaning, hauling trash.

Cutting Trees, Flagstone Patios, Driveways, Fencing, Yard Work, Stucco, Tile..

Greg, Nina, 920-0493.

I CLEAN yards, gravel work, dig trenches. I also move furniture, haul trash. Call George, 505-316-1599.

REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE, PRO-PANEL ROOFS, PAINTING, FENCING, YARDWORK. MINOR PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL. 25 years experience.

Consulting. Licensed. References.

Free estimates. 505-470-5877

Genbuild Corporation

LCH CONSTRUCTION insured and bonded. Roof, Plaster, Drywall, Plumbing, Concrete, Electric... Full Service, Remodeling and construction. 505-930-0084

Dry Pinon & Cedar

Free Kindling, Delivery & Stack.

140.00 pick up load.

505-983-2872, 505-470-4117

PAINTING

LANDSCAPING BE READY, PLAN NOW *Drought solutions *Irrigation: New installs and rennovations *Design and installations All phases of landscapes. "I DO IT ALL!" 505-995-0318 or 505-3 10-0045 . Santa Fe, Los Alamos, White Rock.

COTTONWOOD LANDSCAPING

Full Landscaping Designs, Rock, Trees, Boulders, Brick, Flagstone.

FREE ESTIMATES! 15% off! 505-9072600, 505-990-0955.

E.R. Landscaping

Full Landscaping Design, All types of stonework, Coyote Fencing, Irrigation, sodding. 15% discount, Free Estimates! 505-629-2871 or 505204-4510.

ANDY ORTIZ PAINTING

Professional with over 30 years experience. Licensed, insured, bonded Please call for more information, 505670-9867, 505-473-2119.

PLASTERING 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Professional Plastering Specialist: Interior & Exterior. Also Re-Stuccos. Patching a specialty. Call Felix, 505-920-3853.

ROOFING ALL-IN-ONE ROOF LEAKING REPAIR & MAINTENANCE. Complete Landscaping. Yard Cleaning, Maintenance.

Gravel Driveway. Painting. Torch Down, Stucco. References Available.

505-603-3182.

JUAN’S LANDSCAPING Coyote fences, Yard cleaning, Pruning, Tree cutting, Painting (inside, outside), Flagstone & Gravel. References. Free Estimates. 505-231-9112.

Additions, Remodels, New Construction, Foundations, Garages, Roofing, and Block Walls. Licensed, Bonded, Insured. 505-401-1088

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Office & Home cleaning. Janitorial, Handyman. (Home Repairs, Garden, Irrigation, Windows) Licensed, bonded, insured. References available, 505-795-9062.

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TRINO’S AFFORDABLE Construction all phases of construction, and home repairs. Licensed. 505-9207583

LANDSCAPING THE YARD NINJA! PRUNING TREES OR SHRUBSDONE CORRECTLY! STONEWORK- PATIOS, PLANTERS, WALLS. HAUL. INSTALL DRIP. CREATE BEAUTY! DANNY, 505-501-1331.

STORAGE NEED SOME STORAGE? Stars & Stripes Storage is having a special March move-in deal just for you!

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TREES DALE’S TREE SERVICE. Tree pruning, removal, stumps, hauling. Yard work also available. 473-4129

MOVERS A a r d v a r k DISCOUNT M O V E R S Most moving services; old-fashioned respect and care since 1976. Jo h n , 505-473-4881.

ALL TYPES . Metal, Shingles, Composite torch down, Hot Mop, Stucco, Plaster. Free Estimates! Call Ismael Lopez at 505-670-0760.

PAINTING

ALL TYPES OF ROOFING. Free estimates with 15 years experience. Call Josue Garcia, 505-490-1601.

HOMECRAFT PAINTING SMALL JOBS OK & DRYWALL REPAIRS. LICENSED. JIM, 505-350-7887.

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Seasonal planting.

Lawn care.

Weed Removal.

Dump runs.

Painting (interior, exterior).

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Berry Clean - 505-501-3395

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UNFURNISHED ROOM TO RENT

3 bedroom home. 2 adults live here- 1 female and 1 male and 2 dogs.

Room has walk-in closet. Private bathroom but share the shower with one of other roommates. Common spaces including patios. Available immediately. First, last, $600 monthly. Credit check, references.

Year lease. Please call Cia at 858-8298387.

STORAGE SPACE 10x30 Move-in-Special, $180 monthly.

Airport Cerrillos Storage. Wide, Rollup doors. U-haul Cargo Van. Professional, Resident Manager. 505-4744450. www.airportcerrillos.com

WAREHOUSES WAREHOUSE WORK SPACE. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. 2000 sq.ft.

Workshop, art studio, light manuafacturing. Siler Road area. $1470 monthly, $1000 deposit. 505670-1733.

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Sr Business Systems Analyst and Sr Network & Systems Administrator Full-time positions.

See website for specific position requirements.

FOUND IN CASA SOLANA AREA, Grey & White small female CAT with grey smudge right side of face. Very thin & scared. 505-989-7662 FOUND PURSE on street at Marcy and Otero Thursday March 13 10:00 am. Call 908-963-9337

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FOUND PURSE on street at Marcy and Otero Thursday March 13 10:00 am.

Call 908-963-9337.

REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON Mens grey-white, Rocky Mountain Bike taken on February 21st, evening, from Zia Vista Condos. 505-473-0326

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Applications may be picked up and dropped off at Cities of Gold Casino Hotel. EOE

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Hospice Patient Care Manager Santa Fe

MANAGEMENT BLAKE’S LOTABURGER seeking District Manager & General Managers in the Santa Fe Area! Competitive Salary & Benefits. Email Résumé to cheyns@lotaburger.com.

POLICE CHIEF The City of Santa Fe is seeking to fill the highly responsible law enforcement position which involves directing employees, functions, and operations of the Police Department and involves responsibility for control and coordination of police activities.

The City offers competitive compensation and a generous benefit package including excellent retirement program, medical, dental, life insurance, paid holidays, generous vacation and sick leave. For detailed information, visit our website at www.santafenm.gov.

Position closes 4/4/14.

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Cities of Gold Casino Hotel, has an immediate opening for an experienced Hotel Front Desk Clerk Reservationist. Only candidates with experience will be considered. The position requires a flexible schedule including nights, 3 p.m. - 11 p.m., and weekends. Applicant must pass pre-employment drug screen.

Must possess a current RN license In the state of New Mexico. Prior supervisory experience in Hospice Preferred. Contact: Ashli Flock at 505861-0060 or aflock@ambercare.com

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An independent elementary school in Santa Fe, seeks candidates for a Full-time 3rd Grade Teacher, Parttime 3rd Grade Associate Teacher (twenty hours), and a Full-Time Early Childhood Associate position beginning August 2014. Rio Grande School serves students from three years old to sixth grade, with class sizes ranging from 15-20 students, and a total school population of 160. Please review the full position description at www.riograndeschool.org Competitive salaries offered, and all full-time employees receive a retirement plan with matching contributions, medical insurance, life insurance, and both short and long term disability insurance.

Interested individuals should email a cover letter, resume, and 3-5 references to Interim Head of School, Patrick Brown, at patrick_brown@riograndeschool.o rg Rio Grande School does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and national or ethnic origin in its hiring practices.

TEMPLE BETH SHALOM Preschool Director. BA, early childhood education. Knowledge of Judaism necessary. Job description at www.sftbs.org; resume to info@sftbs.org

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INTAKE COORDINATOR Full-time position with behavioral health program at Valley Community Health Center in Espanola. Requires 3 years experience in mental health treatment with 1 year assessment and intake.

Must have independent NM behavioral health professional license.

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CONTROLLER Full-time position reporting to Vice President of Finance.

Provides oversight and supervision for accounting functions within the Corporate Office.

Excellent benefits. Apply online at www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Tollfree hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE- M- F- D- V- AA Follow us on Facebook.

PART-TIME RECEPTIONIST & DATA EN T R Y . Quickbooks experience a plus, with excellent PR skills. Call 505-438-4773 for an interview.

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TEACHER ASSISTANT Full-time with Head Start.

TEACHER I Full-time with Head Start and Early Head Start or 20 hours per week with Early Head Start.

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GALLERIES SORREL SKY GALLERY IS HIRING staff for its new location on W. Palace Ave. Please email m a rg a re t@ s o rre ls k y .c o m for job descriptions.

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seeks a Full-time Medical Records Team Leader in Los Alamos. Experience required.

Non-smoker. Contact Cristal at job@mannm.com

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PROFESSIONAL HOME HEALTH CARE IS LOOKING FOR A REGISTERED NURSE TO FILL THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR OF NURSING. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE IN HOME HEALTH, OASIS SUBMISSIONS AND ICD-9, ICD-10 CODING A PLUS. PLEASE FAX RESUME: 505-982-0788 or CALL BRIAN, 505-982-8581 FOR QUESTIONS.

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Full Time experienced line, production cook. Must be professional. Weekends and Holidays a must. Wonderful work environment and great benefits. Complete application at El Castillo, 250 E Alameda; Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. or email resume to humanresources@elcnm.com or fax to 505-983-3828.

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Full-time Furniture Mover, Sales Associate wanted for Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s south-side resale store. Visit www.sfhumanesociety.org for details.

Mental Health Therapist (MST) Full-time position with Santa Fe Community Guidance Center working with delinquent and at-risk youth & their families in homebased and community settings in Santa Fe area.

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TRADES EXPERIENCED GARMENT SCREENPRINTER in Santa Fe for Automatic and Manual production printing; Full Time, Benefits, send information and resume to jobapp.applyhere@gmail.com LOCAL PLUMBING COMPANY HIRING SERVICE PLUMBER. CALL 505-4387326.

REPUTABLE RESTORATION & CLEANING COMPANY

FURNITURE BLANKET CHEST, ANTIQUE OAK, FOAM PAD, 18"D, 46"W, 20"H. $99.

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CHERRY SHAKER BEDFRAME & Simmons World Class B E A U T Y R E S T boxspring & mattress, extra- extra firm. Queen size. Excellent condition. $800. 505-983-4684 QUALITY, SOLID PATIO BENCHES. 38"Hx35.5"L or 39"Hx38.5"L. $200300. 505-982-4926

VINTAGE FOUR Poster bed frame Full size, $70. 505-660-6034

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APPLIANCES 2 Dryers, $140 each, 1 Washing Machine $150, 1 stainless steel Dishwasher $150, 1 stainless steel Gas Stove $225. 505-412-7327

Social Worker Full-time or part-time position working 20 hours per week with The Hospice Center. Requires Master’s level Social Worker license and experience in healthcare setting.

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2005 MERCURY MONTEGO - Premium luxury. $6,000. Schedule a test drive today! Please call 505-9204078.

CLASSIC CARS 1966 FORD MUSTANG Restomod.

Completely restored, less than 200 miles. Can be seen at Mustang Eds on Lopez Lane. 505-310-0381

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1971 MUSTANG Mach 1 6k miles. $30k invested must sell- make offer. 404861-2060 2007 PONTIAC G6 Coupe GT. One owner, no accidents! 89,331 miles. $9,999. Schedule a test drive today!

DOMESTIC 2004 ACURA TSX 67,056 miles, good condition, gray, black interior, automatic, 4 door. $4,300, Call 708-5710126.

1999 CADILLAC SEVILLE with 68,000 miles. Runs great. Sunroof, leather seats, fully loaded. A/C. $3,700. 505316-6409 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE 1970 SS unrestored 396, 350HP, blue, white with white stripes, $9600, M-21 MUNCIE 4SPD manual, huffyk9@outlook.com, 505-609-8587.

WESTON MANDOLINE V e ge ta b l e Slicer. Stainless. NEW! Never used. $50. 505-466-6205

2005 CHEVY Impala, 87,000 miles, V-6, 4-door, in good condition. $6,000. 505-424-0233.

TV RADIO STEREO SPEAKERS!! ALTEC Lansing BX1120, Computer Speakers, $25; Advent Wireless Speakers, AW820, with transmitter, $40. Bill, 505-466-2976.

2011 VOLVO 30V FIRST IN SHOW, FRONTLINE READY $17,999

»animals« 529 EAST Palace Ave Porch Sale + Bake Sale, Saturday, 3/22. 8 a.m.1 p.m. Household items, milagros, jewelry, carpets, curtains, furniture, clothing, books, artwork.

2008 Hummer H2 SUT - REALLY! ONLY 38k miles, totally loaded with leather, NAV and chrome brush guard, clean CarFax, this one’s HOT $46,731. 505-216-3800.

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ORAL SURGERY based practice seeking to fill the position of an experienced DENTAL ASSISTANT w i t h active NM Board of Dental Healthcare Radiology Certification and current BLS Certification. Qualifications include, but not limited to: team oriented individual, motivated, proactive self-starter, high level computer skills, ability to follow directions and focus with attention to details, exceptional communication skills, positive attitude and highly dependable. Submit resume to: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Center of Santa Fe, Att: Cheryl, 1645 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Fax: 505-9840694.

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ers will inactivate the air-bag response. But I love my padded car seat -- I drive long distances several times a year, and it makes a di≠erence -at my, ahem, age. It also keeps the upholstery cleaner. I called the local Hyundai dealer, and he agreed that seat covers will interfere with the air bags. Is that true? What gives, here?

-- Maurine TOM: Yes, it’s true.

RAY: Like most cars these days, your Hyundai has side air bags.

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RAY: Luckily for you, Maurine, the American seat-cover industry is not sitting still for this.

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TOM: I think they just cut around it or something.

RAY: And if you go online and search “seat covers for side air bags,” you’ll find a number of places that will either sell you or make for you any type of seat cover you want that’s modified to work with side air bags.

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2007 FORD EDGE-SEL PLUS

Local Owners, 89,053 Miles, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Service Records Manuals, New Tires, Panoramic Roof, Leather, Heated Seats, Chrome Wheels, All Wheel Drive, Loaded, Soooo Priced Right $15,250 WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

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2010 LEXUS IS-250 SEDAN

Another One owner, Local, Carfax, 16,226 Miles, Service Records,Factory Warranty, Fully Loaded, Why Buy New, Pristine, Soooo Desirable, $26,950.

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2011 HONDA CR-V EX-L - another 1owner Lexus trade-in, AWD, leather, moonroof, clean CarFax, don’t miss this one! $20,981. 505-2163800.

HONDA FIT Sport 2008. 72,800 miles, single owner. 5-speed manual. Excellent clean condition, new tires. 35-40 mpg. $9,500 505-982-4081.

2006 BMW X5 4.4V8

Immaculate X5 with V8, Automatic, DVD, Satellite radio, chrome wheels, 71k miles, Carfax, Warranty. $16,995. 505-954-1054. www.sweetmotorsales.com

Another One Owner, Local, Garaged, Non-Smoker, X-keys, Records, Manuals, 51,051 Miles, WDrive All Season, Great MPG, Pristine, Soooo Perfect $14,250 PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE! VIEW VEHICLE & CARFAX AT: santafeautoshowcase.com Paul 505-983-4945

2004 VOLKSWAGEN CONVERTIBLE. Automatic. Leather interior, excellent condition. 68,000 miles. $7,500 OBO. 505-577-1159.

2007 BMW 328XI - WOW! Just 43k miles and a single owner! AWD, navigation, NEW tires and brakes, clean CarFax, what a gem! $18,821. Call 505-216-3800.

2006 MINI COOPER-S CONVERTIBLE MANUAL

2007 MERCEDES-BENZ ML350. 64k miles, navigation, back-up camera, moonroof, heated seats, excellent! $18,000. Please call 505699-8339.

1998 TOYOTA 4-door Corolla.

124,000 miles, good condition. $2,800. Call to schedule a test drive, 505-231-5370.

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2011 SUBARU Outback - another LEXUS trade-in, local vehicle, new brakes, battery, freshly serviced, clean CarFax $16,981. Call 505216-3800.

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2011 SUBARU OUTBACK LIMITED

Another One Owner, Local, 41,985 Miles, Garaged, Non-Smoker, XKeys, Manuals, Records, Factory Warranty, New Tires, Pristine.

Soooo Perfect $23,450.

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2006 VW Touareg AWD V8

1 owner, fully loaded, 60k miles, navigation, leather, moonroof, Carfax, free extended warranty $15,995. 505-954-1054. www.santafenewmexican.com

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2007 GMC SIERRA DURAMAX 4WD. NICE TRUCK!! - $26,000. Schedule a test drive today! Please call 505-321-3920.

2008 JEEP RUBICON 4 door. TWO TOPS - NICE! - $25,000. Schedule a test drive today! $6,000. 505-9204078.

NEW!! 2012 FLAT BED TRAILER. 14,000 pounds. GVW, 18’x8’ extra heavy duty. Bumper hitch. Loading ramps, tool box, spare. $4,499. 808-346-3635

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2012 TOYOTA Highlander SE 4x4 ANOTHER 1-owner Lexus trade! just 18k miles, loaded with leather, clean CarFax $30,781. Call 505216-3800.

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2005 BMW X-5 4.4i Sport, premium package, cold weather package, moon roof, navigation, premium sound, More! 92,000 miles, $15,000.

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2011 KIA SEDONA LX - This van is perfect for your family. $14,000 Please call 505-321-3920.

2005 GMC 3500 CREWCAB DURAMAX 4WD. If you like trucks, this is the one! $22,000. 505-3213920.

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1999 Subaru GT Wagon AWD

Immaculate grey leather interior, automatic, moonroof, CD, pwr windows, locks, alloys, well maintained Carfax, free extended warranty $6,995. 505-954-1054. www.sweetmotorsales.com

2011 Toyota Corolla LE - Why buy new?! only 23k miles, one owner clean CarFax, like new condition, don’t miss it for $13,927. Call 505216-3800

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2008 CHEVROLET EQUINOX 4WD LTZ - Room for the whole family. $13,000. Schedule a test drive today! Please call 505-920-4078.

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2009 HUMMER H3T ALPHA V8. $34,000. Schedule a test drive today! Call 505-321-3920.

1994 CHEVROLET S10 - GAS SAVER! Check it out. Only $2,000!

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1999 Subaru GT Wagon AWD

Sweet accident free GT. Leather, panoramic moonroof, power seats, windows, locks, cruise, CD Low miles, Carfax, warranty $6,995.

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2006 VOLVO-C70 CONVERTIBLE FWD

Another One Owner, Local, Garaged, Non-Smoker, X-Keys, Manuals, 36,974 Miles, Every Service Record, Press Button Convertible-Hardtop.

Soooo Desirable $16,450 PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

2007 GMC Acadia Front wheel drive 66k, sunroof, 7 passenger, excellent condition, $13,500. 505-982-4609

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CALL 986-3000 2006 CHEVY 2500 4x4 Truck . Auto, Air, On-star, Satellite radio, tool box, Minor hail damage, 152K miles, $10,500 obo. 575-829-3597

2004 GMC YUKON DENALI AWD WOW! Superstar status SUV. $10,000. Schedule a test drive today! Please call 505-321-3920.

SPORTS CARS

DUTCHMEN CLASSIC 1999 Options: furnace heater, Porta Potti, Awning, Cooktop, Refrigerator, Bike, Boat Rack, Two oversized beds, Dinette.

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Support Santa Fe Animal Shelter 2005 FORD F-150 4x4. Excellent condition. Extended cab; leather interior, 92,000 miles. New radio w/ bluetooth, new battery, shocks, & exhaust system. One owner, many extras! $15,000 OBO. 505-989-3431

2012 TOYOTA COROLLA,WHY PAY MORE LOW MILES. $13,988

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p Petitioner’s attorney are: R. Alfred Walker Assistant City Attorney City of Santa Fe 200 Lincoln Avenue CITY OF SANTA FE ex P.O. Box 909 Santa Fe, New Mexico rel.

SANTA FE POLICE DE- 87504-0909 Telephone: (505) 955PARTMENT, 6967 Facsimile: (505) 955Petitioner, 6748 vs.

No. Email: awalker@ci.santaC-101-CV-2013-02551 fe.nm.us ONE (1) 1997 BLUE IN- Legal #96630 Published in The SanFINITY SEDAN ta Fe New Mexican on V.I.N. March 13, 20, 27 2014 JNKAY21D0VM501589 NEW MEXICO LICENSE NO. 395 RKT, FIRST JUDICIAL Respondent, DISTRICT COURT STATE OF and NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANDRA DURAN, and SANTA FE SOUTHWEST TRANSMISSION & AUTOMO- CITY OF SANTA FE ex TIVE, rel.

Claimants.

SANTA FE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOTICE Petitioner, TO SANDRA DURAN, and SOUTHWEST vs.

No. TRANSMISSION & AU- D-101-CV-2013-02296 TOMOTIVE: ONE (1) 1986 TAN The above-captioned OLDSMOBILE SEDAN action has been filed V.I.N. to seek forfeiture of 1G3CW69B3G1339083 the above-described NEW MEXICO LICENSE motor vehicle. If no NO. 903 RKB, response is filed, default judgment may Respondent, be entered in favor of the Petitioner.

The and name, address and telephone number of JOSE GALLEGOS, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE

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2004 VOLVO XC-90 AWD - Sporty and luxurious. $8,000. Schedule a test drive today! Please call 505920-4078.

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2005 CADILLAC CTS 4 door Sedan 3.6L One owner with no accidents!! REPLACED FRONT & REAR BRAKE PADS AND MACHINED ROTORS. This is an awesome buy! $12,999. Schedule a test drive today!

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LEGALS Claimant.

NOTICE TO JOSE GALLEGOS: The above-captioned action has been filed to seek forfeiture of the above-described motor vehicle. If no response is filed, default judgment may be entered in favor of the Petitioner.

The name, address and telephone number of Petitioner’s attorney are: R. Alfred Walker Assistant City Attorney City of Santa Fe 200 Lincoln Avenue P.O. Box 909 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0909 Telephone: (505) 9556967 Facsimile: (505) 9556748 Email: awalker@ci.santafe.nm.us Legal #96641 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on March 20, 27, April 3 2014 STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE C. SANCHEZ, DECEASED. No.2014-0026 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been ap-

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TOYOTA 2002 TACOMA TRUCK, 2door. Silver exterior, Grey interior.

Auto, 2WD. 169,000 miles. Good cond. $4100. 830-719-4371.

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2004 FORD Mustang Convertible. Excellent condition, automatic, 44,000 miles $9,500. 505-471-2439

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g p pointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within two(2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave. Santa Fe New Mexico 87501 Dated:March 6, 2014 /s/Pedro Sanchez signature of personal Representative 4233 Calle Cazuela Santa Fe, NM 87505 505-310-0450

g firms for the professional audit services for the multi years ending June 30, 2014, June 30, 2015, and June 30, 2016.

y the RFP Administrator no later that 4:00 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME on April 18, 2014.

Proposals after this date will no be accepted.

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Legal#96734 Published in the SanRequest for Proposal, ta Fe New Mexican (RFP) Administrator - on: March 19, 20 and C o r r e s p o n d e n c e 24, 2014 should be directed to: Ronald Crespin, Chief Financial Officer New Mexico State Treasurer’s Office 2055 S. Pacheco St Building 100 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Ronald.Crespin@stat e.nm.us Telephone: 505-9551126 Facsimile: 505-9551195 ISSUANCE:

The Request for Proposals will be issued on March 24, 2014.

Firms interested in obtaining a copy may access and download the document from -NOTICEthe State Treasurer’s website starting Request for Proposal March 11, 2011 at the Number NO. following address: 14-394-000000100 http://www.stonm.go TITLE: Professional v Audit Services PRE-PROPOSAL CONPURPOSE: The FERENCE: none New Mexico State Treasurer’s office is PROPOSAL DUE DATE soliciting proposals AND TIME: Proposals from independent must be received by audit/accounting Legal#96610 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican on: March 13, 20, 2014

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2008 Land Rover LR3 HSE

Fully loaded in showroom condition. Impeccable tan leather and wood, service history, Carfax, free extended warranty. $18,995.

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Legal #96569 The two regular meetings of the Board of Directors of the Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District will be held on 03 AND 17 OF APRIL 2014, at the Eldorado Community Center in the classroom, 1 Hacienda Loop, Santa Fe NM 87508. The meetings begin at 7 PM. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on March 20, 2014.

Legal#96739 Bids can be downloaded from our w e b s i t e , www.generalservices .state.nm/statepurch asing, or purchased at our office, State Purchasing Division, Joseph Montoya Building, Room 2016, 1100 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505, for $0.25 per page, check or money order

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y only. (505) 827-0472.

04618 New Mexico Corrections DepartSealed bids will be ment Firearms opened at the State Trade Purchasing Division office at 2:00 PM, 4/22/2014 MST/MDT on dates in- 4 0 - 3 5 0 - 1 4 dicated. Request for 05610 New Mexico Proposals are due at General Services Delocation and time in- partment - Facilities dicated on proposal.

Management Division Hospital Beds and Ac4/1/2014 cessories 4 0 - 0 0 0 - 1 4 00060 S t a t e w i d e Published in the SanAutomotive Vehicles, ta Fe New Mexican Police pursuit, and on: March 20, 2014 special Service Vehicles NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF 4/4/2014 GAME AND FISH IS 4 0 - 6 3 0 - 1 4 ACCEPTING 26419 New Mexico PROPOSALS FOR: Human Services DeFINANCIAL AND partment Standby G e n e r a t o r / H S D COMPLIANCE AUDIT SERVICES Louise Brown Building - Mandatory PreBid Conference, The Department of Game and Fish is acMarch 25, 2014 cepting proposals for qualified firms of cer4/11/2014 4 0 - 3 5 0 - 1 4 - tified public account05615 New Mexico ants to perform the General Services De- annual financial and partment - Facilities single audit compliManagement Division ance of the Agency HVAC Replacement & for the fiscal year Roof Replacement at ending June 30, 2014.

The audits are to be NMBHI, Las Vegas 4 0 - 3 5 0 - 1 4 - performed in accord05616 New Mexico ance with Generally Auditing General Services De- Accepted (GAAS), partment - Facilities Standards set Management Division the standards Demolition of Old forth for financial auDorm & NMBHI Mor- dits in the U.S Genergue at NMBHI, Las Ve- al Accounting Office’s (GOA) Government gas Auditing Standards the provisions of the 4/17/2014 4 0 - 7 7 0 - 1 4 - Federal Single Audit Act, amendments of

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LEGALS the 1996 and Applicable Federal OMB Circulars, Audits of State and Local Governments.

Audits must comply with the New Mexico State Auditors Rule 2.2.2 NMAC, governing the audits of agencies of the State of New Mexico. Submission of the proposal must be sent to the Department of Game and Fish no Later than 3:00p.m.

April 22, 2014. To obtain a copy of the Request for Proposal please contact the RFP procurement manager: Joseph Miano RFP Procurement Manager New Mexico Department of Game and Fish One Wildlife Way Santa Fe, NM 87507 Telephone #: (505) 476-8086 Fax #: 476-8137 E m a i l : joseph.miano@state. nm.us Legal#96439 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican March 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2014

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